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ALL RISE

$1.2 MILLION

That’s how much the Kelly Brush Foundation raised for adaptive sports equipment during its annual bicycle ride in Middlebury.

The U.S. Senate conﬁrmed Vermont public defender Mary Kay Lanthier as a U.S. District Court judge. Bolstering the bench.

BALLIN’ OUT

A new American Basketball Association team, the Vermont Coyotes, will begin play next year in Barre. Another local pro sports squad.

TOPFIVE

BURLINGTON SETTLES A COP LAWSUIT

Burlington has paid a local man $215,000 to settle an excessive-force lawsuit ﬁled more than ﬁve years ago after an altercation that fueled calls for police reform.

e city approved the agreement with Mabior Jok, 40, late last month, according to his attorney, Robb Spensley. e city’s insurer paid the bulk of the settlement, which he called “life-changing money” for Jok. A former child soldier and refugee from South Sudan, Jok has been intermittently homeless while living in Burlington, Spensley said.

“It was frustrating that it took ﬁve years to get this,” Spensley said. “I know Mabior is happy and feeling much more safe and secure.”

In a statement, Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak committed to review future uses of force in order to “ensure our police department training, practices, and policies emphasize de-escalation, minimal reliance on using force, and effective communication.”

e case was one of two lawsuits that Black city residents ﬁled against police in 2019. ree Congolese brothers, one of whom suffered a brain injury after cops shoved him to the ground outside a bar, also sued. e city settled with Jérémie, Charlie and Albin Meli last year for $750,000.

Body camera footage of the Jok incident showed Officer Joseph Corrow approach a circle of people, with Jok standing in the center. As Jok turned toward the officer, Corrow extended his arms and pulled Jok to the ground, knocking him unconscious. Corrow wrote in an affidavit that he’d seen Jok punch a man and worried about being assaulted himself. Prosecutors later dropped the charges against Jok.

At the time, then-police chief Brandon del Pozo said he didn’t discipline Corrow because the ofﬁcer had been trying to break up a ﬁght. Besides the city, Jok’s lawsuit named both del Pozo and Corrow as defendants.

Corrow and two ofﬁcers in the Meli case were the focus of racial justice protests in 2020. One of them, Jason Bellavance, took a $300,000 buyout to leave Burlington PD.

Calls for greater police accountability persist. On November 5, Burlington will vote on a measure that would bolster the powers of the city’s police commission.

And while Jok’s lawsuit has been resolved, his legal cases aren’t over. Jok is facing four felony charges for allegedly choking and threatening to kill a woman with a knife at the South Burlington Travelodge in April.

Read Courtney Lamdin’s full story at sevendaysvt.com.

PEDAL POWER

Advocates are celebrating the opening of a 39-mile central Vermont bike loop that’s part of the larger “Velomont” trail that’ll span the state. Keep going.

CASTING ABOUT

Gov. Phil Scott said he won’t vote for Donald Trump but is unsure whether he’ll vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. That clears it up.

5. “Casa Real Group to Add ird Restaurant in Barre” by Melissa Pasanen. e owners of two crowd-pleasing Tex-Mex restaurants in Colchester and Williston have plans for a third location.

DINO HEIST

Twenty years ago, Carl Witke was driving in Montpelier when he spotted a plastic Tyrannosaurus rex in a pile of free stuff. As his two kids watched, Witke wrestled the green, ﬁve-foot-long T. rex onto the top of his Subaru and brought it back to their Worcester home. While the kids have since grown up and moved away, the distinctive dino, a former piece of playground equipment made of durable plastic and dubbed “Willy,” has tirelessly stood vigil at the end of their driveway.

Until recently, that is. When Witke and his partner, Deborah Van Ness, returned from vacation on September 9, the local landmark was missing.

Van Ness called the police, who suggested putting the word out on social media and Front Porch Forum. at prompted testimonials from those who had taken its presence for granted, as well as sympathy, offers of help and suggestions for where the dinosaur might be. (“Hopefully someone is taking it on a global adventure,” one online comment read.)

A neighbor reviewed security footage from the days during which the dinosaur might have disappeared.

“It was very sweet of them, but they did not see the dinosaur,” Van Ness said.

Willy has already led a storied life. e T. rex came to the family bearing some BB gun holes and has survived two ﬂoods. It served as climbing equipment for kids and a conversation piece for neighbors.

“ ey must have worked hard to get it out of that spot; there is an indent in the lawn where it had settled in over the years,” Van Ness said. She hopes the thief has a change of heart.

“We love that thing,” she said.

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Deborah Van Ness’ nephew, Jacob, on the T. rex

Protesters in front of the Burlington Police Department in 2020

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NEWS & POLITICS

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

NOT TOO LATE

[Re “Burlington City Councilors Agree to Study Police Sta ng,” September 10, online]: When I awoke at 2:30 a.m., still stirred up after testifying before the Burlington City Council, there — at 1:15 a.m.! — was Courtney Lamdin’s report on the amended resolution on police numbers.

My thanks to Courtney, to the editor who stayed up to publish and to Seven Days for 1) exposing this resolution last week, and 2) reporting the council’s action like newspapers used to.

Your work is appreciated.

Jim Carrier BURLINGTON

POSITIVE VIBE

I really loved [“Saw It Again: Essay: A Gunshot Victim and Lifelong Phish Fan Finds Respite and Restoration at Mondegreen,” August 28]. As a fellow live music follower, I loved how Casey Ryan Vock emphasized the positive things that go down at shows. As someone who heals by dancing to bands like Goose and Phish, I get the beneﬁts of attending something that moves your body and spirit and helps to calm the mind.

well as the shoppers at local businesses. This is a slam-dunk, town-vitalizing win-win.

The objections to the plan — including urging that any a ordable housing be built at the local gravel pit or at the “workingclass” section of town — strike me as the same self-serving and hackneyed assertions that prevent Vermont from attaining the economic and cultural robustness of a diverse population, and instead drive the population to be increasingly elderly. These are assertions that hamstring Vermont’s undernourished economy, with a shortage of wage earners who pay taxes and a dearth of folks who support the local economy and community.

The choice for Greensboro voters is as clear as the waters of their beloved jewel, Caspian Lake. Support this project.

UVM NEEDS LIBERAL ARTS

[Re “Dollars for Scholars: To Secure Its Future, the University of Vermont Builds Its Research Muscle,” August 28]: Those of us who love the University of Vermont know that what’s good for UVM is good for Vermont. In trying to enrich grant funding for STEM research, the administration should not lose sight of UVM’s true mission: to provide an excellent liberal education for Vermonters.

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Bravo to Vock for surviving such an awful ordeal and being able to enjoy and see life the way that he does — and also his sobriety. Really loved the whole story.

Cindy Sheehan SOUTH BURLINGTON

GOOD FOR GREENSBORO

The plan to build 20 a ordable residential units at the underused Greensboro Town Hall [“Not in My Town Hall,” August 28] strikes me as ideal: repurpose an out-ofuse building into center-of-the village residences that folks performing needed jobs can a ord. I commend the town’s selectboard for its creative yet realistic vision to support this project.

UVM has an outstanding tradition in the humanities and social sciences, too. Our national brand was also built by professors like Kenneth Rothwell, a William Shakespeare scholar; Frank Manchel, who studied cinema seriously; and Mark Stoler, a leading historian of World War II. The list includes Raul Hilberg in political science and Robert Huber, a debate coach who helped UVM win national championships and created a program of global renown.

His many alumni will attest to the importance of a passionate teacher like Wolfgang Mieder, long in the German department, who studies proverbs.

UVM was once a small college with a med school. Now it is in danger of becoming a big med school with a small college.

In searching for another new president, the trustees should insist on a choice of candidates who will preserve and protect the liberal arts.

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This proposed town hall redo presents a multifaceted fix for numerous challenges pervasive throughout Vermont. It saves a historic structure that is in disrepair. It enhances the town’s property taxes. It provides critically needed housing for moderate-income residents. It has the potential to boost the supply of local workers currently needed for jobs in schools, hospitals and businesses — and needed to care for Vermont’s elderly. It’s likely to boost the school population, as

BURNING QUESTION

Samuel Press BURLINGTON

With interest I read “Higher Ed” [August 28], about professor Philip Lamy’s curriculum on cannabis studies at Vermont

Hugo Liepmann MIDDLESEX

State University-Castleton. My sense is that the piece shortchanged the history of racism by our federal government of marijuana use.

When dispensaries here in Vermont became institutionalized, I wanted to make a purchase at a site owned by a person of color. When I wrote to the state agency in Vermont commissioned with regulating that industry, requesting information, I received no reply. Wasn’t the intention of legalizing commercial marijuana here in Vermont to make restitution to those formerly incarcerated for marijuana use?

For those unfamiliar with that sordid racist history, I recommend the documentary Grass Is Greener

Russ Layne DANBY

THE OTHER SIDE OF BIOMASS

I am disappointed with the one-sided article on Burlington’s Joseph C. McNeil Generating Station [“Burning Cash: Opponents of Burlington’s Biomass Power Plant Zero In on Steep Financial Losses,” August 14]. A complete story on economic impacts of the plant should look at the bigger picture, including positive impacts on the land.

The most immediate means of minimizing carbon buildup in the atmosphere is to increase tree growth through good forest practices and keep forests from being divided into house lots. Most forestland that provides fuel to McNeil is privately owned and subject to property taxes. These taxes are financed through occasional sales of logs, the growth of which requires removal of inferior stems. This

low-grade wood is provided to McNeil through sustainable harvesting practices monitored by professional foresters. Side benefits are harder to quantify but include shelter and food for the wildlife we all like to see and clean water flowing to the rivers that feed Lake Champlain. Those wooded hills also attract thousands of tourists each fall and their tourism dollars. These things are all part of the economic picture of biomass power in Vermont.

Burlingtonians are rightfully proud of their local utility and its 100 percent renewable electricity sources — a goal most communities will struggle to meet in coming years. Renewable electric production other than biomass requires the sun to shine, the wind to blow or predictable water flow. The cheap alternative of natural gas is a fossil fuel and not indigenous to Vermont.

Future articles on this subject should be more balanced and comprehensive.

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ROOFING

NEWS+POLITICS 14

No Housing, In-Deed

A landlord wants to get paid to allow a South Burlington housing project to proceed

Developers Pull the Plug on Spa Plans

Full-Court Press

A Vermont Christian school won’t play sports against transgender athletes. But it still wants to compete.

Route 2 Businesses See ‘Collateral Damage’ From Flood

Gov. Scott, School Leaders

Raise Alarm About Next Budget Season

FEATURES 26

Bilked and Bereft

Creative Crossroads ree to six hours in White River Junction, a charming village with eccentric character

ARTS+CULTURE 46

The Other Allen

A Vermont historian’s new biography takes a close look at Ethan’s youngest brother Phish to Play Beneﬁt Shows for Recovery Center in Ludlow

Film Tour Showcases Four Vermont Shorts Exploring Family Dynamics

2020 Visions

“Doomscrolling” at the Hall Art Foundation

Stowe’s Front Four Gallery Relaunches With Landscapes for Loners

Sound Advice

A Vermont music lover’s guide to the POP Montréal festival

FOOD+DRINK

DESIGN DON EGGERT • IMAGE JANA SLEEMAN

STUCK IN VERMONT

Hackett’s Orchard in South Hero was founded in 1967 by Ron and Celia Hackett. Orchard manager Devin Hackett grew up on his grandparents’ farm and developed a passion for apples — he eats about 10 a day. Seven Days’ Eva Sollberger met the Hackett family and got an orchard tour.

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THURSDAY 19

KOOL LIKE KAHAN

Vermont’s own multiplatinum sensation Noah Kahan takes the stage at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction for an epic night of soul-baring. Kahan’s candid struggle with mental health is often interwoven with his musical artistry, so it comes as no surprise that proceeds support his Busyhead Project. e concert is sold out, but dry those tears — there’s a wait list!

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SATURDAY 21

Jammin’ Out

Stowe Cider invites folks to commemorate 100 years of Vermont State Parks at Jam for the Parks. Ticket proceeds support the preservation of our parks, with a percentage of cider sales donated to boot. e lineup — including an After Dark edition for adults — features crowd-pleasing faves including Dylan & the Dead, plus family-friendly activities and sustenance from Shakedown Street BBQ & Grill.

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STARTING FRIDAY 20

Honey Haven

Bees are always the main buzz at Barr Hill distillery in Montpelier, but never more so than at Bee’s Knees Week — a celebration of these precious pollinators. Fans of the golden gift from our fuzzy ﬂying friends partake in events ranging from a cocktail class to a honey-centric dinner featuring an observational hive.

SEE CALENDAR LISTINGS ON PAGES 68, 69 & 72

SATURDAY 21

Need for Speed

Harold Lloyd’s last silent ﬁlm before the advent of talkies, Speedy, invites audiences into a bygone era of Hollywood where physical comedy reigns supreme. Presented as part of the Brandon Town Hall silent ﬁlm series, the 1928 rom-com is brought to musical life by accompanist Jeff Rapsis, a composer who specializes in creating sounds for silence.

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SATURDAY 21

Fantastic Beasts

During Sport of Kings Day, lords and ladies of the realm peek into the 3,000-year-old practice of falconry at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee. Modern-day falconers and their trained, taloned friends demonstrate how the practice has evolved over centuries. Dress the part and embark on a medieval romp replete with stilt walkers, archery and music.

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SATURDAY 21

Piano Man

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Capital City Concerts kicks off its 25th season with Grammy-nominated pianist Paul Orgel. e performer who started it all for the series in 2000 returns for an aptly named program, “Full Circle.” From Johann Sebastian Bach to Franz Liszt to Ludwig van Beethoven, the evening at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier features classical compositions showcasing Orgel’s skillful technique.

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ONGOING

Rocky Road

Now in its 24th year, the annual “Rock Solid” exhibit at Studio Place Arts in Barre showcases carved creations by local sculptors, as well as works in other mediums that evoke the unique and sometimes formidable qualities of stone. Afterward, gallerygoers are encouraged to embark on an Art Stroll around Barre’s historic downtown to view other outdoor chiseled constructions.

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Cautionary Tale

I don’t usually look at Facebook — let alone click anything on my feed. But on May 15, I fell for a tantalizing headline. I thought it was a reputable news source, but I was wrong.

After I clicked, my computer froze, and a threatening, Microsoft-branded warning popped up on the screen. A robotic woman’s voice started talking authoritatively, instructing: “Important security message. Your computer has been locked up. Your IP address was used without your knowledge or consent to visit websites that contain an identity theft virus. To unlock the computer, please call support immediately. Please do not attempt to shut down or restart your computer. Doing so may lead to data loss and identity theft. The computer lock is aimed to stop illegal activity. Please call our support immediately.”

Instead of calling “support,” I wisely texted Don Eggert, Seven Days’ creative director, associate publisher and self-taught IT guy. He responded immediately: “That is a fake alarm. It’s trying to trick you into giving up remote access to your computer. Don’t click on anything or call anyone. You could get locked out, and they might steal your personal info.”

The true tally is almost certainly much higher. Cyber scams often go unreported by victims who feel shame or humiliation. As Vermont continues to grow older, more residents will enter the target zone.”

In “Bilked and Bereft,” Derek tells the stories of two Vermont victims — both educated, intelligent women in their sixties and seventies — who got sucked into computer pop-ups like mine that wound up costing them everything they had.

IT TOOK HIM SECONDS TO FORCE-QUIT MY WEB BROWSER AND REMOVE THE ADWARE APP. I FELT LIKE AN IDIOT...

He continued: “Are you able to use the computer at all?”

The answer was no. And I was afraid to touch anything on my MacBook Pro. Until this got ﬁxed, I couldn’t work. So, I drove over to Don’s house in Winooski. It took him seconds to force-quit my web browser, Google Chrome, and remove the adware app. I felt like an idiot when he noted, “Because you don’t even use Microsoft Windows, that’s a dead giveaway.” Temporarily relieved but with an ongoing feeling of digital insecurity, I got back to the paper.

Don does this kind of intervention for everyone at Seven Days — in addition to his other marketing and design duties. Unfortunately, he’s not available to help the other Vermonters who are increasingly falling for scams like this — and, in some cases, losing millions.

In this week’s cover story, Derek Brouwer reports that Americans ages 60 and older lost nearly $3.5 billion to cyber cons last year, up from less than $1 billion in 2020. Closer to home, he writes, “More than 150 older Vermonters told the FBI that they’d been scammed last year for a collective $4.8 million.

Derek documents the rackets in excruciating detail, from the red ﬂags to the cognitive dissonance and collateral damage. Both women have been ﬁghting income tax bills levied on the money that was stolen from them.

The mental health toll has been enormous. One of them talks openly of suicide; the other hasn’t told her family what happened yet.

That Derek was able to speak with both women on the record makes this cautionary tale truly powerful. These are not anonymous accounts that you can dismiss; they are real people like you and me. There but for Don’s tech support go I.

We thank both women for their courage. They shared their sagas to keep others from falling into the same trap. In isolated Vermont, that’s the ﬁrst step to putting an end to this growing, ruinous form of abuse.

Paula Routly

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No Housing, In-Deed

A landlord wants to get paid to allow a South Burlington housing project to proceed

BY KEVIN MCCALLUM • kevin@sevendaysvt.com

Bridget Gracey had been trying for years to sell a small corner lot on Williston Road in South Burlington where her grandparents once lived, across the street from businesses started by her family: Gracey’s Store & Deli and Gracey’s Liquor Outlet.

This summer, a buyer ﬁnally stepped forward. A housing developer from Winooski agreed to purchase the longvacant half-acre parcel for $430,000, with plans to build up to 32 units of housing.

Her hopes for a quick payout were dashed, however, when the project ran into two hurdles. The ﬁrst was a decadesold deed restriction preventing most kinds of businesses from operating on the site. The second was the owner of an adjacent o ce building, Hinsdale Properties, who wanted something in exchange for lifting the restriction— $500,000.

The demand blindsided Gracey, who has been a real estate agent for decades and had never run into anything like it.

“South Burlington needs new housing, and these guys want to build it,” said Pete Bissonnette, Gracey’s ﬁancé and a partner in the potential deal. “To be held hostage and not be able to put up what you want there is asinine.”

The demand was made by Jacob Hinsdale, property manager for Hinsdale Properties, the company his father, Clark, founded in the 1950s. It controls one of the largest real estate empires in the area.

Reached on Monday, she declined to comment.

DEVELOPMENT

Jacob is married to state Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D/P-Chittenden-Southeast), who’s been an advocate for removing barriers that prevent new housing. Earlier this year, the Vermont Senate Ethics Committee dismissed a complaint from several citizens that alleged a conflict of interest between the family business she married into and her duties leading a legislative housing committee — a complaint that Ram Hinsdale said at the time was “completely baseless.”

Developers Pull the Plug on Spa Plans

BY COURTNEY LAMDIN courtney@sevendaysvt.com

Plans to build a Nordic spa in Burlington’s South End were scuttled last month after developers learned it would be too costly to contend with pollution on the property.

Known as a brownﬁeld, the contaminated lot at 453 Pine Street was meant to become Silt Botanica Bathhouse, a sprawling spa with hot pools, cold plunges and a greenhouse. e state pledged $6 million toward the cleanup.

But recent estimates suggest the work could cost millions more. Unable to ﬁnd funds to bridge the gap, developers had to pull the plug on the Burlington site. ey’re now seeking locations outside the city.

Vermont has a long history of restrictive zoning practices that limit multifamily housing, often with the justiﬁcation of preserving the character of a community. It’s something land-use planners, economic development o cials and politicians largely agree has contributed to the state’s housing crunch.

But even in places such as South Burlington, which has welcomed high-density residential projects in its new downtown, historic opposition to development can remain deeply rooted in land records and be harder to sweep aside. Decades-old deed restrictions, known as covenants, are just one example.

“It’s a dispute that rears its head long after the people who made the provision are long gone,” said Yves Bradley, a commercial

“It’s very, very disappointing, especially so late in the project,” said Jovial King, one of the developers. “But this is a very complex site.” e property sits next to the Barge Canal, a waterway next to Lake Champlain where workers from a longgone coal gasiﬁcation plant dumped tar, cyanide and other pollutants. In the 1980s, federal ofﬁcials designated a 38-acre area around the canal as a Superfund site, pinning it with strict rules for redevelopment. e lot at 453 Pine is just outside the Superfund boundary but carries similar restrictions that have thwarted previous attempts to build there.

King and her team were undaunted when they announced plans for Silt in 2022. Along with the 30,000-squarefoot bathhouse, the project was to include a three-unit commercial building to anchor the lot, which is across from Dealer.com.

A July 2023 report said it would cost just under $6 million to ready the site for development. Contractors, however, estimated the work would cost between $8 million and $10 million after adding in various contingencies. King’s team attempted to scale down the project and eliminated the commercial building from the plans. ey also looked into other funding sources, including loans.

“It’s a big disappointment for a lot of people,” King said. “It would have been just amazing for our community and for bringing more tourism to our city.” ➆

Full-Court Press

A Vermont Christian school won’t play sports against transgender athletes. But it still wants to compete.

BY ALISON NOVAK • alison@sevendaysvt.com

The school year has started, but student athletes at Mid Vermont Christian School aren’t playing against the local teams they have faced in the past. In March 2023, the school was banned from competing in all activities overseen by the Vermont Principals’ Association, which governs interscholastic sports in the state.

recently issued an emergency order that allows them to participate.

EDUCATION

While these cases are still wending through the court system, their outcomes could have far-reaching implications for what has become a contentious, politicized issue nationwide.

The VPA imposed the ban after determining Mid Vermont Christian violated the organization’s gender identity and nondiscrimination policies by refusing to play against a girls’ basketball team that included a transgender player.

But the Quechee school wants back in the game. It has filed a lawsuit arguing that it has been discriminated against for its religious beliefs. And the school thinks its athletes should be allowed to compete in state-sanctioned sporting events while the courts consider the case.

A federal judge in Vermont denied that request, but last month Alliance Defending Freedom — a well-funded national conservative legal group — appealed to a higher U.S. court.

The organization’s senior counsel, Ryan Tucker, characterized the ban as a “blatant act of discrimination and hostility” and urged the court to “uphold constitutional protections by guaranteeing the school can fully participate while still adhering to its religious beliefs.”

Vermont, which protects students’ right to play on a team based on their gender identity, isn’t alone in grappling with this culture-war issue. Since 2021, more than two dozen states have passed laws barring transgender students from sports teams that align with their gender identity. In New Hampshire, two transgender athletes challenged their state’s ban, and a U.S. District Court judge

“When you see these cases being litigated in lots of different jurisdictions, it’s not uncommon for one or several of them to move up through the system and ultimately end up at the U.S. Supreme Court,” said Jared Carter, a law professor at the Vermont Law & Graduate School. According to its website, Mid Vermont, which has about 100 students in pre-K through 12th grade, was created in 1987 by a group of parents who believed that God told them to start a school. It espouses a “Christcentric” education with “the Word of God … integrated into each classroom and each subject.”

The State Board of Education has designated Mid Vermont an “approved independent school,” which means it’s eligible to receive state tuition dollars for students who don’t have a public school option in their towns. Under board rules, such schools are supposed to maintain nondiscriminatory enrollment policies.

But Mid Vermont Christian insists it has the right to act in accordance with its religious beliefs, regardless of those policies. For example, as part of its January 2023 application for “approved” status, the school was required to sign a document saying it would comply with the Vermont Public Accommodations Act “in all aspects of the school’s admissions and operations.” That law states, in part, that schools cannot deny services based on “race, creed, color, national origin,

Route 2

Businesses See ‘Collateral Damage’ From Flood

BY ANNE WALLACE ALLEN anne@sevendaysvt.com

Plainfield Hardware wasn’t damaged in the flooding that devastated nearby downtown Plainfield on July 10. But the store is taking a different kind of hit from bridge and road repairs now needed on Route 2.

A bridge between East Montpelier and Plainfield on the major east-west thoroughfare was closed for nearly a week after the flood and is still limited to one lane. And on Monday, the state closed a section of Route 2 altogether for two weeks. Work is needed to stabilize a steep roadside riverbank that has been eroding dangerously since the July flood.

The closure will sharply curtail visits to many businesses on Route 2 just as the busiest tourist season of the year is getting under way. At a time of year when thousands of leaf peepers usually stop in at Plainfield Hardware for sandwiches, coffee and Vermont specialty food products, signs will divert drivers to Route 14 instead.

“We didn’t have any physical damage here during the flood, but this is kind of our collateral damage,” said David Ertel, a local who has worked at Plainfield Hardware for several years.

Ertel expects the road closure to cut customer traffic in half. Some regulars, he said, will drive the few extra miles because the store has the largest selection of hardware for miles around. The store is also a well-known dealer of insulated chimney pipe, an item that accounts for much of its income. There’s a deli, groceries, a greenhouse and a large selection of colorful wooden Adirondack chairs that are handmade in Cabot. On Mondays, coffee is free all day.

Ertel said he’s bracing for a drop in sales, but he understands why the state needs to close the road. Much of the riverbank fell into the Winooski River during the flood, leaving a 75-foot chasm at the edge of the busy road.

“Every time you drive by, it looks worse,” Ertel said. “Really, at this point, it’s an emergency.” ➆

marital status, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Vicky Fogg, Mid Vermont’s head of school, signed the document — but added a typed caveat below it.

“As a religious organization, the school has a statutory and Constitutional right to make decisions based on its religious beliefs, including hiring and disciplining employees, associating with others, and in its admissions, conduct, and operations policies and procedures,” the statement reads. “By signing this form, the Mid Vermont Christian School does not waive any such right.”

Despite that, the state awarded Mid Vermont the independent school status it sought, through 2028. During the 2022-23 school year, the school received $56,000 in public dollars to pay the tuition of four students, according to the Agency of Education’s most recent data.

Mid Vermont’s current lawsuit is an extension of the central role religion plays at the school. For example, while some Vermont religious schools accept students of any faith, Mid Vermont does not.

Documents the school submitted to the state earlier this year — meant to attest to its nondiscriminatory practices — state

that Mid Vermont requires parents or caregivers to affirm that at least one of them is “a born again believer in Jesus Christ who regularly attends and participates in a church whose doctrinal position essentially agrees with the school’s statement of faith.” It also says that a parent’s occupation “will be taken into consideration as a factor in admissions if it is morally or spiritually questionable.”

In its enrollment application, parents and high school students are asked to write “a brief personal testimony” explaining how they have “accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior” and provide the names of their church and pastor.

Mid Vermont’s lawsuit argues that banning its teams from state-sanctioned athletic contests violates the school’s First Amendment rights by preventing it from exercising its religious beliefs about sexuality and gender. (In the meantime, the school’s students are competing in a smaller Christian athletic league.)

In June, U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey Crawford denied the school’s request for a preliminary injunction, which would have allowed it to rejoin the VPA while the trial proceeded.

Crawford found that Mid Vermont’s expulsion was “not motivated by animus against their religious beliefs” but because

the school violated the policy that allows transgender students to participate on the team of their choice. Crawford also helped hammer out an agreement between the parties that allows Mid Vermont to participate in certain VPA events such as spelling bees.

But on August 30, the school appealed Crawford’s denial to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The school’s lawyers pointed to a situation in 2021 when three girls’ basketball teams forfeited games against Woodstock Union High School to avoid competing against an athlete who had an exemption from the COVID-19 mask mandate. Those schools, the lawyers noted, were not kicked out of the VPA.

Meanwhile, the appeal argues, Mid Vermont was booted for a decision driven by its religious belief that “sex is Godgiven and immutable and that God created each of us either male or female” and that “rejecting one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person.” The appeal alleges that “the VPA’s actions treat ‘comparable secular activity more favorably than religious exercise.’”

At the heart of the argument, said Carter, the law professor, is the notion that religious organizations shouldn’t be excluded from a public benefit for

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exercising their beliefs. That argument has found sympathy at the U.S. Supreme Court in recent cases involving public money going to religious schools — but it’s unclear whether it will translate to sports.

law that curtails the speech of anti-abortion pregnancy centers, which typically have religious affiliations.

Several Alliance Defending Freedom cases have ended with school-district payouts. A former snowboarding coach

at Woodstock Union High School, for instance, settled his case after being fired for alleged comments he made about a transgender snowboarder on an opposing team. In another, a Randolph teen and her father received thousands of dollars after they were disciplined for speaking out against a transgender volleyball player who used a girls’ locker room.

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“School funding is certainly different … from participating in an athletic league,” Carter said. “I think we’re talking about apples and oranges.”

Alliance Defending Freedom’s larger strategy, according to Carter, appears to be expanding what is covered under the “free exercise” clause of the First Amendment, which protects citizens’ rights to practice their religion.

The legal organization has sued the state and Vermont school districts multiple times in recent years. It’s currently suing the state Department for Children and Families for revoking the foster-care licenses of two families. The couples refused to support the agency’s policy on gender identity and sexual orientation due to their religious beliefs.

Another pending suit contests a state

The legal group appears particularly interested in challenging Vermont’s protections for transgender student athletes. Its appeal in the Mid Vermont case cites state guidance that says “generally, students should be permitted to participate in physical education and sports in accordance with the student’s gender identity.” That guidance also says that “participation … will be resolved on a case-by-case basis.”

Alliance Defending Freedom argues the recommendations are “intentionally ambiguous and noncommittal at every turn,” which gives the VPA discretion in how to enforce them.

The Vermont Agency of Education and VPA executive director Jay Nichols declined to comment on the appeal.

But, Nichols noted, his organization “welcomes any school into our membership as long as they follow our memberagreed-upon policies and Vermont state law.”

real estate broker who is familiar with the contested property but not involved. “It’s the kind of thing that can really come back and bite you in the ass.”

In most cases, a deal is still possible when property owners agree to work together, he said. When informed the Hinsdale family was demanding $500,000 to lift the restriction, Bradley burst out laughing.

“And we wonder why nothing gets built in Vermont,” he said.

The site at the busy intersection of Williston and Patchen roads is across the street from two gas stations and kittycorner to a bank.

It is located in a zone that used to allow up to six units of housing. In 2016, the city adopted form-based code, which sets no limit on the number of housing units allowed but caps buildings at five stories tall.

A preliminary site assessment found that the modest parcel could contain a three-story building with up to 32 studio apartments plus commercial space on the first floor, according to Nathan Dagesse, the potential purchaser. Dagesse, whose company has helped build a number of the modern multistory, mixed-use apartment buildings in Winooski in recent years, felt the location was suitable for a similar building.

That is, until he found the land records on file with the city, which contain a handwritten document that limits what can be built on the property.

“I’m pretty sure that when we dug it up, not anyone in town that’s alive knew anything about it,” Dagesse said.

The restriction dates to 1940, when Alexander Terrien and his wife, Mattie, subdivided a property at the intersection of Williston and Patchen roads.

The couple sold a home on the northeast corner to William and Gladys Neudewitz, but with some significant strings attached. Terrien wanted to make sure the use of the corner lot did not negatively affect three other separate lots he created. The document, written in a meticulous cursive hand, states that henceforth, the corner lot “shall not at any time be used for the purpose of any trade, manufacture, or business of any description” and “particularly shall not be used as a public garage or filling station” or related uses. It forbids “preventing the obstruction of view, light and air from said lots.”

One kind of business that would be allowed: a grocer. In a quirky Vermont twist, the deed states that “the sale of maple syrup, maple sugar, and other maple products may be conducted on said premises.”

The conditions on the corner lot were

intended to “run with the land” for the benefit of the owners of the three lots “and to all subsequent owners of said lots.” Hinsdale Properties owns the three lots, which, at some point, were combined into one. A red colonial-style home sits there now and is occupied by various businesses, including hair and nail salons.

Bridget Gracey’s grandparents ended up living in the home on the corner, which later burned down; she and her brothers inherited the vacant land several years ago.

Dagesse originally interpreted the prohibition on the corner lot as merely blocking commercial uses, which he said was unfortunate. Businesses can add vibrancy to the ground floors of apartment buildings and surrounding buildings, as well. Hinsdale Properties took the position, however, that apartments, too, were a form of business and therefore restricted under the covenant.

In addition to the $500,000 demand to remove the restriction, the Hinsdales proposed height restrictions and setbacks from their property, any one of which could effectively kill the deal, Dagesse said.

“It’s very difficult to develop right now, so you throw any additional little challenge on these sites and you’re going to stall out,” he said.

After Seven Days reached out to Jacob Hinsdale last week, the company countered with a “significantly lower” financial demand, Dagesse said on Monday. Negotiations are continuing, and he’s hopeful an agreement can be struck to salvage the deal. Bissonnette said they’ve hired an attorney and are exploring getting the covenant invalidated if negotiations falter. Reached for comment, Jacob Hinsdale

said he was on paternity leave and declined to answer questions.

South Burlington has been working hard in recent years to develop housing as part of its nearby City Center project, a dense thicket of apartments and businesses by the Dorset Street commercial corridor that is meant to create a vibrant,

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walkable, bikeable town center. The state has incentivized the effort with grants and more flexible zoning, explained Paul Conner, the city’s planning and zoning director.

The city would welcome development on the Williston Road lot but is neutral on what kinds of uses the building should contain, Conner said.

Bissonnette, a commercial builder, got involved in the property as a silent partner when one of Gracey’s brothers offered to be bought out. Bissonnette and Gracey now split their time between Vermont and a gated community near St. Augustine, Fla. He has no connection to Bissonette Properties, one of Burlington’s largest landlords, and his name is spelled differently.

The original demand exceeded the

value of the sale, preventing any deal from moving forward. That’s too bad, Bissonnette said, because an apartment building there could bring more customers to businesses in the Hinsdale property.

“I don’t see where it’s hurting him to have a building there,” he said.

Bradley, the commercial real estate broker, said he understands why a neighboring property owner might have a range of questions about a proposed development. They might withhold support until those questions — about features and traffic flow, for instance — are answered, he said.

“It’s a tiny site, and if they are talking about going vertical, that will be jarring,” Bradley said.

It’s also possible that there is some personal history at play, said Greg Chioffi, who owns and rents out a home east of the vacant lot. Several years ago, a commercial developer expressed interest in buying the Gracey property and the Hinsdales’ to combine them, Chioffi said. But, he added, the deal never came together, in part because Bridget Gracey believed the property was more valuable than it was.

“She once said, ‘My father told me this was a million-dollar corner,’” Chioffi recalled.

It might make more sense for all three properties, including Chioffi’s, to be developed together so a larger project could proceed, Chioffi said. That would require a degree of cooperation that, at the moment anyway, seems in short supply.

“I don’t begrudge him asking for the money,” Chioffi said of Hinsdale. “And I don’t begrudge the Graceys for being a little pissed about it.”

The disputed vacant lot on the corner of Williston and Patchen roads in South Burlington

Gov. Scott, School Leaders Raise Alarm About Next Budget Season

BY ALISON NOVAK alison@sevendaysvt.com

Just weeks after Vermont students returned to school, district administrators and Gov. Phil Scott are raising the alarm about rising costs that could cause budgets and property taxes to soar — again — next year.

In a letter sent on September 9 to school leaders, Scott noted that the tax commissioner typically forecasts property tax increases related to education spending in a memo that’s known as the “December 1 letter.” But after an unprecedented school budget season — during which one-third of spending plans failed on Town Meeting Day — the governor said he wanted to reach out even earlier “to help avoid another round of historic property tax increases next year.”

Because $69 million of one-time money was taken from the education fund this spring to buy down property taxes, Scott wrote, there is already a large financial gap going into next fiscal year. Additionally, health insurance costs for educators are increasing dramatically, which will put more strain on the ed fund. Just those two factors could increase property taxes an average of 7 percent in 2025 — even if school spending stays flat, Scott wrote.

e governor acknowledged that many cost drivers are outside of school districts’ control. But, he said, “if we work together, we can stabilize the school budget process, reduce the risk of historically high school budget defeats and revotes, and create capacity for all of us to focus on improving student outcomes and implementing longer-term improvements.”

e governor noted that the legislature has created a Commission on the Future of Public Education, which has started meeting to discuss those longer-term ﬁxes. But the group isn’t slated to make substantive recommendations about how to improve Vermont’s education system until 2026. And those recommendations will take time to implement.

In his letter, Scott encouraged school boards “to consider all options to contain education spending growth,” but he did not provide recommendations. Instead, he encouraged superintendents and school business managers to contact the Agency of Education for technical support.

Scott referenced a memo that went out to local school ofﬁcials last month from the Vermont School Boards Association, Vermont Superintendents Association and Vermont Association of

School Business Officials. at document laid out, in more detail, the factors driving up education costs, including staff salaries and benefits, inflation, special education, facilities maintenance, and tuition payments to private schools. It warned that “Vermont cannot endure” another budget cycle like the one the state just experienced.

“Without successful efforts to signiﬁcantly reduce the rate of increase in school district spending proposals ... more budgets could fail, leading to statewide proposals designed to suppress spending rather than address costs,” the memo said. “ is would likely result in increased disparities in education funding across the state.”

Some school districts, too, are already prepping for another budget crunch. In an email to faculty and staff last week, Adam Bunting, interim superintendent of the Champlain Valley School District, noted that the district cut 42 full-time positions this school year — and residents’ property taxes still rose substantially. In order to maintain the current level of services for next year, he wrote, the district would likely have to increase its budget by more than $5 million. Bunting said he was reaching out to engage the community in how to navigate the “extraordinary ﬁscal headwinds.”

South Burlington superintendent Violet Nichols, in a written statement submitted to the Commission on the Future of Public Education, said her district was “alarmed” as it begins budget modeling for next ﬁscal year.

Last school year, the district applied a $3.2 million surplus to its budget in order to get property tax rate increases down to around 8 percent. But there is no surplus to draw from this year. And, she wrote, the district is anticipating it may have to “drastically cut stafﬁng and programming levels” to achieve a budget that would get voter approval.

“As longer-term solutions are still conceptual,” Nichols wrote, “we also need to take direct actions in advance of the FY26 budget development cycle which is already in full force as the doors open for another school year.” ➆

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Great article [“Pasta Perfect: Gallus Handcrafted Pasta Opens in Waterbury’s Historic Gristmill,” September 3]. It inspired me to visit, although I live 150 miles away! Thanks for bringing this place to my attention. I just have to find out what it does with the hundreds of leftover egg whites it must generate every week. Did you ever find this out? I do hope they’ve found a taker for them — a shop that makes lemon meringue pies, maybe, or macaroons?

Judy Haran HOLDEN, MA

Editor’s note: Gallus uses its egg whites in the restaurant’s amaretti cookies, as well as for the staff meal before the restaurant opens. They also feed one employee’s pigs.

SLOPPY JOURNALISM

I have to say that even for an opinion piece, [“Readers Weigh in on ‘Bad News Burlington,’” September 4, online] was grossly mishandled. You even admitted that you didn’t have the time to verify any of the submissions but went ahead and published them anyway. Truly, half of those submissions could have been botgenerated, and you wouldn’t have known the difference.

You published a fire hose of subjective, unverified content largely disparaging the city, which is pretty rich considering your own publication turned off commenting on articles in 2014 because, in part, you didn’t want to police the subjective, unverifiable content coming through your media channel.

Protecting your own stories from public comment while printing more than 15,000 words of unscrutinized public opinion aimed at the city felt vindictive and journalistically sloppy. There are plenty of online outlets for people to submit their gloomy, subjective, unverified opinions. You shouldn’t have offered your paper as one of them.

Nate Herzog BURLINGTON

Editor’s note: Seven Days turned off commenting in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, in part to control the spread of dangerous disinformation about COVID-19.

‘SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY’

One of your letters regarding the “Bad News Burlington” piece was mine [“Readers Weigh in on ‘Bad News Burlington,’” September 4, online]. Thank you for

publishing all of them. Huge service to the community.

Ali Jalili BURLINGTON

VIEWS ARE NEWS

Thank you, Seven Days, for printing all these views [“Readers Weigh in on ‘Bad News Burlington,’” September 4, online].

Your paper is a vital part of making this a community. I come from New York City, which was getting bad back in the 1980s. It has recovered a lot, yet it still has people living on the streets. It lacks enough affordable housing and has many of the same problems we do.

I’m thankful that it took another 30 or 40 years for us to sink to the level of 1986 in New York City, but it is indeed sad to see.

I was sorry to see the effort to defund the police back in 2020. We must make it a lot more rewarding to new officers, and we certainly need to hire as many good candidates as quickly as we can. With a new mayor and city council, we are closer than before to finding answers. We can no longer build “affordable housing” that is not truly affordable.

I live right downtown, and I’m not leaving. I am disturbed by the yelling people and the indiscreet drug use, but I will be here when all that is gone.

We must come together and find solutions. We must organize and make our messages plain and simple. Let us design a better future for downtown and its residents.

My fond wish is that we have hit bottom and can now bounce back up. It is always darkest before the dawn.

Thanks to everyone who wrote in.

Charlie Messing BURLINGTON

BIASED REPORTING ON PRIDE CENTER

I am writing to express my extreme dissatisfaction with [“Pride — and Prejudice?: Vermont’s Leading LGBTQ Org Is Roiled by Allegations of Antisemitism,” September 4]. I kept reading, thinking I was going to hear another side, and there was none. There was never an attempt to understand or hear from pro-Palestinian voices on the matter. The story was quick to judge and blame people who are fighting to end a genocide and an apartheid state (Remember South Africa in the 1980s?).

Your reporting was biased and frankly misleading. You never once defined Zionism, which is constantly being conflated with Judaism. Get with the program, Seven Days; it is not antisemitic to want

to stop a genocide. The genocide that is happening right now, thanks to our tax dollars, is something the majority of the country and the world want stopped. History will judge you.

Sally Lincoln NORTH FERRISBURGH

ISRAEL IS GAY-FRIENDLY

Thank you, Sasha Goldstein, for describing the political transition of Pride Center of Vermont from an advocate for LGBTQ folk to an advocate for Free Palestine folk [“Pride — and Prejudice?: Vermont’s Leading LGBTQ Org Is Roiled by Allegations of Antisemitism,” September 4]. Not consulting with all Pride Center staff before doing so is a textbook case of how the Free Palestine movement operates. Claiming that Palestinians of all persuasions must be served by Vermont’s Pride Center also detracts from the center’s mission of supporting Vermont’s LGBTQ community. It also flies in the face of jihad reality that condemns all “lifestyle options” but heterosexual orientation. How ironic that the anti-Zionist, aka antisemitic, stance of the Pride Center fails to note that Israel is the only regional safe haven for LGBTQ folk.

John Eckerson WESTFORD

ZORN SHOULD GO

I am curious why the board of Pride Center of Vermont has not acted on requesting the

resignation or removal of executive director Phoebe Zorn, following her antisemitic actions taken without their approval [“Pride — and Prejudice?: Vermont’s Leading LGBTQ Org Is Roiled by Allegations of Antisemitism,” September 4].

While I am relieved that the board did not approve of Zorn’s actions, I am appalled by her behavior and cannot understand why the board of an organization dedicated to the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals has not required her resignation, especially when she apparently refused to even meet with its members. I understand that I am relying on news accounts for my information. However, in the absence of any other information, that is what is available.

I am a longtime active member and supporter of the Vermont and Burlington LGBTQ+ and Jewish community, former editor of Out in the Mountains , chair of Mountain Pride Media, cochair of Outright Vermont, and president of the Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force. In addition, I have served as a chair and/or member on other community committees such as those of the Fletcher Free Library, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue and the Vermont Council on Family Violence.

I provide this information so that you understand that I do not address this issue lightly or without a deep understanding of the interactions between a board and its staff.

