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epublican Gov. Phil Scott easily won a second twoyear term on Tuesday, beating Democratic challenger Christine Hallquist. But the Berlin Republican seemed likely to face an emboldened Democratic majority, which appeared to pick up several seats in the Vermont House. “The message Vermonters have sent to us tonight is clear: Work together,” Scott said at a Republican celebration at the DoubleTree in South Burlington. Despite her loss, Hallquist made history as the first transgender gubernatorial candidate to win the backing of a major political party. “It’s been very amazing, and I’m very proud of the campaign that we have run,” she told Democrats at the Hilton Burlington. “We’ve sparred well, and I think Vermont is a beacon of hope. We’ve showed the rest of the country what good democracy looks like.” In the lieutenant gubernatorial race, Progressive/ Democratic incumbent David Zuckerman defeated House Minority Leader Don Turner (R-Milton). Vermont’s other statewide incumbent Democrats and Progressives — Attorney General T.J. Donovan, Treasurer Beth Pearce, Secretary of State Jim Condos and Auditor Doug Hoffer — also prevailed.

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In Vermont’s two federal races, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) easily won reelection over Manchester Republican Lawrence Zupan, and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) won a seventh term, besting GOP challenger Anya Tynio of Charleston. “We don’t know what the overall election results for the United States will be tonight,” Sanders told Democratic supporters at the Hilton. “But what we do know is that this is a pivotal moment in American history.” Voters were pushing back against the divisive policies of President Donald Trump, he said. Welch touched on similar themes when he addressed the room. “The guardrails of democracy are under attack,” he said. “We are for a free press. We are for the rule of law. We are for respecting people no matter their race.” In closely watched local referenda, Queen City voters agreed to fund a $70 million plan to extensively rebuild Burlington High School, as well as a nearly $30 million initiative to improve stormwater and wastewater systems. Seven Days reporters and photographers covered those races and more on Tuesday night. Read all our coverage and look for follow-up stories on sevendaysvt.com.

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1. “Naked and Unafraid: Vermont Women Strip Down to ‘Grab Them by the Ballot’” by Sasha Goldstein. A group of Vermont women posed nude for a get-out-the-vote initiative. 2. “Obituary: Madelyn Linsenmeir, 19882018” This honest, heartbreaking account of a Vermont woman’s struggle with opioid addiction went viral. 3. “Vermont Candidate Promises Weekly ‘Governor’s Pardon TV Show’” by Taylor Dobbs. Independent Cris Ericson proposed a nationally televised show in which a booing or cheering crowd would decide the fate of state prisoners. 4. “Vermont Law School Professor Blows Whistle on Scheme Targeting Mueller” by Mark Davis. Jennifer Taub says she received an email offering to pay her for dirt on Special Counsel Robert Mueller. 5. “As He Considers a 2020 Presidential Run, Bernie Sanders Refuses to Pledge to Serve Full Senate Term” by Taylor Dobbs. During a candidate forum, the incumbent senator said he hasn’t decided whether he’ll run for president again.

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solar panel that president Jimmy Carter erected on the White House grounds in 1979 is now on display at the Hinesburg headquarters of NRG Systems. The Vermont company obtained the panel nearly a decade ago, but it was only this spring that NRG hung it on a wall in the building’s main meeting space. “It’s a nice little display, and it’s pretty inspiring to us,” said Brittany Good, the content marketing specialist at the renewable energy company. “It invigorates our mission and what we do here. Glad to have it up, finally!”

The panel was one of 32 in a roofmounted array that heated water at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue until thenpresident Ronald Reagan had them removed in 1986. Unity College, an environmentally focused liberal arts school in Maine, obtained the array in 1991 and put 16 of the panels atop its cafeteria; they’re still in use, according to Good. Most solar panels nowadays are photovoltaic and convert sunlight into energy more efficiently than the solar-thermal panels Carter unveiled 39 years ago as a groundbreaking technology. NRG began as a wind power company in 1982 but has since embraced all kinds of renewable energy, according to Good. The company wrote to Carter to

inform him about the display. The 94-year-old Georgian responded with a handwritten note, saying he was “proud of NRG.” The company hung the letter next to the panel. Also on the wall are photos of Carter at the array’s 1979 White House dedication. Good said Carter’s speech at the event is “poignant now, because it’s so hopeful.” World leaders, though, have done little in the intervening decades to slow climate change. “To know that we were so close and kind of veered off that path for a while is sad, but that’s kind of what inspires us here to keep doing what we’re doing,” Good said. “It’s not ‘all hope is lost.’ There’s still a chance to right our wrongs and find a more sustainable path forward.” SASHA GOLDSTEIN SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 7-14, 2018

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FLYING BLIND?

In the October 17 story “Taking Off,” Beta Technologies founder Kyle Clark asserts that electric planes will be cheaper to operate. The article continues: “As of last week, jet fuel was selling for $5.64 per gallon at BTV. ‘That 429 out there,’ Clark said, referring to a Bell helicopter in the hangar, ‘will cost $3,600 an hour to operate. The aircraft we’re developing ... will cost somewhere around $100 an hour.’” Somebody is off by an order of magnitude. The Bell 429 burns 217 gallons of fuel in four and a half hours. That works out to be approximately 50 gallons per hour, or roughly $300 dollars per hour. Casey Davis

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[Re Off Message: “After Buying AirportArea Homes to Raze, Burlington Wants to Save Some,” October 16]: Your article fails to mention that the City of Burlington’s decision not to demolish the Lily Lane properties, purchased through a Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program grant, may be in violation of the grant assurances that the airport gave to the FAA. Whether or not you agree with the acquisition and demolition initiative, the violation of grant assurances can result in fines and the airport’s inability to get future FAA grants for critical airport improvements, putting the airport’s future ability to serve the traveling public at risk. The decision to allow airport employees to live rent-free in these properties — which we, the U.S. taxpayers, have paid for — should cause great concern. Like the Burlington Telecom debacle, this provides further evidence that it is time to consider a new governance model for the airport. There is currently no space available at BTV for additional aircraft owned by local businesses. These aircraft enable businesses to serve customers beyond our local area, which ultimately results in job growth to our region. The airport recently took over a general aviation hangar for use by airport maintenance vehicles, and there are no plans from BTV or the City of Burlington to support this critical need. It is time to move the airport to a regional airport authority that will

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While reading the Emoji That column [Last Seven: “Return to Sender,” October 31], I saw the item regarding the signs reading “It’s OK to be white” and how officials at both the University of Vermont and Champlain College denounced the message. Now, I don’t know what organization put those signs up, and I may or may not support that organization, but would those officials have denounced the signs if they said “Being Gay Is OK” or “Being Black Is OK”? Why is being white not OK? There are people of all races, genders, etc. who are bad, yet there are people of all races, genders, etc. who are good. I am centerright in my views, yet I have no problem with the Black Lives Matter movement. But why, when I say “All lives matter” am I wrong? Is it because I am white? Being white is OK, just as being gay is OK, being black is OK, etc. What’s wrong is being ignorant of others and their beliefs. Paul T. Tullgren

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has such anger and judgment issues. They have not only hurt many people whom he verbally attacked, but also hurt so many of us who have truly enjoyed Magnolia’s meals. We traveled from Ripton to eat there. It’s very sad that he can negatively impact so many people. Lynn Coeby

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SAVE, DON’T PAVE, THE PARK

The planned boondoggle City Hall Park redesign does not just interfere with the farmers market [“Uprooted: Burlington Farmers Market Seeks a New Home,” October 31]. The approved plan lacks common sense. It rips out several of the existing walkways and replaces them with walkways located just a few feet to the side of where the walkways are now — aiming at where mature and healthy trees lining that side now stand. Moving the existing walkways to the side thus requires a dozen beautiful mature and healthy trees to be cut down. All this moving of walkways and cutting of trees is a $4 million cost to the city! Why? When most of what is needed is ordinary walkway maintenance and to aerate the soil with a machine the city already owns. Simply aerating the soil will allow grass to grow, tree health to improve and rainwater to be better retained. And what is the purpose of paving over more of our sole city center green space? This is a plan that needs to be stopped in its tracks. The planned park redesign degrades a gem of a City Hall Park that has character and charm. Surely the real purpose of

“So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal.” I could not get those lyrics — from the great folk songwriter Phil Ochs — out of my mind when I saw Seven Days commenting on the Vermont Supreme Court decision denying South Burlington residents the right to a referendum on the decision to change the school’s mascot name [Emoji That: “Lost Cause,” October 31]. The name change was initiated in response to a survey in which about 5 percent of South Burlington High School students conveyed that they were offended by the term “Rebels” because of its association with slavery and the Confederate States of America. The new mascot name is the Wolves — predators that hunt in packs. Ever see one at work? They are quite efficient, but being its target would not be a pleasant experience. After an exhausting pursuit, a big animal is brought down and the pack rips into it with powerful canine teeth. Wolves do maintain ecological balance, but the kill is gruesome. The word “rebel” often describes someone who fights against tyranny and injustice. So the South Burlington School Board, school superintendent, the Vermont Supreme Court and now Vermont’s iconic liberal weekly newspaper have all either acquiesced or voiced their support for a mascot name change that replaces a name that conveys someone who fights against injustice with one that conveys predation. So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal. Gerry Silverstein

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Hole in the Mall: It’s a ‘Precarious Moment’ for Burlington’s CityPlace Project

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The Whole Tooth? Head Warden Targeted for Covering His Tracks in Bear Case BY KATIE JICKLING

Last Stand: School Districts Vow to Fight Forced Mergers

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In Suburban South Burlington, a Holdout Farmer Plans to Expand BY MOLLY WALSH

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The Former Taft Elementary School Gets a UVM Do-Over Smoke and Mirrors Harks Back to Another Fraught Political Campaign BY JACQUELINE LAWLER

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Health: Stem cell clinics are opening in Vermont. Does the science support their healing claims? BY KEN PICARD

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Theater: Liza Jessie Peterson on her one-woman show “Down the Rabit Hole” BY DAN BOLLES

40 Stuck in Vermont: Samar Khan, the first Pakistani woman to summit Mount Kilimanjaro on a bike, came to Vermont recently to visit her mentor, Donna Carpenter, the co-CEO of Burton Snowboards. They met through the Global Sports Mentoring Program.

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Culture: Sips and snips at the Barbershop, Burlington’s first bar and barbershop BY DAN BOLLES

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ostelection hot take: Gov. PHIL SCOTT is a popular guy. FRIDAY > 7:30 P.M. The first-term Republican won reelection with relative GET MORE INFO OR ease on what was otherwise a bleak night WATCH ONLINE AT for the Vermont Republican Party. Sen. VERMONTCAM.ORG BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) and U.S. Rep. PETER WELCH (D-Vt.) sailed to victory. In fact, the Associated Press called Sanders’ win 16t-vcam-weekly.indd 1 11/5/18 12:00 PM at precisely 7 p.m., the moment the polls officially closed. Democrats also made gains in the Vermont House, perhaps even clinching a veto-proof majority. “The news out of Vermont this election was clear,” Scott said during a victory speech at the South Burlington DoubleTree. “We can disagree. We can debate. We can do it with passion. But in this state, we can do it respectfully.” With more than eight out of 10 precincts reporting at press time Tuesday night, Scott was leading Democratic nominee CHRISTINE HALLQUIST 54 percent to 40 percent. “It’s been an amazing campaign,” Hallquist said in a concession speech at the Hilton Burlington. “I’ve shed a lot 16t-shoplocal-guy.indd 1 4/24/12 3:56 PM of tears of joy for the people that have approached us over the last several days.” Turnout was unusually high for a nonpresidential election. As of press time, it appeared likely that Vermont would beat its 2006 record for most ballots cast in a midterm. Welch spoke about national politics Racist Ideas in America: when he addressed Democrats at the From Slavery to Black Hilton. “The question is, are we in it together, or is it winner take all and you’re Lives Matter on your own?” he asked. “That is the simple question that America is deciding across this land tonight.” Sanders entered the room to a rousing ovation and told the crowd that representing Vermont in the U.S. Senate has been “the honor of my life.” He then turned to the national scene. “We have a president who is a pathological liar and is doing something that no president in my lifetime has ever done,” Sanders said. “He is trying to divide us up based on the color of our skin, based on where we come from, based on our reliWith Ibram X. Kendi, winner of the National gion, based on our gender and based on Book Award for “Stamped from the Beginning” our sexual identity … All over this country the American people, led by the state of Friday, November 16, 7:30 pm Vermont, are going to stand up and fight Ira Allen Chapel back.” University of Vermont Scott held on to the governorship, but Republicans were locked out of the Free and open to all! other five statewide offices. Progressive/ vermonthumanities.org/kendi Democratic Lt. Gov. DAVID ZUCKERMAN,

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Democratic Attorney General T.J. DONOVAN, Democratic Treasurer BETH PEARCE, Democratic Secretary of State JIM CONDOS and Democratic/Progressive Auditor DOUG HOFFER all won with little trouble. Pearce, Condos and Hoffer faced nominal opposition, as their Republican challengers put little effort into their campaigns. Donovan prevailed over outgoing Rep. JANSSEN WILLHOIT (R-St. Johnsbury), who mounted a serious, credible campaign on the issues but could not overcome his late start and a lack of money. The biggest statewide disappointment for Republicans was House Minority Leader DON TURNER’s (R-Milton) failure to defeat Zuckerman. Turner raised an impressive amount of money, had plenty of support from his party and positioned himself as Scott’s partner in representing a moderate Republican agenda. The VTGOP also believed Zuckerman was far enough to the left to be potentially vulnerable.

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OTHER THAN PHIL SCOTT? It still wasn’t enough. Turner’s defeat again raises the question: How can Republicans compete statewide with a candidate other than Phil Scott? Early warning signs for Hallquist came from reliably Democratic precincts such as Waterbury, South Burlington, Springfield and Hinesburg, where she lost to Scott in a wave of ticket-splitting. Just about everywhere, Hallquist was well behind the pace set by Democratic legislative candidates. It had always been an uphill battle for Hallquist. She entered the race late, with no experience in electoral politics and very little name recognition. She struggled to raise money, even after a tsunami of worldwide publicity about her status as the first openly transgender person to lead a major party’s ticket. No national liberal or Democratic organizations spent significant money on her behalf. Democrats entered Tuesday hoping to gain a veto-proof majority in the House so that they could bypass the Republican governor. They needed a net gain of at least seven seats to get to the magic number of 100 Dems and Progs. Things were looking good for the Dems

as of press time. They had won eight seats currently held by Republicans, plus two seats currently occupied by independents. Notable losers included Reps. KURT WRIGHT (R-Burlington), PAUL POIRIER (I-Barre City), WARREN VAN WYCK (R-Vergennes) and FRED BASER (R-Bristol). Whether or not the Dems emerge with a supermajority, they will certainly strengthen their ranks. That will make it harder for Scott to pursue a hard line on taxes, budgets and school spending. In his first term he issued 14 vetoes, and all were sustained with the unified backing of House Republicans. In his second term, a stronger legislative opposition could significantly alter the balance of power in Montpelier.

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Taking part in political campaigns is an intense experience, whether you’re a candidate, staffer or volunteer. As this year’s election was in its closing days, I asked a number of candidates and workers — including some first-timers and some old hands in new roles — what they will take away from 2018. Many found Vermont politics to be invigorating. “There’s a different level of politeness,” said Vermont Republican Party executive director JACK MOULTON, who came here in March from New York State. “There’s still civility left in Vermont politics, which is refreshing.” DAVID GLIDDEN , spokesperson for Hallquist’s gubernatorial campaign, is a lifelong Vermonter with experience in New York politics. “I’ve always known what an open political culture we have, but it’s surprising how accessible people are,” he said. “When I try to reach legislators, I call their number and they pick up. That’s not a thing in any other state.” BRITTNEY WILSON , another Vermont native and the campaign manager for Gov. Scott, agreed that the state’s politics are different, but she added that the national scene is having an effect. “It seems like there’s a lot more voter apathy,” she said. “Washington is so consuming that people are turned off and disengaged.” For at least one first-time candidate, the process was discouraging. “I can’t stand campaigning,” said Rep. ED READ (I-Fayston), who was appointed by Scott in 2017 to fill a vacancy. “It’s a selfabsorbed, self-promoting operation. It has little to do with the issues.” Read, who owns two small businesses, added that the

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demands of running make it difficult for people like him to serve. ANDREW PERCHLIK is experienced in public policy circles as director of the Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund. But he was never a candidate until his run this year for state Senate in Washington County as a Democrat/Progressive. Perchlik discovered that Vermonters don’t pay much attention to state politics. “People didn’t know there was a primary,” he said of the August election. “They didn’t know their incumbents. People were energized, but mostly about [President DONALD] TRUMP and national politics.” For ALEX FARRELL, Republican candidate for state Senate in Chittenden County, campaigning was a mixed bag. He experienced a lot of positives, but “not everyone is friendly,” he said. “You’re in the public eye. People will say or write things about you. It’s a harsh reality.” As executive director of nonprofit Emerge Vermont, RUTH HARDY has taught other Democratic women how to run for office. This year she made the move herself, running for state Senate in Addison County. “I found myself hearing voices of our trainers in my head,” she said, referring to her time campaigning door-to-door. “I realized, ‘Oh, that’s why they told me to do this!’” SARA COFFEY is an Emerge alum who ran for a House district that includes Vernon and Guilford — “the Southeast Kingdom,” as she put it. “I was terrified when I learned that door-knocking was the key,” the Democrat said. “But that’s been the most important part of my campaign. I’ve had great conversations.” During her years as president of the Vermont-National Education Association, MARTHA ALLEN was a Statehouse fixture. This year she became a candidate for the first time, as the Democratic nominee for the House in the far northeast corner of the Northeast Kingdom — “the largest geographic district in the state,” she noted. Allen didn’t look forward to going door-to-door, but she found the experience rewarding — in fact, essential. “If I hadn’t been knocking on doors, I couldn’t truly represent the district,” she said. “People want to be heard and listened to,” added Hardy. “It’s amazing and humbling.” And sometimes a bit dispiriting. “I’ve met a lot of lonely elderly people.

They’re excited to have someone come to the door and listen to them,” Hardy observed. The lesson I’ve learned: Reporting on politics can turn into something like sportswriting. It’s all about who’s winning and losing, who’s got the best message or the biggest war chest. During this campaign, I reported on several House races. There, I found a place where politics is a matter not of money or slogans, but of real connection. Candidates actually know their communities firsthand. And, as Coffey put it, “I’m carrying their stories with me.”

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Those of you who still subscribe to the Burlington Free Press might have picked up your Wednesday edition expecting to see results from Tuesday’s election. If so, you were disappointed. “All of our election results will be provided online, and not in the Wednesday printed newspaper,” executive editor MICHAEL KILIAN announced in a November 2 note to subscribers. His rationale? Today’s readers expect to get their news on the spot. They don’t wait for the print edition anymore. The Free Press is merely meeting that demand by focusing on digital content, Kilian argued. Plausible enough. But there’s a corporate mandate behind the move. According to KEN DOCTOR of the Nieman Journalism Lab, all newspapers in the Gannett chain were ordered to put their papers to bed by midevening. The corporate overlords allowed a bit of wiggle room past the usual early evening deadline, but not enough to publish complete results. In other words, Kilian’s bosses gave him lemons, and he’s trying to sell us lemonade. Besides, these short-term tactical shifts don’t change the underlying reality of the business: Advertising revenue continues to plummet for dailies such as the Free Press, and digital revenue falls far short of making up the difference. Kilian is right that most people go online to get what he calls the “news of now.” With his limited staff, he can best serve readers by concentrating on web content. The problem is, few publishers have figured out a sustainable digital business model, even as they seem to be trying to kill their ink-and-paper outlets. m

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series of construction deadlines for the downtown CityPlace Burlington project have come and gone without any real progress, and city officials appear to be losing patience with the developer. Don Sinex vowed two years ago that the 14-story mall redevelopment would be open and occupied by January 2019. Later he said that the foundation would be poured by that date. The construction financing and tenant commitments have not come through, either. Last week, as snowflakes drifted into the gaping dirt hole in downtown Burlington, Sinex declined to make any more time-specific promises. He has been evasive with city officials for two months, according to emails obtained as part of a public records request, and would not provide Seven Days with an updated time line. If erected, CityPlace would be the tallest building in Vermont, with 288 apartments, 230,000 square feet of office space, and parking for hundreds of cars, plus a grocery store, a preschool and retail space. Now city officials are considering new ways to prod the New York City-based developer to get shovels in the ground. On Monday, Neale Lunderville, interim director of the Community & Economic Development Office, and a city consultant, Jeff Glassberg, will update the city council on the project. Their recap could determine next steps. The city’s development agreement with Sinex and his company, Devonwood Investors, offers Burlington some leverage, including the opportunity to take the developer to court if he does not get going. The 46-page legal document required that the work “continue without interruption” once Sinex started demolishing the former mall. That work finished in early August, and the construction site has been inactive since. There’s a “high degree of concern,” said Glassberg, who was hired by the city to oversee the project. “We’re at a precarious moment.” Sinex insists nothing is amiss. “We are in full compliance with all our agreements with the City,” he wrote in an email. Within the next few weeks, Glassberg said, the future of CityPlace will likely be determined: Either the financing will come through or the antagonism between the developer and the city will amp up and any remaining goodwill could disintegrate. Sinex owns the property and is the ultimate arbiter of its future. Some smell blood in the water. Two separate developers have informally approached the city, wondering about the standstill and expressing interest in purchasing the property, according to Lunderville. He refused to identify the developers but said both were locals. Erik Hoekstra, a managing partner at the Burlington development company Redstone, acknowledged he might have been one of them. When construction stalled, he told the city to keep him apprised if things went south. “If we can help somehow, let us know,” he recalled saying during one of multiple recent conversations with city officials.

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If he owned the site, Hoekstra said, he would build a substantially smaller project than the one Sinex has proposed. There’s little demand for office space in Burlington, and the parking is expensive to build, Hoekstra said. “There’s a financial feasibility limitation, and there’s a market demand limitation,” he said of the CityPlace project. Sinex maintained that he’s not selling and remains “completely dedicated to the completion of the project.” “Devonwood will work tirelessly to insure that the benefits of this transformative project come to fruition to benefit all project stakeholders as well as the City of Burlington,” he wrote in an email to Seven Days. But, he added, “I get everyone’s frustration.” Sinex has attributed the delays to a series of factors beyond his control. In January, workers found asbestos in an old roof of the mall. In March, a citizens’ group challenged the project in court. Those two issues set the schedule back several months, he said, though the mall was demolished over the summer. In August, when foundation work was supposed to begin, Sinex blamed the city for slowing the pace of construction. He said Burlington had been late in handing over the plans for Pine and St. Paul streets, which would be reconfigured as part of the development and paid for with $21.8 million in tax-increment financing. Burlingtonians approved the TIF money at the ballot box in 2016. At Sinex’s urging, the city council agreed on August 27 to amend the development agreement so he could get a foundation permit without a contract for the rest of the project.

He vowed to restart work immediately, but it has yet to commence. The longer a project languishes, the more risky it becomes, according to Glassberg. Construction delays increase the chances that something will go wrong and can lead financiers, contractors and potential tenants to question their commitments. Sinex has no financing to construct the $222 million project. Instead, he has paid for the work thus far with $56 million in equity financing out of his own pocket and from Brookfield Asset Management, a Toronto-based financier that owns 51 percent of the project and is one of the largest real estate developers in the world. A bank may be reluctant to fork over so much money with a lawsuit looming over the project, according to Burlington-based municipal and real estate attorney Brian Monaghan. The suit, filed by a contingent of city residents represented by attorney John Franco, alleges that the city didn’t properly notify the group about amendments to the project and violated the settlement agreement from a previous lawsuit. Sinex hasn’t endeared himself to the construction industry, either. Several people familiar with the project said he had fractured relationships with the contractors who work for him, further slowing progress. All refused to speak on the record, though VTDigger.org reported last month that Sinex planned in August to fire the contract manager, PC Construction, but never followed through. Sinex confirmed that PC is still in his employ. Now there’s also a danger of losing tenants. Sinex only

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has one committed to leasing the space, Monaghan said, calling it a “pretty good according to Lunderville: The University relief clause.” of Vermont Medical Center, which signed More importantly, the agreement an agreement last year to lease 100,000 is effectively “protecting the city [and] square feet of office space — nearly half of protecting public resources,” Weinberger the total. The hospital originally planned said in a recent interview. It will continue to move into the building in January 2019. to serve its purpose “either by helping Those at the hospital “share concerns push this project back on track, which I about the unexpected delays and are think is a real possibility here, or through hopeful for progress,” according to the city taking an escalating series of steps Michael Carrese, a medical center in the months ahead,” he said. spokesperson. Neither Weinberger nor Lunderville The hospital recently revised its would specify what, exactly, the city is contract with Sinex to reflect a December considering — or when. “We don’t want to 2020 move-in, another medical center broadcast” our strategy, Lunderville said. spokesperson said in a follow-up email. Most immediately — and easily — the The hospital is a key part of the rede- city could revoke Sinex’s encumbrance velopment plan, according to Lunder- permit, which allows him to block about ville. “If they are not part of the project, 30 parking spaces and other public areas it becomes harder to do the project in its around the construction site. entirety,” he said. Meanwhile, elected officials who once Lunderville and Glassberg have asked supported CityPlace have started distancSinex for updates and a specific time line ing themselves from the project. City Counregularly since September, according to cilor Dave Hartnett (D-North District) emails obtained by Seven Days. recalled how in 2016 he knocked on doors On September 26, Lunderville, and made videos on Church Street advocatGlassberg and Mayor Miro ing for the redevelopment. Weinberger flew to New “Seems like we put so much York City to meet with an trust and faith into Don Sinex executive vice president from and got nothing in return,” he Brookfield Asset Managesaid. “It leaves me bitter.” DON SINEX ment. Lunderville wanted to Hartnett recently proposed discuss the status of financturning the construction site ing, the foundation permit and a work into a seasonal parking lot. plan, he wrote in an email. Councilor Jane Knodell (P-Central At that meeting, “the mayor pressed District) said she hadn’t “given up them to continue construction as they said hope” of completing the project without they planned to do,” Lunderville said in enforcement action from the city. “I’m an interview with Seven Days last week. sure we will redevelop that site,” she said, Weinberger asked that foundation work adding, “It may not be exactly the project begin immediately, Lunderville said: “The that got permitted.” mayor was very clear. He wants this projCity Councilor Adam Roof (I-Ward 8) ect to go forward.” is “advocating for patience.” After a flurry of press inquiries in early “We can act hastily, we can act aggresOctober, Sinex wrote that he was “mobi- sively, but where is that going to get us?” lizing for foundation work” and urged the he said. “It would be inappropriate; it press to “be patient.” would be unwise; it would put the city at A month later, nothing has changed, a disadvantage.” and he’s blaming the majority partner in Glassberg is cognizant that things the project for the silent cement mixers. could change quickly, but he sees the city “Once Brookfield authorizes Devonwood as well positioned for whatever happens to do so, Devonwood will pull the founda- next. “Strictly from a real estate value, tion permit and restart the construction what sits there today is more valuable work,” he said. than it was six months ago,” he said, Sinex would not explain why he noting that an empty site downtown is had not yet received that authoriza- much more appealing to developers than tion. Brookfield Asset Management did “an aging, decrepit mall.” not respond to multiple requests for The city has one last-ditch option: It comment. can withhold the $21.8 million in TIF The city can take more concrete steps. dollars for the redeveloped streets around The development agreement gives it the the project. That bill is due upon the projright to ask a judge to enforce a time line if ect’s completion. Sinex does not hold up his end of the deal. If Sinex doesn’t “meet the city’s The agreement doesn’t offer specifics, but requirements,” Glassberg warned, “the according to Monaghan, the Burlington city’s not paying for it.” m attorney, that’s intentional. City attorneys “can ask the court what they want,” Contact: katie@sevendaysvt.com

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hen the chief law enforcement officer at the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department shot a bear on November 16, 2017, he didn’t submit one of the animal’s teeth as required by the regulations he is charged with upholding. Eleven months later, what started with a bear tooth has mushroomed into a much larger controversy within the department. Some of the game wardens who work for Col. Jason Batchelder accuse him of trying to cover up his infraction. Six wardens who spoke to Seven Days said they’ve grown angry and frustrated that Batchelder has yet to face any consequences. “The trust of our highest command is fractured and crumbling,” said Sgt. Travis

Buttle, a warden based in Shaftsbury. “It’s extremely difficult to regain that trust.” After months of urging by some wardens, the Vermont Department of Human Resources has launched an investigation into the incident, according to Commissioner Beth Fastiggi, who revealed little else about the probe. In a brief interview, Batchelder defended himself, saying that he followed proper protocol in addressing his mistake. “I have nothing to hide,” he said. He declined to elaborate, saying the department’s attorney had told him not to comment during the investigation. “If I could tell you everything, I would,” he said. “I’m over 10 months in, and I’m ready to put this behind me.”

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Batchelder was born and raised in the Northeast Kingdom and, after a stint in the U.S. Coast Guard, joined the Fish & Wildlife Department full time in 2004. He rose through the ranks and took over as head of the state’s 39 wardens in late 2014. It was on Batchelder’s watch that the department’s civilian board passed the rule that would later get him in trouble. The board mandated in 2017 that hunters submit a premolar, the small tooth behind the canines, within 48 hours of killing a black bear. Other states have similar requirements. A lab in Montana then analyzes the teeth to provide Fish & Wildlife with data about Vermont black bears, according to Forrest Hammond, the agency’s black bear project leader. A tooth can reveal the age of the animal, he said, which can help determine the size and health of the population. During the 2017 hunting season, which ran from early September to mid-November, 622 Vermont hunters killed black bears; 100 — including Batchelder — didn’t submit a tooth, as is now required. According to documents obtained in a public records request, a secretary sent Batchelder a list of the offenders in February 2 0 1 8 . He reviewed the list and sent in his bear tooth in mid-February. He then removed his own name and sent the list to the wardens, who were directed to issue a written or verbal warning to offending hunters in their districts. Because the requirement had been in place for less than a year, the state didn’t fine hunters who failed to comply. Fish & Wildlife Commissioner Louis Porter said he told Batchelder to remove h i s own name. “I told

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him that, as far as I was concerned, it was resolved,” Porter said. For months, the discrepancy wasn’t revealed. But someone tipped off Brenna Galdenzi, an animal rights activist and president of Protect Our Wildlife, who filed a public records request on June 5 asking for all documents and communications related to “some trouble with bear hunters who did not submit a tooth as per Vermont law.” The department initially gave her just the second list, without Batchelder’s name, according to emails obtained by Seven Days. It was only when Galdenzi pressed the department’s general counsel, Catherine Gjessing, that she received the original list. In late September, Galdenzi forwarded the records to Seven Days. They included an email from Batchelder apologizing to his staff. It was dated June 20 — the day before the department sent Galdenzi the documents. “I’m writing to fill you in on a situation in which I never thought I’d find myself, and to ask for your patience, if not forgiveness,” he wrote. “I believe … that Vermont State Game wardens are the epitome of ethics and lawfulness, and as your chief, I have clearly failed all of you and the public in this arena.” He had removed his name from the list, he explained, “not wanting to cause unnecessary work and worry.” Batchelder did not elaborate in the email, but he did announce that Maj. George Scribner, one of his subordinates, had already completed an investigation into the incident. The probe uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing, according to Porter. But there are no records of the inquiry, and its results were not filed in the internal system the department uses to document violations and investigations, according to Gjessing, the general counsel. The department’s standard operating procedure doesn’t dictate how an investigation should be carried out, but the policy does establish the need to “insure public confidence in our ability to self investigate” and in “efficient, fair, and impartial law enforcement.” After sending Galdenzi the documents, the department also issued a press release acknowledging that Batchelder had submitted his tooth after the deadline. While Batchelder did not receive a formal warning about his infraction, the

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publicity alone meant that “the colonel asked. “That’s a piss-poor way of estabsuffered a penalty that no one else was lishing ourselves to the public.” subject to,” Commissioner Porter said When Batchelder wasn’t repriin an interview. manded, members of the department The wardens who spoke to Seven Days went to the press. Seven Days received — some on condition of anonymity — said two anonymous letters that purportedly they were not upset about Batchelder’s came from wardens. failure to submit the bear This newspaper was tooth. That was likely an able to confirm that a oversight, they agreed. warden authored one What angers them is that of the letters; he said he the infraction was hidden, an action knew the authors of the other. they described as unethical and possibly “There has been a systemic problem illegal. with integrity and transparency at the They have repeatedly asked for an highest levels of the Vermont Fish and impartial and transparent investigation, Wildlife Departments Law Enforcement according to Greg Eckhardt, a lieutenant Div.,” one letter began. who retired at the end of September after The wardens went public in the hopes 20 years with the department and who of prodding the department into taking now works part time as a deputy warden. action against Batchelder. The idea was, At a meeting on July 12, four of five “If we make a big enough stink, somelieutenants, including Eckhardt, voted thing’s going to catch,” the anonymous to have the department conduct an warden said. outside, independent investigation of the Porter said he hadn’t seen or heard incident. In a “pretty heated” discussion any complaints except the one sent that included Batchelder to Gauthier. “If there and Scribner, “we pushed are people reaching pretty hard,” Eckhardt out anonymously to a said. newspaper about leaderEckhardt “left with the ship in the department, impression that the chief obviously I’m concerned thought it was a good about that because I’m idea,” he said, referring to the leader in the departBatchelder. ment,” he said. Later that month, an “I wish they’d come internal affairs complaint Col. Jason Batchelder to me,” the commissioner — unsigned, but saying it added, noting that “there’s was from “many proud Vermont game never been any reprisal” for warden wardens” — was sent to Rick Gauthier, complaints during his four years in the executive director of the Vermont Crimi- post. nal Justice Training Council, asking his “I think people who are opposed group to conduct an investigation. to our mission of hunting, fishing and The four-page, single-spaced letter, trapping have used this as a way to raise which Galdenzi shared with Seven questions about our management,” Days, accused Batchelder of covering Porter said, referring to Protect Our up his failure to submit the tooth and Wildlife. called it “self-serving” and “a breach Porter said the Human Resources of integrity that the law enforcement Department probe began in early division prides itself on maintaining.” October and that the agency would The wardens requested an indepen- determine what, if any, consequences dent investigation “before we slide Batchelder would face. even further into what appears to be a Porter said he didn’t know whether culture of corruption.” the results would be made public but Gauthier said his agency didn’t have noted that such investigations typically the authority to conduct an investigation. remain private. He requested that two other agencies do Either way, the damage has already the analysis, though neither did, he said. been done, according to some wardens. He and Porter declined to identify the “It’s a black eye for us. It makes the agencies. job more difficult for the field wardens. I One warden told Seven Days that think we lose credibility,” said Eckhardt, frustrations were “growing in volume” the retired lieutenant. among the law enforcement officers. He The public holds wardens to a high requested anonymity, fearing repercus- standard, he pointed out. “Our word is sion for speaking up about his boss. our bond,” he said. “We have to be above “How can we hold ourselves account- reproach.” m able in a different way than how we hold the public accountable?” the warden Contact: katie@sevendaysvt.com

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Last Stand: School Districts Vow to Fight Forced Mergers B Y AL I CI A FR EESE

here were no fiery speeches or testy exchanges as Vermont’s State Board of Education discussed what to do about school districts that are fighting to remain independent. A small audience watched on October 29 as board members did their work in a dimly lit auditorium at Mill River Union High School in North Clarendon. The subdued scene belied the high drama of this moment. Act 46, the most significant overhaul of Vermont school governance in decades, is now in its fourth, final and most controversial phase. The state board is poised to force at least 35 districts to merge against their will, dissolving their individual school boards to form larger, multi-town governing bodies. The board will make its final decisions by the end of November. Supporters say this process, though painful, is playing out as intended. They suggest that to change course now would be counterproductive and unfair to districts that merged voluntarily. Critics contend that the state board has gone too far, imposing a one-size-fits-all model that will inflict irreparable harm on their schools and communities. Calais resident Scott Thompson, who described the state’s approach as “merger or bust,” sees it as part of a larger trend of “disempowering regular people.” His central Vermont district has been provisionally ordered to merge with those of four nearby towns and is one of at least 20 districts preparing to sue the state once the board completes its work. Several communities are so desperate to avoid consolidation that they’ve considered closing their public schools and reopening them as private ones. Even some lawmakers who voted for Act 46 are now speaking against it. “I’m concerned about what this is doing to my town,” said Rep. Janet Ancel (D-Calais), the powerful House Ways and Means Committee chair, who backed the 2015 legislation. A number of her constituents, including Thompson, believe a merger — which in their case would require Calais and Worcester to assume school debt incurred by neighboring East Montpelier, Middlesex and Berlin — is unjust. Some residents worry the eventual result would be closure of Calais Elementary School. Amid all the angst, it’s easy to forget why the state undertook this ambitious effort. As the number of students

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PROPOSED FORCED MERGERS UNDER ACT 46 School districts in blue may be forced to merge into the outlined districts. The state board has not finalized its decisions. 1

Some residents of CALAIS and WORCESTER are wary of merging with EAST MONTPELIER, MIDDLESEX and BERLIN because they’d have to assume the other districts’ debts.

WINDHAM has resisted a plan to merge with BROOKLINE, JAMAICA, NEWFANE and TOWNSHEND. Residents

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Voters in BRATTLEBORO, DUMMERSTON, GUILFORD and PUTNEY opposed a merger of the four districts, but the state board recommended one anyway. Proposed school district

in Vermont has declined, many school districts have struggled to provide a good education at a reasonable cost. Lawmakers passed Act 46 to induce districts to band together so that they could share resources and find efficiencies. “We’re doing this work to make sure students have more, not less,” state board chair Krista Huling said in an interview last week. During its earlier phases, Act 46 offered districts tax breaks and other incentives to encourage them to merge. A total of 157 districts took advantage of these deals and reorganized into 39 new districts. “That’s pretty unprecedented,” said Rebecca Holcombe, who served as education secretary from 2014 until April 2018. Holcombe believes the completed mergers enabled school boards to propose unexpectedly low budgets in March. While describing the mergers as “a roaring success” in some districts, the

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former secretary acknowledged that some newly unified districts have yet to see the benefits. The 95 districts that chose not to merge were required to propose “alternative governance structures” that would still meet the goals of Act 46. Some districts described ways they could collaborate while retaining independence; others proposed merging, but in a configuration different from what the state preferred. Lawmakers left it up to the state board to rule on whether to accept those proposals or force mergers. In roughly 40 cases, the board has determined that it is either impractical for districts to merge — for instance, because they’re too far apart — or impossible. The law states that districts can’t be forced to merge if they have different operating structures, which, for example, prevents the board from compelling a district with school choice to merge with one without.

