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The 69-year-old rocker recently released an anti-GMO recording, The Monsanto Years, which assails the genetically modified seed manufacturer and pays homage to Vermont’s controversial GMO labeling law. In a backstage press conference before his soldout show at the Champlain Valley Exposition, Young announced he was donating $100,000 to help Vermont defend the first-in-the-nation law from a legal challenge.

“I’m just a rock ‘n’ roller who believes people should know what they’re eating,” Young said at the news conference, where he stood side-by-side with Gov. Peter Shumlin.

Vermont’s law requires the labeling of food products made with genetically modified organisms, as Terri Hallenbeck reported in our Off Message blog. It takes effect in July 2016. Meantime, it’s facing a challenge in federal court from food industry giants including the Grocery Manufacturers Association. To help defray the state’s legal bills, Vermont set up its food fight fund, which, before Young’s pledge, totaled about $450,000.

“We would like to see some of the high-rollers in Vermont who believe in this come up and match that,” Young said of his pledge. “Remember, this is a big, multinational group of corporations working together to make sure you don’t know what you have on your food table.”

Later, the rock warhorse played a 2-1/2-hour show to cheering fans with his band, Promise of the Real. He started with “After the Gold Rush,” a 45-year-old classic that, Hallenbeck noted, he sang with an updated lyric that seemed to fit the evening’s theme: “Look at Mother Nature on the run, in the 21st century.”

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[Re “Burlington City Councilors Stand By Their Man: Del Pozo Is New Police Chief,” July 15]: I’m a New York City resident, filmmaker and transportation advocate who’s had the pleasure of meeting and working with Brandon del Pozo on several occasions. Trust me, landing him as your chief of police is a big gain for Burlington.

He’s incredibly smart and passionate and, most importantly, he truly gets it. I’ve seen some of the community’s comments and concerns as I’ve read about his new position in Burlington. I understand them. But I know that over time you’ll see how lucky you are to have Mr. del Pozo as your chief.

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The article “Missing Mohamed” [July 1] was extremely sad, but not surprising. It was distressing to read afterward, on a Department of Mental Health website, that the state is bringing treatment into the 21st century. I find that laughable because nearly 30 years ago, as a dance/ movement psychotherapy intern at Princeton medical center’s addictions and psychiatric hospital, I witnessed what good treatment is. Patients were there not just to be medicated but to engage in

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all-day programming, including individual and group psychotherapy, expressive arts psychotherapies, activities therapy, living skills groups, yoga, arts and crafts — all led by highly trained professionals working to help patients stabilize and develop recovery skills. The minimum stay was 28 days.

While there, I had the opportunity to speak with professionals from other hospital programs. Even in the worst state-run hospitals, patients were provided with a variety of therapy experiences.

Hospitalization wasn’t the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest experience we tend to associate it with.

Imagine my dismay upon returning to Vermont to discover that no such program existed except on a smaller scale at the Brattleboro Retreat. I’m still waiting for the day when we catch up to that 20thcentury level of care. Where treatment isn’t ruled by insurance and pharmaceutical companies but guided by competent treatment teams. Where there is access to the appropriate level of care, including humane inpatient programs when appropriate. There may always be some who decline treatment, but perhaps that would happen less with more and better options.

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Schirling said he believes the screeners are often too reluctant to mandate treatment.”

I am the social work supervisor on the community health team in the Burlington health service area. There are community health teams in each county in Vermont, and each operates uniquely to meet the needs of community. In this health service area, the its community health team does not, in fact, work as “screeners” to make any determination if someone qualifies for mandated treatment. That is not within the scope of our role on the team. We are licensed independent clinical social workers working with primary care practices to offer support around mental health needs and community resources.

Certainly when we meet with a patient with significant mental illness, or who poses a threat to themselves or others, we do ensure they go to the emergency room or are in contact with the local crisis center, which in fact is designated as a screener that can mandate treatment. The article highlighted the significant needs that face our community and we are committed to working with the patients we serve to identify mental health needs, but we are not, as the article indicated, screeners for mandated treatment. kerry Sullivan, LicSw fairfax

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It is in fact the only one I read on a regular basis. However, I am often disgusted by the American Apparel advertisements portraying young women as teenagers/ children. The ad on the back of the July 1 issue is particularly disturbing, as it depicts a young lady as a playful child who looks like she could be my 12-year-old niece. I am sure American Apparel pays you well for the advertisements. I would be happy to pay up for the weekly read in exchange for nonsexist, child-porn-free reading.

of public universities raked in a median salary of $423,000 in 2014.

A lot of people are making a lot of money on selling an increasingly worthless product — college degrees — to unsuspecting consumers. Most of these profiteers likely aren’t concerned about whether STEM programs produce renewable energy technologies, invent killing machines or tend toward what UVM president Tom Sullivan calls “the advancement of society” [Feedback: “In Defense of STEM,” July 1]. All they know is that STEM programs sell.

Once the market is saturated with jobless comp-sci grads, I’m sure colleges will invest in new humanities centers. Success in both economic and personal life depends not on having a degree, but on being unique and innovative. Eighteen-yearolds, beware: The first step to making your way in this world does not involve letting old men in suits fleece you into taking on $100,000 in debt so you can sleep through class in a shiny STEM building.

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Who Decides?

New Buoys in Lake Champlain Roil Colchester Board

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Sanders Is Proud to Be Jewish, Yet Low-Key on Religion

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Despite Opiate Use Spike, Vermont HIVAIDS Cases Stay Flat

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Fooling Is Serious Business forFestival of Fools Ringmaster Woody Keppel

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Dartmouth College Contests Ask: Can Software Make Art?

Skipping Bail

Crime: Will prison reforms make Vermont’s bail bond agents obsolete?

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Rock Show History is in motion in Lost Nation Theater’s production of Stone. Writer and director Kim Bent constructs a dramatic biography of Barre’s historic granite community, informed by interviews and oral histories. In a unique twist, the play, celebrating its 10th anniversary, is staged at the Vermont Granite Museum among a built-in set of granite blocks and statues.

SATURDAY 25

POUR HOUSE An apple a day keeps the doctor away. The inaugural Vermont Cider Classic tests this old adage. Makers from across the state such as Citizen Cider and Urban Farm Fermentory sling samples while imbibers tip back crisp pints paired with local pork-based provisions. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more mouthwatering affair.

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Walking Tour Some art is meant to exist outside of gallery walls.

In “Exposed,” an outdoor installation and sculpture exhibition presented by the Helen Day Art Center, public spaces play host to more than a dozen pieces.

Folks with kids should seek out Susie J. Gray’s shelter-inspired sculpture, “Cocoon,” one of several works where audience participation is encouraged.

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Cyclists saddle up for a cause at the 12th annual Onion River Century Ride. On 40-, 68- and 111-mile courses that meander through central Vermont and the Northeast Kingdom, riders parlay their passion for pedaling into support for children’s literacy at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. After crossing the finish line, hungry athletes dig into a well-deserved barbecue spread.

It’s crystal clear: The Champlain Valley Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show gives new meaning to the phrase “rock star.” The 36th annual show, themed “The Wonderful World of Quartz,” showcases thousands of natural specimens and masses of dazzling jewelry. Exhibits, lectures and kids activities polish off the weekend.

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he Vermont Republican Party didn’t wait long last week to question Gov. PETER SHUMLIN’s appointment of ALYSSA SCHUREN as commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation.

By promoting her, GOP chairman DAVID SUNDERLAND wrote, Shumlin “knowingly created an unacceptable potential for the abuse of the regulatory authority of the department” — among other travesties.

July 1 - August 2 Why’s that? Because Schuren, who has served as deputy commissioner since April 2013, happens to be married to PAUL BURNS, executive director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group — and VPIRG Photographs from Recent Trips to Cuba lobbies heavily on environmental issues.

by ViCToRiA bleweR The Shumlin administration’s response came just as quickly.

Informal Gallery Talk “For a party that consistently shows disrespect towards women, it’s disappointThursday, July 23, 6:30 pm ing but not all that surprising that they are defining Alyssa by the job her husband WWW.FROGHOLLOW.ORG has,” spokesman SCOTT CORIELL said in a written statement.

85 Church St. Burlington VT 802-863-6458 “There is one word to describe their tactics,” echoed Vermont Democratic Party executive director JULIA BARNES. “Sexist.”

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“I think it’s more than coincidence that every time the Republican Party raises conflict-of-interest issues in my administration, it always seems to be the women they’re asking the questions about,” Shumlin told WDEV’s MARK JOHNSON on Monday.

OK. Hold the phone.

Yes, it would be utterly sexist for the GOP — or anyone, for that matter — to suggest that Schuren’s appointment had anything to do with her husband’s job. It would also be wrong. Given that she’s currently the deputy commissioner, it’s hard to imagine anyone more qualified than Schuren.

But it’s perfectly reasonable to ask how, exactly, Schuren and Burns will manage what is quite clearly a conflict. After all, Burns is one of the most influential lobbyists in the Statehouse, and his organization does, in fact, interact with the DEC on such issues as the Vermont Gas pipeline, the bottle bill, toxic chemical regulation and renewable energy. (Schuren declined an interview request, saying she was on vacation, while Burns did not respond.)

Shuren’s is not exactly a new conflict, points out her boss, Agency of Natural Resources Secretary DEB MARKOWITZ. Since she’s worked at the department, E s tat E a n d F i n E J E w E l r y Markowitz says, the deputy commish has Est. 1933 recused herself from all matters in which 112 ChurCh St. Burlington, Vt VPIRG is directly involved.

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agrees. He praises his replacement as “absolutely terrific” and notes that, in a small state, everyone has conflicts. Mears has recused himself in several matters he previously litigated, he noted, and once had to do so unexpectedly when he learned his sisterin-law’s husband represented another party.

“I just think it’s the nature of being a public official in the state of Vermont: It’s just inevitable that conflicts will arise,” he says.

Neither Markowitz nor Mears would address their boss’ charge of Republican sexism.

“I’ll leave it to higher-paid people than me to reflect on what the broader societal implications of this are,” Mears says.

Good on them. Shumlin’s cheap political hit diminishes an important debate we should be having in this state, because — guess what — conflicts arise all the time! In the past week alone, at least four situations have merited some discussion.

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Late last week, the Vermont Press Bureau’s NEAL GOSWAMI and VTDigger.org’s MORGAN TRUE both wrote about the nearly $3.8 million in state contracts Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT’s company, DuBois Construction, has received since Scott was first elected to the Senate in 2000. It’s not exactly breaking news, but it absolutely deserves further scrutiny if Scott runs for governor, as the LG himself conceded.

On Tuesday, the Permanent Fund for Vermont’s Children announced it had hired Shumlin’s deputy chief of staff, ALYSON RICHARDS, as CEO. As the governor’s education policy adviser, Richards has worked closely with the nonprofit on early childhood education issues.

Richards apparently addressed the conflict head-on. She penned a memo in April to Shumlin’s outgoing and incoming chiefs of staff formally informing them she would take the job. Richards wrote that she would “remove myself from any Governor’s Office decisions that might provide any material benefit to the Permanent Fund.”

Perhaps most troublingly, the Burlington Free Press’ DAN D’AMBROSIO reported Tuesday that the Shumlin administration official in charge of the Vermont EB5 Regional Center, BRENT RAYMOND, is leaving to work for a company overseen

POLITICS by his office: Mount Snow. The resort is trying to raise more than $50 million for infrastructure projects through the federal EB5 program, which provides green cards to those who invest more than $500,000 in designated projects.

Just last month, Raymond traveled overseas with the company to help market the projects, according to his soon-to-be-former boss, Secretary of Commerce PAT MOULTON. “We do not know when employment discussions started,” Moulton says, adding that Raymond was “asked to cease all work for the agency” three days after he informed her of his plans. Raymond did not respond to a request for comment.

Shumlin was none too pleased.

“The governor has concerns about the potential for a conflict of interest in this decision,” Coriell says. (Speaking of conflicts, Raymond, Coriell and I all used to work together in Congressman PETER WELCH’s office. Told you this state was small.)

Coriell adds, “The governor has also asked [the Agency of Commerce & Community Development] to review the communications leading up to this departure to ensure that all actions were in compliance with the Executive Code of Ethics and conflict of interest policies.”

Huh. So Raymond’s departure is a conflict worth investigating, but Schuren’s appointment doesn’t merit discussion?

Here’s a thought: Perhaps the reason the Vermont GOP raised concerns is not because they’re a bunch of sexists, but because the Shumlin administration has a history of cozy relations with its privatesector and nonprofit supporters — VPIRG included.

Remember when former Shumlin chief of staff BILL LOFY joined Green Mountain Power? And when former campaign manager ALEX MACLEAN joined Jay Peak and then KSE Partners? And when former telecom czar KAREN MARSHALL joined the Vermont Telecom Company?

All four companies have given plenty to Shumlin’s campaigns — either directly or through their executives — and have benefited from official action. So has Mount Snow, which has donated $4,000 to the gov over the years.

Isn’t that just as much of a conflict as Raymond’s trip through the revolving door?

“The governor is pleased to adhere to Vermont’s campaign finance laws,” Coriell says. “Similarly, we expect all appointees to follow the Executive Code of Ethics.”

Don’t we all!

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and press assistant. Founded in January 2014 as Draft Bernie, the PAC maintains the Run Bernie Run Facebook and Twitter accounts and, according to its website, plans to invest in online advertising.

Pearson says his Super PAC will fund grassroots projects to spread Sanders’ message, but he admits it will also serve a more traditional role: skirting fundraising limits by taking contributions from those who’ve already donated the maximum $2,700 to Sanders’ official campaign.

“We’re trying to raise big checks, yes,” Pearson says. “We’ll see how successful I will be.”

Collective Actions doesn’t have to file a report with the Federal Election Commission until the end of July, and Pearson won’t reveal how much he’s raised. But in a letter he sent the FEC last month, he wrote that the PAC “has a number of large donors who are interested” in contributing.

“They hope to reach millions of voters and believe being active online is the way to achieve our goal,” he wrote.

Isn’t it hypocritical for a Progressive pol who talks a big game about campaign finance reform to exploit the very rules he opposes in support of an anti-super PAC candidate? Pearson admits it’s “strange,” but he defends Collective Actions as different from, say, Bush’s Right to Rise super PAC, because Sanders doesn’t appear at Collective Actions fundraisers.

“But yeah, if your concern is that it’s a way for people to spend big money on campaigns, sure, that’s what a PAC is,” he says. “And do I find it a bad law? I do. But it is the law of the land.”

Just how independent Collective Actions is from the Sanders campaign isn’t entirely clear. Spokesman micHael BriggS ignored repeated questions about the matter. Pearson says he’s briefed campaign field director PHil Fiermonte, a close friend.

“I said, ‘Well, I think I’m going to keep the PAC going because I think there’s some real opportunities here,’” Pearson recalls. “We both sort of chuckled [at] how absurd it all is, and that was it. I know that they’re aware of all of it.”

Surely, though, Sanders would prefer Pearson to ditch his super PAC now that the candidate has decided he doesn’t want one, right?

Not necessarily. When Seven Days asked about it in March 2014, the campaign defended Pearson’s move.

“Until we overturn Citizens United, the suggestion that opponents of right-wing Republicans should unilaterally disarm and not use the tools available to them is absurd,” Fiermonte said in a written statement. “To suggest that there is any comparison between a small, grassroots organization in Vermont and the multibillion-dollar political machine bankrolled by the Koch brothers is preposterous.”

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SanderS (I-Vt.) from his presidential rivals more than his aversion to super PACs — or so he’d like you to think.

The Vermont independent can barely get through a speech or a campaign email without denouncing his opponents for relying upon unlimited contributions to the quasi-independent fundraising entities.

“I don’t have a super PAC,” he wrote supporters last week. “I don’t go to fundraisers where millionaires sit around the room and say, here’s $5 million for your super PAC. That’s not my life.”

No kidding! Hard to imagine too many rich capitalists jonesing to donate to this wealth-redistributing democratic socialist.

But Sanders hasn’t always ruled out super PAC support. And, like many of his foes, he’s likely to get a little help from a super PAC run by a friend and former campaign aide.

When Sanders last ran for reelection, in 2012, then-Seven Days political columnist andy Bromage asked if he’d “ever accept help from a super PAC.” “I certainly would prefer not to,” Sanders responded, calling it “a hypothetical question.”

“But we can chat about it if, six months from now, many, many millions of dollars are coming in attacking me,” he said in the February 2012 interview.

“If it was a last resort?” Bromage pressed.

“That’s something we would look at,” Sanders said, adding that he hoped he wouldn’t have to.

Ah. So the senator opposes super PACs unless they’re necessary to win?

Indeed. Just a week before the interview, President Barack oBama’s aides announced that he would accept support from a major Democratic super PAC, Priorities USA Action, in his 2012 reelection race. Sanders defended the president’s choice at the time.

“Should you be principled and allow your opponent to spend huge sums of money and you say, ‘Well, I’m a principled guy and we’re going to get outspent 5-to-1, and I’m going to lose the election?’” the senator asked.

Sure sounds like the approach Sanders 2016 is taking!

Though the Vermonter has raised more for his traditional campaign apparatus ($13.7 million) than any candidate other than Hillary clinton ($47.5 million) or ted cruz ($14 million), he’s far behind the pack when you factor in super PAC support: JeB BuSH ($114.4 million), Clinton ($63.1 million) and Cruz ($52.3 million).

But Sanders isn’t being entirely straight when he says he doesn’t have a super PAC. By law, such entities can’t directly coordinate with the candidates they back, so many are run by close confidantes and former aides well acquainted with the candidates’ strategy and message.

Such is the case with Collective Actions PAC, which is operated by Rep. cHriS PearSon (P-Burlington), who previously served as Sanders’ campaign coordinator

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he Colchester Selectboard was in complete agreement on July 14. The four members gathered at the gleaming town office building all thought that a local developer’s plan to cordon off a private swimming area in Lake Champlain using buoys was unreasonable.

The only problem? The selectboard doesn’t have any say over the matter.

Nor does the Colchester Development Review Board, or any other town official.

As it turns out, power to approve buoys rests with the United States Army — specifically the Army Corps of

officials have over what they call their “crown jewel.”

The selectboard has a history with the property in question. In 2011, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington put 27 acres of stunning lakefront land up for sale. The diocese, which ran summer camps there for decades, needed money to help pay for multiple settlements with alleged victims of sexual abuse by priests. The selectboard tried to convince residents to purchase the property and create a public park. Wary of a tax hike, voters rejected the idea by a 2-to-1 margin.

residents of a proposed housing development.” It asked the town to respond within two weeks if Colchester officials objected.

Barry had submitted his application to the Army Corps because the federal Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 charges it with overseeing the nation’s navigable waterways. In Vermont, those include Lake Champlain, Lake Memphremagog and various rivers. The Army Corps oversees any activity that takes place beyond the “ordinary high-water mark.”

Projects that “encroach” on the lake, such as marinas, docks or dredg-

Marc Landry. At times, the aquatic traffic is so heavy that it leads to complaints from nearby lakefront residents.

Landry owns lakefront property himself, but he doesn’t have much sympathy for their concerns. “That’s life,” he said, pointing out that the water in front of their homes is a public resource. “And I happen to think it’s probably a good thing,” Landry continued, noting, “Not everyone can afford lakefront property.”

Landry considers the buoy issue to be a part of this larger

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Engineers — which had already OK’d the project.

Colchester is a community defined by its lakeside location. Officials are fond of pointing out that the town boasts 27 miles of shoreline. That includes Malletts Bay, a boating mecca. A glossy visitors’ brochure, featuring a yellow kayak in the cobalt lake on the cover, directs tourists to the town’s five marinas, as well as several beaches and boat launches.

Lately though, members of the selectboard have found themselves sidelined while another entity decides what takes place offshore. The dispute over buoys highlights how little control local

In 2012, Bruce Barry, a Colchester resident who owns Barry’s Automotive shop in South Burlington, bought what is commonly called the Camp Holy Cross property. He lives five houses down from the property, and he has since divided it into seven lots suitable for lakefront houses. His plans for the land haven’t encountered opposition; it’s what’s happening on the water that’s causing a stir.

