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DECEMBER 12-19, 2018 COMPILED BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN, MATTHEW ROY & ANDREA SUOZZO

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A Burlington International Airport sound map related to F-35 jet noise won’t be released until February, three months late. The reveal won’t likely be quiet.

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n a federal court filing last Thursday, a St. Albans fuel company accused Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) of using his office to exact legal retribution for political purposes.¦ The company, R.L. Vallee, alleged that Sanders and his Vermont spokesperson, Daniel McLean, sought to gin up a state prosecution and a class-action lawsuit after the company’s CEO, Rodolphe “Skip” Vallee, produced a television advertisement attacking Sanders and his family.

A week after Vallee released the ad in September 2014, according to documents and testimony obtained by the company’s lawyers, Sanders and McLean met with two members of the Vermont Attorney General’s Office to discuss the senator’s suspicion that the company engaged in anticompetitive practices. According to an assistant AG’s notes, either Sanders or McLean suggested that the AG “Bring [a] case just to make a point.”

McLean emailed the assistant AG, Ryan Kriger, several times in the ensuing weeks to ask whether thenAG Bill Sorrell would take action. In the end, he did not.¦ The documents also show that McLean corresponded later that fall and winter with attorneys from two firms interested in bringing a class action lawsuit

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McLean offered to provide them data that Sanders’ office had obtained pertaining to gas prices in northwestern Vermont. In June 2015, the firms filed a $100 million class action lawsuit accusing R.L. Vallee and three other companies of price-fixing.

R.L. Vallee’s 45 gas stations are mostly under the Maplefields brand. Skip Vallee is a prominent GOP donor and former Republican National Committee official who served as ambassador to Slovakia during president George W. Bush’s administration.¦ Last Thursday’s filing was the latest volley in the more than 3-year-old price-fixing case. Last month,¦R.L. Vallee subpoenaed McLean to sit for a deposition and turn over documents. Sanders’ office argued that the request was a “fishing expedition” and that Senate staffers could not be subpoenaed in their official capacities.¦ R.L. Vallee lawyers responded that it “strains credulity that Mr. McLean’s official duties as a press aide for a United States Senator” include attempting to persuade the AG to bring an enforcement action against a private company.¦ Read political editor Paul Heintz’s full story at sevendaysvt.com.

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1. “Winooski Green Card Holder Faces Deportation for Pot Conviction” by Taylor Dobbs. After 20 years in the U.S., Thao Vo is scheduled to be deported in February because of a pot conviction.

2. “Burlington City Councilor Accuses Other Members of Racism” by Katie Jickling.

Councilor Ali Dieng said a motion he proposed failed because it came from the only black member of the city council.

3. “Vallee Accuses Sanders of Seeking Legal Retribution ‘to Make a Point’” by Paul Heintz.

Fuel company R.L. Vallee alleges in a federal filing that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) pushed for a class action lawsuit for political purposes.

4. “Moran Redux? Officials Present New Plan for Burlington Landmark” by Katie Jickling.

Officials have a new, minimalist plan for the defunct waterfront power plant.

5. “Burlington Sandwich Shop King’s Corner Deli to Close” by Katie Jickling. After four years in business, the South End spot will soon make its last sandwich.

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ermont children going through tough times are in for a sweet Evan Ross (center) surprise this holiday season. A making cookies as a child Chittenden County man is leading an effort to collect homemade cookies for those in need.

For Evan Ross, it dates back to a childhood tradition.

“Me and my mom used to make cookies at Christmas, and we’d bring the extras over to the Firehouse [Family] Shelter,” Ross said, referring to a facility in Burlington’s Old North End. He scaled up the operation while living in Rochester, N.Y., last year. Instead of bringing just his own homemade cookies to shelters there, Ross coordinated

a crowdsourced campaign. The drive was a success, Ross said, with nearly 1,000 cookies baked to serve about 200 people.

Little kids “don’t really understand anything,” he said. “But they understand cookies.”

After moving back to Vermont earlier this year, Ross got in touch with the Committee on Temporary Shelter, which connected him with Steps to End Domestic Violence. Both groups will benefit from the baked goods.

There are only two rules, Ross said: The cookies can only be homemade and can’t include raisins — “because the kids are going to think they’re chocolate chips, and they’ve been through enough without that disappointment.”

Ross said Trader Joe’s in South Burlington, Sweet Clover Market in Essex Junction, Natural Provisions Market in Williston and the downtown Burlington City Market, Onion River

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Steps to End Domestic Violence executive director Kelly Dougherty said the organization’s emergency shelter holds five to seven households — sometimes a single person, other times a mother with children — while an additional 20 families are staying in emergency motel accommodations through a statefunded program.

“Having treats around — it’s not like a meal, but it’s celebratory and it’s nice to be able to have those kinds of celebrations when people are living not in the most ideal circumstances,” Dougherty said.

Community members have also donated gifts, she added, and the shelter is preparing to serve up its annual holiday meal — which is also donated.

“This time of year, we’re just always amazed at the generosity of people,” Dougherty said.

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OH, CANADA?

Congratulations on a great issue of Seven Days focused on small towns and big issues [“Our Towns,” December 5].

Thoughtful stories, and the Ed Koren cover was brilliant. You should be sure to submit this issue to various national competitions. It deserves a wider circulation and recognition.

A thought occurred to me after reading the issue. We know that many small rural towns all over the U.S. are struggling to survive; Vermont is not unique in this regard. But does Canada have the same problem on the same scale? I am not sure it does. If not, is that because its history of settlement was different, or were its government policies different from ours?

Might be worth having a reporter look into this.

Mark Curran

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LOCAL ‘STAR POWER’

[Re Off Message: “Sanders Institute Brings Star Power to Burlington,” November 29]: Although I did not make it to the Sanders Institute event, I read an open letter from the Vermont POC Racial Justice Community wondering why none of them was invited to speak.

Instead, “star power” prevailed.

It’s great that Danny Glover and others made the trip here to support Sen. Bernie Sanders and his progressive agenda. But it feels like the senator is not in touch with his grassroots when he doesn’t invite, for example, former state rep Kiah Morris or Mark Hughes of Justice for All. Or he could have asked Beverly Little Thunder of the Peace & Justice Center, or Jabari Jones or Katrina Battle from Black Lives Matter of Greater Burlington. Or he might have invited anyone from Migrant Justice or the NAACP. Any one of these activists could have represented racial and social justice issues that are important to progressives right here in this state.

Was this an oversight or perhaps an undersight? Bernie, I support your agenda to “end institutional racism in all its forms.” But maybe it starts with acknowledging the leaders and activists in this arena right here in Vermont.

Joey Corcoran

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TWO DEGREES OF CHEESEFACE

[Re “Who Shot Mr. Cheeseface?” November 28]: When I was a kid, my mother dated a man, Stephen, who worked as a messenger for Coleman Younger. I even had a couple of their T-shirts with the art nouveau Böcklin-style lettering. One day we were walking on Second Avenue in New York City when Stephen pointed out a magazine at a newsstand and told us he knew the dog on the cover; it belonged to a guy he worked with, and his cover sold a record number of issues.

Of course we kids were in awe — and later disbelief; he was quite a storyteller — but here we are 45 years later, and who appears on the cover of Seven Days but the same dog! Stephen drove an old DeSoto probably of similar vintage to the panel truck, delivering messages and working on old motorcycles at his shop on East Ninth Street. Stephen taught me to ride both bicycles and motorcycles, and I wore those Coleman Younger T-shirts to rags.

I remember “Jimmy the Iceman” from Montpelier in the ’90s, but he probably doesn’t remember me. Had I known about the two degrees of separation, I would have said more than “lemon ice” to him.

I’m so sorry to hear about Mr. Cheeseface’s unfortunate fate, but I’m glad he had room to run and people who loved him. Thank you for the article and the memories it stirred.

Needed,” December 6]: Gov. Phil Scott says no independent review of the Vermont National Guard is needed because reports of misconduct are limited to “an occasional bad apple.”

While it is not clear how Scott knows this in the absence of an independent investigation, let’s assume for the sake of discussion that he is correct. As a lifelong Vermonter, he surely knows the full saying he is referencing: “One bad apple spoils the barrel.” This is precisely why he must call for an immediate, thorough and independent investigation. Assuming that the media have discovered all the “bad apples” and that the problem is solved would be a shameful dereliction of duty.

The “bad apples” excuse is reliably trotted out every time brutality is caught on video. If most officers do not commit brutality, it is painfully clear that they rarely hold their fellow officers to account. Tight-knit groups tend to protect their own; that’s where the barrel is ruined. There is no reason to assume without investigating that the Guard is any different.

Gov. Scott, if you really love the Guard you will call for an investigation to protect not just the victims but the entire corps from the terrible and corrupting situation of having to choose between speaking out against their colleagues and perhaps superiors, or looking the other way.

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HUNTINGTON

‘YANKEE’ SOLUTION

Reading the “As Goes Chelsea…” segment in the “Our Towns” issue [December 5], I

noticed a mind-set proliferating through this state of disowning the locals while encouraging imports, showering them with incentives that they would balk at offering natives and citizens. “Some locals … suggested that Chelsea open its arms to refugees and New Americans who want to work the land … ‘They would grow their own food, open cafés, open little shops…’”

If only the local noncollege-bound kids were offered the panoply of benefits given to asylum seekers and refugees: Section 8 fuel assistance, Medicaid, small business loans and grants, English as a second language, continuing-education money, etc., in addition to tax breaks and marketing assistance for their products. Would that be enough incentives for their own kids to stay and thrive?

Adding to this is the paradigm shift away from continuous, unbridled “growth” that is killing the planet with a constant mind-set of acquiring ever more landfilling for disposable, unneeded crap designed with planned obsolescence, making all of life a hamster-wheel race that is not only environmentally insane but actually contributes to societal disconnection — while “connected” to devices specifically made to suck ever more of the user’s time.

“Growth” is over. We must go static as a species or ruin the very environment providing our sustenance, provide for our own and return to our Yankee roots summed up in that old ditty: “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or go without.”

Vermont saw this before in the great outmigration in the early 1800s, when 80 percent of the cleared land returned to 80 percent forested within a generation.

The answer to your problem is right in front of you: Some will leave; some will stay; maybe more will return if only we treated them as if they were the “refugees” they are now.

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Laurel Ann Maurer has traveled to Armenia, Japan and Monte Carlo to share her Grammy Awardnominated flute playing. On Sunday, the artistic director of the chamber music ensemble and concert series Vermont Virtuosi keeps it local, debuting the new flute quartet PipeDreams at the Richmond Free Library. Musicians Brook Carleton, Berta Frank and Hilary Goldblatt round out the ensemble.

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f you’re looking for a sleeper issue for 2019, here’s a nominee: public-sector pensions. It may not be sexy, but it’s a big deal. Vermont faces a mountain of pension obligations, thanks to chronic underfunding of the state employees’ and teachers’ funds from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. For those keeping score, it started when Democrat HOWARD DEAN was governor and continued through < ME N S R O O M V T. C O M > 1 0 6 MAI N ST. the first half of Republican JIM DOUGLAS’ 802.864.2088 administration.

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The issue became contentious in the closing days of the 2018 legislative session during the fight over what to do with $34 million in unanticipated revenue. Gov. PHIL SCOTT wanted to hold property taxes at last year’s levels. Democrats wanted to invest in the state pension funds. A lastminute compromise split the pot between tax relief and pension paydown.

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“That is the conclusion that others jump to,” said Young. Well, yeah. History is on their side.

The fiscal consequences of the state’s past failures are mind-blowing. According to figures from Treasurer BETH PEARCE, the state’s contribution to the Vermont State Employees’ Retirement Fund in the most recent fiscal year was $63 million. Of that, $47 million was devoted to paying down those past obligations.

It’s even worse for the Vermont State Teachers’ Retirement Fund. The payment • Lowest prices in town for that kitty was $106 million in fiscal • The best VT made products year 2018. Ninety-eight million dollars • Open 7 Days helped to make up for past budgetary sins. Only $8 million was required to meet Just off Church Street current obligations.

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payments would have been only $24 million — instead of the $169 million actually required.

The financial drag will get even worse in the next two decades if the state keeps to a schedule established by law to make the funds whole by the year 2039. It’s the right thing to do, but it limits the state’s ability to meet other priorities.

“It’s probably the single biggest cost pressure this year,” said Finance Commissioner ADAM GRESHIN. The co-owner of Sugarbush Resort produced a chart

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showing what he called a “black diamond slope” of rising pension costs between now and 2038.

This talk raises red flags among union leaders. “All indications are that the administration is gearing up for battle on public-sector pensions,” said STEVE HOWARD, president of the Vermont State Employees’ Association. He’s concerned that the administration will propose shifting pensions from “defined benefit” to “defined contribution.”

The former establishes set retirement benefits and makes the state responsible for providing enough money to pay them.

The latter is akin to a 401k, with the state contributing to workers’ retirement funds but offering no guarantees on what they will receive.

Howard has evidence to support his fears. Scott is on the record advocating for a shift to defined contribution plans for newly hired employees. He hasn’t talked about it lately, but he promoted the idea after winning the governorship in 2016.

“The most immediate and meaningful step to curb the state’s growing liability is to offer new State employees and teachers a defined contribution plan (similar to a 401k),” wrote the Scott transition team shortly after his election.

Pearce was, and is, a staunch opponent of defined-contribution plans. She argued that the plans don’t actually save any money — and do nothing to address unfunded pension liabilities. Which, as we have seen, account for the bulk of Vermont’s pension difficulties.

“Defined benefit plans are a better deal

for the employee and the taxpayer,” said Pearce. “They are professionally managed and achieve economies of scale, thanks to their large asset pools.” They also provide much better financial security for retirees, she added.

“We are not planning to propose defined contribution,” asserted Young.

“We want to work with the legislature and the treasurer to keep this from getting worse.”

That word “planning” provides plenty of wiggle room. But if defined contribution is, indeed, off the table, it may be due to sheer political reality. House Speaker MITZI JOHNSON (D-South Hero) expressed confidence that her caucus would stand behind the unions.

Johnson pointed to last session’s standoff over whether to invest $26 million of the unanticipated revenue into the pension system. “We had a vote,” said Johnson. “Every single Democrat, every single Progressive and six out of seven independents voted in favor of supporting our pension obligations.”

There’s been an election since then, and the Republicans lost significant ground.

The administration is offering no hint of specific reform proposals. Its first priority is to conduct what Young calls a “stress test” to see how the funds would fare under a variety of worst-case scenarios. Pearce prefers the term “risk assessment,” which she sees as a broader evaluation of the funds’ robustness.

The difference goes beyond semantics.

The Pew Charitable Trusts has offered to perform stress tests for many states, including Vermont. The multi-billion-dollar foundation has a sterling image, thanks to its generous support for public television — but it’s not necessarily seen as an honest broker on public-sector pensions.

Johnson recalled attending a Pew seminar on the issue several years ago.

“I was really surprised at how heavyhanded they were and how imbalanced their panels were,” she said, meaning they were slanted toward support of defined contribution plans.

Pearce opposed giving the job to Pew. “My view is that the pension plans’ trustees should have responsibility to review the plans, look at factors, and take appropriate steps with the administration, treasurer, legislature and employees,” she said.

Yes, employees. Pearce insisted that public-sector workers “have stepped up to the plate” in response to underfunded

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pensions. “Teachers have agreed to increase their retirement age and increase their contributions to the system,” taking an effective 1.5 percent pay cut in the process.

Greshin expressed hope that the risk assessment would produce “meaningful information for the new legislative session.”

That’s only three weeks from now, which seems impossibly optimistic. Pearce won’t even offer a guess as to how long the assessment will take.

So we will head into the 2019 session with a major study in process and with the administration sounding the alarm and not offering any specific plans. Sound familiar?

“We don’t intend to introduce any structural changes,” said Young. “We are trying to understand the variables.”

That word “intend” kinda sticks out, doesn’t it?

Pearce, for one, would resist any fasttrack consideration of major reforms.

“I’m pleased to hear that the administration is not considering changes to pension plans at this time,” she said. “Any proposals should be strongly vetted.”

Even in the absence of April surprises, the question of how to use unanticipated revenues could loom large. Johnson made it clear that Democrats would seek a further paydown of pension obligations.

Young’s No. 2, Deputy Secretary of Administration BRAD FERLAND, argued against such a move. “The payment [in 2018] didn’t help us achieve savings for taxpayers,” he said. There will be savings, he added, but not until the end of the 20-year paydown — in 2038. “There is nothing guaranteed about long-term savings,” he said.

That’s true, in a way. But if Vermont doesn’t make good on its pension obligations, 2038 will be a complete horror show.

And while nothing is guaranteed, making additional payments whenever possible would seem to be a wise investment.

veterinarian PEG LARSON; and former Charlie + Ernie cohost LISA NAGLE. There were the STARLINE RHYTHM BOYS, who wrote the show’s theme song. The walls of the studio were festooned with gewgaws and memorabilia from the show’s 20-year run, including quite a few Seven Days covers autographed by their subjects.

At one point I found myself with former governor DOUGLAS, Sen. DICK MAZZA (D-Grand Isle) and Burlington Mayor MIRO WEINBERGER. After cohost CHARLIE PAPILLO tossed Weinberger a softball question about the city’s holiday decorations, I asked if there’d be an ice rink on the long-empty site of CityPlace Burlington.

Douglas piled on by asking if Weinberger is “looking for some of that EB-5 money.”

The studio erupted.

Just keepin’ it politically incorrect, Mr. Mayor.

It was a great morning. And, unfortunately, the last-ever Charlie + Ernie holiday bash. The two hosts, Papillo and ERNIE FARRAR, are stepping aside at the end of this week.

Standing unobtrusively in a corner of the studio were their successors, PETE BELAIR and SARAH MITIGUY, taking mental notes as quickly as they could. Starting January 2, WVMT’s weekday morning show will be known as “Pete and Sarah.”

Belair is a veteran of 23 years on the Burlington airwaves. Mitiguy has been in radio for only two years, after serving in state government (mostly in human services) for seven years. They currently cohost the morning show on WVMT’s top-40 sister station WXXX — or 95 Triple X, as they say on the air.

“We’re both excited to be in talk radio,” said Mitiguy. “We’ll be able to get to know the community.”

They don’t plan on making any changes to the Charlie + Ernie formula.

“We’re keeping the format and all the regular guests,” said Belair.

Ernie will leave at least one reminder of his epic career at WVMT. The long, unpaved entrance to the station headquarters is named Ernie Farrar Drive in honor of his 52 continuous years on the air.

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Online, promotional photos for the syrupy romance showed the perfectly coiffed couple in front of the twinkling Christmas lights on Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace. Everything appeared just so.

But the whole thing was a ruse. There is no Cedar Falls in Vermont, and the movie was filmed outside of Toronto. As for that Church Street pic? It was digitally altered.

The backdrop probably dates to the early 2000s, according to marketplace executive director Ron Redmond. He based his assessment on where the massive Christmas tree is positioned.

Hallmark, it appears, loves Vermont — but does not love to film in the state. The popular cable network has aired at least half a dozen new movies over the past 18 months that are set in the Green Mountain State but shot elsewhere. And while imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, the sham scenes are demoralizing to local observers who want the state to host film crews and reap the benefits of the economic activity they generate.

“It’s very disappointing to me that they are not made in Vermont,” Rutland filmmaker David Giancola said.

He has a vested interest. Giancola produced what he believes is the only Hallmark movie in recent memory that is set in the state and was actually filmed here: Moonlight & Mistletoe. The Christmas nostalgia piece starring Tom Arnold was filmed in 2008 on location in Chester — and uses the southern Vermont town’s real name in the script.

It was shot in June, so the crew brought in truckloads of white carpet and plastic mounds to mimic snow — along with a wardrobe of Santa suits for Arnold. The production pumped at least $600,000 into the local economy, Giancola recalled.

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Hallmark to come back to Vermont.

But “they just aren’t going to,” Giancola lamented. “The reason for that is two words: tax incentives.”

Vermont offers no film production perks, while other regions have made theirs more tempting over the past decade. Hallmark shoots many movies near Vancouver in western Canada. The region has been dubbed Hollywood North for its growing film and TV production industry, most of which has sprung up due to incentives. Last year, the film industry generated $3.4 billion in British Columbia, according to figures from the Canadian province.

That explains why the streets of Langley, B.C., were featured in Moonlight in Vermont, and Agassiz, B.C., masqueraded as the fictitious Hopedale in Falling for tattoos or face piercings. The characters Vermont. Burnaby, B.C., portrayed the are mostly white and straight. Trouble Green Mountain State in Christmas in comes in the form of a broken-down car, a Evergreen. financially floundering inn or, most often, And that’s just a sampling of recent a broken heart.

Hallmark offerings ostensibly set in Even some fans of the films have critiVermont. cized them in online forums, noting the “I just didn’t know there were that absence of LGBTQ characters and the lack many,” Elaine Sopchak, special of diversity in casting and story projects director at the state lines.

Agency of Commerce and But the movies resonate with Community Development, many. Last year, Hallmark made 21 holiday films and garnered said after a Seven Days reporter read her the list.

72 million viewers during its Hallmark isn’t the first Countdown to Christmas blitz. company to shoot a movie That made it the highest-ranked somewhere other than where cable network among women it’s set, Sopchak observed. The ages 25 to 54 during the yearmost notable example of this end period. Perhaps sensing an is perhaps the perennial holiopportunity, the company upped day favorite White Christmas, production this year, churning a 1954 movie starring Bing D AVID GIANC O L A out at least 30 holiday flicks.

Crosby and Rosemary ClooWhether the heroines are ney. It’s set mostly in fictitious struggling widows or successPine Tree but was filmed on a sound stage ful professionals, Hallmark’s Vermont at 20th Century Fox in sunny southern seems to have an endless supply of eligible California. men with square jaws and broad shoulThat movie portrays Vermont as the ders. In one film, a retail exec returns to capital of simple living, clean mountain her Vermont hometown and charms a air, buttermilk and industrious people local contractor into helping her revive outfitted in flannel. Sixty-five years later, the ailing general store. Sparks fly — and the same G-rated nostalgic ambience not from power tools. pervades the Hallmark image of Vermont: So are all those Hallmark fans inspired Main Street shops are bustling, every- to get off the couch and actually visit one’s hair is brushed, and no one sports Vermont? Sopchak thinks the motion

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pictures probably drive some tourists to the state.

“Christmas trees and snow and the holidays — that evokes Vermont for a lot of people,” she said.

These days, Sopchak is the state’s point person for efforts to grow its movie and TV industry, a role that fell to her more or less by default. The state pulled the plug on the modestly funded Vermont Film Commission in 2011, after many local filmmakers said it had become ineffectual.

It had die-hard defenders, though. They credited the commission with helping to bring big-budget films to the state. Two of those came out in 2000: the thriller What Lies Beneath, starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer, and the comedy Me, Myself & Irene, featuring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger. The drama The Cider House Rules, featuring Charlize Theron, Tobey Maguire and Michael Caine, hit screens in 1999.

Loranne Turgeon was executive director of the Vermont Film Commission for about five years, starting in the late 1990s, and helped attract those big-budget productions to Vermont. Incentives were not as prevalent back then, she recalled.

Because she had worked in the film industry, she knew all three of the producers for those projects.

“I had a strong relationship with them; they trusted me,” Turgeon wrote in an

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email from California, where she now lives.

Back then, successful directors had more clout in picking a location. But with a few exceptions, budgets are now tighter. “Studios are so bottom-line-driven now, more than ever before,” Turgeon wrote. “Even bigger directors haven’t much choice.”

After the commission dissolved, it was supposed to morph into the now-defunct Vermont Office of the Creative Economy.

That effort fizzled around 2014.

In October, Sopchak organized a summit in Manchester for Vermonters who work in film and TV. Actors, directors, producers and camera operators showed up from all over the state. “There are dozens of very small businesses in the field,” Sopchak said. As usual, some industry attendees urged the state to develop incentives such as rebates based on what a filmmaker spends locally, or a break on payroll taxes.

Many also urged officials to resurrect the film commission, though Sopchak said that’s not likely. The state would be more inclined to partner with or support a private council than re-create its own commission, Sopchak said. Incentives are under discussion but would be small compared to those offered in neighboring Massachusetts, New York and Québec, which all offer millions to filmmakers.

“That’s not something Vermont can do,” Sopchak said.

“We are waiting to see what the tone and temperature is going to be in the legislature this year,” she continued. “We have had some discussion on tax incentives, but we are not sure whether we are going to pursue those.”

Vermont Secretary of Commerce Mike Schirling wants to first grow the overall economy so the state can afford film production incentives. In the meantime, he’d love to host a Hallmark crew so they can “see some of the great communities where they could come and film.

“It would certainly be more authentic and, we think, create a better product if they were to actually film the movies in Vermont,” Schirling added.

Hallmark executives declined to comment for this story. But in reports for other publications, they have said the typical Hallmark movie is a low-budget affair that takes 15 days to film and costs $2 million to $3 million.

That’s peanuts by big-studio standards, but people such as Giancola would still love to see those dollars brought into Vermont. Over the summer, he stopped by a Hallmark movie set outside Woodstock, N.Y. One of the two films being made was Last Vermont Christmas.

It was discouraging to again see that “Vermont doesn’t play itself,” Giancola said.

His latest project is a low-budget sci-fi romp that will come out in the spring of 2019. It was filmed in and around Rutland for about $750,000 — money that he raised from investors.

It’s much more to his taste than the Hallmark movie on his résumé, he explained. “I don’t think I’ve watched it since 2010, because it’s just not my cup of tea,” Giancola said. “That’s the polite way to put it.”

Before Moonlight & Mistletoe aired, Giancola recalled attending a screening of it for movie buffs and extras at a Rutland theater. He was shocked when 900 people showed up. “Then, near the end of the movie, I noticed people were crying,” Giancola said. “They were crying.

They loved it. They were all over it, and I’m just going, ‘I don’t get it.’”

So what attracts so many people to Hallmark’s take on Christmas in Vermont?

“I think we all want the holidays to not be what they really are, which is stressful and crazy,” Giancola said. “It’s that escapist thing.”

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oughly 500 inmates are receiving medication for opioid addiction, according to Vermont Department of Corrections officials.

That makes the prison system one of the largest drug treatment providers in the state — a dramatic change from just a few months ago when hundreds were still awaiting medication. Today, more than a quarter of the prison population housed in Vermont has a prescription for addiction meds.

Problems remain, however: Prison officials say they’re struggling to contain the illegal diversion of treatment drugs, and inmates and advocates contend that some prisoners are still being denied proper care.

The expansion of treatment behind bars is the result of a law that took effect July 1, requiring that the department provide ongoing addiction medication, including buprenorphine and methadone, to addicted inmates. These drugs, which relieve opioid withdrawal symptoms and suppress cravings, were previously provided for no more than 120 days, and only to inmates who had a prescription before entering prison.

Lawmakers, emphasizing that addiction is a disease, decided that all addicted inmates were entitled to the medication.

They were particularly concerned about those poised to be released from prison, who are at a high risk of dying from an overdose.

The rollout of the new law was rocky. A deluge of hundreds of requests for medication overwhelmed correctional staff, and inmates became increasingly frustrated as months passed without a response.

But last month the department and its private health care provider, Centurion, made significant strides. Since early September, they have roughly doubled the number of inmates getting treatment.

Since July 1, more than 900 have received treatment. That figure is much higher than the current 500 or so, because inmates cycle in and out of prison.

As of December 14, 75 inmates were still waiting for medical assessments to see whether they qualified. Most of those requests were filed within the last 30 days, according to Benjamin Watts, the department’s health services director.

Only 18 inmates have had their requests for medication turned down, according to department officials. That amounts to roughly 3 percent of those who’ve been

screened to determine whether they qualify. The department also recently started providing bridge medication to inmates about to be released to help them stay clean until they’re able to see a doctor on the outside.

“I’m hearing a lot of people report that having access to medication-assisted treatment is making a huge difference for them, and we’re already seeing success as people transition from the correctional facilities back into the community,” said Tom Dalton, executive director of Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform.

“I feel like we’re really close to having a law that’s implemented as those of us who worked really hard on it intended,” said Rep. Selene Colburn (P/D-Burlington), who pushed for the new law. “I think it’s going to make a huge difference.”

Managing such a large amount of medication has created challenges, however.

“Candidly, it’s difficult,” said outgoing Corrections Commissioner Lisa Menard.

Two inmates who were not addicted to opioids recently overdosed after obtaining buprenorphine illegally, she said. Both had to be revived with the overdose-reversing

drug Narcan. Buprenorphine, which is itself an opioid, can be used to get high, though its potential for abuse is much lower than that of heroin and other more potent opioids.

“We had heard initially that there was a very low risk for overdose with buprenorphine, but unfortunately we found out quite quickly that although it is a low risk, it certainly exists,” Menard said. “We’re very concerned about it.”

A third inmate punched a correctional officer in the head when the officer tried to take away his buprenorphine. The inmate had been caught diverting the drug, according to Menard.

The commissioner said she’s encouraged, however, by a decline in complaints from inmates seeking treatment. Formal grievances reach her desk when inmates are dissatisfied with the response from lower management. Menard had been receiving three to five a week but is now getting “very few,” and she observed that the nature of the complaints is less serious. Of the two most recent grievances, one came from an inmate who wanted to get his buprenorphine back after he’d

diverted it. The department did reinstate his prescription before releasing him, Menard said. The other came from an inmate requesting the medication in a grape flavor.

“It’s a good indicator that things are working well,” Menard said.

Dalton said he, too, has been receiving fewer complaints from inmates who aren’t getting any treatment at all. But he’s still hearing a number of concerns. During an interview last Thursday afternoon, his cellphone rang repeatedly as inmates called to discuss problems with the treatment program.

Tyler Orvis, a 35-year-old incarcerated at Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport, had been taking buprenorphine and participating in a prison work program run by Vermont Correctional Industries for months without incident. He earned 95 cents an hour operating a printing press. But Orvis said he was suspended from work on December 3 after his boss found out he was taking buprenorphine.

The inmate said he was told that he would need clearance from Centurion medical staff to return to his job.

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While he waits for a medical appoint- urines” — positive drug tests, which come ment, Orvis estimates he’s lost more than with penalties — while he waits. “With$100 in wages. He said he knew of at least out [medication] in here, I’m screwed,” six others in the print shop who were in he said. the same situation.

Dalton suggested the buprenorphine Incoming commissioner Mike black market that officials are concerned Touchette wrote in an email that “all about will dry up once Monette and inmates who wish to be employed are others get the medication they need. required to go through a medical screenIn the meantime, inmates say the ing prior to employment … This is to process of receiving their medications ensure that the individual is physically has become increasingly demeaning as capable of meeting the demands of the officials try to prevent them from stashing work.” away the drugs.

He suggested it was unlikely that Prison staff started crushing the pills inmates would lose their jobs, noting last week, according to Orvis. After swalthat doctors outside of prison rarely lowing the powder, “You gotta stick your put work restrictions on patients taking fingers in your mouth, and drink, like, buprenorphine. four glasses of water.” He said correcInmates have also complained that tional officers and medical employees they’ve received insufficient doses, in continue to refer to him as a “junkie.” some cases significantly less than what Lamell noted that inmates receiving they were prescribed on the buprenorphine at the St. outside.

Albans prison have to wear Bruce Lamell’s 16-milligray sweatshirts when they gram prescription for go to get their medication. buprenorphine was termi“It makes the whole facility know,” he said, suggestnated when he arrived at CORRECTION S ing the practice violated Northwest State CorrecCOMMISSIONER tional Facility in St. Albans medical privacy protecLISA MEN ARD last year. This past October, tions. Touchette said the he got a prescription again, sweatshirts, provided to all but this time only for four milligrams.

St. Albans inmates, must be worn when “Four milligrams is nothing,” he said inmates line up for their meds because during a phone interview. To stave off the they don’t have pockets where drugs can withdrawal symptoms and opioid crav- be hidden. ings, the 44-year-old inmate turns to the There’s a perverse effect to this black market. “It makes it so you have to precautionary measure: The conspicujoin the illegal Suboxone trade, is what ous uniforms make inmates easier targets it does.” (Suboxone is a common brand for people seeking the drug illegally. “We name for buprenorphine.) have [other inmates] bugging us for medi“There are a significant number of cation,” Lamell said. people who are not yet at a therapeutic Dalton said that in some cases, inmates dose, and therefore the treatment is not caught diverting medication are simply as effective as it could be,” Dalton said. attempting to save some of their dose for Annie Ramniceanu, the department’s later in the day “because at the low dose addiction and mental health systems [being prescribed], they’re going into director, contended that such cases were withdrawal or feeling sick before their “very rare.” She and other corrections next dose.” officials insisted they weren’t aware of A handful of inmates dissatisfied with any policy in the prison system establish- their treatment regimen have taken their ing a maximum dose. complaints to the courts. Jill Martin, However, records from a December an attorney with the Prisoners’ Rights 3 stakeholder meeting, which included Office, said it currently has approximately corrections staff and Centurion doctors, 25 such cases. Martin said she couldn’t suggest otherwise. The minutes state, discuss specific cases, but “I can tell you “Max doses will likely be 8mg in most that we are vigorously pursuing them.” cases.”

Rep. Colburn said she and others are In practice, that doesn’t appear to be monitoring the situation closely. a firm cap. Touchette said last week that “The reason really that we’ve seen 59 inmates were receiving more than nine progress,” the Burlington lawmaker said, milligrams. “is people on the inside having the courJames Monette, a 38-year-old with age to talk about their experience and the more than two and a half years left on tenacity to argue about what they need.” his sentence, told Seven Days he’s still Colburn continued, “That’s the ultimate not receiving any medication. Monette, test for how this is working.” who said he’s been addicted to opioids for more than a decade, is racking up “dirty Contact: alicia@sevendaysvt.com

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Kate Driver playing with 3-yearolds Lacey, Sadie and Tucker at Georgia’s Next Generation

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hen it opened in October, Georgia’s Next Generation was supposed to alleviate an acute demand for daycare in

the area.

Franklin County is one of only four counties in the state with a growing population of kids ages 5 and under. But the total number of daycare slots there dropped 16 percent between 2015 and 2018, according to a legislative report that was released in November.

Fully staffed and supplied, Georgia’s Next Generation garnered a high threestar rating from the Department for Children and Families. But the facility is only half occupied. Twenty-four of its 42 slots are empty because of a long-running dispute with state regulators over securing a permit for its water system.

The delay affects a couple dozen families in Franklin County. “We have parents who are like, ‘I’m not going to be able to go back to work,’” said Georgia’s Next Generation director Kate Driver.

But the situation also reflects the broader statewide childcare crisis.

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the same legislative report that showed Franklin County’s double-digit drop. In the upcoming session, advocates plan to push legislation for more state funding to help childcare centers remain financially viable and attract and retain staff.

“Families can’t afford to pay more than they’re paying for childcare, and early educators can’t afford to make less than they are making, so we need to figure out how we can direct more resources to the issue,” said Janet McLaughlin, interim CEO of Let’s Grow Kids, a Burlington childcare advocacy group. “It impacts kids, families, employers struggling to recruit employees and our economy as a whole.”

Back in Franklin County, another childcare center, Going Places Learning Center in Fairfax, announced last week that it would close in January, leaving about 20 families scrambling for new arrangements.

Going Places Learning Center owner Peggy Feerick said she is going out of business because of a problem many providers cite: an inability to hire enough qualified staff.

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Feerick has been employing only three teachers instead of her desired eight, despite having advertised job openings for months. As a result, she has filled only 19 of her 50 child slots, which didn’t generate enough revenue to keep the business open.

She cited a 2016 state regulation that many daycare providers said has made it tougher to retain staff. The rule requires that top-tier teachers in childcare centers have at least 21 college credits in an applicable field of study, and it increased education requirements for most other childcare staffers. While few oppose having bettercredentialed childcare providers, people with those qualifications tend to demand higher salaries than childcare centers can afford.

“I can’t find staffing that meets that qualification that want to come to Fairfax and Franklin County,” Feerick said.

“They’re not going to work for $12, $13 an hour.” Paying more would mean charging more, which is not an option for many of her customers. “The parents are all devastated. Some of them say to me, ‘Do you understand how hard it is to get childcare?’ It hurts me to hear that, because there’s nothing I can do.”

McLaughlin said staff shortages plague many daycare centers, though she noted that the decline in childcare slots started long before the 2-year-old rule was implemented.

Among Vermont parents, stories of scrambling for daycare are legion. Getting on a wait list halfway through pregnancy is often too late — many parents secure spots while still trying to get pregnant.

While working at a South Burlington daycare center last year, Driver got a call from an excited woman. Her home pregnancy test result was positive. She hadn’t even told her husband yet but wanted to make sure she got on a daycare list.

“That’s how crazy it is,” Driver said.

The enormity of the need makes the situation at Georgia’s Next Generation that much more frustrating.

In mid-December, an infant in the back room whimpered quietly. Outside by a gazebo, a few toddlers in heavy coats and hats ran around scooping up snow with spoons in a game without any evident rules. But in a room for 2- and 3-year-old children, all was quiet. Buckets filled with untouched crayons rested atop gleaming wooden tables. Toy race cars stood ready to be flung across the carpet, and a tiny kitchenette gathered dust in a corner.

The problem? The property relies on well water. The childcare operators assumed it would pose no obstacle when they signed a lease with the building’s

Kate Driver soothing sleepy children during nap time

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owner and took over the former restau- water division, said state and federal rules rant last year. It had never flunked a safety prohibit such an approach. test or caused a problem, and the system Georgia’s Next Generation owners was good enough when the building was accuse the state of foot-dragging and home to the Georgia House of Pizza. prioritizing a thicket of regulations over But the permit application quickly hit the practical need for daycare. a snag with the Vermont Agency of Natu“The parents are screaming; the ral Resources. The agency has stricter community is screaming. You can’t tell requirements for the water systems at me there’s not a way,” said co-owner daycare centers, where the David LeBlanc. “It ’s kids drink from the same disheartening. The water source every day, than is fine.” restaurants, where patrons Raymond disagreed. aren’t regular users.

