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1. “Plans for a Utopian ‘Ubuntu’ Community Cause Stir in Bolton” by Alicia Freese. A group is trying to raise $500,000 to build a money-free community in Vermont.

2. “Bike Smut Film Festival Comes Again”

by Rachel Elizabeth Jones. Who knew bike porn was a thing?

3. “Did Shumlin Swing Senate Race After Leaving Washington County?” by Paul Heintz. The governor says he cast his vote for Francis Brooks, who won his primary by just one vote.

4. “Scott, Minter Showcase Stark Differences in First Debate” by Terri Hallenbeck. The first face-off between the two major-party gubernatorial candidates was relatively civil.

5. “Amid Turmoil, Sanders Launches Our Revolution Political Group” by Paul Heintz.

Despite a shake-up in the top ranks of the new political organization, Bernie Sanders launched it as planned in Burlington.

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A nonprofit nominated Vermont’s cobblestone tiger beetle for federal endangered status.

The bug lives along only nine or 10 U.S. rivers, including the Winooski.

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Someone called police near midnight August 21 to report “a large boulder in the parking lot of the Green Mountain Plaza in Rutland Town,” according to Vermont State Police. The decorative rock had been dragged by a tractor-trailer from one end of the lot to another, witnesses said. Police found no one at the scene but later discovered a damaged “truck/trailer” nearby. The driver, 55-year-old David P. Seeley, of Gray, Maine, had allegedly consumed alcohol while driving the commercial vehicle from Maine to Vermont, police said.

He was charged with DUI and leaving the scene of an accident.

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LOST AND FOUND Some of us at Seven Days were confused last week when police issued a press release about a lost ID card found in Wells River. Doesn’t that, like, have the person’s address on it? Yes, Trooper Justin Thomson told Seven Days, it does. But Thompson didn’t have a phone number for the guy and figured it’d be easy to send out a plea for help. Turns out, it was. “This story does have a happy ending,” Thompson said. “I have been in contact with the owner, and hopefully he will be reunited soon with his stuff.” There was more than just an ID: Someone found the man’s entire wallet.

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Sometimes you just don’t know what you’ll spot driving down Vermont roads. One man last week reported a monkey wandering around Westminster to the Bellows Falls police department, Chief Ron Lake told Seven Days. The PD posted the news to its Facebook page to alert the exotic animal’s owner, but an overeager media was quick to phone in and ask questions, an exasperated Lake said.

The spotlight was so intense that the department removed the post from social media. “All I was trying to do was reconnect the monkey with its owner,” Lake explained. The man who reported the sighting is a friend of Lake’s. “I know he’s a Vietnam veteran; I know he’s seen monkeys before; and no, he does not drink,” the chief said.

“He told me, ‘I swear to God I know what it was. It had a real long tail and was going on all fours.’” As of press time, the monkey’s fate was unknown. The Brattleboro Reformer reported Thursday that the animal was still on the loose; in an email to Seven Days Monday, Lake declined to provide a further update.

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In 2014, Vermont passed a law that allows undocumented residents to drive legally. Championed by immigration groups and the dairy industry, which employs migrants, people who show they live in Vermont can get a driver’s privilege card even without proof of legal immigration status.

Abdel Razaq Rababah, a Jordanian national who had lived in Vermont for 10 years, headed to a Department of Motor Vehicles branch in Dummerston to take advantage of the law, as Mark Davis reported Tuesday on our Off Message blog.

The reception? DMV employees were “openly hostile,” initiated a fraud investigation that was ultimately deemed unfounded and reported him to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That’s according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, which represented him in a complaint made to the Vermont Human Rights Commission.

In fact, the DMV summoned Rababah to a meeting where he was met by ICE agents and arrested. He was in custody several days and spent two years embroiled in immigration court proceedings.

DMV settled Rababah’s complaint by agreeing to change its driver’s license application, to provide training to employees to prevent discrimination and to pay him $40,000.

“We acknowledged we had made a couple mistakes and have already gone to work to correct them so they don’t occur,” DMV Commissioner Robert Ide said. “We hope that nothing like this happens again.”

“Actions like those taken against Mr. Rababah, based on his national origin, have a chilling effect on others who may wish to take advantage of this important program,” Human Rights Commissioner Karen Richards said in a prepared statement. “The public-interest relief obtained through this settlement will help to ensure that this vital benefit is available to those it is intended to serve without risk of immigration consequences.”

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I am writing to denounce the $2 million spent on a GMO labeling bill lasting a mere I would like to thank Alicia Freese for her three weeks [“Last Seven,” August 17]. I am article on the painters’ efforts to help out in favor of the “right to know” argument, Charlie’s Boathouse [“Artists Rally to Keep but the long-standing science indicates Charlie’s Boathouse Afloat,” August 17]. It that genetic modification poses no signifiwas a much longer article than I expected, cant threats to human health. Personally, and I was pleased for the most part with I am far more concerned with the right its content. to know the chemicals used to produce The money raised will help the boat- my food! Gene transfer among unrelated house, but Charlie Auer Jr. and Christine organisms is a completely natural and Auer Hebert are not going anywhere. At ubiquitous process (search “horizontal the end of this season, when all the boats, gene transfer” and peruse the evidence). kayaks and canoes are stored, they’ll get a I also write to encourage Vermonters much-deserved rest from the service they to think outside the box on solving the provide there and will reopen next year. multifaceted food-system problems. I am Please enjoy them as you bike in the not writing in favor of agribusinesses that coming weeks. are solely interested in profit. Yet can we Jim Gorman begin a conversation about how to unite BURLINGTON organic agriculture, genetically modified crops, polycultures and perennial crop

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[Re Off Message: “Scott, Minter Showcase Stark Differences in First Debate,” August 23]: I would like to know why Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sue Minter thinks changing from our Vermont health exchange to the federal exchange, or some other state’s exchange, would “leave hundreds of Vermonters with less coverage.” As I understand it, the exchange is basically a storefront for the various health insurance plans available in this state. Any other storefront should offer the same product. By proposing to make Vermont Health Connect “fully functional,” she is proposing to send more tax money down that expensive VHC rathole.

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Thank you for your recent coverage of the Green Party’s Dr. Jill Stein [Off Message: “‘Jill Over Hill’? Stein Makes a Play for Bernie-or-Bust Protesters,” July 27]. Though belated after Stein’s hugely popular speaking event at Burlington’s McClure Multigenerational Center, the article was informative about the Green Party candidate for president, and the media is obligated to inform us of our choices in the voting booth.

On August 17, CNN hosted a town hall featuring Stein and her running mate Ajamu Baraka, which is now available for viewing on YouTube. Watching it is an opportunity to hear the Green Party candidates answer questions from the public and describe their plan for taking back our government from the wealthy elites, who have hijacked our democracy.

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In Richmond, the Winooski River spilled throughout downtown, claiming 15 pigs and all of the crops and hay at Jericho Settlers Farm, ruining the entire garden at On the Rise Bakery in Richmond and, of course, spilling through houses. When the same river poured into downtown Waterbury on Sunday night, it filled the basement of the Alchemist Pub & Brewery, tossing around kegs and bags of grain as if someone picked up the room, shook it and threw it back down. It also rose onto the main floor to waist level before pulling back Monday morning. Later that day, some of the pub’s 22 employees were scrubbing and pushing out mud.

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The Joan Hutton Landis Summer Reading Series in Rochester is coming to an end. Former Vermont poet laureate Sydney Lea is teaming up with Sue Miller for a recital of verse that wordsmiths and lovers of the lyric arts won’t want to miss.

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“I support him mainly because I’m worried about safety,” Pam Ackerson explained as she assembled Trump lawn signs inside the Robert E. Miller Expo Centre. “And I wanna see a border wall. And I wanna see the laws for immigration enforced … We’re Free Shine with Most Repairs! either a country of laws or we’re not.”

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Leaning against a far corner of the booth were a few lawn signs for the party’s last best hope in Vermont: Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT, 27 Taft Corners Shopping Center who is running for governor as an antiTrump moderate.

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Pressed further on what Scott’s anti-Trump position said about the LG, Ackerson demurred.

“I’m not gonna answer that,” she said.

ANDREW DURFEE was more forthcoming.

As he dropped by the booth to pick up a Trump bumper sticker, the Fairfield RV salesman referred to Scott as “another Republican lite.”

“You know what?” he said. “These guys who are afraid to say they support Trump — it’s like, you’re not gonna get my vote.”

Asked who he would support in Vermont’s gubernatorial election this November, Durfee quickly backtracked.

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a general-election race in true-blue Vermont. But it has led to an unusual situation within the local GOP infrastructure: The Vermont Republican Party does not plan to lift a finger for its own presidential candidate.

“Obviously Donald Trump is our nominee for president nationally, and we’ll support him,” Vermont GOP chair DAVID SUNDERLAND says. “But our energy and our focus is completely on statewide races and continuing to pick up legislative seats.”

According to Sunderland and the party’s executive director, JEFFREY BARTLEY, the organization will not mention Trump when it calls voters, knocks on doors or sends mass mailings.

“We’ve told the Trump campaign that if they want us to be a distribution point for people to pick up stuff, that’s fine,” Bartley says. “But the focus of our office is to support Vermont Republican candidates.”

Sunderland, a former state representative who lives in Rutland, won’t even say whether he personally supports Trump.

“It doesn’t matter what I think,” he says.

That’s not to say that the presidential nominee is without friends in Vermont.

REPUBLICANS FAILED TO FILL THEIR SLATE. Trump hired veteran operative DARCIE JOHNSTON in May to serve as his state director and recently tapped Charlotte attorney and state party vice chair BRADY TOENSING to be his campaign’s Vermont chair. And local groups, such as the Chittenden County GOP, are free to promote Trump, Sunderland says — as they did this week at the fair.

It’s unclear whether Scott’s opposition to Trump will cost him — or the state party — financial support. The Republican National Committee, which did not respond to a request for comment, is currently directing just $1,250 per month to its Vermont affiliate, according to Bartley.

“I think the RNC’s focus is really more on swing states,” Sunderland says.

“So I don’t think they were going to be a major player in Vermont anyway.”

The Republican Governors Association appears to be perfectly fine with Scott’s defection. The group has for weeks been running television advertisements promoting the LG. “It doesn’t have any bearing,” RGA spokesman JON THOMPSON says. “Scott

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Scott campaign coordinator BRITTNEY WILSON says the Trump situation “hasn’t played a huge role either way” in fundraising — or courting votes.

“I think they can put their small differences aside there and know that Phil’s the candidate who’s gonna make Vermont more affordable,” she says.

While the Vermont GOP is firmly behind Scott, it’s hardly flush with resources. The organization has raised just $191,000 in its federal account this calendar year and had just $8,580 in its coffers earlier this month, according to its latest filing with the Federal Election Commission. The Vermont Democratic Party, by contrast, collected $474,000 and had nearly $58,000 in reserves.

The GOP is also outmanned. In addition to Bartley, it has just three others on staff. It’s opened six field offices, some of which are operated by volunteers.

The Democrats have a far more sophisticated operation. The party has 20 full-time staffers on the payroll — including nine field organizers and three regional field directors — and has 11 offices open, according to spokeswoman CHRISTINA AMESTOY. Since June, coordinated campaign director CAMERON RUSSELL and his team have been running a $700,000-800,000 effort to identify likely voters and build a field apparatus for whichever candidates won the Democratic primaries. The party has already attempted at least 170,000 voter contacts, Russell says, and is set to exceed by 150 percent the 300,000 it made two years ago.

Political professionals generally agree that even the best field organizations only shift a race’s outcome by a few percentage points — but that can make all the difference.

“We’re pretty confident that in 2014, were it not for the field program, we may well have lost that race,” Russell says, referring to Democratic Gov. PETER SHUMLIN’s 2,434-vote victory over Republican SCOTT MILNE. Even if 2016 turns out to be a banner year for the GOP, Republicans are limited in how many offices they can fill.

The party failed to find candidates to challenge Congressman PETER WELCH (DVt.), Treasurer BETH PEARCE or Secretary of State JIM CONDOS. Even the fringe Liberty Union Party managed to recruit more statewide contenders.

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Milne may not be running much of a campaign, but Sen. Leahy seems strangely reticent to debate him.

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As we reported last week, the Republican challenger has been trying, without success, to talk the Democratic incumbent into at least four broadcast tête-à-têtes — on WCAX, WPTZ, Fox 44 and Vermont PBS. But Leahy has said he’ll only take part in three — on Vermont PBS, Vermont Public Radio and Burlington public access station Channel 17 — and he will not participate in any newspaper debates.

Last Friday, Leahy campaign manager JAY TILTON explained why: The senator is just too darn busy.

“Sen. Leahy’s first priority is the job Vermonters elected him to do,” Tilton said in a press release, “but he looks forward to returning to the campaign trail once Senate business concludes this fall.”

Um. What? The Senate started a seven-week recess on July 18 and isn’t scheduled to return until September 5.

When Seven Days pointed out the discrepancy, Tilton said he “should have been more clear.” But even after repeated requests, he would not provide a detailed schedule of what Leahy’s been up to for the past six weeks.

Tilton did provide another explanation as to why Leahy wouldn’t take part in debates hosted by, say, WCAX, WPTZ, Seven Days or the Burlington Free Press: “precedent.”

“Traditionally, there are three debates in races for the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House,” he said. “Senator Leahy will follow this precedent.”

But as Milne pointed out Monday in an open letter to his opponent, Leahy hasn’t always abided by such self-set rules.

“You claim that Vermont ‘tradition’ dictates a limit of three debates for the office of U.S. Senate,” Milne wrote. “I found this ridiculous claim all the more disingenuous given you challenged Jim Douglas to six debates in 1992.”

Milne also pointed to another ancient flip-flop. During a VPR debate with 1998 Republican nominee FRED TUTTLE, Leahy sounded as if he were the president of Common Cause.

“I’m the only person ever elected to federal office in Vermont who’s done it without taking PAC money,” the senator said. “And I don’t. I’ve seen how the scramble for PAC money allows too many of the special interests to come in.”

Leahy’s certainly seen it by now. In the past six years, according to the FEC, he’s raised more than $1.3 million from special-interest PACs. Asked for an explanation, Tilton would only say that Milne “continues to run a campaign by press release.”

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And while Scott may be the strongest candidate the Republicans have run since former governor JIM DOUGLAS, not everyone on the slate is making a real go of it.

Essex consultant DAN FELICIANO, who ran for governor in 2014, is challenging Democratic/Progressive state Auditor DOUG HOFFER this fall. But Feliciano has been working in Mexico for the past two months, returning to Vermont only briefly for weekends. He confirmed his new gig in an email to Seven Days a week and a half ago but hasn’t responded to requests for an interview since.

“Is that why I don’t see him?”

Republican attorney general candidate DEB BUCKNAM says of Feliciano. “I don’t think I’ve ever met him.”

Milne, meanwhile, is running one of the most unconventional U.S. Senate races in the country. The almost-governor challenged 42-year incumbent Sen. PATRICK LEAHY (D-Vt.) in May, but he hasn’t held a single public event since. He has raised almost no money, has barely updated his website and says he doesn’t plan to hire any staffers. His daughter, ELISE MILNE, couldn’t start her unpaid gig as his campaign manager until she took the bar exam last month.

That’s not to say that Milne’s been taking it easy. He says he spends roughly an hour a day standing by the side of the road, holding a “Milne for Senate” sign.

Seven Days spotted him two weeks ago lurking alone at the southbound on-ramp of Interstate 89 in South Burlington.

“That sign wave went pretty good,” he says. “I had one streak of 10 waves and thumbs-ups in a row. But I had a streak of two thumbs-downs, four noresponses and then two birds in a row.”

Rounding out the Republicans’ statewide slate are Bucknam, the AG candidate, and RANDY BROCK, who is running for lieutenant governor. Both have been working hard and coordinating with the Scott campaign. But both face energetic, well-financed Democratic opponents: Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. DONOVAN, who is running for AG, and Sen. DAVID ZUCKERMAN (P/D-Chittenden), who’s running for LG. Bucknam acknowledges that her party hasn’t put together the strongest team.

“We haven’t filled out the top tier, but that’ll be next election,” she says with a laugh. “That’s another reason I’m running. It’s good for democracy.

It’s good to have competition.”

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minor bookkeeping error. The company’s Medicaid claims reimbursement for the first six months of 2015 was more than the total the company had received in the five prior years combined, the letter stated.

Vermont’s Medicaid payments to the company for all of 2015 totaled nearly $12.2 million, according to the Vermont Health Access Department.

With an infusion of capital from investors and a bank loan, Crook hopes to pay off the company’s debt and break even as soon as 2017 — a goal that should be attainable if the the new entity meets projected revenues of $20.9 million this year and $23 million the next.

Many current employees would be invited to stay, and the company’s network of a dozen or so Vermont walk-in labs would remain largely intact: A closed lab in Enosburg would reopen; a Barre lab would move to Montpelier; and a new lab might open in White River Junction. The company would close two labs, one in Massachusetts and one in New York.

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Casarico declined to comment for this story, but Crook maintains that the overbilling was not intentional but erroneous, echoing a statement issued by Burlington Labs last week.

Crook initially told the Green Mountain Care Board that Casarico would be on the board of the new company. But Casarico and other unnamed principals, described as “current owners” of Burlington Labs, would be more than advisers. They would have a 23 percent ownership stake in the new company, according to documents filed Friday with the board. Crook’s investor group would own 62 percent and the University of Vermont Health Network would have a 15 percent stake.

Another issue: under what conditions the new company should be allowed to operate. Crook assured regulators that the new Burlington Labs will pay the amount due to the state, in full, but on Friday, the AG sent the board a letter urging it not to grant a permit until a settlement has been finalized. Ensuring that the government receives appropriate compensation for “improper or inaccurate claims submitted

by Burlington Labs” should be a critical component of the review, wrote Jason Turner, director of the Medicaid Fraud and Residential Abuse Unit.

In a letter to the board earlier last week, the AG’s office underscored the large scale of the Burlington Labs billing problem, suggesting it wasn’t simply a

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here were plenty of patients in the third-floor waiting room at Burlington Labs on Friday — despite the recent news that the Vermont-grown drug-screening company housed in Courthouse Plaza is on the verge of bankruptcy. There was no indication of trouble online, either; instead, the company sent out chirpy messages on sobriety strategies and promoted an addiction chat on Twitter.

But in Montpelier, a new story line was emerging about Burlington Labs. A filing with the Green Mountain Care Board revealed that the once-successful local company has been negotiating a Medicaid fraud settlement with the Vermont Office of the Attorney General that could total $6.5 million, potentially the largest of its kind in state history. There have been no formal charges, and the AG is offering few details — other than to say it is investigating Burlington Labs for “improper or incorrect” claims during 2015.

In their August 19 filing for an emergency certificate of need, the company’s would-be rescuers told health care regulators that Burlington Labs faces fines and debts of $10 million and will go under unless it gets a lifesaver — quickly.

James Crook of Shelburne, the former CEO at IDX Systems medical software company, is the lead investor in the group that wants to buy the drug-testing operation. Crook and his lawyers urged regulators at the Green Mountain Care Board to fast-track a review of their proposed new company, which would be called Burlington Labs Acquisition.

Last Wednesday, Crook pitched the bailout to the board as a measure to help Burlington Labs’ 180 employees, including 140 in Vermont, keep their jobs and allow opioid-treatment programs to continue to utilize the company’s drug-screening services.

“To be able to do something that matters — that’s what I spent my entire career trying to do,” Crook told Vermont’s health care regulators. Crook led IDX through its sale to GE Healthcare in 2006 for $1.5 billion. He has since worked as a private equity investor.

Crook’s argument went over well with the board, which voted unanimously to do an emergency review, shortcutting a bureaucratic slog that could take nine months.

But the prospective purchase raises numerous questions. They include the propriety of involving Burlington Labs cofounder Michael Casarico in the new venture despite the fact that he was in charge of the company when it ran into trouble.

most frequently prescribed drugs in the U.S., with sales comparable to Viagra’s.

Drug screening plays a role in treatment: Patients are often required to provide urine samples to prove that they are not using illegal drugs and also to verify they are taking their treatment meds, such as Suboxone and methadone.

Both Medicaid and Medicare cover drug screenings, and the growing tab for the tests has triggered scrutiny by federal and state agencies. Last year, one of the largest drugscreening companies in the U.S., San Diego-based Millennium Health, agreed to pay the governJames Crook ment $256 million to settle claims that it billed for unneeded tests.

Smaller cases around the country follow the pattern — the government settles rather than filing fraud charges, which could hasten bankruptcy and make it hard for the government to recover any money.

Al Gobeille, chair of the Green Mountain Care Board, speculated that this strategy could be in play at the Vermont Attorney’s General’s Office in the Burlington Labs case.

“Let’s be clear here: If they file fraud charges against the company, they are never going to see their money,” Gobeille said.

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Massachusetts. AGs in those two states would not disclose whether they were investigating the Vermont company.

Crook told the board that a friend contacted him in March to say that Burlington Labs was teetering on insolvency and needed half a million dollars to make payroll. He learned that as a result of the thenstill-undisclosed Medicaid investigation, the state had reduced payments to the company. (According to the AG’s office, the company’s financial problems began before the Medicaid payment reduction and were not directly related.)

Crook recruited several other investors, including former IDX executives Christopher Powell and John Kane, to come up with a new business plan. The Medicaid investigation became public when he made his case to the Green Mountain Care Board.

As part of its filing, the acquisition group submitted letters of support. Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger put in a plug to keep jobs downtown.

The Turning Point Center, Spectrum Youth & Family Services, and the Howard Center all vouched for the company’s important role in recovery.

“There are few employers willing to employ individuals with addictions and often criminal backgrounds,” wrote Martha Maksym, executive director of the United Way of Chittenden County.

“Burlington Labs has been a beacon for many to help them get back on their feet and to lead productive lives in our communities.”

But the letters also included pleas from businesses that want the company to avoid bankruptcy for more practical reasons — so all the creditors waiting in line will get their money back.

Burlington Labs owes at least $3.7 million in unpaid bills, which the buyers have pledged to pay off.

David Epstein, managing principal at TruexCullins Architecture + Interior Design in Burlington, wrote that the firm was “heartened” that the acquisition group would maintain Burlington Labs’ services and make good on those debts.

His firm is out $105,000.

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It’s not up to the board to decide the Medicaid allegations, Gobeille emphasized, but the GMCB might place conditions on any permit, including full payment of the settlement before the new company can operate. The board could also restrict current leadership from moving to the new operation if there is an admission or finding of fraud, Gobeille said.

“You could say that whoever got the company there shouldn’t be a part of the new company, the governance. I’d need the AG to say that they believe there was wrongdoing,” Gobeille said. “Which I don’t know they will say.”

Other drug-screening companies do business in Vermont, including Dominion Diagnostics, which has a facility in Williston, and Accredited Drug Testing, with multiple locations. Both are headquartered out of state.

Some of Vermont’s largest addiction treatment providers, such as the Howard Center’s Chittenden Clinic in South Burlington, do much of their testing in-house but use Burlington Labs for confirmation tests.

The company has served at least 2,000 Vermonters this year, a lawyer for Crook’s investment group told the board.

“It’s absolutely critical that we keep Burlington Labs alive so that we can keep Vermonters alive,” Gov. Peter Shumlin said at a press conference last Thursday at the Vermont Health Department in Burlington. “I mean, we rely on their testing to help fight this battle that we’re all engaged in together. So I’m really concerned about what’s going on there ...

If we lose Burlington Labs, we’ve got a real problem.”

Health Commissioner Harry Chen said urine drug-testing services are essential in drug-recovery programs as well as when treating people with chronic pain. “And then it’s also important in our corrections system, in terms of people who are released under conditions,” he said at the same press conference. “So we need that infrastructure in Vermont, and clearly Burlington Labs has provided a significant proportion of that to date.”

Burlington Labs has grown dramatically since Casarico and his wife founded it in 2006. Casarico is a recovering drug user and has made a practice of hiring many former addicts as the company grew from 11 people in 2011 to roughly 180 today. Offering same-day test results and a community-minded approach, the Casaricos grew Burlington Labs beyond Vermont. It has contracts in 20 other states and offices in Kentucky and

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renewable energy projects. New Haven, Charlotte and Bennington have all seen vocal protests against small solar projects, and intense local opposition in Windsor last winter prompted GroSolar and Green Mountain Power to abandon their plan for a 35-acre array.

Ranger heard these stories and planned accordingly, said company president Adam Cohen. The solar developer is engaging in grassroots work to defuse conflicts before they start.

A case in point: In an interview, Brandon Selectboard vice chair Seth Hopkins recalled that residents expressed concern about the lack of wildlife corridors through the proposed solar field.

In response, Ranger Solar purchased additional land so that animals would have room to pass between the panels.

“That was goodwill on their part,” Hopkins said. “They go the extra mile.”

Ranger Solar representative Aaron Svedlow jumped in when a Randolph resident complained at a meeting in June

about the project’s effect on his view. Only tall trees could screen the eyesore, he said.

“Trees? What kind of trees do you want?” Svedlow asked.

“Maple — 14 feet tall,” the man shot back. Svedlow agreed to pay for the landscaping, and the objector fell silent.

The Department of Public Service, utilities and other stakeholders are keeping a close eye on Ranger’s plans. Officials say the projects may set precedents for the permitting, siting and energy sales of future solar installations.

If all five Ranger projects were to be built, the additional 100 megawatts of energy would increase the state’s total solar output by about 70 percent, according to Jon Copans, deputy commissioner of DPS. “These filings are significant just by virtue of the scale of the projects,” said Copans. “Any project that is approved has the potential to become a model for a future project. It demonstrates there’s a pathway to approval.”

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Maine-based company appears to have found a formula to win local backing for often controversial solar-energy projects: careful siting, a dose of patience and a willingness to alter plans to overcome objections.

Ranger Solar’s ability to earn selectboard approval is particularly noteworthy given the size of its projects. While proposals for much smaller solar installations have encountered fierce local resistance around Vermont, Ranger Solar has won outright support in three towns for arrays that average 100 acres apiece.

If completed, each of the company’s five proposed 20-megawatt installations would be six times bigger than the largest array operating in Vermont — a 15-acre, 3.6-megawatt solar field on an Essex Junction farm. The 95,000 solar panels needed for each $29 million Ranger project would cover an area up to the size of 75 football fields and could power 5,000 homes.

The projects’ size has not deterred Ludlow, Sheldon or Brandon, where selectboards have signed letters of support for Ranger Solar’s proposals in their towns. The company is negotiating with Randolph and Highgate for similar-size projects.

Still, Ranger’s success is far from assured. Local backing does not guarantee that any of the solar fields will ultimately be built.

Gov. Peter Shumlin said last fall that the projects are too big for Vermont, and the state’s utilities — which would presumably buy the power — have at times vocally opposed the arrays. Ranger Solar must receive approval for each development from the Public Service Board, which will consider many factors to determine whether the projects serve the public good.

So far, Ranger has sought PSB approval only for the Ludlow solar field. The board has indicated it will make a decision by year’s end.

That it has earned local backing will definitely help Ranger’s case. The company’s progress contrasts with much smaller solar development proposals that have been halted or delayed by a barrage of public opposition.

Last year, Rutland Town residents went to the Vermont Supreme Court to try to block a proposed 2.3-megawatt solar array.

(The court ruled in April in favor of the developer.) Rutland Town’s experience led more than 50 towns to sign a petition requesting greater say in the siting of

The projects are ambitious for a yearand-a-half-old company with six employees and no completed solar development. While Ranger Solar is also working to establish arrays in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Maine, the Ludlow project — at 90 acres, the smallest of the five proposals — is furthest along, Cohen said. He said he doesn’t know when the company will file PSB applications for the other developments.

Before Ranger, Cohen founded and spent six years running Pioneer Green Energy, a Texas company that installs major renewable-energy projects across the U.S. By the time Cohen left to establish Ranger Solar, he had overseen the creation of 700 megawatts of wind and solar projects in six states, he said. He was drawn to New England, he said, by the burgeoning market for solar.

When it comes to siting solar development, Ranger has its own set of criteria: town officials open to the possibility; a landowner willing to lease land; minimal environmental impacts; and proximity to a substation to connect to the electric grid.

In each of Ranger Solar’s target towns, the company spent months finding locations off the beaten path and returned again and again to selectboards with amended project plans.

In Brandon, Ranger Solar’s choice of a site — relatively isolated, invisible from Route 7, on a dirt road that’s not maintained during winter — was key to winning support.

“If they had come in and said, ‘We want to put a 20-megawatt array along Route 7 when you come into town,’ I think it would have been a whole different discussion,” said Hopkins, the selectboard vice chair.

“To be honest with you, we got very little negative feedback,” said Brandon town manager David Atherton of the public response. Ranger Solar was “really reasonable to work with,” he added.

In Ludlow, the first town to offer support, the solar array would be located on hayfields and pastureland away from the town center.

“It’s on a dirt road — this project is significantly out in the middle of nowhere,” said Frank Heald, the municipal manager. “[Ranger Solar] worked diligently, I believe, with the surrounding landowners reaching, negotiating agreement.”

The selectboard voted unanimously to endorse the proposal in December.

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Sheldon’s board also voted unani- permission from the Public Service Board mously for its array and was “very sup- to charge federally allowed rates the local portive” of the proposal, according to utilities consider to be too high. Now Cohen.

Ranger has indicated it will seek its own Ranger Solar has encountered more deals to sell the energy directly to one or skepticism — and outright opposition — in several Vermont power companies.

Randolph, where the selectboard has not Cohen declined to say whether those yet voted on the proposed project. There, talks were under way. questions of scale and aesthetics arose imWithout more information, power mediately. Former Randolph Selectboard companies aren’t sure where they stand chair Larry Richburg expressed doubts on Ranger’s Ludlow project. “We’ll have early on, the Herald of Randolph reported. to see what their plans are,” said Neale “A 100-acre solar farm seems a little Lunderville, general manager for the out of scale for Vermont,” Richburg said at Burlington Electric Department. “Where a September meeting with the developer, they’re going to sell, who they’re going to according to the Herald’s report. “My sell it to.” biggest concern is, will it be hidden away At the same time, the state’s renewableenough so it won’t be an eyesore?” energy goals are looming. By 2017, Vermont At a June public hearing, some electric utilities must buy 55 percent of residents called the 100-acre proposal their energy from renewable sources. “far-fetched,” and one The state aims to Highgate resident deemed the reach 90 percent installation “way too renewable energy Sheldon extreme” for a town of by 2050.

Randolph’s size.

But even if Cohen said Ranger Ranger Solar seSolar plans to return cures an agreement to Randolph with an with utilities to buy amended site plan in its energy, there’s a chance the coming months. it won’t contribute toward Randolph (In Highgate, Vermont’s energy goals. town administrator Renewable-energy credits asBrandon Heidi Britch-Valenta sociated with a project must be declined to comment sold in Vermont to count toward on talks with Ranger those goals.

Ludlow Solar, worrying that Cohen has indicated that the “would put the town at a company intends to sell both the substantial disadvantage energy and the credits from the arrays in respect to the negotiin Vermont, though typically, energy ating process.”) companies can get better prices for Ranger has offered credits outside of the state. each of the five towns a It’s important that the state reap financial package — about the benefits from Ranger Solar and $175,000 upon construction of the similar projects, said retiring Rep. Tony array, with annual $35,000 payments in Klein (D-East Montpelier), chair of the the first five years of solar operation and House Natural Resources and Energy $25,000 in following years — though the Committee. Vermont imports 86 percent specifics of the deals vary by town. of its energy, he noted, and ranks last According to Ludlow’s Heald, the among states in energy production. financial incentives didn’t determine the According to DPS’ Copans, the debate selectboard’s decision, but they didn’t around the future of solar energy and hurt, either. “It’s money that the town proposals like Ranger’s in Vermont comes might not otherwise have that might just down to a philosophical question: “Do we sweeten the pot,” he said. prefer to have 40 500-kilowatt projects or Starting this fall, towns can be assured one 20-megawatt project?” a stronger voice in the siting of renewableSuch questions won’t be going away anyenergy projects. A bill passed in June by time soon — and neither will Ranger Solar. the legislature grants towns “substantial According to Highgate Selectboard deference” in determining the siting of minutes from September, the company renewable-energy projects — stronger broached the possibility of a 200-megalanguage than the “due consideration” watt, 1,000-acre installation. required under current law.

“It could be a long, long-term horizon, Ranger Solar says it’s already compli- but it’s not something we’re working ant with the new rules. on anytime soon,” Cohen assured Seven “We already to do all the stuff in the Days. Then he mentioned the state’s agbill,” Cohen said. “More, actually.” gressive goals for renewable energy.

Another problem? Until recently, the “There’s going to need to be a lot Vermont utilities that would buy Ranger’s of clean energy in Vermont,” he said. power have vehemently opposed the “You’re not going to get there by smaller arrays, because the company was seeking projects.” m

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he journalistic urge to mark anniversaries is suspect: Why would the fifth anniversary of some great event provoke more meaningful analysis than, say, the 4.5th anniversary?

And in this particular case, it’s not even a great event — just a small ripple in the force that is significant mostly for setting something larger in motion.

That said, the 10th anniversary of the climate march in Vermont, which I helped to organize over a Labor Day weekend, means a lot to me. It marked the end of my relatively quiet life as mostly a writer and the start of a hectic stint being mostly an activist. I’ve thought of it frequently this summer, trying to recapture how the world seemed to me then, and how it seems now.

It seems fitting to offer those recollections to the neighbors and friends who marched shoulder to shoulder those five sunny days a decade ago.

I’d long been worried about climate change, of course. I wrote The End of Nature, which is generally regarded as the first book for a general audience on the subject, way back in 1989. And for most of the years that followed, I thought we were engaged in an argument about global warming. A

writer and an academic, I figured my job was to provide more books, more articles, more talks — and that, with enough data, our leaders would eventually heed the scientific warnings and do something.

By 2006, however, that faith was hard to maintain. The U.S. had refused to ratify even the modest Kyoto Protocol. As the scientific predictions began to become reality — among them that the Arctic began to melt in earnest — the Bush/Cheney White House was essentially turned into an arm of the fossil-fuel industry. I started to wise up.

The world’s scientists had spoken with rare force and unanimity to tell the world that we faced our greatest crisis ever. And yet they were being ignored. We weren’t having an argument, it turned out. We were having a fight. Typically, it was a fight about money and power, and we were losing.

That loss felt particularly acute to me because I’d recently come back from Bangladesh, which was then suffering its first acute siege from dengue fever. I’d spent enough time in the slums to be bitten by the wrong mosquito myself. But, though I got as sick as I ever wish to get, I was healthy and well-fed going in, and so I survived.

It was emotionally overpowering to

see people who were dying from the effects of climate change, as the warm, wet world we were creating spread the Aedes aegypti mosquito to new climes. And the people who were dying had done nothing to cause the problem. Virtually no one in Bangladesh had a car. Most of them didn’t have a light bulb.

I wanted to do something. But there was no real climate movement to join.

Environmental groups were working on a variety of issues and climate experts were drawing up elaborate plans, which Washington, D.C., was ignoring. But there was no widespread activism, despite the many pleas for individual responsibility — to stop driving SUVs, to eat more locally. I believed in those things, had done them, written about them and joined in efforts to persuade others. But I no longer believed these efforts were going to change the outcome. We needed some counterforce to the fossil-fuel industry dominating D.C. Of course, wanting to do something and knowing what to do are entirely different things. I was a writer living in the Vermont woods. I started talking to a small group of other writers in Addison County. What we knew of movement building came from

half-remembered vignettes of the civilrights or anti-Vietnam War movements.

What if we went up to Burlington and had a sit-in on the steps of the federal building, demanding action on climate change?

We had a meeting. We got excited.

Maybe getting arrested would be the spark that would ignite … something. But someone called the Burlington Police Department to ask what would happen if we carried out our daring plan. The answer was: nothing.

Stay there as long as you want.

So we decided on a walk instead — a kind of pilgrimage. Walking seemed Vermontish. I sent out an email to people I knew, and they forwarded it to people they knew. Meanwhile, the more practical members of our group figured out what we’d eat and where we’d sleep (farm fields, for the most part). The day came, and we met in the parking lot of the Robert Frost memorial in Ripton — because Frost was our patron saint if anyone was. And because it was five days’ walk from Burlington.

Organizers always worry, Will anyone come? Enough people did come to make our walk seem respectable, not ridiculous.

About a hundred marched that first day down Route 125, through the lovely gorge, and then north on Route 7 to the Middlebury town green. There we gave some low-key speeches and drank lemonade.

The crowd ebbed a bit over the next two days as we walked the back roads toward Vergennes, and then the shoulder of the highway through Ferrisburgh to Charlotte.

But our group never became embarrassingly small. We survived a near collision with a milk truck in New Haven, and we had ample opportunity for long, long talks.

In a world where things move ever more rapidly, feet still plod — there was no need to cut to the chase.

It was fun to see old friends and neighbors — and stirring to meet six or seven young people from Middlebury College who came along for the hike. They were already doing strong climate organizing on campus and had some good ideas.

After a packed church service in Charlotte, we walked to Shelburne Farms, and the tribe was really gathering. Tents were put up across the fields for the final night. The next morning, when we struck camp and headed off on the last leg into Burlington, we had swelled to an impressive 1,000 or so strong. Walking two or three abreast, we seemed like all the people of Vermont.

I remember then-representative Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) meeting us at the edge of town, excited as much by the organizing as by the cause. And I remember the rally that followed, as most of 2006’s political candidates — including Republicans such as Martha Rainville and Rich Tarrant — signed a pledge to work to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050. In those days, this was a radical ask.

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the internet, we were able to show for the first time an outline of an honest-to-God global movement.

It’s continued to grow ever since. We’ve now had rallies in every nation save North Korea. We’ve helped launch a divestment movement that has led endowments worth a collective $4 trillion to sell their fossil-fuel stocks. We’ve been in the forefront of the fight against the Keystone XL Pipeline. (It was successful not only because that pipe never got built but because it led to what one oil executive called the “Keystoneization” of nearly every other fossil-fuel project on the continent.)

When concerned individuals realized they weren’t alone, they joined the climate-change battle with gusto, and then figured out brand-new battles to fight. (Right now, for instance, a great drama is taking place on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, where Native Americans are fighting yet another pipeline.)

In the Paris Agreement last year, we finally won some pledges of international action. And in the Democratic platform this spring, thanks to Sanders, a major American political party finally called climate change what it is — a crisis — and pledged to mobilize against it. We haven’t won every fight, but the fact that there now is a fight is a big improvement.

Is it big enough? July 2016 was the hottest month for which we have records, and scientists suggested that it was probably the hottest month since the start of human civilization. The planet has suffered staggering losses of polar ice; extreme floods and fires seem like the new normal. We’ve seen the highest wind speeds ever measured and new diseases racing across the globe. Five years ago this week in Vermont, we experienced the destruction of Tropical Storm Irene.

In the race with physics, we humans are falling behind. And I have kicked myself plenty of times for not seeing far earlier what needed to be done.

The careful reader will notice I’ve not named any of the good Vermonters who helped launch the climate-change movement — people I consider friends and heroes. There are a couple of reasons for this.

One, it’s no great delight to be in the spotlight. I wrote earlier this year in the New York Times about the “trackers” hired by a right-wing political-action committee who now follow me in public and videotape

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I remember, too, reading a story in the paper the next day speculating that those thousand Vermonters might have represented the largest demonstration against climate change in this country to date.

That struck me. If we were in a fight with the richest industry on Earth, no wonder we were losing. We had the infrastructure for a movement — scientists, policy makers, economists. We just didn’t have the actual movement.

But our small band of organizers was encouraged nonetheless. It had occurred to me as we walked that if a thousand people in a single place were what we could muster at the moment, then we should try and do it in a lot of places all at once.

Changing your own light bulbs was too small to really matter. Even organizing Vermont was too small to really matter. But organizing every small place on the planet might do the trick.

Instead of the standard model — march on Washington in huge numbers, which we did not yet have — we could instead do the equivalent of march on Ferrisburgh in a thousand places at once.

With the rise of the internet, the technology suddenly existed to mix all those smaller outpourings together into a bigger river.

So those Middlebury students and I tested the model on our nation. The next spring, we managed to coordinate 1,400 simultaneous demonstrations in all 50 states.

Each pressed the same demand for 80 percent emissions cut — which then-senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who were both running for president, immediately endorsed.

Then we decided to do the same thing on a global scale and formed the nonprofit 350.org. Our first worldwide day of action, in fall 2009, featured 5,200 rallies over the same weekend in 181 countries. We weren’t as alone as I had thought. Plenty of organizing was under way.

We didn’t “organize” all those protests. It was more like a potluck supper, with everyone bringing what they had.

CNN called it “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.”

It was not the biggest, by any means.

Most of these rallies were small, and one — in war-decimated Iraq — consisted of a single woman. But they took place underwater on dying coral reefs and atop the highest mountain in Antarctica, in farmers’ fields and barrios, in churches and mosques. And, since many participants immediately uploaded pictures to

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I wouldn’t wish this kind of attention on my worst enemy; it can leave one tired before the day even begins.

The second and more important reason for not identifying individuals is that the movement isn’t about any one of us. It took me a while to realize this. Pleased with our early success, and hearing people call me

join with other small places to make a difference.