In May, Colchester town manager Dawn Francis received a letter bearing the Department of Defense seal.

It informed her that the Army Corps planned to grant Barry permission to install 24 buoys across 885 feet of water to “provide a safe swimming area for the

ing also require permits from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. Buoys, however, are exempt as long as they don’t “unreasonably impede navigation,” according to Kevin Burke, an environmental analyst with the department.

The Army Corps letter in May was the first that the selectboard had heard of the proposal — and members quickly concluded that they did have concerns.

What’s so worrisome about a couple dozen buoys?

Located just east of Porters Point, the buoys were to be installed in a boating thoroughfare. “Literally hundreds of boats park in that area on hot summer days,” said longtime selectboard member

conflict between boaters and property owners, and he views it as an attempt to unduly limit public access to the lake.

“It creates a sense of exclusivity in that neighborhood that they’re not entitled to,” he argued.

He and other selectboard members also worry that Barry’s project will prompt other lakefront property owners to follow suit, leading to an overabundance of buoys that would clog the waterway.

“I think this sets a very dangerous precedent,” said Herb Downing, a member of the selectboard. He suggested that buoys create the false impression that people own swatches of the lake. Some sections of the lake, such

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the lake. Some sections of the lake, such aware that the selectboard was upset as public beaches, have protected areas, about his buoys. but private homes do not, according to At their meeting July 14, the selecttown officials. board members, noting that they’d The selectboard responded force- never encountered such a plan, agreed fully to the Army Corps letter. It asked that installing 22 buoys seemed excesthat Barry’s application be denied, writ- sive. If the goal is simply to get boats ing, “Colchester’s beautiful shoreline to slow down, shouldn’t a few buoys should be shared and enjoyed by all suffice? residents and visitors to our town, not They decided to reach out to Barry partitioned for the benefit of a privi- for an explanation. leged few. Such a partition will set a Throughout the meeting, selectboard precedent for limiting public access to members expressed frustration at their the lake — something that we certainly lack of authority. Downing described do not wish to encourage.” it as a “sore subject.” Landry’s first Despite the town’s objections, in thought had been to appeal the deciearly June the Army Corps gave Barry sion, but he’d been told the Army Corps permission to put in 22 buoys — re- has no appeals process — meaning the duced from 24 — spaced 50 feet apart town would have to take them to court. and placed no farther than 220 feet “I really don’t want to spend taxpayer from shore. Some are now bobbing in money fighting the U.S. government,” the lake.

Landry said.

Landry said he was “slightly inRather than file a suit, the selectcensed” when he got word of the deci- board decided to draft another letter sion. The Army to the Army Corps, Corps appeared asking it to send to have ignored someone to meet the selectboard’s with them. They comments. Why, plan to ask a host of Landry wondered, questions, includhad it even bothing how the corps ered to seek the would handle a protown’s opinion? liferation of permit During an inapplications for terview, Angela buoys, and why the Repella, an Essex town was asked for Junction-based a position — when MARC L AndRy staffer with the their concerns, in Army Corps, exthe end, didn’t seem plained the decito matter. sion. When examining applications, This isn’t the first time Colchester the Army Corps considers whether officials have been frustrated by their potential projects could interfere with lack of legal standing when it comes to navigation — and concluded this pro- what happens on the water. Selectboard posal would not, she said. members were similarly displeased in With 50 feet between buoys, boats 2013 when the Army Corps gave the Bay should, theoretically, be able to weave Harbor Marina permission to extend its through them, meaning that the buoys dock 475 feet out into the lake. Landry won’t limit public access to the lake. recalled fielding phone calls from disAccording to Repella, Barry had origi- gruntled constituents and having to exnally wanted to string rope from buoy to plain the selectboard’s lack of authority. buoy, but the Army Corps rejected the Pointing out that features such as idea because that would obstruct boats. docks and moorings have effects on the “It’s a good technical position,” land — when people come ashore they Landry responded. He contended, contribute to road traffic, for instance — though, that even if boats can make it Downing said, “We’re getting all of the around the buoys, their installation is disadvantages of this [development], clearly an attempt to keep people out. and we get very little of the advantages.”

Reached by phone, Barry denied that In response to Downing’s point, the buoys were meant to block off part Landry proposed posing another quesof the lake from the public. Their pur- tion to the corps: “Are there any compose, he said, was simply to “slow the munities on federal waterways that are boat traffic down, not prevent it.” able to manage their own destinies, and, He said vessels pass quickly through if so, who are they and what are they that part of the lake: “It’s crazy over doing differently?” m there.”

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Larry Sanders said. “And an unknown number of cousins and whatnot.”

Larry and Bernie Sanders’ mother, Dorothy Glassberg Sanders, was born in New York.

A few years ago, Larry and Bernie Sanders made a trip to the village in southern Poland where their uncles had lived.

It’s called Slopnice. They found no descendants of the Sanders family, who were likely killed.

According to the mayor, Larry Sanders said, Jews of the village and surrounding area were taken to a camp in a nearby town.

They were held there and then executed, he was told. “They were killed in the marketplace, and there’s no memorial,” he said.

Larry Sanders is a dual British and U.S. citizen who has degrees in law and social work, and has worked as an advocate for disability rights. In May he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in parliament as a Green Party candidate.

He’s watching his brother’s run with excitement. “It’s astonishing. It’s marvelous,” he said.

The way Larry Sanders sees it, if his brother becomes the first Jewish president, the religious aspect would be a footnote, and not a terribly big milestone.

Others are pondering the question, too. How important would it be to have a Jewish president?

“It would be more important to have a president who cared about poor people. He happens to be both,” said Joshua Chasan, senior rabbi at Ohavi Zedek synagogue in Burlington. “I feel very close to Bernie as a Jew because we come from the same place — a secular Jewish background, rooted in an early LARRY SAND

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synagogue, but it was by a rabbi in a traditional Jewish wedding,” said Larry Sanders.

Bernie Sanders divorced shortly after the marriage and in 1988 married his current wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders.

She grew up Roman Catholic about 15 blocks from her husband in Brooklyn. The couple exchanged vows in a civil ceremony at North Beach performed by then-Burlington city clerk James Rader, as several hundred friends, relatives and sunbathers looked on.

Bernie Sanders had lived briefly on a kibbutz in Israel after college. This chapter may have contributed to internet rumors that Sanders has dual U.S.Israeli citizenship. Last month, WAMU radio show host Diane Rhem, whose eponymous program is carried on National Public Radio stations, prefaced a question to Sanders on-air by stating he has dual citizenship with Israel. Sanders interrupted, stating emphatically that he does not. “No. I’m an American citizen, period,” he corrected her.

In the aftermath, some pointed out that such rumors about Jewish politicians in America seem to question their patriotism or allegiance to the United States.

The long history of anti-Semitism in the world had a direct effect on the Sanders family. Growing up Jewish in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust had a profound influence on the Sanders brothers, Larry Sanders said, echoing a sentiment that Bernie

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he Republican candidates for president tend to talk about God. In smaller doses, so does Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Her chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), rarely invokes God’s name. The playbook that says that if you run for president, you pay public homage to a higher power? Sanders is not using it.

If elected, Sanders would be the first Jewish president of the United States.

That’s a big deal that Sanders says little about. Yes, he speaks with pride about his Jewish heritage and how it motivated him to enter politics. But he isn’t saying much about his personal beliefs or traditions. Is he a member of a synagogue? Does he believe in God? Sanders’ campaign declined to answer these questions for Seven Days.

“I’m proud to be Jewish,” Sanders said last month at a Christian Science Monitor press breakfast. “But I’m not particularly religious.”

His brother, Larry Sanders, who lives in England, spoke in a telephone interview about growing up Jewish in New York City. The brothers were raised in a Brooklyn neighborhood where 80 to 90 percent of the neighbors were Jewish, he said. Their father sold paint; their mother took care of the family. Their parents were Jewish, but not deeply religious, Larry Sanders said, describing their approach as “basically secular,” but with some religious observances. The family’s friends tended to be the same.

“There was only one out of a dozen friends, one family was what I would have called Orthodox,” he said. “The others were pretty much like us.”

The family attended services at synagogue occasionally, such as on the High Holidays, Larry Sanders said.

The brothers went to Hebrew school a few afternoons a week for several years to prepare for their bar mitzvahs, and completed the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. The faith guided other rituals too, including Bernie Sanders’ first marriage, shortly after he graduated from the University of Chicago.

“His first marriage was not in a

Bernie Sanders (left) and his older brother, Larry, on their street in Brooklyn. They grew up Jewish, but the family was not deeply religious, Larry Sanders said.

Sanders has made in public comments over the years.

“You become very aware of the importance of politics,” Larry Sanders said.

“The political events in any country can end up causing the deaths of millions of people.”

The rise of Adolf Hitler led to the killing of 6 million Jews and took a brutal toll on the Sanders’ extended family.

Their father, then called Elias Sander — the “s” was added in this country to the surname, for reasons that are unclear, Larry Sanders says — emigrated from Poland in 1921. He was 17. “[Elias Sanders] and his brother came to the United States, and three [siblings] remained in Poland and of course they and their families all died,”

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childhood experience of coming to grips written and spoken about her Methodist with what happened at the Holocaust. faith, and while she is less overtly reliHe has spoken at the synagogue on a gious than many Republican leaders, Saturday morning, and he described she reaches out to the faithful with how that was a searing experience for speeches and appearances. him.”

“It’s in the south, primarily, where Chasan said he respects Sanders for you find voters for whom religious keeping his religious views low-key concerns matter more,” said Eric Davis, during the campaign. “Thank God. professor emeritus of political science Anybody who’s wearing their religion at Middlebury College. on their sleeve, be careful. Be careful.

As Sanders transitions from camThere’s too much of that in American paigning Vermont-style to the national politics. Bernie doesn’t wear his religion arena, these differences could be a on his sleeve. Bernie is who he is and consideration. has been all these years, and for that I’m Davis is among the Bernie-watchers grateful.” who have noticed the Granted, Chasan senator’s recent mendoes not overlook tions of Pope Francis. the history of reliThe pope’s calls for gious discrimination action on climate and how it plays out change and income in politics, noting inequality align with that there wasn’t Sanders’ views. a Roman Catholic Could the callpresident until John outs to the pope be an F. Kennedy was effort to reach out to elected in 1960. religious voters?

Most U.S. presiPerhaps. Or perdents have been haps Sanders simply Protestants, with wants to point out RAbbi JOShuA ChASAn nearly half members that aspects of his of the Episcopalian platform have supand Presbyterian denominations, ac- port from the leader of a worldwide cording to analysis by the Pew Research religion, Davis said. “He’s the pope, Center. who is a recognized world leader, who Vermont son Calvin Coolidge was is talking about these important public the only Congregational president. policy issues in a moral context.”

Historians debate whether two of the If Sanders doesn’t win the most famous presidents should be de- Democratic nomination, it’s not going scribed as Christians: Thomas Jefferson, to be “because of his religious practices who was raised as an Anglican but or lack thereof,” said Davis. stated he did not recognize Jesus Christ More than reaching out to religious as the son of God; and Abraham Lincoln, voters, Sanders needs to make his meswho was not affiliated with a church but sage resonate with the racially diverse spoke frequently about God. electorate in the United States, Davis Ultimately, Chasan said, “The issue said. Hillary Clinton has a commanding is not the religion of the candidates, it’s lead over Sanders among Hispanics, the content of their character.” for example, he noted. And reporters That sentiment might resonate in are noticing that Bernie’s crowds “are Vermont, which has one of the nation’s overwhelmingly white, and they don’t highest percentages of secular adults. look like the country as a whole in that Thirty-seven percent of Vermont resi- regard,” Davis said. dents are unaffiliated, compared to 23 Immigration, criminal justice and percent nationally, according to the Pew civil rights are issues that Sanders needs Center’s Religious Landscape Study. to talk about in a new way for an elecThe survey of 35,000 people in 50 states torate that is much more diverse than found that about 70 percent of U.S. Vermont’s, Davis said. residents identify as Christians (comAnd if Sanders doesn’t want to talk pared to 54 percent in Vermont) and 1.9 about his personal views on religion, percent identify as Jewish (2 percent in that’s fine by Davis. If he were runVermont). ning for president, Davis would have In certain parts of the country, can- an answer ready for any reporter who didates can expect to encounter huge asked about his worship practices, he crowds at prayer breakfasts, churches said: “I would say: ‘That’s none of your and faith-based events where voters business.’” m scrutinize a candidate’s religious views and background. Hillary Clinton has Contact: molly@sevendaysvt.com

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was returning 500 needles, noting he hadn’t been in for a month or more.

“You don’t come from Addison County do you?” Charbonneau asked as she made his new card. “We do it up there now. I’m letting people know.”

Charbonneau has worked as a case manager for Vermont Cares since 1993.

She currently has 27 clients, all diagnosed with HIV, who she helps with health care, housing and whatever else they need. In the beginning, she said, she was helping people have a good death. “I have seen so many people die.

I never forget them. They are in my heart,” she said, her voice quavering.

“Now it is very, very different.” That’s because treatment breakthroughs allow those infected with the virus to live long, near-normal lives.

The needle exchange is a new part of her job. “I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to do this.” Charbonneau admitted.

She paused because a young woman with a brown ponytail entered with needles in white plastic canisters — half hers and half her boyfriend’s. The woman, who presented both their ID cards, seemed in a hurry. She kept asserting she had returned at least 600 needles, but accepted just 400 from Charbonneau. She loaded the boxes and other supplies into red cloth bags that she brought.

Charbonneau resumed her comments as the door closed. “I felt like I was enabling people to use, but now that I have done it, I can see I’m reducing the risk of HIV and hep C.” Vermont Cares’ Rutland needle exchange has operated for two years and serves about 200 people. The organization launched its first walk-in exchange in 2002 in St. Johnsbury. In addition to its two fixed-time and -place programs, it also offers exchange services in the Montpelier area and Franklin in and Grand Isle counties by appointment.

Advocates in the trenches have worried recently that the spike in opiate use in Vermont could cause an explosion of new infections. They have reason to be wary.

“One of the things we are all thinking about is what has been happening in Indiana and Kentucky,” said Tom Dalton, coordinator of the Safe Recovery program at the Howard Center in Burlington. In one rural county in

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he front line in the fight to prevent new cases of HIV and AIDS in Vermont can be found inside a third-floor room in a butterscotch-colored building a short walk from downtown Rutland.

Every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon, Mary Kathryn Charbonneau welcomes intravenous drug users who come to exchange used needles for 100-count boxes of new ones, plus other supplies such as alcohol wipes, tiny tubes of sterile water and cotton filters. Sharing needles and having unprotected sex are the primary ways the HIV virus is spread.

Charbonneau, in white capris and a tunic top with glasses perched on her carefully coifed head, bustled around the room arranging supplies in baskets on a wooden table and stacking boxes of syringes on the shelf of a nearby hutch.

“I’m glad I got my supplies in,” said the regional coordinator and sole staffer for the Rutland office of Vermont Cares, a nonprofit group that has been helping people with HIV and AIDS since 1986.

“I had only three boxes of 30s,” she said, referring to the thickness of the needle most in-demand among her clients.

Thinner needles are less painful but more likely to clog.

Her first client arrived at 9:50 a.m.

— a pony-tailed middle-aged man in shorts and sandals. He dumped what he said were 200 used needles into a red bin already half full of capped sharps. Charbonneau didn’t count, but explained later she has a good eye for the number of needles people bring to exchange. She gave the man two boxes of new needles and asked if he needed other supplies.

The next client, clean-cut in jeans and a T-shirt, said he had lost the card he is supposed to show at each visit. Clients remain anonymous but must fill out a questionnaire that allows Charbonneau to probe their understanding of safe drug use, their status in terms of HIV and hepatitis C — another illness that can be spread by needle-sharing — and their interest in treatment options.

Charbonneau makes them cards with IDs, using a formula that includes part of their mother’s first name, their birthdate, middle initial and sex.

This thirtysomething man said he

Indiana near the Kentucky border, 169 people were diagnosed with HIV in the past six months — all intravenous drug users. The area used to see about five new HIV diagnoses in a year. Indiana didn’t allow needle exchanges, but the governor has declared a state of emergency to allow temporary exchanges.

Sally Cook, a public health nurse in infectious disease at the Vermont Department of Health, spent two weeks in Indiana in May, responding to a call for help from her Indiana counterparts.

Her assignment was to locate and meet with people who had been named by those who tested positive for HIV as intravenous needle or sexual partners.

“We did counseling and testing in the field,” Cook said. “When I was there, it was an urgent activity to find the named contacts.”

“It is a concern,” Vermont’s state epidemiologist Patsy Kelso said of the Indiana outbreak. “Will we start seeing an increase in HIV and hepatitis C because of injection drug use? We are going to keep a close eye on that.”

To date, the state hasn’t seen any

uptick in the number of cases, Kelso said. New diagnoses of HIV and AIDS in Vermont have ranged between 11 and 30 annually for the past 20 years, according to the Vermont Department of Health.

Since 2005, between one and four of the new cases each year have been attributed to intravenous drug use. At the end of 2014, the health department reported 665 people with HIV or AIDS living in the state, with one-third residing in Chittenden County.

“Syringe exchange is part of the safety net to prevent what they are seeing in Indiana,” Dalton said. His office on Clarke Street in Burlington is upstairs from a needle exchange and HIV-testing site. The state’s first exchange, it opened in 2001. It often sees 80 people a day, but not everyone is exchanging needles, Dalton said. The syringe program has 3,768 members who make nearly 12,000 visits a year to get new needles and other safe-injection supplies.

A framed plaque of hand-painted tiles just inside the entrance to the Vermont Cares office in Burlington tells the old story of HIV and AIDS. Most of

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the people who painted those tiles have them,” he said. However, shortly after died, the receptionist said. The disease he started on medication, he became burst onto the public stage in the 1980s, depressed and required psychiatric felling young, previously healthy gay care. He revealed his secret to his family, men with cancers and pneumonias. It who rallied to his support. “That means also struck intravenous drug users and everything to me,” he said. hemophiliacs. Scientists identified the Jacobsen at Vermont Cares believes it virus and modes of transmission by is possible to reduce the number of new the end of the decade, but an effective HIV cases to zero by 2020 — something treatment wasn’t available until the no state has achieved. This summer, mid-1990s.

Jacobsen plans to enlist other organiToday, HIV and AIDS are “extremely zations that work on HIV and AIDS to treatable,” said Peter Jacobsen, Vermont commit to this goal. “We mostly have a Cares executive director, who added: handle on this,” he said. “It doesn’t feel “But the medication is not cheap and it really daunting.” is not easy to take.” Still, most insurance “I think it is possible,” Dalton at carriers cover treatment.

Howard Center said, but added, “If you Jacobsen said successful treatment want to get to zero, we have to have has crereally strong ated a new supports, eschallenge pecially for — apathy people who about the have the biggest risks aschallenges.” sociated Treatment with HIV is critical to and AIDS. A prevent HIV generation from spreading, MARy KAT hRyn C hARbOnnEAu has come Dalton said. of age that Medications never saw the ravages the virus can suppress the virus, greatly reducing the cause. They see little reason to worry chances of transmission even with unabout getting it, given the effectiveness protected sex. “With HIV, if you don’t of today’s medications, Jacobsen said. maintain that treatment, it is going to A 53-year-old South Burlington man come back,” he said. who has had HIV for 21 years shook his Epidemiologist Kelso also supports head to think that anyone would risk the goal of zero new cases but cautioned getting the disease. “I wish I was free against thinking it would be easy. and clear,” said the gay man, who didn’t “If we are relying on syringe exwant to be named because he is looking changes to prevent HIV and hep C for work, and having HIV still carries outbreaks, I think that is shortsighted stigma. unless we put in a lot more resources,” Wearing shorts, a sleeveless shirt and Kelso said. The state receives $900,000 a chunky gold necklace, the man shared in federal funding for HIV and AIDS his story over a cup of coffee at a Dunkin’ work, but none of that money can be Donuts. He said he contracted the virus spent on needle exchanges. It pays for from a sexual partner who failed to medical case management and helps disclose his infection. He was tested patients pay for medications, nutrition for HIV while being treated for an un- and mental health counseling. The related ailment. The man recounted his state Department of Health allocates horror when he got the call at work that $100,000 for HIV and AIDS prevention, he was HIV-positive. “I didn’t believe all of it for syringe exchanges. it,” he said.