“It comes down to your As a result, systems philosophy: Do you think at childcare centers are regulatory oversight required to have more provides for better quality advanced features for treatdrinking water systems? I ing water with chlorine or do,” Raymond said. Still, UV light. the DEC understands State regulators allowed childcare is in crisis and is Georgia’s Next Generation working hard with licensto operate with 18 kids but ing officials and those who are insisting that the center want to run facilities, he install a more robust water said. system, which costs around Water problems have caused headaches for $15,000, before operating at full capacity. The center is in other childcare centers, the process of purchasing a JAN E T MCL AU GHLIN state officials said. system.

“We always say to To put parents at ease, applicants, ‘Connect with Georgia’s Next Generation provides the Agency of Natural Resources first,’” bottled water to the children who said Christel Michaud, director of currently attend. The center has asked childcare licensing for the Department permission to fully open and keep using for Children and Families. “If you don’t bottled water while waiting for an official know a lot about what’s needed for a permit. water permit, in this instance, the site But Tim Raymond, chief of engineer- may have seemed ideal. It’s an example ing and operations at the Department of of needing to know what you have, like Environmental Conservation’s drinking you would with any other aspect of choosing a building.”

Meanwhile, Franklin County parents are scrambling. One grandmother of a child who was slated to join Georgia’s Next Generation is planning to quit her job to provide childcare, Driver said.

Tiffany Davis’ 3-year-old daughter already receives care at Georgia’s Next Generation, and Davis had been planning to send her infant son there after her maternity leave ends in January. Davis can’t afford not to return to work and is reaching out to friends and family to see if they can watch her son until Georgia’s Next Generation can accept more children.

So, instead of spending her last weeks of maternity leave enjoying time with her baby or relaxing for the holidays, Davis is frantically searching for childcare.

The owners of Georgia’s Next Generation might end up taking over Going Places Learning Center, but by press time they had not made a decision.

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Citing New Job, Winooski Mayor Seth Leonard to Resign ƒe W inooski mayor’s job is up for grabs.

Seth Leonard will step down from the post January 28 and pass the baton temporarily to City Councilor and Deputy Mayor Nicole Mace. She’ll serve until a new mayor is elected on Town Meeting Day in March. Leonard’s term would have lasted until March 2021.

Leonard said he is leaving early because he has accepted a new job as managing director of community development at the Vermont Housing Finance Agency, effective January 8. ƒe statewide organization’s work could present a conflict of interest with various mayoral decisions, Leonard said, including those pertaining to affordable housing.

“Even the concern of a conflict, I think it is important that we remove that,” Leonard told Seven Days Monday.

Burlington High School Guidance Director Defends Himself Against Allegations of ‘Toxic’ Workplace Embattled Burlington High School guidance director Mario Macias vigorously defended his conduct last Friday in a bid to keep his license.

He testified that he never behaved improperly with a student teacher at the school and that he texted her after a faculty party at ArtsRiot in Burlington only to make sure she had arrived safely home. ƒere was no sexual intent, he said.

“I love my wife. We have three kids, we have been married for 14 great years, and I was offended by the accusations,” Macias said, looking over at his spouse and other family members who attended the hearing.

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Mario Macias at the hearing

department. Macias was placed on administrative leave shortly after the allegations were made public. He could have his license revoked if the three-member panel hearing the case decides the alleged misconduct is true.

Last Friday was the first time that Macias had told his side of the story in any detail. He and his attorney, Francisco Guzman, fired back at critics.

Macias said former BHS guidance counselor Yvette Amblo-Bose repeatedly tried to block needed restructuring designed to help underserved students. “She led the rest of the group in fighting everything I tried to do,” Macias said.

He added there was a “power struggle” immediately after he was hired in July 2016.

Although he was Amblo-Bose’s supervisor, she “pretty much ran the department,” he testified. ƒe Agency of Education launched a yearlong investigation after Amblo-Bose and several other members of the guidance department complained publicly at a school board meeting about Macias and left their jobs. ƒose counselors described their experiences at a hearing last ƒursday .

“I cried a lot at home; I dreaded going to work; I felt unsafe,” Amblo-Bose said.

Larissa Urban, who worked in the department at the time, described an “extremely uncomfortable and scary” environment in the guidance office. Both Urban and Amblo-Bose quit after Macias’ first year.

Another counselor, Simrat Peltier, started in the fall of 2017 and said the stress and fear she felt while at the job ultimately led her to start taking antidepressant medication.

A final decision from the panel is not likely before February, according to an education agency spokesperson.

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ƒe W inooski mayor’s job is not designed to be full time. It pays around $1,400 a year, Leonard said. He currently works as housing programs director for Vermont and New Hampshire at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program.

He’s been mayor for four years and served as a city councilor for two years before that.

He was elected — unopposed — for a third term as mayor in March.

Mace said she doesn’t plan to run for a full term and won’t run for reelection as a city councilor. But at least two candidates have stepped forward: Current Winooski City Councilors Kristine Lott and Eric Covey both said on Tuesday that they plan to run for the position.

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of his admission due to a criminal conviction,” Mohan wrote.

Vo currently lives in Winooski as a stay-athome caretaker for his fiancée’s two children and says he’s turned his life around.

“I’m not a dirtbag; I’m not a thief,” he said. “I can be really trustworthy.”

Part of his stability, Vo said, comes from a job he got working for Melissa Gonyon at Gadue’s Dry Cleaning, soon after his return from Illinois.

ƒao V o was riding to the bank on his motorcycle in August 2017 when a man driving a black Dodge Durango pulled him over. A federal agent got out of the SUV and told Vo he was being detained and taken to a federal immigration facility in St. Albans.

It was the beginning of six months behind bars for Vo, a Vietnamese citizen who has lived legally in the U.S. with a green card since 1999, when he was 6. He got out in March on supervised release. But officials have since told him that he must wear a GPS tracking device until he’s deported to Vietnam in February because of a 2016 conviction for marijuana possession.

Along with his fiancée, Desiree Mora, and close friends, Vo is trying to Thao Vo with his raise money and publicity to fight the fiancée, Desiree Mora, government’s decision. and her daughters “My whole immediate family is over here. Everybody,” Vo said in an interview. “I’ve been here for 20 years.

Gonyon said in an interview that she trusts I’ve made my mistakes, but I’ve never blamed Vo completely. anybody for my mistakes.”

“Here’s a hardworking kid who’s made a few Vo said he has two criminal pot convicstupid mistakes, and he’s trying really hard to tions. He said he was convicted of a felony fix it,” Gonyon said. in Illinois in 2013 after he and a friend were Vo can’t work now because of the ongoing caught in a vehicle with six pounds of pot immigration proceedings, but Gonyon is (he said a federal judge opted not to deport holding his job for him. She also launched a him for that offense), and a misdemeanor in GoFundMe campaign to raise money for his Vermont in 2016 for possessing between one legal expenses. Gonyon, who describes herself and two ounces. He said he spent 22 months as a “die-hard Republican,” said she’s written in prison in Illinois. to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) about Vo’s case.

In an emailed statement, U.S. Immigration “It’s definitely a weird feeling for me to and Customs Enforcement spokesperson be fighting for a cause that is so very liberal, John Mohan confirmed Vo’s immigration but I’m doing it because I’m doing it for status and timeline of events. But he refused Thao,” she said. to say exactly when Vo would be deported.

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She was preceded in death by her son Mark Rutkowski, her husband William Rutkowski and second husband Clement Baker, and her sisters Patricia Dalrymple and Barbara “Babs” Leonard.

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Senator Leahy: A Life in Scenes by state Sen. PHILIP BARUTH (D/P-Chittenden).

Vermonter PEGGY SHINN’s books on Tropical Storm Irene and the rise of the U.S. women’s cross-country ski team.

What do these titles have in common, besides the local connection? They were all put out by or through UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND, a publishing consortium based at Dartmouth College and headquartered in Lebanon, N.H. UPNE has published academic, regional and general-interest books under its own imprints or those of member presses since launching in 1970. In 2002,

the New England Independent Booksellers Association honored it as publisher of the year. This week, after nearly half a century, UPNE will close.

Production coordinator DOUG TIFFT has been with UPNE since 1984, one of about 20 current employees. He called the press a business “that was not meant to make money” and has “always had a good mission.”

The decision to shutter UPNE was made in April by the Dartmouth board of governors, but it was the result of years of attrition. In a statement, Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon called UPNE “unsustainable to operate with only two member-institutions.”

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their resources. For instance, from 2004 to 2008, the University of Vermont paid membership dues and production costs to the consortium to produce books under its own imprint, University of Vermont Press.

At its high point, UPNE had 10 or 11 dues-paying institutional members, according to Tifft and UPNE director MICHAEL BURTON. By 2012, only Dartmouth and Brandeis University remained.

On November 12, Dartmouth announced that it had made a five-year agreement with University of Chicago Press and Chicago Distribution Center to market, sell and distribute the books orphaned by the closure, including a backlist of about 400 books released

Tifft, who was busy winding down UPNE’s operations when he spoke with Seven Days, contemplated the end of an era with dry humor. “We’re feeling a little bit like Brexit right now,” he said, “in that we’re trying to sort things out, and you know how easy that’s going.”

The difficulty comes from UPNE’s complexity. In addition to having institutional members, which funded the production of their own titles and shared the proceeds with UPNE, the consortium sold services such as marketing and distribution to 15 “book partners,” Tifft said. Many of these were small nonprofits, such as award-winning poetry publisher Omnidawn. As Tifft put it, the smaller

under UPNE’s imprints. In a press release, Dartmouth provost Joseph Helble called the deal “a great outcome for our UPNE authors.”

One of those authors is Vermonter YVONNE DALEY, whose book Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks, and Radicals Moved to Vermont was released by UPNE this year. “Working with them has always been a delight,” she said in a phone interview. “There’s human D OU G beings there that care about the books, and a wonderful staff.”

While she’s “very grateful” that her book will still be marketed through Chicago, Daley called closing UPNE “a big mistake on Dartmouth’s part,” adding, “I feel so sorry that [staff are] losing their jobs, and I think that it’s totally unnecessary and sad.”

publishers “realized they could still keep their candle lit” by drawing on UPNE’s resources.

Because UPNE was involved in making and selling so many books, its closure will have a ripple effect. Tifft described UPNE as “a big boarding house [with] a lot of people under its roof.”

For many readers, though, it was simply a name they associated with regional authors and subjects too niche for the big T I FFT New York City houses.

In addition to releasing regional-interest works, UPNE had a nonfiction imprint called ForeEdge that “did really well” and “hid the New England aspect,” said Tifft.

Among its titles was Michael Benson’s Escape From Dannemora: Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Great Adirondack Manhunt.

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“When commercial publishers felt they weren’t selling enough, we would buy the rights,” Tifft said.

In the early ’90s, Hardscrabble Books gave a break to a struggling novelist named Chris Bohjalian. He recently posted on Instagram a relic from that era: his agent’s typewritten list of all the big publishers who rejected his novel Water Witches.

“I’ll miss the University Press of New England,” Bohjalian wrote to Seven Days in an email, and he elaborated on what the press meant to his career:

I was clinging to the barest semblance of a career as a novelist when a young editor there named Michael Lowenthal — an immensely gifted and accomplished writer in his own right — acquired Water Witches. I’d published three novels before then, two that were terrible and one that was pretty good — though still apprentice work — and the combination of small sales and a book about dowsers and global climate change in Vermont made it a very hard sale in 1993.

But UPNE took a risk and published a beautiful hardcover. The book received lovely reviews and the paperback would be acquired by one of the publishers that had rejected the manuscript.

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Today, Bohjalian is a best-selling author with multiple film deals, and Water Witches has a Touchstone paperback edition.

It wasn’t always easy for UPNE to juggle its roles as a scholarly press and one serving a wider readership, Tifft said. “The faculty didn’t always like to be in the same room with the people who were primarily writers.”

Still, Daley believes, New England’s “readers and writers and scholars” will all feel the effects of UPNE’s demise.

Specialized regional nonfiction, she noted, has always been a hard sell.

“There are so many books now that won’t see the light of day,” she said.

“Both of my books are Vermont-specific.

So, where do we go from here?”

“Overall, book publishing is tougher than ever,” Tifft echoed, citing the 2015 closure of Countryman Press’ Vermont headquarters. The “complex structure” of UPNE “was a way to share the burden,” he said, but it couldn’t ultimately sustain the defection of so many member institutions.

After 34 years at UPNE, Tifft has no plans to quit the book business. As Publishers Weekly reported in November, he and Ann Brash have launched Redwing Meadow Book Services to offer editorial, design and production services to presses such as former UPNE members Wesleyan University Press and Brandeis University Press.

Tifft said he’ll remember UPNE as “a good place to work” that felt from the inside not like a consortium but “like a union.”

Its absence will be felt. “Instead of being the lifeboat,” Tifft said, “we’re now sending all the little rafts out to find their own lifeboat.”

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“We’ve been very interested in choosing a graphic novel,” said CHRISTOPHER KAUFMAN ILSTRUP, executive director of the VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL, which selects the statewide read each year through an open nomination process. ‡ e goal, he said, is to choose a work of literature — fiction, nonfiction or poetry — that’s accessible to a wide audience. Past titles have included Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson and Wonder by R.J. Palacio. Since the program’s inception, more than 200 communities across the state have participated, according to VHC. Because the nominations are open to the public, the suggestions inevitably reflect the zeitgeist. With the topic of race looming large in media and public forums, it’s no accident that March emerged as the frontrunner among this year’s contenders. “‡ is year, there was a lot of interest in the civil rights era because of the conversations happening at both the state and national level,” Ilstrup said. “March isn’t some dry, dusty history book, but a really visceral, visual experience.”

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hen Nora Tucker, a seventh grader at Wolf Creek Middle School, begins her summer vacation by compiling students’ submissions to a community time-capsule project, she expects it’ll be filled with essays about the usual summertime fare: swimming in the creek, marching in the Fourth of July parade and competing in the annual Mad Mile foot race.

But when two inmates escape from the town’s maximum-security prison, where Nora’s father works as superintendent, her previously quiet hometown turns into an armed fortress, besieged by search parties, police roadblocks and helicopters circling ominously overhead. Meanwhile, Wolf Creek’s local market is inundated with national reporters, as well as inmates’ out-of-town families who can’t visit their loved ones, now under 24-hour lockdown.

As the search for the escapees unfolds, Nora and her friends confront some difficult realities about race, white privilege and the previously invisible lives of the prison inmates.

In Breakout, a middle-grade novel for readers ages 9 to 14, Plattsburgh, N.Y., author KATE MESSNER has once again tackled a challenging subject with creativity, sensitivity and tact. Like her previous novels — 2017’s The Exact Location of Home, which addresses a family’s homelessness, and 2016’s The Seventh Wish, which discusses heroin addiction — Breakout is a good conversation starter for discussing race, social justice and mass incarceration.

As Messner explained in a recent interview, Breakout was inspired by real-life events that, for her, hit dangerously close to home. In June 2015, two

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Messner, who spent seven years working in broadcast journalism before becoming a schoolteacher and, later, a full-time author, was immediately captivated by the drama unfolding around her.

“I never quite got over journalism,” she said. “So when something this big is happening, I still have a very strong pull to be in the middle of it.”

On the third day of the search, Messner heard about a press conference at the prison, so she grabbed her reporter’s notebook and went. At the time, she said, she wasn’t planning to write a children’s book about a prison break — “because that’s a weird idea,” she said. “Who does that?” But she trusted her journalistic instinct for a compelling story.

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Thank you for a thorough investigation of the CityPlace Burlington billboards surrounding the hole in the mall [WTF: “Do the Signs Around CityPlace Construction Site Violate Billboard Law?” November 7]. When the city acts as if it’s above the law, we have a serious threat to our democracy.

Mayor Miro Weinberger required these law-busting signs that were supposed to “engage the community,” “depict and describe the project” and “communicate that downtown merchants are open for business.” Looking at the 61 signs, I counted just one that depicts the logos of the businesses still operating in the old mall. The other 60 signs tout the benefits of CityPlace and include large, repeating CityPlace logos. These billboards are clearly advertisements for CityPlace — exactly the kind of public right-of-way outdoor advertising the billboard law prohibits. Any other business promoting its benefits on an oversize sign in this way would be quickly stopped.

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s years go, 2018 will probably be remembered as one when many citizens threw up their hands and cried, “WTF?” Abundant online think pieces have chronicled the growing number of “glitches” in our body politic (read: Donald Trump) that suggest we’re living in a computer simulation à la The Matrix or an alternate reality created by CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

Notwithstanding my layman’s interest in particle physics and gravitational disruptions to the time-space continuum, I have zero expertise when it comes to evaluating such theories.

That’s not the only WTF question that confounded us this year; Seven Days regularly receives ones that we’re in no position to answer. (More than a few relate to bodily functions.) Here are some of the odder ones we saw in 2018.

QUESTION: “I’ve developed an itchy rash on my back, upper arms and stomach. €ere may be two possibilities. My wife bought lettuce from a different store, and I was working in the ceiling of a circuit board building room installing wiring and rubber drop cords. I’ve avoided both for two days. €e rash and welts aren’t as bad, but I’m still itching some. WTF?” ANSWER: Though “Ask your doctor” may be hackneyed advice, it’s probably more useful than “Ask your local newspaper.”

QUESTION: “Almost every time I eat out anywhere I get urgent diarrhea. Do you have a clue?”

ANSWER: Here’s one: Grammatically speaking, “urgent diarrhea” seems redundant.

QUESTION: “How can you find out if a particular wine is sulfite-free?”

ANSWER: Uh, check the label.

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QUESTION: “Could sulfites or the lettuce cause body itching without a rash?”

ANSWER: Oh, great. Another question about rashes, itches and sulfites.

QUESTION: “I have three bouts of diarrhea and vomiting from eating salads at restaurants. All three times, my blood pressure plummeted and I was dehydrated. I had to go to the [emergency room] all three times. I can only find sulfite articles related to respiratory ills. I am almost certain my issues have to do with sulfites. What is your opinion?”

ANSWER: Another question on sulfites, diarrhea and salads. What, no rash?

Generally speaking, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot only addresses questions specifically related to people, places or things in Vermont. However, the next two questions seemed intriguing enough to answer: QUESTION: “Why do the same numbers occur when one looks at a clock? One example: frequently seeing the same time ... 7:17 p.m.”

ANSWER: The likeliest explanation of why our reader notices the same times popping up repeatedly on his clock — presumably a digital one — is neurological.

Basically, the human brain is a pattern-recognition machine that’s predisposed to spotting recurrent events in its environment, such as repetition (7:17) and sequentiality (12:34).

Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon in which the mind reacts to stimuli, typically images or sounds, by finding patterns whether or not they exist. Common examples include seeing human faces in the grills of cars or animals in clouds, hearing subliminal messages in recorded music when played slowly or backward, and

perceiving human voices in the white noise generated by fans and air conditioners.

Pareidolia is completely normal, more common in women than in men and more frequently reported by the devoutly religious. Hence all those people who claim to have seen Jesus or the Virgin Mary in tortillas and slices of toast.

QUESTION: “Vermont, a state that wants to stop the opiate crisis, does not acknowledge that wheat, barley, rye, corn and maltodextrin are, in fact … low-grade opiates but still opiates, addictive and dangerous in every way. I spent my entire life sick, fogged over and my memory wiped out every day by this crap the government calls food, and I am by no means alone. Where is the story of … people being drugged?”

ANSWER: Strictly speaking, wheat, barley, rye, corn and maltodextrin — the last is a highly processed starch derived from corn — are not opiates, because they’re not made from the juice of the opium poppy.

That said, it’s no cockamamie conspiracy theory to suggest that grains and starchy foods can make certain people feel like they’ve taken a shot of heroin. According to a November 2015 article in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition called “The Opioid Effects of Gluten Exorphins: Asymptomatic Celiac Disease,” for some people “gluten can be degraded into several morphine-like substances, named gluten exorphins.

These compounds have proven opioid effects and could mask the deleterious effects of gluten protein on gastrointestinal lining and function.”

Indeed, for people with asymptomatic celiac disease, gluten exorphins can cause constipation, just as opiates do, and mess with their metabolism of serotonin, a neurotransmitter associated with feelings of happiness and well-being.

As for these grains’ purported link to Vermont’s opiate crisis, however, that’s a bit of a stretch — unless one subscribes to the “gateway drug” theory that distilled spirits, which are made from such grains, increase one’s likelihood of experimenting with stronger intoxicants.

Finally, an in-house WTF question: Jordan Adams, Seven Days’ music editor, wants to know where the black Angus cows that appeared on his parents’ lawn in Charlotte came from. Last summer, Adams’ father discovered physical “evidence” (read: cow patties) on his property, whereupon he checked his game cam and found photographic evidence of the ungulates’ overnight trespass.

The visitation was all the more puzzling since the nearest beef farm is more than a mile away and across a busy road.

No answer yet, but I’ll stay on this story until the cows come home.

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f you are very lucky, there will be one day in your life on which your brother becomes your hero.

I was hoofing home from choir practice, the December I was 10, toting a shoulder bag of science fiction books and a fair weight of embarrassment.

That year the fifth graders had to sing carols before the older kids did their Christmas play. We were all sopranos, any voice change years away, so we sounded like girls, which mortified us, because actual girls had better voices and we knew it. It was a flat stroll from school to Main Street, then the shortcut behind the depot that I was forbidden to use because some kid a century ago got hit by a train, which I took anyway, then the long climb of Hill Street as the early dark descended.

A boy came wheeling down the hill on a bicycle, making S shapes as he careened from the road’s far left to far right, no great risk at that quiet hour. It had been a dry December, too, cold but no ice or snowbanks.

Not until he zoomed past did I realize that his bike was the same model as my brother Neil’s, the same green.

But it couldn’t have been Neil’s bike, because there were no streamers flying from the handlebar grips. There was no motor sound from the playing card clothespinned to the front fork so that the spokes strummed it as the wheel spun. Otherwise, it was Neil’s bike exactly. The boy riding it was tall and confident, barely pedaling as he swooped side to side.

I heard the slap of shoes, and two smaller boys ran past downhill full tilt, almost faster than their legs could go.

As the biker turned left, down Marshall Street toward the Farm, I heard the younger ones call out, “Hey, wait up.”

Then they all were gone, and I resumed my climb.

It was not a farm anymore. EJ Moulton had raised beef there for years, put in a trailer home for a hired hand, then another, and pretty soon there was a whole neighborhood of them, all in rows, with a big sign at the head of the dirt driveway: “The Farm.”

They weren’t the poorest folks in town, but almost. Our outgrown boots went there via the food shelf, along with jeans, gloves and sturdy shirts if we hadn’t worn holes in them.

That boy was riding a nice bike for

a kid from the Farm. Maybe Christmas had come early.

The house was warm when I got home, a rarity for that time of day, and the wood box filled. That meant Neil was back to doing his chores again, instead of complaining about them. The desire for allowance had prevailed. I found him in our room, an arm over his eyes and his boots on the bedspread. Such drama. We did not greet one another. He was a tyrant to me. I was an annoyance to him. We lived under a fragile truce. The least hello could prove explosive.

I flumped onto my bed and dug the latest Ray Bradbury out of my bag. I’d loved Fahrenheit 451. Now I was trying Something Wicked This Way Comes, but struggling. When I’d checked the book out, the school librarian had called me “a precocious reader,” which steeled my determination to finish. I spoke into the open book. “I saw a kid today with a bike like yours.”

“What do you mean?”

“Same kind, same color. But no streamers.”

Neil sniffed. “I took them off last week, stupid. Little kid stuff.”

“Well, it didn’t have any motor, either.”

He sat up. “Was my bike by the front steps when you came in?”

“I didn’t notice.”

We raced outside, and there were only brown leaves beside the steps.

I remembered once the previous summer on a dare I had shoplifted a pack of gum from the Martin Store on Main Street, old Mrs. Martin oblivious with her nose in a soap opera magazine.

But I lost my nerve and put it back, choosing hazing from my friends over the weight on my conscience. That kid, though, he’d ridden a stolen bike right past me without a blink of shame. The nerve of it stunned me.

My mother felt much the same way, after we told her when she got home from work. Not that she said so outright. We just knew. My mother was not much for words. She could stare at you and burn a hole in your skin.

She could bear down with her jaw and you would expect lightning bolts. But she was not all toughness. Her job was running the three laundromats our family owned, and it was well known around town that if a person handed

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Winter Reading her a dollar for change for the dryers, she always gave 11 dimes. She knew what kind of people didn’t have their own dryer. Still, at home her sternness came out naturally, in gestures we always knew how to interpret.

So when I described the kid sailing this way and that down the hill, she pursed her lips and shook her head, and I was scared for him and his whole family.

Then she put a chicken in to roast and told Neil and me to go do our homework.

Of course we did nothing of the kind.

Instead in our room we speculated: Would our father call the police? Or beat somebody up? What might happen?

It was exciting for me, allying with my brother, though he had the righteousness of being the victim. When my father came home, my mother pulled him into the bathroom — the only truly private place in the house — and Neil and I could hear them murmuring.

In general, we did our best not to bother Dad when he first came home. He wasn’t stern like our mother, just tired. He ran a tiny insurance company, him and a secretary. But he also snowplowed schools and parking lots to make ends meet. That meant getting up at ungodly hours, and the harder the storm, the earlier he’d have to work. I think the man was probably exhausted all winter. Even so, a dry December like that year was a problem, because it meant less cash on hand for Christmas. There were fat years, he’d explained, and lean years, and this was a lean one. At least we weren’t living at the Farm.

My father gulped a handful of peanuts, then put his boots and coat back on.

“Boys,” he said, “you might could come with me.”

I looked at Neil, expecting him to challenge my father like he did about everything in those days. But he just pulled on his gear and went to the door.

None of us spoke on the way down. It

was dark by then, nearly six o’clock, the town lights pretty below us. My father whistled absently, like he did while weeding the garden or stacking wood. When we turned left onto Marshall Street, though, he went quiet.

The sign that read “The Farm” creaked on its hinges as we passed. I had never gone past it before. My father told us to wait in the road while he checked one trailer home after another. Most had lights on inside. On a few, Christmas decorations hung here and there. One of them smelled like apple pie, and my stomach growled.

“Shut up,” Neil said.

It didn’t take but five or six trailers before my father called out, “Here we go.”

We ran up and there was Neil’s bike, no question. He grabbed the handlebars like he was ready to fight for it. I gave him room, figuring the case was solved and we would turn for home. But my father, to my astonishment, marched onto the cinder-block front stoop and knocked on the door.

“What are you doing?” Neil asked, backing up a few steps.

“Who’s there?” a gruff voice called from inside. “Just a gol’ dang minute.”

We heard latches sliding, unlocking, and the door pulled back. An old man with a stringy gray beard poked his head out and gave us the once-over. I admit, I did it to him, too.

He was wearing a military jacket that was frayed at the end of the sleeves.

“Gave at the office,” he growled, then coughed for fully half a minute.

My father waited, not saying a thing ’til the man caught his breath. Then he stood square. “We’re not here asking for money. Nor selling anything. We found my son’s bike, which had been stolen, in your side yard just now.”

The old man squinted at him. “You saying I stole it?”

“Of course not.” My father peered into the house. Whatever he observed, we could not see from where we stood.

“But I thought you might want to know, in case you felt you had anything to ask the people who live here with you.”

“Well, now.” The old man combed his

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“Yes, sir?” we heard from inside.

“Front and center.”

A boy came up by the old man’s elbow, and he didn’t look so tall anymore. One glance at us, and his face went white with fear.

“What-all do you know about that bicycle there?”

“Well, sir, I found it in a ditch this afternoon.”

“Did you now?”

The boy gulped hard. “And took it for a joyride down the hill.”

“Your brothers see all this happen? They see you find it in a ditch?”

Peter blanched and did not answer. Neil threw a leg over the bike and, although his head was turned, somehow he still gave the boy his hardest expression.

“Thought so.” The old man stepped toward my father. “Please to excuse my grandson. We’re in a bit of a hard time here.”

“I know what hard times are,” my father said. It was one of those statements that make a man a mystery to his sons. A whole interrogation came to me: When did you experience them? How did you make it through? I never did ask, of course. “We’ll just be taking the bike back now, and no hard feelings.”

“Maybe Peter could do some chores for you all, make it up to you?”

“That’s all right. It’s the bike we were after.” My father looked past him again, then down along the side of the trailer. He chewed on his lip for a second. “Listen, you got any heat on in there?”

“Don’t you be worrying about us, sir.

We’re fine.”

“All right, then.”

The old man coughed, but it didn’t last as long that time. “I promise you,” he said, “Peter and I’ll be having a long talk.” He closed the door slowly, the latches sliding into place.

The walk home seemed longer. Our breath rose up like ghosts. Neil rode the whole way, wheeling ahead as we hiked the steep part. When we reached the house, his bike was not leaning by the steps but back behind the shed.

Dinner was quiet, the chicken comforting and delicious. Only after everyone had finished eating, including Neil’s seconds, my mother spoke.

“Anyone going to tell me what went on down there?”

“You tell it,” my father said to Neil.

And he did, describing it perfectly, from the old man’s worn sleeves to

every word Peter said. My brother hadn’t missed a thing. He even noticed something I hadn’t: a chimney pipe for a woodstove and no smoke coming out of it.

As she listened, my mother leaned forward in her chair, occasionally glancing at my father before focusing again on her 13-year-old. Her jaw looked like she was chewing, but I knew that actually meant she was calculating.

When Neil finished, she addressed my father. “Did he get it right?”

“Yes. And the house looked cold inside.”

“Those trailers have thin walls.”

“There was no supper on the table, Cora.”

She made a quick nod.

“You boys clear. Dishes in the sink.”

While we obeyed, she set to packing things up: the rest of the chicken, a sack of potatoes, turnips, cider.

My father went to the shed and filled a wheelbarrow with firewood. We could have loaded everything in the pickup and been down and back in five minutes. But we walked it again, the air sharply colder now, the wheelbarrow trying to run away on my father so that he had to lean back. My mother carried food in a basket in each hand. Neil insisted on riding his bike.

“Don’t you think that will aggravate these people?” my mother asked.

Neil just stared into the distance, his jaw set in a way so similar to my mother right before she loses her temper, it scared me. I knew she was right, though.

When we passed the sign for the Farm, I couldn’t help feeling nervous.

My father knocked again.

“Gol’ dang train station round here,” we heard the old man complain, and when he opened the door and saw my father, he turned his head aslant. “Something else wrong now?”

“In the world, yes,” my father answered. “Between you and me, no. My family and I just thought to bring a few things down tonight, to share our good fortune with our neighbors.”

The old man scanned us with a skeptical eye. There we were, the wheelbarrow of wood, my mother with her baskets; I had three old sweaters, while Neil stayed at a remove on his bike. “We don’t take no charity.”

“This isn’t charity,” my mother answered.

“Sure looks like it,” he said. Peter appeared at his elbow, half out of sight.

“For it to be charity,” my mother said, “we would have to think we were better than you. We’re not. We’re just luckier.”

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Peter slid his arm around his grandfather’s waist, and the old man looked down at him. When he straightened again, he seemed stiffer, flintier. “OK,” he said, coughing one hard bark. “Come on in with it.”

My mother went first. My father dumped the wheelbarrow, then tidied the wood into a pile by the front step. “Feel like pitching in, boys?”

I set to stacking but Neil hung back, pondering something, wringing the handlebar grips, quiet as a church on Monday. I thought he was taunting them, which under the circumstances was unkind.

My mother called me to bring the sweaters. I saw the inside of a trailer for the first time: narrow rooms, faded curtains, small furniture that was worn.

But it was clean, everything in its place, the little brothers at the table with spelling workbooks open in front of them.

They were doing their homework wearing coats.

My mother and I went back outside.

My father offered to bring hay bales, to tuck against the trailer’s apron for insulation. The old man said it was a good idea but he’d find hay himself. My mother said Merry Christmas, and the old man started to say thank you, but his cough interrupted and he just waved. When we reached the end of the walk, we looked

back. Peter and the old man stood in the doorway, the light on behind them.

Smoke rose from the chimney pipe.

“Damn it,” Neil said. I was thunderstruck that he had cussed in front of our parents. Before they rebuked him, though, he rode back across the frozen grass. Stepping off the bike, he tilted it against the house with special care. When it was set just so, he stormed past us to the road.

“Neil—” my mother called out.

“Leave me alone.” He stomped on ahead.

And we did, my mother’s lips pressed against one another in a way I didn’t know how to interpret. My father understood, though, and put an arm around her.

“We could bring a tree tomorrow,” she said. “Some lights.”

“It’s enough,” my father said. “They have their pride.”

At the top of Marshall Street I dawdled a moment more. Peter had come outside to stand in front of the bike, not moving, as if he was afraid to touch it, as if it might not be real. I trotted up the road, then, to reach my parents. Instead of joining them, though, I broke into a run. My brother was ahead of me on the hill, and I needed to catch up.

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What she means is, who should read his story? Male or female? Young or old? “−e Bicycle” is the 10th story he’s written for the Burlington theater company’s “Winter Tales,” an annual event featuring storytelling, poetry, live music and hot cider; the 14th iteration took place this past week at Main Street Landing’s Black Box −eatre. Kiernan, a novelist, has obliged with what he says is the only short story he writes all year.

“I think about it as a performed work,” says the Charlotte-based writer. “A part of my revision [process] is reading it out loud here in my basement.”

He also posts the story on his website, and fans have learned to watch for it.

Asked if he aims for any specific elements in these holiday-season stories, Kiernan says the range of topics is human — darkness and even violence may be present, as well as lightness and redemption. “−e challenge is to remain in that emotional range and find new stories,” he observes.

Kiernan, who previously wrote and edited for the Burlington Free Press, has published three novels and two works of nonfiction, and says he’s grateful to be making a living writing books. His latest novel, The Baker’s Secret, came out in 2017 to wide acclaim.

His 2007 book Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life From the Medical System yielded him board positions and speaking engagements on palliative and end-of-life care in 40 states. −ough the speaking engagements have decreased in recent years, Kiernan is still outspoken on the topic. “Vermont is 46th in terms of the number of people who receive hospice care,” he notes. “We’re way behind.”

But writing novels, he says, “takes my whole brain.” And most of his time: After just six days off over two years, Kiernan recently sent his latest manuscript to publisher HarperCollins and is under contract for another. About his annual short story, he says, “I wanted to write some fiction for free. −is is an act of gratitude.”

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hen Susanne Schmidt was in seventh grade, one of her friends dared her to bring weed to school. With the help of her older brother, Schmidt came through. Upon seeing the contraband the next day, this so-called friend immediately ratted her out to the principal, who found a few buds inside a Tic Tac container in Schmidt’s locker. (Has there ever been a more preciously junior-high drug bust?)

The next thing she knew, Schmidt was under arrest for possession with intent to distribute.

“I mean, come on. How much did they think I was gonna fucking distribute?”

Schmidt said in her South End office on a recent afternoon, holding up her pinky finger. “It was maybe two tiny Js worth of dope. But this was 1974, when people thought weed was basically heroin, and it was just about the worst thing that could have happened.”

Sporting socks adorned with little fox faces, Schmidt occasionally paused her tale of juvenile delinquency to squeal at two adorable dogs pressing their noses against her glass door. Anyone hanging out in fox socks in a pet-friendly coworking space is likely cruising along on the high seas of life. Schmidt, now 56, sees a cosmic thread from her unruly past to her fox-sock-wearing present. In a sense, the arc of her existence rests on the unlikely pillars of two pinky-size joints.

Schmidt, a licensed mental health counselor and a professional storyteller, has made a career out of finding the narrative in life’s episodic twists and turns. Since getting her start onstage with the Vermont Comedy Divas in 2012, Schmidt has become something of a niche celebrity. In 2014, she performed at Burlington’s inaugural Moth, a live storytelling event. Later that year, she won a StorySLAM in the Queen City for her tale of “extreme camping” on Long Island; it involved several fathers tasked with supervising young children, copious amounts of gasoline and a large explosion. In 2015, she won the Valley Voices Grand Slam in Northampton, Mass., a competition presented by New England Public Radio and the Academy of Music Theatre.

Since then, Schmidt has been the regional producer of the Moth and a regular contributor to slams and storytelling

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events across the country, performing in cities as far-flung as Miami and Anchorage, Alaska. She also teaches a storytelling workshop at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and is cofounder of Say It Forward Productions, a nonprofit that organizes storytelling events for corporate fundraisers.

Kevin Gallagher, who cofounded Say It Forward with Schmidt, entered the Burlington storytelling scene around the same time that she did. The fellow performer says he admires Schmidt’s attention to craft.

“She’s a very thoughtful, precise storyteller,” Gallagher said. “She understands the balance between content and timing, the two things that create a really good story. Onstage, she tells her stories in a way that makes you feel like she’s telling it to you.”

About that weed saga: Schmidt paid her penance with a few months of courtordered therapy, and she was technically on probation until age 18. She never revealed her brother as the pot source,

blaming it instead on the age-old scapegoats: “some kids in the woods.”

Things took a turn for the better in eighth grade, when Schmidt transferred to an evangelical Christian school. It was her mother’s idea, but Schmidt, not much of a hellion at heart, went along without protest. There, to her atheist father’s dismay, she discovered an affinity for religion.

Schmidt lasted two years as a religious studies major at Lynchburg College in Virginia before she realized that, as a Long Island girl who grew up surrounded by her mother’s loud Italian family, she didn’t feel quite at home in the South. Through that experience, she found her real calling — “studying compassion and healing, except in a secular way,” said Schmidt.

She finished college at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, then earned a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Vermont. She’s been in Burlington ever since, working as a mental health counselor and — after a friend dared her in 2012 to take a Flynn

comedy improvisation class — becoming a troubadour about town. (Dares seem to be the major plot engine in Schmidt’s life.)

