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The Media Issue LET’S GET QUIZZICAL Can you spot the fake news?

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JULY 31-AUGUST 7, 2019 COMPILED BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN, MATTHEW ROY & ANDREA SUOZZO

DIVING INTO LYME DATA D

ata editor Andrea Suozzo has long labored behind the scenes, providing technical expertise that allows Seven Days’ news team to tackle complicated subjects. For instance, she created the database of Vermont nonprofit organizations’ tax returns that powered last year’s Give and Take series, which won first place in the “Innovation/Format Buster” category in this year’s national Association of Alternative Newsmedia awards contest.

Now Suozzo is taking a Franklin Orleans more visible role, pursuing 88 15 news stories for sevenEssex daysvt.com called Data Grand Isle 48 Dives. She’ll explain the 200 numbers that affect your Lamoille community — and your life.

79 Case in point: Last week, Caledonia Chittenden she turned her attention to the Centers for Disease 113 43 Control and Prevention, which tracks Lyme disease Washington rates state by state. Turns out 103 that Vermont’s rate for suspected and confirmed cases of Lyme was the highest in the nation in 2017, Addison according to the CDC’s most recent Orange figures, with 174 new cases diagnosed per 246 79 100,000 people. Maine ranked second, with 139 cases per 100,000.

The population of deer ticks, the blood-sucking parasites that spread the disease, rises and falls based on many factors: the health of animal hosts, weather and even long-term climate trends. Climate change is “giving invasive pests Rutland Windsor a longer season to feed,” Patti Casey, the envi346 ronmental surveillance program manager at the 300 Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets told Seven Days.

Since Lyme was discovered in Connecticut in the early 1970s, the disease has been spreading.

Although most common in southern Vermont, it is Bennington moving north.

392 Never want to go outside again? As long as you Windham take precautions, there’s no reason to avoid the outdoors, Suozzo reported.

289 To see where Lyme disease is most prevalent in Vermont — and the U.S. — view Suozzo’s interactive graphics at sevendaysvt.com/lymedisease. And if you know of other data sets Suozzo should analyze, hit her up at andrea@sevendaysvt.com.

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Steven Bourgoin’s sentencing is scheduled for later this month.

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A climate justicefocused camp for kids took its message to the streets last week by shutting down Montpelier traffic for about an hour.

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1. “‘You Guys Are Brutes!’ St. Albans Cop Punches Handcuffed Woman” by Sasha Goldstein. Police video shows that Sgt. Jason Lawton punched a woman in the face while she was in a holding cell in March. The officer has been fired.

2. “Data Dive: Vermont Has the Nation’s Highest Lyme Disease Rate. Where Does Your County Rank?” by Andrea Suozzo. For every 100,000 Vermonters, 174 people contracted Lyme disease in 2017.

3. “Cops: White Supremacists Target Burlington Activists With Stickers” by Courtney Lamdin.

Burlington police removed Patriot Front stickers from a wall that displays signs for local activist organizations.

4. “Vermont Democratic Party Staffer Ousted Over Alleged Embezzlement” by Paul Heintz.

The party uncovered $2,938 in misused funds.

5. “Bernie Sanders’ Agenda Dominates the ‘Damn’ Debate” by Paul Heintz. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) dished out some of the most memorable zingers during last week’s debate.

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ne Upper Valley teen is doing his best to keep print media alive.

After the Barnard General Store stopped selling the New York Times last year, 14-year-old Oliver Szott started selling the paper himself. He’d heard from neighbors who were upset and saw an opportunity to capitalize.

“I knew it would be a nice service, even though it’s not profitable, just to help them out and make a couple dollars a week on the side,” the budding entrepreneur said.

When he started last summer, Szott would buy about a dozen copies of the Times and a few Boston Globes. Instead of creating his own paper route, he set up each morning outside of a Barnard church.

But as the cold settled in last fall, Szott retreated to his

own front porch. When his weekday business dwindled to just one steady customer, he decided to carry the Sunday paper only.

Every week, a news distributor drops a bundle of the Times on Szott’s porch. Szott said he pays the distributor the cover price of $6 for each paper, plus a $3 delivery charge.

He sells the papers for $7 each, meaning he makes about a $5 profit each week. But Szott, who previously started a craft soda company called VT Fizz, says he’s not in it for the money. Rather, he appreciates the business experience he’s gained and the fact that he’s helping people in his community.

One lesson Szott’s learned during his first year in the newspaper business: There was “so much hype at first, then it kinda declined,” he lamented. People who were so supportive in the beginning “kind of decided they don’t read the paper as much as they thought they would — which is kinda sad.”

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‘WOKE OPERA OF VERMONT’

[Re “Barn Opera to Get Its Own Actual Barn,” July 31]: In your recent article about Barn Opera and its new home, we learn that patrons may be drawn by, among other things, artistic director Joshua Collier’s “commitment to contemporizing operatic story lines.”

Collier, we’re told, “will alter scripts to avoid lionizing bigoted or downright oppressive behavior. In a May 2019 performance of Carmen, for example, Collier had Carmen kill her jealous, scorned lover rather than be killed by him, because the artistic director didn’t like how the script romanticized the lover’s murderous act.”

I suppose next they’ll stage a performance of Othello in which Othello doesn’t kill Desdemona, followed by a Rigoletto in which it really is the Duke of Mantua who is stabbed and stuffed into the bag, and not Rigoletto’s daughter. And wait ’til they get hold of Madama Butterfly!

Pinkerton will be ambushed and eviscerated by a ninja, and Cio-Cio-San will win a civil suit against his American wife and live happily ever after.

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Your recent “Emoji That” comment [“Race to the Bottom,” July 24] about an NAACP training in Rutland makes light of a very serious issue that this town continues to struggle with. Since no one from your staff attended the training, how could you possibly know enough to comment on the content or intent of the program?

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[Re Emoji That: “Race to the Bottom,” July 24]: Blatant racism is erupting these days all the way from the Oval Office to your neighbor’s front porch or the coworker seated next to you. This is not a time to mince words. That racism is unmistakable, especially to those who have been targets of it all of their lives.

Each and every day.

I attended the Rutland-area NAACP event “How to Talk to Your Racist Neighbor.” I am a white male entering my senior

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years. I can say that, especially through my work, I’ve heard more racist remarks in the last three years than in the previous 50. I am personally offended by these remarks.

My first reaction to them is anger, but I want to learn more constructive ways to respond, while also recognizing that no matter what I say, some people will not listen.

This event was intended for people like me. It wasn’t aimed at that neighbor across the driveway who very clearly is racist. It was about how to deal with such a person.

So, Seven Days? Yes, this FESTIVAL OF FOOLS was one way to start the conversation among people like me who are forced into situations of having conversations with people who are racist (and homophobic, anti-Semitic, ageist, sexist, prejudiced against people with disabilities, etc.).

And we didn’t open the floodgates in this “Race to the Bottom.” We’re fighting to stay in the light.

Perhaps you need to have a conversation with some of us.

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I never do this, but I just finished Chelsea Edgar’s article “Notes From the Campground” [July 31], and I had to reach out and thank her for being a writer and sharing her talents with the world. We are here

visiting the University of Vermont, and I escaped for a quiet cup of coffee before the rest of the family woke up. The people around me think I’m crazy because WHO GOT I keep bursting PICKED? into laughter. Her writing is seamless in the way it transitions from historical background informaNOTES FROM THE CAMPGROUND tion to hysterical anecdotal observations. In all honesty, I think a book of her car camping in SIGNING ON the least remote ANGER ON DISPLAY spots across the country with many of the nudist camps sprinkled throughout would be a best seller.

[Re Off Message: “Welch Calls for the Impeachment of Donald Trump,” July 18; “Welch Explains His Support for Impeaching Trump,” July 23]: What has happened to the Democratic Party as we once knew it?! I had held out hope that at least Rep. Peter Welch and Sen. Patrick Leahy could leave their safety-net cocoons and work across the aisle.

Both Leahy and Welch tarnish their legacies by staying inside the camp of the blame game. The race card game doesn’t cut it anymore. I remember when we had George Aiken and Ralph Flanders and how they represented the best in all of us.

Now, Welch and Sanders and Leahy all sink to gutter politics.

Vermont’s “super democratic majority” lives in an artificial political bubble that continues to evade serious issues such as meaningful job creation and unsustainable tax burdens. Yes, President Trump can get your blood boiling, but inept intransient representation here for Vermont does the same.

Fact is, our economy is strong, and less government strangulation creates innovation and jobs! We need stronger borders to survive as a nation, and we need and welcome legal immigration while understanding that we need to vet those who enter our country. Those who find only service entry positions in Vermont may someday wake up and know they’re being played by our “Three Amigos” representing us in Washington, D.C. Welch took the low, easy road for political gain.

There is no solid legal ground to impeach Trump, unless hate is your only argument. Pray for fewer Trump tweets, but pray that we unite to face substantive, real issues and work together toward positive compromising solutions.

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AUGUST 7-14, 2019 VOL.24 NO.46

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Burlington City Council President Kurt Wright moonlights as a news talk radio host

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Go West, Young Company: Front Porch Forum Expands Into New York State

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Music: Uncovering Burlington’s king of covers, writer Ray Padgett

Media Issue: Vermont newspapers, TV and radio stations are changing hands.

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Spreading Smiles

Media Issue: Ever Widening Circles in St. Albans aims to publish the internet’s most inspiring news

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Fair Game POLITICS Drawn & Paneled ART Hackie CULTURE Side Dishes FOOD Soundbites MUSIC Album Reviews Art Review Movie Reviews Ask the Reverend ADVICE

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An Online Zine Frames Queerness in a New Light

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That advice would have helped anyone who came across the shark-in-the-street tweet. The fact-checking website Snopes debunked that photo in 2011 in an article

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that would have turned up quickly in a search. According to Snopes, the great white shark is real, but it never swam down a street. A photographer captured an image of it following a kayaker in 2005, and it was pasted into a shot of a flooded street.

That Photoshopped image first appeared during Hurricane Irene in 2011, and the tired shark made the rounds again after storms in 2012, 2015 and 2016.

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Jason Michael McCann posted it on Twitter. “Believe it or not,” he wrote, “this is a shark on the freeway in Houston, Texas.”

Tens of thousands of people did believe it, sharing McCann’s tweet and amplifying his message. Fox News mentioned it in a broadcast.

But McCann wasn’t in Houston; he was living in Ireland at the time. After his tweet went viral, he told a BuzzFeed reporter that he had seen the shark image online and thought his 1,300 Twitter followers would think it was funny.

“Of course I knew it was fake. It was part of the reason I shared the bloomin’ thing,” he said.

This incident illustrates a growing problem: Digital tools and social media have made it ridiculously easy for anyone anywhere to create and share false and misleading content. Suzannah Gonzales, associate director of education at the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based News Literacy Project, is among those sounding the alarm. “There has never been as much misinformation as there is right now,” she says.

Gonzales, a former journalist, is one of a small army of reporters, academics and activists fighting to stop the spread of misleading information by helping people learn to spot it. The project creates tools for middle and high school teachers. So does the Center for News Literacy at the Stony Brook University School of Journalism in New York.

Both entities aim to help students better understand journalism and develop critical thinking skills.

They agree on the most important lesson: Be skeptical. “If you see a piece of

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The past 15 years have been grim for American newspapers. Roughly 2,100 have either merged with a competitor or gone out of business, the New York Times reported Sunday in a special section titled “A Future Without the Front Page.” The lost print media outlets have been huge and tiny, mainstream and alternative. In their wake, public service journalism that holds local officials accountable is falling by the wayside, along with print obituaries, sports scores and event listings. Of the 6,800 papers left in the U.S., many are “shells of their former selves,” the Times lamented.

While Vermont has been buffeted by the industry’s prevailing winds, the trend hasn’t blown away any local newspapers — yet.

Instead, the media landscape has shifted, and news outlets are changing hands, for better or worse. Since 2016, at least 20 — including four newspapers printed for more than a century — have new owners. Three rounds of layoffs have roiled WCAX-TV since Gray Television bought the popular station in June 2017, though the news department was spared — mostly.

Paul Heintz’s roundup story, “Meet the News Boss” chronicles the good, the bad and the flatlanders who are snatching up VERMONT MEDIA COMPANIES. Local digital media companies are changing, too.

DailyUV, a news website that combines citizen journalism and social media, is expanding statewide and into New Hampshire. It’s now called HERECAST. Reporter Derek Brouwer investigates the thinking behind a site that does not employ — or edit — the writers who create its content. Meanwhile, Burlington-grown FRONT PORCH FORUM has expanded to the Empire State. Plenty of dog poop to complain about there, too.

A website out of St. Albans called EVER WIDENING CIRCLES is focused on the bigger picture. It publishes inspiring stories from around the world. Also on the global stage: CHRISTINA ASQUITH of Charlotte is cofounder of the Fuller Project for International Reporting, a nonprofit covering the issues that most impact women and girls worldwide.

This week’s media issue also catches up with Burlington City Council President KURT WRIGHT, who has been hosting a local news radio show since the day before Town Meeting Day. In the food section, Sabine Poux asks local eating enterprises about the INFLUENCERS who dish about them on Instagram.

And finally: On Monday, Gannett, the parent company of the Burlington Free Press, announced it is merging with another giant newspaper chain, GATEHOUSE MEDIA. John Walters weighs in on that marriage in his Fair Game column. Spoiler alert: He’s not optimistic about the future of the “Freeps.”

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Other media outlets quickly debunked the photo, including BuzzFeed, the New York Times and the Washington Post. In an article headlined “No, the shark picture isn’t real: A running list of Harvey’s viral hoaxes,” the Post also shot down several other items, including a bogus report about an alligator in a Houston neighborhood, which former television host Katie Couric shared on Twitter.

Gonzales notes that as video and audio editing technology advances, the problem is getting worse. In May, a video of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was altered to make her appear drunk. Multiple media outlets exposed it as a phony, and Facebook eventually took it down, but not before Fox News and President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani shared it.

Gonzales calls this emerging reality “pretty frightening.” It gives her a sense of urgency about training the next generation of news consumers.

But what about the adults out there? “We do hear that all the time,” she says. “‘Do you do this for adults?’ There is a great need all around.”

In that spirit, and in honor of the 2019 Media Issue, Seven Days has created a news literacy quiz. We hope it will help you think critically about information you encounter online. Feel free to send it to that relative who’s always sharing hoax memes on Facebook. You’re welcome.

Find it, as well as links to the articles cited here, at sevendaysvt.com/newsliteracy-quiz. And look for more news literacy activities for young Vermonters in the second edition of Kids VT’s VT Good Citizen Challenge, coming this October to goodcitizenvt.com.

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Burlington City Council President Kurt Wright moonlights as a news talk radio host S T O RY & PHO TO B Y C OURT NEY L AMDIN

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He’s up at 4 a.m., and by 5, he’s seated quietly in an overly air-conditioned, soundproof studio at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester, the home of WVMT 620 AM radio. It’s still dark outside when Wright catches up on the news on the bright screen of his laptop. He jots notes on a yellow legal pad, talking points for “The Morning Drive,” a news talk radio program he cohosts from 6 to 9 a.m. five days a week with longtime DJ Marcus Certa.

As the Burlington City Council president, however, Wright’s decisions as an elected official sometimes are the news.

Since March, and after more than 100 episodes on air, the Republican politico is still figuring out how to straddle the line between media personality and public figure, two roles that often overlap.

“I’m in this twilight zone area where I’m a little bit in both,” Wright said.

“Sometimes I’m getting a call from a reporter to answer questions about CityPlace or whatever it is,” he added. “And sometimes, it’s the other way around.”

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Wright’s role as a commentator could create issues if he were to run for reelection next March. Federal Communications Commission regulations require equal on-air time for candidates that meet its definition of “legally qualified.” That means that if Wright were to run and

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Wright has been a politician for far longer than he’s been on the airwaves.

The New North End resident has served stints on the city council since his first in 1995, and he’s run three unsuccessful bids for Queen City mayor. He most recently lost in 2012 to Democrat Miro Weinberger,

who’s now a regular guest on “The Morning Drive.” Wright also served nine terms in the Vermont House as Burlington’s lone Republican rep before Democrat Bob Hooper unseated him last fall.

That political background earned him a weekly radio segment on WVMT’s “Charlie + Ernie in the Morning” show with Charlie Papillo and Ernie Farrar, who retired from the coveted spot last winter after two decades on 620 AM. “Coffee With Kurt,” which became a regular segment in 2017, carried over to “Pete and Sarah in the Morning,” a show that lasted just two months this spring.

In a “leap of faith,” station owner Ken Barlow said he called Wright and offered him the job. Wright and Certa started March 4, the eve of Town Meeting Day. Wright didn’t have any hosting experience, but he is a talk radio junkie. He regularly called into shows as a kid, and he later played “The Jack Barry Show” over the store speakers as the longtime manager of Kerry’s Kwik Stop on St. Paul Street. A MIXED SIGNALS?

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Two fixtures of the Vermont media landscape are making major moves this summer that they say will result in higher-quality television broadcasts for their viewers.

WPTZ-TV, better known as NBC5, merged its Plattsburgh, N.Y., production studio and cramped Colchester news bureau into a new South Burlington headquarters in mid-July.

And Vermont PBS is making a similar leap in mid-August when staff decamp from Colchester for downtown Winooski.

In both cases, station officials say the new digs will give them access to better production and broadcast capabilities.

In addition to consolidation, WPTZ’s move to Technology Park at 30 Community Drive in South Burlington allowed the station to expand cuttingedge digital video technologies and to position operations closer to the center of its sprawling coverage area, said Justin Antoniotti, its president and general manager.

The NBC affiliate, which has transmitted from Plattsburgh for decades, covers a large area spanning three states and southern Canada. The counties with the highest viewership — Clinton County, N.Y.; Chittenden County, Vt.; and Grafton County, N.H. — are more than 150 miles apart.

The Plattsburgh office will continue to operate as a news bureau, but the Colchester bureau has closed. The station also has shuttered its White River Junction bureau and opened a new one just across the Connecticut River in Lebanon, N.H. Vermont PBS has been based for 50 years at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester in a single-story building constructed by the University of Vermont, which founded the public station in 1967 as Vermont Educational Television.

The station is spending $1 million to outfit about 20,000 square feet of office space in the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation office building at 10 East Allen Street in downtown Winooski, just off the city’s traffic circle.

Many of the station’s 46 employees will have offices on the second floor.

The new facility will include a screening room, video editing suites and a soundproof studio in the basement, said Chrystie Heimert, the station’s vice president of marketing.

“The new space allows us to be more visible, more accessible and more flexible, evolving along with our changing community and media industry,” she said.

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Paradis is one of the first University of Vermont students to participate in the just-launched Reporting and Documentary Storytelling program. The rising senior is spending his summer as an intern writing news stories for local weekly newspapers.

“For people like me who are hoping to go into journalism, it’s certainly nice to have that on your degree,” Paradis said. And for those RICHARD who say journalism is in a death spiral? He believes its value will continue to be recognized and the profession will survive.

“There’s a reason it’s called the fourth estate. Now more than ever, people in government, people in power, need checks, need people looking over their shoulder,” Paradis said. “And reporters are the people who do that.”

The new program, an academic minor, combines more than 25 existing courses from various disciplines at UVM. It’s designed broadly, to serve students with a range of interests: making documentaries for Netflix, producing podcasts for public radio, or creating interactive graphics and maps for digital media.

Participating students might plan to work

in newsrooms, but the program aims to cultivate core skills that can be used in many types of media, according to Richard Watts, codirector of the effort.

“We know that storytelling is so important, however you do it. It’s not meant to be vocational in that we’re training you to go get a job in print,” Watts said. “It’s the classic liberal arts thing. We’re training you to be a good writer and thinker and take these skills to whatever you do.”

Courses include the history of television, advanced screenwriting, video production, photography and the art of the essay. The program includes WAT TS faculty who teach English, art, environmental studies, sociology, political science and other subjects.

Watts’ codirectors are documentary filmmaker Deb Ellis, an associate professor and director of UVM’s film and television program; and UVM English professor Greg Bottoms, author of books including Angelhead: My Brother’s Descent Into Madness.

The idea for the program grew out of a faculty retreat in 2017, Watts said.

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The idea is deceptively simple: Give neighbors a forum to swap backyard vegetables, borrow a sleeping bag and opine about their water bills. Yet in a world saturated with online communication outlets, nobody was doing quite what Front Porch Forum was doing when it started up 13 years ago in Burlington.

Now the free, hyper-local social network has 170,000 members around Vermont and is striking into new territory: upstate New York. In June, the company launched its first major expansion outside of the Green Mountain State, into New York’s Washington County, a rural stretch that borders Vermont in the Slate Valley, and Warren County, Michael which contains Wood-Lewis Glens Falls.

The migration technically began with a baby step about seven years ago. That’s when residents of small-town Argyle, N.Y., successfully lobbied for their own Front Porch Forum group after noting its popularity in nearby Vermont. Several other New York towns have pushed to join, and the company, after considerable study, decided to go for it.

“They twisted my arm,” said Michael Wood-Lewis, who cofounded the business with his wife, Valerie Wood-Lewis, in 2006.

The two New York counties have about 30 towns; the company typically sets up a forum to serve a single town.

So far, Front Porch Forum has about 1,500 members in the Empire State, Wood-Lewis said. Six forums have gone live, and several others are close to reaching the company’s 50-person sign-up minimum to get activated.

Participation is free for residents.

Business members get limited free posts and then must pay — which, along with donations, is how Front Porch Forum brings in revenue.

It does not sell member emails or allow advertisers to access them, Wood-Lewis said. Unlike some social media giants, it doesn’t mine user data or snoop on web browsing.

Wood-Lewis is satisfied when the forum draws people a bit closer.

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Wright has an easy rapport with Certa, who identifies as “left of center” while Wright is, well, to the right. The call-in program is a mix of politics and lighthearted banter, inviting conversation on topics from gun control to pet care.

Listeners hear a different side of Councilor Kurt on the mic. During the July 29 show, Wright regaled his cohost with an account of a turbulent plane flight to Chicago that left him literally screaming in fear. The affable Wright, it turns out, is claustrophobic and deathly afraid of flying.

He even underwent hypnosis before takeoff, which, apparently, didn’t help.

From there, Wright and Certa fielded calls about a mass shooting in California before chatting with Leunig’s Bistro & Café co-owner Bob Conlon about panhandling on Burlington’s Church Street. The issue allowed Wright to lend some of his “insider knowledge” that Certa says makes the show a success. Wright told listeners that the Church Street Marketplace District Commission and others are discussing an ordinance to restrict stores from selling booze until the later morning to try to reduce unruly behavior downtown.

“I think there are a number of things that we need to be looking at, and I think that’s one idea that might be helpful,” Wright said on air.

Later, the hosts interviewed Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George, gave away some gift cards and called it a day.

Whatever their formula, it’s working: “The Morning Drive” has drawn twice the number of male listeners ages 25 and older, the station’s target audience, than did “Charlie + Ernie,” according to Barlow.

“We’re excited to have both of those guys with us,” he said. “They’ve become really good friends for two guys who really didn’t know each other before this started.”

Indeed, Certa admits he was skeptical of his future cohost when they first met.

He questioned Wright’s political aspirations and asked whether the show would become the councilor’s bully pulpit. But he soon saw that Wright conducts himself with the same measured tenor he displays in Burlington City Hall Auditorium: He’s fair and respectful, and he invites criticism, Certa said.

As for reelection, the station agreed to “figure it out” if and when Wright decides

to run again. The longtime pol has previously said he won’t seek another term when his current one expires next March, but he told Seven Days last week that he’d decide for sure this summer.

“So, will you be running?” asked Certa, who sat in on the conversation.

“I’ll let you know soon,” Wright said.

“I better be the first to know,” Certa quipped.

“Maybe my wife,” Wright retorted.

“Maybe [I’ll tell you] right after that.”

All kidding aside, Certa thinks Wright’s insights have bolstered the show, and WVMT general manager JoAnn Cyr agrees. She wrote in an email to Seven Days that phones are ringing off the hook, and Wright’s political background “adds color and credibility” to the broadcast.

It also builds name recognition, an undisputed boon to any potential political campaign.

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Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism associate professor and nationally known media commentator, said that’s problematic, even if Wright doesn’t politicize his platform. After all, Kennedy said, why would someone vote against that nice guy on the radio who knows the best burger joint in town?

“He’s certainly bolstering his visibility and his reputation,” Kennedy said, adding that it gives Wright “a significant advantage if anybody wanted to run against him.”

Kennedy had never heard of an arrangement quite like Wright’s, but there’s actually precedent for it in Vermont. State Sen. Brian Collamore (R-Rutland) retired from WSYB last week after cohosting a news talk radio show for 45 years. He thinks the roles of commentator and lawmaker mesh nicely, particularly on a call-in show like his or “The Morning Drive.” Every Monday, Collamore took questions from constituents, which he said made him more accessible than he would have been if he worked a regular desk job.

“It’s kind of like doing a news conference with no safety net,” Collamore said.

“They can ask me any question … and I have to come up with an answer because everything is live on the air.”

The show also made Collamore a household name. His old college classmate, former governor Jim Douglas, said as much to convince Collamore to run for

Senate in the first place. The show, Collamore said, gave him a “built-in advantage.”

But he’s also maintained boundaries.

Collamore said he stepped away from the mic during election cycles so the station would not have to offer equal time, per the FCC rules, to the other Senate candidates.

For his part, Wright has earned glowing reviews from his council colleagues.

Councilor Brian Pine (P-Ward 3) has listened several times and thinks Wright gives constituents a chance to engage on a deeper level. He doesn’t think Wright pushes a political agenda.

“It’s definitely no Rush Limbaugh, that’s for sure,” Pine said.

Councilor Adam Roof (I-Ward 8) sees no conflict with Wright’s roles. Neither does Councilor Ali Dieng (D/P-Ward 7), who thinks Wright has honed a sense of humor on air that’s carried over to council meetings.

Mayor Weinberger, too, supports Wright’s right to talk. The councilor has quizzed him on all sorts of topics during his monthly guest spots, and the mayor said he welcomes it.

Wright even got kudos from an on-air sparring partner: South Burlington City Councilor Meaghan Emery. She engaged in a very public spat with Wright and the Queen City’s council in June over a zoning change that would allow Higher Ground to relocate next to a quiet SoBu neighborhood.

When Certa invited her on the show, Emery didn’t know what to expect. She mentally prepared herself for the interview: Wright might try to corner you, she told herself. He might embarrass you.

Rather, what ensued was a somewhat tense but respectful conversation, both Emery and Wright recounted. She’s started listening to his show more since her guest spot and said she thinks that politicians hosting shows like “The Morning Drive” is good for democracy.

“He’s being a real member of the community … He’s just a normal guy,” Emery said. “I think that makes what we do in serving as city councilors or as elected officials seem attainable, and it should be.”

Back in the studio, Wright and Certa wrapped up the broadcast and prepared to record promos for the week’s upcoming shows. They’d have plenty of fodder from the Democratic presidential debates.

Mostly, Wright was just thankful there was no city council meeting that night, a Monday. The gatherings have been known to continue late into the night, he said, making it tough to wind down when he has to get up just a few hours later.

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In exchange for his journalism, the author, Eric Francis, collects more

than half of the advertising revenue it generates on the site, formerly known as DailyUV. To date, his crime-focused reportage in the Upper Valley has generated more than 2.5 million cumulative page views.

Attracting “crime and mayhem” coverage, as HereCast founder Watt Alexander calls it, was never the goal of his online publishing project, but rather a natural consequence of its business model.

“As you would expect with any sort of news organization, if it bleeds, it leads,” he said, referring to the adage that captures the truth about media coverage: Lurid news attracts attention.

Vermonters may start seeing more such stories. HereCast launched in 2015 as DailyUV to host user-generated content in the Upper Valley. In July, Alexander’s team completed a redesign of the platform and expanded it to cover all towns in Vermont and New Hampshire.

“If you wanted to be a crime-andmayhem person, you could do this full time ... in Burlington tomorrow,” he said, as if advertising the job.

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local news. A longtime music copyright attorney, he faults media organizations for failing to make the transition to the digital age, where content is increasingly consumed on platforms — Spotify for music, Netflix for television and social media for information. DailyUV was his “prototype” of a digital public square for local communities.

HereCast blends the freewheeling spirit of social media with the hyper-local focus of a small-town paper. Anyone can post pretty much anything and get paid based on the number of eyeballs they attract. More than 80,000 people visited DailyUV each month, according to the company, and 150-plus users posted on it regularly.

From the beginning, Alexander envisioned his platform as a place where professional news outlets would publish their work alongside citizen journalists, bloggers, public relations specialists, gadflies and anyone else with a local message to spread. But he has struggled to convince newspapers to migrate to the free site. Instead, it has attracted some solo reporters, like Francis, who publish under newspaper-like monikers such as Vermont News and Norwich Observer.

Some of these entities have professional experience; others don’t. Francis is a longtime freelance reporter and photojournalist whose bylines have appeared in local newspapers, as well as the New York Times, the Boston Globe and People magazine, according to his online biography.

He has also authored several true-crime books.

In its redesigned incarnation, HereCast combines elements of more familiar social media platforms. Content is presented in a centralized feed, like Facebook or Twitter, but readers can view only one community’s feed at a time, similar to Craigslist. The business earns revenue from local advertising, then shares it with the users who submitted the posts, sort of like YouTube’s partner publisher program.

Authors of posts with more page views get a larger share of the revenue.

The content can be eclectic and Vermonty. On a recent Monday morning, the feed for White River Junction, where HereCast is headquartered, featured a dresser for sale in Lebanon, N.H., a post about wellness by a “certified hypnotist” and a listing for a jazz concert by the Town of Hartford. Older posts are returned to the top of the feed whenever they receive a new reader comment. Francis’ post about the transient sex offender was a week old but still featured prominently because a reader had recently weighed in to say the

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man should “rot for the rest of his natural life in jail.”

With unedited content and anonymous commenters, it is easy to imagine how HereCast could become an informational cesspool, like Twitter or Facebook, amplifying gossip, half-truths and clickbait.

But to date, “self-policing” has worked, according to Alexander. He attributes that to a connection between local focus and accountability. The HereCast founder predicts more geography-based news feeds will attract place-specific readers

to halt the public relations “vortex,” then gave the author a chance to republish the story the following day, after Alexander had posted an apology for the headline and an explanation of the company’s role.

Francis chose to republish the story, with the headline unchanged but for the “Roll” spelling correction. It has been viewed 17,000 times — a high figure for the site — according to the counter published at the top of each post. Francis declined to speak with Seven Days about his work.

The HuffPo controversy wasn’t the only

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WITH THE HYPER-LOCAL FOCUS OF A SMALL-TOWN PAPER. and advertisers who can flag posts as inappropriate or chastise the publisher in the comments. Company employees have spent just a few hours each week responding to requests for moderation on DailyUV, Alexander said.

The company’s first big test came in 2017, when one of Francis’ stories became the subject of a viral critique. Francis had penned a controversial headline about an alleged sexual assault, which read, “Chester Honor Role [sic] Student Faces Potential Life Sentence.” A Huffington Post columnist pilloried the site for publishing a headline that focused on the accused’s good grades but failed to mention the alleged assault.

Alexander characterized the uproar as a messaging problem. The Huffington Post’s columnist didn’t acknowledge — or, perhaps, care — that Francis did not work for DailyUV, and that DailyUV does not fact-check or edit his content. Alexander decided to remove Francis’ post in order

time Alexander’s company has tripped over the sometimes-blurry line between media platform and news organization.

Alexander’s team approached Norwich town officials late last year about a contract to report and publish stories about the town government. Valley News columnist Jim Kenyon lambasted the partnership as pay-to-publish propaganda, and the effort was abandoned after the first batch of posts.

Selectboard member Mary Layton said some Norwich residents were confused by the partnership with DailyUV. “It just rubbed people the wrong way,” she recalled. “It’s like they didn’t want to hear the positive stuff. Maybe it’s not that interesting, but I think it’s important.”

Alexander said HereCast has stopped its “experiment” in creating paid content and is instead focused on helping the platform gain traction in new communities.

Meanwhile, some Vermont news outlets, including Seven Days and VTDigger.org,

have started accepting “native advertising” campaigns and branded content on their websites and labeled them as “paid posts.”

HereCast has the advantage of deep pockets as it hones its role. Alexander described the entity as a closely held company funded predominately by proceeds from a family business transaction. It has employed as many as 20 staffers, though Alexander said he’s cut the staff to nine since completing the website’s technical build-out.

The company is not profitable, but Alexander believes it can be. He has not yet aggressively pursued advertisers, but DailyUV did get some local ones. HereCast has paid its content creators $71,000 in the last 12 months, which accounts for more than half of its advertising revenue, according to Alexander. The goal is for those overall revenues to grow, so an even 50-50 split with writers generates a decent paycheck.

HereCast’s founder said that as the platform expands, feeds for other Vermont and New Hampshire communities might look different than those in the Upper Valley. Users will shape each one, he hopes, into something “authentically local.”

DailyUV’s biggest scoop came in 2017, when a Sharon librarian realized a developer was slowly buying up property in Vermont’s Orange County to build a utopian community called NewVistas. The plan was based on one drawn up by Joseph Smith, who founded the Mormon church.

The writer, Nicole Antal, had joined DailyUV to blog about homesteading.

As her stories about NewVistas brought in thousands of page views, she began making as much as $500 per post. News outlets across the region followed her reporting, and local opposition to the project grew. Ultimately, the planner behind NewVistas gave up on the project.

Antal, too, has largely abandoned her job as a citizen journalist.

The author told Seven Days she has mixed feelings about publishing on the site. When authorities found the body of a missing teenager near her house, Antal decided to cover the scene. “I still don’t know how I feel about that,” she said.

She said it’s been “kind of depressing” to see crime stories rack up page views, and it’s hard to decide what to cover without any editorial guidance. In hindsight, she wishes she’d just given the NewVistas scoop to a local newspaper instead of trying to cover it on her own.

“I feel like newspapers and journalism are threatened right now, and I feel like their job is not taken seriously,” Antal said.

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Sgt. Jason Lawton has since been fired, according to St. Albans Police Chief Gary Taylor. The chief said he’s referred the incident to the Vermont State Police to review for potential criminal charges.

“I think that his actions in this case are a poor reflection of the values of the people who make up this organization,” Taylor said.

Amy Connelly, 35, of Highgate, was arrested March 14 after she drunkenly ripped a man’s shirt inside Shooters Saloon in St. Albans and then refused to leave, police documents say. Authorities leveled charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful mischief against Connelly.

She was taken to the St. Albans Police Department. There, she allegedly kicked Lawton in the shin. He charged her with simple assault.

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But police video of the incident, captured from different angles and filed in court last Thursday, does not support the assault allegation, according to attorney Albert Fox. Rather, he wrote in a motion asking the judge to throw out the charges, the footage shows Lawton assaulting Connelly and represents “an absolute miscarriage of justice and a shameful abandonment of the duty police officers owe the public.”

Lawton’s bodycam video shows that he was eating dinner with a colleague when he stopped, walked over to Connelly’s holding cell, opened it and told her to stop kicking the door. She was in a holding area the size of a phone booth, with just a small bench.

“No,” she responded and stood up, her arms cuffed behind her.

Lawton shoved her against the wall with his forearm, causing her to cry out.

“Don’t come at me like that,” he said.

“How fucking dare you!” she yelled back.

“He has hurt me!” she continued, speaking to another officer.

“Shut up!” Lawton yelled at her.

Connelly then stood up and appeared to raise her leg. Lawton immediately threw her back against the wall and landed an uppercut to her face while she cried and yelled, “Ow!” “You fucking kicked me!” Lawton said.

“That was real stupid, real stupid, OK?” he added, as he and two other officers threw her face-first to the floor outside the cell.

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At one point, Connelly cried and stammered, “Oh, my God, you guys … You guys are brutes!”

“Yup, sure. You just tried to take me,” Lawton responded.

“You guys are animals,” Connelly continued through tears, repeating the phrase several times. “Why would you do this? You guys have abused me!”

Fox, an attorney with Brattleboro-based Chadwick and Spensley, told Seven Days last Friday that a lawsuit “is on the table” but that he wants to first focus on the criminal case against Connelly.

Fox declined to comment further, saying, “The video speaks for itself.”

Seven Days was unable to reach Lawton for comment on Monday.

Taylor, the St. Albans chief, said Lawton generally “did well” and received honors for his work with the department, including a promotion to sergeant. Taylor said he first heard about the Connelly case when the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont sent a letter on May 23 requesting footage under the state’s public records law.

He ordered an internal investigation on June 3 and fired Lawton on July 1.

Taylor said he’s also been in touch with the Franklin County State’s Attorney’s Office about the termination and pending criminal cases involving Lawton as a police officer. The state’s attorney, James Hughes, told Seven Days on Monday that his office would likely still prosecute Connelly because “she was already arrested and in custody before this happened, so the facts of her actions were over and done by the time Jason came in on the situation.”

When Seven Days noted that Connelly had been accused of assaulting Lawton during the scuffle, Hughes conceded that the officer’s actions could affect that particular charge.

ACLU of Vermont staff attorney Jay Diaz said Monday that he sought the footage after hearing from Connelly. He said he was dismayed that it took his request to expose Lawton’s actions.

“I’m glad to see the officer is off the force and, hopefully, he won’t be able to bounce to another location,” Diaz said. “Clearly, his demeanor and the way he acted was so beyond the pale. It was immediately recognizable that this is a person who should not be a police officer.”

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news Key Minor « P.15 Rather than build a full journalism program from scratch, which would be expensive and redundant with other programs, including one at nearby Saint Michael’s College, UVM opted for an interdisciplinary collaborative. “There’s great programs out there, so it doesn’t make sense to duplicate what already exists,” Watts said.

During the decade that ended with 2018, the ranks of newsroom employees at newspapers declined by nearly half, to 38,000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of federal data.

But newsroom employment at digital sites increased slightly, and the growing popularity of made-to-stream documentaries, podcasts and other storytelling formats helped shape the focus of UVM’s effort.

“We have to build something that’s relevant today, and that means storytelling that students are interested in and taking advantage of multimedia digital,” Watts said.

To that end, students will be encouraged to collaborate on episodes of the Mudseason podcast produced by the Center for Research on Vermont, of which Watts is the director, and to use UVM equipment for visual storytelling projects.

Because the program relies primarily on existing faculty, the launch cost was minimal, according to Watts — around $15,000.

Students who declare the minor must complete 18 credits, which translates to six courses. They also must complete an internship. Some will write for the Community News Service, a new UVMrun venture created along with the minor that generates news for local outlets. This summer, six students, including Paradis, are participating.

For some, the internship is unpaid, while others were awarded UVM summer grants of about $2,500. The internship program is headed by Lisa Scagliotti, a veteran reporter and editor currently working as a correspondent for the Vermont Community Newspaper Group, which includes the Shelburne News, Waterbury Record, Stowe Reporter and South Burlington’s Other Paper.

All the student interns have written stories published this summer by papers in the group, and some also contributed to VTDigger.org. Their work also appears on communitynews.net.

Last week Scagliotti, who assigns and edits the interns’ stories, met with them in a small classroom in the restored Billings Library at UVM. The building serves as the program’s hub and a place where Vermont journalists are invited to visit, both informally and formally, for talks with the students.

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Some of the interns started with a few bylines to their credit, while others were brand-new to reporting. With Scagliotti, the interns talk about nuts-and-bolts details — when to file their stories, how to travel to assignments (by bus for several interns who don’t have cars) and how to deal with the fact that interesting stories often attract other reporters.

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Media  Julia Bailey-Wells, a 21-year-old environmental science major from Concord, Mass., lamented that the Boston Globe had published a story similar to one she was working on about Vermonters’ efforts to boost the population of grasslands birds known as bobolinks. “No,” groaned the other students. Bailey-Wells explained that she didn’t want her story to “seem like a shitty echo” of what the Globe reporter wrote.

