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Atlantic Monthly journalist James Fallows addressed University of Vermont students at graduation Sunday. His advice? Subscribe to a newspaper or magazine!

1. “What Is That White Dome on a Hill Overlooking St. Albans?” by Ken Picard. It’s Vermont’s most visible remnant of the Cold War era.

2. “The Great Northern Opens in Burlington”

by Sally Pollak. The newest restaurant in Burlington’s South End is now open.

3. “Marijuana Legalization Bill Hits Vermont Governor’s Desk” by Terri Hallenbeck. After last-minute legislative shuffling, both chambers passed a pot bill.

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A state commission found that a Montpelier deli last year discriminated against a man and his service pup, Snoopy. Who could win a case against a dog named that?

The group is still fiddling with its menu, said Alden, but plans to source ingredients for the unique concept as locally as possible. And those who live out of town but want to pitch in can donate their share to the Putney Food Shelf, according to Alden. This being Vermont, vegetarian, gluten- and dairy-free options will be available.

So far, Alden says, the group has signed up 16 subscribers but is aiming for about 60.

If it takes off locally, Alden hopes to expand the concept to similar groups.

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The money for your broccoli bisque goes directly to Sister District’s national organization or, if you prefer, to the campaign of John Bell. He’s an incumbent Democrat in the Virginia House of Delegates who faces a tough challenge in November’s election, said Peg Alden, a cocaptain of the southern Vermont chapter.

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The building that houses the iconic Burlington nightclub Nectar’s is for sale — for a cool $2.5 million, the owners of the club and building told Seven Days on Tuesday.

“We’re in this bizarre bubble with real estate in Burlington right now, and no one knows how long it’s going to last,” said Chris Walsh, one of the four co-owners in Nectar’s Entertainment Group. “So we figured we’d capitalize.”

What’s going to happen to the club? Assistant arts editor Dan Bolles posed that question.

“There’s been a lot of interest in the building,” said coowner Noel Donnellan. “And [potential buyers], whether they be local or regional, understand the significance and importance of the Nectar’s brand in this town and in this building. They all see that as an asset.”

“We think if we get some serious interest in the building, they are possibly going to be interested in the business as well,” said Walsh. “We are having those discussions of what it would mean if somebody came with the right offer. The running joke is that the business has always been for sale … if it’s the right amount of money.”

Change is not necessarily imminent, the partners said.

“The business itself has a strong lease,” co-owner Jason Gelrud said. “So whoever owns the building, the lease is in place for Nectar’s to continue as is.”

Meanwhile, “It’s business as usual,” said co-owner Alex Budney.

Nectar Rorris opened the club, once known as the HiHat, in 1975. Seven Days detailed the music venue’s rich history in a November 2015 cover story about its 40th anniversary. Countless local bands have played there over the decades, including Phish, Screaming Broccoli, Pinhead, Cush, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band, and the Pants.

The Nectar’s building, at 188 Main Street, also houses Club Metronome.

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‘COURAGEOUS JOURNALISM’

If you crave courageous journalism, reread Terri Hallenbeck’s column [Fair Game: “Rookie Mistakes,” May 17].

In fact, I had to reread it several times before I was convinced that publisher and coeditor Paula Routly allowed to appear in her newspaper an article so critical of her “domestic partner.”

The piece calls to task state Senate President Pro Tempore Tim Ashe for several alleged personal shortcomings, calling him “impetuous” and “short-tempered,” among other unflattering labelings.

The stinging descriptions are contained in a column analyzing three state legislative political leaders — governor, Senate leader and House speaker — who are new in their jobs and not working well together.

Ashe is further described as having an “unwillingness to share information with the public,” being rude to an opposing lawmaker and walking out on a reporter who asked a question.

A disclosure appended to the column notes that Ashe is Routly’s domestic partner.

Hallenbeck could have taken the easy way out and never written critically about her boss’ partner.

And once Hallenbeck wrote the piece, Routly could easily have spiked it.

Courageous journalism can elude the strongest of practitioners.

To see an example of this courageousness in our midst may be a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.

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Routly may now be sleeping on the couch, but if she’s not, I also include her partner, Ashe, as an example of courage — for loving a partner who buys ink by the barrel.

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Terri Hallenbeck’s contention that the current budget impasse is a result of character flaws and inexperience exhibited by Gov. Phil Scott, House Speaker Mitzi Johnson and Senate President Pro Tempore Tim Ashe is a discouragement [Fair Game: “Rookie Mistakes,” May 17]. Lack of timeliness, legislative presence and transparency re the collective bargaining agenda has eroded public trust of Scott’s focus on accomplishment. Johnson and Ashe, longtime public servants, are viewed across the aisle with respect for their annual contribution to shaping budgets informed by economic justice for all Vermonters.

Hallenbeck’s article, in part, focused on the difficulty of players traversing a policy void and getting deal making done in the crucible of the legislative season.

Another primary objective, however, was sharing flippant perceptions of their flaws, creating caricatures in a political drama that undermined the hard work, stress, soul searching and sacrifice required of all state legislators — those in clearest sight of the media crosshairs highlighted here.

Assigning blame for a stalled budget resolution to Scott’s elective grandstanding, Ashe’s

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mercurial temperament and Johnson’s lacking political savvy is far too simplistic and unfortunate.

Whether a budget is vetoed or passed, compromises are made. All will live with their role in the process, held to account by voters. Would a deal have been done sooner had the players been more seasoned?

Character critique serves only to discourage the next generation of representatives from public service. In her rookie week of writing Fair Game, Hallenbeck deserves respect for her effort. In this spirit, I encourage readers to forgive an off note!

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Mayor Miro Weinberger has been extremely successful at assembling a cadre of not-so-progressive Progressives, business folks who stand to gain from his projects and city councilors in lockstep with his views. Many of his staff and board members come from New Urbanism, development and housing backgrounds. Since all but two of the people reporter Kevin J. Kelley interviewed for [“Better Burg?” April 26] fall into these categories, it’s no wonder he found few Weinberger critics. I can only imagine what a more diverse group of interviewees might say or what better investigative reporting might turn up.

1. How do the participants of the planBTV process feel about 14-story towers when they supported a human-scale city plan with buildings under eight stories?

2. How much money has this administration spent on outside consultants for so-called public processes that turned out to be marketing tools with predetermined outcomes?

3. An accounting of what is likely an unprecedented amount of PAC money spent to promote preferred ballot items and candidates.

4. An exposé on the methods to push projects through, for example, predevelopment agreements and impact studies (physical, environmental, financial, stormwater) delayed, ignored or delivered with inaccurate data, images or redacted information.

At a time when big money is damaging our country and honest, in-depth reporting is needed more than ever, Seven Days has missed an opportunity for a much more interesting story.

Independent Physicians,” May 3]. Over 17 years of independent practice as a licensed clinical mental health counselor and alcohol-and-drug counselor, I’ve only had a couple of rate increases, by pennies — never enough to cover rises in operating expenses.

This means providers’ incomes are declining every year. Theoretically, if someone were in practice long enough, his or her income could become negative!

Kelly Lange from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont is quoted as saying that if provider reimbursements increase, that will increase medical costs. Well, we all know that our insurance costs rise every year anyway. In the past, I have written to the banking and insurance commission and politicians asking why those increases occur yet independent providers don’t see any of the money. They conveniently chose to ignore the question, instead bemoaning the rising cost of health care. So, I’m still asking: Where is that money going if not to providers?

Also, having worked in institutional settings, including an HMO, I’m skeptical of outcome-based reimbursement. It could take us back to when providers felt compelled to refrain from referring to specialists or to not order tests in order to preserve “quality of care” limits set by insurance companies.

I sincerely hope that practitioners in allied health fields can continue to practice independently in the future. They model a standard of care that provides a comparison to and balance against the dehumanization that occurs in large, impersonal systems.

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Aria Productions in Store for Vermont Opera Fans This Summer

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Politics: Prominent Vermonters reveal their White House worries

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Race On: A New American Aims to Diversify the Burlington City Council

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Immigration: A UVM student tells her story as a formerly undocumented immigrant

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t was a tense and exhausting finish last week to a low-key session of the Vermont legislature. Gov. PHIL SCOTT’s belated introduction of a plan to change how public school teachers negotiate health insurance benefits put the session into overdrive. Republican governor and Democratic legislature traded proposals, offers, accusations and recriminations until the very end, before declaring failure. Reluctantly, with regret.

“We were very, very close to a deal,” said House Speaker MITZI JOHNSON (D-South Hero). The governor agreed, calling it “frustrating on both sides.”

Lawmakers quickly passed all remaining legislation and adjourned early Friday morning, with Scott promising to veto two key bills. One is the annual measure that helps set property tax rates and includes a version of the teacher health care proposal. The other is nothing much to worry about — just the state’s entire budget.

Yes, we’re headed for overtime, again.

If the promised vetoes happen, the legislature will return on June 21 with a looming deadline: If Vermont doesn’t have a budget by July 1, state government could be forced to shut down.

So how did we get here?

Go back to April 25, when the legislature was two weeks from scheduled adjournment. That’s when the governor formally put his weight behind an idea that had been kicking around Montpelier for months. Due to a provision in the federal Affordable Care Act, all teacher health care plans will be changing at the end of this year. The transition will save tens of millions of dollars in premium payments.

Scott proposed that health insurance be negotiated statewide, rather than school district by district. It was the best way, he said, to maximize the savings.

Democrats objected to the belated introduction, because it precluded full legislative vetting. They also joined the Vermont-National Education Association in balking at the change in the collective bargaining process.

Since then, there have been closeddoor meetings, press conferences, press releases and trial balloons aplenty. But no matter how close the parties came to a deal, one issue remained.

“The ultimate sticking point is ensuring that there’s a mechanism to achieve the savings,” said Scott spokesperson REBECCA KELLEY. “That’s where all of the

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proposals and counterproposals have boiled down.”

Democrats floated various plans, but they stood firm on one principle. “The one thing our caucus couldn’t do was interfere in the process happening right now,” Johnson said, referring to ongoing collective bargaining.

Scott offered ideas for keeping health care talks at the local level, but always with a “mechanism to achieve the savings.” To Democrats, all of his plans intruded on collective bargaining. The two sides gradually drew closer, but days turned into weeks and a grand bargain proved elusive.

Last Wednesday, Johnson and Senate President Pro Tempore TIM ASHE (D/PChittenden) held a press conference at which Johnson declared an “impasse” with the governor.

But while the two leaders appeared to signal a standoff, they weren’t ruling out further talks with the governor.

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In the meantime, lawmakers went to work putting the finishing touches on key legislation and setting the stage for adjournment.

Which brings us to last Thursday morning. Five people gathered in the governor’s ceremonial office: Scott, Ashe, Johnson and the legislature’s two “deans” — the senior members of each chamber, Sen. DICK MAZZA (D-Grand Isle) and Rep. ALICE EMMONS (D-Springfield).

Their first meeting was a sort of icebreaker.

“The discussion in the morning was very cordial,” recalled Ashe. “It was putting all the different themes on the table and having a general discussion about whether we could see new opportunities.” Ashe characterized it as “a positive discussion” — promising enough to warrant additional meetings.

At a subsequent meeting Thursday afternoon, the parties made significant progress. But different people recall the outcome differently.

“We had a framework in terms of what we could agree on,” recalled Emmons, “and

we had to bring that back to our respective caucuses and our respective bodies.”

Not quite, according to Kelley. “There was a framework,” she said, “[but] I wouldn’t say we all agreed on a plan. It was more, there was this one piece, and let’s go back and see how our teams feel about this one piece.”

Citing ongoing negotiations, Kelley would not reveal the exact nature of the “piece.” But it has to do with the governor’s insistence on that darn mechanism.

“Every step of the way, it seemed to come back to — we couldn’t get beyond that line in the sand, so to speak,” she explained, sort of.

Ashe and Johnson left the meeting believing they had what the speaker called “the parameters” of a final agreement. Their task was to sell it to their respective chambers.

“It took some explaining and talking,” recalled Johnson, “but the House and Senate came back and said, ‘We can do this. We’re ready.’”

The five negotiators reassembled in the early evening. For Ashe and Johnson, what followed was a disappointment bordering on betrayal. “He put something else on the table,” Johnson asserted in a Friday conference call with reporters, referring to Scott. She didn’t specify what she meant by “something else.”

Mazza, nominally a Democrat but a firm ally of the governor, doesn’t believe that Scott did any such thing. “He’s always been firm on what he was asking for,” Mazza said. “I don’t think he was being unreasonable.”

In any case, that was it. No agreement, just a final rush of lawmaking and a latenight adjournment, overshadowed by Scott’s veto promise.

And now, the real fun begins.

Sometime before June 21, negotiations will resume — with no reporters present, of course. Outside the Statehouse, lobbying and organizing is likely to outpace anything that happened before April 25.

Unions and left-wing advocacy groups were blindsided by Scott’s proposal. Now they’re gearing up for a fight.

“To be honest, I think people were a little shocked because [Scott’s plan] was so late in the game,” said CONOR CASEY, executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party. “I think that was part of the strategy.

But by dragging out a veto here, I believe groups will become increasingly engaged, and he will experience pressure that he hasn’t experienced to this point.”

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15-member panel: VT-NEA executive director JEFF FANNON. Two seats for one union. Too much?

Not for Casey.

“We are the party of working people — union and nonunion alike,” he said.

Vermont Republicans don’t mind hearing that kind of talk. In recent weeks, they have depicted Democrats as the bought-and-paid-for lackeys of the VT-NEA. In a recent press release, Vermont Republican Party executive director JEFF BARTLEY slammed legislative leadership as being “more interested in pleasing the VT-NEA and other special interest groups … than they are in doing what is best for all Vermonters.”

Whether he intends it this way or not, the governor’s veto will be the opening gambit of the 2018 campaign.

Both sides are eager for the battle.

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Congressman PETER WELCH (D-Vt.) has hired a new press secretary to replace the departing KIRSTEN HARTMAN, who is going to work for Sen. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-Minn.).

“It’s been a wild two years working for Peter,” Hartman said in an email announcing her move. “It’s been a gift to work for such a ‘happy warrior.’”

Taking over for Hartman is Middlebury College alum KATE HAMILTON. She joins the Welch office from Washington, D.C.-based media firm GMMB where she worked on the Hillary for America advertising team and for the Democratic National Convention.

“I loved feeling like I was in the middle of things,” said Hamilton, who interned for Welch in 2010 and 2011.

“After the election, I felt like I wanted to move over to Capitol Hill, because it felt more central to what was going on.”

Hamilton was born in Washington, D.C., to a journalistic power couple: JANE MAYER, staff writer for the New Yorker who reported for the Rutland Herald early in her career, and BILL HAMILTON, Washington editor for the New York Times.

Did their profession influence their daughter’s decision to enter public service? “Yeah,” she said, “or perhaps a Freudian element, going from journalists to trying to shape messaging.”

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That pressure began with a May 16 press conference with a phalanx of labor leaders standing firm behind the teachers — including the Vermont Troopers Association, which endorsed Scott in 2016. The next day brought hundreds of teachers and supporters to a rally on the Statehouse steps. Not a bad turnout on a Wednesday afternoon.

The teacher health care issue has been a political winner for the governor, with its bumper-stickerready simplicity. So far, Democrats have struggled with multiple messages that don’t resonate with the public. Now, they see an opening.

“Gov. Scott is starting to develop a record,” observed Casey. “He’s beginning to define himself, and people who voted for him on the premise of being a moderate politician, they see that this doesn’t fit in with his nice-guy image.”

Casey is fond of tying Scott to very conservative governors in other states. At last week’s union rally, he brandished a sign that read “Governor Scott … Walker?”

It may seem a stretch to tie Phil Scott to the man who turned Wisconsin from a union stronghold to a right-to-work state. But Casey and his union allies see Scott’s teacher health care proposal as the thin end of the wedge.

And there’s evidence to back up that assertion. In a response to a Vermont State Employees’ Association questionnaire last summer, candidate Scott wrote this: “I am supportive of collective bargaining rights … I do believe, however, that every individual has a fundamental right to decline to join or participate in any organization with which she/he does not wish to participate in.”

Which is the very definition of “right to work.”

Democrats may see a chink in the gubernatorial Teflon, but Scott remains very popular, and any 2018 challenger faces an uphill climb. Republicans are looking forward to a Scott victory tour next year and hoping to gain ground in the legislature and mount a challenge to Lt. Gov. DAVID ZUCKERMAN. But, for the first time since Scott’s easy victory last November, the Dems are feeling a bit of hope.

“I’ve seen people step out of the woodwork who’ve been pretty quiet to this point,” Casey said. “The common wisdom in Vermont is that the incumbent is unbeatable. But what the governor has done is declare war on many of the groups who supported him in the previous election.”

The Democratic Party won’t shy away from the union label. In fact, on Saturday the party’s state committee elected VT-NEA president MARTHA ALLEN to its executive committee. Also on that

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he Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles is violating a state law by maintaining a facialrecognition database of all driver’s license photographs — one that it has made widely available to police, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.

The ACLU is calling on the DMV to suspend the practice, which the civil rights group says flouts a law designed to safeguard Vermonters’ privacy and is “subject to abuse” by law enforcement. The organization also plans to ask the legislature to launch an independent investigation of the DMV and to tie future funding to internal reforms.

“The DMV’s use of facial-recognition software is illegal,” ACLU staff attorney Jay Diaz said in an interview. “They’re violating the public trust by not telling people up front that in order to get a driver’s license, you’ve got to give up your privacy.”

The department has amassed a database of 2.7 million images of people who applied for a driver’s license or another ID. DMV Commissioner Robert Ide said that facial-recognition technology, which uses software to compare photos for matches, has assisted in at least 25 fraud or identity theft cases.

“We think we are very responsible custodians,” Ide said. Vermonters “should have absolute confidence in how we are accepting and carrying through our responsibility.”

The commissioner, who took office in 2009, told Seven Days he was unaware of a 2004 state law that specifies the DMV “shall not implement any … processes for identifying applicants for licenses, learner permits, or non-driver identification cards that involve the use of biometric identifiers.”

Lawmakers at the time were concerned about the DMV using Big Brother-type technologies, including facial recognition, House Transportation Committee recordings show.

Ide referred legal questions to Assistant Attorney General Tom McCormick, who said that at some point a “determination was made” that the 2004 law does not prohibit the program.

Asked to cite a law or a legal opinion to support that, McCormick did not provide anything.

“The software is not used to identify applicants,” McCormick said of the people who get driver’s licenses. “It is used to ensure that, within the universe of persons who possess licenses, permits or ID cards, there are no persons with multiple credentials.”

Diaz said McCormick’s explanation doesn’t pass legal muster. “Even the most skilled lawyer can’t

argue with a straight face that they are not breaking the law,” he said.

The DMV launched the program using $900,000 in federal grant money. The technology identifies individuals by examining facial features — such as the position of the eyes, the shape of cheekbones and size of the jaw — that cannot easily be altered and don’t change with age. Every night, software scans images of the day’s license applicants on the lookout for individuals with multiple identities. Most leads are benign — applicants might have changed their names, for example.

The DMV bills it as a tool to prevent criminals from obtaining driver’s licenses under others’ names. “DMV uses facial recognition to protect your identity,” the webpage for the program reads.

When the program rolled out in December 2012, DMV director of operations Michael Smith told Seven Days that it would “not be used to identify people for other law enforcement purposes.”

But DMV higher-ups debated, in that same year, whether to allow police to access the facial-recognition database, according to records obtained by the ACLU and reviewed by Seven Days.

“Personally, I think it seems like a good idea,” DMV project manager Michael Charter wrote to colleagues.

“However, this may be the one piece most likely to stir up the tinfoil-hat crowd.”

The DMV went ahead. Glen Button, a since-retired DMV director, reached out to law enforcement in the same month the technology launched, saying it “may be of assistance to you during a criminal investigation … Please contact staff in the DMV.” Cops have since used the DMV database at least 118 times, the records show. Users include Vermont State Police and local agencies in South Burlington, Burlington and Middlebury, along with the U.S. State Department, the Pennsylvania Criminal Intelligence Center and the Missouri Department of Revenue.

Police investigating cases involving burglary, drug dealing, possession of stolen property, retail theft and homicide have turned to the DMV. Typically, the department will run a suspect’s photo, either from mug shots or surveillance images, through the system looking for matches.

That practice makes all Vermonters potential suspects in a virtual lineup, said Diaz. He also said, “It’s really hard to see that this has all been about identity theft.

The fact is, they lied about it.”

The Vermont DMV is not alone. Government agencies have facial-recognition programs in at least 36 states, and, in all but three, lawmakers never voted to approve them. Bureaucrats foisted the technology on a largely unknowing public, according to The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America, an October report by Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology.

Facial-recognition databases include images of more than 117 million Americans — nearly one in two adults.

That’s an unprecedented encroachment into the privacy of citizens who have done nothing wrong, critics say. Only people who have been charged with crimes end up in fingerprint databases. In 2014, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that you had to be convicted of a crime in order to be required to submit a DNA sample.

Several studies have shown that facial recognition software is less accurate than fingerprinting. A report coauthored by the Federal

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Bureau of Investigation noted that outside of hearings held by the House African Americans are more likely to Transportation Committee. But the be misidentified by the technology. committee’s discussion made clear that The U.S. Government Accountability officials involved were worried about Office said in a 2016 report that the technology such as facial recognition FBI has not studied whether systems and retina scans. used by its state partners are accurate.

“The main issue and question is, Most systems — including Vermont’s — we’re creating this electronic database of have never been audited to determine digital photos that can easily be put into whether they are working properly. a facial-recognition system,” former state “Misidentification is a real risk,” one representative Steve Darrow, a Putney of the Georgetown report’s Democrat, said during a January 2004 authors, Clare Garvie, said committee meeting, according to a recording. “Does it in an interview. really stay in Vermont? Can Police could eventually the feds come in and say, use facial-recognition da‘Hand it over; it’s valuable?’ tabases to identify people You have to make sure you’ve they see in live video surgot the loopholes closed.” veillance, she said. Six govThen-DMV commisernment agencies, includsioner Bonnie Rutledge, at ing the Los Angeles Police the same hearing, told the Department and transit committee that she took authorities in Chicago and seriously the worries about Dallas, have either bought future use of biometrics. or expressed interest in “We did draft up some software with that capabillanguage to be put in this bill ity, Garvie said. that would require legislaThe Georgetown center tive approval if we ever went recommends requiring law JAY DIAZ to anything that looked like enforcement agencies to biometrics,” Rutledge said. obtain a search warrant to The law, meanwhile, appears to have access databases. The Vermont DMV been all but forgotten. does not mandate that practice.

Ide said that no lawmakers or In fact, it was the center’s report that revealed the Vermont DMV is sharing residents have ever complained to him images with the FBI. Documents the about the facial-recognition program.

But East Montpelier resident David ACLU subsequently unearthed show that the DMV’s collaboration with law Tucker, 63, said he feels the DMV is violating his rights. Tucker visited the enforcement is more extensive.

The DMV says it has tight protocols Montpelier branch to renew his license for access. A cop has to document a this year. He was mystified when a staff case on a form, and DMV staff screen member told him to take off his eyerequests. The DMV then forwards info glasses to be photographed.

“I said, ‘I wear these all the time,’” about any matches to police.

“It is a highly controlled atmosphere,” Tucker recalled. “He said, ‘Yeah, but I Ide said. “The process to document a re- need you to take them off; it makes the quest and to check the request and to do facial-recognition software work better.’”

Its existence was news to Tucker. the actual run does not happen quickly.”

Yet it appears that lawmakers once After agreeing to pose sans glasses — he went out of their way to ensure that the said he felt he had no choice — he began to research the program.

DMV had no such capability.

“The default should be that I have a The language barring the agency from using “biometric identifiers” was right to privacy,” Tucker said. “And in tacked onto a 2004 bill that required this day and age, that should include photos on all driver’s licenses. Vermont an image of my face or any other way was the last state to give up the photo- they could identify me in some kind of free paper variety, yielding to post-9/11 random search.” ! pressure to upgrade security measures.

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Race On: A New American Aims to Diversify the Burlington City Council B Y KATI E JI CK LI N G

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he black man from Mauritania had a message for the white folk at Burlington’s C.P. Smith Elementary School. “The way I think is different because I have experienced different things: discrimination, poverty — many, many things,” Ali Dieng told a group of 10 Burlington Progressives holding a caucus in the teacher’s lounge of the New North End school.

The lanky first-time politician, dressed snappily in a suit coat and newsboy beret, had come seeking the Prog party’s endorsement in his campaign for a Ward 7 city council seat being vacated

by Democrat Tom Ayres. On June 27, Dieng will face off in a special election against Republican Vince Dober and independent Ellie Blais, both former city councilors and longtime residents of the New North End. If elected, Dieng (pronounced “Jeng”) would be the second New American to serve on the city council. And he’d be the only nonwhite member on the Queen City’s legislative body.

His May 8 pitch worked — sort of.

The Progs didn’t like the fact that Dieng couldn’t say definitively whether he’d run as an independent or with a party label. The Dems had already endorsed him on May 4.

“You have to know this sort of thing,” scolded Meg Polyte, the acting chair of the Chittenden County Progressives and chief of staff for Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman.

But after a lengthy lecture on the importance of political strategy, the Progs took an “advisory vote” to support the 35-year-old newbie. Dieng’s identity as a New American is what won Polyte over.

She was “really touched” by his desire to help others become engaged.

“The reality is, what he truly knows, truly represents, is a voice of someone we don’t have in city hall,” she said.

Nonwhite residents make up about 11 percent of Burlingtonians and accounted for nearly 50 percent of population growth between 2000 and 2010, according to a diversity and equity report the city issued in 2014. Strategies to increase citizen engagement among New

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Americans and other underrepresented groups were also part of that initiative.

The police department hired four officers from diverse backgrounds last February. Both the police and parks commissions have majority-female boards. But officials could not name any New Americans currently serving on boards and commissions in Burlington, and they don’t keep track of such stats, according to Noelle MacKay, director of the Community and Economic Development Office.

The most public of those boards is, of course, the Burlington City Council.

“It is a loss for the city that we don’t have this perspective represented,” said Mayor Miro Weinberger, who is supporting Dieng. “He’s got great energy, commitment to the community.”

In a city that preaches diversity but has little to show for it, Dieng’s background is both a blessing and a curse.

He has the perspective officials crave but not necessarily the political chops — something Polyte spotted immediately.

“I remain a little bit concerned,” she told Seven Days later. “He couldn’t really clearly answer any of the questions that night.”

Dieng, too, left frustrated. “I was just confused,” he said of the Progs’ obsession over party affiliation. “It’s so distracting, such a mess.”

If he hopes to compete, Dieng will have to learn quickly. In his spiel to the Progressive caucus, his platform was vague with no specific policy proposals.

He hadn’t been to a city council meeting recently, he acknowledged. And during a door-knocking session last week, he misstated the number of city councilors.

If elected, “I think he’ll struggle,” Polyte admitted. Dieng has since decided to run as a fusion Democrat-Progressive candidate, and the Progs have fully endorsed him.

He faces a politically seasoned candidate in Dober, who served on the city council from 2009 to 2013. The 53-yearold contender said he wants to bring balance to the council, which currently has just one Republican member.

Although he doesn’t offer a policy agenda, either, Dober does have a record: He voted against the budget in three out of the four years he served on the council, because of rising property taxes. In 2010, he sponsored a resolution to impeach then-mayor Bob Kiss over the Burlington Telecom scandal.

Knowing the issues and the players “gives me a head start,” Dober said. Dave Hartnett (D-North District) and Kurt Wright (R-Ward 4) are both backing him because he has “developed roots in this part of the city,” according to Wright.

Similarly, 74-year-old Blais has lived in the New North End for more than 40 years.

“I must have run at least five times or more,” said Blais, who served on the council from 1994 to 1996, and again from 2000 to 2006. “I just don’t like taking no for an answer.” With her name recognition, she added, “I think people realize that I’m honest, and I will work for them.”

How does Dieng distinguish himself from these veteran local pols? He has strong opinions about universal childcare, improved transportation, increased affordable housing and public safety. But his favorite topics appear to be communication and connection. “I believe that Burlington diversity makes us stronger,” Dieng says in a campaign video on his Facebook page that features him touring Burlington as Afro-pop

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“This is unprecedented,” a grinning Dieng said as he scanned the throng of more than 100 people. “We are a diverse community, it’s uncontestable. We need to move forward just like that. Together.”

Dieng won in a landslide. He earned 76 votes, beating out Chris Trombly and Lorraine Carter-Lovejoy, who tallied 15 and 12 votes, respectively.

Fifteen percent of his votes came from New Americans, Dieng said later, some of whom registered on the spot in order to support him.

Both Trombly and CarterLovejoy have since endorsed Dieng’s candidacy.

But “unprecedented” may be an exaggeration, Hartnett noted: Michael Ly, the son of Cambodian refugees, ran for a council seat in 2015. Kevin Garrison, an African American man, has served on the school board. The first New American to serve on the city council also hailed from Ward 7: Bianka LeGrand, a Democrat born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, spent one term representing her neighborhood before stepping down in 2015.

“For me, this is nothing new,” said Hartnett, whose objection to liberal Dieng is that he “really doesn’t reflect the views and the politics of the people” in the ward. “I’m a little surprised at the buzz.”

LeGrand, though, remembered how difficult it was to break through ethnic barriers. “Not being born here in Vermont can be perceived as not having enough knowledge or experience in a culture, and that’s absolutely not true,” LeGrand said.

Dieng’s candidacy, she said, might be a “demonstration that our community is moving in a more positive and open direction.”

Dieng does not frame his campaign explicitly in terms of race, but it’s impossible to avoid. He’s a tall black man with an accent, and, during a door-knocking session last week, potential voters noticed.

“Are you a citizen?” asked one man, not unkindly, on Hope Street. Dieng said he was indeed.

Down the street, a woman stated matter-of-factly, “You’re not from around here.”

Ward 7, bounded by the Winooski River to the east and North Avenue to the west, has long seen itself as distinct

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music plays in the background. “As your city councilor, I will work to … connect and engage neighbors in what’s happening in our city.”

Dieng was born in Mauritania, a predominantly Muslim, Arabic-speaking West African country of about 4 million.

His family moved to neighboring Senegal to seek medical care for his mother, who died when Dieng was young. Raised by his paternal grandfather, Dieng attended high school in French-speaking Senegal, where he started an English club and campaigned for the only elected office he’s ever held: class president. He returned to Mauritania to spend three years at the University of Nouakchott but never earned a degree.

There he met his wife, Angela Smith-Dieng, who was serving in the country as a Peace Corps volunteer. He followed her to the U.S. in 2007, and the couple moved to Burlington in 2008 to be closer to her family.

Stateside, their roles reversed, and Dieng became the “volunteer” — for AmeriCorps — diving into community organizing. He established after-school programming and started a bicycle book mobile in the New North End. While he worked, Dieng founded a drumming group and a soccer tournament for New Americans. He joined the boards of two local nonprofits: Champlain Valley Office for Economic Opportunity and Rights & Democracy.

Dieng currently works as the family outreach coordinator for the Burlington School District and also runs Parent University, a program he started to help get New American parents involved in their children’s education. In both roles, he assists families who are struggling to navigate the school bureaucracy and services.

In December 2015, he and Angela moved with their two daughters to the New North End. They’re among those changing the demographics of Burlington’s most suburban neighborhood, which has traditionally been seen as conservative — and white.

Dieng’s made a lot of friends in the past year and a half. A video showed that local residents of all hues, speaking several different languages, packed the Robert Miller Community Center to support him at the Democratic caucus on May 4, four days before he approached the Progs.

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eggy Maxfield, a Brattleboro middle school math instructor, traveled nearly two hours last Wednesday to join other teachers in a last-ditch effort to persuade lawmakers to keep their hands off union contract negotiations.

“This is a big concern,” she said as she stood on the Statehouse steps in Montpelier. “We’re just trying to send a message to legislators that we can bargain at the local level.”

Maxfield and the 200 or so teachers, union staff and politicians who rallied last week had been caught off guard. As they protested outside, Democratic leaders — usually so careful to defend teachers’ interests — were inside, looking for ways to compromise with Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s demand that the state, not local school boards, negotiate teachers’ health benefits.

Scott’s proposal, which came just weeks before lawmakers were to adjourn for the year, presented the VermontNational Education Association its biggest political challenge in recent memory. The powerful union found itself on the brink of an unprecedented loss. Sixteen House Democrats voted for Scott’s proposal — enough defections that it took a rare vote by the House speaker to defeat a plan the union detests.

By the time lawmakers finally adjourned last week, they had come to the union’s defense and held off Scott’s plan.

However, his promise to veto the budget and tax bills over the issue means this debate will drag on for a month or more.

At the very least, the union’s clout appears at risk. Some wonder: What is the future of the long-established alliance between Democrats and unions? The debate suggests a shift, as newer lawmakers feel less urgency for the union cause.

The session started with pushes for a higher minimum wage and paid family leave. Then came the unexpected turn for labor.

The Vermont-NEA found itself playing defense as the first-term governor appealed to the state’s property taxpayers.

Moving teacher health-benefit negotiations to the state level, Scott claimed, would give Vermonters the most leverage to capture up to $26 million a year in savings from less-expensive plans.

But the Vermont-NEA sees that plan as a threat to teachers’ long-standing

Vermont-NEA supporters marching to the governor’s office last Wednesday

collective bargaining rights. Health coverage, along with other benefits, should be negotiated between teachers and the school districts that employ them, the Vermont-NEA insists. In the end, Democrats backed away from proposals the union disliked the most but did support a plan to revisit state-level negotiations after a committee studies it.

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And it remains unclear whether lawmakers will be able to stick to their commitment to protect collective bargaining following the governor’s promised vetoes.

Lawmakers, who lack the votes to override a veto, will be back in late June to try again for a compromise.

The union plans more rallies, emails and phone calls in the coming weeks to put human faces into the debate, said Darren Allen, Vermont-NEA spokesman.

“Yes, we have a job ahead of us,” he conceded. “I’m convinced [that] when our members make their case, lawmakers will listen.”

But observers say the union was slow to realize its interests were at risk — allowing the governor to get out in front and sell his plan as one that will save taxpayers’ money without eroding teachers’ health benefits.

Not until lawmakers were locked in a showdown with the governor last week did union leaders fully activate their members to call and email legislators.

“Everybody thought, This is the state of [U.S. Sen.] Bernie Sanders [I-Vt.]. This could never happen here,” said Steve Howard, executive director of the Vermont State Employees Association, which supports the Vermont-NEA’s position.

Howard said he worries that any erosion of bargaining rights for one union will spread to others, just as the VSEA is about to negotiate a new contract with the Scott administration.

The matter raised enough concern that Sanders — who rarely gets involved in state issues — came to the union’s defense, issuing a message last week in defense of collective bargaining.

Labor activists contend that Scott’s plan is part of a national movement. In 2011, Wisconsin restricted the power of public-employee unions to bargain collectively. The idea has been spreading ever since, according to labor leaders.

“I don’t think Vermont is immune from the national trend,” said David Mickenberg, a lobbyist who represents labor organizations. “There’s been a systematic attempt to undermine labor unions.”

That approach is gaining a foothold, Mickenberg said, because some GOP leaders are exploiting the steady loss of private-sector unions. As workers lose benefits such as pensions and regular pay raises, they have come to resent government employees who still have those perks.

“It’s unfortunate that the dynamic’s been created where, somehow, members of the labor union have something other people don’t,” Mickenberg said.

He and other labor activists argue that the answer is not to reduce public-sector unions’ benefits, but to raise them for all working Vermonters.

“We want everybody to have health care. We want everybody to have paid family leave,” Howard said. “We are

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required local negotiations of teacher health contracts to stay within a tight financial range. Vermont-NEA president Martha Allen slammed that as an “antiworker intrusion into the collective bargaining process.”

The Vermont-NEA isn’t used to such proposals coming from Democrats in Vermont.

“It’s unheard of in my lifetime,” said former state representative Tony Klein, a Democrat from East Montpelier and labor supporter. “I’m just really appalled.

You have 16 Democrats who aren’t really Democrats.”

Johnson doesn’t see it that way, but she went from union villain to hero in a day. Not long after her cafeteria conversation, she dropped her proposal. The next day, she affirmed that lawmakers would not agree to move bargaining from the local level without first studying the effects.

Johnson contended that she was neither standing up to the union by offering her proposal nor kowtowing by withdrawing it. “You have to put something practical on the table,” she said. “The Senate said it went too far for them. We had a House that was divided.”

She and Senate leaders settled on a plan to leave bargaining alone while limiting the length of new contracts to two years. In the interim, a panel would study the advisability of a statewide health contract.

Fifteen of the 16 wayward Democrats rejoined the fold to vote for their caucus’ plan. Nicole Mace, executive director of the Vermont School Boards Association, said that turnabout indicates how powerful the Vermont-NEA remains.

“My experience in the legislature is that the NEA does have a lot of respect and influence, and it makes it virtually impossible to have substantive conversations about collective bargaining,” Mace said.

It appears the union’s call to arms in the last few weeks may have worked once again. “Our members have generated over 6,000 emails and 1,000 calls,” said Vermont-NEA spokesman Allen.

“They’re going to continue to do that,” he said.

Maxfield, the Brattleboro math teacher, said she was surprised that the debate over collective bargaining had reached this level. Wearing a “Respect” lapel sticker, she said she and her fellow union members are now mobilized.

“An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us,” Vermont-NEA president Allen told the cheering crowd.

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not going to participate in a race to the bottom.”

The argument sounds good, but the reality is that Vermonters feel the gap between the haves and the have-nots, said Senate Minority Leader Dustin Degree (R-Franklin), who supports Scott’s plan.

“When you’re talking about public unions, those costs are borne by taxpayers,” Degree said. “When their benefits are not as robust, they ask honest questions about the role of government … I think this is a conversation about property taxes.”

Rep. David Sharpe (D-Bristol) said he’s heard that sentiment clearly in his community. “There’s been growing discontent, anger from people who are working hard and not getting ahead,” he said.

Sharpe, who chairs the House Education Committee, opposes changes to the health coverage bargaining process, but he does support a step also unlikely to win praise from the Vermont-NEA: decreasing the number of teachers as student enrollment declines.

“That’s the problem,” he said.

The debate highlights the fact that teachers do have more generous health insurance coverage than many Vermonters. Statewide, they pay an average of 15 percent of their premium, while state employees, for example, pay 20 percent.

In fact, Scott’s proposal for state-level negotiation is only possible because all Vermont teachers must negotiate new health benefits by January to avoid a federal tax on their current “Cadillac” plans under the federal Affordable Care Act. The new plans are expected to be less expensive for school districts. The questions of how much cheaper and who should control those savings are at the heart of the debate between Scott and legislators.

That tension has revealed a new world order for the Vermont-NEA: The union can no longer count on the automatic support of Democratic legislators.

Last week, union activists openly debated with House Speaker Mitzi Johnson (D-South Hero) in the Statehouse cafeteria over her chamber’s willingness to consider shifting negotiations to the state level.

As reporters looked on, Johnson explained to labor leaders why the 16 House Democrats earlier this month voted for Scott’s plan.

“When push came to shove, people chose property tax relief over collective bargaining rights,” she said.

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A New York City drug dealer who brought thousands of prescription opioid pills into Vermont was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison.

Michael Foreste, who was profiled by Seven Days in April for his participation in an unusual prison treatment program, told Judge William Sessions III that his time spent in prison and the counseling he has received in recent months have changed his outlook. “I now know what these pills do to the community,� Foreste said. “I never wish to cause this kind of harm again.�

Authorities allege that Foreste, 36, was the mastermind of one of the larger drugdealing rings in recent Vermont history. He was arrested in 2012 on Interstate 91 with 659 oxycodone pills. After his conviction, Foreste was free, pending an appeal, when he and his supplier, New York City police officer Andre Clarke, were arrested in an even higher-profile bust in June 2014.

Clark and another coconspirator took plea deals. Foreste was convicted after a jury trial in October.

Members of Foreste’s family and his fraternity brothers from St. John’s University, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in

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from the rest of the city. The ranch-style homes with tidy lawns seem distant from the specialty shops and tourist draws in Burlingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown.

The district consistently votes no on school budgets and has had mixed feelings about experimental bike lanes installed on North Avenue. Voter turnout is high; last November, 67.8 percent of its 4,005 registered voters cast ballots.

Dieng said he plans to knock on every door before the election â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Â 10 houses per night. On Tuesday evening last week, he hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet met his quota when his wife and two daughters, Aisha, 3, and Apsa, 9, sat down to dinner on their backyard deck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can eat later,â&#x20AC;? he said with a shrug.

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psychology in 2003, packed the gallery at U.S. District Court in Burlington on Monday for his sentencing.

His 16-year-old daughter, Jordan Foreste, told the court that her father has been deeply engaged in her life, even during his imprisonment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My father has always tried to do his best for me,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He pushed me. It would be nice to have him there to support me and my mother.â&#x20AC;?

Foresteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorney, Mark Kaplan, asked Sessions for a four-year sentence. And Foreste himself touted his progress in the prison therapy program as he argued for leniency.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan, though, pressed for a 15-year sentence, saying that Foreste helped fuel Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appetite for opiates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His dealing occurred in that pivotal time when addiction to pain pills was on the rise,â&#x20AC;?

Nolan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the biggest pill dealers the state has ever seen. He was one of the main drivers of the crisis.â&#x20AC;?

Determining Foresteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sentence was â&#x20AC;&#x153;particularly difficult,â&#x20AC;? said Sessions, given that he did not fit the typical profile of many drug dealers. The judge noted that Foreste was not violent or addicted and had a large support system.

But, added Sessions, Foreste had those same things going for him in 2012 when he pledged to straighten out â&#x20AC;&#x201D; only to commit new crimes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an open question as to whether he poses a significant risk of recidivism,â&#x20AC;? said Sessions before handing down his nine-year sentence.

Foreste has already served three years while awaiting trial and sentencing.

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Another couple pledged their support if he worked to mitigate taxes.

One woman, who declined to provide her name, proved unreceptive to Diengâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pitch. Early childhood education shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a priority, she said, and the neighborhood doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need more public transportation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do that shit ourselves,â&#x20AC;? she told him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I was a kid, we biked to school.â&#x20AC;?

Before bidding goodbye, Dieng, ever the optimist, urged her to call him to talk more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The one thing I learned is you can never, ever, ever get discouraged,â&#x20AC;? he said as he rang another doorbell down the street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This country is a democracy, and, whatever I do, not everyone will understand â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or agree with me.â&#x20AC;? !

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“Old-guard Democrats have a way stronger loyalty to unions,” the 23-yearold freshman lawmaker said. “To assume the union is right every time is to forfeit your discretion.”

A group of pro-labor lawmakers talked at a lunchtime meeting last week about appealing to their colleagues.

“People do have to be educated about the fact that unions are not people with two heads,” Rep. Tom Stevens (D-Waterbury) said.

“I feel like we should have started this a while ago,” Rep. Rachael Fields (D-Bennington) told the caucus.

VSEA’s Howard warned the group not to assume that the unions won last week, emphasizing that they still face many challenges to workers’ rights. “If anybody thinks this is over, it’s not,” he said. !

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Some of the once-wayward Democrats said they indeed heard from many teachers in their districts.

But they said that their reasons for withdrawing support for Scott’s proposal were more nuanced.

Rep. Charlie Kimbell (D-Woodstock) said he found more flaws in the Scott plan as he had more time to scrutinize it, including questions about how much it would save. But Kimbell said he still doesn’t consider moving negotiations to the state level as the attack on collective bargaining the union claims.

Rep. Jay Hooper (D-Brookfield) agreed. He switched from supporting the Scott plan because he found the Democratic plan well reasoned. But he makes no guarantees that future votes will be in line with union wishes.