Schmidt’s storytelling gene comes from her mother’s side of the family, a clan of Italian Brooklynites who often lingered for hours after a meal, attempting to outyarn each other. They’d continue until her grandfather, a psychiatrist at a state hospital — who, Schmidt is pretty sure, routinely removed bullets from Mob guys who showed up on his doorstep — took his napkin out of his collar and tossed it on the table. It was the signal that the best story had been told — the original mic drop.

“My family invented the story slam,” Schmidt joked.

Schmidt got her start in standup, but her performances have evolved into the kind of genre-bending sets pioneered by artists such as Mike Birbiglia, Tig Notaro and Hannah Gadsby, whose material often hovers in the murky emotional territory between funny and sad. That in-between zone, said Schmidt, is storytelling in its purest form.

But “storytelling,” spoken in reverent tones by everyone from public radio hosts to CEOs to twentysomething social-media influencers, has become a vague buzzword with a slippery meaning. At some point in the last decade, PR firms began helping companies “tell their brand story.” Instagram developed a feature called a “story” that allows users to post images that disappear after 24 hours. The proliferation of podcasts has spawned endless opportunities for people to broadcast themselves under the roomy umbrella of storytelling, as if anything said into a microphone sotto voce automatically has a plot.

This sudden commodification of one of the oldest, lowest-tech forms of entertainment irks Schmidt.

“Why did we suddenly get all precious about storytelling?” she lamented. “If there’s nothing in a story that makes people laugh at themselves, then it just feels really message-y to me. Like, are we in church?”

THE ART OF STORYTELLING IS

ABOUT CREATING MEANING FOR OURSELVES. S U E S C HMI D T

For Schmidt, storytelling is a practice that involves feeling, substance and, crucially, structure.

“Some people just get up on stage and tell you their slice of life from start to finish. Sue is really focused on craft, which comes from her background structuring jokes in comedy,” said Lovejoy Dole, who started the state’s longestrunning storytelling open mic, Extempo, in the Montpelier area in 2010. (Schmidt has won the juried Extempo competition seven times.) “I’ve seen audiences really respond to her stories, and it’s partly because she’s able to hit those mile markers that people are always subconsciously listening for.”

Schmidt’s voice is baseline funny — just a little gravelly and streetwise, hinting at her Long Island roots. Even if “comedy” is too narrow a description of her work, she tends to use humor as a vehicle, a way of coming out on the other side of an experience. She views storytelling as equal parts science and art, a precise ratio of ingredients — setup, desire, setback, climax, resolution. Those elements, combined correctly, should produce something that feels seamless, she says.

“I have an incredible need to put things in some kind of order,” said Schmidt. “I

don’t tell stories about things I haven’t resolved in myself, or else that process doesn’t work.”

Recently, Schmidt appeared on a CBS News segment dedicated to the Vermont storytelling scene. The piece portrayed the state as a magical hygge hinterland where storytellers get recognized on the streets (which has actually happened to Schmidt).

Twee-ness aside, something about Vermont fosters a tangible sense of connection between performer and audience, said Schmidt. “It’s not unusual to walk down the street and hear someone scream out, ‘Hey, storyteller!’” she told CBS News. “That would absolutely be a Vermont moment.”

A few months ago, while Schmidt was in a coffee shop, she heard someone yell, “We love the fathers!” — a line from the story about the camping incident, which she’s performed several times since winning the 2014 Moth StorySLAM. “I turned around, and this woman goes, ‘I heard you tell that story a few months after my father died, and it was exactly what I needed to hear,’” Schmidt said. “That was like, whoa.”

There are many parallels between Schmidt’s counseling work and her storytelling. “Everybody’s life is messy in some way,” she said. “We’re all trying to talk about something. We have these things that we think define our lives, and the art of storytelling is about creating meaning for ourselves, which is what therapy is also about.”

Ultimately, Schmidt feels that storytelling represents the end goal of counseling: getting people comfortable enough with their lives to talk about them out in the open.

During the Moth StorySLAM at ArtsRiot last week, a young woman told the winning story about how, as a girl, she once watched her inebriated father throw a drink in her mother’s face. The next morning, when her father acted like nothing had happened, she mustered up her kid courage and threw a glass of milk back at him.

“Honestly, I would have preferred an ending where she looked at the glass of milk in her hand, then looked at her father but didn’t throw it at him,” said Schmidt by phone after the event. “That would have been more consistent with my sense of her character. But human beings are hardwired to like satisfying arcs, and that was a really, really satisfying one.”

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Mystery novelist Archer Mayor talks characters, storytelling and making a living B Y PA M EL A POL ST O N

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ewfane author Archer Mayor has penned an impressive 29 mystery novels — or police procedurals, as they’re known in the trade — featuring Brattleboro-based cop Joe Gunther and his team of detectives in the fictional Vermont Bureau of Investigation. The latest, Bury the Lead, is out now, and Mayor has just sent the next installment to his editor; readers will have to wait until fall 2019 for that one.

As is typical of Mayor’s immensely readable stories, Bury the Lead features several crimes that overlap. There’s a murder whose confessed perpetrator is not credible, and a rash of arsons and other mayhem involving a major fooddistribution business. Chances are, all these events are linked. What’s more, one of VBI’s main characters, Willy Kunkle, is out of commission with a surgery that affects the investigations as well as his colleagues, his family and Kunkle himself.

Fans of the series may be even more concerned about the implications for future books than about the crimes at hand.

That’s because Mayor, 68, has so indelibly created his cast of characters and their relationships — not to mention the places where they live and work — that, to some readers, they may seem almost real. Mayor addressed the series’ future and other concerns in a recent phone interview.

SEVEN DAYS: One of the pleasures of reading your books is following the lives of your characters over the years. While the core cast has been the same, you’ve introduced new ones from time to time, and brought secondary ones — such as medical examiner Beverly Hillstrom — into more prominent roles. I’m curious about your process of developing these relationships, and how far in advance you plot them out.

ARCHER MAYOR: [I don’t plot them out] at all. I lead a spontaneous life — my personal life is dictated by a pager. [Mayor is an EMT and a death investigator for Vermont’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.] I let these guys evolve in my head for each book pretty much as you spend time with your friends.

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surgery — and confront his history with drug addiction. I don’t want to spoil anything for people who haven’t read the book yet, but are you setting us up for a profoundly changed Willy going forward?

AM: No. We go right back to where I started. [I’m] Mr. Tabula Rasa, cruising around wondering what’s happening next.

I met a guy who said, “You might want to keep in mind, Willy’s injury doesn’t stop there. [He] could experience excruciating pain.” This gave me a whole segment of the book. This pain pushes [Willy] right up to the edge. It’s not an efficient way to conduct business, but I wouldn’t change any aspect of it.

WHERE DOES EMPATHY COME FROM, IF NOT FROM

CONSTANT EXPOSURE TO HUMAN SUFFERING? AR C H E R MAYO R

SD: A question about the title of this book: ‰e word “lead” has different meanings and two pronunciations. ‰e most obvious meaning comes from my profession, journalism, but given the genre, it’s easy to also think of lead from a gun. Did you intend the reader to make these associations, or was this just fun wordplay on your part?

AM: Yes, I did [intend that]! I have a background in journalism, too — it was a phrase as familiar to me as it is to you. It’s my job to bury the lead. I’ve probably been at this too many years; I’ve become a little puckish. My editor said [of the readers], “They’re going to screw this up.” I said, “So what? I write murder mysteries.”

SD: You probably get this question all the time, but are your characters, or their traits, based on any actual people you’ve known or observed?

AM: I have to own up to one thing. My daughter Elizabeth put her finger on it years ago: “Oh, Daddy, are you still answering the question ‘Are you Joe Gunther?’” [He’s] everything I look to as the poster boy for the kinds of things I’d like to see in myself and others. [But] my daughter said, “Am I the

only one on the face of the earth that knows you’re really Willy Kunkle?” [Laughs.] But I love Willy’s honesty — there’s a lot of things about him I like.

SD: I think we’re all walking wounded.

AM: I concur. We all carry around a lot of baggage. When shit hits your head, it’s how it hits you, not what it’s made of. That’s what makes us capable of choosing right from wrong, good from bad. Where does empathy come from, if not from constant exposure to human suffering?

SD: Your work as a death investigator, firefighter, EMT and cop has no doubt given you a broad knowledge base to draw from in your writing. But have these experiences influenced your actual storytelling, and if so, how?

A M : He l p f u l l y, c o n s t r u c t i ve l y, thoughtfully. If you do some of these things as I’ve done them for as long as I’ve done them, you develop a drinking habit.

[Laughs.] But I’ve got an outlet: fiction.

I’ve now retired as a cop, but the medical examiner [ job] has gotten stronger. It’s symbiotic: The writing is where I sort it all out, in the guise of a murder mystery. I’m writing with readers in mind — I imagine them as cocreators.

SD: Bury the Lead is your 29th book, which is pretty remarkable. When you set out on this path, did you imagine you’d still be doing it 30 years later?

AM: Good lord, no! Hey, I’m American. I was deluded with capitalistic dreams.

SD: Still working on that vast fortune?

AM: Yes. [Laughs.] I had a familiarity with the realities of publishing. You think of Stephen King and think, Oh, you’re a writer, you’re a millionaire. I think of this as a job.

I’m a realist; I’m making a living at this.

SD: Some writers of series have set themselves a target number of books, and then they’re done. Do you have any number in mind, or do you plan to just keep writing as long as you can?

AM: Yes [to the latter]. If some Hollywood agent makes an offer of $5 million, I’d say yes. But I spend everything I make, because I don’t make as much as people think. Therefore I write for a living.

This series of books is not a mechanical issue to me. I know I’m not James Joyce, but these books matter to me. I will

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SD: Have you or an agent tried to shop Joe Gunther as a TV or Netflix series or the like?

AM: Oh, sure, that’s an ongoing effort. I take this really seriously — I try to make an effort to honor the contract, to market [the book], etc. A number of deals have come and gone. Frankly, right now I’m atUntitled-19 my most hopeful; I’ve met a young man who might produce something. I think a series is preferable. I think I wrote a series.

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SD: It’s fun to think about who might be cast in these roles.

AM: Oh, isn’t that cool? Half of the people I’ve imagined have died of old age.

SD: I’ve wondered whether people would find it too hard to believe that all these bad deeds could take place in pristine, progressive little Vermont.

AM: I concede my body count in fiction exceeds Vermont’s. But I can’t say that about problems other than homicide.

Vermont hasn’t always been so bucolic.

With people comes conflict.

SD: You’ve been a sort of shepherd of these characters who, for loyal readers, have become almost real.

How has it changed you, as a person, to have them in your life?

AM: That’s interesting. I don’t know if it’s changed me, but I do have a responsibility.

They evolve, they have babies, they have children coming of age. I have to develop them. I’m as curious about them as everyone else.

SD: –inking back over several decades as a writer, has anything surprised you?

AM: I suppose, yes, I think the biggest thing that surprises me is how relevant all this came to be. I tend to be a selfdeprecating guy; I was grateful just to be kept alive. As [the series] went on, the mission changed: to write a story of human nature. I see my role as having a more thoughtful direction. I pay attention [to the fact] that readers want this series to go on.

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Two award-winning female poets keep Vermont on the literary map B Y J U LI A S H IP L E Y

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ermont boasts more authors per capita than any other state, according to a National Endowment for the Arts study, but in recent years has lost many of its best. For instance, over the past decade three former Vermont poet laureates have died: Grace Paley, Ruth Stone and Galway Kinnell. Yet, simultaneously, the state’s literary ranks have been replenished with a new generation of scribes. Among Congregational Church Untitled-29 First 1 11/17/16 10:46 AM them are two young women — one from of Essex Junction the north of Vermont, one from the south — who have published award-winning poetry collections and are living unique literary lives.

A welcoming community, accepting Adrienne Raphel, 30, grew up in St. and serving all in the Spirit of Christ.

Johnsbury and is the author of What Was It For — a debut poetry collection Join us to celebrate that draws on nursery rhymes and tradiChristmas Eve tional verse. After her manuscript won with an inclusive, the 2015 Black Box Poetry Prize, Rescue progressive church.

Press published it last year. Guggenheim CHRISTMAS EVE Fellowship-winning poet Cathy Park SERVICES Hong, who selected the work, explains 5PM: her rationale in a back-cover endorseFamily Service ment, praising the way Raphel “takes 9PM: Victorian nonsense verse into the twentyLessons & Carols 11PM: first century and transforms it into her Carols & Communion own strange genius song.”

About a hundred miles south, 28-year1 CHURCH STREET, ESSEX JUNCTION old poet GennaRose Nethercott has also 878-5745 • FCCEJ.ORG been penning strange songs. Brattleboroborn Nethercott is the author of The Lumberjack’s Dove, a novel in verse. It WINTER BLUES STUDY 12v-firstcongregational121918.indd 1 In winter, do you wish you were 12/3/18 here? 1:05 PM was selected by Louise Glück (a former Vermonter and U.S. poet laureate 2003-4) as one of five winners of the 2017 National Poetry Series award.

In the introduction to Nethercott’s book, Glück writes, “The Lumberjack’s Dove is, in its manner, a folktale … Like its less humble relatives, myth and parable, it is pithy, magical, its many insights, its cautions and clarifications, unfolding DO YOU: Want to hibernate?

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You may be eligible to participate in a Though their books are distinctly research study on seasonal affective disdiff erent, both Nethercott and Raphel order (SAD). Diagnostic assessment and engage with traditional material in their treatment consisting of a light therapy writing. In an email, Nethercott said she box or cognitive-behavioral “talk” therapy will be offered at no charge. Eligible traces her early interest in folklore to participants will be compensated up “the mystic Otherworld of the Vermont to $530 for completing study-related woodlands, a place that always feels like questionnaires and interviews. it’s caught in some paranormal twilight.”

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Edinburgh in Scotland, where she “quickly became obsessed with the social and psychological functions of supernatural belief,” she said. She began searching for answers to “Why do we tell the stories we tell? Why do we believe the superstitions we believe?

How do our stories serve us?”

Raphel, who recently earned a doctoral degree in poetics from Harvard University, is also driven by an unshakable interest in cultural legacies. She tracks her interest in a variety of 20thand 21st-century literary works to discovering the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) in high school. In a phone interview, Raphel recited the first line of his poem “The Windhover”: “I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- / dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding…” When she first heard these lines she thought, Oh! You’re allowed to do that? Raphel remembered.

In addition to her interest in the movement and chaining of sounds, Raphel is attracted to word patterns and rules — structures that include sonnets, nursery rhymes and even crossword puzzles. Like Nethercott, she’s driven by questions about culture, and she wonders, “What are these [word-based tendencies] baked into our brains and our DNA?” Despite their early success, Nethercott and Raphel both know that playing with words is serious work. Raphel spent three years sending out her book, which grew out of her MFA thesis at the University of Iowa. She sent it to publishers and contests while revising it and re-sequencing it between rejections.

GennaRose Nethercott

Winter Reading “It was just one of those fluky things,” James Joyce’s Ulysses” is due out someRaphel said of her eventual wins. After time in 2020. years of receiving form-letter rejections Concurrently, Nethercott, who belongs and some finalist slots, within a span of to a female collective of typewriters-fortwo weeks her chapbook But What Will hire called the Traveling Poetry EmpoWe Do was selected as winner of the rium, is engaged in an eight-month book Seattle Review Chapbook Contest and tour for The Lumberjack’s Dove. The her full-length collection won the Black visibility that comes from publishing with Box prize.

Ecco-HarperCollins helps broaden her Burlington-based Honeybee Press reach as a storyteller. To animate the story published Nethercott’s first book, Poems during her cross-country tour, Nethercott for Strangers, in 2015. She submitted The commissioned a shadow-puppet theater Lumberjack’s Dove to 13 fiction and poetry piece from her collaborator and friend competitions over a year; it placed as a Wooly Mar, who travels with her and finalist in some competiperforms the piece as she tions in each genre. reads.

In response to the rejecAsked if winning a big prize felt like a fairy tale, tions, Nethercott said, “I Nethercott admitted to really came thiiiis close to skipping out” on entering “freak[ing] the heck out” the National Poetry Series but said it wasn’t a Cinder— which awards its winners ella story. “It was definitely a publication contract and a a slow and deliberate labor $10,000 cash prize. Thinkthat brought me to this ing the manuscript “wasn’t point,” she acknowledged. completely ready,” she Even so, Nethercott added, intended to put the book “Getting that call [that through another round of she’d won] was an affirmaedits. Additionally, Nethtion that all this hard work ercott believed she “didn’t had yielded something stand a chance at winning.” good.”

The contest receives For her part, Raphel GE NN AROSE N E THERCOT T more than 1,000 manudescribed her feeling scripts, which are of winning two poetry winnowed down to approximately contests — after not winning anything 45 finalists. Those manuscripts are for years — as “lucky and weird.” then sent to five judges, each of whom Nethercott might speak for any writer chooses one winning submission. when she uses an appropriately folkloric A friend urged Nethercott to submit trope to sum up the experience: “As a anyway. “It’s been such a good lesson for writer, it can feel like you’re shouting me,” she said, “not to let my own hesita- and shouting down into a well, and your tions and ‘imposter syndrome’ take the words just vanish into the dark. Prizes wheel.” are — whatever, you’re a writer with or Both writers are, of course, engrossed without them, but it sure is nice to feel in more writing. Raphel, whose work has like, for once, the words didn’t vanish in also appeared online in the New Yorker, the well.” the Atlantic and the Paris Review, teaches Contact: shipley@sevendaysvt.com in the Princeton Writing Program. She’s halfway through writing another poetry collection, as well as a book about the INFO historical, psychological, economic and What Was It For by Adrienne Raphel, Rescue anthropological phenomenon of cross- Press, 108 pages. $16. word puzzles. Her compendium on the The Lumberjack’s Dove by GennaRose “virtually unchanged staple of modern Nethercott, Ecco-HarperCollins, 96 pages. life that debuted around the same time as $14.99.

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Hull Pond in January

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for Rayna A small figure out on the ice grows small against the distance, not quite skimming yet, slide stepping into harmless pratfalls—a blade gone errantly out or in against the inductive of balance.

“Not too far!” her mother calls.

“The ice is thick.”

Across the lake an auger drills infinitely into the crust.

Trout swim slowly around in their sleep like morals in a callous heart.

The figure feels them under his feet and decides to drill there; no, there.

The sky, darkening, slows or so it seems in the January light, then halts altogether.

A sheet of cold ascends the ice to form a zone between her skates and voice.

The surface freezes deeper, then shifts against the banks, cracking down this winter’s spine from one end to the other.

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All the offerings at Sweet Alchemy are vegan (no meat, fish, dairy or eggs), and most are gluten-free, but that’s not the only attraction of this newish business at the Barns at Lang Farm. Rachel Gray of Richmond, the preschooler’s mom, said she comes to Sweet Alchemy simply because the food is really good.

“We love the nachos with the butternut squash ‘cheese,’” Gray said of the bright mustard-colored, cashew-based “cheesy” sauce enriched with squash and miso, “but we also love regular cheese.” Both she and her 3-and-a-half-year-old are big fans of the Green Monster smoothie made with pineapple, mango, coconut milk, mixed greens, local spirulina, ginger and lime. “I always know we’ll get a good, healthy treat here,” Gray said.

Sweet Alchemy’s owner, Bhava Carr, is neither gluten-free nor vegan herself, but a series of twists and turns led her to focus on what she calls the “allergen-friendly market.” It’s been 18 months since Carr, 32, made the leap to her own brick-andmortar location with a large commercial kitchen.

Chatting in the homey, light- and plant-filled café, she kept an eye on the room, jumping up at one point to deliver

a take-out order to a waiting customer.

“Food service is a service,” Carr said as she described the winding path that led to her small café and expanded wholesale business, originally named Four Sisters Bakery.

Being sole proprietor of a food business is intense work, but it’s balanced by the appreciation customers show for her creative and varied menu that makes it easier for them to avoid undesired ingredients.

“I feel really lucky,” Carr said. “I especially love when little children come in, and they start vibrating with joy because they can have anything on the menu. It’s a small thing,” she continued, “but also such a big thing when you can go out to eat.”

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Running Sweet Alchemy is more than a job. “Baking is my profession, but it’s also who I am,” Carr said. She grew up the youngest of four siblings — though barely younger than her twin, she noted with a smile. Her mother is a seventh-generation Vermonter from Rutland; her father, a University of Vermont alum.

Between the ages of 9 and 19, Carr moved with her family back and forth between the U.S. and southern India. “I saw it as a great lark,” Carr said. “I had no idea that you could live in any other way.” She spent two to six months of each year in India, where her entrepreneurial father had an importing business and her parents were members of an ashram, or “spiritual community.”

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She started baking in earnest when she went to college, her first experience with institutional education. “I was painfully shy and awkward in social groups,” Carr recalled. Parties could be difficult, until “I figured out if I brought something to eat, like seven-layer bars in my backpack, it was a good way to break the ice, to make people happy.”

Carr eventually completed her degree at UVM. After graduation, she taught English in Europe for two years, but her heart wasn’t in it. “I kept coming back to baking,” she said. “I felt most like myself in the kitchen.”

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are adding a new restaurant called KINGDOM TAPROOM & TABLE. Around the corner on Eastern Avenue, the onetime site of St. Jay Hardware will now host the operations of ST. JOHNSBURY DISTILLERY, with an added tasting room and gathering space.

“Our hope is that [the brewery] will be a really nice catalyzing space,” Sewake said. “I wasn’t going to do this out in the woods or on a farm somewhere. I felt committed to doing it on a Main Street where I could help to bring vibrancy to a community.”

Barring any major construction snafus or setbacks, Whirligig will open in spring 2019.

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Starting next spring, WHIRLIGIG BREWING will host visitors in a tasting room at 397 Railroad Street, CEO and head brewer GEOFFREY SEWAKE told Seven Days earlier this week. The one-barrel brewery will offer tastings, pints, and beer to go in crowlers and growlers. A brief menu of light snacks will complement the liquid offerings, which will include an array of sour and other wild-fermented ales, farmhouse styles and IPAs. Sewake said working on a nano scale means Whirligig can keep its menu fresh with a constant rotation of new beers, since each batch yields just a few kegs. The brewery’s size, he added, will also enable it to buy most of its grain, hops, and seasonal fruit, vegetable and herb additions from local growers. The goal? To make

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On evenings when the Delicious & Healthy Dessert Bar is closed, GoldMediterranean Cuisine berger said, she hopes to rent the space to cooks and food entrepreneurs for pop-up suppers, workshops and the like.

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“beer [that] speaks to the place,” the brewer said, using language often applied to wine and cider.

Sewake is originally from the West Coast, but he and his wife, Northeast Kingdom native GILLIAN SEWAKE, moved from New York City to Peacham four years ago to raise their family. An avid home cook and brewer, Geoffrey Sewake has long dreamed of opening a foodrelated business, he said.

And, with several such businesses recently launched nearby or slated to open in coming months, the timing and location seemed right.

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in for a planned knee surgery. Others, including aunts and her twin brother, pitched in. “This place very much feels like a labor of love,” Carr said, her eyes filling for a moment. “It’s built into the walls.”

“The circle of reciprocity,” as Carr called it, extends to her suppliers and customers, both individual and wholesale. Sweet Alchemy’s baked goods are available at a handful of stores and cafés in Burlington and Montpelier. Those accounts keep her business stable: “They pay the bills and balance out the dips of the café,” she said.

For her savory menu, Carr works closely with local farmers and food producers. Breakfast and lunch dishes are root vegetable heavy, she explained, “because I can get them from Vermont year-round, and they’re delicious and affordable.” Inventiveness and execution elevate these humble ingredients. Carr’s south Indian dosa, the traditional lacy fermented crêpe made from ground rice and lentils, has a masala-spiced root-vegetable filling. Her Rainbow Roots shredded pancake, thin and crisp, is folded around scrambled tofu and kale.

Carr sources many of her vegetables from Bear Roots Farm in South Barre, tofu from Vermont Soy in Hardwick, and tempeh and miso from Rhapsody Natural Foods in Cabot. Some ingredients come from even closer. The Lang Farm location has garden space, and over the summer Carr grew all her own peakseason tomatoes and hot peppers, as well as cucumbers, greens, herbs and zucchini.

She plans to expand the garden in 2019.

“I have no life in the summer,” she said ruefully.

Looking back over the past year and a half, Carr is a little tired but proud of what she and her team accomplished with the support of their community. Last year, when she broke her ankle, “people offered to help in all sorts of ways,” she said. It was a reminder of why she loves what she does.

When she’s in the back cooking, Carr prefers to leave the kitchen door open.

“We like when people poke their head in to say thank you or ask questions,” she said. It helps keep everyone motivated. “I think in some ways you have to be insane to do all of this,” she said. “It has to be your passion.”

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Back in Vermont, Carr worked for several different food businesses, including Vermont Bean Crafters, where she helped develop a black-bean-based chocolate cookie and appreciated the company’s efforts to model ethics and sustainability.

When she was hired as a barista at the now-defunct Block Gallery & Coffeehouse in Winooski, she convinced her bosses to let her offer pastries. At the time, she was baking “all the regular buttery, wheaty stuff,” she said.

But Block customers requested vegan baked goods, and Carr’s next job, at Burlington’s vegan Pingala Café, sent her further in that direction. Meanwhile, a friend’s celiac disease diagnosis led Carr to dip a toe into gluten-free baking. “She was so sad,” Carr said. “I tried a bunch of [gluten-free] stuff and said, ‘There’s no way it has to taste this bad.’ I decided I was going to figure this out.”

Carr clearly relishes the challenges of baking without ingredients others consider essential. She comes at it with a couple of advantages. First, her family did not eat eggs, so she has never cooked with them. She grew up eating her mom’s excellent egg-free baking, she said, including an apple spice cake with brown sugar penuche frosting and an almond cake drizzled with bitter chocolate, both of which appear occasionally on her menu.

Second, Carr loves to “putz around the kitchen,” as she put it. “I got really intrigued with making it work,” she said.

“It’s chemistry. I’m a mad experimenter.”

Eggs, for instance, add fat and a lifting agent, so she tweaks recipes with a little more baking powder, liquid and fat.

On the savory side, Carr also grew up on food made without alliums, which are eschewed by followers of her family’s spiritual tradition. She still uses no garlic or onions, yet you’ll never miss them in her full-flavored food.

“The way I was raised informs how and why I cook,” Carr said. It has also influenced her career path. “I was always destined to do my own thing,” she reflected.

Having a café, however, wasn’t part of her plan. Carr initially looked at the Essex Junction space as a place to expand her wholesale business. But when she and her dad checked it out and saw all the windows and the view of the Lang Farm gardens, “I said to him, ‘I guess I’m opening a café,’” she recalled.

She maxed out her credit cards to make it happen, she admitted, and family help was essential. Her father, who had experience as a contractor, ran the project, working up until the day he went

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There were slabs of baked ham, glazed and glistening with maple, warm Brussels sprouts, rice pilaf and pestoed gnocchi on the table.

The chicken pot hand pies meant to warm and delight, and the beef dressed with cognac and cream was just right. And then, for dessert, came a clatter of sweets — gingerbread cookies, cupcakes, peppermint truffle treats. Throughout the evening, spirits rose high in the hall, until dash away, dash away, dash away all.

CHRISTMAS EVE BUFFET Monday, December 24, 4-10 p.m., Mary’s Restaurant at the Inn at Baldwin Creek, Bristol. $28-60, plus tax and tip. Info, 453-2432, baldwincreek.net.

FESTIVUS The Farmhouse Tap & Grill digs deep in its cellared beer collection to celebrate a “festivus for the rest of us” with rare holiday brews from Anchor Brewing, Fantôme Brewery, Mikkeller beer and others. Friday, December 21, 5-11 p.m., the Farmhouse Tap & Grill, Burlington. Cost of food and drink. Info, 8590888, farmhousetg.com.

CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM Visitors to Woodstock’s working farm-museum get a taste of Christmas, circa 1850. Sleigh rides and interactive displays bring history to life.

Saturday, December 22, through Sunday, December 23, and Wednesday, December 26, through Tuesday, January 1, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock. Museum admission, $4-16.

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WINTER S’MORSTICE CELEBRATION Locals gather outdoors ’round an open fire for live music and dance, then partake in giant s’mores, courtesy of Red Hen Baking and Nutty Steph’s. Saturday, December 29, 4:30-8 p.m., Camp Meade, Middlesex. Free.

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Kitchen Counter Bookshelf Getting lit with Vermont’s chefs, bakers and farmers

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t their best, the holidays are a time to unwind. Sure, there’s the inherent madness of bouncing from one holiday party to the next, traveling to visit far-away family, hosting over-the-top feasts and shopping, shopping, shopping. But once everyone’s assembled in the same place, there’s not much to do aside from cook, eat and bask in the glow of each other’s company.

I like to do my basking with a good book in hand, even if I’m just looking at the pictures or reading the same paragraph over and over while halfengaging in conversation.

For recommendations on this year’s holiday reading, I chased down a handful of Vermont food and beverage folks — a chef, a farmer, two bakers and a barkeep — and asked them what’s been burning down their bookshelves.

Their picks range from classic authors such as Fannie Farmer and Alice Waters to tomes on Iranian home cookery and a history of salt.

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Thomas McCurdy, baker and co-owner, Ardelia Farm & Co., Irasburg

One of my favorite cookbooks from the past few years is Standard Baking Co.: Pastries, by Alison Pray and Tara Smith from Portland, Maine [Down East Books, 2012]. The brownie recipe I’ve adapted to be my own comes from this book, and all the rustic tarts. They demystify a lot of things [about baking] that would be intimidating for many home bakers. It’s just beautifully done.

And you can’t really talk cookbooks without talking about Dorie Greenspan.

I just love her stories. In Dorie’s Cookies [Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016], the recipes are all so perfect. I’ve made a bunch of them, and everything turns out great. It’s huge, too — more than 500 pages of cookie recipes — and so well organized. I love it.

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Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments [Random House, 2007]. I’ve made probably half the recipes in this book. It’s my go-to for my cute little countertop ice cream maker.

They just released a revised, updated 10th anniversary edition, which has recipes for homemade cones and bowls. I’ve gifted this book to I don’t know how many people over the years.

A non-baking book I’ve read is Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook’s Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking [Rux Martin/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015]. Zahav was a favorite restaurant of ours in Philly, and it’s been so fun to watch it blow up.

Our really good friend Mike Persico shot the photos for the book, and it’s just beautiful. We’ve had a couple Israeli dinner parties using exclusively recipes from that book. It’s also one of those books where you can sit down with a cup of coffee and just read it like a novel.

Ten Speed Press, 2014], but it can be so daunting to the home bartender. It’s a great reference, though, and when I’m having the bartending equivalent of writer’s block, it’s nice to flip through and see the flavors they’re putting together. I use it more for inspiration than a direct I’m going to make that drink sort of book.

And David Wondrich — I love reading everything he writes. His Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to “Professor” Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar Featuring the Original Formulae [Perigee Trade, 2007], goes through so many classic cocktails, and variations on the cocktails: where the drinks come from, where the names come from, how this spirit became what it is. It’s peppered with liquor histories and techniques and how to make syrups — so it’s not just like, here’s a bunch of cocktails.

On vacation a few weeks ago, [Hotel Vermont beverage manager Matt Farkas] recommended Salt: A World History [Penguin Books, 2003] by Mark Kurlansky. I’ve been obsessed with this book; I haven’t been able to put it down. It just talks about the history of salt and humanity — going back to the Phoenicians and ancient Chinese cultures and through the modern age.

Blair Marvin, baker and co-owner, Elmore Mountain Bread And for a cool Vermont connection, [Butterworks Farm’s] Jack Lazor’s nephew Drew Lazor is a good friend of ours in Philly. He released a book earlier this year called Session Cocktails: LowAlcohol Drinks for Any Occasion [Ten Speed Press, 2018]. It’s a smaller book of thoughtful low-alcohol cocktails; we got a copy early in the summer, and it was super fun.

Kate Wise, bartender, Juniper and the Great Northern, Burlington; owner/founder, Wise Consulting

I love Death and Co.: Modern Classic Cocktails [by David Kaplan and Nick Fauchald;

The one book that I always go back to — and look to, if someone needs to know the fundamentals of baking — is Jeffrey Hamelman’s Bread: A Baker’s Book of Techniques and Recipes [Wiley, 2004]. He’s the director of the King Arthur Flour bakery and he lives in Hartford, Vt., and he’s the greatest guy who wrote the best baking book, as far as I’m concerned. It’s my bread bible.

For new reading, this year Tara Jensen wrote a book called A Baker’s Year: Twelve Months of Baking and Living the Simple Life at the Smoke Signals Bakery [St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018], and it’s lovely. She worked at Red Hen Baking for years, but she lives in North Carolina now. The book kind of embodies the current bread movement

food+drink and how people are falling in love with bread again. It’s deeply personal — about her relationships with life and her work — but it’s also a baking book and has really accessible and beautiful recipes.

The other book — the one I’ve not gotten into yet, but it’s sitting and staring at me and it’ll be a Christmas-piece-oftime thing for me — is The Noma Guide to Fermentation [Artisan, 2018] by René Redzepi and David Zilber. It just came out, and it’s beautiful. It’s the next-level nerdy fermentation guide for all kinds of amazing things. It’s pretty stellar.

It’s a really informative book. All Eastern Mediterranean books always end up having the same hummus and baba ghanoush and tabbouleh, but this one went way beyond that.

And Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories by Naz Deravian [Flatiron Books, 2018] is a really amazing, beautiful book that I was pretty excited to get. It’s super colorful, and the recipes are pretty standard but done really well.

Cara Chigazola-Tobin, chef and co-owner, Honey Road, Burlington

I have a really hard time following recipes.

I think, I don’t really need to do that, I’m just going to do this instead. But I see recipes as inspiration. I am a big fan of Deborah Madison; her Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone [Broadway, 1997] is, like, my Joy of Cooking.

I am not a vegetarian — we raise and sell meat — and that is my favorite cookbook besides a 1930 reprint of Fannie Farmer’s

Margaret Loftus, co-owner, Crossmolina Farm, West Corinth

I obviously gravitate to the Eastern Mediterranean stuff. A lot [of the recipes are] stews and roasts, so it’s not heavy-duty, complicated French cooking. The excitement of a dish comes from the spices you use, which makes it really approachable

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for a home cook. Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook’s Israeli Soul: Easy, Essential, Delicious [Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018] came out this year, so that’s been a big one for me.

Also, Cooking in Iran: Regional Recipes and Kitchen Secrets [by Najmieh Batmanglij; Mage Publishers, 2018]. It’s a big, beautiful, thick book with lots of information. I love when people go deep on traditional cooking. Super-cheffy stuff is cool, but I want to know how was it made at home first, then elevate it to a restaurant-quality dish.

I still like Istanbul and Beyond: Exploring the Diverse Cuisines of Turkey [by Robyn Eckhardt; Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017]. It really blew my mind when I first got it. A friend of mine wrote it, [and] it’s one of the most in-depth books about Turkey as a whole, but then she breaks it down into each region and gives some history and climate and geography — just awesome.

[1896] Boston Cooking School Cookbook [Little, Brown and Company], which I use a lot as well.

I go to Alice Waters’ The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution [Clarkson Potter, 2007] for a lot of ideas.

And my favorite farm-to-table book is The Vermont Farm Table Cookbook: 150 Home Grown Recipes from the Green Mountain State [Countryman Press, 2013] by Tracey Medeiros. There are so many “what to do with your CSA” cookbooks out there, but this is a really good one. It’s [organized by season], and because the recipes come from real Vermont farms, they’re totally based on what’s actually available. It’s not like when you go to Cook’s Illustrated and they have a “spring dish” with peas in it — up here we don’t get peas until July. My actual fantasy is to get a recipe in the next edition, if they ever do a next edition.

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INCREASE THE LIGHT: A SINGING EXPERIENCE: – e Jewish Community of Greater Stowe brings people together to lift their voices in response to October’s Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. A video of the gathering will be shared worldwide. Funds raised support the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 5-6:30 p.m.

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‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: Viewers visit a living city beneath the sea via an awe-inspiring film. Northfield Savings Bank 3D – eater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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KELLEY MARKETING GROUP BREAKFAST MEETING: Professionals in marketing, advertising, communications and social media brainstorm ideas for nonprofit organizations. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free.

Info, 864-4067.

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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, 5-7:30 p.m. Free.

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MEMORABLE TIMES CAFÉ: – ose 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.

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

‘MARY POPPINS RETURNS’: – e eponymous magical nanny visits adult Jane and Michael to help them rediscover the joy they knew as children. Partial proceeds benefit Lyric – eatre. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 863-5966.

‘MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS’: Following a murder on a train trip through Europe, the world’s greatest detective searches for clues before the killer can strike again in this 2017 crime movie.

Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6 p.m. $5. Info, 533-2000.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: An awe-inspiring picture reveals phenomena that can’t be seen with the naked eye. Northfield Savings Bank 3D – eater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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SOUNDS GOOD: MUSICTHEMED MOVIES: A 2007 Bollywood-type movie with song-and-dance numbers strikes a chord with viewers. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

‘SPEED SISTERS’: Start your engines! A 2015 documentary tracks the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: With water as their guide, onlookers encounter the continent’s fantastic places and meet its amazing creatures. Northfield Savings Bank 3D – eater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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

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

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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.

You may know the classic ballet The Nutcracker, but do you know the The Green Mountain Nutcracker? Moving Light Dance taps into Vermont’s boundless beauty and other unique characteristics to tell the familiar story of a young girl’s Christmas dream — with a local twist.

Set in 1970s Vermont, this 12th annual production incorporates loggers, moose and even a maple sugar fairy.

