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THE LAST WEEK IN REVIEW AUGUST 14-21, 2019 COMPILED BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN, MATTHEW ROY & ANDREA SUOZZO Brandon Batham

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STRIFE OF THE PARTY

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ermont Democratic Party chair Terje Anderson accused a former employee earlier this month of embezzling “the relatively modest amount” of $2,938. On Sunday, the party disclosed that the sum wasn’t so modest after all.

The Democrats allege that former director of party operations Brandon Batham embezzled roughly $18,500 this year. The party also disclosed that it had filed a criminal complaint against Batham with the Montpelier Police Department. “It’s early in the investigation for us,” said Police Chief Anthony Facos.

Batham, who resigned under pressure on July 17, has not publicly addressed the allegations.

According to Anderson, Batham lied repeatedly in an attempt to cover his tracks. “It’s very disappointing,” the party chair said. “It’s clearly part of a pattern.” In one instance, he said, Batham used the Dems’ debit card to purchase home heating fuel.

In an email sent Sunday to party supporters, Anderson and other top officials called it a “difficult and painful time” for Vermont Democrats. “We will be doing everything possible to move beyond this very discouraging set of circumstances and to regain or retain your trust,” Anderson, party vice chair Tess Taylor and treasurer Billi Gosh wrote.

On its website, the party said Anderson noticed a suspicious mileage reimbursement request from Batham on

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June 30. After reviewing records, the chair concluded that Batham had stolen close to $3,000 using the party’s debit card and by filing false reimbursement reports. Party leadership confronted Batham and demanded that he come clean, resign and repay the money.

Roughly two weeks later, according to the party’s account, Anderson discovered that Batham had begun issuing “unauthorized additional paychecks and ‘bonuses’” in February and gave himself an unauthorized raise in March. In total, the party alleged, he committed another $15,629 in payroll fraud.

The party appeared to lay blame on Batham and his former boss, then-executive director Josh Massey, while casting Anderson’s actions in a heroic light. Anderson “repeatedly” asked Massey and Batham for more detailed financial information but failed to obtain it, according to the party’s account. Massey resigned his position in April — after the alleged embezzlement began but months before it was uncovered. He declined to comment.

Anderson conceded in an interview Monday that he himself had been “naïve.” He and Gosh didn’t see monthly bank statements, the chair acknowledged. “That’s where our oversight fell apart,” he said.

Summing up, Anderson said: “It sucks. That’s my quote.

It sucks.”

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The Vermont Labor Relations Board denied Burlington teachers’ request for pay during four days they were on strike in 2017. A tough life lesson.

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“Mayor: The Encampment by Burlington City Hall to Be Off-Limits” by Molly Walsh. After City Hall Park closed for reconstruction, a mini-encampment sprung up right next to City Hall.

2. “Man Who Passed Out KKK Flyers Now Wanted for Burlington Assault” by Sasha Goldstein. William Schenk allegedly attacked a man in downtown Burlington on Monday.

3. “Wily Coyote Activists Use Facebook Images of Hunters for Their Cause” by Derek Brouwer.

A Craftsbury woman’s Facebook post became a rallying point in the campaign to restrict coyote hunting in Vermont.

4. “Vermont Dems Uncover More Alleged Embezzlement, File Police Report” by Paul Heintz. The Vermont Democratic Party alleges former staffer Brandon Batham embezzled roughly $18,500.

5. “Post-Fire, Hen of the Wood Will Be Closed for a Month” by Jordan Barry. The restaurant was not damaged in the August 6 fire, but its ventilation system was.

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isitors to Vermont can now make a political statement by choosing where to lay their heads.

Using Airbnb, Tony and Carolyn Basiliere are proudly renting two Beds for Bernie in their South Burlington home.

They donate a portion of the profits from each night’s stay to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign.

“My wife and I have been threatening to fix up the room and do it for

Airbnb, but I just never got my ass off the cushion to do it,” Tony Basiliere said.

“The Bernie thing was the fire that got lit under me to actually get the place dolled up and post it.”

“It took right off,” he added. “It just exploded.”

The Basilieres came up with the concept in March. They’d previously canvassed for Sanders in New Hampshire and given to his 2016 presidential campaign, and they wanted to do the same this time around. So the couple turned a spare bedroom into their first Bed for Bernie and posted it on Airbnb for $70 a night. It was such a hit that they turned their meditation room into a second Bernie bedroom. Short-term renters have flocked to that one, too, he said.

Basiliere estimated that “the Bernie thing” motivates at least half of his renters to spend the night. But he’s also hosted “rabid” supporters of President Donald Trump.

“We are open to other political viewpoints,” Basiliere conceded. “You don’t have to be a Bernie believer to stay here.”

Basiliere said he’s optimistic about Sanders’ chances to win the Democratic nomination this time around, despite former vice president Joe Biden’s lead in the polls.

“It’s just a matter of whether or not people can wrap their heads around the idea that Biden is just another corporate whore,” Basiliere said. “I don’t know what that takes!”

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[Re Feedback: “Fact-Check, Please”; “Not-So-Great Guns,” August 14]: Yes, fact-check. Recent writers have made quite a few misstatements about guns.

I suggest that the anti-gunners educate themselves before deciding where they stand.

Some of the misstatements: • Military assault weapons. The AR-15 pattern rifle is not military; it just resembles the M-16 and M-4 military rifles.

• Military-grade weapons. This is just a term to convince folks that guns are bad.

• Weapons of war — another buzz term to confuse folks. In our long history, rocks, bones, sticks, hammers, knives and axes have been used in war. Should we ban all of these?

• One cannot purchase a gun from a licensed online dealer without a background check. They are required to send it to a local dealer who will do the background check. If you fail, no gun.

Where is the proof that more guns equal more deaths? Vermonters have always been well armed, but the state has almost no gun deaths.

There are enough gun safety laws on the books, but they’re just not enforced.

We should demand that the U.S. Congress release funding to fully enforce existing laws before enacting new ones.

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With a steady increase in the number of people choosing to eat a plant-based diet, I find it disappointing that Seven Days does not have a category for “Best plant-based/vegan fare” as part of its Seven Daysies awards [All the Best, 2019]. The “Best vegetarian fare” category includes restaurants that serve dishes that contain eggs or dairy — foods that those with a plant-based diet choose not to eat for a variety of reasons. It is no longer 1994, and vegetarian and vegan do not mean the same thing. There is a wealth of eating establishments offering excellent vegan food in the Burlington area, as well as in Vermont as a whole.

Readers deserve the opportunity to be able to give these restaurants the recognition they deserve.

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It was great to see the feisty independent spirit embodied by WDEV Radio highlighted in your story “Meet the News Boss” [August 7]. One small correction; WDEV sister station 101 The One is not only available in Rutland at 101.5; it is also available on 102.5 in Montpelier and Barre, and from the top of Mount Mansfield on 101.7 for Burlington and much of the state.

I recently joined the station as morning host and program director after years at another station and am having a lot of fun, so any interested readers are invited to join me on any — or all three! — of our signals.

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WORDS TO LIVE BY

[Re “Proud Pictures,” July 3; Feedback: “The Right Words,” July 10]: As one who has been studying — and writing — in the Abenaki language for many years, I was startled by Susan Ohanian’s claim that the Oxford Junior Dictionary has removed such words as acorn, clover, dandelion, heron, wren, etc. and replaced them with such words as blog, celebrity, chatroom, broadband, etc. in order to “make room” for the latter. I was shocked by this shameless attack on the English language, as well as on the much neglected, almost extinct Abenaki

language, of which the editors of the Oxford Junior Dictionary presumably know nothing.

Remove such natural-world terms as heron and wren, and we are all deprived. What are youth supposed to call these birds and plants, etc. when they see them? And if we delve into the Abenaki words that describe these creatures, our i nve s t i g a t i o n i s r e w a r d e d . D r.

Gordon M. Day ’s We s t e r n A b e n a k i Dictionary, published in 1994, is now out of print but can be accessed online. It gives “spigwôloasiz” as the equivalent of wren, meaning “little high tail (bird),” which in itself is a very charming term — more so than the English word. “Siz,” the equivalent of “little,” is at the end of the word, and at the beginning “spigw” indicates “upward rising” which blends into “active” — as in runs, ruts, feeds — which is certainly indicative of how a wren typically acts.

The equivalent of “tail” isn’t in the word, unless, as “ozogena” — tail — it is combined with a word for “active” by way of the letter “o.”

Brenda Perretta-Gagne’s Abenaki dictionary project is badly needed. As we can see from the example above, the restoration of words in English (especially of the natural world) can lead to the understanding of words in Abenaki (for those willing to interpret, such as

Thank you, Seven Days, for your illuminating coverage on the plight of Vermont’s coyotes in your “Tracking Coyote … Killers” article [August 14].

When confronted with such abuse and gratuitous violence inflicted upon coyotes, Vermont Fish & Wildlife Commissioner Louis Porter says it’s a way for sportsmen to “connect with nature.” Since when does beating a coyote puppy with a tree branch or allowing packs of hounds to tear apart a cornered coyote equate to connecting with nature?! Is that the future of hunting he intends to sell to the general public? If so, watch even more land get posted.

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STICK TO SCIENCE

[Re “Tracking Coyote … Killers,” August 14]: After attending several board meetings, it is obvious to me that the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department prides itself on making policy decisions based on data, while eschewing any emotional “bunny huggers’ agenda.” How, then, can it justify the policy of year-round coyote killing when absolutely no science supports this as a meaningful way to control the coyote population? In fact, science shows that such killing actually causes coyotes to increase their breeding. There is also no science indicating that the population needs controlling. Fish & Wildlife are guilty, in this instance, of pursuing an emotionally driven agenda of myth and pointless savagery, and ignoring hard science.

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AUGUST 21-28, 2019 VOL.24 NO.48

Power Play?

Efficiency Vermont’s mission could expand — to fossil fuels

Vermont to Pay $759,000 to Maintain Full Planned Parenthood Services

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Hooked: Vermont delivers help for pregnant women with opioid-use disorder. But giving birth is just the beginning.

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Spilling the Beans

Food: Talking gardening with the Champlain Valley Fair vegetable judges

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Book review: The Not Good Enough Mother, Sharon Lamb

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Stuck in Vermont: Founded in 1962, the Sugarbush Polo Club brings together local equine enthusiasts who enjoy this fast-paced sport. The “Stuck” crew caught up with club members at an August scrimmage at their home field in Shelburne.

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The Pulitzer Prize winner shares his knowledge at the Weston Playhouse in his talk “The Crossroads: America First or America Alone?”

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Country troubadour Leo Rondeau (pictured) cites Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt and the Flying Burrito Brothers as influences — fans of the last group will hear more than a hint of Gram Parsons in Rondeau’s voice. Two-stepping ensues when the Nashvillebased singer-songwriter performs in Charlotte and Burlington, as well as in Bristol with local Lowell Thompson and friends.

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The Favorite What happens when a star is eclipsed? Performed at London’s National Theatre and shown on screen in Stowe, Ivo van Hove’s theatrical adaptation of All About Eve follows Margot Channing, a longtime star of the stage, and the ingénue who threatens her position. Gillian Anderson and Lily James take on the lead roles.

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In 12 essays, Bernard reflects on her experiences of race — from growing up in the South to attending an Ivy League university to living in New England.

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A bike-share company is backpedaling on its plan to deliver a fleet of electric bicycles to the Burlington area before college students start their fall semester, blaming tariffs on Chinese imports and technical difficulties with its mobile app for the delay.

South Carolina firm Gotcha planned to roll out 200 e-bikes in Burlington, South Burlington and Winooski to replace the 80 pedal bikes in the Greenride Bikeshare program. The electric assist is intended to help cyclists navigate the hilly local landscape.

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hen contractors for Efficiency Vermont suggest ways in which homeowners can reduce their energy use, they are focused on lowering electric bills.

They outline cash incentives to replace incandescent lights with LEDs. They offer rebates to encourage households to buy more energy-efficient refrigerators, washers, dryers and space heaters. And they turn people on to gadgets such as advanced power strips, which ensure that computers, TVs and other electronic devices stop drawing electricity when they’re turned off.

But the contractors don’t have ways to encourage people to buy electric cars or cold-climate heat pumps — purchases that could save them money and reduce their use of fossil fuels, albeit while increasing their electric usage.

“When [energy auditors] are on a site looking at electric efficiency, they’re not permitted to make suggestions in the thermal or transportation space,” said Sen. Chris Pearson (P/D-Chittenden),

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who sits on the legislature’s Joint Energy Committee. “[It’s] not really wise, given where we’re at with our climate goals.”

That limitation may be about to change.

Vermont is taking a hard look at broadening the mission of Efficiency Vermont to include helping residents reduce their use of fossil fuels to heat their homes and businesses — and to drive their cars.

Efficiency Vermont was founded nearly 20 years ago to reduce Vermonters’ use of electric power. The state-created utility is funded primarily by a charge on all electric bills and is administered by the private nonprofit Vermont Energy Investment Corporation.

This year, the state legislature instructed the Public Utility Commission to investigate creation of an “all-fuels efficiency utility.” The PUC started its work in July and will hold its first public meeting on September 26 — a workshop to identify existing energy programs and funding sources. The commission has until January 15 to deliver a preliminary report to lawmakers.

Among the questions the PUC has been asked to address: Should the state expand Efficiency Vermont’s mission or create a new all-fuels efficiency utility? What role should energy storage and other demandmanagement strategies play in the state’s electric grid? And how would a new allfuels efficiency utility be funded?

Though the policy discussion promises to be a profoundly wonky affair, state leaders have high hopes that the final product will help the state get back on track toward meeting its ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets.

The state has already missed one goal: to cut emissions 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. More recent shortfalls decrease the likelihood that it can meet the 2028 target of a 50 percent reduction below 1990 levels. A June 2018 report, the Vermont Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Update, showed emissions ticked up 4 percent in 2014 and another 6 percent in 2015, the last year for which figures are available.

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But the bikes will likely still be stuck overseas when college classes start here next week. Thousands of Chinese imports, including bike parts, are subject to 25 percent tariffs as part of President Donald Trump’s escalating trade dispute with China that began in 2017. “[Gotcha] told us they’re having challenges with getting the bikes from China to America in a sufficient manner,” said Nic Anderson, associate director of sustainable transportation at Champlain College, a Greenride partner.

Gotcha public relations director Caroline Passe confirmed the delay on Monday, writing in an email that the tariffs have created “negative impacts … on our operation” and that Gotcha’s mobile app has had “unforeseen technical difficulties.”

“We are working diligently to expedite our progress to get the system off the ground,” Passe wrote, adding that Gotcha will share “a realistic launch timeframe as soon as these issues are resolved.”

Greenride launched locally last spring as a partnership between the three cities, Champlain College, the University of Vermont, the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission and the Chittenden Area Transportation Management Association. For a couple of bucks, users can reserve a bike using a mobile app, ride it and return it to a designated hub. The program is primarily funded by corporate sponsorships.

Passe said she was unsure whether the tariffs would necessitate higher user fees.

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he St. Albans City Council summoned Police Chief Gary Taylor last week to explain his handling of a police brutality incident in which a senior officer punched a handcuffed woman in a holding cell. Yet the only person who actually asked the chief a question was 68-year-old Elaine Robtoy, who’d come to register her disgust.

“I’d like to know what kind of a background check you do on these officers,” she said, before Mayor Tim Smith warned that the venue wasn’t appropriate for an “interrogation.”

It was the first time Robtoy, a lifelong resident, had spoken up at a city council meeting, but she said she felt the chief needed to know she was “ashamed” of the department. None of the three officers present at the scene, she said, should be allowed to wear a badge — anywhere.

Though Robtoy’s was a lone voice at city hall, she’s not alone in wanting to get bad cops off Vermont streets. The question, for at least a decade, has been how to do it.

Two years ago, state legislators passed a measure known as Act 56 to strengthen police accountability. The law, in effect since July 2018, gave the state more power to revoke a police officer’s professional certification and made it harder for cops to hide their pasts. But recent events in Franklin County have underscored the law’s limitations.

The St. Albans incident came to public light this month after attorneys for Amy Connelly filed body-camera and surveillance footage in court. It shows sergeant Jason Lawton delivering an uppercut to the woman’s face during a confrontation in a holding cell at the St. Albans police station.

Connelly had been arrested at a local bar earlier in the evening. Visibly intoxicated and with her hands cuffed behind her back, Connelly kicked the cell door as Lawton and another officer ate dinner. Videos show Lawton confronting Connelly over the disruption and shoving her into the wall. She became angrier and appears to have attempted to kick him.

He pushed her back, then landed the punch. Junior officers Michael Ferguson and Zachary Koch appeared at the door to help subdue Connelly, who was later taken to the hospital.

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Vermont will use state dollars to ensure that Planned Parenthood can continue to provide a full range of reproductive health services in response to new restrictions on federal family planning funds.

Health Commissioner Mark Levine announced Monday that he had notified the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services that Vermont would stop using Title X dollars to fund Planned Parenthood of Northern New England’s services at 10 clinics. Instead, the state will make up the $759,000 difference with general fund dollars set aside for just this purpose.

New rules enacted by the Trump administration allow clinics accepting Title X funds to talk to patients about abortion but not to give women information about or refer them to abortion providers.

“We refuse to let the Trump administration bully us into withholding abortion information from our patients in Vermont,” said Lucy Leriche, vice president of public policy for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. “The gag rule is unethical and dangerous, and we will not subject our patients to it.”

“These changes by HHS will disrupt one of our state’s most essential public health programs,” Levine said in a release. “For nearly 50 years, Title X has helped ensure that Vermonters have access to quality family planning and we want to make sure this continues.”

About 10,000 Vermonters receive services through Title X at Planned Parenthood health centers.

In 2019, Vermont enshrined in law “the fundamental right of every individual who becomes pregnant to choose to carry a pregnancy to term, to give birth to a child, or to have an abortion” and prohibited interference with “regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services or information, the choice of a consenting individual to terminate the individual’s pregnancy.”

“It’s important that we maintain women’s rights and access to health care,” Gov. Phil Scott said in the release.

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hree cities, three school districts and $305 million. That’s the rough combined price tag for approved or proposed big-ticket school construction projects in Burlington, South Burlington and Winooski — at sites that are within a five-mile radius.

The giant tab and small distance between the campuses raises an obvious question: Should the three most urban communities in Chittenden County be talking about school consolidation?

Merging districts is not a popular idea in Vermont, which loves all things local, though it has come up in the three communities before — and mostly gone nowhere. Longtime Burlington School of in New England. The most populous in Board member Keith Pillsbury, who has neighboring New Hampshire, Pinkerton served intermittently since the late 1980s, Academy, has about 3,100 students. remembers Burlington and Winooski Building a local appetite for a school of school administrators chatting informally that scale could require a major cultural about consolidation scenarios 30 years shift, as would sharing governance. Deciago. There were later conversations, too, sions about which city would host the and a study by Winooski in 2014. school, how bus routes would be funded, “It’s sort of one of those things that and even what mascot to choose could be keeps coming up regularly, and there’s a obstacles, along with entrenched locallot of pride and spirit in the communities, ism. Chittenden County voters rejected so they prefer to stay as they are,” a proposed countywide tech Pillsbury said. “It’s not one of high school some years back, those things that different boards for example. And the 2014 study haven’t thought of, it’s just — is Winooski conducted to consider there a will in the community to consolidation actually recomdo that?” mended against it.

So far, history suggests the “The citizens of Winooski who currently have access to answer is no. And because Chittenden County, the state’s most school governance and are proud populous region, has generally of the accomplishment of their avoided the plummeting school students would be consumed into enrollment that has pushed a much larger system that already district mergers under the state has its own governance, culture law known as Act 46, there has and rules,” the document reads. been less pressure from the state “Winooski City is working to maintain and extend its culture as to merge districts or schools. But the scale of local school construca city. Losing school governance tion, and the associated property would be a step backward.” tax increases — yes, those — are Five years later, a construction strong reminders that operating spree is looming. It began in BurlK E ITH separate districts is not cheap, ington, one of the few communiP IL L S BURY even in an area where enrollment ties in Vermont to maintain a is more or less stable. walkable, neighborhood school system.

Creating one unified high school would That system comprises many buildings: six almost certainly save money on admin- elementary schools, two middle schools istrative and teaching staff, construc- and one high school, serving a total student tion, and maintenance costs. Based on population of approximately 3,870 — 980 current enrollment in the three cities, the of whom attend the high school. school would serve about 2,115 students.

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Why so resounding? Perhaps because the sloping connector ramps to the hillside building’s various wings, which seemed so modern back in the day, are a heating nightmare and problematic for anyone in a wheelchair, on crutches or just trying to get to class on time.

Can’t get there from here? That’s BHS. Winooski followed suit in March, when voters approved by 22 votes a $57.8 million makeover of its K through 12 school complex on Normand Street, which has sections dating back to the late 1950s. Supporters pointed out, correctly, that the school building was a little like an old Vermont farmhouse with various additions that made sense at the time but don’t add up in 2019.

Now South Burlington may outdo both of its neighbors.

In June, the school board voted to push forward a construction plan with a price tag of $173 million to $178 million, with the intention of seeking voter approval on Town Meeting Day in March 2020.

The proposal calls for a new middle school and a new high school to replace the current version of each on the shared campus at 500 Dorset Street. The existing high school, which opened in 1961, and middle school, built in 1967, would be demolished.

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“It is a big number. It is a big number,” conceded South Burlington School Board member Bridget Burkhardt, who supports the redevelopment and serves on a committee to advance the project.

It’s understandable that some residents are cautious given the expense, Burkhardt said. And despite the fact that renovations have been discussed for years, the current proposal — and its eye-popping price tag — is relatively new. She cautions that the plan could

forecast estimated the enrollment would increase to 1,045 in 2028. Brisk housing construction in South Burlington is a factor in the projected uptick.

The enrollment scenario is not dramatically different in Burlington and Winooski, where student numbers are mostly steady, with some fluctuations.

The current crop of renovations seems less about capacity than about the sense that the buildings’ designs are outdated.

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Former Vermont education secretary Rebecca Holcombe, now a Democratic candidate for governor, said it’s not surprising to see renovation plans emerging, especially where enrollment is solid.

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The estimated tax impact of the proposal hasn’t been finalized but is expected in the fall, she added.

Despite all the moving parts, Burkhardt said she’s been pleasantly surprised by the number of people who have approached her to say, “The high school needs to be done … We’re behind you 100 percent.”

The suburban high school’s enrollment has crept up slightly since 2012 to a total of 921, including 170 students from the Champlain Islands, who have no public high school and attend with school vouchers. Including those kids, a district

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news A broader mission for Efficiency Vermont makes sense, supporters say, because electricity use is not the state’s most significant source of carbon emissions. Transportation, in the form of gasoline-fueled passenger cars and trucks, produces 45 percent of the state’s emissions. Heating homes, schools and businesses, mostly with natural gas, heating oil and wood, accounts for another 22 percent.

“We’ve made great progress on electrical efficiency,” said Sen. Chris Bray (D-Addison), chair of the Natural Resources and Energy Committee.

“We have not made comparable progress on transportation and thermal efficiency.”

Rebecca Foster, director of Efficiency Vermont, supports a broader mission for her organization. She is proud of her utility’s success in reducing the state’s electricity usage, which she said has significant financial, environmental and economic development benefits.

The more than $600 million in surcharges Vermonters have paid on their electric bills since 2000 has delivered $2.4 billion in long-term savings, she said. Vermont has curbed the growth of electric use, and an estimated 63 percent of its electricity comes from hydropower, a renewable source with very low carbon emissions.

But it’s becoming increasingly clear that without greater coordination of its various greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts, Vermont’s climate goals will remain elusive, Foster said.

“There is a climate crisis. It’s getting more and more urgent. And right now all state policies and programs are not aligned toward that goal,” she said.

For example, since 2017, retail utilities such as Green Mountain Power and the Burlington Electric Department have been required to increase the percentage of renewable energy in their portfolios.

That same obligation, referred to as the renewable energy standard, requires that utilities reduce their customers’ fossil fuel use through new “energy transformation projects.” So Green Mountain, BED and others have offered generous incentives to get people out of the gasoline vehicles and into electric cars with fast-charging units in their garages.

In other words: While Efficiency Vermont has worked to reduce electric use, electric utilities have sought to increase electricity use to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

“That doesn’t make sense to me,” Foster said.

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Nor does it make sense to Ben Edgerly Walsh, the climate and energy program director at Vermont Public Interest Research Group.

“There are investments right now that we need to be prioritizing that actually increase electricity use in a strategic way, and that is kind of contrary to the model that we are operating on,” Edgerly Walsh said.

While more efficient fridges and LED light bulbs pay for themselves in short order through lower power bills, electric cars and heat pumps are more efficient and will save money but “don’t pencil out from a strict electric energy savings standpoint,” he said.

They may pencil out in the bigger picture, however.

“What matters to Vermonters is how much they are spending on energy as a whole,” Edgerly Walsh said. “If you can reduce their fossil fuel bill by far more than they are increasing their electric bill, they are saving money — I think that is a proposition that Vermonters are going to embrace.”

The people who make their living selling fossil fuels will likely have something to say about that.

“You are basically asking an efficiency utility designed to reduce electricity usage to encourage it,” said Matt Cota, executive director of the Vermont Fuel Dealers Association.

Liquid fuels — heating oil, diesel, jet fuel, propane, gasoline — are vital in this cold, rural state, Cota said. There are situations in which electricity is not an option, including when the power goes out.

“The rush to electrify everything in Vermont runs into reality — that we still need the combustion engine for our roads and a gas- or oil-fired burner to keep our homes warm,” Cota said.

He argues that modern improvements to oil-burning technologies have already cut home heating fuel use by 40 percent and that they, combined with cleaner fuels like biodiesel, need to be part of the mix to help the state achieve its emission-reduction targets.

“You can’t get there using electricity alone,” he said.

The PUC’s upcoming study won’t be the first time the state has considered tackling the efficiency of fossil fuels. In 2007, a similar analysis estimated that efficiency improvements for nonregulated fuels such as heating oil, kerosene and wood could save the state $486 million over the next decade.

It found that by far the biggest potential savings — 72 percent — lay in the fuel oil sector, followed by propane (16 percent), wood (8 percent) and kerosene (4 percent).

The report estimated the cost of implementing a program to achieve those reductions at $150 million over the decade, but the program was never implemented, State Auditor Doug Hoffer said.

Efficiency Vermont has nevertheless found ways to operate in the thermal efficiency realm, just not as much as its leaders would like. About 80 percent of the organization’s $60 million annual budget comes from electric charges, but the remaining 20 percent taps other sources that allow the utility to offer thermal incentives, such as efficient woodstoves and home weatherization.

On Tuesday, employees of Energy Co-op of Vermont, an Efficiency Vermont-approved contractor, crawled through a dark, dusty attic in a home in Colchester, sealing cracks with orange foam insulation.

The legislature this year directed additional money toward incentives for such work, but if Efficiency Vermont’s mission expands, those budgets could grow further.

Hoffer said that, over the years, he has received complaints about Efficiency Vermont from residents who resent the average $8 monthly charge on their electric bills.

“There are [some] who just think it’s a bunch of overeducated liberals working in a fancy office,” Hoffer said.

Reviews of Efficiency Vermont’s work by an independent auditor, however, have shown it to be delivering on its promised savings, he said.

Because of their different missions, Efficiency Vermont and the electric utilities have not always had consistent messages about particular efficiency measures, which can be confusing to consumers, Foster said. While they’ve improved their coordination efforts, a more cohesive strategy is needed.

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Sanders’ Senate Attendance Dwindles as Campaign Heats Up

BY PAUL H E I N TZ & A NDR EA S UO Z Z O

The U.S. Senate held 70 roll-call votes last month, but the junior senator from Vermont showed up for just seven of them.

As he wages a race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is facing the familiar question of when to focus on the job he’s seeking — and when to focus on the job he already has.

In a written statement to Seven Days, Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir said, “Bernie has made a commitment over this next year to give it his best shot to run for President and win. He’s all in.

That sometimes comes at the expense of missing a few Senate votes, but if there are ever any votes that hinge on his presence, he will certainly be there.”

It’s true that many of the votes Sanders skipped were lopsided ones pertaining to the nominations of federal judges, U.S. attorneys and sub-cabinet administration officials. Others were on more pressing matters, such as funding the Department of Defense, suspending the debt limit, and seeking to override President Donald Trump’s veto of resolutions blocking arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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Though Sanders missed more votes in July than the six other U.S. senators seeking the presidency, his overall attendance rate this year is better than that of two rivals. According to a Seven Days analysis of the 262 roll-call votes the Senate has held since January 8, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has missed the most: 118, or 45 percent. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), meanwhile, has missed 116, or 44.3 percent.

Sanders and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) are tied for third in truancy, with 105 missed votes, or 40 percent. The remaining three senator-candidates have missed far fewer votes: • • •

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.): 74, or 28.2 percent Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.): 71, or 27.1 percent Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.): 60, or 22.9 percent.

Sanders, who launched his presidential campaign on February 19, had a relatively robust attendance rate until this summer, when the debate season began. From January through May, he missed just nine of 129 votes. In June and July, however, he skipped 93 out of 130.

whom are running for president — have racked up solid attendance records this year. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has missed just three votes, or 1.2 percent, while Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) has missed 12 of the 502 roll-call votes the U.S. House has held, or 2.3 percent.

This isn’t the first time Sanders has put his presidential ambitions ahead of his senatorial responsibilities. As Seven Days reported during his 2018 Senate reelection race, he missed nearly 71 percent of the roll-call votes held during calendar year 2016, when he first sought the presidency.

At a Senate candidate forum last fall in Winooski, Sanders declined to commit to serving out a third term if reelected, noting that he may run for — and win — the presidency. He also refused to promise that his Senate attendance rate would improve.

“I ran for president of the United States,” Sanders said at the time, explaining his missed votes earlier that term.

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news Thin Blue Veil « P.13 It was this sort of situation that Act 56 was seemingly designed to prevent. For years, policy makers and civil liberties advocates had been frustrated by how Vermont cops who’d run into trouble at one department were able to hopscotch to another. The law, a compromise that emerged from a legislative study committee, was meant to lift the so-called “blue veil” in a couple of ways: It requires law enforcement agencies to disclose why a prospective hire departed from their agency, and it mandates that an agency investigate and report officer misconduct to the state Criminal Justice Training Council. The council serves as a clearinghouse for such reports and has newly expanded authority to revoke officers’ professional certification because of misconduct.

Police chiefs and sheriffs must also report when an officer quits during an ongoing misconduct investigation. That requirement, CJTC executive director Rick Gauthier said, is supposed to stop a “phenomenon” in which officers keep their professional records clean by leaving before they are disciplined.

Taylor said he allowed Ferguson to resign in lieu of termination during a “conversation” on June 4, one day after he began reviewing his officers’ conduct in the Connelly case. But the chief later clarified to Seven Days that he hadn’t actually mentioned the Connelly investigation to Ferguson and that the conversation surrounded other, more serious performance issues with the junior officer, who’d been on the force for only a few months.

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Taylor said he didn’t report Ferguson’s departure to the CJTC because, in his view, Ferguson’s only error was failing to report Lawton’s misconduct.

“I’m not sure that Ferguson’s conduct rose to the level of being reportable under Act 56,” Taylor said, adding that he believed Gauthier concurred with his assessment. Gauthier declined to comment on that or any aspect of the St. Albans incident.

Ferguson’s involvement in the Connelly incident did not appear in the personnel file St. Albans sent to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, according to the latter’s Lt. John Grismore. He described the performance issues contained in the file as “minor.” Nevertheless, the sheriff’s office briefly put Ferguson, a deputy assigned to court security, on leave once the Connelly case became public. The office reinstated him last week, concluding that he hadn’t witnessed the punch.

Ferguson isn’t the first Vermont cop this year to quickly find a new job in law enforcement after leaving another on bad terms. He isn’t even the first to do so at his new department.

Former Brattleboro officer Sean Wilson faced an internal investigation into allegations leveled by the Windham County state’s attorney that he had personal connections to a drug dealer. The department didn’t disclose the investigation to the Essex Police Department, which hired Wilson last November, according to the Essex Reporter. Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George declined to prosecute any of Wilson’s cases owing to questions about his credibility, according to the Reporter, so Wilson resigned in March. He then landed at the Franklin

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County Sheriff ’s Office, where Sheriff Roger Langevin hired him despite his personnel record. Wilson resigned on July 26, according to Grismore, “to seek full time employment elsewhere.”

The pattern is familiar in the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. In 2016, deputy Nicholas Palmier shot and killed a Winooski man while assisting Winooski police on his way home from work. The

shooting was later deemed justified.

Before winding up with the Franklin County Sheriff ’s Office, Palmier had been terminated from two departments: first from Winooski in 2010, then from St. Albans in 2012 for failing to disclose information in a report.

Defender General Matthew Valerio told Seven Days that Act 56 has yet to make a notable difference in how cops move between agencies.

“It really is dependent on who the chief law enforcement administrator is in any given town agency,” he said. “Passing laws doesn’t really change how administrators respond. There’s always a workaround.”

Prior to Act 56, the state could only decertify police officers who were convicted of a felony or failed to fulfill training requirements. Now the CJTC can take a range of disciplinary actions, including warnings and suspensions, against officers who are found to have committed misconduct.

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Under the new law, however, even Lawton’s conduct may be beyond sanction. The law only kicks in on the second offense. Taylor has said Lawton was a standout officer prior to the Connelly incident. He was promoted to sergeant during his nearly five years with the force. Lawton was also the department’s union president at the time of his firing, which the chief said he has appealed.

Vermont State Police are now reviewing Lawton’s actions. If state prosecutors were to bring criminal charges — misdemeanor or felony — the former officer’s certification could be in jeopardy under the new rules.

Connelly’s attorneys have pointed out in court filings that Lawton came to St. Albans in 2014 with some well-publicized baggage. While Lawton was a Shelburne cop, a judge chided him for his testimony in a traffic court case over a red-light violation that ran contrary to video evidence.

Former Grand Isle state’s attorney Christopher Micciche, now in private practice, said he also had a disturbing personal encounter with Lawton over a Shelburne traffic ticket in 2012. Micciche disputed the violation in traffic court, where he alleged that the officer became enraged that Micciche had asked to see a copy of his notes from the stop. In an interview last week, Micciche said he was “dumbfounded” that Lawton hadn’t raised red flags with his supervisors.

“There are certain individuals who lack the social skills to be an effective law enforcement officer, and Jason Lawton is one of them,” he said. Lawton’s union attorney did not respond to a request for comment.

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the time of his hiring, but that he would not have hired him had he known more details.

The Franklin County State’s Attorney’s Office, which may soon consider whether to bring criminal charges against Lawton, did not flag the officer’s testimony in the red-light case as a credibility problem.

Prosecutors “did not conclude that” Lawton had perjured himself, so they didn’t disclose the incident to defense attorneys, deputy state’s attorney John Lavoie wrote in an August 9 brief in the Connelly case. The state also doubled down on its prosecution of Connelly, amending the assault charge against her to increase the maximum penalty for her allegedly kicking Lawton.

“Sargent [sic] Lawton has lost his job because of a single punch to the defendant’s face,” Lavoie wrote. He went on to note that Connelly was so drunk that she licked the wall of the holding cell, while Lawton had “saved the lives of fellow officers and residents” during an officer-involved shooting last year in which an armed suspect allegedly pointed his gun at Lawton and another officer. “The public should hear the complete story,” Lavoie wrote.

Jay Diaz, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Vermont, criticized the State’s Attorney’s Office for continuing to prosecute Connelly. He said it creates an appearance of retaliation against a citizen who called attention to police misconduct.

“We all should be thankful for that, because we all know what happened,” Diaz said, “and an abusive officer is off the streets.”

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Independent Thinking « P.15 working together, even in modest ways, because it can lead to better relationships, Holcombe said.

There’s no current push in any of the three cities for a merger, even in Winooski, where just 210 students attend the high school. Winooski School Board chair Mike Decarreau, a strong supporter of the makeover, remembers past conversations with

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Burlington about consolidation, but recalls concluding, “It was not worthwhile.”

“It’s an interesting question,” Burkhardt, the South Burlington School Board member, said. “It’s not a question we’ve really discussed as a board. We certainly, as we are thinking about our own project, have tried to see where we can be flexible in design to make sure that we’re not boxing ourselves in.”

She added, in a reference to dropping enrollment in many towns: “We know what the statewide trends look like.”

But, Burkhardt continued, “[We] are very different cities with very

different visions, I think. So that would have to be a pretty deep conversation to get into.”

Burkhardt noted that before South Burlington built its own high school in 1961, many of its students went to Burlington. Some longtime residents still remember how the opening of the high school almost 60 years ago epitomized the growth and individuality of South Burlington, which broke away from Burlington in 1865.

That independent streak is also felt in Winooski, a city that was once part of Colchester. “I don’t always think big is better,” said Hal Colston, a Winooski city councilor, Democratic state legislator, and former director of a now-retired grant-funded school innovation project called the Partnership for Change that focused on Winooski and Burlington.

Colston supports Winooski’s individual makeover, though he admits that the looming school investments in the three towns raise interesting questions. He likened a merger to homeowners who live on the same street and say, “Maybe we could share the lawn mowers and I won’t have to lay out all the capital.

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A. Richard “Rick” Purchase 1944-2019, CALAIS, VT.

A. Richard “Rick” Purchase, 75, of Calais, Vt., passed away on Wednesday, August 14, 2019, surrounded by his family at the University of Vermont Medical Center following a sudden and acute illness.

Born in Washington, D.C., on February 29, 1944, to Albert Richard and Marian (Duke) Purchase, he was the eldest of two sons and grew up in Montpelier, Vt. He was a loving son, brother, husband, father, uncle, grandfather and loyal friend to many.

A steadfast Vermonter, Rick graduated from Montpelier High School in 1962 and attended the University of Vermont, where he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in political science in 1966.

Soon after graduation, he married, Nancy, his wife of nearly 53 years, and they moved to Maple Corner in

Calais, Vt., to raise their family. They had five children: Kristen Purchase Werner and her husband, Michael, of Richmond, Vt.; Kimberly Purchase Luebbers and her husband, Robert, of Williston, Vt.; Bill Purchase of Braintree, Mass.; Lt. Col. Kathryn Purchase Sanborn and her husband, Lt. Col. Marc Sanborn, assigned to Fort Shafter, H.I.; and Neal Purchase and his wife, Anne, of Goffstown, N.H. He was also the proud grandfather of eight grandchildren: Kyle Werner, married to Shannin; Jack, Elle and Annabelle Werner; Samuel and Henry Purchase; and Theodore and Elliot Purchase. He is also survived by his brother David Purchase of Santa Fe, N.M., and lifelong family friends George and Jill Edson and family of Cornish, N.H. Many will remember Rick as an exceptional home builder, general contractor and owner of Capital Builders and, later, the owner of Johnson Artesian Well Drilling. He subsequently worked with Spafford & Sons Water Wells as a consultant.

An active volunteer and community leader, he served as a lister for the Town of Calais for many years and also served as a selectman.

He was a proud, longtime member of the Kiwanis Club of Montpelier, served on the board of directors for Westview Meadows and the Gary Residence, and

was an active member of the Vermont Ground Water Association. From his years of hard, dedicated work for his employees and customers, as well as his active community involvement, Rick leaves behind a large circle of lifelong friends and colleagues.

Rick will be remembered by many for his honesty, kindness and love of family, and he will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

A dedicated family man and stoic Vermonter, he took great pride in his family and his work. When not devoting his time to family and work, Rick enjoyed classic cars, particularly Ford Mustangs, gardening and caring for his well-manicured lawn.

Memorial contributions may be made in Rick’s honor to the UVM Medical Center Critical Care Nursing Education Fund at UVM Medical Center, Courtyard at Given North, 3rd Floor, 11 Colchester Ave, Burlington, VT 05401, or the Scholarship Fund maintained by the Montpelier Kiwanis Club, P.O. Box 741, Montpelier, VT 05601-0741.

A memorial service will be held at the Old West Church in Calais, Vt., on Wednesday, August 21, at 2 p.m. with a celebration of life to follow at the Capitol Plaza at 3:30 p.m.

All are welcome to attend and share memories.

Those wishing to leave condolences online may do so at guareandsons.com.

Robert Bernard Bessette Sr. 1931-2019

Robert Bernard Bessette Sr. was a loving husband, father, grandfather, greatgrandfather, uncle and friend. He loved his family, friends, his home and Vermont. He died at home, surrounded by his family, on August 13, 2019.

The son of Mildred (Clarke) and Theodore Bessette, he was born in Burlington on October 31, 1931, always making Halloween extra special for his family.

Bob spent his early years in the South End of Burlington, often recounting fond memories of his many adventures growing up there. He graduated from Burlington High School, class of 1950. He was a Korean War-era Army veteran, enlisting in 1952 and serving in Okinawa, Japan.

On August 16, 1952, he married the love of his life, Helen (Payea) Bessette.

