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Holy Campus, Poultney!

COMING TOGETHER Towns across Vermont celebrated America’s 250th birthday with parades and fireworks. Here’s to 250 more.

That’s how much federal funding Vermont will receive to reconstruct a stretch of Route 7 from Pittsford to Brandon.

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1. “Evangelist Claims He Now Owns Green Mountain College Campus” by Brian Nearing.

See story on this page.

CITY ON THE RISE

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CNN placed Burlington No. 6 on the 2026 edition of its America’s Best Towns to Visit list.

Not too shabby!

The Green Mountain College campus

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A Florida-based evangelist who preaches about national Christian revival is claiming online that he is the new owner of the former Green Mountain College campus in Poultney.

Tommie Zito announced on Facebook his intent to convert the property into something called Z University to train up to 1,000 students to preach Christian gospel as part of a national religious awakening. Zito made the claim in a Facebook video recorded while he was at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., on the Fourth of July.

On Monday, he invited people to join him in Poultney later this month for an “initial campus preview week.”

Seven Days could not confirm Zito’s claim. No deed reflecting any change of ownership had been filed with the Poultney Town Clerk’s office as of Tuesday, according to Town Clerk Betsy Wescott. A spokesperson for the campus’ owner, Raj Bhakta, did not respond to inquiries.

The development is the latest twist in a six-year saga since Bhakta, the founder of WhistlePig Whiskey, purchased the campus in 2020. Bhakta initially offered a grand vision for the 115-acre campus but failed to attract financing or meet state land-use requirements. In February, he announced he would give it away to a religious group with a mission of reviving Western civilization and the United States through faith.

On July 4, while Zito was recording his video from Disney World, a post went up on Bhakta’s Facebook page

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3. “School Board Backs CVU Artificial Turf Field Project” by Kevin McCallum. The Champlain Valley School District board approved the project despite environmental and health concerns raised by opponents.

4. “Slice of Vermont Adds a Counter in Williston”

by Jordan Barry. The pizza dough wholesaler now serves Roman-style pizza al taglio and Neapolitan pies for weekday lunch to go at its production facility on Williston Road.

5. “Race for Top Prosecutor Asks, What Does Accountability Look Like?” by Colin Flanders.

Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George is facing a primary challenge from her former colleague: Franklin County State’s Attorney Bram Kranichfeld.

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CLOSER TO GOAL The Vermont Green FC women’s soccer team won the Eastern Conference title. Now on to the national semifinal this Saturday, July 11, in Burlington.

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Waitsfield Businesses Begin Collecting Local Option Tax Starting on July 1, businesses in Waitsfield began collecting the town’s new 1 percent local option tax on sales, rooms, meals and alcoholic beverages, according to the Valley Reporter. It’s expected to generate roughly $600,000 annually and will be used for infrastructure and capital needs. Dozens of other towns have similar taxes.

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for his spirits business. In noting the holiday, it added: “This year, the celebration is also personal: one last great hurrah on this campus as we have known it, and the first toast to the chapter already beginning.”

Seven Days requested an interview with Zito, who founded what he calls the American Awakening, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He asked to get questions in writing but has not replied to the ones the newspaper submitted.

A web page for his organization states its purpose thus: “Over the past two decades, The American Awakening has orchestrated over 14,000 revival services, reverberating within the walls of churches, convention centers, and arenas across America and beyond … But our impact doesn’t end there. We are dedicated to equipping and activating believers, empowering them to confidently share their faith with others. The ripple effect of this training has been profound, leaving an indelible mark on cities and churches alike.”

Zito said in his video that he doesn’t plan to move to Vermont to oversee his new project. He told his viewers he has been evangelizing in the Green Mountain State and was drawn to start a religious school here because it’s one of “the least Christian states in the United States … God picked the least churched state in the United States for the third great awakening.”

Read Brian Nearing’s full story and keep up with developments at sevendaysvt.com.

Citing steep financial losses, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital said it will close its birthing center. The news comes months after Morrisville’s Copley Hospital did the same.

2. “Tour a Storybook Home in Burlington’s Old North End” by Mary Ann Lickteig. After two decades, Judy Klima and Anna Thelemarck stopped worrying about resale value and created a home that works best for their family.

When Bill Lutz isn’t answering questions about printer ink or ringing people up at the register at the Staples store in South Burlington, he’s drawing on a sketch pad he keeps handy — something that has caught the attention of many a customer.

Lutz trained at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and while he works at Staples to help pay the bills, his talent is undeniable. Even his boss is a client.

“He loves my artwork,” Lutz said. “I turned his niece into a Jedi Knight, and he got a movie poster out of it.”

Lutz, who specializes in illustration and cartooning, has been drawing since he was 6 years old and counts the classic

the Gothic age,” he said. “They’re going to display it at their wedding.”

Lutz is an artist with ambition. He’s spent years writing and illustrating his own graphic novel, Frontiersmen: Pathways, which he hopes to publish next year. It’s a genre-bending sci-fi saga spanning 500 pages that features Bill Lutz dozens of original heroes and villains.

“Every character I’ve created, somebody posed for me, so that’s based on a real person,” Lutz said. “The ironic thing about it is everybody wants to be a bad guy,” he added.

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superhero comics he grew up with in the 1980s as his biggest influences.

“I realized I could do this, and I finally could tell stories by drawing,” he said. “The most exciting part about it was, it was my world.

I was creating stuff. It was one thing no one could take away.”

Lutz will draw anything and said he’s always open to commissions. He gave Seven Days a glimpse of his portfolio, which included illustrations of pet dogs, Martian explorers and original superheroes. He hopes his current project will blow his clients away.

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CHURCH STREET NEEDS HELP

[Re “‘Burlington Is Back,’ Mayor Proclaims,” June 22, online]: In response to Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak patting herself on the back, I would like to say that although the “patient” is no longer on life support, downtown still has quite a lot of recovering to do. Look at the number of unoccupied retail spaces on Church Street and adjoining streets. The businesses that replaced many of the now-closed legacy shops and boutiques are mostly weed shops, tattoo parlors and fast-food joints for college students. Where are the anchor stores?

How about an Old Navy? A decent shoe store? An ALDI to replace the terminal City Market? A Trader Joe’s? Affordable family dining establishments? A music venue?

The reason these places don’t exist is because the mayor just isn’t businessfriendly. How about an independent, business-led initiative to get some anchor stores on the Church Street Marketplace?

A one-year tax holiday on new businesses that are opened? Working with building owners to offer affordable retail spaces?

Peter Rockwood

BURLINGTON

NO SENIORS?

The “24 Hours on Church Street” article [June 24] painted a picture of the marketplace in a favorable manner. I feel that it was a bit deceptive.

Normal days, this summer in particular, aren’t hot and sunny. World Cup contests don’t happen often, especially causing watch parties in City Hall Park projected on a large screen.

After reading the article, I realized there weren’t pictures or references to middle-aged or senior people. We’re the “people who say they no longer go downtown.” We don’t feel safe and don’t want to be subjected to panhandling and evidence of drug use. We’re a large, important part of our community who weren’t represented in the article.

Laura DeMaroney

SOUTH BURLINGTON

LIMITED VIEW

The web headline on your June 24 cover story [“We Spent 24 Hours on Church Street. Here’s What We Saw”] missed the mark. I’m not bothered by “what you saw” but “where you looked.” The article doesn’t represent “the 1.5 million visitors

[who] annually stroll its bricks,” the customers who go into restaurants and shops instead of idling or carousing on the street. A story entitled, for example, “36 Hours in Montréal” would describe the features and places to visit and pleasures to have, not the people who are struggling

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or inebriated there. As a Burlingtonian who regularly goes to Church Street, I see a fuller picture, not just the small part the article described. The article needed a different title or a different perspective.

Richard Colletti

BURLINGTON

ACCURATE PICTURE OF CHURCH STREET

[“24 Hours on Church Street”] is an exceptional piece of journalism that lays bare the recent pronouncements of city officials that “Burlington is back.” Seven Days’ decision to devote 11 staff members’ time to the investigation is more than significant.

Seven Days’ detailed and documented hour-by-hour chronicle of “a day in the life of the marketplace” reveals facts that establish that Burlington’s downtown is still riddled with pervasive abnormal behavior that violates any reasonable concept of socially acceptable behavior — abnormal behavior that most families and visitors would opt to avoid.

Before I was educated by the article, I assumed that Burlington was, in fact, “back,” based on the government officials’ pronouncements. I now know that the rose-colored-glasses spin painted by Burlington’s hierarchy is highly inaccurate.

I strongly recommend that all Burlington lovers read the article to obtain an accurate sense of what Church Street is really like from dawn to dawn on any given day.

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BAD VISIT TO BURLINGTON

[Re “24 Hours on Church Street,” June 24]: We visit Burlington once a year. It’s an annual day trip we take while visiting my parents’ place near Lake George, N.Y. The drive is always beautiful. We love to stop at the local shops along the way before having lunch in Burlington.

Yesterday was warm and sunny in town, so we decided to eat lunch in the park. We could not sit on the benches because they were all occupied by homeless people. We wanted to sit under a tree, but there were drug addicts huddled or sleeping under most of them, and when my daughter (entering college next year) got a whiff of a woman who walked past us talking to herself, we decided to walk back to the restaurant and eat indoors.

We’ve been taking day trips to Burlington for 40 years, and they’ve always been something we look forward to, but on the way home yesterday, we decided to visit someplace else next year. And we scratched Burlington off the list of college towns for my daughter.

communities coexist, respect each other’s differences and are harmonious neighbors.

One beautiful example is Temple Sinai and the Islamic Society of Vermont sharing a parking lot when needed for overflow.

It is unfortunate that Mr. Aryeh Moskowitz has felt religious discrimination. I wish him peace. Aggressively controlling or threatening a public servant isn’t going to bring about peace in the Middle East or anywhere. His lawyer defending the actions, claiming First Amendment rights and our mayor’s disinterest in tolerating differing opinions, is disrespectful to the Constitution and fundamentally unpatriotic.

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Last week’s cover story “Pleading Their Case,” about the electoral contest for Chittenden County state’s attorney, misstated where Bram Kranichfeld lives in Burlington. He resides in the New North End.

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STALKING IS ‘UNPATRIOTIC’

I was unaware when Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak stood on the stage, shaking my son’s hand after he received his diploma at the new Burlington High School, that she was in the midst of being stalked [“Man Accused of Stalking Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak,” June 15, online]. I deeply appreciate that, in our beautiful state, we enjoy freedom to engage in healthy, respectful discussion and disagreement. Predominately, our spiritual

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Road Not Taken

Vermont cartoonist laureate Stephen R. Bissette on dinosaurs, monsters and creativity in the Green Mountains

Burlington officials celebrated the Champlain Parkway as a testament to public process. Some critics still question its worth.

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Awareness of estrogen therapy has evolved, but access to care in Vermont and elsewhere remains uneven

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Greetings From the Champlain Parkway

An illustrated look at the new landscape in Burlington’s South End

Sanders Joins Calls for Platner to End Senate Bid

What the Story Behind Wallingford’s ‘Boy With the Leaking Boot’?

The history of the town’s unusual statue and town mascot

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‘Hidden in Plain Sight’

In Land, Israeli-born filmmaker Orly Yadin explores her identity along with that of the Jewish state

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Short takes on five Vermont books

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Patchwork Pride

A statewide quilting project celebrates the joy of queer community in Vermont SUPPORTED BY: Two years ago the village of Plainfield was hit by catastrophic flooding. After meeting flood survivors in July 2024, Seven Days’ Eva Sollberger revisited them this month.

The owners of 28 properties are awaiting FEMA buyouts, and one group of locals plans to build a new neighborhood on higher ground.

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The past is present in the Cartoon Issue

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ermont punches above its weight in all sorts of things: craft beer, cheese, lefty politics, exceptionalism. But there’s one arena in which the state shines bright but has yet to fully receive its flowers: cartooning.

We know of no stats to back this up, but we’d wager Vermont boasts a higher concentration of cartoonists per capita

than anywhere else in the country — maybe anywhere, period. Some of that is thanks to the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, which for two decades has been producing world-class artists — several of whose work you’ll find in this issue. But Vermont has been a cartooning hotbed for much longer than that. Just ask our reigning comics czar, STEPHEN R. BISSETTE.

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WITH TIME An exhibition of photographs featuring older adults who have simply become who and what they are ... with time.

Clover Ajamie is a Vermont artist who makes comics about nature, feelings and queer stuff.

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EMILY RHAIN ANDREWS Emily Rhain Andrews is a Vermont illustrator and graphic designer who combines her passion for design with the dynamic world of comics and visual storytelling. She is a proud alumna of Syracuse University and MFA graduate from Burlington’s Champlain College. Her work, ranging from comic creation to collegiate e-sports brand identity development, dives into crafting visual narratives and centers on the art of storytelling.

Discover more at eraillustration.com.

Earlier this year, the Eisner Hall of Famer and Swamp Thing artist was named the state’s sixth cartoonist laureate. In a Seven Days interview, Bissette said his primary goal during his three-year tenure is to produce a history of cartooning in Vermont, one he says stretches back well over a century (page 30). His own 50-year career could occupy a good chunk of that volume, alongside those of local luminaries such as Ed Koren, Alison Bechdel, Harry Bliss, James Kochalka, Frank Miller and many others.

Speaking of history, Bissette’s laureate predecessor, TILLIE WALDEN, just released a stunning graphic novel, Charity & Sylvia — a 200-year-old queer love story based on the real lives of two Vermont women.

Reviewer Franky Frances Cannon, an illustrator with Vermont ties herself, called Walden’s artistry “innovative and original” (page 40).

As evidenced by Walden’s book — or, if you missed it, the New York Times Magazine’s astonishing “Visions of America”

series last month — cartoons are a great vehicle to bring stories from the past to life. In this issue, journalist Ken Picard and cartoonist Josie Psimer teamed up to explore the history of an unusual statue in Wallingford, “THE BOY WITH THE LEAKING BOOT” (page 34). Food writer Melissa Pasanen and artist Emily Rhain Andrews dug into the lasting impacts of ITALIAN IMMIGRANT FARMERS IN COLCHESTER (page 36).

And cartoonist Glynnis Fawkes illustrated the history of the long-delayed CHAMPLAIN PARKWAY in Burlington, which finally opened last week (page 17).

For a bite-size take on more recent history, check out music editor Chris Farnsworth’s thoughts on journalist Mark Pendergrast and cartoonist Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr.’s new comic book, DONALD TRUMP: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (page 44).

But comics can also be used to tell current stories. To wit, visual art editor Alice Dodge and cartoonist

Clover Ajamie collaborated on one about a STATEWIDE QUILTING INITIATIVE that aims to connect both colorful fabrics and Vermont’s LGBTQ communities (page 50).

Of course, comics are also excellent tools for spinning more fantastical yarns.

In the music section, Farnsworth and artist Ethan Slayton uncover previously unrealized links between important moments in pop music history and SIGHTINGS OF CHAMP (page 54).

Those links were “unrealized” because, well, we made them up. However, we imagine Slayton drew at least some inspiration for his depictions of Lake Champlain’s mysterious serpent from Bissette’s work.

In the world of monster comics, few are as influential as Bissette — save, perhaps, for his old friend Rick Veitch, a former Vermont cartoonist laureate himself.

So we asked Veitch’s son Ezra to draw this week’s cover. In a tribute to Bissette, Ezra riffed on the artist’s iconic Tyrannosaurus rex from his soon-to-be-reissued comic Tyrant Tyrant, as well as a 1980 cover of a cult favorite flip-book, Dr. Wirtham’s Comix & Stories Stories, on which his dad and Bissette collaborated. Talk about comics history.

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A dinosaur from Stephen R. Bissette’s Tyrant

GLYNnIS FAWKES

Glynnis Fawkes is the coauthor (with Eric H. Cline) and illustrator of 1177 BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed. She illustrated Jo Knowles’ Someone’s Gonna End Up Crying and is also the authorillustrator of Charlotte Brontë Before Jane Eyre and Persephone’s Garden, among other books. Her comics have also appeared on the website of the New Yorker. She has worked as an archaeological illustrator around the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, and teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction.

JOSIE PSIMER

Josie Psimer is a cartoonist who makes comics for middle-grade readers featuring young characters navigating friendships and coming of age. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023, with an emphasis in comics and print media. She graduated in May from the Center for Cartoon Studies with an MFA in cartooning. Find more of her work online at behance.net/josiepsimer or on Instagram: @llamics.

ETHAN SLAYTON

Ethan Slayton is a Montpelier cartoonist, comic artist, editor, graphic designer and writer. Slayton has selfpublished comics in Portland, Ore., and Vermont and is the cocreator of “Doomsbury,” an occasional Seven Days comic strip with music editor Chris Farnsworth. He’s currently working on a Vermont-grown comic that he’s very excited about. If you keep your eyes on his socials, you’ll hear more about it, most likely this fall. Find him on Instagram: @ethanslaytonart.

EZRA VEITCH

Ezra Veitch was raised with comics everywhere thanks to his father, legendary Swamp Thing artist and writer Rick Veitch. His work includes The Chronicles of Templar, a collaboration with Edward Jendrzewski; and several projects with Vermont Folklife, including The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont Drawn

by New England Cartoonists and Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont. A project based on his days in a band called the Fabulous Furry Fatheads is in early development. He lives in New Hampshire, teaches visual arts at the Greenwood School in Putney and enjoys time with his family. Learn more at ezraveitch.com.

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The Waterbury Arts Fest draws foodies and aesthetes downtown for two days of communitycentered outdoor revelry. Friday night’s block party boasts a beer garden, belly-filling food offerings, trivia and live tunes, while Saturday’s arts market transforms the town into a massive wall-free gallery packed with exhibitors, street performances and a hands-on creation station.

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Grungy garage-rock god Jack White takes the stage at the Champlain Valley Exposition’s Midway Lawn in Essex Junction for an unmissable performance of chart-topping hits and deep cuts.

The unapologetically eccentric singer and guitarist — best known for his roles in the White Stripes and the Raconteurs — shows why he’s amassed a whopping 34 Grammy noms and 12 wins.

Nothing sounds as Vermonty as the Jeezum Crow Festival, a weekend of live performances, craft vendors and local eats at Jay Peak Resort’s Stateside Amphitheater. Double stages eliminate downtime between sets and keep the good vibes rolling with a standout lineup, including jam kings the Disco Biscuits, country-blues artist Charlie Parr and bluegrass fusion outfit Railroad Earth.

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A Bug’s Life From canopy walks and safaris to beekeeping demos and crafting stations, Vermont Institute of Natural Science’s Incredible Insect Festival delivers entomological excitement in Quechee. The buggy bash nods to all things winged and wriggly, turning the spotlight on Earth’s most crucial and misunderstood creatures and reminding all ages that good things can come in small packages.

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Purple Haze At Sunshine Village Lavender Farm’s You-Pick Lavender Fest in Pittsford, visitors pluck their own aromatic bundles straight from a field of dreams.

The scent-sational summer celebration satisfies all five senses with farm tours, a local artisan market, herbaceous workshops, a bouncy house and a beer garden. Relax and let go of any election-year divisions of red and blue: Here, purple reigns.

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Watching With the World

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I’m happy for the coincidence of the United States turning 250 and the quadrennial pursuit of the FIFA World Cup. The largest sporting event on Earth has a way of putting things in perspective. I view it as a reminder that we are one of many countries sharing this planet and that people in myriad places are just as patriotic as we are — more so, arguably, when it comes to soccer, which everyone else in the world calls football.

At a garden party before the Burlington fireworks last Friday, all eyes were on the match between Cape Verde and Argentina. Against all odds, the tiny island nation held its own into extra time against the country that produced Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi.

On Saturday, I was rooting, and then crying, for Canada, the underdog against victor Morocco. Two hours later, my partner, Tim, and I tuned in to watch a not-so-beautiful game that worked out better for France than Paraguay. Colorful explosions from Shelburne Bay and across the lake reminded us that it was somebody’s big birthday.

On Sunday, which was gorgeous, the two of us were inside again, witnessing a dramatic upset: Norway beat Brazil. One friend was texting about it from Boston Logan International Airport. Another was part of a watch party at Wake Robin in Shelburne.

A few hours later, the Mexican national team broke the hearts of almost 80,000 spectators in a home game it lost to England.

There’s no overstating what it takes to play a 90-minute soccer match; the combination of athleticism and emotion on display is comparable only to the Olympics. But unlike that multisport event, with its frenetic, sampler-style coverage, this FOMO-free contest lasts more than twice as long and rolls out one competition at a time. You have only one choice to make: to watch or not.

Those who do are connected in a way that only people witnessing the same thing at the same time can be. Such shared experiences have become increasingly rare in a world of endless options.

Yes, three and a half weeks into the 39-day World Cup, I’ve finally caught Soccer Fever.

The contagion was inevitable; I live with a super-spreader.

Almost everything I’ve learned about soccer has come from Tim, who started playing as a young boy and hasn’t stopped.

Nothing makes him happier than running around all night — sometimes the games start at 11 p.m. — with his teammates.

At 49, he’s one of the oldest guys on the field.

On the couch, he’s a soccer encyclopedia. Beyond the rules, Tim is versed in player bios, cool moves and team relegation history. He can distinguish fake falls, injuries and tears — here’s looking at you, Neymar — from the real thing. And when the camera zooms in on some soccer legend, such as Colombian goalkeeper René Higuita of “scorpion kick” fame, Tim looks online for video to accompany the history lesson.

I couldn’t ask for a better guide to the sport — though,

People watching the World Cup last month in Burlington City Hall Park

despite his efforts and those of others, I still don’t understand when a player is “offside” and probably never will.

There were no close calls in the match between the U.S. and Belgium on Monday night. The latter won handily, despite a controversial last-hour reinstatement of U.S. striker Folarin Balogun after some high-level intervention by Donald Trump. No one could dispute that the Europeans played better — not even our poor-sport president.

As predicted, all three World Cup host countries got knocked out before the semifinals.

Our local teams are faring better. The Vermont Green FC, aka the Boys in Green, have already qualified for the playoffs. In their inaugural season, the Girls in Green haven’t lost a game and play North Carolina’s Asheville City Soccer Club in the USL W National Semifinal on Saturday, July 11, at the University of Vermont’s Virtue Field.

Conveniently, Vermont soccer fans can catch that contest between two World Cup games: Norway and England face off at 5 p.m., and at 9, Argentina meets Switzerland.

The high-stakes international matchups continue for another week after that. Too bad we can’t resolve every world conflict on the sports field — peacefully, with heart and mutual respect.

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hen Kirsten Berggren stopped feeling like herself after a major ankle surgery in 2016, she assumed the slump would pass once she was back on her feet.

The normally energetic family medicine nurse practitioner was sleeping poorly, increasingly irritable and slogging through days that felt inexplicably hard. The symptoms lingered after her ankle healed. Then came the COVID19 pandemic: long shifts in urgent care, aging parents who needed more support, children preparing to leave home. There always seemed to be another explanation for the then-49-year-old woman’s exhaustion, stress and a growing sense that something was off.

Perimenopause — the hormonal transition leading to menopause — never crossed her mind.

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who agreed she was a good candidate for an estrogen patch.

She felt the difference within three days.

“It was like the shades lifted,” Berggren said. “I didn’t know how bad I was feeling until I started feeling better.”

Stories such as Berggren’s have become increasingly prominent as a generation of

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women enters midlife armed with new research, online networks and renewed interest in hormone therapy, following decades of clinical caution that pushed treatment to the margins. Demand has risen as medical guidance came around in recent years, but the health care system — including medical providers and drug manufacturers — has struggled to keep pace.

Across Vermont, women describe searching for informed clinicians, waiting weeks or months for appointments, and, at times, calling multiple pharmacies to locate medications. Providers say gaps in training and uneven adoption of updated guidance have left diagnosis and treatment inconsistent. The result is perimenopausal care often shaped less by symptoms than geography, clinical experience and access to specialized care.

Perimenopause often begins in a woman’s forties, though it can start earlier as ovaries gradually produce less estrogen.

Unlike menopause, defined as 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period, perimenopause can last years and produce a wide range of symptoms, including anxiety, brain fog, irregular cycles, hot flashes, joint pain, mood swings, sleep disruption, urinary changes and vaginal dryness.

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Nicholas Languerand, a native Vermonter who was convicted of a federal crime for his actions during the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, died by suicide in late May, according to authorities in South Carolina.

The 31-year-old had been living in Wolcott before the insurrection and moved to South Carolina not long after it. He was the subject of a 2022 Seven Days cover story that explored how far-fetched conspiracy theories and radical politics — fueled by social media — propelled the then-26-year-old from a trailer in the Vermont woods to the front line of the insurrection.

Languerand was arrested in April 2021 after federal agents used his own social media posts to place him at the U.S. Capitol, where video footage showed him throwing various objects at police. He pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon and served about three years in federal prison before getting released in August 2024.

Five months later, President Donald Trump issued a sweeping grant of clemency to Languerand and nearly 1,600 others who had been charged in connection with the January 6 attack.

News of Languerand’s death has been picked up by right-wing corners of the internet, where J6 rioters and their sympathizers have sought to hold him up as the latest martyr of what they call former president Joe Biden’s persecution campaign.

A story on the Gateway Pundit, a right-wing news website known for trafficking misinformation, blamed Languerand’s suicide on “the pressures of being a targeted political prisoner,” despite no evidence to back up that claim.

According to records obtained by Seven Days from police in Horry County, S.C., witnesses saw Languerand crash his car into a ditch around 7 p.m. on May 31 before he got out and shot himself. His grandfather told the coroner that Languerand used drugs and had been going through a breakup but he thought he “was doing better.” ➆ Lucy Tompkins contributed reporting.

Road Not Taken

Burlington officials celebrated the Champlain Parkway as a testament to public process.

Some critics still question its worth.

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t’s been 61 years since the road now known as the Champlain Parkway was first planned — and its June 29 grand opening didn’t let the audience forget that. A playlist of 1960s tunes soundtracked the event. Dignitaries cut a 61-foot ribbon. Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak rode off in a 61-year-old Ford Mustang after opening the endlessly delayed, much-fought-over alternate route from Interstate 189 toward the city’s downtown.

Once the shredded ribbon had been gathered, curious motorists filtered onto the parkway. Those drivers — many of whom likely were not born when the project was conceived — might ask, Why did it take six decades and $84 million to build a 2.8-mile roadway? And how did the city end up with this road — neither a direct, high-speed route to downtown nor an ordinary city street intended for local traffic only? Does the Champlain Parkway represent a happy compromise or one that should not have been built at all?

The answer to the last question depends on whom you ask. MulvaneyStanak, for her part, had an upbeat answer.

The Champlain Parkway entrance from I-189

“Major public projects rarely achieve unanimous support, but I believe today’s parkway reflects something important about Burlington,” she said at the ribbon cutting. “We can wrestle with difficult questions, acknowledge our history and build something that better reflects who we are today.”

But Steve Goodkind, who spent 16 years as the city’s public works director, had a very different take.

“It’s a monument to ignorance,” he said in a phone interview the day the road opened. “That road never should have been built.” Decades of design changes twisted the parkway into something that no longer made sense, he said.

Over the course of 61 years, the parkway has been reimagined and redesigned a dozen times to meet the demands of South End residents; rerouted to avoid a Superfund site; and delayed by environmental studies, 10 lawsuits, and shifting federal, state and city priorities.

But in the beginning, there was a vision.

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Road Not Taken « P.17 In the early 1960s, Vermont’s interstate highway system was brand-new. The Chittenden County suburbs burgeoned.

In Burlington, the county’s retail center, nervous merchants worried about how out-of-town customers would reach their downtown stores through increasingly snarled traffic.

In 1961, the city planning commission had an idea: a four-lane, divided highway that would allow cars to zip from the new Interstate 189 interchange on Shelburne Road directly to Battery Street and the city’s center.

“The highway would swing north along the edge of Lake Champlain and connect again with the Interstate Highway north of Burlington,” the Burlington Free Press told its readers in 1963.

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State transportation officials had a similar vision and in 1965 formally proposed a four-lane beltline that would encircle Burlington. Then the proposed South End road hit its first delay: Access to the city’s New North End won priority.

The southern road had to wait.

The grand city-encircling beltline plan soon died, but plans for the southern segment survived. This “Southern Connector” was still a four-lane highway.

The plan quickly attracted opposition in the city’s South End. Every route proposed for the new road threatened someone.

“I want to know whose homes will be moved, whose houses will be ripped from their foundations, whose backyards will be split in two,” Millie Gautherat, a resident of Lyman Avenue, said at a public meeting in 1976, the Free Press reported. Others worried about the safety of a high-speed highway through their neighborhoods and whether it would act as a kind of wall, cutting them off from the rest of the city. By 1981, 21 families would be displaced as part of a state buyout program clearing way for the supposedly imminent construction, according to the Free Press.

That same year, Joan Beauchemin, an activist who lived in a neighborhood nestled between the railroad and Lake

Champlain, told an Act 250 commission hearing that “the road in its present design will demoralize and threaten the residents of Lakeside.” Beauchemin spent so many years fighting the Southern Connector design that her efforts were mentioned in her 2014 obituary.

Under this kind of pressure, the city and state began discussing changes. An alternative plan to widen Pine Street also drew opposition, so state highway planners proposed to reroute a one-mile stretch of the road through a vacant, marshy area known as the Pine Street Barge Canal. It was a fatal blow to any build-it-quick plan. The barge canal route stalled the Southern Connector for nearly 20 years, until environmental studies ruled out putting the road through any part of the contaminated area by the lake.

Nevertheless, the plan for some kind of highway remained on the books.

In 1989, the city completed the first segment, a road to nowhere that started at the I-189 interchange, ended at Home Avenue and did not open to traffic until last week.

Through the years, businesspeople and some South End residents continued to press for construction. Mayor after mayor promised the road would be finished.

“I expect the road will be completed in my first term as mayor,” Peter Clavelle told the Free Press as he ran for the office in 1989, an unfounded optimism shared by several of his successors.

In 1997, the state and city finally agreed on a two-lane parkway that would end at Lakeside Avenue, where traffic would turn right, then turn left to follow Pine Street toward downtown.

That raised new concerns. More traffic — and all the noise and pollution that comes with it — would be routed through King and Maple streets, one of Burlington’s poorest and most diverse neighborhoods.

Over time, the purpose of the highway had also morphed. There was less talk about easing access to downtown and more about removing truck traffic from South End streets, including Flynn and Home avenues. Completing the highway had also come to symbolize something more. “Abandoning it risks undermining our confidence that the city can get things done,” then-mayor Miro Weinberger said as he ran for reelection in 2015.

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A shared-use pedestrian path, less of a consideration decades ago, was built alongside the road.

The parkway provides easy access to City Market’s South End location and the breweries and cidery operating across the street. It also goes right by several parking lots that will be redeveloped into more than 1,000 units of housing as part of what’s known as the South End Coordinated Redevelopment. The city council approved the first phase of the project in May, and construction could begin next year.

The parkway’s defenders, such as Public Works Director Chapin Spencer, believe decades of public process made the final product better.

“This place is not a corridor for vehicles to travel unimpeded through neighborhoods but a place to safely travel in our community while sharing the road with other users and our neighbors,” he said at the ribbon cutting.

Former mayor Clavelle biked down to the parkway the afternoon it opened and was satisfied with what he saw.

“I do think that the efforts to redesign the project to better accommodate bicyclists and pedestrians, those efforts have really borne fruit, and I think it’s a better outcome as a result,” he said in an interview.

Mark Hughes, executive director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance and who previously raised concerns about the parkway’s potential impact on the King and Maple neighborhood, said he would be keeping an eye on how the opening of the parkway affects the area.

New traffic lights have been installed in the neighborhood, and advocates will be tracking data collected by trafficmonitoring cameras.

Goodkind, the former public works director, defended the project when he was employed by the city but later became a fiercely litigious opponent.

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should have been built as a “complete street,” or a two-lane road with shared turning lanes. Instead, he said, it retained its design as a limited-access highway despite changes over the years that made it more closely resemble a common city street.

“It was built during a time when the law said it should have been a complete street,” Goodkind said. “But because there was such an old design, they didn’t follow that idea, and so they built this monstrosity.”

Goodkind believes that Weinberger should have settled a lawsuit brought during his administration and incorporated design changes that would have made more sense.

“Nobody’s building a project like this nowadays, and nobody’s jamming traffic through a neighborhood like this if a neighborhood has any say in it,” Goodkind said.

Former city councilor Joan Shannon, a resident of the Lakeside neighborhood, had long raised concerns about the highway’s traffic impact. After the parkway opening, she argued that “there’s nothing about this road that connects neighborhoods.

“It’s a big road that divides the South End more than anything else,” Shannon said.

Clavelle said he understands both sides.

“I see value in the project in terms of improving access not only to our downtown but also the evolving South End of the city and the significant development that’s proposed,” he said.“But I would hope that city officials would not see this as the culmination but as a milestone.”

Clavelle and others who still have reservations about the Champlain Parkway believe it won’t be truly complete until a final piece is built. In response to advocates, the city under Weinberger proposed the Railyard Enterprise Project to connect Pine Street directly to Battery Street. Critics have placed their faith in this plan as a solution to their traffic concerns in the King/Maple neighborhood. Spencer said the city is negotiating with the privately owned Vermont Rail System to obtain the land needed on its property and would provide an update to the city council sometime this summer.

The Battery Street connector is estimated to cost $55 million, Spencer said, but the city has only found $20 million in federal, state and local funding. If negotiations are successful with the railyard owners, the city will begin the search for more money to fill the gap.

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Kirsten Berggren’s estrogen therapies

Health Initiative set the standard, was prescribed estrogen therapy several years ago when she was navigating severe perimenopause symptoms that she says almost ended her marriage.

Still, estrogen therapy is not appropriate for everyone, Lowell cautioned, and treatment decisions should be made in conversations with a patient’s own provider, weighing symptoms, risks and medical history.

VERMONT CLINICIANS HAVE ADAPTED IN REAL TIME TO THE INCREASE IN DEMAND

WHILE THE SUPPLY CHAIN CATCHES UP.

Diagnostic decisions related to perimenopause remain difficult in part because no single definitive test exists. Berggren, the family medicine nurse practitioner, compared hormone testing to a photograph taken mid-roller coaster ride. It captures a snapshot, not the changes that drive symptoms.

A common refrain among Berggren’s perimenopausal patients at Central Vermont Medical Center’s family medicine practice, an affiliate of University of Vermont Health, is: “I just don’t feel like myself.”

Dr. Colleen Horan, an ob-gyn at Central Vermont Medical Center, said patients entering perimenopause today — often members of Generation X — are more likely to question recommendations, research options and advocate for themselves.

Prescriptions for menopausal hormone therapy rose more than 85 percent between 2021 and 2025, according to medical-record data analyzed by Epic Research, which is a subsidiary of Epic Systems. Drug manufacturers have scrambled to meet the demand.

The FDA has not declared a shortage of estradiol, but the American Society of

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of the study’s hormone therapy clinical trial in 2002, after analysis showed that women taking estrogen and progestin faced higher risks of breast cancer, stroke and blood clots. The conclusion sharply reduced prescribing and led millions of women to stop estrogen therapy almost overnight. It also shaped how a generation of clinicians was trained.