Huling said that the board’s work is going “as smoothly as can be expected.” At the October 29 meeting, board members made a second round of provisional decisions. Though in general there was little dissent on the board, at least one member expressed misgivings. “I’m asking myself, what’s the problem we’re trying to solve here,” Bill Mathis, a board member, former superintendent and longtime education scholar, said at one point. Mark Perrin, another board member, said, “We’re trying to remain consistent with our obligations [under Act 46].” Mathis seemed unsatisfied. “Beyond complying with the law, what is to be gained here?” he asked. State board members maintain that they don’t have much latitude when making merger decisions. Their task is simply to enforce the law as written. But Act 46 is complex and at times vague. It states that mergers should be pursued as long as they are “practicable,” without defining the term. At one point during the North Clarendon meeting, a man in the audience whispered to another, “Do these guys actually know what they’re doing?” Members are scheduled to meet again on November 15 before making final decisions on November 28. Huling said she expected little to change between now and then. The legitimacy of the board’s decisions has been somewhat undermined by a number of state officials who have, in ways direct and indirect, questioned how the board has interpreted Act 46. Even Sen. Ann Cummings (D-Washington), who chaired the Senate Education Committee while it drafted Act 46, now has misgivings. Cummings said she “envisioned a little bit more flexibility on the part of the board” but conceded, “we did give them the authority to make this decision.” Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, who also served on that committee when he was in the Senate, has repeatedly suggested on the campaign trail that he thought the law allowed more “off-ramps” for districts that opposed consolidation. “I think what we’re seeing is that the final phase of a very controversial and complicated law is coinciding with an election season,” Holcombe suggested. Noting that the three-year-old measure was tweaked in 2017, she said of legislators, “they may not like [it], but they had an opportunity to fix it.” The prospect of a forced merger has provoked anger particularly in communities in which residents, not just school boards, have voted — in some cases as

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many as four times — against merging. (In some communities in which school boards decided against merging, no district-wide vote was held.) In an October letter to the state board, Sens. Becca Balint (D-Windham) and Jeanette White (D-Windham), both of whom voted for Act 46, claimed they didn’t realize districts would be forced to merge even if residents voted against it. The law has been hugely controversial in the southeastern county they represent. The towns of Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford and Putney all shot down a proposed merger, but the state board recommended one anyway. Voters in the nearby town of Windham narrowly defeated a plan to merge with Brookline, Jamaica, Newfane and Townshend. “To ignore our vote makes a mockery of democracy,” Rep. Carolyn Partridge (D-Windham) told the state board at a meeting last month. Partridge, who said then-House speaker Shap Smith convinced her to vote for the legislation,

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now regrets it. The rep also chairs the Windham School Board, which governs a locally cherished K-6 school with two teachers and 16 pupils. Many of Partridge’s peers in the Statehouse have strenuously insisted that Act 46 is about reducing the number of school boards — not schools — but she is among the skeptics. If Windham is forced to merge, she predicted, “I believe they will systematically dismantle the school.” Windham town residents would have only one representative on an 11-member unified board, she said; that “is no power whatsoever.” If the school were to close, Partridge said, students would have to travel over what she described as a “freakin’ steep” road to attend another school. Partridge, who also drives the school bus on occasion, said she herself has slid sideways down what’s known as Windham Hill. On November 26, Windham voters head to the polls to decide whether to close their elementary school before the merger takes place. The goal would be to reopen it as a private school, but the Agency of Education has disputed the legality of such a move, and there’s no guarantee such a venture would succeed. Huling said board members have

taken community sentiment into account when making decisions, but she pointed out that nothing in the law states that districts should be exempted on that basis alone. Still, there are questions about whether mergers will succeed when imposed upon unwilling participants. Balint observed that Act 46 has so far had a perverse effect on some districts: “The intention was not for towns and districts to be torn apart … We really wanted it to be a great coming together.” “Act 46 has really served as a way to divide a supervisory union that was working very well,” said Susanna Culver, chair of the Calais School Board. “Whenever you get a group of well-educated, highly independent grassroots people and you sit them down and tell them, ‘Now look, I’m gonna tell you what to do,’ it’s not gonna end well.” Some districts, including Calais, have begun planning for a merger even as they prepare to fight it. They don’t have much time to waste. New districts must be up and running by next July, although sympathetic lawmakers may try to push back that deadline when they reconvene in January. “I think forcing a merger under these circumstances may create problems that last for decades,” Ancel said. “The one sort-of fix that I hope the legislature will take into consideration is a delay in the start date.” Cummings has discussed the concept with Ancel, but she said, “I wouldn’t expect folks to depend on legislative benevolence at this point.” Districts appear to have learned that lesson; many are instead placing their hopes in the court system. Northeast Kingdom attorney David Kelley sent a letter to the state in August suggesting that forced mergers are “arbitrary, capricious, and not in accordance with law” and warning of a lawsuit. More than 20 districts have since indicated they’ll join this legal effort. In response, the state board hired attorney Tom Little to advise it. Kelley, who declined to detail his legal strategy, didn’t sound overly confident. “Whenever you sue the state, you do it reluctantly,” he said. “They have a lot of good lawyers. Money is not an issue. The state generally gets a lot of deference in court.” Holdout districts hope the lawsuit will at least result in an injunction, buying some time. And disillusioned lawmakers may bolster their case. “What I want is for, ultimately, these towns to feel like they’ve truly been heard,” Balint said. “If it has to come through a lawsuit, then so be it.” m Contact: alicia@sevendaysvt.com

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hen for-sale signs sprouted on the Auclair Farm in South Burlington last September, Corie Pierce knew that she had to act quickly. She hoped to acquire or conserve the rolling 375-acre property near her own organic beef operation, Bread & Butter Farm, which straddles the SoBu and Shelburne town line on Cheesefactory Road. It seemed unlikely that the plum Auclair property would remain agricultural. It’s in the city’s Southeast Quadrant, an area being developed so quickly that the South Burlington City Council has taken preliminary steps to impose a nine-month moratorium on new construction projects. Each evening, rush-hour traffic from Dorset Street and Hinesburg Road heads south to paved cul-de-sacs in fields where cows once grazed. The Auclair Farm is a bucolic oasis. “There’s just been this relentless march of development,” said Sarah Dopp, president of the South Burlington Land Trust. Although zoning rules aim to regulate growth in the Southeast Quadrant, hundreds of new homes have been built there over the last few years. Roughly 280 could have been constructed on the Auclair property, one of the largest remaining tracts of open farmland in a suburb of 19,000 people. But this time, farmers and conservationists beat the bulldozers. Last month, the City of South Burlington, the Vermont Land Trust, the nonprofit Dirt Capital Partners, and Bread & Butter cooperated on a transaction to acquire the Auclair land for $2.8 million. The deal sets the stage for the property to be permanently conserved for farming and public recreation, and it gives Bread & Butter an option to purchase much of the land in the coming years. In the short term, Bread & Butter will manage and lease it. “I still don’t believe it,” said Pierce, who played a key role in orchestrating the transaction. So, too, did the Auclair family, which has owned the property for four generations. “We’re very happy that it’s going to continue to be farmed,” said Jennifer Auclair Morway, who grew up on the farm, which was founded by her greatgrandparents, Arthur and Grace Auclair. “We just wish we could have kept it.” Arthur Auclair started out delivering milk over dirt roads in a horse-drawn

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buggy. As his markets expanded, he grew the dairy operation by acquiring more land — and more cows. His son Tony Auclair diversified with the Auclair Riding Ranch in 1967, which included a large stable of horses and offered trail rides and hayrides. Tony and his wife, Milly, also taught square dancing. Multiple generations of Auclairs built houses along Hinesburg Road. Eventually, the family’s combined holdings reached more than 1,000 acres in four towns and 400 head of cattle. Morway grew up bottle-feeding heifers, helping Milly in the family’s tack shop, and occasionally driving her grandfather’s big Cadillac in the fields. By the time he died in 2011, at age 88, most of the cows had been sold off and some of the land, too, according to Morway. The family held on to the core of the property until last month. About a mile away, near the T-intersection of Cheesefactory and Hinesburg roads, Bread & Butter hosts 45 Devon beef cows grazing the fields, 25 pigs nosing about, chickens and a vegetable CSA program. With Friday Burger Nights in summer and Music for Sprouts classes for children led by Pierce’s husband, Chris Dorman, the 143-acre suburban sanctuary has become a community institution. Pierce, its sole owner, grew up in New Hampshire and, as a child, visited her

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grandparents on their farm in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. She later worked summers at a New Hampshire vegetable farm, planting lettuce and pulling carrots. “The first day I worked there, I fell in love with it,” she said. Pierce, 44, earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and environmental studies at Middlebury College. After working as a teacher, she attended a farmer-training program in Santa Cruz, Calif., then landed a job managing and teaching at a winter vegetable-growing program at Michigan State University. There, she met her husband, with whom she now has two children, ages 7 and 11. The couple moved to Vermont a decade ago so that Pierce could start her own farm. She bought her land from the Leduc family, who, like the Auclairs, also ran a South Burlington dairy for about 100 years. When the last of the clan decided to retire from farming, they worked with the Vermont Land Trust to conserve and sell the property. Pierce bought it with a business partner, Adam Wilson, who managed the pastures and sold bread from the farm. Two years ago, he left to start his own bakery in Huntington called Running Stone Bread. For years, Pierce had eyed the Auclair land for a possible expansion of her

operation. But given its value and competition from developers, she thought it would be impossible. When she reached out, though, the Auclair family was interested in conservation — for the right price and under a tight time line. Pierce contacted city officials. They were willing to discuss using the city’s open-space funding to help. The early interest was encouraging, but things on the farm in the fall of 2017 were not. On October 13, a Ferrisburgh slaughterhouse recalled 133 pounds of Bread & Butter’s hamburger meat after E. coli sickened two children who ate at Burger Night. They recovered, and Pierce later had to issue assurances that the farm’s food was safe. A few weeks later, a windstorm wrecked the plastic-sheathed hoop houses where Bread & Butter grew greens during winter, and cold killed the crops. Then coyotes attacked the farm’s turkeys one night under a full moon. “They took all our big ones. It was awful,” Pierce said. Pierce, who has four full-time employees, didn’t pay herself last year and dipped into savings to help the farm stay solvent. But she continued to work on the Auclair transaction, with support from one of her employees, Brandon Bless, who hopes to one day become a partner in the Bread & Butter. Pierce reached out to the Vermont Land Trust, as well as to Massachusettsbased Dirt Capital, which was founded by a former Goldman Sachs exec. The organization provides startup and bridge loans to farms around the Northeast. Pierce, Morway and Bless also met with city officials. They pulled together a deal that satisfied the Auclairs and effectively took the land off the market. Multiple developers also made offers, but they all involved housing developments, said Morway, who, with her sisters, is a trustee for her grandfather’s estate. “When we were approached by Bread & Butter, we went pretty far out of our way to make that work,” she said. “It was a long process.” The Auclair land was sold in three parcels for a combined $2.8 million. The Vermont Land Trust bought a chunk on the east side of Hinesburg Road, which it intends to sell to Bread & Butter. Dirt Capital purchased two other parcels, one on the north side of Cheesefactory Road and the other on the south

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side. The nonprofit plans to sell most of the land to Bread & Butter or another farm. The City of South Burlington contributed $605,000 to an Auclair family trust to reduce the Dirt Capital purchase price, in exchange securing rights for trails or another public use. The project isn’t fully cooked, though. The Vermont Land Trust is working to secure state, federal and private funding to create conservation easements that legally restrict development, according to Siobhan Smith, its vice president for conservation and stewardship. Those easements would lower the future price tag on the land to its agricultural value, so Bread & Butter, and possibly other farms, could afford to buy it. Other details also need to be worked out, including trail routes. In addition, Bread & Butter is talking to affordable housing builder Champlain Housing Trust about the possibility of carving off enough Auclair land to build approximately nine houses, possibly for farmworkers. There is little to no affordable housing near the farm, and using a small piece could ease the shortage and still keep most of the land open, Pierce said. It’s a complex deal but an important one, Smith said: “We’re at step one in this march forward, because now the land is at

least owned by a variety of folks who are pursuing a conservation outcome.” One naysayer has emerged. City Councilor Thomas Chittenden opposed the council’s decision to allocate city funds for the project. He called it a “vote to enrich Bread & Butter Farm” and said that it would have been better for the city to purchase the land outright and maintain full control. He also voted against an interim zoning resolution that placed a temporary moratorium on new development in the Southeast Quadrant and some other parts of the city, calling it “heavy-handed.” The council voted 4-1 on October 15 in favor of the draft resolution, and it went into effect temporarily. A public hearing and a possible final vote are set for November 13. Chittenden, who owns land in the Southeast Quadrant and is a descendent of Vermont’s first governor, believes even a temporary building freeze is unfair to landowners and people who need homes. The housing shortage has driven prices up, and landowners should be able to build according to development regulations, he said in a statement. Others disagree. Dopp, the president of the South Burlington Land Trust, said it’s vitally important that people have open space wherever they live. She is in the process of conserving her 40-acre parcel in the Southeast Quadrant and currently leases pastureland to Bread & Butter. She hopes that the Auclair transaction will preserve agriculture in one corner of South Burlington for many years to come. “When does it stop?” Dopp asked about the pace of development. “We sort of feel that South Burlington has done a great deal toward contributing to the housing stock in Chittenden County. Do we have to do it all? I don’t think so.” m

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Protest GOP With ‘Grab Them by the Ballot’ Campaign.” Robertson said she can only shake her head and laugh at the irony of it all. The backlash, she argued, has proven the point of the entire campaign. “They were as naked as we were,” she said of the internet trolls. “They completely exposed themselves.” Aside from particularly cruel conservative commentators, many of the snide remarks came from readers who body-shamed the women, called them names and insulted their intelligence. That, the Harvard Law Schooleducated Robertson said, is what women often experience in everyday life. By choosing to strip down and take a stand, the group reclaimed their bodies for themselves, “versus allowing a society to commoditize them.” Gina Carrera said she and the other women acted bravely by getting nude in front of the camera. “It takes a lot to drop your clothes when you’re not picture-perfect,” she said. “We don’t need people pointing out our flaws. But the fact is, most women look the way we look … This wasn’t something that was easily done, but we all feel really strongly about having a voice and voting, and that’s why we did it.” While Robertson, Carrera and many of the women said they had no regrets about participating in the campaign, it did carry consequences for some. The emotional toll hit a few especially hard, Robertson said. Tara Beach, a small-business owner from Colchester, said she lost clients and friends who couldn’t comprehend her decision to participate. Beach did not regret participating because she worries that politicians in power are mounting an assault on women’s rights. She called the photo shoot “one of the most amazing experiences of my life” and said she disregarded calls from friends who warned her not to participate because of the inevitable backlash. “The fact that this is how they’re reacting, this needs to be addressed on a much larger

The Storm Café in Middlebury will serve eggs Benedict and corned-beef hash one last time this weekend. The restaurant inside the Old Stone Mill will close Sunday as building owner Middlebury College ponders new uses for the historic structure. “It’s bittersweet,” said John Hughes, who has owned the restaurant with wife Beth Hughes for 13 years. The college told him over the summer that it would not renew his lease, Hughes said. Built in the 1840s, the building on the banks of the Otter Creek needs significant repairs, and he believes the college is shopping it around. Other than the restaurant, the building is mostly empty, Hughes said. College officials declined to comment on whether the building at 3 Mill Street is for sale. Old Stone Mill in Middlebury

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A man claiming to work for a private intelligence agency contacted a Vermont Law School professor last month and offered to pay her for dirt on Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “It’s my understanding that you may have had some past encounters with Robert Mueller,” read the email Jennifer Taub received on October 22 from Simon Frick, a researcher from a group called Surefire Intelligence. “I would like to discuss those encounters with you.” Frick asked Taub for her “beginning rate” to talk about any encounters with Mueller and offered to pay her “for any references that you may have.” Frick, though, picked the wrong person to try to involve in such a scheme. Taub told Seven Days that she has never met or spoken to Mueller, who’s investigating President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Moreover, she has been a public critic of many of the Trump administration’s policies. And the Harvard Law School graduate has extensive media contacts: She has been quoted in numerous national outlets and appeared on CNN as a legal expert. Taub played a key role in unraveling the scheme last week, when she forwarded the email to Mueller’s office and then talked to the Atlantic about the bizarre events. “It’s very sloppy,” said Taub, who lives in Northampton, Mass. “I just laugh. You probably shouldn’t pick me. One theory is they’re casting a very wide net, and they don’t even care if people know.” Taub said she’s mystified as to why she was solicited. The law professor cofounded the Tax March, which drew more than 100,000 Americans to nationwide rallies on April 15, 2017, to call on Trump to release his tax returns, according to VLS. Last week, she penned an op-ed for CNN decrying Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship. Shortly after receiving the email, Taub looked up the special counsel’s email address online and forwarded the message to Mueller’s office. Then she tried to go about her normal life. On October 30, as news of the scheme made national headlines, Taub was teaching her VLS students about witness tampering.

level,” she said. “There’s too much hate in the world. I feel like with Trump being in office right now, a lot of it is being perpetuated, and a lot of it is being perpetuated toward women. And we need to change that.”

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“We are in discussions with potential partners, but we have not signed any agreement to sell the building,” Bill Burger, vice president for communications and chief marketing officer, said in a statement to Seven Days. The statement also said that the building needs significant improvements, including handicap access and other features. The college will work to ensure that any change in use at the landmark building benefits the town, according to Burger. The college bought the building just off campus in 2008 for $2.1 million, intending to provide incubator space for creative and entrepreneurial student pursuits. It’s been used for exhibits, student presentations, band rehearsals and offices. The possible change in ownership comes as Middlebury College looks for savings. Despite an endowment of more than $1 billion and steady enrollment, the college has embarked on cost-cutting measures to dig out from several years of operating deficits.

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After retiring in 1991, Reta and Dave divided their retirement years between Venice, Fla., and Burlington. Reta’s interests included craft work, a Bible study class and volunteering to help Our Mother’s House. She was always willing to help those in need, helping to provide friends and “shut-ins” with dinners and desserts. Reta’s life centered around her family. She was most proud to be called Mom and Gram or Grammie. While playing, working on a project, or just listening to her children and grandchildren, Reta presented a kind and caring nature — one her family loved, respected and tried to emulate. She and Dave enjoyed traveling, with special memories of Hawaii, Alaska, Route 66, Caribbean cruises and Colonial Williamsburg. Family trips to Florida and Maine were filled with fond memories. Reta also had joyful times camping, trout fishing and storytelling around a campfire with extended family members in the Vermont National Forest. She was predeceased by her parents, Merritt (Bing) and Carrie Jones; and her siblings, Robert, Orvie, Jean and Tina, along with their spouses.

Reta is survived by her husband Dave of 57-plus years; two daughters and sons-in-law: Brenda and Charles HartshornWallace of Duxbury, Vt., and Deborah and John Averill of Burlington, Vt.; and one son and daughter-in-law: Anthony and Jessica Bean of Glastonbury, Conn. She is also survived by six grandchildren: Tyler Hartshorn and his wife, Jennifer; Caitlyn Hartshorn; William Murphy; Amanda Averill; Anthony Jr.; and Cameron Bean; as well as one great-grandson, Kai Hartshorn. A memorial service will be held at St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church in Burlington on Saturday, November 17, at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Catholic Charities, Our Mothers’ House, 405 Manatee Court, Venice, FL 34285. A committal service will be held at the Warren Community Cemetery on Sunday, November 18, at 1:30 p.m. Special thanks to Home, Health and Hospice; Dr. Rippa; and “Dr. Lucy” for the care and compassion shown to Reta and her family. The family is assisted by Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home.

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hough he grew up in the Old World, Colin G. Calloway has been fascinated by the New World since childhood. He’s been teaching American history since 1978, first in his native Britain, then in the U.S. Previous posts have included a public high school in Springfield, Vt., and the University of Wyoming, as well as a stint as assistant director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies in Chicago. For the past 20 years, Calloway has been a professor of history and Native American studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. As a teacher and scholar, he has made his life’s work the study of this country’s Native peoples and the white colonizers who turned their lands into the United States of America. Calloway, who lives in Norwich, has edited 11 books of Native American history and authored 14 others, most recently The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans and the Birth of the Nation. The 640-page tome might not have the hip cachet of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, but it is a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award; winners will be announced on November 14.

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SEVEN DAYS: How did you find your way to Native American studies? COLIN G. CALLOWAY: For a young person growing up in northern England, interested in America and very interested in history, what was particularly distinctive in American history? Native Americans. I don’t remember a time when I was not interested in American Indian history, but I do remember reading American history books and being perplexed by the absence of Native Americans.

history of a time period when the United States was small and fragile, with a very uncertain future. The first phrase in my title is The Indian World. I believe that the experiences George Washington had with Indians — from his youth as a frontier surveyor through years as a military commander to his time in the presidency — had a defining impact on his life, and on his way of perceiving how the new nation would be governed and relate to the rest of the world. And, because of his pivotal role as first president, that impact on him profoundly affected the early history of the country.

country — inseparable, and continually illuminating the whole. For his entire life, George Washington was obsessed with the west, which to him was the lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, and which he viewed as available. Yet indigenous people had been living there for thousands of years. Personally, Washington had a tremendous desire to acquire land, and as president he believed that the original colonies had to expand to be economically viable. So his story says a great deal about the era of westward expansion. At the same time, the tribes were doing everything they could to survive.

SD: When did you realize that the relationship of George Washington with Native peoples was an underexplored area? CGC: There are many books about George Washington, and I spent several years reading them all. Most said little about Indians, but they all talked about Washington’s ventures in acquiring land, and, of course, that was Indian land. Although my publisher has identified my new book as a “biography,” this isn’t a biography in the usual sense but a

SD: Your new book reflects a vast amount of research and synthesis of archival materials, yet you’ve written an exciting, briskly told story with fascinating characters. How do you see your role as a scholar and teacher in relation to a nonspecialized audience? CGC: What those of us in my field talk about is how to place Native American history within, not at the margins of, American history. In my view, Native American history is the history of our

SD: You observe that Washington had a “memory for detail.” Is this a feature of his writings — journals, letters, reports and so on? CGC: He’s not thought of in the same league as others, for instance Jefferson, in terms of the eloquence and beauty of the writing, but he had a practicality and specificity that is really valuable for us to see. I urge my students to pay attention to how this kind of writing reveals a person. The style can seem flowery, but a sensibility comes through. In recent years much of the writing of George Washington has been digitized, so these texts can be viewed online. He did have a knack for details, and it’s notable where his account isn’t as clear, maybe even evasive — when he’s recounting a situation that perhaps doesn’t reflect so well upon himself.

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Seven Days stopped by Calloway’s Dartmouth office to talk about his new book and learn more about his own history.

SD: What would you say about an epithet Washington was given by the Iroquois: Conotocarious, “Devourer of Villages”? Were some of his actions murderous, even genocidal? CGC: Washington was a military man, and while he pursued efforts to persuade and trade with Indians, he knew how to wage war. Although I’d known some of the history of the campaigns he led during the French and Indian War and the Revolution, for this new book I learned a great deal about his very direct role in subsequent efforts to defeat Native resistance by sustained warfare in the 1790s. As for that nickname — I think as a young man it was a kind of boast, to say to some of his adversaries, “You think you’re a great warrior; well, I’m called Devourer

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of Villages.” Later he proved to really be a destroyer, when he unleashed devastation on the Seneca towns, for instance. And whether you’re forcing people to relinquish their cultures by war or some other form of force, the term “genocide” can apply to what’s taking place. SD: Your presentation of Washington never seems idealized. It must be a challenge to make one of the most iconic and legend-laden figures in our national myth real for a reader. After years of research and writing, how do you see him? CGC: Washington was a man who strove for power and wealth and land — always more land. He believed the Indian peoples of America needed to become like everybody else. And, despite his wellintentioned efforts to negotiate with the tribes in nation-to-nation relationships, as a president his policies eroded the Native sovereignty he claimed to respect. SD: The tension throughout Washington’s story is embedded in U.S. law and practice, as an approach to indigenous peoples: between conquest and coexistence.

Washington didn’t believe that Native Americans would survive with distinct cultures and tribal identities. Yet he advocated recognition of tribes as sovereign nations and negotiation of legally binding treaties. Isn’t this legacy of treaties and Native sovereignty still meaningful today? CGC: Yes. Instead of disappearing, Indian people and tribes have survived within American society. Their sovereignty was never extinguished, and constitutional and treaty-guaranteed Native rights have been robustly asserted since the middle of the 20th century. As I say near the end of the book, the nation-to-nations relationship between the federal government and Indian tribes today in some ways resembles that which Washington … aspired to establish. Meanwhile, assaults on the rights and resources of Native peoples continue.

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From The Indian World of George Washington American territorial expansion also contributed to an emerging Indian identity. Colonial policies fomented and fueled recurrent divisions among and within tribes, and Indian leaders were not unanimous in opposition, but multiple tribes united to resist the assault on their homelands. When Washington and his peers talked about Indian land, they called it “hunting territory,” which implied a more transient occupancy and a lesser value than farming land; with no deep attachment to the land, Indian hunters could, as Benjamin Franklin said, be easily persuaded to give it up as game diminished. In fact, Indians clung tenaciously to their land even as the game diminished. Washington viewed land as a commodity to be surveyed and measured, bought and sold, and accumulated. Tied to their homelands by cycles of life and death, kinship, ceremony, and subsistence, Indian peoples viewed them as sites of tribal creation and sources of tribal identity. As American demographic and military assaults intensified, diverse Indian peoples found common cause in defending all Indian lands. As American agents pressured them to adopt new ways of living and believing, many Indian people who fought for their lands also fought to be Indian.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15 6:00 PM What kind of structure would a person experiencing homelessness create to meet their housing needs? Interested in seeing what design ideas would emerge from opening up a dialogue between prominent architects and community members living with homelessness, artist Alison Cannon facilitated interviews that brought the two together and resulted in designs for unique and varied dwellings. Come learn more about this project (funded by a BCA Community Fund Grant) and the living spaces that were created as architects collaborated with those who would be served by the resulting design. (Image courtesy of Michael Wisniewski) With support from:

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ots of elementary school kids eventually go to college. But it’s not every day that an elementary school itself does. In a manner of speaking, that’s what happened to the Elihu B. Taft School at the corner of Williams and Pearl streets in Burlington. It is now part of the University of Vermont. Early in October, UVM officially recognized the 1939 building’s new incarnation as a multidisciplinary arts facility, catering to both visual and performing arts. Formally it’s been christened the MICHELE

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made it possible — but it’s easier just to call it “Cohen Hall.” Students have been utilizing the revamped school since classes began in September. “By the skin of our teeth, it was ready this semester,” said KELLEY DI DIO, associate College of Arts and Sciences dean, a professor in the art and art history department, and a key figure in the Taft transformation. “I oversaw implementation of the plan for Arts and Sciences, in consultation with PAUL [BESAW, chair of the music and dance department], who I knew needed a dance floor, and other faculty.” Di Dio, who liaised with architects and contractors, said she was involved with everything from doorknobs to paint colors. “But more than anything,” she said, “I saw the possibilities of bringing all these disciplines together.”

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She’s referring to the fact that some programs, particularly film and TV and dance, were sorely in need of more space. The film students didn’t have a designated production facility, for example; the 10-year-old dance program didn’t have a room with a sprung floor. “There are ways in which this building is an important provider of things we’re already teaching,” said Di Dio, “and then [there are] new things.” Architecturally, Cohen Hall mixes old and new, too. The stately two-story brick building with the tall white columns — a product of the 1930s Works Progress 28

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Administration — hasn’t changed much on the outside. Only a sign in the yard and lettering above the front door signal a shift from its former purpose. During a tour last week with Besaw and academic communications professional KEVIN COBURN, the interior also revealed only subtle additions. The marble entry remained intact, but visitors found themselves facing the first of a number of video kiosks featuring student works on a loop. A glance left or right down the hall revealed original dark-wood doors and tile-framed drinking fountains, but the bathroom was 21st century: unisex and handicap-accessible. Student drawings were pinned to a makeshift gallery wall outside a classroom. Old chalkboards were still in evidence, but one room, Besaw pointed out, will soon have a green screen, a boon for film students. A future sound studio will accommodate audio production. Most of the classrooms were nondescript — the kind of chair-filled spaces found on college campuses

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everywhere. But the school’s former gymnasium arguably holds the most promise. Currently, the hardwood is covered with a temporary marley floor, a rubberized surface suitable for performance. A sprung floor will soon be installed, Besaw noted, along with a control room, lighting and sound. “We’re still [involved in] design considerations,” Besaw said. “Dance, theater, maybe some [UVM] Lane Series shows. This will be a black box … We’re dreaming of having a multimedia performance space.” Cohen Hall is still a work in progress. Besaw remarked on the interdisciplinary nature of the building, where students of different concentrations, once isolated, can now connect. “I’d say film and dance were the programs with the most space needs,” he said. “Williams Hall is great, but it shares [space] with other programs.” Dance performances, Besaw said, have taken place in the gym at Mann Hall on the former Trinity College campus. “Having dance over here has really integrated the faculty,” he said. UVM did not purchase the former Taft School; it has a very long-term lease from the city — 80 years, according to Di Dio. Over that time, anything could happen. For now, the facility has a new lease on life. The Cohens — Michele is an alum (1972) — have made clear their dedication to the arts with $7 million in donations to UVM to date. “The initial $2 million was eaten up in considerable physical improvements” in the building, said Di Dio, including asbestos abatement and accessibility mandates. “After that, we started thinking about what programming in the building could be.” Di Dio said UVM hired a consulting firm three years ago to assess its needs. “They interviewed all the faculty and went to all the arts buildings, and then helped us with planning,” she said. Michele Cohen and UVM president TOM SULLIVAN initially had envisioned the Taft building as a visual arts facility, but, “after discussions, the Cohens were on board with an interdisciplinary approach,” Di Dio said. “That became the motivation for the project — how to bring everybody together.” Accomplishing that was “incredibly rewarding, one of the best experiences of my professional career,” she said. “It’s very tangible — you can see the results.” m

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he midterms are barely behind us, but more politicking lies ahead — onstage. This Thursday, November 8, PLAINFIELD LITTLE THEATRE premieres Smoke and Mirrors, penned by local playwright TOM BLACHLY, at the PLAINFIELD TOWN HALL OPERA HOUSE. The fact-based work depicts the 1840 presidential race between incumbent Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison. According to Blachly, the show is part comedy and part historical drama: It portrays antiquated, zany campaign stunts, but it also explores a country recovering from deep recession on the eve of social upheaval and civil war. Blachly, 61, has written nearly 40 plays; about half have been produced. Attorney by day, playwright by night, he keeps on writing because, he says, “I still have a lot to say!” Theater could be in his blood: His father, 94-year-old BILL BLACHLY, has long run UNADILLA THEATRE in Marshfield. Though he wrote Smoke and Mirrors several years ago, Blachly says, he decided to bring it out for a 2018 audience. “I found that the election of 1840 was really relevant to our own times,” he says. “Many historians have characterized it as the first truly modern campaign. It was kind of a heady time for democracy.” Blachly, who also directed Smoke and Mirrors, draws a distinct comparison between the 19th-century election and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The not-so-subtle poster art delivers that point by featuring a winking president William Henry Harrison sporting a red Make America Great Again-style baseball cap. If you’re rusty on mid-19th-century American history, here’s a quick review of the Van Buren/Harrison election. Sitting

president Van Buren was a powerful member of the Washington, D.C., elite and a founding member of the then-fledgling Democratic Party. His challenger was not an ideal candidate. At 68, Harrison was the oldest president to be sworn into office to that point. Despite political success in his youth, he had not held a significant public office in years. His crowning achievement was leading the Battle of Tippecanoe and massacring Native Americans. Blachly says he was intrigued by the campaign tactics that led such an unlikely candidate to victory.

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Harrison was sickly and would die of pneumonia just 31 days into his presidency. Yet the electorate perceived him as a strong, vital man who could lead the union. “They made up this whole image of him as this frontiersman who drank honest hard cider instead of drinking Champagne like the dishonest Van Buren,” Blachly explains. “[The Harrison campaign] ran against Washington in a very conscious way, and people really took to it. Sound familiar?” One historical figure fleshed out in Blachly’s play is a man named Thurlow Weed, who worked on Harrison’s campaign. He collaborated with Horace Greeley, a highly influential newspaper editor at a time when newspapers were a new form of mass media. Together they

embarked on a propaganda campaign that employed a great deal of “fake news” to advance their candidate. “They had a whole new style of politicking,” Blachly mused. “Thurlow basically said, ‘Democracy can really be manipulated, and I think I know how to do it.’” But Smoke and Mirrors is not all warnings and premonitions; Blachly also points to some fun campaign practices of the day. For example, Harrison’s campaign built log cabins as it toured from town to town, handing out hard cider and singing campaign songs. Harrison would literally “roll” into town with eight-foot balls covered with campaign messages. Blachly has re-created one of these giant balls in Plainfield. “It won’t be quite eight feet,” he concedes, “otherwise it wouldn’t fit in the theater.” A self-described “American history and political junkie,” Blachly has woven fascinating tidbits of history trivia into his show. For example, Harrison’s campaign was also one of the first to mobilize women. Though they couldn’t vote, ladies participated in campaign rallies by waving their brooms, symbolizing the party’s promise to clean up corruption in Washington. They might as well have been shouting, “Drain the swamp.” m Contact: lawler@sevendaysvt.com

INFO Smoke and Mirrors, written by Tom Blachly, produced by Plainfield Little Theatre, Thursdays through Saturdays, November 8 to 10 and 15 to 17, 7 p.m., at Plainfield Town Hall Opera House. $10-12. Tickets: 229-5290 or blachly@together.net. SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 7-14, 2018

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t first glance, a room full of contra dancers looks like mildly organized chaos. But look more closely, and patterns emerge: Four dancers with right hands touching create a spinning star. Long lines of dancers facing one another move together and apart like waves on a shore. Individuals weave in and out, evoking a double helix. Who’s responsible for such elegance? No matter how naturally coordinated contra or square dancers might be, they’d have all left feet without one person: the caller. That person chooses the dances for an event, teaches novice and experienced dancers the choreography, and then guides the group to dance in sync with live music. “I went to my first contra dance in 1995 in Plainfield, New Hampshire,” says Nils Fredland. “I remember a lot about that evening, especially being captivated by the caller, Fred Park. He was so passionate about his role. I felt more drawn to what he was doing than to what I was doing as a dancer.” Four years later, at age 26, while studying music at Indiana University in Bloomington, Fredland tried calling at an open mic night. “It fit,” he says. “It felt right, and that started my journey as a dance caller.” Literally. For three subsequent years, he practiced by “driving a lot and calling wherever people were willing to hire me,” says Fredland. He drove coast to coast several times and called throughout the North and South. “You’d actually be surprised by how many contra dance communities there are across the country that are enthusiastic about hiring callers from out of town,” he says. Contra and square dances — 18th-century blends of English, Scottish and French dances — are found worldwide but are most common in the U.S. In contra dances, couples dance in long lines, working their way up or down the line during a song. In square dances, groups of four couples generally stay together throughout a song. Fredland, now 45, is artistic director of Revels North, a nonprofit that presents programming in traditional song, dance and storytelling. But he still makes time to call dances in Vermont and beyond, particularly in the spring and summer.

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SEVEN DAYS: What’s it like to call a contra or square dance? NILS FREDLAND: There’s technical skill involved. You have to understand how to teach a dance, how the dance fits with the music, and you have to be able to deliver the calls in a way that is clear and that the dancers can follow. The thing that sets great dance callers apart is the ability to read a crowd and realize what needs to happen in order to create a good mood — know what the next right step is for the majority to have as close to a peak experience as they can. It’s an impossible thing to be able to do that for everyone in the room, but I always try. I want people to feel taken care of. 30

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Contra and square dance caller SD: It sounds like the role a DJ plays, but you’re guiding dancers’ movements. NS: I’ve never heard anyone make that particular connection, but it’s exactly like the role a DJ plays. I often think about the arc of energy. Between 10 and 12 contra or square dances fit into an evening. For each of those slots, I have a baseline approach, and it can change based on the crowd in front of me. SD: How does it feel when you see that you’ve achieved peak moments for a majority in the room? NS: It feels great. What I really like about the caller’s role is that I can set the mood, provide the appropriate guidance, and then get out of the way and watch the floor connect without me. That’s a wonderfully satisfying thing. SD: What are some differences between calling for contra versus square dances? NS: Inherent to a contra dance is the concept of repetition. The figures go for 64 beats; then you move up or down the line, and you’re dancing with a new couple. You do the same set of figures for another 64 beats and move

again. That gets into people’s bodies, and they’re able to ride that wave. A lot of square dance calling is improvisatory. Sometimes it’s based on what I see happening. It looks like they want a grand right and left now, so I’ll drop that in. Or They look a little confused. I’ll throw in a circle that I know everybody can do. This is what’s going through my brain. It’s a very different activity to call for squares versus contras. I love both. SD: Have you seen anything change since you started calling? NS: Things have changed dramatically in the social aspects. There’s a real move toward calling with language that’s gender neutral: instead of “gents” and “ladies,” using [the self-chosen monikers] “larks” and “ravens.” Anyone can dance in either role, and I’ve seen this simple change in terms really broadening people’s experience on the dance floor. We talk a lot in the dance community about being inclusive, and this is one more level of inclusivity. I’m fascinated by the fact that, even after 20-plus years, there are things that can turn the whole profession on its head. It keeps me growing. Any crowd does that to some extent. Every time I pick up the microphone, it’s different, and that’s pretty cool. It’s people being together, and people are unpredictable. m Contact: elizabeth@sevendaysvt.com

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general counsel to the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development and serves on the board that regulates sign usage in Vermont. “The scheme as a whole was probably not well informed, or maybe it was not well advised, or both,” Kessler said. “So, if we’re saying that two signs (at 160 square feet) get you over the limit, we’re essentially saying the whole concept was a mistake from the beginning.” If these signs erected in a public right-of-way are intended to serve as “a secure barrier” between the construction site and public access, they are nonetheless not permissible, Kessler said. “What may be good for construction doesn’t give you a blanket exemption from other laws that relate to signs,” he continued. “They have to come up with a new way of doing this that doesn’t involve outdoor advertising over 150 square feet. They have to get 36 [signs] down to less than two.” In April, the transportation agency forwarded to the city a complaint about the signs made by a resident of Burlington’s Cathedral Square, Dunleavy said. The email was sent to Bill Ward, Burlington’s director of code enforcement, according to the agency. Ward told Seven Days last week that he doesn’t remember receiving the email.

“It doesn’t appear that Burlington has done anything about that,” Dunleavy said, explaining, “the state focuses on signs visible on state highways and leaves it to municipalities to enforce signs visible from town highways.” In response to attempts to talk with Weinberger about the CityPlace signs, the mayor’s office told Seven Days that Neale Lunderville, interim director of Burlington’s Community & Economic Development Office, was the best person to contact. When Seven Days told Lunderville that attorneys for the state consider the signs a violation of the billboard law, he responded: “The city has a deep respect for the billboard laws. They are one of the reasons that Vermont is such a special place. If there is some concern about whether or not these signs violate the state’s billboard law, that’s something we will look into, and we will work with the developer to mediate, if necessary.” Burlington city attorney Eileen Blackwood said the city disagrees with the state’s position that the signs are in violation of the law. “If they get in touch, we’ll obviously take a closer look at the issue,” Blackwood said. “I think generally these are seen as temporary construction signs. None of this is intended as advertising.” In an email to Seven Days, Sinex wrote that “[CityPlace Burlington] is committed to building this project in compliance with all applicable laws, including the Vermont law prohibiting outdoor advertising.” He went on to call it “simplistic and misleading to compare” a “Vermont roadside advertising billboard” with downtown signage that “does not advertising [sic] anything but rather it provides information to the public about the largest private development in Vermont’s history.” Lunderville noted that while the city respects and wants to ensure it complies with the billboard law, its primary focus has been “what’s happening on the other side of the fence.” At the west end of the Cherry Street signs, the billboards give way to a chain-link fence marked “Danger Open Hole.” Idle machinery is parked in the pit, where construction came to a stop two months ago. On the far side of the hole, across the construction zone at Bank Street, 25 CityPlace billboards rise in the street. At a combined 2,000 square feet, they are more than 13 times the legal billboard limit. Contact: sally@sevendaysvt.com

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Yet installing the signs was a requirement of the 46-page development agreement signed by Mayor Miro Weinberger and the developers on October 26, 2017. It states that the “signage and graphics” will “depict and describe the Project and its attributes, to communicate that downtown merchants are open for business during construction of the Project, and to engage the community.” John Kessler, also an attorney for the state, agrees with his colleague that the signs run afoul of the law. He is JOHN JAMES

ifty years after Vermont passed a law banning billboards, a stretch the length of a football field on Burlington’s Cherry Street is plastered with signs. Many of the 8-by-10-foot advertisements for CityPlace Burlington, a stalled downtown development project, tout activities planned for the site — which is still a hole in the ground. (See story on page 14.) They’re among 61 such signs on two Burlington streets surrounding the project. “Eat,” “play,” “learn,” “shop” and “work” here, the signs suggest. Corresponding images show fresh produce, toddlers touching hands and holding a Lego, and a couple smiling as they window-shop. On and on the signs go, down Cherry Street from St. Paul to Pine, with a similar set on Bank Street. One sign depicts project developer Don Sinex himself announcing “Our commitment to Burlington.” But trumpeting that commitment on a series of largescale signs is a violation of the state’s billboard law, which regulates outdoor advertising, according to two State of Vermont lawyers with expertise in the legislation. WTF? Thirty-six contiguous signs line the south side of Cherry Street. They are erected on a wooden frame that is bolted to a set of concrete structures known as Jersey barriers. The signs advertise the multiuse development project and businesses that are currently open on-site, such as L.L.Bean and PacSun. In total, the Cherry Street billboards measure 2,880 square feet. The 1968 law (VSA 10, 488) banning outdoor advertising has certain exemptions, including an allowance for on-premise commercial signs at a maximum size of 150 square feet. The law forbids any such signs, regardless of their size, in a public right-of-way. While municipalities can impose stricter sign regulations than the ones permitted under state law, cities and towns cannot relax the standard, said John Dunleavy, an assistant attorney general and general counsel to the state Agency of Transportation. “Based on the information I have, it does appear to be a violation of the state billboard law,” Dunleavy said of the CityPlace signs. “There is no authority to grant variances from this.”

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dozen seniors ambled in to the Maple Room of the Holiday Inn in South Burlington, several of them supported by canes, walkers, scooters or spouses. A slide projected on a screen at the front of the room read, “Stop hurting and start living!” The attendees at the free seminar, held on a Friday afternoon in early September, likely learned about it from one of several full-page advertisements in Vermont newspapers. Similar events have been held in Bennington, Montpelier, Shelburne and St. Albans City in recent months. This particular seminar was advertised for patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, an inflammatory lung condition that causes wheezing, coughing and difficulty breathing. Other ads targeted those with arthritis, diabetes, neuropathy, and chronic neck and back pain. Though the ads differed slightly, all featured smiling seniors — holding hands, blowing soap bubbles, rising from wheelchairs — as well as glowing testimonials from anonymous patients and the tagline, “Experience healing with regenerative stem cell therapy at Stem Cell Centers!” At the bottom, in fine print, was a caveat: “Stem cell therapy is still considered experimental by the FDA,” referring to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. As attendees took their seats, Jason Wolther, a speaker from Stem Cell Centers’ corporate headquarters in Post Falls, Idaho, began his presentation. He had traveled to Vermont to recruit patients for Stem Cell Centers of Williston, a new clinic that registered with the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office in April. According to Wolther, Stem Cell Centers is one of the nation’s oldest and largest chains of such clinics. Its website lists 16 locations in 10 states. Though this seminar was ostensibly for COPD patients, Wolther’s 90-minute presentation covered a range of other ailments that, he suggested, could also benefit from stem cell treatments. These included arthritis, numbness in the arms and legs, spinal stenosis, osteoporosis, emphysema, and even Alzheimer’s disease — all conditions that commonly afflict seniors. If attendees liked what they heard, Wolther could immediately schedule them 34

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for a consultation with the clinic’s local practitioner, naturopathic physician Esti Bakty-Johnson. “Who’s got back pain? Or maybe the better question is, who doesn’t have back pain? How about joint problems, knees, hips and shoulders?” Wolther asked, as a flurry of hands went up. “Well, you guys are in the right place. Those are the things we’ve been treating, with high degrees of success.” “This isn’t covered by insurance, right?” asked a redheaded woman at the front of the room. Wolther confirmed that private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid won’t pay for this therapy, which starts at about $4,500 for a single knee or hip treatment and can run as high as $15,000 for multiple treatments for conditions such as COPD and autoimmune diseases. “Now, the FDA, in all of their great wisdom, is still classifying stem cell therapy as quote-unquote ‘experimental,’” Wolther said. “After decades and decades of doing stem cell therapy, in this country and worldwide, why do you think the FDA

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would still be classifying these treatments as quote-unquote ‘experimental’?” “Money?” suggested one man in the room. Stem cell therapy, Wolther continued, “is a real game changer. But we’re getting a lot of pushback. Do you think big pharmaceutical companies want to see this treatment become mainstream? No! Do big pharmaceutical companies want to see you getting healthy? No! It’s being driven by profits instead of by results. And who suffers because of it? Everybody in this room.” Several attendees nodded in agreement.

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The field of stem cell therapy, which involves repairing, engineering or replacing human tissues damaged by injury or disease, has shown enormous promise in the last decade. Researchers have made great strides in treating diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma using cells drawn from a patient’s own

blood, fat or bone marrow, as well as from amniotic fluid and umbilical cords. But within the medical marketplace, promises of treatments and cures for a plethora of other diseases and conditions have gotten ahead of the science, with advertisements offering consumers stem cell therapies to treat everything from erectile dysfunction to hair loss. Until recently, much of the for-profit stemcell industry was the Wild West, where consumers were left to figure out what was real and what wasn’t — at times with disastrous consequences. Direct-to-patient marketing events such as the recent Stem Cell Centers seminar — which sounded, at times, more like a sales pitch for a Caribbean timeshare than a health care discussion — are recent phenomena in Vermont. Elsewhere, however, stem cell therapy is huge, with the number of clinics multiplying nationwide from just two in 2009 to more than 570 in 2016, according to a 2016 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Stem Cell. Last year, the market research firm Mordor Intelligence valued the North American stem cell industry at $5.6 billion and predicted it will grow by nearly 16 percent by 2021. Many clinics have opened in states with large populations of retirees, including California, Florida, Arizona and Texas. Their arrival in Vermont is understandable, given that one in five Vermonters is over the age of 60. For older Americans, especially those who’ve exhausted all other treatment options or simply want to avoid surgery, stem cell therapy offers a glimmer of hope. “As we get older, we have more chronic conditions and more medical conditions,” explained Dr. Michael LaMantia, head of geriatric medicine at the University of Vermont Medical Center. “Unfortunately, we still have many more advances to make in medical care for older adults, and sometimes patients can feel like the medical system isn’t providing them with all the answers they’re looking for.” Stem Cell Centers didn’t respond to emails or phone calls requesting an interview with its local provider or with any of its Vermont patients. Vermont has a second stem cell clinic, Vermont Regenerative Medicine in Winooski. It, too, markets its patented Regenexx stem cell orthopedic procedures

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directly to patients through free informational seminars. Because the FDA doesn’t allow some Regenexx procedures to be performed in the U.S., Vermont Regenerative Medicine encourages patients to travel to the Cayman Islands to have them done. The Vermont Medical Society, AARP Vermont and the UVM Center on Aging were either unaware of, or wouldn’t comment on, these local stem cell clinics. LaMantia, who only learned about them shortly before being interviewed, also declined to comment on them. He recommended that potential patients consult with a health care provider they trust before seeking any treatment. Based on information he’s read from the FDA, LaMantia said, “The evidence for many stem cell therapies is just not there yet.”

Unfortunately, regenerative medicine has taken on a significant aspect of snake oil.

Simply put, stem cells are the basic building blocks of all human tissue, able to divide and multiply almost without limit. According to the National Institutes of Health, adult or somatic stem cells are undifferentiated, meaning that they haven’t turned into specialized cells such as blood, muscle or brain cells. That means the body won’t reject them, even if they come from another person. (Stem Cell Centers uses cells obtained from donated umbilical cords.) Researchers have known for years that stem cells play a critical role in repairing and maintaining tissues and organs throughout the body, which is why they’re sometimes touted as “cure-all” or “miracle” cells. Bone marrow contains two types: hematopoietic cells, which can generate blood cells, and stromal cells, which can produce bone, cartilage and fat. Adult stem cells are different from the embryonic stem cells found early in the development of a fetus. Concerns that aborted fetuses might be used to harvest stem cells led to the 2001 federal ban on embryonic stem cell research. According to a 2017 patient guide from the Journal of the American Medical Association, the number of clinically proven stem cell treatments remains limited.

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Notably, hematopoietic stem cells are routinely used for bone marrow transplants in patients with cancer and other blood or immune disorders. Until last year, the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission largely avoided policing adult stem cell clinics. Because stem cells can be extracted from and reinjected into a patient’s own body, the FDA doesn’t consider them a drug. Federal rules stipulate that the cells must be human, “minimally manipulated” and used for “homologous use,” or as they normally function in nature. A HARD CELL

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Some local physicians and researchers who are trying to develop innovative therapies are troubled by the arrival of stem cell clinics in Vermont. In addition to the potential for physical and financial harm to patients, they also fear that negative publicity about stem cell therapies threatens to cast them all in an unflattering light. In a third-floor laboratory of UVM’s Given Medical Building, Dr. Daniel Weiss is growing lungs — three disembodied mouse lungs, to be exact. Each one “breathes” ambient air with the help of a ventilator inside a Plexiglas growth chamber. 36

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Cultivating human stem cells at the Vermont Lung Center

In an adjacent room is a pearly white chunk of human lung that’s been “de-cellularized,” or stripped of all its donor’s cells, which could cause an immune reaction in a transplant recipient. The concept, Weiss explained, is to use the patient’s own stem cells to regrow new lung tissue, or even grow an entirely new lung using a 3D bioprinter. He called the technology, which is still in the early stages of development, “the ultimate in personalized medicine.” “If I remember correctly, this is from a lifelong nonsmoker, so it’s a beautiful, pristine-looking lung,” Weiss explained. “We get [donated] lungs from patients with emphysema, and they look nasty even when you take all the cells out.” As a pulmonary critical care physician at UVM Medical Center, Weiss spends about a third of his time seeing patients in the intensive care unit. The rest he spends overseeing what is considered one of the top three or four labs in the world doing research on pulmonary regenerative medicine. That’s a broad term for therapies that repair tissues and organs that don’t naturally heal themselves. Weiss and his research team are trying to regrow complete lungs, or sections of lungs, that they hope will one day be used to repair or replace lungs damaged by disease. Central to that effort are stem cells.