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A judge from the environmental division of the Vermont Superior Court on Monday denied an opposition group’s request to delay the Burlington Town Center redevelopment.

With the ruling, developer Don Sinex plans to move ahead with the project and begin construction in midsummer, according to spokesperson Liz Miller.

It’s the latest blow to the Coalition for a Livable City, a group of Burlington residents represented by attorney John Franco that has fought the project for more than a year. A separate court ruling Friday, which Franco called a “kick in the teeth,” dismissed three of four parts of a challenge to $21.8 million in tax increment financing that city residents approved in November.

The fourth, remaining part of the challenge relates to a public records issue regarding a feasibility study that critics say had pertinent, releasable sections redacted.

But Franco deemed the most recent ruling a success — because of one sentence within Judge Thomas Walsh’s ruling. “We are unable to say that the claims are, as a whole, either tenuous or frivolous,” Walsh wrote.

It was, Franco said, “the first validation we’ve received from anybody about the concerns.”

The group appealed the Burlington Development Review Board’s March decision to grant zoning permits and asked for a stay until the appeal was heard. Sinex last week argued for an expedited hearing on the stay, writing in court filings that he was losing hundreds of thousands of dollars because of construction delays.

“I am pleased with this decision denying a stay; it is a good step forward for the Burlington Town Center redevelopment,” Sinex said in a statement Monday. “Rather than fight, we wish [the opponents] would join with us and the many Burlington residents who already support this project.”

The project would include 14-story buildings that would house offices, retail spaces and apartments.

While the ruling Monday clears the way for construction to begin, Walsh warned that the project could be halted or even dismantled if the court upholds the stillpending appeal. “Should BTC decide to move forward with construction while this appeal is pending, it does so at its own risk,” Walsh wrote.

Opponents, who argue that the mall is too big for Burlington, have challenged the redevelopment on several fronts. They’re making a push to have the project go through Act 250 permitting. At the same time, the group is holding out hope that a judge will grant their appeal of the DRB decision. And Franco said his clients will wait until the final piece of the TIF ruling is decided before appealing that decision to the Vermont Supreme Court.

“There are a lot of moving parts,” Franco acknowledged. But the main concern, he said, remains the same.

“They’re trying to plunk [down] a piece of Manhattan, and we don’t have the infrastructure to support it,” he said.

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ive opera in the Green Mountains is both scarce and eminently savorable — perhaps because small budgets seem to propel refreshing creativity here. Witness the summer offerings of Vermont’s two opera companies: the year-old VERMONT OPERA PROJECT and OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY, now in its 14th season.

In August, VOP will cool off operagoers with The Andrée Expedition, a 1980 work by Dominick Argento set in the Arctic. The opera is based on the true story of three Swedish men who, in 1897, attempted to reach the North Pole by hot-air balloon. After rough weather forced an early landing on the ice floes, the crew struggled on by foot but eventually died one by one. The men’s letters and diaries, discovered 33 years later, served as the basis for Argento’s Englishlanguage libretto. The haunting opera ends with fractured singing, conjuring documents half lost to water damage.

The company’s founders, QUINCY and JEFF BRUCKERHOFF of Clarendon Springs, opted for the original song-cycle version of the opera. Solo baritone Michael Chioldi and accompanist (and music director) Laurie Rogers will perform it.

The piano will be onstage, as in a recital, but the production will be staged, with lighting by Jeff Bruckerhoff. The set will feature projected images as well as “abstract ice floes and hints of a balloon,” says Quincy Bruckerhoff.

For Chioldi, Expedition is an atypical performance. The New York City-based dramatic baritone is accustomed to singing operas by Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner. Now 47, he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1995, and was 26 when he made his Met debut in an opening-night production of Andrea Chénier starring Luciano Pavarotti with James Levine conducting. Chioldi’s current calendar holds several upcoming European debuts, including ones in Barcelona and Berlin.

Chioldi also teaches, which he says has made him acutely aware of the mental challenges that singing involves.

That struggle parallels the theme of Expedition, he points out, which is “man against nature, but really just you against yourself.”

Vermont holds an additional attraction. Chioldi (pronounced with an

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initial K sound — “like chianti,” explains the singer) has family roots in Barre. His grandfather’s brothers founded CHIOLDI GRANITE, which is still functional.

Expedition will be performed at the VERMONT MARBLE MUSEUM in Proctor and the BARRE OPERA HOUSE. VOP’s other summer event, an artsong concert on June 25, will include a taste of the opera, promises Quincy Bruckerhoff. Shelburne native and baritone GEOFFREY PENAR, New York-based soprano Anya Matanovic and pianist Djordje Nesic will make a room in the

Rutland Free Library resound with some extraordinary talent. Fans of the now-defunct Green Mountain Opera Company, where Penar got his start before pursuing extensive training at McGill University, may recall his comedic gifts and winning stage presence.

Expedition furthers VOP’s aim of presenting new and cutting-edge operas on a small scale. Last year, the company’s offering was a contemporary Englishlanguage version of the Orpheus and Eurydice story, starring Tinmouth soprano SUZANNE KANTORSKI as Eurydice.

The production was staged both in the marble museum and in the atrium of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. — a performance nearly in the round that earned accolades in the Washington Post.

Kantorski appears this year in Opera Company of Middlebury’s production of three operas — in one night. Founder and artistic director DOUG ANDERSON has chosen Giacomo Puccini’s trio of oneacts, called Il Trittico (The Triptych), to present in the first two weeks of June.

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Suor Angelica is set in Siena in the 17th century. Starring Kantorski in the title role, it’s the story of a woman punished with life in a convent for having a child out of wedlock. Then she is punished again, in a manner much worse than that meted out to Madama Butterfly, Puccini’s other famous mother of a young boy.

Kantorski says the final scene will star an appearance by her own 6-yearold, ELLIS MERRILL, who happens to be the

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in between for a glass of wine, Anderson promises.

When performed together, the three are typically presented in the order Puccini wanted: the dark tragedies of Il Tabarro (The Cloak) and Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) followed by the light comedy Gianni Schicchi. That was the order of their first performance, in 1918, at the Met. (Italy was still mired in the fallout from World War I.) Anderson opted to place Schicchi between the other two pieces, partly to give the audience an emotional break and partly because, he declares, “There’s nothing to say after the last 15 minutes of Suor Angelica. If you’re not crying by then, you’re not human.”

The Italian-language operas will be presented with surtitles. Each will have a completely different set, in keeping with the high production values OCM regularly delivers. But the casts, consisting of 14 professional singers and a chorus of eight community members, will overlap in ensemble fashion.

Il Tabarro is the story of a workingclass love triangle gone bad on a barge on the Seine in 1910. Gianni Schicchi’s crafty title character, living in Florence in 1299, impersonates a wealthy dead man to tweak his will. The work features what might be the most famous aria in opera: “O mio babbino caro” (“Oh, my dear father”).

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o paraphrase Shakespeare, all the state’s a stage. Or so it seems during summer in Vermont. And some brand-new venues are helping to push an already-busy theater season into high gear.

On the heels of the recently built HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS in Greensboro comes another still-underconstruction facility, the GRANGE THEATRE in South Pomfret, which will mount its first production late this summer. As its name suggests, it will be housed in the community’s old grange hall, a space formerly known as Teago Grange Hall. The theater represents an expansion of local nonprofit ARTISTREE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER AND GALLERY.

ArtisTree was founded more than a decade ago in Woodstock. In 2014, the organization moved down the road to new quarters in a former barn in South Pomfret, where it offers art classes, art therapy programs and gallery and performance spaces.

The high-ceilinged grange hall, which is being transformed into a 90-seat theater, was originally a basket factory that stood on the Pomfret-Barnard town line, according to local historian ELAINE CHASE. The structure

was moved to its current location near the Suicide Six ski area in 1908; it served as the grange for most of the 20th century, said ArtisTree marketing and communications director TAYO SKARROW. “We want to be a really intimate space where people can have a wonderful theater experience,” Skarrow said.

She explained that the theater project emerged after community members approached ArtisTree’s executive director, KATHLEEN DOLAN, about finding a possible use for the old grange. After all, the organization had previous experience with renovating two 19th-century structures — a farmhouse and a barn — into art and education spaces.

The Grange Theatre’s director is CHRIS FLOCKTON, a Scottish-born, Liverpool-raised actor and voice-over artist.

He moved to the Upper Valley in 2011 after 17 years working in theater in New York City.

“I was toying with what would be the most effective way to commit career suicide, and I decided that moving to Vermont would probably get that done in short order,” Flockton joked with deadpan British humor.

He added in all seriousness, “I adore Vermont, and if I have my way I will live the rest of my life here.”

His career took this pleasing direction last winter,

when his wife returned home after taking their son to a clay class at ArtisTree.

“It was a good clay class,” Flockton recalled her reporting to him. “And I might’ve found you a job.”

And so she had. “Director of theater arts is the fully pretentious title,” Flockton joked, noting that this is his first full-time job in 26 years.

“The opportunity to build something from the ground up was too good to pass up,” he said. “I had been looking for a way to get more engaged with the artistic community in the Upper Valley. The opportunity felt like it was tailor-made for me.”

Flockton’s vision is that Grange Theatre will be a “hybrid organization” — a creative and collaborative blending of professional theater and community engagement. Grange productions will feature professional actors, directors and designers as artists-in-residence, working to “facilitate a collaboration with the community,” he explained.

“I’d like to filter everything through the prism of: How does it serve the community?” Flockton said.

“That’s the question I’m constantly asking myself when we think about what we want to do in this theater.”

He imagines four or five productions a year, including a summer theater season. In addition, the Grange will be used for classes and perhaps musical performances.

“It’s a very versatile space,” Flockton said. “The floor can be cleared, and it can be restored to a grange hall if we want to make it available for a community meeting or a prom.”

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Flockton will perform next winter in Northern Stage’s world premiere of Yesterday. Written by Hollywood veteran Bob Stevens, the play is about a couple of performers who also grew up in Liverpool: John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Flockton will play their road manager, Mal Evans.

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Grange Theatre will create an opportunity to expand engagement with local schools; Flockton recently worked with Pomfret elementary school students on writing personal essays and recording them as podcasts. He’s also involved with Shakespeare in the Schools, a NORTHERN STAGE program through which he is

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“Like everybody here at ArtisTree, we are working artists,” he said. “We have our jobs here, and we make time outside to continue our art.”

Grange Theatre joins several performing arts organizations in the Upper Valley, including Northern Stage in White River Junction, PENTANGLE ARTS in Woodstock and BARNARTS CENTER FOR THE ARTS in Barnard.

Flockton considers this a blessing. The key to running a successful theater within the regional performing arts community is to create compelling work and forge a distinct identity, he said. “I want to do interesting and challenging pieces of theater that will allow members of the community to find a home in the theater.”

Collaboration with other theater companies is also vital, he believes.

“Find out what their plans are and when their plans are — and don’t do that,” Flockton said, “so that we’re not cannibalizing each other’s audiences.”

Grange Theatre will host a community open house on July 22, in advance of its summer season. The company’s inaugural performances will be four musical theater productions, starting in mid-August with Disney’s The Little Mermaid JR. !

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Do these high-tech gizmos open their lids automatically? Spritz the air around them with floral-scented deodorizer?

Shoo away seagulls, squirrels and bees?

Given their hefty price tag of $5,000 apiece, shouldn’t these garbage receptacles perhaps also serve as free Wi-Fi hot spots? WTF? In fact, the 21st-century “smart bins” are reducing the Queen City’s carbon footprint, saving its maintenance staff time and money, and keeping parks, sidewalks and the waterfront cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing and free of pests (other than the human kind).

Jesse Bridges is the outgoing director and harbormaster at Burlington Parks, Recreation & Waterfront. As he explains, the department purchased its first two smart bins in 2013 as part of a pilot project in City Hall Park to test the technology of the Bigbelly waste and recycling system. Manufactured by Needham,

Mass.-based company Bigbelly, these smart bins use solar power to drive an internal trash compactor, which increases the units’ capacity as much as fivefold.

The problem with the old open-top garbage cans, says Bridges, was that if someone stuffed in, say, four pizza boxes, the bin would seem full despite having extra capacity. As a consequence, trash cans would often overflow with garbage and get cross-contaminated with recyclable materials.

The smart bins also address a second, information-related problem. In the past, Bridges says, his maintenance crews spent hours driving around the city to check and empty hundreds of trash barrels. Some, like those on Church Street and the waterfront, would fill up several times a day, while those in more remote areas, such as Ethan Allen Park, could go days or weeks before needing to be emptied.

To make such routine checks unnecessary, each Bigbelly waste bin is outfitted with internal sensors and wireless technology.

They automatically alert maintenance workers via email when the bin is nearly full — putting a whole new spin on the phrase “junk mail.”

The technology has demonstrated its longer-term value, Bridges points out, as the city has replaced conventional trash cans with smart bins elsewhere. Following the success of the first two bins in City Hall Park, Seventh Generation donated $25,000 to the city to buy another five Bigbelly receptacles for the Burlington waterfront. Then, about two years ago, the city leased, rather than bought, several dozen more Bigbelly bins to deploy to outlying areas.

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n recent years, Vermonters have grown accustomed to seeing solar panels almost everywhere. Acres of formerly agricultural land have been repurposed into shimmering solar farms, while photovoltaic panels have proliferated on the roofs of houses, businesses, schools, hospitals and airports.

It’s now common to see solar-powered traffic message boards along Vermont’s highways; the Agency of Transportation plans to install more solar panels at its rest stops, maintenance garages and rights-of-way.

But the purpose of some solarpowered devices — notably, Burlington’s solar-powered trash cans — isn’t immediately apparent. Take a stroll through City Hall Park, on the Burlington waterfront or along downtown Main Street, and you’ll spot more than a dozen trash and recycling receptacles, each with a photovoltaic panel on top.

often the bin is filled and emptied and then transmits that data to the cloud.

Like Burlington Electric Department’s smart meters, smart waste bins provide the city with reams of information that can improve efficiency, maximize recycling and minimize the environmental impacts of waste management.

As for cost savings, Bigbelly’s marketing material claims that its smart-bin technology, which is now employed in every state and nearly 50 countries, can reduce a municipality’s waste-management expenses by as much as 80 percent.

Bridges notes that, so far, his staff hasn’t crunched those numbers.

“For us,” he says, “it was really about adding capacity to be dealing with other things.” He points out that the parks department alone oversees more than 500 acres of property, while the Department of Public Works maintains miles of streets, sidewalks and rights-of-way.

Minimizing the need to check garbage cans every day allows city workers to focus on different tasks.

“It definitely has a cleaner look,” Bridges says of the smart bin. “There’s not a cost savings [associated] to that, but it is a measurable impact in terms of community benefit.”

Generally speaking, feedback on the solar-powered bins has been favorable, he reports.

“The notion that your trash can email you when it’s full at the end of the day, people generally think that feature is fascinating,” says Bridges. “And because they’re solar-powered, you can put them anywhere.”

In addition, when the lease expires on the current bins, the city can upgrade to the newest smart technology.

“Interestingly enough, trash-can technology keeps changing, which is cool,” Bridges says.

As for the idea of smart bins providing Wi-Fi hot spots? In 2015, New York City installed Wi-Fi units inside some of its Bigbelly waste receptacles in lower Manhattan.

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sun. It was really uncomfortable. I felt bad when I got to the top. I had to sit down and put my head between my knees. The heat is hard, as well as the extreme cold, like Ontario in January.

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SD: From 2001 to now, have you seen changes in the numbers of women involved in the field?

SD: What advice would you give other women who think that your job sounds intriguing?

SW: Go for it! Why not? You have [a valuable perspective] to offer. !

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SD: In terms of energy issues in the country and around the world, where does wind fit in?

SW: Wind, even 15 years ago, could have been thought of as a minor player. [Now,] it provides a significant portion of our country’s energy. We now have a larger capacity of wind power in our country than hydro, and hydro [has] been one of the things that’s allowed us to get out of nuclear in terms of capacity. There are parts of the country that get a very significant portion of their energy [from wind]. So it’s still growing.

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SD: At the top, do they sway in the wind?

SW: Oh, yeah. They sway — like being in a boat, except it’s swaying more side to side.

SW: As the industry has gotten bigger, I see more women, but I’m not sure it’s a higher percentage. I work in a larger [group], so I have women on my team now, which is great. I much prefer having diversity and would love to have had better role models and more of the sense of companionship that goes with diversity.

When I’m out in the field, it’s very rare. There’ll be administrators and engineers on-site who are women, but only once have I ever run into a woman technician in the field, and that was in China.

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ost people know what wind SD: What percentage of your work turbines look like on the involves climbing up inside the wind outside: huge, white, spin- turbines? ning giants. But how do SW: Not a large percentage. Most of the they look on the inside, and what’s it like time, I’m at my desk. I just never post to climb one and stand on top? pictures of me sitting at my desk — it’s Sally Wright knows because she’s not very interesting. [Laughs.] Maybe I been there, done that, and says it’s climb 10 machines a year. one of the best parts of her job. She’s SD: What’s the best part of your job? the principal wind turbine engineer SW: I get to work with smart people, at DNV GL, an international company solving interesting problems that have a based in Norway that’s dedicated to real impact on the global wind industry “safeguarding life, property and the enby finding ways to provide bettervironment,” according to the company quality, higher-reliability machines. And website.

I just love getting up in wind turbines.

Wright, who’s in her early fifties, conIt’s such a cool environment. You climb ducts inspections for prospective windup this long, long tube with lots of farm buyers and for owners with faulty platforms on the way. And then, [near] turbines. Although she works from her the top, there’s what’s called the nacelle, home office in Greenfield, Mass., 10 [which] is a little like a van or a truck miles south of the Vermont border, she with a big generator in the middle of it. has inspected Vermont turbines and will And then there’s usually a hatch on the likely do so in the future. top, and you go out the top Armed with a master’s and it’s just a fabulous view.

NAME degree in mechanical I also love seeing the Sally Wright engineering, Wright has blades. They’re so graceful. worked in wind power The fact that they’re aeroTOWN since 2001, when the fledgdynamic surfaces makes for ling industry “had a lot of Greenfield, Mass. very beautiful curves. potential and was trying to SD: How big are the find its way,” she said. She’s JOB blades? seen it grow exponentially wind turbine SW: [One is] more than and points out that the U.S. engineer half the length of a football now has more wind than or soccer field. The end is hydro capacity. “It’s not called ‘alternative’ energy anymore,” a big, round circle, and you can easily walk in it, standing upright. It’s a big, Wright noted.

This engineer loves working in clean cavernous space that pretty quickly gets energy — whether at the office or strapped smaller and smaller and smaller; by the time you’re maybe a third of the way into into a harness 100 meters in the air. it, you might be crawling.

SEVEN DAYS: How did you get into SD: What does it sound like when this field, or this work specifically you’re at the top? with wind turbines?

SW: It’s usually pretty windy. [Laughs.]

SALLY WRIGHT: I went back to Since it’s not running [when I’m up [engineering] grad school with a fairly there], you don’t have machine sounds. vague idea that I wanted to work in When you’re inside the tower, you’re clean energy. I did some volunteering inside a huge metal tube, so it’s very at the University of Massachusetts, echoey. Maybe you climb up one section helping them out with this prototype and you stand on the platform, and there wind turbine that had been given to will be several people. You can’t really the university to modify and use in hear them unless you’re facing them experiments. You can still see it as directly. you’re driving [north] on Route 91 near SD: Do you remember when you first Holyoke.

[Later,] I had been working for started climbing turbines? Did you [a] steam turbine company for seven have to build up some stamina? years, and one day I got a call [from SW: Well, when I first climbed, it was a Jim Manwell at the UMass Renewable prototype and it was just 80 feet.

One time — oh, man, I’ll always Energy Research Lab]: “Sally, do you want to work in wind power?” I finished remember this — I was climbing in off my steam turbine job and jumped Oklahoma, and it was over 100 degrees, into wind power. and you’re inside a metal tower in the

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Dear Cecil,

Please shed some light on presidential executive orders. It would seem that they can’t create laws, approve funding or interpret existing laws. So what can they do? And why, especially as used by the current president, are they so powerful?

— Anthony Creech custody following the most controversial act of Lincoln’s presidency, the executive order suspending habeas corpus that allowed the military to imprison suspected traitors without review. An executive order is how Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, how Harry Truman integrated the armed forces afterward and how Dwight D. Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock to integrate the schools.

As direct and functional as an executive order can be, its legal nature is surprisingly fuzzy. There’s no explicit constitutional authorization for an executive order, though it’s hard to imagine presidents acting without something like it at their disposal. An order isn’t a law, because only Congress can pass those, but it has the force of law — at least unless and until Congress decides to pass a law to counteract it or the courts say it’s not kosher.

After Truman issued an order

attempting to establish federal control of steel mills during the Korean War, the Supreme Court blocked his move, creating in the process a framework for evaluating when such orders were permissible. Effectively, the president’s executive power is reciprocal to congressional initiative: Where Congress has said nothing about an issue, executive power is at its height; where it’s given pretty clear instructions, a president’s hands are largely tied.

Because presidential power is so poorly defined, it’s easy for opponents to paint the issuing of high-profile orders as undemocratic power grabs.

And certain orders do seem to skirt the limits of presidential power, especially, these days, in the arena of immigration.

Barack Obama’s big immigration initiatives were instituted by executive order, but courts hobbled their implementation; of course, Donald Trump’s two attempts thus far at so-called “extreme vetting” measures have been even more severely

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necessary for his initiatives on his own, though he can direct a federal agency to use its existing budget toward a certain end — a border wall, let’s say.

Certain of Trump’s executive orders may be intended to torpedo Obama-era policies, but there are bureaucratic procedures in place that slow down changes, of course. Once a federal agency has issued a rule, for instance, it can’t then just reverse itself without first undertaking a lengthy review process, no matter how ardently a new president may long to undo his predecessor’s work.

Even so constrained, Trump’s flurry of orders may well lead to real consequences, but, as was famously once said, elections do have such consequences.

Ultimately, the number of executive orders a president signs doesn’t really tell us a lot about what the president is getting done. Much of the power of the presidency has historically been exercised through less attention-getting means in the everyday maintenance of the government: via the writing of memoranda, for instance, or by instructing department heads to issue administrative orders of their own. This is the sort of subtlety, one suspects, that Trump may not be destined to grasp.

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f you’re looking for a silver lining to this storm cloud of a presidency, well, at least we’re getting an intensive refresher course in civics. As scary as it may seem in the wrong hands, an executive order is nothing more than a U.S. president’s directive to the departments he oversees, instructing his subordinates in how to go about their business.

Every president’s issued at least one of them, except poor old William Henry Harrison, who never got a chance. The most famous of them all, probably, came from the pen of Abe Lincoln: a little number called the Emancipation Proclamation.

Lincoln, in fact, also issued executive order No. 1, though putting it that way is a bit misleading. The State Department didn’t start officially numbering the orders ’til 1907, beginning retroactively in 1862 with the oldest they then had on file, one granting parole to wartime political prisoners — some of whom had been taken into

curtailed. Here, at least, there seem to be effective judicial checks on any overreach.

Sometimes critics will simply accuse a president of issuing too many executive orders, period. It’s hard, though, to imagine any president beating the record 3,721 orders signed by FDR, which haven’t seemed to mar his reputation too badly. More recently, the number of executive orders has been roughly consistent from one administration to the next: Of the 10 presidents before the current one, all averaged between 35 executive orders a year (Obama) and 80 (Jimmy Carter). Ronald Reagan’s 381 overall were the most in this group, though Carter might have topped that tally with a second term. Trump, meanwhile, signed 33 in his first 100 days — more than anyone since Truman, who had a war to wrap up. You’d figure he couldn’t maintain a pace like that, though, with this guy, who knows?

Self-promotion being his bread and butter, Trump has naturally played up the theatricality of his executive-order signings, making them seem more momentous than they are. As you point out, the president can’t allocate the funds

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148. Best craft brewery

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ever in the history of American politics has a new presidency produced such drama, discord and dysfunction.

Since President Donald Trump fired Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey two weeks ago, hardly a day has passed without another development upending the last. Like clockwork, our smartphones and Twitter feeds have blown up with each incoming bombshell: Russians in the Oval Office, secret White House tapes, requests for loyalty, leaked intelligence, Comey memos, special counsels, grand juries.

Even here in Vermont, more than 400 miles from the White House, it can be difficult to get through a conversation without a mention of Michael Flynn, Sergey Lavrov or Robert Mueller.

So, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Vermonter to do? How much mental and emotional energy should we be devoting to the chaos enveloping our political system? Should we be worried about the strength and resilience of our democratic norms and institutions?

Simply put, should we be freaking out?

To answer these and other questions about the precedent-shattering Trump administration, we queried eight Vermonters with deep experience in politics and government. Our subjects, most of whom are no longer in the biz, have served in the White House, Congress, the State Department, the cabinet, the judiciary, the environmental movement, academia and state government.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what they make of the 45th president. !

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I’m guessing that as a supporter of Hillary Clinton, you might have some complicated feelings about James Comey?

Well, I think you have to move on with the times — and what was devastating for Hillary can also be devastating for Trump.

I’m sure Comey himself thinks he’s done the right thing. In Hillary’s case, we saw him as a villain. If he was really pursuing the Russian connection against Trump, he’s a hero.

He’s probably somewhere in between, but I have to recognize — even though I didn’t think he did the right thing with [Clinton’s] emails — I think he did the right thing in the next chapter.

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Nothing keeps me up at night! We live all the way up in Vermont, far away from things.

No, I sense that the president himself and the vice president still see the Middle East as a military problem. The problems there are primarily political and require political solutions — not military solutions.

Some Democrats have argued that they should hold off on talking about or pushing for impeachment until after the 2018 election, when they might retake the House. Do you agree?

I don’t know that we should hold off. I don’t think it does any harm to discuss it or bring it out as a possibility. I think it’s important to recognize that it’s unlikely to happen with Republican control, but I think it helps to keep the pressure on.

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What keeps you up at night?

Vermont’s first and only female governor, MADELEINE MAY KUNIN, was hoping that 2016 would be the year a woman won the White House.

Instead, it ushered in another male president — one who has appointed just four women to his 23-member cabinet.

“It’s so discouraging. He feels no pressure to be inclusive,” the Shelburne Democrat says of Trump.

“He surrounds himself with likeminded people — mostly extremely wealthy and extremely conservative — and I don’t think you can run the country that way and expect support.

I mean, he hasn’t made one puny gesture toward people who could bring fresh perspectives.”

Kunin, who also served as the U.S. deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland, isn’t giving up. She continues to work with Emerge Vermont to recruit and train women to run for office.

And she’s been a steady presence at public demonstrations, including the Women’s March in January and the Tax March in April.

“I hope people don’t get demonstration fatigue,” Kunin says. “Even though [Trump] doesn’t pay attention — or claims not to — Congress will. And I think things will only shift if Congress members, in both the Senate and the House, get jittery about their own reelection possibilities.”

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What do you think the Trump administration has gotten right?

I think they were right to do the strike on the Syrian air base after the chemical weapons attack. I think Obama made a terrible mistake not doing it in 2013.

So I’m glad the Trump people did it. I haven’t seen Sarin gas used lately.

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I’m moving in that direction. I guess there are impeachable offenses, but I think the real big question mark remains about the Russian connection.

The real question is less of a legal one than a political one. I think there has to be some bipartisan support for impeachment for that to happen — and I think that story is still unfolding.

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From his home in St. Johnsbury, retired U.S. ambassador to Syria ROBERT FORD has watched with dismay as the Trump administration has sidelined the State Department and threatened a restructuring that could decimate the diplomatic corps.

But after three decades in the federal government — including top Foreign Service postings in Bahrain, Algeria and Iraq — Ford has also learned patience with the domestic political process.

“Administrations come, and administrations go. I’m old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan and, later, George W. Bush were elected and a lot of people were nervous and upset,” he says. “So I’ve told people, ‘Don’t rush to judgment. Give it a little time. Give [Trump] your best advice. You’re there to serve your country.’”

Eventually, even career diplomats may have enough — as Ford did in 2014, when he left president Barack Obama’s administration over frustrations with its hands-off approach to the Syrian civil war.

“I couldn’t defend the Obama theory anymore, and I left,” he says.

“But I didn’t come to that conclusion in days or a week. It came over months. So my advice to people is, give it a little bit of time.”

What do you think of the rather unconventional manner with which President Trump conducts international diplomacy?

I’m sure there’s unease among a lot of the career diplomats about a president who tweets and does it — how shall I put it? — in a mode where there isn’t a lot of consultation before he does it.

In some cases, he causes diplomatic hullabaloos — not wars, not major international incidents, but sometimes there’s a little bit of cleanup to do afterwards.

Do you think President Trump should be impeached?

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What are you hearing from your former colleagues?

There’s a lot of concern about where the State Department is going under Secretary [Rex] Tillerson. There’s a lot of angst. Some of the career diplomats assigned to jobs in Washington, D.C. are trying to get overseas and out of Washington. They’re trying a little harder than in some other cases they might have!

There’s a sense that the new team in the White House is not drawing on the expertise at the State Department as much as previous administrations have.

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TIME WE WON’T GET BACK Ripton resident BILL MCKIBBEN has spent most of his career as a journalist and climate-change activist, but during the 2016 campaign season he tried on a new hat: high-profile surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) presidential bid.

Now, the Middlebury College professor and 350.org founder is trying to reckon with the Trump presidency.

“Trump is a bizarre figure,” McKibben says. “When [Richard] Nixon’s tapes finally came out, we got a sense of what a vindictive, ugly and small human being he was. But Trump exhibits that every day out in public and on his Twitter feed.”

McKibben, who is currently traveling in Africa for work, says he misses presidencies of the past, during which “you could forget about them for a few days at a time.”

He notes: “This guy doesn’t allow that.”

What are you most worried about?

I was appalled when [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] arrested those Migrant Justice activists in Vermont.

In the short run, there are people just taking it in the neck. In the long run, the damage that he’s doing on environmental stuff is the stuff that we’ll never get back.

The thing that he’s costing us on climate change is the thing we have the least of, which is time.

He’s president during an absolutely critical four years, and it’s obviously going to be a wasted four years. We don’t have four years to spare.

Do you think Trump is getting a fair hearing from the news media?

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Can our government withstand the challenges we’re seeing to its norms and institutions?

I don’t know. I certainly hope so.

But, unlike you, I’m old enough to remember Watergate, and the difference is that there were some Republicans back then who seemed willing to put principle over party.

The only way you’ll get the Republicans to do anything is to make Trump so unpopular that he endangers the rest of them. They don’t seem to act out of concern for the country.

What’s the most effective way for citizens to make their voices heard in this political climate?

I think movement building is almost always the answer. Some of that will be electoral — and people know how to run for office and get behind campaigns. But much of it is just the advent of movement building.

The ultimate political prize is always control of the zeitgeist.

That’s what movements are about.

And, in this case, control of the zeitgeist will be really important.

Trump’s lost his mastery of it, and it’ll be really important that he not get it back, because he’s a dangerous, dangerous guy.

STILL FINDING HIS WAY Former Vermont governor JIM DOUGLAS was expecting “a level of discord” no matter who won the 2016 election.

“If Secretary Clinton had prevailed, we’d have at least the same level of congressional grumbling and calls for investigation and committee hearings,” he says. “So I was pessimistic about either outcome.”

The Middlebury Republican, who now teaches at Middlebury College, never fully embraced Trump. He endorsed rival John Kasich late in the GOP presidential primary, but he does not see the Trump presidency in apocalyptic terms.

“The framers were brilliant.

They divided power among three branches,” he notes. “The checks and balances are working in the way the framers of the Constitution intended.”

How do you think Trump is doing so far?

It’s an unusual presidency. He’s the first with no experience in government service — either civilian or military. It’s a different environment from running a business.

I think he’s having trouble adjusting to scrutiny and the environment of political office. He’s still finding his way.

Do you think he’s violating important governmental norms?

He’s the ultimate outsider — and that’s what Americans wanted, because they didn’t think the traditional class of leaders was getting the job done.

I don’t think it’s bad to shake things up.

Well, we only know what we hear through the media, so how do we know?

Without question, the political orientation of the media who cover politics and government is not consistent with the average American. It’s well to the left. Then the president provides generous fodder for cynicism and adverse reporting. He certainly has picked fights with the media — and that no doubt exacerbates the relationship.

He’s also chosen, as we all know, to bypass the media, in terms of communicating directly with the American people. That’s a pretty good strategy if you believe your message is not being accurately conveyed.

What advice would you give members of Trump’s White House staff in these difficult times?

You’ll serve him better if you give him your unvarnished advice — and that may be difficult for a personality like his. I worked for a strong personality myself, governor [Richard] Snelling, and it wasn’t always easy to give him bad news or an opinion that I expected wasn’t going to be well received. But I felt that I owed it to him and, in the long run, would serve him better if I offered it.

How would you bring bad news or criticism to governor Snelling in a way that got the message across?

Well, first I’d find the right opportunity.

Sometimes I’d say, “Well, maybe this isn’t the best day.”

Why do you think this White House is as leaky as it is?

Well, it’s disappointing. I understand the phenomenon. People like to show that they’re on the inside and have the scoop on the juicy things going on. It’s a natural instinct. But it’s not what any president deserves.

The people who are leaking ought to be invited to pursue a different career if they can be identified.

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They did a nice job on the [Neil Gorsuch] Supreme Court appointment. It isn’t necessarily somebody I would’ve appointed, but that isn’t the point. I think they went through an effective process.

They showed they’re capable of doing it right — but doing it that way hasn’t been their hallmark.

What institutions or individuals have distinguished themselves in the Trump era?

Of course, you’re talking to a judge, so you’re not going to be surprised when I will tell you that the judicial branch has done a good job. I can’t say I think the same of the legislative branch. I think there are some places where there was need for more pushback from the legislative branch, and it hasn’t come.

What do you make of the way Trump has described the judicial branch and, in some cases, specific judges?

I do think that’s something that tears down institutions and can have very long-term harm.

We haven’t seen it now for a little while, so you hope that rhetoric is letting up. But that is very destructive rhetoric for the rule of law and the system we depend on.

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What’s surprised you the most about the Trump administration?

Everything seems to come entirely from the level of the president. I think most chief executives would think that’s not a particularly good thing — that, first of all, micromanaging a whole government is not going to be very effective, even at the little State of Vermont level.

I’m just surprised at how much — hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day — it’s all Trump.

What do you think the Trump administration has gotten right?

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I think that the Republicans in the House were just giddy with the opportunity to pass their agenda, and they see Trump as a vehicle to do that.

Republicans in both the House and Senate have always been more disciplined than Democrats. Was it Will Rogers who said, “I don’t belong to any organized political party — I’m a Democrat”? We’re seeing that with this determination to repeal and replace Obamacare.

My hope, really, is that members of Congress will understand their role in government. I’m really hoping that Americans will see them defending their country — be less cynical and have more faith in Congress.

During his three decades serving on the Vermont Supreme Court, JOHN DOOLEY had to refrain from opining about the political issues of the day.

But following his retirement from the bench in March, he has been free to speak his mind — and he has plenty to say about the Trump administration.

Dooley has been particularly offended by the administration’s propensity to govern by executive order.

“It’s a very undesirable thing,” he says. “It’s very clear that less work goes into this sort of thing than if it was being done through the normal routes. The quality of [the orders] seems to show that there’s some serious problems in the way they’re being developed.”

Case in point: Trump’s January executive order, released late on a Friday afternoon, barring travel and immigration from seven Muslimmajority nations.

“You had people on planes. You had people in airports. You had people with all sorts of documents that said they could come to the United States, and the order didn’t deal with any of them, and it was up to people on the ground to interpret it,” Dooley exclaims. “That is not the way to run a government.”

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What’s surprised you the most about the Trump administration?

I haven’t been terribly surprised because I actually expected the total incompetence that has been demonstrated these last four months.

I’m of the strong opinion that business experience — especially of failed businesses — is not a qualification

You worked in the Senate for many years.

How do you think Congress is doing?

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ELLEN MCCULLOCH-LOVELL knows what it’s like to toil away in a scandal-plagued White House. After a decade as Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) chief of staff, she went to work for the Clinton administration in 1997 as first lady Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff.

Four years and one impeachment later, she left as deputy assistant to president Bill Clinton.

“I actually have some sympathy for those folks,” she says of Trump’s White House staff. “It’s a really hard job to begin with, and they’re constantly having the rug pulled out beneath them by the chief executive.

They go out there with their talking points, and it turns out they’re not true.”

McCulloch-Lovell, who lives in Montpelier, served as president of Marlboro College for 11 years and now consults for the Episcopal Church at Rock Point in Burlington. She has some advice for those who find themselves trapped in the West Wing.

“I would say, ‘Put your heads down and do your jobs.’ I think that the Clinton White House functioned as well as it did because people were incredibly disciplined,” says McCullochLovell. “It’s really, really important to keep that focus — and I don’t think this White House has a focus.”

What institutions or individuals have distinguished themselves in the Trump era?

I was really critical of and disillusioned by the media, with journalists, during the campaign — and now I think they’re doing their jobs.

I thought they were so fascinated with every twist and turn of the Trump campaign, and they must’ve seen some benefit in the ratings that they basically ran him uncensored.

I’m a news hound from way back. I would just watch — especially with cable news — with dismay as they broke away from something that was true news to candidate Trump about to address a rally.

But now, given the volatility of this administration, I think they are really waking up to and rediscovering their roles as part of what keeps government officials accountable.

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for being president of an important democracy.

I do have one surprise: I’m really surprised nobody took away his Twitter account.

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SCHMOOZER IN CHIEF When president George W. Bush appointed RODOLPHE “SKIP” VALLEE ambassador to Slovakia in 2005, the Shelburne oilman didn’t know what to expect.

“I came into the job reflecting the president’s conservatism, thinking that everyone running around the State Department was a lefty liberal trying to undermine the president at every turn. So you can imagine what some of the Trump people are like!” he says.

“What was a surprise to me was just the absolute professionalism.”

These days, Vallee is best known in Vermont for leading his family’s gasoline empire, R.L. Vallee, Inc., which includes the Maplefields gas stations — and for antagonizing Sen. Sanders. But he got his start in 1982 in Washington, D.C., as a young staffer for Vermont’s then-senator Robert Stafford on the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Education.

Vallee backed Sen. Marco Rubio (RFla.) during the 2016 Republican primary, but he says he’s been impressed

by Trump’s early foreign policy moves — particularly the president’s “aggressive posture” toward North Korea.

“I don’t know the guy. I’ve never met him. But I think he feeds on and values personal interaction with other people, and I think Donald Trump is very effective in that atmosphere,” Vallee says. “Obama ran for the closets when he had to schmooze.”

What’s surprised you the most about the Trump administration?

The extraordinary quality of the people he’s surrounded himself with. I think it starts with his choice of vice president [Mike Pence]. I think Rex Tillerson is a wonderful choice. And before you jump on the oil thing, it has nothing to

do with the fact that he’s an oil guy! I think when Tillerson speaks, there’s a degree of confidence.

What’s disappointing is the slow pace in putting in some of the subsidiary positions: the deputy secretaries, the undersecretaries. Part of that, I think, is sort of a new team not knowing the process. When Bush came in, he could bring into his transition huge elements of his father’s team who had been through this drill before. I think Trump didn’t have the benefit of that.

How are congressional Republicans doing?

They’ve gotta produce what they ran on. They all ran on getting rid of Obamacare. You can debate the merits of Obamacare, but I’m someone who says, if you run on something, you don’t back away when you get elected.

What’s the best way to get to the bottom of Trump’s Russia scandal?

I think the appointment of [former FBI director Robert] Mueller as special counsel within the auspices of the Justice Department to focus within the parameters of a normal prosecutor is probably a pretty good thing. His integrity in this highly charged atmosphere brings credibility to whatever conclusion he comes to.

I think it gives people comfort that this is a result that will be respected by the general public, based on the quality of the person doing the analysis.

Do you think Trump will be impeached?

I see no evidence thus far that would lead me to that conclusion. I think [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi has said the same.

If you were advising Trump and his staff on how to deal with this investigation, what would you say?

This sort of scrutiny goes with the job, and you’ve just gotta deal with it. And if the president is right that there’s nothing to these allegations, then it eventually goes away.

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CONGRESSIONAL DYSFUNCTION University of Vermont professor EILEEN BURGIN has studied American politics — and Congress in particular — for decades. But the Richmond resident still finds herself shocked by what she calls the “complete ineptitude” of the Trump administration.

“I had assumed that his staff would be able, in some way, to get him under control — and they’ve completely failed to do so,” she says.

“We’ve watched the administration go from one disaster to the next, thinking each time that it can’t get more outrageous — and it does.”

Burgin, who spent five years as a congressional aide early in her career, says she’s particularly concerned that the Republican House and Senate are “failing to hold the president accountable and [are] apprehensive about exercising Congress’ constitutional and institutional prerogatives and fully engaging in true oversight.”

What do you think a responsible Congress would be doing at this present moment?

Fully investigating the range of issues that should be investigated with fully functioning staff. When you have oversight investigations and you do not amply staff them, they’re simply a charade. And that’s what’s happening right now.

Do you fear that the appointment of a special counsel will interfere with ongoing congressional investigations?

I think special counsels, independent commissions and congressional investigations all do different things and are all very necessary.

How damaging is it that Congress ended the use of the filibuster in Supreme Court nominations?

It’s very damaging for the judiciary, because the Supreme Court should not be seen as simply a partisan institution.

When the filibuster is removed for Supreme Court nominations, it enables presidents to nominate completely partisan individuals if the Senate is of the president’s party. Given that we see presidents nominating young people who may serve on the court for 40 or more years, this can be very damaging to the court and, therefore, the nation more broadly.

I think the other real concern I have about [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell exercising the nuclear option is that it lets people think more about eliminating the filibuster on legislation more broadly. While there are problems with the filibuster, it is an extremely important safeguard in our government — and its elimination, I believe, would do grave damage. So, my hope is that this is not a slippery slope.

Why do you think Republicans are having such a hard time repealing portions of the Affordable Care Act? No. 1, we’ve never in this country provided benefits to a group of people and then taken those benefits away in the manner in which Republicans are considering doing. No. 2, the Affordable Care Act is a complex combination of a lot of different provisions, and you can’t just pull away one provision and have the rest of it work.

I think it’s interesting to note that the Republicans didn’t start out by saying they would repeal “portions” of the Affordable Care Act. They started off saying they would repeal the whole thing — and they passed legislation over 60 times in the House of Representatives to repeal the whole thing. But serving as an opposition party, as the Republicans did for many years, simply saying no to what the Obama administration wanted, is a lot easier than governing.

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Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the Mosaic Center for Students of Color Spring Awards Banquet in April.

“I felt honored. I felt validated,” Romero said. “I felt like a human being, like I mattered.”

Eighteen years ago, when she was 9 years old, Romero and her mother left Mexico City and entered the U.S. on a tourist visa. Her father and two older brothers stayed behind. Romero’s mother was a Mary Kay cosmetics representative in Mexico and had accumulated debts when she was unable to sell the products. When the two

arrived in California, she got a job at a factory in Pomona, working the graveyard shift.

In the morning, while her mother slept, Romero attended a local elementary school. In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in a landmark case, Plyler v. Doe, that children in the country are guaranteed equal access to free K-12 education regardless of their immigration status.

Romero struggled with learning English, and she missed her father.

Often, she recalled, she called him and cried. He had one piece of advice: “Play

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hen Eloisa A. Romero moved to Vermont from California last summer, she had two suitcases filled with books, pictures, clothes, her favorite plush toys and a small statue of the Virgin Mary. And she had a dream.

“I’m here for two years, and I need to make the best of it,” she remembered thinking.

Romero felt conflicted, she recalled, when she found out she’d been accepted into the University of Vermont master’s program in higher education and student affairs administration and offered the position of assistant residence director of UVM’s Trinity Campus. Leaving California would mean being away from her family for two years.