Deborah Lashman BURLINGTON

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Barbara B. Hodgdon

MARCH 8, 1948AUGUST 25, 2024 COLCHESTER, VT.

Barbara B. Hodgdon, 76, a longtime resident of Colchester, Vt., passed away peacefully on August 25, 2024, after a struggle with dementia.

She was born in Burlington, Vt., the oldest daughter of the late William George Bushey and Alice Margaret (Mack) Bushey. She spent her early years in Charlotte, where she attended Charlotte Central School and then high school at South Burlington High School. She graduated from the second class at Champlain Valley Union High School in 1966.

Following high school,

Bruce James Thibaud

MARCH 26, 1943MAY 31, 2024

PONCE INLET, FLA.

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she attended Johnson State College before transferring to Champlain College and graduating with an associate’s degree in accounting in 1969.

In 1970, she met her husband, Jeffrey, and after a short, whirlwind romance, they married on April 30, 1971, sharing the anniversary date with her youngest sister’s birthday.

Barbara worked for a time at Garden Way Publishing in Charlotte and enjoyed her job a great deal. However, when her husband’s military service required a move to Virginia, she embraced the adventure and happily packed up their new family for the move south. With their little guy, David (“DJ”), packed in safely among their belongings, they drove their little red VW to Fort Belvoir.

Once settled in at Fort Belvoir, she became the local travel agent of sorts, inviting family and arranging tours, lodging and transportation for them. She was very impressed by the available history and sites in the Washington, D.C., area, except for the time her car was towed from the FBI building. She did talk the agent into telling her where the car was temporarily held, and it was retrieved without cost. Letters home often included recommendations for restaurants in the area. While

Bruce James ibaud, 81, passed away on May 31, 2024, in his home in Ponce Inlet, Fla. He was predeceased by his wife and the love of his life, Susan Jane (Peterson) ibaud, with whom he shared 56 years of marriage. Born in Burlington, Vt., on March 26, 1943, Bruce was the son of Edward and eresa ibaud and brother to Gary ibaud and Jan Keller. He graduated from Burlington

at Fort Belvoir, they made a couple of moves, with each place made into a home. e last move was a lovely little townhouse in Dogue Creek Village; while it was her favorite, the U.S. Army decided to send them to Germany.

Barbara enjoyed Germany, while doing volunteer work, hosting family members when they visited, and traveling to London with her mother and to Berchtesgaden with her sister, Margaret. Barbara also found the time to work as a Department of the Army civilian in the local ﬁnance ofﬁce. She made friends along the way and remained in touch with some.

With Jeffrey’s active-duty tour behind them and their return to Vermont, Barbara found employment with the Lane Press in the accounting department. She enjoyed the day-to-day challenges, with each day being different. She and Jeffrey purchased their ﬁrst home in Burlington and talked about expanding their family, as Barbara always wanted to have a sister for their son, David.

e decision was made to adopt a little girl from El Salvador, and, after a period of time, Christine Emily Hodgdon was brought to the U.S., all wrapped up in a blanket and a bow. Barbara decided to take some time off to take care of

High School in 1961 and then joined the Vermont Air National Guard. Bruce was a hard worker with a strong work ethic and explored many business endeavors. Starting as a shoe salesman, then working side by side with his wife in real estate, he moved into the automobile business in 1967 at Almartin Motors. He began in sales and purchased the dealership in 1985, becoming an exclusive Volvo dealer in 1989. Bruce grew the business and, in recent years, worked alongside his daughter, Stacey. He was

little Emily and did so for a couple of years.

In March 1986, Barbara joined the University of Vermont as an administrative professional in the Payroll and Human Resources Department. In March 2005, she became a subject matter expert on the new human resources software implementation team. In 2008, she joined the business process reengineering team, until her retirement in February 2011.

Barbara will be remembered by her family and friends for her ability to ﬁnd humor in stressful situations, her kindness, patience and a unique ability to make some coworkers laugh until they cried.

In retirement, Barbara and Jeffrey took their travel trailer to interesting places, such as Memphis, where she visited Graceland; Arizona, and the Grand Canyon; and Key West, Fla., where she visited Hemingway’s home. During the tour, she was trying to think of ways to put one of the cats in her bag, as she really wanted to bring one home. Barbara was especially fond of the Outer Banks, wanting to visit whenever possible.

Barbara loved her children and grandchildren. She was very happy when her son, David, graduated from Champlain College, as she had

proud of the dealership, the people who worked there and being an integral part of the Shelburne community. Bruce was a kind and generous man with many friends from all over. Everywhere Bruce went, he was loved by those around him. His impact resides strongly with those who knew him throughout Vermont, particularly in Montgomery and Jay Peak, and in Orlando and Ponce Inlet, Fla. He was a man full of laughs, deep conversations, endless stories and countless jokes. He will be remembered

years earlier. She traveled to many soccer games to watch her daughter, Emily, play in high school, college and summer leagues.

Her grandchildren were a special source of pride and pleasure. She was amazed with Spencer’s ability to create things with Legos by simply using his imagination. And she loved attending Shae’s soccer games and watching her skills develop. Both were very special to her.

Barbara was also a collector of things. She always loved animals, and there were usually one or more in the household — or she might be trying to ﬁnd a home for some wayward creature. She enjoyed crafts, sewing and knitting. It is unknown how many baby blankets she knitted for family and friends, but there seemed to be a work in progress constantly. And her complete stash of yarn was unknown until recently.

She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Jeffrey Charles; their children, David John Hodgdon and Christine Emily Culver (Jason); grandchildren, Spencer Ethan Culver and Shae Elizabeth Culver; sister, Margaret Whitby; nieces, Jennifer Gagnon (Eric) and Elizabeth Whitby (Scott Hamlin); nephews, Michael Devine (Petra) and Matthew Whitby (Jennifer); and a very

for the joy and light he brought into any room he entered.

Bruce had many interests that led him to lifelong friendships. He was a skilled hunter and ﬁsherman; enjoyed boating, golﬁng and four-wheeling; was an excellent skier; and loved riding motorcycles.

ere was never a dull moment in Bruce’s life, and he truly knew how to live life to the fullest. Whether he was in Shelburne, Montgomery, the mountains or Ponce Inlet, Bruce was at home there. He took great joy in sharing these

special cousin, Katherine Coakley, whom Barbara considered a second daughter. She is also survived by several grandnieces and grandnephews, Abby and Maddie Gagnon, CJ Hamlin, Nina Devine, and Avery and Riley Whitby, all of whom she loved dearly.

Besides her parents, Barbara was predeceased by her sister, Mary Claire (Bushey) Devine, in 1998. e family would like to acknowledge all the staff at the Arbors, who treated her with care, kindness, compassion and love. anks and gratitude is also extended to Full Circle Medicine and the UVM Home Health & Hospice staff, who provided care and support during her ﬁnal weeks and days.

A memorial service will be held on Friday, September 27, 2024, 11 a.m. at the Ready Funeral Home, Mountain View Chapel, 68 Pinecrest Rd., Essex Junction. Interment will immediately follow in the Village Cemetery in Colchester.

In lieu of ﬂowers, please consider a contribution to the humane society of one’s choice.

Arrangements are in the care of Ready Funeral & Cremation Services. To send online condolences, please visit readyfuneral.com.

favorite places with his loving family and good friends. Wherever life took him, he brought love, laughter and good times with him. He will be deeply missed.

Bruce is survived by his loving children, Todd ibaud and wife Susie, and Stacey ibaud and husband Daniel DeLisle; and his ﬁve grandchildren, Katie, Wyatt, Sadie, Emma and Gracey Hoechner, who affectionately called him “Papa.”

A funeral and celebration of life will be held in summer 2025.

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Teresa Ann (Fayette) Wall

JANUARY 13, 1940AUGUST 26, 2024 GUELPH, ONT.

Teresa Ann (Fayette) Wall died peacefully at the age of 84 on August 26, 2024, with family by her side. She is predeceased by her husband of 54 years, Vince Wall. She is survived by her children, Jim, Fred, Kathleen and Patti. She was motherin-law to Michelle (Schelkle) Wall and Matt Holmes and much-loved grandma to James Wall, Maggie Wall, Jonathan Wall, Anissa Holmes and Abby Holmes. She is survived by her siblings Kathy Baumann, Amy Tarrant, Marilyn Larkin, Karen Fayette, Linda Fayette, Peter Fayette, and Jay Fayette. She was sister-inlaw to Walter Baumann, Susan Walter, Sandra Fayette and Susan Fayette.

Dr. Harvey Green

APRIL 9, 1943SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 MIDDLEBURY, VT.

Dr. Harvey Green, a beloved, 50-year resident of Middlebury, Vt., passed away on September 10, 2024, at the age of 81, at the Porter Medical Center in Middlebury.

Born in Atlantic City, N.J., the son of Martin and Lillian Green, he graduated from Atlantic City High School in 1961, Dickinson College (with a bachelor of science in biology) in 1965 and Temple Dental School in 1969. He served in the military at Fort Lewis, Wash., during the Vietnam War.

In 1971, Harvey relocated to Middlebury, where he opened a dental practice. He treated patients from around Vermont for 46 years. He was known for a caring and dedicated approach to dental care and a love of humming while working.

Harvey had many interests outside of dentistry. He enjoyed hiking in the woods with his family; traveling with

Teresa was predeceased by her siblings Fred Fayette, David Fayette and Dianne Fayette, and her siblingsin-laws John Larkin, Monica Boyle, Margaret Anne Wall, Leonard Wall (Archbishop of Winnipeg) and Claire Marie Greason.

On both the Fayette and Wall sides of her family, Teresa (“Terry”) leaves behind countless nieces and nephews, great-nieces and -nephews, and great-greatnieces and -nephews.

Born in Burlington, Vt., on January 13, 1940, to Frederick Fayette Sr. and Ellen Fayette (née Hardacre), Teresa was the oldest of 11 kids. At a young age, she discovered her love of books, music and nature. After

friends to France, Italy and Scotland; and music. From 1995 to 2015, he and his wife, Carol, organized the After Dark Music Series in Middlebury. For their work to support the community through music, Middlebury College awarded them the Citizen’s Award in 2019. Harvey volunteered with the Middlebury Festival on the Green for 25 years.

Harvey also loved books, maps and movies of all kinds. He was, at times, the person laughing louder than anyone else in the theater.

Harvey is survived by his wife, Carol Green; his children, Stephanie and Christopher; and four grandchildren. He was predeceased by his parents; his brother, Larry; and his daughter, Allison. Memorial contributions may be made to the Middlebury Festival on the Green, PO Box 451, Middlebury, VT 05753 (festivalonthegreen.org).

Services will be announced at a later date.

Arrangements are under the direction of Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home.

Online condolences may be left at sandersonfuneralservice.com.

graduating from Trinity College in Burlington, Vt., Teresa trained with the Peace Corps and was assigned to Pakistan, where she spent time learning from and serving the community where she lived. Shortly after her return to Vermont from Pakistan and other adventures, Teresa came to Canada to study at the University of Toronto. Through work at Central Neighbourhood House in Toronto, she met Vince. They married in 1967 and lived in Orton and Eden Mills and finally settled in Guelph, Ontario.

Teresa loved reading, learning, running, walking, hiking, yoga, tai chi, politics, animals, the Toronto Raptors, symphonies,

IN MEMORIAM

classical music, languages, puzzles and playing the piano. She volunteered for organizations that included Women in Crisis, the Rural Women’s Shelter Program, Hospice Wellington, the Billy Taylor Memorial Race, the Eden Mills Mill Pond Association and others. She was also a member of the Therapeutic Touch Network for many years.

Teresa worked many jobs but loved her work as a library technician, a career she chose late in her working life.

Teresa was always proud to tell people she was from Vermont but eventually called Canada home and officially became a Canadian citizen in 2004.

Teresa continued to

pursue her passions into her final months. What we will remember most is the example she set as a caring, kind, engaged, generous and compassionate human.

Teresa spent her last weeks of life in the care of the incredible staff and volunteers at Hospice Wellington.

In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to Hospice Wellington, 795 Scottsdale Dr., ON N1G 3R8. Donations and condolences can be made at gilbertmacintyreandsondublin.com

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet Teresa; and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” (Adapted from William Shakespeare).

Sylvia Heininger Holden

1929-2024

“She is such a windmill / If she would only stand still” (song lyrics by Loryn B. Deane, Mario Albanese and Ciro Pereira). Well, that was our beautiful Sylvia Heininger Holden, stilled only by her death on June 5.

We miss her so. Come to her memorial service on Saturday, September 21, 10:30 a.m., at the Unitarian Meeting House at the top of Church Street in Burlington, Vt. All are welcome. Sylvia’s obituary in Seven Days is online here: bit.ly/3W80BSn. Then, “she’ll spread her wings / And be gone again / Leaving you an ache in your heart / And an awful yearn…”

Mark Andrews 1954-2024

Celebrate the life of Mark Andrews on Sunday, October 13, 2024, at Wheeler Field in West Bolton. We will gather at 2 p.m. for stories and remembrances, hugs, and smiles. At 3 p.m., we will walk to the cemetery for a poem and a song. Please carpool, if possible.

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OBITUARIES, VOWS, CELEBRATIONS

OBITUARIES

Margery Lou Salm Hudson

AUGUST 13, 1929JULY 29, 2024

MONTPELIER, VT.

Margery Lou Salm Hudson passed away peacefully in her sleep on July 29, 2024, at Barre Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation in Barre, Vt. She was born on August 13, 1929, to Raymond Welch and Wilhelmena Dreyer Salm in Westﬁeld, N.J. She grew up there on the historically designated “Boulevard” with her parents; beloved older brother, Raymond Jr.; and special neighbor Reiki. She attended Westﬁeld High School and graduated a proud “Blue Devil.”

Margery enrolled at the University of Vermont, where

Atticus Jacob Finch

JUNE 12, 2005SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

BURLINGTON, VT.

Atticus Jacob Finch, 19, of Burlington, Vt., passed away on September 11, 2024.

Born in Burlington on June 12, 2005, to Shari and the late Ron Finch, Atticus was known for his radiant happiness and an infectious sense of humor

she met her future husband, true love and best friend, John “Jack” Henry Hudson. Presumably, it was because of her proximity by way of the Grasse Mount women’s dorm and her Kappa Alpha eta sorority to Jack’s Delta Psi fraternity that they met and took to each other. eir respective tennis courts were next to each other.

When Jack graduated in 1949, he returned to his hometown of Montpelier, Vt., to begin work at Brown Insurance Agency with his father, Henry. Plans were made after Margery graduated in 1951 to marry in Westﬁeld. She bravely relocated to Montpelier to make a home and start a family. John “Jud” Henry Jr. soon entered the world, followed by Peter Raymond. Up on the hill,

Marge (and Jack) civilized her eventual “sanctuary,” encouraging her boys to explore, be active and make friends. Her family interacted frequently with Jack’s mom and dad, Marguerite and Henry; brother and sister-in-law, Ashley and Joss; and nephews Skip, Bruce and Dana. Jack’s boyhood friends Jim and Connie (Jones) Seivwright became her best friends for life.

During summer, the family would venture to New Jersey when Jack attended U.S. Army Reserve summer camp at Fort Dix. Margery and the boys spent wonderful times with her parents in Westﬁeld and with her brother, Ray Jr., and sister-in-law Millicent in Shrewsbury, along with her nephews and nieces Ray III, Lynn, Jeffery, Leslie, John and Allison. Having associated herself with the Dreyer Farm in Freehold, N.J., where Wilhelmena grew up, Margery was an avid farmstand patron in the “West Fields of Elizabeth.” She enjoyed sharing this experience with Jud and Peter and instilled the importance of Jersey tomatoes and sweet corn, in particular. It was also in Margery’s, Gram’s and Gramp’s interest to introduce Jud and Peter to Point Pleasant and Island Beach, on the Jersey Shore, during those fabulous summers. She accompanied

her father, brother, Jud, Peter and the older Salm cousins to the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair. at same summer, she and Jack took the boys to their ﬁrst professional baseball game to watch the Yankees at their original stadium, with Whitey Ford starting as pitcher and Mickey Mantle in the ﬁeld.

Being a stay-at-home mom, Margery shared in the supervision of neighborhood children with Joyce Nash and Norma Cecchini. Her surrogate parents were Iris and Dave Hoare, who lived next door. Later, Judy and Larry Austin and family, as well as Doris Pryce, always checked in on her well-being after Jack’s passing.

Margery was active in her Montpelier community. She and her family were members of the Bethany Congregational Church, where she helped organize functions such as the Christmas Bazaar and rummage and bake sales. She was a den mother with Jud’s Cub Scout pack and a member of the American Association of University Women, where she organized receptions for the Montpelier High School National Honor Society, Silver M and other academic organizations. She and Jack were cofounders and participants of the MHS

Boosters Club. Additionally, she volunteered at the Central Vermont Hospital’s Auxiliary, operating the gift and card shop, the latter being her pride and joy. She and Jack took in nephews Bruce and Dana when Ashley and Joss vacationed in Florida and the tropics.

After Jud and Peter left for college and beyond, Margery and Jack found their paradise in Sanibel Island, Fla., and the West Wind Inn, meeting and making new close friends. is annual sojourn was made in the loadeddown station wagon. ey would visit friends while on the road, primarily Kay and Morris Jones in Lexington and Charlottesville, Va., while Jud attended the University of Virginia and Peter was in Raleigh, N.C. is adventure continued until Jack’s passing in March 1993.

Peter’s wife and partner, Cathi Cody-Hudson, became the daughter Margery never had. ey got along famously and conﬁded in each other, always. Cathi and Peter gave her two wonderful grandsons, Christopher and Colin, whom she adored. Margery (“Gram”) would resume her previous role as loving caregiver to the boys as needed, along with PopPop. Chris and Colzy greatly enjoyed her company.

Margery stayed in her Montpelier home as long as she was able before she relocated to Barre Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation and remained under its wonderful care. Her nurses, staff and attendants were superb and always greatly appreciated. She was predeceased by her husband, John “Jack” Sr.; her parents, Ray Sr. and Wilhelmena; her brother and sister-in-law, Ray Jr. and Millicent; her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Ashley and Joss Hudson; several uncles on the Dreyer and Salm sides; and nephews Skip and Dana Hudson.

Margery is survived by her sons, Jud and Peter; daughter-in-law, Cathi; grandsons, Chris (Allison) and Colin; nephews Bruce Hudson (Ayla), Ray Salm III, Jeffrey Salm (Cathy) and John Salm (Kim); nieces, Lynn Smith (Dion), Leslie Williams (Hinton) and Allison Wollman (Henry); and cousin John Salm.

Margery will be greatly missed, yet she has been reunited with Jack. No funeral or services will be held, but an intimate, private graveside celebration may be held in the future. In lieu of ﬂowers, please donate to the organization or cause of your choice.

that uplifted everyone around him.

A lover of the outdoors, Atticus loved swimming in Lake Champlain and hiking and climbing trees with his daddy. He was passionate about music and enjoyed countless hours watching videos on YouTube. He also had a special affection for his cat, Oliver.

Atticus is survived by his loving mother, Shari; stepfather, Jody Mesick; siblings, Garrett, Brittany,

Kaitlin, Summer and Talulla; his grandparents Lynn and James Martell; and many aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews. He also leaves his favorite teacher and best friend, Jordan Casserino. He was preceded in death by his father, Ron Finch.

Atticus’ legacy of laughter and the joy he brought to his family and friends will forever be remembered and cherished.

A celebration of life is planned for a later date.

IN MEMORIAM

Barry Stone

1935-2024

e memorial service for Barry Stone, who passed away on May 24, 2024, will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2024. at 2 p.m. at the Dudley H. Davis Center at the University of Vermont.

OBITUARIES

David LaPorte

MAY 23, 1958-SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

MILTON, VT.

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of David LaPorte at his home on September 11, 2024. David was born on May 23, 1958, in Troy, N.Y., to his loving parents, Robert J. and Naomi W. (Willard) LaPorte, who predeceased him. He grew up in Bennington, Vt., then moved to Milton, Vt., where he resided for more than 40 years.

David was a devoted husband to his loving wife, Ann Marie (Mattera) LaPorte. Family and close friends were paramount in David’s life. His most cherished times were at the LaPorte Family Camp in Little Averill Pond (Paradise), where lasting memories were made throughout his life. He was an adoring, loving grandfather to his granddaughter, Emerson Cairns, with whom he spent numerous hours playing Yahtzee. His favorite was telling people she’d always win.

School in 1976 and Vermont Technical College in 1978. After receiving an associate’s degree, he worked as an electrical engineer for IBM his entire career, where he was well known for his high level of comradery, generosity and hard work.

David is survived by his wife, Ann Marie (Mattera) LaPorte; daughters, Vera Mori (Gabby) LaPorte of Orleans, Vt., and Hillary Willard (Jeremy) Cairns of Phoenixville, Pa.; stepdaughters, Andrea C. (William Johnson) Kszystyniak of Chicago, Ill., and Jessica C. Kszystyniak of Plymouth, Mass.; siblings, Sharon (Richard) Corcoran of Colchester, Vt., Beverly Pierce (predeceased Brian) of Rutland, Vt., and Robert (Paula) LaPorte of Shaftsbury, Vt.; granddaughter, Emerson Lucille Cairns; and many nieces and nephews.

David’s greatest passions in life from childhood were his garden and hens. He was also known for his passion for puzzles, Legos, science ﬁction and Star Trek. He enjoyed music and traveling. To know David, he was full of intuition and insight and very much a handson type of guy. He and his family were a great team who loved opening their home for gatherings and delicious food, with a few rounds of pinball. What stood out most in David was his humble, kind and loving nature.

David graduated from Bennington High

David was a former devoted, loving partner to predeceased Susan Manchester for 22 years; stepfather to her children, Ruth (Paul) Schumacher of Long Island, N.Y., Tom (Destiny) Cadieux of St. Albans, Vt., and Christine (Sean) Cassidy of Higganum, Conn. He was also grandfather to Gavin Schumacher; Kennadee, AJ and Dalani Cadieux; and Grace, Anna and Kellen Cassidy. His former wife Sally Nolan is mother to Vera and Hillary and grandmother to Emerson Cairns.

Visiting hours will be held on Sunday, September 22, 2024, 1 to 3 p.m., at the Minor Funeral and Cremation Center in Milton, with a memorial service to begin at 3 p.m.

Virginia Irvine

DECEMBER 3, 1949-SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 MILTON, VT.

Virginia (“Ginnie”) Irvine unexpectedly passed away on September 11, 2024, at Saint Albans Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center while attempting to recuperate from several recent surgeries. She was 74 years old, born in Maine on December 3, 1949, the second of three daughters of Martha Allen Irvine and William Irvine.

Ginnie graduated from Montpelier High School in 1968 and from the University of Vermont in 1972 with a degree in education, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. After college, she joined VISTA, serving in Harrison, Ark., and thereafter she came back to Vermont and commenced her teaching career at Westford Elementary School. She then returned to school, obtained a master’s degree in special education from Johnson State College, and then resumed her profession by embarking on a lengthy career as a special educator for the Colchester School District. Most recently, she assisted students in the Burlington School District as a paraeducator.

summer she joined Outward Bound, where she learned the value of teamwork and trust. Her hobbies included card making and cooking, including her remarkable shortbread, while her famous mac and cheese earned a ﬁrst-place ribbon at the Champlain Valley Fair. Every Easter, Ginnie sponsored an over-the-top brunch complete with the appearance of the Easter bunny, an egg hunt and, of course, her famous “Dog Team” sticky buns. We fondly recall Gin’s inquisitive nature, her opinions, obstinance, love of the music of Bob Dylan, and generosity.

Ginnie is survived by her sister Margaret and brother-in-law Lewie Sussman, niece Jessica Langer and husband Joshua Langer, greatnephew Noah Langer, great-niece Anna Langer, great-niece Avery Ducharme and Avery’s mother, Laura Ducharme. Ginnie was predeceased by her mom and dad, her sister Elizabeth Irvine and nephew Chuck Sussman. A celebration of Gin’s life shall occur later this year, with the date and location to be announced.

Ginnie loved people and the great outdoors. She particularly adored the Rocky Mountains, spending several summers working at Yellowstone National Park. She was constantly amused by the sound of clicking cameras when Old Faithful erupted. Another

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Bilked and Bereft

Surging cyber scams leave older Vermonters destitute, frustrated and saddled with tax debt

BY DEREK BROUWER • derek@sevendaysvt.com

The scam that cost Jeanette Voss her life savings began with alarm bells.

In 2021, the 67-year-old Bennington woman opened her laptop to watch Netflix. A siren-like screech blared from the speakers, and a message appeared: Her computer had been hacked, and Voss needed to contact Microsoft for help.

Voss called the phone number that appeared on her screen. The man who answered was able to silence the shrieking. Then he explained to Voss that hackers had already obtained her Social Security number. To protect her financial accounts, Voss would need to transfer her funds into what he called a secure digital wallet until the U.S. government could issue her a new Social Security number. He and another man could walk Voss through the process, but they had to work discreetly; the hacker’s identity was unknown.

“Trust no one,” Voss recalled the man saying, “for your safety.”

For the next six months, Voss talked to the two men almost every day, using a prepaid cellphone that they told her to buy because hers had been compromised. She dubbed the burner device her “batphone.” During each call, Voss would scribble their detailed instructions across three spiral notebooks.

And, as instructed, she would painstakingly move her savings — retirement funds, stocks, certificates of deposit — into the bank accounts and cryptocurrency wallets they had provided.

Then the men vanished. So did her money, all $950,000 of it.

Cyber scams have flourished since the pandemic as transnational crime rings leverage cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence to advance their increasingly sophisticated, ever-shifting schemes. Older adults such as Voss are prime targets, experts say, because they may have nest eggs to plunder, are perceived as less tech savvy and are more likely to be isolated. Americans who are 60 and older lost nearly $3.5 billion to scams last year, according to reports filed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s

cybercrime center, up from less than $1 billion in 2020.

More than 150 older Vermonters told the FBI that they’d been scammed last year for a collective $4.8 million. The true tally is almost certainly much higher. Cyber scams often go unreported by victims who feel shame or humiliation. As Vermont continues to grow older, more residents will enter the target zone.

The crimes can devastate victims, and not just financially. Many confront hopelessness and feel that they’ve been stripped of their dignity. Some spiral into pits of depression. Perpetrators, often overseas, rarely face justice.

Little help is available in Vermont to seniors such as Voss. They are largely on their own to manage a financial catastrophe while navigating bureaucratic mazes.

During and following her scam, Voss became malnourished and addicted to painkillers that she had been prescribed for her multiple sclerosis. More than three years later, she still hasn’t told her son or other family members about what

Jeanette Voss

happened, even though she missed a relative’s funeral because she could no longer a ord the trip. She has learned to survive solely on her $2,065 monthly Social Security checks, unplugging her electronic appliances when not using them to save a few dollars each month.

Victims who drain their retirement funds as part of a scam are still typically liable for federal and state taxes on those withdrawals. So a massive tax bill further complicated her situation.

Voss, now 70, described living with “unrelenting stress” for more than three years. “From that moment of the screaming coming out of my computer,” she said, “until, well … It’s just ongoing.”

‘THIS MUST BE REAL’

The man who answered Voss’ call introduced himself as a Microsoft employee named Thomas Anderson. His South Asian accent seemed not to match the European-sounding name, but Voss was willing to hear him out. She had spent much of her career working in marketing and human resources for Intuit, maker of TurboTax tax

Voss was becoming ensnared in a particularly insidious version of one of the most common cyber ruses: the techsupport scam.

preparation software, so she understood that American tech companies outsource customer support to places such as India.

“Anderson” claimed that a gambling website had received a whopping $231,500 bet from Voss’ bank account. When she denied placing the wager, Anderson told her that he wanted to run a diagnostic scan of her laptop to assess the breach. He instructed Voss to download free software that would enable him to access her computer remotely.

Voss watched along as lines of code raced across her screen. The name of the

investment advisory ﬁrm that managed her retirement accounts appeared.

Oh, this must be real, she thought.

Voss was becoming ensnared in a particularly insidious version of one of the most common cyber ruses: the techsupport scam. By impersonating trusted companies, scammers convince victims that their computer or phone has been compromised, then o er to help. Sometimes they steal a few hundred dollars for ﬁctitious antivirus software and move on. But if they can hook a victim who has a pot of savings, scammers will methodically extract everything they can get.

The schemes tend to target seniors, who account for more than half of the $924 million stolen through techsupport scams last year, according to the FBI. The Vermont Attorney General’s O ce receives more reports about tech-support scams than any other type of cyber fraud, Attorney General Charity Clark said.

The screeching sound and pop-up message that scared Voss had likely been lying in wait on her laptop for some time, according to Doug Shadel, a nationally recognized fraud expert who previously worked for AARP. Bits of code that trigger the pop-ups typically make their way onto victims’ computers through web surﬁng. Clicking on something as innocuous as an ad on Facebook can quietly trigger the download of malware that serves as scam bait.

“A week or a month later, this pop-up occurs with a phone number to call and sirens going o ,” Shadel said. “You call the number because you’re panicked.”

From there, impersonators mix together the three ingredients that Shadel said make any scam work. They endeavor to build trust, put the victim into a heightened emotional state and create a sense of urgency to act.

Voss would not strike most as an easy mark. She is smart, comfortable using computers and a little quirky, with tortoiseshell glasses that sit askew on her round nose. She raised her son on her own in Southern California before saving enough to retire at age 59 and move to Vermont.

Research that Shadel helped conduct for AARP suggests personality traits aren’t necessarily what make someone

SCAM ALERT!

Cyber thieves are getting more creative, but you can learn to recognize suspect pitches.

SOME RED FLAGS

• Somebody asks you not to tell anyone else about their communication.

• Being asked for your Social Security number, Medicare number or bank information.

• Does the situation sound incredible? Listen to your own doubt.

• Beware requests to wire money or pay with cash, cryptocurrency or gift cards. ( e safest way to make payments: credit cards.)

• Somebody requests remote access to your computer.

TYPICAL SCRIPTS

Tech support — An urgent message warns a computer is compromised.

Imposter — A scammer claims to represent a government agency or business.

Romance — A scammer gains trust via a romantic relationship online.

Grandparent — A caller claims a grandchild is in serious trouble.

WHAT DO EXPERTS ADVISE?

• You don’t have to answer an unexpected phone call or message. Scammers can “spoof” real phone numbers to make themselves appear legitimate.

• Feeling unsure? Hang up.

• Received a scary pop-up? Turn off your computer.

FOR MORE ADVICE

AARP Fraud Watch Network Helpline has volunteers trained to help spot fraud: 877-908-3360 or aarp.org/ fraudwatchnetwork

Vermont Attorney General’s Ofﬁce Consumer Assistance Program: 800-649-2424

WERE YOU SCAMMED? REPORT IT ASAP TO:

Vermont Attorney General’s Consumer Assistance Program: 800-649-2424

AARP Fraud Watch Network Helpline: 877-908-3360

U.S. Department of Justice National Elder Fraud Hotline: 833–FRAUD–11

FBI cyber crime center: ic3.gov

Local police

FIND SUPPORT

AARP hosts online support groups for victims of cyber fraud: aarp.org/fraudsupport

Vermont Legal Aid can help with tax issues: 800-889-2047, vtlawhelp.org/taxes

THIS OLD STATE

• Talk about scam safety with friends or family. Identify a trusted contact to consult before sending money or giving someone access to your computer. You can also add a trusted contact to your ﬁnancial accounts.

Tip sheet adapted from AARP, Vermont Attorney General’s Ofﬁce and Vermont Department of Financial Regulation

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susceptible to a scam. AARP surveys found that victims were more likely to have experienced recent stressful events.

“Maybe it’s less about who you are,” Shadel said, “and more about how you are at the moment of the encounter.”

The months before that pop-up appeared on Voss’ screen on Memorial Day 2021 were a particularly difficult period in her life. The previous November, her son was attacked in San Diego and blinded in one eye. A few months later, her brother drove off the road in the same city, hitting and killing three homeless people who were sheltering on the sidewalk. He faced criminal charges.

Voss had been processing those shocks from her quiet home in Bennington, where she has lived alone since 2018. She had resided in Bennington once before, during her twenties, and upon retirement decided to return to the place where she remembered feeling happiest in her life. She bought a single-story home at the end of a dead-end street. Voss, who has an offbeat sense of humor, installed a tombstone at the bottom of the driveway with the epitaph, “The end of the road.”

After Anderson gained access to Voss’ laptop, he told her he was going to connect her with a member of the fraud team at the financial advisory firm whose name had flashed across her screen. That second man, he explained, would help Voss move her assets into a secure cryptocurrency account until her identity was protected.

During the first phone call, Voss filled a page in her notebook with passwords she would need to change, IP addresses and other guidance from Anderson. At the bottom corner of the page, she jotted a “secure” phone number for this second contact and drew a box around it for emphasis. Below that, she noted his alias: “Alan Maxwell.”

‘YOU’RE THE VICTIM’

Over the weeks and months that followed, “Maxwell” coached Voss on the logistics of liquidating her financial portfolio. She moved her funds first into checking accounts, then wired the money to various cryptocurrency wallets.

Between June and September, Voss completed at least 15 wire transfers, according to a spreadsheet she kept. Each time, she visited her local bank. Tellers were sometimes skeptical and asked probing questions about the transactions. But Maxwell had prepared Voss with false stories about her reasons for

Attorney General Charity Clark at AARP Vermont’s Scam Jam at Bugbee Senior Center in White River Junction

Guests at AARP Vermont’s Scam Jam

transferring so much money. He also told Voss to bring her batphone to the bank so he could listen to the conversations.

After her bank, Bank of Bennington, refused to authorize any more wire transfers, Maxwell directed Voss to open an account at People’s United Bank as a workaround. When People’s refused to process the transfers, she moved her money to Citizens Bank in August and sent several more.

Voss told no one about the ordeal, even as it consumed her daily life. The scammers specifically told her not to contact her professional financial adviser — who, Voss later learned, had noticed the withdrawals she was making but did not ask her about them at the time.

Voss was living in a state of constant fear. She was racing against time, worried the supposed hacker would access her accounts before she was able to move all her money. She stewed over who had stolen her identity: Was it someone she knew and trusted, as

losses reported to the FBI by older adults last year involved cryptocurrency — a sevenfold increase since 2021, when Voss was scammed.

Over the past 18 months, the Vermont Attorney General’s Office has received five reports of cyber thefts with losses exceeding $500,000. Four of them involved cryptocurrency; one techsupport scam victim reported losing $3 million.

Vermont lawmakers earlier this year passed a bill to limit how much money can be deposited at ATM-like crypto -

Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Pennsylvania brought indictments against three men involved in Voss’ scam.

Thien Phuc Tran, 33, was accused of laundering the money Voss had deposited into cryptocurrency accounts from his residence in Santa Ana, Calif. His brother-in-law — 30-year-old Ton Huynh Bui — and 34-year-old Tien Nguyen, of Sachse, Texas, were accused of helping Tran carry out the scheme. They weren’t Anderson and Maxwell — those stillunidentified men worked with Tran, Bui

Maybe it’s less about who you are and more about how you are at the moment of the encounter.

DOUG SHADEL

currency kiosks, which have become popular tools for scammers. The law also bans installation of new kiosks for one year.

But the scammers are resourceful. Earlier this year, an 87-year-old Wolcott woman caught in a tech-support scam was told to travel to a Bitcoin kiosk in Littleton, N.H., to deposit her cash into a digital wallet.

and Nguyen out of an illicit call center in India, prosecutors allege.

Anderson and Maxwell seemed to suggest? Voss asked Google to blur the image of her home on the company’s maps service, grasping for any scrap of privacy.

Voss also grappled with creeping doubts about those two men. At one point, she confronted them about their implausible names. They always had an answer.

Voss called Maxwell on her batphone one night around 9 p.m. to confide how anxious she felt. He reassured her that “it will be over soon,” according to her notes from the call. She apologized for bothering him so late.

“Talked me off ledge,” she scribbled after another call with Maxwell.

Voss didn’t know much about cryptocurrency, just that it was supposedly the next big thing. To scammers, mainstream acceptance of digital money has been a major boon. Transactions are irreversible and difficult to trace, even on established exchanges. Nearly half of all cyber-scam

She wasn’t able to use the machine, so the scammers hatched another plan, said Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department Det. Sgt. Kevin Lehoe, who helped investigate the case. Back home, the woman placed $20,000 cash inside a cardboard box and taped it shut. A Massachusetts woman named Rachel Chen drove to her rural home to retrieve the money, prosecutors in New Hampshire allege in an ongoing case. Chen has since been accused of working as a courier, or mule, for a cyber-scam ring, Assistant Attorney General Bryan J. Townsend II said.

Voss moved nearly all of her money into cryptocurrency wallets — except for $10,000, which Maxwell said she could keep in cash. She waited for a new Social Security card to arrive by mail, as Maxwell and Anderson promised.

The card never came. The men stopped responding.

“FUCKED!” Voss wrote in her notebook.

She called her financial adviser and the Social Security Administration. She went to the Bennington Police Department and filed a report with Officer Amanda Knox.

Later, an FBI agent came to Voss’ house, took another statement and reviewed her documents.

Then something unusual happened.

The prospect of recovering any of Voss’ money remained slim. But the criminal investigation brought some clarity while she was feeling profoundly disoriented. As she walked out of the Bennington Police Department the day she filed her initial police report, Voss asked the officer a question: “Officer Knox, am I going to be arrested?”

“Jeanette,” she said Knox replied, “you’re the victim.”

TURBO TAXED

The scammers had left Voss with just $10,000. But by cashing out her investments and retirement accounts, she also had incurred an enormous tax bill. In the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, her taxable income in 2021 was $635,300, which put her in the top 1 percent of Vermont earners. That meant Voss owed $134,000 to the federal government and $41,000 to the state.

Voss couldn’t afford to hire a tax specialist to fight back, but the AARP fraud hotline pointed her to the sole tax attorney at Vermont Legal Aid, Zachary Lees.

Lees explained to Voss that she could try to cut deals with state and federal authorities to lower her bill. But the process would be long and laborious, with no guarantees. Lees planned to show that Voss had no ability to pay such huge amounts while also arguing that reducing the bills was the fair thing to do.

To make the case, Voss needed to assemble a mountain of records to prove

Jeanette Voss consulting her fraud documentation

the fraud was real and that it had left her broke. The process is burdensome for anyone, Lees said, and beyond what some older taxpayers can handle.

“It is so friggin’ onerous for them to have to fill out these forms, to go to the bank and pull bank account statements,” he said.

Voss was overwhelmed. At the same time, she was cooperating with an FBI investigation, signing up for heating assistance and food stamps to afford groceries, and trying to manage her runaway emotions. Each month, a new letter from the Vermont Department of Taxes arrived to remind her of the penalties and interest accruing on her bill.

“I was freaking out on so many levels,” Voss said.

At Lees’ suggestion, she separated stacks of paperwork into different rooms of her house to help herself focus on one problem at a time.

Scam victims did not always face this additional financial burden. For decades, the federal tax code included a deduction for theft losses.

In 2017, congressional Republicans went searching for revenue to offset other tax cuts. They pared down the deduction as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 championed by former president Donald Trump. That provision, like many in the bill, will expire at the end of next year. In the meantime, elderly scam victims have been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the IRS after being robbed of their life savings, according to a Washington Post investigation and an April report by Democrats on the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

Martha “Mickey” Pullen, a 79-yearold Strafford woman, owes more than $63,000 in state and federal taxes after falling victim to a cyber scam in 2020. She drained her $200,000 retirement account during the monthslong con. Pullen told Seven Days that the subsequent tax bills make her “furious.”

“I feel totally betrayed by the government,” Pullen said.

U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) cosponsored legislation in March that would reinstate the deduction and provide retroactive tax relief for victims, but Congress has taken no action on it. He introduced the bill after hearing complaints from scam victims in Vermont.

“It’s outrageous,” Welch said in a statement at the time.

After months of preparation, Voss and Lees submitted her tax requests in July 2023. By early this year, Vermont agreed

to reduce Voss’ tax bill to just $25. Voss agreed separately to pay $1,000 to the IRS.

But she had another issue to resolve: her property taxes. Voss’ high taxable income in 2021 instantly made her ineligible for the state credits that help low-income seniors afford their property taxes. Voss asked the Bennington Board of Abatement to reduce her bill from $6,400 to the $1,350 she would have owed with the credit in place.

Voss appeared before the board at its annual meeting last December. Board members listened, then deliberated in closed session. The next day, Voss received their written decision. Board members expressed sympathy for her situation, but they claimed their hands were tied by state law. The board denied Voss’ request for relief.

She paid the bill.

‘IT JUST SHOULDN’T BE THIS HARD’

In Strafford, Pullen, a retired nurse, has had a harder time coping.

Like Voss, Pullen fell victim to a pernicious scam that began with a pop-up on her MacBook Air urging her to call “Apple Tech Support.” For weeks, she talked daily with several men — one, “John Watson,” claimed to work for the Social Security Administration — as they directed her to empty her retirement account.

The scam unfolded between November and December 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Pullen was more isolated than at any point in her life. She lived alone with almost no visitors, stepping out only for occasional, masked trips for groceries. She read a book a day.

Losing her entire retirement savings plunged Pullen into despair. She had hoped to pass the money as inheritance to her daughter, Emma Bullock, who is raising two children in Montréal. Convinced she had stolen her daughter’s future, Pullen felt stupid, helpless and bitter. She began talking about suicide.

When a volunteer helped Pullen prepare her tax return the following spring, Pullen was shocked by the $63,000 bill and decided not to file at all.

“I just naïvely thought, Well, it’ll go away,” Pullen said. “They don’t go after Trump — why should they go after me?”

After a couple of years, the tax agencies came knocking. In April, the State of Vermont secured a lien on the twobedroom home where Pullen has lived since 2015, her only major asset.

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feel totally betrayed by the government.

Negative thoughts consumed her. Pullen was admitted within the past year to the psychiatric care ward at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where she had worked for 25 years as a nurse in a surgical special-care unit. Her physical health declined as well; she is losing her hearing and sight in one eye. Her daughter said it has been difficult to watch Pullen flounder.

“I feel like I’ve not only lost all that money,” Bullock said, “but I’ve also lost my mother.”

Sheila Keating, a part-time community nurse hired last year by the Town of Strafford, has been helping Pullen

the best she can. Along with a neighbor, Keating organized a sale of Pullen’s quilting supplies to supplement her roughly $1,600 monthly Social Security checks. Keating has offered emotional support and companionship.

She and the daughter are also trying to help Pullen gather documents so she can seek the same sort of tax relief that Voss obtained in Bennington. They have been working for months with Lees, of Legal Aid, but still aren’t ready to file her petitions with the tax authorities.

“It’s an absolute disaster,” Keating said. “It just shouldn’t be this hard.” State officials work to prevent scams through education and awareness. The Attorney General Office’s Consumer Assistance Program takes scam reports and occasionally helps recover money for victims who immediately report the theft. The office also issues alerts about the latest scams, and Attorney General Clark speaks at public seminars.

Victims can call an AARP fraud hotline for advice. But the state does not provide anything close to specialized case management for victims of

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Martha “Mickey” Pullen

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catastrophic losses — which is exactly what Pullen needs, Keating said.

What’s available today “is not good enough,” she said. “It just isn’t — not for the elderly population.”