Scagliotti countered with an encouraging: “We’ll do it better.” A discussion of fresh angles and reporting strategies ensued.

Sorrel Galantowicz, a 20-year-old geography and global studies major, shared the obstacles she’s encountered in collecting data for a map to go with the bobolink story. Some property owners who had volunteered to adopt practices to protect the birds did not want to be identified by address. She was considering an alternative — perhaps spotlighting the towns, instead of specific addresses, where preservation is under way.

Galantowicz is interested in mapping, not writing, and has worked with Watts on several projects, including an interactive digital map showing the migration of grocery stores from Burlington to the suburbs, with data points going back to the

late 1800s. “Providing context is always important, and spatial context is one way to do that,” said Galantowicz, who is hoping for a career that uses digital mapping and geospatial analysis.

Several reporter interns, including Paradis, experienced logistical challenges. Although he had covered budget cuts, student hunger and faculty layoffs at two student newspapers, UVM’s Vermont Cynic and Brattleboro Union High School’s Beacon, he hadn’t reported on many live events before this summer.

So when he was sent to cover the middle school graduation at Shelburne Community School in June, he struggled to shoot photos, get quotes and names, and quickly file the story. In the crunch, he omitted info on the main speaker — who wasn’t happy and let him know.

“I can tell you, I did not leave anyone out on the next event that I covered,” Paradis said.

Scagliotti, a former reporter at the Anchorage Daily News and the Burlington Free Press, deliberately assigned a mix of live events and longer pieces requiring research. Paradis, for example, is working on stories about hospital regulation and e-cigarette use in schools.

Scagliotti’s advice includes covering the basics, such as municipal meetings.

“We talk about getting there a little bit early, figuring out what the space is, who’s who,” she explained. And for anyone mentioned in a story, she advised the students, “Ask them how to spell their names, even if it sounds like a simple name.”

The internship has helped Paradis build a foundation he hopes will lead to a career.

He said he wants a job that helps society, allows him some independence and sends him home with intriguing stories to tell at the end of the day.

“Investigative journalism is one of the few fields that ticks all those boxes,” he said.

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to tap into networks of people who might help get the word out. It’s too late to do that when you have an opening to fill.”

Editors say they are making job descriptions as inclusive as possible and posting them on websites frequented by journalists of color. Black journalist EVA MCKEND, a former WCAX anchor who’s now based in Washington, D.C., said that may not be

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of color are cast in the victim’s role,” he said. “Stories are mostly about social justice issues. But we have a wide range of experiences.”

Reed added that journalists shouldn’t turn to people of color only when the story is about race. “Who are your subject matter experts of color?” Reed asked.

“Your Rolodexes should be reflective of

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enough. “All newsrooms should invest in attending the National Association of Black Journalists conference,” she said.

“Be really intentional about seeking out those voices.” Personal contact, McKend said, may help someone overcome any reservations about moving to a predominantly white state.

CURTISS REED JR., executive director of the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity, acknowledged that hiring can be a challenge — but offered more immediate steps for news organizations to take. First, coverage shouldn’t start and end with racial issues. “Often, Vermonters

the contributions that Vermonters of color are making in every area of life.”

Journalists often consult their Rolodexes, analog or digital, when they need a quick quote on deadline. If they don’t invest time in expanding their circle of sources, they can end up featuring the same voices over and over again. “Your kitchen cabinet may have 50 spices, but you’re only using salt, pepper and garlic,” said Reed. “The stories will be all the richer if you use everything in the cabinet.”

Those who have worked with journalists of color testify to the benefits of a diverse workplace. “Eva brought voices

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ould it surprise you to learn that newsrooms in Vermont are, by most metrics, stunningly low in diversity?

The state’s news organizations do well in terms of gender diversity, from reportorial ranks to top management. But when it comes to ethnicity and race, our newsrooms are even less diverse than predominantly white Vermont. Three of the most prominent news outlets — VTDigger.org, Vermont Public Radio and Seven Days — have no people of color on their news staffs. The Burlington Free Press, according to executive editor EMILIE STIGLIANI, has two.

A scan of online staff listings (with photos) shows that WCAX-TV has two and WPTZTV has one.

Leaders in the business agree that diversity makes for better journalism.

The News Media Alliance, an industry advocacy group, asserts that a diverse newsroom can “help ensure that the final news products will tell the widest possible range of stories that best meet the audience’s needs.”

Vermont news editors share that belief. “We want everybody in Vermont to see themselves in our work,” said VPR news director SARAH ASHWORTH. “We’re not there yet.”

VTDigger.org founder and editor ANNE GALLOWAY noted that the state’s homogeneity “is not an excuse for lack of diversity in newsrooms. We need to understand our communities of color, especially with incidents of discrimination. We need to understand how and why it’s happening and how Vermonters of color are responding.”

Galloway cited recent examples of racial tensions in the state. In 2016, a plan to place 25 Syrian refugee families in Rutland sparked deep divisions in the city. Last year, KIAH MORRIS resigned her seat in the state House after becoming a target of racial harassment. Recently, the town of Hartford saw bitter debate over a proposed policy to shield undocumented immigrants from federal agents.

If Vermont editors embrace the value of diversity, they haven’t been able to translate it into real life.

“We would love to address [diversity],” said MATTHEW ROY, Seven Days’ news and politics editor. But… “We hire a lot of Vermonters. If you know about Town Meeting Day, state politics and culture, you’ve got a big advantage.”

“Getting a [diverse] pool of candidates takes a lot of work,” said Stigliani. “You have

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we hadn’t seen on air before,” WCAX news director ROGER GARRITY said of his former anchor. “She opened our eyes and our viewers’ eyes.”

The same is true at Seven Days. Staff writer KYMELYA SARI worked in our shop for nearly three years, often covering immigration issues and New American communities, before returning to her native Singapore in February. Her influence is still felt. “She developed an exhaustive source list for her colleagues,” said Roy. “We are making attempts to continue her work.”

Sari and McKend produced insightful reporting that contributed to a fuller picture of Vermont. But for the most part, newsroom staffing doesn’t reflect the state we’re supposed to be covering. Too often, our coverage fails to include a wellrounded depiction of Vermonters of color.

That helps perpetuate the stereotype of Vermont as a white state in which people of color remain an “other” that largely exists as a focal point for conflict. Experience suggests that if our newsrooms were more diverse, we’d be more likely to recognize all Vermonters as equal participants in all aspects of life.

The Freeps’ Bleak Future

It’s too soon to tell how the merger of Gannett and GateHouse Media, announced on Monday, will affect the Gannett-owned Burlington Free Press. But chances are, it won’t be pretty.

The merger will combine the two largest newspaper chains in America into one giant entity. The combined company aims to capture up to $300 million in “synergies,” and you know what that means: cutbacks and layoffs. Most of the savings will come from combining management and operations functions, but newsrooms are certain to bear some of the burden.

Last week, RICK EDMONDS of the Poynter Institute took a look at how the merger would affect Gannett and GateHouse news operations. “Both chains have been moving to group editors with responsibility for several papers,” he wrote, as well as launching regional investigative projects using assets from multiple papers. That method of stretching resources is likely to grow, according to Edmonds. Which is fine, but it means a further retreat from the everyday reporting that makes a paper relevant to its community.

Recent circulation figures show that many readers have already decided the Free Press is irrelevant. When last we checked, in February, the paper’s print circulation

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in the fourth quarter of 2018 was 15,040 for the Sunday paper and 11,765 for the daily. That represents a decrease of 16 and 18 percent, respectively, from the same period in 2017. (All numbers are from the Alliance for Audited Media.)

Well, the trend has only continued since. In the second quarter of 2019, circulation dropped to 12,374 Sunday and 9,558 daily.

In a mere six months, that’s a decline of nearly 18 percent on Sundays and 19 percent for the daily.

The good folks at Gannett would likely say that this reflects a pivot to digital news delivery. (I’m guessing, since they didn’t return requests for comment.) Unfortunately, the Free Press is also shrinking in the digital space. Page views of its content have dropped by nearly 20 percent in the past year and unique browsers are about 17 percent lower. Even worse, paid digital subscriptions have slipped, as well — in spite of seemingly never-ending “limited time offers” of full access for 99 cents per month.

Why is the digital Free Press in decline?

Simple answer: a lack of original content.

A review of digital news offerings over the past week included a few noteworthy pieces of journalism, including a story about an overdue report on child sexual abuse from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, a look at how parents of transgender children make decisions about surgery and a court ruling in a fairhousing case.

But reported pieces were outnumbered by obvious clickbait. There were numerous stories that relied on available material without any actual reporting, and quite a few feature pieces on hardhitting subjects like how to celebrate National Ice Cream Sandwich Day in Vermont, the importance of wearing life jackets while on the water, Burlington city rules on bonfires and a how-to guide on avoiding car-deer collisions. The latter advised readers to turn on their headlights after dark and honk their horns to try to warn off deer.

It’s not for lack of effort. Free Press staffers work hard, but they operate on a shoestring. There aren’t enough bodies to produce good content on a daily basis.

The Gannett-GateHouse merger is likely to make the situation worse. On his Media Nation blog, Northeastern University journalism associate professor DAN KENNEDY recently wrote of the devastation wreaked on newspapers by private equity ownership. The conventional wisdom is that newspapers are dying because so many advertisers and readers have migrated to websites such as Craigslist, Google and Facebook. True, but Kennedy pointed out that some papers continue

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to thrive, such as Minneapolis’ independently owned Star Tribune, while new business models are buoying the fortunes of papers like the Philadelphia Inquirer and Salt Lake Tribune. Private equity firms, by contrast, are driven by one simple motivation: maximizing profit.

Gannett, for all its faults, is fundamentally a news business. This merger will subject Gannett properties to the tender mercies of New Media Investment Group, the private equity firm that owns GateHouse. If Kennedy is right, those who depend on Gannett papers for local news are about to experience disappointment on a whole new scale.

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Cutler is a Massachusetts native who graduated from college in 2017 and spent the last two years at KNBN-TV in Rapid City, S.D. He’ll have some big shoes to fill.

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Julian Joseph Jaffe 1926-2019 BURLINGTON, VT.

Julian Joseph Jaffe, a longtime resident of Burlington, passed away at the McClure Miller Respite House on July 31, 2019. He was born February 17, 1926, in Bronx, N.Y., to Paul and Frieda (Schall) Jaffe. The family moved to a farm in East Hampton, Conn., in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression. Times were very tough, and Julian developed a strength and resilience that would carry him through 93 years of life. Julian served in the Navy during World War II and graduated at the top of his class at the University of Connecticut in 1949. The GI Bill enabled him to earn his master’s and PhD at Harvard.

His doctoral thesis described a landmark discovery in his scientific research that led to

progress in the fight against many diseases, including cancer.

Julian was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1953.

He taught biology at Brown and Yale, and in 1961 became a professor of pharmacology at the University of Vermont, where he taught and did research in tropical medicine until his retirement in 1989.

As Julian was a well-respected expert in his field, his lab was chosen by the World Health Organization as a training site for post-doctoral pharmacology students from developing countries in Africa and Asia, where parasitological diseases affected millions of people. He was honored by UVM as a University Scholar in 1985.

After retirement, Julian was busier than ever, volunteering for the Red Cross and recording textbooks for visually impaired students.

He was a talented artist, and his favorite medium for years was needlepoint and rug hooking. Rather than use a kit, he would design everything himself — wall art, pillows, and rugs of all shapes and sizes.

Julian was proud of his Jewish heritage and had vast knowledge of Jewish history and the Yiddish language. He loved the natural world, gardening and birdwatching. He was an avid reader and loved doing crossword puzzles. He

will be remembered for his keen intellect, his sense of humor and prowess in telling jokes and stories, and his love of pretzels and spicy food.

He is survived by Joy (his wife of 66 years), four children and three grandchildren, whom he adored. There will be no visiting hours. The family is holding a private service. Donations in his memory could be sent to one of his favorite organizations, Doctors Without Borders, msf.org.

Judith Ann Fiermonte 1949-2019 SANTA ROSA, CALIF.

Judith Ann Fiermonte of Santa Rosa, Calif., passed away on June 29 after a recent diagnosis of cancer.

Her absence creates a void that has left so many struggling with the shock of this tremendous loss.

Judy was born August 5, 1949, in Newport, Vt., to Dr. Frank and Lucille Fiermonte.

She lived in Derby, Vt., until

graduation from high school.

She obtained her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Vermont and her master’s degree in clinical psychology from Sonoma State University.

Judy was a beloved Santa Rosa Marriage & Family Therapist for the past 40 years, as well as a treasured mother, daughter, sister and friend. She was an inspiration, resource, mentor and admired colleague to members of the Sonoma County therapeutic community.

Judy specialized in working with children and families, holding them in the circle of her love, helping them heal through their darkest times. She championed traumatized and special needs children and fiercely advocated for healthy parentchild relationships.

Judy loved babies, being a mom, dancing, gardening, reading, and spending time with friends and her dog Lily and her cat Mike.

She leaves behind her daughter, Tanya Fiermonte, of whom she was so proud.

In addition, Judy is survived by her father, Dr. Frank Fiermonte, of South Burlington, Vt.; her sister Paula Fiermonte and brotherin law William Hartman of San Rafael, Calif.; and her brother Philip and his wife, Irene Jednak, of Burlington, Vt., and Montréal, Canada.

Judy’s celebration of life will be held in September.

Please check legacy.com to leave tributes for Judy and for further information regarding the celebration of life.

Donations may be made in her name to the LGBT National Help Center, 2261 Market St., Suite 296, San Francisco, CA 94114 (glbthotline.org).

Henry H. Huston

1931-2019 BURLINGTON, VT. Henry H. Huston Sr., 88, of Burlington, Vt., died peacefully on July 21, 2019.

Barbara, his wife of 58 years, passed away in 2010, and his thoughts were with her every day.

He is survived by his daughter Ann and her son Joseph; by his son Henry Jr. and his son Lincoln; and by many extended family and dear friends.

Henry was born in Chicago in 1931, the youngest of five,

and he married Barbara in 1952. He served in the Korean War and later moved to New York, where he attended Cooper Union.

Vermont became his home in 1968, and a year later he established his graphic and industrial design business, Huston Associates. He was an energetic collaborator on projects such as the Church Street Marketplace and the Burlington waterfront. His designs informed many of the unique businesses that made up Burlington and Vermont’s dynamic transformation.

People gravitated to his boundless enthusiasm, playfulness and constant creativity. They, in turn, were touched by his sincere, curious and caring nature.

Lake Champlain provided a theme of great joy throughout his life — from his many boats and a nautical antique store in Essex, N.Y., to volunteering at ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain to finding warm companionship in his late years at the St. John’s Club.

At his request, no immediate service will be scheduled.

Donations in his honor can be made to ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain: echovermont.org/join-support/ make-a-gift.

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ere at Seven Days, we get a lot of press releases. You name it, we’ve gotten a press release about it, whether “it” is housing, art, music, law enforcement, politics or “exciting new partnerships.” Some of these press releases are good tips that help us discover and write about the cool stuff going on in Vermont. But some of them are not so good. They don’t tell us anything concrete, or they rely on so much insider jargon we can’t tell what they’re about. Or they spell our names wrong or call us “Dear Sirs.”

SD: Has your approach toward media relations changed in the 10 years that you’ve had this job?

RB: More and more, artists are doing their own work. They’re arranging their own tours in many cases; they’re doing their own publicity. They’re wearing so many different hats. Part of my job is to take care of them through that process. I think one of the things that’s been reinforced over time is that we just have to approach an artist, do our own dive into what that art is about and come out with our own understanding.

SD: What do you think artists struggle with when acting as their own publicists?

RB: I think they’re very deep into the material, splitting particular hairs. They don’t know what it will look like to an audience that’s maybe not urban, or not familiar with them. They don’t know our audiences; they know their work. And that’s what they need help with — talking to our audiences.

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Media  So, what makes a press release great? To find out, we turned to REBECCA BAILEY, who’s been the chief writer and publicity coordinator at the HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS at Dartmouth College for 10 years. A former journalist, Bailey, 61, is also a singer who has performed in theaters and choral groups; she’s currently a member of Montpelier’s COUNTERPOINT CHORUS. She writes clearly and beautifully about the artists and performers who visit the Hop, and she has advice for Vermonters who want to promote their own work — or that of others — to the media and the world.

Rebecca Bailey

SEVEN DAYS: What was your path to public relations and your current job?

REBECCA BAILEY: I got a BA in journalism from San Francisco State University. I worked for a year in California, and then I moved back to New England, where I’m from, to take a job with the Valley News and worked there for four years. I’ve spent some time doing work in the arts throughout the years, semiprofessionally as a singer and in theater. I had a foot in the world of journalism and the arts all before coming to the Hopkins Center.

SD: When you worked for the Valley News, what kind of subjects did you cover?

RB: They quickly moved me out of hard news to features.

That’s probably what my work now most resembles. In features, you need to dive into a topic and get to know it really well, and then deliver your own take on it with the confidence that you aren’t going to make an absolute hash of it.

That’s really the first thing I would say that is important to writing good press releases: Know your subject. If you can’t experience it firsthand, do the best you can to see videos, listen, get your own take on it. Don’t regurgitate somebody else’s words about it. Out of your own connection to it, or your appreciation, make your own meaningful statement about it.

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SD: How does your experience as a journalist, probably being on the receiving end of a fair number of press releases and media inquiries, shape your approach to PR and communications?

RB: No. 1, I just don’t like reading hyperbole. There’s a lot of empty words, you know. Sometimes they do sneak into my own work. You know — “acclaimed,” “superb,” “fabulous.” Those words that don’t tell you what something really is.

No. 2, I know there’s so many competing stories out there that a journalist has to be responsible to their audience, and to their sense of what that audience needs to know. So I need to speak to that when I address them. I need to be aware of their interests as a journalist, their past work as a journalist, but also how they’re trying to speak to their audience.

SD: Say you’re an artist or a musician or an organizer and you’ve made something, be it a painting or an album or an event. You want to promote it. What’s step one?

RB: Try to get the best video representation you can of it, because that’s really worthwhile.

One thing I have learned in the past 10 years is, whenever possible, find good video and get that out. That’s the most telling piece of it all.

Then try to put together a nice, clean, easyto-manage website that represents your work and yourself. Have a sense of humor about it, but don’t be too cute.

And then look at the people who are key in the media that talk to the audiences that you want to talk to, and start building a relationship with them. Get to know them, see what they’re interested in and speak to that when you communicate with them.

SD: What makes a good press release? How do you use it to develop personal relationships with media outlets?

RB: Think about what’s likely to seem unique and appealing about the event and put that in the first paragraph — the so-called “elevator speech” — along with the essential information. Follow that with more detailed bios or background information. You can include a good quote or two, either from the artist or from third-party media or a local expert. It’s always good to have some other voices in a press release.

In sending it to the media, it’s worth sending individual emails containing the press release as text. When I send them to particular outlets, I’ll add a little something at the top that calls out things I think are particularly interesting to that outlet.

Send your releases early-ish in the week. Know what their production cycle is. And send them early in the morning.

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irst things first: Bluum Zine is a Instead, the constant deluge of pieces “zine,” but it’s not actually a zine. about queer people having their rights Which is to say it’s not a home- taken away or imperiled, coupled with made, self-published magazine articles calling out problematic celebbut rather an online-only publication rities, can be thoroughly exhausting, dedicated to showcasing the art and Johnson said. Last week, them. ran a written works of queer front-page story headcreatives. lined “Queer Russians Are Still, said its 24-yearBeing Brutally ‘Hunted’ old founder, BAILEY JOHNand Murdered.”

SON, the label “zine” feels “I think in the queer fitting. community we’re satu“There were a lot rated with a lot of of zines being made negativity even without in the queer commuseeking that out,” she nity for a long time said.

The headlines on because it was a kind of secret, private way Bluum offer readers to disseminate gay a reprieve from the information in a time fatigue of negativwhen there weren’t a ity and the effort of lot of mainstream gay resistance; one recent publications,” she said. offering is Will BetkeJohnson, who’s Brunswick’s comic originally from strip “Indoor Femme Atlanta and now lives Tries on His Summer Butch.” All pieces on in Lebanon, N.H., was galvanized to start the site are nonfiction, B AILE Y J OHNSON but their tone, whether the publication after watching many of her lyrical or prosaic, is peers at the CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES in entirely up to contributors.

White River Junction pursue their own Johnson wrote three of the site’s six passion projects this spring. “The longer posts to date. An old friend of hers, Kellen I sat on Bluum Zine, the more I realized Flatt, 23, wrote one called “Gay Lessons I it paid tribute to the publication’s forefa- Learned From Straight TV.” thers,” she said.

“To me, Bluum is like if that little piece These days, an abundance of publica- of Pride Month that makes you feel safe tions are made by and for LGBTQ people, and happy in your identity was something including Autostraddle and Condé Nast’s you could consume and revisit whenever community platform called “them.” But you wanted,” Flatt suggested. in Johnson’s view, not many outlets are Even superficially, Bluum oozes dedicated to showcasing the joyful every- cheeriness. Its homepage is a mosaic of day experiences of these individuals and communities.

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n the summer of 1785, a free black woman named Lucy Prince walked from Guilford to Norwich — a distance of 63 miles as the crow flies, but considerably longer for a 60-year-old woman and her son, traveling on foot along winding Vermont roads. The purpose of their pilgrimage was to petition thengovernor Thomas Chittenden for justice.

The Princes owned a hog farm in Guilford, and their racist white neighbors, the Noyes family, had been harassing them for years to give up their land. Sometimes, their abuse was verbal, a snide remark within earshot; other times, they let their own livestock loose on the Prince’s property to ravage their crops.

Little is known about Lucy Prince beyond the sparse facts revealed in a smattering of documents. These offer only the contours of her life — the people who had previously enslaved her, the name of the man she married, her legal battle against the Noyeses. But this Sunday, her story will come to life at the BRIGGS OPERA HOUSE in White River Junction in a staged reading of Lucy Prince Walks to Norwich. The screenplay, cowritten by Norwich filmmaker NORA JACOBSON and New York Citybased playwright Richard Wesley, will feature actors from New York, Vermont and New Hampshire in the principal roles.

The script is still in development, but Jacobson envisions the project as a feature film — possibly the first in a series about people of color in New England.

Jacobson first encountered Prince’s story nearly a decade ago, while she was working on a documentary about untold tales of life in Vermont. One segment featured an interview with Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, then a professor at Dartmouth College, who wrote a book about the Prince family. When Jacobson learned about Prince’s journey to Norwich to address the governor, she was astonished, then galvanized by the fact that she’d never heard of Prince before.

As a white woman who grew up in Norwich, said Jacobson, “Why didn’t I know about her? There was a lack of stories about people of color. That lack is precisely what needs to be addressed.”

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Richard Wesley The clause of Vermont’s constitution abolishing adult slavery

America to abolish adult slavery. But from share his own experiences as a black the outset, Jacobson didn’t feel comfort- man in America, which would often find able being the sole imaginer of Prince’s their way into the script. The screenplay experiences. became part fact, part historical invention: “The issue is always: Who tells what a portrait of a free black woman speakstories. And I didn’t think, as a white ing truth to power at a time when most woman, that I could tell her story alone,” whites — in practice if not in principle she explained.

— rejected the notion of So Jacobson partnered black personhood. Even with Wesley, an associate though Vermont’s constituprofessor at New York tion outlawed slavery, the University’s Tisch School majority of whites were of the Arts. His writing steeped in a racist milieu. credits include a screen Certain things haven’t adaptation of Richard changed.

Today, as much NO R A JAC O BS O N Wright’s Native Son and as in the late 18th century, the libretto for the opera Wesley noted, land ownerproduction of The Central Park Five, the ship is a major driver of racial inequality. story of five black and Latino teenagers A recent New Yorker story reported that wrongfully convicted of raping a young, between 1910 and 1997, African Americans white, female jogger in New York City. were dispossessed of 90 percent of their Jacobson and Wesley wrote collab- farmland, representing a collective loss of oratively, sending annotated drafts back hundreds of billions of dollars. and forth. Over the course of their corre“Land ownership is a primary source spondence, Jacobson said, Wesley would of wealth in American life, the means by

THE ISSUE IS ALWAYS:

WHO TELLS WHAT STORIES.

which wealth is passed down from one generation to the other,” said Wesley, who will attend the reading on Sunday. “That is a part of the battle Lucy Prince and her family are waging in 1787, and it is a large part of the struggle blacks in America continue to wage in 2019.”

But Prince’s story isn’t just about a fight to hold on to land; it’s about the struggle of a woman of color, who was also a poet and a songwriter, to attain something deeper than mere legal recognition. At one point in the screenplay, a teacher asks Prince to regale her students with stories from her childhood in West Africa. Prince obliges, unhappily, then remarks to the teacher: “Our sorrows are not to entertain you. Do you understand?”

Ultimately, Chittenden ruled in favor of the Prince family, which is where Lucy Prince Walks to Norwich ends. But the only surviving record of their meeting is his pronouncement; her words to him, like countless other details of her life, have been lost to history. m Contact: chelsea@sevendaysvt.com

INFO Staged reading of Lucy Prince Walks to Norwich, written by Nora Jacobson and Richard Wesley, Sunday, August 11, 2 p.m., Briggs Opera House in White River Junction.

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An Online Zine « P.27 color: blues, greens and yellows against a minimalist white background, under the site’s playfully askew title. When she was brainstorming names for the project, Johnson said, the word “bloom” kept popping into her head. (Later, she realized it was because queer singer Troye Sivan has a song and album of the same name.) Spelled correctly, all “bloom” domain names were taken, so she settled on the misspelled rendition.

The publication’s sleekness is a tribute to Johnson’s design background. She studied new media and mass media arts at the University of Georgia before moving to Vermont last year to study at Center for Cartoon Studies.

To pay the bills, Johnson works full time at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College; she’s a research assistant investigating links between media consumption and adolescent smoking and drinking habits. Off the clock, she labors with love on Bluum from her small Lebanon apartment or the Hanover Starbucks. Before launching the zine in June, Johnson often spent 25 to 30 hours per week getting the site ready, she said.

“It’s been hard to get people to submit things,” she admitted. “But I think once the site launched, people were like, ‘OK, this is really happening.’”

Johnson said it comes as a shock to most people that she pays contributors, but she wants creators to feel like their work is worth something. She pays an

average of $25 per piece out of her own pocket and supplements each with her own illustrations, which she draws using an iPad program.

Eventually, Johnson said, she’d love to have more illustrators and regular contributors. She’d be thrilled to take Bluum to print, but printing is expensive, and she hasn’t yet managed to snag a micro-grant.

As the site evolves, Johnson is posting submissions on an irregular basis. She’s giving contributors considerable latitude when it comes to content.

“If some queer person came to me and wanted to write about a time that they began [being] best friends with their waiter at Waffle House and it had nothing to do with either of them being queer, I’d want to publish that, because it’s a story from a queer person’s life about a time that brought them joy,” she explained.

Johnson herself said she finds immeasurable joy in doing ordinary things with her girlfriend, such as going to the grocery store or snuggling in bed.

“Queer joy is living life joyfully in the face of people who would really love to take that away from you,” she said.

“It’s the idea of queering straight things,” she added with a sigh. “Doing that with my partner, who’s a woman — that’s the best.” m Contact: sabine@sevendaysvt.com

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uddenly I noticed my customer’s right hand as he sat beside me in the shotgun seat. We had already been chatting for a good half hour, so I knew it would be OK to ask.

“How’d you lose your fingers, Ennis?

Farming accident?”

Ennis Dutton held up his right hand and looked at it. The thumb and index finger were intact; the other three fingers ended above the first knuckle, just below where the nails would have been. He contemplated the sight for a moment before responding.

“Corn chopper,” he began. “When I was 20 years old, working on a farm in the town of Addison. I thought I heard somebody whistle and looked up. Big mistake. The blood was everywhere.

I tried to retrieve the fingertips, but a coupla seagulls swooped down and scooped ’em up. I wrapped my hand in a rag and drove to the general store — ya know the one on 22A?” “The pain must have been crazy,” I said.

“Well, what happens is, ya go into shock. Anyways, I walk in, and Debbie says, ‘Ennis, take off that rag and lemme see what ya done to yourself this time.’ I unwrap the rag, she takes one look and passes clean out. Luckily, her husband was in the back, and he drove me over to Porter in Middlebury.”

Noticing my jaw was agape, Ennis chuckled. “Not everybody got a story like that, am I right?” he asked. He had a round face with tousled brown hair just beginning to show a whisper of gray. A physically expressive guy, his smile was amply reflected in his entire face, not merely his mouth.

“Yup, that’s quite a story,” I agreed, though I couldn’t bring myself to join in the chuckling. “Those seagulls are opportunistic sons of guns, a bunch of squawking gangsters.”

I’m an urban cabbie, or at least as urban as it gets in Vermont. Mainly I drive city dwellers, whether Burlingtonians or tourists, college students or businesspeople. The Queen City is the perfect town for a hackie like me, and I enjoy my job.

“How many animals would the truck carry?”

“Could be as many as 18 if you packed ’em tight, but usually around 12. Sometimes one, or even two, would go down during the long rides. Back then you could still sell the down cows, you know, at a discount. Now, I guess, it’s illegal.”

I didn’t want to ask, but from the context, I assumed “down” meant “dead.”

THEY ALL TOLD ME I HAD TO TAKE TIME OFF, BUT THEY KNEW I WOULDN’T LISTEN.

But every so often I get to transport a rural Vermonter like Ennis, and the conversation opens a window onto a world still largely foreign to me, even after living in Burlington for 40 years.

It’s certainly not always about pastoral joy and bucolic wonder. Like Ennis’ — let’s call it — “seagull story,” the dispatches I receive from that world can be on the gruesome side. But that’s all part of the picture, a culturally rich way of life that has played out over generations of Vermont families and communities. I’m eager to hear any or all of it.

“So, have you ever done work other than the farming?” I asked.

“Well, for about three winters I made snow up at Killington.”

“That’s got to be brutal,” I said. “They make the snow overnight, right?”

“Yup, I would work from nine at night until 11 the next morning. I had to quit that, because my short fingers would get wicked frostbit. For a few years, I also drove a truck carrying cows.”

“So, the back problem you mentioned forced you to stop working altogether?”

“Yup, it’s been two years now. They fused the lower spine about six inches, but it never really helped. I screwed it up after my wife died.”

“What happened?” I asked.

“Well, Maggie died suddenly from a massive heart attack. I felt so bad I started working, like, 20 hours a day, seven days a week. I guess I was trying to stay distracted. Everyone — my family, the farm owner where I was working, the doctor — they all told me I had to take time off, but they knew I wouldn’t listen.

That’s when I had the back injury.”

As we made our way south to his home in Bridport, Ennis pointed out every farm we passed. He had worked on many of them and, even if he hadn’t worked on one, he seemed to know its full history over the last few decades: the crops grown, the number of cows milked, the various owners. He held strong views on proper farming practices. Above all,

he scorned the farmers that ran shoddy, unclean operations.

“You see there?” Ennis indicated as we came into Ferrisburgh. I looked to my right to see a huge field covered in plastic tarp.

“That used to be a cornfield, and now they’ve put in the hemp. Since it became legal, I guess that’s your cash crop. Can you smell it? Something like pot, but sour-like.”

I stuck my head out the window and — unlike Bill Clinton — inhaled. Deeply.

My sense of smell has ebbed as I’ve aged, but I could identify the aroma as Ennis described it. This was a perfect example of a vivid element of the natural world about which I had been oblivious. It took a native — a rural Vermonter and lifelong farmhand — to point out what was right under my nose.

“So, how do you spend your days since you had to quit farming?”

“I don’t do much. It drives me nuts, not working. But I do enjoy my Legos.

Yeah, I know they’re for kids, but I can get real, like, creative with ’em. Some days, I’ll start in about nine in the morning, and by the time I look up, it’s late afternoon.”

Not quite the same as chopping corn and milking cows, I thought, but Legos are awesome. When I’ve driven my last taxi fare, it might be something to consider. m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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Meet the News Boss Vermont newspapers, TV and radio stations are changing hands.

What does that mean for local journalism?

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You don’t wait to sell until you have to sell.

Jay Barton and Peter Martin at WCAX-TV

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hen Jay Barton moved into the corner office at WCAX-TV’s South Burlington headquarters, he got rid of the “Howard Johnson orange” carpets that, in his view, “did not feel forward-looking.”

But he didn’t dare repaint the fleet of teal-and-gray vans that for decades have ferried the station’s reporters around Vermont.

“The teal makes a certain amount of sense,” Barton explained, glancing out his office window at the Channel 3 parking lot. “At this point, because it’s so well known, it seems a shame to throw it away.”

The 39-year-old Virginia native took over as general manager of

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Vermont’s most-watched television news station in June 2017, a month after its founding family announced it was selling to an Atlanta-based conglomerate. Since then, Barton has been sorting out which parts of Channel 3’s storied history are worth preserving — and which must go.

“I’ve been striving for as much consistency as possible,” he said.

Some changes have been as minor as the company logo, which Barton redesigned himself. Others, including new cameras and control room equipment, have made the station more efficient while remaining invisible to viewers. Still more have been life altering for those on the receiving end.

Since Gray Television took over, WCAX has eliminated 23 full- and part-time positions in three rounds of layoffs, according to Barton, reducing the station’s full-time-equivalent staff from 94 to 74. The cuts, which included business office, production and engineering jobs, largely spared the newsroom, though three photographers lost their jobs.

It’s a familiar story in the legacy news business, which has been plagued in recent years by plummeting advertising revenue, the rise of the internet, competition from social media giants and corporate costcutting. According to a University of North Carolina study released last year, the nation has lost 1,800

newspapers since 2004 — and half of the journalists who once worked for them.

Vermont has not been immune.

Local owners long ago sold the Burlington Free Press, the Brattleboro Reformer and the Bennington Banner to national interests, which later stripped the three dailies to the bone.

Now, a new wave of ownership change is transforming Vermont’s media landscape. Since May 2016, at least 20 news outlets in the state have been sold or are in the process of being sold. They include six of Vermont’s 11 daily newspapers and 11 of its roughly four dozen weeklies.

The latest? Gannett, the national chain that bought the Free Press from

GOING, GOING, GONE Since May 2016, at least 20 news outlets in the state have been acquired by 11 new owners.

MAY 2016 Brattleboro Reformer Bennington Banner Manchester Journal

Vermont’s McClure family in 1971, announced Monday that it would be acquired by the parent company of GateHouse Media, which is even more notorious for cost cutting than the current owner.

According to the UNC study, half of the nation’s newspapers have changed hands in the past decade, and one-third of them are now controlled by 25 companies. A combined GateHouse and Gannett would control more than 260 daily newspapers and hundreds more weeklies.

Such consolidation worries David Goodman, an independent journalist from Waterbury Center, because it

sports? Local reporting, when done well, has the power to hold officials accountable and knit communities together.

Not every sale is cause for alarm.

In 2016, a group of investors with ties to western Massachusetts bought the Berkshire Eagle and three southern Vermont newspapers — the Reformer, the Banner and the Manchester Journal — from Digital First Media, the national chain that had presided over their decline. The new owners have sought to rebuild the papers.

In some cases, out-of-state buyers might have saved Vermont news outlets from folding entirely. In

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often results in less — and lowerquality — reporting.

“Democracy’s in trouble if local media doesn’t survive,” he said.

“Media really is the watchdog of democracy, and if the watchdog goes to sleep or dies, what happens?”

To be sure, print newspapers are no longer the only game in town. VTDigger.org, an online-only nonprofit, has filled a void in statewide and Statehouse reporting, while Front Porch Forum has become a digital message board for many Vermont municipalities.

But Ross Connelly, who published the Hardwick Gazette for more than three decades, wonders whether new media will ever provide the “real local” reporting that community weeklies produce. “How many stories are they going to have about the Hardwick Selectboard?” he asked.

For that matter, who will cover town construction projects, community gatherings and high school

August 2016, the Rutland Herald and the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus were on the brink of collapse when a Maine newspaper publisher and a New Hampshire printing executive bought the family-owned papers.

“Pick your poison: out of state or none at all,” remarked Addison County Independent publisher Angelo Lynn.

Barely 20 months later, the Herald and Times Argus changed hands again — this time to Sample News Group, a small chain based in Pennsylvania. According to the executive editor of both papers, Steve Pappas, the new owners haven’t imposed many changes or ordered up any layoffs. “They haven’t said no to me yet,” he said of Sample. “But I’m not asking for much … What they have told me is, ‘Keep doing what you’re doing.’”

Some sellers have insisted on keeping it local. WDEV Radio owner Ken Squier spent years looking for a buyer who would continue broadcasting the Waterbury station’s

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Media  eclectic mix of local news, left- and right-leaning talk shows, sports, and music. In September 2017, he agreed to sell to Steve Cormier, a veteran radio host and former owner of WIZN Radio who was then serving as WDEV’s sales director. The transaction has yet to close. “[Squier] has refused to sell out to the big corporate media titans that normally come in and snap up these properties,” said Goodman, who hosts a weekly radio show on WDEV. “He has been fiercely committed to independent media.”

At WCAX, Barton is trying to have it both ways. He wants to deploy Gray’s considerable resources to modernize the station and make it more profitable. At the same time, he wants to retain its carefully cultivated local sensibility — and its commitment to Vermont news.

Not far from the collection of Back to the Future and Star Wars figurines he keeps in his office, Barton continues to hang a framed photograph of Stuart “Red” Martin, the family patriarch who cofounded WCAX in 1954.

“This was his office,” Barton noted. “This is somebody’s dream.”

Unlike other television conglomerates, he argued, Gray seeks out quality properties and avoids “cookie-cutter” formulas. “We don’t want to buy cheap, broken-down stations,” he said. “We want to buy well-run stations that are at least No. 2 in their market.”

If what they’re doing works, he asked, “Why would I second-guess that?”

SELLING THE FARM

Bob Miller got his start in the newspaper business at 15 years old, when his parents founded the weekly Shopper at their Bellows Falls kitchen table in 1961. He’s been at it ever since — and it’s taken a toll.

“When you’re the owner, you work around the clock,” he said. “Last year I went on vacation for the first time in 18 years. I’m a workaholic.”

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“It was very hard,” Miller said. “It’s like letting go of a kid.”

Vermont’s recent spate of media ownership changes has been driven, at least in part, by a generational shift. As is evident at annual gatherings of the Vermont Press Association, many of the state’s graying newspaper publishers have been eligible for Social Security for some time.

“There are actuarial realities,” joked former WCAX general manager Peter Martin, who was 77 when his family sold the station his father had founded.

In some cases, the next generation isn’t interested in carrying on the family legacy. In others, it just doesn’t make financial sense.

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simply was no longer viable,” Martin said.

CBS, which used to pay Channel 3 and other affiliates to air its programs, had begun charging them for the honor. Martin wouldn’t say how much, but Barton said it was “something that rhymes with schmillion.” As the last freestanding, locally owned CBS affiliate in the country, WCAX had little power to negotiate with cable television providers, equipment vendors and advertisers.

According to Martin, the station was still profitable when he and his three siblings sold to Gray for $29 million, with “sadness and regret and relief.” He could, however, see the writing on the wall. “You don’t wait to sell until you have to sell,” he said, quoting the Sicilian novelist Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. “Everything needs to change, so everything can stay the same.”

Too many Vermont institutions have been run into the ground because those at the helm failed to “look reality in the eye and deal with it,” Martin said. “There’s some sad stories out there.”

The Herald and Times Argus would certainly qualify. In their heyday, the papers employed dozens of reporters, ran the Statehouse-based Vermont Press Bureau and gave the Free Press a run for its money, often beating the larger daily to important stories. By the summer of 2016, following several rounds of layoffs, they were printing just four days a week and could no longer make payroll. After news editor Alan Keays published a front-page story on the company’s financial woes, he was fired — and his staff revolted.

