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The Burlington High School girls’ varsity soccer team before last Friday's game

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he Burlington High School girls’ soccer team and its #EqualPay jerseys have gone viral. They’ve been featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America”; in the news on NBC, CBS and CNN; and even in Britain’s Daily Mail — all since last Friday night.

“It is unreal,” cocaptain Helen Worden, a 17-year-old senior, said on Monday. “It’s just out of this world.”

The publicity blitz began after refs yellow-carded Worden and three other players for wearing #EqualPay jerseys during a home game last Friday evening at the high school.

That violated regulations. Only official team jerseys can be worn during games.

The Burlington Free Press reported on the sanction, and publicity spread. Women soccer greats, including World Cup and Olympic champion Brandi Chastain, praised them.

She tweeted, “Thank you @bhsgirlssoccer for standing up, celebrating and taking your jerseys off for #equalpay. Proud of you!”

The idea for the shirts arose when Worden attended a United States women’s soccer World Cup game in France in July. She watched as thousands of people in the stadium

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chanted “Equal Pay!” in solidarity with that team’s campaign to bring women’s soccer pay up to men’s.

Inspired, Worden brought the concept back to her high school team. “I was like, ‘We should do this,’” she said. “And everyone was like, ‘Yeah.’”

The team partnered with Change the Story, a Vermont initiative to erase the gender wage gap. A jersey sale campaign was born.

With the publicity, sales have soared. After the “Good Morning America” segment aired Sunday morning, supporters placed 500 orders, some for multiple jerseys. In just 24 hours, the buying spree generated about $20,000. As of Monday afternoon, the team had sold 2,000 jerseys to people in 38 states.

They cost $25, but males are asked for an extra $4.80 — a 16 percent donation that represents the wage gap in Vermont. Proceeds, about $30,000 so far, will go to the Greater Burlington Girls Soccer League, where many of the high school team’s players first learned how to dribble and pass.

Read Molly Walsh’s full story at sevendaysvt.com.

Student-led activists camped on the Statehouse lawn for two nights to push lawmakers for action on climate issues. Taking it to the tents.

1. “Vermont Gas Distributors to Settle PriceFixing Lawsuit for $1.5 Million” by Paul Heintz.

Four years after they were accused of cheating customers out of $100 million, a group of Vermont gasoline distributors has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit for a fraction of that amount.

2. “Rock On: Essex Woman Belts Out Jethro Tull Tune to Protest Merger” by Sasha Goldstein.

Irene Wrenner sang her version of “Locomotive Breath” at a selectboard meeting.

3. “The Cannabis Catch-Up: Has Vermont’s Hemp Bubble Popped?” by Sasha Goldstein. Farmers who didn’t line up buyers before the season started are struggling to sell their hemp crop.

4. “Colchester-Based VIP Taps Into the Beverage Industry With Software Solutions” by Molly Walsh. The tech company offers inventory, distribution and sales management services to some 1,000 distributors and 800 suppliers.

5. “Barre’s Best: Named Nicest Place in Vermont

by Reader’s Digest” by Sasha Goldstein. In bestowing the honor, the magazine highlighted the blue-collar town’s compassionate efforts to help those struggling with opioid-use disorder.

rene Wrenner has voiced her displeasure with various plans to merge Essex Junction governmental departments with those of the greater Town of Essex.

She’s even pulled stunts over the years. In 2016, the former Essex Selectboard member handed out condoms to primary election voters at the polls — on the middle school campus — with the message, “Stop STDs (Special Tax Districts): Vote NO December 13!”

But Wrenner, who lost reelection in March after 12 years on the board, took it to another level earlier this month at an Essex Selectboard meeting. When it was her turn

to speak during the public comment period, Wrenner stepped up to a microphone clad in a leather jacket and jeans, and an instrumental version of Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath” started to play.

“Oh, this merger train is speeding, towards Election Daaaaayyy,” she wailed as she danced.

“Only voters can stop it, with a vote of nay!

That’s the way to slow this merger train down.”

So what inspired the October 7 show?

Wrenner said in an interview that she’s sick of handing out flyers, circulating petitions and simply speaking at public meetings. And, she asked, why spend months knocking on doors to inform voters when she could sum up the issue in a rockin’ rendition of a flute-filled prog-rock jam?

Talk of a merger is nothing new in Essex,

Vermont’s second-largest town, with some 22,000 residents. About half, though, live in Essex Junction, a village within the town that has its own library and fire, recreation and planning departments. A merger, which requires a charter change, has tax implications and would shatter a sense of identity for some who feel strongly about the delineated place where they live.

After several surveys and other work, the town is preparing for a merger vote in November 2020. The selectboard hopes to outline a plan that the residents can discuss at Town Meeting Day, according to Wrenner.

She thinks things are moving too quickly for such a momentous decision — hence, slowing down the merger train.

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[Re “Good News?” September 25]: I am from Marble, N.C. I was raised in an evangelical household. And I am alarmed by the present influx from the South. That’s South with a capital S. As in, “The South will rise again,” a sentiment I heard preached as fervently as the gospel in my youth.

I was lucky enough to escape both the South and my evangelical upbringing. You see, I am not just a Southerner in search of white winters. I came to Vermont for a number of reasons, foremost among them the similarity between New England’s philosophy and my own, the Witches’ Rede: “Do as you will, harm none.” There is little compatibility between this and the atmosphere I endured in the South, namely: “Do as we say, or suffer God’s wrath.”

Now, I am sure most migrants to the Green Mountains will respect Vermont’s culture and seek to complement rather than convert. There are no doubt other cultural refugees like me. I am writing this in hopes that the culture we sought is one most Vermonters are prepared to protect.

My wife and I have put down roots here. And, though she is a Vermonter by birth, neither of us has done so lightly. We consider Vermont our home and stand ready to defend that home against any who come seeking to impose upon rather than respect their neighbor.

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[Re Off Message: “Sanders Walks Back Suggestion That He’ll Scale Back His Campaign,” October 9]: It’s a shame that Sen. Bernie Sanders not only experienced chest pains while campaigning and reluctantly let himself be taken to the hospital, but then Jeff Weaver had to pile on by failing to diagnose an infarction before the doctors did, and then Bernie admitted that he “misspoke” about exactly how he planned to forge ahead on the campaign trail, but with his health in mind, for once.

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My suggestion is: If at any point it becomes a question of who should be saved and who shouldn’t, then perhaps it’s time to look for alternative employment.

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There were several errors in last week’s Tech Issue. The story entitled “Signs of Intelligent Life” incorrectly credited Gov. Phil Scott with impaneling Vermont’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force. The state legislature created the task force in 2018 with a unanimous vote on Act 137, which Scott signed.

The story “Tangible Tech” included several inaccurate and/ or outdated statistics about GlobalFoundries, all of which were provided by the company’s staff.

The “Fab 9” plant in Essex Junction produces 8-inch wafers only, each of which contains up to approximately 50,000 chips. Of the more than 50 billion chips that GF shipped worldwide in the last five years, more than 50 percent of them came from Essex Junction.

Finally, the email address for John Brawley, owner of Sweet Sound Aquaculture, was incorrect in the food story entitled “Aquaculture Man.” It is vermontshrimp @gmail.com.

Bernie’s age, saying he himself wouldn’t have wanted to undertake the mental strain of the presidency at 80. ‘“The things I faced in foreign affairs, I don’t think I could undertake them at 80 years old,” he continued, before adding with a smile: “At 95, it’s out of the question. I’m having a hard time walking.”’

A few weeks later, Jimmy busted his forehead open, so on his way to hammer together another Habitat for Humanity home, he stopped by the ER to pick up 14 stitches. And he’s worried about the agility of Bernie’s mind when it comes to negotiating with our world partners?

Bernie’s mind is especially fit for that task, and he has the modern advantage of seeing beyond religion. He’s an honest peacemaker, like Carter.

Anyway, let’s assume Bernie’s elected president, and he keels over the week after his inauguration. VP Elizabeth Warren takes over, and a wise Jewish man once inhabited the Oval Office for five days. Is that really so bad?

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I couldn’t believe what I was reading in [Feedback: “Enough About Addiction,” August 28]. The written words jumped off the page as if they were striking me in the face, taking my breath away and leaving me in complete disbelief. How can someone feel like saving the life of an addict is a waste of resources? Mark Szymanski claims we are losing many of our first responders to PTSD, as if he’s suggesting it’s from administering Narcan to a dying addict more so than any other traumatic call that required lifesaving measures.

Last I checked, saving lives was part of the job description of a first responder.

It’s ironic that he mentions PTSD. Most addicts actually suffer from PTSD and began using in an attempt to relieve its symptoms. Most addicts have endured

The Seven Days article entitled “Carbon Quandary” [October 9] did an excellent job of portraying two contrasting visions of Vermont’s two primary human relationships with forests.

One vision sees forests as resources that need to be managed and used. The other vision sees forests first as ecosystems that require lots more space from human intervention to preserve the inherent, continued capacity for self-renewal.

The article features two publicly held enterprises, the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation and the Burlington Electric Department. Both are forest resource managers calling for more careful use of Vermont’s forests for renewable, carbon-based energy.

Members of two privately held institutions based in Vermont — Bill Keeton of the University of Vermont and Jon Leibowitz of the Northeast Wilderness Trust — are joined by author and environmental advocate Bill McKibben in advocating for putting forest ecosystem health first in Vermont by leaving more wood FEEDBACK

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Bern’s Return: In Queens, a Massive Crowd Welcomes Sanders

Burlington plot near Barge Canal hits the market for $2 million

City Market Contract Falls Short of Union’s $15-an-Hour Goal

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Culture: Vermon’ts skateboarding community rallies to resurrect a beloved indoor skate park

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Culture: Burlington musician Eric Maier reflects on his public crime — and the album it inspired

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Drink: As an accidental cidermaker, Krista Scruggs embraces “the Vermont way”

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Drink: It’s apple fermentation time in Vermont

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Four Strings For such a small instrument, the ukulele has inspired a heck of a big event. The Vermont Ukulele Harvest offers workshops, jam sessions, an open mic and two concerts — all dedicated to the miniature guitar. Performers at the Next Stage Arts Project in Putney include Grammy Award nominee Stuart Fuchs, headliners Jim and Liz Beloff, and many others.

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FRIDAY 25-SUNDAY 3

World Views The South Asian Film Festival of Montréal’s mission is to showcase “new artistic work that fosters discussions and explores the world we inhabit.” To that end, the annual fest spotlights 24 thoughtprovoking shorts, documentaries and features from Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, the United States and Canada at Concordia University’s Cinéma de Sève.

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SUNDAY 27

WITH THE BAND

In 2018, Elvis Costello & the Imposters released Look Now, their first album together in a decade. Pitchfork hailed the album, which includes songs Costello wrote for various musical theater projects, as “lush, complex and proudly mature.” Costello and company deliver favorites spanning his decades-long catalog from the Flynn MainStage in Burlington.

SATURDAY 26

Office Space

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Human Beings Forty-seven artists are represented in the Fleming Museum of Art exhibition “Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul.” Selected from works originally organized by Light Work, an artist-support nonprofit based in Syracuse, N.Y., the photos explore politics, social justice and visibility. Amy Lilly reviews the show on view through midDecember at the University of Vermont gallery.

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In a promotional video for his All Rise comedy tour, Nick Offerman, in his typical understated delivery, describes the show as “an evening of deliberative talking and light dance that will compel you to chuckle.” Jordan Adams chats with the actor, who played the meat-loving, government-hating Ron Swanson on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” ahead of his two sets at Burlington’s Flynn MainStage.

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THURSDAY 24

Long Journey At just 9 years old, Akol Aguek was separated from his family during the Sudanese Civil War. He spent more than a decade in refugee camps before coming to Vermont in 2001. Aguek, now an international student adviser at the University of Vermont, shares his story as part of the One World Library Project at Bristol’s Lawrence Memorial Library.

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Otter Creek in Vergennes

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ENVIRONMENT

When It Rains

Strong storms frustrate efforts to reduce wastewater overflows

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ark Breznick didn’t expect to get much sleep when he headed to bed one night last week. A fierce nor’easter was forecast to lash the region with heavy rain, and Breznick, director of the Rutland wastewater treatment plant laboratory, suspected he might be in for a long night.

“I could hear it coming down pretty good on my roof, so I pretty much knew,” Breznick said.

Sure enough, shortly after 2 a.m. last Thursday, a custodian at the plant paged him. They had a problem. Breznick got up, logged on to his computer, and spotted the sharp spike in the stormwater and raw sewage mix pouring into the plant.

Rutland is one of 16 municipalities in Vermont that still combines its stormwater and sewage into a single stream of wastewater, and heavy rain had swollen that nasty brew dramatically.

It wasn’t the foul river flowing into the treatment plant that worried Breznick, however, but the water that wasn’t making it there.

Because the city’s treatment plant can effectively clean only 22.5 million gallons of water a day, anything beyond that amount gets diverted — untreated — into Otter Creek and a nearby tributary, East Creek.

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Last week’s storm again highlighted the challenges Vermont faces in its decadeslong effort to reduce pollution flowing into key waterways. While the state has made progress in reducing the number of locations where untreated sewage can enter rivers and lakes, more intense rains have increased both the frequency and volume of spills.

The state toughened regulations four years ago. But bureaucratic wrangling and lack of funds have held up some of the pricey infrastructure projects needed to address the problem.

Otter Creek alone endured multiple sewage overflows during the Thursday storm from three communities along its banks: Rutland, Brandon and Vergennes.

The river flows 112 miles from the Green Mountain National Forest through much of Rutland and Addison counties before entering Lake Champlain at Ferrisburgh. It is listed as one of 102 polluted, or “impaired,” waterways in the state.

Breznick couldn’t stop some of Rutland’s sewage from flowing untreated into the creek last week. The waste is automatically diverted at four city locations into something called a combined sewer overflow.

Whenever the water level in the sewer pipes gets above a certain level, the excess

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spills over a barrier, out a pipe and into the creek — bypassing the treatment plant.

Breznick’s job wasn’t to prevent the overflow, merely to report it.

At 4:42 a.m., after he had confirmed that all four overflow locations in Rutland were releasing untreated stormwater and sewage into the swollen creek, he sent an alert informing the state of the problem.

The information was posted on a Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation website, along with overflow reports from other towns and cities.

Breznick’s report also triggered a blast of emails and text messages to anyone who had signed up to be notified of overflows.

Vermont has mandated these public disclosures since 2016 when, in the face of pressure from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and public outrage at the persistent pollution in the Lake Champlain basin, new rules went into effect to improve transparency.

James Ehlers, executive director of the clean water advocacy group Lake Champlain International, has tried to draw attention to wastewater spills for years. According to his analysis, the basin this year is likely to see the largest number and volume of spills since tracking began in 2016.

Before last week’s storm, Ehlers noted that the 164 overflows matched the previous full-year total. However, the volume released, 31 million gallons, was shy of the 43 million gallons in 2018.

Those figures changed dramatically during last week’s storm, which Ehlers said will likely help make 2019 a record year for spills by any measure. The storm triggered the release of an estimated 11.5 million gallons in overflows or partially treated sewage into Otter Creek, according to the reports. Rutland alone was responsible for 10 million of those gallons, according to Jeff Wennberg, the city’s commissioner of public works.

“I think we can expect more overflows.

It’s still October,” Ehlers said. “My biggest concern is that the pattern should be trending down, but it’s getting worse.”

Average temperatures in Vermont have increased two degrees Farenheit since the beginning of the 20th century, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Warmer weather has generated, on average, six additional inches of precipitation annually in Vermont since the 1960s, as well as more extreme rain and snowfall — a trend that is expected to continue, NOAA reports.

While Rutland is by no means alone in such overflows from major storms, the city of 15,400 residents remains the worst offender. As of October 6, Rutland had reported 76 spills totaling nearly 22 million gallons, Ehlers’ group reported.

St. Albans was next, with nine spills of 4.4 million gallons into Lake Champlain.

As the rain pounded the window in his Rutland City Hall office last Thursday morning, Wennberg pulled up charts showing real-time treatment system data.

He marveled at one chart showing how quickly Otter Creek rose during the storm.

“That thing came up like a rocket,” Wennberg, a former Rutland mayor and commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation under thengovernor Jim Douglas.

On a later visit to the plant, Wennberg checked on chief operator Bob Protivansky as he monitored the treatment process from a control room. Flashing red lights indicated ongoing overflow conditions, but Protivansky said it was nothing like in the old days.

“That used to happen for weeks,” Protivansky said. “Now it happens for hours.”

Even so, such high flows challenge the crews. Assistant operator Tyson Barlow spent much of the morning frantically WHEN IT RAINS

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Superfund Site for Sale Burlington plot near Barge Canal hits the market for $2 million B Y C O UR TN EY L A MDIN COURTNEY LAMDIN

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Barge Canal

A worker dumping coal by-products outside the former Burlington Gas Works plant

far from downtown and Lake Champlain.

Located across from the Dealer.com campus, the combined eight acres of land are wedged between the Maltex Building and the Burlington Electric Department headquarters on the west side of the street.

The land’s appeal, though, is mostly surface deep.

For nearly 60 years in the early and mid-20th century, part of the property was home to Burlington Gas Works, a coal gasification plant that extracted fuel from coal to light the city’s streetlamps.

The unused Barge Canal — a relic of the city’s past as a lumber port — became a convenient dumping ground for coal tar, fuel oil, cyanide and other contaminated residue from the plant, which closed in 1966. In the 1970s, the city discovered the pollution, halting plans to run the Champlain Parkway through the site; it is still unbuilt.

In 1983, the EPA designated a large swath around the Barge Canal

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aren Lumino was preparing for maternity leave from her job at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency when she got a call: A developer wanted to build a Stop & Shop grocery store on an undeveloped strip along Pine Street in Burlington. It was April 1999, and the store wanted a September grand opening. That timeline would never happen, Lumino scoffed. Not on that property.

The area is contaminated with coal tar, a toxic black goo that’s a by-product of the Queen City’s industrial past, and any development there has to be very carefully vetted, Lumino knew. Regulating the site, after all, was her job.

Twenty years later, Lumino is still the site’s remedial project manager at the EPA; her son is in college. The property, just east of what’s known as the Barge Canal, remains forested and undeveloped, right in the middle of the South End’s bustling arts and tech district.

It was also recently posted for sale.

A cool $2 million will get you a slice of a Superfund site, plenty of strings attached.

But the land’s owner is confident that newly available loans and support from federal and state agencies will finally make development there a reality.

“Every dog has its day, so to speak,” said Rick Davis, a 74-year-old Stowe resident who has owned the property for 35 years. “No time like the present.”

There’s plenty to like about 453 and 501 Pine Street, two adjacent lots with frontage along the popular corridor not

a Superfund site, a federal program intended to clean up hazardous waste so the land can be reused. There are 14 Superfund sites in Vermont; this one just happens to be in its most populous city, next to its largest lake, along a stretch that has rapidly become desirable.

Davis’ property at 501 is just a small section within the boundary of a larger 38-acre Superfund site and doesn’t include the canal itself. The lot at 453 Pine is not inside the boundary but is a brownfield, a type of contaminated property regulated by the state. Since 2013, it has been part of a pilot program known as the Brownfields Economic Revitalization Alliance, which brings together state agencies, developers, municipalities and others who help fast-track redevelopment. These brownfield projects also receive EPA funding and guidance from the state.

Previous attempts to clean the properties and ready them for new life have proven unsuccessful, even with assistance from the brownfields program. In 1992, the EPA proposed dredging the contaminated mud from the Barge Canal and piling it 25 feet high on the site. Locals blasted the plan, which a Burlington Free Press editorial called a “13-acre aboveground hazardous waste dump as big as University Mall.”

The EPA relented and instead constructed a protective sand cap in the canal to prevent the coal tar from spreading. The remedy has worked, for the most part. Coal tar began to permeate sections of the barrier in 2006, so regulators installed a new cap that absorbs the pollutants before they can reach Lake Champlain.

The canal itself is not for sale, but the EPA still worries that activity near it could cause the tar to seep to the surface. As a result, the Superfund site and a dozen adjacent parcels are governed by so-called institutional controls, which supersede city zoning in restricting uses. No housing or childcare centers are allowed, for instance, and crews can’t dig deeper than five feet below the surface, except to install pilings that elevate structures to reduce the pressure they put on the contaminated soil.

Developers have tried and failed to overcome these environmental hurdles.

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Since July 2000, the city has approved five different concepts for 453 Pine — most of which were office space with retail or restaurants, city documents show — but none of the projects made it past early review. Both parcels are in the city’s enterprise-light manufacturing zoning district, which allows for things such as bakeries, bowling alleys, takeout restaurants and even community gardens.

“A friend of mine likes to say they built the Panama Canal with donkeys and buckets, so we should be able to figure this one out,” said Lumino of the EPA. “It’s not an insurmountable project; it just gets down to how much money it would be.”

Larry Williams, a principal at development firm Redstone and Davis’ brother-inlaw, knows that all too well. Back in 2016, he proposed a five-story, 100,000-squarefoot office building on the sites. The plans followed state and EPA guidance — the building would have been on stilts — but Williams backed out when he realized the site cleanup would add $5 million to the $25 million project.

“Whoever does it, you’re going to need to pay a premium or find other sources of funding,” said Williams, noting that Redstone sought low-interest loans and other financing, to no avail.

Trish Coppolino, Vermont’s brownfield program administrator, said there are options now that didn’t exist when Williams was in the thick of things. As of last year, whoever develops 453 Pine can apply for a low-interest $5 million loan through the Clean Water State Revolving Fund. It could help pay for the soil disposal and pilings that Williams found prohibitively expensive.

But Williams said a low-interest loan wouldn’t have been enough. He needed a grant, which is only available to nonprofits.

Coppolino recognizes that other incentives would help, but “this is the best we can do right now,” she said.

Meanwhile, Gov. Phil Scott last year named much of Pine Street an “opportunity zone,” one of two in Burlington and 25 in the state. Created as part of the 2017 federal tax cuts, the designation is intended to stimulate growth in lowincome neighborhoods by offering sizable tax breaks to investors in opportunity zone projects.

Luke McGowan, director of Burlington’s Community and Economic Development Office, said his department is in the midst of strategizing about how to market the city’s opportunity zones to attract the right types of investors. He acknowledged that people criticize the zones for helping the rich get richer.

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An approximate boundary of the Superfund Site

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Lake Champlain 453 Pine Street 501 Pine Street

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“We have no problem with developers making money on their investments as long as they also bring wealth to the community and meet our community needs that we’ve spent a long time outlining,” McGowan said.

Nedde Real Estate is marketing the opportunity zone, too, and it has generated some interest, according to Davis’ listing agent, Fernando Cresta. During a tour of the property last week, he played up the site’s natural beauty. The lot is lush with towering trees and marshy grasses that open up to the canal; just by looking at it, you’d never know it was full of toxic sludge.

There’s also a view of several encampments that have caused concern. In 2016, five people beat another camper to death near the Barge Canal. Last month, after finding numerous tents and used hypodermic needles on the grounds, the EPA wrote the city a letter asking for a police escort so that field workers could proceed with environmental testing. Davis also agreed to thin out some of the woods to reduce cover.

Cresta thinks the spruce-up will make the property more attractive to potential buyers. He’s never sold a Superfund site before but thinks it’s doable.

“You just promote it,” Cresta said of his sales strategy. “We’re hoping to get the right people interested. This is the only piece of land left.”

Coppolino envisions a mixed-use project that could provide access to the canal’s natural area and connect to walking trails and Lake Champlain. City residents similarly dreamed in Technicolor as part of an extensive South End plan published earlier this year. It called for the Barge Canal to be transformed from an industrial wasteland to a park with boardwalks and bike paths.

Davis, too, is optimistic that the tides are changing. Earlier this month, Gov. Scott signed an executive order that formalized the state’s brownfields pilot program, calling for a committee to review brownfield projects annually and assigning each a team to look for grants and other financing. The goal is to have a “one-stop shop” to help developers transform the unused and stigmatized sites.

“There’s some real desire to see this site get developed,” Davis said. “My hope is that it will happen before I go to the happy hunting ground in the sky.” m Contact: courtney@sevendaysvt.com

After more than 100 hours at the negotiating table, City Market, Onion River Co-op and its 270 unionized employees arrived at a new contract this month.

Negotiating teams approved a tentative agreement on October 1, and union members “overwhelmingly approved” it during a vote last weekend, according to union treasurer and negotiator Shannon Williamson. The City Market board is scheduled to ratify the contract at its next meeting.

The three-year agreement gets about halfway to the union’s goal to land a $15-an-hour wage for its lowest-paid employees. Instead of starting at $11 an hour — just 22 cents above Vermont’s minimum wage — the workers will start at $13. By the end of the three-year contract, those workers will make $14.07 hourly, according to the approved wage schedule.

“I am certainly pleased that the people who really needed the help the most are going to get the biggest bump,” said Williamson, a third-shift lead who has worked at City Market for almost two years. “I can’t imagine how people lived on $11 an hour.”

Union members had argued in prolonged negotiations that Vermont earners have to make twice that wage to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment in the state. In August, City Market employees told Seven Days that, for all of the co-op’s progressive ideals, it doesn’t prioritize employee welfare.

City Market general manager John Tashiro said this summer that a $15 wage is unsustainable, especially as the co-op pays down a $10 million loan for its 2-year-old South End store. He said the market’s benefits are generous and make up for perceived lower wages.

But to counterbalance the new contract’s higher starting wage, employees will have to pay more of their health care premiums. Workers’ 18 percent store discount, vacation allowances — four weeks paid, to start — and 6 percent 401k match after a year on the job remain intact, Tashiro said.

“Both sides felt really good about where we landed. I really commend both sides,” said Tashiro, who sat in on negotiations. “I think it’s a tremendous step forward.” m Contact: courtney@sevendaysvt.com

When It Rains « P.12 repairing a pump that had clogged with debris flushed into the plant on the torrent of effluent, he said.

Keeping the various screens, filters and pumps free of debris under such conditions is hard work. Barlow sometimes runs back and forth between two buildings that house the plant’s main screening equipment, his shirt soaked with sweat.

Wennberg stressed that the water racing though the plant during storms gets fully treated. While the overflows are not, he downplayed the dangers associated with the heavily diluted releases.

The amount of actual sewage from people’s homes that makes it into the creek from these incidents is small compared to the stormwater running off roofs, parking lots and streets, he said.

About a tenth of the estimated 10 million gallons released during the storm was sewage, he said, and the rest was stormwater.

He also takes issue with rules that require him to report the overflows from a single storm four times — once for each location where the releases occur. The requirement tends to make Rutland’s JAMES performance look worse than that of communities with a single overflow site, he said.

Despite the releases, Wennberg thinks the system is better than one that treats only sewage and lets stormwater go untreated, he said. Most of the time, the plant treats stormwater before releasing it into the creek, which, on balance, improves water quality, he argued.

Ehlers scoffed at that claim.

“It’s like throwing your garbage over the fence into your neighbor’s yard,” he said. “Rutland is just sending their problem downstream to every other community that relies on Otter Creek for its recreation, tourist economy or drinking water supply.”

Ehlers said the state should institute a moratorium on new sewage connections in Rutland until the city resolves its overflows.

The state shouldn’t allow a community that is polluting the watershed to add development that will only exacerbate that problem, he said.

Wennberg called talk of a moratorium “insane.”

The volume of sewage is not the problem; it’s the volume of rain, which has become more intense and frequent, he said.

He noted that the city received 3.1 inches of rain in 24 hours during last week’s storm.

Halting new connections would bring to a

standstill the very economic growth needed to pay for upgrades, he said.

Since 2016, the state has required water from combined sewer overflows to be cleaned to the same standards as that which is released from treatment plants, according to Chip Gianfagna, manager of the wastewater program of the Department of Environmental Conservation.

That has led to a sharp reduction in the number of overflow locations statewide, from 73 to 46, according to the department.

Cities such as Rutland, however, say they can’t afford the expense of separating their sewer and stormwater systems, which Wennberg estimates would cost at least $150 million.

The city is instead considering improving its existing system by installing two new multimillion gallon holding tanks to catch the storm overflow so that it can be treated once a storm has passed. Even that work is estimated to cost $30 million.

“We’ve got some work to do until we can come into compliance,” Wennberg said.

Julie Moore, secretary of the Vermont Department of Natural Resources, said Wennberg has a point that combined systems, despite the “ick factor” related to E HLE RS overflows, do remove significant amounts of contaminants from stormwater when working properly.

That has to be taken into consideration when judging whether communities are doing enough to meet water quality goals, she said.

Gianfagna said statewide data show an increase in the number of release events — combined sewer overflows, accidents and other releases — but he could not speak to Lake Champlain basin data that Ehlers’ group had compiled.

The increase in incidents is clearly due, at least in part, to bigger storms, but could also be related to improved reporting, Gianfagna said.

There are ways in which cities and towns with combined system overflows can meet the new standards, Gianfagna said. They could, for instance, find ways to capture and treat the overflow, as Rutland is considering, or install green infrastructure such as rain gardens to keep rainwater from becoming runoff in the first place, he said. New state guidance on such projects is expected by the end of the year.

“We don’t want people to go out there, unguided, and just throw money at things that aren’t going to fix anything,” he said. m

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Champlain Islanders aren’t sure about a proposed Maplefields in South Hero

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steady stream of trucks and cars rolled through the intersection of Routes 2 and 314 in South Hero last week, many of which were coming from the year-round ferry that connects Vermont and New York.

Vermont gasoline mogul Skip Vallee wants to capitalize on the traffic by building his 51st Maplefields gas station and convenience store at the busy spot. But his plan to plop a chain store in the small, rural Champlain Islands town, and his crush-the-competition business style, are drawing complaints.

Critics contend the new Maplefields would threaten similar operations that pump gas and sell food within a mile of the site: Keeler’s Bay Variety just to the south and Island Beverage & Redemption, adjacent to the proposed Maplefields site.

South Hero is known for its seasonal lakeshore homes, apple orchards and small farms, as well as its commuter castles.

Part of the resistance stems from fear that even a Vermont chain could erode the local character.

“Why do we need three convenience shops right in a row?” asked Nancy Wood, co-owner of the Green Frog gift shop, just around the corner from the proposed Maplefields. She also dislikes the idea that “someone like Vallee” will “take business away” from a locally owned store such as Island Beverage.

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Vallee has built a reputation as a combative and litigious businessman. He has waged a long, unresolved battle against Costco Wholesale’s bid to start pumping gas at its retail operation in Colchester.

Ostensibly, he objects on environmental grounds — but Costco would bring cheaper fuel to the region.

Just last Thursday, Vallee and three other fuel distributors agreed to settle a 2015 class action lawsuit alleging that they conspired to keep gas prices artificially high in northern Vermont. In court documents and a written statement, Vallee vehemently denied any price fixing but agreed to help pay a $1.5 million settlement.

The proposed South Hero Maplefields would be attached to the building that houses McKee’s Island Pub & Pizza. Vallee said he has an agreement for a long-term lease of the land. Owner Lance McKee did not return calls for comment.

Just next door and also on Vallee’s radar is Island Beverage, owned by Tim and Kelly Cota. The couple was negotiating to sell their property to Vallee, but the deal fell apart, Tim Cota told the Islander newspaper last month. The paper reported that the Cotas, who had purchased gas wholesale from Vallee’s company, were planning to end their relationship with him and, as part of that break, arrange for the removal of his company’s fuel tanks.

The Cotas did not respond to messages from Seven Days, and no one answered the door at their home on Lake Champlain’s

Keeler Bay on October 16. The station and the tired-looking convenience store were temporarily closed and marked off with yellow tape for the tank removal project, which was near completion.

Vallee’s hardball tactics are well documented.

In 2010, he opposed the construction of a Walmart in St. Albans until the permit guaranteed that no gas would be sold there. In 2012, he purchased a gas station in Plainfield near one he owned. He took out the pumps and put the property back on the market — with a new deed restriction to prevent a competing gas station or convenience store from operating there.

He resorted to similar strategies in St. Johnsbury in 2014, according to the class action lawsuit, which alleged that Vallee used land covenants, zoning and the state environmental permit process to “suppress” competition.

In an interview with Seven Days, Vallee said he’s not trying to squash the competition in South Hero — or put the Cotas out of business.

“The Cotas, who are very fine people, were customers of ours, and they’ve decided, at least as of now, to go another route,” Vallee said. “And we wish them the best of luck.”

It’s Vallee’s company policy to remove fuel tanks when a contract ends, “given prospective underground pollution liability,” he added.

Vallee has not given up on a deal, though. He said he still wants to buy the

Island Beverage property and incorporate it with the McKee parcel for the new Maplefields.

“The smartest thing to do is to combine those lots on that corner,” Vallee said. He added that he’s still negotiating with the Cotas but declined to discuss the details.

His current proposal does not include their Island Beverage parcel and, according to Vallee, he could go forward without acquiring it.

In any event, Vallee emphasized, the law does not say a new business can’t compete with an existing one. “I don’t think that’s part of the zoning analysis,” Vallee asserted.

Under his proposal, McKee’s restaurant would stay. Last week a handful of locals and leaf peepers noshed on meatball subs, chicken Parm and pizza under an oversize hunting rifle replica suspended from the ceiling. Traffic whizzed by outside.

Vallee would build a 2,000-square-foot addition to the building for a convenience store with two gas pumps and new bathrooms. Existing small apartments would be converted to office space for the Maplefields, he said.

“We believe that what we’re doing with that historic building creates a destination that, in the end, South Hero will be proud of,” Vallee said. The company has revamped other historic properties in Stowe and Middlebury, creating a sort of Ye Olde Gas Station architectural style.

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Bern’s Return: In Queens, a Massive Crowd Welcomes Sanders

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.) delivered a jolt of star power during a huge and boisterous Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) campaign rally in Queens on Saturday. Thousands gave her rapturous ovations and chanted “AOC! AOC!” during her 15-minute speech.

But the adoring crowd erupted with even greater enthusiasm when Sanders strutted onstage in Queensbridge Park. The impressive turnout, which the campaign asserted was more than 25,000 people, and Sanders’ nearly hourlong recitative combined to prove the candidate’s contention that, “To put it bluntly, I’m back!”

Declaiming his standard litany of issues in spirited cadences, Sanders gave no hint of having suffered a heart attack less than three weeks ago. The delivery of his speech, as much as its content, seemed designed to convince skeptics — and to warn political opponents — that Sanders can make good on his promise of waging “a vigorous campaign.”

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore gave a humorous, if indirect, response to misgivings about Sanders’ age in a warm-up speech. “Bernie’s not too old,” Moore told the crowd. “Here’s what’s too old: The electoral college is too old.

A $7.25 minimum wage: That’s too old.

Women not being paid the same as men: That’s too old. Thousands and thousands of dollars of student debt. What is that?

Too old.”

Ocasio-Cortez, a 30-year-old Latina Bronx-Queens lawmaker, presented a condensed story of her life which, she said, led her to endorse the 78-year-old Jewish Vermonter. The former bartender, whose mother came to New York from Puerto

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Rico and whose Bronx-born father died when she was 18, recounted how Sanders’ “consistent and nonstop advocacy” of progressive causes had been an inspiration to her working-class family. His successful challenges to powerful interests motivated her to run for Congress in 2018, Ocasio-Cortez said.

With his white hair wafting in a gentle breeze and right hand thrusting upward and outward, Sanders at times resembled an Old Testament prophet, especially when he thundered: “Justice, long overdue, is coming to the United States of America!”

Few members of the throng departed before he had finished enumerating his promises. And a lengthy list of promises it was.

Declaring himself “more than ready to assume the office of president of the United States of America,” Sanders vowed to secure Medicare for all, mitigate climate change, tax the rich, combat “environmental racism,” ensure “decent and affordable housing for all Americans,” reform the immigration system, implement gun control, defend women’s right to choose, overhaul the “racist criminal justice system,” end gentrification, and deliver high-speed broadband everywhere in the country.

Queens itself, with a population four times Vermont’s, is referred to by its boosters as “the world’s borough.” Queens does indeed comprise a multicultural mélange. “I see people from every single background, apropos the melting pot we call New York,” Sanders’ wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, remarked from the stage. Yet, to this reporter, it appeared that four out of every five people in the crowd was white.

Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement is being interpreted by some pundits as a blow to Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren as much as it is a boost to Sanders. She praised “one of the best Democratic primary fields in a generation” and attributed its strength in part to “the work Bernie Sanders has done.” m Read more and follow all the latest on Sanders’ presidential run at sevendaysvt.com.

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The City of Winooski has received four proposals to develop one of the last open downtown parcels and will consider a range of projects including a hotel, offices and housing, city manager Jessie Baker said.

She intends to recommend one plan to the city council for consideration at its November 4 meeting. “We’re weighing those options now,” Baker said. Until then, the plans are not public, she noted.

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the property fell apart. He is instead refocusing his efforts to build a 90room Tru by Hilton hotel about a block away, near the Champlain Mill.

Winooski has been working to bring a hotel to its downtown for at least five years.

Lot 7D is at the corner of Abenaki Way and Winooski Falls Way, in the gravel parking lot between the Community College of Vermont and the Riverrun apartment building. The 0.83acre parcel is in the city’s designated downtown redevelopment zone, where new condos, apartments, and office and retail operations worth a combined $200 million have sprung up over the past 15 years.

The city has eyed a portion of the lot for construction of a new municipal parking garage to ease the downtown parking crunch. In March, voters approved a bond for the garage. The request for proposals outlined various potential development scenarios. A developer could build a garage and lease spots to the city, or vice versa.

Dubroff did not submit a proposal but is pushing city officials to negotiate with him on his own hotel plan, on the third different site he’s considered. m Contact: molly@sevendaysvt.com

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The McKee’s makeover would resemble those, Vallee said: “This is something we’re used to doing, and we’ll try to address all of the legitimate concerns of the town.”

Still, he took some arrows during an August 28 South Hero Development Review Board session, according to meeting minutes and Islander coverage. About 45 people attended the meeting, which was moved to a larger space at the town’s new Worthen Library in anticipation of a large crowd.

Buzz about the gas station “brought a lot of people out,” said Martha Taylor-Varney, South Hero’s zoning administrator.

Board chair Tim Maxham told speakers to stick to the facts of the proposal when they attempted to raise questions about Costco and Vallee’s general business practices, according to the minutes.

As Taylor-Varney explained, those subjects are not germane to the application. Without mentioning Island Beverage, she acknowledged that some attended “because they feel like a local business was being bullied.”

During the meeting, Vallee said one benefit of the Maplefields would be clean customer restrooms decorated with fresh flowers. It’s one of his favorite Maplefields selling points; clean commodes, he contends, have helped the Maplefields chain grow to 50 outlets in Vermont and neighboring states.

That didn’t pass the sniff test with Wood, the Green Frog gift shop owner.

Fresh daisies and a tidy bathroom are nice, but she’s worried about the “clutter” of another gas station in the area known locally as Keeler Bay. It would be a shame to let poorly planned development sprout while the town has otherwise managed growth well, she said. A few miles away, in the area around Route 2 and South Street, the Worthen Library opened in July. There’s a new South Hero Fire and Rescue Station next to it.

“It looks nice,” Wood commented. A 50-seat restaurant and brewery has been proposed nearby.