Vermont has a nonprofit Financial Abuse Specialist Team, but the organization has no money beyond small grants that fund an annual conference, founder Victoria Lloyd said. Lloyd, a former Vermont Adult Protective Services investigator, said the state needs an office dedicated to supporting victims of fraud, abuse and financial exploitation.

“We’re not providing a safety net for them,” she said.

Last week, Attorney General Clark addressed 30 or so seniors at an AARP Vermont fraud seminar in White River Junction. Most attendees said they had been targeted by cyber scams, and more than a few raised their hands when asked if they had lost money to one.

After the event, Clark said victims would benefit from more intensive support. When she and her staff hear of severe scam situations, they sometimes think, These people need a caseworker, Clark said.

It’s not a service she said her office can afford to provide. The money would need to come from the state legislature or the federal government, Clark said.

On a recent August afternoon, Keating sat with Pullen at her dining table.

Dozens of family photos were displayed on a side table behind them. Pullen looked sharp in a crisp button-down shirt and freshly washed hair; Keating had persuaded her fellow nurse to spruce herself up for a reporter’s visit.

“I rely on Sheila to keep me on the straight and narrow,” Pullen explained. “I was going to commit suicide. I still may, but it won’t be until it’s all settled.”

Keating interjected: “But I keep reminding her how much she means to me. So, she can’t do that.”

‘AN ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE’

In Bennington, Voss found support in peer therapy groups that she had been attending before the 2021 scam. After she told a couple of friends from the groups what had happened, one offered to mow her lawn because Voss could no longer afford to hire someone to do it. The other friend donated a tractor to make the mowing easier.

She has learned to get by on her Social Security income and gained back the 25 pounds she lost during the peak of her distress. She weaned herself off her multiple sclerosis medication, to which she had become addicted. Her files about the scam stay tucked away in

a closet where she doesn’t have to look at them. She plans eventually to destroy the papers in a bonfire.

“I’m healthy now, and I’m exercising,” Voss said. “I can say honestly that I am content with my life the way it is at the moment. It could get better, but I am content.”

The FBI investigation uncovered some details about the perpetrators who scammed her. Tran and Bui, the brothers-in-law from California, and Nguyen, of Texas, worked with others,

wallets using information stolen from victims and to quickly launder the money that victims transferred into them. Tran and others used the funds to buy prepaid debit cards, pay credit card bills and make mortgage payments. Some of the money was sent to Vietnam and India, prosecutors said.

Tran, Bui and Nguyen admitted last fall to conspiring to launder money.

Voss’ contacts, Maxwell and Anderson, may have been low-level players in the sprawling transnational enterprise.

including an illicit call center in India, to steal at least $4.2 million from more than 20 people. At the same time the man who called himself Maxwell was coaching Voss, he was bilking an 83-year-old Pennsylvania man out of nearly $1.3 million, investigators discovered.

Prosecutors described Tran as a “leader” of a scheme that spanned California, India and Vietnam. Tran recruited Bui, Nguyen and others to set up bank accounts and cryptocurrency

with dementia symptoms to her bank to transfer funds. Nicholas Melanson, 42, had been recruited into the scam through a woman he “met” online. The woman, whom Melanson never saw in person, duped him into believing she shared his romantic interest. The arrangement was a kind of “scam on top of a scam,” said Nikolas Kerest, U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont.

Prosecutors typically try to unravel organized crime rings by prosecuting low-level participants such as Melanson or Chen — the courier in Wolcott — then working up the chain of command. But Melanson didn’t even know who he was working for.

“Their scams are sophisticated, and their efforts to keep themselves insulated are sophisticated as well,” Kerest said.

That’s one reason the convictions of Tran, Bui and Nguyen in the Western District of Pennsylvania were notable. Federal prosecutors mentioned the difficulty of catching higher-level operatives in asking a judge to sentence them to prison time.

“It is important that every participant in the conspiracy receive just punishment to serve as a deterrent to others,” the feds told the court.

Bui and Nguyen were each ordered to serve four months in prison, which they did earlier this year. Federal prosecutors sought a longer term for Tran, who they said laundered most of the stolen funds.

In January, U.S. District Court Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan sentenced Tran to seven years and three months in prison — the maximum term under federal guidelines.

Voss submitted a statement in advance of the hearing. Preparing it was painful, she wrote, but she wanted others to understand how the crime affected her life.

“The situation has been an absolute nightmare for me,” she wrote. “Imagine for yourself what you would do if this crime were to happen to you or a loved one.”

Many who work in illicit call centers in places such as India are young people who struggle to find legitimate employment, a New York Times report found. Some scammers in other countries are coerced into the work by criminal syndicates with threats and false promises, the Times recently reported.

Last month, federal prosecutors in Vermont secured a six-month prison sentence for a New Hampshire man who escorted an elderly Windsor woman

In issuing the sentence, the judge ordered Tran, a legal permanent resident who was out on bond, to surrender himself to a federal prison in Louisiana by March 11.

Tran never showed up.

After Seven Days discovered that Tran was on the lam, Voss contacted her victim assistance specialist with the U.S. Department of Justice for more information. For months, Voss had assumed that Tran was in prison.

“Tran is unfortunately a fugitive,” the advocate replied earlier this month. “We believe he likely left the country on a fraudulent passport.” ➆

Photo of Thien Phuc Tran and his family from his federal court file

Among the many artistic flourishes spied recently in downtown White River Junction, a sentence written in chalk on a brick wall epitomized a full day spent exploring the Upper Valley village. “Spread smiles,” it suggested.

Over the course of 14 hours, the once down-and-out railroad town delivered ample reasons to smile. These included, but were by no means limited to: deals scored during a secondhand shopping spree, the mind-expanding creativity of students at the Center for Cartoon Studies, an enthusiastic performance of “The Loco-Motion” at Main Street Museum’s player piano night and expertly executed drinks sipped at Wolf Tree cocktail bar.

The almost-20-year-old Center for Cartoon Studies is the nation’s only college for cartoonists and one of the more recent feathers in White River Junction’s well-worn cap.

The largest of five villages that make up the town of Hartford, White River Junction was originally established as a trading post, thanks to its location at the confluence of the White and Connecticut rivers. Through the first half of the 20th century, the village became a booming industrial train hub. Then freight trucks drove off with the railroad’s business, hollowing out its downtown.

But the village still boasts a crossroads location near the intersection of Interstates 91 and 89 and within a short drive of several institutions — including Dartmouth College and its associated academic medical center — that draw many people to the area.

Over the past few decades, a critical mass of creative-minded locals has invested time and money in the compact, walkable downtown, burnishing it but retaining, so far, what longtime downtown business owner Kim Souza appreciatively called its “rough edges.”

Everyone wants to see White River Junction thrive, but not at the cost of its simultaneously down-to-earth and slightly eccentric character. “White River has a funky vibe: a mix of artisan, highend and yard sale,” said Mark Babson, who founded its River Roost Brewery in 2016. Here are some suggestions for things to do and places to go in White River Junction that span the full vibe, three to six hours at a time.

9 a.m. to noon

Some of us need coffee — stat — before the day can truly begin. White River Junction offers two very good options for morning caffeine and breakfast or weekend brunch to go with it. From 8 a.m. on Tuesday through Sunday, PUTNAM’S VINE/YARD pulls espresso drinks in a large, plant-filled space made cozy with seating nooks.

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Three to six hours in White River Junction, a charming village with eccentric character

& PHOTOS BY MELISSA PASANEN • pasanen@sevendaysvt.com

3 TO 6 HOURS

This series is a Vermont-size take on the popular New York Times travelogue “36 Hours.” Since most destinations in the Green Mountain State don’t require a day and a half to experience, we offer day trip itineraries of local towns in three- to six-hour chunks. Got a good travel tip? Email us at culture@ sevendaysvt.com.

On weekends, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the kitchen turns out tender scones and biscuits, puffy frittatas, and poached eggs in spiced tomato-pepper sauce while the bar goes through an astounding number of bottles of cava for mimosa flights.

At TUCKERBOX, breakfast is the first of the three meals served Tuesday through Saturday starting at 9 a.m. (See “Noon to 6 p.m.” for a new restaurant from the Tuckerbox owners scheduled to open next week. It will start serving at 7 a.m. for those who need earlier coffee.) The Turkish and Mediterranean restaurant brews tiny cups of inky, strong Turkish coffee along with espresso options. Try the breakfast plate featuring soft white cheese, olives and a molten-yolked boiled egg.

Once caffeinated, hit the shops, starting with the village’s numerous salvage, vintage and thrift stores, including the COLLECTION, OODLES and UPLIFTING THRIFTING The racks at REVOLUTION hold consignment gems alongside colorful local and independent designer creations. NANCY THE GIRL presents a curated selection of vintage sorted by decade with an exceptional array of hats. JUNCTION DANCE BOUTIQUE boasts frothy costumes from past shows staged by a now-shuttered dance school.

“People travel here for the secondhand experience,” said Bridget Cushman, owner of GEAR AGAIN, an outdoor outfitter with a focus on consignment.

Turning to household goods, VERMONT SALVAGE is worth browsing if only to dream of the future fixer-upper in which you could deploy its cast-iron tubs and stained-glass windows. For more current needs, head to the nonprofit COVER STORE to outfit your apartment with affordable resale finds — and to its sister, COVER TO COVER BOOKS, to fill your bookshelf.

Unsurprisingly, the village of makers has REPLAY ARTS, where gently used and surplus art materials are priced by suggested donation.

There are also ample opportunities to admire and buy the work of local craftspeople at the multi-artist LONG RIVER GALLERY and single-artisan workshops such as SCAVENGER GALLERY, where Stacy Hopkins crafts bronze and sterling jewelry that uncannily replicates the sculptural beauty of shells,

Brunch at Putnam’s vine/yard

A display at Nancy the Girl

An old train engine

The Schulz Library at the Center for Cartoon Studies

seeds and bird talons. (Hopkins, who spent years living in Italy, also sells wine and hosts occasional tastings.)

If all that art inspires you, head to POST., where a cornucopia of notebooks, pens and fun stationary supplies can capture every brilliant idea or doodle.

Then pop into LITTLE ISTANBUL, owned by Vural and Jackie Oktay of Tuckerbox. The Turkish market will saturate your senses with bulk spices, woven fabrics and glowing glass pendant lamps. In the same building, FONTINALIS presents wine organized by region — and pours regular Friday tastings for later in your day — along with tinned seafood, local cheeses and crackers for grazing.

Speaking of food, those shopping bags are getting heavy. Isn’t it time to take a load off and eat something?

Noon to 6 p.m.

For lunch, meat lovers can dig into piles of ribs or brisket at BIG FATTY’S BBQ or try the global flavors at PHNOM PENH SANDWICH STATION, where Southeast Asian classics include top-notch Vietnamese-style bánh mì sandwiches and noodle dishes.

You could also head back to Tuckerbox for falafel or doner kebab. And, by the end of September, you should be able to try its brand-new sibling eatery, CAPPADOCIA CAFÉ, the Oktay family’s third White River Junction business. The counterservice bakery and café will serve woodfired flatbreads called lahmajun and canoe-shaped pizzas called pide.

If the weather cooperates, head for a ramble in HURRICANE FOREST WILDLIFE

REFUGE PARK , a 10-minute drive from downtown. It has several short, moderate trails; savvy foragers might spy some edible mushrooms en route.

Alternately, take a downtown stroll, making sure to peer into alleyways and behind buildings, where art pops up in unexpected places. Cross the railroad tracks to see a rare preserved 1921 BOSTON & MAINE CABOOSE CAR . For another view into history, peek into the lobby of the HOTEL COOLIDGE , a comfortably faded

“Before I Die,” a participatory public art project in White River Junction

NEARBY NOTEWORTHY STOPS

There’s plenty to do in White River Junction, but if you’re driving from the Burlington area or elsewhere, you will be very close to a few other destinations of note.

KING ARTHUR BAKING, 135 Route 5, Norwich, 649-3361, kingarthurbaking.com

MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE, 1 Montshire Rd., Norwich, 649-2200, montshire.org

QUECHEE GORGE, Route 4, Quechee, vtstateparks.com/quechee.html

SIMON PEARCE, 1760 Quechee Main St., Quechee, 295-1470, simonpearce.com

VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE, 149 Natures Way, Quechee, 359-5000, vinsweb.org

relic of a bygone era that has hosted guests since 1849.

Continue on a gallery and studio crawl starting with the nonprofit KISHKA GALLERY & LIBRARY, where “Ask a Question, Squeeze Out the Answer,” by Brooklyn artist and sculptor Rachel Jackson hangs through September 28. Other arty stops include JANNA’S GATE STREET GALLERY and TWO RIVERS PRINTMAKING STUDIO. At the latter cooperatively run teaching studio, “Land Unfolding” by Rachel Gross graces the walls through October 25.

If you’re in town on a Friday or Saturday afternoon and are curious about the CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES, you’re in luck. The school’s impressive Schulz Library, named for “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz, is located in the village’s historic post office building and is generally open to the public noon to 5 p.m. on those two days. (Call ahead to check and knock for entry.) From classic “Peanuts” strips to student work expounding on contemporary social subjects, the deep collection provides stimulating material for all tastes — and comfy chairs to read in.

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Next it’s time to relax with a lateafternoon beverage. Check out Scavenger and Fontinalis for pop-up wine tastings, or head over to the brand-new expanded taproom at RIVER ROOST BREWERY for a glass of its Más Verde IPA or seasonal Märzenbier.

6 p.m. to midnight

White River Junction’s robust arts schedule draws many to town for evening entertainment. Shows range from the polished playbill at the well-established NORTHERN STAGE, which starts its season on October 2 with Sisters by Matthew Libby, to the work of smaller theater groups, such as SHAKER BRIDGE THEATRE and WE THE PEOPLE THEATER

The latter both rent the BRIGGS OPERA HOUSE, where Shaker Bridge’s The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse runs from September 26 to October 13. The Briggs also hosts numerous grassroots endeavors, from a recent Upper Valley 24-Hour Play Festival that involved 60 community members to an inclusive benefit fashion show on November 2.

WHITE RIVER HAS A FUNKY VIBE.

Nonprofit JUNCTION ARTS & MEDIA organizes a packed calendar of participatory arts events, including storytelling circles, teen zine nights and scriptwriting groups. On Wednesday evenings, head to the FILLING STATION BAR & GRILL to play in — or listen to — the weekly acoustic jam session. The downtown business and arts community also puts a lot of energy into monthly FIRST FRIDAYS. In warmer weather, these feel like a village-wide block party.

All that activity means that dinner reservations are a good idea. In addition to old favorites — Big Fatty’s, Tuckerbox, and the evening-only, new American menus offered at ELIXIR and THYME — sitdown dinner choices in White River Junction just expanded with the addition of REDCAN

The recently opened restaurant owned by chef Jason Merrill and his wife, Leslie, is named for Jason’s late mother’s preferred beverage: Coca-Cola in a red can — though a cocktail or glass of wine feels more fitting in the richly wallpapered, dark-wood dining room. The new eatery boasts a raw bar and not-so-secret speakeasy room

IF YOU GO

PUTNAM’S VINE/YARD, 188 S. Main St., Ste. 110, 899-0405, putnamsvineyard.com

TUCKERBOX, 1 S. Main St., 359-4041, tuckerboxvermont.com

THE COLLECTION, 25 S. Main St., 291-9959, Facebook

OODLES, 85 N. Main St., 296-6636, oodlesswb.com

UPLIFTING THRIFTING, 102 Railroad Row, 281-8700, upliftingthrifting.org

GEAR AGAIN, 93 S. Main St., vtgearagain.com

REVOLUTION, 26 N. Main St., 295-6487, shoptherev.com

NANCY THE GIRL, 85 N. Main St., Ste. 180, 356-1440, nancythegirl.com

JUNCTION DANCE BOUTIQUE, 22 N. Main St., 598-5870, junctiondanceboutique.com

VERMONT SALVAGE, 2-4 Gates St., 295-7616, vermontsalvage.com

COVER STORE & COVER TO COVER BOOKS, 158 S. Main St., 296-7241, coverhomerepair.org

REPLAY ARTS, 223 Maple St., replayarts.org

LONG RIVER GALLERY, 49 S. Main St., 295-4567, longrivergallery.com

SCAVENGER GALLERY, 41 S. Main St., 603-443-3017, stacy-hopkins-design.com

POST. 58 N. Main St., 356-2898, pamspost.com

LITTLE ISTANBUL, 27 N. Main St., 698-8611, littleistanbulgifts.com

FONTINALIS, 27 N. Main St., Ste. 10, 281-6803, fontinalisvt.com

BIG FATTY’S BBQ, 186 S. Main St., 295-5513, bigfattybbq.com

PHNOM PENH SANDWICH STATION, 7 N. Main St., 281-6617, phnompenhsandwiches.com

CAPPADOCIA CAFÉ, 5 S. Main St., cappadociacafevt.com

HURRICANE FOREST WILDLIFE REFUGE PARK, trailfinder.info

HOTEL COOLIDGE, 39 S. Main St., 295-3118, hotelcoolidge.com

KISHKA GALLERY & LIBRARY 83 Gates St., 347-264-4808, kishka.org

JANNA’S GATE STREET GALLERY 79 Gates St., 299-8643, jannasgate.com

TWO RIVERS PRINTMAKING STUDIO 85 N. Main St., Ste. 160, 295-5901, tworiversprintmaking.org

CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES SCHULZ LIBRARY, 46 S. Main St., 295-3319, cartoonstudies.org/schulz-library

RIVER ROOST BREWERY, 230 S. Main St., 698-8715, riverroostbrewery.com

NORTHERN STAGE, 74 Gates St., 296-7000, northernstage.org

SHAKER BRIDGE THEATRE shakerbridgetheatre.org

WE THE PEOPLE THEATRE wethepeopletheatre.com

BRIGGS OPERA HOUSE, 5 S. Main St., 622-1124, uvjam.org/briggs

JUNCTION ARTS & MEDIA

5 S. Main St., 295-6688, uvjam.org

THE FILLING STATION BAR & GRILL 70 Gates St., 295-9705, Facebook FIRST FRIDAYS Facebook

ELIXIR, 188 S. Main St., 281-7009, elixirrestaurantwrjct.com

THYME, 85 N. Main St., 295-3312, thymevermont.com

REDCAN, 129 S. Main St., 478-4766, redcanvt.com

TAJ-E-INDIA, 13 Lower Hyde Park, 698-8849, taj-e-india.com

MAIN STREET MUSEUM, 58 Bridge St., 356-2776, mainstreetmuseum.org

WOLF TREE, 40 Currier St., 698-8409, wolftreevt.com

“hidden” behind bookshelves. Its global menu ranges from burrata with tomato and pesto to a crab cake with relish mayo to Korean barbecue fried chicken bao buns.

For a light grazing dinner, Putnam’s offers what it calls a “picnic menu” of dips, nuts and nibbles to go with its extensive list of wines and some cocktails, including interesting nonalcoholic options. Owner Kelsey Rush encourages guests to bring in food from other local eateries and challenge her Wine & Spirit Education Trust-trained staff to find a perfect pairing. “You can even bring in last night’s dinner in Tupperware,” she said, only half-joking.

If, for example, you pick up a spread of spicy Indian curries from White River Junction’s takeout-only TAJ-E, they might suggest a Finger Lakes Sheldrake Point pinot gris.

Whatever you get for dinner, save room for Putnam’s puckery passion fruit crème brûlée.

No visit to White River Junction would be complete without a stop at the MAIN STREET MUSEUM, fabled venue of idiosyncratic happenings, such as free surprise Tuesday movies (no, you can’t ask the title ahead) and sing-along player piano nights most Fridays. The museum’s second annual Mrs. Roper Romp takes place on Saturday, September 21, and an all-ages Spooktacular Punktacular show is on October 19.

Often dressed in a white tux jacket with a bow tie and cummerbund, founder David Fairbanks Ford presides over the refurbished fire station jam-packed with 10,000 player piano rolls, taxidermy and crystal chandeliers. “This is a weird town,” the 30-year-resident said with evident relish. “No one quite gets it.”

Wrap up your night at the new REDCAN speakeasy or stop by WOLF TREE. The sophisticated cocktail bar and its young, animated crowd could easily plop down in Brooklyn, though the staff happily lacks big-city attitude.

On Wolf Tree’s large menu of wine, beer and compelling house cocktails, including a low-alcohol section, the Goldilocks stood out. Made with pineapple brandy, lemon, sesame orgeat and orange bitters, it capped off the day perfectly.

The cocktail was creative and slightly unexpected with a nutty touch — just like White River Junction. ➆

MARK BABSON

David Fairbanks Ford and Chico Eastridge performing with the player piano at Main Street Museum

Burrata toast at REDCAN

Let’s Connect.

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Musician Neko Case looks back in an upcoming memoir — and forward to a new album

BY CHRIS FARNSWORTH farnsworth@sevendaysvt.com

As Neko Case sipped her morning co ee, enjoying a late-summer day in Portland, Ore., while working on mixes for a forthcoming record, I managed to blow her mind. The singer-songwriter, sometimesmember of the Canadian indie-rock outﬁt the New Pornographers and current Northeast Kingdom resident has had a particularly intense past few years. She’s not only recorded the follow-up to her 2022 career retrospective, Wild Creatures, but also written her ﬁrst memoir. And she’s working on a secretive Broadway musical. We were discussing that last project by phone when I ba ed her.

“It’s not like it’s some huge secret; that’s just not how Broadway works,” Case, 54, said of the musical. “You don’t talk about it until it’s ready. And I deﬁnitely don’t want to be the dick talking to the media and saying something like [speaking in a comically deep voice], ‘Yeah, we’re making a tribute to Don Knotts,’” she continued, referring to the late comedic actor, who was famous, among other roles, for playing Ralph Furley on the classic sitcom “Three’s Company.” She added: “Which I would totally go to, by the way.”

“Speaking of Don Knotts, do you know about the Mrs. Roper Romp?” I asked Case, referring to the annual pub crawl in White River Junction where attendees dress as Audra Lindley’s “Three’s Company” character, Mrs. Roper.

“Wait, what?” Case demanded sharply. “Dude, if you’re going, tell me. I want to wear a muumuu and represent the Kingdom!”

Alas, she’ll be on tour when the Roper Romp goes down this Saturday, September 21, so we decided to rain check until next year. As part of that sprawling North American run, Case will make a local stop at the Lebanon Opera House in New Hampshire on Wednesday, September 25. In January, she’ll drop her memoir,

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You , in which she explores her troubled upbringing — though it’s lighter than it sounds. The new album should follow. And then there’s that pesky, unnamed musical.

Seven Days spoke with Case about all of those projects, living in (and maybe leaving) Vermont, and trying to make people laugh while they read about trauma.

Writing a memoir can’t be easy when you have a traumatic past. Were you hesitant to dive into your childhood memories?

Well, I definitely would have rather written ﬁ ction — writing about myself is a little weird. It wasn’t so much hard as it was me trying to remember things I hadn’t thought about in a long time. For a while, I was constantly focusing on moving forward and I missed a lot because I was always trying to prepare for the next thing.

Was that a coping mechanism for you?

Oh, absolutely. A lot of the stu I didn’t remember, it was because I was trying to outrun sadness. I spent my middle forties really depressed until my body let me know I had to deal with everything I’d been running from. I realized that I had to show up every day and work through

Your new book deals a lot with that sadness, particularly with how it started, as you were growing up and moving around the country with your mother and stepfather. It sounds like you spent a lot of time alone, avoiding a hostile environment. How did that affect your development as an artist? My imagination went unchallenged back then. It had to: It was just me, my imagination and my pets. I formed a very strong bond with nature because I was alone so often as a kid. Not interacting with my parents wasn’t healthy, for sure, but it did wonders for my imagination.

When it came time to revisit all that for the book, I tried to remember what was funny about trauma and hard times. Because even in that, there is humor. We all have trauma, and art is its balance. It’s one of the only ways you can speak about something that is so hard to describe in other ways. Art takes the trauma and allows you to compartmentalize or even transmute that pain into something else. Art is the crucible for that.

Was it a challenge working in prose as opposed to songwriting?

I really liked writing prose. When you’re writing a song, you try to leave open sleeves for people to put their arms into and wear that feeling. It has to be modiﬁable for the listener if they’re going to make it their own. With a book — or certainly with this book — it’s a little more bizarre. My childhood was very odd, though I do think it’s still relatable. But you can try it on like a song if you want, or keep it at arm’s length if you need to.

You’ve been a Vermont resident for some time. Readers of your book might be surprised to learn you lived here when you were a child, as well. I did! I lived in Waterville and Johnson when I was a little girl. I used to love the Johnson Diner; that grilled ham and cheese was the greatest thing in the world for 10-year-old me to eat.

Vermont was the place I felt the most at home when I was little. I moved here from Vancouver, Wash., where the kids were so sophisticated with their cruelty. Like, they made an art out of being cruel. But when we got to Vermont, none of the kids cared, no one made fun of you for being poor or the clothes you wore. You were on their team, and it was so welcoming. So after we moved away, I always dreamed of coming back.

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But it sounds like leaving again might be on your mind?

I hope not! But it’s more than just on my mind; it’s on the list of very real possibilities. I’m going to keep making art here until the state says, “You gotta go,” but I don’t know if I can afford the taxes to live here anymore. It hurts. It feels like you’re not allowed to live here, honestly.

There are some incredible artists living in Vermont, and we’re going to lose them all at this rate. What do people here want Vermont to be?

A giant Westchester County? What are we going for? It’s disheartening. I’m doing all I can to stay, but I’m just not sure anymore.

Is that why there are no Vermont dates on your tour?

now than from when I was growing up. There are so many more women in the industry, which makes me so happy, but it still feels like it’s not nearly enough. So I definitely hope anything I write can help change that and inspires people — and not just women, but anyone who wants to be an artist.

I think that’s the point of art: to connect with each other. And I love to comfort and to connect with others through my music. Like I said, I’m way too close to all of this, but I think — I hope — that comes through in this book.

ART TAKES THE TRAUMA AND ALLOWS YOU TO COMPARTMENTALIZE OR EVEN TRANSMUTE THAT PAIN INTO SOMETHING ELSE.

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A little revenge for pricing out the artists?

[ Laughs. ] No, no. We’re coming to Vermont, but I’m saving the hometown shows for the new record. We’re going to make it pretty special. The record was written here in St. Johnsbury. I wrote the book here. I’ve written so much of the musical here, and that feels really, really good. I love St. J so much. It’s the little town that tries so hard.

With such an impressive career already and so much more on the horizon, did it just feel like the right time to release a greatest hits in 2022 and pen a memoir afterward?

And do you think your career can serve as inspiration to young artists, particularly women who may look to you for crucial representation? With Wild Creatures, it really just felt like, Wow, we did a lot of stuff! And artists so rarely slow down and have time to reflect — why do I have to wait until I’m dead to release a box set? It’s easier to curate something when you’re alive, right?

Fortunately, the label took the reins on going through my catalog and figuring out what should be there. I’m just way too close to it all. There are songs on my records that are my favorite, but they don’t get that much of a response from the audience and I wonder, How come they don’t like one? So I knew to let someone else handle that.

As far as inspiring people, well, I hope that happens, sure. I can’t really tell how different it is for women in the business

Did writing the book teach you anything about yourself?

For sure. I’m realizing now how young 50 actually is. I just feel better prepared for everything these days. I’m wiser, but I don’t really feel any different physically. Well, menopause has been hell, but other than that, I feel healthy and awake, and you can’t ask for much more.

Is there anything you can say about the musical yet?

Not really. Not yet. I’ve been working on it for eight years. But it’s been an experience like no other, a real master class in songwriting. You’re juried, working with other songwriters, so you have to just leave your ego at the door and be ready to compromise. It’s actually super fun. It’s nothing like being in a band. Carl [Newman] does 99 percent of the songwriting in the New Pornographers. I just come up with harmonies, which is the freedom and joy of playing in that band. In the Broadway musical thing, I’m in charge, but I need to work with other songwriters. And, man … if I can release a record, write a book and do this musical, I’ll feel so validated for all the work I’ve done the last eight years.

So, see you next year for the Mrs. Roper Romp?

Yes! I need this in my life. I’m going to get a Kingdom crew together and get our muumuus on. ➆

This interview was edited and condensed for clarity and length.

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Burtt’s Apple Orchard in Cabot grows fruit and community

STORY & PHOTOS BY SUZANNE PODHAIZER

Some apple orchards look like they belong in a fairy tale, with gnarled trees of unknown provenance and mysterious fruits. Not so at Burtt’s Apple Orchard in Cabot, where heavily laden boughs are supported by strands of high-tensile wire that stretch between tall posts along the rows.

highest-grossing agricultural products, according to a 2020 Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets report. Nevertheless, since 2001, the number of cultivated acres of apples in the state has tumbled from 3,500 to 1,700.

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varieties of trees — but there are small, solvable problems in there,” he said, “and that’s how I approach [the orchard]: Identify the root variables that you’re dealing with and ﬁnd simple solutions to those problems.”

A printed map of the orchard shows which types of apples grow along each corridor, and color coding indicates the varieties currently ripe for picking. The characteristics of these varieties are elucidated in an alphabetized list: “St. Edmund’s Russet — 1870. Rich, nutty, tart, caramel. Looks like a potato.”

In 2023, a late-season frost decimated the tender blossoms at many orchards, leaving some growers uncertain about the future. This year, though, bumper crops are weighing down branches, and orchards that o er pick-your-own fruit are preparing for an onslaught of visitors, local families and tourists alike.

Along with dairy and maple syrup, apples — grown for hard or sweet cider, the grocery market, or pick-your-own

For Burtt, the idea of converting the family’s former dairy farm into an apple orchard began two decades ago as his senior project at Cabot School. “I was tired of spending my summers putting up square [hay] bales,” he recalled. “My plan was about ﬁguring out what to do with the land if we weren’t doing hay.”

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Greg Burtt, 39, who owns Burtt’s Apple Orchard with his wife, Stefanie, takes in stride the year-to-year challenges of operating a nature-based business, driven by what an orchard can o er to its caretakers and community. “You have a lot of variables — disease, pests, rain, sun, di erent

Burtt recalled the wild roadside apples that he and his siblings plucked as children — both to eat and to toss at each other like snowballs. He developed the idea of adding orchard trees to the family’s 550-acre

Greg Burtt picking apples

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Café Mamajuana to Open Colchester Restaurant by End of 2024

In 2022, shortly after CAFÉ MAMAJUANA received a semiﬁnalist nod on the prestigious James Beard Foundation Best New Restaurant list, chef-owner MARIA LARA-BREGATTA announced she was closing her Burlington restaurant to focus on catering, wholesale and private dining. Two years later, Lara-Bregatta conﬁrmed she’s getting back in the restaurant game.

The 31-year-old chef and her ﬁancé, GEOVANN VENTURA, 32, plan to open a new version of Café Mamajuana in Colchester in December. The couple

are working on renovating the restaurant space at 164 Porters Point Road, former site of the Guilty Plate Diner, which closed last November. LaraBregatta said they’ll keep “the classic 1950s booths, all the good stu ” but will refresh paint and ﬁxtures and add art that celebrates the Dominican-Italian DNA the couple bring to their menu.

The pair are still “ironing out a schedule,” Lara-Bregatta told Seven Days, but they expect to focus primarily on a brunch-style menu that taps into “the diner-esque feel” of the restaurant and its history. Likely menu items include her “own spin” on French toast, empanadas, sandwiches, burritos,

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Maria Lara-Bregatta in 2023

“paella” at Café Mamajuana in 2022

property, which they had purchased in parcels over the years. “It was something that excited me,” he said.

Burtt’s father had once owned the largest sugaring operation in Massachusetts and was also a builder. Since he was 13, Burtt said, they had talked about the possibility that he would run the farm someday.

“[My dad] started engaging me about that opportunity really early on,” Burtt recalled. “He loves new ideas, so when I said I wanted to start planting some apples, he was all in. He had faith that it was worth trying, and he had faith in me as his son.”

The younger Burtt’s business plan came to fruition soon after he headed to the University of Vermont to study mechanical engineering. To his surprise, his father offered him the most fertile field on the farm as the orchard’s starting point. “I thought he was going to give me a back corner,” Burtt said with a laugh.

Another thing his father offered, Burtt noted, was “the wisdom of starting small.” In 2005, the family began with a minimal initial investment that allowed them to purchase about 700 trees. They worked together to plant the dwarf and semidwarf grafts in the spring of Burtt’s first year at university.

When the trees matured and the orchard opened for picking in 2009, the Burtts sold out their apples within two weeks.

“We knew it was going to be profitable after that first year,” he said. And so, with his father’s encouragement, they ordered 2,000 more trees.

Early in 2020, when a project he’d been planning was canceled due to the pandemic, Burtt decided to divert resources into building a new farm store that could accommodate a kitchen for producing apple cider doughnuts; four cash registers; and retail space for bulky winter squash, jars of pie filling, jugs of sweet cider and bottles of his own apple cider vinegar.

The timing of the expansion, which was completed in mid-August just before the apples ripened, was fortuitous. That year, as COVID-19 prevented families from embarking on their scheduled vacations, the pick-your-own apple business boomed, and the orchard’s gross sales doubled from its 2019 numbers.

“There’s no way we could have done [the business] we did with the old shed we’d been using,” Burtt said. “It all came together.”

Since its start 20 years ago, Burtt’s orchard has swelled to encompass 12,000 trees — mostly apple but also some pear and cherry and a few lines of elderberry bushes. During peak season, the orchard might receive up to 4,000 visitors in a single day. Some come to eat cider doughnuts rolled in sugar by Burtt’s four daughters, ages 5 to 13. Others love to get lost in the corn maze, squinting through waving green leaves in an attempt to navigate using the position of the sun.

But most visitors show up for the apples, some as shiny and red as hard candies, others golden and webbed with rough russeting on their skins.

Lyndsay Beattie and her husband own Marty’s 1st Stop, a grocery store and gas station in Danville. When this reporter called, she happened to be snacking on a Wolf River apple from Burtt’s. “It’s so big it’s a whole meal!” she exclaimed. When Beattie’s kids were small, she used to take them picking at Burtt’s

orchard. Nowadays, the fruit comes right to her store. “We go through 10 cases of their apples a week,” she noted. “We’ve sold 60 pounds of apples so far today.” (It was 12:30 p.m. on a Tuesday.)

Because of Burtt’s storage capabilities, Beattie expects to be selling local apples well into the winter months.

Marty’s is one of six wholesale accounts that Burtt maintains, along with a couple of area co-ops and the New Hampshire-based Vista Foods chain. The majority of its business comes from the folks who flock to the orchard to harvest Honeycrisp and Empire apples from its trees.

Although he’d never even visited a pick-your-own orchard before founding his own, Burtt said it felt meaningful to see people reveling in the natural world and in what his family has built. “I don’t segment life into its spiritual and material components,” he said. Nevertheless, he was surprised at how much the orchard could affect people who drop by.

“I’ve seen grown men cry” while watching the sun set over the apple trees, Burtt said. “I saw early on how much it could bless people.”

Fran Matott, a Realtor in Littleton, N.H., has been a Burtt’s customer since 2016. He and his family cherish their visits to Cabot, from the scenery on the drive to the

Cider doughnuts

Rows of apple trees

“different colors and textures” in Burtt’s most unusual heirloom apple varieties. What keeps him coming back for the Cabot fruit? “It’s getting to have the quality family time that is hard to find,” Matott said. While at the orchard, he added, his youngsters put away their phones and head for the corn maze.

balance of order and chaos within an orchard,” he explained. “The trees on their own won’t produce good fruit. I have to modify them, work with them, take their natural growth habits and shape them.”

He believes that people are similar. “If there’s no shaping, then we’re more like animals. Pruning is what brings out fruit, [and] it’s what brings out a citizen who is trying to help and to contribute to a community and to create a culture that thrives.

“I see a mirror in the trees of the same [shaping] that has been done with me,” Burtt added.

His belief in the importance of participatory citizenship has led Burtt to run for the Vermont House of Representatives. He’s vying for a seat left vacant by the retirement of Danville farmer Henry Pearl.

Although running for public office wasn’t in his plans, Burtt explained, once members of the Vermont Republican Party asked him to throw his hat in the ring, he decided to do it. But first he had “hard conversations” with his wife and other community members. “I feel hungry — hungry to do good work,” Burtt said. “That’s what I want to do if I’m elected.”

As he waits for the results of the November race, Burtt’s focus is on the busy weeks ahead. There is cider to press and ferment into vinegar, plus doughnuts to shape and a temporary staff of 20 to manage. Even in early September, with weeks to go until peak foliage, there is much to do.

Meanwhile, the orchard’s pair of ducks — one black, one white — scavenged the dew-laden grass, snapping up half-eaten apple cores dropped by careless pickers. Nearby, languid insects buzzed drunkenly in a tote of bruised apples set aside for use in an apple slingshot. Children flopped down a curvy, butter-yellow slide on the playground just outside the doors of the farm store.

doughnuts and dishes featuring plantains, such as her stuffed canoas.

The menu will also reflect the Italian influence, particularly in the desserts and coffee. “It’s a blend of all of my cultures,” Lara-Bregatta said.

Ventura will add his expertise in Dominican-style smoked meats, such as churrasco. He will work closely with Lara-Bregatta to manage the restaurant while continuing to run his own painting business part time.

Lara-Bregatta knows that many of her fans hope she’ll serve dinner, but she’s not sure whether that will work for their family, which includes a 3-year-old daughter. The difficulty of juggling the needs of her then-infant with the post-pandemic staffing crunch was the main reason she closed her original Café Mamajuana, the chef said.

It was really hard to “have a baby sucking at my tit while I was trying to run a restaurant,” she recalled. With the couple’s daughter now in preschool and Ventura partnering with her on the business, LaraBregatta said she’s optimistic this situation will be more workable. “It’s much more of a family affair this time around,” she said.

In fall 2023, during the break between restaurants, Lara-Bregatta spent a month in Italy filming Season 2 of Food Network’s “Ciao House,” which premiered in mid-May of this year. She was one of 12 chefs competing on the show and made it through three episodes.

Once home, the Matotts work together to make crisps or prepare apple slices for the dehydrator. The fact that he sees the whole Burtt family working together in the orchard, Matott added, makes the visits even sweeter.

Burtt, who spends much of each day communing with his trees, finds “a

Preparing to return to his tractor, Burtt reflected on the work that he has done over the past two decades. “I love being outside on the land, in the trees,” he said. “This thing can’t exist on its own without me, and I can’t exist on my own without this. There’s a relationship that goes deeper, and there’s a lot of satisfaction in that.” ➆

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Lara-Bregatta said she learned a lot from the experience and the cooking challenges. She believes that customers of the new Café Mamajuana will benefit from the techniques she mastered and new ingredients to which she was exposed.

“Television is a crock of shit,” she said, “but it was truly life-changing and a joy to live in Italy for a month and learn from the masters.” ➆

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Elderberry in bloom

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The Old North End Farmers Market brings fresh, local food to the neighborhood

STORY & PHOTOS BY

MELISSA PASANEN pasanen@sevendaysvt.com

Everyone knows about the Saturday Burlington Farmers Market, a Queen City fixture since 1980. Far fewer people know about the Tuesday market nestled among the trees in the Old North End’s Dewey Park, across from the Integrated Arts Academy — even though it was also founded more than 30 years ago.

Part of the draw of the Old North End Farmers Market is that it flies under the radar. But its devotees would like to spread the word about what makes it special.

“It’s not an Instagram market. It’s where people come to buy their groceries,” market manager Ben Rodgers said.

This year’s vendor mix of about eight regular stands is heavy on fresh vegetables and fruit. Others sell honey, mushrooms, prepared foods and bread. Occasionally, someone might set up with sweet treats.

Last week, Bergeron’s Produce & Goods displayed a late-summer cornucopia, including bell peppers, sweet corn and melons — plus jarred produce such as Sheldon farmer Terry Bergeron’s signature spicy-sweet cowboy candied jalapeños, made with his own honey.

Bergeron said it was his first year selling at the market and his 35th farming.

“We like the diversity, all the cultures that come,” his friend and helper, Heidi Kobera, said.

Dylan Zeitlyn, who cofounded Diggers’ Mirth Collective Farm in the Intervale in

1992, was involved in starting the market that same year. Over the decades, the farm’s stand has anchored the market.

“We all moved to Burlington and fell in love with the Old North End,” Zeitlyn said. Collective members wanted to make sure their organic vegetables got to their

neighbors. Then, as now, “there were not a lot of places here where you could buy good-quality produce,” he said.

The farmers started growing bitter melon and some other plants at the request of customers originally from Vietnam, Zeitlyn said. They have always set prices

lower than at the downtown market, and he noted that more than half the farm’s Tuesday market earnings come from Farm to Family coupons. The U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded program helps income-eligible Vermonters buy local produce.

Last week, Old North End residents Carol Ann Wooster and Bob Clark bought corn and peppers from Bergeron’s and then added lettuce and garlic from Westford’s Dandelion Farm to their bags. They paid with a Farm to Family coupon.

The couple said they’re market regulars. “We like seeing the people, getting the fresh vegetables, and we can use our farmers market coupons here,” Wooster said.

Linda Oats had walked from her downtown Burlington home with a Europeanstyle rolling market basket. She shops at both city farmers markets.

“This one’s even more personable,” Oats said. “There aren’t long lines. It’s just a little more laid-back.”

Another plus: Some of the market’s wares, including Oats’ favorite Tremolo Bread, cannot be purchased elsewhere.

She selected a pair of baker Wren Kitz’s salted, seeded baguettes. “We get two because the first one is a palate cleanser,” Oats joked.

Kitz, who runs his weekly stand with his partner, Abbey Meaker, has a home bakery license for their Old North End kitchen. The naturally leavened breads, for which he mills some of the flour, are barely more than a side hustle, he said. The small market is the right scale for his micro-business and helps get his bread “into the hands of the neighborhood community that we love,” Kitz said.

Sabah Abbas of Sabah’s House feels similarly about vending her chicken and vegetable sambusas at the market a few blocks from her home. The caterer of Middle Eastern food came with her family to Vermont in 2014 as a refugee from the Iraq war.

“It’s our neighborhood,” Abbas said. “We see each other. We are sharing all the things we have. That is the fun.” ➆

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Peppers at Bergeron’s Produce & Goods stand

Diggers’ Mirth Collective Farm stand

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Who was Ira Allen? The youngest brother of Ethan does not have an eponymous furniture chain, nor are any Vermont roads named for him. A bronze e gy of Allen stands in front of the Old Mill building at the University of Vermont, but the stature of that statue is somewhat shaky, according to a new biography by Essex historian and former Vermont Historical Society executive director J. Kevin Gra agnino.

Typically described as a canny land speculator, Allen emerges as a much more complex figure from the account of Graffagnino, the author of 15 books on Vermont. Allen was the first Vermont state treasurer, the fi rst state surveyor general, Vermont’s largest landowner, a self-appointed diplomat and a leading opponent of Vermont’s bid to join the Union. Ultimately, his reach exceeded his grasp, and, faced with insurmountable debts, Allen fled to Philadelphia, where he spent the last decade of his life. His own family rejected him, and he died penniless, laid to rest in a pauper’s grave in a Quaker cemetery.

Seven Days sat down with Gra agnino recently to discuss the life and times of the second-best-known Green Mountain Boy.

You’ve studied and written about Ira Allen for 30 years. Why?

I’ve always been a Vermont historian, and he just kept turning up. He was the most proliﬁc writer and defender of Vermont’s right to exist as [an independent] Vermont He is the reason the University of Vermont is located in Burlington. So I found him interesting, and it puzzled me that he got relatively little attention.