Back in Rutland, Charbonneau, who He was lucky, though. His body’s sees her job as a calling, is doing her part immune system kept the virus in check by reaching as many people as possible for more than 15 years. “I didn’t take with clean needles. If people call to any medication until four years ago,” say they can’t get to the office by noon he said. He has undergone blood tests on exchange day, she said, she waits. to monitor the virus every six months Noting that many intravenous drug since his diagnosis. users don’t have cars, she said she meets His HIV status changed his love life. them at more convenient locations and When he would reveal he had HIV, pro- conducts the exchanges from the trunk spective partners would walk away, he of her car. She explained, “I don’t want said. He stopped trying. “I wasn’t going to people using dirty needles.” m get involved to get turned down,” he said.

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be talking about big things, like view for reelection. Now the sustainable agrisheds, said Shaw. “It’s the distraction culture debate appears to be rekindling factor,” he said. political rivalries. “They dislike me perGreco counters that what the coun- sonally, so they are lashing out at SusAg,” cilors don’t like is the subcommittee’s Greco said of the councilors. “I am sort effort to preserve the city’s remaining of controversial.” open land from new subdivisions. They Greco lives the cause. Granted, the are also reacting to her stances on hot- house she shares with her husband is button issues, part of a suburshe suggested. ban subdivision Greco led the that some might unsuccessful see as textbook opposition to sprawl. It sits the basing of across from F-35 fighter jets the Vermont at Burlington National Country R osa n n e G reco International Club golf course, Airport, a much with little pedebated and divisive issue on the council destrian access to anything but the and beyond. fairways. She said that when she moved Friction from such issues led to a to Vermont, she knew nothing about power struggle in 2013. Greco, then the area and, if she could do it over, council chair, advocated for controlled she would choose a Chittenden County growth and supported zoning restric- neighborhood with more pedestrian tions that some considered extreme. access.

Running for council, Nowak and Shaw But she subscribes to the “bloom campaigned against the rules and won. where you are planted” theory and They were part of the unanimous vote to tries to promote green living in the oust Greco as chair. heart of the ’burbs. Both cars in her Greco ultimately decided not to run driveway are fuel-efficient, and bright

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he pale green lettuce sprouting in Rosanne Greco’s suburban South Burlington backyard is full and healthy. Yet she’s the first to admit that the vegetables growing in a raised bed next to hers are superior.

Her neighbor Claudia Miller cultivates that neatly planted plot. The two are participating in an informal yard-sharing arrangement designed to encourage people to grow food close to home. Miller’s nearby townhouse has no place to grow anything.

But tomatoes, it turns out, can cause trouble. The garden matchmaking is one of several ideas— such as no-mow lawns — that the South Burlington Sustainable Agriculture Subcommittee is promoting.

Greco, a former city councilor known for sharp opinions, chairs that appointed city body.

Three South Burlington city councilors have raised concerns about the scope and work of the subcommittee, which has a rocky history. It was first created as a subcommittee of the city council in 2012 to promote local food production.

It was contentious then, too. Critics said it was stacked with antidevelopment members, and it disbanded in the spring of 2013. The planning commission brought it back to life a few months later as one of its subcommittees.

Today, some council members would prefer to see the effort relegated to private nonprofit status — and to stop using city letterhead altogether.

Pat Nowak, chair of the city council, worried at a public meeting in May that the garden matchmaking venture might present a liability to the city, as broker of the arrangements, even though the planting, weeding and harvesting take place on private property. During a joint city council and planning commission meeting, Nowak said, “We honestly don’t need another lawsuit in South Burlington.”

She is also concerned that the subcommittee is considering fundraising that is not in its purview, and that its work is too open-ended.

Council members Thomas Chittenden and Chris Shaw also have expressed reservations about the subcommittee’s work. It’s draining time and energy with debate about small things like gardening when city officials should

yellow, like the sun: a Volkswagen Beetle, and a Toyota Prius that gets about 50 miles a gallon. She installed solar panels on her roof that generate more power than the house uses. Her garden hoses connect to rain barrels.

She composts and shares compost with any neighbor who asks. She has planted berry bushes and fruit trees all over the yard to limit her grass cover, and for fresh food.

She and her husband still have plenty of lawn to mow. But the strategies of growing edibles and planting natural grasses that don’t need to be cut with fossil fuel-powered mowers are ideas the sustainable ag group promotes.

She is acting on her larger belief that environmental practices are needed to save the planet, Greco said. “I really believe in the power of people to make change,” she said.

Greco’s seen a lot of changes herself.

She grew up outside Scranton, Pa., in an old house that was more dilapidated than historic, she says. Her father was a coal miner who shifted to heavy construction work after the mines closed.

He died at age 49 after collapsing on the job. Greco was 9.

Her widowed mother struggled to support the two of them. “She worked in factories, she cleaned houses,” Greco said. “I used to help her clean houses.”

On the eve of her 14th birthday, Greco felt the calling to become a Roman Catholic nun. She left home and entered a convent run by the Sisters of Christian Charity in Mendham, N.J., returning to Pennsylvania during summers.

She finished high school and started college while at the convent. She was preparing to take her vows at age 20.

But then the nuns kicked her out for asking pushy questions about the order’s social mission, Greco said. She added: “I learned the nuns don’t like to be challenged.”

It was an adjustment to leave the security of the sisterhood. “I’d never had a date, never been kissed, never had a job,” Greco said.

She worked in a factory, and, on the advice of a nun friend, applied for financial aid to finish her degree. She graduated from Kean College in New Jersey with a bachelor’s in psychology.

“Nothing’s been given to me, nothing.

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walking distance of Miller’s townhouse.

“It was a wicked coincidence,” said Miller, a retired IBM engineer who thinks the program is an excellent idea.

“I think other people would benefit too.”

So far, they are the only two people participating in the program.

Despite the low numbers, plenty of people appreciate the work of the Sustainable Agriculture Subcommittee, Greco said. “This is a big gardening culture here. Why those three city councilors have a fear of gardeners is beyond me.”

Contrary to Greco’s assertion, Nowak, Shaw and Chittenden maintain that they support many of the green efforts. The issue is not about Greco or the concept of sustainable agriculture, Chittenden said in an email. He also said Greco has taken out of context his comments at public meetings about the group.

“I did state that I have observed ‘unbalanced advocacy’ from this subcommittee affecting the attention of the parent committee, the planning commission,” Chittenden wrote. “I am concerned that this attention is distracting the planning commission from the broader interests of the community and from their very important tasks, like the Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations...”

South Burlington’s heavy strip development along Route 7 and Route 2, and the many condos, apartments and subdivisions in the city give it a strong suburban identity. The pace of housing construction remains below the boom years prior to 2007 — the beginning of the Great Recession — but the number of residential permits approved increased the last three years in a row, with a total of 121 units last year. Still, rural nooks and vistas remain, especially in the southeast quadrant, where more restrictive zoning has slowed development.

At the heart of the dispute in South Burlington seems to be the question: What form will “progress” take?

Now 66 years old and many years removed from the convent, Greco continues to speak up, just as she did as a novice. She believes that advocating for small changes, such as sharing backyard garden space, could one day lead to big changes in behavior that improve the environment.

She said, “The stuff we’re doing is just seeds, tiny seeds, that hopefully will grow.” m

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I remember the days when I agonized over a 10-cent phone call,” she said.

Not long after graduation, she decided to join the Air Force to help pay for her graduate schooling and because it promised opportunities for women.

Over several decades, she worked her way up the ranks in intelligence posts. Her career took her all over the world and taught her, she said, that determination and work can go a long way.

She eventually became an Air Force arms-control negotiator.

“All of a sudden, 30 years has passed, and I’m a colonel,” Greco said.

Often, she was the only woman at the negotiating table. She said that being in this position honed her earlier inclination to be assertive, perhaps more so than many women.

Greco moved to Vermont in 2007, a few years after she retired as a colonel.

Now she is financially secure and wants to give back, Greco said.

She’s still exercising that assertive tendency, this time in the debate about sustainable agriculture.

“Maybe I get it from the nuns, maybe I got it from the military,” she said. “But I speak out more.”

Council member Shaw has his own view of Greco: “I’d say Rosanne would like to imagine herself as a lightning rod” but in reality she’s probably more like a self-sparking “Van de Graaf generator.”

He agrees with Nowak that the subcommittee should be a private nonprofit organization. That decision would be the planning commission’s, which has so far made no move to change the subcommittee’s status.

The subcommittee is working to preserve prime agricultural soils, boost community-supported agriculture programs and promote the notion that even a bustling suburb can have appropriately scaled farming. In January, its members sent a letter to the public urging landowners to consider conservation and small-scale agriculture on any plot larger than five acres. (The subcommittee has no budget, but the city paid the postage.) In April, they held a public meeting on the “growing connections” garden-share idea. About 12 people showed up. In May, they held a session on “no mow” yards at the South Burlington public library. About 10 people attended.

Claudia Miller saw a notice about the growing connections meeting and met Greco for the first time there. They talked, and soon Miller was growing eggplants and tomatoes in Greco’s yard — which, as it turns out, is within

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If a new project to put electric transmission lines under Lake Champlain is completed, Vermont stands to receive a boatload of money for playing host.

In an agreement announced Tuesday, TDI New England would pay more than $720 million to the state over 40 years.

Some of that money would help clean up the very lake that would serve as the conduit. Another sizable chunk would pay for renewable-energy generation in Vermont.

The state’s electric customers would also get a piece.

“It’s a lot of money,” said Chris Recchia, commissioner of the Vermont Public Service Department. “This is probably the biggest energy project in Vermont since Vermont Yankee.”

TDI president Donald Jessome said in an interview last month that the company has increased its proposed contributions significantly since negotiations with the state and other entities began.

TDI’s proposed New England Clean Power Link is a $1.2 billion, 154-mile underwater

and underground transmission line that would deliver power from Hydro-Québec in Canada to New England. The Vermont Public Service Board is expected to decide whether to grant the project a certificate of public good this fall.

It also might never happen.

If a proposed Northern Pass project to send Hydro-Québec power through New Hampshire wins approval first, Recchia said, Hydro-Québec might back out as a supplier of the New England Power Link project.

Chris Kilian, Vermont director of the Conservation Law Foundation, an environmental organization that advocates for a cleaner lake, said he’s been talking to TDI for several years about the project and is confident that it would have minimal impact on the lake. He called TDI’s financial contribution to lake cleanup “definitely major.”

The agreement, which is pending approval of the state Public Service Board, was the result of nearly a year of negotiations with various state agencies.

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Media Note: Vermont PBS to Replace Carlson as ‘Connect’ Host Green Mountain Power spokeswoman Kristin Carlson ended her run Friday hosting a new interview show on Vermont PBS after just two episodes, according to station CEO Holly Groschner.

Vermont PBS has faced blowback since it announced last week that Carlson, a former WCAX-TV reporter and anchor, would lead the half-hour program, called “Connect ... with Kristin Carlson.” Critics questioned whether it was appropriate for a corporate spokesperson to fulfill a journalistic role at the publicly funded station.

After hearing from viewers, staff members and board members, Groschner said, she and Carlson discussed the matter Thursday morning and decided to part ways. Both characterized the decision as mutual.

“We agreed that probably the best approach is to look at other opportunities of how to accomplish our mission of connecting

Vermonters with Vermont stories,” Groschner said.

The station chief had previously defended Carlson’s hiring, telling Seven Days she was “not worried” about the criticism because, “Kristin is the consummate professional, and we are not putting her, or ourselves, in a compromised position.” She told VTDigger.org, “It’s a shame that people are making an issue out of this.”

Others felt differently. A diverse array of Vermonters — including WDEV radio host Mark Johnson, liberal blogger John Walters, Vermonters for a Clean Environment executive director Annette Smith and even former governor Howard Dean — questioned the arrangement. Some wondered whether the views of Green Mountain Power opponents would be squelched, while others saw the show as a giveaway to the company because it bolstered the reputation of its spokesperson.

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New NAACP Chapter Forms in Vermont The mood was celebratory last week as about 60 people gathered at a meeting of Vermont’s newly founded chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

“This is a momentous occasion,” said Mary Brown-Guillory of Burlington, president of the Champlain Area NAACP. The group will fight racism and work to educate Vermont on issues of fairness, she said. The chapter has 168 members so far and needs more, Brown-Guillory emphasized to the crowd gathered at the Waterman Building on the University of Vermont campus.

“We cannot do this without you,” she said.

According to the organizers, the chapter is the first in Vermont to affiliate with the national civil rights group, which, since its founding more than a century ago, has played a pivotal role in battles for equal access to jobs and housing, integrated schools, and

voting rights. There was an earlier effort to create a chapter in Vermont, but that group was not directly tied to the national organization, Brown-Guillory said.

People of all backgrounds and races can join the chapter and serve as officers. The crowd that gathered Tuesday included people with varying shades of skin, from dark to light to in-between.

Ethan Fontneau of Burlington came to the meeting after a friend told him about it. The young tech worker grew up black in smalltown Georgia, Vt., and says he never experienced racism, at least overtly. “When I grew up I didn’t notice anything, but that could have been me being super young.”

It’s good to have the NAACP chapter locally, and he hopes to attend future meetings, Fontneau said. “I think it’s great to have the representation, definitely.”

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ext week, Charlotte-based vaudevillian, screen actor, musician and comedian Woody Keppel will welcome many of his longtime friends and fellow street performers to Burlington City Arts’ eighth annual Festival of Fools.

The festival, which Keppel founded in 2008 and still curates, celebrates the ancient tradition of street performance, or “busking.” For three days, internationally renowned comedians, musicians, jugglers, acrobats, magicians and daredevils will do their shtick in downtown Burlington for crowds of thousands, then pass the hat for tips. For some, it’ll be their first time busking in Burlington.

The man behind the festival has been thrilling audiences worldwide for nearly 35 years with his unique blend of music and family-friendly physical comedy.

For decades, Keppel has performed as the buffoonish half of the comedic duo Waldo & Woodhead, alongside his stage partner, Paul “Waldo” Burke.

For the fiftysomething Keppel — like many in showbiz, he’s shy about revealing his age — channeling the inner-child alter ego Woodhead began as a form of therapy to help him overcome paralyzing stage fright. “Woodhead is not funny,” Keppel says of the character, whose comic appeal is his naïve and absentminded bumbling. “It’s the things that happen to him that are funny.”

Once, Keppel was in the midst of a street performance in Paris, surrounded by about 700 people, when an old woman entered the circle, lifted her dress and peed on the sidewalk. The impromptu urination inspired an additional 10 minutes of improvisation on Keppel’s part.

“You can’t script this stuff,” he says. “You just have to learn to react on your feet.”

A native of Richmond, Va., Mark “Woody” Keppel grew up in a household of entertainers. His grandmother was a vaudevillian dancer, and his mother directed children’s theater, so he was surrounded by music and dance throughout his childhood. “Our house had five kids and three pianos,” he says.

Those pianos weren’t always his friend. When Keppel was 8, his mother insisted he play a piano recital, the mere thought of which terrified him. Keppel dutifully memorized his Tchaikovsky piece, but he remembers that when he got on stage in a stuffy, packed auditorium, he became “a nervous wreck.”

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“I sat down at this baby grand piano and got through seven measures — and then just went completely blank,” he recalls. He started over, but the same thing happened. Keppel began sweating and shaking, then got tunnel vision and froze up. His teacher had to lift his hands off the keyboard and physically remove him from the chair.

“The audience cheered in sympathy,” Keppel says, “but that was the worst thing of all, because I knew they were just feeling sorry for me … My mother and I still talk about that incident.”

Keppel didn’t perform for an audience again until high school, when he learned to play Neil Young and Cat Stevens songs on guitar to win the love of a new girl in the neighborhood.

Many of his friends suggested he become a film actor, owing to his seeming ease at inhabiting characters. (In later life, Keppel earned six film credits; he’s currently writing a screenplay.) But he felt no overwhelming desire to be onstage or on-screen, and spent years wondering what career to pursue.

Keppel majored in music at Virginia Commonwealth University but never saw himself as a music teacher, either.

For a time, he entertained the idea of becoming a plumber, then got his real

estate license. None of these professions inspired his passion.

One day, while visiting a museum in Virginia, Keppel saw a performance by Bob Berky, an internationally renowned theatrical clown and musician. Impressed and intrigued, Keppel later approached Berky, who invited him to a circus workshop the following spring in Maine.

Keppel arrived at the idyllic lakeside camp to find that all his fellow students already knew advanced circus tricks.

Since he was nowhere near their skill level, he recalls, he knew he had to come up with a stage character. One morning, while the rest of the class rehearsed their acrobatics, Keppel conceived of the Woodhead character. He wrote a sketch for him and performed it for the class an hour later. They loved it.

“That was when I knew this is what I want to do. It was like putting on a mask,” Keppel remembers. “This isn’t me anymore; it’s a character.”

For more than 25 years, Keppel made a living as Woodhead. He became the character even before each show began.

And, though the shows were both physically and mentally demanding, he says he had no memory of what he was saying or doing onstage.

“I’ve done thousands of shows with

Woodhead, and no two are the same,” Keppel says. “And when it’s over, I don’t have a clear recollection of what I did, because I’m no longer in that brain. It’s therapy for sure, but it’s also exhausting!”

Keppel moved to Boston in the 1980s and began performing for Sarah Caldwell’s Opera Company of Boston. In 1985, he got a call from Dick Finkel, who was organizing the first large busking event of the modern era: a 10-day street performers’ festival in Edmonton, Alberta.

“I said, ‘What are you paying?’ And he said, ‘$800,’” Keppel recalls with a laugh.

Though Keppel had his doubts about Waldo & Woodhead working for so little money, the organizer was persuasive.

“Finkel told me, ‘If you don’t make great hats, I’ll be shocked,’” he says, using busker lingo for the post-performance take.

Though Keppel had been busking for only about a year, Finkel flew him to Alberta and covered his room and board.

The event was an enormous success and spawned similar busking festivals all over the world; Keppel has performed in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Christchurch, New Zealand.

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livelihood? Rockmore doesn’t think so.

As he points out, technology has a long history of influencing the arts, and vice versa. And, while plenty of Hollywood movies still depict AI as threatening to humans, he’s not sure that people in 2015 actually feel menaced by machines.

“We’re so immersed in technology these days that most people who say they feel threatened by it might just be paying [that fear] lip service,” he suggests. “I suppose I could spin up a real dystopian science-fiction story that’s based on someone winning one of these competitions, but I don’t really see that as a likely outcome.”

Indeed, Rockmore says that one of the most interesting aspects of the Turing tests is the questions and conversations they are bound to generate.

Among them: What is this thing called “art,” and why do we respond to it in a certain way? Could a machine provoke a similar response? What does it mean to our humanity if it does?

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The competition inspires another question from a technical standpoint: Will competitors need to build in certain imperfections to make their machinegenerated sonnets, songs and stories feel “human”? As author Malcolm Gladwell explains in his 2005 best seller Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, people have an uncanny ability to spot a forgery, even when they can’t specify what makes it a fake. Rockmore doesn’t see that as a problem, though: “I don’t know how a short story could be too perfect.”

There’s one meta question Rockmore also ponders.

“Suppose you couldn’t tell the difference, and then I told you which one was generated by the machine,” he says.

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the 2015-16 academic year, comprise three separate challenges. The DigiLit competition seeks algorithms capable of producing “‘human-level’ short stories of the kind that might be intended for a short story collection produced in a wellregarded MFA program or a piece for the New Yorker,” according to the website.

For PoetiX, programmers will submit software that can generate sonnets in the traditional Shakespearean or Petrarchan styles. AlgoRhythms is a Turing test of live DJing for software capable of generating danceable song mixes.

Entrants in the two writing competitions can win $5,000 each for the sonnet or story that scores highest on the Turing test, and $3,000 for the best computergenerated work judged against its peers.