Whether traveling, dancing, seeing the races at Saratoga, visiting casinos or just picnicking on the waterfront, they truly enjoyed being

together, especially when surrounded by family and friends.

His love of nature, and particularly the natural beauty of Vermont, began at a young age, when he would hunt and fish with his father, brother and friends.

He had a lifelong passion for hunting and fishing and the outdoors, and he passed this along to his children and many of his friends. He was hunting during the 2018 deer season (bow, rifle and muzzleloader), spending many hours in the woods the week before he became ill. Playing golf and following the Red Sox were also lifelong interests.

Bob worked at General Electric in Burlington for many years before moving to a career in corrections with the State of Vermont.

“Sparky” retired from CCCC in 1990 after 20 years of service.

In addition to his loving wife, Helen, Bob is survived by his daughters, Julie Giguere and her husband, Alan, and Suellen Bessette, all of Burlington; and his sons, Timothy of Milton, Jay and Jon of Burlington, and Bradley and his wife, Shelley, of Barre. He is also survived by his seven grandchildren, Shelby Jors and her husband, Charlie, of Seattle, Wash.; and Darren Giguere, Justin Boucher, Abaigeal Lundy, Trevor and Kyle Bessette, and Brandon Ha Bessette; as well as his two great-grandchildren, Brolin and Josephine Jors. Dad, Grandpa and Great-Grandpa, Bob shared a special and unique relationship with each of us.

Bob was predeceased

by his parents; his three siblings, Ted, Katherine and Norma; his infant daughter Kathy Jean; and his beloved son Robert (Bobby) Jr. Our family would like to express our sincere appreciation to the compassionate and caring staff of the University of Vermont Home Health & Hospice and to the friends who made it possible for us to fulfill Dad’s wish of being at home throughout his illness. Please consider a memorial donation to UVM Home Health & Hospice (uvmhomehealth.org).

There will be no visitation. Burial will be private.

A celebration of life is being planned for a later date.

Arrangements are in the care of the Cremation Society of Chittenden County, a division of Ready Family, 261 Shelburne Rd., Burlington.

To send online condolences, please visit cremationsocietycc.com.

BIRTHS On August 12, 2019, at Porter Medical Center, Elizabeth Ann Gerner and Charles Harris Gerner welcomed a boy, Charles Henry Gerner.

On August 14, 2019, at Porter Medical Center, Jennifer Cavanaugh Higgins and William Cavanaugh welcomed a boy, Ewan William Higgins Cavanaugh.

On August 15, 2019, at Porter Medical Center, Samantha Walsh and Travis Walsh welcomed a girl, Abigail Penelope Walsh.

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nly one quarter of grown-ass adults can correctly name all three branches of the U.S. government, according to a 2017 study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

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by Vermont’s CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES offers a glimmer of hope that the next generation of the voting public might be more civically literate.

This Is What Democracy Looks Like: A Graphic Guide to Governance was the brainchild of CCS cofounder JAMES STURM. Weary of the uncivil discourse that has increasingly become the norm, Sturm decided to create an easy-to-grok visual guide to the underpinnings of the American political system.

The 32-page comic, developed to meet Common Core State Standards (read: classroom approved), offers a concise overview of each branch of government, along with some encouraging messages about the importance of civic engagement, lest anyone feel helpless to change the status quo.

On the heels of a successful Kickstarter campaign in July, Sturm plans to take the project to classrooms throughout the Northeast and Midwest over the next few months. At least one state — Sturm won’t say which, except that it has a population bigger than Vermont’s — has expressed interest in ordering hundreds of thousands of copies to distribute in its school districts.

Closer to home, CCS will visit Woodstock Union High School on September 17 — the 232nd anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. True to its democratic subject matter, the comic will also be available as a free downloadable PDF on the CCS website as of September 1.

Sturm doesn’t want to get into partisan bickering, but he acknowledged that the impetus for the project grew out of his sense that people seem to be doing a lot of uninformed shouting.

“There’s such a fierce partisan debate going on, and it’s not built on a lot of facts,” he said. “This was an attempt to lay down a foundation for that conversation — how the system should work, who should have power.”

After he came up with the concept last summer, Sturm enlisted DAN NOTT as the project’s lead cartoonist. The 2018

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CCS graduate has a knack for rendering complex systems in simple graphic terms: Nott’s CCS thesis, a nonfiction comic on how stuff like the internet actually works, became the basis for his forthcoming book, Hidden Systems — a visual explainer of the infrastructure of water and electricity, among other elusive quotidian concepts.

“Dan was the really obvious choice,” said Sturm. “A lot of explainer comics

can be dense and not engaging, but Dan can find the poetry in what he’s trying to communicate.”

Before Nott enrolled at CCS, he lived in Boston, where he worked a day job in electronics repair and drew political cartoons on the side. Nott considers himself a fairly informed citizen, but this project forced him to get intimately acquainted with the minutiae of American governance. The

hardest concept to draw, he said, was the Electoral College: “I only had one panel to explain it, and I had to do it over and over again.”

In fact, the research process was proof positive that this comic needed to exist. “I went to the Dartmouth [College] library and checked out a bunch of books on government, which were super dense,” said Nott. “Like, where do you go for a quick refresher?”

Ironically, he added, many people vividly remember the “Schoolhouse Rock” animated short film that depicts the branches of government as a three-ring circus, even if they recall absolutely nothing else from civics class — a testament to the power of cartoons.

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“She just radically turned into a puppy again,” Meehl recalls in a phone conversation from her home in Connecticut. “It was the most amazing thing I had ever witnessed.”

On Thursday, August 22, The Dog Doc, Meehl’s second feature film as a director, will open the fifth annual MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL. The fly-on-the-wall look at Goldstein’s veterinary practice examines his use of controversial treatments such as cryosurgery and intravenous vitamin C therapy.

“I just want people to see it — that’s my goal,” says Meehl, who will attend the Middlebury screening along with Goldstein’s colleague Dr. Jacqueline Ruskin. “If it can save a dog, it’s just worth everything.”

MNFF artistic director JAY CRAVEN notes that the fest strives to pick an

opening-night film that is “edifying and gratifying at the same time.” He thinks The Dog Doc fits the bill.

“It speaks to health care universally,” Craven says, “and so it’s that ideal kind of film that is both intimately specific but at the same time leads us to think in larger terms about overall issues of health and treatment, and also the importance of animals to many people.”

Meehl is among 60 filmmakers who will attend this year’s fest — a new record, according to MNFF producer LLOYD KOMESAR. Perhaps the most famous of the attendees is Oscar-nominated writerdirector Paul Schrader, who will join Craven onstage for an hourlong conversation following a Saturday screening of his 2017 film First Reformed.

Craven met Schrader through author Russell Banks, whose novel Affliction Schrader brought to the screen in 1997, and who will also be part of the Saturday conversation. Perhaps the best-known writer-director based in Vermont, Craven remembers the Taxi Driver screenwriter telling him that he begins his writing process by focusing on themes, as opposed to plot or character.

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held a VHS tape aloft with a plastic sword stuck through the middle, à la Excalibur.

It was August 29, 2017, the date that marked the end of the Knights of the Mystic Movie Club. A crowd of 40 people shouted in revelry.

Earlier that night, Peberdy had announced that if any of the attendees could pull the sword from the VHS, that person would become the rightful heir to the movie club.

For 380 straight weeks, every Tuesday night in White River Junction, Peberdy and CHICO EASTRIDGE had put on a screening of a different absurd movie unlike anything their audience had ever seen before. Who would carry on their legacy?

This month marks two years since MATT MAZUR stepped onstage to try his luck. Mazur gripped the sword, Peberdy the VHS, and they proceeded to writhe and yell. Through the death of the Knights of the Mystic, the REVENGE OF MOVIE NIGHT was born.

“Well, it was very much a somber task at first,” said Wilder resident Mazur, now 35. “When I found out that Ben and Chico were suddenly just not going to do this anymore … it hit me kinda hard. And I said, ‘Wow, I’ve got to … I’ve got to do something.’”

Mazur couldn’t contain his laughter as he recalled winning the sword. But the somber task he referred to was stepping into the “big shoes” of the club founders and trying to envision the group without them in the lead.

“Something about the community really told me that this was something I wanted to do,” Mazur said. “Because it [had been] seven years [since the founding of Knights], and, during that time, there were a few periods where movie night was really my primary social life. It was a 24

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really good thing. It showed me the importance of creating community.”

Mazur teamed up with Peberdy’s identical twin brother, Norwich resident DREW, now 32, to lead the new club. “Since we’ve been doing Revenge of Movie Night for two years, this month is actually all about doubles and twice-overs and twins,” Drew Peberdy said. “We gave it two titles. It’s ‘Double or Nothing/Double Your Money Back Guaranteed.’”

Revenge of Movie Night has a new theme every month, which Mazur and Peberdy choose by tunneling through a vast collection of the strangest movies of all time. The club dedicated one month to cannibal movies and dubbed it “A Salute to Humanitarians.” Before that came “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Star Wars” and “Innocent Fisherman Dies Month.”

This month marks nine years since the official founding of the Knights of the Mystic Movie Club. Eastridge and Ben Peberdy did everything they could for the group over their years at the helm. Some years ago, when longtime moviegoer SPENCER BLADYKA thought he would have to miss a showing because of a 21st birthday dinner with his parents, the club founders wouldn’t hear of it.

“We constructed the ‘Emergency Broadcast System,’” Eastridge said. “A big battery hooked to a TV and a VCR.” They brought the contraption to Salt hill Pub in Lebanon, N.H., where Bladyka was sitting with his parents. They proceeded to order water and present that week’s film to anyone who wished to watch.

From that point on, Eastridge said, “we could go anywhere.” During their interview, he and Ben Peberdy routinely finished each other’s sentences. “We’ve watched

movies in gazebos; underneath the bridge we watched a movie,” Eastridge said. “In a park we watched a movie; we had it duct-taped to a child’s swing, so it was gently swinging in the breeze.”

Last month’s theme for Revenge of Movie Night was “Failure.” But failure has always been a cause for celebration at movie night. “You’ve got the camaraderie of the people you’re experiencing it with,” Mazur said.

Eastridge and Ben Peberdy once showed a film produced by former North Korean dictator Kim Jongil. He had kidnapped the most famous South Korean director and the man’s ex-wife — the Marilyn Monroe of South Korea at the time — and coerced them into making propaganda films for the ideals of the North. Kim was so convinced of the movies’ smashing success, and of the kidnapped pair’s loyalty, that he later allowed them to tour their final film in Europe, where they escaped. Knowing all of this adds a profound dimension to the corny Godzilla knockoff that resulted from the whole ordeal, Ben Peberdy said.

“It’s so hideously expensive to make a movie that, a lot of films, they don’t bother taking a shot at anything that’s not a sure bet,” Drew Peberdy said. “Consequently, you get these films that are very, very tame and predictable and follow the pattern.”

Then there are the films shown at Revenge of Movie Night. “One of the things that keeps drawing me back to these movies — and actually one of the reasons why I wanted to have a whole month termed ‘Failure’ — is the idea of failing,” Peberdy said. “A lot of these movies failed to make their mark, but they still tried to do it.”

“A big swing and a miss,” he added, suggesting that celebrating the swing and miss is a way to celebrate the choice to take a big swing in the first place, no matter the result.

The wider movie night community applies this principle to many things, Mazur noted, from creative endeavors such as amateur animation to putting themselves out there when it’s easier to retreat into social media or the online world.

“It’s near and dear to the spirit of Revenge of Movie Night,” Ben Peberdy said. Mazur, Eastridge and the Peberdy brothers have all consistently entered local 48-hour film slams, often as a team.

Mazur’s personal favorite movie screened over the years at movie night is a 1984 film that director John Sayles made using his funds from a MacArthur Fellowship. It was so strange, and took itself so wonderfully unseriously, that it was eventually released to the public domain.

“Part of our focus is to bring movies that don’t have a current audience to an audience,” Mazur said.

“Our experience of [watching these films together], it changes the way you critically look at movies,” he continued. “You see these things that have heart [but] are lacking obvious things, [making] them unsellable. But if you sit through them and you experience something unique, then you can look at blockbusters in an entirely different way.

“You start to see how it’s not always the flashy parts that work perfectly that make something great,” Mazur said. “And it allows you to kind of see through the flash, or the sheen, of a polished motion picture.” m

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PEACE ON EARTH Hikers reaching the summit of Mount Philo State Park in Charlotte have yet another thing to look for amid an already breathtaking view of the landscape. Visible to the west, at the southwestern corner of State Park Road and Mount Philo Road, is a massive peace sign mowed into a hayfield. The symbol, which measures 500 feet in diameter, covers nearly six acres and is visible only from above, seems to have been created deliberately for the benefit of visitors atop the 968-foot mountain. Who created it and why?

Chalk it up to DAVID DIAZ, an ophthalmologist from Shelburne who had a vision, as it were, for commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival, which was held August 15 to 18, 1969.

“I’m no expert on the history of Woodstock nor an unreconstructed hippie,” Diaz told Seven Days in a phone interview. “I’m just an ordinary guy.”

An ordinary guy, that is, with a hayfield, a John Deere tractor, and the time, patience and competence with a compass to mow a near-perfect circle and equal-size triangles. Like the festival he set out to celebrate, it took him three days and proved to be a sweaty, muddy success.

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Peace sign at the base of Mount Philo by David Diaz

Diaz — who, coincidentally, grew up in Woodstock, Conn. — admitted that he’s never even visited Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y., where the three days of music, mud and psychedelic nudity were held. In fact, Diaz, 49, was born four months after the seminal music event that came to define 1960s hippie counterculture.

Nevertheless, he felt a desire to commemorate the 50th anniversary in some small — or perhaps not-sosmall — way. Beginning on Sunday,

August 10, Diaz went out to the field he owns in Charlotte and used a compass and 250 feet of rope attached to a center stake to draw the peace sign’s perimeter. He then measured out the angles in its interior.

“Even doing that, it was like walking in a jungle,” he explained. In spots, Diaz encountered mud and grasses that stood as tall as he is. The rope often got tangled and stretched, requiring him to repeat his work. Mostly, he said, it was very hard to see what he was doing.

“I had confidence in my measurements,” Diaz added, “but I had no idea while cutting it what it would actually look like and whether my measurements were accurate.”

Then, after hours of mowing on Wednesday and “my feeling fluctuating between exuberance and foolishness,” Diaz climbed Mount Philo to get a bird’s-eye view of his work. “It just about knocked me over, it looked so massive and so correct,” he said. “It looked like a stamp of the gods upon the land, this field shouting at you, ‘Peace!’”

Like the original Woodstock it’s meant to celebrate, Diaz’s creation won’t last long. He plans to maintain it for a while, until the farmer who leases his field comes to hay it. In the meantime, Diaz hopes that it brings some joy to people who see it from above.

“In this day and age, it’s a statement of belief, frankly,” he added. “Our nation, our culture is mad with violence, with assault weapons and murders and a war that’s dragged on longer than any in our history … and leaders who practice violence against the Earth and against the truth.

“So,” he concluded, “it’s a statement of belief that’s rather bracing and liberating.”

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Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival « P.23 maybe think about character, but [they] rarely start their filmmaking process thinking about themes.”

Other notable guests include veteran character actor Bruce Greenwood (The Sweet Hereafter, Thirteen Days), Oscarwinning documentarian Barbara Kopple (who’s making her fourth consecutive MNFF appearance) and 2017 MNFF honoree Ricki Stern, who got her start in the movie business as a second-unit coordinator on Craven’s 1993 feature debut, Where the Rivers Flow North. The screening of Stern’s documentary about the national abortion debate, Reversing Roe, will feature a Q&A with Dr. Colleen McNicholas, the last remaining abortion provider in Missouri.

“I cannot imagine a film more of the moment, with the Supreme Court likely to weigh in on the fate of Roe v. Wade next year,” Komesar says.

On Friday afternoon, Craven will host a free Q&A session with Marc Mauceri,

vice president of the pioneering distribu- lasting repercussions of a 1979 incident tion company First Run Features. Craven in which a Vietnamese refugee killed credits First Run’s championing of small a white fisherman in a small Texas independent films in the late 1970s with town. It’s paired in the program with inspiring his own bootstrapping model of the short film “Santuario,” about a touring films among rural Vermont towns. Guatemalan asylum seeker who’s been “I think there’s nothing more difficult living in a Greensboro, N.C., church for an independent filmsince May 2017 to avoid maker than navigating deportation. the world of distribution, The theme of women because it’s so much a in media is spotlighted in buyer’s market in the a “female biopic block” United States,” Craven on Sunday. The series observes. includes What She Said: While the festival The Art of Pauline Kael, a L L OYD KO ME S AR programmers didn’t doc about the influential set out with a thematic New Yorker film critic; agenda, Craven notes, a thread that Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guyemerged during the programming Blaché, a portrait of the often-overlooked process was a focus on immigration- silent film director; and Raise Hell: The Life related issues. Kopple’s New Home- & Times of Molly Ivins, which profiles the land looks at a boys’ summer camp in outspoken newspaper columnist famed Ontario that takes in refugees from for her caustic wit.

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“The niche that we picked turns out to be a good one — that is, support of firstand second-time filmmakers,” Komesar says. “We’ve stayed very true to this as we go into our fifth year, and I think it pays dividends for us, because we’re increasingly getting traction with new filmmakers who look forward to coming to Middlebury.” m Contact: baynes@sevendaysvt.com

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A VERMONT CABBIE’S REAR VIEW BY JERNIGAN PONTIAC

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n route to an early Sunday morning pickup, I wondered, How has this town escaped my radar? It’s been hiding in plain sight.

When you drive for a living, as I do, your workday allows for hours and hours of reflection. For a naturally dreamy guy like me, it’s a perfect fit. My assignment on this particular day had me thinking about Walden, a small town about a half hour northeast of Montpelier.

Until I bagged this fare, I had had no conscious memory of ever passing through the town or even noticing it on a map. The oddness of this mental blank spot was compounded by the fact that, adjacent to Walden proper, the GPS revealed fully three variations on the theme: North Walden, South Walden and Walden Heights, aka Walden freakin’ Station!

Shaking my head and chuckling, I thought, How could I have tooled around the Green Mountains for decades and missed this quartet of Waldens?

On the final stretch, motoring north of Cabot on Route 215, I was impressed with all the agricultural activity on this road. In fact, my destination was an orchard and nursery operated by a couple, Denise and Roger, who had booked the fare on behalf of Denise’s uncle. “Uncle Kenny” was visiting from Boulder, Colo., on an East Coast swing. I would be driving him to Rutland, where he would catch a 10 a.m. bus to Monticello, N.Y., his childhood hometown.

When I arrived at the property, I was met at the farmhouse porch by the couple and an older woman whom Denise introduced as her mother and Uncle Kenny’s sister. She lived with them on the farm, Denise explained.

Uncle Kenny then emerged carting a

suitcase and small backpack. He looked about 70 but carried his age well on his rangy frame. He sported one of those Amish-style beards with no mustache — a look that suited him. Speaking quietly to his relatives, Kenny warmly embraced

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each of them before we got in the taxi and took off. As we drove south, I could see he was feeling it emotionally.

“Sorry about this,” he said, wiping away tears with the back of his left wrist.

“Hey, it’s fine with me,” I said. “Tears are a good thing. It means you got people you love and you’re gonna miss.”

Kenny smiled. In 2019, it’s acceptable for manly men like us to cry, and even — God help us — talk about our emotions.

Not that we delved into it any further; a little goes a long way.

We drove past the Cabot Creamery, home to the finest cheddar money can buy.

Whenever I’m driving tourists on a clear night with a full moon, I ask, “Did you know that the moon is made of Cabot cheddar cheese?” At this point, I’ve honestly lost track of whether this is even the least bit whimsical, but, alas, that doesn’t stop me.

Forget about “dad jokes” — I’ve entered the fusty realm of “old-guy jokes.”

“So, do you still work, Kenny?”

“No, I’ve been retired for a couple of years. I worked for the Schacht Spindle Company in Boulder for over 30 years, making handcrafted wooden spindles and looms. They’re great folks, a great company, and I miss going in there every day.”

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“Well, I have friends who served, and you look about the right age. I think I’m a few years younger than you and just missed it by the skin of my teeth.”

“Yeah, I was there for most of ’69 with the Air Force.”

As is common among veterans, he then proceeded to name the specific division and regiment in which he served, along with the places in Vietnam where he was stationed.

“Our company loaded munitions onto the ’copters and jet fighters,” he added.

“What did you do when you got out?” I asked, knowing that the transition back to civilian life was often fraught for Vietnamera vets.

“I got a bike and just traveled around the country. Eventually, I got married, had a kid and settled in Boulder.”

Something in this part of his life story appeared to choke him up, and he paused.

I said nothing and just kept driving.

Gathering himself, he continued. “Our daughter, Tessie, was severely developmentally disabled, but she was a shining spirit, a true light. Everybody loved her, and she loved them back. It was all too much for my wife, though. We divorced early on, and I raised Tessie as a single dad.

“But the beautiful thing was I had so much help. All my friends and family rallied to support me, and my boss — I was telling you about — he would give me as much time off and help as I needed, so I was able to keep working. Tessie passed away in 2006. She was 27.”

“I’m sorry, man,” I said. “She sounded like she was an amazing soul.”

“Yeah, that she was,” Kenny said, smiling again. “But here’s an amazing thing. A few years ago, after Tessie passed, I get this call from a young woman who asks me if I had lived in Virginia Beach 29 years earlier and was friends with a girl named Jeanie.

“This freaked me out, and I asked who she was and why she was asking me these personal questions. She says, ‘Because I’m pretty sure you’re my father.’ What a mindblower! I had had no clue whatsoever until that moment.”

“Holy crap!” I said. “This sounds like a movie or something.”

“Life can be like that,” he said. “What do they say — ‘stranger than fiction’? Anyway, we talked a few times and eventually got together. Amanda is a great girl and, you know, better late than never, right?”

Better late than never. I contemplated the profound wisdom bottled in this seemingly trite saying.

It’s never too late for what many call a miracle, I thought, perhaps just around the next bend. m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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ntil she died last year, my youngest sister, Madelyn Linsenmeir, was sick for most of her adult life with a chronic, relapsing disease: opioid-use disorder. Not that you would have known it if you met her when she was well. Maddie was girl-next-door pretty, with a freckled face and wide smile, and the openhearted exuberance she portrayed to the world when she was sober belied how much she struggled.

But while her addiction and the trauma she’d experienced as a result of it might not be outwardly visible, they were always there, waiting. Just when she was sober and safe, they would reemerge from the shadows, dragging her away from her family and holding her hostage in the darkest of places.

She had recently escaped one of those places when she fell in love with a man she met at rehab in early 2014. The two of them moved in together and got jobs at a property management company — he was a handyman; she cleaned rental properties. Maddie would proudly text me pictures of their new apartment, a little one bedroom in Keene, N.H., that our mom helped them furnish at garage sales and Goodwill. Things seemed to be going well, until they weren’t, a pattern that was no less terrifying for its familiarity.

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Maddie and her boyfriend, D., lost their jobs and apartment after a dispute with their landlord, who was also their employer. They moved back to Vermont and in with my mom in St. Albans; Maddie got a job waiting tables, but D., who had a felony conviction, had a difficult time finding work. My mother suspected they had relapsed when she noticed personal checks missing; when Maddie and D. stole her credit card, she made them a list of resources where they could find help, paid for a week’s stay at a South Burlington motel and asked them to leave. A week later, they were homeless, crashing with friends and acquaintances when they could, sleeping outside when they had nowhere else to go.

My mom still paid for Maddie’s phone, which I called or texted every day, but she never answered or wrote back. I scrambled to pick up when I got a call one afternoon from her number, but she’d pocket-dialed me. Hungry for the sound of her voice, I stayed on the line and listened: She was telling someone her car had broken down and she needed money to pay a mechanic so she could drive home, a scam to get money to pay for drugs. Soon after, my sister Maura saw a note posted on an online neighborhood forum describing and warning of the con.

One day Maddie called my mom and asked for the sneakers she’d left behind

when she moved out. My mom met her in the parking lot of a downtown Burlington grocery store — Maddie had shoplifted there in the past and wasn’t allowed inside. Her feet were swollen, blistered and bloody from wearing now-too-small shoes; my mom knelt on the pavement and cleaned them using hand wipes she’d found in her car.

My mom cried when she called to tell me about the encounter. “I think she’s going to die,” she said. “I think she wants to die.” We had despaired for my sister many times before, been scared not just of what was happening to her but by our own helplessness to stop it.

But this time was different: Maddie was five months pregnant.

***

I set out to write a story about the impact of the opioid epidemic on Vermont families with children, a topic I thought could be distilled into some essential facts and anecdotes and arranged to form a clear picture, a story I thought might help me understand what happened to my sister.

But what families experience is varied, complex and rarely just about opioid use. In many cases it is inextricably intertwined with some combination of poverty or homelessness or trauma, with poly-substance abuse or mental illness or domestic violence, with lack of transportation or lack of economic opportunity or lack of services.

These families’ lives are overseen by and intimately involved with a system so elaborate and opaque, after months of research I’m not sure I have a realistic understanding of its most basic workings.

I can’t offer you a clear picture of what happened to my own family, let alone what this thing we call the opioid epidemic means in general for families with children, or all the ways in which we as individuals, communities, organizations and state entities are supporting and failing them.

What I can do is pick up a few pieces of this puzzle and hold them up for you to see. What I can do is begin at the beginning: pregnancy.

*** “It’s such an isolating space,” Skyler Browder told me about being pregnant and using drugs. “It’s the culture that we live in. Moms are held to this certain standard, and if you don’t live up to that, the shame that comes with that and the judgment — it’s a lot.”

Skyler spoke with me from her home on Long Island, N.Y., where the native Vermonter moved two years ago with her son, Cree, who is now 5 years old. These days, Skyler meets that cultural standard for moms: She has a full-time job. Cree is about to start kindergarten. When I called, they had just walked in the door from grocery shopping. “We do not throw baseballs in the house,” she gently admonished her son at one point during our conversation. At another she promised to tell him a story when she got off the phone.

But even five years into

Madelyn Linsenmeir in 2014

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sobriety, the 29-year-old mom doesn’t like to tell doctors she is in recovery from substance-use disorder, or that she used drugs while pregnant with her son. “It’s just hard,” she said. “There are medical professionals that still think addiction is not a disease.”

It was this fear of being judged and her own “shame and guilt and embarrassment” that prevented her from getting

White, a family nurse practitioner at the University of Vermont Medical Center’s Neonatal Medical and Development Follow-up Program, a specialty practice that cares for babies who were exposed to opioids. “They’re no stranger to seeing an awful lot of unkind care delivery.”

Another significant barrier for women, according to White, is misinformation.

A week after my mom brought Maddie her sneakers, she and D. sat on a curb outside the UVM Medical Center. It was a beautiful fall day, and Maddie had her eyes closed against the sun on her face as D. tried to talk her into going inside.

There was a rehab bed available in two days; in the meantime, our sister Maura had illegally bought Maddie buprenorphine, a prescription medication used to treat opioid-use disorder, on the street.

The bupe would allow Maddie to stop using heroin without going through the intensely painful and sometimes dangerous process of opioid withdrawal.

But the pills weren’t really buprenorphine, and Maddie had started to get dopesick. So instead of staying at Maura’s the night before as planned, Maddie and D. stood in the rain outside the house of the dealer who sold Maura the bad pills, waiting for him to come home so they could demand that he replace them. It had been

Twenty-three states consider substance use during pregnancy to be child abuse; three consider it grounds for civilly committing pregnant women. help when she relapsed into heroin use while six months pregnant with Cree. “I stopped going to the doctor,” she said.

This stigma is not something people with opioid-use disorder imagine or invent; it is so pervasive in health care, the American Medical Association Opioid Task Force made “removing stigma” one of six actions physicians could take to help end the opioid epidemic. Everyone I interviewed for this story identified it as the biggest barrier between pregnant women and treatment and prenatal care.

“Frequently our families are no stranger to being judged,” said Susan

cold and rainy, the first night of the year Maura turned on the heat, and neither Maddie nor D. had coats. D. told me later that they walked around until 3 a.m. looking for a place to sleep. When he finally texted me the next morning, Maddie was detoxing. It was bad, he said; she needed help.

I picked them up in downtown Burlington and drove them up the hill to the UVM Medical Center, where hospital staff had promised she would be treated with medication to stop her from detoxing. But still she wouldn’t go inside.

My family had initially discouraged Maddie from being on medication-assisted

treatment like buprenorphine or methadone because we believed it was “bad for the baby.” This shamefully incorrect advice most likely contributed to her relapse, and to her refusal to walk through those hospital doors. According to Marjorie Meyer, the vice chair of the UVM Medical Center’s obstetrics program, it also isn’t unusual.

The stigma and judgment they experience is not just from the medical community but also misinformed loved ones who “pressure them to come off medication,” Meyer said.

“There’s no question that medicationassisted treatment is better for mom and better for baby,” she said. It’s also the standard of care recommended by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for pregnant women with opioid-use disorder.

Yet Maddie was convinced that if she went into the hospital, they would keep her there against her will and force her to detox. That if they knew she’d been using, even if she went into treatment, they would take her baby as soon as he was born. Maddie also had a fear so huge and twisted with shame, she couldn’t bring herself to name it: She thought she had harmed her son.

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The Comprehensive Obstetrics and Gynecological Specialty clinic at the UVM Medical Center, or COGS, got its start in 2006, when the hospital was the site of a national clinical trial studying the treatment of pregnant women with opioid-use disorder.

As the university recruited participants for the trial, “We realized the degree of unmet need was remarkable,” said Meyer, who was involved in the study. “It was before there was a lot of buprenorphine prescribing going on in the state in general, and people weren’t sure how to do it.”

By working on the trial, Meyer said, she “ended up sort of by default developing this program where we started to prescribe buprenorphine in a clinic in pregnancy,” one of the first of its kind in the country.

She is now the clinic’s director.

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That safe space and her relationship with White allowed Skyler to get “honest for the first time about what was really happening to me,” and 12 days before her son was born, she finally stopped using completely.

Although White herself can’t be replicated, other services provided

by COGS and NeoMed can. There is a dedicated nurse to help administer medication-assisted treatment; a social worker who makes sure women’s basic needs — housing, clothing, food — are met and connects them to services; and a counselor — “the vast majority of moms have had trauma of some sorts in their lives that needs to be addressed or at least supported,” said White.

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Women with opioid-use disorder receive prenatal care through COGS and meet with White before their babies are born. Newborns who need medical intervention are cared for at NeoMed. But the two clinics work closely together and provide much more than just medical care.

A pregnancy in which the woman has opioid-use disorder “is not particularly high risk,” said Meyer. “A lot of what they need is not so much medical; they need counseling, support, housing, food, transportation, a safe place. And they need treatment.”

Skyler described COGS and NeoMed as just that: “a really safe space.” She remembered going there for the first time when she was eight months pregnant, not for her own prenatal care — she was still using — but with a friend who was a patient and had an appointment with White.

“She’s not one of us,” Skyler said about White, meaning White doesn’t have substance-use disorder, “and it’s really hard for people who aren’t one of us to understand this disease and the way it makes you work. Even if they try to, you can always feel this little bit of judgment. Susan is unique in that she got it. She wasn’t an addict, but she got it. It just felt safe and OK.” Soon after Skyler visited the clinic with her friend, she became a patient herself.

What she got there Skyler Browder “wasn’t medical,” she and her son, Cree said. “It was literally, we would go in and just talk.” White never rushed her or cut her off, and she asked Skyler questions about not just her health but her life. Most importantly, Skyler said, White listened.

“That’s so huge when you feel like nobody understands you, to have somebody that’s willing to sit down and talk to you, and not for the bullshit that you hear in so many treatment programs: ‘Oh, are you using your methadone correctly?

Here’s some cognitive behavioral therapy.’ Susan has this ability to just make you feel important,” Skyler said, “even if you are literally unemployed and not doing anything, to just make you feel like you matter.”

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them to develop what she described as “really excellent programs … Pretty much every [Vermont] hospital that does deliveries now has ... an integrated program.”

COGS and NeoMed see women in all stages of recovery, from those who began medication-assisted treatment after becoming pregnant to women who have been stable on MAT for years. And they also see women, like Maddie and Skyler, who relapse while pregnant.

“This is a disease process of relapsing, getting back up again, relapsing and getting back up again,” White said. “That is the nature of this disease.”

“We’ll help anybody through it if they have tough spots,” Meyer told me. “We’re there to back them up if they need it.”

I don’t know what finally compelled Maddie to go inside the hospital that fall morning, but when she did she was given buprenorphine, and, as it took effect, she slowly returned to herself. She watched closely as the doctor performing an ultrasound pointed out the baby’s foot and leg, his face and fist, the hot-red lines of the umbilical cord and his pulsing heart. The doctor told her there was no reason the baby shouldn’t be born healthy. He might need to be weaned from the buprenorphine, but Maddie could stay with him the whole time, and then he should be like any other infant. The doctor’s reassurance was as healing as the medication she’d been given, the combination of the two like

growing belly. “We play hide-and-seek,” she told me over the phone, describing how the baby would push a hand or foot against her and she would place her hand on her belly and gently press back, so they were touching each other through her skin. Then his hand or foot would disappear and seconds later reappear in a different spot, pushing against her from the inside, and she would again find his hand with hers and return the pressure.

“She was so hopeful and seemed like she was doing so well,” Maura told me recently. “I felt like maybe there was a chance for her and that baby.”

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Both COGS and NeoMed participate in CHARM, a Chittenden County collaborative of service providers who coordinate care for pregnant women with opioid-use disorder. Formally established in 2003, CHARM, an acronym for Children and Recovering Mothers, is the evolution of an informal network of health care providers, state agencies and nonprofits that had been working together for several years to help pregnant women with opioid-use disorder at a time when treatment options were scarce.

Today, representatives of 10 member organizations meet monthly to identify the needs of their clients and find ways to meet those needs. In addition to COGS and NeoMed, members of the collab-

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pebbles dropped on the path showing her the way home.

The next day D. and I drove Maddie to rehab. When she finished the program several weeks later, she and D. lived with my sister Maura and her husband at their home in Essex. Maddie got a job at Dunkin’ Donuts, stayed stable on MAT and received prenatal care at COGS. At night my sisters and their partners watched TV together while Maddie and Maura washed and folded the secondhand baby clothes Maura had bought in preparation for the baby’s arrival.

I lived in Philadelphia at the time, and Maddie would send me photos of her

orative include the Chittenden Clinic, the state’s largest outpatient provider of medication-assisted treatment; Lund, a Burlington-based family support agency; and the Vermont departments of health and corrections.

“We can sometimes come up with solutions that, independently, each of these service providers can’t necessarily do,” said Sally Borden, CHARM’s facilitator and executive director of a nonprofit called KidSafe Collaborative.

This includes solving concrete problems — for example, providing a gas card to a woman who can’t afford fuel to drive to appointments — and addressing more

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We want your story to be part of it. As Kate O’Neill’s “Hooked” series has shown, these remembrances can educate, change minds, awaken empathy — and inspire action.

To add to this project, visit sevendaysvt.com/allourhearts and fill out the submission form.

It includes a mix of questions and prompts designed to help you describe your loved one. The page also includes our first few entries, to demonstrate the project vision.

All Our Hearts was inspired by the overwhelming public reaction to O’Neill’s obituary for her sister, Madelyn Linsenmeir; the name comes from the text of the obituary itself. As O’Neill wrote: “If you yourself are struggling from addiction, know that every breath is a fresh start. Know that hundreds of thousands of families who have lost someone to this disease are praying and rooting for you. Know that we believe with all our hearts that you can and will make it. It is never too late.”

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intangible ones, like the stigma and shame that are barriers to women getting care. The group also tries to mitigate one of the women’s greatest fears, the “they” Maddie was afraid would take her son: the Department for Children and Families.

The No. 1 fear of pregnant women with opioid-use disorder, according to Borden, is that “‘DCF is going to take my baby.’”

After some internal debate about whether the state agency should be part of the collaborative, DCF joined.

“We brought DCF to the table ... so we could have appropriate conversations about what moms need for support, what moms don’t, and really very much with a goal of helping women who want to parent achieve that goal,” said Meyer.

“We would never do something that wasn’t in the best interest of the baby,”

she added, “but as you might imagine, it’s generally in the best interests of the baby to be with Mom.” Vermont law and collaborations like CHARM (there are now several across the state) enable DCF to be involved with pregnant moms with opioid-use disorder and their newborns in a way “that’s much more humane and appropriate than most other places in the country,” said Borden.

According to the national Guttmacher Institute, 23 states consider substance use during pregnancy to be child abuse; three consider it grounds for civilly committing pregnant women.

“Some states open a child welfare case for every substance-exposed newborn,” said Borden, even if the substance was the mother’s prescribed methadone.

“Vermont doesn’t do that.”

“It’s a good state to be in, in that regard,” said Meyer, “because, as a provider, if you knew everything was going to be punitive, it would put us in a very difficult spot.”

Furthermore, according to Borden, Vermont is the only state that will open a child welfare assessment before an infant is born. This, she said, enables DCF to identify concerns and help moms address them earlier. As a result of the assessment, mothers might be referred to residential treatment, or DCF caseworkers can provide supportive services. This is not, however, a guarantee DCF won’t open a case or move for custody once the baby is born.

Twenty-nine percent of the 417 prenatal assessments DCF has opened since 2016 resulted in the state filing for custody of the children after they were born. But even in this circumstance, Borden points out, the prenatal assessment allows the mother to plan — is there a relative who can care for the baby? — and prevents the birth from being a moment of crisis, when DCF moves in without warning.

This approach helps with what White described as one of her goals for women: making the experience of having a baby “more about the joy of birth.”

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using opioids while pregnant but rather a greater level of awareness of opioid-use disorder among health care providers and access to treatment in the state.

The majority of those opioid-exposed babies, four out of five in 2010, were born to women who, like Maddie and Skyler, were in treatment when they gave birth.

The Vermont Department of Health speculates that this number is even higher now, again due to the increased availability and awareness of treatment in the state.

Yet I’ve heard people, including editors at this newspaper, call the children of women with opioid-use disorder “opioid babies” or “heroin babies,” similar to the way the term “crack babies” was used in the 1980s and early ’90s. When I mentioned this to Meyer, she warned she might get on “a big soapbox.”

“We were wrong about the crack babies,” she said (research indicates the outcomes for babies with prenatal exposure to cocaine fare far better than inflammatory headlines led people to believe), “and we’re wrong about the way we think about these babies, too.”

“We’ve been working against the misinformed idea that these babies are somehow less than or have had something happen to them,” said White, who cares for newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome. “The opiate exposure during pregnancy does not mean your child’s going to have developmental outcomes that are poor.”

Nationwide, more than half of babies exposed to opioids in utero experience neonatal abstinence syndrome, which is sometimes referred to as “withdrawal,” a set of symptoms that include irritability, sweating and tremors.

At the UVM Medical Center, babies born with opioids in their system stay with their moms in the hospital for a minimum of four days, during which time they’re monitored for neonatal abstinence syndrome and moved to the intensive care unit if there is concern about their symptoms. But only 25 percent of babies who experience neonatal abstinence syndrome require medicine to treat it; most can be cared for with methods such as swaddling, low lighting and breastfeeding.

This was the case for Maddie’s son when he was born — he experienced symptoms of neonatal abstinence syndrome but didn’t need medication to treat it. Skyler’s son, Cree, on the other hand, required

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methadone, the same medication Skyler was taking, which she slowly weaned him from when he came home from the hospital.

“It felt awful and embarrassing,” she said. “It’s this feeling of, I’ve failed before I’ve even started.” But even newborns like Cree who do require medical intervention have good outcomes. According to White, those babies at the UVM Medical Center score above the 50th percentile on most standardized developmental assessments when they are 1 year old.

Nonetheless, the stigma is entrenched, as is the guilt for moms. Cree, a healthy 5-year-old, has “some behavioral stuff,” as Skyler put it, and she wonders if this is because she used while she was pregnant.

“People that eat organic food and never take an aspirin have kids that have behavior issues, or worse,” she acknowledged.

“But I think any parent, regardless of whether or not you’re an addict, has this

feeling of, Did that aspirin I take cause this?

Did that shot of heroin that I took cause this? Because of the stigma of addiction, it’s extra taxing.”

Abigail Crocker, a biostatistician and assistant professor in the math and statistics department at UVM, wanted to understand the impact of prenatal opioid exposure as babies grow up.

She had been working with Meyer and Johnston at COGS and NeoMed since 2006 to analyze data around pregnancy and delivery outcomes, and they knew that their opioid-exposed babies were “born by and large very healthy,” Crocker said.

But they kept hearing anecdotes about how these kids were showing up in school systems with issues that required extra resources. Crocker wanted to know: “Is it these babies in particular?”