Was Ira more of a Green Money Boy than a Green Mountain Boy?

His vision was to dominate trade and commerce in the region. He planned to build mills on most of the rivers that ﬂow into Lake Champlain. This would facilitate trade with Canada, because the lake ﬂows north and you move goods with the current.

So he opposed statehood for Vermont because he envisioned this grand alliance with Canada.

He didn’t want Vermont to be limited in any way. He wanted freedom to associate or negotiate with anyone. Ira knew the moment we joined the Union, Vermont would have to go under all

The Other Allen

A Vermont historian’s new biography takes a close look at Ethan’s youngest brother

BY STEVE GOLDSTEIN

federal regulations, rules, treaties, [for] trade with Canada. We’d be part of the American relationship, a bond he did not favor.

Was he controversial in his time?

Yes, there were newspapers, and he was written about. He was widely criticized for his focus on his own fortune, his ability to drive two horses — Vermont’s and Ira Allen’s interests simultaneously. That really annoyed the heck out of some people. They saw him as making himself wealthy while doing public service. He was just ahead of his time.

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Can you compare Ira Allen to any contemporary public ﬁgure?

I know some people would compare him to Donald Trump, but I don’t think that’s accurate. Ira had big dreams, but he also was a small “d” democrat. He believed implicitly that the farmer was just as good as the landlord. I respect the heck out of Ira Allen, but I wouldn’t trust him in a business deal. His brothers had more of the people-person touch.

What was his relationship with his brothers?

There isn’t much to say. His four older

brothers were more charismatic. They called Ira “Stub” because he was short, a good six inches below Ethan’s six-foottwo-inch stature. Yet, barely 21 years old, Ira persuaded them to found and fund his Onion River Land Company. The brothers had been buying land in Bennington County. He wanted to focus on the area from what today is Montpelier to the lake north to Canada. “That’s our empire,” he told them.

Did he use his friendship with thengovernor omas Chittenden as a kind of cloak of respectability?

Chittenden was very popular, and Chittenden was also a highly intelligent political leader, if poorly educated. He could barely put a letter together in his own hand. If Chittenden needed something on paper, Ira often was the scribe.

Was he Vermont’s biggest landowner at the time?

In the 18th century, land speculation [was] the equivalent of the stock market today. Allen claimed to own over 200,000 acres, but a lot of it was in dispute. He was in and out of court constantly with other speculators and with creditors. He never had cash ﬂow.

How is Ira known by Vermonters?

He’s considered the founder of UVM, which is inaccurate. He’s responsible for UVM being in Burlington, but the

J. Kevin Graffagnino

Phish to Play Benefit Shows for Recovery Center in Ludlow

BY HANNAH FEUER • hfeuer@sevendaysvt.com

Burlington-bred jam band Phish announced last week that they will perform three shows at the MVP Arena in Albany, N.Y., from Friday, October 25, to Sunday, October 27. Net proceeds will benefit the Divided Sky Residential Recovery Program in Ludlow, an addiction recovery center founded by Phish front man Trey Anastasio.

The 46-bed residential treatment center uses the 12-step program from Alcoholics Anonymous and emphasizes a holistic approach, incorporating daily nature walks and yoga into its treatment.

Anastasio was motivated to open the facility after his own struggle with opioid addiction. A 2006 arrest in Whitehall, N.Y., led him to enter a court-mandated, 14-month addiction treatment program. His journey to recovery inspired him to open his own residential treatment facility — with his former case manager, Melanie Gulde, serving as Divided Sky’s program director.

“I’ve seen people in dire situations come back from this. It’s never too late to have hope,” Anastasio told People magazine in July. “Families can be saved.”

In 2020, Anastasio purchased the 18-acre property in Ludlow for $1.7 million, largely funded by donations from Anastasio’s live-streamed concerts during the pandemic.

Yet the construction faced backlash from Ludlow residents, who raised concerns that the facility would bring increased drug use and crime to the area. After the Town of Ludlow approved the construction, residents appealed the decision through Vermont’s Act 250 land-use permit process. To circumvent the appeals process, Divided Sky opened in November 2023 as a nonmedical facility that relies on out-of-pocket payments and scholarships, rather than billing insurers.

Proceeds from the upcoming shows will go toward those scholarships, enabling “Divided Sky to continue to make its

immersive Residential Recovery Program affordable to all,” according to a press release. Without financial aid, the 30-day program costs $7,500.

Ticket sales for the benefit concert go live on Friday, September 20, at 10 a.m. A limited

number of complimentary tickets will be available to those who work in recovery or a related mental health field. ➆

Learn more at phish.com and dividedsky.org.

When the British Army arrives to create a new map of Ireland that will “standardize” Gaelic place-names to English, the fate of the Irish locals and their native tongue is cast into uncertainty. A play about the power of language to kindle romance, ignite tensions, and inflame the human heart’s yearning to understand.

Phish performing at Mondegreen festival in Dover, Del.

Film Tour Showcases Four Vermont Shorts Exploring Family Dynamics

BY MARY ANN LICKTEIG • maryann@sevendaysvt.com

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Filmmaker Lukas Huffman had long dreamed of programming his own film series. “I’ve made a lot of short films and screened at a lot of festivals over the course of the last 10 years,” he said. “And half the time it’s a great experience.” e rest of the time, he said, he’s been disappointed by the programming: the quality of the other films or the lack of a strong thematic link among them.

While touring with his latest film, “Bloodroot,” a portrait of two brothers throughout their lives, he watched two other Vermont films and had a “lightning-bolt moment,” he said. “I saw ‘Bad Mother’ and e aw’ and was excited, not only by the quality of the films but how such differently crafted films can tackle the same subject matter — family dynamics that are unique to Vermont,” he wrote in a press release.

A fourth film, “I Guess It Might Be Selfish,” which Huffman helped produce, would complement the others, he decided, and his first film series was born. “Family Matters: A Tour of Vermont Short Films” will play in St. Johnsbury, Putney, Burlington and Montpelier, starting on Saturday, September 28. Question-andanswer sessions with filmmakers will follow each screening. e four films — set and shot in Vermont — range from horror to dramatic comedy. With “Bloodroot,” Huffman set out to show the dramatic passage of time in Vermont. After living in New York City for 15 years, he moved back three years ago to his hometown, Montpelier, and was struck by the way relationships with his family became more complex. Coupled with that was a recognition of the prominent role Vermont’s landscape plays in his life, he said. He filmed on the Millstone Trails in Websterville.

“ e location itself is like a lead character,” Huffman said. He also ﬁlmed in Websterville when directing “ e Quarry Project,” which captures the 2022 dance performances at the Wells Lamson Quarry choreographed by Hannah Dennison.

In “Bad Mother,” a mother copes with her husband’s confession of infidelity on the eve of a funeral. is first film from writerdirector and East etford native Molly Longwell was awarded the grand prize at the 2023 New York Shorts International Film Festival and best drama at the 2024 Fire Island Film Festival.

“ e aw” is a horror folktale written and directed by Sarah Wisner and Sean Temple of Montpelier. In the 19th century, a young woman’s parents drink sleeping tea to survive the harsh winter, and an early thaw leads to horrifying results. Named best Vermont short at the 2024 Vermont Film & Folklore Festival, “ e aw” also won an audience choice award at the 2024 Boston Underground Film Festival.

Brooklyn filmmaker Eddie Shore wrote and directed “I Guess It Might Be Selfish,” set in the Mad River Valley in the wintertime. As an older man reflects on the shame he feels about his lack of self-awareness in his youth, a younger man embodies that same selfishness, making choices that clash with his young family at home.

Longwell, now based in Brooklyn, expressed gratitude to Huffman for helping independent ﬁlmmakers get their work on a big screen in front of an audience. “Vermont is making a splash in the ﬁlm world, and it’s so exciting to contribute to and witness,” she wrote in an email.

As part of the tour, the four films will be screened during the Vermont International Film Festival in Burlington. Vermont International Film Foundation executive director Steve MacQueen noted in an email that the tour and his organization both have “Vermont” and “film” in their titles. “It would be appalling if we didn’t screen these films,” he wrote. ➆

“Family Matters: A Tour of Vermont Short Films,” Saturday, September 28, 6 p.m., at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury. By donation. catamountarts.org. Saturday, October 19, 6 p.m., at Next Stage Arts in Putney. $10. nextstagearts.org. ursday, October 24, times TBA, at the Vermont International Film Festival, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, in Burlington. $10. vtiff.org. Sunday, October 27, 6:30 p.m., at Savoy eater in Montpelier. $10. savoytheater.com

“ e aw”

“Bad Mother”

“Bloodroot”

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legislature charters UVM. Ira knows it’s going to happen. But Burlington wasn’t much then. Southern Vermont was much better developed. His dream was that Burlington would be Vermont’s principal community, that the university would become an internationally recognized place for the sons of farmers and mechanics to get an education. He did donate some of the land.

THEY SAW HIM AS MAKING HIMSELF WEALTHY WHILE DOING PUBLIC SERVICE. HE WAS JUST AHEAD OF HIS TIME.

J. KEVIN GRAFFAGNINO

Ira never fulfilled the monetary pledges he made to UVM, so how did he get his statue?

In the 1920s, retired banker James B. Wilbur became fascinated by Vermont history and Ira Allen in particular. He collected Allen’s papers, which I used for my research. Wilbur, who had an estate in Manchester, was courted heavily by Guy Bailey, then UVM president. Among many donations to UVM, Wilbur funded the statue of his hero on the green.

In the end, Allen died broke and was buried in a Quaker cemetery in Philadelphia.

Allen died in 1814. His grave site was searched for in the 1890s and couldn’t be found because the cemetery had gone to rack and ruin and headstones were tipped over. So they collected all the bones and put them out in a beautiful setting in Audubon, Pa., near the John James Audubon estate. ➆

This interview was edited and condensed for clarity and length.

INFO

Graffagnino will discuss and sign the book on Friday, September 20, 6 p.m., at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center; and on Tuesday, October 1, 7 p.m., at Phoenix Books in Burlington.

Ira Allen: A Biography by J. Kevin Graffagnino, Vermont Historical Society, 324 pages. $24.95.

on screen

The setting of India Donaldson’s debut feature will look familiar to Vermonters — Good One was shot in the rocky, wooded landscape of New York’s Hudson Valley. Hailed as a feminist coming-of-age story and nominated for awards at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival, the indie drama is playing at Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas in Burlington and the Savoy Theater in Montpelier as of press time.

The deal

College-bound Sam (Lily Collias) takes a weekend hike in the Catskills with her dad, Chris (James Le Gros), and his longtime best friend, Matt (Danny McCarthy). Matt’s teenage son was supposed to join them, but a recent, acrimonious divorce has left father and son at odds.

Sam finds herself caught between the two older men, whose friendship is likewise strained. Matt, an actor whose lucrative run on a cop show has ended, is struggling in every way. He’s forgotten his sleeping bag and gets regularly tipsy, eager to talk about his feelings more often

than Chris can tolerate. Sam o ers Matt a sympathetic ear, but his neediness makes her increasingly uncomfortable. Before the hike is over, their dynamic will come to a head — with consequences for Sam’s strong bond with her dad.

Will you like it?

The phrase “good one” is loaded. It’s what many people bemoan not ﬁnding on their dating odysseys. It’s a compliment, sure, but often a backhanded one, implying that “good ones” are rare in certain demographics.

When Matt calls Sam a “good one” — a good woman, a good daughter, a cooperative, non-“di cult” teen — the mixed emotions on Collias’ face speak volumes. Sam is mortified, yet she can’t deny that she’s worked for the approval of her elders. While Matt wallows in his feelings like a moody kid, she trudges miles without complaint, finds subtle ways to mediate between him and her dad, whips up decent trail food, and finds hidden spots in which to change her tampons.

Some viewers may find that last detail TMI, but it matters. We’ve all seen acclaimed auteur ﬁlms in which a lissome, carefree teenage girl breathes life and hope back into a man in the throes of midlife crisis. (Woody Allen was the most proliﬁc

purveyor of this archetype but far from the only one.) What we’ve rarely seen in those movies is the girl’s perspective, including the parts of her experience that aren’t so carefree — that might even be messy and humiliating.

Donaldson nails Sam’s perspective without idealizing or demonizing any of her characters. The daughter of Roger Donaldson ( Species , Dante’s Peak ), the writer-director unfolds her story with a naturalism and intimacy that recall Kelly Reichardt ( Meek’s Cutoff ). The landscape is a character, and the hike feels as exhausting and exhilarating as a real hike. Artful composition and the three players’ body language reﬂect their shifting feelings about their forced proximity.

Collias conveys the awkward reality of adolescence rather than adults’ wistful fantasies about it. Divorce has made Sam old beyond her years, with some of the coping strategies of an adult woman. Yet her hunched shoulders and scowls betray her restlessness and ambivalence about catering to grown men’s emotional needs. We see how she relaxes whenever she’s alone with her phone, a lifeline to her girlfriend (Sumaya Bouhbal).

An indie heartthrob in his younger years ( Living in Oblivion , Drugstore Cowboy ), Le Gros has matured into a

likably rough-around-the-edges presence. Chris is a “man’s man,” uneasy with Matt’s expressiveness and vulnerability, who also genuinely adores his daughter. But his empathy falters when Sam asks him for help in navigating situations he’s never experienced himself.

Matt is the movie’s linchpin, because it would have been all too easy to portray him simplistically: as an irredeemable jerk or, on the ﬂip side, as a harmless goof whose intentions are pure. A theater actor and frequent “regular guy” on TV, McCarthy avoids both those poles. He crafts a character whose faults are relatable, one whose emotional rawness invites empathy. Matt is earnestly grappling with a sea change in his life, and, like Sam, we may wish we could help him. But we can’t miss how his selﬁshness sabotages his e orts to evolve.

REVIEW

A quiet film about the struggle to communicate, Good One is sure to generate provocative — and productive — conversations across gender and generational lines. “Parents and children are always trying to catch up with each other or slow down to meet each other in the same place,” Donaldson told Letterboxd Journal. Meet the ﬁlm where it is and resist the temptation to label its characters “good ones” (or bad ones), and you’ll come away wiser.

MARGOT HARRISON margot@sevendaysvt.com

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THE LONELIEST PLANET (2011; AMC+, Kanopy, Philo, Roku Channel, YouTube Primetime, rentable): Not many acclaimed indie dramas speciﬁcally address how gender dynamics play out over long hikes. But here’s another one, set in the Caucasus Mountains and directed by Julia Loktev.

JANET PLANET (2023; rentable): If the low-key, naturalistic texture and sylvan setting of Good One appeal to you, try Annie Baker’s intimate portrait of a mother-daughter relationship.

THE ASSISTANT (2019; Max, rentable): Kitty Green’s #MeToo drama, set in the ﬁlm industry and clearly inspired by the Harvey Weinstein case, explores how subtle incidents of harassment wear down a person’s spirit, whether they’re the victim or required by their job to be complicit. Like Good One, this is an observational ﬁlm that rewards close attention.

Newcomer Lily Collias is quietly mesmerizing as a teenager on a long hike with her dad and his friend in this indie.

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2020 Visions

“Doomscrolling” at the Hall Art Foundation

BY ALICE DODGE • adodge@sevendaysvt.com

REVIEW

Last week, moderators opened the presidential debate by asking if Americans are better off than they were four years ago. Those looking for a visceral answer to that question may ﬁnd it in “Doomscrolling,” a collaborative exhibition by Brooklyn artists Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston, on view through December 1 at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

The show presents a powerful series of 18 woodblock prints based on media images that appeared from May 24, 2020, through January 6, 2021. The New York Times headline proclaiming, “U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS” is quickly followed by scenes of unrest after the murder of George Floyd. Images of national protests and violent police response are interspersed with others picturing the realities of COVID-19. We see the McCloskeys of St. Louis, Mo., threatening Black Lives Matter supporters; then-president Donald Trump holding up a Bible for a photo op after ordering protesters tear-gassed; Rudy Giuliani melting down at Four Seasons Total Landscaping; the ﬂy on Mike Pence’s head.

Each of the prints is composed of many layered images

THIS PLYWOOD WAS WITNESS TO THESE EVENTS.

ROB SWAINSTON

in bright, saturated colors. All but one are 57 by 45 inches and vertically oriented, like the image on a phone. They are titled by date and sometimes by time, when more than one print represents the same day. Viewing them mimics the feeling of doomscrolling on a phone: seeing many images of the same event unfold in real time and being unable to make coherent sense of them beyond a feeling of momentous dread.

During summer 2020, much of New York City was boarded up. At the duo’s artist talk in July, Swainston recalled that he had been out taking photos of the empty city. “As a woodcut artist, I was looking at this, going, Look

From left: “July 18, 2020-21”; “July 4, 2020-21”; “August 25, 2020-21”

at all this plywood! It conceptually made sense: It was getting gra tied, it was getting covered, it was getting weathered — this plywood was witness to these events.”

Swainston and Sidhu wrote to institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art with a project proposal. When the museums opened back up, the artists received some 120 sheets of plywood, which they carved into the woodcut blocks for the series. The distressed material would normally be considered undesirable for printing, but here it introduced an element of chaos and unpredictability that made sense for the work.

In “July 4, 2020-21” which primarily portrays protesters at the Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Va., the artists included an image of Mount Rushmore, one of many elements describing patriotic themes. Because that piece of plywood was warped, Abraham Lincoln’s face is the only part of it that printed. Close-ups of the gra ti on Robert E. Lee’s plinth add literal subtext to the print, creating a texture that echoes the grain and blemishes on the wood’s surface.

The artists are interested in both the history and technology of printing and photography and how people

consume images. Woodcut printing, they said during their talk, was the first real form of mass-media communication and has long been a tool of protest and dissent.

Sidhu and Swainston wanted to create singular images that convey the contradictions inherent in today’s endlessly scrolling news: composed pictures that are in conflict with themselves.

“This entire series is about conflicts,” Sidhu said. “There are political conflicts, but we can also have conflicts of scale, conflicts of time, conflicts of color, conflicts of different kinds of ways of describing bursts of light.”

The last are articulated in “August 25, 2020-21” which pictures 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse after he shot three people in Kenosha, Wis. Layered over a photographic lens flare is a halo of rays taken from Albrecht Dürer’s “The Lamentation,” a woodcut from around 1500.

Sidhu and Swainston have included historical art references throughout the series, sandwiched among their own drawings, Associated Press photos, screenshots of Fox News and stills from protesters’ iPhone videos. The older sources ground the prints in a longer time frame, marking these moments as part of history.

The artists also use these antecedents to help process meaning, forging a connection between our understanding and that of people making sense of their own events in centuries past. Sidhu and Swainston said that when they got stuck, they often went to the Met for inspiration.

The print “July 18, 2020-21” shows a Sunday on the lawn of a city park, as vibrantly green as Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884.” Unlike their 19th-century counterparts, the Brooklyn park goers lounge six feet apart, separated into white social-distancing circles painted on the grass. A photo of a patient on a ventilator, layered behind them, hits the eye second.

In making the piece, the artists said, they asked themselves how they would describe the fear of death. Their answer was to include a detail from Hans Holbein the Younger’s 1533 painting “The Ambassadors” — an anamorphic skull that is only really visible when one stands at the edge of the frame by the gallery wall. Both works point out that death is ever-present, even in a germ-free zone.

Several audience members at the artist talk remarked on how strange it felt to walk into the show and remember that these

things actually happened. Swainston and Sidhu said that even as they created this work in 2021, it seemed as though people were forgetting — or perhaps blocking out — what they had just lived through. Today, that sense is even stronger.

The artists said they hoped their complicated images would inspire people to keep remembering and examining the historical events rather than feeling as if they had “ossified,” Swainston said. “The negotiation

DOMESTIC ALCHEMY

of What does this image mean? — we thought would sort of keep them alive and keep them in the public sphere, keep us thinking about them — and [keep us from being] surprised when these things happen again.” ➆

INFO

“Doomscrolling” by Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston, on view through December 1 at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading. hallartfoundation.org

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Installation view

Stowe’s Front Four Gallery Relaunches With Landscapes for Loners

BY ALICE DODGE • adodge@sevendaysvt.com

Each year, Vermont’s transition to fall is marked not just by twinges of color on a few avantgarde trees but also by ethereal mornings when the rising sun illuminates heavy fog. It’s isolating but magical. e same mood is conveyed in “ e Bliss of Solitude,” up through September 30 at Front Four Gallery in Stowe.

e show presents works by six artists, all women with international backgrounds. It’s the ﬁrst exhibition of visiting artists curated by Alexandra Weathers since she and her partner, Jack Morris, took over Robert Paul Galleries in the spring, and it accompanies their relaunch as Front Four Gallery.

While a selection of works by represented artists remains on view, most of the gallery is devoted to the exhibition. It’s a noticeable change: Weathers and Morris have opened up the layout and given the works plenty of space to breathe. at is crucial for the pieces in this show, all of which have an airy subtlety. Weathers conceived of the exhibition as a response to William Wordsworth’s 1804 poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” In it, the OG romantic recalls a ﬁeld of daffodils by a lake: “For oft, when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood, / ey ﬂash upon that inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude.”

Nostalgia for half-remembered landscapes comes through in the works, especially in Elena Lyakir’s “Eyes of Hope,” a 43-by-53-inch photographic print on silk crêpe de chine. Its gauzy view of a field in pastel candy colors translates as a lost memory. Adding to that effect, it hangs unframed on the wall, the shimmery silk moving with the air. Lyakir, who now lives in Marlboro, immigrated to the U.S. from then-Soviet Ukraine as a teenager; a sense of longing permeates her pieces. Unlike Lyakir’s immersive works, Kanny Yeung’s round oil paintings on panels — most only 7.5 inches in diameter — are like portholes into memory. e Hong Kong-born artist’s bio describes her as nomadic. Her paintings aren’t identified as anywhere in particular, but they seem specific because they are painted with precision. An orange cloud at sunset in “Your Warmth (11)” floats alongside a dark view of flame-like northern lights in “Your Warmth (14).” ese are curiosity-provoking vignettes.

CALLS TO ARTISTS

2024 ARTIST MEMBER SHOW: Artist members may submit up to ﬁve pieces for consideration for the show, which runs Saturday, November 2, through Friday, December 13. Apply online. Stone Valley Arts, Poultney, September 18-28. Info, stonevalleyartscenter@gmail.com.

landscape into more metaphysical territory. Boldest among them is Sonia Bukhgalter, whose paintings include large gilded stretches. In the dramatic “All is Way,” near the show’s entry, gold clouds curve across the sky over a river lit by sunset — or possibly the apocalypse. Bukhgalter’s technique is true to her Florentine roots, while her painting style reads more like the Hudson River School. It’s a powerful combination.

Sandrine Jacobson of Australia, Anne Cherubim of Canada and British painter Olivia Rose Durley each contribute to the show vaporous, almost abstract works, which nonetheless read as landscapes. Durley’s 12-by-12-inch “Awakening” offers subtle lines and blobs of pink blurred into greenish-gray. ey improbably but absolutely add up to an out-of-focus ﬁeld, with a smooth surface that still looks wet, adding to the photographic effect.

“ e Bliss of Solitude” is a great start for Front Four. In a spot that has presented Vermonty vistas for decades, it successfully articulates a different kind of landscape: ethereal, elusive and seen with fresh eyes. ➆

Several artists in the show use gold elements in their work, shifting from

COZY NOOK CRAFT FAIR: Seeking crafters and artists to vend at our yearly craft fair, to be held in the library and historic Memorial Hall on Saturday, November 2. Essex Free Library, September 18-November 1. $40 vendor fee. Info, 872-8927.

FIRST NIGHT NORTH ST. JOHNSBURY: Accepting applications now for familyfriendly acts who’d like to perform Tuesday,

“ e Bliss of Solitude,” on view through September 30 at Front Four Gallery in Stowe. frontfourgallery.com

December 31, 2024, as part of St. Johnsbury’s New Year’s Eve performing arts festival, which takes place in a dozen venues. Act content must be suitable for all ages. Acts include music, dance, comedy, puppetry, storytelling and circus arts. Apply online; artists will be notiﬁed by October 4. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, through September 20. Free. Info, 748-2600.

WRIF EMERGING FILMMAKERS SUBMISSIONS

OPEN: White River Indie Films is now accepting submissions for its 2025 in-person festival, hosted at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, February 13-16, 2025. Junction Arts & Media, White River Junction, September 18-January 5. Free. Info, 295-6688.

Sonia Bukhgalter

From top: “Innuendo” by Elena Lyakir; "Excitable Cells II" by Anne Cherubim

OPENINGS + RECEPTIONS

‘THE HEALING TOGETHER ART SHOW’: Art and music created by children, parents, staff and partners of the Vermont Network’s Healing Together Project, which supports connection and healing for families experiencing domestic violence, incarceration, substance use, recovery and trauma through expressive arts, music and play. Bring earbuds for the full exhibition experience. Reception and concert: Saturday, September 28, 4 p.m. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, September 25-October 6. Free. Info, info@scragmountainmusic.org.

UPPER VALLEY PHOTOGRAPHERS: An exhibition featuring works by Seth Brooks, Darla Bruno, Cynthia Crawford, Kay McCabe, Travis Paige, Sidney Pratt, Li Shen, Richard Stamelman, Kitty Stanley and Sheryl Trainor. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon N.H., through September 28. Info, 603-448-3117.

SANDRA BERBECO: Still-life paintings of flower bouquets created during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. Burlington City Hall, through November 12. Info, 865-7296.

‘THE INFLUENCERS’: An exhibition exploring the styles and lives of influential Jeffersonville area landscape painters Robert Blair, Thomas Curtin and Charles Movalli. Visions of Vermont, Jeffersonville, September 18-October 3. Info, 760-7396.

JOHNNY SWING: The artist and alum presents his modernist furniture made from coins. Reception: Friday, September 20, 4:30-6:30 p.m. The Putney School, through October 30. Info, 387-6258.

CAROL KEISER: A show of acrylic paintings depicting floral still lifes, Mexican interiors and friends gathering. Reception: Friday, September 20, 5-7 p.m. Canal Street Art Gallery, Bellows Falls, September 20-November 9. Info, 289-0104.

CERAMIC — FIBER SHOW: An exhibition of works in one or both mediums by Christine Cole, Meghan Dogherty, Kristen Donegan, D. Brooks Heley and Su Lin Mangan. Reception: Friday, September 20, 5-7 p.m. Canal Street Art Gallery, Bellows Falls, September 20-November 9. Info, 289-0104.

KATE GRIDLEY AND WILLIAM B. HOYT:

“Domestic Alchemy,” an exploration of the kitchen and its significance by the two contemporary realist painters. Brunch reception: Saturday, September 21, 11 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Edgewater Gallery on the Green, Middlebury, through October 20.

NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE

SHOW: The 27th annual exhibition presented by the Bennington Museum. Reception: Saturday, September 21, 1-3 p.m., following a disc golf tournament. Various locations around North Bennington, through November 17. Info, 447-1571.

JOHN PARKER AND MARK DIXON: “Found Objects,” assemblages and photographs made with vintage finds. Reception: Saturday, September 21, 3-5 p.m. The Tunbridge General Store Gallery, through October 29. Info, 889-3525.

JOE JOHN: “The Other Side,” an interactive collection of drawings by the SPA 2023-24 artistin-residence. Reception: Saturday, September 21, 4:30-6 p.m. Studio Place Arts, Barre, through October 26. Info, 479-7069.

MICHELE JOHNSEN: An exhibition on the theme of symbiosis. Reception: Saturday, September 21, 4:30-6 p.m. Studio Place Arts, Barre, through October 26. Info, 479-7069.

‘ROCK SOLID XXIV’: An annual exhibit showcasing stone sculptures and assemblages by Vermont and regional artists. Reception: Saturday, September 21, 4:30-6 p.m. Studio Place Arts, Barre, through October 26. Info, 479-7069.

VIIU NIILER: “A Short Retrospective Through A Long Eye,” paintings of Vermont, Hawaii and the Southwest. Reception and artist talk: Sunday, September 22, 4-6 p.m. Highland Center for the

Arts, Greensboro, September 22-November 10. Info, 533-2000.

‘CYCLES’: Inclusive Arts Vermont’s fifth biennial exhibition, highlighting artwork by 25 artists with disabilities. Reception: Friday, October 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, through October 31. Info, 748-8291.

ANDREAS JOHN: “The Many Voices of Water,” an exhibition of black-and-white photography paired with soundscapes crafted from field recordings at each site pictured. Reception and artist Q&A: Saturday, October 5, 5-7 p.m. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Waterbury, September 18-October 26. Info, 244-7801.

ART EVENTS

ARTIST TALK: ANNE COGBILL ROSE: The Thetford artist discusses her work of the past four years. The Front, Montpelier, Thursday, September 19, 5:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, info@thefrontvt.com.

HISTORY UNFRAMED TALK: ALDEN BRYAN JR.: A discussion with the son of noted artists Alden and Mary Bryan. He founded the Jeffersonville gallery and will discuss the history of the arts in the Lamoille Valley. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, Thursday, September 19, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 644-5100.

FOOD AND ART FRIDAYS: A community gathering with works in progress by resident artists, wood-fired pizza and a variety of performers. Sable Project, Stockbridge, Friday, September 20, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $5-15 suggested donation. Info, bex@thesableproject.org.

ARTIST TALK: GUY ROSSI: The woodworker talks about how he creates pieces ranging from small ornaments to large home furnishings. Brandon Artists Guild, Friday, September 20, 7 p.m. Info, 247-4956.

THIRD ANNUAL BARTON ART WEEKEND: A festival featuring a show of six-by-six-inch paintings, works by Larry Golden, a plein air competition, live music with Michael Hahn Trio and a plein air painting class. Greater Barton Arts Center, Saturday, September 21, and Sunday, September 22, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free, some events ticketed. Info, 525-3740, greaterbartonarts@gmail.com.

BTV MARKET: Artworks and crafts from a rotating cadre of local creatives. Burlington City Hall Park, Saturday, September 21, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

FREE SATURDAYS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS: An opportunity for college students to see the collection and 45-acre campus. Shelburne Museum, Saturday, September 21. Free. Info, 985-3346.

HISTORY, CONTEXT AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN AMERICAN ART: Katie Wood Kirchhoff, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen curator of American decorative arts, and Kat Redniss, public programs educator, discuss and offer background on selected works, followed by close looking activities. Limited to 20 participants. Shelburne Museum, Saturday, September 21, 11-11:45 a.m. Free for college students and with museum admission. Info, 985-3346.

CURATOR TOUR: ‘ALL ABOARD: THE RAILROAD IN AMERICAN ART, 1840-1955’: Museum director Tom Denenberg offers a gallery talk in this special exhibition that explores the captivating world of trains in American visual culture during the transformative period of industrialization. Limited to 25 participants. Shelburne Museum, Saturday, September 21, 2-3 p.m. Free for college students and with museum admission. Info, 985-3346.

SEPTEMBER ARTFEST: An afternoon of family art projects, musical performances, cooking demonstrations and interactive exhibits. Artistree Community Arts Center, South Pomfret, Saturday, September 21, noon-3 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3500.

ART SOCIAL: Visitors meet exhibiting artists, tour the art center and enjoy a musical performance by a quartet from the Vermont Fiddle Orchestra.

Studio Place Arts, Barre, Saturday, September 21, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 479-7069.

AUTUMN WATERCOLOR CLASS: A series taught by Pauline Nolte for experienced painters and newcomers; supplies provided for beginners. Register by email. Waterbury Public Library, Tuesday, September 24, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, judi@waterburypubliclibrary.com.

DANCE, PAINT, WRITE!: An exploration in which participants focus on their own creative experience in community with others. Open to adults and teens and accessible to all regardless of mobility. No experience required. In person with Zoom option. Expressive Arts Burlington, Wednesday, September 25, 9:30 a.m.-noon. $25. Info, 343-8172.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS FOR ARTISTS

A selection of free online and in-person workshops addressing the most urgent needs, challenges and opportunities facing artists in New England, presented by Assets for Artists in partnership with the Vermont Arts Council. Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, through January 28. Info, assetsforartists@massmoca.org. ➆

music+nightlife

Sound Advice

A Vermont music lover’s guide to the POP Montréal festival BY CHRIS FARNSWORTH • farnsworth@sevendaysvt.com

POP Montréal is a unique and artistically vibrant North American festival. It’s also huge. The ﬁve-day celebration of music, art, ﬁlm and culture begins on Wednesday, September 25, and features 200-plus shows at more than 20 di erent venues in Montréal’s hip Mile End neighborhood. Which means that just about every one of the amazing events planned for this year’s iteration is concentrated within a 10-minute walk. Think Winooski’s Waking Windows festival on steroids. Launched in 2002 by founders Daniel Seligman, Noelle Sorbara and Peter Rowan, POP was initially seen as a reaction and alternative to big industry events such as South by

Southwest in Austin and Canadian Music Week in Toronto, which Seligman experienced as the tour manager for the Montréal band Stars.

“The vibe at those kinds of shows was so heavy on the industry side, nothing really felt organic or natural,” Seligman said in an interview with Seven Days last year. “I think a big part of why we started POP was to get away from that and to showcase the incredible underground scene in Montréal.”

Two decades later, that mission remains. This year’s lineup features a bold mix of international talent, well-known stars, up-and-coming artists, and, as always, some of the best fresh Canadian talent. From gospel folk singer Iris DeMent to Parisian

WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER 25

Opening Party with Arabian Prince, 5 p.m. Free.

Traditionally more chill than the rest of the festival, day one offers plenty of homegrown shows and oodles of workshops. But the opening party is not to be missed. Presented by the new streaming app HELIOS, the free show features a performance from rapper and producer Arabian Prince, aka Professor X, a founding member of hip-hop legends N.W.A. who has also appeared on records with industrial metal band Ministry.

WHERE: MDP sur De Gaspé, 5705 avenue de Gaspé

new-wave icon Edith Nylon to Canadian singer-songwriter Feist, the talent on display is truly staggering.

Then there are side events such as Film POP, Art POP, Kids POP, Puces POP and POP Symposium — the last of which includes talks on such topics as “Do I Need a Lawyer? Free Legal Clinic for Musicians” and “Maximize Your Earnings: The Importance of Accurate Metadata.” Especially for a ﬁrst-time attendee, it’s hard to know where to begin.

Never fear! Your friendly neighborhood music editor is here to ease the uninitiated into the incredible world of POP Montréal. So dig out your passport and read on for a day-by-day primer on the fun to be had in the musical metropolis to our north. ➆

e Spirit of the Beehive, Winter, 8 p.m. $20. Philadelphia band the Spirit of the Beehive mix post-punk deconstructionism with samples and elements of dream pop to create an almost futuristic take on indie rock. Fresh o releasing its latest record, You’ll Have to Lose Something, on Saddle Creek, the band is high on my list of can’t-miss shows at POP Montréal, especially considering that its current tour doesn’t stop anywhere in the Green Mountains. Brazilian American artist Samira Winter also performs.

WHERE: Les Foufounes Électriques, 87 rue Sainte-Catherine Est

ALSO ON WEDNESDAY: Other highlights include Iris Dement and Portuguese Canadian singer-songwriter Nico Paulo at Théâtre Rialto.

THURSDAY,

SEPTEMBER 26

Basia Bulat, 6:30 p.m. $20. JUNO Award-nominated Basia Bulat’s music perches precariously on the line between DIY indie folk and R&B-ﬂavored soul. She dropped her ﬁrst album, Oh, My Darling,

e Spirit of the Beehive

Atsuko Chiba

GUIDE

is article is part of a travel series on Québec. e province’s destination marketing organization, Bonjour Québec, is a ﬁnancial underwriter of the project but has no inﬂuence over story selection or content. Find the complete series plus travel tips at sevendaysvt.com/quebec.

shows in its decade of existence. But Montréal psych-rockers Atsuko Chiba, who last played the Vermont fest in 2019, just might have been the best. They tore up the stage at the Monkey House with their propulsive, post-punk/prog synthesis. I wouldn’t pass up the chance to see them on their home turf, especially when they’re on the bill with Toronto math rockers Luge, Atlanta groove merchants CDSM and Montréal indiepop outﬁt Night Lunch.

on Rough Trade Records in 2007, not long after moving from her native London, Ont., to Montréal. Americans might not realize how big Bulat is across the border, so it’s best to secure tickets in advance.

WHERE: Rialto Rooftop stage, 5723 avenue du Parc

Luge, CDSM, Atsuko Chiba, Night Lunch, 8:30 p.m. $15.

It would be cruel to make me pick the top performance I’ve ever witnessed at Waking Windows. The annual indie-rock fest in Winooski has had some legendary

WHERE: l’Escogriffe Bar Spectacle, 4461 rue Saint-Denis

ALSO ON THURSDAY: Montréal hip-hop crew

Nomadic Massive celebrate their 20th anniversary by headlining a giant block party at MDP sur De Gaspé.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Céréales Dauphin, Fyore, Dead Gowns, Cedric Noel, 8 p.m. $15.

Though POP has featured Vermont bands over the years, the closest we have to a local rep this year is Portland, Maine, singersongwriter Geneviève Beaudoin, aka Dead Gowns. Freelance music writer Jordan Adams reviewed the latest Dead Gowns record How last December, dubbing Beaudoin a “charismatic protagonist” whose writing “balances empathetic observations about the world she inhabits with introspective musings on her inner life.” She joins Sainte-Thérèse quintet Céréales Dauphin, a band channeling ’70s Québécois pop rock; Montréal bassist and songwriter Cedric Noel; and Canadian Togolese singer Fyore.

WHERE: L’Hémisphère Gauche, 221 rue

Beaubien Est

Dead Gowns

music+nightlife

Mannie Fresh, Egyptian Lover, Sydanie, THOT SQUAD, 11 p.m. $25.

New Orleans producer Mannie Fresh is a legendarily gifted DJ and hitmaker, known for his work with Cash Money Records. He’s crafted tunes for rappers Lil Wayne, Juvenile and the Notorious B.I.G. — and released his own music with collaborators such as Birdman, Lil Jon and Rick Ross. In a dream pairing, Fresh shares the bill with Los Angeles DJ and rapper Egyptian Lover, who’s been rocking turntables and an 808 since 1979. They’re joined by Toronto rapper Sydanie and epically weird Flint, Mich., hip-hop outﬁt THOT SQUAD.

WHERE: Piccolo Rialto, 5723 avenue du Parc

ALSO ON FRIDAY: Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, a documentary following the friendship of the Mars Volta founders Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric BixlerZavala, plays at Cinéma Moderne.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

STARS, the Dears 20th Anniversary Shows, 8 p.m. $40.

Two of Montréal’s most legendary bands are celebrating the 20th anniversaries of their respective landmark records. The Dears released their indie-rock opus No Cities Left in 2004, a lush record full of grandeur and searing rock. That same year, STARS dropped their timeless LP Set Yourself on Fire , featuring the breakthrough hit “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead.” One of the marquee events of POP Montréal, it’ll be a night of looking back in appreciation on some of the city’s ﬁnest exports.

WHERE: éâtre Rialto, 5723 avenue du Parc

Calexico House Show, 7:30 p.m. $200. What trip is complete without a little mystery? In one of the most intriguing prospects on the POP bill, Arizona indierock band Calexico play an intimate house show to raise funds for the festival. True sonic chameleons, the Grammy Awardnominated duo typically graces much bigger festival stages, such as those at Coachella, Bonnaroo and Glastonbury. What gives the show a sense of mystery, you wonder? No one knows where it will be! Well, I assume the band does. But for fans, they’ll have to wait until the day of the secret-ish show to ﬁnd out.

WHERE: Remains to be seen!

ALSO ON SATURDAY: Population II, J.R.C.G., Bonnie Trash and Poolgirl at Quai des brumes.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Patrick Watson’s Sacred Sunday, Série Nature, 11:30 a.m. $25.

Most of the big shows wrap up by Saturday night, but Sunday still has plenty to o er. For the early risers, Canadian singersongwriter Patrick Watson performs a morning set that’s free for families with kids — and holds a meet and greet to boot. Before Watson takes the stage, the David Suzuki Foundation presents a three-part educational program titled Série Nature, focusing on the ﬂora and fauna around Lake Champlain and soapstone carving with professional Inuit artists. It’s a wholesome way to close out ﬁve days of music — assuming you made it through the whole fest!

WHERE: MDP sur De Gaspé, 5705 avenue de Gaspé

ALSO ON SUNDAY: “Don’t Yell. Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Non-Comedy Places” at Fabergé.

INFO

POP Montréal, Wednesday, September 25, to Sunday, September 29, at various locations around Mile End. Various prices. popmontreal.com

Calexico

Mannie Fresh

CLUB DATES

live music

WED.18

Adirondack Jazz Ensemble (jazz) at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free.

BBQ and Bluegrass (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

BYLAND, Kris Gruen (indie rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

Courtyard Music Series: Moonbird (indie rock) at Halvorson’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Donations.

David Karl Roberts (singer-songwriter) at Two Heroes Brewery Public House, South Hero, 6 p.m. Free.

Jazz Sessions (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Live Jazz (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Live Music Wednesdays & Tacos (weekly music series) at the Tillerman, Bristol, 5 p.m. Free.

ree Piece Meal (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5/$10.

Willverine (electronic) at the Wallﬂower Collective, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

THU.19

CINEMARTYR, Spaisekult, Speak of the Witch, Sad Turtle (indie rock) at Despacito, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

Doom Flamingo, Cal Humberto (rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $22/$27.

e Faerie Godbrothers (Americana, jazz) at Black Flannel Brewing & Distilling, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

Frankie & the Fuse (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Friedman and Quigley Duo (jazz) at Hugo’s, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free.

George Petit Quartet (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Jazz with Alex Stewart and Friends (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

JD Tolstoi (roots) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

Jesse Agan (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. Free.

Jim Yeager (singer-songwriter) at Filling Station, Middlesex, 6 p.m. Free.

J.J. Booth (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free.

Lover’s Rock (soul) at Old Soul Design Shop, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. Free.

Luis and Tato (acoustic) at Two Heroes Brewery Public House, South Hero, 6 p.m. Free.

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One of the most cerebral comedians around today, HARI KONDABOLU isn’t one to refrain from complex topics, nor is he content to stay in a single lane. The Brooklyn standup is a regular on the mega-popular NPR news quiz show “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me,” cohosts the Netﬂix food series “Snack vs Chef” and has hosted his own podcasts, including “Politically Re-Active” with W. Kamau Bell. He tackled the issue of stereotypes, even in beloved cartoons such as “The Simpsons,” with his 2017 documentary, The Problem With Apu. As clever as he is funny, Kondabolu performs at the Barre Opera House this Friday, September 20.

Mabe Fratti (indie, experimental) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15/$18.

FRI.20

90 Proof (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Alma Picante & Jah Red (salsa) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Bent Nails House Band (rock, blues) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free.

Brandon Frenyea (acoustic) at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6 p.m. Free.

Bull & Prairie (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Chicky Stoltz (rock) at Hugo’s, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Dale and Darcy (folk) at Two Heroes Brewery Public House, South Hero, 7 p.m. Free.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

David Karl Roberts (singersongwriter) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Dean Johnson, Sluice (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20/$25.

Dipped in Moonlight (jam) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Elizabeth Begins (acoustic) at Gusto’s, Barre, 6 p.m. Free.

Girls Girls Girls (big band) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Jamie Lee urston (country) at the Green at Essex Experience, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $10/$20.

John Lackard Blues Band (blues) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8 p.m. Free.