In the dance-mix contest, six finalists will compete live for a $3,000 prize by spinning tunes head-to-head against human disc jockeys. Both the humans and the AIs will draw from a list of 1,000 tracks released just before the competition begins, and audience members won’t know whether the mix they’re hearing is human- or software-generated.

The competitions are the brainchild of Dan Rockmore, professor of math

and computer science, director of the Neukom Institute and an occasional contributor to the New Yorker. He got the idea during a spinning class in New York City. Rockmore had long wondered whether the tunes played in his classes were selected using algorithms designed to maximize the workout, he recalls — and was surprised to learn they weren’t.

“I almost couldn’t believe people hadn’t done this already,” Rockmore says.

“But the human is still in the loop, at least in the Flywheel classes in New York City.”

The practice of mixing art and technology to elicit specific behavioral or emotional responses is nothing new.

Muzak, the original background music company, was created in the 1920s, in part to increase worker productivity and make shoppers more inclined to linger in stores.

In 1963, computer scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, then a 15-year-old tinkerer, wrote a software program that analyzed classical music pieces and generated its own songs in similar styles. Today, online music services such as Pandora employ similar technologies, sometimes referred to as “music information retrieval.”

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Dartmouth’s William H. Neukom Institute for Computational Science has announced three competitions for the creators of computer software that aim to generate sonnets, short stories or dance-music mixes indistinguishable from those created by humans.

The first annual Neukom Institute Prizes in Computational Arts are based on the “Turing test,” the classic assessment of a machine’s capacity to exhibit behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of humans. Devised in 1950 by British computer scientist Alan Turing and featured prominently in the recent film Ex Machina, the test involves a conversation between a human and a machine capable of generating humanlike responses. The machine “passes” the test if a human listener cannot determine whether the responses come from a human or an artificial intelligence.

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n Saturday, July 25, Burlington’s Old North End will celebrate its culture and community with the 11th annual Ramble, a neighborhood-wide, dawn-’til-well-after-dusk party featuring a collage of artists, performers and local businesses. This year, the rain-orshine, family-friendly event welcomes back singer and ONE native IRIs DOwney, who will close the festivities as one of four musical acts performing that evening.

Downey, who’s been a Wednesday night mainstay at Church & Main for the past year and a half, has acute lupus nephritis. She underwent a kidney transplant last fall and took a hiatus from her weekly gigs downtown during her recovery, which was rocky but ultimately successful.

“I feel awesome now,” Downey shares over coffee. She performed at the last two Rambles, where she also sold jew- North End “War of the Wards” Field Day elry to raise money for her treatment. will feature balloon tosses, sack races, tug-o’-war and similar activi“I love to craft,” she says, ties. After the neighborhoods and adds that the event gave have been pitted against each her and her network of ONE other (albeit lightheartedly), supporters an opportunity to the festivities will switch spread awareness of kidney gears with this year’s “Unity transplants and lupus. in the Community”-themed Like many other performDecaturfest from noon ers and participants, Downey to 4 p.m. will spend the day at the The north and south sides Ramble before her set. “I of Decatur Street will — litmight be face painting, [but] erally and figuratively — tie I’ll hang out until it’s time to IRIS DO wnEy the knot, uniting a street play,” she says. once divided between older And there will be no shortage of play. From 10 a.m. to noon in Battery residents and an influx of more boisterPark, the New North End versus the Old ous tenants. Organizer lInDsey GIllIes

culTure says the “symbolic marriage” is a way of “rededicat[ing] ourselves to loving our neighbors” in the face of concerns about Burlington’s ongoing gentrification. The 1:30 p.m. ceremony involves a lengthy rope that ties one side of the street to the other, “celebrating our unbreakable community spirit and love of place,” Gillies adds.

Notable art-related happenings include bRyce Dance cOmpany’s performance of an excerpt from its upcoming “Lonesome Bend.” Ramblers can contribute to a community art project — a found-object mosaic around the door frame of Junktiques Collective — or have their portraits done by ONE resident sam sImOn, whose exhibit showcasing

INFo The Ramble, Saturday, July 25, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., at various Old north End locations in Burlington. Free. Downey performs from 8 to 8:45 p.m. during the Round up on lower north Street, along with Hooligan Ferry (6 to 6:30 p.m.), nick losito (6:40 to 7:10 p.m.), A2VT (7:20 to 7:50 p.m.), and mickey western and the Rodeo Clowns (9 to 10 p.m.). theramble.org

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Revelers will also have their pick of yoga sessions; poetry for hire from ben and GennaROse aleshIRe netheRcOtt; and bike races, bazaars, and more at Old Spokes Home and Bike Recycle Vermont.

That doesn’t begin to sum up the breadth of the day’s offerings: more than 40 free events featuring art, music, food and games.

To get the full scoop, pick up a map from Junktiques Collective, Radio Bean, Vantage Press, or other businesses and organizations in the North End. Downey, who describes her sound as “pop-eclectic,” says she’s excited to mark her return to performing with Saturday’s show. “There’s something magical about the Ramble,” she says. “[The Old North End] is a place in our area that doesn’t get celebrated that often. The Ramble does that.” m

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Attendees of past Festivals of Fools will likely recognize the legendary Mr. Spin from Adelaide, Australia, who will return to Burlington for the third time this year. His comedy juggling routine concludes with an eight-foot zigzag unicycle of his own design, on which he keeps three baseball bats in the air while balancing a glass of water on his head.

Keppel promises there will be new faces as well, including stunt comedian Wacky Chad from Boston, who does handstands on a skateboard and gravitydefying moves on an air-powered pogo stick.

What is it about the Festival of Fools that’s so appealing to audiences? Keppel suggests it has a timeless quality that transcends cultural and socioeconomic differences.

“It’s not quantum physics. It’s checkKE ppEl your-brain-at-thedoor comedy,” he says. “And so you’re attracting people from all walks of life.”

What’s the appeal for the performers, though, who travel from around the world to work for little more than a passed hat? Keppel suggests it’s the energy, spontaneity and immediacy of street crowds.

“Out in the street, it’s a real raw art.

People can leave any second they choose to if they don’t like it,” he says. “And they’ll give you whatever they think it was worth to them.”

According to Keppel, Burlington crowds “totally get it” and are generous to the festival buskers.

There are other rewards, too. The day before he was interviewed for this story, Keppel got an email from a woman who’d seen his show last year in Quechee with her husband. The man was suffering from colon cancer and wasn’t expected to live. This year, the woman wrote to tell Keppel how much they’d both enjoyed his show — and that her husband is now cancer-free.

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the ante by turning the fest into a competition, with a $10,000 prize provided by Ford Motor Company. About 100 international acts converged on the downtown.

At the performers’ first meeting, Keppel suggested that, in the spirit of their craft, the winner share the $10,000 pot.

“That didn’t go over well. They were like, ‘Screw that!’” Keppel recalls.

Their loss: Waldo & Woodhead won the $10,000 prize, and Keppel donated $2,000 of his share to a local orphanage.

Keppel says he’s always been intrigued by the history of the fool. In the Middle Ages, aristocrats and church leaders set aside one day a year, the Feast of Fools, when peasants were allowed to ridicule them and poke fun at the establishment. After the last modern Festival of WOOdy Fools, in Amsterdam, ended in the mid1980s, Keppel envisioned resurrecting the tradition. But it would be many years before he succeeded.

The first time Keppel visited Vermont, he saw the northern lights and knew he wanted to live here one day. He made the move in 1990, but continued to travel the world from his Vermont base, performing in large street festivals.

Today, Keppel lives in a cozy bungalow overlooking Lewis Creek in east Charlotte with his dogs, Junior and Bella. About 10 years ago, he “saw the writing on the wall” and realized he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life on the road. So when his neighbor, BCA executive director Doreen Kraft, mentioned that the city was looking for a new festival to promote, “I had one in my pocket,” he says.

“To me, Woody is one of a kind,” Kraft says. “Sometimes he can have me in absolute stitches, and I can’t even remember what he said.”

According to Kraft, the crowds for the Festival of Fools have grown every year, with tourists often contacting the BCA a year in advance to schedule their vacations around it. This year, the Church Street and City Hall stages have been designated entirely for music. Keppel will perform as Stick Hokum, one third of the HoKum Bros. comedy/music trio, along with Uncle Al Hokum (allan nicHolls) and Gus Hokum (Gus ZiesinG). Buskers will work three other blocks off Church Street beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday, and all day Saturday and Sunday.

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to be used interchangeably in surviving Etruscan writing samples. But for the most part no one knows what the writing says.

So that’s how we know how to pronounce ancient Egyptian names. That’s not to say an ancient Egyptian would know what you were talking about if you chronoported back to Thebes in the second century BC and asked to see Tutankhamen. As any American knows who’s earned Parisian scorn trying to communicate with just a FrenchEnglish dictionary, the Latin alphabet gives only a rough idea of pronunciation. One wonders how, without a surviving recording, someone in the future would phonetically translate North Dakotan, Cajun, or Valley Girl versions of English.

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was actually a cursive version of hieroglyphics. However, like everyone else at the time, he thought both hieroglyphs and demotic characters were ideographs — that is, each symbol represented a concept, as with the components of Chinese characters, rather than representing only a sound, as with the Latin alphabet. A string of glyphs like “bird-snake-manriver” was assumed to mean something, but no one thought you could pronounce it like a sequence of letters.

Young believed some hieroglyphs were phonetic — specifically, those used to spell out the names of foreign rulers.

Hieroglyphs representing kings and queens were often enclosed in an oblong border called a cartouche, making them easy to spot. The glyphs representing Egyptian rulers’ names were believed to be purely symbolic, not phonetic.

But since foreign names had no local equivalent, they could only be expressed phonetically, suggesting the glyph strings in those cartouches had to be pronounceable.

This proved to be the key to decoding. The Rosetta scripts encoded different languages.

non-cartouche-enclosed hieroglyphs spelling out “Ra-messes” (i.e., the name Ramses, used by numerous pharaohs).

Bingo! Champollion’s work wasn’t confirmed until 1866, when another multilingual text was discovered. But he’d figured it out.

The ancient Egyptians weren’t the only ones with a glyphic language — the ancient Mayans had one too. Early Spanish explorers attempted to record the Mayan calendar symbols in Spanish, producing a potentially Rosetta-like transliteration, but made a fatal error and got lost. Translation of Mayan glyphs made no real progress until 1952, when Russian linguist Yuri Knorosov pointed out the critical wrong turn in early attempts: the Spaniards assumed each Mayan glyph represented just one sound, whereas really each represented a syllable, or set of sounds, similar to Japanese kana writing.

The ingenuity of linguists in matching up sounds notwithstanding, without some Rosetta-type document or connection to a living language, translation of dead tongues is close to impossible. We have some idea what ancient Etruscan sounded like because Greek and Etruscan letters tend

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ome are now thinking: who cares how we know this? This is shallow. Fact is, David, we do know, more or less. And how we know is a fascinating tale.

It won’t surprise you to learn that our knowledge of how to pronounce Egyptian hieroglyphics begins with the Rosetta Stone. Discovered in 1799, the stone is a black granite-like slab on which a decree

by Ptolemy V is inscribed in three languages — hieroglyphics, what’s now called demotic script and ancient Greek.

The message itself, issued in Memphis in 196 BC, is of little consequence. (Short version: I, Ptolemy V, have done great deeds. Worship me, dudes.)

What makes the Rosetta Stone special is that each language conveys an essentially identical message. In other words, the Rosetta Stone is a hieroglyphics cheat sheet.

The two researchers who vied to translate the Rosetta Stone were the French linguist Jean-François Champollion and the English freelance genius Thomas Young. Young had the first breakthrough, discovering that demotic script

But proper names would presumably be pronounced similarly regardless of language.

Young tried to assign phonetic values to the cartouche glyphs, but translated only six before giving up. The task fell to Champollion.

He made two breakthroughs.

The first was comparing the demotic characters signifying Ptolemy on the Rosetta Stone to those representing Cleopatra in a separate example of demotic.

He found characters corresponding to the Greek equivalents of P, L, T, O and E in each name. In other words, demotic characters didn’t just symbolize concepts; they spelled out how words were pronounced. (As you may have guessed, in Greek the P in “Ptolemy” isn’t silent.)

Champollion’s next brainstorm was more of a leap. First he identified the hieroglyphs corresponding to various demotic characters. Then he took the hieroglyphs for Ptolemy on the Rosetta Stone and compared them to those on an obelisk, in a cartouche known to signify Cleopatra. Sure enough, he found the P, L, O and E hieroglyphs exactly where he predicted. What about the T? Champollion deduced he’d found a hieroglyphic homophone for this letter — that is, another symbol having the same pronunciation, as with our F and PH. Champollion set about finding other correspondences between Greek letters and hieroglyphs. In 1822, he found

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my cellphone app. And we were off — an exhausting final fare topping off an already draining day. When did I get this old? I wondered. I used to handle days and rides like this in my sleep. Nowadays it’s all a combination of fumes and willpower.

In the rearview mirror, I watched my customer spread himself out in the backseat. “You mind some radio?” I asked.

“Sure thing,” he replied. “You like country?”

“Yeah, I could listen to some country.”

I adjusted the dial and Toby Keith came through the speakers, singing a song in appreciation of red plastic Solo cups. It was working-class music, and I can certainly go there.

“What do you think about the flag burning?” my passenger asked, out of the blue.

“You mean the Confederate flag?” The Confederate flag controversy had been all over the news for weeks.

“No, today somebody burned the American flag at some demonstration. I’m ex-military, and I don’t think that’s right.”

“I don’t think it’s right, either, but I’ll tell ya this. I’m glad I live in a country where it’s legal to burn the flag.”

“It’s just wrong,” he said, my subtle argument evidently making no impression on his perspective. “And they’re coming to take away our guns.”

“Who’s coming to take away our guns?”

This was news to me.

“Obama is, man. And he’s not even American.”

“He’s not? Where is he from, then?”

I would have bet dollars to doughnuts on his answer, but that wasn’t really the point. I just felt the need to engage him man-to-man — on his own terms — and to hear and accept him where he lived.

“Everybody knows he’s from Kenya.” Bingo.

“You know what?” I said. “I think we’re just going to have to agree to disagree on that one.”

We motored along the highway at a cruise-controlled 68 miles per hour. I used to go faster, but my Buick LeSabre is up in miles at this point, so I’m prudent. Toby Keith finished his song about the cups.

“Did you serve overseas?” I asked.

“Yeah, in Iraq. But then my asthma got bad and they discharged me.”

“You working now?”

“Yeah, I’m a lineman. It’s steady and it pays good.”

“That’s excellent. Sounds like you scored a good job.”

Before we hit Waterbury, my customer was sound asleep. I kept the country music playing for the rest of the ride. It struck me how many powerful female singer-songwriters were in the rotation. They had their stories to tell, and they were worth telling.

Pulling into St. Johnsbury, I woke up my customer for directions. First I whispered, then I yelled, but ultimately it took a poke to the ribs. He steered us through the downtown, where I saw nary another vehicle on the road — until suddenly blue lights appeared behind us, and I pulled over.

The police officer came to my window, flashlight in hand.

“I’m a Burlington cabbie,” I volunteered.

“My customer here had a rough night at the bars and I’m driving him home. He just lives a couple of streets from here.”

“Could you give me your license and registration, please?” the officer asked.

His tone was friendly, not aggressive or

threatening in the least. “Do you have any idea why I pulled you over?”

“Honestly, I don’t have a clue.” I took a stab. “Is one of my lights out?”

“You blew through the stop sign by the bridge without even slowing down.”

“Jeez, I completely didn’t see it! I was paying attention to the turns my customer was giving me. If you can cut me a break, I’d really appreciate it.”

“Don’t worry about it,” he said, taking my paperwork. “It’s not a real obvious stop sign.”

As the officer checked on my license and reg back in his cruiser, my customer said, “I know this cop. He’s a good one. Most of the others are real dicks.” I had the sense he spoke from personal experience.

The officer returned, warning notice in hand. “Drive careful back to Burlington,” he advised.

A few minutes later, we arrived at my customer’s apartment house. He made a point of reaching over the rear seat to shake my hand — lefty-to-lefty, as his right was out of commission.

“Take care of that paw of yours,” I recommended.

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I used to handle days and rIdes lIke thIs In my sleep. nowadays It’s all a combination of fumes and willpower.

All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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n my list of Burlington summer delights is Nectar’s open garagedoor-style window. The venerable nightclub books the coolest bands, and on summer weekend nights I get to hear the live music while idling at the curb between taxi fares.

It was the night of July 3 — the date of the Queen City’s Independence Day celebration — and the post-fireworks traffic gridlock had finally ebbed at around 11:30.

Two o’clock last call was fast approaching, to be quickly followed by “taxi rush hour,” the mad scramble home. I bopped in my seat enjoying the closing number from the New Orleans funk band Naughty Professor as I mentally girded myself for the end-ofnight push.

A man maybe 30 years old approached my driver’s window cradling his right hand in his left. I could see the cuts, swelling and discoloration. “How far do you go, man?” he asked.

I replied, “Well, if it’s connected by land, as far as you want. Whaddaya have in mind?”

“I need to get home to St. J. My buddy got into a fight, and I lost my ride.”

I glanced at his hand. “What, did ya try to defend him?”

“Yeah, I jumped right in. I think I busted my hand. The police hauled him away — and the other guy. Luckily, they gave me a pass.”

“Jesus, your hand does look bad. You sure you don’t want me to take you up to the emergency room?”

“No, I’ll be all right. I just need to get home.”

“What’s St. Johnsbury? Like, 80 miles, right? I’ll take you for 200 flat, but I do need to get the money in advance.”

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amie Zargo scanned the list of names posted outside Courtroom 2B in the Chittenden Superior Court.

Seventeen people had been jailed over Independence Day weekend, including a boyfriend and girlfriend busted for allegedly dealing heroin and cocaine. But Zargo, who had driven from his home near Brattleboro looking for people to bail out, predicted that they’d all go free after their arraignments that morning — without his help.

“Watch how many people walk out this door,” he said, sullenly.

Zargo’s phone rings when people wind up in jail with insufficient cash to get out on their own. As a bail bond agent, the 42-year old former owner of a tree-trimming company carries out an under-the-radar — some say unsavory — role in the state’s criminal justice system.

In certain situations, entrepreneurs like him determine whether or not the accused stays behind bars until trial.

Lately, though, Zargo’s been getting fewer calls, and he’s not alone. A number of the 25 other people who are licensed to “write bail” in Vermont have noticed the same trend. Several factors — including lower crimes rates, cost containment and criminal justice reform — have reduced the number of criminal defendants seeking their services.

Eighteen months ago, nearly 500 people were being held in Vermont prisons while awaiting trial. On the morning of July 8, the count was 376.

That’s good news, if you ask criminal justice reform advocates or state corrections commissioner Andy Pallito.

But it’s bad news for bail bond agents, some of whom also function as bounty hunters when their clients disappear.

Vermont already has a strict statute that prevents an overly zealous approach to setting bail. That has kept the bail industry from becoming very robust here, according to David Cahill, executive director of the Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs’ Association.

In other states, signs of the service are everywhere.

Vermont agents tend to keep a lower profile, lurking in the back of courtrooms in search of clients. And other players in the legal realm tend to steer clear of them — cases of corrupt bail bond agents nationwide have given the industry a reputation for preying upon the poor. Some of the state’s key

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criminal justice figures — Sen. Dick Sears (D-Bennington), Defender General Matt Valerio, Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan — claimed to know little about them.

But given the opportunity, Vermont’s bail bond agents are eager to talk about their trade — and the threats it faces.

Their challenges signal major changes brewing in the correctional system.

Bail Basics

Vermont law lets judges set bail if they deem it necessary to ensure that a defendant will show up in court. They can order people imprisoned without bail only if the defendant poses a risk to the public or is facing charges that could carry a life sentence.

In most cases, people are released on “personal recognizance,” meaning that the judge trusts them to come back

on their own accord, without putting money on the line.

