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COUNCIL WON’T HALT ‘HEARTLESS’ EVICTION Progressive Burlington councilors tried for the third time on Monday night to halt the closure of the Sears Lane homeless encampment, but a majority of the body blocked the resolution from even being discussed. Councilor Joe Magee (P-Ward 3) introduced a measure calling on Mayor Miro Weinberger’s administration to come up with a long-term housing plan for the roughly 40 campers who lived at the South End site. Councilor Joan Shannon (D-South District) argued that it was essentially the same as the one he had introduced on October 25. That touched off a contentious debate. “I didn’t expect when I got elected to this body that I would have to beg people to consider the humanity of our houseless neighbors,” Magee said. “For us to not have this conversation … will be an abdication of responsibility by this body and complicity in the worst possible outcomes that face the people that live in Sears Lane.” The encampment has proven a political flashpoint since Weinberger ordered it cleared last month. Magee sought not only to delay its “further removal and destruction” but also help for campers beyond a monthlong hotel stay. Some of them have been asked to leave the hotels and have returned to Sears Lane. (On Tuesday, Paul Dragon, director of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, clarified that there had been “behavioral issues,” according to the local operators of Motel 6, where the residents were staying.)

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Magee’s resolution asked the city to reopen a request for proposals “to seek a facilitator for the self-management” of the camp. The city’s previous request, which was open for only two weeks, attracted no offers. Magee’s proposal would have kept the request live “until a suitable partner is found.” Shannon said the council had already addressed the issue and that introducing it again would violate council rules. City Attorney Dan Richardson agreed, saying Magee’s resolutions contained “substantially the same question.” That sparked a debate about whether it was proper for the council to revisit a previous vote, culminating in a 6-5 “no” vote. The meeting attracted activists who have been providing food and other services to Sears Lane residents. Many warned officials that the city would be endangering unhoused people by not providing other options as temperatures drop. Alexys Grundy, who lived at the camp for a year and a half, called the eviction “heartless.” “I found somewhere where I fit,” Grundy said, adding that many people who lived there were down on their luck. “It doesn’t make them bad people. It just makes it harder. Please, just think about what you’re doing. Like, honestly, please.” Read Courtney Lamdin’s full story and follow the developments at sevendaysvt.com.

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1. “The Firing of Skiing Legend John Egan Leaves Many Die-Hard Downhillers Soured on Sugarbush” by Ken Picard. The resort fired the extreme skier after 47 years, prompting an avalanche of protest. 2. “Hen of the Wood Clarifies Its COVID-19 Message After Leaked Email Sparks Uproar” by Sally Pollak. Burlington’s most elegant eatery sent out an email advising restaurant staff with cold symptoms to show up for work unless they have a sub. The directive caused a stir, in and outside the restaurant. 3. “After Bike Accident, Beloved Musician Larry Gordon Has Died” by Sally Pollak. Gordon suffered a head injury and passed away on November 9. 4. “Russ Scully Wants to Rezone Part of Burlington’s South End for Housing” by Courtney Lamdin. The man behind the tech incubator and coworking space Hula says the change would allow him and other developers to address the city’s housing crunch. 5. “Vermont Sets New Daily Record With 591 COVID-19 Cases” by Derek Brouwer. Fifty-three people were hospitalized, including 14 in intensive care.

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ICE QUEEN When Joanna Nagle was 8 years old, she attended a University of Vermont hockey game with her dad. The next day, she traded her figure skates for hockey skates. She went on to play hockey at Colchester High School and on the club team at UVM. During her senior year of college, Nagle discovered a very different passion: beauty pageants. She started entering Miss Vermont competitions and this June, during her fifth pageant, took the title. At the end of the week, she’ll head to Tulsa, Okla., to compete for the Miss USA crown. The event will air on Hulu on November 29. On Saturday, the statuesque brunette

— wearing a tiara, sash and cow-print jeans — posed for photos and bombed around the rink at Burlington’s Leddy Park arena as friends and family wished her well before the trip. A basket of chocolates shaped like crowns and skates sat on a table in the warming room. Both hockey and pageants foster a sense of camaraderie among participants, Nagle said, and involve a training regimen that requires healthy eating, as well as cardio and strength exercise. Nagle works as a digital marketing strategist, but she’s also coached girls’ hockey for the last six years. This season, she leads the U12 Burlington Bobcats. Her young players don’t usually see her glammed up, but they think it’s pretty cool that she’s Miss Vermont, Nagle said.

The beauty queen is using her platform to encourage more women to start coaching. In the 10 years that Nagle played organized hockey, she had just one female coach. “When I graduated college, I thought, I didn’t have any of those role models,” she said, “and I wanted to be that role model.” There’s no talent portion of the Miss USA pageant, though Nagle said that if there were, she’d showcase her slap shot. As for the swimsuit competition, she has mixed feelings. “I mean, it’s nerve-racking. I’m gonna be on national television in a bikini,” Nagle said. But, she added with a laugh, “I’m 27, so my body’s probably never gonna look this good again. Let’s at least have proof that I looked that way.” ALISON NOVAK SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 17-24, 2021

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DONE WITH BOVES

After reading your cover story [“Roaches and Broken Locks,” November 3] about the horrible conditions at the rental properties owned by Mark and Rick Bove, I vowed to never purchase another Bove’s product. I want nothing to do with someone who could be so cruel to fellow humans, especially those most vulnerable. Thanks to Seven Days and Vermont Public Radio for bringing this into the light for public scrutiny. Jan Tobias

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Thanks for covering how a major national issue is also affecting local hospitals [“Health Care Premium,” November 3]. You hit all the major issues and facts. The hospital staff provided a few thoughts but no clear solutions. What was not mentioned was that, in dire situations like this one, a free market often produces great results for individuals but terrible effects on greater society. We saw the same thing early in the pandemic when hospitals were bidding against each other and

CORRECTIONS

Last week’s story “A Precipitous Drop” incorrectly identified which Vermont resorts are owned by Alterra Mountain Company. They are Stratton and Sugarbush. A November 3 cover story on the Bove Brothers rental properties misstated the status of Rick Bove’s development proposal in Essex Town Center. Essex town staff recommended that the local planning commission deny Bove’s application, but the commission has yet to act. It is scheduled to take up the proposal again on November 18.

CLARIFICATION

Last week’s publisher’s note, “Gathering Storm,” mentioned proposed aid for local journalism in the federal Build Back Better bill. The Local Journalism Sustainability Act, which gave rise to that portion of the legislation, enjoyed bipartisan support, but the resulting 2,135-page bill does not.

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the federal government for PPE. When labor prices rise for health care, we all end up paying the bill. The most feasible way to solve the issue is via federal legislation or regulation. This could still reward those who travel, but perhaps it could cap wages at two times the local rate. The article showed clearly that we’re in a vicious cycle: The more traveling nurses there are, the greater the incentive for the employed to shift to traveling. This is increasing health care costs, reducing morale and likely reducing quality. There are instances when federal rules are politically acceptable to folks of all sorts, like the anti-gouging rules for generators after storms. It’s time for our elected officials in Washington, D.C., to start the conversation with their colleagues and work to rectify the situation. Dan Gottlieb

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[Re “The Art of Transformation,” October 13]: The Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont has taken the time while closed during the pandemic to rethink its collection and how to display it with a more thorough recognition of the history of the works and the people who create(d) them. However, I think there is a better way to deal with racist, sexist, homophobic, antisemitic and other biased art (and art created by people with a history of such behavior) than not displaying it at all or replacing it with a piece of text explaining why it is not being shown. Other institutions deal with this by creating exhibits that explain and show contrasts. If we don’t see the problem, how can we learn? An NPR story on October 28 described how Kehinde Wiley’s “A Portrait of a Young Gentleman” has been installed in the Huntington Museum of Art facing Thomas Gainsborough’s “The Blue Boy.” Wiley talks about visiting the museum as a child and not seeing representations of himself. His portrait is a “more inclusive” reimagining. He adds, “They’re squaring off. But nothing’s resolved.” Deborah Lashman

BURLINGTON

Recently Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger suspended the search for a new police chief [Off Message: “Weinberger Again Suspends Search for New Burlington Police Chief,” November 5]. When announcing his decision, he wrote that “City Council actions over the last year ... have weakened the Department and undermined the Chief ’s role.” This has made “a successful search impossible at this time.” If the mayor meant calling for a review board and creating community liaison positions, then, yes, the chief’s role was theoretically weakened. However, many who live and work in Burlington see it differently. Indeed, they consider these moves, however incomplete, to be the beginning of a process to give residents more oversight of those whose jobs give them a certain level of power over the lives of anyone inside city limits. The chief and the department should not be operating as a world unto itself but for all who live and work in our town. If no candidate has applied for the position for the reasons Weinberger would have us believe, that seems to be a good thing. It is important to remember that the last police chief Weinberger selected was rushed through. It’s equally important to remember that he resigned under pressure due to unprofessional conduct that was possibly against the law. Given this, and the desire of many Burlington residents to reform the Burlington Police Department, waiting for more candidates acceptable to the city councilors and those who elected them is the proper path to follow. Ron Jacobs

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Meat Maven

Royalton butcher cuts distance between farmers and eaters

Cajun Connection

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Lifting Spirits COVER IMAGE DARIA BISHOP • COVER DESIGN REV. DIANE SULLIVAN

NEWS & POLITICS 13 From the Publisher A Bond Too Far?

After a costly reassessment, Burlington officials ask voters to approve more city debt

Preventing Polio — Again

The first major outbreak was documented in Vermont. Now UVM is researching a safer vaccine.

Holy Retirement!

Leahy’s decision not to seek another Senate term sets off a scramble to succeed him

Weighing the Options

As legislators attempt to make school funding fairer, some districts are crying foul

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25 Minutes to Shine

After a lost pandemic year, Rice’s Stunt Nite brings students together in song and dance

Blue Line

A new film explores conflict over police budgets and racial profiling in Vergennes, Vermont’s smallest city

Present Tense

William Ransom’s sculptural installation speaks to racial reckoning, seeking balance and holding on

CULTURE 46 Homegrown Verse

Nora Jacobson’s new documentary chronicles poet Ruth Stone’s life and work

Words to Music

Burlington Choral Society premieres composer Don Jamison’s setting of Wendell Berry poems

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Vermont expat comedians Tina Friml and Carmen Lagala on finding humor in tough times

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Give In to Abstraction Put some respect on Hilma af Klint’s name. The Swedish painter, inspired by her forays into mysticism and ghost-whispering, created the first known abstract works in the Western world. Her story is brought to the forefront in Halina Dyrschka’s landmark documentary Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint, screening virtually this week as part of Burlington City Arts, AIA Vermont and 118 Elliot’s Architecture + Design Film Series. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 66

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Sneaks and Valleys In 1962, Summit magazine published a story about a theretofore undiscovered mountain range in British Columbia. Readers’ imaginations were captured — by a hoax. In her book Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams, Alpinist editor in chief Katie Ives uses the story as a jumping-off point to investigate our obsession with untapped wilderness and empty spots on maps. Norwich Bookstore presents a conversation with the author. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 70

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ALL IN THE FAMILY Father-daughter duo Stephen Goldberg and Emma Sky and their bands — Stephen Goldberg & Friends and Slut Magic, respectively — come together for a multi-genre, multigenerational show at Burlington City Hall Auditorium. Presented by Burlington City Arts, the new-school jazz combo and the angsty glitter-punk outfit (pictured) make for a thrillingly eclectic family reunion. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 71

Northeast Kingdom instrumentalists shine up their saxophones and tune up their trumpets for Jazz Jam at the Grange, a community sesh hosted by Modern Times Theater at Caledonia Grange in East Hardwick. Instrumentalists of all kinds are invited to lead the group in a favorite tune, noodle along or just listen. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 70

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Countryside Comedy Standup comic Vicki Ferentinos aims to have audiences rolling in the aisles by the end of Woman of the Woods, her one-woman show at ArtisTree Community Arts Center in South Pomfret. The set follows her journey from suburbian to city slicker to country girl, replete with mishaps and hijinks along the way. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 70

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After a costly reassessment, Burlington officials ask voters to approve more city debt B Y CO UR T NEY L A M DIN • courtney@sevendaysvt.com

essica Oski has never complained about paying her Burlington property tax bill. A resident of the city’s South End since 2004, Oski says she takes pride in knowing that her money supports schools and city services. She has happily cast ballots in favor of every budget and every special bond. Until now. Two multimillion-dollar city spending plans are on the ballot for a December 7 special election, and Oski has already voted against one of them, which would, if passed, raise taxes. Oski’s taxes went up after the city’s recent reassessment; nearly nine out of 10 single-family homeowners will pay more. Between that and

an anticipated bond to finance a new high school, Oski says she can’t stomach another hike for spending that she thinks can wait. “I am fatigued as a taxpayer,” said Oski, a lobbyist who once represented the City of Burlington at the Statehouse. “I don’t want to vote on these one by one and then, in the end, we’re all paying $100 more a month. It can’t be death by a million cuts.” Oski voted no to borrowing $40 million for capital projects such as road and sidewalk repairs. The second bond would finance $20 million in upgrades to support the city’s goal of eliminating its use of fossil fuels by 2030, an initiative Oski supports. She voted for that bond, even though it could result in higher electric rates in the future.

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With Oski and other taxpayers feeling the pinch, the onus now falls on Mayor Miro Weinberger and other city officials to convince voters — a two-thirds majority for the capital bond — that this money is worth spending, and now. They’re running out of time: The city mailed ballots in late October to 24,552 registered voters, and nearly 3,800 have already returned them. “There’s no doubt that the high level of property taxes that Burlingtonians pay is on people’s minds right now,” Weinberger said, adding that he thinks taxpayers would get a lot from the bonds, despite the cost. “I hope people see it through that lens as they weigh this decision.” Burlington’s capital projects bond would continue a 10-year plan that Weinberger introduced in 2016 to address the city’s failing infrastructure. That November, voters approved a $27.5 million bond that helped fix 14 miles of sidewalks, rehab seven miles of the bike path and insulate city buildings to make them more efficient. This year’s bond would earmark $10 million for Memorial Auditorium, a historic downtown building that closed in 2016 due to serious structural deficiencies. If the bond passed, Weinberger would ask the city council to approve using funds to make the city building usable, such as by installing new heating and sprinkler systems. Community members and event promoter Higher Ground, which had proposed operating an event space there before the pandemic hit, would be invited to participate, the mayor’s office said. The remaining $30 million

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Gov. Phil Scott on Tuesday repeated his consistent opposition to a statewide mask mandate, even as he opened the door to new local rules. The governor has been under pressure from Democratic lawmakers to require masks indoors as COVID-19 case counts climb to pandemic highs. Scott said he would extend an “olive branch” by allowing the legislature to reconvene for a special session next week so that lawmakers can give municipalities the authority to issue mask mandates. To keep the measures in effect, municipal boards would have to revote on them every 30 days; none could extend past April 30, 2022. The proposal mirrors one the Vermont League of Cities & Towns suggested last week. If legislators try to pass other legislation, Scott said, he would veto it. In a joint statement on Monday night, House Speaker Jill Krowinski (D-Burlington) and Senate President Pro Term Becca Balint (D-Windham) said the governor should take more sweeping steps to mitigate the virus’ spread. Last week, both lawmakers called on Scott to re-implement a statewide mask mandate. In his weekly data report, Finance Commissioner Mike Pieciak said case numbers continue to rise. They increased by 16 percent over the last week and 64 percent over the last two weeks. The testing positivity rate is 4.3 percent, with Essex, Orleans and Rutland counties reporting the highest case rates this week. According to New York Times data, Vermont was tied with Wisconsin for the sixth-highest rate of COVID-19 cases in the country, with 57 per 100,000 people. Though Thanksgiving gatherings didn’t appear to affect case counts last year, people had been advised not to travel or gather in large groups. Pieciak said there was still uncertainty about how this year’s holiday would affect the state’s COVID-19 numbers. Health Commissioner Mark Levine recommended keeping gatherings small and taking several rapid antigen tests in the lead-up to the holiday, or a PCR test no later than Monday, to ensure results by Thanksgiving. Levine also said it’s wise to get tested for COVID-19 five to seven days after the holiday — regardless of symptoms or vaccination status. He recommended having “the talk” with guests about their vaccination status before gathering. “The more people who are vaccinated around your table, the safer everyone will be,” he said. m

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he first two children fell ill around June 17, 1894, their legs suddenly unwilling to cooperate. The disease spread from there, striking at random as it swept through Rutland County: a 6-year-old girl paralyzed in all extremities; a 2-year-old boy unable to move his legs; a 3-year-old boy who seemed to get better, until he fell into a coma and died. “Many of these [children] were taken sick without apparent cause,” Charles Caverly, a 37-year-old Rutland doctor, wrote in the Yale Medicine Journal later that year. “After a few weeks deaths were heard of, and during the latter part of July everyone was discussing ‘the new disease.’”

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Other instances of “infantile paralysis” — or polio, as it later became known — had been documented long before this, but cases were few and far between. Most physicians had never encountered it. As president of the Vermont State Board of Health, Caverly felt a duty to investigate. He surveyed his Rutland County colleagues and found that, by summer’s end, there had been 132 suspected cases of the malady. Most were children younger than the age of 6, but roughly a dozen teenagers and adults fell sick, too, including a 70-year-old woman. More than 50 cases resulted in paralysis; 18 people died. Caverly effectively documented the first major polio outbreak in history. In doing so, he debunked the prevailing belief that only children could be stricken, and he became one of the first physicians to recognize that polio could occur with or without paralysis. He provided the clearest evidence to date

of the disease’s potential to become an epidemic. Now, as the world stands on the brink of eradicating polio more than a century later, the Green Mountain State may once again make a difference. Researchers at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine’s Vaccine Testing Center are conducting a pair of trials using new polio vaccines to determine whether the modernized cocktails can replace existing ones and better protect children. If the results are promising, the drugs could eventually be added to the global arsenal and, experts hope, eradicate the disease once and for all. “Vermont had a seat at the very beginning of the history of polio in this country, if not worldwide,” said Jessica Crothers, a UVM pathologist who’s leading one of the two trials. “And now, we’re in the position to play this important, starring role in what is hopefully the last chapter of polio.” It may surprise Americans to learn that there’s a need for new polio vaccines, given that the disease was eradicated in this country in 1979. The World Health Organization declared war on polio a decade later, and billions of dollars have been spent on eliminating it since — with much success. Incidences of polio have since dropped by 99 percent, and the disease has disappeared from most countries. In 2016, only 42 cases were reported worldwide. But polio has maintained a foothold in parts of Africa and the Middle East, infecting a small but growing number of children in recent years. These outbreaks now rarely involve the “wild” forms of the polio virus; only two nations — Afghanistan and Pakistan — have reported such cases this year. Instead, most modern outbreaks are caused by mutations in one of two existing vaccines.

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Mayor Seeks Additional Funds for Police Chief Search B Y COUR T NEY L A MDIN courtney@sevendaysvt.com Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger asked city councilors on Monday to approve additional spending for the city’s ongoing police chief search, which so far has yielded only two viable candidates. Acting Chief Jon Murad is one of them. The other candidate hasn’t been publicly identified. Weinberger said that if the councilors don’t take his recommendations, he’ll nominate one of those candidates for the position. The search thus far has yielded 21 applicants, all men. Weinberger wants councilors to offer as much as $160,000 a year for the chief’s job, which is about $30,000 more than the high end of the advertised salary range. He’s also asking for $75,000 to hire a professional search firm. The city hasn’t had a permanent police chief since December 2019, when former chief Brandon del Pozo resigned amid a social media scandal. Weinberger launched a national search but paused it during the pandemic. He restarted the process in May but suspended it again this month after members of the city’s hiring committee recommended advertising the position again — with a higher salary. The mayor also wants councilors to agree to preserve the chief’s authority on officer discipline. Late last year, Weinberger vetoed a Progressive-led proposal to create a civilian-led board that would have had final say on disciplinary matters. Councilor Jack Hanson (P-East District) said that by including that demand, opposed by Progressive councilors, Weinberger appears ready to proceed with just the two candidates. Hanson suggested that, instead, the administration work with councilors to find consensus before the council’s next meeting on December 13. Some councilors — including Chip Mason (D-Ward 5), Joan Shannon (D-South District) and Ali Dieng (I-Ward 7) — seemed to support the request to increase the salary offer. Councilor Sarah Carpenter (D-Ward 4) agreed that a search firm could help the city land the best candidate. Weinberger said he’s willing to meet with councilors about the best recruitment strategy. “The administration will put time and effort into working with councilors to attempt to do that,” he said. “And if that does not succeed, I do feel I’ll have no choice but to proceed to an appointment through another way.” m

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A Bond Too Far? « P.14 would be paired with $111 million from federal and state transportation grants, pandemic recovery funds, and city money to funnel $141 million into capital needs. The total includes $24.3 million from the federal infrastructure bill, though Weinberger conceded that number is an “aspirational estimate.” The exact projects may change, but Weinberger said the city plans to use the cash to replace three aging fire trucks and snowplows, complete renovations to the bike path, plant more trees along city streets, replace crumbling sidewalks, and improve ventilation in city buildings. If passed, the owner of a median-priced home in the city — about $379,100 — would pay incrementally higher taxes over 20 years, peaking at roughly $13 more per month in 2025. “People should know [these aren’t] fancy, discretionary, vanity projects,” Weinberger said. “These are core public infrastructure needs.” The timing, however, is discretionary. The special election will cost the city $125,000, while adding the bonds to the Town Meeting Day ballot in March would have cost nothing. Calling for a costly special election is a complete 180 for Weinberger. Last year, he issued his first-ever veto to block a ballot item about ranked-choice voting. Among his reasons? It would have cost $45,000 to print a local ballot for the November 2020 general election, “wasteful” spending during a pandemic, Weinberger said at the time. He also happened to oppose the voting system. Weinberger says a special ballot is justified this time around. There’s no guarantee that current low interest rates will hold until March. Further, the pandemic has already set the city’s planning back a year, Weinberger said, and he wants projects that are ready to start when construction season begins. Passing a ballot item now would also improve the city’s chance of getting more federal funds, he added. City Councilor Joan Shannon (D-South District) doesn’t feel the same sense of urgency. She was the only councilor who voted against putting the capital bond on the special election ballot and is doubtful the city would lose an entire construction season by waiting three months to vote. The ongoing labor shortage, Shannon added, may hamper the city’s timeline regardless. She’s also concerned about the

unknown price tag for a new high school. In 2018, Burlington voters approved a $70 million bond to renovate the campus, but the school district abandoned those plans in May after carcinogenic chemicals were detected in the school. School commissioners now want voters to consider a bond in November 2022 for a new high school and technical center — which is certain to cost substan-

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tially more. The city and school district share a debt limit, and Shannon said she worries that they could exceed it, though Weinberger has assured the public that won’t happen. The city and school’s total debt can’t exceed 4.25 percent of the value of all taxable property in the city. The previously approved $70 million school bond would have made the combined debt equal

to 3.27 percent of the value of the tax base in 2026, city calculations show. The new school’s price tag is unknown, but Katherine Schad, the city’s chief administrative officer, said the district “could easily take on substantial additional debt” without exceeding the limit. “Any taxpayer that’s voting on [the capital bond] should be able to make a decision on this at least at the same time that we’re making the ask for the school bond, not ahead of it — and preferably after it,” Shannon said. She is supporting the net-zero bond, however, because officials say it would neither raise taxes nor impact the shared debt capacity. The bond is debt, but it would generate revenue to pay back a large chunk of what’s owed. That’s because the proceeds would allow the Burlington Electric Department to double the funds allotted to its Green Stimulus program, which offers customer rebates on home appliances, electric bicycles, heat pumps and other items. Those customers would theoretically use more electricity, giving the utility more cash to pay down its debt. Additionally, the department will pay off another loan in 2025, freeing up about $700,000 a year to put toward the new debt without raising rates. The utility’s general manager, Darren Springer, said there may be some “upward pressure” on rates as the bond matures, but he anticipates only a 1 percent rate increase, if any, for customers at that point. Higher electric bills may be tough for some customers to swallow, considering that the utility hiked rates by 7.5 percent this year — the first increase since 2009. Chris Behr, who has lived in the New North End since 1965, said between the reappraisal, the cost of electricity and higher water bills this year, he feels he’s getting priced out. He said the city promises to keep taxes low but then actually raises them by approving special bonds. “The word ‘sneaky’ comes to mind,” Behr said, noting that he and his wife had already voted against both ballot items. “When you look at the plans that the city has … we’re in for a really rough road,” he said. “I don’t know how many Burlingtonians are gonna be able to live in this town.” Springer hopes he can convince residents of the net-zero bond’s importance. Beyond generating revenue, the money would upgrade the electric grid

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to accommodate higher loads, maintain the city’s power generation plants, and install electric vehicle charging stations. All told, passing the bond could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 47,000 tons — the equivalent of not using about 100,000 barrels of oil, Springer said. “I think we’re ahead of the curve here in Burlington,” Springer said. “At the end of the day, we want to help our customers … reduce their own energy use, reduce their own fossil fuel use and help us move as a community towards electrification. It would be incredibly challenging to try to make that happen without the revenue bond.” City Councilor Jack Hanson (P-East District) has already cast his ballot in support of both bonds. He says not investing would be costlier in the long run: The city would fall behind on its climate goals, and sidewalks and streets would continue to deteriorate. Hanson acknowledged that the reassessment was a big hit for many. But he said a resolution that councilors approved unanimously last week lays the framework for addressing inequities in the city’s tax system that would help lower-income residents. “That’s the solution. The solution isn’t to let our infrastructure crumble,” Hanson said, adding that the capital bond is “a necessary investment, even though it is hard to shoulder those costs.” Greg Hostetler agrees. The Old North End resident is a member of the Burlington Walk/Bike Council, a volunteer group that advises the city on non-vehicular transportation projects. Hostetler, who rents and doesn’t own a car, supports the bond because he regularly traverses sidewalks that flood and freeze in the winter. He was also pleased that the plan would help build a “shared-use path” for pedestrians and bikers along Intervale Road. “We all have to ask … if these investments are going to be worth it,” he said, “and I think they will be.” Oski, the South End resident, said the city can afford to wait. She was already walloped with a $200-a-month property tax increase and is irked that the city wants to fix sidewalks when Burlington students are attending high school in a former Macy’s store. She’s thought about leaving the city she loves. “A bond in this moment is the issue,” Oski said. The special election comes at a fortuitous moment for her son: He turned 18 last week. And just in time, he registered to vote so he could say no to the capital bond. m

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Lawmakers Meet Grads of New JobTraining Program B Y ANN E WAL L AC E AL L E N anne@sevendaysvt.com After working various low-paying jobs that weren’t a good fit, Barre resident John Skoda signed on with Serve, Earn & Learn, a new training initiative funded this year with $1.8 million from the Vermont legislature. Last Friday, Skoda, 27, and several others graduated from Construction 101. He’s headed for a temporary position weatherizing houses for Capstone Community Action. If he’s hired permanently, he expects to make $18 an hour. Skoda, who has a psychology degree from Castleton University, saw an ad for the free four-week construction program on Front Porch Forum and considered it a good opportunity. “I find myself at a juncture where my partner and I are looking to buy a house and have stability in our lives,” Skoda said. Friday’s graduation at the Vermont Granite Museum, where some construction classes are taught, introduced program participants to lawmakers and other supporters. The program is a collaboration between Audubon Vermont, the ReSOURCE job-training program, Vermont Works for Women and the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps. By sharing marketing and other resources, the groups can get more trainees, said Rhoni Basden, director of Vermont Works for Women. They also collaborate to find participants, provide basic job skills and line up employment opportunities. Lawmakers singled out Serve, Earn & Learn for funding as a way to help people find meaningful work, said Vermont Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint (D-Windham), who attended the graduation ceremony with seven other lawmakers. “I can tell you from traveling around the state with the [House] speaker,” said Balint, “everything we’re hearing in every community is that people want more opportunities for workforce development that is meaningful for young people and for people who want to change jobs.” Through the ReSOURCE construction program, trainees are placed with an employer for two weeks and often wind up getting hired, said Tom Longstreth, executive director of ReSOURCE. Employers cite a shortage of job applicants as a critical problem. The state Department of Labor has said there are many thousands more unfilled jobs in Vermont than there are people looking for work. m

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“We’re not alone in history,” she said. “There have been parents and communities at different times here in Vermont that have lived through quarantines, have lived through unknowns and fears.” U.S. polio outbreaks became increasingly common in the first half of the 20th century, infecting about 35,000 people annually by the late 1940s before peaking at 57,000 in 1952. Few diseases instilled more fear in parents, who became terrified of letting their children out of the house during the summer months, when the virus seemed to peak. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the nation’s president from 1933 to 1945, was thought to have contracted it through swimming. Images of hospital wards full of children stuck in mechanical respiratory machines known as “iron lungs” were seared into the national consciousness. “There was a lot of political and economic will put behind the fight against polio,” Crothers said. “Never before was the public so invested, informed and engaged in the scientific process.” Indeed, roughly 100 million Americans pitched in toward the development of a polio vaccine, donating coins to the private charity March of Dimes to help fund the research. Church bells rang across the country when it was announced on April 12, 1955, that the Salk vaccine worked. “DOOM OF POLIO IS HAILED WORLDWIDE,” shouted the front page of the Caledonian-Record, which featured half a dozen stories on the development, including one announcing that Vermont children could begin getting vaccinated within two weeks. Caverly’s hometown paper, the Rutland Daily Herald, ran the headline: “Potent New Salk Vaccine to End Terror of Polio.” Comparing the public’s reaction then with the often charged conversation surrounding immunization now, Crothers opined that vaccines have become a victim of their own success. When the polio vaccine arrived, many parents personally knew kids who had been paralyzed. “They knew the risk of not being vaccinated,” Crothers said, “so the risk-benefit analysis that they did in their head was very clear to them. “People do that analysis now, and it’s less clear, because they don’t have those personal stories,” she said. “I think that’s kind of what we’re feeling now during COVID: that the risk-benefit-reward analysis is subtler, more complicated and more nuanced.” m

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en. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) announcement on Monday that he will not seek reelection next year ended months of speculation and created a rare opening for a Vermont congressional seat. At an event at the Vermont Statehouse, Leahy, 81, said he plans to retire from the U.S. Senate, where he is the longest-serving member and the fifth-longest-serving senator in the chamber’s history. The former Chittenden County state’s attorney was first elected in 1974 and is currently in his eighth six-year term. “It is time to pass the torch to the next Vermonter who will carry on this work for our great state,” he said. “It’s time to come home.” Leahy spoke to staff, friends and media packed into Room 11 — where he launched his first Senate campaign. He delivered prepared remarks for nearly 20 minutes, recounting what he considered his proudest achievements in Congress. His wife, Marcelle, who began chemotherapy treatments in May for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, was by his side. “While I’ll continue to serve Vermont, Marcelle and I have reached the conclusion that it is time to put down the gavel,” Leahy intoned in a gravelly voice, adding that representing Vermont has been his “greatest honor.” The dean of the U.S. Senate did not elaborate on the reason for his retirement and did not take questions. He later told Vermont Public Radio that he and Marcelle made the decision over the summer, but they waited to announce it until he had wrapped up several legislative priorities important to Vermont. Leahy was referring, at least partly, to the recently passed $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. After Monday’s speech, he hurried back to Washington, D.C., to be at the White House as President Joe Biden signed the measure into law. Leahy also told VPR host Bob Kinzel that spending more time with Marcelle, who has been a near-constant companion, was key to his decision. “I never could have done this without Marcelle, and she deserves to have my undivided attention,” he said. Leahy chairs the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee and serves as the Senate president pro tempore, giving him outsize influence despite hailing from one

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of the country’s smallest states. As pro tem, he’s third in line to succeed the president, behind Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) He presided over former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial earlier this year. The Batman fan also had five cameos in the DC Comics character’s films. Within the Beltway and beyond, speculation about Leahy’s health has in recent years fueled chatter about whether he might retire. His speech and movement have slowed, but few have publicly questioned his mental fitness. Leahy was hospitalized briefly in late January after reporting a muscle spasm. He was checked out at George Washington University Hospital and sent home to rest; he returned to work the next day. His decision creates a massive void for Vermont Democrats, who had already been jockeying for position in anticipation of Leahy’s possible retirement. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) could seek to switch chambers. Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, Vermont Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint (D-Windham) and state Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D-Chittenden) have all expressed interest in running for Congress.

On Monday, state Rep. Tanya Vyhovsky (P/D -Essex), who was previously endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in her Vermont House race, said she is exploring a run for Senate “on a people powered, democratic socialist platform.” Leahy’s retirement could also open the door for a Republican challenger, though Gov. Phil Scott, the VTGOP’s strongest statewide vote-getter in recent years, is not interested in running for Congress next year, a spokesperson said. Sen. Phil Baruth (D/P-Chittenden) a University of Vermont professor who authored Senator Leahy: A Life in Scenes, said Leahy may very well be “the most influential Vermonter ever sent to Washington.” Only two others contend for the title: Justin Morrill, a representative and senator who served in the latter half of the 19th century, and Leahy’s predecessor in the Senate, George Aiken, who served 34 years. Both men were Republicans. “To have it be undeniable that you’re in the top three ... is astounding,” Baruth said. Leahy, as Baruth makes clear in his biography, repeatedly found himself “by chance or by choice at the pivot points in history.”

After September 11, 2001, for example, Leahy, then chair of the Judiciary Committee, pushed back against administration plans to eliminate due process rights for anyone deemed a terrorism suspect. Most remarkable is that he did so even after he was targeted in an anthrax attack. “He was the only person saying ‘Slow down’ on the Patriot Act because the administration’s draft is going to gut civil liberties in America,” Baruth said. Whatever the appeal or political prowess of Leahy’s replacement, they will likely be unable initially to match his clout and skill for getting Vermont its fair share — and more than its fair share, some have argued — of federal dollars. “My approach on Appropriations was simple: Help all states in alphabetical order — starting with the letter V, Vermont,” Leahy quipped during his Statehouse remarks. Leahy pushed for small-state minimum funding formulas that meant Vermont would sometimes receive more federal aid per capita than larger states. The practice at times rankled other politicians, including former New York governor Andrew Cuomo.

Gray called him an “inspiration.” “From human rights and civil liberties to international engagement and humanitarian relief, Senator Leahy has served as Vermont and our nation’s north star,” she wrote in a statement. Ram, who was overseas in Berlin participating in a policy exchange program, also released a statement, calling Leahy a “titan” who “championed values that Vermonters hold dear.” He worked to ensure “that Vermont can access the resources needed to support our communities and be an experiment station for innovation on health care, rural development, clean water, public lands, and so much more,” her statement said.

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Leahy cited the formula for helping the state receive sufficient funds to recover after Tropical Storm Irene, to combat the opioid epidemic and to bring home $2.5 billion in COVID-19 relief. Other accomplishments he cited on Monday included expanding the Green Mountain National Forest by more than 100,000 acres, securing “tens of millions of dollars” to clean up Lake Champlain and Lake Memphremagog, and helping establish and protect the integrity of the national organic standards and labeling program. He did not mention his support for more controversial programs. Leahy strongly backed the decision to base the F-35 fighter jet at the Vermont

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Air National Guard base in South Burlington. The decision steered millions in federal investment toward Guard personnel and base infrastructure, but it angered critics who blame him for the dramatic increase in jet noise. Leahy also supported the federal EB-5 program that traded visas for foreign investments in Vermont projects but led to massive fraud. His comments at the Statehouse drew warm applause from legislators and staffers. He’d barely left the podium when elected officials began showering him with accolades and gratitude. “It is a historic and bittersweet day,” Welch said in a written statement. “It is hard to imagine the United States Senate without Patrick Leahy. No one has served Vermont so faithfully, so constantly, so honestly, and so fiercely as Patrick.” Balint said it was “almost impossible to find words to do justice” to the service that Leahy and his family gave the state and country over the years. “His exceptional commitment to our state’s values of progress, equality, and dignity for all have improved the lives of generations of Vermonters,” she said.

