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BUGGIN’ OUT

The Asian tiger mosquito, known for spreading the Zika and dengue viruses, has been found in Vermont.

Luckily, our nontropical climate should kill it off.

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L L A C A N N GO V

ermonters can no longer get assistance accessing emergency housing or other social services by calling 2-1-1 after hours due to sharp cutbacks to the helpline program.

As of October 1, what was a 24-7 hotline has pared back its hours to between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Advocates fear the cuts will restrict options when people need help the most.

“This is another example of the state deciding to stop providing services to some of the most vulnerable Vermonters,” said Karen Tronsgard-Scott, executive director of the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.

The change blindsided some service providers and forced them to scramble for better ways to get people help after hours.

“To my knowledge, the services agencies in Chittenden County had no prior notice that the changes were going to be that drastic,” said Amanda Rohdenburg, associate director of Outright Vermont, a Burlington-based group supporting LGBT youth statewide. Vermont 2-1-1 is a program of the United Way of Vermont, established in

A Ukrainian delegation visiting Vermont in April

2005 to give residents an easy-toremember number to access help with utility bills, legal services and more.

In 2007, the hotline went 24-7.

The program employs a handful of phone operators in Essex Junction. An organization in Indiana actually handled the after-hours calls. It couldn’t continue, and Vermont wouldn’t provide sufficient funds for the service in-state, said MaryEllen Mendl, executive director of the program.

More than half of the program’s $900,000 budget comes from the state.

After-hours contacts represent 42 percent of the approximately 41,000 calls and texts Vermont 2-1-1 fielded in 2018.

In many cases, however, the late hour made it a challenge to resolve issues, said Candace Morgan, a spokesperson for the Agency of Human Services. When people needed emergency housing, for instance, motels often wouldn’t accept referrals after 11 p.m.

Read reporter Kevin McCallum’s full story at sevendaysvt.com.

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Members of Migrant Justice marched to a Hannaford to urge the supermarket to join its Milk With Dignity program.

The dairy workers seek better wages and job conditions.

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The University of Vermont fêted its new president, Suresh Garimella, during his installation last week. Pomp and circumstance.

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ermonters will get a chance this winter to offer Ukrainian politicians a crash course in accountable governance — no quid pro quo involved.

Five parliamentarians from that nation will visit the Green Mountain State for a week as part of a “citizen diplomacy” mission sponsored by the Vermont Council on World Affairs, according to program coordinator James Gunger. International visitors on similar trips have previously visited sites such as the Statehouse and the Vermont Supreme Court. They’ll meet local leaders and share ideas and experiences, he said.

While the council hosts more than 300 representatives from some 60 countries each year, the Ukrainian visit comes at, well, an interesting time for each nation.

President Donald Trump faces an impeachment inquiry over allegations that he used the power of his office to convince Ukrainian officials to investigate former vice president Joe Biden, a 2020 presidential contender. Day by day — hell, hour by hour — more information emerges about the matter.

So Vermonters will have to disabuse our visitors of the notion that

such shenanigans count as American politics as usual, right?

“That’s possible,” Gunger said wryly.

The council doesn’t yet know which parliamentarians will visit, but the organization is seeking six hosts to house the group members during their stay.

“Part of our mission is to promote cultural competency throughout the state of Vermont,” Gunger said.

“Exposing people to different experiences, people and cultures from all around the world is an educational experience.”

This visit certainly should be.

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WWJD?

[Re “Good News?” September 25]: The relevant question for all Christian churches is indeed whether the “Good News” is being proclaimed and lived out by its members. Believers gather to worship and learn and then apply gospel teachings in everyday life. Worship is part of Christian life but not the whole of it. The first Christians, including Jesus, were Jewish. Jesus worshipped in the synagogues on the Sabbath, as did the early Christians. They met on Sundays in house churches for the breaking of the bread following Jesus’ instruction at the Last Supper. Eventually, they combined the synagogue service with the Sunday service, which became the foundation for all services up to the present time in many Christian churches. Christian worship had a formal structure since the beginning. Evangelical-style worship is a latecomer, having roots only since the 18th century.

Though many people associate American Christianity with evangelical Christianity, it is only a relatively recent version. As presented in the Seven Days article and elsewhere, evangelical Christianity generally does not communicate the depth and radical nature of the teachings of Jesus in the gospels. The word “gospel” means “good news.” If the gospel as Jesus presented it is not being taught, there is no good news. A Christian church cannot measure success in number of attendees or in how overly stimulating their services are. Success can only be measured in terms of how much of what Jesus taught is being taught and lived out.

Rev. Mark Korban

NORTHFIELD FALLS

Korban is the pastor at St. Jacob Eastern Orthodox Church in Northfield Falls.

BAD NEWS FOR VERMONT

[Re “Good News?” September 25]: In answer to the question “Good News?”: No, this is seriously bad news for Vermont. The invasion of evangelicals from the South is nothing less than a political and ideological attack on Vermont values. After all, evangelicals played a major role in the delivery of President Donald Trump to the White House. They want to impose their selection of Biblical beliefs on the rest of us, including treating women like chattel,

WEEK IN REVIEW

everyone in Clinton County donated $10, we could have the Strand open in no time.”

Another woman at the counter observed: “$10 is a lot of money for most people in the county. That’s grocery money.”

Without hearing one word, the Strand employee repeated: “If everyone in Clinton County donated $10, we could have the Strand open in no time.”

One problem with the Strand: elitist zombies.

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denouncing gays, scorning the poor and raping the environment.

Having been raised as a Southern Baptist in Georgia, I cannot reconcile the moral gap between the Jesus who loved all children of every color, who ministered to the poor, and who admonished the rich for their greed and lack of empathy with the vitriol and complete lack of moral character that Trump embodies. The Southern Baptist Convention is nothing more than a tool of the extreme far right — smiles, rock music and friendly greetings aside. They are invading Vermont to foist their myths of Christianity upon us and to roll back our progressive humanitarian values.

Being the least religious state in the country has been one of Vermont’s best assets. It has freed us from the domination of unproven religious ideologies that are used to control and manipulate citizens into believing things that aren’t true, aren’t in their best interests, and are hurtful and mean-spirited. I will hold tight to my belief that we are better and smarter than this.

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MONEY ON THE MENU

[Re “Kitchen Crisis,” September 17]: Raising menu prices by 6 percent, or roughly $2 per check, allowed Popolo restaurant in Bellows Falls to increase workers’ pay from minimum wage to at least $15. That’s an increase of more than $4 per hour.

Does everyone really think people will stop eating out if all restaurants raised their prices by 6 percent? Eating out is already a very expensive way to have a meal. What’s a few more dollars? When

inflation is taken into account, Vermont housing prices have remained essentially flat for the last 10 years. Vermont doesn’t have an unaffordable rent problem; it has a low-wage problem.

Alysia Catalfamo

GEORGIA

BABY BIAS?

I was scrolling through the home page on your website and noticed an oddity under the birth announcements: pink background for the female babies and blue for the boy babies. I mean, y’all, c’mon. It’s 2019. You’re better than that. We’re better than that. Vermont’s better than that. I suggest green for all babies?

Kit Gallagher

BURLINGTON

Editor’s note: We randomly rotate through five different color combinations of the baby pram graphic. Three of them are seemingly traditional in the pink and blue palette, but we use gold and orange versions, as well. In the case you mentioned, we didn’t intentionally match the pink pram with the baby girl. It was coincidental.

LAST STRAND?

Your article “Drama Offstage” [October 2] sparked a memory. Years ago, renovations for the Strand Theatre in Plattsburgh, N.Y., needed money to finish the job. At that time, I was sitting at a coffeehouse counter next to a Strand employee. Her husband made more than a million dollars a year, so I definitely wasn’t in her social league. The employee was gazing off into the distance, having a vision. She said: “If

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CORRECTION

Last week’s cover had a teaser highlighting “Search and Rescued,” a story about Dan Caddy, who founded a nonprofit suicide-prevention group called Battle in Distress for active and former military personnel. The teaser mischaracterized Caddy’s current military status. He’s an active member of the Vermont Army National Guard.

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LOOKING FORWARD

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Sanders Says Heart Attack Will ‘Change the Nature of the Campaign’

Next Stop: Budget Cuts

Green Mountain Transit sputters along with lower ridership, legal woes and broken fare boxes

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Hunted House

Feds move to seize home from a Vermont woman who promoted a massive Ponzi scheme

Burlington Charter Committee to Consider Noncitizen Voting

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Vermont Supreme Court: Bilked Investors Can Sue State Over EB-5 Fraud

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VIDEO SERIES

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Former Rutland Mayor’s Son Killed in Gunfight With Police

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ARTS NEWS 20

BY JORDAN BARRY

Page 32: Short Takes on Five Vermont Books

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BY DAN BOLLES, MARGOT HARRISON, KEN PICARD & PAMELA POLSTON

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Wanting a Place to Publish, UVM Poets Started a Magazine

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Carbon Quandary

Environment: In a warming world, new thinking imperils Vermont’s wood-fueled energy market

BY KEVIN MCCALLUM

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That’s What They Said

Nightlife: The Office! A Musical Parody writers on lampooning their favorite TV show

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COLUMNS + REVIEWS

BY MARGARET GRAYSON

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NU Approach

Food: In a new Burlington shop, a family business shares passion and information through chocolate

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WTF Work Side Dishes FOOD Soundbites MUSIC Album Reviews Art Review Movie Reviews Ask the Reverend ADVICE

Walk on the Wild Side

Ecology: Visitors take to the treetops at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science

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Hooked: Stories of love, grief and hope from the opioid crisis

BY CATHY RESMER

BUMPY RIDE

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Green Mountain Transit woes

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Stuck in Vermont: Almost 100 runners, many of them older than 50, participated in the 46th annual Green Mountain Athletic Association Art Tudhope 10K. The course traversed scenic Charlotte roads bordered by fields of hay bales and views of Lake Champlain.

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Color Run Autumn in the Green Mountain State brings brilliant red, yellow and orange foliage. What better way to peep those leaves than by traveling Vermont’s scenic roads on foot? Participants in the 24th annual Mad Dash, a race benefiting the Mad River Path Association, take in the sights of the season on 5- and 10K courses starting on Meadow Road in Waitsfield.

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Big Moves In December 2017, former U.S. diplomat Lizzy Shackelford resigned from the Department of State, citing the Trump administration’s failure to “demonstrate a commitment to promoting and defending human rights and democracy.” Now based in Rochester, Vt., Shackelford encourages individuals to effect positive change with her talk “Finding Your Voice and Doing Your Part,” delivered at South Duxbury’s Harwood Union High School.

As if being an organic farmer, partner and mother didn’t keep her busy enough, Kristin Kimball is also the author of two memoirs. Her 2010 page-turner The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love chronicles her move to rural New York, where she cofounded Essex Farm. Kimball reads from her follow-up, Good Husbandry, at the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

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Rock On The Vermont Granite Museum honors central Vermont’s stone heritage with the educational and entertaining Granite Festival. Visitors find exhibits, pedal-car tours of the Barre property and a display of quarry images by photographer Leslie Bartlett.

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s climate-change warriors filled the streets of Burlington last month to demand reductions in fossil-fuel pollution, Vermont’s largest public transit system touted its environmental benefits on social media.

“One full bus carries the same number of people as 60 cars,” Green Mountain Transit proclaimed on its Facebook page.

On Twitter, GMT chirped that public transit reduces national carbon emissions by “37 MILLION metric tons annually.”

The September 20 rally was the most energetic display of environmentalism the Queen City has seen in years. But some participants drove home in cars, a reminder that, so far, the growing concern about global warming has not powered an increase in riders for GMT, whose fleet of blue-and-green buses offers an alternative to carbon-spewing autos.

GMT’s current ridership is down 13 percent from the system’s peak in 2012. That year, it logged 3 million trips, compared to 2.6 million for the fiscal year that ended in June. The public transit system operates city and commuter routes in the Champlain Valley, as well as in and around Stowe, Montpelier and Waitsfield, and is run by a 13-member board of

commissioners representing four counties and eight municipalities.

The slack ridership is taking a financial toll. Over the past four years, the bus authority has reduced cash reserves from $2 million to $700,000 to balance its annual budget, which today is roughly $29 million.

The company must stop raiding reserves to pay the bills, said GMT’s interim general manager, Jon Moore, during an interview at the transit system’s headquarters in Burlington’s South End. “We can’t do it again, because those funds will be exhausted,” he said.

On Tuesday, the GMT finance board unanimously approved cuts to the current year’s budget that pare $68,000 from marketing and $169,000 from capital spending, which means canceling plans to purchase three new buses. The trims also included $109,000 in reduced staff costs; some open positions will be left vacant.

The full board will have the final say on whether to approve the cuts at its regular meeting on Tuesday, October 15.

As the board formulates next year’s budget, for fiscal year 2021, cuts to bus service and to employee benefits could be on the table, officials said.

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Just four months ago, GMT rolled out its NextGen Service Plan, an overhaul designed to attract more riders with new, streamlined routes offering bus service every 20 minutes. The regular fare rose from $1.25 to $1.50 — the first hike since 2005. Monthly fare cards dropped from $50 to $40 to incentivize frequent ridership. New mobile phone payment and bus tracking options were added.

It’s too early to analyze the full impact of the changes, but the initial numbers are disappointing. August ridership fell 4.5 percent from the prior year, and revenues slumped, too, according to Moore.

Most of the transit company’s cash comes from federal, state and participating local government funding. What customers pay amounts to a small share of the revenue pie, but it still matters.

In a budget memo, finance and grants director Nick Foss wrote that fare income has been lower than anticipated, which is just one of the fiscal challenges. Costs went over budget on bus parts and maintenance, workers’ comp, and consulting and legal fees.

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The Burlington City Council passed a resolution Monday that asks members of the Charter Change Committee to Councilor Adam Roof consider expanding voting rights to noncitizens.

The measure passed 10-2, with Council President Kurt Wright (R-Ward 4) and Councilor Ali Dieng (D/P-Ward 7) voting no.

Councilor Adam Roof (I-Ward 8) introduced the resolution in part to increase civic participation among Burlington’s sizable refugee population.

He said the issue is timely because the legislature will consider a similar charter change request for the City of Montpelier once lawmakers reconvene next year.

“It is my hope Burlington can be at the table while they do so,” Roof said.

It’s not Burlington’s first attempt to make the change. Voters considered the issue on Town Meeting Day 2015 but shot it down, 58 to 42 percent.

Councilor Franklin Paulino (D-North District), whose mother was born outside of the U.S., called himself “a product of legal immigration.” He supports noncitizen voting because “it’s about equality and bringing more people to the table,” he said.

Councilor Sharon Bushor (I-Ward 1) echoed Paulino’s sentiment, saying that as Burlington’s population has become more diverse, “more and more people really want to have a meaningful engagement” in city government.

Councilor Jack Hanson (P-East District) said that if people live in the city and pay taxes, “you deserve to have a say over the policies that influence your life.”

Dieng, a New American, opposed the resolution because he said voting is sacred and should be reserved only for citizens. He echoed thoughts shared by Burlington resident Jeff Comstock, who said during the meeting’s public comment period that the council should focus on increasing turnout among legally registered voters. Comstock had derided Roof’s resolution as “nothing more than political pandering.”

Dieng suggested the city instead help noncitizens find a path to citizenship.

The Charter Change Committee is expected to report back to the council by the end of November. Roof hopes the measure can be included on the Town Meeting Day ballot in March.

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aura Edwards still thinks the world of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

Nearly four years after voting for him in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, the 50-year-old school nurse from Salem, N.H., sees him as the leading advocate for universal health care and economic justice.

But as she settled in to watch Sanders last week at a midday forum in Manchester, N.H., Edwards expressed a lingering concern about the 78-year-old senator.

“The only thing, I hate to say, is his age,” she said. “He doesn’t seem to be slowing down at all, but that’s just an honest concern.”

The next night, on October 1, Sanders suffered a heart attack while campaigning in Las Vegas. His campaign advisers soon made clear that the health scare wouldn’t force him from the 2020 presidential primary. But for some voters still contemplating their options, it may have been enough to strike Sanders from their list.

“I guess it just kind of confirmed why I’m not ready to vote for him,” Edwards said in a follow-up interview this week.

“These things can happen, and it’s just the age they can happen.”

Edwards said she hoped Sanders would remain in the race and continue to inspire her and others. “But as far as my vote, probably not,” she said, adding that she was leaning toward Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind. Though Sanders may well make a full and swift recovery, his campaign’s prognosis is far less clear. “It’s a tough

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subject to overcome,” said Mark Longabaugh, who served as a senior strategist for Sanders during the 2016 campaign and is now unaligned. “It raises the issue of age.”

Nearly a week after his heart attack, Sanders and his staff were giving mixed signals Tuesday afternoon about his capacity to keep up the breakneck pace he’s set throughout the race.

“I don’t think in the long term it’s going to affect his ability to campaign as aggressively as he has before,” senior adviser Jeff Weaver told Seven Days. “I’ve known the guy for 35 years, and he’s doing fantastic.

He’s got the heart of a lion. He’s strong as a bull. The conviction of a prophet. He is in top form.”

But after visiting a cardiologist that day, Sanders told reporters in Burlington that he would “probably not do three or four rallies a day” anymore. “I think we’re going to change the nature of the campaign a bit,” he said. “Make sure that I have the strength to do what I have to do.”

The timing of Sanders’ health crisis was particularly unfortunate. Throughout September, his campaign was dogged by headlines about anemic polling, staff shake-ups and his failure to secure the endorsement of the Working Families Party. Meanwhile, fellow progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was breaking out of the pack. In at least some early state polls, she has overtaken former vice SANDERS’ HEALTH

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Vermont woman made millions promoting one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history, and now the feds want to seize a house they say she built with her illicit winnings.

For five years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sought to recoup funds that Trudy Gilmond of Franklin County received in a frenzied online scam that bilked a million people out of nearly $1 billion. Gilmond has not paid any of the subsequent $2.1 million civil judgments against her, telling the feds she spent all of her money on her highprofile attorney.

But in a new filing in U.S. District Court in Burlington, the SEC says Gilmond scrambled to protect her winnings as the scheme unraveled. Just days after she received notice in 2014 that the federal government was coming for her earnings, Gilmond transferred a nine-acre plot of land in Georgia, Vt., to her mother.

She then “managed construction” of a $250,000 home at the site — across the street from her family’s dairy farm — and paid for it in cash, the SEC alleged.

The SEC’s September 26 complaint accuses her of fraudulent transfer and asks a federal judge to order a sale of the property.

Gilmond declined to comment for this story, referring to the scheme as a “closed book that I’m not dealing with.”

Her mother, Olive Gilmond, said she was unaware of the SEC’s latest complaint and questioned the allegations as described to her by a reporter. She is named as a defendant in the suit, but the feds do not claim she intended to defraud anyone. “I don’t know what’s going on. I’m in the dark,” she said. “Those facts aren’t right at all.”

While no one associated with the case would speak with Seven Days for this story, court records from numerous federal lawsuits describe how a middle-age woman working from a dairy farm became a millionaire overnight by persuading others that they could get rich quick.

Trudy Gilmond made her small fortune

as a high-ranking promoter for an online penny auction site called Zeekler.com that opened in 2010. By the time the federal government shut down the North Carolina-based company two years later, it had raised more than $850 million from roughly 1 million investors worldwide, making it one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever.

It had an unlikely origin story: Paul Burks, a Lexington, N.C., businessman whose résumé included stints as a radio host and a magician who performed at nursing homes, launched the website.

At the time, online penny auctions were an emerging trend as thrifty, recessionweary consumers migrated online in search of deals. The controversial model turned bidding into something closer to gambling: Bidders must purchase bids in bulk, such as 100 for $50.

Bids increase prices on items such as cameras and computers by a single cent, hence the name “penny auction.” Frantic bidding wars are the norm, and the losers can be out real money for a product they didn’t receive.

Zeekler.com was not attracting much business, so Burks created a related program called ZeekRewards that was ostensibly designed to help advertise the site’s penny auctions.

He structured ZeekRewards as a multilevel marketing program, the business model used by companies such as Mary Kay, LuLaRoe and Herbalife Nutrition.

MLMs use independent salespeople, often called distributors or affiliates, who pay to join the sales team and can earn money by selling products or, more often, by recruiting more salespeople.

Critics argue that most, if not all, MLMs are just illegal pyramid schemes in disguise — that the systems aren’t actually designed to sell nutritional shakes or makeup to anyone besides the new “salespeople” themselves. More than 99 percent of MLM sellers actually lose money, according to a 2011 analysis by the Consumer Awareness Institute.

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longtime critic Robert FitzPatrick, who has a forthcoming book on such schemes.

“MLMs’ message has always been that the American dream offers a pathway to prosperity for everybody. It ain’t happening for you, but that has to be your fault because the dream doesn’t lie. The system can deliver wealth for all who try.”

MLMs tend to be complex, and ZeekRewards’ was nearly incomprehensible.

“If you were to try to tell your readers how Zeek worked … they would fall asleep,” FitzPatrick said. “The thing makes no sense.”

How, then, did it attract hundreds of thousands of recruits? With false promises peddled by skilled promoters such as Gilmond, according to the SEC. Gilmond was an experienced MLM marketer when one of Burks’ coconspirators, Dawn Wright-Olivares, recruited her as a ZeekRewards affiliate. For 11 months, she worked full time as an independent “field liaison,” spoke at company events and hosted training calls to recruit new affiliates.

An online video Gilmond created in 2009 for an earlier pyramid-like outfit illustrates her approach. In the 55-second clip, Gilmond sits at a booth inside a McDonald’s, holding up two checks. She grins: The checks are “proof ” that the online moneymaking opportunity isn’t mere “hype.”

“I got $800 there, plus the $400 there.

That is a total of $1,200 in one week,” she says. “Giddyup, get involved! It’ll be the best decision of your life!”

At ZeekRewards, new recruits who paid a monthly subscription fee of up to $99 to become an affiliate and helped advertise the penny auctions were promised a daily “profit share” from the company. Their profit potential increased if they recruited new affiliates. The company advertised the program as an investment opportunity with returns as high as 125 percent.

The arrangement was a sham. Almost all of the company’s revenue came from new subscriptions at the bottom of the ZeekRewards affiliate pyramid, not the penny auctions. Likewise, the “profits” shared each day were merely subscription fees from new investors. Burks simply invented a different profit figure each day.

More than 90 percent of ZeekRewards participants lost money in the combined pyramid-Ponzi scheme, the SEC said.

Vermonters were among them. Three people lodged consumer protection complaints with the Attorney General’s Office, according to records obtained from the state. One person wrote that the “pyramid scheme” was being circulated among state employees, some of whom were tempted to sign up.

“I know many people ready to jump on board,” the complainant wrote.

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“Bernie Sanders had a heart attack president Joe Biden as the campaign’s and his campaign hid that fact from the putative front-runner. public for three days,” Rolling Stone As Sanders traveled to Las Vegas on senior writer Jamil Smith wrote last October 1, there was reason to believe Friday on Twitter. “His age does factor he could reset the narrative. That into the conversation that we should morning, his campaign announced it be having about this — but he could be had raised $25.3 million over the previ- younger than Buttigieg and this would ous three months — more than any still be improper behavior.” other Democrat had in any quarter of According to Weaver, the campaign the race. Later that day, the campaign was simply trying to ensure that it fully said it was buying $1.3 million worth of understood Sanders’ condition before airtime in Iowa to run its first television releasing more information. He said advertisement. he had not been aware when he issued But after senior adviser Jeff Weaver the “chest discomfort” statement that issued a statement the next day that Sanders had suffered a heart attack. his boss had “experienced some chest “Look, I think all of you live in the discomfort” at an event the night two-minute cable news cycle,” he said. before and required two stents in a “Sometimes to get the full picture it clogged artery, the campaign was again takes a little more time than you folks blown off course. Instead of stumping in the media would like.” in California and Iowa, as he’d been Whether or not the campaign was scheduled to do, Sanders spent three appropriately transparent, the episode days at Desert Springs Hospital Medi- threatened to divert attention from cal Center before flying Sanders’ message at a home to Burlington on critical time — and refoSaturday to recupercus it on his age and that ate — perhaps until of his two chief rivals: next week’s Democratic Biden, 76, and Warren, debate.

70. For much of the next The candidate did week, news outlets from his best to project the New York Times to health and normalcy, the Washington Post appearing in a video focused on the candiupon his release from date’s health — not his the hospital, addressing plan for health care J E FF WE AVE R his team on an all-staff reform. conference call and “Look, the national occasionally updating the cable tele- media has been coming up with stratvision reporters staking out his New egies to discredit Bernie for many North End home. months,” said state Sen. Chris Pearson According to Michael Briggs, a (P/D-Chittenden), a former Sanders longtime Sanders spokesperson who staffer. “So I would guess that, after a retired in 2017, the key to address- brief hiatus to not be too crass about ing the situation is “to be completely it, they will come back to drumming forthright about it.” Though Briggs this idea that he’s too old and that he’s argued in an interview last Friday that unfit in that way. If they didn’t have the campaign had been doing just that, that, they would pick a different way.” some journalists and pundits saw it Sanders’ allies are quick to note that, differently. prior to his heart attack, he appeared to After refusing for days to answer be in excellent health. “I can’t keep up questions about what happened, the with him,” said Ben & Jerry’s cofounder campaign finally confirmed Friday Ben Cohen, a national cochair of Sandevening that the “chest discomfort” ers’ campaign. “I’ll be out on the trail episode had actually been a “myocar- with him for three days and I need to dial infarction” — better known as go home and recuperate, and he just a heart attack. His staff issued a six- keeps on going.” sentence statement from the Las Vegas While others see the episode as a physicians who had treated him, in political setback for Sanders, Cohen which they said his hospital stay had has a more optimistic take. “This has been “uneventful with good expected revitalized his whole campaign,” he progress.” But the campaign refused to said. “It’s revitalized his supporters. make his doctors available to the press You know, it’s been kind of a call to and provided no additional informa- action.” tion about his condition or prognosis.

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think, in some ways, this kind of freezes The senator from Vermont may need the race. From [Warren’s] standpoint, it that spark. In recent weeks, Warren has freezes her in a position of strength.” pulled ahead of Sanders in Iowa and New Four years ago, New Hampshire state Hampshire and, according to the Real- Sen. Martha Fuller Clark (D-Portsmouth) ClearPolitics polling endorsed Sanders after he average, she’s overtaken won her state’s primary by Biden nationally. more than 22 points. This “I think Elizabeth time around, she said, “A Warren has moved into fair number of people who a very commanding were supporting Bernie position in the race,” in 2016 have switched to said Longabaugh, the Elizabeth.” former Sanders strateFuller Clark herself L AU RA EDWARDS gist. “I think from a hasn’t yet endorsed a message standpoint, candidate, and because she an organizational standpoint and a pure serves as vice chair of the New Hamphustle standpoint, she’s out-campaigned shire Democratic Party, she doesn’t plan everybody.” to until after the primary. But she doesn’t Meanwhile, the increasing likeli- sound like she’s still feeling the Bern. hood that the U.S. House will impeach “I think that Bernie’s rhetoric is a little President Donald Trump “is completely tired. He’s saying exactly the same things overshadowing the Democratic primary he said four years ago, by and large,” process,” according to Longabaugh. “I she said. “It’s like, there he goes again.”

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Next Stop « P.12 the Vermont Human Rights Commission alleging racial bias after a driver ordered Burlington schoolchildren off a bus in May. The company denies the claims but terminated the driver for failing to follow protocols designed to deal with disruptive passengers. The driver filed a labor grievance and was reinstated in August.

As those problems were brewing, the board put GMT general manager Mark Sousa on paid suspension July 8. He resigned July 20, before his contract was up, and negotiated a separation agreement that cost about $47,000 in pay and benefits. Seven Days could not reach Sousa for comment.

Tom Chittenden, the GMT board chair, said confidentiality rules prevented him from revealing the reasons for Sousa’s departure. When asked whether the budget problems and handling of the bus-driver incident contributed, Chittenden replied that a number of factors were involved.

Moore was appointed interim general manager and is now navigating the budget problems, labor issues and bias complaints.

There are also infrastructure woes to worry about. For instance, outdated fare boxes break down daily. Hit a pothole, and one might stop working, said Moore.

Hit another, and it might restart. At GMT headquarters last week, a jumble of broken fair boxes awaited repairs that often involve parts cannibalized from older machines. Fares go uncollected when the boxes stop working — one of the problems Foss cited in his budget memo.

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The decision to put off the purchase of three conventional buses would not affect plans already in the works to add two electric buses, the first in GMT’s fleet.

The buses should arrive later this month, Moore said.

The goal is to put them into service by the end of the year. That could be a challenge, though, because GMT has had trouble finding an electrician to install the bus-charging systems. “If you know anyone…” Moore quipped.

While the electric buses are part of a major initiative intended to appeal to environmentally conscious riders, it’s unclear whether they’ll attract their target audience.

“People do not make the connection between climate change and transportation,” said Julie Campoli of Burlington, the editor of the website Sustainable Transportation Vermont. “It’s a huge blind spot.”

It’s not just a local problem. Transit ridership was lackluster nationally during the last five years.

“Low gas prices and strong economies generally do have a negative impact on ridership, and that has been seen in Chittenden County, as well,” said Ross MacDonald, a public transit coordinator at the Vermont Agency of Transportation.

Surveys of the state’s public transit systems show that around 80 percent of users ride buses because they have to, MacDonald said. They can’t afford cars, or they can’t drive due to a disability.

Most transit experts agree that new strategies are needed to encourage a broader pool of people to ride. One way

Though Fuller Clark doesn’t see Sanders’ recent health scare as disqualifying, she thinks voters “will feel a little apprehensive, in a way that they weren’t before.”

With four months remaining before the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, there’s still time for Sanders to make a comeback — and he has the money to pay for it. Though candidates don’t have to report their latest fundraising figures to the Federal Election Commission until next week, it appears that Sanders has significantly more money in the bank than any of his rivals: $33.7 million, according to his campaign.

With more states poised to hold primaries and caucuses earlier next calendar year than in 2016, that cash advantage could prove crucial — particularly in delegate-rich California, which plans to hold its election on Super Tuesday in early March.

Another key advantage: “His supporters are incredibly loyal,” said Julia

to do it, according to MacDonald and other transit planners: Implement new tools such as the Transit app, which GMT piloted over the summer and all state public transit systems will formally adopt this month.

At GMT’s downtown transit center in Burlington, riders had their own ideas for how to convince more people to take the bus.

Habibo Noor, an 18-year-old Burlington High School student, gave the Transit app a big thumbs-up as she waited for a bus to take her to the University Mall in South Burlington.

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DOWN 13 PERCENT FROM THE SYSTEM’S PEAK IN 2012.

But others say even more frequent service than the NextGen schedule offers, and not an app, is the key to attracting riders. As she prepared to board for a shopping excursion at Target in South Burlington, Champlain College student Breanna Wright said she takes the bus only if she really “has to.” She grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., accustomed to buses that arrive every 10 minutes.

Consistent on-time performance is the key to attract riders, said Kira Cogger, a recent Saint Michael’s College grad who was waiting for a bus to Essex Junction, where she works as a pharmacy tech.

People have busy schedules and “don’t want to be sitting in a bus stop.”

Barnes, who served as Sanders’ New Hampshire state director in the 2016 campaign. “There’s a trust and a faith that’s extremely rare and increasingly rare in American politics. It’s a real heart commitment.”

Sanders’ solid base of support could make the difference, Barnes believes, particularly if more than a few candidates emerge from the early states and are forced to engage in a protracted fight for delegates.

“If it does remain a crowded field, it’s good for Bernie, because he has a really strong foundation of support in states where other candidates are still trying to make inroads,” Barnes said.

According to Briggs, the former spokesperson, Sanders is used to being an underdog. “It wouldn’t be the first time that people underestimated him,” Briggs said. “But they do that at their peril.” m Contact: paul@sevendaysvt.com

This fall, GMT will work with the University of Vermont and the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission to survey the public and organize focus groups designed to increase commuter use of the bus service.

No one debates that increased ridership would reduce traffic, particularly in Chittenden County, home to many of Vermont’s busiest roads. But environmentalists in particular need to help the cause by using mass transit options and not just calling for more of them, suggested Rep. Curt McCormack (D-Burlington), chair of the Vermont House Transportation Committee. “Most of them don’t,” he said.

McCormack, on the other hand, does.

He spoke via phone from Bennington last Friday during a statewide tour that he is making by bicycle and bus to visit each member of the House Transportation Committee to better understand local transportation problems.

McCormack said he pedaled hard that day to travel downhill in heavy headwinds and cold rain, but he still waxed enthusiastically about ideas to grow car-alternative transit, including the concept of free bus fares for all. The lost revenue would have to be made up somehow, McCormack said, but it might propel ridership — and discourage car trips. VTrans is researching the idea, he said.

“We need ridership to increase,” he said, “because you cannot convince people in the legislature to support more money for transit when ridership is declining.” m Contact: molly@sevendaysvt.com

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Vermont Supreme Court: Bilked Investors Can Sue State Over EB-5 Fraud

BY PAUL H E I N TZ

The Vermont Supreme Court ruled last Friday that foreign investors who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars each in a fraudulent development scheme can sue the state and two of its former employees for failing to oversee the projects.

The unanimous decision, authored

by Associate Justice Beth Robinson, reverses portions of a lower court ruling that, in April 2018, dismissed the lawsuit.

The high court’s decision means the case can proceed against the state Agency of Commerce and Community Development and two men who ran its EB-5 investor visa program, James Candido and Brent Raymond.

At issue is whether the state bears responsibility for a $200 million fraud allegedly perpetrated by Jay Peak Resort owner Ariel Quiros and several of his business partners. In 2016, federal authorities accused them of operating a “Ponzi-like” scheme and, this May, filed criminal charges against them.

In a June 2017 lawsuit, Tony Sutton and other project investors argued that the state was complicit in the fraud — or at least negligently enabled it. Sutton and the others invested in the developments through the federal EB-5 program, which provides green cards to those who contribute at least $500,000 to qualified projects. In an unusual arrangement, the state operated the “regional center” charged with overseeing Vermont-based EB-5 developments, which made them more attractive to potential investors.

In last Friday’s ruling, the Supreme

Court found that Sutton and his peers could sue the state for negligence, negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract and failure to act in good faith.

It also ruled that Candido and Raymond, who successively ran the regional center but are no longer employed by the state, could be sued for gross negligence.

The court did not weigh the merits of the plaintiffs’ claims, but it noted that the state had told investors it regularly reviewed the Jay Peak projects to ensure their compliance with the law and their financial viability. “Plaintiffs reasonably relied on these statements by [Agency of Commerce] employees in investing in the Jay Peak Projects,” the court wrote.

“Unbeknownst to the investors, but known to the [regional center] officials, no such state oversight by the [regional center] existed.”

The investors named half a dozen agency officials in their lawsuit, but the Supreme Court agreed with the lower court that most of them could not be sued. Former agency secretaries Lawrence Miller and Patricia Moulton were immune, the court found, by virtue of their roles near the top of state government. The investors failed to show that two others named in the suit, Eugene Fullam and John Kessler, engaged in negligent conduct, according to the court.

But the Supremes found that the conduct the plaintiffs alleged Candido and Raymond engaged in — including misrepresentation of the extent of the regional center’s oversight — could qualify as gross negligence, if proven in court.

Neither Candido nor Raymond responded to requests for comment.

In a separate decision issued Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the same investors could not intervene in a state civil suit against the Jay Peak developers, which has since been settled, because they took too long to lodge their request.

Earlier this week, the state disclosed that the federal government had upheld its decision to shut down Vermont’s EB-5 regional center. m Contact: paul@sevendaysvt.com

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Former Rutland mayor Christopher C. Louras

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Rutland police shot and killed the adult son of the city’s former mayor, Christopher C. Louras, on Tuesday morning after the 33-year-old man allegedly shot up police headquarters.

Vermont State Police believe those two incidents are connected to the apparent murder of a man whose body was discovered Tuesday afternoon beside a road in Salisbury, a town about 20 miles north of Rutland. Police did not immediately say how the former mayor’s son, Christopher G. Louras, was involved.

But Vermont State Police Maj. Dan Trudeau said during an afternoon press conference that the younger Louras is suspected of pumping two bullets through the front door of the Rutland City police headquarters during a 5:30 a.m. drive-by shooting.

Rutland cops used security video to identify the car from which the shooter opened fire at the station, Trudeau said.

They found the white Ford Focus near a Walmart about 90 minutes later. Louras, the sole occupant, led police on a short pursuit before the car got lodged on railroad tracks at a street crossing.

A gunfight ensued. Louras and four officers — three from the city police, one from the Rutland Town force — exchanged numerous shots. Louras wielded an “AR-15style” gun, Trudeau said.

“There was a considerable amount of gunfire,” he said.

Louras was pronounced dead at the Rutland Regional Medical Center. The officers were unharmed.

As state police began to investigate, someone called around 1 p.m. to report the dead body near Route 53 in Salisbury.

Investigators said the deceased man did not live in Salisbury and alluded to unspecified “ties” between the death,

Besides the company’s managers, only the few affiliates at the top of the sales pyramid made a profit. The SEC said Gilmond “received at least $461,963.90 in transaction-based commissions, at least $1.3 million in bogus profit sharing and helped ensure ZeekRewards’ success.”

Burks is serving a nearly 15-year prison sentence for criminal fraud; the company’s chief operating officer, Wright-Olivares, received a 90-month prison term in 2016.

Meanwhile, the SEC has sought to recoup the lost money through a receivership, and it later pursued Gilmond individually for fraud.

Unlike Burks and WrightOlivares, Gilmond has not been charged criminally.

The SEC’s actions against TRUDY her are civil.

Gilmond and business partner Kellie King, also from Vermont, were among the “net winners” who came out ahead in the ZeekRewards scheme.

In an attempt to dissolve the federal receivership, the pair hired New York City attorney Ira Lee Sorkin. He was best known for representing notorious Ponzischeme mastermind Bernie Madoff, who defrauded 4,800 client-investors in a scam worth $64.8 billion. Their legal maneuver failed, and the receiver has collected about $350 million to date.

King, who made nearly $200,000 as an affiliate, according to court records, could not be reached for comment. She and Gilmond are general partners of a registered business called KTK Marketing, according to records filed with the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office.

The SEC filed a separate enforcement lawsuit in 2015 against Gilmond, then 45, accusing her of fraudulent sale

of securities for her work with ZeekRewards. Gilmond stopped cooperating as the case progressed, leading the judge to conclude that she was acting in “bad faith.”

“I don’t have any money, I don’t have a lawyer,” she wrote in a November 2016 message to an SEC attorney from a “lovecats22” email address. “All the extra money I had I used on my lawyers in the [receivership] case.”

The judge in 2017 leveled a $1.9 million default judgment against Gilmond, plus a $150,000 civil penalty.

Gilmond later agreed not to sell securities in the future or associate with any brokers.

When contacted last week, Gilmond appeared unaware of the SEC’s latest lawsuit.

She said she had an attorney but did not GILMOND provide a name or contact information.

Seven Days reached Gilmond at a phone number that appeared on a website for Valentus, a South Dakotabased MLM company that sells coffee promised to promote weight loss.

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When asked how she was affiliated with Valentus, Gilmond ended the conversation. She said she had to take another call. m

believed to be a homicide, and Louras’ actions.

Trudeau said local police had no notable interactions with Louras prior to Tuesday. He declined to speculate on the man’s motive.

His father served five terms as Rutland’s mayor before voters ousted him in 2017. A Republican-turned-independent, Louras had taken a political risk the previous year by pushing to resettle Syrian refugees in the economically depressed city. m Contact: derek@sevendaysvt.com

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Megan Angelina Webbley

MAY 30, 1988SEPTEMBER 29, 2019 ESSEX, VT. Megan Angelina Webbley, 31, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, September 29. Specifically, she died of an overdose, finally losing her battle with addiction.

She was in Manchester, N.H., seeking treatment for her addiction. We have no clear picture of what went wrong.

Megan leaves behind her mother, Dorothy Provenzano, of Boca Raton, Fla.; her father, Edwin Webbley, of Middlebury, Vt.; and her brother, Michael Henderson, of Los Angeles, Calif.; as well as many loving cousins, aunts and uncles. She also left behind four beautiful children who were collectively the light of her dark life.

OBITUARIES, VOWS, CELEBRATIONS

Though shadowed by opiate addiction, Megan enjoyed a big smile and an infectious laugh. She loved all kinds of music, dancing and doing her makeup. Empathetic in the extreme, she was the underdog’s biggest advocate. And against all circumstances, when she could be, she was a loving, gentle and doting mother. Just last year, she spent a few hours in the pool with all four kids (the youngest has since been adopted by a loving family), and it was a rollicking, madcap outing featuring a waterslide and peals of laughter. It was at that point when she was the happiest we had seen her in years.

Megan grew up in St. Albans and Georgia, Vt., participating in dance and swimming. She proved to be an adventuresome reader and a fearless jumper off cliffs. But on July 1, 2005, she was once again at a cliff on Eagle Bay in Burlington. I was sitting at my desk on the first day of a new job, and a Vermont State Policeman called to tell me to drive to the emergency room at the University of Vermont Medical Center. I was told that she had been pushed off the cliffs and hit the rocks

below … with her face. Having been rescued by a man in a kayak and EMTs, she was being stitched up, and her jaw was wired shut. They suspected a TBI, but when they prescribed her liberal doses of opiates, she lost control of her life. She would be in and out of rehab — and jail — for the next 14 years.

To editorialize, I am hoping that the Department for Children and Families rethinks its mission to be the punisher of addicted mothers, the separator of families and the arbiter of children’s futures, and instead embraces a mission of enhanced rehabilitation. We, as a state, are overwhelmed by addiction. We have almost nowhere to turn. I encourage enhanced funding for treatment in general and using DCF as a gateway for mothers with addiction to get help. Because, as one would guess, once the mother is separated from her children, desperation sets in, even with the brightest and most determined of mothers — and Megan Angelina Webbley was that bright and determined mother … with a fatal disease and a dearth of treatment options.

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Patricia Towne Ward 1951-2019 SAGINAW, MICH.

Beloved mother, grandmother and sister Patricia Towne Ward died on September 13, 2019, after a long, difficult struggle with gastrointestinal issues.

Patricia was born in Burlington, Vt., on January 14, 1951. She grew up and attended schools in Milton. She lived and worked in Barre, Vt., California and most recently in Saginaw, Mich. She followed in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother as one of the very best pie makers in all of creation. She loved to find pie plates at garage sales that she could buy and give away with a pie to her friends.

Patricia is survived by her daughter Lisa; grandchildren Jayden, Ava and Jayda; brother Bruce; sister Pamela; and ex-husband, Harold.

She was predeceased by her parents, Eugene and Arlene Towne; and daughter Megan.

Pat deserved better than she got from life, especially over the last three years, but she never became bitter or resentful. Please give a hug to someone whom you love in her memory.

Ann Bailey Cain 1955-2019 JAMESTOWN, R.I.

Ann (“Anny”) Bailey Cain — beloved wife, mother, sister, cousin and friend — passed away October 4, 2019, at the Philip Hulitar Hospice Center in Providence, R.I. Anny was born to Everett Clark Bailey and Doris Doerfler Bailey on May 16, 1955, in Burlington, Vt. The third of four children, she was raised in the Burlington area, attended local schools and graduated from South Burlington High School in 1972. After high school, she attended the Berkley School of Music in Boston and pursued a singing career in New York City before returning to Vermont.

Anny graduated from the University of Vermont School of Nursing as a registered nurse. Anny worked passionately in different nursing specialties for more than 40 years, including surgical/ operating room, ob-gyn and oncology in Vermont, Florida and Rhode Island.

She is survived by her husband, David E. Cain Jr., of Jamestown, R.I.; her son, Tappan Little, of Colchester, Vt.; and her stepchildren David E. Cain III (Nancy

Turner) of Waitsfield, Vt., and Eliza Cain (Randy George) of Moretown, Vt. Anny leaves two brothers, Thomas Bailey (Linda) of South Burlington, Vt., and E. Clark Bailey of Salt Lake City, Utah; and nephews Spencer (Jacki) and Skyler (Crystal) and niece Rachel (David), all of Vermont. Anny also leaves very special cousins Daniel and Mary Jo Davis of West Burke, Vt., and Carol Kelly of Portland, Maine.

Anny came from a large family, including many cousins in Vermont, Maine and New York.

Anny and David renewed an earlier relationship, marrying on February 18, 1995. For both, it was the love of their lives. They enjoyed many happy years together at their home in Fayston, Vt., before moving “south” to the village of Jamestown on the lovely island of Conanicut in Rhode Island.

Anny had a happy and fulfilling life, living every minute with unbridled enthusiasm — she was a breath of fresh air to all whom she met! She enjoyed sailing, skiing, swimming, singing and dancing (and the Boston Red Sox).

She was very social, making friends easily by bringing warmth and humor to whomever she met and whatever she did.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, October 12, 2019, at 11 a.m. at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 87 Narragansett Ave., Jamestown, RI. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Jamestown Fire Department-Emergency Medical Services Division at 50 Narragansett Ave., Jamestown, RI 02835. For full service details, please visit faganquinnfuneralhome. com.