“We’re pretty far along,” Weiss said. “Are we at the point where we can actually do it? Not yet.” Indeed, regenerating lungs has proven to be exceedingly difficult, he said. While more progress has been made in growing simpler human tissue, such as skin, muscle, bone and cartilage, “The lung is a Mouse lungs being grown tougher nut to crack.” Why? As Weiss explained, in a lab using stem cells a normal human lung consists of about 40 different cell types. The specific treatments and procedures they challenge is to figure out how to assemble offer to assess their effectiveness. them, and in what order, using various As chief scientific officer for the Internutrients and oxygen concentrations. national Society for Cell & Gene Therapy, Longer term, the researchers hope to however, Weiss serves on a task force regrow and repair lung tissue within the on the use of unproven or unethical cell body itself. In fact, if this and other stem and gene therapies. Later this month he’s cell research projects underway at UVM expected to testify as an expert witness in prove successful, Weiss envisions Burl- a lawsuit against an out-of-state stem cell ington becoming a center for regenerative clinic; Weiss declined to identify which medicine, expanding the state’s biotech one, except to say that it’s not affiliated economy. with those in Vermont. On a tour of the lab, the physician In mid-October, the International lamented what he called “the dark side Society for Cell & Gene Therapy hailed to regenerative medicine,” or the market- an Federal Trade Commission crackdown ing of unproven therapies and “stem cell on two California-based companies that medical tourism” around the globe. were making deceptive and unfounded Weiss couldn’t comment on either of medical claims. Specifically, the compathe stem cell clinics operating in Vermont, nies claimed that their “amniotic stem cell saying he doesn’t know enough about the therapy” could cure serious diseases such

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Medical organizations such as the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, as well as research organizations including the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy, have grown increasingly concerned about the proliferation of stem cell clinics that offer unproven, expensive and potentially dangerous treatments. In 2017, the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine called these clinics “an emerging public health problem” and warned consumers, “As of now, there are no proven stem cell treatments for any lung disease.” No cases of adverse medical outcomes from stem cell treatments have been reported in Vermont, according to the state Department of Health. In fact, the Vermont Board of Medical Practice declined to comment for this story, as did Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine. Health department spokesperson Sharon Muellers noted, “This is not currently a public health priority.” But as Americans read news stories about professional athletes — including golfer Tiger Woods, basketball superstar Kobe Bryant and tennis legend Rafael Nadal — who’ve experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from injuries after receiving stem cell treatments, they have flocked to clinics in the U.S. and abroad. Such treatments aren’t without risk. As the Washington Post reported in an April 29 story, “Miracle Cure or Modern Quackery,” a 69-year-old woman died in 2010 after a Florida doctor injected bone-marrow-derived stem cells into the arteries in her brain. The New York Times reported in 2016 that a man spent $300,000 on overseas “stem cell tourism,” which left him with a huge tumor on his spine. And, in a widely publicized case two years ago, a Georgia woman became blind after she had stem cells injected into both eyes to treat her macular degeneration.

as Parkinson’s, macular degeneration, cerebral palsy and autism. The FTC’s action came on the heels of last year’s announcement by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb that his agency would be stepping up its oversight of the industry’s worst offenders, beginning with warning letters sent to clinics whose off-label treatments had harmed patients. While Weiss hailed that measure, he said that even more enforcement and oversight are needed. One problem, Weiss noted, is that less reputable stem cell clinics have begun recruiting patients through ClinicalTrials.gov. The website, operated by the National Institutes of Health, ostensibly recruits patients for legitimate research studies on diseases and conditions. But last year, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons warned that the site has been “hijacked” by some stem cell centers advertising studies that have not received institutional review board approval, have never published their results in peerreviewed journals and conduct “patientsponsored” research — coded language indicating that the “studies” require patients to pay in cash to participate. “Unfortunately,” Weiss said, “regenerative medicine has taken on a significant aspect of snake oil.”

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“There’s a lot of fraud out there, which is kind of scary,” agreed Dr. Jonathan Fenton, a doctor of osteopathy at Vermont Regenerative Medicine in Winooski. He and his partner, Dr. Evan Musman, provide what they call advanced stem cell and platelet-rich plasma procedures to patients with joint injuries and degenerative disorders. Fenton, who’s been practicing in Vermont for about 25 years, first got involved with Regenexx in 2014. Like Stem Cell Centers of Williston, Regenexx is a national organization that markets directly to consumers through newspaper ads and free informational seminars, including several that were held in Shelburne in the spring. As Fenton explained, most of the patients who come to him are trying to avoid knee, hip or shoulder replacement surgeries. He also treats “a lot of ACL tears” and claimed that, if any fibers remain in the ligament, “we can regenerate them.” On the day he spoke to Seven Days, Fenton said he’d treated cases of ankle and knee arthritis, tendon tears, rotator tears, and plantar fasciitis, “orthopedic conditions that are usually treated [in hospitals] with either bracing or hope.”

Every three months, Fenton flies to the Cayman Islands, where Regenexx can “culture expand” patients’ stem cells by extracting them from the pelvis, growing them in a petri dish, then injecting the higher concentration of cells back into their bodies. According to Regenexx literature, this procedure yields “100 to 1,000 times more stem cells” than those done in the U.S. “It works better,” Fenton argued, “but it’s not allowed here.” Here’s why. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Regenexx Sciences of Colorado, alleging that, among other things, the procedure violated federal laws and the company hadn’t performed adequate studies on its safety or effectiveness. In 2012, a federal judge issued a permanent injunction preventing the procedure from being done in the United States. So Regenexx set up shop in the Cayman Islands, where, according to its glossy pamphlets featuring golfers, runners and volleyball players, patients can get their treatments on day one, then begin their “pain-free future” on one of the world’s top-ranked beaches. Some patients rave about their results. In March, at a free informational seminar that Vermont Regenerative Medicine put on in Shelburne, a woman in the audience recounted her experience with a Regenexx procedure to treat a rotator cuff injury. “I don’t like needles, and the first time, I thought I was going to die,” she told a crowd of about 40 people. “But once I realized the benefit, I was blown away … Honest to God, I would do it again in a heartbeat.” “You’re a plant, aren’t you?” joked Musman, Fenton’s partner at Vermont Regenerative Medicine. But others in the audience seemed skeptical, including one man who asked why the FDA won’t allow the Regenexx procedure to be done in this country. “If you feel that the data is so strong,” he asked, “why is [your stem cell therapy procedure] not the standard of care?” “The surgical lobby … and medical device makers are a strong lobby, and they have a lot of money,” Musman said. “A lot of it is the big medical-industrial complex that is slow to change, because the data is incontrovertible.” When Fenton was asked whether any controversy surrounds his work, he too suggested that clinics such as his face resistance from the medical establishment because they undermine the financial stability of surgical and orthopedic units.

“It’s controversial because it’s a threat to the current paradigm. But the safety studies are amazing,” Fenton insisted. “The complication rate is practically zero.” Seven Days couldn’t independently confirm that claim. Vermont Regenerative Medicine didn’t respond to follow-up requests by Seven Days to provide the names of other Vermont patients who might speak about their experiences with Regenexx procedures.

“No, there’s certainly no evidence of that,” said Dr. George Muschler, an orthopedic surgeon and stem cell researcher at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute in Ohio. Muschler, a colleague of Weiss’ in the International Society of Cell & Gene Therapy, runs a laboratory that develops and tests new stem cell therapies for patients suffering from musculoskeletal issues such as bone fractures, cartilage damage, arthritis and osteoporosis. “On a case-by-case basis, I can’t say that an individual patient won’t benefit from these therapies,” he said. “But one patient doesn’t make for a generalized rule.” As Muschler explained, there’s a large financial incentive for practitioners with some medical credential — who perhaps have never done stem cell research and who may not even be experts in the diseases they’re treating — to buy a centrifuge and open a stem cell therapy clinic. “And a lot of patients will show up,” Muschler went on. “The challenge is, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff ? How do you figure out who is a legitimate player and who is an opportunist? Or a charlatan?” At the nonprofit Cleveland Clinic, Muschler and his team have taken a creative approach. When stem cell clinics began appearing in the area, his group began offering some of the same services, but with a difference. His doctors gather data from treating patients and study the results, hoping to reach conclusions about the effectiveness of stem cell therapy. Patients pay less than at for-profit clinics. His practitioners measure the patients’ performance before receiving the therapy, using metrics and objective numbers, then assess those patients six months later and ask them to be “painfully honest” about how they’re doing. The Cleveland Clinic also has a medical ethicist on staff to ensure that it doesn’t overpromise results. “We partner [with patients],” Muschler said. “We tell people, ‘If this works, we want you to tell us. And if this doesn’t work, we want you to tell us.’” Finally, he said, he and his team will publish their results in peer-reviewed journals, with the understanding that stem cell therapies are still in their infancy. As Muschler tells his patients, “If you’re coming here, it’s not because we think we have magic. It’s because we’re committed to studying this so that your kids and grandkids will know the real answer. Because the truth is, right now, we just don’t know.”

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Fenton isn’t just a Regenexx practitioner; he’s also a client. After breaking his hip in a skiing accident several years ago, Fenton had a Regenexx procedure performed on himself; he claimed it allowed him to avoid surgery. After three years, he had the procedure repeated on the same hip, which he predicted would provide him relief for another five years. “I want to move things forward, which is really difficult in this town,” Fenton said. “The paradigm is very hard to shift, unfortunately. It’s very sad.”

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How does a patient with little or no scientific training assess the claims of stem cell providers? At the Holiday Inn seminar, the Stem Cell Centers’ Wolther told potential patients that injecting stem cells into their bodies could “regrow cartilage and ligaments and tendons and meniscus” and “repair and regenerate disc material in our spines.” Has stem cell therapy advanced to the point where it can regenerate the discs in a person’s spine?

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Slavery Remixed Liza Jessie Peterson on her one-woman show “Down the Rabbit Hole” B Y D A N BOL L ES

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n 1998, Liza Jessie Peterson took what was supposed to be a quick gig as a teaching artist at Island Academy, a high school for inmates on Rikers Island. That three-week stint at the New York City prison school turned into a three-month stay, then three years. Two decades later, Peterson has worked in various capacities at Rikers, from part-time poetry teacher to full-time GED instructor; from reentry specialist to outreach coordinator to program counselor. He r ex p e r i e n c e s have informed a number of her creative endeavors as an actor, poet and writer, most notably her one-woman play The Peculiar Patriot and a 2017 memoir, All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island. Peterson recently combined those two works into a single hybrid production called “Down the

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Rabbit Hole: A Peculiar Patriot/All Day Mashup.” The performance draws most heavily on The Peculiar Patriot, which enjoyed a critically acclaimed run at the National Black Theatre in Harlem last year. The show follows Betsy LaQuanda Ross, a character described by the New York Times as “an intense and charming chatterbox,” who regularly makes the long, slow trek by bus to a prison in upstate New York to visit her best friend, Joann. Ross, like her famed historical namesake, is also something of a seamstress. But, instead of a flag whose stars represent the promise of a new union, Peterson’s Ross stitches a quilt. One square depicts an orange full moon and three shooting stars, signifying Joann and her trio of children, as well as the potential life that awaits her beyond prison walls. Peterson’s play is a damning critique of the American criminal justice system.

But it’s also an attempt to humanize those caught in the cold, brutal machinery of a prison-industrial complex that disproportionately incarcerates black and Latino youth. By design, both the play and Peterson’s book provoke and perplex audiences. But, just as crucially, they do something else: enlighten. As imprisoned journalist and political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal put it, Peterson’s work is “ringing with truth, pain, rage and outrage … and humor, delicious humor.” Peterson performs “Down the Rabbit Hole” on Thursday and Friday, November 8 and 9, at the FlynnSpace in Burlington. Seven Days recently spoke with her by phone. SEVEN DAYS: What was your biggest takeaway from working at Rikers? LIZA JESSIE PETERSON: Adolescents are adolescents, whether they’re incarcerated or not. There is a universality

of youth being narcissists and funny, challenging authority, and just developing into maturity. And what I learned is that black and Latino youth are criminalized for normal adolescent behavior. SD: What drew you toward working with incarcerated youth? LJP: It was a job offer. My assignment was to be a teaching artist at Rikers Island. It was supposed to be a three-week gig, and I wound up doing it for 20 years. SD: Why do it for so long? What kept you coming back? LJP: There was an instant connection. And, just to be clear, I wasn’t a teaching artist for 20 years. I started out as a teaching artist but worked at the prison in multiple capacities. Like with anything, sometimes you stumble upon your calling, your passion, your purpose. It wasn’t something I was

looking for. Once it found me, it was a symbiotic relationship: I was inspiring them, and they were inspiring me. SD: When you first started working with kids in prison, what surprised you the most? LJP: I was faced with so much talent. They were so smart and funny and creative. They were the total antithesis of what they were being portrayed as in society: disposable, throwaway bad kids. And I was like, “No, they’re funny. They’re brilliant. They’re writers, thinkers, creatives. They’re children.” SD: Have you kept in touch with the kids you taught? LJP: Not all, but some. Some are doing really well. They’re in school, in college. They’re working; they’re parents. SD: The Peculiar Patriot is both an evocative and provocative title. Now, especially, the word “patriot” has become so loaded and seems to mean something different depending on where you align politically. What does the word mean to you? LJP: In the antebellum South, southern lawmakers used to refer to slavery as the “peculiar institution,” because “slavery” was too dirty of a word. They were trying to sanitize it by changing the language. When I thought about mass incarceration and how slavery has morphed into the prison-industrial complex, I realized that we’re still dealing with this peculiar institution. It’s slavery remixed. When you think of the word “patriot,” patriots are a group of people who support, love and believe in their country. When you think of 2.5 million people incarcerated, that’s a country of people. And when you multiply that by their families, by their children and friends who are supporting them and navigating their love between barbed wire to stay connected, that’s 2.5 million people multiplied exponentially. Those people who love the peculiar soldiers behind the walls of these peculiar institutions are supporting a country of people behind barbed wire. They are peculiar patriots. SD: You wrote that play in 2003. How has it evolved over the last 15 years? LJP: As a writer, you’re always working on the dramatic arc. The story line is pretty much the same, but I’m always tweaking and editing. When you go back into your work, there’s always room to expand, edit, shape and tweak. So it’s grown because I’ve grown as a writer.

SD: When you’re making those edits, does the play change along with what’s going on in the world around you? LJP: Absolutely. Back in 2003, there was a reference to Hurricane Katrina and how black people in New Orleans were being criminalized. They were just trying to survive, getting food and necessities from grocery stores. They were referred to as “looters.” But white citizens were not referred to in that language. Years after that, there has been so much social stuff happening that there was no need for me to reference Hurricane Katrina. That’s just one example. SD: As someone who has spent 20 years observing and working with those caught in the prison-industrial complex, do you see it as a solvable problem? And if so, how? LJP: I’m an artist. I don’t have the magicbullet answers to how major political problems can be solved. So I’m always careful not to prescribe solutions, because I’m an artist first. My job is to be an antenna and to speak about issues and bring them to the forefront. And if I have some solutions, that’s great. But I’m careful not to position myself as someone who has the solutions, because I don’t. SD: But… LJP: But … it’s absolutely solvable. If you think of chattel slavery, my ancestors who were born into slavery and knew nothing but slavery, they were able to envision a life for their descendants who hopefully would no longer be tortured and brutalized in unspeakable, horrific conditions. They were able to envision a life beyond chattel slavery. So did the freedom fighters. For example, someone like Harriet Tubman envisioned freedom when she never, ever experienced it, never, ever saw it and knew that there had to be more to life than what she saw all around her. She was able to manifest it and run toward a vision. Now, fast-forward to slavery remixed. I know people who are descendants of the abolitionists and descendants of the slaves, and we have to maintain that same level of vigilance and envision a society without prisons. Because if our ancestors can envision a life without slavery, so can we. m Contact: dan@sevendaysvt.com

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s I leaned back in Mick O’Brien’s barber’s chair, I explained to the friendly 27-year-old what I wanted done to my hair: close on the sides and in the back, a little length on top — basically, a shorter variation on the same ’do O’Brien himself sports, sans the burly barber’s bitchin’ beard. As I have with every barber, stylist and drunken friend who’s ever touched my precious ginger locks with a pair of scissors or clippers, I was about to caution him about the cowlicks in the back — illmannered little curls that have been the bane of my entire hirsute existence. That’s when I saw it. On the white marbled counter in front of a patron a few chairs down, past black salon sinks and multicolored jars holding combs and tonics, sat the real reason I had ventured to the Barbershop: a tall, glistening, deep-red Bloody Mary. “Is that … a Bloody Mary?” I asked with hesitant wonder, as if I had never seen one before — which, in the context of a barbershop, I hadn’t. O’Brien nodded. “Can I have one?” He nodded again and said, ever so casually, as if this were somehow not the coolest thing that had ever happened in a barber’s chair in Burlington: “Yeah, man. Coming right up.” We rarely recognize the events that will change our lives in the instants they happen. But that first tangy rush of tomato, horseradish and vodka hitting my lips on a dazzling Saturday morning in midOctober may just have been one. Is that last sentence hyperbole? Absolutely. However, I don’t know that I’ll ever look at haircuts quite the same way again. Which is to say, sober. With the help of his brother, John, Mick O’Brien quietly opened the Barbershop in September behind O’Briens Salon on Main Street in Burlington. O’Briens is the flagship of the family’s hair salon empire, which includes several locations around Vermont as well as a cosmetology school, O’Briens Aveda Institute, of which John O’Brien is the program director. Formerly the home of Clip for Men, the newly remodeled space is sleek and clean, striking a balance between modern chic and classic barbershop warmth. But that’s not what makes the shop unique. Beyond a floor-to-ceiling glass wall at the far end of the Barbershop stands

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the Back Bar, which also serves the salon in the front of the building. O’Brien believes it to be the first full-service bar in the state to operate in tandem with a barbershop. In March 2017, the owners of Myles Court Barbershop in Montpelier announced plans to open an adjacent bar and restaurant. That space has yet to open, and inquiries to Myles Court Barbershop about the expansion were unreturned. A barbershop with booze is a new concept for Burlington, but it’s not unheard of in bigger cities. O’Brien, a Burlington native and fourth-generation barber who’s been cutting hair since he was a teenager, says he got the idea when he visited a shop in Manhattan called Blind Barber that sports a cocktail lounge in the back. “I love going to barbershops in other towns, because it’s a really cool culture,” he explained in a later interview. Oldschool barbershops are making a comeback, O’Brien added, both locally and nationally. Indeed, several have opened in the area recently, including Old Soul Barbershop in Winooski and Lux Barber Shop in Burlington. “We’re trying to build that community barbershop mentality,” O’Brien said.

Part of creating that vibe is fostering a comfortable environment where patrons can converse not just with their barber but with one another. To that end, the Barbershop offers a key ingredient that other shops don’t: social lubricants. “The alcohol helps,” O’Brien conceded. “It gets people to talk more.” While that’s true for patrons, the barbers, like any

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service industry workers, are prohibited from imbibing while on duty. The Back Bar serves a selection of wine and canned beer — there are no draft lines. A cocktail menu designed by marketing director and longtime bartender Melissa Jayne offers various classic drinks renamed, in that time-honored tradition of hair salons everywhere, with piliferous puns. The Pompadour is a Maker’s Mark

Manhattan. The Cosmetology is a straightforward cosmopolitan. My Bloody Mary is called, appropriately enough, the Red Head. One can also opt for the Shave & a Haircut: a can of Narragansett Lager and a shot of Jack Daniel’s. Those concerned about clippings accidentally garnishing their drinks can ask to be served in a plastic cup with a lid. The O’Brien family has operated salons in Burlington and beyond for more than 60 years, making Barbershop simply the latest in a long line of innovative business ventures. In the 1960s, Bill O’Brien Sr. opened a 28-chair barbershop and salon on Main Street in the space that now houses the Bern Gallery. That size was unprecedented in Burlington at the time, as was combining men’s and women’s services under one roof. In the 1980s, the O’Briens opened a string of budget salons called Haircuts for Less. Now known as Haircuts Plus, they were modeled after the national franchise Supercuts. The family also operated a tiki-themed salon called Bimini Bill’s. At its height, the O’Briens empire included salons in five states. “There’s no such thing as an original idea,” said Tim O’Brien, Mick’s dad and the

third generation of the family hair dynasty. “It’s being aware of what’s going on around you and then being able to take an idea and adapt it to your surroundings. That’s what Mick and John have done here.” Mick O’Brien noted that he and the staff are still ironing out kinks, such as sorting out operating hours and staffing arrangements for the Back Bar. Eventually, all of the barbers and stylists at both O’Briens and the Barbershop will be licensed to serve alcohol. At present, only a handful of staffers is able to mix and serve drinks. The Back Bar hasn’t yet developed a clientele beyond shaggy patrons seeking a cut, O’Brien said, but he hopes it will. The room has a cozy feel, with a handful of stools along the polished wood bar, two TVs and a couple of tables near the back. O’Brien envisions a lively lounge, not unlike the one at Blind Barber in NYC, where people often stop in just for a drink. “Hopefully they have a couple; then they’re like, ‘You know what? I need a haircut,’” joked O’Brien. “We’ll probably do a lot of Mohawks. We’ll make them sign a waiver or something.” m Contact: dan@sevendaysvt.com

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n New York City, tourists often observe that there seems to be a pizzeria on every block. Locals will explain why this pizzeria is superior to that one — and why, if you want the best meatballs, you’ll have to hit up that other pizzeria two streets down. Unlike the Big Apple, Burlington is better known as a farm-to-table foodie paradise than a pizza destination. Still, it’s home to at least 10 dedicated pie shops, and Queen City locals will happily give visitors the lowdown... Head to popular American Flatbread Burlington Hearth for a classic taste and an all-ages atmosphere, or to Pizzeria Verità if you’d like a sophisticated cocktail with dinner. Mr. Mikes Pizza is the late-night spot for generous slices and cold beer, while Manhattan Pizza & Pub serves pies with a side of live music. Don’t want to leave the house? Call Leonardo’s for home delivery. The hottest pizza these days seems to be Neapolitan, named for the Italian city of Naples, where the style is said to originate. This fall, Burlington welcomed two such additions. In the South End, Pizza 44 opened in mid-September. Pizzeria Ida, in a tucked-away spot in the Old North End, followed two weeks later. Both offer thin-crusted Neapolitan pies, along with a heftier, deep-dish option: a skilletcooked Greek-style pie at 44 and a Sicilian-style square pie at Ida. Both places self-identify as family friendly, and both express pride in making nearly everything from scratch — with as many local ingredients as possible. And yet, a meal at one place bears little resemblance to dining at the other. What’s the difference? How do the newbies stack up? Two Seven Days food writers went to find out.

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overlooking Pine Street. We chatted about the owner, Tim Williams, an office-supply entrepreneur who veered into food service. Two years ago, he reopened Archie’s Grill in Shelburne and shortly thereafter added the Scoop ice cream shop next door. We agreed that Williams must be feeling optimistic about working in the food business and marveled at the restaurant’s symbiotic relationship with Queen City Brewery, which occupies the back of the building. Brewery patrons can bring pizza to the tasting bar, and the pizzeria is the go-to caterer for events in the brewery’s new banquet room near the front door. And, of course, there are lots of Queen City brews on Pizza 44’s draft list. What to order? Pizza was a no-brainer, but we weighed the merits of lunch-hour panini ($7 to $10 and served with chips from Archie’s) versus chicken wings. Chef Steve Erceg is from northwestern New York, and we’d heard his flappers were good. After ordering their food, some diners seated themselves at the long communal tables in the center of the room. Others slid into counter seats, which offer a closeup view of the open, white-tiled kitchen where cooks prepped pizzas and shuffled them in and out of the gaping oven. In the end, we settled on altogether too much food, and the server brought dishes out one by one as they emerged from the line. Everyone enjoyed Erceg’s Brussels sprout Caesar salad ($9), a wide bowl piled high with crisp romaine, crunchy sourdough croutons and fried sprouts showered with Parmesan. The dressing was mild but pleasant; the SLICING IT TWICE

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In Stowe, PLATE has closed. Long live Plate! Owners JAMIE PERSKY and MARK ROSMAN closed their village restaurant at 91 Main Street on October 27. An October 17 Facebook post announcing the closure said new owners would be taking over soon but declined to name names. Over this past weekend, the new proprietors revealed themselves: Plate’s opening chef, AARON MARTIN, will return to run the kitchen; his wife, JENNIFER MARTIN, will lead the front of the house. Aaron departed Plate in 2016 after more than two years there; his résumé includes time at HEN OF THE WOOD and Berkeley, Calif.’s benchmark farm-to-table restaurant Chez Panisse. He spent the past year and a half at BLACK DIAMOND BARBEQUE in Morrisville. Jennifer is also a local food and beverage veteran; she tended bar at several area restaurants,

including the ALCHEMIST’s original Waterbury pub. Many of Aaron’s original specialties, including vegan palm-heart “crab cakes,” a beloved veggie burger and the Jamie’s on Grain salad, never left the Plate menu. Even so, the chef said he plans to bring the bill of fare back to its roots while tweaking it to accommodate modern palates. “We found an old stack of menus that goes right back to our first opening night,” Aaron said on Monday. “I think it would be really fitting if we bring back some of the old stuff while pairing it with some new stuff.” Regardless of the specific dishes available, the chef said, he’s dedicated to continuing to work directly with local farms to stock his larder. “[Plate’s] concept is to really drive the farm-totable movement,” Aaron said, suggesting that simply ordering regionally grown products from distributors such as BLACK RIVER PRODUCE kind of misses the point of buying local. “The older I get, the more I realize it’s really about creating

relationships with farmers. It shrinks the food system when you’re talking directly to producers.” If all goes according to plan, the Martins will reopen Plate the weekend after Thanksgiving for Wednesday through Saturday dinner and Sunday brunch. Hannah Palmer Egan

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“We like to keep it a little hot,” Pizzutillo said. “It gives that crust a nice pop; we call croutons crunchy but not too hard. A crock it a little kiss.” of meatballs ($9; Erceg’s grandmother’s Pizzutillo and Strand, 28, moved from recipe), smothered in red sauce and melty Philadelphia to Monkton in the spring of 2017 housemade mozzarella, balanced fluffy after working for about a decade at Philly lightness gleaned from a dollop of ricotta restaurants. Investing in a pizzeria, Pizzuwith the heft of the pork and beef. tillo told me later, “was always our dream.” No one could argue with the wings ($7 They opened Ida six weeks ago in the to $12), which were tossed in a tingly, frombeautifully renovated former home of Very scratch Buffalo sauce the chef learned Pepperoni-and-sausage Merry Theatre. Ida is itself a merry little to make as a teenager. Its secret, Erceg square pie at Pizza 44 theater, with its cathedral ceiling painted confided, is lots of butter. slate blue, lighting by Conant Metal & We were half full by the time our pizzas Light, music by the Dead, and dialogue by arrived, but we enjoyed them anyway. The Pizzutillo and the lucky bit players sitting Neapolitan-style crusts were properly blisat his counter. tered and chewy. The toppings were agreeThe theme of the show, of course, is able enough, though all at my table noted food — and the star is pizza made by Pizzuthat a cheddar-apple-bacon number ($18 tillo with a purity of purpose. His dough is for a large) could have used a little somenaturally leavened, his sauce made with thing more — ranch dressing? We unanimported San Marzano tomatoes and sea Fall greens salad at Pizzeria Ida salt. Toppings are limited and change up, imously praised a puffy deep-dish pie Chef Steve Erceg topped with pepperoni, sausage, onion and at Pizza 44 with choices including garlic, roasted shalpeppers ($17). lot, pepperoni and anchovy. Last week, Erceg explained that each The pies come in two styles: Neapolitan, new batch of pizza dough is leavened with its thin and crispy crust, and a square with a poolish — baker lingo for any preSicilian made from a three-flour dough blend that is aged for a few days before fermented dough made with a pinch or more of commercial yeast. becoming pizza. This imbues the bread “Our first batch of dough is in every with flavor, for a result that reminded me batch of dough,” the chef said, when asked of the simple but mouthwatering tomato how his crust differs from others around pies at the Italian Market in Philly. “It gets back to doing things in a slower town. “We use three-day-old dough as our starter, but we’re using flour, water and way,” Pizzutillo said. “It creates a much yeast like everybody else.” more beautiful, natural, living bread that H.P.E. old-world people are used to.” Owners Erika Strand and Ida will serve take-out pizza if it has boxes, Dan Pizzutillo at Pizzeria Ida but Pizzutillo said the pizza is made to eat in-house, where it tastes better. In addition to the pizza bar by the kitchen, the restaurant 662 Riverside Ave., Burlington, has one near the front door and two tables. A instagram.com/idapizzapies pizza and salad will serve two people, though Pizzeria Ida in Burlington’s Old North End I could probably eat a Neapolitan by myself. has no Facebook page, no phone number A round pie costs $15 to $18, and a square one and no website. It’s located in a parking lot $24 to $28, plus toppings. off Riverside Avenue, with no sign pointing Salads ($12), snacks such as olives and to it and none on the building. (The name is artichoke ($8) and escarole and bean etched in the glass on the door.) ($10), and sweet offerings such as houseBut I knew I’d found Ida, which I scoped baked pie made with Ploughgate Creamout during off-hours, when I heard a voice ery butter and Yates Family Orchard apples calling to me: “Hey, how long are you going ($8 per slice) shuffle on and off the menu. to be there?” Its permanent features include a cheeseThe question concerned my car and and-tomato calzone ($22) and a margherita where I had parked it. “Just a couple of pizza with buffalo mozzarella ($18). minutes,” I said, tracing the voice to the window. “I’m I hadn’t had a bite of his pizza, and I was already a “We get bored,” Pizzutillo said. “We have a new salad looking for a pizza place.” fan. My affection grew with each of my two visits to Ida. on the menu: arugula and baby kale, salt-roasted beets, I returned that night with my daughter and beer. (Ida is baby artichokes, local apples … We like to have a well“That’s us,” Dan Pizzutillo said. I’d already figured that out. Pizzutillo and his partner, BYOB.) We took a seat at the counter facing the blue-tiled, dressed salad to pop in your mouth.” Erika Strand, are from Philadelphia, and I’m intimately wood-fired pizza oven that was imported from Naples. While you won’t find Ida on Facebook, you can check familiar with that city’s tradition of yelling at strangers This gave us a front-row view of the pizza-making coun- out pictures and hours (Wednesday through Saturday about parking. ter and a chance to engage in Philly-style banter with starting at 5 p.m.) on Instagram. I told Pizzutillo I wanted to know if they’d be open Pizzutillo. You’ll know you’re in the right place if the dough man later that day but couldn’t find their phone number. Along the way, we ate a divine Caesar salad — Inter- comments from within about where you park, you find the “We don’t have a phone,” he told me. “We like to talk vale-grown lettuce with bits of bacon and Parmesan, space inside clean and contemporary, and the soundtrack to people.” dressed in olive oil, egg and anchovies — and devoured a is Dead-forward. I’m grateful for all of it. No Facebook, either? I checked. “I’m 31 years old, and blistery, chewy pepperoni-and-shallot pizza that emerged S.P. I’ve never used Facebook,” he said. from the 900-degree oven in 90 seconds.

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SIMPLE CHANGES, BIG DIFFERENCE: THANKSGIVING! Red Wagon Plants owner Julie Rubaud underscores the role of herbs in holiday cooking as students create their own herb butters and salts, then sit for an inspired turkey supper. Thursday, November 8, 6-8:30 p.m., Richmond Community Kitchen. $50. Info, 434-3445, richmond communitykitchen.com.

ISLAND TIME: A TIKI ONE-NIGHT STAND Chef Frank Pace transports guests to the South Pacific with Polynesian pork, pupu platters and tiki cocktails. Tuesday, November 13, 6-10 p.m., the Great Northern, Burlington. Cost of food and drink. Info, 489-5102, thegreatnorthernvt.com.

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am Kass held a number of positions during the eight years he worked for the Obamas. The young chef started out as the family’s personal cook in Chicago during the first presidential campaign. After Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, Kass kept that job while also serving as the White House senior policy adviser for nutrition and executive director of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative. He got a lot of exercise, Kass told an audience of about 150 at Norwich University on Monday, October 29. He would run from policy meetings back to the presidential residence in time to put dinner on the table by 6:30 p.m. Kass, 38, who left the White House in 2014, now works with food and agriculture technology startups. His cookbook Eat a Little Better: Great Flavor, Good Health, Better World was published in April by Clarkson Potter.

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During his keynote speech at Norwich’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics symposium, Kass touched on the personal, the political and the need to eat more plant-based foods. “The healthiest diet and the most sustainable diet are deeply correlated,” he said. “And I say that as a lover of steak.” Kass talked about realizing the magnitude of childhood hunger in the U.S. while working on federal school meals policy, and about taking realistic steps toward improving one’s own diet. Everyone slips up now and then, he said, joking, “If you eat a Twinkie, I still love you.” Spending time talking with Norwich students had given him hope, Kass told the attendees. Innovative thinking and approaches, he continued, will move the world toward a sustainable future. Kass left his audience with a question to ponder: “What is the society and culture we want to hand to the next generation?” Before his talk, Kass chatted with Seven Days about tips for home cooks, addressing

climate change and Michelle Obama’s rule for family meals.

more pressure and stress than the average family — and they had a bit more support.

SEVEN DAYS: You were working in one of the best restaurants in Vienna when you had an epiphany about the consequences of what you were cooking and feeding people. Can you describe that turning point in your career? SAM KASS: It was very early on in my career, and the sous chef who was training me asked me to make a rhubarb sauce, which basically constituted cooking down a bunch of rhubarb and a ton of butter. I put in a huge thing of butter, and he said, “No, no, I said put in the butter.” And so I put in another giant thing of butter, and he said, “No, I said, ‘Put in the blank butter!’” There was actually a blank in front of it each time he told me that. [Chuckles.] He said, “If the guests walk out of here and drop dead of a heart attack, it’s not my problem. The guests ask me to make food that tastes good, not that’s good for them.” To this day, he was the best chef I’ve ever worked with, and it turns out he was right. That was what we were asking him and the rest of the food industry to do — and it struck me as being really wrong. I immediately started asking myself, What are the implications of what I’m putting on the plate: for the people who are eating it on one side; and the implications on the environment, the land and the farmers who are producing it on the other side? At that point, I was poring over cookbooks, but then I started seeking out policy books and food culture and agriculture books.

SD: Any particular favorite new dishes you introduced them to? SK: A lot of it was just making basic, good foods more flavorful and fun. Like, grilling vegetables adds a ton of flavor: [They don’t] get mushy; you get a nice char and a lot of smokiness. It’s a really simple strategy that anyone can do. We all grill our steaks and pork chops, but no one thinks to grill our broccoli or cauliflower or zucchini. [In winter when you can’t grill,] I’ll turn the oven all the way up, get it really hot, then put the vegetables in and put on the broiler so you’re roasting and broiling at the same time. It doesn’t take long; what you’re trying to do is get some nice caramelization and some crisp texture without turning everything into a shrivelly, mushy mess. Seasonal cooking was also a big part of what we did. Obviously, people here in Vermont know a lot about that. We ate a lot out of the [White House] garden. Just using really good, fresh ingredients as the foundation. That’s nothing new.

SD: What was the biggest challenge of helping America’s First Family to eat better? Any lessons for the more average family? SK: They face the same challenges we all face: They’re super busy, a lot of pressure, a lot of jobs, young kids. The basic dynamic wasn’t any different than in the average family. It is about figuring out how to make it as easy as possible for people to make better choices. If it takes too much effort, nobody’s going to be successful. SD: But most people won’t have a private chef. SK: No question. But, basically, they had a bit

SD: How about special recipes Malia and Sasha liked a lot? SK: They liked the things your average kid likes. Mac and cheese was always well loved. But they ate what was cooked [for the whole family]. That was [a rule] from their mom. I think the idea of kids’ food is not a great idea. Kids should be eating what adults eat. You can tailor around spice — some kids just don’t like the spice — but I think you want everybody to eat the same thing. Kids’ food has been defined as junk food — chicken fingers and French fries — and that’s not good. SD: Recalling when you started cooking for the Obamas, you describe how Sasha became your “little sous chef,” helping and tasting, calling often — appropriately — for more lemon and salt. Can you explain how these ingredients can help home cooks make food taste as good as the stuff engineered to hit all our pleasure receptors? SK: They are the magic, but I think one of the biggest ones is acid. It just brightens up everything, even soups and stews. The

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average home cook is always underdoing it when it comes to acid. The biggest difference between a professional chef and a home cook is often that we’ll squeeze an extra half a lemon or add a couple splashes of vinegar. You can always try just a little bit. Take some [of what you’re cooking out] and add a touch or a squeeze and see how it tastes. If you’re going to invest in anything, invest in some decent vinegars. There are all kinds of awesome flavors — and they are good for you. SD: Even after working on the administration’s food and nutrition policy team, you note in your book that businesses, not governments, feed people. You’ve moved on to work with food businesses. How do you hope to affect change that way? SK: I think in the end we have to change the companies that are feeding us now and create new ones of the future that help solve the problems of environmental health and human health. Over the next 20 years, [the food system] will likely become the No. 1 driver of climate change, just due to emissions.

My work is now focused on trying to solve these problems from a different angle. I’m a partner in a fund that’s investing in new approaches, like a project that helps farmers use data to make ag more efficient, another that unlocks the power in the genomes of plants to make them perform better, and an education-based food company for kids.

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GREENER DRINKS: Supporters of commonsense cannabis reform sip beverages and discuss the culture, industry and politics of the agricultural product. Zenbarn, Waterbury, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@ vtcannabisbrands.com.

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PRODUCERS & BUYERS FORUM: Growers, food producers, buyers and distributors network during round-table discussion and breakout sessions guided by the theme “How Big, How Fast, How Far.” Kirk Alumni Center, Middlebury College, 8:30 a.m.2 p.m. $25. Info, 922-7060.

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FIBER RIOT!: Crafters get hooked on knitting, crocheting, spinning and more at an informal weekly gathering. Mad River Fiber Arts & Mill, Waitsfield, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-7746.

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BENEFIT CONCERT: Rusty Bucket and the Schroons provide the musical backdrop for games and appetizers at a soirée supporting the Missisquoi River Basin Association. 14th Star Brewing Co., St. Albans, 5:30-9 p.m. $20; free for kids. Info, 393-0076. ‘BIRDS, WORDS AND MUSIC’: Four Vermont creatives celebrate humans’ place in nature through poetry, reflection and song. Richmond Free Library, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 434-3036.

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CHITTENDEN COUNTY STAMP CLUB MEETING: First-class collectibles provide a glimpse into the postal past at this monthly gathering. Williston Fire Station, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4817. POP-UP ESCAPE ROOM: Brave souls solve puzzles to break free from a super-creepy space. For adults and kids ages 5 and up. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 4, 6 & 7 p.m. $8; preregister. Info, 496-5997. STORIES & DANCES OF THE MOTHER GODDESS: Tales from Moth Grand Slam raconteur Julia Lynam, a circle dance and a potluck feast reflect the energy of female deities. Bobbin Mill Community Center, Burlington, 4:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 777-2964. TALKING BANKING OVER BEERS: Attendees offer insight about their banking experiences as Stackpole & Partners provide the refreshments. Participants receive a $50 gift card. American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-2999. TEEN CAFÉ: Following early release from school, youngsters pass the time with hot cocoa, snacks and wifi. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4097.

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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: DEGAS: PASSION FOR PERFECTION’: Through written accounts and letters by the artist himself, the film reveals the truth behind the influential 19th-century French

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painter. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 11 a.m. & 7 p.m. $25. Info, 382-9222. ‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: How and why did the pterosaur take to the sky? A captivating motion picture full of 3D filming technology and CGI explores this question. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 12:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.50-16.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: Shot on location in South Africa, New Zealand, Mexico and California, this film seeks the truth behind the mythic and stigmatized underwater creature. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.50-16.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: Viewers visit a living city beneath the sea via an awe-inspiring film. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1:30 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.50-16.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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Mountain View Momos, thukpa and laping are just some of the Tibetan foods that will grace buffet tables at the 16th annual Tibet Festival. This family-friendly gathering hosted by the Tibetan Association of Vermont invites locals to enjoy traditional foods, crafts, music, and cultural performances such as the Yak and Snow Lion dances. “This festival is our chance to share with our neighbors and friends a little of our rich and ancient culture,” writes association president Sonam Chophel in a press release. Established in 1992, the association serves approximately 160 Tibetans forced by Chinese oppression to leave their homes in the Himalayas. Donations benefit the association.

TIBET FESTIVAL Saturday, November 10, 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., at Edmunds Elementary School in Burlington. Donations; cost of food and drink. Info, 999-4012, vermonttibet.org.

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an a little girl inspire a U.S. president to restore the country’s economy? On the Lyric Theatre stage, she can. In the company’s third production of the musical Annie, 11-year-old orphan Annie goes in search of her parents and befriends a billionaire and president Franklin D. Roosevelt along the way. Lyric spices up the 1977 Tony Awardwinning Broadway musical with video projection and fast-moving scenes. In a Lyric video, Hinesburg’s Stephanie Miskavage, who plays Annie, proclaims, “The music is great and the lines are funny.” Fans might recognize songs such as “Tomorrow” and “It’s a Hard Knock Life” in this production featuring 35 people, three dogs and endless enthusiasm. COU

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The Sky’s the Limit Camel’s Hump is white with snow, and Vermont ski slopes begin opening this month. That means it’s Miller time — Warren Miller, that is. This year’s film carrying the name of the grandfather of skiing and snowboarding epics features professional Norwegian freeskier Dennis Risvoll in Warren Miller’s Face of Winter. Like all Miller Miller Entertainment films made since 1950, it boasts remarkable location footage, serious shredding and a voice-over that guides viewers through arctic thrills. The amiable 31-year-old Risvoll treks through knee-deep powder, schusses past snow-laden pines and flips above precarious drops at Red Mountain Resort in Rossland, British Columbia.

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Humans converse not only with words and tone of voice but also through body language, context, and the congruence of words and actions. In her new work In a Rhythm, Bebe Miller invites viewers to make meaning from the combined effects of spoken word, movement and music. Inspired by the writings of Gertrude Stein, Toni Morrison and David Foster Wallace, the Bessie Award-winning choreographer and director presents a suite of dances that examine how gesture, timing and context affect our perceptions. Company performers include Christal Brown and Trebien Pollard — current and past Middlebury College faculty, respectively. Local dancers can step up for master classes taught by company members.

BEBE MILLER COMPANY: ‘IN A RHYTHM’ Thursday and Friday, November 8 and 9, 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, November 10, 2 p.m., at Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. $6-15. Master classes, Thursday, November 8, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., at Mahaney Center for the Arts. Free. Info, 443-3168, middlebury.edu.

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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.

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.

‘THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS’: This 2018 documentary tells the story of three young men who discover that they are triplets separated at birth. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6-7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 533-2000.

GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

TOURNÉES FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: ‘MAKALA’: Shown with English subtitles, a 2017 documentary turns the lens toward a charcoal salesperson in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 881-8826.

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BURGER WEEK: Foodies take a bite out of specially priced meat and veggie patties served with all the fixins from participating restaurants. See burgerweek. sevendaysvt.com. Various locations statewide. Cost of food. Info, 864-5684.

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BRIDGE CLUB: Players have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722. CRIBBAGE TEAMS: Longtime players and neophytes alike aim for a value of 15 or 31 in this competitive card game. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322. PINOCHLE & RUMMY: Card sharks engage in friendly competition. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

health & fitness

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, 7-8:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262. RESILIENCE FLOW: Individuals affected by a traumatic brain injury engage in a gentle yoga practice. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262. SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 7-14, 2018

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‘PATERSON’: Adam Driver portrays a bus driver and aspiring poet in urban New Jersey. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

PORKAPALOOZA: Diners go hog wild over barbecue fare. Proceeds benefit the Future Farmers of America and agriculture programs. Rough Cut, Middlebury, 5-8 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 458-8972.

WEDNESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go. Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5:306:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.