Since former Statehouse reporter Robert W. Mitchell bought a stake in the Herald in 1948 and the Times Argus in 1964, three generations had helped run the company. When the family finally sold to the Maine and New Hampshire investors, days after Keays’ firing, it was Mitchell’s grandson, editor in chief Rob Mitchell, who broke the story in print.

“We have always held these newspapers in trust for the public,” he quoted his father, former publisher R. John Mitchell, as saying. “While we’ve always been a privately held company, we believe they are an asset

of the communities they serve and of the state of Vermont.”

Though the Mitchells no longer own the joint, Rob continues to work there — now as general manager of the Herald. “It’s hard. I think there’s a part of me that misses the family ownership,” he said. “You know, things didn’t turn out the way I thought they would.”

BUYER’S MARKET

It’s not easy to sell a business in an industry that many believe is dying.

So after trying and failing to part with the Hardwick Gazette in a conventional fashion, Connelly came up with a different approach.

The 70-year-old newsman launched an essay contest to identify the next owner. Entrants would pay $175 to explain in 400 words why the paper should be theirs. If 700 people took part, Connelly would hand over the Gazette to one of them.

“They’d be getting the paper lock, stock and barrel for $175,” he explained. “No debt service. They could just dive in.”

Ray Small, an information technology executive from Stamford, Conn., read about the contest in the New York Times in June 2016. “Two days later I came up here to find out whether it was real or nuts,” he said. “Turned out, it was both.”

Small submitted an essay, but Connelly ended up canceling the contest because too few people responded. As he returned entry fees, the publisher made clear to essay writers that he still hoped to sell the Gazette. A handful of entrants made offers — and Small bought the paper in February 2017.

Connelly considered the contest a success, since it led him to a buyer. Plus, he said, “It was really fun reading the essays.

It gave me the sense that there are a lot of people out there who understand local journalism and are committed to it and see the importance of it in the age of the internet.”

That doesn’t mean they’re lining up to buy newspapers.

In 2015, 32-year-old photographer Tim Calabro bought out the Herald of Randolph’s longtime publisher, M. Dickey Drysdale, but such stories are few and far between.

“I don’t know if there’s a new generation coming in,” said Mitchell of the Rutland Herald. “The market is very soft.

The people trying to get out are having a hard time getting out.”

Lynn, the Addison County Independent publisher, was 26 years old when he bought his first newspaper, a southeastern Kansas weekly called the Yates Center News. At 30, he moved to Vermont and bought the Middlebury-based Independent. Older brother Emerson Lynn had already snapped up the St. Albans Messenger, a Franklin County daily.

“When I bought into these things 40 years ago, you could look at it and say, ‘There’s a solid investment,’” Angelo said.

“That’s all changed because you can’t see 10 years down the road in the media market today. You can’t see five years.”

If he were 26 today, he’s not sure he would make the same move. “For that much work? Go do something else,” he said.

Luckily for Angelo, he won’t have to look far for a successor. All three of his daughters, Polly, Christy and Elsie, work with him and his wife, Lisa Gosselin Lynn, overseeing the family publications, which now include the Brandon Reporter, Killington’s Mountain Times and VT Ski + Ride.

“We hope to continue to do well enough to make that transition, but that’s really up to them,” he said of his daughters.

At the Hardwick Gazette, Small is learning what it means to run a small community weekly. “I manage the business. I clean the toilet,” he said. “I water

the flowers and sometimes complain about that.”

As the paper’s 11th publisher in 130 years, Small has been careful to avoid changing too much too quickly. He’s tweaked its design, added color and done one thing Connelly had proudly refused to do: publish online.

Small hasn’t managed to turn a profit and isn’t even drawing a salary. “My wife and I are subsidizing the operation,” he

You can’t see 10 years down the road in the media market today.

You can’t see five years.

ANGE L O LYNN

said. “I knew it would be a tough slog, and it sure as hell has been.” Upping the Gazette’s price from 75 cents to a dollar helped, but a Trump administration tariff on Canadian paper last year increased his overall costs by 12 percent. The Gazette relies on retail advertising, and in a town as small as Hardwick, he noted, “It’s not a target-rich environment.”

Still, Small said, he doesn’t regret entering Connelly’s contest.

“The experience itself has been marvelous,” he said. “Part of it is learning the fabric of life up here, none of which I’d been exposed to.”

FROM AWAY

Milton residents had gotten used to their local weekly, the Milton Independent, punching above its weight. In recent years, its reporters had broken award-winning stories about embezzlement in a youth football program and hazing on a high school football team — the kind of hardhitting reporting all too rare at papers of its size.

“We were spoiled,” said town manager and former state legislator Don Turner.

Last summer, things began to change.

Emerson Lynn, who owned the paper, relocated its staff — and that of the Essex Reporter and Colchester Sun, which he co-owned with Angelo — to the Messenger’s offices in St. Albans. In December, he announced that all four papers had been

sold to Jim O’Rourke, a Chicago investor who had worked for a series of newspaper chains and, earlier in his career, the Burlington Free Press.

“I’m looking forward to being back in Vermont and am encouraged by the strength of the Messenger’s brand and the role it plays in Franklin County and in the state,” O’Rourke said in a statement issued to his own newspaper. “That’s something I want to build upon.”

It’s unclear whether he’s equally committed to the three weeklies.

Soon after taking over, O’Rourke eliminated an editor position that had overseen the three Chittenden County weeklies and tasked Messenger editor Michelle Monroe with running them. “For an operation of our size, he felt there only needed to be one person in charge of the editorial side,” said Courtney Lamdin, who held the position that was cut and now writes for Seven Days.

Since then, the weeklies have filled their pages with less reporting and more free content from community members and government officials. Turner now writes a “Dear Don” column for the Independent, while members of the Essex town selectboard and village board of trustees pen a regular column for the Reporter about their ongoing merger.

“I’ve definitely seen a change in the paper. The content is not as much as it once was,” Turner observed. “I think it’s harder if you’re not based in Milton to understand the day-to-day happenings.”

Darren Adams, who chairs the Milton Selectboard, said he’s “kind of surprised” that O’Rourke hasn’t come to town to introduce himself to the board. “The Milton Independent is our paper of record,” he said.

“So it would be nice to know the names and faces of the new owners and what their long-term goals and aspirations are.”

O’Rourke has also made tweaks at the Messenger. It’s been redesigned from a broadsheet to a tabloid and now prints overnight, rather than in the afternoon.

Instead of relying on delivery contractors to get the paper to subscribers, the paper is now distributed by mail.

“The Messenger has undergone a lot of changes in the last six months, and I’m hearing mixed reviews about it in the community,” said Sen. Corey Parent (R-Franklin), who, like Sen. Randy Brock (R-Franklin), has yet to meet O’Rourke.

Neither the new publisher nor Emerson Lynn, who still writes editorials for the Messenger, would speak to Seven Days about the ownership transition.

O’Rourke’s company website, however, provides some clues about his objectives.

It does not mention journalism. Rather, it describes his investment strategy: acquiring community newspapers with “revenue

size $1MM to $5MM with minimum operating margin of 10%.”

He’s also willing to “acquire distressed assets at a low valuation,” according to the website, “as long as it meets our criteria and net income is accretive in year one.”

‘THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING’

New ownership doesn’t always spell trouble, even when a buyer comes from afar.

In 2013, a different Bob Miller, who once served as publisher of Sports Illustrated, and his business partner, Norb Garrett, quietly bought a 49 percent stake in the Stowe Reporter and Waterbury Record. The next year, the New Yorker and Californian acquired a majority position. Stowe resident Biddle Duke, who had published the Reporter for 17 years and restarted the Record in 2007, relinquished day-to-day control of the papers but remained a minority partner.

Over the next four years, the company acquired four more weeklies: the News & Citizen of Morrisville, the Shelburne News, the Citizen of Charlotte and Hinesburg, and the Other Paper of South Burlington.

Rather than cut back coverage, according to publisher Greg Popa, the new owners have expanded it. “We felt that to realize the quality goals that we have, we can’t do it with freelancers and part-timers,” he said. “So we’ve hired full-time staff.” And though the group has centralized business functions in Stowe, it continues to operate offices in Morristown and South Burlington.

“The dilemma is, if you’re really committed to the idea that these papers need to serve the communities they serve, it would be kind of difficult to have all our editorial operations out of Stowe,” Popa said.

After purchasing the Chittenden County weeklies in 2017 and 2018, the company put longtime Brandon Reporter editor Lee Kahrs in charge of all three.

Tom Kearney, a veteran Vermont journalist and an editor at the Stowe Reporter, was tasked with improving the quality of their work.

“They weren’t strong journalistically,” Kearney said, referring to the Shelburne, Charlotte and Hinesburg papers, which had been heavy on rewritten press releases and light on original, local reporting. “I looked at them as kind of sleeping giants … They’re really interesting communities: a lot going on, a lot of citizen engagement.

But the papers didn’t reflect that or tap into it.”

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Three other minority partners have strong ties to the state: Duke; his wife, Idoline; and former Other Paper publisher Judy Kearns.

“I think the proof is in the pudding,” said Tom Slayton, a former editor of Vermont Life magazine, which ceased publication last summer. “The threat of out-of-state ownership is that people start milking the newspaper or station to get money out of it and cut down on news coverage.”

According to the UNC study, fewer than one-third of the nation’s 5,829 small weeklies were locally owned by 2018, resulting in far less local coverage. Kearney thinks the cuts national chains have made have been counterproductive.

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“I’ve never understood why newspapers that are getting squeezed would cut the only product they have … What do you have left? What do you have to sell?”

Barton, the WCAX general manager, is sensitive to the suggestion that’s what Gray Television is doing.

“If anything, I would love to continue to grow our news — not just our local story count, but our various news programs,” he said.

During a tour of the station last month, he showed off investments the new owner had made. In the secondfloor control room, where directors and producers orchestrate live broadcasts, all but two pieces of equipment had been replaced since last March.

The upgrades made the layoffs possible, as did the station’s decision to replace dedicated photographers with “multimedia journalists,” who shoot and edit their own stories — and drive their own teal vans. Gray spent $40,000 automating a remote transmission

facility atop Mount Mansfield, which allowed WCAX to lay off three of the four engineers who operated it.

Though former general manager Peter Martin had been loath to cut staff, he said that Gray had done what was necessary. “Most of these were changes we would have made if we could have,” the former owner said.

Around the time of the sale, half a dozen well-known reporters departed the station — some for jobs in bigger markets, and others for family reasons.

“As far as I know, not a single person left here due to change in ownership,” said news director Roger Garrity.

Still, the exodus contributed to the sense that something was different at Channel 3, and it left the station with a younger, less experienced newsroom.

Anchor Darren Perron had spent more than half his life at WCAX when he learned that Gray was taking over.

“Having worked for a family-owned station, I think there was some apprehension initially that we were going

to be told how to cover the news in Vermont,” said Perron, who grew up in the Northeast Kingdom. “That just hasn’t happened at all.”

Since its merger with Raycom Media in January, Gray has become the third largest owner of local TV stations in the nation, with 150 affiliates in 91 media markets. But Barton is quick to differentiate the company from its larger rival, Sinclair Broadcast Group, which has become notorious for forcing its affiliates to run conservative commentary.

“That is not how our company works,” the GM said.

KEEPING IT LOCAL

Propped up in the storefront window of WDEV’s downtown Waterbury headquarters is a programing schedule from the mid-1940s. Shortly before “World News Roundup” and “Musical Reveille” it lists a 6:30 a.m. show called “The Trading Post.”

Seventy-five years later, “The Trading Post” is still on — in the same time slot.

Each morning, host Dana Jewell takes calls from locals looking to buy, sell or swap goods of every description and condition — much like a Craigslist audiobook. One recent episode featured Carl from Barre, who hoped to buy used rain gutters, metal or plastic, and sell “a cane seat with no cane.” When a caller lists a freebie, Jewell rings a bell.

“When I arrived here, people told me to get rid of it. ‘It’s gone past its expiration date,’” Cormier, the general manager, said of the show. “And I didn’t believe it.”

Cormier and Squier, the station’s owner, take pride in what hasn’t changed at WDEV. It still airs close to seven hours of news and talk each weekday, and Squier, at 84, still hosts the iconic “Music to Go to the Dump By” every Saturday morning.

Democracy’s in trouble if local media doesn’t survive.

D AV I D G OO DMAN

“Strangely enough, we’re still in business,” Squier said. “We shouldn’t be.

That’s for goddamn sure.”

Since his father, Lloyd, cofounded the station in 1931, the family has treated it like a weekly newspaper. “People are curious about what the neighbors are up to,” he said. “It’s an old Vermont tradition, and we seem to think it works in our favor.”

Other news outlets are rediscovering what it means to be local.

After the Herald and Times Argus nearly went under in 2016, editor Pappas pulled back reporters from Bennington and Springfield and refocused the papers on Rutland and Washington counties.

When Statehouse reporter Neal Goswami decamped for WCAX the following year, Pappas shuttered the Vermont Press Bureau and divvied up state issues among his seven remaining reporters.

“I don’t feel that we have to compete with everybody,” he said. “We just have to be the best in the communities that we serve.”

David Moats, who won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at the Herald, misses the days when it had a statewide mission. In 1982, when he was hired as a wire editor, “The local desk was lucky to get a story on A1,” he recalled. These days, the front page consists almost entirely of local stories.

“The mission of the papers had to change,” said Moats, who was laid off from the Herald in February 2018. “It’s tough economically, but I think everybody is trying to recalibrate their proper size and their proper mission.”

CALLING IT QUITS

Bob Miller sold the southern Vermont Shopper and Journal in January, but he hasn’t quite let go. He’s still serving as publisher and selling ads.

“I need a couple years to slow down,” he said. “I couldn’t just go cold turkey.”

When his new boss asked whether he would ever totally retire, Miller answered, “Probably not.”

At WDEV, Squier still shows up most mornings and signs off on every decision, Cormier said. And though Squier announced in 2017 that he would sell WDEV and its sister stations — including Rutland’s 101 The One and Morrisville’s WLVB — to Cormier, the deal has yet to be inked.

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“He loves being part of it. It’s his home.

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“Money,” Squier finally answered.

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n a Tuesday in late July, the top stories on Ever Widening Circles, a St. Albans-based online publication, included one about an organization that is saving orphaned baby elephants in Kenya.

Another story reported on an environmentalist who repurposes old cellphones to stop illegal logging in the rain forests. Yet another profiled an afterschool program near Phoenix that is boosting school attendance and grades by giving students free skateboards and riding lessons.

On a day when most news outlets were covering a deadly shooting at a California garlic festival, growing trade tensions between the U.S. and China, and racially inflammatory tweets by President Donald Trump, Ever Widening Circles reported none of those stories.

Nor did it publish divisive opinion pieces, political campaign coverage or annoying pop-up ads.

Lynda Ulrich, cofounder and CEO of Ever Widening Circles, had no prior journalism experience before launching the self-funded website in 2014. But her strict avoidance of controversial, gloomy and stress-inducing news isn’t because she wears rose-colored glasses or is naïve about national politics and world affairs. In fact, Ulrich and her husband, Chuck Verderber, are avid news consumers, hold dual U.S.-Irish citizenship and, with their three kids, are seasoned world travelers.

As Ulrich, 59, explained in a recent Seven Days interview, her family’s international adventures have shown them a world that isn’t nearly as frightening, dangerous or depressing as mainstream media often portray it.

“We were dragging our young kids through some dark places in the world, and we never saw anything but generosity and ingenuity,” Ulrich said. “I knew that ordinary people weren’t getting the rest of the story.”

So Ulrich and Verderber, both dentists at Fiddlehead Dental in St. Albans, set out to fill that cavity with positive news that often goes unreported. They founded Ever Widening Circles, whose name they took from the 1905 poem “Widening Circles”

by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Its mission is to publish uplifting and optimistic stories that shine a light on people, organizations, inventions and discoveries that make the world a better place — and to 38

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inspire others to do the same. Their motto: “It’s still an amazing world.”

In five years, Ever Widening Circles has produced more than 1,000 stories and garnered 170,000 Facebook followers. The site now claims nearly 2 million visitors worldwide and a growth rate of about 100,000 new visits per month.

In May 2018, Ever Widening Circles was featured on the front page of the social media site Reddit, sending it viral and garnering 1.7 million clicks in one day. Though the website’s sudden fame crashed its servers, the experience proved to Ulrich and her paid staff of five, all of whom are based in Vermont, that there’s a real hunger for the inspirational stories they produce.

“The world is moving towards progress, but it happens at a pace that is not [considered] newsworthy,” said Liesl Ulrich-Verderber, the couple’s 26-year-old daughter and the company’s cofounder and chief operating officer. “‘Newsworthy’ is: something’s on fire, something exploded, someone died. But 10,000 people moving out of poverty today, just like yesterday, is not news.”

Early on, some people compared Ever Widening Circles to the Huffington Post’s “Good News” section, which features such saccharine stories as one about a litter of kittens rescued from a dumpster and another about a pig that escaped a pork farm and found its forever home.

“Uh, no, we’re doing something more meaningful than that,” said UlrichVerderber, a 2015 Harvard University graduate. Their goal, she explained, isn’t to deliver people sweet, empty-calorie stories but a healthier, well-rounded news diet.

“By giving people a broader understanding of the world, whether it’s science or philosophy or art or music, we give people the opportunity to see all these good things that are happening,” she added. “Ours is not a Pollyanna view of the world. We just let people see things in a larger context and make more informed decisions.”

Ever Widening Circles produces original content and curates stories found elsewhere. Nearly all include embedded videos, such as interviews and TED Talks.

As Ulrich explained, the videos are there

not just because people tend to read less today than they once did. It’s also because many site visitors are non-native English speakers.

One recent story featured an interview with Drew Dudley, a Toronto-based speaker, leadership consultant and author of the best-selling book This Is Day One: A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters. Dudley’s 2010 TedX Toronto talk, “Everyday Leadership (The Lollipop Moment),” has garnered more than 4 million views and was voted one of the 15 most inspirational TED Talks of all time.

In a phone interview last week, Dudley said that he visits Ever Widening Circles often, especially when he’s traveling.

“The great thing about Ever Widening Circles is, we all need to look on the bright side and want to be optimistic, but life gets in the way,” he said. “It’s a good reminder that there’s a lot more good than bad in the world. It’s just that the bad has a much better PR person.”

How “Dr. Lynda” and “Dr. Chuck,” as Ulrich and Verderber are known to their patients, discovered Vermont and

launched Ever Widening Circles is itself an inspirational tale.

The two grew up in the small rural town of Lincoln, Ill., met at age 14 and became high school sweethearts. Ulrich was the daughter of the town’s physician who delivered everyone’s babies; Verderber was an all-American high school basketball star.

Ulrich’s optimistic worldview was forged in a tragedy that occurred when she was a teenager. During high school, her best friend’s entire family was murdered, the details of which Ulrich doesn’t discuss publicly. The following morning, Ulrich’s parents woke her with the grim news and told her that she needed to support her friend, the family’s sole survivor.

Neither Ulrich nor her friend received the kind of LY NDA posttraumatic counseling that might occur today. So Ulrich’s emotional and intellectual response was to seek glimmers of hope that would help her friend through her darkest hour. As Ulrich put it, “I’ve spent the rest of my life looking for goodness.”

After high school, Verderber went on to play for the top-ranked University of Kentucky Wildcats, where he was team captain in the early 1980s. There, he competed against future NBA legends Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and James Worthy. In 1982, the six-foot, sixinch Verderber was a seventh-round draft pick by the Chicago Bulls and could have played on one of the most fabled teams in sports history.

It wasn’t to be. As Ulrich explained, the couple, who married in 1981, never even opened the letter and contract that Verderber received from the Bulls. Turned off by the intensity and drama of “big-time basketball,” they decided instead to pursue their wanderlust and explore the world.

Verderber went on to play professional basketball in Spain for several years before a devastating injury ended his hoops career.

Disappointed but determined to make the best of their situation, the couple returned to the University of Kentucky and earned their dentistry degrees, and then moved to Italy to open a practice.

In 1988, Ulrich and Verderber returned to the U.S. to find a new home where they could hang their shingle. After more than a month of exploring the Northeast, Ulrich said, they drove into St. Albans one day after a 22-inch snowstorm.

“It looked like a Norman Rockwell calendar,” Ulrich remembered. “That day in St. Albans … everything fell into place, and we never left.”

Fast-forward to 2013.

With three children and a thriving family dentistry practice, the two were fixtures in their community.

They volunteered as local wildlife rehabilitators and made metal sculptures, such as the life-size stegosaurus that Ulrich created, which sits in front of their office.

But Ulrich also sensed a growing unease among her patients, with whom she U LRICH often found herself having “the-world-is-going-tohell-in-a-hand-basket” conversations.

“This notion that people were feeling overwhelmed by the negative news cycle was really preying on my mind,” she said.

So Ulrich began emailing patients her favorite TED Talks and other inspirational news stories, ranking them in order of preference.

Then, one morning in 2014, Ulrich was awakened at 6:30 a.m. by a grisly news story on NPR about the first beheading perpetrated by the Islamic State. Ulrich said that after she dove to turn off the clock radio, she thought, “For God’s sake! There’s got to be someplace to get word of the good things that are happening in this world.”

So she began searching the web for news sites that were free of stories about war, violence, politics and hatred. “When I found nothing on the internet, I decided I’d write an article a day to prove that it’s still an amazing world,” she explained.

When her daily blog posts became too unwieldy for Ulrich to manage on her own, she found someone to create a website, and Ever Widening Circles was born.

Today, Ulrich believes their work is moving beyond journalism and becoming a global social movement, which she calls the “conspiracy of goodness.” That phrase, as she explains on the website, was borrowed from a story she read about

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residents of the town of Le Chambonsur-Lignon, France, who hid 3,500 Jews during World War II to save them from Nazi death camps.

Decades later, in 1987, one of the rescuers explained how they succeeded: “Do you think I could have hidden Jewish families in my home without the active cooperation of the mailman, milkman and the neighbors? For every one person saved, there were seven who rescued. There was a conspiracy of goodness.”

After hearing that story, Ulrich felt it was their job, at Ever Widening Circles, to highlight the conspiracy of goodness under way today, which is also hidden but just as life affirming.

“There is such a wave of goodness happening every single day, it’s unbelievable,” she added. “But no one knows about it.”

Like ripples in a pond, Ever Widening Circles continues to expand. In September 2018, Ulrich-Verderber launched EWCed, a web platform designed for educators and students that curates innovative and inspiring educational videos and pairs them with curricula and other school activities. Targeted to students in grades four through 12, EWCed offers teachers ways to introduce new topics and generate discussion questions about science, history, technology, art and culture.

During the 2018-19 school year, UlrichVerderber said, EWCed had users in nearly every state; one teacher reported that she uses it as a reward for her students.

“Fourth graders, instead of talking about [the online game] Fortnite, they’re talking about amoebas at snack time,” she added.

Ever Widening Circles will soon launch a media company, too. Working with independent video producers, it will license short, inspirational documentaries that can be shown in hospitals, eldercare facilities, and other businesses and institutions that have television screens in their waiting rooms.

As Ulrich explained, when hospitals tune their TVs to Fox News, the MSNBC fans get mad, and vice versa. If they choose a daytime soap opera, someone might get upset because it shows unmarried couples in bed. As a consequence, health care facilities often default to the least offensive content: a weather channel. But, as Ulrich pointed out, even that seemingly

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“Weather is one of the main things that stresses people out,” she said. “No wonder everyone’s going into their hospital visits with high blood pressure.”

Since cofounding Ever Widening Circles, Ulrich said, she’s forged relationships with “thought leaders” worldwide whom she long admired. They include international best-selling author Richard Bach, who once called her out of the blue while she was shoe shopping to compliment her on her efforts.

Another is Daniel Kish, president of World Access for the Blind, who is himself blind and autistic. As he explained in a 2015 TED Talk, Kish taught himself echolocation to navigate the world independently.

“Lynda is a dentist and innately seems to be able to bring the big picture into a practical space for execution,” Kish wrote via email. “I was there at the beginning when she first called me with the idea … after seeing my TED Talk, and invited my support/counsel/story, and it has already come so far in such a short time.”

With the growing demands of Ever Widening Circles, Ulrich now works just two days a week as a dentist. Verderber still practices full time, managing their dental staff of 13 while also serving as Ever Widening Circles’ chief financial officer.

As Ulrich put it, “Chuck works his butt off to pay for it all.”

As with nearly everything else she does, Ulrich puts no limits on their growth potential and views her relative inexperience in journalism and online publishing as an asset, not a handicap.

“We didn’t have any boundaries. We just did what made sense in what seemed like the kindest and most productive way,” she explained. “That’s our gig: to change the negative dialogue about our time.”

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n 2003, Christina Asquith hitchhiked her way into Baghdad with an idea.

She wanted to write about the Iraq War from a perspective she hadn’t seen covered by news organizations: How was it affecting the education of women and girls?

“It was an amazing and interesting angle into the fall of Saddam, the rebuilding led by the U.S., the efforts to build democracy, and then the failure of all those things and the rise of the civil war,” Asquith said. She met Seven Days for an interview at the Starving Artist Café in South Burlington’s Davis Studio, where she was picking up her kids from summer camp.

In the years since that Baghdad assignment, Asquith has written a book (her second), become a parent and moved to Vermont. She then moved to Cambridge, Mass., to Istanbul and back to Vermont again. And she founded a nonprofit that expanded the goal she’d had when she first set foot in Iraq: to tell the stories of women and girls worldwide.

Telling those stories turned out to be pretty hard. Even after writing Sisters in War, a book that follows the lives of four Iraqi women, Asquith met resistance from media editors. They would hear her ideas 40

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and tell her, “These aren’t news stories.”

Or they’d say, “Let’s run them in March; that’s Women’s History Month.” The things that impacted women just weren’t viewed as news.

“I didn’t want to be just a freelancer doing one-off pieces,” Asquith said. “I wanted a whole newsroom, with the top journalists in the business all focused on doing investigations around women’s issues.”

In 2014, Asquith met Dr. Xanthe Scharff, a reporter who had founded a girls’ education nonprofit in East Africa.

Scharff had the business sense Asquith needed. Together, they realized an idea that Asquith had been brewing for a while and founded the Fuller Project for International Reporting, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to reporting on women.

The Fuller Project funds correspondents around the globe to cover underreported stories on women’s issues. Those stories run in news outlets internationally.

“She has just an astounding sense of vision for reporting,” Scharff said of Asquith in a phone interview. “As partners, we have skill sets that set us up very well for our different roles in the organization.”

Today, the Fuller Project employs five full-time journalists and four contractors.

In the beginning, however, Asquith and Scharff had no money. They produced their first byline in the New York Times in 2015, but it took three years for the two of them to receive a salary.

“ProPublica, which is a groundbreaking, incredible nonprofit news organization and has paved the way and has been so generous in mentoring us, started, by comparison, with $10 million,” Asquith

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Where they started was with a threepage proposal written by Asquith, which she first showed to potential funders in the Cambridge, Mass., home of Swanee Hunt, a former U.S. ambassador. Hunt is only one of the notable women who has helped or worked with the Fuller Project

along the way. There’s Sophia Jones, the organization’s first hire, whom Asquith described as “an intrepid 24-year-old war correspondent.” There’s Meredith Kopit Levien, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the New York Times, whose home Asquith visited the night before her Seven Days interview to meet with other prominent women in media.

And then there’s the organization’s namesake, Margaret Fuller, a journalist and women’s rights advocate from the 1800s. Fuller worked at the New York Tribune as a book reviewer and foreign correspondent and wrote one of the U.S.’s first major feminist books. She would gather groups in her house to discuss issues such as women’s suffrage and education. She was the first woman allowed to use the Harvard College library.

When Asquith was first starting the Fuller Project, she had young kids and was unsure just how big she could dream. Then she read a biography on Fuller.

“I was like, Oh, my God,” Asquith said.

“Margaret Fuller was doing this groundbreaking reporting as a woman in 1840. And here I am, afraid of my little idea. I felt so inspired by her.”

According to the organization’s financial documents, in 2018 the Fuller Project received more than $1 million in contributions. Funders include Craig Newmark Philanthropies — founded by the inventor of Craigslist — Humanity United and the European Journalism Centre.

“I think that philanthropists should, when they consider a portfolio of initiatives that support democracy in this country ... absolutely include journalism,” Asquith said. “I think the case has been made for journalism by ProPublica. So now we’re making the case for women.”

Nonprofit investigative journalism is on the rise, according to the Institute for Nonprofit News. “Until 10 years ago, nonprofit news was generally mentioned as a footnote on the tax status of a few dozen investigative news outlets,” reads the organization’s 2018 industry report.

“Today, the U.S. has more than 200 nonprofit newsrooms and growth is accelerating.” In 2018, three quarters of these organizations were 10 years old or younger.

To date, the Fuller Project has published stories in news outlets as prestigious as the Atlantic and the New Yorker, as well as smaller daily newspapers such as the Montgomery Advertiser

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in Montgomery, Ala. It recently started an East Africa bureau within the newsroom of the Daily Nation, the largest newspaper in Kenya. There, two Fuller Project reporters and three from the Daily Nation are forming a team dedicated to reporting on gender issues, which Asquith said is unprecedented on the continent.

The rest of the Fuller Project staff is equally scattered. Asquith lives in Charlotte, and Scharff is in Washington, D.C. They have correspondents based in the Philippines, Istanbul and Philadelphia.

“I do not want to be a news organization with people sitting in East Coast big cities aggregating content,” Asquith said.

“We are literally on the front lines.”

Recently, Fuller Project reporter Corinne Redfern spent months following sex workers in Bangladesh brothels, where up to 10,000 women live. Asquith said Redfern would spend days hanging around the area before even taking out her notebook. It was sometimes months before the sex workers started to open up to her. She published stories about the brothels in the Telegraph, Elle and the Guardian.

One such story follows a girl who gave birth to her first child at age 12 and then was sold into sexual slavery. The story

won an Amnesty International UK Media Award in 2019. Another story reported that brothels have constructed graveyards because so many women there are killing themselves.

Asquith said reporting on these kinds of stories can cost an organization $300,000. Most news outlets don’t have the resources; it has to be done through philanthropy, she said. And the Fuller Project, freed from daily deadlines and the need to cover breaking news, can invest.

“We take that freedom seriously in that we really want to do journalism that has impact and drives the conversation around women’s issues and changes the way people think,” she said.

Living in Vermont with her husband, Jack Fairweather, who’s also a former war correspondent and author, has inspired Asquith to report more on women’s issues in rural communities. The Fuller Project is growing its U.S. staff and working to make sure that women are covering their own communities — like in Philadelphia, where a staff correspondent is training and working with a reporter from the city to cover stories that matter to its residents.

“We envision a 21st century where we will see gender equality, and we want to be part of that movement,” Asquith said.

“We’ve seen all sorts of social movements over the centuries, and we think the 21st century is going to be about gender equality around the world. We really want to be a force behind that … That’s the whole point of journalism, right? Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” m

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primarily read in print, the paper is more than just an analog eBay. Otherwise, it might long ago have succumbed to online marketplaces like Craigslist, as have so many publications reliant on classifieds for survival. In addition to ads hawking woodstoves, hunting rifles and livestock, the Trading Post offers something most small-town rags don’t: glimpses of life in the NEK through the literary and poetic musings of the people who live there.

The front half of each edition of the Trading Post is loaded with personal essays, short fiction, poems and photos submitted by readers. In an essay in the July 17 issue titled “Navy, College, and Photography,” Newport photographer Fred Everson, whose portrait of his grandfather on his 93rd birthday graces the front cover, recounts the evolution of

his craft through the lens of his experiences at Brookdale Community College and in the military. Frequent contributor Paul A. Mascitti of East Montpelier riffs on family and aging in a lengthy piece called “To Be Remembered.” Burlington’s Deborah Straw offers a brief poem, “Comfort at Ninety-Nine.”

But here’s something you won’t find in the pages of the Trading Post: news.

“Our motto is ‘No News Is Good News,’” explained Trading Post co-owner Sharon Reihmer, 68. That motto, which brackets a drawing of two hands shaking as if consummating a deal, has graced the paper’s nameplate for close to five decades and serves as a guiding editorial principle.

In the mid-1970s, the two couples The Trading Post doesn’t report news and began publishing feature-like material in accepts no submissions that are newsy, the front of the paper, mostly historical political or related to current events — writings and remembrances solicited from aside from the events calendar on the back readers. page, that is.

“We are trying to maintain a way of life “Occasionally something will come we don’t think of as dying. It is still alive in that, in my estimation, is too politi- up here,” Carol told Vermont Life freelance cally whiny or someone is on a soapbox,” writer Candace Page in 1977. (Page is now said co-owner Carol an editor at Seven Days.) “We are Michaud, 75. a kind of halfway house,” Carol “But we have such a continued. “We collect all this broad readership, from stuff and put it together into a every walk of life, that paper and then send it back to we’re not pissing off the people.” anybody or giving anyone And the people appreciated it. a platform,” Sharon At its peak in the 1980s, the TradS H A R O N R EI H M ER interjected. ing Post circulated 14,000 papers The two women see every two weeks, packed with that approach to content as one key to classifieds, stories and mostly hand-drawn the paper’s longevity. For the first several business ads that Page aptly described in years, though, the Trading Post had no that 1977 piece as “minor work[s] of art editorial content at all; it was, by design, with careful lettering and line drawings, strictly a penny saver. antique cuts and fanciful borders gracing “There were so many penny savers in even the smallest ad.” southern New England,” said Carol, “but That circulation number has dropped, there weren’t any here. So we thought we though the current 9,000-paper run — could fill that void.” plus another 700 online subscriptions — Carol and her then-husband, Dennis is respectable. You can find the Trading Michaud, started the paper in April 1972 Post, which Sharon says “hovers solidly” with their friends John Rogers and his at 24 pages per issue, at general stores and wife, Donna Jean Rogers. At the time, gas stations all over the northern third of the Rogerses lived at Mad Brook Farm, a Vermont, as well as along the northwestcommune in East Charleston, while the ern border of New Hampshire.

Michauds lived in New Britain, Conn.

The paper has undergone internal Carol jokes that the Trading Post was a changes over the years, as well as fended thinly veiled ploy by John to get his friends off external challenges. At one point, St. to move to the country. It worked. The Johnsbury-based daily the Caledonian Michauds joined the Rogerses in Vermont Record offered to buy the Trading Post, but that summer. the paper’s owners declined to sell.

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Yet in some corners of the world, certain kinds of print publications have managed to hang on in the face of internet-fueled extinction and — at least to a modest degree — thrive. For one especially unusual example, take St. Johnsbury’s biweekly penny saver-cum-literary mag, the Green Mountain Trading Post.

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“We have a responsibility to our people,” Sharon said of that decision.

“We just didn’t want to lose the control of what we were and who we’re for, which is everyone.”

Three years after the Michauds divorced in 1977, Dennis got remarried … to Sharon, who started working part time at the paper in 1986.

“I knew [Carol] before I knew him, and they were long divorced before I ever came along,” said Sharon with a chuckle.

“It always sounds really lurid,” added Carol, “but we’ve been best friends for years.”

Dennis died in 2008, and John died in 2012. Since then, Carol and Sharon have been partners in the business. A team of about 10 part-timers, including Carol and Dennis’ daughter, Dorinda Michaud, works part time to compile, produce and deliver the paper from the cluttered office on the first floor of Sharon’s St. Johnsbury home, where she also runs a frame shop.

“You’ve got to wear a lot of hats to make a living here,” said Sharon.

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much the same for almost 50 years, though Carol noted that it’s not immune to the changing world around it.

“We’ve had to go through a rediscovery, or redefinition, of who we are,” she said, citing the rise of online classifieds forums such as Facebook Marketplace, eBay and Craigslist. Perhaps “reaffirmation” is a more fitting word, however. If anything, Sharon and Carol remain resolute in maintaining the Trading Post’s ethos.

“Some people want us to be Craigslist,” Sharon said. “We are never going to be Craigslist. And we don’t want to be Craigslist.”

For many Trading Post fans, that’s just fine.

Michael Hahn is an NEK musician who’s helped deliver the Trading Post for many years. He advertises his music in the paper and occasionally contributes writing of his own.

“Here in the Internet Age, many newspapers have gone out of business, but GMTP perseveres,” Hahn wrote in an email, adding that the paper is a “unique Vermont treasure.”

“The unlikely combination of original writing paired with classified ads has stood the test of time,” he continued, and “the short story format fits into the busy schedules of people nowadays.” Plus, he added, the Trading Post “travels to the beach or the bathroom better than a Kindle or a novel.” m Contact: dan@sevendaysvt.com

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Under the Influence Vermont food and drink companies partner with popular Instagrammers for publicity

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omething about the term “influencer” feels very … Kardashian. Evocative of half-naked photo shoots and overpriced skin-care products, the buzzword might not seem to have a place in the Vermont lexicon.

But, broadly defined, influencers are just social media users who typically have many followers — think tens of thousands to millions — and serve as de facto arbiters of what’s good. Or of what’s tasty: Influencers of the food and drink variety festoon their well-manicured Instagrams with drool-inducing professional photos that put Williams Sonoma catalog spreads to shame.  To build brand awareness, food and beverage companies  partner with influencers to swap some form of compensation for posts that feature their products. In the past five years, this trend has picked up in Vermont, where the locally grown eats are usually as appealing to the eyes as they are to the palate.

According to Burlington-based influencer Carey Nershi, whose account @careynotcarrie has more than 51,300 followers, these collaborations within the state’s small foodie world are about more than making a buck.

“Because we’re such a tight-knit community, it feels organic and it makes sense,” she said.

Nershi, 36, spends about 20 hours a week on her partnerships with brands such as Vermont Creamery, NU Chocolat, Shelburne Farms, Philo Ridge Farm and

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Republic of Vermont maple syrup. She charges for her work but has another freelance gig that pays the bills, as many influencers do.

A recipe-development collaboration, plus photos and posts, might cost a client about $1,300, she said, though that number is negotiable.

“People are doing things that I really believe in and like anyway,” Nershi said. “I like to be a little bit flexible just to help out.”

Through Instagram analytics, Nershi knows her biggest audience is American women between the ages of 25 and 45. That’s almost exactly the demographic Lake Champlain Chocolates is aiming to reach. The two work together to create and shoot photos of recipes that use the brand’s confections, which Nershi then posts.

Lake Champlain Chocolates has a loyal Vermont following, but to reach an audience farther afield, it also partners with more than 100 micro-influencers — users with fewer than 50,000 followers — from various states.

For smaller companies, targeting influencers with more specific audiences can be the wisest strategy, said Nicole Ravlin, communications consultant and president of Shelburne public relations agency Junapr. Casting too wide a net with hyper-popular influencers can be expensive and yield dubious results.

“If you are marketing nationwide, you still want to think geographically or in a segmented way,” Ravlin said.

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More Mimmo’s LOCAL RESTAURATEUR ADDS SHELBURNE ROAD LOCATION

A third location of MIMMO’S PIZZERIA & RESTAURANT will replace Sorriso Bistro this month at 408 Shelburne Road on the border of Burlington and South Burlington.

Owner DOMENICO “MIMMO” SPANO opened the original Mimmo’s in St. Albans in 1995 and launched a second in Essex Junction about 17 years ago.

The restaurants are known for their pizza, pasta dishes, hero

sandwiches and salads, such as the signature balsamic chicken.

The former KFC in South Burlington has been a revolving door for local restaurants over the past few years; Sorriso opened there in November 2018.

Owner AMIR JUSUFAGIC closed the Italian-themed eatery on July 31 and would comment only that “it was a business decision.”

Spano said he’s been looking for the right location for another Mimmo’s for the past 15 years, but nothing had gelled until this opportunity. He is doing some renovation to the

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space, “just making it into a Mimmo’s,” he said. The menu will be the same as at the sister restaurants. “We want our customers to have a predictable experience,” Spano said.