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Angels of Stockholm Neil D. Desmond, Adelaide Books, 166 pages. $19.60.

“But to answer your first question, the telegraph lines were severed in the explosion.”

Short Takes on Five Vermont Books B Y DA N B O LLES, M ARGOT HA RR I SO N , K EN PIC ARD & PA MEL A P O LSTON

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even Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a siege of herons. So this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors.

To do that, we contextualize each book just a little and quote a single representative sentence from, yes, page 32.

Inclusion here implies neither approval nor derision on our part, but simply: Here are a bunch of books, arranged alphabetically by authors’ names, that Seven Days readers might like to know about.

Cowboy Code Louella Bryant, Black Rose Writing, 253 pages. $19.95.

My mother inherited the ability to conjure spirits, the same talent that threads back through her foremothers.

Like most teenagers, 14-year-old Bobbie Grey is bewildered by the world of adults. Growing up in the American South shortly after World War II, she turns for guidance to her idol, movie star Gene Autry, and his Cowboy Code. The Singing Cowboy’s famous creed was something like a 10 Commandments for gunslingers — musical and otherwise — that preached a moralistic, clean-living and, crucially, tolerant lifestyle.

Those lofty ethics are put to the test in LOUELLA BRYANT’s new novel, Cowboy Code,, when Bobbie falls in love with a young black boxer who is suspected of burglary and subsequently targeted by the Ku Klux Klan — a group whose ranks include Bobbie’s own grandfather. Though fictional, the Lincoln author’s tale is based on her mother’s experiences as a young widow in a Virginia mill town in the 1940s. With a keen sensitivity to the insecurities and angst of adolescence, Bryant crafts a compelling mid-20th-century yarn whose explorations of race, sexuality, womanhood and Southern culture resonate loudly in the modern era.

D.B.

This collection of short stories by NEIL D. DESMOND takes readers from Pakistan to Nova Scotia to Baton Rouge, La., and from World War I to the present day. Many of them hinge on unlikely but fortuitous circumstances that bring people together. The story quoted here, “We May Be on Our Own,” relates the true tale of how support workers from Massachusetts came to the aid of Halifax, N.S., after a maritime explosion devastated the city in 1917.

While some of the stories have overtly spiritual themes (fate, neardeath experiences and the like), others simply emphasize the power of grace or charity in daily life. In the collection’s title story, which won the publisher’s Adelaide Voices Literary Award, a Stockholm bus driver uses his humble skills to help liberate an Austrian concentration camp. Decades later, he considers that perhaps those skills weren’t so humble after all: “For the rest of his life, he had stepped up whenever responsibilities chose him … Who could say how many people had taken his bus to a better life?”

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Suddenly You Are Nobody: Vermont Refugees Tell Their Stories Jared Gange, Huntington Graphics, 246 pages. $19.95.

“Since my husband is from a minority culture, and due [to] the cultural silence of his person, his voice was unheard and unrecognized.”

Patrick Giantonio, a longtime advocate with the group Vermont Refugee Assistance, once pointed out to this reporter something that most Vermonters never realize. While the new Americans on the streets of Burlington or Rutland may be shy and quiet, he said, they’re among the toughest survivors we’ll ever encounter. Nearly all lost everything they owned and achieved, fleeing wars, famines, persecution and even torture to arrive in an unfamiliar land and start anew.

JARED GANGE, a guidebook author and owner of HUNTINGTON GRAPHICS, ordinarily produces outdoor and recreation titles about New England. Here, he offers readers a different means of travel: short but emotionally powerful profiles of 30 men and women from 17 countries and their life-changing journeys to Vermont. Featuring beautiful portraits of the former refugees and histories and photos of their home countries, Suddenly You Are Nobody enlightens and informs readers about some of those people we might otherwise pass without a glance.

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Chester, overwhelmed by the fantastical events of the day and evening, stood up tall.

Locals may know HARRY GOLDHAGEN of East Fairfield for his indie films, Bridges and The Nightingale Chronicles. One of the linked novellas in this volume actually started its life as a screenplay, the author informs us in a preface. Both tales are just as steeped in Vermont atmosphere as Goldhagen’s film work is — while adding a lot of wacky, maple-centric humor.

In Sapsuckers, a mad scientist’s plan to squeeze more sap from the trees backfires, transforming a whole town into maple-craving vampires. The not-so-sweet antidote involves a local microbrew, apple cider vinegar and loads of Limburger cheese. In SapNet, humanity again makes the mistake of leaning too hard on the maples’ generosity, this time by using “SmarTaps” to put sap lines online.

The trees are not amused, and soon hybrid organic-electronic cables are snaking through the woods to snare the unwary. It’s the perfect setup for Goldhagen’s punch line about the travails of bringing high-speed internet to rural Vermont: “These trees may move slowly, but they still move faster than our government.”

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Uncommon Sense: The War on Hunger and Other Myths Jeffrey Reel, self-published, 182 pages. $9.95.

Like taking a hammer to a rock, we shatter our world into pieces and study the individual shards.

This book has a second subhead: How Our Adversarial Relationship With Life Undermines Our Best Intentions. It is the most on point. In his heady, messagedriven book, JEFFREY REEL writes from significant experience in spiritually focused workplaces — the Omega Institute, the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and the former Kushi Institute.

He also mentions a number of physical jobs he’s held, from carpenter to field laborer to furniture mover.

In Uncommon Sense, the St. Johnsbury author tries on the roles of philosopher, psychologist and scientist. In a series of researched essays, he addresses evolution, technology, ecology, health, free will, conscience, history, religion and politics. A section on agricultural practices includes detailed charts of the effects of nitrogen on soil and a lengthy list of chemicals commonly used on crops.

In other words, Uncommon Sense is a bit of a brain dump. But its central message, which Reel borrows from Buckminster Fuller, remains true: “The opposite of nature is impossible.”

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G Cenedella (left) and Mack Baker

Wanting a Place to Publish, UVM Poets Started a Magazine B Y M AR GA R ET GR AY SON

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niversity of Vermont students launched the literary magazine Crossroads, but its roots can be traced off-campus to Burlington’s LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP. There, every Monday evening, poets and other writers meet to share their work open-mic style.

That’s where the Crossroads founders cemented their love of poetry, met future contributors and collaborators, and, most importantly, found a community they thought could be served by a new publication devoted to verse.

Alexander Ellis and Jack Wheaton started Crossroads in 2017 after one of those readings. Production involved a fair amount of furtive feeding of card stock into printers at the UVM library and latenight stapling sessions. That first issue, Ellis said with a laugh, was “really crappy.”

But to them, it was exciting just to see their words in print.

Since then, Crossroads has come out on a more or less quarterly schedule.

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Muddy Waters — even though neither Ellis nor Wheaton lives in Burlington anymore.

When the two graduated in spring 2018, they passed the magazine along to poet MACK BAKER. Baker, who uses they and them pronouns, agreed that Burlington poets needed more avenues for publishing. “It’s important to me to have that experience with the actual pages. I’ll read poetry online, and I’m just easily distracted when I’m on my MAC K phone,” they said. “When I’m opening a chapbook of poetry, it’s intentional. I sit down and I am with the piece. And I’m enjoying myself, and I’m having a conversation.”

Literary magazines at UVM have a long history. They came and went throughout the 20th century under a variety of names — Winnowings From the Mill, Vermont Literary Magazine, Centaur, Departure, Windfall and the Burlington Review.

Since 2002, the university has been home to Vantage Point, which was renamed the Gist in 2018.

“I think Crossroads fits into the continuum of literary magazines at UVM in a unique way,” said Ellis, who wrote his history master’s thesis on student publications. “It’s unique because it was funded by students who said, ‘I would rather have less money this month to pay my bills and X, Y and Z [in order] to see this magazine.’”

Crossroads is entirely self-funded: The editors pitch in to cover the cost — about a dollar apiece — of printing 100 to 120 BAK E R copies.

Nobody at Crossroads has anything against the Gist, which is the university’s official literary and arts journal. Both Ellis and Wheaton said it was the first place their writing was ever published. But they wanted a publication that could include writers from outside the university and be printed more than once a semester.

Also, they think fostering the literary community is a rising-tide-lifts-all-boats kind of endeavor, as Wheaton put it. Crossroads also invites visual artists to submit

WHEN I’M OPENING A CHAPBOOK OF POETRY,

IT’S INTENTIONAL.

work for the cover, and a few pages in the middle are left blank for readers to jot notes or poetry of their own.

“We all write as a means to work through our feelings and our thoughts, and I think we would all probably agree that the more people doing that on a serious level, or at least serious to them … is a good thing,” Wheaton said.

The Crossroads team tried to get funding from the English Department but were met with little interest, they said.

The Student Government Association was another possible funding source, but Ellis and Wheaton were disenchanted with the “red tape” they’d encountered there in the past.

In the end, Wheaton said, the lack of official sponsorship turned out to be a blessing. Without oversight from any institution, they have to rely on their own networks and stay in touch with the local poetry community. Plus, they can publish whatever they want.

“It’s allowed us to remain very true to the original intent,” Wheaton said. “It’s something greater than just the sum of the parts. It’s about the whole community.”

Baker, who joined the Crossroads staff in time for the fourth issue, now does the lion’s share of editing and layout, along with G CENEDELLA, another former UVM student who recently joined the team.

None of the editors, past or present, have been English majors. But all write poetry and regularly contribute to Crossroads.

Ellis, who also still contributes (as does Wheaton), said the journal helped him stay in touch with Burlington friends and the literary scene after he moved away.

Crossroads will remain free, and anyone can submit at any time. Though Baker and Cenedella are somewhat selective about which work they print, they don’t want to act as gatekeepers, they said. If they can be someone’s first publisher or draw in a reader who might not have spent money on a book of poetry, they have accomplished something.

“Poetry can be really, unfortunately, unapproachable to a lot of people,” Baker said. “You get, like, hit over the head with William Shakespeare when you’re in high school, and then you just never want to touch it again. And that’s a really unfortunate thing.” m Contact: margaret@sevendaysvt.com

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Are Yellow Jackets Peskier This Time of Year Because They’re Drunk?

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teve Crafts is a partner and chief creative officer at Place Creative in Burlington. He is also Seven Days’ most prolific submitter of “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” questions. Last week, he emailed us with the following query.

“WTF is up with yellow jackets this time of year in Vermont?” he asked. “Are they drunk on fermented apples or something?

Are they just getting nuts because they know winter is coming soon? Seems like they ramp up their peskiness this time of year.”

Crafts’ email was timely for another reason. Just days before, the Independent Block building, home to Seven Days and other offices, required a pestcontrol expert to exterminate a large hive of yellow jackets that had set up shop on the roof and were invading upstairs offices.

It’s intriguing to imagine Vermont’s yellow jackets, which are not bees but wasps, becoming surly in autumn because they’re tanked on tainted fruit. If true, it would put them in the company of other members of the animal kingdom — including certain insects, birds and large mammals — that get fried on fermented foodstuff.

In fact, blotto beasts aren’t at all uncommon. In November 2015, National Geographic reported that certain species of male butterflies are attracted to and drink beer if it’s available because it supercharges their spermatophores, or sperm packages, which they then give to females as a “nuptial gift.” That’s as unromantic as it sounds.

A study done at the University of Missouri, published in the March 2012 issue of the journal Science, compared the diets of male fruit flies that had successfully mated to those that had struck out.

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As researcher Troy Zars discovered, courting male fruit flies that were rejected or sex-deprived sought solace in another behavior: consumption of alcohol. Zars actually titled his study “She Said No, Pass Me a Beer.”

Drunken fruit flies are fairly innocuous. A 1,500-pound moose? Not so much. In November 2007, Julia O’Malley at the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska reported on the inebriated exploits of

“It’s not something I’ve heard about happening in Vermont,” said Cedric Alexander, a wildlife biologist and moose expert with the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. “I don’t see why it might not happen, but … I don’t think any biologists have confirmed it.

How could they?”

Roadside sobriety tests, perhaps?

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a bull moose she dubbed “Buzzwinkle.”

Apparently, the moose found some fermented crab apples in the courtyard of Bernie’s Bungalow Lounge, an Anchorage martini bar whose slogan is “There is no such thing as too much of a good thing.”

Indeed, Buzzwinkle gobbled down one too many, then got his antlers tangled in a string of LED Christmas lights and trailed them around downtown Anchorage. Talk about getting lit.

Turns out, juicedmoose stories are fairly common in Norway and Sweden, where the drunken ruminants have terrorized schoolchildren, crashed parties and stumbled into swimming pools. In one widely reported case, a blitzed moose got itself lodged in an apple tree.

Vermont’s moose population seems to be more abstemious — or perhaps the quadrupeds conduct their drunken revelry out of public view.

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/D RE weights of the AM ST animal kingdom are IM E. CO fruit-eating birds such M as cedar waxwings, bohemian waxwings and American robins, according to the Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee. Grae O’Toole, lead wildlife keeper at VINS, explained that these chirpers sometimes eat dropped fruit that have begun to ferment in the fall and, like intoxicated humans, become confused and disoriented.

“If they do eat too much at once, it can be fatal,” she said, “but that is less likely to happen.”

More commonly, the birds simply lose their way, fly into windows or cars, fall off their perches, or remain in the open, where they’re easy prey for predators.

However, other diminutive winged critters are more adept at holding their booze. A 2010 study done at the University of Western Ontario in Canada found that many species of bats consume

fermented fruit but have no trouble staying airborne and navigating, even with blood alcohol concentrations that would be considered felonious for human pilots.

Back to Vermont’s yellowjacketed flyers. Do they actually become belligerent boozers by the time Oktoberfest rolls around? No, according to Margaret Skinner, an entomologist and research professor in the University of Vermont’s Department of Plant and Soil Science.

“Indeed, yellow jackets are definitely more aggressive this time of year,” she explained via email, but “it is primarily linked with their biology … Their diet changes as winter approaches. They tend to search out food rich in sugar to encourage the development of the new queens.”

One reason yellow jackets seem more bothersome this time of year, Skinner suggested, is because there are so many more of them. By autumn, a single nest can house 5,000 individuals.

But, as she pointed out, yellow jackets are beneficial to humans: They’re pollinators and feed on grubs, caterpillars, house flies and other insects that consume food crops.

“People should know, though, that the yellow jackets and hornets in the current nests will all die when we have a few killing frosts,” Skinner added. “The mated queens will leave the nest and find a cozy place to overwinter. She will come out next spring to start a new colony in a new location.”

So perhaps we should cut the yellow jackets a little slack for acting grumpy.

They have just weeks to live and no time to get a buzz on. m Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com

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WORK VERMONTERS ON THE JOB

Balancing the Books

State librarian Jason Broughton plans for the future B Y M AR GA R ET GR AY SON

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ason Broughton didn’t always want There are two divisions within the to be a librarian. Originally, he department. One division is known as thought he’d be a veterinarian or a information and access. We are our state doctor; after graduating from college in government’s library. We always need to Florida, he spent many years as a science make sure that we are providing services to teacher. Then, when he moved home to state government in the form of research.

South Carolina in 2008 to care The other is more forward for his ailing mother, he found facing, which is library advanceNAME it impossible to get a teaching Jason Broughton ment. This is helping lots of job during the recession. So he public libraries in different started writing a job-readiness ways. We usually are … putting JOB out small fires and … giving out curriculum for a workforce State librarian large ideas. It is for each public center in Charleston.

“Well, this is just how life library to decide how best they TOWN can be serendipitous somewould like to use [those ideas].

Barre times,” said Broughton.

We do not tell our libraries In Charleston, he met the person who what to do. would inspire him to consider switching careers: librarian Cynthia Hurd. After SD: What are some of the biggest learning about his work with job seekers, challenges facing Vermont’s libraries she invited him to the library to make today? presentations.

JB: I do think about this; it doesn’t keep “After my last session, she said, ‘I know me up at night, but it definitely stirs me this is crazy, Jason, [but] I really think you up in the morning. [One is] sustainability. should be a librarian,’” Broughton recalled. Vermont has a lot of beautiful historic “And I had never had somebody do that. libraries, and so [we think about] And I was like, ‘There’s money in librarian- preservation and building maintenance. ship? Do they make money? How does that Another aspect would be helping work?’”

Vermont’s libraries provide a standard Hurd was one of nine people killed by a that Vermonters would appreciate. That white supremacist at a Charleston church could be saying that all libraries have in 2015. Her legacy lives on through a Wi-Fi service. I’ll even take it down a literacy foundation established in her notch, aiming to be able to say all libraries name, and through Broughton. He got his in Vermont have a bathroom. first librarian job at the South Carolina State Library in 2010 and earned a master’s SD: Is that not the case? degree in library science in 2013.

JB: That is not currently the case.

Earlier this year, Broughton became state librarian of Vermont, the first Afri- SD: It seems there’s been increased can American to hold the job. As head of attention on the role libraries play the Department of Libraries, he oversees in providing essential services to services to state government and support underprivileged populations. Is this an actual shift in the services libraries to smaller libraries across Vermont.

Seven Days chatted with Broughton provide, or have libraries been doing about the future of and challenges to this kind of work for a long time?

Vermont’s libraries.

JB: It is not, believe it or not, a shift at all.

The format has changed. For example, I have a claim to fame in the sense of SEVEN DAYS: What does a day in the life of a state librarian look like? workforce development in libraries.

JASON BROUGHTON: It starts at 7:45. People were always coming to the library Usually, however, I am in the office for workforce-development activities. much sooner. You are always going to Because when newspapers were big, [and] be in conversations looking at federal certain types of career books and self-help appropriations, and then [deciding] how to books were more in demand, people came utilize that money. [Or,] it might be looking to the library and checked those out. at ‘Should we apply to this grant?’ [Or,] it’s That changed in the sense of the platthinking through programs and projects. forms. More people are dealing with digital 26

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platforms. And what that allows one to do is to job hunt more independently. But that only works if you have digital literacy.

People were always coming in to look up different types of items, and there might have been some unique programming now and then by having the health and human services entity come in and give a talk. But you did not have — unless you were in a very urbanized library — social services actually in the library or coming in more frequently.

That is seen as a shift. There are those who believe the library is losing some of its craft and luster, because it’s becoming everything to all people. And then there are those who are saying, “No, we’re just really reformatting what we do, and it’s better to work with partners.”

I see it all as information. It is seeing a need. We’re going to meet you where you’re at.

SD: There is also increased discussion about librarians being on the front lines of the opioid epidemic. What’s your take on this issue, and what role do you think librarians should play?

JB: We stand on Gov. Phil Scott’s opioid coordination council. We thought our biggest contribution was to help our libraries in a variety of ways to learn about the impact of this crisis and then what we could do.

What is it that you’re able to do if your community is hard hit? Do you want to talk about prevention? Do you want to

talk about healing? Do you want to talk about life-saving measures? Do you want to talk about security? All of those things are swirling around all at the same time.

What that’s meant is, for example, Fletcher Free Library [in Burlington] started locking their bathrooms. Not many libraries did that until that time.

Some libraries now have AA meetings.

Some have found that other types of groups feel comfortable coming to the library and can request a meeting room. It might be one of the few places people can gather.

We also did [the narcotic overdose treatment] Narcan training for lots of our libraries. And a few of them — for example, the Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury — decided, with board approval and community input, to say that Narcan should be at the library.

To me, that’s a good thing. I don’t think anybody would say they shouldn’t talk about it. And that’s a discussion that a lot of libraries and boards then took on. m This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

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In a warming world, new thinking imperils Vermont’s woodfueled energy market B Y K EV I N M C C A L L U M

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iddlebury College built a $12 million biomass plant on its leafy campus in 2009, enabling the school to burn woodchips to heat buildings, generate electricity and declare itself “carbon neutral.”

Five years later, the City of Montpelier spent $20 million to convert the oil-fired burners in its heating plant to wood, expanding the system to provide steam and hot water to 37 government and private buildings downtown.

Enthusiasm for the renewable energy had cooled, however, by the time Dartmouth College rolled out plans for its own $200 million biomass project earlier this year.

Climate change has become a climate emergency. Predictions of cataclysmic impacts to the world’s wildlife, weather patterns, sea levels and societies are fast becoming frightening realities. And the idea of sharply reducing global carbon emissions has gone from a laudable goal to an existential imperative.

So the elite college’s plan to embrace a technology that would increase carbon emissions ran into criticism. Dartmouth alumni who were prominent climate scientists joined the chorus of hippies and tree huggers opposing the project.

In a July 5 letter, three climate researchers applauded the school for trying to reduce the use of fossil fuels but argued that biomass was a dangerous substitute. They warned that the project would increase emissions at precisely the wrong time for the planet, deplete the region’s forests of carbon and harm air quality.

“We urge you to avoid making a heavy investment in a mistaken assumption that a wood-fired heating plant will be of benefit to the College or the world,” they wrote.

The fierce opposition caught the college off guard. In late September, officials announced they would move forward with efficient upgrades but reassess the switch to biomass.

The pause underscores the rethinking of biomass energy in light of new

An old poster in McNeil

predictions about the urgency of reducing heat-trapping emissions. Last year, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said nations would need to cut global carbon emissions 45 percent by 2030 and reach zero net emissions by 2050 to stave off the worst effects of climate change. Vermont’s emissions are on the rise again, after a decade of decline, threatening the state’s goal of cutting them to half of 1990 levels by 2028.

Biomass often generates more emissions than fossil fuels, and it does so at the expense of the most effective tool to remove carbon from the atmosphere: trees.

“The nature of the discussion about biomass energy has become a lot more cautious,” said Bill Keeton, a University of Vermont professor of forest ecology and forestry and director of its Carbon Dynamics Lab. “There was a rush to develop the biomass energy sector maybe five or 10 years ago, but now there is a slowing down and pulling back as people have understood some of the pros and cons.”

things they do for us, by cutting trees,” said Mike Snyder, Vermont’s commissioner of Forests, Parks and Recreation.

In a wood-rich state, the quandary raises some confounding questions.

If burning trees for power is so bad for the climate, should the Burlington Electric Department, which operates McNeil, trumpet that its energy is all from renewable sources? Should ratepayers continue subsidizing power generated at Ryegate by up to $5 million per year?

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FEEDING THE BEAST Woodchip piles outside McNeil

Addison Kasmarek (left) near a beech tree scored by bear claws

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Biomass is organic material used to create energy. In the Northeast that means one thing: wood.

That includes the cord wood that Vermonters have traditionally cut, seasoned and burned in woodstoves to heat their homes. It also encompasses wood pellets burned in efficient modern pellet stoves and boilers, both of which the state promotes with generous financial incentives.

Then there are the industrial-scale energy facilities such as the Joseph C. McNeil Generating Station in Burlington, the largest producer of electricity in the state, and the Ryegate Power Station in Caledonia County. Both plants burn woodchips by the ton to generate electricity for the grid.

Proponents say biomass technology is crucial to helping Vermont reach its renewable energy goals. The state has committed to getting 90 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2050.

Its energy plan calls for doubling the use of wood for heat by 2025.

Now those goals are bumping up against a growing body of scientific evidence that suggests planting new forests, better managing existing ones and designating more lands off-limits to logging can play major roles in moderating climate change.

“What we are talking about at the Northeast Wilderness Trust is allowing the forests that are already there to just grow older and more complex,” said Jon Leibowitz, the Montpelier-based group’s

He extolls the virtues of old forests and believes strongly that the best way to preserve forests is through thoughtful, active management.

How those forests are managed directly impacts industries vital to the state’s rural communities, employing an estimated 6,000 people who make products as diverse as hardwood flooring, paper pulp, furniture and maple syrup — a sector of the Vermont economy valued at $1.5 billion per year.

“We know how to grow it. We know how to tend it. We know how to harvest it. We know how to ‘value-add,’” Snyder said. “And we know how to burn it really cleanly and efficiently in ways that benefits us locally.”

Logging state forests is “bedrock” Vermont culture, and Snyder doesn’t see any reason to scale that back, just to do it better.

“We’re not saying this is perfect.

Perfect would be, the trees get to do their own thing, because they’re really good at it,” Snyder said. “But we need them, and we’re trying to find a way, frankly, to have it both ways.”

executive director. “In doing so, they become incredibly effective at storing carbon.”

Some argue that expansion of biomass energy in heavily wooded Vermont won’t threaten its dense hardwood forests — and keeping them profitable is the best form of preservation.

“We get a lot from forests, and we’re going to save forests, and all the amazing

And are all those Vermonters stacking cords of wood in their yards or pallets of pellets in their garages actually contributing to climate pollution?

Snyder is trying to absorb the new thinking.

The former county forester has broad authority over the management of public and private forests in Vermont, which cover 75 percent of the state.

At full capacity, the towering furnace at the heart of the McNeil station devours 76 tons of woodchips every hour.

Opened in 1984, the plant relies on a steady supply of trees that are cut down, dragged from forests, chipped up, and hauled by truck and train to its huge openair storage yard.

Massive piles of yard debris, shipping pallets and discarded Christmas trees supplement the chip supply, as do stacks of low-grade tree trunks held in reserve should the well-oiled supply chain be disrupted.

Workers driving heavy machinery keep the ever-moving mountain of wood scraps cascading onto an elaborate network of conveyor belts that carry the chips nine stories high and drop them into the chamber to meet a fiery end.

They are transformed into a plume of 950-degree steam that drives a massive turbine. The giant rotor can generate 50 megawatts of electricity — enough to power the entire city.

Burlington residents overwhelmingly approved the construction of McNeil in 1978 in response to the oil crisis. But the project was not without controversy.

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slice of rural Vermont, they stop being working forests. In Underhill, “You’re not going to get the Dollar Store,” Lesnikoski said, “but you’re going to get the McMansion.”

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consulting firm Vermont Energy Investment Corporation.

“There is no question that it is a stupid policy,” Sherman said.

But critics say that essentially the same thing happens in Vermont, on a smaller scale.

“They claim to be these green angels in Burlington,” said Chris Matera, the founder of Massachusetts Forest Watch, which opposes biomass projects in the Northeast. “It’s off-the-charts hypocrisy!”

Just as West Virginia exploits its coal, Vermont does its wood, he said.

“Well, go ahead, but don’t pretend like you’re helping the climate. You’re making it worse,” Matera said.

At a time when states like Massachusetts are considering logging bans on public lands, Vermont is doubling down on harvesting trees, Matera said. The state plans to triple the amount of logging in Camel’s Hump State Park over the next 15 years, to 3,764 acres. The Green Mountain National Forest is going to see

Biomass is considered to be renewable energy because forests regrow over time.

As they do, trees absorb carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and store carbon in their leaves and wood and in the soil — a process known as “sequestration.” When wood is burned, that carbon returns to the atmosphere.

Some label biomass as carbon neutral, based on the theory that the carbon given off by burning wood was originally pulled from the atmosphere as part of the “carbon cycle.” By contrast, fossil-fuel-derived carbon, or “anthropogenic carbon,” is trapped deep in the earth before people extract, refine and burn it.

The notion that burning trees constitutes green energy — because new ones will grow up to eventually remove an amount of carbon equal to what was emitted — is now being actively challenged.

Vermont author and environmental activist Bill McKibben penned a piece in the New Yorker in August titled, “Don’t Burn Trees to Fight Climate Change — Let Them Grow.”

In it, he outlined how plantation forests in the southeastern U.S. are being felled, turned into wood pellets, shipped to Europe and burned in power plants as an alternative to coal.

McKibben was one of the first environmentalists to sound the climate alarm. In 2008, he founded the nonprofit 350.org, which in Mike Snyder name and deed calls attention to a safe level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. McKibben said pumping more carbon into the atmosphere while reducing the planet’s capacity to reabsorb it amounts to a double whammy.

“Emitting a big pulse of carbon right more cutting, too. Between 800 to 1,000 now, even if it eventually gets soaked up acres per year are now being felled in the by a regrowing forest, will help break the 400,000-acre forest, double the 2014 rate. back of the climate system at the critical The Northeast Wilderness Trust has moment,” McKibben told Seven Days. joined a growing chorus of environmental The practice is particularly problematic groups, including the Sierra Club, calling because it effectively extends the life of for a significant increase in conserved inefficient electric power plants in Europe forestland. “that should be moth-balled” in favor of Mark Anderson, the director of consergenuinely renewable forms of energy, vation science for the Eastern region at said Adam Sherman, manager of Biomass the Nature Conservancy, argues in a Energy Resource Center, a program of report for the trust titled Wild Carbon that the Burlington-based sustainable energy new science shows unmanaged forests

continue to sequester carbon at significant rates even as they age.

“In many instances, the carbon storage potential of old and wild forests far exceeds that of managed forests,” he said.

That thinking runs counter to conventional wisdom and the forest-products industry narrative which holds that since older trees grow more slowly, they should be harvested and put to good use before they fall over and rot on the forest floor.

If older trees, because of their size, continue to sequester more carbon than young, faster-growing but smaller trees, then the implications for forest conservation as a tool to fight climate change are significant, Leibowitz said.

Only about 3 percent of the land in the Northeast is permanently protected from logging. The Northeast Wilderness Trust would like to double that figure to ensure forests have a chance to grow old, conferring all the benefits of carbon sequestration, water quality and wildlife habitat, Leibowitz said.

What right-thinking Vermonter would cut four trees down and throw three of them away?

No. You’re never going to get me to say that.

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image of environmental devastation: black tree stumps stretching to the horizon under block letters that read, “The Wood Chip Plant Is Coming.”

Produced by an environmental group that sought to block the plant’s construction, the image reflects a shared pride among the electric department employees that the doomsday prediction of deforestation never came to pass.

In fact, the forests of the state are healthier today than they were when the plant was built, said Betsy Lesnikoski, chief forester for the Burlington Electric Department.

To make her case, Lesnikoski led Seven Days on a tour of a recent logging job in Underhill, near the western flanks of Mount Mansfield. The dense, privately owned forest had recently been logged for two kinds of trees.

The high-grade oak, maple, beech and other hardwood trees had already been trucked off to sawmills. The lower-grade wood was piled up, ready to be fed into an industrial-size chipper and hauled off to McNeil. The plant paid about $10.2 million for 375,000 tons of woodchips last year, all of which came from forests within a 60-mile radius that extends into New York State.

The biomass burned by the plant is roughly equivalent to 9 percent of annual new tree growth in Vermont, Lesnikoski said.

Despite the stumps, downed limbs and skid tracks left by loggers, the thinned forest remained thickly wooded. Addison Kasmarek, a forester hired by the Underhill landowner to manage the harvest of the 120-acre property, pointed out numerous beech trees she instructed the sawyers not to fell. The trees are popular with beechnut-seeking bears, as evidenced by claw marks running up their trunks.

While some jobs involve clear-cutting, most are selective culling operations, overseen by foresters who help landowners keep their forests healthy and productive even as they remove valuable timber, Kasmarek said.

“When you’re doing everything you can as a forester to manage for diversity and resiliency, you’re moving carbon. You’re growing new trees,” she said.

Removing some “junk” trees bound for places like McNeil, including diseased trees and ones too gnarled for lumber, amounts to a small percentage of the harvest’s value, Kasmarek said.

But the extra income, combined with state tax breaks for actively managed forestland, helps to keep large tracts of land from being developed.

When larger tracts are divided up and sold to people looking for a little 10-acre

He said a good first step would be a ban on public-land logging in Vermont.

Another would be to amend the state’s current-use program to allow landowners to get the same tax credits for preserved forests as for so-called “working lands.”

About 2.4 million acres in the state, or a third of its total land area, is enrolled in the program. It applies to properties of at least 25 acres that are being actively managed for “long-term production of forest products.”

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people to log their land. Adding conservation as an approved “use,” Leibowitz noted, would encourage owners to leave their forests alone.

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Phasing out biomass electricity production in the state may not be as radical as it sounds, and market forces may already be hastening its demise.

In 2014, the Vermont Public Utility Commission rejected a new biomass electricity project in North Springfield, finding that it was not in the public interest, in part due to low efficiency and environmental impacts.

Ryegate’s days might be numbered, too. Its 10-year contract, which requires state utilities to buy power from the 20-megawatt plant at above-market rates, expires in 2022, and a robust public debate over its future is likely.

“I think it’ll be very similar to what happened in New Hampshire,” predicted Andrew Perchlik, a state senator and director of Vermont’s Clean Energy Development Fund, which promotes renewable energy.

Earlier this year, several biomass electric plants in the Granite State closed in the midst of legal and legislative squabbling over ratepayer subsidies.

In Burlington, McNeil is operating at only 60 percent of its capacity, down 30 percent from 2016. That’s partly because other power sources, such as wind, hydro and solar, are often cheaper, explained Darren Springer, BED’s general manager.

But McNeil remains crucial to the utility and the regional grid generally

because, unlike some renewable sources, the plant can run constantly as long as fuel is available. The plant operates at about 23 percent efficiency, a key measure of the energy output compared to the energy input. That’s significantly lower than coal and gas plants.

Despite upgrades to reduce some emissions, carbon dioxide output remains comparatively high. Over the last decade, the plant has spewed between 385,000 and 543,000 tons of CO2 into the sky. The higher figure is the equivalent of the emissions produced by 118,000 cars in a year.

Shutting down the plant defies logic because its output would have to be replaced by another source with its own environmental impacts, Springer said.

It makes far more sense to focus on increasing the plant’s efficiency by capturing the vast amount of waste heat that goes up the stack — one of the key reasons the plant is so inefficient. From the moment the McNeil plant opened, the intention was to put its excess energy to good use: heating water that would travel through 3.6 miles of pipe up the hill to the city’s businesses.

Thirty-five years later, the idea remains on the drawing board.

Springer said, “If you want to look at the single biggest step we could take to reduce emissions in Burlington, it’s ‘district heat,’” as the energy delivery system is called.

One estimate showed that by pumping hot water to the UVM Medical Center, as well as a handful of other major buildings on the UVM campus and downtown, the CARBON QUANDARY

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Cost and lack of participation remain obstacles. Organizations such as UVM would have to sign on for district energy, BED spokesperson Mike Kanarick said.

And the shared investment, of up to $50 million, would effectively tie the city and its biggest power consumers to a woodfired energy source for decades to come.

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There was a rush to develop the biomass energy sector maybe five or 10 years ago,

but now there is a slowing down and pulling back as people have understood some of the pros and cons.

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Commissioner Snyder loves forests and doesn’t disagree with those who would argue for conserving more of them. The innumerable benefits of older forests extend well beyond forest products to include wildlife habitat, flood resiliency and recreation, he said.

During a visit last month to a patch of Groton State Forest that was heavily logged five years ago, he swept his hand through a dense thicket of yellow birch saplings and marveled at the land’s speedy recovery.

“This is phenomenal,” Snyder said with boyish enthusiasm. “The goal of this has been regeneration, and it’s been a raging success by all accounts.”

Snyder then made a surprising claim.

Gesturing to an area heavily logged in 2014, he declared that the young saplings growing there today were absorbing carbon at a faster rate than the untouched stand of 80-year-old hardwood beside it.

“Any scientist will tell you that this is sequestering carbon at a much greater rate than it was six years ago,” he said. “No one would tell you that it’s not.”

Actually, Anthony D’Amato would. The UVM professor of silviculture and forestry coauthored a study this year called Forest Carbon. The report shows that sequestration rates drop sharply immediately after disturbances like logging, and they remain lower for about 20 years.

That’s because while saplings grow comparatively quickly, they’re still much smaller than maturing trees, so they’re not sequestering nearly as much total carbon.

It’s only after those trees have pushed their way up through the forest and developed large canopies that the sequestration rate really takes off — at around 20 years old. It stays high for decades, dropping off slowly but still sequestering significant amounts of carbon as trees age, D’Amato said.

UVM’s Keeton said confusion about the release and eventual reabsorption of carbon from forests is commonplace. The science is complex and evolving, and advocates on all sides of the climate-change issue tend to pick studies that support

their positions instead of looking at the issue holistically, he said.

Forest owners and others sometimes cite the high rate of carbon sequestration in younger forests to justify logging as a net gain for carbon levels in the forest.

“Some people look at that and say ‘Aha! These forests are sucking carbon out of the atmosphere like a vacuum cleaner!’” he said.

That ignores, however, the release of carbon as a result of the original logging, he said. While some carbon gets stored in wood products like lumber, wood flooring and cabinets, much is emitted through waste, burning and short-lived products such as paper towels, he said. One of his studies showed that after 60 years, 90 percent of carbon from logging in the state goes right back to the atmosphere, Keeton said.

Recent research also suggests that the growing biomass market is creating incentives for Northeast landowners to log their properties more intensely, which is a cause for concern, Keeton said.

Increasing the length of time between harvests might be one way to both store more carbon in forests while preserving them through active management, he said.

Snyder later conceded that after heavy logging, the affected forest sequesters little carbon for many years before hitting its peak growth and carbon sequestration rate.

“At time zero after the cut, it is not sequestering — it’s a net emitter,” Snyder said.

A healthy mix of forest types, including new growth, nevertheless helps ensure diversity and resiliency in the face of diseases, pests, invasive species and severe weather — real threats exacerbated by global warming, he said.

Focusing narrowly on carbon emissions from biomass or the efficiency rates of a plant like McNeil is an easy way to stoke the public perception that something is amiss, he said.

“What right-thinking Vermonter would cut four trees down and throw three of them away? No. You’re never going to get me to say that,” Snyder said.

While biomass may not be carbon neutral, it is “carbon better,” he said, considering innumerable benefits of keeping forests as forests and the alternative of “pulling dead dinosaurs” out of the ground from halfway around the world.

“There is climate benefit in having forests, and the vast majority of those forests being managed, in a very close, Vermont, ecologically based way,” Snyder said. “And we are getting better at it every day.”

When new ideas emerge for how to

improve forest health, the state takes a hard look at them. It’s doing so right now with a Snyder-chaired working group that is looking at whether landowners willing to manage forests for higher carbon storage could benefit from the emerging carbon credit markets.

Meanwhile, he said, if focusing solely on carbon makes forests harder to manage in the state, Vermont risks becoming “a smaller, backwoods, colder, buggier version of Connecticut.”

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Against this backdrop, members of the Unitarian Church of Montpelier are trying to figure out how to keep their house of worship warm in winter without burning fossil fuels.

The congregation declared its aspiration in 2016 to be “recognized in Central Vermont as a source of moral and ethical guidance in light of the climate crisis” and set about studying how to be more environmentally sustainable. Their 1886 church, with its clean lines and soaring steeple just a few blocks from the Statehouse, has long been heated with fuel oil, but committee members hoped to find a greener source.

“Most of us are not experts in this stuff,” Rev. Joan Javier-Duval said. “We’re really just concerned citizens of the world who want to live sustainably and do what we can to be as carbon neutral as possible.”

They explored hooking up to the Montpelier district-heating system, but the up-front costs were prohibitive, Javier-Duval said. Instead they zeroed in on installing an efficient, stable, renewable local fuel source — an efficient wood pellet boiler — at a lower cost.

It seemed like a reasonable course of action, and many members were eager to move the project forward.

“Folks who care about this definitely feel a sense of urgency about it,” JavierDuval said. “The feeling is, not only it should be done now, but it should have been done 10 or 20 years ago.”

But should it be biomass?

“Using our forests to produce wood pellets, how is that helping or hurting the larger cause of trying to address the climate crisis?” Javier-Duval said. “There are just some questions that people have about that.”

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View of the Forest Canopy Walk from the ground

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ow often are humans able to gaze, up close and personal, at the crown of a 90-foot tree?

Zip-line adventurers might, and scientists sometimes climb up high for research. But normally we bipeds are earthbound, more inclined to appreciate the shade of a locust, collect sap from a maple or swing from an oak branch.

Now, the Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee allows us to stand eye to leaf with tree canopies. Visitors can climb an elaborate 100-foot structure patterned after a fire tower — dubbed the “tree house” — at the nonprofit’s newly completed Forest Canopy Walk. Up there, the treetops are within reach, and the view of the Ottauquechee River and distant hills is breathtaking.

But that’s not all. Some 50 feet above the forest floor, more than 900 feet of walkway loops from the tree house to three more human-made structures: a giant owl’s nest, a spiderweb (20 feet in diameter) and a large eagle’s nest. The walk, which opens to the public on October 12, invites visitors to relate to the forest in new ways.

“We are creating something for the general public to experience — to learn about the forest and the forest ecosystem, the plants and animals that depend upon it, and how important it is environmentally to humans,” VINS executive director Charlie Rattigan said.

Open year-round, VINS is dedicated to environmental education, research and avian rehabilitation. Its 47-acre campus has classrooms, exhibit spaces and nature trails, as well as state-of-the-art enclosures for raptors that can no longer survive in the wild. More than 38,000 people visit VINS annually, Rattigan said, including hundreds of youths on field trips and at summer camps. VINS staff rehabilitated 652 injured birds in 2018 and expects to help nearly 700 by the end of this year.

Although the campus offers many forest trails, few visitors use them, and Rattigan has been searching for a remedy to that. Based on attendance at similar walks in the region, he believes the Forest Canopy Walk will draw new audiences to VINS, entice them into the wild and help them learn more about the importance of forest conservation. The walk gives visitors extraordinary access to the topmost ecosystem of a forest, where the largest trees concentrate their leaves to gather as much sunlight as possible.

Rattigan was inspired to create the forest walk after exploring one in Costa Rica in 2013, as well as by his interactions with Margaret “Canopy Meg” Lowman.

Considered the mother of forest canopy science, she’s a Florida-based author, educator and biologist who has designed canopy walks for sites worldwide and advocates for better understanding of forest ecosystems.

“I think people underestimate how little we know about the forests,” Lowman said in a phone interview. Given how many forests have been on fire in the Amazon, Australia, Siberia and Indonesia this year, she noted, there’s an urgent need for the public to value forests and for scientists to study tree canopies before they’re gone.

Though the walk is first and foremost an educational tool, Rattigan said, it has potential uses in canopy studies and other types of scientific inquiry, such as taking bird censuses and doing bird banding.

VINS staff and board members designed the Forest Canopy Walk with New Hampshire-based architect Tom Weller, then took great pains to protect the environment during construction.

Visitors enjoying the giant spiderweb

They first counted and mapped all of the tree locations and species to assess forest health and safety issues, Rattigan said.

This past winter, when the ground was frozen and protected by snow, North Carolina-based Phoenix Experiential Designs installed 123 telephone poles, according to crew member Austin Oaks. “All of the poles underwent a process called ‘mechanical fixation,’” Rattigan said, “which seals them and minimizes the leaching out of chemicals into the soil and water.”

Phoenix built the rest of the walk on-site from May through September.

Normally, the company uses helicopters to place items in forests, but that method would have disturbed the long bat-mating season, Oaks noted. Instead, “We constructed scaffolding and built oldstyle cranes to raise each of these small sections,” he said, “and we did it all with block-and-tackle and pulley systems.”

The Forest Canopy Walk begins behind the raptor enclosures on the McKnight

Trail. The entrance is marked by two huge, curved cedar sculptures that create what Rattigan likes to call “a portal, a transition from the ordinary to the extraordinary.” Crafted by Herb Ferris of Windsor, the portal gives way to a meandering bridge and then comes to a T; from there, visitors can walk right or left around the loop.

“I was amazed to realize that the canopy walk provides accessibility to all,” wrote VINS board member and longtime Woodstock resident Tom Weschler by email. The ADA-compliant walk works for “moms with strollers or those in wheelchairs, because the walk is all on one level and takes advantage of the sloping topography to generate the height gain,” he continued. The hill drops away beneath, so that visitors are 50 feet above ground level after progressing a few yards down the walk.

Whether maneuvering along the walk or climbing stairs to the four oversize structures, visitors have plenty of opportunities to experience the forest — and take calculated risks. Looking through the rubber mesh walkway at the ground below takes courage, as does feeling the top of the tree house sway in a gust of wind or rolling into the middle of the (very safe) spiderweb, which is made of rope and suspended 43 feet above the ground.

Those who suffer from acrophobia may prefer to focus on the great horned owl sculpture at the owl’s nest or the detailed feathers of the sculptures at the eagle’s nest. One eagle perches on the nest in a natural pose, while the other appears to be approaching in flight (suspended on cables attached to nearby trees) with a fish in its mouth.

“They both have 11-foot wingspans, so they’re pretty big,” sculptor Wendy Klemperer said of the metal artworks she created for the walk. “Charlie was expecting something smaller, but I got a little carried away. But actually, scale-wise, I think they’re perfect.”

Though the birds are about twice the size of real-life eagles, their body proportions are anatomically correct, she noted.

Based in Brooklyn and New Hampshire, Klemperer has created other sculptures for VINS, including the great horned owl that once greeted visitors but now tends the owl’s nest.

“We love the marriage of nature and art,” said Chris Collier, VINS’ director of on-site programs and exhibits. The eagle sculptures draw attention to the fact that,

over time, eagles create some of the largest nests of any bird. The biggest found to date, located in Florida, is “9.5 feet across by 20 feet deep and weighs about 5,000 pounds,” Collier exclaimed.

Rattigan called the October 12 event a soft opening: “It’s a chance for us to discover how many people are going to come and how they will experience the walk.”