She took the list of opioid-exposed babies whose mothers received treatment

through COGS and, in partnership with the Vermont Agency of Education, merged the kids’ health records with their education records. She was looking at standardized test scores and individualized education plans (IEPs), through which services are provided to students for everything from learning and physical disabilities to emotional disorders.

“You would think that if these kids were doing so much worse than their peers, they’d be high IEP utilizers and have horrible standardized test scores,” she explained. “That’s not what we found.”

Opioid-exposed children whose moms were in treatment when they were born were not more likely to have an IEP or do poorly on standardized tests, she discovered.

Crocker pointed out that this was not a study on how active substance-use disorder affects a family or children at school.

“That is challenging,” she said. “But it’s

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Maddie and D.’s son, Ayden, was born almost two months prematurely and was in the neonatal intensive care unit at the UVM Medical Center for three weeks.

Maddie spent every day with him there, and when he was finally able to leave the hospital, she and D. took him home to my mom’s apartment in St. Albans.

My sister was in love with her son, and parenting revealed something in her I’d never seen before. She was the youngest sibling by more than a decade and had used substances since she was a teenager; as a result, she had spent her whole life, for better or worse, as the center of attention — doted on, bossed around, worried about.

When she had Ayden, I saw my 26-year-old sister for the first time as a grown-up. When I held him she would gently adjust him in my arms or confidently instruct me on how to burp him.

When she spoke his name, it sounded like the notes of a song.

But she was anxious, too, in some of the ways many new moms are — about being responsible for this tiny human being, about breastfeeding and whether he was getting enough to eat.

Unlike many new moms, she had to travel 60 miles round trip between St. Albans and Burlington for medicationassisted treatment. She didn’t have a car, so she was dependent on my mom to drive her. She and D. were trying to find a place of their own and had even saved enough money for a deposit and first month’s rent, but they couldn’t find anyone willing to rent to them. Maddie had experienced grave trauma as a result of her addiction that she wasn’t addressing. And Ayden had been diagnosed with a congenital condition that doctors said could have a significant impact on his life or none at all; it might not be clear for years.

But, in other ways, Maddie was incredibly lucky. She had a safe place to live, a refrigerator and cupboards stocked with groceries, and those rides from my mom. Maura had procured everything a new baby would need, from clothes to a crib to a nursing pillow. Ayden was safe and thriving. My mom, who had been planning to buy her own place when she HOOKED

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not the opioid exposure that a baby has in utero” that’s impacting kids later on.

This is the good news. While they are pregnant, Vermont women with opioiduse disorder are wrapped in layers of attention and services and care, which have positive outcomes for their infants.

But women with infants still need the counseling, housing, food, transportation, safe place and treatment Meyer described as required for pregnant women. The bad news is that, for most women, those supports peel away or become harder to access once their babies are born.

“I would like to say that we provide really wonderful wraparound services for every mom and family,” said Borden. “But we know that’s just not the case.”

“That’s one of the things I worry the most about,” said Meyer. The women she treats “do pretty well in pregnancy, but we have to figure out this after part.”

Women at COGS are transitioned to a medication-assisted treatment provider or clinic before they leave, but the obstacles to getting there can be insurmountable for a new mom.

“It’s very difficult for patients who now have not just one kid, maybe they have two or three kids, and need to take two buses to get to their doctor’s office,” said Meyer. “And by the way, [they] don’t have any childcare. And by the way, [they] don’t have a lot of money. And by the way, [they] might have to meet with the Department of Corrections, and [they] have to meet with this other person. Treatment is available to them, but it becomes such a barrier that they don’t go.

“Some of these women’s schedules, if you gave it to me, I’d be like, ‘Whoa, I don’t know how I could do all that,’” Meyer told me, a sentiment echoed by many professionals I spoke with who work with mothers with opioid-use disorder.

“You have no idea what is asked of these women,” said Maria Noyes, who runs the Doula Project at Washington County Mental Health Services. “I’m a middle-class person with young children.

When I see what people have to do who are in treatment and in poverty, I just think, Oh, my god, no one would ever ask me to do that.”

When I asked her to explain, she gave me an example: In addition to “the logistics of getting to appointments when there’s no transportation,” which is the norm for many of the Washington County women she works with, if a new mom is homeless, she might have to go to a state office to get a voucher and spend “God knows how long with a 4-day-old baby with hundreds of people in and out in this public place,” said Noyes.

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She said Lund gave her a “solid foundation” to build a life on, but she credits COGS and NeoMed for where she is today.

“It’s about relating to people on a human level, something that we really don’t see a lot of in Western medicine,” she said about the UVM Medical Center clinics where she finally “got honest” about using while pregnant. “There’s not a lot of spaces where you can feel comfortable opening up about that.”

Even now, she doesn’t like talking about using drugs while pregnant; she shares her story because she wants women in similar circumstances to know: “You’re not alone.”

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When Ayden was 6 months old, Maddie called me sobbing. “I feel like I can’t breathe,” she wailed, and she was crying so hard I thought she really might stop breathing. She had relapsed and tried to falsify and failed drug tests at the clinic where she received medication-assisted treatment, which reported her to DCF. Ayden could have remained at home if D. was sober, but D. refused to take a drug test to confirm as much. The baby also could have stayed with a family member, but my

mom had to work and DCF couldn’t provide childcare. No one notified Maura or me of what was happening, so Ayden was placed with a foster family. As soon as we learned he was there, Maura and her husband started the process to foster him themselves.

Three days later she texted me from the DCF parking lot. “The eagle has landed,” Maura wrote, and sent a photo of Ayden in the back seat of her car.

We know now that the chubby baby in that photo would transform into a lanky little boy, that his fine brown hair would become a crown of thick curls, and the plump cheeks we loved to nibble on would narrow to resemble his mom’s.

We know now that he, his parents, and his aunt and his uncle had just entered a labyrinthine system from which they would not emerge for more than two years.

The next installment of “Hooked” continues to explore the impact of the opioid epidemic on families with kids, including the experiences of parents with opioid-use disorder as they navigate the systems intended to protect Vermont’s children and support their families in parenting them.

In this yearlong reporting project, Kate O’Neill uses traditional journalism, narrative storytelling and her own experiences to shed light on the opioid epidemic in Vermont.

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ccording to the Vermont judiciary, Sharon Lamb is an expert on motherhood. As a psychologist and forensic evaluator, she assesses whether parents are ready — stable enough, sober enough — to be reunited with their children, and on what terms. Since 2014, the number of young children in the care of Vermont’s Department for Children and Families has increased by a third, largely as a result of the opioid epidemic. At the height of the state’s opioid crisis, between 2011 and 2016, state-ordered petitions for the termination of parental rights rose by a staggering 93 percent.

In her capacity as a clinician, Lamb’s job is to weigh the strength of the parentchild bond against the parent’s ability to provide adequate nurturing, and then to make a definitive recommendation to the court. But after she discovered that her oldest son had become addicted to opioids, she struggled to be certain of anything.

Lamb’s latest book, The Not Good Enough Mother, weaves memoir and case study in an exploration of the tension between her public and private selves — and her own anxieties about being a goodenough mother.

The project has a thrilling matryoshkaness: the promise of getting to the tiniest nesting doll hidden inside all those frustratingly impassive therapeutic façades.

In her book, Lamb lifts the scrim — within certain limitations (she can’t divulge all the secrets of, for instance, the sacred Rorschach ink blot test, a transgression for which she’d be castigated by expulsion from something called “the Rorschach listserv”). For a couple hundred pages, she becomes just like any other human, albeit one with gut-wrenching insights into the human condition.

This is the sort of book that begs to be read all at once, in a trance partly fueled by the egotistical longing to see ourselves, our own childhoods and less-than-goodenough mothering, reflected in Lamb’s analysis. With the perfect ratio of warmth and X-ACTO precision, Lamb cuts to the tender pink of everything that can go awry in the parent-child covenant.

“Mothers must perform for me,” Lamb writes. Sometimes they perform well, providing the right snack, the right kind of attention; other times, they become

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children themselves in her presence. In one especially devastating chapter, she describes an evaluation at a beach in which a mother, too eager to go swimming, races into the water and leaves her daughter on the shore.

Lamb writes: “What kind of mother, during her performance of motherhood, would swim away from her daughter and enjoy herself all alone in the deep, her feet now up in the air as she attempted a handstand? A fun mother? Her long braids were dripping wet down each side of her bathing suit. She had come to the beach to play.”

British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott coined the phrase “good-enough mother” in 1953, theorizing that after the complete dependence of infancy, children ultimately fare better when their mothers — occasionally, gently, without irreparable

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consequence — let them down. Those minor setbacks, Winnicott believed, were essential preparation for reality.

Today, the “good enough” qualifier strikes some nerve in our optimizationobsessed psyches; it has the ring of a backhanded compliment, a gently condescending reminder of the failure to achieve perfection. In a world where men still predominantly get to decide what constitutes “good enough,” women bear the brunt of this reprimand. Culturally, we lack the equivalent theoretical framework for good-enough fathers — or, more precisely, we don’t expect the same things of fathers as mothers.

In her graphic memoir Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, Alison Bechdel offers this synopsis of Winnicott’s views on how an absent (or angry, drunk or just plain not helpful) father might affect the mother’s ability to provide for her child: “One of the reasons why the mother might fail to meet the infant’s spontaneous gesture … is because the father is not performing his part well enough.”

And fathers, by Lamb’s own admission, are her blind spot. But something about the way she describes this leniency verges on romanticization, a gloss of a much bigger and thornier issue.

“I have to watch myself around the dads,” she writes. “That’s another area where I need better boundaries, because

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I sure do like the bad boys, and that’s what these dads often are — their energy, their sarcasm, the aggressive life they bring into a room. I like the game some play to manipulate me, and maybe I like the power I have over them.”

Later, Lamb chalks up her softness to generational blindness: “I’m part of my culture, too, the culture that doesn’t blame dads for not being there, for not supporting the mothers of their kids, for not sending child support. As with most women, the strongest aphrodisiac I know is a man taking good care of a toddler.”

Those two sentences, in their juxtaposition, offer a neat summary of how society enables mediocre men. When they don’t show up as fathers, we tend to rationalize their disinterest as an inevitability of nature and nurture; when they demonstrate even average levels of child-rearing competence, we heap them with praise. (A whole bargain-basement level of the internet is dedicated to photos of “hot dads and adorable babies.” If you substituted “dads” for “moms,” the result would be completely banal, the opposite of fetish-worthy.)

But mostly, Lamb is deeply introspective. She interrogates her relationship with her own mother, whom she rejected at a young age for reasons both mundane and specific: “I think I was close to my mother once. But my pleasure at my mother’s ability to draw a picture of a simple but beautiful princess when I was three or four gave way to disdain for the things she didn’t know how to do when I got older … As my dad knew he was smarter than my mother, so did I begin to feel superior.”

It’s hard not to be wrecked by the apparent cruelty of that admission, particularly when it comes from someone who routinely sees children cling to mothers who have failed them in far more catastrophic ways.

But the whole point, as Lamb’s experience with her son’s addiction illustrates, is that “good enough” maternal love is often a security deposit that never gets returned — that, in fact, no amount of good-enough mothering can guarantee a child’s wellbeing or even win their affection.

Lamb seems ambivalent about her own approach to parenting, which was heavily informed by her clinical training.

She deconstructs herself as an expert, expressing her fear that her overzealous application of good parenting theory, the techniques meant to help a child’s emotional and cognitive development, might have driven her older son away.

“I mind-minded Willy to death as a baby. ‘You’re sad now. You want that red car very much and you’re sad mommy won’t buy it. You’re mad at mommy now.’

No wonder he became a sphinx.”

Generally, Lamb is very real about what it’s like to feel helpless in the face of a child’s addiction, to wake up in the middle of the night and know that he’s probably not OK. But there’s a psychic distance in her writing, as though she’s circling a drain, imposing too much order on her darkest thoughts.

As the depth of her son’s addiction becomes clearer to her, she takes in each new morsel of information slowly, unwilling to let it break her: “…the only way I could get through the day and continue working, making dinners, and being with friends was to not know what I knew.”

Whether that detachment stems from her internalized professional boundaries or a deeper need for control is never quite clear, but those could be the same thing.

Lamb reveals most about herself in a confession early in the book. She goes to the home of a foster mother to discuss one of the children in her care. During her visit, Lamb becomes entranced by one of the woman’s other foster children — a 4-year-old boy who carries around a blue electric keyboard that plays classical melodies. When Lamb hears him singing with flawless pitch, she decides, against her better judgment and the dictates of professionalism, to arrange for him to get private music lessons.

Later, we learn that her older son pawned a rosewood ukulele to fund his drug habit. Her desire to help the little boy who showed promise as a musician reads as an act of misdirected mothering, an outlet for a sea of affection too big to be contained. But Lamb, ever the clinician, is a little more circumspect in her description of her motivation: “I do want that ukulele back. And if I can’t get it back, I want to buy my child another ukulele and hear him play ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’ So instead I buy another mother’s boy piano lessons and place my bets on him.” m

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Theater review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Weston Playhouse B Y A L E X BROW N From left: Jeffrey Omura, Kristin Villanueva, Andrew Garman and Kathleen McElfresh

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n 1962, when Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? premiered, only 2 percent of Americans divorced. Married people stayed married, and married people argued. Edward Albee’s play captured the psychological damage that words could inflict, and it was shocking then for its profanity and naked cruelty.

But the play is more than a verbal slugfest, as the Weston Playhouse production demonstrates. It’s also the story of how to preserve a marriage by fighting, to love and hate so fiercely that it’s hard to know the difference.

The play unfolds in real time over one long night. George is a college history professor, Martha the daughter of the college’s formidable president. They stumble home at 2 a.m. after a faculty party hosted by Martha’s father. But the night is still young enough for Martha to invite guests: Nick, a new faculty member, and his wife, Honey. Nick and Honey will be catalysts, victims and witnesses who intensify George and Martha’s battles. Young Nick and Honey get their chances to fight back, but this is George and Martha’s master class in marriage.

Albee’s four characters have each failed at something, and their disgrace is the tinder. Intelligence is the spark. And the need to shame someone else to bury one’s own humiliation is the flame. The play is a bonfire.

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In Weston’s production of the awardwinning work, what keeps the marriage going is just as visible as the hostility that could tear it down. George and Martha thrive in a chilly partnership because they’ve each found someone who knows their weakness. It’s a limited and volatile love, but it’s led them to create a shared illusion. By the end of the night, at rock bottom, they shatter it.

Albee’s script is genuinely musical, from the rhythm of a phrase to the symphonic rise and fall of each scene.

Weston’s four performers work together to create harmonics in tone and tempo, and together they reveal the play’s psychological riches.

Though the play’s subject is speech, director Mike Donahue deftly uses posture and gesture to embody the story. George leans over Martha on the sofa, suspended between sympathy and attack. Nick gathers Honey in a protective embrace while she smiles with an infant’s passivity. Martha springs up to dance on the cushion of an armchair, then Nick emulates her on the sofa. Honey crumples into a heap, only her helpless legs visible over the arm of the chair.

Donahue’s elemental visuals portray the motivation behind the words, and he paces the action to balance the untidy endurance of a long night with unquenchable thirst that keeps the characters going.

The director makes the bold choice to

place the naturalistic conflict in a slightly stylized setting. The furniture is detailed, but there are no walls save black masking at the back of the stage. By avoiding edgeto-edge realism, Donahue lifts the play out of the theater’s frame and keeps the viewer from complacent absorption.

Scenic designer Dane Laffrey conveys the play’s weighty mood with a massive, tufted, nailhead leather couch and two matching armchairs, but he places them on a platform raised on open rails. The viewer beholds a cross-section of a living room, from a layer of tawny orange shag carpet to a thickness of floorboard to a lattice of joists that’s an open channel for light. A table mid-stage bristles with liquor bottles and a seemingly infinite supply of glasses for the characters to fill and abandon. The room almost erodes under the sparkle of littered glassware as the night wears on.

Lighting designer Scott Zielinski illuminates each act distinctively. The conventional wash in Act 1 is a gettingto-know-you look, but when Act 2 opens, a hot array of white light sizzles on the furniture as the lights themselves appear to aim right at the viewer. Act 3’s intense surprise shouldn’t be revealed.

Laffrey and Zielinski’s visual effects summarize the play but pull viewers outside it. Donahue’s conception is aesthetically coherent, but using several different tools to tell the story means the viewer will briefly

let go of the characters to marvel at the room’s surreal suspension or the lighting’s vivid statement. The use of theater’s whole arsenal is commendable, but the excellent performances don’t need the underlining.

Andrew Garman, as George, shambles around the living room, barricades himself behind eloquence, makes drinks and fetches ice. But all the while he is gauging how far he’ll be pushed and what magnificent gambit he’ll unleash in revenge.

Garman is subtle, landing blows light as a fencer at first, the better to give his darkest moments weight.

Martha is often portrayed as an aggressive bundle of brutish cravings, but Kathleen McElfresh explores her desperation and resilience. She attacks with quiet jabs, not roars. But by the end, her anguish takes the form of raw invention, as if she can will reality to match her imagination. Only when her voice cracks can we see she’s lost hope.

As Nick, Jeffrey Omura listens, marvels and finally smolders. He’s both fascinated and horrified by George and Martha, and when he’s forced to find a way out of the crosshairs of George’s contempt, he learns he’s capable of cruelty, too.

Kristin Villanueva makes Honey into the play’s humorous social compass. She radiates naïve incomprehension as civility is breaking down and suspends herself in oblivion as the proceedings grow difficult to watch. Villanueva’s delicate touch adds just enough comedy, and when she, too, is hurt, her wail expresses the pain everyone else labors to conceal.

In 1962, the American family template was rigid: husband as powerful breadwinner, submissive wife, two perfectly behaved children. Albee’s characters are more real than that imaginary ideal, and viewers were shocked. If we aren’t surprised today, it’s because Albee showed us the true heart and heat of a marriage.

His vision remains riveting. m Contact: alex@sevendaysvt.com

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Cooking on the Farm Big-city chef John Patterson goes country at the Inn at Shelburne Farms B Y MEL I SSA PASAN E N

CHEF JOHN PATTERSON POSITION: Executive chef,

the Inn at Shelburne Farms LOCATION: Shelburne AGE: 39 CUISINE TYPE: Contemporary American focused on seasonality and regionality EDUCATION: The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pa. EXPERIENCE: Most recently, executive chef

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couple of weeks ago, Shelburne Farms’ new executive chef, John Patterson, spent two days away from the restaurant meeting with educators and school cafeteria staff in Middlebury. Such a practice is far from standard for a new chef at the height of his first season; it made very clear to Patterson that his latest gig is different.

The chef started his professional cooking career at Blackfish, one of Philadelphia’s small, innovative BYOB establishments. He worked his way up the kitchen chain of command at critically acclaimed restaurants such as Fork in Philadelphia, Gramercy Tavern in New York City and Talula’s Table in Chester County, Pa. The last one was once dubbed “America’s toughest reservation” by NPR. At the Inn at Shelburne Farms,

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at Fork in Philadelphia and sous chef at Gramercy Tavern in New York City WHAT’S ON THE MENU? The Garden Board,

featuring “literally everything” from the Shelburne Farms Market Garden raw, pickled, roasted, or made into dips or salsas ($21); tomato spaghetti made with tomato leaves, tomato water and blistered tomatoes ($26); roasted scallops with grilled corn, cucumber and ginger-plum jus ($36); Shelburne Farms leg of lamb with charred eggplant, cipollini onion and sesame chickpea puree ($36)

Patterson revels in peak-season tomatoes grown less than a mile from his kitchen and beef and lamb raised so close “I can go pet it,” he said. While the chef relishes the opportunity to create a “hyper-local, hyper-seasonal” menu, he also recognizes that the restaurant operates in service to nonprofit Shelburne Farms’ broader mission of sustainability education.

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Patterson talked with Seven Days about downshifting from the intensity of big-city restaurants, cooking with tomato leaves and why “crap” bread is crucial to a good sandwich.

SEVEN DAYS: You’re a Philly native and devoted Flyers fan, I hear. How did you land in a state that lacks a major professional sports team?

JOHN PATTERSON: I was looking for my next opportunity, somewhere that was a little more education focused. I wanted to be able to give back.

My wife actually found the job listing, and my response was “But it’s in Vermont...” I had never been to Vermont; I knew nothing about Vermont. I knew there was maple syrup and Phish was from

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Burlington, and that was the extent of my knowledge.

We drove up in March. When we left Philadelphia, it was 72 degrees, and when we got up here, I think it was 39. But you step onto Shelburne Farms, and it sort of takes your breath away. Then you meet the folks who work here, and you talk to them about why they work here. It was everything I was looking for and, honestly, didn’t even know.

SD: What or who influenced you to pursue a culinary career?

JP: In some ways, my parents, and in some ways, not my parents.

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“I think it’s a great location, and I think it’s a great restaurant,” Cyr said. “It has a beautiful ambience, and really great people come in here.

That was the driving force behind me wanting to run the restaurant — the people.”

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The DAILY PLANET, which opened in 1982 at 15 Center Street in Burlington, will soon have new owners, co-owner COPEY HOUGHTON said. The restaurant is under deposit in a deal in which Houghton will sell it to DAVID WARSHOW. After a year, bar manager IAN CYR will become a second owner.

Cyr, 33, grew up in the area and previously worked at STARRY NIGHT CAFÉ in Ferrisburgh and the

some interior improvements and overhaul the Planet’s menu to emphasize “globalstyle dining,” he added, reflecting the restaurant’s name.

“We are the Daily Planet,” Cyr said. “Having a little more worldly view is going to be important for us.”

Cyr expects to continue working behind the bar as he steps into his new role as coowner and general manager.

“I really love bartending; I really love interacting with guests from behind the bar,” he said. “If I didn’t love the place as I do, I wouldn’t be able to do [all] that.”

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The storefront window near Local Motion at 1 Steele Street is the retail home of THIRST COCONUT WATER, owned

by LIZ PROUTT and GUI MEIRELES. The couple opened the storefront in early June to sell their locally processed cocolocal, fresh, original nut water and have found a market in the active bikers and runners who pass by.

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The ingredients for the Garden Board, ready for assembly by chef John Patterson

but my mom said, “Absolutely not.” I bounced around, it seemed like, every college in suburban Philadelphia for years, trying to find what I wanted to do. I should have had two doctorates by the time I got out, and I didn’t even have a degree.

That whole time, I was working in restaurants and watching “Great Chefs of the World” on the Discovery Channel. I would come home and spend some of the money I had made trying to replicate the dishes, to stunning failure.

During that time, I kept receiving in the mail all these brochures for culinary schools. It turned out my mom had signed me up. One Sunday, my dad called and said, “There’s an open house at this culinary school. Do you want to go take a look?”

The Eagles weren’t playing that Sunday, so we went, and I absolutely loved it.

It had the learning aspect, the creative aspect, and, at the end of the day, I really liked making people happy, and that’s why I’ve continued in the restaurant industry.

SD: Do you ever go play with the lambs and goats at the Farm Barn?

JP: I haven’t yet. That was one of my goals, certainly in the off-season. I did not grow up in an agricultural area. I’ve spent a couple days down in the Market Garden with Josh [Carter, market gardener]. Picking asparagus blew my mind. He must have thought I was insane.

SD: Plans for November through April, when the Inn is closed?

JP: This is the first time in 15 years that I haven’t had a year-round cooking job. I’m looking at it as an exciting opportunity. At the same time, there’s an uncertainty, and I’m getting anxious.

I know I’ll be visiting local schools to see their dining programs and how I can be of help. I know that helping around the farm is a big part. Closer to Christmas, I’ll be helping with cheese orders.

And I’m going to look at logistics for next year: kitchen layout, staffing. It’s a challenge to build a seasonal staff. I’m going to be doing quite a bit of recruiting. I want to start an extern program through Johnson & Wales [University] and CIA [Culinary Institute of America] and, hopefully, NECI [New England Culinary Institute].

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SD: Do you have a comfort food from childhood?

JP: Mashed potatoes made by my grandmother. I did not grow up in a foodfocused household. Cooking green vegetables was not a strong point. It wasn’t until I got into the restaurant business that I realized asparagus was supposed to have some texture to it. My grandmother would cook asparagus to the point where you would touch it with a fork and it would just implode.

SD: When you were interviewed about taking on the job at Fork in Philadelphia, you mentioned being attracted by the intensity of the kitchen. We like to think we’re a little more laidback here in Vermont. How has the shift been?

JP: It has been honestly a little bit of a challenge. As much as I wanted to pull back, after so many years, it’s an adjustment period. It feels less intense because the primary goals of the restaurant are not the same. The goals here are also community and education focused. You’re not trying to compete with the restaurants in NYC and [on] the James Beard [Foundation Award] list.

The primary purpose of the Inn is to support the other functions of the farm, because we’re a nonprofit. The entire property, whether it’s the Farm Barn, the cheesemaking — it’s all tied in. At the end of the day, we want people to sit and relax, have a great meal, and really see that the products from the farm represent what we do here.

That being said, once the [orders] start

here to take care of people; we’re here to feed people.

Chef de cuisine Tim Fox sautéing beef at the Inn at Shelburne Farms

rolling in, the heat and pressure kick in, and there’s still that adrenaline rush.

SD: At the recent Vermont Fresh Network Annual Forum Dinner held at Shelburne Farms, the Inn received the 2019 best bite award for beet-tomato tartare and blue corn pancakes. How did that recipe come together?

JP: The corn pancake was Jim [McCarthy, the Inn’s executive chef emeritus], and I was the beet tartare. I wanted to utilize the things we had on the farm. We had plenty of beets, and we had tomatoes, and they’re really at their peak.

For gluten-free, we did a tomato-leaf rice crisp based on the tomato-leaf pasta we’re doing, where I use leaf prunings blanched and puréed for the liquid in the dough.

There was also a green tomato “caviar” on top, kind of like jelled pearls. The beets

were smoked. I use this little Weber grill; it’s actually made for tailgating, but we knock the legs off it and use it on the stovetop. I used some ground cherries, too.

I like a lot of differences in texture, and I like a lot of differences in acid and fat, so you get contrast.

SD: Do you have one tip for home cooks?

JP: Use more salt. And rest any protein from the oven. If I can put my hand over it and it doesn’t make my hand feel like it’s going to sweat, then it’s cool enough to slice.

SD: A lot of locals don’t make it out to the Inn to eat. What would you say to encourage them to come?

JP: Given the stateliness of the grounds, it’s an uphill battle. It isn’t just a place to come and celebrate. Stop in, take a look, have a drink, order an appetizer. We’re

SD: Favorite Philly sandwich: cheesesteak, roast pork or hoagie?

JP: I would say roast pork with sharp provolone and broccoli raab. Cheesesteaks are always better in the suburbs. In Philly, they’re a tourist trap. I recommend Dalessandro’s in Roxborough.

The whole reason the sandwiches are good down there is the bread. It’s crap bread.

It’s squishy, no real flavor. The bread is just the vehicle. I can’t find a good sandwich up here because the bread is too good. [Laughs] SD: Favorite new-to-you Vermont food?

JP: I just had my first creemee yesterday, a maple creemee. It was pretty good, though I’m really a chunks guy. Ben & Jerry’s — I love it.

But the quality of the dairy up here is so much better than any that I’d had. I mean the plethora of cheese. I went to the [Vermont Cheesemakers] Festival. That was incredible. I got to taste tons of cheese. m Contact: pasanen@sevendaysvt.com

INFO The Inn at Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne, 985-8498, shelburnefarms.org.

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The storefront has been a great way to introduce the product to people in a place where coconuts don’t naturally grow, according to Meireles. “Some people have never seen a fresh coconut before,” he said.

The storefront will be seasonal, open through the summer and during nice fall weather. Once it closes for the year, Thirst will offer delivery of a frozen version of the coconut water via online subscription.

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Middlebury Mélange MAD TACO, DEDALUS AND MORE COMING TO MIDDLEBURY

by Community Barn Real Estate, an affiliate of Community Barn Ventures that was founded in the fall of 2017 by Addison County business partners Mary Cullinane and Stacey Rainey. Cullinane and Rainey purchased the 9,000-square-foot building for $500,000 in January 2019 and expect its $1 million renovation to be complete in late September, they said.

Stone Mill will open with tenants that include the MAD TACO; DEDALUS WINE SHOP, MARKET &

WINE BAR; LOST MONARCH

COFFEE (a sister business of Middlebury’s ROYAL OAK COFFEE shop); and the ARCADIAN TO GO, the developers said.

The Arcadian outpost will offer sandwiches on housemade baguettes and salads prepared by the ARCADIAN, an Italian restaurant that opened last fall in Middlebury.

The food will have a “European deli aesthetic,” chef-owner MATT CORRENTE said.

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The 1840 building at 3 Mill Street on the Otter Creek was formerly owned

by Middlebury College.

Stone Mill is the first Vermont development project spearheaded Taco from the Mad Taco

home to the Storm Café.

The restaurant will have patio picnic tables and seating for about 30 inside, co-owner JOEY NAGY said. It will be the fourth location of the Mad Taco; the first opened in Waitsfield in late 2010.

“I went and looked at the space and fell in love with it,” Nagy said. “It’s a perfect fit for us.”

The other food businesses in the building will be part of the STONE MILL PUBLIC MARKET, a roughly 2,000-squarefoot space on the building’s street-level floor. With the exception of Lost Monarch Coffee, the businesses will share a checkout counter — an arrangement that helps make it feasible for several retailers to operate in one building, the developers said.

“It’s really hard in a small downtown to open a single shop,” Cullinane said. “We really wanted to create a building that the community saw as a place to go every day — and [that provided] a reason for a retailer to open their store.”

The goal of the project is to create a community gathering place where the various enterprises on each floor interact, the developers said.

“When you have a community as amazing as Middlebury, it’s very easy to fall in love,” Cullinane said.

“We did that with this community, and we are thrilled to be able to give back a little bit.”

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was a county fair kid. Every year growing up, I dragged an extremely reluctant goat around an arena in southwest Colorado, and then sold it at auction to some generous sucker who probably got about five pounds of meat off the entire scrawny specimen. The fair was the social event of my summer.

I would meet up with my friends and wander through the animal barns, dodging steers and poking my fingers into rabbit cages. Then there were the indoor exhibitions, where one could compete in just about anything.

I especially loved the garden center, a room full of beautiful flower arrangements, clusters of ripe veggies and other horticultural specimens. The garden was usually the most neglected portion of my family’s small farm, and it was constantly amazing to me that people were actually growing grocerystore-quality fruits and vegetables — and that they not only managed to grow one perfect tomato, but three perfect tomatoes at the same time.

Today, I garden for the same reason I occasionally bake pies from scratch: Making the thing with my own hands is satisfying, and it seems like something that a person who really has their crap together would do.

So I invited the vegetable judges from the Champlain Valley Fair — the two people who have the ultimate power to decide on the best squash or ear of corn in the entire valley — to my community garden on Myrtle Street. I wanted them to talk about how to harvest vegetables for the fair and, even more importantly, what to do with those that don’t make the cut.

One judge was Jessica Hyman, who was executive director of the Vermont Community Garden Network for seven years. The other was Charlie Nardozzi,

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a gardening educator, speaker, radio commentator, and coauthor of Vegetable Gardening for Dummies and Urban Gardening for Dummies.

It should go without saying that the weekend before this garden visit, I

yanked two half-dead zucchini plants out of my plot and pruned the tomatoes. It wasn’t that I thought Nardozzi and Hyman would critique my garden; I assumed, correctly, that they would be kind and encouraging. But I wanted them

to be at least a little impressed.

Nardozzi has been judging vegetables at the Champlain Valley Fair — which runs August 23 through S e p t e m ber 1 — for about 20 years.

Hyman started out judging the kids’ section in 2011 through VCGN, and then began judging adult produce a few years ago.

Competing in the fair is a lot like grade school homework assignments: It’s mostly about reading the directions. Hyman said it’s amazing how many people don’t read them — or, in this case, don’t read the garden center handbook.

“If it says in the category that you need to have 10 cherry tomatoes, sometimes there’ll be 16, and sometimes nine,” she said.

“Sometimes we’ll move them around,” Nardozzi said.

“Or sometimes it gives us the opportunity to sample them, if they happen to have too many,” Hyman added with a laugh.

The directions go beyond just the number of vegetables to submit. Some vegetables, like squash, should be submitted with the stem attached. Beets and carrots, however, are displayed with their greens trimmed off. Kale should be displayed in a jar of water, but leeks should not. The handbook is on the fair website, and Nardozzi said it’s updated every few years to keep up with changing trends in what people are growing. For example, more varieties of tomatoes are in. Rutabagas and turnips, not so much.

There’s also the matter of knowing

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when to harvest. Hyman stopped to point out a tangle of bean plants growing up a trellis in a plot neighboring mine.

By the time the outline of the beans inside is visible through the shell, she said, a bean is overripe. And those giant squash that everybody is posting on Facebook? They’re too big. Zucchinis are actually best when picked at about six inches long.

The other main traits the judges look for in vegetables are consistency, uniformity, and lack of damage from bugs or rough handling. But Nardozzi and Hyman aren’t sticklers. “We don’t really love the idea of rewarding people for growing blemishfree, beautiful fruits, because we don’t really ask how they J E SSICA grew them,� Nardozzi said. “So maybe they sprayed all kinds of stuff on them to get these beautiful fruits, and we’d rather have people bring in stuff that maybe has a few blemishes.�

They both try to strike a balance between acknowledging the long-held tradition of vegetable showing and encouraging people to see beyond which vegetables are “perfect.� “We’re recognizing the perfect vegetables, the ones that look the best and are picked at the height of their freshness and are the right shape and the right colors, and that’s really important in terms of good growing practices and encouraging people to grow their best,� Hyman said. “And it’s also really important to recognize that that’s not the only thing to value about food. And that there’s a lot of value that comes from food that isn’t perfect in all these qualities, and that the food is still perfectly good to eat and may taste delicious and has all sorts of other uses other than showing it at the fair.�

Attention to the role that misfit produce plays in food waste, sometimes called the “ugly food movement,� has taken off in recent years. In Vermont, you can have “misfit produce� delivered to your door by the Philadelphiabased company Misfits Market. Another

company, Hungry Harvest, does the same up and down the Atlantic coast, and Imperfect Produce delivers to large cities nationwide. Even Walmart has been dabbling in selling weather-damaged produce since 2016.

Hyman doesn’t really believe in “ugly� food. Food is food. But she thinks this movement is a good place to start the conversation about food waste. The fair provides an opportunity to educate people about growing practices and sustainable food systems. When kids enter their vegetables for competition, they get a face-toface judging session, where volunteers from VCGN give them tips.

For my part, I made carrot-top pesto for the first HYMAN time this summer, and I sautĂŠed my beet greens and blended the ends and insides of tomatoes into a vinaigrette, attempting to reduce the amount of food going straight into my compost.

And for the record: Hyman and Nardozzi said my tomatoes looked nice.

I beamed. And now that I’ve dedicated so much of my summer to coaxing food out of the dirt — and spent a not-insignificant amount of money on pots, starts and compost — I really want to show it off.

Not on Instagram, where the “likesâ€? feel cheap. Not to my friends, who are tired of pretending to be amazed by yet another stubby jalapeĂąo.

I want to go where the gardeners go.

I want to carefully pack up 10 of my best cherry tomatoes and take them where I know they’ll be appreciated. Maybe I’ll even win a ribbon. m

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

Info, 391-4870.

STEPS TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS: Proprietors bank strategies for taking their companies to the next level.

Triumph Barre and Pilates Studio, Rutland, 6-8:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

community

FOCUS GROUP SESSIONS: Patrons offer their two cents on the library and local community as part of the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ national study on rural museums, libraries and social wellbeing. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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.

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DOG DAY AT THE POOL: Pups splash around to raise money for the Central Vermont Humane Society. Rain date: August 22. Montpelier Public Pool, 5-6:30 p.m. $20 per family. Info, 476-3811.

MEMORABLE TIMES CAFÉ: Those living with mild to moderate memory loss and their care partners convene for casual social time. Refreshments are provided. Vermont History Center, Barre, 1:30-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 476-2681.

fairs & festivals

CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR: Vermont’s oldest fair celebrates the state’s rural roots with amusement rides, a children’s tent, agricultural shows, exhibits and musical acts. Caledonia County Fair Grounds, Lyndonville, 4 p.m. $16.64-40. Info, 626-8101.

film

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

‘CHINATOWN’: Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway star in the story of a private detective who finds himself in a web of corruption and lies.

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

‘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.

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‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: Some of the Pacific Ocean’s most beautiful islands and marine national monuments grace the screen. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

At just 9 years old, Reyna Grande left her home in the city of Iguala, Mexico, to join her parents in the United States, where she entered as an undocumented immigrant. She went on to become the first person in her family to graduate from college. In her best-selling 2013 memoir The Distance Between Us, she recounts her young life on both sides of the southern border. In 2018, Grande published a sequel, A Dream Called Home. The American Book Award winner gives a public reading with fellow author Sally Keith as part of the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

REYNA GRANDE Thursday, August 22, 8:15 p.m., at the Little Theater, Bread Loaf Campus, in Ripton. Call to confirm. Free. Info, 443-2700, middlebury.edu.

‘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.

JUST-FOR-FUN MOVIES: Film fans keep their eyes glued to the screen for an animated tale of arachnid superheroes working together to protect the multiverse. Call for title. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

‘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.

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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.

AUG.22 | WORDS Community Gathering Summer in the municipality known as “the little city with a big heart” wouldn’t be complete without the annual Vergennes Day celebration. This downtown bash presented by the Addison County Chamber of Commerce and the City of Vergennes kicks off on Friday with a street dance set to music by classic-rock cover band the Hitmen. A pancake breakfast paves the way for Saturday’s main events, including bandstand concerts, a chicken barbecue, a rubber duckie race, and the chance to browse more than 65 crafter and vendor booths. Looking to stretch your legs? Athletes break a sweat in the Vergennes Day Race, featuring a 5K run/walk, 10- and 15K runs, and a Kids’ Fun Run.

VERGENNES DAY Friday, August 23, 7-10 p.m., and Saturday, August 24, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Vergennes City Park.

Free. Info, 388-7951, addisoncounty.com.

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Saturday, August 24, noon-4 p.m. and 6-10 p.m., at Waterfront Park in Burlington. $29.50-39.50.

Info, 872-9000, drinkvermont.net.

On the Move Organizers of the sixth annual Cycle 4 CMT aim to raise $200,000 to support research on the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a progressive neurological condition that damages the hands, feet, arms and legs. Cyclists choose from five noncompetitive routes ranging from three to 40 miles. All courses begin and end in Charlotte and reward riders with views of farm country and the Adirondack Mountains. Walkers cover a quarter, half or full mile. Participants and nonparticipants alike gather at a spirited after-party replete with live music, a catered meal, and beverages from Switchback Brewing and Citizen Cider.

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CYCLE 4 CMT Sunday, August 25, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., at the Old Lantern Inn and Barn in Charlotte. $35-55. Info, elizabetho@ outlook.com, cycle4cmt.com.

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‘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.

Williston Central School, 7 p.m.

Donations. Info, onetownata timevt251@gmail.com.

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.

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.

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

MAH JONGG IN BARRE: Fun, friendship and conversation flow as players manipulate tiles. Barre Area Senior Center, 10 a.m. Free.

Info, 479-9512.

health & fitness

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

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.

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR MEDICINE?: Reiki master Regina Powers addresses each of the five elements as tools for understanding physical and emotional imbalances in the body. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@ hungermountain.coop.

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

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE OF THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGION SOCIAL HOUR: Francophones fine-tune their French-language conversation skills over cocktails.

Juniper, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free.

Info, info@aflcr.org.

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

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

for details. Little Theatre, Bread Loaf Campus, Ripton. Free; call to confirm. Info, 443-2700.

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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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GAYME NIGHT: Friends bond over contests such as Cards Against Humanity, Jenga Giant and Scrabble. Bring or borrow a game. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

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.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

BACH IN CHURCH: Renowned Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival players breathe life into a varied program of solo works for organ and cello, along with two arias. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, 12:15 p.m. Free.

Info, 864-0471.

THU.22 bazaars

COMMUNITY CLOSET FUNDRAISER: Shoppers browse new and pre-owned clothing, shoes and accessories for women, men, kids and infants. All proceeds benefit Jenna’s Promise.

A food truck and Ben & Jerry’s scoop truck are on site from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Aspenti Health Corporate Office & Vermont Lab, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 324-3757.

BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: JENNI JOHNSON & THE JAZZ JUNKETEERS: American jazz classics complement blues, swing and funk music in an al fresco concert. Lower Church St., Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7166.

CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: BIG GALUT(E): A prize-winning klezmer ensemble delivers a unique repertoire of Jewish and Jewish-themed music spanning five continents and six centuries. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 728-6464.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: Master classes, performances and talks by musicians tantalize the ears of classical listeners. See lccmf.org for details. Various Chittenden County locations, Burlington. $225 for grand festival pass; prices vary for individual events.