When judges do decide to use financial constraints, they have three options: unsecured appearance bonds, which require defendants to promise to pay the court a certain amount of money if they fail to show up; secured appearance bonds, which require them to deposit a refundable percentage of that money

The agents of Advantage Bail Bonds Vermont: Travis Campbell, Bill Burnett and Jeffrey Stewart

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Vermont bail bond agents say their client pool has dwindled to “the worst of the worst,” as Burnett described it, and they think they know why: Gov. Peter Shumlin and the state legislature have been pressuring the courts to reduce the prison population, making judges less inclined to set bail.

Chief administrative judge Brian Grearson disputed that explanation.

“I’m not aware of any judges feeling any political pressure,” he said.

But others believe there’s something to it.

“I’m not surprised to hear that,” said Donovan. “Anecdotally, what I’ve seen has been a real effort not only by prosecutors but by the judiciary to limit the imposition of the bail.” And, he added, “I’m not sure that’s a bad thing.”

According to Cahill, the cost of detaining people is especially high in Vermont because the state no longer operates local jails, which means pretrial detainees must be transported to regional prisons, where the cost per bed is greater.

Unprompted, Pallito did some offthe-cuff arithmetic, estimating that the reduction in detainees has saved the state roughly $2.5 million.

But there are other, higher-minded forces undercutting the bail industry.

Suzi Wizowaty, a former state representative and current executive director of Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, wants to start a “vigorous public discussion about bail in Vermont and … whether or not it’s penalizing poor

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Stewart wears a gun on his hip but, like his boss, is keen to clear up misperceptions about the trade. “Everyone thinks we’re gung-ho Rambo guys, but it’s all up here,” he said, tapping his head.

At Advantage, Burnett stressed, they don’t bail just anyone out. He said he’s more comfortable working with Vermonters because they are “easier to read” and less likely to run. He generally turns down requests from refugees because those communities tend to be so tight-knit; no one will talk if he’s trying to find a defendant who has gone missing, he said. Another thing Burnett has learned: Girlfriends and boyfriends make unreliable indemnitors. He normally won’t let them bail each other out.

Lately, though, the guys at Advantage have fewer opportunities to pick and

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have been in business longer than any other local agent, maintains a modest office in South Burlington that also serves as his accounting practice.

In advance of an interview, he’d printed out several studies attesting to the efficacy of bail. During it, he argued that despite the industry’s reputation, he performs an important service and operates strictly by the book. He described

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choose. Stewart was at the Chittenden County court the same day as Zargo.

They sat at the back of the courtroom together and, during a break, commiserated over the lack of business. At one point, Stewart had to leave to retrieve a man he’d bailed out over the weekend — for $500. Arrested for allegedly hitting his dog in the face and due in court that day for his arraignment, the man had wandered off by the time the judge reached his case.

Stewart found him downstairs berating the guards. When he returned, Zargo remarked on the bail amount, “I though you guys didn’t write 500s,” he said to his competitor.

“We don’t, usually,” Stewart responded grimly.

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with the court; and surety bonds, commonly known as bail, which require defendants to deposit the entire sum of money, which they get back if they show up for their court dates.

Bill Burnett, 59, said he’s observed a “tremendous increase” in the use of unsecured appearance bonds. The owner of Advantage Bail Bonds Vermont, who with 16 years under his belt claims to

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the bail bonds business as “probably the most misunderstood aspect of the criminal justice system.”

In Vermont, agents must get a license every two years from the Department of Financial Regulation and the Office of the Court Administrator, which requires that they pass a test and prove that they have an insurance company providing financial backing.

A relative or friend of the defendant usually pays the agent a nonrefundable fee — the state sets it at 10 percent of the bail amount — and the agent posts a bond with the court, agreeing to pay the full amount if the person doesn’t show up at court.

If someone leaves town, a bail bond agent will either personally track him or her down or hire a bounty hunter. With higher bails, agents often take collateral — if they can’t retrieve the person and the court forfeits the bond, they might sell a person’s vehicle or house to recoup the cost.

Jeffrey Stewart, 35, was working as a security guard and a private investigator when, in 2002, an acquaintance recruited him to find someone who had skipped bail. Now he works at Advantage, where he also writes bail. In his spare time, he works for a group he started called Paranormal Investigators of New England that looks into reported apparitions and haunted houses.

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people.” Even a few days in prison, she argued, can cause people to lose their employment and housing. “If you’re held in jail for an alleged crime that you have not been convicted of, your life can start unraveling around the edges,” she said.

This conversation is unfolding across the country as part of a growing criminal justice reform movement. The United States is one of only two countries that use commercial bail. Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon and Wisconsin have outlawed the practice, and other states are questioning it.

Last year, Jerome Murdough, a homeless and mentally ill man charged with trespassing, died in an sweltering jail cell at Rikers Island, N.Y., where he was being held because he couldn’t make his $2,500 bail. Prompted by this and similar tragedies, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan earlier this month to release low-risk defendants under court supervision rather than hold them at Rikers for lack of bail. In a statement, de Blasio summarized the chief criticism of the system: “Money bail is a problem because, as the system currently operates in New York, some people are being detained based on the size of their bank account, not the risk they pose.”

In Vermont, Cahill notes, “We don’t see as many of the classic sob stories where someone is arrested for shoplifting … and then held in pretrial detention for six months waiting for trial.” But he thinks there’s a discussion to be had — distinct from the financial one — about the human costs of locking people up.

People Hunting

Burnett said his bail bonds business isn’t as action-packed as Hollywood portrays: Most of the work is interviewing potential clients, filling out paperwork and keeping tabs on the people they’ve bailed out. A good bail bond agent, he explained, must be able to judge a person’s character and know when to steer clear of risky financial decisions.

But Burnett keeps a gun in his bag and another by his bed because things don’t always go according to plan when dealing with desperate people who may have broken the law already. He confessed that the bail recovery (aka bounty hunting) part of the business — when clients go missing and must be retrieved — satisfies his “bad boy side.”

Stewart, whose red beard and burly build make him look like a lumberjack, learned he had talents in that realm when he had to track down his own drugaddicted older brother, who had skipped bail and fled to Ohio. Asked about his investigative techniques, Stewart said, “Money talks.” Relationships with local

court dates and had ties to the community.

Seven people showed up on his behalf.

“This is your one free card, so do the right thing,” the judge advised as the man walked, unshackled, out of the courtroom.

Bail bond agents insist that when judges skimp on or bypass bail, it has implications beyond simply their bottom lines. Burnett said he was shocked when a judge released Omar Nassir, the Uber driver charged with sexually assaulting a passenger, without setting bail or an appearance bond. “He’s looking at a potential life sentence!” Burnett said, suggesting that the man might flee.

“We’re there to kind of babysit them,” explained Steve Galente of Vermont Bail Bonds. Without that supervision, Galente, who has a salt-and-pepper goatee and spent more than 30 years in the military, said people are more likely to miss their court dates. And when that happens, it falls to law enforcement — and by extension, taxpayers — to retrieve people.

Some cops are frustrated, too. Asked for his thoughts on the state’s bail system, Essex County Sheriff Trevor Colby responded sarcastically, “You mean the catch-and-release program?” Colby said he regularly encounters repeat offenders, released on paltry amounts of bail, who commit additional crimes while awaiting court appearances.

Zargo fantasizes about organizing a boycott — “I would like to see every bail bondsman in the state not write bail and see how overcrowded the prisons get” — but he’s concluded his colleagues are too competitive to make that work.

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cops, who will occasionally run a license plate number for him, also come in handy, he said.

Like Stewart, Zargo, 42, got his start on the bail recovery side of the business.

An avid deer hunter, he took to the job immediately. “I love hunting people,” he said matter-of-factly. When none of the Vermont companies would hire Zargo as a bail bond agent, he started AAA Bail Bonds with a Connecticut-based business partner, Flavio Castrogiovanni.

Illegal in some states, bounty hunting is unregulated in Vermont, according to those who practice it. Seven Days reached out to Department of Financial Regulation, the secretary of state’s office, which regulates 40 professions, and the attorney general’s office but was unable

to determine whether any government entity oversees this activity.

Zargo thinks that should change. He said the state should require bounty hunters to get licensed, noting that, as it stands now, “Any wannabe cowboy can run around with a gun.”

Back in the courtroom that day, he approached a blond woman corralling several children and gave her his card. “You might need a bondsman,” he suggested.

“I might not need anything,” the woman retorted. “I’m the ex.”

She was right. A little later, the judge decided not to impose bail on her former boyfriend — originally held for $10,000 and charged with dealing heroin and cocaine with his current girlfriend — because he didn’t have a history of missing

Typically, it’s prosecutors who urge judges to set high bails or hold defendants without bail. But in Chittenden County, State’s Attorney Donovan is the architect of a program that has likely contributed to the downturn in the bail bond business.

Started several years ago, it diverts lowlevel offenders from the court system.

Qualified candidates — selected through a risk assessment — can avoid criminal charges by getting treatment.

After successfully getting legislation passed last year, Shumlin’s administration aims to duplicate Donovan’s work in every county.

In Windham County, detainees have started wearing GPS devices on their ankles instead of awaiting their trial in prison. Previous efforts to implement this type of program have floundered, but Sheriff Keith Clark says the early results of his initiative are promising.

“I suspect those two programs are taking more people away from bail bondsmen than any other factor,” Sen.

Sears said. They may not like it, he continued, but “certainly for Vermont taxpayers, it’s good news.”

Defender general Valerio suggests his office is also fueling the trend: During the last several years, his lawyers have made a concerted effort to appeal bail decisions when they believe judges have erred in interpreting the statute. “We’re probably doing at least one a week,” he estimated. “In the vast majority of those cases, we win.” That, he thinks, has helped clarify the law. “I can see how bail bondsmen could feel that there’s a move away from bail, but in fact, it’s a move toward the statute as it was originally intended,” he said.

Pallito suggested lower crime rates could be a contributing factor. He said there were 3,000 more criminal filings per year a decade ago than there are today.

Donovan makes the case that moving away from bail might actually further reduce the crime rate, citing a study showing recidivism increasing among

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The bail bond business may be endangered in Vermont, but no one here is calling for its extinction.

Wizowaty came the closest, suggesting, “I’m not sure a truly fair and equitable system would include bail bondsmen.”

Others, including Donovan and Valerio, conceded that bail bond agents remain a necessary part of the criminal justice system.

In fact, Vermont is still attracting new agents. Connecticut bondsman Damien Speranza expanded his EZ Out Bail Bonds business to Vermont last July.

Unlike the other agents interviewed for this story, he sees the state as an untapped market. “Connecticut has a lot of hungry bondsmen,” he said, whereas “Vermont is not saturated.” Speranza, whose fiancée is from Vermont, has hired six of her relatives and friends and plans to keep growing. He co-owns the company with three other people, including Castrogiovanni’s brother. The amiable ex-bouncer also has ambitious plans to publicize his business by putting on concerts and distributing merchandise. He pulled up a mock-up of a maternity shirt he designed for a friend — the tagline read, “We hope your baby is an EZ Out.” When Burnett’s two sons were in college, they worked for their father, writing bail and tracking down people who had “skipped.” Stewart sometimes brings his wife along when he’s tracking down female defendants. But the father of three children is hoping it doesn’t become a family franchise. “I honestly would prefer for them to get into something else … something a little safer and financially better,” he said.

That’s sound advice if you ask lawmakers who are keen to further winnow the state’s prison population.

“I imagine,” said Sen. Joe Benning (R-Caledonia), a defense lawyer who sits on the judiciary committee, “if I was a bail bondsman, I would be worried about my livelihood.” m

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detainees who are held in jail, even if it’s just for a few days. Furthermore, when people remain in prison because they can’t make bail, they are more likely to take a plea deal simply because they want to get out, according to Donovan.

While he credits judges with making “tough” and “courageous” decisions, Donovan still thinks the process for determining whether someone should have bail set is arbitrary and subject to “strong personalities” that vary county by county.

Typically, a judge will be more inclined to set bail when a person has a history of failing to make their court dates. But those rap sheets, Donovan argues, don’t offer the “full story” about what’s causing people to act delinquently. “It’s almost counterintuitive that we expect people who are severely mentally ill and severely addicted to drugs to be law abiding citizens and show up in court,” he said.

His proposal: Use the evidence-based risk assessments that his pre-charge

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program adopted to determine what course of action is appropriate for each individual. “Let’s let science tell us if there is a flight risk,” he said.

Public safety commissioner Keith Flynn, who also happens to be a former prosecutor, puts that in human terms.

Flynn said it’s important to distinguish between a defendant who might skip town and someone “who lives down the road” and has trouble keeping court dates. In the latter case, “Chances are law enforcement knows where that person lives.”

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or me, the best way to enjoy baseball next to being at the ballpark is listening to the radio, not watching TV. Perhaps it’s because of the hazy nostalgia that pervades and defines America’s Pastime. Perhaps I’m just too cheap to spring for cable. Whatever the reason, the sweet crackle of a Boston Red Sox radio broadcast is my preferred soundtrack for summer hours spent sipping beer on the back porch, dangling my toes in the lake or lounging on a Cape Cod beach.

Though I make my living writing about music, baseball was my first love, an affection that bloomed long before my interest in rock and roll — or girls, for that matter.

My relationship with baseball on the radio goes back about as far.

So I’ve often dreamed of being a radio play-by-play announcer, surmising that getting paid to watch and talk about baseball might just be the best job in the world. At a recent Vermont Lake Monsters game at Centennial Field in Burlington, I tested that proposition under the on-thefly tutelage of a man who would know — George Commo, a Vermont Association of Broadcasters Hall of Famer. And I found out I was right.

At 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 9, I wound my way up the stands at Centennial

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to the press box. Around me, bustling legions of children in brightly colored T-shirts were finding their seats. It was Kids Day, the annual Lake Monsters morning game that brings kids from summer camps around the region to the ballpark.

In use since 1906, Centennial is one of the oldest stadiums in the country, and Kids Day is about as electric and packed as you’ll ever see the historic bandbox. Only Hot Dog Heaven, earlier in the season, had topped this day’s 3,200-plus attendance — because 25-cent hot dogs draw a crowd.

Gotta love the minor leagues.

I found Commo at the far end of the cramped press box, where I experienced a Wizard of Oz “man behind the curtain” moment.

If you’ve listened to a Vermont sporting event on the radio over the past 40 years, you’re probably familiar with Commo’s sturdy baritone. Besides being the voice of the Lake Monsters — and the Vermont Expos, Mariners and Reds before them — he’s called everything from high school sports to University of Vermont hockey and basketball to stock car racing to (since 1999) Norwich University hockey. Commo also works as a broadcaster, sports talkshow host and contributor to Northeast Sports Network, an online outlet focused

on regional sports. (Quoth his Twitter bio: “If you have a game, I’ll call it!”)

On air, Commo has cultivated a smooth, authoritative manner. So I was somewhat surprised to find a grandfatherly 65-yearold clad in rumpled khakis and a maroon polo huddled over a yellow score sheet in the radio booth. Similarly, I was mystified — or rather, demystified — by the spartan booth itself, which felt like a treehouse built by a dad whose good intentions outstrip his handiness.

Two pairs of headphones with attached mics rested on a sill by a large, open-air window that offered a wide view of the field and stadium. A couple of photocopied lineup sheets and glossy schedules stapled to the plywood walls served as décor. I also noticed a curious device resembling a hobbyist’s ham radio. This turned out to be the modem that wires the booth to the ESPN studio in Colchester, where games are broadcast on 960 AM the Zone.

Despite our unimpressive surroundings, I was giddy as Commo invited me to sit — in a battered chair missing one armrest, perhaps a necessity given our close quarters — and don headphones.

He showed me the score sheet he uses to track the game. There are no computers in the booth — even a laptop would be a

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George Commo (left) with Dan Bolles at Centennial Field on July 9

tight fit — so Commo keeps score analog.

Like most broadcasters, he’s developed a personalized shorthand for the traditional byzantine manner of baseball scorekeeping. (Red Sox broadcaster Joe Castiglione uses a color-coded system, for example.)

Commo walked me through the notes from the previous game, dutifully compiled each game day by the team’s director of media relations, Paul Stanfield — who also stocks a nearby cooler with drinks to keep everyone in the box quenched.

In the notes I found stats for both teams, notable recent plays and tidbits on current players and how Lake Monsters alums are faring in the major leagues. For the record, the Lake Monsters are the Class A short season affiliate of the Oakland Athletics, which is the second lowest of the six minor league levels. So when that rare Lake Monster makes the Show, it’s a big deal.

Commo’s few pages of notes, his score sheet and his own knowledge of baseball are all he has to go on during each game.

They were all I had, too.

In basketball and hockey, the action is constant, so all a broadcaster really has to do is describe it. Not so here. Baseball is unusual among sports, save maybe football, in being marked by brief flurries of activity followed by interminable periods of nothing much happening. Over the course of this particular four-hour, 12-inning game, I would learn the painful truth of the aphorism “There is no clock in baseball.”

Like his idol, Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, Commo typically works baseball games alone, without the benefit of a color analyst. (This season, however, he is often joined by an intern, Jordan Barlow, an electronic journalism student at Lyndon State College.) A color person’s main job — and mine that day — is to fill in the gaps in play with game analysis or stories that may or may not relate to what’s happening on the field. (Part of what makes Castiglione and his partner, Dave O’Brien, so entertaining is their offtopic diversions during down moments.)

Commo’s ability to find vivid commentary in so little material, game in and game out, testifies to both his skill and experience.

As for myself, I would find I have a bit of the former, but a long way to go on the latter.

During the pregame show, we exchanged on-air pleasantries, commenting on Champ’s skating prowess as an ATV towed the plush LM mascot around the infield on Rollerblades. (Again, gotta love the minors!) Then the ballgame got under way.

I kept quiet during the Mahoning Valley Scrappers’ half of the first inning, dropping in only when Commo addressed me. In the break between half innings, he turned to me and encouraged more input.

“You know, Dan,” Commo said, eyeing me over the bridge of his glasses. “You don’t have to wait for me to invite you to talk. You can ask me questions. You can talk about plays. That’s why you’re here, right?” Right.

PARENTS: Over the course of the next several innings, Commo and I developed a rapport.

Though I interjected a couple of clunkers, for the most part I held my own, leaning on my years of watching and playing baseball and softball to analyze good plays and misplays. At this level, the latter determine the outcome of games more often than not, today’s game included.

We noted that the overcast sky was making it tough for outfielders to track fly balls. We talked about the wide range of talent in — as Kevin Costner’s Crash Davis puts it in Bull Durham — “the bus leagues.” We speculated on whether LM manager Aaron Nieckula would let speedy, prized prospect Richie Martin run.

He did, and Martin was caught stealing twice. Not a great showing for Martin, the A’s’ first-round pick in the 2015 draft. Still, his stay in Burlington is likely to be a short one before he’s promoted.

I ribbed Commo over the pronunciation of a Hawaiian player’s hometown, and he played along. It was Kids Day, so we talked a lot about how baseball, long surpassed in popularity and participation by other sports, can attract more youth. We scoffed at an LM runner who failed to advance from second to third on a deep fly out to center — even though, as I noted in probably my best comment of the game, the Lake Monsters had already tested the Scrappers centerfielder’s arm and found it lacking.

I stumbled badly when given a chance to handle play-by-play in the bottom of the seventh inning. In fairness, I was derailed by a series of inning-closing plays so bizarre they would have given the great Red Barber fits — or so I told myself.

Still, Commo need not worry about competition from me as he guns for his 11th Vermont Sportscaster of the Year award.

Mostly, Commo and I shot the breeze like two guys who love baseball having a blast watching a game — which is precisely what we were supposed to do.

— though he was quick to dispel any notion that he’s in the same league as Scully, who’s universally regarded as one of the two or three greatest announcers in history.

“I’m the eyes of the people who are sitting at home listening to the game,” he said. “It’s my job to paint a picture for people of what is happening. And you want it to be conversational.”

That means reacting to the game much as a fan would, positive and negative.

“You want to convey the excitement,” Commo continued.

“But you want to convey the lack of excitement if there isn’t any. If the team isn’t playing well, or if it’s a bad game, there’s nothing wrong with letting people know that.”

Like when a sloppily played game goes 12 innings, as ours did on that Thursday. Toward the end of our marathon broadcast, you could detect a growing frustration and weariness, however slight, in Commo’s tone — mine, too. To borrow a Scullyism, in the later innings we called the game like we were double-parked.