Over ensuing weeks and months, VINS staff and volunteers will answer visitors’ questions and ask them how they experience the walk and how it could be improved. “This is primarily an informationgathering season,” Collier said.

Some interpretive panels are already in production.

Small ones will describe specific trees, insects and other species; large ones will explain forest-related concepts, such the ecotone where the walk is situated.

“An ecotone is where two habitats meet,” Collier said.

The walk takes visitors through an “ecotone zone between a forest and a wetlands, where the diversity of life is greatly increased.”

Collier finds the walk’s location by the Ottauquechee perfectly fitting, given that VINS was founded in 1972 by four people intent on cleaning up the river.

Their success is readily apparent in the diversity of wildlife that now thrives in the watershed.

The price tag for the walk is $1.7 million. To date, VINS has raised more than 88 percent of it through grants and donations.

“We are so appreciative of those people who shared our vision and actually made the decision to invest with us,” Rattigan said. “It’s extraordinary that well over 50 people and organizations thought that this was an important thing to do.”

Lowman hopes the walk becomes a statewide education resource. Compared with other such sites in the Northeast, “it’s much more extensive,” she said.

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Finally, he came to my acupuncture office — at 19 years old — telling me he wanted to go to rehab. I think about the maturation it took for him to do that and the absolute horror of opiate addiction.

He went to rehab after that, and it took for a little while. But OxyContin grabbed him and held him for seven years.

Stories of love, grief and hope from the opioid crisis

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he headlines are full of stories about the opioid epidemic: about doctors overprescribing pills, lawsuits against drugmakers and the astronomical cost to our social-services safety net.

The obituaries are full of these stories, too, though few of them come right out and say so (the obituary on page 19 is one exception).

Addiction is still shrouded in shame and stigma. In many ways, that’s prevented us from confronting the human cost of the crisis.

To change that, Seven Days is inviting the families of those who’ve died as a result of opioid-use disorder to share their stories through an online memorial project called All Our Hearts. It launched in September. Submitting an entry is free and easy to do; we’ve created a form that guides submitters through the process.

These personal remembrances can educate, change minds, awaken empathy and inspire action. We’ve seen it happen.

All Our Hearts takes its name from the obituary for Madelyn Linsenmeir, who died on October 7, 2018. Her sister, Kate O’Neill, wrote a moving tribute that captured the attention of millions of readers around the globe. In fact, it prompted Seven Days to hire Kate in January to write a yearlong series: “Hooked: Stories and Solutions From Vermont’s Opioid Crisis.”

In the obituary, Kate wrote: “If you yourself are struggling from addiction, know that every breath is a fresh start.

Know that hundreds of thousands of families who have lost someone to this disease are praying and rooting for you. Know that we believe with all our hearts that you can and will make it. It is never too late.”

More than 1,000 people commented on Maddie’s obituary on Seven Days’ website. Just a handful of them knew her personally. Many of the commenters revealed that they had their own stories to tell. Seeing them come forward convinced us that we should help them.

To commemorate the anniversary of Maddie’s death, we’re publishing excerpts from All Our Hearts entries about Vermonters. Find the full entries, and submit your own, at allourhearts.com.

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Brennan on a ski lift

How opioid-use disorder changed his life Brennan struggled and suffered like no young man should. He was a victim of the opioid epidemic, which is taking our kids from us like something out of a science-fiction film. They are just disappearing right before our eyes.

The last moment I shared with him We lost Brennan to an overdose in 2013 in Portland, Maine, while he was in a sober-living situation there.

Before he died, he had come to Vermont to see us and get some paperwork sorted out. I brought him to the bus stop up at the University of Vermont, by the Royall Tyler Theatre. We hugged and said goodbye. I was able to rub his head and tell him how much I loved him.

Margery Keasler leads the Burlington chapter of the support group Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing (GRASP).

BRENNAN JOSEPH DEKEERSGIETER

JENNA RAE TATRO

of Johnson, Vt. (1992-2019). Submitted by Jenna’s mother, Dawn Tatro

What he was like Brennan was beautiful, kind, smart and so funny. He stood six foot three with blue-green eyes and dirty blond hair. He was an adventurer, a traveler, an amazing snowboarder. He was the oldest of our three kids. Family meant everything to him.

He was so warm and accommodating, such a good son. A good human.

What Jenna was like as a child From the get-go, Jenna was a helper and a lover of everyone. I remember her teacher saying to me, “This girl is going to be the president of the United States. It’s amazing what her friends will do for her.”

That teacher came to Jenna’s wake and said that Jenna had made such an impression on her because she was just so freehearted, always smiling. She changed the atmosphere at her school.

When I first knew something was wrong Brennan suffered a snowboarding injury, an ACL tear, in his first year at Sierra Nevada College in Lake Tahoe. He came home to recover, and the doctors prescribed an opiate, Dilaudid, for his pain. It turned into full-blown addiction.

He eventually moved on to OxyContin, which was all over the streets at the time.

I could see that he was addicted. He wasn’t himself. He denied it. We fought about it for four months.

The first sign something was wrong She was in her first semester Jenna on of college when her graduation day boyfriend beat her up on Christmas Eve, and she went to the emergency room.

The doctors prescribed her 30 days of OxyContin.

Jenna turned into someone we didn’t even know. I remember the first time we found out Jenna had tried heroin.

of Burlington, Vt., and Portland, Maine.

(1986-2013). Submitted by Brennan’s mother, Margery Keasler

I just started crying on the floor and knew we had to go to a recovery meeting immediately.

At first there was a lot of fear that everyone would know us there. But we knew we had to go, and that was our first step outside the box, saying that we’re affected by this, like so many other families are affected by this disease.

That’s when I realized that there’s a whole community of people just like us.

We’re not alone.

A vivid memory of Jenna A girl named Michaela came into Jenna’s rehab facility weighing 90 pounds. She walked in and said, “There’s no way in hell I’m staying here.” She told me that Jenna came hopping into the room with this glow and smile. Jenna said, “Just get through detox. It’ll be OK, and then you can leave. You’ll feel better if you just get through detox.”

And after Michaela finished detox, Jenna said, “Let’s just go into the treatment part for 30 days, and then you can go. We’ll have fun; we can hang out.”

Michaela told Jenna she would go to treatment but that there was no way she was going into sober living. When they finished treatment, Jenna went to sober living and told Michaela, “I’ll be waiting when you get there.” And when Michaela pulled up in the van, there was Jenna standing on the steps of the sober home with her arms open, and she ran to Michaela and hugged her and said,

Jenna competing at a horse show

“You’re here! You made it!”

Michaela’s mother called me one day and said to me: “Your daughter saved my daughter’s life. That’s something I can never repay you for.” Michaela is still sober to this day.

Jenna died of a fentanyl overdose the day before she would have received her 60-day sober chip.

How we’ve responded to Jenna’s death We started an organization called Jenna’s Promise, which aims to create a network of support for those suffering from substance-abuse disorders. The plans include a community center, called Jenna’s House, located in Johnson, that will centralize many different resources to serve the substance-use-disorder community.

In every facility she went to, Jenna always called with a story of someone she wanted to help. At the time, I would tell her we couldn’t help everybody.

While she was at the Granite House, she said to me, “Mom. I’m going to be here. I’m committing myself here for nine months. When I get out, you and I will be a team. We’re going to find and raise money for these people that want to get better, because I see so many. And they don’t have the money to help themselves. We’re going to educate people and let them know about this disease. And so let’s just promise.”

And that became Jenna’s Promise.

JESSE PALKER

of Westford, Vt. (1982-2017). Submitted by Jesse’s sister, Jordan Palker

What Jesse was like Jesse was my oldest brother — the oldest of nine siblings. He was an artist, a joker, a licensed nursing assistant. He liked to skateboard, snowboard, cook. He was a very loving human.

And he always made people laugh. In general, when he was around, you were always laughing.

What Jesse was proud of Starting his own T-shirt company, called Despair Designs, and becoming an LNA and working at the University of Vermont Medical Center.

My mom actually just heard a story about Jesse from a family friend who attended a wedding. The groom was a young man who had experienced a near fatal car accident a few years prior.

His mother happened to tell our family friend about a young LNA named Jesse Palker and how he had been an angel sent to her son as he hung on to life in the ICU. The mother went on to say that her son remembers Jesse’s constant words of support through that very critical time to fight hard and to not give up. He has

Jesse at brother Daniel’s graduation

Jesse on his last birthday, with his siblings

since recovered and was able to walk down the aisle to begin a new chapter in his life.

How drugs became part of Jesse’s life Jesse was in a car accident in 2005. He was in the intensive-care unit for two months and almost died several times.

After the accident, he had chronic pain. One of his doctors prescribed opiates. When the opioid crisis became a big issue in Vermont, doctors stopped prescribing to him and he started using off the street.

How opioid-use disorder changed his relationship with his family Jesse became very angry and avoided our family a lot. He stole from us. He became very distant at times. He went to rehab several times in Vermont and Florida. He really tried to get past his addiction, but it was a very hard fight for him. He was doing really well before he passed away.

How Jesse died I got a call from one of my sister’s coworkers. Jesse had been staying with his girlfriend and had overdosed.

Someone called my sister’s work, but she wasn’t there, so they called me. I was the first one in our family to know he had been found unresponsive from an accidental overdose. I got a hold of my parents, and everyone rushed to the hospital. He passed away the next day.

If Jesse were still here, I would tell him How much I love him and miss him. I wish he could have been there for my wedding.

How we responded to Jesse’s death Our family got in touch with his friend, Phil LaCroix, who expressed that he and his wife had lost a lot of friends to addiction.

We started Enough Is Enough VT and began raising money for the Vermont Foundation of Recovery and the Vermont Recovery Network. To raise money and awareness, Phil ran the Long Trail in 10 days.

So far, we’ve raised over $26,000.

ALEXA ROSE CIOFFI

of Burlington and St. Albans, Vt. (1985-2016).

Submitted by Alexa’s father, Frank Cioffi, who has formally adopted her son, Frankie

What Alexa was like Alexa was very outgoing, gregarious and fun to be with. She was a good friend … and kind and compassionate to everyone.

She was always adopting dogs. Anyone who was in need, Alexa was always the first one there to help.

How drugs became a part of her life She had a car accident — at 17. She broke her wrist, was prescribed painkillers and liked them. She’d use for a while and then not use. I don’t think she got super addicted until her mid-twenties.

When I first knew something was wrong Alexa and I worked together, so I was with her a lot. But she was pretty good at hiding things that were going on in her life. I kind of was oblivious to something being really wrong until she stole from family members, and that led to the discussion: “What do you need this money for?”

What I’ve learned about addiction I grew up in the 1970s and I am no angel, by any means, but I don’t know what it’s like to be addicted to something so powerful that it’s all you can think about. Until any of us fully understand that, or have been Alexa as a senior with someone they in high school love who is suffering like that, you don’t realize. Yes, it is an elective choice on their part, but it’s all-consuming, overwhelming. Alexa didn’t want to be addicted. She couldn’t find a way to get there.

What Alexa was most proud of Being a mother. Definitely. Frankie was 2 years and 4 months old when she died. She had thousands of pictures of him. He was her primary purpose and total love in life.

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The last days I shared with my daughter Alexa texted me to ask if she and Frankie could stay at my family’s home in St. Albans, because she didn’t feel safe where she was. I said yes, of course. I could tell she was sick. She thought she had a broken rib. And she was limping a little bit. I offered to take care of Frankie.

From his birth, I have acted as his dad; I bathed him every night, read to him and put him to bed. Together with Jovana, my former wife and Alexa’s mom, the three of us were raising Frankie together.

On the day she died, Alexa was too sick to watch Frankie, so Frankie and I went to the store for diapers and baby needs. We came back within an hour, and the house was quiet. I thought Alexa was still sleeping. I made Frankie a snack and changed him before I went in to find Alexa lying sideways on the bed. I screamed her name. She didn’t move. So I shook her.

She didn’t move. I think that Frankie heard me scream.

I took my phone out, put it on speaker, dialed 911 and started CPR. That’s when I noticed she had marks on her neck and chest. As soon as the EMTs came, they injected her with Narcan. They couldn’t bring her back and concluded she didn’t have an overdose.

The cause of death was acute bronchial pneumonia due to chronic substance abuse. So it was from snorting pills. She just stopped breathing. She might have had a heart issue that kicked in after that.

The autopsy showed traces of fentanyl, too.

If I could say one thing to Alexa now, it would be this I wish you were here to see your son every day. You would delight in everything he does. And he looks like you, too. He is beautiful.

What I have learned from this tragedy I’ve done a lot of things in life personally and professionally, and raising and caring for my grandson is the most meaningful, purposeful and most fulfilling thing I think I’ve ever been a part of. It’s a joyful and fun opportunity and a privilege. He turned 6 yesterday.

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Initial funding for All Our Hearts generously provided by Frank Cioffi, the Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation and GW Tatro Construction.

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n real life, it’s hard to know for sure if a particular person will turn out to be one’s true love. In romantic comedies, the question is answered for the audience as soon as two characters start talking. But playwright Audrey Cefaly tries a new spin on the form in The Last Wide Open, bending the storytelling structure to show four variations on what could happen to her protagonists. The well-acted Charlotte Munson and Jordan Gullikson Vermont Stage production of her new play demonstrates that love isn’t inevitable just because the viewer is expecting it.

Lina and Roberto have worked together for years as waiter and busboy in an Italian restaurant, but they barely know each other.

Roberto emigrated from Italy and doesn’t speak English well; Lina hoped to become a nurse but might know more English, or less. Lina has settled for waitressing. One night, as might be about to get married or be bitter they’re closing up and a thunderstorm about an affair. It may be a month since approaches, they talk. they first met, or five years, or 15. The play Sparks don’t fly as much as attitudes do. begins to show what might need to change Lina is fiercely funny and faces life’s disap- for the pair to be open to romance. pointments with wit. Roberto is a hopeful Director Jamien Forrest lets the play soul uncertain about American culture. unfold breezily, with a pace They share stories about the day they’ve that’s unforced even as had. A caller has to be told the restaurant new variations complicate is closed. Then they open up enough to the story. The play is more reveal a bit about their experiences with about depicting the fragility love. of starting a romance than Lina is a little high-strung. Roberto serving up a schmaltzy is a little shy. Neither hits the tone that one. Emphasizing pauses will bring out the other, but between the and verbal stutter-steps, pauses they almost connect. To emphasize Forrest keeps attention on the artifice of the play, a stage manager the connections the charequipped with a headset and a supply acters are not quite able of props and costumes pops up exactly to complete. Not rushing when needed to provide what’s missing things allows the humor lots and whisk away clutter. He’s also respon- of room to bloom. sible for handing out Lina’s ukulele and Charlotte Munson plays Roberto’s guitar — both occasionally break Lina as everybody’s slightly into song. crazy best friend. Her moods have a hyperThen they try again. The actors step bolic intensity, almost as if Lina is trying out of the frame of the play to announce out various emotional worst cases. She they’re having another go, and later, can get weepy while mopping or launch another. The conditions are the same: into way-too-cheerful wedding planning. thunderstorm, phone call, closing up the If Lina made a pie chart to explain herself, restaurant. But Roberto and Lina them- only a 5 percent slice would represent selves are in different states. Roberto vulnerability, but that slice would be

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highlighted. She tugs at her skirt when ashamed, then flashes a bright, brave smile. Munson is quick to find humor in a line or a circumstance.

Jordan Gullikson portrays Roberto as frozen in quiet wonder at the world around him, especially Lina. He can be enthusiastic but is quick to hide it before he calls too much attention to himself.

Gullikson makes Roberto’s immigrant status the most important thing about him, reflected not only in his accent and command of English, but in a strategy of seeking the shadows so he’s not put on the spot. His curiosity about both Lina and America frames him with heartwarming innocence.

The two actors have nice singing voices and are particularly well matched in their occasional duets. Besides being musically lovely, their harmonies are another of those sure signs that they belong together.

The set is a richly detailed trattoria with overhanging beams, pendant lights and arched windows in a brick wall. Scenic designer Jeff Modereger creates zones for action with a raised platform for the bar

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and a wide, tiled step down into the charming eatery’s seating area.

Lighting designer Joe Cabrera uses the live fixtures above the tables plus the theatrical lights to mark each change in mood. When the storm knocks out the power, he has bravura moonlight waiting. The lighting choices fit the moments well, but some of them lead the action rather than follow it, tipping us off to a change ahead. The professional polish of the lighting design, however, is truly magical.

Costume designer Rébecca Lafon makes subtle statements about the tenor of each variation in the story using color changes in the waitstaff uniforms and the characters’ personal clothing. The act of changing clothes right onstage puts each variation in a nice frame, and Lafon gets the most impact out of the fast, big transformations.

Juls Sundberg, the play’s actual assistant stage manager, plays the onstage Stagehand with physical precision and just enough dry wit.

A romantic comedy has only one place to go. Audiences don’t mind, because the format lets them project their own situation into the story and find signs that love is waiting out there. The trick is making the inevitable ending a surprise. Cefaly’s meta-theatrical script lets the audience doubt the outcome and wonder if these two souls will ever manage to connect. The actors give the characters the warmth and humor they need; all that’s left is risking a kiss. m Contact: alex@sevendaysvt.com

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connects with the Missisquoi Valley Rail Trail.

But construction of the LVRT is “fairly stalled,” said trail manager Ken Brown. The holdup is lack of funding for a project that costs $160,000 per mile of trail. The price goes up for a section of trail with a bridge on it. (About 90 bridges are on the LVRT.) Put another way, a mile of the LVRT LISTEN IN ON LOCAL FOODIES...

costs the same as 32,000 pints of beer at Lost Nation Brewing in Morrisville. The value of a walk or bike ride on the trail and a $5 beer can be appreciated in tandem at the trailside brewery.

Lost Nation chef Erik Larson said the taproom feeds a significant number of trail users. He figured the brewery could serve that clientele in one of two ways: by

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offering light fare to support recreating and exercise, or by providing a reward for people who arrive by their own power. The brewery opted for the latter.

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In a New England pasture, a “wolf tree� is the lone tree that remains after most of the forest has been cleared for farming. Livestock and other animals gather at such trees, said MAX OVERSTROMCOLEMAN, who pursued doctoral studies in ecology at Dartmouth College.

WOLF TREE is also the name of the bar that he’ll open by the end of October at 40 Currier Street in White River Junction. The 24-seat craft cocktail bar is intended to be a community gathering place, just as a wolf tree is in a pasture. “The whole point of the bar, for me, is as a love letter to Vermont and the Upper Valley,� said OverstromColeman, who grew up in Manhattan and Chelsea and went to Camp Billings in Fairlee. He returned to the UV for graduate school 11 years ago and settled in the area. His restaurant experience includes working as a bartender at CARPENTER & MAIN in Norwich.

Wolf Tree, which shares a building with Rio Blanco Salon & Spa, features a bar fashioned from green-andwhite Danby marble. “It’s big

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The menu at Wolf Tree will highlight local products such as vegetables, cheese and charcuterie, served with baguettes from KING ARTHUR FLOUR. Cocktails will showcase “found and foraged� ingredients, OverstromColeman said. “There are really dynamic, fun and unique flavors that exist in this region that people don’t necessarily associate with cocktails,� he said, citing sumac as an example. Such ingredients will be used “to infuse spirits or accompany spirits, to adulterate, showcase and highlight things for craft cocktails that are hopefully larger than the sum of their parts.�

Wolf Tree will be open Wednesday through Sunday, with the exact hours to be determined.

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has been bringing South Indian soul food to Brattleboro since 2014, and DOSA KITCHEN

now the owners of the popular food truck are preparing to open their first brick-andmortar establishment.

Married co-owners NASH PATEL and LEDA SCHEINTAUB, who are also the authors of Dosa Kitchen: Recipes for India’s Favorite Street Food, will open at 34 Elliot Street in downtown Brattleboro in late 2019. The restaurant will have a menu similar to that of the food truck — typically parked outside Retreat Farm beside GRAFTON VILLAGE CHEESE — featuring the eponymous tangy, airy South Indian rice-and-lentil crêpes.

Scheintaub said the new space was “too good to pass up�; Dosa Kitchen will adjoin PETER HAVENS in the former home of that restaurant’s deli, Peter Haven’s Fine Provisions.

The restaurant will focus on lunch, offering an expanded version of the food truck’s menu and daily specials such as Patel’s biryani, a complex, layered rice dish synonymous with his native Hyderabad. “Normally I only get to eat Nash’s biryani on

my birthday, so now other people will get to eat it, too,�

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The permanent location will allow the couple to offer special dinners and develop products such as Leda’s Ladoos — Scheintaub’s line of Indian sweets — while continuing to operate the food truck.

Scheintaub said the menu will reflect their commitment to sourcing local produce and humanely raised meat; all items will still be gluten-free.

The food truck will be open at 400 Linden Street through October 14 and at the BRATTLEBORO FARMERS MARKET in November and December. Diners have made it a destination, seeking out both its traditional and fusion offerings. “We get Indian tourists who are looking for their food,� Patel said. “They can be skeptical at first and will order one dosa to taste the sambar [an accompanying condiment] and see if they can trust you. So far, they’ve always come back to order more.�

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view of Vermont you can’t see at 50 miles per hour.

You don’t need to be in tip-top shape to walk (or bike) on the flat LVRT. For me, it was hard to stop walking. But a cheeseburger and a beer helped.

The Family Table, 4807 Route 15, Jeffersonville, 664-8920, familytablevt.com

We left one car in the parking lot at Lost Nation and drove to breakfast at the Family Table in Jeffersonville. Founded 10 years ago by chef-owner John Raphael, the restaurant is at the traffic circle where routes 15 and 108 meet. Its enclosed dining porch overlooks the Lamoille River and the Cambridge Greenway Trail, which connects with the LVRT. We ate in the dining room, which is decorated with scenic photos of Vermont — a kind of visual appetizer for the walk ahead — and staffed by a cheery server.

From a solid breakfast menu, I chose a meal listed in the “classics” category: biscuits and gravy with poached eggs.

The grilled biscuits held their snap under a generous portion of gravy seasoned with shallots, garlic and fennel powder and studded with Raphael’s housemade sausage. The eggs sat atop a pile of home fries. Our coffee mugs were kept topped off.

A few days after our visit, I called Raphael, 49, a graduate of the culinary program at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I., to learn more about his restaurant. He lives in Belvidere and said he likes running a business in his community — even though, he added, “With my talent, with what I do, I should be in Burlington.”

The Family Table has a full bar and a dinner menu that includes dry-aged rib eye and lamb burgers. “I try to keep it to what people like: big portions with lots of flavor,” Raphael said. Skiers at Smugglers’ Notch and snowmobilers on the trail are vital patrons.

“I don’t care if it’s a snowmobile, a car, a bike or a horse, you’re driving around Vermont, and it never gets old,” Raphael observed. “The mountains put your soul at ease.”

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A Lost Nation cheeseburger was my treat at the end of a recent nine-mile walk on the trail. (OK, 8.9 miles — 19,680 steps — according to my phone.) The burger was one of three meals I ate on or near the trail with photographer Glenn Russell on the last Saturday of summer.

We started about a mile west of Johnson and hiked east to the brewery. The trip is a lovely and accessible way to see Lamoille County — through town and country — up close and at a leisurely pace.

On a blue-sky day, we walked through high cornfields, across a rusty railroad bridge spanning the Lamoille River, and past private homes and a dairy farm. Signs marked the miles and alerted us to tractor crossings.

The trip was built around three meals: breakfast in Jeffersonville, lunch in Hyde Park and late lunch in Morrisville. Our pace determined the timing of the meals — we were too fast to hit Lost Nation for dinner.

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Salads and a mug of tomato, roasted pepper and garlic soup at Fork & Gavel

Fork & Gavel, 246 Main St., Hyde Park, 521-7910

After breakfast, we drove (regrettably) seven miles to start our walk near Johnson. Eating there wasn’t an option because we couldn’t find a place that served breakfast — a deficit that’s practically a sin in a

college town. (If we blew it and missed a place, clue me in!)

Glenn and I enjoyed all three meals, but the great pleasure of the day was the walk between them, which presented a

The path to Hyde Park started with a colorful blaze on the trail itself. The first stretch of ground was mysteriously sprinkled with cherry-red candies, leading us eastward.

On the way we passed a youth soccer

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game in Johnson and detoured slightly to Park watching the Home Day parade see Dog’s Head Falls, a spectacular spot and lying barefoot on the courthouse on the river. Occasional bikers pedaled lawn, it was only 3 p.m. — a little early past. for dinner.

Once in Hyde Park, we turned off the I ordered a glass of the Wind, a Gosetrail and walked a couple blocks up Depot with-grapefruit thirst-quencher that Street to the heart of town. We heard tasted just right after our walk. I gazed music as we approached Main Street, with envy at the cooks in the outdoor where the high school band was play- kitchen, whose job and big yellow booming and marching to lead the Home Day box I secretly desired. parade.

I ordered a second beer, a pilsner, and Festivities included candy throwing regained enough energy to eat a bowl of from floats, onion rings deep-fried along mussels steamed in Gose. We waited a bit the sidewalk, dumplings before ordering our main and curry from a Nepali course: tacos for Glenn, a food vendor, and scones cheeseburger for me. outside the courthouse.

“Bloody,” I specified, But we skipped the street choosing between bloody E RIK L ARSON eats in favor of lunch at and burnt, as the menu Fork & Gavel, a Main Street prescribes. (The wording restaurant that opened in March. on the menu is a reference to steak — burnt Anticipating another meal a few miles to a crisp or bloody as hell — in the movie farther down the rail trail, we opted for Pulp Fiction.) a light lunch: salads and a shared mug of My cheeseburger was served red and tomato, roasted pepper and garlic soup. juicy on a challah bun, topped with remouGarnished with a sprig of dill, the soup was lade, lettuce and pickled onions. The side thick and flavorful. The salads — spinach of grilled corn matched the hue of the for Glenn, greens for me — were simple, boombox. fresh and dressed in vinaigrette.

I’ve often wondered what makes a Fork & Gavel’s owners are Jenna Lost Nation cheeseburger stand above the and John Decker. The couple’s house in crowd. A few days later, I called Larson Cady’s Falls, a Morrisville neighborhood, to ask. backs onto the LVRT. He credited the blend of beef — bris“The rail trail is a really important part ket, short rib and chuck from Kansasof our lives and livelihood,” said Jenna. based Creekstone Farms — seasoned “It’s an awesome amenity.” with salt and pepper. The cheese is The Deckers, who also own the Stowe Cabot Creamery sharp cheddar; the Public House & Bottle Shop, are expand- mayo-based remoulade is mixed with ing Fork & Gavel to add an adjacent garlic, chopped red onion, tomato, pickgeneral store. Its inventory will include les and a pinch of cayenne.

Lamoille Valley Rail Trail mix; proceeds Larson, 43, attended the New England from selling the mix will be donated to Culinary Institute and taught there. He’s support the trail, Jenna said. been Lost Nation’s chef since the brewery “We want Hyde Park to be a stop on the opened in the summer of 2013. The followrail trail, a little destination,” she said later ing year, the brewery started its seasonal by telephone. “People [sometimes] say, ‘If ritual of moving the kitchen outdoors from I wasn’t halfway through my ride, I’d have Memorial Day to mid-October. Working a beer.’” at Lost Nation is the longest-running job Larson’s had since he began restaurant Lost Nation Brewing, 87 Creamery Road, work at age 14.

Morrisville, 851-8041, lostnationbrewing.com “The owners are really great people,” “You guys need a beer?” our server at Lost he said of Lost Nation. “They take care of Nation asked. their employees. In this industry, that’s “Need is a complicated word,” Glenn really important.” answered.

On his “weekend,” Larson often takes “Yes!” I said, interrupting him. his kids — ages 9 years and 18 months — for We were sitting at a picnic table in a walk on the rail trail. That’s Monday and the beer garden, having walked nearly Tuesday, when Lost Nation is closed. So, no nine miles in three and a half hours (not big, greasy burger for lunch. m including a two-hour lunch break).

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From left: Laura, Virginia, Kevin and Rowan Toohey

The opening of NU Chocolat is the realization of an enduring dream for the close family and a comeback from the disappointment they faced at the shuttering of Bijou (which resulted from a dispute between the business’ owners and its landlord). “It was always the ultimate dream, to have our own shop, when we were growing up and doing it out of our house. At the time, we imagined it would be in Montpelier,” Virginia said.

“That was the big city for us back then,” Kevin added.

Now working out of a bright, sleek space in Vermont’s biggest city, the family shares their dream with their customers through their silky truffles and dangerously snackable cocoa almonds. The storefront also houses their production facility, which, much like NU Chocolat’s sourcing and philosophy, is transparent. Through a large window facing the street, customers can watch the team hand-gild truffles

A selection of truffles

after they’ve traveled through the enrobing machine and carefully half-dip the stained glass-like candied Italian orange slices in dark chocolate.

The shop is also a café, offering coffee, tea and decadent chocolate-based beverages. Shelves line the walls with a library of bars, neatly stacked in clear packaging so that customers can see the chocolate inside; like a library of books, the contents are transportive, offering glimpses of faroff origins through their flavors.

Becoming part of other families’ traditions is one aspect of the business that the Tooheys are passionate about. “There’s this intimacy with customers, because people are coming to buy all their sweets for Christmas or birthdays or Valentine’s Day,” Virginia said.

“We’re somewhere between a telephone repair man and a medical doctor,” Kevin joked.

Beyond building those customer relationships, the Tooheys consider themselves social ambassadors for the chocolate industry, sharing information about sourcing and the supply chain. “Most Americans have no clue what happens on our side of the veil,” Kevin said.

The mass-market chocolate industry dominates in the United States, providing the cheap candy that lines grocery-store shelves. That chocolate is produced on an enormous scale from low-quality cacao plants selected for their productivity rather than for the flavor of their beans.

“What most people call ‘chocolate’ is any kind of candy bar. When people come in and we talk to them, they’re often surprised by the information we share,” Laura said. “It takes an interrupter, in a way, in order for customers to start questioning what they know about chocolate.”

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he Toohey family takes chocolate very seriously. They see every interaction at their Burlington shop, NU Chocolat, as an opportunity for education, whether it’s about their sourcing practices, the delights of a well-made milk chocolate, how truffles are the perfect chocolate-delivery system or the logistics of working as a family.

Kevin, Laura, Rowan and Virginia Toohey opened NU Chocolat on Battery Street this past winter, just in time for Valentine’s Day. While the family has operated several chocolate and confection businesses over the years — including Bijou Fine Chocolate in Shelburne, which closed unexpectedly in October 2017 — this is the first shop they have owned.

“When we came to Vermont, we weren’t sure how we were going to make a living,” Laura said of the family’s move to Hardwick in 1993. Both Laura and Kevin are Swiss-trained chocolatiers, though, so they “were able to pull the wild card out of our pocket of chocolate, having little businesses out of our home,” as Laura put it.

One of those businesses was Luna Chocolate, a wholesale truffle operation that the Tooheys owned from 1995 to 1999 — “back before the internet,” Laura said.

Besides all the traditional recipes and techniques, Laura and Kevin’s European training included an emphasis on teaching the next generation of chocolatiers. As a result, “Our five children grew up immersed in these chocolate businesses,” Laura said.

Two of those children — Virginia and Rowan — are now adult business partners.

“The tradition has no value if there are no young people that come along,” Kevin said. “They take the tradition and move it along and innovate.”

food+drink NU Chocolat is unusual in that it uses the Tooheys are drawn to the work that three suppliers. “The chocolate becomes Luker has done to revitalize and support like a palette a painter would use, and local farming communities, many of even though it’s all chocolate, we can which had previously grown coca for the choose each one for its tones and depth cocaine industry. “They were getting a lot and brightness,” Laura said. of money to grow coca, but their commuAll three suppliers, Luker Chocolate, nities were devastated with violence and Felchlin and Valrhona, make their choc- fear,” Laura said. olate from the expressive fino de aroma Luker Chocolate has been working cacao, which constitutes only about 8 with farmers to provide a guaranteed percent of the cocoa produced in the market for cacao since the company world. While they may source from the established a research center in the same regions, each company has a distinct mountains of Colombia in the 1960s. The formulation and roast profile that makes direct-trade model reduces risk for the its product a complementary part of NU’s farmers while encouraging them to grow artistry, accentuating or subduing specific a high-quality product. “They’re building flavors and characteristics. long-standing, mutually beneficial relaKevin recently spent time at Felch- tionships,” Kevin said. lin’s American Sharing inforheadquarters in mation about Luker’s work with Washington, D.C. He described the their customers is Swiss company, a a huge part of what fairly new supplier the Tooheys hope KE VIN TOOHE Y for the Tooheys, as to accomplish with “the masters of milk chocolate.”

NU Chocolat. “We all care about this Because many customers associate stuff,” Laura said. “It matters to us, and the higher cocoa content of dark choco- it matters to the planet.” late with quality, “It’s politically incor“Here’s something that’s real, that rect to eat milk chocolate these days,” tastes good and is actually having an Laura said. The milk chocolate that NU impact,” Kevin said. “That’s a wonderful sources from Felchlin has a higher cocoa thing to bring back to Burlington and share content than most — 49 percent. “It’s a with people — that sense of hope.” good transition chocolate for people NU’s lavender truffle, crafted from who say they never eat milk chocolate,” Luker’s single-origin dark chocolate Virginia said. from the Tumaco region of Colombia, is If it weren’t for its richness, NU’s milk a perfect bite to have while digesting the chocolate could masquerade as some- information the Tooheys share. The delithing darker. It’s less sweet than expected cate squares of dark chocolate are decobut has notes of caramel and the smooth, rated with a white interlocking geometric almost mouth-coating sensation charac- pattern, reminiscent of chocolate’s crysteristic of milk chocolate. talline structure. Fresh lavender infused French company Valrhona, with into the ganache brings out the chocolate’s which the Tooheys have been working the floral, herbal notes, while the Monument longest, is popular with chefs and formu- Farms Dairy butter and cream yield the lated for a global palate. Laura called it rich, smooth mouthfeel one would expect “distinctly French in the way we think of from a well-made truffle.

French roast coffees or French cigarettes.

It’s a celebration of the chocolate It’s that very dark, intense flavor.” that’s traveled so far (both geographically The powerful notes of Valrhona are and in the process from bean to truffle), of useful in certain applications, but for the local ingredients that Vermont brings subtler flavors, the Tooheys turn to their to the table, and of the Tooheys’ training main supplier, Luker Chocolate, a family- and precision in chocolate making. owned company that arose from Colom“This whole world of chocolate is freabia’s indigenous chocolate culture. kin’ complex, and it’s fascinating — every“In a lot of places where chocolate’s thing from the germination of the flower grown, it’s not actually part of the day- [to] the way it grows on the tree, how it to-day experience. It’s grown and then gets harvested, everything. It’s the wildexported somewhere else,” Kevin said. est thing,” Laura said.

That’s not the case at Luker, which “It’s magic that we can eat chocolate,” Kevin and Laura recently visited in Kevin added. m Colombia. “To be there on the ground and experience that heartfelt connecContact: jbarry@sevendaysvt.com tion with the Colombian people and their indigenous culture was life- INFO changing,” Kevin said.

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BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE: In a 10-week class presented by the Center for Women & Enterprise, aspiring entrepreneurs gain the confidence and knowledge to launch a small business. Rutland Economic Development Corp., 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

community

COFFEE TALK: Friends, neighbors and AARP Vermont volunteers catch up on upcoming activities and issues facing older Vermonters. Nomad Coffee — South End Station, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free.

Info, vt@aarp.org.

crafts

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

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

Info, 496-7746.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD OF AMERICA MEETING: Needle-and-thread enthusiasts fine-tune their techniques. Bring a bag lunch.

Ascension Lutheran Church, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.

Free for first-timers. Info, gmc. vt.ega@gmail.com.

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

Free. Info, 846-4140.

dance

NICARAGUA FOLKLORE DANCE ENSEMBLE: An evening of Nicaraguan dance performed to marimba music benefits Compas de Nicaragua, a New Hampshire nonprofit that supports health and education projects in the Central American country. Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $22-25. Info, 540-0595.

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

Donations; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

environment

KICKING GAS & TAKING CHARGE: Duane Leffel takes audience members on his 44day journey from Charleston, S.C., to San Francisco via electric car. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 745-1393.

RECYCLING FACILITY TOUR: Recyclers see in real time how blue-bin items transform into marketable commodities.

Materials Recovery Facility, Williston, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 872-8111.

WORKSHOP ON MODERN WOOD HEAT: Emma Hanson, wood energy coordinator for the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation, sparks interest in a local, renewable heat source. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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Info, 878-6955.

fairs & festivals

CELTIC HARMONIES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL: World-class musicians from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany and beyond take to Eastern Townships stages for nine days of concerts and workshops. See celticharmonies. ca for details. Various Québec locations. $173.32-207.23 for festival pass; prices vary for individual events. Info, 450292-3456, ext. 227.

film

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

What do game show “Jeopardy,” odd jobs and a first orgy have in common? These are all topics discussed during episodes of “RISK!,” a weekly storytelling podcast and live show hosted by writer and actor Kevin Allison. The program documents people from across racial, gender and economic backgrounds sharing real-life anecdotes ranging from embarrassing to heartwrenching to hilarious. Allison comes to the Queen City for a live podcast recording of the show that demonstrates, as Slate magazine puts it, “it’s our weirdness that makes us just like everyone else.”

‘RISK!’ LIVE PODCAST RECORDING Thursday, October 10, 8 p.m., at ArtsRiot in Burlington. $20. Info, 540-0406, artsriot.com.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: Some of the Pacific Ocean’s most beautiful islands and marine national monuments grace the screen. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: Advanced filming techniques expose the planet’s top hunters on land, under the sea and in the air. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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

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

OCT.13 | MUSIC Playing Together Music can unite people from across cultural and geographic boundaries. For proof, look to the members of the McKasson/McDonald/McLane Trio: Scottish fiddler Ryan McKasson is based in Tacoma, Wash.; guitar and mandolin player Eric McDonald lives in Portland, Maine; and accordionist Jeremiah McLane is rooted in Strafford, Vt. Despite the distance, the three performers share a commitment to traditional Celtic, French and New England music. The trio hits all the right notes in a faculty concert for the Upper Valley Music Center, a nonprofit community music school in Lebanon, N.H., where McLane is an instructor.

MCKASSON/MCDONALD/MCLANE TRIO Sunday, October 13, 6:30-8 p.m., at First Congregational Church in Lebanon, N.H. $20; free for kids under 18. Info, 603-448-4281, uvmusic.org.

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Lane Theatre, follows three young black men as they brave a mythical sea voyage from atop a magical table. Starring Dimitri Carter, Cornelius Davidson, Marcus Gladney Jr. and Benton Greene (all pictured), this imaginative theater work navigates subjects such as love, friendship, family and black lives. Catch preview performances on Thursday and Friday before opening night on Saturday.

‘ESAI’S TABLE’ Thursday, October 10, through Saturday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, October 13, 5 p.m., at Briggs Opera House in White River Junction. See website for additional dates. $35. Info, 332-3270, jagproductionsvt.com.

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e they longtime cyclists or just getting into the saddle, mountain bikers of all ability levels spin their wheels at the Leaf Blower Fall Classic Mountain Bike Festival. Put on by the Stowe Trails Partnership in collaboration with Mountain Bike Vermont, this one-day bike bash offers athletes a chance to give the season a proper send-off. Two-wheeled excursions range from family-friendly to social to all-day endurance rides. After taking in varied terrain and spectacular views, folks kick back with a catered cookout, local brews, live music and fireside camaraderie.

LEAF BLOWER FALL CLASSIC MOUNTAIN BIKE FESTIVAL Saturday, October 12, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., at Ranch Camp in Stowe. $35-90. Info, 585-1001.

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‘MADE IN VERMONT’: Featuring performances from local personalities such as comedic actor Rusty DeWees, this independent comedy follows a group of struggling creatives as they scheme to win the coveted Golden Gizzard award. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $8-10. Info, 388-4841.

‘THE MUMMY’: Boris Karloff and Zita Johann star in a 1932 horror flick about a resurrected Egyptian mummy pursuing a beautiful woman. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: Actor Kate Winslet narrates a virtual odyssey into the largest and least-explored habitat on Earth. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: An immersive film reveals the astonishing lives of the smallest of animals — think chipmunks and grasshopper mice. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under.

Info, 864-1848.

food & drink

COOK THE BOOK: Foodies bring a dish from Seasons in a Vermont Vineyard: The Shelburne Vineyard Cookbook by Lisa Cassell-Arms to a palate-pleasing potluck.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

games

BEGINNERS’ BRIDGE: Those looking to get in on the card game learn the basics from longtime player Grace Sweet. Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

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

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

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

Info, 479-9512.

MAH JONGG IN WILLISTON: Participants of all levels enjoy friendly bouts of this tile-based game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-4918.

health & fitness

ALL-LEVELS ACROYOGA CLASS: The mindfulness and breath of yoga meet the playful aspects of acrobatics in a partner practice. No partners or experience required.

Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 798-2651.

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CHAIR YOGA: Whether experiencing balance issues or recovering from illness or injury, health-conscious community members drop in for a weekly low-stress class.

Waterbury Public Library, 10:1511:15 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

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

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

words

BARNES & NOBLE BOOK CLUB: Bibliophiles read into The Testaments by Margaret Atwood.

Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

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

Donations. Info, 448-4262.

WRITING CIRCLE: Words pour out when participants explore creative expression in a low-pressure environment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

language

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

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

music

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APOLLO’S FIRE: “The U.S.A.’s hottest baroque band” (Classical Music Magazine) performs Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons like you’ve never heard it before.

Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 7 p.m. $15-48; free for students. Info, 748-2600.

MENTALLY INTUNE: Singers find harmony in a community chorus for people living with depression.

No experience or talent required.

Rumney Memorial School, Middlesex, 6:30-8 p.m. Donations.

Info, 272-7209.

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

Info, 881-8500.

outdoors

NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL PUBLIC BANDING DEMO: Animal lovers join NBNC biologists as they capture, tag and release these pintsize fliers. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7:30-9 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 229-6206.

seminars

LEARN HOW TO PUT YOUR HOUSE ON A DIET: ORGANIZE & SIMPLIFY: In the second of a three-part series, Melanie Saia, director of staging services for the Malley Group at KW Vermont, offers tips for clearing household clutter. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-4140.

talks

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‘TOSCA’: The Opera Company of Middlebury brings Puccini’s story of a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief and an idealistic artist to the stage. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $50-65.

Info, 382-9222.

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brings her specialty into focus in “I Spy With My Little Eye: Molecular Mechanisms of Vertebrate Eye Development.” Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 656-1297.

LUKE FANNIN: Listeners digest “Grasslands and Primate Dietary Ecology: A Four-Million-Year-Old Story of Stable Isotopes.” Room 111, Cheray Science Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

RACHEL VROMAN & JUSTIN LAVALLEE: The Harvard University Graduate School of Design Digital Fabrication Laboratory manager and the MIT researcher discuss “Digital Fabrication and 3D Printing” as part of the Yestermorrow Speaker Series. Yestermorrow Design/ Build School, Waitsfield, 7-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 496-5545.

tech

RAISING KIDS IN A DIGITAL WORLD: Discussion groups delve into practical and positive strategies to support safe and healthy relationships with technology. High School Campus, Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2827.

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

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

Info, 878-6955.

TECHNOLOGY NIGHT: Cybersecurity basics come to the fore during a class with Vermont Technical College’s Ken Bernard.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

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

theater

‘A FEW GOOD MEN’: You can’t handle the truth! But we think you can handle the Stowe Theatre Guild production of the Aaron Sorkin military courtroom drama that inspired the 1992 film of the same name starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 7:30 p.m. $14-20.

Info, tickets@stowetheatre.com.

‘THE LAST WIDE OPEN’: Jamien Forrest directs a cast of two in a romantic play portraying three alternate realities for a young waitress and an Italian immigrant. Presented by Vermont Stage. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $29.70-38.50. Info, 862-1497.

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

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

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

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

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

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

COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Steps to End Domestic Violence representatives and local officials come together to learn about domestic violence. Area residents are welcome. Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3131, ext. 1063.

conferences

RENEWABLE ENERGY VERMONT CONFERENCE & EXPO: Leaders in clean power, heat, transportation and efficiency sectors share their knowledge through workshops, presentations and exhibits. DoubleTree by Hilton, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $35-320. Info, 229-0099.

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GRAPHIC HISTORIES: COMICS & ACTIVISM SYMPOSIUM: Talks by notable artists such as Alison Bechdel and Jason Lutes take place over five days. See vermonthumanities.org for details. Various Burlington locations, noon. Free. Info, 388-4964.

HU CHANT: SOUND OF SOUL: People of all faiths lift their voices in a spiritual exercise followed by contemplation and conversation hosted by Eckankar. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7:15-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

LADIES NIGHT: Community members find drinks, games, vendors, appetizers and a raffle at this breast cancer awareness extravaganza. Funds raised benefit the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Marvin Design Gallery by Windows & Doors By Brownell, West Lebanon, N.H., 4:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 603-298-5555.