Ballet buffs watch in awe as professional performers and local students alike carry out original choreography by a team of local artists led by company director Christine Harris. Music includes Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s beloved score and original compositions by Vermont musician Colin McCaffrey.

‘THE GREEN MOUNTAIN NUTCRACKER’ Saturday, December 22, 7 p.m., and Sunday, December 23, 2 p.m., at Barre Opera House. $15-28. Info, 476-8188, barreoperahouse.org.

Let There Be Light A little light is a welcome sight during the dark days and long nights of winter. Bristol CORE and Tandem team up to present the Lumen Celebration of Fire & Light, an incendiary soirée created to bring brilliance and warmth to the cold season. The third annual bash begins on the Bristol town green, where fire performance troupe Cirque de Fuego (pictured) turns up the heat with a flame-filled spectacle. A glowing procession down Main Street leads to fire pits at Tandem and Vermont Tree Goods, where locals find eats, drinks and handmade s’mores kits from lu•lu. Late-night music at Hatch 31 rounds out the radiant revelry.

LUMEN CELEBRATION OF FIRE & LIGHT Saturday, December 22, 5-9 p.m., in downtown Bristol. Free. Info, 760-6076, discoverbristolvt.com.

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Touched by an Angel Christmas wouldn’t be the same without certain classic movies, such as Frank Capra’s 1946 drama It’s a Wonderful Life. James Stewart stars as George Bailey, a banker buried under a mountain of problems. Deep in despair, Bailey contemplates committing suicide on Christmas Eve before his guardian angel, Clarence, steps in and, through a series of flashbacks, shows him the true value of his life. Two screenings give moviegoers ample opportunity to take part in this cinematic tradition that the New York Times described in its original review (first published 72 years ago!) as a “quaint and engaging modern parable on virtue being its own reward.”

‘IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE’ Friday, December 21, 2 & 7 p.m., at the Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. $5-7. Info, 518-563-1604, ext. 105, strandcenter.org.

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ARTSMART: DIALOGUE ON MOZART’S ‘THE MAGIC FLUTE’ Wednesday, December 26, noon, at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe. Free for ‘The Magic Flute’ ticket holders; preregister; limited space.

Info, 760-4634, sprucepeakarts.org.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘THE MAGIC FLUTE’ Wednesday, December 26, 1 p.m., at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe. $10-17. Info, 7604634, sprucepeakarts.org.

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hat could be more enticing than a story of sorcery, royalty and disguise? Viewers are whisked to a fantastical land during a screening of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of The Magic Flute, originally broadcast to theaters in 2016 as the company’s first-ever Live in HD transmission. Produced by Tony Award winner Julie Taymor, this abridged, English-language adaptation captivates folks of all ages with colorful costumes, crafty characters and a few dancing bears to boot. Need to brush up on your knowledge of the genre? Opera expert Kevin Ginter elucidates the history of the show in a prescreening dialogue presented as part of the ArtSmart arts education series.

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

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

Info, 223-3322.

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health & fitness

ACROYOGA CLASS: ƒe mindful ness 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.

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BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: Folks of all ages ward off osteoporosis in an exercise and prevention class. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 7:30, 9 & 10:40 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

WELCOME WEDNESDAYS: ƒe fitness and recreational facility opens its doors to community members for complimentary classes, workouts and swimming. Bring a photo ID. Greater Burlington YMCA, Burlington, 5 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9622.

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YOGA4CANCER: Meant for patients and survivors, this class aims to help participants manage treatment side effects and recovery. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 448-4262.

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ARTSRIOT HOLIDAY MARKET: Customers keep it local when browsing music on Tuesday, artisanal products on Wednesday and visual art on ƒursday .

ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 540-0406.

‘HARP & SONG’: Listeners enjoy refreshments as Judi Byron plucks out holiday and seasonal harp music. Patty Delaney leads caroling at 6 & 7 p.m. Waterbury Public Library, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 244-7036.

RING, CHRISTMAS TOWER BELLS!: Sounds of the season ring out from giant bronze instruments to the delight of passersby. Trinity United Methodist Church, Montpelier, 11:58 a.m.

Free. Info, 229-9158.

language

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE OF THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGION SOCIAL HOUR: Francophones fine-tune their French-language conversation skills over cocktails.

Juniper, Burlington, 5-7 p.m.

Free. Info, info@aflcr.org.

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.

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GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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

Info, 223-3338.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

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.

WINTER SOLSTICE SACRED SING: Folks of all faiths are welcome to lift their voices in an evening of collective singing.

Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-7861.

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‘STORIES FOR THE SEASON’: Lost Nation ƒeater treats fans to dramatic readings of narratives from around the world celebrating the return of the light. Lost Nation ƒeater , Montpelier City Hall, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 229-0492.

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

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

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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.

RUTLAND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS DECEMBER MIX: Area business people mix, mingle and hear about the history of the Gift of Life Marathon blood drive. Giorgetti Library, College of St. Joseph, Rutland, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 773-5900.

tech

comedy

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

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

Info, 878-6955.

theater

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

Presented by Northern Stage.

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

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FICTION WORKSHOP: Readers focus on elements of craft when responding to work by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110

‘IT TAKES A VILLAGE’: Holiday stress melts away as rising stars in the state’s comedy scene inspire gut-busting laughter and raise funds for Vermont Kin as Parents. Shelburne Vineyard, 6:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, 985-8222.

community

POC IN VT AFFINITY GROUP: People of color come together in the name of sharing stories and building community in a predominately white state. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 9.

PUBLIC HEARING: ƒe Vermont Department of Public Service gathers public input on the final draft of the 2018 Telecommunications Plan. John J. Zampieri State Office Building, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2811.

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crafts

MOUNT MANSFIELD SCALE MODELERS: Hobbyists break out the superglue and sweat the small stuff at a miniature construction skill swap. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:308:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0765.

film

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

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.19.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.19.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.19.

food & drink

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

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

TXOTX NIGHT: A CIDER EXPERIENCE: Cheese, charcuterie and traditional bites pair perfectly with a sidra from the Basque region of northern Spain.

Eden Specialty Ciders Boutique Taproom & Cheese Bar, Winooski, 6-8 p.m. $20. Info, 497-1245.

games

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

Free. Info, 863-5403.

health & fitness

ACUPUNCTURE & CHINESE MEDICINE FOR IMMUNE SUPPORT : Christina Ducharme of Blue Heron Acupuncture pinpoints the benefits of treatments during cold and flu season. A Q&A follows the 30-minute talk. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 595-2248.

ADVANCED SUN TAI CHI 73: Participants keep active with a sequence of slow, controlled movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

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

Info, 448-4262.

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

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.

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

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

holidays

ARTSRIOT HOLIDAY MARKET: See WED.19.

RING, CHRISTMAS TOWER BELLS!: See WED.19.

‘WHITE CHRISTMAS’: Two World War II veterans move their songand-dance act to Vermont to win over a pair of sisters in the 1954 holiday classic starring Bing Crosby. Woodstock Town Hall „eatre, 7:30-9:45 p.m. $5. Info, 457-3981.

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JUDI BYRON: „e harpist plucks out delightful melodies. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, noon. Donations. Info, 223-3631.

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.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘ANTONY & CLEOPATRA’: Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo portray Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power, broadcast to the big screen.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600.

seminars

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

HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

talks

LUNCH & LEARN: Abd’Llah Al-Ansari, imam of the Islamic Society of Vermont, presents

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ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: See WED.19, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

words

POETRY WORKSHOP: Wordsmiths analyze creative works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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

Open every day through the Holidays.

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art

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

‘TIM WISE VIDEO: WHITE PRIVILEGE FOR A WHITE CHRISTMAS?’: During a 10-session discussion series, folks cover books and talks that have contributed to improving social justice and American life. Trinity Episcopal Church, Shelburne, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, humanities@ email.com.

FRENCH CONVERSATION: Speakers improve their linguistic dexterity in the Romantic tongue. Bradford Public Library, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

Find club dates in the music section.

film

MICHAEL LANGE: „e Champlain College professor taps into Vermont’s liquid gold in “„e Many Meanings of Maple.”

Bag lunches are welcome.

Room 133, University Heights South, University of Vermont, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 479-8500.

CYCLES OF LIFE CAFÉ: Community members come together to listen, talk and share their experiences in the ever-changing world. Lunch is available, and conversations are confidential. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

language

Making Holiday dreams come true since 1975.

“Once Feared, Twice Victimized.”

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. $6. Info, 863-4214.

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.

ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE: Wendy Gilchrist and Martha Kent lead adults and teens in steps popular in the time of Jane Austen. Bring potluck snacks.

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JOB HUNT HELPERS: Employment seekers get assistance with everything from starting an email account to completing online applications. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

SOLSTICE CELEBRATION: Families welcome back the light by creating solstice wreaths and reading a themed story.

Education Barn, Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 4-6 p.m. $5; free for members. Info, 434-3068.

film

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

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.19.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.19.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.19.

food & drink

WING NIGHT: Piping hot poultry pleases palates. Essex Junction VFW Post, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost of food. Info, 878-0700.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.19, 9:15 a.m.

CRIBBAGE TEAMS: See WED.19.

PINOCHLE & RUMMY: See WED.19.

health & fitness

ADVANCED SUN TAI CHI 73: See THU.20, 1-2 p.m.

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.19, 7:30 & 10:40 a.m.

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.

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RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: See THU.20.

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FESTIVUS: Suds lovers pass a winter’s night sipping from a festive lineup of bottled and draft beers. The Farmhouse Tap & Grill, Burlington, 5-11 p.m. Cost of drinks. Info, 859-0888.

‘IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE’: James Stewart stars in Frank Capra’s 1946 Christmas classic about a man saved from despair by his guardian angel. See calendar spotlight. Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 2 & 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 518-563-1604, ext. 105.

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.

RING, CHRISTMAS TOWER BELLS!: See WED.19.

‘RODNEY MARSALIS PHILADELPHIA BIG BRASS’: The 11-piece ensemble blows the roof off with an eclectic offering of holiday music and other specialized brass selections. Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 7 p.m. $15-42; free for students. Info, 748-2600.

VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BRASS QUINTET & COUNTERPOINT CHORUS: Classic seasonal works and a new setting of Nancy Tillman’s children’s book On the Night You Were Born round out this blend of instruments, voices and good cheer. United Church of Newport, 7:30 p.m. $10-24. Info, 864-5741.

theater

‘NIGHT FIRES’: Rooted in ancient traditions, this 36th annual show honors the winter solstice with a multicultural pageant of song, dance and storytelling. Preshow singing begins approximately 20 minutes before. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 382-9222.

ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: See WED.19.

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

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.

OPEN MUSIC JAM: Anything goes in an independent community meeting 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.

performance on the town green

by Cirque de Fuego leads to a procession down Main Street where fire pits, food and drink await. See calendar spotlight.

Downtown Bristol, 5-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 760-6076.

film

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

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.19.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.19.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.19.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN BURLINGTON: Let’s go bar hopping! With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics discover the flavor profiles of varieties such as toffee almond crunch and salted caramel latte. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 864-1807.

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.

VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET: Local foods and crafts, live music, and hot eats spice up Saturday mornings. Kennedy Brothers Building, Vergennes, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 233-9180.

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.

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.

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

art

STORIES FOR A WINTER’S EVE: Original short stories by Vermont authors Kathryn Blume and Mark Nash and tunes by Patti Casey and Pete Sutherland warm hearts. The Old Meeting House, East Montpelier, 3 & 7 p.m. $1050. Info, 249-0404.

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

WINTER SOLSTICE CEREMONY: Folks join the Green Mountain Druid order to form a sacred circle in celebration of the longest night of the year. Burlington Earth Clock, Oakledge Park, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, fearnessence@ gmail.com.

music

fairs & festivals

LUMEN CELEBRATION OF FIRE & LIGHT: A flame-filled

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

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.

LIST YOUR EVENT FOR FREE AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT

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 p.m. Free.

Info, 518-561-6920.

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

Info, 233-6377.

RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: See THU.20, 5:30 p.m.

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CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: Families celebrate the holidays 19th-century-style with ornament-making, farm-life exhibits and seasonal programs. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $4-16; free for members and kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

‘THE GREEN MOUNTAIN NUTCRACKER’: Moving Light Dance puts a local twist on this holiday classic boasting boisterous loggers and a maple sugar fairy. See calendar spotlight.

Barre Opera House, 7 p.m. $1528. Info, 476-8188.

ONION RIVER CHORUS: Larry Gordon leads 60 vocalists in a holiday recital of sacred texts by Baroque masters Jan Dismas Zelenka and Antoine Charpentier. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:30-9 p.m. $15-20.

Info, info@onionriverchorus.org.

PEACHAM CORNER GUILD HOLIDAY SHOP: See FRI.21.

RING, CHRISTMAS TOWER BELLS!: See WED.19.

‘VERMONT’S OWN NUTCRACKER’: For the 14th year, Vermont Ballet łeater portrays the fantastical world within a young girl’s Christmas Eve dream. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 2 & 7 p.m. $21.60-38.

Info, 863-5966.

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College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $15-18. Info, 355-4216.

sports

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

Info, 518-564-4270.

theater

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘LA TRAVIATA’: Diana Damrau lifts her voice as the tragic courtesan Violetta in a broadcast production of Verdi’s masterpiece. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600.

‘NIGHT FIRES’: See FRI.21, 3 & 7:30 p.m.

ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: See WED.19, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

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community

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

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

Info, 865-7211.

film

music

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.19.

Find club dates in the music section.

OPEN JAM SESSION: A cash bar and Mediterranean Mix morsels fuel fans for tunes by the Nerbak Brothers and friends. łe Barn at Lang Farm, Essex Junction, 7-10 p.m. $5. Info, 316-2180.

SOCIAL BAND: łe Burlington choral group combines ancient and modern-day selections in the program “Deep Midwinter:

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

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.19.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.19.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN BURLINGTON: See SAT.22.

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: See SAT.22.

BOLSHOI BALLET IN CINEMA: ‘THE NUTCRACKER’: World-class dancers leap and bound across the stage in this on-screen production of the story of a doll that magically transforms into a prince. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $6-18.

Info, 748-2600.

CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: See SAT.22.

‘GREEN MOUNTAIN NUTCRACKER’: See SAT.22, 2 p.m.

‘MESSIAH’ SING: String players are welcome to strike up as friends and neighbors give voice to Handel’s holiday favorite. łe Congregational Church of Middlebury, 2-4:15 p.m. $10-20.

Info, 989-7355.

‘THE NUTCRACKER’: Students of Miss Lorraine’s School of Dance glide across the stage in this holiday favorite set to Tchaikovsky’s classic score.

Paramount łeatre, Rutland, 1 & 6 p.m. $25-35. Info, 775-0903.

ONION RIVER CHORUS: See SAT.22, 4-6 p.m.

PEACHAM CORNER GUILD HOLIDAY SHOP: See FRI.21.

PIPEDREAMS: In its inaugural concert, Vermont’s premiere flute quartet breathes life into a holiday-themed program. A reception follows. Richmond Free Library, 6 p.m. Donations. Info, 881-9153.

READERS THEATER: ‘THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE’: Youth and adults read this fictionalized account of events that took place on the World War I battlefield in France on Christmas Eve, 1914.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 a.m. Free.

Info, 518-561-6920.

‘VERMONT’S OWN NUTCRACKER’: See SAT.22, 1 & 6 p.m.

WILLIAM TORTOLANO: Audience members warm up their voices for a community sing-along of 17 Christmas and seasonal carols, courtesy of the organist.

St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Vergennes, 3 p.m. Donations.

Info, 877-2367.

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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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Find club dates in the music section.

SOCIAL BAND: See SAT.22, Richmond Free Library, 3-4:30 p.m.

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ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: See WED.19, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

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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.19.

health & fitness

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.19.

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 ıich Nhat Hanh, folks practice mindfulness through sitting, walking, reading and discussion.

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

holidays

CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: See SAT.22.

RING, CHRISTMAS TOWER BELLS!: See WED.19.

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‘NIGHT FIRES’: See FRI.21, 3 p.m.

CRIBBAGE TEAMS: See WED.19.

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

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

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language

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

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

Info, maigomez1@hotmail.com.

music

film

SAMBATUCADA! OPEN REHEARSAL: Burlington’s samba street band welcomes new drummers. Neither experience nor instruments are required.

8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 862-5017.

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.19.

Find club dates in the music section.

theater

ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: See WED.19, 2 p.m.

words

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.

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TUESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.

holidays

COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DINNER: All are welcome to partake of a hearty, festive feast.

Hedding United Methodist Church, Barre, noon-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 476-8156.

HOLIDAY DINNER FOR SENIORS: A hot meal and shared conversation spread holiday cheer.

Burlington Elks Lodge, noon-3 p.m. Free; preregister for delivery or transportation. Info, 864-7528.

RING, CHRISTMAS TOWER BELLS!: See WED.19.

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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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.

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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.

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.

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

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.19.

‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See WED.19.

food & drink

COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.19.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.19.

CRIBBAGE TEAMS: See WED.19.

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.19.

health & fitness

ACROYOGA CLASS: See WED.19.

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.19.

YOGA4CANCER: See WED.19.

holidays

BOLSHOI BALLET IN CINEMA: ‘THE NUTCRACKER’: See SUN.23, 7 p.m.

CHRISTMAS AT THE FARM: See SAT.22.

language

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.19.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.19.

sports

PUBLIC SKATING: See SAT.22.

theater

ARTSMART: DIALOGUE ON MOZART’S ‘THE MAGIC FLUTE’: Classically trained opera singer and music educator Kevin Ginter shares his perspective on the story and history of Mozart’s whimsical opera ahead of a broadcast production by the Metropolitan Opera. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, noon. Free for The Magic Flute ticket holders; preregister; limited space. Info, 760-4634.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘THE MAGIC FLUTE’: A broadcast screening of Mozart’s whimsical masterpiece dazzles opera devotees. See calendar spotlight. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, 1 p.m. $10-17. Info, 760-4634.

ROALD DAHL’S ‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’: See WED.19, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

words

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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.

ayurveda 200-HOUR AYURVEDA INTEGRATION PROGRAM: Join us in learning and immerse yourself in the oldest surviving preventative health care system. œ is 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, 872-8898, ayurvedavt@ comcast.net.

Call 865-7166 for info or register online at burlingtoncityarts.org.

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ABSTRACT PAINTING: Explore the many exciting possibilities of abstract painting through a variety of fun demonstrations and exercises designed to help you open up and work intuitively.

Experiment with paint of your choice (water-soluble oils, acrylics or watercolor) and a variety of other mixed media. Beginners are welcome. Thu., Jan. 24-Mar. 7, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $225/person; $202.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

ACRYLIC PAINTING: œ is class introduces students to the tools and techniques artists use to create successful works of art in one of the most versatile mediums available: acrylic paint. Learn the basics of mixing colors, blending and a variety of acrylic painting techniques. Acrylic paint is the perfect medium for both the beginner and the experienced artist who wants to try something new.

Tue., Mar. 26-Apr. 30, 6-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $255/person; $229.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

ALTERNATIVE PRINTING: CYANOTYPES: Beat the winter blues! In this one-day workshop, students will create one-of-a-kind blue prints using the historic cyanotype method. Cyanotypes are made by placing negatives, large transparencies or objects on chemically coated watercolor paper, and then exposing the paper to UV light. œ is workshop will cover digitally preparing and printing digital negatives, hand-coating watercolor paper, and making the final print using a UV light table. Sat., Feb. 23, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $60/person; $54/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 8657166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECTS: œ is hybrid darkroom and digital lab class will help you refine your skill set to create the

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work you envision, either traditionally in the black-and-white darkroom, through scanning and printing in the digital lab, or both. œ is class will also explore ideas in contemporary photography and theory through select readings and will discuss the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work through supportive weekly critique sessions.

Bring a selection of recent images to the first class. Option 1: Thu., Jan. 17-Mar. 7, 6-9 p.m. Option 2: Thu., Mar. 21-May 9, 6-9 p.m.

Cost: $360/person; $324/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

ARTIST AT WORK: BCA’s 2018 Barbara Smail Award recipient Elizabeth Bunsen will discuss her vibrantly colored fabric prints and window installation currently on view at BCA. Following her talk, a moderated discussion between Bunsen and the audience will explore topics such as her career development, daily practice and service in the community.

A reception will follow the program. Thu., Mar. 14, 6-7:30 p.m.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

ARTIST AT WORK: Artist Rebecca Weisman discusses her largest immersive installation to date, “Skin Ego,” which incorporates film and performance to spin a mysterious narrative expressing the nature of our impermanence.

Following her presentation, a moderated discussion between Weisman and the audience will explore professional development insights emerging from the project. Wed., Mar. 26, 6-7:30 p.m.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

ARTIST BOOKS & ZINES: Have you wanted to make a book or zine but don’t know where to start? Bring your project ideas and create unique artist books and zines from start to finish in this in-depth, hands-on class.

Sequencing choices, layout in Adobe InDesign, digital printing and hand-binding techniques will be covered. œ is class will also examine the conceptual ideas behind books as objects, considering design, content and what makes an interesting or compelling book. Mon., Apr. 8-May 13, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $180/person; $162/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

BANGLES: Check out the jewelry and fine metals studio by making your silver, copper or brass bangle. Open to all skill levels.

All materials included. Thu., Jan. 31, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $37/ person; $33.30/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

CONTEMPORARY FIGURE PAINTING: Intermediate and advanced painters, revitalize your painting practices with a contemporary approach to the figure. Use fresh color and dynamic composition to strengthen your personal

expression. Work from live models each week, explore a variety of advanced techniques with nontoxic water- soluble oils and get supportive feedback in a small group environment. Figure drawing experience is recommended.

Wed., Mar. 13-May 1, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Cost: $360/person; $324/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 8657166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

CURATOR CONNECT: BCA Curator and Director of Exhibitions Heather Ferrell leads a lively conversation to help demystify the curatorial process, as well as give artists practical advice on studio visits, project proposals and introducing artwork to galleries and museums. Max participants: 15.

Wed., May 15, 6-7 p.m. Cost: $15/ person; $13.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

DARKROOM CRASH COURSE: Explore the traditional, analog, black-and-white darkroom! Learn how to properly expose blackand-white film, process film into negatives, and make silver gelatin prints. Students will leave with the skills and confidence to join the darkroom as a member. All 35mm film, paper and darkroom supplies included. Bring your manual 35mm or medium format film camera to the first class.

Mon., Mar. 18-Apr. 8, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $180/person; $162/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Learn the basics of making a great photograph from initial exposure to editing and printing in this comprehensive eight-week class. œ is class will start with an overview of camera controls and functions, including aperture, shutter speed, ISO ratings, shooting in RAW, lens choices, metering techniques and more. Organizing and editing files in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop will also be covered, and students will leave with a selection of high-quality prints made on our archival Epson printer. Option 1: Jan. 25-Mar. 15, 10 a.m.-noon. Option 2: Mon., Jan. 28-Mar. 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (no class Feb. 18). Cost: $240/ person; $216/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECTS: Do you shoot digital images and have a project idea to explore? œ is eight-week class will challenge you to edit and refine your photographs to create the portfolio of work you envision. Organizing and editing techniques in Adobe Lightroom, printing on our Epson large format printers and more will be covered, tailored to individual student interests. Fri., Mar. 29May 17, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $240/ person; $216/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

DRAWING: Learn a variety of drawing techniques including

basic perspective, compositional layout, and use of dramatic light and shadow. Students will work mostly from observation and will be encouraged to work with a variety of media, including pencil, pen and ink, ink wash, and charcoal in this small, group setting. All levels of experience welcome. Option 1: Tue., Jan 22Mar. 5, 9:30 a.m.-noon. (no class Feb. 26). Option 2: Wed., Jan. 23Feb. 27, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $255/ person; $229.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

DRAWING & PAINTING: œ is workshop is designed for the young artist who loves to draw and paint.

Join us at BCA’s painting studio to experiment with different mediums and techniques, while learning how to make your drawings and paintings even better.

Ages 6-11. Tue., Feb. 26, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $70/person; $63/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 8657166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

EARRINGS: Check out the jewelry and fine metals studio by making your own earrings. Open to all skill levels. Class includes copper and brass, silver ear wire, and all basic tools. Silver can be purchased separately. Thu., Mar. 14, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $37/ person; $33.30/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING: Expand on your drawing skills while discovering the possibilities of abstract drawing styles and compositions. A variety of drawing mediums, sizes and techniques will be explored, with plenty of flexibility to incorporate individual visions. Benefit from constructive feedback and gentle coaching in this supportive environment. Some drawing experience recommended. Thu., Mar. 14-Apr. 18, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Cost: $270/person; $243/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

FAMILY ART SATURDAY: Get creative and make art together!

Families are invited to drop in to the BCA Center every third Saturday of the month to create their own artworks inspired by our current exhibitions. Each Family Art Saturday offers a different art-making project that will ignite the imaginations of your family members! Sat., Jan. 19, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 8657166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

FRIDAY ADULT WHEEL: Curious about the pottery wheel? Spend a Friday night with our pottery instructors at the BCA Clay Studio.

A ticket includes a wheel-throwing demonstration at the beginning of class, access to a wheel, and time to try making a bowl or cup. œ ere is a $5 additional fee per clay piece fired and glazed by the studio. Fri., Feb. 1-May 3, 7:309 p.m. Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios,

405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

FRIDAY FAMILY CLAY: Spend a Friday night with your family at the BCA Clay Studio. A ticket provides a wheel demonstration at the beginning of class, wheel access (for ages 6+), handbuilding for any age, unlimited clay and time to create. If you’d like your work to be fired and glazed by the studio, there is a $5 fee per piece. Registration is required.

Fri., Feb. 1-May 3, 5-7 p.m. Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

GLAZE CHEMISTRY: For ceramics artists, glazing can be a daunting and mysterious process: part alchemy, part magic and part pure luck. During this two-hour lecture, we will pull back the curtain to reveal the science behind this mysterious process. Mon., Mar. 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

GRAPHIC NOVEL: Learn the art of visual storytelling through this immersive class in the comics discipline. Students will learn a broad range of techniques for communicating with both words and pictures, with an emphasis on using pen and ink. Some basic drawing experience is encouraged. Basic materials provided.

Option 1: Mon., Jan. 28-Mar. 11, 6-8:30 p.m. Option 2: Wed., Mar. 20-Apr. 24, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $225/person; $202.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

HAND-PRINTED FABRIC WORKSHOP: Get to know our print studio at this one-night workshop and explore the possibilities of printmaking. Students will explore simple and satisfying ways to add design to fabric goods to bring home. Class includes all materials; no experience necessary.

Tue., Feb. 5, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

HANDBUILDING: Learn the basics of handbuilding that will help you create functional and sculptural forms from clay. Class will include an introduction to our clay studio’s equipment and tools, along with helpful demonstrations and discussions. Working with the clay in different stages, from greenware to glaze, will be covered. No previous experience needed. Option 1: Fri., Feb. 15-Mar. 29, 9:30-11:30 a.m. (no class Mar. 1). Option 2: Fri., Apr. 12-May 17, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $204/ person; $183.60/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

HIGH SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY: Tell your story with photographs in this eight-week session for high school students! Students will explore their individual ideas, go on group photo shoots, process and print digital photos and

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zines in our digital lab, experiment with film photography in our darkroom, and participate in supportive discussions and critiques. All supplies and cameras provided. Scholarships available.

Fri., Feb. 1-Mar. 29, 5-7:30 p.m. (no class Mar. 1). Cost: $240/ person; $216/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

HIGHLIGHT KIDS LANTERN ART ACTIVITY: We’ve partnered with Social Sentinel and the #asafervt campaign to make creative kits that offer students in second grade and older the opportunity to create lanterns for the Highlight Parade! Join the BCA Education team as they lead this make-and-take art party. Decorate your lantern with the ideas of community and acceptance, then head up to Church Street’s top block at 5:30 p.m. to march in the parade!

Come join us at the BCA to make art for the parade! fle lantern activity is free. Highlight is presented by Burlington Telecom & Lake Champlain Transportation Company. Highlight is Burlington’s new citywide New Year’s Eve celebration, coproduced by Burlington City Arts & Signal Kitchen. Mon., Dec. 31, 2-5 p.m. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 8657166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

JEWELRY: Learn the basics of creating metal jewelry. Techniques covered will include sawing, piercing, filing, annealing, soldering, texturing, cold connections, ring sizing and more, so that students can create at least two completed pieces. fle class includes some copper, brass and nickel for class projects; use of all basic tools; and studio access during the weeks of your class. Option 1: Tue., Jan. 22-Feb. 26, 5:30-8 p.m. Option 2: Tue., Mar. 12-Apr. 16, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Option 3: Tue., Apr. 16-May 21, 5:30-8 p.m.

Cost: $255/person; $229.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

LIFE DRAWING: Spend the evening with other local artists drawing one of our experienced models. Please bring your drawing materials and paper. Purchase a ticket to hold your spot. Ticket purchases for this class are nonrefundable. Fri., Feb. 1-Apr. 19, 7:30-9 p.m. Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 8657166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

MINI WORLDS: Shrink down with us and create small, beautiful worlds. Campers will be encouraged to explore a variety of craft media to develop tiny, intricate terrariums, doll houses or fairy worlds.

Ages 6-11. Thu., Feb. 28, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $70/person; $63/BCA

members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 8657166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

MIXED-LEVEL WHEEL THROWING: Mixed-Level Wheel supports students across a range of skill and experience levels who have thrown on the wheel. flis eight-week course is rooted in fundamentals and encourages individual projects.

Demonstrations and instruction will cover centering, throwing, trimming and glazing, as well as forms and techniques determined by students. Option 1: Wed., Jan. 23-Mar. 13, 1:30-4 p.m. Option 2: Wed., Apr. 3-May 22, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Option 3: Thu., Apr. 4-May 23, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $340/ person; $306/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

MONOPRINT: Hone your skills working with the press and experiment with a variety of materials to take your printmaking to the next level. Learn how to incorporate drypoint and collagraph techniques and discover how to layer images that create depth in your work.

Students are encouraged to bring ideas and imagery they want to develop further. Tue., Mar. 12-Apr. 16, 9:30 a.m.-noon Cost: $225/ person; $202.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine

St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

MOVEMENT WORKSHOP: In this 90-minute workshop, develop nourishing connections with others while building upon specific methods used to generate movement in “Becoming Human,” an exhibit currently on view at the BCA Center. flis workshop offers the opportunity for nondancers and trained dancers alike to explore creative movement in a safe, fun and professionally guided manner.

Sat., Jan. 26, 1-2:30 p.m. Cost: $15/ person; $13.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

NATURAL PIGMENT WORKSHOP: Artist Elizabeth Bunsen will lead a workshop that explores the practice of using natural dyes to make fabric and paper creations. fle session wil l incorporate several forms of natural materials, such as leaves, blossoms, rust and insects, demonstrating how they are used to create an array of colors. Thu., Apr. 11, 6-8 p.m.

Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

OIL PAINTING: Learn how to paint with nontoxic, water-soluble oils. With an emphasis on studio work, this class will begin with fun exercises. Using direct observational skills, we’ll work on still life

and referencing photographs; we’ll explore the landscape.

Discover a variety of painting techniques and learn how to apply composition, linear aspects, form and color theory to your work. Beginners are welcome.

Tue., Jan. 22-Mar. 12, 6-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $340/person; $306/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PEN & INK: Learn the striking techniques of pen & ink.

Students will discover how to use cross-hatching, stippling and ink washes to enhance their realistic or abstract drawings. Share progress and receive feedback in a supportive setting. No experience necessary. All basic supplies will be provided. Mon., Apr. 8-May 13, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $225/person; $202.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PENDANTS: Check out the jewelry and fine metals studio by making your own copper, brass or nickel pendant using basic cutting, stamping and sawing techniques. Open to all skill levels.

All materials included. Thu., Apr. 11, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $37/ person; $33.30/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PHOTOGRAPHING ARTWORK: Learn how to take professionalquality digital images of your work in this hands-on workshop in our lighting studio. Whether you’re applying to art school, submitting work for an exhibition or putting together a website, you’ll leave this workshop with techniques that will improve your images and enhance your presentations. Thu., Apr. 11, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Cost: $45/person; $40.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

POTTERY WHEEL: flis day is all about learning the basics of the ever-popular pottery wheel.

Students will have all day to get their hands into clay, spinning it into small bowls or cups to be fired and glazed by the studio. All items will be dishwasher safe and lead free. Ages 6-11. Fri., Mar. 1, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $70/person; $63/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 8657166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

POTTERY WHEEL: flis day is all about learning the basics of the ever-popular pottery wheel.

Students will have all day to get their hands on clay, spinning it into small bowls or cups to be fired and glazed by the studio. All items will be dishwasher safe and lead free.

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Ages 6-11. Mon., Feb. 25, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $70/person; $63/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 8657166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PRECIOUS METAL CLAY: Precious Metal Clay (PMC) is a composite of 90% fine metals, 10% water and organic binder. When fired, PMC burns out the binder leaving a solid brass, silver or gold piece. In this four-week course, a variety of techniques will be demonstrated showing the versatility of the material, and students will be able to create several small pieces of wearable art, such as beads, earrings and pendants. Option 1: Tue., Jan. 22-Feb. 12, 9:30 a.m.-noon.

Option 2: Tue., Mar. 12-Apr. 2, 5:30-8 p.m. Cost: $190/person; $171/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 8657166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PRESENTATION & PERFORMANCE ROBOPOEMS: QUADRUPED@S : Alm@ Perez (Tina Escaja) demonstrates the features of her robots while exploring the evolution of poetry beyond the page. From the creation of a cyborg identity to projects that merge art and technology, the artist explores new ways of understanding and experiencing poetry in a new technological age. Supported in part by the UVM Humanities Center. Wed., Apr. 17, 6-7 p.m.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PRINTMAKING: ° is introductory class will show you a whole range of printing techniques that can be used on their own or in combination to create unique artwork. Over six weeks, you’ll be introduced to the studio’s equipment and materials and learn techniques such as block printing with linoleum, collagraph (a low-relief intaglio technique) and monoprinting. No previous experience needed. Option 1: Tue., Jan. 22-Feb. 26, 9:30 a.m.-noon.

Option 2: Thu., Jan. 24-Mar. 7, 6-8:30 p.m. (no class Feb. 14).

Cost: $255/person; $229.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

RINGS: Check out the jewelry and fine metals studio by making your silver ring. Open to all skill levels.

All materials included. Thu., Feb. 7, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $37/ person; $33.30/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

SCHOOL BREAK WORKSHOPS: Choose anywhere from one to five days of art workshops for your child during Winter School Break. All basic supplies are included. Students must bring their bag lunch, and snacks will be provided. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

SCREEN PRINT WORKSHOP: Get to know our print studio at this one-night workshop and explore the possibilities of screen printing. Students will choose from a variety of prepped silkscreen designs to put on a poster or tote bag to bring home. Class includes all materials, no experience necessary. Tue., Mar. 26, 6-9 p.m.

Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

SCREEN PRINTING: ° is introduction to screen printing will show you how to design and print T-shirts, posters, fine art and more. Discover a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using handdrawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Students will learn how to apply photo emulsion, how to use an exposure unit and how to print on a variety of surfaces.

Students can bring their screens or rent one through the studio.

No experience necessary. Option 1: Wed., Jan. 23-Mar. 13, 6-8:30 p.m. Option 2: Thu., Mar. 28-May 16, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $340/ person; $306/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

SOUNDCHECK: Join Slam Poet and Artistic Director Rajnii Eddins with Young Writers Project for a Writing Workshop and Open Mic at Burlington City Arts. It’s free! Open to all! To find out more about SoundCheck and other events at Young Writers Project, contact rajnii@youngwritersproject.org. Dec. 13 & Jan. 17.; writing workshop, 6 p.m.; open mic, 7 p.m.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

STUDIO NIGHT FOR EDUCATORS: Spend an evening exploring the tools and equipment in BCA’s Print and Drawing & Painting studios with fellow teaching artists and K-12 educators. Participants will have the opportunity to express their own creativity, as well as discuss ways to bring lessons back to the classroom. Innovative reflection and assessment strategies will also be presented. Thu., Mar. 21, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

SUNDAY FAMILY JEWELRY: Spend a morning with teaching artist Kate McKernan in BCA’s jewelry studio. Using our studio equipment, fine metals and beads, your family will create beautiful and wearable works of art. All supplies are provided; no experience needed. Youth must be accompanied by an adult.

Additional tickets are required for adults who’d like to join the fun and create on their own.

Sun., Feb. 10, 10 a.m.-noon Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

SCREEN PRINT: Working in BCA’s professional print studio, students will learn the basics of screen printing to print images onto paper and fabric. Wed., Feb. 27, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $70/ person; $63/BCA members.

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SUNDAY FAMILY PAINT: Spend a morning with teaching artist Kate McKernan in BCA’s painting and drawing studio. Using our paints, brushes, easels and more, your family will create beautiful works of art. All supplies are provided; no experience needed.

Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Adults may assist their child(ren) free of charge.

Additional tickets are required for adults who’d like to join the fun and paint on their own. Sun., Jan. 27, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

WHEEL THROWING: ° is class is an introduction to clay, pottery, and the ceramics studio.

Students will work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques while creating functional pieces such as mugs, cups and bowls.

Students will also be guided through the various finishing techniques using the studio’s house slips and glazes. No previous experience needed. Five class schedules to choose from. Visit website for details. Cost: $340/ person; $306/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

SUNDAY FAMILY PRINTMAKING: Spend a morning with teaching artist Kate McKernan in BCA’s print studio. Using our printing plates, inks and press, your family will create beautiful works of art.

All supplies are provided; no experience needed. Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Adults may assist their child(ren) free of charge. Additional tickets are required for adults who’d like to join the fun and print on their own.

Sun., Mar. 3, 10 a.m.-noon Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

WOODCUT: Discover the unique process of woodblock printing with local artist Ashley Stagner.

Students will focus on fundamental relief printing techniques and will be able to transform their designs into unique prints.