By the same token, listeners expect broadcasters to show emotion when something good happens. Commo cited Castiglione as an example of homerism done right.

“Joe lets you know just from the tone of his voice,” he said. “He doesn’t even have to tell you what happened. You know.”

As I learned the hard way, play-by-play depends as much on what you don’t say as on what you do. Yielding to the temptation to describe everything will inevitably leave you tongue-tied. Striking a balance between description and silence is critical — and challenging, even for 40-year vets.

“That’s something I still need to work on,” Commo admitted. “It was easier to describe everything when I was younger.

But it’s harder to do that now. So you have to back off a little bit. Paint the picture, then step back.”

Scully would agree. In the SB Nation interview, he revealed a secret that wannabe broadcasters like myself would do well to remember: “And the best thing I do? I shut up.”

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n a 2014 interview with Cee Angi of SB Nation, Vin Scully, who has been announcing Dodgers games since 1950 — the same year that Commo was born in Essex — explained his philosophy of calling baseball.

“My idea is that I’m sitting next to the listener in the ballpark, and we’re just watching the game,” he said.

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or some, yoga is sexy. Tai chi, on the other hand, not so much.

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“We want to recapture this the way the yoga people did.”

On a sultry afternoon at Boyd’s studio above Church Street, the laughter of kids and clanking of silverware outside overpower the measured swish of slippers worn by Boyd and his German student, Stephanie Panskus, on the hardwood floors. They seem unaffected by the noise as they gently move in

synchronicity. To an observer, it’s hard to envision tai chi as anything but the gentle art portrayed by Ang Lee in his 1992 film Pushing Hands, and practiced by so many seniors in city parks.

But when you learn where Boyd has been, and where he is going, another side of tai chi unfolds — one that could inspire a new generation of practitioners, if not necessarily a new line of lululemon apparel.

Boyd was the “second disciple” to study tai chi under Hong Kong Grandmaster Ip Tai Tak, an experience that forms the basis of his 2012 book Snake Style Tai Chi Chuan: The Hidden System of the Yang Family. The

book’s recent translation into German has brought an influx of international students to the Queen City to train with Boyd. The visibility has inspired new challenges, including criticism from skeptics in the tai chi community.

“Martial arts puts you under the highest stress imaginable,” says Boyd.

“When you learn how to compose yourself under that kind of stress, you learn how to control the other stressors that put you on an uneven keel.”

Boyd’s martial arts journey began in the 1970s, when, he recalls, he “lived, breathed and dreamed karate.” In Snake Style, he describes how he traveled to Okinawa and was stumped by the fluid

movements of the Japanese karate artists, which he eventually traced to the “soft and subtle power” of Chinese tai chi. The masters of the most powerful style, Boyd would discover, were the members of the Yang tai chi dynasty, but they kept their practice to themselves.

Fast forward to 2000. After years of studying traditional tai chi in the U.S., Boyd traveled to Hong Kong and befriended the daughter of Ip Tai Tak, who had been chosen as the “first disciple” of the Yang family to carry on the hidden tradition. Boyd negotiated to become Ip’s disciple and learn this so-called “snake style.”

“He basically won the tai chi lottery,” says Ernie Pomerleau, a Burlington real estate broker who has been practicing martial arts alongside his friend Boyd since they were both 18.

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A casual observer, or even a serious “Bob is teaching everything openly observer, may find it tricky to distin- he knows about tai chi,” writes Panskus, guish between traditional (or tiger- 51, in an email. She adds that unlearning style) tai chi and the snake-style tai the tiger style and learning the snake chi that Boyd learned from Ip. As Boyd style from Boyd over the past eight years explains, the former is based on treating has changed her life. “It strengthens all the muscles more independently and the inner organs, makes your back and propelling from the legs. muscles strong and flexIn the Ip family tradition, ible, and gives you great everything is centered on power for everyday chalthe flexibility of the spine lenges. You learned to and the core muscles. stay relaxed in difficult In Boyd’s studio, situations.”

Panskus looks on as he French disciple explains. “Traditionally, Thierry Bae also praises I would pick up the leg Boyd for his extraorindependently, set the dinary knowledge and heel down, begin pushing instruction. Having spent up with the right leg and 30 years trying to learn the right buttock until secret Chinese family the weight transferred to styles, he says, he eventuthe left leg. Then I would ally tried the snake style begin to rotate my hips and got hooked. “But only and move my hands to with Bob,” he writes, “we finish the posture,” Boyd really follow the internal says, demonstrating the principles, giving a speErNiE PomE rlEAu move. “Now, I’ll take the cial feeling of the body same open position, but and energy. Bob gave instead of picking up my leg and plac- me the keys to understand how to be ing it, I’m going to arch my spine a little rooted, relaxed and powerful.” bit; that will pull these core muscles in; Boyd taught Pomerleau the snake it’ll pick up this left hip; I’ll move with style: “It’s so esoteric — it’s so deeply, my entire body forward, and then the fundamentally different and so hard to hands will move.” learn, that the public isn’t taught that The subtle motions add up to a much much.” For Pomerleau, the payoffs are more powerful position, says Boyd. profound. “My back has dramatically But that he’s teaching them at all has improved, my asthma has gone away alienated him from some fellow tai chi and my head is clearer,” he says. “I’m 68, practitioners, who would prefer to keep but I could beat most 21-year-olds. ancient Chinese secrets secret. Boyd “I love the fact that I have this insees himself as the primary carrier of credible gift given to me by Bob and this particular legacy of Ip, asserting in Master Ip to defend myself, but just feel an email, “Anyone else claiming to teach better; I’m healthier. We climbed the tai the snake style learned from me.” chi mountain and we got the chalice,” A quick Google search turns up Pomerleau says. “Whether other people plenty of pooh-poohers, including New believe that or not, it doesn’t really York critic and tai chi teacher H. Won matter.” m Gim, who writes: “Tai Chi Snake style?

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Among Gods and Lobsters Book review: Book Seventeen: Poems, Greg Delanty B y j i m Schl ey

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or those of us who grew up with D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths (or discovered this weird, wonderful book with our own children), the myths and exploits of the ancients retain a powerful hold. They evoke a time when humans and gods, monsters and oracles, brushed past one another in an everyday way.

Irish poet Greg Delanty, who is poet-in-residence at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester and author of nine previous volumes of poems, draws on this lasting appeal of the ancient topoi in his new book, released as The Greek Anthology, Book XVII in the UK and now as Book Seventeen in the U.S. By presenting his work as a collection of newly unearthed “ancient” pieces, Delanty places it in a long and illustrious tradition that merits some explanation.

The 16-volume Anthologia Graeca, an accumulation of epigrams, songs and poems spanning 1,700 years of Greek literature, is one of the earliest anthologies — the Greek term meaning “a collection of flowers.” Found in various manuscripts from the 10th and 14th centuries, the so-called “Greek Anthology” includes terse epigrams, off-color jokes, laments, diatribes and anecdotal portraits of contemporaries and deities.

The Greek Anthology has exerted a sustained gravitational pull on European literature from the Roman era and Renaissance through the 20th century.

Its influence is reflected in essential works by writers as varied as Propertius and Martial; Alexander Pope, Andrew Marvell and Walter Savage Landor; the modernists Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) and Constantine Cavafy; and the underappreciated Edgar Lee Masters, whose Spoon River Anthology is a panoply of small-town personages confessing and confiding in their own verse epitaphs.

The poems that have come down to us from those old Greeks themselves (Archilochus, Asclepiades of Samos, Callimachus and many more) have been translated repeatedly not only by scholars but also by excellent poets, including Kenneth Rexroth, Willis Barnstone, Daryl Hine, Rosanna Warren, Anne Carson and part-time Vermonter Rachel Hadas. In translation, the Greek poems have tended to share with ancient

Chinese poetry a distinct formal compression, descriptive concision and conversational manner.

Like those of his predecessors, Delanty’s neo-Greco poems are brief. Mostly appearing two to a page, they’re clustered by theme (e.g., time and its costs, political chicanery, eros, the splendor of the natural world), and their tones range from gloomy to bawdy. These aren’t dutiful imitations or parodies of classical antecedents but fresh visitations, remarkable in their metaphorical ingenuity. Delanty has found and fashioned sounds that genuinely recall the miscellaneousness of his exemplars, rich and thick with the physics of existence and poignant with emotional restraint, often quietly rhymed.

And Book Seventeen is fun to read, as Delanty hip-hops between epochs, at times echoing age-old tropes and settings and then leaping to up-todate, altogether recognizable details.

In “Driving in Vermont,” he describes the annual “plumes of leaf-fire” that “people travel thousands of miles to admire”:

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By presenting his work as a collection of newly unearthed “ancient” pieces,

Delanty places it in a long and illustrious tradition.

Folk drive by, their radios reporting the weather, last night’s frost, baseball, the demise of the world in the umpteen ways we’ve devised. Maybe a few comment on the glorious light, everyone hightailing it to work. But now my job is to pull off Route 15 in Hyde Park and Centerville and report this sighting. Who’d have thought the god of light would be seen in the Northeast Kingdom, Apollo himself, on the lam from his Attic stomping ground.

“Attic” refers to the main dialect of classical Greek spoken in the region around Athens. That’s an example of Delanty’s erudition, a sly allusion that doesn’t interrupt the rhythm and momentum of the poem at hand.

Many of these poems are didactic, in the etymological sense of “teacherly”: They pose an ethical or

Books psychological quandary and then craft an instructive resolve. Delanty keeps striking parallels, explicit or implicit, between the cosmos where our forebears struggled through life — laboring and loving and inevitably aging — and our day-to-day universe of jobs, families, cars, meals, the weather, even mischievous gods and (in one poem) lobsters. His poems are colloquial but never chatty; there’s a strong, taut sense of form at work (and at play) in each line.

In “Terminal,” here quoted whole, the poet calls a sick friend by the name Tithonus, referring to the mythical figure who was made immortal by Zeus at the behest of his divine lover, Eos (or Aurora, the dawn).

Alas, Eos forgot to request eternal youth, so Tithonus’ body continued to decay, just as Delanty’s patient decays while being kept alive indefinitely in the oncology ward:

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In “Recycling,” he remarks on his own technique, which entails continually shifting the perspective from microcosm to macrocosm: “If myths are frameworks, then any one person’s story / is made from a scrap heap: a Cyclops here, / Chimera there, Asclepius one minute, Persephone the next. / Each is like a bicycle put together from old

parts: / a rusty chain, racer handlebars, mudguards, an odd tire.”

My one quibble with this fine book is that the table of contents attributes the poems to a delightfully motley roster of poets: “Grigorographos,” “Deanos the Bearded,” “Rovius Flaccus,” “Rosanna Daedalus,” “Terence of the North.”

Surely these monikers, concocted by Delanty, are canny nods and greetings to friends and illustrious peers. The names are enjoyable to read and think about, but they don’t appear in the body of the book alongside the poems themselves, although the handsome page layout could have easily accommodated them.

This seems like a missed opportunity.

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Disarmed, I let what bothers me go and think since there’s no corresponding god —the pantheon being all tiresome piss and vinegar— we must create a new order and call her Tranquilia, Calmes, or promote Halcyon and tell Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, even Zeus, to move over in the pecking order, set her smack in the middle, the woman who breezes by our house this divine morning.

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tter the word “pizza” to New Yorkers living in Vermont, and they’ll wax poetic about the thin-crusted, orangegrease-dripping, foldable slices of paradise of their hometown. There, they’ll tell you, a typical lunch means two slices and a soda for about $5. Usually they’ll lament the lack of comparable fare farther north.

In the first six months of 2015, central Vermont welcomed at least three new Italian spots, all run by New York-area natives who spent years longing for a taste of home. The new business owners decided to take matters into their own hands, hoping to fill a hole in the local market. Their outposts include an Italian specialty shop in Stowe, a downtown pizzeria in Morrisville and a homey café a stone’s throw from the Statehouse.

Each location melds New York technique and style with Vermont’s homespun locavore charm, while offering a taste of its owner’s personal history — traceable, in no small way, to the history of the city itself.

Around the turn of the last century, a wave of Italian immigrants arrived in New York City. They settled on Pleasant Avenue and Mulberry Street in Manhattan, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, and along Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, among other neighborhoods. As families grew, many decamped to the suburbs. The exodus intensified as the city turned violent with crack-driven crime in the 1980s. On Long Island and in Westchester County, N.Y., and in Connecticut and New Jersey, Italian food took root, then evolved in the postwar era along with the modern pantry’s canned goods and imports.

A uniquely Italian American cookery

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was born. At its heart was red sauce — usually made with canned tomatoes, which were often imported from Italy.

That sauce is indispensable to any good pizza, and to entrées such as lasagna, baked ziti, penne alla vodka and stuffed shells. It’s as essential to eating in New York as bagels, bacon-egg-and-cheeses and cheap Chinese food.

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brimming with eggplant, chicken or meatballs and smothered in cheese. It forms the basis of delivery dinner or the late-night slice one snarfs while stumbling into the subway or a cab. And it flows like water through pizzerias, Italian delis and butcher shops, which often prepare sauces, meatballs, salads and entrées and sell them by the pound.

Until recently, the Green Mountains suffered from a notable lack of such fare,

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though some fans of Italian (without the specifically New York inflection) swear

by Costello’s Market in Middlebury. But now, from pizza by the slice to meatballs, Italian eats have, quite suddenly, arrived.

Last week, Seven Days set out to sample the new cuisine.

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donate all his processed water and spent grain to cEDAr Hill fArm, a local dairy owned by his longtime friend JErrY butlEr. “The spent grain makes great animal feed,” Hanson explains, and adds that this sort of arrangement is “pretty

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Elsewhere in Bristol, the downtown storefront at 26 Main Street — former home of Main Street Tacos, which closed in January — has new tenants. And they’re gearing up to serve a different kind of craft bubbly — soda.

JESS mESSEr is the owner of SAVouré, the soda, jam and pickle company that moved into the space in May, along with local caterer lAurEN GAmmoN of NomADic cHEf. Their shop, tANDEm, is still taking shape. The women rented the space primarily as a production kitchen for both businesses, and summer is a busy season for them, so the retail and food service have been developing in waves.

Messer has been making and serving handmade fresh-fruit popsicles since she moved in; in the next few weeks, she’ll debut four seasonal sodas on draft.

Summer flavors include black currant-rosemary, peach-yuzu-rose-geranium and grapefruit-hibiscus.

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No stranger to success in the beer world, Hanson has claimed several blue ribbons in Boston Wort Processors’ home-brewing competitions over the years. For Hogback, he says he’d like to develop eight to 12 different recipes and offer a seasonal rotation, including a hefeweizen and a German gose for next summer. He doesn’t plan to get too trendy with his initial selection, though. “I’m trying to go with more traditional styles like pale ales, porters and lagers, and then see where it takes me,” Hanson says.

Brew heads will have to look off-site for a first taste this fall. Zoning restrictions rule out a tasting room at the brewery, but Hanson has been networking with redemption centers and local watering holes as potential buyers for Hogback’s 22-ounce bottles and 5.2-gallon kegs (called “logs”). Hanson’s wife, pAttY, will manage the brewery’s distribution.

The brewing in the barn won’t just benefit drinkers.

With the help of an indirect waste permit, Hanson will

common in the brewing world.”

A retired facilities manager, Hanson dabbled in home brewing in the 1970s and got back into it in the ’90s, he says. Now it suits his search for alternative income sources. “I’m part of the group of sixtysomethings that left corporate America,” he says.

Hogback Mountain’s marketing concept matches Hanson’s focus on traditional styles of beer. The name of each brew will commemorate a business from Bristol’s early industrial days — Bristol Railroad; R.W. Shedrick Motor Sales; Drake, Smith & Co., to name a few — and appear on the label alongside a tidbit of history. “We’re trying to stay away from coming up with clever, glitzy names,” says Hanson — sticking with traditionalism even as he rides the tiny-brewery trend.

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PEDigrEE: Chef-owner Todd Whitehead worked at Kismet, Bethel Village Sandwich Shop and Park Row Café. oN thE mENu: Pastas, sauces, meatballs, soups, risottos, hot-pressed sandwiches. tAStiNg NotES: Inside Philamena’s, a side-street café with just a handful of tables, just one server is on duty.

A curtain separates the dining room from the kitchen, where a cook pushes pasta dough into an extruder, from which it emerges in wobbly tails.

Owner Todd Whitehead grew up working in his family’s deli on Long Island. His grandmother, Philamena, Todd Whitehead made pasta, sauce, meatballs and other dishes for patrons to take away, per the local custom. There, “every town has a shop that sells fresh pasta buckwheat-ricotta pancakes, omelettes and egg sandwiches, which come on and sauce,” the chef told Seven Days. house-baked biscuits with local eggs Not so here in Vermont.

Whitehead, who opened his and from-scratch sausage.

On my visit, classic carbonara (good Montpelier café in January, offers his for either meal) was studded with family tomato sauce and a second one crunchy bacon and tossed with parsley flambéed with vodka in the traditional in a yolky, cheesy sauce. “[The menu is] New York style, spicy with red pepper a marriage of tradition and my experiflakes and just a splash of cream. For ence growing up in an Italian family,” $25, customers can leave with a pound Whitehead said, “but on the Vermont of pasta, two quarts of sauce and eight side of things, we have all these great meatballs — enough to feed a family of local ingredients.”

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let me do creative things that I want to do but can’t do on a really large scale. The idea is that we’re using local food with a thread of flavor harnessed from a specific region.”

The two hope to host their first dinner the third weekend in September, with a Japanese menu featuring ramen, octopus balls and more. Guest chefs may step in for particular meals, such as an Ethiopian friend for an Ethiopian dinner.

Gammon teaches cooking at Champlain Valley Union High School and to private clients; this fall, she plans to offer workshops and classes at Tandem, too. While

the weather’s hot, though, Tandem will stick to popsicles and sodas, giving its owners time to come up with a format that works for their businesses and the community. “We’re just trying to figure out the best scenario for Bristol,” Messer says.

The shop is now open with sporadic hours, but Messer says she plans to normalize things once she gets the soda tap up and running in the next few months. Check savouré’s Facebook page for updates.

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By day, Tandem will also offer a handful of other snacks, such as spicy Korean pickled eggs (served on sticks) and perhaps ice cream floats produced in collaboration with nearby scoop shop lu•lu.

Savouré jams, pickles and chutneys will be available for retail.

Messer founded the business five years ago in Montréal, where her sodas were available on draft and in bottles in more than a dozen restaurants, markets and shops. “I had a decent little following in Montréal,” she says.

When she moved to a family property in Starksboro earlier this year, she brought the business with her.

Messer has no current plans to bottle in Vermont, but savouré sodas are currently available on draft at Scout & co. in Winooski and Burlington, and soon to be at LiNcoLN pEAk ViNEYArD in New Haven.

In September, Messer and Gammon plan to launch a weekend dinner series built on themed, multicourse meals.

Happening once or twice a month, these dinners will allow Gammon to explore dishes that don’t work in a catering format.

“We’re really just doing the pop-up series because it’s going to be fun,” Gammon says. “And it’ll

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Sandwiches are available on glutenfree bread, and weekly-changing soups and risottos (last week’s featured roasted corn and basil) are all vegan.

A cool puréed carrot soup flooded my sinuses with cumin, underscored with onion and garlic. It’s served by the bowl, but when I asked for a cup, Whitehead’s gracious staff offered me a half-bowl without missing a beat … just like Nonna might, if you asked sweetly enough.

“Leftovers are good!” Menendez said, standing at the register beside a glass case holding 20-inch pies reserved for slices. Dining solo, I’d ordered an 18-inch pie, fried ravioli and a chicken parm hero to go, in addition to a white slice and spinach Stromboli for lunch.

I knew even before I tasted the food, as Menendez ladled marinara from a steaming crock, that this place was the real deal.

The slices aren’t a buck like they can

be in NYC, but the veggies are fresh, and the cheeses are grated from whole wheels and blocks. The dough? Just flour, water, salt and yeast.