TROPICAL FISH CLUB MONTHLY MEETING: Speakers ranging from local hobbyists to nationally known aquarium aficionados share their expertise. Essex Junction VFW Post, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 372-8716.

fairs & festivals

CELTIC HARMONIES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL: See WED.9.

film

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

‘DRACULA’: Bela Lugosi stars in the spellbinding story of a vampire in search of new blood.

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

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.9.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.9.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.9.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.9.

food & drink

BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: Foodies sample local eats on a scrumptious stroll dedicated to the Queen City’s culinary past.

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

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

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

IN-STORE TASTING & DEMO: Foodies drop in for samples of the fall-time treat apple pandowdy. Kiss the Cook, Middlebury, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 349-8803.

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

games

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

Free. Info, 863-5403.

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

Free. Info, 479-9512.

health & fitness

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

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

CHAIR YOGA: Comfortable clothing is recommended for this class focused on balance, breath, flexibility and meditation. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 479-9512.

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

Info, 448-4262.

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

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FALLING AWAY: A mindful talk

by Robert Kest moves beyond a Western view of self and psychotherapy. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

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

Info, 479-9512.

KARMA KLASS: DONATIONBASED YOGA FOR A CAUSE: Active bodies hit the mat to support local nonprofits. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 540-0186.

TIPS & TRICKS: HOW TO LIVE A HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE: Those looking to curb stress and its negative effects on the body collect coping mechanisms.

1st Republic Brewing Company, Essex Junction, 5:45-6:45 p.m.

Free. Info, 857-5318.

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

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

music

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THE GARIFUNA COLLECTIVE: The Belizean ensemble celebrates the vibrant melodies and infectious rhythms of traditional Garifuna culture. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966.

ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET: Now celebrating its 30th year, the four-piece string ensemble serves up commissioned work by John Adams and Osvaldo Golijov, along with Haydn quartets. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30-9:30 p.m. $21-55. Info, 603-646-2422.

outdoors

LEAF PEEPERS BIRD MONITORING: Ornithology enthusiasts don binoculars in search of winged species.

Office building, Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7:30-9:30 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068.

NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL PUBLIC BANDING DEMO: See WED.9.

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

Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

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WINTER BIRD FEEDING: Which winged species spend the coldweather months in Vermont and why? Avian enthusiasts learn all this and more in a Birds of Vermont Museum presentation.

Stowe Free Library, 7-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 253-6145.

talks

BLANCHE WIESEN COOK: Middlebury College teams up with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom to sponsor “Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” a presentation by the Roosevelt biographer. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, madel51353@aol.com.

DREAMS & SOUL TRAVEL: KEYS TO HEALING & INNER PEACE: Members of Vermont Eckankar host an open forum for those interested in sharing spiritual experiences and exploring related questions. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

JAMES WOLF: What is chronic pain and how is it treated? The UVM assistant professor James Wolf addresses this and other questions in “Opioids, Cannabis and Chronic Pain: What Doctors Do and Don’t Know.” University of Vermont Robert Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 656-0733.

JEN KIMMICH: A Co.Starters Speaker Series talk with the Alchemist cofounder and CEO covers the costs of launching a business. Do North Coworking, Lyndonville, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, team@donorthcoworking.com.

MARK POTOK: How is the explosion of misinformation changing the nation? The former editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report addresses this and other questions in “News, ‘Fake News’ and Democracy in America.” Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1:302:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

MICHAEL MANN: The climate scientist provokes thought with “A Return to the Madhouse: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump.” Ira Allen Chapel, University of Vermont, Burlington, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-3033.

STEPHEN TERRY & LOUIS AUGERI: History buffs lend their ears for the Sam Hand Lecture “How a Farmer From Putney Came to Have an Outsize Influence on the United States: The Story of Sen. George Aiken.” Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8500.

‘WHAT IT TAKES TO CREATE A WINTER SPORTS PRODUCT: SKI AND SNOWBOARD ENTREPRENEURS TELL ALL’: Panelists chat about their respective successes and various challenges they’ve faced along the way as part of the Red Bench Speaker’s Series. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, Stowe, 6:30 p.m. $10. Info, 253-9911.

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TECH SUPPORT: Need an email account? Want to enjoy ebooks?

Bring your phone, tablet or laptop to a weekly help session. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 5-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-8291.

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BURLINGTON FRINGE FESTIVAL BLUE NIGHT: Vermont theater artists showcase original works in a fast-paced whirlwind of comedy, drama, poetry, puppetry, dance and musical theater. Note: Blue Night contains adult content. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10-15.

Info, 349-9065.

‘ESAI’S TABLE’: JAG Productions starts its fourth season with the world premiere of Nathan Yungerberg’s mythical tale of black lives, friendship, family and love. See calendar spotlight.

Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $35. Info, 332-3270.

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‘FOREVER PLAID’: A car accident cuts a promising young band’s career short before it starts. But they’re returned to Earth for one last big gig in this musical revue of 1950s doo-wop favorites. The Grange Theatre, South Pomfret, 7:30 p.m. $28-35. Info, 457-3500.

Medium Lauren Rainbow October 12, 7:30 PM Voted the best psychic/medium in NH by New Hampshire Magazine

‘GOD HELP US!’: Quarreling Larry, a liberal, and right winger Randi are confronted by God — played

by Ed Asner — who has some harsh words about the divided state of America in this quirky comedy. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $28-48. Info, 603-448-0400.

CELEBRATION SERIES

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘FLEABAG’: Fans view a broadcast production of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s acclaimed one-person show that inspired the BBC TV series about a selfobsessed, emotionally fractured thirtysomething seeking redemption through heartbreak — and a guinea pig. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 2 & 7 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $10-15.

Info, 603-646-2422.

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Sunday, Oct. 20, 3 pm Barre Opera House sponsored by

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‘OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MURDER’ AUDITIONS: Romance, suspense and cosmic wit propel Fred Carmichael’s mystery-comedy, presented by the Valley Players.

Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 583-1674.

Saturday 10/26 7:30

‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’: Lost Nation Theater presents Kate Hamill’s modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved work, which follows Elizabeth Bennett and her four sisters in their pursuit to secure their futures.

Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier City Hall, 7:30 p.m. $10-30. Info, 229-0492.

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

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

agriculture

OCTOBER FARM FRIDAYS: Participants get their hands dirty during a weekly work party on the college’s farm. Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 2-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 654-2000.

bazaars

BAKED BEADS/WAITSFIELD JEWELRY & SCARF SALE: Fashionistas support the ice rink while scooping up baubles, garments and more at low prices.

Skatium, Waitsfield, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 496-2440.

QUILT SALE: Items such as table runners, advent calendars and wall hangings catch shoppers’ eyes. Yankee Pride Quilts, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 872-9300.

RUMMAGE SALE: Deal seekers browse a treasure trove of secondhand goods. Richmond Congregational Church, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2053.

conferences

Enter through the side door, Laboratory B, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 777-9012.

‘BREAKING THEIR SILENCE’: A hard-hitting documentary follows women on the front lines of the poaching crisis. A panel discussion follows this Vermont for Wildlife screening. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free. Info, vermontforwildlife@ gmail.com.

RENEWABLE ENERGY VERMONT CONFERENCE & EXPO: See THU.10, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.9.

dance

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.9.

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

Info, 862-2269.

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

QUEEN CITY CONTRA DANCE: Honey in the Hive come through with live tunes while Lausanne Allen calls the steps. North End Studio A, Burlington, beginners’ session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $9; free for kids under 12.

Info, 877-3698.

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

MONTSHIRE UNLEASHED: Grown-ups let their scientific curiosity run wild during afterhours activities. Local fare, wine and Jasper Murdock’s Alehouse brews are available for purchase.

Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 6:30-9 p.m. $7-10; free for members. Info, 649-2200.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: Local historian Thea Lewis treats pedestrians to tales of madmen, smugglers, pub spirits and, of course, ghosts. Arrive 10 minutes early. Democracy sculpture, 199 Main St., Burlington, 7 p.m. $20.

Info, 324-5467.

TEEN ADVISORY BOARD: High school students put their heads together to plan programs for the library. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6956.

fairs & festivals

CELTIC HARMONIES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL: See WED.9.

film

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

ANIMÉ NIGHT: Enthusiasts view and chat about the latest animated shows from Japan.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.9.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.9.

food & drink

FARM TABLE DINNER SERIES: A picturesque mountain setting is the perfect backdrop for a feast under the stars featuring a Vermont-inspired four-course menu. The Lodge at Spruce Peak, Stowe, 6 p.m. $155.25. Info, 282-4625.

HARDWICK FARMERS MARKET: A burgeoning culinary community celebrates local ag with garden-fresh fare and handcrafted goods. Atkins Field, Hardwick, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 498-4734.

PASTURE-RAISED FRIED CHICKEN DINNERS ON THE FARM: Foodies fête the farm’s 20th season with a hearty meal, lawn games and live music. Save room for scoops from Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream! Maple Wind Farm, Richmond, 5:30 p.m. $10100. Info, 434-7257.

PUBLIC CUPPING: Coffee connoisseurs and beginners alike explore the flavor notes and aromas of the roaster’s current offerings and new releases. Brio Coffeeworks, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 777-6641.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace featuring live music connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers.

Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, info@richmond farmersmarketvt.org.

SUN TO CHEESE TOUR: Fromage fans go behind the scenes and follow award-winning farmstead cheddar from raw milk to finished product. Shelburne Farms, 1:45-3:45 p.m. $20 includes a block of cheddar; preregister.

Info, registration@shelburne farms.org.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.9, 9:15 a.m.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Imaginative teens and adults exercise their problem-solving skills in battles and adventures.

Arrive early for help with character design. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6955.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA: Students with limited mobility limber up with modified poses. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.

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

Info, 318-6050.

SLOW FLOW YOGA: Trish DeRocher leads a gentle all-levels lunchtime lesson complete with herbal recommendations.

Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0595.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

38 SPECIAL: Formed in 1970s Jacksonville, Fla., this enduring rock band is best known for radio-friendly hits including “Caught Up in You” and “Hold on Loosely.” Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $65-75. Info, 775-0903.

HEATH QUARTET: Classical fans revel in the second of a six-concert series in which the acclaimed ensemble presents Beethoven’s entire string quartet cycle in celebration of the composer’s 250th birthday. Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $6-22. Info, 443-3168.

THE MACHINE PERFORMS PINK FLOYD: Performing a mix of songs from Floyd’s 16-album discography, the New York-based tribute band uses dramatic lighting and video to create an authentic experience for fans. Strand Center Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. $29-54.

Info, 518-563-1604, ext. 105.

MATT HAIMOVITZ & SIMONE DINNERSTEIN: The revered cello-piano duo celebrates the music of Beethoven in honor of the composer’s 250th birthday. Presented as part of the UVM Lane Series. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, preshow talk, 6:30 p.m.; show, 7:30 p.m. $5-35. Info, 656-3131.

outdoors

STARRY, STARRY NIGHT: Aspiring astronomers peer through provided telescopes, setting their sights on Saturn, Jupiter and their moons. Rain date: October 12. Dac Rowe Athletic Field, Waterbury, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

seminars

GENEALOGY: Using their memories, the internet and a library card, folks work with Carl Williams to record their own family history. Barre Area Senior Center, noon-1:30 p.m.

Donations; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

talks

BLANCHE WIESEN COOK: UVM’s Center for Cultural Pluralism teams up with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom to sponsor “Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” a presentation by Roosevelt biographer. Billings-Ira Allen Lecture Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, madel51353@aol.com.

EDUCATION & ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: Middlebury College professor of music Larry Hamberlin strikes a chord with “How to Be a Hero: Lessons From Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony.” Sanctuary, Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5; $45 for the series. Info, 658-6554.

PI MU EPSILON LECTURE & INDUCTION CEREMONY: Scholar Brittany Baker looks at “How Network Structure Influences Neuronal Activity.” Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colcester, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

theater

‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’: Six quirky competitors face off in a fictional spelling bee in this musical comedy presented by the St. Johnsbury Players. St. Johnsbury School, 7:30 p.m. $810. Info, 535-9446.

‘ARSENIC AND OLD LACE’: Lamoille County Players present the classic Broadway comedy about Abby and Martha Brewster, a pair of spinster sisters with an affinity for poison. Hyde Park Opera House, 7 p.m. $10-18. Info, 888-4507.

BURLINGTON FRINGE FESTIVAL FRIDAY NIGHT: Vermont theater artists showcase original works in a fast-paced whirlwind of comedy, drama, poetry, puppetry, dance and musical theater. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 349-9065.

‘ESAI’S TABLE’: See THU.10.

‘A FEW GOOD MEN’: See WED.9.

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‘INDECENT’: Playwright Paula Vogel’s Tony Award-winning tale recounts the true story of the cast of the 1923 Broadway play God of Vengeance, who

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Info, 824-5288.

‘INHERIT THE WIND’: Essex Community Players stage Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s drama centered on the case of a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Essex Memorial Hall, 7:30-10 p.m. $16-18. Info, 881-7116.

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‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’: See THU.10.

RUSTY DEWEES: The Vermont performer known for his persona the Logger brings his signature blend of music, comedy and acting to the stage as part of his Tiny Town Hall Tour. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center, 7:30 p.m. $22. Info, 244-4168.

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Should the no closing cost mortgage be closed or discharged within the first three years, the Bank may collect the third-party closing costs from the customer that were waived when the loan was opened. If a customer selects an attorney to represent him/her, customer is responsible for attorney fees. Community Bank will not pay for a survey, nor any other item that is ordinarily paid for by the seller. ADDITIONAL “NO CLOSING COSTS” PRODUCT DISCLOSURE: “No closing costs” means no: origination fee/points; application fee; flood check fee; credit report fee; appraisal fee; mortgage recording fee; abstract update or title search fee; lender title insurance fees; bank attorney fee; mortgage recording tax. 2Maximum Loan To Value (LTV) of 95% including 1st lien if applicable. Minimum $10,000 and maximum $250,000 loan amount. Double-wide mobile homes, if permanently attached to a foundation, are eligible for Home Equity Loans. Single-wide mobile homes are not eligible. Loan proceeds may not be used to purchase property being used as collateral for loan. 3Certain rules and restrictions apply. Ask for details.

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BAKER & TARPAGA DANCE PROJECT: Set to the music of Orchestre Super Volta, the dance theatre piece “When Birds Refused to Fly” explores multiple facets of generational transformation. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $6-15. Info, 443-3168.

DANCING WITH THE RUTLAND STARS: SOLD OUT. Local celebs compete in this annual dance-off to benefit Kids on the Move and the pediatric high-tech program at the Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice of the Southwest Region. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. Info, 775-0903.

MOVEMENT MATTERS MASTER CLASS: Drawing on Africanist and postmodernist aesthetics, members of the Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project teach new moves.

Room 109, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, noon. Free.

Info, 443-3168.

SWING DANCE WITH THE STARLINE RHYTHM BOYS: Rockabilly and swing sounds keeps movers on their feet.

Champlain Club, Burlington, free beginner lesson, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8-10:30 p.m. $20. Info, 864-8382.

education

EDCAMP BEYOND CLASSROOMS: Educators create the day’s schedule and address current topics at a learner-driven “unconference.”

Enosburg Falls Junior/Senior High School, 9 a.m.-3:15 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, morgan. jones@fnesu.org.

SUN.13 | MUSIC | Vermont Youth Orchestra

OPEN HOUSE: Prospective students and their families explore the school’s academic offerings.

Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 586-7711.

etc.

CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF BARRY ROY: Members of the campus and local communities honor the late St. Mike’s trustee and 1967 graduate. Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

E-BIKE & BREW TOUR: Electric bicycles transport suds lovers to three local beer producers via scenic routes. Lamoille Valley Bike Tours, Johnson, noon-4:30 p.m. $75 includes an appetizer and two souvenir pint glasses. Info, 730-0161.

EATS & BEATS: Dinner and a West African drum class raise funds for Jeh Kulu Dance & Drum Theater’s 2019 festival. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-9:30 p.m. $10-20.

Info, 859-1802.

HISTORIC TOUR OF UVM: A walking tour of New England’s fifth oldest university brings its illustrious history to life. Ira Allen Statue, University Green, University of Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 656-8673.

LAUREN RAINBOW: The psychic medium purports to channel healing messages from the beyond. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $26. Info, 476-8188.

LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complimentary consultations on a first-come, first-served basis.

274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 383-2118.

MARROWBONE: Displays of poetry, music and dance await participants on guided woodland walks culminating in fireside

stories. Marrowbone Wood, Lincoln, 1-5 p.m. $10; preregister.

Info, marrowbonevt@gmail.com.

PINK RIDE: Motorcyclists hit the road to raise funds for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Northern Vermont walk. Green Mountain Harley-Davidson, Essex Junction, registration, 9 a.m.; ride, 10 a.m. Donations. Info, 878-4778.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: See FRI.11.

SANCTUARY CITY COFFEEHOUSE: Locals bring a dish to pass and a song, poem or story to share in an open-mic setting. First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, herbschr@gmail.com.

STUNT KITE FLIERS & ARCHERY HOBBYISTS MEETING: Open to beginning and experienced hobbyists alike, a weekly gathering allows folks to share information and suggestions for equipment, sporting locations and more. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 658-0030.

TOURS OF THE HISTORIC BARN HOUSE & EXHIBITS: Attendees view authentic African art, impressive architecture and antique fixtures during a stroll through historic buildings. Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte, 10-11:30 a.m. $10; preregister at clemmons familyfarm.org. Info, clemmons familyfarm@gmail.com.

WHITE RIVER VALLEY PLAYERS 40TH ANNIVERSARY GALA: Patrons of the arts support the long-running theater company by attending an all-out bash boasting appetizers, a buffet-style dinner, pop-up entertainment and dancing to live music by the Glendon Ingalls Trio. Pierce Hall Community Center, Rochester, 6-10 p.m. $12-30. Info, inforequest@ whiterivervalleyplayers.org.

fairs & festivals

ANCESTRAL HARVEST CELEBRATION: Abenaki harvest traditions and 18th-century homesteading skills are in the spotlight during a historical

celebration of the season. Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Regular admission, $6-10; free for kids under 5. Info, 865-4556.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CELTIC HARMONIES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL: See WED.9.

COLUMBUS DAY BREWFEST: Halyard Brewing, Citizen Cider and Lawson’s Finest Liquids are among the beverage producers pouring samples at this festival of flavors featuring live music by Dr. K’s Motown Revue and others. Stratton Mountain Resort, 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m. $39 includes 10 sample tickets and a tasting glass. Info, 297-4000.

THE ENCHANTED FOREST: A magical evening for kids and adults features storytelling, music, wagon rides and an epic fire. Hubbard Park, Montpelier, 3-8 p.m. $5-10; $25 for families.

Info, 223-7335.

FALL FESTIVAL: Warm comfort food, an apple pie contest, kids’ games and more set up alongside the Capital City Farmers Market put smiles on faces. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, montpelierfarmers market@gmail.com.

GRANITE FESTIVAL: Rock steady!

Demonstrations, live music and interactive exhibits round out a celebration of Barre and central Vermont’s stone heritage.

Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4605.

offers live tunes, food-truck eats, horse-drawn wagon rides and, of course, apple picking. Champlain Orchards, Shoreham, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 897-2777.

HARVEST ON THE HARBOR: From cider-pressing and corn-roasting to games and caramel apples, autumnal activities get revelers into the spirit of the fall season.

Country artist Brett Hughes and That Bluegrass Band With Matt Flinner provide the tunes. Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 2-5 p.m.

Free; cash bar. Info, 651-0080.

LEAF BLOWER FALL CLASSIC MOUNTAIN BIKE FESTIVAL: Cyclists spin their wheels in group rides for all levels. Vendors, homegrown fare, local libations and live music help cap off the season. See calendar spotlight.

Ranch Camp, Stowe, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. $35-90. Info, 585-1001.

OKTOBERFEST: Embracing the German tradition, revelers indulge in beer, food and music by oompah band Inseldudler.

Brookfield Old Town Hall, noon-5 p.m. $5-10; free for kids under 2; preregister; limited space. Info, brookfieldoth@gmail.com.

$15; free for kids under 15. Info, 748-2600.

VERMONT APPLE FESTIVAL & CRAFT SHOW: Vendors offer handmade goods amid mouthwatering fare, pony rides and a piebaking contest. Riverside Middle School, Springfield, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 885-2779.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.9. ‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.9.

LLAMADOLL: SILENT SHORTS II: Local musical-saw master Johnnie Day Durand’s six-piece ensemble infuses new life into classic silent films while performing creative new soundtracks.

Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.9. ‘PARASITE’: The street-smart Kims sense a golden opportunity when they have a chance encounter with the wealthy Park family in this celebrated South Korean thriller. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168.

SUPERNATURAL FALL FESTIVAL: Area residents embrace the spooky season with food, live music, palm readings and ghost stories with Simon Brooks from ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.9.

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BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: See THU.10.

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

345 Pine St., Burlington Farmers Market, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Info, burlingtonfarmersmarket. org@gmail.com.

CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, locally made arts and crafts, and live music. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, manager@ montpelierfarmersmarket.com.

CHICKEN PIE SUPPER: Friends and neighbors rub elbows over cold-weather comfort food served during three seatings.

Trinity United Methodist Church, Montpelier, noon, 4:30 & 6 p.m. $6-12; preregister. Info, 613-3073.

CHOCOLATE TASTING: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made on-site.

Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft Co., Middlesex, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 229-2090.

HULLABALOO: Imbibers find chill drinks and cool friends at this first-annual shindig put on

by Shacksbury Cider, ZAFA Wines and CO Cellars. Intervale Center, Burlington, 2 p.m. $60-85. Info, 458-0530.

NORTHWEST FARMERS MARKET: Locavores stock up on produce, preserves, baked goods, and arts and crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, alavista@ myfairpoint.net.

ROAST TURKEY SUPPER: Diners feast on a hearty buffet of Thanksgiving-inspired fare.

Takeout is available. Vergennes United Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. $5-9. Info, 877-3150.

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

Info, 482-4279.

health & fitness

COMMUNITY YOGA: Active bodies get their stretch on with Carolyn Hannan and Marger Maldonado, increasing balance and flexibility. Namaste! Old Stone House Museum, Brownington, 10-11 a.m.

Donations. Info, 754-2022.

NEWBIE NOON HOT YOGA: First-timers feel the heat as they get their stretch on in a (very) warm environment. Hot Yoga Burlington, noon. Free; preregister. Info, 999-9963.

language

‘LE DEUXIÈME SAMEDI’: Frenchlanguage speakers chat and chew in a casual atmosphere. La Villa Bistro & Pizzeria, Shelburne,

noon-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, michelineatremblay@gmail. com.

lgbtq

PRIDE YOGA: LGBTQ individuals and allies hit the mat for a stretching session suited to all levels. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Donations.

Info, 448-4262.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

802 BLUES REVUE2: Downtown Bob Stannard and Those Dangerous Bluesmen and special guests kick off the opera house’s 2019-20 season. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $15-20; cash bar.

Info, 877-6737.

THE BURNING HELL: Founded a dozen years ago by Mathias Kom, the idiosyncratic band exhibits joy and camaraderie in its live performances. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 8-10 p.m. $10. Info, 533-2000.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHORUS: Vermont’s premier barbershop ensemble delights listeners while raising funds for the school. St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 2-2:45 p.m. $5-10; $20 for families. Info, 363-2746.

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LAST TRAIN TO ZINKOV: The father-and-son duo’s Eastern European roots shine through interpretations of Appalachian old-time, swing and classical music performed on violin, viola and banjo. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. $10; free for kids and teens. Info, 388-6863.

Friday-Monday, October 11–14 | Williston Garden Center Gardener’s Club Members get an additional 10% off Outlet items!

VERMONT PHILHARMONIC OPERA GALA: A program of works by Verdi, Puccini and Bellini spotlights soloists Hyunji Kim, mezzo soprano, and Yang Xu, tenor. Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 7:30 p.m. $5-20. Info, pansygirl113@aol. com.

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WEEKEND TOWER BELL RECITALS: Notes ring out from giant bronze instruments during 30-minute concerts.

Trinity United Methodist Church, Montpelier, 3:58 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9158.

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ROLLER DERBY HOUSE CUP: The hard-hitting members of Green Mountain Roller Derby split into two teams to battle in a flat-track showdown. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. $6-12. Info, michelle.panniello@gmail.com.

VT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY 5K: Proceeds from this 3.1-mile run or walk support scholarships for the state’s under-resourced students. University of Vermont Interfaith Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $15-30. Info, 656-2961.

talks

RICK BASS: The author and activist shares stories of his work in the Kootenai National Forest and Yaak, Mont. Craftsbury Outdoor Center, 7-8 p.m. Donations. Info, landskeinfarm@gmail.com.

THE BIG SIT IN SWANTON: Fans of feathered fliers tally as many avian species as possible within 24 hours. Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 6:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 868-4781.

theater

EAGLE MOUNTAIN MILTON HIKE: Nature lovers join the Green Mountain Club Burlington section for an easy, kid-friendly outing. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 373-8613.

BURLINGTON FRINGE FESTIVAL SATURDAY NIGHT: Vermont theater artists showcase original works in a fast-paced whirlwind of comedy, drama, poetry, puppetry, dance and musical theater.

Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 349-9065.

FOREST CANOPY WALK OPENING: Nature lovers explore the forest floor to the treetops via a brand-new ADA-accessible boardwalk. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center, Quechee, 10 a.m. $12.50-16.50; free for members and kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5000.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB WORK HIKE: Nature lovers in work clothes and sturdy boots give back to the community by tending to Stowe-area trails. BYO gloves, water and snacks. Rain date: October 13. Montpelier High School, 8 a.m. Free. Info, trails@gmcmontpelier.org.

MAKING TRACKS, SEEING SKINS & SKULLS: Outdoorsy types search for signs of fur-bearing animals and make plaster-ofparis track casts to take home.

Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4:30 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED: Fungi fanatics learn about different varieties — fabulous and fearsome alike — found throughout the park. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2:30 p.m. $2-4; free for kids ages 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

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‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’: See FRI.11.

‘ARSENIC AND OLD LACE’: See FRI.11.

‘THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS CORPSE’: Eric R. Hill’s original play delivers thrills and chills.

QuarryWorks Theater, Adamant, 2-3:15 & 5-6:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 229-6978.

‘ESAI’S TABLE’: See THU.10.

‘A FEW GOOD MEN’: See WED.9.

‘FOREVER PLAID’: See THU.10.

‘INDECENT’: See FRI.11, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘INHERIT THE WIND’: See FRI.11.

‘THE LAST WIDE OPEN’: See WED.9, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘TURANDOT’: Soprano Christine Goerke plays the title role in Puccini’s final opera, a fairy tale about a prince who must solve three riddles to win the hand of an icy princess — or die trying. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, preshow talk, 12:15 p.m.; show, 1 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $10-25. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’: See THU.10.

RUSTY DEWEES: See FRI.11.

words

CHAPTERS IN HISTORY FOUR: TURMOIL PERENNIALLY SWIRLING: Nonfiction fans sink their teeth into Truman by David McCullough. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 2 p.m. Free.

Info, 426-3581.

NAIMA K. WADE: Lit lovers hear from the writer of the memoir Elbow Dreams: A Black Girl Growing Up In Vermont During The 1960’s. A Q&A, refreshments and social time follow the reading. Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte, 4-5:30 p.m. Donations; preregister at clemmonsfamily farm.org. Info, 765-560-5445.

RUTH STONE HOUSE READING SERIES: Poets Ukamaka Olisakwe, Christopher Kondrich, Alison Prine and Timothy Carter regale lit lovers with original works. Wishbone Collective, Winooski, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 349-5021.

SUN.13 bazaars

BAKED BEADS/WAITSFIELD JEWELRY & SCARF SALE: See FRI.11.

QUILT SALE: See FRI.11, noon-4 p.m.

community

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Sessions in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh include sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and open sharing. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, newleafsangha@ gmail.com.

etc.

THE 251 CLUB OF VERMONT ANNUAL MEETING: In this 64th annual gathering of folks aiming to visit each of the state’s towns and cities, a buffet lunch and brief business meeting pave the way for a screening of the documentary One Town at a Time.

Capitol Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, Montpelier, noon. $30; preregister. Info, thevt251club@ together.net.

LIVING HISTORY TOUR: Fanny Allen, doctor William Lund and a Civil War nurse are among those buried in Burlington’s second oldest cemetery. Elmwood Cemetery, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $5. Info, info@preservation burlington.org.

MARROWBONE: See SAT.12.

fairs & festivals

BRIGHTER DAY FESTIVAL: Ernest and the Chad Hollister Band are among the local, regional and national acts that take to the main stage to raise funds for the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Foodtruck eats and drinks fuel the fun. Machavern Field, Hartford, 10:30 a.m. $25. Info, 542-8006.

CELTIC HARMONIES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL: See WED.9.

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EAST CHARLOTTE TRACTOR PARADE: A festive procession of farm machinery leads to an open-air market, barnyard animals, pony rides and music.

Parade begins at 1 p.m. Spears Corner Store, Charlotte, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 425-4444.

film

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

‘FRUITVALE STATION’: Michael B. Jordan stars in Ryan Coogler’s award-winning drama based on the 2009 BART police shooting of Oscar Grant in Oakland.

First Congregational Church, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 522-3030.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.9.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.9.

LLAMADOLL: SILENT SHORTS II: See SAT.12, 3 p.m.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.9.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.9.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING: See SAT.12.

STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and crafts tempts shoppers. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, stowefarmers market@gmail.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

language

‘DIMANCHES’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, stevenorman @fastmail.fm.

lgbtq

LGBTQ FIBER ARTS GROUP: A knitting, crocheting and weaving session welcomes all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations and skill levels. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

BELSHER & WOOD: Hailing from Prince Edward Island, the fiddleguitar duo of Richard Wood and Gordon Belsher delivers an evening of traditional Canadian tunes. Barre Elks Lodge, 3-5 p.m. $10-15. Info, 229-9504.

BLACK VIOLIN: This classically trained string duo fuses hip-hop and classical music and has collaborated with everyone from Kanye West to the late Tom Petty. Dibden Center for the Arts, Northern Vermont UniversityJohnson, 7 p.m. $28.50-48.50.

Info, 748-2600.

CLAIRE BOUCHER & BRAD HURLEY: The duo doles out traditional song and dance from Brittany, the Celtic region of France. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, 4-5:30 p.m. $15. Info, 457-3500.

INDIGO GIRLS: The harmonious duo doles out its perennially popular tunes such as “Closer to Fine” and “Galileo.” Lauren Davidson and Lucy Wainwright Roche open. Stratton Mountain Resort, 5:30 p.m. $25-30; free for kids 10 and under with adult ticket purchase. Info, 297-4000.

JUSTIN HAYWARD: The voice of the Moody Blues brings more than 50 years of experience and plenty of hits to the stage.

Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $45-55. Info, 775-0903.

MCKASSON/MCDONALD/ MCLANE TRIO: Traditional instrumentalists Ryan McKasson, Eric McDonald and Jeremiah McLane band together for an Upper Valley Music Center faculty concert. See calendar spotlight. First Congregational Church, Lebanon, N.H., 6:30-8 p.m. $20; free for kids under 18.

Info, 603-448-4281.

MIKE BLOCK TRIO: Passionate about cross-cultural collaboration through music, the pioneering cellist brings his bow-and-string talent to the P.M. Sundays music series. Richmond Congregational Church, 4-6 p.m. $15-23. Info, 434-4563.

NEW MUSIC UNCAGED: Works by 21st-century composers including Nathan Hall, Isaac Villaroya and Ayumi Okada set the stage for choreography by Annalisa Ledson. A light reception follows. The Garage Cultural

Center, Montpelier, 3-4:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 552-0925.

PEAER: Comprised of two studio engineers and a guitar teacher, the trio specializes in meticulous sonic construction and self-analytical lyrics. Zenizen and Nodrums also perform. BCA Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $810. Info, 865-7166.

SPRUCE PEAK CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: “Occupied Berlin,” a program celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago, features composers from the four countries that occupied the German city after WWII: France, Russia, England and America.

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $38. Info, 760-4634.

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UKULELE MÊLÉE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the fourstringed Hawaiian instrument.

BYO uke. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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VA-ET-VIENT: French heritage is front and center in a performance by the Addison County trio. First Congregational Church, St. Albans, 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Donations. Info, 524-4555.

VERMONT PHILHARMONIC OPERA GALA: A program of works by Verdi, Puccini and Bellini spotlights soloists Hyunji Kim, mezzo soprano, and Yang Xu, tenor. Barre Opera House, 2 p.m. $5-20. Info, pansygirl113@ aol.com.

VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA: Young instrumentalists present their autumn showcase with pieces by Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Ernst Bloch. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 3 p.m. $15-20. Info, 863-5966.

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outdoors

BEAUTIFUL TREE WALK: Outdoor lovers embark on a guided arboreal ramble. Meet at the Jake Martin Road parking area. Stranahan Town Forest, Marshfield, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

THE BIG SIT IN HUNTINGTON: Birders form a 17-foot diameter circle from which they track winged wonders from dawn to dusk. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington. Donations. Info, 434-2167.

HIKE INTO HISTORY: Trekkers walk in the footsteps of Revolutionary War soldiers on a guided stroll into the past.

Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, 1-4 p.m. $5; free for kids under 15. Info, 948-2000.

LITTLE RIVER RAMBLE: Hikers explore the trails on a route they plan with a park interpreter. Park Office, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

RAVEN RIDGE HIKE: An easy 2-mile ramble includes some steep, rocky sections and a long lunch break. Contact trip leader SUN.13

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TOUR OF WATERBURY DAM: Visitors explore a reforested encampment and discover how the Civilian Conservation Corps saved the Winooski Valley from flooded ruin. Meet at the top of the dam, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm.

Info, 244-7103.

WAR OF THE WEEDS!: Garden helpers maintain and expand the park’s pollinator habitat restoration areas. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm.

Info, 244-7103.

sports

HARVEST RUN FOR SUSTAINABILITY: Families make strides in a 5K romp through farm fields and dirt roads. Funds raised support the Sustainability Academy. Intervale Center, Burlington, 9:15 a.m.-noon. $5-12; $25 for families. Info, 864-8480.

MAD DASH: Runners and walkers make strides on 5K and 10K courses to support the Mad River Path Association. Meadow Road, Waitsfield, 10 a.m. $5-30. Info, 496-7284.

through breathtaking foliage to raise funds for Ripton Elementary School. Ripton Elementary School, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $20-40.

Info, riptonridgerun@gmail.com.

RUN FOR THE LAKE: Runners and walkers tackle waterfront routes ranging from 3K to 5K to 10K. Proceeds support Friends of Northern Lake Champlain.

Georgia Beach, St. Albans, 7:30 a.m.-noon. $20-40; free for kids 10 and under. Info, 923-6470.

theater

‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’: See FRI.11.

‘ARSENIC AND OLD LACE’: See FRI.11, 2 p.m.

‘THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS CORPSE’: See SAT.12, 2-3:15 p.m.

‘ESAI’S TABLE’: See THU.10, 5 p.m.

‘FOREVER PLAID’: See THU.10, 2 p.m.

‘INDECENT’: See FRI.11, 3 p.m.

words

BILL TORREY: The Vermont raconteur gives voice to true tales from his book Cutting Remarks: Forty Years in the Forest. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 3-5 p.m. $12.50. Info, 533-2000.

DAVID SEDARIS: The acclaimed author and NPR contributor shares tales from his latest book, Calypso, in which he filters observations on middle age and mortality through his singular lens of comedic misanthropy.

Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $55-85. Info, 603-448-0400.

bazaars

QUILT SALE: See FRI.11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

crafts

METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘TURANDOT’: See SAT.12.

‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’: See THU.10, 2 p.m.

etc.

‘THE LAST WIDE OPEN’: See WED.9, 2 p.m.

‘TOSCA’: See WED.9, 2 p.m.

RIPTON RIDGE RUN: Participants run or walk 5K and 10.4K routes

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

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HANDWORK CIRCLE: Friends and neighbors make progress on works of knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch and other creative endeavors. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

‘INHERIT THE WIND’: See FRI.11, 2 p.m.

the National Guard and reservists, are welcome to join AMVETS for monthly meetings. American Legion, Post 91, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 796-3098.

AMERICAN VETERANS VERMONT POST 1: Those who have served or are currently serving the country, including members of

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

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

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

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

film

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

‘3 FROM HELL’: Rob Zombie wrote and directed this gory sequel to the 2005 horror movie The Devil’s Rejects. Essex Cinemas & T-Rex Theater, 7 p.m. $10-12.50.

Info, 878-7231. Cumberland 12 Cinemas, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $15. Info, 518-324-3888.

‘AGAINST THE DARKNESS: THE AMERICAN ABENAKI EXPERIENCE’: Using maps, archival photographs and Abenaki actors, this film focuses on the history of Vermont’s Abenaki community from 1790 to 2005. Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Donations. Info, 865-4556.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.9.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.9.

‘KING KONG’: Directed by Peter Jackson, this 2005 action film follows a team of moviemakers seeking the perfect location — only to find it inhabited by a giant gorilla. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.9.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.9.

food & drink

BTV POLY COCKTAILS: Those who are polyamorous, in an

open relationship or just curious connect over drinks. Deli 126, Burlington, 7 p.m.-midnight. Free.

Info, 253-310-8315.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.9, 6:30 p.m.

CORN HOLE: Competitors vie for points in this popular lawn game during 10 weeks of league play.

Barre Elks Lodge, registration, 6 p.m.; games, 6:45 p.m. $10; cash bar. Info, 479-9522.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 7-11 p.m. $8.

Info, 540-0498.

PITCH: Players compete in a tricktaking card game. Barre Area Senior Center, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.

health & fitness

AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE: Healthy humans part with life-sustaining pints. Beaulieu Place, Berlin, noon-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-733-2767.

CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Free.

Info, 448-4262.

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COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: Supervised clinical interns offer guidance and support to those looking to care for themselves using natural remedies. By appointment only. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, and Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; additional cost for herbs; preregister.

Info, 224-7100.

GUIDED GROUP MEDITATION: In keeping with the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, folks practice mindfulness through sitting, walking, reading and discussion.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:15-8 p.m. Free. Info, 505-1688.

language

ENGLISH CONVERSATION CIRCLE: Language learners make strides — and new friends — in an ongoing discussion group. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, noon-1:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 846-4140.

PLATTSBURGH CONVERSATION GROUP: French speakers maintain their conversational skills in a weekly meetup. Plattsburgh Public Library, N.Y., 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, ajobin-picard@cefls.org.

lgbtq

PANORAMA: Joined by a facilitator, parents, caregivers and adult family members of LGBTQ youth ask questions and share their

experiences. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-9677.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

SAMBATUCADA OPEN REHEARSAL: Burlington’s own samba street percussion band welcomes new members. No experience or instruments required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

theater

‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’: See FRI.11.

words

DAVID SEDARIS: See SUN.13, Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $52-62.50. Info, 863-5966.

TUE.15 business

BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE: In a 10-week class presented by the Center for Women & Enterprise, aspiring entrepreneurs gain the confidence and knowledge to launch a small business.

Center for Agricultural Economy, Hardwick, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

community

COMMUNITY DROP-IN CENTER HOURS: Wi-Fi, games and art materials are on hand at an open meeting space where folks forge social connections. GRACE, Hardwick, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 472-6857.

TOUR OF TAYLOR STREET APARTMENTS: Guided by property manager Megan Lovely, interested renters and curious community members view the newly constructed residential units. 1 Taylor Street, Montpelier, 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

conferences

VERMONT REGIONAL WORKFORCE SUMMIT: One of a dozen summits taking place around the state provides actionable solutions for employers and promotes partnerships among regional and statewide service providers and educators. Delta Hotels Burlington, employer session, 8:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.; service provider and educator session, noon-4 p.m.

Free. Info, seth@vermont.org.

crafts

COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

dance

SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different forms, including the Lindy Hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome.

Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:309:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

film

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

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.9.

‘HOUSE OF WAX’: Shown in 3D, this 1953 horror flick follows a wax sculptor whose latest pieces appear just as several corpses vanish from the city morgue, rousing suspicion in an art student. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-8:45 p.m.

Donations. Info, 540-3018.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.9.

‘JAY & SILENT BOB REBOOT’: The stoners who first appeared in the 1994 comedy Clerks return to the big screen for a cross-country mission to stop Hollywood from rebooting Bluntman and Chronic, a comic book film based on the clueless duo. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $15.

Info, 660-9300. Cumberland 12 Cinemas, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $15-18. Info, 518-324-3888.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.9.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.9.

‘YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN’: Gene Wilder plays Victor Frankenstein’s grandson in Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy about family ties of the strangest order. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink

OLD NORTH END FARMERS MARKET: Locavores score breads, juices, ethnic foods and more from neighborhood vendors. Dewey Park, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, oldnorthendfarmersmarket@ gmail.com.

TUESDAY LUNCH: An in-house chef whips up a well-balanced hot meal with dessert. See barreseniors.org for menu.

Barre Area Senior Center, noon. $6; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.9, 7 p.m.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See THU.10.

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: See MON.14, Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

REIKI CLINIC: Thirty-minute treatments foster physical,

emotional and spiritual wellness.

JourneyWorks, Burlington, 3-5:30 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, 860-6203.

TUESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.

language

ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano? Language learners practice pronunciation and more in an informal gathering. Hartland Public Library, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 436-2473.

‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners say it all in French at a social conversational practice.

Red Onion Café, Burlington, 4:306 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 430-4652.

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music

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CATHEDRAL ARTS: Performing on violin and piano respectively, Kevin Lawrence and Robert Rachlin hit all the right notes in pieces by Beethoven, Dvořàk and Foote. BYO lunch; tea and coffee are provided. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 879-5360.

CHICK COREA TRILOGY: Bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade join the iconic jazz pianist in a trio that JazzTimes says rivals “Corea’s great acoustic threesomes from Miroslav Vitous and Roy Haynes to Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian.” Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-65. Info, 863-5966.

TRIO SEFARDI: Three performers share their love of Shephardic music. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $18-25.

Info, 382-9222.

outdoors

SLOW & EASY HIKING: See THU.10.

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seminars

ESSENTIAL KNOTS FOR FISHING: Anglers set themselves up for success with guidance from expert staff. L.L.Bean, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 888-615-9973.

sports

FREE AIKIDO CLASS: A one-time complimentary introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack. Open to prospective students. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:157:15 p.m. Free. Info, 951-8900.

talks

CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP: Sandy Baird moderates a forum for lively and courteous expression of views on the issues of the day. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-6955.

KATE O’NEILL: Reflecting on her late sibling Madelyn Linsenmeir, the Seven Days contributor shares “Junkie, Sister, Daughter, Mom: A Love Story From the Opioid Epidemic.” Stearns Student Center, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408.

LIZZY SHACKELFORD: In “Finding Your Voice and Doing Your Part,” the former diplomat with the U.S. State Department shines a light on the role each individual has to play in affecting positive change. Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-7971.

RACE CONVERSATIONS: Guided

by Ijeoma Oluo’s book So You Want to Talk About Race, community members explore concepts of culture, power and equity with facilitator Life LeGeros. Waterbury Public

Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

words

BROWN BAG BOOK GROUP: Readers voice opinions about Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

BURLINGTON FREE WRITE: Aspiring writers respond to prompts in a welcoming atmosphere. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-1664.

CINSE BONINO: In One Key: See, One Key: Do: accessing your brain’s creative abilities, the local author outlines strategies for unlocking one’s creativity. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 448-3350.

STORYTELLING WORKSHOP WITH VERMONT STORYLAB: People with disabilities and their family members learn to turn their personal experiences into powerful — and empowering — narratives. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 828-1310.

WINE & STORY OPEN MIC: Prompts inspire first-person narratives told to a live audience.

Shelburne Vineyard, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 863-1754.

WED.16 activism

POC IN VT AFFINITY GROUP: People of color come together in the name of sharing stories and building community in a predominately white state. New attendees are welcome. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

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

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

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

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

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

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

SYSTEMIC RACISM: ORIGINS, IMPACTS & SOLUTIONS: What is systemic racism and how does it manifest in Vermont? A brief talk lays the groundwork for a panel discussion on causes of and solutions to this system of oppression. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 532-3030.

business

BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE: See WED.9.

community

LET’S TALK HOUSING: IMPACT, TRENDS & POTENTIAL: Michael Rama of Downstreet Housing & Community Development leads an open discussion on the state and future of housing from the perspective of Central Vermont’s leading affordable housing enabler. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@hungermountain .coop.

conferences

PRODUCER & BUYER FORUM: Growers, buyers, food producers and distributors network during round-table discussion and a keynote talk by Dan Horan of Five Acre Farms. Kirk Alumni Center, Middlebury College, 8:30 a.m.2:30 p.m. $30. Info, 922-7060.

crafts

FIBER RIOT!: See WED.9.

KNITTER’S GROUP: See WED.9.

dance

SQUARE DANCING: See WED.9.

etc.

BENEFIT CELEBRATION: Vermont Public Radio’s Jane Lindholm emcees an annual fundraiser featuring Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalists who reported on alleged misconduct by movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $50-250. Info, 388-3355, ext. 301.