Students will then progress to more sophisticated processes, including multicolor printing and two-to-three color reduction block printing. Class cost includes all basic materials. Wed., Apr. 3-May 8, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $225/ person; $202.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

TEACHING STRATEGIES THAT WORK WITH ENGLISH LEARNERS, K-6: In this session, participants will engage in activities and discussion to better understand the new American experience, the challenges of adjusting to a new culture, and the process of acquiring a new language. Participants will learn practical strategies that will help them differentiate their music, drama, dance and visual arts lessons and make them more accessible to English Learners (ELs). Wed., Jan. 16, 6-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

THE ARTIST’S STORY: Learn tips for writing and presenting a successful artist talk from storyteller and educator, Recille Hamrell.

Improve your public speaking and learn to craft an engaging story about how you began your work, your challenges and successes, and the purpose and unique value of what you create. Artists from all disciplines and levels are welcome. Wed., Feb. 13, 6-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

WATERCOLOR: Learn how to paint with watercolor. ° is class will focus on observational painting from still life, figure, landscape and photos. Students will paint on watercolor paper and will gain experience with composition, color theory, layering, light and shade. Class may move outdoors for plein air painting on nice days! No experience necessary.

Thu., Mar. 28-May 2, 6-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $225/person; $202.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 865-7166, burlingtoncityarts.org.

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BASKET WEAVING: Join Alexa Rivera to learn the art of weaving a harvest basket with a finished leather strap that’s perfect for harvesting leafy greens in the garden, foraging in the woods, or bringing with you on a trip to the market or farm stand. All skill levels are welcome. Sat., 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Jan. 19. Cost: $95/ person; materials incl. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

INTRO TO OIL PAINTING: Are you interested in learning how to paint with oil but not sure where to start? Learn the fundamental techniques of oil painting. Each session will begin with a demonstration followed by time to practice. Students can expect to have a sample of paintings exhibiting a range of techniques. Tue., 9-11 a.m., Jan. 15-Feb. 12. Cost: $170/person; materials not incl.

Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@shelburne craftschool.org, shelburnecraft school.org.

INTRO TO WOODWORKING: Interested in learning the basics

of woodworking? Students learn the basics of using hand tools and shop machinery to design and make a beautiful one-of-a-kind shaker hall table. Each session includes one-on-one support to help students gain confidence with creative decision-making. Wed., 6-9 p.m., Jan. 9-Mar. 20. Cost: $575/ person; materials incl. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

LYRICAL PROSE: ° is creative writing course will center on writing beautiful prose, either fiction or nonfiction. ° e writer Frances Cannon will guide students through three phases: craft, create and critique. Students will build a small body of work, either fresh work generated during this course or recent work from students’ passion projects. Thu., 3-5 p.m., Jan. 17-Feb. 17. Cost: $100/person; materials not incl. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

VISUAL/COMIC STORY TELLING: ° e popularity of comics has grown significantly over the past two decades, from an already rich existing tradition. But what’s behind the panels of a comic? How are comics made? How do they work? Join professional graphic novelist Rachel Lindsay to explore the art of visual storytelling in comics. Tue., 5:30-7:30 p.m., Jan. 15-Feb. 19. Cost: $200/person; materials not incl. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

WATERCOLOR PRACTICE: Are you interested in playing with watercolor techniques to get cool effects and to learn more ways to have fun with the medium? Focusing on the beauty of the season, we will use still life as our inspiration to engage our senses with a versatile medium. Thu., 6-8 p.m., Jan. 17-Feb. 21. Cost: $200/person; materials not incl. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 985-3648, info@shelburne craftschool.org, shelburnecraft school.org.

WOOD TURNING: Are you looking for an introduction to Woodturning? Join us in our warm, light-filled, woodshop to learn the beautiful art of woodturning. Over the course of three weeks, students will learn how to turn a chunk of tree trunk into a wooden bowl or vessel.

Mon., 6-9 p.m., Jan. 7-28. Cost: $270/materials incl. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop

in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

dreams INTRODUCTION TO DREAMWORK: ° e Talmud regarded an uninterpreted dream like a letter from a friend that you failed to open. Dreams are full of guidance, wisdom and insights designed to heal us, help us and enrich daily reality. In this workshop, we learn how to remember our dreams, handle their symbols and interpret them so as to glean the messages they offer. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Jan. 10, 17, 24 & 31, 7-9 p.m. (snow day, Feb. 1). Cost: $60/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue Mehrtens, 244-7909.

drumming TAIKO AND DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: Open classes in September. New drumming sessions begin the weeks of 10/8, 11/26, 1/7, 2/4, 3/11, 5/6.

Intermediate Taiko: Mon., 6-8:20 p.m. Taiko for Adults: Tue., 5:306:20 p.m., & Wed., 6:30-7:50 p.m. Djembe for Adults: Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Taiko for Kids and Parents: Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m.

World Drumming for Kids and Parents: Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m.

Drums provided. Conga classes, too! Visit schedule and register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment FINDING SECURITY IN A TUMULTUOUS WORLD: How can we feel safe and secure in a world that seems to get “curiouser and curiouser” (to use Alice’s term as she wandered through wonderland) with every passing day? ° is experiential workshop addresses this question with over a dozen exercises, techniques and practices to help participants achieve an abiding locus of security. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Jan. 9, 16, 23 & 30, 7-9 p.m. (snow day Feb. 6). Cost: $60/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue Mehrtens, 244-7909.

feldenkrais FREE INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP: Move out of Pain!

Start 2019 with something that really works! Join Uwe Mester, Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, for effectively reducing or even eliminating chronic pain in your muscles and joints. ° e Feldenkrais Method has helped thousands of people to get better through better movement and awareness.

In Middlebury on January 5; in Burlington January 6. For registration and testimonials, please visit vermontfeldenkrais.com. Sun., Jan. 6, 2-3 p.m. Location: Sacred Mountain Studio, 215 College St., Burlington. Info: Vermont

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Feldenkrais, Uwe Mester, 735-3770, vermontfeldenkrais.com.

fitness 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.

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ADULT SATURDAY SING!: Instructor: Jen Greenwood. Sat., Mar. 16-May 4 (no class Mar. 30 & Feb. 27), 10-11 a.m. Cost: $75/6 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

BALLET LEVELS I & II: Teens & Adults. Instructor: Elizabeth Brody. Drop-ins welcome. Mon., Jan. 7-May 6 (no class Jan. 21,

Feb. 25 & Apr. 22). Level I: 5:306:30 p.m. Level II: 6:45-7:45 p.m.

Cost: $185/15 weeks; $15/hour to drop in. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

BURLESQUE: Ages 18+.

Instructor: Doctor Vu. Drop-ins welcome. Mon., 7-8 p.m., Jan. 7-May 6 (no class Jan. 21, Feb. 25 & Apr. 22). Cost: $185/15 weeks; $15/hour to drop in. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington.

Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

ELLA-VATED IMPROVISATION COMBO: Adults. Instructor: Tom Cleary. Wed. Feb. 6 & 20, Mar. 6 & 20, Apr. 3 & 17 & May 1, 7:15-8:30 p.m. Cost: $200/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington.

Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

FEBRUARY VACATION CAMP: MAGIC TREEHOUSE ADVENTURES: Ages 6-8.

Instructor: Mark Stein. Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $350/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

FEBRUARY VACATION CAMP: MUSICAL THEATER ADVENTURE CAMP: Ages 9-14. Instructor: Owen Leavey & Randal Pierce.

Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Cost: $350/person. Location:

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington.

Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

FEBRUARY VACATION CAMP: SILENT FILMMAKING: Grades 6-8. Instructor: Elisa Van Duyne and Ross Ransom. Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $350/ person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

FLYNN YOUTH THEATER: Šree groups, placement session on Jan. 9 at 5 p.m. Instructor: Mark Stein. All-Stars: grades 5-8, Tue., Jan. 15-Apr. 30 (no class 2/26 & 4/23), 3:30-5:15 p.m. Juniors: grades 2-6, Šu., Jan. 17-May 2 (no class 2/28 & 4/25). 3:45-5:15 p.m. Sprouts: age 4-grade 2, Wed., Jan. 16-May 1 (no class 2/27 & 4/24), 3:45-5 p.m. Cost: $225/14 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

HEY MASTER DJ! WITH DJ CRAIG MITCHELL: Adults and teens 16+.

Instructor: DJ cRAIG mITCHELL. Mon., Jan. 14-Mar. 4 (no class Jan. 21), 5:15-6:45 p.m. Cost: $150/6 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

HIP-HOP: Teens and adults.

Instructor: Rose Bedard. Dropins welcome. Thu., Jan. 17-May

HOLIDAY MEALS AT ALICES TABLE All-You-Can-Eat Christmas Buffet » December, 25th | 5:30-9:30pm » Adults $30 | Kids (Ages 6-12) $15 | 5 & under pay their age. » Steamship Ham, Prime Rib, Winter Harvest Root Vegetables, Peel & Eat Shrimp Cocktail, and more.

New Years Eve Dinner » January, 1st | 5:30-9:30pm » Choice of: Tomahawk Steak, Rack of Lamb or Halibut » Check the website for meal pricing.

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9 (no class Feb. 28 & Apr. 25), 5:35-7:05 p.m. Cost: $225/15 weeks; $22.50/1.5 hours to drop in. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

JAZZ FUSION: Teens & adults.

Instructor: Rose Bedard. Dropins welcome. Thu., Jan. 17-May 9 (no class Feb. 28 & Apr. 25), 7:10-8:40 p.m. Cost: $225/15 weeks; $22.50/1.5-hour class to drop in. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

MOTH-STYLE STORYTELLING: Instructor: Susanne Schmidt.

Tue., Jan. 22-Mar. 5 (no class Feb. 26), 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $165/6 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

SENSORY-FRIENDLY DRUMMING: For families with children of any age who would enjoy a sensoryfriendly experience. Sun., Jan. 27 and Mar. 10, 1-2 p.m Free & open to the public. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

SHORT FORM IMPROVISATION: Instructor: Mark Stein. Thu., Jan. 24-Mar. 7 (no class Feb. 28), 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $150/6 weeks. Location: Flynn Center

for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

TAP LEVELS I, II & III: Teens and adults. Instructor: Elisa Van Duyne. Wed., Jan. 16-May 8 (no class Feb. 27 & Apr. 24). Level 1: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Level II: 6:35-7:35 p.m. Level III: 7:40-8:40 p.m Cost: $185/15 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

TIGER MONKEY DRAGON YOUTH IMPROV TROUPES: Grades 5-12. Placement session for new students: Jan. 9 from 6-7 p.m.

Instructor: Mark Stein. Tiger Monkey Dragon Improv Troupe: Fri., Jan. 18-Apr. 26 (no class Mar. 1 & Apr. 26), 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Tiger Monkey Dragon Advanced Improv Troupe: Fri., Jan. 18-Apr. 26 (no class Mar. 1 & Apr. 26), 4:40-6:10 p.m. Cost: $225/14 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

YOUTH JAZZ MUSIC COMBOS: Grades 7-12. Instructors: Shane Hardiman and Tom Cleary. Tue., Jan. 22-May 7 (no class Feb. 26 & Apr. 23). 2 groups, auditions on Jan. 10. Cost: $225/14 weeks.

Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

gardening UVM EXTENSION MASTER GARDENER COURSE: In this 16-week online course, learn to create a healthy, sustainable home landscape and grow your own food! Become a volunteer and teach others environmentally friendly, research-based practices.

Course offered online, statewide, non-credit. Track 1: Certified Master Gardener Volunteer.

Track 2: Certificate of Home Horticulture. Jan. 18-May 10. Cost: $425/person; $425 for Track 1 ($30 per module); $475 for Track 2 ($33 per module). Scholarships avail. Location: Extension campus, online, statewide. Info: UVM Extension Master Gardener, Beret Halverson, 656-1777, master. gardener@uvm.edu, go.uvm.edu/ mastergardener.

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NEW YEARS EVE AT JAY PEAK Parties for kids big and small.

Ring in 2019 with live music, dancing and fireworks.

Fireworks will kick off the night followed by live music with Shake, the Band in our Foeger Ballroom. » Adult (18+)*: Advanced: $15 | At Door: $20 » Kid & Teen parties (ages 4-12 and 13-17) also available.

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Illustrator including the pen tool, pathfinder, image trace and more. ° is class will include instructorled exercises and projects. You will leave with a strong foundation of skills, as well as many shortcuts in the program. Thu., Jan. 22-29 or May 7-14, 6-9 p.m.

Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatovt.com.

BUILD AN FPV TINY WHOOP DRONE: ° is workshop is designed to introduce anyone to drones through hands-on building of a Tiny Whoop drone. Tiny Whoops are small first-personview (FPV) quadcopters aircraft equipped with a tiny camera/ video transmitter. ° ey are flown by their pilots using FPV goggles, which are similar to VR headsets.

With practice, you can quickly improve your piloting skills and explore all kinds of spaces, indoors and out, or even race with others at Generator. Mon., Feb. 18, 6-9 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 5400761, generatovt.com.

EVENING JEWELRY CLASS! (INCLUDES TOOL TRAINING): No experience is needed. Just bring a desire to learn, and you’ll be off and running using the torch, jeweler’s saw, special hammers, polishing wheel and more.

Demonstrations will including sawing, drilling, piercing, riveting, annealing, forming and soldering.

We will complete practice pieces out of copper, brass and nickel before designing and creating a wearable finished art piece out of sterling silver (included with class). Mon., Jan. 28-Feb. 18, or May 6-Jun. 3, (no class May 27) 6-8 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 5400761, generatovt.com.

LASER IMAGING: In this course, students will explore multiple materials and methods to create artworks, tools and objects. ° ey will work with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to prepare images to be laser etched and turned into objects with images on their surface, such as gifts, jewelry and coins, or tools for creating more images, such as stamps and woodcut blocks.

Thu., Jan. 31-Feb. 21, 6-8:30 p.m.

Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatovt.com.

LASER-CUT CHAIRS (INCLUDES LASER TRAINING!): ° is course allows students to explore chair design while getting acclimated to Adobe Illustrator. Students will go through the prototyping process before laser cutting fullsize creations out of Baltic birch ply. Students will then learn to effectively fasten, sand and finish their chair that can be used for the dining room, patio or home office. Tue., Feb. 19-Mar. 5, 6-9 p.m.

Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatovt.com.

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shaping wood, primarily with hand tools. You will leave with a fully functional paddle, ready for the lake or river of your choosing. Thu., Mar. 21-Apr. 4, 6-9 p.m.

Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatovt.com.

SEWING SAFETY TRAINING: ° is course provides basic hands-on training on the Generator’s home sewing machines, including: identifying parts of the sewing machine; winding a bobbin; threading the machine; changing the needle; operating the machine, including sewing straight and zigzag stitches, changing stitch length and/or width, and sewing straight and curved seams with a consistent seam allowance; troubleshooting tips; and basic sewing tips and tricks.

Mon., Jan. 14, Feb. 25, Apr. 8, 6-8:30 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatovt.com.

STAINED GLASS: In this fourweek stained glass workshop, you will learn the Louis Comfort Tiffany copper-foil method of constructing stained glass. Learn to select glass colors, cut glass, apply copper foil and solder. You will leave with a beautiful piece of stained glass for any window in your home. All materials will be supplied for this workshop.

Mon., Mar. 18-Apr. 8, 3:30-6 p.m.

Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatovt.com.

STICKER WORKSHOP: 3-COLOR VINYL ILLUSTRATION: Learn how to turn an illustration into a three-color print using a registration plate and advanced vinyl application techniques. In this class, you will learn how to use Generator’s Roland GX-24 vinyl cutter to import designs from vector graphic software, with a special focus on converting pen-and-paper sketches into solid vector designs in Adobe Illustrator. Sat., Jan. 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., or Thu., Apr. 25-May 2, 6-9 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 5400761, generatovt.com.

THE BLACKSMITH’S KNIFE: ° e blacksmith’s knife is a forged blade, handle and all, from a single piece of steel. ° e knife often incorporates twists, curls and other flourishes to practice basic smithing techniques while producing a useful tool. In addition to a discussion of design principles, aesthetic and practical concerns, and materials, students will get hands-on experience with tools like the forge, hammer, anvil and belt grinder. Students should expect to finish one knife during the course of this class.

Sat., 9 a.m.-4 p.m., & Sun., 9 a.m.2 p.m., Feb. 9-10 or Apr. 27-28.

Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatovt.com.

herbs HERBAL ALCHEMY & THE UPGRADED KITCHEN: Join us for the second installment of the Permaculture Kitchen Series.

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everyday cooking skills and dive deep into the multitude of ways you can upgrade your kitchen game — adding both cultivated and wild herbs/spices, vegetables, and fruits — to infuse nutrition and vitality into everything from your winter chilis to your multigrain muffins! We’ll be cooking up a variety of dishes and, of course, getting a healthy sampling of everything, too! Sun., Dec. 16, 5:30-8 p.m. $15-$30. This high-value event is reasonably priced by sliding-scale donation. Location: McClure Multigenerational Center, 241 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 495-1270, burlington permaculture@gmail.com, bit.ly/2OaFEpW.

language ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE WINTER SESSION: Our six-week session starts on January 7, and we are offering French classes for adults in Burlington, Colchester and Montpelier. We serve the entire range of students from the true beginners to those who are already comfortable conversing in French. Info: Micheline Tremblay, 881-8826, education@aflcr.org, aflcr.org.

FRENCH CLASSES: ADULTS, YOUTH, PRE-K: Give the gift of learning this season. Learn French! Encouraging, fun and structured classes held in beautiful art studio. Led by experienced teacher, fluent speaker, lived/ worked in France & Cameroon.

Not sure which level best for you? Pas de problème: Contact Madame Maggie to help you decide. Allons-y! Adult French: ° u., Jan. 17-Mar. 7., Beginner 5-6:30 p.m., Adv. Beg/Intermediate 6:308 p.m. ($240). Youth After-school FRArt Workshop! Mon., Jan. 14Jun. 10., 3-5 p.m. No class: Jan. 21, Feb. 25, Apr. 22 & May 27. Sign up for entire session ($475) or four weeks at a time ($150). Location: Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., Burlington. Info: 233-7676, maggiestandley@gmail.com, wingspanstudioeduc.com.

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.

No training experience required.

Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children.

Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid them becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them throughout life. IBJJF and CBJJ certified black belt sixthdegree 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 INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION: Get a basic orientation to an essential practice of the spiritual journey; learn over a dozen techniques in this workshop that is more experiential than intellectual. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

Jan. 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2-4 p.m. (snow day Mar. 2). Cost: $60/person.

Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue Mehrtens, 244-7909.

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 ° u., noon-1 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Classes and retreats also offered. See our website at burlington.shambhala.org.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795.

movement MOVING OUT OF PAIN IN 2019: Tired of doing things to relieve pain that don’t work despite all your efforts? Start 2019 with something that really works! Join Uwe Mester, Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, for effectively reducing or even eliminating chronic pain in your muscles and joints. ° e Feldenkrais Method has helped thousands of people get better through better movement and awareness. Find out how gentle and easy movement lessons will help you move out of pain. For more information about Feldenkrais, including testimonials about Uwe, please visit vermontfeldenkrais.com. First class is always free. Starts Jan. 8, Tue., 9:30-10:30 a.m. Cost: $18/1-hour class. Location: Sacred Mountain Studio, 215 College St., Burlington.

Info: Vermont Feldenkrais, Uwe Mester, 735-3770, movevt@gmail. com, vermontfeldenkrais.com.

downloadable music & resources online. Location: Richmond Free Library, 201 Bridge St., Richmond.

Info: Joanna May, 318-5338, musictogetherjmay@gmavt.net, musictogetherjmay.com.

photography BEGINNER PHOTOGRAPHERS’ WORKROOM: ° is all-level workshop will emphasize creation and portfolio development. Each student will choose an individual project to pursue during the course and will complete a cohesive body of work. We will also engage in communal, supportive discussions. Instructor: Marcie Scrudder. Thu., Jan. 17-Mar. 28 (no class Mar. 7), 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $265/person; $240/members.

Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 2538358, education@helenday.com.

pilates PILATES MATWORK!: Pilates matwork classes for all levels of ability from beginner to advanced, taught by Sharon Mcilwaine, certified pilates instructor, with many years of experience. All welcome. First class is free! Tue., 5:30-6:30 p.m.; Sat., 8:45-9:45 a.m. (no class Dec. 25). Cost: $18/1-hour class. Location: Sacred Mountain Studio, 215 College St., 3rd FL, Burlington. Info: Burlington Acupuncture, Sharon McIlwaine, 522-3992, sharon@ burlingtonacupuncture.com, pilatesmatworkvermont.com.

shamanism EXTRAORDINARY REALITIES: Learn how to journey into the spirit realms, where you will work with powerfully compassionate and intelligent helping spirits, teachers and healers. ° e session will include an introduction to the practice of shamanic divination and an overview of shamanic healing. Meet your power animal in a core shamanic introduction.

Sat., Jan. 19, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $120/9-hour class. Location: Shaman’s Flame Workshop Center, 644 Log Town Rd., Woodbury.

Info: Peter Clark, 456-8735, peterclark13@gmail.com, shamansflame.com.

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WINTER MUSIC TOGETHER CLASSES IN RICHMOND: Come join our fun group of music makers on Fridays at Richmond Free Library with your infant, toddler or preschooler! (Children 0-5 with a caregiver welcome.) We’ll sing, explore rhythm instruments, move and play in a friendly, relaxed setting where lots of musical learning happens, and then gets reinforced with at-home materials. No musical experience (or fancy dance moves) required. Give the gift of sweet, active fun with your child this winter, with benefits that truly last a lifetime. Fri., Jan. 4-Mar. 22, 9-9:45 a.m. $200/10 classes (infants 8 months & younger free w/ a paid sibling). Incl. family materials: illustrated songbook, CD,

TRANSFORM ENDO & HEAVY PERIODS: Transform Adenomyosis, Endometriosis and Heavy Periods is for people with

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. 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: Expressive Arts Burlington, 200 Main St., #9. Info: Topaz Weis, 343-8172, topazweis@gmx.net, expressiveartsburlington.com.

these conditions and anyone who wants to learn more about holistic approaches to improving symptoms. We’ll learn how to make essential oil vaginal suppositories to lower pelvic inflammation, have tea and try copaiba essential oil to improve pelvic blood flow. Jan. 5, 1-2:30 p.m. Cost: $15/1.5-hour workshop.

Location: Railyard Apothecary, 270 Battery St., Burlington. Info: Sara Lopez, 989-2866, hello@ saralopez.net, saralopez.net.

writing LEARN FREELANCE BOOK EDITING: Winter Class Series begin in Montpelier. Jan. 23: Developmental/Line Editing (five evening sessions for $175). Jan. 24: Copyediting/Proofreading (six evening sessions for $250). You will work on actual manuscripts (fiction and nonfiction) and learn how to get started in freelance book editing. Follow-up mentoring group available. Register online. Class size limited. Starts Jan. 23 & 24, Wed. & Thurs., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $250/2-hour class for 6 weeks; $175 for 5 weeks. Location: Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 58 Barre St. , Montpelier.

Info: Editorial Arts Academy, Nancy Marriott, 805-895-8428, Nancy@EdtorialArtsAcademy. com, editorialartsacademy.com/ classes-events.

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 ° erapeutics led by physical therapists. Dive deeper into your practice with Yoga for Life, a semesterbased 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.

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. and 237 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 448-4262, Info@sanghastudio.org.

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music “I WANT TO SHOW HOW PEOPLE FEEL WHEN THEY’RE WRITING THE MUSIC.”

Stace Brandt, “Highwire”; Francesca Blanchard, “Free”; Casey Dubie, “Silver”

These three songs are almost like parts of a trilogy. We see the artists in intimate places: their bedrooms, cars and studios.

They seem to search for something, but we never quite see them find it.

The implication is that making art is a pilgrimage with no defined end point.

Though they may not be the flashiest parts of Cooper’s canon, these videos serve as a sort of template, a Rosetta Stone for the director’s artistic palette, if you will.

From cool, temperate lighting to frequent eye contact from his subjects, Cooper employs many of the same basic concepts within his more complex work.

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ecords, live gigs and music videos are a musician’s holy trinity.

They work in harmony to create a vivid, multifaceted world for fans. Of the three, music videos can be the trickiest to produce well.

For one, they’re hard to pull off technically. Not everyone who steps behind a camera is blessed with a mastery of media aesthetics. Furthermore, high-concept premises can sometimes come off as cheesy, insincere, divorced from a song’s meaning or out of step with the band’s overall aesthetic.

What an artist needs is a director like Kayhl Cooper. In the last two years, the 22-year-old Essex Junction native is now an in-demand talent for music makers, locally and beyond. From his early days as a content producer for the Essex Junction Recreation and Parks department, Cooper has become a burgeoning local auteur.

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production company Noise Ordinance, Cooper is a bundle of energy. He talks a mile a minute, but in a charming way.

The director’s growing list of clients includes singer-songwriters Stace Brandt, Francesca Blanchard and Casey Dubie.

He’s also worked with indie bands And the Kids, J Bengoy, the Dead Shakers and Fever Dolls. In August, Cooper debuted a stunning clip for the Essex Green’s song “Don’t Leave It in Our Hands,” taken from the Merge Records rockers’ new album Hardly Electronic. And just last week, he traveled to New York City to meet up with another artist on Merge’s roster: Seattle’s Telekinesis.

Cooper claims that when he first started making videos — such as the early Noise Ordinance vids — he was just trying to “get out of the way” to leave room for his subjects.

“I was pretty business-forward for a long time in the way I did concepts,” he

says. “What are you trying to achieve?

What is it that you think would be the best way to do that? What is it I think will be the best way to do that? It was very objective-driven.”

Now, Cooper takes more ownership of his works.

“I’ve started to come at [projects] with a really specific concept from the beginning, which can be really scary,” he says.

Seven Days recently talked with Cooper to dissect some of his videos. We discussed his recurring themes — hands and arms, travel, body spasms — as well as his visual style, which often features slow push-ins and confrontational static shots. He also gave us certain key insights on how his pieces come together.

“Right before things are about to happen, there’s a breaking point where people go insane,” says Cooper. “I think, hopefully, that’s where most of my videos reside.”

“I TRY TO USE PRACTICAL EFFECTS WHENEVER POSSIBLE.”

The Essex Green, “Don’t Leave It in Our Hands”

Detachment, self-involvement and despair run rampant in this song, and the video echoes that. Smartphones are replaced with triangular shards of glass, reflecting the holder’s eyes directly into the viewer’s.

Cooper adds a bit of magic to this piece in two ways. A simple, practical effect, fishing wire, creates the illusion of cellphones defying gravity, dangling and spinning in midair. Meanwhile, a group of elementary school kids treks into the woods, only to discover an odd sight: a massive pink plexiglass structure. The artwork, by sculptor Lydia Kern, has only been erected twice: for the Waking Windows music festival and for this video.

“I LIKE MY VIDEOS TO BE VERY ARTIST-FORWARD.” And the Kids, “Champagne Ladies”

The members of this Montréal-viaNorthampton, Mass., trio take the lead here.

Cooper refers to this vid as both “artistforward” and “style-forward,” meaning that he puts his subjects and their personalities front and center. We see the band prancing through the streets of Montréal, decked out in avant-garde outfits and goofily dancing like nobody’s watching.

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’Tis the week before New Year’s, and I’ve gotta say We’ve much to discuss before the big day Or, I suppose, the big night, as it were Lest it pass you by in a big, foggy blur It’s nice to have someone point events out And that’s what this poem is all about I’ll clue you in to what’s happening this week And give you a hearty New Year’s sneak peek Read on for tips about how to get down With all the best parties happening in town.

Also on Thursday, at the Vermont Comedy Club Aka B-town’s most sidesplitting hub The club’s improv team, called the UNMENTIONABLES Shows you why prudes might find them objectionable This time around, they’re taking on yule With scene suggestions from local comics who’ll Package naughty objects as Christmas presents The team then unwraps them all in our presence It’s a shtick in a box that sets up the next scene It sounds like a hoot, and a little obscene.

For anyone who’s ever had a hankerin’ to learn How to spin records, you should take a turn At DJ SVPPLY’s pop-up DJ lesson On 12/23 at Half Lounge, I’m guessin’ Just kidding, it’s Half Lounge for sure, don’t you know Sometimes I just need a rhyme for the flow Speaking of SVPPLY, he has up his sleeve A slammin’ batch of bangers for New Year’s Eve At Club Metronome, he’s playing nonstop A selection of all the best 2000s hip-hop.

Now wait up, please, hold on just a minute Just a clarification before I begin it By no means is this list at all comprehensive If I miss your show, please don’t get defensive Consider this selection but a holiday sample It’s not the last word, more like an example Of where I would go if I could hit every party Of course that’s impossible, or at least foolhardy So strap in, get comfy and read on to find A bounty of concerts, if you’re so inclined.

On Saturday evening, 12/22 The mainstay rockers are planning for you A festive and merry musical smorgasbord You’ll be entranced from their very first chord Guest musicians like RYANs OBER and MILLER Join up with Swale, it’s gonna be killer Three nights before Christmas Day you will see That the Light Club Lamp Shop is the place to be.

Noise Ordinance celebrates the Christmas season This Thursday eve, and if you need a reason To head down to SideBar, perhaps peep the lineup Check the Facebook event page to see who has signed up The showcase is full of Queen City noisemakers Like J BENGOY, DIGGS and, of course, the DEAD SHAKERS SWIMMER, the PYROS and ENTRANCE TO TRAINS They’re sure to fog up the club’s windowpanes The extravaganza deserves recognition For its second year of this yuletide tradition!

So now, let’s talk about 12/31 A night that’s traditionally all about fun Big changes hit the Queen City, that’s right It’s the first New Year’s Eve without First Night Since 1983, the year I was born But now that you’ve had enough time to mourn Say hello to Highlight, to the new substitution It’s sure to become a beloved institution Signal Kitchen and Burlington City Arts Worked hard to win a new place in our hearts.

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1.25 Liquid Stranger 2.14 Mipso 2.15 Max Creek 3.29 Jukebox The Ghost & The Mowgli’s 1214 Williston Road, South Burlington 802-652-0777

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were born “in the beer-soaked basements” of

FOAM BREWERS: Comedy Night, 7 p.m., free.

their city. Though the statement paints a picture of rowdy frat boys

HALF LOUNGE: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 10 p.m., free.

causing trouble, the rock band’s even-keeled, guitar-centric sound doesn’t cross too far into debauchery. Instead, you’ll hear thoughtful

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

lyrics with a humanitarian bent that explore concepts such as greed

JUNIPER: “e Ray V ega Latin Jazz Sextet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

and how it ripples through society. Of course, that doesn’t mean the

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Mike Martin and Geoff Kim (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

three-piece outfit doesn’t shred. What do you think “mo lowda” means,

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Seth Eames (blues), 9:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Lush Honey, the Get Messy (soul, funk), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: Duncan & Stokes (folk), 7 p.m., free. Bradley Hester (Annie in the Water) (rock, reggae), 8:30 p.m., free.

DumBass (dance), 10:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 8 p.m., free. DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Hotel Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

anyway? Check out Mo Lowda & the Humble on Friday, December 21, at Nectar’s in Burlington. Locals KINGFISHER and COPILOT open.

FRI.21 // MO LOWDA & THE HUMBLE [ROCK] VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. Indie Rumble (improv), 8:30 p.m., $5.

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CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Interactive Video Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7:30 p.m., free.

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THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX CINEMAS & T-REX THEATER: Burlington Songwriters Holiday Celebration, 6 p.m., free.

THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Bluegrass Jam, 7:30 p.m., free.

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SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

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Here the New York City-based rapper (and Cooper’s brother) flails and flops through public parks and subway tunnels. Utilizing a bit of The Parent Trap-style digital trickery, Cooper creates three versions of the MC side by side: one standing, one dancing and one convulsing. The schism of self suggests the maddening realization that true individuality is a falsehood. Bohdi repeatedly raps the track’s title phrase, like a thought bouncing around in your head that won’t let you sleep.

“I TRY TO WALK A FINE LINE ON SHTICK-INESS.”

Evan Allis in Fever Dolls’ “Gennifer Flowers” video

Fever Dolls, “Gennifer Flowers”

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“THE ABILITY TO FEEL REALLY CRAZY IS SOMETHING I CIRCLE BACK TO A LOT.”

Still from Bohdi’s “Not Different” video

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Lethargy is the watchword in this frigid clip. In its contemplation of winter madness, seasonal affective disorder, the icy blahs, whatever you want to call it, we see the five members of J Bengoy strung out, listless and utterly apathetic.

But as the video progresses, tension builds through claustrophobic cinematography and disorienting mise-en-scène, erupting in an unhinged, head-banging catharsis.

ZENBARN: Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Abby Sherman and Kelly Ravin (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.

“WITH A LOW BUDGET, IT’S ALWAYS A QUESTION OF WHAT’S EASY TO DO.” To shoot this one, Cooper accompanied the Dead Shakers’ Kevin Bloom to the Medfield State Hospital, a famous and forbidding former psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts. The property was prominently featured in spooky feature films Shutter Island and The Box. With a typically limited amount of time to shoot, they had to work fast and used only natural light. Serendipitously, fast-moving clouds resulted in a couple of perfectly timed — and completely unintentional — lighting cues.

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Working from a script penned by Fever Dolls’ co-front person Evan Allis, Cooper lets his subject run wild with his kitschy inclinations on this infomercial-meetstent-revival mashup. What begins as a sort of product placement for the band itself explodes into a one-man dance party as the song kicks in halfway through. Like a soul man possessed by the Holy Spirit, Allis testifies and hoofs up a storm. Faux VHS deterioration, treacly elevator background music and a rounded-edge, 16mm-style crop add to the video’s late-1970s retro feel.

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For nostalgic punks who miss club 242 There’s really no question of what you should do North End Studios hosts an event To remind you of all the best nights that you spent Thrashing your body at the city’s teen center Make sure you purchase a ticket to enter Five punk bands currently sit on the bill There’s no freakin’ way that you can stand still For GALLON OF MILK, NICK GRANDCHAMP AND THE PEOPLE WATCHERS THE JOKE’S ON US, PAPER BOATS and POTENTIALLY LOBSTERS. Down on the waterfront, there’s much to be seen Like DJs and bands, you can choose between The ECHO Center and nearby Foam Brewers You’ll have a great time, nothing could be truer MOOCHIE, LOCAL DORK, TAKA and SVPPLY Bid 2018 a special goodbye At the brewery, but also at ECHO, a few steps away A bunch of musicians are planning to play A selection of classic ’70s yacht rock It sounds chill AF, but just up the block…

Hip-hip sensations 99 NEIGHBORS Are planning to showcase the fruits of their labors At Burlington City Hall Auditorium Consider it a one-stop hip-hop emporium An art show, fashion show and concert in one This crew of MCs just gets shit done There’s so much more on the bill for Highlight I don’t even have space to preview it right Check online for full information As I steer you toward one last occasion.

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Higher Ground serves up heaping plates Of hot entertainment on multiple dates KAT WRIGHT hits the stage two nights in a row 12/30 and 31 and also, in tow, She brings along some righteous support Specifically, I am happy to report FRANCESCA BLANCHARD and JUPTR on the docket Plus UPSTATE and SOUNDCHECK are ready to rock it You can’t go wrong with a lineup this great They’ll get you movin’ right out of the gate.

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Once again, I must say, this is but a sample Of entertainment offerings in a region so ample I hope you find yourself surrounded by friends As the holiday season comes to an end Hopefully you’ll find something awesome to do And I hope that none of your plans fall through Wherever you end up, get there in one piece I know we all want a cathartic release Just remember to keep your wits about you Or else your crew might leave the party without you.

Listening In If I were a superhero, my superpower would be the ability to get songs stuck in other people’s heads.

Here are five songs that have been stuck in my head this week. May they also get stuck in yours. Follow sevendaysvt on Spotify for weekly playlists with tunes by artists featured in the music section.

THE LOVEMAKERS, “Set Me Free” ROOSEVELT, “Wait Up” SKIN TOWN, “Lucky” ST. LUCIA, “Paradise Is Waiting” MILEY CYRUS & MARK RONSON, “(Happy Xmas) War Is

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

HATCH 31: Rough Cut Blues Jam, 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

Silver Belles What is it about the holidays that makes things so tense? You’re at the big family dinner making idle, inoffensive chitchat. But then your politically incorrect second cousin starts talking about some hot nonsense and

you start to lose your cool. Before you blow your lid, think to yourself, What would the EL-SALOMONS do? Married standup comedians Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini — who are Jewish and Muslim, respectively — know a thing or two about bridging the divide. The two women team up for a special holiday show dedicated to finding your inner kindness. Catch the El-Salomons on Friday, December 21, and Saturday, December 22, at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.

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

TRES AMIGOS & RUSTY NAIL STAGE: Chad Hollister Band (rock), 8:30 p.m., $12/18.

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

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Twist of Fate (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

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

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

FOAM BREWERS: Julian Gerstin (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

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

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JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

14TH STAR BREWING CO.: Home for the Holidays featuring Troy Millette and the Fire Below, Chris & Erica (folk-rock), 5:45 p.m., donation.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., $5. Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase, 10:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Adventure Dog, Wurliday (jam), 9:30 p.m., $5/7. 18+.

SIDEBAR: Noise Ordinance Holiday Extravaganza (indie, eclectic), 9 p.m., $3.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: ‘€e T’ with Emoji Nightmare and Nikki Champagne (discussion), 7 p.m., $10. A Very Unmentionables Christmas (improv), 9 p.m., $5.

Fanny Pack (improv), 10 p.m., $5.

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TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Jesse Taylor (folk), 7 p.m., free.

TAP 25: Seth Yacovone (blues), 7 p.m., free.

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

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BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Trivia, 8 p.m., free.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Irish Session, 7 p.m., free.