“Stepping aside to let the next generation step up is yet another act of visionary leadership. We will not let you down,” Ram added. Leahy’s longtime colleague Sanders, 80, is up for reelection in 2024 and is also a source of retirement speculation after 30 years in Congress and two failed presidential runs. In a statement, Sanders called Leahy “a towering figure” who “leaves a unique legacy that will be impossible to match.” Scott, too, paid homage, calling Leahy “an incredible champion for Vermonters” whose work has helped position Vermont “to come out of this pandemic stronger than before and tackle big challenges from broadband and infrastructure to the opioid crisis. We are indebted to him.” On the U.S. Senate floor on Tuesday, Leahy told his colleagues that he was gratified to witness how initiatives that Vermont values — including reforming criminal justice, sourcing organic food and resettling refugees — have caught on across the nation. “Here is where a small state like Vermont has not just a seat at the table, but a voice at the table,” he said. m

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Weighing the Options

As legislators attempt to make school funding fairer, some districts are crying foul

t’s been almost two years since state Rep. Laura Sibilia (I-Dover) first laid eyes on the Pupil Weighting Factors Report, a study of Vermont’s complicated education funding formula that the legislature had commissioned. Coauthored by University of Vermont professor Tammy Kolbe, the 150-page report examined a question Sibilia thought had an obvious answer: Does the state accurately calculate the cost of educating students? As Sibilia had seen firsthand in her rural district, the answer is no. Vermont’s “pupil weights” — the practice of counting certain students, such as those who live in poverty or are learning English, as more than one, to represent the fact that they cost more to educate than the typical student — were “historical artifacts” from almost 25 years ago, the report found, and not based on actual research. The authors recommended significantly hiking the weights for poor students and English language learners and adding weights for students enrolled in small or rural schools. Weights are used to calculate a district’s per-pupil spending, which subsequently plays into setting local property tax rates. Districts with high numbers of weighted students can provide more services without raising taxes and draw additional state aid. Some districts have been “underweighted” — or less financially able to provide for students’ needs — for decades. “The reality on the ground in our community … was that we could not fund anything that was not very basic,” Sibilia said. High-quality afterschool programming and an honors curriculum were out of reach. Nearly two years after the report’s release, the legislature is working to change the weighting system and perhaps education funding more broadly. Using the report for guidance, a task force of eight state legislators has met twice monthly since June. By December 15, it must recommend legislation to provide equitable access to education. The work has been plodding and cumbersome as legislators get up to speed on both the report and the education funding system, one of the most complex in the country. But the group’s recommendations could set in motion large-scale reform

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that would impact Vermont students for decades. “A deep and systemic injustice has been uncovered,” Sibilia wrote to members of the task force on October 28. “Those of us in rural, poor and black and brown Vermont, who have had an entire generation of our students harmed by this system, believe you have been convened to correct those deep and systemic injustices.” But rather than give higher weights to

districts with students who are learning English, the task force has proposed to instead provide “categorical aid” — state money that goes directly to the programs. That, some say, would not correct the inequity. Winooski, for instance, says those grants would provide the district about $1 million less than the weights described in the report. Task force cochair Sen. Ruth Hardy

(D-Addison) said the panel is juggling needs from groups across the state. “We’ve tried to be extremely thoughtful and thorough and comprehensive,” she said, “so that when whatever we recommend goes to the legislature, we’re able to answer all the questions we’re going to get.” The quest for equity in Vermont schools is not a new one. Act 60, passed in 1997 following a Vermont Supreme Court decision, was intended to ensure that the property wealth of a town doesn’t affect school funding. After the 2019 release of what some refer to as the “Kolbe report,” Education Secretary Dan French told lawmakers that they had to take “immediate action” to fix Vermont’s funding formula. He said the current system likely violates the state constitution, which mandates equal educational opportunities for all students. The weights recommended in the study would benefit high-poverty school districts such as Rutland City and Kingdom East, as well as those with a large percentage of students learning English, such as Burlington and Winooski. But giving more to those districts would sap some of the aid otherwise destined for more affluent, homogenous ones — making the issue contentious. “The redistribution of wealth is a really hard subject,” said Jen Botzojorns, superintendent of the “underweighted” Kingdom East district. “And most of the time, the people who have the wealth don’t want to redistribute it.” As a school librarian who worked around the state, Martine Gulick saw how access to resources impacts schools. Before retiring in June, Gulick said, she had a staff of six assistants while working at the Essex High School library, which had a budget 10 times larger than Burlington’s. Her counterparts in other districts, meanwhile, had one or two assistants, if any. Such inequities are apparent in sports budgets, administrations, office staffing and even IT departments, said Gulick, who serves on the Burlington School Board. After reading the Kolbe report, “it felt sort of like a light bulb went off,” Gulick said. But fixing the problem of inequity will require more than just flipping a switch. While the 2019 study focused solely on pupil weights, the task force is looking at

Vermont’s education funding system more broadly, Hardy said. It’s considering a plan that would replace the current funding system with a more straightforward model, in which pupil weights would be translated to a dollar amount that would be distributed directly to districts. The study also didn’t factor in the COVID-19 pandemic or the reorganization of school districts under Act 46, Hardy added. The task force is “trying to take into consideration all the things that have changed since the report came out,” she said. The task force held two public hearings this fall. Overwhelmingly, speakers urged legislators to implement the weights proposed in the study. Many who testified were members of the Coalition for Vermont Student Equity, a group of school board members, from Windham to Winooski, concerned about historic “underfunding” for some districts.

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On November 4, the Vermont School Boards Association passed a resolution asking the legislature to implement the study’s recommendations “thoughtfully and expeditiously.” A smaller group has said a major change in weighting could negatively impact some districts. Addison Northwest School District board chair John Stroupe told the task force in October that if the weights from the study were implemented as written, they would do “tremendous damage” to his district, which is located in the county Hardy represents. “A lot of people would say, ‘Well, tighten your belt. You can do more with less,’” Stroupe said. “And I will tell you that we already are bare bones in our education. This is not extravagant education in Vergennes and Addison County.” Edye Graning, board chair of Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District,

told the task force last week that there would be “unintended consequences” of making changes to school funding. “While the goal is to improve opportunities for certain students, this can only be done by decreasing opportunities for others, and that’s where we’re very concerned,” Graning said. Botzojorns, the Kingdom East superintendent, said she understands that all schools are struggling due to the pandemic, but some are hurting more than others. Her students come from small towns such as Burke, Lyndon, Lunenburg and Newark, where underfunding has led to major issues. One of her middle schools is in a decades-old mobile unit with rotting floors. Another building had mold and standing water in the basement. Underweighting affects staffing, too. Currently, 39 Kingdom East teachers have provisional licenses, meaning that they are not fully qualified for the subject area they’re teaching. In some of the district’s schools, 20 percent of teachers leave every year. “Folks come to our district, they get a couple of years under their belt, and then they head to another high-paying, more populated area,” Botzojorns said. “Think about any organization where, every year, one-fifth of the people leave and what that does for climate and culture and the ability to have academic … growth with children.” The most controversial issue may be deciding how to provide money for what are known as “English language learner” students. The task force wants to provide categorical aid, which would give districts with at least one English language learner a yearly base amount of $25,000, plus $5,000 for every additional such student. According to Hardy, English language learning programs are well suited for categorical aid because the money needed to educate such students is fairly standard. Higher weights, meanwhile, would enable districts to increase their budgets without raising taxes — but wouldn’t guarantee that the money goes to students learning English, she said. Leaders in the Winooski School District, where one in three students are English language learners, strongly disagree. “We’ve been doing this work for decades, and we’ve developed programs; we’ve cultivated staff and trust in the community,” superintendent Sean McMannon said. “And then to say, ‘We

OLD-SCHOOL REFORM More than 20 years ago, the state changed the way it funded education following a 1997 Vermont Supreme Court decision, Brigham v. State, that found the existing system — in which towns raised money for their schools through local property taxes — deprived students in property-poor towns of equal educational opportunities. Under Act 60, passed later that year, owners of non-homestead property — such as land, second homes, apartment buildings and businesses — pay a fixed school tax rate, which goes into a state education fund. Local schools set their own budgets, but any two towns that vote to spend the same amount per pupil have the same homestead tax rate. In the wake of Act 60, some property-rich towns — also known as “gold towns” — tried to fight back, worried about how the law would affect their children. In a 1999 article in Mother Jones magazine, David Goodman wrote about the anti-Act 60 groups that popped up in the mother of all gold towns — Stowe. “I sympathize with the argument of other towns when they say, ‘We’ve been paying for this all along,’” Stowe resident Donna Carpenter — wife of late Burton Snowboards founder Jake Burton Carpenter — said at the time. “But when someone tells me, ‘Now it’s your turn to feel the pain’ — these are my kids!” Act 68, passed in 2003, made revisions to Act 60, including a provision that penalized school districts for per-pupil spending that exceeded a certain threshold. The goal was to create a disincentive for wealthier districts to spend excessively. Instead, districts such as Rep. Laura Sibilia’s often bumped up against that excess spending threshold because the real cost of educating kids in rural poverty was not taken into account. “In the process of just trying to keep a basic school open in rural towns that were very isolated, you would hit the excess-spending threshold, and then you would have to pay double,” Sibilia said. “The message that we were getting from the legislature is that our communities were just too dumb to realize that they needed to reduce their spending.” That excess spending threshold is currently on a two-year pause while the pupil-weighting task force carries out its work. Though Act 60 was effective in creating “equal per pupil spending for equal tax rates,” it did not address the fact that students living in circumstances such as poverty require more services and resources to achieve the same outcomes as students in more affluent areas, Sibilia said. “We need to think about the consequences of decades of underfunding our neediest school districts,” Sibilia said, “and what that is doing to the fabric of our Vermont communities.”

really don’t trust you to spend this money’ — it’s such a slap in the face.” This fall, Winooski’s finance manager, Nicole Mace, analyzed the categorical aid program alongside the pupil weights that the researchers proposed in their report. She found that the categorical aid would yield around $1.4 million, while the weights would translate to around $2.4 million. Meanwhile, already “overweighted” neighboring districts, such as EssexWestford, South Burlington and Champlain Valley, would get an increase in funding for their English language learners, exacerbating the inequities between Winooski and other Chittenden County schools, Mace said. Winooski is also poised to lose $345,000 next school year, as the state moves to a different special education financing model. McMannon said the task force has not been transparent in detailing its most recent modeling or how members came up with the grant amounts. While they still have three meetings left to hammer out the details, the task

force has already begun drafting its final report, Hardy said. The group will have to find a way to lessen the blow for districts that might suddenly find themselves faced with either shrinking their budget or raising taxes, she said. “Whatever we do is going to be a jolt to some school districts — it could be a positive jolt or a negative jolt,” Hardy said. “But we want to make sure that those jolts are as smooth as possible, because we don’t want them to impact kids.” That might mean rolling out changes gradually over three to five years. By midDecember, task force members want to draft a bill that they all back, Hardy said. Winooski administrators hope they can change legislators’ minds about the proposal. “I think there’s a lot of emphasis on complexity that’s being talked about at the task force level,” Mace said. But to her, it’s actually pretty simple. “At its core,” she said, “this is about a redistribution of resources so that we can ensure equity, and that is politically challenging.” m SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 17-24, 2021

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new building. Young Vermont architects would be able to collaborate with older, more established and more experienced architects from out of state. They would be able to create a living expression of the most progressive dreams for a learning environment that could represent — in its location, structure, form, use of materials and color — the values that this community wants at the core of the learning experience. That community includes the school board, teachers, school staff, parents and the rest of us. I urge the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects to engage the school board, the city council and the neighborhood planning assemblies in a serious discussion of how an architectural competition could be conducted to be transparent, inclusive and effective. Louis Mannie Lionni

BURLINGTON

MEET THE SLUMLORD

Rick Bove’s actions and deliberate inactions with regard to properly maintaining his “affordable” apartments demonstrate all the characteristics of a particularly nasty species of property owner: the slumlord, a term missing from [“Roaches and Broken Locks,” November 3]. He claims to be helping the “most vulnerable” while sucking extra money from tenants and state and federal programs. That is our tax money going to finance the million-dollar addition and renovation on his Colchester mansion. Some decades go, I lived in a Burlington apartment that had water coming through the kitchen ceiling light fixture whenever it rained. We were warned not to lean on the wall in one room because the bricks would bow out. We couldn’t have more than a handful of people on the wooden back porch, which also functioned as our “fire escape.” There was no enforcement, perhaps even no code to enforce. When the landlord sent over a contractor, that person told us that the landlord expected to get off cheaply on the repairs and that he was dreaming. Within a few weeks, there was a mysterious fire engulfing the back porches and the roof. I lost nearly everything. The tenants were all evicted, since the building was unsafe and unlivable due to fire, smoke and water damage. What a coincidence. Slumlords have run the rental scene in 24

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Burlington for decades. What will it take for city, town and state entities to weed out or restrain the bad actors and safeguard tenants for real? And for every landlord to realize that Bove and his ilk are smearing their reputations with the ill treatment of tenants and the theft of grants, loan guarantees and tax credits through noncompliance with terms? Euan Bear

BAKERSFIELD

NURSING PROBLEM ISN’T NEW

Having known and worked with several University of Vermont nurses over the years, I can attest that the use of traveling nurses is neither new nor COVID- N LTO 19 specific [“Health Care DIANA BO : E Premium,” November 3]. IL Rather, it is and has been a piece of the overall disrespect that the medical center has for the nurses. Traveling nurses would be used to cover for staffing shortages due to low wages and retention issues caused by understaffed units and overworked personnel. More generally, Vermont and our nation have a long history of undervaluing the workers who take care of us. In addition to this article, VTDigger.org had one about the lack of mental health workers and resources, and Vermont Public Radio carried a story on school closings due to lack of teachers. What is truly sad is that none of this is new, and nobody should be surprised. UVM nurses have had to strike several times over the years, and they remain underpaid and overworked. Teachers are stressed to the breaking point, and the UVM Medical Center emergency department has, over the years, become a mental health crisis unit with up to 15 patients waiting for a treatment bed — sometimes for weeks. As a therapist, I have learned to believe people when they tell me and show me who they are. How we treat the workers who care for us is a reflection of the values of our state and our society, and I think that is a damn shame. F

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COLCHESTER

SCOTT ON COURSE

[Re Off Message: “State Officials Stress Vigilance, Not Mandates, as COVID-19 Surge Continues,” November 9]: When haying with some friends who enjoy stock-car racing, I asked what kind of

driver Gov. Phil Scott is. They said he was an extremely patient driver who carefully looked for opportunities that could make a difference. This could describe Scott’s method of governing, as well as his approach to the pandemic — one that, even with the increase in COVID-19 cases, has served our state well. At the beginning of the pandemic, when there were so many unknowns, Scott correctly imposed a state of emergency that bypassed our democratic system of checks and balances and allowed him to rule by decree. It was an extreme measure for an exceptional time. To his credit, now that there are vaccines and much more is known about this virus, he is loath to take on this power — a prerequisite to imposing a statewide mask mandate. The opening up of our society was expected to result in more cases, and it has. The Delta variant has exacerbated that. But at this point, with the tools and knowledge we have now, our children need to go back to school, our businesses need to be open and we need to learn to live with this virus that will, in some form or another, be a part of our lives from now on. The governor’s weekly press briefings are a refreshing view of how this democracy and press should work. As with all of life, there are many bumps and no straight lines to where we hope to go. We in Vermont are fortunate indeed to have Scott’s steady hand on the wheel of our government in these challenging times. John Freitag

SOUTH STRAFFORD

IN PRAISE OF ‘NATURAL IMMUNITY’

I appreciate Dr. Mark Levine’s honest answer at the November 9 press conference when asked to explain our state’s record COVID-19 cases despite our record high vaccination rate [Off Message: “State Officials Stress Vigilance, Not Mandates, as COVID-19 Surge Continues,” November 9]. One reason he stated is that we have “low natural immunity.” How could this be? Proudly, we wear masks while sneering at those who go barefaced in the grocery store, and we snub the hardly vaxxed and unmasked Floridians and Texans. In Vermont, we have missed many joyful gatherings for the common good (but we did gather to protest). Yet, we now have THE HIGHEST COVID-19 CASE RATE IN THE COUNTRY. Yes, yelling words! We hid in our homes! I canceled Thanksgiving! We vaccinated, masked and shunned.

Watch a football game in Texas. Eighty thousand people with no masks, no proof of vaccines. Yet, at the Flynn, we are masking and forcing proof of vaccine, only 50 to 75 percent effective as immunity wanes, or proof of a test showing that three days ago someone did not have COVID-19. Not logical. Texans and Floridians have been living life, attending schools unmasked and getting “natural immunity” while we were hiding and creating a culture of fear and division. My solution is that we continue to encourage vaccines and masks but stop worrying about those who do not, and get back to living and fostering our “natural immunity.” Stay home if you feel sick. Wasn’t that always the consensus? It is time to humble ourselves, have grace for others who think differently than we do and move forward. Kendra Bowen

CHARLOTTE

HOT PROSPECTS

How nice to see your recent “sweat bath” piece [“Sweat Equity,” November 10]. It is true that Vermont — and most of the U.S. — has a less vigorous acceptance and understanding of sauna culture than other parts of the world. Perhaps it is time to change that? As a sauna builder, designer and consultant for more than 30 years, I have a unique perspective on how Vermont measures up. While there are areas in North America where generations of Finns and others have built and used saunas as part of their everyday lives, we do not have that legacy. And as to the popular use of sauna, it wasn’t until 1954 that a small group of entrepreneurs started importing sauna heaters — and design know-how — from Finland in order to provide proper sauna in the United States. Sauna has been a cultural necessity — or, at times, a wellness fad to the uninitiated — ever since. In our rural state, our public saunas today tend to be scarce and typically situated at ski resorts, where a combination of revenue streams can help support costs. Most of my work is residential, but I have been involved in 20-plus public projects both here in New England and across the country over the years. Public saunas here tend to be different: less authentic and produced without sufficient planning and programmatic understanding, to the point where the reason for the room is lost. The examples mentioned in the article help us understand that this culture is valuable; access to proper public saunas is important. Good luck! Nils Shenholm

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OBITUARIES, VOWS, CELEBRATIONS

OBITUARIES Jason Christopher Pratt JULY 29, 1974-NOVEMBER 6, 2021 BERLIN, VT.

Jason Christopher Pratt, 47, passed away on the morning of November 6, 2021, at Berlin Meadows in Berlin, Vt., following a 13-year battle with multiple sclerosis. Jason was born on July 29, 1974, in Berlin, Vt., the son of Leslie Charles Pratt and Diane Joan (Dussault) Pratt. He attended Montpelier public schools and graduated from Montpelier High School in 1992. He grew up playing baseball (coached by his dad), skateboarding, BMX biking, playing video games, programming on a Commodore 64, and running around like a ninja and playing outside in the elements with his friends. From a young age, Jason devoured all the music available to a Vermont kid in the 1980s. When he was 14, after learning saxophone, he started playing guitar. The instrument unleashed a superhuman talent matched by a limitless musical curiosity. He had the will and determination to practice until his fingers bled, and within a few years he’d become a formidable and dynamic musician. In the mid-’90s, Jason moved to Burlington, and by 1996 he was rhythm guitarist for the punk-rap band Dysfunkshun. The group released three CDs during his tenure and toured all over the East Coast, playing shows at storied venues including CBGB in New York City and the Bitter End in Portland, Maine. Jason was a member of the Burlington music family during a rich and creative period in the Vermont music scene. He added a layer of smooth, danceable funk to Dysfunkshun’s punk roots that gained the attention of the music industry worldwide, especially with the releases of “Hi Fi Stereotype” and “You’re Soaking in It.” His friendly demeanor won many friends, and his impeccable playing garnered respect from local peers, as well as legends of underground music. After seeing Dysfunkshun’s show at CBGB, Corey Glover of Living Colour said he had never heard anything like it, and he “loved it!” After Dysfunkshun disbanded in late 2002, Jason continued to pursue his art

and grow. He became interested in music production and recording, and he worked with numerous musicians and studios around Vermont. He always continued to tweak his beloved Fender Stratocaster, aka “the Prattocast,” to make it an instrument to match his musical passion and genius. He was an excellent sound engineer and provided sound reinforcement at the legendary 242 Main in Burlington for several years for a generation of young underground bands. After MS stole his ability to play guitar, he switched to the ukulele yet remained immersed in music, as well as podcasting, however and as much as he was able. Later, he spent his time with Rubik’s cubes and decks of cards, learning complex cube algorithms, card gaming theory/ methods, tricks and other sleights of hand. Jason had a powerful stage presence, but he was a kind, smart, perceptive and softspoken person who was loved by many. He was known for his fierce self-reliance, despite the obstacles he faced as the MS progressed. He never complained much and always retained his unique and memorable sense of humor, even until the very end. Jason was predeceased by his parents and leaves behind his brother and sister-in-law, James “Jamie” and Charity (Farquharson) Pratt of Montpelier; two step-nephews, Brennan and Evan Smith, both of Montpelier; stepmother Sharlene Pratt of Berlin; stepbrother Shaun Laflam of Williamstown; stepsister Tanya Chambers of West Topsham; numerous aunts, uncles and cousins; and many beloved friends, ex-girlfriends, ex-bandmates, musical colleagues and acquaintances. In lieu of flowers or cards, please consider making a tax-free donation to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in his name: mssociety.donordrive.com/ campaign/jason-pratt-memorial-fund. As he wished, there will be no public services. Instead, a benefit/memorial show is planned for June or July 2022. We would like to thank the staff at Central Vermont Medical Center and Berlin Meadows (especially Taneka and Stephanie) and all his family, friends and acquaintances for their support and condolences.

John Bloch SEPTEMBER 1, 1938NOVEMBER 6, 2021 MONTPELIER, VT.

John Michael Wesley Bloch, born on September 1, 1938, as the son of Ruth Scanlon Bloch and Leon Bloch, passed away peacefully at home in Montpelier, Vt., on November 6, 2021, having been cared for by his wife, Rebecca Sheppard, for many years. John was a stalwart defender of peace and justice, with an unwavering vision of a society with equal access to education, housing and health care. Born in New York City and raised in Markham, Va., John came to Vermont in 1958 as a student at Goddard College, where he received his BS in history. He later received an MA in community development from Springfield College. Throughout his life, John was a powerful voice for marginalized communities. Early in his career, he took part in the War on Poverty, first in Washington, D.C., then in Columbus, Ind., before settling in Vermont with his first wife, Susan Dwelle, and their three children to direct one of the new federal government Head Start programs, which provided early childhood education to economically disadvantaged children. John’s career trajectory was animated by the possibility of societal transformation, and he touched many lives in his diverse work, which included overseeing the Parent Child Center in Barton, Vt., and Head Start programs throughout New England; working at the Center for Community Change in Washington, D.C.; expanding adult education as an administrator and professor with Vermont Community College, New Hampshire College and Springfield College; running the Morrisville Food Co-op; and creating community

access to telecommunications in central Vermont through work with Orca Media and EC Fiber. He was endlessly fascinated by digital technology and delighted in and heralded the dawn of the personal computing revolution, quickly realizing the transformative potential of the new tools and finding ways to engage them to amplify the impact of his work and organizing. As a person who deeply believed in the power of democracy, John was an iconoclast with a brilliant and curious intellect who held power accountable while putting in the hours and homework required to make change happen. John was instrumental in bringing new leadership to the Washington Electric Co-op, securing federal grant funds to build the Doty Memorial Elementary School in Worcester, Vt., and campaigning tirelessly for the Liberty Union party — sometimes running for office himself. He served as a member of numerous local and national boards, including the Worcester and U-32 school boards, the Barre Historical Society/Old Labor Hall board, Hunger Mountain Co-op, and the Rural Coalition, and he was also a union steward with the Vermont State Employees’ Association. John’s ideal way to relax was to debate politics over good food. He loved to cook, eat and talk about cuisines

of the world, from Chinese dim sum to dilly beans and everything in between. He delighted in looking after his blueberry bushes, savoring Pennsylvania peaches and giving advice on how to ripen tomatoes. His appetite for food was equaled by his voracious reading and love for knowledge and history of social justice movements. Pancakes with a side of bacon, shared with his grandchildren, was an activity that equaled or surpassed any of his culinary exploits and brought sheer bliss to all. Having traversed the 50 states, he also developed a passion for international travel later in life, both to learn about social justice and labor rights initiatives in Argentina, Brazil, China and Mexico, and to visit family in Switzerland, Turkey and Canada. John’s joy of life is celebrated and he is mourned by many friends and family, especially his loving wife and partner, Rebecca Sheppard, and his five children, Colin Bloch (Burlington), Alexia Bloch and her husband Milind Kandlikar (Vancouver, BC), Jared Bloch and his wife Laila Rodriguez (Geneva, Switzerland), Tobias Sheppard Bloch and his wife Daniela Nanau (Queens, N.Y.), and Abraham Sheppard Bloch (incorrigible citizen of the world). He is also survived by seven grandchildren, Anastacia Esparza Bloch, Isabel Esparza Bloch, Emilia Esparza Bloch, Gabriela Rodriguez Bloch, Mira Kandlikar-Bloch, Samir Kandlikar-Bloch and Olivia Bloch. He was predeceased by his daughter Sacha Tanya Bloch. Please consider donating to the Barre Labor Hall or the Southern Poverty Law Center. A celebration of John’s life will be held at the Barre Labor Hall on Sunday, November 14, at 1 p.m. Masks and vaccinations are required.

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Dr. Vanderlyn R. Pine NOVEMBER 23, 1937NOVEMBER 9, 2021 NEW PALTZ, N.Y.

Dr. Vanderlyn R. Pine, 83, a lifelong resident of New Paltz, N.Y., died peacefully at his home on Tuesday, November 9, 2021. We fondly recall Van as a friend to many and a stranger to none. Born in Kingston, N.Y., Van was one of two sons of the late Gordon and Marion Russell Pine. The Pine family established their roots in New Paltz early in the 19th century, and eight generations have called it home. Van viewed his ancestral connection to New Paltz through the eyes of a historian and historic preservationist. He could recount most of the names of the French Huguenots who settled in New Paltz, the houses they built and their particular trade or profession. Van was a warm and demonstrably loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend. He treated everyone with kindness and respect, no matter their station in life. His kids recall how he greeted tollbooth operators as if they were old friends. He was a devoted husband for 30 years to his late wife, Pat. Until her death in 2004, they traveled extensively together throughout the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. He loved a good party and often opened their home to friends, family, and SUNY students and faculty for large and boisterous gettogethers for holidays, family celebrations and impromptu gatherings for any reason whatsoever. As a renowned storyteller, he would describe the sometimes humorous and always engrossing vivid details of events and situations that he, his family, circle of friends, neighbors and colleagues shared together. When his father died suddenly in 1957, Van left Dartmouth College to help operate the Pine Funeral Home. His true calling was

teaching, and he earned his doctorate while operating the business and raising three young boys. He served in the sociology department at SUNY New Paltz from 1970 to 1998. His contributions to the field of death education (thanatology) and the funeral industry are nationally renowned. He served on dozens of boards and commissions, as an expert witness before the Federal Trade Commission, and as an expert in the sociological aspects of disaster response. His innovative methodology of appraising the value of a funeral business was the gold standard in the industry. As a self-taught carpenter, Van practiced and mentored his children in the art of historic preservation, home repairs, painting and property maintenance, often as a way to share their lives together. Once in a while, when they were adolescents, Van would assign his children a house project as the toll for capers so they could pay off their debts. He cherished how homes can help tell the stories of our history and took satisfaction in bringing back older structures that had seen better days. When his children acquired their own homes, Van would frequently visit them with a plan to build, repair or repaint something he’d noticed needed improvement. His imprint on their homes was a unique perfectionism that they all internalized when tending to what they love. Van found great personal satisfaction in mentoring others through sports and education. He was an

assistant football coach at New Paltz High School before his sons were born and stayed active as a high school football referee for years. As a college professor, he served as counselor and friend to hundreds of students who sought his guidance. An inveterate skier, Van founded and taught in the Minnewaska Ski School. He played in the New Paltz men’s softball league well beyond his peers, with his last season in his early fifties. As a loyal alumni of Northwood School, Van served as a trustee for more than 30 years. He relished the chance to sit in his favorite chair watching college football games with whomever would join him in the den, and as his children and their kids grew, he frequently traveled to watch all of them play sports — and may have embellished their exceptional abilities. He expressed his deep love for his family by showing up for many occasions and celebrations. Van is survived by three sons, Gordon K. Pine of New Paltz; Brian Pine and his wife, Liz, of Burlington, Vt.; and Danny Pine and his wife, Chiho, of New Paltz; as well as by two stepdaughters, Paula Agor and her husband, Brian, of Surry, Va., and Brenda Bryan and her husband, Dave, of Andover, Mass; a brother, Tom Pine of New Paltz; 12 grandchildren, Brittany, Gordie, Melissa, Austin, Eli, Mina, Maki, Gates, Flynn, Kai, Bae and Quill; and two great-grandchildren, Jaxson and Bennett. In addition, Van’s first wife and mother of his sons, Peggy Pine of New Paltz, survives, as does his recent companion, Lorry Hetzer of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The family will receive friends at the CopelandHammerl Funeral Home, 162 S. Putt Corners Rd., New Paltz, N.Y., on Sunday, November 14, 2021, from 2 to 6 p.m. Funeral service and interment will be privately held. Copeland-Hammerl Funeral Home is honored to assist the family of Van with the arrangements. Online condolences may be left for the family of Van by visiting copelandhammerl.com.

Georgia (Roy) Eustis JULY 18, 1932-NOVEMBER 6, 2021 BURLINGTON, VT.

Georgia (Roy) Eustis, 89, died on November 6, 2021, in Burlington, Vt. She was born in Cambridge, Mass., the only child of Theodore and Muriel Roy, who met while performing for Ziegfeld’s Follies. Georgia was renowned for her musical talent, her imagination, her entertaining prowess, her amazing writing ability and her steadfast loyalty to friends throughout her life. Her incredible zest for life, curiosity and learning were hallmarks. She lived a full life and never lost her wonder. She attended Chapel Hill Boarding School and studied classical piano during her formative years. At 18, she won the International Young Artists award, which won her admittance to Juilliard. Feeling that she did not want to pursue piano professionally, she instead attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she met her future husband, Arthur G. Eustis, from Waterville, Maine. She was a member of Sigma Kappa and the Colbyettes, an a cappella group for whom she did most of the arrangements. She and Arthur were married in 1954 and moved to Chicago, Ill., when he became Midwest district salesman for Hathaway Shirts, the company he worked for until his death in 1974. The years spent in Chicago were some of her happiest, and the friends made there remained friends throughout her life. They welcomed four daughters there before moving to New York, when Arthur was made vice president of sales. Living in Larchmont, they welcomed a son through adoption in 1962. That was also the year the family started spending summers in Maine at a camp on East Pond, a time of year and place that the family treasured for the next 40 years. In New York, Georgia became very active in St. James the Less Church in the choir, in the vestry and teaching Sunday School. Her Episcopal faith was a vital part of her life and one that gave her great strength in good times and bad. She became a

Girl Scout leader when her girls were old enough to join. Somehow, she also found time to earn a degree from Columbia in Japanese literature! A good company wife, she excelled at entertaining the many salesmen and buyers who worked with Arthur. She and Arthur were also famous for their theme costume parties (“Come as your favorite sport,” “Come as your favorite song”). As she never had a birthday party growing up, she outdid herself putting on themed and costume parties for her children’s birthdays. Once the children were older, she started teaching at a preschool attended by many children of UN diplomats, where her imagination was welcomed. Upon Arthur’s early death in 1974, she moved the family to Falmouth, Maine, and continued working in preschool there. After a few years, she received divine inspiration to become a nurse. So, after attending nursing school full time while raising four children still at home, she became an RN — just weeks before her 50th birthday! She nursed in both Maine and Florida until she retired at age 62, when she moved to Florida full time. After retiring, she taught practical nursing in Florida and continued teaching in Albuquerque, N.M., until age 85. In 2016, Georgia moved to Vermont, where she lived the remainder of her life. Georgia was predeceased by her parents; her husband, Arthur; and her infant daughter Paula; as well as other family members. She is survived by her daughters Kimberly (William) Rockwood, Lisanne Eustis and Melinda (Perry) Williams; and her son, Galen Eustis. She also leaves two grandsons, Josh (Hannah) and Jake (Jordan Harvey) Eustis. She also leaves her brother-in-law, Jon Eustis (Paula); nieces and nephews; and their families. Per Georgia’s wishes, services will be private. As Georgia was a three-time survivor of cancer, donations in her honor may be made to the American Cancer Society, 55 Day Lane, Williston, VT 05495. ElmwoodMeunier is in charge of the services.

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Lifting Spirits

A new wave of Vermont distillers pushes legislators to modernize liquor laws BY J O R D AN BAR RY • jbarry@sevendaysvt.com

ermonters buy a lot of Barr Hill Gin. So much, in fact, that Caledonia Spirits’ awardwinning gin — distilled from Vermont honey on Gin Lane in Montpelier — was the third-highest-selling liquor in the state of Vermont between July and October 2021. What beat it out? Two different sizes of Tito’s Handmade Vodka, a self-described “craft-distilled” national brand whose scale far surpassed any reasonable definition of “craft” or “handmade” a couple of decades ago. Barr Hill was the only Vermont-distilled product to make the top 25. When Todd Hardie launched Caledonia Spirits in Hardwick in 2011, Seven Days called his team “participants in a modern distilling revival in Vermont.” At the time, 14 businesses were licensed to distill in the state, up from three in 2004. “Within a decade, Vermont may well be known as a craft-distilling epicenter,” the story predicted. But a decade later, is it? Vermont has 26 licensed distillers today. That, and the scene on Gin Lane on a 28

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recent Saturday, would hint yes. Like bees to honey — or honey-based booze — locals and tourists alike swarmed to Caledonia Spirits’ bustling tasting room. They waited in a line out the door to sip Tom Cat oldfashioneds, barrel-aged negronis and, yes, bees’ knees. Alcohol sales as a whole increased during the pandemic, including a 13 percent spike in liquor sales, according to the Vermont Department of Liquor and Lottery. That pandemic bump, driven largely by sales of national brands, even led to a liquor shortage this past summer. Still, it’s been a hard time for Vermont’s distillers. In addition to retail sales at liquor stores, many rely on out-of-state tourism to fill tasting rooms that have been largely shuttered for the past 20 months. In May, Caledonia Spirits president and head distiller Ryan Christiansen testified before the Vermont House Committee on General, Housing and Military Affairs, which considers matters related to alcoholic beverages. He painted a bleak picture of the industry. “Our distillers are struggling,” he said. Christiansen urged the committee to

consider an amendment that would allow Vermont’s spirits producers to ship their products directly to consumers. Under Vermont’s control-state model, the state strictly manages the distribution and sale of liquor. Distillers can sell directly to customers at tasting rooms and farmers markets. Otherwise, their products are only available through state-contracted 802 Spirits liquor stores. Like most Vermont distilleries at that point in the pandemic, Caledonia Spirits was closed to the public. So access to customers — especially those in big, lucrative markets out of state — was “virtually gone,” Christiansen said. “You know how powerful tourism is in our industry,” Christiansen said. “If you take that away, it’s pretty brutal.” Large national companies that specialize in shipping booze to customers’ front doors were skirting Vermont’s system. “It’s irresponsible to ignore that we’ve lost control of our control state,” Christiansen said. Vermont’s liquor control system, like similar ones in 16 other states, is a product of Prohibition — or at least the end of it.

When the Volstead Act was repealed on December 5, 1933, the states had to figure out how to sell booze. Most opted for a license-state model, which leaves sale and distribution to the private sector. Vermont opted for a stricter approach, which was unsurprising. In 1853, nearly 70 years before Prohibition started in 1920, Vermont became the second state in the nation to outlaw alcohol — following Maine, where the temperance movement began. Alcohol was illegal in the Green Mountains until 1902 — hence Vermont’s robust history of smuggling. To this day, the state’s Division of Liquor Control — part of the Department of Liquor and Lottery — is responsible for the sale of hard liquor at the wholesale level, contracting with 78 agency stores and setting prices. However, beer and wine are distributed by private-sector wholesalers and available at almost any gas station or grocery store — currently some 907 locations throughout Vermont. Vermont’s statute, Title 7, lays out very different rules depending on whether people make wine, beer or spirits, noted

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Wendy Knight, who was appointed deputy commissioner of the DLC in April 2021. Knight served as the commissioner of the state’s Department of Tourism and Marketing from 2017 to 2019. “And what I’ve heard over and over, since 2017, is a desire to have parity,” she said. Historically, spirits were viewed as more dangerous due to their higher concentration of alcohol. But a new wave of distillers is setting up shop in Vermont. They’re sourcing local ingredients, looking to promote tourism and creating innovative ready-to-drink products. And they are increasingly calling for the state to modernize the laws they say are holding them back and preventing growth in the industry. “I think public servants need to be open to fresh thinking,” Knight said.