Of course, I’m under no illusion that everyone in this state agrees with me about everything. Wind power is a prime example. Former Vermont state senator and ambassador Peter Galbraith spoke in his gubernatorial campaign about the “anguish” of people who were faced with wind turbines. I appreciated that love for place, but I also thought, Anguish is relative. I still want windmills above my house on Middlebury Gap, precisely because I’ve seen so much anguish in so many quarters, and because I love the natural world, which is threatened by climate change.

In any event, I refuse to part with the pleasant illusion that most Vermonters care about the rest of the planet and are willing to take some responsibility for it.

And I hope Vermonters are proud that

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a great leader, I think I let my ego flourish. Yes, my constant traveling and talking helped to get a movement up and running.

But a few years ago, the limelight began to feel both wrong and counterproductive.

We don’t have a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the climate movement, and I think we’re better off without one. Instead, we have thousands of leaders in thousands of places. That kind of resistance can get in the face of the fossil-fuel industry close to home, and then unite for big actions when needed.

The most important leaders of that fight are those who live on the frontlines: people in indigenous communities around the world whose land is disappearing; people in cities blighted by pollution. To amplify those voices, to connect those struggles, to stand behind people who are standing up — that has become my particular passion.

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their small state has played an outsize role in the movement to tackle our biggest problem ever.

In the end, I will name just one name: Josephine, born in August to one of those Middlebury students who helped to create a movement 10 years ago. We thought the march we began that day at Robert Frost’s cabin would last a long weekend. It turns out to be a march that will stretch on for generations. We might get tired, but we march on, happy always for the company. m

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So said Libertarian presidential hopeful Gary Johnson on a campaign swing through South Burlington August 24 with running mate William Weld by his side.

The two former Republican governors — Johnson served two terms as governor of New Gary Johnson, left, and William Weld Mexico, and Weld was governor of Massachusetts — are both converts to the Libertarian Party. They wore blue jeans and relaxed expressions as they pledged to fight tax increases, simplify the tax codes and make government better by making large portions of it disappear.

“Count on us to reduce taxes every single time,” Johnson said. “Count on us, because we get to run the administration of the federal government, that rules and regulations are going to get better, not worse.”

A few hundred people waved signs proclaiming, “Our Best America Yet. You In?” and cheered loudly at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel & Conference Center as Johnson essentially proposed to put government on a starvation diet in order to fatten the wallets of ordinary people.

Hoots of support and loud clapping broke out when Johnson explained that he would replace income and corporate taxes with a consumption tax that he said would free up seed money and lead to millions of new jobs.

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Speaking to some 200 supporters at Burlington’s North End Studios, the former presidential candidate said he hoped that “hundreds of thousands of people” would join the new group, called Our Revolution. It would immediately get to work supporting more than 100 candidates and seven ballot initiatives this election cycle, he said.

“These are people who will be fighting at the grassroots level for changes in their local school boards, in their city councils, in their state legislatures and in their representation in Washington,” Sanders said.

According to Our Revolution executive director Shannon Jackson, the launch was webcast to 2,600 house parties and 40,000 viewers across the country. But the event was overshadowed by an unusually public staff revolt within the fledgling organization, as well as questions surrounding its legal status.

As Politico and BuzzFeed first reported, at least eight employees quit Our Revolution prior to the launch after Sanders’ former campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, was brought in to serve as the group’s president. They complained that Weaver planned to raise money from wealthy donors and spend it on television advertisements, rather than organize a grassroots political movement.

“Those of us who resigned left because we felt the organization couldn’t make good on Bernie’s promise to keep the political revolution going under Jeff’s leadership,” Claire Sandberg, an organizer who worked for Sanders’ presidential campaign and then Our Revolution, told NBC News. “As a campaign manager, Jeff was a total disaster who failed Bernie’s supporters with his mismanagement.”

According to multiple reports, Sanders tapped Weaver to take over the organization after questions arose about its fundraising practices. As a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, Our Revolution is permitted to raise unlimited contributions without disclosing its donors. But as a sitting senator, Sanders is limited in how much money he can raise for such an organization, as ABC News reported.

Sanders addressed the controversy only obliquely, asserting that it would be run without his involvement.

“As a United States senator, I will not be directing or controlling Our Revolution,” he told the studio audience. “But I have the utmost confidence that this leadership team and the board being assembled shares the progressive values we all hold. And I expect very big things from them and from all of you who join with them to carry the political revolution forward.”

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Jan N. Slusmon

1947-2016, BURLINGTON “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that one life has breathed easier because you lived here.

This is to have succeeded.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anthony Griffith

1935-2016, MILTON Anthony G. Griffith passed away peacefully on Sunday, August 28, 2016, at the Northwest Medical Center in St. Albans. Tony was born on September 29, 1935. He was predeceased by his parents, Gerald and Marjorie Griffith, and his brothers Lee and Zeke Griffith, and his sister Marjorie Wood. Tony was a longtime resident of Milton, where he was

an active member of the Milton United Church and the Milton Senior Center.

For several years he helped to care for his older sister in their home. Tony was an outgoing, kind and gentle man. He loved talking with people and was always quick with a one-liner or one of his trademark expressions. He made friends easily and was beloved by anyone who got to know him. Tony worked for many years as a warehouseman in Bridgeport, Conn., until retiring and moving to Vermont.

He is survived by his nieces and nephews Jonathan Wood and his wife Wendy of Jeffersonville; Bronwyn Sisco and her husband Gary of Lexington, Ky.; Vivi Griffith and her brother Garth Griffith of Austin, Texas; and Alexander Wood and his wife Fey of DuPont, Wash. For the last few years Tony was a resident of the St. Albans Health and Rehabilitation Center.

The family would like to thank the staff for their outstanding care. Many thanks as well to his fellow residents and friends who truly enriched his life and became his family.

There will be no service. In lieu of flowers or cards, donations can be made to the Milton Senior Center, 46 Middle Rd., Milton, VT 05468.

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Jan Slusmon died on August 22 with his wife, Eileen (Levasseur), by his side.

Jan never failed to express his gratitude for the many rich relationships and experiences he was able

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There will be no formal service. At a later time, there will be a private family gathering for the interment of his ashes.

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Melody Percoco, 68, passed away on her daughter’s birthday, August 21, at her home in Shelburne from complications of metastatic lung cancer.

She was predeceased by her brother, Michael, in 1999. Melody was born on November 4, 1947, in Bronx, N.Y., to Dr. Michael and Mrs. Mary Percoco. She grew up in the Bronx area, graduated with a theater degree from Long Island University in Brooklyn and was notorious as one of the first female taxi drivers in NYC. She worked with theater companies in NYC such as LaMama, Playhouse of the Ridiculous and Theatre for the New City as a performer and lighting designer. Melody moved to Vermont in 1971, landing in the beautiful Northeast Kingdom, where she directed and produced theatee and music (Brighton-on-Clyde Players, Ten Mile Shuffle Band). In 1987 she moved to Burlington to start a 20-year career at United Airlines as a customer service representative and manager, and she

later settled in Shelburne, where she has lived for the past 20 years. In retirement, she worked joyfully delivering Seven Days throughout the state in her Subaru and at the box office at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. She loved to play serious games of poker and watch old black-and-white movies, could beat almost anyone at Scrabble, traveled extensively (favorite places being Aruba, Italy and Australia), was never more full of love than when she became a grandmother in 2014, and was a longtime volunteer with the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival affectionately known as the “jazzmamma.”

She is survived by her daughter Liana C. Percoco, son-in-law Andrew Mall, and granddaughter Michaela, of Boston; many cousins along the East Coast; and her large family of loving friends from across Vermont, the place she loved so much and called home. She was laid to rest with her passed family at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, N.Y., on Saturday, August 27. A local memorial service will be held in Vermont later this fall. Her family is thankful to the gracious caregivers from the VNA Hospice. In lieu of flowers and such, we wish for donations in her memory to be made to the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Online condolences can be made at ballarddurand.com.

to have during his lifetime, including the two years he lived with cancer.

He always maintained an attitude of optimism and hope as he continued to do many of the things he loved. He immersed himself in great literature, music, art and history, continued his study of Spanish, and amassed a wealth of knowledge due to an incredible memory. He was truly a lifelong learner.

Jan was always profoundly peaceful and happy when he could spend days of quiet and solitude in his garden.

During his final months, Jan felt blessed to have been able to spend meaningful time with a community of friends and family that stretched from coast to coast. All will miss his gentle soul, his keen intellect, his terrific sense of humor, and his boundless efforts to be of service to others and to his community.

True to his nature, Jan was in awe of the professionalism and generosity of the staff and volunteers who lovingly cared for him at the Vermont Respite House.

We are immensely grateful to the VNA for providing such a high standard of care by people who choose to embrace the terminally ill and their families with dignity, compassion and respect.

Ever present during this past year with selfless and loving support to both Jan and his wife were some amazing friends. A special thank you to Robin, Nora and Deb. Anyone wishing to honor his memory is encouraged to make a donation to: The

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Moran Plant, the city plans a Perkins Pier marina expansion to provide an additional 185-boat marina and a wave-attenuation structure.

Why do most waterfront developments cater to large boat owners? What about the citizens of Burlington with small fishing boats? Currently there are ramps at Perkins Pier and the Coast Guard station serving trailerable boats, but access is not free at either.

Most towns along Lake Champlain have free public launch sites. The closest launch ramp to Burlington is Delta Park in Colchester, which provides limited access to the main lake for small boats, as can be seen from the low water currently in the river delta.

The Malletts Bay launch does not serve as a practical launch site for small boat owners wanting to access the main lake.

Fish & Wildlife Department funds will be used for the Perkins Pier marina expansion, which will create no new publicly accessible structures. Shouldn’t the funds be used to provide free access for trailerable boats? Why does the City of Burlington not have free public access for trailerable boats to launch, as do most Vermont towns along Lake Champlain?

Mel Buss

Progs and independents running in the Democratic primary is simply recognition they cannot win on their own and want the cover of the Democratic Party, its organization, voter lists and financial support.

My compliments to Sen. Ginny Lyons and the other Democratic candidates who refused the GOP write-in nomination. That’s honesty!

Sam Miller

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NO PO-PO

I was disturbed by the addition of the Po-Po Platter when I saw it two weeks ago in Seven Days. I had hoped that maybe it was a one-time addition, but my fears to the contrary were confirmed this week when I saw the column yet again. Columns like this and publications such as Green Mountain Mugshots seem to suggest that people who get arrested are bad and different from the rest of us, and that making light of their situation is OK and funny.

If that’s the case, why don’t we just bring back the stockades so their humiliation is complete? We should be better than this. If an arrest is newsworthy, write a complete and informative article about it. Don’t try to amuse people with “a sampler of citizen shenanigans.”

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Terri Hallenbeck’s piece last week was provocative [“Vermont’s Progressives and Democrats Have Uneasy Ties,” August 24].

I will not vote for a Prog, no matter the issue, simply because I am not one; I am a Democrat. I regard the matter of Progs or independents running in the Democratic primary as a matter of simple honesty. If a candidate is not a member of a particular party, he/she should not enter that primary, because it is dishonest to state that you are and run anyway. But it is far worse than simple dishonesty to deceive the voters of any primary, because voters in a primary expect the winner to run as a member of their party in the November general election.

The worst offense is to deceive primary voters and then refuse to run in that party’s general election. Why? Because the most important function of a political party is to nominate its best candidate, and failure to nominate is an abdication of this basic responsibility. A party should have the legal right in this case to replace the deceptive candidate.

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[Re “Où Est le Français?” August 24]: French language classes would be a wonderful and practical offering, considering our proximity to Québec, yet at most high schools French is not even offered.

Even more disturbing is that Spanish is mandatory in many high schools. Who is behind the push for mandatory Spanish in Vermont schools, and why?

Catherine Marino ANDOVER

MORE SCIENCE

Thank you, Paul Heintz, for many on-the-spot commentaries that have helped to grow a useful newspaper. With [Fair Game, August 24], you have put yourself back into the realm of “shoot-from-the-lip” news commentators who clearly haven’t done sufficient homework. Your derision of Republican gubernatorial candidate Phil Scott’s attempts to place himself correctly on the issue of climate change is misguided.

This is a complex issue, and Scott is closer to being correct than anyone

else in the Vermont public. No, “it doesn’t matter” if climate change is man-made or not, because the man-made contributions are so insignificant that it doesn’t matter.

More importantly, as Art Woolf explained recently in the Burlington Free Press, the Vermont Energy Plan is “unrealistic.” We need to stop what we are doing and hunker down and really understand the science and economics from a Vermont perspective before continuing.

Also, you should understand that the “97 percent of the world’s scientists” line has long ago been thoroughly discredited.

People that refer to it only display their ignorance. Here is some help.

Read 1. The Neglected Sun by Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt; 2. The Great Global Warming Blunder by Dr. Roy Spencer; and 3. The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science

by Dr. Tim Ball. All of these are highly respected scientists.

In addition, the well-documented alternative energy experiences in Germany and Denmark should be a warning to us and for us to learn from.

Leslie Allen

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SAVE OUR LIBRARIES

The trend to cut funding from school libraries is deeply troubling, especially when considering the positive influence school libraries have on student success [Re Off Message, “Despite Mediation, No Deal on Contract for Burlington Teachers,” August 17].

At least 60 studies show that student achievement is higher in schools with fulltime certified school librarians. Research, technology and literacy are dependent on access to school libraries and trained professional librarians. Limiting access means limiting these opportunities for all students, but especially disadvantaged students who do not have access to technology at home or the ability to visit a public library.

When we cut library hours, we hurt the students who need these services most.

This also tears at the fabric of democracy, since these students are less likely to know how to access information, judge the quality of information or utilize libraries in their adult lives. Access to information is the key to educational success in our society, which in turn is the key to successful careers and successful citizens.

As a children’s book author, I’ve had the opportunity to visit school libraries all over Vermont, and it is clear that libraries are the heart of the school. After touring colleges with our son last spring, it was clear this is also the case at colleges and universities. By providing resources to our young students, we prepare them for college, as well as life beyond. I hope that the school district will reconsider its decision.

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even Days’ writers can’t possibly read, much less review, the number of books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a herd of wild horses. So this monthly feature, “Page 32,” is our way of introducing you to five books

by Vermont authors. To do that, we’ll contextualize each book just a little, and quote a single representative sentence from, yes, page 32.

Inclusion here implies neither approval nor derision on our part, but simply: Here are a bunch of books, arranged alphabetically by authors’ names, that Seven Days readers might like to know about.

Adirondack Archangels: Guardians of the High Peaks

Edited by Christine Bourjade and Alex Radmanovich, with a foreword by Bill McKibben, Adirondack Mountain Club, 304 pages. $24.95.

“There is an inner peace, an harmonic, to be gained in all wilderness experiences everywhere, but none exceed the intensity of contentment, of feeling at-home-at-last, as when quietly witnessing the grandeur of creation from atop a high Adirondack summit.”

Our page 32 passage comes from the essay “The Four Rewards of Visiting Alpine Summits,” by Edwin H. Ketchledge (1924-2010), to whom this hefty, photo-enhanced anthology pays tribute. A formidable climber with a passion for preserving summit ecosystems, Ketchledge initiated the creation of the Adirondack High Peaks Summit Steward Program, which all proceeds from this book help fund. Other essays address the future of the Adirondack Park and the organizations striving to maintain it “forever wild.” Writes BILL MCKIBBEN in a brief foreword, “This circle of responsibility has protected the Adirondacks for well more than a century now, and it’s our job to keep it going.”

The Dowser’s Legacy: A Story of Friendship

David T. Kolok, the Cow Pie Press, 46 pages. $5.95.

“I found myself talking to the mountain, even calling out his name with the expectation of seeing something in the clouds next to the summit, but nothing happened.”

Described as a fact-based fiction, this slim volume chronicles the friendship between its author and Bryan Hicks, his now-deceased neighbor in rural Colebrook, N.H. An old-timer who lived off the grid, Hicks taught city refugee DAVID T. KOLOK to chop wood, forecast the weather and dowse — or “witch for water,” as he called it. The book pays tribute to this wise and colorful character, and the author’s affection for him is evident on every page. While Kolok (who now lives in Essex Junction) has the book listed at retailers, he notes in an accompanying letter that he hopes to distribute it gratis as long as he can afford to print copies: “Anyone who wants a copy, I merely give them one.”

The Flower Eater

M. LaRose, Archway Publishing, 398 pages. $23.99.

“In turn, each high-priestess spoke a line, their voices ringing out, one-by-one, from the darkness of the circular tower, in a downward spiral until the last of the eighteen had spoken.”

In this romantic fantasy novel from Waitsfield author M. LAROSE, a young woman preparing to enter a chaste order of priestesses finds herself tempted by the flesh of a well-built blacksmith. Her conflict isn’t simply the classic one between love and duty — rather, she genuinely longs to master the power wielded by the order. The novel often has the pictorial languor of a Maxfield Parrish painting, which its dreamlike setting also evokes. But it takes unexpected and intriguing turns, as the heroine eventually finds herself “travel[ing] psychic avenues which are closed to other mortals.”

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Tim Mayo, Phoenicia Publishing, 140 pages. $14.95.

“My suicide never came.

Back and forth in my head, it roams like an ambulance lost in the streets.”

(From “Talking to the Dead”)

Mary Kathleen Mehuron, self-published, 59 pages. $12, available at Mehuron’s Supermarket in Waitsfield.

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The above is a quote from Irene Weslik Mehuron, one of the matriarchs of Waitsfield’s venerable supermarket. In the early 1950s, she came to the Vermont town to teach high school and soon married Allen Mehuron, whose father, Elmer, had opened the store in 1941. Authored by a member of the third generation to own and operate the market, this history traces the Mehuron family from Mayflower times to the present, showcasing color photos and lively anecdotes about the store’s early days. In the 1940s, we learn, rural Vermonters greeted grocery deliveries with great excitement — even the cardboard boxes were a treat for the children, who used them to fashion “forts and space capsules.”

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is a mental health worker at the Brattleboro Retreat and a poet with a Bennington College MFA and a raft of publications to his name. This one, from Montréal-based Phoenicia Publishing, addresses subjects as diverse as “Working in Detox,” and “Trapezing in God’s Country.”

(In his spare time, Mayo studies at Brattleboro’s New England Center for Circus Arts. “Now in my mid-sixties … / … I’ve taken up flying,” he writes in the latter poem.) Throughout these poems, Mayo’s deceptively simple diction combines with his talent for evocative phrasing to lure us into fleeting confrontations with decay, disappointment and loss. This is a book that challenges us to look beneath its own words, probing the silences they conceal. In “Words,” Mayo writes of a child who learns to express himself only by sacrificing an imaginary friend who remains without speech: “There were no words for him, no stone, / no teething of noise with all its / attendant gnashing and attitudes.”

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erched high in her bucket truck and spattered with paint, MARY LACY has become a familiar figure in Burlington, one who has quite literally made a mark on the city. While her debut paintings of wildlife were sequestered inside the MORAN PLANT, other murals live boldly in public view: the hummingbird on a brick wall at College and St. Paul streets; the brilliantly colored abstractions on a pair of silos at DEALER.COM. Lacy has even emblazoned a recycling container with her signature fractalized style.

Now the Jericho native is taking her paints on the road. In a few weeks, Lacy will begin a 10-city mural tour with the help of a sponsorship from paint company Benjamin Moore. “I’m driving my bucket truck across the U.S.,” she says. “It’s always been my dream since I bought it.”

Of course, she’s not just driving in search of random blank walls. Lacy has done her homework, reaching out to

arts organizations in those 10 cities. The tour begins in New York City, where she will contribute to a mural series about climate-threatened birds that’s already in process through the National Audubon Society and Gitler&____ gallery in Harlem.

Her target: a five-story brick building at 146th and Amsterdam.

“That will be the biggest one of the year for them,” says Lacy, who will need to rent another bucket truck to reach the fifth story. The project has previously covered security grates — those steel doors that urban businesses roll down after closing time — with paintings of birds.

“They’ll have a big existing audience,” Lacy says of the murals. She notes that, on this paint job, former Burlington College adjunct professor DANA HEFFERN — who is also a seasoned Broadway scenic artist — will lend a hand.

Lacy doesn’t know exactly what she’s going to paint in the “growing arts district” of Chester, Penn. But she’s been

in touch with an artrepreneur named Devon Walls, whose “homegrown arts movement” consists of buying abandoned buildings and giving them a makeover.

Lacy’s father, CHUCK LACY, is also involved in that project, she reveals. Her target building is one that already houses art studios and a performance space.

Next, the artist will head south, to projects in both Greenville and Greenwood, Miss., and in Savannah, Ga. “That’s up to Thanksgiving,” Lacy notes. “Then I’ll come home for a month.”

After the holidays, she’ll depart for locations in New Orleans and New Iberia, La.; Austin, Texas; and Santa Monica, Calif. Finally, “I’m hoping to finish in San Francisco, because it’s where I started painting,” she says.

Lacy admits she’s “in awe of the opportunity” to paint in locales across the country. “It makes me speechless sometimes,” adds the 25-year-old. “I also think it’s generous of the communities to

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welcome me — rather than [asking], what can I bring to them.

Lacy expects to continue focusing on animals and says she can localize the murals by depicting native creatures. “I’m really passionate about environmental messaging,” she says. “I’ve worked really hard to develop [art about] the natural world.”

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Burlington Muralist Takes Off on a 10-City Painting Tour

In recent weeks, two mainstays of the Burlington arts community, Burlington City Arts and Generator, have furthered their plans to vacate Memorial Auditorium by the end of the year. The 1927 building has been home to BCA’s clay and print studios and classrooms since their inception in the late ’90s, as well as to Generator since the maker space’s opening in 2014.

Both organizations will transition to leased spaces in the South End Arts District: BCA at 405 Pine Street and Generator at 40 Sears Lane.

BCA has signed a lease with SKIP FARRELL of Farrell Vending, initiating the process of adapting the approximately 7,000-square-foot former industrial space into new classrooms. Executive director DOREEN KRAFT commented by phone, “We’ve been able to get the contract through city council to hire [TRUEXCULLINS ARCHITECTURE + INTERIOR DESIGN], and we’re in the design phase right now.”

For the first time, all of BCA’s education spaces will be under one

roof. The photography studio, currently housed in the basement of BCA CENTER, will also be relocated to the new Pine Street location.

While the City of Burlington will pay the cost of the lease, Kraft said that BCA is beginning a capital campaign to support the move. Besides funds for regular programming, BCA hopes to raise an additional $750,000. Kraft noted that the organization aims to open on Pine Street as soon as possible after classes at Memorial end in December.

For its part, Generator will lease an 8,540-square-foot warehouse space from Champlain College for three to eight years. According to the maker space’s website, “Generator will miss the advantages of a direct partnership with the City as well as a central location.” But communications coordinator Annika Rundberg noted a plus side of the move: The new space can accommodate more member studios. Preregistration for those will begin soon, Rundberg said.

Generator will close for the month of December with plans to reopen in

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its Sears Lane location on January 2.

Earlier this year, board chair Michael Metz announced a capital campaign to support the move; according to the website, two-thirds of the $300,000 goal had been raised as of July 28.

What about Memorial Auditorium?

“My aspiration will be that we find the highest and best use for the building,” Kraft said. She imagines a publicprivate partnership that will allow for its continued use.

“There’s so many memories tied to

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that building and its public-service role,” Kraft added. “It’s the largest civic space that we have in Burlington.

Nothing is permanent, and things will change. But if this isn’t going to be that kind of gathering space, where will that be for the community?”

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The mural project was commissioned in 2009 by the Church Street Marketplace Commission and spearheaded by Robert Fuller, then owner of Leunig’s Bistro & Café. It was intended to commemorate the quadricentennial of Champlain’s “discovery” of the lake. The unveiling coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Church Street Marketplace itself.

A committee selected Hardy from 15 finalists in 2009. The 124-foot-by-16-foot painting came with a price tag of $100,000. That sum was raised with the help of local business owners, whom the city’s Church Street Marketplace Department invited to become sponsors. The group worked with individual contributors and Hardy to fashion their businesses’ presence within the mural, with a larger donation resulting in “more real estate” (such as a full storefront), according to executive director Ron Redmond.

Palatino opted for a character holding a Garcia’s cigar box. To execute this image, however, Hardy needed a model. Since Palatino declined to be immortalized as the face of the shop, the artist turned to its logo.

“People have always said our logo looks like Edward James Olmos,” assistant manager Jasmine Beaudette commented during a recent visit to the shop. “[Hardy] pointed that out, as well.

He just ran with it, I guess.”

Palatino confirmed, “Hardy was the one who came up with the Edward James Olmos idea. I said, ‘Sure.’” Hardy could not be reached for comment.

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ctor Edward James Olmos’ earliest Internet Movie Database billing is “Junkie in Bathroom (uncredited)” in the 1974 blaxploitation film Bogard. From this modest appearance, he went on to increasingly larger roles, including an Academy Awardnominated performance in 1988’s Stand and Deliver. Some may remember his memorable turn in Blade Runner, his run on the reimagined “Battlestar Galactica” or his character Lt. Martin Castillo in the 1980s TV show “Miami Vice.”

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Olmos has had a career that in many ways is defined by his Mexican heritage. The struggles of being poor and brown are also reflected in his 1992 directorial debut, American Me, a crime drama about gang life in LA. Olmos strongly identifies as an activist: An entire section of his website is dedicated to advocacy for such efforts as the gang rehabilitation project Homeboy Industries.

All this seems a far cry from the Green Mountain State. So what is an apparent likeness of Olmos doing on a mural celebrating Vermont history?

“Everyone Loves a Parade” is the title of the mural created by Canadian artist Pierre Hardy and located in Leahy Way, aka the alleyway that connects Burlington’s Church Street to the parking garage. It features a glossy, jubilant procession of past and Detail of “Everybody Loves a Parade” by Pierre Hardy present historical figures, from 17th-century explorer Samuel de Champlain to rocker Grace Potter to Burlington’s beloved “Hot Dog The logo represented Garcia as a musLady,” Lois Bodoky. tachioed man with a broad-brimmed Near the beginning of the parade, hat, holding a cigar — and looking eerily flanked by Burlington-born intellectual John Dewey and 21st American presi- like Olmos. A small blurb on Garcia’s dent Chester A. Arthur, is the Edward website asks, “Who is Mr. Garcia?” and James Olmos doppelgänger. Looking answers, “Mr. Garcia, the famous face dapper, he proffers cigars from a box of the tobacco shop, is a lover of fine bearing the Garcia’s Tobacco Shop tobacco and a true cigar aficionado.”

Except, as Palatino confirmed by logo. WTF? Current Garcia’s owner Fred phone, “There never was a Mr. Garcia.

Palatino purchased the shop from The Garcia guy was just a concept founding owner Arnold Marek in the that the original owner came up 1980s, when it was inside what is now with.” Marek could not be reached for called the Burlington Town Center. comment.

Colchester branding professional David Smith recalled by phone that, in the ’80s, his late wife did calligraphy for the Garcia’s logo. At that point, he said, the mysterious likeness of Olmos was already in place.

In 2007, Palatino moved the store to its current Church Street location, where it endures as a Marketplace staple, catering to locals, tourists and the odd artist who needs a cigar box or seven. One block north, “Everyone Loves a Parade” has been in perpetual procession since its completion in 2012.

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Dear Cecil,

My blood type is A negative. I’ve heard this can cause pregnancy issues, so I googled “Rh-negative blood” and ran across a bunch of weirdo sites with “theories” about the origin of negative blood types and some online communities with seriously racist undertones. Where did all this crazy mythology surrounding blood types come from?

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certain theories about how the world worked long before they learned of Rh negativity. And then? Well, they smelled blood.

Now, blood can seem like a loaded concept, I guess — essence of life, symbol of tribal identity, beverage of vampires, etc. — so maybe even the otherwise level-headed get weird about it sometimes. But come on — this is science. The term “Rh factor” is commonly used to refer to the presence of a certain protein, the D antigen, on the surface of an individual’s red blood cells. If you’ve got it — and most of us do — you’re Rhpositive. The slim minority of humans without? Rh-negative.

It’s always good to know your blood type, but particularly when you’re pregnant. Things can get tricky when an Rhnegative mother is carrying an Rh-positive fetus — if she’s been exposed to Rh-positive blood before (typically via a prior pregnancy), she’ll produce antibodies that can attack her helpless kiddo like it’s an infection.

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As with most of our species’ biological oddities, scientists believe that Rh-negative blood initially resulted from a DNA mutation that evidently served some sort of evolutionary purpose that research hasn’t quite yet nailed down. Having the gene for Rh negativity seems to improve resistance to the parasitic condition called toxoplasmosis, which may hint at an answer, but no one knows for sure.

No one knows for sure: five magic words that will forever summon swarms of crackpots from dankest cyberspace. Some try to tell you that the children of the Nephilim, an antediluvian race of fallen angels and/ or giants casually mentioned in Genesis, still walk among us — ye shall know them by their Rh-negative blood. Others will list the “reptilian” physical characteristics Rh-negative folks possess, including extra vertebrae and lower-thannormal body temperature. Yet others want to talk about the

percent, which entrances that strange subset of Basquophiles who believe them to be a magical race that built Stonehenge and traveled regularly to North America centuries before the age of exploration.

Unfortunately, this viewpoint attracts far nastier sorts, too. Forever on the lookout for some minor genetic distinction between ethnicities to bolster their worldview, certain white supremacists are tickled a melanin-deficient pink about the fact that about 15 percent of people of European descent will tend to be Rhnegative, while less than one percent of Africans, Asians and Native Americans will.

Thus, predictably, you’ll see assertions that Rh-negatives have a higher IQ and that the fair-skinned Caucasian traits of Northern Europeans were caused by the mutation. Stray far enough into the muck, and you’ll find “proof” that Jesus was Scandinavian — with ABnegative blood, natch.

Back here in reality, I’ve got good news for Rh-negative moms-to-be: As long as you discuss potential Rh-factor issues with your ob-gyn early enough, complications can usually be avoided. If, however, your doc mentions anything about ancient astronauts or Nephilim, make sure you get a second opinion.

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hat sure is some netherworld of dodgy disinfo you inadvertently spelunked into, Katrina — no place you’d want to find yourself without upto-date antivirus software, an airtight pop-up blocker and, ideally, a strong stomach. Many links concerning Rh-negative blood look kosher enough in your search results but when clicked release a flood of wideeyed theories about ethnic migration, blood-type-based dating tips and offers to trace your ancestry back to extraterrestrials, angels or lizards.

Various stalwart rationalists, bless ’em all, have labored above and beyond to debunk this stuff. But I’ll go out on a limb here and assume that none of my readers actually suspects that some randy E.T. begat great-Grandpa. Instead, as you say, the question is where these crypto-hematologists emerged from and what their deal is.

On examination, they generally seem to be people who had

AB-negative blood supposedly found on the Shroud of Turin.

But two major sets of opportunistic cranks stand out, each armed with their own theories about Rh negativity.

The first crew is relatively benign, of a type familiar to all battlers against pseudoscience: those who for more than half a century have recast the divine beings of the world’s religions as “ancient astronauts,” crediting extraterrestrials with constructing the pyramids and inspiring the stone heads of Easter Island. You’ve seen their paperback bible in thrift stores or on your favorite hippie uncle’s bookshelf: Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken.

(Who, the blood-type fans excitedly insist, was Rh-negative himself!) But for some scholars of this ilk, aliens weren’t here just to jump-start our civilization. They manipulated us on a cellular level, creating, according to UFO-centric author Nick Redfern, “a slave race to dutifully mine gold.” The evidence?

You guessed it: Rh-negative blood.

You’re more likely, though, to encounter the suggestion that Rh-negative blood makes its possessor superior to others.

Sometimes this leads to charming kookdom — the Basque people have an extraordinarily high Rh-negative rate of 25 to 35

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enny Thibault got up around 6 a.m. at home in Westford on June 18, 2015, and noticed that neither the air conditioner nor the fan was running in her son Sean’s bedroom.

She peered inside. He wasn’t there.

It wasn’t unusual for Sean, 32, to crash with his brother Dennis in Burlington.

They would sometimes stay up all night playing video games or horsing around.

But Sean almost always remembered to call or text his mom.

She left a voicemail for him, asking, “Where are you, Sean?”

Dennis, 34, didn’t pick up his phone, either. After two hours of worrying, Penny drove with her husband, Jerry, to Dennis’ place on Ward Street in Burlington’s Old North End. Initially, they were relieved to discover Sean’s car parked out front and the porch light on. They figured their boys had probably just overslept.

But when they opened the door to the screened-in front porch, the Thibaults found both sons, slumped over within a few feet of each other. Their bodies were blue. Penny and Jerry tried to revive the two, shaking them, pounding their backs, trying to get them to breathe. A FedEx driver making deliveries nearby heard the parents’ screams and called 911.

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Had they been shot, or stabbed? Penny remembers thinking. But there was no blood. Maybe it was carbon monoxide poisoning? But both boys were outside.

An officer who later arrived told the Thibaults matter-of-factly: “Well, it’s clearly an overdose of heroin.”

“I almost slapped him in the face,” Penny told Seven Days.

She never suspected that her sons took drugs. Dennis and Sean had looked healthy. They had good, full-time jobs and never missed a day of work or a family gathering. Neither had ever been arrested or hinted about a struggle with drug use.

Fourteen months later, their sudden deaths make no more sense to Penny. The only thing that seems clear to her is that the dealer who sold her sons heroin laced with fentanyl — a opiate 50 times more powerful than heroin — should be held responsible for their deaths and sent to prison for a long, long time.

The Thibaults waited more than a year for authorities to charge the dealer they believe sold their sons the drugs. Earlier this month, he pleaded guilty to a drug charge after reaching a plea agreement in U.S. District Court that effectively granted him immunity for any

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deaths he may have caused. There was no mention of Sean or Dennis.

A few hours later, Penny sent a long, anguished email to numerous Vermont media outlets, chronicling her own discoveries and frustrations. It was a detailed account of her quest for justice. “Please present my story to the public,” she wrote. “Please, help me.”

“I know my boys aren’t innocent in all this,” Penny said in an interview. “My boys bear a certain responsibility … I don’t think there’s any question they’ve been held accountable. But they’re not the only ones involved, and I don’t know any justice that targets only half of those responsible.”

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It’s been more than two years since Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his entire State of the State address to Vermont’s opiate “crisis.” Since then, the problem has gotten measurably worse. The state counted a record 76 fatal overdoses last year, and that number is on pace to increase in 2016.

In response, the state has refashioned how it views drug users. The Department of Health has revamped and expanded addiction treatment options.

The judiciary has tried to create court programs to help addicts instead of punishing them. Law enforcement and health officials have bought thousands of doses of the opiate-reversing drug Narcan: Last week, Shumlin announced that Vermont pharmacies would be allowed to sell the drug without a prescription.

But as the state has taken a gentler approach to drug addicts, officials have urged a tougher one in regard to drug dealers, particularly those who sell substances that are tied to overdoses.

In Bennington County, prosecutors took the unusual step of charging a drug dealer with second-degree murder after he allegedly sold heroin laced with fentanyl to a man who fatally overdosed. The February decision to file the murder charge against Trevor Shepard may be unprecedented in Vermont. It was based on evidence that Shepard had previously warned customers

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to live at home, which guaranteed home-cooked meals, free laundry and steady companionship. According to his mom, he used to come home from work, wrestle with his dad and ask, “What’s for dinner?”

Just two weeks before their deaths, the boys joined the extended family clan for a party in memory of their deceased grandmother. During the festivities, Dennis and Sean taught their young cousins to play poker.

Relatives recalled their entertaining brotherly banter.

Nothing seemed amiss.

“They weren’t opiate addicts — I didn’t think,” Barnier said. “But what does an opiate addict look like?

A doctor, a lawyer, a husband, a wife, your best friend — your nephew?”

In this case, it might have been a roommate. Thibault family members didn’t discover until after the brothers died that Burlington police had twice been called to Dennis’ address for heroin overdoses, and neighbors had complained repeatedly about suspicious activity on the property. In December 2014, the cops raided the place and arrested a man living there. They later charged him with selling heroin.

Neither Dennis nor Sean was mentioned in subsequent media accounts of the bust.

Her own research since has led Penny to believe her sons were at least dabbling in drugs at that time.

Their friends from Richmond told her of parties involving prescription meds. She said she has medical records that indicate Sean mentioned a possible opiate problem to his doctor as early as 2008. But there’s no evidence that he ever got treatment for it.

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Penny Beauregard and Jerry Thibault met in Burlington when she was just 11. They eventually married and settled in Richmond, where they raised three boys.

Gerald, the eldest, later moved to Seattle, while Sean and Dennis stayed closer to home.

Theirs was the house where all the neighborhood kids hung out. But the Thibaults had family adventures, too. They went hunting together and attended concerts and ballgames. Jerry made enough money as a machinist to afford camping trips to Lake George, N.Y., and Hampton Beach, N.H., during which the boys competed to see who could roast the perfect marshmallow.

As teenagers, Sean and Dennis held jobs at Mexicali Grill & Cantina. They graduated from Mt. Mansfield Union High School within a year of each other and immediately started careers.

Although inseparable, the boys couldn’t have been more different in their interests and temperaments.

Mellow Dennis loved watching the F-16 fighter jets based at Burlington International Airport. He talked excitedly about space travel and the possibility that humans could eventually reach Mars. A football fan, he got into computers and sought out and paid for training that landed him an IT job at Husky Injection Molding Systems, a plastics manufacturer in Milton.

He never turned down a friend’s request to fix a computer or any other electronic device and usually refused anything but a nominal payment.

“Dennis was just a big teddy bear,” his aunt, Catie Barnier, said. “Always there, always kind, always loving, always smiling.”

Sean was grumpier, or least appeared to be that way to people who didn’t know him. Family members called him the “albino rhino” for his spirited, sometimes reckless personality, and joked about the dangers of provoking him. A history dork and heavy-metal music fan, he once built a human-size shield in shop class and later bought a Civil War sword for $100.

Sean followed in his father’s footsteps as a machinist. For a few years, they worked together at Whitetail Manufacturing in Williston before the younger Thibault moved on to Milton-based Rennline, which makes car parts and other equipment.

“Sean makes parts, runs the machine, programs it — Sean could do anything,” Jerry Thibault said. “He had a mathematical mind. All of us Thibaults do.”

Dennis left home in his early twenties and eventually found an apartment on leafy Ward Street. Sean chose

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that the heroin could include fentanyl, Seven Days reported earlier this year.

Another, seldom-used statute is also available to prosecutors: Since 2003, Vermont has specifically outlawed dispensing an illegal drug with death resulting and given the offense a two- to 20-year prison sentence.

In late July, Vermont State Police used it against a Groton man, 31-year-old John Faucette III, when one of his alleged customers was found dead in Faucette’s home. Faucette had been arrested in April in Massachusetts after troopers allegedly found him with a “large amount” of heroin during a traffic stop.

In December, the U.S. Attorney’s Office invoked the federal version of the death-resulting law against two Brooklyn men, Gary Delima and Sharif Cargo. They were accused of selling fentanyl to a 54-year-old South Burlington man who fatally overdosed in July 2014, according to federal court documents. Delima and Cargo are also facing charges of engaging in a conspiracy to sell cocaine and heroin in Vermont and engaging in sex trafficking.

Other states are acting more aggressively than Vermont in targeting dealers connected to overdoses.

In December, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced an initiative to treat most overdoses as major crimes and has pursued at least 40 investigations. The office has taught local police to treat overdose scenes as murder scenes and asked state lawmakers to free up funds for a specialized overdose prosecutor.

New Jersey launched a similar program, while lawmakers in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York passed laws specifically targeting dealers connected to fatal overdoses.

“The goal is that some of them will think twice about the decisions that they are making and no longer sell drugs,” Assistant New Hampshire Attorney General James Vara told the Guardian. “Some, of course, won’t.

Some, of course, will. You hear this buzzword, ‘You can’t arrest your way out of the problem.’ However, you have to look at these people who are dealing drugs and killing, and you have to hold them accountable.”

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A Matter of Intent Not everyone in the legal community wants to lock up peddlers of product that causes overdoses.

“The problem is, you have independent, volitional action on the part of

the user, and why then is the seller the responsible party for the subsequent death?” Vermont Law School professor Robert Sand asked rhetorically. “If someone sells me a souped-up motorcycle and I kill myself on it, or a handgun and I kill myself, are they responsible for it? Probably not. Someone sells me a highly dangerous substance and I use it in the manner that I intended to use it, are they responsible for my death? We seem to say ‘yes’ in the drug context.”

In the rhetoric of hammering drug dealers, many hear echoes of failed “tough on crime” strategies that have filled U.S. prisons to overflowing with nonviolent offenders. Twenty-five percent of the world’s inmates are incarcerated in America.

Would a heroin dealer, who theoretically is already risking decades in prison for simply selling the drug, really stop if the possible penalty were higher?

“The frustration is palpable on our failure to solve this heroin epidemic, but if the last 30 to 40 years have taught us anything in terms of criminal justice, it’s that harsher penalties don’t deter conduct,” Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan said. “And I think the evidence is very strong on that point.

I’m not sure passing a law that imposes more punitive consequences for folks who dispense or sell drugs is going to stop drug dealing.”

Further complicating legal matters: Drug dealers, especially those who are based in Vermont and serve as middlemen between local customers and outof-state networks, can defy easy stereotypes. Many are themselves desperate addicts who sell a little on the side to fund their own habits.

Also, the key witnesses may be dead, or may have used more than one dealer, making it difficult to pinpoint where the drugs came from.