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Mono Malo (rock), 7 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Italian Session (traditional), 6 p.m., free.

GUSTO’S: Jason Baker (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., free. DJ Rome 802 (hits), 8 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

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HARDWICK STREET CAFÉ AT THE HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS: Sam Bulpin (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free.

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

PARKER PIE CO.: Blue Fox (blues), 7:30 p.m., free.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Alex Stewart (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

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

CLUB METRONOME: Mi Yard Reggae Night: €e Irie Holiday Edition, 9:30 p.m., $5.

FOAM BREWERS: Danny & the Parts, Zack DuPont (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: J’Beau (R&B, electro-pop), 8 p.m., free. JFear and Loupo (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Zach Nugent (acoustic rock), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Belle of the Fall (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

Katy Hellman (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

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

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Out in the Valley Happy Hour, 6:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Mo Lowda & the Humble, Kingfisher, Copilot (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5.

MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic Night, 8:30 p.m., free.

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CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Mike Brinkman’s Open Mic, 8:30 p.m., free.

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

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Blue Fox (blues), 9 p.m., free.

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

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

POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): Soule Monde (funk, jazz), 10 p.m., $5.

IDLETYME BREWING COMPANY: Peter Krag (jazz), 6 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Hash Brown Blues Band, 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (mashup, hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

MINGLE NIGHTCLUB: Red Friday with DJ Stevie B (open format), 10 p.m., $5.

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RADIO BEAN: Giannina Sol (jazz, folk), 7 p.m., free. Good Morning Gils (indie), 10:30 p.m., free.

Heartless (Heart and Led Zeppelin tribute), 9 p.m., $10.

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RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free.

KINGDOM BREWING: Not Quite Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 5:30 p.m., free.

randolph/royalton Birkby (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free.

Amerykanka (a cappella, Balkan folk), 8:30 p.m., free. €e Mountain Carol (electro-pop, psychedelic), 10 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE: Zach Rhoads (singer-songwriter), 4 p.m., free.

Root 100 (reggae), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

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

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

SIDEBAR: DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Eben Schumacher (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: €e ElSalomons’ Non-Denominational Holiday Comedy Extravaganza (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

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BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free.

COLCHESTER’S MEAD HALL: Wreaking Havoc: Comedy Night, 7:30 p.m., free.

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX CINEMAS & T-REX THEATER: Christmas Blues Jam, 7 p.m., free.

BABES BAR: Karaoke, 7 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Into the Mystic: A Tribute to Van Morrison, the Tenderbellies, 8 p.m., $15/18.

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

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: €e Brevity €ing (rock), 6 p.m., free.

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

MONKEY HOUSE: Dark Star Project (Grateful Dead tribute), every third Friday, 5 p.m., free.

Yellowfront, Older Brother (indie), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

THE OLD POST: Full Share (covers), 8:30-11:30 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Bethany Conner and Friends (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: €e Hubcats (folk, blues), 8 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Nina’s Brew (blues, roots), 10 p.m., free.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Andrew Moroz (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (retro dance hits), 10 p.m., $5.

FOAM BREWERS: Pattern Addict (indie), 8 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Dave Loughran (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free.

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

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Z-Jaz (jazz), 6 p.m., free.

Lightcrusher, Concillium, Hell Priest, Sachem (metal), 9 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: DuPont & Deluca (folk), 9 p.m., free.

GUSTO’S: Elizabeth Renaud (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: A Very Hairy Swalemess (indie rock, holiday), 8 p.m., $10. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.

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REVIEW this Brightbird, In the Woods (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL)

Brightbird are a recent addition to the wealth of acoustic duos already playing hither and thither around Vermont. They stand out from the crowd with the wide variety of wellcrafted songs found on their debut album In the Woods. Chief lyricist and lead vocalist Ethan Tischler and mandolin ace and harmonizer Greg Pauza have known each other since their days at Champlain Valley Union High School but have been playing music together only in the past few years.

Even so, they sound like a seasoned band.

Tischler provides a solid rhythm track on guitar and banjo, which gives Pauza the space to soar and jam on the mandolin.

Tischler’s singing voice is another

Zack DuPont, Bootlegs Vol. 1 (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL)

Releasing your own bootlegs is a fairly audacious thing to do, more common with huge acts capitalizing on their success — think Bob Dylan or the Rolling Stones — by releasing home albums or live concerts without recordlabel involvement.

Zack DuPont is not an act on par, fame-wise, with Dylan or the Stones.

Among other musical pursuits, he made his name in Vermont gigging relentlessly with the DuPont Brothers — a duo act with his brother, Sam. They’re a powerful presence onstage, and they’ve played around the country. But the new solo project Bootlegs Vol. 1 isn’t about Zack DuPont’s modest celebrity. It’s just about his talent.

Despite the implied grit of a bootleg, DuPont’s engineering work on this short LP sounds fantastic on big stereo speakers.

High volume also makes it clear that his performances are impeccable. Part of

instrument to be reckoned with. He’s a strong, confident vocalist and lyricist. In short, these guys sound right at home playing music together.

Chris Dorman, a popular local children’s music maker, is something of a godfather to Brightbird’s first recording project.

The CD was recorded at Dorman’s studio at Bread & Butter Farm in Shelburne — Tischler is also a member of Dorman’s Music for Sprouts band.

Dorman is beloved for composing sweet and gentle kid-friendly lyrics.

His artistic influence can be detected on the catchy opening track “Fine as You Are,” which features — no kidding — conversations between a snowflake and a squirrel. It may sound a bit ridiculous, but it works.

Happily, it’s not all talking squirrels.

“Stay With Me” is a standout with its rolling rhythm and a bouncy banjo and mandolin duet on the break. “Wreck of the

Otter Brook” is a brand-new old adventure ballad. And “Roll Around the Stars” features memorable lyrics in 3/4 time that are tailor-made for a sing-along.

In the Woods closes on the Zen-like rocker “Be the River,” a song whose lyrics and melody lines bring to mind George Harrison’s “Within You Without You.” The tune ends with an electric guitar section recalling the long goodbye in Eric Clapton’s original recording of “Layla,” which speaks to the variety of music found throughout the album.

That diversity of sounds is all the more impressive given that it’s primarily made on little more than acoustic guitar and mandolin.

Brightbird’s live performances may be few and far between, as Pauza moved to Texas shortly after In The Woods was released. But in my experience, everyone comes back to Vermont once in a while, so keep an eye out for a reunion. Both young men have a lot to be proud of on this recording.

In the Woods is available at CD Baby.

that is the sheer experience that years of constant shows provide. Part of that are the high standards to which DuPont has aspired since his days with Burlington’s Japhy Ryder and as a solo artist.

It is a credit to DuPont’s musical upbringing that there are so many quality influences to unpack.

For instance, reviewing the DuPont Brothers’ 2014 album Heavy as Lead, then-Seven Days music editor Dan Bolles identified a strong Nick Drake influence. Yet I’ve always felt that John Prine was the duo’s guiding star.

I also think neither of us is remotely right. DuPont is the keen student of a broad pantheon of musicians.

More importantly, he’s working to find his own voice. DuPont’s delivery is soft but full, a warm whisper that sits nicely atop the tonal range of his acoustic guitar.

His guitar playing, as so many Vermonters have seen firsthand, is exceptional: clean, bright and full.

None of that is news. What this project really showcases is DuPont’s continued growth as a lyricist and songwriter. He tackles dark subjects with ease and cuts

compelling stories down to bare-bones.

On tracks such as “Making Friends,” he juggles self-deprecation and genuine sadness, often in the same line. “Folklore” channels Jackson Browne and Cat Stevens, delivering life lessons over a beautiful melody.

Despite the retro format, he’s very much a man of his times. Few of DuPont’s heroes would have ever thought to pen a song named “Today Is a Video Game,” but that’s one of the best-written tracks on the album. Everything here is lean and impressive.

Bootlegs Vol. 1 is exactly what it should be: raw, beautiful music from the heart.

These songs unfold over repeated listens, and the track list is carefully calibrated.

Even at seven songs, many of them short, Bootlegs still seems like an album, demanding and rewarding your attention.

In other words, I’m looking forward to Vol. 2. DuPont has set the bar mighty high with Vol. 1, and he’s got the means and motive to do it again. In the meantime, Vol. 1 is a perfect midwinter soundtrack. Fans of unvarnished Americana and folk are in for a melancholy treat.

Bootlegs Vol.1 is available at zackdupont.bandcamp.com.

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For almost 35 years, she’s hosted the radio program “Cultural Bunker” on the University of Vermont’s WRUV 90.1 FM and other local stations. In her tenure, she’s served as something of a local oracle for all things rap. Back before you could stream curated playlists at the touch of a button, Grant was the curator. From mainstream contemporary hits to deep cuts from the genre’s old-school glory days, the mistress of the tables keeps the beat pumping long into the night. Get down with Grant on Saturday, December 22, at the Monkey House in Winooski.

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Holiday Comedy Extravaganza (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

POSITIVE PIE TAP & GRILL: Peter Mayhew Band (rock), 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Joe Agnello (of Swimmer) (jam), 7 p.m., free.

Grippo Funk Band, DJ Rekkon, 9 p.m., $7.

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THE DEN AT HARRY’S HARDWARE: Christmas with Papa G (piano rock), 7 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Mikahely (acoustic world music), 7 p.m., free.

Rockwood Taylor (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. A Samara and Friends Holiday Special, 10 p.m., $5. Savage Hen (metal), 11:30 p.m., $5.

MONKEY HOUSE: DJ Melo Grant (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

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RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 3 p.m., free. Best Not Broken (rock), 7 p.m., $5.

Mashtodon (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa, reggaeton), 6 p.m., free. DJ ATAK (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

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

SIDEBAR: DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): ‹underbolt Research (rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

SMITTY’S PUB: Chris and Erica (rock, country), 8 p.m., free.

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VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Good Clean Fun! (family-friendly improv), 5 p.m., $5. ‹e ElSalomons’ Non-Denominational

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: VT Bluegrass Pioneers, 6 p.m., free.

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

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MOOGS PLACE: Lloyd Tyler Band (folk), 9 p.m., free.

TAP 25: Abby Sherman (folk), 7 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Mitch & Devon (rock), 5 p.m., free. A House on Fire (rock), 7 p.m., free.

Chasing Dorothy (rock), 9 p.m., free.

TRES AMIGOS & RUSTY NAIL STAGE: ‹e T enderbellies (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $8/12.

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

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

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Red Hot Juba (blues, swing), 8:30 p.m., free.

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BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Michael Stridsberg (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free.

BUCH SPIELER RECORDS: Community DJ Series (vinyl DJs), 3 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Mad Mountain Scramblers (bluegrass), 9 p.m., free.

GUSTO’S: DJ LaFountaine (hits), 9:30 p.m., free.

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

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MONOPOLE: ‹e Mountain Carol (electro-pop, psychedelic), 10 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Gabrielle and Movin’ On (country), 8 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Say Darling Holiday Jamboree (rock), 9 p.m., $12/15.

SUN.23

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Flying V (standup), 7 p.m., $5. Char-aoke (character-driven karaoke), 8 p.m., free.

MON.24

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Seth Eames (blues), 9:30 p.m., free.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bluegrass Session, 7 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Zack DuPont (folk), noon, free.

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HALF LOUNGE: Saint Nick and Jack Bandit (EDM), 10 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Open Mic Night, 8 p.m., free.

burlington

HALF LOUNGE: DJ Workshop with DJ SVPPLY, 8 p.m., free.

Junglist Lounge (drum and bass), 10 p.m., free.

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

RADIO BEAN: JC Sutton & Sons (bluegrass), 1 p.m., free.

Traditional Pub Sing-Along, 3:30 p.m., free. Old Sky and Friends (Americana), 6 p.m., free.

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

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

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

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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.

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ZENBARN: Jennifer Hartswick and Nick Cassarino (jazz), 9 p.m., $12.

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DELI 126: Bluegrass Jam, 8 p.m., free.

FOAM BREWERS: Familiar Faces (jam, eclectic), 6:30 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 10 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: ‹e Ray V ega Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

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

NECTAR’S: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

RADIO BEAN: Pattern Addict (indie), 10:30 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

RED SQUARE: Bob McKenzie Blues Band, 6 p.m., free. DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 8 p.m., free.

DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

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SIDEBAR: Hotel Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Interactive Video Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7:30 p.m., free.

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

ZENBARN: Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.

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

rutland/killington

PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Joey Leone and Brandon ‘Taz’ Niederauer (rock), 8 p.m., $12.84.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

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

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urlington artist Dorsey Hogg said she began to think about artistic identity when she was at Saint Michael’s College getting her master’s degree in arts and education.

In her job as an art teacher, she helped kids draw and paint and mold clay pots, but she hadn’t chosen her own special genre. When people asked what kind of art she made, Hogg would say, “a little bit of everything.”

Then, during a year in Sweden with her sons and husband, who had a temporary position there, she created her first books.

Hogg was doing an independent study for her final credits, building a portfolio of work, and realized she had particularly enjoyed the book-art classes she took at St. Mike’s.

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advertising posters on bus stops and asked him if she could take the old ones.

She went home with a stack of 3-by-4foot colorful posters that touted cellularservice companies, Coca-Cola and hockey teams. She cut them up and turned them into unique, self-contained packages.

In one, the panels unfold to arm’s length in both directions, like a textile woven from strips of glossy paper. Hogg managed to weave the word “Goodbye,” from one of the cellular companies’ ads, across the back of the piece.

Since then, she’s produced dozens of works from books salvaged from dumpsters, attics and even a neglected cupboard of her art room at Georgia Elementary & Middle School. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington’s South End is currently exhibiting two of her tunnel books.

To make those, Hogg cuts a large opening on the first page of a book, then makes increasingly smaller holes on succeeding pages. One work, titled “The Faces Tell the Story,” is made from an old Reader’s Digest. It looks like a long corridor of illustrated faces, all perfectly coiffed and with dramatic expressions, surrounded by the book’s text. The cover, forming the frame of the piece, lifts up with all the pages attached like an accordion, showing the details of each layer.

Hogg, 48, also has had work in juried shows such as at ArtisTree Community Art Center in South Pomfret. She’s a member of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont, which exhibits in venues around the state.

Seven Days recently talked with Hogg at her dining room table, where she creates most of her artwork.

SEVEN DAYS: What do you like about books as works of art?

DORSEY HOGG: To get that idea of play, of opening it up and seeing something that’s going to be so different. You can look at it from the back. You can look at it from the front. You can move it around. It can be seen at different angles.

I guess I like the engineering component of it, too, just that it works. If you don’t do it right, things aren’t going to fit together. It gets frustrating after 20 to 30 hours and you realize it’s not working.

SD: You’re destroying books to make your art, but you’re saving them from the garbage pile at the same time.

What are you trying to say about books by using them?

DH: It’s transforming these books into

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something else, taking something and just doing something totally d i f f e re n t . No b o d y wants the books. You go to [Chittenden Solid Waste District] and there are dumpsters full of books! Where are they going to go?

I’m able to take some of these books and give them a new life, and still be able to enjoy the feel of the books and the images and the illustrations.

SD: What are your favorite books to work with?

DH: I’ve done a bunch of dictionaries.

Nobody uses those copyrighted, outdated dictionaries anymore. They really are on their way to the dumpster, because they’re not valued. They’ve been updated, reprinted.

I have come across books, and people have given me books, that I won’t cut up.

I look at it and I think, That’s too cool.

They’re things that you may not find again. There’s an atlas over here — it’s a beautiful book with all these foldout pages. That may stay on the shelf.

A lot of stuff I do [is with] Time Life books. Everybody had a set in their

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so much, like, texture in them.

SD: What are you currently working on?

DH: I like working with rolls. This is a structure I’d like to work more with. I wanted to get the idea of the tapestry of history, turning this book into a cloth of the stories. It’s a middle school American history textbook from Georgia that they were throwing away. I hadn’t been that inspired to do a history book, and then last spring I realized, with everything going on in politics, [I was] thinking of the story of our nation and where we are going with our history.

I cut the pages in strips, and I glued them so they’d be all the same length.

And I just rolled them on dowel sticks. I started at one end of the book and went through. I wanted to find pictures that would go together, and also balance it out with text.

SD: What does it mean to you to be an artist?

DH: I guess it’s the working part that has been very meaningful. There have been

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times when I’ve thought, If I just go down to the Generator [maker space], I could get this cut out so much faster. It’s partly lazy, not going down there to learn how to use the laser cutter, or those things that could make it go a lot quicker.

But part of it, too, is I just like working here at my table, just to be at home and spend the hours it takes to cut pages out of a book.

Then you see the hole get Dorsey Hogg with one of her book sculptures bigger and bigger and bigger.

You’ve done all that, and there’s that pile of pages. house. I’ve done a lot of Reader’s Digest And I know that it’s my X-ACTO knife condensed books. I just started a series that has done it all. with these crafting books that I found in my art room [at school]. They’ve been INFO there for 20 years. These books are so Dorsey Hogg’s works are on view dated, but when you start to look at the through January 17 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery. photographs, they’re so cool. They have dorseyhoggblogspot.com.

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ART EVENTS

CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS: Landscape and cityscape paintings by Carolyn Walton, Athenia ‰ rough Schinto, Helen Nagel and Ken Russack. Th March 24. Info, 985-8223. Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne.

FIGURE DRAWING SOCIAL: A two-hour session figure drawing and allowing artists to practice fi form study in a friendly environment. Live model provided; BYO supplies. All skill levels welcome.

Wishbone Collective, Winooski, Wednesday, December 19, 6-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 922-6085.

‘ILLUMINATE: THE WINTER GROUP SHOW’: ‰ e 18-person exhibition highlights Montpelier artist ‰ rough Sam Colt’s mixed-media grassello works. Th January 31. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

PHOTO CO-OP: Lens lovers gather to share their experience and knowledge of their craft. Gallery at ‰ ursday, December 20, 6-8 River Arts, Morrisville, Th p.m. $5. Info, 888-1261.

‘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.

SEABA HOLIDAY MARKET: Part of the South End Art sHop, this holiday shopping experience features one-of-a-kind items in a variety of mediums.

Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, Wednesday, December 19, and ‰ ursday, December 20, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Friday, December 21, noon-6 p.m.; and Saturday, December 22, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Info, 859-9222.

JOHN OPULSKI: “Undercurrent,” new oil and acrylic paintings. ‰ rough December 30. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

JUDI MACULAN AND JOHN PENOYAR: New works by the Hinesburg artists. ‰ rough December 31. Info, 482-2878.

Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg.

ONGOING SHOWS burlington

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.

‘THE ART SHOW NO. 13’: An open-media exhibit in which members of the community are ‰ rough December 31. Info, invited to show work. Th publicartschool@gmail.com. RL Photo Studio in Burlington.

CORRINA THURSTON: Graphite and colored pencil drawings and prints of animals by the Vermont artist. ‰ rough December 31. New Moon Café in Burlington.

CRYSTAL STOKES: Acrylic paintings by the central Vermont artist. Curated by SEABA. ‰ rough December 31. Info, 859-9222. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington.

‘THE INTREPID COUPLE AND THE STORY OF AUTHENICA AFRICAN IMPORTS’: A selection of African art collected by Jack and Lydia Clemmons, along with photos and listening stations, curated by the Clemmons Family Farm in Charlotte. ‰ rough March 9. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington.

KARA TORRES: “Myriad Veils,” multimedia works that explore literal and metaphorical veils and how they obscure and elucidate what lies beneath. ‰ rough February 28. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington.

MARTHA HULL: “Cute + Deadly,” framed archival art prints featuring kittens, rainbows, zombies, thunderstorms and more, in the bar. ‰ rough January 26.

Info, 862-9647. ‰ e Daily Planet in Burlington.

MUG SHOW: Local potter Dan Siegel’s mugs can be used for anyone sitting at the café counter during December, and all are for sale. Danmade pottery is handmade and incorporates original hand-drawn designs into each piece. ‰ rough December 31. $40 per mug. Info, danmadepottery@gmail.com. Penny Cluse Café in Burlington.

NORTHERN VERMONT ARTIST ASSOCIATION: Works in a variety of mediums by members of the group, which began in 1931. Curated by SEABA. ‰ rough December 31. Info, 859-9222. RETN & VCAM Media Factory in Burlington.

‘PASSAGE’: A juried exhibit of small works no larger than 12 by 12 inches. ‰ rough January 14. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

PAULINE JENNINGS: “Becoming Human,” an intermedia exhibition that seeks to identify and dissolve barriers between human and wild in the Anthropocene era. ‘TECTONIC INDUSTRIES: DREAMS CAN COME TRUE’: ‰ rough sculpture, instructional videos, physical surveys and interactive activities, Lars Boye Jerlach and Helen Stringfellow present a series of self-help questionnaires to explore the impossibility of our collective, endless search for concrete answers and endeavor for selfimprovement. ‰ rough February 9. Info, 865-7166.

BCA Center in Burlington.

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Winter Show Burlington’s Green Door Studio turns into a veritable art

department store during the holiday season. On display, and for sale, are paintings by Frank DeAngelis, Nicole Christman, Steve Sharon, Eric Eickmann, Martha Hull and Gus Warner; mosaic furniture by Justine Poole; mixed-media works by Danny Lefrançois; recycled/repurposed assemblages by Jason Pappas; jewelry by Jon Black; HANKS, modern handkerchiefs designed by female artists; stoneware and porcelain by ZoBird Pottery; and handblown glass objects and mixed-media sculpture by Tessa Hill. Through December 31.

Pictured: torched-glass pendant by Hill.

‘SMALL WORKS’: An annual group show that features works 12 inches or less in a variety of mediums and styles by local artists. ‰ rough January 17. Info, 578-2512. ‰ e S.P.A.C.E. Gallery 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. ‰ rough 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. ‰ rough December 31. Info, jbrodowski@rnesu.org. Flynndog in Burlington.

TIMOTHY SANTIMORE: Acrylic paintings influenced

by Eastern philosophies and the aesthetics of abstract of gestural abstraction. Curated by SEABA. ‰ rough December 31. Info, 859-9222. ‰ e Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

VERMONT ACTIVIST POSTERS THROUGH THE AGES: An exhibit of artwork and articles chronicling the activities of Vermonters during the 20th and 21st centuries and celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Peace and Freedom and the Peace & Justice Center. ‰ rough January 31. Info, 355-3256. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington.

VERMONT ARTISTS GROUP SHOW: Works in a variety of mediums by Dennis McCarthy, Evan Greenwald, Frank DeAngelis, Janet Bonneau, Janie McKenzie, Jordan Holstein, Kara Torres, Lynne Reed, Marilyn Barry, Mike Reilly, Melissa Peabody, Rae Harrell, Robert Gold, Stephen Beattie, Tatiana Zelazo, Terry Mercy and Travis Alford. Open rotating exhibit, curated by SEABA. ‰ rough December 31.

Info, 859-9222. ‰ e Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

WINTER SHOW: An eclectic mix of art and artists including Steve Sharon (paintings), Justine Poole (mosaic furniture), Danny Lefrançois (mixed-media works), Jason Pappas (recycled/repurposed/ assemblage), Eric Eickmann (paintings), Jon Black (metal jewelry), Brea Schwartz (HANKS, handkerchiefs designed by women artists), Jeff Bruno (paintings), Nicole Christman (paintings), ZoBird Pottery (stoneware and porcelain), Gus Warner (paintings), Tessa Hill (handblown glass and mixed media), Martha Hull (paintings), and Frank DeAngelis (paintings). ‰ rough December 31. Info, 318-0963. ‰ e Green Door Studio in Burlington.

‘THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF BIRDS AND OTHER CREATURES’: Wildlife photography by Sharon Radtke. ‰ rough December 28. Info, 863-3403.

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LYNDA REEVES MCINTYRE: “Abundance,” new paintings and fi fibers celebrating the visual joy, gesture and “voice” of Mother Nature’s bounty. ‰ rough January 30. Info, 985-3819. All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne.

‘MAPPING AN UNEVEN COUNTRY: BIRD’S EYE VIEWS OF VERMONT’: More than three dozen drawn, painted and printed views of the Green Mountain State investigate the popular 19th-century phenomenon of “perspective” or “bird’s-eye” views. ‰ rough March 3. ‘NEW ENGLAND NOW’: ‰ e inaugural exhibition in a curated biennial series featuring contemporary Northeast artists organized around thematic subject matter. ‰ rough January 13. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

SAM WYATT: “Darkness Obscured,” giclée prints of original watercolor paintings that explore abandoned industrial buildings in West Rutland. ‰ rough December 31. Info, s.wyatt826@gmail.com.

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‘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. ‰ rough December 28. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

ANNE DAVIS: “A Peaceable Kingdom,” new paintings on old canvases by the Barre artist. ‰ rough January 5. Info, 279-6403. CVMC Art Gallery in Berlin.

‘ANYTHING FOR SPEED: AUTOMOBILE RACING IN VERMONT’: A yearlong exhibition exploring more than a century of the history and evolution of racing in Vermont through the objects, photographs and recollections that comprise this unique story. ‰ rough March 30. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Center in Barre.

CELEBRATE!: ‰ is 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. ‰ rough December 27. Info, 479-7069, studioplacearts.com. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

DEE CHRISTIE & ROBIN LEONE: Old books repurposed into works of art; and handcrafted felt hats, respectively. ‰ rough December 31. Info, 223-1981. ‰ e Cheshire Cat in Montpelier.

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ART SHOWS

HOLIDAY POP-UP SHOP & SILENT AUCTION: …e 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. …rough Januar y 4. THOMAS WATERMAN WOOD: THE MASTER COPIES: …e 19th-centur y 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. …rough June 1. Info, 262-6035. T .W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

‘INNOVATORS OF NORWICH: BUILDING A NATION’: …e second exhibition in a two-par t 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. …rough December 21. Info, 485-2811.

Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

JAMES SECOR: “As Not Seen,” paintings about objects in the built landscape that “fall away as noise between views,” such as storage units.

‘THROUGH MY EYES’: Digital photography from the Montpelier Senior Activity Center and the Photo Walk Group, both led by Linda Hogan. …rough January 26. Info, 595-5252. Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier.

LINDA MIRABILE: “All …ings A vian,” an exhibit of new abstract and realistic paintings by the Berlin artist depicting crows, flamingos and more. …rough December 31. Info, 229-6206. Nor th Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

MARK HEITZMAN: “Scrap Yard,” 10 large-scale graphite or charcoal drawings of tools and other objects. …rough March 2. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre.

MICHAEL T. JERMYN: “New American Impressionism,” photographs by the local artist. …rough Januar y 4. Info, 223-1570. Sweet Melissa’s in Montpelier.

‘SEEDS OF RENEWAL’: An exploration of Abenaki agricultural history, cuisine and ceremony. …rough April 30. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

SHOW 29: Recent work by Vermont-based contemporary member-artists. …rough Januar y 20. Info, 552-0877. …e Front in Montpelier .

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2018 LEGACY COLLECTION: Work by a selection of gallery artists. ‘GEMS AND GIANTS: A members’ exhibit of very small and very large works.

HEARTBEET FELTS: Felted works of art by adults with developmental disabilities living at Heartbeet, a life-sharing community in Hardwick and Craftsbury. …rough 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. …rough Januar y 7. Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.

‘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. …rough Januar y 9. Gallery at River Arts in Morrisville.

MEMBERS’ ART SHOW & SALE AND FESTIVAL OF TREES & LIGHT: …e 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. …rough December 29. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

‘PEAK TO PEAK: 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION THEN AND NOW’: An exhibition of photographs and artifacts to highlight the evolution of the division’s equipment and training since its beginning in 1943. …rough October 31. Info, 253-9911. V ermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

SAM REYNOLDS: Paintings by the senior in the BFA program. …rough December 21. Info, 635-1469.

Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson.

TJ CUNNINGHAM: “Roots,” landscapes of Addison County by the Vermont artist. …rough Januar y 11.

Info, 760-6785. Edgewater Gallery in Stowe.

TREVOR AND ANNA CORP: …e 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. …rough December 21.

Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.

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‘AT THE TABLE’: An exhibition of local pastel paintings celebrating the food we grow and eat, featuring central Vermont artists Belle McDougall, Carol Eberlein, Joyce Kahn, Cristine Kossow, Laura Winn Kane and Wendy Soliday. …rough Januar y 1. Info, 244-4168. Grange Hall Cultural Center in Waterbury Center.

‘CELEBRATE THE SMALL’: Artworks 10 by 10 inches or smaller by nine area artists, priced at $100, for the holidays. …rough December 22. Info, 244-7801.

Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

F/7 PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP: “Grace,” images by members of the photo group. …rough December 31.

Info, 244-6606. Waterbury Congregational Church.

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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. …rough December 31. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall …eater , in Middlebury.

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‘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. …rough December 31. 20TH ANNIVERSARY GINGERBREAD HOUSE COMPETITION: An exhibit of 40 sweet buildings on the theme “Down on the Farm”; visitors can vote for people’s choice. …rough December 21. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

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‘FICTIONAL NARRATIVE’: A showcase of 34 photographers from around the world, juried by Emma Powell. …rough Januar y 5. Info, 388-4500.

PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury.

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HOLIDAYS AT THE SHELDON: “Ho Ho Historical Holidays to You,” curated by Eva Garcelon-Hart, features classic Christmas postcards, seasonal cards, written memories and toys from the collection; “Over-the-Top Holiday,” created by Sheldon trustees, offers lighted trees, glittering ornaments, sleds, skate, Santas and more; and the annual Lionel train layout includes a new gondola ski lift on its toy-size mountain. …rough Januar y 12.

Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

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MARCIA HILL: “…rough the Seasons,” pastel land scapes by the Worcester artist. …rough December 31. Info, 244-7036. Waterbury Public Library.

‘MORE LIGHT’: Small works by Anne Cady, Cameron Schmitz, Edward Holland, Pamela Smith, Rose Umerlik and Sobelman Cortapega. …rough Januar y 31. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

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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. …rough December 21.

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‘CELLBLOCK VISIONS’: A collection of artwork by prisoners in American, curated by Phyllis Kornfeld. HIGH SCHOOL ART EXHIBITION: A showcase of works by students of regional schools. ‡ rough December 21.

Christine Price Gallery, Castleton University.

CHAFFEE HOLIDAY EXHIBIT: Art, gingerbread houses, unique handmade gifts and more in this annual show. ‡ rough January 5. Info, 775-0356.

Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

DANIELLE KLEBES: “Aimless Pilgrimage,” paintings about people in flux or moments of uncertainty by the North Adams, Mass., artist. ‡ rough January 11.

Info, 299-7511. 77 Gallery in Rutland.

LOU SCOTT: “150 Visual/Word Dioramas” by the local artist. ‡ rough January 12. Info, the77gallery@gmail. com. B&G 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. ‡ rough January 6. Info, 468-2592. Merwin Gallery in Castleton.

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HOLIDAY SHOW: Prints by artist-members and handmade gift cards. ‡ rough December 31. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

JACK ROWELL: “Cultural Documentarian,” portraits of Vermont people and other wildlife by the Braintree photographer. ‡ rough April 1. Info, info@mainstreet museum.org. Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

‘MAKING MUSIC: THE SCIENCE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS’: An exhibition exploring the science behind the instruments used to create music, from well-known classics to infectious pop tunes. ‡ rough May 13. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

‘THE MARSHLAND FARMS ANYTHING GOES ART SHOW’: Artwork in watercolor, oil and acrylic by Kate Reeves, Jennifer Dembinski, Joan Oppenheimer, Kay Wood and Mary Church ‡ rough January 2. Info, 295-3133. ‡ e Quechee Inn at Marshland Farm.

SMALL WORKS EXHIBIT: An exhibit of small-scale works for the holiday season, including a wall of 50 panels measuring 50 square inches each. ‡ rough December 22. Info, 457-3500. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery in South Pomfret.

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ANNUAL HOLIDAY SHOW: Guest and member artisans present an array of handmade wares, from pottery to scarves to furniture. ‡ rough January 5.

Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

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ARTS CONNECT AT CATAMOUNT ARTS JURIED SHOW: Fourth annual juried showcase of works by emerging and established artists, selected by juror Nick Capasso. ‡ rough February 15. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

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. ‡ rough January 18. Info, 626-6459.

Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont UniversityLyndon, in Lyndonville.

‘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. ‡ rough December 30. Info, sarah.damsell@vt.nacdnet.net. ‡ e East Side Restaurant & Pub in Newport.

‘LOCKED DOWN! KEYED IN! LOCKED OUT! KEYED UP!’: An exhibition examining the long human relationship to the lock and key, its elegant design and philosophies and practices of securing, safeguarding, imprisoning, escaping and safecracking throughout the ages. ‡ rough April 30. Info, claredol@sover.net. ‡ e Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

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‘THE PAINTINGS OF LOUIS FRIED’: Organized by Catamount Arts, the collection of paintings address the immigrant experience of the 19th-century artist from Minsk, Russia. ‡ rough January 27. Info, 5339075. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

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RICHARD BROWN: Black-and-white photographs of nostalgic Vermont landscapes and people. ‡ rough December 31. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

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SUE TESTER: Recent photographs of the landscape and animals of the Northeast Kingdom. ‰ rough January 8. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

‘WINTER!’: Curated by Victoria Mathiesen and Andrea Strobach, the seasonal show includes 2D MAC member artwork and winter-themed work from private collections. ‰ rough January 19.

Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

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DONALD SAAF: Paintings, illustrations and sculptures at the intersection of fine art and folk art. ‰ rough January 6. Info, 251-8290. Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro.

EMILY MASON: “To Another Place,” 50 abstract paintings created by the 86-year-old New York/ Brattleboro artist between 1958 and 2018, many of which have never been shown in public. ‰ rough February 10. 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 ‰ rough 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. ‰ rough March 30. Info, lightson_mary@comcast.net. ‰ e Great Hall in Springfield.

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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. ‰ rough December 30. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

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Californian artist. ‰ rough December 31. Info, 763-7094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

ERICK HUFSCHMID: “A Muse,” photographs taken in 2010 in the studio of collage artist Varujan Boghosian. VARUJAN BOGHOSIAN: Late work in construction and collage. ‰ rough January 26. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

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. ‰ rough January 7. Info, jane.booth.1@gmail. com. Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph Center.

MARIANNE BENOIR: “A Retrospective: ‰ en ‰ rough Now,” a solo show of color and blackand-white images of flora, fauna, places, things and people by the South Royalton photographer. ‰ rough January 9. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

‘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. ‰ rough February 24. ‘OF INDIVIDUALS AND PLACES’: Nearly 100 Canadian and international photographs from the collection of Jack Lazare. ‰ rough April 28. Info, 514-2852000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

AVA HOLIDAY EXHIBITION: Unique gifts by local artists in a variety of mediums, including handmade ornaments. ‰ rough December 24.

Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. ‘FALL INTO AUTUMN’: En plein air paintings by members of the Odanaksis artists’ group. ‰ rough December 21. Info, 603-653-3460. DH Aging Resource Center in Lebanon, N.H.

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MATIKA WILBUR: “Project 562,” photographic portraits and stories of members of more than 562 federally recognized Native America tribes. ‰ rough January 1. Info, 299-5593. Vermont Law School in South Royalton.

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‘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. Deadline: January 1. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center. Free. Info, 244-4168, grangehallcc@gmail.com.

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‘BRANCHING OUT’: Original watercolor paintings ‰ rough January 20. Info, 514-285-1600. Montréal POTTERY

by Vermont artist Amy Hook-‰ errien. ‰ rough Museum of Contemporary Art. DECORATIVE February 8. Info, 728-8912. White River Craft Center HOLIDAY MEMBERS SHOW: Works in painting, ACCESSORIES in Randolph. drawing, photography, jewelry, sculpture, fiber, GLASSWARE CARRIE CAOUETTE-DE LALLO: “Vessels,” recent ceramics, stained glass, bead weaving, printmaking, paintings and drawings by the Chelsea artist. mixed media and woodwork by artist-members of VT MADE, ‰ rough January 12. Info, 685-4699. North Common the gallery. ‰ rough December 28. Info, 518-563Arts in Chelsea.

1604. Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y.FAIR TRADE CIARA CUMISKEY: “Chapters: New Works,” still & RECYCLED ‘UKIYO-E TO SHIN HANGA’: An exhibition of lifes, landscapes and imaginative scenes by the Japanese woodcuts from the Syracuse University OPTIONS art collection. ‰ rough December 30. Info, 518-792CANDLES 1761. ‰ e Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, N.Y. GREETING CARDS CALL TO ARTISTS BAKEWARE ‘THE ART OF FOOD’: Established and emerging artists are invited to submit one or two pieces of HOLIDAY work in any medium that addresses the theme. Must be ready to hang. Exhibit will be January DECORATIONS through April. Deadline: December 21. Jericho Town Hall. Info, catherine.mcmains@gmail.com.

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FURNITURE 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 MUCH MORE will receive a prepared panel to create a small work using a section of a photograph for inspiration.

17TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY MARKET: Gifts for the holidays by Vermont artists and crafters. ‰ rough December 23. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

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very 30 years or so since Liza Minnelli’s dad made Lust for Life (1956), an auteur has felt obliged to share his take on Vincent van Gogh. Given the number of potential subjects the history of art provides, this might seem a curious fixation. Why not da Vinci, Rembrandt, Picasso or Warhol?

Van Gogh’s enduring pull on the popular imagination most likely arises from the inverse ratio of lifetime to posthumous acclaim. Those other visionaries were well rewarded while alive.

There’s something especially poignant about van Gogh dying young, penniless and unknown, given that his creations now rank among the most valuable objects ever made by humans.

Kirk Douglas’ portrait of the artist was cartoonish and cliché. Thankfully, the imitation van Goghs keep getting better. Tim Roth’s portrayal in Robert Altman’s Vincent & Theo (1990) represented a leap in terms of realism.

The movie itself was a slog.