Emily Harrison in the WhistlePig rye field

CANNED RESPONSE

A new product from WhistlePig farm and distillery hit the shelves last month. But if customers look closely at which shelves, they’ll notice that the four-packs of PiggyBack Rye Smash cans are widely available anywhere beer and hard seltzer are sold, rather than only at liquor stores with other canned, ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktails made by the likes of Absolut Vodka and Jack Daniel’s. When this reporter placed a pack each of the three PiggyBack Rye Smash varieties on the counter at Vergennes Wine & Beverage — which sells liquor through one point-of-sale system as an 802 Spirits outlet, and beer and wine through another — the cashier remarked, “I don’t know which register to use.” The RTD beverages are made from rye grown on WhistlePig’s Shoreham farm combined with barrel-aged fruit. The goal: to “take a cocktail that is traditionally rye and bring it into a can in a more sessionable drink,” said Meghan Ireland, WhistlePig’s chief blender — meaning you can have a few over time and not get blitzed. Ireland spent a year behind the scenes developing the 8 percent Blackberry Lemon Fizz, Session Citrus Mint and Fresh Ginger Lime flavors. The result is something you’d want to drink while basking on a boat or next to a roaring bonfire: refreshing and gulpable. Besides the fruit, the key difference from WhistlePig’s typical rye whiskey products is the base: “It’s malt-based,” like beer, Ireland said, not spirit-based. The rye flavor is there, but without the typical whiskey bite. That distinction means that, also like beer, PiggyBack Rye Smash can be sold in hundreds of locations and gets WhistlePig’s name out in front of new customers. “Seeing it in my Hannaford now is

Distiller-blender Mitch Mahar at WhistlePig

Farming and distilling go way back. E MILY H AR R IS O N

super weird,” Ireland said. “I do a double take when I’m walking around the store.” The RTD cocktail category was growing steadily before rising sharply during the pandemic, Deputy Commissioner Knight said. In 2019, 6,300 cases of RTD beverages were sold. That figure shot up to 10,581 cases in 2020: a 69 percent difference. By comparison, sales of all spirits combined grew by 7.6 percent in the same period. “And we’re not seeing that growth let up,” Knight added. With the holidays still to come, cocktail category sales are already well over 12,000 cases in 2021. “During the pandemic, consumers were not able to drink their cocktails at their favorite local bar or restaurant, so they started drinking them at home,” she said. Premixed RTD cocktails take the guesswork — and the measuring, shaking or stirring — out of home bartending. They’re conveniently packaged in containers that are easy to take on the go, and many have a lower alcohol content compared to full-strength cocktails, which can hit 35 percent if you’re sipping a dry martini. According to a June 2021 report from California-based Grand View Research, the global RTD cocktail market was valued at $714.8 million in 2020. It’s expected to grow by 12 percent annually over the next seven years, with canned products increasing the fastest and spirit-based products holding the largest revenue share. “Changing lifestyle choices to improve health and the trend of responsible drinking is expected to boost the product demand,” the report stated. The rising local demand for RTD spirit cocktails such as Mad River Distillery’s maple-cask rum, bourbon and rye-based old-fashioneds, as well as demand for their malt-based cousins, is presenting new challenges for legislators — not to mention liquor store clerks. “You have this convergence of the malt and spirits sectors,” Knight said. “It’s causing us, as regulators and legislators, to really rethink how we approach the tax and regulatory framework.”

OUT OF CONTROL?

WhistlePig’s new PiggyBack Rye Smash fits the growing consumer demand for lower-alcohol RTD canned products. But to reach new grocery store outlets, the distillery had to develop an entirely separate production process so that the beverage would fit within the state’s rigid distribution guidelines. “Vermont spirits manufacturers are pushing to have canned low-alcohol, WhistlePig distillery in Shoreham LIFTING SPIRITS SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 17-24, 2021

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spirit-based products be distributed outside of the DLL,” Rep. Matt Birong (D-Vergennes) told Seven Days in June. “They’d like to expand their product lines, but only being able to sell in roughly 80 stores instead of [a] thousand is super limiting to their market.” Last session, Birong sponsored a bill, H.313, which extended pandemic to-go cocktail sale provisions for two years, among other alcohol-related modernizations. Another bill that would allow these products to be distributed and sold as widely as beer and wine was a hot topic during the most recent legislative session. Introduced by Rep. Tommy Walz (D-Barre City) in 2020, H.178 (and the concurrent S.68 introduced in the Senate) proposed creating a new category within Title 7 defining “low-alcohol spirits beverages” as between 1 and 16 percent alcohol, packaged in metal cans containing fewer than 24 fluid ounces. Walz described the bill as a “product of how fluid the market is and all the creative stuff that’s going on.” In a meeting of the Senate Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs Committee in April, former deputy commissioner Gary Kessler testified that removing these products — and a growing category — from the DLC system would represent about a $300,000 loss in net revenue for the department. (The DLC grossed $87.9 million in fiscal year 2020 and contributed $31.8 million to the state’s general fund.) “That’s a very territorial view,” Knight said. “I look at it more broadly: Just because you might take RTDs out of the DLC doesn’t mean you’re not going to recoup [that revenue].” Sales and excise taxes would still be in effect, she noted, and with more than 2,000 new potential retailers, the numbers would be “basically a trade-off of revenue.” “And guess what?” Knight added. “If you’re helping the private sector grow, then you’re going to see [increases in] property taxes, business taxes and personal taxes, too.” At least seven control states, including New Hampshire and Maine, let licensed wholesalers distribute spirits-based RTDs. Clare Buckley, who represents the Vermont Wholesale Beverage Association, testified that a similar change here would keep Vermont’s retailers competitive with border states, while providing distillers with the scale they need to succeed financially and create jobs and tourism opportunities — just as craft beer has. And there’s precedent for similar 30

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legislative change in the beer world: In 2008, at the urging of the Vermont Brewers Association and others, the state raised the cap for selling high-alcohol beers outside of the DLC from 8 to 16 percent — meaning those beers could be sold in grocery stores. Some legislators were concerned that RTDs might be more attractive to young consumers, due to their array of sometimes sweet, fruity flavors. But the biggest sticking point among legislators and within the various beverage industry representatives was whether 16 percent is

really “low-alcohol” and whether a different cap — either 8, 10, 12 or 14 percent — would be more appropriate. That’s where the legislature left off at the end of the last session and where they’ll pick things up again in 2022, Rep. Birong said — along with the question of direct-to-consumer shipping. At ArtsRiot in Burlington, that legislative delay created more time for research and development. Canned cocktails are a huge part of owner Alan Newman’s plan for the business’ new distillery. But as Newman told Seven Days in May, he’s

“not a fan of the control-state concept” and has no “real interest in selling through the DLC.” A cofounder of Magic Hat Brewing and a charter member of the Vermont Brewers Association, Newman is no stranger to tussles with the state over alcohol regulations. “Frankly, if Vermont doesn’t change the law, I’m going to have to go to another state that doesn’t have control to allow me to invest enough money with the chance of recouping it, because I’ll have the chance of getting scaled,” Newman said. He’s biding his time to see what the legislature does in the next session. In the meantime, distillery general manager Joe Buswell is taking advantage of the takeout cocktail extension, developing canned, lower-alcohol versions of popular cocktails on the ArtsRiot menu and selling them at the restaurant and to-go. “We’re saying, ‘OK, what of those successful drinks can we translate to get in front of people when they can’t have a six-ingredient cocktail?’” Buswell said. “And that’s the fun part.” The distillery is not yet up and running due to construction and shipping delays. Eventually, it will have a 45-gallon still and a 200-gallon still set up in the former South End Arts + Business Association office attached to ArtsRiot. For now, Buswell is playing with ingredients from the LIFTING SPIRITS

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restaurant’s bar and canning them in-house on a bench-top canner. Drawing on his experience working for Caledonia Spirits and with other Vermont distillers, Buswell has landed on a handful of cocktails that feel “dialed-in,” including the Free Spirit, with tequila, crème de cassis, ginger juice, lime and agave; the Queen Rhubee, with gin, lemon, honey and a rhubarb-hibiscus-angelica root soda made by Jess Messer of Savouré in Bristol; a whiskey highball with “bourbon and H2O”; and a take on the trendy Ranch Water combo of tequila, mineral water and lime. The operation on Pine Street is intended to be small — a “lab for experimentation,” Buswell said, following the brewpub model. Right now that means about 300 slim, 12-ounce cans at a time. “And that’s a monster run,” he added with a laugh.

THE WEIGHT OF WATER

When Buswell fires up the stills at ArtsRiot, the distillery will join Burlington’s Pine Street urban beverage mecca, which also includes Zero Gravity Craft Brewery, Queen City Brewery and Citizen Cider — not to mention Switchback Brewing and Burlington Beer on nearby Flynn Avenue. But the industry’s rural connections are growing, too. A group of farmers, distillers, brewers and legislators is currently preparing a bill for the upcoming session that would support the expansion of on-farm distilling and brewing in the state. “Farming and distilling go way back,” said Emily Harrison, WhistlePig’s distillery manager and one of the advocates working on the bill. “Historically, it was a process where the farmer could ferment their grain — and either make beer or make distillate — and feed the waste to their animals.” That cyclic process was cut off during Prohibition, Harrison explained. On-farm brewing and distilling would help bring it back and encourage farmers to grow more barley, rye, corn, hops, botanicals, and other brewing and distilling ingredients. “The success of the Vermont craft brewing and craft distilling industry could help support Vermont farms in this harmonious way, and that would help support the state’s healthy working landscape,” said Jacob Keszey, the farm and land director at Nordic Farm in Charlotte, who is also working on the proposed legislation. Rep. Birong introduced legislation, H.781, in January 2020 to create a separate “farm-based manufacturer’s license” for brewers, vintners and distillers who are “located on a farm and produce beverages 32

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that are made a majority by weight from ingredients produced by that farm.” Farm-based distilling has fueled growth in the craft spirits industry in New York State for more than a decade. In 2007, New York lawmakers passed the Farm Distillery Act, creating a new license for distillers producing fewer than 75,000 gallons per year while using at least 75 percent New York State ingredients. That legislation, along with the state’s 2014 Craft Act, lowered the barrier to entry for farm distillers: If they meet both the size

cider and wine, where the liquid comes naturally from apples or grapes. The court decision was the result of an Act 250 appeal by WhistlePig and its founder Raj Bhakta, who is no longer associated with the company. Bhakta was seeking an agricultural exemption from the Act 250 permitting process for WhistlePig’s farm and distillery in Shoreham. In order to get it, the company needed to prove that more than 50 percent of the ingredients in its farm-distilled rye whiskey were grown or produced on the farm.

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and sourcing requirements, the license fee is $938 for 36 months, instead of the $50,800 required for a Class A distiller’s license — and they can label their products “New York State liquor.” As of November 9, the New York State Liquor Authority lists 161 active farm distillery licenses. With New York’s model, and other nearby states such as Connecticut and Massachusetts adopting on-farm distilling laws of their own, Vermont legislators have plenty of inspiration close to home. One challenge that the updated legislation will address is unique to Vermont, though. A 2015 Vermont Superior Court decision ruled that, when determining whether whiskey is an agricultural product, water counts — and water isn’t a farmproduced ingredient. “That puts people who use grain as one of their main inputs at a disadvantage, because water has to be added to grain in order to make it a liquid,” Harrison explained. That’s a stark contrast with

Water is essential to the malting and mashing steps of distillation and is used to dilute the spirit to reach the desired proof before bottling, unless the product is at undiluted cask strength. So counting it as an ingredient would make it nearly impossible for distillers to produce a grain-based spirit that fits the “agricultural product” definition. Even WhistlePig’s recently released Beyond Bonded FarmStock Rye, which is the distillery’s first product made entirely with rye grown on its 500-acre Shoreham property, wouldn’t qualify.

GRAIN TO GLASS

Beyond the existential water question, Keszey and others are also looking at incentivizing the stuff that would count for distillers and brewers: Vermont-grown ingredients. In New York, farm distillers are required to use at least 75 percent state-grown

ingredients. In Connecticut, 25 percent of ingredients must be grown on-farm. Vermont is exploring how to incentivize local ingredients, but details are still TBD. Any incentives should take into account how much Vermont’s farmers can grow and how ancillary businesses like the malthouse at Nordic Farm can fulfill the demand. Flexibility will be key, Harrison and Keszey acknowledged. “You’ve got to keep in mind — and we’ve experienced it at WhistlePig — you have bad crop years; you have good crop years,” Harrison said. “You don’t want to disincentivize the farmer or the distiller from trying new, more sustainable crop methods and doing what’s right for the land, even if it’s sacrificing some yield.” “With the decline of dairy, we need multiple new market sectors to grow to replace it if we’re going to have all of our farms employed,” Will Raap, the founder of Gardener’s Supply and the Intervale Center, told Seven Days. Raap is in the process of purchasing Nordic Farm and aims to close on the sale in mid-December. “Nordic is the epitome of a challenge that many farms in Vermont have, but it’s exaggerated,” Raap said. His vision for the conserved 580-acre former dairy on Route 7 in Charlotte with its 40,000 square-foot malthouse involves hosting a “multiplex” of agricultural businesses on-site — including a WhistlePig tasting room. Combining on-farm distilling with agritourism offerings — the classic combination of tasting and tour — is also an important path forward for farm viability, Raap said. About 55,000 cars a day roll past Nordic Farm’s red-roofed hilltop barn; he hopes to draw a few in to taste the whiskey, see rye growing in the fields, check out the malthouse and learn about the process from seed to sip. “Like a mini Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory,” Raap said. Distilling is “the fifth or 10th new market that has developed in support of the new Vermont agriculture,” he added. But it fits the Vermont brand, and “with high margins and value-added [products], that’s the only way we get to be a farm state long-term.” In Rep. Birong’s mind, opportunities for the distilling industry parallel Vermont’s success with local food over the past 20 or so years, especially in promoting tourism to tasting rooms and production facilities, whether they’re in majestic rural areas or in town centers. Said Birong: “It’s an easy marketing transition to be like, ‘We do all this with our beer industry, our food or agriculture. But hey, check out what we’re doing with spirits, too.’” m LIFTING SPIRITS

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Alex von Pfeiffer of Village Garage Distillery

REVVED UP: Village Garage Parks in Downtown Bennington When Glen Sauer first shared his distillery dream at a family dinner on Christmas Eve of 2018, it was more a joke about making moonshine in the garage. “I said, ‘I’m going to tap all the maple trees on our hill, figure out a way to make white lightning with the sap, sling it out of my ’54 Chevy sedan and be an outlaw,” Sauer recalled. “That wasn’t such a great idea with a wife and two kids,” he continued, “but from across the table, my wife’s uncle just gave me a look.” As it turned out, that uncle, Matt Cushman, shared Sauer’s dream — though his version was a retirement plan filled with 10-year-old bottles of bourbon. Three years later, Sauer and Cushman have set up shop at Village Garage Distillery in downtown Bennington. After a meticulous renovation, they’ve turned an old garage that housed highway equipment into the state’s newest distillery and the only one operating in Bennington County. Both cofounders are Bennington natives and eighth- or ninth-generation Vermonters, depending on whether you count the time when New York and New Hampshire were still fighting over the state, Sauer joked. 34

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From left: Alex von Pfeiffer, Ryan Scheswohl and Glen Sauer

The rest of the Village Garage team, head distiller Ryan Scheswohl and head of customer experience Alex von Pfeiffer, are recent transplants. Scheswohl came to Bennington from his native Pennsylvania, where he was a distiller at gin-focused Philadelphia Distilling. Von Pfeiffer, who will run the distillery’s on-site tasting room, is from Australia

by way of New York City — and some of Manhattan’s most respected bars. Now, they each live within blocks of the downtown distillery. For von Pfeiffer, the setup is almost too quaint and perfect. He jokes that he’s waiting for the ceiling tile from The Truman Show to hit him and snap him out of his idyll, especially as he watches Sauer make his preferred oldfashioned handshake deals. “To me, this is life imitating art,” he said. “I grew up watching American movies, and when my family and I moved in here, the neighbors were knocking on the door with cookies. People wave in the car — it’s what’s on the brochure.” Bennington’s location in southwestern Vermont is convenient for tourists — roughly three hours from New York City or Boston. But until recently, Bennington County’s craft beverage culture has lagged behind the rest of the state. Now, Bennington has three breweries, Village Garage and a cidery soon to open. “It’s going to be a turning point and an upswing for this southwest corner,” Sauer said. “Geographically, we’re the gateway. If you’re coming up to go to the ski resorts, we’re right here. We want to get people back into our downtown to let it thrive again and just make it fun.”

Village Garage’s first release — a bourbon made with a 60-40 blend of Vermont corn and rye — came out of the still long before Sauer and Cushman’s fateful Christmas dinner. It’s been aging in American white oak barrels for five years. Because the aging process for whiskey takes years, sourcing is common practice for startup distilleries. Nora GanleyRoper and Adam Polonski of Lost Lantern Whiskey, an independent bottler based in Weybridge, helped Village Garage find the bourbon at a distillery in northern Vermont when it was 3 years old. “We moved it home and just continued the same recipe to keep things consistent,” Sauer said. “So that’s how we’ve got stuff in bottles now. We love it, and we love that it’s never left the state.” The bourbon has a peppery spice thanks to its high rye content, but the corn’s sweet, smooth notes are still front and center. The 13 scattered stars of the Green Mountain Boys flag are on the label, driving home the product’s Vermont roots. The distillery has started barreling its in-house bourbon, and bottles will hit the market in a few years “when they feel right,” Scheswohl said. Village Vodka is available now; Village Rye Whiskey and a smoked-maple American whiskey are next to be released. The tasting room attached to the distillery has yet to open due to pandemic-related equipment delays. When it does, Scheswohl will make small batches of “fun stuff,” including gin, rum, absinthe, amari and herbal liqueurs to supply the bar. Village Garage is currently open for bottle sales — just knock on the garage door. The 75-seat tasting room space has a view into the distillery, and tours will be a big part of the business, von Pfeiffer said. For Scheswohl, Village Garage’s biggest draw is the opportunity to craft spirits using local ingredients. He’s been distilling four times a week for about four months now, using water from nearby Bolles Brook and a four-day, open-top fermentation to capture unique flavors and acid profiles of wild yeast before distilling with the 500-gallon Vendome copper still. All the corn and rye that Village Garage uses is sourced from Grembowicz Farm in North Clarendon. “I asked for 70,000 pounds of rye — it’s a 600-acre farm, so they have more than enough to supply us — and we’re locked in, locked and loaded,” Scheswohl said. “They see the value in selling to the industry here, and hopefully we can turn other people on to it, too, to help them out.” JO RDAN BARRY

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race Kline was extra busy in late October and early November. The 17-year-old Rice Memorial High School senior from South Hero was wrapping up rowing season, working on college applications and staying on top of her six courses, including two advanced placement classes. Nevertheless, she added to her schedule auditions and rehearsals for Stunt Nite, an annual Rice theatrical production that culminates with performances at the Flynn Main Stage in Burlington during Thanksgiving week. “At Rice, you’re the lame one if you don’t do Stunt Nite,” Kline said. Rice students — and behind-thescenes elders — have been putting on Stunt Nite for 91 years. This year, 340 of the South Burlington Catholic high school’s 400 students are participating, according to organizers. The event is a competition among the four classes, whose costumed students perform acts with singing, dancing and comedy before an audience of family, friends, alumni and judges. During recent rehearsals at school, masked kids could sneak peeks of each other practicing routines with props that included umbrellas, suitcases and beach balls. The theme of each parent-scripted show remains top secret until the dress rehearsal at the Flynn — held this Friday, November 19. The public can attend matinee and evening performances on Tuesday, November 23. After a Stunt Nite-less 2020 due to COVID-19, students say they’re excited for its return. “It feels like we’ve been away from it so long,” senior Caitlin Balón said during a recent rehearsal. “But I think we all jumped back into the craziness of Stunt Nite like it happened yesterday.” “We want to win bad,” her classmate Kline said. “This is our year to shine. It’s all you dream about since your freshman year.” The production dates back to May 1929, when Cathedral High School, Rice’s predecessor, hosted an event called Vaudeville Nite. The show was a hit, so a second one was presented in November of that year, establishing the fall tradition. As a clip under the heading “Amusements” in the May 18, 1929, edition of the Burlington Free Press revealed: “The

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Cathedral High school auditorium was packed to the doors last night at the vaudeville entertainment staged by the members of the school student body. There was action every moment and the students displayed a degree of talent unusual for high school age.” Stunt Nite is rich in tradition and big on rules. The former includes a pizza party at school after the performance, as the judges’ scores are tabulated and students await the midnight announcement of the winner. Meanwhile, parents do a little partying of their own.

“I wouldn’t miss it,” said Jerry Tarrant, 55, Rice class of 1984. “It’s a very fun community environment. We shoot out of the Flynn and grab a quick beer [at RJ’s] between the shows.” Better known for his prowess on the hockey rink than onstage in high school, Tarrant nonetheless remembers singing “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” with his friends at Stunt Nite. A state hockey title eluded him in high school, but Tarrant’s class scored three consecutive Stunt Nite victories. “It was a big deal,” he recalled. “We had some talented kids — I was not one of them.” Stunt Night regulations and guidelines can be found in a 32-page handbook compiled by the show’s director, Catherine Metropoulos of Charlotte. She’s the mother of three former Rice students and grandmother of eight. “My grandson is a freshman at CVU, and it’s killing me,” said Metropoulos, who has directed Stunt Nite for 20 years. Her duties range from ensuring that each class has a full slate of volunteers to selling ads for the program and selecting the judges, who remain anonymous but must be familiar with the event.

Metropoulos bakes trays of baklava and cookies for the Flynn tech crew. But she’s not interested in a thank-you present from Rice. In lieu of flowers or chocolate, she asks that the school purchase something in her name for the students, such as books for the library. “Stunt Nite is for the kids” is Metropoulos’ refrain. But that doesn’t mean it’s a casual affair. “It’s very professional,” she said. “I have high expectations.” The guidebook informs Stunt Niters that each class’ show must be no shorter than 25 minutes and no longer than 30, or the cast will be penalized. Rehearsal is limited to 21 hours. Costume changes are disallowed, unless they occur onstage with permission from the director. Judges score on originality, humor, story flow and group talent. In the interest of promoting originality, four pages of the handbook list songs that have been performed at Stunt Nite over the past 20 years. Scriptwriters might want to steer clear of “Techno Jingle Bells,” “Achy Breaky Heart” and “Werewolves of London.” One way to ensure originality is to have a 16-year-old write a song, as did Catherine Viner of Shelburne, who’s been composing since fifth grade. She’ll perform her song “Into Pieces” on voice and guitar in the junior class show. “Stunt Nite is a magical experience,” Viner said. “Even if you don’t think you’re good at anything, and you’re nervous, you make so many friends. … It’s really special to come together with your classmates and make something you’re proud of and show it to thousands of people.” Current students and alumni say building friendships is a defining feature of Stunt Nite. Senior Aaron Grenon, 17, of Milton, said Stunt Nite is a chance to get together with kids you might not hang out with and “have a really good time.” “After a year off, I think we are all roaring and ready to win,” Grenon said. Mindful of not revealing too much about the senior show, Grenon said it’s mysterious with “amazing comedy.” Dave Mount, 17, a senior from Essex Junction, called Stunt Nite “a very unifying experience.” “I didn’t come here because Rice was a Catholic school,” Mount said one night while outside the school gym, where seniors were rehearsing. “I came here

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the class of ’66 was winless in four Stunt Nite competitions. Her younger sister, Christine Anderson, 70, belonged to a class that triumphed four straight years. The string of defeats hasn’t tarnished Johnson’s happy tap-dancing memories. Back then, each class at Rice had about 300 kids, and Stunt Nite dress rehearsal was held on Thanksgiving. Walsh remembers her mother carving turkey at the Thanksgiving dinner table and almost simultaneously sewing sequins on her daughters’ costumes. A retired kindergarten teacher at Mater Christi School in Burlington, Johnson has been a Stunt Nite judge — a role she said was far more demanding than dancing with friends — and she’s watched her former students perform. But she won’t be in the audience this year. “I’m waiting for my grandson, in seventh grade, to be in it,” Walsh said. “And then I’ll go back.” m

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because it was a good school. Stunt Nite allowed me to break out and build new friendships.” However, he noted that the adultwritten material can sometimes be “difficult for some of the students to connect with.” The writers sometimes employ “tropes about high school students” to appeal to an older audience, he said. His coach — the Stunt Nite term for the director of a show — is Clem Potvin. A 1979 graduate of Rice, Potvin is in his 14th year volunteering as a coach. He started when his son Isaac, now 29, was a first-year. Potvin has coached the current group of seniors since they were ninth graders. “Last time I saw these kids, they were sophomores,” he said. “They’re taller than I am now. I think they really missed it, and they’re a little more appreciative this time around.” Maybe appreciation for Stunt Nite grows over time. Tarrant, the ’84 alum, thinks of his own son, Cole, who graduated from Rice in 2020 — the year without Stunt Nite. “I probably missed that night of Stunt Nite for my son more than anything,” Tarrant said. “He’ll never get that back.” Mary Ellen Johnson, née Walsh, 73, of

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n June 2020, Chris Spencer and Erin Wolcott moved from Burlington and Middlebury to their new house in Vergennes. Eager to get to know their neighbors and their new community, they started attending city council meetings, which were being held virtually due to the pandemic. The couple quickly found themselves absorbed in a municipal drama more contentious than any reality TV show. It involved discussions about racially biased policing, creating a civilian oversight commission of the Vergennes Police Department and reducing the law enforcement budget, which at the time accounted for more than a third of the city’s operating expenses. “I thought it was great,” recalled Spencer in a recent interview. “I really commended our city government for tackling this really difficult conversation. Unfortunately, it really snowballed from there and became very polarizing.” Indeed, by late July, the mayor and three city councilors had resigned, and Vergennes’ government effectively ground to a halt. Spencer, 31, a freelance filmmaker who previously worked as a videographer and editor at Vermont PBS, and Wolcott, 34, an assistant professor of economics at Middlebury College, set out to unpack the history of addressing racial bias by police in Vermont’s smallest city of 2,600 residents, 96 percent of whom are white. The result is The Price of Safety, a new 54-minute documentary told almost exclusively in the voices of Vergennes residents and current and former government officials. Much of its debate stems from a 2017 report by University of Vermont professor of economics Stephanie Seguino, who found that, statewide, police were far more likely to stop, search, ticket and/or arrest Black motorists than white ones. According to Seguino’s analysis, Vergennes had one of the highest rates of racial disparities in Vermont. The Price of Safety is Spencer and Wolcott’s first feature-length documentary together and is by far Spencer’s longest. Wolcott, who’d never worked on a film before, helped compile much of its data and conducted many of its interviews. In addition to their conversations with current and former government officials, 38

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Spencer and Wolcott relied on historical footage of past city council meetings. And, because the pandemic limited where he could film, Spencer flew a drone over the city to capture some spectacular aerial footage. The effect creates a compelling visual metaphor — an overview, if you will, of how Vergennes fits into the landscape of national debates about racial bias and police funding. Seven Days spoke with Spencer and Wolcott ahead of the film’s premiere this Saturday, November 20, at the Vergennes Opera House. SEVEN DAYS: Despite its contentious subject matter, The Price of Safety presents this issue in a very dispassionate tone. Did being newcomers provide you with emotional distance?

CHRIS SPENCER: It definitely helped. We came in with a fresh perspective. We didn’t have the baggage of having lived here for a decade plus, and we didn’t have a side, per se. We just saw that there was an issue in our community, and we quickly latched on to it. The people who live here are very passionate and engaged, and that’s what we really love. Unfortunately, sometimes people have a hard time having conversations with others if there’s that historical context, and it creates a veil of not being able to think critically about the issues at hand. SD: The film never mentions the defund-the-police movement by name, even though, essentially, that’s what it’s all about. Did you deliberately avoid that catchphrase? ERIN WOLCOTT: We interviewed about a dozen community members and city and state elected officials, and that language didn’t come up in any of the interviews. So we didn’t intentionally avoid it. It just wasn’t how people in Vergennes at the time were talking about what was going on with the police department. But I do think it’s interesting how much of what was happening in Vergennes was mirroring national conversations about police budgets.

SD: The film also avoids any reference to national politics or party affiliations. Why? CS: We intentionally tried to stay as objective as possible for two reasons. One, we want to retain our house and stay friendly with our neighbors. It didn’t seem like a constructive conversation to be talking in such a politicized environment about these topics, because we knew that would turn off many people in Vergennes. Two, we knew from prior conversations and recorded city council meetings that, when these topics come up, there’s always a criticism involved, especially with the racial bias component: Is the data correct? Is some external person coming in to demolish the vitality of our community and make us look terrible? We tried so hard to make sure that everything we represented in the film was bulletproof in terms of criticism. We didn’t want to put our own spin on something, because we didn’t want people in our community to point to it and say, “Look, there’s their hidden agenda!” We want people to watch this film and gain a better understanding of what was going on and, at the end of the film, arrive at their own conclusions. SD: Police Chief George Merkel, who appears in film footage of public meetings, declined your interview request, and there are no other law enforcement voices in the film. Did you try to interview other police officers? CS: We considered it for sure, but we wanted this to remain a local conversation. We could have interviewed the Addison County Sheriff [Peter Newton], but there’s some baggage between him and the chief of police. And we didn’t want to incorporate outside voices that someone could point to and say, “This is just another person they’re adding in to say that Vergennes has all these systemic issues.” We did include a couple of academics just to provide the broader historical perspective and gently nudge people, as if to say, “This is happening in Vergennes, but by no means is this an anomaly. This is happening elsewhere.” SD: Were there elements of this story that you wish you could have explored further?

SD: Do you have any trepidation about the film’s Vergennes premiere? EW: We’re definitely excited about it. I’m personally a little bit nervous. It’s been challenging to work on a contentious film in a community that I want to live in and stay in. But I am also really excited to share this with the community. One of the things

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CS: We could have delved into how Vergennes is a microcosm of the larger national conversation. I wish we could have had [interviews] with our police chief and with [Mayor] Lynn Donnelly. They clearly were very passionate about their perspectives, and I really wanted to hear their justifications for things they had said in prior city council meetings — and their opinions on where Vergennes should go in terms of policing and public safety. Again, we’re newcomers to this city, and it takes a lot of trust to discuss this contentious issue with us and not believe we have a hidden agenda. Unfortunately, there were a lot of other people we reached out to who were just not interested [in being interviewed]. I wish we had had a much more robust conversation and had gotten those other perspectives in there.

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that Chris and I learned is that it’s really important for white Vermonters to speak out and take action and hold ourselves accountable. White people are the vast majority of Vermont and the vast majority of policy makers. We’re the ones with the power, and we’re the ones who can speak up without fearing for our safety. So I think it’s really important to show this film

locally, and we hope other white people walk away and feel inspired to use their power to fight for change. SD: Is there anything else you’d like to add? CS: The other thing we hope viewers take away from watching this film is that we intentionally leave people

feeling uncomfortable. It doesn’t button up nicely. It’s not like we all came to a consensus in Vergennes and could move on. And we did that because, more often than not, with discussions of race it’s easy to say, “Well, we changed this policy. Now we can go on with our lives.” Unfortunately, that often just kicks the can down the road. We really want people to take a hard examination of the situation and recognize that systemic racism is 400-plus years old. This is a huge structural thing that we’re trying to figure out, and one policy change or reading one book or showing up at one protest isn’t enough. You’ve got to stay engaged. m This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

INFO The Price of Safety has its Vergennes premiere on Saturday, November 20, 7:30 p.m., at the Vergennes Opera House. A Q&A afterward will include the filmmakers and University of Vermont professor Stephanie Seguino. Masks and proof of vaccination are required. Proceeds from the $10 suggested donation will benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes. thepriceofsafetyfilm.com

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he menu at Roma’s Butchery in Royalton is, unsurprisingly, on the meaty side. Since the 8-month-old butcher shop added lunch offerings in June, customers have been able to order juicy burgers made from beef ground daily; freshly made pork sausage with beet-carrot slaw on a housebaked potato bun; and housemade liverwurst sandwiched with blistered tomato jam, apple and cheddar between slices of house sourdough. Roast beef sandwiches are made with meat roasted rare in the restaurant kitchen. Brisket is brined, then cooked low and slow to become pastrami. And garlicand-cheese sausage encasing Scotch eggs is ground and seasoned in-house. Prices range from $10 for a pair of Scotch eggs to $16 for a hot pastrami sandwich with a side. There is even a grilled cheese sandwich made with rich head cheese, the classic charcuterie crafted with meat gleaned from a pig’s head, served with cheddar and tangy pickled red onions. But what is most notable about Roma’s Butchery is not highlighted on the menu board. Every meaty option is sourced from Vermont farms — most very close by — and butchered from whole or half animals in Roma’s Break Room, a meat-cutting facility right under the retail shop. The same goes for the impressive array of cuts displayed in the butcher case, from thick country-style pork ribs to marbled T-bone steaks to delicate rack of goat. The butchery’s chef, Dave Webster, said that over his 15-year cooking career he has never had such constant access to meat so local and fresh. When he first decided that he wanted to try making pastrami, he asked butcher-owner Elizabeth Roma, “‘Can I get a brisket?’ She said, ‘I’ll have it for you in half an hour.’” Roma’s business is among a new crop of licensed, custom meat processors who are making more expertly cut, local meat available to satisfy Vermonters’ demand.

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The appetite for local food, including meat, jumped during the initial months of the pandemic, and “it hasn’t stopped,” confirmed Julie Boisvert, meat program section chief at the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. Roma’s Break Room is one of 14 new custom facilities that have opened in the last year and a half, bringing the total number to 38, according to Boisvert. Although custom licenses have limitations, they can help alleviate some processing bottlenecks. They allow butchering of animals slaughtered on farm for the personal use of farmers or for those who have bought animals under Vermont’s on-farm slaughter regulation. This law permits farmers to sell a limited number of live animals direct to consumers. “A lot of people are seeing the need for this kind of business,” Boisvert said. On a mid-October Friday morning in her retail shop, Roma, 38, pointed out a tray of fat-gilded pork chops from Longest Acres Farm in Chelsea. “I get so excited when the Ossabaw comes in,” she said, referring to a celebrated breed of pig. “You see the muscle structure. It’s got a deep pork flavor.” Wearing a cloth face mask printed with knife designs, Roma seemed to be everywhere at once as she hustled around the historic former tavern on Route 14 that houses her multifaceted business. Over a 90-minute period, she hefted pig halves out of a pickup truck, troubleshot a printer problem, used a band saw to break down a lamb and discussed slaughter dates with a farmer from whom she planned to buy a cow. By the time Roma paused for a breath, she had missed the chance to meet an Australian couple who had heard about her shop in Los Angeles and dropped by during a road trip. In the kitchen, Roma took a photo of a Caesar salad and a bowl of pork and beef MEAT MAVEN

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GRINSTEAD first pulled their mobile NOMAD COFFEE trailer into Essex Junction’s Five Corners in August 2016. This winter, the couple will retire the tiny house on wheels and move across the street into a permanent café at 3 Maple Street. The Essex location joins Nomad’s SOUTH END STATION on Flynn Avenue in Burlington and a seasonal location at Sugarbush Resort. Construction is under way in the new Chittenden Crossing apartment complex with a target opening date of January 2022, Sepic said. In the meantime, the trailer will remain open on the green at 3 Main Street. “We’ve been looking at opportunities to do a brick-andmortar in Essex for a while,” Sepic said. “We knew that the food truck-style coffee shop was a great entry, but there are limitations.” Among them, he said, was the natural drop in business each winter. “You don’t necessarily want to stand outside and wait for your coffee when it’s below 30 degrees.” The bright, modern space will serve specialty coffee drinks, made with beans from BRIO COFFEEWORKS, and baked goods. Head baker CHRIS JOHNSON joined the Nomad team over the summer, bringing classic pastry skills that he honed in New York City under chefs Dominique Ansel and Thomas Keller. His buttery, laminated kouign-amann are already drawing people in. “They’re incredible, and you don’t see them a lot locally,” Sepic said of the caramelized, croissant-like Breton-style pastry. “We’re trying to make something that people will want to come

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After a brief closure to paint and freshen the space, Bangkok Bistro in the Alley relaunched on November 3 as BKK IN THE ALLEY. BOBBY CHOMPUPONG and his wife, JENNY SANGKHANOND, partnered with brothers ARAS and ARIA NOORI to purchase the Thai restaurant from Chompupong’s parents, CHAMP CHOMPUPONG and PEARL POUNYRAHARN, who opened it in 2017 at 36 Thorsen Way in Burlington. The new moniker is a nod to the International Air Transport Association code for the largest of Bangkok’s two international airports. It is the third iteration of the Chompupong family’s Bangkok Bistro; the original restaurant closed in 2012 after operating for a decade at the Church Street location currently occupied by GAKU RAMEN. Bobby, 33, and Sangkhanond, 36, worked closely with his parents to take over the Burlington restaurant. “I want them to be able to relax,” Bobby said. Bobby, who traditionally worked behind the bar, has now replaced his father as chef; Sangkhanond will be the “head mixologist,” he said. The Noori brothers are friends of the younger couple; Aria is a local business owner, and Aras is a DJ. The kitchen will continue to turn out Bangkok Bistro favorites, such as house pad Thai, panang curry and crispy duck sam rod, along with new additions such as a “stoplight” flight of three small bowls of red, yellow and green curries, Bobby said.