Karl Miller and the Instrumentals (acoustic) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free.

Kitbash, Will Keeper, Linkboy (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $10.

Krishna Guthrie (folk) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

e Lloyd Tyler Band (folk) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 7 p.m. Free.

LNSU (rock) at Standing Stone Wines, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

Matty & Me (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Nancy Johnson (singersongwriter) at Poultney Pub, 6 p.m. Free.

Phantom Suns, Trashﬁre, Shabadu (rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free.

Rap Night Burlington (hip-hop) at Drink, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

Ray’s Used Cars (roots) at Arrowhead Lodge, Milton, 7 p.m. Free.

Sanctuary Muttz, the Tim Jennings Trio (folk) at the Den at Harry’s Hardware, Cabot, 7 p.m. Free.

Sticks & Stones (rock) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Tiffany Pfeiffer (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

TRS Live: Morning Giants ‘Eccentric Beasts’ Album Release & Live Recording (live recording, metal) at Tank Recording Studio, Burlington, 7 & 9 p.m. $35-60.

Two for Flinching (acoustic) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

e Wildwoods, Cricket Blue (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. $18/$22.

SAT.21

Apollo Suns (rock, jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10:30 p.m. $10/$15.

BoyzN eWoodz (hip-hop) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

C-Groove (jam) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Chris Finn (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free.

Draa Hobbs Trio (jazz) at Hugo’s, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Electronic Waves of Contemplative Rhythm (electronic, ambient) at Old Soul Design Shop, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Femme Fest III: Peg Tassey & the Loud Flowers, Melovictoria, the Champlain Shoregasm, Burly Girlies (indie rock) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

Frankie White (folk) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10.

Glass Onion (Beatles tribute) at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 p.m. Free.

Hotel Fiction, Kiley Latham, Elijah Johnston (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $12/$15.

Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Live Music Saturdays (live music series) at Dumb Luck Pub & Grill, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free.

Lokye & Guests (hip-hop) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free.

Matt Hagen (acoustic) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Paper Castles, Osage Orange (indie) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Sarah Bell (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Shane’s Apothecary (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Shannon Curtis (singer-songwriter) at Double E Performance Center’s T-Rex eater, Essex, 7 p.m. $30.

She Was Right (acoustic) at Two Heroes Brewery Public House, South Hero, 7 p.m. Free.

Steve Hartmann (singersongwriter) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Talisk (folk) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $20/$25.

Toast (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free. TURNmusic presents ‘Replaying the Tape’ with Dr. Jane Boxall (percussion, tape track) at the Phoenix, Waterbury, 7:30 p.m. $15-30 suggested donation; free for students under 21.

Wild Roots (folk) at the Den at Harry’s Hardware, Cabot, 7 p.m. Free.

SUN.22

Jeff & Gina (covers) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Mike Mac, Laura Cheadle (rock) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsﬁeld, 1 p.m. Free. Sunday Brunch Tunes (singersongwriter) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.

MON.23

Tiny Habits, Reid Parsons (indie) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $20/$25.

TUE.24

Big Easy Tuesdays with Jon McBride (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Bloodroot Gap (bluegrass) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsﬁeld, 5 p.m. Free. Bluegrass Jam (bluegrass) at Poultney Pub, 7 p.m. Free. Grateful Tuesdays (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10/$20.

FRI.20 // HARI KONDABOLU [COMEDY]

music+nightlife

live music

Honky Tonk Tuesday with Uncle River (country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

Jay Southgate (vibraphone) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 5 p.m. Free.

Shane McGrath (folk) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

WED.25

AmerikanaBlue (bluegrass) at North Hero House Inn & Restaurant, 5:30 p.m. Free.

BBQ and Bluegrass (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Gemma Laurence, Aida O’Brien, Julia Randall (folk) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10/$15.

Jazz Sessions (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Live Jazz (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Live Music Wednesdays & Tacos (weekly music series) at the Tillerman, Bristol, 5 p.m. Free.

Tim Fitzgerald (singer-songwriter) at Two Heroes Brewery Public House, South Hero, 6 p.m. Free. Willverine (electronic) at the Wallflower Collective, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

djs

WED.18

Dance Party with DJ Chia (DJ) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Mildew (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Local Dork (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

The Mid Week Hump with DJs Fattie B and Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.19

All Ears (DJ) at the Big Spruce, Richmond, 6 p.m. Free.

Country & Western Thursdays (country, DJ) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

DJ Chaston (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

DJ Two Sev (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

Vinyl Night with Ken (DJ) at Poultney Pub, 6 p.m. Free.

FRI.20

Blanchface (DJ) at Einstein’s Tap House, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ JamStar (DJ) at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 p.m. Free.

DJ Kata (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Back for a third year, Femme Fest III features four femalefronted Burlington-area rock bands that are ready to get loud. Feminist punk quartet BURLY GIRLIES bring their no-holdsbarred, unbridled aggression and chaotic live show to the stage. The CHAMPLAIN SHOREGASM combine punk energy with an indie-folk sound as they move in and out of shoegaze reverie and high-energy stomp. They’re joined by alt-rock outfit

MELOVICTORIA and headliners PEG TASSEY & THE LOUD FLOWERS (pictured), who curated the event. Check it out on Saturday, September 21, at ArtsRiot in Burlington.

DJ Liv (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 10 p.m. $10.

DJ Taka (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10/$15.

DJ Two Rivers (DJ) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

SAT.21

DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, midnight. Free.

DJ Broosha (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10/$15.

DJ Chia (DJ) at Einstein’s Tap House, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Raul (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Gimme Gimme Disco (dance party) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $20/$25.

Matt Payne (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Molly Mood (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

SUN.22

Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJ Big Dog (reggae, dancehall) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

TUE.24

Green Door Studio Presents: Third Thursday Hip-Hop Night (hip-hop) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

The Vanguard: Jazz on Vinyl (DJ) at Paradiso Hi-Fi, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.25

DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Mildew (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Local Dork (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

open mics & jams

WED.18

Bluegrass Jam (bluegrass open jam) at Stone’s Throw, Richmond, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Irish Sessions (Celtic, open mic) at Burlington St. John’s Club, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic (open mic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Danny Lang (open mic) at Poultney Pub, 7 p.m. Free.

TURNmusic: September Jazz Jam (jazz jam) at the Phoenix, Waterbury, 6 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation.

THU.19

Open Mic (open mic) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Open Mic (open mic) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8 p.m. Free.

Open Stage Night (open mic) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

SUN.22

Olde Time Jam Session (open jam) at the Den at Harry’s Hardware, Cabot, noon. Free.

MON.23

Open Mic (open mic) at Despacito, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.24

Lit Club (poetry open mic) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Music Open Mic (open mic) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

Open Mic Night (open mic) at Drink, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

WED.25

Irish Sessions (Celtic, open mic) at Burlington St. John’s Club, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic (open mic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Danny Lang (open mic) at Poultney Pub, 7 p.m. Free.

comedy

WED.18

$5 Improv Night (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

Laugh Local VT Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at the Den, Williamstown, 7 p.m. Free.

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

THU.19

Gianmarco Soresi (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25.

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

trivia, karaoke, etc.

WED.18

’90s Music Trivia (trivia) at Old Soul Design Shop, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. Free.

Karaoke Night (karaoke) at Drink, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with Cam (karaoke) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 p.m. Free.

Musical Bingo (music bingo) at the Depot, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Musical Bingo (music bingo) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Alfie’s Wild Ride, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Rí Rá Irish Pub Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Venetian Trivia Night (trivia) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Wednesday Team Trivia (trivia) at Einstein’s Tap House, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

THU.19

Karaoke Night (karaoke) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. Free.

Live, Laugh, Lava: A Comedy Showcase (comedy) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5/$10.

Live Standup Comedy (comedy) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

FRI.20

Gianmarco Soresi (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. $25. Hari Kondabolu (comedy) at Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $28. Rusty DeWees (comedy) at Pittsford Village Farm, 7 p.m. $5-$15.

SAT.21

Five Leaves Comedy (comedy) at Standing Stone Wines, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

Gianmarco Soresi (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. $25.

Good Clean Fun (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $5/$10.

TUE.24

The Cafeteria Presents: Hot Lunch Tuesdays (comedy) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Three Leaves Comedy Showcase (comedy) at the 126, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.25

$5 Improv Night (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

Karaoke with Matt Mero (karaoke) at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. Free.

Music Trivia (music trivia) at Standing Stone Wines, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Radio Bean Karaoke (karaoke) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Summer Trivia with Katy (trivia) at Highland Lodge, Greensboro, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at McGillicuddy’s Five Corners, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia Thursday (trivia) at Spanked Puppy Pub, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

FRI.20

Karaoke Friday Night (karaoke) at Park Place Tavern & Grill, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with DJ Big T (karaoke) at McKee’s Pub & Grill, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

SUN.22

Karaoke with DJ Coco Entertainment (karaoke) at Old Soul Design Shop, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5 p.m. Free.

Sunday Funday (games) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, noon. Free.

SAT.21 // FEMME FEST III [INDIE ROCK]

Eye on the Scene

Last week’s live music highlights from photographer Luke Awtry

THE LISTENING ROOM: RYAN MONTBLEAU, MARIGOLD GALLERY, BURLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12: As Nectar’s Grateful Tuesdays and Radio Bean’s Queer Takeover have shown, a semi-regular music series can draw in a crowd as much as the performers themselves. e Listening Room, a longtime dream of musician-painter Giovanina Bucci — the Nina of folk trio Nina’s Brew — has already nailed it. Her Marigold Gallery in Burlington hosted its second sold-out show last week, putting Ryan Montbleau of Yes Darling behind closed doors with a crowd not afraid to ask questions between songs. While the series is not fully intended to be an AMA, conversation is encouraged. Montbleau graciously responded to some queries while gracefully deﬂecting others with a smile, a story, or another well-written and beautifully sung original song. I came for the music — and the snacks — and, indeed, left with a greater knowledge of the artist, even more respect for his work and a stomach full of chocolate.

Venetian Karaoke (karaoke) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Witch Perfect (drag, musical) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 4 p.m. $45/$70.

MON.23

Trivia Monday with Top Hat

Entertainment (trivia) at McKee’s Pub & Grill, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia with Brain (trivia) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8 p.m. Free.

Trivia with Craig Mitchell (trivia) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.24

Godfather Karaoke (karaoke) at the Other Half, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Karaoke Night (karaoke) at Alﬁe’s Wild Ride, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free.

Karaoke Tuesdays (karaoke) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with DJ Party Bear (karaoke) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Music Bingo (music bingo) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

Taproom Trivia (trivia) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at the Depot, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Tuesday (trivia) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free.

Tuesday Trivia (trivia) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.25

Karaoke After Dark (karaoke) at Old Soul Design Shop, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free.

Karaoke Night (karaoke) at Drink, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with Cam (karaoke) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 p.m. Free.

Musical Bingo (music bingo) at the Depot, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Musical Bingo (trivia) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Alﬁe’s Wild Ride, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Rí Rá Irish Pub Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Venetian Trivia Night (trivia) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Wednesday Team Trivia (trivia) at Einstein’s Tap House, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. ➆

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(Spotify mix of local jams)

1. “HOP ALONG” by Dipped in Moonlight

2. “LUNACY” by Shiny New Toyz

3. “DONE PARTY SOME” by James Kochalka Superstar

4. “NIHILISM” by COOKED

5. “LET IT ALL GO” by Conswank

6. “GET PUNKED” by Torn, Split in Half

7. “JINX” by the Burning Sun Scan to listen sevendaysvt. com/playlist

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G Hanz, SUPLEXUS

(SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

Instrumental hip-hop is not a hugely lucrative line of work. Even some of the biggest names in the business are earning a middle-class income at best. Making beats, then, is largely a labor of love, a subculture full of fanatics. Plattsburgh, N.Y., producer G Hanz is a proud part of that subculture, and his latest project, SUPLEXUS, is proof. Densely referential and grounded in a long tradition of sound wizards ﬂipping samples and drums, the album is his best yet. Plattsburgh has been having a minor hip-hop renaissance in recent years,

spearheaded by the work of the Joint Commission, an extended crew with whom G Hanz has been collaborating. His previous instrumental LP, The Streetlight Era, was an ice castle of synth sequencing and planet-size trap drums. Which is to say, highly enjoyable — but also very di erent from SUPLEXUS. Everything still sounds huge, but this is a return to the roots, a collage of chops and loops that’s full of nods to the greats who inﬂuenced his style.

How the album was made is most likely only of interest to fellow producers. To everyone else, all that matters is whether the beats are hitting. The verdict: This man is a top-tier technician, and if you enjoy the

Larynx, Ma troisième émergence

(BONBONBON, VINYL, DIGITAL)

One of my favorite things about living near the Canadian border is catching stray Québecois radio stations as I drive north. Maybe it triggers a sense of exoticism to hear songs in French, or maybe I’m just excited to be free from American corporate radio programming.

On a recent such drive, one of the stations o ered up a song so good I had to take the next exit and do some internet sleuthing. A dreamy, folk-leaning tune with vocals that seemed suspended in midair, “Un criss de beau beam” hit me right between the eyes and settled into my brain like early morning fog. The band was called Larynx and hailed from Montréal, so I made a note to investigate further. And then, as a music editor juggling a lot of albums, I forgot all about revisiting the Canadian record. Fortunately, good music often gives you a second chance. While scrolling the lineup of this year’s POP Montréal (see our festival guide, page 56), I spotted Larynx’s name. And they weren’t just

performing; they were celebrating the release of their new record, Ma troisième émergence (“my third emergence”), which dropped on September 13. Très magniﬁque!

While “Un criss de beau beam,” from Larynx’s 2022 record J’aimais mieux les maquettes, was thoroughly charming, it didn’t prepare me for the gorgeous pop-meets-folkmeets-indie-rock grandeur that is Ma troisième émergence. Opening track “Rêve le fun” is an explosion of melody and swirling colors, dreamlike with that late-career Beatles mix of whimsy and rawness. It sets the stage for the next 10 tracks, which form a record as complete and ﬂowing as I’ve heard in a while. It’s a truly moving listen from start to ﬁnish that, stylistically, rarely stays in one place. Second track “La course folle” has elements of late ’70s English folk, like a French-speaking Pentangle, while “Lac Guilbault” crosses a bistro jazz vibe with quirky, Belle and Sebastian-like pop. “Je sais pas comment me tanner” comes in with a distorted push of octave-linked guitars and the tiniest hint of prog rock before dissolving into a soundscape solo. It’s a high-wire act of songwriting

genre, his work is very much worth your time. This is a bright, fast-moving and engaging playlist — and an unusually accessible beat tape.

That’s not to say G Hanz is playing it safe. He’s a big fan of jarring transitions that still somehow work. There are some audaciously sharp turns on SUPLEXUS, but the producer is a conﬁdent composer with a big range. Opener “Head Case” is some bruising ﬁlth that sounds like El-P making a beat for Cypress Hill. It crashes into the colorful and laid-back “Eye Spy,” and then things get even smoother on “Speak Easy,” a tripped-out pop song with an R&B intro and a trap outro.

Not only is the sequencing surprising, but everything is layered with vocal samples and ﬂamboyant e ects work. This is a carefully considered album, a proper listening experience rather than a collection of beats without rappers.

The unifying thread here is twofold. First and foremost, everything bumps. SUPLEXUS sounds superb, from my headphones to my studio monitors to my badly beaten car stereo. Second, G Hanz has an educated melodic ear that sets him apart from most of his peers. No matter which subgenre he takes a detour into, it’s a genuinely musical arrangement — and catchy, too.

I hope this latest beat tape gets G Hanz the attention of artists far aﬁeld from the Champlain Valley. His product is impressive and his potential is immense. With two back-to-back heaters under his belt in the past year, he’s clearly just getting started. His competition may not be able to ignore him by this time next year.

SUPLEXUS is available on SoundCloud.

at times, and the band never so much as twitches as it plays out the record with equal parts invention and grace.

Larynx is the project of guitarist and songwriter Alexandre Larin, who also fronted Montréal rock outﬁt Rust Eden. Inspired by fellow Montréal acts such as CHOCOLAT, Larin started writing and singing in French on his latest project. Though Larynx skews closer to folk than to the freak rock of CHOCOLAT, both bands share an adventurous side common to Montréal music. Look no

further than the series of U-turns and twists in Larynx’s “Faire semblant.” This eighth track vacillates between a playful verse and a massive indie-rock chorus that wouldn’t be out of place on a Radiohead record.

It all makes Ma troisième émergence a captivating listen. As part of POP Montréal, the band celebrates the album’s release with a performance on Wednesday, September 25, at La Sala Rossa. Stream it on Bandcamp. CHRIS FARNSWORTH

Larynx

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calendar

SEPTEMBER 18-25, 2024

WED.18

business

QUEEN CITY BUSINESS NETWORKING INTERNATIONAL GROUP: Savvy businesspeople make crucial contacts at a weekly chapter meeting. BCA Center, Burlington, 11:15 a.m.1 p.m. Free. Info, 829-5066.

community

SCAVENGER HUNT IN STOWE: Folks put on their detective caps, grab a map at the library and search the town for stickers. Prizes include hotel stays and goods from local merchants. Stowe Free Library. Free. Info, 253-6145.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS DESK: SAFE HARBOR AND HOWARD CENTER: Representatives post up in the main reading room to answer questions and provide resources. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

FACING CHANGE: LIFE’S TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS: A small group gathers and shares resources to support one another in times of upheaval. 4-5:15 p.m. $5-25 suggested donation. Info, 825-8141, ritesofpassagevt@ gmail.com.

crafts

YARN CRAFTERS GROUP: A drop-in meetup welcomes knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers and other fiber artists. BYO snacks and drinks. Must Love Yarn, Shelburne, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3780.

dance

‘YOU LOOK LIKE A FUN GUY’: New York company Dance Heginbotham embodies the life cycle of a mushroom against a score inspired by John Cage. Dartmouth College Golf Course, Hanover, N.H., 6:45-7:45 p.m. $30. Info, 603-646-2422.

environment

VERMONT LAND TRUST ANNUAL CELEBRATION: Conservationists enjoy an evening of trail walks, good food and community awards. Intervale Center, Burlington, 4:30-7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 262-3765. etc.

CHAMP MASTERS TOASTMASTER CLUB: Those looking to strengthen their speaking and leadership skills gain new tools. Online option available. Dealer.com, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 735-1836.

These community event listings are sponsored by the WaterWheel Foundation, a project of the Vermont band Phish.

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All submissions must be received by Thursday at noon for consideration in the following Wednesday’s newspaper. Find our convenient form and guidelines at sevendaysvt.com/postevent

Listings and spotlights are written by Rebecca Driscoll Seven Days edits for space and style. Depending on cost and other factors, classes and workshops may be listed in either the calendar or the classes section. Class organizers may be asked to purchase a class listing.

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

film

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

ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN FILM SERIES: ‘LOST SILVERFISH OF BERLIN’: In Rory Ryder’s 2024 documentary, the filmmaker explores the potential of a forgotten building as a societal housing solution. Virtual option available. 118 Elliot, Brattleboro, & Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, adfilmseries@gmail.com.

‘BLUE WHALES: RETURN OF THE GIANTS 3D’: Andy Serkis narrates the journey of a lifetime into the realm of the world’s largest mammals and the scientists who study them. 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, $16.50-20; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘FUNGI: THE WEB OF LIFE 3D’: Sparkling graphics take viewers on a journey into the weird, wide world of mushrooms, which we are only just beginning to understand. 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, $16.50-20; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: Scientists dive into the planet’s least-explored habitat, from its sunny shallows to its alien depths. 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, $16.50-20; admission

free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: Through the power of special cameras, audiences are transported into the world of the teeniest animals 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, $16.50-20; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

food & drink

DANVILLE FARMERS MARKET: Villagers shop local from various vendors handing out fruits, veggies and prepared foods. Danville Village Green, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, cfmamanager@gmail.com.

SIP & SAVOR: FALL WINE DINNER: Carefully crafted food menus pair with vintage wines to highlight the depth and elegance of flavor. Basin Harbor, Vergennes, 6-8:30 p.m. $160. Info, 475-2311.

WHAT’S THAT WINE

WEDNESDAYS: Aspiring sommeliers blind-taste four wines from Vermont and beyond. Shelburne Vineyard, noon-6 p.m. $15. Info, 985-8222.

games

CHESS CLUB: Players of all ages and abilities test their skills with instructor Robert and peers. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

PUZZLE SWAP: Participants bring completed puzzles in a ziplock bag with an image of the puzzle and swap for a new one. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 2:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA: Waterbury Public Library instructor Diana Whitney leads at-home participants in gentle stretches supported by seats. 10 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

language

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS AND INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: Learners of all abilities practice written and spoken English with trained instructors. Presented by Fletcher Free Library. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

the Tee patio for a monthly series featuring local and regional acts. Anyone with an instrument is welcome to join the jam. Ralph Myhre Golf Course, Middlebury, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5125.

JAZZ ESSENTIALS: The swinging ensemble featuring seasoned Vermont musicians plays the music of Duke Ellington and a few traditional New Orleans-style tunes. Stone Valley Arts, Poultney, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, stonevalleyartscenter@ gmail.com.

québec

‘SAKURA’: Canadian troupe Centaur Theatre stages a nostalgia-filled comedy reimagining Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard for the 21st century. Centaur Theatre, Montréal, 8 p.m. $30-68. Info, 514-288-3161.

sports

GREEN MOUNTAIN TABLE TENNIS

CLUB: Ping-Pong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Rutland Area Christian School, 7-9 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.

talks

ANNETTE EBERLE & LUTZ

KAELBER: The Miller Center for Holocaust Studies presents two leading scholars on the topic of “Children Considered ‘Unworthy of Life’ and Nazi ‘Racial Hygiene.’” Room 325, John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3180.

WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO: A FORUM ON LIVING & DYING WELL: Palliative care panelists and an elder-law attorney invite guests to “Eat cake. Talk death. Live better” in a candid conversation. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

words

BROOKE HARRINGTON: In an eye-opening chat with writer Chuck Collins, the Dartmouth College professor and author of Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism uncovers secrets about democracy and capitalism. Norwich Bookstore, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

and Catamount Radio. Deer Park, Bennington, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 442-6376.

HIRING2DAYVT VIRTUAL

JOB FAIR: Time for a new gig? The Vermont Department of Labor offers a meet and greet with employers from around the state. 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 828-4000. SEPTEMBER MIXER: Franklin County Industrial Development hosts a tour of PurposeEnergy, which turns Ben & Jerry’s waste into electricity. After, unwind with local food and drinks under a tent. Franklin County Industrial Park, St. Albans, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10-15; preregister. Info, 524-2444.

climate crisis

BOOK DISCUSSION: Readers swap ideas and inspirations gleaned from All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson. Zoom option available. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

community

SCAVENGER HUNT IN STOWE: See WED.18.

crafts

KNIT FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR: All ages and abilities knit or crochet hats and scarves for the South Burlington Food Shelf. Materials are provided. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

KNITTING GROUP: Knitters of all experience levels get together to spin yarns. Latham Library, Thetford, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

WOODWORKING LAB: Visionaries experiment, collaborate, create a project or learn a new skill with the help of mentors and access to tools and equipment in the makerspace. Hannaford Career Center, Middlebury, 5-8 p.m. $7.50. Info, 382-1012.

dance

‘YOU LOOK LIKE A FUN GUY’: See WED.18.

etc.

FIND MORE LOCAL EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND ONLINE:

art

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

film

See what’s playing in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/music.

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LANGUAGE LUNCH: SPANISH: ¿Hablas español? Conversationalists of all levels practice over bagged lunches. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

SPANISH CONVERSATION: Fluent and beginner speakers brush up on their vocabulario with a discussion led by a Spanish teacher. Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@damlvt.org.

music

BLUES JAM: Musicians singin’ the blues take over the Tavern on

SILENT READING PARTY: Bookworms unite — quietly, of course! BYO reading material to savor in peace and quiet. Stone’s Throw, Waterbury, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

SY MONTGOMERY: The author behind Of Time and Turtles joins her illustrator, Matt Patterson, and bookstore tortoise Veruca for a wild talk about nature and animals. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

THU.19

business

BENNINGTON JOB FEST: Job seekers meet with employers who are actively hiring at this outdoor event sponsored by the Vermont Department of Labor, HireAbility

EQUINOX ASTROLOGY MEETUP: Community members interested in the divinatory practice contemplate the qualities of time and use celestial objects to guide energy back into balance. Bring a pen and journal. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:15-6:45 p.m. Free. Info, welcome@home-body.co.

PAWS IN THE PARK: Furry friends and their humans celebrate Franklin County Animal Rescue’s 60th anniversary, replete with a doggy costume contest. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 4:30-7:30 p.m. $25-75. Info, 524-9650.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘BLUE WHALES: RETURN OF THE GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

FAMI LY FU N

Check out these family-friendly events for parents, caregivers and kids of all ages.

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WED.18

burlington

ART EXPLORERS: Young creatives learn about art history and self-expression at this homeschooler-friendly program from Davis Studio. Ages 5 through 14. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403.

TODDLER TIME: Librarians bring out books, rhymes and songs specially selected for young ones 12 through 24 months. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

BABYTIME: Caregivers and infants from birth through age 1 gather to explore board books and toys. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

GAME ON!: Young competitors vie in Nintendo Switch games, including Mario Kart, Super Mario Party and Overcooked, on the big screen. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

STEM ADVENTURE: Hands-on, kid-friendly experiments in science, technology, engineering, arts and math spark learning and creativity for the whole family. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

mad river valley/ waterbury

TEEN HANGOUT: Middle and high schoolers make friends at a no-pressure meetup. Waterbury Public Library, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

THU.19

burlington

BABY & ME CLASS: Parents and their infants ages birth to 1 explore baby massage, lullabies and gentle movements while discussing the struggles and joys of parenthood. Greater Burlington YMCA, 9:45-10:45 a.m. $10; free for members. Info, 862-9622.

BABYTIME: Pre-walking little ones experience a story time catered to their infant interests. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

GROW PRESCHOOL YOGA: Colleen from Grow Prenatal and Family Yoga leads little ones ages 2 through 5 in songs, movement and other fun activities. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden

county

MIDDLE SCHOOL MAKERS: COOKING: Students in grades 5 through 8 make delicious homemade dishes. South

Touch-a-Duck

Back by popular demand, Pasture Pals at Springfield’s VINE Sanctuary offers children the opportunity to have hands-on animal experiences through the lens of humane education. Each session is led by a local teacher and focuses on how empathy is at the heart of coexisting with our furry and feathered friends. When the lesson concludes, kids participate in (fun?!) farm chores while interacting with the creatures around them. The sanctuary is home to many distinguished faces, including unique fowl you won’t see every day, like the prehistoric and flightless emu. And please, no food — the goats will find it!

PASTURE PALS

Saturday, September 21, 10 a.m.-noon, at VINE Sanctuary in Springfield. See website for future dates through October 5. Free. Info, 885-4017, vinesanctuary.org.

Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC WITH LINDA

BASSICK: The singer and storyteller extraordinaire guides kids in indoor music and movement. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

PRESCHOOL PLAYTIME: Pre-K patrons play and socialize after music time. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

STORY TIME: Little ones from birth through age 5 learn from songs, crafts and picture books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

POKÉMON CLUB: I choose you, Pikachu! Elementary and teenage fans of the franchise — and beginners, too — trade cards and play games. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

stowe/smuggs

WEE ONES PLAY TIME: Caregivers bring kiddos 3 and younger to a new sensory learning experience each week. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

mad river valley/ waterbury

BUSY BEES PLAYGROUP: Blocks, toys, books and songs engage little ones 24 months and younger. Waterbury Public Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

rutland/killington

CUB SCOUT KICKOFF: Prospective scouts and their families engage in STEM activities and learn more about joining Pack 120. Rutland Moose Lodge, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, pack120rutland@gmail.com.

northeast kingdom

STORY TIME: Youngsters 5 and under play, sing, hear stories and color. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 745-1391.

upper valley

STORY TIME: Preschoolers take part in tales, tunes and playtime. Latham Library, Thetford, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

TEEN ZINE NIGHT: Cartoonist Daryl Seitchik guides DIYers as they create passion-project booklets. Ages 13 to 20. Junction Arts & Media, White River Junction, 5-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 295-6688.

northeast kingdom

YOUNG ARTISTS: Petite Picassos tap into their creative sides during fun art projects. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

SAT.21

burlington

NET-ZERO ENERGY FESTIVAL: Families embark on an electrifying day of games, raffles, live music and Champ encounters. Bring your bike and receive a free tuneup! Burlington Electric Department, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7300.

SPLASH DANCE: Kids soak up some summer fun in the fountain while DJs spin family-friendly tracks. Burlington City Hall Park, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. STORIES WITH GEOFF: Little patrons of the library’s satellite location enjoy a morning of stories and songs. Fletcher Free Library New North End Branch, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

PERCUSSION DAY: Juilliard-trained Broadway veteran Nicola Cannizzaro leads young folks of all experience levels in grades 5 and up in basic techniques. Bring your sticks! Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 655-5030.

TEEN CRAFT: POM-POM GARLANDS: Participants learn to make colorful poofs, then string them together in a custom decoration for their room. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

middlebury area

FRI.20

chittenden county

LEGO BUILDERS: Each week, children ages 8 and older build, explore, create and participate in challenges. Children ages 6 to 8 are welcome with an adult. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

SWITCH: Patrons of all experience levels play on the library’s Nintendo video game console. Grades 3 through 8. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

LEGO CLUB: Budding builders create geometric structures with snap-together blocks. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Participants ages 5 and under enjoy thematic science, art and nature activities. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

ANGELA KUNKEL: The local author shares her new book, World More Beautiful: The Life and Art of Barbara Cooney — and a craft inspired by its subject. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 877-2211.

SATURDAY PLAYGROUP: Folks new to town or to parenting connect while their kids make friends. Vergennes Congregational Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 877-2435.

upper valley

OLD HOME DAY: Families enjoy a day of old-fashioned fun including lawn games, live music and everybody’s favorite — an apple pie contest. West Fairlee Village Green, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 781-718-6179.

SEPTEMBER ARTFEST: ARTISTREE’S COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE: Art lovers of all ages explore interactive exhibits, collaborative art projects and live musical performances during this festive event. Artistree Community Arts Center, South Pomfret, noon-3 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 457-3500.

FILM CLUB: Movie lovers and budding filmmakers watch, discuss and create cinematic masterpieces. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 533-2000.

‘FUNGI: THE WEB OF LIFE 3D’: See WED.18.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.18.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18. food & drink

FIRE CIDER WORKSHOP: Herbalist Marie Frohlich helps participants prepare for cold and flu season by crafting their own quart of a fiery liquid remedy. Brookfield Old Town Hall, 6-7:30 p.m. $5; preregister. Info, thygesenfam@aol.com.

FREE WINE TASTING: Themed wine tastings take oenophiles on an adventure through a region, grape variety, style of wine or producer’s offerings. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

games

BASIC BEGINNER BRIDGE: Newbies learn bidding, playing and scoring — and find out firsthand why the trick-taking game is so popular. Milton Public Library, 1-2:30 p.m. Free; space is limited; preregister. Info, 893-4644.

BASIC BRIDGE CLASS: Beginners learn the basics and make new friends in a social, amicable environment. Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, judi@waterburypubliclibrary. com.

DUPLICATE BRIDGE GAMES: Snacks and coffee fuel bouts of a classic card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 12:30-4 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722.

WEEKLY CHESS FOR FUN: Players of all ability levels face off and learn new strategies. United Community Church, St. Johnsbury, 5:30-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, lafferty1949@gmail.com.

health & fitness

QI GONG CLASS: Practice mindful movement with meditation and breath to strengthen the body, quiet the mind and balance the emotions. Waterbury Public Library, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, judi@ waterburypubliclibrary.com.

SOUND BATH SERIES: Journey through the seven chakras while healing sound vibrations restore harmony to the mind and body.

Practical Magick, Essex Junction, 6-7 p.m. $15. Info, 274-6671.

language

ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP:

Semi-fluent speakers practice their skills during a conversazione with others. Best for those who can speak at least basic sentences. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

music

BEN & JERRY’S CONCERTS ON THE GREEN: LAKE STREET DIVE: SOLD OUT. Higher Ground presents the joyously genre-defying band characterized by Rachael Price’s distinct and electrifying vocals. Shelburne Museum, 7 p.m. $65-69; free for ages 12 and under. Info, 652-0777.

FEAST & FIELD MUSIC SERIES: Farm-fresh foods and live tunes are on the menu at a weekly pastoral party in the orchard. Fable Farm, Barnard, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $525; $120-1,250 for season passes. Info, 234-1645.

NOAH KAHAN: SOLD OUT. Higher Ground presents the critically acclaimed Vermont singer-songwriter who pens and performs straight from the heart. Proceeds benefit the Busyhead Project Fund. Midway Lawn, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. $89-159. Info, 652-0777.

PIZZA BY THE POND: A wood-fired oven delivers all-you-can-eat pies made of local ingredients while musicians regale diners. Blueberry Hill Inn, Goshen, 5-8 p.m. $23-43; free for kids 7 and under. Info, info@blueberryhillinn.com.

ZOË KEATING: The Emmynominated cellist performs hauntingly beautiful compositions followed by a brief discussion. Proceeds support Full Circle Preschool. See calendar spotlight. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:30-9:45 p.m. $5-180; free for kids under 2. Info, hello@ ohavizedek.org.

québec

‘SAKURA’: See WED.18.

seminars

ESSENTIALS OF CAMERA

OPERATION: An informative evening examines the critical elements of photography and videography, covering topics from exposure to depth of field. The Media Factory, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $25 suggested donation; preregister. Info, 651-9692.

talks

WHAT IS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE?: Speakers from St. Johnsbury’s Community Restorative Justice Center — and folks who’ve been through its programs — offer an informative primer. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

tech

RAD HISTORY: HACKERS & FREE

SOFTWARE: Inquiring minds learn about the Free Software movement and how technology could work better for all of us. Laboratory B, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

theater

‘RHINOCÉROS’: The Parish Players stage Eugène Ionesco’s classic satire about the frenzy of mobs and the power of an individual conscience. East Thetford Pavilion, 7-9 p.m. $15-25. Info, 785-4344.

Swooning for Strings

SF Weekly describes cellist Zoë Keating as “a triple-shot of Absinthe before stepping outside of the bar just in time to see the sun exploding.” Although Burlington’s Ohavi Zedek Synagogue can’t promise three shots of the green liquor, the sentiment remains true for Keating’s sonorous concert benefiting Full Circle Preschool. Over the past 20 years, the artist — a Vermonter since 2017 — has solidified her place in strings history by creating cello compositions that are distinctively unclassifiable. A perfect synthesis of tradition and technology, her works exemplify unfaltering artistry in an era when commercialization dominates.

ZOË KEATING

Thursday, September 19, 7:30-8:45 p.m., at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue in Burlington. $5-180; free for kids under 2. Info, hello@ohavizedek.org, ohavizedek.org.

‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’: Six tweens attempt to spell their way to V-I-C-T-O-R-Y in a fast-paced and hilarious performance replete with audience participation. Artistree Community Arts Center, South Pomfret, 7-9 p.m. $35-40. Info, 457-3500.

words

DICK SMITH: Local history comes alive as the Manchester author of Ethan Allen and the Capture of Ticonderoga delivers an illustrated talk about Castleton events in May 1775. Castleton Community Center, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2967.

JAMES K. ZIMMERMAN: The author discusses his recent works, influenced by the Buddhist concepts of impermanence and no-self.

Norwich Bookstore, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

M.T. ANDERSON & ANN DÁVILA CARDINAL: The two award-winning authors discuss their latest novels, Nicked and We Need No Wings, respectively. A book signing follows. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.

STORY JAM: Community members recount an unrehearsed five-minute true story from their lives. Junction Arts & Media, White River Junction, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 295-6688.

FRI.20 community

SCAVENGER HUNT IN STOWE: See WED.18.

conferences

BRIDGING THE GAP: Families and educators share their experiences with foster, adoptive and residential care and parenting during Vermont Kin as Parents’ fall conference. Killington Grand Resort Hotel, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 871-5104.

WOMEN’S HEALTH AND CANCER CONFERENCE: Patients, health care providers, researchers and caregivers gather for a day of learning. The theme: “Oncology and the Environment.” Virtual

options available. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 656-8438.

film

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

‘3 WOMEN’: Film fans remember the late Shelley Duvall with one of her peak performances as the fast-talking, self-absorbed Millie in this 1977 classic. The Screening Room @ VTIFF, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 660-2600.

‘BLUE WHALES: RETURN OF THE GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

‘FUNGI: THE WEB OF LIFE 3D’: See WED.18.

‘LOST NATION’: Local filmmaker Jay Craven reimagines the tale of the Revolutionary War hero and founding father Ethan Allen and intersects his journey with that of African American poet and fellow Vermonter Lucy Terry Prince. Starksboro Village Meeting House, 6:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 748-2600.

MOVIE ON THE GREEN: ‘JURASSIC PARK’: It’s a roaring good time when locals gather with chairs and blankets to watch an outdoor showing of this 1993 blockbuster. Williston Town Green, 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.18.

TELLURIDE AT DARTMOUTH: Cinephiles screen seven flicks fresh from the prestigious Colorado film festival, including Memoir of a Snail and The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 & 7 p.m. $90 for a seven-film pass. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

FOMO?

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online: art

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

See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

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

food & drink

BEE’S KNEES WEEK: KICKOFF

EVENT: Gin enthusiasts enjoy specialty cocktails and a meet and greet with head distiller Ryan Christiansen. Barr Hill, Montpelier, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8000.

MUSIC, MAGIC & CHOCOLATES:

Adagio Chocolates celebrates its grand opening with bean-to-bar samples, light fare, raffles and live tunes. Proceeds support Vermont flood-relief efforts. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7-10 p.m. $15-55; cash bar. Info, chocolate@ adagiochocolates.com.

RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: Vendors present a diverse selection of locally produced foods and crafts as picnickers savor live music. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, rfmmanager@gmail.com.

STEAKHOUSE ADVENTURE

DINNER: Grass-fed steaks and whiskey drinks headline a fourcourse feast in a four-post barn. Grass Cattle owner Steve Schubart joins in the exploration of whole animal butchery. Adam’s Berry Farm, Charlotte, 5:30-9 p.m. $175 plus tax. Info, 248-224-7539.

games

DUPLICATE BRIDGE GAMES: See THU.19, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

MAH-JONGG: Tile traders of all experience levels gather for a game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

health & fitness

GUIDED MEDITATION

ONLINE: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library invites attendees to relax on their lunch breaks and reconnect with their bodies. Noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org.

PEOPLE WITH ARTHRITIS CAN EXERCISE: Active adults with stiffness and pain keep joints flexible, muscles strong and bodies energized with a weekly low-impact class. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

lgbtq

RPG NIGHT: Members of the LGBTQ community gather weekly for role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Everway. Rainbow Bridge Community Center, Barre, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 622-0692.

music

AVERY LAVOIE, LOST NATION

BAND & ERIN CASSELLS-BROWN: Indie music lovers gather for an evening of collaborative tunes by three Vermont acts. Firefolk Arts, Waitsfield, 7-9 p.m. $18. Info, firefolkarts@gmail.com.

BEN & JERRY’S CONCERTS ON THE GREEN: LAKE STREET DIVE: See THU.19.

CONCERT ON THE GREEN: THE STEPPES: Eclectic covers meet rock-fusion originals when this central Vermont five-piece

soundtracks the sunset. Camp Meade, Middlesex, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@campmeade. today.

ELOISE AND CO.: Fiddler Becky Tracy and accordionist Rachel Bell join forces with Québécois pianist Rachel Aucoin for an evening of spirited traditional folk tunes. Adamant Community Club, 7-9 p.m. $15. Info, 454-7103.

FIDDLE DISCO: Multiinstrumentalist Elias Alexander weaves together melodies from Celtic traditions with catchy beats and plays original songs with themes of alienation, belonging and queerness. Sable Project, Stockbridge, 6-8:30 p.m. $10-25 sliding scale. Info, bex@thesableproject.org.

FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC: BRETT HUGHES: The singer-songwriter brings bluegrass vibes to the weekly series while hungry listeners nosh on a charcuterie board or their own picnic provisions. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7368.

LIVE IN THE GARDENS MUSIC SERIES: CHRISTINE MALCOLM

BAND: Participants frolic through flower fields to cut fresh blooms while the mountain-folk outfit sets the scene and Gerbers Taco Truck fills bellies. Snaps and Sunflowers, Cambridge, 6-8 p.m. $8-25; free for kids under 12. Info, 735-3328.

PIZZA BY THE POND: See THU.19.

RAKISH AND THE EARLY RISERS: Contemporary duo Maura Shawn Scanlin and Conor Hearn join fellow folk act Ashley Storrow and Putnam Smith onstage for an exciting double bill. Livestream available. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 387-0102.

SATIN & STEEL: The Rutland/ Killington area’s longest-running rock horn band, founded in 1971, launches into hits by the likes of the Beatles, Tower of Power, and Blood, Sweat & Tears. Bayside Park, Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5643.

outdoors

FALL BIRDING: Folks of all interests and experience levels seek out feathered friends in flight. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7:30-9 a.m. Free. Info, 229-6206.

québec

‘SAKURA’: See WED.18.

talks

REBECCA HOLCOMBE: The Vermont state representative and former secretary of education discusses “What Happens to K-12 Public Eduction When We Are Not Really in This Together?” Virtual option available. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free for Education & Enrichment for Everyone members. Info, 343-5177. ROBERT WILSON: The director and artist invites listeners into his aesthetic universe and provides insight into his creative process. Bennington College, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, dreitz@bennington.edu.

SEP. 21 | FAIRS & FESTIVALS

Weaving Memories

The Fall Fiber Faire in Brownington is not your average autumnal offering. After all, how many events feature a stuffed animal hospital, an antique quilt show and vintage sewing machine repair? The overarching theme of the day, beyond the obvious — fiber — is resourcefulness, with an emphasis on sustainable crafting methods and upcycling. Festivalgoers find common threads at educational demonstrations by skilled fiber artists, as well as a kickoff keynote by Mary Ann Stewart. The inspiring stitcher highlights the perils of the fast-fashion industry and the importance of greener alternatives, such as repairing, reusing and mending clothes.

FALL FIBER FAIRE

Saturday, September 21, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m., at Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village in Brownington. $8-10 suggested donation. Info, 754-2022, oldstonehousemuseum.org.

tech

MORNING TECH HELP: Experts answer questions about phones, laptops, e-readers and other devices in one-on-one sessions. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-4140.

theater

‘RHINOCÉROS’: See THU.19.

‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’: See THU.19.

words

J. KEVIN GRAFFAGNINO: The author discusses his latest book, Ira Allen: A Biography, which shines new light on the politician’s prominent role in Vermont’s formative years. Northshire Bookstore,

Manchester, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2200.

SAT.21 bazaars

ARNOLD’S RESCUE CENTER

COMMUNITY MARKET: Visitors peruse a variety of food, crafts and other items to benefit the animals at the refuge. Arnold’s Rescue Center, Brownington, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 239-872-7333.

community

SCAVENGER HUNT IN STOWE: See WED.18.