Which brings us to At Eternity’s Gate, Julian Schnabel’s mystical contribution to the genre. Willem Dafoe is superb as the post-

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impressionist. Along with his Jesus in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Dafoe’s work here proves the most sublime he’s done. A world-renowned artist, Schnabel is uniquely qualified to imagine what it felt like to be van Gogh, and Dafoe is a charged conductor for his searing, sensitive vision.

Early on, Vincent encounters Paul Gauguin (Oscar Isaac) in Paris. The friendship serves several functions in the film, giving the withdrawn figure motivation to voice his thoughts on the hardship of making a name, as well as on the influence of God and nature on his art.

Gauguin’s trajectory also serves as a counterpoint to Vincent’s. His breakthrough leads to their separation and Vincent’s intensified mental fraying. Gauguin suggests he move south, to Arles, where the light will suit his aesthetic.

Working with cowriters Jean-Claude Carrière and Louise Kugelberg, Schnabel brings the familiar to fresh and electrifying life. Other films about painters have mirrored images from well-known works in their scenery or set design. Schnabel does this, too, but with an unusually subtle touch.

The filmmaker also taught Dafoe to paint.

To paint like van Gogh. We watch him apply gobs of color to his canvas, then whirl them into quivering solidity. Vincent explains that a painting has to be done fast, in a single ges-

LUST FOR LIGHT Schnabel’s cinematic mind-meld with the immortal painter almost qualifies as a religious experience.

ture. We see why in a remarkable sequence.

Vincent enters his room to find Gauguin sketching a portrait of the housekeeper. In seconds, he sets up his easel, dunks his brush and conjures an infinitely more vivid rendition of her.

Schnabel checks certain expected boxes: Vincent’s touching bond with his supportive brother, Theo (Rupert Friend). The ear. The madhouses. The film’s final sections, though, are extraordinary.

Vincent has an astonishing conversation with the priest who’ll determine whether he’s fit to be discharged from the asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. As they discuss religion, it becomes clear van Gogh has achieved

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his fall brought us two movies — A Star Is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody — that explored the ever-alluring world of rock and pop stardom.

What they neglected to do, however, is inform us what it all means. Vox Lux is happy to tell us about the cultural significance of pop goddesses — and tell us, and tell us. This second film from writer-director Brady Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader) is subtitled “A TwentyFirst Century Portrait,” and it’s exactly as pretentious as that sounds.

In his eager and sometimes slapdash efforts to collage cultural traumas and triumphs into something meaningful, Corbet recalls the glory days of Richard Kelly (Southland Tales), without the sense of humor. Yet he has created a showcase for Natalie Portman to give one of those performances that’s hard to ignore. Playing a pop star who struts around in spike heels with a pronounced outer-borough accent, channeling Lady Gaga with a dash of “Real Housewives,” she single-handedly makes Vox Lux memorable, for better or worse.

First, though, you have to get through the film’s dour first half, in which we follow Portman’s character, Celeste, as a teenager (Raffey Cassidy). After surviving a school shooting (rendered harrowingly on-screen), Celeste goes viral singing an inspirational anthem penned by her sister (Stacy Martin).

A manager (Jude Law) smells money and whisks the girls off to prep them for 21stcentury stardom.

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MORE HEAT THAN LIGHT Portman plays a pop diva trying to reconnect with her younger self in Corbet’s art-house drama.

While the plot screams “allegory,” Corbet renders all this in a grim, naturalistic style that suggests a Brechtian mockumentary. It might have worked, if not for the narrator (Willem Dafoe) who periodically jumps in to comment on Celeste’s story with some of the most tortured pseudo-literary phrasing ever heard in a movie.

When Corbet pairs 9/11 footage with Dafoe’s solemn announcement that Celeste and

America lost their innocence at the same time, one wants to believe the movie is mocking this facile framing. But no other perspective emerges. And when Celeste grows up and becomes Portman, in the film’s second half, she spews would-be insights about branding and consumerism that sound much like the narrator’s.

The movie doesn’t show us how Celeste turns from a shy, pliant, hardworking ingé-

transcendence. In four months, he’s created nearly 200 of his greatest works. He knows this and knows with perfect certainty that, generations later, we’ll know.

Smiling, he reminds the clergyman that Christ died unknown. We remember van Gogh calling art his gift to humanity. The credits roll, but Schnabel has one final flourish, a tantalizing quote relayed by Gauguin that suggests a deeper perspective on Vincent’s identification with Jesus. Might there be more than one kind of messiah, more than one mortal who’s dropped by to say “hi” for God? At Eternity’s Gate is bold enough to ask the question and breathtaking in its answer.

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nue into a raucous, angry, substance-addled adult diva. Yet that transformation is perhaps the movie’s most plausible aspect, simply because we’ve seen similar evolutions in the gossip rags. Herself a former child star, Portman clearly relishes cutting loose, giving adult Celeste the hard edges of Madonna in Madonna: Truth or Dare and the campy panache of Bette Davis in All About Eve. This woman has spent years being America’s sweetheart, an emblem of survival and redemption, and now she doesn’t give two fucks about anything.

Yet Portman’s performance sort of just sits there, a thing unto itself, because the film lacks a dramatic arc. The tension between the two sisters, the unresolved issues of Celeste’s past, the specter of a recent terrorist incident whose perpetrators used iconography from one of her videos — all these are threads that lead nowhere. Even the reappearance of Cassidy, now playing Celeste’s teen daughter, doesn’t add much beyond an audience for Celeste’s lectures. The film culminates in a performance sequence (with songs by Sia) that should be cathartic but is mainly just flashy.

The symbiosis of celebrity and tragedy — and how both attract unscrupulous entrepreneurs eager to cash in — is a timely subject.

But pushing cultural hot buttons isn’t the same as making a great movie about the culture, and Vox Lux ultimately feels as opportunistic and empty as Celeste’s career.

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OPENING DECEMBER 19 MARY POPPINS RETURNS: Jane and Michael Banks are all grown up, but the magical nanny (Emily Blunt) still has solutions to their problems, in Disney’s belated sequel to the beloved musical.

With Emily Mortimer, Meryl Streep and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Rob Marshall (Into the Woods) directed.

(130 min, PG. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Stowe, Welden)

OPENING DECEMBER 21 AQUAMAN: Jason Momoa plays the heir to the undersea realm of Atlantis as DC Comics continues to flesh out its cinematic universe. With Amber Heard and Willem Dafoe. James Wan (The Conjuring) directed. (143 min, PG-13. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Stowe, Welden) BUMBLEBEE: The VW Bug Transformer gets a break-out vehicle, set in 1987, in which he bonds with an 18-year-old (Hailee Steinfeld) who puts him back on the road. With Dylan O’Brien and Justin Theroux. Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) directed. (113 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace) THE FAVOURITE: In the early 18th century, a noblewoman (Rachel Weisz) and a maid (Emma Stone) vie for the favor of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) in this wicked satire of political power struggles from director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster). (119 min, R. Roxy)

VICE: Christian Bale is getting award buzz for his performance as Dick Cheney in this satirical portrait of the George W. Bush administration from writer-director Adam McKay (The Big Short). With Amy Adams, Steve Carell and Sam Rockwell. (132 min, R)

OPENING JANUARY 4 ELI: Home turns out not to be a safe place for a boy with an auto-immune disorder in this horror flick starring Kelly Reilly, Lili Taylor and Max Martini.

Ciarán Foy (Sinister 2) directed. (Runtime N/A, R) ESCAPE ROOM: You know those escape rooms in malls? What if your life depended on solving the puzzles? Deborah Ann Woll and Tyler Labine find out in this sci-fi drama. Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan) directed. (Runtime N/A, PG-13)

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NOW PLAYING AT ETERNITY’S GATEHHHHH Julian Schnabel directed this drama about the final years of Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe). With Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac and Mads Mikkelsen. (111 min, PG-13; reviewed

by R.K. 12/19)

SECOND ACT: Jennifer Lopez plays a big-boxstore worker who fudges her résumé to get a career makeover in this triumph-of-the-little-gal comedy, also starring Vanessa Hudgens and Milo Ventimiglia. Peter Segal (Get Smart) directed. (103 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace)

CREED IIHHH1/2 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)

HOLMES & WATSON: In this comedic take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous sleuths are played

by Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, and what more do you really need to know? With Ralph Fiennes and Kelly Macdonald. Etan Cohen (Get Hard) directed.

(Runtime N/A, PG-13. Capitol, Essex)

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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie face off as Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I in this umpteenth retelling of their ruinous royal rivalry. With Jack Lowden, David Tennant and Guy Pearce. Josie Rourke makes her directorial debut.

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WELCOME TO MARWEN: The 2010 documentary Marwencol, about a man who created a miniature town as therapy after a traumatic beating, has become a high-tech tearjerker starring Steve Carell and Janelle Monáe and directed by Robert Zemeckis. (116 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace

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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. David Yates again directed. (134 min, PG-13) 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)

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GREEN BOOKHHHHH In this comedy-drama, a refined African American classical pianist (Mahershala Ali) and the low-brow white guy (Viggo Mortensen) hired as his driver find themselves bonding on a tour of the 1960s South. With Linda Cardellini. Peter Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber) directed. (129 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 12/12) 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)

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wednesday 19 — thursday 20 Bohemian Rhapsody *Mary Poppins Returns friday 21 — sunday 23 *Mary Poppins Returns *Welcome to Marwen Rest of schedule not available at press time.

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wednesday 19 The Grinc *Mary Poppins Returns Ralph Breaks the Internet Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse thursday 20 — tuesday 25 *Aquaman *Bumblebee *Mary Poppins Returns Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse No evening shows on December 24; no early matinees on December 25.

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wednesday 19 — thursday 20 *Aquaman (Thu only; 2D & 3D Bohemian Rhapsody *Bumblebee (Thu only; 2D & 3D Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Grinc *Mary Poppins Returns Mortal Engines (2D & 3D) The Mul Ralph Breaks the Internet *Second Act (Thu only Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse (2D & 3D) *Welcome to Marwen (Thu only friday 21 — wednesday 26 *Aquaman (2D & 3D) *Bumblebee (2D & 3D) The Grinc *Holmes & Watson (Tue & Wed only) *Mary Poppins Returns Mortal Engines The Mul *Second Act Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse (2D & 3D) *Welcome to Marwen

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Bohemian Rhapsody *Bumblebee (Thu only Creed II Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald *Mary Poppins Returns Ralph Breaks the Internet (Wed only) friday 21 — thursday 27 Bohemian Rhapsody (except Mon) *Bumblebee The Grinch (Fri-Mon only *Holmes & Watson (Tue-Thu only *Mary Poppins Returns Ralph Breaks the Internet (2D & 3D) *Welcome to Marwen No evening shows on December 24; no matinees on December 25.

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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) MORTAL ENGINESHH In this steampunk fantasy set in a postapocalyptic world where cities are mobile and devour each other, a girl with a mysterious scar tries to stop a rampaging London. Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving and Jihae star. Christian Rivers makes his feature directorial debut. (128 min, PG-13)

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No late evening shows on December 24. Rest of schedule not available at press time.

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Poppins Returns (Wed only) *Mary Poppins Returns **Met Opera Encore: La Traviata (Wed only) Mortal Engines The Mul Ralph Breaks the Internet Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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65 Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841, middleburymarquis.com

wednesday 19 — thursday 20

*Aquaman *Mary Poppins Returns No evening shows on December 24; closed on December 25.

MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMAS 222 College St., Burlington, 864-3456, merrilltheatres.net

wednesday 19 — thursday 20 At Eternity’s Gate Free Solo Green Book Roma Swimming With Men Vox Lux

Becoming Astrid **Elf (Sat only) **It’s a Wonderful Life (Sun only) *Mary Queen of Scots **Mirai (Wed & Thu only Vox Lux No evening shows on December 24; no matinees on December 25.

*Aquaman Bohemian Rhapsody **Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker (Sun only) *Bumblebee Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald *Mary Poppins Returns Mortal Engines The Mul *Second Act Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse *Welcome to Marwen

STOWE CINEMA 3 PLEX 454 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4678, stowecinema.com

wednesday 19 — thursday 20 *Aquaman (Thu only; 2D & 3D Creed II (Wed only) *Mary Poppins Returns The Mul friday 21 — thursday 27 Schedule not available at press time.

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THE MULEHHH Clint Eastwood directed and stars in this crime drama, based on true events, about a World War II vet caught smuggling cocaine for a Mexican drug cartel. With Bradley Cooper, Taissa Farmiga and Dianne Wiest. (116 min, R)

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104 N. Main St., St. Albans, 527-7888, weldentheatre.com

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wednesday 19 — thursday 20 Becoming Astrid Can You Ever Forgive Me? Mid90s

ROBIN HOODH1/2 A renegade nobleman (Taron Egerton) steals from the rich to give to the poor. With Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn and Eve Hewson. Otto Bathurst directed. (116 min, PG-13)

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. Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston directed. (99 min, PG)

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSEHHHH1/2 This animation te ls the story of Miles Morales (voice of Shameik Moore), a Spider-Man in an alternate universe. With Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld and Mahershala Ali. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman directed. (117 min, PG)

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNETHHHH In Disney’s sequel to the animated comedy Wreck It Ralph, freethinking arcade-game characters learn to navigate the online world. Phil Johnston and Rich Moore directed. (112 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 11/28)

A STAR IS BORNHHHH This update of the perennial tearjerker, set in the music world, stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (who also directed). With Sam Elliott and Dave Chappelle. (135 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 10/10)

friday 21 — thursday 27 *Aquaman The Grinch (except Fri & ue) *Mary Poppins Returns Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse No late evening shows on December 24; no matinees on December 25.

SWIMMING WITH MENHH Joining an all-male synchronized swim team is one man’s solution to a midlife crisis in this comedy-drama from director Oliver Parker (Johnny English Reborn). Rob Brydon and Rupert Graves star. (96 min, NR) VOX LUXHH Natalie Portman plays an aging pop star with a strange origin story in this offbeat musical drama from writer-director Brady Corbet, also starring Jude Law and Raffey Cassidy. (110 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 12/19)

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People have

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)

Until 1920, most American women didn’t have the right to vote. For that matter, few had ever been candidates for public office. „ere were exceptions. In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first to seek a seat in Congress. In 1875, Victoria Woodhull ran for president. Susanna Salter became the first woman mayor in 1887. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, 2019‚will‚be a Stanton-WoodhullSalter type of year for you. You’re likely to be ahead of your time and primed to innovate. You’ll have the courage and resourcefulness necessary to try seemingly unlikely and unprecedented feats, and you’ll have a knack for ushering the future into the present.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Consumer Reports says that between 1975 and 2008, the average number of products for sale in a supermarket rose from about 9,000 to nearly 47,000. „e glut is holding steady . Years ago you selected from among three or four brands of soup and shampoo. Nowadays you may be faced with 20 varieties of each. I suspect that 2019‚will‚bring a comparable expansion in some of your life choices, Aries — especially when you’re deciding what to do with your future and who your allies should be. „is could be both a problem and a blessing. For best results, opt for choices that have all three of these qualities: fun, usefulness and meaningfulness.

been trying to convert ordinary metals into gold since at least 300 AD. At that time, an Egyptian alchemist named Zosimos of Panopolis unsuccessfully mixed sulfur and mercury in the hope of performing such magic. Fourteen centuries later, seminal scientist Isaac Newton also failed in his efforts to produce gold from cheap metal. But now let’s fast forward to 20th-century chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, a distinguished researcher who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1951. He and his team did an experiment with bismuth, an element that’s immediately adjacent to lead on the periodical table. By using a particle accelerator, they literally transmuted a small quantity of bismuth into gold. I propose that we make this your teaching story for 2019. May it inspire you to seek transformations that have never before been possible.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): U.S. President

Donald Trump wants to build a concrete and fenced wall between Mexico and America, hoping to slow down the flow of immigrants across the border. Meanwhile, 12 Northern African countries are collaborating to build a 4,750-mile-long wall of drought-resistant trees at the border of the Sahara, hoping to stop the desert from swallowing up farmland.

During the coming year, I’ll be rooting for you to draw inspiration from the latter, not the former. Erecting new boundaries‚will‚be healthy for you — if it’s done out of love and for the sake of your health, not out of fear and divisiveness.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau advised artists to notice the aspects of their work that critics didn’t like — and then cultivate those precise aspects. He regarded the disparaged or misconstrued elements as being key to an artist’s uniqueness and originality, even if they were as-yet immature. I’m expanding his suggestion and applying it to all of you Crabs during the next 10 months, even if you’re not strictly an artist. Watch carefully what your community seems to misunderstand about the new trends you’re pursuing and work hard to ripen them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1891, a 29-year-old

British mother named Constance Garnett decided she would study the Russian language and become a translator. She learned fast. During the next 40 years, she produced English translations of 71 Russian literary books, including works by Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov. Many had never before been rendered in English. I see 2019 as a Constance Garnetttype year for you, Leo. Any late-blooming potential you might possess could enter a period of rapid maturation. Awash in enthusiasm and ambition, you’ll have the power to launch a new phase of development that could animate and motivate you for a long time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’ll be bold and predict that 2019‚will‚be a nurturing chapter in your story, a time when you‚will‚feel loved and supported to a greater degree than usual, a phase when you‚will‚be more at home in your body and more at peace with your fate than you have in a long time. I have chosen an appropriate blessing to bestow upon you, written by the poet Claire Wahmanholm. Speak her words as if they were your own. “On Earth I am held, honeysuckled not just by honeysuckle but by everything — marigolds, bog after bog of small sundews, the cold smell of spruce.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you‚will‚never, ever get it out.” „is advice is sometimes attributed to 16th-century politician and cardinal „omas W olsey. Now, I’m offering it to you as one of your important themes in 2019. Here’s how you can best take it to heart. First, be extremely discerning about what ideas, theories and opinions you allow to flow into your imagination. Make sure they’re based on objective facts, and make sure they’re good for you. Second, be aggressive about purging old ideas, theories and opinions from your head, especially if they’re outmoded, unfounded or toxic.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Memorize this quote by author Peter Newton and keep it close to your awareness during the coming months: “No remorse. No if onlys.

Just the alertness of being.” Here’s another useful maxim, this one from author Mignon McLaughlin: “Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” Shall we make it a lucky three mottoes to live by in 2019? „is one’s by author A.A. Milne: “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Studies show that the best possible solution to the problem of homelessness is to provide cheap or‚free‚living spaces for the homeless. Not only is it the most effective way of helping the people involved; in the long run, it’s also the least expensive. Is there a comparable problem in your personal life? A chronic difficulty that you keep putting Band-Aids on but that never gets much better? I’m happy to inform you that 2019‚will‚be a favorable time to dig down to find deeper, more fundamental solutions, to finally fix a troublesome issue rather than just address its symptoms.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Many people in Iceland write poems, but only a few publish them. „ere’ s even a term for those who put their creations away in a drawer rather than seek an audience: skúffuskáld, literally translated as “drawer-poet.” Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Aquarius? Do you produce some good thing but never share it?

Is there a part of you that you’re proud of but keep secret? Is there an aspect of your ongoing adventures that’s meaningful but mostly private? If so, 2019‚will‚be the year you might want to change your mind about it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Scientists at Goldsmiths University in London did a study to determine the catchiest pop song ever recorded. After extensive research in which they evaluated an array of factors, they decided that Queen’s “We Are the Champions” is the song that more people love to sing than any other. „is triumphant tune happens to be your theme song in 2019. I suggest you learn the lyrics and melody and sing it once every day. It should help you build on the natural confidence-building influences that‚will‚be streaming into your life.

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BREAD & PUPPET READER You were reading on your car in the B&P parking lot. We got to chattin’. I liked your vibe, but I was with a group and had to jet. I think it was the last weekend in August. When: Saturday, September 1, 2018. Where: Bread & Puppet, Glover.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914616 INCREDIBLE BLUE JACKET AT HOMEPORT Wow. You peeled off your massive blue jacket at the front counter to reveal an absolutely stunning and beautiful woman. I made a comment about the jacket. Wished I could’ve bundled up in that with you on that cold eve. When: Tuesday, December 11, 2018. Where: Homeport, Church Street Marketplace.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914615 MARRY ME, BLUEBERRY You: great flanks and fabulous hair.

Me: devastatingly handsome. First time I saw you: by the fireplace at American Flatbread. Second time, you were a vision on the dance floor in a white dress in BF. ˛ ird time, was that you in LA? How about it ... New Year, new life? When: Tuesday, January 12, 2016. Where: American Flatbread.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914614 LIVE AND LET LIVE Here’s the pitch: Live yours, and I’ll live mine. If there are similarities, we can share. If not, enjoy yours, because I will definitely enjoy mine. When: Tuesday, December 11, 2018. Where: in a field.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914613 AT THE WHAMMY BAR While listening to the sweet, soulful sound of Sara Grace and Soots, you complimented my hair. You came across as genuine and thoughtful. I would like to talk to you more. When: Friday, December 7, 2018. Where: the Whammy Bar. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914612 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FANCYPANTS! You: flashy pants, elegant black-andyellow Grampa’s car, both a LedZeptattooed free spirit and a respectful old soul. Me: the matriarch of a tight-knit fivesome. ˛ ank you for your dedication and sacrifice. Walking the high road builds up noble karma. We look forward to seeing how your next four decades sugar out. Great adventures await! Happy birthday! When: ° ursday, August 30, 2018. Where: Lime Rock Historics.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914611 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARIA A long time ago, we worked together before you took another career path.

Your company was always a pleasure.

Wonder if you remember me. I haven’t forgotten you. When: Tuesday, December 31, 2013. Where: Essex.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914608 SHARP Hey. We have flirted back and forth.

How do you want to proceed from here? We have a lot in common. I don’t even know what town you live in, LOL. Pick a place to meet. When: Monday, December 3, 2018. Where: Seven Days.

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VIVA Not a day has passed that I haven’t thought of you. And us. It’s been so long, sweet girl. When: Saturday, December 1, 2018. Where: my heart.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914605 HANDSOME DAD, HUNGER MT. PRODUCE You: dark hair, skirt (?), children. We were aware of each other. I told you you’re very handsome. We seemed to travel together, you looking at me, me smiling at you. At checkout, you touched my arm, wished me a beautiful night — I thanked you, wished you the same ˛ en something changed. ˛ ere are conversations for us to have. Would love that. Message me. When: Friday, November 30, 2018. Where: Hunger Mountain Coop.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914604 BDC DELIVERY MAN Rise and shine. Saw you bright and early delivering the goods to Maplefields. I should have opened the door for you, but next time I sure will. When: ° ursday, November 29, 2018. Where: Maplefields, Essex. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914603 ZACK’S PLACE TURKEY TROT You stood out from the rest of the Woodstock crowd in a good way in your Carhartt jacket, Helly Hansen snow pants and aviator glasses. I was wearing a red jacket and a big smile, walking with my redheaded friend. I appreciate a guy who is willing to bear the cold for a good cause! Coffee sometime? When: ° ursday, November 22, 2018. Where: Zack’s Place Turkey Trot, Woodstock.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914602 MAYBE SOON It wasn’t what you planned, but I’m glad you moved home! First noticed your eyes and smile ... Gorgeous! As I get to know you, the more my mind is blown.

Would love more games, shows, cold beers, deep pow, cuddles, laughs and more with you! You know why I can’t. Just wanted you to know that you’re on my mind. Maybe soon... ˝ When: Monday, November 26, 2018. Where: Mad River Valley. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914600 RED HEN SMILE AND WAVE My heart races days after seeing you: beautiful smile, some silver hair, powerful energy —˙with two other women. You left; I stared as you walked by. It was as if I was 12 on my first date, then you smiled and waved from the porch! Yes! Can we try this again — with some words and more smiles? When: Tuesday, November 20, 2018. Where: Red Hen bakery. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914599 ST. ALBANS CITY SCHOOL It was a snowy day, and you were walking upstairs with a group of older students after playing outside. We met eyes several times as I stood in the lobby against the wall waiting for dismissal. I wish I had offered you a smile! When: Tuesday, November 27, 2018. Where: walking upstairs, SACS. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914598

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WELL HELLO, HANDSOME Even though you must have a green thumb caring for all those lovely plants, it’s your gorgeous eyes that have caught my attention. ˛ anks for making my days a little brighter.

When: Wednesday, November 21, 2018.

Where: Lowe’s, South Burlington.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914596 JENN AT MILTON HANNAFORD You: cute backpack, gorgeous gray hair and lots of reusable shopping bags. Way too lovely. Me: socially awkward. Let’s get coffee. No expectations. When: Sunday, November 25, 2018. Where: Hannaford, Milton. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914595

SCARLETTLETTERS Dear Scarlett,

I have a crush on a younger guy who is white and age 33. I am 51 years old, but people tell me I look around 37. Also, I am black. What are the chances?

Signed,

Black Cougar (female, 51)

LIGHTHOUSE BARTENDRESS Lighthouse with my boss. ˛ e cutest bartender ever, and I simply wanted to ask where you got your tats. We saw them on your belly several times. You were a fine wine for a parched mouth.

Never did get that hug, and I definitely asked nicely, as you said I would have to. When: Saturday, November 24, 2018. Where: the Lighthouse.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914594 CHARMED AT PENNY CLUSE We glanced and smiled at each other over breakfast. After our parties left, we crossed paths again on Church Street.

Finally we caught up, and I shyly left you my email. You are Olivia, and I’m totally charmed. I’m Robert and never got your email; what happened? I keep thinking about that day in June and would love a second chance. When: Sunday, June 17, 2018. Where: Penny Cluse Café.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914593 CIGARETTE DAYDREAMS You gathered up your things, slipped away, no time at all. I followed you into the hall, cigarette daydreams. You were only 17, so sweet with a mean streak, nearly brought me to my knees.

Cyln, I could give you a reason. When: Saturday, November 22, 2014. Where: snuggling on Barre St. four years ago.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914592 THE ONE ON MY LEFT You are a tall and handsome firefighter.

You came to the front desk the night before ˛ anksgiving and let me nerd out about fire suppression systems.

Want to grab a drink and light my fire?

I mean, warm up by the fire. ˝ When: Wednesday, November 21, 2018.

Where: Hotel Vermont front desk.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914591 LARGER THAN LIFE AT OGE A great dane is your little man. You wear shoes two sizes too big and clothing fit for a giant. With a name like yours, why stop at one when Virginia is for lovers? When: Wednesday, November 21, 2018. Where: OGE. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914590 RAILROAD 10 GREEN FORESTER MAN I asked you for a place to eat breakfast.

I’m still thinking about your eyes. ˝ When: Monday, November 19, 2018. Where: Morrisville. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914589 INTROVERT, THAT MADE YOU LAUGH Ha, now I have a keyword that you will pick up on! When: Sunday, November 18, 2018. Where: Burlington.

You: Man. Me: Man. #914587 JUNE 2ND GOT MY ATTENTION You did, and as much as I thought it was a fake, as you didn’t have a profile, you sure showed you had a profile — a personality I am missing now. When: Saturday, June 2, 2018. Where: Seven Days. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914586

Dear Black Cougar,

For romantic relationships and dating, factors such as age and race can matter — but only as much as you allow them to. ˜ e 18-year age gap between you is substantial, regardless of whether you look your age. You hail from different generations, and that can impact your respective outlooks, desires and maturity levels. ˜ ose differences might get in the way, but they might also turn out to be fun and stimulating — especially since men tend to reach their sexual primes much earlier than women do. It really depends on your chemistry and what both of you expect from the relationship.

Regarding race: ˜ roughout our nation’s history, interracial relationships have not only been considered taboo, they were actually against the law until 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that marriage across racial lines was legal. Since then, they’ve become more and more common. A 2015 Pew Research Center study, for example, found that one in six of all U.S. newlyweds that year had a spouse of a different race or ethnicity, versus just 3 percent in the late ’60s. Obviously, racism is still alive and well, but racial attitudes have changed and, as a result, interracial relationships are on the rise.

Bottom line: His young looks may draw you in, but you really can’t judge a book by its cover. Your “chances” with him depend on what you’re both looking for and how much you have in common — not on when or where you were born or the color of your skin.

Love,

Scarlett

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SUMMARY: Hola, amigos! Julian has found himself at HSCC after spending some time wandering the mean streets of Vermont — holy frijoles! As you can see from his photo, Julian is a swashbuckingly handsome guy with a dashing coat and big green eyes that make everyone fall in amor with him.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0288-14-5B 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093

On December 4, 2018, Colchester Retail, LLC filed application #4C0288-14-5B for a project generally described as the construction of a 6,375 square foot commercial building and associated infrastructure on Lot 1. ‰ e project is located 18 Lower Mountain View Drive in Colchester, Vermont. ‰ e District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. ‰ e application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb. vermont.gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0288-14-5B”.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before January 4, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what

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additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised.

Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above.

Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by January 4, 2019.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed

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project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 13th day of December 2018.

By: /s/Rachel Lomonaco Rachel Lomonaco District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 Rachel.lomonaco@ vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0757-26 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093

On December 7, 2018, SH 2 LLC, c/o Jim Carroll, Jericho, VT 05465 and Vermont Information Processing, c/o John Simard, Colchester, VT 05446 filed application #4C0757-26 for a Project generally described as construction of a reserve 159-space parking lot, including new bituminous pavement, access drive, islands to separate parking aisles, lighting and curbing. ‰ e Project is located at 41 Water Tower Circle in Colchester, Vermont. ‰ e District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. ‰ e application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0757-26”.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before January 7, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised.

Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above.

Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you

are going to need accommodation, please notify us by January 7, 2019.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 12th day of December, 2018.

By: Stephanie H. Monaghan District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802/879-5662 stephanie. monaghan@vermont. gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1311-1 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On December 3, 2018,

World View, LLC filed application #4C1311-1 for a project generally described as the modification of a previously approved multi-unit residential building to increase the number of units from 19 to 24. ‰ e project is located 243 East Allen Street in Winooski, Vermont. ‰ e District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below.

‰ e application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C1311-1”.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before January 4, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised.

Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting

on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above.

Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by January 4, 2019.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 13th day of December 2018.

By: /s/ Rachel Lomonaco Rachel Lomonaco District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 rachel.lomonaco@ vermont.gov BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD TUESDAY JANUARY 8TH, 2019, 5:00 PM PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The Burlington Devel-

opment Review Board will hold a meeting on Tuesday January 8th, 2019 at 5:00pm in Contois Auditorium, City Hall.

1. 19-0449DT; 526 Saint Paul St (RL, Ward 6S) Catherine Barbara Bernard

Appeal of adverse determination regarding determination of existing duplex use.

Plans may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning Office, (City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Participation in the DRB proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. Please note that ANYTHING submitted to the Planning and Zoning office is considered public and cannot be kept confidential. ‰ is may not be the final order in which items will be heard.

Please view final Agenda, at www.burlingtonvt.gov/pz/drb/ agendas or the office notice board, one week before the hearing for the order in which items will be heard.

CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic

regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 27 No parking except with resident parking permit.

[No person shall park any vehicle except vehicles with a valid resident parking permit or a valid guest pass and clearly identifiable service or delivery vehicles on any street designated as “residential parking.”] No person shall park any vehicle except (1) a vehicle with a valid residential street sticker; (2) a

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS vehicle with a valid transferrable residential hanging tag; (3) a clearly identifiable service or delivery vehicle while conducting a delivery or performing a scheduled or requested service; (4) a clearly identifiable car share vehicle; or (5) a vehicle displaying a valid state issued special registration plate or placard for an individual with a disability on any street, or portion thereof, designated as “residential parking.”: (a)-(d) As Written. [(e) (1)-(8) Spaces designated as residential parking at all times for the use of car share vehicles only] Reserved. (f) [Permits. œe Police Department shall issue resident parking permits only to residents of streets, or portions thereof, that are designated “resident parking only” for parking on that street pursuant to [sub]section (g). In addition the Police Department shall issue resident parking permits to car share organizations for parking on all streets,

or portions thereof, that are designated “resident parking only” pursuant to [sub] section (g).] Permits. œe Police Department shall issue resident parking permits only to residents of streets, or portions thereof, that are designated “resident parking only” for parking on that street pursuant to section (i).

(1) [Except as otherwise provided in [sub] section (g), the holder of the permit shall receive a residential street sticker unless the holder does not own a vehicle in which case no sticker will be issued.] Residents may apply for up to four permits if their property has one dwelling unit, and up to three permits per unit if the property has more than one dwelling unit. œe number of dwelling units at a property is the number of units authorized by the city zoning department.

Of the permits issued per dwelling unit, up to two may be in the form of a transferable residential hanging

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tag and the remaining permits shall be residential street stickers that must be affixed to a permitted vehicle. A resident may also be eligible for a 30-day temporary resident permit in order to secure and produce proof of residency in accordance with subsection (h) subject to compliance with the applicable rules.

Permits shall be valid for up to two years, effective the date of issuance.

(5) Replacement permits will be available at a cost of $5 per permit if the old permit is returned at the time a replacement permit is issued. Otherwise, the permit holder will be charged $75 for a replacement permit.

automatically lose all residential parking permits (transferrable residential hanging tags, residential street stickers) for the remainder of the year.

(6) A resident may request up to 8 contractor permits valid for 30 day increments for construction purposes. œe cost of each permit shall be $10 per 30-day period.

(2) [A maximum of 2 guest parking cards shall be issued to each eligible household for which a permit has been issued.] œe cost of a one-year permit shall be $10 for each permit.

(7) œe Police Department may, with 24hour advance notice, grant a resident an exception to the limitation of spaces for a special activity.

[(1) Proof of residency. Proof of residency shall include a valid Vermont driver’s license with an address on the designated street, section of street or abutting corner parcel and a valid Vermont registration for the vehicle(s) involved.

For students, proof of residency shall include a valid current student identification card, a valid driver’s license, vehicle registration from Vermont or another state, and proof of residency on the designated street, section of street or abutting corner parcel.

Residents without a license can prove residency on the designated street by showing a valid written lease, current utility bill, or by being listed on the official voter registra-

(3) œe cost of a twoyear permit shall be $20 for each permit.

(4) Residential parking permits shall be available at no cost to residents located on a street which provides a minimum of 4-hour public parking during daytime hours in accordance with these regulations.

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(8) œe Police Department may, with 24hour advance notice, grant a non-resident an exception to the limitation of spaces for a special activity in exchange for payment of an established administrative fee.

(9) A dwelling unit whose resident(s) receive three or more lawn parking violations per year shall

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(2) Small businesses.

Upon showing of proof of business occupancy, owners and employees of small businesses on streets designated “residential parking” only will be considered residents and issued a resident parking permit if sufficient off-street parking or metered long-term parking at the business location is not available. œe conditions of the business’ zoning permit must be used to determine if a business has sufficient, available off-street parking at its location. œe owner or employee(s) will be issued a choice of a residential street sticker or a guest parking card. Customers of these small businesses may legally park on the street under the authority of the permit.

(3) Display of stickers. Residential street stickers shall be affixed to vehicles on the left-hand side of the rear bumper and shall be visible without ob-

struction at all times.

In order to be valid the sticker must have the resident street name affixed to it.

(4) Car share organizations. Valid car share organizations shall meet the following criteria: 1. Require users to be members of the car share organization.

2. Provide ubiquitous self-service access to all, or most, of a shared fleet of automobiles at locations not staffed by the car-share service organization.

3. Encourage shortterm, local trips and discourage users from driving more than necessary.

4. Provide its members automobile insurance that exceeds the State-mandated minimum when its members are using car share vehicles and shall assume responsibility for maintaining car share vehicles.

Upon showing proof of a valid Vermont registration for the vehicle(s) involved, car share organizations meeting the appropriate criteria will be issued one residential

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street sticker per vehicle. œis sticker will be valid on all streets, or portions thereof, that are designated “resident parking only”.

(5) Fraternities, sororities and dormitories. Upon showing proof of residency, residents of fraternities, sororities and dormitories upon properties separate and distinct from institutions and which abut on designated streets will be issued a permit and a residential street sticker for each resident’s registered vehicle. Each of these buildings may receive 2 guest parking cards plus 1 guest parking card per 4 adult residents over 10 residents per building, subject to a maximum of seven 7 guest cards per building.

(6) Guest parking cards. Guest parking cards are only for use by persons visiting a residence. All guest parking cards shall be displayed at all times without obstruction on the lower left-hand

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(7) Nonstreet resident property owner.

A nonstreet resident property owner on a designated street will be issued a resident parking permit and a choice of a residential street sticker or guest parking card upon presentation of a property tax bill, valid driver’s license and valid vehicle registration.

(8) No permits will be issued to an individual or care share organization with outstanding parking tickets, unless the ticket is being contested in court.]

(1) Proof of residency.

In order to receive a residential parking sticker or transferrable residential hanging tag an individual must produce a valid government issued photo identification and proof of residency. Acceptable documents to prove residency on the designated street or section of street are: a) Valid government issued photo identification with the resident parking street address noted on it. b) Valid motor vehicle registration identifying the resident or a family member as the registered owner of the vehicle. c) Current rental or lease agreement identifying the residence (including an apartment number where applicable) and the resident’s name. d) City record indicating ownership or residency such as tax bill, Assessor’s records or Code Enforcement records. e) Copy of a valid bill or bank statement, no more than 2 months

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old, identifying residence and name of resident. Valid bills include but are not limited to: gas, electric, cable, internet or credit card. f) Current vehicle insurance policy with the resident parking street address noted on it. g) Any other similarly valid and current document with the name of the resident and the resident street noted on it.

(2) Upon showing of proof of business occupancy, owners and employees of small businesses on streets with designated “resident parking” only will be considered residents and issued a resident parking permit if sufficient off-street parking or metered long-term parking at the business location is not available. The conditions of the business’ zoning permit must be used to determine if a business has sufficient, available off-street parking at its location. The owner or employee(s) will be issued a choice of a residential street sticker or a transferrable residential hanging tag. Customers of these small businesses may legally park on the street under the authority of the permit.

(3) Display of stickers.

