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he upstart civil rights group that represents Vermont’s immigrant farmworkers filed a lawsuit last week accusing federal authorities of running a prolonged campaign to retaliate against its members because of their activism.

Migrant Justice says the feds monitored its people on Facebook, infiltrated its meetings with a civilian informant, and targeted key members for arrest and deportation.

The suit also says that the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles has aided immigration investigators by providing them information about group members — even after a new department policy was put in place to limit such information sharing.

The suit names the leaders of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the DMV as defendants.

John Mohan, a spokesman for ICE, declined to comment specifically on the suit. But he pointed to a previous statement from Matthew Albence, ICE’s acting deputy director, who has said that ICE “does not target unlawfully present aliens

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for arrest based on advocacy positions they hold or in retaliation for critical comments they make.” Rather, ICE focuses resources on “individuals who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security,” Albence has said.

In its suit, Migrant Justice contends that’s not true — and that ICE is targeting advocates around the country.

Migrant Justice was formed in 2009 to stand up for the rights of roughly 1,500 immigrant farm laborers who work in Vermont. These workers are sometimes isolated and lack housing and employment protections. Migrant Justice’s Milk With Dignity program promotes fair housing and decent working conditions for dairy farmworkers.

The group has loudly protested when people in its ranks have been arrested on immigration charges. About 40 of its members have been charged in the past two years, said Will Lambek, a group spokesman. Last week, Migrant Justice staged a raucous protest outside the federal courthouse at Elmwood Avenue and Pearl Street, where the suit was filed.

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1. “Feds Drop Burlington College Probe, According to Sanders Aide” by Paul Heintz.

The U.S. Attorney has closed its investigation of Jane O’Meara Sanders’ Burlington College land deal, according to a Sanders family spokesperson.

2. “After 20 Years, Hardware Store to Open in Downtown Burlington” by Katie Jickling. An Ace Hardware will open on College Street by early next year.

3. “BFA Fairfax Grads Return to Open Stone’s Throw Pizza” by Sally Pollak. A pair of childhood friends has returned to their hometown to serve up creative and classic pizzas.

4. “Vermont Panel to Propose 26 Percent Tax on Retail Weed” by Taylor Dobbs. The committee investigating a taxed and regulated cannabis system released its draft recommendations last week.

5. “Jr’s Original to Open in Winooski” by Sally Pollak. The new restaurant features traditional Italian fare.

ogs have barked at him. Wary homeowners have stared at him. He’s taken selfies with cats.

And soon, Rob Rives will have navigated every public street in the City of Burlington on his own power — an unusual goal. So, um, why did he do it?

“I find a lot of my inspiration to get out and move is to go [to] brand-new places each time,” Rives said. “This leads to always trying to find a new road or a new trail to run. This is the first time that I’ve really applied it to a city as a whole.”

Rives started on his journey in May 2017,

shortly after moving to Vermont. He started tracking each Queen City run or walk he took using apps such as Strava and CityStrides. To date, Rives has traveled 193 miles and covered everything except the farthest-flung points in the New North End. There have been a few exceptions. He couldn’t walk Route 127 because it’s not pedestrian accessible, so he settled for the bike path that runs along a section of that roadway. The number on his odometer surpasses the actual mileage of publicly maintained city streets — that’s 95 miles, according to Burlington Public Works Department Director Chapin Spencer — because he’s done some stretches more than once.

“Every once in awhile I hear about people walking/running all of Burlington’s streets,” Spencer wrote in an email. “I challenged myself to hit as

many as possible training for the half marathon this spring and hit about three-quarters of the streets in the city.”

Rives, 29, is always looking for a new challenge.

Now living in Richmond, the Green Mountain Club employee runs ultramarathons. This year, he became the first person to run the entire Cross Vermont Trail, a 76-mile route that begins in Wells River and ends in Burlington’s Oakledge Park. It took him just 19 hours.

So wasn’t urban running a bore by comparison?

“Every street will experience changes through the years to come, but I had the opportunity to build a complete idea of Burlington and to know it deeply,” Rives said. “I would encourage everyone to pursue this idea in their own neighborhood, town or city.”

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[Re “‘This Touched My Heart,’” October 24; “Opiates, Love and Loss,” October 24; Off Message: “‘I Cried as I Read This’: An Obit for an Addicted Vermonter Goes Viral,” October 18; Obituary: Madelyn Linsenmeir, 1988-2018, October 14]: Thank you for publishing stories about people like Madelyn Linsenmeir with substance-use disorder. It’s the only way we will stop the shame and stigma associated with this disease. I lost my sister Jenny last year to prescription opioids.

Kelly O’Connor

WASHINGTON, D.C.

PROTESTING POLARIZATION

Many thanks for the letter submitted by Kiran Kuntz and Chris Stutzman titled “Fly Right” [Feedback, November 14], in which they noted that the American flag was displayed upside down by protesters in a recent protest held on Church Street.

Though I’m strongly adverse to virtually all the policies promoted by our current president, displays such as these only serve the emotional needs of the protesters and do nothing to foster a constructive dialogue between sides that are so very polarized already. Sadly, this display brings to mind anti-war protests of the 1960s when our flag was treated similarly, and which had the same effect on the country’s citizens: further polarization.

Bob Furrer

SHELBURNE

ON THE WILD SIDE

Thank you for [“The Whole Tooth?

Vermont’s Head Warden Targeted for Covering His Tracks in Bear Case,” November 7]. As usual, Vermont’s commissioner of the Fish & Wildlife Department defends his lack of leadership by accusing his critics of being anti-hunting, -fishing and -trapping. I would bet I spent as much time fishing last summer as Louis Porter has in his entire life. I am neither anti-hunting nor anti-fishing. But as far as I am concerned, Porter has been little more than a flak for guys whose idea of fun is laying out leghold and body-gripping traps for any creature that happens by. As the human race multiplies and human development expands, wilderness and wildlife become increasingly precious for everybody, and I think I speak for a lot of hunters

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and fishermen when I say that Vermont deserves a commissioner of Fish & Wildlife who understands that. Ethical shortcomings notwithstanding, Porter doesn’t get it.

David Kelley

GREENSBORO

F&W NEEDS REFORM

Thank you for your recent article investigating a Vermont game warden [“The Whole Tooth? Vermont’s Head Warden Targeted for Covering His Tracks in Bear Case,” November 7]. The Fish & Wildlife Department conducts itself more along the lines of a private hunting club than anything else. The people of Vermont need to see how the department is often unethical, harmful and cruel to our state’s wildlife. Major changes need to be made within the F&W and that can only happen if more people speak out against its actions to raise awareness.

Lindzey Beal

WOLCOTT

BISSONNETTE SHOULD STEP ASIDE

[Re Off Message: “He Couldn’t Lose: Bissonnette to Represent Winooski in Vermont House,” November 7]: The recent Chittenden 6-7 election illustrates how undemocratic our electoral system can be. Rep. Clem Bissonnette announced he bought a house in the Northeast Kingdom and would not seek reelection. Bissonnette even recruited Mike O’Brien as a possible write-in candidate.

In a nonbinding poll held by Progressives

and Democrats, four candidates vied for support, with City Councilor Hal Colston emerging as a clear winner. O’Brien declined to run after Colston won the poll.

On Election Day, Colston lost to Bissonnette’s name on the ballot by 245 votes. The next day, Bissonnette reneged on his promise to step aside and announced he would serve. He even declared in Seven Days that he would rent a room in Winooski if necessary.

Something doesn’t smell right here.

While Bissonnette does not violate any laws by reneging on his promise, he fails to provide ethical representation for his constituents. Winooski deserves a representative who lives full time in the district and acts with integrity.

Moreover, unconscious racial bias and privilege undoubtedly played a factor here. Bissonnette is white. Colston is black. I emphasize the word “unconscious” because I do not believe Bissonnette consciously reneged on his decision because Colston is black. However, the impact of his decision disempowers Colston and prevents him from being considered as a qualified candidate in gubernatorial appointment process.

Winooski residents deserve so much better. I call on Bissonnette to do the right thing by stepping aside to allow the governor to appoint a replacement.

Emma Mulvaney-Stanak

BURLINGTON

PARK REDESIGN ‘NOT A DONE DEAL’

[Re “Uprooted: Burlington Farmers Market Seeks a New Home,” October 31]:

On Election Day, Keep the Park Green collected almost 2,000 signatures to put on the March ballot a motion to scrap the plan for City Hall Park. I myself collected 125 signatures in three hours at the Ward 4 polling site. For many people who signed the petition, it was not just about saving trees. They questioned the $4 million price tag, the need for a “splash pad” instead of a central fountain, increasing the paved surface area in the park and wiring it for more performances. They wanted peace and quiet and a green place with shade trees and gardens in the midst of an alltoo-rapidly developing downtown. Parents commented that there was no place to take kids when they were downtown; they wanted a little playground on sawdust with a swing set and slide — and a bathroom, not a Porta-Potty cubicle. Senior signatories wanted benches with backs, not stone blocks to sit on.

I was collecting signatures right next to where Burlington City Councilor Kurt Wright was greeting voters. He saw the line at my table and overheard discussions. I asked him, “Kurt, what will the council do when voters say no?” He said he’d certainly look at another plan.

So take heed, farmers market vendors and Burlington voters. This unpopular plan is not a done deal. We’ll be voting on it in March. And it will go down.

David Schein

BURLINGTON

THE $4 MILLION QUESTION

[Re “Uprooted: Burlington Farmers Market Seeks a New Home,” October 31]: Just a quick question for Burlington residents: Why are we going to spend $4 million to deconstruct City Hall Park, making it more like an extension of Church Street than a park? Would that be like installing new granite countertops in the kitchen while the roof leaks, septic discharges into the backyard and children are in need?

Paul Webb

BURLINGTON

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Marketplace Futures: How Burlington Aims to Reorganize Downtown

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Sparkle and Shine Elite entertainers from the New York City-based Cirque-tacular Productions inspire awe with feats both daring and dazzling in the seasonal spectacular Shimmer: A Winter Cirque Reverie. Two Stowe performances replete with dramatic lighting, eye-catching costumes and jaw-dropping displays of circus artistry should leave even Scrooge-like viewers feeling warm and fuzzy.

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Breaking Bread What could better embody the spirit of Thanksgiving than sitting down to a shared meal with family, friends and neighbors? For the 46th year, the Washington County Youth Service Bureau/Boys & Girls Club hosts its Community Thanksgiving Dinner. All are welcome to feast on a free, familystyle spread of turkey with all the fixings at Montpelier’s Bethany Church.

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Bedroom Pop Berlin-based psych-pop band Fenster’s fourth album, The Room, released in September, is simultaneously dreamy and earwormy. “Their sound is a window framing psychedelic, groovy, hypnogogic, playful pop,” reads the quartet’s Bandcamp page.

Jordan Adams chats with American band member and Middlebury College graduate JJ Weihl ahead of the group’s gig at the Light Club Lamp Shop in Burlington.

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about to tie her hands, either. “There’s a difference between being fair and giving your power away,” she said. Loyal committee chairs are key to delivering a legislative agenda.

Perfection, of course, isn’t possible, and the process will inevitably leave some members disgruntled. “At some point you just cry uncle,” Johnson said.

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Women are already well represented in House committees, with seven female chairs returning and several more in consideration for vacant positions. Rep. PAT BRENNAN (R-Colchester), who leads the House Transportation Committee, is the only Republican chair.

Though Johnson declined to speculate about what changes she’ll make, that shouldn’t stop the rest of us. Seven Days spoke with a number of lawmakers and lobbyists to get an early sense of who’s angling for what.

Rep. TOM STEVENS (D-Waterbury) is the presumed heir to the General, Housing and Military Affairs Committee, formerly chaired by retiring Rep. HELEN HEAD (D-South Burlington). “I’ve put my hat in the ring,” said Stevens, a liberal Democrat who could play a key role in shaping paid family leave and minimum wage bills, both of which are expected to resurface next session.

Elsewhere, successors are less certain.

Rep. AMY SHELDON (D-Middlebury) is a potential candidate to replace Rep. DAVID DEEN (D-Westminster) at the helm of the Natural Resources, Fish and Wildlife Committee. Sheldon, who says she’s interested, currently heads up a commission evaluating the state’s flagship environmental law, Act 250. Whoever is chosen will be at the center of discussions about waterway cleanup.

Rep. KATE WEBB (D-Shelburne) wants to replace outgoing Rep. DAVE SHARPE (D-Bristol) as chair of the House Education Committee, which will likely be busy, given Gov. PHIL SCOTT’s calls for major education reform. Rep. EMILY LONG (D-Newfane), who serves with Webb on the panel, is also considered a candidate for chair or for another leadership position.

At least two reps of very different

political persuasions have expressed interest in taking the reins of the Commerce and Economic Development Committee: Rep. MICHAEL MARCOTTE (R-Coventry), who has served on it for 14 years, and Rep. JEAN O’SULLIVAN (D-Burlington), a liberal Democrat who has for four. Legislation to tax and regulate marijuana would likely come through this panel, as would any proposals to bolster the workforce.

It’s a free-for-all on the Energy and Technology Committee. Rep. LAURA SIBILIA (I-Dover) said she’s interested in replacing the outgoing chair, Rep. STEPHEN CARR (D-Brandon). Vice chair CURT MCCORMACK (D-Burlington), and Rep. ROBIN CHESNUTTANGERMAN (P-Middletown Springs) and Rep. MICHAEL YANTACHKA (D-Charlotte), both committee members, are also considered contenders.

There are fewer openings in the Senate, where Sen. CLAIRE AYER (D-Addison), chair of the Health and Welfare Committee, and PEG FLORY (R-Rutland), chair of the Institutions Committee, are the only departing leaders.

“We’re already hearing all sorts of gossip about decisions that have already been made,” Ashe said, stressing, “Not a single decision has been made.”

Sen. GINNY LYON s (D-Chittenden) would like to lead Health and Welfare.

“I certainly have been there and have experience, so I would welcome that opportunity,” said Lyons, who has served on the committee for 16 years and previously chaired the Natural Resources and Energy Committee.

The all-male Committee on Committees may feel obligated to appoint at least one woman given that only three of the returning chairs are female. And in all likelihood, one of the new chairs will hail from the GOP. “I’ve always believed strongly that it’s important that there be at least one Republican chair,” Ashe said, and with Flory’s departure, the Senate has none.

Sen. RICHARD WESTMAN (R-Lamoille), who previously led the House Appropriations and Transportation committees, is considered a candidate, though he said he hasn’t sought a chairmanship. “If there was an opportunity for me to do something constructive, I would not be opposed to that idea, but I’m not out there running and looking for something right now,” he said.

Sen. JOE BENNING (R-Caledonia), who plans to run for minority leader again this year, said the only chairmanship he would be interested in is Judiciary, but he has no expectation that Sen. DICK SEARS (D-Bennington), its longtime chair, will budge. Sen. BRIAN COLLAMORE (R-Rutland) said he’s talked to Flory about following in her footsteps at Institutions, “but we’ll have to wait and see.”

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state buildings and the Department of Corrections is Sen. JOHN RODGERS (D-Essex/ Orleans), who is vice chair and has served on the committee for six years.

Mazza, who chairs Transportation, suggested it’s in everyone’s best interest to ensure legislators are satisfied. “The last thing you want is someone on the committee who doesn’t want to be there.”

start at making connections. My liberal arts degree carried little cachet, but my Tunbridge roots opened all sorts of doors.

On the other hand, Vermont’s small size can be infuriating for a reporter.

Conflicts of interest are too easily tolerated, and uncovering misdeeds can be especially challenging. When I was reporting on sexual harassment in the Statehouse, a handful of women said they hadn’t reported inappropriate conduct at the time and couldn’t speak out about it even then — the state was just too small.

I’ll sign off with seven pieces of advice for my successor, who has yet to be named.

1. Leave the building. The best stories start outside the Statehouse.

2. Don’t cross JOHN BLOOMER. If the eagleeyed Senate secretary catches you surreptitiously texting, drinking water or violating another of the upper chamber’s myriad rules (and he will catch you), he’ll swoop in and snatch the forbidden object from your hand like it was an unsuspecting mouse.

3. Check the filing cabinet. Lawmakers finally agreed to fill out financial disclosure forms but are so protective of the information that they refuse to put it online. The paper copies are locked away in a drawer.

(Bloomer has the key.)

4. Crash the caucuses. Last session, my colleague TAYLOR DOBBS and I slipped into a locked building to find Senate Democrats discussing strategy. Absconding from the Statehouse for off-site meetings is common practice in both parties and both chambers.

5. Get to know the women who handle the money — those who chair the legislature’s taxing and spending committees: Sen. JANE KITCHEL (D-Caledonia); Sen. ANN CUMMINGS (D-Washington); Rep. KITTY TOLL (D-Danville) and Rep. JANET ANCEL (D-Calais).

6. Don’t ignore the newbies. With good reason, reporters gravitate toward those who hold the most influence. As a firstterm Republican, Rep. JANSSEN WILLHOIT (R-St. Johnsbury) possessed barely any.

But the ex-convict-turned-lawmaker had an unforgettable story.

7. Eat a cookie. The Statehouse cafeteria’s cookies are mostly butter and chocolate, and hands-down the best fuel for covering marathon floor debates.

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Sadly, I won’t be around to watch any of this unfold. After nearly five years at Seven Days, I’m leaving at the end of this year for an extended trip to Latin America.

I’m excited for the adventure, but I know I’m giving up something rare: a job at a thriving paper run by fearless, fair-minded people who care more about accountability than clicks. Plus, where else will I be paid to eat roadkill, take a predawn boat ride to catch duck poachers, operate heavy machinery with the lieutenant governor and tour a state senator’s hemp fields by ATV? During my time here, I’ve seen officials go to great lengths to keep public documents secret. I’ve reported on a state department defying the law to deprive people of treatment. I’ve been stonewalled, berated, booted from meetings.

But I’ve also witnessed politicians show remarkable courage. I’ll never forget the scene on the Statehouse steps last April, when Gov. Scott gently but firmly addressed livid gun rights activists as they screamed “liar” and “traitor” at him.

Political journalism is a profession that attracts cynics and reinforces their pessimistic tendencies. But covering Vermont politics can, at times, warm even the coldest journalist heart.

There was the time I wrote about Sen. Mazza, who takes it upon himself to select neckwear for both the Republican governor and the Democratic leader of the Senate. “Oh God, they were so drab,” Mazza said of Ashe’s and Scott’s ties, before he stepped in.

During a reporting trip in September, I was caravanning with Speaker Johnson, through her home district of South Hero.

At one point, she abruptly pulled over, leapt out of her Prius and sprinted up the road. She returned a minute later, having delivered a turtle to the shores of Lake Champlain.

When it comes to solving expensive policy conundrums, our politicians don’t always act so swiftly — toxic algae in Lake Champlain is a case in point — but most of them care deeply about this state.

This small state spoils journalists with access: Nearly every public official can be easily reached on his or her cellphone.

And having grown up here, I had a head

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The only thing more “tired” than the four-block pedestrian mall, according to Segal, is the commercial area around it. “The energy fades off of Church Street, and there is an inconsistent vibe throughout the rest of downtown,” he wrote in his August report commissioned by the Burlington Business Association and the city’s Department of Public Works.

That harsh assessment validates the mission of an advisory committee tasked by the city council in 2017 with identifying ways to revitalize downtown Burlington.

It has also fast-tracked the group’s final recommendation: that Burlington should change the way it defines — and governs — the city’s retail core.

Numerous factors — new competitors on Pine Street and in South Burlington, the downtown CityPlace Burlington redevelopment and the high cost of doing business on Church Street — have expedited the committee’s proposal.

In a series of public meetings over the next month, city officials and shopkeepers will make a case to convert the city department known as the Church Street Marketplace into a private nonprofit.

The plan also includes expanding the shopping district and devising a new fee structure for the businesses that want to be a part of the downtown events, marketing and security as well as snow and trash removal that Church Street shops already receive. The details of the project, such as

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board composition, have yet to be ironed out.

Currently, the 40 street-level businesses on Church between Pearl and Main pay a mandatory surcharge to the Marketplace department — not unlike a condo fee — in exchange for those services.

The new, enlarged downtown shopping area would capture all of the commercial properties bounded by South Winooski Avenue and Pearl, Main and Lake streets, including the second-floor shops on Church Street. Since 1999, this section of Burlington has been known as the Downtown Improvement District. The businesses within it already pay a small tax to help fund the city’s two-hour free parking initiative.

The city center needs a “complete overhaul,” said Dara Harbour, owner of Stella Mae and Warner Supply, two Church Street clothing stores. That should include “some freshening and love” for the streetscape and a new, comprehensive marketing strategy for local businesses.

“We don’t manage our downtown well at all, and change needs to come,” said city councilor Adam Roof (I-Ward 8), chair of the advisory committee that has spent a year and a half exploring how a reconfigured 38-block improvement district could be managed, rebranded and renamed.

Dissolving the Marketplace would require city council approval and a charter change. The measure is expected to appear on Burlington’s Town Meeting Day ballot. If the state legislature approves it, the new business improvement district could be in place by July 1, 2019.

The car-free Marketplace was created in 1981, the same year Bernie Sanders was elected mayor of Burlington. Two

businesspeople — McAuliffe Office Products owner Pat Robins and architect Bill Truex — came up with the idea while on a ride overlooking the pedestrian-friendly streets at Disneyland, Robins said in a recent interview.

Early in the process, Robins proposed defining the market district to encompass all of downtown between South Winooski Avenue and the waterfront. But Robins said the owners of the One Burlington Square building, at the corner of College and Pine streets, objected, on grounds that they wouldn’t benefit from the fees they’d be required to pay.

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In response, “Gordy panicked,” Robins said of then-mayor Gordon Paquette.

He worried the owners of that property would move out of town. By then the 2-year-old University Mall in South Burlington was drawing shoppers from all over Vermont, and Burlington business owners perceived it as an existential threat to downtown.

So the city limited the shopping area to the four northern blocks of Church Street, formally creating the Marketplace, which now draws three million visitors annually, according to executive director Ron Redmond.

Robins, who was chair of the Marketplace Commission at the time, said he tried again to expand it in the early 1990s, but business owners on the side streets objected to the extra expense.

Under the current arrangement, only Church Street businesses pay fees that cover most of the Marketplace’s $1 million budget. That finances a staff of five, headed

by Redmond, to manage Church Street’s day-to-day operations, marketing it as a shopping destination, organizing events, conducting surveys, putting up decorations, working with the police department to address crime and increase safety, and keeping the street clear of snow and trash.

But at $2.87 a square foot, the fees for street-level businesses are among the highest in the country, according to Segal. The Outdoor Gear Exchange store pays $68,000 a year to the Marketplace. The owners of Homeport, Mark and Frank Bouchett, pay about $17,000 annually. The landlords at 97 Church Street, home of Garcia’s Tobacco Shop, are on the hook for $2,800.

Business owners complain that they don’t have enough control over decisions affecting the street, despite the fact that they can serve on the nine-member commission that sets Marketplace policy.

As a city employee, Redmond is ultimately accountable to Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger — not the fee-payers.

That allegiance can lead to conflicting priorities when organizing public events such as the annual Festival of Fools, which are popular among residents and politicians but detract from the “positive shopping experience” Church Street retailers seek, according to Jeff Nick, owner of JL Davis Realty and the chair of the commission. In those cases, the city, but not the merchants, wins out, he said.

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tribeeyeworks.com Another complication: The Marketplace can’t use tax dollars to replace the bricks along the street, and it doesn’t have enough money to pay for the capital improvements Roof and others said should be scheduled soon.

The organization of the Marketplace as a public entity is an outlier among similar districts nationally, according to Segal.

He estimated that fewer than 1 percent are run as municipal departments. The rest are nonprofits.

“There’s fatigue among property owners who are tired of subsidizing a city agency,” he said. “The property owners are seeking more accountability in the money they’re paying for services.”

The new district would increase the number of businesses paying for those services, slightly decreasing the costs for Church Street merchants. The business district would likely have a tiered funding structure, with Church Street businesses paying the highest rate. Vendors on nearby side streets would pay slightly less, and those further afield would pay the least.

Weinberger supports the change.

“Cleanliness in downtown could be better; infrastructure is challenged in some areas and aging; we don’t do a lot in terms of promotion or marketing of opportunities,” he said. The marketing budget of the Marketplace is a scant $69,000 a year. The new shopping district would spend “much, much more,” according to Redmond.

“The Downtown Improvement District has the potential to expand, improve and elevate services in all those areas,” said the mayor. And, he added, taxpayers won’t bear the cost. If it’s structured as a nonprofit, the organization could apply for grants and solicit donations.

With additional funds available, uniformed “ambassadors” could be hired to hand out maps and information. Redmond suggested they could also communicate with police and Howard Center workers to manage the homeless and those in need of mental health services.

There’s minimal tourist outreach now, noted Kelly Devine, executive director of the private Burlington Business Association and a proponent of the plan. When she sees people who look lost, “I walk up to them and say, ‘Hey, welcome to Burlington. There’s a lot of cool stuff here,’” she said.

Most visitors would never venture far enough from the center of town to find out that “there’s a deli with a speakeasy down the street,” she said. “There’s Hen of the Wood. Do people know there’s $1 oysters every day before 5?”

Redmond agreed. “We’ve got to give the rest of the downtown a little more love and unify it,” he said, also acknowledging that the new arrangement could put him out of a job.

“Anybody that’s off the Marketplace by half a block like we are really knows how much the traffic is affected,” said Tod Gross of Phoenix Books, who has spent six years trying to lure shoppers from Burlington’s Church Street to his store at the intersection of Bank and Center streets.

He wants to be part of a larger downtown shopping district that enjoys all of the benefits of Church Street. And he’s willing to pay for it.

Harbour, the owner of two Church Street businesses, is also on board, although she’s worried that it might result in only “minimally” lower fees and “seeing my resources spread too thin.”

But she said she recognized that “It’s time that we look at downtown as an allinclusive downtown,” adding that such a change could renew “the support for downtown for culture, community, art, all those things.”

Burlington businesses have to compete with more attractions and restaurants in the city’s South End, a new Target department store in South Burlington’s University Mall, and burgeoning retail districts in outlying communities.

“We started a lot of things here, but now it’s everywhere,” Redmond said of the idea of creating “an experience” for shoppers. “To some degree, we have to reimagine ourselves.”

Robins pointed to the success of the Marketplace as evidence that the new project will pay off as well. “There are no vacancies. Given the current retail climate, that’s impressive,” he said. m

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arbara Deslaurier sat in the cozy library at her senior living complex last Thursday wearing a relieved expression. The 89-year-old grandmother and dozens of her neighbors, many of whom use walkers, had just attended a meeting in the dining room with Burlington attorney Douglas Wolinsky.

Wolinsky had been appointed to run the South Burlington facility, Allenwood at Pillsbury Manor, and two others after the state seized temporary control of them on November 9. State officials cited “food insecurity” and a host of management issues. A judge entrusted a fourth facility to Wolinsky last week. About 250 residents live in the properties, which have the same absentee owner, Dallas-based East Lake Capital Management.

Wolinsky delivered good news, according to Deslaurier. He told residents that Allenwood would address various problems and resume normal business practices — such as collecting rent. “It’s reassuring,” said Deslaurier, who had not seen an invoice for payments on her one-bedroom, $3,365-a-month apartment since February.

Such baffling lapses also affected the other facilities Wolinsky is now running: Pillsbury Manor South and Harborview in South Burlington, and the Homestead at Pillsbury in St. Albans.

The crisis has triggered debate about whether the oversight of residential facilities for Vermont’s senior population is sufficient. Were there any warning signs that foreshadowed the meltdown?

When East Lake purchased the properties 18 months ago, there was no state review of the transaction. While Vermont regulators do oversee proposed purchases of nursing homes, the state does not get involved when residential care homes such as the Pillsbury properties are sold.

That’s a problem, said Rep. Ann Pugh (D-South Burlington), the chair of the House Committee on Human Services.

It’s time for the state to review ownership transfers of residential care facilities just as it does for nursing homes, according to Pugh, adding that when the legislature convenes in January, it will be important to ask: “Is there something we could have done differently?”

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is projected to increase as the population ages. Vermont should broaden oversight to include residential care transactions, said Greg Marchildon, AARP Vermont’s state director. “We need to hold all of these facilities to a very high standard.”

The media glare is unfamiliar at Allenwood and the other properties. The former owners, the Larkin family, typically addressed any problems the state pointed out. John Larkin, a Burlington resident, had been one of Chittenden County’s most prolific builders before he died in 2013.

That same year, Deslaurier moved into Allenwood. For several years it was a pleasant, stable place to live, she says.

That changed after East Lake purchased the Pillsbury properties in May 2017. Nine months later, in February of this year, residents began complaining to state officials.

They said their rent checks weren’t being cashed. The staff was thinning. Bills apparently went unpaid, a popular hairstylist stopped coming to Allenwood, and some staff members were personally purchasing food for residents at Costco, according to Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan.

The problems prompted the Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living to seek the receivership arrangement.

While seniors and their families might not distinguish one type of elder care facility from another, state law does. They are divided into categories and subject to different sets of regulations.

Vermont has 38 nursing homes with 3,025 beds. State and federal laws regulate how they operate, and they are required to provide an intensive level of medical care. They can accommodate the sickest individuals, including those who require ventilators and feeding tubes.

But the feds don’t regulate Vermont’s 116 residential care homes, which have nearly 2,500 residents. The homes provide room, board, medication management and assistance with personal care such as bathing. They generally don’t accept people with acute illnesses. It’s up to the state to oversee these homes, as well as the 13 assisted living facilities in Vermont, which have 765 apartment units meant for more independent seniors. These facilities must offer a private bedroom and bath and a lockable door; the supportive services are more limited.

One more type of senior housing — often referred to as independent living — is not regulated by the state, because the landlords do not provide care to residents.

That’s why Harborview in South Burlington, which falls into this category, was not part of the initial receivership action in Vermont. The state successfully sought to add Harborview last week, noting that it was in the same corporate family and generated billing complaints similar to those at the other properties.

Should the state regulate independent living, too? That’s like asking if a regular apartment building should be regulated, suggested Monica Hutt, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living. Her answer: No. “I think it’s important to really clearly define what the role of the state is and isn’t in the lives of the older Vermonters,” she said. “I think that’s something we would want to be very careful of.”

Out-of-state corporations increasingly control one segment of Vermont’s senior care market: nursing homes. National company Genesis HealthCare owns 10 of the state’s 38 nursing homes; most of the others are also owned by out-of-state entities, according to Pamela Cota, licensing chief at the state department of aging. The proposed sale of three locally owned nursing homes in the Northeast Kingdom to Connecticut-based Bear Mountain Health Care is under state review, she added.

Nursing home consolidation is a national trend and draws mixed reviews.

Supporters say big companies are better equipped to navigate complex regulations and tap deep pockets for care. Critics say the companies invariably economize, spread assets in a dizzying array of limited liability companies to protect themselves from litigation, and profit through Medicaid and Medicare.

The debate hit home in 2015 when a group of New York investors purchased the 67-bed Brookside Health and Rehabilitation in White River Junction. Over the next two years, the state cited the nursing home for multiple health and safety violations. The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it would stop funding the facility and it closed in 2017.

Vermont owners of facilities might be more responsive to complaints, Rep. Pugh suggested. Andrew White, the owner of East Lake, often failed to act after managers of the four Vermont properties called him about utility shut-off notices, staffing woes and other problems, according to the

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240-page Vermont court filing seeking receivership.

Earlier this year, the legislature passed a law that transferred oversight of nursing home sales from the Green Mountain Care Board to the Agency of Human Services. Leaders of the board, which regulates hospitals, had pushed to have Human Services, which oversees nursing homes, review the transactions.

Under the old review criteria, buyers had to show they had the financial capacity to run a home, meet state licensing requirements, justify demand for any new beds and meet other goals. As part of the law that took effect in July, the agency is developing a new set of standards to review sales. A committee will report to the legislature in January.

Pugh said she anticipates a “robust” discussion about reviewing sales, and not just for nursing homes.

The fiscal strength of buyers and their records with other properties should be considered, whether they are buying a nursing home or a residential care home, she suggested.

The Vermont AG’s office says East Lake properties in other states have generated complaints similar to those in Vermont.

Receivership actions were filed in October involving its properties in Texas and Tennessee. Most of the problems cited are from 2017 or 2018, after East Lake’s Vermont acquisitions.

In any event, Rep. Anne Donohue (R-Northfield), vice chair of the House Committee on Health Care, wants to study the recent situation. “I think the legislature should review what happened here, what went wrong, how did we get here and does it tell us that we need to make changes to protect residents,” Donohue said.

Commissioner Hutt believes that the system worked properly. Complaints were investigated and, after the owner failed to properly respond, the state stepped in, she suggested.

Public records and court documents show that the state’s response to the complaints gradually accelerated over the nine months between February and November. Investigators with the department of aging stepped up visits to the properties starting in the spring and ordered corrective action for various problems. In October and early November, the state banned new admissions at two of the facilities due to their failure

to correct deficiencies for which they had been cited in May and July. In late fall, problems at the properties grew “exponentially” worse, according to court papers, with nurses failing to show up for shifts and food reserves down to two days at some of the properties. That prompted the receivership.

“As traumatic as this whole situation has been for everyone … our regulatory process worked well in this instance,’’ Hutt said.

She does not believe that state review of residential care home sales is needed.

“I’m not really convinced that it would prevent the kind of situations that we are seeing right now,” Hutt said.

It’s uncommon for the state to take control of a residential care facility through receivership. It’s happened only twice in the last five years, and in both cases the properties were small homes with fewer than 20 residents.

One of them, Cota’s Hospitality House in Barre, closed in 2016.

The other property also closed, Hutt confirmed.

It isn’t clear what led to the problems at East Lake’s properties. White did not return calls seeking comment. His attorneys, Lisa Shelkrot and Peter Langrock, told a Vermont Superior Court judge in Montpelier last week that they would seek to put the properties back under East Lake’s control. White can satisfy the state’s concerns, and he shares the goal of making the homes safe and reliable, the lawyers said. A hearing is set for December 10.

Hutt tried to allay Pillsbury residents’ fears that their homes would be closed, expressing confidence the receiver would stabilize the facilities.

That matters to Deslaurier. The mother of five, grandmother of 16 and great-grandmother of 27 moved into Allenwood with her husband. The couple, who had spent much of their lives in Bolton, wanted to live in a place with meal service, activities and a button they could press if they needed assistance.

The two were glad they chose Allenwood. Deslaurier, whose husband died in 2015, still feels comfortable there. She has never felt unsafe. And while the food wasn’t as good lately and choices were lacking, she said she never went without.

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ix months ago, Deborah and Scott Richardson moved full time to their dream retirement home, a modest waterfront abode in North Hero.

Loons and herons gather along the shoreline, Deborah said on a frigid day last week, gesturing to the living room’s large plate-glass windows, which offer views of a channel that opens onto Lake Champlain. Majestic bald eagles, peregrine falcons and osprey soar overhead. Boaters and kayakers cruise by on the tranquil waterway.

But the Richardsons fear that the buzzing of small planes could ruin future lazy days at the lake. Two neighbors, Larry Dupont and Glenn Cotton, want to operate a private, 2,000-foot-long grass airstrip on land they own on Macomb Bay Lane, just down the road from the Richardsons.

It’s not just the noise the Richardsons and other residents fear. They worry about safety and the prospect of plummeting property values for the 60 some homes immediately south of the planned strip.

And in the branches of a large cottonwood tree a few hundred feet from the proposed runway, a family of bald eagles has made a nest.

“The place is magic,” Scott Richardson said of his neighborhood. “And we just don’t want the magic being wrecked by some rich guys playing with their toys.”

Dupont and Cotton, who are recreational pilots, have plenty of toys to play with, Richardson asserted, not to mention an aquatic airstrip. In 2006, Dupont registered with the state a section of water outside his house on Lake Champlain to land his seaplane. Cotton uses it, too, for his own amphibious aircraft.

Such runways, known as “restricted landing areas” or RLAs, are not uncommon in Vermont. Approximately 70 currently operate in the state. Several belong to hospitals or the military. Some are helipads. A few are in the Champlain Islands.

But their prevalence doesn’t mean that Dupont and Cotton’s latest proposal — this one on land — will be cleared for takeoff. Procedural snags and a large vocal group of opponents are already prompting delays.

“I like to live peacefully with my neighbors,” said Debbie Bumgardner, whose property abuts the proposed

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runway. “But I want them to live peacefully with me, too.”

Small planes make Bumgardner uneasy.

She was a passenger in one that nearly flipped while landing. Her brother died in a plane crash a few years later. Now she’s steeling herself for a runway next door.

“I’m a firm believer in, if you’ve got a bunch of land, you should be able to do whatever you want with it. Firm believer!” she said. “But you gotta take into consideration how it’s going to affect your neighbors.”

When reached by phone, Dupont, a commercial pilot who flies long-haul routes to Asia and Europe for American Airlines, said he was preparing to leave the country for work and could not talk to a reporter. Cotton, who cofounded the company Bath Fitter, did not answer the door of his North Hero home nor a call to the telephone number he listed on the RLA application. Harry Parker, the duo’s attorney and a member of the North Hero

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Selectboard, refused to comment, citing attorney-client confidentiality.

But a review of audio recordings, meeting minutes and other public documents sheds light on the proposal.

At an August 6 meeting of the North Hero Selectboard, Parker recused himself to present the pilots’ proposal to his four colleagues. He asked the board for “consent for the process to continue” and got it in a unanimous vote. Board chair Eileen Mitchell drafted a letter for the men that read, “Our town has no zoning bylaws or ordinances prohibiting” the RLA request.

In the application for the strip, the pilots listed three single-engine planes they’d use on the runway: an American Champion Citabria Explorer 7GCBC, a Piper PA-18 Super Cub and a Cessna 180.

The men intended to use the runway yearround “for daytime, fair weather recreational flying” and would limit themselves and their guests to four flights per day.