Vallee, a GOP donor and organizer, said that some of the plan’s opponents at the South Hero meeting seemed to be robotically aligned with his political nemesis, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “It seemed clear to me that there was a bunch of Bernie bots there that had been recruited and, in classic Bernie-bot way, they were nasty,” Vallee commented.

Asked if he felt he was treated fairly during the DRB meeting, however, Vallee responded, “Yes, absolutely.”

The South Hero proposal is in a preliminary phase. Vallee is scheduled to return to the board on November 13 with a more refined plan. He’s also busy with other Maplefields projects. There’s one under construction in Orleans, where people “love” it, he said.

The jury’s out on another, proposed in South Burlington on Route 7. That plan, not yet approved, involves demolishing the extended-stay Maple Leaf Motel and a neighboring Gulf station to make way for a 12-pump Maplefields.

Vallee intends to lease the property from its owner, Ernest Hoechner. Last week, he repeated earlier statements that Hoechner — and not Vallee — is responsible for potentially displacing the low-income people at the motel, some of whom have said they might become homeless.

“The landlord is dealing with those people,” Vallee said.

Vallee said he’s hoping to soon announce another Maplefields project that will involve the reuse of a historic building in Vermont, but he wouldn’t say where.

There might not be many more Maplefields opening in historic or modern buildings in Chittenden and Franklin counties. Few spots remain in those areas that meet the criteria he generally seeks for Maplefields: big lots close to an interstate. The company’s future expansion could take place in other parts of Vermont and in neighboring states, he suggested.

As for the opposition in South Hero, Vallee said he’s undeterred: “You know, I’ve done this for 40 years, and I’ve got a pretty thick skin.” m Contact: molly@sevendaysvt.com

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The climate crisis and global heating are demanding bold new relationships with forests that put forest ecosystem health first. Public, private and common interests and associated policies must advance forest ecosystem health as the top priority. As UVM professor Justin Brande used to preach: “Without ecology, there is no economy!”

Our grandchildren and our one and only planet are demanding that we move boldly and quickly on this. There is no choice, and time is running out.

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where southern Baptists were extreme and invaded the privacy of those with different views and beliefs. They have no understanding of the freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment.

I worked as a teacher in their public schools. Students would ask me which church I attended and what did I think about gay marriage. Individuals there attended church for two hours on Sunday mornings and returned Sunday evening.

They then returned every Wednesday evening. Talk about proselytizing!

Alan Hatch’s letter [Feedback: “Blame Congress for Detention Centers,” October 9] reeked of right-wing extremism and un-Christian opinions. Maybe he’d be more at home in Mississippi. Vermonters do not want to be saved by hypocrites.

Tom Lattanzio

SOUTH BURLINGTON

TREE HUGGER’S LAMENT

[Re “Carbon Quandary,” October 9]: What century is Seven Days reporter Kevin McCallum living in? And what editor let slide into print the characterization of people working to stem and reverse the destructive forces of climate change as “hippies and tree huggers”? WTH? Not that there’s anything wrong with “hippies” nor with “tree huggers”; I count myself as a member of both those tribes.

But McCallum’s flip use of that phrase — straight out of the last century — demeans and devalues the current work of thousands of well-informed, serious activists and scientists, and anyone not aware of that ought to be headed off at the pass by an awake editor.

Don Peabody

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Susan Clark’s recent letter [Feedback: “Bad News for Vermont,” October 9] was spoton. I lived for eight years in Mississippi,

enforcement is either woefully uneducated about standards of large-animal care or unaware that anyone who chooses to call themselves a “rescue” qualifies as one under our current system. And, since no one wants to bear the costs of caring for seized animals, law enforcement routinely encourages voluntary surrender to avoid the expense of removing and re-homing.

Some might argue that law enforcement has far more important things to do than to police animal shelters; I could not agree more. This is why it is incumbent upon Montpelier to create a new agency, or charge an existing one, with the mission of protecting both animals and the public trust.

The time to stop hoarding and neglect disguised as “rescue” is before law enforcement is needed.

Lori Berger

ANIMAL INTERVENTION

Your otherwise excellent article on lack of shelter-rescue oversight [“In the Doghouse,” September 25] neglected to touch strongly enough on the issue of law enforcement’s ignorance of industry standards. In the case of the bogus equine “rescue” referred to in the article, for example, horses from an ongoing situation in West Topsham were initially deposited there but subsequently removed once humane authorities were alerted. The trooper involved gave the alleged abuser the option of surrendering the remaining horses to the “rescue” of her choice; it appears that it did not occur to them to check with area vets or other equine professionals as to the appropriateness of that choice.

Aside from the questionable judgment of allowing an alleged abuser to decide where she would like her victims to be sent, why did officials rubber-stamp this absurd arrangement? Because law

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SERIOUS JOKER

Having thought long and hard about Margot Harrison’s review of Joker [October 9], I remain almost completely flummoxed. Just one mention of The Dark Knight and “Why so serious”?!

Admittedly, Todd Phillips’ film suggests there are many among us with more than a little in common with the iconic villain.

But taking the time to contemplate the director’s provocative thoughts on and insights into the Batman mythos does nothing to undermine the premise of the movie otherwise.

Consider, for instance, how Bruce Wayne’s father is not portrayed as a paragon of virtue, as he’s usually depicted in other story lines: Here he’s an oily rich guy all too reminiscent of the current

resident of the White House. Then there are the plot elements revolving around the unresolved mystery of whether the future Clown Prince of Crime is, in fact, the illegitimate offspring of Thomas Wayne and Arthur Fleck’s mother: There’s an irony even more lethal as the one arising from the coincidence that the killing of Bruce’s parents occurs the very same night the Joker goes public.

Can’t wait until Margot writes about Robert Pattinson’s upcoming interpretation of The Batman, with Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman!

Doug Collette

SOUTH BURLINGTON

FREE-FARE TIME

[Re “Next Stop: Budget Cuts,” October 9]: With concerns for the climate and efficiency, the time has come to move toward “free fare” local transit, which promises at least a 40 percent or more boost in passengers without expanding existing services.

In spite of trials and tribulations, publicly run Green Mountain Transit remains one of the highest quality transit services in North America — quality that includes the professionalism and courtesy of its drivers and staff, a tradition going back to its beginnings as a private company in 1926.

Vermont’s regional local transit providers derive only about 12 cents on the dollar for operations through the fare box, itself costly to administer and stressful and time-consuming for drivers. For many years, Rutland transit operated fare-free, and today Rural Community Transportation, which serves the upper Connecticut Valley, offers the best deal: round-trip from Montpelier to St. Johnsbury, absolutely free. The legislature could easily find a formula for fare-free services statewide.

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A remembrance space will be hosted on Friday, October 25, 2019, from 2 to 8:30 p.m. at the UVM Interfaith Center, 400 S. Prospect St., Burlington. For more information, visit the John Novotny Remembrance Facebook page.

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John Emil Novotny — biomechanical engineer, educator and saber fencer — died at home on September 24, 2019. A longtime resident of Burlington, John taught mechanical engineering at the University of Vermont and was known for his supportive teaching and mentoring of students.

John grew up in Kennebunk, Maine. He attended Yale University and graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering. At Yale, he served as captain of the fencing team and was an All-American saber fencer. After a fellowship in Switzerland, John attended the University of Vermont, earning an MS in biomedical engineering in 1992 and a PhD in mechanical engineering in 1997. He married his college sweetheart, Dawn Ellis, in 1999. He was an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware, then returned to UVM, where he made substantial contributions to the engineering curriculum. A voracious reader, John also coached Little League, helped start the Vermont Fencing Alliance and spent many hours volunteering.

John is survived by his wife, Dawn, and their two sons, Miles and Theo. John was preceded in death by his sister, Jayme Novotny. He is also survived by his parents, Marilyn and James Novotny; his brother, Jim; and his

Richard Lumbra

1935-2019 HYDE PARK, VT. Richard Lumbra passed away on October 19, 2019, at his home in Hyde Park, Vt., after living with Parkinson’s disease.

Richard was born at home in Richford, Vt., on November 11, 1935, to Roger and Hildred (Whitehead) Lumbra. In 1953, he graduated from Richford High School, where he was an excellent basketball and baseball player. He served three years in the U.S. Army, from 1953 to 1957; he then entered Johnson State College and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in education in 1961.

He was hired to teach in Jericho, Vt., where he served from 1961 to 1995, including 25 years as the Jericho Elementary School principal. Richard was an active member of the Jericho community as a referee, umpire, commissioner of Pleasant View Cemetery, lister and, for a stint, town clerk. Dick worked hard through the years, helping out with farm

chores in his youth through to his many years as the superintendent of the 4-H Youth Cattle Barn at the Champlain Valley Fair. He was a mentor and friend to so many young people throughout his life.

Richard is survived by his wife of 59 years, Jean (Carpenter); his daughter Michele Boomhower, her husband, Greg, and their partner Ginger (Hitchcock) McDowell; his son Jeffrey; and, the apple of his eye, his granddaughter Aleda Boomhower. Richard also leaves his sisters, Virginia Dulude of Enosburg Falls, Vt., and Penny Terkanian of Biloxi, Miss. He was predeceased by his brothers, Roger and Ronald Lumbra. Richard was fondly loved by his sisters and brothers-in-law Shirley and John Therrien, and Bonnie and Dan Nash — as well as numerous nieces and nephews and their children.

A private graveside service will be held at the Pleasant View Cemetery in Jericho. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Lamoille Home Health and Hospice, 54 Farr Ave., Morrisville, VT 05661. The family also invites you to share your memories and condolences by visiting awrfh.com.

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he first 15 minutes of a scary movie are often dedicated to establishing unease. Though viewers probably know what’s coming, death and dismemberment are no good without ample time to dread them. The idyllic family in their new house, the teenagers looking for some fun — a good horror movie has a way of twisting these normal, happy scenes into something slightly off, just eerie enough to raise one’s hackles. And then, presumably, the true horror starts, bringing some form of release. Yes, it’s scary, but at least the viewer has escaped that dreadful anticipation.

In The Animal, a 1976 feature filmed in rural Vermont by experimental filmmaker Walter Ungerer, the beat never drops. A man and a woman live in a house in the woods in the middle of winter. They do not appear to have much to talk about or even particularly to like each other. The woman is having eerie dreams and encounters with mysterious, silent children. The man dismisses her concerns. They do a lot of cross-country skiing. The entire thing is full of lingering shots and the kind of yawning silence that could drive anyone to the brink of insanity.

Not much happens in the movie, and what does happen isn’t explained. But, in a 21st-century Halloween season when jump scares are a dime a dozen, it’s unique to watch something slow and strange and to revel in the claustrophobic spookiness of rural Vermont.

The Animal and the 1972 short “Transformations,” also filmed in Vermont, will screen at theaters in Brattleboro, Greensboro, Montpelier and Woodstock during the VERMONT FOLK HORROR ROADSHOW from October 26 through 30, presented by the VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER and the VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FOUNDATION. Both movies, originally shot on 16mm film, have been preserved by the VERMONT ARCHIVE MOVIE PROJECT, launched in 2014 and adopted by VTIFF in 2015. VAMP operates an online database of films that were made by Vermonters, were shot in Vermont or deal with Vermont subjects.

NORA JACOBSON, VAMP’s coordinator, said neither of the films at the Roadshow are “horror” in the way people usually think of the genre.

“In Walter’s film, there’s something mysterious and a little frightening about it because someone disappears.

But there’s no horror, there’s no blood, there’s no guts,” Jacobson said. “It’s more of a suggestion.”

“Transformations,” a short film by Barbara Hirschfeld with music by Julia Haines, is described in the VAMP database as “feminist experimental fiction.” Hirschfeld and Haines filmed it with a collective of Vermont women in Norwich. The eight-minute film is composed of short scenes of women preparing for and participating in some kind of ritual.

“These are not bad witches,” Jacobson said. “It’s really more pagan than ... [the] Halloween kind of evil witches on a broomstick with a black cap.”

In a description on the Folklife Center’s website, associate director and archivist ANDY KOLOVOS writes, “As for this folklorist, I take a fairly broad view of what I consider ‘folk horror’: Any creative work that draws folklore (belief, folk and fairy tales, urban legends, etc.) into the conventions of horror fits the bill for me.”

Horror that involves witches, pagan rituals and

folklore has cropped up in a few popular and wellreviewed movies in the past several years, including 2015’s The Witch and this year’s Midsommar.

“I’m one of these people who thinks that there’s a value in being a little afraid, in a safe way. One of the things that horror brings us is that opportunity,” Kolovos said. “The scary story is there to teach us a lesson. The scary story allows us to reflect.”

Folks seeking more than subtle uneasiness in their horror experience could cue up a movie on Netflix. But there’s something so exciting about sharing terror with a roomful of strangers, and Vermont venues offer plenty of other options in the weeks leading up to Halloween.

In Burlington, the MAIN STREET LANDING PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, in partnership with the GREEN MOUNTAIN GORE SOCIETY, has been showing scary movies every Tuesday all October.

The final screening, on October 29, will be Deep Red, a 1975 film by Italian director Dario Argento. Part murder mystery and part slasher film, Deep Red has fantastic, dizzying music by an Italian progressive rock band, pints of neon-red fake blood and some excellent camera work during a scene involving mirrors. But it isn’t just a gore fest — there’s a pretty decent twist at the end. When Deep Red came out, it was panned by a New York Times reviewer who called Argento “a director of incomparable incompetence,” yet today the film is held up as a prime example of the Italian giallo style of moviemaking.

Over at Burlington’s ARTSRIOT, the CINEMA CASUALTIES series presents a double feature on October 30. In Night of the Demons, teenagers encounter an abandoned funeral parlor. What could possibly go wrong? The second film, Dr. Butcher M.D., is another Italian movie; its original title, Zombie Holocaust, says it all.

PALACE 9 CINEMAS in South Burlington is also offering a few special Halloween showings. On October 24, viewers can catch Candy Corn, a 2019 film in which carnival freaks raise the dead and take revenge on town bullies. On Halloween, the theater will show The House That Dripped Blood (1971), four linked vignettes about different protagonists living out terrible misfortunes in a haunted mansion.

Seven Days takes no responsibility for any ensuing nightmares. m Contact: margaret@sevendaysvt.com

INFO The Animal and “Transformations,” Vermont Folk Horror Roadshow, October 26, 4 p.m., Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro; October 27, 3 p.m., Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro; October 29, 8 p.m., Savoy Theater, Montpelier; and October 30, 6 p.m., Woodstock Town Hall Theater, Woodstock. Free. vermontfolklifecenter.org Candy Corn, October 24, 7 p.m., Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington. $12.50. palace9.com Deep Red, October 29, 7 p.m., Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington. Free. mainstreetlanding.com Cinema Casualties double feature of Night of the Demons and Dr. Butcher M.D., October 30, 8 p.m., ArtsRiot, Burlington. Free. artsriot.com The House That Dripped Blood, October 31, 7 p.m., Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington. $12.50. palace9.com

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bloody, desiccated hand reaches for you from an open door. A wiry-haired, toothless face stares at you from behind a parked car. Staggering, drooling and groaning, zombies appear from everywhere and surround you on a dark, deserted street. You begin to shake and sweat, your mouth dries, and then — the zombies begin to, um, dance.

Sound fun? That’s pretty much what to expect on Montpelier’s Langdon Street on Halloween. Community members dressed as the undead will perform Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” dance every 15 to 30 minutes between 4:30 and 6 p.m., flash-mob-style.

Staff at ZENITH DANCE AND MOVEMENT, on Main Street, are teaching 20 locals, ages 28 to 68, the six-minute-plus choreography from the iconic music video. Two Langdon Street businesses will provide support: BUCH SPIELER RECORDS will do sound, and Down Home Kitchen will provide a place for zombies to regroup between flash mobs.

Released in 1983, “Thriller” is a nearly 14-minute music video featuring choreography by Michael Peters and Jackson and the song “Thriller” by Rod Templeton.

According to a 2013 story in the Guardian, its instant popularity was instrumental in turning music videos into a full-fledged industry.

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Emma Manion leading a rehearsal at Zenith Dance and Movement

“Thriller” has also inspired more than 35 years of zombie dances worldwide. Organized by Thrill the World in 2007, 1,722 dancers in 52 cities on five continents set a Guinness World Record for the largest worldwide simultaneous “Thriller” dance, according to a 2008 account in the Los Angeles Times. And a 2010 Vanity Fair story reported that Mexico City was home to the largest zombie dance ever recorded in one

place: 12,937 people stomped, jiggled and gyrated their way through it.

The tradition continues this year in Montpelier, but not all locals are down with the decay-riddled dance. Zenith owner and capital city resident ROXY GARLAND wrote by email that one person commented on social media: “‘Wow, I guess no one told you that MJ is not someone anyone wants to hear at this point.’” The critic may have seen the 2019

documentary Leaving Neverland, which chronicled Jackson’s alleged sexual abuse of underage boys.

“We are approaching this event with compassion toward individuals who are triggered by MJ and the allegations against him,” Garland wrote to Seven Days.

Most “Thriller” events feature someone front and center who is dressed and dancing as Jackson. Zenith instructors EMMA MANION of Calais and SHANNON KELLY of Brookfield eliminated the Jackson part from their choreography for the Montpelier dance while remaining as true to the original choreography as possible. “NOT having an MJ look-alike will hopefully help,” Garland noted. “I think many people still really love this song, and we usually expect to hear it during Halloween!”

Worldwide interest in “Thriller” doesn’t seem to have abated: Another Thrill the World event is scheduled for Saturday, October 26. And the Montpelier crew is having a great time in rehearsals.

“The first class was so much fun, I went ahead and committed to doing the entire six-week series,” MAGEN FARLEY, 28, said.

The local resident, who regularly attends Zumba classes at Zenith, said learning the choreography is “all just a blast.”

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It took less than that for someone The artist-activist LOPI LAROE, aka to deface it.

LMNOPI, is no stranger to taking LaRoe was in Colorado at the political stances. This past month, time, painting a mural for the Street she did that in Rutland with a timely Wise Boulder festival. Her friends public mural — and then did it all over “didn’t tell me — they didn’t want to again. upset me,” she says.

In September, just But she learned about before the youth-led the vandalism on social global climate strike, media.

LaRoe painted an LaRoe’s isn’t the only evocative portrait of Thunberg mural that Swedish climate activist has been vandalized; Greta Thunberg on one the Huffington Post of the buildings of the LOPI L AROE and other outlets Vermont Farmers Food covered the October Center in Rutland. The 20 defacement of a similar mural by approximately 8-foot-tall depiction of multiple parties in Edmonton, Alberta. the blue-eyed, blond-braided 16-year“This is oil country,” one perpetrator old, looking characteristically defiant, took her “three or four days,” LaRoe says.

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Greta Thunberg mural, with artist LMNOPI, before it was vandalized

Repainted Greta Thunberg mural by LMNOPI

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‘Thriller’ Flash Mobs « P.26 EDWARD NORSTRAND, 68, also a Zenith patron and Montpelier resident, particularly enjoys the “zombie walk” at the beginning of the dance, when everyone clomps about with arms dangling and eyes glazed. “[It] sets the tone for the piece,” he said.

Manion emphasized that the group has a good mix of people familiar with learning choreography and those new to it. “Dancing as though you’re dead is super satisfyingly different,” she noted, because it reduces the pressure dancers might feel to create clean lines.

“We’re enjoying uncovering our inner zombies.”

MARISA HALL , the third Zenith instructor helping dancers learn the moves, said that it’s magical to see people “nervous at first about the complexity of the choreography,” then practicing and practicing it until they feel “how their bodies are in unison with the rhythm of the music.”

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Dennis Báthory-Kitsz singing at his home studio in Northfield Falls

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Last Friday, the dancers gave a teaser flash-mob performance at Moonlight Madness, Montpelier’s allday shopping and events festival. They also offered a free “Thriller” dance class at Zenith, hoping to inspire more dancers to join them.

How could anyone pass up the chance to dance as a zombie? “The costume inspiration tagline is ‘the funk of 40,000 years,’” Manion said. “Extragnarly face makeup will help [us] get into character.”

In costume or not, everyone is welcome to do the classic zombie walk during the flash mobs on Halloween. Zenith staff even hope that kids dressed as werewolves will run around, howling along with the wolves in the “Thriller” song.

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Presidential Commentaries and Goats Inspire a New Oratorio

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s horrifying as Donald Trump’s utterances and tweets seem to many, each tends to fade from public memory as soon as a new one follows. Now a Vermont composer has created a musical reminder.

Some of the most offensive vocalizations from the president and members of his administration over the past two years form the text of a unique work: an oratorio. Goat Songs of the Regime of Monsters, by DENNIS BÁTHORY-KITSZ, will receive a single premiere performance at the SEVEN STARS ARTS CENTER in Sharon on Saturday, November 2.

The Northfield Falls composer himself will conduct a chorus of 20, accompanied

by ALISON CERUTTI and NATE VENET on piano four-hands and JANE BOXALL on percussion.

The libretto includes everything from Trump’s “She’s such a nasty woman” to

Steve Bannon’s “They need illegal aliens to fill the churches” to Melania Trump’s “I don’t really care, do u?”

Báthory-Kitsz admits that setting such language to music is “absurd” but says his horror at current circumstances drove him to it.

“It’s just that, as a composer, what do you do? What kind of action can you take?” he says. “I decided I had to come up with an action through composing. I wondered, What would it sound like if I took the most outrageous quotes from this administration and put them together?”

He started by compiling 20,000 words’ worth of utterances from the public statements of the president and first lady, Stephen Miller, Bannon, Kirstjen Nielsen, Stormy Daniels, Reince Priebus, Brett Kavanaugh, Jared Kushner, Betsy DeVos, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Sanders, Steve Mnuchin and Mick Mulvaney.

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The composer eventually whittled these down to create six movements lasting approximately half an hour.

In the libretto, Báthory-Kitsz also has Hillary Clinton, Megyn Kelly, Maxine Waters, Carly Fiorina, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chelsea Manning and Ghazala Khan singing Trump’s insults back at him.

One movement is a duet in which Michelle Obama sings her speech from the 2008 Democratic convention and Melania Trump reads in monotone her plagiarized speech from the 2016 Republican convention. Ironically, given what he calls its “dispiriting” text, BáthoryKitsz declares the movement “probably one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever written.”

The oratorio opens with Trump and a chorus singing “in the manner of a Soviet march,” according to the libretto, declaiming everything from “Make America Great Again” to “those shithole countries.”

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The movement is also “Mozartian,” the LOWERY BUSLER will sing Melania Trump. composer adds: Its chord progressions LISA JABLOW, assistant conductor of the echo Mozart’s in the “Confutatis” move- VERMONT PHILHARMONIC, who sang the leadment of the Requiem. ing role in Báthory-Kitsz’s earlier opera Goat Songs ends with Trump in a Erzsébet, will perform as Stormy Daniels. manic and unaccompanied spiral into Helm says she was delighted to madness “à la King Lear,” the composer respond to Báthory-Kitsz’s post, as well says, until the choir quietly sings, “Shoot as to offer Seven Stars as a venue, even them.” though she was unfamiliar with the Báthory-Kitsz named the oratorio Goat composer.

Songs after an internet “I volunteered [to sing Trump] because meme he liked, which I have small hands,” cuts from videos of singers performing Mozart the alto singer jokes. arias to goats seemingly (The part is scored for singing the works. For a countertenor, though the concert, he created the composer didn’t a graphic that superimexpect to find one in poses Trump’s lips on a Vermont.) crazed-looking goat.

The work made When he arrived perfect sense to her, in Vermont in 1978 at Helm says. “I thought, the age of 29, BáthoryWhoa, this is kind of Kitsz was already weird and intense and an experimental right up my alley. It’s a composer. He has piece of new music that doesn’t shy away from created more than a politics.” thousand works by his Helm describes the count, including many featuring electronics or work as “atonal and musical instruments of rhythmically extremely his own design. Over 10 difficult,” as well as years, he cohosted 540 “funny in a late-nightepisodes of “Kalvos & host way.” Nonetheless, she adds, the lyrics Damian’s New Music are “kind of jarring.

Ba z a a r,” a n o n l i n e I’ve had a hard time radio show in which he and fellow Vermont rehearsing because the DEN NIS BÁTHORY-KITS Z composer DAVID GUNN text is so graphic [that] interviewed new music I have to check outside makers. He also writes books, including my studio door to make sure no kids are a history of Vermont’s country stores, out there.” published in 2008.

Helm, a fan of new music, sang works Despite being locally well known, by ERIK NIELSEN at the Brookfield composBáthory-Kitsz had some trouble finding er’s performance event honoring his enough singers to perform Goat Songs, brother Lars last May. She says the time which he completed in early August. A is right for Goat Songs.

Facebook post netted fewer responses “There’s not enough out there in clasthan he had hoped for. But the composer sical music that’s shining a light on all completely understands. “Just imagine this,” Helm says. “This is an epic drama. your typical classical singer who happens It’s nice to see someone with some courto lean left having to sing ‘Shithole coun- age come forth and say, ‘We’re going to tries,’” he says. do this.’”

Among the singers who responded are MEGAN HELM of Thetford, a voice teacher Contact: lilly@sevendaysvt.com who is also board president and executive director of Seven Stars Arts Center. INFO Helm will sing Donald Trump. ARIELLE Goat Songs of the Regime of Monsters, an KING, a Vermont Law School student who oratorio by Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Saturday, lives in South Royalton, will sing Michelle November 2, 7 p.m., Seven Stars Arts Center in Obama. Horn player and composer LYDIA Sharon. $15.

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LaRoe thinks the culprits in Rutland were probably kids, even as she acknowledges the triggering politics of the situation. “Greta has confronted people about the climate crisis and is calling out grown-ups for what they’ve done,” LaRoe remarks.

“Instead of accepting the truth of what she’s saying, they punish her.

I don’t know — maybe some people don’t like her message.”

Messaging is nothing new to LaRoe herself. With her recent move to Vermont, the artist hasn’t exactly come full circle, but she is close: Born in a small town in the Adirondacks in 1964, she arrived about a year ago in Rutland.

During the years between, LaRoe lent her artistic talents and her passion to numerous social-justice movements, from Earth First! to Domes for Haiti to Occupy Wall Street to the Dakota Access Pipeline. She founded and ran an arts center in Santa Cruz, Calif., for six years before returning to the East Coast on the inauspicious day of September 11, 2001. She went on to earn a degree in painting and printmaking from the State University of New York at Purchase.

After living for years in New York City, LaRoe says, she was eager to find a new home base. Vermont beckoned: A friend had invited her to participate in an exhibition at the SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER in Manchester.

At the same time, she says, a genealogical exploration suggested that her ancestors had founded Rutland. “It turns out they weren’t my ancestors,” she quickly adds, citing misinformation about the family tree.

Nevertheless, LaRoe made her way to the Marble City, where she discovered a lively art scene and affordable rent. “Rutland is great in so many ways,” she says. “I feel it deserves a lot of creative energy.”

And that’s what she has applied to repairing her Thunberg mural. In the tradition of street art, LaRoe says, the response to vandalism is to “come back hard and fix it.”

LaRoe repainted the mural entirely, giving Greta a cap and extending her braids to a concrete platform below the wall. She also rewrote the original text: “Skol Strejk for Klimatet” (“school strike for climate”).

GREG COX is a founding member and board president of the Vermont Farmers Market Education Center, which is the umbrella nonprofit for several initiatives, including the food center where LaRoe’s mural appears. The home of the local winter farmers market, the center is in “a neighborhood that’s a little challenged” where there is “a fair amount of childhood mischief,” he says.

Cox, who gave LaRoe the green light for her Thunberg mural, has a proposal for averting future vandalism: Give the kids their own wall to paint.

When the education center purchased the former 19th-century iron works on West Street in 2012, Cox says, the group petitioned the city — and Vermont Rail System, which he says owns the land — to fix up a nearby path leading to downtown Rutland. “We used to pick up needles on that path,” he says.

Along that corridor is a concrete retaining wall that Cox estimates is about 100 feet long and varies in height from four to seven feet. That’s where he’d like to “let the kids have at it,” creating their own murals, perhaps with the mentorship of local artists and donated paint. He believes art making would “give them a sense of ownership.”

“These kids need help, not to be swatted down,” Cox continues. “We’ve found that, if all you do is call the cops and hassle people, it doesn’t work. If you treat people with respect, you’ll get it in return — most of the time.”

Cox aims for that project to get under way next spring.

Meantime, LaRoe is negotiating to paint more murals in the area, applying for commissions and continuing to make paintings on wood “that people do buy,” she says.

She also sells limited-edition prints embellished with paint. One of her pieces resides in a Museum of Modern Art collection of Occupy posters from around the world; her work is also in academic collections, including that of the University of Vermont.

“I’m excited to be in Vermont,” she says, “and paint anywhere in Vermont.”

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Burlington musician Eric Maier reflects on his public crime — and the new album it inspired

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ric Maier vandalized “Everyone Loves a Parade!” on Halloween night 2018. Under cover of darkness and wearing a makeshift costume, the local musician literally defaced a section of the 124-by-16-foot mural on Leahy Way, between Church Street and a parking garage in downtown Burlington.

The controversial mural features Canadian artist Pierre Hardy’s renditions of historical and present-day Vermonters parading through the streets of the Queen City. Using a heavy-duty, spray-on paint stripper, Maier, 33, melted away several of the faces depicted on the mural, spraypainting pink dollar signs in their places.

The crime made national as well as local headlines and marked a crescendo in the fraught history of this public artwork. Commissioned by the Church Street Marketplace in 2009, the mural was completed at a cost of $100,000 in 2012. It has in recent years become a lightning rod for criticism, both of its artistic merits and, more pointedly, of what critics — including Maier — say is a whitewashed depiction of Burlington and its history.

Maier’s crime has proven nearly as controversial as the mural itself. The act and his subsequent punishment — he was diverted to a restorative justice panel through the Burlington Community Justice Center rather than face criminal charges — have raised questions of white privilege and the boundaries of activism.

Maier’s personal beliefs, and his tactics, have also come under public scrutiny. In an effort to explain himself and direct the conversation back to the issues surrounding the mural, Maier recently released a solo album, Red + Blue, under the pseudonym One Human Person. The album represents Maier’s attempt to get his message across in a less destructive fashion than vandalism — though he still feels strongly about what the mural represents.

“People call it the ‘white supremacist mural,’ and people get [upset],” Maier, who is white, explained, speaking publicly about his act of vandalism for the first time. “It doesn’t just mean the KKK. It means ‘supreme’ — [that] white people are supreme. There’s hundreds of people on there, and almost all of them are white.”

“Everyone Loves a Parade!” identifies 93 people, from Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger to rocker Grace Potter, and includes the logos or likenesses of numerous local businesses that paid to be included. Unnamed extras populate the background. Save for a small handful of people of color — and the mystifying inclusion of a character based on Mexican American actor Edward James Olmos

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The October 19, 2018, vandalism of “Everyone Loves a Parade!”

Burlington designer Michael Jager, is expected to follow early next year.

Maier explained that the project was inspired by events before, during and after the mural incidents. It’s an examination of the personal and professional fallout he visited upon himself and a reaffirmation of the political beliefs that motivated his actions. It’s also a meditation on the dissolution of his friendship with Higgins, as well as what he described as a brief but intense romantic relationship with South Burlington racial justice activist Isaiah Hines in the summer of 2018.

“The music I made is a direct reflection of all of that colliding,” Maier said. “That’s just how my brain works: There’s not a zone for ideology, philosophy and a zone for personal — it’s all together.”

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— almost all of the people on the mural are, indeed, white. That includes the man the painting is intended to honor: Samuel de Champlain.

The mural was commissioned as part of the 2009 Quadricentennial celebration of Lake Champlain — that is, the 400th anniversary of the French explorer and colonist’s “discovery” of the lake. The fact that the mural barely acknowledges the Abenaki or other indigenous peoples who lived in the region for eons before Europeans arrived has been another point of contention. The only indigenous person pictured is a Huron who accompanied de Champlain.

“I wish I had dressed as Columbus or something more poetic,” Maier said of the outfit he wore to deface the mural on Halloween — it was a black hoodie and a dark bandana covering his face. “I could have made that a political statement, too.”

It’s likely that the political statements Maier did make were enough to get his point across. They certainly attracted attention, if not the kind he’d intended.

On November 7, 2018, days after Maier’s then-band Madaila played its farewell show at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington, the Burlington Police Department arrested Maier’s best friend, Margaux Higgins, on suspicion of being an accessory to the crime. Maier was 2,400 miles away at the time, attending a monthlong music residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alberta. But on December 5, following an extensive BPD investigation, Maier was arrested at Burlington recording studio Future Fields, which he opened with thenMadaila bassist Jer Coons in 2013.

(Coons left the studio this summer for reasons unrelated to the vandalism.)

Despite facing a felony charge, Maier avoided jail. In fact, he never saw the inside of a courtroom. Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George diverted his case to the Burlington Community Justice Center. Now that he has fully honored the contract outlined by his restorative justice panel, Maier’s record will be expunged.

“Like it never happened,” said Det. Thomas Chenette, who was the lead detective in Maier’s case and also sat on the CJC panel.

While Maier’s record is clear, it’s less certain whether his conscience is. Among myriad other unintended consequences, his crime severely strained relationships with his family and friends, particularly Higgins, who was also referred to CJC. Maier said she refuses to speak to him.

Higgins also declined to be interviewed

Surveillance footage of Eric Maier on Halloween night in 2018

by Seven Days about Maier or the mural incident.

“Basically, I don’t think what I did accomplished all that much,” Maier said. “The intention was to reclaim some power for points of view that aren’t heard and to move people on ideology away from white supremacy and towards decolonizing our lives.

“That’s where the conversation needs to be,” he added. “Not all up in my life, not if I’m a good person or a bad person — because I don’t even know that. I regret my actions because of the consequences in my own life, which is all I know. But I don’t think that’s the conversation.”

Instead, Maier hopes to move dialogue around race and social justice

BASICALLY, I DON’T THINK WHAT I DID ACCOMPLISHED ALL THAT MUCH. E R IC M A IE R

forward with his mixed-media project, Red + Blue, which combines instrumental music, writing and visual art. Produced at the Banff Centre and Future Fields, the music component was released digitally last Friday. A vinyl record, including a booklet of Maier’s writings and artwork created in collaboration with

When Maier was arrested, he was charged with two counts of unlawful mischief — a felony and a misdemeanor. The latter charge related to the first time Maier had damaged the mural.

On October 19, 2018, he spray-painted “COLONIZERS” across the left-hand section of “Everyone Loves a Parade!”

What Maier hadn’t counted on was the mural’s protective coating, a treatment that allows for the relatively easy removal of garden-variety graffiti. Church Street Marketplace workers scrubbed Maier’s handiwork the next day.

“I was like, I went through all this emotional pain and fear, and no one even saw it,” Maier recalled. He took the graffiti’s erasure as a challenge.

Twelve days later, he sprayed a paintstripper onto some of the faces. When he returned 20 minutes later, they had melted into puddles on the ground.

“I was proud of myself, honestly,” he said. “At the time.”

Two days later, on November 2, Madaila played their farewell show at the Higher Ground Ballroom. At that point, the band had become one of Vermont’s most popular and begun to develop a national profile while touring around the country.

The decision to take an indefinite hiatus was born of front person Mark Daly’s desire to focus on his family — he had become a first-time father.

It was an understandable decision for Daly, albeit a difficult one, especially as the band was ascending. But it put a strain on his relationship with his bandmates, especially Maier.

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American Vandal « P.29 “Eric and I were a bit estranged at that point,” said Daly, who grew up with Maier in Middlebury. The two had previously played together in another high-profile Vermont band called Chamberlin.

Over their roughly four-year run, Madaila’s bread and butter was spectacle. Their performances in Burlington — often held at non-club venues such as Burlington City Hall, the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain or an entire block of Main Street — were more than just shows; they were events. The band’s final blowout at Higher Ground was no exception.

That night, the large nightclub was packed to capacity with hundreds of Madaila fans, mostly twenty- and thirtysomethings, many clad in neon-colored clothing and spandex. Madaila’s stage attire was as loud and flashy as their music, and their fans often followed suit. That made it rather easy to spot outsiders — like, say, cops.

Before the show, word made it backstage that plainclothes police officers were in the crowd. A photographer friend who was shooting the band relayed the news, Maier recalled.

Chenette is prevented from discussing details of the investigation due to confidentiality restrictions surrounding CJC panels. But Maier said the detective and other officers were at the show. Their presence drove home the seriousness of the situation for Maier and his bandmates.

Coons and Daly said they knew Maier was responsible for the mural vandalism, though he hadn’t explicitly told them so.

“I was like, Jesus, it’s already emotional enough,” Coons recalled. “My band’s breaking up. My mom’s here. This is the last thing I want to think about.”

It was also the first indication to Maier that the BPD was on to him.

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Maier was raised in an upper-middleclass family in Middlebury and attended Williams College in Williamstown, Mass.

He’s well read and articulate, especially when he issues leftist screeds on social media about race and politics. He does this often and with little regard for whom he might piss off. By all accounts, he’s a smart guy. But he’s a lousy criminal.

After spray-painting the mural the first time in 2018, Maier posted several pictures of his handiwork on Facebook. He didn’t take credit for the act but wrote in one post, “It’s time to take down Burlington’s racist genocide mural,” and tagged the Church Street Marketplace.

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Madaila performing their final show at Higher Ground

Following the Halloween incident, Maier again took to Facebook. In a November 1 post, he included a picture of the mural that he claimed had been taken by a friend “last night” showing the defacement and dollars signs.

“Seeing as the faces are now gone forever, one wonders what the city’s longterm solution will be,” Maier wrote.

In fact, the faces weren’t gone forever.

Just this week, restored panels of the mural were installed, along with a replacement key and a new plaque explaining that the mural was not meant to be historically comprehensive. The restoration cost approximately $22,000 and was covered by insurance, minus a $1,000 deductible, according to Burlington City Arts executive director Doreen Kraft. The key and plaque totaled $2,595, paid for by the Church Street Marketplace.

In a press release announcing Maier and Higgins’ arrests, Chenette wrote that a “citizen tip” led to the identification of Maier as a suspect. Though the detective wouldn’t confirm it, Maier believes that the tip probably stemmed from his Facebook posts. The police obtained search warrants for social media, phone records and a residence on South Willard Street in Burlington.

Maier added that the police also obtained records of recent purchases of spray-on paint strippers from local hardware and home-improvement stores. They

then cross-referenced those receipts with surveillance footage from each store. That’s how they discovered that Maier purchased the spray paint and paint stripper at Lowe’s in South Burlington. He had used a gift card, thinking it wouldn’t be traceable.

Though he wouldn’t specifically confirm details, Chenette basically agreed with Maier’s version of the events that led to his arrest.

Higgins was with Maier at Lowe’s that day, but he maintained that she had nothing to do with the crime.

“She was never involved,” he insisted.

“She was in my life as I made the plan, she happened to be with me at Lowe’s, but she was not involved at all in the actual act, because I didn’t want her to be,” Maier explained. “I didn’t want to put her in danger. It turns out I did anyway.”