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

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MPROV: More than 150 improvisers from Montréal, New York City, Chigaco and Paris take the stage with acts of comedy, theater, drama and more during this 14th annual festival. Various Montréal locations, 7:30 p.m. $5-25. Info, mprov@montrealimprov.com.

music

Find club dates in the music section. MAMADOU DIABATE & PERCUSSION MANIA: The balafon virtuoso leads his ensemble through a dynamic showcase of West African traditional music. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-25. Info, 603-646-2422. SONG CIRCLE: Singers and musicians congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182. STOWE MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL WINTER CONCERT: Student ensembles give a seasonal performance. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 760-4634. VERY OPEN REHEARSAL: Members of the acclaimed Aizuri Quartet let listeners in on their process as they prepare for a trio of Vermont concerts. Green Mountain Girls Farm, Northfield, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 377-3161.

seminars

BARRE CITY ENERGY COMMITTEE BUTTON-UP KICKOFF WORKSHOP: Locals learn methods for improving the energy efficiency of their homes as winter approaches. Alumni Hall Meeting & Conference Center, Barre, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 477-1465.

talks

ADAM GRANT: Appearing via live broadcast, the New York Times bestselling author of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World imparts his wisdom. Stearns Cinema, Northern

Vermont University-Johnson, 7 p.m. Free. Info, krista.swahn@ northernvermont.edu. BILL LIPKE & BILL MARES: Speaking in conjunction with the exhibition “Doughboys and Flyboys: WWI Stories by Vermonters From the Home and Battlefront,” the authors of Grafting Memory: Essays on War & Commemoration examine how Canadians have chosen to honor their veterans. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, noon. Regular admission, $3-12. Info, 388-2117. BOB POPP: The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department botanist digs into the state’s rare, threatened and endangered plants. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, les.kanat@ northernvermont.edu. DANIEL HEWETT: “UrbanFrame Youth Design/Build” looks at what happens when teenagers have the chance to unleash their creativity through design and construction. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545. DERAY MCKESSON: In “Political Activism and the Case for Hope,” the Black Lives Matter activist outlines how his liberal arts education informs his approach to advocacy. Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. THE DISH: WOMEN IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY 2.0: Moderated by Seven Days contributor Melissa Pasanen, a discussion on female farmers, chefs and entrepreneurs provides food for thought. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $5. Info, 540-0406. GRAZIELLA PARATI: “The Roots of Fascism” identifies similarities and differences in the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902. IGNITE TALKS: A diverse lineup of speakers shares exciting and educational stories on a wide range of topics. Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $5. Info, 859-0100. MANISHA SINHA: From William Lloyd Garrison to Frederick Douglass, antislavery editors are at the center of “The Antislavery Press and the Road to Civil War.” Norwich Congregational Church, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184. MARGARET MARTIN: The nonprofit founder strikes a chord with “The Neuroscience of Music — Lessons from the Harmony Project.” Livak Ballroom, Dudley H. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, wellenv@uvm.edu. MARK POTOK: How is the explosion of misinformation changing the nation? The former editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report addresses this and other questions in “News, ‘Fake News’ and Democracy in America.” Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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NICHOLAS MA: The producer discusses and shows clips from his recent film, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. STAN SLOAN: A visiting scholar at Middlebury College, the speaker discusses threats to representative democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law in “The Fate of Western Democracy.” St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. TONY D’ANGELO: In the 2018 Fall Cron Lecture “Living the Spiritual Life in a Changing World,” the longtime student of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers explores the benefits of incorporating spirituality into one’s daily routine. Newman Center, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, prich005@plattsburgh.edu.

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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.

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‘TARTUFFE’: Moliere’s timeless comedy about a con man who uses religion as a tool for deceit is as relevant now as it was 350 years ago. Presented by the UVM Department of Theatre. Royall Tyler Theatre, University of Vermont, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 656-3131.

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AN EVENING WITH VIET THANH NGUYEN: Fiction fans hear from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer. Ira Allen Chapel, University of Vermont, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3056. FICTION WORKSHOP: Readers focus on elements of the craft when responding to work by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. JUDY CHAVES: The longtime hiker reveals a Vermont park’s hidden gems in a discussion of her guidebook, Secrets of Mount Philo: A Guide to the History of Vermont’s First State Park. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350. KATHERINE PATERSON: The acclaimed children’s author reads between the lines of her novel, Bread and Roses, Too. Rutland Free Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. RECOVERY WRITE NOW: Wordsmiths in recovery let their creativity flow in a lively and supportive setting. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 6-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, writelife1@hotmail. com. WENDY PEARLMAN: Hailing from Northwestern University, the professor reads into her new book, We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices From Syria.

Livak Ballroom, Dudley H. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 3:30-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, azakaras@uvm.edu. WRITING CIRCLE: Words pour out when participants explore creative expression in a lowpressure environment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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BUSINESS & BREWS: Professionals foster connections while meeting Magic Hat Brewing’s CEO, touring the facility and tipping back pints. Magic Hat Brewing Company, South Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $20 includes a drink and appetizers; free for members. Info, 863-3489. LEADERSHIP: THE MOST OVERLOOKED STRATEGY IN YOUR BUSINESS: At this networking luncheon, strengthsbased leadership coach Neal Niemiec offers tips for increased professional success. Vermont National Country Club, South Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $49. Info, michellemcglade@ ewomennetwork.com.

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TEA WITH THE LIBRARY DIRECTOR: Locals enjoy a hot beverage, sweet treats and conversation with library director Mary Danko. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM MEETING: Socially conscious ladies convene to discuss upcoming programs and community-related topics. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

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Tommy Castro & The Painkillers and Tinsley Ellis November 9, 8 pm - Barre Opera House

BEBE MILLER COMPANY: A suite of dances titled In a Rhythm is inspired by the writings of Gertrude Stein, Toni Morrison and David Foster Wallace. See calendar spotlight. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:309:30 p.m. $6-15. Info, 443-3168. DANCE MASTER CLASSES: Movers learn new steps from members of the Bebe Miller Company. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 11 a.m. & 3 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. SALSA NIGHT: DJ JP spins salsa, bachata, merengue and kizomba selections for an evening of moving and shaking. The Old Post, South Burlington, 7-11 p.m. Free. Info, 497-0202.

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JOB HUNT HELP: Community College of Vermont interns assist employment seekers with everything from résumé-writing to online applications. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393.

Tommy Castro - six-time Blues Music Award winner and recipient of the BB King Entertainer of the Year Award.

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POP-UP ESCAPE ROOM: See WED.7, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 p.m. TALKING BANKING OVER BEERS: See WED.7. TROPICAL FISH CLUB MONTHLY MEETING: Speakers ranging from local hobbyists to nationally known aquarium aficionados share their expertise. Essex Junction VFW Post, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-8716.

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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.7. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7. ‘THE INTERN’: Anne Hathaway stars as a young entrepreneur who takes on an older-thanaverage intern played by Robert DeNiro. A discussion of the challenges faced by women business owners and age- and gender-based discrimination follows. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 747-0000. ‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.7. ‘A TELEMARK TALE’ PREMIERE: Snow sports junkies get stoked for the season with a screening of this adventurous ski film. Zero Gravity brews and a raffle round out the evening. Outdoor Gear Exchange, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $6.50. Info, 860-0190.

food & drink

BURGER WEEK: See WED.7. 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.

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CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Champlain Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: Folks meet for a Zen Buddhist spiritual practice including meditation and liturgy. Email for more info before attending. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 7:15-7:45 a.m. Donations. Info, ryohad@ comcast.net.

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ADVANCED SUN TAI CHI 73: Participants keep active with a sequence of slow, controlled movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

A NIGHT OF NOURISHMENT: Treat yourself! Folks explore self-care practices that support a radiant and beautiful life. Light refreshments are served. Mirror Mirror, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 578-6975.

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AIZURI QUARTET: Presented by Scrag Mountain Music, the New York City foursome charms classical connoisseurs with “Deeply Known.” Bread & Butter Farm, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 377-3161.

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

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GAME NIGHT: From Monopoly to Bananagrams, players participate in tabletop pastimes. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 6 p.m. Donations. Info, 356-2776.

EATING TO BEAT TYPE 2 DIABETES & PRE-DIABETES: From reading labels to controlling portions, strategies for choosing and preparing healthy foods are on the menu during a presentation by a registered dietitian. Essex Free Library, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0313.

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

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tranquility. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

CHITTENDEN COUNTY CHESS CLUB: Checkmate! Strategic thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ kings. Shaw’s, Shelburne Road, South Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5403.

BEGINNERS TAI CHI CLASS: Students get a feel for the ancient Chinese practice. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

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SONGWRITING WORKSHOP: Seth Melvin Cronin guides Burlington Writers Workshop musicians and singers in structuring original strains. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. THE TEMPTATIONS: With 15 Top 10 songs to their credit, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers treat fans to smash hits such as “My Girl” and “Get Ready.” Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $39-59. Info, 775-0903.

outdoors

STARRY NIGHT: WHAT’S YOUR SIGN?: Stargazers explore the constellations of the Zodiac with education program coordinator Debbie Archer. Bring a flashlight or a headlamp. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 5:30-7 p.m. $5; free for members. Info, 434-3068.

seminars

HEALTHY HOMES: Vermont Energy Investment Corporation’s Brian Just leads a seminar on improving one’s comfort and indoor living environment through energy efficiency. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-400-8790. HOMESHARING INFO SESSION: Locals learn to make the most of spare space in their homes by hosting compatible housemates. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

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CINDY & TED WEBER: In “Cindy and Ted’s Great Adventure,” the husband and wife recount their travels through India, China and Vietnam. Stowe Free Library, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 253-6145. JUDY WICKS: An author, activist and founder of the Philadelphia farm-to-table restaurant the White Dog Café, the speaker sounds off on the importance of supporting local economies. An audience Q&A follows. Champlain Room & Terrace at Champlain College, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, nc3@ comcap.us.

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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, ext. 302. VERMONT WEB MARKETING SUMMIT: National experts and local professionals convene for an in-depth exploration of the digital marketing industry. Hilton Burlington, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $171204. Info, 862-8783.

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‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’: Six quirky competitors face off in a fictional spelling bee in this musical comedy presented by the Colchester High School Theater Company. Colchester High School, 7-9 p.m. $5-10. Info, 264-5700. ‘ANNIE: THE MUSICAL’: It’s a hard knock life for the precocious, redheaded orphan in Lyric Theatre’s production of one of the most beloved musicals of all time. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24-42. Info, 863-5966. ‘THE ARABIAN NIGHTS’: Ancient yet timely, a play for all ages follows the story of Scheherazade and the tales she tells a sultan to save her own life and the lives of the other women of the court. Presented by Encore Theatre. Rutland High School, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 770-1134. ‘ECLIPSED’: The captive “wives” of a rebel officer during the Second Liberian Civil War band together to determine their own fate in this poignant production by the Dartmouth College Department of Theater. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $9-12. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘IMPERATOR’: In a play written and directed by student Coralie Tyler, Cleopatra finds herself in a predicament, which is intensified by the arrival of an old flame. Hepburn Zoo, Hepburn Hall, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 443-3168. LIZA JESSIE PETERSON: The actor, poet and activist presents her one-woman show, Down the Rabbit Hole, a pointed, moving and often funny critique of the American criminal justice system based on her tome about teaching at Riker’s Island. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. ‘MARJORIE PRIME’: Presented by the Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theater, Jordan Harrison’s theater work explores the question of what we would remember or forget if given the chance. Tuttle Hall Theater, College of St. Joseph, Rutland, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $20. Info, 236-4966. ‘MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY’: Staged by NVU-Johnson’s student theater group, this postapocalyptic dark comedy centers on a discussion of an episode of “The Simpsons” from the ’90s. Dibden Center for the Arts, Northern Vermont UniversityJohnson, 7 p.m. $10; free for NVU students and employees. Info, 635-1476.

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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘ALLELUJAH!’: Live from London’s Bridge Theatre comes playwright Alan Bennett’s latest hilarious work about the daily struggles on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward at a Yorkshire hospital. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600.

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‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’: Spaulding High School Drama Club presents Jane Austen’s beloved work which follows Elizabeth Bennett and her four sisters in their pursuit to secure their futures. Spaulding High School, Barre, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, sbrenshs@u61.net.

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‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS’: Plainfield Little Theatre raises the curtain on a new work by local playwright Tom Blachly based on the rollicking 1840 presidential election. Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, 7 p.m. $10-12. Info, 229-5290.

BEBE MILLER COMPANY: ‘IN A RHYTHM’: See THU.8.

‘TARTUFFE’: SEE WED.7.

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DANA CAVALEA: In his first published book, Habits of a Champion, the high-performance coach shares 15 lessons about what it takes to become a winner. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350. FAIRFAX READS BOOK GROUP: Bibliophiles bond over A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Fairfax Community Library, 6:308 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. ‘LET’S TALK ABOUT IT’: At the launch of the Ok. You’ve Got This youth resiliency campaign, comedian Sue Schmidt and local teens share stories — some humorous and some serious — of what it takes to bounce back. Vergennes Opera House, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 881-9121.

CRAFTY CRAP NIGHT: Participants bring supplies or ongoing projects and an adventurous attitude to share creative time with other people in recovery. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

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

CONTRA DANCE: Dugan Murphy calls the steps at a Queen City Contras shindig with music by Cloud Ten. Bring clean, softsoled shoes. North End Studios, Burlington, beginners’ session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8 p.m. $9; free for kids under 12. Info, 862-9719. DYNAMIC DANCE PARTY: Dsantos VT and Sprinticity Track Club present a celebration of the magic of movement. Proceeds benefit the Brain Injury Association of Vermont. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:40 p.m. $15-25. Info, 540-0406. 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. SWING DANCE CLASSES: Richard Cormier and Sherri McKirryher help beginners find their footing. Bring water and comfortable shoes. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 6:30-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-0356.

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KATHLEEN MADIGAN: The seasoned comic seen in three Netflix specials elicits big laughs. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $35. Info, 775-0903. ‘WAIT A MINUTE!: A VERY PROFESSIONAL TALK SHOW WITH ASH DIGGS’: In an age when every news alert can feel catastrophic, this comedic production aims to leave audience members feeling informed, knowledgeable and optimistic. Revelry Theater, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $7-10. Info, anthony@ revelrytheater.com. WU-PROV: Trivia and prizes augment a night of improvisational comedy inspired by the music of the Wu-Tang Clan. Revelry Theater, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 p.m. $7-10. Info, anthony@ revelrytheater.com.

community

FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

education

OPEN HOUSE: Prospective pupils visit campus for a tour, an academic session and to learn about financial aid. Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-225-1998.

environment

LAKE CHAMPLAIN-RICHELIEU RIVER FLOOD STUDY PUBLIC MEETING: Community members offer input regarding an ongoing study that aims to identify causes and mitigation measures to minimize future flooding impacts in the Lake Champlain basin. DoubleTree by Hilton, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, lcrr@ottawa.ijc.org.

GREEN MOUNTAIN SHOWDOWN BIKE CULTURE VARIETY SHOW: Regional writers and videographers showcase their work at a multimedia expo dedicated to mountain biking. Tres Amigos & Rusty Nail Stage, Stowe, 8-11 p.m. $17-20; free for kids 12 and under; limited space. Info, 585-5495. LAUREN RAINBOW: The psychic medium purports to channel healing messages from the beyond. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $20. Info, 603-674-6580. POP-UP ESCAPE ROOM: See WED.7, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 p.m. TAROT READINGS: A spiritual mentor consults her cards to offer guidance and clarity. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $1 per minute; preregister. Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

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ANIMÉ NIGHT: Enthusiasts view and chat about the latest animated shows from Japan. Enter through the side door. Laboratory B, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 777-9012.

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HARVEST CHICKEN & BISCUIT DINNER: Locals fill their bellies with a home-cooked meal with all the fixings. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $6-12; $35 per family of four; free for kids under 5. Info, 862-5010. HOPSCOTCH: A VERMONT SINGLE MALT WHISKEY RELEASE WEEKEND: Free tastings tempt imbibers at a celebration of a collaboration between Mad River Distillers and 14th Star Brewing. Partial sales benefit the Josh Pallotta Fund. Mad River Distillers Burlington Tasting Room, noon-10 p.m. Free. Info, 489-5501.

mindfulness-based addictionrecovery community. Turning Point Center, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 861-3150. RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: See THU.8.

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NORWICH PANEL ON ARMISTICE DAY CENTENNIAL: Norwich faculty members engage in a panel discussion on the First World War, its conclusion and the legacy it left behind. Mack Hall, Norwich University, Northfield, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2000. SANTA WORKSHOP SALE: The Christmas shopping season commences with an emporium of decorations, gifts and collectibles. Waterbury Center Community Church, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 244-8089.

MEET GESINE BULLOCK-PRADO: The host of the Food Network’s “Baked in Vermont” signs copies of her new book, Fantastical Cakes. Kiss the Cook, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 349-8803.

VETERANS DAY OBSERVANCE: Major general Thomas W. Geary offers remarks during a ceremony honoring the men and women who have served our nation. Upper Parade Ground, Norwich University, Northfield, 3:15 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2000.

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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.7, 9:15 a.m. CRIBBAGE TEAMS: See WED.7. PINOCHLE & RUMMY: See WED.7.

health & fitness

ACUDETOX: Attendees in recovery undergo acupuncture to the ear to propel detoxification. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150. AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE: Healthy humans part with life-sustaining pints. Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce, Berlin, noon-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 229-5711. CHAIR YOGA: Students with limited mobility limber up with modified poses. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262. CHILL TO THE ‘CHI’ QIGONG: Meditative, relaxing movement patterns are based on ancient Chinese concepts of health and well-being. Waterbury Public Library, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 244-7036. GONG MEDITATION: Sonic vibrations lead to healing and deep relaxation. Yoga Roots, Williston, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $18. Info, 318-6050. LIVING RECOVERY: Folks overcoming substance abuse move, breathe and make positive change in a moderately paced flow yoga class. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262. MOVE TO THE MUSIC: Propelled by music ranging from big band to country western, participants sit or stand while completing light strength- and balance-boosting activities. Waterbury Public Library, 11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 244-7036. REFUGE RECOVERY: A LOVE SUPREME: Buddhist philosophy is the foundation of this

OUT IN THE OPEN SUMMIT: A weekend of field trips, discussions and presentations gets to the heart of the rural and smalltown LGBTQ experience. See greenmountaincrossroads.org for details. Hilltop Montessori School, Brattleboro. $40-70; preregister. Info, info@greenmountaincross roads.org.

montréal

MPROV: See WED.7.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

talks

ABDI NOR IFTIN: Speaking as part of the William Eddy Lecture Series, the memoirist whose story has been featured on “This American Life” offers intimate glimpses into the immigrant experience. St. Johnsbury School, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2372. EDUCATION & ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: Vermont Public Radio statehouse reporter Peter Hirschfeld delivers “Election Day Postmortem: How the Politics of 2018 Could Shape Vermont’s Policies of the Future.” Sanctuary. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5. Info, 658-6554. RALPH PETERSON: The Vermont author and motivational speaker gives the skinny on weight loss with tips from his Amazon bestseller Adventure in Dietland: How to Win at the Game of Dieting From a Former Fat Guy. Barre Opera House, 7 p.m. $25; free for kids 18 and under. Info, 476-8188.

theater

‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’: See THU.8. ‘ANNIE: THE MUSICAL’: See THU.8. ‘THE ARABIAN NIGHTS’: See THU.8. ‘THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN’: Set on a remote island off of Ireland in 1934, this dark comedy staged by Lamoille County Players follows a young man with his heart set on starring in a film. Hyde Park Opera House, 7-9 p.m. $12-18. Info, 888-4507. ‘ECLIPSED’: See THU.8.

AIZURI QUARTET: See THU.8, Unitarian Church of Montpelier.

‘IMPERATOR’: See THU.8, 8 & 10 p.m.

CHRISTINE MALCOLM BAND: The Elmore singer-songwriter brings a blend of folk, country, rock and blues from her 2015 album Crickets, Coyotes and the Big Yellow Moon. Williston Old Brick Church, 7-9 p.m. $11-15. Info, 764-1141.

‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’: Stage 32 student performers present Frank Oz’s 1986 comedic musical about a socially awkward florist and a giant maneating plant. U-32 High School, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10-12. Info, 229-0321, ext. 5561.

DAROL ANGER & THE FURIES: The mad fiddler returns with his raging band, performing cuts from their latest record Music of Our People: Songs of the Roaring Sixties. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $23-26. Info, 728-6464.

LIZA JESSIE PETERSON: See THU.8.

GARETH CORDERY: The student pianist makes the keys dance in his junior recital. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. TINSLEY ELLIS & TOMMY CASTRO & THE PAINKILLERS: Two titans of southern blues rock the Granite City as part of the T ‘N’ T Tour. Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $23-33. Info, 476-8188. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT CONCERT BAND: D. Thomas Toner conducts a varied program featuring student musicians.

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‘MARJORIE PRIME’: See THU.8. ‘MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY’: See THU.8. ‘PAST IS PRESENT: THE THEATRE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’: Conceptualized by St. Mike’s faculty member Peter Harrigan, this theater work showcases some of the 20th-century playwright’s most memorable characters. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000. ‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’: See THU.8. ‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS’: See THU.8. ‘TARTUFFE’: See WED.7.

words

FRIDAY MORNING WORKSHOP: Wordsmiths offer constructive criticism on works in progress

by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

social sites. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030.

SAT.10

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.

bazaars

CRAFT & PRODUCT SALE: Shoppers choose from a wide variety of handmade wares. Northfield St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 485-8313. CRAFT & VENDOR SHOW: Folks get their fill of handcrafted wares and other items, plus a tea-cup auction and a bake sale. Lamoille Union Middle & High School, Hyde Park, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 309-0603. CRAFT FAIR IN BRISTOL: What better way to kickstart holiday shopping than by browsing the many goods on display at this fundraiser for Project Graduation? Mount Abraham Union High School, Bristol, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, mtabecraftfair@yahoo.com. CRAFT FAIR IN ENOSBURG FALLS: Unique, locally made items tempt holiday shoppers. Enosburg Opera House, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 933-6171. SKI & SKATE SALE: ’Tis the season! Skiers, riders and skaters stock up on new and used gear at this yearly event. Proceeds benefit the school’s PTA. Waitsfield Elementary School, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 496-3643.

conferences

TIME TO TRANSFORM NOW! CONFERENCE: Nan O’Brien-Webb dives deep into her concept of Intellectual Spiritualism. Folks may attend one or both days. The Gallery at Main Street Landing, Burlington, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $297.50495. Info, 316-3039.

dance

BEBE MILLER COMPANY: ‘IN A RHYTHM’: See THU.8, 2 p.m. SWING DANCE WITH STARLINE RHYTHM BOYS: Twinkle-toed attendees move to rollicking live tunes. Bring clean shoes. Champlain Club, Burlington, free beginner lesson, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8-10:30 p.m. $20. Info, 864-8382.

education

OPEN HOUSE: See FRI.9, Northern Vermont University-Johnson. Info, 635-1219.

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HISTORIC BARN HOUSE TOURS: Attendees view authentic African art, impressive architecture and antique fixtures during a stroll through historic buildings. Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte, 10-11:30 a.m. $10; preregister. Info, 310-0097. INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE: Anything goes in an in-person networking group where folks can share hobbies, play music and discuss current events — without using online

LAUREN RAINBOW: See FRI.9, Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 476-8188.

fairs & festivals

TIBET FESTIVAL: The Tibetan Association of Vermont presents a day of traditional food, crafts, songs and dance. See calendar spotlight. Edmunds School Gymnasium, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 999-4012.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT’: Shown on 16mm reel-to-reel film, this 1970 sci-fi classic can be viewed as a cautionary tale in the age of information overload. Newman Center, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Donations. Info, serious_61@ yahoo.com. ‘COMING HOME’: A new documentary by Bess O’Brien turns the lens toward former inmates as they reintegrate into their communities. Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 357-4616. ‘THE DARK’: An undead teenage girl and a blind boy, both victims of abuse, find refuge in each other in this 2018 horror movie. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. ‘DATELINE: SAIGON’: The Woodstock Film Series continues with a screening of this 2016 documentary that revisits five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who shed light on the early years of the Vietnam War. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 & 5:30 p.m. $5-11. Info, 457-2355. ‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.7. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7. ‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.7. ‘YELLOW SUBMARINE’: Classic songs by the Beatles propel this 1968 animated musical spectacle. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 2-3:30 p.m. $5. Info, 457-3981.

food & drink

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT HUNTER & COMMUNITY BREAKFAST: Rise and shine! Diners start their day with an early-morning meal. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 5-11 a.m. $5-8. Info, 223-3322. CHOCOLATE TASTING IN BURLINGTON: Let’s go bar hopping! With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics discover the flavor profiles of varieties such as toffee almond crunch and salted caramel latte. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

F.O.L.K. HUNTER’S BREAKFAST: Bacon, eggs, pancakes, sausage gravy, biscuits and french-toast casserole served buffet-style provide fuel for the day. Lowell Graded School, 6-11 a.m. $3-7. Info, 744-5483. GREEK PASTRY SALE & TAKEOUT DINNER: Phyllo-dough delights complement hearty offerings of chicken souvlaki, falafel and gyros. Greek Orthodox Church Community Center, Burlington, sale, 10 a.m.; dinner, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Cost of food. Info, 862-2155. HARVEST DINNER: Food and fellowship meet music and entertainment by folksters John Kirk and Trish Miller. Grace Congregational Church, Rutland, dinner, 5:30 p.m.; music, 7-8 p.m. $8-15; free for kids under 4. Info, 775-4301. HOPSCOTCH: A VERMONT SINGLE MALT WHISKEY RELEASE WEEKEND: See FRI.9. LASAGNA SUPPER: Pans of cheesy baked pasta are the centerpiece of a buffet of greens, bread and dessert. Takeout is available. Vergennes United Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. $5-9. Info, 877-3150.

health & fitness

NEWBIE NOON CLASS: Firsttimers get their stretch on in a comfortably warm environment. Hot Yoga Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 999-9963.

holidays

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR: Consumers stock up on handmade gifts and attic treasures. Essex Junction St. Pius X Parish, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-5997. CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR: Tables full of treasures tempt shoppers. United Church of Colchester, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7641. HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Baked goods, books, crafts, jewelry and plants put smiles on shoppers’ faces. All Saints Episcopal Church, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9750. HOLIDAY BAZAAR & LUNCHEON: Artwork and jewelry and knickknacks, oh my! Passersby snag the perfect present for everyone on their list. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5010. HOLIDAY CRAFT SALE: Myriad makers put forth one-of-a-kind items. United Church of Milton, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, kberard-brown@hotmail.com. SANTA WORKSHOP SALE: See FRI.9, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. VETERANS DAY DINNER: Vermont veteran Chris Boutin keynotes a student-served meal followed by a dance. VFW Post 7779, Hyde Park, 4:30 p.m. Free; $7 for dance; cash bar; preregister. Info, 635-1227.

language

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE LUNCH: Bring a bag lunch and a dictionary to practice the system of communication using visual gestures. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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ARMENIAN LANGUAGE: Singing, dancing, drama and games promote proficiency. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. DUTCH LANGUAGE CLASS: Planning a trip to Amsterdam? Learn vocabulary and grammar basics from a native speaker. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, bheeks@ yahoo.com.

lgbtq

OUT IN THE OPEN SUMMIT: See FRI.9, 8:30-midnight. PRIDE YOGA: LGBTQ individuals and allies hit the mat for a stretching session suited to all levels. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 5-6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

montréal

MPROV: See WED.7, 7 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section. AIZURI QUARTET: See THU.8, Warren United Church of Christ. BURLINGTON CIVIC SYMPHONY: Daniel Bruce leads the orchestra in a performance of works by Dvořák, Ravel, Respighi and Bernstein. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $5-20. Info, 863-5966. CATAMOUNT ARTS BLUEGRASS NIGHT: Beg, Steal or Borrow and Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing are the featured performers during an evening chock-full of traditional tunes. Masonic Hall. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 748-2600. DANIEL KAHN & THE PAINTED BIRD: Rolling Stone raves this killer klezmer band has “the free-spirited attitude of the New York Tzadik circle, cabaret flair and scraps of Tom Waits.” Also, punk-rock accordion. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $31-35. Info, 656-4455. DARTMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: The orchestra kicks off the Hop’s Leonard Bernstein centennial celebration with two works by the iconic American

composer, as well as pieces by Mahler and Grant Still. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-25. Info, 603-646-2422. ELEVA CHAMBER PLAYERS: Central Vermont’s only professional string chamber orchestra hits all the right notes in “Big. Bold. Beautiful.” United Church of Christ/Waterbury Congregational Church, 7 p.m. $10-20; free for Green Mountain Youth Symphony students. Info, 244-8354. THE HOT PICKIN’ PARTY: Bluegrass tunes fill the air as part of the Burnham Music Series. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. $10; free for kids and teens. Info, 388-6863. HULLABAHLOO: Music fans hit the dance floor to cut a rug. Essex Junction VFW Post, 7-10 p.m. Donations. Info, 878-0700. JOHNNY RAWLS & THE DAVE KELLER BAND: The acclaimed blues acts join forces to celebrate a pair of new albums. Burke Mountain Hotel & Conference Center, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 748-2600.

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.

THE LOGGER & THE FIDDLER: Comedian Rusty DeWees and fiddler Patrick Ross present a night of belly laughs and bluegrass licks. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $25-30. Info, 603-448-0400. MAIDEN VERMONT: Central Vermont’s all-female barbershop chorus presents “Just Imagine!” — their joyful fall concert. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 2:30 & 7:30 p.m. $22-30. Info, 382-9222. THE MET: LIVE IN HD ‘MARNIE’: Isabel Leonard stars in the title role in this new opera from Vermont-born composer Nico Muhly based on the Winston Graham novel — which later became an Alfred Hitchcock classic. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600. MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE ORCHESTRA: Student musicians show the fruits of their labor in a recital conducted by Evan Bennett. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. MILE TWELVE: Based in Boston, this award-winning band walks the line between original and traditional bluegrass. Brandon Town Hall, 7:30-9 p.m. $10-12. Info, 247-5420. PATTI CASEY & THE WICKED FINE PLAYERS: The local singer-songwriter joins forces with her longtime collaborator Colin McCaffrey and former Bluegrass Gospel Project bandmates. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $15-18. Info, 877-6737. THE ROUGH & TUMBLE: FolkAmericana numbers from We Made Ourselves a Home When We Didn’t Know find eager listeners. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295. SOCIAL BAND’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY & REUNION: Members of the Burlington choral group lift their voices in “With Songs and Honors Sounding Loud.” Charlotte Congregational Church, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $15-18. Info, 355-4216. TUSK: This Fleetwood Mac tribute band excites fans with note-fornote renditions of popular songs

by the “Say You Love Me” hit makers. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $29-39. Info, 775-0903. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Compositions by Beethoven, Stravinsky and others come to life in a concert conducted by Yutaka Kono. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

outdoors

military photography, respectively. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, 2 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12. Info, 388-2117.

tech

TECH HELP: Electronics novices bring their questions and devices to a hands-on help session with a trained troubleshooter. Fairfax Community Library, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

COMMUNITY TRAIL WORK DAY: Volunteers clad in weatherappropriate clothing lend a hand toward improving local paths. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 879-6001.

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MONTHLY WILDLIFE WALK: Birders of all ages and abilities survey feathered friends and other species. Otter View Park, Middlebury, 8 a.m. Free. Info, 388-1007.

‘THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN’: See FRI.9, 2-4 & 7-9 p.m.

MOUNT HUNGER & WHITE ROCK HIKE: Outdoor adventurers keep a moderate pace on a 6.4-mile trek gaining 2,600 feet in elevation. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, jillghiker@ gmail.com.

seminars

EARLY PARENTING WORKSHOP: With the support of a local certified postpartum doula, moms and dads prepare to care for a new baby. Good Beginnings of Central Vermont, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 595-7953. SUSTAINING YOURSELF IN THE AGE OF #METOO: A SELF-CARE EXPRESSIVE ARTS WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN OF ALL AGES: Through a two-part workshop, survivors, significant others and advocates use music, writing and art to share thoughts and feelings. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

talks

ROBERT BERNHEIM & BRENNAN GAUTHIER: Speaking in conjunction with the exhibition “Doughboys and Flyboys: WWI Stories by Vermonters From the Home and Battlefront,” the presenters discuss post-WWI German repercussions and

‘THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’: See THU.8, 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. ‘ANNIE: THE MUSICAL’: See THU.8, 1 & 7:30 p.m.

‘ECLIPSED’: See THU.8. ‘IMPERATOR’: See THU.8. ‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’: See FRI.9, 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. ‘MARJORIE PRIME’: See THU.8. ‘MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY’: See THU.8. ‘PAST IS PRESENT: THE THEATRE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’: See FRI.9. ‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’: See THU.8. ‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS’: See THU.8. ‘TARTUFFE’: See WED.7, 2 & 7:30 p.m. ‘THE TELLING PROJECT’: Military vets and their families transform true stories into dramatic stage plays in this profound theater series. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $12-28. Info, 728-6464.

words

CHAPTERS IN HISTORY TWO: AS THE U.S. EMERGES READING & DISCUSSION GROUP: Nonfiction fans sink their teeth into Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. MELODY BROOK: Appearing as part of Agricultural Literacy Week, the raconteur shares stories that illustrate Abenaki culture. A

potluck lunch takes place at 11:30 a.m. Highgate Public Library, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 434-4122. RICHARD ALLEN: Nonfiction fans flock to the release of Reed Brown’s 1841 Journey: America Through the Eyes of a Vermont Yankee. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

SUN.11 activism

350VERMONT CONVERGENCE: Activists from across the state come together to strengthen the climate justice movement. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 3-7 p.m. $10-50. Info, zac@350vt.org. ARMISTICE DAY: A CELEBRATION & RECLAMATION: A procession down Church Street ends at the BCA Center, where artists deliver speeches aimed at reframing the anniversary of the end of World War I as a celebration of peace. First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

bazaars

CRAFT & PRODUCT SALE: See SAT.10, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. SKI & SKATE SALE: See SAT.10, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

community

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Sessions in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh include sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and open sharing. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, newleafsangha@gmail.com.

conferences

TIME TO TRANSFORM NOW! CONFERENCE: See SAT.10.

dance

BOLSHOI BALLET IN CINEMA: ‘LA SYLPHIDE’: A young Scotsman is awakened on his wedding day by a kiss from a beautiful winged creature and risks everything for love in this live-streamed SUN.11

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production. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600. DANCE, SING & JUMP AROUND: Traditional music enlivens an afternoon of circle and line dancing taught and called by Liz Benjamin, Ethan Guiles and Stan Carlson. Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1509.

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CAPTAIN JAHAZIEL SHERMAN, STEAMBOAT PIONEER, VISITS VERGENNES: Art hounds preview the only known portrait of the captain and his wife Harriett Daggett Sherman, and hear from guest speaker Kevin Crisman of the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation at Texas A&M University. Vergennes Opera House, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 475-2022.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘COMING HOME’: See SAT.10, Congregational Church, Middlebury. ‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.7. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7. ‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.7.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN BURLINGTON: See SAT.10. CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made on-site. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090. HOPSCOTCH: A VERMONT SINGLE MALT WHISKEY RELEASE WEEKEND: See FRI.9, noon-6 p.m. KNIFE SHARPENING: Dull blades, be gone! Jim Cunningham of JRC Knife Sharpening whets cutting tools. Chef Contos Kitchen & Store, Shelburne, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $4-5 per knife. Info, 497-3942. SOUL FOOD SUNDAY: Community members connect over good conversation and tasty eats at a shared meal hosted by the Rutland Area NAACP. Potluck contributions are optional. Grace Congregational Church, Rutland, 5-7 p.m. Donations. Info, info@ naacprutland.org.

health & fitness

MEDITATION GROUP: A brief yoga practice paves the way for a period of deep focus. BYO mat and cushion. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-6920. MOVING MEDITATION WUJI GONG: Jeanne Plo leads pupils in an easy-to-learn form of qigong known as “tai chi for enlightenment.” Burlington Friends Meeting House, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-6377.

RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: See THU.8, 5:30 p.m.

holidays

VETERANS DAY CEREMONY: Patriots pay tribute to all who have served the United States. Five Corners, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-0700.

language

‘DIMANCHES’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners alike chat en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652.

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. OUT IN THE OPEN SUMMIT: See FRI.9, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

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MPROV: See WED.7, 7 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section. ANDREA BEATON & TROY MACGILLIVRAY & BETH TELFORD & WILL WRIGHT: Playing together and separately, the duos dole out spirited selections of Cape Breton music. Seven Stars Arts Center, Sharon, 7 p.m. $8-20. Info, lukeydog57@ gmail.com. ‘BATTLE’S OVER: A NATION’S TRIBUTE’: St. Andrew’s Pipe Band of Vermont perform as part of a global commemoration of the 100th anniversary of World War I. First Congregational Church Essex, 6-6:30 a.m. Free. Info, 343-4738. BLUEROCK BOYS: A duo consisting of Cliff Crosby and Eric Bushey add a personal touch to classic rock, vintage soul and country music. First Congregational Church, St. Albans, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, churchstreetsoundsofthe season@gmail.com. CONCERT FOR A CAUSE: ANNEMIEKE MCLANE & MATTHEW MARSIT: A dialogue between clarinet and piano plays out in “Winds and Woods.” Funds raised support Upper Valley Haven. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, 4-5:30 p.m. $5. Info, 457-3500. DAVID FEURZEIG: Joined by violist Stefanie Taylor, the acclaimed composer and pianist performs works from his new CD, Lingua Franca. A reception follows the album release concert. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040. ELEVA CHAMBER PLAYERS: See SAT.10, Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, reception, 2:30 p.m.; concert, 3 p.m.

GARY SCHMIDT: Poetry readings thread through “The Nocturnal Piano of Chopin.” Stone Valley Arts, Poultney, 4-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 325-2603. HOWARD UNIVERSITY GOSPEL CHOIR: Singers and musicians raise the rafters with contemporary and traditional gospel numbers. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 2 & 7 p.m. $25. Info, 382-9222. LUCINDA WILLIAMS & BUICK 6: Melding rock, country, folk and blues, the Grammy Awardwinning singer-songwriter takes the stage to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $44.50-59.50. Info, 603-448-0400. MAMADOU DIABATÉ: Backed by six Burkina Faso musicians, the balafon master shares the West Africa musical traditions of his Sambla peoples. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966. ME2/ORCHESTRA: Composed of musicians living with mental illness, the classical ensemble performs works by Handel, Leroy Anderson and Tchaikovsky. Proceeds benefit the Zero Suicide Initiative. Barre Opera House, 4 p.m. $15. Info, 476-8188. OISÍN MAC DIARMADA & DAITHÍ GORMLEY: Bearing fiddle and button accordion, the instrumentalists explore songs and stories from Fiddlers of Sligo Tunebook. Burlington City Arts, 6-8 p.m. $20; preregister; limited space. Info, mark.sustic@gmail.com. SOCIAL BAND’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY & REUNION: See SAT.10, United Church of Hinesburg, 3-5 p.m. UKULELE MÊLÉE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the fourstringed Hawaiian instrument. BYO uke. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. VERMONT VIRTUOSI: New York City Ballet concertmaster Arturo Demoni showcases his bowand-string mastery in works by Pugnani, Beethoven and Grieg. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 3 p.m. $10. Info, 881-9153. VERMONT WIND ENSEMBLE: Compositions by the likes of Alfred Reed and John Mackey make up a program conducted by Yutaka Kono. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040. WWI MEMORIAL CARILLON CONCERT: The melodic sound of bells rings out across the campus in a performance by George Matthew Jr. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

outdoors

CAMELS HUMP BEAVER POND HIKE: Picturesque views reward walkers on this moderate 3.6mile excursion. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, ted@ted-albers.net.

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seminars

BEYOND THE MIND: TECHNIQUES TO AWAKEN YOUR INNER TRUTH: Eckankar hosts an afternoon of workshops focused on developing a deeper awareness of self. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

sports

PUBLIC SKATING: Active bodies coast across the ice. Plattsburgh State Fieldhouse, N.Y., 1:15-2:45 p.m. $2-3; additional cost for rentals. Info, 518-564-4270.

talks

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.7. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7. ‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.7. TOURNÉES FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: ‘LES FANTÔMES D’ISMAËL’: Just as he is about to begin shooting a new picture, a filmmaker’s former lover steps back into his life. Shown with English subtitles. Room 111, Cheray Science Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 881-8826.

TEDXSAINT MICHAEL’S COLLEGE: THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE: Unique thinkers and inspiring storytellers take to the stage to provoke meaningful conversations on the theme of “Onward, to an Uncertain Future.” McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, noon. Free; preregister. Info, tedxsaintmichaelscollege@ gmail.com.

food & drink

theater

CRIBBAGE TEAMS: See WED.7.

‘ANNIE: THE MUSICAL’: See THU.8, 1 & 6 p.m. ‘ECLIPSED’: See THU.8, 2 p.m. ‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’: See FRI.9, 2-4 p.m. THE MET: LIVE IN HD: ‘MARNIE’: See SAT.10, Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 12:55 p.m. $10-23. Info, 775-0903. ‘MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY’: See THU.8, 2 p.m. ‘TARTUFFE’: See WED.7, 2 p.m.

words

ARCHER MAYOR: The Vermont writer regales readers with a talk on his most recent mystery, Bury the Lead: A Joe Gunther Novel. Phoenix Books, Misty Valley, Chester, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 875-3400. FOOD FOR TALK COOKBOOK CLUB: Halal Food: A History by Febe Armanios and Bogaç Ergene stimulates minds — and appetites. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@burlington vt.gov.

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AMERICAN VETERANS VERMONT POST 1: Those who have served or are currently serving the country, including members of the National Guard and reservists, are welcome to join AMVETS for monthly meetings. American Legion, Post 91, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 796-3098. OPEN HOUSE: Folks learn about activities and programs amid live music and hors d’ouevres. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 225-8694.

BTV POLY COCKTAILS: Those who are polyamorous, in an open relationship or just curious connect over drinks. Deli 126, Burlington, 7 p.m.-midnight. Free. Info, 253-310-8315.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.7, 6:30 p.m. MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 6:30-10 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0498. PINOCHLE & RUMMY: See WED.7.

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. 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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YOGA FOR VETERANS: Seasoned practitioners and neophytes alike engage in postures of strength and physicality. Participants may bring a friend or other support person. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

holidays

VETERANS DAY DINNER: Members of the public join those who have served their country for a hearty spread. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 12:30 p.m. $5; free for veterans; preregister. Info, 223-3322.

language

CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH GROUP: Speakers brush up on their language skills en español. Starbucks, Burlington Town Center, 6 p.m. $15. Info, maigomez1@hotmail.com.

music

Find club dates in the music section. I’M WITH HER: The Americana supergroup of Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan tour behind their critically acclaimed debut record See You Around. The Brother Brothers open. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $34.50-55.50. Info, 863-5966.

talks

CHRIS UMMER: The retired athletic director retraces his steps from his 2017 Kathmandu tour and trek to Mount Everest Base Camp. Moore Community Room, Academic and Student Activity Center. Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 800-225-1998. ISMAR SCHORSCH: In the 31st Annual Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies, the chancellor emeritus of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America speaks on “National Pride and European Prejudice: The Creation of Jewish Studies.” Room 216, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5009.

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5,000TH CAR PLACEMENT & OPEN HOUSE CELEBRATION: Friends and neighbors fête the nonprofit dedicated to helping locals gain access to affordable, reliable transportation. Good News Garage, Burlington, 2:304:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-3667.

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FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: See FRI.9.

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COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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LA LECHE LEAGUE MEETING: Nursing mothers share breastfeeding tips and resources. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 720-272-8841.

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St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 505-9595.

language

ARABIC: A six-week language class covers the alphabet and simple conversations. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.7.

‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

‘PHANTOM THREAD’: Set in 1950s London, this acclaimed drama follows a fastidious dressmaker who falls for a strongwilled woman. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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.

‘WE ARE ONE: BLOOD DRUM SPIRIT’: A 2018 documentary explores the musical and cultural threads that connect jazz to its West African roots. A filmmaker and musician discussion follows. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2284.

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.

‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.7. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.7.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.7, 7 p.m.

health & fitness

BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE SUN-STYLE TAI CHI, LONGFORM: Improved mood, greater muscle strength and increased energy are a few of the benefits of this gentle exercise. South Burlington Recreation & Parks Department, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 735-5467. BEGINNERS TAI CHI CLASS: See THU.8. COMMUNITY MEDICAL SCHOOL: Expert Matthew Gilbert talks health in “Pumps, Sensors and Meds, Oh My! Treatments for Type 1 & Type 2 Diabetes.” Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-0733. PEACEFUL WARRIOR KARATE: Martial-arts training promotes healthy living for those in recovery. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150. REIKI CLINIC: Thirty-minute treatments foster physical, emotional and spiritual wellness. JourneyWorks, Burlington, 3-5:30 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, 860-6203. RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: See THU.8. YOGA AT THE WINOOSKI VFW: Certified instructors guide veterans and their families through a series of poses. Arrive five to 10 minutes early. Second floor, Winooski VFW Hall, 6-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 655-9832.

holidays

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHORUS REHEARSAL: New and experienced male singers prepare for several seasonal performances.