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chili. When she posted it on social media, she added the hashtag #knowyourfarmer. “To me, that’s important,” Roma said. The idea for Roma’s Butchery gestated for six years. During that time, Roma also gestated three humans: She and her husband, Russell Lewczuk-Jensen, have a 4-year-old and 2-year-old twins, all daughters. “I only raise strong girls,” Roma said with a laugh. The first phase of Roma’s business involved opening a state-inspected, custom meat-cutting facility in October 2020. In March 2021, Roma added the butcher shop, through which she can sell meat cut in her cellar cutting room from animals that are slaughtered under inspection at other facilities. “I could buy [inspected] meat from anywhere — mostly already cut up — cut it [again] and resell it,” Roma explained. “I choose Vermont raised, and I choose local farmers. I choose to buy whole animals and break it all down. This is not what most butcher shops do. It is very labor-intensive.” Roma had planned to open a shop in downtown South Royalton, but COVID-19 put that project on hold. The pandemicrelated closure of the barely year-old Fox & Harrow restaurant in the Route 14 location opened another door. Lucia Matule, co-owner of the building, raises sheep at her family’s Balla Machree Farm in South Royalton and sells her lamb to Roma’s Butchery. Matule connected with Roma several years ago, when the butcher was leading a volunteer holiday turkey-processing crew at a Barnard farm. “She led us with her infant daughter in a backpack with snow flurrying around us. I was just like, Wow, this woman is incredible,” Matule recalled. “We talked … about her interest in owning a butcher shop, in creating opportunities for farmers to have their meat sold in their community.” In 2020, with the restaurant building vacant and local food interest “magnified during COVID, we revisited the conversation,” Matule said. “Liz knew exactly what was needed, and she’s doing it. She is the conduit that brings together the farmers and consumers.” The butchery business has been informed by Roma’s background working in every step of meat production, from farming to slaughter to meat cutting to smoking. A few years after the Louisville, Ky., native graduated from Green Mountain College in 2007, Roma began farming pigs for a Pittsfield farm and became curious about how the animals were processed. She asked Royal Larocque, then-owner of 42

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Royal Butcher in Braintree, whether she could watch her pigs be killed and butchered. “Royal said, ‘If you can handle this, you should come here and get a job,’” she recalled. Starting in 2011, she worked on Royal Butcher’s packing and labeling table for two years, during which time she took a month off to do an apprenticeship in Italy. “I got a glimpse of charcuterie and the way Italians do things,” she said. In 2014, Roma worked for a butcher shop in Maine, where she learned to break down whole animals into parts, as well as smoking and sausage-making techniques. That year, she and her husband bought a 140-acre South Royalton farm. While they established Putting Down Roots Farm, Roma worked at Royalton Farms and its associated slaughterhouse, Sharon Beef, where she learned how to kill and skin animals. As livestock farmers, the couple are familiar with the challenges of Vermont’s limited slaughter and meatcutting infrastructure. From a consumer perspective, Roma observed that access to fresh, well-cut, local meat is inconsistent. Farmers market customers would often ask her whether Putting Down Roots’ frozen pork would thaw in time to cook for supper. With Roma’s Butchery, she said, “I’m trying to make it more accessible for our community members to eat our local community’s meat for dinner.” That includes reducing the logistics burden on busy farmers. Except for the chicken, which comes via a distributor from Misty Knoll Farms in New Haven, Roma buys all the meat she sells as whole animals directly from farmers and arranges for slaughter. Her hands-on experience also informs constructive feedback that she gives farmers. “It helps me talk to the farmers,” Roma said. “I know what they’re trying to do.” When she does custom cutting of animals slaughtered on-farm for farmers or consumers who have purchased a live animal, she cannot sell that meat, but the jobs allow her to support nascent businesses, like that of Joseph Salls of Randolph Center. After Salls drove his truck up to the butchery’s cellar door on that mid-October morning, Roma headed out to check the pig carcasses wrapped in heavy-duty plastic. “You got some nice back fat here,” she said before hoisting an 80-pound half over her shoulder. Salls, 25, grew up working on a Randolph dairy farm, left after high school to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps and returned home a year ago. He works in information technology, but his long-term goal is to build a diversified agricultural

food+drink business producing pork, beef and vegetables. Salls has raised only five pigs so far, but he has already run into challenges finding a processor. If not for Roma, “I would have had to spend a lot more time doing research and would have likely had to postpone butchering,” he said. Lily Stratton, 28, a butchery apprentice, sausage maker and baker, recorded the weights of the pork sides. Stratton joined Roma’s team in May but has known Roma for a decade. “I love Liz, and I was ready to learn some new skills,” Stratton said. A newer addition to the team, Lisa

McVay, 60, was also working that day. “I’m learning to be the chicken lady,” she said. “Liz is so open and fun. She’s a good teacher.” In a sector that is still largely dominated by men, it is unusual to find one woman in a butchering role, let alone Roma’s cutting-room crew of five women. “It just happened, not on purpose,” Roma said, not wanting to make too much of it. “I had a young guy in here. He wasn’t fast enough. I’m a mover. We’ve got stuff to do.” m

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he fragrant smoke of blackened Cajun spices wafted through Good Times Café as the staff of the Hinesburg restaurant assembled shrimp po’boy sandwiches — as well as pizzas and Greek salads — for a nonstop flow of Tuesday night takeout customers. Good Times, a fixture at a bend of Route 116 for more than 25 years, has enjoyed a loyal following of locals who swear by the food and the friendliness. New owners Travis and Maryam Counter took over the café in October 2019 and, while embracing its beloved pizza, have made the restaurant their own. They’ve brought with them an eclectic blend of cuisines, one that reflects their past and their passions. Travis, 40, a Hinesburg native and enthusiast of Cajun and Creole cooking, has expanded on Good Times’ existing Louisiana-inspired dishes to include crawfish étouffée, gumbo, jambalaya and the shrimp po’boy. Maryam, 38, who came to the United States from Russia as a college student, has a flair for French-style macarons, which have become the cornerstone of her own business, Matryoshka’s Bakery. She supplies most of Good Times’ dessert offerings from her commercially licensed home kitchen in St. George. 44

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“Most people come for the pizza,” Travis said, but “we have a very staunch following for the Cajun, and we’ve been trying to push it more.” He takes pride in getting the Cajun spices right, though bayou buffs have told him that the dishes could use more Louisiana heat. I visited this month to sample the offerings, including the po’boy. Its blackened shrimp were just peppery enough to give a satisfying kick to the sandwich enclosed in dense

focaccia and accompanying rémoulade, the classic mayonnaise-based dressing. “I’m trying to back off [the heat] because everyone’s a little different, and Vermont is not well known for its spice,” he said. “Some people can’t tolerate it. I got some Louisiana hot sauce if they want to kick it up.” The gumbo, laden with chicken, andouille sausage and vegetables, boasted a rich smokiness but lacked the signature okra with its distinct texture. (Travis said he

has struggled with supply shortages of some items, including okra, so he may not have had it for that batch.) The étouffée contained chunks of succulent crawfish, sweet peppers and onions in a light sauce that was less fishy than a downSouth version but let the delicate flavors emerge. Good Times orders its crawfish from a Louisiana purveyor and its shrimp from Gulf fishermen, Travis said. “It is such an homage to, I guess ‘cooking the land’ is the best way to put it,” he said of Cajun food. “It’s just what they had at their disposal and how to utilize it, but using the influence from Africa and the Spaniards coming over and the French coming over and the Italians coming over. It just became a melting pot of all these different cuisines and varietals that created its own cuisine.” Marty McRae, who happens to be the Counter kids’ school bus driver, stopped by the café while I visited to pick up his regular order of the shrimp po’boy. It’s the only one he has found that comes close to the sandwiches he has eaten in New Orleans, he said. “The spices, the blackening, is very authentic, and it tastes great,” McRae said. He added of Travis, “I think he’s got it right.” Meanwhile, Maryam’s macarons have developed a following across Vermont. She sells them at Leunig’s Petit Bijou on Church Street in Burlington and, occasionally, at farmers markets. The delicate cream-filled cookies look like little jewels in bright colors that signal their sumptuous flavors: pumpkin spice, maple black raspberry, chocolate espresso, white chocolate cranberry and cinnamon bun. Maryam tasted macarons for the first time in Russia, she said. She began making the delicacies when, pregnant with the couple’s second child, she found that the cost of childcare outstripped her wages. She stayed home and launched Matryoshka’s, named after the Russian nesting doll. That meant perfecting the famously tricky process of making the cookies. The eggwhite-and-almond-flour treats (distinct from American coconut macaroons) require precise measuring, painstaking mixing and carefully controlled humidity. “We have to kind of treat them like princesses, macarons, like a queen,” said Maryam, who now employs two bakers. “Make sure they are in the right oven, with the right pan, there is the right amount of air blowing on them. That’s how they are treated in the kitchen. And then we all bow [to them] when we have a good day. Like today, we had a great day. All of the macarons came out.” She has also expanded her repertoire. For her traditional Russian honey cake, she hand-rolls eight thin layers of cake between blankets of cream cheese frosting and bejewels the top with tiny beads of honey. “It’s my

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country from one university to another for short-term teaching residencies. Stone’s home is a fixture in her poetry. The birds that populate its wooded hillsides visit her verses often, and the structure itself is a source of both pleasure and adversity. In “Plumbing,” published in 1995, the narrator observes a young man stumbling through the attic over the tucked-away detritus of a long and varied life, including “sleeping bags, the Beatles posters” and “bed springs” in order to “wire up the hot water tank.” In gratitude, the narrator muses, And you admire him as you would Saint Francis, for his simple acceptance of how things are. And the water comes like a miracle. Stone’s toilet, that retainer of miracles, appears in the film — an emblem of how her work is able to find the sublime even in the quotidian. Standing over it, her

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Speaking with Seven Days earlier this month, Jacobson recalled the day fondly: “I interviewed her, and I just fell in love.” That first meeting was the genesis of Jacobson’s documentary. Twelve years in the making, Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind premiered last month at the Vermont International Film Festival in Burlington to a standing ovation. On Saturday, November 20, the film will screen at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, presented by White River Indie Films and CATV. Stone died in 2011, two years after that interview with deNiord. Her body is buried in Goshen, behind the house she bought in 1958 and where she spent much of her life. There, she raised her three daughters when she wasn’t ping-ponging across the

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orwich-based filmmaker Nora Jacobson first met Ruth Stone in 2009. Vermont poet Chard deNiord was working on a collection of interviews with elders of the form. He hired Jacobson to document his meeting with Stone, the poet laureate of Vermont at the time, and to help facilitate the interview. Stone was in her mid-nineties, and macular degeneration had deprived her of the ability to read. Still, surrounded by her three adult granddaughters, Stone could recite some of her poems from memory. Footage from that interview appears early in Jacobson’s new documentary, Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind. As Stone recites “Metamorphosis,” originally published in 1971, her granddaughters chime in for the poem’s opening stanza. Jacobson pans the camera across the room to capture the four women speaking in unison, but, as the younger voices drop out, she zooms in on Stone. The poet’s failing eyes peer into the distance as she continues in soliloquy:

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Stone’s former home, room by room, before its renovation. From the onceSUNDAYS > 1:00 P.M. inhabited spaces, the film catapults into interviews with friends and colleagues, archival footage, and even animation provided by Bianca. During the tour, Bianca finds fragments of poems littered about, evidence of Stone’s creative impulse constantly at work. In one instance, Bianca picks an16t-vcam111721.indd 10/28/21 16t-vcam-weekly.indd 1 11/2/20 12:16 3:07 PM old Post-it Note out of a box of books, and there the beginnings of a poem await. She reads, “Again rejected all night by my dead husband / He’s so indifferent.” Below a few more lines of poetry is a cousin’s phone number. The “dead husband” of the fragment will be familiar to anyone who has read Stone’s writing. Walter Stone, her husband and a promising poet and novelist, committed suicide in 1959. Walter appears in her poetry again and again, not as an apparition, but as an indelible absence — the fact of his death affixed to her as a defining feature of her life and work. “Walter becomes her muse,” said Jacobson. “She wrote about him until the 8 SO. MAIN STREET, ST. ALBANS end of her life.” 524-3769 Stone’s identification as a widow is an essential aspect of her poetry, but she was R A I LC I TYM A R K E TV T.COM able to transform that loss into something unafraid and life-affirming. “To me,” Jacobson said, “her life GG12v-railcitymarket111820.indd 1 11/9/20 4:51 PM embodies the alchemical process of turning tragedy into art.” Jacobson’s film effectively locates different threads in Stone’s life to help the audience better access her poetry, but Jacobson tries not to be too presumptuous with her interpretations. She explained, 13 West Center St., Winooski “I want people to create their own images 655-2423 of her poetry in their minds when they hear her words or read her work.” Closed Nov. 21-25 The purpose of the film, Jacobson Re-opening at 4pm said, is to share Stone’s life and work Friday, Nov. 26 with a greater audience — and to share the wonders of poetry itself. MON-SAT 11am-9pm, “Poetry is this amazing art form,” SUN Noon-8pm Jacobson added, “because it’s so economical that people can sort of carry a poem Dine in, take out, available and with them throughout the day, and it can delivery from delivery.com console them. It can comfort them.” m Check out our menu

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decided to renovate the Goshen home and turn it into a writer’s retreat. The nonprofit Ruth Stone House now offers classes, workshops, readings, publications and a letterpress. The house is both an entry point for understanding Stone’s poetry and “the spine of the film,” Jacobson said. In the film, Bianca leads the camera through

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n early 2020, Burlington composer Don Jamison was looking forward to hearing the Burlington Choral Society perform There Is a Day, his first commissioned piece for the group. The chorus had been rehearsing the work, which sets to music seven poems by Kentucky farmer-writer Wendell Berry. Then much of the world shut down. Now there finally is a day for Jamison’s premiere: On Saturday, November 20, the choral society will perform the work, in a concert by the same name, along with a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach and two pieces by Minneapolis composer Jake Runestad. The concert is the group’s first live performance since the pandemic started. The 60-person chorus has shrunk for this performance to 40 voices, as some members aren’t comfortable singing in a group during an upsurge of COVID-19 cases, and all will wear masks. Artistic director Dick Riley will conduct, and an 11-piece string orchestra will accompany the chorus.

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The context for Jamison’s music has changed, but the current moment lends it new meaning. When the piece was originally to be performed, his settings of Berry’s meditations on nature were intended as a respite from the political noise around president Donald Trump and the 2020 election. Today, the music may resonate with the audience’s pandemic-enhanced appreciation

of nature and questioning of the way forward — out of COVID-19, climate change and any number of other crises. Jamison chose the poems from among Berry’s 300-plus “Sabbath” poems, a secular moniker the poet applies to the day of rest after the workweek. Berry’s works — novels, essays, poems and political protests — have made him a legend among writers and environmental activists. At 87, he continues to write “Sabbath” poems; Jamison selected and sequenced poems published between 1987 and 2001. As performed, the songs will move from a disturbing vision of a busy road as a “river of burning oil” to the woods and the “silence” of birdsong. The work’s apex, the title poem, captures a moment of peaceful revelation. It reads, in its entirety, “There is a day / when the road neither / comes nor goes, and the way / is not a way but a place.” Jamison was attracted to the musicality and internal rhythms of Berry’s

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quiet place in nature reflects Jamison’s own inclinations as a Vermonter, he said. “He allows for finding [quiet places] in church or meditation, but most of us in Vermont do find it out of doors,” Jamison noted — even more urgently since the pandemic turn to digital interaction, he added. The performance comes at a poignant time for Jamison. When he talked with Seven Days, he had just learned that Village

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Harmony founder Larry Gordon was dying after a bicycle crash. Based in Marshfield, Village Harmony teaches community singing traditions at traveling music camps. It was Gordon who introduced Jamison to vocal composing by commissioning a piece for Village Harmony in 1989. That was the first of Jamison’s many compositions for the group. Jamison has also composed vocal works for the Onion River Chorus in East Montpelier, Counterpoint in Montpelier and Social Band in Hinesburg — a chorus he cofounded and sings in as a baritone — as well as works for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. In There Is a Day, whose music Riley described as “seemingly simple,” Jamison uses modes well beyond major and minor to convey nuances in mood. His settings progress in coloration from a dark Phrygian mode, which uses many minor intervals, to a “very up” Lydian mode filled with sharps in the final song, the composer said. That trajectory helped Riley create the concert’s program, the conductor said during a phone call. “Don does not want to pretend that life is all happy-go-lucky stuff,” Riley said. “He’s attracted to Berry’s poems because Berry …

is not going to gloss over conflict.” But the poem Jamison chose to end the sequence, “I Climb Up Through the Thicket,” refers promisingly to “the whole air vibrant with” birdsong. “That’s Don taking the depth and darkness of our world today and giving us a sense that there’s still a vibrancy that’s accessible” in the world, Riley said — even if it may only be reached via “the shadow of the mercy of light,” as one of Berry’s most haunting lines reads. Riley decided to repeat the song about light at the finale, he said, to end the program with “light and love.” “I thought that we have enough of a force of darkness that we’ve all experienced,” he continued, adding that a year devoid of choral singing was personally devastating. “We need a little counterforce of love to project energy in the most productive ways. That’s a preposterously high goal, but what can I say?” m

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omedians might be the saviors of humanity. OK, that’s probably a stretch. But being able to laugh at the things in our lives that get us down — and inspiring others to do the same — is a great way to get some perspective and deal. “It’s almost like a shield of protection,” said comedian Tina Friml during a recent call with fellow comedian Carmen Lagala and Seven Days. “It’s the only defense mechanism that I have,” Lagala added. Friml and Lagala started their careers in Vermont, garnering considerable local acclaim and awards before moving to New York City. Lagala was a fixture in Burlington’s comedy scene during its infancy a little over a decade ago, and Friml emerged shortly after the Vermont Comedy Club opened its doors in 2015. Both comics have gotten national boosts in the last few years. Lagala made her TV debut on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in 2018. Friml appeared on “The Drew Barrymore Show” in the summer of 2021. Friml and Lagala perform on Friday and Saturday, November 19 and 20, at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.

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TF: I never really came up with bits about the pandemic. It was almost too obvious. Every observation was just so in your face. SD: What about audience behavior? CL: For a while, they were really, really good and grateful to be back and hearing live performances. And now they’ve switched back to being exactly how they were before. That didn’t take long at all. TF: I second that. There was a little bit of time when they were like, “Whoa, comedy!” There were some audiences where I could tell that they’ve been sitting on their couches watching videos of comedy — great comedy, polished comedy. Every odd show, there would be an audience that was just very hard to impress. Either that or they were just not used to laughing out loud.

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CL: People keep saying, “I don’t know how to talk to people anymore.” It’s like, No, you never knew how to talk to people. It’s just convenient. They’re hiding behind it.

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take and just say, “Are you freaking kidding me? You’re the protector of sanity.”

SD: Some say the world is becoming an increasingly humorless place. As comedians, how do you cope with seriousness in our culture? TF: Last year, it was weird because I felt very insignificant. There were plenty of times where everything in the world and life seemed so bleak. Finding humor felt almost like a pitiful thing to do because the elephant in the room was just: Everything is bad. I love the way John Mulaney put it, that comedians are the “last responders.” We feel like we’re the very last thing that people will need. And when I would express that, people would kind of double

CL: I tend to dive headfirst into that hole of misery. When things are at their worst, I have to write a joke about it. Otherwise, I would kill myself. I mean, this is pretty low stakes considering some things going on in the world, but I saw a pigeon die. And I had a whole panic attack just watching this pigeon die in front of me. And then I wrote a bit about it and performed it an hour and a half later — and that helped. SD: What have you noticed about people reentering society after holing up for so long? Any new or funny behaviors?

SD: Which one makes you feel shittier? CL: A live audience. With Zoom, it’s almost like you’re not performing. A lot of those performances are just like a person slowly losing their mind. It looks like somebody unraveling. I feel like I could get an Oscar for some of the performances I’ve done. It becomes an existential crisis for about 10 minutes. And then it’s over, and you can turn it off and just forget that you did it. With a live audience, you can see their eyes. TF: The nice thing about online comedy was that you could just go back to eating a cookie on your bed. But when you have a not-so-great set live, it’s like, you have to find a way to get to the exit. SD: Burlington seems like a great place to hone your skills before moving on to a bigger market like

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SD: And from quiet audiences not laughing. CL: Or, like, being openly hostile. TF: I’m always grateful to have had Burlington to grow up in as a comedian. The thing I often point to is: A lot of audiences in Burlington don’t respond to — I hate to use the phrase — “shock humor” or incredibly dark humor. That’s certainly a way to get a positive rise in New York. But in Vermont, that’s not the case usually. I think Burlington audiences have a higher expectation of intelligence in humor. CL: There’s definitely an alt scene that is very much embraced in New York. I actually haven’t seen them in a long time. I’m concerned about where they are.

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SD: Have you ever performed on New Year’s? CL: I have. I’ve bombed on New Year’s. One time, I came out at, like, 9 p.m., and I started doing the countdown. I was like, This is gonna kill; it’ll be so funny because it’s not midnight. And they were silent for the whole set. TF: I hate Valentine’s Day. It’s not just the argument that it’s capitalizing on love, although it is. It’s just an unnecessary holiday. People who are in relationships or in love or whatever, they already have it good enough, OK? I’ve always been in a bad mood on Valentine’s Day. I think it’s not that I don’t like mushy-gushy things. It’s almost like I’m counteracting the forceful mushygushiness by being a Scrooge. I’m like the Scrooge of Valentine’s Day. CL: I’m sorry, I have to keep going. New Year’s Eve and that song that comes with it, “Auld Lange Syne,” is terrible. I can’t dance to it. Not a bop. Needs a remix. Awful. m This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

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with Ransom’s works. Though modest in number — six sculptural pieces plus a charcoal outline of the artist drawn on a wall — the collection is visually and conceptually potent. And its slightly caustic emanations are actually apropos. In achingly eloquent ways, Ransom addresses the current national reckoning with systemic racism. His sculptural creations show us the terrible consequences of that system, as well as the

tensions inherent in bumping toward “a more perfect union.” The tension is also personal. Ransom, 46, is biracial, born to a white father from Vermont and an African American mother from Pennsylvania. He was raised on a dairy farm, surrounded by the rhythms of nature and the tools and materials that now serve his artwork. (In early adulthood he cofounded the Strafford Creamery with his two brothers.) Ransom acknowledged that he “grew up in mostly white spaces … listening to country music and hip-hop.” Though he doesn’t feel particularly oppressed, Ransom said, he knows that his skin color dictates the context in which others see him. Sometimes he wishes he could “just make art,” he admitted, but he

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also feels compelled “to respond to this moment” through his practice. “Regardless of the work I make, it will be read through the inescapable lens of my blackness,” he writes in an artist statement for BMAC. “I am simultaneously compelled to keep up (maintain) my blackness and to hold up (check) my blackness.” Chief curator Mara Williams, in her own gallery statement, puts it this way: “Bearing the weight of white supremacist history, William Ransom’s sculptural installation creates a transitory provisional state, rife with an inherent unease and uncertainty.” Williams is referring particularly to the artist’s pieces that are constructed from narrow wood strips and held together with a workshop clamp. Plainly including such a utilitarian object isn’t just a whimsical aesthetic choice. Remove it and the taut architectural form would “fly apart with this incredible energy,” Williams said by phone. As such, the tool also becomes a metaphor for America’s aspirational motto, e pluribus unum — “out of many, one” — and for the fragility of that pluralistic ideal. One of Ransom’s sculptures incorporating a clamp is the wall-hung “Our Unfinished Work.” In it, more than a dozen strips of wood are carefully secured, side by side, to a dark-stained 4-by-4-inch post roughly 40 inches long. Ransom gathered up the strips, looped PHOTOS COURTESY OF ERIN JENKINS/BMAC

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them around and clamped the entire bundle, barrette-like, to one end of the post. The work’s dichotomy of orderly and haphazard aligns with its title. The sculpture’s resulting form, abetted by its shadow on the gallery wall, calls to mind a whisk gone awry. The freestanding piece “Steal Away” has a sturdier and even commanding presence, rising six feet in the center of the gallery space. An assemblage of vertical and horizontal wood components, it resembles a sail in a stiff wind. To anthropomorphize, it looks assertive. But is the clamp near the base of the piece, as Williams suggests, “provisional”? Its presence introduces the possibility of mutiny. These works hold energy in potential: the promise, or threat, of what might be. Maintaining balance, they seem to imply, is a fraught responsibility. More pointedly, “Keep Up/Hold Up” addresses the trauma of violence and persecution endured by people of color in the U.S. Three of Ransom’s installations at BMAC reflect on the police killings of Black males, all in Minneapolis. “Token” is a roundish, 23-by-26-inch slice of birch. Ransom burned into its surface the outline of a buffalo and the words “FIVE CENTS.” The piece calls up the expression “Don’t take any wooden nickels” and is an oblique reference to the allegedly counterfeit $20 bill that George Floyd, 46, presented to a convenience store cashier on May 25, 2020. It was the reason that police were called to the scene and led to Floyd’s death by asphyxiation under the knee of officer Derek Chauvin. The title “88” may be obscure to some viewers; it refers to an Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight — the make of the 1997 car that 32-year-old Philando Castile was driving when he was stopped for a broken taillight in 2016. His girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter were in the car, forced to witness a police officer fatally shoot Castile as he reached for, presumably, his car registration. Ransom represents this killing with a scrap-wood facsimile of a car bumper and taillight wrapped in red plastic. Even without the context, the piece seems like a fragment of catastrophe. The installation “Taser” includes blocks of charred wood assembled in the shape of a pine tree, about 4 inches thick and 30 inches tall. It references the car deodorizer that Daunte Wright, 20, had hanging from his rearview mirror — an

“obstruction of vision” for which he was pulled over and then shot last April. This is where the pine tar comes in: Ransom cut “TASER” in the center of the tree and swabbed the word with the sticky stuff, allowing it to drip. “He wanted it to sort of weep black tears,” Williams explained. Absorbing some of those “tears” is Ransom’s own gray hoodie sweatshirt, which he spontaneously hung beneath the weeping wood during installation. Though born in a place with more cows than cops, Ransom is no stranger to being stopped for “driving while Black,” nor to urban living. During an interview at his home in Norwich — which he shares with his wife, Oona Gardner, a ceramic artist who grew up in Vershire, and their two young daughters — he explained that his father moved the family to the West Coast when he was in middle school. Ransom finished high school in northern California. Eventually back in Vermont, Ransom went to Bennington College, earning his undergraduate degree in sculpture and architecture in 2004. He returned to California for his MFA at Claremont Graduate University. But he dreamed of returning to the Green Mountain State once again, Ransom said. Following a yearlong visiting professorship at Middlebury College, he accepted a faculty position in 2018 at Marlboro College. Two years later, that school closed. Ransom now teaches at both his alma mater, Bennington, and Dartmouth College. He and Gardner bought their Norwich home in March 2020, Ransom said, just as the coronavirus arrived. With a studio nearby, it’s not a bad place to hunker down in a pandemic. The handsome midcentury house is filled with artwork. There are wall-hung ceramic sculptures by Gardner and earlier pieces Ransom made in response to living with type 1 diabetes. A small assemblage on a shelf in the living room includes a clamp, embedded in concrete, and five $100 bills. Titled “Redemption of Jupiter,” it refers to an ancestor of Ransom’s mother who, as a bonded slave in 1832, was valued at $500. Across the room, next to a print by French abstractionist Sonia Delaunay, is an Obie Award. It’s for a Clear Channelowned billboard that Ransom created in honor of Floyd.

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JUDY GREENWALD: Pastel paintings by the local artist; prints of each work also available. November 17-December 29. Info, marab@vermontelders.org. Espresso Bueno in Barre.

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f ANNUAL HOLIDAY EXHIBITION AND SALE: “Wintry Mix,” works in a variety of mediums by member artists from Vermont and New Hampshire. Reception: Friday, November 19, 5-7 p.m. November 19-December 30. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

ART EVENTS ARTIST TALK: VANESSA COMPTON: The artist discusses the collage works inspired by her grandmothers in a current exhibition. Karma Bird House Gallery, Burlington, Friday, November 19, 6 p.m. Info, info@krinshawstudios.com. ‘ARTISTS IN DIALOGUE’: Photographers Jon Henry and Mikael Owunna discuss their artistic responses to police killings of Black men in a Zoom event moderated by Andrew Plumley ’11. Audience Q&A follows. The talk is in conjunction with current virtual exhibit “Art as Protest: Artists as Agents of Social Change.” Register at museum. middlebury.edu. Middlebury College Museum of Art, Wednesday, November 17, 7 p.m. Free. Info, mlane@ middlebury.edu. CRAFT VERMONT SHOW: Vermont Hand Crafters invites shoppers to an interactive, virtual fine craft and art event. Member demonstrations, live video chats with artists, prizes and more. Details at vermonthandcrafters. com. Online, Saturday, November 20, and Sunday, November 21, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Info, officemanager@ vermonthandcrafters.com. HOLIDAY AUCTION EXTRAVAGANZA: A one-week virtual fundraising auction features favorite items from the museum store, experiences and items from local businesses. Place bids at shelburnemuseum.org. Shelburne Museum, Through November 21. MARK ROSALBO: A meet and greet to celebrate the artwork of the Randolph artist. Because of the pandemic, this event is RSVP only. Kuya’s Sandwiches + Kitchen, Randolph, Wednesday, November 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 565-8130. MINIATURE CHRISTMAS TREE RAFFLE: Online auction of artist-decorated tiny trees for the holidays. View trees and place bids at henrysheldonmuseum. org. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury. Through December 21. $5 for one ticket; $20 for five. Info, 388-2117.

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‘PANDEMIC PASSAGES’: A monthly online workshop presented by the Passing Project using art to open the unexpected gifts that the pandemic life has given us. Participants can explore their experiences through writing, drawing, dancing or other means. Details at passingproject.org. Sunday, November 23, 4-5:30 p.m. Sliding-scale donations, $10-25. Info, infopassingproject@gmail.com.

‘VERMONT BLOWN AWAY’: Vermont Glass Guild artists create glass art inspired by ancient objects for a live audience. Some of the objects from the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center’s Study Collection of Ancient Objects will be selected to inspire three-person teams of guild members to create new glass sculptures. These pieces will be auctioned off at a later date. Attend in person or via Zoom. Register at brattleboromuseum.org. Fire Arts Vermont, Brattleboro, Sunday, November 21, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 257-0124. VERMONT HAND CRAFTERS SHOW: Sarah Rosedahl, Susanne Ryan and Meta Strick show and sell their wares at the studio of Marion and Matt Seasholtz. Masks required. Wind’s Edge & Seasholtz Glass Design, Johnson, Saturday, November 20, and Sunday, November 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 635-2731.

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‘ABSENCE: SEEING AND UNSEEING THE FLEMING’S COLLECTION’: Large text labels throughout the museum appear in place of artwork that had been on view for decades and whose subject matter or background was deemed hurtful to members of the community. Instead of filling the spaces with new artworks immediately, staff have left them as intentional signs of their commitments to transparency and reckoning. ‘ABSTRACTS: OPENING SPACE FOR IMAGINATION’: Paintings displayed on the Marble Court balcony that allow the museum to reconsider outdated exhibition traditions and start to envision what comes next. ‘THE LEARNING STUDIO’: Part gallery, part classroom, this exhibition space invites visitors to take part in intimate conversations about art and material culture on view from the museum’s collection. The works show how artists have always been open to documenting experiments and showing pieces in process. STORYTELLING SALON: A selection of artwork from the collection by staff that inspire thinking about the power of storytelling to enact change. The newly created space is for gathering ideas about what new kinds of stories can be told in the museum, sharing multiple perspectives and inviting new voices. Through December 10. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington. AL LARSEN: “Four Feet Forward: Objects, Excess & Illusion,” video and mixed-media pieces incorporating puppets and everyday objects by the Champlain College faculty member. Through November 28. Info, 865-8980. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington. ART HOP IN SPACE: Fifty Vermont artists and 12 studio artists exhibit fiber arts, illustrations, paintings, collage, prints and hundreds of original works in the gallery and the halls of the Soda Plant. Through November 20. Info, spacegalleryvt@gmail.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. ARTWORK AT UVMMC: Oil paintings of cows by Stephanie Bush, wood shadowboxes by Sam Macy and abstract butterfly paintings by Maria Angelache in the Main Street Corridor and Ambulatory Care Center 3; mixed-media paintings by Kathleen Grant in McClure 4; acrylic paintings and monotypes by Elizabeth Powell and photographs by Kristina Pentek in ACC 2. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through January 24. Info, 865-7296. University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. ‘UNBOUND’: Painting, sculpture and works on paper by Kirsten Reynolds, Rob Hitzig and Rachel Gross that explore contemporary approaches to abstraction as it relates to architecture, space and materials. BRADLEY BORTHWICK: “Objects of Empire,” sculptural installation that evolved from the artist’s research on the Dorset marble quarry and ancient Roman storehouses, and ponders shared cycles of civilization. Through February 5. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington. EVI CUNDIFF: Stained-glass works by the local artist. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. Great Harvest Bread Co. in Burlington. HOWARD CENTER ARTS COLLECTIVE: “Interwoven,” works in a variety of mediums by artist-members

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CALL TO ARTISTS 2021 GINGERBREAD CONTEST: Bakers, schools, organizations, businesses, families, adults and young people are invited to submit their imaginative gingerbread creations. No kits. Preregistration is not required but is appreciated. Entries must be delivered on November 17 or 18 between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Details and entry form at chaffeeartcenter.org. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland. $10. Info, 775-0356. ANNUAL HOLIDAY MEMBERS’ SHOW: The show and sale, December 3 to 31, is open to artist members in any medium. Drop-off for submissions is Tuesday, November 16, through Tuesday, November 23. Details at strandcenter. org. Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y. Info, 518-563-1604. ARTFUL ICE SHANTIES: BMAC and Retreat Farm invite entries to the second annual ice shanty exhibition in February. Details and registration at brattleboromuseum.org. Deadline: December 15. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124. ARTIST DEVELOPMENT GRANTS: Artist development grants support Vermont-based artists at all stages of their careers, funding activities that enhance mastery of a craft or that increase the viability of an artist’s business. Funding may also support aspects of the creation of new work. Grant amounts range from $250 to $2,000. Details and application at vermontartscouncil.org. Deadline: February 14. Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier. who have lived experience with mental health challenges or addiction. Through November 30. Info, 865-7296. Burlington City Hall. JOHNINE HOEHN: Humorous ceramic works that are heavy on nostalgia, monster movies and personal foibles. Through December 1. Info, 338-7441. Thirty-odd in Burlington. LARGE GROUP EXHIBITION: Members of the South End Art + Business Association show works in a variety of mediums. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. The Maltex Building in Burlington. LARGE SEABA EXHIBITION: Many member-artists of the South End Arts + Business Association display works in a variety of mediums. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. RETN & VCAM Media Factory in Burlington. LISA MYERS: Etching, chine-collé and watercolor by the local artist. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. Noyes Auto & Tire Service in Burlington. MALTEX ARTISTS: Paintings by Dierdre Michelle, Judy Hawkins, Nancy Chapman and Jean Cherouny and photographs by Caleb Kenna and Michael Couture in the building’s hallways. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through March 31. Info, 865-7296. Maltex Building in Burlington. SEABA MEMBERS GROUP SHOW: Dozens of local artists exhibit works in a variety of mediums on multiple floors of the building. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington. SOUTH END ART HOP JURIED SHOW: Fifty artists working in a variety of mediums on all three floors of the building. Juror Mark van Wagner chose as first-, second- and third-place winners Longina Smolinski, Suomo Snook and Kalin Thomas, respectively. Frankie Gardiner won honorable mention. Through November 30. Info, 859-9222. The Vaults in Burlington. TAWNYA MCDONALD: Photography by the local artist. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington. VANESSA COMPTON: “Grandmother,” mixed-media collages inspired by the artist’s grandmothers, both artists and of different cultures. Through December 9. Info, info@krinshawstudios.com. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington. ‘...WILL YOU SING?’ MURAL: A 43-foot, wall-size mural, a project of Big Heavy World, features

‘FACE IT’: We are hardwired to look carefully at what other people’s faces reveal — the lines of age, a gamut of emotions, even an attempt to disguise what’s on their mind. We want to share portraits and selfportraits, abstract or realistic, masked or unmasked, in any medium that convey a wide variety of ages, backgrounds, emotions and expressions. Submission info at studioplacearts. com. Deadline: December 4. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 for nonmembers; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069. ‘LET’S COLLAGE ABOUT IT!’: Submit collage art for an opportunity to be exhibited at the center’s 2022 community exhibition, January 1 through April. Exhibition form at cal-vt.org, or email jess@cal-vt.org. Deadline: December 15. Center for Arts and Learning, Montpelier. Free. Info, jess@cal-vt.org. MICRO-GRANTS FOR ARTISTS: The Montpelier Public Arts Commission is offering a micro-grant program for Vermontbased artists for up to $1,500 for permanent or temporary art installations throughout the city. The request for proposals is open for an indefinite period; artists may submit at anytime during the year. The commission will review and award grants twice yearly; the next deadline is March 30. For more info and to review the RFP, visit montpelier-vt.org. Info, 522-0150.