He believes the police leaned on Higgins and exploited her to get to him while he was in Canada. “They fucked her shit up,” Maier said. “They turned over her room. They took her phone away. They held her for questioning for hours.”

He said he was in regular contact from Banff with Higgins trying to ease her fears.

Meanwhile, his own panic was setting in.“On the campus of this performing arts center, if I saw someone that looked like a cop, I would get all jumpy because they were after me,” he recalled.

MAIER’S CRIME HAS PROVEN NEARLY AS CONTROVERSIAL AS THE MURAL ITSELF.

At the time, he was fairly certain his charges would have pled down from a felony to a misdemeanor. But, Maier noted, “The wrong misdemeanor on your record can prevent you from going into Canada. A lot of musicians with DUIs can’t go.”

He was specifically concerned because he had European dates lined up that winter, backing Burlington singersongwriter Henry Jamison. “I was really scared I wouldn’t be able to travel for music anymore,” he admitted.

“I knew what I was doing was against the rules and I could get in trouble,” Maier continued. “But the amount of time and money that was spent on the investigation was mind-boggling. There’s so much scary stuff that we need to worry about: climate change, school shootings, actual Nazi propaganda — like, Nazi graffiti. They spent a full month with multiple detectives on this case.”

“It’s been acknowledged that the mural doesn’t accurately reflect the region’s racial and cultural history, and the community is engaged in a process to address that,” wrote Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo in an email, responding to Seven Days’ query about the resources devoted to the vandalism case.

“We investigated the incident the same way we would investigate any incident of comparable damage and community impact,” del Pozo continued. “People shouldn’t make personal, unilateral, destructive decisions about how to address a shortcoming in a piece of public art.”

But the broad scope and expense of the BPD investigation isn’t what bothers Maier most. It was how the police treated Higgins and how they treated him “like some kind of terrorist,” he said — “when for me, it was graffiti.”

ON THE WALL

When considering the saga of “Everyone Loves a Parade!” it’s important to understand how the public art came to be. In 2009, when the Church Street Marketplace Commission was vetting proposals for the mural, Pierre Hardy’s pitch for an urban street parade was selected by a juried panel from among 15 proposals, and then reviewed by the public.

In order to fund the project, the commission sold mural space to Burlington businesses and determined which characters would be in the mural. Many of those characters are business owners or notable employees.

In that sense, the Canadian artist was simply doing the job he was hired to do by portraying them.

Given Burlington’s predominantly white demographics at the time — 88.9 percent white, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, compared to 84.9 percent now — it’s not exactly surprising that the vast majority of characters featured would follow suit. But for many critics, that doesn’t make the mural’s lack of diversity any less problematic.

Albert Petrarca is the original “Everyone Loves a Parade!” vandal. In 2017, the retired Burlington intensive-care nurse spray-painted the phrase “OFF THE WALL” on the mural’s legend — an incident he refers to as “an act of civil disobedience.” He subsequently issued two demands: that Mayor Weinberger publicly denounce the mural and that records regarding the origins of the project be made public. He then turned himself in to police, who charged him with unlawful mischief. He was later sentenced to community service.

Through his Off the Wall coalition, Petrarca has remained one of the most vocal and ardent critics of the mural, which he equates to Confederate statues in the South. He’s been a fixture at city council meetings about the mural, as well as meetings of the public task force created last year to address community concerns about it.

“It’s an urban billboard masquerading as art and history,” said Petrarca, explaining his objections to the public art project. “Secondly, the mural begins with the arrival of [de] Champlain and completely ignores at least 13,000 years of Abenaki culture.”

Petrarca also bemoans the mural’s lack of diversity, and not only with regard to race.

“There’s no one from the LGBTQ community, no one who’s differently abled, no one from union labor,” he continued. “I could go on and on.”

Last year, the task force made eight recommendations, including setting a deadline of August 29, 2022, to move the mural, which was painted on panels that were designed to be moved. The city council approved the relocation and deadline by a vote of 8-3 on October 15, 2018 — just four days before Maier vandalized it the first time.

“I was angry about it,” said Weinberger of the vandalism, adding that Maier’s timing was particularly irksome.

“It was really unfortunate that … after there had been a democratic process that had made significant decisions about how to address those concerns, that a couple people took it into their own hands to trump that.”

The three dissenting votes were cast by councilors Brian Pine (P-Ward 3), Max Tracy (P-Ward 2) and Ali Dieng (D/P-Ward 7) — not because they were against moving the artwork but because they were against waiting to do so.

According to a VTDigger.org report on that meeting, Dieng argued to the council that delaying the move would be “ignoring the cries of the marginalized people that live in this community.” He added, “When things are hurting people, we need to store it somewhere until we can figure out what we can do.” Dieng did not respond to multiple Seven Days requests for comment.

Hardy, who retired from painting murals in 2014, wrote in an email that he was saddened “when I was first informed ... about the two consecutive acts of vandalism to the mural.” He added that “Everyone Loves a Parade!” is the only mural he painted in his 30-year career that has been vandalized.

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Hardy also claimed that the mural had originally been rendered “unpaintable,” due to four coats of “a UV inhibitor and graffiti-proof varnish.” He implied that Petrarca’s vandalism would not have been possible had the city kept up with the suggested five-year maintenance schedule and reapplication of the varnish.

The artist then spun the mural controversy, suggesting that “those who feel oppressed, alienated and silenced” in fact owed him a debt of gratitude.

“ELAP finally gave those members of your community a voice, a platform for expressing their concerns,” he wrote of the “Everyone Loves a Parade!” mural. “I feel that they should at least acknowledge that, if it weren’t for ELAP, they would not have that voice, and that, in the end, things are improving because of ELAP.” He didn’t stop there.

Citing the state’s recognition of the Abenaki in 2012, he wrote, “Recent events are showing a real effort from Vermont decision makers to promote Vermont First Nation … All of this is thanks to ELAP which again here was used as a platform for the recognition of Vermont First Nation.”

He then asked for a “nice acknowledgment and a simple thank you” from Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe Chief Don Stevens.

In May 2018, the Abenaki Alliance and the City of Burlington announced a partnership to explore new projects to promote Abenaki culture in the Queen City. A press release from the mayor’s office stated, “This announcement is the result of conversations between the City and Chief Stevens that arose during the discussion of the Church Street ‘Everyone Loves a Parade’ mural.”

Stevens didn’t respond to a Seven Days request for comment, but he has spoken on the mural previously.

“I want to make it clear: We are a sovereign nation. We are not victims,” he told Albany’s Northeast Public Radio in 2018.

“We would like to promote education and cultural opportunities.” Stevens felt that Burlington was in “a unique position” to help, including through its decisions regarding the mural. “It’s problematic just from the fact that [the mural] doesn’t represent Abenaki people,” he added.

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and others that while the tribe is willing to work with the city on promoting its culture, Maier’s act was “far from that level of action needed.”

In his July 2018 letter to the city council, Hardy defended his mural against claims of racism, citing four “instances of African Americans in ELAP.” These included Middlebury College graduate Alexander Twilight, the first African American to earn a bachelor’s degree; an unnamed ribbon dancer; Burlington comedian Mike Thomas; and ... Abraham Lincoln.

“Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery,” Hardy wrote, apparently trying to justify including Lincoln in the count.

Thomas, the comedian, agreed that the mural “may not be a current depiction of the multicultural-ness Burlington is now exhibiting.” But he added, “At the time it

was painted, there weren’t a lot of African Americans in the town, either … For 2010 Burlington, that’s a snapshot of what it was like.”

Thomas is one of several Courtyard Marriott employees featured on the mural.

That’s the Burlington hotel where Hardy stayed for two years while he painted. “He was a nice, funny guy,” said Thomas of the painter.

“The mural did what it was supposed to do at the time,” Thomas continued. “But if people want to change it now, that makes sense, because Burlington is a changing place.”

RESTORATION PROJECT

As part of his contract with the Community Justice Center, Maier wrote a letter to Hardy explaining his actions. He said he

hoped to make a connection with the artist on a “human level” and bears Hardy no ill will. “I have no beef with him. I don’t think he’s more or less racist than anyone else,” he said, adding, “He got a bunch of money, and I don’t feel that bad for him.”

Via an email to Seven Days, Hardy addressed Maier directly: “Obviously you have had quite the conversation with ‘ELAP’ the mural. It is my hope to see ‘ELAP’ converse with as many people as its life will allow,” he wrote. “I am comforted in knowing that you Eric Maier will continue to converse with ‘ELAP’ in new constructive ways.”

Maier does express a desire to find more constructive ways of inspiring conversations around race, inequality and politics — his album, Red + Blue, is one such example. He credits his experiences with the restorative justice panel for softening his previously rigid perspective.

“A requirement to participate is that [the offender] has to take responsibility for at least some aspect of the crime,” explained Rachel Jolly, assistant director of the CJC and a member of Maier’s panel.

“If they’re denying they had any part or not taking accountability, the panel is not the right process for them. They would more likely go through the criminal legal system.”

Panels are typically composed of three to five volunteers from the community. In Maier’s case, these included Jolly, Chenette, Kraft, two trained volunteers and CJC victim liaison Barbara Shaw-Dorso.

Maier met with the panel multiple times beginning in January of this year.

“The volunteers are a symbol that whenever a crime happens in our community, the community is impacted,” Jolly explained.

In addition to the volunteers, the panel can call on specific people who may have been affected. For Maier, that meant meeting with the Church Street Marketplace workers who cleaned up the mural. Maier was also required to spend two days working alongside them. “I kind of want to work there now,” he said, referring to the Church Street Marketplace.

“When crime happens, it’s a violation of relationships,” said Jolly. “So the questions asked by the panel are: Who has been harmed, what are the needs of those who have been harmed, and what are the obligations of those responsible?

“The point of the panel is to come up with a contract for how to repair the harm using restorative principles,” she added.

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Not included in that waiver — because she didn’t participate in the entire panel — was a Burlington woman who was very much in favor of the mural.

“Her involvement made an impression on Eric, for sure. I don’t think that Eric had previously had an occasion to speak with anyone who was for the mural,” said Jolly.

“Even just that interpersonal interaction of someone who holds different views than you can be highly impactful. And in this case, I think it was.”

Maier agreed. “Now I know that, for whatever their personal or psychological or political reasons, people are really, really, really attached to this mural,” he said. “And I didn’t think that was true. But the pain that they’re feeling is real. And even if I think that’s ridiculous, it’s true.

And if I’m trying to change minds, I have to meet people where they’re at.”

Jolly stops short of calling Maier’s case a complete success story. “I wish it could be described as that cut and [dried],” she said. “I think what a lot of people might hope for is outright remorse. But this case was very nuanced, and values ran deep.

“I think we made progress,” Jolly continued. “One thing we can hope for in restorative justice is that a deeper awareness of impact and harm is brought about.

And in this case, that definitely happened.”

Jolly said that she and the panel noted an evolution in Maier. “He has core beliefs that motivated his vandalism, and I think that was all he was able to see at the time of the crime,” she said. “And I think the panel saw a change, a bigger lens, a greater understanding of the impact of his choices.”

Weinberger said he agreed with the decision to divert Maier’s case to the CJC and that he was pleased by the outcome.

“It seems that this was a good application of restorative justice,” the mayor observed.

But the scope of Maier’s restoration goes beyond making things right with the community. Through his new solo album, he’s trying to make amends with himself and the people his actions hurt the most.

IN LIVING COLOR

The title of Maier’s album, Red + Blue, can be interpreted several ways. It could reference the lights on emergency vehicles, which are red and blue in some locales. Or, as Maier suggested, it could be a comment on a vision of America: “Red, white and blue, but there’s no white,” he said. Actually, the title is a reflection of his moods around the mural vandalism, Maier 34

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said, and the fallout while he was creating the record in Banff: red for anger, intensity and fear; blue for sadness and reflection.

“I felt he was really searching as a creative person to try and do something he’d never done before,” said Jager, the Burlington graphic designer who worked with Maier on the album’s extensive art.

“He was very honestly writing and recording and sharing what was in his heart.”

Maier believes that the album’s release — at least the music portion, for now — is symbolic of closing a chapter he’s been eager to finish.

Filled with samples, loops and live instruments, the nine-track album is an impressionistic exercise in sonic collage, touching on elements of jazz, rock, pop, funk and hip-hop. Like the whorl of emotions and thoughts that inspired it, Red + Blue is a complex work whose themes and ideas are often in competition, if not outright revolt, against each other. It is also a meditation on, and perhaps an elegy for, lost friends.

“Isaiah,” a tribute to Hines, opens the album with a partly cloudy piano line that moves along at an unhurried pace, propelled by gentle flickers of percussion.

It’s serene and contemplative. About a minute in, the song explodes with a triumphant, almost goofily sunny synth melody and a backbeat before reverting again to languid piano. That back-and-forth between piano and synth continues until the two consume each other in a wash of heady, improvisational noise.

Immediately following, “Margaux” is a dizzying, synth-heavy piece fusing funk with a primary melodic theme reminiscent of a 1980s TV theme song.

The remainder of the record is largely rooted in jazz and hip-hop, from the

unrelentingly aggressive strains of “Colonizers” and “Cops” to the breezy, almost Randy Newman-esque piano-centric pieces “Remembrance” and “Joy” to the record’s literal centerpiece, the psychedelic ballad “America.” The last is the only track with words, a poem written and read

by Burlington musician Shakir Stephen.

“Part of it is saying, ‘What makes us come to these conclusions about how much you should notice or care about something?’” explained Stephen, who is currently pursuing a master’s degree in religion at New York University. “Understanding when something is racist or not is more of an issue for some people than others.”

Nearly all of the songs are built on precisely constructed and manipulated layers of sound, which contrast with single-take improvisational sections.

Maier said that all of these qualities reflect parts of him: “The dominant two parts of my personality are neurotic, meticulous and obsessive — and then absolutely reckless.”

Coons, Maier’s former Future Fields partner and the bassist in Madaila, would likely agree. He’s proud of his friend for finishing the album and expressing deeply complex emotions and ideas in a tangible way, Coons said, but he’s not willing to let Maier off the hook for the events that inspired the album and the harm they caused — especially to Higgins, who is of Irish and Filipino descent.

“Eric is a great person, and I love him,” Coons said. “But I think the main thing that Eric has failed to address is that there is a deep disconnect between

him actually having that ‘Come to Jesus’ moment and acknowledging that it’s entirely his fault.

“He inadvertently threw under the bus a young woman of color that came from nothing and has had a very traumatic life, that he was basically like a father to, and

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got her fucking arrested,” he said. “The outcome of this entire thing is ‘Lesson not learned,’ which is why Margaux doesn’t talk to him.”

For this, at least, Maier was contrite: “I caused this one person immense suffering, my best friend. It’s not a victimless crime.”

Coons and others have also raised the irony of a privileged white man committing a felony to protest white privilege and capitalism, and then basically getting a slap on the wrist, legally speaking. That perspective is not lost on Maier.

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“Obviously, as a white person, I was able to navigate this completely differently,” Maier said. “And that was part of my choice: I wouldn’t have done this if I were black, because I would have been shot in the act, or I wouldn’t have gotten the benefits of being white along the way.”

When it comes to the politics that motivated his vandalism, Maier is unmoved.

But does he regret his crime? “Without a doubt,” he said. “Because I lost my best friend, because I created this strife for everyone in my life.”

Maier also regrets that the spectacle surrounding his crime has obscured the message he was trying to get across. “It bothers me when people want to obsess over weighing the ethical value of what I did, or of me,” he said, citing President Donald Trump, the rise of white nationalism and the climate crisis as more pressing sociopolitical matters.

But did Maier invite that scorn and criticism by acting out so publicly? Does he deserve it, given the aftermath of his actions? “What is the point of what you’re doing, if the result makes things worse?” Maier wondered rhetorically.

“Things were weird in my life,” he went on, attempting to explain his recklessness.

“It was about to be the last Madaila show — was I just mad? Was I letting my anger at ... what’s wrong in our culture guide me?”

It’s unlikely that Maier will find himself on the wrong side of the law again anytime soon. But he’s resolute that the issues surrounding “Everyone Loves a Parade!” remain important to discuss — albeit more civilly.

Burlington City Arts director Kraft said she’s had dozens of conversations about the mural, “questioning whether it should stay or go, is it racist or not, is it art or a billboard. This is a real issue the arts field as a whole has to grapple with both locally and nationwide.” In the end, she said, “I think dialogue, not vandalism, is always the best way to effect positive change.” m Contact: dan@sevendaysvt.com

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But in the summer of 2018, Talent cofounders David Wood and Hannah Deene Wood announced that the skate park and shop, which had operated for 17 years as the Burlington area’s only yearround skateboard facility — and the largest in northern New England — was closing for good on August 5.

Or so they thought. Vermont’s skateboarding community, with the help of Burton Snowboards, has resurrected the beloved skate park as a nonprofit organization. The newly reborn Talent, which is expected to open on Burton’s Burlington campus by January, is emblematic of how much the skate park meant to the lives of local skateboarders and their families.

“Talent was really like a second home,” said Emily Brooks, 22, of Shelburne, who started skating there when she was 7 years old and later became a Talent skoach.

Brooks, whose parents, Kathy and Mark Brooks, are members of the new nonprofit’s board, described it as a place where she found not just an extracurricular activity but a sense of belonging. “Even if I didn’t want to skate, I’d still go just to hang out with everyone,” she said.

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eid Hathaway was in kindergarten the first time he visited the now-defunct Talent Skatepark in South Burlington.

“I remember dropping him off the first time for a lesson and thinking, Wow! This is an awesome place and an awesome community!” recalled his mother, Melissa Hathaway. “He immediately took to it.”

When Reid was 8, Hathaway wasn’t sure whether it was OK to leave him alone at Talent to skateboard for an open session until other parents reassured her that he would be fine. Talent, they told her, was a place where kids were taught to be “respectful, responsible and safe” on their skateboards. Helmets were mandatory, and the park’s skateboard coaches, aka “skoaches,” made sure that younger skateboarders didn’t get run over by older and more experienced riders.

Soon, Hathaway’s son was skateboarding at Talent as often as he could. Reid quickly took to it and became a “boardsport kid.” The skills he learned there translated to other board sports, such as snowboarding and kiteboarding, in which Reid, now 13, similarly excels. “This is what fills his heart,” said Hathaway.

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Talent first opened its doors in December 2001 as a 12,000-square-foot indoor facility on Williston Road. It operated 360 days a year and offered lessons, clinics, summer camps and demos by professional skateboarders. In fact, Deene Wood, a Colchester native, nearly gave her life for the business. During its initial

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construction, she fell off a ladder and fractured her skull, which put her in a coma. In the days after her accident, it wasn’t clear whether she would even survive.

Nevertheless, Talent opened for business as originally scheduled, and in its first seven years, it grew steadily and developed a loyal client base. Although the park never

had a million-dollar year, Deene Wood said, “When I wrote the business plan, the retail shop carried the entire business.

The park was … just the cherry on top.”

But beginning in 2008, Deene Wood noticed that customers were coming into the skate shop and scanning the bar codes on her products with their smartphones but not buying anything. “I was like, What the hell is going on? This is ridiculous!”

She soon realized what was happening: People were checking out her products in person, then purchasing them online for less, usually through Amazon. “That’s when things really took a turn for the worse,” she recalled.

skateboarding camp last summer, he was distraught. He wasn’t the only one.

“I was devastated,” Deene Wood recalled. “It was my life. It was my identity. It was everything.”

But within weeks, a group of local skateboarders and their families began gathering to discuss how they could resurrect Talent, perhaps as a nonprofit organization. Early on, Wood admitted that he was deeply skeptical of the idea.

“When you own a business that operates 360 days a year, it’s this giant monkey on your back,” he said. “We went out of business for a reason, and it wasn’t

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Wood and Deene Wood managed to keep Talent afloat for another decade with its skate clinics and 13 weeks of summer camp annually. But as Wood recalled, he often found himself working all day and only seeing a few customers.

“It was like, What am I doing with my life?”

Ultimately, the decline proved unsustainable. By 2018, their accountant warned the couple that if they continued to stay open, they’d go bankrupt.

Though some people suggested that Talent venture into online retail sales, Deene Wood said that they had neither the inventory nor storage space to do so. Finally, when their rent went up, the couple called it quits.

After Talent closed, many local skaters felt as though they’d lost part of themselves. When Hathaway broke the news to Reid on the drive home from a

because we were too busy. But I think the community [realized] what they had and what they lost.”

This community included Pamela Moreau, whose son Kyle Buck skateboarded on and off for a few years. Then, in June 2018, when Kyle was 10, she signed him up for a one-week summer camp that Talent hosted at the Andy A_ Dog Williams Skatepark on Burlington’s waterfront.

“I could see how the experience, in just one week, helped build his confidence and self-esteem,” Moreau recalled in an email. “I went to Talent’s website to sign him up for additional weeks and saw that Talent was closing in August. I was heartbroken because I could see the impact it had on Kyle and on other kids.”

A Burlington attorney, Moreau agreed to provide her legal services pro bono to incorporate the new nonprofit and secure its federal tax-exempt status, which makes the new Talent eligible to receive grants.

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Brooks and several other skateboard enthusiasts at Talent’s new home on the south end of Burton’s Burlington campus. The newly vacant space is smaller than the original Talent — only about 7,400 square feet. But according to Justin Worthley, Burton’s senior vice president of human resources who also oversees facility operations, the snowboard company has agreed to cover many of Talent’s common-area expenses, such as maintenance of the bathrooms and parking lot.

In fact, Burton made a “pretty significant investment” in the building itself even before the nonprofit’s lease was

Deene Wood, who currently works for the Howard Center in Burlington, was hired as Talent’s new executive director. Wood, who built the original Talent Skatepark, as well as the Burton ramps and skate parks in Essex, Williston and Colchester, doesn’t plan to have a formal role in its ongoing operations but has agreed to construct the new indoor park and its skate features.

As for what the terrain will look like, Wood said he’d like to see it take shape over time.

“I think it’ll have some old Talent essence,” he said, “but some new stuff, too, because skating evolves.”

That said, Deene Wood insisted that there’s one aspect of the old Talent that won’t change: Because of her own expe-

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signed. According to Worthley, Burton erected new separation walls, repaired the floors, and installed a new heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system.

In many ways, Talent’s new home on Burton’s campus is a natural fit.

Burton’s own nonprofit arm, the Chill Foundation — a free youth-development program that uses board sports to teach life skills to underserved youth ages 10 to 18 — has had a long relationship with Talent. The Chill Foundation is also headquartered in the building, as is Burton’s prototype facility, researchand-development lab, testing facility, and photo studio for their product catalogs. Finally, Burton’s own skate bowls, which are free for Burton employees as well as the public, are directly across the parking lot.

“We are passively and actively cheering them on as they reincarnate in their new nonprofit form and helping them out in any way we can,” Worthley said.

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Deene Wood is still amazed at how many people in Vermont’s skateboarding world were on board to make this a reality. Moreau, her pro bono attorney, agreed.

“I’m doing this as a special gift to my son Kyle … and his brother Liam,” she said, “to show them that regular people, working together, can be proactive and create something positive for our community.”

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person’s identity today usually them. Wade believes that’s another coy part includes a life created online, of the game she’s playing. Lara discovers set out for others to see and that someone is masquerading as her, and judge. In Brenda Withers’ sharp she is no longer in control of how she’s comedy Jordan, now in its world premiere perceived. at Northern Stage, a young woman claims Her finances haven’t been hacked, but she didn’t write or send the sexy texts that all her ex-boyfriends seem to be receiving friends start receiving from her accounts. late-night come-ons from her. It’s both A stranger has synthesized her life, and impossible to stop and impossible to deny suddenly she’s swimming in a sea of lost credibility.

In this impressive production, director Jess Chayes and four fine actors apply a cool, contemporary polish to an engaging script. The audience arrives to find a queen-size bed atop a carpeted platform with oddly sloping sides. A MacBook sits open on the bed, logo glowing in the low bedroom light. The back wall towers above the relatively small platform.

On the wall, a white rectangle blinks like the old cursors of DOS days.

This bedroom is only one of many settings that quickly materialize and dissolve, with the actors making the swift set changes. The constant From left: William Oliver Watkins, Eric M. Messner and Danielle Slavick element is that huge back wall, which has the mesmerizing power of a computer screen. convincingly. In the cool, modern world Between scenes, projections from Jordan depicts, identity is constructed by video designer Alek Deva fill the wall. how other people see you.

These incisive, clever images stylize the The audience doesn’t know which elements of a screen, often by magnifying character to believe, if any. Lara is the pixels into abstraction or setting them in central figure in the story and appears both motion on the set, such as a stripe of red, blameless and unsettled by the version of green and blue dots that seems to burn its herself that’s sending suggestive messages. way down the wall and then sizzle onward Then again, she could be trying on an along the bed. Deva conjures visual static alternate identity, or covering her tracks. that expresses our awe of technology.

The script keeps open multiple interThe staging sets the mood for a fasci- pretations of Lara’s role by surrounding nating story. When Lara has a drink with her with characters who doubt her but an ex-boyfriend, Wade, his comments won’t quite own up to accusing her. And all about recently hearing from her throw her of them might have motivations to swipe off. She knows he didn’t tell her he was her password and indulge in some masked getting married; she knows she hasn’t been erotic chat themselves. Wade could be in touch. But, with a wink, he wonders playing a trick on her. Fiancé Peter might aloud if she still wants to pretend that she be wrestling with jealousy about her past hasn’t been sending him lewd late-night boyfriends. Peter’s coworker Casey seems texts and photos. so fascinated with getting in on the game Lara adamantly insists she didn’t send that he may already be playing it.

Mistrust simmers, and Lara is left without the last word on her own intentions.

Jordan blurs a lot of boundaries. It has the sparkling repartee of comedy, but the central dilemma pitches the characters, and the audience, into serious thought. It’s a whodunit in which no “who” could ever be accountable. It’s a psychological drama smothered in ironic detachment. What’s

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As Wade, Ben Beckley paints a character who can be both hipster jerk and sympathetic friend. Beckley shows Wade staggering under the weight of the world, yet having the measured skepticism to shrug it off.

Eric M. Messner plays Peter through an arc of changing impressions of Lara.

Messner gives the character just a bit of good-guy doofiness as he struggles with trusting her. As Casey, William Oliver Watkins shows a man one step ahead of everyone else, with a little grin that is both wicked and wise.

The scenic design by Sara C. Walsh and lighting design by Isabella Byrd present a world that’s just a bit unstable, from that soft, carpeted platform with vertiginous sides to lighting that boldly captures the mood of anxiety. In the only peek at their inner lives, costume designer Barbara A. Bell dresses the characters in trendy but unselfconscious clothes that don’t attempt to impress a judgmental world.

Jordan makes a virtue of stirring up large themes and not quite disposing of them in a tidy narrative. No easy answers are possible, but the audience can sift through the ideas churned up in witty, realistic dialogue that makes the situation both humorous and hopeless. In this funny and affecting show, cuddling a phone to talk to someone means embracing ambiguity. m

at stake can be dismissed as meaningless or mourned as the essence of identity. The play’s strength is how nimbly it covers such wide ground.

The performances are distinguished by being firmly rooted in realism even as the play’s key action floats in the digital cloud. Chayes creates a tart contrast between the few token objects that the characters handle and the set’s vast space around them, reminding viewers that what’s most real for these people is a life lived digitally. The anchor for the production is the acting, distinguished by the taut pauses and verbal overlaps of a sharp ensemble.

Danielle Slavick plays Lara as a woman who feels the floor drop out from under her but never resorts to self-pity. Lara stays a cool customer even as she expresses pure wonder at how disembodied words on a screen can humiliate so utterly.

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As an accidental cidermaker, Krista Scruggs embraces “the Vermont way”

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(Citizen Cider); fermenters who forage (Fable Farm Fermentory); and a brand that’s breaking down industry barriers to collaborate with brewers, winemakers and hip restaurants across the country (Shacksbury).

Wilson’s tour through Vermont mentions each of those producers, showing the dynamism that’s bubbling up in barrels, tanks and demijohns around the state. The yearly cycle of apple harvest is in full swing right now, and cider is naturally on the minds and palates of drinkers as the air turns crisp and you-pick orchards beckon.

But in this modern revival, and in a state with so many wonderful examples of what cider can be, it doesn’t need to be relegated to stereotypes of autumn.

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for cider may be that, for many people, I often still have to clarify that I’m talking about ‘hard cider,’ to distinguish from the apple juice you buy in plastic containers at the farmers market,” Wilson writes.

“Instead, that stuff should be called ‘soft cider’ to differentiate, because the nonalcoholic stuff you drank as a kid is the fake thing.”

Vermont’s cidermakers are producing an array of fermented beverages worthy of drinking year-round, whether you’re after something still and serious, wild and esoteric, or straightforward and chuggable.

Read on to learn about two local cideries proving that every season is cider season.

been counting on to produce ZAFA’s first wines.

However, 2017 was an abundant apple year in Vermont, and Scruggs was able to make up the difference with pomme fruit from wild trees and from a piece of property in Barnard belonging to Worthy Burger co-owner Dave Broderick, whom Scruggs calls a “pivotal mentor.”

The unsprayed trees on Broderick’s property are more than 125 years old.

They produce gnarly, unnamed apples that are questionable for eating but ideal for cidermaking.

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n a new book about the resurgence of the American cider industry, The Cider Revival: Dispatches From the Orchard, author Jason Wilson titled a chapter “New Hampshire is a State.

Vermont is a brand.” The line references a quote from a grumpy old cidermaker on the wrong side of the border.

Vermont’s producers, however, certainly do have an outsize influence on the map of modern American cider.

The range of ciders in Vermont is a snapshot of the industry nationwide: There’s a large-scale player (Woodchuck Hard Cider); an evangelist leading the conversation on harvest-based ciders (Eleanor Léger of Eden Specialty Ciders, a current board member of the U.S. Association of Cider Makers); a cidery that fits right in on the brewery trail

he first time Krista Scruggs worked with apples was in the fall of 2017. It was the inaugural vintage for her ZAFA Wines — the realization of years of work in the wine industry. Scruggs had honed her skills and philosophy by farming and fermenting grapes in California, Europe and Texas, as well as in Barnard, Vt., as assistant winemaker at Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber’s La Garagista Farm + Winery.

“I was working with apples out of necessity, not out of choice,” Scruggs said.

In a tumultuous harvest year filled with pest and disease pressure, she had lost about two acres of the grape crop she’d

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open and will be fully operational starting next week — is named after Mildred Orton, the wife of Vermont Country Store founder Vrest Orton.

Mildred was the matriarch of the Orton family, which continues to own and operate the store to this day. According to the restaurant’s new menu, Mildred “endeared herself to hungry customers by making her famous ham sandwiches,� which were “hearty� and “worth the drive.�

The Vermont Country Store, founded in 1946, is a tourist destination and Vermont institution. The redesign of the restaurant, which sits next door at 657 Main Street, is intended to accommodate a higher volume of customers, “getting people in and out without the one-and-a-half- or two-hour wait we had with the old restaurant,� food service supervisor GLEN GOURLAY said.

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Clips and sips in combination are coming to Rutland, where longtime hair stylist LORI LAPENNA is expanding her business, DOWNTOWN GENTLEMEN’S SALON, to include a Mexican restaurant, bar and cigar patio.

LaPenna’s business will keep its name after its move to 24 Merchants Row, two doors north of its current location. But much else about the business, which LaPenna opened a year and a half ago, will change.

The new Downtown Gentlemen’s Salon, expected to open by Thanksgiving, will include a speakeasy-style restaurant and bar that serves “authentic Mexican food,�

LaPenna said. The 35-seat, in-salon eatery will offer table service and a full bar.

Customers can also have a drink sitting in the barber chair.

In Burlington, the BARBERSHOP on Main Street started serving drinks last year. But LaPenna, who’s been cutting hair for 28 years, believes her salon will be the only one in Vermont with an attached restaurant. “I started catering to the men’s requests for quality styling and cutting and products, and then it just kind of snowballed from there,� said LaPenna, 52, of her growing business.

Among the requests was a place to buy cigars, so LaPenna got a tobacco license. Her new 3,000-squarefoot location, three times the size of its predecessor, will have an outdoor space for smoking cigars.

Her clients also requested food and drink. The restaurant will serve traditional Mexican food, including tamales, burritos and chalupas. Two Mexican-born chefs will relocate from Utah to Rutland to run the kitchen, according to LaPenna.

Downtown Gentlemen’s Salon, open daily from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m., will offer coffee and housemade pastries in the morning. At 11 a.m., service will switch to Mexican food, which will be available until closing. On the nonedible side, LaPenna will expand her salon services to include manicures, pedicures and facials, with a guest tattoo artist visiting once a month.

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The request came as a surprise to Scruggs, who agreed to speak on two panels — one about embracing and encouraging diversity in the cider world, and one showcasing and pouring still ciders.

[Disclosure: This reporter moderated the second panel.]

“Never in my life did I think I would be at CiderCon,” Scruggs marveled.

The still cider that Scruggs poured was Naïve Melody, named after the Talking Heads song “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody).” It’s a poetic coincidence, but also a representation of Scruggs’ accidental entrance into the cider world.

“Did I find you or did you find me?” she said, quoting a lyric in the song. “That’s what cider has been for me.”

“Especially compared to the wine industry, the cider industry is still feeling its way out and finding itself,” Scruggs continued. “I’m still very naïve, but they see the beauty in my naïveté.”

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Scruggs never thought about using apples when she went into winemaking. But learning from Heekin — and being in the realm of exploratory fermentation that La Garagista and Barnard’s Fable Farm Fermentory have developed — normalized the idea of working with apples in addition to grapes.

“Being surrounded by people with the philosophy that ‘cider is wine,’ I never questioned it,” Scruggs said. “I know not everyone feels that way, but technically, according to the government, that’s what it is.”

Scruggs had seen Heekin fermenting grape pomace on top of cider and knew that Fable Farm had been experimenting with the same idea. Influenced by that process but wanting to put her own twist on it, she pressed the apples and started a true sugar-to-sugar co-fermentation with that juice and frozen must from grapes harvested a month prior.

Scruggs macerated the pulp for six weeks for one batch, eight weeks for another, even though she’d never seen a long maceration applied to apples.

“Deirdre walked into the cellar and said, ‘Are you sure your fermentation’s OK? There’s mold on it.’ It didn’t necessarily smell good, but I trusted what I was taught, which is to taste,” Scruggs said.

She was doing what she knew, which was how to make wine from grapes, a process in which long macerations are common.

“It was out of ignorance, honestly, but also trusting my palate. Because of that vintage, I’m kind of fearless,” Scruggs said.

“Apples truly changed my career and my view of fermenting. Now I’m obsessed. I’ll never not work with apples.”

Those first co-fermentations got the attention of the natural wine world when Scruggs poured her debut at Brumaire, a highly curated natural wine fair in Oakland, Calif. A flood of press and accolades followed, including a spot in Wine Enthusiast’s coveted “40 Under 40” list.

That’s where she hit the radar of fellow honoree Michelle McGrath, executive director of the United States Association of Cider Makers.

“I discovered that Krista also makes cider and became fascinated with her perspective as a winemaker who was making cider very enthusiastically,” McGrath said in a phone call. “She transfers her ethos of winemaking so seamlessly to cider.”

McGrath invited Scruggs to speak at USACM’s CiderCon, the annual trade conference for the American cider industry, this past February in Chicago.

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Diversity Committee, which was formed by the board of USACM immediately following the diversity-focused panel at CiderCon, McGrath said. Scruggs appreciates the acceptance she has felt from the cider industry as someone who not only dismisses the traditional categories of “wine” and “cider,” but is a black, queer woman in a largely homogenous industry.

“I’m so grateful for the cider community,” Scruggs said. “More than the wine world, they’re just like, ‘Does it taste good or not?’ They accept the way I blur the lines, saying, ‘It’s just fucking fermented juice,’ and making the details of whether it’s grapes or apples irrelevant.”

Scruggs sees her work as a way to celebrate how the traditions of wine- and cidermaking have evolved while continuing to disrupt those industries’ implied boundaries and assumptions.

“Everything I do is in honor of tradition, but if we lived in a world that only honored certain traditions, I wouldn’t be able to be a black woman making cider and wine in America, let alone farming or having access to land,” Scruggs noted.

One way she’s taking action is literally written on the wall at CO Cellars, the tasting room and winery she shares with Shacksbury cidery in Burlington’s Soda Plant: “Wine (n)/ wīn/: A beverage usually made from grapes, but also made from various other fruits and flowers.”

The definition reflects Scruggs’ irreverence toward the strict delineation of wine, cider and even beer. “It doesn’t fucking matter what it is, and all [that] these semantics create is a wall that puts a guard up for consumers and new fermenters alike,” she said.

When a customer walks into CO Cellars, they might see apples stacked in baskets or grape juice dripping out of the press. The smell of fermentation fills the air.

Colin Davis, cofounder of Shacksbury and Scruggs’ close collaborator in the space, said, “We want to expand people’s idea of what wine is and [help them] understand CO Cellars as a working winery. You can see fermentation happening and see the winemaking techniques we’re using.”

CO Cellars opened last winter as a shared consumer-facing retail space and tasting room for ZAFA and Shacksbury, and as a place for Scruggs to produce her wines. It has since evolved into a third, separate brand, with the release this past week of BDE — a blend of wild sour cherries and cider.

“As we were thinking about what we wanted to accomplish there, the third brand made sense,” Davis said. “It allows an avenue for being creative in a way that our established brands don’t, and makes it so we’re not confusing customers.”

food+drink For Davis, that’s a return to Shacksbury’s roots and to getting his hands dirty.

For Scruggs, it’s a way to offer product when her nationally distributed wines sell out.

“As much as I like to say I’m all Woo! Wild! Let’s experiment! I have a particular vision of what ZAFA is,” Scruggs said. “Having the third brand allows me to work hand in hand with Colin and Nick [Janson, Shacksbury’s production manager], sharing what I know about grape fermentation and continuing to learn about cider from these guys, who I really admire. It also gives me more product for people to have access to that’s still reflective of my ethos.”

The partners have decided that a large portion of the CO Cellars collaborations will only be available in the tasting room in 750ml crowlers, labeled as wine and costing less than $20 per bottle. The brand will focus on native fermentations using wild or organically farmed fruit.

“We share similar philosophies on production and farming,” Davis said.

“But even though we have those things in common, we’re coming at it from different perspectives.”

“A lot of people say you can’t have any natural wine in America that’s less than $20, but it’s possible here in Vermont because we’re working with ingredients that are local to here,” Scruggs explained. “We’re looking around us and being resourceful, which is the Vermont way.”

Scruggs is in Vermont for the long haul; she’s currently under contract for land in Isle La Motte, where she will plant grapes and apples for future fermentations. In the meantime, that “Vermont way” and community support have bolstered her success.

“The way I’ve grown in the last year, having not come from money, has been through community,” she said.

Working with Shacksbury, buying fruit from other vineyards, and managing vineyards in Northfield and Huntington are all pieces of the ZAFA puzzle — as are the apples she’s foraging around the state with her dedicated team.