The pilots could store up to 90 gallons of fuel in each of the planes’ hangars, per a recommendation from North Hero Fire Chief Michael Murdock, and, in the event of a crisis requiring a fast response, would make the strip available to first responders.

Two fellow pilots wrote letters supporting the men’s plan. And in a separate note, Dupont said he’d received “no complaints” in 12 years of operating his seaplane RLA. He also touted his four decades and 30,000 hours of accident-free flying, including at the helm of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a massive jet that holds hundreds of passengers.

“These qualifications put me squarely in the position of the most qualified aviators in the world,” Dupont wrote.

As one of the conditions, the men agreed to hold a community fundraiser at the airstrip each year for a local nonprofit.

They also vowed to “operate in a noise friendly manner to the neighborhood at all times” and, in order to be as quiet as possible, “land south and take off north whenever conditions safely permit.”

Much of the runway appears to have been built already. Straw covers the open expanse, which is 2,000 feet long and 60 feet wide. According to Bumgardner, the next-door neighbor, workers have been moving dirt on the property for about two years. The men removed some trees and graded sections to level out the field.

A state regulator who evaluated the site in August found the runway to be of adequate length and, pending some additional improvements and approvals from other administrative bodies, signed off on behalf of the Vermont Agency of Transportation.

On October 16, local residents received letters from attorney Parker detailing the plan and alerting them to a public hearing before the Vermont Transportation Board, a quasi-judicial body that regulates such matters. Many of them were shocked, according to the Richardsons; it was the first they’d heard of the project. The seasonal ones — who account for roughly three-quarters of the immediate neighborhood — had already closed up their homes.

“The way it read, people thought it was a done deal, so a lot of people didn’t go to the big meeting that we had,” said Deborah Richardson. “They thought that there was no way they could do anything because of the lawyers and all this stuff.”

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crowding into the North Hero Community Hall on Halloween to complain about the plan. Four hours into public comment, the board shut it down and promised to reconvene the following month.

Opponents kept up the dissent at a November 5 selectboard meeting. Several argued that the municipal board never should have allowed the process to go forward.

Christine Salembier, a North Hero resident and former commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service, told the selectboard that the group wanted an “open, transparent community discussion where everyone becomes really clear about the legal process.”

“I think at the very heart of this is that we want to be heard,” she said.

“Most people had no notice of this. It just happened.”

forward,” Porter said. “I do think there will be some conditions and some considerations to protect the eagles.”

For instance, the pilots could face restrictions on flights during the winter and spring months when the eagles are nesting, the commissioner said, or they could be forced to give the nest a wider berth.

“Typically, what we do is work with the applicant, whether that’s a private applicant or a utility, to ensure both that they can do a reasonable project but that also the species can be protected,” Porter said. “It’s much, much more common for us to work with the applicant and figure out a solution that works rather than deny [the permit].”

The order means it’s up to Cotton and Dupont to make the next move. Porter said the pilots had yet to apply for a

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Two days later, the opponents got some welcome news. The transportation board filed a “recess memo” ordering Cotton and Dupont to refile their request with “the appropriate municipal panel.”

The significance? If, for instance, the development review board heard the case and made a ruling, the neighbors could appeal the decision on the local level, before the state received the application.

The memo also ordered the pilots to apply for a state permit because of the proposed strip’s proximity to the eagle’s nest.

Louis Porter, commissioner of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, said such “threatened and endangered” permits are common in instances when human development rubs up against the natural world.

“I would be surprised if this issue prevented the project from going

threatened and endangered permit with his agency. And North Hero town clerk Pete Johnson said the men hadn’t again asked for municipal approval for the project.

They have until February 7, when the Transportation Board would “dismiss the application as incomplete.” That would be just fine with the neighbors. They hope this latest turbulence ultimately grounds the project for good.

“Is it selfish of all of us, the 59 residents around here and all the other people, to not want this, to want peace and quiet?”

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by One The “Year of the Woman” didn’t upend the gender breakdown in Vermont politics. In fact, the number of female state legislators dropped from 72 to 71 after the November 6 elections.

Vermont continues to have a single female statewide officeholder — Treasurer Beth Pearce — and has yet to elect a woman to U.S. Congress.

Elsewhere in the country, a record number of women ran for, and were elected to, Congress — a trend generally attributed both to anger at President Donald Trump and to the #MeToo movement. Several races remain undecided, but at least 125 women will serve in Congress, changing the makeup from 20 percent female to 23 percent, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

But in Vermont, three long-shot female congressional candidates, including Republican Anya Tynio, came up short in their respective bids to unseat incumbent Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), while Sen. Bernie KATIE JICKLING

The Vermont Supreme Court has ordered a new trial on a charge that former state senator Norm McAllister engaged in a prostitution scheme with a woman living on his farm.

The court said Judge Martin Maley made two mistakes in McAllister’s trial: He allowed jurors to consider separate sex-for-rent allegations for which McAllister was never convicted, and he improperly told the jury to ignore statements by McAllister’s accuser.

McAllister was convicted in July 2017 of one misdemeanor count of procuring a person for the purpose of prostitution. He was acquitted of a second count and also of a felony sexual assault charge. It was the second trial involving allegations that led to McAllister’s 2015 arrest at the Statehouse.

He was accused of sex-related crimes against multiple women.

The state dropped its charges in the first trial after the key witness allegedly lied under oath.

McAllister escaped a felony sexual assault conviction in his second trial, and now the prostitution conviction has been thrown out pending a new trial.

The written decision says that Maley told attorneys before the trial that separate sex crime allegations against McAllister should not be introduced because jurors were only evaluating the specific allegations related to one accuser.

During the trial, the justices wrote, Maley made the mistake of allowing prosecutors to admit evidence involving a different woman.

“We conclude the admission of the alleged prior bad act evidence was an abuse of discretion,” the decision says.

Separately, Maley told jurors to ignore testimony from McAllister’s accuser in which she said, “I did it with a guy before for money.”

A hardware store is setting up shop in downtown Burlington for the first time in roughly two decades.

Gordon Winters plans to open an Ace Hardware on College Street by early January. He’s in the midst of renovating the 4,000-square-foot former office space and received his building permits from the city last week.

“There’s definitely a want for it, there’s definitely a need for it,” Winters said.

The store, located next door to a Northfield Savings Bank branch, will contain typical hardware store amenities as well as wares that cater to the local population: packing and cleaning materials for college students, specialty plumbing for the city’s older buildings, and a marine section for boaters, Winters said.

The store will be laid out in Ace’s “urban downtown format” and will “pack a lot more stuff into smaller spaces,” he said.

Burlingtonians have long wanted a downtown hardware store, according to Mayor Miro Weinberger, ever since Hagar Hardware on Church Street closed in the 1990s. The mayor frequently hears complaints that the area “doesn’t fully serve the daily needs of residents as well as it once did.”

“I think the idea of having a hardware store right on City Hall Park addresses that concern directly,” the mayor said.

The nearest hardware is the Bibens Ace in the New North End, about three miles away.

City officials worked with Winters to address accessibility issues and apply for the necessary zoning and building permits for the storefront renovation, Weinberger said.

The store will employ three or four full-time employees and four or five part-time staff, according to Winters. The owner plans to

offer deliveries by scooter or bicycle to nearby homes and businesses.

It’s Winters’ sixth Ace Hardware in the area but first in Burlington. The Swanton resident is a third-generation hardware store owner.

Ron Redmond, executive director of the Church Street Marketplace, said he approached Winters 18 months ago and asked him to consider opening a store in Burlington.

The location is just a block away from the Marketplace.

Winters successfully advocated his bosses at Ace for the go-ahead, according to Redmond. “It’s a real benefit, and it’s not necessarily something that a lot of downtowns have these days,” he said.

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Sanders (I-Vt.) easily fended off eight opponents, including one woman.

Cary Brown, executive director of the Vermont Commission on Women, said she’s “beyond impatient” to send a woman to Congress. But she isn’t disheartened by the outcome in state legislative races because “we are starting from such a high place.” In June 2018, Vermont was tied with Arizona for having the highest percentage of women — 40 percent — in its state legislature, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

That percentage will drop slightly when newly elected lawmakers take office in January. (Seven Days and the women’s commission separately analyzed November’s election results.)

The Vermont Senate, which currently has 11 women, will return only 10 — all Democrats — making the body one-third female. The 150-member House is holding steady with 61 women, including 41 Democrats, 13 Republicans, four Progressives and three independents.

A number of Democratic women have benefited in recent years from organizations, such as Emerge Vermont, that were created to recruit, train and support Democratic women in office.

Thirteen graduates of the Emerge Vermont program claimed House and Senate seats this election, according to the organization. And Emerge’s own executive director, Ruth Hardy, won an Addison County Senate seat.

“I was hoping to have a few more sisters join me in that chamber,” Hardy said, noting that the chamber is now two-thirds male.

She added: “We’re not at parity yet, so I don’t think we should be celebrating yet.”

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1964-2018, CLAREMONT, CALIF. Leslie A. Pray, 54, formerly of Burlington, was tragically killed on November 3, 2018, while cycling toward the San Gabriel Mountains near her home in Claremont, Calif.

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Burlington cumbia band MAL MAÏZ at the FLYNNSPACE. Local country crooner BRETT HUGHES curates a night of Green Mountain honky-tonk and bluegrass at the Soda Plant, featuring players from all over the state. Lalli also teased a big headlining announcement to come in early December.

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At a press conference at the BCA CENTER last week, the two organizations unveiled more details about the citywide festival.

“It’s magical and revealing itself everyday,” said BCA executive director DOREEN KRAFT of the new fest. She added that Highlight is building on the legacy of the city’s First Night, which is believed to have been the longest-running nonprofit New Year’s Eve celebration in the country.

“Our mission was to honor First Night’s 35 years, but to reimagine it,” agreed Lalli.

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Like First Night, Highlight will feature a wide array of music and arts events at locations around Burlington. Where the new festival diverges is that it takes advantage of venues all over the city, not just downtown. For instance, in the New North End, revelers can skate at Leddy Park’s Gordon H. Paquette Ice Arena. Free shuttles will ferry attendees all over town, including to the South End Arts District, where grown-up carousers can get into the holiday spirit at the Creative Cocktail Project, a collaborative event at the Soda Plant hosted by Shacksbury, Brio Coffeeworks, Tomgirl Juice, and Alice & the Magician.

Between Burlington’s north and south ends, Highlight sandwiches an ambitious slate of events. Musical headliners include folk songwriter ANAÏS MITCHELL at the First Unitarian Universalist Society and local Latin jazz master RAY VEGA jamming with

production manager, ZACH WILLIAMSON, curated much of the programming, Highlight draws heavy inspiration from community suggestions. Earlier this year, Highlight organizers put out a call to artists soliciting ideas for events. Among the accepted proposals is the Illuminated Waterfront at the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain. Conceived by Burlington’s ILLUMINATION COLLECTIVE, the immersive interactive display “dazzles the senses” by employing video projection mapping, ambient illumination and other lighting techniques. Another community-curated event is Hour 99 at City Hall Auditorium.

That’s an art gallery, fashion show and dance party hosted in tandem by local hip-hop arts collectives 99 NEIGHBORS and ALIBI HOUR. Like its predecessor, Highlight is designed to be family friendly. The festival includes daytime programming for all ages, including improv comedy, storytelling, music and a parade. Perhaps most notably, a fireworks display includes two performances by the local fire performance troupe CIRQUE DE FUEGO around a giant bonfire at Waterfront Park.

Highlight also aims to be affordable.

Tickets are $5 for kids and $10 for adults — roughly the same price range as for First Night. One key ticketing difference: Glowin-the-dark bracelets replace First Night’s collectible buttons. m Contact: dan@sevendaysvt.com

ABOUT LAST NIGHT: ST. ALBANS TO HOST ITS FIRST NYE FESTIVAL Highlight isn’t the only local New Year’s Eve bash aiming to fill the void left by First Night Burlington. A group of businesses, community organizations and city departments have joined forces to present the cheekily titled Last Night St. Albans, that city’s first NYE festival.

“We felt that since First Night was no longer, it was a good time to try something,” said Lisamarie Charlesworth, the chamber manager of the Franklin County Regional Chamber of Commerce.

She added that Andrea Gagner, Last Night event coordinator and CEO of 14th Star Brewing in St. Albans, has wanted to do a New Year’s celebration for several years.

“The timing just seemed fortuitous,” said Charlesworth. “So here it is!”

Last Night’s schedule is still being finalized. But the celebration will begin in the afternoon on December 31 with a variety of family-friendly events, including sledding, a snowman contest, a children’s carnival, ice skating and a teen dance. An early fireworks display in Taylor Park will bring to a close the youth-oriented portion of the programming.

Evening activities will be geared toward adults. These include a paint-andsip event at Twiggs American Gastropub, a beer-and-chocolate pairing at 14th Star, and a comedy showcase at Nelly’s Irish Pub. The latter will feature New York City standup Mike Finoia, who recently recorded a comedy album at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington. The Last Night Gala will cap the celebration at St. Albans City Hall, with a dance and live music by Cozy O’Donnell. Midnight fireworks will ring in 2019.

“We feel like, locally, there is a good audience for this,” said Charlesworth. She added that Last Night, while smaller in scope than Highlight, is just as affordable.

Individual tickets are $5, and a family pass is $20. “I’m really glad that both events are on the same page with cost,” she said, “because it means some compatibility — and maybe some people will try to do

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to set up their personal pages, which he likens to Facebook profiles.

They can then create different galleries within their profile for the mediums in which they work, such as oils, watercolors, sculptures, photography and the like. Artists are then free to upload as many photos of their works as they wish and can customize their profile to include email addresses and links to other “Sunrise in the City,” acrylic on canvas websites. No sales are processed through Art Student’s Gallery, Even established artists struggle though customers can message to make ends meet in Vermont, and artists through the site. the starving-artist stereotype holds Currently, Goldberg is limiting doubly true for many student artists. the site to Vermont artists, though But a recent graduate from the he envisions expanding it to other University of Vermont just launched college markets in the future. Once a digital platform that he he’s reached at least 100 hopes will help him members, Goldberg said and other aspiring he plans to keep the visual artists, such as site free for students painters, sculptors but may charge a and illustrators, sell modest monthly fee their work faster to established artists while keeping more to make the site of the profits. sustainable.

Jeremy Goldberg JEREMY GOLDBERG Among Vermonters of Burlington created already active on the site is Art Student’s Gallery, a JESS DUDLEY, a Colchester jewelry free website where aspiring and maker who markets her work under established artists alike can display the name JESHALI DESIGNS. In the past, and sell their works commissionDudley has sold pieces through the free. He described it as “Craigslist for e-commerce site Etsy.com; she also artwork.” has works on display at NORTHWOOD “I know how hard it is to sell art, GALLERY in Stowe and at Tangerine, a especially as an art student,” said women’s clothing store in downtown the 25-year-old Boston native, who Burlington. produces mostly acrylic paintings, Dudley isn’t a student anymore; as well as some ink and charcoal she works full time at the UVM drawings. “Going through traditional Alumni House and said it can be art galleries, they can take a pretty hard for aspiring artists to find time substantial commission.” to market and sell their creations.

Indeed, it’s not uncommon for Because she’s not yet ready to invest brick-and-mortar art galleries to take in her own website, she sees Art a 30 to 50 percent commission on Student’s Gallery as a cost-effective every piece they sell. But Goldberg is alternative. hoping that the Art Student’s Gallery “I love the fact that it’s a place for website, which went live in October, students and artists of any age to go will become an online marketplace on and use it as an artwork platform for those who are new to the and share it with their friends and commercial art scene. family,” added Dudley, who has 33 There’s no cost for artists to use pieces for sale on the site. “They the site, he explained, “and that can see what we’re producing and probably won’t change anytime post about it and be in the artists’ soon.” community in Vermont at the same Currently, Goldberg said, about 45 time.” artists have expressed interest, and K E N PI C A R D another 18 are already active on the Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com site.

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What’s Up With Driving in the Queen City, and Other Motorist Queries

“What’s up with those large planters and barricades at intersections around Burlington?”

In 2016, the City of Burlington unveiled its planBTV Walk Bike master plan, which included, among other things, two ambitious goals: “to eliminate traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries by 2026” and “to make walking and biking a viable and enjoyable way to get around town.”

To that end, the city undertook several “quick-build” projects that could rapidly and inexpensively test the effectiveness of various approaches to slowing traffic at dangerous intersections, while also making it easier for bikes and pedestrians to cross roads, explained Department of Public Works Director Chapin Spencer.

Some of those traffic-calming devices were installed in 2017, though most were completed this year, including 11 quick-build intersection improvements, as well as 4.2 miles of new bike lanes. Because many of those improvements use temporary barricades such as moveable planters and plastic bollards, Spencer said, this winter, DPW staff will review how well they’re working and then decide which ones to make permanent.

By the way, if you’re wondering how well the city’s plows are navigating those tighter corners, Seven Days spoke to Spencer on the morning of the first snowstorm of the season. He was happy to report that, aside from a couple of sidewalk plow breakdowns, his crews were handling them just fine.

“We have the most talented plow team in the state,” he boasted. “We’ve got to plow around a very dense urban environment, and our team is second to none.”

“What’s all the construction about on St. Paul Street in Burlington?”

Perhaps a more accurate question is, What’s going on under that street? As the DPW director explained, St. Paul is part of the first stage of Burlington’s Great Streets Initiative, which involves “very significant” upgrades to the street’s above-ground and below-ground infrastructure. When completed, it’ll include new stormwater drains, rain gardens, buried utilities, widened sidewalks, granite curbs and so-called “silva cells.” The latter are nifty devices that help absorb stormwater runoff and allow trees to grow better in an urban environment.

Spencer called it a “generational investment” in a street where buried utilities were more than 100 years old. Plus, the cost of construction is covered by tax-increment financing — a bureaucratic way of saying that development of the new Hilton Garden Inn on Main Street and Champlain 28

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“Why are so many Vermont license plates so faded that they’re unreadable?”

If you’re one of the unlucky drivers who got a license plate made between 2003 and 2005, there’s a fairly good chance that, by now, yours is just a white smear.

According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, some plates had manufacturing defects, while others simply succumbed to Vermont’s harsh weather, ample road salt and time.

For a few years, the state did outreach to get drivers to swap out their faded ones, according to Shannon Fassett, the DMV’s section manager. That effort included a yearlong program in which state inspection stations and DMV staff looked for faded plates and provided drivers with applications to order replacements on the department’s tab.

Faded plates can still be replaced at no fee to motorists — assuming, that is, you’re not concerned about getting the same number or vanity plate you had. If you are, faded ones can be replaced for $12.

“I just moved to Vermont from California. Is it legal to keep my tinted headlights?”

Sorry, Charlie. State law requires that all headlights be “forward facing and white in color.” Also verboten in the Green Mountain State are license plate glow lights, undercarriage glow lights (whether flashing or constant) and tinted drivers’ windows. The last are especially irritating and dangerous because you can’t tell whether

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onsider this week’s “Whisky Tango Foxtrot” column the roads and streets review. We often answer readers’ questions about puzzling things they’ve spotted while driving — perhaps a sad reminder of how much time Vermonters spend behind the wheel.

True to form, we’ve received a plethora of road-related queries recently. So here are some answers that, like highway flaggers signaling traffic to move along, appear in no particular order.

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the driver is paying attention, asleep at the wheel or yapping on a cellphone.

We couldn’t find any state law that outlaws the hydraulic lift kits popular on California lowriders. However, if you enjoy bouncy rides, we can recommend a few washboard dirt roads.

“What does the DMV list on Vermont driver’s licenses for hair color if someone is bald? Ditto for people who wear religious head coverings.”

The DMV makes reasonable accommodations for drivers whose religious faiths require them to wear head coverings in public. These include yarmulkes, or skullcaps worn by Jewish men, and hijabs, or headscarves worn by Muslim women. Vermont drivers are permitted to wear them in their driver’s license photos. In fact, several states, including Massachusetts, have even allowed members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to wear pasta strainers on their heads for their photos. To date, Vermont hasn’t reported any kitchen-utensil-related DMV photos.

As for listing the hair color of bald drivers, the DMV’s Fassett noted that Vermont driver’s licenses do not list hair color, though drivers must come clean about their weight. To those who are unhappy about revealing that tidbit: Be thankful that the DMV doesn’t have driver weigh stations like it does for trucks. m Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com

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he village of South Woodstock consists of an inn, a general store and a post office. Other than the state highway, which runs through the center of town, most of the roads are unpaved, climbing steeply from the valley into the surrounding hills. A few people live near the village center, but most residents — 457 at the 2000 census — have to travel downhill to get their mail, their milk and their daily dose of human contact.

There is no cellphone reception. Horses outnumber year-round residents.

To the casual passerby, South Woodstock might seem trapped in history, more 19th-century diorama than actual town. In fact, it’s not an actual town; it’s an unincorporated hamlet of Woodstock, whose picturesque village center is often clogged with tour buses and Range Rovers with out-of-state plates during foliage season.

Some of those visitors occasionally end up in South Woodstock, especially if they’re horse people or moneyed second-home owners, who make up the only growing segment of the area’s population. But, for the most part, the five-mile stretch of Route 106 between Woodstock and South Woodstock might as well be a time warp.

One day in the spring of 2017, a real estate developer named Pritam Singh, who owns a 280-acre hilltop estate two miles outside the hamlet, walked into the South Woodstock Country Store and offered to buy it. The owners, an older couple who had been running the business since 2015, weren’t looking to sell, but Singh’s bid was too attractive to turn down. At the end of July, he closed the deal for $488,000 and turned the keys over to his daughter, Simran Johnston, who had just moved back to South Woodstock after running an art gallery in Brooklyn for three years.

Singh, 65, who has developed successful hotels and resort communities in the Florida Keys, had bigger ambitions: He aimed to put South Woodstock on the map, not just as a tourist destination but as a place where people — specifically young people — want to live. So he started eyeing the Kedron Valley Inn, a Federal-style brick building with 25 guest rooms and a tavern, next door to the country store. By November 2017, it was his, for an unsolicited bid of $1.5 million.

Since then, Singh and his wife, Ann Johnston, have acquired nearly a dozen

What Pritam saw is that,

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properties in the village, including a 95-acre tract of open land, an 86-acre farm, a 75-acre estate that was formerly a photography school, and a slew of other parcels. These purchases total approximately 285 acres and $10.7 million in real estate transactions. One of the Woodstock town listers joked that she made a handcolored map to keep track of all the Singh holdings.

That kind of spree might be business as usual for someone who’s developed close to $3 billion in hotel, residential and commercial property over his career. But in a place like South Woodstock, where some families go back eight generations, an investment of this magnitude has farreaching implications.

“What Pritam saw — and what I don’t think a lot of people recognized — is that, as a community, we were dying,” said Laura Spittle, who owns a tack and clothing store up the road from the village center.

“There was a pile of properties here that were kind of languishing,” she continued. “They’d been on the market a long time, and people weren’t buying them because they were expensive, and there’s no way to make a living here. With so few people here year-round, we didn’t really have enough people to keep the fire department going. We didn’t have enough people to keep the post office occupied, or the store, or the inn.”

According to Singh, his acquisitions don’t represent a grand scheme so much as a reaction to an opportunity: a chance to revitalize a community that he and his family have called home for more than three decades.

“Why here? Why now? Because we live here, and we’ve been here for 35 years,” said Singh one afternoon in early September, settling into a dark-blue velvet armchair in the lounge area of the Kedron Valley Inn. The inn and tavern, closed since November 2017 for a $2.5 million renovation, was just two weeks from reopening. In the next room, his granddaughter was having her seventh birthday party.

“Why these properties in particular?”

Singh continued. “We’ve been coming to these places — coming to eat here at the inn, going to the country store — for 35 years. And this place” — he gestured around the redesigned lobby, with its clean white walls and rustic-chic décor, selected

by Johnston — “had been through three bankruptcies, basically. So it was fading as a functional business. The store, same thing. Somebody bought it from out of town who had no idea what it took to run it, and it was failing.”

All over rural Vermont, towns like South Woodstock are struggling to stay

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afloat as their populations dwindle and chains siphon business from locally owned shops. In Barnard, a community fundraising campaign saved the general store from going under in 2013; in Brownsville, a coalition of residents purchased the former general store, which shuttered in 2017, and leased it to a young couple, who are transforming it into a café and gourmet market.

But these grassroots revivals are only stopgap measures. The larger picture remains bleak for many of the state’s small farming towns, whose economies have stagnated in the no-man’s-land between agriculture and tourism. In places like South Woodstock, bucolic splendor has become the primary commodity. With no infrastructure to support businesses, a shrinking number of year-round residents, and median home prices hovering near half a million dollars, the only people who can afford to buy in South Woodstock are the ones who don’t make a living there.

The biggest boom in the region, according to Woodstock town lister Paul Wildasin, is in second-home construction: Since 2008, the total number of year-round residences has shrunk from 890 to 801, while the number of non-primary homes has climbed from 624 to 741.

Into that vacuum step people such as Singh — those with the resources to sustain, for instance, a general store, the ultimate financial sinkhole in a town with fewer than 500 residents.

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When it comes to revitalizing an entire village, private wealth has a distinct advantage. Singh, who’s no stranger to risk, said that profit is beside the point.

His family’s goal is to preserve South Woodstock’s historic character while creating something sustainable in the long term.

And the revolution — or evolution, as they prefer to call it — has begun with the Singh-Johnston clan. Johnston, a designer, has taken the lead on revamping the inn; Simran — who goes by Simi — and her older sister, Charan Kaur, are running the country store; their brother, Noah Singh, who spent the last six years in Florida helping his father in the hotel business, has been closely involved in the inn management. But in this family, in which everyone seems to share everything from pets to vehicles with seeming indifference to the

concept of individual property, those roles don’t have clearly defined boundaries.

“Our basic attitude is that everybody in the family is right, and if somebody has a strong sense of what should be, they’re empowered,” Pritam Singh said. “It’s almost a competition.”

Though Singh is the one purchasing the properties, he’s turned over most of the planning and day-to-day decision making to his children — especially Simi, 28, a ceramic artist, who wants to see the village become a hub for creativity and organic farming.

Simi was born in South Woodstock and, along with her brother, attended the Sharon Academy. She said she made the decision to return home long before her father talked about purchasing the inn and store.

“In New York, I had a really awesome job as an artist’s assistant, and I was running a gallery, which was a very organic, DIY kind of thing,” she explained.

“But at some point, my partner and I started to feel like it was important to have a little bit more space, a little higher quality of life, and be closer to my family.

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like I could do what I wanted to do, which is community organize and make my own work.”

Simi, sitting across from her dad that afternoon at the inn, shared the couch with her mom and their communal dog, Blanquita, a tiny, fuzzy white creature that Simi acquired from her Brooklyn neighbors in exchange for giving one of their daughters a ride to prom. With her windswept-looking brown hair, red Dansko clogs and long skirt, Simi gave off the aura of a cool middle-school pottery teacher.

For a long time, she admitted, it was hard for her to imagine that she could be an artist outside of New York City. “Now, I’ve realized that it doesn’t all have to be centered around these highbrow, intellectually heavy-hitting Chelsea galleries,” she said. “I think you can have those things in a rural context, too. You just have to work a little bit harder and make your own fun.”

Part of Simi’s vision is creating an idyllic, Brook Farm-ish scenario, where artists can pick organic vegetables in exchange for room, board and workspace. So far, she’s hosted two groups of artists-in-residence: a couple of young photographers from Los Angeles and a brother-sister duo from the Upper Valley. Simi has organized shows for them in a small red house, which she had rezoned for gallery space, next to the country store.

One of the family’s properties, a house and two outbuildings a mile north of the inn, is slated to be converted into studio space, which Simi hopes will attract more creative types. The unspoken target audience is people like her — affluent urbanites who crave a return to the pastoral, minus the anxiety of actually having to farm.

That millennial back-to-the-land migration has been going on in the Berkshires and Hudson Valley for years, and Vermont has attracted similar waves of homesteading, art-making youth at various points in the last half century, particularly in the ’60s and ’70s. But in South Woodstock, it’s unclear how young people, other than the independently wealthy, can afford to stick around.

Simi has made a provisional attempt to mitigate the financial hardship by offering space in her own house for residents.

Eventually, she hopes to turn some of the recently acquired residential properties into housing for newcomers, though she hasn’t yet worked out what those units might cost. But Simi doesn’t want artists-in-residence to hole up in their apartments.

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caused a mild hullabaloo, but otherwise, her customers have been open to change.

“People are really receptive when you explain why something is the way it is, like why their milk costs more,” she said.

Ask South Woodstock residents what they think of these recent developments, and they’re likely to point out that the family is giving the village a much-needed infusion of cash — and a sense of forward momentum it hasn’t experienced in decades. But those people also have a stake in the outcome. If things don’t go according to Singh’s still-nebulous plan, locals might be left in limbo — if an aesthetically pleasing, rustic-chic one.

It’s an odd symbiosis: Singh needs the locals to create a sense of a thriving, peopled town; the locals need him to sustain the amorphous sense of place that holds a community together.

South Woodstock, like so many other rural Vermont towns, needs to evolve in order to survive. But what happens when just one family — with the least to lose — is at the vanguard of the movement?

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that’s teaching a class, selling your stuff at the country store, having an opening or teaching a seminar,” she said. “You can’t just buckle down and not interact with anyone.”

Her family isn’t the first to employ this particular model of economic defibrillation. In Reading, just a few minutes’ drive from South Woodstock, the Hall family — whose foundation holds more than $35 million in assets — converted four historic farm buildings into a public gallery to showcase their vast contemporary art collection.

In South Pomfret, philanthropist Kathleen Dolan, the founder and executive director of ArtisTree Community Arts Center, transformed a three-story barn and farmhouse into a gallery and performance space. Last January, she also bought the general store, prompting some locals to coin the nickname “Dolanville.”

Across the country, developers, entrepreneurs and disillusioned city dwellers with disposable income are transforming dying towns into hipsterinflected versions of their former selves, a phenomenon documented earlier this month in the New York Times. The towns may be different, but the formula is generally the same — an art gallery here,

an organic farm there, and maybe a wine bar or brewery.

In trying to salvage what’s already there, Singh and his family are following a well-worn path.

They haven’t yet worked out all the details of their long-term vision, but they’ve been laying the groundwork.

Earlier this fall, the Woodstock selectboard green-lighted the family’s proposal to turn the schoolhouse across from the inn into a space for lectures, exhibits, yoga retreats and private events. And at some point down the road, Simi said, they might turn the 86-acre Kedron Valley Farm into an organic CSA. Other changes have been more immediate: At the country store, you can no longer buy cigarettes, but you can find hand-churned, locally produced CBD salve. Avocado toast is on the breakfast menu. Slowly but surely, the 21st century is seeping into South Woodstock.

“There are some things that we know we can’t change, especially with the country store,” said Simi. “People love the grilled cheese, so we’re going to keep it on the menu. And hamburgers. I was raised vegetarian, my parents are vegetarian, but that’s what people want for lunch.” She noted that moving the checkout counter

Singh is a self-made man, that quintessential American phenomenon.

His ascent to prosperity has been so archetypal, so Horatio Alger-esque, that it’s made him a media magnet: Over the years, he’s been profiled by TIME, the Boston Globe and countless other publications, all of which have chronicled his seemingly improbable success.

Singh was born Paul LaBombard Jr. in Fitchburg, Mass., the son of an enlisted Navy officer and a factory worker. By all accounts, his childhood was supremely unhappy, set against the Dickensian backdrop of a poor manufacturing town.

He and his three brothers spent periods of time in foster care while his father was away on duty.

The LaBombards moved around, following Paul Sr.’s assignments — first to Seattle, then to Brunswick, Maine.

At 17, Paul turned down a scholarship to Bowdoin College to drift around the country, joining left-wing movements and dabbling in the alternative lifestyles of the early ’70s. He landed in Key West, Fla., then in Tallahassee, where he found work in construction.

But Paul was never one to sit still for long. He eventually made his way to Washington, D.C., where, he said, he was arrested for participating in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations. After spending five days in jail, he embarked on a spiritual quest that led him to a Sikh ashram near Amherst, Mass. There, he adopted

Happy Thanksgiving the Sikh religion, changed his name to Pritam Singh and married his first wife, Kaitlin Briggs, who came from a wealthy Connecticut family.

After he left the ashram in 1976, Singh and Briggs moved to Portland, Maine.

A few years later, he bought a burnedout structure downtown for $7,500 and converted it into condos, which led to his first big break as a developer.

As Singh tells it, the cheap brick of the building absorbed moisture, and the owner of one unit, a man named James Connors, complained about dampness.

Singh said he tried numerous solutions that didn’t work. Finally, he sealed the entire brick wall with stucco. When he finished, Connors invited him over for a drink.

“He said he was impressed with my integrity, and then he asked if I knew what he did for a living.

I told him I had no idea. He told me that he was the manager of the company that runs the computers and machines that operate the New York and American Stock Exchanges,” Singh recalled. “And then he told me he’d like to introduce me to some people who were looking for somebody to invest money with.”

Not long afterward, Singh, a turban-wearing ex-hippie with no college diploma, found himself in the boardroom of Bear Stearns, accepting a $50 million investment offer from the bigwigs behind some of America’s most powerful financial institutions.

“It was an outrageous stroke of luck,” he said. “Like, really? I’m 29 years old, wearing a turban, sitting with the masters of the universe.”

Over the next 18 months, Singh scouted $50 million worth of properties in Massachusetts and California. From that first investment deal, he said, he made $100,000.

Peter Rysman, a close friend of Singh’s who was his lawyer at the time, said he had no recollection of Singh talking about such a meeting but added that Singh makes an impression.

“He is an incredibly persuasive individual, and he’s charismatic,” Rysman said. “He can attract the attention of an entire room before he’s even through the doorway. He has this stunning ability to analyze things and express them clearly, and people respond to that. A kid who came from a nothing family and could be where he is today has to have something extraordinary.”

Over the next few years, Singh built a multimillion-dollar real estate empire in Portland, turning around one successful development after another. His net worth skyrocketed: In 1986, the Boston Globe reported that Singh’s income jumped from $30,000 in 1982 to $1,024,000 in 1983. As his success grew, he became the target of outlandish rumors and conspiracy theories alleging that he was involved in all manner of shadiness, from drug trafficking and money laundering to gun running for a Sikh rebellion in India. Singh dismissed all the scuttlebutt.

(When asked in a recent phone interview about the rumors, he hung up.)

In 1983, flush with his earnings, Singh bought himself a hilltop retreat in South Woodstock. Then, in 1986, he saw a story in the New York Times about a public auction for the Truman Annex, a waterfront property in Key West that had once been a naval station and President Harry Truman’s summer White House.

On a whim, Singh bought it for $17.25 million. The national media went nuts: Who was this white guy in a turban who drove a black Mercedes and flew around in a private jet? People wondered how he could be a “real” Sikh — the underlying assumption being that wealth is incompatible with spiritual authenticity.

After he bought the Annex, Singh told a Globe reporter: “There’s this automatic assumption that comes from the JudeoChristian tradition that spirituality and poverty go hand in hand. For me, as a Sikh, everything is different. We say everything is connected. We say we should be involved in everything.”

Over the next decade, Singh turned the 43-acre property into a $200 million development, with a hotel, luxury condos, retail shops and 425 single-family units.

(By the early ’90s, he had also divorced Briggs, married Johnston, whom he met in Key West, and added Buddhism to his slate of spiritual affinities.)

To date, Singh’s real estate portfolio includes the $118 million Key West Golf Club, the $100 million Parrot Key Resort and a few other major projects in the Keys, most of which follow the template of the Truman Annex — waterfront hotels, luxury units, conch-style houses.

But his financial picture hasn’t always been rosy. In 1990, the financial institution that put up the majority of the funding for the Annex project, Long-Term Credit

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Bank of Japan, pulled its $90 million loan, according to a 2008 profile of Singh in Key West Magazine. Singh, who had personally guaranteed the entire project, was on the hook for $150 million. As collateral, he had literally bet his South Woodstock farm, and he lost it. He borrowed money from banks and friends and eventually got the farm back. (By 2008, it was resplendent enough to be featured in the real estate section of the New York Times — a 280-acre retreat, valued at $6.4 million, complete with a temple, a Japanese Zen garden and a Stonehenge-like monument.)

Then, in 1995, Singh agreed to pay $1.2 million in restitution for a litany of alleged infractions connected to a loan from Union Federal Bank of California, which had also been a player in the Annex project. The signed consent agreement between the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Thrift Supervision and Singh cites improper land-flip transactions in New England, California and Key West that inflated profitability, purportedly benefitting Singh and former Union Federal officers; Singh’s use of millions of dollars of construction loan funds for unintended purposes; improper commingling of loan funds with personal funds; and masking losses, among other grievances. According to the document, Singh paid the penalty and admitted no wrongdoing. He refused to comment on the settlement for this story.

In 1998, one of his development companies, Village at Hawks Cay, purchased a 180-acre parcel on a Hartland hilltop for $1 million. Less than a year later, Hawks Cay transferred the property to the Unified Buddhist Church, a group of Thich Nhat Hanh followers from the Vietnamese Zen master’s Plum Village teaching center in France. What began as a quiet community of 25 nuns quickly snowballed into a plan to develop a monastery and retreat center large enough to accommodate up to 500 guests for special events.

When the Unified Buddhist Church sought a permit for a high-volume septic system, it met enormous backlash from a local opposition group, which called itself the Lulls Brook Watershed Association — named for the stream that, members claimed, would be adversely affected by runoff from the system.

After a lengthy kerfuffle, state regulators approved the church’s petition for an Act 250 permit, which would allow them to construct 15,000 square feet of dormitory space for visitors and a 9,500-gallon septic tank — considerably smaller than their initial request for a 15,000-gallon tank. But opponents still argued that the 34

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How much Singh actually had to do with the proposed expansion is unclear.

He has a long-standing relationship with Thich Nhat Hanh; Singh has edited several of his books and hosted him in South Woodstock. Singh’s name appears only once in the one-inch stack of monasteryrelated documents in Hartland Town Hall.