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ADRIENNE GINTER & ERIKA LAWLOR SCHMIDT: Hand-cut paper works that tell stories from nature, and monotypes that reflect the natural world and the interconnectedness of all life, respectively. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through January 31. Info, 865-7296. Pierson Library in Shelburne. ELLIOT BURG: Photographic portraits shot on the streets of Havana, Cuba. Gates 1-8. SHANNON O’CONNELL: Paintings with phosphorescent and UV-sensitive pigments mixed into the paint, allowing secondary paintings to be revealed. In the Skyway. Through December 31. Info, 8657296. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington. ‘EYESIGHT & INSIGHT: LENS ON AMERICAN ART’: An online exhibition of artworks that illuminates creative responses to perceptions of vision; four sections explore themes ranging from 18th-century optical technologies to the social and historical connotations of eyeglasses in portraiture from the 19th century to the present. Through October 16. ‘IN PLAIN SIGHT: REDISCOVERING CHARLES SUMNER BUNN’S DECOYS’: An online exhibition of shorebird decoys carved by the member of the ShinnecockMontauk Tribes, based on extensive research and resolving historic controversy. Through October 5. ‘PATTERN & PURPOSE: AMERICAN QUILTS FROM THE SHELBURNE MUSEUM’: The museum presents 20 textile masterpieces from its collection dating from the first decades of the CHITTENDEN COUNTY SHOWS

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1800s to the turn of the 21st century, organized by associate curator Katie Wood Kirchhoff. Online only at shelburnemuseum.org. Through February 1. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum. ‘THE GIFT OF ART’: An off-season exhibition featuring a changing collection of artworks. Open by appointment or during special events. Through April 30. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington. JULIA HECHTMAN AND MELISSA POKORNY: “Kindred,” an artist collaboration including video, photography and sculpture, combining materials generated on research trips to Iceland and other locations. Through December 10. Info, bcollier@ smcvt.edu. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester. MAREVA MILLARC: “Drawn to the Rhythm,” bold works in oil, acrylic, ink and mixed media. Through December 15. Info, 662-4808. ArtHound Gallery in Essex. ‘ONLY MAPLE’: Watercolors by Harald Aksdal, works in wood by Carl Newton and Toby Fulwiler, and ceramics by Lucia Bragg. Through December 19. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. TOM ZENATY: “Within,” close-up, macro and creative photography. Through November 30. Info, 598-2080. Village Wine and Coffee in Shelburne.

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TUMBLING BLOCKS COMMUNITY QUILT PROJECT: Montpelier Alive exhibits the Capital City’s newest piece of public art, a project intended to help “stitch together” the community during the pandemic. More than 250 individuals, including more than 100 students, contributed designs for panels that Sabrina Fadial collated and made into a “quilt.” Through December 31. Info, 488-4303. Montpelier Transit Center. VERMONT CLAY GUILD DISPLAY: The nonprofit group of ceramic artists exhibits some of their creations in a variety of styles. Through November 30. Info, vermontclayguild@gmail.com. Capitol Region Visitors Center in Montpelier. WILL C.: Vibrant original paintings by the Vermont artist. Through December 7. Info, fillingstationvt@ gmail.com. Filling Station in Middlesex.

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‘CALL AND RESPONSE’: An exhibition of images by eight members of the Photographers Workroom. KRISTINA SNOOK: “Tradition/Improvisation,” fiber works by the Vermont artist. Through January 15. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville. CATHY CONE: “There Was Once,” hand-painted photographs and black-and-white Piezography by the Vermont artist. Through January 8. MICHAEL MAHNKE: “A River Moving in You,” a large-scale, site-specific work by the gallery cofounder, located on the Johnson Village Green, that reflects the natural environment and our relationships to one another. Through December 31. Info, 646-519-1781. Minema Gallery in Johnson.

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‘DATA FLOW’: Advanced Digital Media presents video, sound, objects and ephemera by Daniel Arriola, Mousegh Monteiro, Kaden Sweet, Finn Watsula and Nicholas Wolff. Through November 19. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson. ‘GEMS AND GIANTS’: A holiday showcase featuring large and small artworks from more than 80 member artists. Through December 19. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. THE LAMOILLE ART & JUSTICE PROJECT: LISTENING OUTSIDE THE LINES: A sound installation featuring oral histories and corresponding artists’ interpretations, focused on creating community and cultural preservation, and providing a mirror for those who have lacked reflection. Through December 17. Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson.

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Middlebury imprints, diaries, music ephemera, relics and even a lock of Napoleon’s hair. ‘SIGHTLINES’: Photographs by Caleb Kenna and paintings by Jill Madden that explore the Joseph Battell and Breadloaf Wilderness areas of the Green Mountains. Through December 31. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury. ‘ITTY BITTY: TINY TEXTS IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS’: Books from the 17th to 21st centuries that measure between 1.8 and 10 centimeters, from religious manuscripts to cookbooks, children’s books to Shakespeare. Visitors are not currently allowed in the library but may view the works online at go.middlebury.edu/tinybooks. Through May 31. Davis Family Library, Middlebury College. ‘PRIDE 1983’: Through interviews with organizers, photographs and scanned images of historic documents, the exhibit, curated by Meg Tamulonis of the Vermont Queer Archives, explores the origins and lasting legacies of Vermont’s first Pride March on June 25, 1983, in Burlington. It can also be viewed online at vtfolklife.org. Through March 25. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

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‘TRANSCENDENCE’: Golden fabric creations by Catherine Hall and Buddhist- and Hindu-inspired sculptures by Shelley Warren. Through November 21. Info, 355-2150. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.

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AMY HOOK-THERRIEN & MOLLY HARPER: “Birches at the Border,” watercolors and pottery respectively, that celebrate one of New England’s most iconic tree species. Through November 30. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction.

PAULA CLOUDPAINTER: “Cloudmaps and Other Travels Through the Atmosphere,” watercolors and mixedmedia paintings. Through December 31. Info, 457-2295. Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock. YUKO NISHIKAWA: “Piku Piku,” mobiles by the Brooklyn-based Japanese designer and contemporary ceramicist. Through November 28. Info, 347-264-4808. Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

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ALAN JENNINGS: “Finding the Way Home,” animated films the artist created about growing up in Vermont, including “The Northeast Kingdom,” “Dream of Deerman” and “The Bill Jennings Mysteries”; and the drawings, paintings and sculptures he uses to make them. Watch at catamountarts.org. Through December 31. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. ‘COLLABORATIVE TEXTURES: A WORD-IMAGE ENGAGEMENT’: An exhibition of poetry and painting by Sara Biggs Chaney and Michael Chaney. Their work explores the boundaries between order and eclecticism, male and female, individual and collective. Through November 18. Info, 626-6487. Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, in Lyndonville. ‘A LIFE IN LISTS AND NOTES’: An exhibition that celebrates the poetic, mnemonic, narrative and enumerative qualities of lists and notes. The objects on display span myriad creative, professional, bureaucratic, domestic and personal uses of lists through the ages. Through May 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. ‘LOCAL COLOR’: Nature-inspired works in a variety of mediums by members of Caspian Arts. Through December 31. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

‘PIECING TOGETHER’: A group exhibit of artists and makers focusing on the transitional use of “pieces” to create a whole work of art. Through December 4. Info, thesatellitegalleryvt@gmail.com. The Satellite Gallery in Lyndonville. STJ ART ON THE STREET: A walkable gallery of downtown storefronts and shop windows featuring fine art by Mwanga William, George Pearlman, Andrea Pearlman, Kelly Doyle, Barbara Grey and Tara Moreau. Indoor galleries along the route include work by Harlan Mack, Jackie Fox, Elizabeth Nelson, Anna Lorenzini, Keith Chamberlin, Terry Ekasala and others. Through November 30. Info, 748-2600. Downtown St. Johnsbury.

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B. LYNCH: “Pull Back the Curtain,” a fantastical universe of the Reds and the Greys, disparate societal factions set in the 18th century, using puppetry, drawing, painting, linoleum block printing and digital animation. Through February 13. DELITA MARTIN: “Between Worlds,” a year-long installation in the museum’s front windows that reimagines the identities and roles of Black women in the context of Black culture and African history. Through May 31. GUILD OF VERMONT FURNITURE MAKERS: “Evolving Traditions,” contemporary works in wood crafted by members of the guild. Through February 13. MICHAEL ABRAMS: “Arcadia Rediscovered,” a luminous, misty painting installation that invites viewers to be mindfully in the world. Through March 5. NATALIE FRANK: “Painting With Paper,” abstracted portraits of imagined female figures, each accompanied by an animal, in wet pigmented cotton and linen paper pulp. Through February 13. SCOTT BOYD: “Endangered Alphabets,” sculptures that pair the ancient form of the obelisk with near-extinct languages. Through November 30. VERMONT GLASS GUILD: “Inspired by the Past,”

contemporary works in glass exhibited alongside historical counterparts from the museum’s collection. Through March 5. WILLIAM RANSOM: “Keep Up/Hold Up,” mixed-media installations that speak to the current state of social tension in the U.S., the reckoning with a history of white supremacy, and the potential for flare-up or collapse. Through March 5. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. ‘DEEP BLUE’: Curated by American artist Katherine Bradford, this group show examines “deep blue” as a color and as a phrase that can describe mood, the natural environment, music and even a region’s political landscape; more than 70 paintings, sculptures, photographs, works on paper and videos by 70 artists. CLARK DERBES: “Time Travelers and Portals,” illusionistic sculptures carved from blocks of wood and painted. KATHERINE BRADFORD: “Philosophers’ Clambake,” more than a dozen luminous, dreamlike works that merge color field painting with figuration. Advance reservations recommended but not required. Through November 28. Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

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ALAN DEL VECCHIO: “Moments,” digital prints and photography. Through November 28. Info, sales2@theelectricrose.com. The Beyond Gallery in Bennington. DUSTY BOYNTON: “Boundless,” new paintings and mixed-media works by the Vermont artist, curated in collaboration with Stowe’s 571 Projects. Through December 31. Info, jfranklin@benningtonmuseum. org. Bennington Museum. SVAC MEMBER EXHIBITION: Works in painting, sculpture and other mediums by member artists of MANCHESTER/BENNINGTON SHOWS

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JOAN HOFFMANN: “Libraries and Barns: Vermont en Plein Air,” acrylic and watercolor paintings by the South Royalton artist. Through November 21. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

‘ECOLOGIES: A SONG FOR OUR PLANET’: An exhibition of installations, videos, sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs that explore the relationship between humans and nature, and disruptions to the planet’s ecosystems caused by human intervention. Through February 27. ‘HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR ONE VOICE TO REACH ANOTHER?’: An exhibition of major works from the museum’s collection, along with new acquisitions and loans, that explore the theme of voice in both physical and metaphorical registers. Through February 13. ‘THE WORLD OF YOUSUF KARSH: A PRIVATE ESSENCE’: A showcase of 111 silver-gelatin

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No Small Feat

I’ve been thinking a lot about musical legacies lately. I’m in that not-so-sweet spot of aging when all the records I grew up loving are getting their 25th anniversary releases. I watched a woman at Burlington Records the other day take out a copy of Hello Nasty by the BEASTIE BOYS and loudly proclaim, “There’s no way in hell this was over 20 years ago!” To which her girlfriend replied, “Yes, it was, and you didn’t even have a fucking cellphone, girl.” I’m at the age my parents were when their generation started packaging baby boomer music as the greatest of all time. I still remember adults, even my older brothers, trying to explain to me how the DOORS were good. Now, I know the Doors have become low-hanging fruit for younger generations to shit on, but I think there’s a general reckoning of older acts and their legacies these days. Observe PAUL MCCARTNEY and ROGER DALTREY almost gleefully taking the piss out of the ROLLING STONES in the last few weeks. (For the record, I agree with them both that the 60

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Stones are an overrated blues band. That said, Exile on Main St. is still probably the greatest rock-and-roll record ever recorded.) Maybe I’m wrong, but I think one reason a band like the Stones is taking heat these days is … how to put this … well, they still exist. It’s their stubborn refusal to stop playing, married to their equally stubborn refusal to change. For good or bad, the Stones largely have stayed frozen in amber, churning out stadium tours every few years. They are not alone, particularly where bands of the ’60s and ’70s are concerned. Which makes what is happening with LITTLE FEAT so much more interesting to me. For the unfamiliar, Little Feat are one of the last great American fusion bands from that era. Formed in 1969 after FRANK ZAPPA kicked guitarist LOWELL GEORGE out of his MOTHERS OF INVENTION band for being too good, Little Feat combined Los Angeles’ Laurel Canyon folk rock, New Orleans’ swamp boogie, folk, jazz, country and rockabilly to create a wholly unique sound. Records such as Dixie Chicken and Feats Don’t Fail Me Now established the band as a force in the

early ’70s. JIMMY PAGE even called Little Feat his favorite American band. George, whose little feet gave the band its name, died of a heart attack in 1979, after which the band stopped playing for eight years. In 1987, fellow founding member and keyboardist BILL PAYNE reformed the group, which released Let It Roll the following year. Little Feat would continue releasing records and touring until the death of guitarist PAUL BARRERE in 2019. Payne stepped away from the band for a few years, performing with the DOOBIE BROTHERS, but has now begun what he calls the third iteration of Little Feat. Featuring SCOTT SHARRARD (GREGG ALLMAN BAND) on guitar in place of Barrere, the new version of the band hits the road this month to herald its rebirth, including a stop at the Flynn in Burlington on Saturday, November 20. I recently called Payne by phone, while he was still kneedeep in rehearsal mode, to talk about what’s next for Little Feat. “This feels like a real band again,” Payne enthused. “I’ve been in bands since I was 15, so I have an idea what it feels like. I love playing with these guys.

We were working on stretching out a number we’ve done for years, and the way it happened was so organic.” The song in question, “Tripe Face Boogie” from 1972’s Sailin’ Shoes, is one of more than 40 songs that Payne and the rest of the band are furiously rehearsing for what they are calling the By Request Tour. In the months leading up to the tour, fans could submit songs they wanted the band to play. “I’ve wanted to do a tour like this for a long time,” Payne said. “It’s daunting for sure. People are throwing songs at us that we haven’t played in years. I mean, take a song like ‘Got No Shadow.’ I don’t exactly sit around listening to Little Feat records in my spare time, but I completely forgot that Lowell sang that tune. I thought I did!” Payne knows they can’t honor every request, but the process of trying to is tightening up this latest iteration of Little Feat in a way that excites him. The band had only been rehearsing for a few days when we spoke, but the enthusiasm in his voice was impossible to miss. “Honestly, I’m like a kid in a candy store right now,” he revealed. “I was driving with FRED TACKETT [guitar, mandolin] after we played the other night, and he said something that really hit home. He said, ‘Bill, there isn’t a thing this band can’t play.’ And, you know, it struck me as true. He’s right, and that feels great.” Once the By Request Tour finishes up, Payne hopes that the band will get into the studio. He estimates that, between songs he has written and songs other members have ready, there are at least two more Little Feat records waiting to be made. “We’re ready for the next step,” Payne said. “The band sounds fresh, we have an incredible team around us, from management to our crew, you name it. It’s an exciting time to be Little Feat.”

Best of All Worlds

There’s fusion, and then there’s the magic that New York City-based guitarist and composer SHUBH SARAN creates. The Berklee College of Music graduate is ethnically Indian but has spent most of his life living all over the world, including in Cairo, Geneva, Toronto, New Delhi, Boston and now New York City. It’s fascinating to listen to Saran channel all his experiences and influences into one utterly unique sound. When Saran dropped his 2020 EP Becoming, it was a refreshing

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combination of his punk-rock roots and the jazz and R&B music he studied at Berklee. Here was a guitarist capable of moving effortlessly between Western and non-Western sounds, picking out intriguing melodies on his Fender Stratocaster, all while channeling the energy of the pop-punk music he grew up loving. Inglish, Saran’s newest LP, takes that spirit of multi-tradition fusion and turns it up to 11. On tracks such as “postradition” and “There Across the Ocean,” the composer removes any sort

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of divider between his musical worlds. By blending the styles together so subtly, Saran creates a futuristic sound full of Indian rhythms and waves of synths and layered guitars. “I started to make this record during the height of the pandemic, when it all felt so endless,” Saran told me recently over Zoom. “I think, not knowing when I’d be able to tour again or even play with other musicians, it helped push me to make this record differently than I had done in the past. I used to worry about recording music that I wouldn’t be able to re-create perfectly onstage, but I’ve learned to not worry about it anymore.” Indeed, Inglish sounds like a

record crafted by an artist completely unfettered. These aren’t songs that make it easy for a listener to differentiate Saran’s influences. The songs don’t even allow for it, as they move from one intriguing sound to the next, too elegantly composed to reveal geographical parts. “I think I’ve arrived at a natural inkling as a writer,” Saran explained. “When I hear melodies, I hear them with some Indian inflections for sure, which will seep into my rhythmic choices, as well. But I promised myself early on that I would never make something sound a certain way just for the sake of it, which is a common thing when you’re fusing non-Western music with Western music. I didn’t want to do that, because it can exoticize the very thing you want to fuse. It becomes disingenuous.” Similarly, you won’t hear much on Inglish that harkens back to Saran’s pop punk-loving past, even if he retains the spirit of those bands. “I picked up the guitar after I started listening to bands like BLINK-182 and MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE,” he said. “As someone who moved around a lot, it was a welcoming genre. It didn’t feel like it had some huge tradition.” While Saran conceded that the level of musicianship in those bands meant that he didn’t necessarily base his playing off them — “Those guys weren’t exactly great guitar heroes to have,” he admitted — it was the energy and ethos of pop punk he latched on to. “The whole thing with that scene was: Look, you don’t have to be the greatest player. But you should do what you want, play what you want, be yourself,” he said. “They were great examples of musicians writing the music they want to, which is something I really identify with.” You can check out Saran and his band at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington on Wednesday, November 17, along with openers LAZY BIRD. m

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CLUB DATES WED.17

Pokey LaFarge with Esther Rose (singer-songwriter) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20/$25.

Honky Tonk Tuesday feat. Pony Hustle (bluegrass) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

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Local Dork (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

WED.24

The Jeff Salisbury Band (blues rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Raised by Hippies (jam, rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $5.

Jerborn & Boxbanger (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Shubh Saran with Lazy Bird (indie) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20/$22.

Raised By Hippies (jam, rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $5.

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $5.

Wednesday with They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Lily Seabird (indie) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $10.

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THU.18

American Roots Night at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free. Freeway Clyde (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10. Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJ Big Dog (reggae, dancehall) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free. Monophonics with Ghost Funk Orchestra (psych-rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $17/$20. Nada Surf with Pom Pom Squad (rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20/$23. On the Cinder, Suburban Samurai, Versus, Breaking Up (punk rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $5. Rough Suspects (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5:30 p.m. Free. Russian Dolphin Pool Fight (funk) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Tom Bisson (singer-songwriter) at Stone’s Throw Pizza, Richmond, 6:30 p.m. Free. Zack Nugent (singer-songwriter) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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Brothers and Sisters: A Vermont Tribute to the Allman Brothers Band (Allman Brothers covers) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10. Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. The Hubcats (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free. IncaHoots (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

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CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

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Surf’s Up A band of many eras,

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fade into obscurity as the decade came to a close. Then came 2002’s Let Go, a revitalized shot

Memery (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

of power pop that returned the band to relevance and highlighted its Beatles-loving tunes.

WED.17

Roar! Showcase (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $15.

THU.18

Junk Island (comedy variety show) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5. Mothra! A Storytelling/ Improv Comedy Show (improv comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

FRI.19

Carmen Lagala & Tina Friml (comedy) at Comedy Centre Comedy Club, Rutland, 9 p.m. $15. Cherry, Dickson & Ratliff (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20.

SAT.20

Carmen Lagala & Tina Friml (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 9 p.m. $15. Cherry, Dickson & Ratliff (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20.

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records full of melodic power and sophisticated songwriting. After a few cancellations, Nada

SoDown with CRWD CTRL & oddpaco (electro-pop, dance) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 9 p.m. $18/$20.

Eleganza & Espresso: A Drag Brunch (drag show) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 10 a.m. $35.

Surf are finally coming to the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington on Thursday,

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TUE.23

The band’s latest album, Never Not Together, released in February 2020, continues a run of

November 18, with support from POM POM SQUAD. Jaded Ravins (Americana) at Charlie B’s Pub & Restaurant, Stowe, 7:30 p.m. Free. The Jauntee (jam) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. Milton Busker & the Grim Work (Americana) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Rainbow Full of Sound (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $12/$15. Ron Gallo with Post Animal & Why Bonnie (indie rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $18/$20.

Hamilton Leithauser & Kevin Morby with Jess Williamson (indie rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $30/$33. Last Kid Picked (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free. Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Mendica with VETICA & TerminalFloor (techno) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $5. Molly Mood (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Voices in Vain with Pons, Downswing, Blind Tiger, Dying Whale, Discrot (metal/hardcore) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 6 p.m. $10/$12. The Wormdogs (bluegrass) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10. Zenbarn 5th Anniversary Party with Paul Beaudrun Band and DJ Craig Mitchell (various) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free.

SUN.21

Rough Suspects (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Muscle Tough (funk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Adam Ezra Group (roots rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20/$22.

SAT.20

Phantom Airwave (funk rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Karl Lucas (singer-songwriter) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

Snake Mountain Bluegrass (bluegrass) at Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $25/$35 with dinner.

TUE.23

Blue Star Radiation (jam, rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20/$25. Chris & Erica (acoustic covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Some Hollow (indie rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Dead Set (Grateful Dead covers) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

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DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, midnight. Free. DJ Raul (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. DJ Taka (DJ) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10. No Scrubs: 90’s Hip Hop with David Chief (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5. Reign One (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

MON.22

Mo’ Monday with DJs Craig Mitchell and Fattie B (soul, R&B) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.24

CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

open mics & jams TUE.23

Lit Club (open mic poetry) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Standup Comedy Open Mic (open mic comedy) at Happy Place Café, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

WED.24

The Comedy Lab (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5. Kendall Farrell (comedy) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Standup Comedy Open Mic (open mic comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

trivia, karaoke, etc. THU.18

Trivia Night (trivia) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

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Musical Theater Monday (show tunes, karaoke) at Vermont Comedy Club’s Happy Place Café 6 p.m. Free.

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Trivia (trivia) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8:30 p.m. Free.

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REVIEW this Rose McCann Band, No Wonder (NORTH BY SOUTH RECORDS, DIGITAL)

Ah, the days of college recordings. Rolling into a basement studio at 11 p.m., swigging a Red Bull between vocal takes, even if sunrise is just around the corner. But most importantly: feeling like you’re creating something truly special. No Wonder by Rose McCann Band is the University of Vermont duo’s first EP. Though short — just three songs in nine minutes — it evokes a bit of that feel and does a great job of introducing a new local band. The first track, “Please Yourself,” was born in an Austin bar, according to the band. Against the song’s light and summery vibe, vocalist Emma Downie — no, her name is not Rose McCann; yes, it

William Mutschler, Soundtracks (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL)

In 1995, Patrick Moraz, the Swiss keyboardist for the bands Yes and the Moody Blues, played a series of private piano concerts known as the Coming Home America Tour. Fans could buy tickets, exclusively on the internet, for a fixed price of $800. (Moraz performed one show for a couple in their home.) Near the end of this tour, Moraz played a show at Princeton University that was recorded and later sold as Patrick Moraz: Live in Princeton. In its liner notes there’s a special thanks to Bill Mutschler, who now goes by William Mutschler, an East Burke woodworker and composer. In the liner notes for his own new EP, Soundtracks, Mutschler credits himself with “producing [Moraz’s] PM in Princeton CD-DVD.” But anybody seeking a local analogy to Moraz’s adrenaline-paced, modern classical piano will find nary a

is confusing — commands an uptight, solo drinker to let go of their insecurities and step out of their comfort zone. “I know you feel the music deep down in your soul / So why are you sitting at the bar pretending you’re all alone?” she sings. The guest horns in the chorus sound delightfully like something from St. Paul & the Broken Bones and feature tenor saxophonist Fiona Love and trumpet player Nick Bowman. You can never go wrong with a nice little horn section. The next track, “My Love,” is a stripped-down number featuring just Downie and the other half of the duo, guitarist Ben Collins. Colored by Collins’ jazzy electric guitar, this tender love song transports the listener to a smoky lounge, complete with cracked leather sofas and flickering tabletop candles. The pair seem at home in this track, which showcases their self-described “jazzinspired blues rock” sound most effectively.

The EP closes with a coming-of-age track, “305.” According to the band, the song is rooted in Downie’s college experience. It’s bouncy with a driving bass line, and it ties up this concise album with a bow. I even enjoyed the sax solo in the outro, and that’s saying something, because I generally would rather chew on nails than listen to a sax solo. In a press release, Rose McCann Band describe their music as a soundtrack to “your dew-wicked spring mornings, endless summer days with friends, and your darkest, coziest winter nights.” Whether it was intentional or not, I could easily see “305,” “Please Yourself” and “My Love” slotted into each of those seasons, respectively. This pandemic-born band is a welcome addition to the Burlington community, and I imagine No Wonder is only the start of much more music to come. No Wonder is available on Spotify. Keep an eye on Rose McCann Band’s Facebook page for upcoming shows around the Burlington area.

resemblance on Soundtracks, an affecting work consisting of seven patient, ruminative arrangements. Usually, music that evolves this slowly is dense and requires a lot of time to unfold, but there’s no sonic or temporal overkill here. Borne along by subtle builds and slow decays across simple melodic drones, Mutschler’s internal world creeps to the surface, neither bloated nor hasty. Opener “Gratitude” is an airy soundscape with smoothly contoured lines of connected, sustained tones. Its edgeless composition provokes a lazy, expansive feeling, as sounds of natural flute lead the listener toward the Erik Satie-inspired piano on the second track, “Kohlndensed” — a title perhaps inspired by Keith Jarrett’s 1975 album The Köln Concert. The use of silence, or space, as an instrument on these two tracks suggests a touch of impressionism. “Homeward,” however, is a sudden departure, a polyphonic spree of synth tones bouncing across an electric space shaped by oscillators and filters.

The proggy ambience thickens on “Gettysburg” — a piece of “social commentary,” according to the artist’s press release, that owes its first few moments to Tangerine Dream, specifically their score for the 1977 film Sorcerer. But ultimately, the mishmash of nonmusic sounds on this track, from helicopters to explosions to marching drums and bells, is overused and lends more confusion than clarity. The highlight of the album is “Silents.” Clocking in at 8:28, it’s a wistful and anxious sequence of ambient noises, sweeping violin and cello sounds, and a Vangelis-inspired adrenaline rush of electrifying, pulsating key tones — unnecessarily sprinkled with snippets of recorded whispered conversations. Listeners will hear echoes of Stars of the Lid, La Monte Young, Labradford and Klaus Schulze. It’s possible fans will find Mutschler’s new EP a mere afterthought to his atmospherically sprawling 2019 LP, Fields. Nevertheless, the evocative composer seems to be drawing from the same rich palette. If you’re a fan of public radio’s “Hearts of Space,” you might enjoy sampling Mutschler’s music. Soundtracks is available to stream on all major platforms.

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en years ago, a T-shirt maker filed a trademark application. A megacorp sent him a ceaseand-desist letter. He objected, vociferously. And the story of Eat More Kale sped around the world. Tuesday saw the world premiere in Burlington of Vermont and the Bright Green Nothing, a crowdfunded documentary about Bo Moore’s quest to trademark his catchy recommendation of leafy greens. Directed by James Lantz, the film has been in the works since 2012.

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Vermont and the Bright Green Nothing is a fascinating case study in documentary filmmaking, because its thesis clearly evolved as Lantz delved into his subject. The film’s original title, A Defiant Dude, promised an unambivalent celebration of Moore and his fight against a trademark bully. What emerged is nothing of the kind. For one thing, Lantz opens the film with a different Vermont trademark battle. Over just 21 days in 2009, we’re told, the Morrisville owner of Rock Art Brewery successfully asserted his right to call a beer the Vermonster against the giant Monster Energy drinks, which had claimed that the name infringed on its trademark. 64

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In 2011, Montpelier artist Moore applied for a trademark for the phrase “Eat More Kale,” which he’d been printing on T-shirts and stickers since around the turn of the millennium. Fast-food giant Chick-fil-A, which uses the slogan “Eat mor chikin,” sent him a letter telling him that, in essence, the phrase “Eat more” was its corporate property. Calling the face-off a “David-versusGoliath” battle, Moore mobilized his army of Facebook fans. A petition was signed. Funds were raised. The New York Times reported on the controversy. The governor of Vermont held a press conference in support of Moore. Outrage against the corporate bully ran high, with additional fuel from Chick-fil-A’s history of donating to anti-LGBTQ causes. In 2015, Moore finally received his trademark. It was a victory for the little guy … or was it? (For a detailed timeline of the Eat More Kale affair and the film’s production, see my November 9 story “‘Eat More Kale’ Documentary to Premiere Next Week.”)

A DISINGENUOUS DUDE? Lantz’s documentary takes a hard look at Moore’s quest to trademark the phrase “Eat More Kale.”

Why, then, did Eat More Kale’s battle take four years? Foot-dragging by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was one factor. But Lantz mounts a convincing case that Moore and his legal team also played a role. He suggests that Moore had solid business reasons to prolong the case, describing him as “profiteering” off the resulting publicity, “gaming the system,” “obfuscating” and sometimes even “flat-out lying.” If Moore misrepresented his case to the public, though, he had lots of help. His supporters — and, yes, even the media — routinely referred to Chick-filA’s “lawsuit” against him. In fact, as Lantz points out, Chick-fil-A never sued Moore. Its last communication with him was the 2011 cease-and-desist letter. The “lawsuit” was a convenient fiction to support the David-and-Goliath narrative. If this makes the doc sound like a hit piece on Moore, it’s not. Lantz has bigger concerns — namely, the very real phenomenon of trademark bullying. While Moore may have hyped up his case to sell more T-shirts, his homespun hucksterism pales in comparison with the cold-blooded actions of corporate lawyers. For instance, Lantz cites the case of Entrepreneur Media, which seems determined to sue every

business with “entrepreneur” in its name into oblivion. And so the film’s narrative develops layers on layers of complexity. Lantz suggests that Moore’s case was actually a clash of two Goliaths: big business and social media outrage. Moore exploited the latter with aplomb, and his viral Facebook posts helped to right a potential wrong. In the process, however, Facebook also spread misinformation about the case, just as it has helped spread far more dangerous misinformation in recent years. Setting the record straight means getting deep into the weeds of intellectual property law. To do so, Lantz relies throughout the film on the voice-over narration of Vermont actor Margo Whitcomb. The result sometimes feels like a classroom lecture, though it’s enlivened by animated interludes illustrating legal principles. Lantz also makes intriguing use of the contrast between black-and-white and color photography, using the former for the central narrative (TV news footage, his own interviews with Moore) and the latter for classic Vermont scenes (a general store, a babbling brook) that serve as backdrop for narration or graphics. Normally, the rustic footage would come across as inessential B-roll, but the color gives it immediacy. By

contrast, black-and-white film highlights the transience of virality online, where outrage is the greatest motivator. For Moore, outrage was also a moneymaker, and it’s hard to begrudge him his success. But Lantz’s doc might make you think twice about online heroes and villains — and about underdog stories that seem just a little too good to be true. Perhaps that color footage is the filmmaker’s way of suggesting that, while “bright green nothings” such as the Eat More Kale case may come and go, Vermont abides. MARGO T HARRI S O N margot@sevendaysvt.com

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Vudu, Tubi, rentable): Trademark law may not be the sexiest issue, but in the music world, as this documentary shows, intellectual property questions get a lot of play. THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY (2021; HBO

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KING RICHARD: Will Smith plays the father and coach of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams in this biopic, also starring Aujanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton. Reinaldo Marcus Green (Joe Bell) directed. (138 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset) PAPER & GLUE: French street artist JR directed this documentary about his genre-bending public art. With Ladj Ly. (94 min, NR. Savoy) THE SOUVENIR: PART II: Writer-director Joanna Hogg’s autobiographical chronicle of a film student’s life in the ’80s continues with the aftermath of a toxic relationship. Tilda Swinton and Honor Swinton Byrne star. (107 min, R. Roxy)

OPENING TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, OR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 BELFAST: Kenneth Branagh wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical film about coming of age in the turbulent Northern Ireland of the 1960s. With Jude Hill, Caitriona Balfe and Judi Dench. (98 min, PG-13. Essex, Roxy, Savoy) ENCANTO: A young girl living in a charmed Colombian enclave sets out to discover her own magical powers in the latest Disney animation, cowritten by Lin-Manuel Miranda and starring the voice talents of Stephanie Beatriz and John Leguizamo. (99 min, PG. Essex, Star, more theaters to come) HOUSE OF GUCCI: Lady Gaga plays a newcomer to the storied fashion family in this biographical crime drama from director Ridley Scott, also starring Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Salma Hayek. (157 min, R. Essex, Roxy, Star, more theaters to come) JULIA: Directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West (RBG) tell the story of Julia Child in this documentary. (95 min, PG-13. Savoy)

NOW PLAYING CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOGHHH The children’s books about a beloved giant pet come to the screen in a semi-live-action adventure starring Darby Camp, Jack Whitehall and John Cleese. Walt Becker directed. (97 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Star, Sunset, Welden)

RON’S GONE WRONGHHH1/2 In this animated family comedy, a middle schooler gets a robot friend (voice of Zach Galifianakis) whose malfunctions complicate his life. Sarah Smith and Jean-Philippe Vine directed. (106 min, PG. Essex) SPENCERHHHH Pablo Larraín (Jackie) does his arty-biopic magic on Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart), depicting her decision to leave Prince Charles (Jack Farthing) over a family holiday. (111 min, R. Roxy, Savoy; reviewed 11/10) VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGEHH1/2 Tom Hardy returns as the Marvel super-antihero in a new adventure. Andy Serkis directed. (90 min, PG-13. Majestic, Sunset)

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DUNEHHH1/2 Director Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049) takes on the first half of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel about space colonization, political intrigue, drugs and mysticism. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac star. (155 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Playhouse, Roxy, Sunset; reviewed 10/27)

ESSEX CINEMAS & T-REX THEATER: 21 Essex Way, Suite 300, Essex, 879-6543, essexcinemas.com

ETERNALSHH1/2 The latest Marvel adventure introduces a new group of heroes who are literally gods, played by Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Kumail Najiani and others. Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) directed. (157 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden)

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THE FRENCH DISPATCHHHH1/2 Wes Anderson’s latest, presented as an anthology of stories from a fictional magazine, is a love letter to the vintage New Yorker. With Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and Bill Murray. (108 min, R. Big Picture, Capitol, Majestic, Roxy, Savoy)

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NO TIME TO DIEHHH1/2 James Bond returns from retirement to tackle a villain (Rami Malek) who targets people’s DNA in Daniel Craig’s swan song as the superspy. Cary Joji Fukunaga directed. (163 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic)

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agriculture

AGRICULTURAL LITERACY WEEK 2021: WE ARE THE LAND: Joseph and Jesse Bruchac share Abenaki stories and songs about the creation of Petonbowk (Lake Champlain), the coming of corn and more. Presented by NOFA-VT. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-4122.

business

MONEY MEDICINE FOR YOUR BUSINESS: Entrepreneurs learn how to de-stress and even enjoy bookkeeping and budgeting. Presented by Women Business Owners Network Vermont. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 503-0219. VERMONT TOURISM SUMMIT: Owners, managers and employees of businesses that depend on out-of-staters convene to share insights and learn from the experts. Killington Grand Resort Hotel, noon-6:30 p.m. $50-115. Info, 865-5202. VT POC RELAUNCH EVENT: The Vermont Professionals of Color Network celebrates its new and improved website with a networking get-together and raffle. Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 5:15-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, thefam@ vtpoc.net.

crafts

DROP-IN KNITTING GROUP: Needle jockeys gather to chat and work on their latest projects. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: Moviegoers join scientists on a journey through a surreal world of bug-eyed giants and egg-laying mammals. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

ETHICS OF GRADING NEXT SERIES: STUDENT OPINIONS ON GRADING: Small groups hear input from undergrads at this latest installment of the Institute for Ethics in Public Life series. Livestream available. Alumni Conference Room, Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., noon. Free; preregister. Info, michelle. ouellette@plattsburgh.edu.