Residential street stickers must be affixed to vehicles on the left-hand side of the rear bumper and must be visible without obstruction at all times. In order to be valid the sticker must have the resident street code designation or neighborhood designation and license plate number affixed to it.

(4) Display of transferrable residential hanging tags. Transferable residential hanging tags must be hung from the rearview mirror with the side displaying the resident street code designation or neighborhood

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designation affixed to it and visible without obstruction through the front windshield at all times. If a transferable residential hanging tag cannot be hung from the rearview mirror it must be placed on the front dashboard on the driver’s side with the side displaying the residential street code designation or neighborhood designation visible without obstruction through the front windshield at all times.

(5) Fraternities and sororities. Upon showing proof of residency, residents of fraternities and sororities upon properties separate and distinct from institutions and which abut resident parking only designated streets will be issued a permit and a residential street sticker for each resident’s registered vehicle. Each of these buildings may receive two transferrable residential hanging tags.

Buildings with more than ten residents may receive one additional transferrable residential hanging tag for every four adult residents beyond the first ten residents, not to exceed five additional transferrable residential hanging tags in total. The maximum number of transferrable residential hanging tags that any one fraternity or sorority may have is seven. [(9)](6) Designation of area. Only streets within the following designated areas may be designated for resident-only parking.

Those areas are: (1)-(7) As Written. (h) A non-resident property owner who can demonstrate proof of property ownership under subsection (i) of this regulation may obtain one (1) additional resident parking permit above the 4 permit limita-

tion set forth in this regulation. (i) Parking voucher.

One parking voucher per year shall be issued with each residential street sticker or transferrable residential hanging tag which can be returned to Parking Enforcement within that year with a resident parking ticket and the ticket will be voided. (j) Prohibited Uses.

No person shall alter, resell, or otherwise engage in the unauthorized use of a residential permit issued under this section. [(h)](k) Streets designated for resident parking at all times, except between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., non-residents shall not park a vehicle for a period longer than four (4) hours; this four (4) hour time limit shall not apply to residents with a valid residential parking sticker properly displayed or to visitors at a residence with a valid guest pass properly displayed.

(1) On the east side of South Prospect Street beginning three hundred eighteen (318) feet north of Cliff Street extending north eighty (80) feet. [(i)](l) Streets designated for resident parking at all times, except between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., nonresidents shall not park a vehicle for a period longer than four (4) hours; this four (4) hour time limit shall not apply to residents with a valid residential parking sticker properly displayed or to visitors at a residence with a valid guest pass properly displayed.

(1) The south side of Bradley Street.

29 No parking except for the use of car share vehicles.

Spaces designated as no parking at all times except for the use of car share vehicles only:

(1) On the south side of Locust Street in the third space east of the westernmost access road to Calahan Park.

(2) On the north side of Main Street in the first space east of St. Paul Street.

(3) On the south side of Pearl Street in the first space east of Church Street.

(4) In the Fletcher Free Library parking lot in the northeastern most space.

(5) On the south side of Locust Street, in the space forty (40) feet east of the intersection of Charlotte Street and Locust Street.

(6) Two (2) spaces on the gate controlled lower level of the Marketplace Garage.

Adopted this 28th day of November, 2018 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director – Technical Services Adopted 11/28/18; Published 12/19/18; Effective 01/09/19.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 7 No parking areas.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations: (1)-(546) As Written.

(547) On the east side of Germain Street from December 1 to April 1.

(548) On the east side of Latham Court from December 1 to April 1.

(549) On the south side of Hoover Street from December 1 to April 1.

Adopted this 28th day of November, 2018 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners:

Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director – Technical Services Adopted 11/28/18; Published 12/19/18; Effective 01/09/19.

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LEGAL NOTICE Vermont Department of Financial Regulation

89 Main Street Montpelier, Vermont 05602 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

THE VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL REGULATION (“DEPARTMENT”) WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON JANUARY 15, 2018, AT 9:00 A.M., AT THE OFFICES OF THE VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL REGULATION, 29 CHURCH STREET, SUITE 301, BURLINGTON, VERMONT, TO CONSIDER A PETITION SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT BY WELLCARE HEALTH PLANS OF VERMONT, INC. THE SUBSTANCE OF THE PETITION PROVIDES: Pursuant to 8 V.S.A. § 3305, the undersigned incorporators of WellCare Health Plans of Vermont, Inc. hereby petition the Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation to hold a public hearing in Chittenden County to determine whether the establishment and maintenance of WellCare Health Plans of Vermont, Inc. will promote the general good of the State, and to issue a certificate to that effect.

THE PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD AT THE OFFICES OF THE VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL REGULATION, 29 CHURCH STREET, SUITE 301, BURLINGTON, VERMONT. IF YOU REQUIRE ANY SPECIAL MEETING ACCOMMODATIONS

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DUE TO A HANDICAPPING CONDITION, PLEASE PROVIDE ADVANCE NOTICE TO NICHOLAS MARINEAU AT (802) 828-2380. /s/ Michael Pieciak Michael Pieciak Commissioner NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT OF GAS AND OIL LEASE SARAH D. COBURN and

TODD R. ELLSWORTH, owners of a parcel of land with buildings thereon from August 25, 2006 until October 31, 2010, more formally described in a Warranty Deed from Robert M. Lobel and Christine M. Lobel to Sarah D. Coburn and Todd R. Ellsworth dated August 25, 2006 and recorded at Book 335, Page 438 of the Town of Milton Land Records.

Said property is encumbered by a Gas and Oil Lease from John F. Stuart and Bertha A. Stuart to AMOCO Production Company dated January 27, 1982 and recorded at Book 76, Page 90 of the Town of Milton Land Record.

Said Lease shall be considered abandoned because of: a.

The Lease interest is abandoned because the Lease has not been unused for a continuous period of 10 years after July 1, 1973 and no statement of interest has been filed within the preceding five years; b.

There has been no actual production of oil or gas, including production from lands covered by the Lease, or from lands pooled or unitized with such lands; c.

No oil and gas operations are conducted under the terms of the Lease; d.

No payment has been made of rental or royalties for the purposes of delaying the use or continuing the use of the oil and gas interest; e.

No payment

of taxes has been made on the oil and gas interest; and f.

There does not exist a currently valid permit under Chapter 151 of Title 10 or a currently valid drilling permit under this Chapter for development of the oil and gas interest.

Dated this 6th day of December, 2018.

IN PRESENCE OF; /s/ Sarah D. Coburn /s/ Todd R. Ellsworth /s/Karen Frascella Witness /s/ Yana Frascella Witness STATE OF VERMONT FRANKLIN COUNTY, SS. At Montgomery, this 6 day of December, 2018 personally appeared SARAH D. COBURN and TODD R. ELLSWORTH who affirmed to the truth of the foregoing.

Before me, /s/Karen L. Frascella Notary Public Commission Expires: 02/10/19 NOTICE OF TAX SALE

The resident and nonresident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of Lands in the City of Burlington, in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that the real estate taxes assessed by such City for fiscal/ tax year(s) 2017 and 2018 remain either in whole or in part, unpaid and delinquent on the following described lands and premises in the City of Burlington, to wit: Owner(s) of Record: Warren Jay Strausser, III Property Address: 334 Hildred Drive, Unit 334, Burlington, Vermont Tax Account/Map Lot Number: # 046-1-069334 Deed recorded at: Volume 1301 at Page 740.

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Records of the City of Burlington; and so much of the lands will be sold at public auction at City Hall, 149 Church St., Burlington, Vermont 05401 on January 9, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., as shall be requisite to discharge said taxes together with costs and other fees allowed by law, unless the same be previously paid or otherwise resolved.

Dated at the City of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont this 30th day of November, 2018. s/n Beth Anderson Chief Administrative Officer Collector of Delinquent Taxes

Owner(s) of Record: John J. Pare and Raymond D. Pare Property Address: 69 Howard Street, Burlington, Vermont Tax Account/Map Lot Number: # 053-3-075000 Deed recorded at: Volume 361 at Page 519.

Reference may be had to said deed for a more particular description of said lands and premises, as the same appears in the Land Records of the City of Burlington;

Dated at the City of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont this 30th day of November, 2018. s/n Beth Anderson Chief Administrative Officer Collector of Delinquent Taxes

Burlington, Vermont NOTICE OF TAX SALE

–e resident and nonresident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of Lands in the City of Burlington, in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that the real estate taxes assessed by such City for fiscal/ tax year(s) 2017 and 2018 remain either in whole or in part, unpaid and delinquent on the following described lands and premises in the City of Burlington, to wit:

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Dated at the City of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont this 30th day of November, 2018. s/n Beth Anderson Chief Administrative Officer Collector of Delinquent Taxes

mortgagees of Lands in the City of Burlington, in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that the real estate taxes assessed by such City for fiscal/tax year(s) 2018 remain either in whole or in part, unpaid and delinquent on the following described lands and premises in the City of Burlington, to wit: Owner(s) of Record: Graham Revocable Real Estate Trust Property Address: 128 Lori Lane, Burlington, Vermont Tax Account/Map Lot Number: # 024-3-145000 Deed recorded at: Volume 927 at Page 303.

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Reference may be had to said deed for a more particular description of said lands and premises, as the same appears in the Land Records of the City of Burlington; and so much of the lands will be sold at public auction at City Hall, 149 Church St., Burlington, Vermont 05401 on January 9, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., as shall be requisite to discharge said taxes together with costs and other fees allowed by law, unless the same be previously paid or otherwise resolved.

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–e resident and nonresident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of Lands in the City of Burlington, in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that the real estate taxes assessed by such City for fiscal/ tax year(s) 2017 and 2018 remain either in whole or in part, unpaid and delinquent on the following described lands and premises in the City of Burlington, to wit: Owner(s) of Record: Scott P. Chapman Property Address: 228 Elmwood Avenue, Burlington, Vermont Tax Account/Map Lot Number: # 044-3-026000 Deed recorded at: Volume 672 at Page 424.

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Dated at the City of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont this 30th day of November, 2018. s/n Beth Anderson Chief Administrative Officer Collector of Delinquent Taxes Burlington, Vermont

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1348-1018 CNPR

In re estate of Sylvia R. Cameron.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Sylvia R. Cameron late of Burlington, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice.

–e claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. –e claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Date: December 11, 2018 /s/ Shannon Nevers Signature of Fiduciary Shannon M. Nevers Executor/Administrator: 60 West Road Burlington, VT 05408 802-238-2008 Name of publication Seven Days Publication Dates: 12/19/2018

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1546-1118 CNPR In re estate of Dante A.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Dante A. Bergamo, Sr. late of Essex Junction, Vermont.

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I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. ™ e claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. ™ e claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Date: December 12, 2018 /s/ Cyprien J. Arsenault Signature of Fiduciary Cyprien J. Arsenault Executor/Administrator: 51 Eagle Park Dr. Colchester, VT 05446 802-879-7133 Name of publication Seven Days Publication Dates: 12/19/2018 Name and Address of Court: Vermont Superior Court, Probate Division - Chittenden Unit PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Howard D. Wilkins late of Shelburne, 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. ™ e claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. ™ e claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Date: December 7, 2018 /s/ Donald A. Wilkins Signature of Fiduciary Donald A. Wilkins Executor/Administrator: 841 Middlewood Road Williston, VT 05495 802-985-2398 Name of publication Seven Days Publication Dates: 12/19/2018 Name and Address of Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit – Probate Division PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402 THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0101649 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE WILLISTON, VT ,WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 2ND OF JANUARY 2019 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF NANCY KEELER.

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 0102839 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DR. OR 48 INDUSTRIAL DR., OR WINTER SPORT LANE WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT 20TH OF DECEMBER, 2018 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF MICHAEL DOWLING. 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 0200212 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DR. OR 48 INDUSTRIAL DR., OR WINTER SPORT LANE WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT 20TH OF DECEMBER, 2018 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF MELISSA CAPORALE.

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 WESTFORD DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. Chapter 117 and the Westford Land Use & Development Regulations, the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing at the Town Offices, VT Route 128, at 7:15 pm on Monday, January 14, 2019 in reference to the following: Final Plat Public Hearing for a 2 Lot Subdivision & Conditional Use – Karen Munson Property (20.1 acres) on Old Stage Road in the Rural 10 (R10) and Water Resources Overlay (WRO) Zoning Districts. ™ e Applicant seeks to create two lots. Lot 1 is proposed to retain the existing single family dwelling and agricultural structures. Lot 2 is proposed as a single family dwelling building lot. Additionally, the applicant seeks conditional use approval to cross the WRO with Lot 2’s driveway.

For information call the Town Offices at 8784587 Monday–Friday 8:30am–4:30pm.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

™ e following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 7A Accessible spaces designated.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations, except automobiles displaying special handicapped license plates issued pursuant to 18 V.S.A. § 1325, or any amendment or renumbering thereof: 167) As Written (168) On the north side of Pearl Street in the first space west of the driveway to 10 North Champlain Street.

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Tuesdays, 11 a.m.noon, Rutland Heart Center, 12 Commons St., Rutland.

Tuesdays, 5-6 p.m., Castleton Community Center, 2108 Main St., Castleton. Mondays, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center (RRMC Physiatry Conference Room), 160 Allen St., Rutland. PEER LED Stay Quit Support Group, first ™ ursday of every month, 6:307:30 p.m. at the CVPS/ Leahy Community Health Education Center at RRMC. Info: 747-3768, scosgrove@ rrmc.org.

ADDICT IN THE FAMILY: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES OF ADDICTS AND ALCOHOLICS

Wednesdays,«6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish,«4 Prospect St., Essex Junction. For further information, please visit«thefamilyrestored.org«or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or«12lindsaymarie@ gmail.com.

AL-ANON

Adopted this 28th day of November, 2018 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners:

For families & friends of alcoholics. For meeting info, go to«vermontalanonalateen.org«or«call 866-972-5266.

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ALATEEN GROUP

Assistant Director – Technical Services Adopted 11/28/18; Published 12/19/18; Effective 01/09/19.

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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.

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Daily meetings in various locations.

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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP

™ is caregivers support group meets on the 3rd Wed. of every mo. from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Offi ce, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 128, Williston.

Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. ™ ey 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 800-2723900 for more information.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT?

Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Wed., 6:30-7:30 p.m., Methodist Church in the Rainbow Room at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington.

Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390.

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

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DECLUTTERERS’ SUPPORT 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 5989206 or lisamase@ gmail.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.

Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming?

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CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE

SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family and friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction.

It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership.¦Sundays at 5 p.m. at the 1st Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington.¦Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 399-8754.¦You

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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.

EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP

Frustrated with the job search or with your job? You are not alone. Come check out this supportive circle. Wednesdays at¦3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center,¦2 79 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

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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 a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP

Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults 18 & over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills & draw strength from one another. Weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Turning Point Center, corner of Bank St., Burlington. (Across from parking garage, above bookstore). thdaub1@gmail.com.

FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA)

Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat?

FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia.

Local meetings are held twice a week: Mondays,¦4 -5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; and Wednesdays,¦6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more information and a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. and the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit¦foodaddicts.org.

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FREE YOGA FOR RECOVERY

Join Jessica Child for free yoga for individuals in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse.

Every¦Saturday¦at¦3:30 p.m.¦at SoulShine Power Yoga, 1 Market Place #16, Essex Jct. Mats are available at the studio. No experience necessary, just a willingness to deepen your recovery. Info:¦jessicamchild@gmail. com,¦802-999-8655.

G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING)

Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction? Find support, peer-led support group.¦Meets once a month on Mondays in Burlington. Please call for date and location.

RSVP mkeasler3@ gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).

LGBTQ VETERANS GROUP

This veterans group is a safe place for veterans to gather and discuss ways to help the community, have dinners, send packages and help the families of LGBTQ service people.

Ideas on being helpful encouraged.

Every 2nd and 4th¦Wednesday,¦6-8:30 p.m.,¦at Christ Episcopal Church (The Little Red Door),¦64 State Street, Montpelier. RSVP, 802-825-2045.

HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP

This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice hearing experiences as real lived experiences which may happen to anyone at anytime.¦ We choose to share experiences, support, and empathy.¦ We validate anyone’s experience and stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest and accurate representation of their experience, and as being acceptable exactly as they are.

Weekly on Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info:

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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.

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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

The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group will be 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.

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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.

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.

Open 24/7/365.

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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.

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 4:156:15 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.

Shores Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 888-763-3366, parkinsoninfo@ uvmhealth.org, parkinsonsvt.org.

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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.

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HEARTBEAT VERMONT

Have you lost a friend, colleague or loved one by suicide?

Some who call have experienced a recent loss and some are still struggling w/ a loss from long ago. Call us at 446-3577 to meet with our›clinician, Jonathan Gilmore, at Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main St. All are welcome.

HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT

Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107.

People living with cancer & their caretakers convene for support.

INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP

Interstitial cystitis (IC) and painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/ urgency. Ž ese 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

Ž e 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’ offi ces & meal deliveries. Ž e program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers.

For further info, please contact info@ vcsn.net.

LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE

SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional &/or hate violence. Ž ese 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 identifi ed survivors of violence including relationship, sexual assault, and discrimination.›Open to all sexual orientations.

Contact 863-0003 for more information

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or safespace@ pridecentervt.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. Ž ird 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 Ž u., 3-4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St. (enter from parking lot); Berlin, second Ž u. 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 Ž u., 6-7:30 p.m., Loch Lomond, 700 Willson Rd. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@namivt.org or 800-639-6480.

Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living with mental health challenges.

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP

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Bellows Falls, 3rd Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., Compass

School, 7892 US-5, Westminster; Brattleboro, 1st Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., 1st Congregational Church, 880 Western Ave., West Brattleboro; Burlington, 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., HowardCenter, corner of Pine & Flynn Ave.; Berlin, 4th Mon. of every mo., 7 p.m. Central Vermont 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 fl oor; 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 Offi ce, 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. Ž e 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. Ž e 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 Ž u. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint.net. 2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski.

Info: hovermann4@ comcast.net.

OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS

A mutual support circle that focuses on connection 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

Ž e 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. Ž ayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington.

316-3839.

QUEER CARE GROUP

Ž is support group is for adult family members and caregivers of queer, and/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Monday of each month from 6:30-8 p.m. at Outright Vermont, 241 North Winooski Ave. Ž is group is for adults only. For more information, email info@outrightvt.org.

QUIT TOBACCO GROUPS

Are you ready to be tobacco free?› Join our FREE fi ve-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 Ž u. monthly; school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15, 2nd Ž u. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus. Info: burlingtonstutters. org, burlingtonstutters@gmail.com, 656-0250. Go Team Stuttering!

SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP

learn about other groups within driving distance. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Ž ank you!

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP

Ž e Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings and families grieving the loss of a child›meets every third›Tuesday›of the month,›7-9 p.m.,›at Kismet Place, 363 Blair Park Rd., Williston.

Call/email Jay at›802-373-1263,›compassionatefriendsvt@ gmail.com.

For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577. 6:30-8 p.m. the 3rd Tue. of each month.

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VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP

Brattleboro, 257-7989; 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 Ž u. 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. Ž is group is currently full and unable to accept new participants. Please call Linda Livendale at 802-272-6564 to

(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.

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? Ž is is your opportunity to join with other like-minded folks. veggy4life@gmail. com, 658-4991.

WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUP

FAHC. Led by Deb Clark, RN. Every 1st & 3rd Tue., 5-6:30 p.m.

Call Kathy McBeth, 847-5715.

YOGA FOR FOLKS LIVING WITH LYME DISEASE

Join as we build community and share what works on the often confusing, baffling and isolating path to wellness while living with Lyme disease. We will have a gentle restorative practice suitable for all ages and all›levels from beginner to experienced, followed by an open group discussion where we will share what works and support one another in our quest for healing.

By donation. Wear comfortable clothing.

March 5,›April 2,›May 7, June 4.›2-3:30 p.m.

More information at›laughingriveryoga. com

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You can’t miss the Seven Days calendar of events — it takes up most of the back of the paper. This exhaustive guide of local happenings doesn’t assemble itself every week.

Calendar writer Kristen Ravin has the full-time job of compiling all of the listings we receive via the paper’s online submission form, email, snail mail and other sources. A degree in linguistics from the University of Michigan helps her decipher it all.

But getting everything on the right day, in the proper category, with complete and accurate information, is just the first step. “Each listing is edited by a real person — me!” Kristen explains. “It’s my job to turn an everyday event submission into a short, snappy listing that stays true to Seven Days’ style. I also spotlight events in the calendar section and choose and write up the ones in the Magnificent 7, our list of must-do events for the week.”

Kristen practices what she preaches. She was out on the town in Thomas, W. Va., when she met her future husband, Kelly Ravin, who was then a guitarist for the Vermont-based band Waylon Speed. Their romance brought her to the Green Mountains. As a result of her calendar-writing job, she now knows the state better than most native Vermonters.

When Kristen was hired, one relative’s response was, “‘Is there really enough going on in Vermont to fill an entire section of the paper?’” she recalls. “The answer is yes! There’s such a broad range of happenings going on in the state, from festivals to literary readings to community dinners, and I love that I get to play a role in spreading the word.”

Keep this newspaper free for all.

Join the Super Readers at sevendaysvt.com/super-readers or call us at 802-864-5684.

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Wake Robin is Vermont’s premier retirement community and ranks among the top 100 nursing homes in the country; an award due in large part to our excellent staff and facility. Our goal is to provide training and employment opportunities consistent with Wake Robin’s unique brand of resident-centered care.

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Send cover letter and resume by January 4 at 5 p.m. to marketingjob@sevendaysvt.com. In your cover letter, please describe your experience in all the areas mentioned above and your current employment situation. Provide three professional references (including daytime phone and email).

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Direct Support Professional Direct Support Professional and per diem shifts are available at CCS. Work one on one with individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism and make a difference in the lives of others. Starting wage is $14.35 per hour, with mileage reimbursement and a comprehensive benefit package. This is an excellent job for applicants entering human services or for those looking to continue their work in this field. Send your cover letter and application to Karen Ciechanowicz, staff@ccs-vt.org.

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• Grants management and accounts monitoring • Meeting and inservice coordination • Office reception • Office management • Collaboration and cross-training with other office staff This is a 12-month position and is open immediately. Associate’s Degree in Business and four years’ related work experience in an office environment or a combination of education and experience; excellent interpersonal and technology skills; and ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment are a must. Apply at:

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Seeking individuals or couples 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 available. We are currently offering a variety of opportunities. For more information contact Jennifer Wolcott, jwolcott@ccs-vt.org or 655-0511 ext. 118

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Sterling College seeks applications for a full-time Livestock Manager responsible for overseeing a diversified livestock operation, including support for our draft animals.

The Livestock Manager plans stewardship and executes farm Sterling College, aoperations college of environmental in Craftsbury Comin support of student learning in sustainable mon, Vermont invites applications for the position a Marketing Coordinaagriculture and food systems, while producingof food for the College’s award winning farm-to-plate dining service. tor. The Marketing Coordinator supports Sterling’s recruitment effort and Successful applicants should have several seasons of the Office of Admission to reach its enrollment goals of degree and cerlivestock management experience, and a passion for both edand collaborative management.

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The College is seeking applicants with a unique eye for photography, a workknowledge of both WordPress and social media, ability to conceive, Join northern New England’s premiering performing arts center as our next Director of Development. shoot, edit, and cut short movies in iMovie or Adobe Premier, and strong Senior Linux Administrator written communication skills. Applications (including a cover letter, résumé, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT and Team Lead and names and contact information of three references) must be sent via The Director of Development oversees thethe Flynn’s Systems and Software (S&S) is a software development and donor relations program and manages a broad e-mail to klavin@sterlingcollege.edu. professional services company headquartered in Winooski, VT. range of fundraising initiatives. The director At S&S, we design, build, and implement software for the energy works closely with senior management and the Sterling College is an Equal Opportunity Employer market and progressive utilities across North America. Our Board to accomplish multiple departmental reputation is one of market-leading software, exceptional solution and organizational objectives. The successful delivery, and a customer-focused organization. candidate will be a strategic leader with 8+ years’ fundraising, foundation relationship, and grant Details: writing experience. Excellent interpersonal and7days.inddResponsible Marketing Coordinator 1 for the technical design, planning, implementation, verbal communication skills required, as well as performance tuning and recovery procedures for mission critical comfort with an active, public role representing enterprise systems. Serves as a technical expert in the area of the Flynn Center. system administration for complex operating systems including For a detailed job description and more information, visit:

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Centurion of Vermont is proud to be the provider of healthcare services to the Vermont Department of Corrections. We invite you to learn more about the environment that is often referred to as “nursing’s best kept secret”…Correctional Nursing.

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We are currently seeking Vermont Licensed Practical Nurses (full time, 36 hours per week, nights) and Licensed Nursing Assistants (per diem) to provide nursing care in a correctional healthcare setting at our Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington, VT. We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package for FULL TIME including:

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Now Hiring for the Following Positions graduate degree or experienced staff who are looking to develop their crisis management skills.

OFFERING A $1,000.00 SIGN ON BONUS! POSITION REQUIRES: • Team player who values collaboration • Supporting adults experiencing crises with the goal of diverting hospitalizations • Flexibility with schedule • Current job opening is for full-time overnight shifts from 6pm-6am • NCSS is 25 minutes from Burlington and close to Interstate 89

Intensive Case Manager: Ideal position for an experienced case manager looking for a way to apply skills. OFFERING A $1,000.00 SIGN ON BONUS! POSITION REQUIRES: • Team player who values collaboration • Supporting adults with severe mental illness experiencing crises • Responsible for medication deliveries and management • Flexible schedule, including some evenings and weekend rotation • Bachelor’s Degree with acute care experience preferred, however an Associate’s Degree in the Human Service field and/or relevant experience will be considered • NCSS is 25 minutes from Burlington and close to Interstate 89 Residential Subs: NCSS is seeking individuals with a passion for working with individuals with mental illness to join our residential programs as a sub. Responsibilities include providing a supportive environment in a residential setting, assisting with problem solving, behavioral interventions, and providing strength based education. Ideal candidates are compassionate and energetic individuals with flexible schedules that can work varying shifts including but not limited to week days, awake over nights, and weekends. Some knowledge or experience in a residential program or working with individuals with mental illness population preferred but not required.

Master Clinician: The Community Rehabilitation and Treatment Program seeks a clinician with strong clinical leadership experience to work closely with staff and program leadership to serve adults with severe mental illness. Master Clinician will conduct intakes and reassessments, implement a range of assessment and intervention models (DBT training preferred), and provide individual psychotherapy services as well as facilitate group psychotherapy. Position also involves enhancing our quality reviews process and training staff on evidenced-based practices. Must have master’s level licensure by January 2019. Experience working with adults with severe mental illness and in multiple treatment modalities is required. Position involves services in the home, office, and community settings. NCSS is 25 minutes from the Burlington area and close to Interstate 89. This is a full-time, benefited position.

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DATA QUALITY ANALYST – FULL TIME The role of Data Quality Analyst is an integral role in our rapidly growing company. This is an excellent opportunity for intelligent, outgoing, and self-motivated persons seeking rapid professional development and acquisition of new business skills. You must possess the ability to look critically at trends, make conclusions and implement practical real-world solutions. The position requires working closely with our beverage distributor and supplier customers to solve problems. You’ll be responsible for monitoring data quality by using analytical tools to ensure that information is accurate. As their go-to person, you’ll provide support and offer guidance and direction on the proper use of their reporting systems. Team members must develop strong, positive, constructive relationships with assigned customers and form a balance between analytics’ and customer support.

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Healthy Relationships Project Trainer Full-time position supports preschools 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, knowledge of child development & sexual abuse preferred.

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Social Work Care Coordinator Women’s Health Initiative at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNE) in partnership with the Vermont Blueprint for Health is currently seeking a Social Work Care Coordinator.

Description: We’re hiring! Seeking a Social Worker to join our Community Health Team. Contribute to an exciting new initiative that will directly impact the health of women in our community, helping them to navigate family planning. The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Social Worker will work to ensure women’s health providers have the resources they need to help women be well, avoid unintended pregnancies, and build thriving families. This is a part-time position combined in both the St. Albans Health Service area; located in the St. Albans Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNE) site.

Education: LICSW preferred; Other licensed individuals considered; MSW acceptable with clear plan for supervision toward licensure.

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Employer: NCSS To apply for these positions, please visit our website at www.ncssinc.org/careers or email us your resume and cover letter at careers@ncssinc.org.

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Central Vermont Substance Abuse Services Central Vermont Substance Abuse Services is a nonprofit organization located in Berlin, VT, providing substance abuse services to central Vermont residents. The range of services provided includes outptient, intensive outpatient, intervention, education, prevention, intervention, and treatment services.

HUB Clinician: We are seeking clinicians to work

with adults as a part of our Hub & Spoke medication assisted therapy (MAT) program. This position will focus on access, engagement, stabilization to help clients build a bridge from the MAT program to other local MAT treatment options. Work will involve assessments, case management, treatment planning, group & individual counseling, referral, and coordination with community partners such as the DOC, DCF, or other treatment providers. Previous experience working with people in recovery from addictions is preferable. A Master’s Degree is strongly preferred; Bachelor’s Degree with previous experience will be considered. Must obtain AAP credential and be actively working towards LADC licensure. Working hours are roughly from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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Now Hiring for the Following Positions Reach Up Clinician: Be part of an exciting initiative between NCSS & the Agency of Human Services Reach p ffice. ur ehavioral Health ivision is seeking a candidate who will provide to each p participants assessments support services. ssessment services involve working with dults to determine individual and family strengths, needs, and functioning as well as needs across all environments. his person will coordinate care with each p teams collaborate with a range of providers and assist in developing the program to meet identified needs. he ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, individual and group therapy skills, ability to navigate multiple systems and a can do/flexible approach to challenging situations. andidate must possess a aster s egree and be eligible for licensure.

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Therapist: ome see what makes SS a great place to work e are currently hiring for an utpatient linician. he focus of this position is to provide behavioral health psychosocial evaluations, therapy and consultation for clients of all age groups. he ideal candidate will be trained in ialectical ehavior herapy, have experience working with a range of disorders, and be comfortable with brief and group treatment models. S / S or H required. Some evening hours required. ur clinic offers excellent benefits and is located close to nterstate and is a short commute from urlington and surrounding areas.

Children’s Therapist: ome see what makes SS a great place to work e are currently hiring for an utpatient therapist. his position provides psychosocial evaluations, therapy and consultation for clients of all age groups. he ideal candidate will have an interest in working with children and families and be comfortable with brief and group treatment models. S / S or H preferred or license eligible. his position can receive supervision towards licensure, group supervision, billing and crisis support. he agency provides excellent benefits, competitive salary and it is located close to nterstate and is a short commute from urlington and surrounding areas.

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The Vermont Humanities Council seeks to engage all Vermonters in the world of ideas, foster a culture of thoughtfulness, and inspire a lifelong love of reading and learning. The Community Programs Associate will be part of a highly-effective team coordinating, organizing and implementing signature programs such as our First Wednesdays Humanities Lecture Series, Ideas on Tap, Reading Frederick Douglass and more, with a particular emphasis on community engagement, diversity and inclusion. Experience working in diverse communities is highly desirable. Past experience organizing cultural and/or arts events is required. Position is based in Montpelier but works statewide. Full job description at www.vermonthumanities.org/jobs.

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Application deadline December 31. Starting date is flexible, but early 2019 is desired. Please send letter of interest, resume, and writing sample to: Nancy Kirkland, Human Resources Administrator, Dept. of Financial Regulation, 89 Main St., Montpelier, VT, 05602 or by email to nancy.kirkland@vermont.gov.

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Vermont’s second largest college isadministrative looking for dynamicleadership leaderfor to We seek an energetic and resourceful leader to provide andaprogrammatic the federally funded TRIO/Student low income, first generation take its marketing teamSupport to theServices nextprogram level.which Thetargets Director of Marketing college students. Five years’ experience in higher education or related field, with Master’s degree in and Communications at the Community College of Vermont will relevant area required. Expertise in management of staff, budgets and grant projects. Flexible hours and provide strategic statewide travel are required.vision, exceptional leadership, and administrative To view the complete posting and apply:public relations, oversight for marketing, communications, ccv.edu/learn-about-ccv/employment/ institutional websites, new media, and print publications, and will boost CCV’s brand presence throughout Vermont. The ideal candidate CCV encourages applications from candidates who reflect our diverse student population. CCV is an EOE/ has signifi cant experience digital marketing and analytics, ADA compliant employer; auxiliary aidswith and services are available upon request to individuals with a CVAA is anbig-picture Equal Opportunity Employer with rock-solid proven ability todisabilities. balance bold thinking operational management, and a genuine passion for CCV’s studentcentered mission. If you are savvy, solutions-oriented, and want to work hard with a talented team of creative people, apply now at ccv.edu/learn-about-ccv/employment/.

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.

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PUBLIC OUTREACH MANAGER – MONTPELIER

The Vermont Agency of Transportation seeks a Public Outreach anager to lead the Agency’s outreach and communication program. The ideal candidate will be comfortable uggling multiple pro ects and competing deadlines and working in emergent, time-sensitive situations. An ability to distill technical information into easily understood print and visual communication, in addition to knowledge of media relations, digital marketing, creative direction, and contract management is desired. For more information, contact et McTear at 802 828 2 8 or bet .mctear@ vermont.gov. Reference ob D 580. Status: Full Time. Application Deadli ne: December 28, 20 8.

SUBS TANCE ABUSE PROGRAM MAN AGER – BURLINGTON ake a valuable contribution to the shape and focus of substance use disorder (S D) programming while helping to improve the lives of Vermont’s more vulnerable citi ens. This position involves the oversight and management of grantees providing services to individuals and is an exciting and challenging opportunity for an individual with program management and oversight experience and experience in the S D or other related field. For more information, contact Megan Mitc ell at megan. mitc ell@vermont.gov. Department: Healt . Reference ob D 2 . Status: Full Time imited. Application Deadline: December 25, 20 8.

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Seeking self-starter to oversee and manage our diverse por olio of stateowned and leased facility assets. ou will handle implementing a facility asset management strategy to optimi e the use of capital investments, minimi e life-cycle costs, and support organi ational outcomes.

Experience with asset management software needed. Candidates must have the ability to set up and maintain effective working relationships and thrive in a fast-paced always changing facilities environment. For more information, contact Step en Frey at step en.frey@vermont.gov. Department: uilding and eneral Services. ob D 225. Status: Full Time. Application Deadline: anuary 2, 20 9.

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All ideal Goddard College candidates will have a genuine personal commitment to social justice, inclusion, and equity with regard to race, disability, class, religion, national origin, marital/civil union status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran/ uniformed service status, disability, and other legally-protected classifications.

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Director of Campus Facilities

This position directs and manages all College buildings/grounds maintenance, custodial functions, and new construction projects to ensure compliance with all internal and external regulations, standards, and requirements. This position requires a hands-on, task oriented approach; the ability to physically work alongside those being supervised on a daily basis is a necessary aspect of the position. Salary Range: $55,000 to $65,000 annually; Benefit Eligible: This full-time position is eligible for our generous benefits package.

Now Hiring RNs and LPNs to join our Ambulatory nursing team. Full and part-time positions available in Burlington, South Burlington, Colchester, Williston, and Berlin.

Admissions Inquiry Counselor

This position serves as the first point of contact with prospective students about pedagogy & program offerings; represents the college and its academic programs to the public; and supports robust enrollment of a diverse and non-traditional student body. This position involves considerable online and phone work, interviewing, as well as an understanding of and a commitment to progressive education. Benefit Eligible: This full-time position is eligible for our generous benefits package.

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The Washington County Youth Service Bureau seeks a dynamic individual to help support the Vermont Youth Development Corps AmeriCorps State and Vermont Youth Tomorrow AmeriCorps VISTA programs.

Assistant Director of National Service Programs: Looking for an organized and detail-oriented person with good written and verbal communication skills, computer proficiency, administrative experience, and a positive attitude. Prior National Service or Peace Corps experience a plus. This position is one of three Assistant Directors who help manage two statewide AmeriCorps programs. Duties: recruit, support, and manage AmeriCorps members and sites; help manage grants and write reports; coordinate and facilitate monthly training; implement public relations campaigns; maintain databases and websites; and monitor members and sites. Send cover letter and resume to Hiring Committee at vyt.vydc@wcysb.org by 3 January 2019.

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This position works with prospective students; represents the college and its academic programs to the public; and supports a robust enrollment of a diverse and non-traditional student body. This position involves considerable online and phone work, interviewing, as well as an understanding of and a commitment to progressive education. Benefit Eligible: This full-time position is eligible for our generous benefits package.

Goddard Graduate Institute (GGI) One-Semester Faculty The Goddard Graduate Institute (GGI) seeks a faculty member for one semester to work with graduate students in Social Innovation and Sustainability. The MA in Social Innovation and Sustainability prepares students to design strategic, interdisciplinary and resilient responses to complex social challenges, and to engage in professions or create initiatives where this expertise is applicable. The faculty member will serve during the spring 2019 semester, and must physically attend residency-related events February 1222, 2019, in Plainfield, Vermont. The anticipated student load is 4-6 students. Note: this position availability is dependent upon student enrollment.

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Champlain Community Services is a growing developmental services provider agency with a strong emphasis on self-determination values and employee and consumer satisfaction.

Nursing Opportunity Part time, flexible position supporting individuals through our developmental services and long term care programs. This is an exciting and unique opportunity for a registered nurse who wants to make an impact on a variety of individuals. Experience with individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism is preferred but not required. Responsibilities include training of staff, quality assurance, general nursing oversight and advocacy for consumers.

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TEACHER ASSOCIATE: The Waitsfield Children's Center (WCC) is a 5 STARS program that serves infants through preschool aged children. Our philosophy is to provide high quality nurturing education in an environment that combines structure with a play-based curriculum. Nestled between a working farm and forests, we are active explorers who love to spend time learning and playing outside.

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