Info, 846-2175.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: FESTIVAL WEDNESDAY: Resident composer David Serkin Ludwig hosts the concert “Ancient Voices.”

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-40. Info, 863-5966.

NIGHTSHADE KITCHEN: A unique meal made up of regional cuisine pairs perfectly with original sounds by the Leatherbound Books and Izzy Heltai. Nectar & Root, Winooski, 8:30-11 p.m. $5.

Info, nightshadekitchen@gmail. com.

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.

SONG CIRCLE: Singers and musicians congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182.

GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch.

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

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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.

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.

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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 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.

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

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.

HOWARD COFFIN: Drawing from letters and diaries, the historian describes the lives of Vermont women during the Civil War. Georgia Public Library, Fairfax, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-3996.

tech

REPAIR CAFÉ: Folks join Flipped Vermont Technology Solutions’ lead technician for an evening of tinkering and talking about all things tech. Spark Co-Working Space, Greensboro, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 433-3547.

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.

‘COLLECTED STORIES’: In this contemporary drama directed

by Joanne Greenberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies explores the complicated relationship between two talented writers — one a famous teacher, and one her student.

Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8-9:30 p.m. Donations.

Info, 496-5997.

‘MAMMA MIA!’: Take a chance on this Stowe Theater Guild 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. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 7:30 p.m. $14-20. Info, tickets@stowetheatre.com.

‘WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?’: A boozy evening takes a dark turn when troubled middle-aged couple Martha and George carouse with the younger Honey and Nick after a cocktail party. Weston Playhouse Main Stage, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $45-69. Info, 824-5288.

words

BREAD LOAF WRITERS’ CONFERENCE LECTURES & READINGS: Notable novelists and poets deliver readings and lectures on different aspects of their craft. See middlebury.edu

business

CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER BUSINESS AFTER HOURS RECEPTION: Area professionals rub elbows amid refreshments, door prizes and a 50/50 raffle.

One Credit Union, South Barre, 5-7 p.m. $10-15; preregister. Info, info@centralvt.com.

community

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

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

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

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

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

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crafts

MOUNT MANSFIELD SCALE MODELERS: Hobbyists break out the superglue and sweat the small stuff at a miniature construction skill swap. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:308:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0765.

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FEAST & FIELD MARKET: Prepared foods and the dreampop stylings of Kalbells 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.

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.

fairs & festivals

CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR: See WED.21, 7 a.m.

MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL: Features, documentaries and short movies grace Middlebury’s silver screens at an annual celebration of emerging talent.

Panels, happy hours and seminars round out the festivities.

See middfilmfest.org for details.

Various Middlebury locations. $20-95 for passes; $12 for single screenings. Info, info@middfilm fest.org.

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.

film

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

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.21.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.21.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.21.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.21.

‘ONE TOWN AT A TIME’: See WED.21, Hardwick Town House, 6:30 p.m.

‘REAR WINDOW’: Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller follows a photographer who becomes convinced that one of his neighbors is a murderer. 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, elise andgail@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 Wild Leek River provide a country and rock-and-roll backdrop. Terrace, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 855-650-0080.

IN-STORE TASTING & DEMO: Foodies drop in for samples of Mexican street corn salad. Kiss the Cook, Middlebury, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 349-8803.

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.

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, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Cost of food and drink. Info, 388-1436.

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

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

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

Free. Info, thelandingvt@gmail. com.

games

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

Free. Info, 863-5403.

Participants Needed for a Research Study on the Brain

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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 a.m.

Free. Info, 479-9512.

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.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Seniors rise and shine with an exercise program meant to increase bone density and muscle strength.

Barre Area Senior Center, 8:309:45 a.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.

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. Free.

Info, 479-9512.

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

Info, 448-4262.

presents

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.

AT BURLINGTON September THU 5 JEREMY HOLT: 7PM BEFORE HOUDINI

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.

THU 12 CADWELL TURNBULL: 7PM THE LESSON TUE 17 GARRETT M. GRAFF: THE 7PM ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY

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.

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.

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music

Find club dates in the music section.

CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: OPEN REHEARSAL: World-class chamber musicians hone their craft.

Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 728-6464.

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FULL CIRCLE RECORDERS: “Lads and Lasses,” performed by the Vermont recorder ensemble, is a light-hearted collection of Celtic tunes about men, women and love. Grace Episcopal Church, Sheldon, 7-9 p.m. $15. Info, 326-4603.

HUNGER MOUNTAIN CO-OP BROWN BAG SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: This weekly series continues with a mountain folk set by Alex Smith. City Hall Plaza, Montpelier, noon. Free. Info, 223-9604.

JULIA CAESAR: The Queen City indie rockers serve up selections from their new LP, MARS, at this combination album release and THU.22

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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.

September SAT 14 MEET LLAMA LLAMA! 11AM WED 18 NANCY & JOHN HAYDEN: 7PM FARMING ON THE WILD SIDE Phoenix Books Essex events are free and open to all.

READING WITHOUT WALLS BINGO A summer reading program for grades K-12.

Read books and win prizes!

Both locations throughout August.

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farewell show. Honey & Soul and Daisy World open. Congregation Ruach haMaqom, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 356-1668.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: See WED.21.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: FESTIVAL THURSDAY: Resident composer David Serkin Ludwig’s presentation “Inside Pitch: The Revolutionary” leads to a performance of Beethoven string trios and a picnic lunch overlooking Lake Champlain. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 10 a.m. $25; free for students.

Info, 863-5966.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘ALL ABOUT EVE’: An ingénue maneuvers to usurp power from an established actress in this drama broadcast from London’s West End. Gillian Anderson and Lily James star. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 3 p.m. $10-17.

Info, 760-4634.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Oenophiles let loose with live music by Carol Ann Jones and the Superchargers, 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.21.

outdoors

seminars

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, noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

talks

TOWN HOUSE FORUM: CARTOONS & GRAPHIC STORYTELLING: A discussion and reading series hosts New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren and Fun Home author Alison Bechdel.

Strafford Town House, 7-8:30 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.21, 7:30 p.m.

‘COLLECTED STORIES’: See WED.21.

‘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., 5 p.m. $20-35. Info, 518-962-4449.

‘MAMMA MIA!’: See WED.21.

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.

‘SLOW FOOD’: An anniversary dinner goes awry when an obnoxious waiter causes a couple to examine both their menu and life choices in this tasty new comedy from playwright Wendy MacLeod.

A Dorset Theatre Festival production. Dorset Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $48-58. Info, 867-2223.

SLOW & EASY HIKING: Walkers enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the forest while moving at a gentle pace. Ilene Elliott leads this public Barre Area Senior Center outing. Barre Town Forest, Websterville, 10:10 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

‘WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?’: See WED.21, 7:30 p.m.

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.

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BREAD LOAF WRITERS’ CONFERENCE LECTURES & READINGS: See WED.21.

ESCAPING GILEAD: ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’ FAN DISCUSSION: Fans of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel gather to discuss the acclaimed book and TV adaptation. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 864-8001.

FOOD BOOK CLUB: Readers digest The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone.

Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@hunger mountain.coop.

REYNA GRANDE: The bestselling author of the memoir The Distance Between Us gives a public reading as part of the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. See calendar spotlight. Little Theater, Bread Loaf Campus, Middlebury, 8:15 p.m. Free; call to confirm. Info, 443-2700.

SEVEN DAYS AUGUST 21-28, 2019

VERMONT AUTHORS LECTURE SERIES: THOMAS CHRISTOPHER GREENE: Fiction fans perk up their ears for passages from the thrilling novel The Perfect Liar.

Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6:30 p.m. $12; $70 for the series. Info, 533-2000.

FRI.23 activism

WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S: Activists gather outside Sen. Bernie Sanders’ office to protest his support of bringing F-35 fighter jets to Burlington International Airport. Please bring signs.

Senator Bernie Sanders’ Office — Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 786-423-1403.

dance

BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Singles, couples and beginners are welcome to join in a dance social featuring waltz, tango and more. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, 8-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 862-2269.

ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Inspired by the 5Rhythms dance practice, attendees move, groove, release and open their hearts to life in a safe and sacred space. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, fearnessence@gmail.com.

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CIRCUS ARTS TRAINING JAM: Daring individuals perfect skills ranging from juggling to tight-rope walking with CAMP Burlington members. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, burlingtoncamp@gmail.com.

LOUNGE 91: Green Mountain Railroad passengers delight in live music, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as picturesque scenery rolls by. Union Station, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $60. Info, 800-707-3530.

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.22.

fairs & festivals

CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR: See WED.21, 7 a.m.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR: Folks hit the midway for games, rides and fried food, of course. Farm animals, agricultural displays and grandstand concerts round out the fun. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction. $5-12; $35 for ride bracelet; additional costs for concerts and special events. Info, 878-5545.

MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL: See THU.22.

VERGENNES DAY: This small Vermont city goes big on Friday with a street dance featuring the Hitmen. The fun continues on Saturday with bandstand concerts, a road race, artisan vendors, a chicken barbecue and more. See calendar spotlight. Vergennes City Park, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7951.

film

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

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.21.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.21.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.21.

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.21.

‘ONE TOWN AT A TIME’: See WED.21, Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 6 p.m.

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.

FIELD-TO-TABLE DINNER WITH CHEF LEE DUBERMAN: A five-course meal complete with drink pairings celebrates fresh expressions of contemporary Mexican cuisine. Green Mountain Girls Farm, Northfield, 6-9 p.m. $125; preregister; cash bar. Info, 505-9840.

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: See THU.22, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. & 5-9:30 p.m.

SUN TO CHEESE TOUR: Fromage fans go behind the scenes and follow award-winning farmstead cheddar from raw milk to finished product. Shelburne Farms, 1:453:45 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.21, 9:15 a.m.

CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: See WED.21.

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

ADVANCED SUN TAI CHI 73: Participants keep active with a sequence of slow, controlled movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3322.

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.21, 7:30 & 10:40 a.m.

CHAIR YOGA: Students with limited mobility limber up with modified poses. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 448-4262.

GONG MEDITATION: Sonic vibrations lead to healing and deep relaxation. Yoga Roots, Williston, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $18. Info, 318-6050.

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.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: ALISON TURNER: Hailing from Royalton, the singer-songwriter serves up heartfelt indie pop. Lower Church St., Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7166.

BUSH & LIVE: Hits such as “Machine Head” and “I Alone” propel an alt-rock concert by two of the genre’s biggest bands.

Our Lady Peace open. Coca-Cola Grandstand, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $34.75-248 includes gate admission when purchased in advance.

Info, 863-5966.

CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: FRIDAY NIGHT IN THE GALLERY: Light food and drink please palates at an informal meet and greet with musicians. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 728-6464.

DAVID ROSANE & THE ZOOKEEPERS: The folk-rock protest band rallies support for literacy during a stop on its Across the Zoo-niverse library benefit tour. Chelsea Public Library, 7-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 685-2188.

EMMA BACK: “Strife and Joy,” a musical dialogue traversing the inner landscape of the human experience, features vocal percussion, jaunting melodies and jazz- and klezmer-inspired violin riffs. Montgomery Center for the Arts, 7-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, montgomerycenterarts@gmail. com.

FRIDAY NIGHT FIRES SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: Playing roots, blues and folk tunes on a variety of instruments, Jacob Green delights listeners as a one-person band. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 5-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-1151.

KIMBERLY TOWNSEND: Lyricdriven numbers by the the New York City-based singer-songwriter reveal elements of folk, indie-pop and soul styles. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: See WED.21.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: FESTIVAL FRIDAY: The second half of this unique concert spotlights Israeli pianist Matan Porat improvising a score to the 1926 Buster Keaton comedy The General. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, preconcert talk, 6:45 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $15-40. Info, 863-5966.

MUSIC IN THE ALLEY: TURNMUSIC: Conducted by Anne Decker, area musicians breathe life into eclectic selections including Sufjan Stevens’ experimental electronic LP Enjoy Your Rabbit.

Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop, Waterbury, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7801.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.21.

THE YOUNG’UNS: The English trio proves why it won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards title of Best Group in 2015 and 2016. Whallonsburg Grange Hall, N.Y., 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 518-570-2382.

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

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.21, 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.

sports

DIVAS OF DIRT GROUP RIDES: Women mountain bikers of all ability levels share their passion for the sport at biweekly group rides and happy hours. Killington Resort, 4-6 p.m. Free with bike park ticket or pass, $22. Info, 422-6232.

FRIDAY NIGHT DINGHY RACING: Skippers with previous sailing knowledge celebrate the end of the week with some nautical competition. Bring or borrow a boat. Community Sailing Center, Burlington, registration, 5 p.m.; races, 6 p.m. Donations. Info, 864-2499.

theater

‘ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE’: See WED.21, 7:30 p.m.

‘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.

‘FOREVER PLAID’: See THU.22, 7:30 p.m.

‘MAMMA MIA!’: See WED.21.

‘SLOW FOOD’: See THU.22.

‘WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?’: See WED.21, 7:30 p.m.

words

BREAD LOAF WRITERS’ CONFERENCE LECTURES & READINGS: See WED.21.

EMILY BERNARD: The University of Vermont professor takes a penetrating look at race in her memoir, Black Is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time and

Mine. Worthen Library, South Hero, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, southherolibrary@gmail.com.

WRITER’S BLOCK: Scribes bring essays, short stories, one-act plays and poems to be critiqued by a supportive audience. Barre Area Senior Center, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

SAT.24 activism

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY MEETING: Activists gather with the goal of advancing human rights. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, champvalleyai@gmail.com.

FAIR TRADE VS. FREE TRADE: Locals learn the basics of globalization and how certain policies pave the way for companies to profit at the expense of people and the planet. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-2345.

dance

CONTRA DANCE: Hoofers move to tunes by Dave Langford and Colin McCaffrey, and calling by Nils Fredland. Bring water and a snack to share. East Thetford Pavilion, beginner walk-through, 7:40 p.m.; dance, 8 p.m. $5-12.

Info, 785-2855.

SWING TIME!: A free brush-up class prepares partygoers to move and shake to the sounds of the 17-piece band Green Mountain Swing. Funds raised go toward music scholarships and hall renovations. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center, 6:30-10:30 p.m. $25-30.

Info, 244-4168.

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BARBECUE & CONCERT: Gov. Phil Scott, Norwich University president Richard W. Schneider and country music artist Jamie Lee Thurston help honor the Veterans Place and its 10 years of assisting former service members at an outdoor bash boasting food, music and camaraderie.

Norwich University, Northfield, 3-8 p.m. Free. Info, 485-8874.

CAMPOUT & FAMILY FUN DAY: Friends and loved ones spend a day in the woods and a night under the stars to raise funds for Waypoint’s Upper Valley child abuse prevention and family strengthening programs.

Crafts, swimming and live raptor demonstrations are just a few of the activities on the agenda.

Storrs Pond Recreation Area, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $15-100.

Info, 603-518-4156.

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.

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.

It’s ALL on the menu.

LOUNGE 91: See FRI.23.

MOUNT INDEPENDENCEHUBBARDTON MILITARY ROAD CAR TOUR: Drivers explore an old military road under the guidance of Crown Point Road Association president Jim Rowe.

Meet with your own vehicle at the visitor center for orientation. Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. $3; free for kids under 15. Info, 273-2282.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: See FRI.23.

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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.

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WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: See THU.22.

fairs & festivals

CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR: See WED.21, 7 a.m.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR: See FRI.23.

DRINK VERMONT: Live music, local food trucks and merch vendors, oh my! A new summer festival fetes Vermont-made beverages, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. See calendar spotlight. Waterfront Park, Burlington, noon-10 p.m. $29.5039.50. Info, 872-9000.

FIRST AFRICAN LANDING VERMONT: Dance, drumming, storytelling, musical performances and more commemorate the 400th anniversary of the landing of the first African people in colonial English-occupied North America. North End Studio A, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 532-3030.

MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL: See THU.22.

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of cultural celebration. No pets, please. Mount Norris Scout Reservation, Eden Mills, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 635-7415.

ONERIVER REVIVAL MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL: The Aerolites, Shokazoba and Soulstice are among the talent to take the stage. Swimming, camping and a potluck meal round out the fun.

No dogs, please. Lincoln Gap, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. $10; BYOB. Info, 781-330-1221.

VERGENNES DAY: See FRI.23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

WOODBURY OLD HOME DAY: Town pride runs high during a day of revelry including food, music, a kids’ parade, a 5K run/ walk and more. Various Woodbury locations, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 472-5710.

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.

pieces penned in response to the Flynndog Gallery exhibition “Bucolic Concrete.” Nomad Coffee — South End Station, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, poartry project@gmail.com.

lgbtq

SUN.25

PRIDE HIKES: SUCKER BROOK HOLLOW TRAIL: Clad in weatherappropriate clothing, LGBTQA+ hikers carpool to their destination for a short and sweet trek with views of Lake Champlain. Shaw’s, Shelburne Rd., South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, gcauser@audubon.org.

music

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.21.

COOLER IN THE MOUNTAINS CONCERT SERIES: Fans can’t help but dance to the soulful pop stylings of Remember Jones. SixFoxWhiskey open.

Snowshed Lodge, Killington Resort, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-734-9435.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.21.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.21.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.21.

food & drink

BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: See THU.22.

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods.

345 Pine St., Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, burlington farmersmarket.org@gmail.com.

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@montpelierfarmers market.com.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY DINNER TRAIN: See FRI.23.

CHOCOLATE TASTING: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made on-site. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-2090.

HOT DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: Free frankfurters satisfy snackers.

Green Mountain Harley-Davidson, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-4778.

SHELBURNE FARMERS MARKET: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 482-4279.

SPINNING PLATES: See THU.22.

WILD HART DISTILLERY POP-UP: See FRI.23.

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.

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‘HYDRANGEAS’: Green thumbs get the dirt on caring for this hardy flower that thrives in Vermont’s climate. Vermont Flower Farm, Marshfield, 2-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3506.

community

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.

film

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

agriculture

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.

Find club dates in the music section.

DAVID ROSANE & THE ZOOKEEPERS: See FRI.23. The Oleo Romeos also play. Meeting House on the Green, East Fairfield, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 827-6626.

HENRY FINCH & THE CAPACITY ENSEMBLE: Featuring a fluid roster of Queen City musicians, the group gives an eclectic R&B concert. Congregation Ruach haMaqom, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: See WED.21.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: SECOND FESTIVAL SATURDAY: Resident ensemble the Merz Trio caps its week with a performance of Brahms’ Piano Trio No.1 in B major. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, noon. $25; free for students. Info, 863-5966.

LE VENT DU NORD: Traditional music with a cosmopolitan edge delights listeners of this Québécois quintet. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $10-40. Info, 533-2000.

LEO RONDEAU: Influenced by the likes of Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt, the storytelling troubadour doles out poignant country tunes from 2019’s Right on Time. Philo Ridge Farm, Charlotte, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 539-2912.

NIGHT DOLL FEST: Indoor and outdoor stages host local acts such as Preece and Yestrogen, as well as New York art-punk groups Ecce Shnak and Monte. Proceeds benefit the Pride Center of Vermont. Junktiques Collective, Burlington, noon. $20. Info, 815-298-4889.

SOCIAL BAND: The Burlington choral group pays homage to summer with a program of songs old and new. Round Church,

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Richmond, 7:30-9 p.m. $15-18.

Info, 355-4216.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.21.

WALLIS BIRD: Fans of powerful vocalists such as Brandi Carlile and Anaïs Michell are in awe of this internationally renowned Irish singer. First Universalist Parish, Derby Line, 7-10 p.m. $20.

Info, 922-1503.

outdoors

BIRDING PADDLE: Traveling by boat, nature lovers seek shorebirds, raptors and waterfowl.

BYO boat and life jacket. Meet at the boat access on Route 104A, Arrowhead Mountain Lake, Milton, 7-10 a.m. $15-20. Info, 229-6206.

BUTTERFLY GARDENING: See FRI.23, 10 a.m.

HERE BE DRAGONFLIES: See WED.21, 1:30 p.m.

LET IT GROW: See WED.21, 2:30 p.m.

MAKING TRACKS, SEEING SKINS & SKULLS: See WED.21.

MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED: See WED.21, 3:30 p.m.

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. $24; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

ROCK GARDEN ON MOUNT MANSFIELD HIKE: Outdoor adventurers join members of the Green Mountain Club Burlington section for a moderate 4.3-mile trek featuring fascinating rock formations. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, 899-9982.

STREAM SAFARI: See THU.22, 11 a.m.

sports

RUN FOR JON: Runners and walkers make strides for the Jonathan Evans Memorial Fund, which supports North Country families with children in medical crisis. Forrence Orchards, Peru, N.Y., registration, 3:30-4:45 p.m.; run, 5 p.m. $2-10; $30 for families.

Info, 518-643-2414.

WALLS ARE MEANT FOR CLIMBING: Free climbing and gear rental introduce newbies to the sport. Petra Cliffs Climbing Center & Mountaineering School, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 657-3872.

talks

MASHA HARRIS & JOY MINNS: In “Sam’s Box: Conserving the History of Addison County,” the speakers examine the contents of a container of documents donated to the Bixby Memorial Free Library in the mid-20th century, as well as what is being done to preserve them. DAR John Strong Mansion Museum, Addison, 1 p.m.

Free. Info, 767-3103.

theater

‘ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE’: See WED.21.

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.

‘FOREVER PLAID’: See THU.22, 7:30 p.m.

‘MAMMA MIA!’: See WED.21.

‘SLOW FOOD’: See THU.22.

‘WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?’: See WED.21.

words

VOICING ART POETRY READING: Visual art meets the written word as poets share original

etc.

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.

NIGHT OF FIRE & DESTRUCTION: World-class monster truck-drivers rev their engines for a spectacle of stunts and car-crushing mayhem. Coca-Cola Grandstand, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. $8-12. Info, 863-5966.

WEEKENDS ON THE GREEN: See THU.22, noon-6 p.m.

fairs & festivals

CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR: See WED.21, 7 a.m.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR: See FRI.23.

MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL: See THU.22.

NULHEGAN ABENAKI HERITAGE GATHERING: See SAT.24.

UNCOMMON JAM MUSIC FESTIVAL: Say Darling, Moxley Union and Linda B and the Barncats are on the bill at an open-air jamboree with local eats and a craft beer garden. Newbury Village Common, 1-6 p.m. $10; free for kids under 12. Info, 603-989-5500.

film

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

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.21.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.21.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.21.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.21.

food & drink

BRUNCH & BLOOMS: A buffetstyle feast fuels diners for a self-guided tour of the cut-flower farm. Attendees also design their own take-home floral arrangements and snag a to-go cookie from the bakery. Ardelia Farm &

Co., Irasburg, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $75.

Info, 323-4178.

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: See SAT.24.

CIDERTERRA: The orchard is an apt setting for an afternoon of sips, snacks and live music raising awareness of and funds for nonprofits focused on Vermont’s working landscape. Eden Specialty Ciders, Newport, noon. $30. Info, 413-427-1289.

COMMUNITY CHICKEN BARBECUE: Kids’ activities and live music by the Old Man Garage Band spice up a feast of grilled meat and sides. The Abbey Casino/Pavilion, Sheldon, barbecue, noon-2 p.m.; music, 1-4 p.m. $5-10. Info, 933-4566.

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.

FIELD TOUR & FARM LUNCH WITH CHEF LEE DUBERMAN: Foodies work up an appetite by exploring the grounds and picking herbs and edible flowers along the way, before digging into a hyper-local lunch. Green Mountain Girls Farm, Northfield, tours, 11 & 11:30 a.m.; lunch, noon. $15-30; preregister. Info, 505-9840.

SPINNING PLATES: See THU.22, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and crafts tempts shoppers. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Free. Info, stowefarmersmarket@ gmail.com.

WILD HART DISTILLERY POP-UP: See FRI.23.

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

Champlain Mill, Winooski, 10 a.m.2 p.m. Free. Info, farmersmarket@ downtownwinooski.org.

health & fitness

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.

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.

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PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK MONTRÉAL: DJ sets and beat-driven music propel a dance party of epic proportions. See piknicelectronik. com for details. Plaine des jeux, Montréal, 2-9:30 p.m. $16-119.

Info, 514-904-1247.

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music

Find club dates in the music section.

CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: AN EVENING OF BEETHOVEN: Classical players highlight early, middle and late works by the German composer. North Universalist Chapel Society, Woodstock, 4 p.m. $10.

Info, 457-3981.

LA MISA NEGRA: Hailing from Oakland, Calif., this 7-piece band has Levitt AMP St. Johnsbury Music Series audience members on their feet with its high-energy blend of cumbia and Afro-Latin sounds. Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: See WED.21.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: CLOSING CONCERT: The end-of-festival program “The Color of the Machine Age” spotlights works by Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Wagner and others. A reception follows.

Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, preconcert talk, 2:15 p.m.; concert, 3 p.m. $15-40. Info, 863-5966.

sports

CYCLE 4 CMT: Bikers and walkers traverse country roads to raise money to find a cure for CharcotMarie-Tooth disease. The after-party includes hot lunch, Switchback Brewing and Citizen Cider beverages, live music, and a silent auction. See calendar spotlight. The Old Lantern Inn & Barn, Charlotte, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. $35-55. Info, elizabetho@ outlook.com.

talks

CHRIS SCHADLER: The speaker’s 30 years of research inform “The Real Eastern Coyote.” Putney Public Library, 7 p.m. Donations.

Info, info@protectourwildlifevt. org.

AN EVENING WITH DAVID E. SANGER: The New York Times national-security correspondent covers current events in “The Crossroads: America First or America Alone?” Weston Playhouse Main Stage, 7:30 p.m. $45-60. Info, 824-5288.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.21.

‘LAST SUNDAY: SOLDIERS, CITIZEN & GHOSTS IN THE TIME OF THE BATTLE OF HUBBARDTON’: History buffs get a glimpse of the site’s early civilians and the Revolutionary War soldiers who fought there.

The program begins at the museum and continues at the East Hubbardton Cemetery.

Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 2-4 p.m. $3; free for kids under 15. Info, 273-2282.

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theater

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.

LITTLE RIVER RAMBLE: See FRI.23, 2 p.m.

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.

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

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

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

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

‘AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS’ CHORAL AUDITIONS: Singers lift their voices when vying for spots in an upcoming Barn Opera production. See barnopera.com for requirements.

Salisbury Congregational Church, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, barnopera@gmail.com.

‘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.

‘FOREVER PLAID’: See THU.22.

‘SLOW FOOD’: See THU.22, 2 p.m.

‘WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?’: See WED.21, 3 p.m.

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HANDWORK CIRCLE: Friends and neighbors make progress on works of knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch and other creative endeavors. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

fairs & festivals

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR: See FRI.23.

film

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

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.21.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.21.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.21.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.21.

food & drink

Old Spokes Home's Annual Fundraiser Ride

PIE & ICE CREAM SOCIAL: The Vergennes City Band entertains attendees, who sample flaky crusts filled with berries and fruit and topped with vanilla ice cream. Proceeds benefit the Champlain Valley Christian School. Vergennes City Park, 6-8 p.m. $6. Info, 759-3311.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.21, 6:30 p.m.

CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: See WED.21.

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.

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Info, 479-9512.

health & fitness

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.21.

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.

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Don’t miss this opportunity to be a part of of the thriving South End Artist District.

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PLATTSBURGH CONVERSATION GROUP: French speakers maintain their conversational skills in a weekly meetup. Plattsburgh Public Library, N.Y., 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, ajobin-picard@ cefls.org.

music

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VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.21.

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.21.

words

KATHERINE ARDEN: Local lit lovers gather for a summer reading party and book launch for the Vermont author’s latest novel, Dead Voices. Phoenix Books, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

POOL PASSES $10 weekdays $15 weekends Ages 18+ only

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community

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.

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COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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.

fairs & festivals

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR: See FRI.23.

film

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

‘THE ASPHALT JUNGLE’: Bad luck foils a major heist in a crime drama from 1950. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘CITIZEN KANE’: A group of reporters struggles to make sense of a newspaper tycoon’s last words in Orson Welles’ 1941 drama. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 530-2018.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.21.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.21.

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‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.21.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.21.

food & drink

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.

TUESDAY LUNCH: An in-house chef whips up a well-balanced hot meal with dessert. See barreseniors.org for menu.

Barre Area Senior Center, noon. $6; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.21, 7 p.m.

health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See THU.22.

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.

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: See MON.26, Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED TAI CHI: Time for individual questions and mentoring augments an hour of instruction.

Homestead Gardens. Wheeler House, South Burlington, 10:3011:30 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.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

BURLINGTON SONGWRITERS SONG-SHARING & FEEDBACK MEETING: Area songsters trade constructive criticism. O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 7 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 crossover-style modern-day country music by the Eric Grant Band of Gilford, N.H. Fairlee Town Common, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 331-0997.

SHAPE NOTE SING: Locals lend their voices to four-part harmonies at this weekly sing-along of early American music in the “fa-sol-la-mi” tradition. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 525-6972.

TUESDAY NIGHT LIVE: The Eames Brothers Band bring their soulful blues stylings to a pastoral party featuring good eats. BYO blanket or chair. Legion Field, Johnson, 6-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 730-2943.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.21.

outdoors

SHAPE THE FUTURE OF OUTDOOR RECREATION IN VERMONT: Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation field community input on the next Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan. Thatcher Brook Primary School, Waterbury, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 598-4551.

SLOW & EASY HIKING: See THU.22.

sports

TUESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.

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.

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theater

ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano? Language learners practice pronunciation and more in an informal gathering.

Hartland Public Library, 12:302:30 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.

‘WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?’: See WED.21, 7:30 p.m.

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BURLINGTON FREE WRITE: Aspiring writers respond to prompts in a welcoming atmosphere. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-1664.

MICIAH BAY GAULT & ANN DÁVILA CARDINAL: Two Vermont writers read from their respective new novels, Goodnight Stranger and Five Midnights.

Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 472-5533.

SHARON LAMB: Drawing on her background as a psychologist, the writer delves into The Not Good Enough Mother, her 2019 book examining society’s inclination to blame moms for the plights of their children. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-0774.

FIND FUTURE DATES + UPDATES AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/EVENTS

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fairs & festivals

music

PAYROLL ESSENTIALS: BECOMING AN EMPLOYER IN THE STATE OF VERMONT: Is it time to hire your first employee?

Business owners learn the ins and outs of taking on workers. Peoples Trust Company, 1 Franklin Park W., St. Albans, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 764-5899.

film

BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: DAYNA KURTZ: The award-winning New Jersey-born singer-songwriter and producer entertains onlookers from an outdoor stage. Lower Church St., Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

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cannabis

EDIBLE WELLNESS: A Q&A demystifies the benefits of consuming cannabidiol. Attendees treat themselves to sweet CBD delights. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.

crafts

FIBER RIOT!: See WED.21.

KNITTER’S GROUP: See WED.21.

education

NOT-BACK-TO-SCHOOL HOMESCHOOL PICNIC: Homeschooling kids and parents bring lunches, swimsuits and a bag for goodies to kick off the academic year in style. Meet at the playground past the first shelter.

Oakledge Park, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost of parking. Info, 859-0049.

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DEATH CAFÉ: Folks meet for a thought-provoking and respectful conversation about death, aimed at accessing a fuller life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991.

NURSING BEYOND A YEAR MEET-UP: Breastfeeding parents connect over toddler topics such as weaning and healthy eating habits. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 985-8228.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR: See FRI.23.

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

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.21.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.21.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.21.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.21.

‘THE PETRIFIED FOREST’: This 1936 drama follows a waitress, a bank robber and a downand-out man who meet in a diner. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink

COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.21.

PIE IN THE PARK: Sweets lovers savor slices of baked dessert à la mode to support the Barre Area Senior Center. Currier Park, Barre, 6 p.m. $5 for pie and ice cream.

Info, 479-9512.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.21.

CRIBBAGE & PINOCHLE: See WED.21.

LIVE ACTION ROLE-PLAY: Teen gamers take on alter egos for mythical adventures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6955.

MAH JONGG IN BARRE: See WED.21.

MAH JONGG IN WILLISTON: 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.

health & fitness

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.21.

RESILIENCE FLOW: See WED.21.

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

art

YOGA4CANCER: See WED.21.

language

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.21.

film

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

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

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.21.

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

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

Find club dates in the music section.

The right computer is just part of it.

ELIZABETH RENAUD: Country music from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s carries through the air as part of the Currier Park Concert Series. Currier Park, Barre, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 477-2967.

OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: See WED.21.

VERMONT GIRLS CHOIR AUDITIONS: See WED.21.

outdoors

HERE BE DRAGONFLIES: See WED.21.

LET IT GROW: See WED.21.

MAKING TRACKS, SEEING SKINS & SKULLS: See WED.21.

Special Financing Available with approval from Synchrony Bank*

MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED: See WED.21.

100 Dorset Street S. Burlington

ROCKIN’ THE GREEN MOUNTAINS: See WED.21.

sports

DOUBLE FIGURE 8 RACING: Drivers dodge and weave their way around a looped course, trying to avoid collisions before crossing the finish line. CocaCola Grandstand, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $10-12; free for kids 12 and under with an adult.

Info, 863-5966.

KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN BIKE CLUB BIKE BUM RACE SERIES: See WED.21.

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talks

MICHAEL SABOURIN: “What Makes Ticks Tick?” examines the biology and ecology of the disease-carrying insect. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

‘WOMEN GROWING UP IN BROOKFIELD’: Local women offer their perspective on family, siblings, school, farm life and more.

Brookfield Old Town Hall, 7 p.m.

Donations. Info, brookfieldoth@ gmail.com.

tech

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.21.

theater

‘THE ADDAMS FAMILY’ KICKOFF/ INFORMATION MEETING: Thespians get the inside scoop on Lyric Theatre Company’s upcoming fall production.

Lyric Theatre Company Office/ Warehouse, South Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 324-3651.

‘MAMMA MIA!’: See WED.21.

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.

The next big step is here.

‘WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?’: See WED.21.

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Join us in our Retail Store Friday, August 23, 2019 @ Noon Explore the Teddy Bear Creative Process from Ideation to Final Product Light Refreshments, Create your own Bear, and Take a SPECIAL Behind-The-Scenes Tour!

Visit our Facebook Events for more info

WRITING CIRCLE: See WED.21. m

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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.

astrology INTRODUCTION TO ASTROLOGY: Get a basic orientation to the study of the stars as you learn about yourself, friends and family.

Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. Wed., Sep. 4, 11, 18, 25, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person; registration required; to register, call Sue, 244-7909. Location: Jungian Center, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Susan Mehrtens, 244-7909, info@jungiancenter.org.

Burlington City Arts

Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org.

Teacher bios are also available online.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Learn the basics of making a great photograph from initial exposure to editing and printing in this comprehensive class. Organizing and editing files in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop will also be covered, and students will leave with a selection of high-quality prints made on our archival Epson printer. A DSLR or digital Mirrorless Rangefinder and a Mac-compatible portable hard drive or flash drive required. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Mon., Sep. 16-Oct. 28, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $240/ person; $216 for BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlington cityarts.org.

Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

FRIDAY ADULT WHEEL: Curious about the pottery wheel?

Spend a Friday night with our pottery instructors at the BCA Clay Studio. A ticket includes a wheel-throwing demonstration at the beginning of class, access to a wheel, and time to try making a bowl or cup. There is a $5 additional fee per clay piece to be fired and glazed by the studio. Ticket purchases for this class are nonrefundable. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Fri., 7:30-9 p.m., starting Sep. 20. Cost: $10/ person; $9 for BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlington cityarts.org.

FRIDAY FAMILY CLAY: All ages.

Spend a Friday night with your family at the BCA Clay Studio.

A ticket provides a wheel demonstration at the beginning of class, wheel access (for ages 6+), hand building for any age, unlimited clay, and time to create.

Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Adults may assist their child(ren) free of charge.

Additional tickets are required for adults who’d like to join the fun and either hand build or use a wheel of their own. If you’d like your work to be fired and glazed by the studio, there is a $5 fee per piece. Finished pottery will be available for pick-up three weeks after visit. Ticket purchases for this class are nonrefundable. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Fri., 5-7 p.m., starting Sep. 20. Cost: $10/ person; $9 for BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

DRAWING: Ages 18 & up. Learn a variety of drawing techniques, JEWELRY: Learn the basics including basic perspective, of creating metal jewelry. compositional layout, and use Techniques covered will include of dramatic light and shadow. sawing, piercing, filing, annealing, Students will work mostly soldering, texturing, cold connecfrom observation and will be tions, basic hollow construction, encouraged to work with a variety ring sizing and more, so that of media, including pencil, pen students can create at least and ink, ink wash, and charcoal two completed pieces. The class in this small, group setting. includes copper and brass and Price includes all basic drawing use of all basic tools, as well as materials, as well as open studio studio access during the weeks of access during the weeks of your your class. Find more information class. Find more information and and register at burlingtoncityarts. register at burlingtoncityarts. org. Tue., Sep. 24-Oct. 29, 5:30-8 org. Mon., Sep. 30-Nov. 18 (no p.m. Cost: $255/person; $229.50 class Oct. 14 or Nov. 11), 6-8:30 for BCA members. Location: BCA p.m. Cost: $255/person; $229.50 Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. for BCA members. Location: BCA Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, 58 SEVEN DAYS AUGUST 21-28, 2019

kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

LIFE DRAWING: Ages 18 and up.

Spend the evening with other local artists drawing one of our experienced models. Please bring your drawing materials and paper. Purchase a ticket to hold your spot, but drop-ins are welcome if space is available.

Ticket purchases for this class are nonrefundable. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Purchase a drop-in card and get the sixth visit for free! Fri., 7:30-9 p.m., starting Sep. 20. Cost: $10/ person; $9 for BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlington cityarts.org.

PORTRAIT WORKSHOP: Ages 18 and up. Prerequisite: previous painting experience recommended. Explore the unique structure of the head and facial features with local painter Gail Salzman.

Capture the individual likeness of the model using simplified shapes and tones. Students will work with effects of light on facial forms, experimenting with variety and contrast in realistic and inventive color. Individual coaching and group feedback will be provided. Class price includes paint as well as the use of BCA’s palettes, easels and painting trays. Students are responsible for some materials; see materials list online under class description. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts. org. Sat., Sep. 28, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $240/person; $216 for BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

artwork. Through demonstrations and hands-on learning, you’ll be introduced to the studio’s equipment and materials.

Students will also be encouraged to explore these techniques and have fun experimenting. Class price includes basic supplies and open studio access during the weeks of your class. No previous experience needed. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts.org. Tue., Sep. 24-Oct. 22, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $212.50/nonmembers; $191.25 for BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

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.

craft ARTS & CRAFT WORKSHOPS: North Country Studio Workshops offers a five-day intensive workshop for advanced- to professional-level artisans January 29 to February 2, 2020. NCSW fosters an atmosphere of discovery, energy, collaboration and inspiration.

Workshops include basketry, book arts, brushes, clay/hand-building, clay/wheel, encaustic/cold wax, fiber 2D and 3D, metal jewelry, painting/drawing, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

The campus of Bennington College provides workshop facilities, accommodations and an inspirational setting.

Explore, expand and create in a community of fine craft and fine art professionals. Jan. 29-Feb. 2, 2020. Cost: $1,350/person for full resident schedule; $1,150 for commuter. Location: North Country Studio Workshops at Bennington College, 1 College Dr., Bennington. Info: Jeanne Haskell, 603-380-4520, registrar@ncsw. org, ncsw.org/workshops.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class.

No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@ salsalina.com.

PRINTMAKING: This class will show you a whole range of printing techniques that can be used on their own or in combination to create unique

drumming

INTRODUCTION TO SWING DANCE: Learn the basics of swing dance with Terry and Cate. This is the starting point to go on to any style of swing dance, whether Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Shag or whatever. We will learn the fundamentals, including a six-count basic footwork, techniques for leading and following, and many cool moves. Tue., Sep. 3, 10, 17 & 24, 6:30 p.m. Cost: $40/person for the series. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington.

Info: Vermont Swings, Terry Bouricius, 864-8382, terrybour@ gmail.com, vermontswings.com/ classes.php.

p.m. Mon., Sep. 9-Dec. 2 (no class Nov. 25). Cost: $170/12 weeks.

Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.

CONTEMPORARY DANCE: For teens & adults. Instructor: Rose Bedard. Thu., Sep. 12-Dec, 5 (no class Nov. 28), 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Cost: $170/12 weeks; $15 to drop in. Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

DANCE FLOOR MOVES: FRIDAY NIGHT SOCIAL: For ages 55+.

Instructor: Sara McMahon, Rose Bedard & special guest instructor Jena Necrason. Fri., Sep. 27-Dec. 6 (no class Nov. 29), 7:35-8:35 p.m.

Cost: $150/person for 10 weeks.

Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter. org.

FLYNN SHOW CHOIRS!: Auditions will be held Sep. 7, 2019, for grades 4-12.