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: Viewers discover that a cold, icy land is stunning, still pristine and home to an incredible variety of life. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN FILM SERIES: ‘BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT’: Burlington City Arts presents a virtual screening of this documentary on a pioneer of abstract art. Free. Info, 865-7166. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: An educational and entertaining film takes viewers on an epic adventure through some of Earth’s wildest landscapes. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission

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The Kabir Centre for Arts & Culture, a nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of South Asian music, dance, cinema and poetry, presents its annual South Asian Film Festival, a 10-day extravaganza of films by and for the people of the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora. Select in-person screenings take place at Cinéma Cineplex Forum and Cinémathèque in Montréal, but most films are available for free online. Two evenings are dedicated to the work of Satyajit Ray, a late titan of 20th-century Bengali cinema, and Shahin Parhami (pictured), a widely acclaimed documentarian who passed away earlier this year.

SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MONTRÉAL Friday, November 19, through Sunday, November 28, online and at various Montréal locations. Various prices; $25 for festival pass. Info, 514-620-4182, saffm.centrekabir.com.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: A tenacious mammalian matriarch fights to protect her family in a desolate environment. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. MOVIE NIGHT: A woman joins a cross-country van caravan in the winner of the 2021 Academy Award for Best Picture. Call for film title. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. ‘SUNRISE’: A husband and wife rekindle their love in the face of a conwoman trying to tear them apart in this classic of the silent era. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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‘LIKE’: Ottauquechee Health Foundation and Woodstock High School and Middle School present a virtual screening of a documentary about social media and mental health. Free. Info, 457-4188.

TEEN ADVISORY BOARD MEETING: Teenagers snack on free food and take an active role in their local library. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, youthservices@ centenniallibrary.org.

GMBA BOOK GROUP: High school students discuss the themes and real-world connections of a group-selected book. Presented by Brownell Library. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

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GSA CONFERENCE 2021: Gender & Sexuality Alliances from middle and high schools sign up for online and in-person activities with Outright Vermont. 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ outrightvt.org. ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: Mothers-to-be build strength, stamina and a stronger connection to their baby. 5:45-6:45 p.m. $5-15. Info, 899-0339.

burlington

CRAFTERNOON: Weaving, knitting, embroidery and paper crafting supplies take over the Teen Space. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403. FFL YOUNG WRITERS: Budding authors, scriptwriters and graphic novelists ages 10 and up learn more about the craft via prompts and group exercises. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403. ITTY BITTY PUBLIC SKATE: Coaches are on hand to help the rink’s tiniest patrons learn to skate. Gordon H. Paquette Ice Arena, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $8. Info, 865-7558. SPANISH MUSICAL KIDS: Vengan a cantar y aprender! Kids ages 1 through 5 learn Spanish through song out on the lawn. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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STEAM FUN ACTIVITY: ORIGAMI: Kiddie crafters learn how to fold patterned paper into animals and other objects. Grades 3 and up. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. STORY TIME: Little ones from birth through age 5 learn from songs, sign language lessons, math activities and picture books. Masks required. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

STORY TIME AT THE BIXBY LIBRARY: Preschoolers and their caregivers engage in reading, songs and a take-home activity. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, melanie. cote@bixbylibrary.org.

champlain islands/ northwest SPOOL RACERS: Engineers ages 8 and up construct wind-up toys out of sewing supplies and rubber bands. Fairfax Community Library, 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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PLAYGROUP FOR AGES 0-2: Babies, toddlers and their caretakers meet new friends and play to their hearts’ content. Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 603-643-4120.

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burlington

BABYTIME: Pre-walking little ones experience a story time catered to their infant interests. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

GENES IN A BOTTLE: High schoolaged molecular biologists extract their own DNA and precipitate it into cool double-helix necklaces. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, sbplprograms@ southburlingtonvt.gov. KIDS’ BOOK CLUB: Third and fourth graders read and discuss The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, sbplprograms@ southburlingtonvt.gov. READ TO A DOG: Little ones get a 10-minute time slot to tell stories to Lola the pup. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:304:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

stowe/smuggs

BABY & TODDLER MEETUP: Tiny tots and their caregivers come together for playtime, puzzles and picture books. Morristown

Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853. MIDDLE SCHOOL ADVISORY BOARD MEETING: Students ages 10 through 12 kick off the library’s new participatory program for preteens. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

mad river valley/ waterbury

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME WITH CYNTHIA: Readers ages 3 and older bundle up to hear tall tales out in the garden. Waterbury Public Library, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

champlain islands/ northwest READ WITH HENRY: A big, friendly Newfoundland makes for a perfect friend to read stories to. 15-minute time slots available. Fairfax Community Library, 3:15 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 849-2420.

upper valley

PARENT & CAREGIVER MEETUP & PLAYGROUP: Those with new and pre-walking babies gather to chat and sip coffee while the little ones play. Older siblings welcome. BYO mug. Norwich Public Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, roger. arnold@norwichlibrary.org. TODDLER STORY TIME: Toddling tykes 20 months through 3.5 years old hear a few stories related to the theme of the week. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

stowe/smuggs

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Players ages 9 through 13 go on a fantasy adventure with Dungeon Master Andy. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 888-3853.

outside vermont

MUSIC & MOVEMENT: Little ones ages 2 through 5 and their caregivers move along to songs. Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., 1010:30 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 603-640-3268.

PAJAMA STORY TIME: Puppets and picture books make for a special pre-bedtime story hour for kids in their PJs. Birth through age 5. Masks required. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. PLAY TIME: Hoops, stepping rocks and parachute games help kids ages 2 through 5 make friends and build social skills. Masks required. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: New youth librarian Sasha McGarvey encourages creativity and exploration in kids under 6. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

ADAPTIVE AERIAL CLASS: Kids of all abilities ages 7 through 12 learn aerial dancing with hanging fabrics. Masks required. Murmurations Aerial, Burlington, 12:30-1:45 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, alexandra@ inclusiveartsvermont.org.

chittenden county

middlebury area

FAMILY PLAYSHOP: Kids from birth through age 5 learn and play at this school readiness program. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:15-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

ART LAB: AUTUMN SQUIRRELS: The craft table is overrun with materials with which to make little furry friends. Ages 3 and up. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

barre/montpelier

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burlington

‘LIKE’: See WED.17.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: THE CANDLEKEEP MYSTERIES: Teens bring their imaginations and problem-solving skills to this weekly collaborative role-playing game. Masks required. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, anthony.taylor0731@gmail.com.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.17, 12:30-1:15 p.m.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.17, 10:15-11:15 a.m.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.17, 8:30-9:15 a.m.

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outside vermont

‘LIKE’: See WED.17.

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‘LIKE’: See WED.17.

SOCIAL SUNDAYS FAMILY ART: Registered families pick up take-home kits to complete with video or typed instructions. Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center & Gallery. Free; preregister. Info, 891-2014.

BERLIN FALL SCHOLASTIC CHESS TOURNAMENT: Young grandmasters in grades K through 12 compete for trophies. Masks required. Capital City Grange, Berlin, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $8-20. Info, 881-3645.

MORNING STORY TIME: Kids ages 2.5 through 4 hear a story before playtime and arts and crafts. Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 603-643-4120.

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stowe/smuggs

TOUCH-A-TRUCK: FIRE ENGINE: Kids listen to a story, then go outside to meet real-life Morristown fire fighters and their engine. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

upper valley

OUTDOOR SONGS & STORIES: Little ones hear music and tales that celebrate giving and community. Donations of socks, toiletries and gift cards are accepted for the Sock Angel Program. Norwich Public Library, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

outside vermont

SILENT DISCO IN THE TUNNEL: DJ Sean and the LIVEMIXKINGS crew beam family-friendly tunes into dancers’ headphones for a bouncy, bubbly party in the Rail Trail Tunnel. Rail Trail, Lebanon, N.H., 5 p.m. $5-10. Info, 603-448-0400.

MNFF SELECTS FILM SERIES: ‘STREET GANG: HOW WE GOT TO SESAME STREET’: The family-friendly Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival series continues with a documentary about the creators behind the scenes of the beloved TV show. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 382-9222.

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INCLUSIVE INTEGRATED ARTS FOR FAMILIES: Students integrate science, math and art in an eight-week course for homeschoolers or families looking for an online afterschool activity. Presented by Inclusive Arts Vermont. 3-5:15 p.m. Pay what you can. Info, 871-5002. KIDS IN THE KITCHEN: Chefs in training and their caretakers make an entrée and a dessert with a trained dietitian. Grades 1 through 5. Presented by various local libraries. 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.17.

burlington

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.17, 12:30-1:30 p.m. VIRTUAL TEEN WRITERS CLUB: Aspiring authors unleash their creativity through collaborative and independent writing games. Hosted by Brownell Library. 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

burlington

SING-ALONG WITH LINDA BASSICK: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and wiggle along with Linda out on the library lawn. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county PRESCHOOL STORY TIME ON THE GREEN: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library leads half an hour of stories, rhymes and songs. Masks or social distancing required. Williston Town Green, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

stowe/smuggs

FULL STEAM AHEAD TUESDAYS: Kids learn art, science and math through games and crafts, including paper airplane races, Lego competitions and origami. Ages 6 and up. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: The 5-and-under crowd meets up for an hour of stories, songs, crafts and playtime. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

upper valley

BABY STORY TIME: Librarians and finger puppet friends introduce babies 20 months and younger to the joy of reading. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

ITTY BITTY PUBLIC SKATE: See WED.17.

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STORIES WITH MEGAN: Bookworms ages 2 through 5 enjoy fun-filled reading time. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

burlington

chittenden county

TEEN MAKER KIT RELEASE: ALLIGATOR LOKI: Superheroes in grades 6 through 12 pick up the supplies needed to make their very own reptilian variant from the Marvel TV show Loki. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

outside vermont

AFTERNOON STORY TIME: Fun books, toys and crafts are on the docket for kids ages 3.5 through 5. Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 603-643-4120.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.17.

ITTY BITTY PUBLIC SKATE: See WED.17.

champlain islands/ northwest PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Little library patrons listen to stories, sing songs and take home a fun activity. Fairfax Community Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

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PLAYGROUP FOR AGES 0-2: See WED.17.

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every weekday morning. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4107.

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

SENIOR CENTER WEEKLY LUNCH: Age Well and the Kevin L. Dorn Senior Center serve a hot, sitdown lunch. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 12:30 p.m. Donations; preregister; limited space. Info, 923-5545.

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

WEEKLY WINE TASTING: Themed in-store tastings take oenophiles on an adventure through a wine region, grape variety, style of wine or producer’s offerings. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

film See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

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

games

ARCHITECTURAL SCAVENGER HUNT: Structure sleuths hunt through downtown to compete for a prize from the American Institute of Architects Vermont. Clue sheets available at aiavt.org or Ilsley Public Library. Various Middlebury locations. Free. Info, info@aiavt.org.

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health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Those in need of an easy-on-the-joints workout gather for an hour of calming, low-impact movement. United Community Church, St. Johnsbury, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 751-0431. AYURVEDA PROGRAM ONLINE: Maryellen Crangle and Dorothy Alling Memorial Library lead a 12-week introduction to this ancient Indian and Nepalese healing and lifestyle tradition. 2-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org. CHAIR YOGA: Waterbury Public Library instructor Diana Whitney leads at-home participants in gentle stretches supported by seats. 10 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. FALL PREVENTION SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: Humans boost their strength and balance through gentle, flowing movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3322. TAI CHI SUN 73 CLASS: Practitioners enjoy a peaceful morning of movement. Ages 55 and up; prerequisite is Tai Chi for Fall’s Prevention series 1, 2 & 3. Middlebury Recreation Center, 1011:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, doreenvermont@gmail.com. TAI CHI: SUN-STYLE 73: A sequence of slow, controlled motions aids in strength and balance. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 11:20 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 223-3322.

holidays

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CHESS CLUB: Players of all levels, from beginner to seasoned, drop in for a friendly game. Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 603-643-4120.

Lost and Found In 1910, Burlington’s Chai Adam synagogue commissioned a jewel-toned, Eastern European-style mural from artist Ben Zion Black. In 1986, it was discovered gathering dust in the carpet store that had taken over the building. And in 2015, the mural was rescued and moved to Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, where it has been on display and undergoing meticulous restoration ever since. Jeff Potash and Aaron Goldburg, the archivists who spearheaded the preservation efforts, talk to the Chittenden County Historical Society about the mural’s journey and Vermont’s Jewish history.

BURLINGTON’S LOST MURAL & LITTLE JERUSALEM Sunday, November 21, 2 p.m. Online. Donations; preregister. Info, cchsvt@gmail.com, cchsvt.org.

ready their virtual paddles for the Shelburne Museum’s annual fundraiser. Various prices. Info, 985-0885.

language

AFLCR SOCIAL HOUR: TROISIÈME MERCREDI: Francophones fine-tune their French-language conversation skills via Zoom. 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@aflcr.org. VIRTUAL ELL CLASSES: English language learners of all abilities practice writing and speaking with trained instructors. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov.

montréal

JEWISH BOOK MONTH: STEVEN PINKER: The psychologist and bestselling author discusses his new book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, with the Jewish Public Library. 7:30 p.m. $10; preregister. Info, 514-345-2627.

HOLIDAY AUCTION EXTRAVAGANZA: Bidders

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music

EXPANDING YOUR BLUES VOCABULARY: FROM BIRD’S BLUES TO MODAL: Legendary jazz guitarist Dave Stryker leads a clinic focused on cutting-edge harmonies and improvisational techniques. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040. WILD WOODS SONG CIRCLE: Singers and acoustic instrumentalists gather over Zoom for an evening of music making. 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free. Info, 775-1182.

outdoors

ONLINE GEAR AUCTION: Sales of boats, lodge stays and other outdoorsy goodies benefit the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. Various prices. Info, 496-2285.

tech

INTRODUCING KANOPY & FLIPSTER: Library patrons learn how to access free movies and magazines. Zoom option available. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free;

preregister. Info, msinger@ kellogghubbard.org.

6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-4122.

theater

FARM TO PLATE ANNUAL NETWORK GATHERING: Farmers and farm workers convene to discuss the beginning of the Vermont Agriculture and Food System Strategic Plan 2021-2030. 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. $45; preregister. Info, 828-5669.

‘BORROWING TIME’: Girls Nite Out Productions returns to the stage with a small-town comedy by Vermont playwright Carole Vasta Folley. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington. 7:30-10 p.m. $23-25. Info, 448-0086.

words

TIM HAYES: The author and behavioral scientist unfolds the lessons in his book Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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agriculture

AGRICULTURAL LITERACY WEEK 2021: ABENAKI LAND LINK PROJECT: Members of the Indigenous food sovereignty organization, including Chief Don Stevens, join this NOFA-VT series.

business

crafts

GLASSBLOWERS AT WORK: Locals come in from the cold to watch craftspeople transform 2,100-degree molten glass into artful pieces. AO Glass, Burlington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, info@aoglass.com. NEEDLE FELTING WITH NICOLE VANCE: Attendees pick up their needles and learn how to make cozy totems and furry friends. Fairfax Community Library, 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420. THURSDAY ZOOM KNITTERS: The Norman Williams Public Library fiber arts club meets virtually for conversation and crafting. 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@normanwilliams.org.

education

ETHICS OF GRADING NEXT SERIES: TO GRADE OR NOT TO GRADE?: SUNY Plattsburgh’s Institute for Ethics in Public Life leads a small-group discussion on what assessment could look like in the absence of grades. Noon. Free; preregister. Info, michelle.ouellette@ plattsburgh.edu.

HIRING2DAYVT VIRTUAL JOB FAIR: The Vermont Department of Labor gives job seekers a chance to meet with employers from around the state. 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 828-4000.

VSAC SHOWS YOU HOW: GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS: Vermont Student Assistance Corporation walks webinar attendees through the application process for its college scholarships. 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@vsac.org.

VERMONT TOURISM SUMMIT: See WED.17, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

film

community

‘CHALLENGER SEVEN’ REDEDICATION: Mayor Anne Watson leads an informal ceremony marking the new location of the memorial to the victims of the Challenger disaster. Montpelier High School, 4-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 236-9163.

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.17. ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN FILM SERIES: ‘BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT’: See WED.17. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.17.

LIST YOUR EVENT FOR FREE AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.17.

Info, gustogastronomics@ gmail.com.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.17.

games

‘NO MAN’S LAND’: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart lead the cast in National Theatre Live’s revival of Harold Pinter’s comic classic. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $7-21. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink

COFFEE CORNER MORNINGS: See WED.17. SUP CON GUSTO TAKEAWAY DINNER SERIES: Philly transplants Randy Camacho and Gina Cocchiaro serve up a threecourse, family-style menu of seasonal Vermont produce and meat. See supcongustovt.com for menus. Richmond Community Kitchen, 6-8 p.m. Various prices.

holidays

HOLIDAY AUCTION EXTRAVAGANZA: See WED.17.

lgbtq

ARCHITECTURAL SCAVENGER HUNT: See WED.17. WHIST CARD GAME CLUB: Players of all experience levels congregate for some friendly competition. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA WITH LINDA: Lowimpact moves are the order of the day at this weekly sit-down yoga practice. Zoom option available. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10:15-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

POP-UP HAPPY HOUR: Locals connect over drinks at a speakeasy-style bar. Hosted by OUT in the 802. Lincolns, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

music

UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE & DAVE STRYKER: The guitarist and the University of Vermont big band play an all-new repertoire composed and arranged by Bob Mintzer. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

outdoors

ONLINE GEAR AUCTION: See WED.17.

seminars

REFINANCING YOUR MORTGAGE: Homeowners learn how to secure lower interest rates and shorter mortgage terms from New England Federal Credit Union. 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 764-6940. UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: Applicants work one-on-one with tutors to study history, government and geography – and to practice English, if needed. Zoom option available. Mercy Connections, Burlington, 9-10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-7063.

theater

‘BORROWING TIME’: See WED.17. ‘GIDION’S KNOT’: A grieving mother and an emotionally volatile teacher clash over a child’s suicide in this student-directed play. Hepburn Zoo, Hepburn Hall, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 443-6433. ‘LOOKING FOR THE HEART OF SATURDAY NIGHT’: Lyric Theatre brings local triple threat Taryn Noelle’s dance-centric musical to the stage. Lyric Theatre Company Creative Space, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 658-1484. ‘MAMMA MIA!’: Audiences dance, jive and have the time of their lives at North Country Community Theatre’s production of the ABBA jukebox musical. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre,

7:30 p.m. $15.50-25.50. Info, 457-3981. ‘SHOWING UP’: Native Vermonters and lifelong friends Miranda Ferriss Jones and Vanessa Dunleavy present a new, original musical. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 382-9222.

words

BRAD KESSLER: The author reads from his new novel North, followed by a panel discussion with Laurie Stavrand of U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Vermont. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 257-0124.

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KATIE IVES: The Norwich Bookstore presents the author of Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams in conversation with writer Sean Prentiss. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 649-1114. PENS & PAGES: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett serves as inspiration for discussion and writing exercises in this Mercy Connections reading group focused on Black people’s experiences. 1:30-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-7063. PHOENIX BOOKS VIRTUAL POETRY OPEN MIC: Wordsmiths read their work at this evening hosted by local performance poet Bianca Amira Zanella. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 855-8078. 6h-burlingtonchoralsociety111021 1

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climate crisis

ECOCULTURELAB GATHERING: The collective of artists, scholars and activists seeking a more sustainable world holds an open meeting. University of Vermont Interfaith Center, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, ecoculture@ uvm.edu.

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ETHICS OF GRADING NEXT SERIES: GIVING FEEDBACK THAT FEEDS FORWARD: Small groups contemplate productive methods of assessment in this final entry in the SUNY Plattsburgh Institute for Ethics in Public Life series. Noon. Free; preregister. Info, michelle. ouellette@plattsburgh.edu.

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‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.17.

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‘LINEFORK’: Vermont musician Carling Berkhout opens for this documentary about the late, great Appalachian banjo player Lee Sexton. Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro, 7:30-11 p.m. $18. Info, info@epsilonspires.org.

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‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.17.

food & drink

Smiley. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, 7:30 p.m. $40. Info, 457-3500.

games

OPEN SESAME: Joe Fiedler, the musical director of Sesame Street, and his sextet play an expansive, inventive jazz set. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 387-0102.

COFFEE CORNER MORNINGS: See WED.17.

ARCHITECTURAL SCAVENGER HUNT: See WED.17. MAH-JONGG: Tile traders of all experience levels gather for a game session. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.17.

FALL PREVENTION SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: See WED.17, 10-10:45 a.m. ONLINE GUIDED MEDITATION: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library invites attendees to chill out on their lunch breaks and reconnect with their bodies. Noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org. QIGONG WITH GERRY SANDWEISS: Beginners learn this ancient Chinese practice of meditative movement. Presented by Norman Williams Public Library. 8:30-9:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ normanwilliams.org.

holidays

HOLIDAY AUCTION EXTRAVAGANZA: See WED.17.

lgbtq

SYMPHONIC BAND: The student ensemble performs its first live show since the start of the pandemic, featuring the premiere of music professor Gordon’s “The Rise and Fall of COVID-19.” E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2471.

outdoors

ONLINE GEAR AUCTION: See WED.17.

sports

SKI, RIDE & SPORTS SALE: The Cambridge Area Rotary sells off donated winter sports supplies in support of its Winter Wellness Days program. Cambridge Community Center, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 343-2372.

theater

‘BORROWING TIME’: See WED.17. ‘GIDION’S KNOT’: See THU.18. ‘LOOKING FOR THE HEART OF SATURDAY NIGHT’: See THU.18. ‘MAMMA MIA!’: See THU.18. ‘SHOWING UP’: See THU.18.

words

SOUTH ENDS: DRAG & BURLY: Audiences enjoy the view when Green Mountain Cabaret and its special guests take the stage for a night of comedy, drag and burlesque. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. Info, destroyapathy@ artsriot.com.

FRANZ NICOLAY & ADAM WILSON: The authors of Someone Should Pay For Your Pain and Sensation Machines talk about their novels with staff at the Norwich Bookstore. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 649-1114.

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SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MONTRÉAL: The Kabir Centre for Arts & Culture presents nine days of new films from the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora. See saffm.centrekabir.com/en for full schedule. See calendar spotlight. Various prices; $25 for festival pass. Info, 514-620-4182.

music

DARK SHADOWS ENTERTAINMENT: DEVIN FERREIRA: The hip-hop saxophonist and music educator gives a spiritual showing. Love Lagoon and King Konye open. Merchants Hall, Rutland, 8-11 p.m. $10. Info, darkshadows entertainment@gmail.com. JAZZ JAM AT THE GRANGE: Instrumentalists and community members come together to swap tunes, follow along, take the lead or just listen. Presented by Modern Times Theater. Caledonia Grange, East Hardwick, 7 p.m. Free. Info, moderntimestheater@ gmail.com. JUKEBOX QUARTET: The fabulous foursome performs a cozy, cold-weather setlist for strings, featuring special guest Moira

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‘WOMAN OF THE WOODS’: Vicki Ferentinos has audiences rolling in the aisles with her one-woman show. The Grange Theater, South Pomfret, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 457-3500.

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WINTER CLOTHING GIVEAWAY: Jaquith Public Library and Onion River Food Shelf hand out donated cold-weather clothes. Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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GLASSBLOWERS AT WORK: See THU.18. MAKE YOUR OWN BERNIE MITTENS WORKSHOP: SOLD OUT. Crafters recycle old knitwear into mittens fit for a presidential inauguration. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 2:30-5 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, msinger@ kellogghubbard.org.

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SILENT DISCO IN THE TUNNEL: DJ Sean and the LIVEMIXKINGS crew keep the outdoor dance party in the Rail Trail Tunnel going well past curfew. Rail Trail, Lebanon, N.H., 8 p.m. $15. Info, 603-448-0400.

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See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.17. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.17. BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL FILM SERIES: ‘IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK’: Poet Rajnii Eddins hosts a screening of the acclaimed adaptation of James Baldwin’s classic novel. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.17. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.17. ‘THE PRICE OF SAFETY’: Vermont’s smallest city grapples with questions of police funding and oversight in this riveting documentary. Q&A follows. Donations benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 877-6737. ‘RUTH STONE’S VAST LIBRARY OF THE FEMALE MIND’: A reception and Q&A with director Nora Jacobson follows a screening of this intimate portrait of a Vermont poet’s life and work. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 4 p.m. Donations. Info, 478-0191. ‘THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS’: Truffle-inflected refreshments are served alongside this heartwarming documentary. Proceeds benefit the Woodstock Vermont Film Series. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $100; preregister; limited space. Info, 457-5303.

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ETHIOPIAN & ERITREAN CUISINE TAKEOUT: Foodies from the Old North End and beyond sample Mulu Tewelde’s spicy, savory, succulent meals. Vegetarian options available; bring your own bag. 20 Allen St., Burlington, 4 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, tewmlde@yahoo.com. MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: Produce, prepared foods and local products are available for purchase at this year-round bazaar. Middlebury VFW Hall, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, middleburyfarmersmkt@ yahoo.com. WEEKLY WINE TASTING: See WED.17. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Stowe, noon3 p.m. Info, 585-7717.

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ARCHITECTURAL SCAVENGER HUNT: See WED.17. BEGINNER DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Waterbury Public Library game master Evan Hoffman gathers novices and

veterans alike for an afternoon of virtual adventuring. Teens and adults welcome. Noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. BOARD GAMES WITH THE FRIENDLY TABLETOP GAMERS: The Friendly Tabletop Gamers of Essex and Beyond host a gameplay session for teens and adults. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, every 10 a.m.1:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-4140.

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BIPOC COVID-19 BOOSTER SHOT CLINICS: Vermont Health Equity Initiative delivers vaccines to BIPOC Vermont residents and their households. Transport and interpreters available on request. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, info@vermonthealthequity.org. FALL PREVENTION SUN STYLE TAI CHI: See WED.17. Father Lively Center, St. Johnsbury, 10-11 a.m.

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5TH ANNUAL READING HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR: Southern Vermonters find unique gifts for loved ones at a wintry artisan market. Presented by the Reading Historical Society. Reading Town Hall, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, readinghsvt@ gmail.com. HOLIDAY AUCTION EXTRAVAGANZA: See WED.17. HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Locally made crafts and vintage treasures go on sale alongside baked goods and wintry foods. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.2 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3982.

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BURLINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY FALL CONCERT: The community choir returns to the stage with a program including the world

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premiere of Vermont composer Don Jamison’s There Is a Day. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $8-25. Info, bcssingers@gmail.com. LE VENT DU NORD: The Québécois folk band brings their hard-driving rhythms and joyful melodies to the stage. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. $25-40. Info, 533-2000.

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LITTLE FEAT: The beloved band displays their trademark blend of California rock and New Orleans swamp boogie. Presented by Higher Ground. Flynn Main Stage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $59287. Info, 863-5966.

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SARASA ENSEMBLE PRESENTS: ‘KALEIDOSCOPE’: A string quartet delights with newly commissioned pieces and timeless selections from RimskyKorsakov, Purcell and C.P.E. Bach. Brattleboro Music Center, 7:30-9 p.m. $25; free for kids under 18. Info, 257-4523.

STEPHEN GOLDBERG & FRIENDS WITH SLUT MAGIC: A fatherdaughter musician duo and their bands — a jazz combo and a glitter punk outfit, respectively — come together for an eclectic show. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m. $10-20. Info, slutmagicisawesome@ gmail.com.

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SKI, RIDE & SPORTS SALE: See FRI.19, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

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‘BORROWING TIME’: See WED.17, 2-4:30 p.m. & 7:30-10 p.m. CHRISTOPHER MCBRIDE: The magician dazzles all evening long with sleights of hand and card tricks. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $20. Info, elise@ artsriot.com. ‘GIDION’S KNOT’: See THU.18, 7:30 & 10 p.m. ‘LOOKING FOR THE HEART OF SATURDAY NIGHT’: See THU.18, 2 & 7:30 p.m. ‘MAMMA MIA!’: See THU.18. ‘SHOWING UP’: See THU.18, 2 p.m.

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POETRY EXPERIENCE: Local wordsmith Rajnii Eddins hosts a supportive writing and sharing circle for poets of all ages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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WRITERS’ WERTFREI: Authors both fledgling and published gather in the garden to share their work in a judgment-free environment. Waterbury Public Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, judi@waterburypubliclibrary. com.

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See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.17. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.17. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.17. ‘MARTIN EDEN’: Jay Craven’s romantic adaptation of the Jack London novel comes to town. Talkback with the director follows. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 387-0102. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.17. ‘URANIUM DRIVE-IN’: Environmentalists and job-hungry locals face off when a uranium mill comes to town in this documentary. Hosted by Sustainable Woodstock and Pentangle Arts. Free; preregister. Info, 291-1003. ‘WINTER STARTS NOW’: Warren Miller Entertainment presents its annual filmic tour of the winter sports scene. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 5 p.m. $25-26. Info, 603-448-0400.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C075726A 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On November 3, 2021, Holly Girl, LLC, 451 Poor Farm Road, Colchester, VT 05446 and Vermont Information Processing (VIP), 402 Water Tower Circle, Colchester, VT 05446 filed application number 4C0757-26A for a project generally described as the renovation of existing outdoor areas to provide a greater campus feel at VIP. The proposed changes include removal of portions of the existing paved parking lot to install a pavilion, walkways, patios, landscaping, etc. Other improvements include installation of a pickle ball court, a new sidewalk, and paving an existing gravel path. The project is located at 402 Water Tower Circle in Colchester, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51—Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0757-26A.” No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before November 29, 2021, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. §6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner

or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. §6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the District Coordinator as soon as possible, and by no later than November 29, 2021. If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 15th day of November, 2021.

PLACE AN AFFORDABLE NOTICE AT: SEVENDAYSVT.COM/LEGAL-NOTICES OR CALL 802-865-1020, EXT. 110. /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@vermont.gov BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2021, 5:00 PM PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Physical location: 645 Pine Street, Front Conference Room, Burlington VT 05401 and Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82003470763 ?pwd=OVhzd3FsekxQQW53d0pjMU9PZ0ZBQT09 Password: 429811 Webinar ID: 820 0347 0763 Telephone: +1 929 205 6099 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 1. ZAP-21-17; 48-50 Greene Street (RM, Ward 2C) On Point Properties, Inc / Olivia Chandler Appeal of zoning application denial for fire escape. 2. ZP-21-732; 278 Main Street (RH, Ward 8E) COTS / Bob Duncan Major impact review of 16-unit addition to existing building. 3. ZP-21-723; 321 Manhattan Drive (RM, Ward 2C) 321 Manhattan LLC / Sam Gardner Establish a short term rental (bed & breakfast). Plans may be viewed upon request by contacting the Department of Permitting & Inspections

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO BROWNFIELD’S REUSE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY LIMITATION PROGRAM Please take notice that Champ Mechanical whose mailing address is 8 Chase Ln Burlington, VT 05401 is applying to the Vermont Brownfields Reuse and Environmental Liability Limitation Program (10 V.S.A. 6641 et seq.) in connection with the redevelopment of property known as 8 and 9 Chase Lane in the City of Burlington, Vermont. A copy of the application, which contains a preliminary environmental assessment and a description of the proposed redevelopment project is available for public review at the Burlington Vermont Clerk’s Office and at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation offices in Montpelier. Comments concerning the application and/or the above referenced documents may be directed to Kim Colligan at (802) 859-0017 or at Kim@ champmechanical.net. Comments may also be submitted by mail to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management Division, 1 National Life Drive - Davis 1, Montpelier, VT 05620; attention: Kim Colligan.

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[CONTINUED] A copy of the application, which contains a preliminary environmental assessment and a description of the proposed redevelopment project is available for public review at the City of Burlington Clerk’s Office and at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation offices in Montpelier. Comments concerning the application and/or the above referenced documents may be directed to bbaker@cdbesq. com at or at 802-652-1400. Comments may also be submitted by mail to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management Division, 1 National Life Drive - Davis 1, Montpelier, VT 0562 0; attention: bbaker@cdbesq.com.

NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE MALLETTS BAY SELF STORAGE, LLC 115 HEINEBERG DRIVE COLCHESTER, VT 05446 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 Edith Bessette # 98 Said sales will take place on 12/3/21, beginning at 10:00am at Malletts Bay Self Storage, LLC, (MBSS, LLC)115 Heineberg Dr, Colchester, VT 05446. 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 MBSS, LLC on the day of auction. MBSS, LLC 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.

PUBLIC SALE Take notice that on the 30th day of November 2021, Vermont Moving & Storage, Inc. will hold a virtual public sale of the following goods: House hold goods and personal belongs owned stored for Craig W. Walsh, $1,100.00 The terms of the sale are final payment in full by cash or credit card. items will be sold in “as is condition” with no warranties expressed or implied. Any person claiming the rights to these goods must pay the amount necessary to satisfy the storage cost list above. Please contact Jennifer at 802-655-6683 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 21-PR-04238 In re ESTATE of Lisa J. Wulfson NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Lisa J. Wulfson, late of Williston. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

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Date: 11/8/21 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Jessica Pinnell Executor/Administrator: Jessica Pinnell, c/o Jarrett & Luitjens, 1795 Williston Rd., Suite 125, S. Burlington, VT 05403 802-864-5951 glenn@ vtelaw.com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 11/17/21 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Unit, Probate Division P.O. Box 511 Burlington, Vermont 05402 TOWN OF ESSEX PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA/PUBLIC HEARING DECEMBER 9, 20216:30 P.M. MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE ROOM, 81 MAIN ST., ESSEX JCT., VT Anyone may attend this meeting in person at the above address or remotely through the following options: - Microsoft Teams: https://www.essexvt. org/869/Join-Teams-Meeting-Essex-PC - Conference call (audio only): (802) 377-3784 | Conference ID: 590 879 654 # - Public wifi: https://publicservice.vermont.gov/ content/public-wifi-hotspots-vermont 1. Public Comments 2. PRESENTATION: Housing Commission: Inclusionary Zoning 3. CONTINUED FROM 5/13/21-SKETCH Plan:

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PRIVATE AUCTION OF STORAGE UNIT CONTENTS Sarah Ellwood, last known address of 36 Charity Street Burlington, VT 05408 has a past due balance of $1,405.00 owed to Champlain Valley Self Storage, LLC since 4/19/21. To cover this debt, per lease dated 7/15/20 the contents of unit #995 will be sold at private auction on, or after November 28, 2021. Auction pre-registration is required, email info@ champlainvalleyselfstorage.com to register.