As an authorized agent of the Unified Buddhist Church, he signed the property over to Vermont Telephone Company president Michel Guité, who bought it in 2008 for $2 million.

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proposal was out of scale with the church’s professed usage plan — if, for most of the year, there would only be about 25 occupants on the hill, was it really necessary to construct a treatment system capable of accommodating hundreds of people?

The Lulls Brook Association appealed the permit in court.

“There was some concern about what they were really up to,” said Hartland Selectboard chair Gordon Richardson, who was also board chair at the time of the permit controversy. “I think a lot of people just didn’t like the idea of these nuns moving into town,” he added. “They dressed differently. They walked slowly. People didn’t understand them, and they reacted irrationally, in my opinion.”

The sewage debate smoldered for seven years. In the end, the Unified Buddhist Church backed down and moved to the Catskills.

“I don’t think Pritam is capable of slowing down,” said Peter Rysman, Singh’s longtime friend and business partner, who lives in Key West. “He’s a smart, adventurous guy who now is financially secure. He can do anything. He’s not going to sit in a rocking chair on his front porch.”

Rysman added: “He has a thousand ideas, but, really, he’s got no idea what his endgame is.”

One of Singh’s pet causes is the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an oceanic wildlife protection organization that uses vigilante tactics to thwart dolphin catchers, seal clubbers and other maritime miscreants. Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and a close friend of Singh’s, practices radical environmentalism, which means sometimes ramming his ships into commercial whaling vessels.

Since its founding in 1977, Sea Shepherd and its environmental law affiliate, Sea Shepherd Legal, have attracted a loyal following of billionaires and celebrities, including Pamela Anderson — yes, that Pamela Anderson. Rysman serves with Singh on the board of directors of both organizations.

Over the years, Singh and Johnston have allowed Watson to dock at their marina in Key West and have donated millions of dollars in real estate and corporate holdings to Sea Shepherd.

They’ve also given Watson a house on their South Woodstock estate, where he has intermittently been drying his boots since 2012.

Medici-style patronage is a Singh specialty. The family’s stretch of Morgan Hill Road, near the Hartland-South Woodstock border, is a village unto itself — a curious melting pot of environmental activists, Buddhist monks, Sikhs, practitioners of Sikhism, lawyers, artists and a rotating cast of friends and family. Noah and his wife live closer to the village, in the $3.75 million estate that Singh bought for them last fall. Simi lives at the far end of the road in the house her mother bought for her in February 2017.

Roger Payne, a renowned whale expert and member of Sea Shepherd’s advisory board, lives in the house next door to Watson’s place, also courtesy of Singh. Adjacent to Payne is Rick Walker, a seventh-generation South Woodstock resident whose great-great-grandfather built the house in which Simi lives.

Walker works with a number of maritime conservation groups, including Sea Shepherd.

Twelve years ago, Walker said, he was a few decades into running an excavation company when he decided that he wanted to do something different with his life. He had always loved the ocean, and Payne, one of his clients, offered him a carpentry job on one of his ships. Shortly thereafter, Singh gave him a house, and Walker decamped for the sea. He now goes out on research vessels for weeks at a time, collecting samples of whale flesh to test for toxins.

Walker, 63, is soft-spoken and graying at the temples. On a weekday morning in late October, he sat at his usual table by the window in the South Wo o d st o c k C o u n try Store, thumbing through the New York Times and chatting up almost everyone who walked through the door.

“I’ve been coming here for probably 50 years,” he said. Walker grew up on Long Hill Road, about two and a half miles away from the center of the village.

In the winter, an all-wheel-drive vehicle brought him and other South Woodstock kids to the country store, where they would wait on the porch for the bus to take them to elementary school in Woodstock. The store, he said, is the nerve center of the community.

“It might look like we’re just sitting around and gossiping, but we’re actually trading valuable information about what’s happening in town, problems that need to be addressed, who to hire,” Walker said. “You need a plumber? Just ask someone here, and they’ll tell you who’s good. It’s not just a conversation — it’s a transaction.”

That’s precisely the kind of community the Singh-Johnstons are trying to preserve — the feeling of being part of a big, extended family, of knowing that someone is looking out for you. Walker and his crew of country store regulars don’t text or talk on the phone; their relationships are based almost exclusively on face-to-face conversation. It may sound

quaint, but in a village with virtually zero cell reception and no public Wi-Fi — except, as of last spring, the country store’s fiber-optic network — having a central meeting place is vital.

Right on cue, a guy with a handlebar mustache poked his head in. “Where’s Fred?” he asked. Walker filled him in.

Later, an older man stopped by on his way out to look at photos of a Sea Shepherd ship on Walker’s iPhone. When he left, Walker watched him walk to his car.

“He has Alzheimer’s,” Walker explained. “So we keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn’t get confused.”

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It’s been a strange year for Laura Spittle.

Spittle, who lives in Reading, has been running the Vermont Horse Country Store for 34 years. She gets her mail at the South Woodstock post office, and she’s known the Singh-Johnston family for as long as they’ve lived here. Her store, next door to the Green Mountain Horse Association, is an equestrian smorgasbord: saddles stacked like Pringles in every corner, a mind-boggling assortment of Dansko shoes, waxed jackets galore.

One evening in late September, just before closing time, Spittle was wrapping orange party lights around a horse statuette, which she planned to display in a sculpture garden on the Woodstock Green. When she first heard that Singh was buying properties, Spittle said, she was glad.

“The people who owned the country store were having a difficult time with it,” she said. “So it was really fortuitous that the Singhs decided to buy the store when they did. They love this place, and they wanted to do something good in the community.

“I talked at length with Pritam when he bought it, and he had read a lot of stuff about how when small communities like this lose their store, they lose their identity, and he didn’t want to see that happen here,” Spittle went on. “I respect the fact that he took that seriously and put his money where his mouth is. And then, of course,” she said with a laugh, “things snowballed.”

Starting with the Kedron Valley Inn. When the Singh-Johnstons announced they were going to close before Thanksgiving last year for renovations, Spittle got

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nervous. The bulk of her winter business comes from inn guests. As the renovation wore on, her bottom line took a major hit.

“When they were closed for Wassail, Christmas, New Year’s, that really hurt. So that pretty well sucked,” Spittle said. “But I get that they wanted to take the time to get the renovation right. And they did everything in their power to help, with good faith. I mean everything in their power.”

She wouldn’t specify what, exactly, “everything” entailed.

“They bought a lot of Christmas presents from me,” Spittle said. “I’ll leave it at that.

“Pritam cares deeply about things,” she added. “How much he really understands about this community remains to be seen.

But I think he’s capable of learning. He’s been here for 35 years. Problem is,” Spittle said, “he’s been on that hill for 35 years.”

While the renovation was under way, inn employees also faced uncertainty.

According to Simi, some employees were given the option of staying on in a different capacity; housekeepers could become painters, for instance, and line cooks could move to the country store.

“We were very considerate of all of our employees, financially and otherwise,” said Singh. “We kept everyone on payroll from November until June, even when we’d come in and say, ‘What can you guys do today?’ I’m very sensitive to that issue.

But we needed to create a fresh culture, and the best way to create a fresh culture is to start fresh.”

At the end of June, several management-level staff members either left or were let go. One former employee, who requested anonymity for fear of jeopardizing their “well-being in the community,” would not reveal the terms of their departure per an agreement with Singh’s development organization.

According to Simi, the majority of the servers and restaurant staff left voluntarily.

“Most of the waitstaff decided to go be waitstaff somewhere else until we opened back up. And then we ended up with a whole new staff, because they already had new jobs by then,” she said.

Some of the recent hires, including the restaurant manager, went to high school with Simi. Ashley Cook, a bartender in her early thirties, moved to the area a couple of years ago.

The new inn manager, Nicole SutherlandMaiden, previously owned the Kedron Valley Inn from 2002 to 2008; prior to returning this July, she was the dining room manager at the Woodstock Inn. Since the Kedron finally reopened in mid-September, Sutherland-Maiden said, it has been 36

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consistently full on weekends and some weekdays, and guests are making reservations for next year as they check out.

“It has been a true pleasure embracing the owners’ vision and seeing it come to reality,” Sutherland-Maiden wrote in an email.

But for people such as Spittle — one of the middle-class, year-round residents whose livelihoods are now tied to the success of Singh’s latest venture — that transition hasn’t been so breezy.

Spittle said she’s noticed more young people hanging out in South Woodstock these days, mostly friends and family of the Singh-Johnstons. But she fears that her customer base — the horse enthusiasts and inn guests who were forced to find other accommodations while the Kedron was closed for renovations — might not return.

Why here?

Why now?

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“Longtime visitors, members and customers are now staying in other places instead of staying here,” Spittle said.

Whether the millennial diaspora will pick up the slack still remains to be seen.

Spittle, who admitted she hates change, has seen her shop through three and a half decades; now, she needs to recalibrate.

“I don’t think the Singhs have a clear plan for how they’re going to do what they want to do. They have a lot of ideas, but no real agenda,” she said. “So, for people like me — and there aren’t very many people like me; this is a very small place — it means that I need to go in my own direction and make sure that I protect myself, and wait for them to figure out what they’re doing.”

That means, ironically, that Spittle is beginning to think a little more like Singh.

After losing her final quarter last winter, she decided she might as well try to recoup it somewhere else.

“There’s a space in Woodstock that’s been sitting empty for over a year that I just love, right next to the post office,” she said. “Turns out that one of my customers

owns that space now. So I called them up and asked if they would be interested in doing a holiday pop-up at the end of this year, and they said yes.”

That night, Spittle piled some inventory into her truck and drove to Woodstock to set up her new shop.

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The same evening, Singh and Johnston were sitting at the bar of the recently opened tavern at the Kedron Valley Inn, sharing a fennel salad. In the dining room, the owners of local Farmhouse Pottery sat with a brood of towheaded children around a long wooden table, poring over the menu of Neapolitan pizzas. Bon Iver warbled softly on the sound system.

This sort of atmosphere feels like home for the Singh-Johnston family, which has finessed the art of atmosphere creation to a succinct formula.

The redesigned restaurant isn’t flashy or quirky, and the interior doesn’t feel remotely like a 200-year-old inn; it’s supremely tasteful and new, the exact mathematical average of aspirational and accessible. Even the decision to center the menu on pizza, that everyman food, was basically calculated to offend no one.

“In our mind, it’s this incredibly inclusive food,” explained Simi, the hostess that night. “You can walk out not spending a fortune, or you could come and get a fancy pizza and a beautiful bottle of wine and have this fine-dining experience. So it can go in either direction, which is this area in a nutshell.”

Of course, what happens to be good for the Singh family’s bottom line can also be good for the village, especially if it means that these establishments stay open. But Singh is a developer; his forte has been conjuring the provisional sense of place that defines resort communities and condos — brand-new units that are move-in ready, with maintenance included and no organically accumulated character. Whether he can create a permanent sense of place for the people of South Woodstock that still feels like home to them remains an open question.

“We want to turn this into a place where everyone knows your name, where you can come and chat with people and leave whenever you want,” Singh said.

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he scene opens with the sun rising over the Green Mountains on a typical Vermont family farm, where brown dairy cows graze and happy pigs munch apples and get their bellies rubbed. Amid vegetable rows strolls a singing farmer carrying a leather satchel and wearing a trilby hat and navy shirt with a yellow heart stitched onto the chest pocket.

The farmer, Mister Chris, enters a barn — actually a TV studio set at Vermont PBS headquarters in Colchester. There he swaps his outdoor hat for an indoor cap, finishes his song and welcomes his audience.

“Hi, friends. How do you feel today?

I feel glad to be together on this fall day in the barn studio. I feel comfortable here. I feel excited to dance,” he says, giving a quick pirouette and a warm smile. “I feel confident to sing. And I feel brave to learn new things. Do you like to learn new things?”

Thin, blue-eyed and elf-like, Mister Chris pulls an apple from his satchel. He explains that he picked it from a tree his grandmother planted many years ago, when he was “just a little, little kiddo. And now it’s a big, big tree, just like you’ll be big one day.”

What follows is the 35-minute pilot episode of “Mister Chris and Friends,” a new locally produced children’s television program from Vermont PBS. The show, which launches its first season of six episodes on November 21, uses live music, movement and “everyday adventures” around Vermont to explore science, nature, and emotional and social development. It’s designed primarily for preschoolers.

In an age when much of children’s media is loud, frenetic and hyperstimulating, and contains peril and violent themes, “Mister Chris and Friends” is almost revolutionary in its gentle approach and leisurely pace. It’s like the slow-food movement of children’s programming, and its values are evident in the show’s opening song, “Listening Is Giving.”

“It’s our theme song as well as our guiding theme that we’re trying to express and actually live by,” explained Chris Dorman, the show’s creator, who also portrays its titular character and writes and performs most of the music. “We feel that it’s a true

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gift to be listened to, and there are many different ways to listen. So we sing that, and we portray that throughout the show.”

“Mister Chris and Friends” got its start on New Year’s Eve 2015, when Dorman, a professional musician and educator, performed a concert at First Night Burlington. After the show, a Vermont PBS staffer approached him to ask if he’d ever considered doing children’s television.

He had. In fact, Dorman had a notebook full of ideas he’d jotted down years earlier. Dorman lives on Bread & Butter

on a farm and who believes that the music can really be inspired by our everyday adventures.”

After pitching the concept to Vermont PBS, Dorman launched a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $29,000 to produce the pilot. The idea, he explained, was to demonstrate that Vermonters were interested in and would financially support a locally produced children’s program.

Vermont PBS has a long history of local programming, noted Holt Albee, the

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Farm in Shelburne, which he and his wife, Corie Pierce, founded nine years ago after moving to Vermont from Michigan.

Their son, Henry, was then 2 years old. In 2012, Dorman started a children’s music and movement class on the farm called Music for Sprouts, which inspired much of “Mister Chris and Friends.”

“If I was going to be in the TV show,” explained the 35-year-old father of two, “I just wanted to be as close to the actual character as I am in real life, which is a music and movement teacher who lives

show’s producer and director. But as Albee pointed out, a locally produced children’s program is “definitely out of the ordinary, not just for our station but for all member stations across the nation.”

“Mister Chris and Friends,” he explained, follows a traditional three-act structure. “In each episode, Mister Chris makes a wish to learn something new and goes on a fun adventure of discovery and learning. Along the way, he meets new friends, interviews inquisitive kids and celebrates with a big, big concert.”

The show’s target demographic is kids ages 3 to 6. But as Dorman noted, “If we meet them where they are in a way that deeply respects them, we won’t just reach them. We’ll also reach kiddos who are younger, who are more sensitive and who are older … [in a way that] leaves them feeling respected and listened to.”

Each show includes familiar elements at the beginning and end and introduces new adventures and characters along the way. In the pilot, viewers meet the Wishing Well character, whom Dorman called “a symbol of our imagination if we’ve got a question or a wish or a wonder.”

And that heart stitched onto Mister Chris’ shirt pocket? Another visual metaphor, he explained.

“The Heart Pocket is like wearing our heart on our sleeve, a symbol of the vulnerability of expressing emotion,” he said. “But it’s also a place to hold things close to our hearts.”

Longtime Vermonters will recognize many of the locations where the show was filmed, including Shelburne Orchards, Mount Philo in Charlotte, the Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee and the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington.

Each episode takes on a simple theme or lesson, such as how pollinators do their work, how birds fly and how water moves across the landscape. In the process, Mister Chris also tackles different emotions, such as how to cope with the absence of a parent or loved one.

Even before the show aired, news stories were already favorably comparing “Mister Chris and Friends” to Fred Rogers’ iconic PBS series, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” The similarities are immediately evident, from Dorman’s gentle nature and singsong voice to his literal tip of the hat to Mister Rogers at the start of each episode: By switching hats, Dorman honors Rogers’ signature practice of removing his jacket and shoes and donning a cardigan and sneakers.

But the parallels run deeper than mere wardrobe changes. As author Maxwell King explains in his new book The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, Rogers’ placid nature belied the intense care and scrutiny he put into choosing every word and song on the show. Rogers’ on-air manner of speaking to children with kindness, respect and humility, King notes,

amounted to a distinct language that his writers referred to as “Freddish.”

Those who work on “Mister Chris and Friends” see many of those same qualities in Dorman.

“When Mister Chris walks into the barn studio and asks viewers, ‘How do you feel today?’ that’s not just a catchphrase. That’s genuinely who Chris is, in every aspect of the show,” Albee said.

From the dialogue to the arc of the story to the musical score, “He’s always thinking about the most sensitive kiddos. I’m just in awe of all he’s able to juggle in his head.”

Early in the show’s development, Vermont PBS brought in Heather Duhamel, an early childhood education consultant from St. Albans, to advise on the scripts. But as Duhamel noted in a recent interview, it was often Dorman who’d stop production to question whether a particular scene or line of dialogue was fully meeting the needs of every viewer.

She recalled one project in which the team was creating one of the supplemental activity plans that accompanies each episode. Dorman, she said, noticed that the activity plan included physical movements that not all kids could perform.

So the team reached out to the University of Vermont Center on Diversity and Community Inclusion to consult on adding more inclusive language. From then on, Duhamel said, the center worked on all of the activity plans to ensure more sensitivity to viewers’ needs and abilities.

It addressed such issues as neurodiversity, physical and developmental disabilities, literacy, and English-language proficiency.

As Duhamel put it, “With Chris’ encouragement, we’ve slowed things down and have gone through so many channels of support in the community to make sure that they’re reaching all learners” — traits that she, too, likened to those of Rogers.

How does Dorman feel about such comparisons?

“I feel honored,” he said. “At the same time, I feel as if it would not be very Mister Rogers to feel as though we have to fill those sneakers. He said so many times that he likes us just the way we are.”

“I wish that Mister Rogers was not the only available comparison when a guy like Chris comes along who also happens to be deeply respectful of young children,” said Mark Sustic, a musician and early education professional whom Dorman described as his mentor. (Though Sustic appears in one episode, he has no formal role in its production.)

“Chris’ contribution and example are important for all of us,” he said, “especially all the young children and families he Chris Dorman inspires.”

E v i d e n t l y, there’s a real yearning for children’s television that slows things down and speaks to, as Dorman put it, “the most sensitive ears in the room.” When Vermont PBS posted its first episode of “Mister Chris and Friends” online, it was viewed in 50 states and provinces across North America.

Despite its initial popularity, however, Dorman said he’s not eager to see the show expand nationally, at least not yet.

Like all parents, he said, he doesn’t want his “baby” to grow up too quickly.

“I consider ourselves to be children in this process,” he said. “My hope is that this first season will reach children genuinely and that it’ll be the first of many, and we’ll see an evolution of this project as the years go on and as we learn, too.”

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acques Moninga’s favorite English language instructor is Alisha Ivelich. The Congolese native has never talked to her nor met her, but he said he’s learned a lot from watching her EnglishClass101 videos on YouTube.

“Yes, I can say [hers are] the best,” said Moninga, who also speaks French, Kibembe, Lingala and Swahili.

He used to watch the YouTube videos on his smartphone. But since a friend gave him her old laptop, he has relished watching on a bigger screen. When the polyglot has questions, he writes them down and waits until Monday evenings to discuss them with his other English teacher, Raichle Farrelly.

For the last couple of years, Farrelly, assistant professor of applied linguistics at Saint Michael’s College, has been teaching English to adult students with refugee backgrounds. While many organizations provide similar community English classes, Farrelly’s offering on Monday evenings in Winooski’s Champlain Mill is unique because she required that every student be a Swahili speaker.

“I speak enough Swahili to clarify things and also to establish relations,” said the teacher, who cofounded an NGO that provides access to education for children in remote villages in Tanzania.

The use of a first language in the English language classroom is an important tool for clarification, Farrelly explained.

Furthermore, if the students chat among themselves in Swahili, everyone can be part of the conversation.

About two months ago, Farrelly added a new component to her class: tech education. Her students already had smartphones and were proficient with WhatsApp, the messaging and voice-overinternet-protocol service, which allows them to connect with relatives still in refugee camps in Tanzania.

But digital literacy is more than simply using social media and apps. Most of Farrelly’s students don’t have a laptop or know how to use one.

Being technologically literate plays a major role in finding jobs, developing professional skills and paving the way for upward mobility. The Vermont Technology Alliance published a report in 2016 stating that nearly every job and industry in the state requires some use of tech skills or tools. Tech employment, the

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organization wrote, was projected to grow at an annual rate of 7.5 percent from 2014 through 2022.

Some adult refugees in Vermont not only have to overcome the language barrier, they also have to address the skills gap as they seek to integrate into the workforce.

While young newcomers get a lot of support from schools and other service providers, their parents are the “sacrificed generation,” noted Farrelly. They perform unskilled and low-paying jobs and pin their hopes for upward mobility on their children.

Her students currently hold jobs that don’t require that they be tech savvy.

They’re housekeepers, custodians or production workers. They’re also working so much that they don’t have time to learn enough English, Farrelly noted. Some are not even literate in their native language.

While it’s unlikely that most of her students will need tech skills at their workplaces, Farrelly wants them to have access to digital literacy education. At the very least, digital proficiency can make mundane tasks easier.

For instance, one of her students waited for a year before moving into a new residence, Farrelly said. The woman had to

depend on her case manager to search for available housing. Had the student been computer literate, Farrelly suggested, she would have been able to check listings herself and possibly move out sooner.

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their children’s educations if they knew how to navigate school websites.

“I think if they can feel more comfortable with technology, they can access more information,” said the educator.

Each week, Bjorn Norstrom from Technology 4 Tomorrow brings laptops to students in Farrelly’s class. When the nonprofit was founded in 2012, it focused on serving the senior citizen community.

But since 2015, Technology 4 Tomorrow has been a partner of Parent

University, a program that familiarizes parents, particularly those of immigrant or refugee backgrounds, with the Burlington School District and their children’s education.

When Norstrom first came, he and Farrelly helped the students create their own Gmail accounts, practice sending and receiving emails, and practice touchtyping. One student recoiled and didn’t want to touch the laptop, said Farrelly, who recently joined the nonprofit’s board. But 20 minutes later, he was “pecking away” at the keyboard.

“I was surprised when [Norstrom] came,” recalled Moninga, 24, whose tech skills had previously been limited to using Facebook and WhatsApp. When he got home that night, Moninga didn’t sleep. He was hooked on touchtyping and kept practicing. These days, he sometimes has a typing competition with his teen cousin. When he uses his laptop, he feels as though he’s working in an office, Moninga said. He also reads news from the internet and has improved his Google search skills.

“I’m a little bit good,” said Moninga, “because I can try to find something and see the answers.”

Last week, Farrelly convinced him to apply for a seasonal job online with UPS. Moninga hesitated initially because he didn’t think he spoke enough English.

“You’ve got that down,” said Farrelly, reassuring him.

“Yeah, let’s try,” agreed Moninga.

While completing the application, he used Google to look up the address of his former employer and picked up keyboard shortcut tips from his teacher.

Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Moninga and his family fled an armed conflict in their country and lived in Nyarugusu Camp in northwestern Tanzania for 17 years. After completing his secondary school education in the camp, he worked as a social worker there for three years. Moninga, his grandmother, and his aunt and her children resettled in Vermont in 2016.

Though he would like to resume his education full time, his family — both in Vermont and in Tanzania — are counting on him to support them financially. He currently works at a clothing manufacturer. For now, he has to be content with attending Farrelly’s weekly class and watching YouTube videos. But Moninga

hopes to be able to take his GED, attend college and start an import-export business. He believes the tech education will help him reach his goal.

Recently, tech innovations have surged in response to burgeoning global refugee populations. New apps help refugees with their daily activities while in the camps, and some companies offer training for newcomers. For instance, the Intel Foundation has invested in a job-training program for refugees in Germany. Norstrom hopes that local employers will be just as creative in developing the New American workforce here.

But the refugee populations are heterogeneous. Programs such as those

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offered by Intel benefit a minority: the educated and highly skilled. In addition, there’s a “palpable digital divide between refugees with access to apps, websites and internet access, and those without,” wrote Ben Hounsell, a Kenya-based senior researcher at the Samuel Hall think tank, in a story on the Refugees Deeply news site last year.

“While 30 percent of the global refugee population lives in sub-Saharan Africa, compared to 14 percent in Europe,” wrote Hounsell, “four out of the top seven countries building tech solutions for refugees are in Europe, with Germany, Greece, the UK and France leading the way.”

Still, at least one local company welcomes Technology 4 Tomorrow’s mission to equip newcomers with tech know-how. The Vermont Employment Agency helps businesses hire employees.

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labor market, companies have to do more to train and retain their employees, he added.

Farrelly noted that she will continue to incorporate tech education in her classes, even though doing so reduces the time available for teaching English.

For some students, the typing practice gives them a break from the daily stress and worries of adapting to life in the U.S. It might take decades for Farrelly’s students to master the language. But in typing class, they get immediate feedback on how they’re doing and gain confidence when they see themselves improve within 20 minutes.

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café as a fish market and take-out calamari joint in Boston’s North End in 1973. Much has changed since then, but fresh Atlantic squid, breaded in cornmeal, fried crispy, and served with lemon or red sauce, has been the restaurant’s premier plate since the beginning. It anchors the menu at locations in nearby Brookline and, until recently, in the city’s Seaport district, where a Daily Catch restaurant closed earlier this month after 16 years in business.

In addition to running three restaurants, the Fredduras operate a seafood-processing facility and commissary kitchen on the Boston fishing piers. They bring in justcaught North Atlantic seafood from the docks daily; the haul supplies the Daily Catch kitchens, and the family ships squid, in various forms, to restaurants up and down the East Coast.

In Woodstock, Maria is also co-owner at Bentley’s restaurant, which she purchased with her longtime friend and business associate John RuggieriLam in 2013. Call that one a retirement project of sorts — she planned to run it while spending time at a second home nearby. When the venture morphed into “more time in Vermont than in Boston,” she said, she missed her Boston seafood joints. So when Ruth’s Table closed on Central Street last year, Maria decided to bring the Daily Catch to Vermont.

The menu varies from location to location. In Woodstock, chef Kristen Zagranski — a 30-year culinary veteran who has cooked in many settings on both coasts — executes Freddura family recipes with casual grace.

The food is simple: mostly go-to classics such as clams casino, shrimp scampi, and pastas (imported linguine or squid-ink linguine from the commissary) tossed with shellfish and red or white clam sauce. There’s also monkfish marsala, broiled haddock, fish and chips, and the famous fried calamari. Chicken marsala and steak are the two non-fish offerings; a vegetarian could cobble together a meal of plain pasta, French fries, and sautéed spinach or Broccolini.

The thing to drink is Italian table wine, and the restaurant’s well-selected list is generally affordable. Most of the draft beers originate in Vermont or Boston, and an unfussy cocktail list includes a martini, a cosmopolitan and a couple of canon whiskey drinks.

On a snowy evening last week, I stared at the menu, which is more expansive than it looks. Facing indecision, I asked the server, “What’s your specialty?”

He paused. “I guess,” he said finally, “the lobster fra diavolo.” He pointed to the description for a spicy shellfish

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irst, let’s praise the servers who can quickly answer the question, “What’s your specialty?”

Many restaurants don’t define themselves by any one particular dish, but there’s usually something on the menu worth pointing out. Maybe it’s a plate that remains steadfast, season after season, or a new entrée the chef is excited about. At a minimum, it’s the most popular thing on the menu.

If you happen to work at the new branch of a 45-yearold Italian seafood restaurant whose motto is “Mangia calamari,” the correct answer would be calamari.

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During dinner at the Daily Catch in Woodstock last week, our young server was kind and gentle, eager to please, but so new to the restaurant that he stumbled in providing this most basic information. In the end, that probably worked out in our favor. But had I known, I likely would have ordered the squid.

The Daily Catch opened at 61 Central Street in late September. It’s the newest addition to Paul and Maria Freddura’s family of restaurants, which they run with their seven sons.

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Albert Einstein said, “If you want to know the future, look at the past.” At 207 Barre Street in Montpelier, KISMET owner CRYSTAL MADERIA is getting back to her roots with KIZY. The new café and juice bar will open in the space most recently home to Beau butcher shop, which closed earlier this year.

By day, the storefront will operate as a full-service breakfast and lunch spot with a retail component. Longtime Kismet regulars and Beau fans may recognize many plates on the menu, including pestorye tartines with avocado or cheese; grain bowls with veggies, seeds and pickles; noodle-y broth bowls; coddled eggs; and smoked veggie hash.

“This is the original space for Kismet,” Maderia said, “so we are bringing back some of those original items.”

To drink? Organic juices, cold-pressed to order, along with teas and “wholesome lattes” made with coconut milk, oat milk or organic cow’s milk from ROGERS FARMSTEAD . These swing from traditional coffee lattes, with BRIO COFFEEWORKS espresso,

to health-giving blends of turmeric and bee pollen, matcha and spirulina, or roasted dandelion root.

As at Kismet, most everything will be handmade with local, organic meats and produce and available sans gluten. “We try to have everything be gluten free if we can,” Maderia said, explaining that her son has celiac disease.

Visitors can take lunch or dinner to go: Coolers will hold grab-and-go salads, broths and grain bowls; among the frozen offerings will be handmade stuffed pastas, bread puddings packaged in oven-safe containers, and prepared meats.

When Kizy is closed to the public, the space will serve as a community kitchen in which farmers and local food businesses can process their output or create value-added products.

If all goes according to plan, Kizy will open for breakfast and lunch, Wednesday through Friday, on December 13.

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food next spring, when MARIA LARA-BREGATTA plans to open CAFÉ MAMAJUANA. LaraBregatta, currently a server at ARTSRIOT, said she hopes to sign a lease for the vacant restaurant space at 55 Main Street. MAIN STREET DELI moved out of the location about six weeks ago.

“I’ve been working on the idea for a while,” LaraBregatta said. “I’m excited.

There’s no food diversity in Vermont that’s up to my standards. So, I’d like to bring in some authentic cuisine.”

Lara-Bregatta, 25, grew up in a restaurant family in Cherry Hill, N.J. She moved to Burlington to attend the University of Vermont, from which she graduated with a degree in religion and sociology. Her business plan involves her father, chef LUIS LARA, who has been featured on the Food Network. He’ll come to Burlington temporarily to work with and train an executive chef for Café Mamajuana.

Lara-Bregatta described food from the Dominican Republic as a cross between South American and Caribbean cuisine — with lots of salads, fruits, rice and chicken. Plantains are the basis of many meals, she said, and tapas-style plates are common.

“It’s fresh and yummy,” Lara-Bregatta said. “It’s similar to Puerto Rican cuisine.”

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Mediterranean Cuisine Café Mamajuana gets its name from a traditional Dominican libation made of rum, wine, honey and tree bark. “It’s said to be an aphrodisiac and to have numerous health effects,” Lara-Bregatta noted. “It’s not heavy. It’s like Limoncello after an [Italian] meal.”

Launching a business “becomes even harder when you’re a young woman of color,” Lara-Bregatta said.

“The whole point of opening this restaurant is to bring diversity to Vermont. I wake up in the morning, and I crave food from my childhood. It’s very important to me, in that way.”

Café Mamajuana will serve its food November 30 to December 2 during the Vermont International Festival at the Champlain Valley Exposition. In addition, if Lara-Bregatta finalizes a rental agreement at 55 Main St., she intends to host pop-ups before a spring opening.

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pasta smorgasbord that included a oneand-a-quarter-pound lobster flanked by mussels, shrimp, clams and squid. A $59 plate would feed one person; $79 would be ample for two.

The cynic in me snickered: I guess if you’re unsure what the specialty is, just pick out the most expensive thing, huh?

My more compassionate self stepped in: Clearly, the kid had chosen the most impressive option, and one can’t know the whole menu on one’s third shift at a new restaurant.

The good news? The spendy fra diavolo was excellent. Really excellent, and in the end I was grateful for the recommendation. But let’s back up a few steps.

My husband opted for a juicy pour of Montepulciano ($12); I sipped a glass of guava-scented Soave ($12) from northern Italy, which was well matched to a starter of briny littlenecks ($15.50), splashed with white wine and popped in a sauté pan with lots of garlic, shaved fennel, herbs and pepper flakes.

It was also served in a sauté pan, a Daily Catch tradition. “Our dishes were breaking, and we decided to start serving [food] in the pan,” Maria recalled of the early days in Boston. “The pans don’t break,” she added. “It became part of our trademark.”

If the spartan presentation seemed a little out of place in the Daily Catch’s clean and polished dining room, it had that simple, frank quality that so often defines great Italian cookery. The pan also keeps the food warm longer.

Next, a perfect plate of clams casino ($13.50) brought whole clams, chopped and returned to their shells with crunchy bread crumbs, herbs and red bell pepper.

Finally, the highly recommend lobster was a dramatic pièce de résistance, a seafaring feast pushing at the edges of its aluminum skillet. The lobster — quartered but served with its menacing head intact, was tender and

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sweet, as were the clams, mussels, shrimp and squid. The spicy seafood marinara had a punchy flavor that shored up but didn’t compete with the delicate shellfish. And the portion was enough for two meals, easily — maybe more.

Still, my husband had to stop me from eating all of his garlicky scallop linguine ($25.50). Chatting tableside, Zagranski said she makes the white clam sauce

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with the brine from the cherrystones she shucks and uses elsewhere on the menu.

As a devotee of linguine with white clam sauce, I’d pronounce the dish flawless. I would happily have eaten it with or without the plump, sweet New Bedford sea scallops.

Like the restaurant’s 20-seat Boston original, the Woodstock location is small with just 35 seats. Most of those were empty last Thursday night, perhaps because of the incoming snowstorm, perhaps because mid-November is deadsville for any tourist-town restaurant. Or perhaps locals just haven’t discovered zthe place yet, despite its location near the heart of the main drag.

Whatever the reason for the quiet during my visit, I hope it was an aberration, because this restaurant deserves to succeed. It’s not cheap, but fresh, wellprepared seafood rarely is. And it’s worth noting that the prices are on par with, or better than, those at other dinner spots around town.

While the quality of the food far surpasses most of what I’ve encountered elsewhere in this landlocked state, the Daily Catch also possesses a kernel of je ne sais quoi that distinguishes it from the rest. There’s a lack of pretense to the menu, a basic understanding of what people actually like to eat and a care for delivering it without a shred of precious self-awareness.

Whatever the secret ingredient, it’s 100 percent delicious, right down to the crunchy twin cannoli we ordered to go so we could get home before the snowstorm set in.

I’m already looking forward to next time. When I go, I’ll order the calamari. m

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ore than any other holiday, Thanksgiving is about the food: Aunt Polly’s green bean casserole, Grandpa’s famous wild rice and mushroom stuffing, Mom’s maple-glazed sweet potato pie. Oh, yeah, and the turkey we cook differently every year in the vain hope that the white meat won’t taste like packing material.

Of course, it’s also about family and dear friends: the joys — and occasional challenges — that come with gathering diverse personalities around the stove and the table.

It is in the spirit of harmony and togetherness that we offer up four recipes for holiday cocktails from local bartenders. We’re not suggesting that enjoying a beverage together will bring Uncle Seth around to your way of political thinking, but it might smooth over the rough spots.

Give these recipes to the cousin who asks, “What can I bring?” at the last minute. Assign someone to shake up a batch for the cooks working away in the kitchen. (Do not, however, add cocktails to their list of things to prep, please.) Come in from a brisk, post-dinner walk or game of touch football to sit by the fire with festively garnished glasses in hand.

Above all, raise a glass of whatever you enjoy in thanks for food, family and friends.

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THE TURKEY DRESSING SOUR

From Deli 126, 126 College Street, Burlington, deli126vt.com We appreciate this relatively simple, balanced cocktail for its creative use of traditional Thanksgiving ingredients. At Deli 126, bar general manager Emily Thompson might use a cranberry simple syrup, but she came up with a smart way to get a similar result with canned cranberry sauce. The bitters, she notes, aid digestion of rich food.

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• 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice • 2 teaspoons cranberry sauce • 1 teaspoon honey • 1/2 teaspoon Angostura bitters • 2 ounces whiskey, preferably bourbon Garnish: • Fresh cranberries • Rosemary or thyme sprigs DIRECTIONS

In a small bowl, whisk together lemon juice, cranberry sauce and honey with 1 tablespoon very hot tap water until smooth. Add to a cocktail shaker with bitters, whiskey and ice and shake briskly until fully blended. Strain into a rocks glass over ice.

Garnish with fresh cranberries speared on a rosemary or thyme sprig.

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From Prohibition Pig, 23 South Main Street, Waterbury, prohibitionpig.com Chelsea Thibault, bar manager at Prohibition Pig, worked with head chef Cory Swafford to develop this rich hot toddy. It’s perfect for the restaurant’s après-ski clientele and, similarly, to warm up the Thanksgiving crowd after outdoor excursions. Prohibition Pig bartenders add hot water, but we really enjoyed it made with half hot cranberry-apple cider and half hot water.

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1 compound butter ball (see below) 1 cup not-quite-boiling water 2 ounces dark rum

Compound butter: • 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar • 3/4 teaspoon coarse salt • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon • 1 teaspoon ground clove • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg • 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature Garnish: • Cinnamon sticks DIRECTIONS

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To make cocktail: Place a chilled butter ball in a 12- to 16-ounce mug and pour in about 1 cup not-quite-boiling water. Stir briefly to ensure butter melts and then stir in rum. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

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Martha Mack, director of beverage programming for Stonecutter Spirits, shared both a single serving and a big-batch pitcher version of this fall cocktail, making it easier to serve to a group. The cinnamon syrup takes a little time to make but brings the holiday spice to the fore. The tart acidity of a traditionally dry hard cider is key to the drink’s balance, while the optional absinthe, Mack says, brightens the drink with a pop of anise. She suggests topping glasses with a little club soda if you want to pace your guests’ consumption.

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1 ounce gin, such as Stonecutter Spirits Single Barrel 3/4 ounce apple brandy, such as Laird’s Applejack 3/4 ounce dry hard cider, such as Shacksbury Deer Snacks II 1/4 ounce cinnamon syrup (see below) 2 dashes Angostura bitters Absinthe rinse, optional

Cinnamon syrup: • 1 cup sugar • 1 cup water • 4-5 cinnamon sticks (broken into pieces) Garnish: • Apple slices • Ground cinnamon DIRECTIONS

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To make cinnamon syrup: Bring sugar and water to simmer over medium heat until sugar is completely dissolved.