In the years since, researchers have refined those conclusions. Current guidelines now say that for many healthy women under 60 or within 10 years of menopause — a group that was underrepresented in the WHI’s largely older population — the benefits of hormone therapy often outweigh the risks. In contrast, for women 60 and older, hormone therapy is generally less recommended to start, because the risk of blood clots rises with age and the passage of time after menopause. Whether an older patient should continue therapy is a decision best made by the patient and her clinician based on symptoms, health history and other factors, Berggren said.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration updated labeling on certain estrogen products, including patches that administer the potent hormone estradiol, easing the long-standing black-boxed warning on risks tied to menopause hormone therapy.

“A health care system worthy of public trust tells the truth, updates its guidance as science evolves and respects women’s ability to make informed choices about their own health,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in February.

Estrogen therapy is now available in patches, gels, sprays, pills and vaginal preparations. Patches, which offer a lower risk of blood clots than oral estrogen, have proven particularly popular in recent years. In addition to relieving perimenopausal symptoms, these medications can also help slow the bone loss that accelerates post-menopause and have been associated in some studies with lower cardiovascular and diabetes risk when started in younger, otherwise healthy women. If a patient has a uterus, then an intrauterine device or the drug progesterone should be used with estrogen therapy to protect against the increased risk of endometrial cancer that can occur when estrogen is used alone.

Dr. Jennie Lowell, a gynecologist with Maitri Health Care in South Burlington, said she spends some patient visits correcting outdated assumptions tied to estrogen, though that work is easing as public understanding evolves. Lowell, who was among the providers trained when the Women’s

Health-System Pharmacists has identified shortages of several patch formulations as of July 1.

CVS Pharmacy declined to provide data on estradiol use in Vermont, and a spokesperson for UVM Health said the health network was unable to access that information. Kinney Drugs did not respond to requests for comment.

But patients and providers in Vermont who spoke with Seven Days said demand has strained the supply of both estrogen patches and clinicians trained in menopause care, leaving many patients to navigate fragmented treatment.

Jen Hanussak, 45, of Morristown first noticed headaches and vaginal dryness in 2024. A topical cream prescribed by her gynecologist offered little relief. Within a year, unexplained allergic reactions sent her to urgent care. It wasn’t until she read The Perimenopause Survival Guide

by Dr. Heather Hirsch, an internist and founder of a women’s health concierge medical practice, that she began to suspect perimenopause.

When she raised the question of estrogen therapy, Hanussak said her gynecologist responded like a “deer in headlights” and gave her little more than web printouts.

Six months ago, she found a clinician through Hirsch’s online directory of hormone therapy-trained providers who wrote her a prescription for an estrogen patch. Within days of starting the medication, Hanussak’s allergic reactions subsided. Hanussak now describes herself as “loud and proud” about her experience, hoping to push back against social taboos that persist around perimenopause and women’s health.

For other women, the most disruptive symptoms are emotional rather than physical. A 45-year-old Fair Haven woman described heightened anxiety, teary episodes, and sudden mood shifts that felt overwhelming and unfamiliar.

“Instead of being a blithe 13-year-old who just doesn’t understand, it’s 45-year-old me looking on at my actions in horror and

unable to stop it,” she said. She asked not to be identified out of concern that the stigma surrounding perimenopause could impact her career as a professor.

Her gynecologist diagnosed her with early perimenopause and prescribed a lowdose estrogen patch that she said “has made a world of difference.” The diagnosis opened the door to books, family conversations and online communities that reframed an experience she had once thought she was facing by herself. Her takeaway, she said: “You’re not alone.”

Lowell and other clinicians have adapted in real time to the increase in demand while the supply chain catches up: sending prescriptions to multiple pharmacies; reducing the amount dispensed at one time; or adjusting doses when equivalents exist, such as using two lower-strength patches to deliver the desired amount of medication. Patients reported calling repeatedly or traveling farther to find medication.

Supply constraints have affected women such as Amy Zielinski, 49, of Underhill. Before using estrogen patches, she experienced months of anxiety, brain fog, itchy ears, tinnitus and a persistent sense that something was wrong. Therapy and antidepressants brought little relief.

Hot flashes eventually provided what she called the “ammunition” to ask whether perimenopause might be responsible.

Once she received a prescription for estrogen patches, she called several pharmacies before finding a location with her prescribed strength in stock. Her hot flashes dissipated almost immediately.

The accompanying progesterone prescription has also provided an added benefit, she said, with melatonin-like effects that have improved her sleep quality.

Aware that not every patient is able to get responsive care so quickly, some clinicians in Vermont are now trying to make it easier for women to access providers trained in perimenopause and menopause.

Alison Farr, a nurse practitioner and founder of Ascent Healthcare, a concierge medicine office in Shelburne, said the state needs more providers who are trained in menopause care to keep women healthy and in the workforce. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic estimated that the United States loses $1.8 billion annually because of workdays missed due to menopause symptoms.

Hormone therapy is not a difficult area of medicine to practice, Farr added.

“This is not neurosurgery,” she said.

“This is understanding human physiology, then listening to women, how they’re feeling, and knowing how to help.”

This fall, the UVM Larner College of Medicine will host its first conference dedicated exclusively to menopause,

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bringing together clinicians for continuing education on treating patients through the menopausal transition. For Julie Dumas, a researcher and professor of psychiatry at the UVM Larner College of Medicine, the event is also a reminder of how much remains unknown. Women live a third longer than they did a century ago, she noted, yet medical research still dedicates relatively few resources to women over 60. She’s trying to close that gap.

Dumas and colleagues published a study earlier this year in the journal Menopause that linked changes in brain connectivity after menopause to declining estrogen rather than aging alone, adding to a growing body of research exploring how hormonal changes shape brain health over time.

A group from UVM has also applied to establish a dedicated menopause center affiliated with the medical center that would conduct clinical care, training, research and community outreach. A proposal is under review. Berggren, who is involved in the effort, said Vermont’s size makes it a practical testing ground for broader change.

With these efforts under way, Berggren has taken on another challenge: making sure clinicians are up-to-date on the latest recommendations for menopausal hormone therapy. Berggren has partnered with another clinician to develop continuing medical education coursework on perimenopause and menopause. Created with the support of the UVM Larner College of Medicine and available nationally, the course is designed to help providers update training that, in many cases, still reflects older standards of care rooted in the Women’s Health Initiative.

Uptake has been modest since its rollout, she said, though early responses have been positive. Berggren hopes the material will spread through clinical networks, shifting practice not only through individual providers but also through shared habits of care inside clinics.

After a recent presentation, a clinician told her she wished she could revisit earlier patients — women she had once dismissed as overreacting to vague symptoms — now that she better understood perimenopause and its treatment options.

The words struck a chord with Berggren, in light of both her own experience during perimenopause and her work treating menopausal patients. To address a biological reality that will affect roughly half the population, Berggren has no doubt the need for better perimenopause and menopause care exists. The challenge now, she said, is building a health care system prepared to meet it. ➆

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Tuesday that he advised Graham Platner to end his bid to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate after allegations that the progressive Democrat raped a woman.

The woman, whose account was published on the Politico news website on Monday, said she dated Platner on and off between 2019 and 2021, until one night he entered her home and forced himself on her. She said Platner was drunk and that she told him to stop repeatedly.

Platner, an oyster farmer running in his first political campaign, has denied the allegations. In a statement on Monday, he said he was taking time to reflect on his candidacy.

The new accusation led to immediate calls from leading Democrats for Platner to step aside. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) on Monday night tweeted that Platner “has lost the trust of Mainers” and should end his campaign.

But Sanders did not weigh in as quickly. He was one of Platner’s earliest supporters and stood by him in the face of other scandals, including a history of inflammatory online posts and a covered-up tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol.

On Tuesday morning, Sanders issued a statement to national media outlets saying he had spoken to Platner about the “best path forward for Maine.”

“In light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside,” Sanders said in the statement.

Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) also called on Platner to end his Senate bid on Tuesday.

At least one of Sanders’ colleagues thinks that the Vermont senator has an obligation to say more. Speaking to Fox News on Monday night, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) called out Sanders and other progressives for continuing to back Platner after the New York Times reported last month that he had acted abusively toward former partners.

In light of the latest allegation, Fetterman suggested that Sanders should take a break from endorsing candidates. ➆

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Your reporters missed the boat on covering the incredible engagement this season of Vermonters in their representative democracy [“‘The Vermont Way’: Seven Days’ Final ‘Ways & Means’ Story Considers Whether the Vermont Legislature’s Tradition of Civility and Compromise Can Endure,” June 17]. I am so proud of what Vermonters accomplished. Acts that pass in the Vermont legislature, such as Act 181, are not just hyperbole and virtuesignaling, as your reporters see them (with the nonsense about “modernization” versus “alter[ing] the character” of small towns). Act 181’s rules, which came out this winter, were extremely ill-conceived and would have had real, economically regressive effects on some of Vermont’s most vulnerable citizens and likely no measurable environmental gains.

A diverse group of citizens organized and testified to the House Committee on Environment, and their testimony was so illuminating that the committee recommended repealing parts of the 181 legislation. (I so wish your reporters had actually listened to the testimony.

Then they would have understood.) The Vermont House followed through with a unanimous vote on the repeal.

Thousands of emails and phone calls went out to all representatives to help make this happen. There were no incidents of threatening behavior found after an investigation. That is what democracy looks like, and I hope more people can celebrate the difference Vermonters made to help craft good legislation and be a part of the legislative process. If not us, then who?

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[Re Nest: “The Building Dilemma: A UVM Study Says Constructing More Homes in Burlington Won’t Bring Down Costs — as Investors and Buyers With Cash Compete for What’s Built,” April 29]: Miro Weinberger is a developer who advocated for building more homes as Burlington mayor and continues to do so today as the executive chair of Let’s Build Homes.

As a result, we have two 11-story apartment buildings in the former pit. Two four-story apartment buildings in the South End are approved to be built. And a multistory apartment building looms over the former YMCA and surrounding neighborhood.

We need more info on public-private partnerships and how much the taxpayers are paying for infrastructure for these embedded multistory boxes.

Do we want developers to continue to define our future housing stock like this?

Do we want investors to drive homebuyers out of the housing market as the April article reports?

So far, the results we see are not scaled to the surrounding neighborhood or cityscape, nor do they create traditional Burlington-style neighborhoods. And single-family-home buyers are outbid by investors. Should we legislate to protect homebuyers against investors’ overreach?

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OBITUARIES Dennis Michael Smith MAY 26, 1943-JUNE 28, 2026 SHELBURNE, VT.

Dennis Michael Smith, 83, formerly of Shelburne, Vt., and most recently of Essex Junction, Vt., and Venice, Fla., passed away on June 28, 2026, with his wife by his side.

Dennis was a steady, hardworking man whose greatest pride was his family. He will be remembered for his quiet strength, his loyalty and the way he showed up for the people he loved without hesitation.

Above all, he was a devoted husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather whose life centered on the people closest to him.

Born in Geneva, N.Y., he was the son of Charles and Margaret Smith.

He grew up in Waterloo, N.Y., where he attended Waterloo High School.

He went on to earn an associate of applied science degree in business administration from Auburn Community College and a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Trinity College.

On October 2, 1965, Dennis married Patricia (Pioli) Smith in Waterloo, N.Y. Their marriage spanned 60 years and became the foundation of a life built on love, commitment and family. Together, they created a home filled with lasting memories, support and deep devotion.

He proudly served in the United States Air Force from 1964 to 1968, attaining the rank of sergeant. During his service he was stationed in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and in the Philippines. He was honorably discharged and awarded the National Defense Service Medal and the Air Force Good Conduct Medal.

Dennis began his professional career at Goulds Pumps in 1973 and joined Hayward Tyler Pump Company in 1976, where he dedicated 30 years of service.

He was respected throughout his career for his steady leadership and work ethic. Rising from application engineer to president, he earned the trust and respect of colleagues over decades of commitment. While working there, he obtained his real estate license alongside a longtime friend, and together they worked in real estate sales, forming yet another meaningful chapter in his professional life.

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and, most of all, watching his children and grandchildren participate in sporting events. He rarely missed an opportunity to be present for the people he loved. In retirement, Dennis embraced a slower pace of life that centered on family and the enjoyment of the simple things. He spent winters in Florida, where he enjoyed meeting new people and building lasting friendships that became an important part of his life.

He is predeceased by his parents, Charles and Margaret Smith, and his brothers Stephen Smith and Mark Smith.

Dennis is survived by his wife, Patricia Smith; children, Kimberly (Barry) Sanborn, Jeffrey (Heather) Smith, Lynn (Dean) Habbestad and Michele (Dean) Emmons; grandchildren, Taylor Sanborn, Alexis (James) Emery, Morgan Sanborn, Madison Sanborn, Stella Smith, Grady Emmons and Luke Emmons; greatgrandchildren, Sophie and William Emery, who brought him his greatest joy in recent years; his siblings James “Chip” (Carol) Smith, Susan Doyle and Bernard (Anne) Smith; sister-in-law Karen Smith; as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins and close friends who became family over the years.

The family extends heartfelt gratitude to the staff at Grand Living at Wellen Park in Venice, Fla., and the Residence at Quarry Hill in South Burlington, Vt., for their compassionate care, kindness and support during his brief stays. The family extends special gratitude to his devoted home caregivers, Bailey, Megan, Patty and Jeanne, for their exceptional care, compassion and companionship. Their kindness, patience and gentle presence brought comfort, dignity and joy during his final year.

Visitation will be held on Thursday, July 9, 2026, 4 to 6 p.m., at Corbin & Palmer Funeral Home in Shelburne, Vt. Funeral services will take place on Friday, July 10, 2026, 11 a.m., at St. Catherine of Siena in Shelburne, Vt., with burial to follow at Shelburne Village Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association in memory of Dennis Smith.

The family will be notified of all donations made in his honor.

Dennis will be remembered most for his devotion to his family, his steady and generous presence, and the lasting love he gave so freely to those around him.

James Patrick Senna AUGUST 7, 1946JUNE 28, 2026 COLCHESTER, VT.

James Patrick Senna, 79, of Colchester, Vt., lovingly known as “Jimmy” and “Papa,” passed away on June 28, 2026, surrounded by the love of his family.

James was born on August 7, 1946, in Burlington, Vt., to Norman and Jennie (Chamberlain) Senna. He proudly served his country in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and was a member of the Eagles Club, Champlain Aerie #793, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.

James shared a beautiful life with his wife of nearly 35 years, Beverly Senna. He loved to sing and dance, and on their wedding day, he danced Beverly around the dance floor to “Waltz Across Texas,” a memory that will forever hold a special place in her heart.

Family was at the center of his life. He found joy in being surrounded by the people

he loved, whether gathered together for a celebration, sharing stories or making everyone laugh. He loved fishing, gardening and all living things, and he had a special bond with his dog, Pooker.

James will be remembered for his gentle nature, humor and generous heart. He had a way of making people feel accepted, loved and supported.

His family will especially miss his famous birthday calls, a tradition that brought joy year after year.

He is survived by his loving wife, Beverly Senna; son, Robert Senna; stepchildren, Joe Geraw, Peter Geraw and

Renee Marie Korst

MARCH 16, 1952-JUNE 16, 2026 HUNTINGTON, VT. Renee Marie Korst passed away at her home in Huntington, Vt., on June 16, 2026, at the age of 74.

Renee was born on March 16, 1952, in San Diego, Calif., to Elizabeth (“Sam”) and Richard (“Dick”) Korst and was raised in Joliet, Ill. She was a graduate of Parkland College, where she earned a degree in nursing. She subsequently worked as a registered nurse at Mercy Hospital in Urbana, Ill. Her true passion, however, was painting, which she pursued through art classes at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign while employed as a nurse.

It was there, in spring 1980, that she met her future husband, Jim Brannen. The couple relocated to Vermont in 1981 and, in 1983, purchased a home in Huntington, where

Serena Domina, along with Serena’s lifelong partner, Wayne Parizo; brother, Norman Senna, and his wife, Martha; sisters Nathalie (Senna) Billado and Elaine Lynaugh and her husband, Dale; 10 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and many extended family members and friends.

He was predeceased by his parents, Norman and Jennie (Chamberlain) Senna; sisters Beverly (Senna) Chagnon and Barbara Senna Bisram; and brothers-in-law David Billado Sr. and Henry Chagnon Jr. The family would like to thank the staff at McClure Miller Respite House for their exceptional and compassionate care.

Graveside honors will be held on August 1, 2026, noon to 1 p.m., at New Mount Calvary Cemetery in Burlington, Vt. A Celebration of Life will be held immediately following the graveside service.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in James’ honor to the Wounded Warrior Project.

To James, the greatest in the world, with all our love.

Renee resided for the remainder of her life.

She continued her nursing career at Fanny Allen Hospital.

In 1987, following a long struggle with fertility, Jim and Renee welcomed their son, Matthew. Renee continued to paint throughout the years that followed, while raising her son and working part time as a nurse.

Renee held a lifelong love of the ocean and took great pleasure in swimming. She traveled frequently with her parents to Mexico and the Caribbean and later in life developed a passion for dance, first through African dance and subsequently folk dancing.

Renee is survived by her husband, Jim Brannen; her son, Matthew; her grandson, Landon; her sister, Vicki; and numerous nieces and nephews.

A celebration of life will be held at a later date.

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OBITUARIES Jean “Jena” Guenther

AUGUST 8, 1951-JUNE 6, 2026 BURLINGTON, VT. Jean “Jena” Guenther was born in Providence, R.I., on August 8, 1951, and died at the McClure Miller Respite House on June 6, 2026.

Jean Jena loved flowers and the profound life force of Mother Nature.

She had a gift for creating exquisite beauty and balance in her gardens and landscaping.

Honoring the divine and exploring and expanding her spirituality was a huge part of Jean Jena’s personal and professional life. This began in her early days in Catholic school. She later found community, love and joy at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Burlington. She

IN MEMORIAM had the chance to retreat with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and traveled to the Oneness Temple in Andhra Pradesh, India. Most recently, she attended and led Oneness Blessing Circles with the Burlington Oneness Center.

As a psychotherapist for 40 years, Jean Jena accompanied people through their life changes with care and encouragement. We heard from many former clients about how profoundly she impacted them. She gave permission to make difficult and bold choices and allowed people to blossom into their next phase. She founded the Vermont Center for Psychosynthesis and offered training as well as individual and couples counseling. Jean Jena worked tirelessly to help found, and then grow, the Association for the Advancement of

Kenneth Michael Kretzer NOVEMBER 11, 1956-JANUARY 26, 2026 SUN CITY, ARIZ.

Kenneth Michael Kretzer passed away peacefully at his home in Sun City, Ariz., on January 26, 2026, surrounded by family and friends.

Ken was born to Howard and Gladys Kretzer on November 11, 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Merritt Island, Fla., and Williston, Vt. Ken’s fun-loving spirit led him to explore many interests, from camping and guitar playing to swing dancing, rock hounding and jewelry making, to name a few.

Wherever he went, Ken’s ability to make friends was legendary.

He leaves behind his wife, Kathie; daughter, Lela; son, Gary; mother, Gladys Kretzer; sister, Kathryn Couillard, and husband Dan; as well as nieces, nephews, much beloved grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and a legion of friends.

Special thanks to the Mayo Clinic of Phoenix, Ariz., for the stellar care received there and the close friends who provided critical support during Ken’s four-year battle with esophageal cancer.

Psychosynthesis, an international organization focused on advancing psychosynthesis “for the peace, purpose and wholeness of individuals, society and the planet.” She was also one of the founding families of the Lake Champlain Waldorf School.

She was predeceased by her mother, Dortha Mershon; her father, Louis Guenther; and her older sister Selby Minner.

Jean Jena is survived by her beloved husband, Bob Stuhlmann; sister Hilary Conley (Ron), children, Leighton Johnson (Zpora Perry) and Emily Gosain (Manu Gosain); stepchildren, Nev Levin, Emma Goodman (Ben) and Christopher Stuhlmann; and her grandchildren, Lyle Johnson, Aarya and Meera Gosain, and Matilda, Max and Jane Goodman; as well as many dear friends.

She loved expansively. She was delighted by her grandchildren in all their youthful boisterousness and gamely put in earplugs on holidays so they could bang away on the piano and perform puppet shows in the living room.

Bob and Jean Jena had a strong and unwavering bond that

deepened in the last few years as they navigated her illness. Their time together shifted to swims in the neighborhood pool and then to Bob reading books out loud to her while she listened appreciatively.

Jean Jena lived her life on her terms, which often looked unconventional and even eccentric. She died on her terms as well, choosing to discontinue cancer treatment when it made her very sick. She was able to stay at home for most of her remaining weeks, surrounded by flowers and family and friends. We are grateful for the quality of time she had as she heard from many people near and far who shared their memories, appreciations and love with her and with all of us.

Special thanks to Preferred Care at Home of Champlain Valley and the hospice teams with University of Vermont Home Health & Hospice and at McClure Miller Respite House for their exceptional care for Jean Jena at the end of her life.

All are welcome to attend a celebration of life on August 8, 2026, 9:30 a.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Burlington.

Joan Ann Adams

JULY 25, 1934-JUNE 29, 2026 BURLINGTON, VT. Joan Ann Adams, 91, of Burlington, Vt., passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of June 29, 2026, at Birchwood Terrace.

Born on July 25, 1934, in Plattsburgh, N.Y., Joan was the daughter of John and Elsie (Overbeck) Frechette. On January 9, 1954, she married her husband of 64 years, F. Henry “Hank” Adams. Two years later, she moved to Burlington, where she devoted herself to raising their growing family. In later years, Joan and Hank enjoyed spending winters in Naples, Fla. Joan loved giving back to her community as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels. She had a lifelong passion for flower arranging. A devoted member of the Burlington Garden Club and the Ikebana Club in Naples, she crafted arrangements that earned numerous blue ribbons and brought beauty wherever they were displayed. She also loved playing tennis and treasured the friendships formed on the court. Joan enjoyed fashion and took pride in her outfits,

especially when driving her convertible, which always seemed to match her vibrant spirit. Her weekly coffee gatherings at McDonald’s were a cherished ritual and a joyful part of her routine.

A gifted host, cook and baker, Joan made every holiday gathering memorable with her exceptional meals and desserts. Her grandchildren especially enjoyed the elaborate, lovingly decorated cakes she crafted for their birthdays — each one a masterpiece.

Joan is survived by her children: Gregg; Jill Villarreal; John; and Rebecca Adams and her husband, Michael Shea. She leaves behind her grandchildren, Sarah, Lindsey, Jason and wife Josilyn,

Abigail, and Colin; as well as her great-grandchildren, Mary, Caro and Augie. She was predeceased by her husband, Hank, in 2018.

A graveside service will be held on Thursday, July 9, 2026, 11 a.m., at New Mount Calvary Cemetery in Burlington. Joan’s family extends their heartfelt gratitude to the staffs of Birchwood Terrace and the University of Vermont Home Health & Hospice for the exceptional care and kindness they provided.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Ready Funeral & Cremation Services, South Chapel. To send online condolences to the family, please visit readyfuneral.com.

Kristine Sheathelm Gerson

1957-2025 Family and friends are warmly invited to join us in celebrating the remarkable life of Kristine Sheathelm Gerson on Saturday, August 8, 2026, 11:30 a.m., at Meach Cove Gathering Space, 291 Bostwick Farm Rd., Shelburne, VT. Kristine was a powerful force in the lives of all who knew her — a devoted wife, loving mother and grandmother, cherished daughter, inspiring teacher, loyal friend, avid knitter and reader, dedicated walker, and tireless community volunteer. She brought intelligence, compassion, determination and humor to everything she did, enriching countless lives through her generosity and spirit.

Her influence continues to be felt in the family she loved, the students she taught, the friendships she nurtured and the community she helped strengthen.

Kristine’s example of curiosity, kindness, resilience and engagement remains a lasting inspiration.

We invite all whose lives were touched by Kristine to gather, share stories, celebrate memories and honor the extraordinary legacy she leaves behind.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Kristine’s honor to the Charlotte Library, 115 Ferry Rd., Charlotte, VT 05445, a place that reflects her lifelong love of reading, learning and community.

Your presence, memories and continued acts of kindness will be a meaningful tribute to Kristine’s enduring spirit.

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OBITUARIES Angela Jean Comeau

It was a driving force in her personality and leadership approach. Throughout her career, Angela had an inspirational impact wherever she was.

Of all of her achievements, Angela was most proud of being a mother to daughters Lea and Rory.

Seeing both accomplish milestones over the years brought her tremendous pride and joy. The presence

of her twin grandsons, Makai and Ellion, always raised her spirit and generated excitement.

Angela truly loved all that life had to offer. Top of the list beyond family and friends are the ocean, everything Hello Kitty, dark chocolate, the mystic powers of the number 108, blues music, motorcycle creemee runs, driving her 4Runner and her little dog Rocco. She is an indelible spirit who will never be forgotten.

Angela is survived by her husband, Scott Comeau; daughters, Leaetta Harris and Rory Wells; brother, Eric LaFromboise; mother, Betty St. Gelais; and father, Norman Hurlburt.

A celebration of life is being arranged for September 2026. In lieu of gifts or flowers, we ask that donations be made to the McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester.

published in small magazines and books. She loved boating on Lake Champlain and enjoyed nature and the outdoors. Over the years she was involved in Special Olympics Vermont, JUMP and the First United Methodist Church.

She was predeceased by two aunts, Phyllis Davis and Ione Bryne; her parents, Thelma and Roy Clark; and her husband, Kenneth Sr.

She is survived by her two daughters, Deborah A. Dewees and Karen L. Bogdan; their husbands, Seth Dewees and David C. Bogdan; two grandchildren, Shawn M. Bedard and his wife, Megan, and Joshua M. Beaupre; and two great-grandchildren, Emerson Bedard and Juliana Bedard.

The family of Kathleen wishes to extend our most sincere thanks to the staff at the Arbors at Shelburne for their extraordinary care provided to Kathleen and to UVM Home Health & Hospice.

A private celebration of life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Kathleen’s memory to Special Olympics Vermont, 16 Gregory Dr., Suite 2, South Burlington, VT 05403, or the Alzheimer’s Association, 75 Talcott Rd. Suite 40, Williston, VT 05495.

OCTOBER 8, 1972JUNE 28, 2026 RICHMOND, VT.

Angela Jean Comeau, 53, of Richmond, Vt., passed away on June 28, 2026, at the McClure Miller Respite House, surrounded by family. In her time cut much too short, Angela was a beacon of infectious energy, wanting the best for herself and everyone around her.

Internally that energy drove a desire to constantly improve, both personally and professionally.

Self-exploration, academic achievement, professional success all rooted in her desire to lean in and make a difference. Angela didn’t do anything halfway.

Externally that energy was willing to support and advocate for anyone in need.

Kathleen Thelma Babits BURLINGTON, VT.

Kathleen Thelma Babits, 85, of Burlington, Vt., passed away peacefully on June 27, 2026, in Shelburne, Vt., with family by her side.

She was born in Burlington, Vt., to Roy L. and Thelma B. Clark. She graduated from Burlington High School in 1958 and from the University of Vermont in 1962 with a BS in nursing. She married Kenneth P. Babits Sr. in July 1972 in Plattsburgh, N.Y. She worked as a registered nurse, first at the Mary Fletcher Unit in labor and delivery, then at Birchwood Terrace Nursing Home for 44 years, holding various positions. Kathleen, first and foremost, loved and prioritized her family. She was an avid reader, loved writing poems and short stories, and even had some

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Mary “Candy” Ellen Stokes MARCH 26, 1942-MAY 26, 2026 CAMBRIDGE, VT.

Mary “Candy” Ellen Stokes, 84, passed away peacefully with her husband, Carroll, and son Lance by her side on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, at the University of Vermont Medical Center.

Candy was born on March 26, 1942, at Mary Fletcher Hospital to Harold and Marguerite (Brown) Barrows. Candy grew up as the youngest child, showered by the attention of her family. At an early age she developed a love for ice-skating on the open flooded fields of North Williston. After attending schools in Williston, her family moved to Essex Junction, where she concluded her schooling.

Candy had an adventuresome spirit, always wanting to see what was around the corner, over the hill, and with a need to know it immediately. She grew from a shy child into one with a large group of friends who helped her develop her spirited, outgoing personality.

In 1960 she met and married her first husband, Fred Ladue, and began raising their three sons, Frederick III (“Rick”), Lance and Jon-Brian.

Moving to Cambridge in 1967, she helped to establish a preschool kindergarten in the vacated science lab of the Cambridge high school. She supported the Cub Scouts program as one of the local den mothers.

Candy was outgoing, participating in many activities as the Cambridge community grew. She supported her sons in all of their school activities, including band, choir and musicals, and encouraged them to play sports. During the boys’ earlier years, she took a position at Smugglers’ Notch ski area to further their interest in skiing.

After her divorce, she married Carroll Stokes on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Cape Neddick, Maine. Their summers were filled with travels to Wyoming, Maine, Colorado and to country music concerts.

For many years she managed the children’s department at Arthur’s Department Store in Morrisville.

Candy leaves behind her husband, Carroll Stokes of Cambridge; her sons Frederick Clark Ladue III (Ruth-Ann) of Utah and Lance Ladue (John Sama) of Essex; stepsons, Gregory (Stacey) Stokes of Jeffersonville and Duane (Angie) Stokes of Ohio; brother-in-law, Leon (Colleen) Stokes of Huntington; sisters-inlaw, Ann Ladue of Florida and Helen Golaovich of Burlington; granddaughters, Tayler (Korbyn) Gallegos of Utah and Emily Ladue of New Mexico; stepgranddaughter Chelsea Meyer (Stevem); grandsons, Frederick Clark Ladue IV of Utah and Joshua Ladue of Utah; step-granddaughters Erin Vaillancourt of Jeffersonville and Zoe of Ohio; step-grandsons, Bradley and Sawyer of Ohio; great-granddaughter, Sofia Gallegos of Utah; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Candy was predeceased by her son Jon-Brian Ladue; parents, Harold and Marguerite Barrows; sister, Lucy Mae Barrows; brother, Jud (Trudy) Barrows; ex-brother-in-law, William Ladue; and ex-inlaws, Fred and Helen Ladue.

Visiting hours will be on July 17, 2026, 5 to 7 p.m., at the A.W. Rich Funeral Home, 1176 Main St., Fairfax, VT. Inurnment will be at the convenience of the family.

Memorial contributions in Candy’s memory may be made to clarina.org. The family invites you to share memories and condolences online at awrfh.com.

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Robert E. “Bob” Rehm JANUARY 27, 1951-JULY 1, 2026 NORWICH, VT.

Robert E. “Bob” Rehm, 75, of Norwich, Vt., passed away peacefully on July 1, 2026, in Lebanon, N.H. Bob was born on January 27, 1951, to Teresa Kelly Rehm and John Patrick Rehm in New York City. Bob grew up in Bergenfield, N.J., the eldest of eight siblings.

He attended St. John’s School and Bergenfield High School, where he met his future wife, Nancy. Bob graduated from Rutgers University with a BS and MS in engineering. He went on to receive an MBA from Pace University.

Bob and Nancy were married in 1975. They lived in Denver, Colo., and Peoria, Ill., before settling in Washingtonville, N.Y., where Bob began his 40-year career at International Paper. Together, Bob and Nancy began road running; Bob went on to complete numerous road races and marathons.

Bob and Nancy welcomed their daughters Elissa in 1983 and Anna in 1987. As a family, they enjoyed hiking and being outdoors, returning often to Minnewaska State Park and Mohonk Preserve in the Hudson Valley, to Cape Cod, and later to Shelburne Farms and Camel’s Hump in Vermont. Bob fostered his daughters’ interests in running, soccer, skiing and academic pursuits. He supported them in everything they did.

For work, Bob traveled widely, domestically and internationally. After

leaving upstate New York in 1995, Bob lived in Cincinnati, Ohio; Montvale, N.J.; Memphis, Tenn.; Shelburne, Vt.; Park City, Utah; and finally Norwich, Vt. Traveling and moving often, he knew how to pack a bag — or a box! Bob retired from International Paper in 2015 and split his time between Vermont and Park City, Utah, where he mastered downhill skiing and pursued his passion for road cycling.

Endurance sports were a big part of Bob’s life; he completed the Vermont City Marathon in 2011 at the age of 60, and he traversed the mountain gaps of Vermont and Utah on his bicycle — alone, with friends and with family — many times.

Bob will be missed by his wife of 50 years, Nancy Rehm; his daughter Elissa Bradley and son-in-law Joel Bradley of Norwich, Vt.; and his daughter Anna Rehm and son-in-law Kevin Kareckas of Vergennes, Vt. He was a proud and involved grandfather to Elsa and James Bradley and Greta and Birdie Kareckas.

His family will remember his homemade pizza, dry sense of humor, penchant for ’60s music, and unassuming way of tricking kids and then grandkids into practicing their math facts. Bob is survived by his two brothers and five sisters, his many nieces and nephews, and his dog Freddie. He was predeceased by his mom and dad.

A celebration of life will be held at the end of the summer.

In lieu of flowers, remember Bob by having a good cup of coffee, spending time outdoors, tidying up or donating to a charity of your choice.

IN MEMORIAM

Dr. Robert Martell

1963-2026 A celebration of life will be held for Dr. Robert Martell on Saturday, July 25, 2026, at the Meach Cove Farms Gathering Space, 291 Bostwick Farm Rd., Shelburne, VT. All are welcome to join family and friends at 3 p.m. to share love and memories.

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Michel “Mich” Daniel Allen OCTOBER 19, 1943NOVEMBER 17, 2025 ESSEX, VT.

Michel “Mich” Daniel Allen passed away peacefully on Monday, November 17, 2025, at the McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester, Vt., surrounded by love, after a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer.

Born in Burlington, Vt., on October 19, 1943, to the late Daniel and Leesa Allen, Mich spent his entire life rooted in the community he cherished. He graduated from Rice Memorial High School, attended college, and served his state and country in the Vermont Army National Guard, retiring proudly as a sergeant after almost two decades of dedicated service.

Mich’s life was filled with creativity, curiosity, adventure and a deep appreciation for the beauty of the world around him. He was a sportsman and fisherman who found peace in the outdoors; a photographer who captured life’s fleeting and beautiful moments; an aviator who loved the freedom of the skies; a gunsmith, delving into the obscure and intricate aspects of his craft; and a home-brewed beer maker who found joy in sharing his newest creation. Whatever Mich took interest in, he embraced fully and gave generously.

Mich’s generosity was never more evident than when he cooked for family and friends.

His culinary creations were second only to the love he felt for the time spent sharing his meals with those who meant the most to him.

As a first-generation American whose family emigrated from Lebanon, Mich held a profound love for the United States and the values he believed defined it. He admired the rights and freedoms afforded to its citizens and spoke often of the responsibility of protecting them. His patriotism was not loud but steady, grounded in gratitude and belief. He spoke fondly of living in a country where hard work and values could lead to a better life.

Mich had a remarkable knack for placing others before himself, quietly offering support without seeking recognition. His easy conversation, refined humor (most

of the time) and genuine kindness made him easy to connect with. Even in his final days, his grace and gratitude never faded, shown in the way he consistently thanked his medical team and caregivers.

The love, laughter and companionship he shared with everyone lucky enough to call him a friend shaped some of his happiest years.

His gentle presence will be remembered by all who knew him.

Mich was predeceased by his first wife, Patricia Chase Allen; his second wife and love of his life, Sylvia Nichols Allen; his parents; and his brothers, Simon, Fred and Peter. Their memories remained a constant source of comfort and strength for him.