EXPLORE ESSEX: Town pride is on full display at a community day featuring hayrides, music, magic shows, a Touch-a-Truck event, craft booths, baking contests and

learn to reduce symptoms of sorrow and strain while increasing resilience and stability. Barnet School, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 274-6400.

dance

CONTRA DANCE & WALTZING: Dancers of all ages and abilities learn in an environment that encourages joy, laughter and friendship. Bring clean, soft-soled shoes. Capital City Grange, Berlin, 7-11 p.m. $5-20. Info, 225-8921.

environment

INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP: Volunteers show the Porter Natural Area lakeside some love. Gloves, buckets and bags provided. Porter Natural Area, Colchester, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, info@rozaliaproject.org.

etc.

MINGLE AT THE MUSEUM

FUNDRAISER: Atom & the Orbits lend their modern rock-and-roll musical stylings to an evening of food, drink and dancing. Proceeds support museum operations. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, 5-7 p.m. $40-75. Info, 388-2117.

SPORT OF KINGS DAY: Lords and ladies experience the history, language and tradition of falconry. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free with regular admission, $16.50-19.50; free for members and children under 4. Info, 359-5000.

fairs & festivals

AFTERGLOW BENEFIT CONCERT: Organizers shine a light on suicide awareness with performances by King Me, Chin Ho and Quadra. Bring mementos for the memory wall to honor loved ones lost. Hard’ack Recreation Area, St. Albans, 1-9 p.m. $30-35; free for kids under 16 with an adult. Info, 363-4156.

FOMO?

games. Foster Road Park, Essex, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-1341.

FROM DOME TO HOME: Volunteers assemble wall sections that will be used to construct a new energy-efficient home in Barre during this inaugural wall-raising event hosted by Vermont Habitat for Humanity. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free, registration required. Info, 522-8611.

MRS. ROPER ROMP!: Attendees come and knock on the door of their favorite downtown spots, dressed as the iconic “Three’s Company” character. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 6-9 p.m. Free; donation to Planned Parenthood appreciated. Info, 369-5722.

STRESS REDUCTION GROUP FOR FLOOD DISTRESS: Community members affected by flooding

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online: art

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

film

See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

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

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CHESTER FESTIVAL ON THE GREEN: Festivalgoers flock to this extensive fall market now in its 50th year, featuring an array of regional artisans, local bites and live music. Chester Green, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, chesterfallfestival@gmail.com.

FALL FIBER FAIRE: This celebration of threads includes an antique quilt show, stuffed animal repair hospital and educational demonstrations by skilled fiber artists. See calendar spotlight. Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village, Brownington, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $8-10 suggested donation. Info, 754-2022.

FOREST FESTIVAL: Vermont’s only national park hosts horse-drawn wagon rides, woodcraft workshops, guided nature walks and other activities showcasing the forest

product cycle in action. MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3368.

LEBFEST: Community members celebrate life in the Upper Valley at a jam-packed day of activities featuring crafts, raffles, live music, and a local restaurant macand-cheese competition. Colburn Park, Lebanon, N.H., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, kristine.flythe@ lebanonnh.gov. film

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

‘BLUE WHALES: RETURN OF THE GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

‘THE FARM BOY’: Filmmaker George Woodward of Waterbury Center dreamed up this war-driven adventure set in 1944 Belgium.

Red Brick Meeting House, Westford, 6 p.m. $10 cash or check. Info, 878-8890.

‘FUNGI: THE WEB OF LIFE 3D’: See WED.18.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.18.

‘SPEEDY’: Composer Jeff Rapsis provides live accompaniment to this 1928 silent comedy starring Harold Lloyd as a baseball-crazed youth — with a cameo from Babe Ruth himself. Brandon Town Hall, 7 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 603-236-9237.

TELLURIDE AT DARTMOUTH: See FRI.20, 1, 4 & 7 p.m.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

food & drink

BEE’S KNEES WEEK: HONEY

DINNER: Fans of the hive enjoy

a special pairing of raw Vermont honey, cocktails and food while learning about the role of bees in our ecosystem. Barr Hill, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $65. Info, 472-8000.

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET:

Dozens of stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisanal wares and prepared foods. 345 Pine St., Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 560-5904.

CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, locally made arts and crafts, and live music. 133 State St., Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 272-6249.

ETHIOPIAN AND ERITREAN

CUISINE TAKEOUT DINNER: Foodies from the Old North End and beyond sample Mulu Tewelde’s spicy, savory, succulent

meals. Vegetarian options available; BYO bag. O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. $2324. Info, 881-9933.

OKTOBERFEST: Revelers raise a stein and wash down Bessery’s brats and Bavarian pretzels with local brews. Simple Roots Brewing, Burlington, 3-9 p.m. Free. Info, 399-2658.

SHELBURNE FARMERS MARKET: Locavores delight in vendors’ fresh fruits, veggies and prepared foods. Shelburne Village Fairgrounds, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, shelburne farmersmarketvt@gmail.com.

SHELBURNE FARMERS MARKET

TOUR WITH CHEF ROBERT SMITH

III: Locavores explore seasonal offerings and learn how the Starry Night Café chef is inspired by Vermont farm partners. Shelburne Village Fairgrounds, 8:45-9:45 a.m.

Free or sliding scale; preregister. Info, 434-2000.

ST. JOHNSBURY FARMERS MARKET: Growers and crafters gather weekly at booths centered on local eats. Pearl St. & Eastern Ave., St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, cfmamanager@gmail. com.

games

CHESS CLUB: Players of all ages and abilities face off and learn new strategies. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Dungeon master Evan Hoffman leads new and veteran players on an epic quest in a fifth-edition campaign. Zoom option

available. Waterbury Public Library, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, judi@ waterburypubliclibrary.com.

LEARN TO PLAY MAH-JONGG: Expert tile trader Pauline Nolte leads players through the Chinese and American versions of the ancient game. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, judi@ waterburypubliclibrary.com.

health & fitness

MILES FOR MIGRAINE VERMONT: At a two-mile walk and 5K run, steppers take strides for awareness, treatment and research, raising funds for the University of Vermont Medical Center Headache Clinic. Veterans Memorial Park, South Burlington, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 598-0998.

music

AARON FLINN: The singer-songwriter blends elements of folk, indie rock and classic country with his powerful vocals and finger-picking guitar style. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; reservations recommended. Info, 985-8222.

BANDWAGON SUMMER SERIES:

CYRO BAPTISTA: The Brazilianborn percussionist and composer brings his acclaimed, innovative sound and sonic curiosity to the stage. Cooper Field, Putney, 5 p.m. $20-25; free for children under 12. Info, 387-0102.

CAPITAL CITY CONCERTS: ‘FULL CIRCLE’: Grammy-nominated pianist Paul Orgel kicks off the landmark 25th season with pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt and 20th-century Czech female composer Vítězslava Kaprálová. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:30-9 p.m. $15-$30. Info, info@ capitalcityconcerts.org.

ETIENNE CHARLES & CREOLE SOUL: The Trinidadian trumpet star brings his lively performance style, rooted in the rituals of Caribbean carnival, to the stage. Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro, 7:30 p.m. $25-60. Info, 254-9088.

JAM FOR THE PARKS: Music lovers party down to a lineup of local bands to support Vermont Parks Forever. Family-friendly activities and Shakedown Street BBQ eats round out the fun. Stowe Cider, 2-8 p.m. $40. Info, 253-2065.

JAM FOR THE PARKS: AFTER DARK: Concertgoers embark on an intergalactic and improvisational journey through time and space featuring the Vermont Park Allstars and some very special guests. Proceeds benefit Vermont Parks Forever. 21+. Stowe Cider, 9 p.m.-midnight. $20. Info, 253-2065.

The local acoustic band blends bluegrass, Cajun, country, swing and Americana for a lively performance with sweet vocal harmonies and fiery guitar picking. Shelburne Orchards, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2753.

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE

CARILLON SERIES: JOHN WHITESIDE: The renowned carillonneur performs melodic compositions from the chapel’s bell tower. Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3485.

OPERA VERMONT: PUCCINI: Vermont artists perform dazzling arias and scenes from the master of operatic theater’s most popular works, marking the centennial of his death. Barn Opera, Brandon, 7:30 p.m. $25-50. Info, 728-9878.

outdoors

LONG TRAIL DAY: Hikers who have raised at least $272 for the Green Mountain Club’s maintenance work — $1 for each mile of the Long Trail — take to the woods to celebrate. See greenmountainclub.org for details. The Long Trail, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7037.

SEPTEMBER BIRD MONITORING

WALK: New and experienced avian aficionados join a slow-paced stroll to identify fall warblers, listen to birdsong, practice using binoculars and contribute to the eBird database. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7:30-9 a.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 434-3068.

politics

GOVERNOR CANDIDATE FORUM:

The League of Women Voters of Vermont continues its mission of influencing public policy through education and advocacy with this meeting of gubernatorial hopefuls. Virtual options available. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 372-1239.

québec

‘SAKURA’: See WED.18.

sports

DISC GOLF TOURNAMENT:

Players make their way through a unique course among sculptures on museum grounds. Bennington Museum, 8:30 a.m. $15; preregister. Info, 447-1571.

talks

S. LEE & J.B. MANNING: The married novelists, often referred to as

“A Killing Couple,” celebrate the launch of their latest works with live music and light fare. Elmore Store, Lake Elmore, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 888-2296.

theater

JOLIE HOLLAND: With support from multi-instrumentalist Ben Boye, the avant-folk luminary from southeast Texas commands attention in an intimate, 30-seat concert. Ruth Stone House, Goshen, 7 p.m. $25; limited seating. Info, info@ruthstonehouse.org.

LIVE IN THE ORCHARD CONCERT SERIES: QUEEN CITY CUT UPS:

‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’: See THU.19, 3-5 & 7-9 p.m.

words

WRITE NOW!: Wordsmiths of all experience levels hone their craft in a supportive and critique-free environment. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 223-3338.

WRITERS’ WERTFREI: Authors both fledgling and published share their work in a judgment-free environment. Virtual option available. Waterbury Public Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, judi@ waterburypubliclibrary.com.

SUN.22

community

SCAVENGER HUNT IN STOWE: See WED.18.

HUMAN CONNECTION CIRCLE: Neighbors share stories from their lives and forge deep bonds. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, humanconnectioncircle@ gmail.com.

crafts

SPIN-IN SPINNING CIRCLE: Yarn makers get together and get their wheels turning. BYO fiber and spinning device. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

YARN CRAFTERS GROUP: See WED.18, 1-3 p.m. etc.

CELEBRATION IN MEMORY OF GALE LAWRENCE: Ornithologists celebrate the late naturalist, teacher and writer who was integral to the museum’s founding. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 44-2167.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK

ELMWOOD CEMETERY TOUR: Connoisseurs of the creepy learn the spooky stories of Ethan Allen’s ex-wife, Vermont’s most infamous smuggler and more. 10+. Elmwood Cemetery, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 324-5467.

fairs & festivals

CHESTER FESTIVAL ON THE GREEN: See SAT.21, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. film

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

‘BLUE WHALES: RETURN OF THE GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

‘THE FARM BOY’: See SAT.21, 2 p.m.

‘ENCORE! A NIGHT ON BROADWAY’: Stowe Theatre Guild presents a sparkling, candlelit celebration of musical theater featuring stars from three decades of the group’s past productions.

Stowe Community Church, 7-8:45 p.m. $50. Info, 253-3961.

‘RHINOCÉROS’: See THU.19.

‘FUNGI: THE WEB OF LIFE 3D’: See WED.18.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.18.

TELLURIDE AT DARTMOUTH: See FRI.20, 1, 4 & 7 p.m. ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

food & drink

STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and crafts tempts shoppers. Stowe Farmers Market, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, stowefarmersmarket@ gmail.com.

WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET:

Families shop for produce, honey, meats, coffee and prepared foods from an outdoor gathering of seasonal vendors. Winooski Falls Way, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 655-6410.

games

DUPLICATE BRIDGE GAMES:

See THU.19, 1-4:30 p.m. health & fitness

KARUNA COMMUNITY

MEDITATION: A YEAR TO LIVE

(FULLY): Participants practice keeping joy, generosity and gratitude at the forefront of their minds. Jenna’s House, Johnson, 10-11:15 a.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, mollyzapp@ live.com.

NEW LEAF SANGHA

MINDFULNESS PRACTICE:

Newcomers and experienced meditators alike stretch their skills in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. Hot Yoga Burlington, 6:30-8:15 p.m. Free. Info, new-leaf-sangha@ googlegroups.com.

YOGA FROM THE HEARTSPACE:

Practitioners of all levels release energy through flowing movement with breath (vinyasa) in support of HOPE Works Vermont. Rotary Park, Winooski, 9:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-1236.

lgbtq

CRAFT CLUB: Creative queer folks work on their knitting, crocheting and sewing projects. Rainbow Bridge Community Center, Barre, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 622-0692.

LGBTQ FIBER ARTS

GROUP: A knitting, crocheting and weaving session welcomes all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations and skill levels. Presented by Pride Center of Vermont. Noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, laurie@ pridecentervt.org.

music

THE CHAMPLAIN TRIO: Vermont musicians Letitia Quante, Emily Taubl and Hiromi Fukuda captivate audience members with a compelling performance of classic chamber music. Artistree Community Arts Center, South Pomfret, 3 p.m. $20. Info, 457-3500.

JOE JENCKS: The award-winning, internationally touring musician performs pieces on beauty, social consciousness and spiritual exploration. Roots & Wings Coffeehouse, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Upper Valley, Norwich, 4-6 p.m. $20. Info, 649-8828.

LIVE IN THE ORCHARD CONCERT SERIES: TOURNESOL: The

six-piece band delights with vintage French and Italian classics, jazz manouche, and swing standards. Shelburne Orchards, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2753.

MUSIC FUNDRAISER: Vermont’s Freedom & Unity Chorus performs soulful ballads and powerful anthems to support the Mercy Ecospirituality Center. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 3-4:30 p.m. $20. Info, vermontsfreedom andunitychorus@gmail.com.

OPERA VERMONT: PUCCINI: See SAT.21, Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 3:30 p.m.

SUNDAY SESSIONS: The patio at Tavern on the Tee restaurant hosts tunes from a variety of musicians. Ralph Myhre Golf Course, Middlebury, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5125.

québec

‘SAKURA’: See WED.18.

talks

WORDS OUT LOUD: CAROLYN KUEBLER & DIDI JACKSON: The two authors discuss their works, offering readers and listeners insight into their written worlds. Old West Church, Calais, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-6613.

theater

‘RHINOCÉROS’: See THU.19, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’: See THU.19, 3-5 p.m.

MON.23

community

SCAVENGER HUNT IN STOWE: See WED.18.

crafts

FUSE BEADS CLUB: Aspiring artisans bring ideas or borrow patterns for beaded creations. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

environment

PEECYCLING: WHAT, WHY & HOW: Curious community members learn about the practice of reclaiming human waste as a resource. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

film

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

‘BLUE WHALES: RETURN OF THE GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

‘FUNGI: THE WEB OF LIFE 3D’: See WED.18.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.18.

TELLURIDE AT DARTMOUTH: See FRI.20, 5 & 7:30 p.m.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

games

MONDAY NIGHT GAMES: Discounted wine by the glass

fuels an evening of friendly competition featuring new and classic board games, card games, and cribbage. Shelburne Vineyard, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

health & fitness

FARM & FOREST YOGA FLOW: Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park ranger and yoga teacher Jen Jackson leads a balanced asana practice. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 5:15-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3368.

language

ENGLISH CONVERSATION

CIRCLE: Locals learning English as a second language gather in the Digital Lab to build vocabulary and make friends. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

LANGUAGE LUNCH: GERMAN: Willkommen! Speakers of all experience levels brush up on conversational skills over bagged lunches. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

music

SAMBATUCADA OPEN

REHEARSAL: Burlington’s own samba street percussion band welcomes new members. No experience or instruments required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

outdoors

MUSHROOMS OF THE GREEN MOUNTAINS: Mycologist Meg Madden guides walkers through this fungi-curious community science experience. Audubon Vermont Sugarhouse, Huntington, 9:30 a.m.-noon. $20 or pay what you can; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

FOMO?

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

art

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

film

See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife

Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

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

RadioVermont

politics

BEFORE YOU VOTE: CANDIDATE FORUM: Vermont Law & Graduate School president Rodney Smolla moderates this panel of candidates running to represent Windsor County. Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, meetand-greet opportunities, 5:30 p.m.; panel, 6-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 603-661-0974.

words

Keeping an Eye On Vermont while CBS Keeps an Eye On the World

SCRIPTWRITERS’ GROUP: Got a story to tell? Talented local writers swap techniques and constructive critiques. Junction Arts & Media, White River Junction, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 295-6688.

TUE.24

community

SCAVENGER HUNT IN STOWE: See WED.18.

CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP: Brownell Library holds a virtual roundtable for neighbors to pause and reflect on the news cycle. 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

conferences

CARING AND CONNECTING: WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS NETWORK CONFERENCE: Savvy female leaders find support, inspiration and empowerment at a gathering exploring self-care, work-life balance and community challenges. Hampton Inn, Colchester, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $75150. Info, 503-0219.

dance

SWING DANCING: Local Lindy hoppers and jitterbuggers convene at Vermont Swings’ weekly boogie-down. Bring clean shoes. North Star Community Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

games

DUPLICATE BRIDGE GAMES: See THU.19.

health & fitness

EZ BREEZY CICADA SPINS: A guided group ride leads cyclists along a route through the South End and into South Burlington. Local Motion, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 861-2700.

language

LANGUAGE LUNCH: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over bagged lunches. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH

CONVERSATION: Francophones and French-language learners meet pour parler la belle langue Burlington Bay Market & Café, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-5493.

music

ANGEL OLSEN: The indie singer-songwriter takes the stage solo, playing songs from her catalog inspired by vintage country and exploring covers not often performed. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $39-54. Info, 603-448-0400.

québec

‘SAKURA’: See WED.18.

talks

REV. THOMAS MASSARO: The professor of moral theology discusses voting, citizenship and the role of conscience in religious participation. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2588.

words

BENJAMIN ROESCH & RACHAEL

CARTER: The two authors dialogue about recent works with a focus on the release of Roesch’s latest novel, The Rest of Your Life Soundtrack. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.

community

SCAVENGER HUNT IN STOWE: See WED.18.

CURRENT EVENTS: Neighbors have an informal discussion about what’s in the news. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.

conferences

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE: The Vermont Council on World Affairs brings community members together to explore the many pathways to a more unified world. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. $25-125; preregister. Info, info@vcwa.org.

crafts

YARN CRAFTERS GROUP: See WED.18.

environment

WOODLAND LEGACY PLANNING 101 WEBINAR: Forest landowner outreach specialist Eliza Orne discusses planning for the future of your land. 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 457-3368.

film

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

‘BLOOD AND SAND’: Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth star in this visually stunning 1941 drama about a young matador torn between humble beginnings and newfound fame. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘BLUE WHALES: RETURN OF THE GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

‘FUNGI: THE WEB OF LIFE 3D’: See WED.18.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.18.

TELLURIDE AT DARTMOUTH: See FRI.20, 4 & 7:30 p.m. ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

food &

drink

film

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

‘12 MONKEYS’: Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt star in this 1995 dystopian sci-fi thriller set in a distant world devastated by disease. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018.

‘BLUE WHALES: RETURN OF THE GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

‘FUNGI: THE WEB OF LIFE 3D’: See WED.18.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.18.

POLITICS & FILM SERIES:

POETRY GROUP: A supportive drop-in group welcomes those who would like to share and listen to verse. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 846-4140.

WED.25 business

QUEEN CITY BUSINESS NETWORKING INTERNATIONAL GROUP: See WED.18.

climate

BEE’S KNEES WEEK: COCKTAIL CLASS: Learn the history of the aptly named cocktail and professional techniques to perfect your own. Barr Hill, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $45. Info, 472-8000.

DANVILLE FARMERS MARKET: See WED.18.

OKTOBERFEST CELEBRATION:

Prost! Raise a stein at a seasonal sipping event featuring beers, brats and Bavarian brass music from Inseldudler. Zero Gravity Beer Hall, Burlington, 3-10 p.m. Free. Info, 497-0054.

SIP & SAVOR: FALL WINE

DINNER: See WED.18.

‘PRIMARY COLORS’: This 1998 political drama chronicling Bill Clinton’s 1992 run for the White House stars John Travolta and Emma Thompson. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 387-0102.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.18.

crisis WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD: AN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP: 350Vermont leads a discussion on concrete climate projects that need people power to shift the needle — and how to organize ourselves moving forward. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 595-5781.

VEGAN IN VERMONT: Robin Robertson’s Vegan Planet inspires a potluck dinner and discussion of the ethics of meat production and consumption, guided by Tyler Doggett. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403.

WHAT’S THAT WINE

WEDNESDAYS: See WED.18. games

CHESS CLUB: See WED.18.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA: See WED.18. language

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS AND INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: See WED.18.

LANGUAGE LUNCH: SPANISH: See WED.18.

music

NEKO CASE: The Grammynominated indie singer-songwriter takes listeners on an evocative and unforgettable musical journey. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $44.50-60.50. Info, 603-448-0400.

québec

POP MONTRÉAL: Festivalgoers delight in an extraordinary cultural offering of more than 200 bands, films, workshops

FAMI LY FU N

brattleboro/ okemo valley

PASTURE PALS: Families flock to this fun, hands-on humane education program designed for kids. Wear closed-toe shoes. See calendar spotlight. Vine Sanctuary, Springfield, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 885-4017.

SUN.22

chittenden county

COMMUNITY BBQ: Vermont Youth Orchestra Association celebrates the start of the season with a cookout, lawn games, a free music class for young children, open rehearsals and ice cream. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 655-5030.

LIVE IN THE ORCHARD

CONCERT SERIES: MISS

EMMA: Families enjoy a morning of song and dance among the apples, exploring the changing of the seasons and celebrating life’s joyful everyday moments. Shelburne Orchards, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 985-2753.

champlain islands/ northwest

NORTHWESTERN

COUNSELING & SUPPORT

SERVICES BUDDY WALK: Community members walk to raise awareness and support for individuals with Down syndrome. Collins Perley Sports and Fitness Center, St. Albans, 12:30-2 p.m. Free. Info, 393-6414.

and more. See popmontreal.com for full schedule. Espace POP, Montréal. Various prices. Info, info@popmontreal.com.

‘SAKURA’: See WED.18. seminars

RETIREMENT REALITY CHECK: HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR INCOME AND FINANCIAL SECURITY THE NO B.S. WAY: Erik Kolomaznik guides a retirement and financial wellness workshop, navigating income and asset protection. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

sports

GREEN MOUNTAIN TABLE

TENNIS CLUB: See WED.18.

theater

‘TRANSLATIONS’: Vermont Stage presents renowned Irish

MON.23

burlington

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Bookworms ages 2 through 5 enjoy a fun-filled reading time. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

ODYSSEY OF THE MIND OPEN

HOUSE: Parents learn about the creative problem-solving program, meet with experienced educators and discover how the initiative benefits children of all ages. Essex Middle School, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 404-1660.

PARENTING BOOK CLUB: Even if they haven’t finished the current selection, caregivers are welcome at a no-pressure gathering to discuss titles offering tips and strategies for raising kids. Meanwhile, children 6 and up join a reading adventure. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

mad river valley/ waterbury

TODDLER TIME: Little tykes have fun with songs, stories, rhymes and dancing. Ages 5 and under. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

upper valley

STORY TIME WITH BETH: A bookseller and librarian extraordinaire reads two picture books on a different theme each week. Norwich Bookstore, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

northeast kingdom

STORY TIME: See THU.19, 2-2:30 p.m.

dramatist Brian Friel’s play, which explores the power of language to kindle romance in 1830s Dublin. 13+. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $3464. Info, 862-1497.

words

DR. ANDREA GRAYSON: The author of The Sweet Tooth Dilemma explores how sugar impacts the brain and body. Free childcare for program participants. Greater Burlington YMCA, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-9622.

MARJORIE MOORHEAD: The poet explores her debut full collection Every Small Breeze, which reflects on how relationships with places and people can sustain us. Norwich Bookstore, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114. ➆

TUE.24 burlington

SING-ALONG WITH LINDA

BASSICK: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and wiggle along with Linda. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

CRAFTYTOWN: From painting and printmaking to collage and sculpture, creative kids explore different projects and mediums. Ages 8 and up, or ages 6 and up with an adult helper. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

OUTDOOR STORY TIME: Youngsters enjoy a sunny session of reading, rhyming and singing with Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. Birth through age 5. Williston Town Green, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

TODDLER TIME: Lively tykes gather for short stories, familiar songs, rhymes and fingerplays. Ages 1 through 3. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 482-2796.

barre/montpelier

STORY TIME: Kids and their caregivers meet for stories, songs and bubbles. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

WED.25

burlington

TODDLER TIME: See WED.18.

chittenden county

BABYTIME: See WED.18. GAME ON!: See WED.18. K

classes

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art

PAINTING WITH WINGSPAN STUDIO: Grow your creativity, conﬁdence and painting knowledge in inspiring fall classes. Beginner/Advanced Beginner Painting covers color-mixing techniques, composition strategies and step-by-step tips while exploring diverse styles and ﬁnding your own! Advanced beginner/ intermediate two-day Outdoor Plein Air Workshop: Sketching, underpainting, form, color and light, brought together to create delightful paintings! 4-week painting classes: Mon. starting Sep. 30, 9-11:30 a.m. Cost: $340. Plein air workshop: Sat. & Sun., Oct. 5 & 6, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: $325. Location: Wingspan Studio School, 4A Howard St., Burlington. Info: Wingspan Studio School, Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@gmail.com, wingspanstudioeduc.com.

INTRO TO SOLDERING: EARRINGS: is four-week course is designed to sharpen your soldering skills. Using various soldering techniques, students will make at least two pairs of earrings with handmade decorative elements. In addition to soldering, students will pierce, ﬁle, sand and polish. If you’re new to jewelry or haven’t touched your tools in a while, this is a great skill-building course. Sat. starting Oct. 12, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $360/16 hours total. Location: Jolynn Santiago’s Studio, 1603 Lime Kiln Rd., Charlotte. Info: Jolynn Santiago, 330-599-9418, jolynnsantiago@ gmail.com, jolynnsantiago.com.

culinary

FRENCH MACARONS: In this hands-on class, learn the art and science behind making French macarons, including the best tips and tricks to manage these ﬁnicky delights. You will have hands-on experience making and ﬁlling macarons and leave with stepby-step instructions, including the recipe, troubleshooting guide, equipment list and approximately two dozen macarons! Sat., Sep. 21, 1-4:30 p.m. Cost: $100. Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury. Info: 203-400-0700, sevendaystickets.com.

craft

BASKETRY AND BROOM MAKING:

In addition to longer woodworking classes, two shorter workshops are being offered by visiting instructors this fall at the shop: Black Ash Pack Baskets with Penny Hewitt and Broom Making with Heather Ashworth. Sep. 26-29 for baskets; Oct. 13 for brooms. Location: Eric Cannizzaro’s Shop, Charlotte. Info: 360-528-1952, ericcannizzaro.com.

Info: Micheline, education@ aﬂcr.org, aﬂcr.org.

FRENCH CHEZ WINGSPAN

STUDIO: Bonjour! Join Madame Maggie’s dynamic beginner/advanced beginner French class, live in Burlington’s South End location

martial arts

AIKIDO FREE WORKSHOPS: Cultivate core power, aerobic ﬁtness and resiliency. e dynamic, circular movements emphasize throws, joint locks and the development of internal energy. Not your average “mojo dojo casa house.” Inclusive training and a safe space for all. Scholarships and intensive program are available for serious students. Visitors are always welcome! Basic classes 5 days/week. Membership rates incl. unlimited classes 6 days a week. Contact us for info about membership rates for adults, youths & families. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Benjamin Pincus, 951-8900, bpincus@burlingtonaikido.org, burlingtonaikido.org.

music

NOBLE GRAPES!: Learn the intricacies of the noble grapes, which make cabernet sauvignon, merlot, pinot noir, sauvignon blanc, chardonnay and Riesling. Tue., Sep. 24, 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $40. Location: Standing Stone Wines, 33 Main St., Winooski. Info: 540-7160, sevendaystickets.com.

QUEEN CITY FALL COOKIE

DECORATING CLASS: Have you seen all those adorable iced cookies on Instagram and wondered how to make them? Learn the basics of royal icing in this beginner class and utilize techniques to create your own beautiful fall-themed cookies to welcome the cozy season. u., Sep. 26, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $75. Location: Queen City Brewing, 703 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 914-6105275, sevendaystickets.com.

language

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE: FALL

SESSION: Now is the perfect time to enroll in one of our classes that will start on September 23. Our 11-week session offers classes for participants at all levels. Classes begin Sep. 23, online or in person. Cost: $320. Location: Alliance Française, 43 King St., Burlington.

and available on Zoom so you don’t miss a session if afar. Learn greetings, phrases, verb structure, pronunciation and group activities in a judgment-free environment. Curriculum provided, helpful resources. No experience? Rusty skills? Perfect! Beret optional. Embark on your French journey! Mon., starting Sep. 30, 5-7:30 p.m., 4 wks. Cost: $180. Location: Wingspan Studio School, 4A Howard St., Burlington. Info: Wingspan Studio School, Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@gmail.com, wingspanstudioeduc.com.

sports

AFTERSCHOOL CLIMBING

TEAMS: We have space available in our 5- to 7-year old Mini Monkeys afterschool program at Petra Cliffs Climbing Center. e seven-week session begins Oct. 29, ends Dec. 17., and includes introduction to rope

DJEMBE WEDNESDAYS!: Learn to drum with Stuart Paton! Beginner and advanced beginner classes available. Sessions begin Oct. 9 and Nov. 13. Drums provided. Every Wed.: beginners, 5:30 p.m.; accelerated, 7 p.m. Cost: $92/4 weeks; 90-min. sessions; $72 for Kids & Parents classes. Location: Burlington Taiko (next to Nomad Café), 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3-G, Burlington. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, taikoaikokai@gmail.com.

TAIKO TUESDAYS!: Adult classes and Kids & Parents (age 6 and up) classes available. Learn to drum with Burlington Taiko! Sessions begin Oct. 8 and Nov. 12. Drums provided. Every Tue: Kids & Parents, 4 p.m.; beginners, 5:30 p.m.; accelerated, 7 p.m. Cost: $92/4 weeks; 90-min. classes; $72 for Kids & Parents classes. Location: Burlington Taiko (next to Nomad Café), 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3-G, Burlington. Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, taikoaikokai@gmail.com.

shamanism

APPRENTICESHIP IN SHAMANISM: Rare opportunity to apprentice locally in a shamanic tradition. Five weekends over a year; the ﬁrst one is Oct. 18. Location: St. Albans. Info: thomas.mock1444@gmail. com or text 802-369-4331, heartofthehealer.org.

climbing, auto-belays and bouldering, plus fun and silly games! Tue. or u., 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Cost: $300/7-week session. Location: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center, 105 Briggs St., Burlington. Info: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center & Mountaineering School, 657-3872, youth@ petracliffs.com, petracliffs.com.

tai chi

NEW BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASS: We practice Cheng Man-ch’ing’s “simpliﬁed” 37-posture Yangstyle form. e course will be taught by Patrick Cavanaugh, a longtime student and assistant to Wolfe Lowenthal; Wolfe is a direct student of Cheng Manch’ing and founder of Long River Tai Chi Circle. Opportunities for learning online are also available! Starts Oct. 2, 9-10 a.m.; registration open until Oct. 30. Cost: $65/mo. Location: Gym at St. Anthony’s Church, 305 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 4906405, patricklrtcc@gmail.com, longrivertaichi.org.

well-being

STRESS DETOX COURSE: Move beyond the incessant chatter of the mind and celebrate the smooth transition from summer’s light to autumn’s harvest in a two-day stress detox course. is interactive workshop blends ancient wisdom, guided meditations and scientiﬁc techniques that allow you to literally dissolve stress from all aspects of your being. Sat., Sep. 21, 8:30 a.m.5:30 p.m., & Sun., Sep. 22, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost: $200/2-day interactive workshop. Location: All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 Bostwick Farm Rd., Shelburne. Info: Oneness Meditation Center, 233-9028, katherineverman@ gmail.com, facebook.com/ share/g/1CsevNA626.

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Humane Society of Chittenden County

Ivy, Fern & Thistle

AGE/SEX: 1-year-old male guinea pigs

ARRIVAL DATE: June 18, 2024

DID YOU KNOW?

Guinea pigs are active animals that enjoy playing with toys for enrichment! Different types of enrichment (think toys, activities and a variety of different kinds of spaces within their enclosure) allow guinea pigs to satisfy their natural physical and cognitive needs.

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SUMMARY: Meet Ivy, Fern and istle! ese beautiful boys made their way to HSCC when their previous owners could no longer care for them, and they’re ready to start their next adventure in a loving home. ey are shy and timid at ﬁrst but especially friendly when treats are involved! ey’re very playful and love to interact with their toys when they’re not cuddling or romping around their enclosure. If you’re looking to make a big difference in the lives of these three small friends, visit Ivy, Fern and istle at HSCC!

Visit the Humane Society of Chittenden County at 142 Kindness Court, South Burlington, Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. or Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 862-0135 or visit hsccvt.org for more info.

CLASSIFIEDS

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on the road

CARS/TRUCKS

2010 FORD F-150

4 x 4, 4.6-liter, auto., white. Needs starter. Clean title.

$2,800 cash. Email mom7473@yahoo. com.

2013 VW TIGUAN TSI AWD, 6-speed auto. 78,680 miles. Good clean condition, winter tires, heated front seats, bluetooth. No accidents, pet/ smoke-free, clean title. $10,000. In No. Hero. Email bryan.haynes@ live.ca.

housing FOR RENT

ROOMY 3-BR & 2-BR AVAIL. NOW

Very roomy 3-BR & good-size 2-BR in Burlington. Great locations. Avail now. Contact Joe L.’s cell at 802-318-8916.

CLASSIFIEDS KEY

appt. appointment

apt. apartment

BA bathroom

BR bedroom

DR dining room

DW dishwasher

HDWD hardwood

HW hot water

LR living room

NS no smoking

OBO or best offer

refs. references

sec. dep. security deposit

W/D washer & dryer

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 and similar Vermont statutes which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitations, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, handicap, presence of minor children in the family or receipt of public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or a discrimination. The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate, which is in violation of the law. Our

FSBO $ $228,000

Commercial condo 990 sq ft w/ turn-key well- established hair salon/spa. Town Marketplace Essex Jct. Vt. Free parking, 40 yrs in marketplace. Unique opportunity to own real estate/ business. Contact Ann/Darlene 802-879-0306

2-BR APT. $1,800 Downtown BTV 3rd-ﬂ oor apt., avail now. Sec. dep., $1,800. Newly renovated. No parking, no elevator, no pets, no laundry. 4 N. Winooski Ave. Call 802-238-6064 between 9 a.m. & 6 p.m.

HOUSEMATES

GREAT SWANTON HOMESHARE

Homeshare w/ a bright, active 85-year-old woman in her lovely 1-story Swanton home. $0 rent w/ utils. share in exchange for companionship & light help around the house. Medium-size BR w/ private BA. NS. Call 802-863-5625 or visit homesharevermont. org for application. Interview, refs. & background checks req. EHO.

RELAX IN STARKSBORO

Enjoy peaceful, rural home in Starksboro shared w/ professional woman who enjoys reading, gardening, nature. 1.5 shared BA, choice of BR. $550/mo. + small utils. contribution. Call 802-863-5625 or visit homesharevermont. org for application. Interview, refs., background checks req. EHO.

readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. Any home seeker who feels he or she has encountered discrimination should contact:

HUD Ofﬁce of Fair Housing 10 Causeway St., Boston, MA 02222-1092 (617) 565-5309 — OR — Vermont Human Rights Commission 14-16 Baldwin St. Montpelier, VT 05633-0633 1-800-416-2010 hrc@vermont.gov

(1615) KUBOTA TRACTOR, TOOLS & HOUSEHOLD ITEMS

Auction Closes: Thursday, Oct. 3 @ 10AM Preview Auction In Essex Junction, VT: Wednesday, Sept. 25 from 11AM-1PM Over 300 Lots! BID NOW @ THCAuction.com

CAREGIVING

RETIRED NURSE AVAIL.

Retired nurse avail. for light caregiving duties. No heavy lifting. 10-20 hours, Mon.-Fri. $25/ hour. A NS environment, please. Chittenden County only. Call “Wonder Woman” at 802-495-1954.

CREATIVE

RFP FOR ARCHITECT

Cathedral Square & Evernorth are seeking an architect to advance redevelopment plans for affordable apt. community. Responses due Sep. 25. Please email jneubelt@ evernorthus.org for more info.

OXYGEN

CONCENTRATOR

Inogen One G5 oxygen concentrator. 1 small, 1 large lithium battery. Like new, purchased June 2021. $3,000/ OBO. Serious inquiries only. Call for more info, 512-417-6346.

garage and sits on 2.38± acres of serene privacy with stunning mountain views.

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GARAGE/ESTATE SALES

COLCHESTER YARD

SALE

Yard sale, Sep. 21 & 22, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Antiques, general household items, beads, jewelry, books, vintage & modern. 65 Oakridge Dr., Colchester.

RUMMAGE SALE

Angel Outﬁ tters rift Shop at the United Church of Hardwick is hosting a rummage sale. Clothes, books, puzzles, linens. Sep. 27 & 28, Oct. 3-5. Contact kkhburn@ yahoo.com for more info.

PETS

PUPPIES FOR SALE

Purebred chocolate Lab pups for sale. Avail. now. Females, $600; males, $800. In Isle La Motte. Call 802-928-3312 or email vtdave1@gmail. com.

WANT TO BUY

BUYING COIN COLLECTIONS

Collector paying top dollar for coin & currency collections, gold & silver bullion, sterling ﬂatware, & gold jewelry. Local, paying cash. Avail. today! Call or text 217-891-4320.

music

BANDS/ MUSICIANS

‘TANGO TONIGHT!’ A MUSICAL Pentangle Arts presents a public reading premiere of ‘Tango Tonight!,’ a new musical under development. Sep. 28, Woodstock Town Hall eatre. Info, 802-4573981, pentanglearts.org/ events.

FOR SALE

WASHBURN ACOUSTIC Oscar Schmidt Washburn acoustic guitar w/ spalted maple top. $125. Call 802-233-0046.

INSTRUCTION

DRUM LESSONS

Snare, drum set & percussion lessons. $35 for 45 min. or $45 for 60 min. Experienced,

well-versed & educated teacher. Contact Dave Pacheco, 802-383-8048, teachdrums2u@gmail. com.

PIANO LESSONS ALL LEVELS Piano lessons avail. in the South End of Burlington. Decades of teaching experience, a university-level music director. Contact randal. pierce@gmail.com for rates & availability.

CALCOKU

BY JOSH REYNOLDS

DIFFICULTY THIS WEEK: ★★

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crossword

Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each 9-box square contains all of the numbers one to nine. e same numbers cannot be repeated in a row or column.

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Legal Notices

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

FAMILY DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT

DOCKET NO. 21-JV-1037

NOTICE OF HEARING

To: Any male who may be the biological Father of J.S., born on 7/3/2021, to Catherine Knowlton, you are hereby notifi ed that a hearing to terminate the parental rights of the unknown father to J.S. will be held on October 15, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. at the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Family Division, at 32 Cherry Street, Suite 200, Burlington, Vermont 05401. You are notifi ed to appear in connection with this case. Failure to appear at this hearing may result in a termination of your parental rights to J.S.. e State is represented by the Attorney General’s Offi ce, HC 2 North, 280 State Drive, Waterbury, VT 05671-2080.

Electronically signed pursuant to VREF 9(d} Kate Gallagher Superior Court Judge 9/4/2024

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS: TOWN OF COLCHESTER

2025 STREET TREE REPLANTING

e Town is requesting separate sealed BIDS for the 2025 Street Tree Replanting Project, which includes the planting of street trees to replace ash trees that were removed in 2024 due to the threat of emerald ash borer (EAB). A total of 32 trees are to be planted and mulched at various locations along Wall Street and Abigail Drive as noted on the Bid Schedule. e deadline for planting is Friday, June 20, 2025.

Bids will be received by: Lea Sanguinetti, Assistant Town Engineer, Town of Colchester, 781 Blakely Road, Colchester, VT 05446 until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 and then at said ofﬁ ce publicly opened and read aloud.

e CONTRACT DOCUMENTS are available in electronic format upon request. Please contact Lea Sanguinetti at lsanguinetti@colchestervt.gov or 802-264-5635.

Questions regarding the Bid are due by end of day on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. All bidders must

PLACE AN AFFORDABLE NOTICE AT: SEVENDAYSVT.COM/LEGAL-NOTICES OR CALL 802-865-1020, EXT. 121.

notify Lea Sanguinetti of their intent to bid so they can be placed on a Bidders List to receive any issued addenda or other pertinent information. Please notify the Town if email is not an acceptable method for receiving information and provide alternate means of contact.

For the complete Bid & Contract Documents, please visit the Town website at: https://www. colchestervt.gov/bids.aspx

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS:

TOWN OF COLCHESTER

2024 ASH TREE AND STUMP REMOVAL

e Town is requesting separate sealed BIDS for the 2024 Ash Tree and Stump Removal Project, which includes the removal of 32 ash trees on Abigail Drive and Wall Street in the Town of Colchester. is work will include stump grinding at all locations noted on the Bid Schedule. All trees to be removed are shown in Appendix A. A Bid Alternative of 14 ash trees found to be in dead, poor, and fair condition during a 2023 ash tree assessment are also included in the Bid Schedule. ese 14 trees are located throughout the Town of Colchester and selective stump grinding is required as speciﬁ ed in the bid documents. All trees included in the Bid Alternative are marked with orange tape. e work shall be scheduled to begin after October 7, 2024. e deadline for removal and stump grinding of the ash trees is Friday, December 27, 2024.

Bids will be received by: Lea Sanguinetti, Assistant Town Engineer, Town of Colchester, 781 Blakely Road, Colchester, VT 05446 until 2:00 pm on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 and then at said ofﬁ ce publicly opened and read aloud.

e CONTRACT DOCUMENTS are available in electronic format upon request. Please contact Lea Sanguinetti at lsanguinetti@colchestervt.gov or 802-264-5635.

Questions regarding the Bid are due by end of day on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. All bidders must notify Lea Sanguinetti of their intent to bid so they can be placed on a Bidders List to receive any issued addenda or other pertinent information.

Please notify the Town if email is not an acceptable method for receiving information and provide alternate means of contact.

For the complete Bid & Contract Documents, please visit the Town website at: https://www. colchestervt.gov/bids.aspx

PROPOSED STATE RULES

By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record. e purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. e public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont.gov/ SOS/rules/ . e law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain copies of proposed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (802-828-2231).

Marriage Ceremony for Incarcerated Individuals. Vermont Proposed Rule: 24P034

AGENCY: Agency of Human Services, Department of Corrections

CONCISE SUMMARY: Due to the update in 18 V.S.A. § 5142, raising the legal age of marriage to 18 regardless of parental consent the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) needs to amend the “Inmate Due to the update in 18 V.S.A. § 5142, raising the legal age of marriage to 18 regardless of parental consent the Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) needs to amend the “Inmate Marriage Rule” to no longer allow marriages of

incarcerated individuals who are under the age of 18. It is not within the DOC’s authority or mission to determine if someone is eligible to get married. e proposed rule would require the incarcerated individual to submit a request form for a marriage ceremony. en the DOC will review the request form and approve the marriage ceremony provided there are no legitimate penological interest concerns. e DOC requires the incarcerated individual or intended spouse to submit proof of the marriage license to the DOC prior to the scheduled marriage ceremony, but will not require a marriage license to be submitted with the request form.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Margaret “MJ” Faller, Agency of Human Services, Vermont Department of Corrections, 280 State Drive, NOB 2 South Waterbury, VT 05671-2000 Tel: 802-7984559 Fax: 802-241-0020 E-Mail: margaret.faller@ vermont.gov URL: https://outside.vermont.gov/ dept/DOC/Policies/Forms/Public%20Facing%20 View.aspx

FOR COPIES: David Turner, Vermont Department of Corrections, 280 State Drive, NOB 2 South Waterbury, VT 05671-2000 Tel: 802-241-0060 Fax: 802-241- 0020 E-Mail: david.turner@vermont.gov.