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

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

Mad River Fiber Arts & Mill, Waitsfield, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-7746.

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MEMORABLE TIMES CAFÉ: Those living with mild to moderate memory loss and their care partners convene for casual social time. Refreshments are provided. Vermont History Center, Barre, 1:30-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 476-2681.

film

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

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: Viewers visit a living city beneath the sea via an awe-inspiring film. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1:30 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.50-16.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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John Candy elicit big laughs in their 1987 comedy about a man traveling home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious salesman in tow.

Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6 p.m. Donations; canned food items accepted.

Info, 533-2000.

food & drink

COMMUNITY SUPPER: A scrumptious spread connects friends and neighbors.

The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888492-8218, ext. 300.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: Players have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722.

CRIBBAGE TEAMS: Longtime players and neophytes alike aim for a value of 15 or 31 in this competitive card game.

Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

PINOCHLE & RUMMY: Card sharks engage in friendly competition. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

health & fitness

ACROYOGA CLASS: The mindfulness and breath of yoga meet the playful aspects of acrobatics in a partner practice. No partners or experience required. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 7-8:15 p.m.

Donations. Info, 448-4262.

‘PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES’: Comic legends Steve Martin and

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CHROMATICATS & JAZZ VOCAL ENSEMBLE

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

Wednesday, November 28, 7:30 p.m., at University of Vermont Recital Hall in Burlington. Free. Info, 656-3040, uvm.edu.

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

Info, 865-7211.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: ¡Hola!

Language lovers perfect their fluency. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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GAYME NIGHT: FRIENDSGIVING EDITION: Fueled by potluck-style fare and nonalcoholic beverages, players engage in tabletop contests. Bring or borrow a game. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 860-7812.

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NOV.28 | MUSIC ’Tis the Season As soon as the turkey has been cleared from the Thanksgiving table, St. Albans residents enter full-scale Christmas mode, thanks to the Festival of Trees. Now in its 10th year, this full week of family-friendly festivities kicks off on Saturday with a tree-lighting ceremony in Taylor Park. Here, friends and neighbors gather for caroling, refreshments, a pet memorial, a visit from Santa Claus and, of course, the illumination of yuletide boughs. Kids’ activities, a holiday movie, a road race and other high-spirited happenings round out this downtown celebration of the season. Visit vtfestivaloftrees.com for the full schedule.

FESTIVAL OF TREES Saturday, November 24, 5 p.m.; Tuesday, November 27, 6-8 p.m.; and Wednesday, November 28, 6:30 p.m., at various St. Albans locations. See website for additional dates. Prices vary; most events are free. Info, vtfestivaloftrees@gmail.com, vtfestivaloftrees.com.

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

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

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

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

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WEDNESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go.

Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 318-8605.

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RESILIENCE FLOW: Individuals affected by traumatic brain injuries engage in a gentle yoga practice. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

In December 2017, the New York Times published an article highlighting female jazz musicians and composers who have earned recognition in the traditionally maledominated genre. Under the direction of Tom Cleary and Amber deLaurentis, two University of Vermont Department of Music and Dance student ensembles demonstrate their own appreciation for women in the genre with the program “Lady Day and Today.” The instrumental jazz combo Chromaticats and the Jazz Vocal Ensemble hit all the right notes in standards by female composers including Billie Holiday, Irene Higginbotham and Ann Ronell, as well as new works by deLaurentis and UVM professor Patricia Julien. Brava!

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Elite female technical alpine skiers hit the Killington Resort slopes this weekend in the 2018 Audi FIS Ski World Cup Killington competition. Between athletic events, spectators and music fans are treated to a top-notch lineup of free entertainment.

Boston-based indie rockers Guster, best known for hits such as “Amsterdam” and “Satellite,” get the crowd going on Sunday. The guys keep the energy high with songs from their upcoming eighth album Look Alive, due out in January, following the day’s first scheduled slalom run, which begins at 10 a.m.

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GUSTER Sunday, November 25, at Festival Village, K-1 Base Area, Killington Resort. Free. Info, 800-734-9435, killington.com.

NOV.23-25 | HOLIDAYS Historical Observance Do you ever wish you could turn back the clock and experience life as it was in centuries past? In Woodstock, old-school holiday traditions are alive and well during the Billings Farm & Museum’s Thanksgiving Weekend. Inside the 1890 farmhouse, located on the operating Jersey dairy farm, folks find steaming cups of spiced cider, all-ages handson activities and costumed interpreters preparing period fare. Outside, a horse-drawn wagon carries families on rides around the farm. Educational programs complete this blast from the rural past.

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND Friday, November 23, through Sunday, November 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock.

Regular admission, $4-16; free for members and kids under 3. Info, 457-2355, billingsfarm.org.

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‘GRATITUDE’: When she becomes infatuated with a handsome classmate, 15-year-old Dariya is torn between her traditional upbringing and her new sexual awakening. For ages 16 and up.

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SONG CIRCLE: Singers and musicians congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes.

Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182.

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CURRENT EVENTS CONVERSATION: Newsworthy subjects take the spotlight in this informal discussion.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III’: The story of an increasingly erratic ruler is broadcast from England’s Nottingham Playhouse to the big screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600.

ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: Based on the novel of the same name, this Tony Award-winning musical follows the struggles of a gifted little girl against her neglectful parents and cruel headmistress.

Presented by Northern Stage.

Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $19-69. Info, 296-7000.

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RECOVERY WRITE NOW: Wordsmiths in recovery let their creativity flow in a lively and supportive setting. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 6-7:15 p.m.

Free. Info, writelife1@hotmail. com.

WRITING CIRCLE: Words pour out when participants explore creative expression in a lowpressure environment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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GRATITUDE GATHERING: Spiced cider and scrumptious desserts enliven a screening of Sparkle Shorts, a 45-minute compilation of quirky short films. BYO pie is optional. The Sparkle Barn, Wallingford, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 446-2044.

health & fitness

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

holidays

COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER: A festive feast fosters a sense of togetherness.

Bethany United Church of Christ, Montpelier, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free; preregister for delivery.

Info, 229-9151.

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‘GRATITUDE’: See WED.21.

Cirque-tacular Productions.

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 3 & 7 p.m. $45. Info, 760-4634.

TAROT READINGS: A spiritual mentor consults her cards to offer guidance and clarity. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $1 per minute; preregister.

Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

film

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‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.21.

LEBOWSKI FEST: Bathrobes are optional at a screening of the trippy 1998 comedy The Big Lebowski. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 533-2000.

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GILBERT GOTTFRIED: The veteran comic with the famously grating voice — you might remember him as the Aflac duck — brings his deliriously raunchy standup act to Rutland. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 11 a.m. $25-30.

Info, 775-0903.

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

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

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

Info, 862-2269.

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

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MOVE BACK NORTH: Entrepreneur in residence Evan Carlson outlines available resources for those looking to work remotely or start businesses in Lyndonville. Do North Coworking, Lyndonville, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, evan.carlson@northernvermont. edu.

‘SHIMMER: A WINTER CIRQUE REVERIE’: Audiences enter a glittering wonderland of dazzling dancers and astounding acrobats in this frosty fête from New York City’s acclaimed

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.21, 9:15 a.m.

ACUDETOX: Attendees in recovery undergo acupuncture to the ear to propel detoxification.

Turning Point Center, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

CHAIR YOGA: Students with limited mobility limber up with modified poses. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

GONG MEDITATION: Sonic vibrations lead to healing and deep relaxation. Yoga Roots, Williston, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $18.

Info, 318-6050.

LIVING RECOVERY: Folks overcoming substance abuse move, breathe and make positive change in a moderately paced flow yoga class. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 448-4262.

REFUGE RECOVERY: A LOVE SUPREME: Buddhist philosophy is the foundation of this mindfulness-based addictionrecovery community. Turning Point Center, Burlington, noon.

Free. Info, 861-3150.

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

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CHRISTMAS LIGHTS & NATIVITY: Embracing the spirit of the season, families gaze upon brilliant bulbs. Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial, South Royalton, 7 p.m.

Nonperishable food donations.

Info, 763-7742.

FLANNEL FRIDAY: Clad in cozy clothing, shoppers head downtown to score unique holiday gifts. Downtown Montpelier, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-9604.

PEACHAM CORNER GUILD HOLIDAY SHOP: Small antiques, handcrafted gifts, specialty foods and Christmas decorations beckon buyers. Peacham Corner Guild, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3332.

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PAUL OAKENFOLD: The Audi FIS Ski World Cup Killington athlete bib presentation paves the way for fireworks and a beat-driven set by the world-famous DJ. Festival Village, K-1 Base Area, Killington Resort, 5:45 p.m. Free.

Info, 800-734-9435.

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AUDI FIS WOMEN’S SKI WORLD CUP: Superstars of snow sports hit the slopes for the women’s giant slalom and slalom races. See killington.com for details. Killington Resort, 10 a.m. Free; additional cost for enhanced viewing options. Info, 800-621-6867.

PUBLIC SKATING: Active bodies coast across the ice. Plattsburgh State Fieldhouse, N.Y., 5:30-7:30 p.m. $2-3; additional cost for rentals. Info, 518-564-4270.

CRAFT FAIR IN ST. ALBANS: Eyecatching merchandise finds new homes. Georgia Elementary & Middle School, St. Albans, 9 a.m.3 p.m. Free. Info, 578-8043.

INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE: Anything goes in an in-person networking group where folks can share hobbies, play music and discuss current events — without using online social sites. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 658-0030.

WOMEN’S FESTIVAL OF CRAFTS: Handmade wares by more than 50 local female artisans reflect a wide array of creative skills.

Burlington City Hall, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-2480.

LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complimentary consultations on a first-come, first-served basis. 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 383-2118.

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ED KOREN: The New Yorker cartoonist taps into the ironies of rural living in Koren: In the Wild.

Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

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BURLINGTON TREE TOURS: Outdoors lovers learn to identify common species on a moderately paced walking tour of the Queen City’s urban forest. Arrive on the patio five minutes early.

Hilton Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $16.75; free for kids 10 and under; limited space. Info, 658-6500.

SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY WELCOME CENTER: Folks stop by for hot beverages and Laughing Moon Chocolates confections before hitting the streets in search of sweet deals. Stowe Kitchen, Bath & Linens, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 253-7321.

HISTORIC BARN HOUSE TOURS: Attendees view authentic African art, impressive architecture and antique fixtures during a stroll through historic buildings. Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte, 10-11:30 a.m. $10; preregister. Info, 310-0097.

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ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: See WED.21.

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

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

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

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

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

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.21.

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HOT CHOCOLATE TASTING: Chocoholics sip from flights of four cacao-based beverages.

Varieties include traditional, peppermint, spicy Aztec and marshmallow. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 864-1807.

health & fitness

NEWBIE NOON CLASS: Firsttimers get their stretch on in a comfortably warm environment.

Hot Yoga Burlington, noon-1 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 999-9963.

holidays

ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET’S ‘THE NUTCRACKER’: Local dance students join members of the Albany Berkshire Ballet in Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic.

Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 3 & 7 p.m. $19-43.50. Info, 863-5966.

ARTS DISTRICT HOLIDAY MARKET: Locals sip wine, meet makers, taste mouthwatering morsels, and scoop up gifts from South End sellers. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-2368.

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CRAFT FAIR IN PLATTSBURGH: Artisans offer a wide variety of eye-catching handmade items at this annual creative convention. Comfort Inn & Suites, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free. Info, vtwirezzz@gmail.com.

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THANKSGIVING WEEKEND: A 19th-century celebration transports families back in time with horse-drawn wagon rides, traditional fare and themed activities. See calendar spotlight. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Regular admission, $4-16; free for members and kids under 3.

Info, 457-2355.

CRAFT & VENDOR SALE: More than 25 sellers put forth clothing, candles, food items and more to support the Special Olympics.

Canadian Club, Barre, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 793-1002.

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SANTA PARADE & TREE LIGHTING: Saint Nick kicks off a noontime procession down Church Street before posing for photos and hearing holiday wishes. Twinkling lights brighten a 40-foot tree — and the entire Marketplace — at 6 p.m. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 863-1648.

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‘SEX WITH JENNA’: Local improvisor and sexuality educator Jenna Emerson combines her two talents in an interactive and informative performance.

Revelry Theater, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 p.m. $7-10. Info, kerriannj@gmail.com.

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ROCKET EROTIC HOLIDAY POPUP SALE: A sensual celebration features a range of kinky products for purchase. Ondine Salon, Montpelier, 2-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 249-4945.

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Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the Pats have captured this country’s attention like no other franchise.

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Stop by to enjoy doughnuts and a free cup of hot cider.

JINGLE BELL EXPRESS: Festive families climb aboard for a round-trip ride to Charlotte. Keep your eyes peeled for holiday characters! Union Station, Burlington, 10 a.m., noon & 2 p.m. $25; free for kids 2 and under in laps. Info, 863-5966.

DUTCH LANGUAGE CLASS: Planning a trip to Amsterdam?

Learn vocabulary and grammar basics from a native speaker.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, bheeks@ yahoo.com.

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FESTIVAL OF TREES: Movies, crafts, live entertainment and more set the holiday season in motion. See calendar spotlight and vtfestivaloftrees.com for details. Various St. Albans locations, 5 p.m. Prices vary; most events are free. Info, vtfestivaloftrees@gmail.com.

ARMENIAN LANGUAGE: Singing, dancing, drama and games promote proficiency. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7211.

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KT TUNSTALL: The “Suddenly I See” singer takes the stage immediately following the first scheduled Audi FIS Ski World Cup Killington giant slalom run, which begins at 9:45 a.m.

Festival Village, K-1 Base Area, Killington Resort. Free. Info, 800-734-9435.

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

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CHRISTMAS LIGHTS & NATIVITY: See FRI.23.

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CAROLINE COTTER: The singersongwriter serves up Americana numbers from her 2018 album, Home on the River. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND: See FRI.23.

Fresh.

Filtered.

Free.

are on hand. McConnell Building, Concordia University, Montréal, noon-6 p.m. Free. Info, 514-932-5633.

CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR & LUNCHEON: Homemade wares and a mouthwatering meal satisfy shoppers. Grace United Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7943.

ROCKET EROTIC HOLIDAY POPUP SALE: See FRI.23.

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‘BUTTERFLY’ THANKSGIVING SPECIAL: Vermont improvisors bring true tales by local storytellers to life. Revelry Theater, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $7-10. Info, anthony@revelrytheater.com.

HOLIDAY SHOP: See FRI.23.

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DOWNTOWN RUTLAND HOLIDAY STROLL: Retail specials, snacks and family-friendly activities pave the way for the annual tree lighting in Depot Park. See downtownrutland.com for full schedule. Downtown Rutland, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 342-9380.

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PRIDE YOGA: LGBTQ individuals and allies hit the mat for a stretching session suited to all levels. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 5-6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

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‘GRATITUDE’: See WED.21.

HOLIDAY POP-UP BOOK FAIR: Bookworms go berserk over a two-day celebration of Englishlanguage volumes ranging from fiction to poetry to kids’ titles. Authors and publishers

MICHAEL FRANTI: Globally conscious lyrics thread through feel-good songs such as “Once A Day,” performed immediately following the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Killington second scheduled slalom run and awards presentation, beginning at 1 p.m. Festival Village, K-1 Base Area, Killington Resort. Free. Info, 800-734-9435.

outdoors

BIRD MONITORING WALK: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for winged wonders. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 8-9 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

sports

AUDI FIS WOMEN’S SKI WORLD CUP: See FRI.23, 7 a.m.

theater

ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: See WED.21.

SUN.25 bazaars

ANTIQUES MARKET: The past comes alive with offerings of furniture, glassware, jewelry and more at this ephemera extravaganza. Canadian Club, Barre, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. $2-5. Info, 751-6138.

CRAFT FAIR: See SAT.24, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

WOMEN’S FESTIVAL OF CRAFTS: See SAT.24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

community

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

film

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

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.21.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN BURLINGTON: See SAT.24.

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made on-site. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-2090.

health & fitness

MEDITATION GROUP: A brief yoga practice paves the way for a period of deep focus. BYO mat and cushion. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7-7:45 p.m.

Free. Info, 518-561-6920.

MOVING MEDITATION WUJI GONG: Jeanne Plo leads pupils in an easy-to-learn form of qigong known as “tai chi for enlightenment.” Burlington Friends Meeting House, 3:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 233-6377.

RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: See FRI.23, 5:30 p.m.

holidays

ALBANY BERKSHIRE BALLET’S ‘THE NUTCRACKER’: See SAT.24, 1 p.m.

JINGLE BELL EXPRESS: See SAT.24, 10 a.m. & noon.

PEACHAM CORNER GUILD HOLIDAY SHOP: See FRI.23.

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND: See FRI.23.

language

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

Info, 430-4652.

lgbtq

LGBTQ FIBER ARTS GROUP: A knitting, crocheting and weaving session welcomes all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations and skill levels. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

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‘A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2’: See WED.21, 2 & 7 p.m.

‘GRATITUDE’: See WED.21, 2 p.m.

HOLIDAY POP-UP BOOK FAIR: See SAT.24.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

GUSTER: Audi FIS Ski World Cup Killington spectators and members of the public rock out to songs from the indie rock band’s forthcoming album, Look Alive, immediately following the first scheduled slalom, which begins at 10 a.m. See calendar spotlight.

Festival Village, K-1 Base Area, Killington Resort. Free. Info, 800-734-9435.

UKULELE MÊLÉE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the fourstringed Hawaiian instrument.

BYO uke. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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PUBLIC SKATING: See FRI.23, 1:15-2:45 p.m.

CRIBBAGE TEAMS: See WED.21.

AUDI FIS WOMEN’S SKI WORLD CUP: See FRI.23, 7 a.m.

theater

ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: See WED.21, 2 p.m.

MON.26 crafts

FRIENDLY FIBER MEET-UPS: No matter the material, projects ranging from quilting to felting take shape during a monthly gathering. Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

film

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

‘DANCING WITH THE CANNIBAL GIANT: FIVE NEW STORIES FOR THE GREAT TRANSITION’: Narrated by Penobscot elder Sherri Mitchell, this documentary film portrays remarkable accounts of people and places transforming the world. A discussion follows. Jericho Town Library, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 829-8168.

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.21.

‘THE PINK PANTHER’: French police inspector Jacques Clouseau is after a mysterious jewel thief in this 1963 crime comedy. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink

CIDER MONDAY: Small businesses tempt shoppers with hot apple-based beverages. Various Montpelier locations. Free. Info, 223-9604.

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

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

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

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

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.21, 6:30 p.m.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game.

Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 6:30-10 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0498.

PINOCHLE & RUMMY: See WED.21.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Free.

Info, 448-4262.

GUIDED GROUP MEDITATION: In keeping with the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, folks practice mindfulness through sitting, walking, reading and discussion.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:158 p.m. Free. Info, 505-1688.

YOGA FOR VETERANS: Seasoned practitioners and neophytes alike engage in postures of strength and physicality.

Participants may bring a friend or other support person. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

language

CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH GROUP: Speakers brush up on their language skills en español.

Starbucks, Burlington, 6 p.m. $15.

Info, maigomez1@hotmail.com.

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‘A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2’: See WED.21, 7 p.m.

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MONTHLY BOOK GROUP FOR ADULTS: David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI sparks conversation. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

READING THROUGH THE BIBLE: Participants gather near the fireplace to peruse the Scriptures.

Panera Bread, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 893-6266.

SUZANNE GORDON: Experts Kathryn Van Haste and Andrew Pomerantz join the author in a discussion of her 2018 title, Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing and Hope to the Nation’s Veterans.

Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.

WOMEN VETERANS’ EXPRESSIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: Women who have served in the United States military put pen to paper. White River Junction VA Medical Center, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 295-9363, ext. 6134.

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FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: See FRI.23.

crafts

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

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SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different forms, including the Lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome.

Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

environment

‘GARBAGE ISLAND’: Sustainable Woodstock and Pentangle Arts present a screening of this hardhitting 2008 documentary about a giant trash heap in the Pacific Ocean. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 6:30-7 p.m. Donations.

Info, 457-3981.

TELL ME MORE WITH SECRETARY MOORE: A variety of environmental topics is on the table during a discussion with Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore. National Life Building, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 828-1294.

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VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS GIVING TUESDAY: A silent auction and featured speakers inspire locals to donate to an organization dedicated to expanding international diplomacy. Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 861-2343.

film

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

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‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.21.

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‘PARIS CAN WAIT’: Diane Lane stars in a 2016 comedy about the wife of a movie producer who embarks on a road trip with one of her husband’s associates. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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

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PEACEFUL WARRIOR KARATE: Martial-arts training promotes healthy living for those in recovery. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

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ensemble as they hone their skills in preparation for their holiday concert. Cornerstone Community Church, Milton, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, miltonband01@ hotmail.com.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE RECITAL II: Pieces by Vivaldi, Elgar, Schubert and others find

YOGA AT THE WINOOSKI VFW: Certified instructors guide veterans and their families through a series of poses. Arrive five to 10 minutes early. Second floor, Winooski VFW Hall, 6-7 p.m.

Donations. Info, 655-9832.

holidays

FESTIVAL OF TREES: See SAT.24, 6-8 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Free. Info, 540-0195.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652.

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

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ED KOREN: See FRI.23, Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2411.

FAITH EXAMINED: A faith-based discussion of the testimonial collection Coming Out in Faith: Voices of LGBTQ Unitarian Universalists focuses on the church’s role in embracing the LGBTQ community. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10:15 a.m. Free.

Info, 518-561-6920.

REIKI CLINIC: Thirty-minute treatments foster physical, emotional and spiritual wellness. JourneyWorks, Burlington, 3-5:30 p.m. $10-30; preregister.

Info, 860-6203.

RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: See FRI.23.

by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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HOMESHARING INFO SESSION: Locals learn to make the most of spare space in their homes by hosting compatible housemates.

HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 1-1:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

LUNCH & LEARN: Meals in hand, attendees hear an overview of the VACE Blue Cross Blue Shield Advantage Plans from Heidi Reece of the Richards Group.

Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce Office, noon. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, chamber@rutlandvermont.com.

MEDICARE & YOU: AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDICARE: Members of the Central Vermont Council on Aging clear up confusion about the application process and plan options. Central Vermont Council on Aging, Barre, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-0531.

GLENN STOUT: Through research, archival photos and essays from notable personalities, the author gives a play-by-play of a professional football team in The Pats: An Illustrated History of the New England Patriots.

Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.

SEARCH FOR MEANING ADULT DISCUSSION GROUP: Readers reflect on Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-6920.

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EDIBLE WELLNESS: A Q&A demystifies the benefits of consuming cannabidiol. Attendees treat themselves to sweet CBD delights. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.

GREENER DRINKS: See WED.21.

crafts

FIBER RIOT!: See WED.21.

talks

CHARLES ALLAN MCCOY: “The Social Characteristics of Americans Opposed to Vaccination: Beliefs About Vaccine Safety vs. Views of U.S. Vaccination Policy” provokes thought. Stearns Cinema, Northern Vermont UniversityJohnson, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Free. Info, amy.welch@northern vermont.edu.

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INTERMEDIATE MICROSOFT WORD: Students work with the word processor’s advanced features and customization options.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 865-7217.

words

BURLINGTON POETRY GROUP: Writers of verse ages 18 through 30 field constructive feedback on original works. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Info, btvpoetry@gmail.com.

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

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

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

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EMERALD ASH BORER PREPAREDNESS MEETING: Community members brace for the impacts of the woodland pest with help from Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program staff. University of Vermont Extension, Barre, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 522-6015.

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DEATH CAFÉ: Folks meet for a thought-provoking and respectful conversation about death, aimed at accessing a fuller life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991.

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NURSING BEYOND A YEAR MEET-UP: Breastfeeding parents connect over toddler topics such as weaning and healthy eating habits. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 985-8228.

film

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

‘THE BLIZZARD OF AAHHH’S’: Shown as part of its 30th anniversary tour, this 1988 rockumentary-style ski film spotlights some of the sport’s hottest stars of the day. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 7 & 9 p.m. $18. Info, 617-942-0079.

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.21.

‘A NATURAL HISTORY OF VERMONT’: A wordless film offers a meditative journey through the Green Mountain State. A Q&A with producer Emily Tredeau follows. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-9 p.m.

Free; preregister; limited space.

Info, 434-3068.

‘PLACES IN THE HEART’: A widow played by Sally Field tries to maintain her modest farm in 1930s Texas. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI’: When her daughter’s murder goes unsolved, a mother takes drastic steps to inspire action in this 2017 comedic drama. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 533-2000.

food & drink

COMMUNITY DINNER & ANNUAL CELEBRATION: Friends and neighbors feast alongside Winooski Partnership for Prevention representatives.

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

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games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.21.

CRIBBAGE TEAMS: See WED.21.

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

PINOCHLE & RUMMY: See WED.21.

health & fitness

ACROYOGA CLASS: See WED.21.

RESILIENCE FLOW: See WED.21.

WEDNESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: See WED.21.

holidays

FESTIVAL OF TREES: See SAT.24, 6:30 p.m.

language

ABBY SNARSKI: The St. Mike’s graduate schools listeners on her experience teaching English abroad as part of the Teaching Assistant Program in France. A Q&A follows for those interested in applying for the program. Room 104, St. Edmund’s Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.21.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.21.

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‘A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2’: See WED.21, 1 & 8 p.m.

‘GRATITUDE’: See WED.21.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

CHROMATICATS & JAZZ VOCAL ENSEMBLE: Female jazz composers from the 1930s to the present shine in “Lady Day and Today.” See calendar spotlight.

University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-3040.

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ANORE HORTON: The executive director of Hunger Free Vermont provides food for thought with a discussion of undernourishment in the state. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

DARLENE OLSON: The associate professor of mathematics applies her expertise in “An Assessment of the Statistical Methods Used to Analyze RNASequencing Data.” Room 207, Bentley Hall, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 4-5:15 p.m.

Free. Info, les.kanat@northern vermont.edu.

RANDALL HARP & JULIA VALLERA: Technology and philosophy meet in “More Data More Problems: On Tracking, Consent and Control of Personally Identifying Information.”

Generator, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 540-0761.

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INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL: Columns, rows, cells, formulas and data entry become second nature at a tutorial on electronic spreadsheets. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

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ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: See WED.21, 11 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.

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FOMO?

BOOK DISCUSSION: Fans of the written word delve into The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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

LEATH TONINO: Thrill seekers live vicariously through the essays in The Animal One Thousand Miles Long: Seven Lengths of Vermont and Other Adventures. The author reads, signs and discusses the book.

The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061.

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RECOVERY WRITE NOW: See WED.21.

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

art

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

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

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

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classes THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $16.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS. $105/3 2-hour sessions, gear and 3 additional visits. Location: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center, 105 Briggs St., Burlington. Info: Andrea Charest, 657-3872, andrea@petra cliffs.com, petracliffs.com.

craft 200 Classes for Everyone.

CVUHS Campus HINESBURG. Full descriptions at access.cvuhs.org.

access classes at cvu high school 215 CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU HIGH SCHOOL: All ages, all welcome! Fall semester runs Sep. through the end of Jan. New classes beginning every week.

Access community education for all, in its 18th year, offers the following classes for the Fall Semester: 50 Art, 30 Culinary Art (cook and eat), 10 Foreign Language, 10 Music, 17 Fitness and Dance, 15 Kids, 17 Computer and Tech, 50 Life Skills, and 15 One Night U. Every person is a learner here, guaranteed. Senior discount. Full descriptions and schedule at access.cvuhs.org.

Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., 10 min. from Exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 482-7194,

art ABSTRACT WATERCOLOR: Explore the possibilities of designing interesting and exciting abstract paintings. Find meaningful ways to begin, create and finish a watercolor painting. There will be time for demonstrations, painting and positive critique of our discoveries. Instructor: Lisa Beach. Sat., Dec. 1, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $85/members; $110/ nonmembers. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.

climbing ADULT CLIMBING CLINICS: Did you know that climbing is going to be in the Olympics in 2020?

Better get training! Or at least introduce yourself to the sport that encourages fun and both physical and mental challenges. Beginners and those with experience will learn and advance with Petra Cliffs’ expert climbing instructors. Weekly starting Dec. 4. Cost:

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WREATH-MAKING WORKSHOP: Join Bramble + Bloom at Edsom Hill for a winter wonderland adventure! Foraging instruction from a forestry expert will be given while snowshoeing the Catamount Trail System. Enjoy wine, warming beverages, light canapés, and bites fireside with wreath- and garland-making.

Make and take home your very own design. Sun., Dec. 1, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $295/person; incl. wreath, materials & decorations, nibbles & refreshments, & a 25 percent room discount for the event. Location: Edson Hill Dining Room & Tavern, 1500 Edson Hill Rd., Stowe.

Info: 310-686-8199, brambleandbloom@ gmail.com,

8-9 p.m.; Bachata, Thu., 6-7 p.m.

Cost: $15/1-hour class. Location: Dsantos VT Dance Studio, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Unit 112A, Burlington. Info: Jon Bacon, 2272572, dsantosvt.com.

design/build HEMPCRETE WORKSHOP: Hempfully Green and HempStone LLC are excited to sponsor two back-to-back Hempcrete Workshops featuring Greg Flavall of Hemp Technologies Global, who is a master Hempcrete installer.

This workshop is “hands on” to give anyone interested in working with Hempcrete some experience in installing this amazing material. Tue. & Wed., Dec. 4 & 5. Cost: $200/8-hour class. Location: Tue. at 18 Granger St., Bellows Falls; Wed. at 100 Main St., Hatfield, Mass. Info: Hempfully Green, Emily Peyton, 579-5524, hempfullygreen@gmail.com, hempfullygreen.com.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com, DSANTOS VT DANCE CLASSES: New classes, new location! Come join the fun. Weekly classes in salsa, bachata, kizomba, kuduro.

No partner or experience needed.

Beginner drop-in classes. Salsa, Mon., 7-8 p.m.; Kizomba, Wed.,

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TRY THE Y!: Cardio and weight equipment. Spin, yoga, zumba and more group exercise classes.

Lap pool, 88-degree Fahrenheit program pool; swim lessons and aquatic classes. All in a supportive community where everyone is welcome. Try us for a day for free! Location: Greater Burlington YMCA, 266 College St., Burlington. Info: 862-9622, gbymca.org.

AFTERNOON INDEPENDENT JEWELRY CLASS (INCLUDES TOOL TRAINING): This class is designed for students who have taken a basic jewelry class. Come with a sketch, idea or project you have already started and need to finish. The instructor will be there to help take the right steps to finish your project with individual guidance. 4 Tue., Nov. 27-Dec. 18, 1-4 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: 5400761, generatorvt.com/classes.

GENERATOR CLASS OFFERINGS: Come check out our classes on 3D Printing, Welding, Jewelry, Laser Cutting, Forge, CNC Routing, Woodworking, Metalsmithing, Electronics, Welding, Kids Classes, Design Programs and more! Learn about classes at generatorvt.com/ classes. Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: 540-0761,

drumming TAIKO AND DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: Open classes in September. New drumming sessions begin the weeks of Nov. 26, Jan. 7, Feb. 4, Mar. 11, May 6.

Intermediate Taiko: Mon., 6-8:20 p.m. Taiko for Adults: Tue., 5:306:20 p.m., & Wed., 6:30-7:50 p.m. Djembe for Adults: Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Taiko for Kids and Parents: Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. World Drumming for Kids and Parents: Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Drums provided. Conga classes, too! Visit schedule and register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

website for complete information, or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

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FORMING AND FORGING: Learn the basics of forming and forging. You will learn about different types of hammers and what they are used for.

We will go over how to forge rings and bracelets and try a technique called fold forming, which is used to easily make 3D objects from 2D metal. 2 Wed., Dec. 5 & 12, 5:30-8 p.m.

Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatorvt.com/classes.

culinary PIG BUTCHERY DEMONSTRATIONS: Chef Tom Morris will go to great lengths to pull back the curtain and offer an unparalleled, hands-on learning experience. This is your chance to learn about pig anatomy and whole-animal butchery techniques. Tue., Nov. 27, 10 a.m.noon. Cost: $30/2-hour class.

Location: Tourterelle Restaurant & Inn, 3629 Ethan Allen Hwy, New Haven. Info: Christine Snell, 453-6309, kamilleny@aol.com, tourterellevermont.com.

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LASER-CUT HOLIDAY CARDS: Create a custom card by using new cutting-edge techniques with the laser cutter. There will be laser etching, stamping and cutting. This class is ideal for individuals and for couples and families learning together. This is a special workshop for the holidays or any special occasion needing a card!

Sun., Dec. 9, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatorvt.com/classes.

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

No training experience required.

Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children.

Students will learn realistic bullyproofing and self-defense life skills to avoid them becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure.

Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them throughout life.

IBJJF and CBJJ certified black belt sixth-degree instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. A five-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion.

Accept no Iimitations! Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 598-2839, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

meditation LEARN TO SPEAK SPANISH FLUENTLY: The most engaging native Spanish-speaking professor in Vermont is offering intensive group sessions for basic, intermediate and advanced levels.

Private sessions also available.

The communicative approach is used in a fun and friendly atmosphere. burlingtonvt.uni versitytutor.com/tutors/116306.

Cost: $99/8 sessions. Location: Burlington, Vermont. Info: 3739705, spanishtutor.vtfla@gmail. com, sites.google.com/view/ vt-foreign-language-academy.

martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Brazilian jiujitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian jiujitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces.

LEARN TO MEDITATE: Taught by qualified meditation instructors at the Burlington Shambhala Meditation Center: Wed., 6-7 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon.

Free and open to anyone. Free public meditation: weeknights, 6-7 p.m.; Tue. and Thu., noon-1 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Classes and retreats also offered. See our website at burlington.shamb hala.org. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave. Info: 658-6795,

performing arts THE SPIRIT OF PERFORMANCE: In this six-week course for artists, singers, poets, actors and writers, we will gather with 12 artists of different mediums and talk about the root of artistic expression.

What or who is your muse that helps channel the information from your brush, instrument, pen or voice? How can we all find avenues to our truth that we want to share? Starts Dec. 4; weekly on Tue., 6-9 p.m. Cost: $100/6week course. Location: 208 Flynn Shoebox Theater, 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Shoebox Theater, Robert Toms, 318-8393, robert.a.toms@gmail.com, roberttoms.com.

pilates PILATES WORKSHOP WITH ANULA MAIBERG: Join us for a six-hour workshop/movement experience with Anula. Topics will include Where Should I Be Feeling This and Building Community in Your Studio.

Anula has made a name for herself in the Pilates world: she’s been featured in Pilates Style magazine, is an instructor for Pilates Anytime and has over 23.7K Instagram followers. Her unique way of thinking about Pilates and movement has caught the attention PILATES

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of many. Dec. 15, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $250/person. Location: All Wellness, 128 Lakeside Ave., Burlington. Info: 863-9900, info@ allwellnessvt.com, allwellnessvt. com/workshops.

200-HOUR AYURVEDA INTEGRATION PROGRAM: Join us in learning and immerse yourself in the oldest surviving preventative health care system.

This program is ideal for yoga teachers, counselors, therapists, bodyworkers, nurses, doctors, wellness coaches, herbalists, etc. VSAC approved and payment plans available.

Can transfer hours to Kripalu’s Ayurveda Health Counselor program. More information at ayurvedavermont.com/ classes. 2019 schedule: Feb. 9-10, Mar. 9-10, Apr. 6-7, May 17-18, Jun. 8-9, Jul. 13-14, Aug. 17-18, Sep. 14-15, Oct. 19-20, Nov. 16-17. Cost: $2,795. Location: The Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, 34 Oak Hill Rd., Williston. Info: Allison Morse, 8728898, ayurvedavt@comcast.net,

spirituality PAST LIFE AND MEDIUMSHIP EVENT: Intuitive therapist Caryn Benevento and spiritual medium Drew Cali offer a powerful, healing and energizing day of connecting with your past lives, loved ones in spirit and your own inner intuitive self. Caryn and Drew share a passion for healing others through intuition and awakening!

Sat., Feb. 2. Cost: $125/person before Dec. 1; $149 after Dec. 1.

Location: All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 Botswick Farm Rd., Shelburne. Info: Your True North Counseling & Past Life Regression, Caryn Benevento, 233-6120, caryn. benevento@gmail.com, yourtruenorthhealing.com.

tai chi SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength,

flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings.

Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 3636890, snake-style.com.

Expressive Arts Burlington, 200 Main St., #9. Info: Topaz Weis, 343-8172, topazweis@gmx.net, expressiveartsburlington.com.

yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: Practice yoga in a down-to-earth atmosphere with some of the most experienced teachers and therapeutic professionals in Burlington.

Daily drop-in classes include $5 Community, Vinyasa, Kripalu,

Yin, Meditation, Yoga Wall and Yoga Therapeutics led by physical therapists. Dive deeper into your practice with Yoga for Life, a semester-based program of unlimited yoga, weekend workshops and mentorship.

Transform your career with our Yoga Teacher Training rooted in anatomy and physiology and taught by a faculty of healthcare providers who integrate yoga into their practices. $15/class; $140/10-class card; $5-10/community class. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington.

Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt. com.

GOOD GRIEF: THE ART OF GRIEVING: Has grief stopped you from feeling fully alive? How do we attend to both the tasks of living and grieving? Art provides color and texture in a time when life feels heavy and dull. Art speaks when words fail. Explore the art of grieving though music, art, movement and writing. Weekly on Sat., Jan. 12-Feb. 16, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Cost: $240/person; $200/ person if paid by Jan. 1; all materials incl. Location:

SANGHA STUDIO | NONPROFIT, DONATION-BASED YOGA: Sangha Studio builds an empowered community through the shared practice of yoga. Free yoga service initiatives and outreach programs are offered at 17 local organizations working with all ages.