Rehearsals: Saturdays, Sep. 14-Dec.14 (no class Nov. 23). Performances: Dec. 20, 21 & 22. Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

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ACTING FOR BASHFUL BEGINNERS: Instructor: Susan Palmer. Thu., Sep. 12-Oct. 17, 7-8:30 p.m. Cost: $150/person for 6 weeks. Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

AFRO-FUSION JAM CLASS: For all ages. Instructor: Bonisiwe Green.

Sun., Oct. 27-Dec. 8 (no class Nov. 24), 10:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $160/6 weeks; $22.50 to drop in.

Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.

BALLET LEVELS I & II: For teens & adults. Instructor: Elizabeth Brody. Level I: 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Level II: 6:35-7:35 p.m. Mon., Sep. 9-Dec. 2 (no class Nov. 25).

Cost: $170/12 weeks; $15 to drop in. Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main Street, Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

BURLESQUE TECHNIQUE LEVEL I & II, AND BURLESQUE ACT DEVELOPMENT: Ages 18+.

Instructor: Doctor Vu. Level I: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Level II: 6:35-7:35 p.m. Act Development: 7:40-8:40

HEY MASTER DJ!: For adults & teens 16+. Instructor: DJ cRAIG mITCHELL. This course is a prerequisite for small group, hands-on DJ instruction with cRAIG offered in the Spring. Tue., Oct. 22-Dec. 3 (no class Nov. 26), 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $150/person for 6 weeks. Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

HIP-HOP: For teens & adults.

Instructor: Rose Bedard. Thu., Sep. 12-Dec. 5 (no class Nov. 28), 5:25-6:25 p.m. Cost: $170/12 weeks; $15 to drop in.

Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.

HIP-HOP FOR KIDS: For ages 8-12.

Instructor: Rose Bedard. Thu., Oct. 10-Dec. 5 (no class Nov. 28), 4:205:20 p.m. Cost: $130/person for 8 weeks Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

JAZZ FUSION: For teens & adults. Instructor: Rose Bedard.

Thu., Sep. 12-Dec. 5 (no class Nov. 28), 7:35-8:35 p.m. Cost: $170/12 weeks; $15 to drop in.

Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.

MOTH-STYLE STORYTELLING: Price of class includes ticket to Arts Riot Moth Story Slam!

Instructor: Susanne Schmidt.

Tue., Sep. 17-Oct. 22, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $165/6 weeks.

Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.

CLASS PHOTOS + MORE INFO ONLINE SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSES

MUSIC TOGETHER: For caregivers and children, ages 3 months-5 years. Instructor: Alison Mott.

Mon., 10-10:45 a.m., Sep. 16-Nov. 18 Cost: $155/10 weeks, incl. materials. Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

RHYTHM KIDS: Ages 5-8.

Instructor: Alison Mott. Sun., 3-3:45 p.m., Sep. 8-Nov. 17 (no class Sep. 29). Cost: $155/10 weeks, incl. materials. Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.

TAP LEVELS I, II & III: For teens & adults. Instructor: Elisa Van Duyne. Level I: 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Level II: 6:35-7:35 p.m. Level III: 7:40-8:40 p.m. Wed., Sep. 11-Dec. 11 (no class Sep. 18 or Nov. 27). Cost: $170/12 weeks.

Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.

YOUTH DANCES: For ages 5-7.

Instructor: Rose Bedard. Fri., Oct. 11-Dec. 6 (no class Nov. 29), 4:205:20 p.m. Cost: $130/person for 8 weeks Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

YOUTH JAZZ COMBOS: Grades 7-12. Audition for new members: Sep. 3 (contact FlynnArts manager to sign up at flynnarts@flynncenter.org).

Final performance on Dec. 5.

Instructor Shane Hardiman combo: 5:20-6:50 p.m. Instructor Tom Cleary combo: 7:15-8:45 p.m. Tue., Sep. 10-Dec. 3 (no class Nov. 26) Cost: $250/12 weeks Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.

landscape designer Silvia Jope is the answer. Wed., Sep. 25-Oct. 16, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $180/person; register at gardenerssupplystore. com. Location: Gardener’s Supply Company, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: Meredith White, 660-3505, meredithw@ gardeners.com, gardenerssupply store.com.

YOUTH THEATER: Placement session for new students: Sep. 4 from 5-6 p.m. All-Stars, grades 5-8, Tue., Sep. 10-Dec. 3 (no class Nov. 26), 3:30-5 p.m., instructor Annalisa Ledson, Hoehl Studio.

Juniors, grades 2-6, Thu., Sep. 12-Dec. 5 (no class Nov. 28), 3:45-5 p.m., instructor Jamie Watkins, Hoehl Studio. Sprouts, age 4-grade 2, Wed., Sep. 11-Dec. 4 (no class Nov. 27), 4-5 p.m., instructor Tracy Martin, Chase Studio. Location: FlynnArts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

gardening LANDSCAPE DESIGN: Are you an avid gardener looking for new inspiration? Want a better understanding of selecting and placing plants? This four-part series by

Generator

BLACKSMITHING: CANDLE HOLDERS: Students will get hands-on experience with tools like the forge, hammer and anvil.

Learn how to control a hammer while incorporating twists, curls and other flourishes to practice basic smithing techniques while producing a unique candle holder. To receive 10% off for both workshops, please e-mail education@generatorvt.com. Sun., 9-4 p.m., Sep. 29. Cost: $200/person; incl. material fee; pair w/ Jewelry workshop & receive 10% off.

Location: Generator Makerspace, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@generatorvt.com, generatorvt.com/classes.

BLACKSMITHING: HAND-FORGED JEWELRY: Students will get hands-on experience with tools like the forge, hammer and anvil.

Create bracelets, arm cuffs and pendants while learning how to control a hammer, incorporating twists, curls and other flourishes. Practice basic smithing techniques while producing a unique piece of jewelry. To receive 10% off both workshops, please

email education@generatorvt. com. Sat., 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Sep. 28.

Cost: $200/person; incl. material fee; pair w/ Candle Holder & receive 10% off. Location: Generator Makerspace, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@ generatorvt.com, generatorvt. com/classes.

BUILD A CHERRY WOODEN TABLE: Come learn the skills to build your own table in the Generator woodshop! Coffee table, Shaker table or end table made of beautiful cherry wood.

You will learn your way around Generator’s state-of-the-art woodshop to gain familiarity with tools, including a table saw, bandsaw, compound miter saw, planer, joiner, drill press, sanders, vacuum bag press, and manual hand tools such as block planes and scrapers. This class is perfect for the beginner wanting to get involved and also someone wanting to learn the next step!

Tue., 5:30-8:30 p.m., Oct. 29-Nov. 19. Cost: $350/person; incl. $50 materials fee. Location: Generator Makerspace, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@ generatorvt.com.generatorvt. com/classes.

BUILD YOUR OWN SKATE DECK: (Includes woodshop training.)

Have you ever noticed a skateboard with a totally unique

style? Do you wish you’d made that completely unique deck with your own hands?! You will learn your way around Generator’s state-of-the-art woodshop to gain familiarity with tools, including a table saw, bandsaw, compound miter saw, planer, joiner, drill press, sander and vacuum bag press, as well as manual hand tools like block planes and scrapers. You will receive a demo on how Generator created custom deck press molds using photogrammetry and CNC cutting technologies. Wed., Oct. 9-30, 5:30-8 p.m. Cost: $315/person; incl. $65 material fee. Location: Generator Makerspace, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@ generatorvt.com, generatorvt. com/classes.

GENERATOR TRAININGS: Once you are trained in our studios, you have full access to the equipment. Check out our trainings on 3D printing, welding, jewelry, laser cutting, the forge, CNC routing, woodworking, metalsmithing, electronics, the CNC plasma cutter and more! Location: Generator Makerspace, 40 Sears Lane, Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@ generatorvt.com, generatorvt. com/classes.

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KIDS: AFTER-SCHOOL CLASSES!: Learn how to use a torch for creating jewelry in the jewelry studio, create your own skateboard or build your own stool in the woodshop, or build your own lantern using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and the laser cutter!

Wed., 3:30-5:30 p.m., Sep. 18-Oct. 23 and Nov. 6-Dec. 18 (no class Nov. 27). Price varies, see website.

Location: Generator Makerspace, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@generatorvt.com, generatorvt.com/classes.

MAKE YOUR OWN COCKTAIL SPOON: This class will serve as a fun introduction to a few basic metalworking techniques. Create and personalize a traditional swivel cocktail spoon design and add your own filed, stamped or hammered details. Working with brass, students will have the opportunity to practice some of the following techniques: light forging, sawing, dapping, filing, sanding, and riveting or braising.

No experience necessary. Sat., 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Oct. 19. Cost: $120/ person; $20 material fee incl.

Location: Generator Makerspace, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@generatorvt.com, generatorvt.com/classes.

SCULPTURAL LANTERN MAKING: Do you need a light for your room?

Not only will you learn Illustrator.

Photoshop and the laser machine, you will create a lantern with a silhouette of your choice, which will be illuminated when the light is on! Learn digital design using Illustrator and Photoshop to create silhouettes for the inside of the lantern. Next, learn to use the laser cutter to cut the silhouettes for your lantern.

Once the pieces have been laser cut, you will assemble and hand stitch everything together to create your own illuminated sculpture! Wed., 6-8:30 p.m., Oct. 30-Nov. 20. Cost: $225/person; $25 material fee incl. Location: Generator Makerspace, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@ generatorvt.com, generatorvt. com/classes.

THE BLACKSMITH’S KNIFE: The blacksmith’s knife is a forged blade, handle and all, from a single piece of steel, often incorporating twists, curls and other flourishes for practicing basic smithing techniques, making it a useful tool. These knives are unique and offer many options for personal touches during the forging process. The students will get hands-on experience with tools like the forge, hammer, anvil and belt grinder. Wed., 6-9 p.m., Nov. 6-Dec. 4 (no class Nov. 27). Cost: $340/person; incl. $40 material fee. Location: Generator Makerspace, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@ generatorvt.com, generatorvt. com/classes.

WOODEN PICTURE FRAME : (Includes wood shop training.)

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Building a frame can teach the user many aspects of the shop, as well as attention to details and safety. With many choices of wood to choose from, the end result will be a keepsake frame and full training in the woodshop.

Thu., 6-9 p.m., Aug. 22-29; or Wed., 6-9 p.m., Nov. 20-Dec. 4 (no class Nov. 27). Cost: $160/person; $10 material fee incl. Location: Generator Makerspace, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: Sarah Sprague, 540-0761, education@ generatorvt.com, generatorvt. com/classes.

language ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES : Spanish classes start in September. Learn from a native speaker via small classes or personal instruction. You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers, lessons for young children; they love it! English as Second Language instruction online. Our 13th year. See our website or contact us for details.

Start week of Sep. 16; 10 weeks.

Cost: $235/person for 10 weekly classes, 90+ min. each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

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.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Taught by qualified meditation instructors at the Burlington Shambhala Meditation Center: Wed., 6-7 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Free and open to anyone. Free public meditation: weeknights, 6-7 p.m.; Tue. and Thu., noon-1 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Classes and retreats also offered. See our website at burlington.shambhala.org.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795.

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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 sixth-degree instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A five-time

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AFTER-SCHOOL CLASSES : Join us for after-school classes in Clay and Woodworking! Our 14-week fall session offers classes in clay and woodworking for kids ages 10 and up on Mondays and Wednesdays. Not sure what to do about early dismissal on Tuesdays (Champlain Valley School District)? We have you covered that day, too. Mon.-Wed. Cost: $360/2-hour class.

Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Craft School, 9853648, info@shelburnecraftschool, org. shelburnecraftschool.org.

LEARN TO PAINT AND DRAW!: Join us in our historic Bunk House for a painting or drawing course for adults! We offer daytime and evening classes in oil painting, drawing, life drawing and more.

We have amazing professional artists as instructors, and we offer intimate class sizes, which means lots of one-on-one instruction. Mon.- Fri., starting Sep. 5. Cost: $248/2-hour class, plus open studio hours. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Craft School, 985-3648, info@ shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

OUTDOOR WATERCOLOR AT MT PHILO FARM: Artist/herbalist Jenel Schaffer will lead a natureinspired watercolor painting class, outdoors. All skill levels welcome, including complete beginners.

The vineyard is associated with Shelburne Vineyard, which makes sustainably grown wines in

Vermont. We hope you will enjoy visiting the winery right after the class. Sep. 14, 2-3:30 p.m. Cost: $40/person; incl. all painting materials. Location: Mt. Philo Farm & Vineyard, 5507 Ethan Allen Hwy, Charlotte. Info: Jenel Schaffer, jbschafferartist@mail. com, jbschafferartist.com.

STAINED GLASS STUDIO COURSES: Join us this fall in our Stained Glass Studio! We have weekend workshops, an eightweek course and a studio renters program. Courses and workshops are for complete beginners and those who are looking for ongoing instruction. We have wonderful teachers and small class sizes to offer individual guidance. Thu., starting Sep. 16.

Cost: $475/3-hour class Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Craft School, 985-3648, info@ shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

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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.

HARPIES & HARRIDANS: WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY: Learn how angry women throughout history have been instigators of major change. From Angelina Grimké to Cecile Richards, women “behaving badly” have promoted social and economic justice. Participants will read biographies of nine important women activists. Led

by Sue Mehrtens. Thu., 7-9 p.m., Sep. 5, Oct. 3, Nov. 7, Dec. 5, Jan. 2, Feb. 6, Mar. 5, Apr. 2, May 7.

Cost: $90/person; registration required; to register, call Sue 244-7909. Location: Jungian Center, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury.

Info: Susan Mehrtens, 244-7909, info@jungiancenter.org.

WHEEL-THROWING CLAY: Join us in our historic clay studio this fall!

We have daytime and evening courses for adults. We offer introlevel to advanced-level classes in wheel throwing and hand building. Each class ends with a Raku firing.

Check us out online to find a course that fits your schedule. Mon.-Fri., starting Aug. 19. Cost: $364/2-hour class, plus open studio. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Craft School, 985-3648, info@ shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

WOODWORKING: COURSES & CLINICS: Join us in our historic woodshop! Learn how to use the lathe. Learn how to build your very own Shaker table. Learn about power tools. We have evening courses for adults, as well as weekend workshops. Check us out online to register for one of our fall courses. Mon. & Wed., starting Sep. 9, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $280/3-hour class. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Craft School, 985-3648, info@ shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

spirituality SOUL-TENDING WORKSHOP: Learn a variety of techniques for tending your soul, from “forest-bathing” to mandalamaking, music, bodywork, dream work and myths. While Thomas Moore’s ‘The Reenchantment of Everyday Life’ is the reading for the workshop, our sessions will focus on hands-on experiential activities. The course fee includes the cost of the concert. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Tue., 7-9 p.m., Sep. 3, Oct. 1, Nov. 5 & 15 (concert), Dec. 3, Jan. 7, Feb. 4, Mar. 3, Apr. 7, May 5. Cost: $115/person; registration required; to register, call Sue 244-7909. Location: The Jungian Center For The Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Susan Mehrtens, 244-7909, info@ jungiancenter.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: 363-6890, 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.

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: 864-9642, evolutionvt.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, 985-0090, lynn@yogarootsvt. com, yogarootsvt.com.

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SEVEN DAYS: I think the descriptor “alternative” has lost some of its meaning. But I wonder if it ever really meant anything to you to begin with.

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anadian rockers Our Lady Peace were one of the quintessential bands of the 1990s alternative boom. The group shared qualities with many of its guitar-driven contemporaries, such as angsty power chords and propulsive beats. But front person Raine Maida’s iconic jolts from chest voice to falsetto singing and enigmatic, labyrinthine lyrics helped set the group apart from the pack.

While many buzzworthy bands of the era dissolved over the years, Our Lady Peace have remained consistently active, racking up multiple platinum and diamond releases along the way. The group released its ninth studio album, Somethingness, in 2018. Meanwhile, Maida dropped two solo albums and a string of singles and EPs. Currently, he and his wife, Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, are working together as duo Moon Vs. Sun. Years after cowriting the single “I Love It When You Make Me Beg,” the Los Angeles-based couple recently retreated to a small French island in the dead of winter to work up more joint material — with a film crew in tow. The emotionally charged results, which examine both their artistry and relationship, are chronicled in the documentary feature I’m Going to Break Your Heart. Canadians can watch it on Crave, and American audiences should see it offered on a domestic streamer in the near future. An album and book are soon to follow.

Our Lady Peace perform as part of the Alt-Imate Tour on Friday, August 23, at the Champlain Valley Fair in Essex Junction.

Bush and Live co-headline.

Seven Days caught up with Maida by phone.

Our Lady Peace front person Raine Maida

an alternative station, you weren’t going to hear that stuff.

Growing up in Toronto, there was this radio station, CFNY the Edge. That’s where I first heard Catherine Wheel, Radiohead, Blur — definitely a lot of UK bands. You wouldn’t hear that stuff that was dominating MTV at the time. I think we’ve gone past that now. But I think, back then, music was still kind of fragmented.

It’s definitely not as much anymore.

SD: I was a teenager when “4am” from Clumsy came out, and it’s long been one of my top teen-angst songs. Its lyrics are much more literal than those of some of your other hits in the mid- to late ’90s. Is that because the

inspiration came from a more literal place?

RM: It was always kind of my thing to not be as personal, for whatever reason. I liked the idea of being interpretive. With “4am,” I wrote [it] literally at four in the morning.

I think I slept a couple of hours and called the engineer and said, “Can you meet me in the studio by 10 a.m.?”

I worked up a demo of it before [the band] got there. I remember being very, very nervous to play it for everyone because it was so personal. But I did, and everyone was like, “We need to put this on the record.” It was one of those things where I just went with it. I didn’t analyze it too much. I didn’t try to abstract it. I just kept it as it was. It’s not something I

do often, but it just felt right for that one song.

SD: What are some conscious things you do to distinguish your solo music from Our Lady Peace?

RM: There’s really never been electric guitars [in my solo music or Moon Vs. Sun]. It’s much more organic. It’s definitely based more around the rhythm of the lyrics [and] the beat as opposed to a guitar riff. Ultimately, just by virtue of that fact, it’s gonna go down a different path. With my wife, writing with her, having her influence — she’s a really strong songwriter — right away, that takes ALTERNATIVE HEALING

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You know that LLOYD BRIDGES bit from Airplane! in which he keeps saying, “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking,” or, “Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue”?

Well, call me Lloyd Bridges, because it looks like I picked the wrong week to go on vacation.

As you’re reading this — assuming you picked up the paper the minute it comes out on Wednesday, of course — I’m trapped in a metal canister careening through the sky on my way to the Bay Area to visit family. And, hot damn, am I missing some good stuff back home this week. Though I’m bound to have fun on the West Coast, I’m bummed to be absent for a number of special events. If you’re around the 802, you have a lot to choose from.

On Thursday, August 22, indie-rock powerhouse JULIA CAESAR play their farewell show at Congregation Ruach

haMaqom, the synagogue on Archibald Street. The show doubles as an album release show for their long-awaited debut full-length, Mars. Look for a review in Seven Days at some point in the near future.

Only a few years after forming and making an indelible mark on the Queen City’s music scene, the group’s members are going their separate ways. Acoustic outfits HONEY & SOUL and DAISY WORLD add support. Of note: This is a dry show, so keep that in mind if you’re looking around and can’t find the bar.

On Saturday, August 24, HENRY FINCH & THE CAPACITY ENSEMBLE make their debut at the synagogue. Sharing many members with garage-punk ensemble the BUBS, the soulful rock group is one of the most intriguing bands on the scene right now. If you haven’t seen a show at the Old North End house of worship, treat yourself to one or both of these. The venue is quite special.

The Champlain Valley Fair kicks off

on Friday, August 23, with one of the most highly anticipated local concerts of the year — if you’re into ’90s alternative music, that is. Rock legends BUSH and LIVE co-headline the Alt-Imate Tour, which also features a set from Canadian guitar heroes OUR LADY PEACE. Check out our Q&A with OLP front person RAINE MAIDA on page 62 of this week’s paper.

Side note: I’m perhaps most upset about missing this slice of nostalgia pie, given that I was raised on tracks like Bush’s “Mouth,” Live’s “Dolphin’s Cry” and Our Lady Peace’s “4am.” Look for a special slide show of shots from the concert on our website sometime early next week, courtesy of photo contributor LUKE AWTRY. Also on Friday, RUBBLEBUCKET cofounder KALMIA TRAVER returns to the Light Club Lamp Shop with her electro-pop project KALBELLS. More than two years have passed since the band released its debut album, Ten Flowers. I suspect new material is imminent.

One thing to keep in mind Friday through Sunday: It’s first-year move-in weekend at the University of Vermont.

As noted in an uncharacteristically humorous Facebook post from the school’s campus police, “May I recommend that you fill up an extra travel mug with the ‘Extra Level of Sanity’ coffee blend?” The bulletin mostly referred to anticipated traffic snarls, so keep that in mind as you’re navigating Burlington this weekend.

However, I’ve long enjoyed the annual tradition of watching swaths of fresh-faced newcomers rove in packs as they take baby steps into their new worlds. That counts as a nightlife activity, right? You can make a game out of it. Drink every time you see an awkward group of students aimlessly walking down Main Street.

And to any first-year who may be reading this column, um, welcome to Burlington!

Oh! There’s one more event I’d like to point out this weekend…

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…Night Doll Fest! The one-day punk roundup takes over the Junktiques Collective — on two stages, one indoors and one outside — on Saturday, August 24.

Organized by carnival punks MIKU DAZA, the ferocious affair puts a spotlight on local and regional queer, punk and generally left-of-center bands.

Admission is donation-based ($20 is suggested), and all proceeds go to LGBTQ advocacy nonprofit the Pride Center of Vermont.

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CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke with DJ Amanda Rock, 9 p.m., free.

Dance Floored Brooklyn-based electronic artist

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

HATCH 31: Tom Caswell Blues Jam, third Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m., free.

MacLean, a duo with LCD Soundsystem collaborator Nancy Whang. When he’s not

HALF LOUNGE: DJ IANU (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: LOVECRAFT (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

champlain islands/ northwest

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free.

Alex Stewart Quartet (jazz), 9:30 p.m., $5.

northeast kingdom

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Swimmer, Haewa (jam), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Learic and Es-K (album release) (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Audrey Pearl (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

Ian Steinberg (indie folk), 8:30 p.m., free. The Thaya Zalewski Dreamtet (jazz), 10 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: The Jeff Salisbury 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): String Band Karaoke, 6 p.m., free. Hayley Jane and Friends (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Vermont’s Funniest Comedian: Preliminaries (standup), 7 p.m., $8.

chittenden county

AUTUMN RECORDS: Zizia, ouzkxqlzn (experimental), 7 p.m., free.

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Janice & Shane, A Montréal Paul (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Donavon Frankenreiter, Christina Holmes (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., $20/22.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bluegrass Session, 7 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Laveda, Community Garden, Nodrums (indie), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

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.

14TH STAR BREWING CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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long been a linchpin of DFA Records. He’s released music primarily as the Juan performing with that band, MacLean often lights dance floors ablaze through DJ magic. Weaving together sets full of house and techno adrenaline, MacLean whips crowds into gyrating masses of pure energy. MacLean spins on Saturday, August 24, at Club Metronome in Burlington. Local DJ CRWD CTRL opens.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont

NAKED TURTLE: DJ Matt Mero (open format), 5:30 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Rick Estrin & the Nightcats (jazz, blues), 7:30 p.m., free.

burlington

FINNIGAN’S PUB: DJ Disco Phantom (open format), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Eva Rawlings (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (open format), 10 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: DJ SVPPLY & Bankz (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Carter Glass (rock), 8 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Sarah Colonna (standup), 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

MAGIC HAT ARTIFACTORY: Quentin Tarantino Trivia, 7 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Yuriy and Abby Kolosovskiy (folk, classical), 7 p.m., free. a.m. rejoice (indie folk), 8:30 p.m., free. The Lox, Keyes Theory (funk, rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

THE OLD POST: Salsa Night with DJ JP, 7 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Be-er, Dino Bravo (rock), 8 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Dog Catchers (rock), 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (open format), 11 p.m., free.

GUSTO’S: DJ Bay 6 (hits), 8 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): D. Davis and Django Soulo (folk-rock), 7 p.m., free.

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Jam Nation (open jam), 7:30 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: DIGGS, Brickdrop (funkrock, hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $8/12.

THE TAP ROOM AT SWITCHBACK BREWING CO.: Ana D’Leon (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free.

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NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

chittenden county

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Dub Apocalypse, the Big Takeover (reggae), 8 p.m., $7.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Molly Mood (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

DRINK: Downstairs Comedy Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Vermont’s Funniest Comedian: Preliminaries (standup), 7 p.m., $8.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: DJ Disco Phantom (open format), 10 p.m., free.

REVELRY THEATER: Unreliable Narrator with Colin Ryan (storytelling), 8 p.m., $5. Weird & Niche: A Comedy Showcase, 9:30 p.m., $7.

CONGREGATION RUACH HAMAQOM: Julia Caesar (album release), Daisy World, Honey & Soul (indie), 8 p.m., $10.

SIDEBAR: Bri Guy, Burly.Bound, Wavy Davy, Clavicle (indie), 9 p.m., $3.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Kalbells, Liptalk (indie pop), 9 p.m., $10. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: D Jay Baron (house), midnight, $5.

ARTSRIOT: The Regressions (covers), 7:30 p.m., $15.

RED SQUARE: The Brevity Thing (folk-rock), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (house), 11 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: John Abair and His Good Pals (folk), 8 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Dave Mitchell’s Blues Jam, 3 p.m., free. Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers (blues, rock), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

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LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., $5. Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase, 10:30 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free.

The CarLeans (Americana), 7 p.m., free. Frank Viele (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Aqua Viva (pop), 10 p.m., $5. Toney Rocks (Americana), 11:30 p.m., $5.

MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: George Petit Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Jack Bandit (hiphop), 8 p.m., free. Ron Stoppable (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

EDSON HILL DINING ROOM & TAVERN: Blackwolf (blues, roots), 6:30 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic Night, 8:30 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

LOCALFOLK SMOKEHOUSE: Open Mic with Alex Budney, 8:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Mike Brinkman’s Open Mic, 8:30 p.m., free.

rutland/killington

northeast kingdom HIGHLAND LODGE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free.

randolph/royalton BABES BAR: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry & DJ Coco, 9 p.m., free.

THE HOWLIN’ MOUSE RECORD STORE: Deserie & Jim (folk, blues), 8 p.m., $5.

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champlain islands/ northwest

ARTSRIOT: Night Protocol (synthwave), 9 p.m., free.

THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Shake (rock), 7 p.m., free.

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Ed Schenk (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

upper valley

LONG TRAIL BREWING: The Melting Nomads (jam), 4 p.m., free.

burlington

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Marty Fogel (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

BURLINGTON ST. JOHN’S CLUB: Karaoke, 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Dionysia, Pattern Addict, Troy Millette (rock), 7:30 p.m., $10/12. We Found Love: 2010s Night with DJ SVPPLY and Moochie (pop), 10:30 p.m., free.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Harsh Armadillo, Jaw Gems (funk, hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $12/15.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Missisquoi River Band (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free.

MAGIC HAT ARTIFACTORY: Danny & the Parts (country), 7 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: About Time (jazz), 6 p.m., free. Four-D (open format), 10 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Natural Selection (rock), 5 p.m., free. The Rough Suspects (rock), 9 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Wylie Shipman (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: DJ Dakota (hits), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Thomas Gunn (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Schwizz (funk-rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

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“I thought there was something missing, punk-wise,” says Miku, the band’s front person, of Vermont’s festival scene. And it’s true! Festivals like Waking Windows and Grand Point North skew toward indie rock. Folk and bluegrass festivals outnumber that of any other genre. And perhaps the biggest draw, Burlington Discover Jazz Festival — well, it’s right there in the name.

Sets will be largely staggered throughout the day, so you won’t have to pick and choose what to see and what to skip. Area punkish favorites such as PREECE, HAPPY SPANGLER, JESSE TAYLOR BAND, YESTROGEN, BARBACOA, ADRIENNE COOPER SMITH and Miku Daza make their appearances throughout the day.

(Disclosure: Seven Days employees appear in Happy Spangler and Barbacoa.)

A few lesser-known Vermont-based artists are set to perform, too, such as dance troupe DREAM CITY DANCE. And a few acts are making their proper debuts.

Namely, Miku Daza bassist CHRIS TRANTEN provides a proper introduction to his live electronica project H.L.H. Check out his Concealed EP on Spotify for a threesong preview.

Performance artists ESTEFANIA PUERTA, aka HISSSSSSSS, and EDWIN BAKER, who goes by GIGGLEDOM, will each perform an avant-garde set.

New tribute project alert! Miku teams up with ALAINA HALL, JANE BOXALL and CASSANDRA BESSO for a BLINK-182 homage called PINK 802. Expect to hear the pop-punk group’s major hits, like “All the Small Things” and “What’s My Age Again?”

“The plan further down the road is to make the covers [sound] more original,” says Miku, noting that, for this first outing, attendees can expect fairly faithful re-creations of the California band’s material.

Rounding out the lineup are two revved-up acts from New York City: MONTE and ECCE SHNAK. Though the bands sound quite different — the former leans more toward riot grrrl, the latter toward expressionistic post-punk — they each bring a welcome fierceness to the pilot event.

To recap: This weekend is full of kick-ass music happenings. You should all go to them, because I can’t. Bonus points if you email me some pics!

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GUSTO’S: 1/2 Trash Duo (rock), 5 p.m., free. Supernatural (covers), 9 p.m., $5.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Long Way Home (Americana), 6 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free.

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EL TORO: Rebecca Padula (folk), 7 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Dogs in a Pile (jam), 9

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TAP 25: Chicken Fat Injection (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

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CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Bounce (hits), 9:30 p.m., free.

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HIEROGLYPHICS,

who ruled the Bay Area city’s scene

in the ’90s. Looking back, the collective’s 1998 debut album, 3rd Eye Vision, is a nostalgic blast from the past synonymous with the original indie hip-hop movement.

Check out Hieroglyphics with Del the Funky Homosapien on Wednesday, August 28, at ArtsRiot in Burlington.

Locals MISTER BURNS and ES-K add support.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Anthony Santor (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Juan MacLean (DJ set), CRWD CTRL (electronic), 10 p.m., $12/15.

DELI 126: Maple Street Six (jazz), 9 p.m., free. Aaron Lucci Quintet (jazz), 9:30 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: OD3 and Friends (house), 10 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Ali McGuirk (soul, R&B), 7:30 p.m., free. Barbacoa (surf), 9 p.m., free. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

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NECTAR’S: Joe Agnello (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. People’s Blues of Richmond, the Balkun Brothers, Adventure Dog (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

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ORLANDO’S BAR & LOUNGE: Mike MacDonald (jam), 9:30 p.m., free.

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RADIO BEAN: Danny of the Parts, Down Right Musics (Americana), 5:30 p.m., free. Lay Low Moon (indie folk), 7 p.m., free. Ryan Sweezey (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Earl (hits), 9 p.m., free.

champlain islands/ northwest NORTH HERO HOUSE INN & RESTAURANT: Cooper & Corn (Americana), 5:30 p.m., free.

THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: The Blue Rock Boys (bluegrass), 6:30 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Hunter (rock), 10 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: NightHawk (rock), 9 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Hamjob (rock), 10 p.m., free.

burlington

TRES AMIGOS & RUSTY NAIL STAGE: John Fusco & the X-Road Riders (blues), 8:30 p.m., $10/12.

outside vermont

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SAT.24

TAP 25: Rick Reis (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

BABES BAR: Make We Do It (house), 8 p.m., $3.

THE OLD FOUNDRY AT ONE FEDERAL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE: Owen Luke (folk, rock), 6:30 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: The Duo (rock covers), 6 p.m., free. Just Us (rock), 9 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Dead Sessions Lite (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $7.

randolph/royalton

champlain islands/ northwest

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

EL TORO: Owen Luke (folk, rock), 7 p.m., free.

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Sibling Reverie (country, rock), 7 p.m., free.

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Tim Brick (country), 7 p.m., free.

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THE FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Jesse Taylor (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free.

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BIRA (pop, funk), 10 p.m., $5. Astrocat (disco-grunge), 11:30 p.m., $5.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bob Gagnon Quartet (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 3 p.m., free. Beefstu (rock, blues), 7 p.m., free. Mashtodon (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

MONKEY HOUSE: Izzy True, Fast Car Slow Car, Famous Letter Writer (rock), 9:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (Latin), 6 p.m., free. DJ ATAK (house), 11 p.m., $5.

REVELRY THEATER: Butterfly (storytelling, improv), 8 p.m., $7/8. Sex w/Jenna (improv), 9:30 p.m., $10.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ KermiTT (open format), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Sean Kehoe (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Ron Stoppable (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): The CarLeans (rock), 7 p.m., free.

SMITTY’S PUB: Linda Bassick (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Sarah Colonna (standup), 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

chittenden county

FOUR QUARTERS BREWING: The Tsunamibots, the Brand New Luddites (surf-punk), 7 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: The Artisanals, GoldenOak (rock), 8 p.m., $8/10.

THE OLD POST: Saturday Night Mega Mix featuring DJ Colby Stiltz (open format), 9 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Chris and Erica (rock, country), 5 p.m., free. The Bayrats (rock), 9 p.m., free.

PARK PLACE TAVERN: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Southtown Bluegrass, 8 p.m., free.

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.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: The Get Messy (funk), 9:30 p.m., free.

GUSTO’S: Eric DeRed (covers), 6 p.m., free. DJ LaFountaine (EDM), 9:30 p.m., $3.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Glow Baby Glow: An Evening of Burlesque, 9 p.m., $10.

THE DEN AT HARRY’S HARDWARE: Allison Rogers (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Standup Comedy Showcase, 8 p.m., free. Open Decks, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Another Michael, Bruiser and Bicycle (pop, folk), 8 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: JC Sutton & Sons (bluegrass), 1 p.m., free. Traditional Pub Sing-Along, 3:30 p.m., free. Old Sky and Friends (Americana), 6 p.m., free. Cup of Comedy: A Standup Showcase, 9 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Sweet William and Sugar Cone Rose (Americana), 4 p.m., free. Tom Caswell Blues Band, 7 p.m., free. DJ Two Sev (open format), 11 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Flying V (standup), 7 p.m., $5.

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MISERY LOVES CO.: Disco Brunch with DJ Craig Mitchell, 11 a.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Leggy, Greaseface (indie), 8 p.m., $7.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Southern Old Time Music Jam, 10 a.m., free.

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REVIEW this Matt Saraca and John Townsend, Nineteen Years (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

Burlington musicians Matt Saraca and John Townsend play in the ethereal Americana trio Silver Bridget, alongside musical-saw master Johnnie Day Durand. The world has yet to see an official release from the enthralling group, which is known for its spinetingling interpretations of popular songs such as the Beatles’ “She’s Leaving Home” and Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender.” But a new project from Saraca and Townsend, Nineteen Years, is not just a worthy stopgap but a captivating work in its own right.

Eric George, Where I Start (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL)

In 2014, Vulture compiled a list of hit songs penned in incredibly short time frames. According to the story, titled “Is Sia the World’s Fastest Songwriter?,” Kanye West came up with “All Falls Down” in 15 minutes. These smash singles might strengthen the case for lightning-speed composing, but what happens when a songwriter lets their work age before releasing it into the world?

Burlington folk singer-songwriter Eric George demonstrates the value of

As the artists explain via email, they “met at [the University of Vermont] in the fall of 2000 and have been sharing, writing and performing songs together since then.” Each songwriter contributes two songs to the four-track collection, singing lead and playing the lion’s share of instruments on their own tunes.

Rather than a disjointed split EP, the result is a seamlessly blended vision of light folk-rock.

Cohesion of this caliber is earned when two people spend half their lives working together.

Much like their work in Silver Bridget, the musicians emphasize atmosphere. Airy beds of sustained sounds and whispers of intricate instrumentation abound. But unlike Silver Bridget’s wordless renditions, the duo’s work is lyrical.

The two play nearly all of the instruments — electric, acoustic and baritone guitars; keys; bass; and percussion — with only a few additions from collaborators Peter DotsonWestphalen and Mary Patterson. Indiepop auteur and Vermont expat Ryan Power — who once played alongside Saraca during a shared stint in formerly local psych-rock outfit the Cush — serves as producer. Adding Power to an album’s roster of technicians essentially guarantees a stellar end product.

The quartet of songs flows like a lazy river, beginning with mid-tempo shuffle “Don’t Listen to Your Heart.” This Saraca-penned opener features lovely harmonies from Patterson. The lead artist has his hands full instrumentally, laying down every sound except drums, which Townsend provides.

The following two numbers, “Seven of Us” and “Had Enough?” are Townsend’s.

Following suit, the multi-instrumentalists switch up some of their duties and add in

Dotson-Westphalen on bass. “Seven of Us” has a lingering sense of apprehension with tickled, high-pitched guitar juxtaposed with low, strummed chords. But all of the tension melts away with the James Tayloresque “Had Enough?” Soft brushes on the two and four support a vaporous amalgam of piano, guitars and bass.

“At the End of the Day,” Saraca’s second contribution, ends the EP on a sparse note.

The spacious track slowly unfurls over its brief two and a half minutes, revealing a friendly harmonica solo and sweetly cooed background harmonies.

Saraca and Townsend claim to have a vault of shared songs between them, making the brief Nineteen Years but a teaser. Hopefully we’ll hear more in the near future.

Nineteen Years is available at mattsaracaandjohntownsend.bandcamp. com. Saraca and Townsend perform on Monday, August 26, at the Farmhouse Tap & Grill in Burlington.

looking at old material through fresh eyes on Where I Start, a collection of, as he writes on Bandcamp, “music from faded pages [and] the bottom of stacks of notebooks.”

Had he not resurrected these 11 tunes, some written 10 to 12 years ago, listeners would have missed out on lyrical gems such as this one from “House of Stone”: “When I was born, the stones taught me to speak / Now my words are strong, and they’re buried deep.”

This is one of several instances revealing George’s apparent fascination with the human-nature connection. The joyful banjo tune “What Holds the Bone,” for example, illuminates the relationship between the body and the natural world: “Into the

silence, inward ride / I feel the moon pullin’ on the tide.”

Some of George’s previous recordings, such as his self-titled 2014 album, sound flat when compared to the more dynamic moods and instrumentation on Where I Start. The electric alt-country rocker “Found Out” would please the crowd at Burlington’s Radio Bean during Honky Tonk Tuesday, a weekly country music night featuring George and his band Ponyhustle. The piano-driven “Shades of Evening” sounds sweet and earnest, like a Carpenters ballad. The loose and jangly “My Backyard” could have been on George’s recent punk effort Song of Love. If the aching slide guitar on “Heart of the Matter” doesn’t break your heart, you may not have one.

George, a multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer, recorded the album himself in his Sharon, Mass., studio.

Daisy Castro beautifies several tracks with violin and cello, and frequent collaborators Meg Rice and Addie Herbert sing harmony. Queen City chanteuse Kat Wright lends her voice to the duet “Do You Hear It,” which George — who turns 29 the day the album comes out — wrote in high school.

Where I Start is George’s seventh musical release in five years. He’s prolific but deliberate — each project has a distinct driving force. George sang for the voiceless on his politically charged 2018 album Two Hands, Songs of Resistance. On his newest, he advocates for the songs themselves.

Where I Start will be available at ericgeorge.bandcamp.com on Friday, August 23. Catch Eric George that night at an album release show at the Hive on Pine in Burlington with Cricket Blue, Diamond and Camille Casemier.

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SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m., donation.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Hayley Jane and Friends (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

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dramatics saturates his bold tunes with a near operatic

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Indie Rumble (improv), 7 p.m., $5. Open Mic, 8:30 p.m., free.

quality. Somber orchestral pieces, some presented as

chittenden county

neoclassical and adult contemporary music. His flair for

wordless meditations, dominate his debut album, Electric

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

Porcelain. Painstakingly crafted string arrangements support

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Denny Bean and Bob Devins (singer-songwriters), 6:30 p.m., free.

the primarily piano-led songs. The album’s name parallels

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THE FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Matt Saraca and John Townsend (folk-rock), 6 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Jack Bandit and Friends (EDM), 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 7 p.m., free. Leo Rondeau (Americana), 9:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Bill Scorzari (Americana), 5:30 p.m., free.

Andrew Kasab (folk), 7 p.m., free. Grannie Magic (folk), 8:30 p.m., free. Duke Aeroplane & the Ampersand Band (blues, rock), 10 p.m., free.

the artist’s fierceness and delicate sensibilities. It seems to say, “I’m powerful, but handle with care.” Peck performs on

THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.

Wednesday, August 28, at Radio Bean in Burlington.

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MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone, 7 p.m.