“People know I’m in a transitional phase and that I’m here to stay,” Scruggs said. “I’m growing my business while continuing to honor my philosophies and ethos, and the community selling me fruit or giving me access to the trees on their land is clearly a statement that they want me here, too.” m

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eddy Weber was riding in a Dodge Sprinter van in Great Britain nine years ago when he and his Wiyos bandmate started talking about apples. The conversation centered on the wild apples that Weber, the group’s guitarist, had picked and stored in his kitchen back home in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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now located in the cellar of his Roxbury home.

Weber makes cider with apples from an orchard he tends in Waitsfield and wild apples he forages, with permission, on public and private land in the Mad River Valley.

“I pick the apples, and I make the cider,” Weber, 43, said on a recent afternoon in his orchard. “I’m 100 percent responsible for whatever I make. I have pride in that, and I think the customers appreciate it.”

His Farmhouse cider is dry and bubbly, potent and intriguing — at once nuanced and straightforward.

“My interest, my real passion, is with the apples,” Weber said. “I’m not a big drinker. I didn’t get into this because I wanted to be in the alcohol business. I wanted to work with the land. I wanted to

work with the trees. And making alcohol is a viable way to do that. It’s also a way to showcase some of these apples.”

A handful of cider makers in Vermont use wild apples, said Terry Bradshaw, an apple expert and research assistant professor at the University of Vermont’s Department of Plant and Soil Science.

These include Fable Farm in Barnard and Puckerbrush Cider at Newhall Farm in Reading. The smaller outfits come and go, he said, and some are “sticking around.”

(Shacksbury produces a special line of ciders, part of its Lost Apple Project, that uses wild apples.)

“Tin Hat is a true small-batch farmhouse cider,” Bradshaw said. “It’s the apple, and nothing but the apple. Teddy makes a very good representation of that.”

Weber moved to Vermont after he

and his now-wife, Melissa Marks, visited Montpelier and stumbled upon a sign for a caretaking gig in Roxbury. “That seemed like a spotlight,” Weber said. They called the phone number, went to look at the place, got the job and moved to the 300-acre, off-the-grid home.

The following year, the couple moved again — this time to a rental property in Fayston. There Weber met Gib and Sue Geiger, beekeepers who live on a farm in Waitsfield. Weber mentioned to the couple that he was thinking of planting an orchard. “‘We’ve got some apple trees here on the farm,’” Weber recalled Gib telling him, suggesting that Weber could manage the orchard.

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The Geigers were similarly pleased.

“He’s cute,” Sue said. “He’ll bring us a basket of apples when he finds some really good ones.”

In 2013, when Weber started working with the trees, Gib showed him a map of the orchard. It’s planted in two hillside plots on either side of the 19th-century farmhouse at Mountain Valley Farm.

The map indicated that, among numerous varieties TEDDY planted at the farm in 1993 — including Wolf River, Freedom and Golden Russet — a share of the trees were called Elmore Cider.

This name intrigued Weber. He called Elmore Roots Fruit Tree Nursery, which had planted the orchard, to find out what it meant. He learned that the trees called Elmore Cider were wild-apple seedlings the nursery had planted along with the cultivars.

For an orchardist who uses organic practices and has a particular interest in wild apples, the Waitsfield orchard was ideal. “I thought, I’m the perfect guy to take this up,” Weber said. He started pruning.

Elmore Roots owner David Fried said a diverse orchard has numerous benefits. These include attracting pollinators, growing healthier and stronger trees, and producing fruit that ripens from August through late October.

“It makes it really interesting if you’re living there and picking them,” Fried said.

“The trees are different; there’s a lot of flavors. A diverse diet is good. Well, it’s the same in apples.”

Apples have fascinated Weber since his student days at Unity College in Maine, when he would ride his bicycle on dirt roads and pick up wild apples.

He’s interested in their genetics, their flavor profile and the centuries-old lore that surrounds the fruit. The name of his cidery, Tin Hat, is a tip of the hat to storied nurseryman Johnny Appleseed, who is said to have worn a tin pot on his head.

“The adventure for me is going out and trying to find wild apples,” he said.

“I’m trying to find apples that are worth grafting.”

Once or twice a week he forages in fields and woods, carrying a backpack, an apple bag, and a pen and paper for taking notes. Weber compares the activity to wine tasting: smelling, biting, spitting out. He’s focused on three “pillars” of the fruit: tannin, acidity and sugar.

When he finds a tree with potential,

Weber records it in his notes with the shorthand AOI (apple of interest). If the tree is in a stand of many apple trees, he finds a small rock and places it next to the trunk. He uses no GPS technology to track where he is; he simply remembers.

Weber will return when the apples are ripe or have fallen to the ground.

“The entire experience is just me and nature, me and the outdoors,” he said. “I’ve always sought that out.

Rolling it into my own business is a real treasure and something I WE BER have gratitude for.”

As a musician who’s been “road-dogging it” for many years, he also appreciates operating a local business. At Tin Hat, every aspect of the work — ingredients, production, sales — is close to home.

Yet Weber’s interests are intertwined by their aesthetic: The Wiyos opened for Bob Dylan at the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds in 2009, but you can imagine them playing in an apple orchard.

His passions are joined, too, by his experience on the road: Playing Americana roots music in Great Britain, the Wiyos were turned on to excellent cider.

The band often stayed in “backwoods kind of places,” Weber said, where it was common for locals to ask, “You boys want some cider?” Soon, someone was pouring the drink “from a little hooch factory,” Weber recalled.

Now he’s got a little hooch factory of his own, and he’s still writing and playing music as time allows. Earlier this month, after daytime work in the orchard, Weber went home to practice banjo for a recording session in upstate New York.

“They’re both great passions of mine,” he said. “I’m trying to balance the two, and I’m trying to be laser-focused [on each].”

Like the roots-based music the Wiyos play, the apples Weber seeks are not easily classified.

Over time he’s come to realize that “the real treasure is not in finding the one [apple], it’s in the fact that there’s a seemingly limitless genetic diversity out there,” he said. “It’s not in the one; it’s in the whole.” m

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PEOPLE OF COLOR STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING FOR RACIAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE: All people of color interested in being a part of the leadership of this racial justice policy advocacy group are encouraged to attend a monthly meeting. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 532-3030.

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. Rutland Economic Development Corp., 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

JUMP/START BUSINESS OF ART: THE RETAIL MODEL: Artist Clark Derbes, collector Marc Waskow and gallerist Sarah Beal weigh in on their experiences buying and selling art. Generator, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0761.

STEPS TO START A BUSINESS: Entrepreneurs learn what it takes to get a new enterprise off the ground. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

crafts

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

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

Info, 496-7746.

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

Free. Info, 846-4140.

dance

MOVEMENT MATTERS MASTER CLASS: Samar Haddad King and Zoe Rabinowitz of Yaa Samar!

Dance Theatre invite movers to more fully inhabit their bodies through phrase work and improvisation. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168.

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.

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Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 985-8228.

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, 324-5467.

film

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

‘THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN’: Milo Ventimiglia portrays a race-car driver who, with the help of a golden retriever, learns to navigate life’s twists and turns.

This one-day-only showing benefits Homeward Bound.

Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 1:30, 4 & 7 p.m. $10. Info, 388-4841.

education

‘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.

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

OPEN HOUSE: Parents and potential students learn the ABCs of the private Catholic school. Mater Christi School, Burlington, 8:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 658-3992.

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

Info, 353-6991.

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

Aikido of Champlain Valley,

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TINY HOUSE FEST VERMONT Saturday, October 26, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Waitsfield. $69.05; preregister; limited space. Sunday, October 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Sugarbush Resort in Warren. $12-15; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 451-0660, tinyhousefestvermont.com.

Seen on Screen For Vermonters who simply cannot wait to get a glimpse of glistening slopes, the Stowe Mountain Film Festival offers two days of programming, featuring footage that celebrates culture, adventure sports and the environment. Friday’s family-friendly showing of Romance, the final installment of the Level 1 annual film series, chronicles a modern-day golden age of skiing. On Saturday, two screenings of documentary shorts presented by Mountainfilm on Tour dive into the worlds of climbing, snow sports, mountaineering, activism and more. The evening’s itinerary includes “Broken,” director Simon Perkins’ documentary on para-skier Jon Wilson and a Q&A with the two men.

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“When we choose to build small, the process requires deep thought into what is most essential and precious to us and our family,” explains Tiny House Fest Vermont cofounder Erin O’Keefe in a press release for the fourth annual event. Moving from Brattleboro to the Mad River Valley, thanks to a partnership with Waitsfield’s Yestermorrow Design/Build School, this year’s fest remains focused on sparking conversations around compact abodes and sustainable living. The two-day gathering begins Saturday with a tour of local diminutive dwellings. Sunday’s offerings include exhibitions and presentations on topics including minimal design, maker skills, shared spaces and policy.

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FIND MORE LOCAL EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND ONLINE: art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

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

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

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

STOWE MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL Friday, October 25, 7 p.m., at People’s Academy in Morrisville. $10; free for kids 12 and under. Saturday, October 26, 3 & 7 p.m., at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort. $10-20; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 760-4634, sprucepeakarts.org.

School of Rock One night in 1956, Sun Records recording artists Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash gathered in the label’s Memphis, Tenn., studio for an all-night jam session. Their convergence is considered a landmark event for the genre of rock and roll and is dramatized in the Broadway jukebox musical Million Dollar Quartet. Performers from the show take the stage as Presley, Perkins, Lewis & Cash, an official tribute to the four musical legends. This high-energy revue treats fans to renditions of ’50s hits such as “Hound Dog,” “I Walk the Line” and “Great Balls of Fire,” as well as stories from each famed musician’s life.

PRESLEY, PERKINS, LEWIS & CASH Saturday, October 26, 7:30 p.m., at Barre Opera House. $32.50-39.50. Info, 476-8188, barreoperahouse.org.

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ould you bargain your soul for the power to help your fellow humans? How about for youth, beauty and love? These are among the questions raised in the legend of Faust, a righteous alchemist who is tempted into making a pact with the devil. The silent film series at Brandon Town Hall closes its season with a showing of the original motion-picture adaptation of the story that has inspired a novel, a play and an opera. Cinephiles see it on the big screen with a live score by New Hampshire accompanist Jeff Rapsis. Donations from this Halloween-themed program benefit town hall restorations.

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‘FAUST’ Friday, October 25, 7 p.m., at Brandon Town Hall. Donations.

Info, 603-236-9237, brandontownhall.org.

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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.

‘KUSAMA: INFINITY’: Shown as part of the Architecture + Design Film Series, the film focuses on the life and work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, reception, 6 p.m.; screening, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7166.

MOVIE: Snacks are provided at a showing of a popular film. Call for details. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

‘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.

VCFA MFA IN FILM SCREENING: ‘THE GREEN FOG’: Commissioned by the San Francisco Film Society for the 60th San Francisco International Film Festival, the experimental film loosely revisits the plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 7-10 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 866-934-8232.

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.

food & drink

DINE STOWE: From fine dining establishments to craft brew pubs, participating restaurants showcase their offerings for a fixed price. See gostowe.com for details. Various Stowe locations, 7 a.m.-11 p.m. $20.19 for specials.

Info, 253-7321.

O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-4565.

SHACKSBURY CIDER TASTING & PAIRING: Friends mingle while sipping samples of five apple-based beverages served alongside hearty snacks. Philo Ridge Farm, Charlotte, 6-8 p.m. $30. Info, 539-2912.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Donations. Info, 448-4262.

holidays

PUMPKIN CARVING NIGHT: Folks fashion jack-o’-lanterns while sipping seasonal brews. The Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $10 includes a pumpkin and a drink.

Info, 540-0188.

language

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

FOURTH WEDNESDAY HARVEST COMMUNITY DINNER: CONVERSATION GROUP: FrenchFriends and neighbors forge language conversation flows at connections over a shared meal a monthly gathering. Alburgh and a discussion of healthy Public Library, 5:15-6 p.m. Free; leisure hosted by the Winooski preregister. Info, ajp4561@gmail.

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

music

Find club dates in the music section.

HALEY RICHARDSON & QUINN BACHAND: Two young instrumentalists infuse Celtic and American roots music with youthful energy.

Burlington Violin Shop, 6 p.m. $20. Info, mark.sustic@gmail. com.

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.

PINK MARTINI: It’s cocktail time!

Attendees are transported by the ensemble’s retro-inspired blend of jazz, cabaret and lounge music with vocals by China Forbes. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-62. Info, 863-5966.

seminars

HOME-BUYING WORKSHOP: Experts demystify the homebuying process for newbie house hunters, from identifying your family’s needs to closing. New England Federal Credit Union, St. Albans, noon. Free. Info, 879-8790.

INGREDIENTS OF THE FICOSCORE PIE: Workshop participants bank tips for achieving an excellent credit score. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@hunger mountain.coop.

talks

ARNOLD THOMAS: In “The Browning of America: Reconciliation or Retribution,” the Jericho pastor considers how the increasing demographics of people of color will affect the social, economic, political and military dimensions of race relations in America. Randolph Union High School, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3431.

BRENNAN GAUTHIER: “A Real Monster on the Streets of Burlington: H.H. Holmes in Vermont” captivates true-crime connoisseurs. Milton Grange Hall, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 893-1604.

MICHAEL WISNIEWSKI: Addressing listeners as part of the Yestermorrow Speaker Series, the Duncan Wisniewski Architecture cofounder builds understanding of “EnergyEfficient Affordable Housing.”

Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 496-5545.

SCIENCE STUDENT INTERNSHIP PRESENTATIONS: Fishing, moose collaring and shoreline restoration are among the subjects discussed during this installment of the Current Topics in Science Speaker Series. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 4 p.m. Free.

Info, les.kanat@northernvermont. edu.

WILLIAM EDELGLASS: How did 17th-century distinctions between groups of people develop into one of the most historically significant ideas of the modern world? The Marlboro College professor addresses this question in “A History of the Concept of Race.”

Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Barre, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 476-3929.

tech

INTRODUCTION TO HTML5 & CSS3: Tech-savvy students in this three-part workshop learn the base language supporting all web pages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

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

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

Info, 878-6955.

theater

THE ARTISTRY & POLITICS OF UTA HAGEN: Tuesday’s masterclass with Broadway actor Ted Brunetti and Wednesday’s panel discussion “Surviving the Blacklist” celebrate the life of the Tony Award-winning performer and acting coach. Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2243.

‘THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER’ AUDITIONS: Youth and adult actors vie for roles in the Highland Center for the Arts production of this holiday favorite.

Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, kids 6 through 10, 4-5:30 p.m.; older kids and adults, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, morgan@ highlandartsvt.org.

‘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.

‘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.

‘THE MAGIC FLUTE’: Known for transporting European classics into a South African setting, Isango Ensemble melds Mozart’s whimsical masterpiece with a Tsonga folktale. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $12-50.

Info, 603-646-2422.

words

BRIAN GILMORE: The poet behind collections such as 2014’s We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters gives voice to original writings. Macomb Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 518-564-4030.

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

McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

FOOD & LIT BOOK DISCUSSION: Sicilian broccoli and sausage are on the menu during a discussion of Beneath a Scarlet Sky

by Mark Sullivan. Kiss the Cook, Middlebury, 6 p.m. $5; preregister; limited space. Info, 349-8803.

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

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24-HOUR PROTEST SONG: From poets to professors to politicians, folks join composer Daniel Bernard Roumain to improvise a collaborative performance piece expressing disapproval with discriminatory U.S. immigration laws. Burlington City Hall, noon. Free; preregister to participate. Info, 863-5966.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH CANDLELIGHT VIGIL: Flames in hand, attendees march up Church Street in remembrance of those who have lost their lives to domestic violence. The walk culminates in a survivor speakout at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington. Burlington City Hall, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, jessf@stepsvt.org.

VERMONT RACIAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE MEETING & USE OF FORCE FORUM: From training to policy and data collection, this community forum provides insight on use of force in policing in Vermont, as well as policy proposals. Rights & Democracy Vermont, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 532-3030.

agriculture

FARM-TO-SCHOOL REGIONAL GATHERINGS: Locavores gather to build connections with peers and farm-to-school practitioners.

Refreshments are provided. St. Albans Town Educational Center, 4:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@vermontfarmtoschool.org.

business

FINANCING STRATEGIES: LEARN FROM THE EXPERTS: Entrepreneurs bank tactics for raising funds during a panel discussion and an audience Q&A. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

cannabis

#HEMPHACK: Two days of education for small-acreage farmers cultivate understanding of developing a successful hemp-growing enterprise. Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. $65-175. Info, 586-7711.

community

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

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

dance

YAA SAMAR! DANCE THEATRE RESIDENCY: REDEFINING & RECLAIMING SPACE IN CONFLICT ZONES: In a lecture demonstration, artistic director Samar Haddad King and associate artistic director Zoe Rabinowitz share methods the company has developed to create art across physical and political barriers. Robert A. Jones House, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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

Arrive 10 minutes early. Battery Park Fountain, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 351-1313.

film

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

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.23.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.23.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.23.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.23.

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 + 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.

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

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VCFA MFA IN FILM SCREENING: ‘HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING’: Directed by RaMell Ross, a poetic documentary follows two young African American men from rural Alabama over the course of five years. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 7-10 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 866-934-8232.

VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: See WED.23.

food & drink

CARSHARE VERMONT’S NIGHT OUT AT THE CLUSE: The nonprofit hosts its fourth annual multi-course benefit dinner at the ever-popular daytime eatery.

Penny Cluse Café, Burlington, 6 p.m. $100. Info, 861-2340.

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.

DINE STOWE: See WED.23.

IN-STORE TASTING & DEMO: Foodies drop in for butternut squash soup samples. Kiss the Cook, Middlebury, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 349-8803.

ROSEMARY GLADSTAR: Folks become familiar with the worldrenowned herbalist’s new book, Fire Cider!: 101 Zesty Recipes for Health-Boosting Remedies Made With Apple Cider Vinegar Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3; limited space. Info, 448-3350.

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BINGO FUNDRAISER: Players cover squares, enter raffles, make their own sundaes and more at this Relay For Life benefit. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Swanton, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 for a card packet.

Info, 868-7886.

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

AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE: Healthy humans part with life-sustaining pints.

SHAPE Fitness Center, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, noon-5 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 635-1471.

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.

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.

SEED CLINIC: Small magnetic beads taped to acupressure points offer support for those experiencing difficult or stressful times. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m.

Donations. Info, clinicseed@ gmail.com.

YANG-STYLE 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.

holidays

RAISING SPIRITS: SPOOKY STORIES FROM VERMONT PUBLIC RECORDS: Hear tales of murder and disaster, of mediums and disappearances, all culled from Vermont public records. Stay for an exhibit of the records that inspired the stories. Vermont State Archives & Records Administration, Middlesex, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2308.

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‘THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW’: An all-star Montréal cast stages the cult-classic sci-fi musical.

MainLine Theatre, Montréal, 8 p.m. $20-50. Info, 514-849-3378.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

AMERICAN CLARINET QUARTET: United States Air Force instrumentalists put forth a wide variety of music — from Klezmer to historic marches to Broadway show tunes — to honor America’s veterans. Vergennes Opera House, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 877-6737.

DEBORAH PACKARD & PETER CAIRNEY: Celtic traditions shine in a folk music concert.

Burlington Cohousing East Village, 7-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 399-2459.

GAELYNN LEA: The 2016 National Public Radio Tiny Desk Contest winner plays her violin as others would a cello, using her voice and loops to create intricate folk melodies. Stearns Performance Space, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, talk on

BARRE OPERA HOUSE Saturday 10/26 7:30

disability advocacy, 4 p.m.; concert, 7 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 635-1408.

outdoors

NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL PUBLIC BANDING DEMO: Animal lovers join NBNC biologists as they capture, tag and release these pint-size fliers.

North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7:30-9 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 229-6206.

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.

seminars

PODCAST PRODUCTION: Aspiring radio personalities learn the basics of creating a compelling show in the fastgrowing digital audio medium.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

talks

CHAD MCEACHERN: The Edmundite Missions president and CEO looks at “The Use of Money in the Pursuit of Social Justice.” Roy Event Center, Dion Family Student Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

EZRA RANZ-SCHLEIFER: A Co.Starters Speaker Series talk with the local maker and entrepreneur covers creating goals and growth plans. Do North Coworking, Lyndonville, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, team@donorthco working.com.

JASON SMILEY: Occult enthusiasts are enchanted as the presenter lifts the veil on a mystical Vermont clan in “The Devil’s Cabinet: The Famous Eddy Family of Spirit Mediums.”

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-2117.

ONE WORLD LIBRARY PROJECT: Sudanese refugee Akol Aguek reflects on his experiences in “Lost Boy to Refugee to American Citizen.” Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 453-2366.

TIMOTHY MCCALL: A certified yoga therapist as well as a physician specializing in internal medicine, Dr. McCall presents “Bringing the Whole to Reductionist Medical Science.”

Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 656-9266.

WILLIAM EDELGLASS: See WED.23, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 253-8358.

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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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‘THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER’ AUDITIONS: See WED.23.

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‘THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)’: Experience the Bard’s entire canon in one sitting in this witty, fast-paced comedy.

Spaulding High School, Barre, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 476-4811.

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‘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. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $35.

Info, 332-3270.

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‘MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (AT DINNER)’: Is not that strange? The Middlebury Actors Workshop presents an update on Shakespeare’s classic comedy, set entirely around a dinner table. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $12-25.

Info, 382-9222.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’: Performed at London’s Bridge Theatre, William Shakespeare’s comedy about lovers, actors and meddling fairies is broadcast to the big screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $1625. Info, 748-2600.

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EXTEMPO: Local raconteurs tell first-person true stories before a live audience. Bridgeside Books, Waterbury, 8-10 p.m. $5. Info, 244-1441.

YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT: VOICES FOR CHANGE: Fueled by free pizza, aspiring wordsmiths at this youth-led workshop and open mic share poetry and prose inspired by social justice. BCA Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7166.

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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

BOARDERLINE INSANITY BLOWOUT SALE: Winter athletes gear up with boots, bindings, snowboards, backpacks, apparel and more. Vermont State Fairgrounds, Rutland, 5-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 775-0709.

ORIENTAL CARPET BAZAAR: Visitors are floored by tribal rugs, carpets and kilims from Syria, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Iran. Northern Daughters, Vergennes, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 877-2173.

RUMMAGE SALE: Gently used items — think warm clothing and household goods — find new homes. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 225-6373.

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#HEMPHACK: See THU.24, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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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.

YAA SAMAR! DANCE THEATRE RESIDENCY: INFORMAL PERFORMANCE: Three company members share solo and duet excerpts from the recent and forthcoming works Against a Hard Surface and Last Ward during a showing and discussion.

Dance Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL: High school students immerse themselves in one of six tracks — think choral, theater, dance or music — by meeting faculty

and students, touring campus and participating in rehearsals.

Northern Vermont UniversityJohnson, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 635-1219.

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‘ARTEMISIA: LIGHT AND SHADOW’: Using music, theater and images, harpsichordist Gwen Toth and singer-actor Sarah Chalfy tell the story of 17thcentury painter and feminist Artemisia Gentileschi. Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168.

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.

JANE AUSTEN WEEKEND: ‘EMMA’: A leisurely weekend of literary-inspired diversions includes dessert, tea, a Regency-style dinner party, Sunday brunch, a quiz and talks.

Governor’s House in Hyde Park. $395-445; $14-35 for activities.

Info, 888-6888.

PLANETARIUM SHOWS: Viewers settle in for consecutive showings of “Laser Tribute,” Pink Floyd: The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon. Northcountry Planetarium, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7, 8 & 9 p.m. $5. Info, 518-564-3168.

PSYCHIC MEDIUM: JOANNE GERBER: Audience members are in awe as the channeler uses her purported gift to communicate with the spirit world. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $30-35.

Info, 775-0903.

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.

VERANDAH PORCHE & PATTY CARPENTER: Music, spoken word and poetry engage listeners in conjunction with Yvonne Daley’s exhibit “Goin Up the Country.”

Vermont artist Kathleen Kolb also presents a slideshow and discussion about art and nature.

Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 775-0356.

film

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

‘FAUST’: Jeff Rapsis provides a live score for this 1926 silent film about an elderly alchemist who makes a deal with the devil.

See calendar spotlight. Brandon Town Hall, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 603-236-9237.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.23.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.23.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.23.

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‘ONE TOWN AT A TIME’: This documentary film trains the lens on the 251 Club of Vermont — a group dedicated to visiting each of the state’s 251 towns and cities. Charlotte Grange, 6:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, onetownatatime vt251@gmail.com.

STOWE MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL: Romance, the final installment of the Level 1 annual film series, illuminates a modern-day Golden Age of skiing. See calendar spotlight.

Peoples Academy, Morrisville, 7 p.m. $10-20; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 760-4634.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.23.

VCFA MFA IN FILM THESIS SCREENINGS: Vermont College of Fine Arts students present their thesis shorts, including “With Dad,” “Jean’s Dream” and “Skywheel.” The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 3-5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 866-934-8232.

VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: See WED.23.

food & drink

CIDER & CHOCOLATE PAIRING: Citizen Cider and Lake Champlain Chocolates team up to serve four taste-bud-tempting combos.

Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $15; preregister; for ages 21 and up. Info, 864-1807.

DINE STOWE: See WED.23.

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.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.23, 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.

holidays

10TH ANNUAL MONSTER BASH: Adults come clad in festive ensembles for a colorful night of food and dancing to support the Mahana Magic Foundation.

The Old Lantern Inn & Barn, Charlotte, 7 p.m. $65. Info, 540-0077.

HAUNTED SLAY RIDE: Are you afraid of the dark? A Halloween hayride is full of surprises — think ghastly ghosts, grim ghouls and gruesome goblins.

Breakaway Farm, Grand Isle, 6:30

p.m.-midnight. $15; preregister.

Info, 778-9178.

HAUNTED WESTFORD: Trips through a themed forest set the stage for Halloween games and jack-o’-lantern fun. Dinner is available for purchase. Westford Elementary School, 6-8 p.m. $35. Info, 878-5932.

PUMPKIN CARVING AT THE CO-OP: Round orange fruit takes on fearsome forms. Pumpkins, carving tools and refreshments are provided. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@ hungermountain.coop.

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‘THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW’: See THU.24.

SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MONTRÉAL: Cinephiles take their pick of 24 thoughtprovoking films from Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, the United States and Canada shown with English subtitles. Cinéma de Sève, Webster Library, Concordia University, Montréal. Prices vary.

Info, info@centrekabir.com.

music

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ALON GOLDSTEIN: The worldrenowned concert pianist returns to the Lanes Series for an evening of solo piano pieces

by Leonard Bernstein, Beethoven and others. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, preshow talk, 6:30 p.m.; show, 7:30 p.m. $5-30. Info, 656-3131.

GUY DAVIS: The guitarist revives acoustic blues traditions in original and classic compositions.

Proceeds benefit the Rutland County Restorative Justice Center. Rutland Moose Lodge, 7-9:30 p.m. $20; free for Moose members with a valid booster card. Info, 558-7587.

MARIEE SIOUX: Delicate fingerpicking propels folk numbers that reflect the California singersongwriter’s Native American heritage. Angelica Rocke opens.

Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 7-10:30 p.m. $20. Info, 540-0595.

RED BRICK COFFEE HOUSE: Hot beverages are provided at an open mic and jam session, where community members connect over music, cards and board games. Red Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7-10 p.m. Donations.

Info, mpk802vt@gmail.com.

VERMONT UKULELE HARVEST: Fingers fly during two days of workshops, concerts, an open mic and a jam session — all dedicated to the four-stringed instrument. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 5 p.m. $20-150; preregister; limited space. Info, vtukeharvest@gmail.com.

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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.

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EDUCATION & ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: CCTV Center for Media & Democracy executive director Lauren-Glenn Davitian touts the importance of public access TV to democracy. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5; $45 for the series. Info, 658-6554.

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‘ESAI’S TABLE’: See THU.24.

‘FOREVER PLAID’: See WED.23.

‘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.

‘JORDAN’: See WED.23.

‘THE MAGIC FLUTE’: See WED.23, Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-45. Info, 863-5966.

‘MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (AT DINNER)’: See THU.24.

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‘THE DROWSY CHAPERONE’: The theater program at Champlain Valley Union High School raises the curtain on the raucous and racy parody of American musical comedy in the 1920s. Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, 7:30 p.m. $8-10. Info, 482-6991.

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‘WAR OF THE WORLDS’: In a radio play production complete with sound effects and music, live actors recreate the notorious October 1938 Mercury Theater of the Air broadcast that shocked the world and made Orson Welles a star. Enosburg Opera House, 7-8:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 933-6171.

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

Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

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‘THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW’: Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Magenta and Riff Raff come out to play in Adirondack Regional Theatre’s staging of this cult-classic sci-fi musical. Strand Center Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $1525. Info, 518-563-1604, ext. 105.

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NEW ENGLAND COALITION ON NUCLEAR POLLUTION ANNUAL MEETING: Heidi Hutner excerpts her documentary feature, Accidents Can Happen: The Women of Three Mile Island, telling the tale of four mothers who formed an antinuclear advocacy group. 118 Elliot, Brattleboro, 1:30-4:15 p.m. Free.

Info, 380-4462.

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BOARDERLINE INSANITY BLOWOUT SALE: See FRI.25, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

ORIENTAL CARPET BAZAAR: See FRI.25.

RUMMAGE SALE: See FRI.25, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

SUNSOIL 2 CENT REFILL EVENT: Sunsoil offers refills of its organically grown, naturally extracted, unflavored CBD oil tincture at two cents per milligram. Bring your clean, empty Sunsoil bottle.

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VERMONT INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Guided the theme “Envisioning and Acting for the World We Want,” workshops and keynote talks address faith-based responses to the global climate crisis. Congregational Church, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $15-45. Info, 434-3397.

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 + 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.

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

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GREEN MOUNTAIN CABARET: The local burlesque company brings “sass, class and astronomically talented New England performers” to the stage in this body-positive variety show.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20-30. Info, 863-5966.

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF FRENCH WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS/ VERMONT MEETING: Educators mix and mingle at an informal social gathering. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 11 a.m. Free.

Info, 654-2853.

FALL OPEN HOUSE: Potential students scope out the institution included in the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges Rankings 2019 list of most innovative schools. Champlain College, Burlington, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 625-0201.

INSTANT DECISION DAY/OPEN HOUSE: Prospective students tour the campus and apply for on-the-spot admission. Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 626-6413.

OPEN HOUSE: Prospective students and their families visit campus to learn about academic offerings, residence halls and more. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2040.

etc.

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.

FIREWALK: A BENEFIT FOR STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, individuals join certified firewalking instructor Heather Rice for an ancient empowering and healing practice. Lake Champlain Waldorf High School, Charlotte, 6-10 p.m.

Donations. Info, 922-6705.

JANE AUSTEN WEEKEND: ‘EMMA’: See FRI.25.

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.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: See FRI.25.

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.

TINY HOUSE FEST VERMONT: TINY HOUSE TOUR: Four small homes open their doors to those

who are curious about their different shapes, sizes and designs.

Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 9 a.m. $69.05 includes lunch; preregister. Info, 496-5545.

VERMONT HIGHLAND GAMES: The Vermont Institute of Celtic Arts hosts this inaugural happening that includes everything from dance and language workshops to live entertainment to a traditional haggis dinner.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 11 a.m. $10; free for kids 5 and under; additional cost for haggis dinner. Info, 748-2600.

film

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

‘CLEMENCY’: Alfre Woodard portrays a prison warden who, after years of carrying out death row executions, must face the emotional and psychological fallout of her job. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m.

Free. Info, 443-3168.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.23.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.23.

‘MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL’: A 2019 documentary shown as part of the Woodstock Vermont Film Series provides a portrait of the late American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 & 5:30 p.m. $6-11.

Info, 457-2355.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.23.

STOWE MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL: Viewers get lost in inspiring documentary short films in the categories of adventure, sports, environment and culture.

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 3 & 7 p.m. $10-20; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 760-4634.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.23.

VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: See WED.23.

food & drink

3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY: Suds lovers stop in for food, music, games and new beer releases. 1st Republic Brewing Company, Essex Junction, 2-10 p.m. Free. Info, 857-5318.

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. 345 Pine St., Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Info, burlingtonfarmersmarket. org@gmail.com.

CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, locally made arts and crafts, and live music. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, manager@montpelier farmersmarket.com.

CHOCOLATE TASTING: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made on-site.

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Free. Info, 229-2090.

DINE STOWE: See WED.23.

FEAST BEFORE THE FEST: Those gearing up for Tiny House Fest Vermont eat, drink and chat about the importance of creating sustainable homes. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 5:30 p.m. $75. Info, kat@ tinyhousefestvermont.com.

HAM DINNER: Mashed potatoes, winter squash, coleslaw, baked beans and a variety of homemade pies satisfy diners. First Baptist Church of Starksboro, 5 & 5:45 p.m. $5-10; 25 per family of four; $3 per additional child. Info, 453-5227.

MAKING BETTER PIE CRUSTS WITH LARD: Andrea Chesman, author of The Fat Kitchen: How to Render, Cure & Cook With Lard, Tallow & Poultry Fat, demonstrates her mini apple streusel pie technique. Kiss the Cook, Middlebury, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 349-8803.

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.

SEASONAL CHOCOLATE TASTING: With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics discover the flavor profiles of limited-edition fall offerings — think Apple Cider Caramels and Pumpkin Spice Snack Bites. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

games

BOARD & TABLETOP GAMES: By thinking, reasoning, strategizing and playing together, teen and adult gamers build a sense of community. Waterbury Public Library, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

VERMONT GO CHAMPIONSHIP & FALL TOURNAMENT: American Gaming Association members compete in a single-elimination three-round, no-handicap tournament. See vermontgo.org for details. Warner Hall, Middlebury College, 9 a.m. $15; preregister.

Info, schumer@middlebury.edu.

health & fitness

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.

holidays

BARKTOBER HALLOWEEN BASH: A canine costume party includes beer, hot dogs, raffles and a photo booth to benefit the Humane Society of Chittenden County. Woof! The Tap Room at Switchback Brewing Co., Burlington, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 651-4114.

CIRCUS SPOOKTACULAR: A RECIPE FOR DISASTER: Circus arts instructors and special guests lead audience members on a high-energy romp through a tale of witches, monsters and

some surprisingly lively undead.

May not be appropriate for young children. New England Center for Circus Arts, Brattleboro, 7-8:30 & 9:30-11 p.m. $10-25. Info, 254-9780.

COSTUME CONTEST & MOVIE SCREENING: A panel of judges from local businesses evaluate costumes on kids ages 4 through 8 before families settle in for showings of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and Hotel Transylvania. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 9 a.m. Donations of money or nonperishable food items. Info, 388-4841.

FAMILIES HALLOWEEN PARTY: Goblins, superheroes and princesses convene to share supper, play games, brave a haunted house and parade around in their costumes. Brookfield Old Town Hall, 5 p.m. Free. Info, brookfield oth@gmail.com.

HALLOWEEN DANCE: Revelers groove to live music by Deuces Wild at this benefit for the Fraternal Order of Eagles — Addison County scholarship fund. Fraternal Order of Eagles, Vergennes, 7-10 p.m. $10. Info, 877-2055.

HALLOWEEN ON PEARL STREET: This family-friendly spooky celebration offers community members for a fun, safe way to enjoy the holiday. Jeanne Mance Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3434.

HAUNTED HOUSE STORY SPOOKTACULAR: Readings of spine-tingling middle-grade and YA fiction by five acclaimed authors elicit thrills and chills.

A haunted house and a dance party round out the fun. Center for Arts and Learning, Montpelier, 5-8 p.m. $5-25; free for kids. Info, 595-5252.

HAUNTED SLAY RIDE: See FRI.25.

HOOTS & HOWLS: Hands-on activities, animal encounters and face painting pave the way for nature-based, non-frightening fun. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center, Quechee, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Regular admission, $$14.50-16.50; free for members and kids 3 and under.

Info, 359-5000.

SPOOKY SATURDAY: Familyfriendly activities ranging from a costume contest to a themed obstacle course to downtown trick-or-treating make for a hairraising good time. Various St. Albans locations, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Free. Info, donna@theeloquent page.com.

TRUMPKIN SMASHING & WITCH-IN: Dressed as their most powerful, feminist selves, activists ward off forces of evil and patriarchy. Top of Church St., Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 324-3875.

VERY HAIRY SCARY HALLOWKWEEN: Partygoers spend an evening between the gender binaries with a killer cast of rule-breaking drag queens. DJ Taka spins after the show. Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7-11:45 p.m. $10. Info, 860-7812.

language

ARMENIAN LANGUAGE: Singing, dancing, drama and games promote proficiency. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7211.

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.

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‘THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW’: See THU.24.

SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MONTRÉAL: See FRI.25.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

AMERICAN CLARINET QUARTET: See THU.24, Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 3 p.m. Free.

Info, 533-2000.

BLUE WAVE CONCERT: Maple Jam lend their talents to a fundraiser for the Texas Civil Rights Project. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Donations.

Info, 223-7861.

EMMA’S REVOLUTION: Music meets social justice on acoustic folk numbers from the duo’s new album Revolution Now. Proceeds benefit local organizations. First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, 7-10:30 p.m. $22-28.

Info, genebergman26@gmail. com.

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HELIAND & THE BAND: Heliand Consort wow audience members with an eclectic program including a narrated counting piece about cows, a musical illustration of popcorn popping, and a 30-piece wind ensemble performing the New England premiere of “Reliable Sources”

by Vermont-born composer Nico Muhly. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7-9 p.m. $15-20.

Info, 728-9878.

KIP MOORE: The contemporary country star headlines an evening of toe-tapping tunes as part of his Room to Spare Acoustic Tour with special guest Tucker Beathard. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $45-169. Info, 775-0903.

MAIDEN VERMONT: Central Vermont’s all-female barbershop chorus sings the classics. Local songwriter Jon Gailmore joins as a guest artist. Middlebury Union High School Auditorium, 4 p.m. $15-25. Info, 382-9222.

THE MOON SHELLS: Grounded in the Appalachian fiddle tradition and drawing influences from Louisiana, West Africa and Eastern Europe, the Connecticut trio creates a fusion of old-time string band music with deep rhythms and joyful songwriting.

Landmark Schoolhouse, Lower Cabot, 7:30 p.m. $16-20. Info, 793-3016.

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Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

PRESLEY, PERKINS, LEWIS & CASH: Audience members can’t help but move to the music of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash during this tribute to rock-androll music in 1956 Memphis. See calendar spotlight. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $32.50-39.50.

Info, 476-8188.

SATURDAY KARAOKE: Amateur singers belt out their favorite tunes. Burlington VFW Post, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6532.

VERMONT UKULELE HARVEST: See FRI.25, 8 a.m.

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BIRD MONITORING WALK: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for winged wonders. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 8-9 a.m. Donations; preregister.

Info, 434-2167.

SPINY SOFTSHELL TURTLE NESTING BEACH WORK DAY: Helping hands pull plant growth to prepare the land for egglaying season. Bring lunch and water. North Hero State Park, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 288-9570.

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INTRODUCTION TO HTML5 & CSS3: See WED.23, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

theater

‘THE DROWSY CHAPERONE’: See FRI.25.

business

CHEERS TO YOU — KNOW YOUR WORTH!: Queen City business women Kathleen Kelly and Jemima Talbot, co-owners of Burlington VT Moms Blog, are the guest speakers at this Savvy Professional Women networking breakfast. Ma & Pembum, Hinesburg, 10 a.m.-noon. $25; preregister. Info, 310-5823.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: See FRI.25.