MEMORABLE TIMES CAFÉ: Those living with mild to moderate memory loss and their care partners convene for casual social time. Refreshments are provided.

Vermont History Center, Barre, 1:30-3 p.m. Free. Info, 476-2681.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK: TRUE CRIME BURLINGTON: From one-off acts of deadly wrongdoing to famous serial killers, tales of sinister happenings spook attendees on this two-hour bus tour with storyteller Thea Lewis.

345 Pine St., Burlington, 7 p.m. $35. Info, 351-1313.

film

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

ALMOST THERE: MOVIES ABOUT THE FUTURE: A 1979 picture imagines English writer H.G. Wells inventing a time machine to protect the future wold from a murderer. See jaquithpublic library.org for title. Jaquith

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Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

‘GAUGUIN IN TAHITI: PARADISE LOST’: An immersive movie provides a look into painter Paul Gauguin’s journey from France to Tahiti in search of inspiration. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.9.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.9.

MADE HERE SHOWCASE: A juried selection of filmmakers compete for a range of awards during three days of screenings presented as part of the Vermont International Film Festival. See vtiff.org for details. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington. $5. Info, 660-2600.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.9.

‘THY NEIGHBOR’: In this featurelength Christian thriller, a smalltown pastor worries that his neighbor may be threatening his family’s safety. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 1, 4 & 7 p.m. $8-10. Info, 388-4841.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.9.

VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Cinephiles keep their eyes glued to the big screen at this annual showcase of international, independent and local flicks. See vtiff.org for schedule and details. Various Burlington locations. $60-200 for festival passes; $5-10 for individual screenings. Info, 660-2600.

games

BEGINNERS’ BRIDGE: See WED.9.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.9.

MAH JONGG IN BARRE: See WED.9.

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS TOURNAMENT: All hands are on deck as competitors battle for bucks in an epic rock-paperscissors session. Proceeds benefit ANEW Place. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6-10 p.m. $20-100.

Info, 540-0406.

VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS SPOOKY CORPORATE TRIVIA NIGHT: Coworkers connect with local business people while expanding their knowledge of international issues. Proceeds benefit VCWA youth programs.

Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $350-500 per team.

Info, 861-2343, ext. 5.

health & fitness

ALL-LEVELS ACROYOGA CLASS: See WED.9.

CHAIR YOGA: See WED.9.

RESILIENCE FLOW: See WED.9.

YOGA4CANCER: See WED.9.

language

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

Hilton Garden Inn Burlington Downtown, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, info@aflcr.org.

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.9.

FRENCH CLUB: CHANTEZ & PARLEZ: Subtitles allow folks of all ages and language levels to sing along with French-language songs. Attendees may also share travel stories en français. Rotary Room, Howe Library, Hanover, N.H. 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-643-4120.

GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch.

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

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.9.

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

music

Find club dates in the music section.

OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: See WED.9.

PINK MARTINI: It’s cocktail time!

Attendees are transported by the ensemble’s retro-inspired blend of jazz, cabaret and lounge music. China Forbes sings.

Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $49-69. Info, 775-0903.

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

Info, 775-1182.

outdoors

NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL PUBLIC BANDING DEMO: See WED.9.

seminars

HOUSING DISCRIMINATION 101: What do you do if you experience discrimination? A Q&A session augments a presentation by Devon Ayers of Vermont Legal Aid. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-3092.

LEARN HOW TO PUT YOUR HOUSE ON A DIET: STAGE TO LIVE OR STAGE TO LEAVE: Melanie Saia, director of staging services for the Malley Group at KW Vermont, shares strategies for preparing one’s home for life or for sale in the third of a three-part series. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 846-4140.

talks

BETH HUMSTONE: What can Vermonters learn from Italian town planning? Listeners find out from the urban planner’s talk “Coming Down From the Hill Town.” Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 5 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 658-6647.

subjects take the spotlight in this informal discussion.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

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DAN BENARDOT: Led by the registered dietitian and former U.S. Olympic team nutritionist, the public forum “Key Considerations for Nutrition and Physical Activity” offers information on maximizing health, wellness and athletic performance.

Room 202, Yokum Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 518-564-4150.

ELIZABETH GRIBKOFF: Addressing audience members as part of the Current Topics in Science Speaker Series, the VTDigger.com reporter imparts her knowledge in “Bumble Bees, Solar Panels and Wastewater Plants: The Environmental Beat.”

Room 207, Bentley Hall, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 4 p.m. Free. Info, les.kanat@ northernvermont.edu.

TEDX BROWNELL LIBRARY: Lifelong learners watch TED Talk videos centered on the topic “March Against Injustice.”

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.9.

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

theater

‘FOREVER PLAID’: See THU.10.

‘JORDAN’: Northern Stage presents the world premiere of Brenda Withers’ hauntingly relevant play examining how much humans give away online and what they risk in the technological age. Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $19-59. Info, 296-7000.

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ARCHER MAYOR: Detective Joe Gunther faces new challenges in Bomber’s Moon, the latest novel in the local author’s best-selling Vermont-based mystery series.

Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 649-1114.

KRISTIN KIMBALL: The organic farmer and writer reads from and discusses Good Husbandry, a follow-up to her 2010 memoir The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love. The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 388-2061.

SUSAN RITZ: Fiction fans join the author for a talk on her debut novel, A Dream to Die For. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.

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ACCESS ART: Part of 225+ classes for all ages. Watercolor with Ginny Joyner (three levels), Drawing, Ink Art, Acrylic landscape, Charcoal, Oil Painting, Beginner Calligraphy, Macrame, Terrarium Design, Flower Arranging, Wreaths, Fly Tying. Full descriptions online.

Senior discount. 10 minutes from exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 C V U Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@cvsdvt. org, cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com.

ACCESS CLASSES FOR KIDS: Part of 225+ classes for all ages. These classes designed specifically for younger learners. Haircare, Macrame, Wood Slice Art, Sewing, Soap Carving, Whittling, Earthenware, Hip-Hop. Check website for appropriate ages for each of these great classes.

Guaranteed. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 C V U Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@ cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com.

ACCESS CRAFT: Part of 225+ classes for all ages. Ceramics (seven choices), Bowl Turning, Woodworking Workshop, Welding, Machining, Chainsaw Maintenance, Snowboard Building, Carving a Spoon, Rug Hooking, Collage, Spindle Making, Bracelets, Basket-Making with Alexa Rivera, Sewing, Clothing, Knitting, Pillows, Needle Felting, Quilting, Embroidery, Terrarium Design, Holiday Centerpiece, Women and Tool Use (four options). Full descriptions online.

Senior Discount. 10 minutes from exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 C V U Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@cvsdvt. org, cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com.

ACCESS CULINARY: Part of 225+ classes for all ages. Great eating in one-night, hands-on classes! Chinese Feast, Thai Feast and Spanish Specialties, Vietnamese, German, Middle Eastern, Vegetarian, Risotto, Pasta, Gnocchi, Apple Pie,

Cybersecurity: Personal Info, Tech Tutorial, Webpage program, Excel (three levels), Smart Phone Photography, Digital Photography (three choices), Intro to Digital Darkroom, Photoshop. Full descriptions online. Senior discount.

10 minutes from exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 C V U Rd., Hinesburg.

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Chocolate, Mediterranean, Vegetarian, Pierogi with Luiza, Pickling, Fermented Foods, four different Ethiopian/ Eritrean with Alganesh, Pierogi, Gravlox, Bubble Tea, Italian cookies, Cheese Making, Cake Decorating, YUM! Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from exit 12.

Location: CVUHS, 369 C V U Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 4827194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt. ce.eleyo.com.

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Basketball Coaching With Ute Otley, SAT Bootcamp, CPR and AED Training, First Aid Training, Women’s SelfDefense, Mindful Meditation, Self-Hypnosis, Massage, MindBody Practice, Reflexology, Biofield Tuning, and Juggling.

Writing Workshops, Personal Finance for Women, Knowledge with Girlington Garage, Primitive Fire Building, Resumes. Talks on: Unsung Heroes of History, Lake Champlain Maritime, VT Architecture, Life in a Jar-book talk, Malta, Alzheimers, End-ofLife Doula. Also, Solar Energy 101, Bridge (two levels), Mah Jongg, Astrology, Feng Shui, Reiki, Herbals (three choices), Soap Making, and Tarot Reading.

Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from exit 12.

Location: CVUHS, 369 C V U Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 4827194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt. ce.eleyo.com.

ACCESS LANGUAGE: Part of 225+ classes for all ages. Intro to ASL, French (three levels), Spanish (four levels), Italian for Travelers, Bosnian, German (two levels)!

Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 C V U Rd., Hinesburg.

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ACCESS NATURE: Part of 225+ classes for all ages. Beekeeping, Birding, Winter Tree ID, Woodlot Management, Edible/Medicinal Plants, Growing Mushrooms, Dog Body Language, Feline Behavior, Tree ID, Reptiles, Herbals (three choices), Soap Making.

Guaranteed. Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from exit 12. Location: CVUHS, 369 C V U Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 482-7194, access@ cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt.ce.eleyo.com.

COMPUTER CLASSES: Part of 225+ classes for all ages.

MUSIC, FITNESS AND DANCE: Part of 225+ classes for all ages.

Core Strength, Weight Training for Women, Weight Training for Seniors, Zumba, Yoga (four choices), Tai Chi, Swing or Ballroom with Terry Bouricius, Line Dancing, Highland Dance, Hip Hop for Kids, Hip Hop for Adults, Guitar (two levels), Banjo, Harmonica, Mandolin, Ukelele, Fiddling, Circle Singing. Low cost, excellent instructors, guaranteed.

Full descriptions online. Senior discount. 10 minutes from exit 12.

Location: CVUHS, 369 C V U Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 4827194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt. ce.eleyo.com.

VISUAL ART JOURNALING CLASSES: We are all familiar with written diaries, but visual art journals go a step further by using images to tell a story. Visual art journals are made up of drawings, paintings, collaged images, old photographs & all manner of mementos. Come create your own beautiful, one-of-a-kind art journal. Tue., starts Oct. 15, 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $125/6-week class. Location: Champlain Valley Union High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 4827194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt. ce.eleyo.com.

art HAITIAN PAINTING & CULTURE: Chill with Julio Desmont, the Clemmons Family Farm’s artist-inresidence. Paint to your heart’s content, learn about Haitian culture and pick up a few words of patois at his “Art That Binds” community-building painting classes.

Learn more at bit.ly/CFFArtBinds.

Sun., 3 p.m., multiple dates. Cost: $35/2 hours. Location: Clemmons Family Farm Authentica Art

Gallery, 2190 Greenbush Rd., Charlotte. Info: , Clemmons Family Farm, 765-560-5445, clemmonsfamilyfarm@gmail.com, clemmonsfamilyfarm.org.

SCIENCE, ART, AND COMICS: Combine science, art and humor to create a comic of your own with cartoonist and science communicator Rosemary Mosco of Bird and Moon! She’ll tell us how!

Rosemary will stay after to sign books and talk to participants. ($5 off class fee for Birds of Vermont Museum members!) Oct. 19, 1-2 p.m. Cost: $40/1-hour workshop, incl. conversation & book signing. Location: Birds of Vermont Museum, 900 Sherman Hollow Rd., Huntington. Info: Kirsten Talmage, 434-2167, museum@birdsofvermont. org, birdsofvermont.org.

TEXTILES FROM TUCSON: ART WORKSHOP WITH KATE LONG HODGES: Open to all ages. Learn about beautiful cactus plant dyes from the Sonoran desert of Arizona. Dye fabric with prickly pear cactus fruit to capture hot pinks, then use them to create a collage to take home, with mixed fabrics provided. Kate Long Hodges grew up in Vermont and returns seasonally to teach art. Wed., Oct. 9, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $40/person; incl. all materials. Location: The Hive on Pine, 420 Pine St. 2nd floor, Burlington. Info: Kate Long Hodges, katelonghodges@gmail.com.

BCA Studios

Burlington City Arts Fall Class Registration is now open! Find these classes and many more at burlingtoncityarts.org.

FRIDAY FAMILY CLAY: Spend a Friday night with your family at the BCA Clay Studio. A ticket provides a wheel demonstration at the beginning of class, wheel access (for ages 6+), hand building for any age, unlimited clay, and time to create. Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Adults may assist their child(ren) free of charge. Additional tickets are required for adults who would like to join the fun and either hand build or use a wheel of their own.

If you’d like your work to be fired and glazed by the studio, there is a $5 fee per piece. Finished pottery will be available for pickup three weeks after visit. Class ticket purchases are nonrefundable. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts. org. Fri., 5-7 p.m., starting Sep. 20. Cost: $10/person; $9 for BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

HIGH SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY: No experience required. Tell your story with photographs in this eight-week session for high school students! Students will explore their individual ideas, go on group photo shoots, process and print digital photos and zines in our digital lab, experiment with film photography in our darkroom, and participate in supportive discussions and critiques. All supplies and cameras provided.

Scholarships available. For ages 14 to 18. Fri., Oct. 18-Dec. 13, 5-7:30 p.m. (No class Nov. 29.). Cost: $240/nonmembers; $216/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: BCA Studios, Kiersten Williams, 8657157, kwilliams@burlingtoncity arts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

LIFE DRAWING: Ages 18 & Up. Spend the evening with other local artists drawing from one of our experienced models. Please bring your drawing materials and paper. Purchase a ticket to hold your spot; drop-ins are welcome if space is available. Ticket purchases for this class are nonrefundable. Find more information and register at burlingtoncityarts. org. Fri., 7:30-9 p.m., starting Sep. 20. Cost: $10/person; $9 for BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

5:30-6:20 p.m. Kids and Parents World Drumming, Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Kids and Parents Taiko, Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Drums provided. Schedule/register online.

Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION: Being the Change: Create More Harmony in Yourself, with Others and in the World. A Nonviolent Communication Workshop.

Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” But how can we do that on a daily basis?

Not only out in the world but also with our kids, our partner and our coworkers? Join us to learn how to “be the change” in how you communicate and interact with others and yourself -- from the bedroom to the boardroom, from the dinner table with your kids to the thorny conversations many of us are having (or avoiding) in our communities, workplaces and nation. Sat. & Sun., Oct. 19 & 20, 9-5 p.m. Cost: $277/2 full days of training; incl. lunch. Location: Earth Sky Time Farm, Manchester.

Info: The Sparkle Barn Shop, Stacy Harshman , 917-687-1475, stacyaharshman@gmail.com, thesparklebarnshop.com.

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

TALKING ABOUT RACISM: Get together with friends and neighbors to learn more about racism and how to speak up about it. These sessions are based on Dr. David Campt’s White Ally Toolkit. Each session includes reflection, practice and resources. Please join us for one or more of these evenings.

Oct. 17, Nov. 19, Dec. 19, 6-7:45 p.m. 1.75 hours. Location: South Burlington Library, University Mall next to Target, South Burlington.

Info: Showing Up for Racial Justice, Carol Bick, 985-8276, craecounselor49@gmail.com, surj-btv@googlegroup.com.

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TAIKO & DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: New sessions start the week of Oct. 1 & Oct. 8!

Classes for adults, kids and parents. Parade and conga classes, too. Intermediate Taiko, Mon., 6-8:20 p.m. Taiko for Adults, Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m. & Wed., 6:30-7:50 p.m. Djembe for Adults, Wed.,

AFRO-FUSION JAM CLASS: All ages. Instructor: Bonisiwe Green.

Sun., Oct. 27-Dec. 8 (no class Nov. 24), 10:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $150/6 weeks; $22.50/class to drop in.

Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynn center.org, flynncenter.org.

HEY MASTER DJ!: Adults & teens 16+. Instructor: DJ cRAIG mITCHELL. This course is a prerequisite for small group, hands-on DJ instruction with cRAIG offered in the spring. Tue., Oct. 22-Dec. 3 (no class Nov. 26), 5:30-7 p.m.

Cost: $150/6 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington.

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Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

HIP-HOP FOR KIDS: Ages 8-12.

Instructor: Rose Bedard. Thu., Oct. 10-Dec, 5 (no class Nov. 28), 4:20-5:20 p.m. Cost: $130/8 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynn center.org, flynncenter.org.

I AM MY ANCESTORS’ WILDEST DREAMS: Voices of People of Color Through Moth-Style Storytelling. Cost includes ticket to ArtsRiot Moth Story Slam on Nov. 12! Instructors: Ferene Paris Meyer and Susanne Schmidt.

Thu., Oct. 24-Nov. 14 (no class Oct. 31), 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $75/ three-week course. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington.

Info: FlynnArts, Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.

YOUTH DANCES: Ages 5-7.

Instructor: Rose Bedard. Fri., Oct. 11-Dec. 6 (no class Nov. 29), 4:20-5:20 p.m. Cost: $130/8 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: Sarah Caliendo, 652-4537, scaliendo@flynncenter. org, flynncenter.org.

gardening FRUIT TREES FOR BEGINNERS: Learn about which fruits need mates for fruiting, pruning and fertilization. Oct. 20, 2-3:30 p.m.

Cost: $15/register at: gardeners supplystore.com. Location: Gardener’s Supply-Williston, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston.

Info: Meredith White, 658-2433,

TERRARIUMS: Create a selfsustainable and easy-to-care-for environment for indoor plants.

Register at gardenerssupplystore. com. Sun., Oct. 13, 2:30-4 p.m.

Cost: $50 . Location: Gardener’s Supply-Williston, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: Meredith White, 658-2433, meredithw@ gardeners.com, gardeners supplystore.com.

students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our 13th year.

Small classes, private lessons and online instruction with a native speaker. Also live, engaging, faceto-face online English classes. See our website for complete information or contact us for details.

Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail. com, spanishwaterburycenter. com.

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ABCS OF THE SYNERGY OF CBD, THC AND HYP: NMSCH Fall Workshop. Beyond talk therapy: Learn when it’s appropriate to suggest CBD, THC and clinical hypnosis when talk therapy isn’t enough.

Six CEUs. For psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors and other professionals. More information online. Oct. 25, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $159/NMSCH members; $169 non-members. Register online. Location: Holiday Inn, 1068 Williston Rd., S. Burlington. Info: Northeastern Mountain Society of Clinical Hypnosis, contact.nmsch@ gmail.com, nmsch.org/events.

language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults,

A five-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion. Accept no Iimitations! Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 598-2839, julio@ bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Brazilian jiujitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian jiujitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces.

No training experience required.

Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children.

Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them throughout life. IBJJF and CBJJ certified black belt sixth-degree instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Taught by qualified meditation instructors at the Burlington Shambhala Meditation Center: Wed., 6-7 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Free and open to anyone. Free public meditation: weeknights, 6-7 p.m.; Tue. and Thu., noon-1 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Classes and retreats also offered. See our website at burlington.shambhala.org.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795.

psychology ARCHETYPES ILLUSTRATED: Discover how myths, legends and a powerful symbol system can reveal the complexes, pathologies and paths to healing in individual lives. Students will work with their own charts, as well as the charts of dozens of ordinary people. No prior background in astrology is required. Therapists may receive 8 CEUs. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Wed., Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13 & 20; 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/ person; registration required; to register, call Sue 244-7909.

Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue Mehrtens, 244-7909, info@jungiancenter. org, jungiancenter.org.

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tai chi NEW BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASS IN BURLINGTON: We practice Cheng Man-ch’ing’s “simplified” 37-posture Yang-style form. The course will be taught by Patrick Cavanaugh, longtime student and assistant to Wolfe Lowenthal, student of Cheng Man-ching and founder of Long River Tai Chi Circle. Patrick is a senior instructor at LRTTC in Vermont and New Hampshire. Starts Nov. 6, 8-9 a.m.; open registration Nov. 27.

Cost: $65/mo. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 4906405, patrick@longrivertaichi.org, http://longrivertaichi.org.

SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings.

Call to view a classLocation: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 3636890, snake-style.com.

well-being 200-HOUR AYURVEDA INTEGRATION PROGRAM: Join us in learning and immerse yourself in the oldest surviving preventative health care system.

This program is ideal for yoga teachers, counselors, therapists, bodyworkers, nurses, doctors, wellness coaches, herbalists, etc.

VSAC approved and payment plans available. Can transfer hours to Kripalu’s Ayurveda Health Counselor program. More information at ayurvedavermont. com/classes. 2020 schedule: Feb. 8-9, Mar. 7-8, Apr. 4-5, May 2-3, Jun. 6-7, Jul. 11-12, Aug. 15-16, Sep. 12-13, Oct. 17-18, Nov. 14-15. Cost: $2,795/person. Location: The Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, 34 Oak Hill Rd., Williston. Info: Allison Morse, 872-8898, ayurvedavt@ comcast.net.

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women WHOLISTIC WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN: Re-Empower Self Care in this Wholistic Workshop for Women. Succulent Self Care for Sacred Sisterhood. This is your moment to enter consciously into your sexuality. You are beautifully and wonderfully cocreated. This course includes guided coaching into self care through visualizations, journaling, meditation and more. You will also receive yoga/Pilates therapy to awaken, relax and tone the pelvic floor. Samples and introduction to yoni eggs, herbal tonics, essential oils and chocolates from local VT vendors. You will leave with tools and techniques to heal and enhance your womanhood. Sat., Nov. 2. Cost: $180/7-hour intensive workshop. Location: Be Well Massage, 782 Mountain Rd., Unit A, Stowe. Info: Gianna Skates, 683-1361, bewellmassage vt@gmail.com, wellnesswith gianna.com.

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That’s What They Said The Office! A Musical Parody writers on lampooning their favorite TV show B Y J O RD A N AD A M S COURTESY OF JEREMY DANIELS

there are some elements to look at. There are some problems with it, but it is such an amazing show.

BOB MCSMITH: “Friends” was another challenge, as well. These are shows that are universally beloved but that might not hold up under modern scrutiny. That’s where we like to have fun. Through the lens of reality, this doesn’t make sense. All of these people would’ve been fired a long time ago.

SD: What makes something rife for parody?

BM: Every parody we’ve done has been personal. Tobly and I grew up on comedy and TV. We didn’t have a lot of other friends.

TM: Still don’t.

BM: It really just comes from a deep place of love for what we choose.

The Office! cast

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ver its nine seasons, NBC television series “The Office” followed the exploits of the employees of Dunder Mifflin, a fictional paper company in Scranton, Pa. The show perfected the mockumentary format, telling hilarious and painfully relatable stories of ambition, attraction, perseverance and friendship. The ensemble sitcom gets the spoof treatment in The Office! A Musical Parody, which arrives on Friday, October 11, at the Flynn MainStage in Burlington.

The musical is the brainchild of writers Bob and Tobly McSmith. Longtime friends and creative partners, the pair’s shared surname is fictitious — it represents their close bond, not a familial relation.

The New York City writing team has made an off-Broadway career lampooning

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pop-culture classics such as “Friends,” why they cast the TV show’s central char“Saved by the Bell” and Showgirls. Their acter, Michael Scott, with a female actor. next production is an irreverent send-up of the Christmas-centered romantic comedy SEVEN DAYS: Why parody a show with Love, Actually, soon to hit the Jerry Orbach so many satirical elements to begin Theater at the Theater with?

Center in New York City.

TOBLY MCSMITH: This Through a fast-paced is our seventh musical reimagining of the origiparody. We started with nal series, plus a selection “Saved by the Bell.” of quirky original songs, We love parodying and The Office! A Musical lovingly lampooning the Parody reminds fans of shows that we grew up what they love about the with and love, like “The TV show, and it illumiOffice.” It took us until TO BLY MC S MITH nates some new angles. the seventh musical to Seven Days caught up feel like we’d be ready to with McSmith and McSmith by phone even get to “The Office,” because we love to talk about the art of writing parodies, it so much. condensing a TV series into a musical, and You’re right: It’s funny on its own. But

WE TRIED TO HIT THE MOMENTS

THAT RESONATED WITH US THE MOST.

SD: In your show, the character Michael Scott is played by a woman.

Why did you make that choice?

BM: Looking at a lot of what Michael says now, it would be very problematic coming out of a man. We kind of knew casting a woman would be a great way to flip it on its head. Emma Brock really does portray Michael Scott. And it’s not, like, a Michelle Scott. It really is Michael Scott.

TM: They weren’t able to successfully replace Michael Scott after he left the show, right? That’s one layer of parody that we add in. Things Michael Scott said were so completely inappropriate, especially to women, and especially by today’s standards. In our show, you see a woman playing a man. This is how we’re showing you that it was inappropriate, in a hilarious way.

SD: That’s interesting. I think that the subtlety of the original is that we know Michael Scott is terrible because of the way the people around him react. But I don’t know if that kind of nuance plays as well today.

TM: It’s interesting to think of it that way.

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News and views on the local music + nightlife scene B Y JO R D A N A D A MS

The New Deal Howdy, folks! I’m stoked to announce a big change to Seven Days’ music section. Although it may not seem like such a huge deal at first, I’m hoping it will help readers more easily find the music and nightlife events they’re looking for.

Flip over to page 68, and you’ll see our newly revamped club dates.

Formerly, these were divided by day of the week and then, within each date, by region, such as Vergennes/ Middlebury, Stowe/Smuggs, Burlington, etc. This method has pros and cons, which I’ll get into shortly.

You’ll see that we’ve switched to a more streamlined approach featuring five main categories: Comedy; DJs; Karaoke, Trivia, Etc.; Live Music; and Open Mics & Jams. Each category is then broken up by date. We’ve dispensed with the regions, but each entry notes the town in which the event takes place.

happenings have a participatory quality, so we thought they should stand on their own.

Most of the time, you won’t see much else in the Karaoke, Trivia, Etc. category besides karaoke and trivia.

But anything that can’t fit into the other sections will land here.

The biggest con to changing things up is that we lose the regional organization. The bulk of music and nightlife listings are for events around Chittenden County, so folks who dwell in that part of Vermont may not feel anything amiss. But if you live elsewhere, such as the Northeast Kingdom, it’s possible that you primarily looked at the events in your own neck of the woods before seeking entertainment farther from home.

Anyone who approached the section that way may now have a slightly harder time finding those events. If so, I apologize.

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As I said, we decided to make this change to help people zero in on exactly what they’re looking for quickly and efficiently. With more and more venues offering live music, standup comedy showcases, dance parties, blues jams, literary readings and trivia, the club listings were becoming a bit of a jumble.

For instance, if you’re the type of person who only wants to see comedy, picking through the fine print line by line for standup, improv and the like could be time-consuming and frustrating. Or, say all you and your crew want to do is dance. It could take a few minutes to parse out when and where the dance parties are. Plus, some DJs don’t include “DJ” in their DJ names. Now, they appear under a clearly marked section that reads “DJs.” You’ll note that we’ve lumped open mics and jams together.

Indeed, one could argue that these are live-music events. But such

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WED.9 Aiming for Enrike, Zeus Springsteen, Sad Turtle, Plastique Mammals (rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 4 p.m.

Free.

open mics & jams WED.9

Blues Jam at Twiggs — An American Gastropub, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Irish Sessions (traditional) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Allison Fay Brown (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Andy Lugo at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Cory Henry & the Funk Apostles, Ric Wilson (funk, soul) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $25.

Open Mic with Austtin at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Matthew Mercury (rock) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Meute (marching band) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $15/20.

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Mike Martin and Geoff Kim (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Open Mic Night at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Mosaic featuring members of Kat Wright and the Welterweights (jam) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Open Mic with Alex Budney at Localfolk Smokehouse, Waitsfield, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Nathan Byrne (Americana) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

SAT.12

The Ray Vega Latin Jazz Sextet at Juniper, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Stig (jazz, funk) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. free/$5. 18+.

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.10 Abby Erwin with Michael Halloran (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Open Mic at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Irish Session at Bagitos Bagel and Burrito Café, Montpelier, 2 p.m. donation.

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are known for fierce, unhinged performances. Self-described as

“a mix of The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the band emphasizes theatrics and whimsy.

Its unpredictable antics may include band members crowd-surfing while encased in a giant plastic bubble, or equipping audiences with rainbow-colored pool noodles. With music rooted in both European and American folk traditions, the

Amanda McCarthy (pop, folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Northampton, Mass., ensemble injects raw punk energy into old-world styles, resulting in a glitter bomb of raucous,

Andy Gagnon presents: Lovecraft (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Burlington. BLIND OWL BAND add support.

Berklee American Roots Night (Americana) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free.

Blackwolf (blues, roots) at Edson Hill Dining Room & Tavern, Stowe, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Danny & the Parts, Good Morning Gils (country) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8:30 p.m. $3/8. 18+.

Drake Freeman (rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11:30 p.m. Free.

George Petit Trio (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

The Hubcats (folk) at Blue Paddle Bistro, South Hero, 6:30 p.m. Free. ivamae, the Red Newts, Ian Stonerook (soul, folk) at SideBar, Burlington, 9 p.m. $3.

Jacob Green (singer-songwriter) at Tap 25, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free.

Joe Moore Blues Band at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 7 p.m.

Free.

Josh Panda & Discotick (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free.

Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 10:30 p.m. Free.

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Matt Hagen’s the Return of BRaiNSCaPes (experimental) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Noah Kahan, JP Saxe (sold out) (folk-rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $20.

Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $5.

The Stupid Robots (jam) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Terry Klein (singer-songwriter) at the Skinny Pancake (Burlington), 6:30 p.m. Free.

West End Blend, Rob Compa Trio (funk, soul) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $12/15.

FRI.11 AliT (indie pop) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

All About the Bass (covers) at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free.

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Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (open jam) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free.

Herb and Hanson (rock) at Switchback Brewing Co., Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Bella and the Notables (jazz) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Dirty Blonde String Band (Americana) at Tap 25, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free.

Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand at Sweet Melissa’s, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Donny Frauenhofer Trio (jazz fusion, hip-hop) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Jamie Carey (rock covers) at Gusto’s, Barre, 5 p.m. Free.

Bloodshot Bill, The Benevolent Tarots (rockabilly) at Hostel Tevere, Warren, 9 p.m. $5.

Bombay (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

BON/FIRE and Heartless (AC/DC tribute and Led Zeppelin/Heart tribute) at the Engine Room, White River Junction, 8:30 p.m. $12/18.

Brother Jax (rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Carinae, Clever Girls, the Bubs (rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

Chris Lyon (Americana) at Stone Corral Brewery, Richmond, 8 p.m.

Free.

Collage (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

Sunday Sing-Along (piano bar) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free.

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Family Night (open jam) at SideBar, Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free.

Open Circuit: Puppets, Crankies and Pantomime at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Barry Hayes (singer-songwriter) at Highland Lodge Restaurant, Greensboro, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Bella’s Bartok, Blind Owl Band (circus punk) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $12/15.

Southern Old Time Music Jam at Bagitos Bagel and Burrito Café, Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free.

The Duo (rock covers) at the Old Foundry at One Federal Restaurant & Lounge, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m.

Free.

Duroc (’80s covers) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk) at 14th Star Brewing Co., St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free.

The Jive Tribe (funk, soul) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11:30 p.m. $5.

Joshua Glass (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Seafood, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Kegan Tremblay & Friends (rock) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Leno, Young & Cheney (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

George Murtie (country, rock) at El Toro, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

Miriam Bernardo: ‘Songs From the Well’ (album release) (folk-rock) at Double E Performance Center’s T-Rex Theater, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. $15-35.

Hambone Relay (jazz, funk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free.

The Mushroom Cloud (jam) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic at SideBar, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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Irish Sessions See WED.9.

Open Mic with Andy Lugo See WED.9.

Open Mic with Austtin See WED.9.

Tom Caswell Blues Jam at Hatch 31, Bristol, 7 p.m.

Free.

Nechromancer, Metamorph, Don & Jenn and Burlesque Dancers (industrial) at Sweet Melissa’s, Montpelier, 9 p.m. $5-10.

Noah Kahan, JP Saxe (folk-rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $20-89.

Red Hot Juba (country, jazz) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free.

Rehab Roadhouse (rock) at City Limits Night Club, Vergennes, 9:30 p.m. Free.

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But I believe that most people know exactly what they want to do with their free time (e.g., see live music, jump onstage at an open mic, dance until you can’t feel feelings anymore, etc.) and will benefit from the new categories. We’re still working on how we’ll structure the listings on our website, but we’ll resolve that soon.

Oh, one more thing: If you’re a talent booker who sends me entertainment listings, you don’t need to change anything about the way you’ve been doing it!

Like what you see? Feeling annoyed with the change? Feel free to send feedback my way regarding the new format.

Deep Well

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I hope you had a chance to read about — and listen to — MIRIAM BERNARDO’s long-awaited debut album, Songs From the Well. As I stated in last week’s cover story about the artist and her new record, it’s the biggest Vermont album of the year, at least in terms of how many people contributed to it and how many hours it took to produce. Plus, it’s goddamn awesome.

This Friday, October 11, for one night only, Bernardo and co. perform Songs From the Well live at the Double E Performance Center’s T-Rex Theater at the Essex Experience in Essex Junction.

You don’t want to sleep on this show.

In case you didn’t read the story: The album is the brainchild of firsttime producer PEG TASSEY and Bernardo, who asked their favorite Vermont songwriters to either pen a new tune for the record or offer a song from their catalogs for the pair to reimagine.

Contributing songwriters include PATTI CASEY, MICHAEL CHORNEY, BRIAN CLARK, SETH EAMES, JAMES HARVEY, MARK LEGRAND, COLIN MCCAFFREY and ANAÏS MITCHELL. A heap of local musicians brought it to life, many of whom will partake in Friday’s performance.

The evening starts with what Tassey refers to as the Song Authors’ Set, in which several of the album’s writers will play a few tunes solo that weren’t written for and don’t appear on Songs From the Well.

“I thought it could be fun for the audience to see what their music is like when it’s not produced in a way that one of their songs was produced on

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the album,” Tassey writes in an email.

“Folks will be able to hear the pure essence of the author’s style.”

Most of the album’s songwriters will take a turn before the concert kicks into full swing — exceptions include Chorney, McCaffrey and Mitchell, the last of whom performs a sold-out show at the First Unitarian Universalists Society of Burlington on the same night.

Vocalist SARA MUNRO joins LeGrand for his set, and cellist INDIGO RUTH-DAVIS, Tassey’s husband, sits in with the producer during her set. JER COONS, who lent mixing and instrumental skills to the album, also takes the stage during the Song Authors’ Set. On to the main event, in which the full band features a mix of album contributors and other noteworthy musicians: Clark, Eames and AL TEODOSIO are on guitar duty; ROB MORSE, Bernardo’s longtime partner, plays bass; JASON THIME keeps time on drums; Coons and Harvey tickle the ivories; Ruth-Davis continues on cello; FERN MADDIE plays banjo; and Tassey, STEPHANIE WILSON and IVAMAE add background vocals. And, of course, Bernardo will be front and center, leading the charge.

I’ll say it again: This is a one-nightonly affair, at least for now. No other dates have been scheduled and aren’t likely to be. Given how finely produced the album is and how big it sounds, this is your one chance to hear it live in all its glory.

WED., OCT. 9; WED., OCT. 16; WED., OCT. 23; WED., OCT. 30 GRANGE HALL CULTURAL CENTER, WATERBURY CENTER

Forests and Trees: UnSchool at Audubon THU., OCT. 10 THE GREEN MOUNTAIN AUDUBON CENTER, HUNTINGTON

Burlington Fringe Festival

THU., OCT. 10; FRI., OCT. 11; SAT., OCT. 12 OFF CENTER FOR THE DRAMATIC ARTS, BURLINGTON

Queen City Ghostwalk Darkness Falls Tour FRI., OCT. 11; SAT., OCT. 12; SUN., OCT. 13; FRI., OCT. 18; SAT., OCT. 19 COURTHOUSE PLAZA, BURLINGTON

Farm Table Dinner Series FRI., OCT. 11 THE LODGE AT SPRUCE PEAK, STOWE

Rusty Dewee’s Tiny Town Hall Tour FRI., OCT. 11; SAT., OCT. 12 GRANGE HALL CULTURAL CENTER, WATERBURY CENTER

Tiny House Framing Workshop with Peter King SAT., OCT. 12 2CREATIVE COMMUNITY INC., WINOOSKI

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Listening In If I were a superhero, my superpower would be the ability to get songs stuck in other people’s heads. Here are five songs that have been stuck in my head this week. May they also get stuck in yours. Follow sevendaysvt on Spotify for weekly playlists with tunes by artists featured in the music section.

THE BELLE GAME, “Spirit” JAZZBOY, “Harlem” MUNA, “Stayaway” METRONOMY, “Salted Caramel Ice Cream” COBRA KILLER, “Mund Auf Augen Zu (Stecker Raus, Ich Dreh’ Durch)”

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Indie Rumble (improv) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

DO YOU: Want to hibernate?

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Change your sleeping and eating habits?

Open Mic at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

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Eligible participants will be compensated up to $530 for completing study-related questionnaires and interviews.

THU.10

Laurie Kilmartin (standup) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15.

The Mainstage Show (improv) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

‘RISK!’ Live Podcast Recording (storytelling) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20.

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Laurie Kilmartin See THU.10, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $20/27.

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Zig Zag Opal Hoyt, the Brooklyn-based Vermont expat behind the project

ZENIZEN, is an

R&B artist whose nomadic search for inspiration has led her around the world. Those travels and experiences inform her expansive, genre-straddling sound. A brash, theatrical quality heightens elements of retro-funk, nu-jazz and future soul throughout her burgeoning stock of tunes. At once dreamlike and clearheaded, her songs twist and turn in ways that defy common conventions. Check out Zenizen on Sunday, October 13, at the BCA Center in Burlington. Indie rockers PAEAR headline, and locals NODRUMS open.

live music

Roan Yellowthorn, the Mountain Carol, Townes (indie) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

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Chicken Fat Injection (jazz) at Tap 25, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free.

The Roadtrash Band (rock covers) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. $5.

Christa Joy (Americana) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5.

Roger Giroux (Americana) at Twiggs — An American Gastropub, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Ruby Rae, Moonfruits (Americana) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5.

Christine Malcolm (folk) at the Skinny Pancake (Burlington), 7 p.m. Free.

Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Unknown Blues Band at Double E Performance Center’s T-Rex Theater, Essex Junction, 7:30 p.m. $15/20.

Wild Leek River (country) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free.

John Smyth (singer-songwriter) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Bella and the Notables (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Seafood, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Josh Carey and Friends (rock) at Smitty’s Pub, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Blue Fox (blues) at Gusto’s, Barre, 6 p.m. Free.

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Tsunamibots, Brand New Luddites, the Reverb Syndicate, Potentially Lobsters (surf, punk) at Hostel Tevere, Warren, 9 p.m. $5.

Baked Shrimp (jam) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Bloodshot Bill, Tigerman WHOA, Western Terrestrials (rockabilly) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

Tom Caswell Duet (blues) at El Toro, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

Fiddle Witch (bluegrass) at the Skinny Pancake Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free.

High Summer (groove) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Big Thief, Palehound (sold out) (folk-rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $20.

Swale (rock) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

The Tricksters (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

SAT.12

Bethany Conner (indie folk) at the Old Foundry at One Federal Restaurant & Lounge, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Shinola (rock) at Stone Corral Brewery, Richmond, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Evan Alsop (Americana) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Good Lord the Liftin’ (blues, jazz) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. $5.

The Leatherbound Books (indie) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Leno, Young & Cheney (rock) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free.

Live Vermont Hip-Hop at Babes Bar, Bethel, 8 p.m. $5.

Mitch & Devon (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Remo Drive, Samia (indie rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $15/18.

Good Clean Fun! (familyfriendly improv) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 5 p.m. $5/10.

Laurie Kilmartin See THU.10, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $20/27.

Not From ’Round He’ah (standup) at Revelry Theater, Burlington, 8 p.m. $7/8.

SUN.13

boys cruise (album release), the Keychains (punk) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $3/8. 18+.

Dancing Bean People (psychedelic rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 3 p.m.

Free.

BDE: Big Drag Energy (drag, variety) at Revelry Theater, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $7/8.

Zach Rhoads Band (rock) at the Double E Lounge at Essex Experience, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free.

SUN.13 Clutch Cabin (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Dark Star Project (Grateful Dead tribute) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Herb and Hanson (rock) at Babes Bar, Bethel, 5 p.m. Free.

Maple Street Six (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

Miya Folick (folk-rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10/12.

Her Majesty’s Secret Circus (comedy, variety) at Montgomery Town Hall, Montgomery Center, 7 p.m. $5/10.

MON.14

Comedy & Crepes featuring Andrew Mayer (standup) at the Skinny Pancake (Burlington), 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.15

Girls Night Out (comedy) at Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $20.

WED.16

Indie Rumble See WED.9.

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Old Sky and Friends (Americana) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Paear, Zenizen, Nodrums (indie) at BCA Center, Burlington, 8 p.m. $8/10.

Red Hot Juba (country, jazz) at The Skinny Pancake (Burlington), 6 p.m.

Free.

Scaphism, Crypitus, Callous, Hell Priest, Shitangel (metal) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7:30 p.m. $7/12.

Side Hustle (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free.

Toubab Krewe (rock, global) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 9 p.m. $15/20.

The Turbos (rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10:30 p.m. Free.

Old Sky (Americana) at the Skinny Pancake (Burlington), noon. Free.

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The Cheyenne Brando, Endtime Hymns (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

Nostalgia reigns supreme on the Cheyenne Brando’s Endtime Hymns. The 10-track collection of ’80s-inspired rock comes from Christian Hahn, a Braintree-based former New Yorker. His album looks mainly to the jet-black strains of the Cure and Joy Division for stylistic inspiration, but it also infuses the grandeur of U2.

Hahn teamed up with the Underground Recording Studio’s Vincent Freeman, who mixed and mastered the album. Beneath the songs’ enthralling retro sheen are themes of addiction, romance and philosophical musing.

Hahn’s writing is dire, like love letters from someone who believes their next words may be their last. His songs are rich with descriptive language, often creeping

Adrian Aardvark, Holy Abandonment (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

About halfway through “Religious Upbringing,” the opening track on Adrian Aardvark’s Holy Abandonment, singersongwriter Christopher Stott-Rigsbee offers a curious confession: “In the eyes of the Father, Lord I am a sinner / Gonna sin so much, be the sin winner.” The front person doesn’t sing those words in any sort of triumphant fashion, but rather with dazed determination, as if he might not be sure his actions are the wisest choice.

The Plattsburgh, N.Y.based freak-folk act’s seventh album sits somewhere between a long, dark night of the soul and a really hairy trip. Faith has been lost, traumas are revisited, drugs are filling holes, and a veritable shit-ton of catharsis is taking place. Honestly, what could be more American in 2019?

A lingering sort of dark reflection looms

into balladry, bundled with reverb-steeped production featuring thick drums and a Technicolor spectrum of electric guitar tones.

Spacey slow-jam opener “Deer Park” creeps in like that first wave of heady pleasure after downing a glass of red wine.

Unhurried, brushed beats cushion flashes of guitar and billowing atmospherics.

“Samsonite,” surely the album’s breakaway single if its creator had dropped a track or two prior to its release, pulls off a neat trick. Not only does the tune sound remarkably like its influences with staggering bass lines and a raging river of guitars, it tells a story of two goth lovers finding themselves in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

Though its pop structure is sound, the song perhaps goes a bit too far, name-checking Robert Smith, the Violent Femmes and a borrowed phrase, “Love will tear us apart,” before concluding. Listeners should be able to tell where Hahn’s affections lie without hearing them literally named.

“Poisonhead” marks an arresting moment midway through. A dark, rounded bass line pulses under Hahn’s sedate declaration, “I’m on a manic upswing / Be sure to catch me when I fall.” On the contrary, he sounds strung out, as if the distance between up and down weren’t that far. Clicks and snaps usher in an envelope of feathery noise, which in turn heralds wet, double-time beats.

Another gem, “Happiest Man Alive,” again fakes out the listener with a hopeful title — sort of. Propulsive snares and hi-hats give the tune a bit of pep, but they collide with a despondent piano line, dreamy electronic soundscapes and smoldering guitar. The singer refers to himself as “the happiest man alive” despite feeling like the Biblical character Job. Hahn’s love for ’80s music and lyrical fearlessness make for an engaging combination. Though Endtime Hymns may prove too much for some listeners, its indisputable pop craftsmanship should win over lovers of the era and newcomers alike.

Endtime Hymns is available at thecheyennebrando.bandcamp.com.

over Adrian Aardvark’s music. The songs are structured essentially like pop, but that framework serves only as a backdrop for Stott-Rigsbee’s manic, sprawling, lyrical epics. He holds up an assortment of woes on “Summer Anxiety,” a song that details methods for fighting off depression and complacency. “Give me five hours of pornography, please,” he sings. “Give me three bacon-cheese / Pills would go good with these.” The one-two punch of nihilism and spiritual longing makes for an effective hook.

While Adrian Aardvark have never steered clear of heavy themes — particularly on 2012’s not-so-easy-listening Hidden Magic Revival — Stott-Rigsbee reaches for a deeper level of authenticity with his songwriting on Holy Abandonment. For all the religious iconography dotting his sonic landscapes, and for all the drugged-out, quasi-coherent bits, there are moments of startling nakedness.