Join Sangha in both downtown Burlington and the Old North End for one of their roughly 60 weekly classes and workshops. Become a Sustaining Member for $60/ month and practice as often as you like! Daily. Location: Sangha Studio, 120 Pine St. & 237 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 448-4262, info@sanghastudio. org,

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Room With a View Fenster’s JJ Weihl talks songwriting, reality and VHS filmmaking B Y J O RD A N AD A M S

SEVEN DAYS: In an email to Seven Days, you mentioned that your new record is a “true exercise in creative democracy.” How so?

JJ WEIHL: The Room is about trying to transcend individuality and create something really together — which can be really, really tricky when it comes to creative endeavors that are so personal and laden with a lot of complex emotions and parts of yourself. To be able to truly create something with other people is really, really challenging. But the process definitely guided what came out, which is a lot of different creative impulses finding a home in one record.

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hat is real? What is imaginary? Is there any difference between the two? Well, sure, of course there is. But what we think of as real may not be as set in stone as we think it is. It’s all about perception.

Heady themes such as these suffuse The Room, the latest and fourth album from Berlin-based experimental psych-pop group Fenster. The international quartet’s members hail from Germany, France and the United States. In fact, its American contingent — multi-instrumentalist JJ Weihl — is a Middlebury College alumna.

The band originally formed in 2012 and released its debut LP, Bones. In the six years since, Fenster have undergone several shifts in players before solidifying into their current lineup of Elias Hock, Jonathan Jarzyna, Lucas Ufo and Weihl.

For the new album, the band redefined its approach to creating music. The four musicians sequestered themselves in a house in the Italian countryside, aiming to make a truly collaborative record.

Starting from a blank slate, they came out the other side with a contemplative, spaced-out 10-track collection of synthinfused psychedelic pop. The Room follows Emocean, a two-pronged project consisting of a DIY sci-fi feature-length film and accompanying soundtrack album.

Seven Days caught up with Weihl by phone.

Fenster

SD: Are you aware of the Mandela Effect?

JW: No, I don’t think so.

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SD: How did you start the process? Did you come in with any song sketches or demos?

JW: We sort of had a manifesto for [The Room], which indicated no one could really bring fully formed song ideas, [only] what we referred to as embryos. It could be a little riff, or a vocal melody or part of song. The idea was to really try, from beginning to end, to create these songs

SD: Do you have a favorite track on The Room?

JW: The one song that we love to play live is the last track on the record, “Two Doors.” It’s a special one. There’s this feeling of infinity. We refer to it as a digital ocean. There’s definitely something really peaceful and infinite about it.

SD: In your press materials, you said of new track “HBW,” “The lyrics lend an enigmatic tint to the landscape of so-called objective reality versus perceived reality.” Um, what?

JW: It’s a question or topic that we all discuss a lot: mediating what it means to see the world versus what does the world offer as objective, so-called reality. What you create is actually reality, and whatever you see and perceive to be the truth is reality. There is no quintessential reality in and of itself. The world that you project from your own mind — that ties in with the album artwork. [It’s] this head[-shaped] room, and it goes into a smaller room and a smaller room and a smaller room.

[There’s] this idea of the reality inside our own heads being projected outwards. It’s sort of a loop, a great mystery that no one ever will solve or know the answer to. It’s a lot to unpack.

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enough to sit in a room together and see what happens.

together. I haven’t encountered too many bands that have tried this process. And I understand why. It’s challenging, for sure.

And you end up making things that you never would or could create on your own.

Maybe for the next record we’ll try a slightly different approach. I think there’s a beauty in this record in that we really tried something challenging and radical for ourselves, which was to be brave

SD: It’s the name of a website that explores this phenomenon of people sharing memories that are objectively false. Apparently, there’s a huge population of people who vividly recall Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the ’80s. There’s also confusion as to the spelling of the Berenstain Bears.

JW: Oh, yes. I’ve heard of this. I think that there’s something about emotional truth in that there’s often a discrepancy between ROOM WITH A VIEW

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Clint Bierman, Steve Hadeka, Joshua Panda, Andrew Moroz and Alex Budney

No, Thank You

Greetings to you all on this fine Thanksgiving week! Whether you’re reading this column on Wednesday, the day it hits the streets, or Thursday night post-turkey or even post-Black Friday, I want to take a minute to give a few thanks and shout-outs to some deserving people, places and things. To avoid being too cheesy or earnest, I’m going to keep this brief.

One thing for which I’m thankful is the plethora of places to perform in and around the Queen City. Venues have been popping up all over the place. From new kids on the block Deli 126, the Old Post and the Double E Lounge to slightly more established spots like SideBar and Foam Brewers, this abundance is a boon for local and touring musicians alike and should not be taken for granted.

I’m grateful for the bounty of albums Seven Days has received this year. As of this week, we’ve reviewed more than 100 local EPs and LPs in 2018 alone. But here’s the really wild part: We still have approximately 45

records waiting their turn. Don’t get me wrong. This is a very good problem to have. From my perspective, too much art is far better than not enough.

Unfortunately, it’s not possible to write about everything we’ve received this year in a timely fashion. Or at all.

But we’re doing our best.

Local music folks at large: I’m thankful for your flexibility. Seven Days staffers can have unpredictable schedules. But I can’t think of a time when someone — promoter, artist or some other music professional — hasn’t been able to make time for me when I’m checking up on an upcoming event or project. I wouldn’t be able to do what I do if you all weren’t out there doing what you do. So, thanks a million for always wanting to work together.

OK, I think I need to stop here before I let myself have any more feelings.

Besides, a few other things are worth your attention this week…

The Big Day

One of those things is what to do on Thanksgiving. Despite the overall trend

of closures in observance of the holiday, there are a few places to get down on Turkey Day. Karaoke lovers in Burlington and Plattsburgh can sing their hearts out at JP’s Pub and Olive Ridley’s, respectively.

Kudos to both watering holes for staying open just so people can belt out “I Will Survive” and “The Gambler” while their bellies are full of mashed potatoes and gravy.

The biggest T-Day hoopla in the Burlington area is at the Monkey House in Winooski. Dubbed “SmashGiving,” the potluck feast features tunes from local funk-on-sleeve ensemble FUNKWAGON and Ann Arbor, Mich., jamfusion outfit MA BAKER. On a regular Thursday night, you can catch CRAIG MITCHELL spinning tunes at Finnigan’s Pub. But he’ll be on the scene at the Monkey House slinging home-cooked eats. I happened to stumble into one of Mitchell’s smorgasbords a couple of Christmas Eves ago at Half Lounge, and, let me tell you, the man not only does an uncanny imitation of PRINCE, he also makes dope comfort food. In other words, leave room for a second dinner.

Also, start your day off right by tuning into DJ LLU’s “Turkey Request Live” broadcast on WRUV 90.1 FM. The all-request block is the one time of the year when the University of Vermont radio station waives its strict policies regarding what music can and can’t be played. Basically, as long as the track isn’t full of FCC-violating language, it’s fair game. Tune in from 9 a.m. until noon — aka the meal prep hours.

Keep It Going

Given the likelihood you’ll be spending the weekend with family, you might be looking for some entertainment that appeals to multiple generations. If so, consider popping over to the Essex Cinemas on Saturday, November 24.

The GARCIA PROJECT, one of the top JERRY GARCIA BAND tribute acts, takes over the Double E Lounge — specifically, the massive T-Rex Theater — for a night of Americana goodness.

On Friday, November 23, consider checking out the assemblage of CLINT BIERMAN, STEVE HADEKA, JOSHUA PANDA, ANDREW MOROZ and ALEX BUDNEY at SOUNDBITES

FRI 11.23 104.7 The Point welcomes

The Marcus King Band Ida Mae SAT 11.24

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Quadra

Phil Abair Band, Mr. French

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LGBTQLOL

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San Holo

WED 11.28

Felly

THU 11.29

Chet Porter, Taska Black, Eastghost

Gyyps, Trip Carter 106.7 WIZN welcomes

Zoso: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience

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Shwayze

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Kung Fu

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northeast kingdom

HALF LOUNGE: Open Decks, 10 p.m., free.

outside vermont

burlington

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

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

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

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Troy Millette (folkrock), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: Jedidiah Kaine (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

Bishop LaVey (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free. 3rd Hand Smoke (indie pop), 10:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Loose Ends (rock), 4 p.m., free. Gneiss (rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (open format), 11 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Hotel Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. Indie Rumble (improv), 8:30 p.m., $5.

chittenden county

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Interactive Video Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7:30 p.m., free.

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX CINEMAS & T-REX THEATER: Burlington Songwriters Showcase with Kaomi Kingsley and Kevin McEnerney (acoustic), 6 p.m., free.

THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Welterweights (country, rock), 7 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Bluegrass Jam Session, 7:30 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

MINGLE NIGHTCLUB: DJs Gagu, Donroge, P.C. the Spindoctor, Mike Trombly, Triple J (open format), 9 p.m., $5.

SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

stowe/smuggs

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

MOOGS PLACE: Abby Sherman (folk), 6:30 p.m., free. Django and the Max Weaver All-Stars (Americana, rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

TAP 25: Jacob Green (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

ZENBARN: Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.

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

HATCH 31: Rough Cut Blues Jam, third Wednesday of every month, 8 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

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

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Kid, British singer-songwriters Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean formed the duo IDA

MAE.

Under their new moniker, the married couple streamline the grungy blues-rock

sound of their previous outfit to form something a bit sharper. Over turbulent guitar licks, Turpin and Jean create slick harmonies on their edgy debut single, “Feel Them Getting Closer.” Their 2018 follow-up track, “My Girl Is a Heartbreak,” is equally fierce. Ida Mae open for the MARCUS KING BAND on Friday, November 23, at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington.

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

MONKEY HOUSE: Smash-Giving with Funkwagon, Ma Baker and special guests (funk), 8:30 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: LGBTQLOL (standup), 8:30 p.m., $8/10.

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

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: AmerikanaBlue (Americana), 6 p.m., free.

FRI.23

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

burlington

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Sam & Dylan (rock), 5 p.m., free. Shake (rock, pop), 9 p.m., free.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Tiffany Pfeiffer (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

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

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

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: The Hubcats (folk, blues), 8 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Lowell Thompson (alt-country), 9 p.m., free.

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

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

SIDEBAR: Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation.

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MONKEY HOUSE: Sharkat and Friends (eclectic), 10 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Kelly Ravin and Halle Jade (country), 7 p.m., free.

THE OLD POST: Jimmy “T” and the Cobras (country), 9 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: King Me (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. The Hitmen (rock), 9 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Abby Sherman (folk), 8 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: DJ Fattie B (open format), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: JJ Cyrus (old-time), 6 p.m., free.

Different Strokes (The Strokes tribute), 9 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Michelle Buteau (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Thomas Gunn (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free. Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour, 8:30 p.m., free.

chittenden county

GUSTO’S: BON/FIRE (AC/DC tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free.

POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): Nowehere, Washington (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: The Marcus King Band, Ida Mae (psychedelic, soul), 8 p.m., $16/18.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Shane Murley Band (Americana), 6 p.m., free.

SMITTY’S PUB: Ryan Hanson (rock), 8 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Quadra, Phil Abair Band, Mr. French (rock), 8 p.m., $12/15.

outside vermont

RED SQUARE: Shrimptunes (rock), 2 p.m., free. Funkwagon (funk), 5 p.m., free. DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

SIDEBAR: Danny & the Parts, the Leatherbound Books (country), 7 p.m., free.

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX CINEMAS & T-REX THEATER: The Garcia Project (Jerry Garcia Band tribute), 9 p.m., $20.

chittenden county

RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. Chelsea Paolini (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Ryan Ober (folk-rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

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

chittenden county

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Panda, Bierman, Moroz, Hadeka and Budney (eclectic), 7:30 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa, reggaeton), 6 p.m., free. DJ ATAK (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Michelle Buteau (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

burlington

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: The Rhyme and Unreason Show (standup, hip-hop), 8 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

Mashtodon (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

MOOGS PLACE: Blue Fox (blues), 9 p.m., free.

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

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Toast (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

rutland/killington

BUCH SPIELER RECORDS: Community DJ Series (vinyl DJs), 3 p.m., free.

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burlington

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Chris Peterman (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (’70s, ’80s and ’90s pop), 9 p.m., $5.

FOAM BREWERS: Brooklyn Circle (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Fun House (house), 10 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Garden State Radio (covers), 8 p.m., $10-20.

JUNIPER: Sam DuPont and Robinson Morse (folk, jazz), 9 p.m., free.

RICK & KAT’S HOWLIN’ MOUSE: Discavus, George Nostrand (rock fusion), noon, free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Bill Burrell (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free. Tia Brazda (jazz, pop), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

outside vermont

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

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

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Cash Journey (Johnny Cash tribute), 6 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Melissa Plett (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Blues for Breakfast (blues), 9 p.m., $7.

RADIO BEAN: Ryan Sweezey (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

Reid Parsons (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free. Funk Shui (funk), 10 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 3 p.m., free. Dave Keller Band (blues), 7 p.m., $5.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Megan Jean & the KFB (folk-rock), 9 p.m., free.

GUSTO’S: DJ LaFountaine (open format), 9:30 p.m., free.

THE DEN AT HARRY’S HARDWARE: Jacob Green (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Them Boys (country), 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

EL TORO: Chris Lyon (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Mark LeGrand (honky-tonk), 8 p.m., free.

TAP 25: Al’s Pals (rock, funk), 7 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

HOSTEL TEVERE: Bloodshot Bill, the Benevolent Tarots, the Brand New Luddites (rockabilly), 9 p.m., $5.

ZENBARN: Red Hot Juba (blues, swing), 8 p.m., $5.

middlebury area

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

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Nectar’s in Burlington. With this cast of talented players, you don’t even need to know exactly what they’ll be getting up to. This is a 21+ event, so your underage siblings, nieces, nephews and l’il cousins will have to sit this one out.

Winter’s Bonus

Hear ye, hear ye: A new music series hits the Mad River Valley on Saturday, November 24. Hostel Tevere hosts the ongoing series, which hopes to bring in not only local acts from around the

state, but also regional and touring acts.

First up is Montréal-bred rockabilly sensation BLOODSHOT BILL. The one-man band headlines the inaugural event, with support from the BENEVOLENT TAROTS. Rounding things out are the BRAND NEW LUDDITES, who seem to have (at least momentarily) stepped away from their ongoing feud with the TSUNAMIBOTS to rock the eff out on their own.

The series continues through the winter. Upcoming acts include SAVAGE HEN, MIKU DAZA and the HIGH BREAKS.

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swingin’ era of vocalist icons like Blossom Dearie and Anita O’Day, as well as newer starlets such as Caro Emerald. She merges classical and contemporary influences on her latest album, Daydream. A huge production, the record features a full band of piano, brass, string, woodwind and mallet players. They add zest and effortless charm to the artist’s tunes, whether breezy bossa nova or brooding torch songs. Brazda plays on Saturday, November 24, at the Light Club Lamp Shop in Burlington.

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PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Garden State Radio (covers), 8 p.m., $10-20.

champlain islands/ northwest TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Tom Caswell Duet (blues), 7 p.m., free.

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OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Flannel Millenium (’90s and ’00s alternative covers), 9:30 p.m., free.

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FOAM BREWERS: Zack DuPont (folk), 1 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Junglist Lounge (drum and bass), 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lyle Brewer (acoustic), 8 p.m., free.

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

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Showcase, 9 p.m., free. Bira (pop, funk), 11 p.m., free.

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

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

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Girl Crush Comedy (standup), 7 p.m., $5.

Character Flaws: Sketch Comedy Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

chittenden county

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

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Southern Old Time Music Jam (traditional), 10 a.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m., donation.

MON.26 burlington

HALF LOUNGE: Saint Nick and Jack Bandit (bass music), 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 8 p.m., free.

Fenster (psych-pop), 9:30 p.m., $5.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Game Night, 7 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Galen Clark (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Eben Schumacher (folk, blues), 8:30 p.m., free. Chloe Watkinson (blues-rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Moochie (open format), 10 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Queen City Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free.

LINCOLNS: The Laugh Shack (standup), 8:30 p.m., $5.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 7 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Hannah Fair (singer-songwriter), 9:30 p.m., free.

chittenden county

NECTAR’S: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: San Holo, Chet Porter, Taska Black, Eastghost (EDM), 8:30 p.m., $25/27/90.

MONKEY HOUSE: Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk), 6 p.m., free. Motown Mondays (Motown DJs), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone (blues), 7 p.m., free.

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burlington

DRINK: Comedy Open Mic, 8:30 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Local Dork (eclectic vinyl), 6 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Honky Tonk Tuesday with Ponyhustle, 10 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: Four-D (house, hip-hop), 9 p.m., free. DJ A-RA$ (open format), 11 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Seth Yacovone (blues), 7 p.m., free. Ron Stoppable (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Ukulele Kids with Joe Baird (sing-along), 9:30 a.m., free.

chittenden county

MONKEY HOUSE: The Full Cleveland (yacht rock), 9 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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REVIEW this Reid Parsons, Reid Parsons (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL)

Burlington singer-songwriter Reid Parsons recently showcased her appreciation for pop music during a performance at ArtsRiot. Though it was technically a release show for her debut self-titled EP, the folksy singer-songwriter quickly moved into a selection of well-known covers from practically every recent decade.

Her soulful takes on Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” and Amy Winehouse’s “You Know I’m No Good” were just as charming as her rendition of Radiohead’s heady “High and Dry.” That same appreciation and mastery of pop comes through on her five-track collection — though more in structure than style. Parsons sticks to the triedand-true sounds of wistful Americana, bolstered by the incomparable talents of some noteworthy local players. Namely: Russ Lawton contributes drum work, and

Red Hot Juba, Stir Crazy (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL)

Back in 2008, local “cosmic Americana” outfit Red Hot Juba released their selftitled debut. Unassuming and underrated, the record served a tantalizing taste of what was then a promising new band. The quartet’s trajectory since has done little to diminish that early excitement.

The musicians have become stalwarts, gigging constantly all over the state and just as constantly honing their amiable, silky-smooth fusion of myriad styles. In fact, since that debut record dropped, the only way to hear the band has been live; Red Hot Juba have waited a decade to record a followup. Fortunately for Juba fans, Stir Crazy is worth the wait.

The record opens, appropriately

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Brett Lanier adds his exceptional pedal steel skills. Compositionally, the artist’s verses are wrought with tension, which inevitably find their way to cathartic and memorable choruses.

Parsons captures exquisite moments of quiet solemnity, the kind that we all face as the daylight hours dwindle and darkness becomes the rule of the land.

(The EP couldn’t have come at a more perfect time.) “I’m clocking in at 7 again / It won’t be ‘til past dark when I get out,” she sings on opening track “Addison.” The phenomenon she sings of is more than relatable; it’s inescapable. Who hasn’t experienced the sinking feeling of daylight slipping through your fingers when it’s in such short supply?

“Addison” also demonstrates the artist’s dynamic choices when it comes to arrangements. It begins simply and assuredly with only Parsons’ voice and acoustic guitar, then other elements slowly creep in and build toward a soft climax.

Cello, courtesy of Emily Taubl, and Lanier’s pedal steel billow around Parsons and

co-producer/engineer Yasmin Tayeby’s affecting harmonies. Lawton kicks in with a shuffling beat, which subtly shifts into double time at the song’s midpoint.

Stark and gut-wrenching, “Charlie” is a dark and brooding portrait of a restless soul. A militaristic beat hints at the fate of the titular character (“So Charlie shook THU 29 | FRI 30 | SAT 1 the hand of the recruiter / At the entrance of the school / And then he was gone) while a sour cello line slowly cascades behind Parsons’ vocals.

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enough, on “Teaser,” penned by guitarist D. Davis. Built around a brisk country shuffle and some nifty chicken-pickin’ guitar, the song is indeed a fine tease of the record’s 12 tracks: vintage twang and swing cut with jazz chops, blues heart and a winking sense of humor.

Most of the tunes are originals, including the second cut, Eric Krull’s “Mr. Responsibility,” a bluesy little number colored by easy call-and-response harmonies. Davis’ slinky “A Woman Waits” follows, simmering with laid-back hot-house charm colored by guest Jake Whitesell’s mellow sax lines.

Red Hot Juba’s players are prodigiously talented. By and large, they favor restraint, admirably sublimating individual glory for the good of a song. But in certain instances, such as the instrumental title track, they stretch out and indulge in spacey jams.

Those who like their Americana heavy on the cosmic will no doubt enjoy. Even

the jam-averse might appreciate the cut’s numerous hairpin turns, where ripping solos augment the arrangement rather than overwhelm it.

“Turtle Dove” is the first of the record’s two covers. Here, Red Hot Juba give the traditional song twangy treatment by way of Jerry Garcia and David Grisman.

Later, the band offers its take on Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’ “Miss Ohio.”

Welch purists might bristle at the bouncy arrangement, which saps some of the song’s original gravitas. But it’s a pleasant enough twist on a modern classic.

The band returns to form on Krull’s harmony-laden “Lucious,” which sounds something like a Mills Brothers tune filtered through the lens of a small jazz combo. The record’s closing couplet, “Autumn Blues” and “Brush It Aside,” conclude the record on a high note. The latter song, a swooning instrumental showcasing Davis’ uniquely emotive style, is among the finest in the band’s canon.

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Fully Lit People tend to overlook wedding-and-events bands. Whether you’re

at a conference, a corporate holiday party or a bat mitzvah, they’re usually just there, you know? But you won’t be able to tune out New Jersey party band GARDEN STATE RADIO. The high-energy four-piece plays ubiquitous chart-toppers such as Katy Perry’s “Firework” and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin.’” But its stage show is far from commonplace. LED apparel and specialty lighting give the band’s sets a fantastical, futuristic quality. Garden State Radio perform on Friday and Saturday, November 23 and 24, at the Pickle Barrel Nightclub in Killington.

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SWEET MELISSA’S: Blue Fox’s Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

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

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

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HARDWICK STREET CAFÉ AT THE HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS: Trivia Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m., free.

LARGEST SELECTION OF VAPORIZERS IN VT. LARGE SELECTION OF LOCAL AND FAMOUS GLASS ARTISTS.

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

LARGEST SELECTION OF SCIENTIFIC AND AMERICAN GLASS IN TOWN

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ARTSRIOT: Consider the Source, Revibe, Adventure Dog (progressive, Middle Eastern fusion), 8 p.m., $10/12.

DELI 126: Bluegrass Jam, fourth Wednesday of every month, 8 p.m., free.

THE SMOKE SHOP WITH THE HIPPIE FLAVOR

FOAM BREWERS: Familiar Faces (eclectic, jam), 7 p.m., free.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bluegrass Session, 7 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 10 p.m., free.

THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Open Mic Night, 8 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: The Alex Stewart Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

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

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Mikahely (world), 9:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Adam Wolf, Laurel, A Box of Stars (country, slowcore), 8:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: David Lyden (rock, pop-punk), 7 p.m., free. Lilith (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., free. Doc Rotten (punk), 10:30 p.m., free.

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CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Zack DuPont and Matt Deluca (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

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

MOOGS PLACE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free. Val Davis (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., free.

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RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 8 p.m., free. DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

ZENBARN: Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Hotel Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Red Ribbon Ribbin’ (standup, variety), 7 p.m., $10. Indie Rumble (improv), 8:30 p.m., $5.

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

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PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Interactive Video Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7:30 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Felly, Gyyps, Trip Carter (hiphop), 8 p.m., $23/25/49.

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

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When Life Was Simpler...

Room With a View « P.62 something that’s a fact and something that rings true to you. In terms of this collective glitch of thinking that Mandela died [in the ’80s], there’s clearly some kind of emotional truth that has circumvented objective truth.

But, I think in general, art is the way you kind of mediate between those two things. Sometimes, to get to a feeling or a deeper understanding of something, you can’t really talk about it literally or with words. You have to move around it with something indirect, something twisted. Or having soft eyes to see something clearly, to un-focus from what you see in front of you.

...and The Music Was Better!

SD: Tell us a little bit about your last album, Emocean, and the accompanying, self-produced feature-length film.

JW: We made the soundtrack before we made the movie. The reason we did it is because we wanted to try to create an album that was really fun and low pressure. We thought, What if we made a soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist? Then we decided to go ahead and actually make that movie, which was a very fun and also challenging project. It took us about eight months, beginning to end, with the album recording and the making of the movie.

It started as a joke. There weren’t any super high-concept sci-fi literature or movies we based it on. It was more innocent ideas from our own heads. It references pop cultural symbols, but the point of it was to make something fun and basically see if we could pull it off and finish it.

I don’t think it’s perfect by any means.

SD: You shot primarily on VHS. Why? JW: There are a lot of reasons we used it: the nostalgia quality of it, but also VHS files are really small [when digitized] compared to HD. So it was much easier to edit and do all of the post-production. It was a very experimental way of making a movie.

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INFO Fenster perform on Monday, November 26, 9:30 p.m., at the Light Club Lamp Shop in Burlington. $5. AA. radiobean.com

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ou probably know your zodiac (sun) sign, and you may even know your rising and moon signs. You might identify strongly with one of the four houses of Hogwarts; perhaps you have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory. But do you know if you are a boat, rocket, camper, car, utility trailer or airplane?

With the sleek directive trappings of, say, a Scientology outpost, current BCA Center exhibition “Tectonic Industries: Dreams Can Come True (If It’s Not Working for You, You’re Not Doing It Right)” pokes and prods at the cultural construction of archetypes — and at our collective hunger to “solve” ourselves through them.

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Created by Portland, Maine-based Tectonic Industries — a collaboration of Lars Boye Jerlach and Helen Stringfellow — the show is a re-presentation of their installation “This Notion Is Only Temporary,” hosted by Minneapolis’ Soap Factory in 2004. Through video, diagrams and installation, “Dreams Can Come True” combines the format of the arbitrary-butirresistible quiz with participatory craft and basic principles of magic. There is also, incidentally, a gift shop.

The word “interactive” gets thrown around a lot in art, but “Dreams Can Come True” is, unarguably, interactive.

In other words, there’s not a lot to see (or feel) here without playing along. Upon entering the gallery, visitors are invited

to “Follow the Dreams Can Come True process to change your life.” For Step One, a rack proffers clipboards of washable forms, which look suspiciously like standardized test fill-in-the-bubble answer sheets, and accompanying markers.

As elsewhere throughout the exhibition, there are giggles and snorts to be had in reading the fine print. The answer form, for example, facetiously asks, “Are you looking for answers to the problems in your life? Are you searching for happiness, for meaning, for joy and ease in all that you do?” You know it, bucko.

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art Nearby, a mounted screen circulates slides of text. One warns, “By following the instructions given throughout the gallery, this process could, quite possibly, change your life forever.” Are you ready?

Around the corner, the fun begins in earnest with Step Two: questions about yourself. Three wall-mounted monitors cycle through seemingly endless multiplechoice questions; instructions explain that the more questions one answers, the more accurate one’s final results will be. With six lettered response options, A through F, guests are invited to self-evaluate by answering such inquiries as, “If you were a seagull, which of the following would you love the most?” and, “Weirdly you get to choose the carpet for your worst enemy. What pattern do you choose?” and, perhaps most apropos for today’s news cycle, “The world is ending in three days.

What do you do?”

One could, theoretically, sit answering questions for at least an hour: There is space on the form’s front to answer 110 multiple-choice questions and more space on the back. This visitor answered 27 questions. Whatever the threshold, once the need to personally respond to very specific hypothetical questions has been sated, it’s time for Step Three: tallying the results.

A s a ny c u r i ous adolescent who’s ever read Cosmopolitan knows, your type (and customized advice) is determined by the letter you most frequently choose. So it is with the “Dreams Can Come True” process: If mostly A, you’re a boat; mostly B, you’re a rocket, and so on. After your self type is determined, Step Four asks you to pick out a corresponding “project”: a sheaf of paper to transform into a model of said vessel using provided scissors and tape. Actually making the model is Step Five.

Each assignment comes with observations about personality — too lengthy to reveal here — and, most importantly, an invitation to reflect. For example: “Write down any self-doubting feelings you’ve ever had on the rectangular box on the

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body of the rocket so you can be rid of earnest effort at individual and collecthem once and for all.” tive uplift — but it’s not a completely Finally, Step Six is to place one’s finished, nihilistic dismissal of wishful thinking, inscribed vessel on the appropriate table either. with other structures of This peculiar its kind. Herein lies one middle space points to several simultaof the exhibition’s most fruitful components, at neous truths: Most least from an anthropoeveryone has both logical standpoint: By dreams for and observing this evolving doubts about themselves; many of us and literally socially constructed sculpare willing to believe ture, it’s easy (albeit in the impact of unscientific) to gauge intention-setting; how many people and both of these have participated and facts leave us open how numerous the to manipulation different “types” are. by external actors (At the time of this promising fulfillvisit, it appeared boats ment. From all and planes were most sides, it reveals how common.) we have learned to Closer inspection think of ourselves as gives insight into DIY fixer-uppers, as the hopes, plans and independent, maindoubts — with varytenance-hungry vessels traveling ing degrees of magnitude — of so many through time. strangers.

“Dreams Do Come True” Beyond the general novelty of opens the floodgates for unsetthis whole ordeal is a All photos are details of the installation rather pervasive and tling reflections on presumably intenself, culture and tional sense of melancholy under neolib- desperation, both public and private. eral late capitalism. After all, exhibition Whether or not it works is up text notes, “Tectonic Industries create to you. mixed-media installations that scrutinize our all-encompassing desire for instant Contact: jones@sevendaysvt.com gratification and immediate satisfaction.”

The over-the-top cheekiness of the INFO various and ample text materials cast an “Tectonic Industries: Dreams Can Come True inherent film of doubt upon the efficacy (If It’s Not Working for You, You’re Not Doing of the tasks performed and intentions It Right),” on view through February 9 at BCA set by visitors. This is not an entirely Center in Burlington. burlingtoncityarts.org

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Every year, the proprietor of Burlington’s

f STUDENT EXHIBIT: Work by BFA students Shastina Ann-Wallace, Kiersten Slater and Savannah LesCord.

Reception: Thursday, November 29, 3-5 p.m. November 26-December 14. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Johnson.

S.P.A.CE. Gallery mounts an installation

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ANNUAL HOLIDAY SHOW: Guest and member artisans present an array of handmade wares, from pottery to scarves to furniture. November 23-January 5. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

f FACULTY ART EXHIBIT: Work in a variety of mediums with the theme of “north” by gallery director Barclay Tucker, Kate Renna, Harry Mueller and others.

Reception: Tuesday, November 27, 6 p.m. November 27-January 18. Info, 626-6459. Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon in Lyndonville.

reflecting on the past year. As with anyone’s life, hers has had ups and downs, with “Note to Self” exhibition conveys that she is in a happy place. And entering the installation should gladden anyone’s heart.

The floor is covered with Astroturf. A pair of raspberry-colored plastic lawn chairs and bright-blue urns — filled with real but fading roses — contribute jolts of color. In

f ‘WINTER!’: Curated by Victoria Mathiesen and Andrea Strobach, the seasonal show includes 2D MAC member artwork and winter-themed work from private collections. Reception: Friday, November 23, 5-7 p.m. November 23-January 19. Info, 334-1966.

MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

the gallery’s main room, Mitchell has set up

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f DONALD SAAF: Paintings, illustrations and

sculptures at the intersection of fine art and folk art. Reception: Saturday, November 24, 5-7 p.m.

November 24-January 6. Info, 251-8290. Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro.

ART EVENTS 40TH ANNUAL PUTNEY CRAFT TOUR: The oldest continuing crafts tour in the country includes glass blowers, potters, jewelers, weavers, painters, woodworkers, photographers, even artisan cheesemakers, winemakers and custom bicycle makers. Visitors can start at the Gleanery Restaurant for info, maps and a preview exhibition. Various Putney locations, Friday, November 23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, November 24, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Sunday, November 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

ARTS DISTRICT HOLIDAY MARKET: Vendors display handcrafts, jewelry and clothing, along with food and wine sampling. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, Saturday, November 24, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

CAMBRIDGE SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY: Visit small businesses throughout Jeffersonville and enjoy a Holiday Artisan Market. Various Cambridge and Jeffersonville locations, Saturday, November 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 498-4988.

‘CONQUERING UNREASONABLE NON-TOLERABLE SEXISM’: Artists Kristen Perkins, aka Melanie Muse, and Katlin Parenteau depict empowering, sensual, graphic images of the female form as a statement on systematic oppression and breaking out of metaphorical chains. Contour Studios, Newport, Saturday, November 24, 6-8:45 p.m. Info, 334-4655.

DR. SKETCHY: An alternative life-drawing event with model Siouxie Charisse. Bring your own supplies.

Monkey House, Winooski, Wednesday, November 28, 6-8 p.m. $12; $10 for students.

WOMEN’S FESTIVAL OF CRAFTS: The 29th annual holiday shopping event featuring more than 50 artisans’ booths with handmade jewelry, artwork, pottery, greeting cards, clothing, recycled and upcycled art, housewares, herbal products, and more.

Burlington City Hall Auditorium, Saturday, November 24, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, November 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 264-9820.

YEAR OF THE BIRD WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY: Participants learn the basics of wildlife photography, spend a day capturing images, and can enter a photo competition. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center, Quechee, Saturday, November 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free with nature center admission. Info, 359-5000.

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a yellow chaise lounge holding a blue-andwhite striped beach towel, a vintage ladies’ magazine and gardening gloves. Nearby Another small table holds a comment book.

On the walls are framed vintage magazine photos with phrases written on the glass; other frames contain cliché phrases, such as “blessing in disguise” and “fake it till you make it,” etched on glass. The installation has an early ’60s sensibility. “The whole exhibition is a paradox, a manicured optical illusion, fresh, beautiful,” Mitchell writes in gallery notes, “yet fake grass states, ‘I’m happier now.’ Which is in fact true, though it’s all art after all.” Through December 1.

Pictured: detail from “Note to Self.”

ONGOING SHOWS burlington

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

VCAM Studio in Burlington.

THE ART OF ADELINE KLIMA: The 92-year-old artist, who has become legally blind, shows 30 paintings in pastel, oil and acrylic. Through December 15. Info, 922-1666. Nunyuns Bakery & Café in Burlington.

THE ART SHOW NO. 12: Works by local artists in a variety of mediums. Through November 23. Info, publicartschool@gmail.com. RL Photo Studio in Burlington.

BREAD & PUPPET LIFE LITTLE LIFE EXHIBITION: A dozen painted woodcut prints alternating with text pages addressing family separation. Through November 27. Info, 525-3031. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington.

CRYSTAL STOKES: Acrylic paintings by the central Vermont artist. Curated by SEABA. Through December 31. Info, 859-9222. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington.

VISUAL ART IN SEVEN DAYS:

GREEN DOOR STUDIO GROUP SHOW: An eclectic mix of art and artists including Steve Sharon (abstract paintings), Justine Poole (mosaic furniture), Danny Lefrançois (fantastical mixed-media works), Jason Pappas (recycled/repurposed/assemblage art), Eric Eickmann (urethane, acrylic paintings), Jon Black (metal jewelry), Brea Schwartz (HANKS, handkerchiefs designed by women artists), Jeff Bruno (oil, acrylic, latex and charcoal paintings), and Nicole Christman (pop surrealist paintings). Through November 30. Info, nicolechristmanart@gmail.com.

Green Door Studio in Burlington.

‘HOUSE TO HOME’: An exhibition examining the meaning of home through cultural, ethnographic and decorative art objects from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and Oceania, ranging from antiquity to the present. ‘THE IMPOSSIBLE IDEAL: VICTORIAN FASHION AND FEMININITY’: An exhibition exploring how fashion embodied the many contradictions of Victorian women’s lives through clothing and accessories from the museum collection, accompanied by excerpts from popular American women’s magazines. Through December 14. Info, 656-0750.

Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington.

ART LISTINGS AND SPOTLIGHTS ARE WRITTEN BY PAMELA POLSTON. LISTINGS ARE RESTRICTED TO ART SHOWS IN TRULY PUBLIC PLACES.

‘I AM’: Designed to address stereotypes and challenge misconceptions of the “other,” this exhibition featuring 31 women artists of Middle Eastern heritage from 12 countries is a visual celebration of the crucial role they play as guardians of peace.

Guest curated by Janet Rady, a specialist in Middle Eastern contemporary art. Through November 25.

Info, 864-0471. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington.

JESS POLANSHEK: Fanciful forest illustrations by the 2017 Magic Hat “Labels for Libations” winner.

Through November 30. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington.

MISOO FILAN: “Inner Struggle Fought on Paper,” a continuing series of work using Yupo paper, ink and graphite that stems from an experience of childhood sexual abuse. Through November 30. Info, dheffern@ champlain.edu. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington.

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

‘TECTONIC INDUSTRIES: DREAMS CAN COME TRUE’: Through sculpture, instructional videos, physical

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surveys and interactive activities, Lars Boye Jerlach and Helen Stringfellow present a series of self-help questionnaires to explore the impossibility of our collective, endless search for concrete answers and endeavor for self-improvement. PAULINE JENNINGS: “Becoming Human,” an intermedia exhibition that seeks to identify and dissolve barriers between human and wild in the Anthropocene era. Through February 9. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

SOUTH END ART HOP ORIGINAL JURIED SHOW WINNERS CIRCLE: Selected by 2018 juror Kathleen Vance: first place, Emily Piccirillo; second place, John Douglas; third place, Linda Dulleba. Also included is People’s Choice winner Kyle Sikora.

Through November 30. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

THATIANA OLIVEIRA & MADELINE VEITCH: “Sick and tired of being sick and tired: how to tell a story of a body and what ails it?,” an exhibition featuring interactive installations, sound pieces, performance, video and sculpture, curated by Sumru Tekin. Through January 17. Info, 735-2542.

New City Galerie in Burlington.