“It’s incredibly fact-specific,” Donovan said. “It gets into the intent of the dispensing or sale of the drug. Did they know it was mixed with fentanyl?

It’s all about intent and knowledge.”

Among the local law enforcement officials who will likely have to grapple with the issue is Washington County State’s Attorney Scott Williams. Over a mid-August weekend, Barre saw nine overdoses, including one death, from a batch of heroin suspected of containing fentanyl.

The investigation into who sold the tainted drugs is ongoing.

Speaking generally, Williams said that unless there is clear evidence that a dealer knew his or her product would likely lead to an overdose, such as in the Bennington County case, he would be

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unlikely to seek enhanced penalties for the dealer.

“You say, ‘Let’s have harsher sentences for dealers,’ Williams said. “We start charging somebody that buys 10 bags of heroin and then sells three bags to support their habit, and they get 30 years — that type of policing pretty clearly doesn’t work. If I thought there was any significant deterrent effect, that would be different.”

Dual Investigations A couple of weeks after Dennis and Sean died, Burlington police returned their cellphones, laptops and other possessions to the Thibaults. The cops had little to say about the investigation and advised the family to remain patient.

Penny and Jerry tried something else: They went DIY. Desperate for answers, they had their eldest son, Gerald, who had flown in from Seattle after his brothers’ deaths, use his computer

Quilt made from Dennis and Sean’s T-shirts

programming skills to hack into his brothers’ phones and computers in an effort to reconstruct what happened the night they died.

The family shared a partial transcript of what they say is a series of communications from Sean’s cellphone.

“Where you meeting him,” Dennis texted Sean at 7:31 p.m.

“Big daddies but he had to run and grab,” Sean answered, referring to the pizza shop on Church Street in Burlington.

“He say how long?” Dennis asked.

Then Sean made a phone call that lasted one minute to a contact in his phone known as Bobby Robidoux, according to the Thibaults’ digital records.

Sean then texted his brother. “He said only a few minutes. I called him and he said he is just up the road and should be back soon.”

Sean texted Robidoux: “So I just used the bathroom across the street, so still in that same parking lot.”

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Friends and family urged Penny to seek mental-health counseling in the weeks after her boys died. She went to two support groups. One was for parents who had lost children, and one was for people with family members who had succumbed to drug abuse.

The children’s group was full of parents who had stopped celebrating holidays and, to her eyes, stopped living. She didn’t fit in. But she didn’t feel comfortable in the drug support group, either, as she listened to stories of parents who tried — and failed — to save an addicted son or daughter.

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trying to bring charges in fatal overdose cases. “Very few heroin addicts have only one source of supply. And many use other dangerous substances as well. Our office is nonetheless committed to investigating overdose death cases and prosecuting them when we believe we can prove our case to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.”

On August 18, Penny went to federal court and watched Robidoux plead guilty to the drug charge. She later emailed several Vermont news outlets, including Seven Days, to make her case that the investigation into their deaths had been mishandled.

The Thibaults suspect prosecutors cut a deal with Robidoux in hopes that he could help them convict more powerful dealers. “I think they caught a big fish and used him to catch a bigger fish, and Dennis and Sean became a casualty of that, but I don’t think that’s right,” Penny said. “The only thing that makes sense is, he has provided a lot of important information to them. I know how that can work. Should I feel good about the general good? I don’t know. I suppose I should because I can’t bring my sons back. But I don’t want their deaths to be in vain.”

“I didn’t know,” she said of her situation, while expressing empathy for parents who did. “I didn’t have a chance to help my child.”

When she’s not working at an accounting firm in Williston, Penny is on a crusade to learn more about drug abuse. She’s become adept at navigating the federal court’s online docket, and reads affidavits and warrants for Vermont drug cases. She spends hours a night reading on the subject.

Recently, she became alarmed about stories of addicts in the Midwest dying from heroin spiked with carfentanil, an elephant tranquilizer that is even more potent than fentanyl. She’s researched slang terms she found in her sons’ phones and emails.

“She told me she was one of those people who thought of people who died from overdoses as junkies, people you don’t want to look at. She never thought anyone in her family would do it,” her sister-in-law, Jean Mahoney, told Seven Days. “She’s told me she was ignorant of the whole situation, and she’s trying to find closure any way she can.”

Mostly, Penny tries to answer the questions that she knows can’t be answered: “Why?” And, “Should I have known?”

She recalls Sean had a car accident in 2012. He wasn’t hurt, but could that have been a sign of something? And how could she have missed the news of the raid on Dennis’ apartment?

The Thibaults find some solace knowing that, in the end, their boys were together. But Penny is haunted by their final moments: Did they both die at the same time? Did one watch the other die and know he, too, was doomed?

Jerry tries to put it out of his mind.

He focuses on his wife, comforting her on nighttime walks, during which she has been known to scream.

“It’s been hell,” he said. “I’m trying to stay off the subject so I don’t get her going.”

Penny is thinking about speaking at local schools or launching some kind of public awareness campaign — even though she knows many people may conclude that her sons were responsible for their own deaths.

“What’s the answer? I don’t have the answer,” she said. “My sons deserve justice, and I can’t sleep at night thinking there’s one more thing I could do to bring that.” m

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August 2015. It does not provide details of their alleged operations.

When Robidoux was arrested on January 28, the U.S. Attorney’s Office emailed Penny, notifying her of the time of Robidoux’s arraignment in an email titled “TODAY.” He’s since been incarcerated at Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton.

Penny says that she was excited about the news of Robidoux’s arrest, and investigators urged her to hold tight in the months after he was charged.

Then, on July 25, Robidoux agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors. He would plead guilty to a charge of participating in a drug conspiracy, which carries a sentence of three to 20 years. The deal includes a stipulation that Robidoux cannot be held legally liable “on the basis that death or serious bodily injury resulted from the defendant’s distribution of heroin.”

Robidoux has never been charged, or identified in publicly available court documents, as a suspect in the Thibaults’ deaths.

“I think the plea agreement speaks for itself,” his attorney, Lisa Shelkrot, explained to Seven Days. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office apparently doesn’t share the Thibault family’s beliefs.

They don’t have any evidence that will prove [their] allegations.”

Although he declined to discuss details, Miller said in a statement: “In prosecuting our cases, we bring the most serious charges supported by the evidence. I am extraordinarily sorry for the unimaginable loss Ms. Thibault and her family have suffered.

But in this case, as always, we have made charging and plea decisions that are consistent with our very careful examination of all of the available evidence.”

Speaking generally, Miller also noted some of the complexities in

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Robidoux texted back at 7:44 p.m.

“I’ll be back soon. Just be peasant (sic) it’s worth the wait.”

Sean sent his last communication just 13 minutes later and didn’t respond to any more incoming messages. Dennis never sent another text or made another phone call.

Seven Days could not independently verify the communications or confirm that the person listed in Sean’s phone contacts and who participated in the text message exchange was in fact Bobby Robidoux.

After Gerald hacked into the phones, Penny started looking into Robidoux’s background. She learned from Chittenden Superior Court records that the 32-year-old former Richmond resident has a lengthy criminal record, including convictions for resisting arrest, escape, simple assault and driving under the influence.

In 2013, Robidoux was charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute after his probation officer found him with nearly five grams of heroin, according to court documents. He was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading no contest to an amended charge of drug possession, according to court documents, and scheduled to be released in May 2015.

The Thibault family urged law enforcement to investigate Robidoux’s connection to their son, repeatedly reaching out to Burlington police and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Penny had face-to-face meetings with U.S. Attorney Eric Miller and other investigators, according to correspondence provided to Seven Days.

Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo declined to discuss the case in detail, beyond saying that the investigation into the Thibaults’ deaths was “very thorough.”

The Thibaults said they became frustrated as months passed and no one was charged with selling the tainted heroin to their sons. They hired private investigators and an attorney in hopes of uncovering more evidence.

“You should spend a great deal of time in jail for causing deaths,” Penny said. “That’s carelessly treating fellow human beings.”

In January, federal authorities announced that Robidoux had been arrested on a charge of conspiring to sell heroin. The federal indictment alleges that Robidoux and another man, Daniel Tucker, who was arrested in New Jersey, sold heroin in Vermont and elsewhere between June and

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ver the past 45 years, Vermont has catalyzed socially conscious capitalism by churning out Ben & Jerry’s; reenergized rock and roll by spawning Phish, the ultimate jam band; transformed culinary culture by pioneering organic farming and locavore cuisine; and seismically shaken the political establishment by enabling America to feel the Bern.

Each of these examples of Vermontas-vanguard arguably arose from the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s. If that influx of thousands of countercultural pilgrims hadn’t happened, Vermont might still be mostly poor, deeply sleepy, reliably Republican and square as a hay bale.

The revolutions that swept the state form the focus of a Vermont Historical Society symposium to take place in Montpelier on September 10.

Two weeks later, the society will open an exhibit at its Barre headquarters titled “Freaks, Radicals and Hippies: Counterculture in 1970s Vermont.” The

VHS began a statewide survey in early 2015 and elicited nearly 700 responses; the results will be published online later in September. In addition, the historical society has sponsored seven discussions around the state related to the ’70s counterculture.

Population statistics indicate the scope of the youth migration from northeastern metropolitan areas. The state recorded a 15 percent increase in residents during the ’70s — the fastest rate of expansion per decade since the 18th century. It’s estimated that 40,000 flatlanders moved to Vermont between 1970 and 1980.

Most of them did qualify as “freaks, radicals or hippies,” although some were drawn more by job openings at IBM than by the prospect of free love on farms that grew their own dope.

Some newcomers of yore said in recent interviews with Seven Days that they proudly flew their freak flags, while others defined themselves — then and

now — as serious politicos rather than happy hippies.

A few of the aging New Agers described themselves as not fitting any of those categories. And not every urban or suburban refugee of that era was coming “back to the land.” Some didn’t dig the Vermont earth, having fled to the Green Mountains mainly to escape “the heat from narcs on the Lower East Side [Manhattan’s stoned zone] or the burnout of New Left politics,” said Robert Houriet of Hardwick.

The 79-year-old observer of, and participant in, Vermont’s metamorphosis is the author of Getting Back Together, a 1971 book about communes such as Frog Run Farm in East Charleston, where Houriet lived for 15 years.

Despite differences in motives and outlooks, the rebels and dropouts shared some key characteristics: Nearly all were white, most were college educated and many were the offspring of prosperous parents. They chose to settle in Vermont “because of its rural

beauty, affordable land and its reputation for political and social tolerance,” the historical society notes in one of the texts that will accompany its exhibit.

Vermont’s defining commitment to a laissez-faire way of life was based on values that were similar to, but predated, those of the counterculture.

Montpelier attorney Charles Martin, who arrived in Vermont in 1964 as a Norwich University cadet and became an antiwar activist, summarized the state’s abiding philosophy by citing the adage “You can do whatever you want — just don’t scare the horses.”

Reflecting on his mellow fellows’ experiences in the ’60s and ’70s, Martin said, “Some of the locals looked askance at the skinny-dipping and other things we did, but they were basically OK with us because we didn’t scare the horses.”

The Age of Aquarius didn’t mark the start of utopian experiments in Vermont. Millenarian communities based on religious beliefs or social ideals had sprouted in the state in the

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BASED ON VALUES THAT WERE SIMILAR TO, BUT PREDATED, THOSE OF THE COUNTERCULTURE. care” out of a storefront in the Old North End evolved into the Community Health Centers of Burlington. They now provide medical services to nearly 20,000 clients, many of them recent immigrants from Africa and Asia.

In politics, too, the period was pivotal. The Liberty Union Party, launched in 1970, espoused a radically progressive political program that appealed to Bernie Sanders, then a recent arrival from Brooklyn. “Bernie is, in fact, a classic example of a distinct, specific historical phenomenon: the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s,” observed Kate Daloz in the April issue of Rolling Stone.

Daloz is a 40-year-old Brooklynite who was raised in a geodesic dome in the Northeast Kingdom and authored the recently published We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on a Quest for a New America. She continued, “The quirky details of [Sanders’] early bio — buying 80 acres of Vermont forest in 1968 and renovating an old sugarhouse into living quarters — are in fact shared by thousands of ex-urbanites across the country during the same period.”

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mid-19th century. In 1932, Helen and Scott Nearing established a homestead in Winhall, where they practiced agricultural self-sufficiency for the next two decades. They publicized their proto-hippie lifestyle in a highly influential 1954 book, Living the Good Life: How to Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World. In 1946, Irving Fiske invited some of his Greenwich Village neighbors to spend the summer on land he had acquired in Rochester, Vt. What began as an artists’ colony morphed into a commune that’s still grooving on Quarry Hill.

The VHS materials give a sense of what’s most distinctive and significant about the back-to-the-land movement, broadly defined: It birthed the institutions that, in their maturity, make Vermont what it is today.

Some of the communes that raised organic crops also organized to buy food wholesale and in bulk. Such enterprises would become the Northeast Organic Farming Association, cofounded by Houriet in 1971; and supermarket-scale cooperatives such as City Market/ Onion River Co-op in Burlington and Hunger Mountain Coop in Montpelier.

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The movement had a profound impact on the arts, too: Vermont country air reverberated with rock and folk music throughout the 1970s. In the VHS survey question asking which aspects of the counterculture the ’70s generation identified with, nearly 40 percent of respondents ticked “arts and crafts, music.” In 1975, Nectar’s opened its doors on Burlington’s Main Street; it later became the center of a Vermont music scene that would most famously produce Phish.

Some members of the ’70s secular hegira didn’t help start new organizations but instead embarked on what Rudi Dutschke, a German student radical of the era, called “the long march through the institutions.”

Attorney Martin referred to Dutschke’s dictum in describing how he traced his own path. After earning a law degree from Pennsylvania State University, Martin returned to Vermont as a clerk to the state Supreme Court and later worked as a public defender. He also volunteered for conservation groups. “I saw my role as working for change through the law,” he says.

David Martin, a member of the Toad Hall commune in East Haven, noted that “many of the people I knew

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back then went on to become teachers, guidance counselors, local officials.” They passed on their values to younger generations, “which was important in making it all last beyond that specific time in history,” Martin said.

For all the good vibes emanating from ’70s communes, the history of that time is also replete with downers. Relations between new and old Vermont sometimes fell short of being far out.

In 1971, Republican Gov. Deane Davis received scores of letters from constituents frightened by rumors of a 50,000-strong “hippie invasion” of the state. The concerns were so acute and widespread that Davis felt it necessary to issue a press statement seeking to allay the alarm. In keeping with Mullein Hill commune, West Glover, 1971 Vermont’s live-and-let-live spirit, the governor offered this reassurance: “Like most people, the bulk of the young transients go about their business in a self-sufficient, peaceful manner, although their habits and appearance may not be to our taste.” He suggested, in other words, that the hippies wouldn’t scare the horses.

But some locals did prove downright hostile. Ladybelle Fiske, born on Quarry Hill in 1950 and still a resident of that Rochester

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Vermont, it proved short-lived in its most characteristic form. The state was home to at least 20 communes in 1971, yet “there were zero by 1975,“ Houriet said.

Vermont winters proved longer and more bitter than many neophyte farmers could endure. Wayne Turiansky, founder and owner of the Burlington T-shirt screen-printing company Amalgamated Culture Works, was part of the early ’70s exodus to Vermont from points south. “More than half the people I knew who had migrated to the Rutland area had left the state by 1980,” he said. “They couldn’t handle the cold.”

Many may have returned to comforts still on offer in the suburbs whence they had come, suggested author Daloz, an invited speaker at the historical society’s September 10 symposium.

“Sometimes, it was just a romantic episode in privileged people’s lives,” she reflected. “They found out that rural poverty isn’t all that much fun.”

Breakups of personal relationships also drove many libertines off the land.

The call to “smash monogamy” often led to jealousies and recriminations, Houriet noted. “You need to be delicate when you set out to smash something that’s been around for centuries,” he counseled.

Women were often on the losing end of these unstable arrangements.

Feminism was not necessarily among the progressive values practiced by male hippies, Braithwaite remembered. In fact, Entropy Acres was satirically subtitled “Prison Farm for Women” because, he related, “The men would be all about mechanical stuff and physical work, while the women were expected to stay in and take care of the kids.”

“A lot of good stuff came out of that movement,” remarked Penny Patch.

A 1960s volunteer in the Deep South civil rights movement who lived at Toad Hall in the ’70s, she later became a registered midwife. “There was some messy stuff, too,” she went on.

“Remember, we were young and were trying to figure out how to live our lives in new ways.”

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commune, recalled shots being fired through the window of a home one night in 1972. “It was kids who were for the war [in Vietnam] and who resented us for being against it,” she said. “Some Rochester people with a lot of integrity took care of that. It didn’t happen again.”

Fiske also acknowledged, however, that “some of the young people who came in the ’70s didn’t have a stake in making sure that Quarry Hill was regarded positively by the locals.” Their behaviors in town exceeded Vermont’s broad capacity for tolerance, she admitted.

All was not kumbaya at the Entropy Acres commune in West Glover, where Chris Braithwaite, who retired as publisher of the Barton Chronicle in 2014, lived in the early ’70s. “Local folks, at least on the face of it, were quite friendly,” he remembered. “They lent us equipment and were helpful with the farming we were trying to do.” But, at a public meeting, some neighbors expressed strong opposition to allowing commune members to fill openings as part-time schoolbus drivers. They worried that the hippies would drop acid and kill their kids, Braithwaite ruefully recounted.

Mary Mathias, who was married to Houriet when both lived on Frog Run Farm, has only positive recollections of the communards’ dealings with longtime farmers in the area. “Part of the land was right on the road, and passersby would see us farming with horses,” said Mathias, now a retired social worker living in Brattleboro.

“They’d stop to give us advice because they really liked what we were doing.

They taught us everything we needed to know.”

The back-to-the-land movement wasn’t considered some alien implant, Braithwaite added. “Sure, the hippies fundamentally challenged the ethos of mainstream America,” he said, “but northern Vermont was never really part of mainstream America. When we said we weren’t going to heat with fossil fuels and would burn wood instead, the local reaction was, ‘So what’s the big deal?’”

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SEVEN DAYS: You played a key role in the business department’s transition into a school of its own in 1981. Apart from that, what was your biggest achievement at UVM? MALCOLM SEVERANCE: What I’m proudest of is hiring the best people I

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ow that he has self-published a history of the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business, 91-year-old Malcolm Severance is mapping his next moves.

“One goal,” he said during a recent interview at his home in Colchester, “is to have as much influence as I can over what happens to the remaining land I own.” That would be 70 undeveloped acres at Severance Corners, a strategically situated section of town named for Malcolm’s parents.

Seated at a dining room table beside his wife of 65 years, the UVM professor emeritus reflected in a strong voice on a varied career that included an eightyear stint in the OL O H Vermont legislaC TO S ture (1999-2007) BACK and a series of jobs at the university. As UVM officials noted in awarding him an honorary doctor of laws degree in 2008, Severance may actually hold the record for the most titles acquired by a Catamount: graduate (class of 1949), professor of economics and business, assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, special assistant to the president, chair of the business department, and member of the UVM board of trustees.

Gladys Severance, also a member of UVM’s class of ’49, offered comments of her own during the interview. It coincided with the publication of her husband’s 318-page book, A Pursuit of Excellence: A History of the University of Vermont School of Business Administration, which took him five years to complete.

That history starts in 1899, when the business education program was established thanks to a $50,000 donation from UVM alumnus John Converse, a manufacturer of locomotives. Severance’s story concludes symmetrically with an account of a gift from another UVM alum — the $20 million given last year by corrugated-box maker Steven Grossman, for whom the School of Business is now named.

SD: I see you’ve got a Feel the Bern coffee mug. Are you a Sanders supporter?

MS: I’ve had only one contact with Bernie my whole life. It was some years ago at the Ramada Inn where there was a gathering of state legislators that he also attended. Bernie said to me, “Malcolm, what are you doing these days?” I said I was in the legislature and was a moderate Republican. Bernie shook his head, said, “Vanishing breed!” and walked away.

I would go with Bernie over either of the other two candidates who are now running for president.

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could find as faculty members. Vermont isn’t known as a center of business, and the university was paying 15 to 20 percent below the market rate, so it wasn’t easy to attract top talent. You therefore have to be imaginative. We tried to create an exciting environment where we did interesting things even though the department didn’t have a big budget.

I wanted to bring in potential superstars who might be there for only a short time rather than hiring average teachers who would be there forever. You don’t ever worry about hiring someone better than you are. Those are the people who will move the program forward.

GLADYS SEVERANCE: They worked their butts off. They worked so hard against all odds to establish the School of Business.

SD: What was the biggest impediment you faced?

MS: Not having enough money to do all that we wanted. But I suppose you can never have enough money for that!

SD: Was there any resistance at the university to creating a School of Business on the grounds that it isn’t based on an intellectually rigorous discipline?

MS: There was that sort of resistance from sections of the College of Arts and Sciences. They didn’t see why it would be important to have a business school at UVM. Now, though, 10 percent of UVM students graduate with business degrees.

Also, those aren’t exactly easy intellectual challenges people face in the world of finance.

SD: How would you rate UVM students? Are they serious about their studies?

MS: How can I answer that? I’ve been retired for 30 years.

When I was teaching, I’d tell students on the first day of class that the average grade was going to be a C and that those above average would get a B, and maybe there’d be a few As. Those below would get a D, and some students will deserve to fail. I said that at the start so they’d be able to change class if they wanted.

But what happened over my career was grade inflation. It came to be seen as a failure if you didn’t get at least a B. As a result, grades became meaningless.

SD: You spent a sabbatical year [196869] at the University of California’s Berkeley branch. How did that compare to UVM? MS: It was wilder. I got teargassed three times, and I was there during the demonstration for People’s Park when a protester was blinded [by police firing birdshot bullets].

GS: What surprised us when we came back to UVM was how much longer everyone’s hair had grown.

SD: What about your years in the state legislature? What stands out?

MS: The two years I spent on a health and welfare committee were especially good for me because I had to deal with people I never had dealt with in my life.

Being on a health care reform panel was also very interesting, even though I was sort of a fifth wheel. The committee wanted Vermont to have a single-payer

SD: Can you tell me about the history of Severance Corners, which is just a short distance from your home?

MS: It’s named for my parents, who built a farmhouse there in 1930. My father, John Herbert Severance, was a local boy, born in Essex Junction and raised in Colchester. My family actually goes back six generations in Colchester — back to Ebenezer Severance, who came here in 1806 from Connecticut.

Before that, the Severances lived in Massachusetts. John and Abigail Severance came there from England in something like 1640.

SD: You and Gladys have three children, so it looks like the Severance presence in Vermont will continue.

GS: Yes, we have three very different children. Mark is a banker who lives in Shelburne. Dawn is a horsewoman who has 34 stalls about a mile up the road from us. Lyn [an illustrator and designer] lives on North Prospect Street in Burlington. She and her husband [Bill Harvey, a partner in the couple’s design firm] converted a garage on the property into their studio. It’s quite beautiful. We call it the Garage Mahal. m

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But last Saturday, during my firstever visit to Vermont’s biggest fair, I had two simple goals. First: to find the local-based food businesses helmed

by Vermonters with a flair for good cooking. Though I’m a relative newbie to the state, I’ve long known that Vermont, with its density of farmers, makers and artisans, produces some of the best food in the country. So, even before setting foot in the fairgrounds, I figured good, local fare had to exist somewhere in the sea of fried Oreos and curly fries.

My second goal: to find the alcohol, because I had just ridden a spinning orb called the Starship 2000.

Turns out, once you get past the “dough nuggets” topped with Reese’s Pieces — a dish that proves two rights don’t always make a right — local food isn’t hard to find.

My first stop was the Muffin Man, a purple food stand fringed by potted violets. Stationed at the fair since 1992, the Colchester-based stall, run by Dan and Laurie Keough of North Country Specialty Foods in Jeffersonville, is known for éclairs and cream puffs.

Cashier Maura Sautelle says the goods are baked each night in ovens half hidden in the back. I ordered a cream puff, its center gaping with a softballsize globe of whipped cream. The cream was so sturdy with confectioners’ sugar that it had the texture of whipped butter,

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will still be 55 vendors, with the option to increase the number in future. “We’re excited to keep the same feel the Winter Market has had,” Wagner says.

What will change? At UVM, unlike in downtown Burlington, parking will be free and plentiful. And the university is heavily invested in composting and recycling, an orientation that fits the market’s mission. “The building is so much more appropriate for us, as far as the services that are offered,” Wagner says.

However, he grants that change can shake things up. “Being a little farther from the downtown core of Church Street, we may lose some people,” Wagner says.

Still, he suspects new customers coming from South Burlington and Williston will even out the numbers.

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Although Wagner says the market’s location was chosen to meet the needs of vendors and customary shoppers, it will invariably attract more students, as well. “I anticipate a great relationship with [them],” he says.

Wagner acknowledges that “students sample a lot [without buying]; that’s a given.” But, he points out,

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Way back when, Memorial Auditorium was the most happening spot in Burlington. It hosted basketball games, boxing championships and concerts by some of the hottest acts in music. Now the building, constructed in 1927, has been declared structurally unsafe. Occupants such as Burlington City Arts’ print and clay studios and the Generator maker space are moving out (see “State of the Arts,” this issue).

Likewise, the Burlington Winter Farmers Market, which has been held on alternate Saturdays (with exceptions around the holidays) in Memorial Auditorium since its inception a decade ago, needed to find a new venue.

And it did, at the University of Vermont’s Dudley H. Davis Center. “Our official home is going to be the Olin Atrium [on the ground floor],” says market manager CHRIS WAGNER. Visitors to the market won’t find much different besides location when it opens on November 12, Wagner continues. There

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The tasting room’s vibe will remain “eclectic,” says Parkes, with mismatched tables, chairs and sofas providing extra room to lounge with a pint. A guitar, microphone and amp will be plugged in, continues Parkes, “just in case.”

Also exciting, he notes, was the arrival of Drop-In’s new canning machinery last Thursday. In keeping with the brewery’s initiative to “serve beer in larger amounts,” Parkes hopes cans of Heart of Lothian and Sunshine and Hoppiness Untitled-5 will hit shelves by early November.

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Restored, I made my way to the Ware Building, where Ken Baur, a chef at Shelburne Farms, was hosting a cooking demo on dilly green beans. Baur passed me a snappy pickled string bean to sample while he explained the beauty of vinegar in quick fermentation. I missed most of the demo, but Baur was eager to show me and a few other latecomers around the test kitchen, opening jars of star anise to sniff and offering a shallow spoonful of the smoky, slow-burning Sriracha made by Shelburne Farms executive chef Jim McCarthy.

Shortly after leaving the Ware Building, I stumbled upon Berda’s Roadside Eatery, Cory Charles’ food truck normally set up in downtown Essex Junction.

“This is ‘Local Street’ right here,” Charles said through the truck’s side window.

He gestured to the strip of food stands to his left, where familiar Vermont names such as the Skinny Pancake, Mr. Sausage, Ahli Baba’s Kabob Shop and Al’s French Frys appear among the crowded stalls. Charles ups the local ante by sourcing the bulk of his ingredients from Vermont farmers, such as burger toppings and grass-fed beef from Templeton Farm in East Montpelier.

“I grew up on a farm,” he added. “I’ll do anything I can to support the farmers around me.”

Berda’s fits the bill of quality local fare, and Charles gladly hops on the fried-food wagon with offerings including deep-fried mac-and-cheese balls and fried pickles spiked with yellow mustard.

“The duck-fat fries are amazing,” remarked a fellow patron behind me. I was eyeballing the Breakfast Dog, a grilled Vienna hot dog loaded with cheddar, cob-smoked bacon and a fried egg. But then I saw the Avocado Burger.

“If you’re into crying tears of joy, you better bring a box of tissues,” Charles advised as I placed my order. A fat avocado half and a soft, seeded bun are seared in Vermont maple syrup, then stacked on a quarter-pound patty with melted Havarti cheese. I’m not much of a crier, but the grilled-to-pink burger was glorious with the caramelized crunch of maple syrup still clinging to the bun.

Next it was time to leave “Local Street” for a quick walk to digest and see the sights. Alligators hissed in tanks before an afternoon Kachunga show. Three enormous Highland cattle

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watched me from behind their blond bangs. I found a barnlike building called the Maple Sugar House that was selling everything from sugar on snow to maple crème doughnuts.

Then, like a mirage, a hole-in-thewall place called Jaques Deli advertised Dog Team sticky buns — the doorstopsize pastries that in Middlebury are reminders of the late Dog Team Tavern, which burned down almost exactly 10 years ago. The buns were made from the original Dog Team recipe, but they looked slightly sad in their aluminum tins.

When I returned to “Local Street,” Chris O’Neil was hanging with his little sister, Alexis, behind his family’s Essex Junction-based food stand, Rajun Cajun.

“My parents and I are big on local food,” O’Neil explained, adding that his family gets much of Rajun Cajun’s vegetables from the Five Corners Farmers Market in town. Dishes like po’boy sandwiches, fragrant jambalaya with white rice, Cajun chicken and sausage

showcase the O’Neils’ bayouinfluenced fare.

Farther up the “street,” Bilon Bailey’s food truck Jamaican Supreme, usually parked on Pine Street in Burlington, promised homemade cuisine. I wanted to order Bailey’s jerk chicken with rice and fried plantains, but I had to move on to the final stand on my tour: Northern Fire & Slice from Eden, the newest addition to the fair’s stock of vendors. From the depths of their mobile wood-fired oven, husbandand-wife team Erica Allen and Gary Beaudet turned three bubbling pies, each topped with cheeses from Jasper Hill Farm and seasonal veggies from Sam Mazza’s Farm Market. Fromscratch sauces such as marinara and pesto complement homemade pizza dough made with beer from Rock Art Brewery.

“I used to do glass work, like melting wine bottles into cheese trays,” said Allen as she handed over a slice of Buffalo chicken pizza — complete with local leeks, Jasper Hill’s Bayley Hazen Blue and chicken doused in Frank’s RedHot Wings Sauce. “But it wasn’t working for me.” Allen recalled how she was looking for a summer project.

“Gary’s dad used to have a food wagon at country fairs,” she continued. “He’d sell burgers and dogs, but we wanted to do something a bit different.”

Stuffed to bursting like a Muffin Man cream puff, I left Vermont’s smallbusiness vendors and ducked into Halvorson’s Budweiser Roadhouse, where two Vermonters nursed sunburned shoulders and chatted about the pig races over drafts of Bud Light and Long Trail Brewing’s Summer Ale. Other drinking spots at the fair include an outdoor beer and wine garden that offers the usual commercial names.

A Bud Light draft will run you $6, but it’s worth the price for a shady place to people watch. There’s also a cocktail bar called Twist that has cans of Citizen Cider and 14th Star Brewing’s Valor Ale, along with lots of Smirnoff and a larger commercial wine selection.

At Halvorson’s, Zero Gravity Craft Brewery’s Green State Lager on draft proved the perfect way to end my treasure hunt for Vermont-based food vendors.

“Time for a beer, isn’t it?” said the bartender, rightly noting that I looked as exhausted as a kid post-Disney World.

But tired, sweaty and sunburned as I was, I understood why the Champlain Valley Fair is 94 years old and counting — curly fries and all.

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made-to-order grain bowls, hot tonics and up to six daily-made soups, such as bone broth.

“The new spot is definitely more food heavy,” Cruz says. “And it has a different vibe; while the first location is industrial and minimalistic, this second place will have wood floors, warm lighting … very inviting to stay and sit.”

What won’t change, however, is Eco Bean + Juice’s guiding mentality. “I want a place that

people can come in and feel safe, knowing what we have on the menu is clean and sourced properly,” Cruz continues.

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Behind the scenes, the St. Mike’s dining staff made the shift from its summer doldrums to full-on orientation mayhem. During the break, an abridged team caters meals for a couple hundred summering students, DORA SUDARSKY OD athletes, priests and professors. Now they were serving lunch for 1,500 370 SHELBURNE RD. BURLINGTON 497-1676 CHROMAOPTICS.COM people and, in the evening, throwing a freshman-welcome cookout for ev6H-chroma083116w.indd 1 8/29/16 12:23 PM eryone on campus. For the next week, campus activity would crescendo until the entire college community returned for the academic year.

Most of the college’s full-time residents eat three meals a day on campus — that’s almost 5,000 meals per day.

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to develop a 10-year plan to increase local food production and consumption.

In 2014, Roper helped launch Sodexo’s Vermont First program, which works with farms and distributors — such as Black River Produce — to connect the dots between local farms and institutional kitchens.

Two years into the program, St. Mike’s sources nearly 15 percent of its food from Vermont farms and producers. Roper says he expects that number to continue to rise as farmers scale up and plug themselves into the distribution chain, and as that chain becomes accessible to a broader range of farmers and consumers.

In the meantime, Roper’s just trying to make sure everyone gets fed — and doing his best to educate budding locavores as they shuffle through his dining hall. Last Thursday, the chef spared some time for an early-morning chat with Seven Days about sushi, can-do attitudes and the “freshman 15.”

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BRIAN ROPER: I had some scrambled eggs and a bowl of fruit.

SD: Where did you grow up, and how did your family eat back then?

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SD: How did you get into cooking?

BR: My mother didn’t work until I was about 12, and then she and my father both worked. So I’d come home from school and prep dinner. I’d be calling Grandma on the phone like, “How do I know if

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BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The Burlington Development Review Board will hold a meeting on Tuesday September 20, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. in Contois Auditorium, City Hall.

1. 16-1145CA/MA ; 207 Flynn Street (ELM, Ward 5S) City Market/Onion River Coop Reopened review of the construction of a new retail grocery building and related uses and site improvements and subdivide lot.

(Project Manager, Scott Gustin) 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.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE – ZONING ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER ZA #16-04 ORDINANCE 6.04 Sponsor: Planning Department, Planning Commission; Ordinance Committee Public Hearing Dates: 08/15/16 First reading: 03/07/16 Referred to: Ordinance Committee

It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: That Appendix A, Comprehensive Development Ordinance, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Sec. 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 thereof to read as follows: Article 2: Administrative Mechanisms, Part 3: Administrative Officer Sec. 2.3.2 Appointment The director of planning and zoning shall serve, ex officio, as the city’s zoning administrative officer (ZAO or administrative officer), and upon the recommendation of the planning commission shall be appointed by the legislative body for a term of three years. The ZAO may be removed for cause at any time by the legislative body after consultation with the planning commission. A chief assistant administrative officer shall be appointed annually by the city council upon the recommendation of the ZAO and the planning commission. Additional assistant administrative officers may also be appointed by the city council upon the recommendation of the ZAO and planning commission.

Any and all references in this ordinance to the ZAO or administrative officer shall mean to include the chief assistant administrative officer and any other assistant administrative officers assigned to a matter by the administrative officer unless otherwise specified in this ordinance.

Sec. 2.3.3 Powers and Duties The administrative officer shall administer the provisions of this ordinance and any amendments thereto and other applicable bylaws literally, and shall have no power to permit any land development that is not in conformance with this ordinance. (a) Referrals. As written. (b) Zoning Enforcement. As written.

(c) Assistant Administrative Officers The chief assistant administrative officer and other One or more assistant administrative officers may be appointed by the ZAO, and shall have such authority and duties as shall be delegated to them by the ZAO. * Material stricken out deleted. ** Material underlined added.

CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE— LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT COVERAGE CREDIT ZA #16-07 ORDINANCE 6.06 Sponsor: Planning Department; Planning Commission; Ordinance Committee Public Hearing Dates: 08/15/16 First reading: 04/25/16 Referred to: Ordinance Committee Second reading: 08/15/16 Action: adopted Date: 08/15/16 Signed by Mayor: 08/24/16 Published: 08/31/16 Effective: 09/21/16 It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: That Appendix A, Comprehensive Development Ordinance, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Sections 4.4.5 (d) 3.A., Exceptions for Residential Features; Sec. 6.2.2 (i), Vehicular Access; and adding definitions for Stormwater Administrator and Pervious Pavement to Section 13.1.2, Definitions thereof to read as follows: Sec. 4.4.5 Residential Districts (a) – (c) As written. (d) District Specific Regulations The following regulations are district-specific exceptions, bonuses, and standards unique to the residential districts.

They are in addition to, or may modify, city-wide standards as provided in Article 5 of this ordinance and district standards as provided above.

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3. Lot Coverage A. Exceptions for Accessory Residential Features In the RL, RL-W, RM and RM-W districts, an additional ten (10) per cent of lot coverage above the otherwise applicable limit may be permitted for the following amenity features accessory to residential uses provided that such features shall at no time be enclosed or be used for parking: i – vi As written. vii.

Walkways; and/or, viii.

Window wells; and/or, ix.

Pervious pavement designed and maintained to infiltrate the 1-year/24-hour storm event onsite, subject to review and approval by the Stormwater Administrator.

With the exception of the additional lot coverage allowances provided for under Inclusionary Zoning, requirements such additional lot coverage shall not be permitted for any development where bonus provisions of this ordinance are applicable.

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Sec. 6.2.2 Review Standards. (a)– (h) As written. (i) Access:

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Curb cuts shall be arranged and limited in number to reduce congestion and improve traffic safety. A secondary access point from side roads is encouraged where possible to improve traffic flow and safety along major streets. The width and radius of curb cuts should be kept to the minimum width necessary, and sight triangles and sufficient turnarounds for vehicles shall be provided to reduce the potential for accidents at points of egress.

Residential driveways shall be a minimum of 7 feet in width or consist of two 1.52’ driveway strips made of pavement or pervious pavement.

Driveway strips shall be accompanied by a paved area for the parking and/or storage of motor vehicles. The maximum width for single or shared access driveways shall be 18’.

In a residential district, driveways and parking areas shall be set back a

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CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE – SUBDIVISION INFRASTRUCTURE STANDARDS ZA #16 -13 ORDINANCE 6.09 Sponsor: Planning Department, Planning Commission Public Hearing Dates: 08/15/16 First reading: 04/25/16 Rules suspended and set for public hearing Second reading: 08/15/16 Action: adopted Date: 08/15/16 Signed by Mayor: 08/24/16 Published: 08/31/16 Effective: 09/21/16 It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: Sec. 10.1.9 Final Plat Approval Process During such time that an approved preliminary plat remains effective, the applicant may submit an application

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VT dated May 24, 2005 and 10:41 AM SELF-STORAGE UNIT 8/22/16 recorded in Volume 167 at Page 281 of the Land This is a Notice of Intent Records of the Town of to sell your personal Richmond, Vermont. property, located in Tax Years: 2011 - 2016 self-storage unit at Amount of delinquent Chase Moving, 165 taxes, interest, cost and Shunpike Rd., Williston, penalties: $2,902.89 VT, for failure to make payment. Sale/Disposal Property Owner: Mito occur September 8, chael Foster 2016.

Property Address: 215 Hilltop Circle NOTICE OF INTENT TO Parcel ID # HT0215 SELL All and the same lands TO: PIERRE MISSIE, and premises conveyed ESSEX JCT., VT to the said Michael FosSELF-STORAGE UNIT ter by a Vermont Mobile This is a Notice of Intent Home Uniform Bill of to sell your personal Sale of CBB Enterprises, property, located in LLC dated December 4, self-storage unit at 2013 and recorded in Chase Moving, 165 Volume 222 at Page 326 Shunpike Rd., Williston, of the Land Records of VT, for failure to make the Town of Richmond, payment. Sale to occur Vermont.

Monday September 1, Tax Years: 2013 - 2016 2016.

Amount of delinquent taxes, interest, cost and penalties: $2,230.86 NOTICE OF TAX SALE TOWN OF RICHMOND Reference may be made The resident and nonto said deeds for a more resident owners, lien particular descripholders and mortgagtion of said lands and ees of lands in the Town premises, as the same of Richmond in the appear in the Town County of Chittenden Clerk’s Office of the are hereby notified that Town of Richmond. the taxes assessed by such Town remain, eiSo much of such lands ther in whole or in part, will be sold at public unpaid on the following auction at Town of described lands in such Richmond, 203 Bridge Town, to wit: Street, P.O. Box 285, Property Owner: David Villeneuve Property Address: 760 Governor Peck Highway Parcel ID # GP0760 All and the same lands and premises conveyed to the said David Villeneuve by Decree of Distribution of the Estate of Ardelle Villeneuve

Richmond, Vermont 05477, on the 28th day of September, 2016 at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes and utility charges with interest, costs and penalties, unless previously paid.

Property owners or mortgagees may pay

such taxes, interest, costs and penalties in full by cash or certified check made payable to the Town of Richmond.

At tax sale, successful bidders must pay in full by cash or certified check. No other payments accepted. Any questions or inquiries regarding the abovereferenced sale should be directed to the following address: Brian P. Monaghan, Esq. Monaghan Safar Ducham PLLC 156 Battery Street Burlington, VT 05401 bmonaghan@msdvt. com Monaghan Safar Ducham PLLC, and the Town of Richmond give no opinion or certification as to the marketability of title to the abovereferenced properties as held by the current owner/taxpayer.

Dated at Richmond, Vermont, this 23rd day of August, 2016.