Licensing and Operating Regulations for erapeutic Community Residences. Vermont Proposed Rule: 24P035

AGENCY: Agency of Human Services, Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living (DAIL)

CONCISE SUMMARY: As set forth in 2024 Acts and Resolves No. 137, Sec. 17, the Commissioner of DAIL, in consultation with the Commissioner of Mental Health, is directed to ﬁle and adopt permanent and emergency rules that authorize the use of emergency involuntary procedures, including the administration of involuntary medication, at a secure residential recovery facility “in a manner identical to that required in rules adopted by the Department of Mental Health governing the use of emergency involuntary procedures in psychiatric inpatient units.” ese proposed rules incorporate the provisions of the Department of Mental Health’s Regulation Establishing Standards for Emergency Involuntary Procedures (EIPs), which was last adopted in 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Pamela Cota, Agency of Human Services, Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) (DAIL), 280 State Drive, HC 2 South, Waterbury, VT 05671 Tel: 802-241-0480, E-Mail: pamela.cota@ vermont.gov URL: https://dail.vermont.gov.

FOR COPIES: Stuart Schurr, Agency of Human Services, Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living, 280 State Drive, HC 2 South, Waterbury VT 05671 Tel: 802-241-0353 Email: stuart.schurr@vermont.gov.

ENFORCEMENT OF LIEN, STUFF-IT SELF-STORAGE LLC SHALL HOST A LIVE AUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING UNIT ON 9/23/24 AT 4:00PM. Location: 930 Main St, Fairfax, VT 05454

Natalya J Louko, unit #54: household goods

Nicole Kerwin, unit #79: household goods

Desire Leroux, unit #12: household goods

Naomi Shaw, unit #101: household goods

Dale Bessette, unit #146: household goods

Contents sold as is, and need to be removed within 48 hours at no cost to Stuff-It Self-Storage LLC. Purchase must be made in cash and paid in advance of the removal of the contents of the unit. A $50 cash deposit shall be made and will be refunded if the unit is broom cleaned. Stuff-It Self-Storage LLC reserves the right to accept or reject bids.

NORTHSTAR SELF STORAGE WILL BE HAVING A PUBLIC AND ONLINE SALE/AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2024 AT 9:00 AM

Northstar Self Storage will be having a public and online sale/auction on September 26, 2024

at 9am EST at 205 Route 4A West, Castleton, VT 05735 (C26), 615 Route 7, Danby VT 05739 (D36, D61), 681 Rockingham Road, Rockingham, VT 05151 (R26), 1124 Charlestown Road, Springfield, VT 05156 (Units S56, S108, S101), and online at www. storagetreasures.com at 9:00 am in accordance with VT Title 9 Commerce and Trade Chapter 098: Storage Units 3905. Enforcement of Lien

Unit # Name Contents

C26 Bryan Boyington Household Goods

D36 Jessica Terry Household Goods

D61 Jennifer Walters Household Goods

R26 Juan Severino Household Goods

S108 Bobbie Bennet Household Goods

S56 Helena Bundy Household Goods

S101 Amy Carleton Household Goods

MARSH HOUSE PROJECT BIDDING

ReArch Company has been hired by Downstreet Housing & Community Development and Evernorth Property as the Construction Manager for the new construction of MARSH HOUSE and will be bidding from 09/12/2024 through 9/26/2024. This 26-unit multi-family housing project is anticipated to start in November 2024. This Federally and State funded project will adhere to all Federal Procurement, Section 3, Fair Labor Standards and Contracting Guidelines. Minority-Owned, Women-Owned, and Section 3 businesses are encouraged to apply. ReArch is seeking all trades! To include, but not limited to: Concrete, Masonry, Steel, Carpentry, Thermal, Siding, Roofing, Windows/ Doors, Drywall, Flooring, Painting, MEPF, Sitework, and Landscaping. Interested subcontractors and material providers, please contact Adam Wright at adamw@rearchcompany.com.

THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 01-4903, Located at 28 Adams Drive Williston, VT , 05495 Will be sold on or about the 26th of September, to satisfy the debt of Kimora Parker. 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.

NORTHFIELD MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANY

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING

A Special Meeting of the Corporators of the Northfield Mutual Holding Company will be held on Thursday, October 10, 2024 beginning at 7:15PM at the Capitol Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, 100 State St. Montpelier, Vermont. The matter to be considered includes the election new corporators. Please call (802) 871-4492 for information.

CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO AN AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 22, SECTION 1, PARKS ENUMERATED: REMOVAL OF RIVERSIDE AVENUE_NUMBER 10

Ordinance 5.27

Sponsor: Councilor Mark Barlow

Public Hearing Dates:

First reading: 09/09/24

Referred to:

Rules suspended and placed in all stages of passage: 09/09/24

Second reading:

Action:

Date:

Signed by Mayor: 09/10/24

Published: 09/18/24

Effective: 10/09/24

It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows:

That Chapter 22, Parks, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Sec. 1, City Parks Enumerated, thereof to read as follows:

The following shall constitute the parks of the city to be used and enjoyed as such by the public under the rules and regulations of the park commissioners: (1)-(9) As written

(10) The land lying and being westerly of Riverside Avenue conveyed to the city by the American Woolen Company by its deed recorded in Volume

93, page 452 of the land records of the city Reserved. (11)-(38) As written

Material stricken out deleted. Material underlined added.

cw/hm/Ordinances 2024/ An Amendment to Chapter 22, Section 1, Parks Enumerated: REMOVAL OF RIVERSIDE AVENUE_NUMBER 10 September 9, 2024

PUBLIC HEARING

COLCHESTER DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD

Pursuant to Title 24 VSA, Chapter 117, the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on October 9, 2024 at 7:00pm to hear the following requests under the Development Regulations. Meeting is open to the public and will be held at 781 Blakely Road.

a) CU-25-02 CRONULLA DEVELOPMENTS LLC & FREEDOM RAINS, LLC: Conditional Use Application in conjunction with Site Plan Application SP-25-08 to amend a previously approved Site Plan and Conditional Use approval. Amendment is to convert 5,000 sf to Large Day Care Facility (Use 7.800) for a total square footage of 12,700 sf of Large Day Care Facility on the subject property. Enrollment to increase from 90 to 120 children and 12 to 15 staff. No site modifications or building improvements are proposed as part of this application. Subject property is located in the Business (BD) District. Subject property is located at 566 Hercules Drive, Account #01-020323-0000000.

September 18, 2024

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT

DOCKET NO.: 24-PR-02611

In re ESTATE of Donna Packard

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of: Donna Packard, late of Essex.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: September 13, 2024

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Andrew H. Montroll, Esq.

Executor/Administrator: Andrew H. Montroll, Esq., PO Box 1045, Burlington, Vermont, 05402 phone: 802-540-0250 email: amontroll@mblawoffice.com

Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 09/18/2024

Name of Probate Court: State of VermontChittenden Probate Division Address of Probate Court: 175 Main Street , Burlington, VT 05401

NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE

Route 7 Climate Storage 189 Northside Dr Shelburne, Vt. 05482

Notice is hereby given that the contents of the storage unit will be sold at auction

Tonia Valentine 10 x 15

Tonia Valentine 5 x 10 climate control

Hailey Colyer 5 x 10 climate control

Lynette Fuller 10 x 20

Ashley Goms 10 x 15

James Imani 5 x 10 climate control

Auction will take place: Saturday September 28th 2024 at 9:00am At Route 7 Climate Storage Units will be opened for viewing immediately prior to the auction.

Sale shall be by live auction to the highest bidder. Contents of the entire storage unit will be sold as one lot.

All winning bidders will be required to pay a $50.00 deposit which will be refunded once the unit is empty and broom swept clean. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility within 72 hours of bid acceptance at no cost to Exit 16 Self Storage.

Route 7 Climate Storage reserves the right to remove any unit from the auction should the current tenant pay the outstanding balance in full prior to the start of the auction.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT

DOCKET NO.: 24-PR-02628

In re ESTATE of Theron T. Colby

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of: Theron T. Colby, late of Shelburne, Vermont.

Dated: September 16, 2024

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Jennifer E. Faillace, Esq. for Executor Susan Brauer

Faillace & Reis, PLLC PO Box 285, Waitsfield, VT 05673 phone: 802-496-6763 email: faillace@gmavt.net

Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 09/18/2024

Name of Probate Court: State of VermontChittenden Probate Division Address of Probate Court: 175 Main Street , Burlington, VT 05401

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 24-PR-05331

In re ESTATE of Ivar H. Gundersen NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To the creditors of: Ivar H. Gundersen, late of Colchester, Vermont.

Dated: September 16, 2024

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Andrew H. Groop

Executor/Administrator: Andrew H. Groop, 30 Howard Lane, Quarryville, PA 17566 phone: 717-503-1665 email: agroop@gmail.com

Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 09/18/2024

Name of Probate Court: State of VermontChittenden Probate Division Address of Probate Court: 175 Main Street , Burlington, VT 05401

TOWN OF WESTFORD

NOTICE OF FIRST AND SECOND PUBLIC HEARINGS ON PETITIONED-FOR CHARTER PROPOSAL

The Selectboard of the Town of Westford hereby gives notice that, in accordance with 17 V.S.A. § 2645(a)(3)(A) & (B), § 2645(a)(6) and 17 V.S.A. § 2641(a), it will hold two public hearings on a

petitioned-for proposal to amend Section 3 of the municipal charter.

The First Public Hearing will be held both in person and via Zoom on Thursday, September 26, 2024, to discuss and take questions regarding the charter amendment proposal. This First Public Hearing will begin at 6:15 p.m. at Westford Elementary School, located at 146 Brookside Rd in the Town. While the charter amendment proposal is made by petition, and not by the Selectboard, Town officials will be present during the public hearing to answer questions regarding the proposal.

To join the Zoom Meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85650659626?pwd=d jlaZ2ljUmlDVkpTRExTbWlaZWV5Zz09 Meeting ID: 856 5065 9626 - Passcode: DA68bw OR dial +1 646 558 8656 – Meeting ID: 856 5065 9626 – Passcode: 538062

The Second Public Hearing will be held both in person and via Zoom on Thursday, October 3, 2024. The Second Public Hearing will begin at 6:15 p.m. at Westford Elementary School, located at 146 Brookside Rd in the Town. Town officials will again be present during the public hearing to discuss and answer questions regarding the charter proposal. Note, however, that the Selectboard does not have authority to revise a charter proposal made by petition.

To join the Zoom Meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88029303094?pwd= PqJbxxKCSw283HbhW41hDwoZEp9bzP.1 Meeting ID: 880 2930 3094 - Passcode: wgt5Bn OR dial +1 646 558 8656 – Meeting ID: 880 2930 3094 – Passcode: 231833

After the two public hearings, the petitioned charter amendment proposal shall be submitted to the voters to be voted by Australian ballot on Tuesday November 5, 2024, at the Westford Elementary School.

Please note: If you have any comments, questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of these meetings, please contact Holly Delisle, Town Administrator. Additionally, if you are unable to attend the meetings, but wish to make a comment or ask a question regarding the article please email your comment or question at least one day in advance of the meetings to Holly Delisle at hdelisle@westfordvt.us.

A concise summary of the substantive provisions of the petitioned-for charter proposal follows:

Petition to Amend sec. 3 of Town of Westford, VT Charter

(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 155C, § 3) • § 3 Appointed officers

(a) In addition to all other offices that may be filled by appointment by the Selectboard pursuant to State law, the Selectboard shall appoint the following officers:

(1) Town Treasurer; (2) listers or an assessor; (3) Delinquent Tax Collector; and (4) cemetery commissioners.; and (5) Town Clerk.

(5) [Repealed.]

(6) [Repealed.]

(b) The number of persons appointed to the offices set forth in subsection (a) of this section shall be determined by the Selectboard.

(d) In appointing the Town Treasurer, and Delinquent Tax Collector, and Town Clerk , the Selectboard shall use the following guidelines in addition to following the Town of Westford Personnel Rules:

(1) Nominating committee.

(A) When a vacancy exists in the office of Town Treasurer, or Delinquent Tax Collector, or Town Clerk, the Selectboard shall call for the formation of a nominating committee comprising one Selectboard member, two justices of the peace, and two residents. The Selectboard and justices of the peace shall select which of their members will serve on the committee. These three officials shall select the two residents.

(B) Meetings of the committee shall be warned and

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conducted as public meetings in accordance with the requirements of Vermont statutes. Members of this committee shall serve until any vacancy is filled by the Selectboard.

(2) Search process. The committee shall have the authority to solicit candidates, to advertise notice of a vacancy, and to make an investigation of a candidate’s credentials and background as the committee deems appropriate. Upon completion of the investigation and interviewing of candidates, the committee shall submit to the Selectboard up to three names of those candidates deemed qualified for the positions.

(3) Appointing a candidate. Within 45 days of its receipt of candidates’ names from the committee, the Selectboard shall appoint from

PLACE AN AFFORDABLE NOTICE AT: SEVENDAYSVT.COM/LEGAL-NOTICES OR CALL 802-865-1020, EXT. 142.

such candidates a person(s) to fill any vacancy or notify the committee in writing that none of the candidates shall be appointed. If no appointment is made, the committee shall then reconvene and submit the names of additional qualified candidates to the Selectboard.

(4) Interim appointment. Until such a time as a vacancy is filled pursuant to this section, the Selectboard may appoint an official on an interim basis to fill the vacancy.

(e) All appointed Town officers shall be governed by the Town of Westford Personnel Rules.

(f) From time to time and whenever a job is open in an appointed Town office, the Selectboard shall adopt or revise a general statement of the qualifications necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities of the office and a job description of the office. (Added 2013, No. M-20 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. June 3, 2014; 2019, No. 84 (Adj. Sess.), § 10.)

Support Groups

A CIRCLE OF PARENTS FOR MOTHERS OF COLOR

Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes!

Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Wed., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@ pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt.org/ family-support-programs.

A CIRCLE OF PARENTS FOR SINGLE MOTHERS

Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes! Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Fri., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt.org/ family-support-programs.

A CIRCLE OF PARENTS W/ LGBTQ+ CHILDREN

Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes! Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Mon., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt.org/ family-support-programs.

AL-ANON

For families & friends of alcoholics. Phone meetings, electronic meetings (Zoom) & an Al-Anon blog are avail. online at the Al-Anon website. For meeting info, go to vermontalanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Do you have a drinking problem? AA meeting sites are now open, & online meetings are also avail. Call our hotline at 802-864-1212 or check for in-person or online meetings at burlingtonaa.org.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUPS

Support groups meet to provide assistance & info on Alzheimer’s disease & related dementias. They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support & coping techniques in care for a person living w/ Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free & open to the public. Families, caregivers & friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm the date & time. The Williston Caregiver Support Group meets in person on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 5-6:30 p.m., at the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library in Williston; this meeting also has a virtual option at the same time; contact support group facilitators Molly at dugan@ cathedralsquare.org or Mindy at moondog@ burlingtontelecom.net. The Middlebury Support

NOTICE FROM BRENNAN & PUNDERSON, PLLC MONKTON, VERMONT OFFICE (INCLUDING FORMER CLIENTS OF JOSEPH D. FALLON, ESQ., OF HINESBURG, VERMONT)

To all former clients of Kevin T. Brennan, Esq., of Brennan & Punderson, PLLC, (f/k/a Brennan Punderson & Donahue, PLLC), located at 1317 Davis Road, Monkton, Vermont (hereinafter “Attorney Brennan”), including former clients of Joseph D. Fallon, Esq., of Hinesburg, Vermont, transferred to Attorney Brennan effective December 1, 2018:

Consistent with his Record Retention Policy, Attorney Brennan currently is in the process of destroying file records (paper copies and/or digital files) for clients whose representation ended more than six (6) years ago. If your representation by Attorney Brennan ended on or before October 31,

CONTACT CLASSIFIEDS@SEVENDAYSVT.COM OR 802-865-1020 EXT. 115 TO UPDATE YOUR SUPPORT GROUP

2018, your records will be securely destroyed. That destruction will take place no later than December 15, 2024, or six (6) years after Attorney Brennan’s representation of you ended.

If you would like to retain your file or any portion of it, please contact Bonnie Brennan via email at bonnie@bpd.legal or by calling 802-453-8400. If Attorney Brennan’s office has not heard from you by November 22, 2024, your file will be securely destroyed.

Additionally, if you believe you have an original Last Will and Testament being retained by Attorney Brennan (or which was retained by Attorney Fallon), please get in touch with Attorney Brennan’s office to make arrangements to have your Will returned to you for safekeeping.

Group for Individuals w/ Early Stage Dementia meets the 4th Tue. of each mo., 3 p.m., at the Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd., Middlebury; contact Daniel Hamilton, dhamilton@ residenceottercreek.com or 802-989-0097. The Shelburne Support Group for Individuals w/ Early Stage Dementia meets the 1st Mon. of every mo., 2-3 p.m., at the Residence at Shelburne Bay, 185 Pine Haven Shores, Shelburne; contact support group facilitator Lydia Raymond, lraymond@ residenceshelburnebay.com. The Telephone Support Group meets the 2nd Tue. of each mo., 4-5:30 p.m. Prereg. is req. (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24-7 Helpline, 800-272-3900, for more info. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900.

AMPUTEE SUPPORT GROUP

VT Active Amputees is a new support group open to all amputees for connection, community & support. The group meets on the 1st Wed. of the mo. in S. Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Let’s get together & be active: running, pickleball & ultimate Frisbee. Email vtactiveamputees@gmail.com or call Sue at 802-582-6750 for more info & location.

BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS & PREGNANT WOMEN

Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But it can also be a time of stress often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth & feel you need some help w/ managing emotional bumps in the road that can come w/ motherhood, please come to this free support group led by an experienced pediatric registered nurse. Held on the 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 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 w/ breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets on the 1st Mon. of every mo., 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more info, call 802-776-5508.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP

Vermont Center for Independent Living offers virtual monthly meetings, held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m. 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. To join, email Linda Meleady at lindam@vcil.org & ask to be put on the TBI mailing list. Info: 800-639-1522.

BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR DRAGON BOAT TEAM

Looking for a fun way to do something active & health-giving? Want to connect w/ other breast cancer survivors? Come join Dragonheart Vermont.

We are a breast cancer survivor & supporter dragon boat team who paddle together in Burlington. Please contact us at info@dragonheartvermont.org for info.

BURLINGTON MEN’S PEER GROUP

Tue. nights, 7-9 p.m. in Burlington. Free of charge, 30 years running. Call Neils 802-877-3742 or email neils@myfairpoint.net.

PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP

The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group meets online on the 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-7:30 p.m., via Zoom. Whether you are newly diagnosed, dealing w/ a reoccurrence or trying to manage the side effects of treatment, you are welcome here! More info: Andy Hatch, group leader, ahatch63@gmail.com.

CENTRAL VERMONT CELIAC SUPPORT GROUP

Last Thu. of every mo., 7:30 p.m. in Montpelier. Please contact Lisa Masé for location: lisa@ harmonizecookery.com.

CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE

Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy & associated medical conditions. Its mission is to provide the best possible info to parents of children living w/ the complex condition of cerebral palsy. Visit cerebralpalsyguidance.com/ cerebral-palsy.

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP

The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings & families grieving the loss of a child meets every 4th Tue. of the mo., 7-9 p.m., at St. John Vianney Catholic Church, 160 Hinesburg Rd, S. Burlington. Call/email Alan at 802-233-0544 alanday88@gmail.com or Claire at 802-448-3569.

DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE!

We welcome anyone, including family & friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. This is an abstinence-oriented program based on the science of addiction treatment & recovery. Meets are online Sun. at 5 p.m. at the link: meetings. smartrecovery.org/meetings/1868. Face-to-face meetings are 1st & 3rd Sun. at 3 p.m. at the Turning Point of Chittenden County. Meetings for family & friends are online on Mon. at 7 p.m. at the link: meetings/smartrecovery.org/meetings/6337. Contact volunteer facilitator Bert at 802-399-8754 w/ questions. You can learn more at smartrecovery. org.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT

Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female-identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to

connect w/ others, to heal & to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences & 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. Tue., 6:30-8 p.m. Childcare is provided. Info: 658-1996.

FAMILY & FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS

This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends & community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety & other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family & friends can discuss shared experiences & receive support in an environment free of judgment & stigma w/ a trained facilitator. Wed., 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

FAMILY RESTORED: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS & FAMILIES OF ADDICTS & ALCOHOLICS Tue., 6-7 p.m., the Turning Point Center, 179 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. For further info, please visit thefamilyrestored.org or contact 207-387-0015.

FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP

Families Coping w/ Addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults (18+) struggling w/ the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step-based but provides a forum for those living the family experience, in which to develop personal coping skills & to draw strength from one another. Our group meets every Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m., live in person in the conference room at the Turning Point Center of Chittenden County (179 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington), &/or via our parallel Zoom session to accommodate those who cannot attend in person. The Zoom link can be found on the Turning Point Center website (turningpointcentervt.org) using the “Family Support” tab (click on “What We Offer”). Any questions, please send by email to thdaub1@gmail.com.

FIERCELY FLAT VT

A breast cancer support group for those who’ve had mastectomies. We are a casual online meeting group found on Facebook at Fiercely Flat VT. Info: stacy.m.burnett@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: Mon., 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; & Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more info & a list of additional meetings

throughout the U.S. & 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 mo. on Mon. in Burlington. Please call for date & location. RSVP to mkeasler3@gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).

GRIEF & LOSS SUPPORT GROUP

Sharing your sadness, finding your joy. Please join us as we learn more about our own grief & explore the things that can help us to heal. There is great power in sharing our experiences w/ others who know the pain of the loss of a loved one & healing is possible through the sharing. BAYADA Hospice’s local bereavement support coordinator will facilitate our weekly group through discussion & activities. Everyone from the community is welcome. 1st & last Wed. of every mo. at 4 p.m. via Zoom. To register, please contact bereavement program coordinator Max Crystal, mcrystal@bayada.com or 802-448-1610.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS

Meet every 2nd Mon., 6-7:30 p.m., & every 3rd Wed. from 10-11:30 a.m., at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to the public & free of charge. More info: Diana Moore, 224-2241.

GRIEVING A LOSS SUPPORT GROUP

A retired psychotherapist & an experienced life coach host a free meeting for those grieving the loss of a loved one. The group meets upstairs at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne. There is no fee for attending, but donations are gladly accepted. Meetings are held twice a mo., the 1st & 3rd Sat. of every mo. from 10-11:30 a.m. If you are interested in attending, please register at allsoulsinterfaith. org. More information about the group leader at pamblairbooks.com.

HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP

This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice-hearing experiences as real lived experiences that may happen to anyone at any time. We choose to share experiences, support & empathy. We validate anyone’s experience & stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest & accurate representation of their experience, & as being acceptable exactly as they are. Tue., 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@pathwaysvermont.org.

HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT

People living w/ cancer & their caretakers convene for support. Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107.

INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP

Interstitial cystitis (IC) & painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/urgency. These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@gmail.com or call 899-4151 for more info.

INTUITIVE EATING SUPPORT GROUP

Free weekly peer-led support group for anyone struggling w/ eating &/or body image. The only requirement is a desire to make peace w/ food & your body. Meeting format is: a short reading from Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch, 4th edition, followed by open sharing & discussion. Come find community through sharing struggles, experience, strength & hope. Located at the Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Sun. 1-2:30 p.m. Contact 202-553-8953 w/ any questions.

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 w/ 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.

LAUGHTER YOGA

Spontaneous, genuine laughter & gentle breathing for physical & emotional benefit. No yoga mat needed! This group is held every Mon., 2-3 p.m., at Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Contact Chris Nial for any questions: chrisn@pathwaysvermont.org.

LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE

The SafeSpace Anti-Violence Program at Pride Center of Vermont 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 info, & offer & receive support. Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain info on how to better cope w/ feelings & experiences that surface because of the trauma they have experienced. Please call SafeSpace at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining.

LGBTQ VETERANS

Share the struggles & celebrate the joys of being a service member & LGBTQIA+ in this peer-led discussion group. Meetings are at the Rainbow Bridge Community Center in Barre on the 2nd & 4th Tue. of each mo. Visit rbccvt.org for more info.

LIVING THROUGH LOSS

Gifford Medical Center is announcing the restart of its grief support group, Living Through Loss. The program is sponsored by the Gifford Volunteer Chaplaincy Program & will meet weekly on Fri., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., in Gifford’s Chun Chapel. Meetings will be facilitated by the Rev. Timothy Eberhardt, spiritual care coordinator, & Emily Pizzale MSW, LICSW, a Gifford social worker. Anyone who has experienced a significant loss over the last year or so is warmly invited to attend & should enter through the hospital’s main entrance wearing a mask on the way to the chapel. Meetings will be based on the belief that, while each of us is on a unique journey in life, we all need a safe place to pause, to tell our stories &, especially as we grieve, to receive the support & strength we need to continue along the way.

MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS

Do you have a problem w/ marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts get & stay clean. Ongoing Mon., 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church of Burlington (Red Door Church) 21 Buell St., Burlington. Contact: jointsession@newenglandma.org.

MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP

Area myeloma survivors, families & caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies & a support network by participating in the group experience w/ people who have been through similar situations. 3rd Tue. of every mo., 5-6 p.m., at the New Hope Lodge on East Ave. in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@aol.com.

NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS

Weekly virtual meetings. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@namivt.org or 800-639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living w/ mental health challenges.

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP

Weekly virtual & in-person meetings. ASL interpreters avail. upon request. Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living w/ mental illness. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt.org or 800-639-6480.

NARCONON SUNCOAST DRUG & ALCOHOL REHABILITATION & EDUCATION

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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Held in Burlington, Barre & St. Johnsbury. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org.

NARCANON BURLINGTON GROUP

Group meets every Mon. at 7 p.m., at the Turning Point Center, 179 S. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H., 338-8106.

NEW (& EXPECTING) MAMAS & PAPAS! EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY!

The Children’s Room invites you to join our weekly drop-in support group. Come unwind & discuss your experiences & questions around infant care & development, self-care & postpartum healing, & community resources for families w/ babies. Tea & snacks provided. Thu., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bring your babies! (Newborn through crawling stage.) Located in Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe St., childrensroomonline.org. Contact childrensroom@ wwsu.org or 244-5605.

NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK

A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those who are currently suffering from the disease. 2nd Thu. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint.net. 2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski. Info: hovermann4@comcast. net.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA)

A 12-step program for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc. No matter what your problem w/ food, we have a solution! All are welcome, meetings are open, & there are no dues or fees. See oavermont.org/meeting-list for the current meeting list, meeting format & more; or call 802-863-2655 anytime!

PONDERING GENDER & SEXUALITY

Pondering Gender & Sexuality is a twice-monthly facilitated mutual support group for folks of any identity (whether fully formed or a work in progress) who want to engage in meaningful conversations about gender, sexuality & sexual orientation, &/or the coming-out process. Discussions can range from the personal to the philosophical & beyond as we work together to create a compassionate, safe & courageous space to explore our experiences. The group will be held on the 2nd Sun. & 4th Tue. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., either virtually or at Pride Center of Vermont. Email pgs@pridecentervt.org for more info or w/ questions!

POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP

Anyone coping w/ potato intolerance & interested in joining a support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452.

QUEER CARE GROUP

This support group is for adult family members & caregivers of queer &/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Mon. of every mo., 6:30-8 p.m., at Outright Vermont, 241 N. Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only. For more info, email info@ outrightvt.org.

READY TO BE TOBACCO-FREE GROUPS

Join a free 4-5-week group workshop facilitated by our coaches, who are certified in tobacco treatment. We meet in a friendly, relaxed & virtual atmosphere. You may qualify for a free limited

supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Info: call 802-847-7333 or email quittobaccoclass@ uvmhealth.org to get signed up, or visit myhealthyvt.org to learn more about upcoming workshops!

REFUGE RECOVERY MEETING

Burlington Refuge Recovery is a Buddhist-oriented, nontheistic addiction recovery group that meets every Tue. at 6:45 p.m. at Turning Point Center, located at 179 S. Winooski Ave. in Burlington.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND Support group meeting held on the 4th Tue. of every mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m., Williston Police Station. Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS

12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Info: Shawn, 660-2645. Visit slaafws.org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you.

SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS, MONTPELIER

Do you have a problem w/ compulsive sexual behavior? A 12-step program has helped us. SAA Montpelier meets twice weekly at 6 p.m.: Mon. virtual meeting, details at saatalk.info; Thu. faceto-face at Bethany Church, Montpelier. Details at saa-recovery.org. Contact saa.vtrecovery@gmail. com or call 802-322-3701.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT

HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are avail. for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 864-0555, ext. 19, or email our victim advocate at advocate@sover. net.

SOCIAL ANXIETY SUPPORT GROUPS

For screened adults ages 28-40. Therapist-led sessions. For more info, contact diane@ldtayeby. com.

STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS

If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone! Adults, teens & school-age kids who stutter, & their families are welcome to join 1 of our 3 free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM (join by Zoom or in person). Adults: 5:30-6:30 p.m., 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly; school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus). Info: nsachapters.org/burlington, burlingtonstutters@ gmail.com, 656-0250. Go, Team Stuttering!

SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP

For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. 6:30-8 p.m., on the 3rd Tue. of every mo. Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford. Info: 446-3577.

SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 257-7989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 2290591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse. Facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only). Please call 877-543-9498 for more info.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE

If you have lost someone to suicide & wish to have a safe place to talk, share & spend a little time w/ others who have had a similar experience, join us on the 3rd Thu. of every mo., 7-9 p.m., at the Faith Lighthouse Church, Route 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook). Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: S. BURLINGTON

This group is for people experiencing the impact of the loss of a loved one to suicide. 1st Wed. of each mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 3 Dorset St., S. Burlington. Info: Bob Purvee at 802-922-4283 or ripurvee1@yahoo.com, or Aya Kuki at 802-881-3606 or ayakokuki@gmail.com

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Join the Community Kitchen Academy!

Community Kitchen Academy (CKA) is a 9-week job training program featuring: Hands on learning, national ServSafe certification, job placement support and meaningful connections to community. Plus... the tuition is FREE and weekly stipends are provided for income eligible students! At CKA you’ll learn from professional chefs in modern commercial kitchens and graduate with the skills and knowledge to build a career in food service, food systems and other related fields. Throughout the course, you’ll develop and apply new skills by preparing food that would otherwise be wasted. The food you cook is then shared with neighbors via community food shelves and meal sites. CKA is a program of the Vermont Foodbank, operated in partnership with Capstone Community Action in Barre and Feeding Champlain Valley in Burlington. Next sessions start October 14th in Burlington and January 6th in Barre. Apply online: vtfoodbank.org/cka.

Work 8-16 hours per week at the Northlands Job Corps Center in Vergennes, VT. Hours flexible but no evenings or weekend work available. You choose amount of hours per week. Remote work a possibility. MUST be licensed in VT.

Please call Dan W. Hauben ASAP at 888-552-1660.

NPA Public Engagement Specialist

The City of Burlington’s Community Economic Development O ce (CEDO) is hiring!

This position supports the work of the Neighborhood Planning Assemblies (NPAs), grassroots neighborhood organizations in Burlington’s eight wards. This position provides administrative and technical support for the smooth operation of the NPAs, which strive to be diverse and inclusive forums. As NPAs function as neighborhood advocacy groups which help to improve communication between residents of Burlington and city government on a ra of public issues, this position will help bolster civic engagement efforts for the City.

This position is for 30 hours per week including 6-8 evenings per month.

An ideal candidate must have proﬁciency with computers, including websites, databases, word processing, spreadsheets, and email, and must be able to take meeting minutes.

If you are a strong planner, have keen attention to detail with demonstrated organizational skills, this role is for you!

A bachelor’s degree is preferred with two years of relevant experience.

This part-time position pays hourly between $26.22- $29.20 and comes with a comprehensive beneﬁts package.

The City of Burlington is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage applicants who can contribute to our growing diversity. Apply today:

Administrative Assistant

Administrative Assistant to help with o ce management. Following up with clients on applications and forms. Assist Principal with daily duties.

Send resumes to: jen@beaconwealthvt.com

Network Engineer

The University of Vermont Health Network is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to join their team in South Burlington. The Network Engineer has knowledge of best practices and how IT Networking integrates with other areas.

QUALIFICATIONS

• In-depth knowledge of networking protocols, including TCP/IP, BGP,OSPF, MPLS, and VLANs. Mastery of Cisco or equivalent router and switch conﬁgurations.

• Bachelor’s degree or formal technical training or equivalent experience.

• 5 or more years’ experience in developing and designing complex network architectures.

For more information and to apply, please visit uvmhealthnetworkcareers.org/r0059907_sevendays

The University of Vermont Health Network is an E.O.E.

Executive Director

Make a significant impact.

Champion end-of-life choice.

Bring a range of inter-disciplinary skills, creative and strategic thinking and crisp execution to your work. Collaborate with a great board and volunteers.

Full-time position with flexible schedule

Study our mission at www.PatientChoices.org

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Production Staff

If you want to JUMP START your career & get your foot in the door at one of the BEST Vermont based companies, THIS JOB IS FOR YOU! WE NEED YOU to help with waxing and cutting our reusable food storage product. If you can handle anything with a smile, have a self-starting attitude, and want to enjoy your job and have free weekends, apply:

HR@beeswrap.com

Executive Director

Seeking full time Executive Director to promote, sustain and develop new and existing business in both Barre Town and City, Vermont.

Bachelor’s degree with a major in business administration or a closely related field and 5 years of relevant job experience.

For more information, click on badc.com or email info@badc.com.

GROW YOUR BUSINESS IN BARRE

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COURTROOM DEPUTY

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U.S. Bankruptcy Court

The United States Court is seeking qualified individuals with excellent analytical, clerical, operational and computer skills capable of functioning in a dynamic, team-oriented environment. The duty stations are Burlington, Vermont. Full federal benefits apply. Complete job descriptions and formal application requirements are found in the official Position Announcements available from court locations in Burlington and Rutland and the court’s web sites (Court Info: Employment).

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Landscape Help

Now Hiring Skilled Laborers and General Landscape help. Fulltime, year-round. Travel around Vermont.

• VT Driver’s license and clean driving record desired

• Able to lift 80 lbs

• Pay range: $18-$22 depending on experience

• Paid Holidays and bonuses available

Email: morningdewlandscapingvt @gmail.com or call: 802.760.7577

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Make a career making a difference & receive a benefit package that includes 29 paid days off in the first year, comprehensive health insurance with premium as low as $13 per month, up to $6,400 to go towards medical deductibles and copays, retirement match, generous sign on bonus and so much more. And that’s on top of working at one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont” for six years in a row.

Great positions to start your career in human services or to continue your work in this field. Send resume to staff@ccs-vt.org ccs-vt.org

Finance & Operations Manager

Preservation Trust of Vermont

The Preservation Trust of Vermont (PTV) builds community through the preservation of historic buildings, villages, and downtowns. Last year, PTV worked on 264 preservation and revitalization projects in 152 Vermont communities. More information about PTV can be found here: ptvermont.org.

PTV is seeking a highly organized and collaborative team member who will help PTV achieve its mission by managing our daily finance and operational functions. The ideal candidate will have experience with nonprofit finances and administration, have exceptional attention to detail, and be excited to serve Vermont communities.

To apply, visit: ptvermont.org/?p=14775

SEPTEMBER 18-25, 2024

ATTENTION RECRUITERS:

Publishing Coordinator

Prospect Press seeks a Publishing Coordinator. We are a small company located in Burlington, Vermont, which publishes college textbooks for courses in Information Systems. Responsibilities will include tracking the progress of manuscripts through the development process, soliciting reviews, liaising with production contractors, uploading textbooks into our distributors’ systems, helping maintain our customer database, and helping promote our textbooks at professional conferences. A central responsibility of this position will be to assemble and maintain a cloud-based tracking procedure to coordinate development, production, and promotion of our growing product line.

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The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of relevant experience; interests in publishing, higher education, and Information Systems; excellent communication skills; a positive learning attitude; and be highly organized, detail conscious, curious, and a team player. College degree required. This is an in-person position. Salary is $24.50 per hour for a 35-hour work week. To apply, send an excellent cover letter and a resume to Andy.Golub@ProspectPressVT.com

SENIOR REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER AFFORDABLE HOUSING

At Evernorth our vision is people in every community have an affordable place to live and opportunities to thrive. Our mission is to work with partners to connect underserved communities in the northern New England region with capital and expertise to advance projects and policies that create more inclusive places to live.

We have an opening for a Sr. Real Estate Developer to direct real estate development activities with the Sr. Vice President of Evernorth’s Real Estate team to achieve organizational goals. This position maintains good working relationships with investors, funders, nonprofit housing organizations, community groups, governmental entities, principal real estate professionals and the public. This person plays a critical role in Evernorth’s efforts towards continuous improvement, based on data-driven feedback towards delivering high quality housing and community development projects.

To be successful as a Sr. Real Estate Developer, you would need a bachelor’s degree, 8-10 years of experience in real estate development or community development and a high level of expertise in financial analysis. Indepth knowledge of applicable housing programs & regulations are required, along with a strong understanding of environmental regulations, Act 250 and local permitting process. This position requires a demonstrated leadership in bringing innovation to the development process, design approach & identifying new capital sources.

To view the full job description and to apply, go to evernorthus.org/careers. Evernorth is an E.O.E.

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Finance & Operations Manager

Locations: Remote plus regular in-person business in Burlington, VT

Position: Permanent, Full-Time, Salaried, Exempt; Reports to Executive Director

Salary: $55,000 - $65,000, commensurate with experience

VBSR is a statewide, nonprofit business association with an enduring mission to leverage the power of business for positive social and environmental impact. Our members have shaped the Vermont brand, advanced leading-edge policy, and fueled the social responsibility movement.

The Finance & Operations Manager plays an essential role in advancing VBSR’s mission by managing our financial and operations systems. This position is responsible for VBSR’s bookkeeping, ensuring timely payment on our financial obligations, and supporting VBSR staff with being the most supported, effective, and efficient team possible, including HR benefits administration, operations support for virtual work, and managing contracted services.

Complete position description and application instructions available: https://vbsr.org/finance-and-operations-manager-vbsr Deadline: October 7, 2024

Applicants who identify as women and non-binary, Black, Indigenous and People of Color, First- or Second-Generation American, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ+, veterans, justice-involved, or other historically marginalized and underrepresented identities are strongly encouraged to apply. A college degree is not required to be successful in this position.

The Testing Center Manager oversees the administration of accommodated tests for disabled and neurodiverse Dartmouth College students. They also serve as communication and scheduling lead, develop and update policies and procedures, and drive program assessment. The manager is part of a professional team who support each other to provide excellent service.

Visit bit.ly/ DartmouthCollegeJob for more details or to apply.

Bikes & Asset Management Specialist

Manage bikes, vans, trailersinventory, assignment, maintenance, permits and storage.

• $750 sign-on bonus

• Part time: 25-30 hr/wk. Full Time possible

• Flexible Schedule | Onsite at Shelburne

Tour Management Specialist

Support the pre and post-tour vendor communication

• $500 sign-on bonus

• Part time: 15-20 hr/wk

• Flexible Schedule | Onsite at Shelburne

OFFICE ASSISTANT JOIN OUR TEAM AT TEACHERS TREE SERVICE!

We’re hiring a parttime office assistant to answer phones, field client service requests, and support our professional arborist crews.

Minimum one year of experience in administrative or office environment.

Pay range: $24-26/hr, plus benefits.

Send resumes to: sarah@teacherstree service.com.

Red Clover Treatment Center Middlesex, VT

Red Clover Treatment Center is a trauma-informed program in Middlesex, Vermont providing a supportive living and academic environment for youths and families struggling with significant mental and behavioral health issues. We are hiring for multiple positions including Youth Counselors, Awake Overnight Counselors, Assistant Program Director & more.

To see and apply for all positions, please visit Indeed.com and search for "Red Clover Treatment Facility" in Vermont. Join the Red Clover Youth Treatment team and make a difference in young people's lives.

Sentinel Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

supporting your career. Treats patients with the various modalities available in Radiation Oncology. Counsels, schedules and maintains detailed records on patient treatment.

Qualifications:

• Associates degree in Radiation Therapy (2-year academic and affiliation program) required and 1 year experience.

Required Licensure/Certifications:

• Successful completion of Registry Exam or ARRT eligible and approved by the next ARRT examination.

• BLS required within 30 days of hire.

• Licensed by the Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy in the state of New Hampshire.

• Licensed by the Office of Professional Regulation in the state of Vermont.

The Town of Jericho is accepting applications for a Highway Maintenance Worker Level II. This is a full-time position that requires a CDL (min Class “B”) and the ability to routinely work outside of regular working hours. The ideal candidate will have at least two years of experience in highway maintenance, snow plowing, construction procedures, and methods at the municipal level. Equipment operation experience is a plus.

The starting hourly wage is dependent on qualifications. The Town of Jericho offers excellent benefits, including health and dental insurance and a retirement plan.

An application and job description can be downloaded from www.jerichovt.org. They are also available at the Jericho Town Hall, at 67 VT Rt. 15, Jericho, M-TH 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Completed applications can be submitted to Linda Blasch in person, via email at lblasch@jerichovt.gov or mail to PO Box 39, Jericho, VT 05465. The position is open until filled.

ATTENTION RECRUITERS:

When you work for the State of Vermont, you and your work matter. A career with the State puts you on a rich and rewarding professional path. You’ll find jobs in dozens of fields – not to mention an outstanding total compensation package.

SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR – WATERBURY

The Vermont Department of Health is looking for a Senior Communications Coordinator in the Laboratory Science and Infectious Disease Division to support the Division Information Director in public health communication efforts across program areas in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Immunizations, and the Public Health Laboratory. Our ideal candidate is a collaborative and detailoriented communication professional with strong project management and writing skills who works well independently. For more information, contact Julie Corwin at julie.corwin@vermont.gov. Department: Health. Location: Waterbury. Status: Full Time. Job ID #50843. Application Deadline: September 26, 2024.

Administrative Associate

12 month position

Assist and provide support to the Foundation’s program, operations and grants management staff, to provide timely communication to grantseekers and others interested in our programs, and to help facilitate our grant application processes for grantseekers and employee committee members.

Position is based on 24 hours a week, with at least two in-person days per week in our South Burlington office. Pay is $26.50/Hour with FTE health care benefits and pro-rated paid personal time. Also, free ice cream!

Requirements:

• Strong computer skills, i.e. Microsoft Office Suite.

• Excellent Organizational skills including time management.

• Strong communication skills including writing, phone, e-mail.

• Excellent interpersonal skills including reading comprehension & curiosity.

• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills.

Applicants should be able to work effectively in an open, collaborative environment, be a creative thinker, work independently, and initiate process improvements.