But Romero, an alumna of California State University, Fullerton, knew it would be foolish to pass up what she described as the “opportunity of a lifetime.”

Her high school guidance counselor had predicted that she wouldn’t even make it to college. The odds were stacked against her, she pointed out.

Romero, a Latina, grew up as an undocumented immigrant. After marrying her high school sweetheart, a U.S. citizen, late last year, Romero applied for a green card. Less than a week ago while at home in California, she learned that her application had been approved.

The Pew Research Center estimates that, in 2015, 11 million unauthorized immigrants resided in the U.S. These immigrants, who had either entered without undergoing an inspection or stayed beyond their date of legal residency, composed 3.4 percent of the country’s total population. In Vermont, according to Pew, undocumented immigrants represented 0.3 percent of the population in 2014.

Over this past semester, Romero related her story to Seven Days in her office on Trinity Campus. Above the name on her door hung a picture of a young woman in a green graduation gown labeled with the words “undocumented, unafraid and unapologetic.” Her notice board was filled with mementos. Among them were a family photo taken at California’s Big Bear Lake, a picture of Romero linking arms with a fellow activist as they blocked streets outside a Los Angeles detention center, and a mind map of her dreams and achievements.

Romero has always been candid about her immigration status. Besides juggling school, work and family, she’s demonstrated a sustained commitment to educating the UVM community about undocumented students. For her advocacy efforts, Romero received the

follow the leader, and eventually you’ll get it. Whatever they do, you do.”

Romero’s mother cleared her debts after six months. At about the same time, Romero’s father, a high school graduate, lost his job at a local bank. Romero’s father and brothers later obtained U.S. tourist visas, and the family of five reunited in California soon after.

Romero’s parents made ends meet with multiple jobs, including working in a bakery and cleaning houses, she related. Despite each working about 80 hours a week, they struggled to pay the bills. Sacrificing his education, Romero’s oldest brother dropped out of high school to work in a warehouse.

In addition to the physical exhaustion of working long hours, Romero’s family lived in constant fear of being deported. In the U.S., they did little more than travel to and from school or work.

If one of them hadn’t returned home by a certain time, someone in the family would go out looking, Romero said.

“Being undocumented, I’ve always had insecurity,” she said in conversation with Seven Days this spring. “Trying to control whatever I can ... and I always worry about the future.”

Her family’s worst fears came true when Romero’s oldest brother, then 22, was arrested and deported; she was 15.

He went to live with relatives in Mexico City, while the rest of the family stayed in California.

After graduating from high school, Romero attended Cal State Fullerton. She was already a familiar face on campus.

When she was in high school, her other brother — a student at Fullerton — had invited her to meetings organized by the university’s undocumented-student club. She eventually became the club president in her fifth year there.

Members staged rallies, delivered presentations on the issues they faced, organized “coming out of the shadows” events and distributed “safe-zone” stickers. They also held fundraisers to raise money for college scholarships.

Undocumented college students are ineligible for Pell Grants and federally funded work-study programs, a federal policy that makes higher education inaccessible to an estimated 65,000 undocumented high school graduates each year. The American Immigration Council estimates that only 5 to 10 percent of this population attends college. Although policies vary by state, many public colleges treat such students who apply in their home states as out-of-state or international students who do not qualify for reduced in-state tuition.

In Vermont during the past academic year, Romero continued her advocacy by sharing her experience as an undocumented student with her peers, residents, faculty members and the wider UVM community. “That puts her in a really vulnerable position emotionally and psychologically,” noted Sarah Childs in April; Childs is assistant director of the Mosaic Center for Students of Color at UVM. “She doesn’t know how people are going to act with the information, but she does it because she wants people to learn.”

Romero said all she wants to do is share her story. “I’m not a criminal,” she said. “Is it a crime to live a life, look for the American dream?”

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Childs doesn’t often nominate firstyear students for the center’s Spring Awards Banquet, because they need to demonstrate sustained commitment, she said. But Romero was an exception.

“Being undocumented and a master’s student is not necessarily what makes Eloisa outstanding in my mind,” wrote Childs in her nomination letter for Romero. “But rather, it is her tenacity to fight for her place in the academy as an undocumented student while so many in this country are actively working against her.”

Magdalena Gracia, Romero’s classmate, said she’s witnessed people going silent when Romero announced her immigration status and advocated for herself and her community. “To see the impact that she has is very powerful,”

Gracia said in April. But, added the Chicago native, “It’s hard when I see her going through basic [administrative] challenges [because] offices here [don’t know] how to support undocumented students.

“She doesn’t let that stop her from reaching her goals,” Gracia continued.

“Her resiliency is out of this world.”

At the time of her interview, Childs said she didn’t know any other undocumented students at UVM, but she wouldn’t have been surprised if there were more. “Having worked in higher education now for nearly 10 years, on three different campuses in three different states, I know better than to assume that, just because I might not know an undocumented student, there aren’t any around,” she said.

“Where there’s work, school, opportunities to put yourself in a better situation in life, to advance your life in any way — to take care of your needs, the needs of your family — people would go anywhere, even to Vermont,” Childs went on.

Seven Days did contact and interview other DACA recipients, at Middlebury College, who requested anonymity.

Although they felt somewhat protected by their institution, they said, their families remain vulnerable.

Despite the recognition she’s received for her advocacy efforts, Romero said she sometimes has felt guilty for focusing on her studies at UVM instead of being “on the streets” and lobbying for legislative reforms. “[Romero] has a strong sense of service to help others,” noted her academic adviser, Tracy Arámbula Ballysingh.

Her advice to Romero, she said, was “This is an investment in you, so that

you can then be empowered to better serve [the community].”

Romero admitted that the past few months have been hard. She missed her family tremendously, particularly after one of her uncles died. And she went through a “dark moment” immediately following the presidential election.

“People have mentioned, ‘Why don’t you go home? Maybe this is not the right program for you,’” Romero said.

But thinking about her peers whose dreams were cut short motivated her to get back on her feet, Romero said. “No, [quitting] is not an option. I need to get over this hump and move forward,” she resolved.

Although Romero is committed to advocacy, she’ll be able to make a bigger impact at the decision-making table, she suggested: “I dream of going to law school, be[ing] an immigration lawyer or congresswoman.” But more than anything, she wants to visit the Statue of Liberty as a U.S. citizen and “take lots of pictures.”

When Seven Days met with Romero, she was taking a break from writing her final papers to clear her office, preparing to return to California for the summer.

She took down mementos from her notice board and put away cards and knickknacks she had received from friends and residents.

Then she reached into her cabinet and handed a reporter a stack of other family photos. In one of them, Romero is surrounded by The Little Mermaid paraphernalia, gifts for her 22nd birthday. Ariel is one of her favorite Disney characters, Romero revealed.

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On June 15, 2012, when Romero was in her fourth year of college, president Barack Obama instituted the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which granted temporary relief from deportation to unauthorized youth who had been brought to the U.S. as children. A DACA applicant must have been younger than 31 years as of June 15, 2012; have entered the U.S. before the age of 16; have continuously resided in the U.S. since June 15, 2007; be currently in school, have graduated from high school, or have earned a GED or served in the military; and have no conviction for a felony or significant misdemeanors, among other criteria.

Renewable every two years, DACA status allows undocumented individuals to get a work permit and apply for a Social Security number. Recipients are still ineligible to receive federal benefits.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has so far granted DACA status to about 770,000 unauthorized immigrants.

A quarter of them are, like Romero, from California. Vermont has 31 DACA recipients, the fewest in the country.

DACA neither confers lawful immigration status nor offers a path to citizenship. Had the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act been passed, it would have created such a pathway to citizenship for undocumented youth.

For her part, Romero is skeptical of DACA, calling it “just a Band-Aid to the whole immigration issue.” Many immigrants didn’t qualify for it, she pointed out: “I feel the [DREAMer] movement was paralyzed by DACA.” She noted a personally significant outcome of the program: The club at her undergraduate university no longer exists. “They don’t feel the need to do advocacy work,” she said of its members.

“It’s really, really unfortunate.”

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COLE BOLTON: That’s right! Home of the goddamn, red-blooded, mothereffin’ Rebels.

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CB: Oh, boy. It’s hard to come up with a headline on the spot.

SD: That’s not how it works?

CB: No. [Laughs.] You’ve gotta stew over them for a week or so. But it would probably be something like “Grow Up.” Well, it would be better than that. But the whole thing is just embarrassing. It was even in the Washington Post.

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e may not bring jobs back, but President Donald Trump has created a wealth of material for America’s comedians, humorists and satirists. With the next gaffe or scandal just a tweet away, the challenge is not how to poke fun at the 45th commander in chief and his sidekicks, but how to keep up.

“The issue isn’t with us having no way to address it, it’s having so much to address,” said Cole Bolton in a phone interview.

Bolton is a Vermont native and the editor in chief at the Onion, the popular satire website and self-described “single most powerful and influential organization in human history.” On Friday, May 26, Bolton and Onion senior editor Jason Roeder host An Evening With the Onion at Burlington City Hall Auditorium.

Presented by the Burlington Book Festival, the multimedia presentation will, to borrow the Onion’s verbiage, “highlight the Onion’s universally revered reportage and delve into an analysis of the policies, personalities, and coming Blood Purges of the Trump Administration.” There may also be light snacks.

We spoke with Bolton by phone from Chicago last week and asked him about satire, Trump fatigue, the Onion’s Hillary Clinton coverage and his thoughts on a certain local high school nickname.

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CB: I heard stories that the mascot itself used to be a Confederate general, sort of like the [University of Nevada, Las Vegas] Runnin’ Rebels have. I’m fine with the change. It seems like a good thing to do. Even if you don’t think it’s a good thing to [do], it’s not a big deal. It’s very silly from afar.

SD: Speaking of silly from afar, what is the biggest challenge for the Onion in the age of Trump?

CB: Just keeping up with stuff. There’s this thing that people say now without really thinking about it, which is, “Oh, how can the Onion or anyone else do satire when everything Trump does is so absurd that it reads like satire on its own?” — which I don’t think is true.

What satire is meant to do is expose absurdity and hypocrisy, intolerance and greed and hate — all of the awful things about the world. Our motto at the Onion is Tu stultus es, which is Latin for “You are dumb.” So, we like to point out stupidity wherever we see it.

We can’t use some of the tools. Like, hyperbole is one we can’t use with the president, because he speaks in such hyperbolic tones. But there are plenty of other ways to poke at all of these aspects of Trump and the people he surrounds himself with and the things that we consider dumb about them — which could be hypocrisy, intolerance, greed, etc. So the issue is, can we keep up with how much there is to make fun of? Which is proving pretty challenging.

So, what we’re doing is releasing 700 pages of White House documents that we’ve come up with over the last few months — executive orders, classified memos, email correspondence. We have daily briefings, Obama’s letter that he left on the desk for Trump, recommendations from the EPA. So, it’s 700 pages of that, which felt like a cool way to take on so many different facets of the craziness in Washington.

SD: How do you address that challenge?

CB: We like our articles and think they hit well. But it felt like they weren’t addressing the whole picture because, again, there’s so much to make fun of, so much to indict. So we came up with this idea, which was not just to make fun of the Trump administration but to do a project that felt of the moment. And it seemed the way that the big stories are coming out were these giant document dumps — the Panama Papers, Wikileaks.

SD: Do you worry about Trump fatigue on the part of readers?

And do you guys experience that yourselves?

CB: I can definitely say that we experience that ourselves. I think, like most of America, we thought we had this limited time with Trump last year. And we got tired of writing about him during the campaign. I think most of us thought we wouldn’t have to continue writing about him. For many reasons, November 8th wasn’t the best day. But for us, it was

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also staring down four years of writing on what women face in the world and about this stuff. what historically they’ve faced. And to We like to mix our comedy up. It’s not say that we can’t comment on that, or just political satire all the time. There’s that commenting on that is pro Hillary, silly stuff. But with this administration, is absurd to me. the balance has skewed, and it’s very If you look at everything else we did, reactive to what’s going on in the politi- it was about how her ties to Wall Street cal cycle. And a lot of times we’d rather and how her positions shifted all the not write about time. I think people it, because it goes should look at the against our ideals of breadth of coverthe things we don’t age and all of the think are dumb, like times we’ve called tolerance, like love, Hillary on just a all of those things ton of bullshit. I that are the opposite think we’re equalof stupid things. opportunity bullshit So, we’re tired of callers. We called COLE BOLTON writing about this bullshit on Obama backwardness. [for] a bunch on surveillance and drone strikes. Obviously, SD: Do you feel pressure to stand out we call Trump on it. Wherever there’s from the flood of political humor and bullshit, we’ll call it. commentary that exists now?

And if some people are seeing bullshit CB: I don’t think we feel pressure. in being called on a patriarchal society There are a couple of other sites that that puts obstacles in front of women, I do satire. But I think we stand out from think that’s silly and they should have a most TV shows, in that most TV shows broader sense of comedy. are purely reactive. We often don’t react to the specific thing that happened. We SD: At least once a week I see do what we call “world creation”: We someone on social media post or don’t have to write about what actually comment on an Onion article thinkhappened; we can take the essence of ing that it’s true. Is that a sign of a what happened and create an entire job well done by you or of rampant fake universe around that. idiocy?

For example, last year during the CB: I would go more with rampant primary, there were a couple of times idiocy. It’s definitely not a job well done. when Republicans were having not the What we’re trying to do here is point best time connecting with women. So, something out. At the heart of all of our we set up this thing — I think it was satire is a kernel of truth. Especially when “Scott Walker Watches in Horror as it comes to social and political satire, the Other Candidates Emerge Shaken From things that are funny are funny because Female Experience Simulator.” Not they’re manipulating the truth in some many other places can do that. way through a tool of comedy, whether that’s hyperbole or displaced focus or SD: Paste and a few other outlets anything else. And we want people to see accused the Onion of going soft it; we want it to click for them and [for on Hillary Clinton after Univision them to] see there’s a clever insight that bought a controlling stake of the we’re making. And if we don’t do that, company. How do you respond to we’re not being satirists; we’re being that criticism? tricksters. So, if people are believing it, CB: I think it’s absurd. I think they then we haven’t done our jobs. Or they’re should read all of the things that we just spectacular idiots. ! wrote about her. I think there’s maybe one that could have been construed as Contact: dan@sevendaysvt.com soft, and I think it’s kind of ridiculous that people got upset about that one.

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Emma herself is simply drawn: bitter already at 22, convinced the war will never end. She’s also a little surprised to find herself the glue that binds the village. In making her rounds to deliver parts of the extra loaves, she ends up finding other clandestine ways to help: providing Yves the fisherman with fuel she siphons from Michelle’s lover’s motorcycle, borrowing the Monsignor’s hens to mate with her rooster so her fellow starving villagers storybook quality, and not just because can share a few more eggs. the village isn’t real. (Its surrounding Emma’s minimal character devellocales are, including Longues-sur- opment stems from what she learns Mer, a major site of German coastal of her fellow villagers. Each seems to defenses.) The year is never stated, have a secret. Michelle has taken one only, repeatedly, “the fifth of June.” German lover to avoid being raped by (The war has “raged for four” years, many. Odette can speak German and we learn.) Germans and Nazis are passes on what she overhears in her never mentioned; they are “the occu- café to a Resistance fighter named pying army.” Similarly, Adolf Hitler is Didier. Known as the Goat, Didier uses simply “the mustached demon.” One his habitual filth, Emma discovers, as day Emma observes that all the Jews a clever calculation to deflect the fasare gone, and no more mention is made tidious Germans’ attention. And the of them. menacing Captain Thalheim, Emma’s Clichés abound in this omnisciently resident Nazi, turns out to be younger narrated novel. The villagers are than she is. types: Odette, the stout café owner; The narrative bears a structural reMichelle, the town beauty despised semblance to children’s books such as for taking up with a German soldier. Stone Soup — each villager contributThe Kommandant “kept his monocle ing a piece — that somehow steals the COURTESY OF NOAH KIERNAN

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Kiernan, a former journalist and author of nonfiction, has written two previous novels. The Curiosity (2013) concerns 21st-century scientists’ revival of a corpse preserved in Arctic ice since 1906. The Hummingbird (2015) also unites two historical periods as it links the plight of an Iraq vet to the story of a Japanese bomber pilot in World War II. Sign up today at Despite the author’s evident intersevendaysvt.com/enews. est in history, The Baker’s Secret has a

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impact of the horrors the Germans inflict. Uncle Ezra, Emma’s teacher in the art of baking, is summarily shot in the town square. The village veterinarian, Guillaume, is shot, after which his wife is immediately gang raped and their only child goes mad. Without psychological depth to the characters, these instances of violence appear like so many news flashes.

The Baker’s Secret may not appeal to the same target audience as All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr’s lyrical, rigorously detailed, deeply moving World War II-era novel. Yet war-history buffs will enjoy the description of the Allies’ beach invasion, including what looks to Thalheim like a “ponderous and wrathful … bull” — an amphibious tank. And Kiernan’s knack for storytelling makes for an entertaining, if unsurprising, read. !

Consider Emmanuelle: lovely, gifted in the kitchen, a fawn of twenty-two years. In any other time, the modest bakery where she was employed would serve as a center of commerce and community. In another era she would be distracted, preparing sweets for her Philippe, or taking all day to boil chicken stock down to a reduction so potent with concentrated flavor it could cast spells, all while dreaming of the drape of her someday bridal dress.

Instead, she rose before dawn that day, the fifth of June, to the crowing of her rooster, a belligerent strutting shouter widely known and universally disliked, whose name was Pirate because of the dark patch around one eye. Having slept on the floor beside the couch on which her grandmother now snored, Emma folded her quilt, tucked it away, and tiptoed from the parlor without waking the aged woman or causing the occupying army’s captain to stir upstairs. Slipping into her shoes by the threshold, Emma strode with purpose across the barnyard. Pirate charged after her in full lecture — his hens, his morning, his territory — until she found a pinch of feed in her pocket and tossed it by the path, winning his silence long enough for her to reach the baking shed.

Emma stirred somnolent coals in the brick oven her father had built, tossing in chestnut shells for kindling, giving the ashes a single long breath until they glowed awake and the shells crackled. Then began the tedium, the task the Kommandant had ordered her to perform seven days a week, as though she were a cow with milk to be wrung from her straining udder at morning and eve, or a chicken whelping one new egg per turn of the earth.

With each passing day Emma’s love of baking grew a fraction drier, till what had once been her greatest joy dwindled to barely a husk.

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ry this,” said Daniel Jolley, dipping a doughnut into a tub of amber maple glaze. With a disarming smile, the 25-year-old entrepreneur handed the pastry through the service window of a tiny white camper parked alongside Route 302 in Wells River.

I lifted it to my lips. It gave way with a gentle crackle, at first all sweet maple and caramelized sugar, then plush, airy cake.

“I’ll take a box of those,” I said, still chewing.

“With or without bacon?”

Is that a question? I wondered, but replied, “With, please.”

Eating at Jolley Doughnuts isn’t good for your health — unless you define “healthy” as carbo-loading foods that are high in processed fats and sugars. Still, the doughnuts ($5 for a sack of ’em dusted with cinnamon and sugar) make a fine morning treat or quick roadside breakfast.

Jolley purchased his rig last fall from a couple in southern New Hampshire; the 1979 Burro camper was outfitted with a top-of-the-line fry unit, three-bay sink and everything else it needed to be “health-inspection ready.” The cook made his doughnut debut at a pull-off near P&H Truck Stop just before Christmas.

Through late winter, he opened most weekdays at 5:30 a.m. to catch the early commuter crowd, until vandals and thieves broke into his trailer — twice.

After that, Jolley bailed on the near-daily operation. But he’s back at the 302 pull-off for semi-regular visits — announced via Facebook — and, this summer, plans to take the trailer on a fair-and-festival tour.

“I’m heavily involved in the fair,” Jolley said, explaining that he’s primarily a performer.

“Have you ever worked in food service before?” I asked.

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After a soft opening for friends and family, WILD ROOTS hung out its official welcome flag at 5615 Route 14 in Royalton last Thursday, May 18. In the kitchen was chef PETER VARKONYI, formerly of Fagiani’s in Napa, Calif., and Denver hot spot Beast + Bottle. He dished out modern American fare such as halibut crudo with buttermilk and tender greens; honeyed, ash-roasted carrots dusted with bee pollen over yogurt; and nettle-scallion dumplings with ricotta whey and herbs.

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When SARA DEMENA TRAVIS began working at La Puerta Negra, the ROVETTO BROTHERS INTERNATIONAL restaurant group’s Latin restaurant at 44 Main Street in Montpelier, she was smitten with the location and the staff. “I came here as the general manager,” said Travis, “and it was love at first sight.”

A longtime resident of central Vermont, Travis has seen the space through many incarnations, such as the popular Black Door Bar & Bistro, which closed in 2013.

“The location has a lot of memories for me,” she said. So, when she had the chance to buy the restaurant, “It was an opportunity I couldn’t let go.”

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What’s changing? The menu will be smaller, and Travis will rotate through customers’ favorite specials, rather than offering them all at once. She’ll use more local ingredients and add a few higher-end dishes. “We’re going to be experimenting with Latin food from different regions … We’ll have a farmers market special on Saturday evening,” Travis said.

She’s upgraded the space to look “more like a Mexican restaurant than like a cantina,” Travis added. She’ll be adding “more experimental cocktails,” as well as a margarita bar on the back deck — to be joined, if all goes well, by a weekly raw bar.

Some things will stay the same, including the entertainment upstairs, which includes 1840 West Main St, live music, private parties and Richmond, VT salsa dancing on Tuesday nights.

As she made the transition, 802-434-8686 Travis asked customers what SERVING DINNER they wanted to eat. The result is an opening menu featuring Tuesday-Saturday maple-glazed ribs with tomakitchentablebistro.com tillo barbecue sauce, a chorizo burger, coconut gazpacho and caramelized avocado salad.

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A local restaurateur will add a fifth link to his chain of area businesses when he opens a barbecue place off Shelburne Road behind McDonald’s in South Burlington in late June or July.

and game room that closed last summer. Smokey’s Low N Slow will serve a range of barbecue styles, from classic dishes to more inventive fare, Wish said.

“This is kind of my homage and tribute to the Americana of barbecue,” he said. “There are so many regions and styles all across the U.S.” The menu will include pulled pork, brisket and ribs, along with smoked turkey breast and smoked duck breast. “We will explore outward from there and let our chefs spread their wings a bit,” said Wish, who is in the process of testing recipes and hiring a pitmaster.

Wish also owns VERMONT TAP HOUSE in Williston, BAYVIEW BAR AND GRILL in Colchester, BUONO APPETITO in Shelburne and NOONIE’S DELI in Middlebury. “From the outside, it can look like it’s an eclectic group of restaurants,” he said. “But there is a common theme. It’s comfort food: American comfort food.”

Smokey’s Low N Slow, a full-service restaurant, will feature a concrete bar on the ground floor and lounge seating upstairs. Located at 7 Fayette Drive in South Burlington, it will be open seven days a week for lunch and dinner.

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Wild Roots stands on the site of the Fox Stand Tavern, a historic stage stop that remained a local watering hole through the mid-1990s, then shuttered for most of a decade.

Local chef JED COHAN reopened the business intermittently starting in 2014 but mostly used the building for his catering business before moving into a new space last year.

So when locals saw the “open” sign last week, it piqued their curiosity. “We were way busier than we anticipated,” said owner JAYNE SULLY COLE, a Level 2 sommelier who manages the front of house. “A lot of people stopped in to see what was going on.”

Behind the bar, Sully Cole poured glasses of biodynamic and sustainably grown wines from small-batch wineries.

On Saturday, STONECUTTER SPIRITS bartender MARTHA MACK visited with gin and whiskey cocktails. (For now, Wild Roots offers only beer and wine most nights, though a full liquor license is in the works, Sully Cole said.) Guests oohed and ahed at plates of spicy clams and handmade bucatini, sided with snacks such as creamed dandelion greens and fresh bread made with ROGERS FARMSTEAD grains by sous chef ASHLEIGH PUTNAM. From ingredients to embellishments, most everything is local, including the flower arrangements by Bethel’s STITCHDOWN FARM, stoneware plates by Bethel’s Two Potters and fish from WOOD MOUNTAIN FISH. Varkonyi is working with more than 30 local farms to source dairy, veggies and meats.

For the next two weeks, the restaurant will serve dinner Wednesday through Sunday.

Sully Cole plans to launch Saturday and Sunday brunch on June 3 with a boozy, caffeinated kickoff party with friends from SILO DISTILLERY and ABRACADABRA COFFEE.

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Daniel Jolley as Buddy the Clown

Lately, Jolley has been experimenting with toppings and other novelties.

Last Friday’s menu included doughnuts dipped in molten chocolate or maple glaze and scattered with crumbled bacon. He also skewered thick cuts of bacon, dipped them in doughnut batter, and fried them so they were brittle on the outside and chewy inside. Optional: doughnut glazes or more bacon crumbles on top.

When a clown in cook’s clothing serves you a sweet breakfast and a sincere grin from a roadside camper, all you can do is smile back — and eat. !

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Jolley shook his head and laughed, replying, “I work as a clown.”

Sorting out a solid doughnut recipe took some digging, he said. “The first ones were terrible,” he admitted. But the clown-turned-cook reached out to several local bakers for help. His grandmother was a dessert chef at P&H for years; she provided several formulas, as did other local bakers.

“I was so lucky to get [this recipe],” he said, looking wistful about his good fortune. “So, so lucky.”

Jolley goes by Buddy the Clown professionally and is the second oldest of six children, all of whom were homeschooled in Groton. As they were growing up, their dad — a military man — performed as a clown on the weekends. Jolley’s mom performed, too, and all of the kids took the stage as soon as they were old enough to do so. Together, they traveled across New England as the Jolley Clown Family.

For the past five summers, Buddy worked the rails at the scenic Hobo Railroad in Lincoln, N.H.; he’s had residencies at Lincoln’s Indian Head Resort and at Stowe’s Trapp Family Lodge.

And he’s incited laughs at fairs and festivals throughout Vermont and New Hampshire.

At these gigs, Jolley juggles, mimes, does magic and paints faces; he’s aiming for world records with twisted balloons.

At the Lamoille County Field Days in 2011, he set out to claim the title for the world’s largest balloon sculpture — a cake made of 15,000 twisted, air-filled inflatables. Weather stymied the effort as the balloons began popping in the heat and humidity.

Still, Jolley is certain he’s the only clown on Earth who can twist a skinny balloon into a poodle behind his back in six seconds. And he says his real claim to fame is as Pirate Man Dan, a fair-going alter ego who tools around in a bubbleblowing pirate-ship buggy that Jolley built by hand.

At the doughnut trailer, customers may or may not know the cook’s funnyguy history. But from a customer-experience standpoint, Jolley’s happy-go-lucky demeanor makes him a natural salesman.

Of course, it doesn’t hurt that his doughnuts are delicious. Jolley fries them in vegetable shortening; the grease solidifies at room temperature, so the cakey puffs keep their fresh-from-thefryer crunch even after they’ve cooled.

The pastries are always available dusted in cinnamon sugar, but daily specials might include stirred-in blueberries, cocoa powder or chocolate chips.

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t was the foolish time of spring. The chilly morning had made me pull on layers of wool, but the afternoon sun found me discarding them so quickly that I was tricked into believing I wouldn’t need a proper coat for the rest of the year. In other words, eatingon-the-patio season had officially begun.

On a sunny Saturday evening, we sat outside on the small terrace of KazaMaza, a Middle Eastern restaurant on Avenue du Parc in Montréal. Located in the trendy Plateau neighborhood, the street has a pleasant amount of city bustle but is still quiet enough for easy conversation.

“Did they give you any trouble at the border when you said you were visiting a Middle Eastern restaurant?” half-joked KazaMaza’s owner, Fadi Sakr.

Such a concern had not been on my radar, but I understood why it was on his.

During a previous meal at KazaMaza, Sakr told me he had decided not to visit the U.S., given the current president, for fear of difficulties with the border patrol.

A Mexican Canadian diner echoed his sentiments.

Sakr, 42, grew up in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, studied theater in Beirut and immigrated to Montréal in 2003. In 2009, he opened KazaMaza, which serves food adapted from traditional Lebanese, Syrian, Turkish and Armenian-Lebanese dishes.

People have been making wine in the Beqaa Valley since ancient times; the Temple of Bacchus was built there more than 2,000 years ago to honor the Roman god of wine. Most Lebanese wines are still produced in the valley, and it’s there that Sakr sources the ones he offers at KazaMaza. The restaurant serves wine from the area’s oldest and largest wine producer, Château Ksara, by the glass, half carafe or bottle, along with nine other Lebanese wines and vintages from other countries.

Sakr referred to Lebanese wines as corsé — that is, full-bodied. Ksara’s Réserve du Couvent is made from cabernet sauvignon and syrah grapes. I found it slightly tart and astringent, with flavors of black pepper and a fairly fruity finish.

The more refined 2011 Château Kefraya is a blend of cabernet sauvignon, syrah, carignan and mourvèdre grapes

Kefta kebab bil karaz (left), jarret d’agneau (right) and a glass of Ksara’s Réserve du Couvent

aged in oak for 18 to 24 months. High in tannins and in alcohol content (14 percent), it tasted of spice, subtle cherry and warm leather, like a smooth belt on a well-heeled cowgirl.

The wine was served alongside pickled peppers and mellow, barely bitter green olives that appeared to be bruised and cracked. Willingly riding the train of enchantment in a foreign country, I told myself these imperfections were a sign of something good — perhaps a sparing use of pesticides.

The slight heat of the pickled peppers made a pleasingly sharp contrast to the robust wines. Although they would be a bit bracing by themselves on an empty stomach, these bold wines pair well with the intensely flavorful but non-spicy food of the Middle East.

KazaMaza’s menu, as realized by chef Omar Al-Maarabani, emphasizes its mezzes ($7-12 CAD) — small plates, hot or cold, that are especially conducive to sharing. Most are prepared in advance for rapid finishing and serving. Hence, our starters came out swiftly, though the vibe at KazaMaza tends toward slow savoring.

Our three mezzes were served with thin pita that would have benefited from being warmed up. The mutabbal betteraves tasted as bold as its fuchsia color. An energizing and vibrant jolt to the palate, it was made from beets that had been pickled, then roasted.

The vinegar tickled the back of my throat, while the roasting added sweetness and haunting depth. Smooth and silky, the mixture was puréed to

perfection with tahini and garlic; lemon and sumac added to the tartness. Sakr said he thinks mutabbal betteraves originated in Syria, though the exact location is a bit of a mystery.

The mouhammara, made from ground walnuts and bread crumbs, looked pasty and unassuming, so its umami explosion was a shock of the most thrilling kind. The pomegranate molasses provided a shazam of tartness and sweetness, while the spices and oil added to the richness of the dip. If the mouhammara and mutabbal betteraves had an amplifier for their flavors, it would have to go up to 11 like the one in This Is Spinal Tap. Comparatively subtle, the kibbé nayyé was a beef tartar minced with a bit of bulgur and baharat, a Lebanese

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WANT TO BUY ANTIQUES Furniture, postcards, pottery, cameras, toys, medical tools, lab glass, photographs, slide rules, license plates & silver. Anything unusual or unique. Cash paid.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0331-32 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On May 1, 2017, City of Burlington, Burlington International Airport, 1200 Airport Drive, #1, South Burlington, VT 05403 filed application #4C0331-32 for a project generally described as relocate 5,800lf of Taxiway G and a holding bay, relocate Taxiway A, reconstruct taxiways M and H and construct stormwater infrastructure. The Project is located on Airport Drive in South Burlington, Vermont.

The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications.

Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below.

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No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before June 8, 2017, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised.

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Vermont this 15th day of May, 2017.

the office listed below.

The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0355-13A”.

By: Peter E. Keibel District #4 Coordinator Natural Resources Board 111 West Street Essex Jct., VT 05452 802-879-5658 Peter.Keibel@vermont. gov

No hearing will be held and a permit may be isACT 250 NOTICE sued unless, on or before MINOR APPLICATION June 5, 2017, a person #4C0355-13A notifies the Commission 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 of an issue or issues re- 6093 quiring the presentation On May 9, 2017, DRW, of evidence at a hearing LLC, 349 Commerce or the Commission sets Street, Williston, VT the matter for hearing 05495 filed application on its own motion. Any #4C0355-13A for a projShould a hearing be hearing request must be ect generally described held on this Project and in writing to the address as the construction of you have a disability for below, must state the an 800 s.f. office space which you are going to criteria or subcriteria addition and a 1,200 s.f. need accommodation, at issue, why a hearing shop space addition to please notify us by June is required and what an existing 5,660 s.f. in8, 2017. additional evidence dustrial building serving will be presented at the Don Weston Excavating.

Parties entitled to hearing. Any hearing The Project includes participate are the Murequest by an adjoining replacing the building nicipality, the Municipal property owner or other siding and roof, with no Planning Commission, interested person must changes in use, utilities, the Regional Planning include a petition for or number of employees.

Commission, affected party status. Prior to The Project is located state agencies, and adsubmitting a request for on Lots 34 and 36 of the joining property owners a hearing, please contact Alling Industrial Park at and other persons to the the district coordinator 349 Commerce Street in extent they have a parat the telephone number Williston, Vermont. ticularized interest that listed below for more may be affected by the information. Prior to The District #4 Environproposed project under convening a hearing, the mental Commission is the 10 criteria. Non-party Commission must deterreviewing this applicaparticipants may also be mine that substantive tion under Act 250 Rule allowed under 10 V.S.A. issues requiring a hear51 — Minor Applications.

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Paul Meacham Unit #166 Unit #168 Easy Self Storage 46 Swift South Burlington, VT 05403 (802)863-8300 NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE BURLINGTON SELF STORAGE 1825 SHELBURNE RD SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT 05403 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage unit listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid.

Name of Occupant/Storage Unit Demercado #1 Auction will take place on Friday, June 2, 2017

beginning at 11:00am at Burlington Self Storage, 1825 Shelburne Road, South Burlington, VT 05403.

Unit will be opened for viewing immediately prior to auction. Sale shall be by sealed bid to the highest bidder.

Contents of entire storage unit will be sold as one lot. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility at no cost to BSS. BSS reserves the right to reject any bid lower that the amount owed by the occupant.

NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE MALLETTS BAY SELF STORAGE, LLC 115 HEINEBERG DRIVE COLCHESTER, VT 05446 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid.

Name of Occupant Storage Unit Goeffrey D. Tessier Unit #103 Said sales will take place on 6/9/17, beginning at 10:00am at Malletts Bay Self Storage, LLC, (MBSS, LLC)115 Heineberg Dr, Colchester, VT 05446.

Units will be opened for viewing immediately prior to auction. Sale shall be by sealed bid to the highest bidder.

Contents of entire storage unit will be sold as one lot. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility at no cost to MBSS, LLC on the day of auction.

MBSS, LLC reserves the right to reject any bid lower that the amount owed by the occupant or that is not commercially reasonable as defined by statute.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 551-4-17 CNPR IN RE THE ESTATE OF ALBERTA F. EISEMAN LATE OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the Estate of Alberta F. Eiseman, late of Burlington, Vermont.

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Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

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Date: May 19, 2017 Signed: John H. Draper, IV, Esq. Attorney for Nicole A. Eiseman, Executor of the Estate of Alberta F. Eiseman Address: Paul Frank + Collins P.C. One Church Street, P.O. Box 1307 Burlington, VT 054021307 Telephone: (802) 6582311 Name of Publication: Seven Days P.O. Box 1164 Burlington, VT 054021164 Publication Date: 5/24/2017 Address of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court Probate Division, Chittenden Unit 175 Main Street, P.O. Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET # 773-12-15 WNCV THE BANK OF NEW YORK, MELLON, AS TRUSTEE FOR FIRST

HORIZON ALTERNATIVE MORTGAGE SECURITIES TRUST 2007-FA5 Plaintiff v.

TRACY E. GRIFFIN A/K/A TRACY GRIFFIN AND MICHAEL P. GRIFFIN A/K/A MICHAEL GRIFFIN OCCUPANTS OF: 54 WELLINGTON STREET, BARRE, VTDefendants MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered March 30, 2017 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Tracy E. Griffin Michael P. Griffin to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as a nominee for First Horizon Home Loans, a Division of First Tennessee Bank National Association, dated June 15, 2007 and recorded in Book 240 Page 207 of the land records of the City of Barre, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as a nominee for First Horizon Home Loans, a Division of First Tennessee Bank National Association to First Horizon Home Loans, a Division of First Bank National Association dated January 28, 2009 and recorded in Book 250 Page 989 and (2) a Corrective Assignment of Mortgage from First Horizon Home Loans, a Division of First Bank National Association to The Bank of New York, Mellon, as Trustee for First Horizon Alternative Mortgage Securities Trust 2007-FA5 dated September 24, 2015 and recorded in Book 294 Page 276, both of the land records of the City of Barre for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose

the purchase price must of foreclosing the same 1 a certified 10:38 AM be paid by will be 4/17/17 soldFSBO-Toomey-050317.indd at Public Auction at 54 Wellington check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the Street, Barre, Vermont on June 13, 2017 at 10:00 time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

AM all and singular the The balance of the purpremises described in chase price shall be paid said mortgage, by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s To wit: check within thirty (60) Being all and the same days after the date of lands and premises consale. veyed to Tracy E. Griffin and Michael P. Griffin by Deed of Robert G. Manley The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the and Wendy T. Manley premises at any time of approximate even prior to the sale by paydate herewith and to be ing the full amount due recorded in the City of under the mortgage, Barre City Land Records. including the costs and Said lands and premises expenses of the sale. being more particularly Other terms to be andescribed as follows: nounced at the sale.

Being all and the same DATED: May 11, 2017 lands and premises By: /S/ Rachel K. Jones, conveyed to Robert G. Manley, Wendy T. Manley Esq. Rachel K. Jones, Esq. and Julie A. Clemons Bendett and McHugh, PC

by Warranty Deed of 270 Farmington Ave., Julwen, LLC dated July Ste. 151 16, 2004 and recorded Farmington, CT 06032 at Book 214, page 974 of the City of Barre Land Records. The interest TOWN OF WESTFORD of Julie A. Clemons was DEVELOPMENT conveyed to Robert G. REVIEW BOARD Manley and Wendy T. NOTICE OF PUBLIC Manley by Warranty HEARING Deed dated February 17, Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. 2006 and recorded at Chapter 117 and the Book 229, Page 436 of Westford Land Use & Desaid land records. velopment Regulations, the Development Review Being parcel No. 2 in Board will hold a public a Warranty Deed from hearing at the Town Julie A. Clemons, Robert Offices, VT Route 128, at G. Manley and Wendy T. 7:15 pm on Monday, June Manley to JULWEN, LLC 12, 2017 in reference to dated October 24, 2003 the following: and recorded at Book 207, Page 565 of the Final Plat Public HearBarre City Land Records. ing for a 2-Lot, 1-Unit Subdivision– Wilma W Reference is hereby Cowie Irrevocable Trust made to the above Property (Robert White – instruments and to the Trustee) (38.5 acres) on records and references Cowie Road in the Rural contained therein in 10 (R1) Rural 5 (R5) and further aid of this deWater Resources Overlay scription.

(WRO) Zoning Districts.

The Applicant seeks to Terms of sale: Said create one single fampremises will be sold ily dwelling lot for the and conveyed subject to existing dwelling and all liens, encumbrances, one deferred developunpaid taxes, tax titles, ment lot. municipal liens and assessments, if any, which For information call the take precedence over the said mortgage above Town Offices at 8784587 Monday–Friday described.

8:30am–4:30pm.

TEN THOUSAND Matt Wamsganz, Chair($10,000.00) Dollars of man

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Adjacent to waterfront park, marina and golf. Boatlaunch and hiking nearby. Deeded lake rights, 10 rooms, unfinished attic.

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STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY IN RE: Z.O. VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT FAMILY DIVISION DOCKET NO. 173-5-16 CNJV ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION Based upon the motion filed by The Department for Children and Families through their attorney dated May 3, 2017 and the accompanying affidavit, the Court finds that service of process of a genetic testing order and notice of the continuation of the termination of parental rights proceeding, cannot, with due diligence, be made upon Timothy Oakes, putative father of Z.O. It is therefore, ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that notice of an order requiring Timothy Oakes to appear at Office of Child Support, located at the Costello Courthouse, 32 Cherry Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401 on (date) June 26, 2017, at (time) 3:30 Pm, to provide a sample of genetic material sufficient for the purpose of conducting genetic testing, shall be published for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation reasonably calculated to give notice to Timothy Oakes. A copy of this order shall be mailed to Timothy Oakes, putative father of Z.O., if his address can ever be determined.

It is further ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the continuation of the hearing to terminate all residual parental rights of Timothy Oakes, putative father of Z.O., to be held on (date) June 26, 2017 at 3:30 Pm, at the Chittenden Superior Court of Vermont, Family Division, 32 Cherry Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401, shall be published for two (2)

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al circulation reasonably calculated to give notice to Timothy Oakes. A copy of this order shall be mailed to Timothy Oakes, putative father of Z.O., if his address can ever be determined.

Date: 5/3/17 /s/ Alison Arms Superior Court Judge

support groups AHOY BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS Join our floating support group where the focus is on living, not on the disease. We are a team of dragon boaters. Learn all about this paddle sport & its health-giving, life-affirming qualities.

Any age. No athletic experience needed.

Call Penni or Linda at 999-5478, info@ dragonheartvermont. org, dragonheartvermont.org.

AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. For meeting info, go to vermontalanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266.

ALATEEN GROUP New Alateen group in Burlington on Sundays from 5-6 p.m. at the UU building at the top of Church St. For more information please call Carol, 324-4457.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free.

Info, 864-1212. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the first step of 12 & join a group in your area.

Wake up to a dream come true! Expansive lake views from this waterfront home located on a private, quiet, dead end road. 57 Spauldings Bay Ct., Colchester, Vt. $475,000. 879-1203 MallettsBayLakeHouse@gmail.com

ALL CANCER SURVIVORS Join the wellness classes at Survivorship NOW, created by cancer survivors for survivors of all cancers. Benefi ts from lively programs designed to engage and empower cancer survivors in our community. Email: info@ survivorshipnowvt.org.

Call Chantal, 777-1126, survivorshipnowvt.org.

ALTERNATIVES TO SUICIDE Alternatives to Suicide is a safe space where the subject of suicide can be discussed freely, without judgment or stigma. The group is facilitated by individuals who have themselves experienced suicidal thoughts/ feelings. Fletcher Free Library, 235 College St., Burlington. Group meets weekly on Thursdays, 1-2:30 p.m. Info: makenzy@ pathwaysvermont.org, 888-492-8218 x300.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP This caregivers support group meets on the 3rd Wed. of every mo. from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 128, Williston.

Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support, and coping techniques in care for a person living with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free and open to the public. Families, caregivers, and friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm date and time. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900.

ALZHEIMER’S 5/8/17 10:18 AM ASSOCIATION TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP 1st Monday monthly, 3-4:30 p.m.

Pre-registration is required (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24/7 Helpline 800-272-3900 for more information.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE & DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP Held the last Tue. of every mo., 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Birchwood Terr., Burlington. Info, Kim, 863-6384.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Sat., 10-11:30 a.m., Methodist Church at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington.

Contact Brenda, 338-1170.

BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But, it can also be a time of stress that is often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth and feel you need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531.

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Contact: Cameron Mack cameron@ pathwaysvermont.org or 888 492 8218 x 404.

DECLUTTERERS’ SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe two or three of us can get together to help each other simplify.

989-3234, 425-3612.

DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family and friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sundays at 5 p.m. at the 1st Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 3998754. You can learn more at smartrecovery.org.

DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE WomenSafe offers free, confidential support groups in Middlebury for women who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. Art For Healing. Six-week support group for people who have experienced domestic or sexual violence.