SOCIAL GATHERING: Those who are deaf or hard of hearing or want to learn American Sign Language get together to break down communication barriers. The North Branch Café, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 595-4001.

music

Find club dates in the music section. BRICK BOX LIVE: KRIS COLLETT & DAMN IT ALL: Regional artists step into the spotlight for this musical showcase recorded in front of a live studio audience. Brick Box, Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 775-0903. HANDEL SOCIETY OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: Robert Duff conducts this 100-voice chorus through a rendition of Brahms’ Requiem. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-25. Info, 603-646-2422. KEVIN LAWRENCE & ROBERT RACHLIN: Sweet sounds of piano and violin fill the air. Bag lunches are welcome, and tea and coffee are provided. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 864-0471. MILTON COMMUNITY BAND REHEARSALS: New musicians are welcome to join the ensemble as they hone their skills in preparation for their holiday concert. Cornerstone Community Church, Milton, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, miltonband01@ hotmail.com. OPEN MIC: Singers, players, storytellers and poets entertain a live audience at a monthly showcase of local talent. Wallingford Town Hall, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 446-2872. RUBY VELLE & THE SOULPHONICS: Music lovers can’t help but move to funk, soul and Motown classics performed by the Atlanta-based group. Dibden Center for the Arts,

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Northern Vermont UniversityJohnson, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 635-1408. SUNY PLATTSBURGH SYMPHONIC BAND: Daniel Gordon directs the program â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Finnish-American Celebration.â&#x20AC;? E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2243.

seminars

MEDICARE & YOU: AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDICARE: Members of the Central Vermont Council on Aging clear up confusion about the application process and plan options. Central Vermont Council on Aging, Barre, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-0531. PLANNING & PAYING FOR COLLEGE: Concerned about the cost of college? Jodie Ducharme and Rich Weston of the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation outline resources to help individuals pursue their educational goals. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-400-8790.

talks

FRED WISEMAN & DONALD STEVENS: In an Agricultural Literacy Week event, the ethnobotanist and Abenaki Nation Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk chief speak about the Seeds of Renewal Project and share traditional stories and songs. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-4122.

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INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT WORD: Toolbars, menus and icons, oh my! A computer whiz teaches techniques such as copying, pasting, and formatting text and pictures. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

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BURLINGTON POETRY GROUP: Writers of verse ages 18 through 30 field constructive feedback on original works. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, btvpoetry@gmail.com. CREATIVE NONFICTION: Readers give feedback on essays, poetry and journalism written by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. FAITH EXAMINED: A faith-based discussion of the testimonial collection Coming Out in Faith: Voices of LGBTQ Unitarian Universalists focuses on the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in embracing the LGBTQ community. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 518-561-6920. FALL LITERATURE READING SERIES: Ambitious readers cover selected pages of Herman Melvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Moby Dick. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

JEREMY HOLT: Fans of the genre are drawn to a talk on the Vermont-based authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new graphic novel, After Houdini. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350. LUKE CYPHERS: The magazine writer and author leads a conversation about â&#x20AC;&#x153;Making Writing a Lifelong Practiceâ&#x20AC;? as part of the Words of Fire series. Benjamin F. Feinberg Library, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-5205. MADELEINE KUNIN: The former Vermont governor lets lit lovers in on her memoir, Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties. A book signing and desserts complete the evening. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0218. THE MOTH: BEGINNINGS: Wordsmiths have five minutes to tell true tales inspired by a shared theme. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10; preregister. Info, 540-0406. SEARCH FOR MEANING ADULT DISCUSSION GROUP: Readers reflect on Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-6920.

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VERMONT WOMENPRENEURS FALL SHOWCASE: Budding entrepreneurs find inspiration in 15 women-owned businesses from a mix of industries, services and products. Study Hall Collective, Burlington, 6:25 p.m. $15. Info, 391-4281.

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community

COFFEE TALK: Friends, neighbors and AARP Vermont volunteers catch up on upcoming activities and issues facing older Vermonters. Nomad Coffee â&#x20AC;&#x201D; South End Station, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, vt@aarp.org.

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FIBER RIOT!: See WED.7. GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; GUILD OF AMERICA: Needle-and-thread enthusiasts fine-tune their techniques. Ascension Lutheran Church, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free for first-timers; bring a bag lunch. Info, 922-8936.

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HENRY SHELDON MUSEUM OF VERMONT HISTORY ANNUAL MEETING & DINNER: Friends of the museum gather for a meal and a talk by Vermont Historical Society executive director Stephen Perkins. Kirk Alumni Center, Middlebury College, 5:30 p.m. $50; preregister; cash bar. Info, 388-2117.

OPEN MIC NIGHT: Feats of comedy, music, poetry and storytelling fill five-, 10- and 15-minute time slots. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, s 7-9 p.m. Donations. Info, info@main streetmuseum.org.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;GREAT WHITE SHARK 3Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See WED.7. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;IN BETWEEN MOUNTAINS AND OCEANSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: A 2016 documentary shown as part of the Architecture + Design Film Series highlights the contrast between traditional Japanese wisdom and modern life. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, reception, 6 p.m.; screening, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, adfilmseries@gmail.com.

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BENEFIT BAKE: Pizza lovers dine on slices in support of the Vermont Dance Alliance. Partial proceeds from each flatbread sold are donated. American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, 5-11 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, info@vermontdance.org. COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.7. NIGHTSHADE KITCHEN: A unique meal made up of regional cuisine pairs perfectly with intimate performances by Warm Water and Emma Cook. North End Studios, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $5; $5 per plate; preregister. Info, 707-291-4283.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE LAST REEF 3Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See WED.7. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE POSTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Meryl Streep portrays Katharine Graham, the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, in this fact-based drama about the race to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 533-2000.

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MAH JONGG: Participants of all levels enjoy friendly bouts of this tile-based game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. PINOCHLE & RUMMY: See WED.7.

health & fitness

ACROYOGA CLASS: See WED.7. RESILIENCE FLOW: See WED.7. WEDNESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: See WED.7.

holidays

‘ELF: THE MUSICAL’: Buddy the elf travels from the North Pole to Manhattan to find his birth father in this stage adaptation of Will Ferrell’s modern classic Christmas movie. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-75. Info, 863-5966.

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BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.7. ‘EXPÉRIENCES FRANCOPHONES’: Students who have studied in French-speaking countries such as Senegal, Canada and France, share their experiences in French. St. Edmund’s Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.7.

music

Find club dates in the music section. BLOOD DRUM SPIRIT: The internationally renowned worldmusic jazz quartet draws on decades of experience for a beatdriven concert. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2284. PIANO RECITAL: Students of Diana Fanning showcase their skills on the keys. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

outdoors

MIDDAY, MIDWEEK MEANDER: Outdoors-loving ladies take in the beauty of woods and fields in the company of other women. Huntington Open Women’s Land, 1-2 p.m. Donations. Info, 434-3953.

seminars

WINTER BIRD FEEDING: Which winged species spend the coldweather months in Vermont and why? Avian enthusiast learn all this and more. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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AMANDA ANDERSON: Foodies munch on a bag lunch while reveling in the speaker’s culinary adventures. The Vermont Italian Cultural Association provides drinks and dessert. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon. Free. Info, 878-6955. BRIAN OSBORNE: Speaking as part of the Vinspire: Informing and Inspiring the North Country series, the doctor discusses a holistic approach to understanding the body. Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-563-1604. CURRENT EVENTS CONVERSATION: Newsworthy subjects take the spotlight in this informal discussion. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-4918. MEGHAN RODIER, PETER DANFORTH, DANIELLE OWCZARSKI & STACI POMEROY: Several experts impart their knowledge in “Green Storm Water Infrastructure and Flume Demonstration.” Room 207, Bentley Hall, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, les.kanat@northern vermont.edu.

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ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: Based on the novel of the same name, this Tony Award-winning musical follows the struggles of a gifted little girl against her neglectful parents and cruel headmistress. Presented by Northern Stage. Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $19-69. Info, 296-7000. WEDNESDAYS@7: Grange Hall Cultural Center and MOXIE Productions invites locals to a staged reading of David LindsayAbaire’s Good People, a poignant comedy about the narratives people write about their luck, circumstances and chosen actions. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center, 7-9 p.m. Donations. Info, grangehallcc@ gmail.com.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: SOUTH TO NORTH: Readers discuss In My Father’s House by Ernest J. Gaines. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP: Fans of the written word delve into Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

BROWN BAG LUNCH: BERNIE LAMBEK: Fans of legal drama listen up as the Montpelier lawyer and author reads from his recent novel, Uncivil Liberties. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

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FICTION WORKSHOP: Readers focus on elements of the craft when responding to work by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. LORI L. MACLAUGHLIN: The local author autographs copies of her new fantasy adventure novel, The Road Once Taken. Phoenix Books, Essex, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111. MELANIE FINN: In “Writing from the Outside In: How an Outsider Writes Into the Northeast Kingdom” the Kenyan-born author discusses the development of her latest thriller, The Underneath, which is set primarily in the NEK. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393. RECOVERY WRITE NOW: See WED.7. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST BOOK CLUB: Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes sparks a lively dialogue. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-6920. WRITING CIRCLE: See WED.7. m

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Albans. Info: Vermont Folklife Center, Bob Hooker, 388-4964, bhooker@vermontfolklifecenter. org, vermontfolklifecenter.org.

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215 Classes for Everyone. CVUHS Campus HINESBURG. Full descriptions at access.cvuhs.org. 215 CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: All ages, all welcome! Fall semester runs Sep. through the end of Jan. New classes beginning every week. Access community education for all, in its 18th year, offers the following classes for the Fall Semester: 50 Art, 30 Culinary Art (cook and eat), 10 Foreign Language, 10 Music, 17 Fitness and Dance, 15 Kids, 17 Computer and Tech, 50 Life Skills, and 15 One Night U. Every person is a learner here, guaranteed. Senior discount. Full descriptions and schedule at access.cvuhs.org. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194.

art ABSTRACT WATERCOLOR: Explore the possibilities of designing interesting and exciting abstract paintings. Find meaningful ways to begin, create and finish a watercolor painting. There will be time for demonstrations, painting and positive critique of our discoveries. Instructor: Lisa Beach. Sat., Dec. 1, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $85/members; $110/ nonmembers. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com. STORYTELLING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: Storytelling is a powerful tool for the documentation of voices, memories and histories. It can also be a catalyst for activism and social change. In this workshop, we will explore the ethics and techniques of oral history, ethnography and storytelling as activist research methodologies. Dec. 1, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $95/six-hour workshop. Location: Saint Albans Museum, 9 Church St., Saint

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ACRYLIC PAINTING: Want to learn how to paint in acrylic but not sure how to get started? This course explores techniques and practices to develop confidence within the medium. Using still life as the basis for exploration, students learn about composition, color theory, shape and form, and paint-handling techniques. Instructor: Misoo Filan. Wed., 6-8 p.m., Nov. 7-Dec. 19. Cost: $200/person; materials not incl. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Craft School, 9853648, info@shelburnecraftschool. org, shelburnecraftschool.org. WOOD CARVING: Looking for a great seasonal gift? Learn how to make one in one of our carving workshops or mini carving courses this fall. Beginners and all skill levels welcome. No previous carving experience needed. Tools are included, and you get to bring them home for future projects! Sat. & Mon. Cost: $180/ person; costs vary depending on course. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Craft School, 9853648, info@shelburnecraftschool. org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

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LEARN SPANISH OR ENGLISH: SWC: We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Small classes or private lessons. Our online English classes are live, engaging, face-to-face interactions, not computer exercises. In our 12th year. 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.

drumming TAIKO AND DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: Open classes in September. New drumming sessions begin the weeks of 10/8, 11/26, 1/7, 2/4, 3/11, 5/6. 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. Taiko for Kids and Parents: Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. World Drumming for Kids and Parents: Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Drums provided. Conga classes, too! Visit schedule and register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment EMBODYING MIND-BODY LEADERSHIP: Learn about how to embody mind-body leadership as a way of life. What we embody creates an energy field that holds everyone around us. Incorporating mind-body meditation, grounding exercises, group discussion and mind-body tools including the Inner Board of Directors, explore how to stay grounded and connected with the flow of life, including challenging situations requiring us to embody leadership skills. Reflect on what’s in the way of embodying our leadership right now and how to move through these barriers so we can become more emotionally embodied, maintain an intentional presence and be the leaders we can be. Dec. 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $130/before Sep. 15; $145/after Sep. 15. Location: Bishops Booth Conference Center, Rockpoint Rd., Burlington. Info: 860-6203, journeyworksvt.com/embodyingmind-body-leadership-with-lindamarksmsm.

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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.

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salsa, bachata, kizomba, kuduro. No partner or experience needed. Beginner drop-in classes. Salsa, Mon., 7-8 p.m.; Kizomba, Wed., 8-9 p.m.; Bachata, Thu., 6-7 p.m. Cost: $15/1-hour class. Location: Dsantos VT Dance Studio, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Unit 112A, Burlington. Info: Jon Bacon, 2272572, dsantosvt.com.

SENSORY-FRIENDLY DRUMMING: Co-presented with VSA Vermont. For families with children of any age diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Free and open to the public, but please register in advance at flynncenter.org. Sun., Nov. 18, 1-2 p.m. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts@ flynncenter.org, flynncenter.org.

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*KIDS* GAME BOARD AND PIECES: Make your own table top game and pieces that are beautiful to look at and use. This is a project-based class that relies primarily on the laser machine and the 3D printer. Students will then design and construct a tabletop game using the laser machine and 3D printer. Several game ideas are available, or you could adapt a game of your choice! Thu., Nov. 15-Dec. 13, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatorvt.com/classes. AFTERNOON INDEPENDENT JEWELRY CLASS (INCLUDES TOOL TRAINING): This class is designed for students who have taken a basic jewelry class. Come with a sketch, idea or project you have already started and need to finish. The instructor will be there to help take the right steps to finish your project with individual guidance. Tue., Nov. 27-Dec. 18, 1-4 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 5400761, generatorvt.com/classes. INLAY PLUS ROLLING MILL: Learn several different techniques on the rolling mill, including how to texture using different materials. Then we will use these pieces to create a Hopi Inlay style piece, using two different layers of metal. Skills covered are sawing, filing, soldering, finishing, rolling mill and patina. Wed., Nov. 14 & 28, 5:30-8 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatorvt.com/classes.

WELDING AND BASIC METALSHOP (3 TRAININGS IN 1!): In this course, you will learn how to use the metal shop equipment to construct basic forms in metal using forming and welding techniques, safe practices, and basic maintenance and troubleshooting of the machines. You will learn the use of the drill press, angle grinder, drop band saw, portable band saw, disk grinder, belt grinder, shear, press brake, rollers and bench grinder. Later, we will cover basic techniques in both MIG and TIG welding, including tacking, stitching, seam welding, typical metal joinery and basic frame making. Mon., Nov. 26-Dec. 17, 6-8:30 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatorvt.com/ classes.

LEARN TO SPEAK SPANISH FLUENTLY: The most engaging native Spanish-speaking professor in Vermont is offering intensive group sessions for basic, intermediate and advanced levels. Private sessions also available. The communicative approach is used in a fun and friendly atmosphere. burlingtonvt.universitytutor.com/tutors/116306. Cost: $99/8 sessions. Location: Burlington, Vermont. Info: 3739705, spanishtutor.vtfla@gmail. com, sites.google.com/view/ vt-foreign-language-academy.

martial arts JKA OF VERMONT TRADITIONAL JAPANESE SHOTOKAN KARATE TRAINING: We practice JKA Traditional Shotokan BUDO Karate and train under the guidance of JKA of Japan headquarters. Our classes are geared to challenge you mentally, physically and spiritually. If you can endure it, you will find spirit, mind and body unity and power. 10 join, five get their first rank, three advance to higher rank, one graduates as a Black Belt. If you are interested and feel ready for the challenge, come and try it out! Tue. & Thu., 7-8:30 p.m. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: JKA Instructor Jairo Blanco 4th Degree BB, 825-5489, jblanco@jkavt.org, facebook.com/ groups/724367394588198. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Brazilian jiujitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian jiujitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces. No training experience required. Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children. Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid them 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 & CBJJ certified black belt sixth-degree Instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. A five-time Brazilian National MARTIAL ARTS

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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. WOMEN’S SELF DEFENSE WEEKEND: This six-hour seminar covers boundary setting, situational awareness, managing adrenaline and overriding the common “freeze” instinct. A great introduction to hard skills such as striking, ground escapes and switching from defensive to offensive action. A good opportunity for newbies as well as those with experience wanting to contextualize their skills. Nov. 17 & 18: Sat., 3-6 p.m., & Sun., noon-3 p.m. Cost: $75/two-day seminar. Location: Onta Studio, 373 Blair Park Rd., Suite #102, Williston. Info: Lauren Ballard, 683-8539, ontastudio@gmail.com, ontastudio.com.

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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.

SHERRI MITCHELL WORKSHOP: Take a journey into Native American mythology and cosmology as a means of healing our collective wounds and reconnecting with spiritual source. Together, we will look at the psychic and spiritual wounds that we all share and learn how we can untangle their hold on our hearts and minds. Sun., Nov. 11, 2-6 p.m. Cost: $75/4-hour workshop. Location: Railyard Apothecary, 270 Battery St., Burlington. Info: 540-0595, railyardapothecarybtv@gmail. com, railyardapothecary.com.

pilates PILATES WORKSHOP WITH ANULA MAIBERG: Join us for a six-hour workshop/movement experience with Anula. Topics will include Where Should I Be Feeling This and Building Community in Your Studio. Anula has made a name for herself in the Pilates world: she’s been featured in ‘Pilates Style’ magazine, is an instructor for Pilates Anytime and has over 23.7K Instagram followers. Her unique way of thinking about Pilates and movement has caught the attention of many. Dec. 15, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $250/person. Location: All Wellness, 128 Lakeside Ave., Burlington. Info: 863-9900, info@ allwellnessvt.com, allwellnessvt. com/workshops.

tai chi SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 3636890, snake-style.com.

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MAKING MAGIC WITH COMPOSITION AND LIGHTING: This hands-on workshop is designed to help you create aesthetically pleasing videos that tell your story. You will learn how to frame your shot, light your subject, and smoothly zoom and pan. Completion of Basic Camera or previous camera experience is preferred. Sign up at bit.ly/btv mediafactory. Wed., Nov. 14, 6 p.m. Cost: $25/suggested donation. Location: The Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., #2G, Burlington. Info: 651-9692. PODCASTING 101 WITH JONATHAN BUTLER: Learn the concepts and strategies to produce, publish and promote your own podcast. We’ll cover the entire process — refining your idea, recording, editing, distributing and promoting — and review some of the tools and hosting sites you can use to get started right away. Sign up at bit.ly/btvmediafactory. Thu., Nov. 15, 6 p.m.

Cost: $25/suggested donation. Location: The Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., #2G, Burlington. Info: 651-9692. TV STUDIO PRODUCTION: Learn how to produce a show using VCAM’s fully equipped television studio. This workshop covers: operating the studio cameras; creating graphics and backgrounds; rolling in media from external sources; and using lights, mics and much more to make your studio show spectacular. Please call to reserve your spot. Thu., Nov. 15, 6 p.m. Free. Location: The Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., #2G, Burlington. Info: 651-9692. VIDEO EDITING CERTIFICATION: This free certification class is for registered VCAM users who want to be certified for using our fully equipped video editing suites with Adobe Creative Cloud, including Adobe Premiere, and to gain access to the Media Factory’s networked storage for your video project. Please call to reserve your spot. Sat., Nov. 10, 11 a.m. Free. Location: The Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., #2G, Burlington. Info: 651-9692.

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rc Iris released their debut self-titled album in 2014. Full of acoustic instrumentation and pop-inflected, New England singer-songwriter vibes, the record showcases the band’s predilection for augmentation. On the one hand familiar, it largely upends existing notions of what contemporary folk music can be through off-kilter, surprising arrangements. But if you’ve seen the Providence, R.I., group perform at any point in the last two years or so, you’re probably thinking, They’re not really a folk band, though. That’s because, in a relatively short amount of time, the group has shifted its sound away from acoustic territory into nebulous art-pop, where synthesizers, electric guitars and electronic production accentuate mind-bending songwriting. The band’s folk origins make sense, given that its front person, Jocie Adams, was a longtime member of fellow Rhode Island indie-folk outfit the Low Anthem. But, as Arc Iris’ new album Icon of Ego suggests, their creative vision — full of confrontational compositions, effervescent

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climaxes and mystifying lyrics — can’t be contained or even easily classified. Arc Iris celebrate the release of Icon of Ego on Saturday, November 10, at ArtsRiot in Burlington. Benjamin Lazar Davis and Aubrey Haddard add support. Seven Days caught up with Adams by phone.

TENSION IS VITAL

WHEN IT COMES TO ANY KIND OF ART. J O C IE AD AMS

SEVEN DAYS: You recently performed your interpretation of Joni Mitchell’s Blue in Burlington. Are there other albums you’d consider reimagining? JOCIE ADAMS: I don’t think it’s in the plans as of right now. It was a really wonderful experience, but I think that album and Joni Mitchell in particular called to us in a way that might be challenging to find elsewhere.

SD: What is it about that album that made you want to reinterpret it? JA: One of the big [reasons] is that a lot of people know those songs. If you’re gonna reinterpret songs, you hope that there’s some point of reference. But also I think that it was exciting because [Blue] was sort of before she got more experimental. The songs themselves are slightly simpler, which leaves a little more room for our interpretations. The arrangements were smaller, but the lyric writing was still so poignant. It seemed like the right combination of factors for us to work with. SD: In a conversation with Philthy Mag, you said of Icon of Ego, it’s “more explicit in its warnings about the possible future we may be headed toward.” Can you elaborate on that? JA: [Icon of Ego] is about looking at the perspectives of leaders, followers and rebels — the egos of those three OVER THE RAINBOW

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What’s Next for Madaila? Last Friday, we said goodbye to Burlington’s beloved psych-pop band MADAILA. The show came only a few weeks after the group announced its indefinite separation/hiatus/ hibernation via social media. The extended set was epic, and the neon-clad, sold-out crowd at South Burlington’s Higher Ground Ballroom partied hearty, despite the emotional undercurrent. Of course, life goes on. The Madaila crew will be fine — eventually. But we thought you might be interested to know what the band’s members will be up to in the wake of the project’s retirement. If you recall, we published a Q&A with Madaila in last week’s edition of Soundbites in which the fellas discussed why they decided to pull the plug. We also talked about everyone’s next moves but held off on revealing that bit until now. Read on to find out what’s on the docket for MARK DALY, ERIC MAIER, DAN RYAN, JER COONS and WALKER ALLEN.

The High Breaks

ERIC MAIER: I’m doing an artist’s residency for a month [at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada.] I’ve been more of the business dude, so it’ll be nice to kind of open up some of my creative channels again, because it’s been a little while. I’m [also] playing with HENRY JAMISON and his new band [starting] in December/January. WALKER ALLEN: I’ve been running Family Night [at SideBar in Burlington] for the last couple of years, so I still do that. I’m also gonna be joining Eric for a tour with Henry. DAN RYAN: I’ve been playing with [neo-soul band] JUPTR. That’s starting to pick up some steam. And [I’m playing] as many jazz gigs as I can. JER COONS: I’m working on producing records. I just finished a KELLY RAVIN record [Ditches]. Also, singer-songwriter ADDIE HERBERT[’s], [and] a second LP from JONNY WANSER. And working on my own shit. MARK DALY: Day-to-day: Watching my son. We just got a puppy, too. That’s

keeping me busy. But I’ve written a lot of music since my son was born — just an abundance of stuff in the last year and a half. I’m going to put out a solo record — maybe a double album. I also really want to do a comedy show.

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Are you hip to Vinyl Me, Please? The curated, subscription-based record club sends a featured LP to its members once a month. It also publishes an online companion magazine that includes listicles, features and critical analyses of new records. And the company is staging a pretty neat recurring event in Burlington. Dubbed “The Spins,” the monthly gathering recently moved from Stonecutter Spirits Highball Social to enigmatic speakeasy Deli 126. Essentially a listening party, the gettogether puts an emphasis on whatever the club’s record of the month is. This month’s hoopla is on Thursday, November 8, and features the music of QUEEN’s extravagant masterpiece A Night at the Opera. Given that the new RAMI MALEK-starring FREDDIE MERCURY biopic Bohemian Rhapsody just hit theaters, it’s understandably the service’s album of the month for November. You’ll also have a chance to win it via raffle, which is a pretty dope incentive to attend. SOUNDBITES

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Livingston Taylor

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Joey Pecoraro

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Vancouver Sleep Clinic

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Zach Deputy & The Yankees

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CLUB METRONOME: Lady Lamb (solo), Katie von Schleicher (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., $16/18. FOAM BREWERS: Comedy Night, 7 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: AQUG (bass music), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: The Patricia Julien Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Orion Freeman (soul-folk), 9:30 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Kingfisher and Ian Stonerook Trio of Wild Leek River (Americana, roots-rock), 5 p.m., $3/5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Matthew O’Neil (singersongwriter), 8:30 p.m., free. Bira (pop, funk), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 8 p.m., free. DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Hotel Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Ignite Talks (storytelling), 7 p.m., $5. Indie Rumble (improv), 8:30 p.m., $5.

chittenden county

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Interactive Video Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7:30 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, Harms Way (metal), 8 p.m., $25. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Magic City Hippies, Bay Ledges (funk), 8:30 p.m., $15/18. MONKEY HOUSE: Preece, Pity Party, Doom Service (punk), 9 p.m., free. THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: John Lackard Blues Jam, 6 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

stowe/smuggs

IDLETYME BREWING COMPANY: The Idletyme Band (blues, rock), 8 p.m., free.

middlebury area

THU.8-SAT.10 // TOM GREEN [STANDUP]

Bummed Out “My bum is on the man! Bum is on the man! It’s a lot of fun to put your bum on a man,” sings Tom Green in his 1999 music

video “Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song).” A nonsensical rump-centric romp, the clip debuted on the Canadian jokester’s short-lived MTV variety show, “The Tom Green Show.” He also appeared in a number of films in the years that followed, including the critically panned Freddy Got Fingered. A divisive figure in turn-of-the-century comedy, the oddball comic cultivated a loyal cult following after his brief but memorable reign. Green performs Thursday through Saturday, November 8 through 10, at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.

champlain islands/ northwest 14TH STAR BREWING CO.: Missisquoi River Basin Association Benefit Concert featuring Rusty Bucket and the Schrrons (rock), 5:30 p.m., $20.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Video Game Night, 7 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. Bat House, Full Walrus, Sunshowers (indie), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Tuck Ryan and Jordan Rast (Americana), 7 p.m., free. Kirsti Blow (singersongwriter), 8:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Greenbush (blues, funk), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (mashup, hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Old Time Music Session, 6 p.m., free. GUSTO’S: Chris Powers (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. DJ Rome 802 (open format), 8 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic with Allen Church, 8:30 p.m., free. TAP 25: Danny Cole (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

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SIDEBAR: The Red Newts, Wild Leek River, Al Moore Blues Band (country, blues), 9 p.m., $3.

mad river valley/ waterbury

ARTSRIOT: Ron Gallo, Ian Ferguson, Twen (art-rock, garagepunk), 8 p.m., $13/15.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Tom Green (standup), 7 p.m., $20/27. Tinder Nightmares (improv), 9 p.m., $5. Fanny Pack (standup), 10 p.m., $5.

LOCALFOLK SMOKEHOUSE: Open Mic with Alex Budney, 8:30 p.m., free.

chittenden county

ROUGH CUT: The Jeff Salisbury Band (blues), 7 p.m., free.

burlington

DELI 126: Vinyl Me, Please presents the Spins featuring Queen’s ‘A Night at the Opera’ (album listening party), 5 p.m., free.

BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Trivia, 9:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Yonder Mountain String Band, Brad Parsons & Starbird (bluegrass), 8 p.m., $29.

HIGHLAND LODGE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Thea Wren (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Medasin, Joey Pecoraro (electronic), 11 p.m., $15/20.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry & DJ Coco, 9 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: DJ SVPPLY & Bankz (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Selector Sets (vinyl DJs), 5 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

THE OLD POST: Salsa Night with DJ JP, 7 p.m., free.

DRINK: Downstairs Comedy Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

FINNIGAN’S PUB: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 10 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Joe Moore Blues Band, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (open format), 10 p.m., free.

BAR ANTIDOTE: Sarah King (blues, rock), 7 p.m., free.

ROUGH CUT: The Band (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase, 10:30 p.m., free.

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outside vermont

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Peter Krag (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

BURLINGTON ST. JOHN’S CLUB: Karaoke, 8:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 10 p.m., $5.

CLUB METRONOME: Sleazy McQueen, Ryan Kick featuring Jimmy C, Sharkat, Two Sev (house), 9 p.m., $10/15.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Andriana Chobot (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: Four-D (house), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Lowell Thompson (alt-country), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Hayley Sabella (alternative, folk), 7:30 p.m., $5. Jack & Kind(ling) (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Moochie (open format), 10 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. The Full Cleveland: Celebrating Five Years of Smooth, DJ Nash Villain (yacht rock), 9 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. William H. Travis (pop-folk), 5:30 p.m., free. The Young Love Scene (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Giannina Gaspero (jazz, folk), 8:30 p.m., free. Happy Spangler (rock), 10 p.m., $5. Jeddy (jam), 11:30 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: Andriana Chobot (singer-songwriter), 4 p.m., free. Strange Changes (rock), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

SIDEBAR: Steve Hartmann (folk), 7 p.m., free. Haitian and Friends (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kudu Stooge (psych-rock, jazz-funk), 8:30 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Tom Green (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $25/32.

chittenden county

BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Alan Doyle, Whitney Rose (rock), 8 p.m., $20/23. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Livingston Taylor (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $27/30. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: The Brevity Thing (rock, folk), 6 p.m., free. MONKEY HOUSE: Dark Star Project (Grateful Dead tribute), 5 p.m., free. Untapped: A Night of Burlesque and Drag, 9 p.m., $10. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Shane’s Apothecary (Americana), 5 p.m., free. JUSTICE (rock), 9 p.m., free.

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Local promoters and burgeoning label Red Handed Records are branching out. Known for curating off-the-grid DIY shows featuring mostly punk, metal and hardcore lineups, the group is launching a new, recurring hip-hop get-down. Dubbed Hip-Hop Lamp Shop, it kicks off on Monday, November 12, at the Light Club Lamp Shop in Burlington. MCs ZESTY BOI and JARV are currently scheduled to throw down. I’m sure you recall that Jarv won best hip-hop artist in this year’s Seven Daysies awards, unseating category mainstays LYNGUISTIC CIVILIANS for the first time in a bajillion years. Also on the bill are the GOONZ as well as headliner PRINCESS NOSTALGIA, whose brilliance I must again take a moment to expound upon. If you missed Seven Days’ profile of Princess Nostalgia back in January, you should

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Community radio station 107.1 FM WBKM, Burlington’s Kind of Music, celebrates its 11th birthday on Saturday, November 10, at Nectar’s in Burlington. The station brings eclectic selections to the airwaves and interwebs, such as TIM LEWIS’ relentless deep dive into Queen City music, “Sounds of Burlington.” To ring in another year of programming, Princess Nostalgia the channel presents a diverse showcase of artists at the anniversary bash. Headliners YOUNG RUST, a Providence, R.I.-based NEIL YOUNG tribute act, celebrate the 40th anniversary of the singer-songwriter’s 1978 Rust Never Sleeps tour with CRAZY HORSE. Also on the bill are local surf-rockers the HIGH BREAKS, acoustic balladeer AARON FLINN, and the folk-rock duo of JOSH GLASS and the BEERWORTH SISTERS’ JULIA BEERWORTH. Additionally, CRAIG MITCHELL and the High Breaks’ MATT HAGEN present PURPLE ACOUSTIC, a stripped-down, acoustic version of Mitchell’s PRINCE tribute OPERATION PRINCE.

just drop what you’re doing and read it. In July, the R&B singer-songwriter and producer dropped a stellar track called “Ode to Boy,” and I’m just now getting around to highlighting it. She posted the song to her Facebook page with the following message: “I’m tired of being angry at men. This song is a message for all the boys that could use a little love (along with a sprinkling of advice regarding how to process feelings in a healthy way).” The soulful track features frequent collaborator and guitarist JOE LEYTRICK (FKA HANK THE BUSINESSMAN) on acoustic guitar. Princess Nostalgia sings, in glorious layered harmonies, “You gotta let those feelings out / Why won’t you let your tears run down?” Her words reinforce the mindful, empathetic outlook that permeates her songwriting. Rather than being angry, she shows understanding of the fact that men are trained to bury and ignore their feelings, and that kindness always goes a long way. The artist also recently announced a new forthcoming single. Perhaps she’ll debut it at the upcoming set.

Listening In If I were a superhero, my superpower would be the ability to get songs stuck in other people’s heads. Here are five songs that have been stuck in my head this week. May they also get stuck in yours. Follow sevendaysvt on Spotify for weekly playlists with tunes by artists featured in the music section. RICKY NELSON, “Poor Little Fool” BIG GRAMS, “Lights On” CANDIE PAYNE, “One More Chance” CARLY RAE JEPSEN, “Making THE MOST OF THE NIGHT” PREP, “Don’t Look Back (featuring

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HALF LOUNGE: OD3 and Friends (house), 10 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Ourselves Alone (rock), 8 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Back to Black: Silhouette featuring the Grift, Josh Panda, DJ Cre8, DJ Metaprofessor, VJ Mokashake (Sold Out) (funk, rock), 8 p.m., $35.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Grain Thief (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free. Sandwriter (jazz), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

barre/montpelier

RADIO BEAN: Lindsey Sampson (folk), 5:30 p.m., free. Waves of Adrenaline (folk), 7 p.m., free. Katin Dobbins (folk), 8:30 p.m., free. Mal Maiz (cumbia), 10 p.m., $5. ACQ (jazz-funk), 11:30 p.m., $5.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Sara Grace and Andy Suits (soul), 6 p.m., free. Mavstar, Humble, Konflik, Mr. Burns (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free. GUSTO’S: Joe Sabourin (folk-rock), 5 p.m., free. Nos4a2 (metal), 9 p.m., $5. POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): Barika (rock, West African fusion), 10 p.m., $5. SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free. WHAMMY BAR: Marc Delgado (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

JUNIPER: Matt Saraca and Friends (acoustic), 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: WBKM Birthday Bash (eclectic), 7 p.m., $7.

RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 3 p.m., free. Mother Ton (rock), 7 p.m., $5. Mashtodon (open format), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa, reggaeton), 6 p.m., free. DJ ATAK (open format), 11 p.m., $5. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Stevie B (open format), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Eben Schumacher (folk), 7 p.m., free. DJ KermiTT and David Chief (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

EL TORO: Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk), 7 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Abby Sherman (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Abby Sherman (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

SMITTY’S PUB: The Growlers (rock), 8 p.m., free.

TAP 25: George Petit Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Tom Green (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $25/32.

mad river valley/ waterbury

ZENBARN: Front Country, the Sea the Sea (power pop, bluegrass), 9 p.m., $8/10.

middlebury area

ROUGH CUT: Red Clover Quartet (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

chittenden county HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Kasbo, Vancouver Sleep Clinic (electronic), 8:30 p.m., $15/20.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: The Ghost of Paul Revere, Charlie Parr (folk), 8 p.m., $15/17.

stowe/smuggs

EL TORO: Buck Hollers (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: John Lackard Blues Band, 9 p.m., free. TAP 25: Kind Bud’s Kind Dubs (acoustic), 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Earl (open format), 9 p.m., free.

rutland/killington PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Mugsy (covers), 8 p.m., $10-20.

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burlington

FOAM BREWERS: Eugene Tyler Band (folk), 1 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Two Count (rock), 5 p.m., free. Roy and the Wrecks (rock, country), 9 p.m., free.

outside vermont

PARK PLACE TAVERN: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Eugene Tyler Band (folk), 8 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free.

barre/montpelier

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: College Improv Throwdown!, 7 p.m., $5.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: In the Pocket (David Epstein) (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Root7 (a cappella), 7 p.m., $10. Evanoff, Cricket Invasion (rock), 9 p.m., $7. FOAM BREWERS: The YeahTones (rock), 8 p.m., free.

BUCH SPIELER RECORDS: Community DJ Series (vinyl DJs), 3 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Funk Shui (disco), 9 p.m., free. ESPRESSO BUENO: Jazzyaoke (live jazz karaoke), 7:30 p.m., $5. GUSTO’S: DJ Kaos (open format), 9:30 p.m., free.

chittenden county

MISERY LOVES CO.: Disco Brunch with DJ Craig Mitchell, 11 a.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Southern Old Time Music Jam, 10 a.m., free. SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m., donation.

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THE DEN AT HARRY’S HARDWARE: Turnip Truck (bluegrass, swing), 7 p.m., free. MON.12

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ArtsRiot in Burlington. IAN FERGUSON and TWEN add support.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Midnight Moonshine (pop-country), 9:30 p.m., free.

BABES BAR: The Stephen Wentworth Band Duo (rock), 7 p.m., free.

ARTSRIOT: Arc Iris (Album Release), Benjamin Lazar Davis, Aubrey Haddard (art-pop, experimental), 8 p.m., $10.

folk outfit Liz Cooper & the Stampede. Gallo performs on Thursday, November 8, at

MONOPOLE: Ladies’ Night with Shelby, Game Night (open format), 10 p.m., free. School Bus Yellow (jam), 10 p.m., free.

randolph/royalton

burlington

cameo appearance in the “Mountain Man” music video from fellow Music City psych-

outside vermont

RADIO BEAN: Maple Street Six (jazz), 1 p.m., free. Old Sky and Friends (Americana), 6 p.m., free. Quattlebaum! (folk), 8:30 p.m., free. Ava Marie (dream folk), 10:30 p.m., free.

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company in his adopted home of Nashville, Tenn. For instance, Gallo recently made a

THE ENGINE ROOM: Funk in the Trunk Burlesque, 8 p.m., $20.

THE OLD POST: Saturday Night Mega Mix featuring DJ Colby Stiltz (open format), 9 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Peter Wayne (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free.

curls, the artist has a distinguished look. The Philadelphia-bred rocker finds good

upper valley

NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

deconstructed take on fuzzed-out rock and pop. And with his signature pile of unruly

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: John Smyth (Americana), 7 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: The Good Few, Sunshowers, Dolce (indie), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

CASA CAPITANO: Ed Schenk (accordion), 6 p.m., free.

is a master of pithy, window-rattling garage

14TH STAR BREWING CO.: Adult Prom featuring DJ Morrell (open format), 7 p.m., $20/35.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Shellhouse (rock), 6 p.m., free.

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UK trip-hop legends Massive Attack recently announced that their 1998 masterpiece Mezzanine would soon be available as a can of spray paint. Seriously. Apparently, a crack team of Swiss scientists figured out how to translate the album’s digital bitstream into strands of DNA stored in something called TurboBeads. Nearly a million nano-copies of the record are then housed in chic, limitededition aerosol spray cans. Welcome to the future. But the question is: Did Phish encode Junta, Lawn Boy and A Picture of Nectar to DNA a long time ago? And did they rig up some kind of secret misting station at the tippy-top of the University of Vermont’s Ira Allen Chapel? Are microscopic copies of “Golgi Apparatus” and “Stash” spraying out over campus, saturating and infiltrating the minds and creative spirits of UVM’s young

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It’s 4 a.m. The lamp gives off a pale light that is obscured by a cloud of smoke hanging in the air. And Rob Voland is channeling some strange, weary magic through the speakers via his latest album, Quality Loneliness. He’s halfway through this collection of short stories, a compendium of quick hits of desperation and heartbreak, when he sings, “I still love you so much it kills, but I don’t need nobody.” A statement of defiance, a shot of backbone amid a broken heart, “One Last Look” is the song of a man pushing on alone. Voland embodies and perhaps even embraces the role throughout Quality Loneliness. As on his earlier releases, the Burlington-based songwriter writes and plays just about every noise on the record, all recorded onto a four-track tape in either a garage in Montréal or a basement in Shelburne. It has a whispered, confessional

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musicians like some kind of psychedelic chem trail? Can you think of a better explanation for Groovy UV’s never-ending stream of jam (and jam-adjacent) bands? Whether it’s merely a cultural legacy or something more sci-fi, bands like funk-rock five-piece Adventure Dog continue to emerge from the campus on the hill. And they all kinda sound like Phish. But to be fair, this particular group doesn’t sound too much like them. Protracted jams are largely excluded from its five-track debut EP, The Dog House. Earlier this year, Adventure Dog picked up some steam. The recent grads won UVM’s Battle of the Bands — beating out soon-to-be superstar Princess Nostalgia and others in the final showdown. They also appeared at two high-profile music festivals (Waking Windows and Tumble Down) and have expanded their touring radius well beyond Burlington’s downtown core. Thankfully, you’ll mostly hear echoes of the band’s forefathers rather than straightup homage — particularly on “Calamari”: jazz-informed piano parts, funky horn

accents, use of negative space with abrupt rests. Singer Andrew Tonra’s vocals are cool, smooth and seductive. His intonations, on “Calamari” and elsewhere, are charismatic yet slightly staid. He sounds great, but could he be more adventurous? Opening track “No!” is essentially one long, unobtrusive groove. A spaced-out synth careens over a grounded bed of keys and guitar. Things come to a boil when horns arrive, but they quickly return to a simmer. “Serenade Yourself” is basically a déjà vu of “No!” “Dog House” showcases standout work from trumpeter Adam Schini and saxophonist Derek Dykstra. “Cottontail” is straight-ahead funk with heavy wah on guitar — yet it heads back to the Phish tank with a harmonious choral hook. For a band with “adventure” in its name, Adventure Dog play it pretty safe on The Dog House. And you should have no trouble picking up on their music’s genetic lineage. The Dog House is available at adventuredogmusic.bandcamp.com. Adventure Dog perform on Wednesday, November 14, at Nectar’s in Burlington.

quality to it, like a Raymond Carver story rendered as a Robert Wyatt album. Over 22 brief tracks — many of which don’t even top two minutes — Voland sketches out a series of songs that capture a sense of crushing isolation, though often with a sense of sonic adventure. “New Old Love” has a dreamy, late-’70s coke-and-sex vibe to it, starting the record off with a relaxed swagger. Its classy synth line evokes an anachronistic theme, a type of shimmering flashback effect that cloaks much of the album. Whether on spare, beautiful ballads such as “Listen to the Birds” or the Pink Floydian jam “Blood Smoke,” Voland creates moments that appear to be homages to other eras while simultaneously sounding timeless. Few songwriters possess that sort of specific talent, though both of his frequent collaborators — Ryan Power, who mastered the record; and Wren Kitz — boast similar skills on their own records. Kitz shows up on the title track, providing guitar and gorgeous whispering harmony. “Quality Loneliness” has a Jeff Tweedy deep-cut feel, emanating that form

of lonely that reaches the entire heart, where one can either embrace the solitude or rail against it even more futilely. Like much of the album, the song occupies a singular space, evoking those holes we try to fill after love has abandoned us. Despite the melancholy, this is no long slog of a listen. In-the-pocket rockers such as “Girl Group” and retro spy-music song “Garage Vibe” keep things moving along between the more contemplative efforts. Through it all, Voland’s idiosyncratic songwriting shines as brightly as ever. Half revelatory, half hallucinogenic, his songs take on the qualities of an in-brain debate. His voice and playing are more than capable of matching that intimacy, that level of transmutation in which a songwriter takes their own melancholy and juxtaposes it onto yours. Quality Loneliness is a sad, versatile, beautiful and at times downright trippy record. Even more impressive for a record about being alone is its pervasive sense of empathy. This is an album best appreciated in a dimly lit room at obscene hours, tweaking your brain with something to forget someone or something else. The album is available at robvolandmusic.bandcamp.com.

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LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Pullin’ Yo Chain Comedy Showcase, 7:30 p.m., free. DJ Djoeh (international, eclectic), 9:30 p.m., free. LINCOLNS: The Laugh Shack (standup), 8:30 p.m., $5.

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NECTAR’S: Tuesday Bluesday Blues Jam with Collin Craig and Friends, 6 p.m., free. Partner, Birdgangs, the Pyros (indie), 9 p.m., $5/7.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Game Night, 7 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN: INNNNI (folk-punk, emo), 5:30 p.m., free. Leah Woods (folk, soul), 7 p.m., free. Tamara Hey (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 7 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: The Moth: Beginnings (storytelling), 7:30 p.m., $10. CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5. DRINK: Comedy Open Mic, 8:30 p.m., free. FOAM BREWERS: Local Dork (eclectic vinyl), 6 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: Moochie (open format), 10 p.m., free. LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Jake Whitesell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Stephen Callahan Trio (jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. Melissa Plett (alt-country), 8:45 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Ponyhustle, 10 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: Four-D (house, hip-hop), 9 p.m., free. DJ A-RA$ (open format), 11 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Seth Yacovone (blues), 7 p.m., free. Ron Stoppable (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Ukulele Kids with Joe Baird (sing-along), 9:30 a.m., free.

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Australian singer-songwriter and producer Tim Bettinson makes smooth, reverb-drenched electropop. Mixing in R&B soulfulness, he delivers crisp and detached vocals over crystalline synths, club beats and a thick core of bass. Just like many young creators who hit the ground running right out of the gate, Bettinson recently spent a good chunk of time in industry purgatory. Now free from a hastily accepted record contract that kept him from releasing new tunes, he’s rolled out a steady trickle of chilling singles and EPs in 2018. Vancouver Sleep Clinic opens for KASBO on Saturday, November 10, at

the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington. SAT.10 // VANCOUVER SLEEP CLINIC [ELECTRO-POP]

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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Dark Star Orchestra (Grateful Dead tribute), 8 p.m., $28/32.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free. WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke with DJ Vociferous, 9:30 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA’S: Blue Fox’s Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

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MOOGS PLACE: Django Soulo (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free.