Laurie Brisbin Collector of Delinquent Taxes Town of Richmond PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance ZA-16-11 Enforcement Period of Limitations ZA-16-12 Rezone Fletcher Place to Residential Medium ZA-17-01 Off-Site Parking

ZA-17-02 Family Daycare Exceptions & Preschools ZA-17-03 Withhold Permit Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4441 and §4444, notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Burlington Planning Commission to hear comments on the following proposed amendments to the City of Burlington’s Comprehensive Development Ordinance (CDO). The public hearing will take place on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 beginning at 6:45pm in Contois Auditorium, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT. Pursuant to the requirements of 24 V.S.A. §4444(b): Statement of purpose: This amendment is proposed to the Burlington CDO as follows: • ZA-16-11 Enforcement Period of Limitations: The purpose of this amendment is to establish “Section 2.7.11 Enforcement Period of Limitations,” pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4454 and this section, pertaining to zoning violations which have been known to the City of Burlington for more than 15 years and where the City has not taken corrective action to address the violation. This ordinance establishes burden of proof, and a process through which properties with use,

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Every approved final 8. Construction detail plat seeking recording drawings: Standards in the city land records for public streets and shall carry the following related public infraexecuted certifications: structure shall be as 1. City Project Engineer’s certification as follows: established by the City “It is hereby certiEngineer. All submitted fied that this plat applications for final fully complies with all plat approval must likewise have construction engineering requiredetail drawings consistments set forth in the ing of the following as subdivision regulations applicable: of the City of Burlington A. – F. As written. and all other engineerG. All profiles shall be ing requirements of drawn with: Burlington, Vermont.” i. – vii. As written.

By: viii. Requirements Registered (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) Seal of such construction 2. – 9. As written. detail drawings must be approved by the city (b) - (c) As writengineer prior to apten. proval of the final plat by the DRB. ** Material 9.

Monustricken out deleted. ments: Provision shall *** Material be made for permanent underlined added. monuments to be set at all corners and angle NOTICE OF INTENT TO points of the subdiviSELL sion boundaries and at TO: CHRISTINE all street intersections RAMOS, BURLINGTON, and points of curve.

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Driveways for commercial properties may require a traffic study to identify the impacts of the movement of traffic to and from the property, and design for safe access. Access for service and loading areas should be located behind buildings or otherwise screened from streets or public ways with landscaping or other barriers.

Whether commercial or residential, shared driveways are encouraged, where possible and appropriate.

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• ZA-16-12 Rezone Fletcher Place to Residential Medium: The purpose of this amendment is to rezone residential properties along Fletcher Place from Institutional to Residential Medium in order to promote residential density and uses which are consistent with the existing neighborhood character.

• ZA-17-01 Off-Site Parking: The purpose of this amendment is to clarify the existing zoning provisions for off-site parking and to provide for efficient

and effective use of parking facilities generally. The amendment establishes additional parameters for what constitutes acceptable off-site parking facilities and also strengthens the provision for off-site parking used to meet required parking. Reference to the design review standards of Article 6 is also inserted.

• ZA-17-02 Family Daycare Exceptions & Preschools: The purpose of this amendment is to align the definition of Daycare to be consistent with state regulatory review; to assure exemption from zoning requirements as noted, and to affirmatively distinguish daycare use from home occupations.

• ZA-17-03 Withhold Permit: The purpose of this proposed amendment is to create additional incentive to correct outstanding zoning violations and to prompt action to close out expired permits in need of certificates of occupancy. Properties with outstanding zoning violations or open and expired

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• ZA-16-11: This amendment is applicable to all zoning districts within the City of Burlington.

• ZA-16-12: This amendment is applicable to 12 residential properties on Fletcher Place; this amendment does not apply to 34 Fletcher Place.

• ZA-17-01: This amendment is applicable City-wide, except for single and two-family dwellings.

• ZA-17-02: This amendment is applicable to all zoning districts in which daycares and preschools are permitted by right, or through conditional use.

• ZA-17-03: This amendment is applicable to all zoning districts within the City of Burlington.

Period of Limitations” and renumbers “Section 2.7.12 Administrative Appeal.” Within Article 5, Part 3, this amendment modifies “Section 5.3.1 Purpose” and strikes “Section 5.3.2 ‘Bianchi controlled uses, structures and lots.’”

• ZA-16-12: This amendment applies to “Map 4.3.1-1 Base Zoning Districts.”

• ZA-17-01: This amendment modifies “Section.

8.1.12 Limitations, Location, and Use of Facilities,” modifies “Section.

8.1.15 Waivers from Parking Requirements/ Parking Management Plans,” and adds a definition in “Section.13.1.2 Definitions.”

• ZA-17-02: This amendment adds “Section 3.1.2. (c) 10,” modifies the Family Day Care Home definition in “Section 13. Definitions,” modifies “Section 5.4.1 Small Day Care Center,” and modifies “Appendix A- Use Table.”

• ZA-17-03: This amendment adds “Section 2.7.8 Withhold Permit.”

List of section headings affected: • ZA-16-11: Within Article 2, Part 7, this amendment adds “Section 2.7.11 Enforcement

The full text of the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance and the proposed amendment is available for review

Geographic areas affected: the proposed amendments are applicable to the following areas in the City of Burlington:

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PUBLIC NOTICE THE WINOOSKI HOUSING AUTHORITY This notice is to inform the general public that the Winooski Housing Authority, Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8) waiting list will reopen on Wednesday, September 14, 2016.

This is for placement on the waiting list only.

This is not an offer for housing.

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY Applications are available on line at www. winooskihousing.org or at the WHA office located at 83 Barlow Street, Winooski, VT 05404 A notice will be sent out within 120 days of application date via USPS to those applicants placed on the waiting list. No phone calls please.

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Nonprofit corporations, municipal corporations, limited equity housing cooperatives, for-profit corporations, partnerships, and individuals are eligible to apply for project funding. Capacity grants are also made for the staffing, training, planning, fundraising, and ongoing operations of nonprofit organizations creating or preserving housing for very low, low, and moderate-income households.

The BHTF requests proposals for FY2017 awards. The total funding available for FY2017 is approximately $557,398 including carryover from FY2016 and the Community & Economic Development Office’s administrative

portion. The proposals shall be for projects and organizations serving the housing needs of low-income Burlington residents.

All projects must serve households having an income not exceeding 100% of median income, as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and preference will be given to proposals serving households having an income not exceeding 50% of median income.

Priority for funding will be given to perpetually affordable housing projects. Organizations that provide services, as distinct from housing development, are limited to capacity grants of no more than $7,500 per program.

FY2017 BHTF awards must be expended by June 30, 2017.

Proposals must include the following: 1. Amount of funding being sought and number of units proposed for housing projects.

2. Project/program narrative, including a detailed time-line.

Explain what BHTF funding will cover.

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6. Plan for long term affordability (only if project funding is sought) If your organization has received previous funding from the BHTF, you must include a progress report on the project or program that was funded. Applicants that have not fully drawn down previous grant awards must request an extension in writing. Proposals are due by 4:00 p.m., Friday, September 30, 2016. Please ONLY SEND APPLICATIONS

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Driver Dynapower Company in South Burlington, VT is a leading manufacturer of large custom power supplies and energy conversion systems. Our staff is dedicated to providing quality workmanship and the highest level of customer service. We offer an extensive benefits package and a pleasant working environment, as well as an opportunity for personal and professional growth. We are currently accepting resumes and applications for the following positions:

Test Technician 1st Shift

We need a task-oriented, mechanically inclined, physically fit person to work 29.5 hours a week, assisting in managing the flow of furniture and other items through our warehouse and store. Duties will include greeting customers, assisting with pickups and deliveries, forklift and baler operations. Must have good people skills, be task oriented, and able to work independently and as part of a team. We pay more than minimum wage!

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Test Technician 2nd Shift (2pm-10:30pm) For complete job descriptions and qualifications go to dynapower.com and click on “employment.”

Please apply online or mail to: Dynapower Company 85 Meadowland Dr. S. Burlington, VT 05403 Or email resume to: resumes@dynapower.com EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability The law requires an employer to post notices describing the Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, equal pay, disability and genetic information.

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Driver needed to work with a visually impaired employee traveling to Franklin County from South Burlington. Must have reliable vehicle, clean driving record and flexible schedule. 30 hours per week.

Hourly rate plus mileage.

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HOUSING ASSISTANT 20 hour a week position assisting homeless services staff at HOPE. Duties include apartment searches, landlord relations and negotiations, assisting in matching homeless individuals and families with housing, and data entry. Must have good people skills, reliable transportation, be able to work as part of a team, and be able to perform data entry with speed and accuracy.

Resume and cover letter to receptionist@hope-vt.org, or mail to Personnel, PO Box 165, Middlebury, Vermont 05753.

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Human Resource Generalist HR Generalist/Payroll Supervisor WCMHS is hiring for TWO HR POSITIONS. Both positions will work closely with the rest of the HR team to provide general support and assist in the execution of a wide variety of programs and procedures which may include: oversight of payroll; benefits management; management of leaves of absence including FMLA and short-term disability; workers’ compensation; recruitment; and training. College degree and 3-5 years’ experience or comparable combination of education, experience and PHR/SPHR/SHRM CP/ SCP certification preferred. Attention to detail, excellent follow up skills, and high proficiency in MS Office are a must. Experience with ADP Workforce Now a plus.

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SALES/CUSTOMER SERVICE Pete's Greens Farm Market in Waterbury is hiring! Local food enthusiasts, we have a sales/customer service position available, 25-35 hours weekly. Other retail and produce experience ideal but not required.

Full job description at petesgreens.com/about/jobs.

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Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable Specialist

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We are looking for candidates to fill a CDL Driver position and a Warehouse/Material Handler position in our Shelburne, VT location. BlueLinx is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and is a leading distributor of building products in North America.

Employing approximately 1,900 people, BlueLinx offers over 10,000 products from more than 750 suppliers, and services approx. 11,500 customers nationwide.

CDL Driver

Shelburne, VT Regular Full-Time, Day (Tues– Fri) QUALIFICATIONS: Class A CDL is required. 18 months of tractor trailer driving experience with flatbeds is preferred. Candidate must have a safe driving record with no DUIs in last 7 years and good customer service skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES: Drivers are responsible for securing loads, performing pretrip safety inspections, and maintaining trip reports. Use of an electronic logbook and updating on-board computer is required. Timely delivery to customers ensuring safe loading and unloading of product, manage Proof of Delivery paperwork, and maintaining a professional attitude is essential.

Material Handler

Front Office Support for Busy Medical practice

location Essex Junction

The Vermont Teddy Bear Company is in search of a new member of the Bear Crew! The Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable Specialist will ensure timely and accurate payment of vendor accounts and billing/ collection of customer accounts for Vermont Teddy Bear Company and its sister companies. The ideal candidate will have previous experience, be highly organized and detail oriented with strong computer skills.

JOB DUTIES INCLUDE: Must be detailed Oriented Team Player Phone support Scheduling Patients Filing & Scanning

Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online at vermontteddybear.com/employment or submit a resume and cover letter to jobs@vtbear.com.

BENEFITS INCLUDE: 2 weeks’ vacation, 7 holidays, 3 sick days, 401(k) with matching and health insurance.

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Make a difference by helping individuals & families reach their goals of independence.

Vermont State Housing Authority, a statewide affordable housing provider, has an exciting opportunity for an individual to join their dedicated team of employees. Position will coordinate & administer case management to Section 8 program participants for a variety of programs. Bachelor’s Degree & a minimum of two years’ work experience in social services with a focus on case management & outreach. Position is home-based ORANGE NORTH SUPERVISORY UNION & requires working in a field environment covering Franklin, 3v-VtSleepDisorderFT082416.indd 1 8/22/16 4:06 PM Chittenden, Grand Isle & Addison counties, with driving Substitute School on a regular basis. Position is funded based on annual appropriations.

Nursing Staff Details, requirements & qualifications at www.vsha.org. Cover letter & resume to: HR, VSHA, 1 Prospect St., Montpelier, VT 05602-3556; or contact@vsha.org.

VSHA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Immediate Openings

The Orange North Supervisory Union is seeking qualified substitute nurses to join our school nursing services team. RN (Registered Nurse) must have an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree from a 11:38 AM program accredited by the National League for Nursing, and a valid Vermont RN license.

Successful candidate must hold CPR and first aid certificates; have high quality nursing and independent work skills and excellent communication and organization skills. Experience with children and families preferred.

Shelburne, VT 4t-VSHA083116.indd 1 8/26/16 Regular Full-Time, Day (Mon-Fri) QUALIFICATIONS: The ideal candidate will have previous forklift experience.

The ability to proficiently and safely use forklifts to transport product, load, and unload trucks is required. Previous warehousing as well as shipping/receiving experience is preferred. The ability to read and comprehend sales order, purchase orders, safety material, etc. is necessary.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The loading and unloading of trailers and rail cars in an efficient and safe manner is required. Material Handlers must be able to select product of appropriate quality during the building Enjoy the flexibility that working within the home health industry provides. of loads for shipment. Properly documenting inbound and You will be part of an interdisciplinary team in a work environment that outbound freight as well as completing daily cleaning, stocking, employs your full range of skills in the comfort of our patient’s home. and organizing tasks is also needed.

Graduate of an accredited School of Physical Therapy.

Please forward your resume to george.schoonejongen@ bluelinxco.com or fill out an application at bluelinxco.com.

Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Therapy required. Two years of clinical practice in a medically-oriented setting preferred. Must have a valid Vermont Driver’s License with proof of insurance.

Please submit cover letter, resume, certification documents and three letters of reference to: Orange North Supervisory Union 111B Brush Hill Road Williamstown, VT 05679 EOE

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Full-Time Teachers Pine Forest Children’s Center seeks 3 Full-Time Teachers: Lead Infant Teacher, Everywhere Teacher and Preschool Teacher (young preschool class). PFCC is an early learning program that provides high quality child care for diverse families of children 6 weeks through 5 years of age. We work in partnership with families to help children grow to the best of their abilities.

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Leaps and Bounds is hiring

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to join our growing childcare team!

Email resumes to krista@leapsvt.com or call 879-0130.

at our South Burlington store. Great food and a fun work environment! Please stop in at our Blue Mall location on Dorset Street to fill out an application.

The ideal candidates will be motivated, responsible, and flexible 2h-WingsOverBurlington-010814.indd team players that love working with young children and possess strong communication skills. BA Degree in Early Childhood Education is required for Lead Infant Teacher position.

Please send resume, cover letter, and three letters of recommendation to Amy Ligay, Executive Director, Pine Forest Children's Center, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 2F, Burlington, VT, 05401. (802) 651-9455 or e-mail: amy@thepineforest.org. EOE.

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New England Federal Credit Union, Vermont’s largest Credit Union with 7 branch locations, is a growing organization committed to excellence in service, convenience, and simplicity. NEFCU offers a stable, supportive, high-standards work environment, where employees are treated as key stakeholders. Please visit our website, www.nefcu.com, to learn more about the great opportunities and benefits that exist at NEFCU.

Part-Time ATM/Mail Courier

PayData Workforce Solutions is looking for an additional team member to

our Client Service Department as a Payroll PayData Workforcejoin Solutions is looking for an additional teamProcessor/Client Service member to join ourRepresentative.

Conversion & Training Department. Our Part-time hours (Wednesday 10:00am-4:00pm, Thursday and Friday 7:00am-4:00pm) Our Client Service Representatives work closely with our clients to produce Conversion Specialists work closely with new clients to convert Part-time opportunity exists for a Courier at NEFCU. Responsibilities will include supporting the daily utilizing software. various import methods including data entry, them to our payroll,accurate HR andpayrolls timekeeping Comfort with function of the Company’s internal/external mail distribution and postage machine operations as Excel worksheets, and time clock imports. The ability to perform multiple public speaking is important as this also entails training tasks efficiently andposition manage ongoing projects is necessary. Attention to as ATM servicing. Position will also provide back-up for ATM deposit processing and therefore well detailon is aour must. individuals and groups various applications. Having the must have an aptitude for numbers. Successful candidates must have good organizational skills, be ability to adapt quickly to newmust andhave changing technology is key.

Candidates prior payroll experience as well as customer service attentive to details, and have knowledge of MS Office. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds, have the experience and possess strong communication and organizational skills.

The ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects ability Candidates should also have proven troubleshooting skills and be able to to perform tasks while standing for extended periods of time and carry a valid driver’s license. new and Our Client Service concurrently with aadapt hightodegree ofchanging accuracytechnology. is critical. Candidates Representatives work in a team environment and cubicle office setting. must possess strong number and organization skills and be able to communicate effectively inhandling both a written and verbal manner.

Experience a large volume of telephone calls, as well as having number skills troubleshooting or prior payroll experience Candidates shouldstrong also have proven skills. is required; working knowledge of the “Evolution” payroll software is desirable. Experience with

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Windows includingexperience Word, Excel, Outlook is required as well as strong Prior customer service and payroll is and required; working Chittenden County Offices keyboarding skills. knowledge of the “Evolution” payroll software is desirable.

Vermont’s largest credit union is growing and has a full-time teller opportunity available for the Apply on line at https://paydatapayroll.companycareersite.com/JobList.aspx Apply online at right person. Preferred candidates will present a responsible work history preferably in a retail paydatapayroll.companycareersite.com/JobList.aspx environment and be comfortable and skilled with face to face communication.

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DIRECT CARE PROVIDER Are you seeking a full or part time opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives? Be a part of 24/7 team supporting CRT consumers in a residential setting. Implement treatment, support plans and support daily living skills. Experience in working with mentally ill preferred. Knowledge of, or desire to learn about, the needs and abilities of the mentally ill.

Ability to deal with clients in all types of situations with patience, insight, and compassion. Ability to work effectively with others with implementation of client program and goals. Driver’s license and occasional use of car necessary.

Submit resume and cover letter to apply@csac-vt.org.

For more opportunities, please visit csac-vt.org.

Successful candidates for this position will provide friendly, fast and accurate service to members. The ability to explain our various products and services as well as the ability to recognize and suggest solutions to our members will be necessary.

This position requires standing and/or sitting at a computerized work station. Off-site parking is required, shuttle transportation is provided. Daily member interactions include cash handling and processing of all member transactions. Extensive keyboarding and the ability to use multiple system applications are required. This position requires occasional lifting of coins and cash, up to 20 pounds.

Qualified applicants should submit a complete resume and cover via nefcu.com illustrating reasons for interest and further qualification.

NEFCU enjoys an employer-of-choice distinction with turnover averaging less than 10 percent. More than 96 percent of our 165 staff say NEFCU is a great place to work (2015 Annual Staff Survey). If you believe you have the qualifications to contribute to this environment, please send your resume and cover letter and salary history to hr@nefcu.com.

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Pete’s Greens Farm Market in Waterbury is hiring for TWO positions. Looking for an experienced cook for a 25-30 hour position to help grow the prepared foods and baked goods department. Pastry experience a plus.

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Also available a 25-35 hour sales/customer service position in the Farm Market, other retail and produce experience ideal but not required.

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CENTURY ARMS, INC is looking to hire!

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ASSEMBLERS WAREHOUSE ASSOCIATES

We are a nationally accredited pediatric medical home and we are currently looking for a dynamic RN to do phone triage 4 days a week, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

No weekends, holidays or off shifts, competitive wages. Health Benefits, 401(k), paid time off, on-site parking.

Fun, family friendly environment.

NON-LICENSED NURSES’ AIDES full time evenings Plus evening shift differential of $2.25/hour

There are immediate openings for the following shifts: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and weekend shifts.

Born over 50 years ago with our roots in the surplus business, Century Arms has an extensive history of providing unique and affordable products to the American Collector, Hunter, and Target Shooter. We carry on that tradition today, with our state of the art manufacturing facility located in the USA, and continue to offer unique, innovative, and quality products to the U.S. Consumer and U.S. Government.

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LNAs full time evenings

Full job descriptions for each job at petesgreens.com/about/jobs.

Visit our website hrcpediatricians.com.

$1500 SIGN ON BONUS

Email resume to k@hrp.pcc.com.

Must mention this ad and accept full time evening shift employment to receive the sign on bonus.

New graduates welcome to apply.

Please call and ask for Alysha to schedule an interview or stop in to complete an application and on-the-spot interview.

Chancel Choir Director

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The Arbors at Shelburne Attn: Alysha Curtis 687 Harbor Road Shelburne, VT 05482 802-985-8600 acurtis@benchmarkquality.com

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We continue to offer generous shift differential for evenings, nights and weekends!

ALL APPLICANTS MUST PASS A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK AND A PRE-EMPLOYMENT DRUG SCREENING. WE SUPPORT A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE AND ENFORCE A ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY. EOE.

Interested candidates please email hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to: HR, (802) 264-5146.

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The First Baptist Church (ABC-USA) in Burlington, Vt. is seeking an experienced choral director to conduct the 15 - 20 voice adult Chancel Choir for worship services on Sunday mornings and rehearsals 2:16 PM on Thursday evenings.

The Chancel Choir sings for services beginning the Sunday after Labor Day continuing through midJune with the summer off. Salary is competitive and negotiable based on experience. Send resumes to fbcbvt@gmail.com.

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Wake Robin seeks a dedicated nursing assistant with a strong desire to work within a community of seniors. Wake Robin seeks LNAs licensed in Vermont to provide high quality care in a fast paced residential and long-term care environment, while maintaining a strong sense of “home.” We offer higher than average pay including shift differentials, great benefits, a pristine working environment, and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting.

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Provide case management and specialized intervention services to people who inject drugs, or who are at high risk of injection drug use. This includes assessment, service coordination, risk reduction knowledge and skill development. Minimum of high school diploma required. Hiring rate is $15 per hour. Job ID# 3340.

Community Outreach Worker

The candidate’s primary responsibility is the delivery of street-based outreach services to persons who are homeless and/or with psychiatric disabilities and/or with substance abuse/intervention needs. This is a 30-hour, benefits-eligible position with a Monday to Friday schedule. Hiring rate is $15 per hour. Job ID# 3389.

CHILDREN, YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES Howard Center’s School Services Program currently has several full- and part-time School Services Clinician positions open throughout Chittenden County. Our program has long-standing partnerships with schools and uses a clinical social work model to offer therapeutic and case management services for students, families and teams. Strong supervisory support is a top priority for the leadership team. Applicants must have backgrounds in social work, psychology or mental health counseling and must be willing/able to pursue licensure in social work or a related field. If you are interested in learning more, please apply through the Careers website.

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Lead and approach clinical work in new ways! School Services is seeking a full-time Supervisor for 11 master’s-level School Services Clinicians across three school districts in Chittenden County. Utilize a clinical school social work model. Contribute to program development and implementation/monitoring of best practice as part of the School Services Leadership Team. Maintain productive relationships with school district and community partners and design and implement staff and partner trainings as needed. Master’s degree in social work, clinical licensure and supervisory as well as school-based mental health experience required. See more details and apply on our website. Job ID# 3405.

Vermont Public Radio has an exciting opportunity for a full-time, detail oriented self-starter who believes in the mission of public radio.

Reporting directly to the Vice President of Development & Marketing, this position works to secure charitable support for annual operations as well as strategic initiatives of the organization.

The Director of Major and Individual Giving will lead and manage VPR’s major giving program to help meet the revenue needs of the organization. Over time, the position will also assume responsibility for the strategy of individual giving at all levels.

Come work at VPR, named by Vermont Business Magazine as one of the Best Places to Work in Vermont for the third year in a row! VPR is a statewide network that is widely recognized for excellence in the public radio system.

Visit digital.vpr.net/vpr-mission for our mission statement and you will find a full job description in its careers section.

Diversity matters to us: we’re looking for applicants who will expand the perspectives and collective life experience of our team.

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Preschool Teacher

The Winooski Family Center is seeking to hire a Preschool Teacher to join our professional, caring and well-trained multidisciplinary team. If you believe that you would thrive in a team-based setting, are comfortable working in both a high-quality state and nationally accredited preschool classroom and diverse community setting, are experienced in working with young children, and desire to partake in a variety of learning opportunities, this position may be a great fit for you. Full-time position is responsible for providing a safe and developmentally appropriate preschool program in accordance with all relevant legislation, policies and procedures. The successful candidate will collaborate with the Winooski School District, Howard Center Early Childhood program and families as well as other partners. Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education, child development, elementary education or early childhood special education required. Must have a valid Vermont state educator’s license and experience and skills related to program implementation. Valid driver’s license and vehicle also required. Job ID# 3470.

For more information, please visit howardcentercareers.org.

Howard Center offers an excellent benefits package including health, dental, and life insurance, as well as generous paid time off for all regular positions scheduled 20-plus-hours-per-week.

Applicants needing assistance or an accommodation in completing the online application should feel free to contact Human Resources at 488-6950 or hrhelpdesk@howardcenter.org.

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BR: It’s so much planning and preparation — the execution part is really making sure you have all your mise en place ready to go. You think you’re busy serving a couple hundred people in a restaurant one night, but you don’t know busy until you’re doing 1,400 people in two hours.

Granted, [every dish is not] cooked to order, but we have seven stations where a chef stands there and cooks

SD: How has university cookery changed since you started?

BR: The students are definitely more aware of what they’re eating, and many choose to eat healthier.

They’ll go for plain grilled chicken instead of a chicken patty. Or they’ll say, “Excuse me, can you use pan spray in my pan, instead of oil?” We have nutritional information on the signage [for each dish], and they’re paying attention. They ask more questions, and they know food better than you or I did when we were 18 coming into college.

And the local food. Local is probably 25 percent more expensive than conventional, but you do it when you can. We work closely with Black River

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food+drink Farm to Dining Hall « P.47 Produce and Black River Meats. They’ll call and say, “We have a stockpile of flatiron steaks; we’ll give them to you for 30 percent off.” Someone [in the kitchen] will say, “That’s not on the menu.” And I say, “OK, let’s change the menu.”

I have this willingness to try things that are outside the box — I’m never going to say no because I think it’s not going to work. If you don’t try, you won’t know. And maybe you can’t do what you want to do 100 percent; maybe you get to 50, 60, 80 percent. But you’re going to get 0 percent if you don’t try.

SD: With the increased emphasis on fresh and local food, have you noticed an impact on student health?

BR: The classic “freshman 15” [i.e., the notion that freshmen gain 15 pounds after arriving at college] is true, and it’s twofold. When you lived at home with your parents, did you have French fries or pizza every day? Also, you’re away from home, in a new place with people you don’t know. What do you do? You eat.

But there are always healthy and not-healthy choices. If you didn’t have burgers, you’d have an uprising. If you didn’t have salad bar, there’d be an uprising. I meet the students, and they all want to tell me their favorite thing in the dining hall. And 17 out of 20 students say chicken patty night. I’ll ask them about the sushi, and they’re like, “Yeah, the sushi is great. But the chicken patty … it’s convenient and it’s so good and we just love it.”

SD: You’ve put a lot of energy into getting local food into university kitchens. How did that happen?

BR: When Farm to Plate started, I was on one of the aggregation and distribution groups. I was at this conference talking with producers about what it takes to get [their product] into Sodexo. It’s price point and availability — and just because you think you have enough product doesn’t mean you have enough. You can’t come sell to me at my back door. You need to go through the distribution hub.

[WEB ONLY] For example, Kimball Brook [Farm organic] dairy came to us five years ago. They wanted do organic milk in glass bottles. They wanted us to recycle and send the bottles back. I was like, “Whoa, that’s not going to work on a college campus.”

But our partnership with Black River Produce has been great. They’re willing

to take a chance on products that aren’t tested and true. And once a producer gets in with them, Black River can sell [their product] to any business they distribute to.

So a lot of it was relationship building and phone conversations. I was basically looking at administration from both sides. We made [local] a priority. It was, Let’s incrementally increase local sourcing — as Black River can handle it, and as the farms can handle it, and as we can afford it.

SD: What’s next for institutional food? Where’s all this headed?

BR: I don’t know where it’s headed, but the local piece will definitely continue to grow. Rome wasn’t built in a day, so we’re not going to get to 20, 40, 50 percent local food overnight. But this movement from farm to institution is only growing, and I think you’re going to see more money being spent in the next three, five, 10 years. You can’t really look past that because things change, but I don’t see that going away, ever.

SD: How important is consumer education?

BR: It is so much more important than anyone could ever possibly imagine.

When you [place signage in the dining hall], maybe 10 percent of the people read it. But if there’s a picture showing the grower, people pay attention. To say that a picture [is worth] 1,000 words is a cliché, but it’s so true it’s not even funny. Place [a picture] where the food is being served, and people start asking questions. You can hear the passion in their voice.

SD: It’s Sunday night, and you’re relaxing over a drink. Where are you, and what are you drinking?

BR: I am home with my wife and kids.

Maybe having a seltzer. Day to day, you work hard and a lot, so family is really important. Depending on the time of year, we grow corn and chicken and veggies. So if you can celebrate family and food together, and teach your kids the value of real food, that’s fantastic.

SD: When you’re not working, any hobbies?

BR: If I’m not working or with family, I’m out fishing. m This interview has been edited and condensed. An extended version is available online at sevendaysvt.com/food.

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FIGHT FOR FIFTEEN!: Join Vermonters working to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, cwinklem@gmail.com.

art

LIFE DRAWING: Pencils fly as a model inspires artists to create. Bring personal materials. The Front, Montpelier, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 839-5349.

comedy

NICK OFFERMAN & MEGAN MULLALLY: The married actors and comedians expose the bawdy details of their union for the world to see. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $42.25-62.75. Info, 863-5966.

Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

film

‘BELLE’: Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as the half-black daughter of a British admiral who plays a role in the abolishment of slavery in Britain. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘PETER AND JOHN’: A discussion with director Jay Craven follows a screening of his new period romance based on Guy de Maupassant’s novel.

Peacham Congregational Church, 7 p.m. $5-12. Info, 357-4616.

food & drink

COMMUNITY SUPPER: A scrumptious spread connects friends and neighbors. Bring a dessert to share. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-5:45 p.m.

Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.

crafts

KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: Crafters convene for creative fun. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

dance

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ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE CLASS: Val Medve leads neophytes in the social dances popular in the time of Jane Austen. Richmond Free Library, 7-9 p.m. $3-5. Info, 899-2378.

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VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: A diversified bazaar celebrates all things local — think produce, breads, pastries, cheeses, wines, syrups, jewelry, crafts and beauty products. Depot Park, Rutland, 3-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 342-4727.

DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: Beginners are welcome at a groove session inspired by infectious beats.

Swan Dojo, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 540-8300.

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AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE: Healthy donors give the gift of life. CSWD Administrative Office, Williston, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Pownal Rescue Squad, 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-733-2767.

BIKE SMUT 9: SCIENCE FRICTION: An erotic bicycle film festival rolls into town, presenting flicks featuring interracial alien orgies, power-tool-wielding lesbians and more. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 7-9 p.m. $10-20; for ages 18 and up.

Info, 356-2776.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: Ride in style while learning fun facts about the Queen City in themed tours exploring history, brew culture and even haunted houses. See trolleytoursvt.com for details. 1 College St., trolley stop, Burlington, 10 a.m., noon & 2 & 6 p.m. $8-18; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 497-0091.

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Xenia Rubinos is rolling into town, and hers is a show you won’t want to miss. The Brooklyn-based singer just released her second album, Black Terry Cat, which has been praised by both NPR and Pitchfork; the latter calls the collection “all about breaking beyond limitations.” The music is political, soulful and sharp. “Rubinos gets deep inside her psyche on Black Terry Cat,” adds Pitchfork, “as she negotiates a world that has prescribed ideas about how she should be, and questions her place outside of it.”

XENIA RUBINOS Thursday, September 1, 8:30 p.m., at ArtsRiot in Burlington. $10-12. Info, 540-0406. artsriot.com

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

health & fitness

EPIC MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: Guided practice and group conversation with Yushin Sola cultivate well-being. Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $14. Info, 299-9531.

INSIGHT MEDITATION: Attendees absorb Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694.

INTRODUCTION TO TAI CHI: Instructor Ellie Hayes demonstrates the slow martial art passed down through generations. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 5-6 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

MIDDLEBURY FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Participants get pumped for summer activities with a fun, varied outdoor training session. Rain location: Middlebury Municipal Gym. Private residence, Middlebury, 7-8 a.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

MINDFUL WORKWEEKS: WEDNESDAY NIGHT MEDITATION: Give your brain a break at a midweek “om” session followed by tea and conversation.

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‘REMBRANDT: FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON, & RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM’ Wednesday, September 7, 11 a.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. $5-10. Info, 3829222. townhalltheater.org

A Day at the Museum The National Gallery in London and Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam recently hosted an exhibit of Rembrandt works that focused on paintings he created later in life. Most of us probably didn’t catch that show across the pond, but Town Hall Theater in Middlebury is kindly screening a production that takes viewers on a virtual gallery tour. Expect a bit of biography on the Dutch master along with notes on each painting from curators and art historians.

SEP.4 | FAIRS & FESTIVALS

In Session Fall is fast approaching, and college students aren’t the only ones going back to class. The University of Vermont’s monthly Community Medical School, which opens with a lecture by urologist Scott Perrapato on Tuesday, offers free public lectures on a variety of topics. Perrapato will dig into a discussion of innovations in the field of prostate cancer. In coming months, an array of professionals will discuss everything from dengue fever vaccines to opioid addiction. You don’t have to be a med student or practitioner to go; these talks are specifically tailored for general audiences.

COMMUNITY MEDICAL SCHOOL: SCOTT PERRAPATO Tuesday, September 6, 6-7:30 p.m., at Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, University of Vermont, in Burlington. Info, 8472886. uvm.edu

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There will be seven abodes to explore, build-your-own courses, panels, vendors, demos and more.

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MORNING FLOW YOGA: Greet the sun with a grounding and energizing class for all levels. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 540-0186.

BIKE BUM RACE SERIES: Mountain bikers of all ages, riding solo or in teams of up to five, tackle the Snowshed trails. An after-party with raffle prizes helps athletes cool down. Killington Resort, 2-5 p.m. $25-100; preregister. Info, 775-1928.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: A stretching session for all ability levels builds physical and mental strength to support healing. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

BURLINGTON HASH HOUSE HARRIERS: Beer hounds of legal age earn sips with an invigorating jog and high-impact game of hide-and-seek. See burlingtonhash.com for details. Various Burlington locations, 6:30-9 p.m. $5; free for first-timers. Info, bh3@burlingtonhash.com.

TAI CHI FOR ALL: Shaina Levee instructs attendees wearing loose, comfy clothes in moving meditation.

Jericho Town Library, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 899-4686.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOUND BATH: Draw in the good vibrations of gongs, bowls and didgeridoos — a relaxing sonic massage to get you through the week. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, 510-697-7790.

YOGA ON THE DOCK: Healthy bodies jump-start the day at a serene outdoor practice with lakeside views. Community Sailing Center, Burlington, 7-8 a.m. $15. Info, 864-9642.

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STREAM SAFARI: Survey shady waterways in appropriate footwear and a swimsuit. Call to confirm.

Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 244-7103.

TODDLER TIME: Puzzles, puppets, stories and art supplies entertain tots ages 4 and under. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

language

BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Students build a foundation in reading, speaking and writing. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Fine-tune your ability to dialogue in a nonnative language. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:457:30 p.m. Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Pupils improve their speaking and grammar mastery. Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

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‘ALL MY SONS’: Arthur Miller’s first successful play, about a man forced to take responsibility for his past, comes to the Vermont stage. Weston Playhouse, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $21-55. Info, 824-5288.

‘JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR’: The Stowe Theatre Guild stages the rock opera, which relates the Gospel’s version of the last week of Jesus’ life. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 7:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 253-3961.

‘LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL’: Take a glimpse into the life of Billie Holiday in the play

by Lanie Robertson. Dorset Theatre, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $18-57. Info, 867-2223.

‘MURDER FOR TWO’: A small-town cop tries to prove his sleuthing skills by solving a murder in this classic musical comedy. Weston Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $18-34. Info, 824-5288.

‘TOMMY’ AUDITIONS: Actors show their stuff in tryouts for Lyric Theatre’s fall production. See lyrictheatrevt.org for details. Fusion 802 Dance, South Burlington, 5:45-10:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1484.

words

‘GUY READS’ BOOK CLUB: Menfolk enjoy good books and drinks. Groennfell Meadery, Colchester, 6-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 264-5660, burnhamlib@colchestervt.gov.

VETERANS BOOK GROUP: Readers who have served join Michael Heaney for a discussion of words. South Burlington Veterans Center, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-1806.

WRITING CIRCLE: Prompts flow into a 30-minute free write and sharing opportunities in a nonjudgmental atmosphere. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Residents chew the fat over the values of space and community growth.

The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

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

dance

CONTEMPORARY DANCE CLASS: Instruction for individuals of varying ability levels is tailored to each mover’s unique style. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $5; free for first-timers. Info, 863-6713.

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INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Participants take communication to the next level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: Ladies dribble up and down the court during an evening of friendly competition. See meetup.com for details. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free.

Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

CITY HALL PARK CONCERT SERIES: DADDY LONG LEGS: The roots and blues group engages audiences in an outdoor performance. Burlington City Hall Park, noon. Free. Info, 865-7166.

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SCIENCE LOVES ART: Young ’uns of all ages explore transdisciplinary activities such as bubbles, prisms, watercolors and more. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m. & 12:30 & 2 p.m. $10.50-13.50; free for kids 2 and under.

Info, 864-1848.

BEGINNER RUSSIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Learn the basics of the Eastern Slavic tongue.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-6:45 p.m. Free.

Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

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sports

NIA WITH LINDA: Eclectic music and movements drawn from healing, martial and dance arts propel an animated barefoot workout. South End Studio, Burlington, 8:30-9:30 a.m. $14; free for first-timers. Info, 372-1721.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

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THE MAGIC OF BIRD MIGRATION: Avian enthusiasts learn how songbirds, shorebirds and other species travel thousands of miles each year with astounding accuracy. B-Side playground, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-4; free for children ages 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

FREE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS: Technology for Tomorrow instructs participants in topics such as

BARK & BREW: Taste a new beer while your pup enjoys playtime. Humane Society of Chittenden County, South Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-15.

Info, 862-0135.

FEAST & FIELD FARMERS MARKET: Locally grown produce and music by Bull and Prairie are on the menu at a weekly pastoral party. Fable Farm, Barnard, 4:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3391.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.31.

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LA LECHE LEAGUE MEETING: Nursing mothers share breastfeeding tips and resources. Essex Free Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, lllessexvt@gmail.com.

fairs & festivals

SUMMERVALE: Locavores fête farms and farmers at a weekly event centered on food, brews and kids’ activities, with music by Becker, Ullman, Markley and Freedberg. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 660-0440.

film

‘EVERY DAY’S A HOLIDAY’: Cowriter Mae West stars in the 1937 feature as a con artist navigating between goodness and corruption. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘TOMMY’: A psychosomatic, deaf and dumb boy becomes the object of a religious cult. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $7.50. Info, 775-0570.

food & drink

BELGO SUTRA QUADRUPEL RELEASE: Burlesque dancers compliment the Belgian-style suds brewed with figs and dates, and head brewer Chris Rockwood shares his tasting notes. Magic Hat Artifactory, South Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 658-2739.

BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: Gourmands rewind to when farm-to-table was a reality rather than a luxury in a two-mile tour of the Queen City featuring snack stops at five restaurants. Awning behind ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1 p.m. $48; preregister. Info, 863-5966.

CELEBRATE YOUR FARMER SOCIAL: Farm-fresh pizza fuels a celebration of agriculture. Valley Dream Farm, Cambridge, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10; preregister.

Info, rachel@nofavt.org.

COCKTAIL PARTY: Themed libations please palates at a weekly sipping session complete with shuffleboard. Stonecutter Spirits, Middlebury, noon-8 p.m.

Cost of drinks; BYO food. Info, 388-3000.

games

CHITTENDEN COUNTY CHESS CLUB: Checkmate!

Strategic thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ king. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 324-1143.

health & fitness

CORNWALL FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Interval training helps participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness. First Congregational Church, Cornwall, 9-10 a.m. $12.

Info, 343-7160.

DE-STRESS YOGA: A relaxing and challenging class lets healthy bodies unplug and unwind. Balance Yoga, Richmond, 7:15-8:30 p.m. $14. Info, 434-8401.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: Seekers clear their minds and find inspiration and creativity in a guided practice. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

kids

LEGO CLUB: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire developing minds. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

‘LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL’: See WED.31, 7:30 p.m.

language

• 70+ group fitness classes every week

‘JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR’: See WED.31.

‘MURDER FOR TWO’: See WED.31.

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words

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

GEEK MOUNTAIN STATE SCI FI/FANTASY BOOK DISCUSSION: Word-nerds gab about Catherynne M. Valente’s Radiance. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 7-9 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-5124.

PLAUDERSTUNDE: The German Club of Vermont brings together entry-level speakers for a conversational lunch. La Villa Bistro & Pizzeria, Shelburne, noon. Cost of food. Info, 862-1677.

RECITE!: Rhyme-and-meter masters regale listeners with original and chosen poetry at this monthly meetup. Mon Vert Café, Woodstock, 5:30-7 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 457-299-7073.

music

DAVE KELLER: Blues and soul collide in a performance from the Montpelier-based musician. The Essex Culinary Resort & Spa, 6 p.m. Free. Info, info@ davekeller.com.

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XENIA RUBINOS: The soulful sounds of the multiinstrumentalist traverse genres. See calendar spotlight. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10-12.

Info, 540-0406.

community

MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED: Fungi lovers bone up on different varieties — fabulous and fearsome alike — found throughout the park. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2 p.m. $2-3; free for children ages 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

ROCKIN’ THE LITTLE RIVER: TOUR OF CCC CAMP SMITH: Visit the site where 2,000 men who built the Waterbury Dam once lived. Camp Smith Trail parking lot, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister. Info, 244-7103.