WARNING DECEMBER 7, 2021 SPECIAL ELECTION PUBLIC INFORMATION HEARING A Public Information Hearing on the Public Questions to be voted on at the Special Election will be held on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. in Contois Auditorium in City Hall. The meeting will also be streamed via Zoom. Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83549870181 Or One tap mobile : US: +13017158592,,83549870181# or +13126266799,,83549870181# Or Telephone: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 6833 Webinar ID: 835 4987 0181 International numbers available: https:// us02web.zoom.us/u/kccvzfYRJe Members of the public wishing to speak remotely may sign up in advance here: https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/citycouncil/ publicforum or by using the “raise hand” function on Zoom during the hearing. Members of the public wishing to speak in person may sign up at the meeting. The hearing will provide information on the following public questions that have been placed on the ballot, the full text of which can be found posted in the City Clerk’s Office and on the City’s webpage https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/CT/ Copies-of-Sample-Ballots-Warnings-and-Notices: 1. APPROVAL OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR CITY CAPITAL PLAN PROJECTS 2. ISSUANCE OF REVENUE BONDS FOR BURLINGTON ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT PROJECTS For more information, contact the Burlington Clerk/Treasurer’s Office, 802-865-7000 or http://www.burlingtonvt.gov/ContactUs

A CIRCLE OF PARENTS FOR MOTHERS OF COLOR Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes! Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Wed., 10-11 a.m. For more information or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt. org/family-supportprograms. A CIRCLE OF PARENTS FOR SINGLE MOTHERS Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes! Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Fri., 10-11 a.m. For more information or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt. org/family-supportprograms. A CIRCLE OF PARENTS W/ LGBTQ+ CHILDREN Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes! Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Mon., 10-11 a.m. For more information or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt. org/family-supportprograms. ADDICTION SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES: FAMILIES COPING W/ ADDICTIONS (FCA) GROUP Families Coping w/ Addiction (FCA) is an open-community

peer support group for adults 18 & older struggling w/ the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based but provides a welcoming & stigma-free forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills & to draw strength & insight from one another. Group meets weekly on Wed., 5:306:30 p.m. online, using Zoom. Check Turning Point Center website (turningpointcentervt. org) for Zoom link, listed under “Family Support” (click on “What We Offer” dropdown). ADULT SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE LOSS - WILLISTON Adult Survivors of Suicide Loss is meeting the 3rd Thu. of the mo. via Zoom, 7-8:30 p.m. during this time of physical distancing due to the pandemic. The support group is for anyone who has been touched by suicide loss recently or long ago who wants to work through their grief in a safe, respectful environment. Please contact cofacilitator Joanna Cole at joanna. colevt@gmail.com or 233-3299, or Maria Grindle at mariagrindle@msn. com or 879-9576. Leave a message so we can get back to you w/ a mutually satisfying time to talk. Take care to be well in this extra stressful time. AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. Phone meetings, electronic meetings (Zoom) & an al-Anon blog are avail. online at the Al-Anon website. For meeting info, go to vermont alanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266. ALATEEN GROUP Alateen group in Burlington on Sun. from 5-6 p.m. at the UU building at the top of Church St.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free. Info, 864-1212. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the 1st step of 12 & join a group in your area. ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUPS Support groups meet to provide assistance & info on Alzheimer’s disease & related dementias. They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support & coping techniques in care for a person living w/ Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free & open to the public. Families, caregivers & friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm date & time. 4 options: 1st Mon. of every mo., 2-3 p.m., at the Residence at Shelburne Bay, 185 Pine Haven Shores, Shelburne; 4th Tue. of every mo., 10-11 a.m., at the Residence at Quarry Hill, 465 Quarry Hill Rd., S. Burlington; 2nd Tue. of every mo., 5-6:30 p.m., at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 130, Williston; 2nd Mon. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at Milton Public Library, 39 Bombardier Rd., Milton. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900. ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP 2nd Tue. every mo., 4-5:30 p.m. Preregistration is required (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24/7 Helpline: 800-2723900 for more info.

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ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Wed., 6:30-7:30 p.m., Methodist Church in the Rainbow Room at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington. Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:302:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. monthly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1-2:30 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. 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.

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cancer reoccurrence? General discussion & sharing among survivors & 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 w/ this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men & women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction & pornography, food issues & 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 struggling w/ hurt, habits & hangups, which include everyone in some way. We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton, which meets every Fri., 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us & discover how your life can start to change. Info: 893-0530, Julie@ mccartycreations.com. CENTRAL VERMONT CELIAC SUPPORT GROUP Last Thu. of every mo., 7:30 p.m. in Montpelier. Please contact Lisa Mase for location: lisa@ harmonizecookery. com. CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy & associated medical conditions. Its mission is to provide the best possible info to parents of children living w/ the complex condition of cerebral palsy. 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 Sun. at noon at the Turning

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step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship. Tue., 6:30-8 p.m. Childcare is provided. Info: 658-1996. EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated w/ the job search or w/ your job? You are not alone. Come check out this supportive circle. Wed., 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602. FAMILY & FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends & community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crises might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety & other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family & friends can discuss shared experiences & receive support in an environment free of judgment & stigma w/ a trained facilitator. Weekly on Wed., 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586. FAMILY RESTORED: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS & FAMILIES OF ADDICTS & ALCOHOLICS Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish, 4 Prospect St., Essex Junction. For further info, please visit thefamilyrestored. org or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or 12lindsaymarie@gmail. com. FIERCELY FLAT VT A breast cancer support group for those who’ve had mastectomies. We are a casual online meeting group found on Facebook at Fiercely Flat VT. Info: stacy.m.burnett@ gmail.com. FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a week: Mon., 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; & Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover

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GRIEF & LOSS FOCUS GROUP FOR MEN Fri., 10-11:30 a.m. Continues through March 27. Please join us as we learn more about our own grief & explore the things that can help us to heal. There is great power in sharing our experiences w/ others who know the pain of the loss of a loved one & healing is possible through the sharing. BAYADA Hospice’s local bereavement program coordinator will facilitate this weekly, 8-week group through discussion & activities. Everyone from the community is welcome; however, space is limited. To register, please contact Bereavement Program Coordinator Kathryn Gilmond at kgilmond@bayada.com or 802-448-1610. Start date to be determined, based on registration. bayada.com. GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Meet twice a mo. every 2nd Mon. from 6-7:30 p.m., & every 3rd Wed. from 10-11:30 a.m., at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to the public & free of charge. More info: Diana Moore, 224-2241. 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 & empathy. We validate anyone’s experience & stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest & accurate representation of their experience & as being acceptable

HELP & HEALING FOR THOSE WHO ARE GRIEVING Wed., 5:30-7 p.m. Walking With Grief: Sharing your sadness, finding your joy. Please join us as we learn more about our own grief & explore the things that can help us to heal. There is great power in sharing our experiences w/ others who know the pain of the loss of a loved one & healing is possible through the sharing. BAYADA Hospice’s local bereavement support coordinator will facilitate our weekly group through discussion & activities. Everyone from the community is welcome. To register, please contact Bereavement Program Coordinator Kathryn Gilmond at kgilmond@bayada. com or 802-448-1610. Bayada Hospice, 354 Mountain View Dr., Suite 305, Colchester. INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) & painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/ urgency. These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@gmail. com or call 899-4151 for more info. KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients, as well as caregivers, are provided w/ a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like

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org or 800-639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living w/ mental health challenges. NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Weekly virtual meetings. 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 w/ mental illness. NARCONON SUNCOAST DRUG & ALCOHOL REHABILITATION & EDUCATION Narconon reminds families that overdoses due to an elephant tranquilizer known as Carfentanil, has been on the rise in nearly every community nationwide. Carfentanil is a synthetic opiate painkiller 100 times more powerful than fentanyl & 1,000 times stronger than heroin. A tiny grain of it is enough to be fatal. Click here to learn more about carfentanil abuse & how to help your loved one. You can also visit narcononsuncoast.org/ drug-abuse/parentsget-help.html for more info. ADDICTION SCREENINGS: Narconon can help you take steps to overcome addiction in your family. Call today for a no-cost screening or referral: 877-841-5509 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/ out the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in Burlington, Barre & St. Johnsbury. NARCANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every Mon., 7 p.m., at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave.,

Suite 301, Burlington. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106. NEW (& EXPECTING) MAMAS & PAPAS! EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY! The Children’s Room invites you to join our weekly drop-in support group. Come unwind & discuss your experiences & questions around infant care & development, self-care & postpartum healing & community resources for families w/ babies. Tea & snacks provided. Weekly on Thu., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bring your babies! (Newborn through crawling stage). Located w/in Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe St., childrensroomonline. org. Contact childrens room@wwsu.org or 244-5605. NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those 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. OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS A mutual support circle that focuses on connection & selfexploration. Fri., 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 w/ food, we have a solution! All are welcome, meetings are open & there are no dues or fees. See oavermont. org/meeting-list/ for the current meeting list, meeting format & more; or call 802-8632655 anytime! PONDERING GENDER & SEXUALITY Pondering Gender & Sexuality is a twicemonthly facilitated mutual support group for folks of any identity (whether fully formed or a work in progress) who want to engage in meaningful conversations about gender, sexuality & sexual orientation, &/or the coming-out process. Discussions can range from the personal to the philosophical & beyond as we work together to create a compassionate, safe & courageous space to explore our experiences. The group will be held every 2nd Sun. & 4th Tue. from 1-2:30 p.m. each mo., either virtually or at the Pride Center of Vermont. Email pgs@pridecenter vt.org for more info or w/ questions! POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP Anyone coping w/ potato intolerance & interested in joining a support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452. QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFE The Queen City Memory Cafe offers a social time & place for people w/ memory impairment & their fiends & family to laugh, learn & share concerns & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods w/ 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 & caregivers of queer, &/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Mon. of each mo. from 6:30-8 p.m. at Outright Vermont, 241 N. Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only. For more info, email info@outrightvt.org. READY TO BE TOBACCO-FREE GROUPS Join a free 4-5-wk. group workshop facilitated by our coaches, who are certified in tobacco treatment. We meet in a friendly, relaxed & virtual atmosphere. You may qualify for a free limited supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Info: 802-847-7333 or quittobaccoclass@ uvmhealth.org to get signed up, or visit myhealthyvt.org to learn more about upcoming workshops! RECOVERING FROM RELIGION Meets on the 2nd Tue. of each mo. at Brownell Public Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m., unless there’s inclement weather or the date falls on a holiday. Attendees can remain anonymous if they so choose & are not required to tell their story if they do not wish, but everyone will be welcome to do so. The primary focus of a Recovering From Religion support group is to provide ongoing & personal support to individuals as they let go of their religious beliefs. This transitional period is an ongoing process that can result in a range of emotions, as well as a ripple effect of consequences throughout an individual’s life. As such, the support meetings are safe & anonymous places to express these doubts, fears & experiences w/ out biased feedback or proselytizing. We are here to help each other through this journey. Free.

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 avail. for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 864-0555, ext. 19, or email our victim advocate at advocate@ sover.net. STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone! Adults, teens & school-age kids who stutter & their families are welcome to join 1 of our 3 free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM (join by Zoom or in person). Adults: 5:30-6:30 p.m., 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly; school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus). Info: nsachapters.org/ burlington, burlington stutters@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 each mo. SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 2577989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 229-0591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360. SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only). Please call 877-5439498 for more info. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE If you have lost someone to suicide & wish to have a safe place to talk, share & spend a little time w/ others who have had a similar experience, join us the 3rd Thu. at the Faith Lighthouse Church, Rte. 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook), 7-9 p.m. Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: S. BURLINGTON This group is for people experiencing the impact of the loss of a loved one to suicide. 1st Wed. of each mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 3 Dorset St., Burlington. Info: Heather Schleupner, 301-5142445, raysoflifeyoga@ gmail.com. T.A.G. (TRANSGENDER ALLIES GROUP) We are people w/ adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming. We meet to support each other & to learn more about issues & concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal & confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 p.m., the 2nd Thu. of each mo., via Zoom. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer 1-on-1 support. For more information, email rex@pridecentervt.org or call 802-318-4746.

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings & families grieving the loss of a child meets every 3rd Tue. of the mo., 7-9 p.m., at Kismet Place, 363 Blair Park Rd., Williston. Call/email Jay at 802-373-1263, compassionatefriends vt@gmail.com. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info, call David at 371-8929. TRANS & GENDERNONCONFORMING SUPPORT GROUP As trans & GNC people in the world, we experience many things that are unique to our identities. For that reason, the Transgender Program hosts a support group for our community on the 1st & 3rd Wed. of every mo. from 6:30-8 p.m., either virtually or at Pride Center of Vermont. The Trans & GNC Support group is for Vermonters at all stages of their gender journey to come together to socialize, discuss issues that are coming up in their lives & build community. We welcome anyone whose identity falls under the trans, GNC, intersex & nonbinary umbrellas & folks questioning their gender identity. Email safespace@pridecenter vt.org w/ any questions, comments or accessibility concerns. 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 w/ 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.

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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Applications are now being accepted for a full-time Administrative Assistant in Academic Affairs at Saint Michael’s College. The Administrative Assistant will work full-time, including the summer. The candidate must be detail oriented, possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, and have the ability to maintain confidentiality. Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite is required to create complex spreadsheets, documents, e-mails, and databases. The successful candidate will be a professional with previous office experience who is welcoming and respectful to all community members, and demonstrates a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (Full Time) The successful candidate will: • Lead with compassion and clarity this growing peer recovery center at the heart of

FACILITIES DEPARTMENT OPENINGS Saint Michael’s College is seeking applications from reliable and efficient workers from November 29, 2021 through April 1, 2022. Employment is 40 hours a week with tasks that include but are not limited to landscaping/snow removal, furniture moving, event setups, and supporting other trades within the Facilities department. Requirements include having knowledge of moving equipment and methods; knowledge of grounds equipment and methods; the ability to lift and move heavy objects such as furniture, landscaping materials, and equipment; and a valid driver’s license and the ability to pass a driving record check. For further information and to apply for the position, please visit: https://bit.ly/SMCvtPHYSsvc.

DESIGN/ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Sign and Display company is seeking a detail-oriented and dynamic designer/administrative assistant. Responsibilities and Duties: • Customer communications through email and phone. • Assisting sales department, including duties such as estimating and design layouts. • Developing and maintaining customer database. Qualifications and Skills: • Associate's degree in business preferred or equivalent combination of education and work experience. • Excellent written and verbal communications skills. • Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. • Attention to detail, team mentality and positive attitude. • Experience with QuickBooks or other related accounting software. • Working knowledge of Google Workspace or Microsoft Office Suite. Full Time, Benefits: Vacation Time, Paid Holidays, Accident Insurance Salary:$16-20/hr. Commensurate with experience Send resumes to: hello@sammelgroup.com

Chittenden County, overseeing all aspects of the organization.

• Bring a focus on motivation and empowerment to the Center’s programs helping people in recovery from alcohol and other substance use disorders. • Lead the Center’s fundraising and donor relationships to foster sustained support for programs and education initiatives. • Manage all aspects of administration and accountability. • Build upon strategic partnerships with State and local governments, foundations, businesses for programming and services. For a full job description go to www.turningpointcentervt.org. Reply with a cover letter and resume by November, 17 to Maureen Leahy at mbl92@hotmail.com. The Turning Point Center of Chittenden County is a safe, substance free environment providing encouragement and support to any seeking recovery from alcohol and other substances.

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OF LAUNCHVT We’re looking for someone with a passion for entrepreneurism who is excited about creating economic opportunity to join our team. You will be leading an established startup accelerator program and help develop the next generation of Vermont businesses. This is an opportunity to work with incredible people bringing new products or services to market and connect them with LaunchVT’s community of coaches, advisors and investors. For more information on this position and how to apply, visit lccvermont.org/job/launchvt. The Lake Champlain Chamber is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes diversity in the workplace. We strongly encourage all qualified persons to apply. LCC is a non-profit organization that is in the business of seeking and supporting economic opportunity for all Vermonters. We focus on five main areas: advocating for economic opportunity; celebrating business ownership and entrepreneurship; promoting a robust, diversified visitor economy; cultivating community leadership; and nurturing emerging talent.

OPERATIONS SUPPORT True North Wilderness Program is seeking a fulltime, year-round Operations Support person. The ideal candidate is an adaptable team player with a positive attitude who is willing to work both indoors and outdoors performing a variety of tasks associated with the logistics of running our program. Tasks including food packing and rationing, gear outfitting, transportation and facilities maintenance. Candidates must be willing to work weekends and occasional evenings. A clean and valid driver’s license is required. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits offered. Benefits include health, dental, vision and accident insurance, an employee assistance program, a Wellness Fund, student loan repayment reimbursement, and a SIMPLE IRA. All True North employees must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and provide proof of vaccination status prior to employment. Please apply at: truenorthwilderness.com.

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NEW JOBS POSTED DAILY!

KITCHEN GENERALIST Now hiring CAREGivers and Key Players Work for an organization that makes a difference and offers meaningful work while providing care to seniors in the community Become part of the Home Instead team! CAREGivers no experience necessary. Key Players previous experience preferred. Pays up to $20/hour. Let’s get to know each other. Military friendly employer. Apply today! homeinstead.com/ location/483/home-care-jobs/

• $17.00/hour, more depending on experience • Multiple Positions (Full & Part Time) Our Kitchen Generalists will work as a Dining Room Server during resident meals. Between meals they will be involved with food prep, which will at times be in support of our line cooks and at other times will be independent work including baking, salads, and soups. When our dishwasher position is vacant the generalist will also assist the team with dishes. All team members work collectively on kitchen cleanliness. During a “typical” 8 hour shift the Kitchen Generalist will work as a server approximately 2 hours and the remaining time performing the other tasks described above. The most important attribute of the Kitchen Generalist is the ability to work positively as part of a team providing outstanding food to residents and employees. Please apply online at conversehome.com or email your resume to Kellie@conversehome.com.

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FULLTIME CAPTAIN AND FIREFIGHTER/EMT ADMINISTRATOR The Underhill Jericho Fire Department is looking for an experienced Captain and Firefighter/EMT Administrator. These are full time positions with competitive pay and benefits. Hours, full job descriptions and requirements can be found at www.ujfd.org/employment. If you would like to join our team, please e-mail a cover letter along with your resume in .pdf format to info@ujfd.org. Positions will remain open until filled. The UJFD is a EOE.

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• Full time, evenings. Benefited position, 32-40 hours/week, 2:30-11pm • Part time, days. Evening and overnight shifts available. Converse Home is an Assisted Living Community located in downtown Burlington. If you are looking for a rewarding position as a caregiver, working with wonderful residents and staff, please consider applying. Long term care is one of the fast-growing industries in Vermont and the world. The Converse Home is looking for seasoned caregivers or good humans new to the healthcare industry. New care staff do onsite training with our Nurse Educator to make sure you feel confident in your new skills. If YOU ARE A SEASONED CAREGIVER OR WANT TO BECOME A CAREGIVER, INQUIRE WITH US! Please apply online & learn more about us at conversehome.com, or email kellie@conversehome.com with your resume today.

ONBOARDING & TRAINING COORDINATOR

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• Minimum Salary $21.00/hour, more with experience • 20-25 hours a week

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Great opportunity for a professional who likes to see people grow and succeed at a quality employer. This new position will coordinate employee recruiting, new employee orientation, and annual training requirements for Converse Home, an assisted living residence with just over 100 employees. Our coordinator will establish partnerships with employment agencies and will ensure all applicants receive a fair opportunity and response. Once they arrive, our coordinator will help ensure a smooth transition and that the new employees has the tools to succeed in their role. Previous experience in human resources, employee training, or related field is helpful, but mostly we need someone who is organized and good with people. Please apply online & learn more about us at conversehome.com, or email kellie@conversehome.com with your resume today.

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Host: All Things Considered VPR seeks a creative and enterprising journalist to become one of the leading voices in Vermont's media landscape. As our afternoon host, you’ll be front and center to the day’s developing news. You’ll provide updates and context to daily news and deliver it to listeners through newscasts, interviews, reported stories and digital and social posts. You’ll also guide our audience through breaking news and special coverage. As part of our news team, you’ll work with editors and reporters as well as our talk show, Vermont Edition, our daily news podcast, The Frequency and our people-powered podcast, Brave Little State. VPR and Vermont PBS have come together to form a new organization and we’re seeking someone who is excited by new opportunities and can think beyond radio broadcasts. We’re looking for someone who steps forward when news happens, moves toward the story and finds ways to connect coverage with a broad and diverse audience. Three years of journalism experience is preferred. Strong news judgment is required. Read the full job description and find the application process at VPR.org/Careers. Vermont Public/VPR/VTPBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Support Staff Montpelier

Vermont Legal Aid has reopened its search for a highly organized person for a full-time position with its Mental Health Law Project located in Montpelier. We encourage applicants from a broad range of backgrounds, and welcome information about how your experience can contribute to serving our diverse client communities. Applicants are encouraged to share in their cover letter how they can further our goals of social justice and individual rights. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a discrimination-and-harassment-free workplace. Responsibilities include daily use of client database and data entry, typing, client contact, and general clerical duties. Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite required; database experience is a plus. This position has a salary range of $37,000-$57,600 with starting salary determined by a candidate’s relevant skills and experience. Generous benefits package including four weeks paid vacation, retirement, and excellent health benefits. Deadline for applications is Monday, November 29. Send cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references as a single PDF file with the subject line “MHLP Support Staff Application” to Eric Avildsen, Executive Director, c/o hiring@vtlegalaid.org. Please tell us how you heard about the position. See vtlegalaid.org for additional information.

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NOVEMBER 17-24, 2021

VEDA IS HIRING TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

VEDA is Vermont’s premier economic development finance authority, staffed by a seasoned group of Vermont professionals. Since inception in 1974, VEDA has helped businesses and farms create jobs for Vermonters and enhance Vermont’s working landscape. The stories of VEDA’s borrowers reflect Vermont’s changing economy over the years, with VEDA playing a central role in helping business and farm owners bring their dreams and projects to fruition.

For position details and application process, visit jobs.plattsburgh.edu and select “View Current Openings.” SUNY College at Plattsburgh is a fully compliant employer committed to excellence through diversity.

Office and Program Coordinator The Vermont Association of Snow Travelers (VAST) is currently looking to fill an important position on our team. If you are interested in working for a great company, with a great team and with great pay and benefits, go to our website to get a link where you will find a detailed description.

Visit VEDA.org for open job details, including Agricultural Loan Assistant and Director of Loan Closing. VEDA offers competitive salaries, excellent health and retirement packages, flexible work options, generous tuition reimbursement, and opportunities for professional development and networking. VEDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer, seeking to increase staff diversity.

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This is a full time and year-round position. It is a salaried position with benefits. This is also an in-office position at our headquarters in Berlin, Vermont.

Qualified candidates should submit resume /cover letter to Cheryl Houchens: chouchens@veda.org.

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LEGAL TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANT Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C. - Burlington, VT Sheehey Furlong & Behm is accepting applications for a Legal Technology Assistant in its Burlington office. The Legal Technology Assistant will support all aspects of the legal practice in general and the technology and litigation support tools specifically. This position does not require experience in technology support, as we will train the right candidate. The most important qualifications for the job are a “can do” attitude and the ability to handle pressure. What the right candidate will need to be is technologically savvy, familiar with Microsoft Office and have a basic knowledge of networking. Experience with technology support, document management platforms (ideally Worldox), litigation support tools (such as Eclipse SE or Relativity) or cloud computing are highly desired. If you feel like you would be a good fit and are willing to learn, send your resume to dwilson@sheeheyvt.com.

11/15/21 Essex Westford School District is currently hiring SPECIAL EDUCATORS & PARAEDUCATORS!

EWSD serves approximately 4,500 preschool through 12th grade students in ten schools across the Essex Junction, Essex Town and Westford communities. Come be part of one of Vermont’s largest and most highly respected school districts! Full-time and Part-time opportunities available, including:

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Instructional Assistant Individual Assistant Job Coach Special Educator Speech Language Pathologist

You must send your resume in PDF format attached to your email. The cover letter should only be in body of the email.

FULL AND PART TIME HOLIDAY POSITIONS

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Are you looking to make extra money and want to work with a great, experienced team? Dakin Farm is currently seeking applicants to join our team of skilled staff for our busy upcoming holiday season. We have both full and part time positions in our Warehouse, Mail Order Packing Department, and Specialty Food Production. We offer competitive wages, generous employee discounts, and hours that meet your schedule.

Please stop by our retail store: 5797 Route 7, Ferrisburgh to complete an application, or call us at 1-800-99DAKIN. Email your resume to tdanyow@dakinfarm.com.

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EWSD offers competitive pay rates. An excellent benefit package for eligible positions includes paid time off, medical and dental coverage, retirement savings and more! Please visit ewsd.org/jobs to learn more and apply today.

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SALES SUPPORT COORDINATOR

Looking for career minded individuals to grow along with the company. Positions available in production and service departments. Positions are full time, Monday - Friday, 7:00 am - 3:30 pm, 40hours. Some O/T may be required.

MIG–WELDER

As a manufacturer of custom truck bodies we have openings for experienced Mig Welders to join our production team. Lay out, position, align, and secure parts prior to assembly, math skills needed. Aluminum welding experience a plus.

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SNOWPLOW/TRUCK BODY INSTALLER/MECHANIC

Perform set up and installation of snowplows, truck bodies & miscellaneous equipment on new/used trucks/vehicles. Mechanical experience required; hydraulic experience desirable. Company Benefits Include: • Health Insurance w/company contribution • 401K w/company match to 5% • Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays

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Forward Resume & Cover letter to: joannef@iroquoismfg.com Apply in Person: Iroquois Mfg. Co., 695 Richmond Rd., Hinesburg, VT Face Mask required and social distancing rules apply to enter our facility.

QuickBooks Online Payroll, Bookkeeping and Accounting Located in Colchester, VT, m2inc.biz is a design and production company specializing in mechanical closure components and systems. m2® has experienced steady growth since its inception in 1994 and has the following position available: QuickBooks Online Payroll, Bookkeeping and Accounting. General Responsibilities: Payroll, AR, AP, Bank and CC reconciliation. Experience in a production/assembly environment, including raw materials; unfinished and finished goods is beneficial. Approximately 12 hrs/wk. Compensation based upon skills and experience. For complete details: m2inc.biz/employme

Rhino Foods is hiring a smart, business savvy sales coordinator position that has unlimited potential to start a sales career with an industry leader! This role provides customer service support, analysis of service metrics, and digital marketing coordination and execution for our clients. SKILLS YOU BRING TO THE TABLE ARE:

• Paid Life Insurance/AD&D, Short Term & Long Term Disability

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CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSOCIATE at Leddy Arena

Join our team and provide customer service to the public for the Parks, Recreation & Waterfront Department. In addition this position is responsible for providing reception, facility financial and administrative support, plus administrative support to the Waterfront Division. This position serves as the CivicRec software specialist for the department.

• Strong attention to detail, ability to input and analyze data across multiple programs and databases • Customer service skills: patient, personable, good communication skills • A systems thinker who can process information from multiple sources to form clear action steps, comfortable with decision making in ambiguity • Proficient in basic MS Excel functionality, experience working in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system a plus • Digital native and eagerness to learn and/or experience with basic digital marketing, i.e. Wordpress website updates, social media content creation and planning • College Degree OR 3 years of relevant administrative experience required

• $22.65 - $25.23 HOURLY • REGULAR FULL TIME, NON EXEMPT, AFSCME UNION

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS

Apply online: governmentjobs.com/careers/ burlingtonvt/jobs/3291764

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Promoting a culture that reveres diversity and equity. The City of Burlington is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we are strongly committed to creating a dynamic and equitable workforce that mirrors the population and world that we serve. We do not discriminate on the basis of political or religious affiliation, race, color, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, crime victim status, veteran status, disability, HIV positive status, or genetic information in employment or the provision of services. In addition to being an equal opportunity employer we actively encourage applicants who can contribute to our growing diversity to apply. For accessibility information or alternative formats, please contact Human Resources Department at 802-540-3057 or careers@burlingtonvt.gov.

Educators needed for undergraduate teaching assignments for the spring 2022 semester. These are in-person positions on the Norwich University campus, in Northfield, VT. Full COVID vaccination is required for all on-campus employment. Adjuncts teach part-time on a course-by-course basis. Assignments are dependent on pending student enrollment. We are specifically looking for adjunct instructors for: • Chemistry: Introduction to Forensic Science Lecture, General Chemistry Laboratory, Organic Chemistry Laboratory.Biology: Principles of Biology Laboratory (introductory ecology and evolution) and Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory. Mathematics: all areas; Calculus and statistics knowledge a plus. • Emergency Care of Injury and Illness (Advanced First Aid, CPR for Professional Rescuers, and Bloodborne Pathogens) • Geology: Introduction to Geology and Oceanography laboratory

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• Requirements: Candidates will have earned a minimum of a Master’s degree in appropriate field. Those in the final stages of a PhD program (ABD) are welcome to apply. Prior teaching experience at the college level is preferred but not required. For further information and to apply for these and other great jobs: norwich.interviewexchange.com.

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NOVEMBER 17-24, 2021

Community Resource Center Housing Advocate Do you want to work for an Agency that positively impacts the lives of over 20,000 individuals? CVOEO has an exciting opportunity to help individuals who are most in need at our Community Resource Center (CRC) at a location in Burlington. We are looking for compassionate advocates to help individuals who are experiencing homelessness and who have low income to find or maintain suitable housing, employment and other social and health supports, and connect clients with local social service agencies organizations, landlords, and funding sources. This is a part time position with Saturday and Sunday hours from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Successful applicants will have a Bachelor degree in an appropriate discipline plus two years of community service experience or a combination of education and experience from which comparable skills and knowledge are acquired; the ability to work with diverse populations; and excellent verbal and communication skills, bilingual abilities are a plus. Pay starts at $27.50/hour. If you want to work for social justice and be part of the most energetic and committed teams in the state of Vermont, please visit cvoeo.org/careers to learn more and to submit your cover letter and resume. The review of applications begins immediately and will continue until qualified candidates are found.

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ACADEMIC ADVISOR For position details and application process, visit jobs.plattsburgh.edu and select “View Current Openings.” SUNY College at Plattsburgh is a fully compliant employer committed to excellence through diversity.

DEPUTY DIRECTOR Renewable Energy Vermont (REV), the trade association representing businesses, non-profits, utilities and individuals who believe 100% total renewable energy is not only possible, but necessary, seeks a Deputy Director to implement a broad array of policy, communications, outreach, and operations work to: • Assist members in submitting regulatory filings and developing and advancing REV’s legislative agenda • Oversee REV’s outreach and marketing efforts including annual conference promotion, maintaining REV’s website, social media channels and membership communications • Represent REV at conferences, public meetings and media events and serve as the first point of contact for REV in responding to general public and REV member inquiries • Perform administrative responsibilities including data management across various software programs This is a full-time permanent position available immediately. For more details go to www.revermont.org/jobs.

ASSESSOR FINANCE MANAGER For International NGO PH International (Project Harmony, Inc.) is an international non-profit with 35 years of experience focusing on civic engagement, cross cultural learning, and increased opportunities in the digital age. The U.S. headquarter office is located in Waitsfield, VT with field offices in Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Republic of Georgia, Moldova, and Montenegro with projects implemented in ten additional countries. PH International is seeking a full-time Finance Manager. The Finance Manager is a leadership position in the organization and provides oversight for all accounting and financial functions with supervision of finance team members and works in collaboration with the development team. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in non-profit accounting and U.S. government awards, business management and organizational leadership. Knowledge of grant management and compliance is a must. International experience is a plus. While there is a preference for candidates who are prepared to work out of the head office in Vermont, we are open to highly qualified candidates working remotely. FULL JOB DESCRIPTION & APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS AT ph-int.org/vacancies. Application deadline: December 3, 2021.

The City of Montpelier, Vermont (population 8,000), seeks qualified candidates for the position of City Assessor. This position directs the operations of the Assessor’s Office and the inspection and valuation of 2,900 real and 500 personal property accounts in the City. The Assessor is responsible for all of the assessing functions of the City including appraisal and assessment of all properties, defense of values, maintenance of the City’s parcel maps and other lists. The Assessor leads field functions in inspecting and valuing residential, commercial, and industrial properties. Work is performed under the administrative direction of the City Manager and in accordance with state statutes. The Assessor will be responsible for overseeing the contracted citywide reappraisal in which all property in the City of Montpelier will be reappraised for the 2023 Grand List. Work on this initiative has begun as of October 2021. A minimum of 5 years of experience as a lister/assessor, or equivalent experience and education, is desired as well as a thorough knowledge of appraisal methodology, State laws pertaining to appraisal and assessing of property, the Current Use Program, and rules and procedures regarding maintenance of the City’s Grand List. Knowledge of State mapping requirements and updating of the City parcel maps is also required. If interested, please submit your resume and letter of interest to City Manager Bill Fraser at wfraser@montpelier-vt.org or by mail at: City of Montpelier, City Hall, 39 Main Street, Montpelier, VT 05602 no later than November 26th at 5:00pm.

Clean Air & Water/Strategic Litigation Attorney Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) is seeking an Attorney to join our team working to protect New England’s environment for all people. The Attorney will work with CLF’s Clean Air and Water and Strategic Litigation teams and will be based in the Montpelier, VT office with some opportunity for remote and flexible work within New England. The position will be either a Staff Attorney or Senior Attorney depending on the final candidate’s level of experience. CLF is committed to representing New England’s diversity in our staff, volunteers, boards, and membership and creating a positive, inclusive workplace culture where all can thrive. *People of color are encouraged to apply. Salary & Benefits: CLF offers a competitive salary, an extensive benefits plan, and an open, inclusive, and accepting work environment where differences are highly respected. The base salary for the position is $60,000; actual salary will reflect experience and qualifications. To Apply: Please send your resume titled “your last name-first initial-resume” (e.g. “SMITH J RESUME”) and a thoughtful cover letter titled “your last name-first initial-cover” (e.g. “SMITH J COVER”) to careers@clf.org. Please make “Vermont Attorney” the subject line. No phone calls please. All offers to work, intern, or volunteer with CLF are conditioned on the candidate complying with CLF’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.

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NEW JOBS POSTED DAILY!

Join our forward-thinking and innovative institute and help shape the future of Vermont and beyond. Our career-driven approach to higher education prepares students for their professional life from their very first semester. We are currently hiring:

Please visit vtc.edu/work-atvermont-tech and scroll to “Current Staff Openings: Full Time” to view the complete position description and apply. Deadline: November 30, 2021.

Designer Manager: This position requires a creative problem solver who can both express their vision while elevating and fostering others. Responsibilities include managing systems, including the brand identity, creative assets, vendors and interns.

Packing and loading,

then delivery of customer household goods. Great family business with benefits.

EMC Technical Operations Coordinator: This is a part-time role at 28 hrs per week through June of 2022 with the potential to renew. Coordinate programming for both the Emergent Media Center (EMC) and the Champlain Maker Program at Generator.

Assistant Professor of Interactive Design & Immersive Media: Sought by The Division of Communications and Creative Media at Champlain College. The Interactive Design program, launching Fall 2022, is part of the robust collection of programs housed in the Creative Studio where students work across disciplines. Immersive media is a theme across many of these programs.

For full descriptions and to apply go to: bit.ly/ChamplainCollegeJOBS2021

401K, paid vacation, tips and growth opportunities. Pay starts at $17.00. After 30 days can go to $18.00. Email resumes to: frontdesk@ vermontmovers.com.

COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Seeking a strong writer with creative storytelling and graphical abilities to: Develop and publish a weekly newsletter, monthly and annual reports; Perform social media postings; Maintain website; Produce meeting packets and minutes; Schedule and set up events including employee and volunteer appreciation. Hiring range is: $45,076 - $46,645, plus a competitive benefit package. More information: colchestervt.gov/321/ Human-Resources

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZER

The incumbent will play a leading role in developing and implementing a strategy for strengthening and modernizing Vermont’s manufacturing sector. The CEO will formulate policies, programs and evaluation criteria in support of the organization’s goals to develop and implement strategic and business plans.

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DIRECTOR OF FAMILY COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES We are seeking a dynamic community based leader for Capstone’s Family Community Support Services (FCSS) program. FCSS offers housing and crisis utility assistance throughout Washington, Orange and Lamoille counties. The FCSS Director leads the department with passion for the mission, ability to create top notch teams, commitment to Capstone values and a standard of excellence based on data and proven impact. Other key accountabilities include grant writing, reporting to our state funders, development of strategic programming and fiscal ownership of the FCSS budget. This is a rare opportunity to advocate and innovate to lift Vermonters out of poverty into stability and security. Submit a letter of interest and resume referencing the job title and how you heard about the opportunity to: Capstone Community Action, Inc. Human Resources, 20 Gable Place, Barre, VT 05641 Or e-mail to: jobs@capstonevt.org Capstone Community Action, Inc. is an E.O.E. and Provider. Applications from women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and people from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

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The Farm First program seeks a part-time community organizer over the next 12-18 months to work with Farm First staff to organize and build a farmer peer support network. This person will do outreach to identify and interest farmers in being trained as volunteer peers to provide support to other farmers experiencing stress. Interested parties must reply to a Request for Proposals issued by the Agency of Agriculture posted at: http://www. vermontbusinessregistry.com/BidPreview. aspx?BidID=55937. You may email Karen Crowley at: karenc@farmfirst.org for assistance.

PARALEGAL POSITION Mission-driven Burlington law firm is seeking a Paralegal Two or more years of paralegal experience is preferred. The Paralegal will work with a team of paralegals, attorneys, and other staff at the firm across several practice areas–Litigation/ Regulatory matters (including Energy and Environmental), Business and Finance, Advertising and Consumer Protection, and others. The ideal candidate will have the ability to prioritize and manage many tasks simultaneously, with strong organizational and proofreading skills. The candidate should also be proficient with Microsoft Office suite and Adobe and comfortable learning new cloud-based software and applications. The Paralegal will be part of our mission-driven law firm. “We work with clients— including businesses, nonprofits, cooperatives, government entities, and individuals—who share our commitment to making a difference in their communities and the broader world. We take our inspiration from our clients’ good work and help them excel in their business or mission by resolving their legal issues with creativity and integrity.” Competitive salary and benefits, with the option of a hybrid work model. Interested persons should e-mail a letter of interest and resume to applications@dunkielsaunders.com. Position open until filled.