He leaves his cousins, Richard Allen of Florida and family and Nadine Allen of Arizona and family; sisterin-law, Patricia Allen of New York; nieces, Nadine Allen, Nichole Allen and Lisa Allen; and nephew, Dan Allen. He also leaves Sylvia’s family, sister Mary Lou Nichols Stanley of North Carolina and her daughter, Karen, and family; brother David and Diane Nichols and daughter Kristine of Charlotte, Vt.; Sylvia’s nephews, Dan Nichols, Steven Nichols and Jeff Nichols; and niece, Krystal.

Although Mich never had children of his own, his heart had room for many. When asked if he regretted not having kids, he would often smile and name the many children he had helped guide through life’s early years. He became the neighborhood uncle, the steady friend, the quiet protector and eventually a grandfather figure to the children who grew up around him. He loved them all deeply, and they loved him back. His presence — steady, dependable and kind — became a cornerstone of the neighborhood. This was especially evident in his

lifelong friendship with his former next-door neighbor, and later cousin-in-law, Rachel Nichols Lamoureux, and her sons, Philip, Bradley and Gregory.

Mich leaves behind the neighbors who became family during the nearly 60 years he called Essex home. His absence will be deeply felt

by Adam and Heather King and their children; Thomas and Erin Philbrick and their family; David and Julie Guerino and their family; and Mary Lynn Hoyniak and her family. These were not just neighbors — they were part of Mich’s heart and his daily life.

Mich spent many evenings talking with family and friends — too many to name here and probably too many for anyone else to keep track of, but each one was cherished in their own way.

Mich found peace and a sense of relief in arranging his final wishes with his attorney, Joy Karnes Limoge.

Her thoughtful guidance, gentle support and sharp wit lifted a weight from his shoulders, bringing clarity, reassurance and even moments of lightness to a serious process. Her care and professionalism touched Mich in a way that was both meaningful and memorable.

Mich and his family are deeply grateful to the staff at the McClure Miller Respite House and the University of Vermont Medical Center.

Their care, compassion and dedication not only gave Mich extra precious years but also allowed him to face his final days with dignity, comfort and minimal pain.

In lieu of flowers, Mich asked those who wish to honor his memory to consider a contribution in his name to the NRA Defense Fund, the Wounded Warrior Project, or the Chittenden County Fish and Game Club — organizations that reflected his values and passions.

Graveside services and interment will be on Saturday, July 18, 2026, 10:15 a.m., at St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Archibald St., Burlington, VT. A Celebration of Life will be held at 12:15 p.m. at the Fellowship Hall of the First Congregational Church of Essex Junction, near the Five Corners. At Mich’s request, you are invited to join us for a meal and memories. Casual dress is preferred.

Condolences may be sent to Heald Funeral Home at healdfuneralhome.com.

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Vermont cartoonist laureate Stephen R. Bissette on dinosaurs, monsters and creativity in the Green Mountains B Y D A N BOL L ES • dan@sevendaysvt.com

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tephen R. Bissette really didn’t want to be Vermont’s cartoonist laureate. It wasn’t that he didn’t feel worthy. In a career spanning more than half a century, the awardwinning Windsor resident has become one of the most respected and influential comic book artists in the field. His résumé reads like a greatest hits of the new comics movement of the late 20th century: cocreator of Saga of the Swamp Thing, editor of Taboo, and contributor to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Heavy Metal and too many others to count. After he soured on working for comics giants DC and Marvel, he started his own publishing company, Spiderbaby Grafix, and has steadily selfpublished work for decades.

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Still, Bissette had a surprising response when the cofounder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction called earlier this year with the supposedly good news that he was to be named the state’s next cartoonist laureate.

“I told James Sturm no,” Bissette recalled, chuckling.

Bissette had valid reasons to decline.

He and his wife are in their seventies, he explained, and he’s somewhat less game to take on new projects and responsibilities than he might have been two decades ago, when he was a founding faculty member at the cartoon school. Six years into retirement from teaching, Bissette said, he wanted to use his remaining time to focus on his own projects.

But the couple had also recently experienced a series of profound personal losses.

In the span of a couple years, several relatives had died — “most of our family,” Bissette said. Tragically, that included their son, Michael, who died of brain cancer in 2024 at the age of 45.

“We retreated from the world,” Bissette said. “We were just cocooning.”

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prompted him to emerge from the chrysalis as a butterfly? (Or, given his predilection for monsters, an acid-spitting winged mutant with talons, teeth and death-ray eyes?)

The very night he turned Sturm down, Bissette received a Facebook message from a former student thanking him for his guidance at cartoon school. The next morning, a package arrived from another student who had just published their first graphic novel.

“I realized I still have a job to do,” Bissette said. “I’m not done.”

So Bissette called Sturm to accept — on one condition: that the school find grants to fund other artists and writers on one of Bissette’s dream projects, a history of cartooning in Vermont. Sturm agreed.

That book will be Bissette’s focus during his three-year laureate tenure. But he’s got plenty of other projects in the works as well, including at least two new editions in his Cryptids Cinema series about movie monsters. Last year, he published In the

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From left: Cartoonists Rick Veitch, Thomas Yeates, John Totleben and Stephen R. Bissette in 1986

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Mood for Monsters, the third release in his Monster Sketchbook series, which includes an illuminating personal essay on why Bissette draws monsters. That essay should be required reading for fans before the upcoming reissue of another passion project, Tyrant.

Originally published under Bissette’s Spiderbaby Grafix imprint in the mid1990s, the four-issue comic is a gritty, hyperrealistic survival story told from the perspective of a Tyrannosaurus rex. While it wasn’t a commercial success, Tyrant is now regarded as one of the best dinosaur comics ever made, as much for its stunning artwork and detail as its unconventional storytelling. Two deluxe editions of the complete series are due out this summer from Lighthouse Press, including an oversize version featuring scans of Bissette’s original hand-drawn art.

Bissette recently spoke with Seven Days by phone about that project, his formative

years as a comics fan in Vermont and why the state is such a cartooning hotbed.

Growing up in Vermont, how did you first get into comics?

When I was a kid, comics were everywhere.

In Essex Junction we could walk to Towns Market, which at that time was down by the railroad tracks, and they sold comic books. Colette’s [Newsstand] on Church Street in Burlington was like heaven, you know: comic books and monster magazines. That was my target as I got spending money.

Drawing comics, though, was because of my next-door neighbor, Mitch Casey.

He’s the first guy I saw put pen to paper or pencil to paper and draw a comic.

He stapled together a couple sheets of paper and drew this comic book from a monster movie we’d seen on TV that week, and I couldn’t believe it. And from that minute — I would have been 5 or 6 years old — that’s what I wanted to be doing.

When did you realize drawing comics was something you could do?

I went through the same kind of cycles most people do. I grew out of mainstream comics and, luckily, discovered underground comics, thanks to my high school art teacher, Bill Cathey. He gave me my first underground comic. He said, “You can’t tell anybody; I will lose my job.”

And it was amazing.

That’s when I got serious. That’s when I realized that anything I imagined, I could put it down on paper. I could tell any story.

I thought comic books were four-color comics. And black-and-white horror magazines like Eerie and Creepy were favorites of mine, but it still didn’t feel like anything I could make, you know, that I could get out LET’S GET WEIRD

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What was it about comics that attracted you?

Dinosaurs.

I had a feeling.

[Laughing.] It was all about dinosaurs. And there were a lot of great dino comics when I was growing up. DC had The War That Time Forgot and Star Spangled War Stories; Gold Key and Dell had Turok, Son of Stone.

When they parted ways and formed their own companies, Dell had Kona, Monarch of Monster Isle; that was my all-time favorite comic.

Then I got into weird shit. Any comic that featured monsters or was weird, I was totally into.

A panel from Swamp Thing No. 42, 1985

Did those lead you to underground comics, since they were edgier and more lurid?

It wasn’t that. I mean, the first one I read was Meatball! by Robert Crumb, which is about normal people walking around and a meatball falls out of the sky and hits [them] on the head, and they have instant enlightenment.

I quickly gravitated to the more extreme stuff, closer to the genre I loved, like Skull and Slow Death. Slow Death was dystopian science fiction, ecological, you know, catastrophic science fiction. And Skull was one of the premier underground horror comics, but that’s not what pulled me into underground comics. It was reading Robert Crumb and realizing his work looked so accessible.

Tyrant is nothing like those dino comics you read as a kid. Where did the inspiration to do something more realistic come from?

I lived in southern Vermont when I started working on Tyrant. My first marriage had come apart. I’m still good friends with my ex-wife, Marlene O’Connor, but our marriage was over. We both knew it, and I kind of retreated into a dream project, which was to write and draw my own dinosaur comic.

I didn’t want to do a science-fiction comic. I didn’t want to have people in it, you know. It wasn’t about a lost island or a time machine or any of that crap. It was: What was the life of a dinosaur like?

Living in Vermont at that time, we didn’t have ticks. So I would walk in the woods before putting in a day at the drawing board. So the woods of southern Vermont very much inform the ambience and the environments that I was extrapolating from the fossil record as to what

Below: Bissette’s sketch of giant monsters, or kaiju, named Gargon (a parody of the 1961 film Gorgo) and Gummora (a parody of the 1965 film Gamera)

the forests were like in Upper Cretaceous North America over 70 million years ago.

The reissues will have lots of cool extra stuff.

We’re doing two volumes of Tyrant. One of them is an original art edition, which is as close to having the original art by the artists in your hands. The books are the size of the original art.

The second volume is called S.R. Bissette’s Tyrant: The Complete Edition, in which we have compiled almost every dinosaur anything I had a hand in as a cartoonist and graphic novelist. So it has everything that’s in the original art edition, but it also has hundreds of pages of the other stuff that I did, including a lot of the process that went into making Tyrant. And there are related projects.

Peter Laird, the cocreator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, wanted me to work on a project he had called Commandosaurs, which were these futuristic high-tech dinosaurs with weapons. Peter gave us permission to include some of the work he and I had done. There’s stuff I did for Scholastic Publishing, stories I did for fanzines featuring dinosaurs. So that’s going to be a massive book. I think it’s well over 300 pages.

The focus of your laureate term will be producing a history of cartooning in Vermont. Some people might not know how far back the form goes here, but there really is a rich history and a vibrant community now. Why is the state such a haven for cartoonists?

Vermont has a great tradition of local artisans, writers, musicians — you name the field of endeavor, there’s people in Vermont that have been doing it a long time. But I think winter has a lot to do with it.

Plenty of people love winter because they can snowshoe and ski, but there’s also a lot of us who just want to stay in where it’s warm and do something. James Sturm calls winter “cartooning season,” and we really felt it when I was teaching at the school, because as the weather got harsher, students would really just hunker down and focus on their pet projects or the assignments at hand.

There’s a lot of aspects of New England — you know, old sayings like “Good fences make good neighbors.” And part of that is that people aren’t judgmental of somebody who just hunkers down and does what they’re into. So I think Vermont just nurtures that. There are a lot of eccentrics in our home state. ➆ This interview was edited for clarity and length.

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Sabor Ecuatoriano Serves Ecuadorian Cuisine in Winooski After noticing a demand for authentic Latin American cuisine in Vermont, ALBERTO ALEJANDRO CASTRO GUAMAN opened an Ecuadorian restaurant at 476 Main Street in Winooski last November.

Castro Guaman, 38, said the menu at SABOR ECUATORIANO — also called SABOR 593 — is small but highlights some of Ecuador’s most popular dishes.

Castro Guaman is from Bucay, Ecuador, a small town in the coastal province of Guayas. Before he opened Sabor Ecuatoriano, he said, he often cooked for his friends from various Central and South American countries.

They encouraged him to launch the restaurant.

“There are many Hispanic people here that like [Ecuador’s] food,” he said

in Spanish. By dishing out Ecuadorian stews, salads and comfort foods for lunch and dinner, Castro Guaman said, he wants to serve Vermont’s Latin American community and expand Ecuadorian representation in the local restaurant scene.

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Drawing on the Past Review: Charity & Sylvia by Tillie Walden

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n the early 19th century, when samesex relationships were widely forbidden, Charity Byrant and Sylvia Drake lived openly as a couple in Weybridge.

From the scant record that exists of their relationship, Norwich cartoonist Tillie Walden has reconstructed a nuanced and rousing portrait of the two women in a new graphic biography, released this June

by Drawn & Quarterly.

Before Charity & Sylvia, the only surviving likenesses of Bryant and Drake were cutout silhouettes of the women on fading pink paper, decorated with a braided lock of hair that curls around their faces in the shape of a heart. It is a testament to Walden’s imagination and artistic skill that she was able to illuminate the romance, dedication and tenderness of their relationship using the few remaining letters, papers and 40

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objects that offer glimpses of their lives, as well as a 2014 biography of the two women by historian Rachel Hope Cleves.

Besides resistance to their union, the two women faced economic hardship, illness and grief. Yet against all odds, Bryant and Drake carved out a life together and shared a humble home and tailoring business. They wrote poems to each other and even took turns rocking each other in a large cradle by the fire on winter evenings.

Walden, a two-time winner of the prestigious Eisner Award, wrote Charity & Sylvia with support from Vermont Humanities and the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury during her 2023 to 2026 term as state cartoonist laureate. The book begins with Bryant and Drake’s first meeting in Weybridge and follows their growing intimacy as Drake moves into Bryant’s rented

Walden has cleverly woven together excerpts of historical records, such as “A Letter to Sylvia Drake From Charity Bryant, July 2, 1807,” with imaginative threads that patch the holes in the archive. Bryant most likely destroyed her own diaries, leaving only letters and poems in her voice. But in the pages of this book, she expresses herself boldly, speaking openly about her views on spiritual matters and pursuing a career, advocating for her work and housing needs, and expressing affection for Drake. She is strong, sometimes volatile, with a dose of humor — as when she plays an April Fools’ Day trick on her beloved, walking out the door wearing her outfit backward.

In contrast, Walden depicts Drake as more reserved and doubtful; she endeavors to keep their affections hidden from public view and has internalized fear of God’s judgment of their relationship. In one tense passage, after Bryant and Drake survive a harrowing boat voyage across a river in a storm, Drake rants to Bryant while they warm by the fire:

WALDEN HAS CLEVERLY WOVEN TOGETHER EXCERPTS OF HISTORICAL RECORDS WITH

IMAGINATIVE THREADS THAT PATCH THE HOLES IN THE ARCHIVE.

room in Middlebury. After revisiting their respective childhoods in Massachusetts, the narrative eventually returns to their life together as they grow old.

For a biography of two very religious 19th-century women, Charity & Sylvia has quite a few amusing, even sexy passages. In one scene, the women steal a kiss in a grove of trees; another shows them snuggled in the still-dark morning, face-toface, exchanging only a few hushed words: “Must we wake?” “Not yet.”

These panels, which emphasize their connection through intricate imagery and spare language, offer the strongest emotional moments in the book.

Every page features a lyrical and often cryptic title: “Hold Fast, This Night Will Not Last Forever,” “The Room Smelled of Tallow, Sawdust and Rain.” Walden refracts the social and political events of the time through the prism of the pair’s relationship, including the brutality of a nation still taking shape.

Her protagonists also fight more personal battles, grappling with the illnesses and deaths of family members and the spiritual and religious turmoil of “living in sin” as two women. In one horrifying exchange, Drake brings hyssop to an ailing neighbor. He greets her with judgment: “You are that creature that tends home with a woman. Did no man ever show you the glory of his pleasure?”

While all the characters and primary events are based on historical records as

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well as Hope Cleves’ Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, Walden shifted certain timelines and locations for the sake of narrative clarity. Her bibliography — shared in the book’s afterword and at more length on an accompanying website — reveals the historical architecture that provided the framework for her story.

In an open letter posted to social media on June 29, Hope Cleves claimed that Walden and her publisher, Drawn & Quarterly, did not sufficiently credit her original research and said she views the new book as an adaptation of her own. In public statements, both Drawn & Quarterly and the Henry Sheldon Museum have defended Walden’s research and citation methods. The latter stated: “Far from claiming a narrative of ‘discovery,’ Walden has generously and effusively praised Rachel Hope Cleves’s scholarship and has directed audiences (and her large fan base) to the 2014 book.”

It added that “As stewards of the Charity and Sylvia collection, the Henry Sheldon Museum believes that archives exist to be studied, interpreted, questioned, and reimagined” and “allow successive generations ... to build on the work done by others before them.”

There is no disputing that Walden’s illustrations are innovative and original. Most pages feature a grid that resembles a quilt, divided into 12 neat squares.

Other illustrations stretch across a whole page, with patterned borders that evoke stitching and varied textures of cloth — a nod to Bryant and Drake’s vocation as tailors. The entire book is rendered in sepia, with fine black hatching and soft, layered brown tones.

These sophisticated, accomplished pages build on Walden’s already rich trove of graphic novels, including On a Sunbeam, Spinning and her Clementine trilogy. Charity & Sylvia celebrates the anomaly of Bryant and Drake’s relationship in an unforgiving era and gives Vermont its due as their refuge.

By marrying history and artistry, Walden has breathed new life into a story too long overlooked. ➆

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‘Hidden in Plain Sight’

In Land, Israeli-born filmmaker Orly Yadin explores her identity along with that of the Jewish state

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or the young Orly Yadin, personal and national identity were one and the same. A native Israeli, or “Sabra,” born into a family of influential Zionists shortly after Israel’s founding in 1948, Yadin was raised amid the country’s elite. Her father, Yigael Yadin, was a prominent archaeologist who put his research on hold in the 1940s to become chief of operations for the Israel Defense Forces, the country’s nascent military.

Her childhood apartment was across the street from the home of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, whom she met in her living room.

Reared in the upper echelon of Israeli society, Yadin was blithely unaware of her privilege. For 70 years, Hebrew and Arabic were Israel’s official languages, yet as a youth she had no Arab friends and never learned their language. Palestinians were referred to as “Israel’s Arabs,” and their nationality was treated as synonymous with “terrorist.”

Now 77, Yadin moved to Burlington from London in 2004 and became a U.S. citizen in 2012. The award-winning documentary filmmaker, archival film expert and teacher served as executive director of the Vermont International Film Foundation from 2012 to 2023. This week, VTIFF will host a sneak preview of what is arguably Yadin’s most personal and timely project to date. In the feature-length, first-person documentary Land, she returns to her homeland to examine how her Israeli identity was formed — and how a fierce national pride blinded her and generations of other Israelis to their own colonial mindset. Yadin intends to submit the documentary to film festivals later this year.

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Orly Yadin with her father, Yigael

At a time when her family ’s Israel’s government history dating faces unprecedented back to the late international condem18th century and nation for its treatment her ancestors’ of the Palestinians in involvement in Gaza and the occupied the earliest days West Bank, Land asks of the Zionist difficult questions about movement.

Israeli nationalism. And Using archival O R LY YAD IN those questions come footage, home from someone whom critics cannot simply movies, family diaries, letters and memoirs, dismiss as being antisemitic or anti-Israel. Yadin excavates what she calls the “four Yadin said she approached the project, pillars” of modern Israeli identity: land, which had been germinating for more than language, archaeology and the creation of 25 years, as if it were one of her late father’s a people’s army in which nearly all Israeli archaeological digs, unearthing layers of adults serve.

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and apartments. It was the second major flood in as many years: Thirtynine housing units were damaged or destroyed, about 40 residents were displaced, and several pets died.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger visited in 2024 and met some of the residents recovering from the disaster. The raging Great Brook had demolished the Mill Street Bridge and two-thirds of a historic apartment building that locals called the “Heartbreak Hotel.” This month,

Yadin did her own military service in 1967, during which she was an officer in charge of an entertainment troupe of reservists who performed for Israeli soldiers in territories newly conquered during the Six-Day War, including the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. Yet, as she notes in the film, at the time she never considered what the Arabs of those occupied villages thought of her presence. As she puts it, “We saw but didn’t see.”

What gives Land an authoritative voice is that many of the ideological pillars of Israeli society were erected by Yadin’s own family members. She “interviews” several of her ancestors using a storytelling device that draws from their own writings to give voice to their worldviews.

Among them is Yadin’s great-grandfather Mordechai ben Hillel HaCohen, a 19th-century Zionist born in what was then called White Russia, now Belarus. In 1897, he addressed the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in Hebrew, which few in the room could understand. After immigrating to Palestine in 1907, he became one of the founding Jewish patriarchs of the new town of Tel Aviv.

Yadin also “interviews” her paternal grandmother, Hassya Feinsod Sukenik, a Polish Jew who had a spiritual awakening upon visiting the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, then committed herself to teaching Hebrew to Jewish children. Her husband, Eleazar Sukenik, Yadin’s grandfather, was among the first archaeologists to recognize the antiquity and significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The film documents Yadin’s travels through Israel with her videographer and editor, Nora Jacobson of Norwich, who shot

Sollberger returned to the village for an update. She spent time with residents who are still living in their flood-damaged homes, talked to others who have left the village for good and are awaiting FEMA buyouts, and learned of plans for new housing on higher ground. ➆ Seven Days has been airing the awardwinning video series “Stuck in Vermont” since 2007. Watch the new episode on sevendaysvt.com this Thursday or on the WCAX-TV evening news on Friday.

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the entire documentary on a smartphone to avoid undue attention. They visit the childhood home of Arthur Ruppin, Yadin’s maternal grandfather and the father of the kibbutz movement, who instilled in young Jewish settlers a pride in working the land collectively and making the desert bloom.

Yadin asks him and her other ancestors the same question: “But what about the Palestinian population that was already there?”

For a time, Ruppin opposed the formation of an independent Jewish state, arguing in his diaries that it would provoke the resentment and hatred of their Arab neighbors, who vastly outnumbered them. He was one of the founders of the Covenant of Peace, a group that advocated for equal justice for Arabs and Jews. What he couldn’t predict was the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s, the Holocaust and its role in shaping the Israeli ethos of powerful Jews who would never again allow their people to be slaughtered.

“And so they developed a narrative,” Yadin explains in the film, “that spoke of a direct lineage to the biblical heroes of two and three thousand years ago, warriors and men of action such as Joshua and King David.”

Land also examines Yadin’s political awakening as an activist and her coming to terms with her upbringing. In January 1969, while studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, she struck up a spirited conversation with some well-educated Arabs in a café and “saw what had been hidden in plain sight all along,” she says in the film. In the early 1970s, Yadin made headlines when she was arrested and jailed for protesting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.

Taken as a whole, Land offers an intriguing insider’s look at how national mythmaking was used to justify colonialism — from the erasure of Palestinian settlements from maps to the renaming

of Arab communities to the use of biblical archaeology to validate the Jews’ historical claim to the land.

“I tried to show, through my own family history, how national narratives are developed to excuse immoral deeds,” Yadin said in a recent interview, adding that the shapers of those narratives believed their actions were moral and just. “And that,” she emphasized, “is true of other countries as well.”

Some viewers may criticize Yadin for not going far enough in condemning her family’s culpability in the treatment of Palestinians. In 1948, her father oversaw a covert biological warfare operation called Cast Thy Bread, during which Israeli commandos poisoned Arabs’ wells with typhoid to prevent them from returning to their villages.

Yadin doesn’t mention that operation in the film. But while visiting the ruins of a Palestinian village, she muses: “I often wonder how a daughter is to come to terms with the fact that her father was chief of military operations of the IDF during the war of 1948 and that, regardless of who among his soldiers committed violence against the Palestinians, he was ultimately responsible.”

The omission of the well poisoning, she said, was a stylistic decision, not an ideological one.

“I felt that, through his words [in archival interviews], he condemned himself to a contemporary viewer,” Yadin explained of her father. “The purpose of my film is not to lay blame but to understand and learn from their deeds. And to not do the same.” ➆

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When the Trees Came Back: The Great Battle to Save Vermont’s Forests Robert A. Mello, Vermont Historical Society, 318 pages. $24.95.

The lumber industry’s relentless and unsustainable assault on Vermont’s forests persisted...

In the 1800s, the Green Mountain State wasn’t looking so green. With logging both a major industry and a necessity for farmers seeking useful land, formerly verdant hills were stripped until just 25 percent of the forest remained.

In When the Trees Came Back, Hinesburg’s Robert A. Mello gives a deeply detailed historical account of how a broad coalition of boosters — academics, innkeepers, outdoor enthusiasts and “others horrified at the sight of denuded mountainsides and barren pastures” — took on the timber barons. Their “great battle,” as he calls it, took 35 years. Today, the percentage has flipped: Trees cover 76 percent of the state, and Vermont lives up to its nickname once more.

Mello — a now-retired longtime judge whose first book, Last Stand of the Red Spruce, was arboreal in subject matter, too — spent a decade researching every advance and retreat. While the result might be a bit too detailed for a casual reader, he makes a case for why we should all care.

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Donald Trump: The Man Who Would Be King Mark Pendergrast, illustrated by Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr., Nature’s Face Publications, 64 pages. $20.

The next day Trump invited several Russian officials to the Oval Office.

Somewhere between historically minded laundry list of misdeeds and a prolonged scream of rage, Donald Trump: The Man Who Would Be King is a new comic book detailing the 2016 election and Trump’s first term.

Colchester writer Mark Pendergrast partners with Jericho artist Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr. to portray a man whom he deems “a shady real estate mogul and T.V. reality star … utterly unqualified to be the President of the United States.”

Known for writing in-depth histories of hot topics such as the Jerry Sandusky trial and the history of Coca-Cola, Pendergrast isn’t aiming for nuance here. With a title lifted from Rudyard Kipling’s 1888 novella about men conning their way into power, the graphic novel makes a case against Trump, from his family origins to more recent, headlinegrabbing events. It pulls no punches in laying bare the scandals of the Trump presidency, and the no-frills visuals, along with the all-caps text, give it a very “We Didn’t Start the Fire” vibe.

CHRIS FARNSWORTH

even Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, by email and, in one memorable case, inside a self-destructing piñata. In this heat, who can read at all? So in this occasional feature, we introduce you to a handful of recent releases by spoon-feeding you a morsel of plot and a single representative sentence from, yes, page 32. ➆

Call It Madness

The Perfect Accident

Channeling Marilyn

Brett Ann Stanciu, Regal House Publishing, 240 pages. $19.95.

Tess Stimson, Mountain Leopard Press, 464 pages. $17.99.

Mima Tipper, She Writes Press, 320 pages. $18.99.

I had a mission: find and scatter Opa’s ashes, utter some words.

She could actually smell the blood, like liver in a butcher’s shop.

Lexa shut her eyes hard and whispered, “I — I don’t want to be in the play anymore.”

“Beach reads” can get a bum rap, but there’s no bad time of year for a twisty psychological thriller with a denouement you don’t see coming. It’s prom season in Tess Stimson’s novel The Perfect Accident, but the adolescent milestone takes a horrific turn when a chaperone on a Lake Champlain cruise is forced to choose between saving her son’s life or letting 22 teens die. Set in the fictional portmanteau town of Stowebury, Vt., the chapters recount the days and hours leading up to the accident, alternating with the investigation — and all the damage — in its aftermath.

This is the 17th novel by the British former journalist, who has lived in Vermont for almost 20 years. The incorporation of distinctly British phrases (such as “on oath” instead of “under oath”) and spelling of some words (neighbours, humour, centre) can distract from the otherwise recognizably Vermont setting.

But it’s a minor quibble with this well-paced What would I do? read in which everyone has a secret.

On June 1 of this year, Marilyn Monroe turned 100 — or would have, if her life hadn’t ended at age 36.

But the icon lives again, sharing the body of a modern teen, in Channeling Marilyn, a winning, whimsical young adult novel from Waitsfield and South Hero author Mima Tipper.

Seventeen-year-old Lexa auditions for the school play on a whim and finds herself cast as the showgirl in William Inge’s Bus Stop, a role Monroe made famous. How can a shy, body-conscious nerd channel Marilyn — and, even scarier, share a stage kiss with her popular crush? A solution arrives from the beyond in the form of Marilyn’s restless spirit, who latches on to Lexa and helps her discover her inner bombshell.

Tipper, winner of the 2025 Vermont Book Award for Children’s Literature, writes with a wry awareness of teen girls’ conflicted feelings about femininity and sexuality. Her own channeling of Marilyn produces a character with an alternately saucy and wistful voice that is, as Marilyn herself might say, “just peachy.”

When Avah Lavoie receives a call from her estranged mother that Opa, her great-grandfather, has died, Avah heads to northern Vermont to inherit his decrepit farmhouse. There, she confronts her family’s troubled past, including Opa’s drinking, a sawmill accident and her mother’s persistent alcoholism. Set amid a stark winter, Call It Madness explores themes of multigenerational poverty, addiction and trauma — and, perhaps, forgiveness.

Hardwick author Brett Ann Stanciu, a recovering alcoholic, has explored these topics before. Her first novel, 2015’s Hidden View, is about a struggling farm family in the Northeast Kingdom; her 2021 nonfiction work, Unstitched: My Journey to Understand Opioid Addiction and How People and Communities Can Heal, was prompted by the suicide of a suspected heroin user who kept breaking into the library where Stanciu worked.

“My struggle with addiction braids into these portraits,” she wrote in a publisher’s bio, “as I pursue the notion that disease is a dynamic spanning individuals and society.” As the name suggests, Call It Madness is no cheery read, but it’s a raw and honest one.

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When Jasmine Gruen of Worcester was a student at U-32 Middle & High School in East Montpelier, most of her friends lived at least half an hour away. The only place to hang out after school was downtown Montpelier. They’d move from coffee shop to coffee shop, but they couldn’t always afford to buy something.

In the Capital City, she said, “You can’t stay in one place for long and be loud and rambunctious in the way that young people should be able to. They deserve a space where they are allowed to do that.”

Gruen, now 20, is creating just such a space with Clubhouse Commons, set to open this summer at 4 Langdon Street, former home of Bent Nails Bistro. Gruen’s team also includes Esther Lent, 27; Ayden LaPoint, 20; and Hutch Warren, 21. They hope to gain nonprofit status in the future.

Gruen said Jesse Jacobs, who owns the building, was supportive of their idea but asked that they demonstrate its viability by securing funding for eight months of anticipated operating expenses before signing a lease. As of July 1, Clubhouse Commons had raised $36,000, Gruen said, and Jacobs has given them the go-ahead.

Warren runs his own small construction company and will complete minor renovations before the space opens, likely in August.

The four founders envision Clubhouse Commons as a hangout spot, music and art venue, and education center run by and for young people, mainly high schoolers and those in their early twenties. It will be drug- and alcohol-free, Gruen said; in place of the existing bar, Warren will operate a first-floor café and hire young folks to work there. Plans are in the works for a rotating selection of youth visual art and an open “graffiti wall.” The current stage setup will be used for shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring youth bands.

Educational programs will take place on the second floor, which Gruen imagines as “a space where young people can teach other young people about something that

they’re really, really deeply passionate about,” she said.

Gruen hatched the idea of a youth hangout as a sophomore this year at Hampshire College in Massachusetts.

After Hampshire announced its closure this spring, she decided to go all in on the project; she’ll complete her studies closer to home at Vermont State UniversityJohnson. She and LaPoint will sublease the building’s third-floor apartment, allowing them to keep the downstairs venue open later in the evenings.

Montpelier already has a successful teen center, run by Elevate Youth Services in the basement of the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, but Gruen stressed that Clubhouse Commons won’t be the same kind of space. She thinks younger teens who favor the Basement Teen Center might start frequenting the Clubhouse as older high school and college students.

Everyone will be welcome at Clubhouse Commons, Gruen said, though the focus will be on supporting young people. Tickets for shows might be $10 for the general public, for example, and free for those 18 and younger. Classes will be open only to young people. The team has an advisory board of older folks, Gruen said, and values intergenerational input. The café and music venue will serve visitors of all ages, but Gruen is willing to have hard conversations with patrons if necessary, she said: “Not every older person is going to be in the space in a way that is appropriate and respectful.”

At its core, Clubhouse Commons aims to be a place where patrons in their teens and early twenties can feel safe and comfortable. “Though older people in the community will also be invited into the space, the space will not be made for them,” Gruen said. “We’re kind of flipping the script on that.” ➆

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That would be “From” (2022-2026; now only on MGM+), the fourth season of which premiered in April. Directed by Jack Bender of “Lost,” the pilot introduces a family that drives their RV into a rural township and can’t leave.

The Matthewses appear to have entered another dimension: a run-down village full of people who were all traveling in different parts of the U.S. when they found themselves trapped there.

The nameless place has rules: Every home is equipped with a talisman, and every dusk, Sheriff Boyd (Harold Perrineau) walks the street ringing a bell to signal curfew. Monsters come out at night, hungry for human flesh, and they all look like regular folks you might see in Mayberry on “The Andy Griffith Show.”

With its ever-evolving mystery, “From” is obviously derivative of “Lost” (which Perrineau also starred in), and it has some of the same problems. The acting quality ranges from the chillingly superlative to the enjoyably hammy to the nonexistent.

Many of the episodes tread water. Viewers of all 40 know better than to expect the planned fifth and final season to end with a satisfying explanation of every bizarre happening in Fromville (as fans affectionately call it).

But “From” isn’t about revelations — it’s a hangout show for people who like their hangouts decorated with creepy artifacts and blood spatter. The opening credits, featuring the Pixies’ cover of “Que Sera Sera,” set the dark mood, and the setting and production design fulfill their promise. Shot in Nova Scotia, the town is a prime slice of retro Americana, with a diner, a motel and a decaying Victorian mansion on a hill.

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No one escapes the title character of “Human Vapor.”

none-too-stable fellow (Scott McCord) who’s been carrying around the same lunch box since the 1970s, when a massacre left him the town’s sole inhabitant.

If you can overlook the clunkier performances, you may find “From” trapping you as surely as the town captures its residents.

What better metaphor for humanity’s existential plight than a never-quite-brilliant streaming show that hooks you anyway?

If “From” is a hangout show, the eightepisode limited series “Human Vapor,” which just premiered on Netflix, is more of an event. Based on a 1960 sci-fi film, this Japanese and South Korean coproduction was cowritten by Yeon Sang-ho, who directed the cult zombie film Train to Busan, and features highly cinematic action sequences and special effects.

The first episode starts with a literal bang: During a live TV interview in a Tokyo studio, a renowned expert on biomass goes airborne and explodes all over the unfortunate broadcaster, Kyoko Kono (Yû Aoi). A mysterious man (Uta Uchida) soon appears online, claiming to have engineered this death as part of a mission of vengeance. His weapon? Turning into a mist that can rupture people’s innards and toss them hither and yon.

The conceit is more hokey than scary, with shades of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, while the CGI mist recalls the supernatural shenanigans at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. But, much like the titular vapor, the series transforms as it goes, keeping us engaged by defying genre expectations. The first three episodes are a pretty standard — if exciting — crime procedural in which Kyoko chases the Human Vapor with the help of progressive police detective Kenji Okamoto (Shun Oguri), who happens to be her ex.

Yakuza killers and government officials alike obstruct their investigation of the shadowy conspiracy at the vapor’s origin.

The fourth episode, however, makes a radical perspective shift to follow two shut-in siblings (Suzu Hirose and Kento Hayashi) who run a horror channel called the Terror Zone. After spotting the Human Vapor in a niche video, they embark on their own investigation, which leads them on a wild journey through Tokyo subcultures. The episode’s affectionate insider parody of the horror scene plays like a solid stand-alone film — until it ends in revelations that recast everything we thought we knew, pushing the whole series into a higher gear.