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THE FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Southtown Bluegrass, 5:30 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Moochie and DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Four-D (open format), 7 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Queen City Hot Club (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Raphael Groten (acoustic), 9:30 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 8 p.m., free.

chittenden county

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.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: AliT (singer-songwriter), 9:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Cranston Dean (folk, soul), 6 p.m., free. Adrienne Cooper-Smith (freak folk), 7:30 p.m., free. Tavo Carbone (experimental, pop-folk), 8:30 p.m., free. Honky-Tonk Tuesdays with Pony Hustle, 10 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: CRWD CTRL (house, techno), 7 p.m., free. DJ A-RA$ (open format), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kids Music with Emma Cook, 9:30 a.m., free.

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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.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Blue Fox’s Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

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MOOGS PLACE: Chris Lyon (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.

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SD: The trailer for I’m Going to Break Your Heart is pretty bleak. Did you know that you were going to get into all of that heavy, emotional stuff when you set out on that project?

RM: I think we knew it was going to be intense.

RAINE First of all, we’ve never made an album together, so that was going to be a challenge as writers. Second, we were 4,000 miles away from our family, our kids, our dogs — just life in LA. I think there was a little bit of pressure that we didn’t even think about.

We made this huge commitment: We’re spending all this money to go off to this place to write an album. Who the fuck knows if it’s even gonna work out? Are we gonna write any good songs? Are we gonna make that leap and come back with nothing?

There’s just a lot of pressure. That’s why we went to see our marriage coach beforehand and afterwards to kind of recap. We decided to MAIDA film it all. When we came back with this footage, [we said], “OK, the songs are written because of these conversations, arguments, dark places [and] amazing moments, as well.” It’s not all dark. It was a human experience. Because we’re

IT WAS A HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

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SIDEBAR: Ron Stoppable (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

HATCH 31: Leo Rondeau, Lowell Thompson, Big Night (Americana), 7 p.m., free.

it somewhere different. And I like that. I never wanted to have any side project feel like it steps on the feet of OLP.

MOOGS PLACE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free. Jim Charanko (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Hieroglyphics Featuring Del the Funky Homosapien, Mister Burns, Es-K (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $25.

FOAM BREWERS: Familiar Faces (jam, eclectic), 6:30 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Chromatic (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: The Marty Fogel Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

Sam Atallah Quintet (jazz), 9:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Swimmer, the Schroons (jam), 8 p.m., free/$5.

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RADIO BEAN: Carlisle Evans Peck (pop), 7 p.m., free. Alberta (blues), 8:30 p.m., free. Mosaic featuring members of Kat Wright and the Welterweights (jam), 10 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: Deb Brisson & the Hay Burners (rock, folk), 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.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free.

married, you can’t separate the two. You couldn’t just show us writing songs.

SD: What do your kids think of the doc?

RM: They live it, so when they see it on film, it’s funny to them. What happens in the doc is what happens at home every day. I think they’ll really appreciate it later on, when they get into relationships. At the end of the day, when you try to break down what the themes are, it’s about communication and collaboration.

SD: How old are your kids?

RM: 14, 13 and 11.

SD: Are they music fans? What are your thoughts on how they discover and consume music? They must benefit from having two musician parents.

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 14TH STAR BREWING CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

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RM: Yes, but I think pretty quickly they started to develop their own tastes. To me, it’s more about having an open mind and not getting stuck in anything. For them, it’s amazing how it happens. They’ll listen to some crappy hip-hop [like] Migos. I’ll be like, “I get it, but this isn’t gonna move you.”

My 14-year-old is listening to ’50s music right now. Literally two days ago, I was asking him how did he find this [and] what he loved about it. He said, “I love the simplicity of the arrangements. I love the musicianship. It feels real.” It’s wild to see how they jump around. m Contact: jordan@sevendaysvt.com

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Hall Marks “Made in Vermont,” Hall Art Foundation B Y A M Y LI LLY

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eading, a one-road town in Windsor County with a population of 666 and mainly farms nearby, happens to host one of the best places in Vermont to see international contemporary art.

The Hall Art Foundation, founded by Andy and Christine Hall, consists of a group of five buildings: a 19th-century farmhouse,

its three barns and a clapboard house across the road. It is one of three unusual venues the British couple has purchased and meticulously restored to display a collection of some 5,000 works. The others are an industrial shed on the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art campus in North Adams and a castle in Germany.

The Hall in Reading has hosted

guest-curated exhibitions drawn from the collection every May through November since 2012. Last year, director Maryse Brand added “Made in Vermont,” a show featuring seven Vermont artists’ works.

Selected by Brand and Andy Hall, the works were offered for sale; Hall added one, by Bennington painter Mark Barry, to his collection.

The second installment of “Made in Vermont” is now on display, this time featuring work of five artists: Arista Alanis, Steve Budington, Clark Derbes, Jason Galligan-Baldwin and Sarah Letteney.

Mounted once again in the clapboard house that serves as the foundation’s welcome space, the show is the first stop on a guided tour (requiring reservations)

“Let Her Choose Her Own Adventure” by Jason Galligan-Baldwin

“One hundred and nineteen” by Sarah Letteney

“Switchbacks #17” by Arista Alanis

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and “Partial Map With Cloud,” echo Fuller’s triangular forms and Johns’ scale of them while similarly questioning any twodimensional representation’s claim to accuracy. “Cloud” forms a vertically oriented diamond from two triangular wood panels, each painted separately. The lower depicts blue water and a strip of greenery, while the upper affects another dividing line in paint, with a blue sky and cloud sliced off by a shadowed triangle in gray. Each section is depicted from a different perspective, as if the very “Shadow Portrait” by Clark Derbes idea of a flat plane were anathema to mapping.

Budington’s 14-by-11-inch works on paper reference a different sort of mapping: medical drawings of the human body’s internal organs. Collage renders that includes in-depth exhibitions of these works as “partial” as the paintings. paintings by Malcolm Morley and Rich- In “Folded Figures” and “Fenestration,” ard Artschwager. jumbles of organs (trachea, small intesThis year’s selection of Vermont works tine, liver), realistically drawn in pencil, emerged, like last year’s, from a pool of are partly hidden by watercolor collage artists either known or recommended to elements: a netlike overlay or a pattern Brand and Hall. There appears to be no of colorful triangles. particular curatorial vision, but certain Derbes’ distinctive wood sculptures artists’ intentions resonate with others’. equally subvert visual expectations.

Budington’s two paintings and The Charlotte-based artist creates four works on paper explore the his works from locally felled sections of tree trunk that he implications of translating threedimensional surfaces into twochainsaws into polygonal forms — sometimes hollowing them dimensional ones. An associate professor of studio art at the out — and paints in geometUniversity of Vermont, ric patterns. His six pieces Budington was inspired by at the Hall average 17 the American inventor inches in height. The and idealist Buckminvisual tension comes ster Fuller’s 1954 from the interplay world map — a flat between the projection of the carved surfaces globe, centered on and their the north pole, that painted patterns: took the shape of a Often the latter Partial Map With Cloud” long spread of adjoined “by make it difficult to Steve Budington triangles. grasp the form of the In a Yale University work itself.

That trompe l’oeil radio interview, Budington effect is evident in notes the impact of Jasper Johns’ two paintings of Fuller’s “Shadow Portrait,” whose map. The abstract expressionplaid pattern in a grisaille ist artist painted a faithful copy palette continues around for display at Expo 67 in Montréal, some edges but elsewhere where it hung inside the Fullerappears to create an edge within designed dome that comprised the a surface. Derbes often makes use U.S. pavilion (now known to visitors as of a hunk of wood’s natural fissures the Biosphère). But in 1971, harboring in his painted patterns or highlights misgivings about the project’s assumed the rough finishes his chain saw leaves factual representation, Johns painted a behind. An example: “Quilting Bee,” a darker, more ambiguous, 30-foot-long hollowed-out cubic structure whose version in charcoal on encaustic. gouged swirls of sawtooth marks Budington’s 50-inch-tall oil paintings, “Partial Map With Rain Jacket” HALL MARKS » P.75

Harold Weston

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SHELBURNE MUSEUM 4T Early Adirondack paintings, selections from the artist’s Stone Series, diaries, and related ephemera illuminate the connection between the human spirit and nature.

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Harold Weston, Sunrise from Marcy (detail), 1922. Oil on canvas, 16 x 22 in.

Private Collection. © Harold Weston Foundation. Photography by Andy Duback.

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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.

stowe/smuggs

CECIL GERRY: “Organized Chaos,” acrylic paintings, prints and sculpture by the NVU graduate.

Reception: Wednesday, September 4, 3-5 p.m.

August 26-September 15. Info, 626-6459. Dibden Center for the Arts, Northern Vermont University-Johnson.

JAMES VOGLER: Abstract oil paintings by the Vermont artist. Through August 31. Info, 391-4083.

Gallery at One Main in Burlington.

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.

PHILIP HAGOPIAN: “Sequel,” multimedia paintings by the Vermont artist. Reception: Thursday, August 29, 3-5 p.m. August 26-September 20. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Johnson.

JORDAN DOUGLAS: “(Re)memberings,” silver gelatin photographs, toned in sepia. Through August 24.

Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington.

middlebury area

JOSH KERMAN: “Disc Jockeys in Vermont,” nearly 100 photographs of DJs by the founder of Church Street DJs, aka KermiTT. Through September 30.

Info, info@churchstreetdjs.com. Half Lounge in Burlington.

‘STRUCTURES’: An exhibition repurposing the museum’s historic spaces as settings for contemporary art features work by Meg Walker, Axel Stohlberg, Dennis Versweyveld, Judith Rey, Steve Hadeka, Rob Hitzig and Yoko Ono. An international exhibition of mail art is in the Tourist Cabin. Reception: Saturday, August 24, 3 p.m. August 24-October 27. $5. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

‘LIGHT & LENSES’: Digital artists from Vermont Photo Group present eclectic styles within the 16-by-20 format. Through August 30. Info, 434-5503.

Mirabelles Café & Bakery in Burlington.

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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.

LEGO EXHIBIT: Competition submissions by local artists and teams made with the interlocking pieces.

Lego creations by children 5 and older and adults will be accepted on Wednesday, August 21, 4-6 p.m.

Award ceremony on Friday, August 23, 6 p.m. August 26-30. Info, 626-6487. Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, in Lyndonville.

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.

ART EVENTS 7TH ANNUAL ART SHOW: Artwork in a variety of mediums for sale by Vermont artists participating in the Arts So Wonderful program of Service Rendered; also interactive art, live entertainment, food and cash bar. Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor, Friday, August 23, 5-7:30 p.m. Info, 310-6610.

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.

Park St., downtown Stowe, Thursday, August 22, 5-8 p.m. Info, 800-467-8693.

‘ART SEED’: Open house with resident artists including performance, open studios and readings.

Performances in the barn; open studios to follow.

Marble House Project, Dorset, Saturday, August 24, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, info@marblehouseproject.org.

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 24, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free to browse. Info, 865-7166.

FAMILY ART SATURDAY: Families can make artwork inspired by current exhibitions. Each Saturday offers a different art-making project. Burlington City Arts, Saturday, August 24, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

FRIDAY ARTISAN MARKET: Featuring a variety of food, local goods, art, music and family activities.

Spruce Peak at Stowe, Friday, August 23, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, 253-3437.

JANET MACLEOD, SUSAN BULL RILEY & WENDY SOLIDAY: Three artists for the planet join forces for an art exhibit and sale to benefit the work of 350. org and the Old Meeting House Arts ministry. The artwork features evocative local scenes in a variety of media. The Old Meeting House, East Montpelier, Friday, August 23, 4-6 p.m. Info, 229-9553.

LANDART LAB 2019 OPENING DAY: More than 18 regional sculptors present outdoor art and installation on the land. Picnics welcome. King Farm, Woodstock, Saturday, August 24, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 457-1178.

‘ON THE ROAD’: A show of woodcut prints by Naomi Bossom. Bradford Rest Area, Monday, August 26, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Info, 222-5029.

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Bonnie Acker The Burlington artist is as well known for her social activism

as for her abstracted landscapes. But it’s the latter that populate a current exhibition at Shelburne’s Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery. Rich in palette, the oil paintings on paper are resplendent manifestations of her theme: “Hues of Summer.” Acker writes in an artist statement, “The beauty from this summer season, salted away, sustains me year-round.”

The new paintings offer room, she adds, “for viewers to feel connected and uplifted.”

Through September 3. Pictured: “Opening From the Mountains.”

TALK: PETER VANDERWARKER: The Boston-based landscape and cityscape photographer gives a presentation titled “When Do Natural Landscapes Evoke Architectural Forms?” in conjunction with a current exhibition. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Saturday, August 24, 2 p.m. $3-5. Info, 388-2117.

VERMONT TRAVEL DOCUMENTARY & ART SHOW: Local artist Nancy Stone shows her work titled “Vermont Vistas,” and a screening of One Town at a Time, about Vermont’s 251 Club, includes a Q&A with director Mike Leonard. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, Wednesday, August 21, 7 p.m. Info, 878-4918.

VOICING ART POETRY READING: Participants read poetry and prose that is in response to the current exhibit, “Bucolic Concrete,” by young urban artists.

Flynndog Gallery, Burlington, Saturday, August 24, 2-3 p.m. Info, poartryproject@gmail.com.

‘WATER IN THE WOOD’: The Sable Project’s multimedia spectacle includes immersive performances, installations, dance, sculpture, text and more. The Sable Project, Stockbridge, Saturday, August 24, and Sunday, August 25, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $25 per car. Info, info@thesableproject.org.

VISUAL ART IN SEVEN DAYS:

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 a 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.

GARRETT MORIN: “Crowd Sorcery,” new works in pastel by the New York-based artist inspired

by Neolithic monuments to the dead. Through November 16. Info, 233-2943. Safe and Sound Gallery in Burlington.

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‘ALL THE WATERS’: Twenty-five artists from Chittenden County show works in oil, watercolor, pastel, collage, photography, glass and mixed media.

Through August 31. Info, 899-3211. Jericho Town Hall.

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.

VERMONT PASTEL SOCIETY CHAMPLAIN REGION: “Vermont Structures,” a collection of pastel paintings by member artists. Through August 31. Info, 660-4999. Art Works Frame Shop and Gallery in South Burlington.

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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

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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. PALETTEERS OF VERMONT: A group exhibition of works by members of the longstanding artist organization. Through August 30. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

ELEANOR OTT: “Spirit Beings,” fantastical works by the local artist. Through September 29. Info, 595-4866. The Hive in Middlesex.

‘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.

JAMIE HANSEN: Photography and assemblages from the streets of Cuba. Through September 1. Info, 552-8105. The North Branch Café in Montpelier.

‘KINDREDS: TANGIBLE AND INEFFABLE’: Paintings

by Kate Emlen and ceramic works by Amanda Nichols. Through August 24. Info, 738-3667. The Garage Cultural Center in Montpelier.

LINDA MANEY: “Plane Geometry,” paintings that explore, and sometimes complicate, common geometric shapes. Through September 28. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre.

LOIS EBY: “Studies in Rhythmic Vitality,” abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through September 27. Info, leby@loiseby.com. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

MARILYN MADDISON AND ALANA LAPOINT: “Imaginings,” abstract photography, and paintings, respectively. Through August 31. Info, 595-5252.

Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier.

MICHAEL T. JERMYN: Framed images from the Montpelier photographer’s trip to Italy and Spain.

Through September 4. Info, 223-4300. Salaam Boutique in Montpelier.

f SHOW 34: An exhibition of the latest work by gallery members. Reception: Friday, September 6, 4-7 p.m. Through September 29. Info, 552-0877. The Front in Montpelier.

‘SITETIME : CORDWOOD : SHARING’: A multimedia exhibition assembled by Erika Senft Miller, Nancy Winship Milliken and Michael Zebrowski features photographs, video, sound, virtual-reality time-lapse, prints, drawings, and three logs; all are ephemera captured, collected and created during a two-year exhibit in the Vermont Arts Council Sculpture Garden. Through August 23. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

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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CLAIRE KELLY: “New Work,” glass sculptures that create miniature landscapes populated with animals, many of which have a perilous existence.

Through September 8. DUNCAN JOHNSON: “Horizons,” a new body of work using reclaimed wood, assembled into abstract, 2D compositions.

Through October 13. JUSTIN HOEKSTRA: “New Work,” abstract acrylic paintings. Through September 8. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

‘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.

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‘EXPLORING WATER’: Mary Admasian, Kate Burnim, Renée Greenlee and Erika Senft Miller exhibit photography, sculpture, cyanotypes, painting, video installation, window installation and mixed media, curated by Kelly Holt. Through August 31. Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.

‘MORRISVILLE MOSAICS’: Multiple artistic interpretations of a sense of place, in a variety of mediums, originating from a community photographic project. Through September 25. ‘UNDERCOVER’: Artwork in a variety of mediums created by members of the Open Studio Figure Drawing group.

Through September 15. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

‘PEAK TO PEAK: 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION THEN AND NOW’: An exhibition of photographs and artifacts to highlight the evolution of the division’s equipment and training since its beginning in 1943.

Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

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‘THEN AND NOW’: A plein air landscape exhibition of works by 12 20th-century masters of the medium and 30 contemporary artists painting in the same locations; in celebration of the gallery’s 35th anniversary. Through September 2. Info, 644-5100.

Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

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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.

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.

‘THE VERMONT WE CANNOT SEE’: Infrared photographs by Lisa Dimondstein, Julie Parker and Sandra Shenk. Through September 14. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

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‘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 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.

‘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. Through September 22. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

BRENDA MYRICK: New work in acrylic and oil.

Through August 31. Info, 458-1415. Bristol Cliffs Café.

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‘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.

‘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.

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MINDBENDER MANSION: An eclectic exhibition full of brainteasers and interactive challenges guaranteed to test brain power and problem-solving skills. Developed by Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Through September 2. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

‘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. Through September 7. Info, 326-6003.

Montgomery Center for the Arts.

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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.

‘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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PENNY BILLINGS: “Light and the Tonalist Landscape,” contemporary realist paintings. Through August 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

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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.

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.

‘The Vermont We Cannot See’

‘ICE SHANTIES: FISHING, PEOPLE & CULTURE’: An exhibition of large-format photographs featuring the structures, people and culture of ice fishing by Vermont-based Colombian photographer Federico Pardo. Includes audio reflections from shanty owners drawn from interviews by VFC. Through August 31. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

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.

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.

in Waterbury, an exhibition of photographs reveals landscapes that, as the title suggests, are normally invisible. The infrared images of Lisa Dimondstein, Julie trum of light that is beyond the human eye’s ability to detect. The absence of color in this surreal “hidden” world underscores how our sense of reality relies on green grass, blue sky. Through September 14. Pictured: “Taconic Rambling Bridge”

by Parker.

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.

‘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 Emmy-winning 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, 5332045. 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,

CALL TO ARTISTS 2020 ONE & ONLY SERIES: MOXIE Productions and the Grange Hall invite submissions for solo performance shows of all kinds for their 2020 season, January through April. Submitted proposals may represent storytelling, improv, dance, musical, puppetry, multimedia, variety, spoken word, cabaret, burlesque, standup, magic, tragedy, comedy or other forms. Pieces must be 45 to 90 minutes total running time. Deadline: September 15. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center. Free. Info, grangehallcc@gmail. com, grangehallcc.com.

58TH ANNUAL ART IN THE PARK FESTIVALS: Vermont artists and artisans are invited to participate in the festival at Main Street Park in Rutland, October 12 and 13. Deadline just before the show.

Chaffee Art Center, Rutland. Info, artinthepark@chaffeeartcenter.org, 775-0356.

ANEW CALL TO ARTISTS: Inclusive Arts Vermont invites established and emerging artists to participate in a showcase of work by artists with disabilities, which will tour the state in 2020. Submit work interpreting the theme beginnings, openings, doorways and new starts. Deadline: September 30. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Burlington.

Info, 871-5002, inclusiveartsvermont.org.

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‘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.

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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.

‘BODY BEAUTIFUL’: Seeking 2D work that appreciates the diversity of the human form, to be exhibited September 12 through October 12. Deadline: September 3, 11:59 p.m. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center. Free. Info, 244-4168, grangehallcc@gmail.com, grangehallcc.com.

JURIED SHOW AT THE AIR GALLERY: The artist-run gallery has monthly jury sessions. Deadline: September 4. Artist in Residence Gallery, St. Albans. Free. Info, artistinresidence.coop@gmail.com.

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 all ages and experience levels in response to the “Bucolic Concrete”

VALLEY ARTS PHOTO SHOW: This non-juried show, open to amateur and professional photographers, is September 13 through 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.

WILMINGTON PUBLIC ART PROJECT: Seeking artist or artist team to create a site-specific mural on a downtown retaining wall 137 feet long. Deadline: September 30. Wilmington Works. Info, wilmingtonworks@gmail.com, beaverstreetart.com.

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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. Through December 1. Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

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22ND ANNUAL NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: Outdoor sculptures and gallery exhibits featuring 41 artists throughout the historic village. Through November 3. Info, 430-9715. Various locations around North Bennington.

‘COLOR / GESTURE: EARLY WORKS BY EMILY MASON: Small paintings on paper with explosive color created by the abstractionist in the 1950s and ’60s. Through September 8. Info, 447-1571.

Bennington Museum.

‘CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN REGIONALISM: VERMONT PERSPECTIVES’: Using works from the center’s permanent collection, the exhibition invites viewers to consider the framework of regionalism and the role art plays in society; guest-curated by Ric Kasini Kadour. Through October 20. MAGDA LOVE: “Home Sweet Home,” a monthlong artist residency including a solo show of colorful, Argentineaninspired paintings and an outdoor sculpture project with community involvement. Through September 8. RON ROSENSTOCK: “Sacred Places,” photographs of locations around the world where people have gathered to pray or be inspired. Through October 20. Info, 362-1405. 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.

‘EAST TO WEST: A CERAMIC DIALOGUE’: Idiosyncratic works in clay by Mark Pharis, Liz Quackenbush and Cappy Thompson. Through September 28. LISA KIPPEN: “Resonance,” nonrepresentational drawings on paper by the Vermont artist. Through August 25. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

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.

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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. ‘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. CAROL HOCHREITER: “Journey,” paintings in mixed media by the local artist. Through August 30. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Main Gallery in Plattsburgh, N.Y. ‘THIERRY MUGLER COUTURISSIME’: A retrospective of the French creator’s prêt-à-porter and haute couture creations, 1973-2001. Through September 8. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. m

‘HOOKIN’ IN VERMONT’: Textile art by local rug hookers Ina Anderson, Theresa Clark, Jennifer

Hall Marks « P.71 enliven a pattern of colorfully painted triangles.

If there is a playful humor in Derbes’ work, Burlington line-drawing artist Letteney has a much blacker one.

Her contributions to the New Yorker, such as “The Best Pets for Personal Growth,” include humorous text.

The Hall’s selection of five line drawings gets no help from the written word save in their titles — spelled-out numbers ranging from “Nine” to “Six hundred and three.”

Letteney appears to be as influenced by the unsettling humor and visual economy of Edward Gorey as by surrealism. (One series on her website, “A Is for Accident,” is an abecedarian of blood-soaked accident scenes.) “One hundred and nineteen” depicts a couple of human hands prying their way out of the open beak of a blackbird. In “Nine,” a hand dangles an eyeball from its skein of veins above the open beaks of three hatchlings. The iris and pupil are trained on the hungry birds, increasing the sense of terrified alertness that the drawing conveys.

Alanis’ six small oil paintings, each six inches square, reach for the opposite emotion: jubilance. A staff artist at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson for the past 24 years, Alanis encapsulates

landscapes in bold daubs and rough brushstrokes of brilliant color. Though abstract, her paintings are identifiable compositions of water, sky, orchards, setting suns and other features. Alanis has completed plenty of 6-foot-high paintings; these 6-inchsquare selections are part of a series she began in 2014.

Three collages

by GalliganBaldwin round out the show.

The Montpelier artist uses vintage illustrations from magazines and his own childhood books to create open-ended narratives. Cues such as the direction of a gaze, an arrow or a strip of text serve to lead the viewer around the composition, but the effect is impressionistic rather than expository.

“Let Her Choose Her Own Adventure” appears to empower the figure of a little girl with a still-empty dialogue bubble, while the tiny figure of a woman flees from a pursuing man toward the giant, Roy Lichtenstein-esque face of a crying woman.

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o, the truth is, they’re not good boys.

Or bad boys. They’re boring, poorly written boys. I don’t mean the three young stars of this fantasy-based fiasco, but the underdeveloped, completely unbelievable characters they play. Lazily and cynically conceived, this is the closest thing to a child labor violation ever released by a major studio.

As everyone knows, thanks to its marketing campaign, Good Boys is the brainchild of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the guys who penned the 2007 coming-of-age classic Superbad. Instead of the story of three friends sharing zany misadventures and learning life lessons while preparing to begin college, we’re now told the story of three friends sharing zany misadventures and learning life lessons while preparing to begin middle school. The joke isn’t new. It’s just taken to new extremes.

It definitely does not help that the team the stoner moguls chose to realize their vision — or revision — consists of director Gene Stupnitsky and cowriter Lee Eisenberg, the guys who gave us Year One, the 2009 comedy that managed to pair Jack Black with Michael

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Cera and not produce a single laugh. Their price was probably right.

Let’s just say these guys haven’t exactly upped their game. Or their comic standards. As events unfold, one can practically see the filmmakers plucking random Superbad story points out of a hat to patch together into a script.

Jacob Tremblay stars as Max, a 12-yearold who’s invited to a classmate’s “kissing party.” Just as Superbad revolves around three friends scheming to look cool at a classmate’s party, Good Boys follows Max and best buds Thor (Brady Noon) and Lucas (Keith L. Williams) as they embark on a quest to learn how to kiss. That’s their initial mission, anyway.

The story quickly devolves into a haphazard succession of age-inappropriate gags.

Rogen and Goldberg started writing their Superbad script when they were 13. So, to be fair, the combination of minors and adult material might seem more natural to them than it would to most people. My guess is, most people will find the sight of young boys recoiling in horror from their first glimpse of internet porn, getting up close and personal with a sex doll, and mistaking anal beads for fashionable women’s neckwear less edgy than exploitative.

Rogen played a cop in a Superbad scene involving an underage kid trying to procure

BOY TOYS Rogen and Goldberg rip themselves off for the purpose of producing a child-size Superbad.

booze. Years later, here’s another scene involving an even more underage kid trying to do the same. The difference is that McLovin got a fake ID. Thor, by contrast, got done playing patty cake with Lucas on the playground just a few minutes earlier. Do sixth-grade boys really play patty cake? And tell each other, “I love you”? I’m taking it on faith that there are such things as “kissing parties.”

Those aren’t the only differences. Superbad was elevated by world-class improvisation and writing that captured the awkwardness of life in one’s late teens. There

Where’d You Go, Bernadette ★★★

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ertain literary formats don’t translate well to the screen. Maria Semple’s best-selling 2012 novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette tells the story of one woman’s midlife crisis primarily through “found” materials such as emails, reports and memos. At first glance, director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before Sunrise) might seem like a good fit for Semple’s delicate combination of absurdist comedy with dead-serious concerns.

But somewhere along the line, the adaptation process derailed. Except as a showcase for Cate Blanchett’s turn as the title character, the film version of Bernadette is a lost cause.

The novel opens with Bernadette Fox already missing; as her teenage daughter, Bee (Emma Nelson), tries to figure out where she went, the reader gradually learns who she was: an affluent Seattle stay-at-home mom with a husband (Billy Crudup) at Microsoft; a shut-in dependent on a virtual assistant; a grouch, a snob, a misanthrope, a mess.

But in her life before Seattle, Bernadette was someone else — a precocious icon of the architecture world and a MacArthur fellow.

When she gives her family the slip, just before Christmas, it’s actually the second big vanishing act of her life.

Blanchett plays Bernadette big; there’s a touch of Katharine Hepburn in her haughty disdain for the status-grubbing moms at her daughter’s school. She’s never less than compelling, even when she’s being awful, and her relationship with Bee is consistently touching.

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ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST Blanchett plays a wunderkind who lost her way in Linklater’s literary adaptation, which also loses its way.

But, with the exception of Bee, nobody in Bernadette’s world seems capable of being a foil to her. The screenplay has taken her colorful, highly biased version of events (as expressed in emails to her assistant) and transformed it into a straight-faced narrative.

Somehow this results in scene after scene in which Blanchett swans around delivering put-downs while the other actors stare into space looking like they wish they were elsewhere. Kristen Wiig and Laurence Fishburne

make slight impressions, but everyone else just seems dazed and confused.

Is the problem the thinness of the novel’s supporting characters or Linklater’s failure to give the actors adequate direction? Hard to say. But, the more Bernadette overshadows everybody else, the more the screenplay overexplains her problems, nudging us to forgive and love her when we should be doing both of our own accord. The scenes in which her husband learns to appreciate her feel interminable.

isn’t any ad-libbing here, world-class or otherwise. And the writing fails to capture anything beyond a vaguely pervy vision of preteen angst.

By the time we got to the scene in which the trio is forced to play in speeding highway traffic, I was thinking back to that trailer in which Rogen points out an irony: Because of its R rating, the three kids in the film won’t be permitted to buy a ticket to it.

After everything they were put through, at last, a lucky break.

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Linklater’s uncharacteristic heavy-handedness here is unfortunate, because special pleading softens the story’s impact. The simple lesson of the book is that, without an outlet for her need to design and build things, Bernadette becomes a “menace to society,” as she puts it. Generations of women chose between art and family; Semple posits that mental health is sometimes dependent on finding ways to choose both.

At its best, the novel is a joyful and refreshingly non-romanticized portrait of the artist as an eccentric middle-aged mom. At its worst, it’s strenuously wacky and confusingly structured. The movie exacerbates those structural problems; by the time Bernadette disappears, there’s virtually no mystery about where she went, rendering the last act more chaotic than suspenseful.

Normally so skilled at capturing everyday interactions, Linklater never finds a comic rhythm here. Perhaps Semple’s blend of archness and earnestness is anathema to his more naturalistic style, or perhaps the story simply doesn’t work out of its native epistolary format.

The sweet mother-daughter chemistry between Blanchett and Nelson could be enough to redeem Bernadette as a feel-good at-home watch. But viewers looking for the qualities that made the novel a huge smash may wonder where they went.

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NEW IN THEATERS ANGEL HAS FALLEN: Gerard Butler returns as a heroic Secret Service agent, now being framed for the attempted assassination of President Morgan Freeman, in the third installment of the action franchise, directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Snitch).

With Piper Perabo. (120 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Sunset) HONEYLAND: A Macedonian bee hunter struggles to keep her colony alive in this documentary from directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov, which has been described as a parable of climate crisis. (87 min, NR. Savoy) OVERCOMER: A high school coach faces challenges and finds new inspiration when he’s forced to change gears in this faith-based film from director Alex Kendrick (Fireproof), starring Kendrick and Shari Rigby. (119 min, PG. Essex) THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON: A young man with Down syndrome (Zack Gottsagen) flees an institution and trains to become a pro wrestler with the help of a small-time crook (Shia LaBeouf) in the feature debut of writer-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz. With Dakota Johnson and Bruce Dern. (93 min, PG-13. Roxy) READY OR NOT: A bride (Samara Weaving) finds herself in a wedding nightmare when her new husband’s family insists on playing a terrifying game in this horror flick from directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. With Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien and Andie MacDowell. (95 min, R. Bijou, Essex, Palace, Welden)

47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGEDHH Whom will the sharks chomp on in this sequel to the horror hit?

Four teens who make the mistake of diving in a cave. With Nia Long and Sistine Rose Stallone.

Johannes Roberts returns as director. (89 min, PG-13) THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2HHH In this second animated adventure based on the mobile game, “The flightless birds and scheming green pigs take their feud to the next level.” With the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad and Leslie Jones. Thurop Van Orman directed. (96 min, PG) THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAINHH 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) BLINDED BY THE LIGHTHHH1/2 Bruce Springsteen’s anthems inspire a working-class teenager (Viveik Kalra) in this coming-of-age tale set in Margaret Thatcher’s England. With Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Ganatra and Hayley Atwell. Gurinder Chadha (Viceroy’s House) directed. (117 min, PG-13) BRIAN BANKSHHH 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) DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLDHHH 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)

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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) GOOD BOYSHH Seth Rogen produced this pint-size version of Superbad about three sixth graders having a very eventful, R-rated day. With Jacob Tremblay and Keith L. Williams. Gene Stupnitsky makes his directorial debut. (89 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 8/21) 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) MAIDENHHHH 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)

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WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTEHH1/2 Richard Linklater (Boyhood) directed this adaptation of Maria Semple’s best-selling comic novel about an affluent mom (Cate Blanchett) who runs away on a quest for herself. With Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer and Billy Crudup. (130 min, PG-13; reviewed

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36 Bethel Drive, Bethel, betheldrivein.com

friday 23 — sunday 25 The Lion King & Toy Story 4

BIG PICTURE THEATER

48 Carroll Rd. (off Route 100), Waitsfield, 496-8994, bigpicturetheater.info

wednesday 21 — thursday 22 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood friday 23 — thursday 29 Brian Banks Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood Closed on Mondays

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wednesday 21 — thursday 22 *Angel Has Fallen (Thu only) The Art of Racing in the Rain Blinded by the Light (Thu only) Dora and the Lost City of Gold Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood Where’d You Go, Bernadette friday 23 — thursday 29 *Angel Has Fallen Blinded by the Light Dora and the Lost City of Gold (Fri-Sun only) Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood Where’d You Go, Bernadette

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wednesday 21 — thursday 22 *Angel Has Fallen (Thu only) The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2D & 3D) The Art of Racing in the Rain Blinded by the Light Dora and the Lost City of Gold Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Good Boys The Kitchen The Lion King Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood *Overcomer (Thu only) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Good Boys The Lion King *Overcomer (with open-caption screening Sat only) *Ready or Not Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark **Studio Ghibli Fest 2019: My Neighbor Totoro (dubbed: Sun & Wed only; subtitled: Mon only)

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wednesday 21 — thursday 22 47 Meters Down: Uncaged *Angel Has Fallen (Thu only) The Angry Birds Movie 2 The Art of Racing in the Rain Dora and the Lost City of Gold Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Good Boys The Kitchen The Lion King Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Spider-Man: Far From Home Toy Story 4 friday 23 — wednesday 28 47 Meters Down: Uncaged *Angel Has Fallen The Angry Birds Movie 2 The Art of Racing in the Rain Dora and the Lost City of Gold Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Good Boys The Lion King Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Spider-Man: Far From Home Toy Story 4

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65 Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841, middleburymarquis.com

wednesday 21 — thursday 22 Dora and the Lost City of Gold Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw **Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival friday 23 — thursday 29 **Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (Fri-Sun only) Rest of schedule not available at press time

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wednesday 21 — thursday 22 Blinded by the Light Booksmart The Farewell Maiden Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood Where’d You Go, Bernadette friday 23 — thursday 29 Blinded by the Light The Farewell Maiden Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood *The Peanut Butter Falcon Where’d You Go, Bernadette

friday 23 — wednesday 28 *Angel Has Fallen The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2D & 3D; with sensory-friendly screening Sat only) The Art of Racing in the Rain (with opencaption screening Sat only) Blinded by the Light

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The Art of Racing in the Rain **Deconstructing the Beatles: Abbey Road, Side 2 (Wed only) Dora and the Lost City of Gold Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Good Boys The Kitchen The Lion King Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood *Ready or Not (Thu only) Spider-Man: Far From Home Yesterday friday 23 — wednesday 28

*Angel Has Fallen The Angry Birds Movie 2 The Art of Racing in the Rain **A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Sat only) Dora and the Lost City of Gold Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Good Boys The Lion King Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood *Ready or Not **Studio Ghibli Fest 2019: My Neighbor Totoro (dubbed: Sun & Wed only; subtitled: Mon only) Yesterday

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241 N. Main St., Barre, 479-9621, fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 21 — thursday 29 The Angry Birds Movie 2 Good Boys

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friday 23 — thursday 29 The Farewell *Honeyland Maiden **The Spy Behind Home Plate (Sat only) Open-caption screenings upstairs on Mondays.

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454 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4678, stowecinema.com

wednesday 21 — thursday 22 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Good Boys Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood friday 23 — thursday 29 Schedule not available at press time.

SUNSET DRIVE-IN

155 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 862-1800, sunsetdrivein.com

wednesday 21 — thursday 22 The Lion King & Toy Story 4 The Angry Birds Movie 2 & Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood Good Boys & Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw & Dora and the Lost City of Gold friday 23 — thursday 29 The Lion King & Toy Story 4 The Angry Birds Movie 2 & Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood Good Boys & Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw *Angel Has Fallen & Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

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wednesday 21 — thursday 22 Where’d You Go, Bernadette friday 23 — thursday 29 Yesterday Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.

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26 Main St., Montpelier, 229-0598, savoytheater.com

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VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22):

Yisrael Kristal was a Polish Jew born under the sign of Virgo in 1903. His father was a scholar of the Torah, and Yisrael began studying Judaism and learning Hebrew at age 3.

He lived a long life and had many adventures, working as a candle maker and a candy maker. When the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, Kristal emerged as one of the survivors. He went on to live to the age of 113. Because of the chaos of World War I, he had never gotten to do his bar mitzvah when he’d turned 13. So he did it much later, in his old age. I foresee a comparable event coming up soon in your life, Virgo. You will claim a reward or observe a milestone or collect a blessing you weren’t able to enjoy earlier.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s not cost-efficient to recycle plastic. Sorting and processing the used materials to make them available for fresh stuff is at least as expensive as creating new plastic items from scratch.

On the other hand, sending used plastic to a recycling center makes it far less likely that it will end up in the oceans and waterways, harming living creatures. So in this case, the short-term financial argument in favor of recycling is insubstantial, whereas the moral argument is strong. I invite you to apply a similar perspective to your upcoming decisions.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): African American slaves suffered many horrendous deprivations. For example, it was illegal for them to learn to read. Their oppressors feared that educated slaves would be better equipped to agitate for freedom and took extreme measures to keep them illiterate. Frederick Douglass was one slave who managed to beat the ban. As he secretly mastered the art of reading and writing, he came upon literature that ultimately emboldened him to escape his “owners” and flee to safety. He became one of the 19th century’s most powerful abolitionists, producing reams of influential writing and speeches.

I propose that we make Douglass your inspiring role model for the coming months. I think you’re ready to break the hold of a certain curse — and go on to achieve a gritty success that the curse had prevented you from accomplishing.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): For 25 years, businessman Don Thompson worked for the McDonald’s fast food company, including three years as its CEO. During that time, he oversaw the sale and consumption of millions of hamburgers. But in 2015, he left McDonald’s and became part of Beyond Meat, a company that sells vegan alternatives to meat. I could see you undergoing an equally dramatic shift in the coming months, Gemini: a transition into a new role that resembles but is also very different from a role you’ve been playing. I urge you to step up your fantasies about what that change might entail.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot,” wrote author Audre Lorde. As an astrologer I would add this nuance: although what Lorde says is true, some phases of your life are more favorable than others to seek deep and rapid education. For example, the coming weeks will bring you especially rich teachings if you incite the learning process now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The American idiom “stay in your lane” has come to mean “mind your own business” and usually has a pejorative intent. But I’d like to expand it and soften it for your use in the coming weeks. Let’s define it as meaning “stick to what you’re good

at and know about” or “don’t try to operate outside your area of expertise” or “express yourself in ways that you have earned the right to do.” Author Zadie Smith says that this is good advice for writers. “You have to work out what it is you can’t do, obscure it and focus on what works,” she attests. Apply that counsel to your own sphere or field, Leo.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sailors have used compasses to navigate since the 11th century.

But that tool wasn’t enough to guide them. A thorough knowledge of the night sky’s stars was a crucial aid. Skill at reading the everchanging ocean currents always proved valuable. Another helpful trick was to take birds on the ships as collaborators. While at sea, if the birds flew off and returned, the sailors knew there was no land close by. If the birds didn’t return, chances were good that land was near. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because I think it’s an excellent time to gather a number of different navigational tools for your upcoming quest. One won’t be enough.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What do you want from the allies who aren’t your lovers?

What feelings do you most enjoy while you’re in the company of your interesting, non-romantic companions? For instance, maybe you like to be respected and appreciated. Or perhaps what’s most important to you is to experience the fun of being challenged and stimulated. Maybe your favorite feeling is the spirit of collaboration and comradeship. Or maybe all of the above. In any case, Scorpio, I urge you to get clear about what you want — and then make it your priority to foster it. In the coming weeks, you’ll have the power to generate an abundance of your favorite kind of non-sexual togetherness.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As the CEO of the clothes company Zappos, Sagittarius entrepreneur Tony Hsieh is worth almost a billion dollars. If he chose, he could live in a mansion by the sea. Yet his home is a 200-square-foot, $48,000 trailer in Las Vegas, where he also keeps his pet alpaca. To be clear, he owns the entire trailer park, which consists of 30 other trailers, all of which are immaculate

hotbeds of high-tech media technology where interesting people live. He loves the community he has created, which is more important to him than status and privilege. “For me, experiences are more meaningful than stuff,” he says. “I have way more experiences here.”