ROCKIN’ THE LITTLE RIVER: TOUR OF WATERBURY DAM: Take a guided tour of Vermont’s largest handbuilt earthen dam. Top of the Waterbury Dam, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister. Info, 244-7103.

SUNSET AQUADVENTURE PADDLE: Explore the Waterbury Reservoir, and learn how the dam was built by hand. Contact Station, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 6:30 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; limited space; preregister. Info, 244-7103.

seminars

HOSPICE VOLUNTEER TRAINING: Learn how to serve community members by offering companionship and support. Lamoille Home Health & Hospice, Morrisville, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 888-4651.

INTRO TO THERAPEUTIC TOUCH: Mary Jane Ohlson teaches participants how to get in tune with human energy fields. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

sports

BURLINGTON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB: Veterans and newbies lace up for practices and games on mixed-gender teams. Bring personal cleats, a mouth guard and a water bottle. Fort Ethan Allen Athletic Fields, Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonrugbyevents@gmail.com.

FREE AIKIDO CLASS: An introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 951-8900.

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AHAA EXPERIMENT: Abbi Jaffee, Amanda Franz, Amy Königbauer and Hanna Satterlee curate experimental art works in movement, music, and happenings. The Everything Space, Montpelier, 5-10 p.m. $5-20. Info, theeverythingspace@gmail.com.

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE REALLY, REALLY ITCHY: Hikers learn to identify poison ivy, medicinal jewelweed and other local plants. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm.

Info, 244-7103.

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FIRST THURSDAY CONCERT SERIES: Cricket Blue brings an intellectual Americana vibe to a food truck-fueled fundraiser for Steps to End Domestic Violence. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 658-3131.

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FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

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BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Learn new moves with Ballroom Nights, then join others in a dance social featuring waltz, tango and more. Singles, couples and beginners welcome. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance social, 8-9:30 p.m. $10-14; $8 for dance only. Info, 862-2269.

ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Jubilant motions with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspire divine connections. Auditorium, Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8011.

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COURAGE IN BLOOM GARDEN CEREMONY: An outdoor event honors the endurance of victimsurvivors and celebrates Judy Rex’s service to the Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services. Courage in Bloom Memorial Garden, Montpelier, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, cara.cookson@ccvs.vermont.gov.

GRIAN HERBS APOTHECARY GRAND OPENING & ART WALK: Explore the new wellness center while sipping Tulsi Tea Room beverages and taking in botanical art by Iris Gage. Grian Herbs Apothecary, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-0043.

Saturdays at 11am.

Free and open to all ages.

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Join these Green Writers Press authors for an evening of story.

THU 15 7pm

JUDITH SCHWARTZ: WATER IN PLAIN SIGHT

Explore real-world solutions to today’s water crisis.

THU 22 7pm

CARDY RAPER: AN AMERICAN HARVEST

Reflections on how one family moved from dirt-poor farming to a better life in the early 1900s.

THU 29 7pm

LAURIE MCCAMMON: ENOUGH!

Discover how your own neverenough thinking has been limiting you and how to challenge it in all the places it lurks.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.31.

fairs & festivals

LAWN FEST: Deal seekers find new homes for repurposed treasures — from jewelry and collectibles to toys and household items. Homemade chili, baked beans and hot dogs are for lunch. Waterbury Center Community Church, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 244-8089.

Burlington events are ticketed unless otherwise indicated. Your $3 ticket comes with a coupon for $5 off the featured book!

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food & drink

BELLOWS FALLS FARMERS MARKET: Grass-fed beef meets bicycle-powered smoothies at a foodie fair overflowing with veggies, cheeses, prepared eats, kids’ activities and live music. Canal Street, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, bellowsfallsmarket@gmail.com.

Saturdays at 1pm.

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BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: See THU.1.

BURLINGTON TRUCK STOP: Mobile kitchens dish out mouthwatering fare and libations. An indoor artists’ market adds to the fun. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6v-phoenixbooks083116.indd 1 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.

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MAKING CRAB APPLE SAUCE: Cooks in grades 1 through 5 gather fruit from a nearby tree, then whip up a colorful, sweet treat. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Tots up to age 5 and their caregivers turn up the volume. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

‘ALL MY SONS’: See WED.31, 7:30 p.m.

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GIRLS RIDE OUT: Bikers take a relaxed, twowheeled tour around town accompanied by boombox tunes. Old Spokes Home, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-4475.

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FORZA: THE SAMURAI SWORD WORKOUT: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon.

North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

PLAINFIELD PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Tykes ages 2 through 5 discover the magic of literature. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 454-8504.

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COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

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FIVE CORNERS FARMERS MARKET: Conscious consumers shop local produce, premade treats and crafts. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 5cornersfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

FOODWAYS FRIDAYS: Cooks use heirloom herbs and veggies to revive historic recipes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $414; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 343-9778.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.31, 9:15 a.m.

VOLLEYBALL/GAME/PIZZA NIGHT: Singles mingle and meet. Essex Alliance Church, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 999-5291.

health & fitness

LAUGHTER YOGA: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle!

Both new and experienced participants reduce stress with this playful practice. The Wellness Coop, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.

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Call 802-656-0013 for more info and to schedule a screening.

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ALL-AGES STORY TIME: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers participate in finger plays and action rhymes. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING: Decks of cards determine the arsenal with which participants, or “planeswalkers,” fight others for glory, knowledge and conquest.

For grades 6 and up. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

MUSIC WITH ROBERT: Sing-alongs with Robert Resnik hit all the right notes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

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‘MURDER FOR TWO’: See WED.31.

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BCA SUMMER ARTIST MARKET: Juried artisans offer contemporary crafts and fine art, weather permitting. Burlington City Hall Park, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

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NATIVE AMERICAN POTTERY WORKSHOP WITH CHARLIE PAQUIN: The archaeologist guides ceramicists through native techniques for pinch pots and coil bowls. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free with regular admission, $10.50-14.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 272-2509.

BURLINGTON WESTIE FIRST SATURDAY DANCE: Hoofers hit the dance floor for a themed evening of blues and West Coast swing. North End Studio A, Burlington, introductory lesson, 6:30 p.m.; workshop, 7 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $7-10. Info, burlingtonwestie@ gmail.com.

CONTRA DANCE: Nils Fredland calls the steps while Nova supplies tunes at a benefit for the grange.

Capital City Grange, Berlin, 8-11 p.m. $5-9. Info, 249-7454.

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BAKE SALE & AUCTION: The annual fundraising event features yummy home-baked bites, potted mums and goodies up for grabs. Grafton Historical Society, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 843-2584.

DAWSON PERLEY MEMORIAL CAR SHOW: Automobile enthusiasts admire top notch specimens at a fundraiser for the Dawson Perley Athletic Scholarship Fund. Westcom’s Snack Bar, Bakersfield, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free for spectators; $15 for entrants.

Info, 393-1055.

OVER THE EDGE FOR THE FLYNN: Adventurous fundraisers rappel down the side of the hotel while raising money for the performing arts organization.

Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 652-4533.

ROMAINE TENNEY: A CELEBRATION OF A FARMER’S LIFE: The Sky Blue Boys provide tunes while Howard Coffin supplies memories of the Weathersfield farmer. Call for details on parking.

Weathersfield Proctor Library, Ascutney, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 674-2863.

fairs & festivals LAWN FEST: See FRI.2.

MAD RIVER VALLEY CRAFT FAIR: More than 100 of the region’s top artisans and crafters display their wares amid Green Mountain vistas, live music and local food at this 44th annual gathering. Kenyon’s Field, Waitsfield, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $5; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 496-3409.

NORTHFIELD LABOR DAY: A 5K footrace kicks off a weekend of family-friendly entertainment including mechanical bull rides, a parade and more.

Northfield Observances, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 485-9206.

SOUTHERN VERMONT GARLIC & HERB FESTIVAL: Garlic ice cream? This creative concoction is one of many offered by dozens of vendors and growers at a pungent gathering featuring live music, brews and kids’ activities. Camelot Village, Bennington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $2-10. Info, 447-3311.

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HISTORIC SITES FILM AFTERNOON: Short to one-hour flicks about Vermont’s storied locales pique viewers’ interest. Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, 1-4 p.m. $5; free for kids under 15. Info, 272-2509.

‘IT’S GREAT TO BE YOUNG!’: Sir John Mills stars in the 1956 film about a teacher’s effort to save his school’s music program. Newman Center, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Donations. Info, serious_61@yahoo.com.

food & drink

ALL YOU CAN EAT BREAKFAST: Scrambled eggs, bacon, baked beans and hash fill tummies. Isle of Patmos Masonic Lodge, South Hero, 7:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. $5-10; free for kids 2 and under. Info, islandersrus@aol.com.

APPLE DAYS: Pick your own, press them, make a pie! Live music and chilly swimming keep the affair tart and tantalizing. Onion River Campground, Plainfield, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $15-15. Info, 426-3233.

BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOUR: See THU.1.

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172.

FAREWELL TO SUMMER: Mary Bee, Kate Connaghan and Dani W. deliver folksy tunes after a popular market day. Lakeside Park, Island Pond, market, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; music, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 723-0470.

CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, and locally made arts and crafts. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 793-8347.

GHOST WALK: DARKNESS FALLS: Local historian Thea Lewis treats pedestrians to tales of madmen, smugglers, pub spirits and, of course, ghosts.

Democracy Sculpture, 199 Main St., Burlington, 8 p.m. $18; preregister; limited space. Info, 863-5966.

CHOCOLATE TASTING: With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics of all ages discover the flavor profiles of four different confections. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

POINT COUNTER POINT: Listeners revel in chamber music on clarinet, piano and strings from the faculty of the organization’s adult workshop. The Congregational Church of Middlebury, 7:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 382-9325.

GHOST WALK: SHADOWS OF THE PAST: Early risers familiarize themselves with the Burlington of yesteryear in a guided tour by local historian Thea Lewis. Top of Church St., Burlington, 9 a.m. $15. Info, 863-5966.

COCKTAIL PARTY: See THU.1.

WINE DOWN FRIDAYS: MOGANI: Jazzy sounds from the Vermont band tickle the ears at an outdoor concert. Food by Almost Home Market provides sustenance. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7368.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.31.

music

FRIDAY NIGHT FIRES WITH MICHAEL ARNOWITT & IMPROVISIONS JAZZ: A colorful program of smooth sounds draws on Miles Davis, John Coltrane and others. Pizza by Field Stone Farm whets the appetite. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 7-9 p.m. Cost of food; cash only. Info, 223-1151.

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‘LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL’: See WED.31.

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ACORN CLUB STORY TIME: Little ones up to age 4 gather for read-aloud tales. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

DRAGGED THROUGH THE AGES: The Paint gurls dip into decades of dance moves in an evening of sultry 5/31/16 11:00 AMperformances. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $10-15. Info, 540-0406.

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‘JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR’: See WED.31.

kids

lgbtq

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‘ALL MY SONS’: See WED.31, 7:30 p.m.

YOGA ON THE DOCK: See WED.31.

STREAM SAFARI: See WED.31.

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TRADITIONAL CRAFT SATURDAYS: Visitors get hands-on exposure to historic handiwork with artisan demonstrations in felting, blacksmithing, pottery and more. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $414; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 457-2355.

LUNCH TIME FLOW: A guided sequence gives yogis a midday boost. The Everything Space, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. $13. Info, hannasatt@gmail.com.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.31.

• Earn up to $2430 in compensation

ranger Brian Aust. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-4; free for kids 3 and under; preregister. Info, 244-7103.

FALL MIGRATION BIRD WALKS: Avian enthusiasts explore local hot spots for songbird species. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7:30-9 a.m. $10; free for kids and members. Info, 229-6206.

FROGGER!: Learn to recognize slippery, bumpy amphibians by sight and sound with interpretive

INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE: Brainstorming leads to forming activity groups for hobbies such as flying stunt kites and playing music. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030.

LABOR & LEISURE DAY: Folks help out with 19thcentury farm chores, then unwind with wagon rides and homemade ice cream. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $414; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 457-2355.

MOUNT SNOW BREWERS FESTIVAL: More than 50 breweries pour ales, lagers, porters, stouts and ciders at a weekend shindig with live music, barbecue fare and chairlift rides. Mount Snow, West Dover, noon-6 p.m. $12-35. Info, 464-4191.

TRUCK STOP WINOOSKI: Merrymakers eat, drink and jam to live music at a dog- and family-friendly gathering of mobile food purveyors. Winooski Falls Way, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.31, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

health & fitness

MIDDLEBURY FITNESS BOOT CAMP: See WED.31, 8-9 a.m.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.31, North End Studio A, Burlington, 9-10 a.m.

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DROP-IN STORY TIME: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers settle in for picture books, finger plays and action rhymes. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

LITTLE ART, BIG FUN: Tina and Todd Logan lead a hands-on art-tastic activity for kiddos in conjunction with the “Big Art, Bold Vision” exhibit. Berlin Mall, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 272-5956.

STREAM SAFARI: See WED.31.

WHOLE BOOK APPROACH STORYTIME: Kids learn how words, pictures and book design work together to complete a narrative. Phoenix Books, Essex, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

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PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK: DJ sets and beat-driven music propel a dance party of epic proportions.

See piknicelectronik.com for details. Parc JeanDrapeau, Montréal, 2 p.m. $13.50-15; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 514-904-1247.

CHOIR OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE: The English college group performs sacred choral music under the direction of Geoffrey Webber. Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 8-10 p.m. Free.

Info, 654-2284.

music

COOLER IN THE MOUNTAINS CONCERT SERIES: Rustic Overtones rock an outdoor performance.

Snowshed Lodge, Killington Resort, 3:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 422-6201.

A BRIDGE TO HAVANA: Ola Fresca and DJ Bongohead get the audience dancing along.

ArtsRiot, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10-15. Info, 540-0406.

‘DOWNTOWN’ BOB STANNARD’S BLUES HARMONICA EXTRAVAGANZA: The eighth generation Vermonter is accompanied by an electric lineup of fellow harmonica musicians. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $20-25. Info, 760-4634.

THE BOMBADILS: The folk duo plays a mix of bluegrass and celtic harmonies. Ripton Community House, 7:30 p.m. $3-15. Info, 388-9782.

JOHN FUNKHOUSER QUARTET: The modern jazz guitar group from New York City plays original tunes with varied musical influences. Brandon Music, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $20; $40 includes dinner package; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

LEWIS FRANCO & THE BROWN EYED GIRLS: Folk tunes whet shoppers’ appetites at the weekly farmers market. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-8030 or 223-0882.

PUNK IN THE PARK: Fans get riled up for a day of raucous rock by Gwell-O, The Frenzy of Tongs, Polaroid Love and others in a drug-and-alcohol-free setting. Kids’ activities round out the 11th annual

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WORKSHOP ON SINGING ENGLISH CHORAL REPERTORY: Geoffrey Webber instructs vocalists in traditional composition and performance.

McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2284.

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CHOOSE YOUR OWN DISCOVERY HIKE: Learn how abandoned farms became dense forests. Wear sturdy shoes. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $2-4; free for children ages 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

DEEP SKY DISCOVERY NIGHT: Uncover the mysteries of the universe in a star-gazing session with the Green Mountain Alliance of Amateur Astronomers. Marshmallows sweeten the deal.

Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 7:30-11 p.m. Donations. Info, 273-2282.

EDIBLE & MEDICINAL PLANT WALK: Laurie DiCesare leads amblers on an instructive tour of recreational trails. Fairfax Community Library, 10 a.m.-noon. $8. Info, 849-2420.

FARM TO MEDICINE CABINET PLANT WALK: Clinical herbalist Emma Merritt introduces ramblers to weeds with wondrous benefits. Shelburne Farms, 10-11:30 a.m. $12; preregister. Info, registration@shelburnefarms.org.

THE MAGIC OF BIRD MIGRATION: Avian enthusiasts learn how songbirds, shorebirds and other species travel thousands of miles each year with astounding accuracy. B-Side beach, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-4; free for children ages 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED: See THU.1.

OWL PROWL & NIGHT GHOST HIKE: Flashlight holders spy denizens of dusk on a journey to 19th-century settlement ruins, where spooky Vermont tales await. History Hike parking lot, Little River State 8/29/16 4:58 PM Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

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‘ALL MY SONS’: See WED.31.

‘JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR’: See WED.31.

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ARTIFACT ROADSHOW & FLINTKNAPPING DEMONSTRATION: Experimental archaeologist Charlie Paquin identifies and analyzes your prehistoric finds, and demonstrates how Native Americans shaped projectile points. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free with admission, $11.50-14.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 272-2509.

GHOST WALK: SHADOWS OF THE PAST: See SAT.3.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.31.

fairs & festivals

MAD RIVER VALLEY CRAFT FAIR: See SAT.3.

NEW WORLD FESTIVAL: More than 70 regional and international musicians fête Vermont’s Celtic and French Canadian heritage with continuous concerts, workshops, kids’ activities and dancing. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, noon-11 p.m. $12-40; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 728-6464.

NORTHFIELD LABOR DAY: See SAT.3.

SOUTHERN VERMONT GARLIC & HERB FESTIVAL: See SAT.3.

TINY HOUSE FEST VERMONT: A village of compact abodes ignites conversation about sustainable living. See calendar spotlight. 29 Flat St., Brattleboro, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $5-225. Info, 451-0660.

sports

THE RUTLAND HERALD LABOR DAY SPECIAL: Racers whip around the asphalt track in souped-up vehicles. Devil’s Bowl Speedway, West Haven, 7 p.m. $10-12; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 265-3112.

1302 Main Street, St. Johnsbury VT Tel. 802-748-2372 fairbanksmuseum.org

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS WITH THE CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING: Peaceful people gather for guided meditation and interactive discussions.

Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5-7 p.m. $10.

Info, assistant@centerformindfullearning.org.

WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET: Area growers and bakers offer ethnic fare, assorted harvests and agricultural products against a backdrop of live music. Winooski Falls Way, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, info@downtownwinooski.org.

FLYING PIG FOOTRACE: Runners in a kids’ race and a 5K raise money for the Children’s Literacy Foundation. Northfield Savings Bank, 9:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 800-672-2274.

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food & drink

BOCCE SINGLES: VERMONT STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS: Equipment is provided at a single- or double-elimination event. Oakledge Park, Burlington, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $10. Info, 702-525-2075.

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seminars

VCAM ORIENTATION: Video-production learners master basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures.

VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

Readings with Billy Collins

POETRY EXPERIENCE: Rajnii Eddins facilitates a poetry and spoken-word workshop aimed at building confidence and developing a love of writing. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

‘LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL’: See WED.31.

‘MURDER FOR TWO’: See WED.31, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘ROMEO AND JULIET’: A broadcast of the Branagh Theatre Company’s production of the iconic play stars Richard Madden and Lily James. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 2 p.m. $10-17. Info, 382-9222.

‘WHATFORWARD CIRCUS’: Primitive puppets and their players unravel the passions and politics of our capitalist culture, proposing out-there solutions to difficult problems. BigTown Gallery, Rochester, 3 p.m. $8. Info, 767-9670.

words

BOOKS ON THE BALCONY: Gently used media fly off shelves at bargain prices. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

MOUNT SNOW BREWERS FESTIVAL: See SAT.3.

health & fitness

MORNING FLOW YOGA: See WED.31.

NIA WITH SUZY: Drawing from martial, dance and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.

kids

SUNDAYS FOR FLEDGLINGS: From feathers and flying to art and zoology, junior birders ages 5 through 9 develop research and observation skills.

Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-3 p.m.

Regular admission, $3.50-7; free for members; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

language

BASIC & INTERMEDIATE SPANISH GROUP: Students roll their Rs while practicing en español.

New Moon Café, Burlington, 2:45-4 p.m. $15. Info, maigomez1@hotmail.com.

lgbtq

THE SKY WRITING GROUP: Creative storytelling supports health and community cohesion in a critique-free environment. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, liz@pridecentervt.org.

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PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK: See SAT.3.

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dance

INTO THE WOODS: VIENNA STYLE: After a garden picnic, area pianists and vocalists perform works

by Beethoven and Schubert. Huling Piano Studio, Cabot, picnicking, 2 p.m.; concert, 4 p.m. $20; free for kids 18 and under. Info, 563-2860.

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THE CHOIR OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE: See Sat. 3, Middlebury St. Stephen’s on the Green Episcopal Church, 4:30-6:30 p.m. $10.

Info, 654-2284.

LETTUCE: The funk band delivers an electric performance. Kung Fu open. Stratton Mountain Resort, 3-6:15 p.m. $20-25. Free for kids 10 and under. Info, 297-4000.

MADAILA ON MAIN: The princelings of pop take over Main Street for a euphonic block party soirée featuring Marco Benevento, Lady Lamb, PitchBlak Brass Band, Delicate Steve, LuxDeluxe and others.

Main St., by Nectar’s, Burlington, 4 p.m.-2:55 a.m. $15-65. Info, 448-0872.

NIGHTTIME, IAN BURTON, JOSIE COLT & FORBES: Slow down for an intimate musical shindig, with grapefruit and Campari by donation, featuring atmospheric folk and heartbreaking country at the Wutterman Manor compound. Call for address.

Private residence, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $5-10.

Info, 609-707-2027.

outdoors

CHOOSE YOUR OWN DISCOVERY HIKE: See SAT.3, 2 p.m.

ROCKIN’ THE LITTLE RIVER: TOUR OF WATERBURY DAM: See THU.1.

WAR OF THE WEEDS!: Garden helpers remove invasive honeysuckle shrubs. Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. $2-3; free for children ages 3 and under; preregister; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

sports

ADVENTURE RIDE: Cyclists embark on a 20-mile mystery ride over varying terrain. Bring snacks and call for details. Old Spokes Home, Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-4475.

LABOR DAY SPECIAL ‘5-25S’: Racers whip around the dirt track in souped-up vehicles. Devil’s Bowl Speedway, West Haven, 5 p.m. $10-12; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 265-3112.

WOMEN’S PICKUP SOCCER: Swift females of varying skill levels break a sweat while making runs for the goal. For ages 18 and up. Rain location: Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center. Soccer fields, Leddy Park, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; $3 for rain location. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

theater

‘ALL MY SONS’: See WED.31, 3 p.m.

words

BURLINGTON WOMEN’S POETRY GROUP: Female writers seek feedback from fellow rhyme-andmeter mavens. Call for details. Private residence, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, jcpoet@bellsouth.net.

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fairs & festivals LAWN FEST: See FRI.2.

NORTHFIELD LABOR DAY: See SAT.3, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

film

‘POSTER GIRL’: The subject of the documentary, Robynn Murray, discusses post-traumatic stress disorder, art and poetry after a screening. Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408.

food & drink

PENNYWISE PANTRY: On a tour of the store, shoppers create a custom template for keeping the kitchen stocked with affordable, nutritious eats. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9753.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.31, 7 p.m.

health & fitness

DISCUSSION GROUP: MEATLESS DIET: A conversation about animal-friendly eating habits takes center stage. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

MORNING FLOW YOGA: See WED.31.

NIA WITH SUZY: See SUN.4, 7 p.m.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.31, North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.31.

SLIDING-SCALE STUDENT HERB CLINIC: Clinical interns give two-hour, one-on-one consultations.

Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 4-8 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

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ZUMBA: Lively Latin rhythms fuel this dancefitness phenomenon. Vergennes Opera House, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 349-0026.

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PRESCHOOL MUSIC: See THU.1, 11 a.m.

STORY TIME & CRAFTS WITH CAITLIN: Engaging narratives complement seasonally themed creative projects. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30-11 Untitled-37 1 a.m. Free. Info, 955-5124.

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ADVANCED-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Language learners perfect their pronunciation with guest speakers. Private residence, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

montréal

PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK: See SAT.3.

politics

LABOR DAY POLITICAL REVOLUTION PARTY: Senator Bernie Sanders is the guest of honor at celebration featuring music, food and progressive politics. Middlebury Town Green, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7214.

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seminars

BIKES FOR BEGINNERS WORKSHOP: Complementary accessories and a lesson in DIY maintenance ready cyclists for on-the-road repairs.

Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 264-9687.

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SAVE OPEN SPACE BURLINGTON MEETING: Passionate people convene to protect the land around Burlington College and beyond. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

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

Cost of food and drink. Info, 595-4001.

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JOAN HUTTON LANDIS SUMMER READING SERIES: Former Vermont poet laureate Sydney Lea and Sue Miller regale lit lovers with their carefully crafted poems and stories. BigTown Gallery, Rochester, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 767-9670.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.31.

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SALSA MONDAYS: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of the salsa, merengue, bachata and cha-cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572.

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ULTIMATE FRISBEE PICKUP: Athletes bust out their discs for a casual game. Bring cleats and white and dark shirts. Calahan Park, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, gmdaboard@gmail.com.

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BTV MTB RIDE: Mountain bikers of all levels maneuver over local trails. Old Spokes Home, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-4475.

CAMBRIDGE AREA ROTARY 5K FUN RUN: Runners stretch their legs to fund community service projects throughout Lamoille county. 22 Old Main St., Jeffersonville, 8 a.m.-noon. $5-20. Info, 793-5509.

theater

MONDAYS AT THE IMPROV: Emerging entertainers express themselves through theater games and acting techniques for onstage and off. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373.

TUE.6 art

COLORING CLUB: Adults and high school students relax by shading inside the lines. BYO coloring books and implements. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600, ext. 108.

community

FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: See FRI.2.

TUESDAY VOLUNTEER NIGHTS: Helping hands pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

crafts

OPEN CRAFT NIGHT: Creative sparks fly in the studio as attendees whip out woven wall hangings and crochet, knitting and sewing projects. Nido Fabric & Yarn, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 881-0068.

dance

BEGINNER WEST COAST SWING & FUSION DANCING: Pupils get schooled in the fundamentals of partner dance. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $11-16. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

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INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WEST COAST SWING: Fun-loving folks learn the smooth, sexy stylings of modern swing dance. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $11-16. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

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

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

TRIVIA NIGHT: IF YOU DON’T KNOW, NOW YOU KNOW: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. A DJ set and prizes sweeten the deal. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406.

health & fitness

BRANDON FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Hop to it! Get fit with strength, endurance, agility and coordination exercises. Otter Valley North Campus Gym, Brandon, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

DE-STRESS YOGA: See THU.1, 5:45-7 p.m.

GENTLE DROP-IN YOGA: Yogis hit the mat for a hatha class led by Betty Molnar. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

KICKBOXING CLASS WITH BELINDA: Athletes embrace their inner badass by building endurance, strength and flexibility in a class propelled by fun music. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $15.

Info, bestirredfitness@gmail.com.

ZUMBA WITH ALLISON: Conditioning is disguised as a party at this rhythm-driven workout session.

Swan Dojo, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 227-7221.

kids

LEGO CHALLENGE: Burgeoning builders tackle construction tasks with colorful blocks. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Melody makers ages 3 through 5 sing and dance the morning away.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 264-5660.

READ TO WILLY WONKA THE CHOCOLATE LAB: Kiddos cozy up for story time with the library’s furry friend. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3:304 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

TODDLER STORY TIME: Good listeners up to 3 years old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

language

BEGINNER-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Basic communication skills are on the agenda at a guided lesson. Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20.

Info, 324-1757.

ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano?

Language learners engage with a fluent speaker in an informal training. Jericho Town Library, 6-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 899-4686.

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

film

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage folks engage in dialogue en français.

Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.31.

‘THE FRENCH CONNECTION’: A heroin dealer is on the run, with two New York City detectives hot in pursuit. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 & 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

KNIGHTS OF THE MYSTIC MOVIE CLUB: Cinema hounds view campy features at this ode to offbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776.

‘NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE’: The 1978 classic comedy depicts college freshmen on a mission to save their fraternity from a vindictive dean.

Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018.

food & drink

BELGO SUTRA QUADRUPEL RELEASE: Smooth jazz sounds compliment the Belgian-style suds brewed with figs and dates. The Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 658-2739.

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from the library! Fairfax Community Library, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.31, 7 p.m.

FAMILY GAME NIGHT: Families with kids ages 5 and up bring a favorite tabletop activity, or borrow one

music

AMOS LEE: The Philadelphia singer-songwriter dives into soulful numbers from his forthcoming album. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $42-63.

Info, 863-5966.

OPEN JAM SESSION: Musicians follow the flow and explore sound together. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext.

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outdoors

MONARCH BUTTERFLY TAGGING: Nets in hand, nature lovers catch, tag and release the migrating winged wonders. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. $3-5. Info, 229-6206.

seminars

CAMERA 101: Learn to use the Canon XA10 with professional microphones. RETN & VCAM Media Factory, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-7980.

sports

BASICS OF FISHING: Learn basic techniques, ecology, regulations and more. Shelburne Bay Fish and Wildlife Access, 4:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 505-5562.

BURLINGTON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB: See THU.1.

COMMUNITY MEDICAL SCHOOL: SCOTT PERRAPATO: The urologist enlightens listeners in his open lecture “Innovations & Strategies for Reducing Mental and Physical Impact.” See calendar spotlight. Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-2886.

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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.31.

health & fitness

COMMUNITY MEETING: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont shares info about health policies with folks over lunch. Capitol Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, Montpelier, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 371-3205.

EPIC MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: See WED.31.

FOOT REFLEXOLOGY: Alicia Feltus walks participants through stimulating the tootsies to reduce stress and promote relaxation. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $8-10; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

CREATIVE NONFICTION WORKSHOP: Readers give feedback on essays, poetry and journalism written

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

INSIGHT MEDITATION: See WED.31.

MALCOLM SEVERANCE: Brush up on the author’s new work, A Pursuit of Excellence: A History of the University of Vermont School of Business Administration. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 448-3350.

MORNING FLOW YOGA: See WED.31.

SEARCH FOR MEANING ADULT DISCUSSION GROUP: Avid readers reflect on selected texts.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-6920.

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BECOMING AN ARTIST RESPONDER: Professional creatives learn how to get back on their feet after a natural disaster with the Craft Emergency Relief Fund. Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, 1-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-2306.

LIFE DRAWING: See WED.31.

business

NETWORKING GET-TOGETHER: Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility members and friends connect over employee engagement, energy reduction and more. Nathaniel Group Inc., Vergennes, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-8347.

crafts

KNITTERS & NEEDLEWORKERS: Crafters convene for creative fun. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

dance

DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: See WED.31.

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HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS OF BURLINGTON: See WED.31.

WAGON RIDE WEDNESDAYS: See WED.31.

film

‘JACKIE ROBINSON’: The 2016 Ken Burns documentary slides into home with its depiction of the player who crossed baseball’s color lines. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘REMBRANDT: FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON, & RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM’: Tales of the famous artist’s life are woven into a cinematic traipse through the landmark exhibition. See calendar spotlight. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 11 a.m. $5-10. Info, 382-9222.

food & drink

COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.31.

LEDDY PARK BEACH BITES: Lakeside picnickers enjoy food trucks, a beer garden, kids’ activities and entertainment. Attendees on two wheels enjoy free bike valet service. No dogs allowed. Leddy Park, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Cost of food. Info, 864-0123.

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.31.

MIDDLEBURY FITNESS BOOT CAMP: See WED.31.

MINDFUL WORKWEEKS: WEDNESDAY NIGHT MEDITATION: See WED.31.

NIA WITH LINDA: See WED.31.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.31.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.31.

TAI CHI FOR ALL: See WED.31.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOUND BATH: See WED.31.

ZUMBA: See MON.5.

kids

DOROTHY’S LIST BOOK CLUB: Readers ages 8 through 11 weigh in on Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

TODDLER TIME: See WED.31.

language

BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.31.

BEGINNER RUSSIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: See WED.31.

GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: See WED.31.

INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: See WED.31.

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.31.

music

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

Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 775-1182.

seminars

FREE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS: See WED.31.

sports

BURLINGTON HASH HOUSE HARRIERS: See WED.31.

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: See WED.31.

talks

BRENNAN GAUTHIER: The Vermont Agency of Transportation archaeologist discusses the history of Milton. Milton Historical Society, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 272-2509.

JOSHUA HALMAN: The forest health specialist branches out into a talk on monitoring and research in the Green Mountains. Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1327.

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THE WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP: CHAPTER FOCUS: Folks give feedback on selections of up to 40 pages 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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ADULT WHEEL DROP-IN: Spend a Friday night with our pottery instructors learning the basics of wheel throwing with clay. This is a great introduction to our studio for those who don’t have time for an eight-week class or who just want to try the wheel and have some fun with other beginner potters. Instructors: Julia Berberan & Alissa White. Cost: $12/person; $11/BCA members; + $5 per piece to be fired & glazed. Location: BCA Clay & Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

experience necessary. Cost: $180/ person; $162/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

FAMILY WHEEL DROP-IN: Explore BCA’s Clay Studio while hanging out with the family. Try the pottery wheel and create amazing clay sculptures in the handbuilding room while our staff gives demonstrations. Instructors: Julia Berberan, Kate McKernan, Alissa White and Alex Costantino. Cost: $8/participant; $7/BCA members; + $5 per piece to be fired & glazed.

Location: BCA Clay & Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

GRAPHIC NOVEL: React to your present life experiences and delve into your past using the style of a graphic novel, the comics, and cartooning technique of telling a story. Learn diverse narrative and stylistic pen and ink techniques for communicating with words and pictures, from traditional to experimental methods. No experience necessary. Instructor: Rachel Lindsay. Cost: $170/person; $153/ BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

LIFE DRAWING DROP-IN: This drop-in life drawing class is open to all levels and facilitated by local artist Julia Berberan. Spend the evening with other artists drawing one of our experienced models.

Please bring your own drawing materials and paper. Instructor: Julia Berberan. Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members; ages 18 and up.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PAINTING SEMINAR: COLOR HARMONY: The one-day class will focus on color harmony through exercises that stimulate awareness of color changes and temperatures, how to mix colors, and how various application techniques affect the appearance of color.

Whether you work in abstraction or realism, landscapes or figures, this seminar will strengthen your use of color. Instructor: Gail Salzman. Cost: $90/person; $81/ BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., 3rd-floor classroom, Burlington.

PRESCHOOL ART DROP-IN: This popular drop-in program introduces young children to artistic explorations in a multimedia environment that is both creative and social. Participants will work with kid-friendly materials like homemade play dough and finger paint, and explore sculpture, drawings and crafts through their own projects or collaboratively.

Instructor: Alexandra Turner.

Cost: $6/child; $5/BCA members; ages 6 mo.-5 years. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

PRINTMAKING: This 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 the four weeks, you’ll be introduced to the studio’s equipment and materials and learn techniques such as block printing

WOODCUT: The class will focus on the fundamental techniques and characteristics of relief printing and progress to more sophisticated woodblock printing processes.

The second part of the class will explore the use of multiplecolor printing and other creative possibilities for making a print.

Instructor: Gregg Blasdel. Cost: $210/person; $189/BCA members.

Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

computers MANY COURSES AT CVUHS IN HINESBURG STARTING SOON: Tomato Magic Sauce (Sep. 6), Prenatal Yoga (Sep. 6), Contemporary Dance (Sep. 6), Essential Oils (Sep. 7), Next Photoshop (Sep. 7), Assets & Liabilities (Sep. 7), Italian for Travelers (Sep. 8), Anatomy and Somatics (Sep. 8), Intro French (Sep. 12), Wake Up Now (Sep. 12), Memoir Writing (Sep. 12), French Beginners (Sep. 13), Tuesday Yoga (Sep. 13), Chair Yoga (Sep. 13),Vinyasa Yoga (Sep. 14), Ethiopian Ceremony (Sep. 15), Jazzercise Dance (Sep. 15), Yoga Beginners (Sep. 15), Solar Energy (Sep. 15), Confluence Time (Sep. 15). Full descriptions available online. Enroll to save spot; confirmation will provide info. Follow @ accesscvu on Twitter/Facebook/ Instagram. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/ access.

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MAKE IT SEW! SERIES AT NIDO: Interested in widening your sewing machine skills beyond basic hemming? This four-week sewing series will introduce beginner sewers to several new machine skills and develop the foundation to move forward with solo projects.

Students will create a drawstring bag, apron, zip pouches and more.

Nido has kids’ classes, too!. Cost: $220/4 3-hour classes; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

culinary MANY COURSES AT CVUHS IN HINESBURG STARTING SOON: Tomato Magic Sauce (Sep. 6), Prenatal Yoga (Sep. 6), Contemporary Dance (Sep. 6), Essential Oils (Sep. 7), Next Photoshop (Sep. 7), Assets & Liabilities (Sep. 7), Italian for Travelers (Sep. 8), Anatomy and Somatics (Sep. 8), Intro French (Sep. 12), Wake Up Now (Sep. 12), Memoir Writing (Sep. 12), French Beginners (Sep. 13), Tuesday Yoga (Sep. 13), Chair Yoga (Sep. 13),Vinyasa Yoga (Sep. 14), Ethiopian Ceremony (Sep. 15), Jazzercise Dance (Sep. 15), Yoga Beginners (Sep. 15), Solar Energy (Sep. 15), Confluence Time (Sep. 15). Full descriptions available online. Enroll to save spot; confirmation will provide info. Follow @ accesscvu on Twitter/Facebook/ Instagram. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/ access.

FERMENTATION 101: Learn to to introduce healthy bacteria into your systems with homemade products!. Cost: $25/person incl. workshop, recipes & samples to bring home. Location: Gardener’s Supply Burlington Garden Center, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505.

dance KNITTING HOUSE SOCKS AT NIDO: In this three-part class, increase your beginner knitting skills and learn how to make house socks. Master working in

CLUB LEVEL 50 DANCE LESSONS: New experimental dance system called Club Level 50 starting this year in South Burlington. The American folk dance brought into the 21st century. Squares

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now!. Cost: $12/1-hour class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Jon Bacon, 355-1818, cran dalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt. com.

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Beginner walkin classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class.

No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com.

SWING DANCE LESSONS: Fourweek series of beginner swing dance classes with Vermont’s premier swing dance teacher, Terry Bouricius. Learn the basics of the Jitterbug (also called East Coast swing). No partner necessary. Each one-hour class will be followed by a 15-minute DJed practice period. Cost: $10/person per class ($40 for the 4-week series). Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: Vermont Swings, Terry Bouricius, 864-8382, terryb@burlingtontele com.net, vermontswings.com.

drumming DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Learn drumming technique and music on West African drums! Drums provided!

Burlington Beginners Djembe, Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Aug. 31, $24/2 weeks; Sep. 21, $48/4 weeks. $15/drop-in.

Djembes are provided. Montpelier Beginners Djembe, Thu., 7-8:20 p.m.; Djembe workshop, Sep.1, $22; Djembe tuning workshop, Sep. 8, $22; Montpelier Conga workshop Thu., 5:30-6:50 p.m., Sep. 8, $22. Six-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Please register online or come directly to the first class!

Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington; Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin.

Info: 999-4255, burlington taiko.org.

KID’S AND PARENTS’ WORLD DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Tue. Taiko in Burlington (ages 6 and up): 4-5:20 p.m., starting Aug. 30, $30/child or $58/parent-child for 2 weeks; Wed. Djembe in Burlington (ages 6 and up): 4:30-5:20 p.m., starting DRUMMING

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DIGITAL SLR CAMERA: Explore the basic workings of the digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision.

Demystify F-stops, shutter speeds, sensitivity ratings and exposure, and learn the basics of composition. Bring your camera and owner’s manual to class. Instructor: Dan Lovell. No

MIXED LEVEL DARKROOM: Guided sessions will help you improve your printing and film processing techniques and discussion of the technical, anesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work will be included. Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class for outside of class printing and processing. Instructor: Mary Zompetti. Prerequisite: Black and White Darkroom or equivalent experience. Cost: $295/person;

OIL PAINTING: Learn how to paint with nontoxic, water-soluble oils.

Students will earn a variety of painting techniques and how to paint directly from still life and use reference photographers to paint landscapes. This supportive class will have a nice balance of studio time, gentle group discussion and critique. Beginners welcome!.

Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

WHEEL THROWING: This class is an introduction to clay, pottery, and ceramics studios. Students will work primarily on the potter’s wheel, learning basic throwing and forming techniques, while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases, and bowls. Students will also be guided through various finishing techniques using the studio’s house slips and glazes.

Cost: $290/person; $261/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

KNITTING FOR BEGINNERS I: In this three-part class, learn the basics of knitting while making your very first chunky hat! Begin with swatching a gauge and casting on.

Learn to knit and purl in the round on a circular needle. Complete by switching to double-pointed needles to decrease and bind off.

Cost: $108/3 2-hour classes; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

and couples all in twelve lessons.

Dancing designed to reduce stress, increase energy, as well as improve flexibility and more. One great team contact sport. Cost: $5/1.5 hours. Location: Club Level 50, Fred Tuttle Middle School, 500 Dorset St., S. Burlington. Info: Raymond Moskewich, 233-0648, raymosk@comcast.net.

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CONTEMPORARY FIGURE PAINTING: Painters, recharge your practice with contemporary approach to the figure using fresh color and dynamic composition to strengthen your personal expression. Work from live models each week, explore a variety of contemporary techniques and get supportive feedback in a small group environment. Figure drawing experience is recommended. Instructor: Gail Salzman.

Cost: $360/person; $324/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY: Learn how to take beautiful and successful night photographs with master landscape and architectural photographer Gary Hall. Exposure, painting with light, white balancing and more will be covered.

The class will be structured with demonstrations, hands-on photo shoots and critique. Bring your film or digital SLR camera.