Childcare provided.

Please call our hotline, 388-4205, or email am@womensafe.net for more information.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect with others, to heal, and to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences and hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships.

Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship.

Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m.

Childcare is provided.

Info: 658-1996.

FAMILIES, PARTNERS, FRIENDS AND ALLIES OF TRANSGENDER ADULTS We are people with adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming.

We meet to support each other and to learn more about issues and concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal, and confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 PM, the second Thursday of each month at Pride Center of VT, 255 South Champlain St., Suite 12, in Burlington. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer one-on-one support. For more information, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 845-705-5816.

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FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults 18 & over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one.

FCA is not 12-step based but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills & draw strength from one another. Weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m. Turning Point Center, corner of Bank St., Burlington. (Across from parking garage, above bookstore). thdaub1@gmail.com.

HEARTBEAT VERMONT Have you lost a friend, colleague or loved one by suicide? Some who call have experienced a recent loss and some are still struggling w/ a loss from long ago.

Call us at 446-3577 to meet with our clinician, Jonathan Gilmore, at Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main St. All are welcome.

G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction?

Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a month on Mondays in Burlington.

Please call for date and location. RSVP graspvt@gmail.com or call 310-3301.

INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) is recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder & pelvic region & urinary frequency/urgency. This is often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. We are building a Vermontbased support group & welcome you to email bladderpainvt@gmail. com or call 899-4151 for more information.

G.Y.S.T. (GET YOUR STUFF TOGETHER) GYST creates a safe & empowering community for young men & youth in transition to come together with one commonality: learning to live life on life’s terms.

Every Tue. & Thu., 4 p.m. G.Y.S.T. PYNK (for young women) meets weekly on Wed., 4 p.m.

Location: North Central Vermont Recovery Center, 275 Brooklyn St., Morrisville. Info: Lisa, 851-8120.

GRIEF & RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP 1st & 3rd Wed. of every mo., 7-8 p.m., Franklin County Home Health Agency (FCHHA), 3 Home Health Cir., St. Albans. 527-7531.

KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients as well as caregivers are provided with a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers.

For further info, please contact sherry. rhynard@gmail.com.

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HEARING VOICES GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice hearing experiences as real lived experiences which may happen to anyone at anytime. We choose to share experiences, support, and empathy. We validate anyone’s experience and stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest and accurate representation of their experience, and as being acceptable exactly as they are.

Weekly on Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org.

HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107.

People living with cancer & their caretakers convene for support.

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FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends and community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety and other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

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CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering

COMING OFF PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATION MUTUAL SUPPORT GROUP Through sharing experiences and resources, this group will provide support to individuals interested in coming off psychiatric medications, those in the process of psychiatric medication withdrawal or anyone looking for a space to explore their choices around psychiatric medication use. The group is also open to those supporting an individual in psychiatric medication withdrawal. 12-1:30 p.m. every Tuesday.

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CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life! This confidential

CELIAC & GLUTENFREE GROUP Every 2nd Wed., 4:30-6 p.m. at Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Free & open to the public! To learn more, contact Lisa at 598-9206 or lisamase@ gmail.com.

CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sunday at noon at the Turning Point Center, 191 Bank Street, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org.

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BURLINGTON – STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Offering a weekly drop-in support group for female identified survivors of intimate partner violence. We offer a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect with others, to heal, and to recover. Call us at 802-658-1996.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone with struggles with hurt, habits and hang ups, which includes everyone in some way.

We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton which meets every Friday night at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us and discover how your life can start to change.

Info: 893-0530, Julie@ mccartycreations.com.

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BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:302:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. montly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m. Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed.

BURLINGTON AREA PARKINSON’S DISEASE OUTREACH GROUP People with Parkinson’s disease & their caregivers gather together to gain support & learn about living with Parkinson’s disease. Group meets 2nd Wed. of every mo., 1-2 p.m., continuing through Nov. 18, 2015.

Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 185 Pine Haven Shores Rd., Shelburne. Info: 888-763-3366, parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org, parkinsonsvt.org.

12-Step recovery program puts faith in Jesus Christ at the heart of healing. We offer multiple support groups for both men & women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction & pornography, food issues, & overcoming abuse. All 18+ are welcome; sorry, no childcare. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m. Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex. Info: recovery@essexalliance.org, 878-8213.

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BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury.

It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 800-639-1522.

monthly at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Brattleboro meets at Brooks Memorial Library on the 1st Thu. monthly from 1:15-3:15 p.m. and the 3rd Mon. montly from 4:15-6:15 p.m. White River Jct. meets the 2nd Fri. montly at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m.

Call our helpline at 877-856-1772.

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BEREAVEMENT/GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Meets every other Mon. night, 6-7:30 p.m., & every other Wed., 10-11:30 a.m., in the Conference Center at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Info, Ginny Fry or Jean Semprebon, 223-1878.

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support groups [CONTINUED] LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace offers peerled support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional &/or hate violence.

Th ese groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, & offer & receive support.

Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain information on how to better cope with feelings & experiences that surface because of the trauma they have experienced. Please call SafeSpace 863-0003 if you are interested in joining.

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MALE SURVIVOR OF VIOLENCE GROUP A monthly, closed group for male identifi ed survivors of violence including relationship, sexual assault, and discrimination. Open to all sexual orientations.

Contact 863-0003 for more information or safespace@pridecentervt.org.

MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts to get & stay clean. Ongoing Tue. at 6:30 p.m. and Sat. at 2 p.m. at Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., suite 200, Burlington. 861-3150.

THE MEMORY CAFÉ Th e Memory Café is where people with memory loss disorders and their care partners can come together to connect and support one another. Second Saturday of each month, 10-11:30 a.m.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 58 Barre St., Montpelier.

Info: 223-2518.

MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP Area Myeloma Survivors, Families and Caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies and a support network by participating in the group experience with people that have been though similar situations. Third Tuesday of the month, 5-6 p.m. at the New Hope Lodge on East Avenue in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@aol.com.

NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Bennington, every Tue., 1-2:30 p.m., CRT Center, United Counseling Service, 316 Dewey St.; Burlington, every Thu., 3-4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St. (enter from parking lot); Montpelier, every Fri., 2-3:30 p.m., Another Way, 125 Barre St.; Newport, first Wed. of the month, 6-7:30 p.m., St. Mark’s Church, 44 2nd St.; Rutland, every Sun., 4:30-6 p.m., Rutland Mental Health Wellness Center, 78 S. Main St.; St. Johnsbury, every Thu., 6:30-8 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, 47 Cherry St. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@ namivt.org or 800639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living with mental health challenges.

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Brattleboro, 1st Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., 1st Congregational Church, 880 Western Ave., West Brattleboro; Burlington, 3rd Wed. of every mo., 6 p.m., Community Health Center, Riverside Ave., Mansfi eld Conference Room; Burlington, 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., HowardCenter, corner of Pine & Flynn Ave.; Berlin, 4th Mon. of every mo., 7 p.m.

Central Vermont Medical Center, Room 3; Georgia, 1st Tue. of every mo., 6 p.m., Georgia Public Library,

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1697 Ethan Allen Highway (Exit 18, I-89); Manchester, 4th Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., Equinox Village, 2nd floor; Rutland, 3rd Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center, Leahy Conference Ctr., room D; Springfi eld, 3rd Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., HCRS (café on right far side), 390 River St.; St. Johnsbury, 4th Wed. of every mo., 5:30 p.m., Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital Library, 1315 Hospital Dr.; White River Junction, last Mon. of every mo., 5:45 p.m., VA Medical Center, William A. Yasinski Buidling.

If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt. org or 800-639-6480.

Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living mental illness.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/ out the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join.

Th e only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in Burlington, Barre and St. Johnsbury.

NAR-ANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (small room), 191 Bank St., Burlington. Th e only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106.

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

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OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 12-step fellowship for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc.

Tue., 7 p.m., St. James Episcopal Church, 4 St. James Place, Essex Jct. All are welcome; meeting is open. Info: Felicia, 777-7718.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Do you promise you’ll only have one more but then you eat the whole bag? Have you tried every diet possible and nothing works? Th ere is hope. Come to an Overeaters Anonymous meeting and find out about a 12 step program of recovery. Th ere is a solution! Turning Point Center, 191 Bank Street, Suite 200, Burlington. Weekly on Thursdays, 7 p.m. Info: Elise, 302-528-6672.

OA Big|Book Solution Group of Burlington.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Do you worry about the way you eat?

Overeaters Anonymous may have the answer for you. No weigh-ins, dues or fees. Mon., 5:30-6:30 p.m. Temple Sinai, 500 Swift St., S. Burlington. Info: 863-2655.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Meetings in Barre Sat. 8:30-9:30 a.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St. Info, Valerie 279-0385. Meetings in Burlington Thurs.

7:30-8:30 a.m., at the First United Church, 21 Buell St. Info, Geraldine, 730-4273. Meetings in Johnson occur every Sun., 5:30-6:30 p.m., at the Johnson Municipal Building, Rte. 15 (just west of the bridge). Info, Debbie Y., 888-5958. Meetings in Montpelier occur every Mon., 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Bethany Church, 115 Main St. Info, Joan, 223-3079.

Steps to Food Freedom Meetings in Morrisville occur every Sat., 10-11 a.m., at the First Congregational Church, 85 Upper Main St. Contacts: Anne, 888-2356. Big Book Meetings in Morrisville occur every Tue., 6 p.m.

at the North Central Recovery Center (NCVRC), 275 Brooklyn St. Info: Debbie, 888-5958.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 12-step. Sat., 9-10 a.m. Turning Point Center, 182 Lake St., St. Albans. Is what you’re eating, eating you? We can help. Call Valerie, 825-5481.

PARKINSON’S DISEASE OUTREACH GROUP This group meets on the second Tuesday, 10-11:30 a.m. of the month at Pillsbury Homestead Senior Community Residence at 3 Harborview Rd., St. Albans in the conference room next to the library on the first floor.

Wheelchair accessible.

Info: patricia_rugg18@ comcast.net.

PEER ACCESS LINE Isolated? Irritable?

Anxious? Lonely?

Excited? Bored?

Confused? Withdrawn?

Sad? Call us! Don’t hesitate for a moment.

We understand! It is our choice to be here for you to listen. Your feelings do matter.

321-2190. Thu., Fri., Sat. evenings, 6-9 p.m.

PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-8 p.m. at the Hope Lodge, 237 East Ave., Burlington. Newly diagnosed? Prostate cancer reoccurrence?

General discussion and sharing among survivors and those beginning or rejoining the battle. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol.com.

QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFÉ Th e Queen City Memory Café offers a social time & place for people with memory impairment & their fi ends & family to laugh, learn & share concerns & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods with entertainment & conversation. QCMC meets the 3rd Sat. of each mo., 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Th ayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington. 316-3839.

QUEER CARE GROUP This support group is for adult family members and caregivers of queer, and/or

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Post & browse ads at your convenience. questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Monday of each month from 6:30-8 p.m. at Outright Vermont, 241 North Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only.

For more information, email info@outrightvt. org.

QUIT TOBACCO GROUPS Are you ready to be tobacco free? Join our FREE fi ve-week group classes facilitated by our Tobacco Treatment Specialists. We meet in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. You may qualify for a FREE 8-week supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Contact us at (802)-847-7333 or QuitTobaccoClass@ UVMHealth.org.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND Support group meeting held 4th Tue. of the mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Williston Police Station.

Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group.

Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships?

We can help. Ralph, 658-2657. Visit slaafws. org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are available for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our offi ce at 864-0555, ext.

19, or email our victim advocate at advocate@ sover.net.

STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone! Adults, teens & school-age kids who stutter & their families are welcome to join one of our three free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM. Adults: 5:30-6:30, 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30, 1st Thu. monthly;

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school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15, 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus. Info: burlingtonstutters.org, burlingtonstutters@ gmail.com, 656-0250.

Go Team Stuttering!

SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide.

Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577. 6:30-8 p.m. the 3rd Tue. of ea. mo.

SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 2577989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 229-0591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only).

Please call 877-5439498 for more info.

SURVIVORSHIP NOW Welcome, cancer survivors. Survivorship NOW has free wellness programs to empower cancer survivors to move beyond cancer & live life well. Regain your strength & balance. Renew your spirit. Learn to nourish your body with exercise & nutritious foods.

Tap in to your creative side. Connect with others who understand the challenges you face. Go to survivorshipnowvt.org today to sign up. Info, 802777-1126, info@ survivorshipnowvt.org.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE — BURLINGTON Who: Persons experiencing the impact of a loved one’s suicide. When: 1st Wed. of each mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Location: Comfort Inn, 5 Dorset St., Burlington. Facilitators: Myra Handy, 951-5156 or Liz Mahoney, 8797109. Request: We find it important to connect with people before their first meeting. If you can, please call one of the facilitators before you come. Th ank you!

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE If you have lost someone to suicide and wish to have a safe place to talk, share and spend a little time with others who have had a similar experience, join us the 3rd Thu. at the Faith Lighthouse Church, Rte. 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook), 7-9 p.m. Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284.

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS Burlington Chapter TCF meets on the 3rd Tue. of ea. mo. at 7 p.m. at 277 Blair Park Rd., Williston; for more info, call Dee Ressler, 598-8899. Rutland Chapter TCF meets on the 1st Tue. of ea. mo. at 7 p.m. at Grace Congregational Church, West St., Rutland; for more info, call Susan Mackey, 446-2278.

Hospice Volunteer Services (HVS) also serves bereaved parents w/ monthly peer support groups, short-term educational consultations & referrals to local grief & loss counselors. HVS is located in the Marble Works district in Middlebury. Please call 388-4111 for more info about how to connect w/ appropriate support services.

TOGETHER IN RECOVERY Community members with a friend or family member affected by Opioid use are invited to come for support, discussion and encouragement.

Chittenden Clinic, 75 San Remo Dr., So. Burlington. Every third Tuesday of the month, 5:30 p.m. Info: 4886456, jspagnuolo@ howardcenter.org.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:156:15 p.m. For info, call David at 371-8929.

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Executive Director Pine Forest Children’s Center, one Burlington's largest early child care education centers, is seeking a dynamic, strategic, hardworking and pragmatic Executive Director to oversee operations of the Center.

A successful Executive Director will have superior interpersonal skills, a high degree of initiative and dedication, commitment to high quality programming for children, be a team player, and foster a supportive work environment for staff.

Full job description at http://thepineforest.org.

Public Safety Dispatcher The Winooski Police Department is currently accepting applications for full time Public Safety Dispatcher. We are a progressive, community oriented, 24-hour police department, serving a diverse population of over 7,500 citizens in the heart of Chittenden County. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the Vermont Municipal Employees Retirement System, paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, medical, life and dental insurance.

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HomeShare Vermont, based in South Burlington, is a small nonprofit dedicated to affordable housing and helping elders and others continue to remain at home. The preferred candidate must have ex-4t-CityofWinooski052417.indd 1:44 PM cellent interpersonal and organizational skills. Working knowledge of Microsoft Publisher, MailChimp and WordPress are desirable.

Marketing experience a plus. Must be able to work as part of a team and multi-task. Job includes work with the public, program participants as well as helping with various marketing and outreach projects. Position is 40 hours/week with benefits.

Send resume by June 7 via email ONLY to sharevt@sover.net.

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Marketing & Public Relations Coordinator

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Looking for a daily routine that alwaysand hashave great If you are detail-oriented, self-motivated, something new? If you are detail-oriented, verbal/written communication skills, we would like to talk organized and have great verbal/written communication skills, we would like to talk to you. to you.

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VEHI’s school employee wellness program, PATH, offers its members state of the art services to build and maintain healthy behaviors at work, at home and in the community.

Wellness Program Support

The Wellness Program Support person will assist with the planning, preparation, design and implementation of PATH’s day to day operations.

Main duties include customer service to our 15,000+ members, management of our complex web application, conference planning/implementation, and design/publication of marketing and communications materials.

KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE: Must have a high school diploma or equivalent. Candidate must be fluent in MS office, proficient in social media platforms, have good organizational and communication skills, the ability to work independently and must be a team player.

This is a full time position with competitive salary and benefits.

WANT TO JOIN OUR TEAM? To apply, please send your resume and cover letter by June 2nd to: amy@vsbit.org or to Amy Gilbert, VSBIT, 52 Pike Drive, Berlin, VT 05602.

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CONCRETE LABORERS Local concrete cutting business looking for reliable employee.

Full time hours for at least 6 months, potentially longer.

Must be willing to work hard (this is about concrete after all). Experience with concrete pouring and heavy equipment a plus, but willing to train the right person. Must have references that reveal a reliable track record and trustworthiness.

If this sounds like you, please contact me! senesacconcrete@gmail.com

NURSES-RNS & LPNS SIGN ON BONUS $3000

Social Worker Full Time BSW or MSW preferred

Are you interested in joining our medical team? We are now hiring nurses (RNs and LPNs) at our Berlin, Vermont location. We offer competitive pay, benefits, and have positions open for per diem, part time and full time.

Activity Assistant

Send resumes to: recruiting@baymark.com. baartprograms.com

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Manufacturer of custom truck bodies is looking for a Mechanic to perform installation of truck bodies and miscellaneous equipment on new trucks. Mechanical experience required and Hydraulic experience desirable.

Monday - Friday, 7:00 am - 3:30 pm.

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Forward resume and cover letter to: joannef@iroquoismfg.com or apply in person: Iroquois Mfg. Co. 695 Richmond Rd., Hinesburg, VT COMPANY BENEFITS INCLUDE: Health Insurance, 401(k) w/company match, Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Paid Life Insurance/AD&D, STD, LTD

BARJ and Youth Justice Program Manager This position oversees the Balanced and Restorative Justice and Youth Justice Programs for the Franklin Grand Isle Restorative Justice Center. This position is responsible for oversight of all youth justice programming, supervision of program staff, maintaining high quality case management, partner relationships, restorative services, grant management and program vision. Full-time 40 hours with benefits.

Your opportunity to make a difference in the lives under your care awaits!

Valley Vista Vergennes, a 19 bed chemical dependency and co-occurring treatment facility, is currently seeking full-time candidates for the following positions:

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RNs/LPNs Valley Vista is currently seeking Full Time, Part Time and Per Diem RNs and LPNs with a valid VT license in our new 19 bed inpatient facility in Vergennes, VT. Full-time candidates will be eligible for up to a $2,500 sign-on bonus! Chemical dependency or psychiatric nursing experience a plus.

Valley Vista offers a competitive compensation and benefit package, tuition reimbursement, as well as paid trainings.

Send cover, resume and 3 references by Friday, June 2 to Nina Curtiss/Executive Director: nina@fgirjc.org.

Please go to the City of St. Albans website and click on Employment Opportunities for complete job description. stalbansvt.com

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Valley Vista is an EOE. To apply, please email resume to: jenny.gilman@vvista.net or mail to:

Jenny Gilman Valley Vista 23 Upper Plain Bradford, VT 05033 vvista.net

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Vermont Arts Council seeks an experienced executive director to lead the organization into the next stage of its organizational development.

The executive director is responsible for the overall management of the Council including budgeting, financial planning and asset management, grant compliance, fund development, fiscal management, and program oversight.

The executive director reports to the board of directors and supervises the staff.

Since 1965, the Council has been the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary provider of funding, advocacy, and information for the arts in Vermont.

Funded primarily by the state, the National Endowment for the Arts, and private donations, the Council awards grants to artists, arts organizations, and communities and supports the creative sector through technical support, learning opportunities, and promotional assistance.

For more information go to vermontartscouncil.org/about-us/employment.

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Prepare students for post-secondary training & careers NURSING POSITION in �ea�t� care �ie�ds t�roug�out nort�ern �er�ont� Busy, mid-sized family For position details & application information, please visit practice looking for an experienced nurse with www.nevahec.org a valid Vermont nursing license. This position is full time with clinic days Tuesday, Wednesday, Vermont Association of 1 5/22/17 12:05 PM Thursday and Friday. Must To learn more or to read our complete job descriptions visit Conservation Districts be organized, efficient and our website: wcmhs.org detail oriented. Familiarity with family practice helpful.

Apply online or send your resume to Experience using an personnel@wcmhs.org or electronic health record required. Competitive pay Personnel, PO Box 647 SOUTH LAKE CHAMPLAIN with an excellent benefit Montpelier, VT 05601 VACD seeks qualified candidates to fill a Conservation package.

Equal Opportunity Employer Planner position and a Cartographic Technician position in Send resume and cover the South Lake Champlain region of Vermont. Both positions letter to: will help agricultural producers reduce phosphorus runoff Chery McCaffrey 4t-WCMHS052417.indd 1 5/19/17 12:37 PM impacting Lake Champlain.

Practice Administrator, TCHC The Conservation Planner will assist small farm owners 586 Oak Hill Road who are in the process of conserving farmland to complete Williston, VT 05495 necessary easement documentation as well as help farms or email cheryl.mccaffrey@ with previously conserved farmland by assessing water tchconline.com. quality concerns, providing technical assistance, and NO PHONES PLEASE. supporting implementation of Best Management Practices.

Desired qualifications include: Bachelor’s degree in natural resources, agriculture, soils or agronomy or 5-10 years of practical experience in the above fields; knowledge of agriculture, agricultural conservation and diversified 3v-ThomasChittendenNURSES051017.indd 15/8/17 11:56 AM agricultural practices; advanced experience with and We want to invest in you! Help people maintain their safety, knowledge of digital map development and interpretation; independence and quality of life at home. familiarity with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) conservation planning process preferred. This To learn about our new pay rates, increased mentoring and position will be housed in the USDA Natural Resources training contact us. Your next career is in healthcare!

Conservation Service (NRCS) Middlebury field office with Questions? Call Lisa for more information at 802 860-4449 frequent travel in Addison and Rutland Counties. Starting wage is $16 to $18 per hour based upon experience.

We’re hiring in Morrisville!

Seeking a full-time Outpatient Program Coordinator to provide psychotherapy as well as clinical oversight to the outpatient team in a community mental health setting. Responsible for triage and assignment of new clients and maintaining program wait list while providing clinical supervision and other administrative duties. Master’s degree and licensure required.

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The Town of Randolph, VT (pop. 5000), seeks an engaging, Desired qualifications include: knowledge and expertise with collaborative, and dynamic town manager. Randolph is a diverse, ArcGIS and other mapping tools; proficiency with Microsoft historic, and active community in the White River Valley.

Office, Excel and database programs; Bachelor’s degree in natural resources, agriculture or related subjects; working The manager reports to a five-member selectboard, is responsible knowledge of natural resources, agriculture, and water for the daily operations of the town and administers a $6.8 million quality issues a plus. Starting wage is $15 per hour. budget. Full description available at: randolphvt.org.

Town Manager

Salary range is $75,000 to $80,000, plus excellent benefits.

Bachelor’s degree is required (Master’s preferred) in a relevant field. Five years government management experience preferred: as town manager a plus.

Please send a confidential cover letter, resume, and three references to municipal.recruitment@vlct.org.

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Visit www.vacd.org for detailed job descriptions and qualifications. Both positions include training, health insurance benefit and generous leave package. Send cover letter identifying preferred position, resume and three references by June 2nd to joanne.dion@vacd.org or

Application deadline: May 29, 2017.

VACD PO Box 889, Montpelier, VT 05601

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Ready To Go Drivers and Driver Aide We’re looking for personable Drivers and a Driver Aide!

Full-Time, Part-Time, and Per Diem positions available to safely transport our clients and/or their children.

Must have a valid driver’s license and clean driving record. Email a resume and cover letter to nhjobs@ascentria.org.

These are great opportunities to work in a meaningful environment empowering others.

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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.

Branch Manager Williston

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EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT The UVM Foundation seeks a consummate professional to fill the role of Executive Assistant. This individual must possess superior administrative skills and be comfortable in a demanding and fast paced environment. The Executive Assistant will provide high-level administrative support to the President and CEO, as well as select members of the senior team as needed.

For a detailed description of the position and information on how to apply, please visit our website, uvmfoundation.org/careers.

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Master's degree in social work or a related field and two to three years' experience in child protection and/ or youth justice required. Knowledge and experience in child protection youth justice, child/family health/mental health, education, human development, foster care and/ or adoption required. Experience designing curricula in multi-modalities and teaching/training required.

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple deadlines is critical. Effective written and verbal communications skills and working knowledge of word processing, e-learning platforms, training management systems, spreadsheets, internet and email communication required. Ability to travel frequently to off-site work locations around the state required.

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New England Federal Credit Union is looking to hire an experienced and dynamic leader to manage its largest branch, located on Harvest Lane in Williston, Vermont. The successful candidate will be dedicated to meeting the requirements and expectations of their internal customers (members); establishing and maintaining effective professional and interpersonal relationships; cultivating success of their direct reports by motivating, mentoring and managing staff performance, and dealing with challenges and opportunities in a fair, consistent and timely manner. The NEFCU branch manager is responsible for providing and modeling superior service; developing and deepening financial relationships, and ensuring the integrity of daily operations in a full-service branch office. The successful candidate will demonstrate a complete understanding of our members’ financial needs and the various solutions NEFCU offers. The successful candidate will be a self-confident, collaborative motivator, with exceptional communication skills. An Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree is preferred. Also, two years of banking and/or lending is required.

Director of Financial Education Williston

NEFCU is also looking to hire a Financial Education Director to develop and grow our financial education programs for our members and the communities in which we serve. The successful candidate will use a curriculum-based approach to deliver the optimal education experience. The Financial Education Director will identify and develop key performance metrics that reflect the mission and strategy of our organization while promoting awareness of our financial education program and partner offerings. Qualified candidates will possess strong management competencies, critical thinking skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills and a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience from which necessary experience and expertise were acquired. This position will be based out of our Williston location.

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

NEFCU enjoys an employer of choice distinction with turnover averaging less than 10%.

More than 96% of our 215 staff say NEFCU is a great place to work. (2016 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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Burlington-area tree service is looking to hire aspiring tree climbers. No experience neccessary. Must have valid driver’s license. Willing to train the right person. Email resume to limbwalking@gmail.com.

Accounts Payable Manager Seeking an Accounts Payable Manager who is responsible for accurate and timely processing of all vendor invoices and payments for the company. The ideal candidate will manage the Accounts Payable (AP) functions, including travel expense reporting, as well as develop, document and improve processes to increase effectiveness. This position is also responsible for ensuring the AP team has timely and accurate monthly and year-end financial closings. Bachelor’s degree required. This is a full-time (37.5 hours per week), benefits-eligible position. Job ID# 3938

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The Charlotte Congregational Church, UCC is seeking a new Director of Music Ministry.

Primary responsibilities: accompanying congregational singing, leading Thursday night rehearsals with the choir, and conducting the adult choir for our Sunday morning worship services and for other occasional services.

Budget and Financial Manager Develop program budgets and manage financial performance for agency programs. Responsibilities include budget development, performance monitoring, financial and operational analysis, costing, grant and contract management, providing general business and operational guidance, and collaborating with program and agency leadership to effectively manage financial performance. Manage budgets and advise business leaders. Must have 3 to 5 years’ experience. Full-time, benefits-eligible position. This and other new opportunities available in Finance Department as agency integration continues. Job ID# 3921

Community Recovery Specialist Part-time, 16-hour-per-week position available for candidate who has experience with mental illness. This individual will be part of a team providing support services to adults in psychiatric crisis. Support is provided in a variety of settings including clients’ homes, crisis stabilization facilities and in venues out in the community. Associate’s degree is required. Valid driver’s license and auto insurance that meets Vermont minimum standards. Pay rate is $15.00 per hour. Job ID# 3907

We are looking for someone who is classically trained, has eclectic musical tastes, inspiring energy, is eager to collaborate with guest musicians and is committed to having music be an integral part of the church’s spiritual life.

Maintenance Specialist Provide both routine and complex maintenance support services to multiple sites throughout the state. This job is accountable for accomplishing tasks in the building trades including but not limited to electrical, plumbing, carpentry, painting, HVAC, equipment servicing, risk management and relocation. Candidate should have 3 to 5 years’ experience in general maintenance. Valid driver’s license required. Full time, benefits eligible. Job ID# 3885

Sub-Registered Nurse – Medication Assisted Treatment Program

This part time position is available starting June 12, 2017.

Seeking a registered nurse to cover vacancies. Our nurses are responsible for safely dispensing methadone and buprenorphine products and maintaining all Nursing Dispensary operations. Must have excellent attention to detail and organizational skills plus strong interpersonal and communication skills. Job ID# 3677

Please send a cover letter and resume to:

Substance Abuse Clinical Care Coordinator

Rev. Susan Cooke Kittredge.

Provide care coordination for clients receiving buprenorphine treatment through the new Pine Street Counseling Spoke, ensuring clients receive coordinated care addressing Home Health Services. Full time. Benefits eligible. Master’s required. Must have LADC or LCMHC or LICSW. Job ID# 3851

Or to Rev. Susan Cooke Kittredge, The Charlotte Congregational Church 403 Church Hill Road, Charlotte, VT 05445.

Team Leader – START Full-time position available for a creative and innovative individual to lead a program staffed by individuals who have experience with mental illness. This program provides support services to adults in psychiatric crisis in a variety of settings, including clients’ homes, venues in the community, and at crisis stabilization facilities with the goal being to help clients avoid requiring a higher level of care placement. Bachelor’s degree required as well as past experience in the human services field working with individuals with serious mental illness and in crisis situations. Past supervisory experience is preferred. Valid Vermont driver’s license, a registered vehicle, and vehicle insurance that meets at least Vermont minimum standard of coverage. Job ID# 3963

Church office: 802-425-3176.

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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.

For more information, please visit howardcentercareers.org.

Howard Center is an equal-opportunity employer. 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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REGISTERED NURSE AND LICENSED NURSING ASSISTANT, SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT

$1,000 SIGN ON BONUS OFFERED!!!!

Centurion, a partnership between MHM Services and Centene Corporation, is a leading provider of healthcare services to correctional facilities nationwide.

Centurion of Vermont is proud to be the provider of healthcare services to the Vermont Department of Corrections.

We invite you to learn more about the environment that is often referred to as “nursing’s best kept secret” — Correctional Nursing.

We are currently seeking a Registered Nurse and Licensed Nursing Assistant at our Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington, VT. The LNA position is full time NIGHTS and the Registered Nurse position is full time DAY and EVENING SHIFTS! For the LNA position, we are looking for someone that is willing to do, four (4) 10 hour shifts, 6pm-4:30 am or 8pm-6:30 am!!!! For the RN position, we are looking for someone to work 6am-2:30 pm for days and 2pm-10:30 pm for evenings!! The Registered Nurse (RN) will work in a fast paced environment providing nursing care to offenders in the medical unit/infirmary. The Licensed Nursing Assistant provides basic offender healthcare under the direction of nursing staff. The LNA performs offender care by assisting offenders with performance of activities of daily living, vital sign monitoring and documenting and reporting changes to healthcare team.

Requirements for RN: • Current RN license in VT • Experience in med/surg or correctional environment preferred • Must be able to pass background investigation and obtain agency security clearance Requirements for LNA: • Must be a graduate of a Licensed Nursing Assistant program and have an active VT Nursing Assistant License • One (1) year of clinical experience preferred, willing to train • CPR certification • Must be able to pass and maintain security background clearance We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package for FULL TIME including: • Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance • Health savings account with matching employer contributions • 20 paid days off plus 8 paid holidays • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match • Career development benefit • Flexible spending accounts for health and dependent care • Wellness activity subsidy • Access to corporate discount programs Interested candidates, please email resumes to

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POLISHED CONCRETE PRODUCTION APPRENTICE VERMONT ECO-FLOORS

Opportunity to join a small, innovative polished concrete business with a dedicated staff. Projects include regional and national award-winning commercial and residential projects throughout New England.

Must be hardworking and friendly with a positive attitude, proactive, self-motivated, and able to communicate with management and co-workers. Mechanical aptitude, attention to detail, and willingness to learn the complex craft of polished concrete.

Email resumes to: contactus@vermontecofloors.com Website: www.vermontecofloors.com

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CONTENT SPECIALIST/ SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR Become part of our communications & marketing team!

Lyndon State College is seeking an individual with excellent communication and writing skills to create compelling written content for a variety of mediums and to coordinate and implement Lyndon’s social media marketing activities.

Additional details, including required qualifications and application procedure, are available at: http://lyndon. interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=84673 LSC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FROM MINORITIES AND WOMEN.

Executive Director

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The Janet S. Munt Family Room Board of Directors is hiring an Executive Director to lead the organization as it transitions to an independent non-profit and stand alone Parent-Child Center.

The Family Room offers a variety of programs to a diverse group of parents/caregivers and children from birth through six years old across Chittenden County. The ideal candidate must have experience in non-profit management, business and resource development, with a proven track record leading during times of change and leveraging community resources to achieve results.

The Executive Director is a skilled communicator and trusted team builder with a healthy sense of humor.

Applications will be accepted until May 31. To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter to janetsmuntfamilyroom@gmail.com or mail to PO Box 8506, Burlington, VT 05402.

For full job description go to: thefamilyroomvt.org.

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TOWN OF MILTON

Part-Time Administrative Assistant The Town of Milton, Vermont has a great opportunity for a part-time Administrative Assistant to join our Police Department. This is highly responsible, administrative, personnel, and secretarial job of a complex and confidential nature. This position entails varied administrative tasks, associated with office management, including considerable contact and interaction with other staff members, administrators and visitors.

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This is a 20 hour per week position that reports to the Chief of Police or his designee.

Schedule is Monday thru Friday. Additional hours are a possibility. A High School Diploma or GED is required and at least two (2) years of experience working in an office setting. Wage range is $13.55 - $17.42 per hour. Applicants will undergo an extensive background investigation including criminal and driver’s license record checks.

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Kelly Services® is now hiring seasonal delivery drivers for ® assignments with FedEx Ground . Don’t miss out!

Details:

• 21 years or older • Business-related driving experience required • Weekly pay • Safety bonus plan

Inquire in Person Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm 322 Leroy Road Williston, VT 05495 802-651-6837

Are you passionate, organized, and motivated and want to join a dynamic team?

Share your story with us. To apply, send your resume, cover letter and a Town of Milton job application, available at miltonvt.org/resources/employment.html to Sgt. Stephen Laroche, steve.laroche@vermont.gov or mail to Town of Milton 37 Bombardier Road Milton, VT 05468.

Applications accepted until the position is filled.

The Town of Milton, VT provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, The Town of Milton, VT complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

The Town of Milton, VT expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of The Town of Milton, VT’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

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$1500 SIGN ON BONUS The Arbors at Shelburne is a Benchmark Senior Living community focused on caring for individuals with memory related diseases. We offer competitive wages and benefit packages. We currently have openings for

LICENSED NURSING ASSISTANTS FULL EVENING SHIFT

Must hold a valid Vermont LNA license Please call to schedule an interview or stop in to complete an application.

The Arbors at Shelburne Attn: Human Resources 687 Harbor Road Shelburne, VT 05482 802-985-8600 phurteau@benchmarkquality.com

Senior Quality Improvement Specialist OneCare Vermont Responsible for providing leadership in the daily operations associated with OneCare Vermont’s Quality Improvement program.

Serve as the primary liaison with clinicians in hospitals, specialty and primary care practices and with continuum of care providers to develop quality improvement strategies to achieve ACO clinical priority areas.

Select and deploy effective QI methods to achieve identified aims, oversee patient experience survey processes, author annual QI work plans, and manage the collection and dissemination of results of performance improvement initiative that demonstrate the ACO’s value.

Qualified Candidates Will Have: Bachelor’s degree in healthcare field required. Master’s degree in nursing, public health, health administration desired. CPHQ preferred. CPHQ will be required within one year of employment. Five to seven years of varied clinical experience in a complex healthcare related setting.

Apply Online: http://bit.ly/2qnSvbS Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protective veteran status.

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Maintenance Technician

TOWN OF MILTON Employment opportunities

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

Finance Director

Join Champlain Housing Trust’s Property Management team in Burlington and serve the affordable housing needs of a diverse group of people. Perform a variety of maintenance tasks including painting, cleaning, light maintenance, grounds maintenance and snow removal. Experience in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, grounds maintenance required. Should be self-motivated, work independently and as part of a team, be prevention-minded and committed to a membership-based model of community controlled and permanently affordable housing. Reliable transportation and criminal background check required.

The Town of Milton is seeking a Finance Director for a highly responsible managerial, administrative and technical position in the field of municipal finance and budgeting. Duties include close collaboration with the Town anager and the electboard, directing and coordinating the varied functions of the inance Department, which also provides specific financial services to the chool District.

This position is responsible for maintaining and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of all areas under his her direction. This position requires a thorough knowledge of departmental operations and the exercise of judgment and initiative in completing tasks, particularly in situations not clearly defined by precedent or established procedures. equired bachelor s degree in Accounting, usiness Administration, ublic inance or Administration or a closely related field plus four ( ) to six ( ) years of progressively responsible experience in a municipal financial administrative position.

Fiscal Assistant II

CHT is a socially responsible employer offering a competitive salary commensurate with experience. Our benefit package includes training, health insurance, vacation, holiday, sick leave, 403(b), disability and life insurance.

Submit a cover letter and resume by May 22nd to Human Resources, Champlain Housing Trust, 88 King Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or email HR@champlainhousingtrust.org. No phone calls, please.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER - CHT is committed to a diverse workplace and highly encourages women, persons with disabilities, Section 3 residents, and people from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to apply.

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The Town of ilton is seeking a iscal Assistant to perform a variety of duties related to finance, such as calculating, verifying, posting and balancing a variety of financial transactions. This position is the primary contact for the annual audit. The iscal Assistant is responsible for financial management for all Town grants, bank statement reconciliation for the Town and the School District, and posts journal entries. This position is the steward of the general ledger and is responsible to oversee the ow of financial activity as it relates to all Town departments. A bachelor s degree in accounting and municipal accounting courses are desired. rior experience in accounting in a responsible position, preferably in a municipal government, is desired, or any equivalent combination of education and experience.

To apply for either position, email cover letter, resume, references and a Town of ilton Employment Application to ary Thompson, Administrative Assistant, at mthompson@town.milton.vt.us or mail to

Town of Milton Attn: Mary Thompson 43 Bombardier Road Milton, VT 05468

The Town of Milton is an equal opportunity employer.

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SALES PLANNER

This position assists the Sales Manager in the development and execution of sales and trade strategies with key channel customers as well as development of trade goal segments and customer plans to achieve annual volume and profit plan goals.

BUSINESS TO BUSINESS SALES MANAGER

Responsible for planning, coordinating and growing the sales of our existing key account customer base as well as new customer acquisition.

This position will support the global operations in developing planning, forecasting and value creation models to drive the business forward.

The remuneration will be highly competitive and commensurate with experience. We are looking for the best and brightest Vermonters who want to make a difference on a global scale.

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This local multi-national company is a leading mission-driven food company. It is also dedicated to building sustainable livelihoods for their farming partners as well as leading the charge as the best environmental stewards on a global scale.

The company is a champion for a brighter future in food and it's an ethos that starts right here in Vermont.

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TOWN OF MILTON

Full-Time Administrative Assistant The Town of Milton, Vermont has a great opportunity for a full-time Administrative Assistant to join our Police Department. This is highly responsible, administrative, personnel, and secretarial job of a complex and confidential nature. This position entails varied administrative tasks, associated with office management, including considerable contact and interaction with other staff members, administrators and visitors.

Senior Accountant

BSD has an immediate opening for an experienced Senior Accountant. This position is responsible for maintaining the District’s finances in accordance with GASB generally accepted accounting principles. The Senior Accountant supports the Director of Finance in all elements related to the fiscal operations of the District. The successful candidate will exhibit strong communication skills, attention to detail, the ability to meet deadlines, and a willingness to be part of a team.

This is a 40 hour per week position that reports to the Chief of Police or his designee.

Schedule is Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Additional hours are a possibility. A High School Diploma or GED is required and at least two (2) years of experience working in an office setting. age range is . . 2 per hour.

Applicants will undergo an extensive background investigation including criminal and driver’s license record checks.

An account degree and public sector accounting experience preferred, (particularly in a school setting), but other combinations of education and experience will be considered. Candidate will demonstrate a strong knowledge of GASB’s generally accepted principles, be highly proficient in use of technology, especially Excel & accounting software, be experienced preparing & analyzing financial statements. The ability to consistently meet deadlines is a must.

Are you passionate, organized, and motivated and want to join a dynamic team?

Share your story with us. To apply, send your resume, cover letter and a Town of Milton job application, available at miltonvt.org/resources/employment.html to Sgt. Stephen Laroche, steve.laroche@vermont.gov or mail to: Town of Milton 37 Bombardier Road Milton, VT 05468.

Applications accepted until the position is filled.

The Town of Milton, VT provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, The Town of Milton, VT complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. The Town of Milton, VT expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of The Town of Milton, VT’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

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Salary: $65,000 - $80,000 annually, commensurate with qualifications.

Apply: www.bsdvt.org

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Accounting Professional

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Engineering Ventures, PC, with offices in Burlington, Vermont and Lebanon, New Hampshire is an experienced civil/site and structural engineering consulting firm. Our select, qualified professionals and technicians provide a broad range of civil and structural engineering services in the greater New England area and beyond. We are looking for a smart, energetic and positive person to maintain the overall accounting database system, perform bookkeeping, A/R, A/P, and general ledger, with knowledge of specialized bookkeeping or accounting software. This position has great potential for growth in the company.

This position requires an organized and highly motivated team player with strong initiative and communication skills who is thorough and accurate, with an attention to detail, discreet and trustworthy. Topping the list of must-haves are superb written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, a strong, open, receptive communication style and collaborative approach to work and problem solving.

Areas of responsibility include: data input, invoicing, receipt verification and balancing, inventory purchase and control, and financial reporting.

Qualifications include: Minimum of two year degree in accounting or finance and/or 2+ years of progressively responsible accounting experience. Knowledge of automated financial and accounting reporting systems is required. Excel skills are also necessary. Initial database training and support will be provided within the company.

Daily activities also involve: reception, filing, customer care, staff support, and general office upkeep. You will have experience in standard office technology with an attitude and aptitude to learn more.

This is a 32 to 40 hour a week, hourly position. Compensation includes competitive pay, health and dental insurance, life insurance, 401k plan and accrued paid leave.

Email your resume and cover letter to Trish Densham at trishd@engineeringventures.com. Learn more about Engineering Ventures at www.engineeringventures.com.

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The Arbors at Shelburne is a Benchmark Senior Living community focused on caring for individuals with memory related diseases.

RECEPTIONISTS FULL TIME

We have TWO full time receptionist positions available.

Must be available to work a Sunday to Thursday or a Tuesday to Saturday schedule. Individual must have good phone and interpersonal skills. Computer experience with Word and cel a m st. We offer a f ll benefit pac age wit .

Please call to schedule an interview.

The Arbors at Shelburne Attn: Human Resources 687 Harbor Road Shelburne, VT 05482 802-985-8600 phurteau@benchmarkquality.com A Benchmark Assisted Living Community, EOE.

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DIRECTOR OF NURSING Sous Chef

Centurion, a partnership between MHM Services and Centene Corporation, is a leading provider of health care services to correctional facilities nationwide.

Centurion of Vermont is proud to be the provider of health care services to the Vermont Department of Corrections.

The historic Middlebury Inn in Middlebury, VT is looking for a Sous Chef or Lead Line Cook with a passion for delicious and visually appealing food to be a team leader in our 71 room full-service hotel. This is an exempt position and a culinary degree is a plus as well as 2-4 years in a kitchen supervisory role. Our restaurant, Morgan’s Tavern, offers a full service Food & Beverage operation serving Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Afternoon Tea as well as offering spectacular weddings and catered events in a variety of banquet room settings.