The new Mimmo’s will hold a soft opening event around August 22 before opening fully by the end of the month, Spano said.

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Farm Fair A bounty of farm food and agricultural activities are the centerpiece of Vermont Open Farm Week. Farms across the state open their fields and barns to visitors starting August 9. Activities include feeding animals, picking crops and making cheese. Or participants can skip the chores and just eat, with choices such as pancakes, fried chicken and smoothies.

VERMONT OPEN FARM WEEK Friday, August 9, through Thursday, August 15, at various locations statewide. Prices vary.

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“SoYo has always been a great complement to our menu [at New World Tortilla],” said CHRIS HATHAWAY, who owns the

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“Telling the right group of friends is what will actually change the marketing in terms of sale.”

Ben & Jerry’s deploys this strategy, albeit on a larger scale. The 15 to 20 general influencers with whom it works consistently — plus 10 to 12 vegan influencers — span the geographical gamut, according to Lindsay Bumps, B&J’s “PR media maven.” But the brand also works regionally to bring influencers to B&J’s events on their home turf.

A couple of times a year, groups of B&J’s influencers receive compensation in the form of “experience” — that is, a weekend in Vermont. Through a program called Inside Scoop, influencers learn how the company works, from the Waterbury factory to the South Burlington office, and enjoy a handful of other quintessentially Vermont adventures on the company’s dime. The goal is to develop a strong relationship between influencers and the brand that continues well after they’ve left the Green Mountains.

“We want them to be the first to know about and taste new flavors, new innovations,” Bumps said. “There’s always an ongoing relationship,” she added. “They’re almost like an additional part of the family.”

Influencers aren’t obliged to post about their Vermont weekends, but they do. New York-based influencer Tessa Gluck, who has amassed a following of more than a half million on her Instagram @foooodieee, was on one of the first of these trips in 2017. Colorful shots of B&J’s products crop up frequently on her junk-food-themed account.

“I have to say, that weekend was probably the most memorable experience I’ve ever had through my Instagram,” Gluck said. That isn’t an insignificant metric; owing to her online popularity, the 27-year-old routinely is comped restaurant meals and has products delivered to her door.

Since the trip, Gluck said, Bumps has stayed in touch, clueing her in on “secret meet-ups” in New York and new flavors such as this year’s political pint, Pecan Resist.

“It’s more than just an ice cream brand, and that’s what I really got when I went there,” Gluck said.

In June this year, B&J’s was one of several Vermont food companies that hosted a group of six German influencers on a food- and sustainability-themed trip around New England, organized by Brand USA. The goal, said Sara DeFilippi of the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing, was to inspire participants to share tidbits from that tasty tour with their blog and Instagram followers, spreading the image of Vermont as a food tourism hub.

Caledonia Spirits also hosted the influencers at its new distillery in Montpelier — one of two groups of visitors this summer. Like B&J’s, Caledonia pays its partners in “experience” — in this case, a distillery tour and a bottle of its flagship liquor.

Harrison Kahn, Caledonia director of brand strategy and development, asks influencers to include the hashtag #barrhillpartner in photo captions for transparency. Search it, and you’ll see the artistic product of these partnerships: dazzling photographs of colorful cocktails in gorgeous glassware in front of labeled Barr Hill bottles.

“Barr Hill has grown over the years by word of mouth,” Kahn said. “This feels like an extension of that.

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[spirits producer] Diageo and other companies with huge marketing strategies” he added. “This is relatively inexpensive and unleashes an incredible creativity.”

Restaurants are hopping on the social media bandwagon, too. Ravlin said chefs are sometimes reluctant to work with influencers, given the added pressure it creates to create a postable experience. But Jennifer Wyman, marketing director for Vergennes Laundry

by Ck, said she finds these social media partnerships invaluable.

“Everyone’s thinking with their eyes these days,” she said. The café comps meals and drinks for users who post about their experiences. “We’ve tried to find people who not only love our food but love our aesthetic.”

It’s textbook marketing strategy with a 21st-century twist — although everyone seems to agree that it’s still important to advertise in more traditional media.

Photo-centric platforms make compelling product design and packaging a must. That can pose a challenge to companies such as Lake Champlain Chocolates, given that chocolate isn’t the most photogenic of foodstuffs. But Meghan Fitzpatrick of the brand’s public relations team said the company will be developing more colorful pumpkin and peppermint bites in the near future. Instagramability was not the only motivating factor, she said, but it was definitely a consideration.

Crinkle cookies for a Lake Champlain Chocolates campaign

Brands that already have eye-catching products, by contrast, sometimes stumble into endorsements. Shacksbury Cider, for example, gets tagged in unsolicited posts about its unique matte cans all the time. Canteen Creemee Company in Waitsfield, with its colorful mural backdrop, is practically begging its customers to snap a pic.

“They’re creating this experience that is made to be shared,” said Ravlin. “And if we know each other and have similar tastes, and I like it enough to share it on my own social media, you’ll be more inclined to try it.”

As evidence, she held up a recently posted photo of a Canteen Creemee maple cone rolled in crunchies and topped with a nimbus of cotton candy. “Where is this Mecca you speak of??” a user commented.

Does that mean Ravlin, with her following of fewer than 1,000, is an influencer? Gasp — am I an influencer?

“We all influence each other,” she said with a laugh. m Contact: sabine@sevendaysvt.com

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Hathaway has been working with Manske to ensure a smooth transition and said he has no plans to change the shop’s much-loved recipe, which includes dairy sourced from KINGDOM CREAMERY OF VERMONT. “We didn’t go into this with a whole lot of hubris, because it’s totally different from the restaurant business,�

Hathaway said. “We are grateful to Hans for creating such a great product and helping us through this process.�

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The small community of Windsor got a new restaurant last week when NATE ROSE and JOSH MARTIN opened AU JUS at 131 Main Street.

Rose and Martin, who are both in their thirties, had been working together in the kitchen of NEAL’S RESTAURANT & BAR in Proctorsville. One busy shift, Martin recalled, they looked at each other, and “Nate said to me, ‘Why not do this for ourselves?’�

Rose, a New England Culinary Institute graduate, has always lived in Vermont. Martin, a Rhode Island native,

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started working in the food industry when he was 14 years old.

Once they decided to follow their own path, things moved fast, Martin said: “Two weeks later we were looking at this location, and four months later we are open.�

The business partners were most excited about offering barbecue, but they knew they had to offer something for everyone in a small town. “It’s really kind of barbecue and comfort food, basically home-style cooking,� Martin said.

Menu items range from classic barbecue to New England regulars such as baked haddock and even a lobster roll. So far, the pulled-pork sandwich and brisket have been big sellers, Martin said.

The restaurant’s name refers to the French term for meat juices. They are in delicious evidence in several menu items, including the Steak Bomb sandwich of smoked and shaved prime rib smothered with mushrooms, onions, peppers and cheese and served with au jus (also known as French dip) on the side.

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ven-blistered pizza, fantastical creemee creations and bejeweled fruit tarts — these are the stars of some of the mouthwatering Instagrams that make us drool.

Chefs and other food crafters gravitate to the visual medium of Instagram to share and promote their work. Happily, it’s an equal-opportunity channel: We are as enamored with compelling photos of burgers oozing with cheese and colorfully messy tacos as with precisely  plated high-end cuisine.

Here are 10 Vermont Instagram feeds that consistently  whet our appetites. Sometimes they inspire us to cook at home or even to think about what we eat in a different way. Other times, the images prove so irresistible that they propel us out to eat.

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At the much-lauded Honey Road in Burlington, it can be a challenge to save room for dessert. The restaurant’s pastry chef, Amanda Wildermuth, makes a compelling case with shots of seasonally inspired creations such as this chocolate sourcherry tart with apricot and pistachio.

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Tessa Holmes recently relocated her catering and event business, Blossom Whole Food Kitchen and Catering, to New Leaf Organics, a farm in Bristol. Her casual, colorful farm-to-table menus burst with flavors, textures and freshness you can almost taste through her photos.

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Leveling up the snack shack game, the team at Canteen Creemee Company in Waitsfield has perfected the arts of both making and shooting its fantastical range of creemee sundaes. Occasionally, they even show off savory offerings.

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Named the state’s 2019 chef of the year by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, Sarah Natvig crafts beautiful, Vermontdriven cuisine at her Randolph restaurant, Black Krim Tavern. Her husband, Chip, is both a farmer and a professional photographer; he grows many of the vegetables served at the restaurant on his Pebble Brook Farm — and then shoots the photogenic plated results.

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From their Bohemian Bakery in Montpelier, Annie Bakst and Robert Hunt share images of jewel-like pastries, featherlight croissants, crusty loaves and perfectly pulled espresso drinks made with houseroasted beans.

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Thomas McCurdy of Irasburg’s Ardelia Farm & Co. is more than halfway through his yearlong project of throwing 52 dinner parties. His gorgeous images are a teasing peek into the private events, which McCurdy is documenting with a purpose: By turning the photos into a forthcoming book, he hopes to inspire and empower others to host similar gatherings.

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agriculture

ETHAN TAPPER: The Chittenden County forester leads a neighborhood walk, during which arboreal enthusiasts learn to identify trees based on bark, leaves and other features. Milton Historical Museum, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, miltonhistorical@ yahoo.com.

bazaars

CHURCH STREET MARKETPLACE SIDEWALK SALE: Bargain hunters scour the streets for deals from area shops. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 8 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1648.

cannabis

HEADIES GROWERS CUP MEET-UP: Heady Vermont hosts a fun and informative event where folks get the facts about the upcoming Headies, the premier Vermont Growers Cup showcasing the state’s finest flowers and products.

The Barn at Lang Farm, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@headyvermont.com.

community

OPEN HOUSE: Vermont Innovation Commons team members share examples of innovation spaces, setting the stage for a community discussion on the future of the campus. Giorgetti Library, College of St. Joseph, Rutland, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, ideas@csj.edu.

crafts

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.

dance

THE PHANTOM SHUFFLE: Alternating nights bring different performance art delights.

Three dancers and choreographers present new works on Tuesday and Thursday, and performance artist Noah Witke Mele offers Dream B!tch or Else!!! on Wednesday and Friday. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 496-5997.

SQUARE DANCING: Swing your partner! Dancers foster friendships while exercising their minds and bodies. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-3 p.m.

Donations; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

etc.

CHITTENDEN COUNTY STAMP CLUB MEETING: First-class collectibles provide a glimpse into the postal past at this monthly gathering. Williston Fire Station, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 660-4817.

OWLS & THEIR CALLS: Adults and kids over age 5 come face to face with three live raptors while learning about the sounds they make in the wild.

South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 1 p.m.

Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 846-4140.

STARGAZING: Clear skies at night mean viewers’ delight when telescope users set

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their sights on celestial happenings. Call to confirm.

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

fairs & festivals

ADDISON COUNTY FAIR & FIELD DAYS: Vermont’s largest agricultural fair hosts horse shows, tractor pulls, kiddie rides and live entertainment.

Addison County Fairgrounds, New Haven, 8 a.m.-11 p.m. $5-45; free for kids under 5; $12-20 for ride bracelets. Info, 545-2557.

Musical selections from stage and screen have audience members tapping their toes at the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual Summer Pops Concert.

This year’s wide-ranging program highlighting classic Broadway and musical film hits features songs from Les Misérables, South Pacific, Frozen, Mary Poppins and Schindler’s List. Guest artist Amy London, who has herself appeared on Broadway in the musical comedy City of Angels, joins the community orchestra for tunes such as “Day In, Day Out” and “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.” Folks may arrive early to settle in for preconcert picnics.

VERMONT PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Sunday, August 11, picnicking, 3 p.m.; concert, 4 p.m., at Moose Meadow Lodge in Duxbury. $5-20. Info, 229-4191, vermontphilharmonic.org.

film

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

‘DOWNSTREAM: THE EFFECTS OF PARENTAL INCARCERATION’: From a judge to a social worker to a school counselor, Vermonters sound off on the challenges faced by children with loved ones in prison. A discussion follows. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 585-9861.

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

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: Some of the Pacific Ocean’s most beautiful islands and marine national monuments grace the screen. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National WED.7

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AUG.11 | MUSIC The Jazz Singer With a career spanning more than 60 years, Tony Bennett has a fan base that bridges multiple generations. Some know the American jazz vocalist for signature songs such as 1962’s “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” and 1963’s “The Good Life.” Others may be more familiar with his collaborations with contemporary artists, including Diana Krall, Lady Gaga and the late Amy Winehouse. The classic crooner — who has 18 Grammy Awards to his name — woos listeners young and old during a Queen City concert benefiting Exploring the Arts, a nonprofit providing underserved teens with access to the arts.

Bennett’s daughter and fellow jazz singer Antonia Bennett opens.

TONY BENNETT Saturday, August 10, 8 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $51-141.

Info, 863-5966, flynntix.org.

film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

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

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

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“Although the show is a parody on the absurdity of stereotypes pertaining to the queer community and the general horrors of online dating,” says Lesbian Speed Date From Hell! cowriter Christina Saliba in a promotional email for the play, “it also highlights how disconnected we are from honesty.” Part camp and part social commentary, this horror comedy follows Jackie as she gives speed dating a try — only to run into a former online conquest looking for revenge.

Described as “a cross between John Waters’ Serial Mom and Stephen King’s Misery,” this hilarious examination of modern-day courting plays out as part of the 10day Montréal Pride festival.

Cheese Factor Fun fact: The Green Mountain State leads the country in cheesemakers per capita. Large producers such as Cabot Creamery and Grafton Village, as well as smaller operations including Jasper Hill Farm and Parish Hill Creamery, make for a diverse menu of Vermont-made dairy products.

The Vermont Cheesemakers Festival spotlights the state’s cheese and dairy producers alongside other local comestibles and the artisans who make them. Held near the picturesque shore of Lake Champlain, this 11th annual celebration for the senses was named one of the Best Specialty Food Festivals in the 2019 USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice awards. With workshops, cooking demos, and more than 200 food and beverage varieties to sample, this festival of flavors is sure to satisfy seasoned gourmands and casual snackers alike.

VERMONT CHEESEMAKERS FESTIVAL Sunday, August 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms. $20-300. Info, 866-261-8595, vtcheesefest.com.

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MONTRÉAL PRIDE: ‘LESBIAN SPEED DATE FROM HELL!’

COURTESY OF DUNA TATOUR

Saturday, August 10, 8 p.m., and Sunday, August 11, 7 p.m., at Le Ministère in Montréal. See website for additional dates. $15-22. Info, 514-666-2326, leministere.ca.

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Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under.

Info, 864-1848.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: Advanced filming techniques 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.

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.

MAD RIVER TASTE WEEK: Foodies fête area makers and growers with eight days of tours, tastings and dinners. See madrivertaste. com for details. Various Mad River Valley locations. Prices vary. Info, 496-3165.

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.

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.

CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: Card sharks engage in friendly competition. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

‘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.

health & fitness

‘ONE TOWN AT A TIME’: This documentary film trains the lens on the 251 Club of Vermont — a group dedicated to visiting each of the state’s 251 towns and cities.

Brandon Free Public Library, 6 p.m. Donations. Info, onetown atatimevt251@gmail.com.

‘THE ROARING TWENTIES’: Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America in this crime picture from 1939.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

STOWE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: ‘CHEWDAISM: A TASTE OF JEWISH MONTRÉAL’: A documentary film takes viewers on a journey through Jewish food culture in Québec’s biggest city.

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.

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.

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.

GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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

music

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COOKBOOK CLUB: Home cooks bring and discuss dishes prepared from Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus by Carla Capalbo. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: MOOSE CROSSING: Classic and contemporary jazz selections delight fans of the genre. Lower Church St., Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7166.

FIELD-TO-FORK: WILD FOOD COOKING SERIES: Experts teach the basics of preparing Vermont’s wild bounty, from fish to bear.

Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 6-9 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, nicole.meier@vermont.gov.

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.

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES P. BLAIR’: Grammy Awardnominated flutist Karen Kevra joins Diana Fanning, Emory Fanning and Dieuwke Davydov for a musical program inspired by images. Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS: World-class musicians deliver rousing renditions of works by Mozart, Britten and Brahms. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, preconcert talk, 6:45 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $10-25; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

DAVE KELLER BAND: The Montpelier-based musicians bring funky, soulful blues to the Currier Park Concert Series.

Currier Park, Barre, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 477-2967.

animals and make plaster-ofparis track casts to take home.

Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 5 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED: Fungi fanatics learn about different varieties — fabulous and fearsome alike — found throughout the park. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-4; free for kids ages 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

ROCKIN’ THE GREEN MOUNTAINS: Outdoors lovers take a guided walk at the foot of the mountains. Waterbury Dam crest, Little River State Park, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

seminars

HUB NEW MUSIC: This contemporary classical ensemble is known for its unique instrumentation of flute, clarinet, violin and cello.

College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 8-9 p.m. Free. Info, 866-934-8232.

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

HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 3-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

MIDDLESEX BANDSTAND SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Funk-rock sounds carry through the meadow, courtesy of the Renegade Groove. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0881.

REAL ESTATE INVESTING WORKSHOPS: Local professionals provide resources and up-to-date information when sharing their experiences with investment properties. Preferred Properties, Williston, 6-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9106.

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.

sports

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

Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182.

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.

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.

outdoors

HERE BE DRAGONFLIES: Entomology enthusiasts capture and identify species during this basic introduction to the winged insects. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm.

Info, 244-7103.

LET IT GROW: A guided tour of the Little River’s habitat restoration area reveals how removing invasive plants yields wildflower gardens that attract pollinators, birds and dragonflies. B-Side Beach, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 3:30 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

MAKING TRACKS, SEEING SKINS & SKULLS: Outdoorsy types search for signs of fur-bearing

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.

talks

BILL POWERS: A talk presented by the Salisbury Historical Society brings to life a Lake Dunmore steamboat tour from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, wjpowers@lake dunmorevt.com.

CURRENT EVENTS CONVERSATION: Newsworthy subjects take the spotlight in this informal discussion. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.

tech

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.

theater

‘ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE’: You’d be crazy to miss this musical biopic of legendary country singer Patsy Cline and her lasting friendship with Louise Seger based on a portion of the biography Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline by Ellis Nassour.

Weston Playhouse Second Stage at Walker Farm, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $45-60. Info, 824-5288.

‘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.

Info, 654-2281.

‘MRS. CHRISTIE’: Agatha Christie vanished in 1926, emerging 10 days later at a seaside resort ready to become a mysterywriting icon. Playwright Heidi Armbruster’s new comedy examines the circumstances of that mysterious disappearance, with help from some of Christie’s best-loved characters. A Dorset Theatre Festival world premiere.

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

‘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.

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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 low-pressure environment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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SONGS FOR HOPE: Advocates for peace raise their voices in harmony, then set candle boats afloat in memory of the victims of atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

agriculture

FARM TO MEDICINE CABINET PLANT WALK: Herbalist Emma Merritt points out the healing flora found on Vermont’s working lands. Shelburne Farms, 10-11:30

a.m. $15; preregister. Info, tmccarney@shelburnefarms.org.

bazaars

CHURCH STREET MARKETPLACE SIDEWALK SALE: See WED.7.

dance

THE PHANTOM SHUFFLE: See WED.7.

RAY VEGA’S LATIN JAZZ DANCE PARTY: Fans of the genre can’t help but move to music by the multi-instrumentalist and host of Vermont Public Radio’s “Friday Night Jazz” program. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $16-20. Info, 863-5966.

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BURLINGTON 2030 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS GAMES: Environmentally conscious individuals learn about 17 goals for improving human sustainability — and how to achieve them. A light supper is provided.

College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $25.

Info, 578-4907.

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FEAST & FIELD MARKET: Prepared foods and the Irish bluegrass stylings of JigJam are on the menu at a pastoral party.

Feast and Field, Barnard, 5-9 p.m. $5-10. Info, feastandfield@gmail. com.

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.

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.

SUMMERTIME SHINE: A NATURE& HEART-CENTERED EVENING: Peace-stone painting, a guided

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mindful outdoor experience, a neo-folk concert by HuDost and more make for memorable moments. Tao Acres, South Corinth, 5-8:30 p.m. $20; free for kids 13 and under. Info, 748-2600.

TROPICAL FISH CLUB MONTHLY MEETING: Speakers ranging from local hobbyists to nationally known aquarium aficionados share their expertise. Essex Junction VFW Post, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 372-8716.

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

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.7.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.7.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.7.

‘THE PUBLIC ENEMY’: James Cagney and Jean Harlow grace the silver screen in a 1931 crime drama about a young ruffian in the Chicago underworld. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink

BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: Foodies sample local eats on a scrumptious stroll dedicated to the Queen City’s culinary past. Awning behind ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1 p.m. $55. Info, eliseandgail@burlingtonedible history.com.

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 the Beer Glass Trio provides a folk-rock backdrop. Terrace, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 5-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 855-650-0080.

MAD RIVER TASTE WEEK: See WED.7.

MUSIC WHILE YOU PICK: The VT Bluegrass Pioneers pluck the strings 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

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.

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.

CHAIR YOGA: Comfortable clothing is recommended for this class focused on balance, breath, flexibility and meditation. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-2 p.m. Donations; preregister. 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.

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

MORNING STRENGTHEN & TONE: What better way to start the day than with an invigorating all-levels exercise class?

Brookfield Old Town Hall, 7:308:30 a.m. Free. Info, brookfield oth@gmail.com.

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

Active bodies hit the mat to support local nonprofits. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 540-0186.

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

Info, 253-3000.

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Info, 434-3387.

MONTRÉAL PRIDE: Ciara and Margaret Cho are among the talent to take the stage during a 10-day celebration of LGBTQ communities, complete with a parade, main stage performances, readings and more. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary. Info, 514-903-6193.

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

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS: See WED.7, Hardwick Town House.

HUNGER MOUNTAIN CO-OP BROWN BAG SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: This weekly series continues with a toe-tapping set

by Gary Grimo & the East Bay Jazz Ensemble. City Hall Plaza, Montpelier, noon. Free. Info, 223-9604.

2019 WALK FOR CHILDREN

Register online at www.pcavt.org or 1-800-CHILDREN Saturday, August 17 at the State House in Montpelier WALK or 5K RUN in Montpelier!

Saturday, September 28 at the Main Street Park in Rutland Jon Gailmor will perform in Montpelier!

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SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Oenophiles let loose with live music by B-Town, award-winning wine and mouthwatering eats.

Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, picnicking begins, 5 p.m.; music, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 372-9463.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.7.

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JAQUITH LIBRARY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Bella and the Notables bring jazz standards with a modern twist to a gig in the gazebo. Vermont Foodie Stand provides food for purchase. Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

SCRAG MOUNTAIN MUSIC: “Composer/Performer Portrait” spotlights three composers who also avidly concertize. Bread & Butter Farm, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 377-3161.

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THE MAGIC OF BIRD MIGRATION: Fans of feathered fliers learn how songbirds, shorebirds and other species travel thousands of miles each year with astounding accuracy. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $24; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

STORIES OF THE LAKE: Seeking a cultural and historical view of Lake Champlain, folks board a University of Vermont research vessel for an introduction to the geology and formation of the lake, the history of area native tribes, and more. Rubenstein Ecosystem Laboratory, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $30. Info, 391-4410.

STREAM SAFARI: Dip nets in hand, nature lovers survey shady waterways. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm.

Info, 244-7103.

SUNSET AQUADVENTURE PADDLE: Stunning scenery welcomes boaters, who explore the Waterbury Reservoir in search of crepuscular wildlife. Contact Station, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 6:30 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; limited space; call to confirm.

Info, 244-7103.

TOUR OF CCC CAMP SMITH: History hounds visit the remains of a 1930s work camp that housed the 3,000 people who built the Waterbury Dam. Camp Smith Trail parking area, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

talks

IRA HELFAND: The current state of nuclear negotiations are the topic of a Vermont Council on World Affairs Speaker Series talk by the Physicians for Social Responsibility Nuclear Weapons Abolition Committee co-chair. The Gallery at Main Street Landing, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, vcwa@vermont.org.

TOWN HOUSE FORUM: YOUNG JOURNALISTS: A discussion series hosts VTDigger.org reporter Kit Norton, Valley News editor Maggie Cassidy and Jane Lindholm, host of Vermont Public Radio’s “Vermont Edition.”

Strafford Town House, 7-8:15 p.m.

Free. Info, 765-4037.

tech

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

‘ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE’: See WED.7, 7:30 p.m.

Festival Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 456-8968.

‘THE DIAGONAL LIFE CIRCUS’: Papier-mâché puppets bring the bewildering and downright funny implications of diagonality to life in this Bread and Puppet Theater production. Local purveyors provide food and drink for purchase.

The Marble Works, Middlebury, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 388-6124.

‘DRESS REHEARSAL FOR MURDER’: An original murder mystery by Eric R. Hill and G. Richard Ames is set at the very location of the theater itself, sometime in the not-so-far future.

QuarryWorks Theater, Adamant, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 229-6978.

‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: See WED.7.

‘MACBETH’: Based on the William Shakespeare play of the same name, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera heightens the drama and intensity of its source material through some of the composer’s most compelling music. Presented

by Opera North. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $25-90.

Info, 603-448-0400.

‘MRS. CHRISTIE’: See WED.7, 7:30 p.m.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: See WED.7, 7:30 p.m.

words

VERMONT AUTHORS LECTURE SERIES: RICK WINSTON: Lit lovers listen in on passages from Red Scare in the Green Mountains: The McCarthy Era in Vermont 1946-1960. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6:30 p.m. $12; $70 for the series. Info, 533-2000.

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agriculture

VERMONT OPEN FARM WEEK: Folks come face-to-face with food producers in a weeklong fête featuring scavenger hunts, wagon rides, tastings and fare for purchase. See diginvt.com for details. Various locations statewide. Prices vary. Info, diginvt@ vermontfresh.net.

bazaars

CHURCH STREET MARKETPLACE SIDEWALK SALE: See WED.7.

community

RUACH HAMAQOM TURNS 4!: A vegetarian potluck paves the way for a music-filled party honoring the Jewish Renewal congregation’s fourth anniversary.

Congregation Ruach haMaqom, Burlington, potluck, 7:30 p.m.; party, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 356-1668.

dance

BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Singles, couples and beginners ‘THE BELLE OF AMHERST’: A are welcome to join in a dance special collaboration of Unadilla social featuring waltz, tango and Theatre and New York City’s more. Williston Jazzercise Fitness the Mirror Theater brings this Center, 8-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, acclaimed, poignant play based 862-2269. on the diaries and letters of poet Emily Dickinson to Vermont.

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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.

L.A. INVASION: WORK-INPROGRESS SHOWING: Los Angeles-based dance artists descend upon Middlebury, offering an informal showing of pieces created during an intensive workshop. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, laureljenkins dance@gmail.com.

THE PHANTOM SHUFFLE: See WED.7.

QUEEN CITY CONTRA DANCE: Frost and Fire come through with live tunes while Dana DwinnellYardley calls the steps. North End Studio A, Burlington, beginners’ session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $9; free for kids under 12.

Info, 877-3698.

WEST AFRICAN LIVE DRUMMING & DANCE: Audience members may watch, listen and dance during a performance of rhythm and movement. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, 7:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, 457-3500.

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CIRCUS ARTS TRAINING JAM: Daring individuals perfect skills ranging from juggling to tight-rope walking with CAMP Burlington members. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, burlingtoncamp@gmail.com.

GENEALOGY DAY: Family-tree enthusiasts get amped up about ancestry and discover their roots at this annual event promoting lineage tracing. Lake Champlain Basin Program, Gordon-Center House, Grand Isle, noon-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 578-4225.

GREEN RECORD: RELEASE PARTY: Locals celebrate the completion of the Vermont Folklife Center’s audio time capsule project.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, education@ vermontfolklifecenter.org.

INDOOR PLANETARIUM: A Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium educator invites stargazers into a traveling dome for a virtual tour of the night sky. Brookfield Old Town Hall, 5:30 & 6:30 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, girard745@ yahoo.com.

LOUNGE 91: Green Mountain Railroad passengers delight in live music, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as picturesque scenery rolls by. Union Station, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $60. Info, 800-707-3530.

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.8.

fairs & festivals

ADDISON COUNTY FAIR & FIELD DAYS: See WED.7.

VERMONT ANTIQUE & CLASSIC CAR SHOW: Auto enthusiasts cruise to this 62nd annual exhibition where 600 old-school vehicles await. Saturday’s festivities include a parade and a street dance in Waterbury Village. See vtauto.org for details. Farr’s Field, Waterbury, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. $12. Info, 223-3104.

film

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

ANIMÉ NIGHT: Enthusiasts view and chat about the latest animated shows from Japan. Enter through the side door. Laboratory B, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 777-9012.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.7.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.7.

MOVIES IN THE RED BARN: Cinephiles view favorite musical flicks from across the decades.

Drinks and dessert are available. Call for film titles. Mary’s Restaurant, Bristol, 7:15-9:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 453-2432.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.7.

food & drink

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.

MAD RIVER TASTE WEEK: See WED.7.

PASTURE-RAISED FRIED CHICKEN DINNERS ON THE FARM: Foodies fête the farm’s 20th season with a hearty meal, lawn games and live music. Save room for scoops from Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream!

Maple Wind Farm, Richmond, 5:30 p.m. $10-100. Info, 434-7257.

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 town halltheater.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 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 POP-UP: 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.7, 9:15 a.m.

CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: See WED.7.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Imaginative teens and adults practice 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.

health & fitness

of other meditative practices during a six-week summer session. Waterbury Public Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

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.

montréal

MONTRÉAL PRIDE: See THU.8.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

ADRIAN BELEW: New listeners and longtime fans lend their ears to the former King Crimson guitarist and front person. Strand Center Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. $25-60. Info, 518-563-1604, ext. 105.

BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: ZEICHNER TRIO: Three central Vermont siblings command attention with renditions of traditional Irish and Appalachian tunes. Lower Church St., Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7166.

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.

DAVID MALLETT: Folk music fans flock to hear a range of new and signature strains by the famed singer-songwriter. Meeting House on the Green, East Fairfield, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 827-6626.

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.7, 7:30 & 10:40 a.m.

FRIDAY NIGHT FIRES: HUMBLE HERO: Families bring their appetites and their listening ears for a zesty mix of rock, pop and punk in the vineyard. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, wine service begins, 5 p.m.; concert, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1151.

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.

MOVE YOUR BODY – STILL YOUR MIND: Simple qigong flow movements lead into an exploration

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

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

film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

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

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

HUB NEW MUSIC & ANNA’S GHOST: Two contemporary ensembles perform as part of VCFA’s MFA in Music Composition residency. College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 866-934-8232.

MUSIC IN THE ALLEY: MIMI & THE PODD BROTHERS: Based in New York City, the ensemble offers a fresh take on early jazz during an al fresco show. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop, Waterbury, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7801.

POINT COUNTERPOINT CHAMBER PLAYERS: A faculty ensemble from the music camp delivers a rousing program including works

by Arensky and Brahms. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 352-6671.

SCRAG MOUNTAIN MUSIC: See THU.8, Green Mountain Girls Farm, Northfield, dinner, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m.

Donations; $15-30 for dinner; preregister.

STRANGEFOLK GARDEN OF EDEN FESTIVAL: The Burlington-formed band turns up the volume for a weekend of epic jams including supporting sets by Assembly of Dust and Harsh Armadillo.

Stateside Amphitheater, Jay Peak Resort, 6:30-11:45 p.m. $20-200.

Info, 800-451-4449.

SUMMER CARILLON CONCERT: The melodic sound of bells rings out across the campus in a

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performance by Austin Ferguson, carillonneur for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

VCFA MFA IN MUSIC COMPOSITION: SONGWRITING SHOWCASE: Students, alumni and faculty members step into the spotlight with diverse, original works. College Hall Gallery, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 8-10 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 866-934-8232.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.7.

outdoors

BUTTERFLY GARDENING: If you plant it, they will come. Green thumbs get the dirt on attracting eye-catching creatures to their yards. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 3 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm.

Info, 244-7103.

COEXISTING WITH BEARS: An interpretive ranger demystifies large furry mammals and other area wildlife. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

LET IT GROW: See WED.7, 2:30 p.m.

LITTLE RIVER RAMBLE: Hikers explore the trails on a route they plan with a park interpreter. Park Office, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

PLANTS THAT HELP & PLANTS THAT HURT: On a botany walk, curious minds get to know medicinal, poisonous and edible species growing in Vermont state parks. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

Barnet, 7-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136.

theater

‘35MM: A MUSICAL EXHIBITION’: Inspired by a series of photos by Matthew Murphy, this pop-rock musical presented by Verdantrics Production looks at the soulful connections between life and still life. Essex Memorial Hall, 8 p.m. $8-12. Info, verdantrics@ gmail.com.

‘ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE’: See WED.7, 7:30 p.m.

‘THE BELLE OF AMHERST’: See THU.8.

‘COLLECTED STORIES’: In this contemporary drama presented

by Green Room Productions, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies explores the complicated relationship between two talented writers — one a famous teacher and one her student. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:30-9 p.m. $15-20; preregister. Info, greenroom productionsvt@gmail.com.

HIS EMINENCE THE 7TH KYABJE YONGZIN LING RINPOCHE: The high-ranking Tibetan lama shares “The Importance of Private Retreat in the Development of Your Dharma Practice.” Milarepa Center,

PERFORMANCE BOOT CAMP SHOW: Three weeks of training culminate in a high-flying student demonstration of circus artistry. New England Center for Circus Arts, Brattleboro, 7:30-9 p.m. $5. Info, 254-9780.

‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: See WED.7.

‘MAMMA MIA!’: Take a chance on this Borderline Players production of Catherine Johnson’s acclaimed jukebox musical based on the songs of ABBA, with music composed by former band members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, borderline players@outlook.com.

‘MRS. CHRISTIE’: See WED.7, 7:30 p.m.

‘MULAN JR.’: A vibrant young woman defies tradition to help protect her father, the emperor and China in this spirited musical put on by BarnArts Summer

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WRITER’S BLOCK: Scribes bring essays, short stories, one-act plays and poems to be critiqued by a supportive audience. Barre Area Senior Center, 10-11:15 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

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CROP MOB: Volunteers get their hands dirty while pitching in around the farm. Bring sturdy shoes, layers, work gloves and water. Email mquilty@city market.coop to carpool. Pitchfork Farm and Pickle, Burlington, 9 a.m.-noon. Free; limited space.

Info, 861-9753.

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.

talks

‘ON GOLDEN POND’: A longtime couple return to their summer home in Maine in a Valley Players production of Earnest Thompson’s comic love story.

Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $12-16. Info, 583-1674.

‘THE ESSENTIAL FURTHERMORE’: Employing papier-mâché puppets, Bread and Puppet Theater shares a new play in three parts: comprehensive wake-up services for the sleeping dead, an extinction rebellion and denormalization of the unthinkable. Paper-Mâché Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. $10-20.

Info, 525-3031.

‘LOVE, LINDA: THE LIFE OF MRS. COLE PORTER’: Stevie Holland with Gary William Friedman’s one-person musical focuses on the socialite wife of the 20thcentury American composer.

Theatergoers may kick off opening night with an Italian buffet at the Old Dock Restaurant & Marina on Friday at 5:30 p.m.

Masonic Lodge, Essex, N.Y., 7 p.m. $15 plus $30 for opening night dinner. Info, etheatre@essex theatre.org.

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.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: See WED.7, 7:30 p.m.

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sports

CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT: Players tee off to raise funds for the High Fives Non-Profit Foundation. Sugarbush Resort Golf Club, Warren, registration, 9 a.m.; shotgun start, 11 a.m. $200; $700 per team. Info, steve@ highfivesfoundation.com.

Youth Theater. Barnard Town Hall, 7-8:30 p.m. $8-12. Info, 234-1645.

‘DRESS REHEARSAL FOR MURDER’: See THU.8.

‘GASPARONE, OR: IF ONLY I WAS THE THIEF’: Middlebury College’s German for Singers language school presents a colorful operetta and opera pasticcio loosely based on a work by Carl Millöcke. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8:30 p.m. $15; free for Middlebury College ID holder; limited space. Info, 382-9222.

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agriculture

VERMONT OPEN FARM WEEK: See FRI.9.

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bazaars

CHURCH STREET MARKETPLACE SIDEWALK SALE: See WED.7.

KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY YARD SALE: More than 250 tables boast bargains on household items, clothing, books, collectibles and more at the 16th annual marketplace.

Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. $1.

Info, 863-9626.

dance

SECOND SATURDAY SWING DANCE: Quick-footed participants get into the groove with the help of deejayed tunes.

Bring clean shoes with nonmarking soles. Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8-10:30 p.m. $5.

Info, 864-8382.

environment

SOLAR SHOWCASE: Whether looking to reduce their carbon foot print or simply save money, attendees learn all about harnessing the power of the sun.

Woodstock Village Green, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2911.

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DRIVE TO FEED KIDS: Good times roll during a dinner, volleyball tournament and kids’ festival raising funds for Grady’s Golden Goodness. The Abbey Casino/ Pavilion, Sheldon, 2-8 p.m.

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E-BIKE & BREW TOUR: Electric bicycles transport suds lovers to three local beer producers via scenic routes. Lamoille Valley Bike Tours, Johnson, noon-4:30 p.m. $75 includes an appetizer and two souvenir pint glasses.

Info, 730-0161.

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FIELD TRIP TO YESTERMORROW DESIGN/BUILD SCHOOL: From the woodshop to the timberframed outdoor classroom, aspects of the unique campus are in the spotlight during an offsite Hunger Mountain Co-op event. Yestermorrow Design/ Build School, Waitsfield, 1:45-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ hungermountain.coop.

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.

LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complimentary consultations on a first-come, first-served basis. 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 383-2118.

LOUNGE 91: See FRI.9.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: See FRI.9.

SANCTUARY CITY COFFEEHOUSE: Locals bring a dish to pass and a song, poem or story to share in an open-mic setting. First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, herbschr@gmail. com.

SPORT OF KINGS DAY: Lords and ladies experience the history, language and tradition of falconry. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center, Quechee, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $14.50-16.50; free for members and kids 3 and under.

Info, 359-5000.

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.

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, clemmonsfamilyfarm@gmail. com.

WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: See THU.8.

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fairs & festivals

ADDISON COUNTY FAIR & FIELD DAYS: See WED.7.

SPRUCE PEAK FOLK FESTIVAL: Vermont songsters Francesca Blanchard and Lowell Thompson join national acts such as Shawn Colvin and the Milk Carton Kids for two days of traditional and cutting-edge Americana, bluegrass, and folk music. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 3-10 p.m. $45-175; free for kids under 12. Info, 760-4634.

FREE S’MORES: Customers cop complimentary graham cracker and marshmallow treats. Glutenfree options are available. L.L. Bean, Burlington, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 888-615-9973.

HAM, BAKED BEANS & SALAD SUPPER: Diners fill up on a buffet of spiral-cut ham, baked beans, salad and dessert.

Takeout is available. Vergennes United Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. $5-9. Info, 877-3150.

VERMONT ANTIQUE & CLASSIC CAR SHOW: See FRI.9.

HOT DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: Free frankfurters satisfy snackers. Green Mountain HarleyDavidson, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4778.

film

MAD RIVER TASTE WEEK: See WED.7.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7.

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.

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

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.7.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.7.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.7.

‘ONE TOWN AT A TIME’: See WED.7, Arnold Block, Bethel, 7 p.m.

‘OUR HOSPITALITY’: A feuding family is the focus of this 1923 silent comedy starring Buster Keaton, shown with live piano accompaniment. Brandon Town Hall, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 603-236-9237.

SATURDAY CINEMA ON THE LAWN: ‘GREASE’: Costumes are encouraged during an alfresco screening of the famed musical about Sandy, Danny and the students of Rydell High. Stowe Free Library, 6-10 p.m. Free. Info, 253-7321.

food & drink

BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: See THU.8.

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, burlingtonfarmersmarket. org@gmail.com.