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HATCH 31: Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk), 6 p.m., free. Kelly Ravin and Lowell Thompson (country), 7 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Reid Parsons, Laurel (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., $8/10. DELI 126: Bluegrass Jam, 8 p.m., free. FOAM BREWERS: Familiar Faces (jam), 7 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: DJ Craig Mitchell (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

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JUNIPER: The Ray Vega Latin Jazz Sextet, 8:30 p.m., free.

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MOOGS PLACE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. Adam Newman (standup), 8:15 p.m., $10.

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LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. DJ Matthew Kloss (soul), 9:30 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Northeast Traffic, Adventure Dog (jam), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: The Weeks, the Lonely Biscuits (glam rock), 7:30 p.m., $12/15.

RADIO BEAN: Dan and Faith (folk), 7 p.m., free. Jason Baker (singersongwriter), 8:30 p.m., free. The Guest Policy (soul, pop-rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Weakened Friends, Nervouse Dater, Clever Girls (rock), 8 p.m., $10.

RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 8 p.m., free.

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CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. ROUGH CUT: Kelly Ravin (country), 7 p.m., free.

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Over the Rainbow « P.66 categories of persons — [and] pointing out how they may be interacting. When we look at an idol as something so godly, there’s so much of ourselves we’re putting onto that. The blame goes both ways. The process of defining our country [and] who we are is so complicated. And it’s just important for everyone to take care of making sure that their own perspectives are seated in a place of knowingness rather than a place of blind following or believing. It just seems like right now we’re in a really important place to be taking care of ourselves and making the best decisions that each individual can make. Because everything starts at the individual level, and individuals create the Donald Trump monsters of the world. One doesn’t come without the other. SD: I’ve read that your music is very conscious of tension. How do you manifest that concept on Icon of Ego? JA: It’s focused on tension in multiple

ways. [When] it comes to this record, there’s a lot more tension in the record, musically and lyrically. “$GNMS” is maybe a good example. At the end, it lets you empathize — or sympathize, depending on who you are — with the protagonist and celebrate them, in a way. It’s hard to have an emotionally evocative release without having tension. I would say that tension is vital when it comes to any kind of art or storytelling or reporting. Tension doesn’t have to be a bad thing. SD: Speaking of “$GNMS,” it’s a reworking of the title track of your debut self-titled album. Why did you choose to reinvent it, and does its placement as the first track signify anything? JA: We definitely chose to do that to make a point of showing that the sound of our band has significantly changed. And the emotions surrounding that song have certainly changed since the first time we released it and the second time we released it. I think there’s, unfortunately, a lot less hope in a lot of ways right now than there was [in 2014]. You have to fight

a little harder to find the hope, which is sort of the musical narrative of the new version. SD: Can we talk a little bit about Bwahaha, your collaborative band with Guster’s Ryan Miller? How did that come together? And will the band return? JA: It came about because I did a show [in Port Chester, N.Y.] called the Complete Last Waltz [based on the Band’s famous farewell concert and documentary by Martin Scorsese]. But instead of just what was in the movie, it was all the songs that were done at the [1976] show. It happens every other year or so. I met Ryan there quite a few years ago, and since then he’s come to a bunch of Arc Iris shows in Burlington and become a big fan of ours. He was going to play a solo show, and he wanted us to accompany him. And he wanted to cover a record just to kind of do something easier than writing a bunch of songs. I got on the phone with him and was like, “If you want this to be a onetime thing, then, yeah, sure, we’ll just learn a record and bang it out. But if you want to

keep doing this, then we should just write some music.” And he got really excited about that. So we got together for a few days and wrote a bunch of songs. I think they’re pretty awesome. I’m excited to at some point release something. Ryan just released a new record, and we just released a new record. So we’re all pretty busy right now. SD: What’s something you could never live without? JA: Never live without? That’s so dramatic. SD: I’m very dramatic. JA: I love biking. Realistically, I could live without it — but I’d be really sad if I couldn’t bike anymore. Biking and playing soccer. Being able to move my body. I think it’s the No. 1 way of creating equilibrium in your mind and spirit. m Contact: jordan@sevendaysvt.com

INFO Arc Iris perform on Saturday, November 10, 8:30 p.m., at ArtsRiot in Burlington. $10/15. AA. artsriot.com

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“I AM: Contemporary Middle Eastern Women Artists and the Quest to Build Peace,” Cathedral Church of St. Paul B Y AMY LI LLY

“Bullets Revisited #15” by Lalla Essaydi

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t’s not often Vermonters get to view artwork by major contemporary women artists of the Middle East. A traveling exhibition of single works by 31 such artists, now on view at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington, is an extraordinary opportunity to do just that. “I AM: Contemporary Middle Eastern Women Artists and the Quest to Build Peace” includes works by Arab and Persian artists who are Muslim or Christian. Seven are from Bahrain; the rest are from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Palestine, Yemen, Morocco, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq or Saudi Arabia. The range of mediums represented is gratifyingly diverse, from oil and acrylic paintings to photography, collage, ink on paper, digital prints, scanography, mixed media, sculpture and, in one case, human hair affixed to calf vellum. Some of the artists are based or were trained in the UK, the U.S. or Europe. High-end auction companies Christie’s and Sotheby’s represent a few of them, and nearly all have been exhibited and collected internationally. All the works are for sale, and these artists’ integration in the global art market accounts for why the show would seem at home in any contemporary gallery in any major U.S. city. So, how did it end up on the concrete walls of St. Paul’s, an Episcopal church? “I AM” is a peace-building project of Caravan, a nonprofit founded in Egypt in 2009 by Paul-Gordon Chandler, an American Episcopal priest. The son of a minister, he grew up in Senegal “surrounded by other faiths and art,” Chandler said during a phone call, and was educated in Côte d’Ivoire and England. He launched Caravan during a 10-year posting in Cairo; its mission is to use the arts to unite people of different backgrounds and faiths in an effort to build sustainable peace. Caravan’s art exhibition began as a citywide East-West arts festival in Cairo that continued annually until 2013, when president Mohamed Morsi was overthrown. That year’s exhibition traveled to London while Caravan itself moved, with Chandler, to Chicago. Every Caravan exhibition since has also toured the U.S. St. Paul’s former dean and rector, the Very Reverend Jeanne Finan, who retired in October, had been following Chandler’s work. She emailed him when she spotted an online call for venues for “I AM.” Thus

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Burlington became the last — and smallest — stop on the tour of an exhibition that opened at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman. Subsequent stops included St Martin-in-the-Fields in London and, in the U.S., American and Vanderbilt universities; the Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wy.; and cathedrals in Cincinnati and Seattle. “I AM” is the nonprofit’s first exhibition to focus on women and feature only Middle Eastern artists, rather than a mix of Eastern and Western ones. “I realized that the West’s greatest stereotypes [concerning the Middle East] are of women,” explained Chandler, who helped curator Janet Rady and a Caravan staff member choose the artworks. “The West often thinks of them as oppressed, exploited, unequal, in a continuous state of suffering. Of course, that exists — even in our own society,” he pointed out. But the exhibition challenges such stereotypes by showing female artists who are “contemporary, engaged, active, dynamic and contribute significantly to the fabric of their own culture and our global culture.” While many exhibitions of art from the Middle East “focus on the negative,” Chandler continued, “this is really trying to be a celebration of [women’s] strength and unique contribution toward making our world more harmonious.” That positive focus has resulted in a selection of works that generally avoid provocation. For instance, while Lebanese artist Annie Kurkdjian’s French-language home page features a painting of a genital

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mutilation in progress, her untitled piece in the exhibition depicts a woman’s head propped against pillows with a quilt drawn to her chin. Only the greenish hues in the mixed-media piece hint at the subject’s “agonizing,” as Kurkdjian’s statement calls it. Photographer Boushra Almutawakel, from Yemen, is known for her “Hijab/Veil” series, exploring the cultural and personal complexities of wearing a hijab. “I AM” includes a triptych from the series. The photographs show a woman veiled in layers of red, white and blue, with her hands in three different prayer positions associated

with the three Abrahamic religions: palms up in Muslim prayer, pressed together in Christian worship and clasped in Jewish prayer. The work is labeled “Flag” online; it appears as “Untitled” in the show. Complexity of interpretation also characterizes Moroccan artist Lalla Essaydi’s work. Her “Bullets Revisited #15” is part of a series that seeks to reclaim the exoticized images of Middle Eastern women promoted by 19th-century Western Orientalist artists such as JeanAugust-Dominique Ingres and Eugène Delacroix. The chromogenic print shows a woman dressed in what appears to be richly embroidered gold against a goldpatterned wall and floor; all of the gold patterns, including the floor, the wall and the woman’s clothing, are actually made

from empty bullet casings. The model holds aloft a tipped scale containing a white bird in one pan and nothing in the other; ominously, the symbol of peace weighs less than the empty pan. Essaydi covered the exposed skin of her model with tiny Arabic writing. The tradition of Arabic calligraphy as art is evident in several more works in the exhibition, most notably “I Am You” by the Jordanian artist Wijdan. The mixed-media work incorporates a 1902 manuscript into a collaged composition in calligraphy. Though she doesn’t translate the writing, Wijdan, an art historian, notes that it comes from Sufi idioms of devotion written on shrine banners. The calligraphic curves are echoed in the large bands of color uniting the composition. Each of these 31 works — ingeniously hung from a removable rail by Timothy Parker, a congregant and assistant professor in Norwich University’s architecture and art department — deserves close study in conjunction with a careful reading of the artist statement. What emerges from a viewing of “I AM” is a sense of the enormous diversity of aims and concerns of Middle Eastern women artists working today, and a desire to learn more. m Contact: lilly@sevendaysvt.com

INFO “I AM: Contemporary Middle Eastern Women Artists and the Quest to Build Peace,” through November 25 at Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington. oncaravan.org

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MANDALA STONE PAINTING WORKSHOP: Artist and art therapist Gabrielle Hayward teaches participants to create two mandala stones, which in Buddhist culture are said to transmit positive energies. All materials included. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Wednesday, November 14, 6-8 p.m. $20-25. Info, 775-0356.

‘MAPPING AN UNEVEN COUNTRY: BIRD’S EYE VIEWS OF VERMONT’: More than three dozen drawn, painted and printed views of the Green Mountain State investigate the popular 19th-century phenomenon of “perspective” or “bird’s-eye” views. November 10-March 3. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

NORTH COMMON ARTS: The Chelsea Arts Collective announces the “soft opening” of an art space at 3 Church Street, featuring work by founding members of the cooperative. North Common Arts, Chelsea, Saturday, November 10, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 685-4866.

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f ‘7WOMEN, 7WALLS’: Mary Admasian, Alisa Dworsky, Karen Henderson, Evie Lovett, Hannah Morris, Janet Van Fleet and Kristen M. Watson show their choice of work in a variety of mediums. Art Walk hours: Friday, December 7, 5-7 p.m. November 9-December 28. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

OPEN ART STUDIO: Seasoned makers and first-timers alike convene to paint, knit and craft in a friendly environment. Bring a table covering for messy projects. Swanton Public Library, Tuesday, November 13, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, swantonartscouncil@gmail.com. ST. PIUS X PARISH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BAZAAR: Crafts, baked goods, treasures, a raffle, Santa and more. Essex Junction St. Pius X Parish, Saturday, November 10, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, saintpiusx@ comcast.com.

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includes a diverse selection of fine art and crafts by SPA artists displayed creatively on all three floors of the art center. Expanded hours in December. More info at studioplacearts.com. Reception: Saturday, November 17, 4-6 p.m. November 13-December 27. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

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f ‘GEMS AND GIANTS: A members’ exhibit of very

small and very large works. Artists’ roundtable: Sunday, November 11, 1 p.m., followed by reception 2-4 p.m. 2018 LEGACY COLLECTION: Work by a selection of gallery artists. HEARTBEET FELTS: Felted works of art by adults with developmental disabilities living at Heartbeet, a life-sharing community in Hardwick and Craftsbury. November 8-December 23. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

f TREVOR AND ANNA CORP: The husband and wife artists present works in two and three dimensions. Additional work is on view in Gallery II across campus; must ask for entry. Reception: Saturday, November 10, 6:30-8 p.m. November 10-December 21. Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.

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ART HOP GROUP SHOW: Works by more than 20 local artists. Through November 30. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

Jess Polanshek Last year she won the Labels for Libations competition to create a Magic Hat Brewing beer label. Her delightful, whimsical illustrations of the

natural world and the creatures that inhabit it adorn prints, greeting cards and small goods. Her work is carried at Vermont venues and select locations around the country. Polanshek’s drawings are realistic but imaginative: She puts bighorn sheep antlers on bears, bat wings

f ‘CELLBLOCK VISIONS’: A collection of artwork by prisoners in American, curated by Phyllis Kornfeld. Reception: Friday, November 9, 5-6 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION: A showcase of works by students of regional schools. November 9-December 21. Christine Price Gallery, Castleton University.

on pigs, tortoise shells on bunnies. A selection of her delicately rendered fantasies from the

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landscape painting in acrylics. Waterbury Public Library, Saturday, November 10, 10 a.m.-noon. $5 materials charge; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

11TH ANNUAL LEGO CONTEST AND EXHIBIT: An exhibit of LEGO creations by locals. Prizes for creativity and craftsmanship will be awarded in seven age groups: preschool, grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, adult and adult/child collaborations. Other prizes will be awarded at judges’ discretion. Friday, November 9. $5 for adults and teens, $3 for children ages 6-12, free for BMAC members and children 5 and under. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

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f ‘BRANCHING OUT’: Original watercolor paintings by Vermont artist Amy Hook-Therrien. Reception: Friday, November 9, 5-7 p.m. November 9-February 8. Info, 728-8912. White River Craft Center in Randolph.

ART EVENTS ARTS ENGAGEMENT DAY: Portfolio critiques, entertainment and an art workshop, in conjunction with a current high school art exhibition. Christine Price Gallery, Castleton University, Friday, November 9, noon-6 p.m. AUTUMN TREESCAPES PAINTING CLASS: Retired art teacher Nancy Oakes shows how to create a

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wild is on view at Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington through November 30. Pictured: “House of Fox.”

THE BAIRD ART COLLECTIVE: The artists who reside in the historic Baird Apartment building near downtown Montpelier open their doors to the public to showcase paintings, drawings, monotypes, photography and felt work. The Baird Art Collective, Montpelier, Saturday, November 10, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Info, 377-5059. CAPTAIN JAHAZIEL SHERMAN VISITS VERGENNES: The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum has received on loan the only known portrait of the steamboat pioneer (1777-1844) and his second wife, Harriett Daggett Sherman (1792-1873). The community is invited to preview the paintings, hear about Jahaziel’s adventures and help us bring the portraits home to stay. Vergennes Opera House, Sunday, November 11, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 475-2022. DESIGN: WTF!? // 03 EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN WITH CRAIG WINSLOW: “Augmenting the World With Light,” a workshop about blending our digital designs into the physical world around us, an expanding frontier for social, emotional and empathetic experiences including immersive education, narrative-driven escape rooms, data visualization using mixed reality.

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Maglianero, Burlington, Wednesday, November 14, 6-7 p.m. $15 or less. Info, 333-0312. DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Twinfield Union School photography students of Jeneane Lunn show their works. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, Friday, November 9, 6-8 p.m. Info, 426-3581. DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Work by Twinfield students in digital photography, taught by Jeneane Lunn. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, Friday, November 9, 6-8 p.m. Info, 426-3581. FRIENDS OF THE ART MUSEUM PURCHASE PARTY: During this annual event of the Friends of the Art Museum, the group determines what gift it will present to the museum. Members only; RSVP required. Lower Lobby and Museum. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Saturday, November 10, 5:30 p.m. Info, 443-2309. GOVERNOR’S ARTS AWARDS: A reception to honor recipients Chris Miller, Jerry Williams, Alison Bechdel, Judith Chalmer, John Willis and Allison Coyne Carroll, followed by an awards ceremony. RSVP. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, Wednesday, November 14, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 828-3291. HOLIDAY CRAFT SALE: Local crafters display and sell unique holiday items. United Church of Milton,

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THE ART SHOW NO. 12: Artists are invited to submit one work of any size, medium or subject, to be voted upon by viewers at opening night. (Bring in Thursday, November 1, or Friday, November 2). Winner takes home a mini grant. Through November 23. Info, publicartschool@gmail.com. RL Photo Studio in Burlington. CRYSTAL STOKES: Acrylic paintings by the central Vermont artist. Curated by SEABA. Through December 31. Info, 859-9222. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington. GREEN DOOR STUDIO GROUP SHOW: An eclectic mix of art and artists including Steve Sharon (abstract paintings), Justine Poole (mosaic furniture), Danny Lefrançois (fantastical mixed-media works), Jason Pappas (recycled/repurposed/assemblage art), Eric Eickmann (urethane, acrylic paintings), Jon Black (metal jewelry), Brea Schwartz (HANKS, handkerchiefs designed by women artists), Jeff Bruno (oil, acrylic, latex and charcoal paintings), Nicole Christman (pop surrealist paintings). Through November 30. Info, nicolechristmanart@gmail.com. Green Door Studio in Burlington. ‘HOUSE TO HOME’: An exhibition examining the meaning of home through cultural, ethnographic and decorative art objects from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and Oceania, ranging from antiquity to the present. ‘THE IMPOSSIBLE IDEAL: VICTORIAN FASHION AND FEMININITY’: An exhibition exploring how fashion embodied the many contradictions of Victorian women’s lives through clothing and accessories from the museum collection, accompanied by excerpts from popular American women’s magazines. Through December 14. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont in Burlington. ‘I AM’: Designed to address stereotypes and challenge misconceptions of the “other,” this exhibition featuring 31 women artists of Middle Eastern heritage from 12 countries is a visual celebration of the crucial role they play as guardians of peace. Guest curated by Janet Rady, a specialist in Middle Eastern contemporary art. Through November 25. Info, 864-0471. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington. JESS POLANSHEK: Fanciful forest illustrations by the 2017 Magic Hat “Labels for Libation” winner. Through November 30. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington.

f MISOO FILAN: “Inner Struggle Fought on Paper,” a continuing series of work using Yupo paper, ink and graphite that stems from an experience of childhood sexual abuse. Reception: Friday, November 16, 5-7 p.m. Through November 30. Info, dheffern@

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champlain.edu. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington.

world of her imagination. Through December 31. Shelburne Vineyard.

‘NOTE TO SELF’: A site-specific installation by gallery owner Christy Mitchell that integrates the memory of a past generation through the use of era-based artifacts. Through December 1. Info, spacegalleryvt@gmail.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

LIONEL DELEVINGNE: “To the Village Square: From Montague to Fukushima, 1975-2014,” photographs from around the world that merge politics and art by the French photographer. Through December 8. Info, bcollier@smcvt.edu. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College in Colchester.

f ‘TECTONIC INDUSTRIES: DREAMS CAN COME TRUE’: Through sculpture, instructional videos, physical surveys and interactive activities, Lars Boye Jerlach and Helen Stringfellow present a series of self-help questionnaires to explore the impossibility of our collective, endless search for concrete answers and our endeavors for self-improvement. Artist talk: Thursday, November 8, 6-7:30 p.m. PAULINE JENNINGS: “Becoming Human,” an intermedia exhibition that seeks to identify and dissolve barriers between human and wild in the Anthropocene era. Through February 9, 2019. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

‘LISTENING TO ROCKS’: Fabric collage by Jericho artist Dianne Shullenberger and photographs by Montpelier artist John Snell. Through November 20. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

SOUTH END ART HOP ORIGINAL JURIED SHOW WINNERS CIRCLE: Selected by 2018 juror Kathleen Vance: first place, Emily Piccirillo; second place, John Douglas; third place, Linda Dulleba. Also included is People’s Choice winner Kyle Sikora. Through November 30. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington. THATIANA OLIVEIRA & MADELINE VEITCH: “Sick and tired of being sick and tired: how to tell a story of a body and what ails it?,” an exhibition featuring interactive installations, sound pieces, performance, video and sculpture, curated by Sumru Tekin. Through January 17, 2019. Info, 735-2542. New City Galerie in Burlington. TH!NK’: An installation of drawings by more than 900 students and 100 adults in the Rutland Northeast School District, made at the Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon. Through December 31. Flynndog in Burlington.

f TIMOTHY SANTIMORE: Acrylic paintings influenced by Eastern philosophies and the aesthetics of gestural abstraction. Curated by SEABA. Reception: Friday, December 7, 5-8 p.m. as part of Friday Art Walk Through December 31. Info, 859-9222. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. VANESSA KOTOVICH: “Lugo-Ravenna,” photographs made during a residency in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, which explore themes of development and decay, myth and reality, beauty and blight. Through November 30. Info, audrie@thekarmabirdhouse. com. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington. ‘VISIONS OF THE WORLD’: Works by Vermont artists including paintings by Abeer Almogalli, Hom Pradhan and Sabah Abass; fashion and jewelry by Sahar Alsammarae and Virginie Diambou; and photographs by Umesh Acharya and the youth mentor program Crossroads: Where Cultures Meet. Curated by Laurie Stavrand from the USCRI/ Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. Through December 1. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington.

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‘AVIAN JOURNEY’: Felt tapestry by Neysa Russo, reflecting the important role of birds as inspiration for artists throughout history. Through November 10. Info, 288-8081. Northeast Fiber Arts in Williston.

f ‘INTO THE WOODS’: Established and emerging artists display two-dimensional artworks about the season’s change. Reception: Saturday, November 10, 3-5 p.m. Through December 31. Info, catherine. mcmains@gmail.com. Jericho Town Hall. f JOE BOLGER: “The Color of Light,” paintings by the Shoreham artist. Artist talk and closing reception: Sunday, November 11, 2 p.m. Through November 11. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. JUDI MACULAN AND JOHN PENOYAR: New works by the Hinesburg artists. Through December 31. Info, 482-2878. Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg. JULIE ANN DAVIS: “Natural Expressions in Oil,” works by the artist and 17th-generation Vermonter that extend beyond her local roots to the inner

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‘NEW ENGLAND NOW’: The inaugural exhibition in a curated biennial series featuring contemporary Northeast artists organized around thematic subject matter. Through January 13, 2019. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. SAM WYATT: “Darkness Obscured,” giclée prints of original watercolor paintings that explore abandoned industrial buildings in West Rutland. Through December 31. Info, s.wyatt826@gmail.com. Healthy Living Market & Café in South Burlington. TERESA DAVIS: “She’s in Over Her Head,” a playful homage to the emotional state of women in contemporary American society. Through November 30. Info, info@davisstudiovt.com. Davis Studio in South Burlington. ‘VISIONS OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN & BEYOND’: New oil paintings by Carolyn Walton, Helen Nagel and Ken Russack, as well as pastels by Athenia Schinto. Through December 30. Info, 985-8223. LuxtonJones Gallery in Shelburne.

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f ANNE DAVIS: “A Peaceable Kingdom,” new paintings on old canvases by the Barre artist. Opening and artist talk: Thursday, November 8, 4-5:30 p.m. Through January 5, 2019. Info, 279-6403. CVMC Art Gallery in Berlin. ‘ANYTHING FOR SPEED: AUTOMOBILE RACING IN VERMONT’: A yearlong exhibition exploring more than a century of the history and evolution of racing in Vermont through the objects, photographs and recollections that comprise this unique story. Through March 30, 2019. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Center in Barre. CAROLE NAQUIN: Soft pastel landscape paintings of sky, river and field. Through November 30. Info, 229-9492. Artisans’ Hand in Montpelier. DIANE FITCH: “Interior/Exterior,” paintings and drawings drawn from the artist’s life, with depictions of everyday life as well as private spaces within her psyche. Through December 21. Info, 279-5558. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier. HOLIDAY POP-UP SHOP & SILENT AUCTION: The gallery’s annual holiday pop-up shop includes unique and affordable works from Vermont artists including Barbara Leber, Anne Davis, Gale Crowl and Raquel Sobel. Through January 4, 2019. f MARY MCKAY LOWER: Paintings of the natural world. Reception: Thursday, November 8, 5-7 p.m. Through January 4, 2019. THOMAS WATERMAN WOOD: THE MASTER COPIES: The 19th-century Vermont painter and gallery namesake copied paintings seen on European trips to learn from masters such as Rembrandt and Turner, and brought the paintings back to Montpelier. Through June 1, 2019. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

NOVEMBER 10, 2018–MARCH 3, 2019 More than three dozen drawn, painted, and printed views of the Green Mountain State capture the spirit of 19th century growth in stunning panoramas.

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‘INNOVATORS OF NORWICH: BUILDING A NATION’: The second exhibition in a two-part series focusing on advances in railroad engineering, science, architecture and infrastructure. Highlighted contributions from Russell Porter, Edward Dean Adams, William Rutherford Meade and Grenville Dodge. Through December 21. Info, 485-2811. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University in Northfield.

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JAMES VOGLER: Recent abstract paintings influenced by forms of calligraphy. Through November 13. Info, jmspizzaonearth@gmavt.net. Barre Opera House. LINDA MIRABILE: “All Things Avian,” an exhibit of new abstract and realistic paintings by the Berlin artist depicting crows, flamingos and more. Through December 31. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier. LUIS JACOB INSTALLATION: “Land Acknowledgment,” public art by the Peruvian-born, Toronto-based VCFA faculty member that acknowledges the Abenaki as Vermont’s indigenous people. In conjunction with For Freedoms 50 State Initiative. Through November 15. Info, 828-8599. College Green, Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. MATT LARSON: “Mountains, Mesas and Monoliths,” 18 framed, small-scale gold-tone brownprints and eight large-scale, unframed gold-toned brownprints of Utah’s Zion Canyon. Through November 9. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre. MELANIE BROTZ: “Winging It,” mixed-media bird paintings using materials salvaged from the waste stream, including windows, mirrors, boards and picture frames. Through December 15. Info, 485-4786. Montpelier City Hall Arts Center. ‘SHOW 28’: Recent work of the gallery’s membership of Vermont-based contemporary artists, including new members. Through December 2. Info, 552-0877. The Front in Montpelier.

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‘ALTERED SPACES’: A group exhibition curated by Kelly Holt featuring collage, photography, painting and multimedia installation; the show will build in layers throughout its run. Artists include Paul Gruhler, Dana Heffern, Ric Kasini Kadour, Lydia Kern, Erika Senft Miller, John M. Miller and Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa. Through January 7, 2019. Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.

f ‘COLORFUL & CURVACEOUS: CAPTIVATING QUILT ART’: Fabric works by Judy B. Dales, who began making quilts in 1970 with a focus on geometric patterns but soon evolved to create fluid designs of curved lines and lyrical shapes. Artist talk and reception: Thursday, November 8, 5-7 p.m. f ‘REMEMBRANCE’: An exhibit featuring work by mixed-media collage artist and fine art photographer Athena Petra Tasiopoulos and artist, feminist and educator Nina Dubois. Artist talk and reception: Thursday, November 8, 5-7 p.m. Through January 9, 2019. Gallery at River Arts in Morrisville. ‘CREATIVITY TIMES TWO’: Landscape paintings by Vermont artists Craig Mooney and Eric Tobin. Through December 1. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. KRISTA HARRIS: “Moving Pictures,” abstract paintings. Also introducing ceramic figurative works of Putney sculptor Susan H. Wilson. Through November 20. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. ‘NOURISH — SOIL & SOUL’: Paintings, sculpture and installation art by MFA student Kathie Lovett focusing on themes of land, food, culture and politics. Through November 16. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University in Johnson. SEAN THOMAS: “Anthropocene,” a solo exhibition featuring the Arizona painter’s new series of urban landscapes. Through November 29. Info, 760-6785. Edgewater Gallery in Stowe.

mad river valley/waterbury f F/7 PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP: “Grace,” images

by members of the photo group. Reception: Friday, November 16, 5-7 p.m. Through December 31. Info, 244-6606. Waterbury Congregational Church. ‘PORTALS & RITUALS’: An exhibition of eerie and mysterious art by Lindsey Bolger, Johnnie Day Durand, Janine Fleri, Genese Grill, Noah Hirka, Andrew Keim, Jennifer LeBlanc and Leslie Roth. Through November 17. Info, 244-4168. Grange Hall Cultural Center in Waterbury Center.

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The Windsor artist, co-owner of CoolSnowGlobes, created an

exploratory body of paintings while in residency at Vermont Studio Center. Her exhibit, titled “Im/migration,” at Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction is the beginning of a larger project that expresses a concern with the migration and extinction of birds, as well as the “immigration, expulsion and exile of peoples.” The loosely abstracted works are rendered in oil on panel. Through December 5. Pictured: “Painting II.”

f ‘SHOOT-OUT’: A photography competition featuring the distinctive profile of Camel’s Hump. Submissions will be judged by Kelly Holt, Jeb Wallace-Brodeur and Whitney Aldrich. Award reception: Friday, November 16, 6-8 p.m. Through November 21. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

‘WONDROUS WORLDS: ART AND ISLAM THROUGH TIME AND PLACE ‘: Featuring more than 100 works of art from the Newark Museum’s collections, this exhibition showcases the long history, vast geographic expanse and diversity of works of art in the Islamic world. Through December 2. Info, 443-5007. Middlebury College Museum of Art.

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DON AND JUSTIN PERDUE: “Dimensional Dialogues,” a father-and-son exhibition featuring Donald Perdue’s modernist, abstract and figurative sculpture and Justin Perdue’s paintings, collages and mixed-media constructions. Through November 11. Info, publicity@townhalltheater.org. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. ‘DOUGHBOYS & FLYBOYS: WWI STORIES BY VERMONTERS FROM THE HOME AND BATTLEFRONT’: An exhibition that uses archival materials to explore the roles played by Addison County residents in the “War to End All Wars,” in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I. ‘WATERFOWL WONDERS & AMUSING ANIMALS’: Carvings by Addison County-based wood carvers Gary Starr, Chuck Herrmann and William Holway. Through November 11. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury. ‘GROWING FOOD, GROWING FARMERS’: Large-scale photographic portraits of Rutland County farm families taken by Macaulay Lerman, accompanied by biographies and audio excerpts drawn from the fieldwork of Greg Sharrow and Andy Kolovos. Through December 31. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. PAMELA SMITH: “Moving Still,” a solo exhibit of new work from the Bristol-based, self-taught painter. She draws from a background in textiles, years of living abroad and studying folk art from around the world. Through November 30. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

LIZ ROSS: “Im/migration,” a collection of oil-on-panel paintings completed during a Vermont Studio Center residency; part of a larger series concerned with the immigration and extinction of birds and the migration, expulsion and exile of peoples. Through December 5. Info, 295-0808. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction. ‘MAKING MUSIC: THE SCIENCE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS’: An exhibition exploring the science behind the instruments used to create music, from well-known classics to infectious pop tunes. Through May 13, 2019. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

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ANDREW HEPBURN: For years the artist has traveled through New England and parts of Canada photographing rocks and water, and creating representational images that border on the abstract. Through November 30. Info, 745-1393. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

f DANIELLE KLEBES: “Aimless Pilgrimage,” paintings about people in flux or moments of uncertainty by the North Adams, Mass., artist. Reception: Sunday, November 11, 2-4 p.m. Through January 11, 2019. Info, 299-7511. 77 Gallery in Rutland.

ANN YOUNG: “Autumn Pond Abstract,” an exhibition of 39 abstract paintings based on the Barton artist’s observation of the natural world. Through November 24. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

‘EWING THE STARK FISHER’: Paintings by Mindy Fisher, Roscoe Tyler Stark and J.R. Ewing. Through December 1. Info, 468-5611. Castleton University Bank Gallery in Rutland.

ELAINE COLE KERR: Spring and summer Northeast Kingdom landscapes in a variety of mediums by the local artist. Through December 10. Info, aliceperron2@gmail.com. Hardwick Street Café at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

‘FIGURATION’: Figure drawings by Bonnie Baird, Jerry Ralya and Kate Gridley. Through November 7. Info, vtalleygallery@gmail.com. The Alley Gallery in Rutland. FRAN BULL & BILL RAMAGE: Sculpture and drawings, respectively, by the two local artists in a pop-up gallery. Through November 23. Info, 773-9380. Opera House Gallery in Rutland. ‘JUST IMAGINE’: A group show featuring works by first-time and recent artist members. Through November 17. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. ‘POLLEN RACE’: Art and poetry on endangered species, our fragile environment and climate change, with special focus on the plight of bees. Through January 6, 2019. Info, 468-2592. Merwin Gallery in Castleton.

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JACK ROWELL: “Cultural Documentarian,” portraits of Vermont people and other wildlife by the Braintree photographer. Through April 1, 2019. Free; concert $20. Info, info@mainstreetmuseum.org. Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

ELIZABETH NELSON: “In Beauty I Walk,” photographs of nature in the Northeast Kingdom. Through November 15. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. ETHAN HUBBARD: “Driving the Back Roads: In Search of Old-Time Vermonters,” a retrospective featuring more than 40 of the photographer’s large-format black-and-white portraits made over five decades, accompanied by audio recordings of his subjects. Through December 2. Info, 533-9075. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. ‘FARMING, THE ART OF STEWARDSHIP’: A group exhibit of 20 paintings of scenes at four conserved farms in the Memphremagog Watershed by six members of Plein Air Northeast Kingdom. Through December 30. Info, sarah.damsell@vt.nacdnet.net. The East Side Restaurant & Pub in Newport. ‘LOCKED DOWN! KEYED IN! LOCKED OUT! KEYED UP!’: An exhibition examining the long human relationship to the lock and key, its elegant design and philosophies and practices of securing, safeguarding, imprisoning, escaping and safecracking throughout the ages. Through April 30, 2019. Info, claredol@ sover.net. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

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MATTHEW SYLVESTER: Art by the East Calais painter and illustrator. Through November 23. Info, 626-6459. Northern Vermont University-Lyndon in Lyndonville. RICHARD BROWN: Black-and-white photographs of nostalgic Vermont landscapes and people. Through December 31. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury. RODNEY REIS: “Landscapes in Classical Realism,” paintings by the Peacham artist. Through November 17. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artists Guild in St. Johnsbury.

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DEIDRE SCHERER: “Human Textures,” fiber art and constructions of woven and painted paper made in collaboration with Jackie Abrams. Through November 18. Info, 251-8290. Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro. EMILY MASON: “To Another Place,” 50 abstract paintings created by the 86-year-old New York/Brattleboro artist between 1958 and 2018, many of which have never been shown in public. Through February 10, 2019. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. ‘HEALING — THE TRANSFORMATIVE IMAGERY OF ART’: Works exploring the connection between the arts, healing and health, including Mary Admasian, Natalie Blake, Robert Carsten, Karen Deets, Robert DuGrenier, Carolyn Enz Hack, Margaret Jacobs, Neomi Lauritsen, Pat Musick, Robert O’Brien, Priscilla Petraska and Cai Xi Silver. Through March 30, 2019. Info, lightson_mary@ comcast.net. The Great Hall in Springfield. ‘HOPE AND HAZARD: A COMEDY OF EROS’: A group exhibition curated by American artist Eric Fischl featuring approximately 65 artists and more than 80 paintings, photographs, works on paper and sculptures selected from the Hall and Hall Art Foundation collections. ‘MADE IN VERMONT’: A group exhibition of new and recently completed paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Vermont artists. ‘THE SOLACE OF AMNESIA’: More than 30 paintings, photographs, works on paper and sculpture by some 25 artists that address human alienation from the natural environment, curated by artist Alexis Rockman and Katherine Gass Stowe. Through November 25. Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading. ROBERT COHEN: Black-and-white photographs from the artist’s travels. Through November 12. Info, 869-2960. Main Street Arts in Saxtons River.

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‘AUTUMN SHOW 2018’: Works by 18 artists including John Richey, Erika Lawlor Schmidt, Richard Weis, Longina Smolinski and Mary Fran Lloyd. Through December 1. Info, 917-842-2669. stART Space in Manchester. FALL MEMBER SHOW: ‘INSIDE OUT’: Works in a variety of styles and mediums, all for sale. Through November 18. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

‘INSIDE OUT’: Works in a multitude of styles and mediums by the center’s 200-plus artist-members. Through November 18. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

Californian artist. Through December 31. Info, 7637094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

PAT MUSICK: “Where Did You Come From Anyway?,” large- and small-scale sculpture and two-dimensional works made from natural media including wood, stone, paper and beeswax. Through December 30. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum. TORKWASE DYSON: “Scalar,” large-scale abstract paintings responding to sculptor and former Bennington College professor Tony Smith. Through December 15. Info, 442-5401. Bennington College.

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BEN FRANK MOSS: “Landscape Mysteries,” abstract paintings. ERIKA LAWLOR SCHMIDT: “Infinity of Worlds,” collage works that navigate contradictory worlds. Through December 8. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester. CIARA CUMISKEY: “Chapters: New Works,” still lifes, landscapes and imaginative scenes by the

GERALD AUTEN: “Graphite Insomnia,” geometric abstractions in graphite powder or pencil and bonding agents on paper by the senior lecturer in studio art at Dartmouth College. Through December 16. Info, 498-8438. White River Gallery @ BALE in South Royalton. JANE BOOTH: “Spirits of Place,” an evolving collection of evocative images made in Newbury, one of the first Vermont towns settled along the Connecticut River. Through January 7, 2019. Info, jane.booth.1@gmail.com. Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center.

f MARIANNE BENOIR: “A Retrospective: Then Through Now,” a solo show of color and blackand-white images of flora, fauna, places, things and people by the South Royalton photographer. Reception: Sunday, November 11, 2-4 p.m. Through January 9, 2019. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village.

CALL TO ARTISTS HOLIDAY EXHIBITION AND SALE: Seeking excellent and diverse artful creations by AVA’s talented members for an annual community exhibition and sale to take place December 1-24. Deadline: November 13. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon N.H. $25. Info, 603-448-3117. HOLIDAY MEMBERS SHOW: Artist members are invited to contribute works to this annual exhibition. For details and to participate, visit strandcenter.org. Deadline: November 20. Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh N.Y. Info, 518-563-1604. ISLAND ARTS GALLERY CALL TO ARTISTS: Artists interested in showing at the gallery in 2019 must submit an artist’s statement and/or biography, the medium employed in their works, and two to five high-quality digital images of their work. For details and to submit, email maryjomccarthy@ gmail.com or call 372-6047 or 378-5282. Deadline: November 15. Island Arts Gallery, North Hero. Info, maryjomccarthy@gmail.com. MURAL FOR YOUTH AREA: Artists are invited to submit proposals to create a mural in the youth area of the Hinesburg library. For more info and an application, visit carpentercarse.org. Deadline: November 26. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, Through November 26. Info, 482-2878. ‘ON THE FLY’: Submissions open for a juried exhibition of fly fishing in New England and the northern forest region of Vermont, New York, New Hampshire and Maine. Submissions should express and interpret this theme. For info and guidelines, email: grangehallcc@gmail.com. Deadline: January 1. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center. Free. Info, 244-4168.

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f ‘UKIYO-E TO SHIN HANGA’: An exhibition of Japanese woodcuts from the Syracuse University art collection. Reception: Saturday, November 10, 2-5 p.m. Through December 30. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, N.Y. TALK: CHRISTIANE GRUBER: “The Praiseworthy One: Devotional Images of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Traditions,” a presentation by the University of Michigan art history professor. Sabra Field Lecture Hall (Room 125). Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Friday, November 9, 12:15 p.m. Info, 443-5258. TALK: DOMESTIC DESIGNS: THE EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN HOME: State architectural historian Devin Colman explores the evolution of the single-family home in the U.S. and how cultural traditions and material goods influence the design, layout and use of domestic spaces. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Wednesday, November 7, 6 p.m. Info, 656-0750. TALK: ‘DRESSING THE PART’: Costume designer and historian Martin Thaler explores “What Women’s Clothing Revealed in the Victorian Age, When Women Were Supposed to Keep Silent,” in conjunction with “The Impossible Ideal” exhibit. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Wednesday, November 14, 6 p.m. Info, 656-0750. m

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As their 14-year-old son, Joe, Ed Oxenbould is the discovery of the year. The strange, wrenching tale is told through the eyes of the boy. Early on, Joe watches hopefully as his parents attempt to put down roots. This is the latest stop in a succession of lost jobs and fresh starts. Jeanette and Jerry appear happy and affectionate. She tends to their rented home. He works as a golf pro. Until, like that, he’s fired. “I’m too well liked” is his takeaway. The look on Joe’s face grows progressively less hopeful as things fall apart. A wildfire rages in the mountains outside town. Jerry gets the notion that fighting it will fix something in him and departs to do so. The picture of June Cleaver perkiness and propriety to this point, Jeanette promptly spirals into a breakdown that would leave Tennessee Williams positively emerald with envy. It’s Mulligan’s finest hour. The teen watches in shock, then horror, as his mother unravels. The actress conveys whole worlds of longing, dread and bewilderment with a look or gesture and brings Ford’s spare dialogue to crackling life. Here the brilliance of the screenplay is fully revealed. The couple didn’t merely pare the novel to its essential lines. In places, they improved them. “Did your mother do something you wouldn’t like to have to tell me about?” is far more elegant than Ford’s version. And, yes, she did.

FAMILY AFFAIR Mulligan astonishes in the role of a Montana housewife who comes undone in front of her son.

Dano and Kazan don’t stop there. Events are reordered, characters added, the ending concocted out of whole cloth. It all works spectacularly. An understated yet devastating chronicle of personal disintegration, Wildlife proves, if anything, an even more curious work on the screen than on the page. Watching it unfold, you may find yourself reminded that Dano has spent an extraordinary amount of time in the company of eminent directors. He’s clearly made a point of picking up a thing or three from the likes of Ang Lee, Paolo Sorrentino, Spike Jonze and Richard Linklater. It’s the sensibility of Paul

Bohemian Rhapsody ★★★

hen did show-biz biopics turn into Broadway musicals — of the broadest, corniest kind? While Bohemian Rhapsody has a better subject than last year’s The Greatest Showman — Queen front person Freddie Mercury — it doesn’t offer much more subtlety. Directed by Bryan Singer, the movie does excel as a showcase for Queen’s biggest hits and the electrifying lead performance of Rami Malek. Its nostalgic evocation of those anthems clearly satisfies a lot of viewers who want the immersive, sing-along, stamp-along experience that Queen’s live performances offered. Anyone seeking an absorbing or enlightening story, though, should look elsewhere. The film follows the band from its inception through its biggest hits to its iconic 1985 Live Aid performance, exercising plenty of dramatic license along the way. Yet it offers next to no insight into the forces that shaped Mercury’s mesmerizing stage presence or his creative experiments. Early scenes with his conservative Indian Parsi family serve to establish him as a tradition-flouting rebel, yet his rebellion appears to be sui generis, as if he’d sprung from the womb equipped with lace cuffs and impeccable provocative poise. Malek is consistently fun to watch. But when the movie puts Mercury on a predictable downward spiral, it’s tough to empathize with this wafer-thin conception of him, and even tougher not to notice all the ways in 80 SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 7-14, 2018

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which the movie works to downplay and domesticate his sexuality. More involving are the scenes of Mercury’s creative collaboration with band members Brian May (Gwilym Lee), Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy) and John Deacon (Joseph Mazzello), especially their recording of the title song. Here, too, though, Anthony McCarten’s script trades way too much on fond hindsight, nudging and winking at the audience. “Does it have potential?” Mercury coyly

asks his girlfriend (Lucy Boynton) after playing her a piano interlude we all instantly recognize. Later, record exec Ray Foster (Mike Myers) repeatedly insists that kids will never bang their heads to “Bohemian Rhapsody.” We get it — but should we really feel so superior for knowing the song is a stone-cold classic? Maybe the more interesting question is how something so bizarre defied the naysayers and conquered the airwaves.