We invite you to learn more about the environment that is often referred to as “nursing’s best kept secret” — Correctional Nursing.

We are currently seeking a full time Director of Nursing at our Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington, VT.

Send Resume to geoff@middleburyinn.com. middleburyinn.com

The Director of Nursing provides clinical, educational and professional supervision for nursing and support staff. Collaborates with site health care leadership, facility leadership and other multidisciplinary team members to maintain and improve health care programs and services provided to incarcerated population.

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Must be able to pass the Vermont Department of Corrections background investigation and obtain security clearance.

WE OFFER COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION AND A COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS PACKAGE INCLUDING: •

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Whether you have been a nurse for some time, or are just graduating, we would enjoy speaking with you. Our nurses work as a team sharing duties. Our campers are an active, well population. We are in search of two nurses to fill out our health center staff.

HORSEBACK RIDING INSTRUCTORS

2017 will be the 91st riding season at Brown Ledge. We have two positions to fill to complete our 11 person riding staff, and are looking for riders who have a background in H/J or Eventing and have experience teaching.

ARCHERY INSTRUCTOR

Are you an archer who can teach archery? Archery is a serious, well attended activity by archers of all levels at BLC.

RIFLERY INSTRUCTOR

Do you have a background in riflery? Do you have experience instructing riflery? Have you ever been on a riflery team?

Interested in any of these positions?

We would enjoy hearing from you!!!

Interested candidates, please email resumes to

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Brown Ledge Camp has some options for you!

Want to learn more? Email bill@brownledge.org, or call Bill at 802 862 2442, Extension 2.

If you would like to submit a resume or letter of interest email bill@brownledge.org

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CHOICE SUPPORT SERVICES

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Case Manager

ASK-int Tag is a premier manufacturer of RFID products.

At ASK, quality is always paramount and we take great pride in satisfying our customers with the very best products and services we can provide. Currently, the following job opportunities are available at our Essex Junction facility:

Full time Case Manager to cover Chittenden County. Case Managers are responsible to coordinate, design, develop, and manage the day programs for service participants. Case Managers also provide oversight to Life Skill Aides and Home Care Providers. We will consider applicants in the Barre area who are willing to travel to the Burlington on a weekly basis.

Bachelor’s degree and previous case management preferred but not required.

Warehouse Shipping/ Receiving/Inventory Clerk

Under the direction of the Production Manager, the incumbent will perform duties related to the receiving and shipping of product and materials including packing/ unpacking as well as verifying quality and quantity of all items shipped. Assists with inventory control processes.

Verifies shipping documentation and organizes materials distribution. Completes forms as required in accordance with purchase orders and/or packing slips/bills of lading.

Maintains storage areas. Assists with production as needed. Requires a high school diploma or equivalent and 1-2 years’ experience in shipping/receiving and/or inventory control. Experience working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment preferred.

Also seeking full and part time Life Skills Aides in Burlington and Barre areas as well as Ludlow. Responsibilities include assisting service participants with activities of daily living, limited personal care, accessing community, and attending appointments. Applicants should be creative, organized and compassionate.

If interested in any of the positions, apply by email info@choicetbisupportservices.com with resume or by calling 802-622-8122

Production team members will contribute an excellent work ethic and attention to detail toward the manufacture of ASK’s quality RFID products and services.

Positions are currently available on 2nd and 3rd shifts with a shift differential offered. Minimum requirements for an entry-level position on the production floor include a high school diploma or equivalent, the ability to operate different pieces of equipment and a commitment to achieving excellence in job execution.

ALL APPLICANTS MUST PASS MANDATORY BACKGROUND CHECKS, HAVE A VALID VT LICENSE, AND A SAFE, INSURED, RELIABLE AT WWW.CCV.EDU OR OF INTEREST VEHICLE. COMPENSATION TBD BASED ON POSITION ANDCCV EXPERIENCE. AT THE LOCATION

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ASK-intTag offers employees a standard benefits package which includes medical coverage and 401(k) participation after completing 60 days of satisfactory service.

To apply for one of the positions above, please forward a resume with cover letter to:

ASK-int Tag, LLC Attn: Demetra Fisher, HR Mgr 1000 River Street, Mailbox 169 Essex Junction, VT 05452

dfisher@ask-inttag.com.

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FACULTY ASSISTANT WINOOSKI ACADEMIC CENTER DIRECTOR OF STUDENT ProvideSUPPORT support to a CCV SERVICES Instructor beginning Fall

statewide travel are required.

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CCV encourages applications from candidates who reflect our diverse CCV encourages applications from candidates who reflect our diverse student population. CCV is an EOE/ADA compliant employer; auxiliary aids student population. CCV is an EOE/ADA compliant employer; and services areservices available requestupon to individuals with disabilities.with auxiliary aids and areupon available request to individuals

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Assist Selectboard based on your business or municipal experience and your ability to research, analyze, communicate, write grants, coordinate benefits.

Email calais.townclerk@gmail.com for job description, pay and benefits.

Phone 802 456-8720.

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New England’s Premier special event company is seeking hardworking, enthusiastic individuals to join our team. We are currently accepting applications for the 4:39 PM following positions starting late April/early May through November 1.

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2017 semester. The contract would be 12-15 hours per week for 17 weeks per semester. For 6+ hours per (Location flexible wiwthin CCV Academic Centers) week, the Assistant would be required to attend the We teacher’s seek an energetic andproviding resourcefulinstructional leader to provide administrative classes assistance, andand programmatic leadership for the federally funded TRIO/Student provide another 6 + hours per week helping the Support Services program which targets low income, first generation instructor outside of class time. Associate’s Degree, or a college students. Five years’ experience in higher education or related combination education andarea experience from which field, with Master’sofdegree in relevant required. Expertise in comparable and skills are acquired. management of staff, knowledge budgets and grant projects.

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Linen Division Assistant Warehouse Tent Cleaner Tent Installers Event Division Driver/ Warehouse Event Division Crew For detailed job descriptions please visit vttent.com/employment.

Stop by our office to fill out an application or email resume to jobs@vttent.com. EOE.

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This position is responsible for detecting and Cambridge support for Vermont’s international public relations initiatives. The Director Location: Williston. Status: Full Time. Limited Service – Exp. investigating suspected instances of fraud, waste, and abuse After-School will also collaborate with the Agency of Commerce executive teamprogram. in theThe duties of this 07/31/17, which may be extended.

Application Deadline: by providers in the VT Medicaid Program June 7, 2017. of a proactive travel trade and business position will consist of conductingplan. reviewsThis of medical records, development recruitment billed charges and associated documentation to ensure the position will report to the Commissioner of Tourism & Marketing. safeguard of Vermont Medicaid federal and state dollars.

Additional responsibilities include researching and applying Job Description: Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living knowledge of billing guidelines, and rules and Help our program go to Candidates must: demonstrate strong oral and skills; havepolicies, a BA professional to lead regulations. thewritten Vermont Department of in Tourism AreExperienced you looking to elevate your career as a sought Public Guardian?

This position will require regular and frequent Lake Eden this summer! Public Relations or related field; have a minimum of five years of relevant work This could be an appealing opportunity for a passionate and interaction with Medicaid providers, as well as occasional & Marketing’s public and trade relations eff orts.

This mission-critical position Beach Lifeguard needed energetic person to protect and monitor the legal and human on-site provider reviews, evaluations, chartindustry. auditing experience; demonstrate knowledge of Vermont and Vermont’s is designed to generate positive tourism-related coverage oftourism Vermont in theand the $14 per hour. Dates June rights of individuals under court-ordered guardianship. You use of varying electronic medical record software. See full job 27 – August 7. One day a andofinternational marketplace. The Director Communications is contact willnational cover a caseload individuals with developmental positing for list of of qualifications.

For more information week alternating between Resume, disabilities or age-related cognitive impairments in Central writing samples and a minimum of three references should be Leanne Miles leanne.miles@vermont.gov.

Reference responsible for the development and implementation of a proactive businessJob ID # Monday and Tuesday at and Northeastern Vermont who require assistance with critical 621406. Location: Williston. Status: Permanent, Full Time. submitted to Kitty Vermont Agency Commerce outreach planSweet, consistent with the goalsofand mission ofand theCommunity Department of decision making in several life domains. At times, there 11:15 - 5:30 or 12:00 - 4:45.

Application Deadline: June 4, 2017.

Development, One National Life Drive, Montpelier, consistent VT 05620-0501.

In- and out-ofMarketing ashave well as maintaining communications is aTourism high level ofand stress.

Applicants must knowledge Send resume to of the needs of individuals with disabilities, services and via social networking This position is responsible for all tourism media will be required.tools.

Salary range: $45,000 - $50,000. cap-director@hotmail.com state travel opportunities for meeting those needs. Must be able to relations in-state and out-of-state; press release development; pitching targeted contact 802-644-8888 Department of Health work well with diverse teams, learn a variety of computer for further information. tourismand story ideasforto regional andatnational media; development of topress Join the team that brings public health local communities! applications, be available emergency response Local Health is seeking a business operations night and on the weekends.

Extensive travel is required.

For familiarization trips and itineraries; management of media contact lists; leader and to join our management team. The Division Administrator more information, contact Jackie Rogers at 828-3623 or support for Vermont’s international public relations initiatives. The Director 2v-CambridgeAfterschool052417.indd 1 5/22/17 4:36 PM email jackie.rogers@vermont.gov. Reference Job ID #621386. brings the business perspective to inform decision making will also collaborate with Fill-In. the Agency executive in theoversees across the division.

The personteam in this position Location: Montpelier.

Status: Temporary Applicationof Commerce the administrative, fiscal and operational functions Deadline: May 31, 2017. development of a proactive travel trade and business recruitment plan.

Thisof the division that encompasses collaboration with the business position will report to the Commissioner of Tourism & Marketing. office on budget management, development and management of division policy, guidelines and procedures, supervision Department of Vermont Healthdemonstrate Access of administrative staff, grant and contract administrator Candidates must: strong oral and written skills; have a BA in We have a stimulating and rewarding opportunity for a and represents the division on a business and operations Public Relations or related field; have a minimum of five years of relevant work seasoned data professional to lead the Health Access workgroup for projects that result in department wide experience; demonstrate knowledge of Vermont and Vermont’s industry.

Eligibility and Enrollment Unit’s (HAEEU) new reporting team. impact. The ideal candidate will betourism able to navigate complex This team is taking over previously contracted reporting duties issues with the goal of offering solutions to improve division that support effective eligibility, enrollment, customer service, operations. For more information, contact Allison Reagan at Resume, writing samples and a minimum of three references should be policy making, planning and evaluation for the unit that serves 652-4190 or email allison.reagan@vermont.gov. Reference submitted to Kitty Sweet, Vermont Commerce andBurlington.

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To apply, you must use the online job application at careers.vermont.gov. For questions related to your application, please contact the state oftravel will be Recruitment required.

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SUBSTITUTE FOOD SERVICE Do you have previous food service experience? Are you looking for a little extra cash or for some part-time hours to keep you busy? Substitute food service staff needed to perform a variety of routine food service tasks for the Essex Westford School District food service program (serving the Essex Junction, Essex Town, and Westford schools). Onthe-job training provided. Positions are available on an oncall as-needed basis, but may evolve into regular part-time positions as a result of turnover or program changes.

Hours may vary from early to mid-morning to early afternoon. Pays $13.32/hour.

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Finance Director CSWD is seeking a Finance Director to oversee the finance department of a countywide municipal organization with an annual budget of $10 million. The Finance Director is responsible for maintaining financial records, preparing and presenting the annual budget, managing computerized accounting systems and investment programs. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Dynamics Great Plains. Bachelor’s Degree in accounting or finance with seven years of experience including three years of supervisory experience required. Master’s Degree and/ or CPA, and governmental accounting experience preferred. Starting salary range $70,550-$86,486. Excellent benefit package.

For more information on the position and CSWD, visit cswd.net/about-cswd/job-openings.

Submit cover letter and resume to Amy Jewell (ajewell@cswd.net) by June 16, 2017.

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Communications Associate FELLOW ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT The Regulatory Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) is a global, team The Assistance Project (RAP) helps non-profit energy and air of experts providing and policy assistance on a broad rangesector of energy regulators andtechnical NGOs navigate the complexities of power issues. and Are you an experienced and detail-oriented individual that policy regulation.

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Full & Part-Time Openings Wake Robin, Vermont’s premier continuing care retirement community is adding members to our team of Dining Room Wait Staff. This is a perfect opportunity for individuals with the time and drive to begin their working experience, or for professionals who wish to supplement their current career endeavors.

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LEGISLATIVE FISCAL ANALYST - SENIOR FISCAL ANALYST POSITION MONTPELIER Legislative Joint Fiscal Office The Vermont Legislative Joint Fiscal office is accepting applications for a legislative fiscal analyst. The person will provide support and research to legislators on a variety of fiscal issues including state revenues, taxes, tax expenditures, commerce, and other relevant matters. A full job description can be found at http://leg.state.vt.us/jfo/link/jfojob17.pdf.

Resumes will be reviewed starting on May 22, with the position open until filled.

Does this sound interesting? If so, we would love to hear from you.

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America’s premier innovator, designer and manufacturer of high-performance wire and cable with a 60-year history of providing solutions to the toughest problems in the world’s most extreme environments. We excel at developing customized products, utilizing our cross-linked irradiation technology, that meet power, signal and data transmission needs—no matter how demanding the challenge—while exceeding standards for quality, durability and safety.

SENIOR STAFF / COST ACCOUNTANT This position is responsible for general accounting duties to include month end close, creating financial package, general ledger activity, account reconciliation and financial analysis. Also cost accounting related issues, systems, and controls. Perform cycle counts and other inventory functions. Other responsibilities are assisting with budgets/forecasts and analyzing inventory usage.

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN THE FOLLOWING: • • • • • •

4 year accounting and or finance degree.

At least 4 years’ experience in accounting, ERP systems or running a business.

Be detailed oriented and curious how ERP systems function.

Working knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Work with a minimal supervision (i.e. a self-starter) and handle variety of tasks.

Excellent computer skills especially in Excel and financial report writing.

MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT SPECIALISTS OPERATIONS (MANAGEMENT TRAINEE) OFFICE (MANAGEMENT TRAINEE)

The Management Development Specialists will be trained and work in several departments over a course of 18 to 24 months. After the initial 18 to 24 months, she/he will be assigned to a department that is mutually beneficial to both the employee and employer. The purpose of this position is to develop an employee knowledgeable in our business operations, be able to work in numerous departments, and have the skills to make a positive impact on our business and their own career. Must be able to travel to our various manufacturing sites (currently Colchester, VT and El Paso, TX) and ultimately, if the opportunity arises, be willing to accept a position at one of these sites.

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Work at least 6 months in one department and in several departments over 18 - 24 month period.

Learn and master operations, including but not limited to customer service, marketing, purchasing, scheduling, human resources for the office specialist and operations, engineering, development for the operations specialist.

Provide general administration assistance to the department to which they are assigned.

Make recommendations to leadership for streamlining systems and processes.

Research and implement solutions for enhanced efficiency as well as identify areas for process improvements.

With mentor guidance, work on a selected project every 6 months; present the proposed project, provide updates, summarize findings and achievements to senior staff on a regular basis.

Build and manage relationships with strategic partners.

Establish weekly meetings with respective Dept. Manager and Mentor to review progress.

Other additional responsibilities may be assigned as required by management.

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Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering for the Operations Specialist and Bachelor’s Degree in Business Mgt., Marketing, or a related field for the Office Specialist.

Proficient with Microsoft Office, Internet, and other IT systems a plus High level of written and oral communication.

Strong team member who can work independently.

Excellent customer service focus.

We are ISO & TS certified, offer excellent benefits and wages. Equal Opportunity Employer Email resume and or cover letter to hr@champcable.com or mail to 175 Hercules Dr. Colchester, VT 05446 Attn: HR Dept.

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Join the fastest-growing company in Vermont! Marathon Health, located in Winooski was recognized this year as one of Vermont’s Best Places to Work and won the VT Governor’s Wellness Award. We serve businesses and municipalities throughout the United States, providing a different kind of healthcare program that emphasizes patient involvement, prevention, risk reduction and outcomes.

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Providing innovative mental health and educational services to Vermont’s children and families.

“Make a difference in the life of a child!”- NFI Vermont, a leader in specialized trauma and adolescent development, is looking to expand our team of innovators. Full-time and part-time positions available. Competitive wages, training opportunities, flexible work schedules and family oriented culture. Excellent benefits with tuition reimbursement offered for 30 or more hour employees.

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Clinical Training Specialist Communications Specialist Digital Marketing Strategist Health Coach Training Specialist Learn more about our company and for a full scope of these opportunities, visit our website marathon-health.com/careers.

NFI Vermont is seeking a part time experienced Human Resources Assistant to work 30 hours a week. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, self-motivated, team-oriented and will possess excellent communication skills. Primary duties include coordination of personnel paperwork with our 17 programs regarding hiring and benefits information, coordination of the agency training calendar, payroll timesheet entry and assisting the Human Resource Manager, with administrative support. Must be detail oriented and be able to multi-task in a fast paced environment. Microsoft Office computer skills required. Experience in Human Resource Management a plus. Please send resume and cover letter to: Amy Whittemore, Human Resource Manager, 30 Airport Road, South Burlington, VT 05403 or AmyWhittemore@nafi.com.

Foster Parents & Respite Providers Vermont Make a difference in the life of a child! NFI is seeking Vermont homes to support children in need. A sense of humor, flexibility & willingness to work as a team are essential. We are also seeking weekend respite providers. If you are a VT home in the Greater Hartford Area or in Chittenden or Franklin counties, please contact Jodie Clarke at 802-658-3924 x1028 or email jodieclarke@nafi.com.

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Northeast Wilderness Trust is an accredited, non-profit land trust founded in 2002 with a mission to protect foreverwild landscapes for nature and people. NWT seeks an inspired, experienced and passionately-focused leader to build and sustain the Nation's only regional land trust dedicated to wilderness.

Full job description: newildernesstrust.org/ mission-and-history/ employment-opportunities/

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Marathon Health promotes a culture of health and wellness in everything we do. It is for this reason we seek to hire individuals who embrace wellness and model healthy behaviors in their own lives. We are proud to be a drug and tobacco free company. We value the richness diversity brings to our workforce and are committed to being an equal opportunity employer and provider. EOE.

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NFI VT’s Allenbrook Group Home is looking for a part time awake overnight staff person. This position is 10 hours per week on Sunday / Monday with the option for additional hours throughout the week. Qualified candidates will have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent and reliable transportation.

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Join a progressive, non-profit Human Services agency, trusted for providing high quality care and treatment to people in need.

New leadership opportunities have been created as part of the agency’s active evolution to best serve our community. These include:

Home Instead Senior Care, a provider of home helper services to seniors in their homes, is seeking friendly and dependable people.

CAREGivers assist seniors with companionship, light housekeeping, 3:29 PM meal preparation, personal care, errands, safety presence and more.

Part-time, flexible scheduling, including: daytime, evening, weekend and overnight shifts currently available. Higher pay for weekend shifts. No heavy lifting.

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We seek cooks for both seasonal and year round opportunities at our luxury resort. If you are passionate about local, sustainable and seasonal food philosophies - we'd like to connect. Both restaurant and banquet experience is sought, though we will cross train the right individual. Housing is possible for the right candidate.

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PART TIME MARKETING AND DESIGN ASSOCIATE Edgewater Gallery seeks a part-time Marketing and Design Associate (25-35 hours/week) who will work closely with the Gallery Director. This role will be responsible for the creation of communications materials to promote the gallery and its artists. Primary responsibilities will include designing artist promotional materials and ads, writing press releases, news articles, email newsletters and announcements, and maintaining the gallery website. 2+ years work experience required, preferably in marketing, graphic design, or communications. Strong candidates will have excellent written and verbal communications and a portfolio of high quality print and/or online materials.

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Crothers Environmental Group is seeking full-time Abatement Workers. No experience necessary.

We will train and pay for licensure for the right person(s). Starting pay is $12 per hour for non experienced workers, $15 per hour for experienced/licensed workers.

Position based in Morrisville but will service entire State of Vermont and Northern New Hampshire with a company-owned vehicle. Clean driving record required.

Service Technician I, repairs and installs a variety of electronic and mechanical dental equipment and products. This position will entail a large amount of field service work consisting of driving to and from customer sites throughout Burlington and the greater Vermont area.

Read the full job description at: edgewatergallery.co/job-postings/ Responsibilities: • Determining parts, supplies or tools needed to complete Please email cover letter, resume and portfolio of design and writing samples to: careers@edgewatergallery-vt.com field service requests and using, maintaining, and securing test devices and tools used to adjust, calibrate and repair or mail to: Edgewater Gallery, attn: Marketing & Design 6 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT 05753 equipment.

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(code#17028) The Vermont Judiciary seeks an experienced manager to oversee several counties in the Northeast Kingdom region and Washington county unit. Units and regions assigned are subject to change. This position oversees a team of managers, employees and a multi-million-dollar budget.

As a member of the senior management team, the Senior Manager will be vital to strategic planning, continuous improvement, and execution against operational commitments. Must build public confidence in the courts through high standards of transparency and accountability.

are seeking a Service Coordinator with strong clinical and organizational skills to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a fast-paced, team-oriented position and have demonstrated leadership.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a distinguished developmental service provider agency during a time of growth.

Please send your cover letter and application to Elizabeth Sightler, esightler@ccs-vt.org.

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The Vermont Judiciary is an equal opportunity employer.

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Combined with the wine, these mezzes had the power to dissolve thoughts of border wait times, encouraging a hungry journalist to savor the present.

My partner and I split two entrées ($20 CAD each) that were deeply flavored but less intensely so than the starters. The kefta kebab bil karaz consisted of meatballs of minced local lamb, pistachios, walnuts, red onions and spices, served with rice. The meatballs were simmered in a sauce of juicy, slightly tart cherries and spiced with a hint of cinnamon.

Served in a clay pot, the dish was garnished with wedges of deep-fried pita and pine nuts. I’ve eaten enough rancid pine nuts, even at upscale restaurants, to generally avoid dishes containing them or to ask that they be left out. But the pine nuts scattered on this kefta were fresh and added a pleasing crunch.

The jarret d’agneau was a braised New Zealand lamb shank that tore easily from the bone. It was served with a rich yogurt-tahini sauce and topped with copious amounts of chopped Italian parsley. The reliably good yet under-celebrated fresh herb, with its grassiness and slight salinity, brightened the flavors of the long-simmered shank.

Guarding kitchen secrets, Sakr flatly refused to discuss which spices were used in which dishes. I scraped the marrow from the shank bone and pondered hints of star anise, along with nutmeg, clove and pepper. As the meal wore on and the sun lowered in the sky, I, coatless and chilled, shivered happily over the lamb, unwilling to vacate my place in the sun until we finished the main courses.

Eventually, we warmed up inside at the small bar. The interior of KazaMaza has a cozy yet dynamic feel

with exposed-brick walls and chandeliers topped by brightly beaded shades.

Protruding straight from the wooden bar top, beside the case of baklava, was a charming copper waterspout from which servers refilled red ceramic pitchers. Maybe the wine had gone to my head, but I found it lovely to see water, our most basic necessity, gathered and presented with such aesthetics.

Service was attentive and helpful; our server gracefully accepted my stilted Franglish without batting an eye, communicating the basics to me in French and the more complex concepts in English.

In a busy restaurant on a Saturday night, that kind of patience was a gift for which I was grateful.

The walnut baklava, which Sakr sources from a local Syrian Canadian baker, was pleasantly flaky — not sticky-sweet as some baklavas are wont to be.

But, if you like the taste of anise, try a digestif in lieu of dessert. Arak is an anise-flavored clear liquor from the Middle East. It’s traditionally served with water, which turns the anise oil opaque. Arak can also be drunk as an aperitif or enjoyed along with the strongly flavored mezzes. A little sweet and not overbearing in its licorice flavor, it helped us digest all that lamb, tahini and spices.

At 8 p.m., the restaurant hummed with conversations in a variety of languages. Our bellies full and warm, we walked back to our host’s apartment to drop off leftovers and re-layer for the night. I’m not sure if it was legal to walk around with a half bottle of Château Kefraya in my purse, but the motion did provide a sort of decanter-on-the-go effect. By the time we poured glasses for friends in Mile End, the wine had opened up enough to be enjoyable without food.

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STITCH & B!TCH DROP-IN EMBROIDERY SESSIONS: Needle-and-thread enthusiasts explore the history and politics of fiber arts through projects and discussions. Generator, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $9-10; preregister. Info, 540-0761.

community

HOME SHARING INFO SESSION: Locals get upto-date details on home-sharing opportunities in Vermont. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 4-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

conferences

SOUTHERN VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT: Attendees at this meeting of the minds examine innovative responses to emerging issues in community and regional economic growth. Base Lodge, Stratton Mountain Resort, 9:30 a.m. $30 includes lunch. Info, 442-0713, ext. 312.

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BEGINNER CONTEMPORARY BALLET CLASS: Developing dancers find their footing in a level-one lesson. North End Studio C, Burlington, noon-1:30 p.m. $10. Info, 310-467-5879.

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CONTEMPORARY BALLET, LEVEL 2: Dancers take their skills to the next level with a dedicated instructor. North End Studio C, Burlington, 1:30-3 p.m. $10. Info, 310-467-5879.

RUTLAND DEATH CAFÉ: Men and women discuss issues related to the end of life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991.

film

‘THE LOBSTER’: Colin Farrell stars in a 2015 comedy in which single people who cannot find mates are transformed into animals. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

‘POLLOCK’: Ed Harris stars as American painter Jackson Pollock. Bellows Falls Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 463-3252.

food & drink

CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS FARMERS MARKET: Baked items, fresh produce, meats and eggs sustain seekers of local goods. South Hero St. Rose of Lima Church, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, champlainislandsfarmersmkt@gmail.com.

COMMUNITY MEAL: Diners dig into a hot lunch.

United Church of Johnson, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 635-2356.

COMMUNITY SUPPER: A scrumptious spread connects friends and neighbors. Bring a dessert to share. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 5-5:45 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.

KICK THE SUGAR HABIT: Clinical herbalist Barb Alpert helps sweets addicts balance their cravings with new, healthy patterns. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $3-5; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

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.

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: Local products — think produce, breads, pastries, cheeses, wines, syrups, jewelry, crafts and beauty supplies — draw shoppers to a diversified bazaar. Depot Park, Rutland, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 342-4727.

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GREENER DRINKS: Supporters of common-sense cannabis reform sip beverages and discuss the culture, industry and politics of the agricultural product. Zenbarn, Waterbury, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, info@vtcannabisbrands.com.

NURSING BEYOND A YEAR MEET-UP: Breastfeeding parents connect over toddler topics such as weaning and healthy eating habits. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 985-8228.

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

GENTLE TAI CHI: Madeleine Piat-Landolt guides students in a sequence of poses with an emphasis on relaxation and alignment. Champlain Senior Center, McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

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PLANT SALE: Green thumbs take their pick of more than 300 varieties of certified organic seedlings including veggies, herbs, dye plants and flowers.

Arc of the Eye Organic Farm & Nursery, Brookfield, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 276-3839.

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OPEN MIC NIGHT: Feats of comedy, music, poetry and storytelling fill five-, 10- and 15-minute time slots. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 7-9 p.m. Donations; BYOB; preregister to perform.

Info, info@mainstreetmuseum.org.

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In the tradition of Oliver Twist and James and the Giant Peach, the 2016 film My Life as a Zucchini follows an orphaned boy searching for his place in the world. Stop-motion animation and big-eyed characters tell the story of a youngster who learns about love and trust in a foster home.

With a PG-13 rating, director Claude Barras’ Academy Awardnominated tale is as much for adults as for kids, touching on topics of abuse, addiction and death. Warning: If the movie’s trailer is any indication, this Frenchlanguage film shown with English subtitles is bound to be a tearjerker.

Several guiding principles set the St-Ambroise Montréal FRINGE Festival apart. For starters, there’s no artistic direction, anyone can apply to perform and artists are completely uncensored.

The result is a three-week smorgasbord of unconventional Canadian and international creatives showcasing their talents in music, dance, theater and visual art. With ticket prices that won’t break the bank, the attendance policy seems to be “the more, the merrier,” drawing more than 60,000 patrons of the arts each year. For fans of all things offbeat, this eclectic extravaganza is worth a trip across the border.

ST-AMBROISE MONTRÉAL FRINGE FESTIVAL Monday, May 29, through Wednesday, May 31, at various Montréal locations. See website for additional dates. Prices vary. Info, 514-849-3378. montrealfringe.ca

ABOUT A BOY MAY 25 | FILM ‘MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI’ Thursday, May 25, 7 p.m., at Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, in Burlington. $5-8; free for Vermont International Film Foundation members.

Info, 660-2600. vtiff.org

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OPEN FIELDS MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL Saturday, May 27, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Thetford Green. $7; free for kids 4 and under. Info, 785-2077. vtmedfest.com

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Come one, come all to a celebration of centuries past! The annual Open Fields Medieval Festival transports costumeclad merrymakers to another time and place with family-friendly music, dance, demos and hands-on activities. The revelry commences with the Procession of the King and Queen and continues with an artist market, festive foods and the chance to meet majestic Highland ponies. No Strings Marionette Company enchants with a quirky rendition of a classic fairy tale in Handsome and Gretel. Oh, and be on the lookout for the festival’s fire-breathing friend, Benny the Dragon, wandering the grounds.

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Wednesday, May 31, 7-8:30 p.m., at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier.

Free. Info, 223-3338. kellogghubbard.org

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Vermont entertainer T. Namaya wears many hats — poet, humorist, raconteur, playwright and visual artist among them. Though he has graced stages around the globe, works such as his 2011 album Vermont My Home: A Celebration prove that Namaya’s roots are firmly planted in the Green Mountain State.

The troubadour turns up at Montpelier’s Kellogg-Hubbard Library, where banners bearing his poetry currently hang, to perform selections from his new book, Celebrate Life: Viva La Vida. Ranging from poems to stories to songs, these excerpts celebrate life, love, travel and the penman’s Vermont neighbors.

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GINGER’S EXTREME BOOT CAMP: Triathletes, Spartan racers and other fitness fanatics challenge themselves to complete Navy Seal exercises during an intense workout. Come in good shape.

Private residence, Middlebury, 7-8 a.m. $8-12; for ages 16 and up. Info, 343-7160.

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The Residence at Quarry Hill and Genesis Rehab Services Vitality to You have teamed up to provide on-site physical, occupational and speech therapy programs for residents. Where you can be you again!

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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.

PILATES: Active bodies utilize core strength, build body awareness, improve posture, gain stamina and alleviate pain with this innovative system of exercise. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:15-8:15 a.m. $10. Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: Folks in recovery and their families enrich mind, body and spirit in an all-levels class. All props are provided; wear loose clothing. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

RESTORATIVE GENTLE YOGA: Individuals with injuries or other challenges feel the benefits of a relaxing and nourishing practice. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 8:30-9:30 a.m. $10. Info, studio@ zenbarnvt.com.

SUNRISE YOGA: Participants of all levels enjoy slowing down, moving mindfully and breathing deeply while building strength and stamina on the mat. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 6-7 a.m. $10. Info, studio@ zenbarnvt.com.

TAI CHI CLASS: Folks renew body, mind and spirit by learning Yang-style long-form postures, qigong, partner practice and yin/yang principles.

McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, 453-3690.

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STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Engrossing plots unfold into fun activities for tots ages 6 and younger.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

STORY TIME WITH A TWIST: Wee ones get the wiggles and giggles out with Ms. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

TODDLER TIME: With activities ranging from Legos and Play-Doh to stories and snacks, little ones and their caregivers find plenty of ways to play. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 745-1391.

YOGA FOR KIDS: Young yogis ages 2 through 5 strike a pose to improve balance and flexibility.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 865-7216.

YOUNG WRITERS & STORYTELLERS: Kindergartners through fifth graders practice crafting narratives. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

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

Free. Info, 865-7211.

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

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Learners take communication to the next level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7211.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: Hola!

Language lovers perfect their TH fluency. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, N U .2 O T 5|M EA Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, U S IC | A N D R E A B 223-3338.

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT NURSING STUDENT VISITS: Presentations on different types of music healthy lifestyles promote well-being. Champlain WORLD MUSIC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE: Hafiz Senior Center, McClure Multigenerational Center, Shabazz directs a full band in a beat-driven reperBurlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585. toire ranging from ancient African to Brazilian and VINYASA YOGA: Salutations, standing poses, Latin American rhythms. Spaulding Auditorium, seated poses, backbends and inversions are on Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, the agenda in a class for all experience levels.

Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $9-10. Info, 603-646-2422.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 5:45-6:45 p.m. $10.

Info, 244-8134. seminars 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 NIDRA: THE YOGA OF DEEP RELAXATION: Savitri Devi Dasi leads students into a state of deep meditation, which brings profound calmness, quietness and relaxation. Bring a blanket and something comfortable to lie on. Cavendish Gallery, Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 206-557-9850.

ZUMBA EXPRESS: A shortened version of this guided beat-driven workout gives students a much-needed midday surge of energy.

Marketplace Fitness, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-noon. $12; free for members and first-timers. Info, 651-8773.

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LEGO CHALLENGE: Kids tackle construction tasks with colorful blocks. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1391.

LEGO FUN: Creative types in grades K and up build unique structures with brightly colored pieces.

Kids under 5 require adult supervision. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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

Info, 472-6694.

RICHMOND STORY TIME: Lit lovers ages 2 through 5 are introduced to the wonderful world of reading.

Richmond Free Library, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

CABLE ALTERNATIVES: Television lovers tune into options for viewing their favorite shows and movies. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

HERB TASTING GROUP: HONING OUR SENSES & INTUITION: Blind taste tests prompt herbalists to note flavors, physical reactions and natural impressions of various medicinal plants. Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 540-0595.

I CHING: Instructor Baylen demonstrates the ancient Chinese oracle used for insight and guidance in a five-part series. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

LIVING WITH ALZHEIMER’S FOR LATE-STAGE CAREGIVERS: Professionals provide strategies for safe, effective and comfortable care. University of Vermont Medical Center Memory Program, Colchester, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 800-272-3900.

SMARTPHONE SECURITY: Android and iPhone operators pick up tips for ensuring privacy on their devices. Waterbury Public Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 244-7036.

WHAM, BAM! NO, THANK YOU, SCAM: Attendees learn how to tell if they’re being targeted in fraudulent activities. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

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WHAT IS SPIRITUAL FREEDOM?: An open discussion with Eckankar of Vermont encourages individuals to discover their true selves. Upper Valley Food Co-op, White River Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

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WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: Ladies dribble up and down the court during an evening of friendly competition. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 8:15-9:30 p.m. $3; preregister at meetup.com. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail.com.

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Electronics novices develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon & 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

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‘THE KING AND I’ AUDITIONS: Men, women and children vie for parts in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s royal musical. Those going for leads should prepare a song from the show. Enosburg Falls Junior/Senior High School, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 933-6171.

ZONTA SPELLING BEE: Teams duke it out in an annual syllable showdown benefiting the college’s Single Parents Program. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; preregister to participate. Info, burlingtonVT@zontadistrict1.org.

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BOOK LAUNCH: Editors and lauded wordsmiths Sydney Lea and Chard deNiord unveil the anthology Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

SLAM! SPOKEN WORD POETRY: An open mic paves the way for a juried set at this word fest featuring the Sustainability Academy Poets, Muslim Girls Making Change and Reuben Jackson. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6 p.m. $3. Info, 540-0406.

WRITING CIRCLE: Prompts lead into a 30-minute free write and sharing opportunities without judgment.

The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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FIGURE DRAWING: Artists bearing their own supplies drop in for an all-levels sketching session.

Karma Bird House Gallery, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $10; cash only. Info, 864-3840.

OPEN STUDIO: Friends new and old convene for a creative session. Expressive Arts Burlington, 12:302:30 p.m. $15. Info, 343-8172.

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GRANITE CITY GROCER MIXER: Area professionals network while learning about the benefits of a coop in Barre. The Office Block, Barre, 5-7 p.m. $10-15; preregister. Info, 229-5711.

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COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Area residents chew the fat over the values of space and community growth. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-4928218, ext. 303.

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ADULT AERIAL DANCE CONDITIONING: With or without previous experience, folks forge strength, grace and confidence in the air. North End Studio B, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $15. Info, 863-6713.

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FOR REAL WOMEN SERIES WITH BELINDA: GIT UR FREAK ON: R&B and calypso-dancehall music is the soundtrack to an empowering sensual dance session aimed at confronting body shaming. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, bestirredfitness@gmail.com.

PAULA HIGA OPEN CLASS/AUDITION: Movers from various backgrounds show their skills for spots in the Burlington-based company Paula Higa Dance & Ers. Mann Hall Gymnasium, University of Vermont Trinity Campus, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 349-2930.

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SWING DANCE: Beginners work their brains and bodies in and easy-to-follow class. A postlesson practice session keeps dancers on their toes. Vergennes Opera House, class, 6:30-7:30 p.m.; practice session, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 475-2349.

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BIRDS & MAPLE SYRUP: Habitat and sugarbush management meet in a presentation on the BirdFriendly Maple Project. Underhill Town Hall, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3068.

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AMP NIGHT: Creative Clark Derbes, songsters Djuvay Djaz and wordsmith Darren Higgins are the special guests at an evening highlighting artists, musicians and poets. Gallery at River Arts, Morrisville, 6-8 p.m. $10; cash bar. Info, 888-1261.

DANCE, PAINT, WRITE: DROP-IN: Teens and adults create, connect, heal and grow through self-guided movement and art set to music. Expressive Arts Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $20; free for first-timers.

Info, 343-8172.

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POSTNATAL SELF-EMPOWERMENT: Mothers and babes-in-arms circle up for a reflective session centered on embracing one’s self and family amid the chaos of daily life. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $10-20. Info, 829-0211.

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‘MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI’: A young boy learns lessons of love and trust in this animated film shown in French with English subtitles. See calendar spotlight. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-8; free for Vermont International Film Foundation members.

Info, 660-2600.

‘REAL BOY’: A conversation with Safe Harbor for Trans Teens founders Penny and Chuck Pizer augments a screening of this 2016 coming-of-age documentary about a young transgender man.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

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BEER-INFUSED COCKTAIL PARTY: Switchback Ale and other brews tempt taste buds when mixed with Stonecutter Spirits in spring-themed specialty refreshments. The Tap Room at Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Cost of drinks. Info, 651-4114.

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VERMONT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUSINESS EXPO: Business leaders network at a trade show featuring 150 exhibitors. See vtexpo.com for details. Sheraton Burlington Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $10. Info, 262-0138.

COMEDY NIGHT FOR RECOVERY: Tracy Dolan, Annie Russell, Paul Church and other yuksters dole out jokes. Snacks and a silent auction seal the deal.

Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $10-20; limited space. Info, 861-3150.

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NEWBERRY MARKET: Shoppers browse specialty foods, clothing, pottery, décor, collectibles and more at a weekly indoor bazaar. Newberry Market, White River Junction, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 299-0212.

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TEA & BRISTLES: Potential Picassos express themselves in a painting class with step-by-step instructions. Fairfax Community Library, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT PREGNANCY STUDY Researchers at the Vermont Center on Behavior and Health are looking for women who are currently pregnant to participate in a study on health behaviors and infant birth outcomes.

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IN-STORE TASTING: ORIGIN STORIES: A selection of natural wines blows oenophiles’ minds. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 4-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-2368.

INTERNATIONAL POTLUCK DINNER: Flavors from around the world are on the menu alongside a Q&A session about a new school-based health center.

Bring a dish to share. Winooski High School, 5:306:30 p.m. Free. Info, pat.mckittrick@uvmhealth.org.

ROYALTON FARMERS MARKET: A cornucopia of farm-fresh fare catches shoppers’ eyes.

South Royalton Town Green, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 763-8302.

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CHITTENDEN COUNTY CHESS CLUB: Checkmate!

Strategic thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ kings. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 324-1143.

POKÉMON LEAGUE: I choose you, Pikachu! Players of the trading-card game earn weekly and monthly prizes in a fun, friendly environment where newbies can be coached by league leaders. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0498.

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

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FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES 2017: Artists from across generations and continents converge in Montréal for 15 days of dance and theater shows. Various Montréal locations. $144-333 for packages; prices vary for individual shows. Info, 514-844-3822.

music

ANDREA BEATON: The award-winning Cape Breton fiddler and composer captivates lovers of traditional tunes with her powerful bow-and-string style.

Burlington Violin Shop, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 233-5293.

CORNWALL FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Interval training helps participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness. Cornwall Town Hall, 9-10 a.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

THE LUYAS: The Montréal ensemble serves up experimental indie rock sounds from 2017’s Human Voicing. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 540-0406.

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.

MISSISQUOI RIVER BAND: Masterful picking and three-part harmonies usher in the Westfied Music Series. First Congregational Church of Westfield, potluck supper, 6 p.m.; concert, 7 p.m. $10. Info, jeff. felli@gmail.com.

INNER WORLDS: HUMAN ECOLOGY & THE MICROBIOME: Students in this class taught by Emma Merrit explore the connection between wellness and the human ecosystem. Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $20-25.

Info, 540-0595.

OPEN MIC NIGHT: A relaxed and supportive atmosphere allows aspiring performers ages 16 and up to debut their musical talents. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3500.

BABY & TODDLER PLAYGROUP: Parents connect while kids ages 3 and younger enjoy toys, stories, challah and juice. Social Hall, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, grace@ohavizedek.org.

LEGO CLUB: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire developing minds. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Captivating narratives pave the way for crafts and activities for youngsters ages 3 through 6. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 264-5660.

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LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH: Bag lunches in hand, attendees brush up on their linguistic abilities. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

DECONSTRUCTION: EXECUTIVE DISORDER & ACID ROACH: Two area metal bands melt faces.

Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8-11 p.m. Free; for ages 21 and up. Info, 518-563-2222.

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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.

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.

YOGA PILATES THERAPY: A class for beginners is tailored to suit the needs of students looking to improve their posture and overall wellbeing.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 8:30-9:30 a.m. $10.

Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

language

CHAMPLAIN ELEMENTARY RECORD RELEASE: A compilation of songs recorded by kiddos in grades K through 5 as part of the Champlain Record Project makes its debut. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406.

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

Free. Info, 448-4262.

UKULELE KIDS!: Musical munchkins play instruments and dance to favorite children’s songs.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216.

CHAIR YOGA: Yogis limber up with modified poses. Champlain Senior Center, McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 316-1510.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: A peaceful, guided meditation helps participants achieve a sense of stability and calm. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 777-8602.

READ TO ARCHIE: Budding bookworms join a friendly therapy dog for entertaining tails — er, tales. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:15-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6956.

seminars

ANIMAL CRUELTY: CURRENT CASES & LEGISLATION IN VERMONT: Fans of furry friends get a rundown of the laws in place to protect the community’s critters. Humane Society of Chittenden County, South Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 862-0135.

tech

TECH SUPPORT: Need an email account? Want to enjoy ebooks? Bring your phone, tablet or laptop to a weekly help session. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291, ext. 302.

theater

‘STORIES YOU SHOULD KNOW’: Bald Mountain Theater’s Ethan Bowen brings Italian and German folk tales to life. Spice Performing Arts Studio, Rochester, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 767 4800.

words

GARRETT M. GRAFF: The former Politico magazine editor opens the cover on his latest title Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 448-3350.

PATTY JOSLYN & JAN ALEXANDRA SANDMAN: Two wordsmiths excerpt their respective nonfiction texts, Ruminate: Meditations on Mystical

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Wisdoms and White Stones, Bones, and Mist: Authentic Movement and Living Prayer. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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PEACE VIGIL: Friends and neighbors come together, bringing along their signs and their hearts.