On the title track, the singer tells a story of holding a 9mm pistol in a porta-

john. “Fuzzy Insomnia” and “Love” both touch on the unique stress that financial insecurity can bring. And on “Live,” we find the writer reliving past traumas as a way to embolden himself against the future. This is hardly light fodder.

Many listeners may find the record — and Adrian Aardvark in general — too sonically abrasive. Certainly, the shambolic nature of the songs paired with Stott-Rigsbee’s often-caterwauling voice can push some tracks toward the red.

However, those attuned to the late Daniel Johnston’s end of the musical spectrum will discover a unique, truly bizarre and emotionally frank songwriter.

In the end, Stott-Rigsbee isn’t sure whether God abandoned the world or the world abandoned God. Still, he’s never short on ideas for how to fill the hole where spiritual devotion once dwelled.

Beyond the drugs and long nights, he sees self-love as the guiding light out of the darkness. Witness the final lyrics on Holy Abandonment, which offer a perfect sense of thematic closure: “I love you, Chris / I love you, baby boy / I love you.”

Holy Abandonment is available at adrianaardvark.bandcamp.com.

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of waking up from a dream at 4 a.m. on his debut album, Flavour. The Chicago-

WED.9

SAT.12

DJ Cre8 (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m.

Free.

DJ ATAK (house) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

DJ KermiTT (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

DJ Earl (hits) at City Limits Night Club, Vergennes, 9 p.m.

Free.

THU.10

DJ Fattie B (open format) at Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Sweet Tooth

PAUL CHERRY

MON.14

based musician, who came up in the city’s garage-rock boom of the 2010s, weaves

Brianna Kelly (experimental folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

a chilled-out blend of lo-fi dream-pop, lounge and jazz styles. With rippling guitars

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah (jazz) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. $18.

Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk) at Monkey House, Winooski, 6 p.m.

Free.

and wobbly synths, the singer-songwriter achieves a syrupy sound dripping with candy-coated hooks. The artist’s sharply pointed musings hover over a heap of dazed and decadent sounds. Catch Paul Cherry on Monday, October 14, at Foam Brewers in Burlington. Local experimental singer-songwriter AMELIA DEVOID opens.

Melvin Seals & JGB (funk, rock) at Double E Performance Center’s T-Rex Theater, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. $15-50.

Chromatic (hip-hop) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

D Jay Baron (hip-hop) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

DJ Bay 6 (hits) at Gusto’s, Barre, 8 p.m. Free.

Paul Cherry, Amelia Devoid (indie) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

DJ Craig Mitchell (open format) at Ruben James, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Seth Yacovone at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

DJ Cre8 (open format) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Super Birdman Birthday Bash (eclectic) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11:30 p.m. Free.

DJ Disco Phantom (open format) at Finnigan’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

TUE.15 Advance Music Acoustic SingerSongwriter Contest at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

DJ Pilaf (hip-hop) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

AliT (singer-songwriter) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. free/$5. 18+.

Chris Powers (rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

FRI.11

Dayve Huckett (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

DJ Craig Mitchell (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5/8. 18+.

DJ Dakota (hip-hop) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Grup Anwar (classical Arabic) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

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Honky-Tonk Tuesdays with Pony Hustle at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Justin LaPoint (Americana) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Matthew Mercury (rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 9 p.m.

Free.

Troy Millette (singer-songwriter) at 14th Star Brewing Co., St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Ukulele Kids with Joe Beaird at the Skinny Pancake (Burlington), 9:30 a.m. Free.

WED.16 Greg Woods (indie rock) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

John Lensing (indie folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Julia Rose (folk, jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Matthew Mercury See WED.9.

Mosaic featuring members of Kat Wright and the Welterweights See WED.9.

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DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

DJ Triple J (open format) at Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Loving the Alien: A David Bowie Tribute at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Lowell Thompson (roots-rock) at Hatch 31, Bristol, 7 p.m. Free.

DJ Fattie B (open format) at Waterworks Food + Drink, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

Patricia Julien Quartet (jazz) at Juniper, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Queen City Hot Club (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Skyzoo featuring Elzhi, Landon Wordswell, Mister Burns, Philmore Greene, 60 East, Es-K (hip-hop) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10.

Wednesday Night Dead See WED.9.

trivia, karaoke, etc.

WED.9 Godfather Karaoke at SideBar, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Karaoke at JP’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with DJ Amanda Rock at City Limits Night Club, Vergennes, 9 p.m. Free.

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Trivia Night at Parker Pie Co., West Glover, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night at City Sports Grille, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.10 Karaoke at JP’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry & DJ Coco at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. Free.

Trivia Mania at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

FRI.11 Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock at Monopole Downstairs, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5 p.m. Free.

Karaoke at Burlington St. John’s Club, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Karaoke at JP’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night for DV Awareness at Espresso Bueno, Barre, 7 p.m. Free.

SAT.12

DJ Two Rivers (house) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Jack Bandit (hip-hop) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

Karaoke at JP’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

SUN.13

TUE.15 Karaoke with DJ Molotov at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Karaoke at Ruben James, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night at the Skinny Pancake, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m.

Free.

MON.14

Trivia: Service Industry Night at Waterworks Food + Drink, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

Karaoke at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia with Jen and Ian at CharlieO’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8:30 p.m. Free.

DJ Kaos (EDM) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9:30 p.m. $3.

DJ Raul (Latin) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 5 p.m.

Free.

DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

SoDown, DMVU, Abstractivve, Since JulEYE (electronic) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 9 p.m. $12/15.

SUN.13

Disco Brunch with DJ Craig Mitchell at Misery Loves Co., Winooski, 11 a.m. Free.

DJ Two Sev (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m.

Free.

Open Decks at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

MON.14

Jack Bandit and Friends (EDM) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

TUE.15

CRWD CTRL (house, techno) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

DJ A-RA$ (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Molly Mood (hip-hop, R&B) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

WED.16

DJ Cre8 See WED.9.

DJ Ianu (open format) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

DJ KermiTT See WED.9.

Jazzyaoke (live jazz band karaoke) at Espresso Bueno, Barre, 7:30 p.m. $5.

Karaoke at Park Place Tavern, Essex Junction, 9:30 p.m. Free.

DJ A-RA$ (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.16 Godfather Karaoke at SideBar, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Karaoke at JP’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with DJ Amanda Rock at City Limits Night Club, Vergennes, 9 p.m. Free.

Rock Paper Scissors Tournament at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20/25.

String Band Karaoke at the Skinny Pancake, Hanover, N.H., 6 p.m.

Free.

Trivia Night at Parker Pie Co., West Glover, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night at City Sports Grille, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

That’s What They Said « P.66 SD: Like, he says something terrible, and we see Pam cringe.

BM: Right, and Creed gives a thumbs-up in the background.

SD: How many specific episodes are referenced?

BM: Pretty much all of them. Well, every major episode.

I would say over 100 episodes are referenced.

TM: I’d say a thousand.

BM: I’d say a million.

TM: We tried to hit the moments that resonated with us the most. And we throw tons of other stuff in there.

If you’ve watched the show once, you’re going to get tons of jokes. If you’ve watched it a lot, you’re going to get even more jokes.

BM: There are little moments, even in the background, that are referencing episodes. It’s got that Airplane!-style humor.

SD: How do you construct a cohesive narrative by pulling moments out of an episodic series?

TM: What we look at are the important arcs: the love between Pam and Jim, and Michael Scott’s arc of finding his wife. We take these arcs and combine them with a bunch of elements of the show and throw in our own humor and write about 25 songs. And that’s how we make a musical.

BM: At the end of the day, these are all human stories. It’s about love and friendship, and I think that’s something we all relate to.

SD: Do you have clearly defined roles within your writing partnership?

TM: I’m the yeller. Bob is the crier.

BM: I cry, storm around, throw things.

TM: We write in one of our living rooms. We have different senses of humor, so it really has to work for both of us for it to get onto the page. It’s tough. It’s not a “yes, and...” improv comedy situation; it’s a “no, and...” situation.

BM: It’s “no, never” a lot of the time. But our goal sitting in a room is just to make each other laugh. If something makes us both laugh, which is tough, that’s what’s going on the page.

SD: Are the songs deeply contextual, or can they lift out?

TM: Both. Some do the storytelling, and some are just really fun. Meredith sings a song called “I’m Nasty.”

BM: That could be a radio single.

TM: It’s a summer banger.

SD: Have any of the real crew from “The Office” ever contacted you?

TM: Many of the actors have talked about it on social media. Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey have mentioned

it several times. We’re hoping they’re going to come see it eventually.

SD: Who’s your favorite character?

TM: Michael Scott. I just understand him. I say things wrong. I worked in an office for 16 years, and he’s the closest to who I am.

BM: Nate. He gets the best lines. They’re always out of left field. That’s exactly what my sense of humor is. But also I really relate to Creed. I would be the weird guy in the background making mung beans in my desk, staring off into space.

SD: I think mine is Andy.

TM: Why? SD: I love his evolution. He would’ve won the Changed the Most Since Freshman Year award. And I’ve found myself experiencing some anger-control issues in the past.

BM: Who hasn’t put a fist through a wall before? m This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

Contact: jordan@sevendaysvt.com

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frican Americans are making big cultural news these days: National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first novel, Pulitzer Prize for Music winner Kendrick Lamar’s latest composition, Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenkins’ current project. At Stowe’s Helen Day Art Center, Vermonters can now see a superb exhibition of work by African American artists.

Not that “Unbroken Current” is advertised as such. The two Vermont participants (Mildred Beltré and Harlan Mack) and four national ones (Sanford Biggers, Maria Magdalena CamposPons, Rashid Johnson and Carrie Mae Weems) don’t all consider black identity their art’s main calling card. In fact, two of them — Biggers and Johnson — are associated with “post-black art.” And African American curator Thelma Golden describes post-black practitioners as “adamant about not being labeled ‘black’ artists, though their work [is] … deeply interested in redefining complex notions of blackness.”

Helen Day curator Rachel Moore says in a phone interview, “I was really aware of the different ways the artists identify themselves. There is a tendency to lump things together, [as in] ‘It’s a show about artists of color.’ Well, it’s not, actually.

It’s broader. It’s a mélange of identities and stories that creates this human experience.”

The exhibition begins with Biggers’ “The Tyranny of Mirrors,” a mesmerizing geometric assemblage made from antique quilts, fabric and silver leaf. The last material creates a pattern of rounded concentric squares aligned on the left

“Indentation” by Harlan Mack

side, almost like a view down a futuristic subway tunnel.

The work dates from 2017, the same year the Harlem-based artist won the Rome Prize. But Biggers, who works in painting, sculpture, performance and video, has been altering old quilts since a 2009 commission. That project led him to research a theory, debunked by historians, about the use of quilts as secret signage on the Underground Railroad. As a 2018

New Yorker article on Biggers noted, the artist’s interest in race and history is “at once sincere and ironic.”

If cultural meaning is unstable in Biggers’ work, there’s no mistaking the intent of Weems’ quartet of framed photos from her 1995-96 series “From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried.” Weems photographed daguerreotypes of South Carolina slaves that were commissioned in 1850 by Harvard University scientist

“Shared All the Tears” by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

and white supremacist Louis Agassiz. She tinted the photos red, matted them using circular cutouts and added sandblasted text to the glass.

The works are devastating. Each individual’s expression and body bear witness to deep misery and sustained physical abuse. Weems’ textual fragments, floating above the images on the glass, reference the larger humiliations to which the race was subjected. Put together, they read like a sentence: “You became a scientific profile[,] a negroid type[,] an anthropological debate & a photographic subject.”

A 2013 MacArthur Foundation fellow, Weems is interested in how power, sex and ownership have warped both American history and the history of photography. (Harvard, which owns the Agassiz archive, once threatened a lawsuit but withdrew it.) She aims to restore the dignity of these individuals, in part by using circular matting, a form that evokes the intimacy and reverence of Renaissance tondi.

Mack attended Johnson State College (now Northern Vermont University) for his bachelor’s and master’s in fine arts and continues to live in Johnson. His “Revival Lineage,” a pair of shovels with forged faces hanging from a hook, takes up Weems’ theme of restoring identity to the laborer. (Moore says, “It’s important what each work is next to.”)

In Mack’s work, however, African American identity and history are not the driving forces. Instead, the large and small shovels signify current and future generations of laborers. Mack has said in an interview that all his work — in paint, sculpture and metal forging — contributes

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to “one huge narrative” that he figures flooring by Johnson and one on paper out as he goes along.

by Campos-Pons round out the exhibit.

“Indentation,” a remarkably realistic Both artists have work in the permanent portrait in wood pieces of the artist work- collections of the Museum of Modern ing at his grandmother’s table, tells an Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art autobiographical part of that narrative. in New York, among other institutions.

Up close, the work looks like a wood In Chicago-born Johnson’s “Bleed War” puzzle, but Mack has said he expects and “Street Power,” it’s hard not to see viewers to create their own narratives violence in the rough images branded of his work rather than trying to puzzle into the wood, the former suggesting a out his own. face with gouged wax for eyes and the Beltré, a University of Vermont asso- latter a standing figure. Both abstract ciate professor of drawing and print- images are riddled with branded circles making who divides her time between containing crosses that resemble target Burlington and Brooklyn, creates mainly crosshairs. text-based work. Viewers may be familiar Cuban émigrée Campos-Pons’ “Shared with her color-block geometric letters All the Tears” functions like a response. camouflaged within A highly abstract grids of more color face in black ink, blocks — a bit like watercolor and v i n t a g e Te t r i s gouache cries tiles fitted neatly dried yellow together — from flowers, perhaps recent exhibits at squash blossoms the Hall Art Founor trumpet flowRACHEL MOORE dation in Reading ers. and the BCA “Unbroken Current” takes Center.

At Helen its title from a Day, two of these critic’s comment geometric works on Biggers’ work on paper, “Ask” and describing Afri“Tell,” are centered can American on cotton tapeshistory as ever tries with tassels present. That at the corners — history informs machine-made life in Vermont reproductions as much as of Beltré’s very anywhere in the different drawings nation. Moore of organic forms. writes in the curaThe works’ text torial statement “Absence 3” by Mildred Beltré messages — “I want that the exhibito ask” and “I want tion was spurred to tell” — may recall into being by the military’s former two instances of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, or they could homegrown racism: Bennington rep Kiah simply be a plea for communication amid Morris’ resignation due to racial trolling signifiers of domesticity. Just as a viewer and an incident in Stowe in which racial requires distance to make out the words, slurs were yelled from passing cars at so meaning remains at arm’s length. adopted children of color.

Two more works, “Absence 1” and Conversations about race need to “Absence 3,” are centered on fringed happen everywhere, and the exhibition tapestries but don’t feature gridded facilitates one in Vermont by bringing letters. Using a black-dot-matrix pattern local and national black artists’ voices that recalls Roy Lichtenstein’s use of to the fore. It is truly their moment. As oversize benday dots, Beltré creates Weems remarks in a video clip showing shadowy female nudes, or hints of them, in a side room, “I can see the doors swingwashed in walnut ink. Some of the dots ing open, and they won’t close for a really are so large they imply an extreme long time.” close-up view, yet here, too, viewers need distance to make out the images.

Contact: lilly@sevendaysvt.com In a statement, Beltré says her works “deal with race, social justice and the INFO simultaneous but opposing concepts of “Unbroken Current,” on view through invisibility and hypervisibility.”

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built around the turn of the 19th century and now conjoined. The tour features a special exhibit: “Travels of the Intrepid Couple: Stories, Art and Adventures of Lydia and Jack Clemmons.” Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte, Saturday, October 12, 10-11:30 a.m. $10. Info, 765-560-5445.

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f ‘DARK MATTER’: The 11th annual “dark arts” group exhibition in multiple mediums, curated by gallery director Christy Mitchell. Reception: Friday, October 11, 5-9 p.m. October 11-November 2. Info, 578-2512.

The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

VERMONT NORTH BY HAND ARTISANS CO-OP STUDIO TOUR: Meet the artists where they work at studios in Corinth, Bradford, Fairlee, West Fairlee, Newbury, West Newbury, Ely and North Thetford.

Various Upper Valley locations, White River Junction, Saturday, October 12, and Sunday, October 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, vtnorthbyhand@gmail.com.

f ‘DIMENSIONS OF CONNECTION’: An ongoing collaboration of performance and multimedia artist Anna Huff and creative media faculty member Al Larsen that explores how the human psyche coexists with emerging technology practices. Interactive media, performance and sculptural props invite playful exploration. Performance and reception: Wednesday, October 9, 5-7 p.m. October 9-31. Info, 865-8980.

Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington.

WAGMOREVT PHOTO SHOW AND PET PHOTO BOOTH: Photographer and dog blogger Rebecca Silbernagel hosts a pop-up show and sale and photographs pets to benefit Golden Huggs Rescue and Pawsitive Pantry. Costumes optional for photo booth. Product Think Tank, Waitsfield, Friday, October 11, 3-6 p.m. Free; $5 suggested donation for the photo booth. Info, silbernagel.r@gmail.com.

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f SAM MACY: “Natural Color,” Vermont scenes assembled in hand-cut native and exotic wood forms using natural, untouched and unstained wood.

Reception: Thursday, October 10, 6-8 p.m. October 10-November 24. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne.

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f STEPHANIE SEGUINO: “Radical Empathy,” photo-

graphs that explore racial issues by the University of Vermont professor of economics. Reception and artist talk: Wednesday, October 23, 3 p.m. October 14-25. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson.

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f DONA ANN MCADAMS: Acclaimed Vermont

photographer and activist Dona Ann McAdams’ expansive oeuvre features historic black-and-white portraits of avant-garde performers, pioneers of queer liberation, portraits of people living with schizophrenia, Appalachian farmers, cloistered nuns, racetrack workers, and luminous images of horses, oxen and goats. Reception: Sunday, October 13, 3-5 p.m. October 13-January 4. Info, 579-9501. Castleton University Bank Gallery in Rutland.

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f KAREN HENDERSON: “Contemplate,” landscape-

inspired textiles and mixed-media artworks.

Reception: Friday, October 11, 4-6 p.m. October 9-November 22. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

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f JORDAN LAURA MCLACHLAN & MORTON

BARTLETT: “Family Matters,” a special exhibition of outsider art, in association with Marion Harris Gallery in New York City. Reception: Saturday, November 9, 3-5 p.m. October 9-February 29. Info, 767-9670.

BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

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f EVELYN R. SWETT: “Compost Compositions,”

paintings that muse on waste and transformation. f MARTHA STEIN: “A 40 Year Retrospective,” works in fiber sculpture. f SHARI WOLF BORAZ + MARY GERAKARIS: “Borders of Consciousness, Dreaming in Color,” artworks in embroidery and paintings on aluminum, respectively. Reception: Friday, October 11, 5-7 p.m. October 11-November 16. Info, 603-448-3117.

AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

ART EVENTS 10TH ANNUAL BIG BUZZ CHAINSAW CARVING FESTIVAL: More than 25 carvers from around the world compete at this fest also featuring food trucks, live music, and special events including quick carves, auctions and fire sculptures. The Ice House at Jackson Gore Inn, Okemo, Ludlow, Friday, October 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, October 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Monday, October 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $6; free for ages 12 and under. Info, 508-965-3211.

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‘Ingress’ TJ Cunningham and Helen Shulman explore the theme of “Ingress”

WINOOSKI COMMUNITY MURAL PAINTING: The City of Winooski and nonprofit Arts So Wonderful invite the community to contribute to a mural under the Main Street Bridge on three occasions. Picnics welcome.

Various Winooski locations, Saturday, October 12, noon-3 p.m. Info, volunteer@winooskivt.gov.

this month at Middlebury’s Edgewater Gallery on the Green. Though both painters, each

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approaches the concept of entering in distinctively different ways. Cunningham is known

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for his pristine landscapes in light-infused realism. Shulman abstracts observed landscapes and creates richly textured, layered images with paint and encaustic. Both artists display an emotional ingress into their consummate artistry. Through October 31. Pictured: “The Last Fall” by Cunningham.

58TH ANNUAL ART IN THE PARK FALL FESTIVAL: Dozens of Vermont arts and crafts, along with specialty food, live music, kids’ activities, a pet area and much more. Main Street Park, Rutland, Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, October 13, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-0356.

BCA SUMMER ARTIST MARKET: A contemporary outdoor market that offers unique handmade items

by Vermont artists including ceramics, woodworking, jewelry, games, clothing, accessories and more.

Burlington City Hall, Saturday, October 12, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free to browse. Info, 865-7166.

CONVERSATION WITH THE CURATOR: ‘JOEL BARBER & THE MODERN DECOY’: Exhibition curator Kory Rogers talks about collector and artist Barber and the decoy as an art form. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum, Saturday, October 12, 2 p.m. Free with museum admission. Info, 985-3346.

FALL OPEN HOUSE: Landscape paintings in the galleries, demonstrations by painters Eric Tobin and Karen Winslow, tours, and refreshments. Visions of Vermont Art Galleries, Jeffersonville, Sunday, October 13, noon-4 p.m. Info, 644-8183.

INFOGRAPHICS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: A hands-on graphic ally hackathon with Jessica Bellamy demonstrates how to tell visual data stories to inspire policy change and mobilize information at the grassroots level. Noble Lounge, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Wednesday, October 9, 6:30-8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 866-934-8232.

MFA IN GRAPHIC DESIGN RESIDENCY: RETURNING STUDENT WORK ON DISPLAY: The program’s fall residency features public lectures by guest designers and exhibitions of student work. Alumni Hall Gallery, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Wednesday, October 9, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Thursday, October 10, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; and Friday, October 11, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 866-934-8232.

MFA IN GRAPHIC DESIGN THESIS EXHIBITION: ALCHEMY: The Vermont College of Fine Art pro-

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gram’s fall residency features exhibitions of student work, as well as public lectures by guest designers.

College Hall Gallery, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Wednesday, October 9, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. & 5-9 p.m.; Thursday, October 10, noon-9 p.m.; Friday, October 11, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; and Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Info, 866-934-8232.

OPEN STUDIO FIGURE DRAWING: Sessions featuring a variety of approaches to working from the figure are suited to all levels of drawing, painting and sculpture backgrounds and expertise. Easels and tables available. River Arts, Morrisville, Tuesday, October 15, 3-5:30 p.m. $10. Info, 888-1261.

‘QUILTING IN THE LAND OF MILK & HONEY’: A biannual exhibition of quilts by members of the local Milk & Honey Quilters’ Guild, as well as a raffle for a prized quilt. Middlebury Recreation Facility, Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, October 13, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, milkandhoneyquilt@yahoo.com.

STOWE FOLIAGE ARTS FESTIVAL: Arts and crafts by dozens of Vermont artisans, demonstrations, food and drink, and music under tents. No pets; service animals only. Topnotch Field, Topnotch Resort, Stowe, Friday through Sunday, October 11 through 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $10; free for children.

SUMRU TEKIN: VIDEO AND DISCUSSION: The Vermont artist presents her video work as part of a quarterly series that highlights the history, practitioners and genres of the moving image and time-based media. Single Channel VT, Burlington, Friday, October 11, 8-10 p.m. Free. Info, 734-5878.

TALK: ‘SINNERS, PROPHETS AND SEERS: MORAL REFORM AND THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING’: Bill Hart, professor of American history at Middlebury College, discusses the growing pains, and achievements, in the young republic. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Thursday, October 10, 7 p.m. Info, 388-2117.

TOURS OF THE HISTORIC BARN HOUSE: The Barn House consists of a granary and a cow barn,

ART LISTINGS AND SPOTLIGHTS ARE WRITTEN BY PAMELA POLSTON. LISTINGS ARE RESTRICTED TO ART SHOWS IN TRULY PUBLIC PLACES.

f AARON STEIN: “Off the Map,” work created using old license plates and found objects by the local artist. Closing reception: Friday, October 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Through October 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

ART HOP JURIED SHOW: A group exhibition of works selected by a guest juror, with first, second and third prize winners. Open during Flynn performances or by appointment. Through November 30. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington.

‘BE STRONG AND DO NOT BETRAY YOUR SOUL’: Photographs by 47 artists from the collection of Light Work, a nonprofit based in Syracuse, N.Y., that explore topics of politics, social justice, identity and visibility. ‘RESIST! INSIST! PERSIST!’: Curated by UVM students in a fall 2018 art history class, the exhibit draws works primarily from the museum’s collection to explore how historical and contemporary artists have countered adversity and hardship with empowerment and expression. Through December 13. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington.

DAVID HOLUB: Digital illustrations that combine words, images, whimsy, heartbreak and humor.

Through November 30. Info, 862-9647. The Daily Planet in Burlington.

GARRETT MORIN: “Crowd Sorcery,” new works in pastel by the New York-based artist inspired by Neolithic monuments to the dead. Through November 16. Info, 233-2943. Safe and Sound Gallery in Burlington.

‘IN THE STEPS OF FOLLY COVE’: ARTIST PRINT INVITATIONAL: Participating artists: Peter Bregoli Abigail Doan, Jean-Jacques du Plessis, Louise Eastman, Jonathan Fabricant, Elise Ferguson, Susan Abbott Martin, Joe Peppe, Mylene Pionilla, Wendy Small, Barb Smith, Russell Steinert, Janis Stemmerman and Andy Yoder. Through October 18.

Info, 656-2014. Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, in Burlington.

MARTIN SEEHUUS: “Far Away and Moving Very Fast,” paintings that focus on playful honesty. Through November 30. Info, 391-4083. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

MERCHE BAUTISTA: “Of Joy and Other Acts of Resistance,” mixed-media installations that represent female identity by the Spanish-Mexican artist. Through October 30. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington.

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SCOTT ANDRÉ CAMPBELL: “Distribution,” mixedmedia geometric abstractions that create order from chaos. Through October 31. Info, 324-0014.

Soapbox Arts in Burlington.

STEPHEN MEASE: Special events and scenes of Vermont by the Burlington photographer. Through October 31. Info, 391-4083. Union Station in Burlington.

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‘EARTH PRESS PROJECT: DISPATCH FROM GAIA’: The culmination of the collaborative installation of artist Nancy Milliken Studio and Vermont poet laureate Chard deNiord, which has been in the Saint Michael’s Natural Area since late August. Through November 1. Info, 654-2851. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.

‘IN THEIR ELEMENT’: An installation of sculptures on the museum grounds by contemporary artists Rodrigo Nava, Jonathan D. Ebinger and Dan Snow.

Curated by Carolyn Bauer. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

‘JOEL BARBER & THE MODERN DECOY’: The first major exhibition to explore the life, collections and artwork of Barber (1876-1952), with objects including decoys, drawings, photographs and watercolor paintings from the museum’s collection. Through January 12. ‘WILLIAM WEGMAN: OUTSIDE IN’: More than 60 works from the renowned artist’s collection, including Polaroid photos of his Weimeraners, pages from his handmade book Field Guide to North America and to Other Regions, drawing and postcard paintings. Through October 20. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

MYLISSA KOWALSKI DAVIS AND FIONA COOPER FENWICK: Vermont landscape paintings. Through October 13. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

‘POLLINATE THIS!’: How can art explore, examine, and express pollination — metaphorical and otherwise?

Experience how Vermont artists and photographers view pollination. Through October 31. Info, 434-2167.

Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.

VALERIE HIRD: “We’re Not in Kansas Anymore,” new paintings by the Burlington artist that explore cultural mythologies and the roles they play in our perceptions of each other. Through October 15. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

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‘200 YEARS—200 OBJECTS’: In the final celebratory year of the university’s bicentennial, the museum exhibits a curated selection of artifacts, documents and images from the school’s collections. Through December 21. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

ADELAIDE MURPHY TYROL: “Anatomy of a Pond,” acrylic paintings and drawings, including larger fine-art paintings and small natural history armature illustrations. Through December 31.

Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

AMY DAVENPORT: “Visual Splendor: Travels in Northern India,” photographs of architecture, street life, the Taj Mahal and women. Through October 20.

Info, moetown52@comcast.net. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

CHRIS JEFFREY: Kinetic wall pieces that encourage the viewer to become involved in bringing the art to life, plus light boxes that seem to project colorful UV-lit structures into infinity. Through November 30. Info, 585-0867. Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier.

‘CONDUITS’: Painters Liz Hawkes deNiord and Richard Heller and collodion print photographer Rachel Portesi explore underlying realities in their artworks. Through October 31. Info, 828-3291.

Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

‘ROCK SOLID XIX’: An annual, since 2000, showcase of stone sculptures and assemblages by area artists, and other work that depicts the beautiful qualities of stone. DAMARISCOTTA ROUELLE: “Humanity – No Fear of the Other and the Good

Life,” recent paintings. Third floor gallery. TUYEN MY NGUYEN: “Perspective,” installations made from tautly strung thread and string that explore scale differences in small and large configurations.

Second floor gallery. Through November 2. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

ELIZABETH NELSON: “Northward,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Curated by Studio Place Arts.

Through December 14. Info, info@studioplacearts. com. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre.

GALEN CHENEY & TESSA O’BRIEN: Mixed-media paintings. NORTHERN VERMONT ARTIST ASSOCIATION: A group show featuring works by members of the longtime artists’ organization.

Through November 1. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

‘IN THE DETAILS’: Watercolors by Samantha Aronson and photography collage by Michelle Saffran. Music for the evening provided by Jay Saffran. Through October 31. Info, 279-5048. ART, etc. in Northfield.

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f JANIE COHEN: “Rogue Cloth Work,” handstitched pieces of old cloth combined and transformed into new textile assemblages with new contexts. Reception: Thursday, October 10, 4:30-7 p.m. Through December 27. Info, 828-0749.

Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

‘MONKEYS, MISSILES AND MUSHROOMS’: Paintings and drawings by Marina Epstein that reflect the artist’s life in Vermont and exotic tropical influences from living in the Yucatan. Through October 30. Info, 229-6297. Capitol Region Visitors Center in Montpelier.

‘NORMAN ROCKWELL’S ARLINGTON: AMERICA’S HOME TOWN’: An exhibit chronicling Rockwell and other artists who lived in Arlington, as well as many local residents who posed for the scenes of everyday life they portrayed. A collaborative effort of the Canfield Gallery and the Russell Collection of Vermontiana. Through January 31. Info, 479-8500.

Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

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SHOW 35: Recent works by members of Montpelier’s sole collective art gallery. Through November 30. Info, info@thefrontvt.com. The Front in Montpelier.

SUSAN WAHLRAB AND CHRIS MILLER: ‘UNCHARTED’: After a lifetime of artistic investigations, the central Vermont artists leap into uncharted waters with challenging materials, subject matter and presentation. Through November 22. Info, 738-3667. The Garage Cultural Center in Montpelier.

‘THE WAR OF IDEAS’: Propaganda posters from the collections, spanning the Civil War to World War II and illustrating everything from recruitment to support on the home front. Through October 25.

Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Center in Barre.

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2019 SMALL WORKS SHOW: An annual exhibition that celebrates the little things, in 2D and 3D pieces 24 inches or less. Through November 9. DUNCAN JOHNSON: “Horizons,” a new body of work using reclaimed wood, assembled into abstract, 2D compositions. Through October 13. Info, 253-8943.

West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

BRIAN FEKETE: “Quixotica,” an exhibition of five large-scale oil paintings on canvas that explore abstraction, gesture and color. Through December 20. Info, 881-0418. 571 Projects in Stowe.

‘EXPOSED!’: The 28th annual outdoor sculpture exhibition, featuring works on the gallery lawn.

Through October 19. ‘UNBROKEN CURRENT’: Photography, painting, sculpture and mixed-media works by Mildred Beltré, Sanford Biggers, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Rashid Johnson, Harlan Mack and Carrie Mae Weems investigate cultural and personal identity, social justice and history.

Through November 9. VASILIS ZOGRAFOS: “Studio of Archeo-virtual Spiritings,” contemporary paintings by the Greek artist that borrow from archaeological traditions and aesthetics. Through November 9. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

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HEARTBEET LIFESHARING FIBER ARTS: Collaborative works of fiber artists and the therapeutic woodworking studio at the life-sharing communities in Hardwick and Craftsbury that include adults with developmental disabilities. f JENNIFER HUBBARD: “The View From Here,” landscape paintings featuring scenes from Lamoille and Orleans counties. Reception: Thursday, November 14, 5-7 p.m. Through December 27. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

JANET VAN FLEET: “Long Thoughts,” mixed-media work by the Cabot artist. Through October 11. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson.

Kate Emlen “Breathe the Wind” at White River Gallery

Norwich artist’s small gouache works on paper, as well as larger oil paintings on panel and canvas. in graphic design that informs her cogent compositions, as well as the

‘PEAK TO PEAK: 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION THEN AND NOW’: An exhibition of photographs and artifacts to highlight the evolution of the division’s equipment and training since its beginning in 1943.

Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

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f ‘BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL’: Juried paintings by

members of the Vermont Watercolor Society illustrate diverse styles and techniques. Reception and awards ceremony: Sunday, October 20, 3-5 p.m.

Through December 21. Info, 496-6682. Vermont Festival of the Arts Gallery in Waitsfield.

CAROL EBERLEIN: New pastel paintings by the Waitsfield artist. Through October 19. Info, 244-7036.

Waterbury Public Library.

‘HUMAN NATURE/NATURE HUMAN’: Paintings

by Deborah Brown that focus on a lone female character; and paintings by Mark Barry that provide poignant recognition of the humor, warmth and universality of everyday experience. Through October 13. Info, 583-5832. Bundy Modern in Waitsfield.

JOHN MATUSZ: Collage sculptures made from cardboard and ranging in size from 27 to nearly 70 inches tall, as well as large-scale abstract drawings in charcoal, pen and pastel. Through October 26. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

‘VOTES … FOR WOMEN?’: An exhibition of vintage photographs, banners and memorabilia that coincides with the 100th anniversary of the campaign to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. Through December 8. Info, 443-6433.

Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

some of her paintings. The latter are disconcerting, as if a portal

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‘ART OF FIRE’: An all-media exhibit by members.

Through November 5. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

taking her lead from observed reality, Emlen seems to suggest the not-seen quality of the natural world, and it is alluring.

Through December 20. Pictured: “Glimpse.”

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‘AMASSED AND UP-ENDED: DECODING THE LEGACY OF STUFF’: Objects, photographs and documents representing four generations of the Robinson family, and exploring how what we save over a lifetime helps to tell our stories. ‘STRUCTURES’: An exhibition repurposing the museum’s historic spaces as settings for contemporary art features work by Meg Walker, Axel Stohlberg, Dennis Versweyveld, Judith Rey, Steve Hadeka, Rob Hitzig and Yoko Ono. An international exhibition of mail art is in the Tourist Cabin. Through October 27. Info, 877-3406.

Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

‘CONJURING THE DEAD: SPIRIT ART IN THE AGE OF RADICAL REFORM’: Photographs and original drawings acquired by Solomon Wright Jewett (1808-94), a Vermont farmer, legislator and spiritualist who claimed supernatural powers, including bringing back the deceased. DANA SIMSON: “The animals are innocent,” mixed-media/ceramic sculptures and paintings featuring animals that address loss of habitat and food sources, among other perils.

Through January 11. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

3RD ANNUAL LYNDONVILLE ART WALK: Artists and makers in all mediums are invited to create work in the theme of opposites, such as black/white, spring/fall, hot/cold, or whatever comes to mind.

Deadline: November 8. Green Mountain Books and Prints, Lyndonville.

Free. Info, 229-8317, melmelts@yahoo.com.

58TH ANNUAL ART IN THE PARK FESTIVALS: Vermont artists and artisans are invited to participate in the festival at Main Street Park in Rutland, October 12 and 13. Deadline: October 10. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland. Info, artinthepark@chaffeeartcenter.org, 775-0356.

‘ABSTRACTION’: Abstract images combine shapes, color, pattern, texture and imagination to create an image largely independent of visual reality. For an exhibition in January, we seek abstract images made in whatever way you choose. Curator: Kirsten Hoving. Deadline: November 11. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury. $39 for up to five images; $6 for each additional image. Info, photos@photoplacegallery. com, photoplacegallery.com.

CALL TO ARTISTS FOR ‘CHILDHOOD’: We are interested in seeing images that reflect memories of childhood, whether through allusion to your own experience or your current experience with a child. All capture and processing methods are welcome. Deadline: October 14.

PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury. $39 for up to 5 images; $6 for each additional image. Info, photos@photoplacegallery.com, photoplace gallery.com.

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PETER K.K. WILLIAMS: Oil paintings including landscapes inspired by Vermont, Lake Champlain and the rainforest of Costa Rica, as well as re-creations based upon Paleolithic cave paintings from France.

Through November 10. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

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‘BODY BEAUTIFUL’: Two-dimensional artwork appreciating the diversity of the human form. Viewing hours by chance or appointment. Through October 12. Info, 244-4168. Grange Hall Cultural Center in Waterbury Center.

MUSEUMLAB: A diverse array of pieces from the museum’s collection selected by professors from a variety of disciplines; visitors are invited to observe the reactions sparked when this “teaching laboratory” displays art supporting various college courses.

Through December 8. Info, 443-5258. Middlebury College Museum of Art.

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f ‘MOUNTAIN AIR’: A group exhibition of the mountain landscape featuring painting, photography and sculpture, curated by Kelly Holt. Reception: Friday, October 25, 5-6:30 p.m. Through November 22. Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.

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KATHRYN WYATT: “The Cemeteries of Addison County,” photography. Through October 31. Info, 458-2603. Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury.

f CORRINE YONCE: “Somewhere Between Place and Home,” a multimedia exploration of three projects by the community organizer, artist and documentarian that explore what it means when one’s primary residence is something other than fully home.

Reception: Friday, October 25, 5-7 p.m. Through February 29. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

ELLEN GRANTER: “Creatures Great and Small,” paintings inspired by the Massachusetts artist’s observations and love of wildlife that inhabits the New England coastline. Through October 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

HANNAH MORRIS: “Waiting to Happen,” a solo exhibition of new collages, composed of magazine photos and paper detritus, by the Barre artist.

Through October 31. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

‘INGRESS’: Realist and abstracted landscape paintings by T.J. Cunningham and Helen Shulman, respectively. Through October 31. Info, 989-7419.

Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

‘GOING UP THE COUNTRY’: Juried works by member artists including woodcuts by Mary Azarian, oil paintings by Kathleen Kolb, paintings and sculptures

by Susan and Patrick Farrow, Yvonne Daly’s painted, embroidered and silk-screened clothing, and much more. Through November 1. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

f JOHN BROWDOWSKY: “Why 40 Still Lifes,” paintings resulting from the artist’s project of painting one still life a week over 12 months. Reception: Sunday, October 27, 3 p.m. Through November 11.

Info, info.77art@gmail.com. B&G Gallery in Rutland.

SCULPTFEST2019: Site-specific sculptures by nearly a dozen artists, guest-curated by Bill Wolff. Through October 20. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland.

f WHITNEY RAMAGE: “(Dis)Embodiment,” multimedia works that utilize sculptures, performance videos, photographs and drawings to explore how the human body relates and interacts with the world. Reception: Sunday, October 27, 3 p.m. Through November 11. Info, info.77art@gmail.com. The 77 Gallery in Rutland.

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COLEEN O’CONNELL: “Feathers, Ferns and Fish,” prints using a variety of techniques by the

CALL TO ARTISTS: MURAL OPPORTUNITIES: Local nonprofit Arts So Wonderful has a graffiti-abatement program giving artists a chance to make public art and beautify Burlington. There are several current opportunities for artists to collaborate on murals around town before the winter weather comes, as well as planning for spring projects.

Deadline: October 31. Various Burlington & Winooski locations. Info, artssowonderful2@gmail.com.

ISLAND ARTS GALLERY CALL TO ARTISTS: Artists interested in showing at the gallery must submit an artist statement or biography, medium, and two to five high-quality digital images of their work to Mary Jo McCarthy at maryjomccarthy@gmail.com. Deadline: November 15. If accepted, each artist or artist group will be assigned a month for exhibition in 2020. Island Arts Gallery, North Hero. Free.

Info, 372-6047.

CALL TO ARTISTS: ‘BOTANICAL BLITZ’: During the coldest months of winter, the gallery will turn into a botanical refuge with paintings and drawings, sculptural works and installations that depict the plant, insect and animal worlds. We are looking for new work, in traditional and nontraditional media, for an exhibition January 21 to March 7.

Deadline: November 15. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069, studioplacearts.com.

PHOTO CONTEST: Photographers are invited to enter up to three submissions of photos taken in Vermont between January 1 and November 22, the deadline date. Must attend at least one meeting of River Arts Photo Co-op to qualify. Winning images will be in an exhibit; prizes given. River Arts, Morrisville. Free. Info, riverartsvt.org, info@ riverartsvt.org.

CELEBRATE! SPA ANNUAL MEMBERS SHOW: SPA invites its members to share new work in a major show during the holiday gift-giving season, displayed on all three floors. Deadline: October 11. Exhibit dates: November 13 to December 28. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069, studioplacearts.com.

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES THROUGH AN ARTIST’S EYE: The Orleans County Natural Resources Conservation District and the Memphremagog Arts Collective are looking for artists of all types to submit work around the theme of ecosystem services and agriculture.

The juried exhibition will open on April 3 at the MAC Center for the Arts in downtown Newport. Deadline: December 31. Memphremagog Arts Collaborative, Newport. Free. Info, 624-7022, vacd.org/ conservation-districts/orleans-county, emily.irwin@vt.nacdnet.net.

VILLAGE HEALTH GRAND OPENING ART CONTEST: Professionals, amateurs, adults and children, including groups are invited to submit work in all mediums for display. Send digital submission by November 30 to info@villagehealthvt.com. Cash prizes. Rules and entry forms at villagehealthvt.com. Village Health, Middlebury. Free. Info, 382-9491.

VOICING ART EKPHRASTIC POETRY READING SERIES: Calling for submissions/reading of original poetry written by all ages and experience levels in direct response to Mercedes Bautista’s “Joy and Other Acts of Resistance” exhibit at Flynndog Gallery, or other art of the writer’s choice, at the October 19 Voicing Art Poetry Reading.

See poartry.org/voicing-art for livestream participation details and for submission guidelines. Deadline: October 18. Flynndog Gallery, Burlington. Info, poartryproject@gmail.com.

ART SHOWS

ecologically minded local artist. JENNA RICE: “Guitar Tattoos,” pyrographic artwork on musical instruments by the Weathersfield artist and musician. Through December 31. Info, 295-4567.

Long River Gallery & Gifts in White River Junction.

‘ELEMENTS OF GLASS: FROM THE WORKSHOP OF SIMON PEARCE’: A collaborative exhibition with the renowned Vermont glassmaker explores the transformation from sand to glass, from design to finished product. Through March 31. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

RACHEL GROSS: “Through the Curve,” new prints.

Through October 28. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

SUE LAWRENCE & ANDREW WILLIAMS: Oil paintings with a fall foliage theme by the Claremont, N.H., artists. Through October 31. Info, 295-0808.

Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

WENDY KLEMPERER, MIRANDA THOMAS & JACKIE PADICH: Paintings and sculpture that incorporate natural imagery. Through January 5. Info, 3595000. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center in Quechee.

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‘’90S REIGN’: Work by students in the animation and illustration program. Through November 14.

Info, 626-6487. Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, in Lyndonville.

DIANNE SHULLENBERGER: “Outdoor Influences,” works in fabric, thread, grasses, twigs and bark that capture the essence of the natural world. Through October 27. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

‘FROM GRANITE TO GOLD’: An exhibit examining the life of Burdean Sebert (1900-95), the daughter of a local stonecutter who became an performer in a touring company, an Emmy winner for a TV show in Ohio, and then an instructor of drama and public speaking in Montpelier. Through October 17. Info, 472-8555. Hardwick Historical Society.

‘ICELAND’: Eight large paintings regarding Iceland

by Elizabeth Nelson. Through October 19. Info, 535-3031. Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover.

‘THE PIVOT AND THE BLADE: AN INTIMATE GLANCE AT SCISSORS’: A collection of objects that convey the long human relationship to scissors, their design and explore myriad professional, creative, superstitious, violent and domestic uses. Through December 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

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‘ALCHEMY: METAL, MYSTERY AND MAGIC’: A group show featuring sculptures and painting by Jeanne Carbonetti, Sabrina Fadial, Alexandra Heller, Peter Heller, Pat Musick, Dan O’Donnell, Gerald Stoner and Johny Swing. Through February 29. Info, 258-3992.

The Great Hall in Springfield.

DOUG TRUMP: “By Rail,” 12 oil and mixed-media works on repurposed wood. Through February 9.

FAFNIR ADAMITES: “Interfere (with),” a sculptural installation created with felted wool and burlap that focuses on intergenerational trauma and generational emotional turmoil. Through March 7. GORDON MEINHARD: “The Lives of Tables,” modernist still life paintings of tables that appear to become more animated as the series progresses, by the cofounder of the museum. Through March 7.

MARÍA ELENA GONZÀLEZ: “Tree Talk,” an installation that uses rubbings and tracings of birch bark as templates for laser-cutting paper piano rolls.

Through February 9. THELMA APPEL: “Observed/ Abstract,” a survey of the career of a cofounder of the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, whose work now centers on the tarot.