For U.S. viewers accustomed to rigid genre templates, “Human Vapor” offers a welcome element of surprise.

Even as it twists and morphs toward an emotionally satisfying conclusion (no cliff-hangers here), the series sends a consistent message of defending the poor and marginalized against institutional oppression, like a sci-fi Les Miserables. It’s as earnest as it’s weird, and maybe we need a little of both right now.

Also earnest and weird is the recent theatrical hit The Sheep Detectives, now streaming on Prime Video. A flock of sentient sheep team up to solve the murder of their beloved shepherd (Hugh Jackman), who schooled them in whodunits via bedtime reading. Yes, the sheep are digital animations, voiced by actors such as Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bryan Cranston. But they’ve been scripted with so much gentle humor and thoughtfulness that we come to care about them. An all-ages family movie in the Babe tradition, The Sheep Detectives is a sweetly soothing watch for hot-weather gatherings — and could inspire a new generation of kids to go vegetarian.

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(98 min, NR. Partizanfilm, Savoy) MOANA: Catherine Laga’aia plays the title character in this live-action version of the 2016 Disney musical, also starring Dwayne Johnson and directed by Thomas Kail. (115 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, City Cinema, Essex, Majestic, Star, Sunset)

CURRENTLY PLAYING BACKROOMSHHHH In Kane Parsons’ debut horror feature, an interdimensional portal appears to open beneath a furniture store. “Everything Must Go” edition features bonus footage. (110 min, R. Majestic, Savoy, Sunset; reviewed 6/3) DISCLOSURE DAYHH1/2 Steven Spielberg returns to science fiction with this thriller in which humanity makes contact with aliens. Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colin Firth star. (145 min, PG-13.

Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Sunset; reviewed 6/17) EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREETHHHH Felipe Bustos Sierra’s documentary chronicles the 2021 protests with which Glasgow residents resisted a local immigration raid. (95 min, NR. Partizanfilm)

The Invite TIME AND WATERHHHH Sara Dosa’s documentary follows an Icelandic writer who chronicles vanishing glaciers along with personal losses. (93 min, PG. Savoy) TOY STORY 5HHH1/2 Electronics are the threat in the latest installment of Pixar’s animated series in which living toys confront big problems. (102 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, City Cinema, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) YOUNG WASHINGTONHH1/2 This historical epic focuses on the first U.S. president’s (William FranklynMiller) role in the French and Indian War. (125 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Star)

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I LOVE BOOSTERSHHH1/2 Shoplifters plot revenge on a fashion tycoon in this surreal comedy from Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You), starring Kiki Palmer and Naomi Ackie. (105 min, R. Catamount; reviewed 5/27)

*BIG PICTURE THEATER: 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994, bigpicturetheater.info. Closed through April 29.

JACKASS: BEST AND LASTHHH The daredevil franchise ends with another batch of stunts and pranks. Jason “Wee Man” Acuña and Lance Bangs star. (92 min, R. Majestic)

CAPITOL THEATER: 93 State St., Montpelier, 229-0343, fgbtheaters.com

LEVITICUSHHHH Religion-inspired homophobia is the monster in this Australian horror film about two teenagers (Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen) in love. Adrian Chiarella directed. (88 min, R. Essex, Partizanfilm) MINIONS & MONSTERSHHH1/2 The Minions cause chaos trying to make a monster flick in 1920s Hollywood in this animated comedy featuring the voices of Pierre Coffin, Allison Janney and George Lucas himself. (90 min, PG. Bethel, Big Picture, Bijou, City Cinema, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Playhouse, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) OBSESSIONHHHH1/2 A young man makes the mistake of wishing on a charm that his crush would fall in love with him in Curry Barker’s horror film.

(Capitol, Majestic, Sunset; reviewed 5/20) STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE!HHH1/2 This documentary from Carl Deal and Tia Lessin chronicles the eventful career of journalist Amy Goodman, host of “Democracy Now!” (98 min, NR. Savoy)

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STOP! THAT! TRAIN!HHH Ginger Minj, Jujubee and RuPaul Charles star in a drag-tastic disaster parody about heroic stewardesses aboard the Glamazonian Express. (92 min, R. Partizanfilm)

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SUPERGIRLHHH Milly Alcock plays Superman’s cousin on a road trip across the galaxy that becomes a revenge quest. David Corenswet and Eve Ridley costar. (107 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden; reviewed 7/1)

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OPENINGS + RECEPTIONS PAUL REITANO: “Rebuilding the Band: Men of a Certain Volume,” a series of black-and-white details of photographs from the artist’s time playing in a band years ago that ask us to reflect on the fragmentary nature of memory. Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, through July 31.

MATTHEW DENTON: Vinyl on sheet metal creations, featuring images from pop culture, nature, animals and geometry. Espresso Bueno, Barre, through August 12.

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‘MEMORY IS A VERB: EXPLORING TIME AND TRANSIENCE’: Works by 10 women — Aline Smithson, Annette LeMay Burke, Dena Eber, Diane Hemingway, Elizabeth Bailey, Jennifer Pritchard, Lori Ordover, Rosalie Rosenthal, Sarah Hadley and Susan Lapides 7/6/26 5:33 PM — on loss, mortality, legacy, and the catalysts that inspire us to seek solace and reexamine our histories. Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, through August 30.

‘WHAT REMAINS: VOICES FROM THE MARGINS OF HISTORY’: An exhibition of photographs of early 20th-century African American life in the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain region, captured through the lens of photographer Daniel Brush and now in the collection of the Clinton County Historical Association. Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y., through October 2.

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‘EXPLORATION’: An exhibition of artists using new photographic techniques and unexpected subject matter to push themselves creatively. Open weekend afternoons. Artist talk: Thursday, July 9, 5 p.m. Art Barn at Comfort Farm, Stowe, through July 19.

‘HIGHLY CURATED’: A new art space in the Essex dispensary. Works by Shirley Ried, Travis Nutting, Andy Fish and Adam Forguites. Reception and 710 Celebration: Friday, July 10, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Gaston Weed Company, Essex, July 10-September 10.

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Reception: Friday, July 10, 5 p.m. Memphremagog Arts Collaborative, Newport, July 10-September 4.

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LEAH BARRANCO: “Color & Scale,” a show of works that present nature with exaggerated color and a focus on the aquatic life found in Vermont’s waterways. On view in the Lorraine B. Good Room on the second floor. Reception: Friday, July 10, 5-7 p.m.

BCA Center, Burlington, July 10-September 12.

WILL KASSO CONDRY: “Everything Is Everything,” a solo show of vivid, Afro-surrealist paintings and illustrations that weave together parallel journeys of healing and discovery. Reception: Friday, July 10, 5-7 p.m. BCA Center, Burlington, July 10-September 12.

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Information at nbossvt.com. Various North Bennington locations, through November 1.

VERONICA PHAM: “Dream/Mông,” a show of sculptural and collaged works in handmade paper centered on identity, folklore and humor, enmeshed with the artist’s Vietnamese heritage. On view in the Roth Gallery on the second floor. Reception: Friday, July 10, 5-7 p.m. BCA Center, Burlington, July 10-September 12.

‘FUR, FEATHER & TAILS: NEW ENGLAND CRITTERS’: A group show of works featuring New England 7/6/26 12:55 PM wildlife in all forms, from birds to bears. Reception: Saturday, July 11, 1-3 p.m. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, through August 23.

‘VANTAGES: LOOKOUTS, OVERLOOKS AND POINTS OF VIEW’: Artists’ takes on the vistas from New England ridgelines, mountaintops and cliff edges.

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A little over two years ago, Noni Stuart was on vacation to the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe when she snapped a photo of an unhoused man and decided to draw his portrait from it. She hadn’t spoken with him or asked his name, but in studying his face she was deeply moved.

“I saw his pain. I saw his beauty. I saw his intelligence and just something really noble about him,” she said. “It really affected me so much that I thought, Wouldn’t it be amazing to continue to do this and share this with others?”

Since then, the Grand Isle artist has frequented “the Share,” the weekly dinners at Burlington’s First United Methodist Church — also known as the Red Door Church — and drawn portraits of many of the unhoused people she has met there. About 50 of those artworks will now be permanently on display at the church, alongside “The Seeker,” a 3-by-4-foot painting of her original muse transposed to the streets of Burlington, with the Red Door Church in the background. Stuart worked with street artist David DiPasquale of Chicopee, Mass., who designed the lion graffiti on a wall in the scene. To that, she added her own message: “Hope.”

‘THE SEEKER’ UNVEILING AND CELEBRATION Sunday, July 12, 3:30 p.m., at the First United Methodist Church in Burlington. umcburlington.com

Reception: Saturday, July 11, 1-3 p.m. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, through August 23.

DEBI PENDELL: “Reading Meanings,” a series of mixed-media paintings that investigate semiotics,

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Reception: Saturday, July 11, 5 p.m.; doors open to members at 4:30 p.m. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, July 11-November 1.

JUANITA LANZO: “Formas Feroces y Tiernas (Fierce and Tender Forms),” partially translucent layered paintings and drawings of biomorphic forms by the Boricuan artist. Curated by David Rios Ferreira.

Reception: Saturday, July 11, 5 p.m.; doors open to members at 4:30 p.m. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, July 11-November 1.

LINDA SOK: “Warped Archive,” curated by Emily Alesandrini, a collection of jewel-toned weavings that honor lost or destroyed Cambodian textiles.

Reception: Saturday, July 11, 5 p.m.; doors open to members at 4:30 p.m. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, July 11-November 1.

MADELINE FAN: “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” an interactive installation centered on identity by the Chinese American Brattleboro artist, who asks, “As we celebrate our semiquincentennial, are we yankee doodles? Macaronis? Both? Neither?” Reception: Saturday, July 11, 5 p.m.; doors open to members at 4:30 p.m. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, July 11-September 7.

‘MIGRATION/HOME’: An outdoor exhibition conceived by artist Jonathan Gitelson to mark America’s 250th birthday that fills the museum’s window bays with reproductions of artworks created by members of Brattleboro’s resettled refugee community: Marwa Safa Azimi, Butunga Bibimba, Abdullah Elhan, Sean Kiziltan and Zuhra Nadem.

Reception: Saturday, July 11, 5 p.m.; doors open to members at 4:30 p.m. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, July 11-November 1.

ORLANDO ESTRADA AND JACOUB REYES: “Magos de la Tierra (Magicians of the Land),” a show of sculptures, assemblages, paintings and wood carvings that examine the general impacts of migration and cultural disintegration, reimagining ideas presented in Paris at the landmark 1989 Center Pompidou exhibition of the same title. Curated by David Rios Ferreira. Reception: Saturday, July 11, 5 p.m.; doors open to members at 4:30 p.m. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, July 11-November 1.

RICHARD HAYNES: “Learning to See,” boldly colorful acrylic paintings and more than 50 black-and-white drawings by the New Hampshire artist, who was born in the segregated South and whose work addresses racial divisions, celebrating togetherness through depictions of everyday moments. Curated by Alison Crites. Reception: Saturday, July 11, 5 p.m.; doors open to members at 4:30 p.m. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, July 11-November 1.

PETER DELLERT: “Big Choices,” two large sculptures on the museum’s front lawn that pay homage to hand tools. Reception: Saturday, July 11, 5 p.m.; doors open to members at 4:30 p.m. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, July 11-November 1.

BANNERS ON BRIDGE STREET: The sixth annual outdoor exhibition of artist-created works made from recycled vinyl banners and discarded house paints. Featuring banners by Loida Alvarez, John Anderson, Katie Babic, Rita Doyle Ioannidis, Beth Kendrick, Macy Moulton, Bette Ann Libby, Tommy O’Grady and Julian Purinton. Reception: Tuesday, July 14, 4-6 p.m., next to the Artisans’ Gallery. Bridge Street, Waitsfield, through October 12.

VISUAL ART EVENTS ARTIST TALK: ERNESTO PUJOL: A discussion with the socially engaged public artist, who researches, designs and collectively enacts meditative, durational performances as conceptual portraits of fragile human communities with histories of colonial and neocolonial oppression. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Wednesday, July 8, 8-9 p.m. Free.

LIFE DRAWING AND PAINTING: A drop-in event for artists working with the figure from a live model. T.W. Wood Museum, Montpelier, Thursday, July 9, 7-9 p.m.

Free; $15 suggested donation.

SUMMER EXHIBITIONS OPENING RECEPTION: A celebration of summer exhibitions “Everything is Everything: Will Kasso Condry” and “Dream/Mông: Veronica Pham.” BCA Center, Burlington, Friday, July 10, 5-7 p.m. Free.

ARTIST TALK: JOHN STOMBERG: A discussion with the artist of the evolution of his work and the concept of “World Repair,” the basis of his exhibition currently on view. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H., Friday, July 10, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free.

ARTIST TALK: JUDY ALBRIGHT: An hour of refreshments and conversation followed by a discussion with the pastel artist of her artwork, practice and career. Brandon Artists Guild, Friday, July 10, 6 p.m. Free.

GARDEN PARTY: An exploration of a dozen gardens on the property, including the 100-foot pollinator garden and sculpture garden, plus vendors and presentations by Grace Kuehne from Gracie’s Bees, University of Vermont Extension master gardener Rita Gylys and the Vermont Bee Lab. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Saturday, July 11, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

TINY ART AUCTION: An online auction, organized by Responsible Growth Hinesburg and benefiting the Hinesburg Food Shelf and the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont, which includes 4-by-4inch works by Mary Azarian, Ashley Wolff, Mary Hill, Gregory Maguire, Andy Newman, Liza Woodruff, Marguerite Jarvis and others. Bid online at new. biddingowl.com/rghinesburg, through July 11.

SOCIAL SUNDAY: An opportunity for children and caregivers to stop in and complete a 15- to 30-minute activity during the two-hour workshop.

Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center & Gallery, Sunday, July 12, 1-3 p.m. Free.

FIGURE DRAWING: Artists at all levels of experience are invited to draw from a live model.

Drawing boards and easels provided; participants bring drawing materials. 18-plus; preregistration required. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Sunday, July 12, 2-4 p.m. $20; $5 for current VSC residents.

SCULPTURE FEST 2026 OPENING: A celebration of the opening of Charlet and Peter Davenport’s annual sculpture park installed on two neighboring properties in partnership with King Farm and Vermont Land Trust. Visitors explore trails and enjoy live music by Los Lorcas. King Farm, Woodstock, Sunday, July 12, 2-5 p.m. Free.

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PORTRAIT DRAWING AND PAINTING: A drop-in event where artists can practice skills in any medium. T.W. Wood Museum, Montpelier, Monday, July 13, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; $15 suggested donation.

CARVING CIRCLE: A space for printmakers to carve, glue or incise blocks together. Studio tools available; no printing takes place. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, Tuesday, July 14, 6-8 p.m. Free.

CALLS TO ARTISTS FIFTH ANNUAL PRINTMAKING INVITATIONAL: Seeking submissions from Vermont and New England printmakers for exhibition in a juried show from July 30 to September 6. Send three to five images of recent prints to info@twwoodgallery.org. Deadline: July 10. T.W. Wood Museum, Montpelier.

Will Kasso Condry, Knight of Wands, 2023 (detail)

SUMMER EXHIBITIONS

‘REIMAGINED III, THE ART OF RECYCLING’: Seeking submissions of indoor and outdoor works made from recycled materials for a group show from July to September, the third annual incarnation of the exhibition. Email images to info@chaffeeartcenter. org. Deadline: Wednesday, July 15. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland.

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On the Beat: Noah Kahan Isn’t Taking Any More Crap NOAH KAHAN wants his fans to know that he’s been there, but he expects better from Busyheads.

“I’ve pooped my pants as much as the next 29 year old,” Kahan wrote on social media on June 27, “but you guys gotta understand there’s a venue worker out there with a 1000 yard stare after dealing with that.”

The incident he referred to happened the day before, during a show at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park.

Apparently, a fan too enraptured with Kahan’s music to make a mad dash to

the shitter went ahead and did a No. 2 right there in the crowd. Maybe Kahan accidentally played the brown note?

Whatever the reason for the fecal flub, Kahan wasn’t going to take it sitting down as he tours in support of his new hit album, The Great Divide. (Don’t make a butt-cheek joke, Chris. Don’t do it, please. You got this…) Onstage at a show in Toronto two days after Poopgate, the Vermonter demanded that fans in attendance take a pledge against problematic poop.

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his crowd to recite, “I will not shit my pants. And if I do, I won’t take it from my pants and put it on the floor.”

To be fair to Busyheads, there’s a rich history of pop musicians and rogue bowel movements. JOE JONAS and ED SHEERAN have mistakenly trusted farts while onstage and had to deal with the consequences.

KELLY CLARKSON once rushed offstage to relieve herself in a trash can — which is probably worse than when PATTI LABELLE famously had to piss in a bucket backstage as she continued singing. And who could forget one of the most infamous days in American music history: the 2004 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Chicago River Incident, in which the band’s tour bus dropped 800 pounds of human waste onto an open-top passenger boat? It’s the millennial version of “Where were you when JFK was shot?”

Like AC/DC said, it’s a long way to the top if you want to rock ’n’ roll, and that also includes a very long bathroom line.

Just tossing out ideas here, but maybe Ticketmaster and LiveNation could collab on a Rock Diaper? It could be superabsorbent for all those overpriced beers, have built-in Wi-Fi so you can keep scrolling while doing your business, and even have the artist name and show date printed on the back! It could be a collectors’ item!

Between the doo-doo disaster and overzealous Busyheads stealing road signs from Kahan’s hometown, the Strafford native has had to show his fans a little tough love lately. Can’t a guy sing about therapy and not worry about all that shit?

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Find the most up-to-date info on live music, DJs, comedy and more at sevendaysvt.com/music. If you’re a talent booker or artist planning live entertainment at a bar, nightclub, café, restaurant, brewery or coffee shop, send event details to music@sevendaysvt.com or submit the info using our form at sevendaysvt.com/postevent.

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The Balconiers (funk, jazz) at the Alchemist, Stowe, 4 p.m. Free.

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Owen Doherty Band, Seeing You (singer-songwriter) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 6 p.m. $10.

Phil Abair Band (covers) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Bluegrass & Pizza (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Ryan James & the Cryin’ Shames (rock) at Bent Nails Roadhouse, Middlesex, 8:30 p.m. Free.

The Grift (rock) at the Old Stage at the Double E, Essex, 5 p.m.

Free.

Shane Murley Band (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Spafford (jam) at the Old Stage at the Double E, Essex, 7 p.m. $25.

Tiny Heart Explosions (rock) at the Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m.

Free.

Jazz Sessions (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Taylor Haskins (jazz) at the Mill, Westport, N.Y., 8 p.m. $30.

Torpedo Rodeo, Nowhere Washington (indie rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $10.

TURNmusic Presents: ContiElliott-Reddix Trio (classical) at the Phoenix, Waterbury, 7:30 p.m. $15-$30.

SUN.12

Bluegrass Brunch (bluegrass) at Madbush Falls, Waitsfield, noon.

Free.

Cluckin’ & Pluckin’ (folk, Americana) at Switchback Beer Garden & Smokehouse, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

Live Band Karaoke (live karaoke) at Bent Nails Roadhouse, Middlesex, 7 p.m. Free.

SAT.11

Matt & Dave of the Tenderbellies (acoustic) at Two Heroes Brewery & Public House, South Hero, 6 p.m. Free.

Cooie’s Trio (folk, jazz) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 3 p.m.

Free.

Bob Gagnon (acoustic) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 7 p.m. Free.

Darlingside, Cloudbelly (indie) at the Stone Church, Brattleboro, 6 p.m. $39.

Ali T (singer-songwriter) at Stowe Cider, 4 p.m. Free.

Chicky Stoltz (blues) at the Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Praire Princess, Neato, Silverlined (country, indie rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10.

Dead Men Strumming (Grateful Dead tribute) at Shelburne Vineyard, 7 p.m. Free.

Tremolo Fields, Paper Castles, Izzy Jones (indie) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. $10.

Yuuf, the Eyetraps (psychedelic instrumental, indie rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $26.50.

THU.9

Bob Wagner Trio (roots rock) at Shelburne Vineyard, 7 p.m. Free.

Breanna Elaine (singer-songwriter) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Brunch, Danny & the Parts, Rose Asteroid, Ruminations (indie rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10.

Buck Meek, Kisser (indie) at the Stone Church, Brattleboro, 8 p.m. $31/$36.

David Karl Roberts (singersongwriter) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

Summer Concert Series on the Patio (live music series) at Folino’s Pizza, Williston, 6 p.m.

Free.

Hypno Nun (rock, funk) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free.

James Shelley (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 6 p.m.

Free.

Joe Agnello, Lara Cwass (jam) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Lincoln Sprague (piano) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free.

Milton Busker & the Grim Work (Americana, folk) at Black Flannel Brewing & Distilling, Essex, 6 p.m.

Free.

TURNmusic Presents: Joe Davidian and the Lost Melody Play ‘A Tribute to Bill Evans’ (jazz) at the Phoenix, Waterbury, 7:30 p.m. $40.

Doll Spirit Vessel, Francie + Jon (indie) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9 p.m. $12/$15.

Reflection Rock As the lead guitarist for the indie-rock

Emerald Ground Water, Bruiser and Bicycle, Vega (indie rock, folk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

bringing the sensibility of a banjo player to the electric guitar. When he’s not

Get Up With It (jazz) at Hugo’s, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free.

powerhouse Big Thief, BUCK MEEK is known for his searing six-string prowess,

serving up tasty leads and gorgeous licks with that band, Meek effortlessly combines his indie-rock chops with his troubadour tendencies, like some crossdimensional cowboy telling stories by a fire, but with an experimental heart. That approach is all over his new LP, The Mirror, on which Meek has substituted much of the guitar work for icy keys and modular synthesizers. He hits the stage at the Stone Church in Brattleboro on Thursday, July 9, also opening the show as KISSER, his new duo with partner Germaine Dunes.

The Wildwoods (indie, Americana) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $22.

Consumables, Polkarobics, Mooncusser (indie, punk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. $12/$15.

Zach Nugent (Grateful Dead tribute) at Hugo’s, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Dave Mitchell’s Blue’s Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

FRI.10

Bird Mountain Sting Band (bluegrass) at Poultney Pub, 6 p.m. Free.

Bring It (jazz) at Hugo’s, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Buck Shot (Americana) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 7 p.m. Free.

Casper Lawless (hip-hop) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 7 p.m. $15/$18.

Cheddar (funk, soul) at the Alchemist, Stowe, 5 p.m. Free.

Connor Young, Cricket Blue (jazz, folk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Grace Palmer, the People’s House Band (indie pop) at Two Heroes Brewery & Public House, South Hero, 6 p.m. Free.

Hunter Root, Seth Eames (blues, rock) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 8 p.m. $15/$20.

Little Slugger, Erin CasselsBrown, Charlie Hill (indie rock, country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10/$15.

Los Songoros (Latin) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15.

Green Mountain Swing Benefit for Youth Music Scholarships (benefit, big band) at the SEABA Center, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. $10+ donation.

Lou McNally (singer-songwriter) at Poultney Pub, 6 p.m. Free.

Luke Wiggins (singer-songwriter) at the Den at Harry’s Hardware, Cabot, 7 p.m. Free.

Jerry’s Middle Finger (Grateful Dead tribute) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $35/$40.

Kyle Stevens (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m.

Free.

Myra Flynn (soul, R&B) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. $22/$27.

Seth Yacovone (acoustic) at the Alchemist, Stowe, 4 p.m. Free.

Sunday Brunch Tunes (singersongwriter) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.

Willis, the booyah! kids (indie rock, pop) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $25.

Wine & Jazz Sundays (jazz) at Shelburne Vineyard, 5 p.m. Free.

MON.13

Lomelda, Plume Girl, Home Baker (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20/$25.

TUE.14

Big Easy Tuesdays with Jon McBride (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Bluegrass Jam (bluegrass) at Poultney Pub, 7 p.m. Free.

Half Dead (Grateful Dead tribute) at Shelburne Vineyard, 6 p.m.

Free.

Made in Iron, Victim of Metal (Iron Maiden tribute, metal) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $15.

Dead Is Alive with Dobbs’ Dead (Grateful Dead tribute) at Einstein’s Tap House, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15.

The Hitmen (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m.

Free.

Matt Hagen (acoustic) at Black Flannel Brewing & Distilling, Essex, 2 p.m. Free.

EMEFE, Brighton Beat (Afro-beat) at the Stone Church, Brattleboro, 8 p.m. $25/$31.

John Lackard Blues Band (blues) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8 p.m.

Free.

Eric George (singer-songwriter) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free.

Live Band Karaoke (karaoke) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 6 p.m. Free.

Mountain of Woe, Clew of Theseus, INURED, Poverty Line (experimental, drone) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6:30 p.m. $10.

Honky Tonk Tuesday with Wild Leek River (bluegrass, country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10.

Get Up With It, Killer Whale (jazz, soul) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 5 p.m. Free.

Live Music and Hot Pizza at Wood-Fired Fridays (music series) at the Clubhouse Grille, Jay, 5 p.m. Free.

Dead Man Strumming (Grateful Dead tribute) at River Roost Brewery, White River Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Grace Palmer (singer-songwriter) at Switchback Beer Garden & Smokehouse, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Matt Hagen Duo (acoustic) at Two Heroes Brewery & Public House, South Hero, 6 p.m. Free.

King Me (folk rock) at Black Flannel Brewing & Distilling, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

Old North End, Worm, Kettle Mouse (punk) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 9 p.m. $10.

Shy Husky, Mallcops, Cape Crush, Yours & Mine (indie pop) at the Underground, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $14.

Nick Granelle, Andriana & the Bananas, Danny & the Parts (singer-songwriter, indie) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7:30 p.m. Free.

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Life of Passion has shades of rock and roll. On “Guardian Angel,” Malcolm opens up his sound to a big, heartland country-rock tone that celebrates the power of music, even when all else fails.

“Dirty feet on the cabin floor / Momma was Shawnee, Daddy was poor,” Malcolm croons. “No record player, no radio / We lost the farm, I was glad to go.”

Each lyric is contained within its own universe, a story within a story, like a Russian nesting doll of Americana.

Amid the tales of heartbreak and challenges, a theme of dust-covered hope runs throughout the record, a sense of broken people rallying and picking themselves up that gives the music an undercurrent of optimism.

Malcolm suffuses his songwriting with authenticity and the inherent confidence of a storyteller in his element.

Give Life of Passion a listen at bo-malcolm.com.

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FRI.10

Boogie Bingo (bingo, DJ) at the Alchemist, Stowe, 5 p.m. Free.

WED.15

All Night Boogie Band (R&B, blues) at the Old Stage at the Double E, Essex, 5 p.m. Free.

Karaoke Friday Night (karaoke) at Park Place Tavern & Grill, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. Free.

The Balconiers (funk, jazz) at the Alchemist, Stowe, 4 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with DJ Big T (karaoke) at McKee’s Original, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

Bluegrass & Pizza (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Late Night Karaoke (karaoke) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10.

Historically Close Friends Presents: Le Jazz Hot! (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10/$15.

Paint: A Drag Cabaret (drag) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $25.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Untapped: A Night of Drag and Burlesque (drag) at Monkey House, Winooski, noon. $15.

Jazz Sessions (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

SUN.12

Family-Friendly Karaoke (karaoke) at Old Soul Design Shop, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5 p.m.

Free.

Melissa Chilinski, Elijah Berlow (bluegrass, folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

The Third Wheel (covers) at Halvorson’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m.

Donation.

Sunday Funday (games) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, noon.

Free.

djs THU.9

DJ GAYBAR (DJ) at Einstein’s Tap House, Burlington, 10 p.m.

DJ Two Sev, JP Black, Rubi, Chaston (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Impakt (house, techno) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m.

Free.

Trivia (trivia) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 5:30 p.m. Free.

MON.13

SAT.11 // MADE IN IRON [METAL]

Retro Game Night (gaming) at the Den at Harry’s Hardware, Cabot, 6 p.m. Free.

Neighbor of the Beast More than 20 years ago, on the significant-for-metalheads date of June 6,

2006, a crew of Vermont musicians banded together to pay homage to one of the most legendary heavy-metal acts of all

Thirsty Thursday (DJ) at Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

time: Iron Maiden. Featuring members of Amadis, Dino Bravo, the Concrete Rivals and 5 Seconds Expired, MADE IN IRON

Vinyl Night (DJ) at Poultney Pub, 6 p.m. Free.

as “The Trooper” and “Run to the Hills.” After a yearslong hiatus, the band has reunited to celebrate two decades of Made

Vinyl Thursdays (DJ) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

FRI.10

Dance Party with DJs Chris Logan, Nasteeluvzyou, OHJFRESHHH (DJ) at Afterthoughts, Waitsfield, 9 p.m.

Free.

DJ Taka (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10/$15.

DJ Two Sev, Ron Stoppable, Aidan, Lucky Luc (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Ecstatic Dance Vermont (DJ) at Capital City Grange, Berlin, 7 p.m. $10 donation.

Friday Night at Specs (DJ) at Specs Cafe & Bar, Winooski, 7 p.m.

Free.

SAT.11

Trivia Night with College (trivia) at Bent Nails Roadhouse, Middlesex, 7 p.m. Free.

established themselves as the area’s premier Maiden tribute, playing many a sold-out show while delivering classics such in Iron and 50-plus years of Iron Maiden tunes. It storms the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge on Saturday, July 11, with support from local headbangers VICTIM OF METAL. SUN.12

DJ Kwame (DJ) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

TUE.14

Bashment Tuesday (DJ) at Akes’ Place, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

open mics & jams WED.8

Open Mic (open mic) at Poultney Pub, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.9

Old Time Jam (open jam) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Open Mic (open mic) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.14

Doug’s Open Mic (open mic) at Two Heroes Brewery & Public House, South Hero, 6 p.m. Free.

WED.15

Jazz Jam with Nina Towne (jazz) at the Phoenix, Waterbury, 6 p.m. $10.

Open Mic (open mic) at Poultney Pub, 7 p.m. Free.

FRI.10

Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Roy (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9 p.m. $25.

SAT.11

Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Roy (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9 p.m. $25.

TUE.14

All That Jazz Open Mic Comedy (comedy) at the 126, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

comedy

Rory Scovel (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m.

SOLD OUT.

WED.8

WED.15

Karaoke in the Alley (karaoke) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Free.

Karaoke with Cam (karaoke) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 p.m. Free.

Trivia (trivia) at Alfie’s Wild Ride, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia (trivia) at Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia (trivia) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

THU.9

Country Line Dancing (line dancing) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Trivia Monday (trivia) at Black Flannel Brewing & Distilling, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

Trivia Monday with Top Hat Entertainment (trivia) at McKee’s Original, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

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

Trivia with Craig Mitchell (trivia) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.14

Karaoke with DJ Vociferous (karaoke) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m.

Free.

Taproom Trivia (trivia) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free.

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

Trivia Tuesday (trivia) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 7 p.m.

Free.

WED.15

Karaoke Friday Night (karaoke) at Park Place Tavern & Grill, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. Free.

Karaoke with Cam (karaoke) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 p.m. Free.

Open Mic (open mic) at the Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Coached Ensembles (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Standup Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Dance Party with DJ Party Bear (DJ) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Dee Davis (open mic) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Standup Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at the Alchemist, Stowe, 5 p.m. Free.

SUN.12

THU.9

trivia, karaoke, etc.

Karaoke Friday Night (karaoke) at Park Place Tavern & Grill, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. Free.

Trivia (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free.

Trivia (trivia) at Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.8

Trivia Night (trivia) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6 p.m.

Free.

Trivia (trivia) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free. ➆

Crypt Goth Night (goth DJ) at Bent Nails Roadhouse, Middlesex, 8 p.m. Free.

missandri (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11:30 p.m. $10.

Mr Cheng, DJ Aras, Raul, Matt P (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Olde Time Jam Session (open jam) at the Den at Harry’s Hardware, Cabot, noon. Free.

MON.13

Monday Night Open Mic (open mic) at Pearl Street Pub, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. Free.

Comedy Open Mic Night: Unfiltered Summer Edition (comedy) at Frost Beer Works, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free.

Movie Night (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $25.

Karaoke Friday Night (karaoke) at Park Place Tavern & Grill, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. Free.

Karaoke (karaoke) at Gusto’s, Barre, 8 p.m. Free.

Trivia (trivia) at Einstein’s Tap House, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Trivia (trivia) at Two Heroes Brewery & Public House, South Hero, 6 p.m. Free.

Trivia (trivia) at Alfie’s Wild Ride, Stowe, 7 p.m. Free.

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agriculture

WEDNESDAYS WITH FARMER FRED: The site’s resident farmer and storyteller demonstrates historical agricultural tools and techniques, including sheep shearing, rye harvesting and cider pressing. President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, Plymouth, noon-2 p.m. Regular admission, $4-12; free for kids under 6.

community

CURRENT EVENTS: Folks have an informal discussion about what’s in the news. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free.

PASSEGGIATA: Inspired by an Italian social ritual, locals take to the streets for a community-building stroll of the pedestrian promenade.

Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

PASSEGGIATA WATERBURY: Neighbors adopt a timeless Mediterranean tradition of civic engagement and social bonding during an evening amble.

Downtown Waterbury, 5-8 p.m.

Free.

crafts

COMMUNITY CARVING SESSIONS: MAIN STREET BLOCK PARTY STEAMROLLER PRINTMAKING: Helpful hands work alongside local artists to design and carve a oneof-a-kind block inspired by Burlington and the community members who make it vibrant. Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD OF AMERICA: Anyone with an interest in the needle arts can bring a project to this monthly meeting. Holy Family Parish

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Hall, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

YARN & YAK: A weekly club for fiber fanatics of all skill levels makes knitting and crocheting more sociable. Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center & Gallery, 5-7 p.m. Free.

YARN CRAFTERS GROUP: A drop-in meetup welcomes knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers and other fiber artists.

BYO snacks and drinks. Must Love Yarn, Shelburne, 5-7 p.m.

Free.

etc.

EXHIBIT DOCENT HOURS: A trained educator guides visitors through “Fragments: Voices of the American Revolution on Lake Champlain,” exploring archaeological history through an immersive VR experience and 3D-printed models. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 1-3 p.m. Free.

THE GREAT BRANDON AUCTION: Treasure hunters drop by the 10-day showcase for silent bidding and buy-it-now offers on furniture, art, gifts and other surprises. Brandon Town Hall, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Free.

GUIDED TOURS: Guests get to know the personal histories of rescued farm animals at an educational walk-through highlighting the nuances of lifelong care. Merrymac Animal Sanctuary, Charlotte, 2-3 p.m. $25.

THE LEGACY GALA: SOLD OUT. World-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Doris Kearns Goodwin headlines this fundraiser complete with live music, dinner and an auction. Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home, Manchester, 5:30 p.m. Wait list available.

MUSEUM TOURS: A guided tour charts a course through regional history, uncovering

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the archaeological secrets hidden beneath the waves. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Free.

TOASTMASTERS OF GREATER BURLINGTON: Those looking to strengthen their speaking and leadership skills gain new tools. Virtual option available. Generator Makerspace, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

film

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

VTIFF MUSICAL SILENTS: ‘THE GOLEM’: A live improvised score by Matt Hagen and Will Andrews enriches this screening of Paul Wegener’s 1920 silent horror film about a giant creature created to protect the Jews of Prague. The Screening Room @ VTIFF, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $6-12.

food & drink

CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS FARMERS MARKET: Talented artisans and vendors showcase their farm-fresh veggies, meats, eggs, flowers, honey and other goodies. South Hero St. Rose of Lima Church, 3-6 p.m. Free.