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@montpelier farmersmarket.com.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY DINNER TRAIN: See FRI.9.

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.

FARM-TO-TABLE BENEFIT DINNER: Health Care Share supporters gather for a midsummer celebration of locally grown eats, youth empowerment and community resilience. West Monitor Barn, Richmond, 5:30 p.m. $50-100. Info, james.phinney@ cvmc.org.

SPINNING PLATES: See FRI.9, 5-9:30 p.m.

WILD HART DISTILLERY POPUP: See FRI.9.

games

VERMONT HISTORY TRIVIA: Teams and individual players put their knowledge of the Green Mountain State to the test. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 1-2:30 p.m. Regular admission, $5-7; $20 for families; free for Vermont Historical Society members and kids under 6. Info, 479-8500.

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.

SHANGA STUDIO ROOFTOP YOGA: An open-air class benefits the organization serving Burlington-area children and families. King Street Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Donations.

Info, 862-6736.

lgbtq

BOIS OF SUMMER: A DRAG KING SHOW: Mike Oxready hosts a steamy spectacular featuring veteran and up-and-coming Vermont performers. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 540-0406.

PRIDE YOGA: LGBTQ individuals and allies hit the mat for a stretching session suited to all levels. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Donations.

Info, 448-4262.

montréal

MONTRÉAL PRIDE: See THU.8.

MONTRÉAL PRIDE: ‘LESBIAN SPEED DATE FROM HELL!’: Part camp and part social

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commentary, this parody of online dating and queer stereotypes “highlights how disconnected we are from honesty,” according to cowriter Christina Saliba. See calendar spotlight. Le Ministère, Montréal, 8 p.m. $1522. Info, 514-666-2326.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

ANNA’S GHOST: Equally comfortable playing contemporary and experimental works, improvisational jazz, and more, the ensemble features top musicians lending their individual artistry to create a cohesive sound. College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 2-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 866-934-8232.

BILL SCORZARI: Poetic and emotional songs by the New York singer-songwriter strike a chord with listeners. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

BILLIE FOUNTAIN BAND: South Carolina native Corey Webb combines mellow theatrics and danceable beats with David Bowie-esque aesthetics.

Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 8-11 p.m. $10. Info, 533-2000.

COOLER IN THE MOUNTAINS CONCERT SERIES: Fans of the ’90s ska punk band Sublime rock out to a tribute concert

by Badfish. Snowshed Lodge, Killington Resort, 3:30-6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 800-734-9435.

GUITAR OPEN MIKE: Instrumentalists test their talents onstage. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-5792.

HANAFORD’S VOLUNTEER FIFE & DRUM CORPS: Families bring picnics to an historically inspired concert. Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, Burlington, gate opens, 5 p.m.; concert, 6 p.m. Donations.

Info, 865-4556.

SCRAG MOUNTAIN MUSIC: See THU.8, Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8-10 p.m.

STRANGEFOLK GARDEN OF EDEN FESTIVAL: See FRI.9.

TONY BENNETT: The Grammy Award-winning vocalist belts out tunes with a style that cements his legendary status. The singer’s daughter Antonia Bennett opens. See calendar spotlight.

Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $51-141. Info, 863-5966.

VERMONT FIDDLE ORCHESTRA: New and traditional tunes played on the bow-and-string instrument find eager ears. Old Stone House Museum, Brownington, 4-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 754-2022.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.7.

outdoors

BUTTERFLY GARDENING: See FRI.9, 10 a.m.

HERE BE DRAGONFLIES: See WED.7, 1:30 p.m.

LET IT GROW: See WED.7, 2:30 p.m.

MAKING TRACKS, SEEING SKINS & SKULLS: See WED.7.

MONTHLY WILDLIFE WALK: Birders of all ages and abilities survey feathered friends and other species. Otter View Park, Middlebury, 7-9 a.m. Free. Info, 388-1007.

MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT ASTRONOMY NIGHT: Curious minds uncover the mysteries of the universe in a star-gazing session with the Green Mountain Astronomers. Call to confirm.

Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 8:30-11 p.m.

Donations. Info, 273-2282.

MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED: See WED.7, 3:30 p.m.

MYSTERY HIKE: Outdoor adventurers join members of the Green Mountain Club Burlington section for a moderate trek.

Contact trip leader for details.

Free; preregister. Info, wesvolk@ gmail.com.

OWL PROWL & NIGHT GHOST HIKE: Flashlight holders spy denizens of dusk on a journey to 19th-century settlement ruins, where spooky Vermont tales await. History Hike lot, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

STREAM SAFARI: See THU.8, 11 a.m.

SUMMER MIGRATION BIRD MONITORING WALK: Nature lovers build their experience using binoculars and listening to bird song on a morning excursion.

Office Building, Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7:30-9:30 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068.

sports

THE BITTER PILL: Teams of two or three test their physical limits in several disciplines during a 12-hour endurance race. Blush Hill Country Club, Waterbury, 5 a.m.-5 p.m. $159 per racer. Info, 734-8514.

KINGDOM RUN: Stunning scenery rewards participants in a half-marathon, 5K, and 10K run and walk. Irasburg Common, registration, 7:15 a.m.; walkers and half-marathon, 8:30 a.m.; 5K and 10K runners, 9 a.m. $20-45.

Info, 766-5310.

talks

HIS EMINENCE THE 7TH KYABJE YONGZIN LING RINPOCHE: The Buddhist retreat center hosts the high-ranking Tibetan lama, who presents “How to Develop Bodhichitta and Emptiness.”

Milarepa Center, Barnet, 10-11:30 a.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136.

theater

‘35MM: A MUSICAL EXHIBITION’: See FRI.9, 3 & 8 p.m.

‘ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE’: See WED.7.

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.

‘DRESS REHEARSAL FOR MURDER’: See THU.8, 2-4 & 7:309:30 p.m.

‘FOREVER PLAID’: A car accident cuts a promising young band’s career short before it starts.

But they’re returned to Earth for one last big gig in this musical revue of 1950s doo-wop favorites. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $20-35. Info, 518-962-4449.

‘GASPARONE, OR: IF ONLY I WAS THE THIEF’: See FRI.9.

‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’: See WED.7.

‘LOVE, LINDA: THE LIFE OF MRS. COLE PORTER’: See FRI.9.

‘MACBETH’: See THU.8, 5 p.m.

‘MAMMA MIA!’: See FRI.9.

‘MRS. CHRISTIE’: See WED.7.

‘MULAN JR.’: See FRI.9, 2-3:30 & 7-8:30 p.m.

NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP 2019 RESIDENCY: ‘A DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE’: Audience members get a sneak peek at a work in progress by Ayad Akhtar, the award-winning playwright behind Junk: The Golden Age of Debt. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. $9-15. Info, 603-646-2422.

NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP 2019 RESIDENCY: ‘LOOK UPON OUR LOWLINESS’: In the wake of a terrible loss, a group of friends chooses to embrace life in this work-in-progress by Harrison David Rivers.

Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $9-15. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘OKLAHOMA!’: See WED.7.

‘ON GOLDEN POND’: See FRI.9.

words

BOOK LAUNCH: Burlington and New Zealand author James Watson discusses and fields questions on Ambisexuality: The Anatomy of Transerotic Desire. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, jameskwatson@hotmail.com.

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VERMONT OPEN FARM WEEK: See FRI.9.

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CHURCH STREET MARKETPLACE SIDEWALK SALE: See WED.7.

KIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY YARD SALE: See SAT.10, 10 a.m.-noon & 1-3 p.m.

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‘THE BELLE OF AMHERST’: See THU.8.

‘COLLECTED STORIES’: See FRI.9.

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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Sessions in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh include sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and open sharing. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, newleafsangha@ gmail.com.

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BLAST FROM THE PAST: HISTORIC CLOCKS & WATCHES AFTERNOON: Green Mountain Timekeepers Society members discuss the history and repair of antiquated timepieces. Bring old clocks and watches to learn more. Chimney Point State Historic Site, Addison, noon-4 p.m. $5; free for kids under 15.

Info, 759-2412.

GUIDED TOURS: See SAT.10.

WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: See THU.8, noon-6 p.m.

fairs & festivals

Respect.

Protect.

Enjoy.

FRENCH HERITAGE DAY: Folks celebrate Vermont’s FrancoAmerican cultural history with music, a farmers market, a genealogy display and a meat pie contest. Winooski Falls Way, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, info@ downtownwinooski.org.

OLD STONE HOUSE DAY: Dulcimer music, a farmers market, kids’ activities and demonstrations of old-time skills enliven a celebration of local history. Old Stone House Museum, Brownington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $10 per car. Info, 754-2022.

SPRUCE PEAK FOLK FESTIVAL: See SAT.10.

VERMONT ANTIQUE & CLASSIC CAR SHOW: See FRI.9, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

film

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

‘FARMSTEADERS’: Shown as part of the Vermont International Film Festival’s Sunday Best series, this 2018 documentary follows a family’s efforts to resurrect an Ohio dairy operation. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4 p.m. $5. Info, 260-2600.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.7.

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WILD HART DISTILLERY POPUP: See FRI.9.

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.

health & fitness

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.

YOGA ON CHURCH STREET: Yogis bring their own mat for a guided class with Sukha Yoga’s Cilla Weisman. Proceeds benefit HOPE Works. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 9 a.m. Donations. Info, maggie@ hopeworksvt.org.

lgbtq

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.

MEET THE COMPOSERS: Artist-in-residence and classical violist Ashleigh Gordon leads the audience on a musical journey through time and geography, focusing on underrepresented voices from the African diaspora. Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte, 4-5:30 p.m. Donations.

Info, 765-560-5445.

MIRANDA HENNE & FRIENDS: The Boston-based cellist returns to the barn with a powerhouse string quartet featuring Lauren Cauley and Ellie Miller on violin, and Emily Lane on viola.

Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8-10 p.m. Donations.

Info, 496-5997.

RÉALTA: Performing on dueling uilleann pipes, whistles, bodhrán, guitar, bouzouki, doublebass and vocals, the Belfast band brings traditional Irish music to the Levitt AMP St. Johnsbury Music Series. The Two Tones open. Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury, 4 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-2600.

ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: Na’ama Lion, Julia McKenzie and others pick up historical instruments for “History in Sound.” Federated Church of Rochester, 4-6 p.m. Donations.

Info, 767-9234.

SCRAG MOUNTAIN MUSIC: See THU.8, Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, 4 p.m.

UKULELE MÊLÉE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the fourstringed Hawaiian instrument.

BYO uke. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.7.

montréal

VERMONT PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: A summer concert of classic hits from Broadway and musical film features guest

MONTRÉAL PRIDE: ‘LESBIAN SPEED DATE FROM HELL!’: See SAT.10, 7 p.m.

FOMO?

MONTRÉAL PRIDE: See THU.8.

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.

music

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

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

Find club dates in the music section.

film

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.7.

ANNE & PETE SIBLEY: Bluegrass and folk fans revel in sweet harmonies by the duo performing to raise funds for the Better Selves Fellowships. Bring a picnic or purchase food truck provisions.

Knoll Farm, Fayston, 5:30-10 p.m. $20-23; cash bar. Info, 496-5686.

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: See SAT.10.

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VERMONT CHEESEMAKERS FESTIVAL: Fromage lovers sip vino and sample local cheeses while mingling with dozens of artisan food producers at this 11th annual festival of flavors. See calendar spotlight. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $20-300. Info, 866-261-8595.

LUI COLLINS: An intimate concert highlights the singersongwriter’s gift for folk music.

Landmark Schoolhouse, Lower Cabot, 4-6:30 p.m. $16-20. Info, 793-3016.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.7.

food & drink

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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.

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.

MAD RIVER TASTE WEEK: See WED.7.

BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND: Local musicians present a varied program of marches, show tunes and pop classics. BYO blanket or lawn chair. Battery Park, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonconcertbandvt@ gmail.com.

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

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

FIND FUTURE DATES + UPDATES AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/EVENTS

singer Amy London. Rain location: Thatcher Brook Primary School. See calendar spotlight.

Moose Meadow Lodge, Duxbury, picnicking, 3 p.m.; concert, 4 p.m. $5-20. Info, 229-4191.

outdoors

BIRDING HIKE: L.L.Bean instructors provide interpretive information as folks seek feathered friends on an easy-to-moderate excursion. Colchester Pond, 7 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 888-615-9973.

LITTLE RIVER RAMBLE: See FRI.9, 2 p.m.

MOUNT ABRAHAM & LINCOLN PEAK HIKE: Keeping a moderate pace, trekkers cover nearly 7 miles of ground on a moderateto-difficult excursion. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, jillghiker@ gmail.com.

TOUR OF WATERBURY DAM: Visitors explore a reforested encampment and discover how the Civilian Conservation Corps saved the Winooski Valley from flooded ruin. Meet at the top of the dam, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm.

Info, 244-7103.

sports

heroines in a staged reading.

Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 2 p.m. Donations. Info, 649-3242 ‘MAMMA MIA!’: See FRI.9, 2 p.m.

‘MRS. CHRISTIE’: See WED.7, 2 p.m.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7.

‘MULAN JR.’: See FRI.9, 2-3:30 p.m.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.7.

‘ON GOLDEN POND’: See FRI.9, 2 p.m.

words

GARY MOORE: The writer reads from his newly published novel, Abe & Ann, based on the true story of a love affair Abraham Lincoln had in his twenties.

Fred Wilbur performs the story’s theme song, “The Ballad of Abe and Ann.” Gary Library, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 829-0706.

T. GREENWOOD: Visiting from San Diego, the wordsmith beckons bookworms with a discussion of her new novel Keeping Lucy. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3999.

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ESSEX MUD VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT FOR EPILEPSY: Players bump, set and spike to support the Epilepsy Foundation of Vermont. 1 Chapin Rd., Essex Center, registration, 8 a.m.; games begin, 9 a.m. $300 per team; preregister; free for spectators. Info, 318-1575.

SOUTH END HERB WALK: Herbalist Guido Masé leads a stroll through Burlington to identify common medicinal plants that populate sidewalks, parks and lawns. Bring bug spray and layers. City Market, Onion River Co-op, Burlington South End, 5-6 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, 861-9753.

talks

VERMONT OPEN FARM WEEK: See FRI.9.

CHRIS SCHADLER: The speaker’s 30 years of research inform “The Real Eastern Coyote.” Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 533-9075.

NANCY MARIE BROWN: The author of The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman retraces the steps of a pioneer named Gudrid.

Craftsbury Public Library, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 586-9683.

theater

‘ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE’: See WED.7, 3 p.m.

‘THE BELLE OF AMHERST’: See THU.8.

‘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.

‘DRESS REHEARSAL FOR MURDER’: See THU.8, 2-4 p.m.

‘FOREVER PLAID’: See SAT.10, 3 & 7:30 p.m.

‘LOVE, LINDA: THE LIFE OF MRS. COLE PORTER’: See FRI.9, 5 p.m.

‘LUCY PRINCE WALKS TO NORWICH’: Regional actors give voice to Nora Jacobson and Richard Wesley’s new screenplay about one of Vermont’s unsung

some of his favorite canine subjects. Shelburne Museum, 2 p.m.

Regular admission, $8-65; free for members, active military and kids under 5. Info, 985-3346.

conferences

VERMONT COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP SUMMIT: Workshops, group dialogues and a leadership fair promote local engagement in community improvement. Vermont Technical College, Randolph, 9 a.m. $50; preregister. Info, 223-6091.

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.

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AMERICAN VETERANS VERMONT POST 1: Those who have served or are currently serving the country, including members of the National Guard and reservists, are welcome to join AMVETS for monthly meetings. American Legion, Post 91, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 796-3098.

film

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

DOGS DAYS OF SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL: Cinephiles cool off with creatively crafted films by artist William Wegman, featuring

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.7.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.7.

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RICK WINSTON: With clips at the ready, the film buff traces the history of a genre in the presentation “The Pleasures and Delights of Movie Musicals.”

Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 454-7103.

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food & drink

BTV POLY COCKTAILS: Those who are polyamorous, in an open relationship or just curious connect over drinks. Deli 126, Burlington, 7 p.m.-midnight.

Free. Info, 253-310-8315.

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games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.7, 6:30 p.m.

CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: See WED.7.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game.

Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 6:30-10 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0498.

PITCH: Players compete in a trick-taking card game. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 479-9512.

health & fitness

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.7.

CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Free.

Info, 448-4262.

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: Supervised clinical interns offer guidance and support to those looking to care for themselves using natural remedies. By appointment only. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, and Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; additional cost for herbs; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

GUIDED GROUP MEDITATION: In keeping with the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, folks practice mindfulness through sitting, walking, reading and discussion.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:158 p.m. Free. Info, 505-1688.

MORNING STRENGTHEN & TONE: See THU.8.

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.

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PANORAMA: Joined by a facilitator, parents, caregivers and adult family members of LGBTQ youth ask questions and share their experiences. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-9677.

montréal

MONTRÉAL PRIDE: See THU.8.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

CASPIAN MONDAY MUSIC: Gifted chamber musicians from the national and local stages sweep audience members away.

Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $10-23.

Info, 533-2000.

MIRANDA HENNE & FRIENDS: See SUN.11.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.7.

outdoors

Breeze Through Summer

STOREWIDE SALE For a limited time save in-store on all LIGHTING, FANS, HOME DECOR and FURNITURE during our Breeze Through Summer Sale.

We offer the area’s finest selection with prices to fit any budget.

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.

sports

JIM VAN ORDEN MEMORIAL GOLF CLASSIC: Proceeds from this third annual outing support the McClure Miller Respite House. Rocky Ridge Golf Club, St. George, registration, 7:30 a.m.; shotgun start, 9 a.m. $100-400.

Info, 578-8060.

tech

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.7.

words

BOOK SALE: Bibliophiles browse thousands of gently used pageturners, CDs, DVDs and puzzles.

Rutland Free Library, 4-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 773-1860.

MUST-READ MONDAYS: Lit lovers cover Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6955.

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TOXIC WHITENESS DISCUSSION GROUP: Peace & Justice Center representatives facilitate a conversation on the harmful effects of white supremacy on communities and individuals. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, noon1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

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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.

crafts

COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

dance

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, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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TRAILBLAZERS INFO SESSION: WOMEN IN ENERGY & CONSTRUCTION: Women and nonbinary individuals ages 16 and up learn about a Vermont Works for Women program that puts participants on a path to high-paying jobs. The Center for Technology, Essex Junction, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 6558900, ext. 503.

TUNESDAYS ON THE FARM: Games, food vendors and live local music spice up a weekly social gathering. Pittsford Village Farm, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, info@ pittsfordvillagefarm.org.

‘GRAVITY’: Two astronauts played by Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are stranded in space. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.7.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.7.

‘MILLENNIUM ACTRESS’: Fans of Japanese animation are drawn to a screening of Shatoshi Kon’s 2001 drama about a TV interviewer and camera person who travel through a former actor’s memories. Shown in Japanese with English subtitles. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $12.50. Info, 660-9300.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.7.

food & drink

MUSIC WHILE YOU PICK: Cajun tunes by the Green Mountain Playboys keep 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.

OLD NORTH END FARMERS MARKET: Locavores score breads, juices, ethnic foods and more from neighborhood vendors. Dewey Park, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, oldnorth endfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.7, 7 p.m.

health & fitness

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.

film

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

‘THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE’: A thought-provoking documentary looks at long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addictions. Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, snacks, 5:30 p.m.; film, 6 p.m.; discussion, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 454-1286.

‘THE BIG SLEEP’: Private investigator Philip Marlowe finds himself in a web of blackmail, murder and love triangles in this 1946 picture starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

DOGS DAYS OF SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL: See MON.12.

‘GOLDFINGER’: Sean Connery embodies James Bond as he uncovers a scheme to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Donations.

Info, 530-3018.

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

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

film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

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

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

FIND FUTURE DATES + UPDATES AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/EVENTS

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: See MON.12, 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, 10:3011:30 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.

TUESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.

holidays

WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY CELEBRATION: Folks join the League of Women Voters to toast the historic passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave American women the right to vote. The North Branch Café, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister; cash bar. Info, lwvofvt@ gmail.com.

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.

Kellogg-Hubbard 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.

montréal

MONTRÉAL PRIDE: See THU.8.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

BURLINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY AUDITIONS: Sopranos, altos, tenors and basses interested in joining the group for the first time lift their voices for artistic director Richard Riley. Details are provided upon registration.

5:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bcssingers@comcast.net.

BURLINGTON SONGWRITERS OPEN MIC: Area songsters make their music heard. O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 899-1139.

FAIRLEE SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: Bearing lawn chairs and picnic meals, locals head to the green for an evening

of infectious grooves by the Grippo Funk Band. Fairlee Town Common, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 331-0997.

AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH ROBIN LEHMAN: Using the ivory keys to unlock the hidden rules of melody making, the raconteur and pianist takes fans on a musical journey from baroque to rock.

Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8-9:30 p.m. Donations.

Info, 496-5997.

MILTON COMMUNITY BAND: Brian Hoover conducts the local ensemble’s end-of-season concert. Milton Outdoor Performance Center, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 893-1398.

OPEN MIC: Singers, players, storytellers and poets entertain a live audience at a monthly showcase of local talent. Wallingford Town Hall, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 446-2872.

SHAPE NOTE SING: Locals lend their voices to four-part harmonies at this weekly sing-along of early American music in the “fa-sol-la-mi” tradition. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 525-6972.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.7.

VILLAGE HARMONY TEEN WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Singers embrace musical traditions from around the globe in a program of international choral music. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 603-464-3015.

seminars

ESSENTIALS OF BACKCOUNTRY WATER TREATMENT: Keeping hydrated is essential while on an outdoor adventure. Attendees observe a demonstration and discussion on the basics of clean water filtration. L.L. Bean, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 888-615-9973.

MAC OUT YOUR LIBRARY CARD: Patrons get schooled on all the library has to offer — from movies to lectures to electronic materials. Waterbury Public Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 244-7036.

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.

Participants Needed for a Research Study on the Brain

the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., noon. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

theater

‘ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE’: See WED.7, 7:30 p.m.

AUGUST SPECIAL

‘CREATION’: Greensboro Arts Alliance and Residency’s summer season concludes with a staged reading of S.E. Endicott’s new play about Albert Einstein.

Hardwick Town House, 7-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, info@ themirror.org.

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BARNES & NOBLE BOOK CLUB: Avid readers examine Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

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BURLINGTON FREE WRITE: Aspiring writers respond to prompts in a welcoming atmosphere. Fletcher Free Library, 12v-threebros080719.indd 1 Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-1664.

HOWARD NORMAN: The National Book Award finalist introduces his latest novel, The Ghost Clause, with a reading, signing, and Q&A. Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 472-5533.

THE MOTH: ANIMALS: Wordsmiths have five minutes to tell true tales inspired by a shared theme. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15; preregister. Info, 540-0406.

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CELEBRATE YOUR FARMER SOCIAL: A diversified meat producer plays host at a NOFA-VT wood-fired pizza party, followed by a tour of the grounds. Meeting Place Pastures, Cornwall, 5:30 p.m. $10. Info, 434-4122, ext. 21.

VERMONT OPEN FARM WEEK: See FRI.9.

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community

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

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#NOPOLIMIGRA: A FORUM ON POLICE & ICE IN MONTPELIER: Locals get up to date on what Montpelier residents are doing to push for the separation of local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 505-9593.

BUSINESS PLAN BASICS: Burgeoning entrepreneurs learn the how-tos of creating a document laying out their objectives — and strategies for reaching them. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 391-4870.

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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, 4:30 p.m. $25-30 includes dinner and prizes; preregister. Info, 422-6700.

Healthy, non-smoking participants (18-30 years old) needed for a 4 visit UVM study on a chemical system in the healthy brain. Participants will receive $400 for completion of the study.

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Phoenix Books Burlington events are ticketed unless otherwise indicated. Your $3 ticket comes with a coupon for $5 off the featured book.

Proceeds go to Vermont Foodbank.

AT ESSEX August MON 26 KATHERINE ARDEN: 6PM SUMMER READING PARTY & BOOK LAUNCH Celebrate the launch of the spine-tingling adventure Dead Voices. All ages are welcome to this free event.

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Vermonters. Nomad Coffee — South End Station, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, vt@aarp.org.

crafts

FIBER RIOT!: See WED.7.

KNITTER’S GROUP: See WED.7.

fairs & festivals

ST. AMBROSE LAWN PARTY & CHICKEN BARBECUE: Revelers get their fill of savory poultry, fried dough and baked goods at a community cookout that includes a pie contest, a white elephant table and kids’ activities.

Bristol Village Green, 5 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 453-2488.

film

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health & fitness

HERE BE DRAGONFLIES: See WED.7.

LET IT GROW: See WED.7.

MAKING TRACKS, SEEING SKINS & SKULLS: See WED.7.

MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED: See WED.7.

seminars

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.7.

‘HIS GIRL FRIDAY’: Cary Grant portrays a newspaper editor who pulls out all the stops to keep his best reporter — and ex-wife — from remarrying. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.7.

CHICK-FIL-A FOOD TRUCK EVENT: Finger-lickin’ fare draws folks to the church parking lot to meet the Light Radio Network team. Ignite Church, Williston, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $1-8. Info, 557-1113.

COMMUNITY DINNER: It’s taco night! Friends and neighbors learn about church mission trips to Costa Rica while chowing down on delicious eats.

Richmond Congregational Church, 5:30 p.m. $5-10; free for kids under 5. Info, 434-2053.

COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.7.

FIELD-TO-FORK: WILD FOOD COOKING SERIES: See WED.7,

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MAH JONGG: Participants of all levels enjoy friendly bouts of this tile-based game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

outdoors

RESILIENCE FLOW: See WED.7.

COOK THE BOOK: Foodies bring a dish from Vegan on the Go: Fast, easy, affordable — anytime, anywhere by Jerome Eckmeier and Daniela Lais to a palate-pleasing potluck. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: See WED.7.

VILLAGE HARMONY TEEN WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE: See TUE.13, United Church of Newport.

‘FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM’: Eddie Redmayne stars as fictional writer Newt Scamander in this prequel to the Harry Potter series. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7-9 p.m. $5; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 533-2000.

food & drink

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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.7.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.7.

ROCKIN’ THE GREEN MOUNTAINS: See WED.7.

‘ONE TOWN AT A TIME’: See WED.7. This outdoor screening begins at dusk. Ben & Jerry’s, Burlington. Free.

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games

OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: See WED.7.

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.7.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.7.

Concerts and Motorsports

PEDAL TO PLATE FARM BUFFET: An afternoon of food, fun and adventure begins in Johnson and takes e-bike riders to Wolcott’s Sandiwood Farm to walk the gardens and indulge in a mouthwatering meal. Lamoille Valley Bike Tours, Johnson, 2-6 p.m. $30-75.

Info, 730-0161.

Quintet. Food is available for purchase. Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 229-0881.

DOGS DAYS OF SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL: See MON.12.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7.

Free Daily Entertainment

City Market, Onion River Co-op, Burlington South End, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

YOGA4CANCER: See WED.7.

language

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.7.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.7.

montréal

MONTRÉAL PRIDE: See THU.8.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: JOHN EMIL: The accomplished singer-songwriter showcases his slide-guitar skills for an outdoor audience. Lower Church St., Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7166.

CAPITAL CITY BAND: See WED.7.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS: Classical connoisseurs perk up their ears for compositions by Boulanger, Beethoven and others. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, preconcert talk, 6:45 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $10-25; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

ELIZABETH RENAUD: Acoustic tunes carry through the air as part of the Currier Park Concert Series. Currier Park, Barre, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 477-2967.

IAN FLANAGAN: Steeped in the rural landscapes of upstate New York, this award-winning folk singer-songwriter’s lyrical, percussive music is perfect for a late August evening. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 496-5997.

MIDDLESEX BANDSTAND SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Earpleasing sounds fill the meadow, courtesy of the Paul Asbell Jazz

RÉSUMÉ CREATION: Participants learn to list their accomplishments using Google Docs.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7217.

sports

KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN BIKE CLUB BIKE BUM RACE SERIES: See WED.7.

TENNIS LEAGUE: See WED.7.

tech

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.7.

TECH TUTOR: Techies answer questions about computers and devices during one-on-one help sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

TECHNOLOGY NIGHT: Internet safety becomes second nature during a class with Vermont Technical College’s Ken Bernard.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

theater

‘ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE’: See WED.7.

CIRCUS SMIRKUS BIG TOP TOUR: Acrobatic adventures abound when young performers display their strength and artistry in “Carnival.” Montpelier High School, 1-3 & 6-8 p.m. $1622. Info, 877-764-7587.

‘MRS. CHRISTIE’: See WED.7.

words

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP: Nonfiction fans delve into Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

WRITING CIRCLE: See WED.7. m

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aybe you’ve noticed that Burlington’s CityPlace project is a big, sad, empty lot. Last month, Brookfield Asset Management, the majority owner of CityPlace, attempted to ease concerns and announced that the “scope, scale and timing” of the project may change. After a year of ... nothing ...

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While the developers get to work on a redesign, we had an idea to fill the time — and space.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH THE PIT?

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Tell us your ideas — serious, semi-serious or downright fantastical. Better yet, draw them up. And you don’t have to be CAD-trained; sketches will do.

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We’ll feature our fave “Pit Happens” ideas in a future issue of Seven Days. All participants will be entered to win a gift certificate to a local restaurant.

Post it on social media with #pithappensBTV and tag us @sevendaysvt.

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

agriculture INTRO TO CANNING SALSA: Make a flavor-filled red salsa that’s preserved in jars for winter. If you are new to canning, this class is a perfect entryway into the world of preserving food. We will also go over making a green salsa to use the green tomatoes in your garden before frost hits. Tue., Aug. 20, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $50/1.5hour workshop, 2 jars of salsa, recipes & snacks. Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Julie Rubaud, 482-4060, julie@red wagonplants.com, redwagon plants.com/events.

MAKE HERB-INFUSED VINEGAR: Learn about the unique extraction properties of vinegar, different applications for everyday life and which herbs love to be extracted this way, including common kitchen herbs with herbalist Sophie Cassel. Participants will blend their own custom apple cider vinegar infused with fresh herbs to take home, and recipes to try. Tue., Aug.13, 6-7:30 p.m.

Cost: $35/1.5-hour class, infused vinegar, refreshments. Location: Red Wagon Plants, 2408 Shelburne Falls Rd., Hinesburg.

Info: Julie q Rubaud, 482-4060, julie@redwagonplants.com, redwagonplants.com/events.

culinary COOKING FOR HEALTH : Join us to learn more about cooking the abundance of Vermont’s harvest!

We will explore the health benefits of ingredients, cook delicious food and savor the results.

You will leave with a culinary pharmacy, recipes and inspiration to get cooking. Lisa Mase’ is a culinary medicine educator, nutrition counselor and food sovereignty activist from Italy.

She has been living and homesteading in Central Vermont for 18 years. Her teaching draws from traditional nutritional philosophies such as Ayurveda, Chinese Five Element Theory and her own Mediterranean diet. Details at harmonizedcookery.com. Aug. 22, 5:15-6:30 p.m. Cost: $25/person incl. food & take-home recipe packets. Location: The Garage Cultural Center, 58 State St., Montpelier. Info: Jodi Kelly, 7383667, jkelly@garageartsvt.com, garageartsvt.com.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wed.,

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6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

drumming TAIKO AND DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: Sessions begin monthly for adults, kids, parents!

Parade and conga classes, too.

Intermediate Taiko: Mon., 6-8:20 p.m. Taiko, adults: Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m., and Wed., 6:30-7:50 p.m.

Djembe, adults: Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Taiko, kids and parents: Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. World Drumming, kids and parents: Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Drums provided. Schedule/ register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

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.

Flynn Arts

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.

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.

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Media Factory

EDITING WITH FINAL CUT PRO: Apple’s Final Cut Pro is an exceptionally fast, fluid way to edit.

In this class you will master the Magnetic Timeline and fine-tune clips using split edits, ripple and roll edits, and retiming. Add music, stills and titles, then export your finished program. Thu., Aug. 8, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $25/person suggested donation. Location: Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 2G, Burlington. Info: Gin Ferrara, 861-9692, ginf@retn.org.bit.ly/ btvmediafactory.

IPAD + IPHONE VIDEO PRODUCTION: Learn video and audio recording on your iPad or iPhone in this comprehensive workshop. Explore the functions of your device and work with special mounts for tripods, lights and microphones to create a mobile production kit. The latest iOS is recommended; loaner iPads available during workshop. Mon., Aug. 12, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $25/person suggested donation. Location: Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 2G, Burlington. Info: Gin Ferrara, 851-9692, ginf@retn.org, bit.ly/btvmediafactory

meditation

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.

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.

tai chi NEW BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASS IN WINOOSKI: We practice Cheng Man-ching’s “simplified” 37-posture Yang-style form. The course will be taught by Patrick Cavanaugh, longtime student and assistant to Wolfe Lowenthal, student of Cheng Man-ching and founder of Long River Tai Chi Circle. Patrick is a senior instructor at LRTCC in Vermont and New Hampshire. Starts Sep. 3, 7-8 p.m., open registration through Sep. 24. Cost: $65/month.

Location: North End Studios Winooski , O’Brien Community Center, 32 Malletts Bay Ave, Winooski. Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 4906405, patrick@longrivertaichi.org, longrivertaichi.org.

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.

well-being 200-HOUR AYURVEDA INTEGRATION PROGRAM: Join us in learning and immerse yourself in the oldest surviving preventative health care system.

This program is ideal for yoga teachers, counselors, therapists, bodyworkers, nurses, doctors, wellness coaches, herbalists, etc.

VSAC approved and payment plans available. Can transfer hours to Kripalu’s Ayurveda Health Counselor program. More information at ayurvedavermont. com/classes. 2020 schedule: Feb. 8-9, Mar. 7-8, Apr. 4-5, May 2-3, Jun. 6-7, Jul. 11-12, Aug. 15-16, Sep. 12-13, Oct. 17-18, Nov. 14-15. Cost: $2,795/person. Location: The Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, 34 Oak Hill Rd., Williston. Info: Allison Morse, 872-8898, ayurvedavt@ comcast.net.

woodworking MAKE HAND-CUT DOVETAILS: Students will make their own Shaker bench while learning to make the hand-cut dovetail joint, one of the most admired joints in the field of furniture making. This class is appropriate for beginning or experienced woodworkers.

Instructor Timothy Clark has been a professional woodworker for over 30 years. Sep. 28 & 29, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $250/two 7-hour days. Location: Workshop of Timothy Clark, Cabinetmaker/ Chairwright, 2111 Green St., Waltham. Info: Tim Clark, 9893204, tim@timothyclark.com, timothyclark.com/classes.html.

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@sangha studio.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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welve years ago, Ray Padgett was just another college kid obsessed with music. He had been writing a blog about Bob Dylan since high school, and during his time at Dartmouth College, the Chicago native’s appetite for the subject only intensified — he even started a second blog and a radio show. Along the way, he stumbled into a music niche that would come to define the next phase of his life and career: cover songs.

“Funny enough, it came through Dylan,” recalls Padgett, 32.

Now living in Burlington, Padgett was an avid follower of Dylan’s late, great Sirius XM radio show, “Theme Time Radio Hour.” One day, while listening to that show, he heard a cover of George Gershwin’s “Summertime” by 1960s soul singer Billy Stewart that was unlike any version of the famous song he’d ever heard.

“It’s usually this languid, sort of beautifully slow song, but this version was a soul rave-up!” Padgett explains with his signature boyish charm. “There’s scatting, drum solos, false endings — it’s almost like a James Brown thing.”

Once his pleasant shock subsided, one thought kept going through his mind: I didn’t know you could do this.

“So I started wondering what other covers change the songs so dramatically,” he says. “Twelve years later, I’m still down the rabbit hole.”

Padgett is the founder of a blog called Cover Me, through which he indulges his passion for covers both great and obscure.

Since 2007, the blog has evolved into its own website with multiple writers and editors working under Padgett. He spun the concept into a 2017 book, Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time.

“There’s something special about these types of songs,” Padgett explains of the enduring lure of covers. “People naturally love them because something they know and maybe even love is being reinvented and presented back to them. That’s a cool concept.

“Or,” he continues, “they learn about a

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song that slipped through the cracks and rediscover it.”

To this last point, Padgett cites an album he’s currently listening to as research for his next book. In 1991, Columbia Records released I’m Your Fan, a tribute album to Canadian singer-songwriter

Leonard Cohen. While the album was well received, it remains famous for one track above all else.

“It’s the album that made ‘Hallelujah’ famous,” Padgett says with an almost incredulous lilt to his voice. “In a roundabout way, I mean.”

Padgett explains that John Cale covered “Hallelujah” on the Cohen tribute album, which is where Jeff Buckley, having never heard the original, was introduced to the song. Buckley covered Cale’s version on his 1994 album Grace.

“It’s one of the most covered songs of the last 20 years now,” says Padgett. “And that wouldn’t have happened had Buckley not heard the cover in the first place.”

Revelations like this kept Padgett fixated on cover songs. As his blog grew and he finished school, he moved to New York City and worked for Shore Fire Media, a music PR company. The long hours meant less time to actually write content for Cover Me. So he adjusted his process and started only writing on the weekends but producing longer, more researched pieces.

True to his Dylan fandom, the first of those pieces was an in-depth exploration of Jimi Hendrix’s cover of “All Along the Watchtower.” He even interviewed the late guitar hero’s former girlfriend.

That post quickly became the most popular in the history of the blog, and Padgett discovered that his readers enjoyed the deep dives.

“So that was really when I first thought, Hmm, there might be a book here.”

Though readers and friends had suggested he write a book before, the Hendrix post offered an angle into what previously had been too vague a concept.

Rather than write about covers under a broad umbrella, he settled on specific covers that resonated or were especially important over the last six decades of pop music.

“Through those 20 songs, I set about following the history of the concept,” he explains. “I started with Elvis Presley doing ‘Hound Dog’ and went right up to Adele’s version of ‘Make You Feel My Love.’”

Padgett interviewed luminaries such as former Talking Heads front person David Byrne and Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh.

The two musicians had similar stories about why they chose to do cover songs in the first place — Talking Heads with THE IMITATION GAME

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Fever Dolls

Most folks are pretty good about this, but BRIANT HAMRELL of On Tap Bar & Grill is the most on top of it. Never have I had to reach out to Hamrell for the Essex Junction restaurant’s music schedule.

COURTESY OF KAYHL COOPER

We here at Seven Days all breathed a collective sigh of relief last week.

All the Best, our annual publication that reveals the results of the Seven Daysies awards, finally hit newsstands as an insert in last week’s issue. From counting votes to writing spotlights to laying out the magazine, the process takes months and can be stressful at times. But it’s all worth it to be able to unveil the myriad things Vermonters love best.

Indeed, the Daysies includes a robust arts and entertainment section. Congrats to all y’all music makers out there who nabbed honors. But, alas, Vermont’s music scene is far too vast to be fully categorized in our friendly competition. That’s why I’m looking back over the last year or so to offer up a selection of seven alternative prizes, which you’ll find below.

I haven’t come up with a fancy name for these yet. Any suggestions?

My predecessor, DAN BOLLES, used to call them the Seven Dandelions, which is a nice play on words. Get it?

Dan-delions? It doesn’t really work with my name. What about Adams’ Apples? Ugh, no, that’s terrible. If there were an award for coming up with names for awards, I surely would not win it.

The Always-on-Time Award One duty of the Seven Days music editor that many folks probably don’t know or think much about is putting together the weekly club listings. See ’em over on page 68? While nowhere near as big a job as writing the full Seven Days calendar section, compiling the week’s upcoming shows, trivia nights, open mics and comedy happenings does take a good chunk of time. You know what makes it easier? When talent bookers send me their show calendars on time.

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.