WOMEN IN THE OUTDOORS: Community members join local painter Katharine Monstream, mountain biker Dani Sweet and Half Pint Farm’s Emily Mitchell for a celebration of women and non-male-identifying individuals who work and play in the open air. Fjällräven, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-7197.

fairs & festivals

TINY HOUSE FEST VERMONT: A village of compact abodes ignites conversation about sustainable living. See calendar spotlight. Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $12-15; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 451-0660.

film

ISRAELI FOLK DANCE: No partner is required for a beginnerfriendly session of circle and line dances. Wear shoes with clean soles. Social Hall, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:309:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0218.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.23.

etc.

JANE AUSTEN WEEKEND: ‘EMMA’: See FRI.25.

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

BOARDERLINE INSANITY BLOWOUT SALE: See FRI.25, noon-5 p.m.

working lands and economic innovation. The Alchemist, Stowe Brewery & Visitor Center, 5-8 p.m. $25-30 includes food and two drinks. Info, 223-6091.

BOLSHOI BALLET IN CINEMA: ‘RAYMONDA’: When her beloved leaves to join a crusade led by the king of Hungary, the title character in choreographer Marius Petipa’s dance work is pursued by a foreign night.

Shown on screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600.

‘JORDAN’: See WED.23, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

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BALKAN FOLK DANCING: Louise Brill and friends organize participants into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 3:30-6:30 p.m. $6; free for firsttimers; bring snacks to share.

Info, 540-1020.

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dance

‘INHERIT THE WIND’: See FRI.25, 2 p.m.

‘WAR OF THE WORLDS’: See FRI.25.

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PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER COMMUNITY MEETING: Members and area residents come together to discuss what it means to be an anti-racist social justice organization. O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

‘FOREVER PLAID’: See WED.23, 3 & 7:30 p.m.

‘ESAI’S TABLE’: See THU.24, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW’: See FRI.25, 7:30 p.m. & midnight.

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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Sessions in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh include sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and open sharing. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, newleafsangha@ gmail.com.

A NIGHT OF CELEBRATION, FOOD & BEER: Folk convene with Vermont Council on Rural Development representatives to fête the state’s communities,

‘MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (AT DINNER)’: See THU.24.

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community

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.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.23.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.23.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.23.

VERMONT FOLK HORROR ROADSHOW: The Vermont Folklife Center presents two spooky films set and made in Vermont: Transformations and The Animal. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 3 p.m.

Donations. Info, 388-4964.

VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: See WED.23.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING: See SAT.26.

SEASONAL CHOCOLATE TASTING: See SAT.26.

WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET: Families shop for fresh produce, honey, meats, baked goods and prepared foods from vendors at an outdoor marketplace.

Champlain Mill, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, farmers market@downtownwinooski.org.

games

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

GAME ON!: Folks bring games and snacks and settle in for some friendly competition. First Congregational Church, Cornwall, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 532-3030.

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holidays

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.

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

CIRCUS SPOOKTACULAR: A RECIPE FOR DISASTER: See SAT.26, 7-8:30 p.m.

A FAMILY HALLOWEEN: An all-ages shindig comes complete with pumpkin carving, doughnuts-on-a-string, wagon rides, and costume parades at noon and 2 p.m. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $4-16; free for members and kids in costume with an adult.

Info, 457-2355.

FIND FUTURE DATES + UPDATES AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/EVENTS

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, steve norman@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.

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‘MYTHIC’: Audience members bop along with the North American premiere of new poprock musical about the Greek goddess Persephone, presented by the Segal Centre for the Arts.

Sylvan Adams Theatre, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 1:30 p.m. $53-67. Info, 514-739-7944.

SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MONTRÉAL: See FRI.25.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

AMERICAN CLARINET QUARTET: See THU.24, ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3500.

DADDY LONGLEGS: The local acoustic threesome finds eager ears with its catchy brand of 21st-century folk music, a sound with roots in Celtic, old-time and early jazz. Charlotte Grange, 4 p.m. $10. Info, 923-6096.

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS: After more than 40 years, the iconic songwriter’s aim is still true. He’ll perform favorites spanning the entirety of his beloved catalog, from “Alison” to “Watching the Detectives.” Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7 p.m. $45-110. Info, 863-5966.

HEART SWING: Fronted by Hilary Kissel, the ensemble entertains with jazz standards — both swinging and from the heart. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Upper Valley, Norwich, 4:30-6:30 p.m. $15-20.

Info, 649-8828.

HELIAND & THE BAND: See SAT.26, Dibden Center for the Arts, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 3-4:30 p.m. $10; free for NVU students with ID. Info, 393-7547.

MICHAEL ARNOWITT: A colorful and diverse piano program highlights works by Bach, Chopin, Brahms and Stravinsky, as well as women composers Lili Boulanger, Verdina Shlonsky and Barbara Heller. Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 3-5 p.m. $12-15. Info, 253-1800.

ONE SKY: MUSIC FOR SAN ANTONIO GRANDE: Concert pianist Diane Huling and organist Arthur Zorn are among the musicians to use their talents to support projects for youth and women in the church’s sister

parish in El Salvador. A reception follows. Bethany United Church of Christ, Montpelier, 2 p.m. $20.

Info, vermontartmusic@gmail. com.

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.

outdoors

MOUNT ELLEN HIKE: Outdoor adventurers tackle a difficult 8.4-mile trek gaining 2,600 feet in elevation. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, jillghiker@gmail.com.

talks

DAVE HOHLE: Through the First Church of Christ, Scientistsponsored lecture “Time Is Not a Factor in Your Life,” listeners learn to gain dominion by living in the timeless, stressless, spiritual now. Community Sailing Center, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Info, 864-4709.

HOWARD COFFIN: In “Vermont, 1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816,” the aptly named historian recounts one of the coldest and strangest years on record in the Green Mountain State. Fair Haven Free Library, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 265-7913.

theater

‘THE DROWSY CHAPERONE’: See FRI.25, 2 p.m.

‘ESAI’S TABLE’: See THU.24, 5 p.m.

‘JORDAN’: See WED.23, 5 p.m.

‘MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (AT DINNER)’: See THU.24, 2 p.m.

‘WAR OF THE WORLDS’: See FRI.25, 2-3:30 p.m.

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BUSINESS PLAN BASICS: Aspiring entrepreneurs gain the tools to write an effective document setting out their future objectives and strategies for achieving them. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

crafts

HANDWORK CIRCLE: Friends and neighbors make progress on works of knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch and other creative endeavors. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

environment

350VERMONT BURLINGTON NODE MEETING: Environmentally conscious individuals deepen their involvement in issues related to the climate crisis. 350Vermont, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, btvnode@350vt. org.

film

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

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.23.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.23.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.23.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.23.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.23, 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 trick-taking card game. Barre Area Senior Center, 1 p.m. Free.

Info, 479-9512.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Free.

Info, 448-4262.

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: Supervised clinical interns offer guidance and support to those looking to care for themselves using natural remedies. By appointment only. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, and Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; additional cost for herbs; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

GUIDED GROUP MEDITATION: In keeping with the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, folks practice mindfulness through sitting, walking, reading and discussion.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:158 p.m. Free. Info, 505-1688.

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LEARN DISCUSS PUBLIC HEARING N AV I G AT I N G O P T I O N S THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 5–7PM AT BURLINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Get informed and speak with experts about the Federal Aviation Administration sound mitigation options for the community, our neighborhood, and your home. Those that live in neighboring communities who are affected are especially encouraged to join us!

No formal presentation. All are welcome.

holidays

NORTHWEST NIGHTMARES FILM FESTIVAL: Amateur filmmakers celebrate Halloween with locally made short horror flicks. An afterparty at 14th Star Brewing follows the opening night screening. Welden Theatre, St. Albans, 6:30-10 p.m. $5-10.

Info, info@nwnightmares.com.

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 meet-up. Plattsburgh Public Library, N.Y., 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, ajobin-picard@ cefls.org.

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FRANKIE GAVIN: A fiddler since age 10, the Irish instrumentalist showcases his bow-and-string mastery. Burlington Violin Shop, 6-8:30 p.m. $25; preregister; limited space. Info, mark.sustic@ gmail.com.

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PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND: Making a stop on its A Tuba to Cuba tour, the seven-piece ensemble treats listeners to an evening of classic New Orleans jazz. Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts, Montréal, 7 p.m. $54.65-176.25.

Info, 866-842-2112.

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.

SONGWRITING WORKSHOP SERIES: Local musicians Pat and Alison McHugh shares tips and tools for structuring original tunes. Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

talks

FREDERICK WISEMAN: The professor touches on topics such as ritual cuisine and seed saving in “Chasing Seeds: Reviving Indigenous Vermont Agriculture.”

Community Center in Jericho, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 829-8168.

PETER HOESING: Listeners learn about the ethnomusicologist’s research on music and traditional healing in Uganda.

Room 221, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-3168.

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STATE OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS: Activist Sandy Baird leads an open forum reflecting on and analyzing current events in a nonjudgmental setting. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7211.

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tech

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.23.

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MONTHLY BOOK GROUP FOR ADULTS: Shanthi Sekaran’s Lucky Boy sparks conversation. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

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Center for Agricultural Economy, Hardwick, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.23.

community

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.23.

COMMUNITY DROP-IN CENTER HOURS: Wi-Fi, games and art materials are on hand at an open meeting space where folks forge social connections. GRACE, Hardwick, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 472-6857.

crafts

COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

dance

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.

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QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK POINTED HAT BUS TOUR: Join Thea Lewis, Vermont’s Queen of Halloween, on a two-hour exploration of the Burlington area that includes some entry-level dowsing and spell casting. 345 Pine St., Burlington, 7 p.m. $35.

Info, 351-1313.

film

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

‘DEEP RED’: Director Dario Argento’s 1975 horror film follows a journalist and a jazz pianist who are drawn into a web of mystery following the murder of a psychic. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9:15 p.m.

Free. Info, 540-3018.

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

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

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

music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + 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.

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

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.23.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.23.

VERMONT FOLK HORROR ROADSHOW: See SUN.27, the Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $10.

food & drink

OLD NORTH END FARMERS MARKET: Locavores score breads, juices, ethnic foods and more from neighborhood vendors. Dewey Park, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, oldnorth endfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

TUESDAY LUNCH: An in-house chef whips up a well-balanced hot meal with dessert. See barreseniors.org for menu. Barre Area Senior Center, noon. $6; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.23, 7 p.m.

health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See THU.24.

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: See MON.28, 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.

holidays

NORTHWEST NIGHTMARES FILM FESTIVAL: See MON.28, 6:30-8 p.m.

language

ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano? Language learners practice pronunciation and more in an informal gathering.

Hartland Public Library, 12:302:30 p.m. Free. Info, 436-2473.

‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners say it all in French at a social conversational practice. Red Onion Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652.

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MILTON COMMUNITY BAND REHEARSAL: New musicians may join the ensemble as its members hone their skills in preparation for their holiday concert. Cornerstone Community Church, Milton, 7-9 p.m. Free.

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outdoors

SLOW & EASY HIKING: See THU.24.

seminars

BUTTON UP JERICHO: Sponsored by the Jericho Energy Task Force, this workshop breaks down the benefits of home weatherization. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 734-6310.

TEEN IMPROV COMEDY WORKSHOP: Youngsters tap into the entertainer inside through a variety of games and exercises.

South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

sports

FREE AIKIDO CLASS: A one-time complimentary introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack.

Open to prospective students.

Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:15-7:15 p.m. Free.

Info, 951-8900.

talks

CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP: Sandy Baird moderates a forum for the 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.

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MARK HAGE, ADAM ELIE & WAFIC FAOUR: “Unsustainable Agriculture in Occupied Palestine” includes recommendations for what Vermonters can do to support Palestinian farmers. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@hunger mountain.coop.

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SUSAN MORSE: Have catamounts really come back to New England?

The wildlife biologist brings her photographs and research on North American cougars to Fairlee for the first in a new series of lectures on the environment and people of the Upper Valley. Fairlee Town Hall Auditorium, 6:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 331-0997.

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NEAL PEASE: Curious minds bring questions to a talk on the high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet.

Chemists By Nature, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 288-8324.

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slide shows, charts, footers and animation. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3131, ext. 1063.

theater

FIBER RIOT!: See WED.23.

‘JORDAN’: See WED.23.

words

BRIT READERS OF THE NEK BOOK CLUB: Angel Falls by Kristin Hannah and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens are the featured volumes in this monthly series. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393.

BURLINGTON FREE WRITE: Aspiring writers respond to prompts in a welcoming atmosphere. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-1664.

KRISTIN KIMBALL: The organic farmer and writer reads from, discusses and signs copies of Good Husbandry, a follow-up to her 2010 memoir The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-0774.

RICHIE GRAHAM: Tales of the Dandelion Commune gives readers an unvarnished account of communal living. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

WED.30 agriculture

FARM-TO-SCHOOL REGIONAL GATHERINGS: Locavores gather to build connections with peers and farm-to-school practitioners.

Refreshments are provided.

Willing Hands, Norwich, 4:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ vermontfarmtoschool.org.

business

BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE: See WED.23.

ONRAMPS, UPRAMPS & OFFRAMPS: DEVELOPING TALENT ON THE ROAD TO SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: More than 150 business people gain new tools for unbiased recruiting, supporting retention and developing employee leadership skills from this Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility fall program. Killington Grand Resort Hotel, noon-5:30 p.m. $60-75.

Info, 862-8347.

cannabis

EDIBLE WELLNESS: A Q&A demystifies the benefits of consuming cannabidiol. Attendees treat themselves to sweet CBD delights. Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft Co., Middlesex, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.

community

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,

crafts

KNITTER’S GROUP: See WED.23.

dance

KINETIC LIGHT: ‘DESCENT’: Inspired by Auguste Rodin’s sculpture “Toilette de Vénus et Andromède,” contemporary choreographer Alice Sheppard’s wheelchair-dance work revels in the sensuality of connection, trust, risk and effort. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-45. Info, 863-5966.

SQUARE DANCING: See WED.23.

environment

YOUR REFRIGERATOR WILL SAVE THE WORLD: Learn how ordinary household appliances can be transformed into valuable energy storage resources.

Generator, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free. Info, 540-0761.

etc.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: See FRI.25.

film

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

CINEMA CASUALTIES: ‘NIGHT OF THE DEMONS’ & ‘DR. BUTCHER M.D.’: A film series dedicated to old-school horror movies presents back-to-back screenings of gory ’80s flicks. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406.

‘FOOD EVOLUTION’: Taking viewers from Hawaii to Uganda and beyond, this 2016 documentary focuses on the controversy surrounding genetically modified organisms. Ronald B. Stafford Center. Clinton Community College, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6 p.m.

Free. Info, 518-846-7121.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.23.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.23.

‘LEONARDO: THE WORKS’: Shown as part of Great Art Wednesdays, a 2019 documentary provides a close-up look at Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings and paintings.

Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 11 a.m. $8-13. Info, 382-9222.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.23.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.23.

VERMONT FOLK HORROR ROADSHOW: See SUN.27, Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 6 p.m.

food & drink

OWEN ROE WINE PAIRING DINNER: A five-course menu prepared by executive chef Jason Bissell is expertly paired with Owen Roe wines. Edson Hill Dining Room & Tavern, Stowe, 6:30 p.m. $150. Info, 253-7371.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.23.

MAH JONGG IN BARRE: See WED.23.

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health & fitness

ALL-LEVELS ACROYOGA CLASS: See WED.23.

CHAIR YOGA: See WED.23.

RESILIENCE FLOW: See WED.23.

YOGA4CANCER: See WED.23.

holidays

HALLOWEEN MOVIE: Cinephiles have a scream watching a spinetingling picture. Refreshments are provided. See jaquithpublic library.org for title. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 426-3581.

‘SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK’: Attendees don costumes for a one-day-only showing of this new horror flick about a menacing book of stories. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 5:30 p.m. Donations of money or nonperishable food items. Info, 388-4841.

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MURIEL ANDERSON: Equally comfortable in styles ranging from bluegrass to Beatles tunes, the champion guitarist and harp guitarist showcases her instrumental chops. Advance Music Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20; limited space. Info, 863-8652.

‘MYTHIC’: See SUN.27, 8 p.m.

‘THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW’: See THU.24.

music

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.23.

Find club dates in the music section.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.23.

OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: See WED.23.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE RECITAL: Students perform solos and duets by composers such as Bach and Mozart on various instruments. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

VERMONT PHILHARMONIC CHORUS REHEARSALS: Experienced singers prepare for annual recitals of Handel’s Messiah. Bethany United Church of Christ, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, vpchorus@vermont philharmonic.org.

talks

RACHEL GRIGORIAN: Appearing as part of the Yestermorrow Speaker Series, the landscape architect outlines effective techniques in “Gardening for Storm-Water Management.” Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

RICHARD TAYLOR: “Quantifying Labile Organic Carbon Dynamics in Antarctic Peninsula Sediments: A Radiocarbon Approach” engages learners as part of the Current

Topics in Science Speaker Series.

Room 207, Bentley Hall, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 4 p.m. Free. Info, les.kanat@north ernvermont.edu.

tech

INTRODUCTION TO HTML5 & CSS3: See WED.23.

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.23.

theater

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words

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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 CVU Rd., Hinesburg. Info: Access CVU, 4827194, access@cvsdvt.org, cvsdvt. ce.eleyo.com.

drumming TAIKO & DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: New sessions start in November! Classes for adults, kids and parents.

Parade and conga classes, too.

Intermediate Taiko, Mon., 6-8:20 p.m. Taiko for Adults, Tue., 5:306:20 p.m. & Wed., 6:30-7:50 p.m. Djembe for Adults, Wed., 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.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

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.

LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our 13th year.

Small classes, private lessons and online instruction with a native speaker. Also live, engaging, face-to-face online English classes. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

martial arts

business MANIFEST WITH KRISSY LEONARD: In this two-hour experiential workshop and training, you’ll connect with other like-minded women who desire greater clarity, purpose, income and impact in order to effect positive change — in their own lives and in the world. Nov. 2.

Cost: $25/2-hour class. Location: Laughing River Yoga, 1 Mill St., Burlington. Info: Krissy Leonard LLS, Krissy Leonard, 779-7684, info@krissyleonard.com, krissy leonard.com.

meditation

Located in beautiful atelier in Burlington’s South End Arts & Industry District. Day time, afternoon and evening slots scheduling. Allons-y! Location: Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., Burlington.

Info: Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@gmail.com, wingspanstudioeduc.com.

fitness PILATES MATWORK: Drop-in classes for all levels of ability. Tue. & Thu., 5:15-6:15 p.m. Cost: $18/ single class. Location: Burlington Acupuncture, 215 College St., Burlington. Info: Sharon McIlwaine, 522-3992, shmci56@icloud.com, burlingtonacupuncture.com.

language FRENCH AT WINGSPAN STUDIO: Private French Lessons for all levels. Adults and children. Learn with an experienced instructor, fluent speaker and encouraging teacher who has lived and worked in Paris, France and West Africa.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Brazilian jiujitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique.

Brazilian jiujitsu selfdefense curriculum is taught to Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces. No training experience required.

Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children. Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them throughout life.

IBJJF and CBJJ certified black belt sixth-degree instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A five-time 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.

Media Factory

WEEKLY SOUND BATH MEDITATION: Relax. Release.

Reset. Join Kirk Jones for a sound bath with sound massage, featuring 24 Tibetan singing bowls, three crystal bowls and one gong.

The sounds and vibrations offer relaxation for the mind, melt away stress, vibrate away pain and bring the body into coherent, peaceful, elevated, harmonic wholeness. Starts Oct. 30, Wed., 7:30-8:45 p.m. Cost: $20/1.25hour class. Location: Wellness Collective, 431 Pine St., 3rd Floor, Burlington. Info: Evolvlove Sound Therapy, Kirk Jones, 510697-7790, love@evolvlove.com, evolvlove.com.

EDIT SUITE CERTIFICATION: Get certified to use the Media Factory edit suites, which include access to Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut Pro and more. You will get a unique login and a volume on our EVO, which is a super-fast storage network designed for editing video. Register at bit. ly/btvmediafactory or call 651-9692. Sat., Oct. 26, 11 a.m.

Location: Media Factory, 208 Flynn Avenue, Suite 2G + 2K, Burlington. Info: Gin Ferrara, 651-9692, ginf@retn.org, bit.ly/ btvmediafactory.

INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING: Get your story out of your head and onto the page! Learn the three Cs of screenwriting and how to develop strong characters.

Explore various screenwriting tools for formatting a professional screenplay and take the next step in your filmmaking practice! Wed., Oct. 30, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $25/person suggested donation. Location: Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 2G + 2K, Burlington. Info: Gin Ferrara, 651-9692, ginf@retn. org, bit.ly/btvmediafactory.

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.

shamanism EXTRAORDINARY REALITIES: Evidence of shamanic practice goes back 50,000+ years all around the world. Learn how to journey into the spirit realms to meet with compassionate helping spirits. The session will include an overview of shamanic divination and healing. Meet your power animal and spirit teacher in a core shamanic introduction. Sat., Nov. 23, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $123/9hour class. Location: Shaman’s Flame Workshop Center, 644 Log Town Rd., Woodbury. Info: Peter Clark, 456-8735, peterclark13@ gmail.com, shamansflame.com.

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 Manching 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, 490-6405, patrick@ longrivertaichi.org, longrivertaichi.org.

SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles.

Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 363-6890, snake-style.com.

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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, bewellmassagevt@gmail.com, wellnesswithgianna.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

EVOLUTION YOGA: Practice yoga in a down-to-earth atmosphere with some of the most experienced teachers and therapeutic professionals in Burlington.

All are welcome.

Try our Beginners Series, Tuesdays, November 5 to December 17. We are all beginners. This is your invitation to enjoy learning the basics and start exploring the benefits of a yoga practice. Daily drop-in classes including $10 community classes,

Yoga Wall and Yoga Therapeutics classes led by physical therapists.

Dive deeper into your practice! $10-$15/class; $140/10-class card; $10/community class. New students $100/10-class card.

New! Student Monthly Unlimited just $55/mo. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington.

Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

LAUGHING RIVER YOGA: Located in a beautiful setting overlooking the Winooski River. We offer highquality classes, workshops and trainings taught by experienced teachers who honor the beauty and wisdom of the yogic tradition.

Check our website to learn more about trainings and workshops, including Katonah Yoga, October 4-6. All bodies and abilities welcome. Daily classes, workshops, 200- and 300-hour yoga teacher training. Cost: $65/first month of unlimited classes; workshop & training prices vary. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, Suite 126, Burlington. Info: 3438119, laughingriveryoga.com.

Ave., Burlington. Info: 448-4262, info@sanghastudio.org, sanghastudio.org.

SANGHA STUDIO |: NONPROFIT, DONATION-BASED YOGA: Sangha Studio builds an empowered community through the shared practice of yoga. Free yoga service initiatives and outreach programs are offered at 17 local organizations working with all ages. Join Sangha in both downtown Burlington and the Old North End for one of their roughly 60 weekly classes and workshops.

Become a Sustaining Member for $60/month and practice as often as you like! Daily classes.

Location: Sangha Studio, 120 Pine St. & 237 North Winooski

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ick Offerman had no idea that his role as Ron Swanson on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” would make him a pop-cultural icon. Perhaps it was the character’s regal “high and tight” haircut — one of only three acceptable male hairstyles, according to Swanson — signature push-broom mustache, perpetual scowl or radical libertarian politics that cemented him as a touchstone of 2010s television. Google “Ron Swanson meme” to see endless pages of hilarity.

Offerman is something of a polymath.

He’s a master woodworker, a trait shared by his former on-screen persona. In 2018, the actor and his “Parks and Recreation” costar Amy Poehler launched “Making It,” a gently competitive reality show focused on crafting. Season 2 airs on NBC this holiday season.

He’s also an author, having published three semiautobiographical tomes: Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living; Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom With America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers; and Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop. The titles hint at themes that propel his one-man music and comedy shows, such as his current production, All Rise, which hits Burlington’s Flynn MainStage in back-to-back sets on Saturday, October 26.

Seven Days caught up with Offerman by phone.

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SD: What is the “light dance” portion of the show?

NO: The entrées of the show are humorous essays rendered by my slow-talking voice with a panoply of songs performed on the guitar. Those entrées are sprinkled somewhat liberally with amusing dance moves.

SD: I’m a total newb when it comes to woodworking and such. What’s an easy project to get me started?

NO: Generally, if you want to become a traditional woodworker, I always advise people to hold off using electricity as long as possible. You can learn the fundamentals with hand tools — block plane, handsaw, chisel — which can take you a long way. There are happy and relatively prosperous woodworkers who use very little electricity at all.

Usually, you start off with a board of wood just the size of a paperback book. You learn to sharpen the blades of your hand tools. That’s the key to all woodworking.

If you know how to properly sharpen your steel, suddenly it’s much closer to shaping butter than it is to carving marble. Once you’ve learned to make a board flat with its edges square and surface smooth, then you can take five or six boards and make them into a box.

SEVEN DAYS: In the promotional material for All Rise, you explain that it’s about “aiming higher in life than the channels of consumerism would have us imagine.” What does that mean?

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And so I tried that and found it incredibly less satisfying than baling hay with eight neighbors and enjoying a bunch of friedegg sandwiches that Aunt Dee had brought to the field.

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I’m happy to announce that many people stay through the entire show.

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SD: We have a little problem straight out of “Parks and Recreation” in downtown Burlington: a pit. A stalled development project has left a giant crater in the middle of the city. Any thoughts on how we should use it?

NO: Well, I found Burlington to be sort of an impossibly attractive location. The first time I visited and cruised down to the water, I said, “Oh, my word. This is Lake Champlain. I see what all the fuss is about,” while hallucinating on the dizzyingly effective coffee that is available in that town. With that sort of reverie in mind, I would say a community center, perhaps MADE IT

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Ah, the many joys and pitfalls of adult Halloween. I believe I’ve discussed this before, but it never hurts to rehash a perennial problem. When Halloween falls on a Friday, Saturday, Sunday or Monday, it’s pretty much guaranteed that all haunted happenings will fall on one of those three days, confining festive fun to a single weekend.

But when Halloween lands on any other day of the week — as it has for the last three years — the world can’t make up its mind about when grownups can and should cut loose. Parties pop up well before and after the actual date of October 31 (aka next Thursday).

This is my long-winded way of saying that, though I’d love to knock out all Halloween-related music events in one column, I’m going to split them between this week and next.

First of all, the Witches Brew Bash, one of the bigger Halloween parties in the area, isn’t happening this year.

A brief note from Event Moguls, the presenter, on the Witches Brew Facebook page, explains that the event will return in 2020. In the past, the party has taken over the ECHO Leahy

Center for Lake Champlain, a pretty dope place to cut loose. There are, like, frogs and eels and other critters to look at while you get drunk. Hopefully Witches Brew will make it back to the lakeside aquarium next year.

While Nectar’s and Club Metronome don’t have any events specifically branded as Halloween-related, the venues offer a particularly packed weekend.

Events include several cutting-edge artists, namely alt-pop outfit MR TWIN SISTER (see the spotlight on page 68) on Thursday, October 24, and soul singersongwriter JOANNA TETERS on Friday, October 25, both at Club Metronome.

Later, KENNY VASOLI’s chilled-out electronic-pop project VACATIONER hits Nectar’s on Saturday, October 26. And if you want to dance, Metronome and Nectar’s have got you covered with backto-back tributes to DRAKE and J DILLA on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

Foam Brewers hosts one of the hottest parties of the week on Saturday.

The show, dubbed Cartooniverse, features the return of Burlington expat KALMIA TRAVER’s project KALBELLS. The Rubblebucket front person debuted her solo project in 2017, and fans, myself included, have been dying for new music

ever since. Traver confirms via email that, indeed, a new album is likely to appear in 2020 and that we may get to hear some of it at the show. (Traver did not respond to further questions by press time.) If you haven’t had a chance to hear her ethereal, off-kilter pop, now’s the time, my friends.

Also on the bill is the return of HAMMYDOWN, ABBIE MORIN’s pop-rock outfit. The former expat reclaims their local status, once again taking up residence in the Queen City. WILLOUGHBY MORSE (CAROLINE ROSE) adds drums and LIZ STAFFORD (the PYROS, PAPER CASTLES) holds down the low end on bass. And LA RIME spins eclectic, exotic deep cuts.

Cartooniverse is a mandated costume party, à la teenage trick-or-treating rules: No costume, no go. Ooh, and there’s a cash prize for best ensemble. Nowhere in the event’s branding does it say you need to dress up like a cartoon character.

But I’ve found animated shows and video games to be a particularly rich area for inspiration. And I’m not the only one. I think it was the Halloween of 2014 when I saw innumerable Ricks and Mortys running around.

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Chris Peterman Quartet (jazz) at Juniper, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Driftwood Soldier, Eric George (folk) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

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Familiar Faces with Matt Dolliver & Friends (jam) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

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Jim Charanko (Americana) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8 p.m. Free.

Juicebox, Cam Gilmore Sunburst Band (hip-hop) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free/$5. 18+.

Matthew Mercury (rock) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Double Trouble Scads of left-of-center pop bands and artists blossomed during the 2009-10 blog boom.

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MR TWIN SISTER,

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were known until their 2014 LP, a self-titled reawakening.

The name change didn’t indicate a shift in style, exactly; electronic textures, foggy synth-scapes and a general ’80s malaise were still part of the package. The new moniker, with its tongue-in-cheek ambiguity, signaled that the group wasn’t the product of a singular entity but of multiple voices

Mosaic featuring special guests and members of Kat Wright (jam) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

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Paul Asbell Trio (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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AliT (singer-songwriter) at Jerry’s Sports Tavern, Barre, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Southern Old Time Music Jam at Bagitos Bagel and Burrito Café, Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free.

Blackwolf (blues, roots) at Edson Hill Dining Room & Tavern, Stowe, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Traditional Pub Sing-Along at Radio Bean, Burlington, 3:30 p.m. Free.

Colin Nevins (Americana) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

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Danny & the Parts (country) at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 6 p.m.

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Family Night (open jam) at SideBar, Burlington, 9 p.m.

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The Flycatchers (alt-country) at Deli 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

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Maple Run (Americana) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Open Mic at SideBar, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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Irish Sessions See WED.23.

Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (open jam) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m.

Free.

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The Dirk Quinn Band (jazz, funk) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. $5.

1/2 Trash Duo (rock) at Gusto’s, Barre, 5 p.m. Free.

Ampevene (rock) 10 p.m. Free.

Matt the Gnat and the Gators (narrative noir) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Aqueous, Lespecial (jam) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $15/17.

Mojo Kings (rock, funk) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free.

B-Town (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Mr Twin Sister, Moon King (alt-pop) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 8 p.m. $13/15.

Blowtorch, Jessica Rabbit Syndrome, Greaseface (punk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Rodney Putnam (acoustic) at Blue Paddle Bistro, South Hero, 6:30 p.m.

Free.

Bob Cotton (singer-songwriter) at the Tap Room at Switchback Brewing Co., Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Running Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $20/23.

The Complaints (rock) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. $5.

Sarah King (singer-songwriter) at Hogback Mountain Brewing, Bristol, 6 p.m. Free.

Open Mic at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

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Berklee American Roots Night at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free.

Lindsay Mower (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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Khaos Jam (eclectic) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Jim Charanko (Americana) at Tap 25, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free.

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Open Mic with Austtin at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Irish Session at Bagitos Bagel and Burrito Café, Montpelier, 2 p.m. donation.

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Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 10:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Andy Lugo at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

SAT.26

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m.

Free.

Josh Panda & Discotick (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Irish Sessions (traditional) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Alex Budney at Localfolk Smokehouse, Waitsfield, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Seth Cronin and Dan Holtz (singersongwriter) at the Double E Lounge at Essex Experience, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Jake Whitesell Trio (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.23

Open Mic Night at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

R.D. King & Anthony Troy (acoustic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

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Dale and Darcy (Celtic, bluegrass) at the Old Foundry at One Federal Restaurant & Lounge, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Andy Lugo See WED.23.

Open Mic with Austtin See WED.23.

The Duel (rock) at 14th Star Brewing Co., St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

The Duo +1 (rock) at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free.

Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free.

Full Share (covers) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

The Gaslight Tinkers (global, folk) at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Free.

George Petit’s Groovy Trio (jazz) at Tap 25, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free.

Jake Whitesell (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Seafood, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Jeanne & Jim (folk) at Highland Lodge Restaurant, Greensboro, 6:30 p.m.

Free.

Joanna Teters, Vinegar Mother, Caleb Hawley (soul) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $8/10. 18+.

The Lizards: A Phish Tribute at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

Guano Loco (rock) at Sweet Melissa’s, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Lloyd Tyler Band (Americana) at Twiggs — An American Gastropub, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand at Sweet Melissa’s, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Luis Mojica, Mamalama (alternative) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7:30 p.m.

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On Thursday, a group of TOM PETTY super fans unite for Running Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty at the Higher Ground Ballroom. Led by KAT WRIGHT guitarist and MOSAIC bandleader BOB WAGNER, the posse of local players aims to simultaneously honor the late Petty, who died in October 2017, and raise money for the WaterWheel Foundation, PHISH’s multipurpose charity. Other band members include LOWELL THOMPSON, JOSH WEINSTEIN and SEAN PREECE, with special guests RYAN MILLER of GUSTER, RYAN MONTBLEAU and HAYLEY JANE of YES DARLING. Wagner and co. staged a similarly starstudded tribute to the “I Won’t Back Down” singer-songwriter just a few

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its annual Terror Ball on Saturday, as well. (Are you noticing a pattern here? Saturday is the night.) Before the evening descends into disco decadence courtesy of vinyl king DJ TAKA, a gaggle of drag queens commandeers the club for an event called A Very Scary Hairy HallowKween. (Nice pun!)

According to promo material, “Drag rules don’t apply here. Tucks will be untucked, wigs will roll and hairy legs will snatch poor unsuspecting souls too close to the stage.” That means forget everything you thought you knew about drag culture. Queens include MISS CZECHOSLOVAKIA, CHERRIÉ INSANITÉE, LADY DONNA RHEA, MECCA, MADAME MYSTIQUE, LUCI FURR-MATRIX and the group’s “latest outbreak,” as they say, H.P. VERA. (Again, nice puns!)

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FRI.25 CONTINUED FROM P.68 Matthew Denton (singer-songwriter) at Espresso Bueno, Barre, 7:30 p.m.

Free.

Matthew Mercury (rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

The Morning Giants (progressive rock) at SideBar, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Pale Lips, the High Breaks, DJ Disco Phantom (punk) at Monkey House, Winooski, 9 p.m. $5/10. 18+.

CONSIGNMENT FRIDAY NIGHT NOV. 1 • 6-8:30PM

Party of the Sun, Paper Castles (indie folk) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5.

Season Pass Rate $295

Raised By Hippies (rock, blues) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 9 p.m. Free.

Family of any size

Rebecca Padula (singer-songwriter) at the Double E Lounge at Essex Experience, Essex Junction, 7 p.m.

Free.

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The Red Newts (country) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9:30 p.m.

10/16/19 4:44 PM Free.

Rushmore (rock) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free.

Sarah King (singer-songwriter) at Otter Creek Brewing Co./the Shed Brewery, Middlebury, 5 p.m. Free.

Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Shane’s Apothecary (folk-rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m.

Free.

Thomas Gunn & Lilith’s Spook Night (singer-songwriter) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free.

associate with the self-described “drippy mascara-slopped rock” outfit include the Donnas, Le Tigre, the Go-Go’s, the Slits and other femme-led, kick-to-the-crotch power-pop bands. Beneath the rage and surface tension, the group’s songs are all about ooey-gooey, sick-to-your-stomach love. Catch Pale Lips on Friday, October 25, at the Monkey House in Winooski. Locals the

Wurliday (soul, funk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Toast (rock) at City Limits Night Club, Vergennes, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Wylie Shipman (singer-songwriter) at Stone Corral Brewery, Richmond, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Yestrogen (rock) at Positive Pie (Montpelier), 10 p.m. $5.

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The 86, No Son of Mine (metal) at Monkey House, Winooski, 9 p.m. $3/8.

18+.

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Chromatic (hip-hop) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. free/$5. 18+.

DJ A-RA$ (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

DJ Cre8 (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

FRI.25

DJ KermiTT (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Vinyl Night with Bryan Parmelee, Ryan Forde, Matt Rogers and DJ Disco Phantom (vinyl DJs) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7:30 p.m.

Free.

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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.

DJ Craig Mitchell (open format) at Ruben James, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

DJ Cre8 (open format) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Disco Phantom (open format) at Finnigan’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Craig Mitchell (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

DJ Cre8 (open format) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Scott Carlson (open format) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

DJ Stevie B (open format) at Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

Jack Bandit (hip-hop) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Rekkon (house) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Ron Stoppable (hip-hop) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Take Care: Drake Night with DJ Ianu at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10:30 p.m. Free.

HIGH BREAKS

Bankz (open format) at Waterworks Food + Drink, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

DJ ATAK (house) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

DJ Earl (hits) at City Limits Night Club, Vergennes, 9 p.m. Free.

DJ Kaos (hits) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9:30 p.m. $3.

DJ Raul (Latin) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free.

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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.28

Jack Bandit and Friends (EDM) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

Motown Mondays (Motown DJs) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m.

Free.

Donuts: A Night of J Dilla at Nectar’s, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

TUE.29

Halloween Party with Craig Mitchell (open format) at Babes Bar, Bethel, 7 p.m. $10.

OD3 and Friends (house, techno) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

Reign One (house) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

DJ

Blackwolf, MC Formless (blues, roots) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

AmerikanaBlue (blues, rock) at Twiggs — An American Gastropub, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

DJ Pilaf (hip-hop) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

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list only one band as influential on their

foursome plays similarly rambunctious pop punk. Other groups that listeners and audiences might

Tim Howard (rock, blues) at El Toro, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

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PALE LIPS

Facebook page: the Ramones. The solitary name-drop is mildly informative. The Montréal female

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Thunder Kittens (rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 5 p.m. Free.

VT Bluegrass Pioneers at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

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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.

WED.30

DJ Cre8 See WED.23.

DJ Ianu (open format) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

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REVIEW this boys cruise, Jerry (SLEEPYHEAD MUSIC GROUP, DIGITAL)

I confess to having only seen boys cruise once, at a Battle of the Bands contest earlier this year. That night, the young rock group duked it out with a few other local groups to nab a slot at this year’s Waking Windows festival. I was one of the judges who awarded them that prize. The quartet’s unconventional performance won me over. Sketch-like vignettes connected the songs in their frenzied set, including a moment when the band members switched clothes, briefly occupying the stage in their undies.

I don’t know whether what I witnessed that night was the norm for boys cruise.