Thomas Anderson, however, that most vividly permeates everything from Dano’s affinity for Americana and period detail to his framing of, say, vast plains through the windows of a hurtling train. His muted palette and astute use of silence perfectly suit Ford’s knowing nightmare, immeasurably more than Anderson’s aesthetic proved compatible with Thomas Pynchon’s in his 2014 adaptation of Inherent Vice. Life is wild and full of surprises. Now who looks like the Master? RI C K KI S O N AK

The movie offers no enlightenment on that score, either. It asks us to cheer for the foreordained triumph of Mercury’s outrageousness and, later, to shake our heads as he slips into a too outrageous lifestyle, leaving his more conservative bandmates behind. When a prospective partner tut-tuts him and tells him to “Come back [to me] when you like yourself,” the movie feels as preachy as any old Hollywood cautionary tale about the price of fame. The pairing of potent music and performances with this kind of patronizing boilerplate is, at times, painful to experience. Bohemian Rhapsody redeems itself late in the game, and sends the audience out on a high note, by re-creating almost the entirety of Queen’s Live Aid set. Regardless of the glaring factual inaccuracies involved in its dramatic framing (already chronicled by plenty of critics), this set piece is a rousing tribute to a born performer. No one is likely to leave the theater without “We Are the Champions” in their head. The problem is, when biopics are Broadway-ized, every story becomes the same. In one of the film’s better scenes, Mercury explains Queen’s appeal: “We’re four misfits who don’t belong together, playing for the other misfits.” The movie never explains what turned these particular misfits into champions. As a result, it too often feels like a smug rhapsody on success. MARGO T HARRI S O N

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NOW PLAYING BEAUTIFUL BOYHHH A dad (Steve Carell) struggles to help his meth-addicted son (Timothée Chalamet) in this drama based on the memoirs by David and Nic Scheff, with Maura Tierney and Amy Ryan. Felix van Groeningen (The Broken Circle Breakdown) directed. (120 min, R) BOHEMIAN RHAPSODYHH1/2 Rami Malek plays Freddie Mercury in this chronicle of rock band Queen that culminates with the 1985 Live Aid concert. With Lucy Boynton, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello and Mike Myers. Bryan Singer (X-Men: Apocalypse) directed. (134 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 11/7) COLETTEHHH1/2 Keira Knightley plays the turn-of-the-century French writer who defied her own bourgeois upbringing and the expectations for women in this biopic directed by Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice). With Eleanor Tomlinson, Fiona Shaw and Dominic West. (111 min, R)

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FIRST MANHHHH Ryan Gosling is astronaut Neil Armstrong in this biographical drama that covers his historic 1969 moon mission. With Claire Foy and Jason Clarke. Damien Chazelle (La La Land) directed. (141 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 10/17) FREE SOLOHHHHH This documentary from directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (Meru) follows Alex Honnold as he attempts to make the first-ever free solo climb of Yosemite’s 3,000-foot El Capitan Wall. (100 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 10/24) GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEENHH1/2 A mysterious book unleashes scary critters, and chills blend with comedy in this stand-alone sequel to the 2015 Goosebumps, with Jack Black again playing series author R.L. Stine. With Wendi McLendonCovey and Madison Iseman. Ari Sandel (The Duff) directed. (90 min, PG) HALLOWEENHHH1/2 Forty years after John Carpenter’s slasher flick, this sequel/reboot dispenses with all previous series continuity and puts an older Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) on a new collision course with the masked man. With Judy Greer and Andi Matichak. David Gordon Green (Joe) cowrote and directed. (106 min, R) THE HATE U GIVEHHHH A young woman (Amandla Stenberg) learns to speak out in the wake of her childhood best friend’s shooting by police in this adaptation of Angie Thomas’ best-selling YA novel. Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Issa Rae and Common also star. George Tillman Jr. (The Longest Ride) directed. (133 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 10/24)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY REAL NOVEMBER 8-14 ing under the rain,” “physical contact like a pat on the back when you’re really touch starved,” and “listening to a song for the first time and it’s so good you just can’t stop smiling.” I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I suspect that the next two weeks will bring you a flood of these pleasurable underrated feelings.

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I am not currently a wanderer or voyager or entrepreneur or swashbuckler. But at other times in my life, I have had extensive experience with those roles. So I know secrets about how and why to be a wanderer and voyager and entrepreneur and swashbuckler. And it’s clear to me that in the coming weeks you could benefit in unforeseen ways from researching and embodying the roles of curious wanderer and brave voyager and savvy entrepreneur and prudent swashbuckler.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): “Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer,” wrote Gemini author Henry Lawson. Do you have any methods for making yourself feel like you’ve drunk a few beers that don’t involve drinking a few beers? If not, I highly recommend that you find at least one. It will be especially important in the coming weeks for you to have a way to alter, expand or purify your consciousness without relying on literal intoxicants or drugs. The goal: to leave your groove before it devolves into a rut.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1994, Aries pop diva Mariah Carey collaborated with an associate to write the song “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” It took them 15 minutes to finish it. Since then it has generated $60 million in royalties. I wish I could unconditionally predict that you, too, will efficiently spawn a valuable creation sometime soon. Current planetary alignments do indeed suggest that such a development is more possible than usual. But because I tend to be conservative in my prophecies, I won’t guarantee anything close to the $60 million figure. In fact, your reward may be more spiritual in nature than financial.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Study the following five failed predictions. 1. “There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.” —Robert Miliham, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1923. 2. “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” —Western Union internal memo, 1876. 3. “Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.” –Dionysius Lardner, scientist, 1830. 4. “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” —Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977. 5. “Most Cancerians will never overcome their tendencies toward hypersensitivity, procrastination and fear of success.” —Lanira Kentsler, astrologer, 2018. (P.S. What you do in the next 12 months could go a long way toward permanently refuting the last prediction.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An interactive

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post at Reddit.com asked readers to write about “the most underrated feeling of all time.” One person said, “When you change the sheets on your bed.” Another extolled “the feeling that comes when you pay all your bills and you’ve still got money in the bank.” Others said, “danc-

(July 23-Aug. 22): German scientists have created cochlear implants for gerbils that have been genetically modified, enabling the creatures to “listen” to light. The researchers’ work is ultimately dedicated to finding ways to improve the lives of people with hearing impairments. What might be the equivalent of

you gaining the power to “hear light”? I understand that you might resist thinking this way. “That makes no sense,” you may protest, or “There’s no practical value in fantasizing about such an impossibility.” But I hope you’ll make the effort anyway. In my view, stretching your imagination past its limits is the healing you need most right now. I also think that doing so will turn out to be unexpectedly practical.

rain; don’t waste time and emotional energy complaining about the rain. Don’t indulge in fruitless fantasizing about how you might stop the rain and how you’d love to stop the rain. In fact, please refrain from defining the rain as a negative event, because after all, it is perfectly natural and is crucial for making the crops grow and replenishing our water supply. (P.S. Your metaphorical “rain” will be equally useful.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s useful wisdom from the poet Rumi. “Our defects are the ways that glory gets manifested,” he said. “Keep looking at the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.” Playwright Harrison David Rivers interprets Rumi’s words to mean, “Don’t look away from your pain, don’t disengage from it, because that pain is the source of your power.” I think these perspectives are just what you need to meditate on, Virgo. To promote even more healing in you, I’ll add a further clue from poet Anna Kamienska: “Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.” (P.S. Rumi is translated by Coleman Barks; Kamienska by Clare Cavanagh.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation,” writes activist and author Elif Shafak. “If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.” I bring this to your attention because you’re in a phase when your close alliances should be activating healing changes in your life. If for some reason your alliances are not yet awash in the exciting emotions of redemption and reinvention, get started on instigating experimental acts of intimacy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Artist David Hockney is proud of how undemanding he is toward his friends and associates. “People tell me they open my emails first,” he says, “because they aren’t demands, and you don’t need to reply. They’re simply for pleasure.” He also enjoys giving regular small gifts. “I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms.” Hockney seems to share the perspective expressed by author Gail Godwin, who writes, “How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn’t want or need anything from them.” In accordance with astrological omens, Libra, I suggest you have fun employing these approaches in the coming weeks. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The best

thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.” That brilliant formulation came from poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Does it seem so obvious as to not need mentioning? Bear with me while I draw further meaning from it and suggest you use it as an inspiring metaphor in the coming weeks. When it rains, Sagittarius, let it

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I suspect you

will be an especially arousing influence in the coming weeks. You may also be inspiring and disorienting, with unpredictable results. How many transformations will you unleash? How many expectations will you dismantle? How many creative disruptions will you induce in the midst of the daily grind? I hesitate to underestimate the messy beauty you’ll stir up or the rambunctious gossip you’ll provoke. In any case, I plan to be richly amused by your exploits, and I hope everyone else will be, as well. For best results, I will pray to the Goddess of Productive Fun, begging Her to ensure that the commotions and uproars you catalyze will be in service to love and kindness.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson wasn’t always a wild and crazy writer. Early in his career he made an effort to compose respectable, measured prose. When he finally gave up on that project and decided he could “get away with” a more uninhibited style, he described it as being “like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.” I foresee a metaphorically comparable development in your future, Pisces.

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DO YOU KNOW? I have never experienced this very unusual way you have with me. I wonder if you know — if the feelings I have for you show when I notice you watching me, when you touch me or when we speak. Do you know when I’m missing you and feeling sad, how you come along and my lonely world is right again? When: Monday, October 22, 2018. Where: around. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914556

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SCARLETTLETTERS Dear Scarlett,

For about six months I’ve been dating a guy whom I find really attractive. We have awesome sex and a lot in common. There’s a problem, though. When we hang out in public — at a coffee shop or walking down the street — I catch him staring at other women’s bodies. Sometimes he even interrupts our conversation to comment on them. The whole thing annoys me and makes me feel bad about myself. I told him that he shouldn’t look at women as just body parts, that we have personalities and brains. But he gets defensive and accuses me of being jealous and insecure, which makes me feel even worse. I don’t know if this is a deal breaker, but it makes me not want to go out with him in public, because it happens every time.

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SARA AT GREEN STATE GARDENERS Kickin’ myself in the butt for not getting your number. We talked pH, dirt, soil, goodies and the diesel. I was wearing the blue windbreaker. Can I get another chance? Please. When: Saturday, October 13, 2018. Where: Green State Gardeners. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914550 GIRL WITH THE CAMERA Nothing I can do will get you off my mind. I know you’re gone forever this time. I wish I had listened to my heart on this. So many years of letting you down and hurting both of us. I love you, and I wish this was different CM. When: Thursday, April 12, 2018. Where: Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914549 TO THE GENTLEMAN WHO NOTICED Thank you. You were aware that I was struggling with the machines that kept eating my $. When I came back from purchasing more soap, I noticed that there was less $ owed in the washer. I also saw you trying to add more $ for the soap that I was trying to purchase. I appreciated your efforts. When: Sunday, October 7, 2018. Where: Vergennes Laundry. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914548 STRAWBERRY BREAD BAKER Using I-Spy in a desperate attempt to send birthday wishes your way. Sigh. Hope it’s fantastic, as you are. I persist on wishing for that random encounter, though I’d probably turn to jelly if it ever happens. Still have Zag? (Subtract eight years from the date below.) When: Thursday, July 12, 2018. Where: Waterbury. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914547 IDA OUTSIDE HUNGER MTN COOP Ida: We compared foot/leg injuries outside the co-op. Wishing we exchanged contact info beyond first names. I was running late, but I hope I’m not too late to ask if I can treat you to coffee or a drink sometime soon. Can I? When: Tuesday, October 9, 2018. Where: Hunger Mountain Coop. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914545

Dear Annoyed,

Many men — and women — look at women’s bodies more than they look at their faces. But when does a glance become gawking? If his rubbernecking makes you feel inferior and he knows it, then he’s openly disrespecting you. A decent partner tries to make you feel happy, loved and secure. The fact that you don’t want to go out in public with him says a lot. Why he is staring? Is he hoping one of these women will notice him? Is he looking to hook up? Is he so insecure that he needs affirmation from total strangers — at your expense? The fact that he mislabels his actions as your “insecurities” is even worse. Gaslighting is when a person makes you question your own perception or experience. It’s a form of psychological manipulation and a sign of selfishness, even narcissism. Don’t allow him to make you doubt yourself. Approach this from a position of strength. It’s his behavior that’s a big turnoff, and you deserve a partner who will make you feel sexy and good about yourself.

Love,

Scarlett

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1303-1 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On October 26, 2018, Lakeview LLC, P.O. Box 790, Burlington, VT 05402, filed application #4C1303-1 for a project generally described as the addition of balconies on the southwestern façade of previously-approved residential building. The Project also includes the substitution of corrugated metal for permitted cedar shingle cladding on stair towers of the northwestern facade. The Project is located at 85 North Avenue in Burlington, Vermont. The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. Copies 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 (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C1303-1”. No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before November 20, 2018, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of

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If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above. Should a hearing be held on this Project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by November 20, 2018. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal

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11/2/18 3:35 PM Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 1st day of November, 2018. By: Stephanie H. Monaghan District #4 Coordinator Natural Resources Board 111 West Street Essex Jct., VT 05452 802-879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@ vermont.gov CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO HOUSING – MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO BURLINGTON CODE OF ORDINANCES § 18-20 (HOUSING – SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATE) ORDINANCE 4.05 Sponsor: City Attorney’s Office Public Hearing Dates: ___________ First reading: _________________ Referred to: ___________________ Rules suspended and placed in all stages of passage: 10/15/18 Second reading: ________________ Action: adopted Date: 10/15/18 Signed by Mayor: 10/29/18 Published: 11/07/18

Effective: 11/28/18 It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: That Chapter 18, Housing, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Section 1820, Suspension and revocation of certificate, to read as follows: Sec. 18-20(a) Suspensions. Under the terms and provisions of this section (18-20), an owner’s certificate of compliance for one (1) or more rental unit(s) may be suspended for up to one (1) year for failure to comply with the requirements of this chapter and the fault for noncompliance is determined to rest with the landlord, not the tenant(s). Suspensions may be carried over into a new certificate term. If suspensions have been imposed for at least one-half (1/2) of the total number of rental units located within the property, the enforcement officer may apply the suspension of the certificate of compliance to the entire rental property. The election of the enforcement officer to proceed under this section shall not prevent the enforcement officer from electing to file any action allowed under section 18-31 of this chapter or take any other lawful action necessary to enforce Chapter 18. A certificate of compliance shall only be suspended upon a notice from, hearing before, and order of, the Housing Board of Review.

(1)–(4) As written. (5) Suspension for repeated public nuisances. A certificate of compliance may be suspended where a resident of a rental unit or their invitees is: (A) adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction, with finality, to have, on at least three (3) separate occasions within a twelve (12) month period, to have violated Burlington Code of Ordinances sections 21-12, 21-13, 21-17, 21-19, and 21-28; and (B)–(C) As written. (6) Exclusions. (A) As written. (B) Where an adjudicated crime involves the violation of a federal law on marijuana and the behavior so adjudicated is not a violation of Vermont law, then the adjudication shall not be counted as an adjudication under subsection (a)(4)(A)(1) and shall not be a basis for a notice of suspension/ revocation. (7)–(8) As written. 18-20(b) Revocation. As written. 18-20(c) Notices. As written. 18-20(d) Hearings. As written. 18-20(e) Orders. As written. 18-20(e)(f) Protections of tenants during suspension or revocation. As written. 18-20(f)(g) Person responsible for management during suspension or revocation. The board shall designate the person through which a unit or property is managed during the period of suspension or revocation. This manager must be in compliance with the provisions of this chapter

throughout their term as manager. The board shall designate one of the following persons to be the manager, as recommended by the enforcement officer, upon a determination of appropriateness: (1)–(2) As written. (3) The property owner in the limited circumstance when there is only one (1) rental unit in a multi-unit property, provided that safeguards are in place so that compliance with subsection (g) of this section is ensured. In addition, the board may also authorize the enforcement officer to petition the Vermont Superior Court to appoint a temporary manager of the property until the suspension/ revocation has expired and request that the court shall advance the petition so it may be heard and determined with as little delay as possible. 18-20(g)(h) Rent/funds. As written. 18-20(h)(i) Annual Reporting. As written. * Material stricken out deleted. ** Material underlined added. NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE BY NONJUDICIAL SALE By virtue and in execution of the power of sale contained in a certain mortgage given by NY2VT, LLC dated September 28, 2017 and recorded in Volume 826 page 387 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same said property

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will be sold at public auction at 11:00 o’clock a.m. on the 27th day of November, 2018, at 85 S. Park Dr., Colchester, VT being the location of the mortgaged property: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to NY2VT, LLC by Warranty Deed of Gabriel Handy dated July 16, 2007 and recorded in Volume 591, Pages 568-570 of the Town of Colchester Land Records, described as follows: “A parcel of land situated on the northerly side of South Park Drive, so-called, containing 1.04 acres, more or less, and being all of Lot No. 2 as shown and designated on a plat entitled “Plat of Survey 2 Lot Subdivision, Restaurants of Northern VT. Inc. Property, U.S. Route 2 & 7 & So. Park Drive, Colchester, Vermont” prepared by Warren A. Robenstien dated April 3, 2000, and recorded April 12, 2000 as Map Slide 350 in the Town of Colchester Land Records. Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Gabriel Handy by Limited Warranty Deed of Restaurants of Northern Vermont Inc., dated December 23, 2002 and as recorded in Volume 419 at Pages 341-342 of Town of Colchester Land Records. The herein conveyed lands and premises include an allocation of 2,500 gallons of water/ wastewater capacity. Said premises are subject to a utility

easement, ten feet in width, extending along the frontage of said lot as described in a Quit Claim Deed from Norma P. Bernardini a/k/a Theresa N. Bernardini to San Remo Realty Corporation dated July 10, 1981 as recorded in Volume 71 at Page 366 of said Land Records. Said premises have the benefit of an easement for the construction, maintenance, repair and replacement of a parking lot, including ten shared spaces, sidewalk and landscaping as conveyed to the Grantor by Limited Warranty Deed of Restaurants of Northern Vermont, Inc., of even or approximately even date herewith and to be recorded in said Land Records and also subject to and with the benefit of a shared drainage easement created by an exchange of Quit Claim Deeds between Restaurants of Northern Vermont, Inc., and the Grantor of even or approximately even date herewith and to be recorded in said Land Records. Said premises are subject to a restriction contained in a Warranty Deed from Frank J. Bissonette and Leonard J. Bissonette to Frank and Maria Bernardini dated June 10, 1952 as recorded in Warranty Volume 5 at Page 79 of said Land Records that said premises shall never be used for a motel or tourist cabins. Said premises are subject to slope rights and culvert rights as contained in a Condemnation Order of the State Highway Board dated May 10, 1961 as recorded

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SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS in Miscellaneous Volume 11 at Pages 176-183 of said Land Records, as modified by a Stipulation dated September 11, 1963 between Maria Bernardini and the State of Vermont Highway Board and recorded in Miscellaneous Volume 13 at Page 291 of said Land Records. Said premises are subject to State of Vermont Wastewater System and Potable Water Supply Permit No. WW-C-0008 dated June 27, 2006 as recorded in Volume 565 at Page 560 of said Land Records, as amended, Town of Colchester Water and Wastewater Permit No. 01-07 dated June 27, 2006 as recorded in Volume 566 at Page 150 of said Land Records, Town of Colchester Septic Permit No. 02-07 dated June 27, 2006 as recorded in Volume 567 at Page 642 of said Land Records, the terms and conditions of Site Plan and Variance Approvals of the Colchester Development Review Board, State of Vermont Division of Fire Safety Construction Permit dated December 16, 2006 and State of

Vermont Storm Water Discharge Authorization 4235-9015 issued pursuant to General Permit 3-9015 dated June 1, 2006 as recorded in Volume 824 at Page 187 of said Land Records.” Terms of Sale: $649,807.17 plus costs, expenses, interest, fees, and related future financial payments recoverable by mortgagee payable as follows: $50,000 at time of auction with the balance to comprise 10% of high bid payable in cash within 7 days of the public auction, upon the execution of a commercial purchase and sales agreement on or before 11:00 AM Tuesday, November 27, 2018, with the balance due within 30 days, or no later than December 27, 2018. The mortgagor and all Junior lien holders are entitled to redeem the mortgaged property at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

The mortgagor and all Junior lien holders are hereby notified that at any time before the foreclosure sale, the mortgagor and all Junior lien holders have a right to petition the Civil Division of the Superior Court for the county in which the mortgaged property is situated, with service upon the mortgagee, and upon such bond as the court may require, to enjoin the scheduled foreclosure sale. Failure to institute such petition and complete service upon the foreclosing party, or the party’s agent, conducting the sale prior to sale shall thereafter bar any action or right of action of the mortgagor any Junior lien holder based upon the validity of the foreclosure, the right of the mortgagee to conduct the foreclosure sale, or compliance by the mortgagee with the notice requirements and other conditions of this section. An action to recover damages resulting from the sale of the mortgaged property on the date of the sale may be commenced at any time within one year following the

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date of sale, but not thereafter. Other terms to be announced at the sale may be obtained by inquiry to: Terry L. Owen, CAI, AARE Sr. Vice President Thomas Hirchak Company 1878 Cady’s Falls Road Morrisville, VT 05661 1-800-634-7653 (cell) 802-371-8060 Terry Owen <terry@ thcauction.com> UNION BANK Dated: 9/13/18 By: /S/ Eric Parker, Esq. Bauer Gravel Farnham, LLP NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE BURLINGTON SELF STORAGE, LLC 1825 SHELBURNE ROAD SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT 05403 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid.

Name of Occupant Storage Unit Perham Unit #263 Robenstein Unit #85 Said sales will take place on 11/30/2018, beginning at 11:00am at Burlington Self Storage (BSS), 1825 Shelburne Road, South Burlington, VT 05403. Units will be opened for viewing immediately prior to auction. Sale shall be by sealed bid to the highest bidder. Contents of entire storage unit will be sold as one lot. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility at no cost to BSS, on the day of auction. BSS, reserves the right to reject any bid lower that the amount owed by the occupant or that is not commercially reasonable as defined by statute. NOTICE CITY OF BURLINGTON FULL BOARD OF ABATEMENT OF TAXES The Full Board of Abatement of Taxes of the City of Burlington will meet in Contois Auditorium, at City Hall, 149 Church Street on

Open 24/7/365. Post & browse ads at your convenience. Tuesday, November 13, 2018* to hear and act upon the requests for abatement of taxes and/or penalties from: Joshua T. Safran 127 Saratoga Avenue 033-3-063-000 Michael Zakaras 58 Bayview Street 054-1-035-000 Robin Fawcett 354 Saint Paul Street 049-4-063-000 Joyce B. Flanagan 37 Cliff Street 050-2-076-000 Ted B. Flanagan 51 Sears Lane 057-1-014-000 Herman Poklukar 20 Oak Beach Drive 056-4-045-920 Timothy A. Muir 52 North Cove Road 021-1-031-000 *The City Council Meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. The Full Board of Abatement of Taxes Meeting is part of this agenda, no set start time.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE BURLINGTON COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE ZA-19-05 DENSITY CALCULATIONS ZA-19-06 ARTICLE 7 SIGNS Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4441 and §4444, notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Burlington Planning Commission to hear comments on the following proposed amendments to the City of Burlington’s Comprehensive Development Ordinance (CDO). The public hearing will take place on Tuesday, November 27, 2018 beginning at 6:45pm in Conference Room 12, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT. Pursuant to the requirements of 24 V.S.A. §4444(b): Statement of purpose: This amendment is proposed to the Burlington CDO as follows: • ZA-19-05: The purpose of this proposed amendment to provide additional detail regarding the method for

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calculating permitted density on a lot, to incorporate language into this calculation that is consistent with Article 13 Definitions, and to update the methodology for calculating nonresidential density. • ZA-19-06: The purpose of this proposed amendment is a comprehensive update to the city’s sign regulations in an effort to create a more prescriptive and objective series of sign types by which to regulate the dimensions, number, size, location, lighting, and general design of each type and thereby assure content neutrality. Geographic areas affected: the proposed amendments are applicable to the following areas in the City of Burlington: • ZA-19-05: The amendment applies to all areas of the city. • ZA-19-06: The amendment applies to all areas of the city. List of section headings affected: • ZA-19-05: The proposed amendment

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Cheers! [CONTINUED] modifies Sec. 5.2.7 (a) Dwelling Units per Acre. • ZA-19-06: The proposed amendment modifies all sections of Article 7: Signs. The full text of the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance and the proposed amendment is available for review at the Department of Planning and Zoning, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or on the department’s website at www. burlingtonvt.gov/pz.

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE BURLINGTON MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN MDP-19-01 2019 UPDATE TO PLANBTV Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4384, 4387 and §4432, notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Burlington Planning Commission to hear comments on proposed amendments to and re-adoption of the City of Burlington’s Municipal Development Plan, referred to as planBTV: Comprehensive Plan, and adoption by reference therein of: planBTV: South End Master Plan, planBTV: Walk/Bike Master Plan, Burlington Annex to the Chittenden County All Hazards Mitigation Plan, CCRPC Burlington Energy Data Guide, CCRPC Burlington Population and Employment Projections, Sustainable Infrastructure Capital Plan, Brownfields Area Wide Plan, Downtown Parking & Transportation Management Plan, Housing Action Plan, and Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Master Plan. The public hearing will take place on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 beginning at 7:00 pm in Contois Auditorium, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT. Statement of purpose: The city’s municipal development plan, known as planBTV: Comprehensive Plan, outlines Burlington’s goals and objectives for the future

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and is the city’s principal guide directing land use policy and decisionmaking. It defines the policies, programs, and actions necessary to attain these objectives and provides a reliable basis for public and private investments. Additionally, it is the foundation for additional plans and studies which are incorporated and adopted by their reference in planBTV: Comprehensive Plan. Further, all city plans and programs which affect land use and development, including the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance, impact fees, and capital improvement plan must be in conformance with the policies and directives found in planBTV: Comprehensive Plan. The purpose of the 2019 update is to update more clearly communicate the long-standing land use policies contained within the plan, update the strategies that the city will employ to advance these policies, and to adopt by reference plans which further articulate these policies with regard to certain locations of the city or specific resource or system needs. These include plans which will be adopted by reference for the first time, as indicated by those plan titles listed above, as well as plans which have previously been adopted by their reference. Geographic areas affected: planBTV: Comprehensive Plan is applicable to all areas within the City of Burlington. Additionally, many of the plans adopted by reference pertain to the entire city. planBTV: South End Master Plan pertains to the South End of Burlington, with a particular focus on the South End Enterprise Zoning District, as does the Brownfields Area Wide Plan. The Downtown Parking & Transportation Management Plan pertains to downtown Burlington. List of section headings affected: The 2019 update to planBTV is a comprehensive update of all sections of the plan. The update amends and replaces all chapters, appendices, maps, and references. Additionally, the plan has been restructured. Instead of including chapters

for each of the discreet planning topics that a comprehensive plan addresses, the plan is organized around two elements: Our Plan for Action, which outlines Burlington’s land use policies and actions organized by four themes, and Our Future Land Use, which presents the land use plan organized by three general land use characteristics.

in Book 68 Page 470 of the land records of the Town of Walden for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 129 BayleyHazen Road, Walden, Vermont on December 5, 2018 at 12:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

The full text of the draft 2019 planBTV: Comprehensive Plan and the proposed amendment is available for review at the Department of Planning and Zoning, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or on the department’s website at www.burlingtonvt.gov/planbtv.

To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Piper Strong by Warranty Deed of Janet L. Parkhurst dated March 18, 1996 of record at Book 43, Page 487 of the Town of Walden Land Records.

STATE OF VERMONT CALEDONIA UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 117-5-16 CACV WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR AEGIS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES TRUST MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-4 v. PIPER STRONG, MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC AND WORLDWIDE ASSET PURCHASING II, LLC OCCUPANTS OF: 129 Bayley-Hazen Road, Walden VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered March 30, 2018 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Piper Strong to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Aegis Lending Corporation, dated May 19, 2004 and recorded in Book 56 Page 28 of the land records of the Town of Walden, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Aegis Lending Corporation to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Aegis Asset Backed Securities Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-4 dated March 18, 2013 and recorded

Being a parcel of land containing ten and one-quarter acres, be the same more or less, located in that part of Walden known as South Walden on the westerly side of Town Road #12 and located just northering of the parcel now or formerly owned by one Ray Carr and being a part of what is known as the former Taylor property. The parcel herein is more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the centerline of Town Highway #12, which said point is marked by a culvert across said roadway and which said culvert is 45 rods, be the same more or less, southeasterly of the southerly or southeasterly corner of the South Walden Church property, and thence proceeding in a northwesterly direction along a straight line which will form the northeasterly boundary of the parcel herein a distance of 73 rods, be the same more or less, to an iron pipe set in the ground in the fence which separates the property from property now or formerly owned by one Allen; thence turning on an angle and proceeding in a southwesterly direction along said fence line a distance of 12 rods, be the same more or less, to an iron pipe set in the ground, which said pipe marks the southwesterly corner of the parcel herein; thence turning on an angle and proceeding along a line fence which marks the southeasterly boundary of the parcel a distance of 85 rods, be the same more or less, to a point in the northwesterly boundary line of property now

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS or formerly of one Ray Carr; thence turning on an angle and proceeding northeasterly along the Ray Carr boundary line to said Carr’s northwesterly corner, a distance of 5 rods, be the same more or less, to a point just beyond the barn on the Carr property; thence turning on a right angle and proceeding southeasterly a distance of 58 feet, be the same more or less, to the centerline of the said Town Road #12; thence turning on an angle and proceeding northeasterly along the centerline of said Town Road to the point of beginning.

($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.

MARGARET M. RYAN AND SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OCCUPANTS OF: 53 Boynton Avenue, St. Johnsbury VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered August 22, 2018,, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Margaret M. Ryan to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., dated May 29, 2008 and Being ten and onerecorded in Book 332 quarter acres of land, DATED: November 2, Page 369 of the land more or less, with 2018 records of the Town of house and barn located By: /S/Loraine L. Hite, St. Johnsbury, of which thereon. Reference Esq. mortgage the Plaintiff is hereby made to the Loraine L. Hite, Esq. is the present holder, by above instruments Bendett and McHugh, virtue of an Assignment and to the records and PC of Mortgage from Wells references contained 270 Farmington Ave., Fargo Bank, N.A. to Natherein in further aid of Ste. 151 tionstar Mortgage LLC this description. Farmington, CT 06032 d/b/a Champion Mortgage dated September Terms of sale: Said 13, 2017 and recorded in STATE OF VERMONT premises will be sold Book 425 Page 206 of and conveyed subject to CALEDONIA UNIT, the land records of the all liens, encumbrances, CIVIL DIVISION Town of St. Johnsbury VERMONT SUPERIOR unpaid taxes, tax titles, for breach of the condiCOURT municipal liens and tions of said mortgage DOCKET NO: 33-1-18 assessments, if any, and for the purpose of CACV which take precedence foreclosing the same NATIONSTAR MORTover the said mortgage will be sold at Public GAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMabove described. Auction at 53 Boynton PION MORTGAGE Avenue, St. Johnsbury, v. Using the enclosed math operations as a guide, fill the grid TEN THOUSAND Vermont on November The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale.

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Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Harry E. Knapp (now deceased) and Dorothy Knapp, as tenants by the entirety, by Warranty Deed of George C. Frye dated May 15, 1944 and recorded in Book 88, Page 441 of the Town of St. Johnsbury Land Records. Located at 52 Boynton Avenue, St. Johnsbury, VT. Parcel ID #1V014007 Reference is hereby had to the above mentioned deeds and the records thereof and to all former deeds and their records for a more particular description of the premises. Reference is hereby Complete the made to the above

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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.

Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

Leslie Black Executor/Administrator: PO Box 353 Morrisville, VT 05661 lawyers@blackgovoni. com 802-888-7800

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1368-1018 CNPR In re estate of Donald L. Denette.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Donald L. Denette late of Essex Junction, Vermont.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale.

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.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of F. Henry Adams, Jr. late of Burlington, Vermont. 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.

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1411-1018 CNPR In re estate of F. Henry Adams, Jr.

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To wit: Being the lands and premises conveyed to Francis X. Ryan (now deceased) and Margaret M. Ryan, husband and wife, as tenants by the entirety, by Warranty Deed of Dorothy Knapp dated May 18, 1962 and recorded in Book 119, Page 239 of the Town of St. Johnsbury Land Records, and further described as follows:

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Susan Conley and Community Bank, N.A., Co-Executors Executor/Administrator: c/o Gravel & Shea, PC PO Box 369 Burlington, VT 05402 Name of publication Seven Days Publication Dates: 11/7/2018 Name and Address of Court: Chittenden Unit, Probate Court P.O. Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402

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WARNING POLICY ADOPTION CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT The Board of School Directors gives public notice of its intent to adopt local district policies dealing with the following at its regular meeting scheduled November 27, 2018: B1 - Board Member Education B2 - Board Goal-Setting & Self-Evaluation B4 - Board Committees F3 - Tobacco/Nicotine Prohibition Copies of the above policies may be obtained for public review at the Office of the Human Resources Dept. in Shelburne, VT.

support groups VISIT SEVENDAYSVT. COM TO VIEW A FULL LIST OF SUPPORT GROUPS 802 QUITS TOBACCO CESSATION PROGRAM Ongoing workshops open to the community to provide tobacco cessation support and free nicotine replacement products with participation. Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-noon, Rutland Heart Center, 12 Commons St., Rutland. Tuesdays, 5-6 p.m., Castleton Community Center, 2108 Main St., Castleton. Mondays, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center (RRMC Physiatry Conference Room), 160 Allen St., Rutland. PEER LED Stay Quit Support Group, first Thursday of every month, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the CVPS/Leahy Community Health Education Center at RRMC. Info: 747-3768, scosgrove@rrmc.org. ADDICT IN THE FAMILY: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES OF ADDICTS AND ALCOHOLICS Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish, 4 Prospect St., Essex Junction. For further information, please visit thefamilyrestored.org or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or 12lindsaymarie@ gmail.com.

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Anonymous. Wed., 6:30-7:30 p.m., Methodist Church in the Rainbow Room at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington. Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390. BAB Y BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But, it can also be a time of stress that is often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth and feel you need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531. BEREAVEMENT/GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Meets every other Mon. night, 6-7:30 p.m., & every other Wed., 10-11:30 a.m., in the Conference Center at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Info, Ginny Fry or Jean Semprebon, 223-1878. BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people with breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets first Monday of the month, 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more information call 802-776-5508. BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury. It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 800-639-1522.

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BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:30-2:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. monthly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m. Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. monthly at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Brattleboro meets at Brooks Memorial Library on the 1st Thu. monthly from 1:15-3:15 p.m. and the 3rd Mon. monthly from 4:15-6:15 p.m. White River Jct. meets the 2nd Fri. monthly at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m. Call our helpline at 877-856-1772. BURLINGTON AREA PARKINSON’S DISEASE OUTREACH GROUP People with Parkinson’s disease & their caregivers gather together to gain support & learn about living with Parkinson’s disease. Group meets 2nd Wed. of every mo., 1-2 p.m., continuing through Nov. 18, 2015. Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 185 Pine Haven Shores Rd., Shelburne. Info: 888-763-3366, parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org, parkinsonsvt.org. CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-8 p.m. at the Hope Lodge, 237 East Ave., Burlington. Newly diagnosed? Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion and sharing among survivors and those beginning or rejoining the battle. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol.com. CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life with this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men and women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction and pornography, food issues, and overcoming abuse. All 18+ are welcome; sorry, no childcare. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m. Essex Alliance

Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction. Info: recovery@ essexalliance.org, 878-8213. CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone with struggles with hurt, habits and hang ups, which includes everyone in some way. We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton which meets every Friday night at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us and discover how your life can start to change. Info: 893-0530, Julie@ mccartycreations.com. CELIAC & GLUTENFREE GROUP Last Wed. of every month, 4:30-6 p.m., at Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Free & open to the public! To learn more, contact Lisa at 598-9206 or lisamase@gmail.com. CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy and associated medical conditions. It’s mission it to provide the best possible information to parents of children living with the complex condition of cerebral palsy. cerebralpalsyguidance.com/ cerebral-palsy/ CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sunday at noon at the Turning Point Center, 191 Bank Street, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org. DECLUTTERERS’ SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe two or three of us can get together to help each other simplify. 989-3234, 425-3612. DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family and friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based

program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sundays at 5 p.m. at the 1st Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 3998754. You can learn more at smartrecovery. org. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect with others, to heal, and to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences and hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships. Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship. Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. Childcare is provided. Info: 658-1996. 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, corner of Bank St., Burlington. (Across from parking garage, above bookstore). 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, undereating 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. FREE YOGA FOR RECOVERY Join Jessica Child for free yoga for individuals in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse. Every Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at SoulShine

Power Yoga, 1 Market Place #16, Essex Jct. Mats are available at the studio. No experience necessary, just a willingness to deepen your recovery. Info: jessicamchild@gmail. com, 802-999-8655. 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). 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. HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice hearing experiences as real lived experiences which may happen to anyone at anytime. We choose to share experiences, support, and empathy. We validate anyone’s experience and stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest and accurate representation of their experience, and as being acceptable exactly as they are. Weekly on Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org. HEARTBEAT VERMONT Have you lost a friend, colleague or loved one by suicide? Some who call have experienced a recent loss and some are still struggling w/ a loss from long ago. Call us at 446-3577 to meet with our clinician, Jonathan Gilmore, at Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main St. All are welcome.

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 Vermontbased 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.

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 802863-2655 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 CAFE The Queen City Memory Café offers a social time & place for people with memory impairment & their fiends & family to laugh, learn & share concerns & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods with entertainment & conversation. QCMC meets the 3rd Sat. of each mo., 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Thayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington. 316-3839. QUEER CARE GROUP This support group is for adult family members and caregivers of queer, and/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Monday of each month from 6:30-8 p.m. at Outright Vermont, 241 North Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only. For more information, email info@outrightvt.org.

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QUIT TOBACCO GROUPS Are you ready to be tobacco free? Join our FREE five-week group classes facilitated by our Tobacco Treatment Specialists. We meet in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. You may qualify for a FREE 8-week supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Contact us at (802)-847-7333 or QuitTobaccoClass@ UVMHealth.org. SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND Support group meeting held 4th Tue. of the mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Williston Police Station. Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732. SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Shawn, 660-2645. Visit slaafws.org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you. SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are available for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 8640555, 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):

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4:15-5:15, 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus. Info: burlingtonstutters.org, burlingtonstutters@ gmail.com, 656-0250. Go Team Stuttering! 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 877-543-9498 for more info. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE — BURLINGTON Who: Persons experiencing the impact of a loved one’s suicide. When: 1st Wed. of each mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Location: Comfort Inn, 5 Dorset St., Burlington. Facilitators: Myra Handy, 951-5156 or Liz Mahoney, 879-7109. Request: We find it important to connect with people before their first meeting. If you can, please call one of the facilitators before you come. Thank you! 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.

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. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:156:15 p.m. For info, call David at 371-8929. VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want to feel supported on your vegetarian/ vegan journey? Want more info on healthy veggie diets? Want to share & socialize at veggie potlucks, & more, in the greater Burlington area? This is your opportunity to join with other like-minded folks. veggy4life@ gmail.com, 658-4991. WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUP FAHC. Led by Deb Clark, RN. Every 1st & 3rd Tue., 5-6:30 p.m. Call Kathy McBeth, 847-5715. YOGA FOR FOLKS LIVING WITH LYME DISEASE Join as we build community and share what works on the often confusing, baffling and isolating path to wellness while living with Lyme disease. We will have a gentle restorative practice suitable for all ages and all levels from beginner to experienced, followed by an open group discussion where we will share what works and support one another in our quest for healing. By donation. Wear comfortable clothing. March 5, April 2, May 7, June 4. 2-3:30 p.m. More information at laughingriveryoga. com

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NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those who are currently suffering from the disease. 2nd Thu. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint.net. 2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski. Info: hovermann4@ comcast.net.

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Bellows Falls, 3rd Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., Compass School, 7892 US-5, Westminster; Brattleboro, 1st Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., 1st Congregational Church, 880 Western Ave., West Brattleboro; Burlington, 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., HowardCenter, corner of Pine & Flynn Ave.; Berlin, 4th Mon. of every mo., 7 p.m. Central Vermont

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.

only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106.

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.

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.

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, 191 Bank St., suite 200, 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 800-639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living with mental health challenges.

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MALE SURVIVOR OF VIOLENCE GROUP A monthly, closed group for male identified survivors of violence including relationship, sexual assault, and discrimination. Open to all sexual orientations. Contact 863-0003 for more information or safespace@pridecentervt.org.

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Warehouse Team Member We’re growing! April Cornell is looking for a self motivated individual to assist our warehouse team. The right candidate will be very detailed oriented and possess the ability to organize and multi task. Duties include picking order, packing orders, receiving and moving of inventory, consolidating of inventory and other general warehouse duties. Lifting is required. Please send your resume to careers@aprilcornell.net.

Is currently seeking... • Multicultural Youth Program Associate https://bit.ly/2Q2oLKP • Multicultural Youth Program AmeriCorps Member https://bit.ly/2AzgXLd The following temporary positions are available November 1 – March 31 in our Warming Shelter: Part Time Overnight • Saturday & Sunday 12 am and 8 am

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Full Time Overnight • Monday –Friday 12 am and 8 am Please visit Spectrumvt.org for full details and to apply.

LINE COOK

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Busy breakfast/lunch cafe + coffee shop is seeking a creative, motivated, tidy, organized, multitasking rock star to join our amazing team! Primary duties include running the line, some pastry prep, and serving as backup to baristas in our open kitchen atmosphere. Hours are every Friday + Saturday with other hours available outside of normal business hours for prep work. Ideal candidate has some kitchen experience, a serious passion for food, a wicked sense of humor and a commitment to teamwork + customer service! Pay is competitive and based on experience. info@stowestreetcafe.com

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Wake Robin is adding new members to its team! Housekeeper FULL TIME

Sometimes cleaning just isn’t enough. Our housekeepers care for Untitled-13 people by caring for their homes. Housekeepers are critical to the well-being of residents, and the residents tell us this every day. If you love to clean and want to be an active part of our residents’ well-being, this is the community for you. We offer a beautiful work environment, excellent benefits, and a chance to be thanked every day. Candidates with previous training or experience as professional cleaners preferred.

Utility/Custodial FULL-TIME EVENINGS

This service position performs a variety of custodial, floor maintenance, light maintenance and repair duties under general supervision throughout the Wake Robin campus, common areas, independent living units, and health center. A minimum of one year of hands-on experience as custodian/housekeeper or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required. 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.

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Seasonal Part-Time

Snow Plow Operator An opening is available for an experienced part-time snow plow operator for the Town of Jericho on a seasonal basis. Work hours vary according to weather and other needs. Applicants must have a valid Vermont driver’s license (CDL license preferred) and pass a drug screening before starting. Applicants must be available to report to work at any time, including nights, weekends and holidays. There is no set schedule or guaranteed hours. Applicants must be able to respond promptly and be willing to work various shifts and hours. There are no benefits available to this position and the term of employment will last no longer than April 15th, 2019. The starting hourly wage is $16.00 depending on qualifications. A job application can be downloaded from our website at:

www.jerichovt.gov.

Interested candidates can send their resumes to hr@wakerobin.com or fill out an application at www.wakerobin.com/employment.

They are also available at the Jericho Town Hall, at 67 Vermont Route 15, Jericho, Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Completed applications can be submitted to Paula Carrier in person, via email at pcarrier@jerichovt.gov or via mail to PO Box 39, Jericho, VT 05465.

Wake Robin is an EOE.

Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

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TRAINING COORDINATOR/PRACTICE COACH

Looking for a change and a regular schedule? Join our team!

Wait Staff – Full and Part-Time Positions Wake Robin, Vermont’s premier continuing care retirement community, is adding members to our team of Dining Room Wait Staff. This is a perfect opportunity for individuals with the time and drive to begin their working experience, or for professionals who wish to supplement their current career endeavors. Experience as a server is preferred but not required. We will train applicants who demonstrate strong customer service skills and a desire to work with an active population of seniors. 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.

Interested candidates please send resume and cover letter to HR@wakerobin.com or visit our website, www.wakerobin.com, to complete an application. Wake Robin is an EOE.

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Work independently and as part of a strong team to support workforce development for the State of Vermont, Division of Family Services. Master’s degree in social work or a related field and two to three years’ experience in child protection and/or youth justice required. Knowledge and experience in child protection, youth justice, child/family health/mental health, education, human development, foster care and/or adoption required. Experience designing curricula and teaching/training for adult learners required. Coaching and supervision experience desired. Ability to manage multiple deadlines and strong written and verbal communication skills required. Ability to travel frequently to off-site work locations around the state required. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution. Applicants are required to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal.

We are offering $16 an hour plus FULL BENEFITS including 3 weeks paid vacation and amazing health care.

Philoridgefarm.com

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The Town of Jericho is accepting applications for a Highway Maintenance Worker Level 2. This is a fulltime position which requires a CDL and the ability to work routinely outside of regular working hours. The ideal candidate will have at least two years of experience in highway maintenance, construction procedures and methods, and the operation of large trucks, preferably at the municipal level. Equipment operation experience is a plus. The starting hourly wage is $16.50-$17.50 depending on qualifications. The Town of Jericho offers excellent benefits, including health and dental insurance, and a retirement plan. An application and job description can be downloaded from www.jerichovt.gov. They are also available at the Jericho Town Hall, at 67 VT Rt. 15, Jericho, M-F 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Completed applications can be submitted to Paula Carrier in person, via email at pcarrier@jerichovt.gov or via mail to PO Box 39, Jericho, VT 05465.

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The Prep Cook will be responsible for efficient and timely prepping and production of raw ingredients as well as executing recipes as directed by the chef and production list as well as for the washing of all dishes, kitchen utensils, cookware, and equipment.

Qualified candidates will be contacted directly. No phone calls please.

Highway Maintenance Worker

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Philo Ridge Farm is a 400-acre historic farm in Charlotte looking to hire a Prep Cook/Dishwasher for our new farm market.

Candidates please apply to kitchen@philoridgefarm.com.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.”