The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation is a non-profit, philanthropic organization. The mission of the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation is to support grassroots organizations working for social justice throughout the United States, to give back to our Vermont communities, and to engage Ben & Jerry’s employees in our philanthropic work. To learn more about the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation please visit: benandjerrysfoundation.org.

To be considered, candidates must include a resume and cover letter that describes how their qualifications and experience match the needs and mission of The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation. Please email required documents to jobapplications@benandjerrysfoundation.org. Questions about the job may be directed to our Director of Programs at: becca.golden@benjerry.com.

Operations Manager

Seeking a dedicated and organized Operations Manager to join our passionate team to help us continue to grow and succeed. The Operations Manager will be responsible for the smooth and efficient running of the company’s operations. This includes managing daily administrative tasks, coordinating performances and events, overseeing logistics, and supporting the Artistic Director and Board of Directors. This is a part time position of 20 hours a week.

Join our innovative and award-winning team to help Vermont reach its housing and land conservation goals!

Chief Financial Officer

The CFO is responsible for the finances of VHCB, including planning and analysis, financial systems and risk management, and fiscal operations and reporting. The CFO serves as a member of the VHCB Management Team, leads the work of the finance department, and works collaboratively with administrative and program staff. This position is open until filled.

Federal Housing Specialist

We’re looking for a skilled professional to coordinate the day-to-day administration of VHCB’s federally funded affordable housing programs. This position is open until filled.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer Candidates from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. We offer a comprehensive benefit package and an inclusive, supportive work environment.

For full job descriptions, salary information, and application instructions please visit vhcb.org/about-us/jobs

The job description can be found at BalletWolcott.com. Interested candidates should send a resume and cover letter to Tyarrow@comcast.net. Please include “Operations Manager Application” in the subject line. Ballet Wolcott is an equal opportunity employer.

The Legislative support oﬃces are currently hiring. The nonpartisan oﬃces are an interesting, challenging, and exciting place to work.

You will be part of a highly professional and collegial team that is proud of, and enthusiastic about, the mission of the state legislature.

Learn more at: careers.vermont.gov

The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Vermont Housing & Conser vation Board

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Successful candidates will have a strong background in:

• State of Vermont and Federal grants management

• Staﬀ leadership and management

• Ability to develop and follow through on vision

• Proven collaborative skills

• Demonstrated success improving eﬀectiveness and capacity of non proﬁt organizations.

Salary Range: $90,000 - $120,000. Interested candidates should provide a cover letter, resume, and three professional references to havah@startchangene.org

A full job description can be viewed here: bit.ly/ExDir

Court Operations Manager

ST. JOHNSBURY

The Vermont Judiciary is the branch of state government whose mission is to provide equal access to justice, protect individual rights, resolve legal disputes fairly and timely, and provide everyone the opportunity to have their day in court. With over 400 employees in 25 locations, we are moving forward and are seeking to hire an engaging, collaborative, and experienced leader for the Caledonia Court. These courts involve one or more divisions: criminal; civil; family; probate.

This position requires managerial, administrative, financial, budgeting and public relations work. Responsibilities also include planning, organizing, staffing, and evaluating the functions of teams ranging from 7 to 15 employees. The ideal candidate will have the personal qualities of integrity, energy and a strong preference for collaborative problem-solving.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree & four years of management experience in a public or private organization.

(Will accept as substitute related legal or court experience)

Salary $78,675 annually plus a comprehensive package of benefits including retirement plans.

Candidates shall submit a complete and up-to-date Judicial Branch Application and a resume

found at: vermontjudiciary.exacthire.com. Open until filled. Equal opportunity employer.

Audiologist Can you hear me?

Hearing and communication is vital to connection with family and friends, work and community - and YOU have the ability to shape the lives of those in need. Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (NVRH) seeks a full-time Audiologist for our ENT & Audiology practice. Work with a team of committed professionals in a mixed specialty practice offering ENT, Audiology, Allergy, Speech-Language Pathology, and Palliative Care to perform diagnostic testing for all ages. Collaborate with ENT providers and Hearing Instrument Specialist, as well as manage hearing aid services, including assessments, fittings, and repairs. Located in Vermont’s beautiful Northeast Kingdom, NVRH offers competitive wages, student loan repayment, generous paid time off, and a comprehensive benefits package. Join us in providing exceptional patient-centered care that really makes a difference!

Apply now at www.nvrh.org/careers.

A career with meaning.

Help families, find your purpose, and make a real difference with Easterseals Vermont.

Join our team and discover a fulfilling career with comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, PTO from day one, and more.

This is more than a job—it’s a meaningful opportunity to change lives, including your own.

in Barre, Burlington, and Morrisville.

ATTENTION RECRUITERS:

NOW HIRING

PHYSICAL and OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS

We are hiring Physical and Occupational Therapists. Join our Rehab Department at Copley Hospital located in Morrisville, just outside of Stowe, VT.

Full-time, part-time, and per diem schedules available on our friendly, close-knit team!

For more information visit copleyvt.org/careers or contact Kaitlyn Shannon, Recruiter, at 802-888-8144 or kshannon@chsi.org.

Conservation Program Assistant

Interested in joining a team where your administrative skills and experiences can help advance Vermont’s natural resource conservation and climate resiliency efforts on its farms and forests?

The Vermont Association of Conservation Districts (VACD) seeks qualified applicants for a full-time CONSERVATION PROGRAM ASSISTANT position. This position supports the work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) by providing administrative and organizational support to NRCS staff in facilitating and advancing conservation assistance programs offered by USDA to Vermont’s farm and forest landowners. This position will be located at Middlebury, VT NRCS Field Office. The Program Assistant (PA) will work in conjunction with NRCS’ Central Zone Field Office staff to support the implementation of USDA Farm Bill conservation programs and will be responsible for accurate documentation and tracking of applications, contracts, and financial records utilizing customized software as well as communications with customers.

Excellent verbal, written, computer, and customer service skills are required. Ideal candidate will have demonstrated administrative skills and experience supporting business operations and will be well organized and able to work independently with accurate attention to detail. An Associate’s Degree is required. A Bachelor's degree with an interest in conservation is preferred. Starting salary is $21.53 per hour and includes yearly salary advances, health benefits, an employer contribution 401K plan and a generous sick, holiday and vacation leave package.

Visit vacd.org for detailed job description. Send resume, cover letter, and contact information for three references by September 23rd to: Amanda Harris at amanda.harris@vacd.org or to VACD, PO Box 889, Montpelier, VT 05601. We are an E.O.E.

Red House Building is currently seeking experienced, skilled carpenters to join our team. This is a full-time position with flexible scheduling, benefits, and hourly pay based on skill level. Ideal candidates are motivated, dependable, and detailoriented, with previous experience in construction.

Our projects span throughout Central and Northern Vermont. If you are a reliable and skilled craftsperson who is interested in being a part of a unique, custom-home building team, then please submit your resume to info@ redhousebuilding.com

LEGAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Rubin, Kidney, Myer & Vincent, a Barre general practice law firm seeks an individual to support our litigation practice. This position will assist our attorneys who work with public defender clients. The successful candidate will have excellent communication and strong technology skills, be organized, detail-oriented, self motivated and be able to work effectively as part of a team. This is a full-time position with excellent salary and benefits. This is a demanding but rewarding job working with a friendly group of people.

Kindly respond to: Loretta Larson, Office Manager via email to llarson@rkmvlaw.com Please use Legal Administrative Assistant in subject line.

Are you passionate about making a positive impact in the lives of children and families in our community? King Street Center is a vibrant nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering youth to explore their talents and find their voice through learning, play and opportunity. Located in the heart of Burlington, Vermont, we strive to create a supportive and inclusive environment where every individual can thrive. Through a variety of programs ranging from Mentoring, Teen, K-5 and our 5-STAR Head Start Early Childhood Program, we aim to foster resilience, confidence, and a sense of belonging in those we serve. Especially important to us is that we do this work with an equity lens and incorporate the vision and voice of our youth into our programming.

We are currently hiring for the following positions:

Early Education Lead Teacher

• Full-time, 40 hours per week

• Starting at $24/hour

• Sign-On Bonus: $1,500

Donor Relations Director

• Full-Time, Salaried, 40 hours/week

• Salary Range: $60,000-75,000

Meal Program Coordinator

• Monday-Friday, 10:00am-6:00pm with a 30 minute paid lunch break

• Rate: $18.60/hour

Human Resources Generalist

• Full-Time, Salaried, 40 hours/week

• Salary Range: $50,000-65,000

TO APPLY

Email hr@kingstreetcenter.org to tell us about your interest in which specific position, your availability, and your experience working with children. Please include a resume, cover letter, and three references.

Student Support Coordinator

Downtown Burlington

* Are you passionate about helping students overcome barriers to achieve their life and learning goals?

* Do you have strong interpersonal and intercultural skills? Speak multiple languages?

* Want to create a welcoming learning environment while supporting your colleagues with impeccable organizational and administrative skills?

Vermont Adult Learning is hiring a Student Support Coordinator to work onsite in our downtown Burlington Learning Center. In this role, you will answer the phone, greet students, provide administrative support, and handle data entry and digital document organization. We're looking for patience, resilience, and a lifelong learner mindset. Google Workspace and database skills required.

Generous paid time off, benefits, & employer match. Starting pay 21.80/hr.

Full description: vtadultlearning.org/about-us/#careers. Send resume/cover letter to Talent@vtadultlearning.org.

BUSINESS OPERATIONS & STRATEGY DIRECTOR

The Director of Business Operations & Strategy, at our new BioLabs Innovation Center at UVM, located in Burlington, VT, manages and oversees the strategic and financial growth, as well as day-to-day operations, of the site facility. This includes (1) initiating new and fostering existing relationships with key stakeholders in the Burlington, Vermont, and greater New England biotech ecosystem, (2) building a strong pipeline of prospective resident life science startup companies, and (3) overseeing the site’s daily operations, finances, and team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree is required; an advanced degree (MBA and/or MS or PhD in life sciences or related field) is preferred

• At least 3 to 5 years’ leadership experience in business development, strategic partnerships, alliance management, and/or marketing in a commercial environment, preferably in the biotech and/or life sciences space, required

About BioLabs: BioInnovation Labs (BioLabs), established in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, is the premier network of co-working spaces for life science startups. We are enabling innovation to make the world a better place through interaction with the smartest and most motivated people in the world. Through a rapidly growing network of global locations (currently 11 in the US and 3 in Europe), our collaborative lab space model is uniquely designed for scientific entrepreneurs to test, develop, grow, and commercialize their game-changing ideas. Each location supports entrepreneurial scientists with premium, fully equipped, and supported laboratory and office spaces, alongside unparalleled access to capital and industry. BioLabs provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. For more information, visit: go.uvm.edu/biolabs

Leasing Administrator

Property Management Company looking for an articulate, energetic people-person to join their team full-time (30 hours). Some tasks included in position are conducting property tours, communicating with prospective renters, processing applications, providing extraordinary customer service, scheduling appointments, taking the lead on the marketing efforts and community outreach, planning resident events and administrative tasks. Must be able to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Strong sales aptitude and computer proficiency is required.

The work schedule is Monday – Friday 10:30-5. Candidate must be flexible and willing to work as needed.

If you are interested, please email resume to dfinnigan@hallkeen.com

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Operations Manager

Vermont Woodlands Association (VWA) is hiring an Operations Manager to grow our team which supports private woodland owners and managers in the stewardship, use, and enjoyment of Vermont woodlands. This is a part-time position (less than 30 hr/week), with a flexible schedule. Pay is based on experience.

Please send a cover letter & resume to director@vermontwoodlands.org by October 1st. This position is open until filled and is expected to start December 1, 2024.

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We are hiring for the following positions:

At NDI we are driven by our belief that advanced spatial measurement solutions can help our customers in their aim to improve medical procedures and patient lives.

Electronics Assembler Hardware Design Engineer Project Manager

Annual Fund Manager

Spruce Peak Arts, a 501 (3)C Nonprofit organization is seeking a passionate and strategic Annual Fund Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing and expanding our funding streams to support our mission and programs. This role requires a dynamic individual who can balance strategic planning with hands-on fundraising efforts, ensuring the financial sustainability of our organization. Bachelor's Degree and minimum 5 years' experience dedicated to high level fundraising. lhunter@sprucepeakarts.org

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Experienced Prep Cook (PT/FT)

The Roots Farm Market is looking for an experienced kitchen professional to join our team! The kitchen team prepares a variety of daily specials and grab-and-go items for the store and is open 7 days a week. Our in house kitchen is a positive and team-oriented work environment. Knowledge and passion for organic local food a plus. Weekdays and weekends available. $22-$25/ hour starting. Full job details at: therootsfarmmarket.com/ job-openings.

Risk Reduction Interventionist

Re-Entry Resources Counseling is seeking a motivated, career-oriented individual to join a seasoned team as a Risk Reduction Interventionist. Full-time and part-time positions are available.

The Risk Reduction Interventionist is responsible for facilitating risk reduction curricula with individuals in the criminal justice system. Evidence-based curriculum is used to help reduce risk of recidivism for individuals as they aim to transition back into communities from incarceration. The work will involve delivering risk reduction curricula in person and via technology when remote work is necessary. Curricula focuses on themes such as emotion regulation, problem-solving and social skill development. The Risk Reduction Interventionist will participate in weekly group supervision and individual clinical supervision. Compensation will be determined by experience, education, and credentialing. Send resumes to: leeanna.fomkin@partner.vermont.gov.

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Paralegal

Busy litigation ﬁrm is looking for someone with a keen interest in the law and a solid educational background to work as a paralegal. There may also be an opportunity to participate in the law o ce study program for the right candidate. Experience is helpful but not necessary.

Send resumes to: sﬂynn@ ﬂynnmessinalaw.com

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Burlington Housing Authority (BHA)

Are you interested in a job that helps your community and makes a difference in people’s lives every day? Consider joining Burlington Housing Authority (BHA) in Burlington, VT to continue BHA’s success in promoting innovative solutions that address housing instability challenges facing our diverse population of low-income families and individuals.

We are currently hiring for the following positions:

Building Operations Technician:

Performs general maintenance work in BHA owned and managed properties. This includes building exteriors, common areas, apartments, building systems, fixtures, and grounds. Our Building Operations Techs are required to participate in the on-call rotation, which covers night and weekend emergencies.

Housing Retention Services – Site Based: Responsible for supporting those who have mental health and substance use challenges and/or who have moved from homelessness to Bobbin Mill, Wharf Lane, and other BHA properties. The position works closely with property management and other site-based staff to identify challenges and respond with appropriate direct service and coordination of community services, with a goal of eviction prevention and facilitating a healthy tenancy.

Offender Re-entry Housing Specialist: Provides support to men and women under the VT Department of Corrections supervision from prison back to Chittenden County. The ORHS focuses on high-risk men and women who are being released from jail and graduating transitional housing programs and in need of permanent housing. The ORHS provides intensive retention and eviction prevention services and works collaboratively with the Burlington Probation and Parole Office. Additionally, the ORHS works with various case workers, Re-Entry staff and the Administrative Staff from the VT Department of Corrections and the broad network of COSA staff as necessary throughout Chittenden County.

*BHA serves a diverse population of tenants and partners with a variety of community agencies. To most effectively

carry out our vision of delivering safe and affordable housing to all, we are committed to cultivating a staff that reflects varied lived experiences, viewpoints, and educational histories. Therefore, we strongly encourage candidates from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals, and women to apply. Multilingualism is a plus!

Find more about these career opportunities: burlingtonhousing.org

Our robust benefit package includes premium medical insurance with a health reimbursement account, dental, vision, short and long term disability, 10% employer funded retirement plan, 457 retirement plan, accident insurance, life insurance, cancer and critical illness insurance.

We provide a generous time off policy including 12 days of paid time off and 12 days of sick time in the first year. In addition to the paid time off, BHA recognizes 13 (paid) holidays and 2 (paid) floating cultural holidays.

Interested in this opportunity? Send cover letter/resume to: humanresources@ burlingtonhousing.org

Human Resources

Burlington Housing Authority 65 Main Street, Suite 101 Burlington, VT 05401

BHA is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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I saw an ad for this job in the “help-wanted” section of Seven Days and thought, Hmmm, I should apply for that. But I didn’t do it right away. In the following issue, the same position was highlighted as the “Job of the Week.” I had the same positive reaction, learned more from the write-up, and decided, Oh, yes, this is the job for me. ree months later, here I am, running the beautiful Barre Opera House with operations manager Katie Gilmartin.

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“People don’t see me.”

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VIRGO

(AUG. 23-SEP. 22)

You have probably heard the platitude, “Be cautious about what you wish for. You might get it.” The implied warning is that if your big desires are fulfilled, your life may change in unpredictable ways that require major adjustments. That’s useful advice. However, I have often found that the “major adjustments” necessary are often interesting and healing — strenuous, perhaps, but ultimately enlivening. In my vision of your future, Virgo, the consequences of your completed goal will fit that description. You will be mostly pleased with the adaptations you must undertake in response to your success.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Few of the vegetables grown in the 21st century are in their original wild form. Many are the result of crossbreeding carried out by humans. The intention is to increase the nutritional value of the food, boost its yield, improve its resistance to insect predators and help it survive weather extremes. I invite you to apply the metaphor of crossbreeding to your life in the coming months. You will place yourself in maximum alignment with cosmic rhythms if you conjure up new blends. So be a mix mas-

ter, Aries. Favor amalgamations and collaborations. Transform jumbles and hodgepodges into graceful composites. Make “alloy” and “hybrid” your words of power.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): “All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy,” comedian Spike Milligan quipped. I propose we make that your running joke for the next eight months. If there was ever a time when you could get rich more quickly, it would be between now and mid-2025. And the chances of that happening may be enhanced considerably if you optimize your relationship with work. What can you do now to help ensure you will be working at a well-paying job you like for years to come?

GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): The World Health Organization says 3.5 billion people in the world don’t have access to safe toilets; 2.2 billion live without safe drinking water; 2 billion don’t have facilities in their homes to wash their hands with soap and water. But it’s almost certain that you don’t suffer from these basic privations. Most likely, you get all the water you require to be secure and healthy. You have what you need to cook food and make drinks. You can take baths or showers whenever you want. You wash your clothes easily. Maybe you water a garden. I bring this to your attention because now is an excellent time to celebrate the water in your life. It’s also a favorable time to be extra fluid and flowing and juicy. Here’s a fun riddle for you: What could you do to make your inner life wetter and better lubricated?

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): Cancerian rapper and actor Jaden Smith has won a few mid-level awards and has been nominated for a Grammy. But I was surprised that he said, “I don’t think I’m as revolutionary as Galileo, but I don’t think I’m not as revolutionary as Galileo.” If I’m interpreting his sly brag correctly, Jaden is suggesting that maybe he is indeed pretty damn revolutionary. I’m thrilled he said it because I love to see you Cancerians overcome your natural inclination to be overly humble and self-effacing. It’s OK with me if you sometimes push too far. In the coming weeks, I am giving you a license to wander into the frontiers of braggadocio.

LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): Research by psychologists at Queen’s University in Canada concluded that the average human has about 6,200 thoughts every day. Other studies suggest that 75 percent of our thoughts are negative and 95 percent are repetitive. But here’s the good news, Leo: My astrological analysis suggests that the number of your negative and repetitive thoughts could diminish in the coming weeks. You might even get those percentages down to 35 percent and 50 percent, respectively. Just imagine how refreshed you will feel. With all that rejuvenating energy coursing through your brain, you may generate positive, unique thoughts at an astounding rate. Take maximum advantage, please!

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): The bird known as the gray-headed albatross makes long, continuous flights without touching down on the ground. I propose we nominate this robust traveler to be one of your inspirational animals in the coming months. I suspect that you, too, will be capable of prolonged, vigorous quests that unleash interesting changes in your life. I don’t necessarily mean your quests will involve literal long-distance travel. They may, but they might also take the form of vast and deep explorations of your inner terrain. Or maybe you will engage in bold efforts to investigate mysteries that will dramatically open your mind and heart.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are in a good position and frame of mind to go hunting for a novel problem or two. I’m half-joking, but I’m also very serious. I believe you are primed to track down interesting dilemmas that will bring out the best in you and attract the educational experiences you need. These provocative riddles will ensure that boring old riddles and paltry hassles won’t bother you. Bonus prediction: You are also likely to dream up an original new “sin” that will stir up lucky fun.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your spinning and weaving abilities will be strong in the coming weeks. I predict that your knack for creating sturdy, beautiful webs will catch the resources and influences you require. Like a spider, you must simply prepare the scenarios to attract what you need, then patiently relax while it all comes to you. Refining the

metaphor further, I will tell you that you have symbolic resemblances to the spiders known as cross orb weavers. They produce seven different kinds of silk, each useful in its own way — and in a sense, so can you. Your versatility will help you succeed in interesting ways.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn basketball player JamesOn Curry had the briefest career of anyone who ever played in America’s top professional league. Around his birthday in 2010, while a member of the Los Angeles Clippers, he appeared on the court for 3.9 seconds — and never returned. Such a short-lived effort is unusual for the Capricorn tribe — and will not characterize your destiny in the coming months. I predict you will generate an intense outpouring of your sign’s more typical expressions: durability, diligence, persistence, tenacity, resilience, determination, resolve and steadfastness. Ready to get under way in earnest?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s a good time for you to embrace the serpent, metaphorically speaking. You may even enjoy riding and playing with and learning from the serpent. The coming weeks will also be a favorable phase for you to kiss the wind and consult with the ancestors and wrestle with the most fascinating questions you know. So get a wild look in your eyes, dear Aquarius. Dare to shed mediocre pleasures so you can better pursue spectacular pleasures. Experiment only with smart gambles and high-integrity temptations and flee the other kinds. PS: If you challenge the past to a duel (a prospect I approve of), be well armed with the future.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Panda bears don’t seem to enjoy having sex. The typical length of their mating encounters is from 30 seconds to two minutes. There was a dramatic exception to the rule in 2015, however. Lu Lu and Zhen Zhen, pandas living at the Sichuan Giant Panda Research Center in China, snuggled and embraced for 18 minutes. It was unprecedented. I encourage you, too, to break your previous records for tender cuddling and erotic play in the coming weeks. The longer and slower you go, the more likely it is you will generate spiritual epiphanies and awakenings.

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CURIOUS, ADVENTUROUS, SILLY AND OUTDOORSY!

I love being outside and exploring in nature, especially for off-the-beatenpath swimming holes. (In winter, too!)

I’m a very curious and engaging person and definitely crave that in a partner. Being silly at times, dancing and singing are cool with me. At the same time, self-awareness is key! You get the idea, right? seejrun 57, seeking: M, l

GENUINE

Let’s try to do this together. Open to sharing your interests and mine. I’m outdoorsy and indoorsy, from cooking and revamping projects to fishing at the shoreline. Love all types of music but rap and heavy metal. I’m sensitive and caring but keep boundaries, to help, not hurdle. All nature- and animal-friendly. Now I’m babbling. So an eye to eye, squat, cup of java. Katz111, 75, seeking: M, l

NEXT CHAPTER, NEW ADVENTURES

Fit, active, outdoorsy and fun sixtysomething woman looking for male partner to share new adventures. Retired and enjoy winter snow sports, hiking, biking, riding horses, gardening and traveling. I’m game to explore new places and experience new adventures. If you are kind and compassionate, active and outdoorsy, fun and friendly, love animals, open and honest, then let’s connect. Vermont1978 68, seeking: M, l

WOODS-LIVER WANNABE

Work hard, play hard, life is short. I want to meet people, have new experiences and adventures. I appreciate all things small, whether it is a tiny snail in the forest or a kind gesture. redrocks, 44 seeking: M

LIFE IS HERE. NOW.

I’m an active biker, hiker, gardener, musician who has adapted well to retirement (there had to be something positive about COVID-19!) but is ready to explore life with a companion, maybe a partner, again. Many things are better with a partner, including dining out, travel, bike rides, hikes, laughing, sharing — so I’m putting my toes back in the water! maplesong 69 seeking: M, l

EASY-GOING CURMUDGEON

Looking for someone to hang out with, go to the movies and have dinner after to talk. If we like each other and want to get jiggy, bonus. 420 friendly, don’t really care for alcohol, and I do not suffer fools. I am fun and funny. No racists, antisemites, or folks who don’t get why women pick the bear. ho_hum, 55 seeking: M, l

MEN seeking...

OLD-FASHIONED

My wife passed away and I came to Vermont to start over and to be closer to my family. Nostromo24, 69, seeking: W, l

SOLIPSISTIC PARANOIAC SEEKS DREAM GODDESS

I am the only one who exists. The world is the Goddess holding the Holy Grail. There is always and forever only one thing to do: DRINK! 5GMercury 32 seeking: W

LAID-BACK, INFORMAL, INQUISITIVE

New to Vermont, would enjoy companionship on weekends and evenings. Enjoy conversation, new people/perspectives, dining out, film, art, reading, walking, sailing, biking, architecture, design, culture. Medium height, athletic frame, HWP. Well read, well educated, well traveled. A bit shy. Not a party animal. Absurdist sense of humor. I’m far away from home and the wife I love, and a bit at loose ends. APO1970, 70, seeking: W, Cp, Gp, l

MUSIC AND LIFE

Open mind, free thinker and openhearted. I’m ready for it all. Music and trees are all I really need besides food and water. Musician looking for an ear or a heart. Both would be preferred. Musicnlife 34, seeking: M

OLD-SCHOOL

Hardworking, loner, single-minded, poker face; nature, sports and extreme sports lover, winter guy. Sheridan, 44, seeking: W

I’M NOT DEAD YET!

Single for over six years (maybe more, but that’s just sad). I enjoy movies and books: sci-fi, fantasy, action; dining out (a little too often) and ice cream. Honest and loyal. Hobbes 54, seeking: W

AWESOME OLDER MAN

Original flower child, wise young senior, polyglot, generalist, seeks brainiac “younger” man for intimate friendship. I love languages, cultural diversity, real music. Professional customer relations, retired teacher, masseur (my hands are as good as my words). Thoroughly devoted to nature, fresh local food, natural wine and the charms of kindness. TheWyrd 71, seeking: M, l

STRONG LIKE HORSE

Not much. Simple, hardworking guy. Looking for fun. No one-time thing. Can last for hours. Looking for the same. Tizock 35, seeking: W, l

LAID-BACK

I’m looking for a partner for life’s adventures. I’m recently retired and ready to have some fun!

bobinvt56 68, seeking: W, l

OLDER MAN LOOKING FOR FUN

Happy, funny, sex, rock and roll. JoeC_72 72, seeking: W, l

SOCIAL, NATURE LOVER, HONEST, KIND

I love a good sense of humor and tell it like it is. A compassionate person, I’m open-minded. I enjoy a good party, and I’m as loyal as the day is long. Sercher, 66, seeking: W, l

DHARMA PUNK QUESTION AUTHORITY!

Hello, sadly I have been with a woman for 15 years who lost her attraction years and years ago. I sleep with my dogs and cats for company and love it, but there is no sex. I miss sex so much, and now I’m frigging old. I love these hottie college ladies running around, and their moms. Shocker1969 54 seeking: W, Cp, Gp

CURIOUS ABOUT LIFE

Always searching for meaning, asking, thinking. Yeti776, 28, seeking: W, l

INTELLIGENT, FUN, ADVENTUROUS, SENSUAL

Open-minded, experienced, intelligent, attractive. Thoughtful, funny, fair-minded. Highly informed, high confidence, but not stuck up or arrogant: a young 69. Let’s celebrate “President Harris” together! Hoping to find a woman as open-minded and adventurous as I am (if not even more so). You definitely don’t need to be the smartest or the most beautiful, just know how to have fun. Montpelier_Man, 69, seeking: W, TW, l

NATURE-LOVING, DIVERSE GUY

Sociable, highly diverse guy in desperate need of someone to check for deer ticks! Looking for an attractive, educated woman who enjoys honest and intimate communication and can teach and learn equally. Someone who loves being outside, enjoys a variety of athletics, could happily travel anywhere and maybe thrive on a carefree day in the library. jss1 65, seeking: W, l

OLD SCHOOL

Quick wit. I have most of my teeth and a few strands of black hair. smalltown 66 seeking: W, l

NATIONAL PARK FAN

I am a fan of the West and our national parks and am interested in finding a traveling companion. I’m easy to travel with, flexible and good company. So if you have a sense of adventure and humor, and if you are happy with your life, perhaps we could could share that. Philo24 77, seeking: W, l

GENDERQUEER PEOPLE seeking...

BABY BUTCH SEEKS GUIDANCE

(Not sexual or romantic.) If you’re queer, an activist or anything of the like, I would love to connect! I’m a genderweird (truly) babydyke butch, and I desperately want to learn from older queers. As much research as I’ve done on gay history, I always want to learn more and connect. If there are any other butches out there, please reach out! antweed, 18, seeking: TM, TW, Q, NC, NBP, l

COUPLES seeking...

LOOKING FOR FUN PEEPS

Fun, open-minded couple seeking playmates. Shoot us a note if interested so we can share details and desires. Jackrabbits 60, seeking: W, Cp

FUN COUPLE LOOKING FOR EXPLORATION

We are a secure couple who enjoy the outdoors, good wine, great food, playing with each other, exploring our boundaries and trying new things. We are 47 and 50, looking for a fun couple or bi man to play and explore with us. We are easygoing, and we’d love to meet you and see where our mutual adventures take us. vthappycouple 51, seeking: M, Cp, Gp

EXPLORING THREESOMES AND FOURSOMES

We are an older and wiser couple discovering that our sexuality is amazingly hot! Our interest is another male for threesomes or a couple. We’d like to go slowly, massage you with a happy ending. She’d love to be massaged with a happy ending or a dozen. Would you be interested in exploring sexuality with a hot older couple? DandNformen 68, seeking: M, W, TM, TW, Q, NC, NBP, Cp, Gp, l

MANY MOONS

Sometimes I called you Moons and it’s been many of them since we’ve seen each other. But you’re so elusive — so hidden! I have no idea who you’re with or how you live. I don’t want to rustle your nest. I swam a circle around the dock, and I’m ready to grow kale and write stories on a hill with you. When: Monday, September 16, 2019. Where: Hills and hollers of Vermont. You: Man. Me: Woman. #916119

STARR FARM BEAUTY

Words aren’t enough: your slender body with awesome curves. Bi male looking to join beach couples! Bottoms up. When: Friday, September 13, 2024. Where: Starr Farm beach.

You: Couple. Me: Man. #916118

SAFETY FIRST, THEN TEAMWORK

My Koomie, my Harry, my Jeff, my Daffy. Before I met you, the sun was like a yellow grape. Our ratings have been low, but let’s renew for another two seasons. Who knows? Maybe we could make it past our 50th, like Bert and Ernie. Just two cool dudes getting married. Happy anniversary, sweet prince. HONK! When: Sunday, September 25, 2022. Where: A sideways tugboat? You: Man. Me: Woman. #916117

LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP

Love is very precious, whether it’s in a friendship or a relationship: You are receiving the most precious gift, someone’s heart in your hands. It is your job to handle it delicately. Be kind, compassionate, loyal and work hard to take care of it. is love and heart will stay forever. Neglect it and you will miss out on all the beautiful memories. When: Wednesday, September 11, 2024. Where: Everywhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #916115

A PATTERN?

If you’ve been spied, go online to contact your admirer!

You stopped, came back for a second look, a small banter and backed away really fast. It hurts. Please stop playing with me — we both know I don’t deserve it. ere’s only so much pain a human can take and maintain their humanity. And my humanity is the only thing you seem interested in. I’m not going to lose it. When: Wednesday, September 11, 2024. Where: so close and yet so far. You: Man. Me: Woman. #916116

WAITING AT LAKE & COLLEGE

You were waiting on the corner near Skinny Pancake, wearing black. I came down College, in jeans and a green shirt, carrying a small box. When you turned, I thought, Whoa! So pretty! and we smiled at each other. I was thinking about turning around to talk to you when I ran into friends by the trafﬁc circle. When: Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Where: Lake and College. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916114

A VORTEX, A VORPAL

You: Drawn into the vortex of my shirt, so much so that it seemed to become “vorpal” (which, though penned for Jabberwocky, now holds the meanings “3. Decisively important, fateful; 4. Decreed by fate”). Me: Standing by the merch table at ArtsRiot, suggested that you come back and say hi again, but the Art Hop ate you. More, please? When: Friday, September 6, 2024. Where: ArtsRiot. You: Man. Me: Man. #916113

BURLY BAGEL GIRL

To the cute girl with the short pigtails: I see you there all the time, and you are always busy, so I can’t ask you out. Let’s meet for some coffee. — e good-looking guy with the great hair in the blue Gymshark shirt. When: Saturday, September 7, 2024. Where: Burlington Bagel, Shelburne Road. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916112

An acquaintance of mine is a vegan, and she’s always touting her “healthy lifestyle” on social media. However, I know for a fact that she does cocaine anytime it’s available, which is pretty often in her circle. I feel like she’s a hypocrite, and I want to call her out on it. Should I?

TO LOVE10

You are such a coward. It would be best to stop dreaming and fantasizing about a relationship that will never happen. You should stay with your mediocre life and disappear in the dust. Now I see that you are a worthless human being. Regrets, regrets and more regrets crossing your path. When: Friday, September 6, 2024. Where: In the universe. You: Man. Me: Woman. #916111

HEARTBROKEN SOULMATE

One day, you’ll look out for me, regretful and asking me to come back. We only appreciate it after losing a great love, and love like mine is hard to ﬁnd. When loneliness disappoints your heart, you’ll remember and miss the moments together. It’s like a knife that cuts right to my soul. Only love can hurt like this. When: Friday, September 6, 2024. Where: In my dreams. You: Man. Me: Woman. #916110

MERCH LINE CONNECTION

We met in the merch line at the Beths, discussing the awkwardness of a postshow rush to get vinyl and the application of the zipper-merge. You kindly let me order my shirt ﬁrst. I’d love to get coffee and discuss what you’re listening to. When: ursday, September 5, 2024. Where: e Beths concert. You: Man. Me: Woman. #916109

WHERE IS MY TRUE LOVE?

In my dreams I see my true love. I wake up: He’s not there. Where is the man who will sweep me off my feet, who has eyes for only me even though I have aged and am ﬂawed? e man who is fairly attractive, faithful, loyal, a hard worker but still has time for me. Faithful women: We are still out here. When: Wednesday, September 4, 2024. Where: Somewhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #916108

COMMITMENT SHOULD BE FOREVER

Relationships are sacred. Where has this changed over the years? Relationships need honesty, loyalty, forgiveness, communication, and when they become a bit boring or dull, they need work. Put in the effort, rekindle the ﬂames! Never take them for granted. Don’t throw away all those years: You will regret it, and you may never get a second chance. When: Wednesday, September 4, 2024. Where: Everywhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #916107

De Nosy Nellie,

SHAMWOW

I will look for you in every lifetime and love you there! When: Monday, September 2, 2024. Where: Every night in my dreams for six years. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916106

WE ARE SHARING

To you, who share K.M. with me: He was my partner in life for over 20 years. My heart is broken, but too many lies. My heart will mend. I wish you luck! Do you know we were sharing him? You were told the same lies. Maybe you’re OK with it, but I am not! Best of luck! When: Sunday, September 1, 2024. Where: Everywhere. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #916105

PRICE CHOPPER SUNDAY

Saw you at 12:30 p.m. You looked so very interesting: tall, ultra healthy and walked gracefully. You: khaki shorts, white top, running shoes and a ponytail. I wore blue shorts, a patterned polo with white sneakers. Our eyes crossed a few times. You drove a gray Porsche. I’m not usually shy. I wouldn’t mind meeting you and having a wonderful conversation. When: Sunday, September 1, 2024. Where: Price Chopper, Champlain, N.Y.. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916104

BADDIE BARISTA

Listening to you make music in the kitchen ﬁlled my ears with a beautiful voice and baddie riffs from miles away! You make it easy to hear your heart from way out here - let’s collaborate soon! When: Saturday, August 31, 2024. Where: In my dreams. You: Genderqueer. Me: Man. #916103

HUBBARD OLD SHELTER, TWO DOGS

A: I went to meet people and you were the ﬁrst person I met. You were not there to meet people but to walk your two beautiful dogs. I hope you got to Manhattan this weekend. You were the bright star of a nice summer evening. No mosquitoes. Let’s talk again. — D When: Friday, August 30, 2024. Where: Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916102

HIGH VOLTAGE LOVE

You walked by me in front of the capital steps. I said, “Hey there, m’lady,” and tipped my hat to you politely when you hit me with 1000 volts of passion. Anyway, what’s it like being the most enrapturing lady in all of Vermont? Drop me a line some time. When: ursday, August 29, 2024. Where: City Hall. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916100

DEMOLITION DADDY

Longtime fan of the demolition derby, but now I need to ﬁnd my own demo daddy. Take me out and tell me how you prepare to be slammed around the dirt track. Explain to me how your car doesn’t go up in ﬂames over a cocktail. I want to be the inspiration of your next paint job. When: ursday, August 29, 2024. Where: Demolition Derby at the fair. You: Man. Me: Woman. #916101

ENCHANTING UBER PASSENGER

You may not have noticed me but I was your Uber driver. I was wearing a fedora and a floral shirt, but you probably didn’t notice that since I don’t have buff muscles or blond hair. Heh. I guess nice guys like me do finish last. But if not, you know where to find me. I can treat you right. When: Saturday, August 24, 2024. Where: Downtown Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916099

SOLO HIKER/ TRAIL RUNNERS

Every time I cross paths with any of you and we exchange our obligatory hellos and how-are-yous, I immediately fall in love with you and picture our life together. I generally forget about the encounter 10 minutes later, but maybe one of these days my thoughts will materialize into something more than a ﬂeeting fantasy. You can hope, right? When: Wednesday, August 28, 2024. Where: Stowe Pinnacle. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916098

MONTPELIER POSITIVE PIE

Blue plaid dress shirt and khaki pants, getting slices while you, a waitress, were waiting for your order. You had tattoos on your arm. We kept making eye contact, or maybe you were wondering why I kept staring at you? When: Wednesday, August 28, 2024. Where: Montpelier Positive Pie. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916097

HELPFUL COUPLE CAMPING SILVER LAKE

According to the Vegan Society, veganism is “a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude — as far as is possible and practicable — all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the beneﬁt of animals, humans and the environment.”

While cocaine is derived from the leaves of the coca plant, its production decimates the surrounding environment in South and Central America. e deforestation and pollution it causes has a direct negative impact on indigenous wildlife, including birds and aquatic creatures. Not to mention the death and destruction the drug causes to human lives.

So, is cocaine vegan? I would say not really. If you don’t eat honey because you care about bees, you probably shouldn’t be rippin’ lines every chance you get. But should you call this person out on her drug habits on social media? Absolutely not. If she were a close friend or family member and you were sincerely concerned about her drug use, you should have a talk with her about it. In this case, what this person does has no real impact on your life other than getting you riled up. I suggest that you unfollow her on all social media platforms and keep your nose out of her business.

You were hiking next to Lana Falls and I was in a panic about losing my dog. You helped rescue me and my dog out of a risky situation. I wouldn’t have made it out safely without your help. I am endlessly thankful. My adrenaline was too high and I couldn’t think straight. I hope you see this. Forever grateful. When: Tuesday, August 27, 2024. Where: Lana Falls. You: Couple. Me: Woman. #916096 does out

On the other hand, if you happen to run into her at a party and she’s about to indulge in some booger sugar, you could casually drop the fact that cocaine is often cut with lactose powder. at’s deﬁnitely not vegan.

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Marshmallow enthusiast, wildﬂower gazer, sort-of seamstress, ex-librarian seeks someone who enjoys literature and going outside. I’m a 37-y/o woman; you’re a person in your 30s or early 40s. I’m nerdy but cool. Are you? #L1794

I’m a GWM looking for a good time with you. Call or text. #L1793

SWF, 55, seeks companionship. Former classical pianist of 13 years, well read, vegetarian, studied in Geneva, Switzerland, and Paris, France. I have a good sense of humor. Music a must: vintage Bowie, folk, Celtic. I’m also a childless cat person! #L1788

I’m a SWF, 62 y/o, in central Vermont, seeking a SM, 57-67 y/o, for possible LT relationship. Hoping to meet someone who also loves balanced ecosystems, great food and drink, honest conversations, and the good chores of each season. #L1789

I’m a GM, mid-60s, seeking a SM, 70s, passionate. Enjoy many activities: nature walks, camping. Let’s talk, hopefully meet. #L1791

I’m a male, 65, seeking a female. Respectful, warm, friendly, would like to ﬁnd a female to share some life with. Dining in as well as out. Likes music. Please send phone number. #L1790

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I’m a SWM looking for a large Black man to engage in sexual copulation with. I am a humanist and very open to exploring the physical limitations of my ﬂesh suit. HIV+ OK. Males only, please. #L1792

A “love letter” would infer that we have met. Love letters started in the 1800s. Love letters ended in 2002 with the success of email. Let’s turn back the clock. I’m a 63-y/o male. Physically ﬁt, healthy lifestyle, enjoy everything the outdoors has to offer. Cheers to us. #1786

I’m a 70-y/o man seeking a woman 45-70. I have money and would like to spend pleasurable time with you. I am clean, caring and considerate. I am ﬁt for my age. Phone number, please. #1787

Woman, 59. Healthy, respectful, genuine. I’d like to share the last dance with a man in the country. A man who is kind, healthy and stable. A man who cares about how he treats a person and is well liked by others. Phone number, please. #1782

I’m a single white man looking for friends with beneﬁts. Race unimportant. Love to be happy, spend time with the opposite sex and just enjoy each other. Good company always a plus. I love music, sports, being on the water. #1785

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Looking for a sensitive Republican woman who would like to, at long last, experience fulﬁllment with an intuitive liberal man. #L1784

Female in early 20s. Must like cats, cheese and crafting (C trifecta). I’m looking for a man (yes, a man, not a boy) with some mass to him. Someone who shares my distrust in big pharma would be an added bonus. #L1781

I’m a 63-y/o male. Married with no sex life. Bi-curious. Must be clean, safe and discreet. Send me your number, and I’ll call and we can talk ﬁrst. #L1783

I’m an 80-y/o woman seeking a man, late 60s and up. I want friendship and companionship. Love the outdoors. Barbecue or grill sometimes in the summer. Wish I could travel to places I have never been. #L1775

I’m a 67-y/o SWM, 6’, 190 lbs., seeking a mid-60s bi couple for occasional get-together. I am honest and respectful and expect the same. Fairly new to this, so slow at ﬁrst. No devices, only landline. #L1771

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I’m a male, early 40s, single, straight. However, my life’s journey has led me to the point of becoming curious about exploring subconscious desires. Seeking cute, passable, thinto-average 24-45-y/o TF or TF/F couple for safe, discreet conversation or meetup. #L1776

I am a GWM seeking a gay couple who would like to add spice into their sex life with a third. I’m in my sixties, 5’7”, 150 lbs. and live in Burlington. Very clean, open, and I am a bottom. If interested, send contact info. #L1774

Nice guy, 5’10, 195 pounds. 74 y/o but I look younger and am new to the market. I’m seeking a good woman/partner 55 to 75 y/o to love. Very attentive and affectionate, likes to have fun and travel. 420 friendly. #L1773

I would like to meet someone between 60 and 75 who is 5’6” or under and is a slim nondrinker/smoker. Asian heritage preferable. I’m 5’8” and drink/ smoke-free. I’m a good cook. An Asian who doesn’t speak good English is acceptable. #L1770

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