But the agitation and urgency that drove those interstitial segments onstage, as well as the music itself, reappear throughout Jerry, the group’s debut LP — allegedly named for its deceased pet rat, BTW. The late rodent was the group’s fifth J name; the others are Johnny, Jack, Jake

Luminous Crush, Live From Lonely Highway Studio (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

From the decidedly untropical locale of Jamaica, Vt., come Luminous Crush, proud “purveyors of dream pop since 2015,” as they note on their Facebook page. On their second LP, however, they step away from the dream a little and break out the acoustic guitars for a pseudo-live album. The songs on Live From Lonely Highway Studio were performed in a single take with partners Ben Campbell and Laura Molinelli, as well as bassist Christian Heins.

Campbell has been a known commodity in the Green Mountains for years. He played the lead role of Orpheus in fellow Middlebury College chum Anaïs Mitchell’s original 2006 production of her 2019 Tony Award-winning folk opera Hadestown. And he’s released multitudes of records as Saint Albums, as well as under his own name and in various other configurations — most via his nowdormant label Lonely Hiway.

and Joey (Clarke, Parker, Scott and Rolo, respectively). Thrashing power chords and Clarke’s broken, agonized vocals convey the constant grind of finding your footing in unstable times.

“ALIEN DAWG,” the first proper song after the engine-revving intro “stuck in the house,” is a sweaty mess of riot-rock chanting and sexual chaos.

“Down on the couch with your boyfriend / But his lips look so / Nice and sweet and pale and soft / I want them on mine / I want them on yours / I wanna watch like a fucking perv,” Clarke and co. yell. It sets the album off on precarious footing.

(Also, does it reference the Addison County rock band Aliendog?)

Boys cruise’s varied influences — classic and second-wave pop-punk, surf-rock, and doo-wop — provide good fodder across the album’s 13 tracks.

These touchstones occasionally manifest literally, such as the opening riff from “American Breakfast,” which reimagines the classic guitar hook from Blink-182’s

“Dammit.” Mostly, boys cruise are more subtle than that. The late ’50s prom-night pastiche of “Don’t You Cry (in Front of Me)” conjures the era rather than any one particular golden oldie — and distances itself further when the track nearly combusts at its midpoint.

“A Stupid Song for Stupid Me,” a sincere, bleeding-heart centerpiece, is about as raw as Jerry gets. Clarke, scraping the rafters of his vocal ceiling, sings of smashing his guitar to save himself from “one more stupid song and broken heart,” while his bandmates create a jagged din that swallows him up at the song’s bitter end. It’s somehow soft and hard, highlighting the back-and-forth thinking we often encounter when we’re at our lowest.

Boys cruise aren’t the only local band reimagining various eras of punkdom. But their madcap creativity and uninhibited spirit mark them as one of the freshest and most noteworthy voices to emerge in 2019.

Jerry is available at boyscruise. bandcamp.com. Boys cruise perform on Tuesday, October 29, at Radio Bean in Burlington.

Campbell and Molinelli, a musical force in New England in her own right, joined forces for the first Luminous Crush LP in 2016, Lumina. The duo crafted a lush, warm sound full of synthesizers and subtle, skittering beats — and, most importantly, a collection of clever songs.

Whether going acoustic and live is a bold move in the Vermont music scene is debatable. While ditching a sound from a well-received debut might seem a bit risky, embracing folk isn’t going to set off any alarms, either.

Perhaps Luminous Crush anticipated this. The album may be live, but the postproduction sheen of reverb coats what is a thoroughly engrossing record. And as pristine as the guitars sound, Campbell and Molinelli’s voices are what lend Live From Lonely Highway Studio such gravitas.

The pair trades leads and forms harmonies around each other like two birds in synchronized flight. “Friends so bright and shiny / They always welcome me so kindly / Even though they know that I’ll go away / Singing, you’ll always have a place to stay,” the two coo on “Come Along.”

The band couldn’t have made a more

perfect soundtrack for the arrival of autumn. Something about the record evokes an early morning field, fog obscuring the foliage before the sun shows up to burn it away. “Everywhere,” a song of longing for love amid the chaos of life, has a gentle, almost-but-not-quite melancholy tone perfect for drinking morning coffee, staring at the woods or watching your breath frost.

As strong as Live From Lonely Highway Studio is, it’s hard not to miss the band’s earlier, more experimental sounds. For those who loved Lumina, there might be a desire for warm synths, the odd beat drop and vocals pulled at the seams.

Luminous Crush is too dreamy a name to abandon dream pop, for one. (Seriously, what a perfect band name.) Campbell and Molinelli are too good at making it, for another.

None of that changes what a good listen this record is, though. So, while the leaves change colors all around and the air grows crisp, enjoy the rustic beauty these two songwriters have presented. For if Luminous Crush have shown us anything with their first two records, it’s that they don’t repeat themselves.

Live From Lonely Highway Studio is available at luminouscrush.bandcamp.com.

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Caitlin Peluffo & Steven Rogers (standup) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

Open Mic at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

THU.24

Joe List, Sarah Tollemache (standup) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15.

The Mainstage Show (improv) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

FRI.25

Joe List, Sarah Tollemache (standup) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $20/27.

Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour (standup) at Espresso Bueno, Barre, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Unreliable Narrator with Colin Ryan (storytelling) at Revelry Theater, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5.

Weird & Niche: A Comedy Showcase (variety) at Revelry Theater, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $7/8.

CLUB DATES

live music SAT.26 CONTINUED FROM P.70 Blue Dream (blues-rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free.

Bob Gagnon Quartet (jazz) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free.

Child’s Play

When translated from Tagalog to English, the title of JAY SOM’s latest album, Anak Ko, means “my child.” The 24-year-old San Francisco Bay Area native — real name Melina Duterte — comes from the DIY school of thought, having self-recorded and produced the two

Bombay (covers) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. $5.

albums that preceded her 2019 release.

Bow Thayer and Greg Ryan (folk) at the Skinny Pancake, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free.

Without altering her introspective, fractured indie-rock sound, the artist teamed up with

Cartooniverse featuring Kalbells, Hammydown, La Rime (indie) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15.

a few noteworthy collaborators on the new

Crop Duster (rock) at Tap 25, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free.

Day of the Dead Sessions (Grateful Dead tribute) at Tres Amigos & Rusty Nail Stage, Stowe, 9 p.m. $10/15.

DJ Vox (electro-swing, hip-hop) at Radio Bean, Burlington, noon. Free.

The Fabulous Wrecks (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Gary Wade (singer-songwriter) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Glass Onion Halloween Ball (rock) at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9:30 p.m. Free.

Half Pint, the Yellow Wall Dub Squad, DJs Big Dog and Jahson (reggae) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 9 p.m. $22/25.

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record, including Laetitia Tamko of Vagabon and Chastity Belt’s Annie Truscott. In a way, Duterte relinquishes some control here — just as parents do as their children grow up.

Check out Jay Som on Sunday, October 27, at ArtsRiot in Burlington.

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Iya Terra, the Ries Brothers, For Peace Band (reggae) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $12/15.

Jason Baker (singer-songwriter) at Gusto’s, Barre, 6 p.m. Free.

Jeff Wheel (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Seafood, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Jim Charanko (Americana) at El Toro, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards (folk, rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Maple Street Six (jazz) at Deli 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Mary Go Round (folk) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Patient 0, the Last King, Mudfuck (metal) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Titus Andronicus, Mal Blum (rock) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $15.

Southtown Bluegrass at Stone Corral Brewery, Richmond, 8 p.m.

Free.

Vacationer, Loupo (electro-pop) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

Sticks & Stones (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m.

Free.

Butterfly (storytelling, improv) at Revelry Theater, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10/14.

Joe List, Sarah Tollemache See FRI.25.

Nick Offerman (standup) at Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7 & 10 p.m. $42-66.

Sex w/Jenna (improv) at Revelry Theater, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $10.

A Very Scary Hairy HallowKween (drag) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10.

SUN.27

Cup of Comedy: A Standup Showcase at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah (variety) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

MON.28

Comedy & Crepes featuring Gloria Rose (standup) at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.29

Laugh Shack with Brian Bahe (standup) at Lincolns, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

WED.30

Indie Rumble (improv) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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SD: Did you happen to see a recent viral video, starring you, called “Full House of Mustaches”?

NO: That did come across my field of vision.

SD: What was your reaction?

NO: Just astonishment. Anytime something crops up wherein someone is making people laugh with the face God gave me, I have a good chuckle. But that one was particularly fascinating.

Through no fault of my own, to have fallen into this niche of meme creation — that’s something that didn’t exist when I was going to theater school. So I couldn’t have prepared for it by any stretch. So to watch it occur through no efforts on my part is pretty funny and wonderful.

On one hand, it feels lucky to be a muse to people’s entertainment. I also find that it’s a clear display of how terrifying that Deepfake technology is. So, with that in mind, I’m deeply grateful that it’s a source of mirth and not something more prurient. Like, I’m glad they kept my shirt on.

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SD: I get what you mean about becoming a meme. I once saw your face stenciled on a San Francisco sidewalk with no context.

NO: It’s an interesting thing. It wasn’t that long ago that if you wanted to make a T-shirt or a coffee cup with someone’s image, you had to get a hold of them and get permission. The internet has sort of obliterated that sense of ownership of one’s image.

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SD: What can you say about your role in the upcoming series “Devs”?

NO: Well, I’m terribly excited about it. As a theater actor who became known mainly for this one comedy role on “Parks and Recreation,” it’s thrilling to participate in a gorgeous sci-fi thriller from Alex Garland. Once “Parks and Recreation” was over, I said to my agents, “I’m hoping I can find some kind of minor Bryan

Vermont Symphony Orchestra featuring Kat Wright (soul, classical) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15-28.

Cranston turf,” referring to how he went from many seasons of “Malcolm in the Middle” as a beloved, hilarious sitcom dad. And suddenly he’s Walter White, destroying the world with his dramatic chops on “Breaking Bad.” Now, I’m no Cranston. I’m perhaps more of a Buddy Hackett or Ernest Borgnine. I hope that’s not too self-flattering.

To work with this incredible cast and Alex and his crew — he’s a beautiful artist. He’s got the brain of a novelist, and he shoots scenes of Kubrickian beauty. Everything is so velvety and gorgeous.

Based on his last couple of films, Ex Machina and Annihilation, I’m pretty confident this is going to be a really solid, exciting and innovative eight hours of television. But I’ve long since learned to inure myself emotionally until we see what the audience has to say. But it’s a ripping good time and I’m incredibly grateful that I caught his gaze. m This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

Contact: jordan@sevendaysvt.com

INFO Nick Offerman, Saturday, October 26, 7 and 10 p.m., Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $42-66. flynntix.org

Wylie Shipman (singer-songwriter) at the Old Foundry at One Federal Restaurant & Lounge, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Zack DuPont and Matt Deluca (folk) at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

SUN.27

Blue Dream (rock, reggae) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m.

Free.

Duncan & Stokes (folk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, noon. Free.

Fright Club Vamp Shop featuring Princess Nostalgia and Radu (R&B) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Gabriel Birnbaum (Americana) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Goodbye Honolulu, Trackstar, Superbody (rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7:30 p.m. $3/8.

18+.

Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk) at Monkey House, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free.

Queen City Hot Club (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Greasy Grass (psych-pop) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Troy Millette (singer-songwriter) at 14th Star Brewing Co., St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

John Lackard Blues Band at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. free.

Ukulele Kids with Joe Beaird at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free.

No Walls & Steve Goldberg (jazz, spoken word) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Wylie Shipman (singersongwriter) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8 p.m. Free.

Seth Yacovone at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

Zurich Cloud Motors, Pons, Fraida Felcher, boys cruise (post-punk) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $5-10.

TUE.29

Advance Music Acoustic SingerSongwriter Contest at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

The Bad Plus (jazz) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. $40.

The Bumbling Woohas (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

WED.30

Alone I Walk, the Second After (punk) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10.

Birdcode (jazz) at Juniper, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Jay Som, Gia Margaret, Boy Scouts (indie) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. $13.

Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5/8. 18+.

Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Greaseface (rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. free/$5. 18+.

JC Sutton & Sons (bluegrass) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 1 p.m.

Free.

Ellen Adams (Americana) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

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Lil Tjay (hip-hop) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $40-125.

Honky-Tonk Tuesdays with Pony Hustle at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Matt Francis and Co. (singersongwriter) at Red Square, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free.

JD Tolstoi (singer-songwriter) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Old Sky (Americana) at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, noon. Free.

Justin LaPoint (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

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Art Herttua and Ray Caroll (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

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WED.23

The Dish: Trivia (culinary trivia) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $5.

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.

Lowell Thompson and Friends (roots-rock) at Hatch 31, Bristol, 7 p.m. Free.

Matthew Mercury (rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 9 p.m.

Free.

Karaoke with Dave Williams at Babes Bar, Bethel, 7 p.m. free.

SAT.26

Karaoke at JP’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Trivia Night at City Sports Grille, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

SUN.27

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.

Wizardfest (Harry Potterness) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $15-30.

Karaoke with Samantha Dickey at Ruben James, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

MON.28

‘The Addams Family’ (film screening) at Babes Bar, Bethel, 7 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with Rob Jones at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

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Tufa and the Pride (album release), Josh West and Friends (jam) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

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Trivia Night at Parker Pie Co., West Glover, 7 p.m. Free.

Karaoke at JP’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Mike Martin and Geoff Kim (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Karaoke at JP’s Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with Mike Lambert at Park Place Tavern, Essex Junction, 9:30 p.m. Free.

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Karaoke with Dave Bourgea at Burlington St. John’s Club, 8:30 p.m. Free.

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Josh Dobbs presents: The Last Question (storytelling) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock at Monopole Downstairs, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5 p.m. Free.

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WED.30

Cinema Casualties presents ‘Night of the Demons’ and ‘Butcher M.D.’ (film screening) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m.

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“Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul,” Fleming Museum of Art B Y AMY LI LLY

PHOTOS COURTESY OF FLEMING MUSEUM OF ART/LIGHT WORK

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he title of the Fleming Museum of Art’s major exhibition this semester, “Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections From the Light Work Collection,” seems to promise a stable, uplifting and unified message. Yet what lingers after viewing these 47 photographers’ works is how fraught with ambiguity they are, and how they complicate and expose the triangulation of photographer, subject and viewer.

This seems an invaluable takeaway at a moment when the photograph-as-documentation saturates visual culture.

The photos belong to Light Work, a nonprofit founded in 1973 and located on the campus of Syracuse University that supports photographers with a lab, residencies and exhibitions. Eric Gottesman and Hank Willis Thomas, the artist-founders of For Freedoms, curated the exhibition, choosing the images and title. Their nonprofit outdoor-art project, developed in 2016, partners with organizations across the country to facilitate civic engagement through art.

“Be Strong” showed at Light Work last year and was not intended to travel. Until, that is, Fleming curator Andrea Rosen decided it would be a perfect complement to the concurrent student-curated photography exhibit, “Resist! Insist!

Persist!”, which draws work primarily from the museum’s collection. For “Be Strong,” Rosen and her intern, Mo Quigg, wrote labels, which the original show did not include.

Their introductory wall text for “Be Strong” points out that the photographers intend “to express their humanity and that of their subjects [and] to subtly comment on the social, economic, and historical forces that oppress us all, but especially women, queer people, and people of color.”

The exhibition’s powerful opening image, “Jordan Raising His Hand (Encounter),” by John Edmonds, captures an action the photographer asked his subject to perform. (It’s surprising how many of the works in the show are staged shots.) The subject, a young African

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“Jordan Raising His Hand (Encounter)” by John Edmonds

American man — like Edmonds himself, who gave a talk at the Fleming in early October — holds a bag in one hand and gazes straight down, head bent, while raising his other hand high. The gesture could signal surrender in an attempt to avoid harm, or solidarity with others, or silent protest. The ambiguity forces

the viewer to contemplate how he or she “reads” young black men.

Carrie Mae Weems’ “Portrait of a Fallen Woman” presents a stereotype in order to complicate it. The photo is a staged vignette depicting Weems in the title role, sitting on a bed and glaring sullenly at the viewer, toward whom she defiantly

spreads her legs. Centered between her feet, on the photo itself, a typed message identifies the woman as fallen “into the hands of evil.” The image evokes the history of African American female slaves’ forced sexual service and the even longer history of patriarchy’s enforcement of the angel-whore dichotomy.

Is the subject unapologetically asserting her sexuality to reject those histories or to embrace and defiantly illustrate them? The burden of interpretation is again placed on viewers, who might find their vantage spot uncomfortable.

In “Cloud,” Tommy Kha, a queer Chinese American photographer from Tennessee, caricatures the ways in which American visual culture has typically represented his community: as invisible or, if pictured, as asexual. A self-portrait solely of his expressionless face, the image wraps the rest of Kha in white bedding, which fills the frame. The photo suggests that even in the most private of spaces — their beds — queer Chinese Americans are invisible. Kha welcomes conflicting responses, according to an interview in Aperture, including the accusation that he is perpetuating stereotypes.

Among the most confrontational works is Amy Stein’s “Peri, Route 64, Outside Lexington, Kentucky.” The photo shows a girl of about 10 with her arms crossed inside her pink, short-sleeve shirt, standing beside a highway a few feet from the open door of a pulled-over vehicle. With her matching pink pants and hair carefully pulled back with a pink flower clip, she appears on her way to a special event. While she stares down the viewer with an accusatory glare, her hidden arms and apparent chill communicate vulnerability.

The work looks staged but is actually part of Stein’s “Stranded” series, for which she traveled the country recording scenes of roadside car breakdowns.

The photographer’s intention is to draw parallels between the American dream (the car) and its failure; she sees the government’s inability to help its citizens — especially following Hurricane Katrina — mirrored in individuals’ reluctance to stop and help people who are clearly in trouble.

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“Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul” by Charles Biasiny-Rivera

"Cloud" by Tommy Kha

“Portrait of a Fallen Woman” by Carrie Mae Weems

WHAT LINGERS AFTER VIEWING THESE 47 PHOTOGRAPHERS’ WORKS IS

HOW FRAUGHT WITH AMBIGUITY THEY ARE.

One wonders if Stein herself helped all the stranded people she stopped to photograph. But the work, like the girl’s gaze, is aimed at viewers, who are forced to consider whether or not they would respond with generosity.

The curators derived the exhibition’s title from a photo by Charles BiasinyRivera that captures an unstaged moment on a city sidewalk. In it, an older man leans over a child wearing a Batman-like mask and cape, perhaps to adjust the latter. Over the man’s right shoulder, we see two strolling figures whose faces have been carved out, leaving small black holes.

Biasiny-Rivera used hand-applied color to create a frame around the image and encircle the child’s masked face with a halo of yellow rays, creating a Latin American saint’s holy card out of an insignificant urban moment. A handwritten message below the photo reads, “Be strong and do not betray your soul. Carry your light to illuminate your

destiny. Rejoice, for you are part of the mystery.”

In a Light Work video, the curators say the text is “an exhortation to artists to stay true, to think expansively, and to imagine … that they are truly shaping the world around them.” Meanwhile, it’s hard not to wonder about those missing faces: Are the cutouts meant to protect the individuals’ identities? Does the artist think they don’t qualify to be included in a holy card?

The only sure thing is that the world these artists have shaped, like the real world, is complex. m Contact: lilly@sevendaysvt.com

INFO “Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection,” through December 13 at the Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington. uvm.edu/fleming SEVEN DAYS OCTOBER 23-30, 2019

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f ELIJAY HAMILTON-WRAY: Oil paintings by the MFA student in studio arts. Reception: Thursday, October 31, 3-5 p.m. October 28-November 8. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University in Johnson.

ART EVENTS ‘ART SEED’: Open house with resident artists including performance, open studios and readings.

Performances in the barn, open studios to follow.

Marble House Project, Dorset, Saturday, October 26, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, info@marblehouseproject.org.

ARTIST TALK: GIULIANO CECCHINELLI: The award-winning, Italian-born sculptor discusses his background, art-making experiences and his sculptures on display in the “Rock Solid XIX” show.

Studio Place Arts, Barre, Friday, October 25, 3:304:30 p.m. Free. Info, 479-7069.

ENDANGERED ALPHABETS PROJECT OPEN HOUSE: Project founder Tim Brookes offers a tour of carvings on display and talks about the stories behind the endangered scripts, the carving process and the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets. Finger food provided. More info at endangeredalphabets.com.

Tim Brookes, Burlington, Sunday, October 27, 2-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 310-5429.

FAMILY ART SATURDAY: Families can make artwork inspired by current exhibitions. Each Saturday offers a different art-making project. Burlington City Arts, Saturday, October 26, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

‘KUSAMA: INFINITY’: The Architecture + Design Film Series presents a feature documentary about worldrenowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, Wednesday, October 23, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, ADfilmseries@gmail.com.

‘LADY OF THE HILLS’ OPENING RECEPTION: In 1938, Sergeant-at-Arms Dwight Dwinell carved a statue of the Roman goddess of agriculture to adorn the dome of the Vermont Statehouse. For 80 years the statue, now known as “Ceres II,” stood watch over the capitol before being replaced in 2018. Her head is now the centerpiece of a new exhibit featuring remnants of Larkin Mead’s original 1859 statue, carving tools and period photography. The body of the statue will join the exhibit once its conservation and stabilization are complete. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, Friday, October 25, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8500.

‘THE RETAIL MODEL: GALLERIST, ARTIST & COLLECTOR’: A presentation in the Jump/Start Business of Art series. Generator, Burlington, Wednesday, October 23, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0761.

SABRA FIELD: The state’s most notable printmaker, who celebrates 50 years of art making this year, closes an exhibition of landscapes in Vermont and beyond with a reception. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery, Burlington, Friday, October 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-6458.

SPOOKY NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: an evening of pre-Halloween entertainment in conjunction with current exhibit “Conjuring the Dead: Spirit Art in the Age of Radical Reform.” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Wednesday, October 30, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2117.

TALK: ARUNA D’SOUZA: The renowned art critic and art historian speaks on the importance of representation in museums and how those facilities perform as arbiters of cultural change. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Tuesday, October 29, 6 p.m. Info, 656-0750.

TALK: ‘THE DEVIL’S CABINET: THE EDDY FAMILY OF SPIRIT MEDIUMS’: Jason Smiley gives a presentation about the mid-1800s Chittenden family that became renowned mediums, in conjunction with a current exhibit. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Thursday, October 24, 7 p.m. Info, 388-2117.

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VERMONT ARTS AWARDS 2019: The Vermont Arts Council presents annual awards honoring François Clemmons, Castle Freeman, Joan Robinson, James Lockridge and Douglas Anderson. RSVP at secure. acceptiva.com/?cst=UdZarh. Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, Wednesday, October 23, 5:30-9 p.m. Info, 828-5422.

ONGOING SHOWS burlington

AARON STEIN: “Off the Map,” work created using old license plates and found objects by the local artist.

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. Through December 13. Info, 656-0750.

‘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. Free with museum admission. Info, 656-0750.

Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont in Burlington.

‘DARK MATTER’: The 11th annual “dark arts” group exhibition in multiple mediums, curated by gallery director Christy Mitchell. Through November 2. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

VISUAL ART IN SEVEN DAYS:

‘Mountain Air’

Vermont artists Arista Alanis, Mary Brevda, Rory

Jackson, Joseph Salerno and Homer Wells are featured in this show at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, curated by Kelly Holt. Their works respond to the physicality of mountainous landscapes, from Vermont to Patagonia, in a variety of mediums. “Mountain air has a sensory effect like none other; it is home,” Jackson writes in an artist statement.

“It is the clean breath that sweeps through the lungs of the hillside.” A reception is Friday, October 25, 5 to 6:30 p.m., in conjunction with the Stowe Mountain Film Festival. Through November 22. Pictured: “Ridgeline,” by Salerno.

DAVID HOLUB: Digital illustrations that combine words, images, whimsy, heartbreak and humor.

Through November 30. Info, 862-9647. The Daily Planet in Burlington.

‘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. Through October 31. Free.

Info, 865-8980. Champlain College Art Gallery 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.

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.

ART LISTINGS AND SPOTLIGHTS ARE WRITTEN BY PAMELA POLSTON. LISTINGS ARE RESTRICTED TO ART SHOWS IN TRULY PUBLIC PLACES.

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.

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.

f ‘TRANSCENDENT: SPIRITUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY ART’: A group exhibition of nationally recognized artists who explore or evoke themes of spirituality through their work, reflecting on questions of human nature, cultural identity and sanctity in everyday life. Artists include Anila Quayyam Agha, Leonardo Benzant, Maïmouna Guerresi, Shahzia Sikander, Zarina, and Vermont-based artists Sandy Sokoloff and Shelley Warren. f ‘TRAVIS SHILLING: TYRANNOSAURUS CLAN’: The Canadian-Ojibwe painter debuts a new series of work that explores the environmental impact of industry

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ART SHOWS

and the threat of extinction to the animal realm and indigenous culture. Reception: Friday, October 25, 5-7 p.m. Through February 8, 2020. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center 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 diNiord, 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, 2020. Free with museum admission. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

JUDITH LERNER: Vividly colored landscape paintings by the Vermont artist. Through December 20. Info, 660-8808. Dorset Street Dermatology in South Burlington.

f MAXINE DAVIS: Fused-glass panels by the local artist. Demonstration: Saturday, October 26, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Through October 31. Info, 985-5124.

Pierson Library in Shelburne.

MAXINE DAVIS: Fused glass art by the local artist.

Through October 31. Info, 985-5124. Shelburne Town Hall.

‘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.

SAM MACY: “Natural Color,” Vermont scenes assembled in hand-cut native and exotic wood forms using natural, untouched and unstained wood.

Through November 24. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne.

TOM WATERS: “Forest, Field & Stream,” landscape paintings in oil. Through November 24. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

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‘200 YEARS—200 OBJECTS’: In the final celebratory year of the university’s bicentennial, the museum exhibits a curated selection of artifacts, documents and images from the school’s collections. Through December 21. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University in Northfield.

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.

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.

CALL TO ARTISTS

up to five images, $6 each additional image. Info, photos@ photoplacegallery.com.

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 plan for spring projects. Various Burlington & Winooski locations. Through October 31. Info, artssowonderful2@gmail.com.

12TH ANNUAL LEGO CONTEST & EXHIBIT: Creators of all ages are invited to design and build original LEGO sculptures and display them at the museum November 7-11. Prizes based on creativity and craftsmanship in six age groups: preschool, grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, adult, and adult/child collaborations.

Entry forms and more info at brattleboromuseum.org or 257-0124, ext. 101. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Through November 5. $5 per entry. Info, 257-0124.

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, 2020. Deadline: November 15.

For details, visit studioplacearts. com. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069.

2019 MEMBERS’ ART SHOW CALL TO ARTISTS: For one month, the gallery hosts a nonjuried community exhibition featuring works by members, opening November 26.

Submissions accepted between October 19 and November 2 only. More info at website or mail@helenday.com. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Free. Info, 253-8358.

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. More info at Melmelts@yahoo.com. Green Mountain Books and Prints, Lyndonville. Through November 8. Free. Info, 229-8317.

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, 2020, at the MAC Center for the Arts in downtown Newport. More info at vacd.org/conservationdistricts/orleans-county or emily.irwin@vt.nacdnet. net. Memphremagog Arts Collaborative, Newport.

Through December 31. Free.

Info, 624-7022.

‘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. More info on website. Deadline: November 11. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury. $39 for

‘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

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.

MEMBERS’ ART SHOW: All members are welcome to submit one or two pieces of work to this nonjuried show, which will open November 26.

Send high-resolution images of work to gallery@helenday. com, or call 253-8358 with any questions. Deadline: November 2. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe.

Info, 253-8358.

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 Coop to qualify. Winning images will be in an exhibit; prizes given. Visit RiverArtsVT.org for full submission guidelines, and submit images to info@ RiverArtsVT.org. River Arts, Morrisville. Free.

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.

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.

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JANIE COHEN: “Rogue Cloth Work,” hand-stitched pieces of old cloth combined and transformed into new textile assemblages with new contexts. 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, 2020. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

PATRICIA LEAHEY MERIAM: Oil paintings of landscapes, animals, still lifes and more by the local artist. Proceeds of sales benefit the BOH capital campaign. Through November 5. Info, 793-5964.

Barre Opera House.

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 homefront. 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. 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.

HEARTBEET LIFESHARING FIBER ARTS: Collaborative works of fiber artists and the therapeutic woodworking studio at the lifesharing 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.

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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.

‘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.

f STEPHANIE SEGUINO: “Radical Empathy,” photographs that explore racial issues by the UVM professor of economics. Reception and artist talk: Wednesday, October 23, 3 p.m. Through October 25. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University in Johnson.

‘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. 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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‘BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL’: Juried paintings by members of the Vermont Watercolor Society illustrate diverse styles and techniques. Through December 21. Free. Info, 496-6682. Vermont Festival of the Arts Gallery 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.

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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.

‘CEMETERIES OF ADDISON COUNTY’: Photography

by Kathryn Wyatt that portrays the quiet beauty of local cemeteries through an artistic lens. Through November 30. Info, 349-0991. Lincoln Library.

‘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, 2020. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History 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, 2020. 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,

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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.

KATHRYN WYATT: “The Cemeteries of Addison County,” photography that portrays the quiet beauty of local cemeteries through an artistic lens. Through October 31. Info, 458-2603. Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury.

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. PETER K.K. WILLIAMS: Oil paintings including landscapes inspired by Vermont, Lake Champlain and the rainforest of Costa Rica, as well as recreations based upon Paleolithic cave paintings from France.

Through November 10. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.

T.J. CUNNINGHAM & HELEN SHULMAN: “Ingress,” realist and abstracted landscape paintings, respectively. Through October 31. Info, 989-7419.

Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

‘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.

Patricia Leahey Meriam “I want people to share my passion

and respect for the outdoor world,” Meriam writes, explaining her reason for painting.

“I go out into nature and look for miracles to paint.” Indeed, her 39 works currently on

display at the Barre Opera House consist of realistic landscapes, still lifes, and images of farm and wild animals and birds. The Barre-based artist is also passionate about her hometown opera house: A percentage of sales of her paintings will benefit the historic venue’s current capital campaign. Through November 5. Pictured: “Oak Leaves.”

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‘ART OF FIRE’: An all-media exhibit by members.

Through November 5. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

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, race track workers, and luminous images of horses, oxen and goats. Through January 4, 2020. Info, 579-9501.

Castleton University Bank Gallery in Rutland.

‘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.

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 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

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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, 2020. Free with museum admission. Info, 359-5000. 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.

KAREN HENDERSON: “Contemplate,” landscapeinspired textiles and mixed-media artworks.

Through November 22. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

‘THE PIVOT AND THE BLADE: AN INTIMATE GLANCE AT SCISSORS’: A collection of objects that convey the long human relationship to scissors, their design and explore myriad professional, creative, superstitious, violent and domestic uses. Through December 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

‘WINDOWS FROM THE OLD BARN’: Framed paintings of farm and wild animals on barn windows.

Through December 3. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West 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, 2020. Info, 258-3992. The Great Hall in Springfield.

DOUG TRUMP: “By Rail,” 12 oil and mixed-media works on repurposed wood. Through February 9, 2020. 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, 2020. 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, 2020. 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, 2020. 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, 2020. 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. Through December 1. $10. 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.

‘AUTUMN ANGLES’: The juried exhibition features works by SVAC artist members. ANDO HIROSHIGE: Woodblock prints by the Japanese master (1797-1858), curated by Steven Schlussel. Through November 17. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

‘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.

ASA CHEFFETZ: VERMONT WOOD ENGRAVINGS: Works by the late printmaker (1896-1965). Through December 30. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

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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 in Tunbridge Village.

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.

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. Through February 29, 2020.

Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

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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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EVELYN R. SWETT: “Compost Compositions,” paintings that muse on waste and transformation.

MARTHA STEIN: “A 40 Year Retrospective,” works in fiber sculpture. SHARI WOLF BORAZ + MARY GERAKARIS: “Borders of Consciousness, Dreaming in Color,” artworks in embroidery, and paintings on aluminum, respectively. Through November 16.

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teven Soderbergh has made some of the most seminal, innovative and masterful films of the past 30 years.

This isn’t one of them. Rarely in that time has the artist who gave us Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), Erin Brockovich (2000) and Contagion (2011) given us as lightweight and pandering a creation.

The Laundromat is the filmmaker’s latest collaboration with screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, with whom he also made 2009’s The Informant!. At first glance, the new work comes off as a companion piece. Both are based on real-life financial scandals, both are about greed and deception, and both involve a whistleblower. On closer examination, however, a troubling distinction emerges. Both Soderbergh and Burns give the impression that the person with whom they wish they were really collaborating was Adam McKay. This is a movie that desperately wants to be The Big Short, McKay’s rollicking breakdown of the 2008 economic collapse. Its subject is the collapse of a different economic system: the shadow labyrinth of offshore shell companies used by the rich and powerful to hide wealth and avoid taxes.

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At least, the labyrinth created by one company. Based on Jake Bernstein’s book Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite, The Laundromat uses the Panama papers as a springboard for a meandering diatribe against the evils of fiscal funny business. A better title might’ve been Duh. The 2016 data dump, the largest ever at the time, consisted of more than 11 million leaked documents. Suddenly unsealed were the names of the world leaders, powerful business figures, politicians and celebrities behind 200,000plus offshore entities. Many disappeared from public life. Charges were brought against others. All were clients of a single shady Panamabased legal firm named Mossack Fonseca.

Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas host the proceedings in the roles of Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca, respectively. The two wear fancy suits and address the camera à la Ryan Gosling’s Big Short character, Jared Vennett. Among the significant differences from that film: Where Vennett translated byzantine financial practices into language a layman could understand, Soderbergh’s smarmy masters of ceremonies offer protracted pontifications on matters that the average viewer is either capable of grasping without assistance (shell companies aren’t

PARTNERS IN CRIME Oldman and Banderas play owners of a law firm that helps the wealthy avoid shelling out for taxes.

rocket science) or doesn’t need to grasp to get the movie’s point.

The opening, for example, is devoted to the origin story of legal tender. One hardly needs to know why money was invented to appreciate how the wealthy of the world have bent the system to their advantage. The rest of the movie is equally gratuitous and scattershot, composed of vignettes concerning everything from an African expatriate having an affair with his daughter’s best friend to a Chinese woman who murders a Brit banker pressuring her to invest in one of his scams.

The cast is an embarrassment of riches, with the likes of Sharon Stone, David Schwimmer, Chris Parnell, Will Forte and James

Zombieland: Double Tap ★★

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nce upon a time, being undead meant something. Horror pioneer George Romero used zombies as metaphors for brainless consumers or oppressed minorities, depending on his mood. In the long-running TV show “The Walking Dead,” the shambling menaces are a pretext for exploring man’s inhumanity to man. Two recent literary novels, Colson Whitehead’s Zone One and Ling Ma’s Severance, use variations on the zombie-plague motif to make pointed statements about postmodern humanity.

Then there’s Zombieland (2009), in which zombies don’t mean anything; they exist solely to facilitate a combination of bloody action and postapocalyptic snark. Ruben Fleischer’s film wasn’t the first zombie comedy, or the best one (I’d nominate Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead), but it was good fun and did decent box office. And two of its young stars, Emma Stone and Jesse Eisenberg, turned out to be rising.

So it’s not a huge surprise that Fleischer has made a belated sequel, Zombieland: Double Tap. What’s more of a surprise is that this time the comedy is mostly DOA. As before, Eisenberg narrates the movie in nervous, breathy Woody Allen-ish fashion, playing the unlikely survivor Columbus.

In Zombieland, he formed a makeshift family with the gonzo redneck Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) and the resourceful sisters Wichita (Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin).

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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE BLOODY Eisenberg, Harrelson, Breslin and Stone reprise their roles as zombie hunters in the horror-comedy sequel.

In Double Tap, the four have found a luxurious home in the abandoned White House, where the electricity never runs out. (The blatant disregard of realism is acknowledged in a wink-wink line to the audience.) But all isn’t well in paradise: Wichita isn’t ready for Columbus to put a ring (the Hope diamond!) on her finger.

The sisters light out in search of independence.

Columbus consoles himself with Madison (Zoey Deutch), a ditzy blonde who’s

been living in a mall freezer. But he regrets his indiscretion when Wichita returns lamenting that Little Rock has absconded with a pacifist hippie (Avan Jogia). The search for her takes everyone on a road trip that feels more like a series of disconnected episodes than a plot.

There’s some fun along the way — for instance, when Columbus and Tallahassee encounter their doppelgängers (Luke Evans and

Cromwell making blink-and-you’ll-miss-them appearances. That only underscores the production’s random, rambling vibe.

Most unconscionably squandered is Meryl Streep, who plays multiple parts. The first is a widow whose efforts to collect an insurance settlement are stymied by Mossack Fonseca shenanigans. The second is an even more egregious waste of talent and a schlocky narrative cheat.

On the one hand, Soderbergh’s latest rages against all the right machines. On the other, his approach here is off-puttingly glib, self-satisfied and not rollicking. As a result, artistically, The Laundromat proves pretty much a wash.

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Thomas Middleditch) and engage the other odd couple in fast and furious one-upmanship.

For the most part, though, the three screenwriters lean on tired and obvious sources of humor. Deutch does her damnedest to make her role funny, but only rarely does this airhead get to transcend a stereotype. In her best scene, Madison concocts the idea of Uber on a free-associational ramble; her smarter companions shoot it down as absurd.

Double Tap could have used more moments of satire like that one. Its frequent fourth-wall breaking — Columbus reminds the audience that we have no shortage of “zombie entertainment” — feels less like a bold gesture than a nervous tic.

It’s as if the filmmakers are so embarrassed by their own derivative material that they’re trying to hide it with a veneer of hipness, rather than finding ways to revitalize it. The 10-year-old concept has tantalizingly relevant aspects: Columbus and Tallahassee are bluestate and red-state caricatures who’ve managed to become best buds by splattering zombie brains together. But Double Tap rarely taps into its own potential.

If carnage alternating with camaraderie and wisecracks is your thing, the movie has some of each. But when a mid-credits scene gets bigger laughs than the actual film, that’s a problem. Double Tap feels about as fresh as an animated corpse rotting in the sun.