Through February 9. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

‘MADE IN VERMONT’: A group exhibition of new and recently completed work by Vermont artists, including paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Arista Alanis, Steve Budington, Clark Derbes, Jason Galligan-Baldwin and Sarah Letteney. MALCOLM MORLEY: Approximately 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper created between 1964 and 2016

by the British-born American artist and founder of super-realism. RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER: Some 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper that reference everyday objects, symbols, people and places, often made from unconventional and industrial materials. The American painter, sculptor and draftsman died in 2011. Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

NATALJA KENT: ‘Movement Artifact,” large-scale, camera-less “photographs” created with direct application of light to paper in the darkroom.

Through November 1. Info, 251-5130. Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro.

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22ND ANNUAL NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: Outdoor sculptures and gallery exhibits featuring 41 artists throughout the historic village. Through November 3. Info, 4309715. Various locations around North Bennington.

ASA CHEFFETZ: VERMONT WOOD ENGRAVINGS: Works by the late printmaker (1896-1965). Through December 20. JANE STICKLE QUILT: The annual exhibition of the fragile 1893 sampler quilt created by the 19th-century Vermont stitcher. Through October 14. ‘VISIBLE IN VERMONT: OUR STORIES, OUR VOICES’: A multigenerational photo and story exhibition highlighting the experiences of people of color living in or attending school in Vermont.

Through December 30. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

‘CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN REGIONALISM: VERMONT PERSPECTIVES’: Using works from the center’s permanent collection, the exhibition invites viewers to consider the framework of regionalism and the role art plays in society. Guest-curated

by Ric Kasini Kadour. RON ROSENSTOCK: “Sacred Places,” photographs of locations around the world where people have gathered to pray or be inspired.

Through October 20. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

KATARINA BURIN: “Authorship, Architecture, Anonymity: The Impossible Career of Petra Andrejova-Molnàr,” an installation exploring the career of the fictional 20th-century modernist designer, addressing the erasure of women from the canon. Through October 13. Info, 442-5401.

Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery in Bennington.

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‘AN ARCHIVE OF FEELING’: A group exhibition of photography, sculpture, painting, textiles and installation that ask what we hold and what materials are able to hold us. Artists include Lydia Kern, Caitlin LaDolce, Rachel Elizabeth Jones, Wylie Garcia, Janie Cohen, Josh Urban Davis, Morris Fox and Marina Leybishkis. Curated by J. Turk. Through November 3. Info, seth@chandler-arts.org. Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph.

‘COLORS IN LIFE’: More than 30 paintings by the Connecticut River Chapter of the Vermont Watercolor Society. Through November 10. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

f DEBORAH SACKS: “Cats, Landscapes & Figures,” mixed-media prints by the local artist. Reception: Friday, October 25, 6 p.m. Through October 31. Info, 685-2188. Chelsea Public Library.

JANET VAN FLEET: “Hanging Around,” mixedmedia constructions of found materials. Through November 9. Info, 685-4699. North Common Arts in Chelsea.

KATE EMLEN: “Breathe the Wind,” paintings large and small, inspired from immersion in nature.

Through December 20. Info, 498-8438. White River Gallery in South Royalton.

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LAURA BOYAJIAN: “Body of Work,” expressive drawings and paintings; sales to benefit AVA. Through October 12. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. m

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PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PURSUANT TO 30 V.S.A. §§ 10 AND 225

You are hereby notified that the Vermont Public Utility Commission will hold a JOINT PUBLIC HEARING in PUC Case No. 19-3167-TF – Tariff filing of Green Mountain Power Corporation for approval of an Energy Storage System tariff effective on bills rendered on or after September 15, 2019 – and Case No. 19-3537-TF – Tariff filing of Green Mountain Power Corporation for approval of a Bring Your Own Device tariff to be effective October 31, 2019 – On October 16, 2019 at the Unitarian Church, 130 Main Street, Montpelier, VT 05602. A presentation will begin at 6:30 P.M. hosted by the Vermont Department of Public Service where Green Mountain Power Corporation will describe the tariffs and answer questions. The Public Hearing will be held immediately following, but no earlier than 6:45 P.M. The above hearing location is handicapped accessible. Any person with a disability who wishes to attend and will need special accommodation should contact the Public Utility Commission (802-828-2358) by no later than October 14, 2019, if they will need that accommodation.

Additional information regarding the tariffs is available on the Public Utility Commission’s website at www.epuc.vermont.gov in Case Numbers 19-3537-TF & 19-3167-TF. If you are unable to attend the public hearing, you may submit written comments using the Public Utility Commission’s website at www.epuc.vermont.gov, via email to puc.clerk@vermont.gov, or via regular mail sent to Vermont Public Utility Commission, 112 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05620-2701. Please include the case number when submitting written comments.

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n the beginning, Cain and Abel went for each other’s throats. Later, Romulus and Remus. Much later, Phil and Don Everly. You see where I’m going with this.

Liam and Noel Gallagher are the founders of the English rock band Oasis and the reigning heavyweight champions of sibling rivalry.

Even in the ’90s, the group was as famous for its fraternal friction as for its chart-topping music. Given the brothers’ degree of drug-fueled acrimony, it’s amazing Oasis lasted until 2009 before imploding. One August night, moments before a Paris show, the two went at each other one final time, and Noel zoomed away in his Lamborghini. As we learn in this eye-opening film, the Gallagher brothers haven’t spoken since.

Liam Gallagher: As It Was (now available for purchase on various streaming services) is about what did happen next. Directed by Charlie Lightening and Gavin Fitzgerald, it’s a documentary geared to an incredibly specific demographic. If you don’t love Oasis, wish the Gallaghers would bury the hatchet, suspect deep down it’s Noel who’s been the bigger tool and therefore root for Liam’s second coming, the movie’s likely to leave you mystified. If you do, you’re all but certain to find yourself satisfied and then some.

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Unlike 2016’s Oasis: Supersonic, this isn’t a picture purporting to tell both sides of the story. It’s a record of the depths to which Liam, 47, spiraled following the disintegration of the group — Britain’s biggest since the Beatles — and his long, slow slog back to the spotlight. If you’re acquainted with the brash, defiant, hedonistic figure the singer cut in his twenties, you’re in for a surprise.

The picture literally begins with the end of Oasis, as the shocked Paris crowd is told the show won’t go on. From there, the movie does succinct dives into projects Liam threw himself into without skipping a beat. His new band, Beady Eye, failed to pick up where Oasis left off, despite being the same band minus Noel. Who did write most of the group’s hits.

Then there was Pretty Green, the flowerpower fashion line Liam started in 2009. There were tabloid troubles — very public divorces, custody battles, substance-abuse battles, seemingly endless court battles. What there wasn’t any longer was money to pay for it all. One interview subject tells of a desperate moment when Liam reached out to his brother. A brief reunion tour would’ve gotten him back on his feet. He’s still waiting for Noel to return that call.

Not that the rocker has simply been waiting around. Debbie Gwyther, his girlfriend and manager, convinced Liam he had what it took to find fame and fortune again. He got busy and did

MASTERPLAN Lightening and Fitzgerald document the Oasis frontman’s reinvention as a solo rock and roll star.

just that, thanks to the phenomenal success of two solo albums since 2017. Liam has also reaped the riches of fatherhood; his kids are grown, and he clearly relishes being with them. The dude still enjoys a Guinness but jogs more and smokes less. He’s writing his best songs ever. Occasionally, he even comes across as humble.

There’s nothing revolutionary about the film’s approach. It’s a regulation mix of talking

Joker ★★★

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or all the emphasis on facial makeup, the real star of director Todd Phillips’ Joker is Joaquin Phoenix’s emaciated rib cage. In scene after scene, his character, the hapless professional clown Arthur Fleck, meditates shirtlessly on his miserable life in Gotham City. Meanwhile, that rib cage strains against its casing as if trying to take flight. It never does.

But does the movie? By now, we’ve all already experienced the cultural firestorm around the Batman nemesis origin story that is supposedly both an art film and a referendum on white masculinity. A.O. Scott of the New York Times has even loftily informed us that the movie that inspired all this fear and hoopla is kind of a bore.

That’s true for much of the run time. The irony of Joker (one might say its last laugh) is that the moment when it comes most cinematically alive is also the moment when it becomes most morally repugnant. That’s the moment in the third act when Arthur finally becomes the cackling supervillain we all know.

Up to that point, the movie is basically a pastiche of early Martin Scorsese, whose grimy urbanscapes are lovingly re-created by cinematographer Lawrence Sher. Like Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, Arthur navigates a city that he finds implacably hostile and corrupt.

Like Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy, he’s an aspiring comedian obsessed with a late-night talk-show host (played by Robert De Niro, just to drive the point home).

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JOKER’S WILD Phoenix plays a would-be funnyman on the verge of mental collapse in Phillips’ sort-of-superhero-adjacent drama.

While both of Scorsese’s antiheroes had their own kind of nasty energy, however, Phillips (The Hangover) and cowriter Scott Silver have chosen to portray the mentally ill Arthur primarily as a victim. Pupkin at least had (bad) standup material; Arthur’s notebook is full of desperate scrawlings such as “I just hope my death makes more cents than my life.” Working as a clown-forhire, he’s beat on by street kids and mocked

by his coworkers while the soundtrack underlines his humiliation with “Everybody Plays the Fool.”

Phillips’ approach is, to put it lightly, heavy-handed. He asks us to care about Arthur without introducing even a sliver of hope into his story — until Arthur discovers his true talent for violence. In the aftermath, he dances, the cruel world softening into rainbow radiance around him.

heads — Oasis guitarist Bonehead and Liam’s older brother Paul among them — and archival footage, with a sprinkling of Liam’s recent music. (Noel made things difficult by refusing to license Oasis tunes.) What elevates the material is its insightful, uplifting portrait of the artist as a new man. The movie was 10 years in the making.

Ditto Liam Gallagher 2.0.

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Phillips constantly reaches for such iconic, meme-able moments: Slow motion, impressionistic lighting and needle drops are not in short supply here. Yet Joker doesn’t earn those moments by establishing a believable context.

Arthur never seems connected to anyone, even his mom (Frances Conroy), with whom he lives. As in You Were Never Really Here (2017), Phoenix is certainly acting, but it’s a one-man show.

Joker ultimately has more in common with B movies such as Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 (1981) than it does with the art films that Phillips seems to hope to emulate. It stacks the deck by making virtually every victim of Arthur’s violence an awful person, spinning a floridly, fantastically paranoid tale that undeniably suits its comic-book origins.

Yet the movie never accomplishes its job of convincing us that Arthur had a supervillain inside him all along. It works so hard to make him blameless that it makes him empty. When that emptiness is finally filled with color and theatricality and actual wit, of course the audience is going to cheer … for someone who has achieved self-realization through murder.

Walking out energized by the catharsis that follows nearly two hours of misery, it’s easy to feel like we’ve seen something great.

But maybe that’s the real killing joke.

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MOVIE CLIPS

Special celebrations are always in season.

NEW IN THEATERS THE ADDAMS FAMILY: Charles Addams’ creepy cartoon family becomes a family animation directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon (Sausage Party), with the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron and Chloë Grace Moretz. (105 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Sunset, Welden)

Hosting special events, holiday parties and your dream wedding anytime of year.

GEMINI MAN: Will Smith plays an aging hitman who finds himself facing off against his own equally lethal clone (also Smith) as director Ang Lee (Life of Pi) makes a return to action cinema.

With Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Clive Owen.

(117 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Sunset)

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JEXI: A phone addict (Adam Devine) is in trouble when Siri — oops, I mean “Jexi” (Rose Byrne), the new AI in his device — becomes his obsessed stalker. Somehow this is a comedy and not a horror thriller. Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (A Bad Moms Christmas) directed. (84 min, R. Essex, Majestic)

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NOW PLAYING ABOMINABLEHHH1/2 Lost in Shanghai, a young yeti needs help to return to his Everest home in this DreamWorks animated adventure. Jill Culton (Open Season) directed. With the voices of Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai and Eddie Izzard. (97 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 10/2) AD ASTRAHHHHH Brad Pitt plays an astronaut sent across the solar system on a mission to find his father (Tommy Lee Jones), who disappeared on a mysterious expedition, in this sci-fi film from director James Gray (The Immigrant). With Liv Tyler and Ruth Negga. (122 min, PG-13; reviewed

by R.K. 9/25) BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHONHHHH Jillian Bell plays a New York millennial who decides to change her unhealthy lifestyle one mile at a time in this comedy from first-time writer-director Paul Downs Colaizzo. (104 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 9/25) DOWNTON ABBEYHHH The story of the to-themanor-born Crawley family and their servants continues in this offshoot of the TV series, which includes a royal visit. With Michelle Dockery, Matthew Goode and Maggie Smith. Michael Engler directed. (122 min, PG) GOOD BOYSHH Seth Rogen produced this pint-size version of Superbad about three sixth graders having a very eventful, R-rated day. With Jacob Tremblay and Keith L. Williams. Gene Stupnitsky makes his directorial debut. (89 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 8/21) HUSTLERSHHHH Strip club workers figure out a not-so-legal way to make more money off their wealthy clients in this comic crime drama from director Lorene Scafaria (The Meddler). With Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez and Julia Stiles.

(109 min, R) IT: CHAPTER TWOHHH Pennywise the demonic clown (Bill Skårsgard) returns to his old tricks as the adaptation of Stephen King’s door-stop horror novel wraps up with this sequel set 27 years later. Starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader and Isaiah Mustafa. Andy Muschietti returns as director. (169 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 9/11)

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LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

I hope you are embarking on a vigorous new phase of self-redefinition. I trust you are excited about shedding old ways of thinking about yourself and eager to revise and reimagine the plot of your life story. As you do, keep in mind this helpful counsel from physicist Richard Feynman: “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”

dictable agent of chaos. “The barbarians are coming today,” declares the narrator. Everyone in town is uneasy. People’s routines are in disarray. Faces look worried. What’s going to happen?

But the poem has a surprise ending. “It is night, and the barbarians haven’t come,” reports the narrator. “Some people have arrived from the frontier and say that there aren’t any more barbarians.” I propose that we use this scene as a metaphor for your life right now, Taurus. It’s quite possible that the perceived threat isn’t really a threat. So here’s my question, taken from near the end of the poem: “What are we going to do now without the barbarians?”

heart in such a state? Because he has been separated from a person he loves. And so he’s out of practice in doing the little things, the caring gestures and tender words, that a lover does to keep the heart well-oiled. It’s my observation that most of us go through rustyheart phases like this even when we are living in close proximity to an intimate ally. We neglect to practice the art of bestowing affectionate attention and low-key adoration. We forget how important it is for our own welfare that we continually refresh and reinvigorate our heart intelligence. These are good meditations for you right now, Leo.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some folklorists

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired,” writes novelist Chuck Palahniuk. I agree! And that’s a key meditation for you right now. Your assignment is to enhance and upgrade the inspiration you feel about the activities that are most important to you — the work and the play that give you the sense you’re living a meaningful life. So how do you boost your excitement and motivation for those essential actions you do on a regular basis? Here’s a good place to begin: Visualize in exuberant detail all the reasons you started doing them in the first place.

prefer the term “wonder tales” rather than “fairy tales.” Indeed, many such stories are filled with marvelous events that feature magical transformations, talking animals and mythical creatures such as elves and dragons and unicorns. I bring this up, Gemini, because I want to encourage you to read some wonder tales. Hopefully, as you do, you’ll be inspired to reimagine your life as a wonder tale; you’ll reframe the events of the “real world” around you as elements in a richly entertaining wonder tale. Why do I recommend this? Because wonder tales are like waking dreams that reveal the wishes and curiosities and fascinations of your deep psyche. And I think you will benefit profoundly in the coming weeks from consciously tuning in to those wishes and curiosities and fascinations.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself,” wrote poet André Breton. I think that’s an excellent principle to put at the top of your priority list in the coming weeks, Aries. To be in maximum alignment with cosmic rhythms, you should seek input from allies who’ll offer insights about you that are outside your current conceptions of yourself.

You might even be daring enough to place yourself in the paths of strangers, acquaintances, animals and teachers who can provide novel reflections. There’s just one caveat: Stay away from people who might be inclined to fling negative feedback.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suspect that in the coming days you’ll be able to see into everyone’s souls more vividly than usual. You’ll have a special talent for piercing through the outer trappings of their personalities so as to gaze at the essence beneath. It’s as if your eyes will be blessed by an enhancement that enables you to discern what’s often hidden. This upgrade in your perception may at times be unsettling. For some of the people you behold, the difference between how they present themselves and who they actually are will be dramatic. But for the most part, penetrating to the depths should be fun, enriching, even healing.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Constantine

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “This heart is rusty,”

P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” imagines the imminent arrival of an unpre-

writes poet Gabriel Gadfly. “It creaks, it clanks, it crashes and rattles and bangs.” Why is his

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve probably heard the saying, “Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.” It’s often attributed to inventor Thomas Edison.

Sixteenth-century artist Michelangelo expressed a similar idea. “If you knew how much labor went into it, you would not call it genius,” he said about one of his masterpieces. I’m guessing that you Scorpios have been in a phase when these descriptions are highly apropos. The work you’ve been doing may look productive and interesting and heroic to the casual observer, and maybe only you know how arduous and exacting it has been. So now what do you do? I say it’s time to enjoy the fruits of your efforts. Celebrate! Give yourself a thrilling gift.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The

universe is under no obligation to make sense to you,” declared astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. If that’s even a little bit true, I bet you

won’t believe it in the coming weeks. According to my analysis, the universe will make a great deal of sense to you — at times even exquisite, beautiful, breathtaking sense. Life will be in a revelatory and articulate mood.

The evocative clues coming your way about the nature of reality could tempt you to believe that there is indeed a coherent plan and meaning to your personal destiny.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2005, Facebook was a startup company barely on the map of the internet. Its president asked graffiti artist David Choe to paint murals on the walls of its headquarters. Choe asked for $60,000, but the president convinced him to be paid with Facebook stock instead. Years later, when Facebook went public, Choe became a multimillionaire. I suspect that in the coming months you will be faced with choices that are less spectacular than that, Capricorn, but similar and important. My conclusion: Be willing to consider smart gambles when projects are germinating.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Experiment

is the sole source of truth,” wrote philosopher and polymath Henri Poincaré. “It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.” He wasn’t merely referring to the kinds of experiments that scientists conduct in laboratories. He was talking about the probes and explorations we can and should carry out in the course of our daily lives. I mention this, Aquarius, because the coming days will be prime time for you to do just that: Ask provocative questions, initiate novel adventures and incite fun learning experiences.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In my opinion, Piscean singer, poet and actor Saul Williams produces high-quality art. So he has earned a right to critique mediocre art. In speaking about movies and TV shows that are hard to enjoy unless we dumb ourselves down, he says that “we have more guilty pleasure than actual fucking pleasure.” Your assignment in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to cut back on your “guilty pleasures” — the entertainment, art and socializing that brings meager returns — as you increase and upgrade your actual fucking pleasure.

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Our eyes met; my heart slowed down to beat your name. When we walked together, it seemed, by silent pact, that we belonged to each other already. When I asked what you thought of me, you just pointed at your smile. When: Saturday, August 17, 2019. Where: Middlebury Co-op. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914882

BRIGHT EYES, NO BS ATTITUDE You: blue eyes, tall, no-bullshit kind of attitude, always in uniform. Me: curious about you. I see you often, and randomly, in Montpelier, always working hard. Always on the move.

You’re tough to find, but I seize up when you’re right in front of me. I want to become acquainted with you. Do you drink? I’ll buy. When: Wednesday, October 2, 2019. Where: Montpelier.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914879 HAM & CHEESE LOVER I spy my hot cheese, the occasional peanut butter to my jelly. I’m astounded every day by what we found — I’m excited for all the adventures to come!

Love, Ham lite. When: Saturday, April 13, 2019. Where: in a field.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914878

REDHEAD, OLD NORTH END We’ve crossed paths a number of times.

Winooski laundromat next to Pho Hong, the intersection of North Street and North Winooski, and a number of times at Trader Joe’s. I’m nervous and shy, but I want you to know I can’t get you off my mind! I’m 5’1, blue eyes, brown hair in top knot, short facial hair. When: Friday, September 27, 2019. Where: Trader Joe’s.

You: Woman. Me: Trans man. #914881

WALKING BY MY HOUSE You’re either walking alone or with your man almost every day. We always exchange smiles, waves or small flirts, and I’ve seen you smiling ear to ear when you hit the end of my house.

Yes, you have my motor running. So anytime you want to just stop and tell me what’s on your mind, please do it! I dare you! When: Monday, September 30, 2019. Where: off North Ave. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914877

AUBURN HAIR, GRAY DRESS, SUNGLASSES Lake Placid corner store, 11:30 a.m. You: amazingly attractive with your slender legs, big smile and beautiful auburn hair.

You walked by me next to the juice cooler.

I said, “It’s a beautiful day,” and you smiled and said it’s an “amazing day.” Any day would be amazing with you. Find me, babe, and let’s seize the day. When: Wednesday, September 18, 2019. Where: Lake Placid.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914880

BARISTA BABE AT ONYX I heard you talking about wanting to have a baby. I’ll father it for you. You’re tall and beautiful and really kind.

Let’s make babies and dress them in cashmere sweaters with names like Jacque and Arabica. Meet me at Onyx. I’ll be wearing tortoise-shell non-prescription glasses and a J.Crew cashmere sweater. When: Saturday, September 28, 2019. Where: Onyx coffee. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914876

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Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

I live with a rather promiscuous roommate.

She comes home with a different dude almost every night. Yesterday, I noticed an itchy feeling in my nether regions and, sure enough, I have crabs. My boyfriend and I have been monogamous for a few years, and I’m certain I didn’t get them from him.

I think one of my roomie’s “friends” is to blame. Can you get crabs from a toilet seat or furniture? How do I get rid of them? How do I tell my boyfriend?

Itching to Know

(female, 26)

BERLIN WALMART MEASURING WINDOW BLINDS I helped you measure the extension cord to determine the size for your kitchen window. I was taken by your eyes and smile. Should have asked if you needed help with the installation, but when I looked for you, you were gone. If you see this and still need assistance with any house-related tasks, please respond. When: Saturday, September 28, 2019. Where: Berlin, Vt. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914875

FIRST BRANCH, MONDAY MORNING, ICED TEA You had already ordered, and the barista was making a mess of the counter, spilling everything all over the place. I ordered iced tea, but they didn’t have any, so we brewed one and put it over ice. We had some small talk, but I felt we could have chatted. As I walked out, I wished you a wonderful day.

When: Monday, September 23, 2019.

Where: First Branch, South Royalton.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914869

PET PATH CROSSING You: handsome, jeans, blazer with possible cat carrier accessory. I was wrangling an anxious hound dog and smitten smile after seeing you in the lobby at drop-off/ pickup. You may not have seen me, but if you’re interested in a free drink, it’ll keep me from forming a fake friendship with a vet to try and secure your digits illicitly. When: Tuesday, September 24, 2019. Where: Orchard Veterinary.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914874

MICHELLE, WATERFRONT BIKE PATH Always nice to see you! OK, so you didn’t go to UVM! Can we meet to continue the conversation? Perhaps grab an app at Shanty on the Shore?

You are in my thoughts, and I think we would click very well. Guy on bike! A. When: Sunday, September 22, 2019. Where: BTV waterfront.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914868

QUEEN AND KARAOKE You were still in your coat, and I, a black sweater. We talked briefly about song choices. You seemed shy, but I was trying to convince you that it would be fun. We were both marveled by a local’s rendition of “Amazing.” I had to bring my friend home but would like to continue our conversation.

When: Thursday, September 26, 2019. Where: J.W. Ryan’s, St. Albans.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914873 TRADER JOE’S JUST NOW, 9/27 You were in a cardigan and striped skirt.

I was helping my mother shop. No easy way to say it, but I just stopped. Sorry that I kept looking. I’m not creepy, I promise. If you see me and have two minutes for a call, I could introduce myself. I should have today. When: Friday, September 27, 2019. Where: Trader Joe’s. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914872 GIRL WITH THE PEARL NECKLACE We cross paths on North Cambridge Road in the mornings as you’re leaving for work. You’re gorgeous in any of your many form-fitting dresses. We make eye contact as I pass by. We both smile, and my heart melts. I wake up hoping to see you again — that smile, blond hair and blue eyes are the highlight of my day. When: Monday, September 23, 2019. Where: Cambridge.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914870

Pubic lice are no fun — especially if you’re not getting them via sex! It’s highly unlikely that you contracted them from a toilet seat or furniture, but they can be transferred via towels, clothing and bedding. That community towel in your bathroom? Probably the culprit.

Luckily, it usually isn’t that hard to get rid of the creepy little bastards. Get yourself down to the drug store and purchase some Rid, Nix or A-200. If you’re confused about what to buy, ask the pharmacist. Don’t be embarrassed.

They’re used to it.

EYE TO EYE CONTACT While on vacay in Vermont taking an exercise class, we made eye contact and spoke briefly about how great you looked.

You liked my New York accent. Bumped into you again at City Market looking even better in your jeans. Regret not asking for your number, and wondering, Who’s that lady? Please get in touch. Thinking we’d be good together. When: Monday, September 2, 2019. Where: City Market, Flynn Ave. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914862

WALMART Urusala, I saw you Thursday afternoon at work in Walmart and didn’t feel comfortable approaching you at work. I was all in blue work clothes, and I think you’re really cute and would like to get to know you better.

Coffee or something? When: Friday, September 20, 2019. Where: Walmart.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914866 HANNAFORD, ST. ALBANS, THU., 9/19 You: red hair, white top, brown pants. We saw each other as I walked in, said hello a few rows later, and I was behind you at checkout. Me: short-sleeve buttonup, T-shirt and shorts. Hope you see this! When: Thursday, September 19, 2019. Where: Hannaford, St. Albans.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914865 TACOS AND BLOND DREADLOCKS You were with a friend(?). I was at the bar, mostly successfully reading and ignoring everyone. I saw you out of the corner of my eye. I then pretended to ignore everyone but couldn’t help but notice your contagious smile from across the way. You seem like a lovely human. Maybe I’ll bump into you in the taco line sometime. When: Monday, September 16, 2019. Where: Taco Gordo.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914864

Dear Itching to Know,

You can say you’re buying it for your roommate if it makes you feel better. Then get home and follow the instructions to a T. After you decontaminate yourself, do the same for your home. Wash all towels, bedding and clothing in hot

GATHERING BOOKS AT THE FLETCHER You were collecting a load of books in your arms. I recommended Dinesen, and you gave me your Stegner novel, which I’m reading! You are clearly a woman of curiosity, consideration and intelligence who possesses an independent mind.

Would you like to meet for coffee to talk further of literature (and other subjects)?

The basis for a potential friendship exists! When: Wednesday, September 11, 2019. Where: Fletcher Free Library.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914863

SO, WHAT ARE YOU READING? It was nice to see a new face at the bookstore, even though I had to cancel my credit card afterward. I’m sure I’ll be back for more reading material soon.

Lucky for you, I buy books at a much faster rate than I could ever possibly read them. When: Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Where: Monroe Street.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914861 VERMONT PUB & BREWERY You came in around 4:30 on Tuesday and set your bag down next to me and asked if you could sit with me. I had paid my bill, and I really had to leave. I said I was sorry but I was leaving. I liked the way you asked.

Adventurous. I’ll come back 4:30 Tuesday for a couple of weeks. When: Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Where: Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914859 BEAUTIFUL BLONDE, STARBUCKS, WILLISTON About 2:30 p.m. You: beautiful blonde just leaving. I smiled and said goodbye.

You returned the smile and goodbye.

Interested in the gorgeous smile and stunningly beautiful you saying hello over coffee and conversation? I’ve never seen such stunning beauty as yourself. When: Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Where: Starbucks, Williston.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914858

water, and dry them on the highest setting. Any clothing or fabric items that can’t be washed should be sealed in a plastic bag for at least 72 hours. Vacuum the entire house, and clean the bathroom with a bleach solution.

Your roommate and your boyfriend need to do the same thing, and time is of the essence. I’m afraid you’ll just have to bite the bullet and tell him. If he’s familiar with your roomie’s bedroom behavior, he’ll likely understand.

Now would also be a good time to have a discussion with your roomie about the friends her “friends” bring with them into your home.

Good luck and God bless,

The Reverend

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 18 Parking facility designations. (a) Metered lot locations: (1)-(5) As Written.

(6) [Reserved.] The Cityowned and Department of Public Works managed

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lot more commonly understood to be the Northern Waterfront Lot located north of Penny Lane.

(7)-(10) As Written. (b)-(d) As Written.

Adopted this 18th day of September, 2019 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest _____________ Phillip Peterson Associate Engineer – Technical Services Adopted 9/18/19; Published 10/09/19; Effective 10/30/19.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 7 No parking areas.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations: (1)-(554) As Written.

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vehicles are prohibited from 10/7/19 11:38 AM parking or obstructing: (1) As Written.

(2) North side [Mechanics Lane] Thorsen Way.

CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances:

(3)-(6) As Written.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 7 No parking areas.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 7 No parking areas.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations: (1)-(556) As Written.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 7 No parking areas.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 23 Designation of fire lanes.

The following locations are hereby designated as fire lanes in which vehicles are prohibited from parking or obstructing: (1)-(6) As Written.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 9 Fifteen-minute parking.

9:00 am and 6:00 pm, Sundays and holidays excepted. (c)-(d) As Written.

27 No parking except with resident parking permit. (a) Streets designated for residential parking at all times include: (1)-(14) As Written.

(a) As Written. (b) No person shall park any vehicle, at any time, longer than fifteen (15) minutes at the following locations: (1)-(32) As Written.

(33) In the 3 designated spaces on the [east] south side of Colchester Avenue in front of 273 Colchester Avenue, between the hours of 6:00 am and 9:00 pm, [Sundays and] holidays excepted.

CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances:

(15) [On the north side of Colchester Avenue between 254 and 308 Colchester Avenue.

Residents of 132 through 146 Colchester Avenue shall be eligible for resident parking permits for this section of Colchester Avenue.] Reserved.

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Adopted this 18th day of September, 2019 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest _____________ Phillip Peterson Associate Engineer – Technical Services Adopted 09/18/19; Published 10/09/19; Effective 10/30/19.

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(a) As Written. (b) The rate of charge for parking in metered city lots shall be as follows: (1)-(4) As Written.

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spaces designated for use of the Marina, and located in the Northern Waterfront Lot, at no additional charge to the Marina. From May 15 to October 15, Marina guests shall have exclusive rights to park in any of the 23 parking spaces designated for use of the Marina, and located in the western section of the Northern Waterfront Lot (the “Marina Parking Spaces”), at no additional charge to the Marina.

The general public shall be prohibited from parking in the Marina Parking Spaces from May 15 to October 15.

In addition, 19 of the remaining 45 spaces in the Northern Waterfront Lot shall be reserved for exclusive use by the Marina on weekends and City Holidays during the period from May 15 to October 15. A weekend period shall be deemed to commence at 6:00 pm on each Friday and terminate at 8:00 am on each following Monday morning. A holiday shall be deemed to commence at 6:00 pm the day before the holiday, and terminate at 8:00 am on the day following the holiday. In the event a holiday falls adjacent to

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a weekend the periods shall run sequentially as one period. The Burlington Harbor Marina will pay the City for the use of the Marina Weekend Spaces. The rate for the Marina Weekend Spaces shall be established by calculation of the number of weekend days and holidays applicable annually multiplied by the Burlington Department of Public Works Daily Parking Rate as established for the applicable year multiplied by nineteen (19). The Daily Parking Rate shall not exceed the rate charges at the Perkins Pier Lot. Burlington Harbor Marina may elect to reduce its number of weekend/holiday spaces upon delivery of thirty (30) days’ written notice to the City.

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Adopted this 18th day of September, 2019 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners:

Attest_____________ Phillip Peterson Associate Engineer – Technical Services Adopted 9/18/19; Published 10/09/19; Effective 10/30/19.

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NOTICE OF PROJECT SELECTION FOR PROJECT BASED VOUCHERS The Burlington Housing Authority has received applications and has, in accordance with

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Questions regarding this project selection should be directed to Janet Green, Director of Rental Assistance, Burlington Housing Authority, 65 Main Street, Burlington Vermont 05401.

NOTICE OF TAX SALE The residents and nonresident owners, lien holders, and mortgagees of lands in the Town of Huntington, County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that a levy upon the following described parcels of land has been asserted by the Town of Huntington through its Delinquent Tax Collector for taxes unpaid for the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 tax years. Included with each description is the tax bill, which has been committed to the collector for collection as relates to the tax against each individual delinquent taxpayer.

Said lands will be sold at public auction at the Town Clerk’s office in the Town of Huntington, on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be required to discharge such property taxes, with

costs and fees, unless previously paid.

By virtue of the Tax Warrant and Levy and the tax bills committed to Brent Lamoureux, Delinquent Tax Collector for the Town of Huntington said Delinquent Tax Collector hereby levies against the parcels described below.

Dated at Richmond, Vermont this 23rd day of September, 2019.

LAURA E. GORSKY, ESQ., Laura E. Gorsky PLLC 13 East Main Street, P.O. Box 471 Richmond, VT 05477, Attorney for Brent Lamoureux, Delinquent Tax Collector, Town of Huntington, Vermont DESCRIPTION OF PARCELS Parcel #1 Being a parcel of land with dwelling located thereon said to contain 25.4 acres, more or less, and located at 1925 Happy Hollow Road, Huntington.

Being all and the same lands and premises as acquired by Freedom Mortgage Corporation by Confirmation Order In re: Freedom Mortgage Corporation v. Scott A. Ford and Occupants of 1925 Happy Hollow Road, Huntington and Bolton, VT (Vermont Superior Court, Civil Division, Chittenden Unit Docket #685-7-17 Cncv) dated July 19, 2019 and recorded in Volume 112 at Page 573 of the Land Records of the Town of Huntington.

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Parcel #2 Being a parcel of land with dwellings located thereon said to contain 11.2 acres, more or less, and located at 150 Happy Hollow Road, Huntington.

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Michael Allen Van Horn and Michelle Lynn Van Horn by Warranty Deed of Weldon M. Van Horn and Christine M. Van Horn reserving a “rent free” life lease dated March 30, 2004 and recorded in Volume 81 at Page 611 of the Land Records of the Town of Huntington.

Being Tax Parcel No.: 007010.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4442 and §4444, notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Burlington City Council to hear comments on the following proposed amendments to the City of Burlington’s Comprehensive Development Ordinance (CDO): ZA-19-06 Article 7 Signs ZA-19-09 Zoning Administrative Officer ZA-19-10 Inclusionary Zoning The public hearing will take place on Monday, October 28, 2019 during the Regular City Council

Being Tax Parcel No.: 007150.

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION ADDISON UNIT DOCKET NO. 206-1019 ANCV IN RE: ABANDONED MOBILE HOME OF ROBERT IHINGER NOTICE OF HEARING A hearing on ACCT’s Verified Complaint to declare as abandoned the mobile home of Robert Ihinger located at Lot #12A, 70 Hermit Thrush Lane at the KTP Mobile Home Park in Bristol, Vermont has been set for October 16, 2019 at 10:30 AM at the Vermont Superior Court,

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I have been appointed executor of this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

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The full text of the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance and these proposed amendments are available for review at the Office of City Planning, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or on the department’s website at www.burlingtonvt.gov/pz/cdo.

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List of section headings affected: • ZA-19-06: The proposed amendment modifies all sections of Article 7: Signs and Sec. 13.1.2 Definitions.

• ZA-19-09: The proposed amendment modifies Sec 2.3.2.

• ZA-19-10: The proposed amendment adds Sec. 3.3.3 (c) Inclusionary Housing Exemption, and modifies Sec 3.3.3 (d) Affordable Housing Waivers; deletes Sec 4.4.5 (d) 7.

A Inclusionary Housing Requirement; adds Sec

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 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 will be barred forever if it is not presented as described above within the four (4) month period.

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• ZA-19-06: The purpose of this proposed amendment is a comprehensive update to the city’s sign regulations in an effort to create a more prescriptive and objective series of sign types by which to regulate the dimensions, number, size, location, lighting, and general design of each type and thereby maintain content neutrality.

• ZA-19-09: The purpose of this proposed amendment is to disjoin the Director of Planning and Zoning from the Zoning Administrative Officer (ZAO) and to clarify the appointment process of the ZAO consistent with the voter-approved charter change.

• ZA-19-10: The purpose of this amendment is to comprehensively update the City’s Inclusionary Zoning standards in a way that is consistent

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1185-919 CNPR In re estate of Geraldine A. Thibault

To the Creditors of: Guerdon D. Filipowski (aka David Filipowski), late of Burlington, Vermont.

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Geographic areas affected: • ZA-19-06: The amendment applies to all areas of the city.

• ZA-19-09: The proposed amendment has no impact on geographic areas or zoning districts of the city.

• ZA-19-10: The proposed amendment applies to all residential and mixed-use areas of the city.

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Name and Address of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court Chittenden Unit - Probate Division PO Box 511 175 Main Street Burlington, VT 054020511

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO. 795-6-19 CNPR In re: Guerdon D. Filipowski

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Meeting which begins at 7:00 pm in Contois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT.

8.1.8 (c) and modifies Table 8.1.8-1 Minimum Off-Street Parking Requirements; and makes significant modifications throughout Article 9- Inclusionary Zoning, including within Sections: 9.1.4 Miscellaneous Definitions, 9.1.5 Applicability, 9.1.6 Exemptions, 9.1.7, Certificate of Inclusionary Housing Compliance, 9.1.9 Percentage of Inclusionary Units, 9.1.10 Income Eligibility, 9.1.11 Calculating Rents and Selling Prices, 9.1.12 Additional Density and Other Development Allowances, Table 9.1.12-1, Density/Intensity Allowance Table, deleting Table 9.1.12-2, Lot Coverage Allowance Table, 9.1.13, Off-Site Option, 9.1.14 General Requirements for Inclusionary Units, 9.1.15, Marketing of Inclusionary units, 9.1.16 Continued Affordability Requirements, and 9.1.20 Administration.

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with the recommendations forwarded by the City Council as a result of the City’s two-year Inclusionary Zoning review. These amendments include adjustments to the offsets provided for the development of inclusionary units, promoting greater inclusion across residential areas of the city, addresses inclusionary zoning requirements for off-campus student housing and addressing a number of administrative elements.

on Lot #12A, 70 Hermit Thrush Lane at the KTP Mobile Home Park in Bristol, Vermont according to the Bristol Land Records. See attached Vermont Mobile Home Uniform Bill of Sale.

3. Robert Ihinger (Ihinger) leased a lot in the Park for his mobile home from the Park pursuant to a written lease.

ACCT holds a security deposit on the Lot in the amount of $197.00.

4. Ihinger’s last known mailing address is 70 Hermit Thrush Lane, Bristol, Vermont 05443.

5. The mobile home has been abandoned and is empty. The last known resident of the mobile home was Robert Ihinger. Ihinger was evicted from the Park for non-payment of rent on or about June 14, 2019. A Judgment for outstanding rent, late fees, court costs and attorney’s fees was entered against him on May 22, 2019 in the amount of $4,269.27.

See Addison County Community Trust, Inc. v.

Ihinger, Vermont Superior Court, Addison Civil Unit, Docket No. 156-818 Ancv. See attached Judgment. Ihinger has made no efforts or attempts to remove the home from the Park.

6. The Park’s counsel and Chris Ouellette, agent for the Park, have Addison Unit, Civil Diviattempted to commusion, 7 Mahady Court, 10/7/19 10:27 AM nicate in writing and by Middlebury, Vermont. phone with Ihinger and he has failed to respond.

Kim LaDuke, Civil Docket Clerk 7. The following security Date: October 07, 2019 interests, mortgages, liens and encumbrances VERIFIED COMPLAINT appear of record with FOR ABANDONMENT respect to the mobile PURSUANT TO 10 V.S.A. home: § 6249(h) (Auction) NOW COMES Addison County Community Trust (“ACCT”), by and through its counsel Nadine L. Scibek, and hereby complains pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6249 as follows: 1. ACCT, a Vermont nonprofit corporation with a principal place of business in Vergennes, County of Addison, State of Vermont, is the record owner of a mobile home park known as the KTP Mobile Home Park (the “Park”) located in Bristol, Vermont.

2. Robert Ihinger is the record owner of a certain mobile home, described as a 2002 Redman Oakcrest mobile home, bearing serial number 122-38992 (the “Mobile Home”), located

a. Ihinger is in arrears on obligations to pay property taxes to the Town of Bristol, Vermont in the aggregate amount of $1,209.81, plus interest and penalties. The delinquent property taxes are now a lien on the property. b. Addison County Community Trust, Inc. v.

Ihinger, Judgment Order dated May 21, 2019 and recorded in Book 159 at Page 443 of the Bristol Land Records.

8. Uriah Wallace, a duly licensed auctioneer, is a person disinterested in the mobile home and the mobile home park who is able to sell the mobile home at a public auction.

9. Mobile home storage fees continue to accrue

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS at the rate of $300.00 each month. Rent, storage fees and late charges due the Park as of September, 2019 total $3,260.00. Court costs and attorney’s fees incurred by the Park to date exceed $3,800.00.

10. The Park sent written notice by certified mail to the Town of Bristol on August 28, 2019 of its intent to commence this abandonment action. See attached.

WHEREFORE, the Park Owner ACCT respectfully requests that the Honorable Court enter an order as follows: 1. Declare that the mobile home has been abandoned; 2. Approve the sale of the mobile home at a public auction to be held within fifteen (15) days of the date of judgment, pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6249(h); and 3. Grant judgment in favor of the Park Owner and against the mobile home for past due and unpaid rent and mobile home storage charges

through the date of judgment, together with Park Owner’s court costs, publication and mailing costs, auctioneer’s costs, winterization costs, lot cleanup charges, attorney’s fees incurred in connection with this matter and any other costs incurred

by Park Owner herein.

DATED AT Burlington, Vermont this 30th day of September, 2019.

Nadine L. Scibek Attorney for ACCT 174 Battery Street Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 860-9536 ERN #2726 DATED at Vergennes, Vermont this 30th day of September, 2019.

By: Chris Ouellette, Duly Authorized Agent VERIFICATION STATE OF VERMONT ADDISON COUNTY, SS. At Vergennes on this 30th day of September, 2019, Chris Ouellette, duly authorized agent of Addison County Community Trust, Inc., owner of the KTP Mobile Home Park in Bristol, Vermont, being first duly sworn, made oath

that she has read the foregoing Complaint, and that the facts represented therein are true to the best of her knowledge.

Before me, Nadine L. Scibek - Notary Public Commission Expires: 1/31/21 Lic. #157.0007638 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT FAMILY DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO. 208-519 CNJV In re: M.D., Juvenile.

ORDER AND NOTICE OF HEARING TO: Joshua Dumont, Father of M.D., you are hereby notified that M.D. has filed a Motion for Permanent Guardianship. A hearing to consider the Motion for Permanent Guardianship will be held on November 4, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. at the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Family Division, at 32 Cherry Street, Burlington, Vermont. You are notified to appear in connection with this case. Failure to appear at this hearing may

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result in your inability to present evidence and for M.D.’s motion to be granted, giving permanent guardianship of M.D. to another person.

M.D. is represented by Elizabeth A. Kruska, PO Box 242, Woodstock, VT 05091. A copy of this order shall be mailed to Joshua Dumont if an address for him is known. /S/___Thomas J. Devine Superior Court Judge 10-2-19 Date STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 113-7-18 ANCV COLONIAL SAVINGS, F.A v.

CHRISTOPHER CAVOLICK AND MARTHA M. COONS OCCUPANTS OF: 1499 Sand Road, Ferrisburgh VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and

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Titles are available for all vehicles sold. Vehicles must be removed from GMT property within 2 weeks of auction ending. Buses can be viewed during regular business hours at 2091 Main St, Colchester, Vt. Call Doug Larson, 802-878-1527 ext. 109 to schedule a viewing. All sealed bids must be received by Friday October 18th at 3 pm.

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Decree of Foreclosure entered August 5, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Christopher Cavolick and Martha M. Coons to Union Bank, dated September 15, 2014 and recorded in Book 149 Page 115 of the land records of the Town of Ferrisburgh, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Union Bank to Colonial Savings, F.A. dated September 15, 2014 and recorded in Book 149 Page 123 and (2) Corrective Assignment of Mortgage from Union Bank to Colonial Savings, F.A. dated April 18, 2018 and recorded in Book 161 Page 359, both of the land records of the Town of Ferrisburgh for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 1499 Sand Road, Ferrisburgh, Vermont on November 7, 2019 at 12:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

the centerline of Town Road #8.

To wit:

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : October 1, 2019 By: __/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren_________ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Christopher Cavolick and Martha M. Coons by instrument of approximate even date herewith and to be recorded in the Town of Ferrisburgh Land Records. Said lands and premises being more particularly described as follows: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Paul A. Richey and Angela C. Richey by Warranty Deed of Scott W. Denny and Andrea M. Denny dated November 11, 2005 and recorded in Book 116 at Page 554 of the Town of Ferrisburgh Land Records.