COMMUNITY COOKING: Helping hands join up with the nonprofit’s staff and volunteers to make a yummy meal for distribution.

Pathways Vermont Morgan’s Place Peer Support Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free.

CRÊPE NIGHT: Foodies enjoy sweet and savory French pancakes picnic-style at this monthly community meal benefiting local nonprofits. Scott Farm Orchard, Dummerston, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $12-25.

CUPPA ON CAMPUS: Community members mingle over tea and coffee, swapping

bright ideas for the future of the property. The Creative Campus at Goddard, Plainfield, 8-10 a.m. Free.

See kellogghubbard.org for details. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon. Free.

DANVILLE FARMERS MARKET: Villagers connect over live music and family-friendly activities at a weekly gathering featuring Northeast Kingdom produce, artisan wares and culinary creations.

Danville Town Green, 3:30-7 p.m.

Free.

lgbtq

MARKET ON THE GREEN: Shoppers feast their eyes on fresh produce, prepared foods and artisanal goods as they enjoy live local music. Woodstock Village Green, 3-6 p.m. Free.

PIZZA SOCIAL: Epicureans scarf down dinner baked in NOFA-VT’s wood-fired oven, followed by a tour of the certified-organic vegetable farm. Glinnis Hill Farm, Northfield, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10-30; free for BIPOC and kids 3 and under; preregister.

WEDNESDAY WINE DOWN FARMERS MARKET: Folks uncork happiness while browsing local produce and products, sipping vino, and enjoying live music by noteworthy outfits. Shelburne Vineyard, 5-9 p.m. Free.

games

SUPER BINGO: Bragging rights and cash prizes reward players who fashion five in a row.

Burlington Elks Lodge, 5-9 p.m. $50; preregister.

health & fitness

‘BUILDING BRAIN HEALTHY HABITS’: AARP Vermont and the Alzheimer’s Association cohost a research‑based education session for adults of all ages who want to protect their cognitive health.

Greater Randolph Senior Center, 1-2 p.m. Free.

CHAIR YOGA: Waterbury Public Library instructor Diana Whitney leads at-home participants in gentle stretches supported by seats. 10 a.m. Free.

RECOVERY DHARMA: Folks struggling with addiction gather weekly for an evening of meditation, topical readings and open discussion in a supportive environment.

First United Methodist Church, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free.

holidays

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

READING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: Vermont Lt. Gov. John Rodgers, Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas and others recite the founding document in tandem with leaders across all 50 states as part of the nationwide civic initiative “Sharing the Spirit of America.” Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 6 p.m.

Free.

film

language

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ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Practitioners sharpen their skills and connect with neighbors at a bimonthly meetup facilitated by a native speaker. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10-11 a.m. Free.

LANGUAGE LOUNGE: Lunch breaks transform into global conversation circles as participants hone their multilingual abilities.

Opera House, 12:30-3:30 p.m. By donation.

TAYLOR PARK SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Local bands get in the groove while listeners enjoy green grass, refreshments and an evening breeze. See downtownsaintalbans.com for lineup. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 5:30-8 p.m. Free.

THE ALL-INCLUSIVE DYKETACULAR: A weekly get-together and listening party celebrates the LGBTQ+ community with feelgood tunes, dancing and drinks.

Doma Bar, Burlington, 5-10 p.m.

Free; cost of food and drink.

QUEER WRITERS’ GROUP: LGBTQ+ authors meet monthly to discuss their work, write from prompts, and give each other advice and feedback. Rainbow Bridge Community Center, Barre, 5:30-7 p.m. Free.

music

CAPITAL CITY BAND: The long-running community ensemble hits all the right notes at a weekly gig on the green. College Hall, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

DWAYNE DOPSIE & THE ZYDECO HELLRAISERS: Soulful Creole, Cajun, gospel and blues sounds by the high-energy outfit keep listeners on their feet. Dartmouth Green, Hanover N.H., 5:30 p.m. Free.

JAZZ AT THE JUNCTION: RAY VEGA’S AFRO-CARIBBEAN JAZZ ENSEMBLE: Complex percussion and innovative arrangements distinguish a dynamic performance blending island traditions with modern jazz. Byrne Theater, Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $29-62.

TOWN OF SHELBURNE CONCERT SERIES: Vermont acts provide the soundtrack for a weekly picnic and dance sesh on the courtyard lawn.

See shelburnefarms.org for lineup.

Shelburne Farms, 6:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

WEDNESDAYS ON THE WATERFRONT: RYAN SWEEZEY AND THE MIDNIGHT WALKERS: An acoustic singer-songwriter blends classic rock and ’90s alternative influences to deliver memorable, catchy originals. Newport Waterfront, 6 p.m. Free.

YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND: Bluegrass veterans dip into rock, alternative, improvisational and psychedelic realms at this high-energy acoustic show.

Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $40.

outdoors

FLORA & FAUNA CANOE TOUR: A weekly guided voyage around Lake Champlain invites nature lovers to dip their paddles into local ecology and conservation basics. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $25.

MUSIC ON THE HILL SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Outdoor music lovers pack a picnic and revel in vibrant performances at this weekly celebration of seasonal sounds.

See artistreevt.org for lineup.

Artistree Community Arts Center, South Pomfret, 6:30 p.m. Free.

seminars

NICK CASSARINO FAMILY BAND: Attendees bust out blankets and lawn chairs to savor an evening of soulful roots, folk and jazz melodies served up alongside local food vendors. Middlesex Bandstand, 6:30 p.m. Free.

OVER THE HUMP SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: THE MOJO BIRDS: A six-piece roots, rock, soul and Americana outfit delivers upbeat, danceable grooves to outdoor listeners. Huntington Recreation Field, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

SINGING WORKSHOP WITH VILLAGE HARMONY: Young virtuosos lead vocalists in learning a variety of tunes spanning from South Africa to the Balkans. An optional potluck lunch is offered at 11:30 a.m. Plainfield Town Hall

‘PHILOSOPHY OF FASCISM’: The Vermont Center for Social Research invites learners to embark on an eight-week course dissecting the ultranationalist political ideology that emerged in the 20th century.

Materials provided. Noon-1:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister.

A STUDY OF ‘THE ODYSSEY’: Curious minds and classicists convene to get a read on one of the oldest works of Western literature.

Stowe Free Library, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Free.

sports

GREEN MOUNTAIN TABLE TENNIS CLUB: Ping-Pong players block, chop and lob in singles and doubles matches. Rutland Area Christian School, 7-9 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership.

WHALEBOAT WEDNESDAYS: Lake lovers embark on a unique aquatic adventure by rowing and sailing a

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ancestries, shared histories, and social dynamics. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. $30; preregister.

theater

environment

‘MY LADY OF WHIMS’: Vermont Suitcase presents a stage adaptation of the 1925 silent film about a wealthy councilman’s daughter whose bohemian behavior causes headaches for her father.

Brookfield Old Town Hall, 7 p.m.

Free; donations accepted.

words

JESSE WEGMAN: A local author presents his new biography, The Lost Founder, chronicling the life of Scottish American founding father James Wilson, in conversation with Georgetown University Law Center professor David Cole.

Pierson Library, Shelburne, 6:30 p.m. Free.

POETRY POTLUCK: Got words?

Folks gather to swap stanzas and dishes at a community-driven feast of verse. Wandering Vine, St. Johnsbury, 7-9 p.m. Free.

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community

MONTPELIER RAMBLE: Locals take to the streets for a weekly community-building stroll in the heart of the Capital City.

Downtown Montpelier, 5-7 p.m.

Free.

crafts

KNIT FOR YOUR NEIGHBORS: From clicking needles to looping looms, participants hook into a mission of goodwill by creating handmade winter wear for the South Burlington Food Shelf.

Materials provided. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 2-5 p.m. Free.

KNITTING GROUP: Knitters of every experience level get together to spin yarns. Latham Library, Thetford, 7 p.m. Free.

WOODWORKING LAB: Visionaries create a project or learn a new skill with the help of mentors and access to makerspace tools and equipment. Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center, Middlebury, 5-8 p.m. $7.50.

dance

‘STORIES OF SPIRIT AND SPIRITS’: A 10-member improvisational ensemble, soft rocks, weaves music and movement to explore myths and archetypes, personal

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BTV CLEAN UP CREW: Good Samaritans dispose of needles, trash and other unwanted objects.

BYO gloves encouraged. Top of Church St., Burlington, 7:30-10 a.m. Free.

etc.

COMMUNITY NIGHT: Relax, unwind and connect with neighbors at an evening of making new connections and learning about AARP Vermont’s local initiatives.

Refreshments provided. Barr Hill, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m. Free.

THE GREAT BRANDON AUCTION: See WED.8.

‘PHILADELPHIA II’ OPEN HOURS: History buffs handle artifacts and test their rowing skills aboard a replica gunboat that brings the living and working conditions of Revolutionary War soldiers to life. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 2-4 p.m. Free.

SHIPWRECK TOUR: What lies beneath? Spectators view real-time footage of a sunken craft transmitted from a robotic camera. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $2545; preregister.

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film

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

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: Cameras positioned in nests, underwater and along the forest floor capture a year’s worth of critters coming and going. Dealer.com 3D Theater, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $17-23; free for members and kids 2 and under.

BIG-SCREEN BLOCKBUSTERS: Cinephiles escape the summer swelter with weekly screenings of hit films from Jurassic Park to Jumanji. See paramountvt.org for lineup. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $5.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: Join scientists on a journey through a surreal world of bugeyed giants and egg-laying mammals. Dealer.com 3D Theater, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $17-23; free for members and kids 2 and under.

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traditionally rigged wooden craft across the water. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 4-7 p.m. $60 suggested donation.

‘CHAMP: AMERICA’S LAKE MONSTER’ EXHIBIT: Curious minds dive into the science and history of Vermont’s most iconic legend at this family-friendly exhibit featuring interactive games,

Extraordinary People At the town-wide celebration Bread and Puppet’s Plainfield Years, visitors explore the place where the politically active troupe spent four years in residency at Goddard College, from 1970 to 1974, before putting down roots at its current Glover home. During this tenure, the company — helmed by visionary cofounder and artistic director Peter Schumann — conceived of its now-famous outdoor spectacles and circuses. Guided tours of the former campus, an exhibit of visual art by Schumann and screenings of filmmaker Robbie Leppzer’s new documentary short, “An Artist Responds to War,” bring the cultural significance of that creatively fertile time to the foreground.

Dealer.com 3D Theater, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $17-23; free for members and kids 2 and under.

food & drink

CHERRY STREET SOCIAL: Foodies find much to indulge in at this community block party bringing together the city’s most beloved culinary names. Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $40; preregister.

FLATBREAD FRIDAY: A rotating soundtrack of live local music sets the tone for this weekly fresh-air feast for all ages. The Wheeler Homestead, South Burlington, 4-6:30 p.m. Various prices.

BREAD AND PUPPET’S PLAINFIELD YEARS Saturday, July 11, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday, July 12, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at various Plainfield locations. Free; $15-20 for film screening. Info, info@turningtide.com, turningtide.com.

‘RASHOMON’: Different points of view come into play in the aftermath of a murder in Akira Kurosawa’s groundbreaking 1950 crime drama. The Screening Room @ VTIFF, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $6-12.

‘SHARK KINGDOM 3D’: A highstakes investigation into the underwater realm reveals how humanity’s future hinges on the fate of the ocean’s toothiest inhabitants. Dealer.com 3D Theater, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1

& 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $17-23; free for members and kids 2 and under.

a design studio, multimedia displays, a 30-foot sculpture and photo ops. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $17-23; free for members and kids 2 and under.

where life-size animatronic dinosaurs come to life.

ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $17-23; free for members and kids 2 and under.

a patient, four-legged listener named Willow. Fletcher Free Library New North End Branch, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free.

‘DINOSAUR SAFARI’ EXHIBIT: Young explorers take an unforgettable journey through a hands-on prehistoric world

READ TO A DOG: Young readers ages 3 and up sharpen their literacy skills and gain confidence by sharing stories with

BABY TIME: Nonmobile infants and their caregivers embark on a slow-paced social hour featuring songs, rhymes and

‘WILD RESCUE 3D’: Dedicated wildlife rehabilitation teams rescue and release injured and orphaned animals back into nature in this heartwarming documentary short.

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VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET: Locals delight in fresh organic produce, artisan cheeses, meats, baked goods, crafts and live music.

Vergennes City Park, 3-7 p.m. Free.

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GRAB & GO KIT: BOBA TEA: Teens ages 13 to 18 pop by the library to pick up the ingredients necessary to make their own drink at home. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 9 a.m. Free.

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CHESS FOR FUN: Sharp minds select an opening gambit, go on the attack and protect their king in friendly competition. Cobleigh Public Library, Lyndonville, 5-8 p.m. Free.

DUPLICATE BRIDGE GAMES: Snacks and coffee fuel bouts of a classic card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 12:30 p.m. $6.

FRIENDLY GAME OF BRIDGE: Strategic thinkers have a blast with the popular game. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 1-3 p.m.

Free.

PEER SUPPORT DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Beginners wanted! Players get lost in the fantasy-filled tabletop role-playing game while focusing on teamwork, connection and community building. Morgan House, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free.

WEEKLY CHESS FOR FUN: Players of all ability levels face off and learn new strategies. United Community Church, St. Johnsbury, 5:30-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

health & fitness

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: Volunteer coach Andrea Marion leads a weekly practice for stress reduction, followed by a discussion and Q&A. 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister.

SEATED TAI CHI: Adina guides at-home participants — including those with limited mobility or difficulty standing — through a sequence of slow, connected movements.

Sponsored by the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 1 p.m. Free; preregister.

language

ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano? Language learners practice pronunciation and more at a friendly gathering. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free.

LANGUAGE LOUNGE: See WED.8.

music

BALLARD PARK CONCERTS: MYRA FLYNN: A Vermont singersongwriter performs original indie tunes that blend soulful vocals with supreme lyricism. Ballard Park, Westport, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free.

CHESTER SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: DAVE KELLER BAND: Outdoor music lovers get groovin’ to live tunes by the crowd-favorite local blues outfit and special guest musician Johnny Rawls. Chester Green, 6:30 p.m. Free.

FEAST & FIELD MUSIC SERIES: Farm-fresh foods and live tunes are on the menu at a weekly pastoral party in the orchard.

See barnarts.org for lineup. Fable Farm, Barnard, 6 p.m. $5-25.

FLOW SINGING: Vocalists both new and seasoned intertwine music and mindfulness while learning a sequence of songs

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by ear. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

LAKE MOREY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: GUSTER: An enduring indie-pop outfit with Vermont ties brings three decades of creative energy, deep cuts and fresh material to an outdoor performance on the fairway. Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, 8 p.m. Free.

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MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL: ‘APPALACHIAN SPRING: MUSIC FROM THE MOUNTAINS’: Listeners revel in a continuum of American composers who’ve borrowed from traditional folk music styles, from Charles Ives to Aaron Copland and Edgar Meyer.

Southern Vermont Arts Center Arkell Pavilion, Manchester Center, 7:30 p.m. $15.30-76.50.

ON THE DOOR RADIO: A laidback summer series features tantalizing food-truck fare and a rotating pair of local DJs backed by sunset cocktail vibes. The Pinery, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

PIZZA BY THE POND MUSIC NIGHTS: A wood-fired oven delivers all-you-can-eat pies while local musicians regale diners with irresistible toe-tappers. BYOB. Blueberry Hill Inn, Goshen, 5-8 p.m. $23-34; free for kids 6 and under; preregister.

SPOTLIGHT SESSIONS: MARGO SEIBERT: A celebrated Broadway vocalist delivers a genre-spanning musical showcase at this intimate, one-night-only cabaret. Weston Theater at Walker Farm, 7:30 p.m. $61-129.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: A2VT: A Burlington group synthesizes its native African musical and dance traditions with Western pop and hip-hop influences. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free.

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BIRD MONITORING WALK: New and experienced avian admirers take an outdoor stroll to observe flying, feathered friends. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7-9 a.m. Free; donations accepted.

EVENING BIRD WALK: Not an early riser? You’re not alone! Museum staff lead birders on a sunset stroll through the area’s forests and clearings. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7:30 p.m. $5-15 suggested donation; preregister.

seminars

HISTORY CLASS: ‘ADVOCATING FOR CHANGE IN AMERICA’: A low-pressure series designed for inquisitive minds gets the gears turning with thought-provoking conversations and new perspectives. Stowe Free Library, 5-6 p.m.

Free.

sports

WOMEN’S PICKUP FLAG FOOTBALL: Female-identifying athletes try for touchdowns and make strides at a casual weekly game for all ability levels.

University of Vermont Rugby Pitch, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

WOMEN’S RIDE: Fellowship of the Wheel invites female-identifying cyclists of all abilities to get

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Moving Target At a time when arts organizations across the U.S. are shuttering at unprecedented rates, the Junction Dance Festival continues its mission of keeping the performance arts alive and accessible in the Upper Valley. The annual dance spectacular summons movers and shakers to Thetford, Norwich, White River Junction and Hanover, N.H., for 10 days of workshops, performances, film screenings and community-building events.

Highlights include the main showcase, featuring Vermont Dance Alliance grant recipient Caitlin Morgan and other noteworthy artists, and a by-donation performance of choreographer Ruth Childs’ and sculptor Cécile Bouffard’s “delicate people.”

THE JUNCTION DANCE FESTIVAL Friday, July 10, through Sunday, July 19, at various Upper Valley locations. See website for full schedule. Various prices. Info, 802-673-3555, thejunctiondancefestival.org.

together and share their passion for mountain biking. Bolton Valley Resort, 5-8 p.m. Free; preregister.

talks

CHRISTINE HADSEL: The Curtains Without Borders director sheds light on Vermont’s hand-painted theater curtains, a unique artistic feature of rural New England towns and cities. Brookfield Old Town Hall, 7 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

QUARTET CONVERSATIONS: The Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival invites listeners and learners to an exploration of the history of the form, featuring a live performance and a lecture by musicologists Evan A. MacCarthy and Nathaniel Lew. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free; preregister.

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AI + BUSINESS SUMMIT: Thinkers explore effective business strategies and ethical practices using artificial intelligence at a day of presentations, peer networking

and interactive workshops. Hula, Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. $25100; preregister.

TECH HELP: Users with digital dilemmas seek expert guidance about everything from smartphone settings to ebook downloads. Norwich Public Library, 1-4 p.m. Free.

theater

‘BE MORE CHILL’: Stowe Theatre Guild raises the curtain on Joe Iconis’ coming-of-age sci-fi musical following a high schooler who takes a supercomputer pill to become popular. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 7:30 p.m. $15-20.

‘A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING’: A dazzling musical theater revue features the timeless songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein, from tender ballads to high-energy ensemble numbers. See calendar spotlight. QuarryWorks Theater, Adamant, 7:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

‘MY LADY OF WHIMS’: See WED.8.

Wardsboro Town Hall, 7 p.m.

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CARLENE KUCHARCZYK & TIM MAYO: Two decorated poets delight listeners with inspiring selections from their works. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 6 p.m.

Free.

FRANKY CANNON: An internationally renowned Vermont author celebrates the release of her debut novel, Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant, in conversation with Seven Days consulting editor Chelsea Edgar. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5; preregister.

MEETINGHOUSE READINGS: PETER ORNER & SARA LIPPMANN: Two acclaimed authors sit down with moderator William Craig to discuss their works as part of the 38th edition of the grassroots literary series showcasing outstanding and emerging voices. Meetinghouse, Canaan, N.H., 7 p.m. Free.

SECOND THURSDAYS BOOK CLUB: Readers share thoughts on Eoghan Walls’ historical work, Field Notes From an Extinction:

A Novel, written as the journal of a 19th-century ornithologist studying on a remote Irish island during the Great Famine. Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick, 1:30 p.m.

Free.

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FIBER ARTS FRIDAY: Knitters, crocheters, weavers and felters chat over passion projects at this weekly meetup. Waterbury Public Library, noon-2 p.m. Free.

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FOOD & ART FRIDAY: KIRIBUMBA: A Colombian dance and theater collaborative reimagines AfroLatin American, Indigenous and queer folklore while attendees feast on wood-fired pizza from Fat Dragon Farm. Sable Project, Stockbridge, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $5-25 suggested donation.

THE JUNCTION DANCE FESTIVAL: An annual celebration of movement showcases a spectrum of styles through performances, film screenings and free workshops.

See thejunctiondancefestival.org for full schedule. See calendar spotlight. Various Upper Valley locations. Various prices.

‘STORIES OF SPIRIT AND SPIRITS’: See THU.9. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7 p.m.

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THE GREAT BRANDON AUCTION: See WED.8, 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

JANE AUSTEN WEEKEND: ‘EMMA’: A leisurely weekend of literary-inspired diversions includes a Regency-style dinner party, English country dancing and afternoon tea. The Governor’s House in Hyde Park. Various prices.

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MUSEUM TOURS: See WED.8.

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nonalcoholic recovery cocktails, and live beats spun by DJs. Savu Sauna Lakeside, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $30-38.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See THU.9.

GUIDED MEDITATION ONLINE: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library invites attendees to relax on their lunch breaks and reconnect with their bodies. Noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

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

BIG-SCREEN BLOCKBUSTERS: See THU.9.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See THU.9.

‘LAND’: Filmmaker Orly Yadin’s first-person documentary feature uses archival materials, interviews with Israelis and Palestinians, and home videos to reflect on how national identities are built. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 3 & 7 p.m. $6-12.

‘SHARK KINGDOM 3D’: See THU.9.

WATERBURY ARTS FEST: Live entertainment, food vendors and a street fair with more than 100 exhibitors showcase the area’s artistry. See waterburyartsfest. com for full schedule. Downtown Waterbury, 5-9:30 p.m. Free.

‘WILD RESCUE 3D’: See THU.9.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: Community members gather for an informal session combining stimulating discussion, sharing and sitting in silence.

Iyengar Yoga Center of Vermont, Burlington, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free.

MINDFULNESS WORKSHOP: Nikki Fraser-Ruiz guides participants in resetting their internal compasses at weekly sessions focused on foundational grounding techniques. Mosaic Vermont, Barre, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister.

WEEKLY MEDITATION: Expert Zac Ispa-Landa shares tools to quiet the mind, slow down and reset.

Outright Vermont, Burlington, 8-8:45 a.m. Free.

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food & drink

LANGUAGE LOUNGE: See WED.8.

FREE NATURAL WINE TASTINGS: Oenophiles sip through a scrummy selection of vinos curated around a seasonal theme, from rosés and skin-contact whites to bottles that belong at summer cookouts. Cork Market, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. Free.

RPG NIGHT: Members of the LGBTQ community get together weekly for role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Everway. Rainbow Bridge Community Center, Barre, 5:308:30 p.m. Free.

FLATBREAD FRIDAY: See THU.9.

RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace complete with live music connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free.

SOUTH BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: Locals stock up on fresh produce, score homemade goods and connect with neighbors at a brand-new trailside marketplace. Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport Recreational Path, South Burlington, 5-7 p.m.

Free.

SOUTH END GET DOWN: Food trucks dish out mouthwatering meals and libations while live DJs and outdoor entertainment add to the ambience. Coal Collective, Burlington, 5-9 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink.

VINE & VAT: Gastronomes settle in for a decadent afternoon featuring five Jasper Hill cheeses paired with five of the vineyard’s wines. Ellison Estate Tasting Room, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $60.

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ADULT RUMMIKUB: Strategists gather to test their mental agility with this classic numbers-based tabletop challenge. Essex Free Library, 1-3 p.m. Free.

DUPLICATE BRIDGE GAMES: See THU.9, 10 a.m.

health & fitness

THE GOOD BUZZ: Shake Social Club invites guests to get a refreshing boost with sauna and cold plunge access, lake dips,

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music

ANA GUIGUI: An acclaimed pianist and vocalist entertains listeners with a wide variety of styles and genres. The Brandon Inn, 7-8 p.m. Free.

CONTI-ELLIOTT-REDDIX TRIO: A diverse chamber music repertoire features works by Francis Poulenc, Hilmar Mückenberger, HyeKyung Lee and others.

Peacham Congregational Church, 7:30 p.m. By donation.

DAVE KELLER BAND: Outdoor music lovers get groovin’ to live tunes by the crowd-favorite local blues outfit and special guest musician Johnny Rawls. The Lodge at Spruce Peak, Stowe, 4 p.m. Free.

DRUM CIRCLE WITH JEAN JACQUES MAURY: From mastering basic techniques to building a shared rhythmic vocabulary, an all-abilities music-making session taps into a deep mind-body connection. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6-7 p.m. Free.

FESTIVAL ARTISTS SERIES: ‘CONSTELLATIONS’: Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival faculty and fellows perform rousing works by Philippe Hersant, Zoltán Kodály and Johannes Brahms. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $35-50.

JEEZUM CROW FESTIVAL: Outdoor music lovers get their fill at this bounce-between-stages bash featuring the Disco Biscuits, Yonder Mountain String Band, Railroad Earth and other notable names. Stateside

Amphitheater, Jay Peak Resort, 7 p.m.-midnight. $45-75; free for kids 6 and under.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: BRETT HUGHES & FRIENDS: A lauded local singer-songwriter and guitar guru plays feel-good bluegrass tunes in the park.

Burlington City Hall Park, 12:301:30 p.m. Free.

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FLORA & FAUNA CANOE TOUR: See WED.8.

politics

CANDIDATES OF COLOR FORUM: Policy for the People hosts a virtual panel bringing together leaders from across Vermont to discuss issues shaping the state’s future. 5-6 p.m. Free.

sports

COFFEE RIDE: Pedal pushers get the opportunity to ask Old Spokes Home staff questions while cycling to Blank Page Café for a morning brew. Old Spokes Home, Burlington, 7 a.m. Free; preregister.

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OPEN DINGHY SAILING: Skippers with sailing knowledge celebrate the end of the week with a nautical adventure. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 4-7 p.m. $40 suggested donation; preregister.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: Green Mountain State batters step up to the plate while sports fans of all ages root, root, root for the home team. Centennial Field, Burlington, 6:35 p.m. $7.50-19.50.

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‘THE ADDAMS FAMILY’: They’re creepy, and they’re kooky! Witchy Wednesday Addams falls in love with a so-called “normal” young man in this macabre hit musical presented by North Country Community Theatre. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $21-31.

‘BE MORE CHILL’: See THU.9.

‘A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING’: See THU.9.

‘MY LADY OF WHIMS’: See WED.8.

Next Stage Arts, Putney, 7:30 p.m. $5-12.

‘PATIENCE’: Erik Kroncke directs a talented cast in Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera satirizing the aesthetic movement of 19th-century England. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $15-30.

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BOOK SALE: Avid readers hunt through thousands of pre-owned titles and antique rarities to support library programs and collections. Rutland Free Library, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; cost of books.

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and meet the talented people behind them at a weekly showcase of local artists, bakers, distillers and crafters. Addison West, Waitsfield, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

PEASANT MARKET: Bargain hunters flock to the area’s largest bazaar of its kind, complete with a bake sale and a silent auction.

Proceeds benefit local nonprofits.

Middlebury Town Green, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

community

DEATH CAFÉ: Community members gain new perspective with an open-ended conversation about one of life’s biggest realities.

Refreshments provided. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon.

Free.

SISTERHOOD CAMPFIRE: Women and genderqueer folks gather in a safe and inclusive space to build community through journaling, storytelling, gentle music and stargazing. Leddy Park, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free.

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THE JUNCTION DANCE FESTIVAL: ‘SEASONS: SUMMER’: Avant Vermont Dance presents a contemporary ballet performance set to Max Richter’s interpretation of Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, followed by an all-ages choreography workshop. Norwich Green, 6 p.m. $10-30 suggested donation.

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BATTLE OF HUBBARDTON REVOLUTIONARY WAR ENCAMPMENT: The 249th anniversary of the pivotal clash is honored with tactical military demos, colonial camp life activities and Sunday morning’s reenactment.

Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $1-8; free for Green Mountain Passport holders and kids under 6.

50TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY: A local timber-framing outfit celebrates half a century in operation with music by Rowan, a magic show, face painting, lawn games, live demos and food truck fare.

Vermont Frames, Starksboro, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; preregister.

BREAD AND PUPPET’S PLAINFIELD YEARS: Two packed days of guided tours, discussions, art, live music and screenings of filmmaker Robbie Leppzer’s documentary short “An Artist Responds to War” celebrate the visionary troupe’s residency at Goddard.

See calendar spotlight. Various Plainfield locations, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Free; $15-20 for film screening.

COUNTRY GARDEN TOUR: Agriculture enthusiasts embark on a self-guided tour of selected sites in the Jericho-Underhill area, then bid in a silent auction of curated floral arrangements. Community Center in Jericho, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. $20 cash or check.

GARDEN PARTY: Make-and-take crafts, demos, presentations, tours and games make for an outdoor fête for the books. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

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HAMMER-IN: Sparks fly as master tradespeople from Vermont and New Hampshire demonstrate the traditional arts of blacksmithing, timber framing and silversmithing. Ben’s Mill, Barnet, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LIBRARY!: An all-day celebration invites patrons to slice into cake and local history while honoring the community hub’s milestone. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free.

fairs & festivals

INCREDIBLE INSECT FESTIVAL: Entomophiles observe the fascinating world of bugs at a day packed with demonstrations, exhibits, games and crafts. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $17-20; free for members and children 3 and under.

SPOTLIGHT VERMONT 250: More than 30 museums and cultural organizations bring two and a half centuries of regional history to life with interactive demos, crafts, games, live tunes and family-friendly activities.

Burlington City Hall Park, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

YOU-PICK LAVENDER FEST: Nature lovers pick their own bouquets fresh from the field, then enjoy walking tours of the farm and a market of local vendors and artisans. Sunshine Village Lavender Farm, Pittsford, 10 a.m.5 p.m. Free.

film

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

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See THU.9.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See THU.9.

‘POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS’: Shot entirely in black and white, Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi’s visually stunning 2025 documentary zooms in on a region in Naples living under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. The Screening Room @ VTIFF, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4 & 7 p.m. $6-12.

‘SHARK KINGDOM 3D’: See THU.9.

WATERBURY ARTS FEST: See FRI.10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

‘WILD RESCUE 3D’: See THU.9.

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BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: Live local music lends flair to dozens of stands overflowing with seasonal produce, flowers, artisanal wares and prepared foods.

345 Pine St., Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS FARMERS MARKET: Talented artisans and vendors showcase their farm-fresh veggies, meats, eggs, flowers, honey and other goodies. Grand Isle St. Joseph’s Church, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

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JEEZUM CROW FESTIVAL: See FRI.10, 12:30 p.m.-midnight.

Can you name a Broadway duo more iconic than Rodgers and Hammerstein? We’ll wait.

Adamant’s QuarryWorks Theater summons the golden age of the stage with Tonynominated musical revue A Grand Night for Singing. Originally conceived by director Walter Bobbie, the show celebrates the legendary composers’ enduring canon with innovative arrangements of more than 30 memorable songs, including “Shall We Dance?” and “Some Enchanted Evening.” Without a traditional script, the show relies solely on the power of music to explore themes of love, marriage, friendship and memory. And unlike on the Great White Way, audience members are encouraged to sing along — so go ahead and get swept away.

‘A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING’ Thursday, July 9, and Friday, July 10, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, July 11, 2 & 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, July 12, 2 p.m., at QuarryWorks Theater in Adamant. See website for additional dates. Free; donations accepted. Info, 802-229-6978, fsmac-quarryworks.org. teatime traditions of the writer’s era. Governor’s House in Hyde Park, 2 p.m. $48; preregister.

MARSHFIELD FARMERS MARKET: Locavores find much to do at a weekly outdoor offering complete with live music, skill shares, vendors and community resource swaps. Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

NORTHWEST FARMERS MARKET: Browsers stock up on produce, preserves, baked goods and other treasures to the beat of live music.

Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

SPRUCE PEAK OYSTER FESTIVAL: Bivalve buffs and curious first-timers have one shell of an afternoon with raw-bar selections and family-friendly fun. The Lodge at Spruce Peak, Stowe, noon-5 p.m.

Free; cost of food and drink.

ST. JOHNSBURY FARMERS MARKET: Growers, bakers, makers and crafters gather weekly at booths centered on local eats.

Pearl St. & Eastern Ave., St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

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CHESS CLUB: Proficient players of all ages face off and learn new strategies. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 11 a.m.

Free.

D&D & TTRPG GROUP: Fans of Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop role-playing games embark on a new adventure with a rotating cast of game masters.

Virtual option available. Waterbury Public Library, 1-5 p.m. Free.

health & fitness

‘EXPLORE THE REALITY OF SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES’: Practical meditation tools and collaborative group discussions guide participants exploring personal divinity. Steele Community Room, Waterbury Municipal Complex, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free.

THE GOSHEN GALLOP: Runners tackle the tough terrain of a 10K or 5K course, followed by a postrace party with wood-fired pizza and a dip in the pond. Blueberry Hill Outdoor Center, Goshen, 4 p.m. $40-52; preregister.

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FRENCH CONVERSATION FOR ALL: Native French speaker Romain Feuillette guides an informal discussion group for all ages and abilities. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Free; preregister; limited space.

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ANA GUIGUI: See FRI.10.

DO GOOD FEST: Augustana, Smash Mouth, Toad the Wet Sprocket and Neon Trees headline the annual music bash benefiting youth mental health.

National Life Building, Montpelier, 1:30-10 p.m. $10-20 suggested donation; free for kids under 5; preregister.

ISLAND ARTS JAM SESSION: Instrumentalists of all ages and abilities pack their bassoons, ukuleles, washboards and more for an informal multi-genre sesh led by veteran music teacher Tony Pietricola. Homer Knight Barn, Island Arts Center, North Hero, 1-2:30 p.m. Free.

THE SUITCASE JUNKET AND RACHAEL KILGOUR: A dynamic double bill features “swamp Yankee” roots music from the one-man band and masterful songwriting from the Canadian folk singer. Virtual option available. Next Stage Arts, Putney, 7:30 p.m. $10-30.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: SKY BLUE BOYS: An acoustic duo revives the nostalgic 1930s “brother duet” tradition, blending kinship-fueled harmonies with a repertoire of classic hits and original compositions. No dogs allowed. Knoll Farm, Fayston, 6 p.m. By donation; preregister.

SUNDOWN SESSIONS: Local bands take the stage for idyllic summer-evening concerts backed

by Barge Canal sunsets. See thepineryvt.com for lineup. The Pinery, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free.

THE TENDERBELLIES: Listeners fill up their musical tanks with energetic live tunes by the local roots and bluegrass band. Meeting House on the Green, East Fairfield, 5 p.m. $10; free for kids under 12.

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BUTTERFLY & BUG WALK: Entomologists of all experience levels explore the museum grounds in a thrilling search for crawling creatures. BYO magnifying glass and net. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10 a.m.noon. $5-10 suggested donation; preregister.

PASTURE SONGS: A CREATIVE SOUNDMAPPING EXPERIENCE: Nature lovers join naturalist Lena Andrews for an early morning mindfulness experience designed to creatively orient oneself to the landscape as the sun rises.

Shelburne Farms, 4:30-6:30 a.m.

Free; preregister.