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Two Postions Open EDUCATION ASSIS TANT DIVISION DIRECTOR - MONTPELIER

Looking for a challenging and fulfilling position? The Assistant Division Director plays a key leadership role within the AOE’s Federal & Education Support Programs Division in support of students, schools, and educators. The position requires excellent strategic planning, supervisory, budgetary, and communication skills, as well as the ability to accurately interpret and succinctly communicate federal and state regulations. For more information, contact Anne Bordonaro at anne.bordonaro@vermont.gov. Department: Agency of Education. Location: Montpelier. Status: Full Time: Job ID #24202. Application Deadline: November 28, 2021.

FINANCIAL DIRECTOR I – MONTPELIER

Join our forward-thinking department to oversee fiscal operations and develop financial strategies to achieve program goals. This is an exciting opportunity to advise leadership on how to achieve objectives and make more informed money management decisions. Candidates must have the ability to perform complex financial analysis, establish effective working relationships, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. MBA or CFP preferred. For more information, contact Jennifer Fitch at jennifer.fitch@vermont.gov. Department: Buildings and General Services. Location: Montpelier. Status: Full Time. Job ID #24302. Application Deadline: December 1, 2021.

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• Associate Engineer, FIP Development (E661) Development complex Intellectual Property & circuits for advanced computer chips. To apply, please mail your resume and reference Job Code to: Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Attn. HR 1.2.519, 5488 Marvell Ln. Santa Clara, CA 95054. EOE.

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We are a 100% employee-owned company and an award winning and nationally recognized socially responsible business. We work hard AND offer a fun place to work including BBQs, staff parties, employee garden plots and much more! We also offer strong cultural values, competitive wages and outstanding benefits!

Assistant Buyer We’re seeking an Assistant Buyer who will use their strong computer, analytical & organizational skills to support the Merchandising Managers in bringing great gardening products to market. Our ideal candidate has a high proficiency in MS Office and the ability to quickly learn new systems. This person should also have strong communication and organizational skills, high attention to detail and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. A passion for great products and experience in retail, merchandising, or supply chain preferred.

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CFNE is a leader in co-op community development finance, seeking candidates to fill two open positions on our great team.

ENGINEERING Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. in Burlington, VT seeks candidates for multiple positions:

FACILITY COORDINATOR We’re looking for someone who will maintain the physical appearance and cleanliness of our office building and will provide general building maintenance/warehouse support. Our ideal candidate will have a min of 3yrs maintenance or related experience; general construction knowledge including solid carpentry, electrical and plumbing skills; and basic knowledge of HVAC systems.

Our approach is customer centered and our candidate will need good interpersonal skills and a desire to assist buyers in reaching their goals. You must have your Vermont Real Estate License or be able to actively acquire it. This opportunity is for full time Real Estate agents ready to specialize their career. Commission only. Please send your resume and cover letter to info@nancyjenkins.com.

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DAYSHIFT NURSE Are you a dedicated and compassionate nurse tired of working a hectic schedule? The Converse Home, an assisted living community in downtown Burlington, is looking for a Full Time experienced RN or LPN to join our established team of fun and caring people. Work 32-40 hours per week for our non-for-profit organization and get to know 16 of our wonderful residents living in our memory care community.

Position immediately open at a small manufacturing business in Charlotte, Vt., which builds high tech machines with National and International sales. Applicants must be detail oriented with a high interest in all things mechanical & electrical. Competitive compensation. Submit your resume to sarah@logicalmachines.com. 802 425-2888

The right person for this job will be compassionate, dedicated, a team player and a detail oriented nurse. This position has excellent benefits including a regular schedule, a competitive salary, medical, dental, and paid vacation time. Please visit www.conversehome.com to learn more about our community. Send your resume to kellie@conversehome.com and fill out an application on our website! You must have a VT State Nursing License and be able to pass a background check.

Town of Newbury, VT TOWN ASSESSOR The Town of Newbury is requesting proposals for a part-time Assessor to replace the current Board of Listers, contingent upon an affirmative vote at the 2022 Town Meeting. The schedule will be established during the hiring process. Compensation will be negotiated at the time of hire, based on experience and qualifications. Letters of interest, and/ or questions should be submitted to Alma Roystan, Selectboard Chair, at P.O. Box 126, Newbury, VT. 05051, or by email to selectboard@ newburyvt.org.

Financial and Energy COACHING SPECIALIST Vermont’s first Financial and Energy Coaching Initiative has launched! We need five trailblazing full-time Coaches across the state to support Vermonters living with low and moderate incomes in reducing their climate impact while improving their financial well-being. The ideal candidates will have a keen interest in personal finance and unlocking the puzzle of the programs, services, credits, and rebates that help clients transition to cleaner energy sources. Coaches will provide 1:1 counseling plus workshops in five statewide locations. Trainings in AFCPE Financial Counseling, Sage Financial Fitness Coaching, and energy programs will be provided. This three-year pilot program is overseen by Capstone Community Action with coaching positions at each of the 5 Community Action networks across the state. If you enjoy working with a team and are passionate about personal finance and want to help clients transition to cleaner energy sources for their home and transportation needs, apply now to a community action agency in your area: Capstone Community Action-Serving Washington, Orange, Lamoille Counties: https://capstonevt.org/jobs BROC-Serving Rutland and Bennington Counties : https://www.broc.org/career-opportunities/ NEKCA- Serving Orleans, Essex, and Caledonia Counties: https://www.nekcavt.org/work-with-us/ SEVCA-Serving Windham, Windsor Counties: https://www.sevca.org/employment CVOEO: Serving Chittenden, Addison, Franklin and Grand Isle Counties: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/ Recruiting/Jobs/Details/793218 The Vermont Community Action Agencies are an Equal Opportunity Employer and Provider. Applications from women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and people from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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HOUSEKEEPING Seeking candidates to be apart of our award-winning hospitality team. Responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of all guest rooms and public spaces. • Experience: Previous housekeeping experience preferred. Will train right candidate. • Requisites: High school graduate or equivalent. Must be able to work independently and as part of a team. Must possess excellent communication skills. Ability to work in fast pace environment and have strong attention to detail. Shift is mainly 7am/8am- 3pm/4pm but must be available to work flexible schedule, including weekends & holidays.

SERVERS Seeking candidates to serve in our award-winning restaurants which showcase menus drawn from the best purveyors in New England. Candidate must efficiently serve all dining guests in the Red Rooster and/or Richardson's Tavern in a timely and professional manner. Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner Opportunities. Full Time and/or Part Time. • Experience: 1 year prior serving experience in fast paced environment. • Requisites: High school graduate or equivalent. Minimum age is 18. Must possess excellent interpersonal skills, be passionate about service, and be able to multi-task. Knowledge of food and beverage, including beer & wine preferred. Must be available to work flexible schedule, mainly P.M. shifts approx 4pm-10pm, weekends & holidays.

SPA FRONT DESK We are looking for the right candidate to join our Spa Team. Our front desk team takes spa reservations over the phone and in person and assist to create memorable experiences for our guests. In addition to reservations they create warm welcomes and fond farewells for the spa guests. This position is ideal for a candidate who enjoys being part of a team and has a keen attention to details. Full Time and Casual positions available. • Experience: Prior customer service experience. • Requisites: Effective communication and phone skills and computer skills are desired. Flexible schedule, must be able to work weekends & holidays. Must thrive in fast paced environment. Apply online: https://www.woodstockinn.com/careers

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DENTAL HYGIENIST Middlebury Pediatric Dentistry is looking for a dental hygienist to join our friendly, close-knit team. Help us take care of Vermont kids’ oral health! Full or Part time. Health insurance. Paid vacation. Please contact us and include your resume,

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Academic Center Location Flexible We are looking for a dynamic Controller, who is an excellent communicator, with a welcoming demeanor who possesses broad and in-depth technical knowledge related to accounting, budgeting, and auditing functions to join our business office team. The fast-paced duties handled in this position require flexibility, strong technology, analytical, and management skills and a willingness to adapt and change to the ever-moving cycles of an academic year. The Controller position assists the Dean of Administration in directing and managing all financial and operational functions of the institution and focusing on strategic and long-term financial planning, the incorporation of sound managerial accounting principles in institutional decision making, financial reporting, and the oversight of operational support services. Our preference is candidates who have a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) or professional accreditation such as certified public accountant (CPA), certified management accountant (CMA) or chartered global management accountant (CGMA). Previous experience in higher education is highly valued.

WASTEWATER DESIGNER Lamoureux & Dickinson Consulting Engineers is seeking an experienced On-Site Wastewater Disposal System Designer. We are an established Vermont-based company offering high-quality civil engineering, land-surveying and permitting services for private development and public infrastructure projects. The successful candidate will work with our professional staff to prepare and review on-site wastewater disposal system designs. He/she will be motivated, able to work independently, and have a strong work ethic. Required experience includes soil identification, site evaluation, on-site water supply and wastewater disposal system design, state and municipal permitting, and CAD drafting/design. The successful candidate will have excellent verbal and written communication skills together with being a licensed Class 1 or Class B Designer, as outlined in the Vermont Environmental Protection Rules. Experience in developing and retaining new clients a plus. This is a great opportunity to advance one’s career in a fast-paced multi-disciplinary environment. Excellent compensation and benefits.

WETLAND SCIENTIST Lamoureux & Dickinson Consulting Engineers is seeking an experienced Wetland/Environmental Scientist. We are an established Vermont-based company offering high-quality civil engineering, land-surveying and permitting services for private development and public infrastructure projects. The successful candidate will work with our professional staff to perform wetland delineations and functional analyses, and to prepare applications for state and federal wetland permits. A strong background in the environmental and soil sciences, GPS and GIS mapping, and CAD drafting/design are needed for this position. The successful candidate will be motivated, able to work independently, and have a strong work ethic. Training and experience in identifying rare, threatened and endangered species and their habitat, together with experience in developing and retaining new clients a plus. This is a great opportunity to advance one’s career in a fast-paced multi-disciplinary environment. Excellent compensation and benefits.

Qualified candidates should send a letter of interest and resume summarizing their experience and qualifications to: Roger Dickinson, PE, Lamoureux & Dickinson 14 Morse Dr, Essex, VT 05452 or by email to: roger@LDengineering.com.

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COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR VCIA is seeking a Communications Director to aid in the growth of our established trade association and assist in the success of VCIA’s events, including the annual conference which attracts 1000+ risk management professionals to Burlington, VT each August. Responsible for the planning and execution of promotions, marketing plans, membership and educational material development, press coordination and VCIA’s presence on digital platforms including website, digital marketing, conference app, social media. Position will work closely with team to execute quality materials and projects related to VCIA’s mission and vision. Will work with Director of Membership to engage membership and reach new prospects. Will work with staff Graphic Designer to produce quality artwork and materials. Responsible for overseeing all design projects. SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: • Experience with marketing planning and hands-on creation of digital marketing • College degree & minimum 4 years’ related professional work • Experience with design and promotional writing • Preferred knowledge of: Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Constant Contact, Website CMS, Blog software, MS Office, Asana, social media • Highly self-motivated, attentive to details and deadlines • Must be able to work in-person occasionally. Not a 100% remote position TO APPLY: Please provide minimum salary requirement in cover letter. Send letter, resume and any other links, samples of work, or details you believe are relevant, to: Peggy Companion; pcompanion@vcia.com. Deadline to apply Nov. 26th. Position to begin in Januray, 2022. For full position details, visit vcia.com.

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BURLINGTON HOUSING AUTHORITY (BHA) in Burlington, VT is seeking candidates to continue BHA's success in promoting innovative solutions that address housing instability challenges facing our diverse population of extremely low-income families and individuals. Director of Property Management oversees and directs property management activities related to the organization’s owned and managed property portfolio. This position supervises and directs activities of property management staff to ensure that our properties are well-run, safe and help to promote vibrant neighborhoods in the community. The Director of PM participates as a member of the management team working to strategize short‐range and long‐range organizational goals. Leasing Coordinator is responsible for the waitlist selection, screening for program eligibility, gathering information for Property Managers to screen for tenant suitability, processing lease ups, processing tenant move out files, monitoring vacancies and providing back up assistance to the Property Managers. Occupancy Specialist coordinates and processes annual & interim recertification for multifamily, tax credit and HOME programs. The position screens of all applicants for program eligibility for HUD Multifamily & BHA owed properties, including income eligibility, references, credit, and criminal. Makes determination on program eligibility. Providing back up assistance to the Leasing Coordinator and Property Management Specialist. Property Manager ensures established property standards are achieved; maintain occupancy at acceptable levels; perform apartment move-in and move-out inspections; review delinquent accounts; conduct regular physical site inspections; review monthly financial statements. This position ensures that all properties are operating within standards of compliance and maintain effective and positive resident and community relations. Construction Project Specialist coordinates small to medium sized renovation and repair projects at all owned and managed properties. This position also will assist in the development and preparation of construction project bid specifications, requests for proposals and project requirements, manuals, and plans, as well as other aspects of project management, which include working with contractors, interfacing with tenants, and assisting the department with capital needs planning and day to day operations in the office and out in the field. Maintenance Technician performs general maintenance work in BHA owned and managed properties, including building exteriors, common areas, apartments, building systems, fixtures, and grounds. Our Maintenance Techs are required to participate in the on-call rotation, which covers night and weekend emergencies. Rapid Rehousing Specialist provides assistance to community members who are without housing and have barriers to locating and securing housing in the community. This grant funded position works closely with our Rental Assistance department and Chittenden County Coordinated Entry and is a part of a skilled team that focuses on assessment, intervention, and service coordination of at-risk households.

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Supportive Services at Home (SASH) conducts outreach, work with a Registered Nurse and provide service coordination and direct support to residents while collaborating with many local service providers to ensure residents successfully age in place. Housing support will be provided to residents with medical, mental health, and intellectual disabilities, all with diverse needs. Offender Re-entry Housing Specialist provides housing placement and retention services to high-risk offenders returning to the community from long-term incarceration. This grant funded position works as a part of a skilled Housing Retention Team and in close collaboration with Burlington Probation and Parole and Dept. of Corrections Central Offices. Controller manages the accounting operations of the Authority. The responsibilities for this position include preparing timely and accurate accounting records and financial reports; managing operating budgets; and maintaining a comprehensive and effective system of internal controls, all of which are designed to ensure the accuracy of BHA’s reported results, mitigate risk, and ensure that resulting financial statements comply with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and the U/S/ Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requirements. The Controller also hires, trains, manages and retains skilled accounting staff. Rental Assistance Program Manager (RAPM) provides general oversight and management of Special Rental Assistance Programs and grants administered by the Burlington Housing Authority including Family Unification, Shelter Plus Care, HOPWA, RAD project-based vouchers and other rental assistance partnerships with social service agencies. Family Self Sufficiency Coordinator (FSS) FSS is an employment incentive program designed to support and encourage Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program participants to move towards economic self-sufficiency. The program also provides case management services in ways that are designed to help clients achieve goals in six main categories: Employment, Education, Financial Literacy, Housing, Childcare, and Health/Wellness. Office Manager manages the main office lobby and answers phones while providing great customer service, maintains all BHA brochures and materials, processes office mailings, assembles and distributes monthly board materials, and manages the office inventory. To learn more about BHA and these career opportunities, please visit our website: https://burlingtonhousing.org BHA offers a competitive salary, commensurate with qualifications and experience, and an excellent benefit package. If you are interested in these career opportunities, please send a cover letter and resume to: humanresources@burlingtonhousing.org BHA is an equal Opportunity Employer HUMAN RESOURCES, BURLINGTON HOUSING AUTHORITY 65 MAIN STREET, BURLINGTON, VT 05401

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SPRUCE PEAK ARTS IS HIRING! Currently seeking:

CITY ASSESSOR

• Box Office Manager • Ticket Associates • Theatre Educators

City of Barre, Vermont (pop. 9,052) General Job Description: The City Assessor is responsible for the daily operations performed by an Assessor. The City of Barre’s grand list is very complex, in that we have a TIF (Tax Increment Financing) District; we have few current use valuations, and allow for Tax Stabilization Agreements. The responsibilities include the valuation of land, residential, commercial, and industrial real estate within the City, as well as maintaining all other components of the grand list including current use valuations and homestead declarations. This individual will work closely with the Clerk/Bookkeeper who assists in the daily administrative duties who maintains the property record files, name and address changes, and property transfers among other things. The Assessor will complete site inspections, valuations, grievance hearings, and establish the annual grand list. The Assessor will be a part of the team that is overseeing the City-wide Reappraisal that is to be conducted by an outside firm. Other duties as necessary or required by Statute.

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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. Biosafety Officer - Risk Management and Safety - #S3168PO - The University of Vermont is seeking a Biological Safety Officer to foster safe laboratory practices and ensure compliance with university policies, and federal and state requirements.

Please submit a City of Barre Application, cover letter and resume to Mrs. Janet Shatney, Director of Planning, City Hall, 6 North Main St, Suite 7, Barre, VT 05641. Electronic submittals can be sent to ppadirector@ barrecity.org. Application deadline is December 3, 2021. The City of Barre is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). Women, Minorities and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

This position will work with campus partners to: • Manage and develop UVM’s Biosafety Program for research - including assessing protocols, developing SOPs, providing instruction, and reporting on efficacy of the program; • Support UVM’s BSL-3 Research Facility; • Manage UVM’s exposure control program for bloodborne pathogens; • Support general laboratory and research safety; and • Plan for and respond to campus emergencies. Minimum Job Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree in molecular biology or related field (advanced degree preferred); • Five years of demonstrated experience working in environmental health and safety field; • Comprehensive knowledge of biosafety regulations, guidelines, principles and best practices; • Registered Biosafety Professional (RBP) or Certified Biological Safety Professional (CBSP) (or ability to obtain); • Effective interpersonal and communication skills; • Ability to take initiative and think critically and creatively, and to work both independently and as a member of the team; and • Demonstrated ongoing commitment to workplace diversity, sustainability and delivering exceptional value and great customer service. • Prior experience at a university or insurance company is desirable. Community Health Nurse - Ext - Migrant Education - #S3197PO - UVM Extension’s Farmworker Health Program seeks a Community Health Nurse to promote, protect and preserve the health of migrant workers and their family members. Primary roles include leading COVID-19 prevention and education response, coordinating and participating in immunization clinics, providing health education, health screenings and triage, and health promotion training and support for outreach staff and volunteers. Applicants must hold an active Registered Nursing License in Vermont and be fluent in both English and Spanish. Skills necessary include the ability to effectively and independently plan, organize, and coordinate access to health services with migrant households and through places of employment. Proficient computer skills are essential. Willingness to travel and work a flexible schedule, which at times will include evenings and weekends. Strong understanding of rural farm/agricultural and migrant families because of prior work, relationship in/ to the community and/or other life experience desired. Ideal candidate lives in a rural Vermont county with a substantial presence of migrant workers. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal. NP or PA - Center for Health and Wellbeing - #S3225PO - The University of Vermont’s Center for Health and Wellbeing is recruiting for a NP or PA. This position provides direct and full spectrum primary health care services to UVM students, including prevention services and management of acute and chronic conditions. Participates in health-related initiatives that support the health of students and the university community. Maintains a commitment to excellence, supports the missions and philosophy of the CHWB, division and university as well as promotes multiculturalism and inclusivity for all. Minimum Qualifications: Degree as an advance practice nurse (NP) or a physician assistant (PA) degree from accredited program; Vermont licensure. PA should be Board Certified in adult medicine, with experience in primary care; Family NP Certification preferred, Adult NP Certification accepted. Current CPR certification and DEA licensure. Minimum of 2 years clinical experience, including work with college age population. Experience with computerized medical records. Collaborative working experience across health care disciplines. Demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusiveness. For further information on these positions and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit www.uvmjobs.com. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Open positions are updated daily. Please call 802-656-3150 or email employment@uvm.edu for technical support with the online application. The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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COORDINATED ENTRY SPECIALIST Are you highly effective in working objectively with a diverse group of people, groups and organizations? The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) seeks a Coordinated Entry (CE) Specialist who will work to ensure that persons experiencing homelessness in our area receive consistent, appropriate, and equal access to available housing resources. Under the direction of the Coordinated Entry System Administrator, the CE Specialist serves as the initial point of contact for consumers as well as the liaison between consumers and the community partners who provide housing and services. Additionally, the CE Specialist will work closely with the CE System Administrator on procedures and trainings to help improve the CE system. S/he will participate in relevant meetings, assist with documentation gathering for chronic homelessness, and enter data into the Homeless Management Information System. If you’re a detail-oriented individual who is able to relate to others in a positive, confidential, and non-judgmental way; enjoy developing and maintaining organizational systems; have a Bachelor’s Degree, 2 years of relevant experience, a valid driver’s license, a clean driving record and access to reliable transportation, we’d like to hear from you! We offer an excellent benefit package including medical, dental and vision insurance, generous time off, a retirement plan and discounted gym membership. To learn more about this position please visit www.cvoeo.org/careers. Please include a cover letter and resume with your application. CVOEO is interested in candidates who can contribute to our diversity and excellence. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal. CVOEO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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TEACHERS! Frog & Toad is a wonderful early education program in both Burlington and Essex Junction. There are a few vacant teaching positions that we must find excellent educators for, and there are multiple avenues for reaching state qualifications. Teachers receive competitive pay and benefits along with individual support with all aspects of their position! ESSEX JUNCTION • Lead Infant & Lead Mobile Infant BURLINGTON • Assistant Preschool & Licensed Teacher

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Use Your Skills to Make a Real Difference! We’re looking for a dynamic and dedicated individual to enhance both the VT Youth Development Corps AmeriCorps State and VT Youth Tomorrow AmeriCorps VISTA programs.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAMS If you are an organized and detail-oriented person with good written and verbal communication skills, computer proficiency, administrative experience, and a positive attitude, then this may be the job for you. Prior National Service or Peace Corps experience a plus. This position is one of three Assistant Directors who help manage two statewide AmeriCorps programs. Duties: recruit, support, and manage AmeriCorps members and sites; assist with grants management and reporting on the impact members make throughout Vermont; coordinate and facilitate monthly professional development opportunities for members; implement public relations campaigns; and maintain databases and websites. Currently working remotely. Planned re-entry into office later in the winter, with a hybrid option of remote and office work. Send cover letter and resume to Hiring Committee at vydc.recruitment@wcysb.org by 2 December 2021. Position starts no later than mid-January 2022. Salary Range $37,000 – 43,000 Health Insurance & Generous Leave Policy We are an E.O.E. Background Check Required.

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TruexCullins, a 30-person architecture and interior design firm in downtown Burlington, seeks a staff accountant to join the team.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Burlington, Vermont

Are you an inspiring, enthusiastic, and collaborative leader who believes in green development, multi-sector community partnerships, and an equitable world that can be enjoyed by all? Real Estate development done with heart DOES work – we know – we’ve been doing it for 40+ years and have consistently turned a profit all the while caring for and supporting our local community and beyond. The Executive Director will be a highly collaborative, visionary, thoughtful, and transparent leader who will possess well-developed communication skills, have strategic perspectives, and maintain a commitment to working effectively with staff, tenants, board members, community partners, and supporters.

REPORTING TO MSL’S OWNERS AND BOARD, THE ED’S PRIMARY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY WILL INCLUDE: • Vision, Mission, and Strategic Planning • Organizational Leadership • Infrastructure and Day-to-Day Operations • Financial / Legal • People Management • Public Relations and Marketing • Real Estate

IDEAL CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE & ATTRIBUTES: • Organizational leadership experience with a commitment to a triple bottom line business model - people, planet, profit • A strategic thinker and changemaker who enjoys collaboration and co-creation with a commitment to mission and vision of the greater good • Solid business acumen, including budgetary and strategic business skills; experience managing a $3M operating budget • Strong marketing and public relations experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures

• Creating an engaged culture, leading a committed team of professionals, and serving as the head of HR • Problem-solver with day-to-day operational experience; thoughtful and decisive decision-maker • An understanding of commercial real estate and/or real estate development • Capacity to understand federal, state, and regional laws, regulations, funding, and reporting and their relevance to the needs of the waterfront community and beyond • Experience working with, and reporting to, a board of directors

For those interested in learning more about this role, we invite you to contact our search partner Etienne Morris of Morris Recruiting & Consulting at etienne@morrisrc.com to arrange for a confidential exploratory conversation. mainstreetlanding.com/about/open-positions

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY REAL NOVEMBER 18-24 star glitters wondrously — and without the “apocalyptic” tinge that Hölderlin harbored.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)

“Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don’t read the lines,” wrote author Margaret Millar. That’s not a common problem for you Scorpios. You are an expert at reading between the lines, but that doesn’t cause you to miss the simple facts. Better than any other sign of the zodiac, you are skilled at seeing both secret and obvious things. Given the astrological omens that will be active for you during the rest of 2021, I suspect that this skill of yours will be a virtual superpower. And even more than usual, the people in your life will benefit from your skill at naming the truth.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet and

philosopher Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) had many ups and downs. He was one of Germany’s greatest poets and philosophers, but he also endured more emotional distress than most people. His biographer wrote, “Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart, but mostly his apocalyptic star glitters wondrously.” You may have been flirting with a milder version of a “bitter well of the heart,” Aries. But I foresee that you will soon return to a phase when your

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author David Foster Wallace felt sad about how little of our mind’s intense activity can be shared with others. So much of what goes on inside us seems impossible to express. Or if it is possible to express, few of our listeners are receptive to it or able to fully understand it. That’s the bad news, Taurus. But here’s the good news: In the coming weeks, I believe that you will experience much less of this sad problem than usual. I’m guessing that you’ll be especially skilled at articulating your lush truth and will have an extra receptive audience for it. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I never resist

temptation,” declared playwright George Bernard Shaw. Why did he dare to utter such an outlandish statement? “Because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me,” he said. I propose that you aspire to embody his attitude during the next eight weeks, Gemini. Make it your aspiration to cultivate a state of mind wherein you will only be tempted to engage with influences that are healthy and educational and inspiring. You can do it! I know you can!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): While still a teenager, Cancerian cowboy Slim Pickens (1919-1983) competed in the rodeo, a sporting event in which brave athletes tangle with aggressive broncos and bulls. When America entered World War II, Pickens went to a recruiting office to sign up for the military. When asked about his profession, Pickens said “rodeo.” The clerk misheard and instead wrote “radio.” Pickens was assigned to work at an armed forces radio station in the American Midwest, where he spent the entire war. It was a safe and secure place for him to be. I foresee a lucky mistake like that in your near future, Cancerian. Maybe more than one lucky mistake. Be alert. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): To create your horoscope, I’ve borrowed ideas from four famous Leos. They all address your current astrological needs. First, here’s Leo author P. L. Travers: “More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.”

Second, here’s Leo author Sue Monk Kidd: “There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming.” Third, Leo poet Philip Larkin: “Originality is being different from oneself, not others.” Finally, Leo author Susan Cheever: “There is no such thing as expecting too much.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I encourage you to adopt the perspective expressed by spiritual author Ann Voskamp. She wrote, “I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, the moments before I sleep.” I understand that taking this assignment seriously could be a challenging exercise. Most of us are quick to spot flaws and awfulness, but few have been trained to be alert for elegance and splendor and wondrousness. Are you willing to try out this approach? Experiment with it. Treat it as an opportunity to reprogram your perceptual faculties. Three weeks from now, your eyes and ears could be attuned to marvels they had previously missed. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran educator and anthropologist Johnnetta Cole wrote, “The first sign of an educated person is that she asks more questions than she delivers answers.” I agree and would also say this: A prime attribute of an intelligent, eager-tolearn person is that she asks more questions than she delivers answers. I encourage you to be like that during the coming weeks, Libra. According to my astrological estimation, you are scheduled to boost your intelligence and raise your curiosity. An excellent way to meet your appointments with destiny will be to have fun dreaming up interesting questions. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sto-

ryteller and mythologist Michael Meade believes that each of us has an inner Indigenous person — a part of our psyche that can love and learn from nature, that’s inclined to revere and commune with the ancestors, that seeks holiness in the familiar delights of the Earth. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to cultivate your relationship with your inner Indigenous person. What other experiences might be available to you as you align your personal rhythms with the rhythms of the Earth? What joys might emerge as you strive

to connect on deeper levels with animals and plants and natural forces?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn novelist Haruki Murakami writes, “I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.” Most of us feel that longing, although few of us admit it. But I will urge you to place this desire in the front of your awareness during the next two weeks. I’ll encourage you to treat your yearning for maximum love as a sacred strength, a virtue to nurture and be proud of. I’ll even suggest that you let people know that’s what you want. Doing so may not result in a total satisfaction of the longing, but who knows? Maybe it will. If there will ever be a time when such fulfillment could occur, it will be soon. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): An article

published in the journal Scientific American declared, “Most people don’t know when to stop talking.” Conversations between strangers and between friends typically go on too long. A mere two percent of all dialogue finishes when both parties want it to. That’s the bad news, Aquarius. The good news is that in the coming weeks, your sensitivity about this issue will be more acute than usual. As a result, your talk will be extra concise and effective — more persuasive, more interesting and more influential. Take advantage of this subtle superpower! (Further info: tinyurl.com/ whentostop.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Since 1996, Ira Glass has produced the renowned radio series “This American Life.” In 2013, as a reward for his excellence, he was offered a raise in his annual salary from $170,000 to $278,000. He accepted it for one year, but then asked that it be lowered to $146,000. He described the large increase in pay as “unseemly.” What?! I appreciate his modesty, but I disapprove. I’m always rooting for Pisceans like Ira Glass to embrace the fullness of their worth and to be aggressive about gathering all the rewards they’re offered. So I’m inclined, especially right now, to urge you not to be like Glass. Please swoop up all the kudos, benefits and blessings you deserve.

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BERLIN PLANET FITNESS You: beautiful, very curvy blond girl with black leggings, white shoes and half shirt. Me: guy admiring your amazing physique on Saturday and Sunday, October 30 and 31. When: Saturday, October 30, 2021. Where: Berlin Planet Fitness. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915452 HOT WOMAN CHATTING WITH ME We were chatting waiting in line. Then an older lady was trying to cut, and you made it a point to tell her, “You’re behind him!” That was hot! I could be wrong, but I felt a connection. I liked what I saw; did you? I’m game if you are. Chat or even more — send you home smiling. ? When: Friday, October 29, 2021. Where: Hannaford, North Ave., in line. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915449 THREE ENCOUNTERS: TWO HEARTS The morning we met across the counter, we had a pleasant conversation and I was drawn to your quiet charm. Twice since then, I’ve visited, and each time, you’ve left hearts with my order. If you were looking to make an impression, it happened that very first time. Look me up? When: Sunday, October 3, 2021. Where: North Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915448 CITY MARKET PARKING LOT SMILES Our cars were parked next to each other. You were on your phone, and I was on mine. I looked over, and you smiled; I smiled back. You waved at me as I left the store. You: wearing circular-shaped glasses and driving a gray Honda CR-V. Would love to have a simultaneous conversation in person. When: Monday, October 25, 2021. Where: City Market downtown parking lot. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915446

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Dear Reverend,

My partner of eight years is unvaccinated. (Don’t get me started. It is what it is.) My mom is hosting Thanksgiving dinner and doesn’t want anyone who isn’t vaccinated to come. I don’t want to miss out on getting together with my family, but I feel bad leaving my partner alone at home on the holiday. I’m really torn. What should I do?

Wendy Wishbone (FEMALE, 37)

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PLANET FITNESS Saw you this morning: tall, handsome guy on the treadmill wearing the beanie! Just wanted to let you know you’re lookin’ good! I wonder if you are single? When: Monday, October 25, 2021. Where: Planet Fitness. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915443

EVERYWHERE IN MY DREAMS, MONTPELIER I’ve seen you many places. Tall, kind, carefree. When will our paths cross? My heart and soul need us to find one another for a happy journey together. Me: tall, soulful woman. You: tall, kind and looking for last love. When: Friday, October 1, 2021. Where: everywhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915438

BEAUTIFUL MOM AND ADORABLE DAUGHTER You and your daughter visited me and my goats. I think we caught eyes a few times. I wanted to chat more and get your name, but I was occupied with other visitors. You: wide-brimmed green hat, cowboy boots, beautiful smile and adorable daughter. I was the goat guy. When: Friday, October 8, 2021. Where: Richmond Farmers Market. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915442

CITY MARKET SUNCATCHER You: basking like a lizard outside the downtown co-op at the table closest to the entrance. Me: finding nothing to say that could possibly enhance the pearl-perfect moment you seemed to be enjoying. Let’s have a moment like that together at my favorite sunset spot. It’s an obvious one, but few people seem to know it. When: Wednesday, October 13, 2021. Where: City Market downtown. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915436

BEAUTIFUL IN BLUE You were dressed all in blue, walking your dog, who seemed to have plans of his/her own. I watched you from another parking lot. You told me your dog was flirting. You were so beautiful. When: Friday, October 22, 2021. Where: UVM Trinity Campus. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915441

THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW! Our paths are running next to each other. I hope they cross sooner rather than later. I hope you turn here as much as I do. When: Sunday, October 10, 2021. Where: my daily read. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915432

YOU WERE FRAMED! LEBANON, N.H. You: picking up your Radiohead piece for framing. Me: rocking the red Chucks. Nice chatting with you about being creative and sneakers. Let’s get coffee and keep the conversation going. When: Thursday, October 21, 2021. Where: Lebanon, N.H. You: Man. Me: Man. #915440

Dear Wendy Wishbone,

I hope you understand that your mother isn’t trying to be a meanie. She’s likely looking out for the well-being of your partner as much as the other people who will be at the gathering. Anyone can spread or contract COVID-19, whether they’re vaccinated or not. If you’re vaxxed, your chance of getting very sick is greatly lessened, but coming down with the virus can still be a drag. (Trust me, I know firsthand.) People have their reasons for not getting the vaccine and, even if we don’t

I MISS YOU, SUNSHINE I made a mistake, and it cost me the best woman I ever knew. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about my Montpelier girl. I do wish the best for you but wish we split on better terms. You will always be in my heart, Smarty Pants. When: Monday, September 27, 2021. Where: Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915428

agree with them, it’s their choice. Not being invited to parties is one of the consequences. Would your mom accept your partner into her home with a negative COVID-19 test? If so, find out what her comfort level is. Would she be OK with a rapid test on Thanksgiving or the day before? Would getting a PCR test a few days in advance and quarantining while waiting for the results do the trick? You should also read up on the Centers for Disease Control

ON TAP, SATURDAY 9/25 I was sitting alone in the back corner. You and your friend were at the table in front of me. You got up and came over and introduced yourself and didn’t come back. I would love to buy you a drink and chat. When: Saturday, September 25, 2021. Where: in the back room of the bar. You: Woman. Me: Couple. #915427 SHELBURNE ROAD, ADVANCED AUTO PARTS You and your guy were waiting at the counter as I walked by and wished you good luck on your project. Did I imagine it, or did you come over by me a few times and then bend over in front of the air fresheners for my benefit? If so, I’m really glad you did. Meet for a drink? When: Friday, September 24, 2021. Where: Shelburne Rd. auto parts store. You: Couple. Me: Man. #915425 BURLINGTON CUMBERLAND FARMS, GAS, SMILES You: F, light brown hair in a bun, blue Volkswagen wagon parked at the pump. Me: M, tall, salt-and-pepper hair, shorts, floral mask, held the door for you as you came in. We caught each other’s eye, smiled as you walked to the pump. I said hi. I should’ve come over to talk. Care to do that sometime? When: Tuesday, September 21, 2021. Where: Cumberland Farms, Pine St., Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915424 FOREVER, EVER? Forever never, seems that long until you’re grown / And notice that the day-by-day ruler can’t be too wrong. / I wish I could become a magician to abracadabra all the sadder / Thoughts of me, thoughts of she, asking what happened to the feeling that her and me had. When: Sunday, October 14, 2018. Where: separate ways. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915416 HONKY TONK TUESDAY, RADIO BEAN You were raised near the coast of the eastern Mediterranean. On the eve of September 14, you danced East Coast swing with me. You offered a drag from your cigarette as I left. I remarked that you’re an amazing person. I’m sorry I disappeared so quickly. Listening to your experience and kind teacher’s heart would very likely enhance my humanity. When: Tuesday, September 14, 2021. Where: Radio Bean, Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915408

and Prevention’s guidelines for holiday celebrations at cdc.gov. Of course, the host calls the shots, and if your mom is not flexible on her vaccine requirement, you’ll have to respect her wishes. You shouldn’t skip spending time with your relatives. If your partner can’t join you, consider this an opportunity to spread out the celebration and maybe make a new tradition. Start the day with a fancy breakfast while watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Have your own special dinner at home the night before or the next day. As I always say, the only thing better than Thanksgiving is two Thanksgivings. Good luck and God bless,

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