TH!NK’: An installation of drawings by more than 900 students and 100 adults in the Rutland Northeast School District, made at the Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon. Through December 31. Info, jbrodowski@rnesu.org. Flynndog in Burlington.

f TIMOTHY SANTIMORE: Acrylic paintings influenced by Eastern philosophies and the aesthetics of abstract of gestural abstraction. Curated by SEABA. Reception: Friday, December 7, 5-8 p.m., as part of Friday Art Walk Through December 31. Info, 859-9222. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

VANESSA KOTOVICH: “Lugo-Ravenna,” photographs made during a residency in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, which explore themes of development and decay, myth and reality, beauty and blight. Through November 30. Info, audrie@thekarmabirdhouse. com. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington.

‘VISIONS OF THE WORLD’: Works by Vermont artists including paintings by Abeer Almogalli, Hom Pradhan and Sabah Abass; fashion and jewelry

by Sahar Alsammarae and Virginie Diambou; and photographs by Umesh Acharya and the youth mentor program Crossroads: Where Cultures Meet. Curated by Laurie Stavrand from the USCRI/ Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. Through December 1. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington.

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CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS: Landscape and cityscape paintings by Carolyn Walton, Athenia Schinto, Helen Nagel and Ken Russack. Through March 24. Info, 985-8223. Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne.

‘INTO THE WOODS’: Established and emerging artists display two-dimensional artworks about the season’s change. Through December 31. Info, catherine.mcmains@gmail.com. Jericho Town Hall.

JOHN OPULSKI: “Undercurrent,” new oil and acrylic paintings. Through December 30. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

JUDI MACULAN AND JOHN PENOYAR: New works by the Hinesburg artists. Through December 31. Info, 482-2878. Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg.

JULIE ANN DAVIS: “Natural Expressions in Oil,” works by the artist and 17th-generation Vermonter that extend beyond her local roots to the inner world of her imagination. Through December 31.

Shelburne Vineyard.

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

‘MAPPING AN UNEVEN COUNTRY: BIRD’S EYE VIEWS OF VERMONT’: More than three dozen drawn, painted and printed views of the Green

Mountain State investigate the popular 19thcentury phenomenon of “perspective” or “bird’s-eye” views. Through March 3. ‘NEW ENGLAND NOW’: The inaugural exhibition in a curated biennial series featuring contemporary Northeast artists organized around thematic subject matter. Through January 13. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

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SAM WYATT: “Darkness Obscured,” giclée prints of original watercolor paintings that explore abandoned industrial buildings in West Rutland.

Through December 31. Info, s.wyatt826@gmail.com.

Healthy Living Market & Café in South Burlington.

TERESA DAVIS: “She’s in Over Her Head,” a playful homage to the emotional state of women in contemporary American society. Through November 30. Info, info@davisstudiovt.com. Davis Studio in South Burlington.

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

ANNE DAVIS: “A Peaceable Kingdom,” new paintings on old canvases by the Barre artist. Through January 5. Info, 279-6403. CVMC Art Gallery in Berlin.

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‘ANYTHING FOR SPEED: AUTOMOBILE RACING IN VERMONT’: A yearlong exhibition exploring more than a century of the history and evolution of racing in Vermont through the objects, photographs and recollections that document this unique story.

Through March 30. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Center in Barre.

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CAROLE NAQUIN: Soft pastel landscape paintings of sky, river and field. Through November 30. Info, 229-9492. Artisans Hand in Montpelier.

CELEBRATE!: This annual holiday season show includes a diverse selection of fine art and crafts by SPA artists displayed on all three floors of the art center. Expanded hours in December. More info at studioplacearts.com. Through December 27. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

DIANE FITCH: “Interior/Exterior,” paintings and drawings drawn from the artist’s life, with depictions of everyday life as well as private spaces within her psyche. Through December 21.

Info, 279-5558. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

HOLIDAY POP-UP SHOP & SILENT AUCTION: The gallery’s annual holiday pop-up shop includes unique and affordable works from Vermont artists including Barbara Leber, Anne Davis, Gale Crowl and Raquel Sobel. Through January 4. THOMAS WATERMAN WOOD: THE MASTER COPIES: The 19th-century Vermont painter and gallery namesake copied paintings seen on European trips to learn from masters such as Rembrandt and Turner, and brought the paintings back to Montpelier. Through June 1. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

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

Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University in Northfield.

LINDA MIRABILE: “All Things Avian,” an exhibit of new abstract and realistic paintings by the Berlin artist depicting crows, flamingos and more.

Through December 31. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

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migration, expulsion and exile of peoples. Through December 5. Info, 295-0808. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

MARK HEITZMAN: “Scrap Yard,” 10 large-scale graphite or charcoal drawings of tools and other objects. Through March 2. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre.

‘MAKING MUSIC: THE SCIENCE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS’: An exhibition exploring the science behind the instruments used to create music, from well-known classics to infectious pop tunes. Through May 13. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

MELANIE BROTZ: “Winging It,” mixed-media bird paintings using materials salvaged from the waste stream, including windows, mirrors, boards and picture frames. Through December 15. Info, 485-4786. Montpelier City Hall Arts Center.

STEPHANIE GORDON: “Root & Branch,” mixed-media encaustic paintings by the Piermont, N.H., artist.

Through December 5. Info, thespaceonmain@gmail. com. The Space on Main in Bradford.

‘SEEDS OF RENEWAL’: An exploration of Abenaki agricultural history, cuisine and ceremony. Through April 30. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

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ANDREW HEPBURN: For years the artist has traveled through New England and parts of Canada photographing rocks and water, and creating representational images that border on the abstract.

Through November 30. Info, 745-1393. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

‘SHOW 28’: Recent work of the gallery’s membership of Vermont-based contemporary artists, including new members. Through December 2. Info, 552-0877.

The Front in Montpelier.

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

‘GEMS AND GIANTS: A members’ exhibit of very small and very large works. 2018 LEGACY COLLECTION: Work by a selection of gallery artists.

HEARTBEET FELTS: Felted works of art by adults with developmental disabilities living at Heartbeet, a life-sharing community in Hardwick and Craftsbury.

Through December 23. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

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

‘7Women 7Walls’ In her artist’s statement for this group exhibition at

the Vermont Arts Council’s Spotlight Gallery, Hannah Morris says she wants to “trigger your memory,” suggesting that “vision is shaped by thousands of remembered moments.”

That’s one approach to a show defined by the artists’ personal responses to life and the

‘COLORFUL & CURVACEOUS: CAPTIVATING QUILT ART’: Fabric works by Judy B. Dales, who began making quilts in 1970 with a focus on geometric patterns but soon evolved to create fluid designs of curved lines and lyrical shapes. ‘REMEMBRANCE’: An exhibit featuring work by mixed-media collage artist and fine art photographer Athena Petra Tasiopoulos and artist, feminist and educator Nina Dubois.

Through January 9. Info, 888-1261. Gallery at River Arts in Morrisville.

natural, spiritual and digital worlds. Their mediums, however, differ radically, ranging

‘CREATIVITY TIMES TWO’: Landscape paintings

by Vermont artists Craig Mooney and Eric Tobin.

Through December 1. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe.

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OF TREES & LIGHT: The annual indoor/outdoor show includes works in a variety of mediums, as well as artisan-decorated evergreens and a Hanukkah display of menorahs, games and dreidels. Reception: Friday, November 30, 5-7 p.m. Through December 29.

Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

SEAN THOMAS: “Anthropocene,” a solo exhibition featuring the Arizona painter’s new series of urban landscapes. Through November 29. Info, 760-6785.

Edgewater Gallery in Stowe.

TREVOR AND ANNA CORP: The husband and wife artists present works in two and three dimensions.

Additional work is on view in Gallery II across campus; must ask for entry. Through December 21.

Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.

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F/7 PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP: “Grace,” images by members of the photo group. Through December 31.

Info, 244-6606. Waterbury Congregational Church.

MARCIA HILL: “Through the Seasons,” pastel landscapes by the Worcester artist. Through December 31. Info, 244-7036. Waterbury Public Library.

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

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from fiber to frottage, painting to collage. The seven women work at the broad front lines of Vermont contemporary art. In addition to Morris they include Mary Admasian, Alisa Dworsky, Karen Henderson, Evie Lovett, Janet Van Fleet and Kristen M. Watson. Through December 28. Pictured: “Class Photo” by Morris.

11TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY SHOW: Original fine art, crafts and jewelry in a variety of mediums and styles by local artists, on exhibit and for sale. Through December 31. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

‘GROWING FOOD, GROWING FARMERS’: Large-scale photographic portraits of Rutland County farm families taken by Macaulay Lerman, accompanied by biographies and audio excerpts drawn from the fieldwork of Greg Sharrow and Andy Kolovos.

Through December 31. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

PAMELA SMITH: “Moving Still,” a solo exhibit of new work from the Bristol-based, self-taught painter.

She draws from a background in textiles and years of living abroad and studying folk art from around the world. Through November 30. Info, 877-2173.

Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

‘TRAVEL: PLACES AND FACES’: A showcase of 34 photographers from around the world, juried by Krista Rossow. Through December 8. Info, 388-4500.

PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury.

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

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‘CELLBLOCK VISIONS’: A collection of artwork by prisoners in America, curated by Phyllis Kornfeld. HIGH

SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION: A showcase of works by students of regional schools. Through December 21.

Christine Price Gallery, Castleton University.

DANIELLE KLEBES: “Aimless Pilgrimage,” paintings about people in flux or moments of uncertainty by the North Adams, Mass., artist. Through January 11.

Info, 299-7511. 77 Gallery in Rutland.

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

FRAN BULL & BILL RAMAGE: Sculpture and drawings, respectively, by the two local artists in a pop-up gallery. Through November 23. Info, 773-9380. Opera House Gallery in Rutland.

‘POLLEN RACE’: Art and poetry on endangered species, our fragile environment and climate change, with special focus on the plight of bees. Through January 6. Info, 468-2592. Merwin Gallery in Castleton.

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JACK ROWELL: “Cultural Documentarian,” portraits of Vermont people and other wildlife by the Braintree photographer. Through April 1. Free; concert $20.

Info, info@mainstreetmuseum.org. Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

LINDA BRYAN: “Blue x 2,” hand-pulled prints and alternative-process cyanotypes. Through November 30. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

LIZ ROSS: “Im/migration,” a collection of oil-on-panel paintings completed during a Vermont Studio Center residency; part of a larger series concerned with the immigration and extinction of birds and the

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

ETHAN HUBBARD: “Driving the Back Roads: In Search of Old-Time Vermonters,” a retrospective featuring more than 40 of the photographer’s large-format black-and-white portraits made over five decades, accompanied by audio recordings of his subjects. Through December 2. Info, 533-9075.

Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

‘FARMING, THE ART OF STEWARDSHIP’: A group exhibit of 20 paintings of scenes at four conserved farms in the Memphremagog Watershed by six members of Plein Air Northeast Kingdom. Through December 30. Info, sarah.damsell@vt.nacdnet.net.

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‘LOCKED DOWN! KEYED IN! LOCKED OUT! KEYED UP!’: An exhibition examining the long human relationship to the lock and key, its elegant design and philosophies and practices of securing, safeguarding, imprisoning, escaping and safecracking throughout the ages. Through April 30. Info, claredol@sover.net.

The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

MATTHEW SYLVESTER: Art by the East Calais painter and illustrator. Through November 23. Info, 626-6459.

Northern Vermont University-Lyndon in Lyndonville.

RICHARD BROWN: Black-and-white photographs of nostalgic Vermont landscapes and people. Through December 31. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

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EMILY MASON: “To Another Place,” 50 abstract paintings created by the 86-year-old New York/Brattleboro artist between 1958 and 2018, many of which have never been shown in public. Through February 10. f MICHAEL POSTER: “If she has a pulse, she has a chance,” photographs of individuals in the process of recovery from addiction, taken by the Turning Point counselor Gallery talk: Thursday, November 29, 7 p.m. Through January 7. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

‘HEALING — THE TRANSFORMATIVE IMAGERY OF ART’: Works exploring the connection between the arts, healing and health, including Mary Admasian, Natalie Blake, Robert Carsten, Karen Deets, Robert DuGrenier, Carolyn Enz Hack, Margaret Jacobs, Neomi Lauritsen, Pat Musick, Robert O’Brien, Priscilla Petraska and Cai Xi Silver. Through March 30. Info, lightson_mary@ comcast.net. The Great Hall in Springfield.

‘HOPE AND HAZARD: A COMEDY OF EROS’: A group exhibition curated by American artist Eric Fischl featuring approximately 65 artists and more than 80 paintings, photographs, works on paper and sculptures selected from the Hall and Hall Art Foundation collections. ‘MADE IN VERMONT’: A

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group exhibition of new and recently completed paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Vermont artists. ‘THE SOLACE OF AMNESIA’: More than 30 paintings, photographs, works on paper and sculpture by some 25 artists that address human alienation from the natural environment, curated by artist Alexis Rockman and Katherine Gass Stowe.

Through November 25. Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

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‘AUTUMN SHOW 2018’: Works by 18 artists including John Richey, Erika Lawlor Schmidt, Richard Weis, Longina Smolinski and Mary Fran Lloyd.

Through December 1. Info, 917-842-2669. stART Space in Manchester.

PAT MUSICK: “Where Did You Come From Anyway?,” large- and small-scale sculpture and two-dimensional works made from natural media including wood, stone, paper and beeswax. Through December 30. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

TORKWASE DYSON: “Scalar,” large-scale abstract paintings responding to sculptor and former Bennington College professor Tony Smith. Through December 15. Info, 442-5401. Bennington College.

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17TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY MARKET: Gifts for the holidays by Vermont artists and crafters, Thursdays through Sundays. Through December 23. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

BEN FRANK MOSS: “Landscape Mysteries,” abstract paintings. ERIKA LAWLOR SCHMIDT: “Infinity of Worlds,” collage works that navigate contradictory worlds. Through December 8. Info, 767-9670.

BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

‘BRANCHING OUT’: Original watercolor paintings

by Vermont artist Amy Hook-Therrien. Through February 8. Info, 728-8912. White River Craft Center in Randolph.

CIARA CUMISKEY: “Chapters: New Works,” still lifes, landscapes and imaginative scenes by the Californian artist. Through December 31. Info, 7637094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

CALL TO ARTISTS CALL FOR GINGERBREAD ENTRIES: The theme of this year’s gingerbread house competition is “Silver Bells.” Interested bakers, schools, organizations, businesses, families, individuals and young people are invited to submit their creations. Deliver to the gallery on November 27 or 28, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Register online

by November 15 to be eligible for a holiday gift basket giveaway. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland.

Info, 775-0356.

COMMON SPIRIT CELEBRATION: Applications now being accepted from farmers, food vendors, crafters, artists, church groups and other organizations for special event on December 7, part of the Northfield Farmers Market. Email northfieldfarmersmarket@gmail.com for application packet. Deadline: December 3. Plumley Armory, Norwich University, Northfield. $30 for day vendor. Info, 485-8586.

MORRISTOWN MOSAICS: Collaborate in part two of the “Mosaic Project,” a group exhibit that celebrates how individuals, working together, contribute to a more vibrant community. Participants will receive a prepared panel to create a small work using a section of a photograph for inspiration. These will be collected and reassembled for an exhibit July 2019.

Panels available week of January 14, artworks due May 1. Details at info@riverartsvt.org. River Arts, Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

MURAL FOR YOUTH AREA: Artists are invited to submit proposals to create a mural in the youth area of the Hinesburg library. For more info and an application, visit carpentercarse. org. Deadline: November 26. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, Through November 26. Info, 482-2878.

‘GERALD AUTEN: GRAPHITE INSOMNIA’: Geometric abstractions in graphite powder or pencil and bonding agents on paper by the senior lecturer in studio art at Dartmouth College. Through December 16. Info, 498-8438. White River Gallery in South Royalton.

JANE BOOTH: “Spirits of Place,” an evolving collection of evocative images made in Newbury, one of the first Vermont towns settled along the Connecticut River. Through January 7. Info, jane. booth.1@gmail.com. Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph Center.

MARIANNE BENOIR: “A Retrospective: Then Through Now,” a solo show of color and blackand-white images of flora, fauna, places, things and people by the South Royalton photographer.

Through January 9. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village.

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‘ALEXANDER CALDER: RADICAL INVENTOR’: More than 100 works by the child prodigy and kinetic sculptor who became one of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists. Through February 24. Info, 514-285-1600. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

‘BRUSH STROKES & BEYOND’: The White River Junction chapter of the Vermont Watercolor Society joins the New Hampshire chapter to present 40-plus original works by more than 15 artists. Through November 28. Info, 602-643-4120.

Howe Library in Hanover, N.H. ‘FALL INTO AUTUMN’: En plein air paintings by members of the Odanaksis artists’ group. Through December 21. Info, 603-653-3460. DH Aging Resource Center in Lebanon, N.H. FRANÇOISE SULLIVAN: A retrospective exhibition highlighting the key role of the artist in the history of modern and contemporary art in Québec.

Through January 20. Info, 514-285-1600. Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art. ‘UKIYO-E TO SHIN HANGA’: An exhibition of Japanese woodcuts from the Syracuse University art collection. Through December 30. Info, 518-7921761. The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, N.Y. m

‘ON THE FLY’: Submissions open for a juried exhibition of fly fishing in New England and the northern forest region of Vermont, New York, New Hampshire and Maine. Submissions should express and interpret this theme. For info and guidelines, email: grangehallcc@gmail.com.

Deadline: January 1. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center. Free. Info, 244-4168.

‘PASSAGE’: The gallery seeks thematic submissions to a small works show to be held December 7 through January 14. Artists can submit up to three works that do not exceed 12 by 12 inches.

Deadline: November 21. Application and details at froghollow.org. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery, Burlington. $20 per submission.

SEEKING ARTISTS: Katlin Parenteau, owner of the tattoo studio and gallery, invites local artists to submit work for monthly exhibition. Open to all mediums; artists keep 100 percent of sales.

Rolling deadline. Contour Studios, Newport. Info, contourstudiosvt@gmail.com.

‘SMALL WORKS’: All artists working in any medium may contribute works to the annual holiday show, so long as they measures 12 inches or less in every direction. Bring ready-to-hang work with title, medium and price between noon and 5 p.m., Thursday through Saturday.

Deadline: December 1. Details at spacegalleryvt. com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington. $5 per piece, up to 10 pieces per artist.

‘STRICTLY SEDIMENTARY’: Artists are invited to contribute artwork incorporating layers, such as papers, wood, stone, fabric, photographs, Mylar, cardboard, wax and foil. Actual layers preferred to manipulated computer images. For details and to submit, visit studioplacearts.com.

Deadline: November 30. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10; free for members. Info, 479-7069.

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hristmas has come early for fans of Melissa McCarthy. Just when we’d girded ourselves for a postBridesmaids/The Heat/Spy tailspin into Eddie Murphy-level ignominy, (The Happytime Murders, anyone?), the actress has defiantly, triumphantly bounced back. With her latest performance, she’s not merely redeemed; she’s reinvented. And Melissa McCarthy 2.0 is cause for serious celebration.

She gets an assist from a preposterously talented team. Can You Ever Forgive Me? is the second feature from director Marielle Heller, who rocketed to prominence with 2015’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl. The screenplay is the work of Tony Award-winning playwright Jeff Whitty and Nicole Holofcener, a writer-director of distinction with titles such as Please Give and Enough Said on her CV. It’s that rarest of cinematic animals, a movie about a writer brimming with wisdom about the writing life.

McCarthy plays Lee Israel, a onetime bestselling biographer who, by 1991, had fallen out of favor with New York publishers due to shifting tastes and impatience with her uncouth demeanor. The movie is adapted from her 2008 confessional and recreates in loving

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detail the Manhattan of the period, from its rent-controlled walk-ups and seedy watering holes to its abundant, flourishing bookstores.

In an early scene, Israel’s exasperated agent (Jane Curtin) informs her that her proposal for a Fanny Brice bio is every bit as dead as its subject.

An acerbic alcoholic who’s spent a lifetime burning bridges, Israel doesn’t have much of a support system. There’s her old cat, Jersey, which is sick. And there’s a colorful gay hustler named Jack Hock. He’s sick, too, with HIV, but, as embodied by an exuberant Richard E. Grant, is always up for a party or adventure just the same.

The author’s aha moment comes when, with her rent overdue, she’s forced to sell a note written to her by Katharine Hepburn following a 1967 magazine interview. Easy cash in hand, Israel realizes she may have stumbled upon the way to monetize a career’s worth of accumulated esoterica concerning literary legends she’s studied and documented. Faster than you can say Clifford Irving, she’s knocking out reams of convincing faux correspondence by the likes of Noël Coward, Lillian Hellman and, dearest to her heart, Dorothy Parker.

McCarthy is marvelous as this amoral sourpuss, and it’s a hoot and a half to look on

PHONIES Grant and McCarthy are fabulous as partners in a real-life literary crime.

as she reenacts the creation of her forgeries.

In some cases, for example, Israel would have blank copies of a celebrity’s letterhead made and then hunt down a typewriter with a font matching that used in their archived or published letters. Other times, she found her oven came in handy as a means of giving her fabrications the suggestion of age.

In every case, though, what kept the dealers and collectors buying was her gift for mimicking literary voices while sprinkling in biographical tidbits picked up over decades of doing research.

McCarthy’s canny, nuanced portrayal

Widows ★★★

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f your name is Steve McQueen and you open a $40 million movie with a car chase, you’d better not crash and burn.

After all, the name McQueen has been nearly synonymous with high-speed pursuit ever since the iconic American star of 1968’s Bullitt careened a Mustang through the hilly streets of San Francisco. To the credit of British director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave; Shame), the opening sequence of Widows hits on all cylinders.

The film begins in flashback, with a closeup of master thief Harry Rawlings (Liam Neeson) and his wife, Veronica (Viola Davis), sharing a passionate kiss. Cut to an in-progress car chase, with Harry and his gang fleeing from the cops in a panel van after a botched $2 million robbery. Cornered in a warehouse, the ensuing gunfight ends in fiery explosion, with the van somersaulting toward the camera.

Besides the grief of losing a spouse, another hardship confronts Veronica and the other widows whose husbands died in the crash: the $2 million belonged to Jamal Manning (Brian Tyree Henry), an African American crime boss and political hopeful, who has a triggerhappy brother (the superbly menacing Daniel Kaluuya). Manning needs the stolen dough to bankroll his campaign against an equally corrupt Irish American political machine in an alderman’s race on Chicago’s South Side. As fate would have it, though, Harry left Veronica a notebook containing plans for a $5 million heist that requires the services of four people 76 SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 21-28, 2018

STEALING SCENES Davis headlines an all-star cast in McQueen’s stylish but overambitious heist thriller.

— which just so happens to be the number of grieving widows.

That complicated plot description sums up a movie whose ambitions outweigh its execution. Cowritten by McQueen and Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) and anchored by Davis’ commanding lead performance, Widows func-

tions on one level as a feminist revamp of the heist genre. “We have three days to look and move like a team of men. The best thing we have going for us is being who are,” Veronica tells her uncertain crew, before delivering the iconic punchline, “because no one thinks we have the balls to pull this off.”

conveys her subject’s vinegary edge as palpably as her joy in finally finding her true literary calling — if only for a limited time and at a significant personal and professional cost. Though her and Grant’s performances are first-rate, however, Heller’s masterful shaping of the tale and the subtle, insightful script are the real stories here.

Movies this smartly and artfully made are increasingly rare in our spandexed, franchised age. This is the sort of screen magic that can’t be faked. Miss it and, mark my words, you’ll never forgive yourself.

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The problem is that the heist itself isn’t sufficiently complex to satisfy the buildup.

And though an excellent performance by Elizabeth Debicki provides much-needed comic relief, McQueen takes the material too seriously to approach the shaggy-dog pleasures of a caper comedy like Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket.

The film’s best shot is its most incongruous. As smarmy politician Jack Mulligan (Colin Farrell) steps into his limo following a politically calculated speech-cum-photo-op in a poor black neighborhood, he complains to an aide about an overly aggressive reporter.

Yet the camera, mounted on the hood of the car, never lets us see the faces of the actors, which are obscured by the windshield’s glare.

Instead, we watch the changing landscape as the car pulls up to Mulligan’s campaign headquarters at a gated mansion just minutes later.

In one deft shot, McQueen captures the economic disparities of a city notorious for racially charged politics. But then the movie bounces back to the heist plot, and the moment feels as if it were grafted on from a separate film examining the intersection of crime and politics in the Windy City.

The experience of watching Widows is like frequently changing channels between a grittier version of Ocean’s Eight and a watereddown episode from the third season of “The Wire.” Like a foiled robbery, it has great promise, but it ultimately fails to deliver the goods.

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Veterans Memorial Park, South Burlington NEW IN THEATERS CREED II: The Rocky spin-off series continues with the aging boxer (Sylvester Stallone) coaching Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) to fight the spawn of Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren). Steven Caple Jr. (The Land) directed. (117 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace) RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET: In Disney’s sequel to the animated comedy Wreck It Ralph, free-thinking arcade-game characters Ralph and Vanellope have to learn to navigate the online world. With the voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman and Gal Gadot. Phil Johnston and Rich Moore directed. (112 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Stowe, Welden) ROBIN HOOD: According to Wikipedia, this new version of the age-old tale of a renegade nobleman (Taron Egerton) who stole from the rich to give to the poor “features a ‘hip’ take on the character’s origins.” With Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn and Eve Hewson. Otto Bathurst (“Peaky Blinders”) directed.

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NOW PLAYING BEAUTIFUL BOYHHH1/2 A dad (Steve Carell) struggles to help his meth-addicted son (Timothée Chalamet) in this drama based on the memoirs

by David and Nic Scheff, with Maura Tierney and Amy Ryan. Felix van Groeningen (The Broken Circle Breakdown) directed. (120 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 11/14) BOHEMIAN RHAPSODYHH1/2 Rami Malek plays Freddie Mercury in this chronicle of rock band Queen that culminates with the 1985 Live Aid concert. With Lucy Boynton, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello and Mike Myers. Bryan Singer (X-Men: Apocalypse) directed. (134 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 11/7)

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?HHHHH Melissa McCarthy plays Lee Israel, a best-selling celebrity biographer who turned to forgery when her career went downhill, in this seriocomic biopic directed by Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl). With Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells and Jane Curtin. (106 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 11/21) FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALDHH1/2 Jude Law shows up as a younger version of Professor Dumbledore in the second chapter of this series set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, with Eddie Redmayne returning as a “magizoologist,” plus Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler and Johnny Depp. David Yates again directed. (134 min, PG-13)

THE GRINCHHH1/2 Dr. Seuss’ tale of a green grouch determined to ruin Christmas gets a new animated rendition with the voices of Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, Angela Lansbury and Pharrell Williams. Yarrow Cheney (The Secret Life of Pets) and Scott Mosier directed. (90 min, PG) INSTANT FAMILYHHH A couple (Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne) get more than they bargained for with three newly adopted kids in this comedy from director Sean Anders (Daddy’s Home). With Isabela Moner, Gustavo Quiroz and Octavia Spencer. (119 min, PG-13) MID90SHHH1/2 Jonah Hill wrote and directed this drama about a 13-year-old (Sunny Suljic) in 1990s LA who escapes from his troubled home to hang out at the local skate shop. With Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges and Na-kel Smith. (84 min, R) THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMSHH Disney uses the holiday-favorite Tchaikovsky ballet as inspiration for a quest fantasy about a young girl (Mackenzie Foy) seeking a precious gift. With Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and Keira Knightley as the Sugar Plum Fairy. Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston directed. (99 min, PG)

BOY ERASEDHHH1/2 A preacher’s son is outed and forced into a gay conversion program in this memoir-based drama directed by Joel Edgerton (The Gift) and starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe. (114 min, R)

A PRIVATE WARHHHH Rosamund Pike plays the late war correspondent Marie Colvin in this biopic, also starring Tom Hollander, Jamie Dornan and Stanley Tucci. Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land) directed. (110 min, R)

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FREE SOLOHHHHH This documentary from directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (Meru) follows Alex Honnold as he attempts to make the first-ever free solo climb of Yosemite’s 3,000-foot El Capitan Wall. (100 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 10/24)

BORDERHHHH A Swedish border guard (Eva Melander) who can literally sniff out crime starts learning more about herself when she meets a kindred spirit (Eero Milonoff) in this one-of-a-kind contemporary fantasy from director Ali Abbasi (Shelley). (110 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 11/14)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY REAL NOVEMBER 22-28 TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In recent years, a few pioneers have gotten microchips implanted under their skin. These technological marvels enable them to open doors and turn on lights with merely a wave of their hands or receive up-to-the-minute readings on what’s transpiring inside their bodies. Now an additional frontier has arisen: people using do-ityourself kits to experiment on their own DNA. For example, some have tweaked their genes so their bodies create more muscle than is natural. I would love for you to change yourself around in the coming weeks, Taurus, but not in these particular ways. I’d rather see you do subtle psychological and spiritual work.

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“You have two ways to live your life,” writes spiritual teacher Joseph Vitale, “from memory or inspiration.” In other words, you can take your cues about how to live your life from what happened in the past, or you can make your decisions based on what you’re excited to do and become in the future. According to my analysis, the next 10 months will be an excellent time for you to fully embrace the latter approach. And it all starts now.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his autobiography On the Move, neurologist Oliver Sacks praised his friend Jerry’s curiosity and knowledge. “Jerry has one of the most spacious, thoughtful minds I have ever encountered, with a vast base of knowledge of every sort,” wrote Sacks, “but it is a base under continual questioning and scrutiny.” So willing was Jerry to question and reevaluate his own assumptions that Sacks said he had “seen his friend suddenly stop in mid-sentence and say, ‘I no longer believe what I was about to say.’” That’s the gold standard to which I hope you will aspire in the coming weeks, Aries. As bright and articulate as you’ll be, you will have an even higher calling to expand your mind through continual questioning.

(May 21-June 20): Are you smart enough to take advantage of the fact that your best relationships would benefit from bursts of innovative energy in the coming weeks? Are you brave enough to banish the ghost that still haunts your romantic life? Do you have the moxie to explore frontiers with collaborators who play fair and know how to have fun?

Will you summon the curiosity and initiative to learn new strategies about how to enhance your approach to intimacy? I’ll answer those questions on your behalf: yes, yes, yes and yes.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Would you agree with me that there are both boring, tiresome problems and fun, interesting problems? If so, read on. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re at a fork in your path where you could either get further involved with a boring, tiresome problem or else a fun, interesting one. (I think you’ll have to engage with one or the other.) Of course, I’m rooting for you to proactively wrangle with the fun, interesting one. Here’s timely inspiration from Cancerian author John W. Gardner: “We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Jharia Coalfield in eastern India is a 110-square-mile reserve of underground coal. In some places, it’s on fire and has been burning for over a hundred years.

This isn’t a good thing. It’s wasteful and causes

pollution. But now I’ll ask you to put aside that scenario and imagine a more benevolent kind of steadily burning fire: a splendor in your soul that never stops radiating warmth and light, that draws from an inexhaustible source of fuel, that is a constant source of strength and courage and power. I’m happy to tell you that the coming months will be a favorable time to establish and nurture this eternal flame.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Marilyn Monroe, Georgia O’Keeffe and President Franklin Roosevelt were direct descendants of the pilgrims who sailed from England to the New World on the famous Mayflower ship in 1620.

I, on the other hand, am a direct descendant of a nineteenth-century Slovakian coal miner who toiled in the underground darkness.

What about you, Virgo? Now would be a rich and provocative time to reconnect with your roots, to remember where your people originated, to explore the heritage that served as the matrix from which you sprouted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to researchers who study animal behavior at two Italian universities, chickens can do arithmetic. The birds don’t even need to be trained; the skill seems to be innate. (Read details here: tinyurl.com/chickensdomath.) I’m wondering whether chickens born under the sign of Libra might even be able to do algebra in the coming weeks. According to my assessment of the astrological omens, the mental acuity of many Libran creatures will be at a peak.

How will you use your enhanced intelligence?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In March 2005,

far more people than usual won big money in a regional Powerball lottery in the U.S. The average for each draw is four winners, but on this special occasion, 110 players were awarded at least $100,000 and as much as $500,000. The reason for the anomaly seemed to have been an oracle that appeared in a number of widely distributed fortune cookies. It provided five of the six winning numbers. Inspired by this crazy stroke of good fortune, and in accordance with the favorable financial omens now coming to bear on you, I hereby offer you six numbers to use as your lucky charms. Will they help you win a game of chance? I can’t be sure. At

the very least, they will titillate and massage the part of your psyche that is magnetic to wealth. Here they are: 37. 16. 58. 62. 82. 91.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ve always got more help available than you imagine, and that’s especially true these days. Both people you know and people you don’t know may come to your assistance and offer extra support — especially if you meet two conditions. 1. You sincerely believe you deserve their assistance and support. 2. You clearly ask for their assistance and support. Now here’s more good news about the help that’s available.

Whether or not you believe in spiritual beings, they, too, are primed to offer blessings and resources. If you don’t believe in their existence, I invite you to pretend you do and see what happens. If you do believe in them, formulate clear requests for what you’d like them to offer you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In one of his

poems, Arthur Rimbaud extolled the exquisite evenings when the mist soaked his face as he strolled, and he sipped that heavenly dew until he was drunk. Was he speaking literally or metaphorically? Probably both, if I know Rimbaud. Anyway, Aquarius, I’d love for you to engage in similar exploits. What are some natural adventures that might intoxicate you? What simple pleasures may alter your consciousness, nudging you free of its habits? Meditate with sweet abandon on how to free yourself through the power of play and the imagination.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s illegal to hunt animals in Kenya. But members of the Dorobo tribe circumvent the law to provide food for their families. As three or more Dorobo men wander out on the savanna, they wait for hungry lions to kill a wildebeest or other creature. Then they stride toward the feasting beasts in a calm show of force until the predators run away in confusion. The brave scavengers swoop in and swiftly remove a portion of the wildebeest, then coolly walk away, leaving plenty for the lions when they return to their meal. I bring this scene to your attention, Pisces, because I suspect that in the coming weeks you will have similar levels of courage and poise as you go after what you want.

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POOF! I sure don’t know where you came from, but you have turned my life upside down, HB! You are the best thing that has ever happened to me, my miracle, and I will never be able to fully express just how lucky I feel when you’re with me. Thank you for being you! I LOVE YOU. When: Tuesday, September 11, 2018. Where: camp in Alburgh.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914582 SWEET EARLY-MORNING RUNNER Thank you for catching my doggy this morning and having sympathy for my situation. Your kindness helped me calm down and get my pup back home. Thank you. When: Tuesday, November 13, 2018. Where: Archabult Ave. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914581 GARDENER’S SUPPLY COMPANY You: very attractive, black boots, long flowery skirt, dark grayish top, shopping with possibly your mom and sister. Me: black hat, wandering alone, intrigued by your eyes, your energy and the glances we shared. You have a nice style and a beautiful smile. Thanks for being the highlight of my day. Let’s wander together sometime. When: Monday, November 12, 2018. Where: Gardener’s Supply. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914580 COSTCO PARKING LOT WINDSHIELD NOTE You left a note on the windshield of my car letting me know that my bumper stickers made your day! Just want to let you know that your note made my day! Thanks! Me: blue Mazda. You: kind stranger. When: Monday, November 5, 2018. Where: Didn’t actually see you!

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914579 HUSTLE IN MY BUSTLE Tall lady waiting for your date outside Ken’s Pub. We exchanged glances; did I look like him? Regretting hustling by so quickly. Interested in meeting?

Promise to be on time or at least call if I get held up. When: Monday, November 12, 2018. Where: Ken’s Pub, Church St. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914578 LOOKING FOR ‘FUNNYGIRL’ FROM WATERBURY Saw you on Zoosk; you wanted to meet.

Hope to catch you here. Check out Seven Days personals. When: Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Where: on Zoosk.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914577 FREE PEOPLE (EN)COUNTER You: tall, bangs, beautiful. Helped check me out while I checked you out. Me: brunette buying the two-piece green set.

Told you I thought you were beautiful.

Us: Coffee? Drinks? Friends or more?

No expectations. When: Saturday, November 10, 2018. Where: Free People.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914576 HALF OF A LEMON I was bartending in downtown Burlington. You got a water and asked to buy half of a lemon for $1. Your smile is enchanting. Coffee? When: Sunday, November 4, 2018. Where: Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914567

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KHAKI JACKET AT UNCOMMON GROUNDS You: the most handsome man I’ve ever seen, drinking your coffee and reading a newspaper. You were wearing a scarf, and you had two small paper bags with you — one red, one blue. Me: long blond hair, black coat, making a delivery. Was probably staring at you.

You smiled at me as I was leaving. Let’s meet. When: Saturday, November 10, 2018. Where: Uncommon Grounds.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914575 MISSED YOU ON TUESDAY Astrae? Jazz? Waited by the millennium sculpture all evening like you said; you guys never showed up. I hope there’s no change in the time line. I am all out of fuel here, so I guess I’m going local. When: Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Where: not at the sculpture.

You: Group. Me: Man. #914574 HI PICKLE, IT’S PICKLE Dylan R.: Are you still in the Burlington area? We broke up in 2007, and I have never stopped thinking about you. I kept the gray hippo. I’m back in BTV, and nothing would make me happier than to find you. Xoxo, Pickle. P.S. If anyone reading this knows him and can get a hold of him, please reach out! When: Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Where: McCrae Rd., Colchester.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914573 CM IN PASSING I understand what it is to put in effort and try. I can’t change the past. Given a chance, I could show you how I can be in time. It’s a hopeful wish. It’s been years of wanting this, and I still can’t shake it. If I don’t hear from you, I will just fade away.

Until next time, CM. When: Saturday, May 5, 2018. Where: Montpelier.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914572 FLIGHT FROM CHICAGO TO BURLINGTON I saw you at O’Hare airport walking by, and I thought you were the cutest guy. I arrived late to my gate. To my surprise, there you were sitting down in the same row. We didn’t talk, just smiled. We arrived to Burlington; you asked where was I from. You said you just moved to Vermont. When: Sunday, September 9, 2018. Where: Chicago airport. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914571 BAGEL PERFECTION WITH AN APPETITE I didn’t notice you at first. I waited at the standing-height table, and after others left I finally noticed you. Then I couldn’t help but feel like you were gazing. You walked by me with your two breakfast sandwiches and smiled.