Applications will be accepted until Monday November 23, 2018.

Prep Cooks/ Dishwasher Needed!

This is a 40 hour a week full time position.

Main office located on the UVM campus, off-site work locations may also be available. Please apply online at: www.uvmjobs.com/postings/31421 Posting 31421.

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Finance & Administration Manager NBNC seeks a detail-oriented team player who will be responsible for organizational systems including finance, risk management and human resources. Must be adept at QuickBooks and Excel, and an effective communicator. Experience in nonprofit financial management and commitment to NBNC mission is essential. Flexible hours (15/ wk. negotiable); $20/hr. Applications due Nov 19. To apply, send cover letter and resume to

Chip@NorthBranchNatureCenter.org.

Equal opportunity employer

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GRAPHIC DESIGNER/ CUSTOMER SERVICE Graphic Designer needed for custom design work. Needs to be proficient with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. This is a part time position with full time hours available fulfilling customer service duties like account management, quoting, invoicing and answering phones. This position is available immediately. Salary and benefits available for qualified candidates.

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She helped me design a really creative ad that not only looked great, it worked. Within two days I started getting resumes and inquiries from quality individuals.

Psychotherapist The Vermont Center for Anxiety Care, a psychology private practice directed by Paul Foxman, Ph.D. on Burlington waterfront, has an opening for licensed psychotherapist (M.A., MSW, Ph.D, LCMHC) or masters degree intern. Child therapy experience desirable. Collaborative group with holistic approach and multiple specialties. Clinical supervision by Dr. Foxman towards licensure and business coaching provided as needed. Visit web site:

I’m a big fan of instant gratification and Seven Days’ mixed media outlets have given me just what I wanted. Advertising with Seven Days should never be a trade secret — it should be common knowledge.

vtcenterforanxietycare.com. Send cover letter and resume to: Paul Foxman, Ph.D., 86 Lake Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or email: paulfoxman@aol.com.

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Before advertising in Seven Days, I was scouting and cherry picking potential employees. I realized that I needed to reach a larger group of applicants, so I reached out to Michelle Brown, the employment account representative.

MICHAEL VAN GULDEN Founder/President, Chocolate Thunder Security

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SEVEN DAYS … it works.

CALL 864-5684 TO ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS.

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Staff Accountant FAMILY CASE MANAGER FOR THE VERMONT COURT (job code # 18053)

Our culture thrives by bridging gaps and building futures. The Champlain Valley Oﬃce of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) seeks an individual to direct the Mobile Home and VT Tenants Programs. This person will lead two unique but related state-wide programs supervising 2 full time and one half time staﬀ members.

The Vermont Judiciary is recruiting a full-time permanent position in Barre. This person will assist the judge and magistrate by ensuring cases and/or litigants are prepared for hearing; ensure that the court is accessible; identify cases that require judicial attention; work with the judge to arrange alternative dispute resolution, evaluations, supervised parental contact and other services needed by families. Bachelor’s degree preferred with two years’ related experience.

If you have a Bachelor Degree and relevant experience in housing counseling, advocacy, housing management, housing code enforcement, finance related experience, resident services, general knowledge of tenant, landlord and housing issues, with interest in or knowledge of tenant issues specifically or other social services, especially those involving housing issues, or a combination of education and work experience that provides equivalent skills and abilities; strong computer and social media skills, experience with Microsoft Office and Adobe; excellent verbal and written communication skills, bilingual abilities are a plus; and a valid driver’s license we would like to hear from you!

Starting $23.04 per hour with excellent benefits, health care & vacation, holiday and sick leave. Open until filled.

This is a 40-hour a week position with health beneﬁts, holiday and vacation time. To learn more about this position, please visit www.cvoeo.org/careers. To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume by e-mail to mhpvtidirector2018@cvoeo.org. The review of applications begins immediately and will continue until suitable candidates are found.

Go to www.vermontjudiciary.org/employmentopportunities/staff-openings for a detailed job description and application.

CVOEO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Equal opportunity employer.

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COMPUTER TECHNICIAN/ENDUSER SUPPORT SPECIALIST ESSEX WESTFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT

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We are seeking for immediate hire a full time installer to add to our growing family business. This job is full time, 40 hours per week, 8-4:30 PM Monday through Friday.

◊ Product Support ◊ Sales ◊ ◊ Customer Service ◊

• Minimum of two years of directly related experience, including computer network experience • Demonstrated skills and knowledge in computer repair maintenance • Motivated and able to work independently • Strong communication and interpersonal skills

 Do you enjoy talking with people by phone?

 Are you a reliable, adaptable person who would enjoy understanding customer property maintenance needs, identifying the best machine for them to to get the job done right and helping them make that final decision to buy?  Want 3 weeks of paid training to help you succeed?

• Excellent analytical/problem-solving skills • Dependable and flexible Position pays $19.15/hour, 40 hours/week with excellent benefits available including family medical and dental insurance, 30K term life insurance, retirement plan with up to 6% employer contribution, up to $3000 in tuition reimbursement, and a competitive paid leave package. Applications only accepted electronically through www.schoolspring.com. JOB ID#: 3016967

 Would you like to earn an hourly rate PLUS be eligible for commissions and bonuses, paid time off, product discounts and other perks?

Sound appealing? We can’t wait to hear from you. www.drpower.com/careers jobs@drpower.com Apply today, our paid training classes begin soon!

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Full Time Installer

DR Power Equipment is recruiting Call Center Representatives:

Full-time, 12-month position available to perform a variety of specialized computer installation, troubleshooting and support functions for our school district’s 4000 students and 950 staff members. Individuals with the following qualifications are encouraged to apply:

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Staff accountant that will work with management team in following areas (among others): financial statement preparation, month end closings, bank reconciliations, and receivables management. The position offers the qualified candidate a positive work environment, good benefits, and opportunity for professional growth in a beautiful, bucolic setting. A bachelor’s degree and knowledge of Microsoft Office programs is required, and knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics GP is a plus. Salary: $40-60K commensurate with experience.

DIRECTOR OF MOBILE HOME AND VERMONT TENANTS PROGRAMS

General experience in at least two of the following duties are key: Sheetrock , Mudding, Taping, Tile work, carpentry, gas work, electrical, driving a box truck, comfortable on ladders, roofing, dealing with customers. Also must be willing and able to promote our company and its products. Please email your resume to serah_kelley@yahoo.com or call 802-279-1902. Salary is commensurate with experience.

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Meteorologist and science educator Do you have your Eye on the Sky? The Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium is in search of a meteorologist and science educator. This is your chance to be part of a unique Vermont institution. The Fairbanks Museum produces weather forecasts on VPR through our Eye on the Sky partnership and for other radio, print and digital outlets. As a meteorologist, this position creates and delivers engaging forecasts, and as a science educator, presents astronomy content in the planetarium and science programs for school children. Strong presentation and communication skills are a must. Full details and application procedure at

www.fairbanksmuseum.org/about/employment.

J O B FAIR

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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. This opening and others are updated daily. Shuttle Driver - Transportation & Parking Admn. - #S1769PO - Drive a transit bus on a fixed route system both on and off campus and on charters throughout the Burlington area. Drivers must conduct vehicle pre-trip inspections and other support functions as assigned. Actively engage in learning and practicing principles of social justice and inclusion, environmental sustainability and delivering great customer service. For further information on this position and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit our website at: www.uvmjobs.com; Job Hotline #802-656-2248; telephone #802-656-3494. Applicants must apply for position electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Job positions are updated daily. The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category legally protected by federal or state law. The University encourages applications from all individuals who will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution.

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Are you looking for an opportunity for a new or supplemental part time career outside a clinical setting that can expand your knowledge of unusual, potentially disabling conditions and their treatment? Do you have an interest in helping to improve the lives of Vermont’s most vulnerable people while supporting the integrity of the disability program in Vermont? Would you enjoy stable, challenging work on a flexible schedule that meets your needs in a collegial office environment where you use your clinical expertise to assess medical case files and assist in disability evaluation?

CASTLEROCK PUB Sugarbush Resort

Saturday, November 10th, 12:30 – 3:30 PM EMPLOYMENT PERKS include:

• FREE Season Pass • Retail, Food & Beverage DISCOUNTS • VANPOOL Opportunities • AND MORE…

The Vermont Disability Determination Services is seeking to contract with licensed physicians in such fields as general or internal medicine, family practice, osteopathy, neurology, or Physiatry. Program training is provided, and the work is performed at the Disability Determination Office in Waterbury, VT during regular business days/hours with no patient care responsibilities. For details, questions, and application materials, contact DDS Director Trudy Lyon-Hart at 802-241-2464 or Trudy.LyonHart@ssa.gov All applications must be received no later than 4:00 PM Monday, November 26, 2018. For more details regarding the Medical Consultant position go to http://vermontbusinessregistry.com/BidPreview. aspx?BidID=33909

For more information and a list of current job openings, visit sugarbush.com or call 802-583-6380.

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Health-focused, earth-loving, think-outside-the-box world Seven Days changers operating VT’s first full-scale cricket farm are Issue: 11/7 seeking sales Due: 11/5 professional by noon with passion, drive and a Size: 3.83record x 3.46to lead proven sales B2B sales$308.55 of cricket (with products. Cost: 1 week Full time; base + commission.

The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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PAR T-TIME PHYSICIANS DEPAR TMENT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES – DISABILIT Y DETERMIN ATION SERVICES

Join us to learn about SUGARBUSH JOBS, meet hiring managers, and enjoy FREE REFRESHMENTS compliments of Sugarbush Resort.

Sales Manager - B2B

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DIRECTOR OF NURSING Unique opportunity for Director of Nursing at The Villa Rehab Center. Come join a nursing team with a resident and staff centered philosophy. The ideal candidate will have experience with electronic health records, knowledge of QAPI, Interact, and other Quality Measures within long term care preferred. Qualifications for this dynamic position: • Current VT RN License • BSN preferred • Experience in nursing with 5 or more years’ experience in long term care preferred • Minimum 2 years’ supervisory experience The Villa Rehab Center is a CMS five star rated facility and is the recipient of the US News and Report Top Nursing Homes in the County, is QAPI accredited and has received the AHCA Bronze Award in 2018. Please view our website at www.villarehab.com or email us your resume.

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Holiday Cash!

EHR ADMINISTRATOR

We have immediate seasonal openings in our manufacturing department for long-term, full-time & part-time seasonal employment. We will have other opportunities available throughout our company for days, early evening, and weekend shifts. No experience is necessary; we will train you.

NFI Vermont, a fast paced, multi-program, non-profit agency is looking for an EHR Administrator who is responsible for the maintenance, upgrades, enhancements and data integrity of our electronic health records. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Meat Production Customer service reps Warehouse Apply in person. 8 am to 5 pm 210 East Main Street, Richmond, VT 05477

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• Investigation and resolution of user questions and issues.

• Provide direct support to programs and the agency by creating set up for new programs and further supporting incremental use of our EHR for existing programs.

• Optimization and customization of functions by role and program.

• Provide hands on technical solutions to programs with our product.

• Oversee and manage continued implementation of our electronic health record (EHR) information system.

• Work closely with the Billing department to ensure the system’s set up and documentation meets billing requirements.

• Ensure our programs maximize efficiency and ensure quality client care through use of our EHR.

• Assist Quality and Development department to track outcomes and utilize data to measure success. • Assist with general IT tech support as needed.

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CHRONIC DISEASE PROGRAM BUSINESS SPECIALIST – BURLINGTON The Vermont Department of Health’s Tobacco Control Program is seeking a team player to help implement a comprehensive and complex program to reduce tobaccorelated and health disparities in Vermont. If you love numbers, process flow, program implementation and monitoring, and most importantly are detail oriented and passionate about health equity and social justice, this job is for you. We are especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the department’s diversity and commitment to health equity and social justice. For more information, contact Annie Ward at annie.ward@vermont.gov. Department: Health. Status: Full Time. Job ID #243. Application Deadline: November 11, 2018.

Familiarity with Netsmart Evolv or similar EHR system and an understanding of our behavioral health are highly preferred. Strong analytical, technical and interpersonal skills and the ability to work with diverse teams under deadlines are required. Requirements include BA in Business or Information Technology and 3-5 years’ relevant experience, proficiency in Microsoft Excel and office. We offer a competitive salary and benefit package. Please apply online at www.nfivermont.org/careers. 7t-NFI110718.indd 1

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F A C I L I T Y A S S E T A N A LY S T – M O N T P E L I E R

Buildings & General Services is seeking a self-starter to oversee and manage our diverse portfolio of state-owned and leased facility assets. You will handle implementing a facility asset management strategy to optimize the use of capital investments, minimize life-cycle costs, and support organizational outcomes. Experience with asset management software needed. Candidates must have the ability to set up and maintain effective working relationships and thrive in a fastpaced always changing facilities environment. For more information, contact Stephen Frey at Stephen.frey@vermont.gov. Status: Full Time. Job ID #225. Application Deadline: November 15, 2018.

WOODSIDE WORKER – ESSEX

The Department for Children and Families Services is looking to hire temporary staff to provide direct care and constant supervision to at-risk adolescents through secure residential care. This position will primarily work an overnight shift, 11pm 7am, alternate shifts maybe available. For more information, contact William Cathcart at 802-655-4990 or William.Cathcart@vermont.gov. Status: Temporary, Part-Time. Job ID #252. Application Deadline: Open Until Filled.

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICE SPECIALIS T – WATERBURY & SPRINGFIELD The Department of Disabilities, Aging & Independent Living (DAIL) has an exciting full-time, limited service position to support the VT system of person-centered, community-based services for people with developmental disabilities. The Specialist performs consultative, administrative, & technical work with the DD Services Division team. We seek a person with experience in DD services, special education or human services. For more information, contact Amy Roth at 802-241-0306 or amy. roth@vermont.gov. Status: Full Time – Limited. Job ID #390. Application Deadline: November 15, 2018.

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Vice President of Tourism & Marketing We are seeking a dynamic professional to lead our work to make Burlington, and Vermont, the destination of choice for visitors. The ideal candidate has a passion for Vermont, loves building and sustaining successful marketing campaigns, and is looking for an opportunity to bring their passion to their work. 5-10 years’ experience in a related field plus previous experience leading marketing and sales teams is desired. To view the full job description, visit www.vermont.org/chamber/job/vptourism. To apply, e-mail a cover letter & resumé to vermont@vermont.org with the subject line: Vice President of Tourism & Marketing.

Home Instead Senior Care, a provider of home helper services to seniors in their homes, is seeking friendly and dependable people. CAREGivers assist seniors with companionship, light housekeeping, meal preparation, personal care, errands, safety presence and more. Part-time, flexible scheduling, including: daytime, evening, weekend and overnight shifts currently available. Higher pay for weekend shifts. No heavy lifting.

LCRCC PROVIDES EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO ALL APPLICANTS FOR EMPLOYMENT WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN, AGE, DISABILITY OR GENETICS.

Apply online at: www.homeinstead.com/483 or call us at 802.860.4663

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Mansfield Hall is an innovative residential college support program for students with diverse learning needs.

DIRECTOR OF STUDENT LIFE

Seeking a person with the dynamic skill-set to supervise direct service staff, case manage and coach students, partner with parents, and build a cohesive team and strong community. The ideal candidate will possess a master’s degree in social work or in a related field, have residential program experience, a background in mental health and/or educational programming, strong writing skills, and a commitment to ongoing professional development.

Applicant information available at mansfieldhall.org/employment.

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Help Vermonters pursue their education goals!

Educational Opportunity Counselor EST.88

We’re all about mission at Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC). Help us fulfill our mission of providing all Vermont students with information and financial resources to reach their educational goals. You’ll work in a relaxed yet challenging environment. We offer many top-notch benefits.

BUYER Select is seeking a full-time Buyer to join our fast-paced product purchasing team. This position will help secure a wide variety of apparel, branded products, and materials procured through the use of best purchasing practices to ensure highest levels of quality, cost, and timely delivery. Essential knowledge and functions include: purchase order preparation and processing, timeline coordination, order discrepancy reconciliation, contract negotiation, vendor research and management, efficient and accurate data entry, and demonstrated product awareness. This position requires: critical thinking, customer service skills, strong work ethic and motivation, effective multi-tasking, and high stress tolerance. Compensation is based on experience and capabilities. Benefits include medical, dental, as well as 401k with profit sharing. For more details, please see our website: www.selectdesign.com/job-listing-buyer

The Educational Opportunity Counselor position is part of VSAC’s Career and Education Outreach Program. You will assist adults with educational, career, and financial aid information and counseling to aid them in their pursuit of post-secondary education. The work is primarily in the towns of White River Junction, Bradford and Randolph. Our ideal candidate will have excellent communication and organizational skills; knowledge of adult and career development; awareness of postsecondary options and financial aid; an understanding of the needs of first generation college going adults with financial barriers served through VSAC’s Outreach Programs; and ability to work with groups, develop presentations, and collaborate with college and agency personnel. Required: Master’s Degree in counseling or education and minimum of three years’ related experience; valid drivers’ license verified by a Motor Vehicle Record Report, as well as a properly inspected, registered and insured motor vehicle for business use; and a criminal background check. This is a grant funded position that is contingent upon continued grant funds.

VSAC offers a dynamic, professional environment with competitive compensation and generous benefits package. Apply ONLY online at www.vsac.org. VERMONT STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATION PO Box 2000, Winooski, VT 05404 EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled www.VSAC.org

Apply via email: careers@selectdesign.com WWW.SELECTDESIGN.COM

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SCHOOL-BASED CLINICIAN – SOAR LEARNING CENTER

To apply for this position, please send resume and cover letter to careers@ncssinc.org or visit our website at www.ncssinc.org/careers. NCSS, 107 Fisher Pond Road, St. Albans, VT 05478 | ncssinc.org | E.O.E.

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Soar Learning Center, an independent, alternative school, serving students in grades K-12 is seeking a Clinician to provide assessment, individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, skill development groups and consultation to families and school staff. Clinician must be a positive, creative team player that is skilled in collaborating with families, schools, and human services agencies. Master’s of Science or Master’s of Arts in related ﬁeld and eligible for licensure preferred. Preference will be given to licensed applicants and those currently working towards licensure. Schedule is typically M-F, School Schedule, 7:30a-3:30p with some after school hours for meetings. Competitive salary and beneﬁts package offered.

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Necrason Group, www.necrasongroup.com, a Montpelier-based government and public relations firm, is looking for motivated individuals to assist us during the upcoming legislative session. This is a temporary, entry-level position. Tasks include tracking bills, attending committee hearings, monitoring House and Senate activity, researching legislative issues, and attending staff meetings and other client-related meetings. Candidates must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, interest in policy and politics, ability to multitask and sense of humor. Candidates must be available Tuesday through Friday, January through the first week of May, 2019; some evening hours may be required. Send letter of interest and resume to Jessica Oski, oski@necrasongroup.com.

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Carpenters Wanted! Needed Immediately! Finish Carpenters, Carpenters and Carpenters Helpers. Good Pay, Full Time and Long Term! Chittenden County. Call Mike at 802-343-0089 or Morton at 802-862-7602.

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Loan Compliance & CRA Officer Berlin

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We are looking for a professional to join our team as a Loan Compliance & CRA Officer for our Berlin Operations Center. This position offers a strong opportunity to work for a growing premier Vermont mutual savings bank. The Loan Compliance & CRA Officer is responsible for formulating and maintaining a bank-wide compliance program relative to lending and CRA. This individual must have the ability to maintain Bank compliance and mitigate risks in a way which minimizes operational impact and supports a positive customer experience.

Full-Time Psychiatric Social Worker Busy inpatient psychiatry unit seeks MSW/LICSW with mental health experience to join supportive multidisciplinary treatment team. Duties include assessment, treatment, and discharge planning. Clinician will conduct psychoeducational and treatment groups. Extensive interface with community agencies. Prefer candidate with 3-5 years clinical experience, LADC a plus.

The requirements for this position include: Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization as well as outside agencies. The Loan Compliance & CRA officer must be highly organized and be able to analyze, comprehend and interpret banking regulations. A Bachelor’s degree in banking or a related field, five years of work experience of lending compliance and CRA compliance background in a financial institution are also required.

UVM Health Network – CVMC offers an excellent benefits program, with options of medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, as well as generous tuition reimbursement and combined time off programs. We are also offering a $6,000 sign-on Bonus.

Find out what NSB can offer you: NSB offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, profit sharing, matching 401(K) retirement program, professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture.

Learn More & Apply online at: UVMHealth.org/CVMC/Jobs

NSB offers ten paid holidays. Northfield Savings Bank hours of operation are Monday – Friday, generally 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. There is no better time to join the NSB Team! Careers@nsbvt.com (Preferred) Or mail: Northfield Savings Bank Human Resources P.O. Box 7180 Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer/Member FDIC

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PRODUCTION EDITOR Seasonal Tax Preparer

Seeking an experienced tax preparer who is a highly motivated, well organized self-starter, to prepare individual and possibly business and fiduciary tax returns during the upcoming tax season. Flexible hours and schedule. Pay commensurate with experience. Our office atmosphere is casual, comfortable and fun; fast paced but low stress. Please apply by sending a cover letter, resume and a list of references to info@2beancounters.com.

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Advanced Emergency Medical Technician

Sheridan Journal Services, an established provider of publishing services for scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, is currently seeking Production Editors to join our team in beautiful Waterbury, Vermont! If you have publishing, editorial, copyediting or composition experience, and aspire to be a part of a team producing innovative publications, please submit your resume and a cover letter to careers.djs@sheridan.com.

Shelburne Rescue is seeking applicants for two part-time AEMT positions (24 hours per week, 7am-7pm). These positions will require you to serve as primary provider for our 911 ambulance, leading EMTs in 911 responses throughout Shelburne and it surrounding communities. Non-response administrative duties will include assisting volunteers with continued training, apparatus and equipment maintenance, and scheduling. Qualifications preferred are 3 years’ experience, with 1 year’s experience as a crew chief or sole provider at the AEMT level.

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including health, medical and dental coverage, 401(K), paid time off, flexible working schedules, relaxed dress code and possible telecommuting opportunities. We have a stunning office with a positive, friendly work culture.

Full job description is available online at www.shelburnevt.org/237/Human-Resources. Application materials (cover letter and resume) and questions should be directed to Jacob Leopold at rescue@shelburnevt.org.

This is a great opportunity for you!

Review of candidates will begin 12/01/2018. EOE.

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RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE LOAN ASSISTANT

KAS, Inc., a growing environmental and civil engineering consulting firm located in Williston, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York, seeks a full time civil engineer with approximately 4+ years of project experience in civil/site design and environmental engineering.

We are seeking a full time Residential Mortgage Loan Assistant for our growing South Burlington Loan Office. This individual will be responsible for performing a variety of administrative duties to provide loan originaUnion Bank, YOUR community bank, is dedicated to providing superior tion and documentation support for our Mortgage Loan customer service. We offer challenging and rewarding career opportunities. Officers. Other responsibilities include overseeing the completion and accuracy of loan documents, processing loans and ensuring proper loan documentation including input of information and preparing all related We are seeking an experienced full time Retail Loan Underwriter for our loan documents, follow up on verifications and credit growing mortgage department located in either our S. Burlington or Morrisville reports, preparation of loans for underwriting, as well offices. This individual will be responsible for reviewing and analyzing, within as commitment letters, notes, and other loan documenestablished underwriting standards, all residential real estate loan types, tation and set up, assisting customers with advances including Freddie Mac, VHFA, FHA, VA and other governmental loans as well as on home construction lines and providing all other loan in-house loansupport products. A familiarity with include loan origination and underwriting needed. Requirements excellent writsoftware systems is essential. This individual will be responsible for making ten and oral communication, and a minimum of 2 years loan approvalof or denial recommendations. Other responsibilities include prior residential loan experience with a familiarity of assisting withsecondary the selling of secondary market loans. Requirements include a market mortgage loan products is preferable minimum of 2 but years of experience in secondary market residential lending, well not required. Attention to detail, strong organizaestablished analytical skills, andability excellent written are andessential. oral communication. tional skills, and the to multi-task

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Salary will be commensurate with experience. Union Bank offers a comprehensive benefits program for full time employees including medical and dental insurance, life and disability insurance, 401(k) Union Bank offers competitive wages, a comprehensive plan with a generous company match and paid time off. beneﬁts package, training for professional developQualified applicants may apply with apotential, cover letter, ment, strong advancement stable resume, hours andreferences and a supportive salary requirements to: work environment. Qualiﬁed applications may apply with a cover letter, resume, professional refHuman Resources erences and salary requirements Union Bank to:

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Human Morrisville, Morrisville, Vermont 05661 – 0667 VT 05661-0667 Resources careers@unionbankvt.com careers@unionbankvt.com Equal Housing Lender

Civil based drafting and design Stormwater design and permitting in VT, NY, and NH Utility design and permitting Field work and occasional surveying On-site septic design and permitting General site civil design and permitting General environmental engineering design and permitting Willingness to complete assignments as workloads dictate is necessary

The position includes benefits, growth potential, and a good working environment. To apply please submit a cover letter and resume to: KAS, Inc., P.O. Box 787, Williston, VT 05495 or info@kas-consulting.com.

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A Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering PE or EI on a PE track Proficiency in AutoCAD and Autodesk Civil 3D (preferred) Self-motivated Resourceful Detail oriented Good verbal and written communication skills Solid computer skills

Some specific initial responsibilities/expectations will likely include:

The ability to multi-task is essential.

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Barista/Front Counter Position We are hiring for a full-time barista/front counter position. Previous food service/cash handling experience necessary. Job requirements include: • Customer Service • Making espresso drinks • Making sandwiches to order.

Program and Outreach Coordinator We are seeking a multi-talented person with enthusiasm for our mission to help us spread the word about employee ownership and create more of it! Excellent writing skills, and experience with marketing and social media are essential. Business and financial skills desirable. The position is part-time, 20-30 hours (negotiable), with opportunities for advancement. Salary commensurate with skills and experience. EOE. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply.

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High Mowing Organic Seeds is an independently owned leader in the non-GMO seed, farming and food community, committed to providing high quality organic seeds to our customers. We care about the earth, each other and what we do and are seeking an experienced full-time seasonal Customer Service Associate that shares our vision. The Customer Service Associate is responsible for processing incoming orders and for providing excellent customer service to our broad range of customers. The successful candidate will receive and process large amounts of incoming orders by phone, web, fax, or email. He/she will answer customer questions about our products and growing practices in general, and may also be asked to represent High Mowing at tradeshows and conferences if necessary. The ideal candidate must possess excellent customer service skills, including the ability to use positive language, attentiveness and adaptability to resolve customer complaints. This person must have practical working knowledge of and experience with commercial vegetable production methods.

Children’s Therapist Come see what makes NCSS a great place to work! We are currently hiring for an Outpatient therapist. This position provides psychosocial evaluations, therapy and consultation for clients of all age groups. The ideal candidate will have an interest in working with children and families and be comfortable with brief and group treatment models. MSW/LICSW or LCMHC preferred or license eligible. This position can receive supervision towards licensure, group supervision, billing and crisis support. The agency provides excellent beneﬁts, competitive salary and it is located close to Interstate 89 and is a short commute from Burlington and surrounding areas.

REACH UP CLINICIAN Be part of an exciting initiative between NCSS & the Agency of Human Services Reach Up Office. Our Behavioral Health Division is seeking a candidate who will provide to Reach Up participants assessments & support services. Assessment services involve working with Adults to determine individual and family strengths, needs, and functioning, as well as needs across all environments. This person will coordinate care with Reach Up teams; collaborate with a range of providers and assist in developing the program to meet identified needs. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, individual and group therapy skills, ability to navigate multiple systems and a can-do/flexible approach to challenging situations. Candidate must possess a Master’s Degree. NCSS offers excellent benefits and is located 25 minutes from the Burlington area. Will consider a bachelor’s level with experience but prefer a master’s level eligible for licensure.

Therapist Come see what makes NCSS a great place to work! We are currently hiring for an Outpatient Clinician. The focus of this position is to provide behavioral health psychosocial evaluations, therapy and consultation for clients of all age groups. The ideal candidate will be trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, have experience working with a range of disorders, and be comfortable with brief and group treatment models. MSW/LICSW or LCMHC required. Some evening hours required. Our clinic offers excellent beneﬁts and is located close to Interstate 89 and is a short commute from Burlington and surrounding areas. To apply for this position, please send resume and cover letter to careers@ncssinc.org or visit our website at www.ncssinc.org/careers.

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Customer Service Associate (Seasonal)

Please contact Hannah at: buyer@redhenbaking.com or 802-223-5200 x19.

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We offer competitive pay and great beneﬁts and have been recognized nationally for our progressive employment practices.

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Licensed Nursing Assistants All Shifts Full and Part Time Available

Mobile Outreach Be part of an initiative to prevent psychiatric hospitalizations, reduce high medical utilization, and improve outcomes for individuals who are reluctant to seek care. The Mobile Outreach team works closely with our crisis service and requires teamwork with providers, law enforcement and other agencies in the community. Essential to have an ability to work under pressure and maintain a positive attitude in a constantly changing atmosphere. Ideal candidate will have their bachelor’s degree with experience. Also willing to consider individuals with master’s degree who require supervision towards licensure. Position offers excellent beneﬁts and a ﬂexible work schedule. Our clinic is located close to Interstate 89 and is a short commute from Burlington and surrounding areas.

Wake Robin seeks a dedicated nursing assistant with a strong desire to work within a community of seniors. Wake Robin seeks LNAs licensed in Vermont to provide high quality care in a fast paced residential and long-term care environment, while maintaining a strong sense of “home.” We offer great benefits, a pristine working environment, and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting. We continue to offer generous shift differentials; Evenings $2.50/hour, Nights $4.50/hour, and weekends $1.55. Interested candidates please email hr@wakerobin.com or complete an application online at www.wakerobin.com. Wake Robin is an EOE. 5h-WakeRobinLNAs110718.indd 1

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Lund’s mission is to help children thrive by empowering families to break cycles of poverty, addiction and abuse.

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Lund offers hope and opportunity to families through education, treatment, family support and adoption.

Community Clinician

Mobile Home Program Resident Organizer

Working toward your license? Lund provides free clinical supervision! About the Position:

The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity’s Mobile Home Program is seeking an experienced, energetic, and committed individual with a high degree of initiative to join our team.

• Clinician provides therapeutic, primarily home based, family support through new program implementing family support services to families involved with DCF.

• Co-located at the Burlington DCF ofﬁce, partnering with DCF and community providers to assist in providing immediate, holistic, home based, family centered services.

We are looking for a motivated problem-solver to provide education and outreach to residents of Vermont’s mobile home parks. Our ideal candidate will have the ability to work closely with our clients and community demonstrating strong communication and facilitation skills as well as to learn and maintain a working knowledge of related statutes and regulations. Job responsibilities include: providing direct service to residents including individual advocacy, identifying resources and solutions to improve or maintain housing conditions; conducting emergency preparedness outreach, facilitating community meetings, data entry, provide training and technical support for resident groups and residentowned cooperatives and assisting the program director with managing multiple projects as needed.

• Clinician is part of a collaborative effort to improve practice in responding effectively to support family systems impacted by substance use disorders. • Hours can be ﬂexible!

• Salary $45K-$55K annually based on education and experience.

What We Look For:

• Master’s in psychology, social work, or counseling required. Licensure or working toward licensure required. Experience with family centered practice preferred. • Solid assessment, documentation and narrative writing skills essential.

• Must work well independently yet collaboratively in a child welfare setting with a multi-disciplinary team.

Why Join Our Team at Lund:

• We honor and celebrate the distinctive strengths and talents of our clients and staff.

Successful applicants will have a Bachelor’s degree in appropriate discipline or a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent skills and abilities. Relevant experience in one or more of the following areas: housing counseling, low-income advocacy, code enforcement, emergency planning, community organizing and education, or cooperative development is desired. Excellent verbal and written communication skills - bilingual abilities a plus; a good driving record and access to a private vehicle is necessary.

• Our work encompasses collaboration with a strong team of professionals and a strengths-based approach to providing services to families.

• Lund’s adoption program provides life-long services to families brought together through adoption. • Lund’s residential and community treatment programs are distinctive as our work focuses on both treatment and parenting.

• Lund’s educators believe in laughter, the importance of fun, community-oriented activities, and nonstop learning. • Ongoing training opportunities are available.

This is a 40 hour/week position with excellent benefits. To learn more about this position, please visit www.cvoeo.org. To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to: resident2018@cvoeo.org. Review of applications begins immediately and will continue until suitable candidates are found.

• Lund offers competitive pay and paid training, as well as a comprehensive and very generous beneﬁt package including health, dental, life, disability, retirement, extensive time off accrual (24 days ﬁrst year, 29 days second year), 11 paid holidays, and wellness reimbursement. EEO/AA

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Is hiring a

Part-Time Marketing Assistant

***SUPERDAY EVENT*** WE ARE HIRING!

to help create a vibrant presence for the Town of Waterbury during its upcoming Main Street reconstruction project.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH, 10AM-4PM 100 PANTON ROAD, VERGENNES, VT

15-20 hours/week $15-$18/hour

COME APPLY FOR OPEN POSITIONS IN ALL LEVELS IN PRODUCTION, ASSEMBLY, MAINTENANCE, AND INSPECTION. ON SITE INTERVIEWS DAY OF EVENT! DON’T MISS THIS! CALL 802.377.7579 FOR MORE INFORMATION.

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RSVP Volunteer Coordinator

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Lund’s mission is to help children thrive by empowering families to break cycles of poverty, addiction and abuse. Lund offers hope and opportunity to families through education, treatment, family support and adoption.

Substance Abuse Case Manager

– St. Albans, VT

Are you a creative self-starter with a passion for the healthy future of older Vermonters?

About the Position:

• Full time position, without on-call, evening or weekend hours.

We are seeking an RSVP Volunteer Coordinator to engage older adults with meaningful service opportunities with a focus on wellness programs, transportation, companionship, Meals on Wheels and more – with the goal of keeping older Vermonters socially connected to their communities. The RSVP Coordinator will engage with the local community partners, recruit volunteers, and manage volunteer data. This active position requires travel throughout Washington, Lamoille and Orange counties. The successful applicant will have a bachelor’s degree; ability to work independently and as part of a team; strong communication skills; experience engaging volunteers; a working knowledge of MS Office, Excel, Word and Outlook; and reliable transportation. CVCOA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from veterans, mature workers, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals, and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged. For more information, visit our website at www.cvcoa.org. The position is 32 hours per week. Salary is based on experience and includes a generous benefits package. To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs@cvcoa.org by November 16th.

• Conduct substance use screening and provide short term supportive intervention for treatment referrals, case coordination and case management, monitoring, and wrap-around services to parents and caretakers involved in the investigation and assessment phase of a child welfare case. • Co-located at DCF district ofﬁce.

• Will work collaboratively with the Co-Location Team at Lund as well as the DCF Investigation and Assessment unit on behalf of families. • Hourly range of $16-$20 per hour.

What We Look For:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in social work, or human services related ﬁeld.

• Apprentice Substance Abuse Counselor Certiﬁcate or the ability to test for certiﬁcation within three months of hire date. • Experience working with families, multidisciplinary teams and knowledge of community resources preferred.

Why Join Our Team at Lund:

• We honor and celebrate the distinctive strengths and talents of our clients and staff.

• Our work encompasses collaboration with a strong team of professionals and a strengths-based approach to providing services to families.

• Lund’s educators believe in laughter, the importance of fun, community-oriented activities, and nonstop learning. • Ongoing training opportunities are available.

• Lund offers competitive pay and paid training, as well as a comprehensive and very generous beneﬁt package including health, dental, life, disability, retirement, extensive time off accrual, 11 paid holidays, and wellness reimbursement. EEO/AA

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We’re looking for personable and reliable ready-to-go Drivers in Burlington, St. Albans and Springfield. Full-Time, Part-Time and Per Diem positions available to assist in safely transporting our clients and their children. For a full job description and to apply, visit:

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Cleaning Contractor

Executive Director Vermont Association of Broadcasters is looking for an Executive Director to help us meet our mission of serving the broadcast community in Vermont. We seek an energetic and organized individual who has great communication skills and a passion for broadcast. For more info, visit vab.org.

Vermont Works for Women seeks dynamic individuals to join our team for multiple positions. Current openings include:

Seeking a cleaning contractor for a retail store with experience with an auto scrubber, stripping and waxing. Please contact the Area Manager at 802-881-5972 for details and compensation information.

• DEVELOPMENT/ GRANTS COORDINATOR

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• EDUCATION PROGRAM COORDINATOR

For full job descriptions visit vtworksforwomen. org/about/employment/ jobs. Applications will be accepted until 11/25. No calls or faxes, please.

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Nutrition & Food Services Manager

FULL-TIME BUSINESS OFFICE ASSOCIATE

Central Vermont Medical Center is seeking a Nutrition & Food Services Manager (NSFM). Under the supervision of the Director of Support Services, the NSFM directs food production and service to patients, supervises all Nutrition and Food Services departmental production and retail services staff, catering coordinator and related production/ cafeteria supervisors and managers. The NSFM supervises food and supply inventory, storage, usage, purchasing, and the sanitation and food safety program.

The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission seeks a skilled and self-motivated financial professional for a full-time job. Successful applicants will enjoy working with a dedicated team of professionals. Familiarity with QuickBooks or similar software is highly preferable. Applicants should be proficient in a Microsoft Office environment, particularly with Excel. Functions include grant administration, accounts receivable, accounts payable, general accounting, payroll administration, meeting minutes, and maintaining office supplies and operations. 2-3 night meetings per month will be expected. Compensation is competitive, and commensurate with experience with a pay range of $35,000-50,000. Future opportunities for advancement are possible.

BASIC KNOWLEDGE The NSFM must have knowledge of institutional food production, human resource skills, and basic nutrition science principles. Additionally, this position requires a Food Service Sanitation Certification.

CCRPC is the regional planning agency for the Burlington, VT region. Our offices are in downtown Winooski along the river in a great walking environment with a variety of restaurants, services and businesses. Our workplace is friendly and highly flexible. We will work with the right person to create a work schedule that meets individual and organizational needs. If needed, the right individual could start on a part-time basis with a transition to full-time in May or June 2019.

EXPERIENCE Associate’s degree in Food Service or four years of progressive food service experience in an institutional setting is required. Successful candidates must possess demonstrated leadership and supervisory ability. Interested in learning more?

Please email a letter of interest and resume (with references and contact information) in a single pdf to Charlie Baker, Executive Director at: cbaker@ccrpcvt.org by November 19. We will begin considering applicants for interviews starting then, and the position will remain open until filled. See the full job description and more details at www.ccrpcvt.org/about-us/news/jobs/.

Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at (802) 371-4191.

No phone calls please. CCRPC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Assistant City Accountant

Instructor in Education Studies

The City of St. Albans seeks a team player to serve as Assistant City Accountant. This position reports to the Director of Administration and performs professional accounting work in support of the City’s business functions.

The Education Studies Program at Middlebury College invites applicants for a three-year, part-time Instructor position in Education Studies beginning in the 2019-2020 academic year. The successful candidate will have a record of exceptional teaching and service in K-12 education and a Level II teaching certiﬁcate. A Masters in Education is required. Familiarity with the Vermont, Level I Educator Licensure Portfolio is essential because the successful candidate will be involved evaluating licensure portfolios. Experience supervising K-12 student-teachers and the ability to creatively partner with public school and college colleagues is important. Prior experience teaching college level courses is preferred and experience with the International Baccalaureate curriculum would be helpful. Attendance at regular state meetings of Vermont teacher educators is expected. Responsibilities for this .6 position will include teaching the undergraduate student teaching seminar, supervising student teachers during their Practicum semester and teaching a course during spring semester. During Winter Term, administrative duties will be centered on the licensure program and overseeing completion of the fall semester, student teaching portfolios. Candidates must be able to begin teaching according to the school calendar of the Addison Central School District.

St. Albans is a thriving City and has benefitted from a recent growth period in which the City has invested approximately $20 million into its infrastructure and leveraged $50 million in grand list growth. The City has a TIF district and operating budgets totaling $15 million. Salary will be based on qualifications. The City benefit package includes defined benefit retirement; comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance; and a family friendly workplace. A complete job description can be found on the City’s website at www.stalbansvt.com.

In your application materials please address how your teaching, scholarship, mentor ship and/or community service might support our commitment to diversity and inclusion. Through Interfolio submit: a letter of application addressed to the search committee chair, Jonathan Miller-Lane; a curriculum vitae; unofﬁcial graduate school transcripts; a statement of your teaching and educational philosophy; and three current letters of recommendation, at least two of which must speak to teaching ability. More information is available at http://apptrkr.com/1314271. Review of completed applications will begin immediately; all dossiers must be completed by December 3, 2018. Questions may be sent to Program Director of Education Studies, Jonathan Miller-Lane at jmillerl@middlebury.edu (Please cc: Education Studies Program Coordinator, Trish Dougherty at pdougher@middlebury.edu)

To apply please send a resume and cover letter by Wednesday, November 21st to: Thomas Leitz Director of Administration 100 North Main Street St. Albans, VT 05478 Electronic submissions are preferred and can be sent to t.leitz@stalbansvt.com.

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Sign-on Bonus Education Benefits Relocation Assistance

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Director of Operations Turtle Fur is seeking a Director of Operations to initially help redesign the operational workflows of the company in concert with the implementation of a new ERP system, with the first year’s focus being the hands-on rebuilding and development of the manufacturing/supply chain team and operations.

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The position requires an excellent collaborator with a current mentoring and leadership style, possessing a data driven and systematic approach to business. While this is a senior management position reporting directly to the CEO, the actual accountability is to the team.

Initial Job Functions: • Directly manage the manufacturing/supply chain department for a minimum of one-year. • Redesign the workflows, systems and procedures of the manufacturing/supply chain department. • Play an integral role in assisting with the evaluation and redesign of the workflows, systems and procedures of warehousing, distribution and customer service. • Perform a major role in the evaluation and redesign of the workflows, systems and procedures that connect with operations. Specifically, product development, e-commerce, wholesale sales, marketing and accounting. • Help to set company, department and role specific daily and weekly operational metrics, including but not limited to demand planning. • Lead in developing and implementing the individual and team procedures of responding to variations in the daily and weekly operational metrics. • P&L, budget, costing and inventory control responsibility.

Requirements: Champlain Community Services is a growing developmental services provider agency with a strong emphasis on selfdetermination values and employee and consumer satisfaction.

• Minimum of 5-7 years’ relevant professional experience in manufacturing and/or operations associated with global supply chain management in a high SKU environment. • Experience developing and maintaining business workflows.

Direct Support Professional

Work one on one with individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism and make a difference in the lives of others. Starting wage is $14.35 per hour, with mileage reimbursement and a comprehensive benefit package. This is an excellent job for applicants entering human services or for those looking to continue their work in this field. Send your cover letter and application to: Karen Ciechanowicz, staff@ccs-vt.org.

Shared Living Provider

Provide residential supports to an individual with an intellectual disability in your home, or in theirs. A generous stipend, paid time off (respite), comprehensive training & supports are available. We are currently offering a variety of opportunities. For more information contact: Jennifer Wolcott, jwolcott@ccs-vt.org or 655-0511 ext. 118.

• Experience with the implementation and utilization of an ERP/MRP system. (Actual NetSuite or Sage 300 experience a plus). • Strong documentation skills. • Strong MS Office application software • Exceptionally strong leadership, team collaboration, interpersonal, and mentoring abilities for teams greater than five people. • Strong budgeting and planning skills. • Strategic planning mindset. • The willingness to wear the “turtle costume” …. at least once

Other: • This is a full-time in-house position based in Morrisville, Vermont. • The position requires some travel in North America and Internationally.

Home Provider

Provide a home to an individual moving out of a nursing home and into a home setting. A generous stipend, day supports, training and ongoing support is provided. There are a variety of situations available, we may have the perfect match for you and your home. For more information contact Marie Greeno, mgreeno@ccs-vt.org or 802.655.0511 x 109.

Champlain Community Services 512 Troy Ave, Suite 1 Colchester, VT 05446 (802) 655-0511 Building a community where everybody participates and everybody belongs.

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• B.S. degree or better in manufacturing, engineering, operations, business, or a related field.

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• Turtle Fur has a competitive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental insurance, short/ long term disability, life insurance, 401(k), educational financial assistance. • Turtle Fur also has a host of other non-traditional benefits: Dog friendly, company wellness, recycling privileges, employee product discount, Turtle Bucks, access to discount ski passes. Turtle Fur is a 36-year-old outdoor accessory brand located just North of Stowe, in the shadows of Vermont’s highest peak, Mount Mansfield. We create comfortable, quality products that help everyone stay outside longer to enjoy the things they love to do. We pride ourselves on holding true to our roots of quality, comfort, creativity, and community ...all while having fun. Turtle Fur is in the middle of a reawakening. Born not out of desperation but motivated by the feedback received from our retailers, as well as an intrinsic desire to build upon our successes and evolve the brand and the company for the future.

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