LABRINTH AND ZENDAYA, “All for Us” EL PERRO DEL MAR, “Candy” TAME IMPALA, “Borderline” POLYDRIVE, “Take It All” BILLIE EILISH, “you should see me in a crown”

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Most Creatively Themed Dance Parties

For years, Club Metronome was known for one dance party: Retronome on Saturday nights. Hits of the ’70s and ’80s — and later the ’90s and early ’00s — were the name of the game, and still are. The formerly weekly event, hosted by the incomparable DJ FATTIE B, happens only sporadically now. But a new crop of young DJs, among them MOOCHIE and DJ SVPPLY, has started to explore new avenues of booty-shaking potential. From Move B*tch, a recurring 2000s hip-hop night, to This Must Be the Place, a night of rocking out to the TALKING HEADS, Club Metronome is digging deep into various niches.

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Best Music Video

I wouldn’t say music videos are dropping like crazy ’round these parts.

But a fair number of decent clips has been making the rounds on the interwebs of late. Unsurprisingly, Queen City go-to director KAYHL COOPER steers the ship on many of them. Of his many projects, Cooper’s work with FEVER DOLLS has proved wholly engaging. In particular, the clip for “Adeline,” Fever Dolls’ second single, takes the cake.

What is it about delightfully awkward yet totally confident choreography that just does it for me?

(Note: With Cooper moving on to New York City any day now — what, did you think we’d keep him forever?

— someone needs to jump in to fill the void. Actually, scratch that. More than one person needs to step up. Based on his prolific output, Cooper was doing the work of at least two or three directors.)

Radio Station That Takes Me Back

Zac Clark (of Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness) Bob Oxblood, Ernest

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Langhorne Slim & The Lost At Last Band

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Girls Rock Vermont Showcase

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Whiskey Myers

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Insider

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Voices in Vain

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Donavon Frankenreiter

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Harsh Armadillo, Jaw Gems

Malachi

Twain

The Vegabonds

Prohibition, Fat Boys and Little Men

Crafter, The Path, False Accusations, Lossbearer

Christina Holmes

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9.21 An Appreciation of JJ Cale 10.26 Vermont Symphony Orchestra feat. Kat Wright 11.8 The Motet 11.8 Tragedy: All Metal Tribute To The Bee Gees

While it’s true I’m a ’90s kid (meaning I was born in the ’80s and came of age in the ’90s), my earliest years of music appreciation centered on oldies.

My parents stopped listening to pop music around 1973 and therefore didn’t introduce me to anything from later years. However, they did me right by starting me out the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL, SOUNDBITES

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CLUB DATES NA: NOT AVAILABLE. AA: ALL AGES.

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outside vermont

ARTSRIOT: Swearin’, Mike Krol (indie), 8:30 p.m., $13.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): String Band Karaoke, 6 p.m., free.

burlington

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Daniel Ian Smith and the Generations Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Mike Martin and Geoff Kim (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free.

Emma Bowers, Champ Major (folk-rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: John Fealy (folk), 5:30 p.m., free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Matt DeCaro and Asa Martin (folk-emo), 8:45 p.m., free.

Mosaic featuring members of Kat Wright and the Welterweights (jam), 10 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: The Fabulous Wrecks (rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (open format), 11 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: RambleTree with Special Guests (Irish, folk), 7-10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Godfather Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Hayley Jane and Friends (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Indie Rumble (improv), 7 p.m., $5. Open Mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., free.

chittenden county

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Guy Henderson and Liza Nevis (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., free.

THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Trivia Night, 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

MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

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burlington

BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT

has riled up audiences

with his darkly unsettling and often politically driven comedy. Recently the comedian, who lends his voice to a popular Disneyland attraction, made headlines when he stood up for disgraced Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn. In an Instagram post, Goldthwait

DELI 126: Vinyl Me, Please presents the Spins (vinyl listening party), 6 p.m., free.

company, since his own material has been far more

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: Jake Whitesell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Motivational Speaker (experimental), 7 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., $5. Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase, 10:30 p.m., free.

said he should also be canned by the film’s parent offensive than the resurfaced tweets that got Gunn

Friday and Saturday, August 9 and 10, at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Scott Graves (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Hamjob (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

FRI.9

GUSTO’S: Ricky Golden (covers), 5 p.m., free. Jester Jigs (alt-rock), 9 p.m., $5.

ARTSRIOT: Sad Turtle (rock), 8 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free. Duroc’s Sex on the ’80s Beach Party, 9:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (retro dance hits), 9 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: DJ CRWD CTRL (electronic), 10 p.m., free.

middlebury area

RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free.

Athena & the Night Owls (soul, pop), 5:30 p.m., free. Melissa Mills (indie pop), 7 p.m., free. Clyde McGee (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Good Morning Gils (indie rock), 10 p.m., $5. Juniper (rock), 11:30 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (open jam), 3 p.m., free. Dave Keller (blues, soul), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ 2 Rivers (house), 10 p.m., $5.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): D. Davis and Django Soulo (folk-rock), 7 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Clyde McGee (folk), 8 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: John Wilson (a cappella), 7 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Abby Sherman Band (folk), 9 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: John Abair and His Good Pals (folk), 8 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

Jerryfest with Blues for Breakfast (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $7.

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EL TORO: Stefani Capizzi (folk), 7 p.m., free.

TAP 25: George Petit’s Jazz Trio, 7 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Umami (rock, hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Zac Clark (of Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness), Bob Oxblood, Ernest (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., $15/17.

stowe/smuggs

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: After Ours (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free. Heart of the Ghost (jazz), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Jam Nation (open jam), 7:30 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Billy Ruegger (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry & DJ Coco, 9 p.m., free.

BURLINGTON ST. JOHN’S CLUB: Karaoke, 8:30 p.m., free.

chittenden county

GUSTO’S: DJ Bay 6 (hits), 8 p.m., free.

outside vermont

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Birdcode (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Tina Friml (standup), 7:30 p.m., $15.

The Mainstage Show (improv), 9 p.m., $5.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Old Time Music Session, 6 p.m., free.

BABES BAR: The Chicago-Boston Connection (rock), 6 p.m., free.

burlington

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Joe Adler & the Rangers of Danger (folk), 8 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Leno, Young & Cheney (rock), 5 p.m., free.

Natural Causes (rock), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 10 p.m., free.

NORTH HERO HOUSE INN & RESTAURANT: Cheney & Young (rock covers), 5:30 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

MONKEY HOUSE: Untapped: A Night of Drag and Burlesque, 8:30 p.m., $10.

randolph/royalton

about comedian Barry Crimmins. Catch Goldthwait

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (open format), 11 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Lebowski Trio (blues-rock), 7 p.m., free.

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Wylie Shipman (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Kill Paris, Malachi (electronic), 8:30 p.m., $18/20.

adaptation of his documentary feature Call Me Lucky

RED SQUARE: Bob MacKenzie Blues Band, 7 p.m., free.

14TH STAR BREWING CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Duncan MacLeod (rock covers), 7 p.m., free.

chittenden county

fired. Recently, the comedian has been working on an

RADIO BEAN: Thomas Strayhorn (folk), 7 p.m., free. Christina Custode (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free. Old Fox (indie rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

THE OLD POST: Salsa Night with DJ JP, 7 p.m., free.

champlain islands/ northwest

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Bobcat Goldthwait (standup), 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $30/40.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Abby Sherman & the Dreamcatchers (folk), 8 p.m., free.

ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Danny & the Parts (country), 8:30 p.m., free.

champlain islands/ northwest

LOCALFOLK SMOKEHOUSE: Open Mic with Alex Budney, 8:30 p.m., free.

THE TAP ROOM AT SWITCHBACK BREWING CO.: Nina’s Brew (blues, roots), 6 p.m., free.

HIGHLAND LODGE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Mi Yard Reggae Night featuring Iba Mahr, Satta Sound, Prince Royal, 9:30 p.m., $5.

MAGIC HAT ARTIFACTORY: ‘Stranger Things’ Trivia, 7 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

decades,

For more than three

ARTSRIOT: Bit Brigade perform ‘Contra’ and ‘Metroid,’ Double Ferrari (rock), 8 p.m., $10.

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke with DJ Amanda Rock, 9 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

Loud Mouth

mad river valley/ waterbury

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Bounce (hits), 9:30 p.m., free.

rutland/killington THE HOWLIN’ MOUSE RECORD STORE: Switch, Reign, Deadculture, Voices in Vain (metal), 7:30 p.m., $5.

champlain islands/ northwest NORTH HERO HOUSE INN & RESTAURANT: The Fabulous Wrecks (rock), 5:30 p.m., free.

THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Sergio Torres (Americana), 6:30 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Cash Journey (Johnny Cash tribute), 10 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: Just Us (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Old Sky, Lizzy Plotkin and Natalie Spears (Americana), 7 p.m., free.

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At some point in the mid-2000s, the “golden oldies” radio format changed dramatically. All of a sudden oldies stations played mostly ’70s and ’80s hits. Today, they mostly play ’80s with some ’70s and even a bit of early ’90s music. Hearing true golden oldies on a terrestrial station is nearly impossible.

But in 2017, Mid Century Radio, heard at 103.7 on the FM dial and 1070 AM, revived the format to play classic hits and deep cuts alike. Though it’s difficult to get a signal outside Burlington city limits, the station makes my freakin’ day on short car trips around town.

Best Debut(s)

A band’s debut offering should be bold, attention-grabbing and memorable.

Ideally, it gives us all of the essential information we need to know about a group but leaves us wanting more. It should teeter on the edge of satiety.

It’s especially difficult to narrow down this category that I just invented, so I’m not going to! A number of excellent debut EPs and full-length albums tickled our ears in the past year: neo-soul group JUPTR’s electrifying Echo; R&B star-in-the-making ISAAC FRENCH’s Human Being; pop-jazz ensemble ABOUT TIME’s long-awaited first outing, I Don’t Think I Belong Here; new-wave trio ROOST’s deliciously bleak Self-Titled; MARK DALY’s solo opus I’m Gonna Do It (Anyway) as ERNEST;

SABOUYOUMA’s engrossing Sabouy; and, of course, 99 NEIGHBORS’ masterwork, Television.

Best Collaboration

I love it when locals team up! One collab that’s been stuck in my head going on 10 months or so is WILLVERINE’s “Oh Beauty” featuring FRANCESCA BLANCHARD. Blanchard’s spectral vocals bend and twist over sparse bass, handclaps, clicks, whirs and buzzes.

From Willverine’s late 2018 EP Save Some, the hauntingly gorgeous chillout tune somehow works as both meditation backing track and slowburning dance-floor fodder.

Concert Destination Worth Driving To

Unless you live in the Northeast Kingdom, you’re going to have to put more than a few miles on the old jalopy to witness the DIY concerts held at the Barrage in Holland. Programmed

by Borderline Entertainment, the brainchild of South Burlington native ANDY BOUCHARD, the shows bring local, regional and national talent to the host’s repurposed barn/garage. This season, artists such as AUBREY HADDARD, the TSUNAMIBOTS and the MOUNTAIN CAROL took the stage at the off-the-grid hot spot.

The season is almost over, but the last show of 2018 was in September. Here’s hoping for another final fall blowout this year. m

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FLYNN MAINSTAGE: Tom Seguara (sold out) (standup), 7 p.m., $42.50/52.75.

CLUB METRONOME: Exmag, Es-K, the Big Sip (funk), 7 p.m., $10. Now That’s What I Call: The Hits with David Chief and SoBe (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Open Decks, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Moonsugar (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Django Soulo, Erin Cassels-Brown, Christine Malcolm, Lesley Grant (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Lyle Brewer (acoustic), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

RADIO BEAN: Maple Street Six (jazz), 1 p.m., free. Old Sky and Friends (Americana), 6 p.m., free. Paige Thibault (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free. The Get Messy (funk-rock), 10 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB:

RED SQUARE: AmerikanaBlue (Americana), 4 p.m., free. The Seth Yacovone Blues Band, 7 p.m., free.

8/5/19 2:46 PM Blanchface (house), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Ryan Pollie, Paper Castles (solo) (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

Gang of Thieves, OTIS (funk-rock), 9 p.m., $10.

REVELRY THEATER: The Leap: Improv Level 1 Class Show, 8 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Super Stash Bros. (jam), 9:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 3 p.m., free. The Quins (rock, blues), 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.

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REVELRY THEATER: Big Drag Energy Comedy Show, 9:30 p.m., $7/8.

8/5/19 2:27 PM RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM:

DJ Rekkon (open format), 10 p.m., free.

5 NIGHTS

A WEEK FRI 9 | SAT 10

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free.

Chill Before Serving Minnesotabased indie band

VANSIRE

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music. Stylistically, the pair of former Oberlin College

GOLDTHWAIT

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a variety of influences, the band creates a latticework of trip-hop-inspired rhythms, dark bass lines, flickering synths and aloof vocals. Its 2018 album, Angel Youth,

SMITTY’S PUB: Aaron & Alaria (acoustic), 8 p.m., free.

indie-pop maverick Paul Cherry. Catch Vansire on

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Girls Rock Vermont Showcase (rock), 12:30 p.m., $5.

Langhorne Slim & the Lost at Last Band, Twain (folk, soul), 8:30 p.m., $20.

FRI 21 | SAT 22

MONKEY HOUSE: Carraway (final show), Lockette (rock), 9 p.m., $5/10.

18+.

THE OLD POST: Saturday Night Mega Mix featuring DJ Colby Stiltz (open format), 9 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Jesse Agan (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., free. Dark Star Project (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free.

PARK PLACE TAVERN: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

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STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Wylie Shipman (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: DJ Capt. Dave (house), 9 p.m., free.

HEALTHY LIVING MARKET & CAFÉ: Art Herttua (jazz), 11 a.m., free.

hypnagogic sounds of early 2010s chillwave. Pulling from

including Miami-based rapper Chester Watson and Tuesday, August 13, at Club Metronome in Burlington.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation.

BUCH SPIELER RECORDS: Community DJ Series (vinyl DJs), 3 p.m., free.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Jazzyaoke (live jazz band karaoke), 7:30 p.m., free.

GUSTO’S: Cooie Sings (Americana), 6 p.m., free. DJ LaFountaine (EDM), 9:30 p.m., $3.

stowe/smuggs

EL TORO: Sibling Reverie (country, rock), 9 p.m., free.

champlain islands/ northwest

THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Jeff and Gina (Americana), 6:30 p.m., free.

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HALF LOUNGE: Saint Nick and Jack Bandit (EDM), 10 p.m., free.

upper valley

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

THE ENGINE ROOM: Tracks, the Better Days Band (rock), 6:30 p.m., $22.

randolph/royalton

TAP 25: Stefani Capizzi (folk), 7 p.m., free.

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SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m., donation.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 7 p.m., free.

Open Circuit: Puppets, Crankies and Pantomime, 9 p.m., free.

BABES BAR: Thompson Hip-Hop Dance Party, 7 p.m., $5.

ZENBARN: Yestrogen, Lizzy & Natalie (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Bluegrass Brunch, 11 a.m., free.

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Tim Howard (Americana), 7 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Mud City Ramblers (bluegrass), 9 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Southern Old Time Music Jam, 10 a.m., free.

BLUE PADDLE BISTRO: Leadfoot Louise (Americana), 6 p.m., free.

KAINALU adds support.

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BOBCAT

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MISERY LOVES CO.: Disco Brunch with DJ Craig Mitchell, 11 a.m., free.

features a cavalcade of up-and-coming guest stars,

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Clare Byrne with Nicholas Leichter, Ted Looby and Gus Ziesing (singer-songwriter), 4:30 p.m., free. Mark Shelton & Jailhouse Rockers: The King Lives! (Elvis Presley tribute), 7:30 p.m., $20.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: That’s Just Wrong! (improv), 7 p.m., $5.

students create a vibe similar to the blissed-out,

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Reid Parsons Band (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Bobcat Goldthwait (standup), 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $30/40.

burlington

THE FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Eva Rawlings (jazz, soul), 6 p.m., free.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Ira Friedman (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: The Noble Impoverished (rock), 7 p.m., free. Billy Ruegger (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free.

Brass Balagan (klezmer, global folk), 10 p.m., $5. JW Francis (rock), 11:30 p.m., $5.

SUN.11

RADIO BEAN: Rees Finley (indie pop), 7 p.m., free. Umlaut (polka-rock), 8:30 p.m., free. Duke Aeroplane & the Ampersand Band (blues, rock), 10 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Four-D (hip-hop), 7 p.m., free. DJ KermiTT (open format), 10 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Ire & Woe, Obtusum (metal), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: Midnight Moonshine (covers), 9 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 8 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Space Force: A Tribute to Pink Floyd, 8 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Earl (hits), 9 p.m., free.

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REVIEW this Pons, Dread (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

Dread is one of the most visceral emotions, a Molotov cocktail of anxiety and fear often garnished with depression and self-loathing. And the hangover can last a lifetime. But those who manage to claw their way out from under the suffocating mass of dark feelings are often stronger for it.

Burlington postpunk duo Pons center these concepts on their dizzying EP Dread.

After a year or so of living in Vermont, Sam Cameron and Jack Parker, both fresh-out-of-high-school North Carolina natives, have begun to disentangle themselves from the psychic energy of a world of “vastly different ideals and priorities,” according to an email. High on the pair’s todo list? Smoke weed and make music. (You’ll find good company in the Queen City, Pons.)

Learic & Es-K, Thought Instruments (EQUAL EYES RECORDS, CD, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

The teaming-up of rapper Learic and producer Es-K was inevitable. They are both among the most tirelessly prolific and talented artists in Vermont’s emerging hip-hop scene. Their debut collaboration, Thought Instruments, is the result of years of work. That work was done together, in the same room, and you can hear that cohesion in the final product.

Throughout the album, Es-K’s production is delicious and understated. Faced with the task of weaving 16 diverse songs into a seamless album, he pulls nearly every trick out of his sleeve. The track list is so smoothly sequenced, you could almost miss the sheer range of his contributions here, from the stark stomp of

Through six electric tracks, Pons pair confrontational punk architecture with glam-rock flair, launching dance-rock assaults on all the bad feels. Their songs lurch back and forth between measured tempos and careening freight-train beats.

And practically everything in the world of Dread is fuzzy: fuzzy synths, fuzzy guitars, fuzzy vocals, fuzzy snares.

“Bug” crashes in with walloped, syncopated guitars over brittle tambourine and cryptic, frazzled shouts (“Drop down! / Break neck! / Fly out! Take it!”). By the song’s midpoint, the tempo shifts from an evenpaced dance-floor dazzler to a breakneck maelstrom of synthed-out turbulence.

Switching gears to sharp, jangly rock, “The Shakes” instantly recalls the detached glaze of New York City rockers the Strokes. (And with a title like “The Shakes,” that can’t be a coincidence.) Disheartened and disillusioned, Cameron sings, “Wasting all of my time / Don’t know who I am / Driving nowhere in mind / I’ll take another gram.”

Name-dropping one of auteur David Cronenberg’s most controversial protagonists, “Max Renn” is full of Videodrome’s bleak nihilism yet candy-coats it with bright synth power chords. Never quite finding a secure

pace, the song rollicks to and fro, culminating in a wailing call-and-response post-chorus.

“Information” revives early 2000s electro-trash through withering guitar pops, fizz-forward electronic snares and a probing synth bass line. Sharply barked rhetorical questions like “What you got to lose?” pingpong around this tense-AF cut.

Flirting with country-lite, vaguely Southern-rock vibes, “Family Man” is a wriggling, distorted banger. The song implodes into chaos just past the halfway mark.

Closer “Bronze” froths with pent-up aggression and disgust: “I’m always down / Even when I’m crawling out / And I can’t seem to make the cut.” After meandering for more than three minutes, the track concludes with a frenzied, cynical swell: “Can’t fit in unless you’re brain-dead … Give the crowd what they want.”

Cameron and Parker are indeed young and have a lot of living to do. But their ability to artfully capture alienation, anger, apathy and adversity — as well as establish a defined set of parameters for what their band is and how it sounds — puts them well ahead of where they might otherwise be.

Dread is available at ponsbandofficial.bandcamp.com.

“Percussive Expression” to the exquisite jazz of “Crash Course 101.”

The duo has also tagged in DJ Kanganade, easily one of the 802’s finest turntablists. Kanga’s scratch work here, both on the hooks and in the margins, is downright pyrotechnic. It also emphasizes the album’s classic, throwback vibe.

While Thought Instruments is a distinctly ’90s-style hip-hop album, it’s not just an exercise in winking nostalgia. Beyond the boom-bap calisthenics are some razor-sharp concept tracks and social commentary — especially “The Consequences of History,” an urgent manifesto that’s more poetic than preachy. The real hip-hop Learic rides for isn’t just about real skills, it’s about the real world and the responsibility rappers have to educate their audience.

Of course, a lot of real skills are on the menu here, too. Learic is at his most comfortable shredding through rhyme schemes and densely layered references. This self-described “connoisseur with a knowledge core” has been dropping flows with footnotes since the Aztext days, but his wordplay has never been quite this slick.

Naturally, the guest MCs here are carefully chosen, too. Burlington legend Konflik delivers two outstanding performances, and Jarv absolutely smashes

the uptempo banger “Amen,” which is lead single material. Learic also reunites with Aztext rapper Pro on “Searchlight,” which nails the melodic vibe of Pro’s recent GOOD WTHR material. Finally, rising New York battle rap star Fish Grease murders every second of his appearance on the funky “Food for Thought.”

As a finished artifact, Thought Instruments proves several things. First, of course: Learic is one of the best rappers Vermont has ever seen, period. Second: Es-K’s approach of doing long-term, in-person collaborations is starting to pay huge creative dividends.

Finally, the record proves that I’m going to have one hell of a hard time picking the best local hip-hop album come December. Alongside equally monumental projects like 99 Neighbors’ Television and D.French’s Highest Lows, Thought Instruments is a strong contender for that top spot. Somehow both highly accessible and completely uncompromising, this is a project that only could have come from Es-K and Learic. Anyone who loves hip-hop needs to hear this.

Learic and Es-K host an album release party on Wednesday, August 21, at Orlando’s Bar and Lounge in Burlington. Thought Instruments is available at equaleyesrecords.bandcamp.com.

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THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Open Mic Night with Kyle Stevens, 6 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Erin CasselsBrown (indie folk), 6 p.m., free.

Motown Mondays (Motown DJs), 8 p.m., free.

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Rallying Cry Baltimore duo

OUTCALLS is composed of classically trained opera

singers Melissa Wimbish and Britt Olsen-Ecker. The two artists are deeply committed to blending politics into their artfully crafted work. With jazzy overtones and traditional pop structures, Outcalls make substantive music that scratches two itches: a desire to elevate the role of women in the music industry and to create memorable, catchy music you can sing along to. Check out Outcalls on Tuesday, August 13, at the Skinny Pancake in Burlington.

stowe/smuggs

FOAM BREWERS: Familiar Faces (jam, eclectic), 6:30 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free.

Juliet Quick (indie folk), 9:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Vansire, Kainalu (indie), 8 p.m., $10.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., free.

THE FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Southtown Bluegrass, 5:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Swimmer, Waiting on Mongo (jam), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Queen City Hot Club (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Kaite Lyon (Americana), 7 p.m., free. Mariel Buckley (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Mosaic featuring members of Kat Wright and the Welterweights (jam), 10 p.m., $5.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Pullin’ Yo Chain Comedy Showcase, 7:30 p.m., free. Takénobu (indie folk), 9:30 p.m., $10.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Nico Rivers & the Black Grass (Americana), 9:30 p.m., free.

TUE.13 // OUTCALLS [POP] THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kids Music with Linda Bassick, 9:30 a.m., free.

Outcalls (pop), 6 p.m., free.

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“They basically said the same thing,” Padgett recounts. “They were in these sort of arty bands with small, arty fan bases, but they wanted to be famous. So, in both cases, by covering a song everyone already knew but doing it in their own idiosyncratic style, they left a bread-crumb trail back to their original music.”

Cover Me was released to glowing praise from Padgett’s peers. Variety’s Jem Aswad called it “one of the best multisubject music books to come down the pike in years.”

The book’s genesis and release coincided with Padgett’s on-again, off-again relationship with Burlington, a city he had long admired. While attending Dartmouth, he would routinely drive to the Queen City to see shows, since it was the closest place to see touring acts. Even not knowing another soul in town, Padgett says each time Burlington left a bigger mark on his heart. After living in New York City for five 72

burlington

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

burlington

RED SQUARE: CRWD CTRL (house, techno), 7 p.m., free. DJ Two Sev (open format), 10 p.m., free.

WED.14

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Kip de Moll and Anton Cole (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: The Ray Vega Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

TUE.13

RADIO BEAN: Ananda Luna (alternative), 7 p.m., free. Arvie and Bunny (singer-songwriter), 8:45 p.m., free. Honky-Tonk Tuesdays with Pony Hustle, 10 p.m., $5.

chittenden county

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone, 7 p.m.

NECTAR’S: Tuesday Bluesday Blues Jam with Collin Craig and Friends, 6 p.m., free. Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

outside vermont

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke with DJ Molotov, 9:30 p.m., free.

years — and after meeting the woman who would become his wife, Lesley — Padgett decided to move north in 2014.

“It just seems so alive,” Padgett says of the city’s music scene. “For a place the size of Burlington to be producing as much worldclass music as it does is sort of stunning.”

He recalls a night eating at the Radio Bean-adjacent restaurant ¡Duino! (Duende) with his wife when they recognized their waitress as local chanteuse Kat Wright.

“She smiled at us and said she’d have our bill ready in a few minutes,” Padgett remembers with a laugh. “Then she promptly jumped onstage to belt out a soul song. We’d never seen anything like it!”

The Queen City love affair would be interrupted as Lesley’s work took the couple back to Queens after only a year.

Unperturbed, Padgett didn’t relinquish his obsession with Burlington music. Instead he started a new blog called County Tracks.

“I still followed the scene from New York through Seven Days and social media,” he says. “But the way my brain is, if I’m thinking about it, I might as well write about it.”

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: The Outerburgs (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

HATCH 31: The Welterweights (country), 7 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: The Joe Moore Band (blues), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (open format), 11 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: RambleTree with Special Guests (Irish, folk), 7-10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Godfather Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Hayley Jane and Friends (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Indie Rumble (improv), 7 p.m., $5. Open Mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., free.

County Tracks takes its name from local country-rocker Kelly Ravin’s 2015 album. According to Padgett, the site was designed to be a blog about Vermont music but written by an outsider, for outsiders.

Unlike Cover Me, the smaller County Tracks is pretty much a one-man show.

But the writer estimates that roughly two-thirds of County Tracks readers come from out of state, a figure that tells him the concept is working.

That concept may need some tweaking now that he and his wife have once again returned to live in Burlington. Having moved back earlier this year, Padgett is no longer an outsider but a member of the music community he finds so charming and vital.

“There’s an endless fount of music that excites me in this state,” he asserts.

Padgett’s immediate future is still about cover songs, however. He’s about halfway through working on his follow-up to Cover Me. This one will be part of the well-loved 33 1/3 series, short books that usually focus on single albums. In Padgett’s case, though, he’s focusing on a type of record instead: the tribute album.

“It’s this weird, nebulous form where

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.

WILD HART DISTILLERY POP UP TASTING ROOM: Gin & Grin with Kathleen Kanz and Tracie Spencer (standup), 7:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free. Jim Charanko (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

ZENBARN: Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke with DJ Amanda Rock, 9 p.m., free.

champlain islands/ northwest NORTH HERO HOUSE INN & RESTAURANT: Chris and Erica (rock), 5:30 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free. m

totally unrelated bands play cover songs, but there’s hardly ever any flow to the records,” Padgett explains. “A good tribute album will have great songs but doesn’t necessarily work as a unified listening experience. But I just love that stuff anyway.”

Half of the new book will focus on I’m Your Fan, the Cohen tribute record.

The other half will spotlight the movers and shakers who first developed the idea of tribute albums, such as producer Hal Willner.

Padgett estimates that finishing the book will take another year and a half.

Until then, he’ll be breaking in his new home in the Old North End, getting to know all the local musicians he’s been writing about for years and continuing his research — namely, listening to tons of covers and tribute albums.

It’s a lot of work, but something in Padgett’s smile says he won’t mind it one bit. m

INFO Learn more at countytracks.com and covermesongs.com.

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The Beauty of Building

“Job Site: Alisa Dworsky and Bill Ferehawk,” BCA Center

BY AM Y L I L LY

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isitors to the BCA Center who make their way up to the windowless back room on the second floor might be surprised to find something resembling the construction sites now active all over Burlington.

“Job Site,” a collaborative installation by Alisa Dworsky and Bill Ferehawk, presents to the viewer an unfinished double wall, framed out with fresh lumber studs and partially sheathed in white drywall and plywood.

Ideally, job sites eventually become completed buildings, but this one is a paean to the process of building. Two silent, black-and-white, slow-motion looped videos, showing a chalk line snapping and a plumb bob swinging, animate the front wall. They emphasize the physical work, coordination and precision of the act of building.

Utility buckets filled with wood shavings sit beneath an informational wall, emitting a faint woody smell. An array of stud-framed frottage drawings — think charcoal rubbings — on heavy Japanese paper depict various builders’ tools; they fill the wall to the left of the unfinished 74

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construction. The wall to the right is lined with huge sheets of Tyvek paper patterned with a grid of hammer hits. And the entry is partially screened by a ripstop-nylon curtain whose panels bear the rubbings of more wood studs.

Gallery space tends to lend an aura of aesthetic value to whatever it contains, simply by asking viewers to look closely.

But in this case, Montpelier artist Dworsky and Ferehawk, who lives in Los Angeles, wanted to highlight what they view as

the actual beauty of a rarely seen creative process.

“The process of making a building is so elaborate and complex, and it’s so beautiful — even more than in the finished state,” Ferehawk says during a phone call. “It’s like when you’re studying the body: You see all the organs and bones.”

The two artists met in the architecture master’s program at Yale University, graduating in 1992 and 1990, respectively, from what was then the only design-build program in the country. Dworsky and her husband, Danny Sagan, started a designbuild firm focused on sustainable building, then called Terra Firma and now called DS Architects. She is also an adjunct lecturer at Norwich University in Northfield.

Dworsky began devoting time to art installations in 2001, when she erected 1,000 reflectors on steel posts, in patterns referencing corn rows and orchard grids, along a one-mile stretch of Route 4. The six-week installation, a commission for the Vermont Agency of Transportation, was activated at night by the headlights of passing cars.

After his graduation, Ferehawk worked

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for 10 years as a designer and project presence of builders in every way. The manager for various architecture firms wall of hammer-hit Tyvek, for example, before settling full time into film and is titled “Stud Finder,” referring to digital multimedia. someone who taps a His LA firm, Radiant wall with a hammer up, Features, has produced down and sideways to documentaries for the find the studs. Inspired History Channel and by the sounds of that process, composer Erik PBS, including a biography of midcentury Nielsen of Northfield architect Eero Saarinen. penned a new compo(Ferehawk worked for sition that will be two years as a designer performed in the space in the office of Kevin on Tuesday, September Ro c h e, S a a r i n e n ’s 24, following a talk by former practice.)

Dworsky.

The exhibition is Ferehawk and Dworsky worked out every also meant to bring to detail of the exhibition mind the sheer arc of over email and phone calls over more time during which humans have built than two years. They met only twice, structures. While “Job Site” makes first when Ferehawk visited for a week in use of contemporary materials and March 2018 and then when he returned construction, including the common to help erect the exhibition ahead of its 16- and 24-inches-on-center arrangeopening — which took the two artists ment of studs, the plumb bob has been nearly 10 days. around “from the beginning,” Ferehawk Though unfinished, the double says. (The video depicting it is called wall has a deliberate arrangement of “Time and Motion.”) The chalk line is a exposed studs and blocks of sheathing. throwback; workers today generally use A section of open framing on the front laser levels. And the sheets of Tyvek are wall, for instance, reveals drywall on the anchored with lines of red string that one behind. Says Dworsky, referencing reference the way builders have long laid Dutch geometric art and architecture out foundation dimensions. of the 1920s, “I think about De Stijl and Construction workers on break from Mondrian and the Rietveld Schröder nearby sites, one imagines, might be House in Utrecht — the startled and pleased to way things are sliding find their handiwork, past each other.” tools and materials She and Ferehawk the objects of celebraconceived of a double tion in an art gallery. wall, she adds, to evoke C u r a t o r He a t h e r the depth of threeFerrell says she timed dimensional constructhe exhibit to coincide tion. “There’s this with Vermont’s short layering that happens building season. with the light coming “Creating art and through the joists and creating buildings — studs,” she says. are those two worlds Despite the gallery’s that dissimilar?” she slightly low lighting, Hammer marks on Tyvek comments. viewers will notice that As one visitor the studs — a unifying perceptively observed factor in all parts of the to the 2-year-old boy on installation — have blue-painted ends her hip, “I think they’re making this look in the double wall and red-painted ends like what’s happening outside.” m when used to frame the charcoal rubbings of the hammer, drill, saws, wrenches and Contact: lilly@sevendaysvt.com other tools. “Different mills use different colors,” Dworsky explains. “I’ve always INFO thought that was really beautiful. If you “Job Site: Alisa Dworsky and Bill Ferehawk,” go to a lumber mill and see it stacked, you on view through October 6 at BCA Center get this wall of color.” in Burlington. Artist talk by Dworsky and What’s missing are the people who performance of “Nails and Dreams,” composed do this work, though the artists clearly by Erik Nielsen, Tuesday, September 24, intend their installation to imply the 6-7:30 p.m. burlingtoncityarts.org

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photographers, jewelers, fiber artists, woodworkers and more. Also, live music from the Maple Street Six and Lady Lemonade, food from local vendors, and children’s activities. Downtown Jeffersonville, Saturday, August 10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 644-1418.

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f JOSH KERMAN: “Disc Jockeys in Vermont,” more than 70 photographs of DJs by the founder of Church Street DJs, aka KermiTT. Reception: Friday, August 9, 7-10 p.m. August 9-September 30. Info, info@ churchstreetdjs.com. Half Lounge in Burlington.

FRIDAY ARTISAN MARKET: Featuring a variety of food, local goods, art, music and family activities.

Spruce Peak at Stowe, Friday, August 9, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Info, 253-3437.

f ‘WHAT WERE SOME OF THE THINGS YOU MISSED FROM HOME?’: A collaborative installation by Maya Jeffereis and Elliott Katz that responds to family histories, immigration and incarceration, and asks who can call America “home.” An “itinerant library” in an Airstream is on hand with a letter-writing station.

Reception: Friday, August 9, 6-9 p.m. August 9-16.

Info, abbey@overnightprojects.com. Generator in Burlington.

MAD HATTER TEA PARTY AND HAT WORKSHOP: Artist Dawn Wagner leads children ages 5 and up, and their accompanying adult, in a paper-hat-making session. All materials provided. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Sunday, August 11, 1:30-3 p.m. $10 per child; preregister. Info, 388-2117.

OPEN ART STUDIO: Seasoned makers and firsttimers alike convene to paint, knit and craft in a friendly environment. Bring a table covering for messy projects. Swanton Public Library, Tuesday, August 13, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, swantonartscouncil@gmail.com.

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f VERMONT PASTEL SOCIETY CHAMPLAIN REGION: “Vermont Structures,” a collection of pastel paintings by member artists. Reception: Friday, August 9, 5-7 p.m. August 9-31. Info, 660-4999. Art Works Frame Shop and Gallery in South Burlington.

SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE OUTDOORS: Today’s adventurers don’t leave home without their smartphones — why not take advantage of the built-in camera? Join us to discover proper techniques and settings to take the best pictures of your outdoor experiences. L.L.Bean, Burlington, Saturday, August 10, 11 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 888-615-9973.

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f CLAIRE KELLY: “New Work,” glass sculptures that create miniature landscapes populated with animals, many of which have a perilous existence. August 9-September 8. f DUNCAN JOHNSON: “Horizons,” a new body of work using reclaimed wood, assembled into abstract 2D compositions. August 9-October 13. f JUSTIN HOEKSTRA: “New Work,” abstract acrylic paintings. Reception: Friday, August 9, 5-7 p.m.

August 9-September 8. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

TALK: OLIVER SCHEMM: The sculptor, who moved all over the world as a child, addresses the “unending interactions and layers” of existence and creating identity in artwork. The Sparkle Barn, Wallingford, Thursday, August 8, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 446-2044.

TALK: RESIDENCY PROGRAMS FOR THE EMERGING ARTIST: Whitney Ramage, director of Rutland’s emerging 77ART residency program, and two of its visiting artists, Sarah Stefana Smith and Jason Rondinelli, guide a discussion about how artist residencies can improve one’s practice, strategies for seeking and securing a residency, and the basics of professional artist applications. BCA Center, Burlington, Wednesday, August 7, 6-8 p.m. $10. Info, 865-7166.

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f ‘BEFORE HOUDINI: THE MAKING OF A GRAPHIC NOVEL’: Images that show the stages of development of the book by author Jeremy Holt and illustrator John Lucas. Reception: Friday, August 9, 5-7 p.m., with book signing by Holt. August 9-September 22.

Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

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f ‘WOMEN’S WORK IS NEVER DONE’: A unique show featuring works in a variety of mediums by female artists ages 5 to 80 from Vermont, New York and Québec. Reception: Friday, August 9, 7-9 p.m. August 10-September 7. Info, 326-6003. Montgomery Center for the Arts.

Orah Moore

The Vermont photographer assigned herself the project of taking a black-and-white portrait with her smartphone camera every day for a year. In fact, the original impetus was to learn the capabilities of her iPhone X. “How hard could it be to take one photo of someone each day for a year?” she writes in an artist statement. “The discipline as well as the creative challenge was both fun and stressful. My added personal challenge was that

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I wanted the photos to be as culturally, ethnically and occupationally diverse as possible.”

artist residency including a solo show of colorful, Argentinean-inspired paintings and an outdoor sculpture project with community involvement.

Reception: Saturday, August 10, 2-4 p.m. August 10-September 8. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

365 Days in Black & White,” at Barre’s Studio Place Arts. Moore enlarged and augmented

f MAGDA LOVE: “Home Sweet Home,” a monthlong

ART EVENTS 58TH ANNUAL ART IN THE PARK FESTIVAL: The Chaffee Art Center event includes wares by artists and crafters, food, live music, demonstrations, kids’ activities, a pet area, and more. Main Street Park, Rutland, Saturday, August 10, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, August 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-0356.

7TH ANNUAL MILKHAUS ART FESTIVAL: Artists from across the Northeast gather to showcase their work in a fun, open art competition in a collection of renovated barns. Includes performances and local food. Artists are encouraged to submit work in any medium to the competition along with an $8 entry fee. Contact Ryan Pierson at milkhausart@ gmail.com. Milkhaus Studios, Ferrisburgh, Saturday, August 10, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 922-5107.

ART ON PARK: Local art vendors including jewelers, artists, woodworkers, accessory and apparel designers, potters, craftspeople, and specialty food and beverage producers display and sell their wares.

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Viewers can see the results of Moore’s project in her solo exhibition, “Everyday, Someone: 20 of the photos with pencil drawings. Through August 23. Pictured: “Sujata, July 1, 2018.”

(Disclosure: One of Moore’s subjects is Seven Days cofounder/coeditor Pamela Polston.)

Park St., downtown Stowe, Thursday, August 8, 5-8 p.m. Info, 800-467-8693.

ARTIST TALK: ALINA TENSER: The artist-inresidence sculptor discusses her large-scale work.

The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Wednesday, August 14, 7 p.m. Info, 438-2097.

ARTIST TALK: BARBARA TAKENAGA: The artist discusses her immersive installation, “Looking at Blue,” on view in the museum. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Wednesday, August 7, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 257-0124.

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, August 10, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free to browse. Info, 865-7166.

VISUAL ART IN SEVEN DAYS:

CLOSING RECEPTION AND CONCERT: JAMES BLAIR: Inspired by images in the National Geographic photographer’s exhibition, musicians Diana and Emory Fanning, Dieuwke Davydov, and Karen Kevra perform a 45-minute concert. Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, Wednesday, August 7, 7 p.m. Free.