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TENDING ROCK POINT: TRAIL MAINTENANCE & PROTECTING RARE PLANTS: Attendees hear interesting facts about the area’s limestone bluffs and learn simple techniques to help care for its unique ecology. Rock Point Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free; preregister.

sports

GREEN MOUNTAIN ROLLER DERBY SUMMER JAM: The local league faces off against the Bay State Brawlers in an action-packed bout. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. $10-20; free for kids 5 and under.

MISSISQUOI PADDLE-PEDAL: Cyclists and scullers assemble on the river for a day of races and relays, culminating in an awards ceremony replete with good eats and live music. Davis Park, Richford, 8:15 a.m.-2 p.m. $10-50; preregister.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See FRI.10, 6:05 p.m.

theater

‘THE ADDAMS FAMILY’: See FRI.10, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘BE MORE CHILL’: See THU.9, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING’: See THU.9, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘MY LADY OF WHIMS’: See WED.8.

Parker Pie, West Glover, 2 & 6 p.m.

‘PATIENCE’: See FRI.10.

words

BOOK SALE: See FRI.10.

THE POETRY EXPERIENCE: Local wordsmith Rajnii Eddins hosts a supportive writing and sharing circle for poets of all ages.

Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free.

USED BOOK SALE: Readers scout for literary treasures at a budget-friendly sale where every purchase benefits Ilsley Public Library programming. Middlebury United Methodist Church, 10 a.m.2 p.m. Free; cost of books; cash or check only.

WRITE NOW!: Wordsmiths of all experience levels hone their craft in a supportive and critique-free environment. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free.

SUN.12 dance

THE JUNCTION DANCE FESTIVAL: See FRI.10.

environment

JAY AREA BUTTERFLY BLITZ: Citizen scientists team up with environmental experts for a field day tracking local populations.

Jay Community Recreational Centre, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free.

etc.

BATTLE OF HUBBARDTON REVOLUTIONARY WAR ENCAMPMENT:: See SAT.11, 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m.

‘BREAD AND PUPPET’S PLAINFIELD YEARS’: See SAT.11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

EXHIBIT DOCENT HOURS: See WED.8.

10-11:15 a.m. Free; donations accepted.

HAMMER-IN: See SAT.11.

NEW LEAF SANGHA MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: New and experienced meditators alike sit together in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. Hot Yoga Burlington, 6-7:45 p.m. Free.

fairs & festivals

MIDDLEBURY SUMMER FESTIVAL ON-THE-GREEN: A seven-day fête features live tunes in every genre, family-friendly programs and dancing in the street. See festivalonthegreen. org for full schedule. Middlebury Green, 7-9:45 p.m. Free.

ORWELL FOOD & FARM FEST: Locavores browse goods from area vendors, score free kids’ books, and enjoy live tunes and ice cream, all to benefit regional food systems. Orwell Town Green, noon-4 p.m. Free.

film

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

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See THU.9.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See THU.9.

‘PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE’: Paul Reubens’ eccentric character embarks on a cross-country search for his stolen bicycle in Tim Burton’s 1985 cult-classic comedy.

The Screening Room @ VTIFF, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 3 p.m. $6-12.

‘SHARK KINGDOM 3D’: See THU.9.

‘WILD RESCUE 3D’: See THU.9.

food & drink

ROYALTON FARMERS MARKET: Twenty local vendors offer everything from fresh produce to prepared foods to artisan goods while kids’ activities, live music and workshops build community.

South Royalton Town Green, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, pasture-raised meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and handcrafted wares tempts shoppers. Stowe Farmers Market, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

VEGAN ICE CREAM AT BEN & JERRY’S: Champlain Valley Vegan Community invites folks following a plant-based diet to check out the purveyor’s nondairy options while connecting with new and old friends. Ben & Jerry’s, Burlington, 1:30-3 p.m. Free; cost of food.

WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET: More than 25 area growers and bakers offer local and global fare against a backdrop of live music and activities. Winooski Falls Way, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

games

DUPLICATE BRIDGE GAMES: See THU.9, 1 p.m.

health & fitness

KARUNA COMMUNITY MEDITATION: A YEAR TO LIVE (FULLY): Participants practice keeping joy, generosity and gratitude at the forefront of their minds. Jenna’s House, Johnson,

NEW MINDFULNESS MEDITATION GATHERING: Certified instructors lead hourlong sessions of the ancient contemplative practice rooted in compassion and generosity.

Hood Plant, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. By donation.

lgbtq

CRAFT CLUB: Creative queer folks work on their knitting, crocheting and sewing projects. Rainbow Bridge Community Center, Barre, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

music

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SUPER READER SINCE DECEMBER 2020

CONTI-ELLIOTT-REDDIX TRIO: See FRI.10. Barton United Church, 3 p.m.

KEN CLARK ORGAN TRIO: An acclaimed instrumental ensemble dazzles with a tight blend of jazz solos and driving rhythms honed over 15 years of touring. Homer Knight Barn, Island Arts Center, North Hero, 7 p.m. $15-25.

LEVITT AMP ST. JOHNSBURY MUSIC SERIES: DYER DAVIS: A singer-songwriter known for his raw, impassioned vocals and soulful guitar playing delivers Southern blues and rock tunes to hillside listeners. Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury, 5 p.m. Free; cash bar.

SAINT-GAUDENS CONCERT SERIES: JOHN DAVIS: A performance of early New Orleans keyboard works revives long-forgotten compositions, showcasing the historical roots of jazz and R&B. Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Cornish, N.H., 2 p.m. Regular admission, $10; free for kids 15 and under.

SHE WAS RIGHT: A four-piece acoustic cover band hits all the right notes while attendees enjoy fare from local food trucks.

Maquam Barn & Winery, Milton, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink.

SUNDAY CLASSICAL: THE GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: Eight exceptional emerging artists bring the weekend to a crescendo with a riveting performance of chamber music.

BCA Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m.

Free.

TWILIGHT ON THE TAVERN LAWN: THE EMILY MARGARET BAND: The group’s soulful grooves include originals and covers of songs by Amy Winehouse, Joni Mitchell and other influential artists. BYO lawn chair or blanket.

Putney Tavern Lawn, 6 p.m. Free.

WESTFORD SUMMER CONCERTS SERIES: FREEWAY CLYDE: Tony Award-winning composer and arranger Michael Chorney fronts this performance of ethereal, omni-genre tunes blending guitar, horns, synths and percussion.

Westford Common, 6:30 p.m.

Free; donations accepted.

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These wonderful people made their first donation to Seven Days this week:

Debra Anderson Misty Castaneda Dr. Kayta Gajdos

Daniel Goltzman Sara & Douglas McKenny

Meredith Prime Gail Rafferty Mark Smith

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Here are some of the repeat and recurring Super Readers who sustain us all year: Pennie Beach Gregory Borah Siobhan Donegan John Freidin Jane Hendley Jeanne Kern & Edward Oravec

Anmari Kicza E.G. Kiley Richard Kimler Cynthia Liepmann Hugo Liepmann Julie Mueller John Olson

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‘WHAT’S THE BUZZ WITH GRAZING?’: Ecologist Leslie Spencer leads a morning meander through the farmlands to observe the agricultural and environmental benefits of grazing. A cheese and honey tasting follows.

Shelburne Farms, 8-10 a.m. Free; preregister.

sports

PÉTANQUE: The Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region invites locals to join in a friendly afternoon of France’s national pastime. Calahan Park, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free.

SUNDAY POLO MATCH: Pack a tailgate picnic and prepare to experience the fast-paced thrill of the traditional equestrian team sport. Amdez Polo Club, Shelburne, 3 p.m. $10-20.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See FRI.10, 5:05 p.m.

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SILENT READING PARTY: Bookworms work through their summer reading bingo cards at a quiet outdoor session complete with refreshing beverages. BYO blanket and snacks. The Norwich Bookstore, 2-3 p.m. Free.

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FUSE BEADS CLUB: Aspiring artisans bring ideas or borrow patterns to make beaded creations. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free.

dance

THE JUNCTION DANCE FESTIVAL: See FRI.10.

etc.

MEDIA MAKER MONDAY: Upper Valley creatives and their guests share projects, network with other artists and engage in peer feedback sessions. Junction Arts & Media, White River Junction, 6 p.m. Free; preregister.

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

‘MY LADY OF WHIMS’: See MON.8. Main Street Arts, Saxtons River, 2 p.m.

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ONION RIVER CHORUS REHEARSAL: The non-auditioned community ensemble conducted

by Richard Riley invites interested vocalists to join in spirited song.

Bethany United Church of Christ, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Free.

COLLAGE COLLECTIVE: Creatives of all experience levels cut, paste and make works of wonder. Virtual options available.

Expressive Arts Burlington, 6:309 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

theater

‘A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING’: See THU.9, 2 p.m.

Connecting qualified employees with career opportunities — it’s all in a day’s work.

crafts

fairs & festivals

‘THE ADDAMS FAMILY’: See FRI.10, 3 p.m.

Scan the code to see who’s hiring this week!

Outright Vermont, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

‘THE ART OF RESISTANCE: ANTI-EMPIRE TALKS IN THE PAPER MÂCHÉ CATHEDRAL’: Bread and Puppet Press presents a thought-provoking summer speaker series featuring topics including capitalism, Western imperialism and war. See breadandpuppetpress.org for full schedule. Paper Mache Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 3-5:30 p.m. $5.

‘THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE’: An 1850s Colorado silver mine boom — and bust — sets the scene for a tragic, factual love story staged

by Opera North. Blow-Me-Down Farm, Cornish, N.H., 5:30 p.m. $34-72.

Dozens of trusted, local employers post their jobs in the weekly paper and online.

Ryan McLaren — all Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor — engage in a nonpartisan, issue-focused conversation about Vermont’s addiction and recovery crisis. Light refreshments provided. Jenna’s House, Johnson, 5-7 p.m. Free.

FARM TOUR: Restaurant staff and buyers walk the fields, see what’s growing, ask questions and get a firsthand look at what will be on the menu through late summer.

Root 5 Farm, Fairlee, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister.

community

COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS: Esther Charlestin, Molly Gray and

MUSEUM TOURS: See WED.8.

MIDDLEBURY SUMMER FESTIVAL ON-THE-GREEN: See SUN.12, noon-1 & 7-9:45 p.m.

film

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See THU.9.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See THU.9.

MOVIES FOR MAKERS: ‘PITCH PERFECT’: Fiber fans bring their works in progress to a lap craft-friendly screening of the 2012 comedy about a women’s a cappella singing group.

Partizanfilm, Burlington, 6 p.m. $10.17-12.84.

‘SHARK KINGDOM 3D’: See THU.9.

‘WILD RESCUE 3D’: See THU.9.

games

BURLINGTON ELKS BINGO: Players grab their daubers for a competitive night of card stamping for cash prizes. Burlington Elks Lodge, 6 p.m. Various prices.

MAH-JONGG MONDAYS: Tile traders gather for friendly bouts of the ancient game of skill, strategy and luck. St. Albans Free Library, 1-3 p.m. Free.

health & fitness

MEDITATION: Beginners and veteran practitioners alike gather to quiet mental chatter and boost physical well-being at a weekly mindfulness session. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free.

MONDAY NIGHT LIVE: The Burlington Dharma Collective hosts an inspiring monthly talk, meditation and group discussion.

language

LANGUAGE LOUNGE: See WED.8.

music

ST. JOHNSBURY BAND: The nation’s third-oldest community band regales locals with dynamic tunes during a weekly ice cream social. Caledonia County Courthouse, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. Free.

VERGENNES CITY BAND: Attendees get comfy on lawn chairs and blankets while local instrumentalists ages 12 to 90 perform rousing works. Vergennes City Park, 7 p.m. Free.

words

ANIME GROUP: Fans of Japanese animation and comics convene weekly to swap ideas, read stories and connect over shared interests in hand-drawn media. Pathways Vermont Morgan’s Place Peer Support Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free.

READ LIKE A WRITER: New England Readers & Writers hosts a virtual reading group for bibliophiles to chat about short stories, both contemporary and classic. 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

SCRIPTWRITERS’ GROUP: Got a story to tell? Talented local writers swap techniques and constructive critiques. Junction Arts & Media, White River Junction, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister.

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community

CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP: Brownell Library holds a virtual roundtable for neighbors to pause and reflect on the news cycle.

10-11:30 a.m. Free.

crafts

ALL HANDS TOGETHER COMMUNITY CRAFTING GROUP: Marshfield spinning maven Donna Hisson hosts a casual gathering for fiber fans of all abilities to work on old projects or start something new. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6-7:30 p.m. Free.

WATERCOLOR DROP-IN: Painters bring their own supplies to a weekly, instruction-free session to brush up on their skills in a communal setting. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free.

dance

THE JUNCTION DANCE FESTIVAL: See FRI.10.

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etc.

BRAVE LITTLE BIRTHDAY BASH: Vermont Public podcast “Brave Little State” marks a decade at an evening of live bluegrass tunes, mingling and poster making. Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 5:307:30 p.m. $15; preregister.

GALA WHITE CLOTHING PARTY MIXER: Chamber & Economic Development of the Rutland Region members and friends don their finest white digs for an evening of Mediterranean-style food, lawn games, networking and prizes. Roots the Restaurant, Rutland, 5-7 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

‘PHILADELPHIA II’ OPEN HOURS: See THU.9.

fairs & festivals

MIDDLEBURY SUMMER FESTIVAL ON-THE-GREEN: See SUN.12, noon-1, 1:30-3 & 7-9:45 p.m.

MILTON FARMERS MARKET: Locally grown goods, fresh eats and handmade crafts take root weekly all summer long.

Bombardier Park West, Milton, 5-8 p.m. Free.

games

BOARD GAME NIGHT: Neighbors show off their skills at an evening of friendly competition playing European tabletop staples such as Catan, Splendor and Concordia.

Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m.

Free.

health & fitness

COMMUNITY MEDITATION: All experience levels engage in the ancient Buddhist practice of clearing the mind to achieve a state of calm. First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, 5:15-6 p.m.

Free; donations accepted.

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

TAI CHI: Practitioners get a feel for the Chinese martial art combining controlled breathing, meditation and slow, gentle movements. Ida Boch Park, Bradford, 10-11 a.m.

Free.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See THU.9.

language

film

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See THU.9.

‘O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?’: Three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them in the Coen brothers’ 2000 adventure epic starring George Clooney and John Turturro. Spruce Peak Arts, Stowe Mountain Resort, 6 p.m. Free; preregister.

‘SHARK KINGDOM 3D’: See THU.9.

‘WILD RESCUE 3D’: See THU.9.

food & drink

FOOD TRUCK POP-UP: A diverse selection of local favorites rolls up with a wide variety of sweet and savory eats. Three Rivers Path Trailhead Pavilion, Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, St. Johnsbury, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink.

LANGUAGE LOUNGE: See WED.8.

ITALIAN LANGUAGE LUNCH: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over bagged lunches. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free.

PAUSE-CAFÉ MARDI: Francophones and Frenchlanguage learners meet pour parler la belle langue. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 5-7 p.m. Free.

music

‘ADDISON COUNTY LIVE!’: Bring a lawn chair or picnic blanket to drink in this afternoon of outdoor music showcasing some of the region’s most talented acts. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Free.

BOB & SARAH AMOS BAND: An acclaimed father-daughter duo finds

perfect harmony while performing original and classic bluegrass and folk songs. Fairlee Town Common, 6:30 p.m. Free.

CABOT ARTS SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: A rotating cast of area musicians presents six weeks of sonorous entertainment, accompanied by mouthwatering food-truck provisions. BYO chair or blanket. See cabotarts.org for lineup. Cabot Village Common, 6 p.m. Free.

FESTIVAL ARTISTS SERIES: ‘ABUNDANCE’: Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival faculty and fellows perform rousing works

by Reinhold Glière, Antonín Dvořák and Ethan Jankowski. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $35-50.

JEWEL HOUSE MUSIC: A Colorado dance band brings soulful grooves and harmonies to an outdoor concert benefiting the Harwood Auditorium Renovation Project.

Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 7 p.m. $20.

TUESDAY NIGHT LIVE: HAMMERLANE: A noteworthy cast of well-known Lamoille County musicians serves up a hearty helping of twangy country and honkytonk music for outdoor listeners.

BYO chair or blanket. Legion Field, Johnson, 6 p.m. Free.

VERMONT’S FREEDOM & UNITY CHORUS: Singers come together for a weekly rehearsal inspiring positive change through the power of music. Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

seminars

‘AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY BY WAY OF EXISTENTIALISM’: A lowpressure, just-for-fun class invites knowledge seekers to flesh out the big questions that have animated philosophic inquiry for thousands

INTRODUCING…

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of years. Stowe Free Library, 6:307:30 p.m. Free.

positive effects. Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick, 7 p.m. Free.

GUIDED TOURS: See WED.8.

TENANT SKILLS WORKSHOP: The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity brings renters up to speed on the fundamentals of tenant rights and responsibilities. 5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

WRITER’S CIRCLE: Creative sparks fly as participants tackle curated prompts and read their latest drafts aloud in a collaborative environment. Virtual option available. Pathways Vermont Morgan’s Place Peer Support Center, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free.

QUILT EXHIBITION BIRTHDAY PARTY: Visitors mark a four-decade fiber-arts milestone with tours, artist meet and greets, a community stitching project, and a slice of birthday cake. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $14-23; free for members and kids under 3; preregister.

tech

AFTERNOON TECH HELP: Experts answer questions about phones, laptops, e-readers and other devices in one-on-one meetings. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 1-4 p.m. Free; preregister.

DROP-IN TECH SUPPORT: Library staff field questions about devices of all kinds in face-to-face chats.

Fletcher Free Library New North End Branch, Burlington, 12:30-2 p.m. Free.

theater

‘MY LADY OF WHIMS’: See WED.8.

New England Youth Theatre, Brattleboro, 7 p.m.

words

BRETT ANN STANCIU: A local author reads from her new novel, Call It Madness, about a young woman who travels to rural Vermont to deal with her great-grandfather’s death. The Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free.

BURLINGTON LITERATURE GROUP: Over the course of five weeks, readers analyze W. Somerset Maugham’s 1944 novel The Razor’s Edge, about a World War I veteran who rejects a conventional life in search of spiritual meaning. 6:30-8 p.m.

Free.

ROWAN JACOBSEN: An acclaimed journalist shares his 2026 book, In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure, which challenges prevailing policies by exploring the science behind the sun’s

MUSEUM TOURS: See WED.8.

WED.15

fairs & festivals

agriculture

community

DOWNTOWN BLOCK PARTY: Listeners grab takeout from their favorite Winooski restaurant and head to the park for free activities and live tunes. Rotary Park, Winooski, 5-8 p.m. Free.

PASSEGGIATA WATERBURY: See WED.8.

MIDDLEBURY SUMMER FESTIVAL ON-THE-GREEN: See SUN.12, noon-1 & 7-9:45 p.m.

conferences

food & drink

WEDNESDAYS WITH FARMER FRED: See WED.8.

PASSEGGIATA: See WED.8.

ALZHEIMER’S & CAREGIVING EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE: Experts unpack the complexities of neurodegenerative disease, brain health, caregiving and advance planning. Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister.

CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS FARMERS MARKET: See WED.8.

COMMUNITY COOKING: See WED.8.

CUPPA ON CAMPUS: See WED.8.

DANVILLE FARMERS MARKET: See WED.8.

MARKET ON THE GREEN: See WED.8.

crafts

YARN & YAK: See WED.8.

PEAK PAIRINGS: Foodies dig in to regional wines and cheeses at a summer celebration highlighting local agricultural network the ACORN Food Hub. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 6-8 p.m.

Free; donations accepted; preregister; cash bar.

YARN CRAFTERS GROUP: See WED.8.

dance

THE JUNCTION DANCE FESTIVAL: See FRI.10.

etc.

CHAMP MASTERS TOASTMASTERS CLUB: Those looking to strengthen their speaking and leadership skills gain new tools. Virtual option available.

Dealer.com, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

EXHIBIT DOCENT HOURS: See WED.8.

WEDNESDAY WINE DOWN FARMERS MARKET: See WED.8.

health & fitness CHAIR YOGA: See WED.8.

RECOVERY DHARMA: See WED.8.

language

LANGUAGE LOUNGE: See WED.8.

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MAKE & BUILD: Young creators unleash their imaginations at a weekly hands-on crafting session. Essex Free Library, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Free.

‘MOSAIC OF MARKS, WORDS, MATERIAL’ EXHIBIT: An education-focused exhibition showcases drawings interwoven with narratives from the infant-toddler centers of the municipality of Reggio Emilia, Italy. Winooski School District. Free.

OUTDOOR PLAY TIME: Fun with water, sand, sidewalk chalk, stories and songs helps little ones ages birth to 5 make new friends. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free.

PRINCESS ANNA STORY TIME: Ms. Chittenden County 2026 Zoey Clopto dresses the part at this special themed reading for tykes. Essex Free Library, 11 a.m.-noon. Free.

SWITCH IT UP!: A weekly gaming session on the library’s Nintendo Switch engages elementary students in friendly competition while nearby parents learn more about navigating digital boundaries. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 5-6 p.m.

Free.

barre/montpelier

BABY & CAREGIVER MEETUP: Wiggly ones ages birth to 18 months play and explore in a calm, supportive setting while adults relax and connect on the sidelines. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

BASEMENT TEEN CENTER: A drop-in hangout session welcomes kids ages 12 to 17 for lively games, arts and crafts, and snacks. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 2-6 p.m. Free.

FAMILY CHESS CLUB: Players of all ages and abilities test their skills with instructor Robert and peers. KelloggHubbard Library, 2nd Floor, Children’s Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free.

THE MARSHFIELD MONARCHS 4-H CLUB PRESENTATION: Aspiring agriculturalists gain inspiration to start their own clubs while hearing about current projects from youth members and meeting live goats, sheep, chickens and rabbits. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free.

upper valley

‘BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS’: A live raptor demonstration from the Vermont Institute of Natural Science reveals how modern masters of the air got their wings. Norwich Public Library, 2 p.m. Free.

‘CREATIVIDAD SILVESTRE/WILD CREATIVITY’ EXHIBIT: Aspiring innovators examine biological designs of the natural world to better understand and solve human engineering challenges. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $18-21; free for members and kids under 2.

STORY TIME: Early literacy takes center stage as infants and toddlers engage in a melodic mix of books and

songs. Norwich Public Library, 10:3011:30 a.m. Free.

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burlington

BABY & ME CLASS: Parents and their infants ages birth to 1 explore massage, lullabies and gentle movements while discussing the struggles and joys of parenthood. Greater Burlington YMCA, 9:45-10:45 a.m. $10; free for members.

‘CHAMP: AMERICA’S LAKE MONSTER’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

‘DINOSAUR SAFARI’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

chittenden county

THE BRICK PIT: Builders of all ages tackle special Lego challenges and have their finished works displayed at the library. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-6 p.m. Free.

DINO-MITE STORY TIME: Tots ages birth to 5 dig into the prehistoric past at a morning of dinosaur-themed rhymes, music and stories. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m.

Free.

EXTEND A STORYTIME: Little learners ages birth to 8 and their caregivers book it to the library to experience lowcost, hands-on ways to make literacy more fun at home. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 9:15-9:45 & 10:30-11 a.m. Free.

GRAB & GO KIT: BOBA TEA: See WED.8.

‘MOSAIC OF MARKS, WORDS, MATERIAL’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC WITH LINDA BASSICK: The singer and storyteller extraordinaire guides wee ones ages birth to 5 in indoor music and movement. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free.

PRESCHOOL PLAY TIME: Pre-K patrons play and socialize after music time.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11-11:30 a.m. Free.

SUMMER CRAFTYTOWN: Aspiring artists tackle a rotating menu of tactile projects to explore new techniques, then bring home a finished masterpiece. Recommended for ages 8 and up, or 6 and up with an adult helper.

South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 1-2 p.m. Free.

barre/montpelier

BASEMENT TEEN CENTER: See WED.8, 2-8 p.m.

POKÉMON CLUB: I choose you, Pikachu! Elementary and teenage fans of the franchise — and beginners, too — trade cards and play games.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free.

STORY TIME: Kids and their caregivers meet for stories, songs and bubbles.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 2nd Floor, Children’s Library, Montpelier, 10:30-11 a.m. Free.

stowe/smuggs

WEE ONES PLAY TIME: Caregivers bring kiddos under 4 to a new sensory learning experience each week. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10 a.m. Free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

barre/montpelier

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STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Participants ages 5 and under enjoy themed science, art and nature activities. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m. Free.

BUSY BEES PLAYGROUP: Blocks, toys, books and songs engage little ones 24 months and younger. Waterbury Public Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free.

‘CREATIVIDAD SILVESTRE/WILD CREATIVITY’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

northeast kingdom

ACORN CLUB STORY TIME: Youngsters 5 and under play, sing, hear stories and color. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30-11 a.m. Free.

‘CARDTOPIA’: The center’s studio space transforms into a giant interactive cardboard building, complete with secret chambers, tunnels and a ball run. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, noon-4 p.m. Free.

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burlington

BURLINGTON FNG: Self-identified LGBTQ+ and questioning youths ages 13 to 19 gather weekly to socialize in a supportive environment. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

‘CHAMP: AMERICA’S LAKE MONSTER’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

‘DINOSAUR SAFARI’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

DROP-IN: An afterschool hangout space invites teens ages 13 to 19 to relax, connect, grab a snack or browse the nonprofit’s clothing closet.

Outright Vermont, Burlington, 2:30 p.m. Free.

FAMILY FRIDAY WITH LINDA BASSICK: Caretakers and wee ones enjoy a weekly morning mashup of muffins and music played by the local legend.

Pingala Café North Avenue, Burlington, 9-9:30 a.m. Free.

chittenden county

100TH ANNIVERSARY: RETRO LIBRARY DESK: Inquisitive minds check out old technology such as card catalogs, stamps and vintage handwriting in honor of the library’s centennial. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-4 p.m. Free.

DANCE WITH ASHLEY: Tykes ages 3 and up channel their morning energy into dance, music and imaginative play at this high-spirited boogie session.

Essex Free Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Free.

FRIDAY LEGO BUILDERS: Weekly sessions invite creative minds to stack, connect and build their way to structural masterpieces using interlocking blocks. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free.

GRAB & GO KIT: BOBA TEA: See WED.8.

‘MOSAIC OF MARKS, WORDS, MATERIAL’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

MUSIC TIME: Little patrons ages birth to 5 engage with live performance and movement at a high-energy gathering led by veteran area musician Linda Bassick. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10:30-11 a.m. Free.

LEGO CLUB: Budding builders create geometric structures with snap-together blocks. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free.

middlebury area

STORY TIME: Lake-centric stories, coloring and crafts anchor little ones at a weekly maritime-themed reading circle. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 11 a.m.-noon. Free.

randolph/royalton

‘MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT’: King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table always look on the bright side of life in this beloved production presented by more than 40 rising stars from the center’s Summer Youth Musical program. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7 p.m. $10-25.

Marketplace, Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.

SING-ALONG WITH LINDA BASSICK: Early learners and their guardians make memories at a monthly rhythmic residency with the local musician and educator. Fletcher Free Library New North End Branch, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. free.

SPLASH DANCE: NEWMANTRA: Kids and their caregivers soak up some serious summer fun at a DJ-fueled dance party amid the park’s interactive fountain. Burlington City Hall Park, 1-3 p.m. Free.

YOUTH SOCCER DAY: Sen. Bernie Sanders invites curious newcomers ages 6 to 13 to lace up for a free afternoon of drills, skills and learning alongside Vermont Green FC players and coaches. Virtue Field, University of Vermont, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free; preregister.

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upper valley

CHILDREN’S PAINT WITH SARA: Young painters ages 9 to 17 learn new techniques at a guided, hands-on workshop led by local artist Sara Mandeville-Houle. Essex Free Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister.

STORY TIME: Preschoolers take part in tales, tunes and playtime. Latham Library, Thetford, 11 a.m. Free.

FRENCH STORY TIME: Kids of all ages listen and learn to native speaker Romain Feuillette raconte une histoire.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Free.

‘CREATIVIDAD SILVESTRE/WILD CREATIVITY’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

northeast kingdom ‘CARDTOPIA’: See THU.9.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Youngsters and their caregivers delight in beautiful books, silly songs, creative crafts and unplugged play in the library’s cozy children’s room. Craftsbury Public Library, Craftsbury Common, 10 a.m.

Free.

SUMMER COMIC BOOK CLUB: Young minds work together to create their own comic book at this seven-week program encouraging collaboration and creativity. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free.

SAT.11

burlington

‘CHAMP: AMERICA’S LAKE MONSTER’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

‘DINOSAUR SAFARI’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

FLYNNZONE KIDS HOUR: JEH KULU: Master drummers and dancers unleash the vibrant rhythms of West Africa, blending traditional storytelling with an interactive segment that gets little ones moving. The Flynn, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free; preregister.

GYOTAKU: JAPANESE FISH PRINTING: Educators from Lake Champlain Basin Project guide little artists ages 4 to 8 in the traditional art method that uses rubber fish to make prints.

Fletcher Free Library New North End Branch, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister.

QUARTET HOPS: Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival student string musicians lead a concert in a different downtown Queen City location every hour on the hour. Church Street

GRAB & GO KIT: BOBA TEA: See WED.8.

‘MOSAIC OF MARKS, WORDS, MATERIAL’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

barre/montpelier

KIDS TRADE & PLAY: Neighbors swap or shop gently used clothing, shoes, books and toys. Capital City Grange, Berlin, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free; donations accepted.

‘SAVE THE WHALES!’: Research biologist Cristina Robinson dives into the crucial role of these ocean giants and shares how human action can help keep their populations going strong.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 1:30 p.m. Free.

randolph/royalton

‘MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT’: See FRI.10.

upper valley

‘CREATIVIDAD SILVESTRE/WILD CREATIVITY’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

northeast kingdom ‘CARDTOPIA’: See THU.9.

ROBERT P. GRAVES: An award-winning author reads his book Lukas and Molly’s Big Misunderstanding: Mr. Oslow’s Lesson in Feeling and Forgiveness in celebration of Global Forgiveness Day. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 11 a.m.-noon.

Free.

WATER WIZARDS: Young minds make a splash with hands-on experiments and educational activities designed to explore the wonders of the water cycle.

Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 1-2:30 p.m. Free.

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SPANISH CONVERSATION: Fluent and beginner speakers brush up on their vocabulario with a discussion led by a Spanish teacher. Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library.

5-6 p.m. Free; preregister.

lgbtq

THE ALL-INCLUSIVE DYKETACULAR: See WED.8.

music

ART AMPLIFIED: MOSS CYCLE AND THEA WREN: A dynamic double bill showcases soundscapes by local composer Bryan Parmelee, followed by a performance of unforgettable melodies from the soulful pop musician. BCA Center, Burlington, 5 & 6:30 p.m. Free.

HIGHER GROUND PRESENTS: JACK WHITE: The 12-time Grammy-winning guitarist, songwriter and front man for the White Stripes proves why he’s an alt-rock icon. Midway Lawn, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 7:30 p.m. $69.50; free for kids 12 and under.

THE IDA MAE SPECKER BAND: Backed by a group of legendary local musicians, a third-generation fiddle player infuses traditional American folk music with original energy. Dartmouth Green, Hanover, N.H., 5:30 p.m. Free.

MUSIC ON THE HILL SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: See WED.8.

OVER THE HUMP SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: DUNCAN MACLEOD: A Vermont outfit specializing in blues and soft rock performs

original material and hits by artists such as Little Feat and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Huntington Recreation Field, 5:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

SKOUT: A Nashville duo known for standout guitar playing and emotionally rich songwriting blends indie-folk and pop traditions at a lively outdoor performance.

Middlesex Bandstand, 6:30 p.m.

Free.

TAYLOR PARK SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: See WED.8.

TOWN OF SHELBURNE CONCERT SERIES: See WED.8.

outdoors

FLORA & FAUNA CANOE TOUR: See WED.8.

NATURE JOURNALING: Artist and naturalist Lorna Dielentheis teaches participants how to slow

down and observe the natural world through sketching and writing, followed by an optional group reflection. Rock Point Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon.

By donation; preregister.

sports

seminars

talks

‘PHILOSOPHY OF FASCISM’: See WED.8.

A STUDY OF ‘THE ODYSSEY’: See WED.8.

SUSTAINING THE RENT WORKSHOP: The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity helps tenants financially prepare and access resources to meet their housing needs. Noon-1:30 p.m.

Free; preregister.

GREEN MOUNTAIN TABLE TENNIS CLUB: See WED.8.

WHALEBOAT WEDNESDAYS: See WED.8.

DEEP DIVES SERIES: Listeners plunge into the depths of local maritime history at a biweekly lecture series featuring illuminating presentations by archaeologists, educators and researchers. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister.

ISAAC EVANS-FRANTZ: In “Protecting Our Families and Voices: A Continuum of Civic Action in Uncertain Times,” a local leader discusses steps community members can take to safeguard their rights when democratic

norms feel fragile. Craftsbury Public Library, Craftsbury Common, noon. Free.

theater

‘THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE’: See SUN.12, 7:30 p.m.

words

MEMOIR WORKSHOP: Vermont writer, educator and farmer Kate Youngdahl-Stauss helps folks pen their story in their own authentic voice at this five-part generative seminar. Granville Corner School, 5:30-7 p.m. Free.

ROOPIKA RISAM: A Dartmouth professor of digital humanities shares her new book, Data Empire, arguing that information has always served as the foundation of global power. The Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free. ➆

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brattleboro/okemo valley

GOAT SNUGGLES: Rolling hillsides provide the backdrop for a 40-minute cuddle session with the cutest farm animals around. Big Picture Farm, Townshend, 10 a.m. $12-20; preregister.

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burlington

‘BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS’: A live raptor demonstration from the Vermont Institute of Natural Science reveals how modern masters of the air got their wings. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free.

‘CHAMP: AMERICA’S LAKE MONSTER’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

‘DINOSAUR SAFARI’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

DAD GUILD PLAYGROUP: Fathers (and parents of all genders) and their kids ages 5 and under drop in for playtime and connection. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. Free.

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS GROUP A: Tabletop role-players ages 9 to 14 practice their craft with Andrew, the library’s dungeon master. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 12:15-3:15 p.m.

Free; preregister.

SENSORY-FRIENDLY SUNDAY: Folks of all ages with sensory processing differences have the museum to themselves, with adjusted lights and sounds and trusty sensory backpacks. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister.

‘MOSAIC OF MARKS, WORDS, MATERIAL’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

SOCIAL SUNDAYS: Families participate in fun and educational art activities with diverse mediums and themes.

All supplies and instruction provided. Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center & Gallery, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free.

barre/montpelier

GENDER CREATIVE KIDS: Trans and gender-nonconforming kiddos under 12 and their families build community and friendships at this joyful monthly gathering. See outrightvt.org for full schedule. Various locations statewide, 2-4 p.m. Free.

middlebury area

GIANT LAKE CHAMPLAIN MAP TIME: An interactive map centers history and ecology as little learners play games tracking canal boats and recounting Revolutionary War naval maneuvers.

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 10-11 a.m. Free.

randolph/royalton

‘MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT’: See FRI.10, 2 p.m.

upper valley

‘CREATIVIDAD SILVESTRE/WILD CREATIVITY’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

northeast kingdom ‘CARDTOPIA’: See THU.9.