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NEW IN THEATERS ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH: Directors Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier traveled around the globe to chronicle humanity’s impact on the planet in this documentary. (87 min, NR. Savoy) COUNTDOWN: An app that helpfully tells you when you’ll die? That’s the premise of this horror flick from first-time director Justin Dec, in which a nurse faces a countdown to her demise. With Elizabeth Lail, Anne Winters and Charlie McDermott. (90 min, PG-13. Essex) THE GREAT ALASKAN RACE: In this drama based on events in 1925, a team of dog sledders races to bring aid to sick kids in Nome. With Brian Presley, who also directed, Treat Williams and Henry Thomas. (87 min, PG. Essex) WHERE’S MY ROY COHN?: This documentary from Matt Tyrnauer (Studio 54) explores how the notorious lawyer and fixer influenced American politics all the way from Joseph McCarthy to Donald Trump. (97 min, PG-13. Savoy)

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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) THE ADDAMS FAMILYHH1/2 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) 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)

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GEMINI MANHH 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; reviewed by L.B. 10/16)

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Starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader and Isaiah Mustafa. Andy Muschietti returns as director. (169 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 9/11) JEXIHH 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) JOKERHHH In this stand-alone backstory for Batman’s nemesis, he’s played as a struggling funnyman by Joaquin Phoenix. Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz and Frances Conroy also star. Todd Phillips (The Hangover) directed. (121 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 10/9) JUDYHH Renée Zellweger portrays Judy Garland in this biopic that focuses on the star’s attempt at a London concert comeback in 1968, with flashbacks to her unhappy youth. With Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock and Rufus Sewell. Rupert Goold (True Story) directed. (118 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 10/16) THE LAUNDROMATHH1/2 Dubbed “an earnest lesson in political economy dressed up as a farce” by the New York Times, director Steven Soderbergh’s film about the Panama Papers features a star-studded cast, including Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas. (95 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 10/23) LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICEHHHH This documentary from directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Lovelace, Howl) traces the rise of the pop-rock songstress from the 1960s folk music scene. (95 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 9/18) MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVILHH Angelina Jolie’s sharp cheekbones return, along with more drama between humans and fairies, in this dark fantasy from director Joachim Rønning. Elle Fanning is the newly engaged Princess Aurora; Michelle Pfeiffer, the scheming mother-in-law-tobe. (118 min, PG) ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAPHH A decade after the events of Zombieland, the undead have evolved into superzombies. Changing “family” dynamics mean that Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson and Abigail Breslin’s characters must evolve, too — or, perhaps, perish. Ruben Fleischer again directed. (99 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 10/23)

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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21):

“Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naïve about it,” writes computer engineer Bill Joy. I invite you to consider the value of that perspective, Scorpio — even though you’re the least likely sign in all the zodiac to do so. Being naïve just doesn’t come naturally to you; you often know more than everyone else around you. Maybe you’ll be more receptive to my suggestion if I reframe the task. Are you familiar with the Zen Buddhist concept of “beginner’s mind”? You wipe away your assumptions and see everything as if it were the first time you were in its presence.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Singapore has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates. A few years ago, this state of affairs prompted the government to urge Singaporeans to have sex on an annual holiday known as National Day. A new rap song was released in the hope of pumping up everyone’s libidos and instigating a baby boom. It included the lyrics, “Let’s make fireworks ignite / Let’s make Singapore’s birthrate spike.” I have a different reason for encouraging you to seek abundant high-quality sex, Aries. According to my analysis, tender orgasmic experiences will profoundly enhance your emotional intelligence in the coming

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the 1530s, explorer Jacques Cartier led expeditions from France to the New World. As Europeans often did back then, he and his team were rude and brutish to the indigenous folks who lived there, stealing their land, kidnapping some of them and slaughtering herds of great auks in a bird sanctuary. Yet there was one winter when Cartier’s marauders got crucial help from their victims, who gave them vitamin C-rich pine-needle tea that cured their scurvy. I suspect you Tauruses will embark on quests and journeys in the coming months, and I’m hoping your behavior will be different from Cartier’s. When you arrive in unfamiliar places, be humble, curious and respectful. Be hesitant to impose your concepts of what’s true, and be eager to learn from the locals. If you do, you’re likely to get rich teachings and benefits equivalent to the pine-needle tea.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): Many software engineers have enjoyed The Pragmatic Programmer, a book that helps them develop and refine their code. One popular technique the book offers is “rubber duck deprogramming.” Programmers place a toy rubber duck in front of them and describe to it the problems they’re having. As they explain each line of code to their very good listener, they may discover what’s amiss. I recommend a similar approach to you as you embark on metaphorically debugging your own program, Gemini.

If a rubber duck isn’t available, call on your favorite statue or stuffed animal, or even a photo of a catalytic teacher or relative or spirit.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Read the follow-

ing passage from Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. “Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.” I admire the romantic artistry of Gaston’s dramatic gesture. I applaud his imaginative desire to ex-

press his love in a carefully chosen sanctuary filled with beauty. I praise his intense devotion to playful extravagance. But I don’t recommend you do anything quite so extreme in behalf of love during the coming weeks. Being 20 percent as extreme might be just right, though.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his song “Diplomatic Immunity,” rapper Drake disparages tranquility and harmony. “I listen to heavy metal for meditation, no silence,” he brags.

“My body isn’t much of a sacred temple, with vodka and wine, and sleep at the opposite times,” he declares. Is there a method in his madness? It’s revealed in these lyrics: “All that peace and that unity: all that weak shit will ruin me.” In the coming weeks, Leo, I urge you to practice the exact opposite of Drake’s approach. It’s time to treat yourself to an intense and extended phase of self-care.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s a favorable time to refresh your relationships with your basic sources and to make connections with new basic sources. To spur your creative thought on these matters, I offer the following questions to meditate on. 1. If you weren’t living where you do now, what other place might you like to call home? 2. If you didn’t have the name you actually go by, what other name would you choose? 3. If you had an urge to expand the circle of allies that supports and stimulates you, whom would you seek out? 4. If you wanted to add new foods and herbs that would nurture your physical health and new experiences that would nurture your mental health, what would they be?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Mushrooms have spores, not seeds. They’re tiny. If you could stack 2,500 of them, they’d be an inch high.

On the other hand, they are numerous. A ripe mushroom may release up to 16 million spores. And each spore is so lightweight, the wind can pick it up and fling it long distances. I’ll encourage you to express your power and influence like a mushroom in the coming days: subtle and airy but abundant; light and fine, but relentless and bountiful.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Is it al-

ways a bad thing to be lost? To wander in the

unknown without a map? I’d like to propose a good version of being lost. It requires that you to be willing to give up your certainties, to relinquish your grip on the comforting dogmas that have structured your world — but to do so gladly, with a spirit of cheerful expectancy and curiosity. It doesn’t require you to be a macho hero who feels no fear or confusion. Rather, you have faith that life will provide blessings that weren’t possible until you got lost.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions,” wrote science educator Lewis Thomas. “Let’s acknowledge this, perhaps even learn to do it better.” I agree with him! And I think it’s an ideal time for you to learn how to worry more effectively, more potently and with greater artistry. What might that look like? First, you wouldn’t feel shame or guilt about worrying. You wouldn’t regard it as a failing. Rather, you would raise your worrying to a higher power. You’d wield it as a savvy tool to discern which situations truly need your concerned energy and which don’t.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Some wounds go so deep that you don’t even feel them until months, maybe years, later,” wrote Aquarian author Julius Lester. Pay attention to that thought, Aquarius. The bad news is that you are just now beginning to feel a wound that was inflicted some time ago. But that’s also the good news, because it means the wound will no longer be hidden and unknowable. And because you’ll be fully aware of it, you’ll be empowered to launch the healing process. I suggest you follow your early intuitions about how best to proceed with the cure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you’ve been having dreams or fantasies that the roof is sinking or the walls are closing in, you should interpret it as a sign that you should consider moving into a more spacious situation. If you have been trapped within the narrow confines of limited possibilities, it’s time to break free and flee to a wide open frontier. In general, Pisces, I urge you to insist on more expansiveness in everything you do, even if that requires you to demolish cute little mental blocks that have tricked you into thinking small.

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SUNDAY MORNING, GOODWILL IN SOUTH BURLINGTON You told me I “looked smart” as we tried to figure out some mystery item.

I told you that I wasn’t sure and said, “Maybe I’m not so smart!” You had a great smile. Wish we could have talked more. Are you free? Coffee?

When: Sunday, October 13, 2019.

Where: Goodwill, Shelburne Rd. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914893

NOTRE DAME JACKET, WAITSFIELD FARMERS MARKET I asked, “College or high school?” and then became so flustered by the smiling, handsome man answering me that I stuttered! When you came back, I was too busy working to ask if you were local (and single?).

When: Saturday, October 5, 2019.

Where: Waitsfield Farmers Market.

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GOT A LOOK THAT KILLS You were helping a dude in a scooter wash windows. I yelled, “You missed a spot” out the car window, and you shot a look that could stop a heart, and you kind of did mine. I’d like to know more about you. How’d you hurt your ankle?

Let’s get a coffee. When: Monday, October 14, 2019. Where: outside Penny Cluse. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914891

BEAUTIFUL SERVER AT PENNY CLUSE You were wearing a red leopard-print shirt. I’m pretty sure I noticed you checking me out while I sat at the counter eating my tofu scram. I was wearing a brown-and-pink flannel.

Hit me back if you want to do more than look. When: Saturday, October 12, 2019. Where: Penny Cluse Café.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914888

MILTON SAND BAR SUNDAY You: on an orange Harley, long blond hair. Enjoying the sun and your music for about an hour. Me: across the road, sitting on my tailgate. Wanted to walk over and say hi, but didn’t want to disturb you. We waved to each other as your drove off. Should have crossed that road. Single? Maybe a coffee sometime? When: Sunday, October 13, 2019. Where: Route 2, Sand Bar. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914890 DINNER AT SHELBURNE FARMS, 9/29 You sat behind me at a table in a cream-colored outfit, at the end of the table. I sat at the end of my table. We made eye contact several times and exchanged smiles. No rings on your hand ... Single? When you left, I said goodnight and wished you safe travels.

Would enjoy seeing that smile again.

Coffee? When: Sunday, September 29, 2019. Where: Shelburne Farms.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914885

LOST DISC GOLF DISC, WILLISTON I spied a wandering disc golf disc that may belong to you, spotted at the course behind the Williston Central School. No name/number, but it’s from an event, so it may have some sentimental value!

Check the Lost & Found section on Craigslist for more ways to contact me if it’s yours. When: Sunday, September 29, 2019. Where: Williston. You: Nonbinary person. Me: Man. #914884 BFA ST. ALBANS SOCCER MOM We met at Ocean State in St. Johnsbury, starting at olive oil, then Indian food and finally at checkout. I recited my poem “artistry,” and you enjoyed it. I’m hoping you’d like to resume our conversation and provide me an opportunity to read more of my work. When: Wednesday, October 2, 2019. Where: Ocean State, St. J. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914883

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

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 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

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.

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I BELONG TO YOU I turned and saw you for the first time; dark and handsome, strong and sleek, quick half-smile, expressive eyebrows.

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

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

FITNESS FANATIC I see you often. Most of the time you are furiously working the exercise bike; I’ve always admired how fit you are.

Finally, last week, I was working out next to you. As you finished I looked over at you, and you gave me a warm smile. Meet at the exercise bikes soon?

When: Tuesday, October 8, 2019.

Where: Planet Fitness, Plattsburgh.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914887

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

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 tortoiseshell non-prescription glasses and a J.Crew cashmere sweater. When: Saturday, September 28, 2019. Where: Onyx coffee. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914876

BESPECTACLED FELLA IN MEHURON’S I grabbed an unruly bunch of kale and may have shaken water on your shoes. You said goodbye as you left and waved as I drove away. Do I know you? I’m still curious a few weeks later, so I figured ... maybe this guy also likes to do the crossword and occasionally browse the I-Spys for fun? When: Monday, September 30, 2019. Where: Mehuron’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914886

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

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

Ask REVEREND Dear Happy 

Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

I was carving a pumpkin the other day and found myself unusually aroused. Before extracting the guts, I made a hole on the side and went to pumpkin pound town. Needless to say, I did not roast the seeds.

I’ve never done anything like that before. Am I a weirdo?

Happy Halloweenie (male, 23)

Halloweenie,

You may or may not be a weirdo — I can’t make that call. But judging by the amount of food masturbation porn you can find with a quick search online, you are certainly not alone.

People getting it on with food have turned up in a handful of mainstream movies, as well. Remember the teenage guy sticking it to a pie in the aptly named American Pie? Human beings are an industrious bunch of dirty

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 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

birds, and we’ve found ways to masturbate with all manner of food. Melons, cucumbers, peaches, bananas, grapefruit, coconuts, sweet potatoes — you name it, and it’s been in, on or around genitals. Since there’s no issue of consent with fruits and vegetables, I say have at it to your heart’s delight, but please use a little common sense and caution.

Anything you are going to put around your privates needs to be clean, so be sure to wash your fun foods. You

also might want to avoid anything sharp, pointy or highly acidic. It should go without saying that you shouldn’t mess around with anything to which you’re allergic. Some people have a terrible reaction to pumpkin innards that can result in an itchy rash or hives. Thank goodness your Jack-Off-o’-lantern didn’t turn into a my-dickis-falling-off run to the emergency room.

Good luck and God bless,

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0994-2 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On October 11, 2019, Allen Brook Development, Inc., 31 Commerce Ave., South Burlington, VT 05403 filed application number 4C0994-2 for a project generally described as minor modifications to Phase I and full build-out of Phase II of Cottonwood Crossing. The Project is located at 6180 Williston Road in Williston, Vermont.

The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51—Minor Applications.

A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below.

The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before November 8, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised.

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Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the District Coordinator as soon as possible, and by no later than November 8, 2019.

If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C12401 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On October 16, 2019, Town of Charlotte, P.O. Box 119, Charlotte, VT 05445 filed application number 4C1240-1 for a project generally described as construction of a trail approximately 0.5 miles long adjacent to State Park Road from the existing town trail on the Numondo parcel to Mt. Philo Road, of which 520 linear feet lies within three parcels that are subject to LUP #4C1240.

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Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 18th day of October, 2019.

By: _ Stephanie H. Monaghan District 4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Jct., VT 05452 802-879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@ vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C05716 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On October 7, 2019, University of Vermont & State Agricultural College filed application number 4C0571-6 for a project generally described as the rehabilitation of the front (west) entry to the Ira Allen Chapel including; the after-the-fact construction of structural supports for the projecting gable-end portico; waterproofing of the west foundation; installation of an ADA ramp; restoration of the granite stairs; replacement of the column shafts with metal support posts covered by western red cedar wood column shafts that replicate the design and profile of the existing wooden columns; replacement of the column bases with concrete column bases that replicate the design and profile of the existing concrete bases; and replacement of the column capitals with fiberglass composite capitals that will replicate the design and profile of the existing capitals. The project is located 26 University Place in Burlington, Vermont.

The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications.

A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below.

The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0571-6.”

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before November 7, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised.

Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the District Coordinator

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS as soon as possible, and by no later than November 7, 2019.

The Applicant has requested a partial waiver of notice to adjoining landowners, pursuant to Act 250 Rule 10(F).

The District Commission has granted the waiver request based on the determination that the adjoining landowners whose notice has been waived, reasonably could not be affected by the proposed project and that serving notice on all the adjoining landowners constitutes a significant administrative burden without corresponding public benefit.

If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by

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the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria.

Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 14th day of October, 2019.

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HEARING NOTICE ANNUAL MEETING The Burlington DevelopCall 863-5625 or visit HomeShareVermont.org for an The Community Health ment Review Board application. Interview, refs, bg check req. EHO Centers of Burlington will will hold a meeting on hold its Annual Meeting Wednesday November on Thursday, November 7, 6th, 2019, at 5:00 PM 2019, from 5:30-7:30pm in Contois Auditorium, Homeshare-temp2.indd 1 10/10/19 12:34 PM at the Community Health City Hall.

5S) Patrice A. StratMedium Density zone, prerequisite to the right for the order in which Centers of Burlington, mann inconsistent with the to take any subsequent items will be heard.

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NOTICE OF LEGAL SALE View Date 10/31/2019 Sale Date 11/01/2019

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES Champlain Housing Trust and Housing Vermont are requesting architecture firms to submit proposals for the new construction of 36 units of multifamily rental housing in Colchester, Vermont.

Conceptual design has already been completed, the proposals will be for SD through CA. Firms must have comparable experience.

For more information or to obtain the RFP, contact Charlie Willner at Housing Vermont, 802-861-2145 or Charlie@hvt.org. Completed Proposals are due by 12pm on November 8,

1. What are the strengths and challenges of the agency?

2. Does the agency work well with other agencies in the community?

3. Do people get the mental health services that they need?

4. Do people get mental health services when they need them?

5. Do you have any recommendations for improvements?

A 14-day period of public comment is provided for DMH to gather information about Northeastern Family Institute (NFI) as part of the process to decide whether or not the State of Vermont will renew the agency’s designation to deliver mental health services to children, adolescents and families throughout Vermont. Comments from consumers, parents, family members and other concerned citizens about your experiences with

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Please contact Rob Higgins at 802-658-6320 or email at rhiggins@ neagleychase.com to express interest and request access to bid documents.

Waterbury, Vermont 05671-2010 Attn: Christina Thompson Phone: 802-241-0413 Fax: 802-241-0100 E-mail: Christina.

Thompson@vermont. gov

services provided by NFI are welcomed. Public comments will be accepted for the two-week period from Wednesday, October 23, 2019, until the close of business on Tuesday, November 05, 2019. In particular, DMH is interested in knowing:

NOTIFICATION OF PERIOD OF PUBLIC COMMENT Pursuant to 18 V.S.A. § 8907 and the Administrative Rules on Agency Designation, the Vermont Department of Mental Health (DMH) hereby notify the public of the Application for Redesignation of Northeastern Family Institute (NFI).

Awards will be based on cost of work and the subcontractor’s ability to support the project schedule. Contract award is contingent upon the owner accepting final costs and authorizing construction.

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This project is the new construction of a 24 unit/23,000SF woodframed 2 and 3-story building of mixed income rental housing.

November 8, 2019 at 1PM. Bids may be delivered electronically.

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NOTICE OF BIDS Neagley & Chase Construction is soliciting bids for scopes of solar PV feasibility and design build services for our Vergennes Community Housing Project in Vergennes, VT. Building construction started in August 2019 and scheduled to be complete in July 2020.

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It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: That Appendix A, Comprehensive Development Ordinance, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended to expand the Form District 5 Boundaries to include additional parcels with corresponding changes to parking districts, specific height areas and shopfront requirements by amending Map 4.3.1-1 Base Zoning Districts,

CITY OF BURLINGTON ORDINANCE 6.04 SPONSOR: OFFICE OF CITY PLANNING, PLANNING COMMISSION, ORDINANCE COMMITTEE PUBLIC HEARING

for Proposed ZA-20-01 (formerly ZA-18-08) updated July 2019, changes as indicated in each corresponding legend, consistent with the map excerpt.

Map 4.4.1-1 Downtown Mixed Use Districts, Map 4.4.5-1 Residential Zoning Districts, Map 8.1.3-1 Parking Districts, Article 14, Section 14.2, Regulating Plan, Maps 1-Regulating Plan, 2-Specific Height Areas, and 3-Shopfronts Required, to read as follows:

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People’s United Bank has been appointed as Executor to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be forever barred if it is not presented as described above within the four (4) month period.

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT FRANKLIN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 40-2-17 FRCV METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v.

ERNEST H. BAPP

Date: October 18, 2019 Signed: /s/ John H. Draper, IV, Esq. Address: Paul Frank + Collins P.C. One Church Street, P.O. Box 1307 Burlington, VT 054021307

OCCUPANTS OF: 2895 Tyler Branch Road, Enosburgh Falls VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

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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.

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT FAMILY DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO. 208-5-19 CNJV In re: M.D., Juvenile.

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.

BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO ERNEST H. BAPP AND MARY E. BAPP, HUSBAND AND WIFE FROM DARWIN LACROSS

BY DEED RECORDED ON 12/18/1972 IN BOOK 55 AND PAGE 263. BY FEE SIMPLE DEED THE SAID MARY E. BAPP HAVING CONVEYED HER INTEREST TO ERNEST H. BAPP , BY QUIT CLAIM DEED, DATED 06/06/1995 RECORDED ON 06/14/1995

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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.

To wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL/UNIT OF LAND IN TOWN OF ENOSBURG /TOWN OF GEORGIA, FRANKLIN COUNTY, STATE OF VT, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN BOOK 77 PAGE 243 1D# TB2895, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS ALL AND THE SAME LAND AND PREMISES CONVEYED TO ERNEST H. AND MARY E. BAPP

BY WARRANTY DEED OF DARWIN R. LACROSS DATED DECEMBER 15, 1972 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 55 AND PAGE 263 OF THE ENOSBURG TOWN LAND RECORDS..

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO. 1189-919 CNPR IN RE THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH B. RAYMOND LATE OF HINESBURG, VERMONT

DATED : October 15, 2019

IN BOOK 77, PAGE 243 IN FRANKLIN COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF VT.

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I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Address of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court Probate Division, Chittenden Unit 175 Main Street, P.O. Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402

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To the creditors of Bruce Henry Delorme late of Huntington, Vermont.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered March 26, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Ernest H. Bapp to CitiFinancial, Inc., dated August 17, 2006 and recorded in Book 108 Page 156 of the land records of the Town of Enosburgh, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from CFNA Receivables (MD), Inc. f/k/a CitiFinancial, Inc. to CitiFinancial Servicing, LLC dated February 4, 2016 and recorded in Book 130 Page 49; (2) Assignment of Mortgage from CitiFinancial Servicing, LLC to Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC dated February 4, 2016 and recorded in Book 130 Page 50, and (3) Assignment of Mortgage from Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company dated November 28, 2016 and recorded in Book 131 Page 400, all of the land records of the Town of Enosburgh for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the

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Name of Publication: Seven Days P.O. Box 1164 Burlington, VT 054021164

purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 2895 Tyler Branch Road, Enosburgh Falls, Vermont on November 22, 2019 at 11:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

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To the creditors of the Estate of Elizabeth B. Raymond, late of Hinesburg, Vermont.

Executor/Administrator: Bruce Howard Delorme 581 Big Hollow Road Starksboro, VT 05487 802-453-3668

OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

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CHRISTOPHER CAVOLICK AND MARTHA M. COONS OCCUPANTS OF: 1499 Sand Road, Ferrisburgh VT

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MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

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.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and 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

/S/___Thomas J. Devine Superior Court Judge 10-2-19 Date STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION

To wit: 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.

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In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered April 1, 2019 ,in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Rodney Hale and the late Mattie Mitchell to Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc., as nominee for Delta Funding Corporation, dated June 8, 2005 and recorded

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CALEDONIA UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 143-6-18 CACV HSBC BANK USA, N.A., AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED NOTEHOLDERS OF RENAISSANCE HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET-

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By: __/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren_________ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due

Terms of sale: Said

BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2005-2 v.

RODNEY HALE AND CATAMOUNT ELECTRIC SERVICE OCCUPANTS OF: 139 Calendar Brook Road, Lyndonville VT

DATED : October 1, 2019

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.

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under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

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premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

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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,

in Book 169 Page 379 of the land records of the Town of Lyndon, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from to Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc., as nominee for Delta Funding Corporation to HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Indenture Trustee for the registered Noteholders of Renaissance Home Equity Loan AssetBacked Notes, Series 2005-2 dated October 2, 2006 and recorded in Book 187 Page 34 of the land records of the Town of Lyndon for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 139 Calendar Brook Road, Lyndonville, Vermont on November 20, 2019

at 12:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

WAY DATED OCTOBER 17, 1989, AND RECORDED IN BOOK 100 AT PAGE 217 OF THE LYNDON LAND RECORDS. REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE AFOREMENTIONED DEED AND ITS RECORD AND TO THE DEEDS REFERRED TO THEREIN AND THEIR RECORD IN FURTHER AID OF THIS DESCRIPTION. AND BEING THE REAL ESTATE WHEREOF THE SAID VERA E. RENAUD DIED SEIZED AND POSSESSED IN STATE OF VERMONT.

To wit: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED LAND IN LYNDON, IN THE COUNTY OF CALEDONIA AND STATE OF VERMONT DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, VIZ: BEING PREMISES CONSISTING OF TWO ACRES, MORE OR LESS, WITH A DWELLING HOUSE AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON LOCATED ON CALENDAR BROOK ROAD, AND BEING ALL OF THOSE PREMISES REMAINING TO VERA E. RENAUD WHICH WERE CONVEYED TO HER AND HER HUSBAND EDWARD RENAUD, WHO PREDECEAED VERA RENAUD,

BY WARRANTY DEED OF SAMUEL W. HATHAWAY AND JAYNE A. HATHA-

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unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

DATED : October 9, 2019 By: /S/ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

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.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

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

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.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances,

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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: “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.”.

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Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

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.

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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.

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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

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We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton which meets every Friday night at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us and discover how your life can start to change.

Info: 893-0530, Julie@ mccartycreations.com.

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BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:30-2:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. monthly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. monthly at the Fanny Allen

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CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group will be held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-7:45 p.m. at the Hope Lodge, 237 East Ave., Burlington.

Newly diagnosed?

Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion and sharing among survivors and those beginning or rejoining the battle.

Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol. com.

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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP 1st Monday monthly, 3-4:30 p.m.

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BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But, it can also be a time of stress that is often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have r ecently given birth and feel you need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury. It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confi dential environment.

Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 800-639-1522.

at 7 p.m. Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction.

Info: recovery@essexalliance.org, 878-8213.

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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP This caregivers support group meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo. from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 130, Williston.

Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support, and coping techniques in care for a person living with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free and open to the public. Families, caregivers, and friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm date and time. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900.

Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Brattleboro meets at Brooks Memorial Library on the 1st Thu. monthly from 1:15-3:15 p.m. and the 3rd Mon. monthly from 4:15-6:15 p.m. White River Jct. meets the 2nd Fri. monthly at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m.

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ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Wed., 6:30-7:30 p.m., Methodist Church in the Rainbow Room at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington.

Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390.

BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people with breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets first Monday of the month, 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more information call 802-776-5508.

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required (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24/7 Helpline 800-272-3900 for more information.

support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect with others, to heal, and to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences and hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships.

Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship.

Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m.

Childcare is provided.

Info: 658-1996.

EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated with the job search or with your job? You are not alone. Come check out this supportive circle.

Wednesdays at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

FAMILIES, PARTNERS, FRIENDS AND ALLIES OF TRANSGENDER ADULTS We are people with adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming.

We meet to support each other and to learn more about issues and concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal, and confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 PM, the second Thursday of each month at Pride Center of VT, 255 South Champlain St., Suite 12, in Burlington. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer one-on-one support. For more information, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-238-3801.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends and community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety and other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults 18 & over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills & draw strength from one another. Weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. thdaub1@gmail.com.

FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a week: Mondays, 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; and Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more information and a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. and the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org.

G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction?

Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a month on Mondays in Burlington.

Please call for date and location. RSVP mkeasler3@gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Meet twice a month: every second Monday from 6-7:30 p.m., and every third Wednesday from 10-11:30 a.m., at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to the public and free of charge. More info: Diana Moore, 224-2241.

HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice hearing experiences as real lived experiences which may happen to anyone at anytime.

We choose to share experiences, support, and empathy. We validate anyone’s

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS experience and stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest and accurate representation of their experience, and as being acceptable exactly as they are.

Weekly on Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org.

HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107.

People living with cancer & their caretakers convene for support.

INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) and painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/ urgency. These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@gmail.com or call 899-4151 for more information.

KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients as well as caregivers are provided with a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact info@vcsn.net.

LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional &/or hate violence. These

groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, & offer & receive support.

Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain information on how to better cope with feelings & experiences that surface because of the trauma they have experienced. Please call SafeSpace 863-0003 if you are interested in joining.

Contact 863-0003 for more information or safespace@pridecentervt.org.

LGBTQ VETERANS GROUP This veterans group is a safe place for veterans to gather and discuss ways to help the community, have dinners, send packages and help the families of LGBTQ service people. Ideas on being helpful encouraged. Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 6-8:30 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church (The Little Red Door), 64 State Street, Montpelier. RSVP, 802-825-2045.

MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP Area Myeloma Survivors, Families and Caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies and a support network by participating in the group experience with people that have been though similar situations. Third Tuesday of the month, 5-6 p.m. at the New Hope Lodge on East Avenue in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@aol.com.

LIVING THROUGH LOSS: WEEKLY SUPPORT GROUP The Volunteer Chaplaincy Program at Gifford Medical Center invites community members to attend “Living Through Loss,” a grief support group from noon to 1:30 p.m. every Friday in the Gifford Medical Center Chapel. The group is open to anyone who has experienced loss.

Each of the Friday sessions is facilitated

by Gifford Volunteer Chaplain Anna Mary Zigmann, RN, an ordained minister and spiritual care provider specializing in trauma and loss, or by the Rev. Timothy Eberhardt, spiritual care coordinator for the Chaplaincy Program. There is no religious component to the group apart from the Serenity Prayer to close each meeting.

For more information, email teberhardt@ giffordmed.org or azigmann@gmail.com, or call 802-728-2107.

MALE SURVIVOR OF VIOLENCE GROUP A monthly, closed group for male identified survivors of violence including relationship, sexual assault, and discrimination. Open to all sexual orientations.

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MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts to get & stay clean. Ongoing Wed. at 7 p.m. at Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski, Suite 301, Burlington.

861-3150.

NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Bennington, every Tue., 1-2:30 p.m., CRT Center, United Counseling Service, 316 Dewey St.; Burlington, every Thu., 3-4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St. (enter from parking lot); Berlin, second Thu. of the month, 4-5:30 p.m., CVMC Board Room, 130 Fisher Rd.; Rutland, every 1st and 3rd Sun., 4:30-6 p.m., Rutland Mental Health Wellness Center, 78 S. Main St.; No. Concord, every Thu., 6-7:30 p.m., Loch Lomond, 700 Willson Rd. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@ namivt.org or 800639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living with mental health challenges.

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Bellows Falls, 3rd Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., Compass School, 7892 US-5, Westminster;

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Central Vermont Medical Center, Room 3; Georgia, 1st Tue. of every mo., 6 p.m., Georgia Public Library, 1697 Ethan Allen Highway (Exit 18, I-89); Manchester, 4th Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., Equinox Village, 2nd floor; Rutland, 1st Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center, Leahy Conference Ctr., room D; St. Johnsbury, 4th Wed. of every mo., 5:30 p.m., Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital Library, 1315 Hospital Dr.; Williston, 1st & 3rd Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., NAMI Vermont Office, 600 Blair Park Rd. #301. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt. org or 800-639-6480.

Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living mental illness.

NARCONON SUNCOAST DRUG AND ALCOHOL REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION Narconon reminds families that overdoses due to an elephant tranquilizer known as Carfentanil, has been on the rise in nearly every community nationwide. Carfentanil is a synthetic opiate painkiller 100 times more powerful than fentanyl and 1000 times stronger than heroin. A tiny grain of it is enough to be fatal. Click here to learn more about carfentanil abuse and how to help your loved one. You can also visit https://www. narconon-suncoast. org/drug-abuse/ parents-get-help.html for more information. ADDICTION SCREENINGS: Narconon can help you take steps to overcome addiction in your family. Call today for a no cost screening or referral: 1- 877-841-5509

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/ out the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in Burlington, Barre and St. Johnsbury.

NAR-ANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington.

The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106.

NEW (AND EXPECTING) MAMAS AND PAPAS! EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY! The Children’s Room invites you to join our weekly drop-in support group. Come unwind and discuss your experiences and questions around infant care and development, self-care and postpartum healing, and community resources for families with babies. Tea and snacks provided.

Weekly on Thursdays, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bring your babies! (Newborn through crawling stage). Located within Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe Street, childrensroomonline. org. Contact childrensroom@wwsu.org or 244-5605.

NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those who are currently suffering from the disease. 2nd Thu. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint.net. 2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski.

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OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS A mutual support circle that focuses on connection and selfexploration. Fridays at 1 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) A 12-step program for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc.

No matter what your problem with food, we have a solution! All are welcome, meetings are open, and there are no dues or fees.

See oavermont.org/ meeting-list/ for the current meeting list, meeting format and more; or call 802-8632655 any time!

POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP Anyone coping with potato intolerance and interested in joining a support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452.

QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFÉ The Queen City Memory Café offers a social time & place for people with memory impairment & their fiends & family to laugh, learn & share concerns & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods with entertainment & conversation. QCMC meets the 3rd Sat. of each mo., 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Thayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington. 316-3839.

QUEER CARE GROUP This support group is for adult family members and caregivers of queer, and/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Monday of each month from 6:30-8 p.m. at Outright Vermont, 241 North Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only.

For more information, email info@outrightvt. org.

QUIT TOBACCO GROUPS Are you ready to be tobacco free? Join our FREE five-week group classes facilitated by our Tobacco Treatment Specialists. We meet

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in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. You may qualify for a FREE 8-week supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Contact us at (802)-847-7333 or QuitTobaccoClass@ UVMHealth.org.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND Support group meeting held 4th Tue. of the mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Williston Police Station.

Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Shawn, 660-2645.

Visit slaafws.org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are available for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 864-0555, ext.

19, or email our victim advocate at advocate@ sover.net.

STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone! Adults, teens & school-age kids who stutter & their families are welcome to join one of our three free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM. Adults: 5:30-6:30, 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30, 1st Thu. monthly; school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15, 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus. Info: burlingtonstutters.org, burlingtonstutters@ gmail.com, 656-0250.

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SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide.

Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577. 6:30-8 p.m. the 3rd Tue. of ea. mo.

SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 2577989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 229-0591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only).

Please call 877-5439498 for more info.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE If you have lost someone to suicide and wish to have a safe place to talk, share and spend a little time with others who have had a similar experience, join us the 3rd Thu. at the Faith Lighthouse Church, Rte. 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook), 7-9 p.m. Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE -- S. BURLINGTON Who: Persons experiencing the impact of a loved one’s suicide.

When: first Wednesday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m. Location: S. Burlington. This group is currently full and unable to accept new participants. Please call Linda Livendale at 802-272-6564 to learn about other groups within driving distance.

We are sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you!

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings and families grieving the loss of a child meets every third Tuesday of the month, 7-9 p.m., at Kismet Place, 363 Blair Park Rd., Williston.

Call/email Jay at 802-373-1263, compassionatefriendsvt@ gmail.com.

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Locations in Burlington, Newport, White River Junction, and Chelsea. High School graduate and two years of clerical or data entry experience required.

Starting at $16.88 per hour with excellent benefits, paid holidays and leave time. Open until filled. EOE. Candidates shall submit a complete and up-to-date Judicial Branch Application and resume. An electronic version of the Application may be found at vermontjudiciary.org/ employment-opportunities/staff-openings.

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Central Vermont

Or mail: Northfield Savings Bank - Human Resources P.O. Box 7180, Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer/Member FDIC

We offer flexible scheduling, competitive pay, generous discounts on cafe goodies & a great team working environment.

Please email a current resume to our hiring manager Nicole Taber, Nicole@klingersbread.com and mention what position you are interested in!

The Vermont Judiciary is recruiting for several full-time, permanent Docket Clerk positions to perform specialized clerical duties including data entry and extensive customer service over the phone.

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Mortgage Banker

Please submit your application and resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com (Preferred)

• Cafe Baristas (F/P time openings) • Pastry Bakers (previous kitchen experience preferred) • Sugar cookie decorating assistant

CLERICAL ASSISTANT OPENINGS

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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ASSISTANT COACH, WOMEN’S LACROSSE Saint Michael’s is an NCAA Division II institution sponsoring 21 varsity sports, and is a proud member of the Northeast-10 Conference. Job responsibilities include working with student-athletes, practices and game duties as assigned, collaboration with head coach, and other duties as assigned by the head coach. This is a part-time, seasonal position.

For full job description and to apply online go to: smcvt.interviewexchange.com.

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CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE

TRAINER

This full time job requires experience working with adults. Reliable transportation. Preferred: MA degree, knowledge of child development/child abuse, Northern Lights certified instructor. EOE.

MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN SOCIAL WORKER

Resume and 3 References to: pcavt@pcavt.org, or

(ATP).

Prevent Child Abuse VT Search - PO Box 829, Montpelier, VT 05601.

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We are recruiting for a full-time Clinician to join the Addiction Treatment Program LEARN MORE & APPLY: uvmmed.hn/sevendays

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Hiring Now! Immediate openings Full-time and flexible part-time schedules Days, early evenings, & weekend shifts

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WEB DEVELOPER Leonine Public Affairs in Montpelier is seeking an on-site web developer to help improve and maintain our custom legislative tracking application and assist with day-to-day maintenance and IT operations. Experience with object-oriented PHP and Javascript is required. Our application is built on the Symfony PHP framework and uses React and Reflux for the Javascript backbone.

It is constantly being improved to meet our clients' needs so this developer will be crucial in the full feature-building process, from idea to deployment. Candidates should be excited to flex their creativity and willing to learn on the job as new challenges arise.

The position will report directly to the Director of Information Technology.

RESPITE SUPPORT WORKER

Open your accessible home to a delightful gentleman in need of evening and weekend overnight respite. A clean, safe, caring and wheelchair accessible environment as well as an extra bedroom is required. Weekends and days Benefits include health insurance, 401(k) and generous paid time are flexible with generous pay off. Salary begins at $45k/yr. but is negotiable based on experience. available for both hourly and Send resumes to: resume@leoninefocus.com 24 hour shifts. A portable ramp is available for individuals who have a limited number of stairs at their home as well 9/13/194t-LeoniniePublicAffairs101619.indd 1:25 PM 1 10/14/19 5:00 PMas a wheelchair accessible van. The ideal candidate will be kind, compassionate, and comfortable with assisting with daily living skills.

Manufacturing Call Center Warehouse

Apply in person 210 East Main Street, Richmond, VT

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AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ASSOCIATE DEVELOPER

For more information contact Pam at 802-324-7012, pamelacook24@aol.com.

Housing Vermont has created a new position for an Associate Developer to join our amazing development team. This position reports to the VP of Development and the successful candidate will be an excellent communicator with experience in real estate development and financial analysis.

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We believe in equal access to affordable housing and economic opportunities; the power of partnerships based on integrity, respect and professionalism; a collaborative workplace with professional, skilled and dedicated staff.

PAYROLL & BENEFITS MANAGER

Please send a cover letter and resume with salary requirements to Kathy Beyer, jobs@hvt.org.

Looking for a dynamic individual to join our team.

HOUSING VERMONT IS AN E.O.E. This full-time position manages our payroll and benefits administration.

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We desire a candidate Are you an intelligent, social, fun-seeking FACILITIES SERVICES JOB OPENINGS! who can contribute to a individual? Are you excited by the opportunity to travel, meet new Howard Center is seeking individuals for full-time, benefits eligible professional, friendly, and people, and learn new things? Are you the type of person that is Environmental Services (EVS) and Maintenance Technician positive work environment, happiest in a casual, friendly, non-competitive environment? positions. EVS positions are eligible for a $1,000 sign on bonus with an emphasis on and all positions have flexible shifts! Valid driver’s license and excellent customer service, This full-time position provides home care support for a highly independent transportation required. teamwork, and efficient adult quadriplegic. Ideal candidates will be intelligent, open to learning new operations.

Knowledge of Howard Center has excellent benefits, including 36 days of combined things, excited by and interested in out-of-state travel (up to five weeks a ADP Workforce Now and time off (and increasing with years of service) medical, dental, FSA year, not consecutive), and committed, with a fun and outgoing personality.

Excel required. Excellent and 401K, etc. For more information and to apply, please visit benefits package. Position Please submit a resume and cover letter to nschurch@gmail.com howardcentercareers.org. open until filled.

Howard Center is proud to be an EO.E. The agency’s culture and service Full job description and delivery is strengthened by the diversity of its workforce. Minorities, people to apply: sbvt.gov/ of color and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. departments/human_ Visit “About Us” to review Howard Center’s EOE policy. resources

Personal Care Associate

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COMMUNICATIONS and OUTREACH DIRECTOR

Client Care Coordinator • Meet with potential clients and family members to discuss their needs and provide solutions in the form of a service plan • Conduct Service Inquiries, Care Consultations, and client/ CAREGiver introductions

Requirements include: • Strong computer skills, including data entry • Healthcare experience desired • Must have good driving record • Bachelor’s Degree preferred Negotiable Salary, Medical Benefits, Paid Vacation, Great Team environment. Must submit to background checks and a preemployment drug screening.