Instructor: Gary Hall. Prerequisite: Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Cost: $135/person; $121.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

SILKSCREEN: Students will learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using hand-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Learn how to apply photo emulsion, how to use a silk screen exposure unit, and how to print on variety of surfaces.

Instructor: Katie Loesel. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

the round on double-pointed needles creating a rib, heel flap, turning the heel, picking up and creating a gusset, decreasing, and using the Kitchner stitch to graft the toe. Cost: $108/3part, 6.5-hour class; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., Suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

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JEWELRY: Students will learn basic jewelry techniques including sawing, piercing, filing, annealing, soldering, texturing, cold connections, basic hollow construction, ring sizing and more. Explore different styles of contemporary and historical jewelry, design process, and the use of alternative materials through the studio library and the internet. Instructor: Rebecca Macomber. Cost: $225/ person; $202.50/BCA members.

Location: Generator, 250 Main St., Burlington.

MIXED LEVEL WHEEL THROWING: This class supports students across the range of skill and experience levels, 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.

Prerequisite: Wheel throwing experience. Cost: $290/person; $261/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

with linoleum and drypoint etching. Instructor: Katie Loesel. Cost: $280/person; $252/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

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BLACK AND WHITE DARKROOM: Learn how to properly expose black-and-white film with your manual 35mm or medium format camera, process film into negatives, and make prints from those negatives. Cost includes a darkroom membership for class length and all supplies. Bring your manual film camera to the first class. No experience necessary.

Instructor: Rebecca Babbitt.

Cost: $275/person; $247.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

$265.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

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Sep. 21, $48/child or $92/parentchild for 4 weeks. Montpelier: Thu., 3:30-4:20 (ages 3-5) and Thu., 4:30-5:20 (ages 6 and up) starting Sep. 1, $25/child or $48/ parent-child for 2 weeks; Oct. 6, $36/child or $69/parent-child for 3 weeks (no class Oct. 20): Five-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends!

Please register online or come directly to the first class! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington; 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin.

Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko. org.

TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON AND MONTPELIER!: Study with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Burlington Beginner/Recreational Class, Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m., starting Aug. 30, $24/2 weeks; Sep. 20, $48/4 weeks. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners, Mon. & Wed., 6:308:20 p.m. starting Aug. 29, $120/5 classes (no class Sep. 5); Sep. 19, $144/3 weeks. Montpelier Taiko Beginners, Thu., 5:30-6:50 p.m., single-day workshop on Sep. 1, $22 each. Six-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Please register online or come directly to the first class!

Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington; Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin.

Info: 999-4255, burlington taiko.org.

empowerment ARGUE LESS, LOVE MORE WORKSHOP: Experience an amazing compassionate communication method that will help you navigate day-to-day challenges with your self-esteem and relationships intact. or better than ever. Learn tools for meeting your seven core needs, handling triggers and upsets, and mastering this communication system that leaves both participants feeling heard, understood and valued.

Cost: $39/3-hour class. Location: Sacred Mountain Studio, 215 College St., 3rd floor, Burlington.

Info: Magic Relationship Method, Paul Sterling, 303-807-0159, info@ magicrelationship.net, magic relationship.net/learn.htm.

JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVES ON CURRENT EVENTS: In our transitional time, Carl Jung offers many thoughtful insights into what’s going on now, from the phenomenon of Donald Trump to the climate crisis. Melding Jung’s perspectives with the ideas of nine experts, this

course considers how we might best move forward as we grapple with the challenges ahead. Led

by Sue Mehrtens, author of C.G. Jung’s Wisdom for Our Time. Cost: $90/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

PEACE, PACIFISM AND OUR PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE: Riane Eisler’s “partnership model,” Johann Galtung’s concept of “structural violence,” and Thoreau’s ideas on civil disobedience join with Martin Luther King’s letters and Carl Jung’s ideas to consider how we might cope in this perilous time and work toward a peaceful world. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Cost: $60/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

RETIREMENT PLANNING WORKSHOP: Worried that you may never be able to retire?

Concerned about scammers, financial “phishers” eager to fleece you of your hard-earned savings?

No savings? Learn how you can realistically protect yourself, plan for an enjoyable retirement and avoid being fleeced. Taking this course will not expose you to pushy salespeople, annoying phone calls or other forms of harassment from investment gurus. Led by Sue Mehrtens, teacher, author, investor and happy semi-retiree.

Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

MANY COURSES AT CVUHS IN HINESBURG STARTING SOON: Tomato Magic Sauce (Sep. 6), Prenatal Yoga (Sep. 6), Contemporary Dance (Sep. 6), Essential Oils (Sep. 7), Next Photoshop (Sep. 7), Assets & Liabilities (Sep. 7), Italian for Travelers (Sep. 8), Anatomy and Somatics (Sep. 8), Intro French (Sep. 12), Wake Up Now (Sep. 12), Memoir Writing (Sep. 12), French Beginners (Sep. 13), Tuesday Yoga (Sep. 13), Chair Yoga (Sep. 13),Vinyasa Yoga (Sep. 14), Ethiopian Ceremony (Sep. 15), Jazzercise Dance (Sep. 15), Yoga Beginners (Sep. 15), Solar Energy (Sep. 15), Confluence Time (Sep. 15). Full descriptions available online. Enroll to save spot; confirmation will provide info. Follow @ accesscvu on Twitter/Facebook/ Instagram. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/ access.

HOW BUILDING A STRONG PERSONAL FOUNDATION CAN

HELP YOU CREATE A CAREER YOU LOVE: Learn how a strong personal foundation sets the stage for successfully moving into a career you love, how daily rituals can support you in more easily navigating major career transitions, and more. Led by Cornelia Ward, author and career and business mentor with an MA in community economic development, who has been helping people reach their career goals for over 15 years; her book Go Forward Fearlessly! supports people in successfully navigating career changes and other major life transitions. Location: Facebook.

Info: Cornelia, 864-2978.

hypnosis HYPNOVATIONS: CLINICAL HYPNOSIS BASIC WORKSHOP: (20 CEUs) Prepares clinicians to immediately begin incorporating hypnosis into their practice.

Registration: motivationhypnosis. com/trainingprograms.html.

Approved by American Society for Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) for medical/mental health clinicians and graduate students. Location: Hampton Inn, 42 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester. Info: mturn er@motivationhypnosis.com.

family SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUMMIT: Admission will be $85 per person or $70 for 4 or more within same organization, purchased at same time. Who should attend? Law enforcement, advocates, child protection workers, clinicians, educators, community partners, counselors, lawyers, GALAs, MDT members and anyone who is interested! Purchase tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/2016-ourhouse-sexual-violence-summittickets-26810449777. Cost: $70/8 CEU hours. Location: Lake Morey Inn, Fairlee. Info: OUR House of Central Vermont, Rebecca Duranleau, 476-8825, ourhouse barredirector@gmail.com.

Feldenkrais OILING THE HIP JOINTS SERIES: Uwe will teach a series of Awareness Through Movement lessons that will help you to discover your hip joints and explore their potential for movement. The positive effects will be felt in many daily activities, like walking and sitting, and will improve your overall flexibility. You do not need prior Feldenkrais experience. Series will be offered in Burlington, Charlotte, Richmond and Middlebury. Cost: $75/five-week series; $20 drop-in class. Location: Sacred Mountain Studio, 215 College St., Burlington.

Info: VermontFeldenkrais, Uwe Mester, 735-3770, info@vermont feldenkrais.com, vermontfelden krais.com.

fitness MANY COURSES AT CVUHS IN HINESBURG STARTING SOON: Tomato Magic Sauce (Sep. 6), Prenatal Yoga (Sep. 6), Contemporary Dance (Sep. 6), Essential Oils (Sep. 7), Next

Photoshop (Sep. 7), Assets & Liabilities (Sep. 7), Italian for Travelers (Sep. 8), Anatomy and Somatics (Sep. 8), Intro French (Sep. 12), Wake Up Now (Sep. 12), Memoir Writing (Sep. 12), French Beginners (Sep. 13), Tuesday Yoga (Sep. 13), Chair Yoga (Sep. 13),Vinyasa Yoga (Sep. 14), Ethiopian Ceremony (Sep. 15), Jazzercise Dance (Sep. 15), Yoga Beginners (Sep. 15), Solar Energy (Sep. 15), Confluence Time (Sep. 15). Full descriptions available online. Enroll to save spot; confirmation will provide info. Follow @ accesscvu on Twitter/Facebook/ Instagram. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/ access.

guided growth for future acting work. Gain powerful technique in script analysis, authentic character creation, and motivated stage movement. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

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FLYNN CENTER YOUTH AUDITIONS: Student Jazz Combos (grades 5-12): Auditions: Tue., Sep. 6. Class meets Tue., 5:20-6:50 p.m. or 7-8:45 p.m., depending on which one you are placed in, Sep. 13-Dec. 6. Flynn Youth Theater Company (grades 2-8); Auditions: Sat., Sep. 10, 9 a.m. Junior Jazz Dance Company (grades 4-8): Auditions: Sat., Sep. 10, 9 a.m. Show Choirs (grades 4-12): Sat., Sep. 10, 9 a.m., noon, or 3 p.m. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

ADULT JAZZ COMBOS: Playing and singing in exhilarating small combos under the tutelage of working professional artist/educators, students develop individual styles while learning an essential repertoire of blues, standard tunes and jazz. This development is enriched by Summertime Jazz intensive studies plus public performances in FlynnSpace, at First Night Burlington, and at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

FLYNN SINGERS: Can you carry a tune? Hold a harmony part? Be a part of the inaugural season of a new community chorus, the Flynn Singers! Sing songs from Broadway and the American Songbook (no dancing required).

Audition to join this community of passionate singers on September 6. Performance December 17 in FlynnSpace. Instructor: Erin Grainger. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

ADULT ACTORS ENSEMBLE: A brand new troupe with entrance by audition, this unique model — theater company/acting workshop hybrid — offers performers both the process of working with a text toward a performance and

gardening LANDSCAPE DESIGN FOR HOME OWNERS: This four-part series (Wed. evenings) led by professional landscape designer Silvia Jope, will help map out your dream landscape. Cost: $160/ person. Location: Gardener’s Supply Burlington Garden Center, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505.

ABSTRACT PAINTING W/ GALEN CHENEY: Find new approaches and attitudes toward your work that make painting a joyful experience, full of discovery. Cost: $275/ person; $250/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.

5TH ANNUAL STEAMROLLER PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP: Join fellow families and artists in making some BIG prints with heavy machinery at Sushi Yoshi in Stowe. A great time for all! Cost: $20/person. Location: Sushi Yoshi parking lot, 1128 Mountain Rd., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday. com.

kids KIDS DANCE/MOVEMENT CLASSES: We have great classes for kids!

Boys Hip Hop, Girls Hip Hop, Kids Hip Hop (ages 6-8), Breaking (10 and older), Lyrical/Contemporary (9-12), Kung Fu (5 and older), Nia for Middle School Girls, Ballet (ages 7-10), Pre-Ballet/Creative Movement (ages 4-5) and Baby, Let’s Dance for ages 18 months-3 years. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 540-0044.

language FRENCH FOR ALL! OH LA LA!: Fall is a fabulous time to start French, continue learning or soar into conversation class! Wingspan Studio’s Madame Maggie, fluent French speaker/longtime instructor, patiently and encouragingly provides tools to reach your goals. Having lived in Paris and West Africa, she brings myriad experiences to inspiring classes in beautiful atelier. Burlington’s funky South End Arts District.

French Conversation: Weekly on Mon., Sep. 26-Dec. 7, 10-11:30 a.m.

Lunchtime Introductory French: Weekly on Mon., Sep. 26-Dec. 7, noon-1 p.m. Intermediate French: Weekly on Thu., Sep. 29-Dec. 10,

5-6:30 p.m. Adv. Beginner: Weekly on Thu., Sep. 29-Dec. 10, 6:458:15 p.m. Cost: $150/intro class; $200/other classes; 10 weeks; no classes week of Nov. 21. Location: Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., Burlington. Info: Wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@gmail.com, wingspanpaintingstudio.com.

MANY COURSES AT CVUHS IN HINESBURG STARTING SOON: Tomato Magic Sauce (Sep. 6), Prenatal Yoga (Sep. 6), Contemporary Dance (Sep. 6), Essential Oils (Sep. 7), Next Photoshop (Sep. 7), Assets & Liabilities (Sep. 7), Italian for Travelers (Sep. 8), Anatomy and Somatics (Sep. 8), Intro French (Sep. 12), Wake Up Now (Sep. 12), Memoir Writing (Sep. 12), French Beginners (Sep. 13), Tuesday Yoga (Sep. 13), Chair Yoga (Sep. 13),Vinyasa Yoga (Sep. 14), Ethiopian Ceremony (Sep. 15), Jazzercise Dance (Sep. 15), Yoga Beginners (Sep. 15), Solar Energy (Sep. 15), Confluence Time (Sep. 15). Full descriptions available online. Enroll to save spot; confirmation will provide info. Follow @ accesscvu on Twitter/Facebook/ Instagram. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg.

Info: 482-7194, cvuweb.cvuhs.org/ access.

SPANISH CLASSES BEGINNING SOON: Now’s the time to sign up. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring.

You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers. Also lessons for young children; they love it! Our 10th year. See our website or contact us for details. Cost: $225/10 classes of 90+ min. each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE FALL SESSION: Eleven-week session of French classes for adults starting on September 19. Morning and evening classes in Burlington and evening classes in Colchester and Montpelier. We also offer private tutoring. We serve the entire range of students from the true beginners to those already comfortable conversing in French. Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Burlington, Colchester & Montpelier. Info: Micheline Tremblay, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com, aflcr.org.

martial arts CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS: At Wu Xing Chinese Martial Arts, martial art is a way of life, not a sport. We offer the finest instruction in two complete internal Chinese martial arts — Taijiquan and Pudaoquan — at an affordable price. Our classes for adults have a friendly and conversational atmosphere, geared toward learning quickly and well. Cost: $5/trial class; $15/1-hour class or $50 for 1 mo. of classes (incl. all offered). Location: 303 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Wu Xing Chinese Martial Arts,

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VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and car- dio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self- confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment.

Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teach- ing in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@ bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Sunday of each month, noon-2 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhal actr.org.

nature SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE STEWARDS: A course for community leaders, municipal employees and concerned citizens offered

by Lake Champlain Sea Grant.

Topic experts teach watershed science and the impact of land use and increased storm events on water resources; lake, river and wetland processes; water quality regulations; and online resources for hazard resiliency and sustainable practices. 1.25 University of Vermont Continuing Education Credits approved. Cost: $210/4 2.5-hour classes & one 4-hour field trip. Location: Aiken Center, University of Vermont, 81 Carrigan Dr., Burlington. Info: Lake Champlain Sea Grant, Linda Patterson, 656-7668, lspatter@ uvm.edu, uvm.edu/seagrant/ sustainable-landscape-stewards.

pets HOLISTIC ANIMAL HEALING COURSE: Is your soul calling you to help sick and suffering animals? Learn to help animals in a life-changing way with the power of energy healing, medicinal plants, extracts, animal aromatherapy, nutrition and more.

Comprehensive Holistic Animal Healing training and certification that creates profound healing for pets, homeless animals

and wildlife. Location: West Hill House B&B, Warren. Info: Christine Sullivan, 910-338-0511, christineanimalhealer@yahoo. com, earthskyanimalhealing.com/ animal-healing-course.

pilates CORE STUDIO BARRE CLASSES: Join us and shake in uniquely formatted and upbeat Barre classes for all fitness levels.

This non-impact endurance/ strength/flexibility workout pairs well with your cardio workouts, as we use Pilates principals as the foundation of this challenging but super fun workout. Very beneficial to your core! Monthly specials!. Location: Core Studio, Pilates, Barre, Fitness, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3K, Burlington. Info: corestudioburlington@gmail.com, corestudioburlington.com.

pregnancy/ childbirth PRENATAL METHOD STUDIO: Prenatal and postnatal yoga and barre classes. Yoga for Fertility Class Series. Childbirth Education Series and weekend intensives.

Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Program.

Infant CPR. Empathy circles, infant massage and new mothers’ groups. Supporting women and their partners in the management and journey of pregnancy and childbirth. Cost: $15/1-hour prenatal or postnatal yoga class.

Location: Prenatal Method Studio, 1 Mill St., suite 236, at the Chace Mill, Burlington. Info: 829-0211, beth@prenatalmethod.com, prenatalmethod.com.

psychotherapy LEARN TO DO EMDR THERAPY!: The renowned evidence-based approach for trauma and beyond.

EMDRIA approved: basic training and low-cost refresher course

shamanism FSS: THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN: Originated by Michael Harner, this is the Basic workshop of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and is the prerequisite for all Foundation workshops and training courses. Taught by longtime FSS faculty member Nan Moss this is a comprehensive introduction to core shamanism.

Shamanic cosmology, helping spirits, journeys, divination, healing!. Cost: $225/2-day class.

Location: Shaman’s Flame workshop space, 644 Log Town Rd., Woodbury. Info: Shaman’s Flame, Peter Clark, 456-8735, peter clark13@gmail.com, shamans flame.com.

tai chi TAI CHI/MONTPELIER: Hwa Yu Tai Chi Fall Semester is open to beginning students. Regular practice of Tai Chi can improve balance and coordination, ease tension, recharge energy, wake up the mind. Enjoy the many benefits of Tai Chi. Instructor Ellie Hayes has been teaching since 1974. Mixedlevel class maximizes mentoring opportunities. Cost: $120/12-week semester, or try 6 weeks for $72.

Location: Taplin Room, Christ Church, 64 State St., Montpelier.

Info: Ellie Hayes, 456-1983, info@ elliehayes.net, elliehayes.net.

BEGINNER TAI CHI IN MONTPELIER: At Long River Tai Chi Circle, we practice Cheng Man-ch’ing’s “simplified” 37 posture Yang-style form. The three pillars of our study are Form, Sensing Hands and Sword. Patrick is a senior instructor at Long River in Vermont

and New Hampshire and will be teaching the classes in Montpelier.

Cost: $65/mo. Location: Bethany Church, 115 Main St., Montpelier.

Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 490-6405, patrick@longrivertaichi.org, longrivertaichi.org.

SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

well-being SOUL MANDALAS: USING TRADITIONAL ARTS AND MEDITATION TO UNDERSTAND LIFE’S JOURNEY: Explore uses and tools of Kolam ground drawings and the use of the Native American Medicine Wheel to Help you find the inner compass, to guide you through times of stress and change; offer creative arts based tools for inner growth and personal transformation; create a template for goals for next steps in your life journey. Cost: $85/ person. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., Burlington. Info: 860-6203, jorneyworksvt.com.

yoga MANY COURSES AT CVUHS IN HINESBURG STARTING SOON: Tomato Magic Sauce (Sep. 6), Prenatal Yoga (Sep. 6), Contemporary Dance (Sep. 6), Essential Oils (Sep. 7), Next Photoshop (Sep. 7), Assets & Liabilities (Sep. 7), Italian for Travelers (Sep. 8), Anatomy and Somatics (Sep. 8), Intro French (Sep. 12), Wake Up Now (Sep. 12), Memoir Writing (Sep. 12), French Beginners (Sep. 13),

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HONEST YOGA: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily heated classes with alignment constancy and kids’ summer camps.

We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. We are expanding to 2 new practice spaces in September to have more to engage families and kids. Cost: $25/new student (1st week unlimited); $18/class or $140/10-class card; $12/class for student or senior; or $100/10-class punch card.

Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Hana, South Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com.

EVOLUTION YOGA: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers yoga classes for everyone from beginner to expert. Choose from a wide variety of drop-in classes, series and workshops in Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Gentle, Vigorous, Yoga on the Lake, Yoga Wall, Therapeutics, and Alignment. Fall series start the week of September 11. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/ class; $130/10-class card; $5-10/ community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

OPIOID USE AND TREATMENT: WHAT WE ARE DOING Bob Bick, CEO, Howard Center • Brandon del Pozo, Chief, BPD • Patti Fisher, MD, UVM Medical Center • Barbara Rachelson, ED, LUND • Facilitator: Martha Maksym, ED United Way NW VT SEPT. 8, 2016 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm | DEALER.COM | 1 HOWARD STREET Registration not required.

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Tuesday Yoga (Sep. 13), Chair Yoga (Sep. 13),Vinyasa Yoga (Sep. 14), Ethiopian Ceremony (Sep. 15), Jazzercise Dance (Sep. 15), Yoga Beginners (Sep. 15), Solar Energy (Sep. 15), Confluence Time (Sep. 15). Full descriptions available online. Enroll to save spot; confirmation will provide info. Follow @ accesscvu on Twitter/Facebook/ Instagram. Location: CVU High School, 369 CVU Rd., Hinesburg.

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for licensed and license-eligible clinicians only. All consultation, CEU’s and payment plan included.

Get details and registration online. Location: Howard Center, Burlington. Info: emdrconsulting. com.

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SHAMBHALA LEVEL 1: THE ART OF BEING HUMAN: Inspiring and rich introductory mindfulness

course for beginners and experienced meditators. The Shambhala path offers a way to work with sadness and negativity. Through the practice of meditation, we glimpse unconditional goodness as the ground of our existence. Course includes meditation instruction and practice, talks on Shambhala teachings, and discussions.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 South Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Elizabeth Kanard, 658-6795, ekanard@gmail.com, burlington.shambhala.org/ program-details/?id=267877.

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Kevin Dunwoody, whose Lost Mountain Bookstore was consumed by one of those fires, recalls that the NWF started with a devastated community that wanted to rise above its negative emotions and celebrate its strengths.

“The feeling was that we needed a party,” he says with a chuckle.

At the time, the Chandler Music Hall was waking from a period of relative slumber, and its new board wanted to show the community the venue’s potential.

Tim Flynn, a prior board member, had just returned from an Irish music festival, which he thought might be a great way to bring some cheer to town. Flynn asked Dunwoody if he thought such a festival would fly.

“I said, ‘I think it will, but we have to invite the French Québécois,’” recalls Dunwoody. He had seen Québécois music at the Champlain Valley Folk Festival and fallen in love with it.

Flynn agreed, and the New World Festival was born.

Dunwoody jumped on board, along with a number of other locals, including Dick Drysdale, publisher of the Herald of Randolph. The Chandler Music Hall served as both venue and organizational hub.

Many first-year music festivals struggle to attract a crowd, but that was not the case with NWF. Québécois musician and Vermont expat Dana Whittle, who designed the festival’s first logo and has supported it as a performer and volunteer ever since, explains that an underestimate of attendance led to a creative solution in ticketing.

“We printed the tickets on stickers you could attach to your clothes,” she says. “By the end of the day we were running out, and we had to rip the stickers in half.”

After that first year, Dunwoody settled in as the festival’s official music director. He continued the focus on music from what he calls the North Atlantic Rim: the British Isles, the Canadian Maritimes, Québec, the northeastern U.S. and the Brittany region of northwestern France. In the beginning he booked mostly local acts, including Woods Tea Co. and Martha Pellerin.

Later, Dunwoody says, budgets grew and allowed him to bring in more national and international acts.

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usic festivals come to be for a number of reasons, from love of a particular genre or band to the simple quest to make a buck.

Randolph’s New World Festival was born out of a different motive: to give solace to a community reeling from disaster. Over an 18month period in 1990-1991, Randolph lost 60 percent of its downtown retail buildings to a series of devastating fires. From the ashes rose the NWF, which this Sunday celebrates its 24th year of bringing Celtic, Cajun and Québécois music to Randolph’s downtown.

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credits suggest. Witness his latest solo album, The Story of Fred Short, released in April. The cool kids at Brooklyn Vegan rightly called the record “bold indie rock.” It’s a gem.

Speaking of bold indie rock, helming the penultimate set outside is LADY LAMB. The onetime Beekeeper has been a local favorite since she was making quirky bedroom tapes in Brunswick, Maine, and playing underground shows in Burlington. Now she’s based in Brooklyn and has justifiably become a critical darling and rising star. To wit, the last time LL played VT was as a headliner at Waking Windows 6. The time before that was to open for the DECEMBERISTS at the Shelburne Museum last summer. So, yeah. She’s doing all right.

Of course, the outdoor stage headliners are Madaila. And why not?

They’re hosting the damn thing. Also, they’ve been on a nice little run of their own lately. The band recently signed to Madison House, a well-respected national booking agency. They’ve also landed with a boutique publicity outfit in New York City called Mixtape Media.

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Aside from the amount of orange likely to be onstage this Sunday, Madaila’s fest has absolutely nothing in common with Drumpf’s Queen City visit. What it does have is a staggering amount of great music, especially for a Sunday in Burlington. (Don’t worry, that’s Labor Day weekend, so most of you are in the clear to sleep in on Monday.)

Kicking things off on the outdoor stage are the PITCHBLAK BRASS BAND, a Brooklyn-based ensemble that fuses hip-hop with New Orleans second line.

Like several of the bigger names on the bill, they’ve made several stops in Burlington in recent years and have a sizable local following. Like who, you ask? How about MARCO BENEVENTO, who follows PBB? Thanks to his time in the BENEVENTO RUSSO DUO and JOE RUSSO’S ALMOST DEAD and touring with the likes of TREY ANASTASIO and MIKE GORDON, among others, the multi-instrumentalist is a darling of the jam scene. But there’s far more to Benevento than those heady

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Say this for MADAILA: They don’t do anything half-assed.

Since their debut performance at the (late?) great local music fest the Precipice in 2014 — when they were called PLATO EARS — everything the psych-pop phenoms have endeavored to do has been done with neon panache and ambition. When they released their phenomenal debut album, The Dance, in 2015, they didn’t just throw a release party. They took over Burlington’s City Hall. They followed that up with a blowout bash at the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain. Then, earlier this year, on a snowy night in April, they invaded the Champlain Valley Exposition to put on Madaila: The Fair. MARK DALY and company don’t play their hometown especially often.

But when they do, they don’t mess around.

That trend continues this week. On Sunday, September 4, Madaila host Madaila on Main, a daylong, three-stage mini music festival on Main Street between South Winooski Avenue and Church Street. Yes, on Main Street. The band, with the aid of the fine folks at Nectar’s, is shutting down the block in front of the House That PHISH Built.

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The 2016 New World Festival shines a spotlight on Acadian and Cajun music and will feature some of the most respected and beloved performers in the genre. Among those is “Acadian power trio” Vishtèn, who hail from the Prince Edward Island/Magdalen Islands regions of the Canadian Maritimes.

Founded in 2000, Vishtèn are known for employing instruments from fiddle and bodhrán to electric guitar; along with powerful vocal harmonies, the group creates stunning arrangements of traditional Acadian tunes. Vishtèn’s album Red Earth was the winner of Roots/ Traditional Group Recording of the Year at this year’s East Coast Music Awards in Cape Breton.

Another big name this year is the Yves Lambert Trio. In 1976, accordionist and singer Lambert cofounded La Bottine Souriante, one of the most revered contemporary Québécois groups.

His current trio includes younger musicians Tommy Gauthier on fiddle and Olivier Rondeau on guitar.

As always, Vermonters will play a big role in the festival. Green Mountain Cajun contributions this year include quintet Yankee Chank, as well as a duo composed of Alec Ellsworth and Katie Trautz — now the director of Chandler Center for the Arts.

From the start, the NWF has benefited a good cause: youth programming at the Chandler. Fittingly, the festival has come to feature a number of young performers. Among them this year are Les Poules à Colin, whose five members grew up playing trad tunes in Québec’s musically rich Lanaudière region.

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to Whittle, who lives in the small Lanaudière town of Sainte-Béatrix. This year, she’s helping to bring members of TradNation, a collective of Québécois musicians, dancers and callers. Whittle will perform, too, as part of Zigue, a duo with her husband, fiddler Claude Méthé, and with TradNation for the festival’s Breton dance.

Like every year, NWF will offer 11 hours of music on five all-weather stages. And, while most groups perform in their usual configurations, they also mix it up. The slate includes two jam sessions: One features a mix of festival performers; the other is open to anyone who wants to join in. In addition, says Whittle, it’s possible some unexpected Québécois musicians could show up.

“It’s the end of the summer festival season,” she says. “A lot of musicians may come down just for fun.”

Whittle believes the NWF is successful because of its specificity. “I think that focusing on the Celtic and French traditions makes the festival very strong,” she says. “A lot of folk festivals try to be very diverse and present things for many different tastes, and it’s harder to pull that off year after year.”

Many artists return to the Randolph fest “to see the friends they’ve made over the years,” Whittle observes.

Dunwoody suggests that the singleday format gives the NWF more punch.

“It is so intense,” he says. “I’ve heard people talk about musical overdose. We joke that it’s like Brigadoon. It shows up for one day, and that’s it.” m

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That night, BHW is entering a car in the Demolition Derby at the Champlain Valley Fair. It’s a 1978 Chevy Nova, gussied up by local artists TOOTH and BRIAN CLARK. Piloting the rig is IAN MCCULLOUGH of the local hardcore punk band REVERSER. Incidentally, I’m pretty sure Color Me Badd’s tour vehicle is also a ’78 Nova. Here’s hoping they don’t park in the wrong spot at the Expo.

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It will undoubtedly help to spread the gospel of Madaila in the coming months when their sophomore album, Traces, hits our collectively eager ears — likely in late October.

I’ve heard it, and I’m awfully excited for y’all to check it out, too. In the meantime, maybe scoot over to our arts blog, Live Culture, and check out the premiere of “Nurture,” the second single off Traces. By the way, our new assistant music editor, JORDAN ADAMS, penned that post. You’ll be seeing his byline quite often from now on.

Welcome aboard, Jordan!

Moving on — and indoors — following Madaila’s set, the party heads inside to Nectar’s and Club Metronome.

Downstairs, catch SMALLTALKER, a side project from the SMOOTH ANTICS crew, a PitchBlak redux, the omnipresent DISCO PHANTOM and a set from TWIDAILA, which is a hybrid of Madaila and TWIDDLE, led by the latter’s MIHALI SAVOULIDIS. Upstairs, it’s Northampton’s LUXDELUXE, touring in support of their latest record, It’s a Girl. The ever-provocative ARC IRIS, led by JOCIE ADAMS (ex-LOW ANTHEM) will also be in attendance, reimagining JONI MITCHELL’s Blue. WW6 headliners DELICATE STEVE round out the live portion of the evening, with DJ TAKA spinning into the wee smalls.

Oh, and this just in: I have it on good authority that a time-traveling disco band called the MEDALLIONS — who are definitely not Madaila —

Vermont, I would have fainted. If you had told me they would be playing together and at the freakin’ fair, my teenybopping heart would have exploded. Hell, I’m in my late thirties, and I’m still feeling heart palpitations — though that might just be an excess of fried dough.

Now, can this show possibly be anything other than embarrassing for everyone involved? Doubtful. Do I care?

Of course not! The question is this: Madaila or the ’90s?

For fellow aging hipsters grappling with life’s tough choices, I look at it this way: Do you want to go see a group of phenomenally talented young people grabbing life by the horns and subsequently get depressed about your misspent youth? Or do you want to go and see a bunch of well-past-theirprime pop stars and subsequently get depressed because you so vividly remember their heyday/how to do the running man? The choice is yours.

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BREAKWATER CAFÉ & GRILL: The Hitmen (rock), 6 p.m., free.

THE DAILY PLANET: Peter Krag & Friend (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ Learic hip hop, 10 p.m., Free.

JP’S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Ellen Powell Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

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

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions, 7 p.m., free. Ryan Montbleau (folk), 9:30 p.m., $10. Film Night: Indie, Abstract, Avant Garde, 10 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Vinyl Night with Disco Phantom: DJ Steal Wool, 6 p.m., free. Wee Wednesday (Ween tribute), 10 p.m., free/$5.

18+.

RADIO BEAN: Art Herttua (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Crooked Spine & Wynwood (indie rock), 8 p.m., free. Dr. No (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Joe Moore (blues), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Zach Nugent (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free. Pop Rap Dance Party, 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda’s Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

THE TAP ROOM AT SWITCHBACK BREWING: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

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VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Quiplash Live! (game show), 9 p.m., free.

chittenden county MONKEY HOUSE: Lung (rock), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Blues Jam with the Collin Craig Trio, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free.

OAK45: Chyse Atkins (trap, soul), 10 p.m., free.

champlain islands/northwest

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Cooper & Lavoie (blues), 5 p.m., free. Uncle Jed (rock), 9 p.m., free.

BAYSIDE PAVILION: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 6 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Justin Panigutti (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

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WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Steady Betty (rocksteady), 9:30 p.m., $5.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: WW Presents: Xenia Rubinos, Disco Phantom, Bryan Parmelee (R&B, jazz, punk), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA. BREAKWATER CAFÉ & GRILL: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 6 p.m., free.

CHURCH & MAIN: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

THE DAILY PLANET: Hot Pickin’ Party (bluesgrass), 8 p.m., free.

DRINK: BLiNDoG Records Acoustic Sessions, 5 p.m., free.

FINNIGAN’S PUB: Craig Mitchell (funk), 10 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Half & Half Comedy (standup comedy), 8 p.m., free. Harder They Come (house), 10:30 p.m., free.

HALVORSON’S UPSTREET CAFÉ: George Petit and the House Band (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: CanAm Jazz Band, 7:30 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Sally Olson (The Carpenters tribute), 7 p.m., $5.

NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Bluegrass Thursday: The Old Main, 9 p.m., $2/5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: Grace & Charley (folk), 6 p.m., free. Quinn Mills (folk), 7 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Olive & the Oliver Olives (rock), midnight, free.

RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8, 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Troy Millette (folk), 7 p.m., free.

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

HATCH 31: Bristol Folk Session, 6 p.m., free.

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CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Julia Kate Davis and Angus Davis (acoustic), 6 p.m., free.

Anachronist, Mike Marsilli (indie rock), 9 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free.

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PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Art Herttua & Ray Carroll (jazz), 6 p.m., donation.

NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Kermit (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Jim Charonko (blues), 8 p.m., free.

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WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

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LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Elodie MIlo (folk), 6 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Improv Jam, 6 p.m., free. Short Jam (improv), 6:30 p.m., free.

Napoleon (improv), 7:30 p.m., $5. Daily Grind: Katherine Monstream (improv), 8:30 p.m., $5.

LA PUERTA NEGRA: Green Mountain Playboys (Cajun), 9 p.m., free.

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POSITIVE PIE 2: Rumblecat (rock), 10 p.m., $5.

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grew up around hip-hop royalty.

His neighbors in his native Queens included Ja Rule and LL Cool J’s grandmother. His cousin was friendly with the Lost Boyz. But WFF never considered becoming a rapper. It wasn’t until his family moved to an Atlanta suburb and his mother, now the CEO of Mizay Entertainment, began managing Gucci Mane that the rhymes began to flow. Since then,

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Kelly Ravin (country), 7 p.m., free.

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RIMROCK’S MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Rekkon #FridayNightFrequencies (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

and Mane. Waka Flocka Flame plays a two-night run this Thursday and Friday, September

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1 and 2, at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington. DJ WHOO KID opens.

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HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Waka Flocka Flame, DJ Whoo Kid (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $20/25.

AA. MONKEY HOUSE: The Womps (folk punk), 9 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 7 p.m., free.

PENALTY BOX: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

SUGAR HOUSE BAR AND GRILL: Country DJ, 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Colin McCaffrey & Friends (Americana), 6 p.m., donation.

SWEET MELISSA’S: BYOV Thursdays, 3 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Jenn and John (folk), 7 p.m., free.

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MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: Bike Night with Mike Brinkman (rock), 6:30 p.m., free. Throttle Thursdays with DJ Gold, 9 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: DJ Da.Root (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

outside vermont

NAKED TURTLE: Turtle Thursday with 95 Triple X (pop), 9 p.m., NA.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Jeremy Hill (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ & GRILL: Phil Abair Band (rock), 6 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Bearly Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 p.m., $5.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Zach Rhoads (gospel), 7 p.m., free. DJ Helixx (techno), 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Brett Hughes (country), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Teodosio, Frink and Monachino (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Disco Phantom (eclectic), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. A Very Special MiYard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9 p.m., $5.

RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. Famous October (folk), 8 p.m., free. The River Bones (bluegrass), 9 p.m., free. Builder of the House (rock), 10:30 p.m., free. TIME, Joey Pizza Slice (outsider pop), midnight, free.

RED SQUARE: Zack DuPont (indie folk), 4 p.m., free. Freevolt (rock), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: D Jay Baron (house), 9 p.m., $5.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: J’Beau (eclectic), 6 p.m., free. Fattie B (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Let’s Be Leonard (rock, jazz), 8 p.m., free.

UNCOMMON GROUNDS COFFEE AND TEA: Eastern Mountain Time, Erin Cassels-Brown, Henry Webb (country, folk, truck sounds), 7:30 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Jon Dore (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20.

VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Paul Asbell Quartet (jazz), 10 p.m., free.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Acoustic Happy Hour, 5 p.m., free.

Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Waka Flocka Flame, DJ Whoo Kid (hop-hop), 8:30 p.m., $20/25.

AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Butch Walker, the Wind and the Wave, Suzanne Santo (rock, folk), 8 p.m., $20/22.

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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Carol Ann Jones and Will Patton (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with Top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: The Bob McKenzie Band (blues), 6 p.m., $3. Second Half (rock), 9 p.m., $3.

upper valley

COLATINA EXIT: David Rosane & the Zookeepers (folk rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

THE PUBLIC HOUSE: Kind Bud solo guitar, 7 p.m. The Kind Buds (jam), 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

JASPER’S TAVERN: Wound for Sound (dance party), 9 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Mister F (rock), 10 p.m., free.

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

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ARTSRIOT: ‘A Bridge to Havana’ with Ola Fresca, DJ Bongohead (Cuban), 9 p.m., $10/15. AA. BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Steve Blair (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ & GRILL: Mr. French (rock), 6 p.m., free.

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REVIEW this David Rosane & the Zookeepers, Urban Country foibles. Wrapped in the tattered cloth of folk-punk, the album was a fiery rebuke of commercialism, nationalism, exceptionalism and any number of other isms.

Urban Country is a thematic sequel to Modern Folk. Or, as Rosane describes it, “the postmodern deconstruction of human-nature dualism. Whatever.”

Whatever, indeed.

As on Modern Folk, Rosane primarily takes aim at the dichotomy that is our reliance on the Earth and our seemingly unending quest to destroy her. Prior to

moving to France, Rosane worked with Cornell in the Amazon for a decade as an ecologist. It’s his view that most of the world’s sociopolitical ills can be traced to the harm we cause the ecosystem.

That worldview is most apparent on album closer “Earth.” The song is based on the book Reinventing Eden, by the eco-feminist Carolyn Merchant. It’s a darkly provocative song on which Rosane, sounding like a cross between Joe Henry and Mark Knopfler, snakes around the idea of femininity as a metaphor for the Earth. The theme is repeated in subtler — and less explicit — ways throughout the album, as on opener “Silver Cotton,” which laments the commercialization of natural resources.

But Rosane is not myopic, and he touches on plenty of less global issues.

“Ripe,” which features Vermonter Will

Patton on dobro, is a touching tale of saying goodbye to a parent. “Are We Mad?” is a rootsy take on a classic Bob Marley-ism: “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”

At its core, Urban Country is a musical expression of outrage and protest. But for all of Rosane’s hyperintellectual agitation, he has also a keen sense of empathy. His worldly compassion doesn’t so much soften his pointed sermons as it humanizes them. Ultimately, Rosane understands he’s as frail and flawed as the rest of us.

Urban Country by David Rosane & the Zookeepers is available at davidandthezoo.bandcamp.com. The band plays album release shows this Friday, September 2, at the Colatina Exit in Bradford and on Saturday, September 3, at Big Jay Tavern in Montgomery Center.

Better Things have a lot of heart, broken and otherwise, all of which they pour into the 11 tracks on Getting Worse.

They gleefully drown the listener in a torrential downpour of overdriven noise.

(The album actually begins with a mock alert from the Emergency Weather System in Burlington, warning of all manner of natural calamity.) Taken solely at face value, the album — produced with muscle by Robot Dog Studios’ Ryan Cohen — sounds every bit the earnest and faithful product of influences ranging

from My Chemical Romance and Jimmy Eat World to Sunny Day Real Estate.

Even the title hints at emo anguish.

What elevates Getting Worse from rote dysphoria is the depth and nuance of the band’s collective songwriting — Brian LaClair (guitar, vocals), Brad Yandow (guitar, vocals), Quintin Cardinal (bass) and Mark Weber (drums, vocals) all contribute songs. Perhaps as their name implies, Better Things take a cheekier and more optimistic outlook than your average emo band. After all, happiness and good humor are emotions, too, right?

For proof, look no farther than the album’s song titles. Opener “Getting Laid in New Hampshire” is an introspective take on one-night stands. “Casanova With a K” is a classic “fuck you” breakup song. “Stick That in Your Juicebox and Sip It” is an anxious coming-of-age confessional.

To be sure, some moments of histrionic sadness stand out — such as in “I Hate You.” But even then, Better Things find ways to break from the norm. The swaying “Asphyxia” will choke you up with heartbreak. “This Particular Falling Out” pairs post-punk punch with hairpin math rock turns. “Ex-Files,” a song whose lyrics likely give the band its name, transforms breaking up into a rebirth. Here’s the last pre-chorus: “And we’ll see better things / Trust me, we’ll see better days.”