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‘CHAMP: AMERICA’S LAKE MONSTER’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

CROWDSOURCED VT: ‘SHREK’: Aspiring filmmakers ages 10 to 18 join local production teams to help re-create scenes from the 2001 animated fantasy flick following the hilarious adventures of a lovable ogre and his cast of misfits.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:306 p.m. Free.

‘DINOSAUR SAFARI’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

chittenden county

chittenden county

GRAB & GO KIT: BOBA TEA: See WED.8.

CAMPFIRE SONGS & MARSHMALLOW ROAST: Local legend Linda Bassick

leads all ages in summery tunes, followed by a riveting round of group storytelling. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5-6 p.m. Free.

GRAB & GO KIT: BOBA TEA: See WED.8.

‘MOSAIC OF MARKS, WORDS, MATERIAL’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

PAJAMA STORY TIME: Little patrons don comfy attire to wind down the day with cozy readings and soothing songs. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 6-6:30 p.m. Free.

‘THE PHARAOH’S SECRET: A PUZZLE MYSTERY’: Teens ages 13 to 18 crack ancient codes, tackle puzzles and race against the clock to unearth a long-buried secret. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4 p.m. Free.

POKÉMON CLUB: Players trade cards and enjoy activities centered on their favorite strategic game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m.

Free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

TODDLER TIME: Little kids ages 5 and under have a blast with songs, stories, rhymes and dancing. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free.

middlebury area

GIANT LAKE CHAMPLAIN MAP TIME: See SUN.12, 1-3 p.m.

upper valley

‘CREATIVIDAD SILVESTRE/WILD CREATIVITY’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

STORY TIME WITH BETH: An engaging bookseller and librarian reads picture books on a different theme each week.

The Norwich Bookstore, 10 a.m. Free.

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burlington

‘CHAMP: AMERICA’S LAKE MONSTER’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

‘DINOSAUR SAFARI’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

SING-ALONG WITH LINDA BASSICK: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and wiggle along with the local musician. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free.

chittenden county

‘DISNEY’S MOANA JR.’: Very Merry Theatre performers stage the heartwarming coming-of-age musical about a strong-willed young girl who must discover the truth about her heritage in order to save her village. Richmond Free Library, noon. Free.

DINO GLOW-UP: Elementary explorers ages 6 and up breathe new life into old dinosaur toys by repainting them based on modern paleontological discoveries. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free.

GRAB & GO KIT: BOBA TEA: See WED.8.

MIDDLE GRADE MAKE A KITE: Students in fifth through eighth grade craft their own colorful high-flying creations using provided materials.

South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4 p.m. Free.

northeast kingdom

LAPSIT STORY TIME: Babies 2 and under learn to love reading while singing and playing with their caregivers. Siblings welcome. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30-11 a.m. Free.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: See FRI.10.

WED.15

DADS’ NIGHT IN: JACKBOX GAMES: Fathers log on for a virtual game night hosted by Dad Guild. 8:45-10 p.m. Free.

burlington

‘CHAMP: AMERICA’S LAKE MONSTER’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

‘DINOSAUR SAFARI’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

‘MOSAIC OF MARKS, WORDS, MATERIAL’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

‘DISNEY’S MOANA JR.’: See TUE.14.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon.

STORY TIME: Youngsters from birth to 5 enjoy a session of reading, rhyming and singing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free.

READ TO A DOG: See WED.8.

chittenden county

barre/montpelier

GRAB & GO KIT: BOBA TEA: See WED.8.

BASEMENT TEEN CENTER: See WED.8.

THE NEST: Good Beginnings of Central Vermont hosts a baby-friendly space where prenatal and postpartum families can connect. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

upper valley

‘CREATIVIDAD SILVESTRE/WILD CREATIVITY’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

FARM FRIENDS PLAY CLUB: A handson, screen-free summer drop-in program invites children ages 3 to 9 and their families to spark new connections and forge art out of everyday materials. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Regular admission, $14-23; free for members and kids under 3; preregister.

LEGO TUESDAYS: Youth architects tackle construction challenges or follow their own blueprints at a creative building session complete with snacks.

Norwich Public Library, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Free.

BABY TIME: See WED.8.

MAKE & BUILD: See WED.8.

‘MOSAIC OF MARKS, WORDS, MATERIAL’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

OUTDOOR PLAY TIME: See WED.8.

SWITCH IT UP!: See WED.8.

barre/montpelier

BABY & CAREGIVER MEETUP: See WED.8.

BASEMENT TEEN CENTER: See WED.8.

DINOMAN: A family entertainer uses magnificent props and inflatable characters to give kiddos a unique view of the Mesozoic era. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free.

FAMILY CHESS CLUB: See WED.8.

upper valley

‘CREATIVIDAD SILVESTRE/WILD CREATIVITY’ EXHIBIT: See WED.8.

STORY TIME: See WED.8. K

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arts & crafts AMERICAN WOODCOCK ONE-DAY WOOD-CARVING WORKSHOP: Carve and paint an American woodcock with Dave Tuttle during this one-day carving class. Wood blank and paint provided.

All levels welcome. Great for adults and teens.

Younger kids need parental permission. Great skill building for Scouts and 4-H. Bring mask, tools, gloves and lunch. (Contact us if you will need tools or gloves.)

Date: Sat., Jul. 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Cost: $50. Location: Birds of Vermont Museum, 900 Sherman Hollow Rd., Huntington. Info: 802-434-2167, sevendaystickets.com.

DAVIS STUDIO ART CLASSES: Stay connected to your creative practice this summer. Seasonal camps, classes and workshops offer flexible, supportive ways for art making full of joy and inspiration! Come as you are and use the time to reset, focus and have fun. Now enrolling youths, teens and adults. Info: 802-425-2700, info@davisstudiovt.com, davisstudiovt.com.

food & drink KIDS BAKE CAMP: Flour, sugar, butter — and a whole lot of fun!

Kids Bake Camp is a five-day adventure where young bakers learn the magic behind every rise, swirl and golden-brown finish. From kneading dough to decorating their creations, your child will build real baking skills, grow their confidence in the

kitchen and head home each day with something scrumptious to show for it. Dates: Mon., Aug. 3, to Fri., Aug. 7, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Cost: $295. Location: Stockbridge Central School, 2933 Route 107.

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BOODLE FIGHT: A FILIPINO SHARED-TABLE EXPERIENCE: A boodle fight is a Filipino communal dining tradition where a large spread of food is laid out on banana leaves and everyone eats together using their hands (kamayan). This demonstrationstyle class will showcase a variety of dishes, including mango salad, Filipino adobo, pancit and a Filipino version of stir-fried shrimp, all commonly

FARMYARD CUPCAKE DECORATING CLASS: Join us for this in-person workshop at our space in downtown Waterbury! In this workshop, we will decorate four farmyard animal cupcakes to take home and one to enjoy during the class. Select from a variety of flavor options. Cake kits can be gluten-free, vegan or both. Please disclose all allergies in the ticket registration. Note: We are not an allergen-free facility. Date: Tue., Jul. 28, 5:30 p.m. Cost: $45; bring a plus-one, $15. Location: Red Poppy Cakery, 1 Elm St., Waterbury. Info: 203-400-0700, sevendaystickets.com.

MALAYSIAN STREET FOODS: Join culinary instructor Evelyn Sun for a flavorful journey through the street foods of her hometown, Ipoh. Learn to make beloved flaky roti canai served with Evelyn’s Malaysian chicken curry; watch Evelyn demonstrate a street food favorite, mee goreng (fried noodles); and finish with a refreshing local favorite, ice cendol. Discover the bold, layered tastes of Malaysia — a true melting pot of cultures.

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Sep. 25-27 in St. Albans. For five weekends over the course of a year, enter the heart of a living Earth with the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition. The PMT, designed by don Oscar Miro-Quesada, offers a rich tapestry of Andean ancestral wisdom and global resonance, weaving a shamanic tradition that serves the needs of the current day. Realign soul with cosmos, self with community and spirit with nature. Are you made.) Date: Sat., Aug. 8, 11 a.m.1:30 p.m. Cost: $75. Location: Richmond Community Kitchen, 13 Jolina Ct. Info: 802-434-3445, sevendaystickets.com.

music TAIKO TUESDAYS, DJEMBE WEDNESDAYS!: Drum with Stuart Paton! New sessions each month. Community Taiko Ensemble Beginner’s Class, Mon., 5:30-7 p.m. Taiko on Tue.: Kids & Parents Taiko, 4-5:30 p.m.; Adult Intro Taiko, 5:30-7 p.m.; Accelerated Intro Taiko, 7-8:30 p.m. Djembe on Wed.: Intermediate Djembe, 5:30-7 p.m.; Beginner Djembe, 7-8:30 p.m. Drums provided. Cost: $92/4 weeks; 90-min. classes; $72 per person for Kids & Parents class. Location: Burlington Taiko, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3-G. Info: Stuart Paton, 802-448-0150, burlingtontaiko.org.

spirituality APPRENTICESHIP IN SHAMANISM: A rare opportunity to apprentice locally in a shamanic tradition, beginning

ready to answer the call to heal?

Dates: First weekend, Sep. 25-27; first day, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Cost: $1,375 incl. attendance at five 3-day weekend sessions.

Scholarship support avail.

Location: Northwest TV access station, Franklin Park West, St. Albans City.

Info: Thomas Mock, 802-3694331, thomas.mock1444@gmail. com, heartofthehealer.org/event/ the-pachakuti-mesatradition-foundationalapprenticeship-with-thomasmock.

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COMMERCIAL & OFFICE RENTALS RUTLAND COUNTY NEW GENERAL STORE LEASING OPPORTUNITY Monthly rent is TBD. Benson Village Trust (BVT), a 501c3 notfor-profi t community enterprise, is offering a unique opportunity for an entrepreneur passionate about good food, service & community to operate the Benson Village Store that will be located in the village center of Benson, Vt. The store business owner will lease a newly constructed & outfi tted store/deli/café building from BVT to create a thriving small business in a dynamic rural community on Lake Champlain. Please find the complete general store business opportunity prospectus on Benson Village Trust’s website at: bensonvillagetrust. org. Letters of interest are due Jul. 31 at midnight. Email info@ bensonvillagetrust.org w/ questions.

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Legal Notices STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.:​26-PR-02732 In re ESTATE of: BERNARD CROWLEY NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: BERNARD R. CROWLEY, late of BURLINGTON, VERMONT I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: June 22, 2026 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Laurie Sabens Executor/Administrator: Laurie B. Sabens 2762 Morven Park Way The Villages, FL 32162 Phone Number: 802-318-1216 Email: lauriesabens@gmail.com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: July 8, 2026 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: 175 Main Street , Burlington, VT 05401 PROPOSED STATE RULES By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record. The purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont.gov/ SOS/rules/ . The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

PLACE AN AFFORDABLE NOTICE AT: SEVENDAYSVT.COM/LEGAL-NOTICES OR CALL 802-865-1020, EXT. 121.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

In re ESTATE of Donald P. Ciosek

Effective: 07/28/26

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain copies of proposed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (802-828-2231). _____

To the creditors of: Donald P. Ciosek, late of Williston, Vermont

It is hereby Ordained by the Public Works Commission of the City of Burlington as follows:

I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Workers’ Compensation Medical Fee Schedule Rule 40.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 26P019 AGENCY: Department of Labor

Dated: June 29, 2026 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Aaron Ciosek

CONCISE SUMMARY: Medical providers who care for injured workers covered by a workers’ compensation policy are required to bill for their services using the Workers’ Compensation Medical Fee Schedule. It is vital to the health of the workers’ compensation system that such fees be sufficient to ensure the provision of services, without being so generous as to increase the cost of insurance coverage. The rule generally modestly raises reimbursement amounts, adds a far more robust table of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes, and provides for annual indexing going forward using Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)”market basket” factors, capped at 3% annually.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Dirk Anderson, Department of Labor, PO Box 488, Montpelier VT 05601-0488 Tel: 1-802-828-4391 Fax: 1-802-828-2195 E-Mail: dirk.anderson@ vermont.gov URL: https://labor.vermont.gov.

FOR COPIES: Berrian Eno-Van Fleet, Department of Labor, PO Box 488, Montpelier VT 05601-0488 Tel: 1-802-828-2286 Fax: 1-802-828-2195 E-Mail: berrian.eno-vanfleet@vermont.gov.

Executor/Administrator: Aaron Ciosek & Hilary Marcelino Mailing Address: c/o Kolvoord, Overton & Wilson, PC 600 Blair Park Rd #205 Williston, Vermont 05495 Phone Number: 802-878-3346 Email: JFR@essexvtlaw.com

Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: 175 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05402 CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX A REGULATION IN RELATION TO RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE TRAFFIC COMMISSION— 7A ACCESSIBLE SPACES DESIGNATED. Sponsor(s): Public Works Commission Action: approved Date: 06/17/26 Attestation of Adoption: Madeline Suender, E.I.T. Public Works Engineer, Technical Services Published: 07/08/26

CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO GROSS RECEIPTS BCO SEC. 21-31 ORDINANCE 8.2 Sponsor: Board of Finance Public Hearing Dates: First reading: 06/29/26 Referred to: Rules suspended and placed in all stages of passage: 06/29/26 Second reading: Action: Date: 06/29/26 Signed by Mayor: 06/30/26 Published: 07/08/26 Effective: 07/28/26 It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: Chapter 21, Offenses & Miscellaneous Provisions, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Sec. 31 (Restaurant, hotel, amusements and admissions taxes), thereof to read as follows:

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.:​26-PR-03091

That Appendix C, Rule and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, 7A Accessible spaces designated of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington is hereby amended as follows:

21-31 Restaurant, hotel, and amusements and admissions taxes.

(I) GENERAL PROVISIONS: (A) Title: This section may be cited as the “Restaurant, Hotels, and Amusements and Admissions Taxes Ordinance.”

(B) As written.

(II) TAXES IMPOSED: (A) Restaurant Tax: There is hereby imposed a business occupation tax upon all persons engaged in the restaurant business of whatever name or character in the City of Burlington. The tax imposed shall be at the rate of two and one-half (2.5) percent of the gross receipts from taxable business, as defined herein, done per monthly period in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(B) Hotel and Motel Tax: As written (C) Short-Term Rental Tax: As written D) Amusements Tax: There is hereby imposed a business occupation tax upon all persons engaged in the business of operating places of amusement, including, but not limited to, pool halls, arcades, bowling alleys, or operating any establishment making available use of amusement devices of whatever name or character within the City of Burlington. The tax imposed shall be at the rate of two and one-half (2.5) percent of taxable business, as defined herein, done per monthly period in accordance with the provisions of this section.

E) Admissions Tax: There is hereby imposed a tax on admissions to circuses, menageries, carnivals, cinemas, shows of every kind, athletic contests, exhibitions or entertainments for money o f whatever name or character except those of educational or nonprofit institutions or organizations or wholly for charitable purposes. The tax imposed shall be

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(FE) Compliance Required: As written.

(G) Temporary Tax Rate: Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the following temporary tax rates will apply for the fiscal year commencing on July 1, 2025, and ending on July 31, 2026: (I) The restaurants, amusements, and admissions tax on gross receipts set forth in subsections (II) (A), (II)(D), and (II)(E) of this section shall be increased from two (2) percent of gross receipts to two and one half (2.5) percent.

Commencing August 1, 2026, said tax rates shall again be set as set forth in subsections (I) (A) through (I) (E) of this section.

(III) DEFINITIONS: For the purposes of this section, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings given herein: (A) - (C) As written.

(D) Gross Receipts means the total amounts received or receivable and the total amounts actually received or receivable for the performance of any act or service, of whatever nature it may be, for which a charge is made or credit allowed when such act or service is done as part of or in connection with a taxable admission or a taxable business as herein defined. Included in “gross receipts” shall be all receipts, cash, credits and property of any kind or nature, without any deductions therefrom on account of the cost of the property sold, the cost of the materials used, labor or service costs, interest paid or payable, or losses or other expenses whatsoever. Excluded from “gross receipts” shall be the following: (l) - (2) As written.

(E) – (F) As written.

(G) Taxable Business means: (l) - (2) As written.

(3) Charges of any kind received, including admission or minimum charges for the use of pool halls, billiard tables, bowling alleys, arcades, electric amusement devices, mechanical amusement devices, or the use of other places of amusement or of amusement devices of whatever name and character.

(H) – (K) As written.

(IV) TAX-WHEN DUE: (A) Every taxpayer subject to the provisions of this section shall file within thirty (30) days of the effective date hereof an application with the treasurer for a taxpayer identification number.

This application shall contain the legal name of the taxpayer, any trade name(s) employed, the address, place(s) of business within the city, principal place of business, phone number, authorized agent for service of process, the type(s) of taxable admissions received by the taxpayer and that taxable business(es) in which the taxpayer is engaged.

Upon receipt of a complete application, the treasurer shall issue to each taxpayer an identification number. Failure of a taxpayer, or anyone reasonable likely to be a taxpayer as herein defined at the time that levy of the taxes herein commences, to file for an identification number shall be a violation.

(B) - (H) As written.

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KS/Ordinances 2026/Gross Receipts Ordinance BCO Section 21-31 6-25-2026 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION CHITTENDEN, SS DOCKET NO.: 23-CV-04577 Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Owner Trustee of the Residential Credit Opportunities Trust X-C, v.

Jeffrey Bean a/k/a Jeffrey S. Bean; Angela Bean a/k/a Angela M. Bean; M&T Bank sbm People’s United Bank sbm Chittenden Trust Company d/b/a Chittenden Bank; Hollow Creek Condominium Association OCCUPANTS OF: 93 Hollow Creek, Unit 3, Colchester, VT 05446

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NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale Provision contained in the Decree of Foreclosure by Judicial Sale of the Vermont Superior Court, Civil Division, Chittenden Unit, Docket No. 23-CV-04577 enforcing the mortgage dated February 15, 2007 given by Jeffrey Bean and Angela Bean, to Chittenden Trust Co. dba Chittenden Mortgage Svcs., and recorded with the Town of Colchester Land Records in Book 579, Page 120.

For breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at the premises located at 93 Hollow Creek, Unit 3, Colchester, VT 05446 on July 21, 2026 at 11:00 A.M., all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, to wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Jeffrey Bean and Angela Bean by Warranty Deed of Heepin Mun (a/k/a Hui Pin Mun) and Young Sil Mun dated April 19, 1996 and recorded in Volume 259 at Pages 139-141 of the Town of Colchester Land Records and more particularly described therein as follows: Being Apartment No. 5 with attached garage in the Hollow Creek Condominium as numbered and further described and depicted in the Declaration of Hollow Creek Condominium as may be subsequently amended; the plans incorporated therein including the floor plans recorded in Map Slide 312 of the Map Records of the Town of Colchester, and the map entitled “Hollow Creek, Landscape and General Site Plan” prepared by Lamoureux and Stone Consulting Engineers, Inc. dated June 30, 1993 and recorded in Map Slide 311 of the Map Records of the Town of Colchester, together with an undivided interest in the Common Areas and Facilities and the Limited Common Areas and Facilities all as set forth in the Declaration. The property of Hollow Creek Condominium consists of a certain parcel of land, together with all buildings located thereon, and all easements, rights, and appurtenances now or hereafter belonging thereto in the Town of Colchester, Vermont, as depicted on the abovementioned map.

The land and premises are subject to and have the benefit of the covenants, restrictions, easements, rights, privileges, duties, obligations, and provisions of the Declaration of Hollow Creek Condominium dated September 29, 1993 and recorded in Book 224 at Page 121 in the said Land Records; any amendments thereto, the By-Laws of Hollow Creek Condominium Association, and the Administrative Rules and Regulations promulgated pursuant to the Association’s By-Laws. The lands and premises are also subject to the provisions of Land Use Permit No. 4C0890 issued by the District Environmental Commission, recorded in Book 194 at Page 84 in the said Land Records, as it may be amended from time to time; and to utility easements of record.

This conveyance is made subject to the provisions of the Vermont Condominium Ownership Act, Title 27, Vermont Statutes Annotated, Chapter 15 §1302-1329.

Hauke Development Company, in its Warranty Deed at Volume 223, Page 576 of the Colchester Land Records, has reserved a non-exclusive easement and right of way for ingress and egress, the storage of building supplies, materials, and equipment, the installation, construction, maintenance, repair, and replacement of water, sewer, drainage, television, telephone, and electric lines and services to, into, and over the lands and premises shown on the plat referenced herein, for the construction of remaining buildings thereon. The Grantees, by acceptance of this Deed, acknowledge prior receipt of a copy of the Declaration, By-Laws, and Administrative Rules and Regulations of Hollow Creek Condominium and covenant for themselves, their successors, heirs, and assigns, to be bound by the provisions thereon, as they may be amended from time to time as provided therein. The Grantees, for themselves, their heirs, successors, and assigns further covenant to pay, from time to time as and when assessed, the Grantees’ share of Common Expenses as required by the above-referenced Declaration and By-Laws.

The Apartment conveyed hereby shall be used solely for residential purposes, and no trade or business of any kind may be carried on there except customary home occupation not inconsistent with the residential nature of this property. The

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Apartment is subject to further use restrictions as set forth in the aforementioned Declaration, ByLaws and Administrative Rules and Regulations.

The percentage of undivided interest in the Common Areas and Facilities of Hollow Creek Condominium is hereby conveyed which shall be appurtenant for all purposes is 4.4529%.

Reference is hereby made to the aforementioned instruments, the records thereof and the references therein contained, all in further aid of this description.

Publication Date: July 1, 2026

The description of the property contained in the mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

The premises shall be sold and conveyed AS IS, WITH ALL FAULTS, WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, subject to and with the benefit of all rights, rights of way, restrictions, easements, covenants, liens or claims in the nature of liens, improvements, public assessments, any and all unpaid taxes, tax titles, tax liens, water and sewer liens and any other municipal assessments or liens or existing encumbrances of record which are in force and are applicable, having priority over said mortgage, whether or not reference to such restrictions, easements, improvements, liens or encumbrances is made in the deed.

TERMS OF SALE: The public sale may be adjourned one or more times for a total time not exceeding 30 days, without further court order, and without publication or service of a new notice of sale, by announcement of the new sale date to those present at each adjournment or by posting notice of the adjournment in a conspicuous place at the location of the sale. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or by certified check by the purchaser at the time and place of sale. The balance is to be paid by wire transfer to Demerle & Associates P.C., 10 City Square, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02129 within sixty (60) days after the date the Confirmation Order is entered by the Court. The sale is subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

The mortgagor and all junior lienholders are entitled to redeem the mortgaged property at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Owner Trustee of the Residential Credit Opportunities Trust X-C, Present holder of said mortgage, By its Attorneys, Michael Swain, Esq. Demerle & Associates P.C. 10 City Square, 4th Floor Boston, MA 02129 (617) 337-4444 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.:​ In re ESTATE of James Fortier NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: James Fortier, late of Essex Junction.

I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: June 24. 2026 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Ian M. Fortier Executor/Administrator: Ian M. Fortier 31 Christine Ct, Milton, VT 05468 Phone Number: 802-999-2345 Emil: IFortierVT@gmail.com Name of Publication: Seven Days

Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: 175 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.:​26-PR-03157 In re ESTATE of Vicki Clark

To the creditors of: Vicki Clark, late of Colchester, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: June 4, 2026 Signature of Fiduciary: Executor/Administrator: Deborah Clark, c/o Jeff Wick, 15 Mountview Court, Burlington VT 05401, 802-324-8043, drc48479@yahoo.com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 7/8/26 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: 175 Main St, Burlington, VT 05401 TOWN OF ESSEX RETAINER CONTRACT BID The Town of Essex invites qualified contractors to prepare a bid for a retainer contract with the Town of Essex for heavy construction. A copy of the Request for Bids can be found on the Town’s website at www.essexvt.gov or picked up at the Town Public Works office, 5 Jericho Road, Essex, Vermont. Sealed Bids shall be mailed to the Town of Essex Public Works Department, 81 Main Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452, or submitted by email prior to 10:00 AM on Friday, July 24th, 2026.

Questions and requests for electronic copies of the Request for Bids can be directed to the Town Public Works Office at (802) 878-1344.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO BROWNFIELDS REUSE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY LIMITATION ACT PROGRAM Please take notice that Park Street Housing Limited Partnership whose mailing address is 88 King Street, Burlington VT 05401 , is applying to the Vermont Brownfields Reuse and Environmental Liability Limitation Program (10 V.S.A. §6641 et seq.) in connection with the redevelopment of property known as 255 LaFountain Street in the City of Winooski . A copy of the application, which contains a preliminary environmental assessment and a description of the proposed redevelopment project is available for public review at the City of Winooski Clerk’s Office and at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation offices in Montpelier. Comments concerning the application and/or the above referenced documents may be directed to Kimberly Caldwell at (802) 461-5857 or at kimberly.caldwell@vermont.gov. Comments may also be submitted by mail to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management Division, 1 National Life Drive – Davis 1, Montpelier, VT 05620; attention: Kimberly Caldwell.

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 300002-4 10 V.S.A. §§ 6000 – 6111 Application 300002-4 from Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District, 10 - 20 River Road, Jericho, VT 05465 and Chittenden East School District, P.O. Box 282, Richmond, VT 05477 was

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Legal Notices [CONTINUED] received on June 10, 2026 and deemed complete on June 23, 2026. The project is generally described as installation of a proprietary “Jellyfish” stormwater filter structure along with associated manhole structures and storm sewer modifications. The Project is part of the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Green Schools Initiative and is located at Browns River Middle School, 10 - 20 River Road, in Jericho, Vermont. The application may be viewed on the Land Use Review Board’s website (https://act250.vermont.gov/) by clicking “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “300002-4.”

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before July 22, 2026, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https:// act250.vermont.gov/documents/party-statuspetition-form, and email it to the District 4 Office at: Act250.Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Stephanie H. Monaghan at the address or telephone number below.

Dated this July 1, 2026.

By: /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-261-1944 stephanie.monaghan@vermont.gov IN ACCORDANCE WITH VT TITLE 9 COMMERCE AND TRADE CHAPTER 098: STORAGE UNITS 3905 Enforcement of Lien, Champlain Valley Self Storage,LLC shall host a private auction of the following units on or after August 1, 2026: Contents: household goods Location: 2211 Main St Colchester VT 05446 Jake Nickerson: # 716 Brittany Trayah: #546 Ashleigh tillson: #881 Location: 78 Lincoln St. Essex Jct, VT 05452 Samantha Ducharme: #146 Amy Zdorove: #018 James Lewis: #164 Auction pre-registration is required, email info@ champlainvalleyselfstorage.com to register.

CVSS,llc reserves the right to reject any bid lower than the amount owed by the occupant or that is claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT CASE NO. 26-CV-03694 IN RE: ABANDONED MOBILE HOME RICHARD HOUGH .

Notice Of Hearing A hearing on Woodland Shores Park, RLLP’s verified Complaint to declare the mobile home of Richard Hough located at the Woodland Shores Mobile Home Park (2005 Commodore 14’x72’ with a serial number of CD43951A) on Lot #49, 12 Hawthorne Lane in Colchester, Vermont to authorize the transfer without a public auction, so it may be removed and disposed of, has been set for July 16, 2026 @11:00AM. Date: June 30, 2026 Civil Division Clerk.

VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR ABANDONMENT NOW COMES Woodland Shores Park, RLLP, by and

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through its attorney, Bennett & Zaikowski, P.C., and hereby makes this their complaint: 1. Woodland Shores Park, RLLP is a Vermont Registered Limited Liability Partnership which is the record owner of a mobile home park known as Woodland Shores Mobile Home Park, located in the Town of Colchester, Vermont (“the Park”).

2. Woodland Shores Park, RLLP is a duly authorized Vermont Registered Limited Liability Partnership with a principal place of business in Colchester, Chittenden County, Vermont. (“Woodland Shores”) 3. Richard Hough (“Hough”) is the owner of a certain mobile home, described as a 2005 Commodore 14’ x 72’ with a serial number of CD43951A, (the “Mobile Home”), located on a lot at the Park. Exhibit 1.

4. Upon information and belief, “Hough” is deceased and no estate has been opened.

5. The last known mailing addresses for “Hough” are 12 Hawthorne Lane, Lot 49, Colchester Vermont, 05446 and P.O. Box 3051, Burlington, Vermont, 05408.

6. “Hough” leased a lot in the Park from Woodland Shores under the terms of a Lease Agreement and occupied the mobile home lot known as 12 Hawthorne Lane, Lot 49, Colchester, Vermont, 05446. Exhibit 2.

7. The mobile home has been abandoned. The last known resident at the mobile home was Richard Hough.

8. The following security interests, mortgages, liens and encumbrances appear of record with respect to the mobile home: a. Upon information and belief, Richard Hough is in arrears on obligations to pay property taxes to the Town of Colchester, Vermont.

9. Upon information and belief, the mobile home is unfit for human habitation due to the following issues: a. The heating system is not functioning; b. Upon information and belief, the home was not winterized after the occupant vacated; 10. Uriah Wallace is a person disinterested in the mobile home or mobile home park who is able to sell the mobile home at a public auction.

11. The last known employer of “Hough” is unknown.

12. Lot rent has not been paid since May 1, 2023 and the outstanding amount owed since May 1, 2023 is $20,631.61 through June 2026.

13. Woodland Shores sent written notice to the Town Clerk of the Town of Colchester on May 15, 2026, of Plaintiff’s intent to commence this action.

See copy of certified letter to Julie Graeter dated May 15, 2026, attached as Exhibit 3.

14. Woodland Shores sent written notice to the Treasurer of the Town of Colchester on May 15, 2026, of Plaintiff’s intent to commence this action.

See copy of certified letter to Julie Graeter dated May 15, 2026, attached as Exhibit 4.

15. Woodland Shores sent written notice to the Owner of the Home and most recent occupant, Richard Hough, at his mailing address on May 15, 2026 of Plaintiff’s intent to commence this action.

See copy of certified letter to dated May 15, 2026, attached as Exhibit 5.

16. Woodland Shores sent written notice to the Owner of the Home and most recent occupant, Richard Hough, at his mobile home on May 15, 2026 of Plaintiff’s intent to commence this action.

See copy of certified letter to dated May 15, 2026, attached as Exhibit 6.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff respectfully requests that the Honorable Court enter an order in Plaintiff’s favor as follows: 1. Declaring that the mobile home has been abandoned and is unfit for habitation; 2. Granting judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against the mobile home owner for past due and unpaid rent through the date of judgment, together with Plaintiff’s court costs, publication and mailing costs, and Plaintiff’s counsel fees incurred in connection with this matter.

3. Approving transfer of the Woodland Shores Park, RLLP pursuant to 10 V.S.A. §6249(i).

4. In the alternative to (3) if the home is found fit for human habitation, approving the sale of the mobile home at a public auction to be held within 15 days of the date of judgment, pursuant to 10 V.S.A. §6249(h).

DATED June 29, 2026 Woodland Shores Park, RLLP Angela N. Zaikowski Attorney for Woodland Shores

I declare that the above statement is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief. I understand that if the above statement is false, I will be subject to the penalty of perjury.

June 19, 2026 BY: Dieter Mulac Duly Authorized Agent for Woodland Shores STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 26-PR-00647 In re ESTATE of Gary Newton NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: Gary Newton, late of Colchester.

I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: 6/30/2026 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Laurie Newton Executor/Administrator: Laurie Newton 31 Chestnut Lane Colchester VT 05446 Phone Number: 802-373-5264 Email: lnewton@ccmsi.com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 7/8/26 Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Probate Division Address of Probate Court: 175 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION CASE NO. 26-CV-03648 Date: June 26, 2026 NOTICE OF HEARING IN RE: Abandoned Mobile Home of North Avenue Cooperative This is to notify you to appear at the Court named above in connection with the above-named case on: DATE: July 23, 2026 TIME: 8:30 AM DURATION: 15 Minutes HEARING RE: Complaint – Declare Mobile Home as Abandoned A hearing on North Avenue Cooperative, Inc.’s verified complaint to declare abandoned the mobile home of Brittany Kivela (1994 Champion Titan Riverbirch Mobile Home, Serial #9339 consisting of 980 square feet) located at the North Avenue Mobile Home Park, 48 Avenue C in Burlington, Vermont to authorize the transfer without a public auction, so it may be removed and disposed of, has been set for Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:30AM. “YOU MAY ATTEND THIS HEARING IN PERSON AT THE COURTHOUSE OR REMOTELY. See attached instructions for remote appearance.”

Electronically signed Friday, June 26, 2026 pursuant to V.R.E.F. 9(d) Nancy L. Bean Judicial Assistant – Chittenden Civil Division Vermont Superior Court 175 Main Street Burlington, Vermont 05401 Any individual with a disability requiring assistance accessing the services, programs, and/or activities at the Courthouse should contact the Clerk’s office at the above address for further assistance.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO: PENDING IN RE: ABANDONED MOBILE HOME OF BRITTANY KIVELA VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR ABANDONMENT PURSUANT TO 10 V.S.A. 62497) (UNINHABITABLE) NOW COMES Plaintiff North Avenue Cooperative, Inc. by and through its counsel Brian P. Creech, Esq. of Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C., and hereby makes this complaint: 1. Plaintiff North Avenue Cooperative, Inc. is a Vermont Cooperative Housing Corporation which was formed by the owners of mobile homes to own and manage the North Avenue Mobile Home Park (the “Park”).

2. Brittany Kivela (the “Defendant”) is the record owner of a certain 1994 Champion Titan Riverbirch mobile home, Serial Number 9339, with a total of 980 square feet (the “Mobile Home’) located in the Park at 48 Avenue C in Burlington, Vermont (the “Lot”).

3. Defendant’s last known mailing address is P.O. Box 5713, Burlington, VT 05402.

4, Defendant leased a lot in the Park under the terms of a written uniform Mobile Home Lot Lease.

Plaintiff has determined, pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6248, that Defendant has abandoned the Mobile Home because it is under a reasonable belief that the Mobile Home is not being occupied as a residence, rent for the Lot is at least 30 days delinquent, and Plaintiff has contacted the owner and determined that she has abandoned the Mobile Home. See Confirmation of Abandonment of Mobile Home Pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6248 attached hereto as Exhibit 1; see also § 8 below; Affidavit of Timothy Seagroves filed concurrently herewith (the “Affidavit”).

5. The last known resident at the Mobile Home was Defendant Brittany Kivela.

6. No liens or encumbrances appear of record with respect to the mobile home.

7. The Mobile Home is unsafe and unfit for habitation. The Affidavit, filed herewith, verifies the uninhabitable condition of the Mobile Home.

8. Mobile Home Lot rent has not been paid since September 2025 and continues to accrue at the rate of $435.00 per month. Rent owed to North Avenue Cooperative, Inc. as of June 16, 2026, totals $4,600.00. A true and accurate statement of amounts owed is attached as Exhibit 2. Court costs and attorneys’ fees incurred by North Avenue Cooperative, Inc. continue to accrue.

9. Plaintiff sent written notice by certified mail to the Burlington City Clerk on May 27, 2026 of Plaintiff’s intent to commence this action, as required by 10 V.S.A. § 6248(b). A true and accurate copy of said notice, along with proof of delivery, is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff respectfully requests that the Honorable Court enter an order as follows: 1. Declaring that the mobile home has been abandoned; 2. Declaring that the mobile home is unfit for human habitation pursuant to 10V.S.A. §6249(i);3.

Approving transfer of the mobile home to the Plaintiff without a public sale in “as is” condition, free and clear of all liens, taxes and all other encumbrances of record pursuant to 10 V.S.A. 6249(j).Y) DATED AT Burlington, this 25th day of June 2026.