Please forward resume and cover letter to: Sabrina Milano via email at Sabrina.milano@ homeinstead.com.

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RECEPTIONIST/ ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Vermont-NEA is seeking a highly qualified Receptionist/Administrative Assistant to provide support to our professional staff.

In addition to the qualifications below, this position requires exceptional interpersonal skills, careful attention to detail, excellent oral/written communication skills, strategic thinking, managing multiple projects, and a commitment to confidentiality, all within the context of a highly professional and advocacy-oriented membership organization.

Specific qualifications: At least 3 years’ experience in an administrative position; appreciation for the role of labor unions and for the work of public school educators; advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required. Bachelor’s degree preferred, but not required.

To apply, send a cover letter, resume and at least 3 references to: Jeff Fannon, Executive Director, Vermont-NEA, 10 Wheelock Street, Montpelier, VT 05602, or by email to kferguson@vtnea.org.

This position will remain open until filled.

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Web Designer Are you a fearless team player who loves a challenge and wants to work with passionate people at a CAUSE driven company?

Then National Life is looking for you!

We have an immediate opening for an experienced Web Designer/ Developer to join our inhouse creative team. This role will be responsible for creating and websites and landing pages, interactive online experiences, and eyecatching email commuications.

You should have a bachelor’s degree in Web Development, Digital Media Design, or related discipline, three years (or more) of related work experience, and an inspiring online portfolio.

For the complete description and to apply online visit:

Working closely with the executive director, the communications and outreach director is responsible for developing and implementing clear and powerful public communication strategies to promote the Council’s mission. The person in this position manages all print materials, media relations, and online communications.

This requires the ability to transform information from various sources into compelling messages that convey the values and goals of the Council’s work. The person hired for this position will be someone with the passion and skills to expand the reach of the Council’s communications to engage new and diverse audiences.

The communications and outreach director supervises and ensures the smooth and effective work of a small, creative communications team. Staff development, mentoring, and evaluation are central to the position.

The position also includes responsibility for planning and coordinating special events—including the annual Vermont Arts Awards—and communications relating to arts advocacy.

Position is based at the Council office in Montpelier and reports directly to the executive director. Flexible hours and willingness to travel throughout the state are required.

More information about the Arts Council, this job, and how to apply can be found on the website. vermontartscouncil. org/about-us/employment

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MULTIPLE POSITIONS OPEN! With our expansion and renovation nearing completion, we’re seeking a few more individuals to round out our staffing! Imagine the next step in your career working in new and innovative work spaces, supportive work/life balance, and a true sense of community with colleagues and residents. We are currently seeking:

• Physical Therapy Assistant • Custodian (Evenings)

• Sous Chef • Wait Staff • Dining PCA

Wake Robin offers an excellent compensation and benefits package and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting. If you have high standards of service and are interested in joining our team; please send resume to HR@wakerobin.com or visit our website, wakerobin.com, to complete an application.

NationalLife.com/careers

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The Vermont Arts Council, an independent nonprofit statewide organization, seeks a dynamic, creative, and experienced individual to serve as the Council’s communications and outreach director.

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Seeking a Philanthropic Advisor for Northwest Vermont Do you have a creative and entrepreneurial spirit? Are you enthusiastic about how philanthropy can make a difference in Vermont?

We are seeking a Philanthropic Advisor to join our statewide Philanthropy team and to engage with individuals, families, nonprofits, professional advisors, businesses, and community leaders to expand effective philanthropy throughout Vermont.

The Philanthropic Advisor is responsible for increasing charitable giving to and through the Foundation, providing exceptional customer service, and deepening the relationships with current and prospective fundholders.

The Advisor will have shared responsibility for the greater Chittenden County area, in addition to lead responsibility for Grand Isle and Franklin Counties and other areas as needed and will maintain a highly-visible presence in this region.

If this sounds like a good fit for you, visit vermontcf.org/jobs for a complete job description and instructions for applying by Monday, November 18th.

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Camp Ta-Kum-Ta is excited to announce the search for our 3rd Executive Director in 35 years.

Camp provides challenging, extraordinary experiences in a safe and loving environment for children who have or have had cancer and their families.

EVENING NURSE

The Arbors at Shelburne, a Benchmark Senior Living community, has an opening for a full-time evening nurse with a Sign On Bonus of $3,000. We offer our employees an extensive benefits package, award benefits as well as employee appreciation days each month.

Please submit a cover letter and resume via e-mail to:

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SENIOR CAPITAL PROJECT ACCOUNTANT

Are you a writer who likes food? Do you enjoy poring over menus, reading restaurant reviews and looking at photos of signature dishes? Can you also compose concise, compelling, colorful copy — fast? If so, consider applying to become Seven Days’ first-ever Food Editorial Assistant. This part-time, temporary position (January through April) will contribute to our annual statewide 7 Nights dining guide, as well as to the behind-thescenes work of Vermont Restaurant Week.

For a complete description, or to apply online, visit: governmentjobs.com/careers/burlingtonvt.

• Have a flexible schedule January through April.

WOMEN, MINORITIES AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. EOE.

• Have an obsessive attention to detail. We’re serious!

• Have excellent copywriting skills, particularly when it comes to writing short listings.

WHERE YOU AND YOUR WORK MATTER...

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ReSOURCE's retail stores are classrooms! Join our team of educators who provide outstanding training to youth and adults through our thrift retail operations.

Apply with resume AND Park, cover letter to: info@resourcevt.org Positions in Hyde Williston, Electronic applications only, please. EOE | resourcevt.org Burlington and Barre stores.

Our perfect candidate will have excellent skills in: • Leadership and independence • Writing and communication • Working closely in a team • Confident and comfortable speaking in public • Organization and meeting deadlines • A strong desire to help others

Weekends are required, with pay up to $15/hour for Team Members and $20/hour for Team Leaders.

Send resumes to:

jobs@resourcevt.org

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The successful candidate must have (5) years’ capital project accounting experience, strong collaboration skills, the ability to communicate across functions, and an understanding of project management as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting.

To qualify, you must:

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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.

Visit acluvt.org/careers to apply.

Application review begins November 1 until position filled.

ACLU of Vermont is an EOE. All are encouraged to apply.

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EDUCATION PROGRAMS MAN AGER – MONTPELIER

The Education Programs Manager will lead a team of three and will ultimately serve as the State Director for Career Technical Education (CTE) working within the Agency’s purpose to provide leadership, support, and oversight to Vermont’s CTE system. The ideal candidate will have experience as a manager and leader under a collective bargaining agreement, a background in curriculum, instruction, and assessment, and knowledge of funding and delivery issues in CTE. For more information, contact Jay Ramsey at jay.ramsey@vermont.gov. Department: Agency of Education. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 2960. Application Deadline: October 29, 2019

• Be familiar with Vermont’s dining scene, as well as 7 Nights and Vermont Restaurant Week.

• Work well independently and on a strict deadline.

P U B L I C H E A LT H N U R S E S U P E R V I S O R - N E W P O R T

HR Generalist to work as part of a team in performance management, supervisory coaching, labor relations, onboarding, and position/records management. Excellent interpersonal, organizational, verbal and written communication skills required. Ability to work independently, deliver accurate and timely work, and aptitude and interest to learn. Please Note: This position is being recruited at multiple levels. If you would like to be considered for more than one level, you MUST apply to the specific Job Requisition. HR Adm II, Req # 3040, HR Adm III, Req # 3041, HR Admin IV, Req # 3038. For More information, contact Margaret Loftus at Margaret.loftus@vermont.gov. Department: Human Resources.

Status: Full Time. Application Deadline: November 3, 2019.

Seven Days is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Learn more at: careers.vermont.gov

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programs, priorities and impact; and maintain strong relationships working with Board of Directors and volunteer committees.

The City seeks a Senior Capital Projects Accountant to be responsible for the financial lifecycle of capital projects. This is a unique opportunity to help define and implement improved practices and to serve as the liaison between the departmental project managers and the Treasurer’s team, in addition to being responsible for tracking and reporting on capital projects.

(part-time, temporary; January-April)

This position is based at our office in downtown Burlington, though there may be some flexibility to work remotely. To apply, please email Carolyn Fox at carolyn@sevendaysvt.com by Friday, November 1, with a résumé, three references, and a cover letter outlining your availability and how you fit the above requirements. We thank you for your application, but only qualified applicants will be contacted for the next step: a writing challenge. No phone calls, please.

Responsibilities include: Prospect and obtain funding for programs YOUTH AND ADULTS identify, recruit and recognize major donors; communicate about

Please refer to our Position Profile and Job Description for qualifications and application information at: takumta.org/about-us/career-and-internshipEOE opportunities

A Benchmark Assisted Living Community, EOE.

• Be an expert and efficient researcher, comfortable making phone calls and navigating restaurant websites and social media, as well as learning our own website platforms.

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ReSOURCE has an excellent opportunity for FOR office a EDUCATORS professional in our Burlington

The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors and will serve as the chief administrator, providing leadership and implementing policies and programs.

We are looking for a proven leader and confident spokesperson that can build community and connections through telling a story. Our story is one of love, laughter and the opportunity to truly make a difference. This position is rewarding, humbling and impactful.

bconroy@benchmarkquality.com Brendan Conroy, RN, DNS Or stop in to complete an application.

The Arbors at Shelburne 687 Harbor Road, Shelburne, VT. 05482 (802) 985-8600

Food Editorial Assistant

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Executive Director

$3,000 SIGN ON BONUS

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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COORDINATOR

HELP DESK TECHNICIAN

Looking for a Better Job with a Successful Career Path?

FOR PARTNERSHIPS

Our Colchester, VT campus is hiring a Help Desk Technician to assist students, faculty and staff with the setup, activation and basic troubleshooting involved in classroom, conference room and AV/web conferencing technologies.

Full Time; Union; 1year Term, Position Continuation Subject to Annual Evaluation; $30-35K

BASIC FUNCTION

1 part-time position available.

High School/GED required.

Apply online: employment. acphs.edu/postings/1006

DENTAL ASSISTANT

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The Academic Affairs Coordinator for Partnerships (AACP) provides outreach and liaison functions, help with relationship building/maintenance, administrative support and coordination regarding partnerships in conjunction with the Academic Affairs Office (AAO). The AACP will have responsibilities to work creatively with Goddard staff and faculty as well as with collaborating schools to help design new collaborative partnerships. In addition, they will carry significant responsibilities in information and content management for Academic Program websites, and administrative support relevant to the work of the AAO. For further information please visit goddard.edu/aboutgoddard/employment-opportunities.

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CURRENT JOB OPENINGS:

• Assemblers, 1st & 2nd Shifts • Material Handler • Accounting/Administrative Assistant • Class A CDL Driver • Facilities Cleaner Located in Beautiful Morrisville, VT

We are looking for an Goddard College is committed to creating a college representative Manufacturing Solutions Inc. organized professional with a of a diverse global community and capable of creating change.

153 Stafford Avenue, Morrisville, VT 05661 positive attitude to complete To that end, we are actively seeking applications from qualified our team. Must be an upbeat Apply Online at: msivt.com/careers or candidates from groups currently underrepresented in our self starter, with experience in Email Resume and Cover Letter to: HR@MSIvt.com. institution for this position. This institution is an E.O.E. all phases of dentistry. We are a busy, high-end practice with a focus on exceptional dentistry.

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Please send resume to: penny@ contemporarydentalartsvt. com. This position is with Contemporary Dental Arts, the office of Dr. Lauren Shanard.

Excellent compensation! E.O.E.

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The Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District – a nineteen-member union municipality located in Montpelier, Vermont -- is hiring a General Manager. The General Manager oversees nine full-time and five part-time employees, manages an annual budget of $1 million and is responsible for the 5:45 PM performance of the District. The primary role includes staff assistance to the Board of Supervisors in formulating and implementing policies, managing personnel and financial resources, and representing the District with municipalities, members of the public and solid waste partners. The General Manager’s duties include coordination of solid waste planning and implementing projects; budget and capital plan preparation and monitoring; human resources administration; oversight of ongoing programming and operations; personnel management; grant administration; compliance with federal and state laws; technical assistance to the Board of Supervisors, local officials, and persons requesting to communicate with the District.

This is an exempt full-time position. Starting range of $62,000 to $75,000 (negotiated rate), plus generous benefits package. For full details please visit cvswmd.org.

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FULL-TIME COMPLIANCE & QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER

GENERAL MANAGER

MICHELLE@SEVENDAYSVT.COM

To apply send resume, cover letter, writing sample and three references to administration@cvswmd.org, or General Manager Search, CVSWMD, 137 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT 05602.

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This is a senior level position at innovative community mental health agency. Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, ethical standards, and effective clinical care. Duties include analyzing data and communicating insights, setting direction, developing programs and policies, and participating in risk management efforts. Conduct investigations, manage grievances and appeals, and respond to incident reports as needed. Act as the agency’s Privacy Officer.

The ideal candidate will have a background in management in community mental health. Also essential is the demonstrated ability to achieve results across a wide spectrum of programs and micro-cultures within the organization. Other requirements include a Master’s Degree in a related field, knowledge of applicable regulations (like HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Stark), experience in administering information privacy laws, strong data skills, and excellent written and oral communication.

Familiarity with Vermont’s Designated Agency system is a plus.

CSAC is known as a leader in community mental health practices.

We are committed to the principles of continuous improvement, open communication, and creative problem solving. The work environment is flexible and mission-focused, with a strong culture.

Please fill out an application on our website, csac-vt.org/career, or send a resume and cover letter to apply@csac-vt.org.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Building a community where everyone participates, and everyone belongs.

LITIGATION ATTORNEY

Nursing Opportunity TEMPORARY POSITIONS The following Temporary Positions are available November 1 – March 31 in our Warming Shelter:

Part Time, Saturday - Sunday 5 p.m. and 1 a.m.

Full Time, Monday - Friday 5 p.m. and 1 a.m.

For more info, go to: https://bit. ly/2lvAUh5

EVENT & PROGRAM ASSISTANT

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For more detail, see vtmd. org/job-posting-vmsseeking-event-andprogram-assistant. To apply, submit cover letter, resume and 3 references to cmagne@vtmd.org.

No telephone inquiries.

Applications accepted until position filled.

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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.

CCS offers a team-oriented environment, comprehensive training, benefits and a competitive salary. Send your letter of interest and application to Elizabeth Sightler, esightler@ ccs-vt.org

Shared Living Provider

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we seek to increase the diversity within our firm. Please send a cover letter and resume to applications@ dunkielsaunders.com.

Open your accessible home to someone with an intellectual disability or autism and make a positive impact on their life, and yours! A generous stipend, paid time off (respite), comprehensive training & supports are provided. CCS is currently offering a variety of opportunities that could be the perfect match for your household and lifestyle.

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The Vermont Medical Society, a statewide physician membership organization, is seeking a full-time event and program assistant to provide administrative and project support to the organization.

Schedule generally 5 days per week, 7 ½ hours/day.

Rate is $18-20/hour, DOE. Generous benefits package including health insurance.

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.

Part time, flexible position supporting individuals through our developmental services and Homeward programs. This is an exciting and unique opportunity for a registered nurse who wants to make an impact on a variety of individuals.

Responsibilities include training of staff, quality assurance, general nursing oversight and advocacy for consumers.

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DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

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Join NPI, Vermont’s premier Technology Management firm.

Have fun and delight clients.

NPI appreciates its staff, and offers a pet-friendly office, generous time off, matching 401k, family health coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts, open-book management, and profit-sharing.

Systems Engineer

The City of Montpelier is seeking a Director of Finance. The Director of Finance reports to the City Manager and has primary responsibility for financial management and information technology for the City of Montpelier. This position directly supervises 7 employees, oversees financial services contracts, and has responsibility for the complete budget. The City of Montpelier employees 113 FTEs and has a general fund budget of $14.5M. BA/BS in Finance, Public Administration, or related fields is required.

MA preferred. Significant experience in key administrative position within a public/non-profit agency with responsibility for budget.

Direct experience in municipal government is preferred. Familiarity with human resources management and employee benefit programs is preferred. Direct experience in municipal government preferred.

Familiarity with Vermont municipal regulations/policies a plus.

You will be a member of our crack Engineering team and install and support core client systems. If you are expert in any one of these areas, you’ll fit in well, and have the opportunity to grow into others: Microsoft servers, cloud services, and/or collaboration tools; switching and wireless; security and firewalls. Requires three-plus years of full-time IT infrastructure experience.

Learn more: http://tinyurl.com/NPI-Engineer-SD

Canopy IT Support Technician As a member of our top-flight Canopy team, you will be a go-to for products and applications clients rely on every day.

Sound The team handles support requests, monitors network components, interesting? configures workstations and users, Apply online automates service delivery, reports on today! system health, and resolves issues. You will work in our office most days, with occasional visits to client sites. One year fulltime IT experience required.

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End-User Support Specialist

The salary range is $75,000 to $89,000 annually based on qualifications. This is an exempt salaried position with benefits offered per the City’s Personnel Plan.

Please submit a cover letter and resume by November 8, 2019 to jcarroll@montpelier-vt.org.

Montpelier is an equal opportunity employer. A full job description is available at montpelier-vt.org/Financedirector.

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You will work at client sites to keep end-users happy, their workstations running fast, and their applications working smoothly. You will be exposed to a variety of technical issues and will manage workstations, applications, printers, and enduser IT access, all with the support of the other members of the excellent Canopy team. A strong knowledge of Windows 10 and PC applications is required.

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Pizza 44, a one-year young South End restaurant, is searching for an experienced restaurant front end manager. Great opportunity for a focused, customer experience driven professional. We make some of the best food in Vermont and desire to deliver service that is equal to our food.

If you want to be part of a growing family-oriented business that takes great pride in both food and staff, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss this unique employment opportunity. Contact: info@pizza44vt.com.

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Program Coordinator We are recruiting a part-time coordinator (18 hours/week) to develop and manage a new Shared Services program for childcare providers. The coordinator, in collaboration with program members, will oversee the creation and implementation of shared services. This is an exciting opportunity to build a program from the ground up! For a complete job description visit childcareresource.org.

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DIRECTOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES Are you a cleaning expert? Do you have some solid cleaning experience and are ready to take it to the next level? We want to talk with you!

Elderwood at Burlington, a Skilled Nursing Facility, is seeking a Director of Environmental Services to join our team! This Full Time career opportunity is a fantastic chance to join a growing organization that truly represents a team atmosphere!

The Director assists with ensuring the health and well-being of our residents by being responsible for the staffing and operation of the Housekeeping and Laundry Department.

Our facility also offers updated equipment and technology for our nursing team, recent renovations, and convenient parking among additional perks! Apply today: elderwoodcareers.com or directly: bit.ly/2Mr7FqG

Vermont Interfaith Power and Light is looking for a coordinator to assist with communication, fundraising, event planning, membership growth and other support activities. Computer skills a must. Excellent writing skills, a passion for environmental issues, and an understanding of interfaith matters necessary. Position is 12 hours/week, $20/hour, work from home. Some travel required. Email cover letter and resume: janedwinell@gmail.com.

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SECURITY PROFESSIONAL Full Time

Allied Universal is currently seeking a Full Time Security Professional to help oversee operations at a Manufacturing Site in Burlington, Vermont.

• Starting Wage - $17.00 Per Hour • Multiple Shifts Available • Paid Orientation • Employee referral program • Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k and Work Perk Discounts Send resumes to: Eric.Willard@aus.com

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Middlebury College seeks a Social Media Strategist and Content Producer to help position Middlebury and its people as current, consequential, and engaged in the world’s challenging issues. And through an imaginative use of social media, motivate our stakeholders to join us in Middlebury’s work to bring about a world with a robust, inclusive public sphere, where ethical citizens work across intellectual, geographic, and cultural boundaries.

Bachelor’s degree in new media communications, communications, journalism, English, or similar fields, or equivalent experience. Minimum of four years of social media strategy and content production experience relevant to the knowledge, skills, and abilities referenced above.

Must have proven track record of developing sophisticated, strategic approaches to social media; demonstrated strong interest in content marketing tactics and strategy; expertise managing social media platforms; excellent writing and editing skills; excellent photography and videography skills; proficiency with MS Office suite of tools; strong interpersonal and communication skills; strong organizational skills and attention to detail, and a commitment to professionalism, deadlines, and teamwork.

To view the complete job description and apply online, visit https://apptrkr.com/1658644 Middlebury College employees enjoy a high quality of life with excellent compensation; competitive health, dental, retirement, and vision benefits; and educational assistance programs EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability Untitled-12 1

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UNISERV DIRECTOR/ORGANIZER Vermont-NEA is seeking to fill a UniServ Director/Organizer position to serve our statewide network of local Associations.

We are accepting applications until the position is filled, and we will interview finalist candidates as soon as possible. The starting date is as soon as practicable, and the position is based in Montpelier, Vermont but requires significant travel throughout the state. The pay and benefits are generously part of and pursuant to a collectively bargained agreement.

Duties include assisting local educator unions building capacity with organizing, training for collective bargaining, and grievance processing around working conditions and professional issues, and engaging with local union members. The UniServ Director/ Organizer position will work with Vermont-NEA’s professional staff and work in concert with our legal, communications, program benefits, and professional development personnel.

The successful candidate will have unusually strong and broad skills, including: unlimited dedication to the interests of both public education and public school educators in Vermont; thoughtful and deep affinity for the labor movement; strong understanding of class analysis and tools to implement economic social justice; excellent interpersonal skills both with groups and with individuals, including the ability to provide education/training to adults; extensive ability to work collaboratively as well as individually; thorough working knowledge of employee rights as well as education and labor laws and processes; appreciation for the role of labor unions; excellent oral and written communication skills; understanding of public policy issues/trends affecting public education and educators; interest and involvement in political action activities as they relate to public education and educators; good computer abilities; a willingness to work many evenings and some weekends on Vermont-NEA business; requires reliable transportation.

Please send application letter, resume, two or three writing samples, and names/contact information of three references to Jeff Fannon, Executive Director, Vermont-NEA, 10 Wheelock Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602-3737. Direct phone and email inquiries to (800) 649-6375 or kferguson@vtnea.org.

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DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Copley Hospital is a vital and integral part of our local community, our employees are skilled in their areas of responsibility and our size allows us to offer a personal touch to our patients. Supporting one another is central to our culture.

We are looking for a Director of Information Technology who will lead and support the Information Technology Team, plan and direct all aspects of design, implementation and maintenance of information systems to effectively apply technology solutions, and is responsible for translating the mission, strategic goals and program priorities of the organization into department operations. The Director will evaluate IT resources and structure and provide leadership focused on service, accountability and delivery with a concentration on clinical decisionmaking and process integration.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (Master’s preferred) and five years of successful IT leadership in a Healthcare setting.

VISIT WWW.COPLEYVT.ORG/CAREERS OR APPLY IN PERSON TO: COPLEY HOSPITAL HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE HEALTH CENTER BUILDING, 2ND FLOOR 528 WASHINGTON HIGHWAY MORRISVILLE, VERMONT 05661

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Associate Retirement Plan Administrator

We are a locally owned Retirement Plan Consulting and Administration Firm seeking a creative, energetic and detail oriented individual to join our professional team to provide support and assist Senior Pension Consultants within a team environment. The successful candidate will develop a thorough knowledge of the regulatory environment surrounding qualified retirement plans and gain experience with plan design and operation. Professional growth potential through training is offered; prior experience is not required. We offer a full benefit package.

This is not a telecommute position.

Qualifications include: proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (Excel and Word), mathematics/accounting skills, excellent written/verbal communication with sound problem solving and decision making skills.

Email your resume to erin@futureplanningassoc.com or mail to:

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LNAs/EXPERIENCED CAREGIVERS SIGN ON BONUS OF $2,500

The Arbors at Shelburne, a Benchmark Senior Living Community, offers our employees an extensive benefits package, award benefits as well as employee appreciation days each month.

The Arbors at Shelburne is currently recruiting for licensed nursing assistants or experience caregivers. We have full and part time openings on our day and evening shifts, in our community dedicated to seniors living with memory challenges. We offer competitive shift and weekend differentials. Salary up to $21.00/hour based on experience.

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Please call to schedule an interview or stop in to complete an application.

The Arbors at Shelburne Attn: Human Resources 687 Harbor Road Shelburne, VT. 05482 (802) 985-8600 phurteau@benchmarkquality.com

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FIRE CHIEF The Town of Colchester is seeking its first town-wide Fire Chief.

The Fire Chief will evolve the Town’s fire services from three fire departments with a total of approximately 90 volunteers to a town-wide fire department with career staff augmenting volunteers. Three career firefighters will provide coverage during weekday daytime when we have a deficit of volunteer respondents to structure fires. The fire department will continue to assist the separate Rescue department. This will require leadership, technical firefighting and managerial abilities, as well as aptitude for working with volunteers.

Candidates should have significant experience in administration of a fire department. Professionalism, integrity, credibility, and strong customer service are musts. A record of successful implementation of change in fire human resources, technology, and practices; data-driven decision-making; strong written, verbal, public, and organizational communications skills; effective emergency management; strategic planning; problem solving; and a commitment to continuous improvement to provide the highest level of fire services given the available resources is required. Given the significant volunteer component, candidate should expect to become active in the Colchester community.

See colchestervt.gov/321/Human-Resources to view job description and to apply online. Hiring salary range is $80,941-$83,387, plus a competitive benefit package.

Submit cover letter, resume and application by November 1, 2019 to slabarge@colchestervt.gov. E.O.E.

American Flatbread, Middlebury Hearth is interviewing for a Prep Leader. We are looking for someone with the ability to see a job through to completion, great communication skills, and an enthusiasm for cooking with local, seasonal, and organic foods.

Baking, knife skills and prep experience are helpful, but we are happy to train the right candidate and value a positive attitude above all. Full time, Tues-Sat, 8:30-4:30 pm.

Please stop in or download an application at: americanflatbread.com and forward it to Chef Samantha: samantha@ americanflatbread.com.

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING RESOURCES (ETR) IS SEEKING TO FILL THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS AT NORTHLANDS JOB CORPS:

Academics

• Academics Instructor (Math) - Bachelor’s Degree and Vermont State Teacher Certification.

Finance

• Finance Assistant (Part-time) - Post-Secondary degree in Accounting, Business Administration or related field.

Food Services • Cook Assistant

Security, Safety & Transportation

**Campus Monitor (4 Full Time Positions Available!) – High School Diploma required • Campus Monitors On-Call - High School Diploma required

Independent Living

• Life Skills Secretary/SGA – High School Diploma required • Residential Counselor – 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 (Full/Time) – High School Diploma required **Recreation Aide (P/T) – High School Diploma required • Recreation Aide (On-Call) – High School Diploma required

100A MacDonough Dr. Vergennes, VT 05491 802-877-0159

Please submit all applications to our applicant portal at www.etrky.com for all roles in Vergennes, VT. Employment will be at a Federal Department of Labor facility. All applicants will be subject to drug testing and a full background check. **Critical need positions! E.O.E. OF FEMALES/MINORITIES. 7t-NorthlandsJobCorps102319.indd 1

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VIETNAMESE INTERPRETER/ TRANSLATOR ESSEX WESTFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT LEGAL ADMINISTRATIVE / PARALEGAL / EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAL

Our Essex Westford School District is seeking an "on-call," as needed Vietnamese interpreter/translator to provide oral translation at parent/ teacher meetings, and written translation of specific school documents (e.g., grade reports, letters, etc.). Position pays $50.00/hour for oral translation for up to one hour/meeting, and $50/page for written translation (or $25/page if previously translated with minor edits).

Kirkpatrick & Goldsborough, PLLC, a South Burlington, Vermont law firm, is seeking to hire a highly-motivated individual to provide administrative support to a senior partner and other attorneys doing primarily litigation support.

Candidates must be executive secretary caliber, detail-oriented while maintaining efficiency, have strong verbal, written and comprehension skills, and be a team player able to: answer phones, greet clients, order supplies, check in mail, billing, organizing discovery, filing documents, and typing.

Candidate must be flexible and have the ability to manage multiple projects for multiple attorneys, strong technical skills and a working knowledge of MS Office applications a must.

Prior office/business experience, prior business/legal experience is a must. References (3) are required.

Salary is commensurate upon ability and experience.

Forward cover letter, resume to: Mary Kirkpatrick, Esq., Kirkpatrick & Goldsborough, PLLC, 1233 Shelburne Rd., Suite E1, South Burlington, VT 05403, or by email to: mkirkpatrick@vtlawfirm.com.

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Qualified candidates must be able to provide English to Vietnamese and Vietnamese to English translation, and have excellent oral and/or written translation/interpretation skills. Excellent interpersonal skills, and an understanding of the diverse cultures of the individuals being served is also required. Preferred candidates have some experience providing translation services in a professional setting. Candidates must also live within driving distance to our school district and be able to attend school-based meetings. For more information or consideration, please visit schoolspring.com and enter Job ID 3171447.

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BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONISTS ESSEX HIGH SCHOOL We are seeking skilled individuals to work with students with significant emotional challenges and mental health issues and/or to provide discreet trial instruction and specialized supports to a student(s) at Essex High School beginning with the 2019-20 school year. We are seeking candidates with the following qualifications: • 1 to 2 years of directly related experience or training working with children on the autism spectrum and/or with severe emotional disturbances preferred.

• Able to implement behavioral modification plans, provide crisis intervention, manage aggressive behaviors and work on a multidisciplinary team.

• Ability to use adaptive technology.

• Working knowledge of autism spectrum disorders and severe emotional disturbances including teaching methods, theories and laws.

• Understanding of standard classroom operations and teaching methods.

• Willingness and ability to be trained in restrictive behavioral intervention.

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as educational plans and behavioral data.

• Ability to attend an evening course on direct instruction and after-school training sessions.

• Must be committed to working effectively with diverse community populations and expected to strengthen such capacity if hired.

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, mental health, education or other appropriate discipline desired.

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 are committed to the success of all students but do not meet all qualifications listed above, you are still encouraged to apply.

Positions pay $19.50/hour for up to 6.5 hours/day during the school year. Additional hours may also be needed for attendance at special meetings or training before or after school. Excellent benefits package available including family medical and dental insurance, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, retirement plan with up to 6% employer contribution, and paid sick and personal leave.

For consideration, please apply electronically through schoolspring.com (Job ID 3188291). If you do not have access to a computer and/or are having difficulty completing the Schoolspring application, please call 802-857-7038 for assistance or to make alternative arrangements to have your application considered.

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GRANTS AND CONTRACTS ACCOUNTANT We are seeking a Grants and Contracts Accountant to join the Finance Team at Capstone Community Action.

The Grants and Contracts Accountant will work closely with program managers to develop grant budgets and monitor grant financial progress. This position is responsible for completion of federal, state and private grant financial reporting and will maintain the agency’s grants database. The Grants and Contracts Accountant will gain a strong understanding of federal and state grant regulations and Office of Management and Budget Uniform Guidance and will assist program staff in understanding the regulations.

This position serves as backup for the Accounting Manager. The ideal candidate will have a degree in accounting or business. Prior experience in fund accounting and federal grants management is a plus, but can be learned on the job. Strong interpersonal skills a must. Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest and resume to:

Capstone Community Action, Inc. Human Resources 20 Gable Place Barre, VT 05641 Or e-mail to: jobs@capstonevt.org Capstone offers a generous benefits package, including health and dental insurance, paid vacation, sick and personal time, 12 paid holidays, and 401k match.

Capstone Community Action is an E.O.E. and Provider.

Applications from women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and people with diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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DIGITAL ARCHIVIST Lake Champlain Access Television, a non-profit community media center, is searching for highly-organized candidates capable of working independently for a temporary Digital Archivist position. This person will be responsible for converting a collection of VHS and DVD media into digital files and storing them in accordance with current practices.

Please email for a full job description. No phone calls, please. info@lcatv.org

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Engaging minds that change the world Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions.

Divisional Administrative Manager - Division of Finance & Facilities (DFF) - #S2291PO - The University of Vermont’s Division of Finance & Facilities (DFF) is seeking an experienced professional to lead and manage the Department of Finance & Facilities Administration, dedicated to improving the organizational effectiveness of the division, and the operational efficiency of the enterprise-wide services it provides. This position will manage a team of professional and support staff who provide analytical and transactional services and support, internal and external communications, training coordination, and special projects support to DFF departments and end-users of UVM’s financial and facilities services. Develop working partnerships with DFF leadership and staff, members of UVM’s financial and facilities management community, the Administrative Business Service Center (ABSC), Human Resource Services, and other University stakeholders. Report to the Vice President for Finance and Treasurer.

Minimum Qualifications include: Bachelor’s degree and seven years’ related experience. Well-developed managerial, decision-making, planning, organizational, and problem-resolution skills. Effective communication skills and ability to use them effectively with both internal and external constituents.

Demonstrated financial responsibility and comprehensive knowledge of accounting, financial reporting and analysis, strategic planning and resource allocation, and financial internal control concepts and systems. Demonstrated ability to manage and develop employees and relationships, inspire a high level of commitment and performance, and influence outcomes. Facility with the collection, collation, and presentation of data and business process management concepts. Must be innovative and able to effectively lead, participate in, and actively manage change in the business environment, with demonstrated ability to work across organizational constituencies. Advanced computer proficiency including ERP and Excel software applications.

Senior Summer Housing Coordinator - University Event Services #S2297PO - The Senior Summer Housing Coordinator provides strategic oversight and management of our non-academic Summer Housing program.

Each summer, this position supports 80+ overnight conferences, camps, intern programs and events, which generate over $800,000 in gross annual revenue for the University. The Coordinator oversees a team of professional and student staff.

This position will work directly with clients to ensure contracts, liability insurance and payments are accurate and on time. The Coordinator will also be responsible for accurate billing for facility use, and other services rendered. This position will work closely with the Assistant Director to develop marketing goals and review income/expense activities. While this job largely has regular administrative hours, early mornings, nights and weekend hours will be required more often during the pre/post-summer preparation and applicants should expect the summer season (end of May through mid-August) will require more work schedule flexibility.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in related field, two to four years’ supervision of staff/students, project coordination, process improvement, budget management experience. Effective interpersonal, organizational, communication, analytical skills and coordination of multiple client programs. Ability to demonstrate an ongoing commitment to workplace diversity, environmental sustainability, safety, delivering exceptional value and experience for our clients.

Desirable Qualifications: Higher education experience in Residential Life or Conference & Events Services, knowledge of UVM’s facilities, policies, and software systems. Supervision and team development experience. Familiarity with space reservation and client management software.

For further information on these positions and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit www.uvmjobs.com. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Open positions are updated daily. Please call 802-656-3150 or email employment@uvm.edu for technical support with the online application.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR

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Cost: $710.60 (with 1 week online) We are seeking a dynamicRESIDENTIAL individual to join our residential mortgage lending MORTGAGE team working out of our St. Albans office.

LOAN ASSISTANT

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Union Bank is the tional leading Vermont bank skills, and thebased abilitycommunity to multi-task are mortgage essential. loan originator in the state and has been named the Vermont USDA Rural Development Lender of the Year for the past six years and a VHFA Top Performer. We offer a comprehensive array of loan products including construction, conventional, VHFA, FHA, VA, RD, PMI and portfolio loans. As a locally based community bank, we are able to make decisions quickly. We offer challenging and rewarding career opportunities, and are committed Union Bank offers competitive wages, a comprehensive to excellence and benefi providing you the tools and support to be successful. ts package, training for professional developUnion Bank offers ment, a comprehensive compensation and benefits To be strong advancement potential, stable hoursprogram. and supportiveplease work environment.

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EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO HUMAN RESOURCES ESSEX WESTFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT

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

We are now accepting applications for an Executive Assistant position to serve our Human Resource functions. The Executive Assistant to Human Resources will assist 2h-ACHathorne030619.indd 1 the Human Resource Director by coordinating and performing a variety of project management and executive assistant duties and support functions. The position shall facilitate and manage support for one-time and ongoing Human Resource related projects and manage tasks/resources as directed by the Human Resource Director.

The Executive Assistant to Human Resources ensures timely and appropriate support, communication and response regarding Human Resource initiatives, directives and TECHNOLOGY projects as initiated by the Human Resource Director or other Human Resource Staff.

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SPECIALIST I

Job Goal: This position is responsible for ensuring the smooth operations of all technology for the district.

We are seeking candidates with the following qualifications: • Proficient technology skills and commitment to continually expand knowledge in this area • Excellent written and oral communication skills • Excellent interpersonal skills. Positive disposition. Empathic to the needs of others • Adaptable/flexible • Able to maximize opportunities for greater efficiencies • Proven ability to work effectively without specific direction, and with minimal supervision.

• Has a personal drive to succeed

Essential Duties include the following:

• Manages the Technology Helpdesk • Supports PCs, PC operating systems, and manages network accounts • Monitors help desk ticket systems and assigns and/or resolves tickets accordingly • Provides on-site and remote support to multiple schools • Performs hardware and software evaluations • Installs, updates, and supports a wide variety of software • Maintains district inventory database • Assists with the deployment of devices • Exhibits commitment to the district’s vision plan • Performs other tasks and duties as assigned by the Technology Director This is a full-time, full-year position with a generous benefits package. Interested candidates must apply online at SchoolSpring.com. Job #3184005.

The successful candidate will have the ability to: • Work under pressure, and be flexible in adapting and responding to changing situations • Identify and analyze organizational needs • Gather and analyze data, draw conclusions, identify alternative solutions, project consequences of proposed actions, and implement recommendations • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees at every level of the organization • Influence others to work together towards common goals through building trust and being transparent • Make independent decisions with decisiveness • Present views in a clear and compelling manner and develop trust and influence as a thought leader • Work effectively in a diverse work group and respects and values multiple perspectives and opinions • Work independently, as well as a member of a team • Meet deadlines without compromising project quality and/or implementation and fidelity • Manage multiple conflicting priorities

TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST III Colchester School District is seeking a Technology Specialist III who will be responsible for providing backup to the network engineer and perform other system administration jobs. We are looking for someone who is highly organized, pays close attentions to details, works well in a team, and has strong communication skills.

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 are committed to our District’s vision and believe you have what it takes to succeed in this position but do not meet all qualifications listed above, you are still encouraged to apply.

Position pays $20.00 to $25.00/hour depending on experience. Excellent benefits package available including family medical and dental insurance; 30K term life insurance; professional development funds; retirement plan with up to 6% employer contribution; and paid vacation and other leaves.

For more information or to apply, please visit schoolspring.com, enter Job ID 3187671.

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• Responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of system solutions • Provides data management support for a variety of applications • Schedules and performs preventative and regular software and hardware maintenance and upgrades • Designs new computer applications and modifies existing systems • Automates processes to streamline operations • Monitors all network applications and resolves issues • Research and evaluates new technologies and remains current with technology trends • Exhibits commitment to the district’s vision plan • Performs other tasks and duties as assigned by the Technology Director

Interested candidates must apply online at SchoolSpring.com. Job #3179469.

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