Top of Church St., Burlington, 5-5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 899-1731.

agriculture

GRANITE CENTER GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE: Gardeners browse herbs, shrubs, accessories and more to support the group’s scholarship programs and area plantings. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 6:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 479-1838.

PUBLIC TOUR: A 45-minute trek introduces community members to the food systems nonprofit’s programs such as the Intervale Food Hub and Intervale Conservation Nursery. Intervale Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, carolyn@ intervale.org.

bazaars

BAKED BEADS JEWELRY & SCARF SALE: Fashionistas scoop up baubles and more at low prices. Partial proceeds benefit Mad River Valley Ambulance. 46 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 496-2440.

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BURLINGTON BIKE PARTY: HIPPIES & YUPPIES: Costumed riders spin their wheels on a themed ride through the Queen City. Personal lights are required. Meet at the northeast corner of the park at 7:30 p.m. Burlington City Hall Park, 8-10 p.m.

Free. Info, burlbikeparty@gmail.com.

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.

REMEMBERING OUR VETERANS: Comments by local representatives, a flag presentation, a barbecue lunch and a patriotic sing-along honor those who have served their country. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

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AN EVENING WITH THE ONION: Audience members laugh until they cry when the Onion’s editor in chief, Cole Bolton, and senior editor, Jason Roeder, skewer the nation’s culture and politics in a multimedia presentation. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. $25-30. Info, 658-3328.

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THE RAINBOW FAMILY OF LIVING LIGHT: Camping, hiking and circle drumming make for a memorable weekend. See www.nerflings.org for details. U.S. Forest Service Road 67, Hancock. Free. Info, www. nerflings.org.

SPRING FLING 8: Environmental and spiritual inclinations entwine in a weekend of hands-on learning in biodynamics, conscious agriculture, eco-shamanism, qi healing and more. Old King Farm Healing & Retreat Center, Benson $20-147.

Info, info@oldkingfarm.com.

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‘WAKING THE SLEEPING GIANT: THE MAKING OF A POLITICAL REVOLUTION’: From Bernie Sanders’ campaign trail to a local political race in rural West Virginia, this 2016 documentary examines the 2016 election season. A filmmaker Q&A follows.

Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 540-3018.

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‘WESTWORLD’: Havoc ensues when a futuristic theme park experiences a disastrous computer glitch in this 1973 sci-fi film shown on 16mm film. Newman Center, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m.

Donations. Info, serious_61@yahoo.com.

food & drink

BENEFIT DINNER & LIVE ENTERTAINMENT: Carol Ann Jones and Will Patton provide the soundtrack for this food-and-fun-filled fundraiser for the Sheldon Historical Society. The Abbey Pub & Restaurant, Enosburg Falls, 6-9 p.m. $12. Info, 933-4566.

BRANDON FARMERS MARKET: More than 50 local famers, specialty food producers and artisans offer up their goods. Central Park, Brandon, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 802 273-2655.

CHELSEA FARMERS MARKET: A long-standing town-green tradition supplies shoppers with eggs, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North Common, Chelsea, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 299-1280.

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IV E C | M IS SI S Q U OI R Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

MAGGIE’S FIBER FRIDAY FOR ADULTS: Veteran knitter Maggie Loftus facilitates an informal gathLYNDON FARMERS MARKET: Vendors proffer a roering of crafters. Main Reading Room, Brownell tation of fresh veggies, meats, cheeses and more.

Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, Bandstand Park, Lyndonville, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 6maggie2@myfairpoint.net. lyndonfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

FIBER ARTS FRIDAY: Grownup yarn lovers get together for tea and casual project time.

Pierson Library, Shelburne, 3-4 p.m.

Free. Info, 985-5124.

TRUCK STOP: Mobile kitchens dish out mouthwatering meals and libations. Live music and a full bar add to the fun. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m.

Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.

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DARTMOUTH DANCE ENSEMBLE: The Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble provide live accompaniment for the end-of-semester show Steps & Sounds. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $1015. Info, 603-646-2422.

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SUGAR SOCIAL: Maple ice cream sundaes, milk shakes, baked goods and sugar-on-snow with the works tempt taste buds. A tag sale is the cherry on top. Waterbury Center Community Church, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 244-8089.

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BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Learn new moves with Ballroom Nights, then join others in a dance social featuring the waltz, tango and more. Singles, couples and beginners are 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.

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SINGLE ADULTS’ VOLLEYBALL/ GAME/POTLUCK DINNER NIGHT: Social butterflies serve, set, spike and snack at a fun-filled gathering. Essex Alliance Church, 6-9 p.m. $2; preregister. Info, 238-2820.

ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Jubilant motions with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspire divine connections. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8011.

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

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

ADVANCED TAI CHI CLASS: Folks keep active with a sequence of slow, controlled movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3322.

FITNESS FLOW YOGA: All types of athletes can build strength, increase flexibility and prevent injuries with a moderate-to-vigorous vinyasa flow.

Colchester Health & Fitness, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $15; free for members. Info, 860-1010.

FREESTYLE DANCE FITNESS: Jumps, flips, spins, kicks and squats set to high-energy music help students shake awake their chi. Railyard Yoga Studio, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $14. Info, railyardyoga@gmail.com.

KUNDALINI YOGA: Rhythmic movements combined with deep stretches, breathing techniques and meditation help clear the mind, energize the body and uplift the spirit. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, noon-1:15 p.m. $10. Info, studio@ zenbarnvt.com.

QI GONG: Those ages 65 and up are the priority in a beginner-level class complete with seated modifications. Waterbury Public Library, 11-11:30 a.m.

Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 244-7036.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.24.

TAI CHI: Instructor Shaina shares the fundamentals of Yang Style, including standing and moving postures. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 9-10 a.m. $10. Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

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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.

Reflections Memory Care collaborating with Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and McLean Hospital.

ANIME CLUB: Konnichiwa! Fans of the Japanese cartoon style geek out over shows, kawaii crafts and tasty treats. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

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BIG & MESSY — ART SPACE: Process, not product, is the focus of this parent-child creative session with open-ended art stations. River Arts, Morrisville, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 888-1261.

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DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Imaginative gamers in grades 6 and up exercise their problemsolving skills in battles and adventures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

EARLY-BIRD MATH STORY TIME: Books, songs and games put a creative twist on mathematics. Community Room, Richmond Free Library, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

The Residence at Shelburne Bay has relationships with some of the most sophisticated healthcare organizations in the world, allowing us to combine the finest memory care available, with the warm, lifeaffirming environment that has always been our hallmark.

FAREWELL REUNION CONCERT: Zigue and Cajun fiddler David Greely take the stage in a benefit show for the Tom Sustic Fund. Grace Episcopal Church, Sheldon, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 326-4603.

FOR TIBET WITH LOVE: Tibetan singer songwriter Tenzin Choegyal and local artist Migmar Tsering bring their powerful pipes to an intimate concert. BCA Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 777-0242.

JAMES KOCHALKA BIRTHDAY STAR: Live tunes and food-truck fare help revelers celebrate the James Kochalka Superstar front man’s 50th year on Earth. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406.

MUSIC & SING-ALONG NIGHT: Stephen Scuderi and friends lead an improvisational circle singalong during which participants can play instruments and share poems, quotes and strains. There will be herbal tea! Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Donations. Info, 540-0595.

RED BRICK COFFEE HOUSE: Hot beverages are provided at an open mic and jam session where community members connect over music, cards and board games. Red Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7-10 p.m. Donations. Info, mpk802vt@gmail.com.

SENIOR WEEK CHOIR CONCERT: Members of the Middlebury College Choir lift their voices in a recital of their favorite repertoire. Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

sports

INFINITUS — RUGGED TRAIL RACES 100 MILE: Legs burn on an epic endurance run. Blueberry Hill Ski Center, Goshen, 8:08 a.m. $250. Info, jack@ endurancesociety.org.

theater

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘OBSESSION’: Passion and destruction ensue when a handsome drifter played by Jude Law falls for a married woman in this on-screen production. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $23. Info, 603-646-2422.

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SONGS & STORIES WITH MATTHEW: Matthew Witten helps children start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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DEB BRISSON & THE HAY BURNERS: Backed by her band, the vocalist moves effortlessly between rock, folk and country selections. No pets, please.

Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, doors open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m., concert, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7368.

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PLAY GROUP: Crafts and snacks amuse young’uns up to age 5. Doty Memorial Elementary School, Worcester, 9:30-11 a.m. Free.

Info, moonsong148@hotmail.com.

DEAD SET: The Grateful Dead tribute band delights music lovers with an evening of covers. Foeger Ballroom, Jay Peak Resort, 9 p.m. $20. Info, 327-2596.

STORY TIME: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers drop in for books, rhymes, songs and activities.

Winooski Memorial Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 655-6424.

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‘SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD’: Champlain Valley Union High School’s theatrical collaboration between deaf and hearing talent puts Jason Robert Browne’s song cycle at center stage. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $12. Info, 863-5966.

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LIVE ACTION ROLE-PLAY: Gamers in middle and high school take on alter egos for mythical adventures.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6956.

ADAM EZRA GROUP: Roots-rock rings out by way of this Boston-based, socially conscious crew.

Pierce’s Inn, Etna, N.H., doors open for food and BYO cocktails, 6:30 a.m.; concert, 8:15 p.m. $45-65.

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‘WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW’: When four teenage girls venerate activist Margaret Sanger as a saint, they begin experiencing miracles in a student production of a play by Monica Byrne.

Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $4.

Info, 603-646-2422.

words

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

by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free;

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RICK BESSETTE POETRY READING: Shelburne’s Poet Laureate shares his gift for verse. Shelburne Museum, 3-4 p.m. Regular admission, $7-24; free for kids under 5; preregister. Info, 985-3346.

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HERB PERENNIAL & SEEDLING SWAP: From the medicinal to the culinary, plants change hands at a benefit for Railyard Apothecary’s Community Access Fund. Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0595.

art

MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL POTTERY SALE: Work by students and local artists is displayed alongside jewelry, paintings and cards at this fundraiser for the school. Middlebury Studio School, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 247-3702.

bazaars

BAKED BEADS JEWELRY & SCARF SALE: See FRI.26.

COMMUNITY YARD SALE: Bargain hunters bag gently used treasures at this benefit for the Jaquith Public Library. Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

FLEA MARKET: An eclectic mix of used items vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. Farr’s Field, Waterbury, 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 882-1919.

dance

DARTMOUTH DANCE ENSEMBLE: See FRI.26.

FOURTH SATURDAY SWING DANCE: Participants put their best foot forward at a session set to jazz, big band and contemporary music. Indoor shoes are required. Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 8 p.m.; dance, 8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

MISS LORRAINE’S SCHOOL OF DANCE: Rutlandarea dance students glide across the stage in a spring recital. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 1 & 6 p.m. $17-20. Info, 775-0903.

VERMONT BALLET THEATER SCHOOL’S CELEBRATION OF DANCE: Twinkle-toed performers find their footing in excerpts from Le Corsaire, Swan Lake and La Esmeralda. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 1 & 6:30 p.m. $17-25. Info, 863-5966.

CHOWDERPALOOZA & SPRING ART ON PARK: Locals get the best of both worlds when chefs ladle up their favorite recipes and local artisans display their wares at this family-friendly event. Stowe Village, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free for artisan market; $5 for chowder tasting bracelet. Info, 585-5131.

GUIDED TOURS: A historic Gothic Revival house opens its doors for hourly excursions. Self-guided explorations of the gardens, exhibits and walking trails are also available. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $6; free for kids 14 and under. Info, 828-3051.

LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complementary consultations on a first-come, first-served basis.

Legal Services Law Line of Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 383-2118.

BIRDFEST!: Birders bond over nature walks, banding demos, live raptors and kids’ activities. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $10-15; free for kids. Info, 229-6206.

THE RAINBOW FAMILY OF LIVING LIGHT: See FRI.26.

RANDOLPH FARMERS MARKET: Locavores support area purveyors who proffer seasonal foodstuffs and arts and crafts. Gifford Green, Gifford Medical Center, Randolph, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, randfarmmarket@yahoo.com.

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BOYDEN MARQUETTE RESERVE RELEASE PARTY & 20-YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Gourmet cheese and chocolate complement samples of a limited edition robust red wine. Boyden Valley Winery & Spirits, Cambridge, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 644-8151.

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CHEESE & DAIRY CELEBRATION: Fromage fans get a taste of Vermont’s rural heritage with educational programs, family-friendly activities and artisanal cheese samples. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $4-15; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

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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.

MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. VFW Post 7823, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Free. Info, middleburyfarmersmkt@yahoo.com.

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CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS FARMERS MARKET: Baked items, fresh produce, meats and eggs sustain seekers of local goods. Grand Isle St. Joseph’s Church, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, champlainislandsfarmersmkt@gmail.com.

CRAFTSBURY FARMERS MARKET: Food, drink, crafts and family-friendly entertainment are on the menu at an emporium of local merchandise.

Craftsbury Common, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 922-1771.

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BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: Dozens of stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City 8v-daily7-coffee.indd 1 Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonfarmersmarket.org@gmail.com.

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.

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BEER & CHEESE PAIRING: Switchback Brewing and Cheese & Wine Traders team up to offer a self-guided tasting session. The Tap Room at Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 1-7 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 651-4114.

Fri, 6/2, 7:30 p.m.

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NEWPORT FARMERS MARKET: Pickles, meats, eggs, fruits, veggies, herbs and baked goods are a small sampling of the seasonal bounty. Causeway, Newport, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 274-8206.

NORTHWEST FARMERS MARKET: Locavores stock up on produce, preserves, baked goods, ethnic foods, and arts and crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, alavista@myfairpoint.net.

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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.

WESTON PLAYHOUSE SPRING GALA: MAMBO ITALIANO: Patrons of the arts convene for dancing, family-style fare and a preview of the playhouse’s summer season. The Equinox Resort & Spa, Manchester, 5:30 p.m. $175; preregister. Info, 824-8167.

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CIVIL WAR WALKING TOUR: Local historian Don Jackson joins forces with re-enactors to highlight veterans laid to rest in the Queen City cemetery.

Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 863-2075.

SIMULTANEOUS DISH WASHING: In an attempt to break a Guinness World Record, locals scrub plates to establish a library of dishes to be used in future zero-waste events. Atkins Field, Hardwick, 2:30-3 p.m. Free. Info, 472-5362, ext. 204.

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NORWICH FARMERS MARKET: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land offered alongside baked goods, crafts and live entertainment. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 384-7447.

SHELBURNE FARMERS MARKET: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Town Center, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-4279.

ST. JOHNSBURY FARMERS MARKET: Growers and crafters gather weekly at booths centered on local eats. Anthony’s Diner, St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, cfmamanager@gmail.com.

SUGAR SOCIAL: See FRI.26.

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.24, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

WAITSFIELD FARMERS MARKET: A bustling bazaar boasts seasonal produce, prepared foods, artisan crafts and live entertainment. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, waitsfieldmarketmanager@gmail.com.

SATURDAY DROP-IN STORY TIME: A weekly selection of books and music engages all ages. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 264-5660.

holidays

WHOLE-BOOK APPROACH STORY TIME: Tots learn how words, pictures and book design work together to complete a narrative. Phoenix Books Essex, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

ESSEX JUNCTION MEMORIAL DAY PARADE: Marching bands and eye-catching floats enthrall an all-ages crowd. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 363-8401.

LOUISA HOWARD CHAPEL MEMORIAL DAY OPENING: Members of the public take a peek inside of the restored 1882 High Gothic-style landmark.

Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Donations. Info, 863-2075.

kids

GRACE EXPLORATION PLACE FOR CHILDREN: A pancake breakfast prepares pupils for Bible-themed stories, songs, crafts and games. Grace United Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-8071.

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YIN YOGA: Students hold poses for several minutes to give connective tissues a good stretch.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 8-9:15 a.m. $10. Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

JASON CHIN: Readers follow a father and daughter as they navigate Arizona’s geological wonder in the author’s latest release, Grand Canyon.

Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 11 a.m. Free.

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ALPENGLOW: Vocal harmonies pair with fiddleand guitar-driven arrangements on indie folk-rock tunes performed as part of the LIVE at ArtsRiot recording series. Paper Castles and Bleach Day open.

ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0406.

DARTMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Student musicians take listeners on a melodic journey with works by Beethoven, Debussy and Ravel. A preshow talk in Faulkner Recital Hall prepares listeners.

Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., talk, 7 p.m.; show, 8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 603-646-2422.

AN EVENING WITH CAKE: SOLD OUT. Fans go the distance to hear the “Short Skirt / Long Jacket” songsters as part of the Ben & Jerry’s Concerts on the Green series. Shelburne Museum, 8 p.m. $4549. Info, 877-987-6487.

LEE MIRABAI HARRINGTON: No singing experience is required to participate in “Buddhist Mantra Kirtan: Healing the Self and Others,” an evening of mantras led by the acclaimed vocalist. A jam session follows. Benson Community Hall, 7-9:30 p.m.

Free. Info, info@oldkingfarm.com.

outdoors

ASTRONOMY NIGHT: Members of the Green Mountain Astronomers help stargazers clean and adjust their telescopes — and spot celestial bodies in the night sky. Call to confirm. Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 7:30-10 p.m.

Donations. Info, 273-2282.

BIRD MONITORING WALK: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for winged wonders. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

SPRING TRAIL WORK: Volunteers ready the Long Trail for the hiking season. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, 879-1457.

seminars

VCAM’S DIGITAL EDITING CERTIFICATION: Adobe Premiere users get familiar with the most recent version of the editing software. Prerequisite: VCAM Access Orientation or equivalent, or instructor’s permission. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free.

Info, 651-9692.

sports

INFINITUS — RUGGED TRAIL RACES 88K: Active bodies test their endurance on a challenging onfoot excursion. Blueberry Hill Ski Center, Goshen, 8:08 a.m. $150. Info, jack@endurancesociety.org.

INFINITUS — RUGGED TRAIL RACES 8K: Runners stretch their legs on a course covering nearly five miles of ground. Blueberry Hill Ski Center, Goshen, 8:08 a.m. $30. Info, jack@endurancesociety.org.

INFINITUS — RUGGED TRAIL RACES MARATHON: Adventurous athletes take on a 26.2-mile run.

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Studio — North, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. $5-20. Info, 448-4262.

Burlington, 2:45-4:30 p.m. $20. Info, maigomez1@ hotmail.com.

‘STORIES YOU SHOULD KNOW’: See THU.25.

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TRADITIONAL YOGA FLOW: Breath accompanies each transition during a vinyasa flow focused on body awareness and self acceptance.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 9-10:15 a.m. $10. Info, 244-8134.

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SUMMER BOOK SALE: Bookworms add new titles to their personal libraries. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

fairs & festivals

THE RAINBOW FAMILY OF LIVING LIGHT: See FRI.26.

SPRING FLING 8: See FRI.26.

food & drink

BOYDEN MARQUETTE RESERVE RELEASE PARTY & 20-YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: See SAT.27.

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CHEESE & DAIRY CELEBRATION: See SAT.27.

CHICKEN BBQ: Fire up the grill! Diners feast on piping hot poultry. Saint Albans Moose Lodge #1090, noon. $8. Info, 527-1327.

PLANT SALE: See WED.24.

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MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL POTTERY SALE: See SAT.27.

CHOCOLATE TASTING: See SAT.27.

BAKED BEADS JEWELRY & SCARF SALE: See FRI.26.

STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and crafts tempts shoppers. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 279-3444.

FLEA MARKET: See SAT.27.

SUGAR SOCIAL: See FRI.26, 1-5 p.m.

community

WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET: Area growers and bakers offer prepared fare, assorted produce and agricultural products. Champlain Mill Green, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, info@downtownwinooski.org.

bazaars

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.

education

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY: Pulitzer Prize-winning author and political commentator Jon Meacham addresses

games

POKÉMON LEAGUE: See THU.25, noon-5 p.m.

health & fitness

FAMILY YOGA CLASS: An all-ages class for kids and caregivers combines yoga poses and group games with exercises to calm and focus the mind. Sangha

holidays

montréal

FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES 2017: See THU.25.

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ZUMBA FITNESS: High-spirited students dance toward health in an easy-to-follow fitness program set to red-hot international music. North End Studio A, Burlington, 9 a.m. $8-10.

Info, 777-7032.

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

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MEKKELSEN RV MEMORIAL DAY CLASSIC: Race car drivers start their engines and rev up the holiday weekend at this 55th annual showdown. Thunder Road Speed Bowl, Barre, 1 p.m. $25; free for kids.

Info, 244-6963.

kids

PEER-LED MINDFULNESS MEET-UP FOR TEENS: South Burlington High School junior Mika Holtz guides adolescents toward increased awareness through music, movement and other techniques. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 9-10:30 a.m.

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UKULELE MÊLÉE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the four-stringed Hawaiian instrument. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m.

Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

outdoors

EARLY BIRDER MORNING WALK: Avian enthusiasts search for winged species. Bring tick repellent, binoculars and good walking shoes. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7-8:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 434-2167.

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SPANISH GROUP CLASSES: Students roll their Rs while practicing en español. New Moon Café,

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PEOPLE’S UNITED BANK VERMONT CITY MARATHON & RELAY: Dedicated runners go the distance on a 26.2-mile course through the Queen City. Battery Park, Burlington, 7 a.m. $120. Info, 863-8412.

talks

HOWARD COFFIN: The historian gives a rundown of Vermont’s role in the Civil War. Brick School House, Bridgewater, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 672-3745.

theater

‘SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD’: See FRI.26, 5 p.m.

‘STORIES YOU SHOULD KNOW’: See THU.25, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW’: See FRI.26, 2 p.m.

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CONTACT IMPROV DANCE: Movers engage in weight sharing, play and meditation when exploring this style influenced by aikido and other somatic practices. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $4. Info, 864-7306.

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SALSA MONDAYS: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of salsa, merengue, bachata and chacha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572.

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She is the creator of Biofield Tuning, a sound therapy method that works on our electric/electronic systems to “get the noise out of the signal.”

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REIKI OR TAROT SESSIONS: Claire Whitaker consults her cards or offers energy healing in 30-minute or 1-hour sittings. Railyard Yoga Studio, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $30-60; preregister. Info, 318-6050.

fairs & festivals

THE RAINBOW FAMILY OF LIVING LIGHT: See FRI.26.

SPRING FLING 8: See FRI.26.

food & drink

CHICKEN BBQ: Mouthwatering meat, coleslaw, rolls, pickles and baked potatoes make for a hearty meal. Highgate Town Park, 11 a.m. $10. Info, 868-3970.

YIN YOGA: See SAT.27, noon-1:15 p.m.

holidays

MEMORIAL DAY GHOST WALK: Past meets present when folks get acquainted with local historical figures laid to rest. Waterbury Congregational Church, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 244-8089.

MEMORIAL DAY REMEMBRANCE: Battlefield flags are raised to full-mast at the historic site in tribute to lives lost. Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, noon-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 273-2282.

kids

ROBIN’S NEST NATURE PLAYGROUP: Outdoor pursuits through fields and forests captivate little ones up to age 5 and their parents. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Donations. Info, 229-6206.

montréal

FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES 2017: See THU.25.

ST-AMBROISE MONTRÉAL FRINGE FESTIVAL: The world’s most offbeat performers convene for live music, theater performances and everything in between. See calendar spotlight and montrealfringe. ca for details. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary. Info, 514-849-3378.

music

MONDAY NIGHT COMMUNITY KIRTAN: Instruments are welcome during call-and-response chanting of mostly Sanskrit mantras in the bhakti yoga tradition. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, bpatoine@aol.com.

seminars

FAMILY-TO-FAMILY CLASS: The National Alliance on Mental Illness builds understanding between individuals struggling with psychological health and their loved ones. Call for details. 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 876-7949.

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CUSTOMER APPRECIATION DAY: Birthday cookies, tastings, keepsake t-shirts, contests and more help locavores celebrate the market’s 25 years in business. Woodstock Farmers’ Market, 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 457-3658.

ARTS AT DARTMOUTH AWARDS: Students from across disciplines are recognized for their achievements in creativity. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

games

business

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.24, 7 p.m.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 6:30-10 p.m. $8.

Info, 540-0498.

health & fitness

ASHTANGA YOGA: An athletic flow combines strength, flexibility and stamina in a specific sequence of asanas linking breath and movement.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:15-8:30 p.m. $10.

Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

MARATHON RECOVERY WITH FELDENKRAIS: Runners and supporters find rest, relaxation and rejuvenation by exploring the radical concept of doing less. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, group lessons, 10 a.m., noon & 2 p.m.; individual lessons, 11:15 & 11:45 a.m. & 1:15, 2:15, 2:45, 3:15 & 3:45 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0186.

MEDITATIONS FOR A SANE & PEACEFUL WORLD: Those needing respite from the intensity of today’s world find a quiet place for reflection, prayer and art making. JourneyWorks, Burlington, 6:15-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-6203.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.24.

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VERMONT CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HERBALISM STUDENT HERBAL CLINIC: Third-year interns evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. Burlington Herb Clinic, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, info@vtherbcenter.org.

STEPS TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS: Enterprisers bank strategies for boosting their companies to the next level. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4872.

community

FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: See FRI.26.

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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Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free.

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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.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Melody makers ages 3 through 5 sing and dance into the afternoon. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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FELDENKRAIS: AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT: Whether you consider it relaxing exercise or active meditation, this experience can reduce pain and increase mobility. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. $15; free for first-timers; preregister. Info, 735-3770.

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HATHA FLOW YOGA: A balanced combination of sustained and flowing poses promotes mindfulness. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 5:30-6:45 p.m.

Donations. Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

‘RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK’: Harrison Ford stars as Indiana Jones, an archaeologist hired by the U.S. government to find an ancient artifact. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018.

KETTLEBELLS CLASS: Fitness fanatics with basic knowledge of the ball-shaped, strength-building weight break a sweat with certified instructors.

North End Studio B, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $12.

Info, 438-1017.

food & drink

PEACEFUL WARRIOR KARATE: Martial-arts training promotes healthy living for those in recovery.

Turning Point Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

NORTHFIELD FARMERS MARKET: A gathering place for local farmers, producers and artisans offers fresh produce, crafts and locally prepared foods.

Depot Square, Northfield, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, northfieldfarmersmarketvt@gmail.com.

PRESCHOOL STORY HOUR: BUNNIES: Imaginations blossom when kids up to age 6 engage in themed tales and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

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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.

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

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

DE-STRESS YOGA: A relaxing and challenging class lets healthy bodies unplug and unwind. Balance Yoga, Richmond, 5:45-7 p.m. $14. Info, 434-8401.

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Free. Info, 878-6956.

SPANISH MUSICAL KIDS: Amigos ages 1 through 5 learn Latin American songs and games with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

STORY TIME WITH A TWIST: See WED.24.

TEDDY BEAR PICNIC: Kiddos bring their cuddly companions and their appetites to a “beary” special story time. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 868-3970.

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.

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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.24, 7 p.m.

CHESS CLUB: Players of all ages put on their thinking caps in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere.

Pierson Library, Shelburne, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5124.

TAI CHI, LEVEL I: Beginners are introduced to sequences of slow, controlled movements. South Burlington Recreation & Parks Department, 11 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 735-5467.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

health & fitness

ZUMBA: A high-energy instructor and a wide array of music keep students going strong as they dance their way to health. Marketplace Fitness, Burlington, 4:30-5:15 p.m. $12; free for members and first-timers. Info, 651-8773.

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue.

Gather on the terrace in fair weather. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

BEGINNERS TAI CHI CLASS: See THU.25.

BRANDON FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Hop to it! Get fit with strength, endurance, agility and coordination exercises. Otter Valley North Campus Gym, Brandon, 5-6 p.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

‘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.

SOCIAL GATHERING: Those who are deaf or hard of hearing or want to learn American Sign Language

montréal

FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES 2017: See THU.25.

ST-AMBROISE MONTRÉAL FRINGE FESTIVAL: See MON.29.

music

MILTON COMMUNITY BAND REHEARSAL: Brass, wind and percussion players are welcome to join the ensemble as they hone their skills in preparation for upcoming recitals. Milton Middle School, 7-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1398.

OPEN JAM SESSION: Musicians follow the flow and explore sound together. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

SYRINX: Conductor Glenn Sproul guides the vocal ensemble through Broadway favorites, sacred classics and musical character sketches in “The Overloaded Ark.” The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, noon. Donations. Info, 864-0471.

sports

ADULT RACING LEAGUES: Paddlers unleash their inner competitor in a five-week dragon-boat racing tournament. No experience required. Community Sailing Center, Burlington, 6 p.m. $75. Info, 999-1634.

talks

IDEAS ON TAP: ‘A THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO WATCHING WILDLIFE FILMS’: Anthropologist Luis Vivanco looks at how nature and culture are portrayed, using the history of penguins in cinema as a key example. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 540-0406.

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ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION: Bibliophiles read into The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

‘GOING IN’: Poets Jan Sandman and Patty Joslin read original works. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 262-6035.

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by Ousmane energize participants for a flow yoga practice suitable for all levels. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 6-7:15 p.m. $15-20. Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.

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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STEM CLUB: Inquisitive kids embark on challenges in science, technology, engineering and math.

Fairfax Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: See WED.24.

PLANT SALE: See WED.24.

STORY TIME WITH A TWIST: See WED.24.

art

TEDDY BEAR PICNIC: See TUE.30.

STITCH & B!TCH DROP-IN EMBROIDERY SESSIONS: See WED.24. dance BEGINNER CONTEMPORARY BALLET CLASS: See WED.24.

BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.24.

INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: See WED.24.

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.24.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.24.

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DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: See WED.24.

GREENER DRINKS: See WED.24.

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TODDLER TIME: See WED.24.

CONTEMPORARY BALLET, LEVEL 2: See WED.24.

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FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES 2017: See THU.25.

‘MAKING A KILLING: GUNS, GREED AND THE NRA’: Personal stories by people affected by gun violence pepper this 2016 documentary. A discussion follows. Stowe Free Library, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 253-6145.

ST-AMBROISE MONTRÉAL FRINGE FESTIVAL: See MON.29.

seminars

ELEMENTAL QUEENSHIP: Linda River Valente uses the tarot to illuminate paths to power and sovereignty.

Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. $8-10; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

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Info, 876-5087.

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: See WED.24.

COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.24.

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Make Earrings & Drink Mead

VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.24.

WOODSTOCK MARKET ON THE GREEN: Homespun products and farm-fresh eats fill tables. Woodstock Village Green, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3555.

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PILATES: See WED.24.

A LIVE at ArtsRiot Recording with Alpenglow

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.24.

RESTORATIVE GENTLE YOGA: See WED.24.

SUNRISE YOGA: See WED.24.

TAI CHI CLASS: See WED.24.

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT NURSING STUDENT VISITS: See WED.24.

VINYASA YOGA: See WED.24.

SATURDAY, MAY 27, ARTSRIOT, BURLINGTON

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOUND BATH: See WED.24.

WEIGHT-LOSS WORKSHOP: An informative seminar empowers participants to make healthy choices. Wellspring Chiropractic Lifestyle Center, Shelburne, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 985-9850.

YOGA NIDRA: THE YOGA OF DEEP RELAXATION: See WED.24.

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GINGER’S EXTREME BOOT CAMP: See WED.24.

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AN EVENING WITH SUSAN CLARK: Research and anecdotes about local democracy illustrate “Beyond Polarity: Stories of Civil Civic Dialogue.”

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.24.

games

NIA WITH LINDA: See WED.24.

Burlington Tree Tours

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MERCEDES DE GUARDIOLA: An open house and tours of VSARA precede the Dartmouth College senior’s talk “Blood Has Told: The Push for a Eugenical Solution in the Green Mountain State.”

Vermont State Archives & Records Administration, Middlesex, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2363.

GENTLE TAI CHI: See WED.24.

SATURDAY, MAY 27, THE COLCHESTER MEAD HALL

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.24.

UPPER VALLEY JAVASCRIPT MEETUP: FreshAir Sensor’s Anani awadogo demonstrates how physical devices connect to web applications with event-driven JS through a machine-to-machine connectivity protocol. FreshAir Sensor, Lebanon, N.H., 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 282-3368.

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‘DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE’: A woman confronts her assumptions about the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world in a BarnArts production of Sarah Ruhl’s imaginative comedy.

Barnard Inn Restaurant and Max’s Tavern, 7-8:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 234-1645.

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T. NAMAYA: The poet, humorist and storyteller takes the floor with excerpts from his book Celebrate Life: Viva La Vida. See calendar spotlight.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

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acting FILM ACTING CLASS: Learn a simple, powerful scene-analysis technique, proactive choice and heightened connection.

Develop and hone the skill to remain present and vital through multiple takes of a scene and embrace all that you are to become an acting dynamo in my six-week film scene study class. Every Wed., May 10-Jul. 26, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Location: Waterbury Festival Rehearsal Space, Waterbury Center. Info: Richard Waterhouse, rikwala@ gmail.com.

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ASTROLOGY AT RAILYARD: Private one-hour astrology readings: Sun., 1-3:30 p.m., must preregister. Astrology 101: Thu., 5:30-6:30 p.m. Know Your Natal Chart Workshop: Jun. 4, 4-6 p.m. Embodied Dream Work private sessions with Janis: Fri., contact studio for appointment.

See website for details and registration. Location: Railyard, 270 Battery St., Burlington.

Info: 318-6050, railyardyoga@ gmail.com, railyardapothecary. com.

clinical hypnosis AGE REGRESSION: BACK TO THE CAUSE(S) OF THE PROBLEM(S) & HELP HEALING!: Motivation Hypnosis Training & Education Programs in collaboration with Northeastern Society of Clinical Hypnosis (NMSCH) is offering both a Basic & Advanced Age Regression ASCH-approved workshop (20 hours/CEUs) with Maureen Turner, MEd, LCMHC, RNBC, LCSW. Both workshops will address utilizing Age Regression Techniques research to treat ADHD and comorbids: addiction, anxiety, depression, OCD, ODD and PTSD. Fri.-Sun., Jun. 23-25. Cost: $500/person; incl. manual. Payment plan avail. Location: Turner Farmhouse, 24 Turners Lane, Isla La Motte. Info: 658-2140, motivationhypnosis.com.

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ADULT: INTRODUCTION TO ACRYLIC: Instructor, Misoo Filan. Learn fundamental acrylic painting techniques including color mixing, paint and brush handling, composition, form, and value. Perfect for a beginner painter and someone who would enjoy water-soluble paint medium. Some of the topics we will cover are still life, landscape, portrait, and old masters reproduction. 8 weeks, Thu., 6-8 p.m., Jul. 13-Aug. 31. Cost: $248/ person; member discount avail.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd, Shelburne.

Info: The Shelburne Craft School, 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

ADULT: METALS 1: This class will focus on jewelry design, small sculpture or functional art.

Students will complete several practice pieces before designing and creating wearable finished pieces out of sterling silver.

There will be weekly demonstrations, including sawing, drilling, piercing, annealing, texturing, jump rings, forming and soldering techniques. Instructor: Sarah Sprague. Summer 2017: 6 weeks, Wed., 5:30 -8:30 p.m., Jun. 21-Aug. 2, no class Jul 5. Cost: $265/person; member discount avail. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne.

Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

BLACKSMITHING 1: Instructor: Robert Wetzel. Using a forge, you will learn basic blacksmith techniques from building and maintaining a fire to hammer control.

Students will create hooks, pokers and small leaves during this 2-day workshop. Sat. & Sun., May 27-May 28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $235/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@

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dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@ salsalina.com.

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! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $12/1-hour class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Jon Bacon, 355-1818, crandalltyler@hotmail. com, dsantosvt.com.

LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington.

Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.

drumming DJEMBE & TAIKO: Classes in Burlington, Hyde Park and Montpelier. Drums provided. Classes for adults (also for kids with parents) Mon., Tue. & Wed. in Burlington. Wed. a.m. or Fri. a.m. in Hyde Park. Thu. in Montpelier. Most classes are in the evenings or after school.

Conga classes, too! Visit our schedule and register online.

Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington; Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin; Moonlight Studios, 1670 Cleveland Corners Rd., Hyde Park.

Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

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ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE: TWO SUMMER SESSIONS IN BURLINGTON: New: The Alliance Française is offering two summer sessions: one starting on June 14 and a second starting on July 26 in our Burlington location. These two five- or six-week sessions offer courses at all levels, from French for Travelers to literature and conversation classes. We will also offer classes in Montpelier. See aflcr.org for schedule. Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, 43 King St., Burlington.

Info: Micheline Tremblay, 8818826, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com, aflcr.org.

ACHIEVE YOUR POTENTIAL: Come to Wu Xing Chinese Martial Arts. Join other thoughtful, intelligent adults to learn and practice tai chi, kung fu, meditation and dynamic physical exercises. Maximize your mental tranquility and clarity, physical health and fitness, and self-confidence. For people who never thought this would be for them. Fri., 6-7 p.m. & 7-8 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.-noon & noon-1 p.m.; Tue., 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $15/1-hour class; $50/mo. (incl. all classes offered); $5/trial class. Location: 303 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 355-1301, info@ wxcma.com, wxcma.com.

ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Join us for adult Spanish classes this summer.

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 11th year. For details, call 585-1025 or visit spanishwaterburycenter. com. Starting June 19; runs for 10 weeks. Cost: $225/10 classes of 90+ min. each, 1/week.

Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@ gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

MARTIAL WAY: Colchester and Milton locations. Classes in selfdefense, karate, kung fu, jiu jitsu and tai chi. We have 14 different age and experience levels, so the training is always age- and skill-appropriate. Beginner or experienced, fit or not yet, young or not anymore, we have a class for you! Days and evenings; see website for schedule and fees. Location: Martial Way Self Defense Center, 73 Prim Rd., Colchester, Colchester. Info: David Quinlan, 893-8893, info@ martialwayvt.com, martialwayvt.com.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu selfdefense curriculum is taught to Navy Seals, CIA, FBI, military

police and special forces. No training experience required.

Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children.

Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid them becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them thoroughout life. IBJJF & CBJJ Certified Black Belt 6th Degree Instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A five-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion. Accept no Iimitations!. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 598-2839, julio@ bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: This program teaches two forms of massage: amma and shiatsu. We will explore oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, yin yang and five-element theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology are taught. VSAC non-degree grants are available. NCBTMB-assigned school. elementsofhealing.net. Begins Sep. 2017. Cost: $5,000/600hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, Suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Scott Moylan, 288-8160, scott@elementsofhealing.net, elementsofhealing.net.

meditation A TASTE OF MINDFULNESS: Sign up for a four-week series to learn and practice Mindfulness Meditation. You will: learn mindfulness practices known to reduce stress, receive guided recordings to practice at home, discover ways to incorporate mindfulness into your daily life. Roz Grossman MA is a certified trainer in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program. May 31 & Jun. 7, 14 & 21, 6-7:30 p.m.

Cost: $90/1 & 1/2-hour class.

Location: Stillpoint Center, 7 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: Mindful Stress Relief, Roz Grossman, 233-2461, roz@ mindfulstressrelief.net, mindfulstressrelief.net.

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

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wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Sat. of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Sun. of each month, noon-2 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

THE BILL REED VOICE STUDIO MUSICAL THEATRE SUMMER INTENSIVE: This workshoporiented program, taught by faculty from NYC’s Circle in the Square Theatre School, focuses on professional training in musical theatre, including song interpretation, singing technique, physical acting, dance, yoga and college and professional audition prep, and culminates with a showcase performance.

Jun. 18-24. Cost: $700. Location: Spotlight Vermont, 50 San Remo Dr., South Burlington. Info: Sally Olson, 558-2222, sallyolson@ billreedvoicestudio.com, billreedvoicestudio.com.

SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings.

Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 8647902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

well-being YOGA & RECOVERY GROUP FOR FOLKS LIVING W/ LYME DISEASE: Join as we practice gentle restorative poses suitable for all levels.

Afterward, join the discussion as we share and support one another on the often confusing and isolating journey to wellness while living with Lyme disease.

Wear comfortable clothing. Visit laughingriveryoga.com for more information. May 7 & 28, 2-3:30 p.m. By donation. Location: Laughing River Yoga, The Chase Mill, 1 Mill St., Burlington.

yoga 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.

Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here.

Cost: $15/class; $140/10-class card; $5-10/community classes.

Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

HONEST YOGA: Honest yoga offers practices for all levels.

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Left to right: Kayhl Cooper, Betsy Rose Besser and Rob Liu of Noise Ordinance

Pump Up the Volume Meet Burlington’s newest online music publication and production company

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ny Burlington resident who’s tried to throw a rager or turn their home into a makeshift nightclub likely shudders at the words “noise ordinance.” The city’s strict edict on excess sound can burden offenders with heavy fines, and leniency is rare. Local nightlife devotee Betsy Rose Besser is attempting to give the term a new association.

Besser is the founder and creative director of Noise Ordinance, a new, multiplatform media outlet and production company based in the Queen City. She picked the name as a way to reclaim the anxiety-inducing phrase, having fled her share of residential basement shows after unexpected visits from the police.

Noise Ordinance has three objectives: to curate and catalog a selection of noteworthy local talent on its website, to create high-quality studio-session and biographical web videos, and to promote and present local events. Noise Ordinance presents its first show on Friday, May 26, at Foam Brewers in Burlington. Local indie rockers J Bengoy celebrate the release of their new single, “So Good (I Could Die)”; former locals Hammydown (aka Abbie Morin) and argonaut&wasp add support.

“It’s been over a year in the making,” Besser tells Seven Days at Speeder & Earl’s Coffee on Pine Street.

Besser is a marketing assistant at ArtsRiot and works front of house in various roles. The South End restaurant and event hub is also where she did her college internship.

Originally from Nashville, Tenn., the redhaired 23-yearold first came to Burlington five years ago to attend the University of Vermont. At the time, her concept of the local music scene was somewhat shortsighted.

“For so long, I believed this was just a jam-band town,” she says. “I was like, ‘I’m here to listen to Phish and Mike Gordon, and that’s it.”

As much as Besser still loves fivehour sets and 30-minute guitar solos, her insatiable appetite for live music eventually led her to the diverse musical bounty that Burlington offers. Many of her discoveries came through her main hobby: concert photography.

“From nine to two, four nights a week, I’d be barhopping, venue-hopping, trying to shoot everything I could,” she recalls. “That really gave me a grasp of what’s so unique about Burlington.”

In the spring of 2016, while completing her internship at ArtsRiot, she felt the impetus to channel her love of local music into an interactive, tangible product.

After bouncing some concepts off friends and her supervisor, Rob Liu, Noise Ordinance began to take shape. Since then Besser has put together a full staff, including videographers Kayhl Cooper, Shawn Cimonetti and Patrick Myers; sound engineers Charlie Hill (also of ArtsRiot and J Bengoy) and Curtis Halle; graphic designer Jess D’Amelio; and Liu, who serves as talent buyer.

“The [people] behind the camera [are] just as important as the person who’s onstage,” says Besser. In essence, every component of Noise Ordinance is considered equally vital to its overall vision.

IN ESSENCE, EVERY COMPONENT OF NOISE ORDINANCE IS CONSIDERED EQUALLY VITAL TO ITS OVERALL VISION.

Noise Ordinance’s calling card is its impeccably shot, high-quality videos.

Artists are featured in a series of live studio sessions, as well as biographical videos, in which the artists briefly explain who they are and what informs their art So far, Besser and company have chronicled J Bengoy, neo-Americana trio Navytrain, singer-songwriter Ivamae, hip-hop/neo-soul producer Loupo — along with frequent collaborators Steph Heaghney and Danny Whitney — and rocksteady collective Steady Betty, though the last has yet to be released.

Noise Ordinance shoots its session vids at J Bengoy’s rehearsal space at Pine Street Studios. Though the viewer doesn’t get an official tour, the industrial space is dripping with bohemian charm, including vintage furniture and DIY accoutrements.