NORTH AVENUE COOPERATIVE, INC. /s/ Brian P. Creech BY: Brian P. Creech, Esq. Sheehey Furlong & Behm, P.C. 30 Main Street, 6” Floor P.O. Box 66 Burlington, VT 05402 (802) 863-9603 bcreech@sheeheyvt.com Attorneys for North Avenue Cooperative, Inc. I understand that the statements in the above Complaint are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief.

DATED AT Burlington, Vermont this 25th day of June 2026. /s/ Timothy Seagroves

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Timothy Seagroves, Duly Authorized Agent of NORTH AVENUE COOPERATIVE, INC. STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS At Burlington, in said County and State, this 25th day of June 2026, personally appeared Timothy Seagroves, Duly Authorized Agent of North Avenue Cooperative,Inc., and he swore to the truth of the foregoing.

Before me, /s/Brian P. Creech Brian P. Creech Notary Public Commission Expires: 01/31/2027 Commission Number: 1570008326

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Dated: July 2, 2026 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Cheryl Carmi Executor/Administrator: Cheryl Carmi 28 East Village Drive, Burlington VT 05401 Phone Number: 802-557-0228 Email: carmicheryl@gmail.com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 7/8/26 Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: 175 Main St, Burlington, VT 05401

Application 4C0550-7C-1 from 120 Catamount Dr LLC, PO Box 3394, Burlington, VT 05408 and JMPiche Properties LLC, 61 White Pine Road, Fairfax, VT 05454 was received on June 8, 2026 and deemed complete on June 25, 2026. The project specifically authorizes an 8,976 square foot (SF) expansion to the east side of the existing building, with associated parking, walks, utilities, stormwater treatment, and landscaping located on Lot 13A of the Catamount Industrial Park. The building expansion was previously permitted under 4C0550-7C, but was not constructed and the construction deadline has now expired. This permit also includes after-the-fact approval for a 336 SF loading dock expansion and associated driveway on the north side of the building. The building and the proposed expansion use will remain a commercial/warehouse use. The project is located at 120 Catamount Drive in Milton, Vermont. The application may be viewed on the Land Use Review Board’s website (https://act250.vermont.gov/) by clicking “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0550-7C-1.”

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT CASE NO. 26-CV-03738 IN RE: ABANDONED MOBILE HOME WILLARD TURNER.

For more information contact Kaitlin Hayes at the address or telephone number below.

Dated this July 1, 2026.

By: /s/ Kaitlin Hayes Kaitlin Hayes District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 (802) 622-4084 kaitlin.hayes@vermont.gov STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.:​25-PR-06444 In re ESTATE of Virginia Hobbs NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the Creditors of: Virginia Hobbs, late of Burlington, Vermont.

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estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C0550-7C-1 10 V.S.A. §§ 6000 – 6111

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before July 22, 2026, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https:// act250.vermont.gov/documents/party-statuspetition-form, and email it to the District 4 Office at: Act250.Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

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Notice Of Hearing A hearing on Woodland Shores Park, RLLP’s verified Complaint to declare abandoned the mobile home of Willard Turner located at the Woodland Shores Mobile Home Park, Lot#32, 59 Hawthorne Lane, Colchester, Vermont to authorize the transfer without a public auction, so it may be removed and disposed of, has been set for July 16, 2026 @11:15AM. Date: July 2, 2026 Civil Division Clerk.

VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR ABANDONMENT NOW COMES Woodland Shores Park, RLLP, by and through its attorney, Bennett & Zaikowski, P.C., and hereby makes this their complaint: 1. Woodland Shores Park, RLLP is a Vermont Registered Limited Liability Partnership which is the record owner of a mobile home park known as Woodland Shores Mobile Home Park, located in the Town of Colchester, Vermont (“the Park”).

2. Woodland Shores Park, RLLP is a duly authorized Vermont Registered Limited Liability Partnership with a principal place of business in Colchester, Chittenden County,Vermont. (“Woodland Shores”) 3. Willard Turner (“Turner”) is the owner of a certain mobile home (the “Mobile Home”), located on a lot at the Park. Exhibit 1.

4. Upon information and belief, “Turner” is deceased and no estate has been opened.

5. The last known mailing addresses for “Turner” are 35 Youngs Road, Westport, New York 12993 and P.O. Box 103, Essex Junction, Vermont, 05452.

6. “Turner” leased a lot in the Park from Woodland Shores under the terms of a Lease Agreement and occupied the mobile home lot known as 59 Hawthorne Lane, Lot 32, Colchester, Vermont, 05446. Exhibit 2.

7. The mobile home has been abandoned. The last known resident at the mobile home was Willard Turner.

8. The following security interests, mortgages, liens and encumbrances appear of record with respect to the mobile home: a. Upon information and belief, Willard Turner is in arrears on obligations to pay property taxes to the Town of Colchester, Vermont.

9. Upon information and belief, the mobile home is unfit for human habitation due to the following issues: a. The heating system is not functioning; b. Upon information and belief, the home was not winterized after the occupant vacated; c. Pipes have frozen in the mobile home and caused damage to the structural integrity of the home; 10. Uriah Wallace is a person disinterested in the mobile home or mobile home park who is able to sell the mobile home at a public auction.

11. The last known employer of “Turner” is unknown.

12. Lot rent has not been paid since September 2017 and the outstanding amount owed since is $45,713.00 through June 2026.

13. Woodland Shores sent written notice to the Town Clerk of the Town of Colchester on May 15, 2026, of Plaintiff’s intent to commence this action.

See copy of certified letter to Julie Graeter dated May 15, 2026, attached as Exhibit 3.

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14. Woodland Shores sent written notice to the Treasurer of the Town of Colchester on May 15, 2026, of Plaintiff’s intent to commence this action.

See copy of certified letter to Julie Graeter dated May 15, 2026, attached as Exhibit 4.

15. Woodland Shores sent written notice to the Owner of the Home and most recent occupant, Willard Turner, at his last known address on May 15, 2026, of Plaintiff’s intent to commence this action.

See copy of certified letter dated May 15, 2026, attached as Exhibit 5.

16. Woodland Shores sent written notice to the Owner of the Home and most recent occupant, Willard Turner, at his mailing address on May 15, 2026 of Plaintiff’s intent to commence this action.

See copy of certified letter dated May 15, 2026, attached as Exhibit 6.

17. Woodland Shores sent written notice to the Owner of the Home and most recent occupant, Willard Turner, at his mobile home on May 15, 2026 of Plaintiff’s intent to commence this action.

See copy of certified letter dated May 15, 2026, attached as Exhibit 7.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff respectfully requests that the Honorable Court enter an order in Plaintiff’s favor as follows: 1. Declaring that the mobile home has been abandoned and is unfit for habitation; 2. Granting judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against the mobile home owner for past due and unpaid rent through the date of judgment, together with Plaintiff’s court costs, publication and mailing costs, and Plaintiff’s counsel fees incurred in connection with this matter.

3. Approving transfer of the Woodland Shores Park, RLLP pursuant to 10 V.S.A.§6249(i).

4. In the alternative to (3) if the home is found fit for human habitation, approving the sale of the mobile home at a public auction to be held within 15 days of the date of judgment, pursuant to 10 V.S.A. §6249(h).

DATED June 29, 2026 Woodland Shores Park, RLLP Angela N. Zaikowski Attorney for Woodland Shores I declare that the above statement is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief. I understand that if the above statement is false, I will be subject to the penalty of perjury.

June 30, 2026 BY: Dieter Mulac Duly Authorized Agent for Woodland Shores STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION WINDSOR UNIT DOCKET NO.:​23-PR-03318

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C0711-1 10 V.S.A. §§ 6000 – 6111 Application 4C0711-1 from Lake Forest at Oakledge Condominium Homeowners Association, Inc., Attn: Bradley Hurlburt, 736 Nighthawk Way, North Palm Beach, FL 33408 was received on April 15, 2026 and deemed complete on June 29, 2026. The project is generally described as stormwater improvements at the Lake Forest Condominium property including the expansion of a stormwater wet detention pond to accommodate drainage from an east-west stream, and the retrofit of two smaller existing ponds into forebays prior to draining into the detention pond. The project is located at Lake Forest Drive in Burlington, Vermont. The application may be viewed on the Land Use Review Board’s website (https://act250.vermont.gov/) by clicking “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0711-1.”

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before July 28, 2026, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https:// act250.vermont.gov/documents/party-statuspetition-form, and email it to the District 4 Office at: Act250.Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

For more information contact Stephanie H. Monaghan at the address or telephone number below.

Dated this July 6, 2026.

By: /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-261-1944 stephanie.monaghan@vermont.gov

In re ESTATE of Letitia Ellis

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To the creditors of: Letitia Ellis I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: Thursday, January 22, 2026 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Robin Ellis Driscoll Executor/Administrator: Robin Ellis Driscoll P.O. Box 66, Burlington VT 05402 802-865-6326 acusick-loecher@sheeheyvt.com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 7/8/26 Name of Probate Court: Windsor Probate Division Address of Probate Court: 12 The Green, Woodstock VT 05091

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The plan is organized around three interconnected frameworks: Transportation, Urban Design, and Placemaking. Together, these frameworks are supported by an implementation strategy that

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identifies short-, medium-, and long-term actions to advance the plan’s vision of a more connected, inclusive, and sustainable New North End where residents can more easily access housing, services, recreation, and other daily needs within their own neighborhood Geographic areas affected: While planBTV New North End strategies are largely limited to the area of Burlington north of Institute Road and North Avenue, the plan also has potential impacts on all of Burlington and the surrounding region.

Support Groups A CIRCLE OF PARENTS SUPPORT GROUPS Please join our professionally facilitated peer-led support groups designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes! Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt.org/ family-support-programs.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, that’s ours. Call the Vermont statewide anonymous hotline: 802-802-2288.

Alcoholics Anonymous holds daily meetings all over Vermont, both in person & online. For meetings & events throughout Vermont, see aavt.org.

ANXIETY RELIEF GROUP Anxiety Relief Group is a safe setting for relaxing & exploring your feelings w/ others through gentle socialization & self-expression, building up what makes you centered & strong. Wed., 4-5:30 p.m.

Both in-person & Zoom options avail. In-person meetings are held at the Fletcher Free Library’s Fletcher Room in Burlington. Email us for the Zoom link & more info: pvcc@pathwaysvermont.org.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP Vermont Center for Independent Living offers virtual monthly meetings, held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m. 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. To join, email Linda Meleady at lindam@vcil.org & ask to be put on the TBI mailing list. Info: 800-639-1522.

BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR DRAGON BOAT TEAM Looking for a fun way to do something active & health-giving? Want to connect w/ other breast cancer survivors? Come join Dragonheart Vermont.

We are a breast cancer survivor & supporter dragon boat team who paddle together in Burlington.

Please contact us at info@dragonheartvermont. org for info.

CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SUICIDE Conversations About Suicide is a judgment-free & open space to talk about personal experiences of suicidal ideation. The group is facilitated by peer support staff w/ lived experience of suicidality.

Thu., 4-5 p.m., at Vermont Wellness Collaborative, 125 College St., 3rd Floor, Burlington. Email us for more info: pvcc@pathwaysvermont.org.

FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families Coping With Addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults (18+) struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step-based but provides a forum for those living the family experience, in which to develop personal coping skills & to draw strength from one another. Our group meets every Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m., live in person in the conference room at the Turning Point Center of Chittenden County (179 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington), &/or via our parallel Zoom session to

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accommodate those who cannot attend in person.

The Zoom link can be found on the Turning Point Center website (turningpointcentervt.org) using the “Family Support” tab (click on “What We Offer”).

Any questions, please send by email to tdauben@ aol.com.

HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice-hearing experiences as real lived experiences that may happen to anyone at any time. We choose to share experiences, support & empathy. We validate anyone’s experience & stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest & accurate representation of their experience, & as being acceptable exactly as they are. Tue., 2:30-4 p.m. Vermont Wellness Collaborative, 125 College St., 3rd Floor, Burlington.

Email us for more information: pvcc@pathways vermont.org.

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

LIVING THROUGH LOSS The Volunteer Chaplaincy Program of Gifford Medical Center sponsors a weekly meeting of its “Living Through Loss” grief support group. Anyone who has experienced a significant loss over the past year or so is warmly invited to attend the free weekly meetings every Fri., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

For info, contact the Rev. Tim Eberhardt, Gifford’s spiritual care coordinator, at 802-728-2107.

NARCANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every Mon. at 7 p.m., at the Turning Point Center, 179 S. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H., 338-8106.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Narcotics Anonymous is a group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Held in Burlington, St Albans, Morrisville, Barre & Stowe.

Info, 833-436-6166 or cvana.org.

NEW (& EXPECTING) MAMAS & PAPAS & EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY Drop-in play every day: The Children’s Room in Waterbury is open Mon.-Fri. for anyone w/children ages 0-6 to come & play. Check the TCR calendar for hours & school closure days. Caregiver & Baby Circle: Weekly drop-in on Mon., 11 a.m., at the Children’s Room. We are pleased to offer a weekly gathering for babies (0-18 mos.) & their caregivers,

List of section headings affected: planBTV New North End is to be incorporated by reference into planBTV: Comprehensive Plan (2019) as well as planBTV 2050 once adopted.

The full text of the draft planBTV New North End is available online at www.burlingtonvt.gov/planbtv/ nne. The proposed plan can be reviewed in hard copy posted on the third floor of City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington.

origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability, HIV positive status, crime victim status or genetic information. The City is also committed to providing proper access to services, facilities, and employment opportunities. For accessibility information or alternative formats, please contact the City Planning department or 711 if you are hearing or speech impaired.

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sponsored by Good Beginnings & hosted by the Children’s Room. Nature Explorations: Tue., 10-11:30 a.m., at various trailheads in the area.

Get outside for some fresh air & fun! Every week we go to a different trailhead or natural area to explore. Ages 0-6; carriers are helpful for little ones. Email childrensroom@huusd.org to sign up; enrollment is always open. Music & Movement: drop-in, Wed., 10:30-11:30 a.m., at the Children’s Room in Brookside Primary School. We begin by singing songs & moving together & allow time at the end to play w/ instruments, as well as time for adults & kids to socialize. Ages 0-6. Exploration & Art Fridays: drop-in, Fri., anytime from 9 a.m.-noon at the Children’s Room in Brookside Primary School. We’ll be engaging in different hands-on explorations & using various mediums every week — sometimes combined. Come to TCR to explore, play & create! For info, email childrensroom@ huusd.org.

PARKINSON’S MUTUAL AID GROUP For individuals & caregivers dealing w/ the challenges of Parkinson’s, we meet to share resources & practical ideas for improving quality of life.

This in-person group is free & open to the public.

Every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 2-3 p.m., at the Old Meeting House, 1620 Center Rd., East Montpelier.

Please contact admin@oldmeetinghouse.org or 229-9593.

RECOVERY DHARMA Recovery Dharma uses Buddhist practices & principles to help people recover from all kinds of addictions & addictive behaviors. This peer-led, nontheistic group offers opportunities to deepen understanding, explore personal inquiry & connect w/ others. We meet every Wed., 6-7 p.m., at the First United Methodist Church in Burlington (the Red Door Church, 21 Buell St.). Enter through the administrative office door (at far left when viewed from Buell St.). We also meet on Thu., 1-2 p.m., at the Turning Point Center, 179 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. No meditation experience required; all are welcome. Email rd.burlington.vt@gmail.com for more info.

SMART RECOVERY SMART Recovery is a mutual support group where, through open confidential discussion, we help each other & ourselves w/ recovery from any type of addictive behavior. Regardless of whether your recovery goals include abstinence, reduction in use, or harm reduction, you are welcome here. You determine your goals; SMART provides tools & support to help you achieve them.Our approach uses self-empowering skills that help you build & maintain motivation; cope w/ urges; manage thoughts, feelings & behaviors; & live a balanced life. For the latest information about in-person & online groups, go to meetings.smartrecovery.org.

SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Info: Visit slaafws.org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence.

Groups are avail. for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 864-0555, ext. 19, or email our victim advocate at advocate@sover. net. Visit hopeworksvt.com for more info.

STEPS SUPPORT GROUP Steps offers a weekly support group w/ drop-in options for those who have experienced or who have been affected by domestic violence. Women’s Support Group meets virtually every Tue., 5-6:30 p.m. Gender Inclusive Support Group meets virtually every Thu., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Both groups offer a safe, supportive & confidential place to connect w/ others, heal & recover. For more info, call us at 658-1996 or email steps@stepsvt.org.

STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS We offer 3 monthly National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups for adults, teens & school-age children (7-12). Meetings take place monthly at UVM & by Zoom. Contact burlington stutters@gmail.com for more information.

SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 257-7989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 2290591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN Group for women who have experienced intimate partner abuse. Facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only). Please call 877-543-9498 for more info.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: S. BURLINGTON This group is for people experiencing the impact of the loss of a loved one to suicide. 1st Wed. of each mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 3 Dorset St., S. Burlington. Info: Bob Purvee at 922-4283 or ripurvee1@yahoo.com, or Aya Kuki at 881-3606 or ayakokuki@gmail.com.

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings & families grieving the loss of a child meets the 4th Tue. of every mo., 7-8:30 p.m., at St. John Vianney Catholic Church, 160 Hinesburg Rd., S. Burlington. Call/email Alan at 802-233-0544, alanday88@gmail.com, or call Claire at 802-448-3569.

TRANS PARENT GROUP This support group is for adult family members & caregivers of queer &/or questioning youths. It is held on the 1st Mon. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., online; & on the 3rd Mon. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at Outright Vermont, 241 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. This group is for adults only. For more info, email info@outrightvt.org.

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Sous Chef Music Director/ Organist Shelburne United Methodist Church (Shelburne VT) is seeking a Music Director/Organist, whose role in our faith community will be to strengthen the music ministry as a key aspect of our worship services. Responsibilities include collaboratively planning music for worship services (four-manual pipe-digital organ & piano), playing and leading congregational hymns, and directing the adult choir. This is a part-time position (10-12 hours/week).

For a full job description including application requirements, please email Shelburne UMC at office@shelburneumc.org with the subject line: “Music Director/Organist Position.”

Application deadline: July 18, 2026.

Fiscal Analyst Vermont Joint Fiscal Office (JFO) is seeking a motivated professional for the position of Fiscal Analyst.

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Mad River Barn, Waitsfield, VT Full-Time | Year-Round Join the Team at Mad River Barn! Mad River Barn is a beloved destination in the Mad River Valley, offering a seasonal restaurant and full service catering operation. We take pride in serving high-quality food in a welcoming atmosphere while creating memorable dining experiences for both restaurant guests and catered events.

We're looking for an experienced, motivated Sous Chef who is passionate about great food, strong teamwork, and kitchen leadership. This is an opportunity to help lead a talented culinary team in one of Vermont's most beautiful communities.

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Seeking a Part-Time Town Administrator Assistant The Town of Charlotte, a vibrant rural community of approximately 3,800 residents located on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, is seeking a motivated and versatile professional to serve as Town Administrator Assistant.

Working under the direction of the Town Administrator, this part-time position performs a broad range of administrative, planning, and technical work in support of Town government operations. The successful candidate will act as a liaison between Town officials, staff, and the public, and will play an active role in grant administration, records management, budget support, and special projects.

Food Rescue Coordinator

Benefits eligible. 24 to 32 hours per week. $24-$27/hr DOE. The Town of Charlotte is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Feeding Champlain Valley has an immediate opening for a Food Rescue Coordinator. In this role you will be responsible for driving vehicles to coordinate food rescue; soliciting food donations 4t-TownofCharlotte070826.indd 1 7/6/26 10:53 AM and picking up food from supermarkets and food providers on a regular basis. You will work closely with a team to ensure the The Secure Housing Coach helps people from historically marginalized and site remains clean and organized and that food is handled safely; underserved communities navigate Vermont’s housing systems with dignity, clarutilize fork lift, pallet jacks and other warehouse equipment as ity, and care. The Land Access Opportunity Board (LAOB) is hiring three full-time required to move products. coaches to provide one-on-one, trauma-informed, culturally responsive support Starting pay is $23.65 per hour. as participants work toward secure housing based on their own goals.

Requirements: If you have a high school diploma or equivalent; In this role, you will help participants navigate housing programs, connect experience in a warehouse environment or food systems work; with housing and community resources, coordinate referrals for related experience with fork truck (certification preferred); effective needs, and advocate through complex systems. You will also work with verbal and written communication skills, (bilingual abilities are a partners across Vermont, contribute to a cohort of fellow coaches, and help plus); a valid driver’s license, a clean driving record and access to identify barriers so systems can better serve communities. The position is reliable transportation; ability to uphold established health and based in Montpelier, with some remote work possible, and offers a $75,000 safety procedures; we’d like to hear from you! salary plus comprehensive benefits. Experience in social services, case management, housing navigation, trauma-informed practice, and/or work Interested in working with us? Visit the CVOEO with marginalized communities is preferred.

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Position Overview: The Director of Government Relations for the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (VAHHS) serves as the advocate for Vermont’s hospitals before state and federal policymakers. This role is responsible for shaping and advancing public policy initiatives that strengthen Vermont’s health care system, support member hospitals, and promote high-quality, accessible patient care across the state.

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CANCER (JUN. 21-JUL. 22)

Male humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean change their songs over the years. New phrases can spread across thousands of miles as other whales take up and transform them. Researchers don’t know why, but the pattern is clear: The whales value novelty even in their ancient rituals. They create an evolving musical tradition. Consider what this practice might suggest for your own relationship with the past, Cancerian. The memories and patterns you’re carrying don’t have to remain frozen. You can honor your history while remixing it, adding new verses and changing the key. What needs to be preserved isn’t the exact form but the living spirit.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): There are only two types of humans, right? Some of us serve beauty, truth and goodness, while the rest pledge their allegiance to illusions, lies and shadows. Our planet is now caught in a colossal showdown between these two sides. And it’s high time for you to align yourself with one or the other. JUST KIDDING! The truth is far messier and more interesting: Every one of us is a blend of luminosity and ignorance. And now is a perfect moment to study how those two currents move within you. When you clearly see how you contribute to the murky jumble, your commitment to love, harmony and justice will soar.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): You’ll move with style and purpose if you take quick

jaunts, dare gentle risks and make a few nimble leaps of faith. You’ll go awry and astray if you wander too far afield, chase swaggering adventures or try vaulting across yawning chasms. Keep it light, sharp and intuitive, Taurus. Refrain from lugging heavy emotional baggage or drifting into daydream limbo. It’ll be wise to trust your sprightly impulses but foolish to dissect them so ruthlessly that the magic leaks out. The color amber and the number three will be your allies. Somber gray and the number four will not. Align with sly visionaries and soulful realists but sidestep bitter contrarians and nostalgic clingers.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): I swear I’m smarter in some places than in others. My intelligence soars in Barcelona; Kyoto; Aixen-Provence, France; and Florence, Italy. But I seem dull-witted in Munich, Moscow and Washington, D.C. Even in Northern California, my longtime home, some areas bring out the best in me. I feel mediocre on Valencia Street in San Francisco, for instance, whereas I’m extra wise in downtown Berkeley. Why is this? The branch of astrology known as astrocartography says that my strengths are more likely to shine in certain spots than others. In the coming weeks, Gemini, I urge you to experiment with the possibility that this may be true for you, as well. Wander far and wide. Find out where you feel most aligned with your deep, bright, genuine self.

LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): Leo-born oceanographer Marie Tharp created the first comprehensive maps of the ocean floor. Her work was pivotal in proving theories about plate tectonics. She did much of this work in the 1950s, when women weren’t even allowed aboard research vessels. She had to rely on data collected by others, never seeing the terrain she mapped. But her limitation became her advantage; distance allowed her to perceive patterns that field researchers missed. I suspect that you, too, are working with incomplete information, Leo. Does this disqualify you from drawing conclusions?

No! I believe your inability to access certain details will compel you to see larger patterns.

What you’re missing might be precisely what enables you to see what others can’t.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): The “problem” confronting you right now is unusual: Your vision is too sharp, your thinking too precise and your words too unambiguous. This would usually be good news to celebrate, but at the moment it’s blocking you from noticing the subtle openings life is presenting. Those portals may only reveal themselves if you soften your intense scrutiny and call on a creative, blurry logic. It’s like how, at night, you sometimes see more clearly when you peer from the edges of your vision rather than staring straight ahead.

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): This is a perfect moment to express your own unique power more than ever before. I invite you to act with conviction, assert your influence and claim what you’ve earned. For best results, clarify your ambitions and assert your authority.

Write down a formal vow or two. Don’t wait for approval from anyone higher up, and don’t waste time wondering whether destiny is on your side. The succulent opportunities aren’t somewhere else or someday later. They’re here and now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m exultant

when a vigorous bike ride up the trail of my local mountain leaves me so cleansed and energized that a flash of truth strikes and instantly dissipates the illusions I’ve been clinging to. I get a delightful shock when, while wandering through a city’s maze of asphalt and litter, a sudden breeze carries the earthy aroma of a rebellious garden. I love it when the reckless choices of misguided leaders jolt my community into doubling down on our quest for audacious harmony, inventive affection and untamed wisdom. How about you, dear Scorpio? Where do you search for your awakenings and salvations? Keep your inner radar tuned; they’re circling close.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Sagittarian physicist Freeman Dyson (19232020) proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations might build megastructures around stars to capture their energy. These “Dyson spheres” would be detectable from Earth as unusual infrared signatures.

We haven’t found any yet, but his idea revolutionized how we think about looking for

alien intelligence. Moral of the story: Valuable contributions can come from inventing the framework for how to search for unknown things. In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, you might not solve problems, but you could redesign the questions. You may not find the answers, but you could create better tools for exploration.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Do you

have a muse? If not, please find one. You shouldn’t go another day without a provocative, inspiring presence to stir your imagination and drive you deliciously wild. If you already have a muse and that genius has been faithfully fueling your creative fire, bestow a reward. Give a gift or blessing that provides a muse-like boost to your muse. And if your existing muse has grown quiet lately, go off on an adventure together. Dream up plans to stimulate the bursts of kaleidoscopic energy that you two are capable of generating.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In some monastic traditions, practitioners engage in “work prayer.” They transform ordinary labor into spiritual practice not by thinking holy thoughts while working but by bringing complete presence and fond attention to ordinary labors. Chopping vegetables becomes meditation. Sweeping floors becomes devotion. The sacredness arises from their wholehearted attitude. This would be an excellent experiment for you to try, Aquarius.

Divine solace and inspiration will arrive as you perform your daily duties with verve and gratitude. Try this: For a few days or even two weeks, approach routine duties and familiar obligations with a ceremonial reverence. Be joyful for the privilege of being alive in the most ordinary ways.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): You’ve entered a phase when your magnetism and charisma will expand as you focus on ruminating deeply about what’s most meaningful to you. Seeking out new teachers and fresh lessons will bring lucky breaks and helpful influences into your sphere. Each fresh insight will polish your allure, and every surge of curiosity will add to your glow. Be extra sexy and ultra smart: Cosmic energies will work in your favor as you weave your id and intellect together.

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PRETTY LADY ON MOTORBIKE You: Sitting pretty on your motorbike slightly after 5 p.m. at the south end of the intersection, waiting for the light to change. Me: On the northeast corner, waiting in the shade for the crosswalk signal, thinking: My goodness, that woman on that motorbike looks sweet.

I’ve seen you before and know that you look good off your motorbike, too.

When: Friday, July 3, 2026. Where: intersection of North St. and Elmwood.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #916620 DRUM SO LOW Dearest Lone Star, what do you call a freshwater crustacean’s parasitic, arachnid girlfriend? (Or, what do you call that parasite after it gets pinched in the North Branch River?) You: cool earrings, musing about fruit with butts.

Me: trying to be a helpful guy about town. Find me at the Queer Arts Fest in a cute pink vest! When: Saturday, June 27, 2026. Where: Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Genderqueer. #916619 SAID YOU LOOKED BEAUTIFUL Felt weird about, as it’s like a driveby compliment, but for some reason I felt compelled to do it. Hopefully that was OK. Would be fun if there was a mutual connection. Very — compelling — looking. When: Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Where: Essex. You: Nonbinary person. Me: Man. #916618 TWO TURTLES TATTOOS It was 6:30 p.m. Your hair was wavy and a little wet; you had a beach towel wrapped around you. I should have come said something before I got in the checkout line. Two turtle tats on your left arm. No way you see this. When: Monday, June 29, 2026. Where: City Market South End. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916617

PRODUCE SECTION ATTRACTION Around 5 p.m. you approached me to tell me you found me attractive. I shared that I found you attractive, too.

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You: Man. Me: Woman. #916616

ROSEWOOD GUEST AND STAFF S., M., J., I., J. and K.: Thank you for the ways in which you supported and encouraged me during my stay. It makes me sad to know our paths will never cross again. I hope you’re all able to find continued healing, support and companionship on this journey called life. Be well, Sarah. When: Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Where: Rosewood.

You: Group. Me: Woman. #916611

M. AND J. You both felt like my brothers. M., I hope you had an amazing time visiting your friend; I found myself wanting to hear all about your trip. J., thank you for the wonderful, supportive and intelligent conversation about neurodiversity. May you both always have exactly what you need and want out of life. Be well, Sarah. When: Tuesday, June 16, 2026. Where: Rosewood.

You: Group. Me: Woman. #916615

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I didn’t notice exactly what you were shopping for, but if you ever wanted to get together for coffee (or peanut butter), I am available. When: Sunday, June 21, 2026. Where: Hunger Mountain Co-op. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916610

DAD AND DAUGHTER Yesterday your daughter approached me as I sat on a bench by the river. She began talking to me, but I haven’t been myself at all lately thanks to a woman who’s been spreading vicious lies about me. This morning your daughter blew bubbles for me with her fabulous new bubble wand, and it made my day.

Thank you both. When: Sunday, June 28, 2026. Where: the Winooski River.

You: Group. Me: Woman. #916614 LAST SEEN DANCING You: male, leather hat, great smile.

Me: female, red-and-pink floral dress.

We danced a lot and had a good time.

I left before the break and wished I had gotten your phone number. Will you be at the dance in Montpelier?

See you there? When: Friday, June 26, 2026. Where: Shelburne contra dance.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #916613

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Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

My condo complex has a pool that I enjoy using in the summer.

There’s a rule that children under 12 are supposed to have adult supervision, but there are often younger kids there with no adult in sight. They are usually well behaved and seem to know how to swim, but I know accidents can happen

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You: Woman. Me: Man. #916612

in the blink of an eye.

When I’m the only adult there, I feel like I have to watch them.

I know they aren’t my responsibility, but I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I left and something bad happened. How do I keep this from putting a damper on my pool time?

Chloe Reen (WOMAN, 53)

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Every time I spot her, she’s out living her best life, and I never seem to get the chance to say hello. If you’re out there, I’d love to get to know you and spend the rest of the summer riding together, chasing sunsets and making memories! When: Wednesday, May 13, 2026. Where: Lake Champlain.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #916608

Dear Chloe Reen,

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Didn’t see a wedding ring, so wondering if you’re available. When: Saturday, June 13, 2026. Where: South End City Market.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #916605 UDDERLY CAPTIVATED AT GAS STATION To the beautiful lady who was wearing Holstein leggings and trying not to let me see you checking me out — and who smiled at me as she pulled out of the lot: Moo! When: Wednesday, June 10, 2026. Where: South Village Mobil.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #916604 MOMS RUN THE WORLD To the woman off Route 128 mowing the lawn with a baby on her lap: You rock! When: Monday, June 1, 2026.

Where: off Route 128. You: Woman.

Me: Genderqueer. #916603 TATTOOED DAD AT SHAW’S You were there with your two kids. You said you liked my tattoo, and I said I liked yours, too. I thought you were very handsome and didn’t see a ring. When I pulled out you said, “Have a great day.”

You had a red vehicle. If you are indeed single, I’d love to meet. When: Friday, June 5, 2026. Where: Shaw’s, Montpelier.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #916602 MILTON DOLLAR STORE Just after 2 p.m., you were in front of me at checkout. You bought a lot of hangers. I wish that I had said hello, but didn’t. Turns out we were parked right next to each other, too. You: white Kia. Me: blue Toyota. Hope to see you again.

Enjoy the weekend. When: Saturday, June 6, 2026. Where: Milton Dollar Store. You: Woman. Me: Man. #916601

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that hundreds of children under the age of 15 die in pool- or spa-related incidents every year. Thousands more require emergency room treatment. So you have good reason to be worried.

The next time you’re at the pool with unattended children, ask if their parent or guardian knows where they are and if they’ll be joining them soon.

You can avoid coming off as a creep if you speak to the kids respectfully and mention that you just want to make sure they’re safe.

To take it a step further, ask one of the kids to go get the adult who’s supposed to be watching them, then express your concerns to that person directly.

If you frame the conversation as looking out for the children, I don’t think anyone could fault you.

Another approach would be to get in touch with members of your condo association. Fill them in on

BJORN BY THE CASTLE, CONTINUED I dreamt about you last night. You were one of the only truly kind and deeply authentic people in this building full of bullies. I hope you find a woman who appreciates your authenticity, encourages you in your dreams, and is gentle with you when life and people demand far more of you than you have to give. When: Saturday, June 6, 2026. Where: in my memory. You: Man. Me: Woman. #916600 BJORN BY THE CASTLE B, living here has been miserable without you. I miss hearing about Schrödinger’s cat and knowing you were only just downstairs. We sat on your bedroom floor and thanked God for each other.

You called me a badass, but I was only human. Please arrive to me with a bottle of ketchup and your handsome and goofy faces. — Bro When: Saturday, June 6, 2026. Where: in my memory.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #916599 YOUR IDIOSYNCRASIES WERE SHOWING Your predilection for paper straws was nearly palpable from the porch. I’d love for you to expound on this — over chai at Front Seat, perhaps? When: Friday, June 5, 2026. Where: the Genny, Craftsbury.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #916598 STARFISH HAIR CLIP I was tall with a blue running jacket; your white starfish hair clip reminded me of the coast. I kick myself for not saying hello. Last Friday night in May. Interested in getting a coffee? When: Friday, May 29, 2026. Where: Specs, Winooski.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #916597 SPANKED PUPPY Hello. It was 6:30; I was getting takeout.

From the door, you were second from the end on the other end of the bar. Me: old bald guy, blue coat. When: Friday, May 29, 2026. Where: Spanked Puppy.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #916596 ‘CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS’ You: behind me in the “15 items/less” line. You: petite, 40ish cutie that caught me off guard. We: both annoyed at the lady with full-size cart loaded with groceries in the express line. You rolled your eyes when I turned to you — I turned back around too quickly! Me: black shirt and jeans. Tried to restart the conversation with, “This is why we can’t have nice things.” When: Thursday, May 28, 2026. Where: Shaw’s, Colchester.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #916595

what’s been going on and ask them to send a message to all residents reiterating the pool rules. They should also make note of any disciplinary actions that may result from breaking those rules.

You say the kids are well behaved, but if they ever act like fools and put themselves in danger, you should absolutely intervene. If you need assistance, you wouldn’t be in the wrong to call the nonemergency police number. You may want to do it on the sly, but a visit from the fuzz would likely set them straight pretty quick.

But hopefully, the less drastic measures will make your pool time more peaceful.

Good luck and God bless,

The Reverend

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