Better Things don’t shy away from their pop-punk and emo inclinations. Far from it. They fully embrace them — and what emo band couldn’t use a hug? But they also achieve a rare feat in using their formative inspirations as a springboard to more creative and personal expression.

In local pop-punk, it doesn’t get much better than Getting Worse.

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In explaining his band’s latest album, Urban Country, songwriter David Rosane quotes Anton Chekhov: “Man will become better when you show him what he is.” He then adds this line — presumably his own and not the famed Russian writer’s: “Yeah. They can keep their happy music.”

Rosane, who splits his time between Vermont and Paris, France, is the dean of the multinational rock band David Rosane & the Zookeepers. As evidenced by the group’s previous record, Modern Folk, released earlier this year, the former Cornell University teacher and activist has a predilection for exposing societal

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What happens when emo kids outgrow being mopey? At the brightest end of the spectrum, you get something like New Jersey’s Pinegrove. That band’s 2016 album, Cardinal, still bristles with emotional urgency but tempers the melodrama with deceptive musical and lyrical sophistication — not to mention healthy doses of winking charm and wry humor. Just a notch or two below, you might find Burlington’s Better Things.

On their debut album, Getting Worse, the self-described “alt-punk/emo” outfit unabashedly espouses a love for catchy, anthemic hooks — and distortion pedals.

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CLUB METRONOME: Retronome With DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

Vermont College of Fine Arts Presents

AN EVENING WITH MARTHA BARNETTE!

Join us for an evening devoted to the love of language starring the host of public radio’s A Way with Words. Followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Emceed by VPR’s Reuben Jackson.

With Opening Act The Boston Typewriter Orchestra. You won’t believe your ears!

SATURDAY SEPT 17 • 7 PM UVM DAVIS CENTER, LIVAK BALLROOM

JUNIPER: Jeff Bryant (folk), 9 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Alex Preston & Sam Wolf (indie), 8 p.m., $5. Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

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the ensemble has explored the colorful, groovy nexus where Cuban son, Nuyorican salsa, timba and even funk intersect. This Saturday, September 3, Ola Fresca play a show appropriately dubbed “A Bridge to Havana” at ArtsRiot in Burlington, with DJ BONGOHEAD.

RADIO BEAN: Jenna Lotti (pop), 7 p.m., free. Soft Cactus (indie rock), 9 p.m., free. DJ Ross (hip-hop), midnight, free.

RED SQUARE: Chris Page (folk), 4 p.m., free. Ben Donovan & the Congregation (country), 7 p.m., $5.

Mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul, 6 p.m., $5. DJ Reign One (EDM), 11 p.m., $5.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Dana Twigg (indie folk), 7 p.m., free.

SMITTY’S PUB: Kelly Ravin Country, rock, 8-11 p.m., Free.

SWAN DOJO: 50s Themed Rock ‘n Roll Party: the Red Newts, the Tsunamibots, the Twitching Witches, Spencer Bushey and Friends, 9 p.m., $5.

VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Downtown Sextet (jazz), 10 p.m., free.

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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: The Laurie Goldsmith Project (blues, jazz), 8 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Toast (rock), 9 p.m., $3.

champlain islands/ northwest

BIG JAY TAVERN: David Rosane & the Zookeepers (folk rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

pop, 8-10 p.m., Free. Tiffany Pfeiffer & the Discarnate Band (jazz), 10 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Tritium Well (rock), 8 p.m., free.

SUGAR HOUSE BAR AND GRILL: DJ Steve B (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

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STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Dan Johnson (Americana), 7 p.m., free.

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Playne Jayne (rock), 5 p.m., free. The Tricksters (rock), 9 p.m., free.

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NECTAR’S: Troy Millette (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Funky Dawgz Brass Band (funk, jazz), 9 p.m., $5.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Jon Dore (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20.

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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Slotnick, Titus & Hausermann (bluegrass), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: The Animal House Presents: Politics as Usual (comedy), 7 p.m., free. DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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RUBEN JAMES: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

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HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Devon McGarry (popular covers), 7 p.m., free. Space Echo with Jahson Deejay (house), 10 p.m., free.

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WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Disco Brunch, 11:30 a.m., free. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation.

Patrick Yeo & Mike Toomey (folk), 6 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Township (rock), 9 p.m., free.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Julia Kate Davis (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation. Femcom (standup), 8:30 p.m., donation.

JASPER’S TAVERN: Wound for Sound (dance party), 9 p.m., free.

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RADIO BEAN: Pete Sutherland & Tim Stickle’s Old Time Session, 1 p.m., free. Dilfopotamus, 7 p.m., free. Gypsy Jo (folk rock), 8 p.m., free. Patrick Yeo & the Yoyos, Mike Toomey Music (indie folk), 9 p.m., free. Sit Kitty Sit, Bird Eats Baby (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

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RED SQUARE: The Funky Crustaceans (funk), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (open jam), 10:30 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Gordon Goldsmith (folk), 7 p.m., free. DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Scene Jam (improv), 5:30 p.m., free. North American Comedy Showdown (standup), 6:30 p.m., free.

VERMONT PUB & BREWERY: Easy Street (jazz), 1 p.m., free.

burlington

CLUB METRONOME: Mac Sabbath, Clownvis Presley, the ResERECTION of Garbage Dick (drive-thru metal), 9 p.m., $15/20. 18+.

JP’S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 8 p.m., free.

Reverend Justin Hylton (Americana), 10:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Kudu Stooge (rock), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

MONOPOLE: Ausable Branch (rock), 10 p.m., free.

chittenden county

RADIO BEAN: Dana Twigg (folk), 7 p.m., free. Mary Bee, Kate Connaghan & Dani W. (acoustic pop), 8 p.m., free. Latin Sessions with Mal Maiz (cumbia), 10 p.m., free.

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PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: The Shady Trees (folk), 7 p.m., free. Mashtodon (hip-hop), 8 p.m., free.

SUGAR HOUSE BAR AND GRILL: Vermont’s Next Star (open mic), 8 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Blackout Barbie vs. Svpply (open format, hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

burlington

BREAKWATER CAFÉ & GRILL: Cooper & Lavoie (blues), 3 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Madaila on Main (rock), 9 p.m., $15. 18+.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ Dan Freeman (trap), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Madaila on Main (rock, pop), 4 p.m., $15. 18+.

THE OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Bleeker & MacDougal (folk), 11 a.m., donation.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Kelly Ravin (country), 6:30 p.m., free. Live Band Rock & Roll Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Trivia, 8:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Duffy Gardner (folk), 7 p.m., free.

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SLIDE BROOK LODGE & TAVERN: Birdcloud, Ramcore, Mustard Tiger (country), 7 p.m., $5.

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PHAT KAT’S TAVERN: Jay Natola (solo guitar), 9 p.m., free.

outside vermont

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Dana Barry, 9 p.m., free.

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burlington

JP’S PUB: Open Mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Dayve Huckett (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Storytelling VT, 7:30 p.m., free. I Heard Schmilco (Wilco listening party), 9 p.m., free. Lost Cousins (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Max Garcia Conover (folk), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 10:30 p.m., $3/5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: Gua Gua (psychotropical jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. Zack Tyler (folk), 9 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Eric George & Friends, 10 p.m., $3.

RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (hip-hop), 7 p.m., free. DJ KermiTT, 8 p.m., free.

Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Cam Will (indie folk), 7 p.m., free. DJ Rife (open format, hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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SUGAR HOUSE BAR AND GRILL: Aaron Batchelder (folk), 9 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Godfather Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

THE TAP ROOM AT SWITCHBACK BREWING: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

LA PUERTA NEGRA: Salsa Lessons with Dsantos, 6:30 p.m., $12.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Next Gen Comedy Showcase (standup), 9 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Jason Wedlock (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

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burlington

THE DAILY PLANET: Zack DuPont (indie folk), 8 p.m., free.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

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

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Bird Full of Trees (roots), 9:30 p.m., free. Film Night: Indie, Abstract, Avant Garde, 10 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Vinyl Night with Disco Phantom, 6 p.m., free. Ween Wednesdays (Ween tribute), 9:30 p.m., $3/5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: Liam Manion (indie folk), 6 p.m., free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. The Hydes (indie rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Sammich (jam), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Ethan Snyder Presents (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Pop Rap Dance Party, 10 p.m., free.

MON.5 // MAC SABBATH [DRIVE-THRU METAL]

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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Riley & Friends (rock), 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Shape and Color (jazz), 6 p.m., donation.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free.

WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area

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

HATCH 31: Bristol Folk Session, 6 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

champlain islands/ northwest

BAYSIDE PAVILION: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 6 p.m., free.

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Los Angeles’ MAC SABBATH are the originators of a sub-sub-subgenre of heavy metal: drive-thru metal. The quartet, whose members include Ronald Osbourne, Slayer MacCheeze, Grimalice and Catburglar, are essentially a parody of Black Sabbath, as well as various other metal tropes. But the secret sauce is how they fry the genre with a veritable unhappy meal of songs about fast food. Equal parts GWAR, “Weird Al” Yankovic and Ronald McDonald, the band is every bit as filling — and greasy — as a dollar menu. Mac Sabbath play this Monday,

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

September 5, at Club Metronome in Burlington with CLOWNVIS PRESLEY and the

outside vermont

RESERECTION OF GARBAGE DICK, as part of the ongoing Metal Monday series.

NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free.

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CLAIRE’S RESTAURANT & BAR, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 472-7053 MATTERHORN, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198 MOOGS PLACE, Portland St., Morrisville, 851-8225 PIECASSO PIZZARIA & LOUNGE, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411 RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN, 394 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-9593 THE RUSTY NAIL, 1190 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245 STOWEHOF INN, 434 Edson Hill Rd., Stowe, 253-9722 SUSHI YOSHI, 1128 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4135 SWEET CRUNCH BAKESHOP, 246 Main St., Hyde Park, 888-4887

BIG PICTURE THEATER & CAFÉ, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994

RUTLAND AREA

HOP’N MOOSE BREWERY CO., 41 Center St., Rutland 775-7063 PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035

CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS/ NORTHWEST

BAYSIDE PAVILION, 15 Georgia Shore Rd., St. Albans, 5240909 CHOW! BELLA, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405 SNOW SHOE LODGE & PUB, 13 Main St., Montgomery Center, 326-4456

UPPER VALLEY

BREAKING GROUNDS, 245 Main St., Bethel, 392-4222

NORTHEAST KINGDOM

BIG JAY TAVERN, 3709 Mountain Rd., Montgomery, 326-6688 COLATINA EXIT, 164 Main St., Bradford, 222-9008 JASPER’S TAVERN, 71 Seymour La., Newport, 334-2224 MARTELL’S AT THE FOX, 87 Edwards Rd., Jeffersonville, 644-5060 MUSIC BOX, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533 PARKER PIE CO., 161 County Rd., West Glover, 525-3366 PHAT KATS TAVERN, 101 Depot St., Lyndonville, 626-3064 THE PUB OUTBACK, 482 Vt. 114, East Burke, 626-1188 THE STAGE, 45 Broad St., Lyndonville, 427-3344 TAMARACK GRILL, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., East Burke, 626-7390

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MONOPOLE, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222 NAKED TURTLE, 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6200.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-324-2200 PALMER ST. COFFEE HOUSE, 4 Palmer St., Plattsburgh, N.Y. 518-561-6920

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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE, 51 Main St., Middlebury, 388-8209 BAR ANTIDOTE, 35C Green St., Vergennes, 877-2555 CITY LIMITS, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919 HATCH 31, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774 TOURTERELLE, 3629 Ethan Allen Hwy., New Haven, 453-6309 TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002

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ASIAN BISTRO, 25 Winooski Falls Way #112, Winooski, 655-9800 BACKSTAGE PUB, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494 GOOD TIMES CAFÉ, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444 HIGHER GROUND, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ, 28 Main St., Montpelier, 229-9212 CAPITAL GROUNDS CAFÉ, 27 State St., Montpelier, 223-7800 CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820 ESPRESSO BUENO, 248 N. Main St., Barre, 479-0896 GUSTO’S, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919 KISMET, 52 State St., Montpelier, 223-8646 LA PUERTA NEGRA, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 613-3172 MULLIGAN’S IRISH PUB, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545 NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ, 41 State St., Montpelier, 552-8105 POSITIVE PIE, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453 RED HEN BAKERY + CAFÉ, 961 US Route 2, Middlesex, 223-5200 THE SKINNY PANCAKE, 89 Main St., Montpelier, 262-2253 SWEET MELISSA’S, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 225-6012 THREE BEAN CAFÉ, 22 Pleasant St., Randolph, 728-3533 WHAMMY BAR, 31 W. County Rd., Calais, 229-4329

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Northern Daughters builds on an Addison County art legacy B Y RA CHEL ELI ZA BET H JONES

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ids who grow up in Vermont often spread their wings and take off for the big city. So it can be cause for celebration when those fledglings return — particularly when they put down new roots with a local business. That’s exactly what Justine Jackson, 30, and Sophie Pickens, 31, did, opening an art gallery in Vergennes called Northern Daughters — NoDa for short.

In June, the women signed a threeyear lease on the 1,860-square-foot space at 221 Main Street. They spent the next couple of months renovating and restructuring with the help of family members.

Pickens and Jackson began scheming to launch this project less than a year ago. During a recent interview in the gallery, both referenced a coffee-shop conversation they had last fall in Brooklyn, where Jackson had lived since 2014, and

Pickens since 2009. Each intended to settle in Vermont eventually, they said, and plans for a gallery “happened pretty organically,” according to Pickens.

“It’s always been the plan to move home,” she affirmed. “[Coming home] has never been a question,” said Jackson. “I never left; I just went somewhere else.”

Both women grew up in Bristol, the daughters of artists and businesswomen.

Jackson’s mother is the New Haven painter Anne Cady, whose work has been represented at the Woodstock Gallery and Middlebury’s Edgewater Gallery, among others. When she was growing up, Jackson recalled, her mother readily incorporated her and her siblings into her life as a working artist. Jackson “absorbed [that artistic ethos] by osmosis,” she said. Prior to NoDa’s inauguration, she’d “been wanting to open an arts business for some time.”

Pickens is the daughter of Pamela Smith, a painter and sculptor who owned the eclectic, beloved Bristol shop Folkheart, which closed in 2007. Smith’s vibrant, life-size Madonna papiermâché sculptures transformed the small storefront windows into a miniature gallery.

According to a 2007 article in the Addison County Independent, Pickens sometimes helped her mother with those works. Five of Smith’s Virgin Mary-inspired figures were shown in 2008 at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore as part of the exhibition “All Faiths Beautiful.” One of Smith’s Madonnas, “Mama Too,” is currently on view at NoDa. Both Smith and Cady are included on the gallery’s opening roster, giving special significance to the gallery’s name. Recalling early brainstorming sessions, Jackson said, “Once we got to

‘Northern Daughters,’ the conversation just stopped.”

For Pickens, “‘Northern’ gave us a space and a place, related to this land that helped raise us, [and ‘Daughters’] links to our human lineage.” The connotations of being a northern daughter, she said, include “a certain wildness and fierceness — and being an artist in this day and age takes a certain cavalier braveness.”

In addition to Cady and Smith, NoDa currently hosts works by four other artists: Clark Derbes, Eben Markowski, Cameron Schmitz and Ricardo Vizcarra. Both Derbes and Schmitz are Vermont artists who work abstractly: Derbes in op-art and folkinspired sculpture and Schmitz in large oil paintings. Markowski, who fashions industrial, sculptural animals using rusted metals, recently showed work at Burlington’s Flynndog gallery. Based

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in Mexico City, Vizcarra contributed a series of works created during a winter visit to Addison County, collectively titled “Vermont & Air.” Though NoDa’s owners are considering additions to their current lineup of six artists, they’re perfectly happy to start small: “We want to really show who each artist is and represent them well,” said Pickens.

Jackson and Pickens have a clear vision of how to create a space that welcomes the community around them.

Their website claims: “We strive to be a space that merges the aesthetic of bluechip galleries with the familiarity and authenticity of a Vermont general store.”

When she thinks of general stores, Pickens recalls the Bristol Market, on the current site of the deli and housewares shop Almost Home. The market was the first place Pickens was allowed to go by herself as a child, she said: “I could cross the street to buy penny candy. I never felt uncomfortable in that space.”

NEW THIS WEEK burlington

ART HOP GROUP SHOW: Exhibition featuring works by more than 30 local artists. September 5-November 30. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

‘FIRST 50’: Community-sourced exhibition featuring the first 50 works submitted. September 2-October 3. Info, sarah@seaba.com. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington.

MICHAEL METZ: “Twins,” an exhibition of color photographs from the fall 2015 Twins Parade in Montréal. September 1-30. Info, 598-6982.

Mirabelles Café in Burlington.

f ‘THE SHE PROJECT, PART I’: Interactive installation by Mary Admasian and Kristen M. Watson, featuring works that honor the art tradition of femmage and explore image, self-worth, sexual power and personal branding in the social-media

f SOUTH END ART HOP ORIGINAL JURIED SHOW:

The 24th annual group exhibition, featuring 35 works curated by Joe Amrhein. Reception: Friday, September 2, 5-8 p.m. September 5-30. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

f TESS ELIZABETH HOLBROOK: “Childhood Home,” a collection of oil paintings from a child’s point of view. Reception: Friday, September 2, 6-8 p.m.

September 2-October 31. Info, tiztess@gmail.com.

Computers for Change in Burlington.

chittenden county

f ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW: Group

exhibition of 15 images by seven Chittenden County artists: Ann Barlow, John Berkey, Meg Berlin, Philip Galiga, Justin Gonyea, Boston Neary and Natalie Stultz. Reception: Thursday, September 1, 5:30-7:30 p.m. September 1-30. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne.

f ‘GRITTY HAVANA’: Alternative black-and-white

darkroom photographs of Havana by Jordan Douglas. Reception: Friday, September 2, 3-5 p.m.

September 2-October 31. Info, 336-2126. Sweet Simone’s in Richmond.

barre/montpelier

f HEIDI CHAMBERLAIN: Monoprints and collages by the Vermont artist. Reception: Friday, September 2, 4-8 p.m. September 2-30. Info, 223-1981. The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. f IRIS GAGE: Handcrafted botanical art by the

apothecary owner. Art Walk reception: Friday, September 2, 4-8 p.m. September 2-December 31. Info, 223-0043. Grian Herbs Apothecary in Montpelier.

f JASON GALLIGAN-BALDWIN: “Choose Your Own Adventure,” mixed-media works that incorporate

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ephemera from the artist’s youth. Reception: Friday, September 2, 5-8 p.m. September 2-29. Info, 595-0605. Local 64 in Montpelier.

f SHOW 12: An exhibition featuring the latest works of the collective gallery’s 15 Vermont member-artists.

Reception: Friday, September 2, 4-8 p.m. September 2-30. Info, 272-0908. The Front in Montpelier. f ‘SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPES’: Oil paintings

by Elizabeth Nelson, based on northern New England landscapes and inspired by the ancient Chinese divination text I Ching. Reception: Friday, September 2, 4-7 p.m. September 2-October 28.

Info, 828-5422. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

stowe/smuggs

f SAM THURSTON: An exhibition of portraits, still lifes, ceramics, clay figures, wood sculpture and drawings. Reception: Saturday, September 3, 7 p.m.

September 1-30. Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery in Johnson.

mad river valley/waterbury

f MEG REINHOLD: Works by the painter and Yestermorrow Design/Build School chef. Reception: Friday, September 2, 5-6:30 p.m. September 2-30.

Info, 496-5470. Three Mountain Café in Waitsfield.

middlebury area

‘BLOOM AND DOOM: VISUAL EXPRESSIONS AND REFORM IN VIENNA 1900’: Exhibition of works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and other members of the Viennese Secession, which illuminate how these individuals rejected the traditional academic system and turned to new means of expression.

September 6-December 11. Info, 443-3168. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College.

f JIM WESTPHALEN: “Vanish,” an exhibition of

photographs observing the decay of the built landscape in rural America. Reception: Thursday, September 8, 5-7 p.m. September 1-30. Info, 4580098. Edgewater Gallery, Mill Street, in Middlebury.

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f KATHRYN MILILLO: “Kindsight,” a solo exhibition of landscapes by the Proctor painter.

Reception: Saturday, September 17, 4-6 p.m.

September 1-30. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery Merchants Row, in Middlebury.

‘PORTRAITS OF POWER’: Exhibition of large-scale paintings and ceramic assemblages by students of Jim Butler’s “Portraiture in Ceramics and Oil Paint” course. September 6-15. Info, 443-3168. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

rutland/killington

f ‘COLORS OF FALL’: Group exhibition of works by members, including paintings, mixed media, mobiles, ceramics, stoneware, wood carvings, glass, jewelry and photography. Reception: Friday, September 2, 4-7:30 p.m. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild. f STEPHANIE STOUFFER: “The Creative World of Stephanie Stouffer,” an exhibition featuring works by the successful commercial artist, including paintings and a selection of licensed objects.

Reception: Friday, September 2, 4-7:30 p.m.

September 2-October 29. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

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f OLGA LAWSON & SAM THURSTON: “Along the River,” an exhibition of paintings by Thurston and watercolor and ink drawings by Lawson. Reception: Friday, September 2, 5-7 p.m. September 2-30. Info, 334-2626. Newport Natural Market & Café.

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f JOHN WILLIS: “House/Home, a Work in Progress,” photographs from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe, and the Navajo Nation in Arizona, exploring substandard housing and income inequality in indigenous communities. Reception: Friday, September 2, BRATTLEBORO/OKEMO VALLEY SHOWS

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VISUAL ART IN SEVEN DAYS:

age. Reception: Friday, September 2, 5-8 p.m.

Artist talk: 7 p.m. September 2-October 28. Info, 578-0300. University of Vermont Living/Learning Center in Burlington.

Northern Daughters, 221 Main Street, Vergennes, 877-2173. northerndaughters.com

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THE POPPYCLOCK COLLECTIVE: Collaborative mixed-media works by Burlington artists Haley Bishop Rockwood and DeAnna Kerley. September 5-November 30. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee, Pine Street, in Burlington.

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f ‘NEW REGISTRATIONS’: Group exhibition curated by gallery director Rob Hunter and collector Mark Waskow, featuring prints made using nontraditional techniques. Artists are John Anderson, David Bumbeck, Bill Darling, Bill Davison, Jeff Feld, Leslie Fry, Philip Godenschwager, Rick Hayes, Carol MacDonald, Michele Ratte, Sue Schiller, Daryl Storrs, Claire Van Vliet and Carleen Zimbalatti. Reception: Friday, September 2, 5-8 p.m. September 2-30. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

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KATIE LOESEL: Works on paper that use abstraction, color and layering to explore ideas of geological history, microscopic surfaces and rocky formations.

September 2-October 31. Info, 859-9222. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

“Merrily, Merrily, Merrily II” by Anne Cady

The town of Vergennes appears to reciprocate what Jackson called the gallery’s “warmth of spirit.” Even the mayor, Bill Benton, paid a visit. “We’ve been welcomed by our neighbors on Main Street and the community at large,” said Pickens.

As they get settled, she and Jackson hope to grow NoDa as a venue for a variety of cultural events, including musical performances, talks and screenings. Their first temporary exhibition, “Madonnas Make You Brave,” will open September 16 and appropriately feature a selection of works by Cady and Smith.

For now, the women are soaking up the thrill of their new venture with gratitude. As Jackson put it, “We’re in the right place.” m

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5:30 p.m. September 2-October 23. Info, 257-0124.

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

KAREN GAUDETTE: An exhibition of surreal storybook scratchboard drawings, which explore archetypal and mystical imagery. September 2-October 31. Info, 257-4777. Gallery in the Woods in Brattleboro.

SHANE HARRIS: “Outdoor Perspectives,” an exhibition of landscape watercolors by the artist and Bellows Falls Police Department officer. Reception: September 8, 5:30-7 p.m. Through October 10. Info, 869-2960. Main Street Arts in Bellows Falls.

manchester/bennington

JANE STICKLE QUILT: Annual display of the 1863 quilt that inspires quilters all over the world, containing 5,602 pieces surrounded by a unique scalloped border. September 3-October 10. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

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f SEPTEMBER ART SHOW: A group exhibition spotlighting work by William Crosby. Reception: Friday, September 2, 5-7 p.m. September 2-October 10. Info, 518-963-8309. Adirondack Art Association Gallery in Essex, N.Y.

ART EVENTS CART: DARYL STORRS: The Huntington artist brings her work and process to the public at this outdoor, mobile craft unit on the Church Street Marketplace.

Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery, Burlington, Friday, September 2, 4-8 p.m. Info, 863-6458.

FIRST FRIDAY ART: Dozens of galleries and other venues around the city open their doors to pedestrian art viewers in this monthly event.

See Art Map Burlington at participating locations.

Friday, September 2, 5-8 p.m. Info, 264-4839.

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SCREENING: ‘REMBRANDT: FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON AND RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM’: A documentary featuring an in-depth exploration of Rembrandt’s final years of painting. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, Wednesday, September 7, 11 a.m. $5-10. Info, 382-9222.

TALK: GLENN EAMES: The vintage bicycle collector and cycling historian presents a gallery talk about current exhibit “Pedaling Through History: 150 years of the Bicycle, the Glenn Eames Collection.” Limited to 20 guests; advance reservations recommended.

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Saturday, September 3, 1 p.m. Free with museum admission. Info, 388-2117.

TALK: KAREN WILKIN: The independent critic and scholar of American modernism speaks with curator Jamie Franklin about Milton Avery and his work. Bennington Museum, Friday, September 2, 6:30 p.m. Info, 447-1571.

WOODS_PROJECT: Art and music festival featuring an outdoor sculpture exhibition curated by artistin-residence Jesse Firestone. Mary Sky Residency Campus, Hancock, Saturday, September 3, 8 p.m. $25-45. Info, 777-0005.

ONGOING SHOWS burlington

‘60 PAINTINGS BY THE ART TEAM BILLYBOB’: An exhibition of works by William Coil and Robert Green. Through August 31. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

‘AMAZING GRACE’: A group exhibition celebrating the past 40 years of Grass Roots Art and Community Effort, which is committed to developing and promoting self-taught artists. Artists include Gayleen Aiken, Larry Bissonnette, Merrill Densmore, Dot Kibbee, Roland Rochette, Curtis Tatro and others. Through September 3. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington.

THE ARTIST’S FAMILY: “The Artist’s Family,” a group art exhibit and dance performance exploring the wild and varied subject of family. Through August

31. Info, joymadden@yahoo.com. Rose Street Artists’ Cooperative and Gallery in Burlington.

AUSTIN SCRIVENS: Illustrations by the Vermont artist. Through September 30. Info, 865-6227.

Uncommon Grounds Coffee and Tea in Burlington.

CARL RUBINO: “From the Bark of a Single Tree,” abstract macro-photography images of compositions found on the bark of a tree on a tiny island in the Adirondacks. Through August 31. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

CARLY KEMP: “Peace of My Heart,” paintings that reflect the artist’s love of Burlington. Through September 30. Info, 383-1505. New Moon Café in Burlington.

‘A CELEBRATION OF UPPER VALLEY ARTISTS’: A group exhibition of works by Ben Gitchel, M.L. Gitchel, Roger Goldenberg, Kit Hawkins, Wendy Briggs Powell and Joe Saginor. Through September 24. Info, 603-448-3117. Pompanoosuc Mills in Burlington.

DICK BRUNELLE: New abstract paintings in watercolors, acrylic and mixed media. Through August 31.

Info, 651-8834. Penny Cluse Café in Burlington.

DJ BARRY: “The Leftovers,” paintings and prints by the Middlesex stencil artist. Through August 31.

Info, 658-4771. Nectar’s in Burlington.

EL TOWLE: “Works From Nature,” landscapes and animal portraits by the Vermont artist. Through October 31. Info, 540-8333. Sequoia Salon in Burlington.

ETHAN AZARIAN: “Finished or Unfinished,” an exhibition of paintings including works from the artist’s “Not So Famous Cities” series. Through September 1. Info, 363-4746. Flynndog in Burlington.

‘FIXED/FLUXED’: In recognition of the Seven Below Arts initiative, this group exhibition brings together 11 former residents for an initiative meant to “de-emphasize the gallery space as a place for fixed, final products and reposition it as a place for transitory work and evolving ideas.” Through October 1. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

JAMES BENOIT: “City Limits,” an exhibition of black-and-white photographs of Burlington architecture and landmarks. Through September 10. Info, 448-3350. Phoenix Books Burlington.

JENNIE KRISTEL: “Summer Reflections and Visions of Home,” monoprints exploring the realms of home and water. Through August 31. Info, 373-5030.

Brickwork Art Studios in Burlington.

‘MARK OF THE MACHINE’: A group exhibition of works in a variety of mediums by past and present members of Generator maker space. Through August 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

MICHAEL BUCKLEY: “Coffee, Tea and You,” an exhibition of works by the late Vermont artist made using those beverages. Through August 31. Info, 658-6016.

Speeder & Earl’s Coffee, Pine Street, in Burlington.

MIMI MAGYAR: “Obsessive Compulsive Dzines,” an exhibition of works in graph paper and ink. Through October 31. Info, 301-938-8981. Revolution Kitchen in Burlington.

NEYSA RUSSO: “Scenes From an Orchard,” felt tapestries featuring creative design composition and a dramatic use of color. Through September 30.

Info, 439-9875. Feldman’s Bagels in Burlington.

PAM STEEG: Photographs from the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

Through August 31. Info, pamsteeg@gmavt.net. The Tap Room at Switchback Brewing in Burlington.

‘RUN! JUMP! FLY! ADVENTURES IN ACTION’: A traveling exhibition created by the Minnesota Children’s Museum allows visitors to engage in strength, coordination, balance and endurance training exercises in their own adventure stories.

Through September 11. Info, 864-1848. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington.

‘A SLICE OF LIFE: EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES & SNIPPETS OF AN ARTIST’S LIFE’: A group exhibition featuring works in a variety of mediums that offer a glimpse of the artist’s life, from the most intimate to the most public moments. Through August 31.

Info, 859-9222. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington.

STELLA MARRS: “In Her Shoes,” a solo exhibition of new painting, drawing and multimedia works

by the Burlington artist. Through October 25. Info, joseph@newcitygalerie.org. New City Galerie in Burlington.

TODD R. LOCKWOOD: “Portraiture Reimagined,” an exhibition of “cinema portraits,” a convergence of portrait photography, cinema and writing. Through September 3. Info, 860-2700, ext. 8980. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington.

‘THE WAY WE SEE THINGS: AN AWESOME PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW’: Digital photographs by students of the VSA Vermont Adult Arts Education photography class, with a variety of photographic approaches, styles and subjects. Through August

CALL TO ARTISTS ‘THE ART OF HORROR’: Seeking 2D and 3D works that exemplify the grotesque for a juried October show to be curated by Beth Robinson and Sarah Vogelsang-Card. Artists may submit up to five readyto-show works, which must be available for sale. Submit works online at form.jotform. com/62167415147152. Deadline: September 12. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington. $15. Info, s.vogelsang@hotmail.com.

‘THE BLUES’: Established and emerging artists are invited to submit up to two pieces of 2D artwork in any medium. Must include the color blue and be able to be hung on a wall. For details and to register, call 8788887. Deadline: September 15. Jericho Town Hall. Info, blgreene@myfairpoint.net.

CITIZEN CIDER ART HOP EXHIBITION: Artists are invited to submit works of all mediums to be displayed during Art Hop in Citizen Cider’s tasting room. Works will be for sale with a portion of the proceeds benefiting SEABA. Artists who wish to use a free canvas for their submission may stop by 316 Pine St. Works must be dropped off during business hours by August 31.

Citizen Cider, Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

CREATIVE COMPETITION: For this artist competition and exhibit during monthly First Friday, artists may drop off one display-ready piece in any medium and size to Backspace Gallery, 266 Pine Street in Burlington, between noon and 6 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday. Entry $8. During the First Friday reception, 5-9 p.m., viewers can vote on their favorite work; the winning artist takes home the collective entry money. The work remains on view for the duration of the exhibit. More info at spacegalleryvt.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington.

Info, 578-2512.

DIGITAL ART INSTALLATION: Seven Days seeks submissions of interactive digital art installations for its annual Tech Jam job fair on October 21 and 22.

Size is negotiable. Interested artists may send a brief explanation of the project, digital

31. Info, heidi@vsavt.org. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

‘WOMEN IN THE MEN’S ROOM’: Collaborative exhibition featuring sculptures by Susan Raber Bray, Leslie Fry and Riki Moss, and paintings by Janet Fredericks and Pamela Murphy. Through September 30. Info, 864-2088. Artspace 106 at the Men’s Room in Burlington.

chittenden county

‘BEING PRESENT’: A group exhibition featuring the work of 25 artists currently represented by the gallery, offering a visual and contextual reflection

images if available and a résumé to corey@sevendaysvt. com. Deadline: September 16.

Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction. Info, 865-1020, ext. 36.

‘EYES THAT CAN SEE’: Seeking photographs made in Vermont for an upcoming exhibition curated by Burlington photographer Monika Rivard.

Artists may submit up to five photographs to eyesthatcansee.vermont@gmail.com.

Deadline: October 1. New City Galerie, Burlington.

FUNKY, FUNCTIONAL ART AND JEWELRY: Artists, craftspeople and jewelers are invited to submit wearable and functional art to be featured in this storefront. For details and submissions, email thebuzz@ thehivevt.com, ATTN: Nancy.

Deadline: August 31. The Hive, Middlesex. Info, 595-4866.

‘HAUNTED’: Seeking submissions of photos that in some way relate to haunting and/or being haunted for an exhibition to be juried by Russell Joslin. For details and to submit, visit darkroomgallery.com. Deadline: September 5, 11:59 p.m. Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction. $29 for 5 images; $5 for each additional.

Info, 777-3686.

THE LIGHT GARDEN: Pentangle Arts Organization seeks individual artists or small groups to participate in this September 23 to 25 community event by creating sculptures incorporating light.

For details and to submit, visit pentanglearts.org/artists-call.

Deadline: September 23.

Woodstock Village Green. Info, 457-3981.

‘NEW VISTAS’: Seeking works for a juried exhibition of contemporary landscape art.

Artists are encouraged to look at the land with fresh eyes, try a new medium or work in a format that is unfamiliar. For details and to submit, visit bryangallery.org. Deadline: September 16. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

‘PERSONAL NARRATIVE’: Seeking photographs that explore self through symbolism, metaphor and personal stories. All capture methods and processes welcome. For details and to submit, visit photoplacegallery.com. Deadline: September

12. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury. Five photos $30; $7 each additional. Info, 388-4500.

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS: Artists and craftspeople are invited to submit proposals for three public mural projects at City Market’s second store. For specifications and to submit, visit citymarket.coop/southend. Deadline: September 12.

City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington. Info, 861-9700.

SEEKING ARTISTS FOR UPCOMING SHOWS: Looking for artwork to display for two-month shows in the downtown Burlington restaurant. For details and to submit, email art@dailyplanet. com with a portfolio sample and dimensions of works.

Deadline: rolling. The Daily Planet, Burlington. Info, art@ dailyplanet15.com.

STORM DRAIN MURAL PROJECT: The Chittenden County Stream Team invites artists to submit concepts for Burlington’s first-ever storm drain public art project. Four proposals will be selected, and participating artists must be available to paint on September 24. Selected artists will receive a $500 stipend upon completion of their mural. For details and to apply, email holly@winooskinrcd.org.

Deadline: September 7. SEABA Center, Burlington. Info, holly@ winooskinrcd.org.

SUKKOT ON THE FARM WEAVING CHALLENGE: Seeking eight artists to weave the walls for a festival sukkah, considering the question: What brings meaning to our lives despite the impermanence and changing nature of reality? Wall panels can be created on-site at the festival or installed from previously created works. Panels should measure five to eight feet across and more than three feet tall. All participating artists will be featured online and receive free entrance to the two-day festival. Installation must be completed the week of October 9. For details and to submit, contact Melanie Kessler at 385-1039 or bikingmelanie@gmail.com.

Deadline: September 30. New Leaf Organics, Bristol. Info, 385-1039.

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James Benoit The Vermont photographer presents “City Limits” at Phoenix

Books Burlington. This collection of digital black-and-white images features glimpses of

Burlington’s varied architectural features and landmarks. Benoit offers, “Architecture is a fitting subject for black-and-white photography, with the color stripped away to reveal the essence of the subject’s shape, shadows, textures, lines, patterns and the relationship of physical space to the human experience.” Through September 10. Pictured: “Ben & Jerry’s Store 2015.” on its 25th year. Through September 13. Info, 9853848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

f ‘IN LAYERS: THE ART OF THE EGG’: A group exhibition of 20-plus artists whose works focus on the beauty, biology and essence of eggs.

Reception: Saturday, September 10, 3-6 p.m.

Through October 31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.

LYNN ANN POWERS: Watercolors of stained-glass windows, representing changing seasons and traditional designs. Through September 30. Info, 879-4988. Village Green Florist in Essex Junction.

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‘NOTES OF COLOR’: Works in a variety of mediums and styles by members of the Vermont Art Resource Association. ANN SARCKA: An exhibition of prints, acrylic paintings and photography.

Through September 16. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

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f ‘HANDCRAFTED VERMONT’: New handcrafted, intricately detailed furniture from 17 members of the Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers. Reception: Friday, September 2, 4-7 p.m. Through October 28.

Info, 828-0749. Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier.

HERBERT A. DURFEE JR.: Black-and-white photographs taken in Europe in the early 1950s by the late Burlington physician. Through October 31.

Info, 595-4866. The Hive in Middlesex.

‘IMPRESSIONS’: An exhibition of works by members of Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, including Lois Beatty, Maureen O’Connor Burgess, Patty Castellini, Janet Cathey, Rachel Gross, Sheri Hancock-Tomek, Victoria Shalvah Herzberg, Judy Lampe, Carol Lippman, Elizabeth Mayor, Emily Parrish, Nori Pepe and Nancy Wightman. Through September 9. Info, 371-4100. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

JULIANA CASSINO FECHTER: “Landscape: An Emotional Place,” an exhibition of paintings of local trees and environments. Through September 10.

Info, 426-3581. Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield.

MICHAEL SMITH: “¿Hungry?” paintings of foods such as Wonderbread, chicken and blueberry pie. Through November 1. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli in Barre.

PETER ARTHUR WEYRAUCH: “Rodz Series,” photographs taken at car shows in Vermont and New York over the past decade. Through September 30. Info, 223-2518. Montpelier Senior Activity Center.

f RENÉE BOUCHARD: “Kaleidoscopic Pathos,” an exhibition of paintings that address landscape and human experience. Reception: Friday, September 2, 4-7 p.m. Through September 30. Info, 223-5811.

Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.

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MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM: The Granville photographer exhibits images taken on trips to Europe and England during the 1970s, as well as images from coastal Maine, Vermont, New York and provinces of Canada. Through August 31. Info, 767-3844.

Healthy Living Market & Café in South Burlington.

by 16 artists in mall windows. Artists include Rosalind Daniels, Anna Dibble, Janet Fredericks, Jessa Gilbert, Steven P. Goodman, Wendy James, Mark Lorah, Mickey Myers, Maggie Neale, Elizabeth Nelson, Adelaide Murphy Tyrol, Arthur Schaller, Jayne Shoup, David Smith, Kathy Stark and Frank Woods. Through November 26. Info, janetvanfleet@fairpoint.net. Berlin Mall.

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LINDA & DEAN MORAN: “The Art of Marbled Fabrics,” an exhibition featuring nearly two dozen works of hand-marbled fabrics. Through August 31.

Info, 878-6956. Brownell Library in Essex Junction.

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‘GRANDMA MOSES: AMERICAN MODERN’: This exhibition co-organized with Bennington Museum showcases more than 60 paintings, works on paper and related materials by Anna Mary Robertson Moses, aka Grandma Moses, alongside work by other 19th- and 20th-century folk and modern artists. Through October 20. DOMINIQUE EHRMANN: “Once Upon A Quilt,” an exhibition of 16 quilts by the Québec-based fiber artist. Through October 31.

GEORGE SHERWOOD: “Wind, Waves and Light,” an outdoor exhibition of eight large-scale, stainless steel kinetic sculptures. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

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art Amy Hagberg and Michelle Saffran “Mediating

Memory” at Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury provides photographic inquiries into the nature of memory and image making. Hagberg makes poetic use of the rudimentary pinhole camera, creating large-scale black-and-white images through slow exposure. Saffran alters already-existing images, deconstructing and reconstituting scanned family snapshots into quilt-inspired collages. The artists and friends both question the limits of the truths photographs can provide, declaring, “The medium of photography is Memory’s favorite tool … But photographs often act as only a twodimensional façade.” Through September 17. Pictured, left to right: “Happy Birthday,” stitched mixed media by Saffran, and “Autumn Breeze” by Hagberg.

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Through October 16. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

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f TOM WIES: “Elusive Element,” an exhibition of photographs taken over the last four years in Scandinavia, Serbia, Ireland and sites across the United States, featuring landscapes, portraits and abstractions of nature. Art Walk reception: Friday, September 2, 4-7 p.m. Through September 30. Info, 223-5811.

Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

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‘ROBERT DOUGLAS HUNTER AND HIS STUDENTS’: An exhibition of 24 paintings by the artist popularly considered “Dean of the Boston School of Painting,” as well as more than 50 works by students.