I’d love to see you reaffirm your commitment to priorities like his in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’ll be a favorable time to do so.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Medical researcher Jonas Salk developed a successful polio vaccine, so he had a strong rational mind.

Here’s how he described his relationship with his nonrational way of knowing. He said, “It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner.” I bring this up, Capricorn, because the coming weeks will be a favorable time to celebrate and cultivate your own intuition. You may generate amazing results as you learn to trust it more and figure out how to deepen your relationship with it.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian environmentalist Edward Abbey once formulated a concise list of his requirements for living well. “One must be reasonable in one’s demands on life,” he wrote. “For myself, all that I ask is: 1. accurate information, 2. coherent knowledge, 3. deep understanding, 4. infinite loving wisdom, 5. no more kidney stones, please.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to create your own tally of the Five Crucial Provisions. Be bold and precise as you inform life about your needs.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “We may be surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers,” wrote author Janette Oke. I suspect that observation will apply to you in the coming weeks. If you’re an atheist or agnostic, I’ll rephrase her formulation for you: “We may be surprised at whom Life sends to answer our entreaties.” There’s only one important thing you have to do to cooperate with this experience: Set aside your expectations about how help and blessings might appear.

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ARE YOU KIND? Mountain girl seeks adventure mate for fun times: travel, laughter, good food, fishing, perhaps. Looking to meet someone who is genuine, honest, silly, easy to be around. I have many interests and experiences and want to meet someone to share good times with. If you’re looking for a fun, spicy, goofy, nonmaterialistic, intelligent woman to hang with, then respond and describe yourself. dragonflydancer, 42, seeking: M, l SPECIAL, HANDY, LOVABLE I am self-sufficient. I can play in the mud in the day and dress to the nines at night. I love to give parties but also love to sit by a fire and cuddle. I am a lady and always will be. If you want someone who cares and is intelligent, I am waiting. Starchild, 61, seeking: M, l READY FOR A NEW ADVENTURE I’ve recently moved back to Vermont to be close to my family and make a career change. I’m enjoying the chance to reconnect with the things I love most about this area: hiking, the amazing food culture. The things I enjoy most are hiking, baking, reading and a great Brit com. Onceachef14, 49, seeking: M, l

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KIND, COMPASSIONATE, DOWN-TO-EARTH I have a good sense of humor. I write nice songs and do interesting photographic work. I am honest and open and love the outdoors. A many-generational Vermonter, a family man, unique. I am retired but continue to produce new songs and photography. trout, 72, seeking: W, l LET’S PLAY! In shape, in touch, experienced. I crave the heat, passion and sheer exhilaration that comes from when two people really connect. Looking for like-minded playmates. NorthStarVT, 46, seeking: W OPEN-MINDED Looking for something new. A real open-minded, no-drama kinda woman. Been single for a while now and hoping for some real fun and maybe more. lokin, 32, seeking: W A SOUL-SPIRITED KIND OF FELLOW I’m looking for a woman who is interested in life and the world around her — who loves books, the arts and cultural events. I hope she is passionate about how she lives and what she believes in. Perhaps she loves to garden, as I do. autumn37, 68, seeking: W, l REALIST TIRED OF GAMES I’m looking for stimulating conversations with lovers of music and food. I enjoy being outside all year long.

I’m also finally getting back into longdistance running. You don’t need to be a specific size or shape; independence and individuality are what I find sexy.

If you can’t be honest with yourself, then we probably won’t get along very well. NunyaB, 43, seeking: W

IT’S ALL ABOUT BEING PRESENT I love words and how they can move emotion. Studying to be a poet after 38 years. In the produce business. Going for walks and conversation; love holding hands. No extreme sports. Enjoy going for long rides in the NEK. Love anything to do with water. I am looking for a kind, loving, mature woman with a few extra pounds. poet56, 63, seeking: W, l LOOKING FOR EXCITEMENT I am a fit, attached male who is looking for that special lady to ignite that spark in me that I am not getting at home. I am an outdoors kind of man. I love to hike, bike, fish, etc. Mtnx, 46, seeking: W SUGAR MAGNOLIA BLOSSOMS BLOOMING Life is for living! I do things I enjoy: kayaking, sailing, scuba diving, gardening, photography, and seeing live music as often as possible. I’m easygoing and environmentally conscious. Hoping to meet a like-minded woman to share the fun. I’m not perfect and not looking for it, just someone whose imperfections blend well with mine. *No Trump supporters!

DriftinAndDreaming, 54, seeking: W, l BI MARRIED, LOOKING FOR SAME Hey there. Bi married, looking for same for down-low fun in the Middlebury area. I am very submissive and aim to please. You should be clean and DD-free, because I am, too. Want a regular thing with a guy or trans woman. I’m into giving pleasure and bottom. Have crossdressed, too, for right person. So let me know. Johnny4ter, 47, seeking: M, TW LOOKING FOR FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS Openly looking for friends with benefits.

Funlateinlife, 57, seeking: M SHY BUT FUN Educator with still lots to learn. Enjoy the company of a woman who is unique, funny, and bright. I’m intelligent, humorous, well read, musical and slightly geeky. Somewhat introverted, warm and friendly once I know you.

Not particularly outdoorsy; love the lake and sun or a fireplace and a movie. Up for being coaxed out of my box. noman, 63, seeking: W, l HERE FOR FUN So, I’m an older guy with a young mind and a body that loves to be loved. I love the outdoors, dogs, good food (I can cook), and evenings of wine and song. I’m married, so am not looking for commitment. Just looking for someone who is also needing companionship and some physicality.

Hopefloats, 58, seeking: W, l ONE TIME ONLY I’m bi-curious. I want to give my first blow job to someone who’s at least eight inches. Age, race unimportant.

You are disease-free, clean and trimmed. I want you to shoot that load down my throat. One time only.

Be discreet and polite, and let’s grab a beer. Onetimeonly, 55, seeking: M

TRANS WOMEN seeking...

SAPIOSEXUAL, MERCURIAL, HONEST ’TIL DEAD I love learning new things and meeting new people, or learning old things from others’ perspectives. Or old people from new perspectives (says the pot to the kettle). I love it both on intellectual and emotional bases to an extent that I can’t really describe other than “bliss.” Life is so very short, so make every moment count. Wintermute, 36, seeking: M, W, TM, TW, Q, NC, NBP, l

LOOKING TO SPOIL A GOOD MAN Deeply closeted, extremely fit and attractive transsexual woman. Part time right now. Seeks a discreet, clean, fit, attractive man to spoil. I am asking a lot but have much to give. Let’s have some fun. Love to please. Susankvt65, 54, seeking: M GENEROUS, OPEN, EASYGOING Warm, giving trans female with an abundance of yum to share (and already sharing it with lovers) seeks ecstatic connection for playtimes, connections, copulations, exploration and generally wonderful occasional times together. Clear communication, a willingness to venture into the whole self of you is wanted. Possibilities are wideranging: three, four, explorations, dreaming up an adventure are on the list! DoubleUp, 62, seeking: Cp, l

COUPLES seeking...

EXPERIENCE SOMETHING NEW We are a loving couple of over five years. Love to play and try new things. Spend free time at the ledges.

Looking for people to play with.

Perhaps dinner, night out and maybe breakfast in the morning. Looking for open-minded men, women or couples who enjoy fun times and new experiences. 2newAdventurers, 51, seeking: M, W, Cp, Gp OPEN-MINDED ROLE-PLAY We are an open-minded couple looking for others. Must be discreet. Please let us know your interests. If you are a male replying, you must be bi or bi-curious.

VTroleplaying, 46, seeking: M, W, Cp MAY DECEMBER FOR SUMMER FUN We are 33 and 50. She is fit and he is working on it, but both are passionate, fun and insatiable. We have talked of FWBs but never done anything about it. We would like to meet a like-minded couple and fall in bed and have some good clean dirty fun. Are you interested?

Somekinkyfun, 33, seeking: Gp ATTRACTIVE MARRIED COUPLE Attractive, caring and honest married couple looking to meet a female for fun times both in and out of the bedroom.

She is bi-curious; he is straight. We are very easygoing and fun to be around. Will share a photo once we communicate. Let’s see what happens.

VTcouple4fun, 48, seeking: W PROFESSIONAL COUPLE LOOKING Professional couple looking for fit, professional men.

Ampefm, 44, seeking: M FULL TRANSPARENCY Adventurous, educated, open couple married 12 years interested in meeting another open couple for some wine, conversation, potential exploration and fun. She is 40 y/o, 5’11, dirty blond hair. He is 41 y/o, 5’10, brown hair. ViridisMontis, 42, seeking: Cp

GENDERQUEER PEOPLE seeking...

EXPLORING MY FEMININE SIDE I’m down-to-earth, honest and getting in touch with my feminine side. I am submissive and looking to meet others who are like-minded, kind and dominant. sissydannieelle, 59, seeking: M, W, TM, TW, Q, Cp, l

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“WHAT HOLIDAY IS IT?�

WINOOSKI Friday night I got out of my car. You asked if I knew what holiday it was, since the parking was free. We laughed about my parking space. I said I’d blame you if I got a ticket! Sorry you didn’t come into Waterworks.

Single? If so, meet me so I can tell you what holiday it was! When: Friday, August 16, 2019. Where: outside Waterworks, Winooski.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914835 ENAMORED Beautiful eyes. Smooth, perfect shoulders I want to kiss. Skin so soft, perfectly tan. You were in a cemetery and on a park bench after swimming in the lake, at the lookout point, hair blowing in the wind. So beautiful.

Smile so mesmerizing. I’ve seen you in my dreams and in the flesh. I’m captivated. Forever enamored. Are you? When: Saturday, July 20, 2019.

Where: Burlington area and more.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914834 WAS THAT YOU? Was that you at the Radio Bean? You were looking me down. I did not say anything because I thought you would think I’m too old. I’m 59 and male. If this is you, contact me. When: Saturday, August 17, 2019. Where: Radio Bean.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914833 CBD GIRL ON PEARL ST. I talked to you today, and your name was Kiera. I commented on your cool dress and how good your formulations were. The free CBD roll on sample worked great. I thought you were really cute, intelligent and nice. Are you up for a vegan dinner, hike or the like? When: Tuesday, August 13, 2019.

Where: CBD shop, Pearl St., Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914832

HANDSOME MAN AT BLANCHARD BEACH You were out for a bike ride, and you came onto the beach. My friend and I were sitting in the sand. You opened a beer, walked in the water for a little bit, then left. I really wanted to say something, but I just couldn’t find the words. I hope to see you again there soon. When: Tuesday, August 13, 2019. Where: Blanchard Beach.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914831 NEW WORLD TORTILLA, TALL, DARK...

I was picking up my takeout. You: wearing a red T-shirt and tattoos, in town for family matters. I left but couldn’t help but wonder whether we had met at the OP all those years ago.

If you are still in town, let’s revisit our old haunts. When: Saturday, August 10, 2019. Where: New World Tortilla.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914829 MR. SEAFOOD MAN AT SHAW’S About a month ago, I asked you the price on prime rib, and I’ve not seen you except for on Saturday, 8/10/19. I think, from what I always find, it’s difficult to be forward and make the first move. I was the lady in the olive green Barbour vest with the blue-and-white-striped blouse. If you are married, then that’s my “no-go� territory. When: Saturday, August 10, 2019. Where: Shaw’s.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914828 MERMAIDS While investing in a special journal, you asked me about my T-shirt, which features a double-headed mermaid in a jar. I have decided to title the journal “Mermaids.� The first story I will write down in it will be this one.

Also, my dream about the mermaid and another writing project begun days ago about a two-headed woman.

When: Thursday, August 8, 2019.

Where: Earthbound Trading Company.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914827

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WALKING YOUR DOG IN WATERBURY Your kids were getting their hair cut in the salon, and you were leading your pup around the building to keep her interested. We spoke briefly. I wondered if I could have gotten your number, but this is a work environment, after all.

If you read this, I’d love to introduce your doggy to my lab/pointer mix sometime. When: Thursday, August 8, 2019. Where: S. Main St., Waterbury.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914826 YOU’RE IN SCHEDULING AND BEAUTIFUL You made my surgery appointment today for my left arm in September.

Seeing anyone? When: Wednesday, August 7, 2019. Where: at your desk.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914825 I NEARLY TRIMMED YOUR HAIR...

You: walking with a friend I knew from around Lab B, toward a store next to my pharmacy. We all hung out for a bit.

I offered to trim your hair; we got into a hot mess instead. You walked me home, holding my hand. Can’t stop thinking of seeing you again under better circumstances. You made me very happy. When: Saturday, August 3, 2019.

Where: South Winooski, by Walgreens.

You: Gender nonconformist.

Me: Trans woman. #914824 SUNDAY FESTIVAL OF FOOLS SOUND CHECK We said “hello/goodbye� during a sound check at Red Square during the Festival of Fools. Before that, you were sitting on an outdoor couch facing my direction between two of your friends when we looked at each other. I think we might both be locals, but hopefully this ad will help us connect. We’ll see! When: Sunday, August 4, 2019. Where: Church St. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914823 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 washedgreen 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

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

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

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

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

INVITE ME TO THE WEDDING You were a sassy woman in waycool 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 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 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

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 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

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Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

My partner really likes to put his balls in my mouth, which I’m totally OK with, but every time he does it, I wind up with a nose full of ass.

And he’s not exactly well manicured in that department. How do I broach the subject of manscaping with him?

Tangled Teabag (MALE, 35)

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Dear Tangled Teabag,

If you two are close enough for him to be putting his balls in your mouth, tackling his body hair management shouldn’t be too much of a stretch.

But discussing personal hygiene can be a daunting task even with your best pals. If being direct with your partner about his bum hair makes you squeamish, try a subtler route. How about springing for a couple’s waxing package at a salon or spa and going together? If you’ve never been waxed before, it will be both terrifying and hilarious — two great bonding emotions rolled into one!

your fuzzy buddy. You could help him dip his toe in by offering to give him a little trim yourself. If you’re into it, sex it up with a little barber role-play.

I’d recommend using a body-specific trimmer and extra caution. One nick could cause your partner to get shave-shy, and then you’ll be dealing with those noseticklers forever.

Good luck and God bless, It’s possible a full Brazilian wax (often called a Manzilian or Boyzilian when a dude does it), in which all the hair down there is removed, may be too big a leap for

The Reverend

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30K original miles. Call 802-355-4109.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES 2006 DURANGO 5TH WHEEL RV $4,000. Newly Inspected. Very good condition. Hitch incl.

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COLCHESTER LARGE PRIVATE ROOM Own entrance & heat. 3 refs. needed.

Parking avail. Call 802-655-7053.

KEEN’S CROSSING IS NOW LEASING! 1-BR TAFT FARM 1-BR, $1,054/mo.; 2-BR, sm-allmetals060811.indd 1 5:02 PM SENIOR LIVING7/20/15 $1,266/mo.; 3-BR, 10 Tyler Way, Williston, $1,397/mo. Spacious independent senior interiors, fully appliliving. Newly remodeled anced kitchen, fi tness 1-BR unit on 2nd floor center, heat & HW incl. avail., $1,165/mo. incl.

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Twin Oaks Terrace hookups. Spacious Sep. 1. 1-year lease. off Kennedy Dr. Avail. off-street parking.

Open viewing: Aug. Sep. 15. Includes W/D. No pets. Rent $1,175/ 25, 10-10:30 a.m. NS/ Parking for 2 vehicles. mo. Avail. Sep. 1. Call pets, no laundry, street Utils. not incl. NS/pets.

802-373-0325. parking, HDWD floors.

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In Malletts Bay, 2-BR TAFT FARM $1,300/mo. + sec. dep.

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10 Tyler Way, Williston, separate. Short-term independent senior lease: Nov.-Apr. Call living. Newly remodeled Paula 864-0838.

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In Winooski, right next apt. apartment to VSAC. 2 porches, 3-BR CARRIAGE HOUSE giant LR, HDWD floors, BA bathroom Totally renovated. On off-street parking. a dead-end street. $1,300/mo. 318-8492 or BR bedroom Walking distance nbraasch at gmail.com. to UVM, hospital & DR dining room downtown. Call or text Karen, 802-598-3381.

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3-BR, 4-BA BTV TOWNHOUSE In Burlington’s New North End. W/D hookups, 2 off-street parking spots. Avail.

Oct. 1. $2,025/mo. + sec. dep. & utils. Email cedarst6466@yahoo. com.

AFFORDABLE 2-BR APT. AVAIL. At Keen’s Crossing.

2-BR: $1,266/mo., heat & HW incl. Open floor plan,

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LAND 15 ACRES IN JAY, VT Undeveloped in Jay, Vt., off Rte. 105. Creek on the property. heartsbrook.wordpress. com, heartsbrook@ gmail.com.

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FOR RENT: 80 COLCHESTER AVE. 80 Colchester Ave., Burlington, VT. 2,000 sq.ft. on 2 levels.

Directly across the street from UVM Medical Center & Fleming Museum. Lower level: open floor plan w/

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Hay Equipment & Barn Found ’57 Chevys

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3BR/1BA ranch home with 960±SF, on a slab, carport. Great starter or retirement home in a nice neighborhood.

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Two multi-family buildings, one with seven units and the other with four units. Plus an old barn on 56 acres that includes a lovely old high meadow. Property has frontage on Northfield Street, at end of Pleasant Street and on Hill Street. Outstanding opportunity. $949,000

Handcrafted with emphasis on sustainability. Central level designed to take in the view. Floors, ceilings, cabinets and trim are eastern white pine, timbers for the screened porch are hemlock and deck is local tamarack. Upper level master suite with eastern exposure, walkout lower level includes two bedrooms, bathroom, two offices. $589,000

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BTV NEIGHBORHOOD YARD SALE Burlington’s Lakeview Terrace neighborhood yard sale. Park your car & stroll along the many sales to be held on the Terrace this Sat., Aug. 24, beginning at 9 a.m.

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HUGE MULTI-FAMILY YARD SALE Sat., Aug. 31. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. 190 East Ave., Burlington. Art, kitchen & housewares, blankets.

Everything a student/ homemaker could use. Many treasures.

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Single-family home on charming deadend street, in a desirable neighborhood, a short walk to UVM, the Hospital, or Centennial Field. Open House: August 24th 10-12 am and August 25th 10-12 am $424,000. Contact Jessica jarendt9 @gmail.com

Stunning property on 11.22 acres includes 2 bedroom farmhouse built in 2000, heated studio building and unheated shop building, beach and mooring rights. $392,000.

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Beautiful 4 8/19/19 Untitled-20 2:18 PM 1 Bedroom , 2 Bath Essex Home with an included recently built cottage on site as a separate rental.

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5 acres Camp/ 8/19/19 2:33 PM cabin on piers on steep hill. Off road parking. 500 Square feet. Composting toilet. More on Zillow. 1894 Broadbrook Rd So. Royalton Solar power.

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CONTACT KRISTEN, 865-1020, EXT. 22FSBO@SEVENDAYSVT.COM 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 “4C0418-11”.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C04181110 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On August 9, 2019, The Woolen Mill Associates, L.P. c/o Cambridge Development Corp General Partner filed application #4C0418-11 for a project generally described as construction of a new parking lot including new sidewalks, curbing and curb cuts, and crosswalks. The project is located 20 West Canal Street in Winooski, 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.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before September 4, 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 September 4, 2019.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal

Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 13th day of August, 2019.

By: _/s/Rachel Lomonaco Rachel Lomonaco, District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 Rachel.Lomonaco@ vermont.gov AUCTION – MOBILE HOME Sale Date and Location: Tuesday, 8/27/19 at 9:00 a.m. – 51 Avenue C, mobile home located on North Avenue in Burlington, Vermont formerly known as Farrington’s

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For more info. call (802) 860-9536.

1967 Redman New Moon, 12 x 60, Min. bid $10,175.96 Must be moved 5 days after sale.

Auctioneer: Uriah Wallace – Lic. #0570002460 CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 5 One-way streets designated.

The following streets are hereby designated as one-way streets, and all traffic and travel thereon, except pedestrians, shall pass in the directions indicated and not otherwise: (1)-(11) As Written.

(12) [Mechanics Lane] Thorsen Way, easterly [and northerly] from

Church Street to [College Street] Markham Lane.

(13) [Repealed.]

Markham Lane northerly from Thorsen Way to College Street.

(14)-(42) As Written.

Adopted this 17th day of July, 2019 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest_________ Phillip Peterson Associate Engineer – Technical Services Adopted 07/17/19; Published 08/21/19; Effective 09/11/19.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances:

vehicle at any time in the following locations: (1-49) As Written.

(50) [On the south side of Flynn Avenue from Shelburne Street to Pine Street.]

Reserved.

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As Written.

(60) [On the south side of Flynn Avenue beginning at Shelburne Street and continuing one hundred twenty (120) feet west.]

Reserved.

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As Written.

(65) As Written.

(66) [At 288 Flynn Avenue specifically in front of the westernmost driveway extending twenty (20) feet on both sides of the driveway.] On the north side of Flynn Avenue, starting at the driveway to 300 Flynn Avenue and continuing west to the first driveway to 208 Flynn Avenue.

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side of Flynn Avenue [from Briggs Street to Oakledge Park].

(168-332) As Written.

(332) [On the north side of Flynn Avenue beginning at the Vermont Railroad tracks and continuing west for 500 feet.]

Reserved.

(333-334) As Written.

(335) [On the north side of Flynn Avenue beginning at Oakledge Park and continuing east for 210 feet.] Reserved.

(336-554) As Written.

Sec. 8 No parking 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays.

No person shall park any vehicle between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Mondays through Fridays inclusive, in any of the following locations: (1-4) As Written.

Sec. 7 No parking areas.

(67-166) As Written.

(5) [On the south side of Flynn Avenue for two hundred eighty (280) feet west of Pine Street.] Reserved.

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Adopted this 15th day of May, 2019 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest __________ Phillip Peterson Associate Public Works Engineer Adopted 5/15/19; Published 08/21/19; Effective 09/11/19.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 29 No parking except for the use of car share vehicles.

Spaces designated as no parking at all times except for the use of car share vehicles only: (1)-(6)

As Written.

(7) On the north side of Main Street in the first space west of Saint Paul Street.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 7 No-parking areas No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations: (1)-(550) As Written.

On the north (551) side of Main Street in the second space west of Saint Paul Street

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OPENINGS BURLINGTON CITY COMMISSIONS/ BOARDS Conservation Board Term Expires 6/30/21 One Opening Fence Viewer Term Expires 6/30/20 One Opening

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Adopted this 16th day of April, 2019 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners:

Green Mountain Transit Board – alternate — Term Expires 6/30/20 One Opening

Attest __________ Phillip Peterson Associate Engineer – Technical Services

Public Works Commission Term Expires 6/30/22 One Opening

Adopted 04/16/19; Published 08/21/19; Effective 09/11/19.

Applications may be submitted to the Clerk/ Treasurer’s Office, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Attn: Lori NO later than Wednesday, September 18, 2019, by 4:30 pm.

NOTICE OF LEGAL SALE View Date 09/05/2019 Sale Date 09/06/2019 John Rathbun Unit# 109 Easy Self Storage 46 Swift South Burlington VT 05403 (802) 862-8300

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.

PUBLIC NOTICE The Annual meeting of the Board of Directors for VERMONT DENTAL CARE PROGRAMS will be held on Monday September 24 at 5:30pm at the office of Vermont Dental Care at 32 Malletts Bay Ave, Winooski, Vermont.

For further information please call Sandra at 655-2385.

Date: August 2019

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1056-819 CNPR In re estate of Celine Teeson.

Board of Tax Appeals Term Expires 6/30/20 One Opening

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Wright will plan for appointments to take place at the September 23, 2019 City Council Meeting/ City Council With Mayor Presiding Meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact Lori at (802)865-7136 or via email lolberg@burlingtonvt.gov.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Celine Teeson, late of Colchester, Vermont.

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Description of Permit: Appellant appeals the issuance of Permit #AOP18-044 which increases the hot mix asphalt production limit of the facility from the current 225,000 tons per year to 350,000 tons per year.

Permit Applicant(s): Frank W. Whitcomb Construction Corporation.

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PAUL H. WHITTALL AKA PAUL H. WHITTALL JR. OCCUPANTS OF: 231 Spring Street, St Johnsbury VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF

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NOTICE OF APPEAL

Property Address/Location: 115 Whitcomb Street, Colchester, Vermont

By: Chad V. Bonanni Chad V. Bonanni (ERN #4155) Attorney for the Appellant PO Box 174, Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-6304 cbonanni@bpflegal.com

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REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered December 14, 2018, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Paul H. Whittall Jr. to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Mortgage Financial Services, Inc., dated October 20, 2003 and recorded in Book 287 Page 494 of the land records of the Town of St Johnsbury, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Mortgage Financial Services, Inc. to Federal National Mortgage Association dated October 4, 2016 and recorded in Book 420 Page 162; (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Federal National Mortgage Association to MTGLQ Investors, L.P. dated October 9, 2017 and recorded in Book 427 Page 95; (3) Assignment of Mortgage from MTGLQ Investors, L.P. to U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Trustee of the Chalet Series III Trust dated March 12, 2019 and recorded in Book 444 Page 31; and (4) Assignment of Mortgage from U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Trustee of the Chalet Series III Trust to U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Trustee of the Lodge Series III Trust dated May 2, 2019 and recorded in Book 444 Page 288, all of the land records of the Town of St Johnsbury for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 231 Spring Street, St Johnsbury, Vermont on September 17, 2019 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises as conveyed to Paul Whittall by Warranty Deed of Charles J. Gallagher and Anne D. Gallagher dated May 1, 2002 and recorded in Volume 268 at Page 252 of the Town of St. Johnsbury Land Records.

Being a parcel of land, together with the apartment house, garage, right of way, and

any other improvements thereon, located on the westerly side of Spring Street and on the southerly side of Winter Street, and now known and numbered as 231 Spring Street, and previously numberes as 28-30 Spring Street.

Reference is hereby made to the aforementioned deeds and their records and references thereof. and to all prior deeds and their records all in further aid of this description.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : July 23, 2019 By: /S/ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 994-11-16 CNCV LAELIA, LLC v.

ROBERT W. CRANSTON, III AKA ROBERT W. CRANSTON AND HILL GARDENS ASSOCIATION, INC. OCCUPANTS OF: 47 South Williams Street, Burlington VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Consolidated Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered May 30, 2018, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Robert W. Cranston, III aka Robert W. Cranston to CitiFinancial, Inc., dated July 31, 2008 and recorded in Book 1042 Page 489 of the land records of the City of Burlington, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from CFNA Receivables (MD), Inc. F/K/A CitiFinancial, Inc. to CitiFinancial Servicing LLC dated October 26, 2015 and recorded in Book 1292 Page 51; (2) Assignment of Mortgage from CitiFinancial Servicing, LLC to Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC dated October 26, 2015 and recorded in Book 1292 Page 52; (3) Assignment of Mortgage from Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC to Koitere Dispositions, LLC dated May 9, 2018 and recorded in Book 1418

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Page 273; (4) Assignment of Mortgage from Koitere Dispositions, LLC to Atlantica, LLC dated May 9, 2018 and recorded in Book 1418 Page 274; and (5) Assignment of Mortgage from Atlantica, LLC to Laelia, LLC dated January 30, 2019 and recorded in Book 1433 Page 277, all of the land records of the City of Burlington, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 47 South Williams Street, Burlington, Vermont on September 9, 2019 at 12:30 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

UME 337, AT PAGES 515 537 TOGETHER WITH AN UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS APPURTENANT THERETO BEING THE SAME FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY CONVEYED BY WARRANTY DEED FROM JOHN P. LARKIN TO ROBERT W. CRANSTON, III , DATED 06/19/1986 RECORDED ON 07/24/1986 IN BOOK 340, PAGE 232 IN CHITTENDEN COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF VT.

or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

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Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND IN CITY OF BURLINGTON , CHITTENDEN COUNTY, STATE OF VT, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN BOOK 340 PAGE 232 ID# 045-2034-310, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS APARTMENT NO. 310 HILL GARDENS, A CONDOMINIUM, RECORDED ON 06/16/1986. FILED IN MISCELLANEOUS VOL-

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s

DATED : August 7, 2019 By: /S/ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WINDSOR UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 362-8-17 WRCV WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. v.

ARTHUR FROGEL, JOAN FROGEL, QUECHEE LAKES

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LANDOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. AND VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF TAXES OCCUPANTS OF: 530 Morgan Road, Quechee, Town of Hartford VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered January 3, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Arthur Frogel and Joan Frogel to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., dated April 8, 2013 and recorded in Book 487 Page 469 of the land records of the Town of Hartford, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 530 Morgan Road, Quechee, Town of Hartford, Vermont on September 16, 2019 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Meaning and intending to mortgage and convey all and the same lands and premises as conveyed to Arthur Frogel and Joan Frogel by deed of Elizabeth B. Hyra dated 15 October 2002 and recorded at Book 337, Page 65 in the Hartford Land Records.

The Property is described in that deed as follows: Being Lot 3031 as shown on a plan of lots entitled “Quechee Lakes Corporation Section III, Old Quechee Road, Quechee, Vermont, Scale; 1”= 100’, Date: September 18, 1970, Proj. No. 109970, K.A. LeClair Assoc., Inc., Civil Engineers, Hanover, NH”, a copy of which plan is on file on page 2 of Book 1 of the Land Plats in the office of the Hartford, Vermont Town Clerk, to which reference may be had for a further and more particular description of said lot.

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The above lot is conveyed subject to the restrictions and obligations and with the benefits of the rights and privileges enumerated in a Declaration of Covenants, Restrictions, Rights and Benefits pertaining to Quechee Lakes Subdivision dated March 25, 1970 and recorded in Book 64, page 182 of the Hartford Land Records, as the same may from time to time be amended.

Meaning to convey hereby all and the same land and premises together

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Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municip al liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : July 16, 2019 By: /S/ Rachel K Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0104129 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 5TH OF SEPTEMBER 2019 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF ROBERT DAVIS. 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.

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 vermontal anonalateen.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 of Church St. For more information please call Carol, 324-4457.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free.

Info, 864-1212. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the first step of 12 & join a group in your area.

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 support group listings, call 800-272-3900.

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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP 1st Monday monthly, 3-4:30 p.m. Preregistration 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.

If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth and feel you need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531.

BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people with breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets first Monday of the month, 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more information call 802-776-5508.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury.

It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@ vcil.org, 800-639-1522.

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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 have experienced abuse in their relationships.

Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship.

Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m.

Childcare is provided.

Info: 658-1996.

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CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy &

DIVORCE CARE SUPPORT GROUP Divorce is a tough road.

Feelings of separation, betrayal, confusion, anger and self-doubt are common. But there is life after divorce. Led by people who have already walked down

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CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy and associated medical conditions. It’s mission it to provide the best possible information to parents of children living with the complex condition of cerebral palsy. cerebralpalsy guidance.com/ cerebral-palsy.

DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family and friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sundays at 5 p.m. at the 1st Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 3998754. You can learn more at smartrecovery. org.

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CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life with this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men and women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction and pornography, food issues, and overcoming abuse. All 18+ are welcome; sorry, no childcare. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m. Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction.

CELIAC & GLUTENFREE 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.

DECLUTTERERS’ SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming?

Maybe two or three of us can get together to help each other simplify. 989-3234, 425-3612.

that road, we’d like to share with you a safe place and a process that can help make the journey easier. This free 13-week group for men and women will be offered on Sunday evenings, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Sep. 8 through Dec. 1, at the North Avenue Alliance Church, 901 North Ave., Burlington, VT. Register for class at essexalliance. churchcenter.com. For more information, call Sandy 802-425-7053.

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BURLINGTON AREA PARKINSON’S DISEASE OUTREACH GROUP People with Parkinson’s disease & their caregivers gather together to gain support & learn about

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group will be held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-7:45 p.m. at the Hope Lodge, 237 East Ave., Burlington.

Newly diagnosed?

Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion and sharing among survivors and those beginning or rejoining the battle.

Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol. com.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone with struggles with hurt, habits and hang ups, which includes everyone in some way.

We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton which meets every Friday night at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us and discover how your life can start to change.

Info: 893-0530, julie@ mccartycreations.com.

fulfilling relationships.

By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sunday at noon at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org.

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BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:30-2:30 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.

Info: recovery@essex alliance.org, 878-8213.

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living with Parkinson’s disease. Group meets 2nd Wed. of every mo., 1-2 p.m., continuing through Nov. 18, 2015.

Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 185 Pine Haven Shores Rd., Shelburne. Info: 888763-3366, parkinson info@uvmhealth.org, parkinsonsvt.org.

your job? You are not alone. Come check out this supportive circle.

Wednesdays at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

FAMILIES, PARTNERS, FRIENDS AND ALLIES OF TRANSGENDER ADULTS We are people with adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming.

We meet to support each other and to learn more about issues and concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal, and confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 PM, the second Thursday of each month at Pride Center of VT, 255 South Champlain St., Suite 12, in Burlington. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer one-on-one support. For more information, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-238-3801.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends and community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety and other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults 18 & over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills & draw strength from one another. Weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. thdaub1@gmail.com.

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.

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.

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KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients as well as caregivers are provided with a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact info@vcsn.net.

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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2 Full time AmeriCorps positions with a National Leader in Affordable Housing Champlain Housing Trust’s HomeOwnership Center, serving the affordable housing needs of Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, is seeking a Home Education Coordinator and Shared Equity Coordinator. These dynamic 11+ month positions require a Bachelors degree or related work experience, proficient computer and writing skills, and a commitment to community service.

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Inventory Coordinator We are seeking a confident professional Inventory Coordinator for our office in Hinesburg VT to be responsible for maintaining administrative duties and inventory management. Candidate must have a professional demeanor with excellent customer service, verbal, written and listening communication skills and be an adaptable, quick learner with 2 years’ minimum administrative experience.

QUALIFICATIONS: 3-5 years of customer service and strong financial experience with account receivables, daily transactions and monthly reconciliations. Detail oriented, effective interpersonal, communication and analytical skills required. Able to manage multiple projects and work in a fast-paced environment. Experience using a registration software, proficient with HTML, Microsoft Office suite and strong Excel skills 3+ years. Must have valid driver’s license and good driving record.

Installers We are seeking experienced, energetic VT licensed Master or Journeyman electricians to join our team. Must be comfortable with heights and willing to work 40+ hour weeks for year-round installs. Candidate must be courteous to customers, self-motivated and work well with others.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Experience with Asana, Constant Contact, Event Management System (EMS) software, PeopleSoft and a creative eye for event registration web design.

Start enjoying going to work every day! Come join a rapidly growing company and industry in Vermont with a great group of down-to-earth people.

Send a cover letter and resume to University Event Services at eventregistration@uvm.edu

Excellent benefits include: • Highly Competitive wages • Generous health/medical insurance contributions • Paid Vacation • Paid Holidays

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category legally protected by federal or state law. The University encourages applications from all individuals who will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution.

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Delibac Interiors is seeking men and women who would like to be trained in a skilled trade. We will train you to install metal framing, drywall and suspended ceilings.

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RESTORATIVE REENTRY COORDINATOR (RRC) The Essex Community Justice Center (ECJC) is hiring a part time Restorative Reentry Coordinator (RRC) for its Community Connections Program. The Community Connections Program serves individuals who have been incarcerated and are returning to their community or who are living in the community and are considered to be at risk of re-offense or re-incarceration. The RRC position is 20 hours/week and requires a flexible schedule allowing for some evening/weekend hours.

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Strong computer, data tracking, organizational and phone skills are desired, as well as knowledge of local resources.

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Technical and Project Manager, Aged Cheese Supervisor, Quality Assurance Technician and Industrial Technician for all shifts.

At Vermont Creamery, our employees are our greatest resource. We are a community that empowers our team to engage and live our mission every day. We know that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and here, the whole is powered by a spirit of collaboration and transparency.

We know benefits matter; that’s why we offer a competitive package. Our benefits program includes medical, vision and dental insurance, retirement plans and a total well-being approach. Perks to keep you healthy and happy include a wellness program, time off, and tuition assistance. A certified B Corp since 2014, we’re using our business as a force for good.

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EVENTS MANAGER If you are a skilled events professional with a high level of energy and creativity, as well as a consummate project manager who thrives in a fast-paced environment, we invite you to apply for our new full-time Events Manager (#36945) position in the Office of Medical Communications at the UVM Larner College of Medicine.

In this new position, you will: • Plan and execute events hosted by the College—often with partners at the UVM Foundation— ranging from flagship annual celebrations like Commencement and White Coat Ceremony, to smaller events including award celebrations, research symposia, and guest lectures.

• Ensure that all events promote a positive image of the College and reflect our brand, values, and culture.

• Work closely with the Dean and leaders of the College, to develop event marketing strategies and executional details that align with our mission and goals.

• Provide high-quality customer service, including regular interactions with high-level constituents across the College and our partners.

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today! Sodexo.Balancetrak.com (search Vermont) • Generous Apply accrued paid time off

Free Bus Pass • 401(K) - 1% automatic • enrollment with a 6% max match Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer

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Tuition for the holidays! (except for catering) AmeriCorps: 14 hours/week. • • Home reimbursement, etc.

Career growth opportunities including, culinary training, mentoring Coordinates Vermont’s Youth Action shadowing • Shift differential • Company discounts: Board for people 14-25 with lived Theme Parks | Cellphones Tuition Reimbursement pay |for working experiences of housing insecurity. Clothing/Accessories weekends | Computers | Home Goods Financial Establishment | Vehicle Rental and Purchase

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GRANTS MANAGER:

DOWN HOME KITCHEN in beautiful and historic downtown Montpelier, VT is looking for a full time Assistant Restaurant Manager.

This position coordinates overall agency grant writing, tracking and reporting, and oversees programmatic compliance with grant requirements. The person in this role will help oversee the organization’s direct service database and will participate in inter-agency community and state groups to discuss agency reporting. Experience working with federal, state and private foundation grants preferred, as well as a passion for ending domestic violence in Chittenden County. See full job description at stepsVT.org/jobs.

EOE. People of color, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals and those who have experienced domestic violence are encouraged to apply.

The Flynn has created a new full-time opportunity for a candidate to join our creative, fun education team.

MARKETING CONTENT MANAGER

The Marketing Content Manager writes, edits, and coordinates with staff and designers to create print, video, audio, and online materials in support of the Flynn’s programming, education, and development initiatives. Bring your skills and experience to the creative, hardworking Marketing department and enjoy working in New England’s premier performing arts center.

For a detailed job description and more information, visit:

flynncenter.org/about-us/employment-and-internshipopportunities.html

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Marketing Director

Please submit application materials to: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Human Resources Department 153 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or email HResources@flynncenter.org.

No phone calls, please. EOE. The Flynn Center is an employer committed to hiring a breadth of professionals, and therefore will interview a qualified group of diverse candidates; we particularly encourage applications from women and people of color.

This person will: • Collaborate with the General Manager, Kitchen Manager and crew to deliver a quality dining experience guests every day.

• Open and close the restaurant 2-3 days per week, ensuring all staff duties are completed to Down Home’s high standards.

• Supervise daily service operations during scheduled supervisory shifts.

• Work some service shifts as needed.

• Act as a key member of the management team, supporting our continued growth through hands-on restaurant work, collaborating with co-managers and staff, and modeling the family and community-oriented spirit of Down Home Kitchen.

• Other responsibilities as appropriate.

Experience and qualities desired: • Full service restaurant service experience in a fast paced environment.

• Attention to detail and an eye for quality.

• An outgoing, upbeat and friendly personality.

• Supervisory experience is helpful, but not required.

• Emotional and social sophistication appropriate to a supervisory position.

• Ability to work a consistent schedule, with some reasonable flexibility.

Compensation includes: • Competitive, livable income.

• Regular daytime work schedule with guaranteed hours.

• A fun, caring, and family-oriented work environment.

• Paid vacation time, room and encouragement to grow your career.

Interested persons should email a cover letter, resume and three references to maryalice@downhomekitchenvt.com.

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WE'RE HIRING! Do you or someone you know want to work in a fun environment?

We're looking for some fun, wonderful people to work with us! Retail experience preferred but not required.

Full & part-time hours available. Email or drop off a resume today!

98-102 Church St., Burlington contact@jessboutique.com info@expressionsvt.com

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GRAPHIC DESIGNER

The part-time designer will create and implement print and web solutions to support the Flynn’s marketing department. 3-5 years of experience, proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, a collaborative work style, and enthusiasm for the Flynn’s mission could make you the candidate for us!

For a detailed job description and more information, visit:

flynncenter.org/about-us/employment-and-internshipopportunities.html Please submit application materials to: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Human Resources Department 153 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or email HResources@flynncenter.org.

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FIREFIGHTERS PART-TIME, ON-CALL

The Part-time Firefighter serves the community by responding to a wide variety of situations, ranging from emergencies that immediately threaten life or property to routine citizen requests for information or assistance. This work shall be done within the Standard Operating Guidelines (SOGs) of the Winooski Fire Department and City policy, within the following general categories: fire suppression, rescue, hazardous material responses, training, equipment and station maintenance. It will be a requirement to attend regularly scheduled training(s) in order to maintain the level of knowledge, skill, and ability to work as part of a team.