EXHIBIT TOUR: STORIES BEHIND THE PHOTOGRAPHS: Photographer Dona Ann McAdams and curator John Killacky give a guided tour of McAdams’ exhibit “Performative Acts,” recounting their experiences on the front lines of art and activism. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Tuesday, August 13, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 257-0124.

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: The Cambridge Arts Council presents the 11th annual festival featuring some 60 artists exhibiting and selling their work: painters, potters,

ART LISTINGS AND SPOTLIGHTS ARE WRITTEN BY PAMELA POLSTON. LISTINGS ARE RESTRICTED TO ART SHOWS IN TRULY PUBLIC PLACES.

VETERANS PORTRAIT PROJECT: Decorated military photographer and disabled combat veteran Stacy Pearsall will offer complimentary portraits of local veterans during the Northern Vermont Veterans Expo. Vets are encouraged to schedule an appointment at veteransportraitproject.wordpress.com.

American Legion (St. Albans), Saturday, August 10, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, rsvpthevpp@gmail.com.

ONGOING SHOWS 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.

BEN BALCOM: A short film, “The Sequence of Years,” that investigates the relationship between cinematic artifice and experiences of everyday life. KARA TORRES: “Myopia,” artwork in variety of materials, including cloth, paint and PVC, that plays with visual perception, hidden imagery, subversive ideologies, and metaphorical and literal myopia.

Through September 30. Info, 391-4083. The Gallery at Main Street Landing 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.

JAMES VOGLER: Abstract oil paintings by the Vermont artist. Through August 31. Info, 391-4083.

Gallery at One Main in Burlington.

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JESS POLANSHEK: “The Flower Messengers,” a collection of the first pieces in the Burlington artist’s newest series, celebrating plants and the animals that cherish them. Through August 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

JORDAN DOUGLAS: “(Re)memberings,” silver gelatin photographs, toned in sepia. Through August 24. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington.

‘LIGHT & LENSES’: Digital artists from Vermont Photo Group present eclectic styles within the 16by-20 format. Through August 30. Info, 434-5503.

Mirabelles Café & Bakery in Burlington.

LINDA E. JONES: “Traces,” a retrospective of selected mixed-media paintings including new work inspired by personal archaeological exploration.

Through September 13. Info, 865-8980. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington.

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. Through August 25. Info, 656-2961. Fletcher Free Library 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.

BONNIE ACKER: “Hues of Summer,” new paintings by the Burlington artist. Through September 3. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

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.

‘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.

‘MAG WHEELS: ARTISTRY IN MOTION’: An exhibition of all things car related. Through September 1. Info, 891-2014. Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center & Gallery.

MICHAEL SMITH: “I Can’t Move,” case studies in still life behavior. Through August 24. Info, 899-3211.

Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

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‘200 YEARS—200 OBJECTS’: In the final celebratory year of the university’s bicentennial, the museum exhibits a curated selection of artifacts, documents and images from the school’s collections. Through December 21. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

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. f PALETTEERS OF VERMONT: A group exhibition of works by members of the longstanding artist organization. Reception: Saturday, August 10, 10:30 a.m.-noon Through August 30.

Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery 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 LOVE IT WHEN I’M WRONG: YES, WHITE PEOPLE, IMMIGRATION IS ABOUT SKIN COLOR’: A multimedia installation by Susan Calza that examines immigration, colonialism, forced migration, slavery and skin color. Audio narratives recounting immigration stories are interwoven within a sculptural environment. Viewing by appointment only. Through August 31. Info, 224-6827. Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier.

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JAMIE HANSEN: Photography and assemblages from the streets of Cuba. Through September 1. Info, 16t-vcam-weekly.indd 1 552-8105. 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.

‘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.

‘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.

‘THE WAR OF IDEAS’: Propaganda posters from the collections, spanning the Civil War to World War II and illustrating everything from recruitment to support on the home front. Through October 25.

Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Center in Barre.

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‘COMPOSING FORM’: A group exhibition of contemporary sculptors working in ceramics, highlighting figurative and abstract work that references human history, intervention and experience. Curated by Rachel Moore. Through August 24.

DUSTY BOYNTON: “Reliefs,” painted and cut figures on wood by the Vermont artist. Through August 24. ‘EXPOSED!’: The 28th annual outdoor sculpture exhibition, featuring works on the gallery lawn and around downtown Stowe. Through October 19. 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.

‘EXPLORING WATER’: Mary Admasian, Kate Burnim, Renée Greenlee and Erika Senft Miller exhibit photography, sculpture, cyanotypes, painting, video installation, window installation and mixed STOWE/SMUGGS SHOWS

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drawn from interviews by VFC. Through August 31.

Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

media, curated by Kelly Holt. Through August 31.

Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.

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.

f ‘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.

PENNY BILLINGS: “Light and the Tonalist Landscape,” contemporary realist paintings. Through August 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

RORY JACKSON: “Places of Belonging,” paintings that depict the local artist’s two homes, in Vermont and Ghana. Through August 31. Info, 989-7419.

Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

‘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.

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.

‘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.

mad river valley/waterbury

22ND ANNUAL BIG RED BARN ART SHOW: Vermont artists and artisans display their wares three exhibitions in one: the main exhibit, with up to four pieces from each artist; the small-works show with two pieces per artist; and the Art Stall, a corner dedicated to modestly priced prints and cards.

Through September 2. Info, 496-6682. Big Red Barn Gallery at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield.

‘THE ART AMONG US’: Artworks by 19 members of the congregation including photography, painting, wood, fabric sculpture and more, in conjunction with the Vermont Festival of the Arts. Weekends only.

Through August 18. Info, 917-4060. Waitsfield United Church of Christ.

CORLISS GRIFFITH & MARYELLEN SULLIVAN: Oil paintings of Vermont scenes, and abstract photographs of a recent trip to Europe, respectively. Through August 31. Info, 244-7036. Waterbury Public Library.

‘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.

ROSE UMERLIK: “The Human Experience,” abstract graphite and oil on panel works that explore the complexity of what it is to be human. Through August 31. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

‘I Love It When I’m Wrong: Yes, White People, Immigration Is About Skin Color’

In her gallery in Montpelier, Susan Calza has mounted a multimedia installation that addresses the hot-button topics of immigration and racism. It features sculptural works in homage to Alan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in 2015 as his family attempted to reach Europe; the image of his body washed up on a beach became a heartrending viral symbol of the refugee crisis. The installation also includes audio tracks of immigrant narratives, among them the voice of a 6-year-old separated from her father at the U.S./Mexico border, as well as photographs and objects.

Viewing by appointment through August 31. Pictured: “Requiem for Alan Kurdi,” a still from a video by Riley Bartolomeo.

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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.

‘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.

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

CALL TO ARTISTS 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, August 10 and 11 and October 12 and 13.

Deadline just before each show. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland. Info, artinthepark@chaffeeartcenter.org, 775-0356.

‘BEYOND THE SEED’: Established and emerging artists are invited to submit one or two pieces for an upcoming exhibit; must be wire-hung.

Deadline: August 23. Jericho Town Hall. Info, catherine.mcmains@ gmail.com, jerichovt.org.

CALL FOR MAKERS: The Champlain Maker Faire, to be held September 28, will focus on two areas: growing distributive manufacturing in Vermont; and engaging schools in making, project and startup development and tool and equipment use. Those who respond have the option to exhibit Friday at the School Maker Day, at Friday Night’s Makers in the Dark Night of Illumination, and/or at the main Champlain Maker Faire event Saturday. Deadline: August 25. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms. Info, 578-7738, champlain.makerfaire.com.

CALL TO ART-LOVING WRITERS: VOICING ART POETRY READING: Calling for submissions/reading of original poetry or prose written by

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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. SALLY J. SMITH: “Whimsical Wonders: Fairy Houses From Nature,” very tiny dwellings by the New York State artist. Through September 1. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

BRENDA MYRICK: New work in acrylic and oil.

Through August 31. Info, 458-1415. Bristol Cliffs Café.

‘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

all ages and experience levels in response to the “Bucolic Concrete” art exhibit at Flynndog Gallery, or by other art of the writer’s choice.

In-person and live-streamed, family-friendly reading on August 24.

Deadline: August 23. Nomad Coffee — South End Station, Burlington.

Free. Info, poartryproject@gmail.com.

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.

JURIED SHOW AT THE AIR GALLERY: The artist-run gallery has monthly jury sessions in August and September. Deadline: September 4. Artist in Residence Gallery, St. Albans. Free. Info, artistinresidence.coop@gmail.com.

MAIL ART AT THE ROKEBY: The upcoming exhibit “Structures” will introduce contemporary art into the historic buildings on the museum grounds, asking viewers to contemplate the role that structures play in shaping our experience of the world. To that end, the museum invites artists from across the world to submit a piece of mail art that will be exhibited in the Tourist Cabin. Deadline: August 20. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh. Info, 877-3406, rokeby.org.

‘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.

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‘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,” mixedmedia 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.

‘TRANSLATION OBJECTS FOR SITUATIONS AND SITES’: A multimedia installation by Christy Georg.

Through August 30. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland.

champlain islands/northwest ‘OF EARTH: IMAGE AND CLAY’: The digital images and videos by John Douglas and works in clay by Joan Watson. Through August 31. Info, 355-2150.

GreenTARA Space in North Hero.

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33RD ANNUAL QUILT EXHIBITION: Quilts made

by Windsor County quilters, featuring activities and demonstrations. Through September 15. Info, 457-2355. Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock.

‘LAND ON PAPER’: A group exhibition of prints in a variety of styles that address the theme. Through August 31. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

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

SPA STUDIO RESIDENCY PROGRAM: SPA has received funding to support an 11-month studio residency program for November 20, 2019, to October 31, 2020. A small private studio on the second floor of the visual arts center will be provided at no charge to an emerging artist from the greater Barre/Montpelier area who wants to build a new body of work for exhibition. Deadline: August 9. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Info, 479-7069, submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com, studioplacearts.com.

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, 388-4964, vermontfolklifecenter.org.

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Industry. Through September 2. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

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BECCA YOUNG: “A Year in the Life of a Boy: Celebration Through the Seasons,” photographs and commentary. Through September 3. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

f CAROLYN MECKLOSKY: “Dream Portraits,” expressionist paintings celebrating the former Dream Café community in Johnson. Closing reception: Friday, October 4, 5-7 p.m. Through October 5. Info, carolynmecklosky@gmail.com. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick.

CASPIAN ARTS POP-UP GALLERY: An exhibition of works by member artists. Saturday, August 10, and Sunday, August 11, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 533-7733.

Caspian Artworks in Greensboro.

‘DOUBLE VISION’: Paintings and photographs of the Northeast Kingdom by Louise Arnold and Karen Gowen. Through September 1. Info, 563-2037. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick.

‘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.

KATHLEEN KOLB: “Night & Day/Now & Then,” new paintings and drawings by the Vermont artist.

Through September 8. Info, 533-9075. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

‘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.

‘ROOTS’: A group show of Vermont artists that celebrates democracy, community and “the digging down of it all.” Through September 16. Info, 533-2045. Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro.

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DONA ANN MCADAMS: “Performative Arts,” a major retrospective of four decades of work by the photographer and activist, who now lives in Sandgate, Vt. Curated by John Killacky. Through September 23. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

‘MADE IN VERMONT’: A group exhibition of new and recently completed work by Vermont artists, including paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Arista Alanis, Steve Budington, Clark Derbes, Jason Galligan-Baldwin and Sarah Letteney. MALCOLM MORLEY: Approximately 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper created between 1964 and 2016 by the British-born American artist and founder of super-realism. RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER: Some 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper that reference everyday objects, symbols, people and places, often made from unconventional and industrial materials. The American painter, sculptor and draftsman died in 2011. Open for tours 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Through December 1.

Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

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.

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‘COLOR / GESTURE: EARLY WORKS BY EMILY MASON: Small paintings on paper with explosive color created by the abstractionist in the 1950s and ’60s. Through September 8. Info, 447-1571.

Bennington Museum.

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‘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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ATHENA PETRA TASIOPOULOS: Mixed-media collage work by the Barre artist. Through September 14. Info, 685-4699. North Common Arts in Chelsea.

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.

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.

‘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

by Chris Wilson, paintings by Joan Feierabend, and drawings by Stephanie Suter and Nick DeFriez.

Through September 1. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

SADIE KENNEDY: “Sadie’s Fancy Work,” embroidery by the late local textile artist. Through August 31.

Info, 685-2188. Chelsea Public Library.

‘SCATTERED GEOMETRY’: Ceramics by Jenny Swanson and Holly Walker. Through September 6. Info, 498-8438. White River Gallery in South Royalton.

outside vermont

2019 SUMMER JURIED EXHIBITION: “Messages for the Future,” artists’ responses to the power and place of art in a changing world, juried by Alan Chong of the Currier Museum of Art. Through August 21. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

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‘THE 99 FACES PROJECT’: A nationally traveling exhibit designed, by Boston-based visual artist Lynda Michaud Cutrell, to reduce the stigma of mental illness. Photographs, videos, paintings and sculptures present true-to-life images to challenge assumptions about what living with mental illness looks like. Through September 30. Info, 603-4942179. Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, N.H. ‘ARTISTS AS INNOVATORS’: A group exhibition of works by artists who have received fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts over three decades.

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movies Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love ★★★

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ick Broomfield’s documentaries are seldom confused with those of Michael Moore or Errol Morris.

Rather than unpack social issues, he likes to throw together projects with a tabloid appeal (Kurt & Courtney, Whitney: Can I Be Me, Sarah Palin: You Betcha!) and then insinuate himself into them. In his latest, he hits a new low. There’s something unseemly about inviting viewers to a chronicle of the relationship between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen, then announcing three minutes in that you slept with her, too.

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is a cry for help, a desperate ego trip from a striver perpetually relegated to the margins. Broomfield’s jealousy oozes from every frame, down to the details of his own life that he supplies to make himself appear significant because they mirror Cohen’s.

Leonard met Marianne in 1960 on the Greek island of Hydra? What do you know — Broomfield met her there, too! The Norwegian beauty encouraged Cohen to follow his dreams? What are the odds — she encouraged Broomfield to do the same! Later in life, their romance a memory, Cohen still visited Ihlen from time to time. Does Broomfield

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rhapsodize about how he did likewise? Three guesses!

So what do we learn, besides how Cohenlike Broomfield finds himself? That the Montréal-born writer-musician wound up in Greece because he wanted “to escape.” What he wanted to escape we never find out.

We do learn, however, that Cohen was taken with both young Ihlen and her son, and they became as much of a family as it was possible to become in the psychedelic ’60s on a sunny island where expats practiced free love like it was federal law. We also learn that, by 1967, the love affair that made its way into songs such as “Bird on the Wire” and “So Long, Marianne” had run its course.

Since the movie’s timeline runs through Cohen’s death in 2016, that leaves two thirds of Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love to fill with something besides Marianne and Leonard being in love. Not the best planning on the filmmaker’s part. Instead of going back to the drawing board, Broomfield opted to use the remainder of the picture’s running time for a CliffsNotes-y, “Behind the Music”-style retrospective of Cohen’s career.

One, unfortunately, that ignores as much as it includes.

Some obvious boxes are checked: Judy Collins helps Cohen transition from scribe to singer-songwriter. The song “Suzanne” makes

TOPICAL ISLAND Broomfield uses Hydra as a metaphor for creative freedom, hedonism and negligent parenting.

him a star. He takes lots of drugs and has lots of sex. Depression hits; he becomes a Zen monk. When he emerges from the monastery, he learns that his manager has absconded with his money. He writes his biggest commercial hit, “Hallelujah,” and ends up richer than ever.

That’s kind of where the retrospective ends.

The problem is, that was 1984. Things happened for another 32 years. Cohen perfected his gravelly singing voice. He composed the songs for which he’s most famous — “First We Take Manhattan,” “The Future” and “Tower

The Farewell ★★★★

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ctor-rapper-comedian Awkwafina has the body of a shy, slouchy millennial and the voice of a grumpy old coot. She can spout off the most ridiculous, obscene brags — as in her viral parody video “My Vag” — without breaking a sweat or cracking a smile. She can play it big, stealing the show as the heroine’s outrageous best friend in Crazy Rich Asians or the motormouth pickpocket in Ocean’s 8.

Or she can play it small, sliding right into an intimate ensemble drama like this one. But she’s always alive on screen and never like anybody else.

The Farewell is the kind of movie that comic actors generally make after they’ve headlined several blockbusters and decided it’s time to “get serious” and win awards.

The second feature from writer-director Lulu Wang is a quiet, gracefully made examination of the Chinese diaspora, crosscultural differences, and life and death in an extended family. Much of it is in Mandarin with English subtitles. But its concerns are relevant to anyone who’s ever had to balance their own needs against those of their loved ones.

Awkwafina plays Billi, a struggling creative in New York. While she’s reluctant to tell her immigrant parents (Tzi Ma and Diana Lin) about a recent disappointment, she confides easily in her beloved Nai Nai (grandma) by phone.

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THE BIG TRICK A family deceives its sick matriarch out of love in Wang’s quietly funny ensemble drama.

vescent Shuzhen Zhao) has terminal cancer.

The family is returning to Changchun, China, to say goodbye to her, but there’s a catch: They have to pretend they’re not saying goodbye. Hoping to maintain Nai Nai in her usual sprightly, upbeat mental state, they’re keeping her diagnosis a secret from her. The official reason for the family gathering is a hastily arranged marriage between Nai Nai’s grandson

(Han Chen) and his Japanese girlfriend (Aoi Mizuhara), who seems as baffled by the whole proceeding as Billi is.

Representing a modern American perspective, Billi is initially repulsed by the notion of keeping Nai Nai in the dark. She goes along with the charade under duress. But when her uncle gives her a broader cultural context for the deception, something clicks for her.

of Song” among them. He published his bestreceived books, toured the world multiple times and made his greatest records. Minor details.

Evidently Broomfield couldn’t find anything in his subject’s global superstardom that reflected positively on himself.

Neither an enlightening account of the eponymous affair nor a comprehensive portrait of the artist as a continually evolving man, Marianne & Leonard is a product in search of a purpose. What’s the point, after all, of making a movie filled with facts everybody knows?

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Through a series of family tableaux — always richly detailed, sometimes funny, sometimes whimsical, sometimes a bit too archly stylized — Wang explores the question of whether it’s better to shield our loved ones from bad news, taking the burden on ourselves. This shielding was once common in the West, too (as 19th-century novels attest), so it’s worth asking what we lost and gained when we decided it’s always best for patients to know the awful truth.

If the movie has a flaw, it’s the lack of fleshing out in Billi’s character. Aside from a passing mention of writing, we don’t know what her dreams are, let alone how she’s paying the bills now. She’s defined primarily by a forlorn, unmoored quality that contrasts with Nai Nai’s fiercely energetic presence.

Without Awkwafina in the role, the movie might have felt unmoored, too. But when Wang’s script links Billi’s sadness to her immigrant identity, the actor sells the hell out of her monologue, making us feel Billi’s insecurity, her anger at her parents for uprooting her and her guilt over that anger.

Thanks to the potential energy that Awkwafina always embodies, we can see there’s a fierce Nai Nai inside Billi, too. The performance may not be what you’d expect from someone who got famous rapping about her lady parts on YouTube, but it promises a brilliant career.

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NEW IN THEATERS THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN: Kevin Costner voices a golden retriever who bonds with a race-car driver (Milo Ventimiglia) in this dog-centric drama from director Simon Curtis (Woman in Gold). (109 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace) BRIAN BANKS: A wrongful conviction derails the career of a high school football star (Aldis Hodge) in this fact-based drama also starring Greg Kinnear.

Tom Shadyac (Bruce Almighty) directed. (99 min, PG-13. Roxy) DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD: Nickelodeon’s “Dora the Explorer” comes to life in this family adventure about a teen explorer (Isabela Moner) seeking her parents. With Eva Longoria and Benicio Del Toro. James Bobin (Alice Through the Looking Glass) directed. (102 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Sunset, Welden) THE KITCHEN: Three mob wives (Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss) start running their imprisoned husbands’ operations in 1970s Hell’s Kitchen. Andrea Berloff makes her directorial debut with this crime drama. (102 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace) MAIDEN: Alex Holmes (Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story) directed this documentary about Tracy Edwards, the young skipper of the first all-female crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Race (now the Ocean Race). (97 min, PG. Roxy, Savoy) SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK: Alvin Schwartz’s creepy kids’ book series becomes a scare flick about a group of teens facing their greatest fears, directed by André Øvredal (Trollhunter). With Zoe Margaret Colletti and Michael Garza. (111 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic)

STARTS TUESDAY, AUGUST 13 THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2: In this continuation of the animated franchise based on the mobile game, “The flightless birds and scheming green pigs take their feud to the next level.” That’s the official description. With the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad and Leslie Jones. Thurop Van Orman makes his directorial debut. (96 min, PG. Essex, Paramount, other theaters TBA)

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) BOOKSMARTHHHH1/2 High-achieving best friends (Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein) decide to cut loose as high school graduation looms in this comedy directed by Olivia Wilde. With Jessica Williams and Lisa Kudrow. (102 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 5/29) 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.” (87 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 7/17)

THE FAREWELLHHHH Awkwafina plays a young woman who goes to China to say goodbye to her grandmother, whom the family is keeping in the dark about her diagnosis, in this drama written and directed by Lulu Wang (Posthumous). Tzi Ma and Diana Lin also star. (100 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 8/7) FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAWHHH Two former antagonists from the Fast & Furious franchise (Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham) team up to defeat a “cyber-genetically enhanced” Idris Elba in this over-the-top action flick from director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde).

With Helen Mirren and Vanessa Kirby. (135 min, PG-13) 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) MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVEHH1/2 Nick Broomfield (Kurt & Courtney) directed this documentary about the tumultuous relationship between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, the late Marianne Ihlen. (102 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 8/7) ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOODHHHHH 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; reviewed by R.K. 7/31) 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) 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) 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. (116 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 7/3)

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wednesday 7 — thursday 8 *The Art of Racing in the Rain (Thu only) *Dora and the Lost City of Gold (Thu only) Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw **Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies (Thu only) The Lion King (2D & 3D) Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood *Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Thu only) Spider-Man: Far From Home Toy Story 4 Yesterday friday 9 — wednesday 14

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Booksmart Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.

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LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22):

I am overjoyed that you’re not competing for easy rewards or comparing yourself to the mediocre crowd. Some people in your sphere may not be overjoyed, though. To those whose sense of self isn’t strong, you may be like an itchy allergen; they may accuse you of showing off or acting puffed up.

But freaks like me appreciate creative egotists like you when you treat your personality as a work of art. In my view, you’re a stirring example of how to be true to one’s smartest passions.

Keep up the good work! Continue to have too much fun! I’m guessing that for now you can get away with doing just about anything you want as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): When it came time to write your horoscope, I was feeling unusually lazy. I could barely summon enough energy to draw up the planetary charts. I said a weak prayer to the astrological muses, pleading, “Please don’t make me work too hard to discover the message that Aries people need to hear; just make the message appear in my mind.” As if in response, a voice in my head said, “Try bibliomancy.” So I strolled to my bookcase, shut my eyes, pulled out the first book I felt and went to a random page. Here’s what I saw when I opened my eyes: “The Taoist concept of wu-wei is the notion that our creative active forces are dependent on and nourished by inactivity and that doing absolutely nothing may be a good way to get something done.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There’s an old Rosicrucian vow you might have fun trying out: “I pledge to interpret every experience that comes my way as a communication of God with my soul.” If you carry out this intention with relaxed playfulness, every birdsong you hear is an emblem of divine thought; every eavesdropped conversation provides hints of the creator’s current mood; the shape that spilled milk takes on your tabletop is an intimation of eternity breaking into our timegripped realm. In my years of offering you advice, I have never before suggested you try this exercise because I didn’t think you were receptive. But I do now. (If you’re an atheist, you can replace “God,” “divine,” and “creator” with “life.”)

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): Below are unheralded gifts possessed by many Geminis but not commonly identified by traditional astrologers: 1. a skill for deprogramming yourself, for unlearning defunct teachings that might otherwise interfere with your ability to develop your highest potentials; 2. a sixth sense about recognizing artificial motivations, then shedding them; 3. a tendency to attract epiphanies that show you why and how to break taboos that may once have been necessary but aren’t any longer; 4. an ability to avoid becoming overwhelmed and controlled by situations you manage or supervise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1993, I began writing a book titled The Televisionary Oracle. By 1995, I had generated over 2,000 pages of material that I didn’t like. Although I was driven by a yearning to express insights that had been welling up in me for a long time, nothing about the work felt right. I was stuck. But finally I discovered an approach that broke me free: I started to articulate difficult truths about aspects of my life about which I was embarrassed, puzzled and ashamed.

Then everything fell into place. The process that had been agonizing and fruitless became fluidic and joyful. I recommend that you try this strategy to dissolve any mental blocks you may be suffering from: Dive into and explore what makes you feel ashamed, puzzled or embarrassed. I bet it will lead to triumph and fulfillment, as happened for me.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Let’s enjoy a moment of poignant silence in honor of your expired illusions. They were soulful mirages full of misplaced idealism and sweet ignorance and innocent misunderstandings. Generous in ways you may not yet realize, they exuded an agitated beauty that aroused both courage and resourcefulness. Now, as those illusions dissolve, they will begin to serve you anew, turning into fertile compost for your next big production.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Old rules and traditions about how best to conduct intimate relationship are breaking down. New rules are still incubating. Right now, the details about how people express their needs to give and receive love seem to be riddles for which there are no correct answers. So what do you do? How do you proceed with the necessary blend of confidence and receptivity? Can you figure out flexible strategies for being true both to your need for independence and your need for interdependence? I bring these ruminations to your attention, Libra, just in time for the “Transforming Togetherness” phase of your cycle.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s time for your once-a-year shout-out to your most audacious possibilities. Ready? Go ahead and say, “Hallelujah! Hosanna! Happiness! Hooray for my brilliant future!” Next, go ahead and say, “I have more than enough power to create my world in the image of my wisest dreams.”

Now do a dance of triumph and whisper to yourself, “I’m going to make very sure I always know exactly what my wisest dreams are.”

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): During the next three weeks, I advise you to load up on copious amounts of caffeine from Monday at 8 a.m. until Friday at 6 p.m. Then drastically cut back on the coffee and consume large amounts of alcohol and/or marijuana from 6:01 p.m. on Friday through 6 p.m. on Sunday.

This is the ideal recipe for success. JUST KIDDING! I lied. Here’s the truth, Sagittarius: Astrological indicators suggest you would benefit from making the coming weeks the most undrugged, alcohol-free time ever. Your potential for achieving natural highs will be extraordi-

nary, as will your potential to generate crucial breakthroughs while enjoying those natural highs. Take advantage!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I don’t presume you should or will gleefully embrace the assignment I’ll propose. The task may indeed be too daunting for you to manage right now.

If that’s the case, don’t worry. You’ll get another chance in a few months. But if you are indeed ready for a breathtaking challenge, here it is: Be a benevolent force of wild nature; be a tender dispenser of creative destruction; be a bold servant of your soulful dreams — as you demolish outmoded beliefs and structures that have been keeping a crucial part of your vitality shackled and latent.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I have cast a

feisty love spell that will be triggered in anyone who reads the first line of this horoscope.

And since you have done that, you are now becoming even smarter than you already were about getting the most out of your intimate alliances. You’re primed to experiment with the delights of feeling with your head and thinking with your heart. Soon you’ll be visited by revelations about any unconscious glitches that might be subtly undermining your togetherness, and you’ll get good ideas about how to correct those glitches. Astrological rhythms will be flowing in your relationships’ favor for the next seven weeks!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I estimate that about 25 percent of your fear results from your hesitation to love as deeply and openly and bravely as you could. Another 13 percent originates in an inclination to mistake some of your teachers for adversaries, and 21 percent from your reluctance to negotiate with the misunderstood monsters in your closet. But I suspect that fully 37 percent of your fear comes from the free-floating angst that you telepathically absorb from the other 7.69 billion humans on our planet. So what about the remaining four percent? Is that based on real risks and worth paying attention to? Yes! And the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make progress in diminishing its hold on you.

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PERFORMANCE OF NICKLE AND DIMED It was the Saturday evening performance. You wore a long, light sweater and a print dress/skirt; you were with a woman wearing a washed-green dress. We sat in opposite rows. At the end of the performance, you set your your bags in the back and packed them up. You took my breath away. Hoping to find you again. When: Saturday, August 3, 2019. Where: the play Nickle and Dimed. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914822

MAYBE THIS IS ENOUGH My attraction to you is probably a terrible idea. There are 101 reasons why the timing, circumstances and social circles make this a no-go. To top it off, I hear your signals: You’re not interested. But your hips are driving me wild. Putting this out into the universe is all I can do right now. And maybe that is enough. When: Tuesday, July 30, 2019. Where: out and about.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914817

HALF LOUNGE You let my friend cut in front of you at the bathroom line so we could talk downstairs. You asked me where I lived, and I lied and said St. Louis. I was lying.

I live here. You were cute, and I felt like we could have had banter. When: Saturday, August 3, 2019. Where: Half Lounge. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914821

AL’S FRENCH FRIES, JULY 30 We both were in line. You had shorts and were on your cellphone, with a guy in front of you. I wasn’t sure if you were with him or not, so I didn’t want to say hi. So hopefully you will see this. Message me if you remember.

When: Tuesday, July 30, 2019.

Where: Al’s French fries, dinnertime.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914816

ANNIE FROM OAKLEDGE’S BLANCHARD BEACH It was a beautiful Friday, early evening.

I was just getting down to the beach wearing a blue shirt, and you were leaving with your dog and sitting for another. We had a very pleasant short conversation. You were kind, and it would be very nice to find you again.

—Dan. When: Friday, August 2, 2019.

Where: Blanchard Beach, Oakledge Park. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914819 INVITE ME TO THE WEDDING You were a sassy woman in way-cool shades complaining about not finding a date for a wedding, and you said to your friend, “Maybe I’ll just ask this guy in the car right here.” I say yes. Let’s dance and laugh and drink Champagne and kiss at midnight. Or at least meet and say hello. When: Thursday, August 1, 2019. Where: Maple Tree Place.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914818

SAW IT IN YOUR EYES Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

When: Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Where: around. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914815 CHARLOTTE GRANGE You were sitting on the back of a truck around 4 p.m. in front of the Grange.

I was in the passenger seat of a blue Elantra driving by. You nodded to me (or maybe to the bikers passing behind me). If I’d been on foot, I would have stopped to say hello. When: Sunday, July 28, 2019. Where: Charlotte.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914814

MAPLE AND FRIED CHICKEN Remember when I tripped into your arms? / Soon you were driving Snowflake from Marsh to Myrtle / Slowly, slowly this northern girl softened your southern soul / And now when I say my name, I say your name, too / Maple and Fried Chicken, baby we’re perfection. When: Sunday, April 8, 2018. Where: Charlotte.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914813 BOXING BABE, KNOCKED ME OUT! I see you at Oakledge on the wall. I go hoping to talk to you. I heard you talking about boxing. (Is he your BF?) You write or read a book, but mostly you stare at the distance. I’d kill to know what you are thinking. By your cross-legged seat, you do yoga. I’ll show you my plow pose. When: Friday, July 26, 2019. Where: Oakledge.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914812 REDHEAD KELLY AT TAG SALE I was just passing by on Route 7 and didn’t see anything to buy — but I sure noticed you. Wow. I didn’t see a ring, and if you’re not partnered with the guy you were furniture shopping with, I’d definitely like to meet you. Coffee, a drink, hitting some tag sales? When: Sunday, July 28, 2019. Where: Ferrisburgh.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914811

Ask REVEREND Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

I fell in love with this guy unexpectedly — like, I never imagined liking him. He likes me, too, and I can feel that he’s sincere. But here’s the problem: He has a child. I am stuck between letting him go because he has a child and I want him to be with the child’s mother (BTW, they’ve broken up) and fighting for what we have. Help me, please. What should I do?

Fight or Flight?

(FEMALE, 23)

COMPELLED Met this week; saw you a couple times.

Said goodbyes through glass. Your hair was different the second time.

You seem cool. Let me know if you’re ever free for a drink. When: Thursday, July 25, 2019. Where: Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914806 SHASTA Wow, we need to talk. Let me know what you think. When: Tuesday, July 23, 2019. Where: Seven Days.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914805 TWAIN AT DEER TICK You said Twain was going to be amazing, and you were right! I was floored. We shook hands right as Deer Tick started. I felt a strong connection.

Can we get together? It would make this older man happy. When: Friday, July 19, 2019. Where: Deer Tick show.

You: Man. Me: Man. #914804

BROKEDOWN PALACE Danced next to you for the second set at JRAD. You were with friends (family?); fella in tie-dye and another fella in a wheelchair. I was in a blue tank/yellow cap. Felt like we shared the great energy and caught eyes a few times.

Though you split before the last song, your presence added to the fabulous experience. When: Sunday, July 28, 2019. Where: JRAD at waterfront.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914810

ACROSS UNIVERSES, THROUGH TIME, SPACE Perhaps neither of us was who we thought we were? It was a long time that I felt guilty. I still missed you. So close in space now, yet a universe to cross between us. I broke both our hearts. I want to believe we deserve a second chance together. Show me how, please. When: Wednesday, June 12, 2019. Where: Burlington. You: Gender nonconformist. Me: Man. #914803

FAIRFAX FARMERS MARKET You were selling CBD products for your brother-in-law. We chatted a little about dogs, and I couldn’t help but notice your beautiful teeth behind your wonderful smile. I’d love to see that pretty smile again over a cup of coffee or an adult beverage or two! What say you? When: Saturday, July 27, 2019. Where: Fairfax.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914809

JUNIOR’S & JAMESON That winter morning, when I first looked into your chocolate-brown eyes over a cup of DD, will forever be my best memory of you. I know I just dropped out of sight when we had plans to go to Plattsburgh. Just wanted to say I think of you often, and I’m sorry. When: Wednesday, January 23, 2019. Where: Dunkin’s, Williston Rd. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914802

Dear Fight or Flight,

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RED PAINT PURCHASER You came into Michael’s a few weeks ago. You wore a vintage Winooski shirt with a flannel over it. You asked me to help you pick out red paint for you, ‘cause you were red/green color-blind.

You said I was cute then drove off, and I haven’t seen you since. You had straight brown hair. When: Tuesday, July 2, 2019.

Where: Michael’s, Williston Rd. You: Man. Me: Non-binary person. #914808

I’m confused. The dude has already called it quits with the mother, and you say the two of you are diggin’ each other. Why on Earth would you want to leave him in hopes that he’ll get back with his ex when it’s obvious that’s not what he wants? That doesn’t make any damn sense. Methinks there’s more to the story.

Do you like kids? In particular, his kid? Are you cool with being with a man who has a child with, and therefore a lifelong connection to, another woman?

It’s totally understandable if that freaks you out, especially at your age. In your thirties and forties, that’s a much more common dating conundrum, but

KEEP SMILING Lucas from Honda: If I could reach the stars, I most certainly would give them all to you. When: Monday, July 22, 2019.

Where: Hannaford, South Burlington.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914801 PRICE CHOPPER PARKING LOT A number of years ago, you were at the far end of an aisle. I was in my car in the parking lot, mesmerized by you. I entered the store looking for you, and our spirits met. I am single now. Could it be that you might read this and remember? When: Friday, July 18, 2014. Where: Price Chopper, Hinesburg Rd., South Burlington.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914800 NEW YORK TIMES UPSHOT THREE-PEAT Three times in 10 months, you’ve been in my morning paper, providing insight into declining fertility rates and the effect of repealing Roe v. Wade. Economics may be a dismal science, but you make it sparkle. Maybe we can put the “submit” in R&R? Care to review fertility data somewhere quiet? When: Thursday, July 18, 2019. Where: New York Times.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914799 FLOWER BEDS AND HEMP I stopped over to get something, and then you showed me your awesome flower beds and hemp plants out back.

When we talked, I felt like we clicked in many ways. You’re beautiful and hot! I’m game if you are? You have my contacts; let’s heat up those flower beds together in Colchester. When: Monday, July 15, 2019. Where: your backyard flower beds. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914798 I KNOW YOU 3:45 p.m. You: blond, black and white shorts, and absolutely beautiful. We smiled at each other inside Shaw’s. We then crossed paths by the OJ, where we briefly exchanged hellos. I can’t get the feeling out of my head that we have met before. Let’s get together for coffee soon and find out if we have. When: Tuesday, July 16, 2019. Where: Shaw’s, Colchester.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914797 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

it’s never easy. If you’ve pondered having kids of your own with this man, are you worried about his track record as a father or partner?

Also, what’s the deal with this “unexpectedly” falling in love stuff? Is love ever expected? It sounds like you weren’t particularly attracted to him in the first place, and all this kid hullaballoo is making you question your feelings.

You need to figure out your priorities. If you really do love this man, you should go for the gusto and be all in. If the Baby Mama baggage is too much for you to handle, it would be best for everyone involved if you tapped out now.

Good luck and God bless,

The Reverend

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viewing 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 “4C0329-17N”.

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0329-17N 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On July 25, 2019, Heco Rentals, LLC, 4 Carmichael Street, Suite #111, PMB #232, Essex, VT 05432 filed application #4C0329-17N for a project generally described as the construction of two 6,000 sf warehouse buildings on Lot 16 in Phase II of the Saxon Hill Industrial Park. The project is located at 16 Corporate Drive in Essex, Vermont.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before August 21, 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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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 19, 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 29th day of July, 2019.

By: _/s/Rachel Lomonaco District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 Rachel.Lomonaco@ vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0837-11 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On August 1, 2019, Court Street Associates, c/o Lakepoint Property Management, 150 South

Champlain Street, Burlington, VT 05401 and RR-Cook-080719.indd 1 Vermont Day School, c/o Sage Bagnato, 6701 Shelburne Road, Shelburne, VT 05445 filed application #4C0837-11 for a project generally described as construction of a two-story addition with walk-out basement to the existing Vermont Day School.

The Project is located at 6701 Shelburne Road in Shelburne, Vermont.

The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications.

A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below.

The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0837-11”.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before August 19, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing.

Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status.

Prior to submitting a request for a hearing,

please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of 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 19, 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 2nd day of August, 2019.

By: /s/ Aaron Brondyke

State Coordinator 111 West Street 8/5/19 2:39 PM Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-595-2735 Aaron.Brondyke@ vermont.gov NOTICE OF LEGAL SALE View Date 08/15/2019 Sale Dates 08/16/2019 Robert Labonte Unit# 220 Easy Self Storage 46 SWIFT SOUTH BURLINGTON VT 05403 (802) 863-8300 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4442 and §4444, notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Burlington City Council to hear comments on the following proposed amendments to the City of Burlington’s Comprehensive Development Ordinance (CDO): ZA-19-03 Parking ZA-19-04 Trees, Junkyards, and Cross Reference Correction The public hearing will take place on Monday, August 26, 2019 during the Regular City Council Meeting which begins at 7:00 pm in Contois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT. Pursuant to the requirements of 24 V.S.A. §4444(b): Statement of purpose:

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definition for Junkyards, amend the Vehicle Salvage Yard definition, and prohibit both within all zoning districts; and address an incorrect reference within Sec.6.2.2 (p).

[CONTINUED] ZA-19-03: The purpose of this proposed amendment is to add parking requirements for Art Gallery/Studio uses, align parking requirements for small daycares/ preschools with those of large daycares/preschools, to allow tandem parking for all dwelling units and to clarify its arrangement when used for multi-family structures, to clarify front yard parking restrictions and to apply residential driveway standards citywide.

ZA-19-04: The purpose of this amendment is to make a number of technical corrections to relocate language regarding tree removal standards from Article 3 to Article 5, and eliminate references to these standards that are duplicative and/ or superseded by Article 14; relocate the zoning permit exemption for tree removal in city parks from Article 4 to Article 3, and add “Civic” districts (created by Article 14) to those applicable districts exempt from a permit;, delete Automobile Salvage/Junkyard defini-

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Geographic areas affected: ZA-19-03 and ZA-19-04: The proposed amendments apply to all of the properties/land/zoning districts in the City of Burlington.