Cooper is the director of videography. The 21-year-old Essex Junction native has been working as a freelance videographer since he was a junior at Essex High School. Cooper’s website displays a smorgasbord of commercials,

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This weekend marks a momentous occasion for JAMES KOCHALKA SUPERSTAR. The Burlington-based musician, comic-book artist and Vermont’s inaugural cartoonist laureate has delighted audiences with his goofy, childlike music for more than 30 years. He’s about to turn 50, and, to celebrate, he’s performing his last show ever. At least that’s how he’s describing it. Never say never, right?

On Friday, May 26, the American Elf series author takes over ArtsRiot in Burlington for a celebratory night of whimsical mayhem called James Kochalka Birthday Star. Seven Days recently met with Kochalka at a café in Burlington’s Old North End, where he explained why he’s retiring, what he’s been up to lately and what awaits us at this Friday’s show.

“I never expected to live to 50,” says Kochalka.

“I can barely even imagine life beyond 50. I just feel like it’s a good breaking point to do something different.”

One of the last times he played was Election Night 2016.

“That was depressing because Trump won,” he says. “I didn’t want that to be my last show ever.”

One of Kochalka’s most famous songs is the hilarious and infectious “Hockey Monkey.”

He cowrote it for the Connecticut-based indierock band the ZAMBONIS, who sing exclusively about pucks, sticks, skates and ice.

“I did that to tease them,” says Kochalka. “I was like, ‘I can write a better hockey song than you guys, and I don’t know anything about hockey!’”

Though his life onstage may be coming to an end, Kochalka still plans to write and release music. As of right now, he says he’s sitting on enough new material to fill two or three albums. Later, at his home, he even performed a new song for me on his piano, a hip-hop-inspired ode to partying called “Tap the Keg.” For those of you wondering if Kochalka will ever write a musical — I’ve definitely wondered myself — huzzah! He’s written a parody sequel to LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA’s Broadway hip-hop juggernaut Hamilton. Titled Alexander Hamilton on the Moon, it places the departed founding father’s ghost on Earth’s lunar counterpart,

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concert videos and still photography. He also shot this year’s Waking Windows.

Besser roped Cooper into the project after the two met while photographing local folk-rock ensemble Iron Eyes Cody during the band’s session with Vermont Public Radio’s “Live From the Fort.”

Cooper shoots and edits with a light touch.

“I have a very specific idea of what I do and don’t want,” he says while sitting outside of ArtsRiot. “There are a lot of people who are doing [video production] in a way where the visuals are louder than the music.”

Cooper’s vision is clear just from watching Noise Ordinance’s debut session videos with Navytrain. The cuts are clean and unobtrusive, the angles and close-ups feel intimate, and featherlight zooms add slow-burning intensity to some of the longer shots.

“The cleaner, the better,” he adds. “As long as you have great sound and simple visuals, you’ll get there.”

Once fully staffed, Besser began thinking about how Noise Ordinance could exist beyond the confines of the internet. That’s where Liu comes in.

Originally from Philadelphia, the 24-year-old UVM grad is a production manager at ArtsRiot. For the last nine months or so, he’s independently booked shows at various venues around the city — though he’s never branded his events.

“I toyed with the [name] Bagel Dog Presents,” Liu says. The name is a reference to his past life as an employee of Feldman’s Bagels. (He was instrumental in helping the shop perfect its signature novelty treat: the bagel dog.)

He says humility held him back on publically taking ownership of his shows.

“I don’t really like the idea of selfpromotion,” Liu says. “I would rather use the connections I have to get bands that I like the shows that they [want] to play.”

Once he was able to see the work that Besser, Cooper and the rest of the team had created, Liu decided that Noise Ordinance was the perfect fit for what he’d already been doing.

For now, Noise Ordinance has focused on fairly new and up-and-coming artists. Smalltalker, Navytrain, J Bengoy and Ivamae all released debut EPs in the last year. But that doesn’t mean that more established acts are not of interest. “[We] don’t want to limit it to a certain group of people,” says Besser. She hopes for the company to eventually represent as many genres and subgenres as possible.

As with most startups, there is currently no money in Noise Ordinance.

One potential revenue stream is sponsorship underwriting for video content, though nothing concrete is happening yet on that front.

Where does Noise Ordinance see itself in five years? The team is not really thinking much past the 2017 festival season. But given the company’s local connections, impeccable taste and dedication, it’s not hard to envision heading over to the Noise Ordinance Festival at Oakledge Park in the summer of 2022. !

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Back in January, Burlington-based soul-rocker JOSH PANDA stepped down from his long-standing weekly residency at the Skinny Pancake in Burlington. “[It] ran its course,” Panda tells Seven Days at his home overlooking Lake Champlain. Though attendance was still solid from week to week, he felt it was better to go out on a strong note than to wait until no one was coming anymore.

If I were a superhero, my superpower would be the ability to get songs stuck in other people’s heads. Here are five songs that have been stuck in my head this week.

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where he and the other Hamilton characters find themselves reenacting the original musical — except, you know, they’re on the freakin’ moon. It’s weird, and, trust me — he’s not joking. He even rapped a bit of it for me: “My name is Alexander Hamilton / I’m better than you ever been / My play’s so hyped nobody can get in.”

In terms of his comics, Kochalka is not slowing down at all. He feels he’s neglected his adult audience for the last decade, while he mostly wrote for younger Josh Panda readers. Be on the lookout for some adult-only books over the next year, such as a rerelease of SuperFuckers Forever, a six-part miniseries featuring his adorably crude wannabe superhero gang, the SuperFuckers. And then there’s Mechaboys, a new comic Kochalka describes as Carrie crossed with Superbad.

Back to this Friday’s bash.

We’ll hear from a number of acts associated with the birthday boy.

Kochalka will play with his current band, which features JEREMY FREDERICK (SWALE), JASON COOLEY (BLUE BUTTON) and CRESTON LEA (CLOUD BADGE). He’ll also perform with the PHILISTINES JR., who served as Kochalka’s backing band in the mid’90s. Philistines’ front man, PETER KATIS, may have produced some of your favorite records — if you’re a fan of the NATIONAL, INTERPOL or FRIGHTENED RABBIT, that is.

Some other local — and nonlocal — celebrity musicians might make surprise appearances. I heard that MOBY once performed with Kochalka…

Also on the bill are New York City’s “epic geek-rock” band, UNCLE MONSTERFACE, as well as locals COLIN & THE CLARYS. Front man COLIN CLARY is rumored to have written quite a few songs about the man of the hour. Perhaps we’ll get to hear some.

With his final show approaching, Seven Days asked Kochalka to reminisce about his first show ever. Though he couldn’t quite conjure up memories of his first time out, he does recall a particularly rippin’ show from his early days.

“It was at [242 Main]. I was doing high kicks, and my pants split open and my underpants split open. And everything came out,” he says.

Here’s hoping your pants are solidly stitched for Friday’s performance, Mr. Superstar.

(Disclosure: Three members of Colin & the Clarys are Seven Days employees.)

It’s been five years since Panda’s last release, Live in Switzerland, and it’s been even longer since his last studio album, Joshua Panda. He’s seen quite a bit of change during that time, both personally and professionally. He married his manager, RUTH HILL. They bought a house. And now they’re expecting their first baby. He also spent time developing the JOSH PANDA PARTY, his wedding and events band. “[We play] all covers,” he says. “That’s never what I got into music for, but now I just own it.”

Panda’s original music has evolved, as well. The folk and Americana influences upon which he built the early part of his career are mostly absent from his current, soul-rock sound.

On Friday, May 26, Panda is officially releasing his new record, Shake It Up, at Nectar’s in Burlington. He plans to play the new record straight through before debuting a number of brand-new songs. The HIGH BREAKS and DJ STEAL WOOL also perform.

He first began recording it about four years ago, and it’s been complete for close to two. After shopping it around to labels, and the periods of stagnation that inevitable accompany that process, Panda finally decided to release the record independently.

“I’ve never been more proud of a record,” he says. For the first time, he speaks not only as singersongwriter and instrumentalist, but also as producer.

“This was the first time I’ve been able to think about every track and the overdubs, the panning and the tones,” says Panda. “When I listen to each song, it’s exactly how I want them to sound, and I’ve never had that before.”

His band, the HOT DAMNED, is now officially a power trio after many years as a five-piece. The current lineup includes drummer STEVE HADEKA and keyboardist TYLER MAST. We’ll be scheduling a proper review of the new album in the coming weeks. But as a little teaser, I’ll say this: Shake It Up could very well be the local album of the summer. It vibrates with AM Gold energy and is just begging to be played at full volume while cruising down a dusty country lane in a 1971 El Camino. !

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

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Willverine (electro-pop, soul), 9:30 p.m., free.

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Hannah Fair (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Standup Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

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David Lyden (indie rock), 9 p.m., free. Avery Cooper Quartet (jazz, funk), 10 p.m., $5. Andy Mawatt’s Steely Jam (rock, funk), 11:30 p.m., $5.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. The Fritz, Schwizz (rock), 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+.

barre/montpelier

RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free.

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

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Navytrain (neo-Americana), 10 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Whitehorse, Near North (folk-rock), 8:30 p.m., $10/12.

(Album Release), the High Breaks, DJ Steal Wool (soul, rock), 9 p.m., $10.

mad river valley/ waterbury

ZENBARN: Ryan Ober (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

middlebury area

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Luke Concannon (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Throttle Thursdays with DJ Gold (hits), 9 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Derek Campbell (rock), 7 p.m., free.

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

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Paul Asbell (jazz), 8 p.m., $12/14.

FOAM BREWERS: Noise Ordinance Launch Party with J Bengoy, Hammydown, argonaut&wasp (indie), 8 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Michael Chorney and Seth Eames (blues), 9 p.m., free.

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LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Jake Manzi (folk, rock), 7 p.m., free.

Trio Gusto (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

ARTSRIOT: James Kochalka Birthday Star (rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Colorway (roots, pop-rock), 10 p.m., free.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Paul Asbell (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

Josh Panda & the Hot Damned

burlington

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Frank Critelli (folk), 6 p.m., free. Clever Girls, Some Hollow (indie), 9 p.m., free.

DEMENA’S: Joe Moore (jazz), 6 p.m., free. Jazzyaoke (live jazz band karaoke), 7:30 p.m., $5.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Glenn Roth (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., free. Bueno Comedy Showcase (standup), 8:30 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., donation. Guano Loco (disco), 9:30 p.m., $5.

WHAMMY BAR: Kelly Ravin (country), 7 p.m., free.

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Relentlessly creative, Clare Byrne is a modern renaissance woman. As a senior lecturer in dance at the University of Vermont and an accomplished dancer and choreographer, her primary passion is movement. But Byrne’s artistic impulses have led her to other mediums, including art, writing and music. Her debut EP, Seed, is something like her varied artistic oeuvre in microcosm.

Though a scant three songs, it suggests a curious and expressive mind as well as an artist unafraid of taking risks.

That last quality is made evident in the EP’s opening passage. The lead track, fittingly titled “New Moon,” begins on a clunky assortment of harmonica, horns and percussion. With lax 3/4 rhythm and warbly intonation, it has the feel of a second line as performed by distracted middle schoolers — or perhaps drunken

Mardi Gras revelers. When the song begins in earnest, the transition is jarring, though likely intentionally so. “New Moon” is a sweet, folk-rock-inflected ode to the dawning of new love. Perhaps, then, the cacophony that bookends the cut is meant to evoke the stumbles that often precede — and sometimes follow — finding romantic contentment.

Byrne has a lot of ideas and the heart to match.

But one challenge of overwhelming creativity is managing those ideas and resisting the urge to express them all at once.

Particularly within the constraints of folk and rock music, a little restraint goes a long way. At certain moments — in the second song, “Child,” for example — Seed feels overburdened by artistic ambition, as if there’s not quite enough soil in its three songs for all of Byrne’s ideas to bloom. They’re just planted a little too tightly.

Fortunately, those moments are fleeting. Whenever an arrangement begins to feel cluttered or unfocused,

Byrne is usually able to rein it back in. She’s a sturdy, unflashy singer who conveys emotion through tone and a heart-on-sleeve writing style. When she takes command of a song, her veteran band affords her room to stretch out.

Local electric guitarist Ted Looby, Brooklyn pianist Dan Strauss, Brooklynand Paris-based acoustic guitarist Remy de Laroque and the rest of Byrne’s crew are fine players whose contributions color her writing with worldly flair.

Seed closes on “Young Girl.” Byrne is enamored of personal and emotional growth, both of which are fertile topics in her writing. Here, over a sparse, rhythmically driven arrangement, she examines some of her formative life experiences — learning to crochet, swim and dance, among others. She takes a rudimentary and repetitive lyrical approach that almost gives the song a nursery-rhyme feel. It’s a daring tack, but it pays off and bodes well for Byrne’s future musical forays.

Seed by Clare Byrne is available to stream at SoundCloud. Byrne plays a CD release show on Saturday, May 27, at the Light Club Lamp Shop in Burlington.

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steel, banjos and mandolins — which some bands mistakenly throw on their tunes to try and twang the themes. Swillbillie go right for the heart of the matter. The guitars are angular and cutting, the drums are manic and huge, and the bass is thumping. There is space aplenty, even in the faster songs, and that’s where the listener can start to envision the flaming chickens and murderers roaming throughout the record.

The risk with making a record so overtly aligned musically and thematically is that the music and lyrics can start to blend together. By the album’s midpoint, “Pig Lady,” I started to get tired of nodding my head at the same rhythm over and over.

The band pushes on nicely afterward, though. “I Dig Holes” — a pulsing murder ballad with the excellent opening line, “Well, the gods of the valleys are not the gods of the hills” — achieves a powerful high point for the record.

What?!?!? by Swillbillie is available on CD. The band plays a properly raucous release party with the Dirty Blondes on Saturday, May 27, at Sweet Melissa’s in Montpelier.

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There is nothing like some good oldfashioned rockabilly to get you in the mood for booze and murder. Burlington’s Swillbillie make just the kind of music that evokes a stranger lurking in the shadows of a bar, leaning forward into the light just long enough for you to see the mayhem waiting in those eyes.

On their debut album, What?!?!?, Swillbillie forge a fully formed universe of danger and excess through hard-charging guitar licks and pounding drums. The band’s themes of choice aren’t hard to miss, with song titles such as “Whiskey High,” “Whiskey & Sin,” “Sin Is Funner” and “County of Sin.” But there’s nothing wrong with being direct — particularly where rotgut and hellfire are concerned.

What?!?!? opens with “Hell Chicken,” which is definitely a chicken you don’t want to fuck with, y’all. “I got a mean streak a mile deep / I’m the rooster in the morning when you’re trying to sleep,” sings front man Whiskey Dick — aka Richard Bailey. When not cracking a smile at the idea of a demonic chicken, you can feel the gothic overtones in Bailey’s writing. He conjures a world of dust-covered Bibles and rust-frozen tractors where the devil waits behind every corner and where you can get properly drunk.

The band responds to such an ominous setting by pushing the pace at each turn. Swillbillie possess a knack for sharp dynamics, but they obviously thrive musically when boot meets pedal. The rhythm section of Shanthrax and J. Dubya — Shan Reil and Jason Valade — never let up, laying down the highway on which ol’ Whiskey Dick shreds to his heart’s content.

The power-trio format works well for the band. The record could have been an overproduced cliché if filled with pedal

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MOOGS PLACE: Chris Lyon (solo acoustic), 6 p.m., free. DJ Two Rivers (hits), 9 p.m., free.

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revel in the sounds of the deep

American South. From blues-rock stompers

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Cooper and Lavoie (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.

such as “My Babe” to folksy acoustic duets as on

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Amanda Rock (hits), 9:30 p.m., free.

“Big Boss Man,” their repertoire runs the gamut of time-honored Americana influences while

HATCH 31: Red Hot Juba (Americana, blues), 7 p.m., free.

making subtle dalliances into modern production.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Phil Yates & the Affiliates (indie rock), 9 p.m., $3.

To wit, drum machine and punchy vocal filters add futuristic flair to otherwise traditional sounds.

champlain islands/northwest

In 2014, the duo released the EP Éphémère sans

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Dave Keller Soul Revue (soul, blues), 7 p.m., free.

repère, which features French-language versions

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Whitehorse on Thursday, May 25, at the Higher

of several songs from previous releases. Catch Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington.

MONOPOLE: Ampevene (progressive rock), 10 p.m., free.

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

Locals NEAR NORTH open.

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OLIVE RIDLEY’S: All Request Night with DJ Skippy (hits), 10 p.m., free.

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burlington

ARTSRIOT: Alpenglow, Paper Castles, Bleach Day (indie), 8:30 p.m., $10.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Sam Whitesell (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome With DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

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JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Ink the Octopus, Clare Byrne and Friends (Album Release) (indie folk), 8 p.m., $5-10. The Super BALL featuring Appalled Eagles (dance, rock), 10 p.m., $5-10. Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Hambone Relay (jazz, funk), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Glenn Roth (acoustic), 7 p.m., free. Justin Panigutti Band, Cold Engines, Brewster Brothers with Isaac French (rock, funk), 9 p.m., $5.

RADIO BEAN: Meku Ara (acoustic, experimental), 11 a.m., free. Joe Percy (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Brian Dolzani (Americana, folk), 8 p.m., free. The Super BALL featuring Barbacoa and DJ Disco Phantom (surf), 10 p.m., $5-10.

RED SQUARE: Eric George (folk), 5 p.m., free. Big Numbers (rock), 7 p.m., $5. Mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

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RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (hits), 6 p.m., $5. DJ Reign One (EDM), 11 p.m., $5.

SIDEBAR: Jack Bandit (house), 7 p.m., free. SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): The Van Burens (reggae, funk), 8:30 p.m., free.

SMITTY’S PUB: Bob McKenzie Blues Trio, 8 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Laurie Kilmartin (standup), 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

chittenden county ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Mitch & Devon (rock), 5 p.m., free. Third Shift (rock), 9 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: The Ben Slotnick Trio (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free.

SUGARHOUSE BAR & GRILL: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: John Lackard Blues Band, 9 p.m., free.

DEMENA’S: Cookie’s Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 9 p.m., $5.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Andy Pitt (blues), 6 p.m., donation.

Swillbillie (Album Release), the Dirty Blondes (rockabilly), 9 p.m., $5.

WHAMMY BAR: Artie’s Birthday Blues Jam, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Free Delivery Funk Band (jam), 9 p.m., free.

middlebury area

51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Moose Crossing (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.

HATCH 31: Melissa Plett (alt-country), 7 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Robin Gottfried Band (rock), 9 p.m., $3.

champlain islands/northwest TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Jesse & Dave (indie rock), 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Kevin Sabourin and the Ol’ Dirty Ditches (rock), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Jes Raymond & the Blackberry Bushes (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

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CLUB METRONOME: Nexus Presents Sunday Night Mass featuring Pete Moss, D-La, Steve-O, Rob Ticho (house), 9 p.m., $10/15.

FOAM BREWERS: Phineas Gage (folk, Americana), 10 a.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Game Night, 7:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., free/$3. 18+.

RADIO BEAN: JC Sutton & Sons (bluegrass), 1 p.m., free. Old Sky Country Band with Andrew Stearns & Shay Gestal, 4 p.m., free. Greggy Wah (progressive garage-pop), 6 p.m., free. The Chairman Dances (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., free. Cup of Comedy: A Standup Showcase, 9 p.m., free.

DJ Jenn Kufa (eclectic), 10 p.m., free. Oh Malô (indie), 10:30 p.m., free. Hah. (rock), midnight, free.

RED SQUARE: Ben Bevins Quartet (jazz), 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: CLU5TERFU*K featuring 2K Deep, Mitteltöner, the Spicy Boiz, Junglist Lounge, Aquatic Underground DJs, the Harder They Come (house), 9 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Jess Taylor (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Jack and the Jukebox (neo-classical alt-rock), 10 p.m., free. Rayjects (rock), midnight, free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, $5-10 donation.

SIDEBAR: Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Good Clean Fun! (family-friendly improv), 5:30 p.m., $5. Indie Improv Showcase! (improv), 7:30 p.m., $5.

chittenden county SUGARHOUSE BAR & GRILL: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m., donation.

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MOOGS PLACE: Dan Hatheway (acoustic), 6 p.m., free.

outside vermont

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free. Pickin’ Party with Dave Clark (bluegrass), 3 p.m., free.

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FOAM BREWERS: Zach Nugent (acoustic), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 8 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Milk, the Hydes (rock, blues), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 7 p.m., free.

chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Kelly Ravin (country), 6 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont

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

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FOAM BREWERS: Local Dork (vinyl DJs), 6 p.m., free.

THE GRYPHON: P’tit Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Queen City Hot Club (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Camp Howard, the Dead Shakers, Bison (indie), 8 p.m., $5.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Dan Rahily and Ty Cicia (blues, rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Troy Millette & Friends (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., free. Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 p.m., $3/5.18+.

RADIO BEAN: Jungle H. Green, Cyrbil Striper (synth-pop, experimental), 8 p.m., free.

Honky Tonk Tuesday with Eric George & Friends, 10 p.m., $3.

RED SQUARE: DJ Aras (dance), 7 p.m., free. Pop Rap Dance Party, 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Seth Yacovone (blues), 7 p.m., free. Blackout Barbie & SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Mondo Cozmo, Weakened Friends, the Devon McGarry Band (alt-rock), 7:30 p.m., $.99.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Reeve Carney (rock), 8 p.m., $15/18.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free.

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: DJ Jessbro Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Shaun and Friends (rock), 5 p.m., donation.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Cal Stanton and Friends (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury HOME PLATE: Open Mic with Bruce Jones, 7 p.m., free.

SHEPHERDS PUB: Papa Grey Beard (blues), 7 p.m., free.

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OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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CITIZEN CIDER: Brett Hughes (country), 6 p.m., free.

THE DAILY PLANET: Seth Yacovone (blues), 8 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Willverine (electro-pop, soul), 9:30 p.m., free.

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NECTAR’S: Vinyl Night with DJ Disco Phantom (vinyl DJs), 6 p.m., free. Sammich, Other Brothers (jam), 9 p.m., free/$5.

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RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: The County Down (Celtic, eclectic), 7:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: The Brevity Thing (rock, folk), 7 p.m., free. Tiny Montgomery (rock), 8:30 p.m., free. Carissa Johnson, Vanessa Silberman, the Love Dimension (rock), 10 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Zach Rhoads Trio (rock), 6 p.m., free. DJ David Chief, 11 p.m., free.

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JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

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

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Jesse Taylor TBC (folk), 7 p.m., free. A-Ra$ (hits), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Hannah Fair (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Standup Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

Opposites Attract (standup), 9 p.m., free.

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SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

Blue Fox (blues), 8 p.m., donation.

WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Dale & Darcy (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

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

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Bow Thayer (folk-rock), 7:30 p.m., free. !

MISTER SISTER: Godfather Karaoke with Wolfie, 8:30 p.m., free.

SUGARHOUSE BAR & GRILL: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

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Ross Sheehan in his studio

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n 2012, Ross Sheehan and his wife, photographer Cat Cutillo, bought a fixer-upper just south of Main Street in Vergennes. They renovated the home’s former carriage house and opened Outerlands Gallery in 2013.

Now, the space has undergone another — albeit less dramatic — metamorphosis: It’s become a working studio and exhibition space for Sheehan as a solo artist.

Throughout his career, Sheehan has moved among painting, printmaking, collage and sculpture of all sizes, and the range of works currently on view in his studio testifies to that penchant for experimentation.

On the surface, much of Sheehan’s work appears slickly modern. A sealed jar of Yves Klein blue pigment — aka International Klein Blue — appears in a display of his smaller objects. “Untitled (pickled Yves Klein blue pigment)” is an extension of a series that Sheehan has dubbed “pickled paintings”: 50 glass jars, each containing layers of paint scraped from earlier projects. His small and midsize sculptures and sculptural

Layer by Layer Ross Sheehan lets loose at a new studio in Vergennes

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paintings on canvas look like otherworldly confections, made from frothy, painstakingly applied layers of oil paint that can take years to dry.

Extending the food metaphor, one could say Sheehan’s works reflect an ongoing process of consumption. The topographical coats of pigment usually cover earlier, often representational works that Sheehan found in need of abstraction and transformation — or “mummification,” as he puts it on his website. The resulting hybrid objects smartly encompass themes of practice, materiality, appropriation and art discourse.

Whether or not Sheehan is at work, passersby can get a look at what he’s

up to through the studio’s large picture window — a deliberate renovation. Inside, a rainbow of oil paints has begun to coat a small shelf. The back door and doorframe are smeared with paint. You get the sense that, given enough time, Sheehan might encase the entire building.

In advance of his grand opening celebration this weekend, Seven Days visited Sheehan to talk about his work and the studio’s new direction.

SEVEN DAYS: How does your new space and former gallery compare to past studios you’ve worked in?

ROSS SHEEHAN: I’ve always had dark and dingy studios in garages or

basements. Living in cities, I worked anywhere I could find a nook or a corner.

They were never the best spaces. But they were private, so I was able to do all of these experimental projects, and then, six or nine months later, come out with an entire show.

When we were living in New York, we used to walk by this studio all the time; I loved it because you could look in the window and see what the artist was working on. They were constantly rotating, and they weren’t afraid to show their process. I’m kind of basing this space on that one. A lot of artists would say, “I can’t do that; I can’t work that way; there are just too many interruptions.” For me, I’ve always liked to talk about process. Process is my artwork.

If that’s the main part of it, why hide it?

I’m not really afraid now to get it all out in the open.

SD: You grew up in Salisbury, ran a gallery in Vergennes and now have a studio here. Can you talk about how Vergennes has changed over time?

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“Untitled (Pickled Encaustic Paintings)”

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SOUTH END ART HOP: Registration is now open for the 25th annual South End Art Hop, to take place September 8 through 10. For details, visit seaba.com/art-hop. Deadline: June 16. SEABA Center, Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

VERMONT PRINTS: The Burlington shop seeks Vermont and/ or Burlington-inspired prints by local artists and community members. Selected artists will receive monetary compensation and be part of the store’s partnership program. Deadline: May 29.

For more info and to submit, visit commondeer.com/pages/artists.

Common Deer, Burlington. Info, 497-0100.

VERMONT STUDIO CENTER FELLOWSHIP: Artists and writers applying for residencies before June 15 will be automatically considered for a VSC Fellowship. For details and to apply, visit vermontstudiocenter.org/fellowships. Deadline: June 15. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson. $25 application fee. Info, 635-2727.

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‘TEN’: Seeking submissions of artworks inspired by the old counting nursery rhyme, “One, two buckle my shoe…” For the full rhyme, details and to submit, visit studioplacearts.com. Deadline: June 2.

Studio Place Arts, Barre. Free for members; $10 for nonmembers.

Info, 479-7069.

Ross Sheehan Studio, 37 Green Street, Vergennes, 775-303-8863. Grand opening, Saturday and Sunday, May 27 and 28, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. rosssheehanart.com

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SOLO & SMALL GROUP SHOWS 2018: Inviting proposals for upcoming exhibitions. To submit, send a brief written statement about yourself or the artist group and what you want to accomplish with a show, as well as a CD or DVD with eight to 12 images of representative work. Label carefully with name, medium, size, price

and date of your work. Mail submissions to 201 N. Main Street, Barre, VT 05641. Deadline: June 9. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Free for members; $10 for nonmembers. Info, 479-7069.

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‘LAND AND LIGHT AND WATER AND AIR’: Welcoming submissions for this annual fall juried exhibition of Vermont and New England landscape paintings. For details and to submit, visit bryangallery. org. Deadline: July 14. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

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SD: How has your work changed over time?

RS: A lot of my work is painted-over pieces that I’ve scraped off. I go into storage periodically and look at my older work [and think], What is this doing here taking up space? I’m not happy with it

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anymore; I’m going to paint over it. A lot of the 2D stuff here has been painted over. It’s back to square one; lots of layers. How do I take something I made a decade ago and incorporate it into what I’m doing now? I think that’s where the paint comes in, because it unifies everything by color.

I had a very traditional foundation.

When I went on to college [at Syracuse University], I was geared toward, “It has to be a landscape; it has to be a portrait.” It had to be something recognizable; it had to be really safe. That stuck with me for a while, until I moved to New York [City].

But that traditional upbringing lies beneath all of this work, in some way or another. Some people say, “You used to do landscape painting; how come you don’t do that anymore?” I say, “Well, there’s a landscape painting over there — it’s underneath 30 layers of paint.” I’ve always wanted to x-ray my work. I will, down the road someday. I’m fascinated with what’s under everything.

I used to look at and handle a lot of Bay Area funk art: Robert Hudson, Robert Arneson, artists like that. There’s color, it’s fun work, and it’s definitely funky work, but there’s an underlying seriousness about the media and how they use it.

I look at a lot of that work to this day.

The shell of the piece can be loose and free and fun, but the inside of it needs to be solid — so it’ll last forever. Whatever forever means. !

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SD: How do you think the change in environment may influence your work?

RS: I want the space to match my art.

This is kind of a living, breathing place in itself. I know every inch of this building and its history inside and out, its bad qualities and good.

I think that part of being open to the public is about letting things go. It doesn’t have to be perfect. It’s about loosening up. My work traditionally has been really tight. It’s loosened up quite a bit, but, at the same time, I like the control. But I find when I lose control, that’s when the best work happens.

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RS: It’s really nice to see work that’s at a whole different level here now.

I think it’s becoming, or may have already become, a destination for that.

I call this the SoMa District down here: South of Main. We’re building it up: Bar Antidote, Hired Hand [Brewing], me.

Usually, Memorial Day weekend is kind of this cannonball of activity that explodes for the next few months. The summer activity here has been really great for me as an artist and, previously, as a gallery owner.

And I know that the newer galleries [Northern Daughters, BigTown Gallery Vergennes] are waiting to see what that’s like. The activity just turns on like a light switch.

I’m glad this cultural stuff is here.

Going to high school here, I came up maybe for a couple basketball games and out to eat once, but it was just not a place you came to. It’s changed so much.

I never would’ve thought I’d be here.

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! ‘PASSED PRESENT FUTURE’: A group exhibition

of sculpture, painting, mixed media and photography that grapples with the subject of time. Artists are Paul Higham, Brooke Monte, Sarah Smith and Julie Ward. Reception: Friday, May 26, 6-9 p.m. May 26-June 30. Info, asm.exhibitions@gmail.com. RL Photo in Burlington.

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! ‘PERCEPTIONS MADE FINER’: A group show featuring the work of Carolyn Enz Hack, as well as Bonnie Acker, Robert Bent, Jeri Lynn Eisenberg, Kevin Fahey, Betsey Garand, Philip Hagopian, Shane Harris, Karen Henderson, Kathleen Kolb, Beth Pearson, HM Saffer, Jessica Scriver, Alexis Serio, Carolyn Shattuck, Jozie Furchgott Sourdiffe, Phoebe Stone and Shiao-Ping Wang. Reception: Friday, June 2, 5:30-7:30 p.m. May 26-July 18.

Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

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‘SABRA FIELD, NOW AND THEN: A RETROSPECTIVE’: An exhibition exploring the depth and diversity of the artist’s six decades as a printmaker, in conjunction with her 60th Middlebury College reunion. ‘YOUNG AMERICA: ROY LICHTENSTEIN AND THE AMERICA’S CUP’: An exhibit recounting the history of the pop artist’s 1994 commission to design the hull for the yacht competing in the following year’s America’s Cup. May 26-August 13. Info, 443-3168. Middlebury College Museum of Art.

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! ‘BELLS & WHISTLES’: An exhibition exploring

the myriad forms and associations connected to these ordinary objects. Reception: Sunday, May 28, 3-7 p.m. May 28-December 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

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ART EVENTS ARTIST TALK: KATE GRIDLEY: “Gate to the Moon: Metaphor and Visual Symbolism,” a discussion in conjunction with the Middlebury painter’s current exhibition. Gridley talks about metaphor in visual images with a focus on her three new strands of still life work in paint and photography. Edgewater Gallery on the Green, Middlebury, Thursday, May 25, 5:30 p.m. Info, 989-7419.

JERICHO-UNDERHILL OPEN STUDIO TOUR: Seventeen area artists open their studio doors as part of Vermont Crafts Council Open Studio weekend. Find maps and directions at Emile Gruppe Gallery. Various Jericho and Underhill locations, Saturday & Sunday, May 27 & 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Info, 899-3211.

LESLIE FRY OPEN STUDIO & SCULPTURE GARDEN: The Winooski artist welcomes the community to stroll through her sculpture garden and to see completed sculpture and paintings as well as works in progress. Leslie Fry, Winooski, Saturday & Sunday, May 27 & 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 999-5313.

MOEL COMMUNITY INSTALLATION WEEK: Community members are invited to participate in constructing the museum’s upcoming exhibition, “Bells & Whistles.” Use the “Contact Us” form at museumofeverydaylife.org to let museum staff know when you plan to attend. The Museum of Everyday Life, Glover. Through May 28. Info, claredol@sover.net.

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‘NINE BY NINE’ CLOSING AUCTION: An auction of the nine 12-by-12-inch titles, made by Heidi Broner,

VISUAL ART IN SEVEN DAYS:

Sally Duval, Wendy James, Irene Lederer LaCroix, Carol MacDonald, Dianne Shullenberger, Ellen Spring, Daryl Storrs and Ulrike Tessmer. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery, Burlington, Wednesday, May 31, 6 p.m. Info, 863-6458.

OPEN STUDIO: BLUE ROOF DESIGNS: Bookbinder Elissa Campbell opens her studio to the public during the 25th Vermont Crafts Council Open Studio Weekend. Blue Roof Designs studio, Montpelier, Saturday & Sunday, May 27 & 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Info, 229-1342.

OPEN STUDIO: GERALD K. STONER: The Underhill Ironworks artist invites the public to wander through his studio and sculpture fields, featuring more than 50 welded steel sculptures, in conjunction with the Vermont Crafts Council Open Studio Weekend. Gerald K. Stoner Sculpture, Underhill, Saturday & Sunday, May 27 & 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Info, 324-3897.

OPEN STUDIO: KAREN DEETS: The glass artist opens her doors to the public, offering one-ofa-kind handmade pendants and earrings and showing visitors her workspace. Karen Deets Studio, Fair Haven, Saturday & Sunday, May 27 & 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 265-8668.

OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND: Working artists open their studios to the public. Studio Place Arts, Barre, Saturday, May 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., & Sunday, May 28, noon-5 p.m. Info, 479-7069.

RECEPTION AND WINE TASTING: An evening of fine art, company and wine, surrounded by works from more than 50 Vermont artists. Friday, May 26, 5-7:30 p.m. Info, 877-3850.

ROSS SHEEHAN STUDIO GRAND OPENING: The Vermont multimedia artist opens up the doors of his new studio space to the public. Ross Sheehan Studio, Vergennes, Saturday & Sunday, May 27 & 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 775-303-8863.

SHELBURNE POND STUDIOS OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND: Vermont artists and artisans welcome the public to browse their work, watch demos and more, in conjunction with the seasonal Vermont Crafts Council event. Participating artists include Jill Abilock, Stephanie Bush, Cathy La Clair, Timothy Horn, Nancy Milliken, Ruth Murphy, Dana Rachlin, Everett Renderer, Kathy Stockman, Cheryl Summa and Polly Whitcomb. Shelburne Pond Studios, Saturday & Sunday, May 27 & 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Info, 999-4394.

VERMONT CRAFTS COUNCIL OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND: Artists, artisans and makers working in Vermont open their doors to visitors, showcasing their work, process and environment. Look for the yellow signs or make a plan using the online studio guide at vermontcrafts.com. Various Vermont locations statewide, Saturday & Sunday, May 27 & 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 223-3380.

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ronment. Through September 4. Regular museum admission, $13.50-16.50. Info, 877-324-6386. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington.

‘THE COMBINATION’: Black-and-white photographs taken by Elliot Burg of UVM senior and dedicated amateur boxer Ali Watson. Through June 1. Info, eburg4@gmail.com. Livak Fireplace Lounge and Gallery, University of Vermont Dudley H. Davis Center, in Burlington.

‘CONJURING: SHE RISES’: Works by 13 female artists, in commemoration of the 325th anniversary of the Salem witch trials. Through May 27. Info, spacegalleryvt@gmail.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

EMERGENT MEDIA MFA THESIS SHOW: Work

by MFA candidates exploring diverse projects focused on art, entrepreneurship, innovation and technology. Through May 27. GALEN CHENEY: “Street Level,” a solo exhibition of abstract works with inspiration drawn from Arabic script and urban graffiti. Through June 12. Info, cthompson@ champlain.edu. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington.

EMILY MITCHELL: Narrative paintings by the Richmond artist. Through June 30. Info, 859-9222.

SEABA Center in Burlington.

‘FACING AN EPIDEMIC’: A multimedia exhibition campaign with works by Ed Kashi, Tom Laffay and Aubrey Roemer that seek to raise awareness about and support Nicaraguan sugarcane workers impacted by occupation-related health hazards.

Through May 31. Info, 656-9511. Center for Cultural Pluralism, University of Vermont, in Burlington.

‘HERE STILL’: Portraits by Vermont painters Kate Longmaid, Nathaniel J Moody and Corrine Yonce.

Through July 25. Info, joseph@newcitygalerie.org.

New City Galerie in Burlington.

HOWARD CENTER GROUP EXHIBITION: An exhibition of works by members of the Howard Center Arts Collective and students from the Bellcate School. Through June 1. Info, aforguites@ howardcenter.org. Flynndog in Burlington.

IAA FAMILY PORTRAIT PROJECT: Family portraits taken by BCA photographer Michelle Saffran, alongside family stories written by Integrated Arts Academy students. More than 145 family portraits are also on display at Fletcher Free Library, North End Studios, Barrio Bakery, Chubby Muffin and Nunyuns. Through May 31. Info, 864-8475.

Burlington City Hall.

JANN LABELLE-PRINCE: “60 Years of Painting,” a retrospective of works by the Vermont artist.

Through May 31. Info, 862-8679. Brickwork Art Studios in Burlington.

JUSTIN HOEKSTRA: “Heavy Smile,” a solo exhibition of large-scale abstract paintings by the former BCA artist-in-residence. Through July 9. Info, 865-7166.

Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington.

AARON SCOT INGHAM: The artist behind Bent Nails Studio shows his works and furniture made from found and salvaged materials. Thursdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Through June 1.Info, 595-4148.

Burlington Town Center.

‘NINE BY NINE’: Nine 12-by-12-inch titles, made

by Heidi Broner, Sally Duval, Wendy James, Irene Lederer LaCroix, Carol MacDonald, Dianne Shullenberger, Ellen Spring, Daryl Storrs and Ulrike Tessmer. Tiles are accompanied by additional works by each of the artists. Through May 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

‘ALNOBAK: WEARING OUR HERITAGE’: An exhibition of recent works by contemporary Abenaki artists paired with historic garments, accessories, photographs and prints that reflect previous generations. Organized by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association. Through June 17. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington.

‘PAPER VIEW’: Iskra Print Collective showcases works made during its spring 2017 classes, featuring prints by Liza Cowan, Diane Culotta, Will Gebhard, Serdar Gizer, Julius Higgins, Yeshua Hill, Michelle Hobbs, Jabari Jones, Meryl Kremer, Ada Leaphart, Macy Margolin, Kate Robinson, Jeremy Smith and Danielle Vogl. Through June 16. Info, 516263-7335. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington.

‘BUTTERFLIES’: This exhibit of live butterflies explores one of Earth’s most beautiful and unique creatures. Discover their fascinating life cycle and how we can protect their place in the natural envi-

PETER KATZ: Mixed-media works by the self-taught Burlington artist. Through May 31. Info, 658-6016.

Speeder & Earl’s Coffee, Pine Street, in Burlington.

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‘READY. FIRE! AIM.’: A group exhibition that explores the psychology of impulsive action and strategic thinking, in collaboration with the Hall Art Foundation and inspired by Andy and Christine Hall’s collecting philosophy. Through July 9. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

ROBERT WALDO BRUNELLE JR.: A series of paintings of Winooski’s concrete bridge, painted throughout the year by the local artist. STEVE SHARON: Abstract paintings by the local artist.

Through May 31. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington.

ROBERT WALDO BRUNELLE JR.: “The Old Neighborhood,” paintings inspired by vintage photographs of Rutland, as well as colorful kinetic sculptures. Through July 31. Info, 859-9222. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

‘VERMONT LANDSCAPE & WATER’: A group exhibition featuring seasonal landscapes by Vermont artists Sean Dye, Phil Laughlin, Sandra Reese and Ken Russack. Through July 29. SARAH BUNKER: A solo exhibition of works in acrylic, oils pastels, graphite and collage. Through June 15. Info, 860-4972. Black Horse Gallery in Burlington.

! SENIOR ART SHOW: “Class of 2017” artworks from Mount Mansfield Union, Champlain Valley Union, Burlington, South Burlington, Essex and Colchester high schools. Closing reception: Wednesday, May 31, 6-7 p.m. Through May 31. Info, 859-9222. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington.

STEPHEN BEATTIE: Digital photographs by the local artist. Through May 31. Info, 651-9692. RETN in Burlington.

‘STRENGTH IN NUMBERS’ ANNUAL SHOW: Works

by Vermont art teachers, who meet monthly to share work and support one another in their artistic practices. Through July 30. Info, dorseyhogg@ gmail.com. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

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‘CHICKENS!’: A group exhibition of chicken-themed works by local artists. Through August 31. Info, ealexander22@yahoo.com. Jericho Town Hall.

‘DUO EXHIBIT OF VERMONT WATERCOLORS’: Amanda Amend and Susan Bull Riley show paintings of the Green Mountain State. Through May 28.

Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

! GINNY JOYNER: The Colchester watercolor artist and illustrator shows framed original paintings, as well as and unframed archival prints and greeting cards. Reception: Wednesday, May 24, 5-7 p.m. Through May 28. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne.

‘THE HISTORY OF RACING IN MILTON’: An exhibition about the town’s role as a Chittenden County stock-car-racing hot spot. Through October 31. Info, 363-2598. Milton Historical Society.

JANE SANDBERG: “Another Perspective,” watercolors and stained-glass work by the Jericho artist.

Through May 31. Info, 434-2550. Mt. Mansfield Community Television in Richmond.

‘PIECED TRADITIONS: JEAN LOVELL COLLECTS’: Historic bedcovers gathered by the California-based collector and longtime friend of the Shelburne Museum. Through October 31. Info, 985-3346.

Shelburne Museum.

KATE LONGMAID: “Freedom Speak,” an exhibition of portraits with graffiti-like phrases and slogans that merge the artist’s interest in capturing individual identities and political realities through image and voice. Through May 31. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

WENDY BREEDEN: Watercolors, collage and charcoal drawings by the Stowe artist. Through June 30. Info, 864-2088. Salon Salon, Winooski.

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‘A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER’: Alaskan landscape paintings by Adelaide Murphy Tyrol and photographs by Richard Murphy. Through July 7. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

DJ BARRY: “The Leftovers,” stencil and spray-paint designs by the Vermont artist. T. NAMAYA: “100

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Flowers of Peace,” poetry banners based on the poem of the same name, which has been translated into 109 languages. Through May 31. Info, 2233338. Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier.

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emphasis on humanity as the unifying

‘FINDING YOURSELF IN VERMONT’: The Vermont Center for Geographic Information presents a group exhibition of artworks featuring maps of Vermont. Through June 3. Info, 828-0749. Vermont Statehouse Cafeteria in Montpelier.

aspect of my work,” says the Glover-

‘FREAKS, RADICALS & HIPPIES: COUNTERCULTURE IN 1970S VERMONT’: An exhibition that explores the influx of people and countercultural ideas to the state, from communes to organic agriculture, progressive politics to health care reform, alternative energy to women’s and gay rights. Through December 31. Info, 479-8500. Vermont Heritage Galleries in Barre.

to itself.” With works on view in the

HARRIET WOOD: A retrospective of abstract paintings by the Marshfield artist. Through June 16. Info, 454-8311. Eliot D. Pratt Library, Goddard College, in Plainfield.

created among an artist, artwork

JAMES LUND & JENEANE LUNN: Paintings in watercolor and pastel by the couple, who have summered in Italy since 2011. Through August 15.

Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli in Barre.

relates to its inventions, to nature and

the artist strives to tap into the ineffable connections that can be

a handful of these small-scale metal works are embodied

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pervasive

(inescapable?) power Head,” for example, features a prominent head atop five pairs of human legs. Through June 18. Pictured: “Home Body.”

PATRICIA DE GOGORZA: “Sunrise,” a retrospective of the sculptures, prints and paintings of the northern Vermont artist. Through June 6. Info, 456-8940. Vermont Studio Center Gallery II in Johnson.

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INAUGURAL SHOW: The new Morrisville gallery space celebrates its grand opening opening with an exhibition of works by Marie LaPre’ Grabon, Kathleen Johanna Lovell and Jude Prashaw.

Through June 9. Info, kathleenjlovell@gmail.com.

Pretty Lights Gallery in Morrisville.

PHOTOS BY MARIE LAPRÉ GRABON: Photographs by the Vermont artist. Through June 30. Info, 635-7423. Dream Café in Johnson.

KINDER ARTS END-OF-YEAR EXHIBITION: Works including group murals, mobiles and paintings produced by children enrolled in the River Arts Kinder Arts Program during the 2016-17 school year. Through June 2. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

‘LAND MARKS: JANET FREDERICKS & MICHAELA HARLOW’: The two Vermont artists explore abstract landscapes on macro and micro scales in a variety of mediums, pushing references to the natural environment behind graphic mark-making.

KRISTA HARRIS: “Retracing My Steps,” a solo exhibition of richly layered, gestural abstract paintings by the Colorado artist. Through May 30.

Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

‘LEGACY COLLECTION 2017’: Works by 19 living and 14 deceased artists whose art continues the legacy of Alden and Mary Bryan.

Through December 23. ‘TRAVELLING ARTISTS’: A group show of more than 100 artworks by 60 artists from their travels around the world. Through June 25. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

THE RIVER WORKS PROJECT COMMUNITY SURVEY: River Arts invites the community to learn about, give feedback and share ideas concerning the upcoming public art installation, “River Works.” Viewers are encouraged to share their stories of the Lamoille River and Oxbow, present questions about the area, as well as thoughts about the project. Info gathered will be used to inform the final art installations.

Through June 15. Info, 888-1261. Morrisville Post Office.

STUDENT ART SHOW: A group exhibition of works by Stowe students. Through May 27. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

‘THE BAKER’S DOZEN’: A selection of works

by BigTown artists, both new and longestablished, in a show dedicated to longtime gallery friend and supporter Varujan Boghosian.

Through July 23. Info, 349-0979. BigTown Gallery Vergennes.

CAMERON SCHMITZ: “Suspended Moments,” a solo exhibition of new abstract oil paintings. Through May 28. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

! ‘THE DAMES’: Oral history recordings and photographic portraits featuring 13 members of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Vermont. Reception and gallery talk: Thursday, May 25, 4-7 p.m. Through August 19. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

ELAINE ITTLEMAN: Large, bold and colorful abstract landscapes by the Shoreham artist.

Through June 25. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

JOE BOLGER: Addison County landscapes by the Shoreham painter. Through May 31. Info, 458-0098.

Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

KATE GRIDLEY: “A Few True Things,” still-life paintings that consider objects and their personalities by the Middlebury artist. Through May 31. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

‘LOST & FOUND’: Mixed-media and watercolor works by Vermont artists Pat Laffin and Gail Martin. Through June 1. Info, 453-6309. Tourterelle in New Haven.

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‘SPRING FOUR-WARD’: Watercolors by Vermont Watercolor Society members Lisa Forster Beach, Annelein Beukenkamp, Gary C. Eckhart and Robert O’Brien. Through June 2. Info, 279-6403. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

! SUSAN CALZA: “LET’S NOT PRETEND, it’s ordinary gold,” an installation by the acclaimed central Vermont artist. Reception: Friday, May 26, 6-8 p.m. Through May 27. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

and viewer. Interestingly, though,

of language. “Figure

‘SHOW 17’: Latest works by members of the Vermont-based contemporary artists’ collective gallery. Through June 10. Info, 272-0908. The Front in Montpelier.

CLASSIC MOTORCYCLES AT BUNDY MODERN: Classic motorcycles and cars along with related motoring art and motorabilia at the Bauhaus modern building in the woods. Through July 9.

Info, 583-5832. Bundy Modern in Waitsfield.

Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro,

JO MACKENZIE: “Moments,” watercolor paintings on paper featuring domestic interiors and florals.

Through June 30. Info, 828-0749. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.

‘SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES’: A group exhibition reflecting the diversity of woody plants and the feeling of forests, including traditional and nontraditional media and small installations. Main Floor Gallery. ROGER GOLDENBERG: “Homage to the Earth,” a series of monotypes inspired by the planet’s climate, weather and geology. Third Floor Gallery. Through May 28. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

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MARIA ANGHELACHE: “From Nature to Abstract,” pastel and acrylic works on paper and canvas.

Through June 30. Info, 828-0749. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

VERMONT LANDSCAPES: An exhibition of 38 artworks by 20 artists, featuring landscapes in oil, watercolor, pastel and acrylics, curated by Bryan Memorial Gallery. Through June 30. Info, 644-5100. Lamoille County Courthouse in Hyde Park.

based sculptor. “Humanity, as it

JAYNE SHOUP: Pastels of the Vermont artist’s rural neighborhood. Through May 31. Info, 223-1981. The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier.

LAURA JANE WALKER: “Studies in the Art of Chance,” abstractions made using dyed salt-water, meticulously placed steel nails and cotton string.

Through May 25. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

‘THRU OUR EYES’: Photography by youth, staff and board members of Laraway Youth & Family Services. Through May 31. Info, 635-2805. Laraway Youth & Family Services in Johnson.

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SENIOR STUDIO ART THESIS EXHIBITION: Students of ART700 exhibit works in various media for this culminating exhibition, which showcases the work of advanced students completing semester-long independent studio art projects.

Through May 26. Info, 443-3168. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

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ELIZABETH MICHELMAN: “Notes From the Underground,” a site-responsive exhibition featuring video, collage, acrylic ink paintings and interactive sculpture by the Brookline, Mass., multimedia artist. Through June 2. Info, 282-2396.

Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland.

us from afar, but upon our perceptions being

‘FISH, FOWL & FLOWERS’: An exhibition of wildlife woodcarving by William Barnard and floral photographs by Richard Conrad. Through June 27.

Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

Hack, featured artists include Bonnie Acker,

NORMA MONTAIGNE: “Splash of Color,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Through July 2. Info, 2474295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

! ‘THE SHE PROJECT – PART I’: An interactive exhibition exploring what women of all ages experience as they cope with the pressure to maintain a youthful appearance at any cost, by Vermont multidisciplinary artists Mary Admasian and Kristen M. Watson. Closing reception: Friday, June 16, 5-8 p.m. Artist talk: 7 p.m. Through June 24. Info, galleries@castleton.edu. Castleton University Bank Gallery in Rutland.

‘ART ON THE REFUGE’: Two-dimensional works by 20 artists depicting the variety of species and habitats found in the refuge. Through July 21. Info, 868-4781. Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge in Swanton.

‘THE LIQUID EDGE: POLAR REGIONS’: Photographs

by Massachusetts-based photographer Sarah Holbrook and soapstone carvings by Emil Socher of St. Armand, Québec. Through June 5. Info, 355-2150. GreenTARA in North Hero.

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! ‘GOD & PONY SHOW’: An exhibition of collages and prints by W. David Powell and Deluxe Unlimited. Reception: Friday, June 2, 5-7 p.m.

Through July 12. Info, 922-3915. Zollikofer Gallery at Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction.

‘MAKING MUSIC: THE SCIENCE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS’: An exhibition that explores the science behind making rhythms and harmonies heard. Through September 17. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

‘ODANAKSIS IS BLOOMING’: Ten Upper Valley plein air artists show new works in watercolor, oil, pastel and mixed media. Through May 26. Info, 649-1184.

Norwich Public Library.

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‘IN THE KINGDOM OF THE ANIMALS’: An exhibition featuring a wide range of works expressing reverence for the animal world. Through July 9. Info, 533-2045. Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro.

‘RECYCLE INTO SPRING’: Second annual group exhibition of works by Vermont artists made with repurposed materials. Through May 27. Info, 3341966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

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MARIE LAPRE’ GRABON: Selected drawings and paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 3.

Info, 578-8809. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick.

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Gallery in Shelburne investigates the ways the precisions that attract them. “Miracles,”

DAVID CRANDALL & JIM MAAS: Fine jewelry and painted bird carvings, respectively, by the local artisans. Through September 30. Info, 235-9429.

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STEVEN JUPITER: “After the Flood,” a new series of 10 monochrome photographs of a Vermont forest flooded with spring snowmelt. Through July 30. Info, 917-686-1292. Steven Jupiter Gallery in Middlebury.

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‘Perceptions Made Finer’ Opening Friday, May 26,

made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.” Along with Carolyn Enz Robert Bent, Jeri Lynn Eisenberg, Kevin Fahey, Betsey Garand, Philip Hagopian, Karen Henderson, Kathleen Kolb, Beth Pearson, HM Saffer, Jessica Scriver, Alexis Serio, Carolyn Shattuck, Jozie Furchgott Sourdiffe, Phoebe Stone and Shiao-Ping Wang. A reception and artist talk is Friday, June 2, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Through July 18.

Pictured: “Shadow of the Winooski” by Enz Hack.

SEAN FRANSON: “Know Thyself,” digital works by the Vermont artist. Through June 1. Info, 748-8141.

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury.

‘SEEN AND UNSEEN’: A group exhibition of works that invite deep looking. Through June 13. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artists Guild in St. Johnsbury.

SUE TESTER: New photographs of local landscapes and wild creatures by the Vermont artist. Through June 26. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

‘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 & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

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‘HOPE AND HAZARD: A COMEDY OF EROS’: A group exhibition curated by American artist Eric Fischl featuring some 65 artists and more than 80 paintings, photographs, works on paper and sculptures.

Artists include Tracy Emin, Nicole Eisenman, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Robert Mapplethorpe, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Jason Rhoades, Hannah Wilke and many more. ‘READY. FIRE. AIM!’ AT HALL: Joint exhibition curated by former BCA curator DJ Hellerman, inspired by Andy and Christine Hall’s art-collecting philosophy. DAVID SHRIGLEY: A solo exhibition of roughly 25 works by the British artist, including drawings, animations, paintings and sculpture. Through November 26. Info, 952-1056.

Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

‘GLASSTASTIC’: Glass sculptures inspired by children’s drawings of imaginary creatures. CLAIRE VAN VLIET: “Ghost Mesa,” lithographs of rock formations printed on a variety of handmade papers and collaged with pulp paintings and marbled papers. EDWARD KOREN: “Seriously Funny,” works by the Brookfield-based New Yorker cartoonist. MARY WELSH: “Appearances & Reality,”

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collages that use art historical and pop-culture sources, among others. PAUL SHORE: “Drawn Home,” drawings of every object in the artist’s home, inspired by Audubon’s project to draw all the birds of North America. SOO SUNNY PARK: “Luminous Muqarna,” an immersive sculptural installation based on muqarnas, ornamental vaults found in Islamic architecture, especially mosques.

Through June 18. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

‘DISTANT THUNDER’: Artwork by Gil Perry and writing and illustrations by Charles Norris-Brown.

Through June 16. Info, 869-2960. Main Street Arts in Saxtons River.

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PAT ADAMS: “Gatherum of Quiddities,” a survey of abstract paintings spanning the artist’s decadeslong career. Through June 18. Info, 447-1571.

Bennington Museum.

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‘FRANCES & FRIENDS’: Fiber crafts, paintings, photographs and drawings by six South Royalton area artists. Through July 14. Info, 763-7094.

Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

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AMY BALKIN AND LUIS DELGADO-QUALTROUGH: Works by two artists who use big data to inform their practice. San Francisco-based conceptual artist Balkin presents her poster essay “The Atmosphere: A Guide.” Delgado-Qualtrough’s “10 Carbon Conundrums” series of prints constructs a conversation across time between two fictional characters contemplating human impact on the Earth. Through May 28. Info, 603-646-2426.

Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. ‘CHAGALL: COLOR & MUSIC’: An exhibition exploring the importance of music to the Russian-French artist, presenting 400 works including paintings, sculptures, maquettes, gouaches, stained-glass windows, photographs, films, costumes and puppets. Through June 11. Info, 514-285-2000.

Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

INGO GÜNTHER: “World Processor,” more than 50 illuminated plastic globes featuring data mapped by the artist and journalist. Through May 28. Info, 603-646-2426. Hood Downtown in Hanover, N.H. JANET FREDERICKS: “The Anthill Drawings,” works by the Vermont artist. JOSEPH MONTROY: Recent works by the sculptor. STEPHEN PROCTER: “Presences,” works by the Brattleboro ceramicist.

Through June 9. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. !

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HUGH TOWNLEY: “Sculpture, Reliefs & Prints” by the late Vermont artist. Through September 10. ! MARCUS RATLIFF: “The Ladies Room,” new works by the Vermont collage artist. Reception and artist talk: Sunday, June 11, 4 p.m. Through July 1. ROSAMUND PURCELL: Photographs from the documentary film about the artist, An Art That Nature Makes. Through July 29. Info, 767-9670.

BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

‘AMERICAN ARTISTS IN EUROPE: SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION’: An exhibition of works by American artists who were inspired by their travels, including Frank Duveneck, Leonard Freed, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer and Elihu Vedder. Through June 11. JURIED HIGH SCHOOL SHOW: The 26th annual exhibition of 100 selected works by area students. Through May 28. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, N.Y.

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VERMONT GLASS GUILD: A group exhibition of works by guild members. Through July 2. Info, 3621405. Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

! W. DAVID POWELL: “The Golden Era of the New Dawn & Other Distractions,” collage and prints by the Vermont artist. Reception: Saturday, June 3, 4-6 p.m. Through July 1. Info, 498-8438. White River Gallery at BALE in South Royalton.

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TORIN PORTER: “Before Words,” an exhibition of steel sculptures by the Glover artist. Through June 18. Info, 251-8290. Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts in Brattleboro.

‘THESE GREEN MOUNTAINS’: Works in a variety of mediums created by local artists and artisans, including David Hurwitz. Kristen Johnson and Sue Schiller. Through June 17. Info, 431-0204. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

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he title of the Laura Poitras documentary just released is sadly ironic. Something seriously weird is going on here. The Oscar-winning director (Citizenfour) began the project in 2010 with unlimited access to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A glimpse into the daily life of the world’s most controversial fugitive: What could go wrong?

As it turns out, Poitras could have made questionable choices that put at risk both her reputation and the safety of people who trusted her. This isn’t the Risk screened at the Cannes Festival last spring. And that wasn’t the same Risk shown at the 2015 New York Film Festival. And the Risk in theaters isn’t the film that’ll be available on Showtime this summer. So what’s the unprecedented deal?

The unprecedented and worrisome deal is this: At a moment when information leaks are all that stand between a dangerously unhinged Trump regime and any hope of a correction, Poitras has done a 180 regarding her subject and his mission. While previous cuts lionized Assange and championed his work, admiration has been edited out, mistrust and character assassination substituted. That’s concerning enough. Her motivation is even more so.

What remains of earlier versions includes footage of life inside London’s Ecuadorian

embassy. Assange has essentially been imprisoned there since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. Until recently, authorities wanted to question him about allegations of sexual misconduct. The fear was, this was a pretext for arresting him and extraditing him to the U.S. Assange comes off as paranoid. You would, too, in his shoes. Barack Obama threatened him with charges carrying the death penalty.

Donald Trump has made things less inviting.

CIA director Mike Pompeo maintains that Assange and associates have zero First Amendment rights. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called Assange’s arrest a priority. Your tax dollars at work.

Risk introduces us to several associates, including Sarah Harrison, an award-winning journalist Poitras paints as basically an adoring gofer. We meet Jacob Appelbaum, a privacy activist for Tor. In a scene straight out of Michael Moore, Appelbaum confronts Egyptian telecom leaders at a Cairo panel, accusing them of collusion with former president Hosni Mubarak. It’s the closest the film comes to an electric moment.

Poitras has added footage of Assange discussing the rape allegations. Visibly incensed, he makes an unguarded remark or two about his accusers. The scene appears calculated to make him look misogynistic.

INSANE ASYLUM Last year, the United Nations twice declared that Assange should immediately be freed, but you won’t learn that in Poitras’ ethically questionable portrait.

Swedish prosecutors have since dropped the investigation. Will Poitras include that in the Showtime version? Stay tuned.

In addition to a spooky score, Poitras has added a voice-over. She describes her dreams of Assange, announces she no longer trusts him without explaining why, and admits to having had an intimate relationship with Appelbaum, a boundary violation that, according to the Washington Post, “casts serious doubt on her judgment and credibility.”

The Post isn’t alone in taking issue with Poitras’ methods. On May 17, attorneys for WikiLeaks issued a statement censuring her for numerous contractual violations that, they maintain, “place our clients in legal

jeopardy.” One involves an agreement to permit subjects to view Risk before release. You guessed it: The cut Poitras screened wasn’t the one just released. Holy freedom of information, Batman!

“Instead of a documentary about the abuse of state power and WikiLeaks’ important role in exposing it,” the statement continues, “the emphasis of the film is now ... disputed claims about an ex-boyfriend.”

This may well be Poitras’ Nate Parker moment. Her latest is a muddled, psychodramatic mess evidently shaped by a semi-adolescent thirst for retribution. Now playing: the unkindest cut of all.

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he second Alien prequel appears to have been formulated to give everybody some of what they want. Love watching toothy xenomorphs chow down on unsuspecting space grunts, as in the original Alien (1979)? Hate the philosophical pretensions of Prometheus (2012)? Here you’ll find more of the chomping and less of the speechifying.

On the flip side, if you’re one of the people who actually enjoyed Prometheus (I did, with reservations), you’ll be pleased that director Ridley Scott brings back some of its campy gothic stylings. Plus, not one but two sneaky androids played by Michael Fassbender.

Does the please-everyone strategy work?

Not entirely. Paced at a lurch with a slow start, a rushed climax and a middle that seems to belong in a different movie, Covenant won’t remind anyone of the steadily mounting tension of the first two films. But in its odd, compromised, collage-like way, it’s pretty entertaining.

The story opens in 2104 on a ship full of colonists headed for a new home in the stars. Abruptly woken from hyper-sleep by a disastrous malfunction that kills their captain, the crew intercepts a mysterious signal from an uncharted planet and decides to investigate.

Of course, this is a terrible idea, and our heroes double down on their death wish by not wearing proper protective gear. Soon enough, two of them have become hosts for innocuous alien spores, which quickly

ICK FLICK Scott’s prequel achieves a certain balance of the gross, the creepy and the just plain weird.

morph into the fast-moving, literally gutbusting carnivore we know and love.

Viewers who skipped (or forgot) Prometheus may be a tad confused by the remote planet’s resemblance to New Zealand and baffled to find Fassbender’s David character presiding over the ruins of a humanoid civilization, equipped with a madscientist laboratory like an android Doctor Moreau. Walter, the mild-mannered android accompanying the expedition — and

a ringer for David — is pretty confused, too.

Both in its showy visual style and its quasioperatic content, the entire David story line feels like an alien graft from Scott’s other scifi classic: Blade Runner. Like that film’s replicant antagonist, David has a lot of feelings about his human masters and creators, and they aren’t nice ones. Prone to preening and quoting Percy Shelley and John Milton, he skulks around his castle trying to pull Walter into his dark orbit. Meanwhile, the humans

are preoccupied with not becoming monster chow.

To its credit, Covenant has stronger, more likable human characters than Prometheus did. Katherine Waterston brings both ass kicking and emotional heft to the action scenes as the captain’s grieving widow. Billy Crudup gives inner life to the self-doubting new captain, who fears the crew disrespects him for his religious faith.

But their character arcs remain subservient to the film’s overarching imperative of more chomping. Scott and co. satisfy the audience’s thirst to see the title character in most of its familiar permutations and life stages, while adding a few new ones. Part practical and part digital these days, the creature is still viscerally gross. But the Miltonic-romantic mythology that Scott added to the franchise in Prometheus — with its recurring motifs of irresponsible fathers and rebellious offspring — is such a fixture of Western culture that it works against the primal terror of the unknown.

The rebooted Alien franchise seems unlikely ever to have another human hero with the iconic status of Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley; for better or worse, David remains its strongest character. That’s a bold, borderline-nihilistic choice for which no amount of self-conscious callbacks to Covenant’s predecessors will compensate. I, for one, welcome our new android overlords, but purists may disagree.

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NEW IN THEATERS BAYWATCH: Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) directed this comedic take on the 1990s abs-andcheesecake TV show about a crew of ridiculously attractive lifeguards, starring Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron and Alexandra Daddario. (116 min, R. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) THE LOVERS: Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play an unfaithful married couple who unexpectedly find themselves falling back in love with each other in this comedy from writer-director Azazel Jacobs (Terri). (94 min, R. Roxy, Savoy)

COLOSSALHHHH1/2 In this high-concept comedy from director Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes), Anne Hathaway plays an alcoholic who begins to suspect the ravages of a giant monster in Korea are related somehow to her own struggle. With Jason Sudeikis and Austin Stowell (109 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 5/17) DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE LONG HAULHH In the fourth comedy based on Jeff Kinney’s tween book series, young Greg (Jason Drucker) schemes to change the destination of a family road trip. With Alicia Silverstone and Tom Everett Scott. David Bowers again directed. (90 min, PG) EVERYTHING, EVERYTHINGHH1/2 A girl (Amandla Stenberg) whose allergies keep her house-bound risks everything for romance with the boy next door (Nick Robinson) in this adaptation of the YA bestseller by Nicola Yoon. Stella Meghie (Jean of the Joneses) directed. (96 min, PG-13) THE FATE OF THE FURIOUSHHH In this eighth entry in the resilient car-driven action franchise, Charlize Theron plays a mystery woman who draws Dom (Vin Diesel) away from his beloved crew and into a life of crime. With Luke Evans and Dwayne Johnson. F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton) directed. (136 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 4/19)

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES: The pirate fantasy series is back … with a longer title than ever. This time around, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) must seek a powerful artifact to help him fight ghost pirates.

With Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush and Brendon Thwaites. Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (Kon-Tiki) directed. (129 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Sunset, Welden)

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THE BOSS BABYHH1/2 Babies and puppies not only talk in this animated kids’ comedy from DreamWorks — they’re at war. Alec Baldwin voices the scheming, suit-wearing title character; Steve Buscemi the nefarious CEO of Puppy Co. Tom McGrath (Megamind) directed. (97 min, PG)

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NORMANHHHH In this drama from writer-director Joseph Cedar (Footnote), Richard Gere plays a smalltime New York fixer who tries to take advantage of his chance connection to a political power broker.

With Lior Ashkenazi and Michael Sheen. (118 min, R) A QUIET PASSIONHHHH1/2 Cynthia Nixon plays reclusive New England poet Emily Dickinson in this biopic directed by Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea). With Jennifer Ehle and Duncan Duff. (125 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 5/3) RISK 1/2H: Documentarian Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) presents her portrait of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, which was six years in the making and reflects her own changing attitudes toward her subject. (92 min, NR; reviewed by R.K. 5/24) NOW PLAYING

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THE LOST CITY OF ZHHHH James Gray (The Immigrant) directed this biopic about Col. Percival Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who, in the 1920s, claimed to have discovered the ruins of an advanced civilization in the Amazon. With Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller. (141 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 4/26)

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KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORDHH The legends of the early English monarch’s upbringing and rise get a gangster-film treatment in this new rendition from director Guy Ritchie. With Charlie Hunnam as Arthur, Jude Law, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey and Djimon Hounsou. (126 min, PG-13)

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“Generation Kill” is an HBO miniseries based on the experiences of a reporter embedded with American Marines fighting in Iraq. Early on, before the troops have been exposed to any serious combat, they’re overflowing with trash talk. A commanding officer scolds them: “Gentlemen, from now on, we’re going to have to earn our stories.” Although you are in a much less volatile situation right now, Gemini, my advice to you is the same: In the coming weeks, you’ll have to earn your stories. You can’t afford to talk big unless you’re geared up to act big, too. You shouldn’t make promises and entertain dares and issue challenges unless you’re fully prepared to be a hero. Now here’s my prophecy: I think you will be a hero.

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But don’t dwell on the disappointment. Instead, change the memory. Visualize yourself then and there, but imagine you’re in possession of all the wisdom you have gathered since then. Next, picture an alternative ending to the old story — a finale in which you manage to pull off a much better result. Bask in this transformed state of mind for five minutes. Repeat the whole exercise at least once a day for the next two weeks. It will generate good medicine that will produce a creative breakthrough no later than mid-June.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re being invited to boost your commitment to life and become a more vivid version of yourself. If you refuse the invitation, it will later return as a challenge. If you avoid that challenge, it will eventually circle back around to you as a demand.

So I encourage you to respond now, while it’s still an invitation. To gather the information you’ll need, ask yourself these questions: What types of self-development are you “saving for later”? Are you harboring any mediocre goals or desires that dampen your lust for life? Do you tone down or hold back your ambitions for fear they would hurt or offend people you care about?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Dear Dream Doctor: I dreamed that a crowd of people had decided to break through a locked door using a long, thick wooden plank as a battering ram. The only problem was, I was lying on

top of the plank, half-asleep. By the time I realized what was up, the agitated crowd was already at work smashing at the door. Luckily for me, it went well. The door got bashed in and I wasn’t hurt. What does my dream mean? —Nervous Virgo.” Dear Virgo: Here’s my interpretation: It’s time to knock down a barrier, but you’re not convinced you’re ready or can do it all by yourself. Luckily, there are forces in your life that are conspiring to help make sure you do it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As long as you keep Syria, South Sudan and North Korea off your itinerary, traveling would be food for your soul during the next 28 days. It would also be balm for your primal worries and medicine for your outworn dogmas and an antidote for your comfortable illusions. Do you have the time and money necessary to make a pilgrimage to a place you regard as holy? How about a jaunt to a rousing sanctuary or an excursion to an exotic refuge that will shock you in friendly, healing ways? I hope that you will at least read a book about the territory that you may one day call your home away from home.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): By now I’m sure you have tuned in to the rumblings in your deep self. Should you be concerned? Maybe a little, but I think the more reasonable attitude is curiosity. Even though the shaking is getting stronger and louder, it’s also becoming more melodic. The power that’s being unleashed will almost certainly turn out to be far more curative than destructive. The light it emits may at first look murky but will eventually bloom like a thousand moons. Maintain your sweet poise. Keep the graceful faith.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Life is

inviting you to decode riddles about togetherness that could boost your emotional intelligence and earn you the right to enjoy lyrical new expressions of intimacy. Will you accept the invitation? Are you willing to transcend your habitual responses for the sake of your growth-inducing relationships? Are you interested in developing a greater capacity for collaboration and synergy? Would you be open to making a vulnerable fool of yourself if it

helped your important alliances to fulfill their dormant potential? Be brave and empathetic, Sagittarius. Be creative and humble and affectionate.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “In youth we feel richer for every new illusion,” wrote author Anne Sophie Swetchine. “In maturer years, for every one we lose.” While that may be generally true, I think that even twentysomething Capricorns are likely to fall into the latter category in the coming weeks.

Whatever your age, I foresee you shouting something akin to “Hallelujah!” or “Thank God!” or “Boomshakalaka flashbang!” as you purge disempowering fantasies that have kept you in bondage and naïve beliefs that have led you astray.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “There are

no green thumbs or black thumbs,” wrote horticulturalist Henry Mitchell in a message you were destined to hear at this exact moment. “There are only gardeners and nongardeners. Gardeners are the ones who get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a ‘natural way.’ You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell.

Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners.” Happy Defiance Time to you, Aquarius! In the coming weeks, I hope you will express the most determined and disciplined fertility ever!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I believe it may be the right time to tinker with or repair a foundation; to dig down to the bottom of an old resource and consider transforming it at its roots. Why? After all this time, that foundation or resource needs your fresh attention. It could be lacking a nutrient that has gradually disappeared. Maybe it would flourish better if it got the benefit of the wisdom you have gained since it first became useful to you. Only you have the power to discern the real reasons, Pisces — and they may not be immediately apparent. Be tender and patient and candid as you explore.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Sin” is a puerile concept in my eyes, so I don’t normally use it to discuss grown-up concerns. But if you give me permission to invoke it in a jokey, ironic way, I’ll recommend that you cultivate more surprising, interesting and original sins. In other words, Aries, it’s high time to get bored with your predictable ways of stirring up a ruckus. Ask God or life to bring you some really evocative mischief that will show you what you’ve been missing and lead you to your next robust learning experience.

you don’t have to pay a penny unless they all come true. Check ’em out! Oracle No. 1: Should you wait patiently until all the conditions are absolutely perfect? No! Success comes from loving the mess. Oracle No. 2: Don’t try to stop a sideshow to which you’re opposed. Stage a bigger, better show that overwhelms it. Oracle No. 3: Please, master, don’t be a slave to the things you control. Oracle No. 4: Unto your own self be true? Yes! Unto your own hype be true? No! Oracle No. 5: The tortoise will beat the hare as long as the tortoise doesn’t envy or try to emulate the hare.

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Sometimes playful, sometimes cozy, I like to explore new things. I’m an avid people person — I love to figure out what makes people tick. librasun, 46, l ADVENTUROUS HOMEBODY MISSING MALE ENERGY Love cooking, listening to music and traveling when I can, and I enjoy low-key hiking and kayaking. Barely make it through winter. Looking for someone with a good sense of humor who enjoys adventures in new things and staying home with tried and true as well, and who is looking for friendship that may or may not turn into something more. Fabulousat55, 56, l LAUGHING MAKES LIFE BETTER I’m honest, and all my friends emphasize that I’m trustworthy.

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EASYGOING, TRUTHFUL, HONEST I would describe myself as open-minded, down-to-earth and friendly. I am looking for that individual who would like to take the time to get to know each other.

Communication and honesty are key.

Maybe if it is in the cards, we will walk down the path of life together. I am college educated and employed as a finance manager. WantU2FindMe, 50, l COUNTRY GIRL WITH A SMILE I am a very honest, trustworthy, caring person. Communication is very important to me. I am an outdoors person. I love nature, adventure and laughing each day. Life should be enjoyed with a true partner. vermontgreenthumb, 67, l STILL WATERS RUN DEEP I am a young woman who is looking for her soul mate. I enjoy hiking, running and being outside. I also enjoy a relaxing cup of tea and bubble bath. I hope I will find an honest, humorous and loyal man who shares these interests with me. bounty_22, 22 UPBEAT, ENERGETIC, OUTGOING I am a lover of life, people, kids, pets, travel, home, gardening, cooking, reading, writing, family, friends, music and dance in search of someone to share the ups and downs. Zebra, 61, l SPICY I am an honest, caring, fun-loving person, just looking for that someone to share life experiences with. I love being out in nature, even in the winter. I hike a few times a week, and it is very important to me. I hope to find someone who loves nature, being active and cooking healthy, delicious meals. melriv66, 51, l

LIFE IS BETTER WHEN SHARED I lived in Beijing, Hong Kong and Phoenix before Plattsburgh, N.Y. I’m real, sincere and serious; hope you are, too. I am more of a conservative with a liberal spirit. I love my job and am positive. I enjoy traveling. I’m at a stage of my life where I know what I want.

I’m looking for someone kind, mature, positive, honest. PlbLiouX, 35, l SEEKING OTHER H FRIENDS !

Husky librarian here who’s fond of tabletop games, hiking, tennis and screwing around on the internet.

I like memes. Looking for other H friends (if you don’t know, don’t ask) for casual dating or LTR. Looking for smart, nice guys. Nerd/geek/ dork-friendly. jaicubed, 26, l POETIC, ADVENTUROUS, COMPASSIONATE, COLLABORATIVE I am a lover of the night sky, words, music, kayaking and hiking. I work with students, run writing workshops and love poetry. I enjoy ideas and exploring the possibilities for this world with others. Would like to meet a man who is a lover of nature and music, and open to exploring life’s beauty and mystery together. Poetess7, 54, l LOW MAINTENANCE, ASK FOR NOTHING I am a low-maintenance, ask-fornothing woman. I enjoy being home gardening and am a very good cook. If I was with someone, it wouldn’t matter what we were doing as long as we were together and happy. Hellovt2, 61 KAYAKING PARTNER WANTED Kayaking on a quiet pond with loons signing nearby; backcountry skiing on the beautiful trails of the Northeast Kingdom. So much to do in the great

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Prefer coffee shops over loud bars. Seek one with similar interest. Drop me a line. Let’s chat. Pam. Carmie51, 51, l HONEST, CREATIVE, FIERY My life riches are work, children, dog, writing, photography, gardening, biking and enjoying the life choice of living in Vermont. I desire closeness, chemistry, connection and fun with a man. I live wholeheartedly and want to be with a man who also loves life, can communicate, laugh, think, dance and travel his way to me. RumiLove, 67, l ENERGETIC, POSITIVE AND ADVENTUROUS, VIBRANT I am a kind person with a huge heart.

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My home, studio and gallery are in a renovated historic barn surrounded by gardens near a lake. I have lots to appreciate and feel there is always room for more friends, more to love and others with whom to share life experiences. Libelle, 60, l A DASH OF EVERYTHING Funny, smart and caring, 5’3 average to slight build, with unruly curly hair and brown eyes. College educated with an excellent job. Enjoy the outdoors, water activities, snow, evening fires, and the sound of rain. My biggest vices are shoes and chocolate.

Nonsmoker and social drinker. I have a tasteful tattoo. Can be impatient and a bit of a klutz. ManekiKat, 51

TIME FOR MORE ADVENTURES Widowed a year ago after a great 23-year marriage. The past year has been an interesting reassessment of where I’ve been and where I’m going.

I’m into outdoor activities, walks with my dogs and Vermont life. I’m looking for a companion who’s active, optimistic and of similar mind. Forward, 60, l GOOD-NATURED MAN WHO CARES I’m looking for a nice woman who has a nice sense of humor and a great personality to spend time with and enjoy each other’s company. ArtieNY, 73 DREAMS COME TRUE Me: a 5’10, sexy, hung male looking for the spark to my match! I’m a cute business man looking for hookups and cuddle time. Love long car rides in the country, then finding a pull-off to hit and throw you in the hood. You must be fit; can’t be fat! Want the best time of your life? Yoho8819, 30 SHY, GAMER, ANIME NERD, AWKWARD I’m shy and awkward. I’m a gamer who loves metal music. When I warm up to you, I can be super affectionate and will care for you almost every time with cheesy “Good morning” texts. TheotherM, 26, l HI FROM ESSEX I’m a divorced sports fan (mostly football) seeking a like minded woman.

I’m not very elequent speaking about myself, this is all I have. I’ve had a rotten 2016, getting divorced, my home burnt down and my business with it. So far 2017 has been good and I’d like to find someone who wants to spend some time with. Thanks. bigsportsfan, 60 EASYGOING, LOVING MAN I’m looking for that serious woman who has played way too many games and been lied to, fought with and cheated on so that I can show her there is more to life than the hurt. A woman needs to be listened to, caressed, told how great she looks and acted pleasantly toward at all times. patrioteagle, 56, l SINGLE VERMONT MAN #NEEDSHISGIRL Please be honest, loyal, attractive, humble, kind and OK with lots of sex if it comes to that. Find me, pull my eyes into yours and make me see no others. I’m open to dating but will not host a charade. I go completely on chemistry and raw animal instinct.

My love will be my queen, and I will be her king. She will be cherished, loved, protected, respected and never neglected. Mud, 39, l MAKE IT MEANINGFUL Life should be enjoyed. I enjoy sunsets, sunrises, the mountains and good conversation. An openminded approach works best for me, as situations are constantly changing.

I thoroughly enjoy outdoor activities — hiking, cycling, occasionally jogging — but I like my downtime too. A good book, music, chilling out — all good. I like to go with the flow. Green_Up_Now, 41 SHOW ME THE MAGIC! I’ve recently moved to Vermont, and I’m looking to make this my home. I’m a musician, a creative, funny, passionate, potentially sarcastic, thoughtful guy who’d love to find that inexplicable, magical connection with a kindred spirit (ha, wouldn’t we all?), or at least have as a new friend to show me around this place! Mookie20Hz, 64, l

NEW BEGINNINGS College-educated executive looking for intelligent conversation. Looking for someone who is willing to be friends first and see where things go from there. I have a variety of interests, and I’m willing to try new things. Megabyte, 39, l WE CAN BE AWESOME TOGETHER! I’m a happy, fun-loving and sincere guy with a great attitude seeking a similar woman. I have a nice blend of energy, laid-back attitude, passion, sense of humor, intelligent. I’m a rounded person who has experienced a fulfilled and diversified life. I love the outdoors and get my exercise and vitality by hiking, skiing and bicycling. greenmtnsguy, 63 HAVE A OPEN MIND I like to stay busy, like to ski, hike, work out, ride bikes, outdoor things.

Easygoing. Don’t let things get to me. Life is too short. Drop a note to me if you would like to know anything about me. skiski1, 53, l STRONGER LOVE Very happy and smart.

BlackInkligns, 32, l NICE, FRIENDLY, ROMANTIC, CARING, TALENTED Hi, my name is Mike, and I’m looking into dating, making friends and meeting new people. I enjoy writing, playing music, watching movies, and I love going to concerts. I’m a soft-spoken, kind, gentle person who likes to laugh, cuddle and also has a good sense of humor. I’m pretty chill and laid-back.

Also like to work. motley123, 40, l EASYGOING Happy, hardworking farmer who likes what he does, who wants someone who can accept him for what he is and to spend time with him on days off, doing whatever we wish to do and no drama. rpb7456, 59, l CREATIVE, COMPASSIONATE, GRATEFUL, OPEN-HEARTED ADVENTURER I am creative, sensuous and playful and love exploring. I’m healthy and active with many interests including climate activism, farmers markets, being in water and nature, photography, swimming, kayaking, dancing, yoga, cooking, skiing, art, bicycle and motorcycle riding, mushroom hunting, and more. I’m looking for a warm, openhearted, creative, fun woman. Must love kids and dogs. WhirlingDancer, 68, l

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PATIENTLY WAITING AT ASIAN BISTRO To the handsome man with the Hill Farmstead sweatshirt who was waiting patiently with a young lady for a table: Thank you for putting a smile on my face! Glad our paths crossed, and hope they do again. When: Saturday, May 13, 2017. Where: Asian Bistro.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #913977 KENNEDY DR./HINESBURG RD., LIME-GREEN MOTORCYCLE You waved to me when we were stopped at the intersection. You were on some sort of motorcycle that was lime green. I was in a blue Forester, jammin’ out. Just wanted to let you know that you made my day with your friendly wave. Couldn’t see your face under your helmet, though.

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You: Man. Me: Woman. #913976 STEEPLE MARKET, FAIRFAX, 5/10 Your beauty is undeniable and distracted me from my job of delivering packages.

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WINOOSKI CIRCLE CROSSWALK You: driving in a white car, sunglasses, handsome. Me: crossing the street wearing a light-blue shirt, linen skirt, brown boots and glasses. You rolled down your window to say hi. I said hi back, but you had to drive off and I had to cross the street. I’d like to say hi again sometime. When: Friday, May 12, 2017. Where: Winooski circle.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #913974 WAKING WINDOWS VOLUNTEER M, it’s G. We both were volunteers for Waking Windows. We got to chatting at Monkey House, and then I got distracted in my wandering and never made it back.

You’re lovely, and it would be great to get to know you better. When: Sunday, May 7, 2017. Where: Waking Windows.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #913971 MY TRAVELING WOODWORKER Salamanders, Miss Weinerz doughnuts, that wisp of hair that falls over your eyes, a soft breeze through the trees, wind chimes, heartbeats, butterfly kisses, earth tones, black coffee, a touch of sawdust, peace, comfort and so much more.

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You’ll be in my heart. When: Monday, May 8, 2017. Where: in my hammock.

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You: Man. Me: Woman. #913964 LOWE’S IN VENDOR VEST Afternoon. You had a vendor vest on near the seeds and lawn chemicals.

We glanced and smiled. Really wanted to say hi. # When: Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Where: Lowe’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913963 GREAT DEFEAT OF THE WORLD Against the great defeat of the world, we’re going to take up again the struggle. We met at the climate march in Montpeculiar, right after Woody Guthrie sent us a message from the heavens; you were wearing just the right colors. Keep your eyes peeled for a semiotic poem. When: Saturday, April 29, 2017. Where: Montpelier.

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SIDE BAR, LEFT-SLEEVED GENTLEMAN Left arm was sleeved; I noticed when I watched you roll your own cigarette while drinking good beer with two friends. I was with a friend on the short side of the bar. I doubt you are single, but if you are I’d love to have a drink.

Either way, thought I’d let you know I found you very attractive. When: Saturday, May 6, 2017. Where: Side Bar. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913968

MISS MAÎTRE D’ AT ARTSRIOT You tended to my needs when I attempted to locate the owners of the car I had accidentally scraped with my artwork. You asked around at each table for the owners of the license plate number I gave you. This is awkward for me, but how about a glass of water, and I’ll buy you a drink, at Zero Gravity? When: Saturday, April 29, 2017. Where: ArtsRiot, 6:30 p.m. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913961

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When: Friday, June 10, 2016. Where: work. You: Man. Me: Woman. #913959

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Where: Power to the People’s Climate event, the Karma Bird House, Burlington.

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You: Woman. Me: Man. #913965 SEXY SINGER PLAYING BADASS GUITAR You: wearing this tailored suit. Me: pink flower dress and chord jacket.

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You: Man. Me: Woman. #913957 JESS/JESSICA FORMERLY AT IBM Jess, you had a white car. I gave you a jump-start one afternoon after work. You used to walk with your mom during lunch. I regret not getting your number. I hope you see this. I would love a second chance to ask you out for coffee or something. When: Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Where: IBM. You: Woman. Me: Man. #913900

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ASK ATHENA Dear Athena,

I have a really good friend who just got engaged, and I really think she is making a mistake. She hasn’t been the same since they got together. She doesn’t do anything she used to do, and he’s really boring — she seems so bored and sad all the time. She always does whatever he wants. I want to tell her, but I think she’ll hate me. Also, many years ago when I was just coming out of the closet, I admitted that she was my first crush. It upset her, and we weren’t that close for a while. Now I think she’ll think I just like her again, but I’m dating other women and just care about her as a friend.

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Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place. You and your friend share a complicated past, but your present predicament is actually simple: You’ve gotta tell your buddy how you feel.

A sustainable friendship — or any relationship, for that matter — is based on truth. Without it, there’s no trust; everything is superficial. Let’s imagine what happens if you don’t tell her: They get married, and — since you have to hide how you feel about her spouse — your friendship slowly dissolves as it grows harder and harder for you to be authentic around her.

You don’t want that, right? So, let’s say you do tell her. There’s a chance she won’t want anything to do with you, and you’ll have lost a friend for good. Maybe she’ll blame your objection to her marriage on your old crush — maybe not. But she will feel judged and vulnerable and could say any number of hurtful things.

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People make mistakes, and you can’t force her to do or not do anything — no matter how much you care about her. But, just maybe, she’ll be relieved that you spoke up. Maybe she really needs to hear this from a friend right now.

However you approach this situation could result in lousy consequences for you. But don’t let that outcome get in the way of telling your friend that you care — that you want her to be happy. Tell her that you miss your old friend. Even the best friendships can have bumps along the way, but I hope you two can ride them out together.

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