Candidates who live within a 5-minute response time near the Winooski Fire Department are encouraged to apply for this position.

No phone calls, please. EOE. The Flynn Center is an employer committed to hiring a breadth of professionals, and therefore will interview a qualified group of diverse candidates; we particularly encourage applications from women and people of color.

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TOWN OF DUXBURY Highway Department Maintenance Worker

Copley Hospital is currently seeking qualified candidates for the following positions:

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.

ACCOUNTANT

Full-Time (Job ID: 2019-1711) Previous Hospital Accounting experience preferred.

Minimum of Associates Degree in Accounting required

MEDICAL ASSISTANT

Full-Time (Job-ID: 2019-1683) Previous MA experience strongly preferred.

Opportunity to become a Registered Orthopedic Technician and obtain Casting certification.

Full job descriptions and application instructions may be found at: copleyvt.org/careers.

Or email questions to: humanresources@chsi.org.

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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:

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SEL COACH The SEL Coach will support a project initiative at VT Afterschool around social emotional learning. A central component of the project is to work with center-based afterschool site coordinators and directors to build social emotional competencies for staff and children. The Coach’s role is to continue to develop the social emotional learning initiative for Vermont Afterschool, help afterschool programs implement SEL and behavior support strategies, organize and facilitate professional communities of practice in SEL, and to develop and deliver workshops and trainings around SEL content for the afterschool field. This position is estimated to be 16 to 24 hours per week. This is a short-term project through June 2020, with the potential to expand.

Key Responsibilities: • The SEL Coach will work intensively with afterschool program sites to support staff knowledge of SEL principles and implementation of SEL strategies. It is expected that the Coach will provide facilitated meetings with frontline afterschool staff at each participating program. Coach will support project implementation through key activities: • Organizing, scheduling, and facilitating monthly community of practice gatherings for two to four regional groups focused on SEL content and a group consultation model.

• Developing and delivering two-hour workshops on social emotional content.

• Problem solving with directors and other afterschool staff around specific SEL strategies for youth in programming.

• Working collaboratively with all members of the Vermont Afterschool team.

• Reliable transportation required. This position will require travel throughout Vermont at all times of year and may require time in the evenings or on the weekends.

How to apply: To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and three references to jobs@vermontafterschool.org. Applications are due by August 30, 2019 and must be submitted electronically. Vermont Afterschool is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from individuals who will contribute to our diversity.

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Jonathan DeLaBruere 5421 VT Route 100 Duxbury, VT 05676

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DIGITAL CLIENT ADVISOR JOBS

Cooks & Sous Chef

EARN WHILE YOU LEARN

We are looking to Vermont’s raw talent to grow our company.

Train for just 8 weeks and enter a full-time career* APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM FEATURES INCLUDE • $4,800 grant provided during training • Potential to earn $50,000 or more in your first year • Full benefits: health, dental, paid vacation, 401k and more • Variety of work schedules • Fun & engaging work, using cutting edge technology • Ideal sales environment: NO cold calling or travel!

• Generous base salary plus uncapped commission • Obtain state licensure during training * Full-time employment guaranteed upon successful completion of the 8-week program.

LEARN MORE—APPLY ONLINE!

VTHITEC.ORG

The ITAR Program is funded in part by a grant from the Vermont and U.S. Departments of Labor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetics, political affiliation or belief.

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Sweetwaters American Bistro on Church St. in the heart of downtown Burlington Vermont is seeking high energy, goal oriented professional grill cooks, sauté cooks, Garde manger, fry cooks and dishwashers. A.M and P.M. shifts are available, as well as full and part- time positions.

In addition, we have one opening for a full-time Sous Chef. This position requires previous kitchen management experience.

We are looking for someone that loves food and can manage staff, food cost and payroll.. All positions require availability on weekends and holidays.

401k and paid vacation time for full-time hourly and salaried positions. All positions receive shift meals. Hourly rate is $13-$16 per hour depending upon position and experience. Salary for Sous Chef is highly competitive and commensurate with experience.

Apply in person or email: jlawyer@reelhospitality.com

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Baker

PART-TIME, PERMANENT

Billing/Accounts Receivable

F/T CLEANERS

We are looking for morning bakers in our busy Shelburne store. Some basic baking experience needed. Some weekend availability.

Locally-owned environmentally-friendly cleaning service seeks cleaners with experience to maintain commercial properties in the greater Burlington area. Healthy Habitat is committed to creating livable wage jobs for residents in our community. Begin at $14 per hour. Certain F/T jobs will reach $18 per hour within a year. Healthy Habitat understands that our employees and their families are our greatest asset and we seek to consistently maintain a safe, healthy and meaningful workplace. Our current openings are for full time positions but part time work is often available. Full time work has flexible evening hours, vacation and sick time and other benefits.

Full time applicants do need a vehicle and valid license.

Stop by our store on Route 7 for an application or call 802-985-2000 for more information.

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Check out our website at healthy-habitat.com, email info@healthy-habitat.com or call us at 802-861-4500 to learn more.

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HOUSEKEEPERS, LAUNDRY AIDES & FLOOR TECHNICIANS

Apply within at Burlington Health & Rehab.

300 Pearl St. Burlington, VT 05401 Ask for the Housekeeping Spvr.

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CARING PEOPLE WANTED Home Instead Senior $200.0 Care, a provider Sign o 0 of personal Bonus n !!! care services to seniors in their homes, is seeking friendly and dependable people.

CAREGivers assist seniors with daily living activities. P/T & F/T positions available. 12 hours/week minimum, flexible scheduling, currently available. $12-$16.50/hour depending on experience. No heavy lifting.

Apply online at: www.homeinstead.com/483 or call us at 802.860.4663.

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Help Vermonters pursue their education goals!

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT PART-TIME - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

The Town of Essex, Vermont is seeking an enthusiastic new team member to work as the Administrative Assistant in the Community Development Department. The Administrative Assistant is responsible for providing administrative support and performing clerical work while supporting the activities and operations of the department.

This position works under the general supervision of and reports directly to the Community Development Director with some supervision by the Zoning Administrator. Works in accordance with various Town policies. This part-time position will work approximately 28 hours per week. The anticipated work schedule is Monday – Friday, 9 am – 3:00 pm, though the 12:47 PM schedule may vary depending on the needs of the municipality.

This position requires a high school diploma and 2 years of experience in an office or administrative setting. Previous experience in customer service related positions is desired.

Strong computer and customer service skills are a must. Previous municipal experience preferred. Candidates must be able to work within a very busy office environment and prioritize work around departmental needs and statutory deadlines.

The minimum starting salary is $17.44/hour, actual starting salary is dependent on relevant experience and qualifications. This position is eligible for the VMERS Retirement Plan, pro-rated sick and vacation accruals.

Apply with a cover letter, resume and three references to: Travis Sabataso, HR Director, 81 Main Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452, or via email to tsabataso@essex.org. Position is open until filled. EEO

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At HealthDirect you will be part of a team that services patients residing in a variety of settings including nursing homes and assisted living communities. We offer flexible hours and a fun work environment. There is opportunity to develop excellent working relationships with business associates and colleagues.

Our Billing Specialist is responsible for a variety of functions including processing prescription insurance claims, taking customer payments, verifying patient information and much more. You will be interacting with our facility billing contacts as well as patients.

Prior experience in a billing setting is preferred but NOT required. This is a fast-paced job with a great amount of autonomy. Superior customer service skills and great attention to detail are just a few of the qualities we are looking for. All new hires must pass a drug screen and secure a VT Pharmacy Tech license. Email resume and cover letter to: DavidSimpson@HdRxServices.com.

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TOWN OF ESSEX

Housekeepers and Laundry Aides wanted for nursing home. No experience needed.

For more info: 802-658-4200 Or email: i86@hcsgops.com

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SPECIAL EVENTS ASSISTANT

for Vermont’s Statewide GEAR UP Grant (VSGU).

We’re all about mission at Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC). Help us fulfill our mission of providing all Vermont students with information and financial resources to reach their educational goals. You’ll work in a relaxed yet challenging environment. We offer many top-notch benefits, plus a fabulous on-site fitness room & café.

VSAC’s GEAR UP Program is looking for an energetic, detail-oriented individual with an interest in event production and marketing for a part-time, temporary position from October 2019 – June 2020. The Special Events Assistant will assist in producing a series of career and college readiness events for 7th-12th graders and adult learners. This position is based in Winooski with travel to event locations as needed and requires 5-10 hours a week with longer hours during event weeks (Oct 7-11, 2019, Feb 24-28, 2020, March 9-13, 2020, March 16-20, 2020, April 6-10, 2020, May 11-15, 2020, May 18-22, 2020).

The ideal candidate is positive, organized, willing to assist wherever needed and able to work with a diverse group of stakeholders. A passion for expanding career and college opportunities for Vermonters is a plus! Opportunity to structure as a paid internship if desired.

This is a grant funded position that is contingent upon continued grant funds.

VSAC offers a dynamic, professional environment with competitive compensation.

Apply ONLY online at www.vsac.org VERMONT STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATION PO Box 2000, Winooski, VT 05404 EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled

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Restorative Practices in Schools Specialist The Restorative Practices in Schools Specialist position is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in bringing and assisting with the implementation of restorative practices within the educational system in Franklin County. The RP Specialist will be a member of the Franklin Grand Isle Restorative Justice Center’s RP in Schools team, but will be based out of elementary schools in Franklin County. Our RP in Schools Specialist provides day to day support and training to staff/students around implementing restorative approaches and practices throughout the school. The position is 10 hours a week $16-$18/hr. Please send Cover Letter, Resume and 3 References

by Monday, Aug. 23rd to Camille Koosmann: camille@fgirjc. org. Full job description at the City of St. Albans website under employment opportunities: www.stalbansvt.com/jobs.

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A full-time position for an individual to join their staff to be trained in all aspects of retirement plan administration. Must be professional, highly motivated and detailed oriented with strong customer service skills. This is not a telecommute position.

Qualifications include: proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (especially Excel and Word), mathematics/accounting experience, excellent written and verbal communication, sound problem solving and decision making, willingness to be part of a team.

Experience preferred but willing to train the right person. Full benefits package is provided.

Email your resume to erin@futureplanningassoc.com or mail to:

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Maintenance Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities: • Responsible for keeping Pillsbury Senior Communities running smoothly by addressing maintenance issues in a timely manner.

• Troubleshoot and complete maintenance problems, repairs and preventive tasks involving structural, plumbing and equipment issues throughout the facilities and grounds.

• Assemble and move furniture, interior and exterior painting, repair and replace locks, grounds upkeep and snow removal.

• Candidate to work effectively with other personnel, organized, ability to prioritize, dependable and professional in appearance.

Qualifications: • A valid driver’s license.

• High School diploma or GED, one (1) year building maintenance experience or equivalent training and experience.

• Knowledge of trades related to building maintenance and repair, occupational hazards and safety precautions. Ability to lift fifty (50) pounds.

Full time. Tuesday through Saturday. 8:30am-5:00pm. On call one weekend per month.

Pillsbury offers competitive wages and a friendly working environment. Willingness to undergo a background check in accordance with local laws and regulations.

Send cover letter and resume with job title included to: vtms.hr@meridiansenior.com. E.O.E.

Shelburne Farms is a nonprofit education organization whose mission is to cultivate learning for a sustainable, healthy, and just future. We are hiring for the following position:

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SOFTWARE ENGINEER/ DATA ENGINEER

Does a growing supportive team in a thriving senior community interest you? Pillsbury Senior Communities is looking for a Maintenance Assistant.

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Retirement Plan Administrator

• Program Administration Coordinator To learn more about this position, visit: shelburnefarms.org/ about/join-our-team.

THINKMD was founded to leverage the new areas of digital health and machine based learning with mobile technology to build mHealth platforms to increase the quality and access to healthcare for everyone, everywhere. Led by a team of physicians, we have created advanced clinical intelligence software that enables users to make better decisions about 3v-ShelburneFarms082119.indd their health and to find the care and health services they need.

Our partners span public and private sectors, from world-class global health players to large multinational firms. Our team includes clinicians, engineers, data scientists, strategists, and global health experts. Our mission is to expand access to healthcare for anyone, anywhere, especially where the need is greatest in low- and middle-income countries. We're just getting started. Learn more at thinkmd.org.

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Medical Assistant

THINKMD has launched both consumer and frontline health professional versions of its clinical intelligence software. By the end of Q1 2020 our technology will be live and impacting healthcare delivery and access in 10 countries across three continents. Having identified a truly global need for our technology, we are continually expanding our capabilities and our geographic coverage. We’re a small and dedicated team and we are looking for creative, problem solving, passionate software engineers to join us. See the below job description – if this is you, we want to hear from you!

JOB DESCRIPTION: THINKMD is looking for software-data engineering talent to join our growing team. As part of our product development team, you’ll work alongside our engineers, clinicians, data scientists and project managers to create and deliver scalable mobile health solutions that will impact lives around the world. We’re developing technology and services that don’t currently exist, so creativity, problem-solving, and passion are critical. We are looking to fulfill multiple development roles related to UX/ UI and backend logic of the platform as well as database administration and management. If this sounds like you, please send a CV and cover letter to us at info@thinkmd.org.

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We look forward to hearing from you.

Integrative Medicine, Family Practice in Colchester, VT is seeking an experienced MA, LNA, EMT or LPN to work Monday-Thursday (32-36 hours/week).

We’re seeking an energetic, detail oriented, team player with strong computer skills.

Experience with EKG, phlebotomy, IM and EMR are required. Scribing and IV skills are a plus.

We specialize in nutritional medicine. Please email a cover letter, resume and 3 professional references to: PreventiveMedicineVT@ gmail.com.

PreventiveMedicineVT.com

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Location: Essex Junction, VT Night Shift: 7pm to 7am

Engaging minds that change the world

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).

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: Approx. 3 weeks per year (accrued).

• Paid Sick Time: 80 hours per year.

• 401k Investing Options.

Education Assistance: > Up to $5,250 per year in a degree related field.

Apply online at globalfoundries.com/about-us/careers or for more information email jobs@globalfoundries.com.

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Community Engagement Assistant Part-Time, Wage Position The Office of Community-Engaged Learning (CELO) seeks an assistant to coordinate meetings of the Community Engagement Network, manage survey and course data, and contribute to outreach and communications efforts.

This position also includes scheduling and planning events, database entry, and performing other duties as necessary. We are looking for a detailoriented, collaborative, and community-minded individual who is eager to contribute in a team environment as well as handle tasks independently. Job requirements include experience with general office work, strong written and oral communication skills, excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, and knowledge of community engagement and/or service-learning a plus.

This is a part-time wage position and is not eligible for benefits. 15-20 hours a week. Submit your resume and cover letter by August 26th to celo@uvm. edu, with “coordinator” in the subject line. No phone calls.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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FULL TIME SUPERVISORS, FULL & PART TIME SALES ASSOCIATES

We are searching for folks who are flexible & like variety.

Work in the retail stores and in the Buy the Pound Outlet (opening soon)! We want to hire friendly people who can ollowing be kind, even in challenging situations. If you can be a flexible teammate who is open to ever-changing tasks, we mmunica- want you on our team!

Apply online at goodwillnne. org or stop by the store and speak with a manager.

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Care Coordinator/ Scheduler We have a unique opportunity for a Care Coordinator/ Scheduler with strong administrative, communication and customer service skills.

The ideal candidate will be outgoing, professional, possess strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize quickly.

Experience working with Seniors is a plus. E-mail resume. No phone calls please. sue.richardson@ griswoldhomecare.com

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MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN POSITIONS

IT TECHNICIAN Looking for experienced IT technician to set up and support computerbased voting systems at locations throughout Vermont. Min. 3 yrs.’ exp. with computers/ Windows/printers.

Competitive wage, mileage reimbursement plus bonus. 3-month contract required.

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HR Senior Trainer

Community Engagement Assistant Part-Time, Wage Position

Berlin

There is no better time to join the NSB team!

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We are looking for a professional to join our team as a HR Senior Trainer in our Berlin Operations Center. This position offers a strong opportunity to work for a growing premier Vermont mutual savings bank.

Job Responsibilities & Requirements • The HR Senior Trainer will be responsible for working with the SVP & Chief Human Resources Officer to build the organization’s depth by developing staff for future positions. This individual will design and develop creative learning solutions that include, but are not limited to eLearning, classroom, virtual classes, train-the-trainer, and blended learning solutions. We are looking for someone who is highly collaborative, possesses strong presentation and communication skills, and has a passion for employee development.

The Office of Community-Engaged Learning (CELO) seeks an assistant to c meetings of the Community Engagement Network, manage survey and course contribute to outreach and communications efforts.

This position also includes scheduling and planning events, database e performing other duties as necessary. We are looking for a detail-oriented, coll and community-minded individual who is eager to contribute in a team envir well as handle tasks independently. Job requirements include experience wi office work, strong written and oral communication skills, excellent organiza interpersonal skills, and knowledge of community engagement and/or servic a plus.

This is a part-time wage position and is not eligible for benefits. 15-20 week. Submit your resume and cover letter by August 26th to celo@uvm. “coordinator” in the subject line. No phone calls.

• Qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in business or communications and five to seven years of training and employee development experience.

Find out what NSB can offer you • NSB offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, profit sharing, matching 401(K) retirement program, professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture.

Northfield Savings Bank hours of operation are Monday through Friday generally 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Please submit your application and resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com (Preferred)

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The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty is seeking a 30-35 hr/wk IT Help Desk Specialist to provide technical support for Windows or Mac operating systems for our 18+ sites remotely or in person. They are responsible for assisting the IT Director with monitoring and maintaining all aspects of the organization’s data and voice networks. The Help Desk Specialist will assist with identifying, researching and resolving technical issues; responding to and/or following up on service tickets and receiving and recording technical and/or application support calls from end users.

For more information and to apply, go to:

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HOUSEKEEPER Looking to get your foot in the door with a great organization?

Looking for stability and opportunity? Elderwood at Burlington is looking for you! Our facilities' pleasant decor and amenities create home-like comfort for all who live in them. Our Elderwood Housekeeping team members keep individuals' rooms and gathering areas clean, tidy and attractive. FT and PT positions available!

Housekeeping Aide Perks: • Competitive wages including a sign on bonus of $1500/$750 • Shift differentials for weekend positions • Internal Referral Bonus Program • Free parking, Free uniforms, Flexible shifts • Ferry reimbursement Responsibilities: • Maintain cleanliness of general areas and assigned rooms of residents • Help move personal belongings of residents and clean and disinfect floor, furniture, bed and bathroom according to accepted procedures when a resident is discharged or transferred to another room.

• Follow safety rules, and where applicable, maintain vigilance concerning fire regulations and hazards as stated in procedures.

• Practice infection control principles in cleaning methods and personal hygiene.

Qualifications: • Minimum 18 yrs. age required, HS diploma or equivalent preferred.

• Position related experience preferred but not required.

• Interest in housekeeping skills and procedures necessary.

• Ability to perform assigned tasks to a high degree of excellence, and cleanliness required.

• Respect for residents' privacy and rights for respect and dignity necessary.

Apply using these links: FT: bit.ly/2TxVb2k PT: bit.ly/2YNTgMV

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IT HELP DESK SPECIALIST

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TEMPORARY ADMISSIONS OFFICE ASSISTANT

Part-time/ 20hrs per week (for a period of 1-2 months)

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS • Broad base of clerical and office management knowledge and skills.

• Good basic administrative and organizational skills. Experience in organizing and maintaining moderately complex filing/records systems.

• Previous experience with computerized information systems.

• Good reading, writing and verbal skills.

• Ability to deal effectively with a wide variety of individuals inside and outside of the College in a professional and friendly manner.

Human Resources, Goddard College 123 Pitkin Rd., Plainfield VT 05667 (802) 322.1712, (802) 322.0700 (fax)

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Goddard College is committed to creating a college representative of a diverse global community and capable of creating change. To that end, we are actively seeking applications from qualified candidates from groups currently underrepresented in our institution for this position.

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Organized decision maker with integrity, honesty and commitment to customer service. Prioritize restaurant/ nightclub functions, problem solve, work with BOH Manager.

Closing shifts. Bartending & Serving experience required.

Position involves cost analysis and management, social media marketing, inventory control, event planning/execution, and more. Up to 45 hours/ 1:58 PM week, Tuesday - Saturday, with occasional schedule flexibility. $45-50K DOE, with potential for supplemental income thru additional bartending or serving shifts. 2 weeks vacation earned after 9 months of employment.

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SUPERVISION RECEIVED Supervision is received from the Interim-Director of Admissions.

• $14.00 per hour

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: To apply, please prepare the following documents and email to: employment@goddard.edu •three employment references, with contact information •current resume •cover letter

Front of House Manager

Letters and resumes to: ontapbar@yahoo.com

BASIC FUNCTION - The admissions office assistant will be responsible for entry of information into the admissions records system CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES • Responsible for answering Office phones • Responsible for properly managing an Office email box • Assist with mailings including stuffing and labeling envelopes • Organize and maintain various departmental files and records, frequently involving cross filing/cross reference systems • Perform related administrative duties as assigned

Versatile

Seeking a part time bike attendant/ trail side operator for upcoming fall season. Work outside and meet great people! Duties include daily rental/tour operations at the trail head, greeting and orienting customers on E-Bikes and the trail/area, bike maintenance, possible tour guiding, and representing Lamoille Valley Bike Tours to the general public on the trail. This dynamic position will require flexibility to help Wednesdays through Fridays end of August thru the end of October. This is a great seasonal position for a mature, outgoing, and responsible person looking for extra income while working outside and engaging with the local tourism community. Must be 18 years or older to apply. Visit our website lamoillevalleybiketours. com for more info or to apply contact usvia email at bikelamoille@gmail.

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The Northwest Vt. Solid Waste Mgmt. District is a small municipal agency that facilitates responsible waste management for our member towns. Position based out of our Georgia location. An organization doing work that you can be proud of! Note: our team prides itself on continuous improvement to our safety/working conditions. Qualified applicants will, too. Vt. Class A CDL preferred; Class B CDL required (w/ clean driving record). Competitive pay/benefits/generous time off. Full job description: nwswd.org.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Resumes accepted until position filled. Mail or email resume with cover letter to: splant@nwswd.org NWSWD Attn.: Shannon Plant Phone: 802-524-5986 158 Morse Drive, Fairfax, VT 05454 E.O.E. - Diverse candidates are encouraged.

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Work in one of the most vibrant, energetic places in Vermont and join people truly dedicated to improving lives.

The EDGE Physical Therapy seeks an Administrative Assistant to work alongside our team on patient scheduling, medical billing, insurance verification, and various other tasks. Salaried position with benefits including flexible schedule, health insurance, paid time off and holidays, 401K, and health club membership. Full-time 40 hrs/wk preferred, but part-time inquiries +30 hrs/ 1:31 PM wk are welcome. High School education or beyond; office experience preferred but not required.

Seeking full-time Teacher/Community Coordinator based out of our Waterbury Learning Center with responsibility for extensive outreach throughout the identified service area.

Individual must be outgoing, flexible, self-directed and possess the drive to help individuals reach their full potential through education.

Candidates must have:  High levels of independence, spirit, drive and capacity for student recruitment, outreach and organizing community involvement to support student success;

Candidates should be ready to learn, laugh, and work hard. Apply online, or send inquires and resumes to JulieT@edgevt.com.

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 Strong familiarity with the service area (Waterbury, Waterbury Center, Duxbury, Moretown, Waitsfield, Warren, Fayston and Northfield).

[Preference will be given to residents of the service area]  Proven capacity for teaching and guiding basic skills instruction for adults and teens (16-99+) in:    

Reading, writing, math, computer and financial literacy; English Language Learning and U.S. Citizenship prep; High school diploma and GED credentialing; Career and college readiness.

 Experience with developing personalized education and graduation education plans;  Experience with recruiting and managing volunteers.

CVABE, a community-based, nonprofit organization has served the residents of Washington, Orange and Lamoille counties for 50+ years. Hundreds of central Vermonters enroll annually to improve basic literacy skills, pursue alternative pathways to high school completion, learn English as another language, and gain skills for work and college.

Please submit cover letter, resume and three references by August 30h to: Executive Director Central Vermont Adult Basic Education, Inc. 46 Washington Street, Suite 100 Barre, Vermont 05641 info@cvabe.org

Delaney Meeting & Event Management, one of the premier event management companies in Northern New England, is looking for a qualified professional to join their team. Established in 1997, we are a full-service, woman-owned, independent meeting planning firm headquartered in downtown Winooski, VT. We're currently recruiting for a Receptionist & Customer Service position to provide overall administrative support for a team of 11 staff; and serve as the primary point of contact for incoming communications/questions via main office phone and email. Onsite support at events will also be required.

The ideal candidate will have a strong work ethic and ability to integrate into an established group of event professionals on the DMEM team. Exceptional customer service skills, detail-oriented and proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint) are essential. Must have the ability to work in a fast-paced, intense and deadlinedriven environment. This is a permanent, part-time position that will occasionally include additional hours for onsite coverage based on the event schedule; flexibility with time is ideal. Send resume and cover letter to info@delaneymeetingevent.com by 8/30.

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OPEN POSITIONS IN SALES AND CUSTOMER SERVICE

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High Mowing Organic Seeds is an independently owned leader in the non-GMO seed, farming and food community, committed to providing high quality organic seeds to our customers. We care about the earth, each other and what we do and are seeking experienced Regional Sales and Customer Service Associates that share our vision.

The Regional Sales Associate is primarily focused on selling to commercial growers through both inbound and outbound channels. The successful candidate will be a proven relationship builder and sales closer with three to five years of experience with commercial organic vegetable production or broad knowledge of commercial vegetable varieties and organic farming techniques. Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture, Horticulture, Soil Science or similar field preferred.

The Customer Service Associate is responsible for processing incoming orders and for providing excellent customer service to our broad range of customers. The successful candidate will receive and process large amounts of incoming orders by phone, web, fax, or email. He/she will answer customer questions about our products and growing practices in general and may also be asked to represent High Mowing at tradeshows and conferences if necessary. The ideal candidate must possess excellent customer service skills, including the ability to use positive language, attentiveness and adaptability to resolve customer complaints. This person must have practical working knowledge of and experience with commercial vegetable production methods.

Both positions require excellent organizational, prioritization and communication skills, both verbally and written. Computer proficiency, specifically with Microsoft Word and Excel, is a must.

Complete job descriptions can be obtained on our website: highmowingseeds.com/staff-and-careers. Please email your resume, cover letter, and references to jobs@highmowingseeds.com. Please put the job title in the subject line.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. No phone calls please.

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S TATE ENERGY MAN AGEMENT PROGRAM COORDIN ATOR – MONTPELIER

Seeking a highly motivated self-starter to join our Energy Office team. The incumbent will be responsible for coordinating the State Energy Management Program administrative functions, including maintaining the energy consumption and savings tracking systems and overseeing our energy auditing process. This is a great opportunity to become part of an exciting group, dedicated to helping Vermont lead by example by meeting our energy goals. For more information, contact Dan Edson at daniel.edson@vermont.gov. Department: Buildings and General Services. Status: Full Time – Limited Service. Reference Job ID # 2342. Application Deadline: August 27, 2019.

Hiring for Multiple Positions • Laborer • Home Services Assistant- this division primarily provides maintenance services to clients, along with oversight of small projects. Seeking entry level assistant willing to develop broad range of skill sets.

• Experienced Carpenter

VOCATION AL REHABILITATION JOB COACH – BURLINGTON

The Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Job Coach will provide time limited on-site support for State/ VR consumers in education and or training settings. The VR Job Coach may assist VR counselors in preparing consumers to apply for competitive employment. This might include direct, one to one, support at job specific trainings, or tutoring at workshops or classes. May provide hands-on job training and job coaching in a workplace to help consumer become fully independent. Local travel required. For more information, contact Cynthia Seguin at cindy.seguin@vermont.gov or 802-951-0136.

Department: Disabilities Aging & Independent Living. Status: Temporary – Part Time. Reference Job ID # 2339. Application Deadline: August 29, 2019.

Learn more at: careers.vermont.gov

Join one of Vermont’s leading construction companies.

Exciting projects, Employee-Owned, Good people and excellent benefits. Most work is within a 1.5 hour radius of Burlington. Provide resume with references to info@redhousebuilding.com.

The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Sterling College

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New neighborhood opening soon!

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Working Hands.Working Minds.

Full and Part Time

Join a dedicated group of colleagues working hard to provide an enriching campus experience for

students at a voice small liberal arts college in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

Sterling College in applications for a ng College, the leading in higher education for environmental stewardship, invites Wake Robin seeks health care staff who are licensed in Vermont Craftsbury Common is looking for talented professionals with enthusiasm for the ecological thinking and action mission of the College to fill these open positions.

Marketing Coordinator

to work collaboratively to provide high quality care in a fast paced residential and long-term care environment, while maintaining a strong sense of “home”. We offer 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.

Dean of Finance and Operations: The Dean of Finance and Operations reports to the President and is responsible for direct oversight and leadership of key operational areas of the College. Direct reporting lines include finance and budgeting, technology, institutional research, buildings & grounds, campus sustainability, auxiliary services, human resources, and legal relations. As a very small institution, the Dean of Finance and Operations must be able to move seamlessly between leadership, management, and hands-on engagement.

Competitive candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or equivalent and five or more years of related work experience. Experience in a private higher education setting is strongly preferred.

ng College, a college of environmental stewardship in Craftsbury ComVermont invites applications for the position of a Marketing CoordinaInterested candidates please send resume and cover letter to The Marketing Coordinator supports Sterling’s recruitment effort and or visit wakerobin.com to complete an hr@wakerobin.com application.

Office of Admission to reach its enrollment goals of both degree and cerWake Robin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. te students by driving relevant users to the Sterling website using organic Counselor: Admission Counselors at Sterling College are h, paid Admission search, for and social outlets building consistent with Sterling’s brandresponsible authentic andmedia effective relationship and communication with prospective students, their families, school counselors, and other external nd mission in order to increase conversions on the college’s website. The constituents. This position is fully focused on student recruitment and is an essential part of a small and supportive department that works to build eting Coordinator reports to theAdmission Director of Marketing.

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a new incoming class of diverse, informed, and engaged Sterling students every fall and spring semester. Competitive candidates will have an undergraduate or advanced degree, preferably in a field related to Sterling’s curriculum.

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COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST – full description of the position, please visit www.sterlingcollege.edu/jobs.

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versatile communicator and relationship College is seeking applicants with a unique eye for photography,builder a Aworkwho is skilled at translating complex ideas ABOUT STERLING COLLEGE and topics knowledge of both WordPress and social media, ability to conceive,for internal and external audiences in Founded in 1958 in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, Sterling College advances ecological thinking relatable ways. At least seven years of experience and action through affordable experiential learning, preparing knowledgeable, skilled and t, edit, and cut short movies in iMovie or Adobe Premier, and strong in a communications, journalism or creative responsible leaders to face the ecological crises caused by unlimited growth and consumption agency environment. that threatens the future of the planet.

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LEAD & ASSISTANT TEACHERS Little Tots Academy is a year round licensed early childhood education program with locations in Colchester and Richmond.

We are seeking full-time lead teachers and assistant teachers to join our team.

We are looking for individuals who enjoy working with young children between the ages of 6 weeks and 5 years to provide fun, hands-on learning experiences, and someone who looks forward to working in a fun and nurturing environment. The right candidate must be highly energetic, motivated, and compassionate with the children. Knowledge of developing and implementing age appropriate curriculum, writing observations, and the ability to communicate well with parents, outside providers, and with other staff is required.

We offer paid holidays, vacation, personal/sick time, paid inservice days and professional development reimbursement.

We are looking to fill these positions immediately. Email your resume, sue@littletotsacademy.net or contact Sue at 802-434-3891 to set up an interview.

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Have you heard about our new starting wages for third shift?

Associate Operators - Must have a solid work record, good communications skills and technical/mechanical skills a plus. Start at $18.97 per hour.

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Excellent benefits including health, dental, prescription and vision insurance; annual bonus, profit-sharing, 401(k), 3 weeks of vacation and an 8-hour shift with a paid lunch.

Go to MylanCareers.com or send us an email to MTIjobs@mylan.com for more information.

All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to their disability or protected veteran status. Mylan is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Minorities/ Female/Disabled/Veteran.

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Director of Housing Retention and Services Burlington Housing Authority (BHA) is seeking an experienced leader to serve as the Director of its Housing Retention and Services (HRS Director). This position provides programmatic management and administrative leadership of multiple service programs and a team of highly-skilled professionals responsible for delivering noncategorical services to very low-income seniors, families, and people with disabilities designed to stabilize their housing.

To continue the success BHA has had in reducing evictions and improving the lives of the most vulnerable residents in our community, we are seeking candidates who ideally have experience in grant writing and management, budget development, staff development, community partnership engagement, and advocacy on the local, state, and national level.

Strong organizational and communication skills (verbal and written) are also essential.

Candidates for this position must possess a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Social Work, public administration or related human services field, with advanced degrees strongly desired. It is also expected that candidates for this position will have a minimum of five years of social service and leadership experience and are comfortable managing programs and personnel and developing community partnerships.

The BHA offers a competitive salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience and an excellent benefit package. Application deadline is Friday, August 23, 2019. If you are interested in this opportunity, please send a cover letter and resume to:

humanresources@burlingtonhousing.org Human Resources 65 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401-8408 E.O.E.

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DATA MANAGER The Lamoille North Supervisory Union, located in Hyde Park, is seeking a highly organized and motivated professional to join our team. The primary responsibilities of the Data Manager will be to oversee and maintain student data systems, compile, analyze and report data for local, state and federal reporting requirements, and to support data-driven decision making at the teacher, school district and supervisory union level.

The Data Manager will oversee all components and operations of the student information system and the web-based assessment system, including: developing processes to increase data integrity and improve efficiency; entering, importing, exporting and analyzing data for a variety of local, state and federal reporting; developing custom reports and assessment creation, automating and managing transmittal of data and resolving data issues between integrated systems, and providing systems support and training to appropriate school staff. Additionally, the Data Manager will develop and maintain documentation and data management guidelines and create user guides, implement new projects and requirements, work collaboratively with schools to complete and submit state/ federal reports, respond to teacher, administrator and other external requests for data, develop reports and analysis for board presentations and school reports and other data recording and reporting as may be needed.

Ideal candidates will have extensive knowledge of and experience with student data, data analysis and student information systems. Familiarity with the VT AOE Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) a plus! Systems used within Lamoille North include: PowerSchool, School Messenger, VCAT, SBAC/TIDE, FitnessGram, Reflex, NWEAMap, Bridges among others. Qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in business, education, science, technology or other appropriate discipline plus two years of relevant data management and education experience, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired.

The Data Manager is an exempt full-time year round position. Salary commensurate with experience and Lamoille North offers an excellent benefits package including paid health and dental insurance as well as paid leave and other benefits. Position begins immediately. Applications must be submitted via schoolspring.com attention: Jade Hazard, Curriculum Director and will include a cover letter and 3 current reference letters. EOE. 9t-LamoilleNorthSU082119.indd 1

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JETBLUE JOB FAIR

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN Arnold and Scangas Architects is seeking an enthusiastic architectural intern with a professional degree to participate in various tasks and work as part of a team at a busy architectural office. 2-4 years’ architectural work experience with CADD experience, DataCAD a plus. Work consists of a nice mix of historic restorations/ renovations to commercial to multi-family housing. Submit a letter of interest and resume to rarnold@arnoldandscangas.com OR Arnold & Scangas Architects, PO Box 135, St. Albans, VT 05478.

JetBlue is currently hiring Customer Service & Ground Operations Crewmembers Where: Burlington International Airport 2nd Floor Conference Room When: Wednesday, August 28 1 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Tuesday September 3rd 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

To Apply Ahead of Time: 1. Visit www.work-here.jetblue.com/join-us 2. Select Search for all JetBlue opportunities 3. Select BTV-Burilngton from the Location List

Candidates Must: • Have a high school diploma or GED diploma Able to hand objects up to 50lbs frequently and/ or 70-100 lbs occasionally with assistance of other people or tools and be in a position where bending, crouching and kneeling is needed.

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Central Vermont Substance Abuse Services

Central Vermont Substance Abuse Services is a nonprofit organization located in Berlin, VT providing substance abuse services to central Vermont residents. The range of services provided includes outpatient services, intensive outpatient programs, prevention, intervention, and treatment for adults and adolescents.

...but an opportunity to work for one of the best insurance companies in the country and reap the rewards that go along with that level of success. We’re a nearly 200 year old company that works hard not to act our age; as a result, we have been recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont”. An open and collaborative environment, coupled with exceptional compensation and benefits help to make us one of the most attractive employment opportunities in the country. Thanks to our continued success, we are looking for qualified candidates to join our high-performing team in the following areas: HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST Join a dynamic department that is the heart of the company. Provide a variety of professional human resources services and support the daily operations of the dept. Primary duties include, but are not limited to: payroll processing & reporting, maintenance of employee benefits, wellness & leave programs, workers compensation and employee events. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, experienced at processing payroll, a self-starter, have strong math, analytical & organizational skills, and enjoy working with people.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR We are looking for a Program Director to provide leadership and direction to Central Vermont Substance Abuse Services. The Director will be responsible for the overall management of the program. The Director will ensure the quality, accessibility, and effectiveness of an array of community-based outpatient substance abuse services for adults and adolescents. The Program Director will actively develop local, regional, and state partnerships, which also includes continual planning for the prevention and treatment of substance abuse services in the area. The Director will enjoy program development, quality improvement, and financial management of an annual budget. The Director will have timely reporting duties and monthly professional board presentations. The Director will work closely and effectively with the CVSAS clinical supervisor and the practice manager.

We are looking for someone who is willing to make a commitment to our program and wishes to join a team of skilled professionals.

PERSONAL LINES UNDERWRITING SUPERVISOR Lead an exceptional team of Underwriters. The successful candidate will have a broad base of knowledge and skills related to underwriting personal lines of insurance, agency relations and operations, as well as excellent coaching/people management, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

BUSINESS ANALYST Join our Agile team and help us succeed by using your communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills. This position works closely with the business as well as management and technical staff to ensure business solutions are in line with corporate goals and strategic direction. The ideal candidate has a team oriented approach, knowledge of P&C insurance, has excellent interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, and experience with business and technical requirements analysis.

The successful candidate must have a Master’s Degree in counseling, addiction, social work, community psychology and/or equivalent field with five years of demonstrated clinical/supervisory/management experience. LADC licensure is preferred. Excellent communication and team work skills, a commitment to family-centered principles, and an interest in community wellness. Knowledge of the Vermont system of care is an asset. We offer a competitive salary and an excellent flexible benefit package.

To apply for these positions and to view other opportunities, please visit:

Individuals who are interested in being part of a dynamic team are encouraged to apply.

Flexibility, dependability, strong communication, organizational skills, and the ability to work with a variety of stakeholders are essential. If interested, please send resume and letter of interest to:

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Want to join the growing Health Care IT industry and work in a fantastic team culture? Perhaps you, too, desire the friendly, casual, hardworking, and client-focused environment offered by our 80+ employee company located in the Champlain Mill in Winooski, VT. PCC has designed, developed and supported our award winning pediatric software for over 30 years.

As a Benefit Corporation, we place high value on client, employee and community relationships. As our electronic health record solution is driving greater demand for our services, we want to expand our team.

As a result, we are seeking to fill the roles of: IMPLEMENTATION SPECIALIST The Implementation Specialist engages with new clients implementing PCC’s software solutions.

They provide project management support to ensure the client is ready to come online with our software and that project timelines and goals are met. This position performs client training, support of newly implemented clients and cross-team collaboration to ensure a seamless and positive onboarding experience for the client.

The Implementation Specialist will have had prior experience leading software implementations and be available to travel to client locations across the country. This position requires technical aptitude, exceptional customer service and strong communication skills. Prior experience leading software implementations required and in the healthcare arena desired. The deadline for submitting your application is September 4, 2019.

RAPID RESPONSE TEAM MEMBER PCC is seeking people to join our Software Solutions Team as a Rapid Response member.

Rapid Response Team members work in our customer care center and are responsible for answering client calls, entering and managing their service needs into our help desk software, and helping to solve their questions and problems. They also travel to our client sites to assist with software configuration and training. This position requires technical aptitude and exceptional customer service and communication skills. Prior experience in the healthcare industry desired, but not required. The deadline for submitting your application is August 30, 2019.

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR 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, these roles and how to apply, please visit our website at www.pcc.com/careers. This position is open until filled. As a Benefit Corporation, we place high value on client, employee and community relationships. PCC offers competitive benefits as well as some uncommon perks. PCC is located in the Champlain Mill in Winooski, VT.

No phone calls, please. AA/EOE.

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