List of section headings affected:

Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4441 and §4444, notice

The full text of the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance and these proposed amendments are available for review at the Department of Planning and Zoning, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or on the department’s website at www.burlingtonvt.gov/pz.

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hearing will take place on Statement 7/25/19 fsbo2:26 lynn071719.indd PM of purpose: 1 Tuesday, August 27, 2019 This amendment is probeginning at 6:45pm in posed to the Burlington Conference Room 12, City CDO as follows: Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT. The purpose of this proposed amendment is Pursuant to the requireto modify the boundarments of 24 V.S.A. ies of Form District 5 §4444(b): to include additional

public hearing by the Burlington Planning Commission to hear comments on the following proposed amendments to the City of Burlington’s Comprehensive Development Ordinance (CDO). The public

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance ZA-20-01 Form District 5 Boundaries

ZA-19-03: The proposed amendment modifies Sec. 6.2.2 (i), Table 8.8.11, Sec 8.1.12 (c), and Sec. 8.1.14 (b).

ZA-19-04: The proposed amendment modifies Sec. 3.1.2 (a) and (c); deletes Sec. 4.4.6 (d) 2; amends Sec. 5.5.4; amends Article 13 Definitions; amends Appendix A- Use Table; and amends Sec 6.2.2 (p).

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SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS and structures, and/ or reduce existing nonconformities.

Geographic areas affected: the proposed amendments are applicable to the following areas in the City of Burlington: The proposed amendment applies to 19 parcels boardering on the current Form District 5 boundary immediately surrounding the downtown core.

List of section headings affected: The proposed amendment modifies Maps 4.3.1-1, 4.4.1-1, 4.4.5-1, 8.8.3-1, and Article 14 Maps 1, 2 and 3.

Development Ordinance and the proposed amendment is available for review at the Department of Planning and Zoning, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or on the department’s website at www.burlingtonvt.gov/ pz.

PUBLIC NOTICE The Burlington Housing Authority will be closed between the hours of 10:00 AM and 4:30 PM on Wednesday, August 14, 2019.

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STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY IN RE: L.D. & M.M. VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT FAMILY DIVISION DOCKET NOS. 173/174-4-18CNJV NOTICE OF HEARING TO: Jennifer Dame, mother of L.D. and M.M., you are hereby notified that a hearing to establish a permanent guardianship will be held on September 30th, 2019, at 2:30 at the Superior Court of Vermont, Family Division, Chittenden County, 32 Cherry Street, Burlington, Vermont.

You are notified to appear in connection with this case.

Superior Court Judge STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1005-7-19 CNPR In re estate of William A. Anthony NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of William A. Anthony, late of Hinesburg.

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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.

Date: August 5, 2019 /s/ David M. Sunshine, Attorney for Executrix Patricia D. Titus Signature of Fiduciary Executor/Administrator: Patricia D. Titus c/o Stackpole & French Law Offices PO Box 900 Richmond, VT 05477 802-253-7339 dsunshine@stackpolefrench.com Name of publication Seven Days Publication Dates: August 7, 2019 Name and Address of Court: Vermont Superior Court,

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Chittenden Unit - Probate Court PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402 THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0101650 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 22TH OF AUGUST 2019 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF GEORGE CARPENTIER. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0104495 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 15TH OF AUGUST 2019 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF TURMAX PRINT COPY INC. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

of Church St. For more information please call Carol, 324-4457.

support groups VISIT SEVENDAYSVT. COM TO VIEW A FULL LIST OF SUPPORT GROUPS ADDICT IN THE FAMILY: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES OF ADDICTS AND ALCOHOLICS Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish, 4 Prospect St., Essex Junction. For further information, please visit thefamilyrestored. org or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or 12lindsaymarie@ gmail.com.

AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. For meeting info, go to vermont alanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266.

ALATEEN GROUP New Alateen group in Burlington on Sundays from 5-6 p.m. at the UU building at the top

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free.

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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP This caregivers support group meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo. from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 130, Williston.

Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support, and coping techniques in care for a person living with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free and open to the public. Families, caregivers, and friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm date and time. For questions or additional

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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP 1st Monday monthly, 3-4:30 p.m.

Pre-registration is required (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24/7 Helpline 800-272-3900 for more information.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Wed., 6:307:30 p.m., Methodist Church in the Rainbow Room at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington.

Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390.

BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But, it can also be a time of stress that is often compounded by hormonal swings.

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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.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect with others, to heal, and to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences and hear stories from others who

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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.

Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. thdaub1@gmail.com.

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.

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.

FAMILIES, PARTNERS, FRIENDS AND ALLIES OF TRANSGENDER ADULTS We are people with adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming.

We meet to support each other and to learn more about issues and concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal, and confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 PM, the second Thursday of each month at Pride Center of VT, 255 South Champlain St., Suite 12, in Burlington. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer one-on-one support. For more information, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-238-3801.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends and community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety and other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator.

Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults 18 & over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one.

FCA is not 12-step based

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CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone with struggles with hurt, habits and hang

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.

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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

BURLINGTON AREA PARKINSON’S DISEASE OUTREACH GROUP People with Parkinson’s disease & their caregivers gather together to gain support & learn about living with Parkinson’s disease.

Group meets 2nd Wed. of every mo., 1-2 p.m., continuing through Nov. 18, 2015.

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.

CELIAC & GLUTEN-FREE GROUP Last Wed. of every month, 4:30-6 p.m., at Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Free & open to the public!

To learn more, contact Lisa at 598-9206 or lisamase@gmail.com.

Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org.

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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.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group will be held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-7:45 p.m. at the Hope Lodge, 237 East Ave., Burlington.

Newly diagnosed?

Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion and sharing among survivors and those beginning or rejoining the battle.

Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol.com.

ups, which includes everyone in some way.

We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton which meets every Friday night at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us and discover how your life can start to change. Info: 893-0530, julie@mccartycreations. com.

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need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:302:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. monthly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m. Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. monthly at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Brattleboro meets at Brooks Memorial Library on the 1st Thu. monthly from 1:15-3:15 p.m. and the 3rd Mon. monthly from 4:15-6:15 p.m. White River Jct. meets the 2nd Fri. monthly at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m.

Call our helpline at 877-856-1772.

Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 185 Pine Haven Shores Rd., Shelburne. Info: 888763-3366, parkinson info@uvmhealth.org, parkinsonsvt.org.

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support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury.

It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 800-639-1522.

G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction? Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a month on Mondays in Burlington. Please call for date and location.

RSVP mkeasler3@gmail. com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).

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.

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.

HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107.

People living with cancer & their caretakers convene for support.

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.

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.

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.

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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@pridecentervt.org.

MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts to get & stay clean. Ongoing Wed. at 7 p.m. at Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski, Suite 301, Burlington. 861-3150.

MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP Area Myeloma Survivors, Families and Caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies and a support network by participating in the group experience with people that have been though similar situations. Third Tuesday of the month, 5-6 p.m. at the New Hope Lodge on East Avenue in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@aol.com.

NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Bennington, every Tue., 1-2:30 p.m., CRT Center, United Counseling Service, 316 Dewey St.; Burlington, every Thu., 3-4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St. (enter from parking lot); Berlin, second Thu. of the month, 4-5:30 p.m., CVMC Board Room, 130 Fisher Rd.; Rutland, every 1st and 3rd Sun., 4:30-6 p.m., Rutland Mental Health Wellness Center, 78 S. Main St.; No. Concord, every Thu., 6-7:30 p.m., Loch Lomond, 700 Willson Rd. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@ namivt.org or 800639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living with mental health challenges.

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Bellows Falls, 3rd Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., Compass School, 7892 US-5, Westminster; Brattleboro, 1st Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., 1st Congregational Church, 880 Western Ave., West Brattleboro; Burlington, 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., HowardCenter, corner of Pine & Flynn Ave.; Berlin, 4th Mon. of every mo., 7 p.m. Central Vermont Medical Center, Room 3; Georgia, 1st Tue. of every mo., 6 p.m., Georgia Public Library, 1697 Ethan Allen Highway (Exit 18, I-89); Manchester, 4th Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., Equinox Village,

2nd floor; Rutland, 1st Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center, Leahy Conference Ctr., room D; St. Johnsbury, 4th Wed. of every mo., 5:30 p.m., Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital Library, 1315 Hospital Dr.; Williston, 1st & 3rd Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., NAMI Vermont Office, 600 Blair Park Rd. #301. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt.org or 800-639-6480. Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living mental illness.

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 narconon-suncoast.org/ drug-abuse/parentsget-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.

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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!

PARENT SUPPORT GROUP WITH THEO LAGERSTEDT OF PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT Wed., Aug. 7 5-6:30 p.m.

Join a Circle of Parents support group for a friendly, supportive environment led by parents and other caregivers. Utilizing a mutual self-help support model, the group is a place where anyone in a parenting role can openly discuss the successes and challenges of raising children. Space is limited and registration in advance is suggested.

To sign up for this workshop, email your name and contact information to info@ hungermountain.coop.

All workshops are held in the Hunger Mountain Co-op community room unless otherwise noted, with access to a freight elevator upon request.

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.

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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.

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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; schoolage 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.

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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, 257-7989; 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

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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.

YOGA FOR FOLKS LIVING WITH LYME DISEASE Join as we build community and share what works on the often confusing, baffling and isolating path to wellness while living with Lyme disease.

We will have a gentle restorative practice suitable for all ages and all levels from beginner to experienced, followed by an open group discussion where we will share what works and support one another in our quest for healing.

By donation. Wear comfortable clothing.

March 5, April 2, May 7, June 4. 2-3:30 p.m.

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MIG-WELDER As a manufacturer of custom truck bodies, we have openings for experienced Mig-Welders to join our production line. Lay out, position, align, and secure parts prior to assembly. Math skills needed.

TRUCK BODY INSTALLER/MECHANIC Perform installation of truck bodies & miscellaneous equipment on new/used trucks/vehicles. Mechanical experience required; hydraulic experience desirable.

Summary of job duties: Install truck body to chassis based on specifications; Install wiring for lights & equipment per specifications; Fit and weld replacement parts into place, using wrenches and welding equipment, using power grinders and other tools.

Monday - Friday 7:00 am - 3:30 pm 40hrs. Immediate Hire!

Company Benefits Include: Health Insurance w/company contribution 401K w/company match Paid Vacation • Paid Holidays • Paid Sick Paid Life Insurance/ AD&D, Short Term & Long Term Disability Send Resume & Cover letter or Apply in Person: Iroquois Mfg. Co., 695 Richmond Rd., Hinesburg, VT or email joannef@iroquoismfg.com

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TREASURER The Treasurer is a salaried permanent full-time position, requiring approximately 40 hours per week Monday – Friday. The Treasurer must have at least an associate’s degree in accounting or related field; a bachelor’s degree is preferred. Should have a minimum of five years’ experience in accounting with broad accounting software with strong preference for hands on experience with Sage software.

Extensive experience with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and other comparable spreadsheet and word processing software is required. Must have the ability to supervise support staff, respond to inquires from the public and conduct themselves in a consistently professional manner.

The Terraces Independent Retirement Community is hiring a P/T Facilities Maintenance person.

The responsibilities include light house cleaning, trash removal, painting, mowing, shoveling and supporting residents with minor repairs.

Competitive compensation, flexible hours Mon-Fri and great work environment.

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at 802-985-2472 or email Position prepares weekly payroll and required state and vt.terraces@myfairpoint.net. federal tax reporting. Prepares monthly financial statements for management and the Board. Supervise general accounting functions such as payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank deposit and account and trial balance 2v-TheTerraces061219.indd 1 6/11/19 11:53 AM reconciliation. The District has good medical coverage and standard benefits package.

Resume, cover letter and references should be submitted to: James O’Gorman, District Manager, RCSWD, 2 Greens Hill Lane, Rutland, VT 05701 or e-mailed to jimo@rcswd.com.

Phone # 802-775-7209. Deadline for all applications is August 23, 2019 at close of business. Start date of early September ideal. EOE.

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This position provides professional engineering services for $12-$16.50/hour depending the Town. Engineering responsibilities include planning and on experience. No heavy lifting. directing professional engineering activities associated with Apply online at: the investigation, design, maintenance, and construction of www.homeinstead.com/483 public improvement projects within the areas of transportation, or call us at 802.860.4663.

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Wake Robin seeks a dedicated nursing assistant with a strong desire to work within a community of seniors. Wake Robin seeks LNAs licensed in Vermont to provide high quality care in a fast paced residential and long-term care environment, while maintaining a strong sense of “home.“ We offer great benefits, a pristine working environment, and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting.

We continue to offer generous shift differentials; Evenings $2.50/hour, Nights $4.50/hour, and weekends $1.55.

Interested candidates please send resume and cover letter to HR@wakerobin.com or visit our website, wakerobin.com, to complete an application.

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Downtown Burlington law The ideal candidate will have a thorough knowledge of the theory and practices of engineering, the development and advancement of capital improvement projects, and public speaking and engagement.

A Bachelor’s Degree with major course work in civil engineering and a Vermont registration as a Professional Engineer are required, with six years of progressively responsible civil engineering and public works or utilities experience, public interaction and engagement, at least two of which were at a management and supervisory level.

Apply by Friday, September 6, 2019 online at: colchestervt.gov/321/10162/Human-Resources; submit resume and application to Human Resources, 781 Blakely Road Colchester, VT 05446; or email to slabarge@colchestervt.gov. Position is open until filled. Salary range is $88,207-$92,707 depending on qualifications, plus a competitive benefit package. E.O.E.

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MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN POSITIONS Location: Essex Junction, VT Night Shift: 7pm to 7am

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Sr Technician - Manufacturing Engineer Position Requirements: • Assoc. Degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or related degree.

Principal Technician - Manufacturing Engineer Position Requirements: • Assoc. Degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or related degree.

• 10 years of relevant experience.

Pay Rates: Starting at $26.00 per hour (not including shift differential).

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Museum Educator Part-Time, Wage Position When you work for the State of Vermont, you and your work matter. A career with the State puts you on a rich and rewarding professional path. You’ll find jobs in dozens of fields – not to mention an outstanding total compensation package.

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The Agency of Digital Services (ADS) is seeking an experienced IT Project Portfolio Manager to join the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO). Our ideal candidate is collaborative, able to build strong working relationships, customer service oriented, possesses strong leadership skills, and has excellent verbal and written communication skills. Preference will be given to candidates that possess a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Agile certification and/or experience. For more information, contact Rick Steventon at rick.steventon@ vermont.gov. status: Full Time. Reference Job ID # 2271. Application Deadline: Open Until Filled.

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Vermont Department of Health (VDH) is currently hiring a Substance Misuse Prevention Manager. This is a great opportunity to work with leadership across VDH, state government, and other community 11:34 AMstakeholders to reduce substance misuse in Vermont. This position works closely with the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Program (ADAP) Division Director and VDH Deputy Commissioner in planning and coordinating strategic activities related to the Substance Misuse Prevention Advisory Council.

Seeking candidates that have strong facilitation and communication skills.

For more information, contact Cynthia Seivwright at Cynthia.Seivwright@ vermont.gov. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2297. Application Deadline: August 13, 2019.

CHRONIC DISEASE PROGRAM SPECIALIST - GRANTS MANAGER - BURLINGTON

Pay Rate: $17.44 (includes shift differential) Schedules: Work approximately 14 Days per Month!!

• Includes long, 4-day weekends every other week!

Eligible for Benefits on Day 1: • Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage.

• Paid Vacation Time: Approximately 3 weeks per year (accrued).

• Paid Sick Time: 80 hours per year.

• 401k Investing Options.

Education Assistance: Eligible after 6 months.

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The Vermont Department of Health’s Tobacco Control Program is seeking a team player to manage a community-based grants program to reduce tobacco-related diseases and health disparities in Vermont.

If you are committed to making an impact on population-level health, are experienced with program implementation and monitoring, and most importantly are detail oriented and passionate about health equity and social justice, this job is for you. We are especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the department’s diversity and commitment to health equity and social justice. For more information, contact Annie Ward at annie.ward@vermont.gov or (802) 652-2065. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2305. Application Deadline: August 20, 2019.

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The Fleming Museum of Art seeks a creative and experienced museum/ art educator to lead gallery tours, develop educational resources, and supervise related art projects for K-12 students, youth, and the general public. The educator will work with the Curator of Education and Public Programs on developing the content for these conversational object-based learning strategies for these tours and art projects. The educator will coordinate museum tour scheduling and communication with teachers, community groups, and other visiting groups.

Job requirements include experience with dialogical, object-based museum pedagogies such as Project Zero’s See, Think, Wonder; strong written and oral communication skills; excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; experience synthesizing and translating research into teaching for a variety of audiences; enthusiasm for openended, collaborative work with the Curator of Education and college students who work in the office; and some working knowledge of nonWestern art history, anthropology, and history.

20 hours a week, preferably Tuesday-Friday. This is a part-time wage position and is not eligible for benefits.

To apply send cover letter and resume to flemingtours@uvm.edu with MUSEUM EDUCATOR in the subject line.

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TEMPORARY WAREHOUSE ASSOCIATES Gordini USA, located in Essex Junction, is a distributor of cold-weather gloves, mittens, goggles, face protection and accessories. We are a growing company looking for temporary warehouse associates to join our team.

Warehouse associates are responsible for picking and packing customer orders, counting and verifying incoming vendor shipments, and maintaining and stocking the warehouse. We offer competitive hourly wages. First, second, and/or weekend shifts are available. This position could lead to potential long term career development opportunities.

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We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Interested candidates should email their resume to Jobs@gordini.com or call 802-879-5211.

Engaging minds that change the world Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions.

Guest Service Coordinator - Fleming Museum - #S2193PO - The Fleming Museum has a rare opportunity to join our staff. We are seeking a Guest Service Coordinator. This position’s duties include: daily operation of Fleming Museum offices, management of our large student staff, coordination of events and programs held at the Museum, and oversight of the Admissions desk and Museum cafe. Prior museum experience and student management desired. Occasional weekend and evening hours. Must be available to start in September.

For further information on this position and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit www.uvmjobs.com. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Open positions are updated daily. Please call 802-656-3150 or email employment@uvm. edu for technical support with the online application.

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PCC is growing—Join us and work in a fantastic team culture! Our friendly, informal, hardworking, and clientfocused environment supports our 80+ employees to have work-life balance while delivering an industryleading software solution to pediatricians nationwide.

We are seeking a Client Systems Administrator to join our eight-person Technical Solutions Team.

Our Technical Solutions Team provides a broad range of technical services for our clients.

They provide telephone support and function as a general IT resource to our clients, perform remote systems and network administration, and travel to client sites to install servers, networks, and perform upgrades.

We stay on top of technology and continuously research and develop new solutions for our clients. This position requires strong technical expertise along with exceptional customer service and communication skills.

Applicants for this position should have three or more years of experience providing systems and network support in a fast-paced, professional environment.

Technical skills should include Linux, Windows and MacOS, shell scripting, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, wireless, and VPN. Good security practices are essential.

To learn more about PCC, this role and how to apply, please visit our website at www.pcc.com/careers. This position is open until filled.

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Williston Auto Auction Office Manager Our ideal candidate is a computer-proficient individual with a pleasant demeanor who can keep our busy auto auction facility office running smoothly.

Cashier and/or title clerking experience helpful. 40-hour work week includes Saturday auto auctions. A background check is required. This position reports to the auto auction general manager.

Tasks include: general office management; answering phones; processing titles and sales paperwork; creation, organization and distribution of settlement checks; assisting with auction prep and catalogs; processing consignment orders; and other duties as assigned.

Morrisville Commercial Auction Office Manager This exciting and diverse position represents the glue of our commercial division and requires a blend of in- and out-of-office tasks with occasional regional travel. This position reports to the commercial division manager. Successful candidate must possess technical / computer and project management skills; have the ability to become fluent in our auction-specific software.

Tasks include: tracking auction expenses; managing staff schedules and timelines; collecting invoices from vendors; auction prep; assisting with direct outreach to customers / prospects; assisting callers; updating project status and reporting to management team; daily review of auction checklists; completing tasks on time and on budget; participating in commercial auctions (occasional) clerk / cashier, preview staff, load out supervision; creating settlements; recording and publishing operations meetings minutes; and other duties as assigned.

Thomas Hirchak Company is an at will employer.

Email resumes with job title to: HR@THCAuction.com

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Community Integration Specialists Community Based Services, South Burlington CBS is seeking full time community integration specialists to join our talented team of mental health professionals.

Responsibilities include working individually with children and adolescents with mental health challenges both in the community and in their homes. The opportunity to bring personal interests/hobbies to share with youth is encouraged.

Ideal candidates must have a bachelor’s degree, be able to work afternoon and evening hours and have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation. A generous benefits package is provided, which includes tuition reimbursement, and trainings. $300 Sign on Bonus. Please apply online at nfivermont.org/careers.

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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.

Position includes 12 days of vacation & sick leave per year, 12 holidays and excellent health and retirement benefits.

For a more detailed description and how to apply, see vermontjudiciary.org/employment-opportunities/ staff-openings. EOE

ASSISTANT ReSOURCE seeks an individual to join our team to train and enhance learning experiences for youth and adults.

This is an AmeriCorps position and includes a stipend, educational award, and medical insurance.

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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS The Department of English and Communications is seeking applicants for several positions: An anticipated full-time renewable Lecturer, beginning August 2019, to teach ten courses per academic year, the majority of which will be service classes such as first-year composition.

As a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor of English who will also serve as the Director of the Center for Writing, responsibilities include teaching first-year writing. Opportunities to teach a range of advanced writing courses are also available.

As Director, s/he will shape the mission of the Center and its strategic plan, fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, develops innovative programming, and engages in reflective assessment practices.

In addition, several Adjunct positions are available, specifically, to teach first-year writing, EN 101, MWF at 8:00-8:50 am, 9:00-9:50 am, and 3:00-3:50 pm.

For more information and to apply for these and other great jobs: norwich.interviewexchange.com All candidates must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer. A post offer, pre-employment background check will be required of the successful candidate.

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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.

Job Responsibilities & Requirements • 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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CAREGIVER/MENTOR Seeking an enthusiastic and caring young woman in Chittenden County to provide 1:1 community support and mentoring to a wonderful young lady who requires guidance and supervision.

Address emotional regulation, independent living, and social skills in fun environments.

Position is part-time with excellent pay & flexible schedule. Must have car. Send resume to: livinlisa1010@gmail.com

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR The Sara Holbrook Community Center is looking for a passionate, organized and dynamic Associate Director with a strong commitment to social justice. The AD supports the ED, Board of Directors, staff, families and children to ensure that all aspects of the Center operate smoothly.

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Responsibilities include: program staff recruitment, personnel/program management and compliance, training, human resources and payroll, fundraising event planning, grant writing and editing, general administrative and office management, volunteer recruitment & oversight, developing community partnerships and stepping into various roles as needed. Please visit the SHCC website to see the full job description. EOE. Send cover letter, resume, writing sample & 3 references to: info@saraholbrookcc.org by August 14, 2019.

Seeking full time experienced medical assistant to join our busy OB/GYN practice clinical team. Experience in women’s health is preferred but not required. Looking for someone that can work accurately and efficiently in a fast paced environment.

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.

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Do you like connecting with others? Are you passionate about Vermont winters? And springs, summers and autumns? What year is your Subaru? What’s your idea of a perfect day in Vermont?

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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT BUILDING & GROUNDS MAINTENANCE WORKER Permanent full-time position available for a Building & Grounds Maintenance worker. Year-round responsibilities include building maintenance, grounds maintenance, custodial work, sidewalk plowing, and other duties as assigned. During the season of November 1st – March 30th, must be available 24/7.

Experience in building maintenance to include mechanical systems and building infrastructure. Valid VT State Driver’s license is required. Applications can be picked up at the Public Works office at 7878 Williston Road.

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Our award winning firm is seeking a professional, people-focused and energetic individual to join our fast-paced team as our Operations Assistant.

To join our Firm as one of our highly regarded Operations team members you must have clear verbal and written skills, an upbeat personality, strong MS Office skills, and a professional appearance.

Duties include, but are not limited to: • Welcoming clients, prospective clients and visitors • Answering a multi-line phone system, routing phone calls appropriately • Scheduling and confirming appointments • Assisting our dedicated Marketing staff with outgoing communication and marketing projects • Assisting our Client Relations Associates with client relations related tasks • Packaging and presenting a high quality deliverable to clients • Maintaining a high level of confidentiality and respect of client needs This is an hourly position with a competitive compensation and benefits package. The position requires 40 hours a week, September through May, and 24 hours a week June through August. Actual working hours are flexible during the Firm’s standard work week.

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Co-op is seeking an individual with top-notch technical support skills to join our network team as an Application Support Specialist.

This role will balance creative and technical problem-solving, customer service, and collaboration. The successful candidate will work with other personnel within the Information Services department, vendors and consultants so that employees – as well as agency partners – can access and utilize the software and resources they need for work.

Essential Job Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to): • Provide professional and friendly support for the applications used by employees and our partner agencies • Respond to, diagnose, and resolve requests for assistance received through multiple communication channels • Perform triage, call/escalation management, ticket resolution, issue analysis, user training; follow up on issues to ensure end-user satisfaction • Track and report on actions taken, successful as well as unsuccessful, creating documentation for common problems and solutions • Process changes and software updates for multiple company and vendor-supplied applications • Manage user access requests and security permissions in compliance with company security processes • Engage in relevant training and development to maintain and improve technical knowledge • Stay abreast of developments and common issues related to Co-op specific and vendor supplied applications Do you have an Associate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or the equivalent experience in this type of role? Are you committed to exceptional customer service? Can you build rapport and stay patient and positive when dealing with frustrated people or frustrating situations?

Do you embrace change? Can you communicate technical concepts to a wide variety of clients, and do you enjoy it? If so, we would like to hear from you. jobs@ciui.net.

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DRVT seeks an Intake Specialist Disability Rights Vermont, our state’s non-profit Protection & Advocacy system, is seeking a skilled, responsible Intake Specialist. The position includes fielding client calls, providing a full range of Information & Referral services, and connecting clients with DRVT services. Work on other disability-related projects is also included.

Applicant must have excellent communication, computer, and organizational skills. Ability to work respectfully with a full range of clients is a must and experience with disability is a plus. College graduate preferred, paralegal training an asset. DRVT is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Arnold and Scangas Architects is seeking an We offer competitive salary & awesome benefits! enthusiastic architectural intern with a professional degree to participate in various tasks and work as Culinary Team Members, part of a team of a busy architectural office. 2-4 years’ UVM Dining, as managed by Sodexo is a proud dining partner of the University Dishwashers and architectural work experience with CADD experience, of Vermont. Nestled in-between Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains, our talented culinary team is dedicated to serving up fresh ingredients and We offer competitive salary awesome DataCAD a plus. Work consists of a nice mix of historic restorations/ healthy options to a diverse campus community.

With a strong& commitment Catering Professionals to sustainability and social responsibility, we source from an ever growing network of local farms. renovations to commercial to multi-family housing. Submit a letter of Join our team; discover our unique dining spaces and experience the taste of interest and resume to rarnoldarnoldandscangas.com OR Arnold & Vermont all the while enjoying some awesome benefits!

Scangas Architects, PO Box 135, St. Albans, VT 05478.

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opportunities Rapid Access: Medication (RAM) Assisted Treatment today! Sodexo.Balancetrak.com (search Vermont) • Generous Apply accrued paid time off (MAT) Service Delivery Enhancement Professional Free Bus Pass • 401(K) - 1% automatic • enrollment with a 6% max match (Outreach/Quality Improvement) • Competitive salary

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• Shift differential The RAM project is in collaboration with the VT Department • Company discounts: Theme Parks | Cellphones Tuition Reimbursement pay |for working of Health (VDH), Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs Clothing/Accessories | Computers | Home Goods (ADAP). This position will work closely with VDH ADAP. The weekends Financial Establishment | Vehicle Rental and Purchase position will coordinate and collaborate with organizations Health & Wellness | Sporting Events etc.

Reach out to schedule an interview: to implement RAM in a number of communities in Vermont.

• Employee Resource Groups & Company wide networking events The position is a combination of quality improvement, project NICOLE.CANNON2@SODEXO.COM FEATURED POSITIONS • directly Employee Assistance Programs through LifeWorks management, and leadership. The position will report Work/Life balance SODEXO IS AN EOE/AA/ to the Director of the UVM Office of Primary Care and• AHEC M/F/D/V EMPLOYER Program. The position is based out of Burlington, VT • and is full- recognition programs Employee time. Frequent in-state travel is required. This position is grant funded and is for one year, with potentially an opportunity for a renewal.

1 1/4/19 11:12 AM Apply today!3v-UVMSodexo010919.indd Sodexo.Balancetrak.com (search Vermont) Rapid Access to Medication Assisted Treatment (RAM) is a model in which communities collaborate and create systemsSodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employe to respond to individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD).

This is accomplished through smoothing gateways to access with defined clinical pathways, peer-based recovery supports, Are you one of those continuing education, refining processes using a critical eye rare people who within a specific provider site and across the system, and loves numbers?

LEARN MORE & APPLY tracking time to treatment. Ongoing community provider Does finishing a reconciliation uvmmed.hn/sevendays meetings and work sessions are utilized to identify barriers, seek or tying out a supporting creative solutions and refine collaboration both systemically and schedule give you a sense on a case by case basis. of satisfaction? We are This collaboration includes multiple service and recovery looking for an experienced 4T-UVM080719.indd 1 8/5/19 4:27 PM bookkeeper/accountant to providers, provides rapid access to care while enhancing quality assist in providing bookkeeping of care, including recovery supports and continued guidance and accounting services to throughout the care hand-offs. This has been accomplished our small business clients. using existing resources organized in a thoughtful and effective Confidentiality and accuracy manner. It bridges the various access points (e.g., substance use This is an afternoon and evening position. are important qualifications disorder treatment providers, emergency department, MAT Team, for this position, as well as the The Coach functions in a direct care student support capacity at Mansfield Spoke Provider agencies, and Recovery Centers) to allow for ability to communicate clearly Hall consistent with the mission, values, philosophy and approach of the better transitions of care, and offers 7 days a week system entry. and maintain good customer organization. The Coach uses relationships developed with students to relations. The ideal candidate for provide guidance and fellowship in the Mansfield Hall community.

This position serves as OPC/AHEC’s quality improvement leader this position is detail-oriented, and coach: Coaches assist students in day to day activities and provide direction and thorough, and organized.

•Motivate and influence health care professionals and support in following a student’s daily schedule and Student Pathway to • Flexible weekday schedule, community service providers by delivering expert quality Independence Plan. The Coach should have an ongoing sense of students’ 16 to 24 hours per week improvement coaching and team facilitation to promote well-being and affect, lagging skills and skill development goals, and • Flexible location after changes and improvements in care delivery systems for MAT. challenges and successes. This position also collaborates with and takes initial training period •Lead multidisciplinary project teams, conduct needs direction from Director-level staff and Mansfield Hall Administrative assessments, develop educational content, provide training, Leadership to assure the highest quality programming for the students.

We will only consider gather and analyze data, instruct teams on methods to evaluate applications with a cover letter Minimum Qualifications for Knowledge/Experience: their progress and outcomes, ensure compliance with grant and resume. If interested, please A bachelor’s degree in behavioral sciences or related fields. requirements, and evaluate program activities. contact us for a more complete Apply online: mansfieldhall.org/employment •Represent UVM OPC/AHEC, and the RAM project at meetings job description: Mailing Address: 289 College Street, Burlington, VT 05401 and forums. eve@numberworks.net Tel: (802) 440-0532 | www.mansfieldhall.org Apply online at uvm.edu

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METAL WORKER & MAKER Conant Metal & Light is looking for a metalworker & maker to join our production team.

You must be a creative problemsolver, good with your hands and capable of mastering a broad array of processes, including welding, machining, cold-working of glass, assembly of electrical circuits, inspection and quality control, and packaging of finished product. It is critical that you maintain a consistently high level of quality, productivity, and excellent attention to detail throughout a diverse set of tasks.

This is a part-time position with room to grow. Compensation dependent upon skills and experience.

Send a resume detailing your experience and skills to jolene@conantmetalandlight.com

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DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Colchester, VT - Full Time This position supports the revenue growth and diversification of the Vermont field office, in close coordination with USCRI headquarters, and is responsible for grant writing, proposal development, community individual giving, and establishing corporate sponsorships.

Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree • Two years of experience in the Development field • Track record of successfully funded grant proposals (federal and non-federal) • Demonstrated experience in donor engagement and fundraising campaigns For more details and to apply, please visit refugees.org/about/ careers. USCRI is an E.O.E.

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• Part-time, school year • Location: Barre City, Rutland, Shelburne & Waterbury • Application Deadline: 2019-09-01 • Application Email: beth@everybodywinsvermont.org • Job Description: Bring children & mentors together to read at lunch.

• School year, 10-18 hrs/wk, depending on school.

• More info: everybodywinsvermont.org/about-us/coordinator

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.

This is a well-established, fast paced patient centered 2H-Everybodywins080719.indd 1 8/5/19 2:21 PM general practice, where team members work closely together but also work Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District is seeking independently with a lot of two individuals to join the outreach team to support general responsibilities. We have a Vermont Leg outreach activities and a limited-time grant program focused strong camaraderie among in five office on helping reduce household hazardous waste. us, value a solid work ethic, in our Burling confidence, professionalism and a great sense of experience i humor. Competitive pay The Outreach Coordinator performs outreach for events The ideal can and benefits offered for and for businesses to improve recycling and food scrap Directory, Ex the ideal applicant, who diversion; develops presentations and assists with recycling workstation will possess an attention to and composting workshops; and provides community detail, pleasant demeanor, 1 help desk outreach at fairs, festivals and other public events. and have reliable references. and project m Minimum qualifications include an Associate’s Degree, Experience a plus but willing media platfo or equivalent experience in marketing, communications to consider all applicants oral and writ with x-ray certification. or a related field, proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, familiarity with social media marketing, excellent independent Please send resume if some evenin interested in this position to: communication and organizational skills, attention to fifty pounds jen@lisciodental.com. detail, and good writing skills. Experience with Adobe

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InDesign preferred. Must have a valid driver’s license and Salary is $55 be able to pass a criminal background check. Travel in the benefits. Ap nineteen member towns of the CVSWMD may be required cover letter, 12:02 PM on a regular basis.

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This is an office-based, limited-time position for 30 hours per week and made possible through grant funds. Starting VLA is an effectively s range of $16.50 per hour, plus pro-rated paid benefits including sick and vacation leave and employer sponsored share health, dental, and vision insurance.

IT AND NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR Vermont Legal Aid, a non-profit law firm providing legal services to low-income Vermonters in five offices around the state, seeks an IT and Network Systems Administrator based in our Burlington office. A minimum of 3 years of network and systems administration experience in a Microsoft Windows environment required.

The ideal candidate would have experience with Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory, Exchange, Citrix, IP telephony, local and wide area networking, server and workstation management (hardware and software), databases, as well as providing level 1 help desk support to staff. Experience with software development, QA, bug testing, and project management a major plus. Familiarity with case management systems, social media platforms, mobile devices, cloud based services, and cybersecurity are a plus. Clear oral and written communication skills, eagerness to learn, and the ability to work both independently and as part of a small IT team are required. In-state travel (vehicle required), some evening and/or weekend work, and the ability to occasionally lift and move up to fifty pounds is required.

Salary is $55,290+ experience, plus 4 weeks paid vacation and excellent fringe benefits. Application deadline is Wednesday, August 14, 2019. Please send cover letter, resume, and a list of three references to Eric Avildsen c/o Betsy Whyte (bwhyte@vtlegalaid.org) as a single PDF.

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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.

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.

VLA is an equal opportunity employer committed to cultural competency in order to effectively serve our increasingly diverse client community. Applicants are encouraged to share in their cover letter how they can further this goal. www.vtlegalaid.org.

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Chamber President and CEO 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.

GENERAL MANAGER 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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a full time position based in our Montpelier office and Barre City facility. Some travel throughout the CVSWMD service area is required.

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.

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.

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.

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Seeking energetic individual to take the region’s largest business association to the next level of community leadership and marketcentered economic prosperity. The region includes roughly a 20-mile radius surrounding Montpelier, the nation’s smallest state capital, and Barre, a city of 9,000 residents. The region represents about 10 percent of the State of Vermont, with 65,000 residents.

In concert with the Board of Directors, the successful candidate will develop and maintain a strategic planning program that communicates the Chamber’s mission to businesses and the public while continuously addressing crucial issues in the community and marketing the area to prospective visitors, residents and 1t-CDI021319.indd 1 2/8/19 12:03 PM entrepreneurs. The organization advocates for smaller government, fewer mandates and lower taxes while advancing reliance on competitive private sector providers and consumer choice in HEAVY EQUIPMENT decision-making and economic growth.

The President is the Chief Executive Officer and senior staff person FIELD MECHANIC of the corporation and is responsible for the full range of Chamber activities, including but not limited to coordination of the program Shelburne Limestone of work, organization structure and procedures, motivation of Corporation is seeking a volunteers, income and expenditures, community outreach, service full-time field mechanic and promotion, maintenance of memberships, employment, for its fleet of heavy training and supervision of staff, interpretation of policy, vision planning and maintenance of quarters and the office space leased equipment. We offer to tenants. a comprehensive • The Chamber’s annual budget is approximately $400,000 of which $175,000 is member investments.

• Exceptional opportunity for experienced chamber staff person with the motivation and ability to grow in the chief executive’s position.

Interested individuals are asked to send a cover letter with salary requirements and resume to Search Committee, Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce at ceosearch@centralvtchamber.com.

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employee package including competitive pay, health benefits, PTO and profit sharing.

To apply, please email plmurray@slclime.com or call 802-316-2619.

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SECURITY OFFICER 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.

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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Under the general direction of the Highway Supervisor with ultimate responsibility to the Selectboard, this position advances the safe and effective functioning of the municipality’s highway and maintenance operations through skilled, safety-focused and efficient labor in municipal construction projects and maintenance of municipal roads, vehicles, and equipment.

A full job description is available on the website at duxburyvermont.org.

To apply for the position, email a letter of interest, resume, and references by Friday, August 23, 2019, to Jonathan DeLaBruere at duxbury.sb.assistant@gmail. com, or submit to: Jonathan DeLaBruere 5421 VT Route 100 Duxbury, VT 05676

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DINING FLOOR MANAGER Full-Time

This position oversees the daily operations of food service delivery in each dining room. The floor manager is responsible for managing the operational flow of the dining room for the purpose of creating a high quality dining experience for our residents.

Duties include coordinating dining room set up and closing functions, greeting and seating dining guests, and overseeing service.

Minimum of two years’ experience as a supervisor specializing in food delivery in the health care or hospitality industry highly preferred.

If you have high standards of service and a commitment to a dynamic resident-driven community, email hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to: HR, (802) 264-5146.

Wake Robin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER This position provides construction engineering and management services for the Town. Responsibilities include the management of design, permitting, right-of-way acquisition, bidding, and construction of public improvement projects related to transportation, stormwater, wastewater, water, and buildings. For complete job description see colchestervt.gov/ DocumentCenter/View/4922/construction-engineerJD. The ideal candidate will have a thorough knowledge of the theory and practices of construction and project management, permitting and right-of-way acquisition, and public communications with property owners. An Associate’s Degree with major course work in civil engineering is required with five years of progressively responsible construction and project management experience.

Apply by Friday, September 6, 2019 online at: colchestervt. gov/321/10162/Human-Resources; submit resume and application to Human Resources, 781 Blakely Road Colchester, VT 05446; or email to slabarge@colchestervt.gov.

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