I couldn’t stop gazing after that smile.

Would love another rendezvous and to see more of that smile! When: Monday, November 5, 2018. Where: the Bagel Place. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914570 SILVER-HAIRED SLENDER BEAUTY You were shopping. You were staring at every one of us in our department.

You caught me a couple of times; I smiled and nodded. I would love to see more of you in my life. When: Saturday, November 3, 2018. Where: Costco.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914569

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LAMP SHOP SOLO PIANO We chatted at the bar, and I felt a deep artistic connection to the spirit within you. Things in life aren’t always what they seem. If we all knew everything, nobody would be any wiser. If life gives you lemons (or limes), it can be different every time. When: Friday, November 2, 2018. Where: Light Club Lamp Shop.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914566 CONVERSATION AT RASTA ANNUAL GATHERING I very much enjoyed talking with you and wanted to make plans to ski this winter. You were right there beside me when I turned, and it felt comfortable talking. We seemed to hit it off. Wish we’d had more time or at least made plans. When: Thursday, November 1, 2018. Where: Rochester.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914565 10/25 MIDDLEBURY CO-OP Midafternoon. You: woman heading into co-op. Me: man just leaving with my granddaughter, getting into my white CR-V. You bent down just a bit to look at me through the car window with a big, beautiful smile. I was there visiting my son, but I’m now home in Devon, Pa. I think we’re ready to do something together on my next visit. When: Thursday, October 25, 2018. Where: Middlebury co-op.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914564 SEXY NUN NAMED SCOTT They wouldn’t let you compete in the sexiest category for the Halloween costume contest. I wanted you to win!

Thank you for your support and for chatting. You looked hot in that outfit.

I hope you see this and reach out to your local Weed Fairy! When: Tuesday, October 30, 2018. Where: Higher Ground. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914563 FULL CLEVELAND MONKEY HOUSE SHOW You were the stunning brunette at the last show there. I couldn’t take my eyes off of you, and you seemed to notice. You looked like you were there alone, had a drink, played a game of pool and then disappeared. I’m the bass player and newly single. I’d love to buy you dinner to thank you for coming out. When: Tuesday, October 30, 2018. Where: the Full Cleveland, Monkey House.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914562 BLACK F150, MONDAY 10/29, DEDALUS I stopped in my white truck to let you pass. You thought I had something to say.

Well, I do now. Could I buy you a glass of anything, anywhere? Or throw a football?

Hit me up. You look just like Aaron Rodgers ... much better in person. When: Monday, October 29, 2018. Where: in the parking lot. You: Man. Me: Man. #914560 WINOOSKI CONE OF SHAME I nearly caused an accident on the Winooski Speedway when I saw you crossing the street toward Scout.

Your dog was sporting a cone of shame, and you were wearing a green vest with jeans. Bring your dog to our first date? When: Saturday, October 27, 2018. Where: Winooski.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914559 WOMAN WORKING AT PART STORE I’m also a woman working at a part store in Montpelier, but no tattoo! I am kind of bummed it’s not me you’re referring to and that you are shopping for your parts elsewhere! My advice is go ahead and be brave and ask. We only get this one life, so don’t waste time wondering what might be. Go for it! When: Friday, October 26, 2018. Where: right here.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914558

SCARLETTLETTERS This week Scarlett answers two letters, each asking what to do when sex with your partner feels one-sided.

Dear Scarlett,

How do I get my wife to engage more in oral sex? I love simultaneous oral sex, but she doesn’t go down!

Should I protest? Sometimes you gotta take one for the team, you know? The only time she’ll do it is when she wants something.

Signed,

Dear Scarlett,

Mr. D. (male, 38)

I have been doing stuff with my boyfriend, and I’m usually not the type of girl to give a guy anything unless he gives me something first, because I don’t like the thought of giving a guy pleasure and him not reciprocating it. Well, that’s what my boyfriend has been doing. I will pleasure him to the point of orgasm, but when I want it, he complains and says it takes too long.

If he does do it, it doesn’t last long, and I have to finish myself. It’s frustrating, and I don’t know what to do.

Signed,

Unsatisfied (female, 18)

Dear Mr. D and Unsatisfied,

If your partner does not want to engage in oral sex, don’t push. Sex should never feel forced or transactional. That said, neither should it be one-sided, with you putting in all the effort and not getting the attention you deserve.

As with most matters, the best way to address this problem is to talk it through. Mr. D: If your wife truly does not enjoy oral sex, share with her what else turns you on. Together, you may discover fantasies or positions that bring both of you pleasure. Unsatisfied: If your boyfriend is just being lazy, and it sounds like he is, nudge him to put in some effort. If giving oral sex isn’t his thing, discuss other ways he can make you feel good.

Sexual compatibility does not always come naturally, especially over the long term. But you don’t need to stay stuck in feelings of disappointment and rejection. There are plenty of ways to stimulate a partner. Hit up a sex shop. Peruse the Kama Sutra. Get creative!

Love,

Scarlett

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Sponsor: Planning Department, Planning Commission; Ordinance Committee ​Public Hearing Date: 11/13/18__

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ In the Year Two CITY OF BURLINGTON ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​ ​ORDINANCE 6.04 _ Thousand ​Eighteen ​​ ​ ​ ​ ____________________________ Sponsor: Planning Department, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​First reading: 09/24/18 Planning Commission; Ordinance CITY OF BURLINGTON Committee ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ORDINANCE ​ 6.04​Referred to: Ordinance Committee ​ ​​ ​​ ​ ​ ​​ ​​ ​ ​​ ​P​ ublic Hearing Date: 11/13/18__ Sponsor: Planning Department, An InOrdinance ​ ​ ​Rules suspended and placed in all the Year Two in Relation to Planning Commission; Ordinance _ Thousand ​Eighteen ​ CITY ​ OF BURLINGTON ​ ORDINANCE ​ ​ ____________________________ COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT – Committee ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​First reading: 09/24/18 ​ORDINANCE 6.04 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Public Hearing Date: 11/13/18__ Grocery Stores CITY ​ ​ in E-LM ​ ​ ​ ​ OF BURLINGTON ​ ​ ​ ​Referred to: Ordinance Committee Sponsor: Planning Department, In the Year Two Commission; Ordinance ​ ​ in Relation ​ ​ to ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Planning ​ORDINANCE 6.04 Ordinance ​ ​ ​ R ules suspended and placed in all ZA An #19-01 _ Thousand ​Eighteen ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ____________________________

Committee Sponsor: Planning Department, COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE – ​ ​ ​ irst reading: 09/24/18 Commission; Ordinance ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​ ​​ ​P​FPlanning ublic Hearing Date: 11/13/18__ Grocery​ ​ Stores​ ​ in E-LM ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​RCommittee eferred to: Ordinance Committee In the Year Two ZA #19-01 An Ordinance in Relation to ​ ​ ​ R ules suspended and placed in all ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Hearing Date: ​ 11/13/18__ ​stages of passage: ______________ ​ ​ ​Eighteen ​ ​ ​ ​Public _ Thousand ​ ​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​ ​ ​ ____________________________ COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT – ​ In the Year Two ​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​ ​First​ reading: 09/24/18 ​ ​ Stores ​ ​ ORDINANCE ​ ​ ______________ ​Second reading: 11/13/18 Grocery stages of to: passage: _ Thousand ighteen ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ____________________________ ​ ​ in​EE-LM ​ ​ ​ ​R eferred Ordinance Committee ​ ​ ​ ​ to ​ ​ ​​Rules ​ reading: ​ 11/13/18 ​Action: adopted ZA #19-01 econd reading: ​ ​ in Relation ​ ​ ​​ ​FSirst An Ordinance ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ suspended and placed in all09/24/18 Aeferred ction: ​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​ ​R to: Ordinance Committee ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ORDINANCE ​ adopted ​ ​Date: 11/13/18 COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT –​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ D ate: 11/13/18 An Ordinance Relation ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Rules and placed all Grocery E-LM ​ Stores ​​ in in ​ ​ ​ to ​ ​ ​ suspended ​​ ​stages of in passage: ______________ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Signed by Mayor: 11/14/18 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ S igned by Mayor: 11/14/18 COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ZA #19-01 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ORDINANCE ​ ​ – ​ ​ ​Second reading: 11/13/18 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​ ​Published: 11/21/18 ​ ​ ​ Stores​ ​ ​ in E-LM ​ ​​ ​ ​​ ​ adopted ​ ​Published: 11/21/18 Grocery ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Action: ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Effective: 12/12/18 ZA #19-01 ate: 11/13/18 ​ ​ ​​ ​ ​ ​​ ​ ​ ​​ ​ of ​ ______________ ​Effective: 12/12/18 ​​ ​ ​​ ​ ​​ ​​ ​ ​​ ​​ ​ ​s​Dtages passage: ​ ​ ​ igned by Mayor: 11/14/18 ​​ ​​ ​​ ​ ​ Council ​​ ​​ ​S​Second 11/13/18 It is hereby Ordained by​ ​ the City of​ ​ the City of ​Burlington asreading: follows: ublished: 11/21/18 als will be reviewed and ​​ ​​ ​​ ​ ​​ ​​ ​ ​​ ​​ ​A s​Ptages of passage: ______________ ction: adopted ​Eecond ffective: 12/12/18 scored competitively in ​ ​ Appendix ​​ ​ ​ Comprehensive ​​ ​ ​ Development ​​ ​ ​ Ordinance, ​​ ​ ​ the Code ​SD reading: 11/13/18 ate:of 11/13/18 1. That A, of Ordinances of the City of ​ Burlington ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ by amending ​ ​ ​ A-Use ​A ction: adopted this process.

Signed by Mayor: 11/14/18 be and hereby is City amended Appendix Tableas – follows: All Zoning Districts, It is hereby Ordained by the Council of the City of Burlington ​ Footnote ​ 28 thereof ​ ​ ​ to Grocery ​ ​ ​ E-LM ​ District ​D ate: 11/13/18 Published: 11/21/18 pertaining Stores in the to read as follows: 1. That Appendix A, Comprehensive Development Ordinance, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​SEigned

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Should the administrative officer fail to take any such action, a permit shall be deemed issued on the 31st day pursuant to 24 VSA 4448(d). Modifications to a pending application by an applicant shall restart any applicable time limits, commencing upon the modification date.

An applicant may request deferral of action on a complete zoning permit application.

Deferral of action shall be limited to six (6) months.

For zoning permit applications subject to DRB review, the six (6) month deferral may be extended up to two (2) times of three (3) months each.

If an initial extension is granted by the DRB and the application lies dormant (no revised plans, information submitted) for the three (3) month duration of the extension, the DRB shall not grant another extension.

Sec. 3.2.7 Administrative Review and Approval Pursuant to the provisions of 24 V.S.A. Section 4464(c), this section provides for the administrative review and approval of new development and amendments to previously approved development. (a) – (b) As written.

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Sec. 3.2.5 Completeness of Submission, Administrator’s Action An application for a zoning permit shall not be complete until all submission requirements have been provided to the satisfaction of the administrative officer.

The administrative officer shall take action with regard to a complete application within 30 days. Such action shall be to issue a decision on the application pursuant to the authority granted in Sec 3.2.7 of this Article, or by making a referral to the DRB.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE – ARTICLE 3 AMENDMENTS ZA #18-05 ORDINANCE 6.02 Sponsor: Planning Department, Planning Commission; Ordinance Committee Public Hearing Date: 11/13/18 First reading: 07/16/18 Referred to: Ordinance Committee Second reading: 11/13/18 Action: adopted Date: 11/13/18 Signed by Mayor: 11/14/18 Published: 11/21/18 Effective: 12/12/18

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(c) Administrative Decisions: The administrative officer shall act with regard to an application subject to administrative review pursuant to this section within 30 days of receiving a complete application unless deferral is requested by the applicant per Sec. 3.2.5. Decisions to deny the application shall be sent by certified mail to the applicant, and shall contain a statement of the period of time within which an appeal may be

taken pursuant to the requirements of Article 12. A notice of a decision made in favor of the applicant shall be posted in a public place pursuant to Sec. 3.2.9(c).

Should the administrative officer fail to take such action, a permit shall be deemed granted on the 31st day pursuant to 24 VSA 4448(d). A request by the applicant to defer shall toll the 30 day review period. (d) As written.

Sec. 3.2.8 As written.

Sec. 3.2.9 Zoning Permits (a) As written. (b) Permit Appeal Period: No zoning permit granted by action of the administrative officer under this ordinance shall be released until a fifteen (15) day appeal period has passed. No zoning permit granted in association with a decision of the Development Review Board shall be released until a thirty (30) day appeal period has passed. In the event that a notice of appeal pursuant to the requirements of Article 12 is properly filed, such permit shall not be released until the adjudication of said appeal has been finalized the provisions of 24 V.S.A. § 4449 (a) (3) shall control the effective date of the permit. (c) As written. (d) Time Limit on Zoning Permits: Notwithstanding (e) and (f) below, a zoning permit shall become invalid unless the work or action authorized commences within one (1) year after the date of final decision.

All work or action authorized there under shall be completed, and a Final Zoning Certificate of Occupancy received, within two (2) three (3) years of the date of decision unless a written extension of time not to exceed one (1) year is granted in advance by the administrative officer. Extensions of time for a zoning permit issued in connection with a conditional use or variance shall require approval by the DRB after a public hearing.

Extensions of time may be granted only when the work or action authorized under the zoning permit remains compliant with the current zoning regulations. Up to two (2) time extensions may be granted.

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS (e) Time Limit on Zoning Permits: Violations: Notwithstanding (f) below, a zoning permit which is issued in connection with a violation of this ordinance shall become invalid unless the work or action authorized is completed, and a Final Zoning Certificate of Occupancy is received, within one (1) year of the date of decision unless an extension of time not to exceed one (1) year is approved in advance after public hearing by the DRB. Extension of time may be granted only when the work or action authorized under the zoning permit remains compliant with the current zoning regulations.

Only one (1) time extension may be granted. (f) As written. **Material stricken out deleted. ***Material underlined added.

STATE OF VERMONT CALEDONIA UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 117-5-16 CACV WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR AEGIS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES TRUST

MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-4 v.

PIPER STRONG, MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC AND WORLDWIDE ASSET PURCHASING II, LLC OCCUPANTS OF: 129 Bayley-Hazen Road, Walden VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered March 30, 2018 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Piper Strong to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Aegis Lending Corporation, dated May 19, 2004 and recorded in Book 56 Page 28 of the land records of the Town of Walden, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Aegis Lending Corporation to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Aegis Asset Backed Securities Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-

4 dated March 18, 2013 and recorded in Book 68 Page 470 of the land records of the Town of Walden for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 129 Bayley-Hazen Road, Walden, Vermont on December 5, 2018 at 12:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Piper Strong by Warranty Deed of Janet L. Parkhurst dated March 18, 1996 of record at Book 43, Page 487 of the Town of Walden Land Records.

Being a parcel of land containing ten and one-quarter acres, be the same more or less, located in that part of Walden known as South Walden on the westerly side of Town Road #12 and located just northering of the parcel now or formerly owned by one Ray Carr and being a part of what is known as the former Taylor property.

The parcel herein is more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the centerline of Town Highway

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#12, which said point is marked by a culvert across said roadway and which said culvert is 45 rods, be the same more or less, southeasterly of the southerly or southeasterly corner of the South Walden Church property, and thence proceeding in a northwesterly direction along a straight line which will form the northeasterly boundary of the parcel herein a distance of 73 rods, be the same more or less, to an iron pipe set in the ground in the fence which separates the property from property now or formerly owned by one Allen; thence turning on an angle and proceeding in a southwesterly direction along said fence line a distance of 12 rods, be the same more or less, to an iron pipe set in the ground, which said pipe marks the southwesterly corner of the parcel herein; thence turning on an angle and proceeding along a line fence which marks the southeasterly boundary of the parcel a distance of 85 rods, be the same more or less, to a point in the northwesterly boundary line of property now or formerly of one Ray Carr; thence turning on an angle and proceeding

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

Being ten and one-quarter acres of land, more or less, with house and barn located thereon. Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified

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The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

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

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED: November 2, 2018 By: /S/Loraine L. Hite, Esq. Loraine L. Hite, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1543-1118 CNPR In re estate of Paul H. Wanderlich.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Paul

H. Wanderlich late of Essex, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Date: Friday, November 16, 2018 /s/ Matthew S. Wanderlich Signature of Fiduciary Matthew S. Wanderlich Executor/Administrator: 140 Pheasant Woods Unit 200 Colchester, VT 05446 MWandy221@yahoo.com 802-355-1275 Name of publication Seven Days Publication Dates: 11/21/2018 Name and Address of Court: Chittenden Superior Court Probate Division

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PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 054020511 STATE OF VERMONT WINDSOR UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 408-8-15 WRCV NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE v.

WILLIAM KELLY AND THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OCCUPANTS OF: 148 Hendee Way, Quechee VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered May 8, 2018 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by William Kelly to MetLife Home Loans, a division of MetLife Bank, N.A., dated June 4, 2010 and recorded in Book 451 Page 822 of the land records of the Town of Hartford, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by

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ORDINANCE 6.03 Sponsor: Planning Department, Planning Commission; ORDINANCE 6.03 Ordinance Sponsor: Planning Department, Committee Planning Commission; Public Hearing Date: 11/13/18 Ordinance Committee _____________________________ Public Hearing07/16/18 Date: 11/13/18 First reading: Referred to: Ordinance Committee _____________________________ First reading: 07/16/18 Rules suspended and placed in all Referred to: Ordinance Committee stages of passage: ______________ Second reading: 11/13/18 Rules suspended and placed in all Action: stages of adopted passage: ______________ Date: Second11/13/18 reading: 11/13/18 Signed Mayor: 11/14/18 Action:by adopted Published: 11/21/18 Date: 11/13/18 Effective: 12/12/1811/14/18 Signed by Mayor: Published: 11/21/18 Effective:as12/12/18 Burlington follows:

CITY OF BURLINGTON

In the Year Two Thousand Eighteen In the Year Two Thousand Eighteen

An Ordinance in Relation to

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE – An Ordinance in Relation to Bike Par king COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE – ZA #18-06 Bike Par king ZA #18-06

It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of

It is hereby Ordained by the City CouncilOrdinance, of the Cityofof as follows: That Appendix A, Comprehensive Development theBurlington Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Article 8,ofParking, 2, Bicycle Parking, That Appendix A, Comprehensive Development Ordinance, the CodePart of Ordinances of the City of Sections 8.2.1, Intent, 8.2.2, Provisions, 8.2.5, Bicycle Parking Requirements, Limitations, Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Article 8, Parking, Part 2,8.2.6, Bicycle Parking, 8.2.7, Location & Design Standards, 8.2.8, Long Term Bicycle Parking, and Table 8.2.5-1 Bicycle Parking Sections 8.2.1, Intent, 8.2.2, Provisions, 8.2.5, Bicycle Parking Requirements, 8.2.6, Limitations, 8.2.7, Requirements; adding new Section 8.2.7, Payment in Lieu and deleting Section 8.2.3, Existing Location & Design Standards, 8.2.8, Long Term Bicycle Parking, and Table 8.2.5-1 Bicycle Parking Structures; thereof to read follows: Requirements; adding new as Section 8.2.7, Payment in Lieu and deleting Section 8.2.3, Existing ARTICLE 8: PARKING Structures; thereof to read as follows: PART 1: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS ARTICLE 8: PARKING As written.

PART 1: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS As written.

PART 2: BICYCLE PARKING PART 2: BICYCLE Sec. 8.2.1 Intent PARKING It is the intent of this subpart to: Sec. 8.2.1 Intent (a) Ensure the provision of parking spaces that are designed for bicycles and to ensure that bicycle It is the intent of this subpart to: parking needs of new land uses and development are met, while ensuring bicycle parking (a) spaces Ensureare thedesigned provisionand of parking spaces that aremanner. designed Provide for bicycles andaccess to ensure that bicycle located in a consistent bicycle to employment, parking needs of new land development are met, while ensuring bicycle parking commercial destinations, and uses otherand transportation alternatives; spaces are designed and located in a consistent manner. Provide bicycle access to employment, (b) Provide safe, convenient, and adequate bicycle parking facilities that: commercial destinations, and other transportation alternatives; 1. Meet the demands of the use of the property; (b) Provide safe, convenient, and adequate bicycle parking facilities that: 2. Reduce hazards to pedestrians; 1. Meet the demands of the use of the property; 3. Enhance the visual quality of the city; 2. Reduce hazards to pedestrians; 4. Reduce the adverse impacts associated with the bicycle parking, which includes bicycles 3. Enhance the visual quality of the city; parked on parking meters, signs, street trees, etc; and, 4. Reduce the adverse impacts associated with the bicycle parking, which includes bicycles parked on parking meters, signs, street trees, etc; and,

5. Encourage the use of bicycles which has the effect of as an alternative to motor vehicle transportation, thereby reducing traffic congestion, influencing modal split, and increasing the safety and welfare of residents and visitors to the city.

Table 8.2.54-1 Bicycle Parking Requirements Specific Use

Group living

Temporary lodging

Sec. 8.2.54 Bicycle Parking Requirements Bicycle parking for all uses and structures in all Parking Districts shall be provided in accordance with Table 8.2.54-1. (a) Where no requirement is designated, and the use is not comparable to any of the listed uses, bicycle parking requirements shall be determined by the DRB upon recommendation of the city’s bicycle and pedestrian planner based upon the capacity of the facility and its associated uses. (b) When the calculation yields a fractional number of required spaces, the number of spaces shall be rounded to the nearest whole number. (c) Where bicycle parking is required, the minimum number of bicycle parking spaces provided at each site shall be two (2)and the maximum shall be fifty (50), not including long term parking. (d) Bicycle parking that meets the requirements for both long term and short term bicycle parking may contribute to the minimum requirement of one type or the other but not both.

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1 per 10 units

Elderly housing

1 per 10 units

1 per 10 units

Fraternity, sorority, & dormitory

1 per 43 residents

1 per 68 residents

Hotel, motel, bed & breakfast, 1 per 20 boarding house, rooms/sites campground

2 per 20 rooms/sites

1 per 5,000 sq. ft.

1 per 10,000 sq. ft.

1 per 5,000 sq. ft.

1 per 8,000 sq. ft.

1 per 2012,000 sq. ft.

1 per 52,000 sq. ft.

Auto, boat, motorcycle related sales, service and retail

1 per 30,000 sq. ft.

1 per 10,000 sq. ft.

Restaurants, bars, taverns

1 per 10 employees1,000 sf

6% of occupancy load1 per 500 sf seating space

1 per 20,000 sq. ft.

1 per 5025,000 sq. ft. (at least 2 per public entrance)

1 per 2015,000 sq. ft.

31 per 51,000 sq. ft.

1 per 20,000 sq. ft.

1 per 10,000 sq. ft.

Grades 2-5

1 per 20,000 sq. ft. plus 1 per 10 of student capacity

2 per classroom

Grades 6-12

1 per 20,000 sq. ft. plus 1 per 10 of student capacity

4 per classroom

Community Services

Museums, aquariums, libraries, community centers, municipal buildings, post office

1 per 20,000 sq. ft.

31 per 50001,500 sq. ft.

Medical Center

Excluding medical or dental offices

1 per 10,000 sq. ft.

1 per 20,000 sq. ft.

1 per 20,000 sq. ft.

1 per 4020 seats

Parks

Per DRB review

1 per 10 daily users

Taxi/Bus/Passen ger/Ferry

As determined during Site Plan Review by DRB

As determined during Site Plan Review by DRB

Pparking lot, garage; public or private

4, or 5% of1 per 20 automobile spaces, whichever is greater (minimum of 6)

None1 per 10 automobile spaces (minimum of 6) – to be located within view of entrance

Medical, dental Retail sales and service

INDUSTRIAL Industrial, manufacturing, production, and warehousing

PERMITTED PUBLIC/INSTITUTIONAL USES Colleges or Universities

Excluding dormitories

Daycare, except home

Existing Structures

Sec. 8.2.43 Joint Use of Bicycle Parking Facilities Required bicycle parking spaces for two (2) or more adjacent uses or structures may be satisfied by the same parking facilities used jointly, provided that such right of joint use and maintenance is evidenced by a deed, lease, contract, reciprocal easement, or similar written instrument establishing the joint use, and that the facilities are within 200 feet of the building or parcel housing the use.

1 per 4 units2 bedrooms

Office

Sec. 8.2.2 ProvisionsApplicability Bicycle parking requirements as set forth in this subpart shall apply to new development, changes in land use, and changes to a structure that cause an increase or decrease of 25% or greater in gross floor area, seating capacity, or number of dwelling unitsbuilding expansions, or occupancy changes requiring a zoning permit where automobile parking is required pursuant to Part 1 of this Article.

Any expansion or change of use proposed for an existing structure where four (4) bicycle spaces or less would be required shall be exempt from providing those spaces.

Multi unit

COMMERCIAL

Schools

Sec. 8.2.3

Short Term Spaces

Per Square Feet of Gross Building Area, except as noted otherwise

RESIDENTIAL Household Living

Long Term Spaces

Worship, places of Recreation, government owned OTHER Terminal

Parking

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of the property to be conveyed.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Sec. 8.2.65 Limitations (a) No bicycle parking spaces required by this standard shall be rented or leased to employees or residents residing at the location at which bicycle parking is required; however, a refundable deposit fee may be charged. This does not preclude a bike parking rental business. (b) Short term bicycle parking may be provided within the public street right-of-way. Providing bicycle racks on the public right of way must be approved Provision of bicycle parking within the public right-of-way requires an encumbrance permit issued at the discretion of the City Council with recommendation from bythe dDepartment of pPublic wWorks.

Sec. 8.2.76 Location & Design Standards (a) All bicycle parking facilities shall be installed in accordance with the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals’ department of public works “Bicycle Parking Guidelines.” (Revision 1.0, September 2015). (b) Short term Bbicycle parking or a sign leading thereto shall be visible from the main entrance of the structure or facility. (c) Short term Bbicycle parking shall be visible, well lit, and as convenient to cyclists as auto parking. (d) Short term bicycle parking may be provided within the interior of a building. In such cases, the bicycle parking must be located such that it is immediately apparent and accessible to the public, such as within the front lobby. Outdoor directional signage shall indicate the availability of such parking indoors. (de) Bicycle parking facilities such as bicycle racks and lockers shall provide sufficient security from theft and damage. TheyBicycle racks shall be securely anchored to the ground, shall allow the bicycle wheel and frame to be locked to the facilityrack, and shall be in a location with sufficient lighting and visibility. (ef) Bicycle parking facilities shall be visually compatible and of a design standard consistent with their environment and the development standards of Art 6. (fg)Required bicycle parking spaces shall be of a sufficient dimension to accommodate a full-sized bicycle, including space for access and maneuvering. (gh)Bicycle parking facilities shall be sufficiently separated from motor vehicle parking areas to protect parked bicycles from damage by motor vehicles. (hi)The surfacing of bicycle parking facilities shall be designed and maintained to be clear of mud and snow. (ij) Bicycle parking racks and lockers shall be anchored securelyfacilities shall be kept in place and maintained for year-round use. (k) Covered bicycle parking facilities are encouraged whenever feasible. (jl) Existing bicycle parking may be used to satisfy the requirements of this section provided the rack design is consistent with the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals’department of public works “Bicycle Parking Guidelines.”

Sec. 8.2.7 Payment in Lieu In instances wherein the total requirement for short term bicycle parking cannot be accommodated onsite, the applicant may make a payment to the Department of Public Works to construct short term bicycle parking facilities in the public street right-of-way. The payment shall be sufficient to cover the cost of the bicycle parking equipment (i.e. such as racks), installation, and 5 year estimated maintenance costs. The short term bicycle parking installed in the public right-ofway shall be enough that the minimum requirement for short term bicycle parking is met or as much as may be reasonably accommodated in the public right-of-way as determined by the Department of Public Works, whichever is less. The option to provide an in lieu payment shall be at the discretion of the Director of Public Works or their designee and will be based on evidence that short term bicycle parking cannot be accommodated onsite. Alternatively, the applicant may apply for an encumbrance permit to install and maintain the short term bicycle parking within the right-of-way per Sec. 8.2.5 (b).

Sec. 8.2.8

Long Term Bicycle Parking

(a) As written.

[CONTINUED] virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from MetLife Home Loans, a division of MetLife Bank, N.A. to Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Champion Mortgage Company dated July 27, 2012 and recorded September 4, 2012 in Book 479 Page 600 of the land records of the Town of Hartford; and by Corrective Assignment of Mortgage dated December 14, 2012 and recorded February 11, 2013 in Book 485 Page 456 of the land records of the Town of Hartford, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 148 Hendee Way, Quechee, Vermont on December 12, 2018 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Meaning and intending to mortgage a certain parcel of property located at 148 Hendee Way in the Village of Quechee, Town of Hartford, County of Windsor, and State of Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to William Kelly by Warranty Deed of Quechee Lakes Corporation dated January 11, 1980 and recorded at Book 103, Pages 495-496 of the Hartford Land Records.

Being Lot 5678 as shown on a plan recorded at Map Slide 59B of the Hartford Land Records.

Reference should be made to the abovementioned deeds and records, and to the deeds and records referred to therein for a more and particular description

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

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

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED: November 5, 2018 By: /S/Loraine L. Hite, Esq. Loraine L. Hite, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 01003542 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE WILLISTON, VT ,WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT 6TH OF DECEMBER 2018 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF ANDREW BRIGHAM. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0101164 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT 6TH OF DECEMBER 2018 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF JONATHAN BROADFOOT. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

TOWN OF JERICHODEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Jericho Development Review Board will hold a public hearing at 7:00 pm on Thursday December 13, 2018 at the Jericho Town Hall to consider the following • A request to the DRB by Edward & Shirley Davis for a sketch plan review for a 2 lot minor subdivision. This property is located at 47 Orr Road which is in the Low Density Residential.

• A request to the DRB by Atwood enterprises Ltd for a sketch plan review for a 2 lot minor subdivision and a 3 duplex PUD residential development.

This property is located at 44 Raceway Road which is in the Rural Agricultural Residential Zoning District.

• Continuation of a request to the DRB by Brenda & Lee Charron for a 13 lot PUD (11 house lots & 2 open space lots).

This proposal will be heard as a Preliminary Plat Review. The property is located at 316 VT Route 15 which is located in the Forestry Zoning District.

• A request to the DRB

by Thinking Out Loud LLC for site plan review for the construction of a 6,000 sq.ft. performance studio. The property is located at 16 River Road which is in the Village

(b) Long Term bicycle parking requirements can be met in any of the following ways: 1. A bicycle storage room; 2. Bicycle lockers, pods, or lids; 3. Lockable bicycle enclosure; or 4. By certifying to the city’s bicycle and pedestrian planner that employees may store their bicycles within their workspace and that residents may store their bicycles within their dwelling unit. (c) As written.

Sec. 8.2.9 As written.

Waivers from Bicycle Parking Requirements

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PART 3: INSTITUTIONAL PARKING PLANS As written. ** ***

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Material underlined added.

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All interested persons may appear and be heard. Additional information related to this application may be viewed at the Jericho Planning and Zoning Office during regular business hours.

Chris Flinn Zoning Administrator cflinn@jerichovt.gov

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Tuesdays, 5-6 p.m., Castleton Community Center, 2108 Main St., Castleton. Mondays, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center (RRMC Physiatry Conference Room), 160 Allen St., Rutland. PEER LED Stay Quit Support Group, first Thursday of every month, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the CVPS/Leahy Community Health Education Center at RRMC. Info: 747-3768, scosgrove@rrmc.org.

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ALATEEN GROUP New Alateen group in Burlington on Sundays from 5-6 p.m. at the UU building at the top of Church St. For more information please call Carol, 324-4457.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free.

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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP This caregivers support group meets on the 3rd Wed. of every mo. from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 128, Williston.

Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support, and coping techniques in care for a person living with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free and open to

the public. Families, caregivers, and friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm date and time. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP 1st Monday monthly, 3-4:30 p.m.

Pre-registration is required (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24/7 Helpline, 800-272-3900, for more information.

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Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390.

BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your

life. But, it can also be a time of stress that is often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth and feel you need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531.

BEREAVEMENT/GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Meets every other Mon. night, 6-7:30 p.m., & every other Wed., 10-11:30 a.m., in the Conference Center at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one.

There is no fee. Info, Ginny Fry or Jean Semprebon, 223-1878.

BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people with breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets first Monday of the month, 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more information call 802-776-5508.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury.

It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment.

Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 800-639-1522.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance,

1:30-2:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. monthly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. monthly at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Brattleboro meets at Brooks Memorial Library on the 1st Thu. monthly from 1:15-3:15 p.m. and the 3rd Mon. monthly from 4:15-6:15 p.m. White River Jct. meets the 2nd Fri. monthly at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m.

Call our helpline at 877-856-1772.

BURLINGTON AREA PARKINSON’S DISEASE OUTREACH GROUP People with Parkinson’s disease & their caregivers gather together to gain support & learn about living with Parkinson’s disease.

Group meets 2nd Wed. of every mo., 1-2 p.m., continuing through Nov. 18, 2015.

Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 185 Pine Haven Shores Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 888-763-3366, parkinsoninfo@ uvmhealth.org, parkinsonsvt.org.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-8 p.m. at the Hope Lodge, 237 East Ave., Burlington. Newly diagnosed? Prostate cancer reoccurrence?

General discussion and sharing among survivors and those beginning or rejoining the battle. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol.com.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life with this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men and women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction and pornography, food issues, and overcoming abuse. All 18+ are welcome; sorry, no childcare. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m. Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction. Info:

recovery@essexalliance. org, 878-8213.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone with struggles with hurt, habits and hang ups, which includes everyone in some way.

We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton which meets every Friday night at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us and discover how your life can start to change.

Info: 893-0530, Julie@ mccartycreations.com.

CELIAC & GLUTENFREE GROUP Last Wed. of every month, 4:30-6 p.m., at Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Free & open to the public!

To learn more, contact Lisa at 598-9206 or lisamase@gmail.com.

CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy and associated medical conditions. It’s mission it to provide the best possible information

to parents of children living with the complex condition of cerebral palsy. cerebralpalsy guidance.com/ cerebral-palsy/ CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sunday at noon at the Turning Point Center, 191 Bank Street, Burlington.

Tom, 238-3587, coda.org.

DECLUTTERERS’ SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming?

Maybe two or three of us can get together to help each other simplify. 989-3234, 425-3612.

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G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction?

Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a month on Mondays in Burlington.

Please call for date and location. RSVP mkeasler3@gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).

LGBTQ VETERANS GROUP This veterans group is a safe place for veterans to gather and discuss ways to help the community, have dinners, send packages and help the families of

LGBTQ service people.

Ideas on being helpful encouraged.

Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 6-8:30 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church (The Little Red Door), 64 State Street, Montpelier. RSVP, 802-825-2045.

HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice hearing experiences as real lived experiences which may happen to anyone at anytime.

We choose to share experiences, support, and empathy. We validate anyone’s experience and stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest and accurate representation of their experience, and as being acceptable exactly as they are.

Weekly on Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org.

HEARTBEAT VERMONT Have you lost a friend, colleague or loved one by suicide? Some who call have experienced a recent loss and some are still struggling w/ a loss from long ago.

Call us at 446-3577 to meet with our clinician, Jonathan Gilmore, at Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main St. All are welcome.

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FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia.

Local meetings are held twice a week: Mondays, 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; and

FREE YOGA FOR RECOVERY Join Jessica Child for free yoga for individuals in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse.

Every Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at SoulShine Power Yoga, 1 Market Place #16, Essex Jct. Mats are available at the studio. No experience necessary, just a willingness to deepen your recovery. Info: jessicamchild@gmail. com, 802-999-8655.

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FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends and community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis.

Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety and other types of distress. The group is

FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults 18 & over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills & draw strength from one another. Weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m. Turning Point Center, corner of Bank St., Burlington. (Across from parking garage, above bookstore). thdaub1@gmail.com.

Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more information and a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. and the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org.

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EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated with the job search or with

FAMILIES, PARTNERS, FRIENDS AND ALLIES OF TRANSGENDER ADULTS We are people with adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming.

We meet to support each other and to learn more about issues and concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal, and confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 PM, the second Thursday of each month at Pride Center of VT, 255 South Champlain St., Suite 12, in Burlington. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer one-on-one support. For more information, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-238-3801.

a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect with others, to heal, and to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences and hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships.

Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship.

Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m.

Childcare is provided.

Info: 658-1996.

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Wednesdays at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

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kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sundays at 5 p.m. at the 1st Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 3998754. You can learn more at smartrecovery. org.

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HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107.

People living with cancer & their caretakers convene for support.

INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) and painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/ urgency. These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone.

For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@ gmail.com or call 899-4151 for more information.

KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients as well as caregivers are provided with a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact info@vcsn.net.

LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace offers peerled support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional &/or hate violence.

These groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, & offer & receive support.

Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain information on how to better cope with feelings & experiences that surface because of the trauma they have experienced.

Please call SafeSpace 863-0003 if you are interested in joining.

MALE SURVIVOR OF VIOLENCE GROUP A monthly, closed group for male

identified survivors of violence including relationship, sexual assault, and discrimination. Open to all sexual orientations.

Contact 863-0003 for more information or safespace@pride centervt.org.

MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts to get & stay clean. Ongoing Wed. at 7 p.m. at Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., suite 200, Burlington. 861-3150.

MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP Area Myeloma Survivors, Families and Caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies and a support network by participating in the group experience with people that have been though similar situations. Third Tuesday of the month, 5-6 p.m. at the New Hope Lodge on East Avenue in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@aol.com.

NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Bennington, every Tue., 1-2:30 p.m., CRT Center, United Counseling Service, 316 Dewey St.; Burlington, every Thu., 3-4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St. (enter from parking lot); Berlin, second Thu. of the month, 4-5:30 p.m., CVMC Board Room, 130 Fisher Rd.; Rutland, every 1st and 3rd Sun., 4:30-6 p.m., Rutland Mental Health Wellness Center, 78 S. Main St.; No. Concord, every Thu., 6-7:30 p.m., Loch Lomond, 700 Willson Rd. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@ namivt.org or 800639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living with mental health challenges.

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Bellows Falls, 3rd Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., Compass School, 7892 US-5, Westminster; Brattleboro, 1st Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., 1st Congregational

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Church, 880 Western Ave., West Brattleboro; Burlington, 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., HowardCenter, corner of Pine & Flynn Ave.; Berlin, 4th Mon. of every mo., 7 p.m.

Central Vermont Medical Center, Room 3; Georgia, 1st Tue. of every mo., 6 p.m., Georgia Public Library, 1697 Ethan Allen Highway (Exit 18, I-89); Manchester, 4th Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., Equinox Village, 2nd floor; Rutland, 1st Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center, Leahy Conference Ctr., room D; St. Johnsbury, 4th Wed. of every mo., 5:30 p.m., Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital Library, 1315 Hospital Dr.; Williston, 1st & 3rd Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., NAMI Vermont Office, 600 Blair Park Rd. #301. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt. org or 800-639-6480.

Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living mental illness.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/ out the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in Burlington, Barre and St. Johnsbury.

NAR-ANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (small room), 191 Bank St., Burlington. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106.

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

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OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS A mutual support circle that focuses on connection and selfexploration. Fridays at 1 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) A 12-step program for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc. No matter what your problem with food, we have a solution! All are welcome, meetings are open, and there are no dues or fees.

See oavermont.org/ meeting-list for the current meeting list, meeting format and more; or call 802-8632655 any time!

POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP Anyone coping with potato intolerance and interested in joining a support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452.

QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFÉ The Queen City Memory Café offers a social time & place for people with memory impairment & their fiends & family to laugh, learn & share concerns & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods with entertainment & conversation.

QCMC meets the 3rd Sat. of each mo., 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Thayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington.

316-3839.

QUEER CARE GROUP This support group is for adult family members and caregivers of queer, and/or questioning youth.

It is held on the 2nd Monday of each month from 6:30-8 p.m. at Outright Vermont,

QUIT TOBACCO GROUPS Are you ready to be tobacco free? Join our FREE five-week group classes facilitated by our Tobacco Treatment Specialists. We meet in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. You may qualify for a FREE 8-week supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Contact us at (802)-847-7333 or quittobaccoclass@ uvmhealth.org.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND Support group meeting held 4th Tue. of the mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Williston Police Station. Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Shawn, 6602645. Visit slaafws. org or saa-recovery. org for meetings near you.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence.

Groups are available for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 8640555, ext. 19, or email our victim advocate at advocate@sover.net.

STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone! Adults, teens & school-age kids who stutter & their families are welcome to join one of our three free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM. Adults: 5:30-6:30, 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30, 1st Thu. monthly; school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15, 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus. Info: burlingtonstutters.org, burlingtonstutters@

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SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide.

Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577.

6:30-8 p.m. the 3rd Tue. of ea. mo.

SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 2577989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 229-0591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only). Please call 877-543-9498 for more info.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE If you have lost someone to suicide and wish to have a safe place to talk, share and spend a little time with others who have had a similar experience, join us the 3rd Thu. at the Faith Lighthouse Church, Rte. 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook), 7-9 p.m. Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE, S. BURLINGTON Who: Persons experiencing the impact of a loved one’s suicide. When: first Wednesday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m. Location: S. Burlington. This group is currently full and unable to accept new participants. Please call Linda Livendale at 802-272-6564 to learn about other groups within driving distance. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

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THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings and families grieving the loss of a child meets every third Tuesday of the month, 7-9 p.m., at Kismet Place, 363 Blair Park Rd., Williston. Call/email Jay at 802-373-1263, compassionate friendsvt@gmail.com.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:156:15 p.m. For info, call David at 371-8929.

VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want to feel supported on your vegetarian/ vegan journey? Want more info on healthy veggie diets? Want to share & socialize at veggie potlucks, & more, in the greater Burlington area? This is your opportunity to join with other like-minded folks. veggy4life@ gmail.com, 658-4991.

WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUP FAHC. Led by Deb Clark, RN. Every 1st & 3rd Tue., 5-6:30 p.m.

Call Kathy McBeth, 847-5715.

YOGA FOR FOLKS LIVING WITH LYME DISEASE Join as we build community and share what works on the often confusing, baffling and isolating path to wellness while living with Lyme disease.

We will have a gentle restorative practice suitable for all ages and all levels from beginner to experienced, followed by an open group discussion where we will share what works and support one another in our quest for healing. By donation.

Wear comfortable clothing. March 5, April 2, May 7, June 4. 2-3:30 p.m. More information at laughingriveryoga. com.

XA – EVERYTHING ANONYMOUS Everything Anonymous is an all encompassing 12-step support group. People can attend for any reason, including family member challenges. Mondays, 7-8 p.m. Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Burlington. Info: 777-5508, definder@ gmail.com.

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Buildings and General Services is looking for an individual to join our custodial staff in Montpelier. This individual should possess a great attitude and have an attention to detail philosophy. This is a second shift position Monday through Friday 12:00 pm to 8:30 pm. For more information, contact Jonathan Rutledge at jonathan.rutledge@ vermont.gov. Status: Full Time. Job ID #432. Application Deadline: November 25, 2018.

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Wake Robin is Expanding!

Staff Nurse (LPN or RN) Nights LNAs Days or Evenings Full or Part-time

Optician or Ophthalmic Technician Busy optometric office looking for optician and/or ophthalmic technician to help in finishing laboratory, optical dispensary and with patient care.

Willing to train the right candidate. Excellent benefits include health insurance, 401k and paid time off. Send resumes to: mark@oeberlin.com

Wake Robin seeks health care staff who are licensed in Vermont to work collaboratively to provide high quality care in a fast paced residential and long-term care environment, while maintaining a strong sense of “home.” We offer an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting.

We continue to offer generous shift differentials; Evenings $2.50/hour, nights $4.50/hour, and weekends $1.55.

Interested candidates please email a cover letter and resume to hr@wakerobin.com or complete an application online at www.wakerobin.com.

Wake Robin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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We are looking for an independent plumbing/ HVAC journeyman or master to be our busy service tech all throughout Chittenden County. We have hundreds of loyal customers that trust us to give them reliable service.

If you like a varied job site, troubleshooting repairs and meeting great people this is the job for you. Please contact us with any questions.

Own transportation a plus but not necessary. Must have a valid Vermont driver's license. We are a small but growing company, family run and staffed.

Wages/salary: competitive for this area and dependent upon your experience.

Send resumes to: lavoiepandh@gmail.com

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Healthy Relationships Project Trainer

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Healthy Relationships Project Trainer sought.

Full-time position supports pre-schools and schools implementing our child sexual abuse prevention programs. Bachelor’s degree in Education or Human Services field & experience training adults and/or teaching children required. Master’s degree and knowledge of child development & sexual abuse preferred. State-wide travel requiring reliable transportation.

Submit cover letter, resume, and three references to Search, PO Box 829, Montpelier, Vermont, 05601.

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Carpenters Wanted!

Needed Immediately!

Finish Carpenters, Carpenters and Carpenters Helpers. Good Pay, Full Time and Long Term!

Chittenden County.

Call Mike at 802-343-0089 or Morton at 802-862-7602.

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Part-Time VPR Classical Morning Host

CLIENT SERVICES SPECIALIST Hiring Client Services Specialist for publishing technology company.

Requires strong relationship & project management skills for an assigned portfolio of scholarly journals for whom Sheridan provides editorial & composition services.

Publishing background preferred, but willing to train. Please visit: www.sheridan.com/careers for job description.

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Wake Robin, Vermont’s premier continuing care retirement community is adding members to our team of Kitchen Staff!

Vermont Public Radio is in search of a part-time morning host for our statewide classical music network, VPR Classical. The ideal host will make the music come alive for our listeners, and bring local context and relevance to timeless masterworks. The Ideal candidates will have knowledge of and passion for classical music. Radio experience preferred. Read the full Job Description for more information on Careers page of VPR.net.

Wake Robin, Vermont’s premier continuing care retirement community is adding members to our team of Dining Room Staff.

This is a perfect opportunity for individuals with the time and drive to begin their working experience, or for professionals who wish to supplement their current career endeavors. Our Dining Companions help to create a fine dining experience for our residents in a restaurant style environment. We will train applicants who demonstrate strong customer service skills and a desire to work with an active population of seniors.

Dishwasher FULL-TIME

Our Dishwasher will perform a variety of services in the kitchen area such as dishwashing, basic food prep, linen prep, food storage, general kitchen cleaning and, as assigned, they may also perform bus services in the main or auxiliary dining rooms. This shift is full-time, with weekends included.

Wake Robin offers an excellent compensation and benefits package and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting.

Looking for a single person, couple or small family to provide a warm and loving home environment for an outgoing and sociable 29-year-old man with a developmental disability. Must have a knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL) or a willingness to learn. ASL classes are offered to you at no cost. Must be comfortable with personal care and provide reasonable transportation to various appointments and/or activities. Must be over age 21; have valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, high school diploma or equivalent; and have cleared background screenings and home inspection. Please call Jessica Carswell, 802-370-4025.

To apply for this position, please send resume and cover letter to careers@ncssinc.org or visit our website at www.ncssinc.org/careers.

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PRODUCTION EDITOR

Only email applications are accepted; no phone calls please.

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PROGRAM ASSISTANT

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he Vermont Historical Society is seeking a Program Assistant to fill a part-time position based at the Vermont History Center in Barre.

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

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

This is a great opportunity for you!

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For more details, please see vermonthistory.org/aboutvhs/career-opportunities

Interested candidates please complete an application online at www.wakerobin.com!

Wake Robin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Are you inspired to provide care and attention to another? To be part of that person’s daily life and help them to grow? Do you have skills in American Sign Language? Then we may have the job for you!

Applicants are required to fill out the VPR Job Application and provide a cover letter, resume and brief audio 3:15 PM 4t-NCSSdevHomeprov112118.indd 1 sample in which you introduce a piece of music.

Sheridan Journal Services, an Please email to: careers@ established provider of publishing vpr.net.

Dining Companions FULL OR PART TIME

Developmental Home Provider

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greeting, bookkeeping and management of staff benefit programs. Requires proficiency in standard commercial business bookkeeping practices, use of Sage Accounting and interface with Sage payroll is a must. Proven office management, administrative or assistant experience, excellent written and communication skills, experience with human resources, benefit systems. Must be able to work well with others in a support role. Email letter of Interest & resume to estelle@scottpartners.com. No phone calls, please.

www.scottpartners.com

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Direct Support Professional CCS is offering direct support professional positions and per diem shifts to work one on one with individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism. Starting wage is $14.35 per hour, with mileage reimbursement and a comprehensive benefit package. This is an excellent job for applicants entering human services or for those looking to continue their work in this field. Send your cover letter and application to: Karen Ciechanowicz, staff@ccs-vt.org.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE ACCOUNTS COORDINATOR Manage day to day order processing tasks: create quote approvals, email inquiries response, answer phone calls, coordinate production schedules, order blank apparel, create shipping labels, meet with walk-in clients, invoicing, products sourcing, and coordinating requested samples. Must demonstrate a focused attention to detail while effectively communicating with the production staff.

Salary plus benefits for this permanent position.

Email us for an application: info@deerfielddesigns.com

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If you are looking for a good job with steady income and great benefits that start on day one, we want to talk to you! Opportunities are available on both day and night shifts.

New Increased Wages!

1st Shift: $15.50/hour with an effective rate of $16.24/hour 3rd Shift: $17.44/hour with an effective rate of $18.27/hour Part-time schedules are available too!

You must be 18 years or older with high school diploma/GED to apply.

For more information about responsibilities, required qualifications, or how to apply contact: jobs@globalfoundries.com or 802-769-2793 or apply on our website: www.globalfoundries.com/ about-us/careers.

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The Vermont Judiciary is looking for 3 temporary employees with primary responsibility for courtroom operations and security in the court house. The position provides general assistance, security and safety to all users of the court.

Located in Burlington, VT. High School graduate and two years in a responsible position required. Starting pay $16.66 per hour.

OFFICE CLERK OPENINGS

(Job codes #18041-18045)

The Vermont Judiciary is recruiting for 5 full-time, permanent Docket Clerk positions to perform specialized clerical duties including data entry and extensive customer service over the phone.

Located in Burlington. High School graduate and two years of clerical, or data entry experience required. Must have private means of transportation as during the new hire orientation may include assignments outside Chittenden during the first few months. Starting at $16.66 per hour.

Candidates shall submit a complete and up-to-date Judicial Branch Application and resume. An electronic version of the Application may be found at: www.vermontjudiciary.org/employmentopportunities/staff-openings. Open until filled.

Equal opportunity employer.

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Lecturer(s) Needed, HDFS

Spring Semester 2019, 1/14/19-5/10/19.

1) Introductory course in Life Span Development, 10:05-11:20 am, Tuesday & Thursday.

2) Upper level seminar in Advanced Child Development or other topic appropriate for HDFS seniors. 1:15-2:30 pm, Tuesday & Thursday.

Requirements: Graduate degree in Human Development, Family Studies, or related discipline & relevant college teaching experience. Please send resume & brief description of related experience to:

LShelton@uvm.edu or Lawrence G. Shelton, HDFS Coordinator, UVM, Mann Hall Rm. 201, 208 Colchester Ave., Burlington, VT 05405

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Step Ahead Innovations, Inc. (SAI) is a rapidly growing VT-based IoT water tech company developing next generation realtime water quality monitoring products using advanced fluorescent technology and cloud-based web apps. Join our talented team as we prepare to launch the revolutionary MindStream Monitor.

is hiring a

PLUMBING & HEATING TECHNICIAN.

Developmental Educator

SIGN-ON BONUS AFTER 90 DAYS. $250 for Licensed Plumbers or Licensed Journeyman.

Must have valid driver’s license, professional licenses preferred - gas, plumbing certification. Experience in the trade is required. Paid vacation, paid holidays, Aflac and more.

Pay compensated with experience. Vehicle provided.

Call 893-0787 for more details.

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The New School of Montpelier

We are a small, independent school serving unique children and youth. We are recruiting dedicated individuals to join our diverse staff in this exciting and challenging work.

Positions start immediately.

Paraprofessional/ Behavior Interventionist

The Parent Child Center of NCSS seeks an individual with experience working with families and a desire to work in early childhood. This position, along with the Parent Child Center, coordinates special education services for infants and toddlers. The position requires knowledge of developmental milestones, parenting strategies, community resources, and the ability to provide supports in home, child care, and team settings. Developmental Educators provide family support, parent education, and service coordination to address child and family goals. Desired applicants must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Special Education, Human Services, or other related field; or equivalent combination of related education, training and experience.

Knowledge of child development birth to three is necessary, and knowledge of developmental delays and children with medical/ genetic disorders is preferred. This position provides excellent benefits including medical, dental, paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, retirement plan and educational assistance. Please send letter of interest, three references, and a resume to: Nicole Noel, Team Leader at careers@ncssinc.org.

An associate’s degree or five years experience after high school preferred. Candidates must have a valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle.

Criminal record checks will be conducted for final candidates.

Submit a resume to: The New School of Montpelier 11 West Street Montpelier, VT 05602 or email to: ddellinger@nsmvt.org No phone calls, please!

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• QC Specialist

• Product Systems Engineer

• Customer Support Representative

• Software Test Engineer

• Assembly Technicians

The company’s initial products are aimed at the high-end saltwater aquarium market. Additional platforms for the company’s patented advanced fluorescent indicator science technology include aquaculture, hydroponics, municipal water, and environmental monitoring. To learn more, visit the company’s website at www.MindStreamH2O.com/Careers.

Step Ahead Innovations is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Property Manager

NCSS, 107 Fisher Pond Road, St. Albans, VT 05478 | ncssinc.org | E.O.E.

The Winooski Housing Authority is seeking a Property Manager for multi-site properties.

Graphic & Multimedia Designer

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This is a one-on-one, paraprofessional position supporting students in the development of academic, communication, vocational, social and self-regulation skills.

Settings may include classroom, one-on-one environments and the community. Must possess good communication/ collaboration skills.

• Director of Manufacturing

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Established over two decades ago, our educational publishing company possesses an established brand, business model and clientele.

We are looking for a dynamic Graphic and Multimedia Designer to join our team.

Projects will cover a wide spectrum. The ideal candidate possesses multiple design disciplines, from print graphics, to digital graphics, to animation to video editing.

Duties and responsibilities include the following; other duties may be assigned: Provide outstanding customer service to residents, ensure that all appropriate communications are distributed on a timely basis and address any resident concerns in a timely manner. Manages the tenant selection process adhering to eligibility guidelines. Ensures that all annual recertifications are completed in a timely fashion.

Schedules and performs regular property inspections. Perform site visits on a bi-weekly basis to ensure that the common areas and grounds are well maintained. Serves as a liaison with social service agencies. Responsible for assuring tenants adhere to the lease.

This position requires good customer service, communication and organizational skills, positive and professional demeanor and attention to detail.

We are looking for a self-starting team player with a great attitude, good organizational skills, the ability to multi-task, and savviness in both digital and print design.

Applicants must have an Associate’s Degree in Human Services or Social Work.

A Bachelor’s Degree in graphic design or a related field is required, plus 3 years of experience. Advanced working knowledge of Macs, Adobe Creative Suite and Final Cut Pro is essential. Familiarity with HTML is a plus!

Extensive relevant experience may be substituted for an Associate’s Degree.

To get started on this exciting path, please send a copy of your resume and a digital portfolio with at least three work samples to us at edsalessearch@gmail.com.

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Previous experience in affordable housing or property management is required.

Winooski Housing Authority offers an excellent benefits package including health, dental and retirement, as well as generous paid time off. Starting salary based on experience.

Please send resume and cover letter to dhergenrother@winooskihousing.org.

Deadline to apply is November 30, 2018.

No phone calls, please. Cover Letter Required.

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PRODUCTION PLANNER The Production Planner is primarily responsible for on time/quality deliveries to customers. This will be achieved through review of MRP requirements, scheduling of orders, and working closely with Customer Service, Quality, Engineering, and Production Departments. To be successful at this position, you will need excellent organizational skills, to be a real team player, be knowledgeable of our products, and be extremely reliable.

You will work closely with the Master Scheduler to manage workflow through all our facilities. Must ensure materials are available to support system and customer demands. This position will also supply administrative support for shipping, daily paperwork and will fill in when Shipping Supervisor is out. Candidate should have a bachelor’s degree, 3 to 5+ years of experience, and have a strong planning background, ERP experience and preferably CPIM.

MASTER ELECTRICIAN The plant master electrician will be responsible for all electrical maintenance for our manufacturing facility in Colchester, VT. Primary responsibilities are to install, troubleshoot, and repair all electrical devices and equipment to minimize production downtime and plant maintenance costs. The plant electrician will also help maintenance with its plant mechanical needs, responsibilities, and duties. You will also work with new machinery and equipment installations wiring the power supply and conduit to and between machines and equipment, using hand tools and test equipment. Must have master electrician license, 5+ years’ related experience, experience working on motors, controls, equipment maintenance, and have a complete set of tools.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE The Customer Service Representative is the primary contact for all customer accounts, and the liaison between customers and our production teams. The CSR creates positive and productive relationships with both external (customers, outside sales, and distributors) and internal customers (operations, supply chain, etc.). This position requires great attention to detail, flexibility, high level communication (both written and oral) and problem-solving skills in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Analysis and understanding of your customer accounts trends and needs is an ongoing aspect to this position. A Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of related customer-facing experience are required for this position. Our CSRs have zero similarities with retail sales! This position will manage accounts from your desk, emails, and phones. Occasional travel to customers will be required.

We offer a very competitive salary, profit-sharing, 401k, benefits, vacation, and a great work environment. Please apply at champcable.com or by submitting your resume and/or cover letter to hr@champcable.com or mail to 175 Hercules Dr. Colchester, VT 05446.

Home Instead Senior Care, a provider of home helper services to seniors in their homes, is seeking friendly and dependable people.

CAREGivers assist seniors with companionship, light housekeeping, meal preparation, personal care, errands, safety presence and more.

Part-time, flexible scheduling, including: daytime, evening, weekend and overnight shifts currently available. Higher pay for weekend shifts. No heavy lifting.

INSERT YOUR FUTURE TITLE HERE – TBD We know you ended up here because you’re likely looking for a new gig. Great, because we’re looking for a new team member too. Let’s do this a little differently, because we’re a little different. Instead of the tired old job description – resume submission – form cover letter – interview process (yawn), we’ll pitch you on why we’re such a cool company to work for and why this is such a life-changing opportunity, and if that resonates with you, you pitch us on why you should be The One. OK? Good.

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

Have you ever gone to a business networking event or a conference and asked someone what they do for a living only to be blown away by how cool their job is and how passionate they are about their work? This is that kind of job and if you get it that will be you.

Seriously . . . no joke . . . for real . . . this is the kind of job that everyone who asks about your career will want to know more about and almost invariably keep saying how they wish they had a job like that. They should because the industry is fascinating, the work rewarding, the career opportunities almost limitless and we get to regularly rub elbows with some of the most impressive movers and shakers on earth.

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You’re probably thinking (and rightly so) about the old adage “when something seems too good to be true, that’s usually because it is”.

That’s fair, but this is the exception to the rule. This is all legit.

It is tough to come up with a title for this role because this role will require the person to essentially be the Swiss Army Knife on the team – doing whatever needs to be done to support our core business of representing high profile individuals for all their global paid speaking appearances. This position gets you in on the ground floor of the public speaking industry and where you take it from here will entirely depend on your aptitude, drive and character. You’ll be directly mentored by a speaker agent with two decades of experience while also honing your professional chops under the tutelage of the rest of our highly experienced team.

You will have a ton of support and encouragement, but you will be expected to be self-motivated, proactive, professional, reliable, instinctive, and of course, calm, capable and kind.

The Woolen Mill is looking for a part-time Leasing Consultant. Hours will be Thursday, 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Duties include (but are not limited to) answering phones, scheduling appointments, showing apartments and accepting rental applications.

So what do you think? Is your interest piqued? Sound like the kind of gig that could get you out of bed in the morning, ready to make a difference? If so, take the next step and go to:

www.newleafspeakers.com/about/open-position/

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This position requires applicant to have good communication skills, be detail oriented, and have the ability to work independently with a professional and friendly demeanor. This fast-paced office demands the ability to multitask.

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Please submit resume to The Woolen Mill 20 West Canal Street Winooski, VT 05404.

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STAFF ACCOUNTANT Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty is seeking an entry-level Staff Accountant in our busy Accounting department. This full-time position assists in the preparation of bank deposits, processing checks and account reconciliations for real estate transactions. The ideal candidate for this FT position will provide high quality, detailed service in a timely manner, have proven work-experience in the Accounting field, be proficient in Microsoft Office Suites, in particular Excel, have excellent communication skills both verbal and written and be able to handle confidential information appropriately. For more information and to apply, go to:

DISPATCHER/SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR Applications are invited for a full-time Dispatcher/Switchboard operator for Public Safety/ Fire & Rescue Departments at Saint Michael’s College to dispatch radio calls and operate the College switchboard. This person will be responsible for answering all incoming calls and directing calls to the appropriate party quickly, accurately and professionally. All emergency calls are received for SMC campus and the surrounding community. Dispatch, switchboard, emergency services experience desirable, but we will provide training for a motivated and dependable person with demonstrated aptitude.

Benefits include health, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k), generous paid time off, employee and dependent tuition benefits, and discounted gym membership.

www.fourseasonssir.com/careers.php or send a resume and cover letter to jobs@fourseasonssir.com

For full job description and to apply online go to: http://smcvt.interviewexchange.com/.

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

Loan Compliance & CRA Officer Berlin

Are you looking for an opportunity for a new or supplemental part time career outside a clinical setting that can expand your knowledge of unusual, potentially disabling conditions and their treatment?

Looking for a Sweet Job? Our new, mobile-friendly job board is buzzing with excitement.

Job seekers can: • Browse hundreds of current, local positions from Vermont companies.

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Start applying at jobs.sevendaysvt.com

There is no better time to join the NSB team!

Do you have an interest in helping to improve the lives of Vermont’s most vulnerable people while supporting the integrity of the disability program in Vermont?

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We are looking for a professional to join our team as a Loan Compliance & CRA Officer for our Berlin Operations Center. This is a new position that has been added due to the need to expand our Compliance Department. This position offers a strong opportunity to work for a growing premier Vermont mutual savings bank.

Would you enjoy stable, challenging work on a flexible schedule that meets your needs in a collegial office environment where you use your clinical expertise to assess medical case files and assist in disability evaluation?

The Loan Compliance & CRA Officer is responsible for formulating and maintaining a bank-wide compliance program relative to lending and CRA. This individual must have the ability to maintain Bank compliance and mitigate risks in a way which minimizes operational impact and supports a positive customer experience.

The Vermont Disability Determination Services is seeking to contract with licensed physicians in such fields as general or internal medicine, family practice, osteopathy, neurology, or Physiatry.

Program training is provided, and the work is performed at the Disability Determination Office in Waterbury, VT during regular business days/hours with no patient care responsibilities.

For details, questions, and application materials, contact DDS Director Trudy Lyon-Hart at 802-241-2464 or Trudy.LyonHart@ssa.gov All applications must be received no later than 4:00 PM Monday, November 26, 2018.

For more details regarding the Medical Consultant position go to http://vermontbusinessregistry.com/BidPreview. aspx?BidID=33909 The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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

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

Please submit your application and resume to: Careers@nsbvt.com (Preferred) Or mail: Northfield Savings Bank Human Resources P.O. Box 7180 Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer/Member FDIC

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

The Public Works Engineer position is responsible for the professional and administrative engineering work involved in the development and implementation of various civil engineering projects within the public right-of-way for the City of Burlington, generally including streets, sidewalks, and structures but excluding water, wastewater, and stormwater. Requirements include a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and 4 years’ experience including civil engineering with demonstrated experience in any of the following fields: transportation, geotechnical, structural, or construction engineering.Position is considered Regular Full Time.

To apply, please see our website:

www.governmentjobs.com/careers/burlingtonvt.

Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply. EOE.

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FAST Analyst I VSAC is seeking an individual to perform daily loan, grant, and/or scholarship application processing and maintenance adjustments.

The ideal candidate will have a strong facility with numbers and attention to detail; demonstrated problem-solving skills; proficient computer skills; and strong organizational and interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal. A minimum of an Associate’s Degree or equivalent experience is required. This is an entry level position with room for growth.

FAST Counselor I VSAC is seeking a dynamic individual who likes to assist customers over the telephone and in person with questions related to their education loan, grant, and general financial aid.

The ideal candidate will possess strong customer service experience, ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment, excellent communication skills, strong faculty for detail, basic financial calculations, and excellent organizational skills.

Must have proficient keyboarding skills and aptitude with numbers. This is an entry level position with room for growth!

St. Albans Wrap Around Program Looking for an exciting new opportunity? NFI Vermont has one for you! St. Albans WRAP is seeking a full time Therapeutic Facilitator to join our amazing team of mental health professionals and our positive and supportive work environment. Responsibilities include working with children, adolescents, and families with mental health challenges, both in the community and in their homes.

Ideal candidates will have experience working collaboratively with families and multi-disciplinary treatment teams, have working knowledge of trauma and its effects, and be open to new experiences. Master’s preferred in social work or a related field, valid driver’s license required. NFI Vermont offers a trauma informed working environment, training opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package with tuition reimbursement.

Residential Counselors $500 Sign on Bonus

Our team helps people be successful by counseling on debt management and repayment plans. Responsibilities include analyzing loan accounts, assessing customer situations, and exercising professional judgment to determine appropriate repayment options.

VSAC offers a dynamic, professional environment with competitive compensation and generous benefits package.

Apply ONLY online at www.vsac.org.

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Therapeutic Facilitator $300 Sign on Bonus

Shelburne House Program The Shelburne House Program is seeking Residential Counselors to join our team. Shelburne House is a trauma-informed residential treatment program, which provides assessment and stabilization services to male adolescents, ages 13-18. Counselors provide supervision, support, guidance and role modeling to the youth in order to help facilitate healing and growth. Other responsibilities include helping with activities of daily living and building independent living skills. Experience working with teenagers with emotional and behavioral challenges, or a BA in psychology or a related field required. Candidates should possess excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to function well in a team atmosphere and a valid driver’s license. This position includes a comprehensive benefits package, with tuition reimbursement.

Please apply online at www.nfivermont.org/careers We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and celebrate the diversity of our clients and staff.

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Looking for a new career?

High Mowing Organic Seeds is Hiring!

Fulfillment Operations Manager Our fulfi llment team serves the needs of approximately 40,000 customers and ships nearly 3,000,000 units per year.

The Fulfi llment Operations Manager will lead this team in achieving The Perfect Order. Are you analytical, data driven and collaborative? If so, this job might be for you.

Join the team Gallup ranks in the top 3% worldwide for employee engagement! n Paid holidays & paid time off

n 401K with employer contribution up to 10%

n Medical, dental & vision insurance

n Employee training

n Life insurance

n Wellness program

Tell us about yourself at NorthCountryFederalCreditUnion.appone.com or submit your resume to hr@northcountry.org We are currently seeking employees for Chittenden County.

Customer Service Associate Seasonal, January-April

NorthCountry is an equal opportunity employer.

Spend the winter helping farmers and gardeners in the High Mowing customer service department. The ideal candidate is friendly, detail-oriented and passionate about gardening and/or farming.

Both positions are based in Wolcott, VT. For details, see www.highmowingseeds.com.

www.northcountry.org

Recognized as one of Vermont’s Top 10 Best Places to Work by Vermont Business Magazine

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BUILDING MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN

Insured

by NCUA

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ECHO seeks an experienced team player to provide building maintenance and custodial services in a unique 36,000 square foot, LEEDcertified aquarium and science center.

The full time position provides a diverse set of responsibilities that includes interior and exterior daily cleaning of guest, staff and service areas as well as seasonal grounds maintenance. This position will also assist in interior and exterior building maintenance including painting, flooring, plumbing, carpentry, lighting, HVAC, and exhibit setup and maintenance.

The Building Maintenance Technician position is an experienced team player who likes working in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate has demonstrated knowledge and a background in both general building maintenance and custodial services.

This position will be full time, non-exempt and will be scheduled for four, ten-hour days per week, including one weekend day. Occasionally, this position will be required to work full weekends, holidays and overtime.

For a full job description please visit:

Full-Time Psychiatric Social Worker Busy inpatient psychiatry unit seeks MSW/LICSW with mental health experience to join supportive multidisciplinary treatment team. Duties include assessment, treatment, and discharge planning.

Clinician will conduct psychoeducational and treatment groups.

Extensive interface with community agencies. Prefer candidate with 3-5 years clinical experience, LADC a plus.

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

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

www.echovt.org/jobs.html ECHO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes candidates for employment who will contribute to our diversity.

Please submit cover letter and resume to jobs@echovermont.org with Building Maintenance Technician Position in the subject line.

Apply by November 23rd.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Director of Development & Communications CERF+, a nationally recognized leader in the field of emergency readiness, relief, and recovery for artists, is seeking a Director of Development & Communications. This well-rounded energetic and experienced professional will join our growing team of professionals to advance CERF+’s mission by building and sustaining relationships that increase support, awareness and engagement with our work. The Director of Development & Communications reports to the Executive Director and works in partnership with the Board of Directors and the CERF+ staff.

This is a tremendous opportunity for a dynamic, collaborative leader to help take CERF+ to the next level of growth and engagement. With offices in Montpelier, VT, CERF+ offers a wonderful quality of life, collegial work environment, and competitive compensation, including an attractive benefits package. For a complete job description, please visit www.cerfplus.org.

The application deadline is December 3, 2018.

Please send letter of interest and resume to: jobs@craftemergency.org or CERF+ 535 Stone Cutters Way, Suite 202 Montpelier, Vermont 05602

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Building a community where everyone participates and everyone belongs.

Now Hiring!

The Champlain Water District, an award winning regional water supplier having the distinction of receiving the “First in the Nation Excellence In Water Treatment Award” from the Partnership for Safe Water, announces a position opening within its existing Department that assures high quality drinking water throughout Chittenden County.

This position operates, maintains, and monitors a 24/7/365 sophisticated, state-of-the-art 23 MGD water treatment facility and transmission system serving a population of 75,000 located in twelve served municipal water distribution systems. Candidate must have a minimum of an Associate’s Degree in a water related science and be capable of obtaining certification as a Vermont Class 4C Water Treatment Plant Operator. Valid State of Vermont driver’s license with a clean record and the ability to meet the insurability criteria of the District’s insurance carrier. Resume deadline: November 28, 2018. Visit our website at: www.champlainwater.org to view the complete job description.

Competitive salary and benefit package. Resumes with cover letter to: tracy.bessette@champlainwater.org.

Shared Living Provider CCS is seeking an individual or couple to provide residential supports to an individual with an intellectual disability in your home or in theirs.

A generous stipend, paid time off (respite), comprehensive training & supports are provided.

We are currently offering a variety of opportunities, one of which may be the perfect match for you!

For more information contact Jennifer Wolcott, jwolcott@ccs-vt.org or 655-0511 ext. 118. ccs-vt.org

We’re Hiring

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Sign-on Bonus Education Benefits Relocation Assistance

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Communications and Development Manager

Holiday Cash!

The primary goal of the Communications and Development Manager is to assist the Winooski Partnership for Prevention in elevating the visibility of its work and messages.

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

Meat Production Customer service reps Warehouse

winooskiprevention.org/open-positions

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Apply in person. 8 am to 5 pm 210 East Main Street, Richmond, VT 05477

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Clara Martin Center

People Helping People

We are a rural non-profit community 11/5/18 2:12 PM mental health center located in the center of Vermont. We provide a variety of high quality behavioral health services to the residents of the Upper Valley primarily in Orange County and surrounding towns, with multiple offices located in Randolph, Bradford, Chelsea and Wilder.

Nutrition & Food Services Manager Central Vermont Medical Center is seeking a Nutrition & Food Services Manager (NSFM). Under the supervision of the Director of Support Services, the NSFM directs food production and service to patients, supervises all Nutrition and Food Services departmental production and retail services staff, catering coordinator and related production/ cafeteria supervisors and managers. The NSFM supervises food and supply inventory, storage, usage, purchasing, and the sanitation and food safety program.

School Services Director We are looking for a dynamic individual to oversee & develop our school based mental health services contracts within our region. Knowledge of budget management, supervision of academic and mental health staff, team development and a variety of educational delivery opportunities & best practices is essential. The position will be responsible for the oversight of East Valley Academy, our independent alternative school in East Randolph, VT, as well as managing the oversight of School Based Clinicians and Behavioral Interventionist services.

We are looking for a self-starter with the ability to interface in the community and perform a liaison role in representing the organization. This position requires travel to areas schools within Orange & Northern Windsor County, VT. We are team based and use evidence based best practices whenever possible. Ideal candidate would have a Master’s Degree in Counseling or Social Work, with previous school based experience.

BASIC KNOWLEDGE The NSFM must have knowledge of institutional food production, human resource skills, and basic nutrition science principles.

Additionally, this position requires a Food Service Sanitation Certification.

EXPERIENCE Associate’s degree in Food Service or four years of progressive food service experience in an institutional setting is required.

Successful candidates must possess demonstrated leadership and supervisory ability.

Interested in learning more?

Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at (802) 371-4191.

We offer competitive medical, dental and vision benefits, generous time off policy, matching 403B retirement plan and other company paid benefits.

Equal opportunity Employer Rachel Yeager, HR Coordinator • ryeager@claramartin.org Clara Martin Center • PO Box G • Randolph, VT 05060 Find other open positions at www.claramartin.org.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Business Service and Healthcare Apprenticeships No-cost ITAR Training Programs Begin January 2019

8 Programs | Guaranteed Jobs Upon Successful Completion | No Experience Required Start your full-time career with one of our Employer Partners:

Client Advisors Dealer Policy Client Advisors are professionals licensed with the State of Vermont as Insurance Producers. A Client Advisor evaluates customers’ insurance needs and eligibility, presenting them with a number of coverage options.

Phlebotomists UVM-Medical Center (UVM-MC) Phlebotomists obtain blood samples from patients through venipuncture and finger-stick techniques. Blood samples are collected and routed to a laboratory for a variety of testing procedures.

Training Program Features: • 8 weeks of intense hands-on learning • Preparation for State licensure • Guaranteed employment with DealerPolicy* • Potential to earn college credit • One year state-registered apprenticeship • $15/hour starting wages, plus commission • Performance-based increases during first year • Cost-of-Living grant provided during training • No cost participate for qualified VT residents

Training Program Features: • 8 weeks of intense hands-on learning • Preparation for National Certification • Guaranteed employment with UVM-MC* • Potential to earn college credit • One year state-registered apprenticeship • $13.52 hour starting wages • Performance-based increases after first year • Cost-of-Living grant provided during training • No cost to participate for qualified VT residents

*Upon successful completion of 8-week training

*Upon successful completion of 8-week training

Your Growth is Our Growth: No experience required!

Learn more and apply today! www.vthitec.org The ITAR Program (Information Technology Apprenticeship Readiness) is a partnership of:

The ITAR Program is funded in part by a grant from the Vermont and U.S. Departments of Labor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age disability or genetics.

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MATTHEW THORSEN

Hunger Mountain Co-op is committed to doing business locally whenever possible. We are Seven Days’ largest circulation point in central Vermont. To meet the demand, hundreds of papers are delivered on Wednesday and again on Friday.

Seven Days is reaching the audience we want to reach and supports our community.

Many people who are not actively looking for jobs still look at the employment section in print and online and end up telling a friend or applying themselves.

We believe Seven Days helps us connect with the candidates that we are trying to find.

JAY W. WISNER HR Manager Hunger Mountain Co-op

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