ANDREW ORR AND HIS STUDENTS: Landscapes by the Vermont artist and workshop students, including Janet Bonneau, Nancy Calicchio, Julie Davis, Peggy DuPont, Fiona Cooper Fenwick, Barbara Jensen, Mary Krause, Julie McGowan, Howard Mitchell, Dan Pattullo, Kari-Unn Paye, John Richards, Jody Siegle and Linda Van Cooper.

Through September 5. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

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BARBARA MOLLOY: “Celebrating Freedom,” a retrospective of works on paper by the late Johnson State College printmaking instructor.

Through September 2. Info, 635-1224. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College.

DAVID STROMEYER: “Visions in Steel,” a selection of large outdoor sculptures and smaller interior works, presented in collaboration with Cold Hollow Sculpture Park. Through September 9. JOSEPH LUPIANI AND ADELAIDE TYROL: “Instinct and Attitude,” an exhibition of paintings and sculpture that explore the parallels between animal and human behavior and personalities. Through October 16. KIM RADOCHIA: “Murmurations,” sculptural paper assemblage influenced by the artist’s study of Li, the ancient Chinese practice of gathering and organizing patterns found in nature. Through October 16. Info, 253-8943.

West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

‘EXPOSED’: The 25th annual outdoor sculpture exhibit, featuring Korean artist JaeHyo Lee, among other works by local and national artists. Through October 15. MOLLY DAVIES: “Beyond the Far Blue Mountains,” a remastered digital projection of the original 16mm “three-screen fairy tale.” Through November 13. PAT STEIR: An exhibition of prints and drawings by the world-renowned New York painter, accompanied by video of the artist by Molly Davies.

Through November 13. TARA THACKER: Ceramic sculpture, installation and large-scale photography by the Vermont artist. Through September 4. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

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JUDITH WREND: “Sculpture,” a solo exhibition featuring outdoor, freestanding interior and wallmounted pieces that explore light, space, color and reflection. Through September 5. Info, 888-1261.

River Arts in Morrisville.

PATTY CASTELLINI: New monotype prints by the New Hampshire artist. Through August 31. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe.

SUMMER SHOW: Works from five contemporary Vermont artists: Arista Alanis, Molly Davies, Alexandra Heller, Sebastian Sweatman and Craig Wiltse.

Through September 5. Info, sebsweatman@gmail. com. Vermont Contemporary Art Space in Stowe.

BONNIE BAIRD: “As the Crow Flies,” an exhibition of landscape oil paintings rendered with a limited palette and simple geometry. Through September 25. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

SUSAN BULL RILEY, ERIC TOBIN, KAREN & JACK WINSLOW: An exhibition of paintings by the Vermont artists. Through September 7. Info, 644-8183. Visions of Vermont in Jeffersonville.

HOMER WELLS: A solo exhibition of landscapes created with automotive paint on aluminum by the Monkton artist, originally trained as a sign maker.

Through August 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery, Mill Street, in Middlebury.

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AMY HAGBERG & MICHELLE SAFFRAN: “Mediating Memory,” an exhibition in which the photo-based artists and friends explore a visual inquiry into the persistent force of memory and the manifestation of time. Through September 17. Info, 244-7801.

Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

ANNELEIN BEUKENKAMP: A solo exhibition of watercolor paintings by the Burlington artist, produced by Valley Arts. Through October 10. Info, 496-6682. The Bridges Vermont Resort & Tennis Club in Warren.

BIG RED BARN ART SHOW: Two- and threedimensional works by more than 30 Valley artists.

Through September 4. Info, 496-6682. Big Red Barn Gallery at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield.

BILLY BRAUER: A solo exhibition spanning five decades of the Vermont artist’s career, including paintings and etchings from the 1960s. Through September 5. Info, 583-5832. Bundy Modern Gallery in Waitsfield.

DAVID GARTEN: “La Habana Te Llama — Havana Is Calling You,” an exhibit of 25 new images from the photographer’s post-normalization trips to Cuba.

Through September 5. Info, 496-5516. David Garten Photo in Waitsfield.

FRANK COVINO RETROSPECTIVE: An exhibition of paintings by the late artist and teacher, who painted and taught verdaccio technique in the Florentine style of the Old Masters. Through September 3. Info, 496-6682. Festival Gallery in Waitsfield.

JOHN MATUSZ AND ELLEN URMAN: “Putting Our Heads Together,” an exhibition of new works by the Vermont artists. Through October 10. Info, 496-5843. Transformation Sculpture in Waitsfield.

‘PHOTO SHOW AT THE ROUND BARN’: The 27th annual community-based exhibition featuring works from amateur and professional photographers.

Through September 5. Info, 496-7722. Joslyn Round Barn in Waitsfield.

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‘ADDISON COUNTY IN PROFILE: SILHOUETTES FROM THE SHELDON ARCHIVES’: An exhibit of rarely displayed silhouettes of early residents of Addison County, from the 1800s to 1900s, including many prominent and accomplished personalities. Through September 3. ‘PEDALING THROUGH HISTORY: 150 YEARS OF THE BICYCLE’: In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the first pedal bicycle patent, this exhibition showcases the extensive bicycle collection of Glenn Eames, which

‘QUAKER MADE: VERMONT FURNITURE, 18201835’: Furniture made by Monkton Quaker Stephen Foster Stevens, exhibited alongside account books, diaries, documents, photographs and other personal ephemera. Through October 30. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

RORY JACKSON: “All in One County,” an exhibition of landscapes throughout Addison County, from the mountains of Lincoln to the edge of Lake Champlain. Through August 31. Info, 989-7419.

Edgewater Gallery, Merchants Row, in Middlebury.

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CAROLYN SHATTUCK: “Unstill Lifes,” an exhibition of oil-on-canvas paintings and mixed-media works on clayboard. Through September 30. Info, 773-1801. Rutland City Hall.

‘EFFERVESCENCE’: The 2016 juried showcase features 26 artists working in diverse media, from wood and ceramics to anime-style illustration, landscape photography and abstract collage.

Through September 24. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

f MAREVA MILLARC: “Thought Forms,” an exhibition of paintings by the Middletown Springs artist. Reception: Saturday, October 1, 2-4 p.m.

Through October 2. Info, 287-8197. Stone Valley Arts in Poultney.

‘WONDERING SPIRITS’: Sculptures by Nora Valdez, Rick Rothrock and Bart Shigeru Uchida. Through September 10. Info, galleries@castleton.edu.

Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland.

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farms. Info, edythe.f.wright@gmail.com. Fable Farm in Barnard.

‘BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS’: An exhibit that traces the evolution of birds from dinosaurs, featuring skeletons, life-size replicas and hands-on activities. Through October 31. Info, 359-5000. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center in Quechee.

‘THE BIRDS’: The fourth annual exhibition of collages and prints by Ben Peberdy of Deluxe Unlimited and W. David Powell. Through August 31. Info, 295-0808.

Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

CAROL LIPPMAN: “A Path to the Unconscious,” new prints made using solarplate etching technology combined with collagraph and other printmaking media. Through September 30. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

POLLY FORCIER: “Early American Decoration,” a retrospective exhibition of stenciled and painted objects by the local stenciling expert, including replicas of different types of hand-decorated early American objects. Through October 31. Info, 649-0124. Norwich Historical Society and Community Center.

‘WINNERS AND NOT’: An exhibition hosted by the Bradford Historical Society includes a large display of vintage political posters, buttons and pamphlets from state and federal elections. Through October 31. Info, 222-4423. Bradford Academy.

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ANN YOUNG: “The F Train,” paintings by the Barton artist. Through September 30. Info, 323-7759. The 99 Gallery and Center in Newport.

BARBARA GREY AND SACHIKO YOSHIDA: “Mixing Oil and Water,” an exhibition of oil paintings of barns, brooks and mountains shown alongside watercolors of elegant flowers and fruits. Through September 24. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artists Guild in St. Johnsbury.

‘EAST MEETS WEST’: A wide range of works inspired by the landscapes and lore of the American East and West, referencing pervading myths of the American frontier and the ever-diminishing freedoms of Native Americans. Through October 13. Info, 533-2045.

Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro.

ELIZABETH NELSON: Landscape paintings of the Northeast. Through September 19. Info, 525-3366.

Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

‘COURAGEOUS SPEECH’: An exhibition of works by 27 member artists, along with text that examines each artworks’ relationship to an issue about which the artist feels strongly. Through August 31. Info, 528-5222. 10 S. Main St., St. Albans.

ERIC AHO: “Toward a Bright Opening,” solo exhibition of landscapes by the Saxtons River painter, whose recent works incorporate a prominent void, hole or portal. Through October 10. Info, 748-2600.

Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

‘SWEET HARMONY BY THE LAKE’: Intergenerational art show opening featuring inspirational flags created by island schoolchildren, seniors, community members and gallery artists. Through October 16.

Info, 378-4591. Grand Isle Art Works.

‘MIRROR/MIRROR’: An exhibition reflecting upon the looking glass and all that it contains, from telescopes to magic tricks, disco balls to dentistry, fashion to psychotherapy, myth to superstition.

Through May 1. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

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‘ART ON THE FARM’: Exhibition curated by Edythe Wright featuring sculpture by Lela Keen Jaacks, Lily O’Hara, Steve Read, Ian Campbell Swordy, Linda Treash and Brooks Wright. The show is a collaboration with the Fable Collective farmers, who have created a path through the fields of four family

MOHAMAD HAFEZ: Surrealistic Middle Eastern streetscapes made of found objects, paint and scrap metal by the Syrian-born artist and architect.

Through October 1. Info, 748-8291. Athenaeum Hall Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

PHYLLIS J. HAMMOND: A retrospective of works by the late Newport artist and author of Traveling

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With Wildflowers: From Newfoundland to Alaska.

Through September 10. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

‘X-RAY VISION: FISH INSIDE OUT’: A traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution featuring 40 large-scale digital prints of x-rays of several species of fish. Through June 1. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

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AYN HANNAH: “Mapping With Stitches,” new textile art quilts combining layered fabric with thread “drawing.” ERIC BOYER: “Convergence,” sensuous sculptures made from wire mesh. Through August 31. Info, 257-4777. Gallery in the Woods in Brattleboro.

‘UNION STATION: GATEWAY TO THE WORLD’: An exhibit of images and stories of Brattleboro’s Union Station, home of BMAC, to mark the 100th anniversary of its opening. ‘UP IN ARMS: TAKING STOCK OF GUNS’: A group exhibition considers the enormous physical, psychological and symbolic power of guns in the U.S. Artists include Liu Bolin, Linda Bond, Kyle Cassidy, Madeline Fan, Susan Graham, Jane Hammond, Don Nice, Sabine Pearlman and Jerilea Zempel. BABETTE BLOCH: “Flora and Fauna,” large-scale steel sculptures of birds and magnolias. JAMIE YOUNG: “Chaos and Light,” a solo exhibition of paintings depicting several species of vines covering trees all over New England. Through October 23. Info, 257-0124.

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

‘LANDSCAPES AFTER RUSKIN: REDEFINING THE SUBLIME’: An exhibition curated by American artist Joel Sternfeld, who uses Victorian scholar John Ruskin’s work as a departure point for contextualizing contemporary renderings of landscapes and nature. Works are by Joseph Beuys, Katherine Bradford, Christo, Gustave Courbet, Naoya Hatakeyama, Anselm Kiefer, Raymond Pettibon, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Ai Wei Wei, David Wojnarowicz and more. This show also serves as the world debut of Sternfeld’s 2016 film London Bridge. Through November 27. Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

DAVID BREWSTER: “Quixotic Encounters,” a 20-year retrospective of alla prima (wet-on-wet) oil paintings. KATHRYN WIEGERS: “Creation,” an exhibition of paintings based on the seven days of creation from the book of Genesis. Through October 3.

Info, 362-1405. Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

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‘A JOURNEY ACROSS BOUNDARIES’: A group exhibition curated by artists Angelo Arnold and

SUE LENFEST: A solo exhibition of 11 pastel, oil, pencil and charcoal drawings and paintings by the South Woodstock artist. Through October 22. Info, 7637094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

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ANN CLAYTON BARLOW: Large-scale photographic prints explore the relationship between perception and construction within found spaces. Through September 11. Info, 603-469-3444. Aidron Duckworth Museum in Meriden, N.H. BECKY COOK: Recent plein air oil and pastel paintings, many of the Upper Valley. Through September 5. Info, 800-423-2141. Restaurant at Loch Lyme Lodge, N.H.

Saturdays, 9am-1pm Downtown St. Johnsbury The largest farmer’s market in Caledonia County, this is where Readings poet Billy Collins ERIC AHO: TOWARD A BRIGHT OPENING you’ll find the with freshest produce, Through October 10 September 10, 7PM live music and lots of fun.

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through October 10 ‘POMPEII’: Nearly 200 archaeological artifacts, including bronze and marble statues, mosaics, Artist Reception: Thursday, September 29, 5:30-7 pm frescoes, decorative arts and objects from daily life, offer a glimpse into the life of the once-thriving city in the Roman Empire. Through September 5.

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‘THE BLACK SUN OF MELANCHOLY: MONSTERS OF 1302 Main Street, St. Johnsbury VT THE UNCONSCIOUS, FROM GOYA AND BLAKE TO REDON AND MUNCH’: Drawings and lithographs www.catamountarts.org fairbanksmuseum.org by 16 romantic artists who delved the depths of their imaginations to evoke strong feelings in the beholder. Through December 11. ‘TOULOUSELAUTREC ILLUSTRATES THE BELLE ÉPOQUE’: More12v-catamountarts083116.indd 1 8/30/1612v-fairbanksmuseum083116.indd 3:12 PM 1 8/29/16 11:24 AM than 90 prints and posters from the famed artist’s lithographic career. Through October 30. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

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‘DÜRER & REMBRANDT: MASTER PRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. DORRANCE KELLY’: An exhibition of prints including 29 engravings and woodcuts by German printmaker Albrecht Dürer and 35 etchings by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, as well as 18 contemporary works by Hendrick Goudt, Lucas van Leyden, Aegidius Sadeler and Lucas Cranach. Through October 2. ‘THE HYDES & REMBRANDT’: An exhibition tracing the efforts of Louis and Charlotte Hyde’s quest to secure a painting by the Dutch master. Through October 2.

VICTORIA PALERMO: “Camp Iris,” an interactive, sitespecific installation featuring A-frame structures with transparent, colored acrylic walls, inspired by the architecture of traditional Adirondack getaways.

Through September 5. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, N.Y.

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EDMUND ALLEYN: “In my studio, I am many,” a retrospective showcasing nearly 50 works, including paintings, drawings, films and technological pieces, by the late Québécois artist. Through September 25. LIZ MAGOR: “Habitude,” a nonchronological Tue-Thu: 4-10 pm survey of sculpture and installation produced by Full Schedule of Events Fri-Sat: 12 pm-12 am | Sun: 12-8 pm the Canadian artist, called “the most influential @ discoverstjohnsbury.com sculptor of the past 30 years.” Through September 5. LIZZIE FITCH AND RYAN TRECARTIN: “Priority Innfield,” a “sculptural theater” containing four movies and an ambient soundtrack presented in 7/26/1612v-stjohsnburychamber083116.indd 1:54 PM 1 8/30/16 4:11 PM five pavilions. Through September 5. Info, 514-847-12v-KingdomTapRoom072716.indd 1 6226. Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art. JEANETTE FOURNIER: “The Art of Nature,” watercolors of the natural world by the self-taught artist. Through August 31. Info, 603-745-2141.

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BUNNY HARVEY: “Fully Involved,” a solo exhibition of semiabstract landscape paintings. Through September 11. Info, 498-8438. White River Gallery at BALE in South Royalton.

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‘QUARTETS’: An exhibition of monoprints, block prints and paper collage by Janet Cathey and Kristen Johnson. Through September 3. Info, 889-9404.

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NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: The 19th annual exhibition of dozens of public sculptures throughout town, curated by artist Joe Chirchirillo. Through October 23.

Info, thefund@northbennington.org. Various Bennington locations.

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‘MILTON AVERY’S VERMONT’: Works the American modernist created based on his summers spent in southern Vermont during the mid-1930s through the mid-1940s. Through November 6. f DUANE MICHALS: “Photographs From the Floating World,” an exhibition of vibrant color images. Reception: Saturday, September 24, 6 p.m. Artist talk: 7 p.m.

Through October 30. MARK BARRY: “Something About Summer,” an exhibition of paintings based on images of the everyday life the artist creates with family and friends. Through October 2. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

PETER FRIED AND CELIA REISMAN: “Painting in the Neighborhood,” an exhibition of artworks depicting built landscapes. Through October 31. VIRGINIA BEAHAN: “Photographs From Home,” a solo exhibition of works by the photographer and Dartmouth College senior lecturer. Through September 17. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

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Gowri Savoor, featuring works by Arnold, Galen Cheney, Jason Galligan-Baldwin, Karen Henderson, Liz Kauffman, Rachel Moore, Savoor, Jason Swift and Mary Zompetti. Through September 4. Info, 778-0334. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

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he Bling Ring meets Taken in the sophomore outing from director Fede Alvarez (2013’s Evil Dead remake), easily one of the most assured and immersive horror films in recent memory. This is a picture with a certain amount of Wait Until Dark (1967) in its DNA, as well, given that it tells the story of a blind man who’s the victim of a home invasion.

Well, his home is invaded, anyway.

The setting is the real-life dystopia of modern-day Detroit. Our protagonists are three twentysomethings looking to better themselves the easy way. Rocky (Jane Levy), Money (Daniel Zovatto) and Alex (Dylan Minnette) can’t find jobs, but they can find suburban domiciles ripe for breaking into, thanks to Alex’s dad’s home-security business.

Each of the three has a justification for this life of small-time crime. Rocky’s mother is an abusive piece of work, and she dreams of leaving and bringing her younger sister with her to California. Money is a wannabe gangsta who fancies himself a ladies’ man. Alex is a fresh-faced kid who has a crush on Rocky and organizes the robberies as a means of keeping her as safe as possible, with the bonus of getting to hang with her.

When the three hear about an old blind guy who lives in a mostly abandoned neighborhood, supposedly with a fortune in cold hard cash hidden in his house, it’s like they’ve won the lottery. They think they’ve lucked into the easiest money of their lives, not to mention the biggest haul. What could go wrong?

Well, for starters, it turns out the guy is a vet with a very particular set of skills. He lost his sight when shrapnel from a grenade sliced and diced his eyes to hell. That isn’t the only thing he’s lost. His daughter was killed in a car accident caused by a rich girl, hence the million or so in settlement money lying around. When the trio tiptoes into his place in the middle of the night, they find him asleep in bed, a home movie of the little girl playing on his television. As his uninvited guests are about to learn, the dude’s a volcano of rage just waiting for a reason to explode.

They give him a good one. Played by a committed Stephen Lang, their target is their worst nightmare, a highly trained hard-ass who can kill with his eyes closed. Alvarez and cowriter Rodo Sayagues orchestrate a whiteknuckle game of cat and mouse that, I should add, takes place after the Blind Man (that’s how he’s credited) locks the thieves in the

DON’T LOOK NOW In Fede Alvarez’s new thriller, three Detroit thieves are surprised to learn their latest target is far from the easy mark they expected.

house. It doesn’t get better than the moment when the old guy cuts the power, stranding the disoriented young people in the darkness he’s learned to navigate so deftly.

Though it does get weirder. What Alvarez lacks in experience, he makes up for in great instincts; just when you think you know who’s guilty and who’s innocent, he starts flipping open narrative trap doors. By Act Three, we’ve suddenly got a whole new moral dynamic on our hands, and audience sympathies are likely to do some serious shifting. Movie critic law prohibits my say-

ing more. Except two words: turkey baster.

Thanksgiving, I guarantee you, will never be quite the same.

Don’t Breathe is smartly written, terrifically acted and propulsively directed with a wonderful feel for the material. No jump scares. No wearisome horror-film wisecracks. Just lean, mean, edge-of-your-seat movie making. Thrillers this wacked out and well crafted don’t come along every day.

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tories of show-biz rivalry are nothing new at the movies, given that it’s a topic with which their makers are painfully familiar. But there’s a unique poignancy to setting such a story in the world of improv comedy, because it’s one of the most group-oriented artistic pursuits there is.

While standup comics face the audience alone, improv teams are built on relationships of mutual support, on the assurance that each player will say, “Yes, and…” to the split-second impulses of the others’ imaginations. In improv, as an instructor tells students in writer-director Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice, bombing as a cohesive group is an honorable failure. Bombing as a bunch of attention-seeking individuals is just embarrassing. But what happens when the members of a close-knit improv troupe do, secretly or openly, crave a spotlight they won’t have to share?

Known for his standup and radio performances, Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With Me) also has experience in the improv world, and he brings nuance and respect to this story of one group threatened by a member’s defection.

Birbiglia stars as Miles, founding member of a six-person troupe called the Commune, whose members eke out an existence in the New York comedy scene. They’re well respected enough that their shows draw scouts from “Weekend Live” (a ringer for “Saturday Night Live”). But several of them share a tiny

GROUPTHINK Individual ambitions threaten a tight-knit improv troupe in Birbiglia’s wryly funny tribute to the form.

apartment, and their grubby theater is about to close its doors for good.

Younger team member Jack (Keegan-Michael Key) dreams of something more; when “Weekend Live” offers him an audition, he jumps. That doesn’t sit well with Miles, who’s already blown several such chances (he likes to tell his students he was “an inch away” from becoming a “WL” cast member). Jack’s girlfriend, Sam (Gillian Jacobs of “Community”), also gets a coveted audition, but she’s less

gung-ho about leaving the troupe, wondering if success really means starring on a show that everyone agrees isn’t all that funny.

The Communards, some of them pushing 40, are facing that watershed moment when creative types decide whether it’s worth it to keep pursuing a non-lucrative passion. Bill (Chris Gethard) is watching his father decline; Lindsay (Tami Sagher) is sick of living with her rich parents; Allison (Kate Micucci) wonders why she put aside her dream of being a car-

toonist. Even Miles — who’s made a habit of sleeping with his twentysomething students — is tempted by maturity. Not all of these characters are fully developed: Sam’s motives, in particular, could have come into sharper focus.

Yet their onstage rapport is always convincing.

The rhythm of improv isn’t easy to capture in a scripted drama; it’s all too easy to portray a team as a bunch of oddballs trying to outdo one another in wackiness. But Birbiglia understands that grandstanding is actually improv’s enemy. (When Jack shoehorns his Obama impersonation into a scene, trying to impress the scout in the audience, his colleagues shoot him a major side-eye.) During the Commune’s shows, the camera stays onstage, moving fluidly from person to person as each takes his or her turn at bringing the scene to life. Although the improv is scripted, the stumbles and hesitations are realistic — as is the tendency of the Commune members to keep right on improvising offstage.

Don’t Think Twice doesn’t paint its characters as heroes or villains, or offer easy answers to their dilemmas; we see why a spot on “Weekend Live” is so coveted, and how it might be a comedown, in other ways, from the camaraderie these six have built over the years. A low-key drama and a surprisingly funny comedy rolled into one, Birbiglia’s film suggests that improv and life have something in common: We’re all making it up as we go.

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With Ana de Armas and Ellen Barkin. Jonathan Jakubowicz wrote and directed. (105 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)

CAPTAIN FANTASTICHHH1/2 The patriarch (Viggo Mortensen) of an unconventional, off-the-grid family is forced by circumstances to introduce his brood to civilization — and their “normal” relatives.

Matt Ross wrote and directed this film festhonored comedy-drama. With George MacKay and Samantha Isler. (118 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 8/3) DON’T BREATHEHHHH1/2 A team of young thieves break into the house of a blind veteran (Stephen Lang) who turns out to be more than capable of defending himself in this horror thriller directed by Fede Alvarez (the Evil Dead remake). With Jane Levy and Dylan Minnette. (88 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 8/31) DON’T THINK TWICEHHHH Comedian Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With Me) wrote and directed this comedy about what happens when one member of an improv troupe suddenly gets a lot more famous than the others. With Gillian Jacobs and KeeganMichael Key. (92 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 8/31)

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS: In this period drama based on M.L. Stedman’s novel, a lighthouse keeper and his wife find and raise a “miracle baby,” only to be faced with a terrible choice. Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz star.

Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond the Pines) directed. (132 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace) MORGAN: When a lab-created human being (Anya Taylor-Joy) starts showing violent behavior, a riskmanagement consultant (Kate Mara) is called in to decide her fate in this sci-fi horror flick from first-time feature director Luke Scott. With Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Giamatti. (92 min, R. Essex, Palace) SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU: This Sundance-featured indie re-creates the summer afternoon when Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson had their first date on Chicago’s South Side. Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers play the future president and first lady. Richard Tanne makes his directorial debut. (84 min, PG-13. Palace) A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS: Natalie Portman directed this adaptation of Amos Oz’s memoir about his youth in the early days of the state of Israel. She also plays his mom. With Amir Tessler and Gilad Kahana. (95 min, PG-13. Roxy)

BAD MOMSHHH Three stressed-out mothers decide to ditch the quest for perfection and embrace their inner bad girls in this comedy directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the writing team behind The Hangover. Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Christina Applegate star. (101 min, R)

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HELL OR HIGH WATERHHHH1/2 Two brothers (Ben Foster and Chris Pine) work their way across Texas pulling small-time bank heists in this modern Western from director David MacKenzie (Starred Up). With Jeff Bridges. (102 min, R) HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLEHHHHH Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows) wrote and directed this comedy about a rambunctious kid (Julian Dennison) and his grumpy foster dad (Sam Neill) who bond when they find themselves lost in the New Zealand bush.

(101 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 7/27) INDIGNATIONHHHH In this adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel, set in 1951, a young man from a working-class Jewish family struggles to adjust to life at a conservative Midwestern college. With Sarah Gadon and Tracy Letts. James Schamus makes his feature directorial debut. (110 min, R) JASON BOURNEHHH Matt Damon returns to the action franchise as the titular governmentenhanced super-spy, now chasing more information about the past that was stolen from him. Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum) also returns as director. With Alicia Vikander and Tommy Lee Jones. (123 min, PG-13) KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGSHHHH1/2 Laika Entertainment (The Boxtrolls) brings us this stop-motion animated adventure set in ancient Japan, in which a young boy hounded by gods and monsters must rediscover his father’s samurai legacy. With the voices of Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson and Ralph Fiennes. Travis Knight directed. (101 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 8/24)

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FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINSHHH1/2 Stephen Frears (Philomena) directed this biopic about a 1940s socialite (Meryl Streep) who’s so determined to sing opera that she forges ahead despite her terrible voice and goes down in history as a symbol of dreams, or delusion. With Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg and Rebecca Ferguson. (110 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 8/17)

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EQUITYHHH1/2 An investment banker (Anna Gunn) fights to hold on to her career in the face of scandal in this financial thriller directed by Meera Menon. With James Purefoy and Sarah Megan Thomas. (100 min, R)

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MECHANIC: RESURRECTIONHH Does anyone remember The Mechanic (2011)? Well, now the remake of the 1972 action flick has a sequel, in which Jason Statham reprises his role as an assassin who makes his hits look like accidents.

With Jessica Alba and Tommy Lee Jones. Dennis Gansel directed. (99 min, R) PETE’S DRAGONHHH1/2 Disney offers a remake of its 1977 family adventure flick about an orphan (Oakes Fegley) whose best friend is a dragon visible to him alone. With Bryce Dallas Howard and Robert Redford. David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) directed. (102 min, PG) SAUSAGE PARTYHHHH1/2 Double entendres abound in this adult animated comedy from the minds of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, set in a supermarket, in which Rogen voices a sausage who starts to question what he’s always been told about his destiny. With the voices of Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill and James Franco. Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon directed. (89 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 8/17) THE SECRET LIFE OF PETSHHHHH What do pets get up to when their owners are away? Plenty of shenanigans, this animated family comedy suggests. Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate and Albert Brooks contributed their voice talents.

Chris Renaud (Despicable Me) and Yarrow Cheney directed. (90 min, PG; reviewed by R.K. 7/13)

STAR TREK BEYONDHHH1/2 Justin Lin (Fast & Furious 6) helms the latest installment of the nouveau version of the SF franchise, in which the Enterprise encounters a new enemy in the far reaches of space. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and Idris Elba. (120 min, PG-13)

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SUICIDE SQUAD1/2H Supervillains get a second chance to be heroes when they’re recruited by a secret government task force in this DC Comics production directed by David Ayer (Fury). Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis and Jared Leto (as the Joker) star. (130 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 8/10) WAR DOGSHHHH1/2 Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play a pair of bros eager for government cash who take on a $300 million deal to arm America’s Afghan allies in this fact-based comedy-drama directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover). With Kevin Pollack and Bradley Cooper. (114 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 8/24)

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you willing to lose at least some of your inhibitions?

Are you curious to find out what it feels like to cavort like a wise wild child? If you want to fully cooperate with life’s plans, you will need to consider those courses of action.

I am hoping that you’ll accept the dare, of course. I suspect you will thrive as you explore the pleasures of playful audacity and whimsical courage and effervescent experiments. So be blithe, Taurus! Be exuberant!

Be open to the hypothesis that opening to jaunty and jovial possibilities is the single most intelligent thing you can do right now.

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Play a joke on your nervous anxiety.

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Ask yourself a soul-shaking question you haven’t been wise enough to investigate before now. Go to a wide-open space, spread your arms out in a greeting to the sky and pray for a vision of your next big goal.

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To take maximum advantage of this blessing, don’t hold on to the state you’re leaving behind — or the feelings it aroused in you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In one of my dreams last night, a Leo sensualist I know advised me to take smart pills and eat an entire chocolate cheesecake before writing my next Leo horoscope. In another dream, my Leo friend Erica suggested that I compose your horoscope while attending an orgy where all the participants were brilliant physicists, mu-

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Illuminati do

not want you to receive the prophecy I have prepared for you. Nor do the Overlords of the New World Order, the Church of the SubGenius, the Fake God that masquerades as the Real God or the nagging little voice in the back of your head. So why am I going ahead and divulging this oracle anyway? Because I love you. My loyalty is to you, not those shadowy powers. Therefore, I am pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to evade, ignore, undermine or rebel against controlling influences that aren’t in alignment with your soul’s goals.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The dictionary

says that the verb “to schmooze” means to chat with people in order to promote oneself or make a social connection that may prove to be advantageous. But that definition puts a selfish spin on an activity that can, at least sometimes, be carried out with artful integrity. Your assignment in the coming weeks is to perform this noble version of schmoozing. If you are offering a product or service that is beautiful or useful or both, I hope you will boost its presence and influence with the power of your good listening skills and smart conversations.

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(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you are attuned with the cosmic rhythms in the coming weeks, you will be a source of teaching and leadership. Allies will feel fertilized by your creative vigor. You’ll stimulate team spirit with your savvy appeals to group solidarity. If anyone can revive droopy procrastinators and demonstrate the catalytic power of gratitude, it’ll be you. Have you heard enough good news, Sagittarius, or can you absorb more? I expect that you’ll inspire interesting expressions of harmony that will replace contrived versions of togetherness. And every

blessing you bestow will expand your capacity for attracting favors you can really use.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fictional character known as Superman has one prominent vulnerability: the mineral kryptonite. When he’s near this stuff, it weakens his superpowers and may cause other problems. I think we all have our own versions of kryptonite, even if they’re metaphorical. For instance, my own superpowers tend to decline when I come into the presence of bad architecture, cheesy poetry and off-pitch singing. How about you, Capricorn? What’s your version of kryptonite? Whatever it is, I’m happy to let you know that you are currently less susceptible to its debilitating influences than usual. Why? Well, you have a sixth sense about how to avoid it. And even if it does draw near, you have in your repertoire some new tricks to keep it from sapping your strength.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s quite possible you will receive seductive proposals in the coming weeks. You may also be invited to join your fortunes with potential collaborators who have almost fully awakened to your charms. I won’t be surprised if you receive requests to share your talents, offer your advice or bestow your largesse. You’re a hot prospect, my dear. You’re an attractive candidate. You appear to be ripe for the plucking. How should you respond? My advice is to be flattered and gratified but also discerning.

Just because an inquiry is exciting doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Choose carefully.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like

to become a master of intimacy? Can you imagine yourself handling the challenges of togetherness with the skill of a great artist and the wisdom of a love genius? If that prospect appeals to you, now would be a favorable time to up your game. Here’s a hot tip on how to proceed: You must cultivate two seemingly contradictory skills. The first is the capacity to identify and nurture the best qualities in your beloved friend. The second is the ability to thrive on the fact that healthy relationships require you to periodically wrestle with each other’s ignorance and immaturity.

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Are you up for the struggle? I understand if you’re not. I’ll forgive you if you simply flee.

But if you decide to work your cagey magic, here are some tips. 1. Compile your evidence with rigor. 2. As much as is humanly possible, put aside rancor. Root your efforts in compassionate objectivity. 3. Even as you dig around in the unsightly facts, cherish the beauti-

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What’s the current status of your relationship with your feet?

Have you been cultivating and cherishing your connection with the earth below you? The reason I ask, Gemini, is that right now it’s especially important for you to enjoy intimacy with gravity, roots and foundations. Whatever leads you down and deeper will be a source of good fortune. Feeling grounded will provide you with an aptitude for practical magic.

Consider the possibilities of going barefoot, getting a foot massage or buying new shoes that are both beautiful and comfortable.

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My boyfriend and I have been together for almost two years. We’ve been best friends for five, and he’s the best ever. However, when we have sex and he goes down on me and it feels absolutely amazing, I start squirming, and then I get this “I’m going to pee” feeling. I get so selfconscious that I have to make him stop. He reassures me each and every time that it’s not pee, but I simply can’t get over it; I feel as though I’m going to pee. Any suggestions?

Also, I recently got off my birth control, and I feel as though that made me less aroused. Is that possible? I’ve been off my pill for about eight months and I’m finally getting the arousal back, but definitely not like I was when I was 17, 18, 19. Any suggestions on that?

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Afraid to Let Go

First things first: Make sure to empty your bladder before you get frisky.

I have a friend who says the moment she arrives home from work and puts her key in the door, she has to pee.

Perhaps you’ve got something similar happening here — the moment before you climax, your bladder wants to be free and clear. So pee before sex, and you should be A-OK. But it’s also possible you don’t need to pee — some sex positions simply put pressure on the bladder, simulating the urge to urinate. Or perhaps your body is just preparing for some serious orgasm action. Ever heard of female ejaculation? Women who squirt are often initially confused about whether they’re coming … or going. But whatever they were doing when it happened, they were doing it right!

Either way, emptying your bladder first should give you the peace of mind to let go during this amazing oral sex you’re having. Orgasms are best when you’re not holding anything back — whether that’s pee or inhibitions.

When it comes to going off hormonal birth control, there can be a lot of unexpected side effects — everything from weight fluctuation to change in sex drive. Fun, right? Talk to your doctor if low arousal continues to be an issue. Other medications or prescriptions can hijack your libido, too — that’s another question for the doc. And keep in mind that stress can also be a major bedroom buzzkill. If you’re dealing with any extra tension right now, find healthy ways to relieve it, like exercising, reading or gardening.

Here’s the good news: Your boyfriend sounds like a supportive and enthusiastic lover. And the years of connection you’ve shared provide a strong foundation for getting through this little uncomfortable phase — and coming out stronger.

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WALKING DOG ACROSS FROM RITE AID I saw you around 7 in a green dress walking your dog. I was riding my bike. You have a dog; I have a dog. We just have so much in common.

I think we should go on a date at the dog park or a walk on the beach. Maybe hold hands? Who knows! When: Monday, August 22, 2016. Where: Rite Aid. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913630 BCC CHARITY CLASSIC Thanks for the Coneheads, Katy. How about we talk over a couple of cans? —The only long-haired golfer. When: Monday, August 22, 2016. Where: Burlington Country Club.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #913629 KOOKOOSHKA But now it’s gettin’ late / And the moon is climbin’ high / I want to celebrate / See it shinin’ in your eye / Because I’m still in love with you / I want to see you dance again / Because I’m still in love with you / On this harvest moon.

When: Monday, August 22, 2016. Where: everywhere. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913628 AIOLI AT HOTEL VERMONT Shared a plate of fries and a little bit more.

I didn’t like how we left things. I’m willing to look past your “status.” Would like to see you again. I think we can do better next time.

When: Friday, August 19, 2016. Where: Hotel Vermont. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913627

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MOBB’S FARM TRAILS SATURDAY MORNING You were walking the most adorable puppy through the meadow. I was on a mountain bike. I got to the top of the hill and just thought to myself how incredibly cute you were, as well! If you’re out there and you read this and you’re unattached and are interested: Love to hit the trails with you two sometime. When: Saturday, August 20, 2016. Where: Mobb’s Farm Trails. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913626 TRACTOR SUPPLY I spied a beautiful lady with brand-new puppy.

You said I was very tall and asked if I could help you. Of course I said yes, I would be happy to.

We visited for a little bit about your new puppy, who is adorable, by the way. I would like to see you again and continue our conversation.

When: Friday, August 19, 2016. Where: Tractor Supply. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913625 HOWDY, STRANGER We meet up for the Garden of Eden festival. We shared a love for Strangefolk! Even on crutches, you still managed to rock out! While I don’t think I’ll ever see you again, I can’t stop thinking about you! I believe I was meant to meet you! Hope you felt the same connection?! When: Saturday, August 13, 2016. Where: Jay Peak Strangefolk show. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913624 BODY BUILT FOR SIN! Dangerous curves ahead! I was standing there when you walked in. Skin-hugging, form-fitting light gray dress, killer heels and that wild red-colored hair.

My God! You made my day. I can’t get the picture of you out of my head! You must work hard to keep a body like that! Fit, hot, sexy! Thank you. When: Thursday, August 18, 2016. Where: Starbucks, Williston Road. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913622 BLUE HELMET AND A BAGUETTE Any cyclist who braves South Winooski has my respect. A woman who calmly and confidently took the left lane to turn onto Pearl also caught my eye with her beauty. You have a blue helmet and had a baguette in a red milk crate in back. I think we were both leaving City Market. Maybe we could bike there together? When: Wednesday, August 17, 2016. Where: South Winooski Street turning onto Pearl. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913621 I-SPIED LAST JULY DRIVE-IN Last July I was I-Spied at the drive-in (taking my kiddo to the bathroom, as I recall). I was not in a place then to be able to respond, but now things are different. Curious if you are still out there?

When: Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Where: drive-in, Colchester. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913620 WAITING FOR GREYLOCK BUS We spoke briefly, waiting for the bus to arrive at Edmunds School on a rainy day.

I think your dog liked me. We live in the same town; any interest in having dinner?

When: Tuesday, August 16, 2016. Where: Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913619 CHCB RIVERSIDE INOCULATOR Me: curly-headed, maroon tee and cutoffs, feeling unsure of provider/patient protocol in such situations. You: red shoes and black jeans, sticking me with TDAP. And just in time, because I’ve been struck by an arrow! Not literally, of course, but as in Cupid’s proverbial one. Because I find you attractive and wish I’d asked you out. That sort of thing. When: Tuesday, August 16, 2016. Where: Community Health Center. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913618

COLUMBUS FLEA MARKET You were so beautiful in your holey shorts among the Gypsies. I wanted to put you in my pocket and take you home. I mean to tell you all the things I’ve been thinking deep inside my head. When: Thursday, August 11, 2016.

Where: Jerz. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913617 REASON 348 TO LOVE ARAM Anxiety and awkwardness are a greasy veil I wear. I get dumpy and avoid people and places. He listens to my fears, helps me see the humor hiding snugly within, takes my hand and walks with me through the path usually diverted. I love him because he is strong, but I love him most because he makes me stronger. When: Tuesday, August 16, 2016. Where: in my mind’s eye. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913615 PENSIVE POET I saw you sitting at the bar for hours that evening, chewing on your pen, contemplating the words you would write in your journal. You were wearing a dark blue sweater and had a great beard. I wish I had talked to you, but you seemed entranced and mesmerized; it didn’t feel right. Want to grab drinks or coffee? When: Saturday, February 27, 2016. Where: Hen of the Wood. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913613 FRIDAY’S LEAD SINGER I wasn’t able to catch the name of the band, but the singer was mesmerizing, tall, blond, gorgeous and could really sing. You’re amazingly talented, and your band is awesome, too. I hope you are able to get a following! When: Friday, August 12, 2016.

Where: Essex. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913611 IN UNCOMMON GROUNDS Around 11 a.m., you were sitting by the door with your laptop. I came in with pigtails. You were wearing shorts, a white T-shirt and had a wonderful beard growing. We made eye contact, and you smiled, though I was trying to look at you without you noticing. Want to grab coffee sometime? When: Saturday, August 13, 2016. Where: Uncommon Grounds. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913610 DIRECTOR DIMPLE I picked cranberry and left you lemonade because of your Tuffy white shirt. You rock taking time for lunch, being a great listener always, a nice walk in the woods, leaving footprints on my chest and for all the advice that got stuck in my ear.

Hooray for vacation, painting rocks, duct tape and s’mores, too! You being at camp was the HOTW. When: Friday, August 5, 2016. Where: Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913608 REMEMBER STEVE MILLER’S ‘THE JOKER’?

“You’re the cutest thing I ever did see!” I couldn’t keep these lines from the Space Cowboy’s song out of my head after just one look in your eyes and smiling face as you waited on me and friend (with his laptop) at a corner table. When: Thursday, August 11, 2016. Where: the Scuffer, Church Street, Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913607

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