Meatballs are made from a family recipe. They’re available swaddled in mozzarella on sandwiches, as is the stellar chicken Parmesan, made with fresh cutlets breaded and fried in-house.

Because the right bread couldn’t be found locally, the shop sources its rolls from the Bronx.

In the chicken Parm, the airy, richly browned puffs somehow managed to soak up sauce without getting soggy, melding seamlessly with the cheese and meat into one neat, beautiful package.

The fried ravioli were crisp and moist, dipped in piquant marinara without a touch of sweetness. The pizza? On my visit, it represented the downstate ideal, its crust thin and crisp but chewy, the toppings ample and well distributed.

Menendez moved to the area after 9/11, and both she and Jansen seem to care deeply for their regulars and their adopted community. In June, the shop launched a new Feed a Friend program after Jansen learned that thousands of Lamoille County residents are food insecure. The system works on a pay-itforward model: Patrons purchase a slice (discounted to $2 from the usual $2.50), write a brief message to the unknown recipient on a Post-it and tack the note to the wall. When a hungry “friend” comes in, he or she removes a note from the wall and redeems it for a slice.

That thoughtfulness is evident in the everyday dining experience at Pizza on Main, too: Menendez’s friendly parlance felt instantly familiar, even though she’d never served me before. She offered easy laughs and recommended things to do in the area. “There’s a great band playing down at the park tonight,” she said. “You should go check it out. It’s going to be a great night.”

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Pedigree: Co-owners Marisa Menendez and Michael Jansen spent a year apprenticing at Pleasantville, N.Y., landmark Lucio’s Pizzeria.

On the Menu: Pizza (slices and whole pies), “wedges” and wraps, Stromboli, calzones, carrot cake, filled-to-order cannoli.

Tasting Notes: Until recently, Morrisville’s newest pizzeria offered mostly variations on a dough-andcheese theme. Calzones, Stromboli and bruschetta, along with a handful of other basics such as wings, mozzarella sticks (cut in-house from whole blocks of cheese) and salads, shared the menu with the shop’s namesake pies. Though co-owners Michael Jansen and Marisa Menendez just expanded their menu to include pastas and other entrées, the pizza alone is worth the trip.

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S. BURLINGTON (152 QUARRY HILL RD.) 2-BR, 1-BA, 1st floor, all-new kitchen cabinets & appliances, new flooring, new tub/ shower, new BA vanity, community pool, incl.

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W/D on-site, NS/pets, tenant pays electric, heat & HW, owner pays trash & water/sewer.

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SOUTH END DUPLEX Off-street parking, W/D hookups, 2-BR/1.5-BA, big kitchen, gas, 1,100 sq.ft., 2 floors, basement. Close to lake, bike path, shopping. Derek, 893-7825, dhfersing@ comcast.net. $1,400/ mo. Aug. 1.

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RENOVATED 3-BR DOWNTOWN Newly renovated Burlington apt. HDWD, new kitchen, BA, W/D & DW. Off-street parking.

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SEEKING WINOOSKI ROOMMATE $735/mo. Unfurnished 1-BR/1-BR in furnished 2-BR/2-BA apt. Female roommate. Year lease.

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Quintessential Country Home Underhill | 880 VT roUTe 15 | #4389349

Country home with beautiful mountain views! In-law apartment, farmer’s porch, living room boasting wood stove. Back deck showcases spectacular views. Formal dining room, charming kitchen, lovely gardens. First floor has a front-to-back master bedroom and bath. Picturesque barn! $349,000

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WINOOSKI UNFURNISHED 2-BR APT. 2 floors in pleasant neighborhood. Easy walk to downtown Winooski; just mins. from Burlington. Offstreet parking. NS/pets.

Avail. Aug. 1. $1,300/ mo. + utils. & dep. 1-year lease. 655-3236.

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Reduced rent of $100/ mo. in exchange for providing some evening companionship, sharing light housekeeping & occasional rides together to go out for a meal or a scenic drive.

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5-BR sleeps 10: $3,800/ week. vermontpropUNDERHILL erty.com listing #2838 HOUSEMATE WANTED (2-BR) & listing #215 Lg. BR + sitting room in (5-BR). Avail. Jul. farmhouse, $575/mo.

26-Aug. 2. 863-6795. incl. heat, utils., parking, W/D. Partially furnished, for 1 adult. 12+ acres.

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Coin-op W/D. Off-street parking. No dogs.

Heat incl. $1,250/mo.

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Creative, quality work from formal wear to leather repairs. New location: 248 Elm St., 2nd floor, Montpelier.

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HOME/GARDEN GARDENS & PERMACULTURE Design/build services for gardens, compost bins, chicken coops, rainwater harvesting & edible landscaping. Permaculture design certified. Ethan, 598-3180 or ethan@ urbanhomesteadervt. com.

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HOUSEHOLD ITEMS Custom-made wicker set: 2 chairs w/ designer fabric w/ hassock; sofa w/ designer fabric; & entertainment center.

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Tons of kids’ toys, baby gear & girls’ clothing!

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT MUSIC Every Wed., live music at Le Belvedere, Newport, for Fishhead Unplugged, 6-9 p.m.

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FOR SALE GUITAR MAGAZINES Over 150, incl. Guitar World, Guitar Player, Guitar School & Guitar for the Practicing Musician. $40.

244-6202.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1235 2 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 6093 On July 10, 2015, Houston Commons Development, LLC, c/o Roger Rugg, 18 Barnum Street, Milton, VT 05468 and Cathedral Square Corporation, c/o Cynthia Reid, 412 Farrell Street, Suite 100, South Burlington, VT 05403 filed application #4C12352 for a project generally described as the construction of one, threestory, 30,516 s.f. building containing 30 units of affordable housing with services for seniors and underground parking.

The Project is located at 5778 Bombardier Road in Milton, Vermont.

The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Milton

Town Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Office, and the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C12352”.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before August 11, 2015, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to

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convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised.

Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above.

Should a hearing be held on this Project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by August 11, 2015.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other

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5+/- acre well respected berry farm in Waterbury Center, VT. About 20 minute to Montpelier and 30 minute to Burlington from I-89 Exit 10. 2-3 bedroom, 1 bath house with breezeway and attached 2 car garage. 2 story barn and sugarhouse. Excellent schools. $450,000.

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[CONTINUED] persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Nonparty participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 21st day of July, 2015.

By: /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan District #4 Coordinator Natural Resources Board 111 West Street Essex Jct., VT 05452 8028795662 stephanie.monaghan@ state.vt.us

Sec. 7. No Parking Areas.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations: (1) – (523) As Written.

(524) On the north side of Pearl Street for a length of fifty (50) feet west of Greene Street and fifty-seven (57) feet east of Greene Street.

Adopted this 17th day of June, 2015 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners:

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Two houses 7/20/15 and 11:36 AM barn in Worcester, Vt. House has 3 BR and a swimming pond in woods.

Second house is great for rental or mix of friends and airbnb. Energy Star Construction. $330,000. squibba2@myfairpoint. net, 802-229-0890.

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Family-sized 7/20/15 town FSBO-lamopnt070815.indd 7:19 PM 1 home in estate-like setting. Walk to South Burlington schools. 3 levels, 3 bedrooms, walk-out basement. 5 Bedford Green Townhouse. $272,425 802- 660-2941, rojanxray@yahoo. com

CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Motor Vehicles, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances:

17 acres, 4 bedrooms.

Custom wood floors throughout. New furnace (oil-fired hot water) and new roof. Wood shed and chicken coop. Large deck. Excellent views of Camel’s Hump and extensive Huntington River frontage. $459,000.

802-434-4763, macandbac@hotmail.com. See Picket Fence Preview for pics and details.

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Two-bedroom con7/20/15 FSBO-Chairello-071515.indd 6:44 PM 1 do in convenient South Burlington location. Upstairs end unit. New flooring and updated bathroom.

Washer and dryer in unit, carport and heated pool. $158,000. bkarwan71@gmail.com 802-238-6526

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Lovingly maintained 4 br/3.5 bath on .9 acre in desirable Gardenside neighborhood with pool and tennis courts.

Solar panels for electricity and hot water.

Woodstoves, 3-season porch, finished basement. See Picket Fence (#8100) for more details. $525,000. 802999-9881 or marcellacc46@gmail.com

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Motor Vehicles, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 3 Stop sign locations.

Stop signs are authorized at the following locations: (1)- (307) As Written.

(308) At the intersection of Greene Street and Pearl Street causing southbound traffic on Greene Street to stop.

Adopted this 17th day of June, 2015 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners:

Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director – Technical Services

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Adopted 06/17/15; Published 07/22/15; Effective 08/12/15.

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CITY OF BURLINGTONTRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Motor Vehicles, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 3 Stop sign locations.

Stop signs are authorized at the following locations: (1)- (308) As Written.

(309) At the intersection of Birchcliff Parkway and Pine Street, causing westbound traffic on Birchcliff Parkway to stop.

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On 2 acres. Walk 7/20/15 FSBO-Newcomb072215.indd 7:20 PM 1 to village, public transportation.

Private deck, brook, Christmas tree plot. Hardwood floors, fresh paint.

Garage. Six miles from Montpelier, Barre. U32 district. $199,000. 793-7929, shannongwilson@ gmail.com.

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE BURLINGTON COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE PROPOSED AMENDMENT ZA 15-04—Downtown, Mixed, Enterprise Districts Setbacks Abutting a Residential Zone PROPOSED AMENDMENT ZA 15-06—Performing Arts Centers in the Enterprise-Light Manufacturing Zone (ELM) PROPOSED AMENDMENT Urban Agriculture Zoning, amendment to § 5.1.2(f), technical amendment Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4442 and §4444, notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Burlington City Council to hear public comments on the following proposed amendments to the City of Burlington’s Comprehensive Development Ordinance (CDO).

The public hearing will take place on Monday, August 10, 2015 during the Regular City Council

Meeting which will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Contois Auditorium, on the second floor of Burlington City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington VT. (1) ZA 15-04—Downtown, Mixed, Enterprise Districts Setbacks Abutting a Residential Zone This proposed amendment amends the zoning setback rules to change the wording for downtown, neighborhood mixed use, and enterprise district setbacks abutting a residential zone from “property line” to “zoning district boundary line”.

This change will not affect future land uses and attempts to limit the impact that this provision has on densities allowed at the junction of mixed and residential districts.

It comes as a result of a determination by the Superior Court Environmental Division that the present language of the ordinance, by referring to a property line, allows a change of a property line to de facto change the zoning setback. The result of the elimina-

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS tion of the setback is to allow the extension of the mixed use districts and their encroachment into a residential area based solely on changes in parcel boundaries rather than the actions of Planning Commission and City Council to set zoning boundary lines.

(2) ZA 15-06—Performing Arts Centers in the Enterprise-Light Manufacturing Zone (ELM)

(3) Technical Amendment—Urban Agriculture Zoning, amendment to § 5.1.2(f)

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Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4442 and §4444, notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Burlington City Council to hear public comments on the following proposed amendments to the City of Burlington’s Comprehensive Development Ordinance (CDO).

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This proposed amendment to the CDO is to allow performing arts The full text of the Burcenters as a lington Comprehensive conditional use in the Development Ordinance ELM Zone, which is and the proposed consistent with the art’s amendments are availculture in the able for review at the affected zone, located in Department of Planning Burlington’s South End. and Zoning, City Hall, Existing conditional use 149 Church Street, Burlcriteria will apply and ington Monday through (1) ZA 15-02—Conditionproposed limitations Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 al Use; Inclusionary and on size and Pine St. p.m. or on the departReplacement Housing; frontage found in the ment’s website at www.

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The full text of the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance and the proposed amendments are available for review at the Department of Planning and Zoning, City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or on the department’s website at www. burlingtonvt.gov/pz STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY SS. CHITTENDEN PROBATE COURT DOCKET NO. 863-615CNPR IN RE: THE ADOPTION OF D.A.P. OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT NOTICE OF HEARING

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Pursuant to 15A V.S.A. subsection 3-401 and 3-402, you are hereby notified that a Petition for Adoption of the minor has been filed.

The petitioners therein request that they be permitted to adopt the minor. You must file a written appearance in the adoption proceeding with the Court in 20 days after service of this notice in order to participate in the proceeding and to receive further notice of the proceeding, including notice for the time and place of any hearing. Please note that you will not be permitted to appear in or receive further notice of the proceeding for adoption unless you also respond to the Petition to Terminate in the matter described above.

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Dated at Burlington, Vermont, this 7th day of July, 2015. /s/ Debra Brunell cc: Kurt M. Hughes, Esq. STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 668-5-15 CNPR IN RE ESTATE OF RICHARD FRANCIS TOM NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Richard Francis Tom late of Hinesburg, VT I have been appointed to administer this estate.

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CAREGIVERS SUPPORT GROUP 2nd & 4th Mon. of every mo., 7 p.m., Franklin County Home Health Agency (FCHHA), 3 Home Health Cir., St. Albans. The Caregivers Support Group welcomes anyone who is helping care for a family member of a loved one with a chronic or life-limiting illness.

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Director of Policy and Special Projects Vermont Public Interest Research Group There are several year-round opportunities at the co-op.

IT Manager/Database Administrator

We are hiring for

manager, cooks, deli counter.

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SelfManagement Coordinator Work with unique, innovative nonprofit!

Environment: fun, professional, team-oriented

Duties: coordination, implementation and oversight of self-directed services option Skills/Knowledge: leadership, needs assessments, budgeting, DS System and community resources, flexibility, organization Population: developmental services HCBS Medicaid recipients Travel: statewide Full time. $18 +/hour Flexible schedule.

Excellent benefits and mileage reimbursement.

For more information, visit transitionii.com.

Send resume to kara@transitionii.com.

Vermont’s largest environmental and consumer advocacy group is looking for a tech-savvy data master who wants to apply skills and strategic sense to manage the IT that powers its public interest campaigns.

The right person is a mission-driven activist with the right blend of technical skills and passion for progressive causes. Seeking a tech-savvy problem solver; a mechanic for databases and back-end online tools; an eye for numbers and a whiz at Excel; and someone who is detail oriented, if not obsessed.

You’ll be responsible for the management and build-out of our systems, including a powerful CRM package (Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge and Luminate Online), that drive our advocacy and fundraising, a custom SQL database and GIS tools that support door-canvassing and grassroots organizing, and our Windows-based office networks.

Must have three to five years of experience with data architecture/ design and database administration, obsessive attention to detail and ability to see patterns in data, knowledge of SQL basics, general tech skills, and experience with network troubleshooting; flexibility and grace under pressure.

Competitive salary, employer-paid health and long-term disability insurance, employer-matching IRA or student loan repayment contributions, and six weeks of annual leave. Apply online only. For more info, visit vpirg.org/jobs.

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Innovative, independent state agency is seeking a well organized and energetic team player to join our management team, leading special initiatives to further VHCB’s multi-goal mission of housing, land conservation and historic preservation. This position provides leadership in both research and evaluation related to mission and programs. The Director of Policy and Special Projects helps to integrate strategies that include community development, smart growth, and rural economic development while addressing emerging issues such as climate change and water quality.

Qualifications: Multiple years of policy and program development including demonstrated experience with executive and legislative policy makers. Experience and familiarity with nonprofit management is required. An educational background and experience in housing, conservation, community development or public policy is desired.Grant writing, research, and statistical analysis skills as well as strong communication and presentation skills necessary.

Full-time position with comprehensive benefits. EOE. Please reply

by August 10 with letter of interest, résumé and references to: Laurie Graves, VHCB, 58 E. State Street, Montpelier, Vt. 05602 or laurie@ vhcb.org. See the job description at: www.vhcb.org/employment.html

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Welcome to OpenTempo — a rapidly growing Vermont-based health care IT company in Williston that is a fabulous place to work. Our team is comprised of smart, personable and engaging people who are super-focused on customer success. If you are motivated, techsavvy, personable and looking to get a foot in the door at a great company with lots of growth potential, please contact us!

We are currently hiring for the following positions

ASSOCIATE IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAMMER (JAVASCRIPT, SQL, JAVA) SENIOR IMPLEMENTATION CONSULTANT SERVICE ANALYST (entry-level) Please email your resume, what your preferred role is (see opentempo.com/about/jobs for further information about positions) and why you would be a great fit to jobs7d@opentempo. com. Our compensation and benefits package is very competitive. Get ready to be challenged, grow and have fun!

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The South Burlington School District is looking for an individual for their Information Technology Support Team. This individual would be responsible for answering and responding to help desk phone calls and providing support to walk-in students and staff. They would also be responsible for support, repair and regular maintenance of computers, software applications, audio-visual equipment and network infrastructure hardware for the school district.

A high school diploma or general education degree (GED) is required and/or previous experience with computers and some networking concepts preferred. Candidate must also be able to demonstrate aptitude for technology systems in a customer service driven, multi-site, team-oriented environment. A+, Network+ or equivalent licensure preferred, but not required.

Steven Arnold Director of Behavioral Health NHS - The Mental Health Center 55 Colby Street, Colebrook, NH 03576 (603) 237-4955 sarnold@northernhs.org This position requires a valid driver’s license, proof of adequate auto insurance and the completion of criminal and background checks.

This agency is an equal opportunity employer and provider.

LINE COOKS EXECUTIVE CHEF Looking for Vermont's top talent at Burlington's only full-service hotel! The Hilton Burlington operates two restaurants, an executive lounge and 20,000 square feet of catering space.

This is your chance to work for Hilton Worldwide and Interstate Hotels & Resorts, the world’s leading hospitality management company. We are seeking line cooks and an executive chef.

Please apply at interstatehotels.com/careers.

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All candidates are encouraged to apply online at schoolspring. com. If you decide to mail your information you will need to include the following: cover letter, resume and three current references.

Please forward them to: South Burlington School District, Attn: Diane Kinnon, 500 Dorset St, South Burlington, VT 05403 EOE

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Conversion and Training Specialist PayData Workforce Solutions is looking for an additional team member to join our conversion and training department. Our conversion specialists work closely with new clients to convert them to our payroll, HR and timekeeping software. Comfort with public speaking is important as this position also entails training individuals and groups on our various applications. Having the ability to adapt quickly to new and changing technology is key.

The ability to multitask and manage multiple projects concurrently with a high degree of accuracy is critical. Candidates must possess strong number and organization skills and be able to communicate effectively in both a written and verbal manner. Candidates should also have proven troubleshooting skills. Prior customer service and payroll experience is required, working knowledge of the Evolution payroll software is desirable.

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The Mental Health Center in Colebrook, NH, seeks a full-time therapist to provide counseling for adults and children. Applicants must have a master’s degree and be licensed or license eligible as a clinical social worker or mental health counselor in the state of NH. Supervision is available toward completion of NH licensing requirements. We are located in northern NH, near the borders with Vermont and Canada.

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Duties: participant orientation, guidance, support in designing plan of care and service budget Skills/Knowledge: needs assessments, budgeting, community resources, CFC system, flexibility Population: CFC long-term care Medicaid recipients Travel: statewide 30 hours per week, $15.50 +/hour Flexible schedule Excellent benefits and mileage reimbursement For more information, visit transitionii.com.

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NURSE/CLINIC CASE MANAGER Experienced

A unique individual is sought for small, nonprofit health clinic for the uninsured and underinsured.

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The Nurse/Case Manager will be a key managerial partner of an intimate team, overseeing clinical operations, coordinating patient services and supporting a dedicated corps of volunteer practitioners.

32 hours a week with benefits. Monday through Thursday, with most Monday and some Thursday evenings required. Current valid Vermont nursing license required, RN preferred.

line cooks Experienced line cooks wanted for fast-paced pub environment. Our tight-knit team seeks people who are detail oriented, clean & organized, have positive attitudes and a willingness to learn. Added consideration will be given to those who have a knowledge of product utilization, and have some experience with ordering & creating menu items or specials.

Send resumes to scott@mulebarvt.com

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The New School of Montpelier

Service Coordinator Champlain Community Services is a progressive, intimate, developmental services provider agency with a strong emphasis on self-determination values and individual & family relationships.

We are seeking an experienced Service Coordinator with strong clinical and organizational skills to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a fast-paced, team-oriented position.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in the human service field, demonstrated leadership and two years experience with case management.