Being Lot 2 consisting of 1.6 acres located on Sand Road in Ferrisburgh, VT, as set out on a survey plat of John A. Marsh, Registered land Surveyor dated May 27, 1991 and recorded at Map Book 5, Page 5 in the Town of Ferrisburgh Land Records.

Also conveyed by quitclaim only is that portion of land lying easterly of the right of way of Town Road #8 and adjacent to said Lot No. 2 and westerly of

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Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CALEDONIA UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 220-1018 CACV DITECH FINANCIAL LLC v.

YVONNE MARIE MCCOWAN A/K/A YVONNE M. MCCOWAN OCCUPANTS OF: 74 Mountain Avenue, Saint Johnsbury VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered July 9, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Yvonne Marie McCowan to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., dated January 26, 2007

and recorded in Book 322 Page 3 of the land records of the Town of Saint Johnsbury, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP dated January 13, 2009 and recorded in Book 337 Page 453 and (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to Green Tree Servicing LLC, k/n/a Ditech Financial LLC dated July 12, 2013 and recorded in Book 373 Page 142, both of the land records of the Town of Saint Johnsbury for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 74 Mountain Avenue, Saint Johnsbury, Vermont on November 6, 2019 at 11:30 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY, TO-WIT: BEING TWO PARCELS OF LAND, TOGETHER WITH A THREE UNIT APARTMENT BUILDING AND ANY AND ALL IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS 7 MOUNTAIN AVENUE IN THE TOWN OF ST. JOHNSBURY, VERMONT (SAID LANDS AND PREMISES NOW HAVING A 911 ADDRESS OF 74 MOUNTAIN AVENUE); AND BEING ALL AND THE SAME LANDS AND PREMISES CONVEYED TO CHARLES J. BELIVEAU BY THE FOLLOWING CONVEYANCES: (1) WARRANTY DEED OF MARJORY L. BROWN AND DOLORES A. HAMLETT DATED JULY 31, 1995 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 230 AT PAGE 272 OF THE ST. JOHNSBURY LAND RECORDS: AND (2) WARRANTY DEED OF MARJORY L. BROWN AND DOLORES A. HAMLETT DATED JULY 31, 1995 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 230 AT PAGE 274 OF THE ST. JOHNSBURY LAND RECORDS. SAID LANDS AND PREMISES ARE ALSO CONVEYED SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING EXCEPTION SET FORTH IN THE AFORESAID BROWN AND HAMLETT TO BELIVEAU DEED:

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“THE WITHIN CONVEYED PARCEL IS CONVEYED SUBJECT TO AND THERE IS EXPRESSLY SAVED, RESERVED AND EXCEPTED HEREFROM, ANY AND ALL EASEMENTS AND RIGHTS OF WAY OF RECORD.”.

ADDRESS: 74 MOUNTAIN AVE.; SAINT JOHNSBURY, VT 05819 TAX MAP OR PARCEL ID NO.: 1V110007 Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : October 1, 2019 By: /S/ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION WASHINGTON UNIT DOCKET # 313-6-19-WNCV PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION Plaintiff v.

CHRIS R. BEAN AND THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OCCUPANTS OF: 35 Cole Avenue, Northfield VT Defendants

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[CONTINUED] SUMMONS & ORDER FOR PUBLICATION THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO: Chris R. Bean 1. YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plaintiff has started a lawsuit against you. A copy of the Plaintiff’s Complaint against you is on file and may be obtained at the office of the clerk of this court, Washington Unit, Civil Division, Vermont Superior Court, 65 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont.

Do not throw this paper away. It is an official paper that affects your rights.

2. PLAINTIFF’S CLAIM. Plaintiff’s claim is a Complaint in Foreclosure which alleges that you have breached the terms of a Promissory Note and Mortgage Deed dated November 17, 2006. Plaintiff’s action may effect your interest in the property described in the Land Records of the Town of Northfield at Volume 169, Page 531. The Complaint also seeks relief on the Promissory Note executed by you.

A copy of the Complaint is on file and may be obtained at the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Washington, State of Vermont.

3. YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 41 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. You must give or mail the Plaintiff a written

response called an Answer within 41 days after the date on which this Summons was first published, which is November 12, 2019 2019.

You must send a copy of your answer to the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s attorney, LORAINE L. HITE, Esq. of Bendett and McHugh, PC, located at 270 Farmington Avenue, Ste. 151, Farmington, CT 06032. You must also give or mail your Answer to the Court located at 65 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont.

4. YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACH CLAIM. The Answer is your written response to the Plaintiff’s Complaint. In your Answer you must state whether you agree or disagree with each paragraph of the Complaint. If you believe the Plaintiff should not be given everything asked for in the Complaint, you must say so in your Answer.

5. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CASE IF YOU DO NOT GIVE YOUR WRITTEN ANSWER TO THE COURT. If you do not Answer within 41 days after the date on which this Summons was first published and file it with the Court, you will lose this case. You will not get to tell your side of the story, and the Court may decide against you and award the Plaintiff everything asked for in the complaint.

6. YOU MUST MAKE ANY CLAIMS AGAINST THE PLAINTIFF IN YOUR REPLY. Your Answer must state any related legal claims you have against the Plaintiff. Your claims against the Plaintiff are called Counterclaims. If you do not make your Counterclaims in writing in your answer you may not be able to bring them up at all. Even if you have insurance and the insurance company

will defend you, you must still file any Counterclaims you may have.

7. LEGAL ASSISTANCE. You may wish to get legal help from a lawyer.

If you cannot afford a lawyer, you should ask the court clerk for information about places where you can get free legal help. Even if you cannot get legal help, you must still give the court a written Answer to protect your rights or you may lose the case.

ORDER The Affidavit duly filed in this action shows that service cannot be made with due diligence by any of the method provided in Rules 4(d)-(f), (k), or (l) of the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure. Accordingly, it is ORDERED that service of the Summons set forth above shall be made upon the defendant, Chris R. Bean, by publication as provided in Rule[s] [4(d)(l) and] 4 (g) of those Rules.

This order shall be published once a week for 2 weeks beginning on October 2, 2019 in the Saratogian, a newspaper of the general circulation in Saratoga County, New York; and this order shall be published once a week for 2 weeks beginning on October 2, , 2019 in the Seven Days, a newspaper of general circulation in Northfield, VT; and a copy of this summons and order as published shall be mailed to the defendant at his last known mailing address at 35 Cole Ave., Northfield, VT 05663 and to * Dated at Montpelier , Vermont this 13 day of September , 2019 /s/Hon. Timothy Tomasi Hon. Timothy Tomasi Presiding Judge Washington Unit, Civil Division

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*157 Eastside Drive, Ballston Lake, NY STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 1164-1217 CNCV WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST v.

MICHAEL BOYAJIAN, BARBARA BOYAJIAN, BAY COURT CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION, SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. S/B/M TO COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS OCCUPANTS OF: 25 Baycrest Drive, South Burlington VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered January 28, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Michael Boyajian and Barbara Boyajian to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., dated December 4, 2007 and recorded in Book 804 Page 535 of the land records of the City of South Burlington, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to Bank of

America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loan Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP dated August 10, 2012 and recorded in Book 1097 Page 97; (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Bank of America, N.A. to Green Tree Servicing LLC dated May 30, 2013 and recorded in Book 1165 Page 251; and (3) Assignment of Mortgage from Ditech Financial LLC fka Green Tree Servicing LLC sometimes known as Green Tree Services, LLC to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, fsb, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not individually but as Trustee for Pretium Mortgage Acquisition Trust dated August 28, 2018 and recorded in Book 1441 Page 170, all of the land records of the City of South Burlington for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 25 Baycrest Drive , South Burlington, Vermont on October 30, 2019 at 1:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Property Description For Property Located at 25 Baycrest Drive Unit #207, Burlington Owned by Michael Boyajian On November 25, 2003, Susan A. Victory conveyed her interest in the subject premises to Michael Boyajian by Warranty Deed recorded on November 26, 2003 in Volume 648, Page 757 of the Land Records of the City of South Burlington.

All that certain condominium situate in the City of South Burlington, County of Chittenden, State of Vermont, being known and designated as follows, viz:

Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Susan A. Victory by Warranty Deed of LTH Associates and Larkin Tarrant Roehl Partnership, dated June 28, 1990 and recorded in Volume 295, Pages 340-343 of the City of South Burlington Land Records.

The property of Bay Court Condominium consists of a certain parcel of land, together with all buildings and improvements now or hereafter located thereon, and all easements rights and appurtenances now or hereafter belonging thereto in the City of South Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, more particularly described as follows: A parcel of land containing 5.77 acres and located northerly of Harbor View Road and westerly of Bay Court Drive, and being all of “Cluster A” as shown on a plan of lands entitled “Plot Plan -Cluster A, Bartlett Property Harbor Heights Condominiums” dated June 1983, prepared by Krebs and Lansing Consulting Engineers, Inc., and of record in Plat Book 200 on Page 47 of the City of South Burlington Land Records, and the revised lot plan entitled “Revised Lot Plan Bay Court Condominiums (formerly Harbor Heights - Cluster A)” dated December 1988, Project No. 81139, of record in Map Book 252, on Page 116 of said Land Records.

This parcel is conveyed with the benefit of a right of way reserved unto the Declarant, its successors and assigns, over the roads and streets within the parcel known as Harbor Heights Condominium for access and egress to the parcel designated

as “Cluster A” on the first above referred to plan, and an easement hereunder for the purpose of laying, replacing and repairing any utility lines needed to service the said “Cluster A”.

This parcel is subject to a 30 foot utility easement and a 20 foot sewer easement previously conveyed to the City of South Burlington and shown on the plan above referred to.

Tax ID: 0150-00207 Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : September 26, 2019 By: ___/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren______ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq.

Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0103662, 01-03664 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 24TH 2019 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF EDWARD BROWN. 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.

CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 7A Accessible spaces designated.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations, except automobiles displaying special handicapped license plates issued pursuant to 18 V.S.A. § 1325, or any amendment or renumbering thereof: (1)-(14) As Written.

(15) [In front of 23 Hayward Street.] In the first space south of College Street on the west side of South Union Street.

(16)-(170) As Written.

Adopted this 18 th day of September, 2019 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest ________ Phillip Peterson Associate Engineer – Technical Services Adopted 09/18/19; Published 10/09/19; Effective 10/30/19.

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HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER The City of Burlington is looking to hire a Human Resources Manager!

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VERMONT CARES: SERVICES DIRECTOR Full time management level position

MSW strongly preferred. Seeking an experienced supervisor and program manager to lead services for Vermonters with HIV. Responsible for the supervision of 7 case managers, a small direct services case load, data collection and grant reporting, and limited HIV testing. Experience with addressing complex ethical scenarios, participatory management style, collaboration with community partners, and oversight of state/federal grants is required. Candidates must have life experience and/ or working knowledge of HIV/AIDS and practice from a non-judgmental, harm-reduction model.

Knowledge of Ryan White and HOPWA funding streams, housing, mental health, and substance use disorder, and local resources is helpful. Reliable transportation required.

CLINICAL MANAGER OUTPATIENT SERVICES Exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic clinical leader to provide supervision/training to clinical staff, to have ownership around the operational functioning of clinical programs, to provide direct service, and to assist and be a core member of a leadership group focused on the development and administration of a diverse set of Outpatient Services. Master’s degree and clinical license required, plus a minimum of 3-5 years of clinical experience.

Howard Center has excellent benefits, including 36 days of combined time off (and increasing with years of service) medical, dental, FSA and 401K, etc. For more information and to apply, please visit howardcentercareers.org.

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The Vermont Foodbank seeks a Director of Food Resources.

This full-time, benefited position is responsible for ensuring a steady flow of food donations and procurement to the Foodbank from local, regional and national food suppliers by developing new relationships and cultivating existing Howard Center is proud to be an EO.E. The agency’s culture and service relationships in the food delivery is strengthened by the diversity of its workforce. Minorities, people industry. The Director of Food of color and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. Resources is responsible for Visit “About Us” to review Howard Center’s EOE policy. managing the Foodbank’s Starting salary: $39,500- $42,000; full health & dental; food rescue program and for excellent benefits; flexible working environment. adherence to the AIB safe Email cover letter and FACILITIES food handling procedures.

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Help Desk Support Technician

For position details and application process, visit jobs.plattsburgh.edu and select “View Current Openings.”

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EDUCATION & EVENTS MANAGER

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VBSR, a business association with 700 members who believe business has the power for good, is hiring an Education and Events Manager to provide leadership and execution for our dynamic statewide programming. More at vbsr.org.

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COLLEGE PORTAL & WEB ADMINISTRATOR Saint Michael’s College is seeking an experienced professional to assume responsibility for the College portal, other web related projects, and integrations. This position reports to the Associate Director for Enterprise Applications.

Required: a bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or equivalent combination of education and 10:07 AM experience. Successful candidates will possess excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with faculty, students, staff, IT Assistant Directors, the CIO, GMHEC staff and various vendors and developers.

Benefits: Eligible for paid-time-off accrual as outlined in the employee handbook. This hourly part-time position is not eligible for regular College provided fringe benefits.

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VNRC LEGISLATIVE INTERNSHIP METAPHYSICAL JEWELRY PRODUCTION Full Time

The Vermont Natural Resources Council is seeking a Legislative Intern to assist VNRC and our partners, Vermont Conservation Voters and the Vermont Planners Association, in moving forward-looking environmental legislation in the Vermont State House starting in early 2020.

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Requirements: Valid driver’s license & your own vehicle. Live in or within 1:14 PM 20 minutes of Burlington.

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Seeking a patient, reliable, friendly and organized person who loves the arts.

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We are currently seeking an Analyst / Sr. Analyst, and have other opportunities at the Consultant / Sr. Consultant level.

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Interested in working in the cannabis industry? VPA in Montpelier is looking for help and we are excited to have you come join the team! Open position/s are currently posted at vpavt.com/employment.

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Join a committed (and fun!) team of professionals who support excellence in energy efficiency. Optimal Energy is an industry leader with a growing client base.

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Seeking Refractive Coordinator for busy LASIK center in So. Burlington.

Excellent customer service and communication skills a must. Ability to work as a team member. Empathic personality with concern and respect for our patients.

Professional appearance and ability to multitask. Send resumes to: cbarr@vteyelaser.com

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Wrenegade Sports is seeking a professional event organizer with an interest in entrepreneurial business and passion for fitness and healthy living. The ideal candidate will be an independent self-starter, versatile with strong outreach and administrative skills, and have ability to travel and a desire to learn and be involved in many aspects of the business.

The Event Manager will be responsible for developing and managing execution of Wrenegade Sports events in collaboration with the Wrenegade Sports team. In addition, the Manager will travel to all Wrenegade Sports events and have specific on-site roles, depending on their abilities and company needs, such as Venue Manager, Course Manager, Merchandise Lead, and other roles integral to the Wrenegade event participant experience.

The Event Manager position at Wrenegade Sports offers great opportunity for development, increased responsibility, and growth within the company. Go to wrenegadesports.com/jobposts/2019/9/27/event-manager for the full job description.

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BOOKKEEPER Third Place Inc., the company behind Zero Gravity Craft

Brewery, American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, Monarch & The Milkweed, and The Great Northern, seeks a Full-Time Bookkeeper. The position will fulfill a range of accounting needs for all affiliate companies and report to our CFO. An ideal candidate will have strong working knowledge of accounting processes, an in-depth knowledge of Quickbooks including inventory management functionality and the ability to manage multiple accounting needs across different companies simultaneously.

This position is 40 hours per week with compensation between $22 - 24 per hour. Compensation is commensurate with experience. Eligible for health and dental benefits.

This position will be based in Burlington, Vermont and will remain open until filled. Third Place, Inc. is an E.O.E. To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to accounting@flatbreadhearth.com.

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Be Part of a Pivotal Moment in History!

Are you an ambitious, dynamic, and experienced fundraiser? Join the ACLU of Vermont team and work on the front lines of defending and advancing civil rights.

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Application review begins November 1 until position filled.

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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE WFFF FOX 44/WVNY ABC 22 in Colchester, VT is looking for a Junior Account Executive to join our team! If you are motivated, personable, and goaloriented with a positive work ethic and desire to learn more about the advertising industry, we’d like to meet you. We offer a unique opportunity if you are looking for a challenging environment, tools, and resources to help you start your career. Please apply to: bit.ly/30NwP6P.

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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.

PLANT OPERATOR

Weekend Nights Responsibilities include monitoring, adjusting, maintaining, and repairing the boiler plant and central air conditioning plant. This position is a 12 hour weekend night shift (7pm-7am).

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The Vermont Housing & Conservation Board (VHCB) seeks a Program Director to administer the Healthy & Lead-Safe Homes Program. This supervisory position, based in Montpelier, is responsible for the dayto-day management of all aspects of the program. The ideal candidate will have direct experience with lead hazard control and/or residential rehabilitation, as well as experience overseeing federally funded housing or social service programs.

Requirements: strong communication skills and the ability to utilize common software tools.

Funded by federal grants from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, the program provides critical services to families and children statewide.

Read the job description at www.vhcb.org/about-us/jobs. Reply with cover letter and resume to: Laurie Graves at laurie@vhcb.org.

Position remains open until filled. Questions? Call Ron Rupp at (802) 828-2912 or email: rrupp@vhcb.org

C H I L D R E N ’ S M E N T A L H E A LT H C A R E M A N A G E R – WATERBURY Children’s Mental Health Care Managers provide consultation, education and technical assistance to local Designated Agencies around the VT System of Care regarding the needs of children with significant mental health needs. Provides clinical care management of children, youth, and their families to access and/or transition to the appropriate level of treatment. This position also participates in quality oversight and improvement efforts in the broader System of Care. For more information, contact Dana Robson at dana.robson@vermont.gov. Department: Mental Health. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 1243. Application Deadline: October 29, 2019.

BUSINESS LEGISLATIVE & COMMUNIT Y RELATIONS MAN AGER – WATERBURY

Creative Workforce Solutions, a statewide employment services collaboration amongst the Division of Voc Rehab and public & private sector partners, is seeking a Business, Legislative, and Community Relations Manager. This role will provide leadership, direction, and strategic planning for the CWS network. This network is designed to enlist and promote partnerships with employers as customers, with the goal of more persons with disabilities obtaining quality employment providing livable wages. For more information, contact Diane Dalmasse at 802-241-0317 or diane.dalmasse@vermont.gov. Department: Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living.

Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2961. Application Deadline: October 22, 2019.

PROGRAM TECHNICIAN II – BENNINGTON Voc Rehab is seeking a team-orientated individual with very strong customer service, interpersonal and administrative skills for our Bennington Office. Candidate must be able to juggle multiple priorities and perform complex tasks involving state and federal programs. Must be a self-starter and have excellent computer and tech skills. Tasks include reception, casework assistance to counselors and employment staff, technical support, grants and contract administration and processing payments. For more information, contact Will Pendlebury at william.pendlebury@ vermont.gov or 802-447-2865. Department: Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2963. Application Deadline: October 16, 2019.

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H I G H W AY S A F E T Y P R O G R A M S P E C I A L I S T – MONTPELIER The DMV is seeking a dynamic individual with excellent communication skills and a passion for highway safety. This position requires the licensing and supervision of driver training schools and instructors, as well as the CDL instructors and CDL schools. As the Driver Coordinator, you will work closely with a host of internal/ external stakeholders to provide the most up-to-date educational materials and opportunities for driver development. For more information, contact Scott Davidson at scott.davidson@vermont.gov. Department: Motor Vehicle. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2354. Application Deadline: October 17, 2019.

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GIRLS' BASKETBALL COACHES FINANCE MANAGER NON-PROFIT

Seeking highly skilled, efficient and experienced Finance Manager for a statewide organization with multiple funding sources.

Contact: Search - P.O. Box 829 Montpelier, VT 05601 pcavt@pcavt.org PART-TIME DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

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PART TIME Property Management Company looking for an articulate, energetic people-person to join their team part-time.

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, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 12-5. Wednesday from 12-6. Schedule may vary and can include some weekend hours for tours. Candidate must be flexible and willing to work as needed.

If you are interested please e-mail resume to dfinnigan@hallkeen.com.

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We are looking for a half-time Development Officer who has experience in the nonprofit world, preferably including some time with an independent school.

Responsibilities include assisting with the annual fund effort and an upcoming capital campaign.

Please submit a resume, brief cover letter, and three recent professional references with up-to-date contact information to employment@ vermontcommons.org.

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St. Albans, and Morrisville, VT locations:

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We offer benefits, including 401k, competitive salaries and a fast-paced Street, team environment.

217 Dorset South Burlington

Please stop into any of our locations to fill out an application, or send resumes to:

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Route 100, Fairgrounds Plaza, Morrisville, VT 05661 Phone: 802-888-9848 Hiring mgonyaw@hannaford.com for full and part-time positions.

To find out more about us If you can’t attend, apply online: visit: www.hannaford.com hannaford.com/careers Hannaford is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Questions? Call: 802.878.0284 sara.domina@hannford.com vsmith@hannaford.com

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Manufacturing Call Center PUBLICATION Seven Days WOWarehouse # 151371 IO # 621583

Apply in person 210 East Main Street, Richmond, VT

LEGAL ASSISTANT

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Gravel & Shea PC, a prominent law firm in downtown Burlington, VT, has an opening for a legal assistant. The ideal candidate will have law firm experience in real estate and corporate practice areas, and a comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office software. This position requires a strong work ethic, an eagerness to learn and excellent writing, communication and typing skills. Minimum of three years’ law firm experience preferred.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including market-leading paid parental leave and a generous retirement package.

Please e-mail cover letter, résumé and references to: fmiller@gravelshea.com. Gravel & Shea PC is an E.O.E.

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R.E. MICHEL COMPANY, LLC., a leading wholesale distributor of heating, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment & parts with over 280 branch locations coast to coast, has a career opportunity in our Williston, VT location.

We are looking for a professional individual with supervisory experience and knowledge in HVACR. Responsibilities include: identifying and generating customers; distribution and sales; inventory control; delivery scheduling; employee motivation and development. Hands on management experience desired. Strong communication skills a must, pre-employment screening required.

SIZE 3.83” x 3.46” SCREEN 85 lpi R.E. Michel Company offers a competitive benefits package to include medical, NOTES dental, disability and 401K and more. To apply and for immediate consideration, visit remichel.com/WebServices/WebContent/start/jobs. R.E. Michel Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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Previous middle school, high school coaching experience preferred or a minimum of two years of varsity level playing experience. Experience working with middle school students preferred. All coaches must be at least 18 years of age. The A team coach position pays $2,758 for the season. The B team coach position pays $2,499 for the season. For more information or for consideration, please visit schoolspring.com (Job ID 3183300).

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Albert D. Lawton Middle School is searching for two basketball coaches, one for the girls' A team and one for the girls' B team. The season runs November 11 – February 21st.

Coaches should be available for after school hours 3:006:00 pm daily. These positions will fulfill all coaching duties including direction of all practices and games, and player management within the school program. Undergraduate degree preferred but not required.

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PROPERTY MANAGER

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Do you have a passion for working with students and families?

Do you have case management experience?

Do you want to help enhance the home to school connection?

LRC is a team-oriented, non-profit based in Hyde Park. This position is full-time and ideal for someone who possesses strong communication skills and a clear sense of boundaries, brings a human services background, and believes in restorative practices. The primary responsibility of the position is supporting communication between school and home to assist students and their families to address and resolve school attendance barriers. Preference will be given to candidates with a bachelor’s degree and experience in mental health or human services.

Consider joining the LRC team if you’re interested in a workplace that promotes employee well-being and that is known for its inclusive and collaborative work environment. The position comes with a competitive salary between $18–20/hour and a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and life insurance. Other benefits include paid sick and vacation leave, 15 paid holidays, and a retirement plan.

Interested individuals can apply by sending their resume and a cover letter that describes reasons for their interest in the position, to: info@lrcvt.org. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. LRC is an equal opportunity employer. More information about LRC is available at: lrcvt.org.

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Are you looking to become part of a company with a unique culture and have a flexible work schedule? Our employees consider BioTek not just a workplace but a community built on respect and trust.

As a market leader in life science instrumentation and drug discovery research, we are recognized globally for our innovative product line and excellent customer service.

For specific duties and requirements for all open positions, please visit biotek.com/about/careers.html.

To apply, send resumes to: hrresumes@biotek.com.

BioTek is a Veterans/Disabled/LGBT and E.O.E.

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TIRE TECHNICIAN Williston & Rutland Locations

A Tire Technician is responsible for the dismounting, mounting and balancing of all tires sold. The Tire Technician will also be required to install any other products sold in his/ her store. General job functions include driving a customer’s vehicle onto the lift, adequately securing the vehicle prior to dismounting the tires and wheels and then reattaching all tires and wheels to ensure proper safe operation of the vehicle. Other duties include handling scrap (or take-offtires) placing them neatly into the storage area, and many miscellaneous duties that you will be directed to perform. A tire Technician must have the desire to perform above and beyond the requirements set forth in this job description.

WHAT WE MAKE, MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS: • Prior knowledge of tire related equipment and tools a plus • Valid Driver’s License EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: • High School diploma or equivalent ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: • Properly secure vehicle to lift to ensure safe operation • Properly dismount and remount tires and wheels securely on vehicle • Properly dismount and remount tires onto wheels without damaging either • Operate all related equipment and tools as trained • Operate independently and as a team member • Perform and demonstrate Customer Service Satisfaction • Operate safely and perform as listed below • Fulfill Company Philosophy and Goals NON-ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: • Assist in performing Inventory Control Accurately • Paperwork – any and all related requirements • Customer Relations • Housekeeping, maintained daily.

SAFETY REQUIREMENTS: • Perform all safety related items as per the Employee Safety Manual • Learn and maintain all lifting procedures • Learn and maintain all general housekeeping and ensure daily performance • Report all accidents and incidents immediately to your direct supervisor WEIGHT REQUIREMENTS: • Lift a minimum of forty-five (45) pounds • Perform repeated and repetitive movement consistent within the tire industry OTHER DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES: • Other duties can and will arise and you should be prepared to take on these challenges openly.

Apply for a new career at: townfairtire.com or stop into our store for an on-site interview.

Email your resume to: dmajeed@townfair.com.

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Work with the Director of Treasury Operations to support the daily operations of the VT State Treasurer’s Office.

This temporary position will include recording deposits, reconciling bank accounts, preparing accounting entries, and other accounting and finance related projects.

We’re looking for someone with 4+ years of previous accounting and/ or banking experience.

Send resumes to: TRE. ServicesAccounting@ vermont.gov

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Travis Jones NRG Systems Senior Electro-Mechanical Engineer

Want to create cutting-edge technologies for climate challenges?

Visit nrgsystems.com/careers to apply for our Electrical Engineer position.

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Are you an experienced full phase Auto Body Collision Tech? Do you do quality work? Have your own tools and valid driver’s license?

Then start working for our shop with a long history and good reputation. Sign on Bonus. Good wages with paid holidays, vacation, sick/ personal days and health insurance benefit.

Email majesticauto@comcast.net or call Tom or Martha with interest: 802-244-5465.

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TRANSPORTATION DATA ANALYST CATMA seeks a dynamic, knowledgeable and team-oriented individual to contribute to the growth and success of our TMA serving Chittenden County.

We serve as a regional gateway to connect businesses, developers & municipalities with effective and cost-efficient sustainable transportation options and solutions.

The Analyst will have an integral role in developing and managing CATMA’s data collection systems, tools and processes. In addition, the Analyst will conceptualize, design and produce required data analyses, plans and reports in collaboration with CATMA staff, external stakeholders and members. The Analyst must work closely, courteously and cooperatively in a small office environment with an “all-hands on deck” personality and willingness to support a wide range of projects, programs and partnerships as needed.

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BASIC FUNCTION:

ACCOUNTING CLERK

Full Time; Union; Benefits eligible; $15/hour BASIC FUNCTION: The Accounting Clerk will assist the Controller in maintaining the financial records of the college. The Accounting Clerk will assist with a variety of accounting, bookkeeping and financial tasks. This position will support the accounting and business operations in record keeping, accounts receivables and payables, payroll and reconciliations. The Accounting Clerk will assist in preparing and maintaining documents. For further information please visit goddard.edu/ about-goddard/employment-opportunities.

Goddard College is committed to creating a college representative of a diverse global community and capable of creating change. To that end, we are actively seeking applications from qualified candidates from groups currently underrepresented in our institution for this position. This institution is an E.O.E.

REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AND TITLE IX COORDINATOR

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The Regulatory Compliance and Title IX Coordinator coordinates and facilitates the institution’s compliance with Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and other discrimination and harassment laws, regulations, and college policies. This position develops and implements educational programs regarding discrimination and harassment prevention, ensuring students, faculty and staff understand their rights and responsibilities under the law and college policy. The Regulatory Compliance and Title IX Coordinator investigates and responds to complaints and collaborates with internal stakeholders to facilitate constructive resolution to complaints relating to harassment, misconduct and discrimination. The Regulatory Compliance and Title IX Coordinator also administers various insurance plans, not including employee benefit plans.

For further information please go to: goddard.edu/ about-goddard/employment-opportunities Goddard College is committed to creating a college representative of a diverse global community and capable of creating change. To that end, we are actively seeking applications from qualified candidates from groups currently underrepresented in our institution for this position. This institution is an E.O.E.

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The Center for an Agricultural Economy: The GM is tasked with overseeing all aspects of daily business activities.

They will develop and implement effective strategies to maintain excellent customer service, sustain client relationships, generate new business, supervise staff and overall business functions, and operationalize plans and policies to meet strategic growth objectives.

Tasks include: Manage daily logistics & dispatch functions, customer service engagement, fleet management, personnel management, sales &marketing outreach, develop & implement SOPs, oversee financial operations and administration.

Send resumes to:

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SUPPORT ENGINEER & MEDIA SPECIALIST/TRAFFIC Vermont PBS is currently searching for 2 postions: a Support Engineer as well as a Media Specialist/Traffic to join our team: The Support Engineer is primarily responsible for maintaining Vermont PBS’ on-air programming continuity, providing Skilled Operation of Vermont PBS’ Sony/PMM highlyautomated on-site channel playout system as well as Engineering Support to troubleshoot and repair Sony/PMM hardware, software and ancillary critical signal chain circuits and devices. The ideal candidate will work nights and weekends, and is familiar with signal flow, digital video formats, transcoding, satellite downlinks, off-air receivers, closed captioning and digital distribution (web and other media) and transmitter remote control and monitoring systems. Experience and knowledge of television broadcasting, as well as general proficiency with computers and applications, is essential.

The Media Specialist/Traffic position is responsible for Vermont PBS’ on-air programming management and traffic duties as well as managing media for broadcast and online. Media Specialist/Traffic duties include independent responsibility for preparing logs for channel playout, as well as preparation, enhancement and quality control of daily broadcast and digital video assets. The ideal candidate should be familiar with digital video formats as well as possess an understanding of broadcast asset workflow, satellite downlinks, closed captioning and digital (web and other media) distribution.

Full job descriptions can be found on our Careers page: vermontpbs.org/careers Please submit resume and cover letter to: Vermont PBS, Attn: Human Resources 10 East Allen Street, Suite 202, Winooski, VT 05404 Or: hresources@vermontpbs.org. E.O.E. 7t-VTPBS100919.indd 1

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING RESOURCES (ETR) IS SEEKING TO FILL THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS AT NORTHLANDS JOB CORPS:

“Cultivating caring, creative, and courageous people. Join the journey!”

PAYROLL SPECIALIST

Outreach and Admissions:

**CPP Pre-Arrival Specialist (new positions avail.) – Associate’s degree or work equivalence required.

• Outreach and Admissions Specialist – Bachelor’s degree and at least two years’ experience required.

The Burlington School District has an immediate opening for a Payroll Specialist. This position is primarily responsible for the effective and efficient processing of payroll and associated responsibilities, including all reporting requirements and supporting district administration with regard to financial management.

Academics

• TABE Testing/Scheduling Coordinator – Bachelor’s degree in education. A combination of education and experience may substitute for degree.

• Academics Instructor (Math) - Bachelor’s Degree and Vermont State Teacher Certification.

Finance

• Associate’s Degree is minimally required.

• Minimum three years’ experience processing payroll utilizing a computerized accounting software • Knowledge of federal and state laws, rules, and regulations which govern payroll transactions required.

• Finance Assistant (Part-time) - Post-Secondary degree in Accounting, Business Administration or related.

Food Services

• Cook Assistant – High School Diploma

Security, Safety & Transportation

• **Campus Monitor (3 Full Time Positions Available!) – High School Diploma required • Campus Monitors On-Call - High School Diploma required

Apply at schoolspring.com job ID #3178620.

Independent Living

• Residential Counselor (On-Call) – Requires Bachelor’s degree and 15 credits of social service/social science class work. **Independent Living Advisor - High School Diploma required.

• Independent Living Advisor (On-Call) - High School Diploma required.

Recreation

• Recreation Aide (2F/T) – High School Diploma required **Recreation Aide (P/T) – High School Diploma required • Recreation Aide (On-Call) – High School Diploma required

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“Mansfield Ortho is hiring motivated people of all ages for Medical Assistant positions. This role at Mansfield is more expansive than your run-ofthe-mill position. You work directly with NPs, PAs, Drs and surgeons for a firsthand experience in healthcare and orthopedics/trauma. The providers are open to your learning and so easy to communicate with. Opportunities for shadowing in both clinic and OR/PACU with nurses and surgeons for even more experience and resume building. I can speak first hand to the doors it opens and the edge it gives you on future education. If you’re looking, or know

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someone interested in the medical field, this is a great foot in the door.” KALEB KILBURY

Vermont Legal Aid seeks a full-time CFO to work in its Burlington office. The CFO is responsible for the overall financial operations of a large non-profit law firm and its partner organization with over 85 employees and annual combined budgets of $9 million. Must be able to prepare and analyze financial statements, make budget projections, provide guidance on critical financial matters, and clearly communicate results to the Executive Director and staff. Duties include: grant and contract compliance and reporting; preparation of overall program and contract budgets; organizational cash flow and forecasting; long-term financial planning with the Executive Director; leading the process for annual audit and Form 990 filing; and supervision of accounting and human resources staff.

Qualifications: Minimum of a four-year degree in accounting or related field; advanced accounting degree (MPA/CPA) preferred; minimum of eight years of experience in accounting and/or financial management, preferably in a non-profit setting; demonstrated proficiency with Excel and Abila MIP or equivalent fund accounting software program. Excellent fringe benefits including 4 weeks’ paid vacation per year.

Starting salary $88,297 + DOE. Email your cover letter, resume, and contact information for 3 references to Eric Avildsen, Exec. Director, c/o Betsy Whyte, bwhyte@vtlegalaid.org, by October 28, 2019.

Experienced Medical Assistants Needed:

VLA is an equal opportunity employer committed to cultural competency in order to effectively serve our increasingly diverse client community. Applicants are encouraged to share in their cover letter how they can further this goal. Visit our website for more information and complete application instructions: vtlegalaid.org.

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competitive pay professional development opportunities work-life balance Visit www.copleyvt.org/careers or apply in person: Human Resources Office, Health Center Building 2nd Floor, 528 Washington Highway Morrisville, VT 05661 OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY | ORTHOPAEDICS | CARDIOLOGY EMERGENCY SERVICES | ONCOLOGY | REHABILITATION SERVICES GENERAL SURGERY | DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING E XC E P T I O N A L

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Year round, full time positions.

Good wages & benefits. $16.50 per hour minimum; Pay negotiable with experience.

EOE/M/F/VET/Disability Employer Apply in person at: A.C. Hathorne Co. 252 Avenue C Williston, VT 802-862-6473

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The Williston I-89 Welcome Centers are looking for full and part-time Ambassadors.

Help us welcome travelers to Vermont.

Duties include customer service and custodial tasks. You must be able to lift 50 pounds and do snow removal. Hours include some weekend, evening and holiday shifts. Hourly rate of $13 plus benefits for full time. Please apply in person by completing an application at either Williston site or our main office at 60 Main St. Ste. 100, Burlington.

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Union Bank is currently seeking a Commercial Loan Administrative Assistant in a full-time capacity to provide a variety of administrative duties for our business and municipal loan customers. Responsibilities will include RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE compliance in the LOAN preparation of commercial loan ASSISTANT documents and providing administrative support for our We are seeking a full time Residential Mortgage Loan Commercial Lenders, including serving as a liaison with Assistant for our growing South Burlington Loan Office. our business and municipal customers. are seeking This individual will be responsible for We performing a va-an individual a demonstrated riety ofwith administrative duties administrative to provide loanbackground, originais a tion self-starter, has the ability to multi-task and work and documentation support for our Mortgage Loan Officers. Other overseeing the independently, andresponsibilities has math and include computer proficiency completion and accuracyknowledge of loan documents, processincluding a comprehensive of Microsoft Office. ing loans and ensuring proper loan documentation inThiscluding is a full-time, hours perand week position input of 40 information preparing all Monday related through Friday.

We offer competitive wages, training loan documents, follow up on verifications and credit for professional growth ofand development, strongas well reports, preparation loans for underwriting, as commitment letters,stable notes, hours, and other loan documenadvancement potential, a comprehensive tation and set up, assisting customers with advances benefit package, and a friendly, supportive environment. on home construction lines and providing all other loan We are looking for candidates who have a demonstrated support needed. Requirements include excellent writbackground in providing superior ten and oral communication, andcustomer a minimumservice, of 2 years excellent written and loan oral experience communication andof of prior residential with a skills, familiarity secondary mortgageand loanoperational products is preferable experience in market administrative duties. not required.

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proficiency in a Windows environment and a High School diploma or equivalent.

If you have excellent administrative skills and feel that banking the offers place competitive to utilize your knowledge and you UnionisBank wages, a comprehensive wishbenefi to betsa package, candidate, pleasefor complete an application training professional developwhich canstrong be found at: unionbankvt.com/careers. ment, advancement potential, stable hours and supportive work environment.

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MULTIPLE MANUFACTURING POSITONS OPEN

OPEN INTERVIEWS 10/21-10/23 FROM 3:30-6:30 PM AT 30 GAUTHIER DRIVE, ESSEX, VT

MACHINE OPERATORS – Essex & Williston, VT • The Machine Operator is responsible for monitoring Keurig Dr Pepper’s production processes; including operating manufacturing equipment and maintaining compliance with Keurig Dr Pepper’s high standards for safety and quality. This role will be engaged and understand initiatives to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost and culture.

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MATERIAL HANDLER

• As a Material Handler you will execute storage, material handling, replenish and fulfillment functions within the Plant while meeting our World Class Manufacturing and Distribution standards.

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• SHIFTS, SIGN-ON BONUS, WAGES:

Positions available on all shifts at both Essex and Williston sites. Shifts work approximately 14 days/month with regular overtime opportunities available! Shifts schedules are: • D1 Monday-Wednesday, alternating Thursday 6:00am-6:15pm • D2 Friday-Sunday, alternating Thursday 6:00am-6:15pm • N1 Monday-Wednesday, alternating Thursday 6:00pm-6:15am • N2 Friday-Sunday, alternating Thursday 6:00pm-6:15am

• $1,000 SIGN-ON BONUS FOR WILLISTON & ESSEX MANUFACTURING OPPORTUNITIES Machine Operator wages range from $17-19 per hour including shift differential.

Experienced operators eligible for competitive hourly rate. $5,250 education tuition assistance available for employees with 6 month of service that are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degrees in related fields.

Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is a leading coffee and beverage company in North America with dual headquarters in Burlington, MA, and Plano, TX, with annual revenue in excess of $11 billion. KDP holds leadership positions in soft drinks, specialty coffee and tea, water, juice, and juice drinks and mixers, and markets the #1 single serve coffee brewing system in the U.S. The Company maintains an unrivaled distribution system that enables its portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partner brands to be available nearly everywhere people shop and consume beverages. With a wide range of hot and cold beverages that meet virtually any consumer need, KDP key brands include Keurig®, Dr Pepper®, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters®, Canada Dry®, Snapple®, Bai®, Mott’s® and The Original Donut Shop®. The Company employs more than 25,000 employees and operates more than 120 offices, manufacturing plants, warehouses and distribution centers across North America.

Benefits built for you: Our people are the heart of our business, which is why we offer robust benefits to support your health and wellness as well as your personal and financial well-being. We also provide employee programs designed to enhance your professional growth and development while ensuring you feel valued, inspired and appreciated at work.

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and affirmatively seeks diversity in its workforce. Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. EOE Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/ Disabled. Candidates must be able to pass a background check and drug test, as applicable for the role.

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APPROPRIATIONS BILL COORDINATOR

LITIGATION ATTORNEY

The Legislative Joint Fiscal Office is seeking a detail oriented writer and editor to assist with preparation of the state budget bill. The job description is posted at ljfo.vermont.gov/misc/jfo-job-2019.pdf.

Resumes will be reviewed starting on Oct. 18, with the position open until filled.

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Mission-driven Burlington law firm seeks an associate attorney with 3-5 years of litigation experience to practice civil and administrative litigation in its Burlington office.

We are one of Vermont’s 2019 Best Places to Work, and we are committed to making a positive difference in the world and enjoying what we do.

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PAYROLL SPECIALIST

ESSEX WESTFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT

Our civil litigation practice consists of general commercial litigation in state and federal courts, often for clients promoting renewable energy, affordable housing, health care and downtown revitalization. We conduct administrative litigation before the Vermont Public Utility Commission, Act 250 District Commissions, and other administrative tribunals at the federal, state and local levels. Our litigation associate will assist in both types of litigation, with experience in one or both of them and a demonstrated desire to grow and excel as a litigator.

The Essex Westford School District is seeking a full-time Payroll Specialist to coordinate and implement the employee We are an equal opportunity employer and we seek to increase the diversity payroll and related payroll taxes and required federal, state, local and district reports. The within our firm. Please send a cover letter and resume to applications@ Payroll Specialist will need to apply an advanced level payroll and accounting skills to help dunkielsaunders.com. ensure payroll is functioning properly and efficiently in accordance with federal and state law and district requirements. The position will serve as the primary liaison with School 9/13/19 Administrative Assistants related to payroll functions. The payroll functions shall be split 4t-DunkielSaunders091819.indd 1 between two Payroll Specialists, processing paychecks for approximately 1200 employees on a bi-weekly basis. We are seeking candidates with the following qualifications:

www.cvabe.org Full–time Teacher/Community Coordinator in Barre

WE ARE SEEKING CANDIDATES WITH THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS: • Relevant payroll experience. Working knowledge of payroll policies and procedures, federal and state statutes pertaining to FLSA, deferral programs, tax status, and wage reduction programs. Some knowledge of personnel procedures and regulations desirable.

Seeking self-directed, outgoing and flexible individual who works well in a team environment and has a strong desire to help others reach their full potential through education.

• Strong technical skills and ability to use the latest technology towards the continuous improvement of the payroll system. Experience with Google Suite desirable.

Candidates must have:  Proven capacity for teaching and guiding basic skills instruction for adults and teens in:  Reading, writing, math, computer and financial literacy;  English Language Learning and U.S. Citizenship prep;  High school diploma and GED credentialing;  Career and college readiness.  Experience with developing personalized education and graduation education plans;  Familiarity with Barre City, Barre Town, Williamstown, Berlin, Plainfield, Marshfield and Cabot;  Spirit and capacity for community outreach and student recruitment;  Experience with recruiting and managing volunteers.

• Knowledge of school operations desirable.

• Good problems solving skills.

• High accuracy and attention to detail.

• Technically savvy with extensive experience with operational systems, email, word processing and spreadsheets.

• Good interpersonal skills - effective working relationships with staff and departments.

• Good communication skills - communicates clearly & concisely, orally and in writing.

• Proven ability to work cooperatively and effectively as part of a team.

• Strong organizational skills that reflect the ability to prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly. Excellent time management skills.

• Open to and embraces change towards the improvement of the systems. Open to new ideas and tasks without resistance; able to deal with new situations well.

CVABE, a community-based, nonprofit organization has served the residents of Washington, Orange and Lamoille counties for 50+ years. Hundreds of central Vermonters enroll annually to improve basic literacy skills, pursue alternative pathways to high school completion, learn English as another language, and gain skills for work and college.

EWSD is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive environment. Successful candidates must be committed to working effectively with diverse community populations and expected to strengthen such capacity if hired. If you do not meet all qualifications listed above, but believe you may have the necessary skills and dispositions to be successful in this position, we encourage you to apply.

Position is full-time (8 hours/day), 12 months of the year, and pays $22.75 to $25.00/ hour. Excellent benefits package available including family medical and dental insurance, term life insurance, long-term disability insurance, retirement plan with up to 6% employer contribution, and a generous paid leave package.

For consideration, please apply electronically through schoolspring.com (Job# 3179777).

If you do not have access to a computer or are having difficulty completing the Schoolspring application, call 802-857-7038 for assistance to make arrangements to have your application considered.

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Please submit cover letter, resume and three references by October 11th to: Executive Director Central Vermont Adult Basic Education, Inc. 46 Washington Street, Suite 100 Barre, Vermont 05641 info@cvabe.org

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