This is a rare opportunity to join a distinctive developmental service provider agency during a time of growth.

Send or drop off cover letter, resume, wage/salary history and three references to

Please send your cover letter and application to Elizabeth Sightler at esightler@ccs-vt.org.

Executive Director PEoPlE’s HEalTH & WEllNEss CliNiC 553 North Main street, Barre, VT 05641, or email to phwc@sover.net.

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JoB oPEN uNTil fillED. No phone calls, please.

We are a small, independent school serving unique children and youth. We are recruiting dedicated individuals to join our diverse staff in this exciting and challenging work.

Positions start immediately.

PEOPLE’S HEALTH & WELLNESS CLINIC Health Care for the Uninsured

Paraprofessional/ Behavior Interventionist

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This is a one-on-one, paraprofessional position supporting students in the development of academic, communication, vocational, social and self-regulation skills.

Settings may include classroom, one-on-one environments and the community. Must possess good communication/ collaboration skills.

An associate’s degree or five years experience after high school preferred. Candidates must have a valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle.

Criminal record checks will be conducted for final candidates.

Submit a resume to: The New School of Montpelier 11 West Street Montpelier, VT 05602 or email to: ddellinger@nsmvt.org No phone calls, please!

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Washington County Mental Health Services is currently seeking the following position in our Children, Youth and 4:31 PMFamily Services Program:

Children and Family Services Navigator

LNAs The Arbors at Shelburne, a benchmark senior living community, is focused entirely on serving people living with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and/or other diseases affecting cognition in late life.

Competitive salary with shift differentials, tuition reimbursement, bonus opportunities and team-focused workplace.

We seek to hire loving, mature team members who are passionate about care. We have full- and part-time openings for LNAs on all shifts.

Please submit a cover letter and resume to: The Arbors at Shelburne Joseph Hoopaugh 687 Harbor Road Shelburne, VT 05482 985-8600

A part-time position performing intake screening and assessment, group coordination and facilitation, brief treatment and stabilization, and brief targeted case management to presenting families through telephone contact, in office meetings and, potentially, meetings in the field. Work is highly coordinated with the Children’s Utilization Review team and with other youth supporting programs within and outside of WCMHS. Work is based in Berlin with travel throughout the Washington County area.

Position requires master’s degree in psychology, social work or counseling, and licensure or license eligible as a psychologist, social worker or mental health counselor preferred. Must have one to three years of working within mental health with experience with children, youth and families. Training in trauma and co-occurring disorders also required. During the school year, must be available to work until 5:30 or 6 p.m. two to three days per week, or some weekend hours.

To learn more or read our complete job descriptions, please visit our website, wcmhs.org.

Apply online or send your resume to personnel@wcmhs.org or Personnel, PO Box 647, Montpelier, VT 05601.

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DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Full Time, Benefit Eligible

Goddard College seeks a Director of Information Technology to plan and direct the use of technology throughout the College. This position is responsible for managing the IT team, vendor relationships, IT budget, hardware equipment and software licenses, and for maintaining institutional IT strategies by researching and implementing technological strategic solutions that support the college’s strategic technology plan.

To learn more please visit goddard.edu/about-goddard/employment-opportunities.

Goddard is committed to creating a college representative of a diverse global community. To that end we are actively seeking applications from qualified candidates from groups currently underrepresented in our institution.

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The Chittenden County Transportation Authority seeks a

Transit Planner CCTA is seeking an experienced Transit Planner responsible for planning and analyzing transportation services at CCTA.

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Conservation Assistant THE NATURE CONSERVANCY in Vermont seeks a dynamic professional to serve as its full-time Conservation Assistant.

This is an exceptional career opportunity for a highly motivated, capable individual interested in joining the world’s leading conservation organization.

The Conservation Assistant will manage conservation data, compile and synthesize information, participate in conservation planning, assist with grant writing, and serve as first contact with landowners looking to conserve their property. Duties include collecting, assembling and analyzing various types of data, in the field or through document surveys, and producing maps using GIS software. The Conservation Assistant will occasionally join our stewardship staff in field work on new or existing preserves.

We have a fantastic office environment located in Montpelier and offer a competitive salary with great benefits. Bachelor’s degree and two years’ related experience or equivalent combination required. For a complete position description and to apply, visit nature.org/careers and search “Vermont”. The application deadline is Midnight EST August 14, 2015.

Responsibilities include: • Forecasting public transportation needs and formulating plans; preparing and presenting documents, strategic plans, and proposals to the management team, municipal offices and 5v-NatureConservancy0-72215.indd 1 7/20/15 10:40 AM the public.

SuperviSing Senior AccountAnt • Proactive community involvement and outreach including various task forces, City planning DutieS agencies, revitalization projects, committees and Chambers of Commerce. Attends and • Plan, coordinate and complete audit, tax and consulting evaluates the required public hearing process relating to service changes. engagements for CPA firm clients.

• Conducting regular review and analysis of routes, route performance, schedules, ridership, • Coaching, advising, training and directing team members • Review work product of staff. revenue and cost, and making recommendations, as well as developing new routes.

• Meeting all professional development expectations • Appraising area land-use planning activities including development of and updating long• Deliver and review engagement product (financial statements, range transit plans and organizational strategic planning. tax returns, reports, etc.).

• Serves as one of the staff contacts for drivers to relay route information and customer • Provide consulting services to clients on audit, accounting and comments on service. tax matters.

• Reviews and anticipates the need for passenger amenities and service. Directs special • 1,800 billable hours per year projects designed to meet those needs.

• Lead implementation of new software tools A Bachelor’s degree in a related work area is required. Extensive experience may be considered reQuireMentS in lieu of a degree, especially experience in operational characteristics of a public transit system • Bachelor’s degree in accounting as they relate to route and schedule determination and analysis. Must be able to effectively • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification communicate with the public and CCTA employees via telephone, meetings, one-on-one and in • Two years of public accounting experience • In charge of audit compilation and review engagements of writing. The salary for this position is commensurate with experience. privately held businesses and nonprofit organizations To apply for this position, please download an application from cctaride.org. Submit with a • Supervising and training of staff accountants • Preparation of personal and business income tax returns. cover letter and resume, in one of the following ways (no calls, please): • Direct client contact.

Via email to: jobs@cctaride.org • Proficiency with tax and accounting research methods and resources Via fax to: 864-5564, Attn: HR • Proficiency with MS Office, Engagement CS, Caseware, PPC, Checkpoint, CCH, Pro-Ware, BNA and Lacerte tax preparation Via mail to: 15 Industrial Parkway, Burlington, VT 05401, Attn: HR software to AppLY CCTA offers all full-time employees a competitive salary and exceptional benefits, Send resume and cover letter by email at including generous time off. dwoodward@gdp-cpa.com or mail to CCTA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to a diverse workforce.

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career opportunities, grippin Donlan pinkham 3 Baldwin Avenue, South Burlington, vt 05403

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Director of Philanthropy

Shelburne MuSeuM

Store SaleS aSSociateS needed Are you friendly, customerservices oriented and looking for a unique retail opportunity?

Shelburne Museum is hiring motivated sales staff to interface with our visitors in our busy store.

Visit shelburnemuseum.org for job descriptions and application instructions.

Champlain Community Services

Job Developer Way2Work, a leading developmental services supported employment program, is seeking a dynamic, creative and outgoing individual to join their team as a job developer.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting individuals in developing career goals and job-seeking skills, securing employment, and on-the-job training. In addition, candidate will collaborate with businesses to build partnerships for long-term community based employment. Must demonstrate reliability, strong communication skills, and the ability to solve problems effectively and professionally. Great work environment, fully benefited 40-hour position.

Submit resume and cover letter to Michelle Paya, mpaya@ccs-vt.org.

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VENDING ROUTE DRIVERS

Brandon and Burlington

We are looking for motivated, responsible individuals. Must be able to work independently, possess a positive attitude, be capable of lifting up to 50 pounds and have a clean driving record. We offer a competitive wage along with benefits.

Apply in person or online at Farrell Vending Services 405 Pine Street Burlington, VT 05401 farrellvending.com.

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont seeks a dynamic, experienced fundraiser to lead and significantly expand our development program. The ACLU is embarking on the most ambitious fundraising campaign in its history to align with the organization’s 100th anniversary in 2020. This presents a unique opportunity for the right person to work with us as we grow our major gifts and planned giving programs. The position is .7 FTE, with flexibility in scheduling how and when the job is done and generous compensation and benefits. The ideal candidate will be experienced in nonprofit fundraising, have a successful track record of identifying, cultivating and soliciting donors, and be passionate about protecting and promoting individual rights.

The ACLU of Vermont is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from women, members of racial and ethnic minorities, LGBT individuals, and persons with disabilities.

Further details, including a full job description and information on how to apply, are available at acluvt.org/philanthropy.

The application deadline is Aug. 21.

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Washington County Mental Health Services is currently seeking the following clinician positions in our Center for Counseling and Psychology Services:

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Residential Care Charge Nurse (LPN or RN) Full-Time Day Every Other Weekend

Staff Nurse (LPN or RN) Full-Time Day & Evening Shifts

Community-Based Clinician Case Manager Gain the hours that you need for mental health and substance abuse licensure while helping adults and families gain access to services as a clinician case manager. Clients will be referred from the Reach Up program, a program that provides basic needs and services to support work and self-sufficiency. The successful candidate for this position will provide assessment, brief therapy and coordinated service planning, both in the community and in the office. Master’s degree with addictions coursework/training required. Experience working with adults in home-based settings preferred.

We are proud to offer our employees a comprehensive package of benefits including generous paid sick, vacation and holiday leave; medical, dental and vision insurance; short- and longterm disability; life insurance; an employee assistance program; and a 403(b) retirement account. Most positions require a valid driver’s license, a good driving record and access to a safe, insured vehicle.

To learn more or read our complete job descriptions, please visit our website, wcmhs.org.

Apply online or send your resume to personnel@wcmhs.org or Personnel, PO Box 647, Montpelier, VT 05601.

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LNA

Part-Time Day & Evening Shifts Wake Robin, Vermont’s premier continuing care retirement community seeks dedicated nursing professionals with a strong desire to work within a community of seniors. Wake Robin seeks LNAs and Staff Nurses licensed in Vermont to provide high quality care in a fast-paced residential and long-term care environment, while maintaining a strong sense of “home.” We offer an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting.

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

Wake Robin offers an excellent compensation and benefits package and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting.

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

Wake Robin is an equal opportunity employer.

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Reference Job ID #617252. Location: Montpelier. Status: Full time classified position.

Application deadline: July 29, 2015.

Tourism & Marketing: Director of Communications PUBLIC HEALTH SPECIALIST – SCHOOL LIAISON

Office of the Secretary of State

The Office of Professional Regulation/ Nursing Unit is seeking a nursing professional to coordinate, evaluate and monitor a program plan for nurses (RN, LPN, re-entry and graduate) Vermont Department of Health and nursing assistants employed in Vermont. You will review requests for the approval of new Are you passionate about promoting school health and wellness inof Chittenden County? We are Experienced professional sought to lead the Vermont Department Tourism and conduct biennial reviews of existing nursing educational programs. Work closely with looking for a public health specialist to join our team at the Health Department’s Burlington the Board of Nursing and Department of Aging and Disabilities.

Highly professional, detail& Marketing’s public and trade relations efforts. This mission-critical position District Office! Using data to engage schools in developing action plans, this position oriented and tactful professionals in search of making a meaningful contribution to Vermont is designed to generate positive of and Vermont inprimary the contact promotes tourism-related all aspects of health withincoverage the school setting serves as the should apply. For more information, contact Linda Davidson at linda.davidson@sec.state. with school health and administrative staff.

The School Liaison needs to be able to build vt.us or 828-3180. Reference Job ID #617221. Location: Montpelier.

Status: Full time. national and international marketplace. The Director of Communications is relationships, forge connections and be strategic in his or her approach to promoting the Application deadline: July 29, 2015 responsible for the development and implementation of a proactive business whole school, whole community, whole child model. You would work with an interdisciplinary outreach plan consistent with the goals and of the Department of District public health prevention teammission for the Vermont Department of Health Burlington Office. as The maintaining ideal candidate will consistent be a bright and organized self-starter. A bachelor’s degree is Tourism and Marketing as well communications Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets required, along with three years of experience in a health care, public health or human service via social networking tools.

This position is responsible for all tourism This position is in the Agricultural Resource Management Water Quality Division. The primary organization including one at an administrative, consultative or planningmedia level. A master’s job responsibilities of this professional level position relations entail oversightin-state and management the andofout-of-state; press development; pitching targeted degree in Public Health,release Public Administration or a health field may be substituted for one enforcement casework in the Agricultural Resource Management division. This position will year of and the general work experience on a development semester for six months basis.

For more information, tourism story ideas to regional national media; of press be the central point for managing all internal and external policies associated rules, programs contact Amy Malinowski at amy.malinowski@state.vt.us. Reference Job ID #617257. familiarization trips and and processes related to the division. This position will play a key role in coordinating with itineraries; management of media contact lists; and Location: Burlington. Status: Full time. Application deadline: July 27, 2015. the Agency of Natural Resources and the Attorney General’s Officefor on enforcement cases international and support Vermont’s public relations initiatives. The Director memorandums of understanding. This position will supervise staff working on enforcement will also collaborate with the Agency of Commerce executive team in the case development and be responsible for maintaining all data collection systems and of a Applicants proactiveDepartment travel trade and business recruitment plan. This reporting on the enforcement workload and outcomesdevelopment undertaken by the division. of Health are preferred to have knowledge of and experience with law and regulation relating toto the Commissioner We have an exciting and opportunity for an Emergency Preparedness Coordinator position will report ofchallenging Tourism & Marketing. agricultural water quality, pesticides, feed, fertilizer and land use. Experience with regulatory to join the Department of Health in Burlington. You will manage all aspects of Vermont’s programs and processes including case management and review are required. Applicants public health volunteer program including guiding Medical Reserve Corps Units and EMS should have experience or knowledge of field compliance and investigation activities.

An Candidates must: demonstrate oral and written have a BA in State’s agenciesstrong in recruiting and retaining volunteers.skills; This positon functions as the ability to manage an enforcement program in alignment with state and federal policies Medical Reserve Corps Coordinator strengthening communities in their response to public Public Relations or related field; have a minimum of five years of relevant work is required. Attention to detail is critical, writing skills must be polished, organizational health emergencies.

You must have demonstrated success with volunteer engagement experience; demonstrate knowledge of Vermont and Vermont’s tourism industry.and skills must be exceptional and the ability to effectively communicate technical details in management in emergency situations. Supervisory experience is a plus. For more information, a meaningful way to a wide variety of audiences is essential. Proven skills in maintaining contact Charles Deasy at 863-7484 or email charles.deasy@state.vt.us. Reference Job ID composure in stressful public situations is a must.

For additional information, please Experienced professional sought toLocation: lead Burlington. the of be Tourism #617186.

Status: FullDepartment time. Application deadline: August 3, 2015.

Resume, writing samples and a minimum of Vermont three references should contact Laura DiPietro at laura.dipietro@state.vt.us. Reference Job ID #617253. Location: Marketing’s public and trade relations efforts.

This mission-critical position submitted Kitty Sweet, Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Montpelier. Status: Full time classified position.&Application deadline: to July 29, 2015.

Job Description:

CHIEF POLICY ENFORCEMENT OFFICER

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COORDINATOR

Tourism & Marketing: Director of Communications Job Description:

SENIOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST is designed to generate positive coverage of Vermont in the Development, One National Lifetourism-related Drive, Montpelier, VT 05620-0501.

In- and out-ofVermont Department of Economic Development SENIOR AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENTnational COORDINATOR and international marketplace.

The$45,000 Director- of Communications is state travel will be required.

Salary range: $50,000.

The Department is looking for individuals with strong relationship management skills to Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets responsible for the development and implementation oflevel. a proactive business assist the business community at the C-suite We seek a person with experience and This position is in the Agricultural Resource Management Water Quality Division. The knowledge in strategic planning, financial planning, work plan development, outreach plan consistent with the goals and mission of the Department ofand business primary job responsibilities of this professional level position entail internal and external and marketing plan development for businesses and organizations. Must be able to manage communication planning and execution for all aspects of agricultural water quality, Tourism and Marketing as well as maintaining consistent communications multiple projects, businesses and other business partner organization relationships. educational outreach and program development, report development, and website via social networking tools.

This position for all tourism mediaand The person should be is wellresponsible versed in economic development principles, marketing management. This position will be the central point for all agricultural water quality communications, with strong presentation and writing skills.

For more information, contact in-state and communications and will work closely with the relations Agency’s lead Communications Officerout-of-state; press release development; pitching targeted Joan Goldstein at joan.goldstein@state.vt.us. Reference Job ID #617312. Location: on press releases, press conferences, educational presentations, written articles for local tourism story ideas to regional and national media; development of press Montpelier.

Status: Full time.

Application deadline: August 3, 2015. media outlets, television and radio interviews, newsletters, mailings, and website content familiarization management. This position will play a key role in launching the outreachtrips effort forand all theitineraries; management of media contact lists; and water quality rule revisions. Program development and management responsibilities support for Vermont’swillinternational public relations initiatives. The Director BROADBAND COORDINATOR include the creation of the Custom Manure Applicator Certification Program, the Small Public Service Department will also collaborate with the Agency of Commerce executive team in the Farm Certification Program and the Farmer Agricultural Water Quality Training Program.

We have an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Broadband Coordinator to join the Duties also include data collection and analysisdevelopment on tile drainage and preparation of a report of a proactive travel trade and business recruitment plan. This Public Service Department. The Broadband Coordinator will support the improvement to the legislature that identifies regulatory options for improved management of tile drain position will report to the Commissioner of Tourism Marketing. of the telecommunications infrastructure&within Vermont. You will analyze and organize pollution sources. Preparation of other reports such as the annual program reports or other

current details about Vermont’s telecommunications infrastructure, identify weaknesses and reports requested by the legislature will be performed by this position. The position will vulnerabilities, and report on required performance of telecom and cable providers in areas coordinate with partner organizations and agencies to ensure consistency in communication Candidates must: demonstrate strong oral and written skills; have a BA in efforts. While the general scientific components of agricultural water quality are fundamental such as network enhancements, wholesale service quality and cable line extensions, and recommend corrective action when needed. also will prepare position papers, plans, Public orfarms related have a minimum of fiveYouyears of relevant work qualifications, applicants are expected to have an extensiveRelations knowledge of how operate field; articles and reports, and may testify before legislative committees, regulatory boards and systems to manage agricultural pollution sources.

This knowledge is needed to provide experience; demonstrate knowledge of Vermont and Vermont’s tourism industry. courts. The work will include use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications and meaningful education on regulations and how they relate to farms, and to develop education, data, including the design, development, testing, debugging, documenting, deploying and certification and licensing programs that will aid in the agricultural water quality pollution maintenance of GIS applications andreferences datasets. You mustshould have working knowledge of public reduction strategy. Applicants must have experience with communications and media Resume, writing samples and a minimum of three be policy and legislative processes, and knowledge of telecommunications technologies and relations. Attention to detail is critical, writing skills must be polished and the ability to submitted Kitty Agency ofand Commerce and Community issues affecting state policy regulation. For more information, contact James Porter effectively communicate technical details in a meaningful way to ato wide varietySweet, of audiencesVermont at 828-4003 or email james.porter@state.vt.us.

Reference Job IDIn#617302. is essential. Proven skills in maintaining composure in stressful public situations is a must.

Development, One National Life Drive, Montpelier, VT 05620-0501. andLocation: out-ofMontpelier. Status: Full time permanent. Application deadline: July 30, 2015.

For additional information, please contact Laura DiPietro at laura.dipietro@state.vt.us.

state travel will be required. Salary range: $45,000 - $50,000.

To apply, you must use the online job application at careers.vermont.gov. For questions related to your application, please contact the Department of Human Resources, Recruitment Services, at 855-828-6700 (voice) or 800-253-0191 (TTY/Relay Service). The State of Vermont is an equal opportunity employer and offers an excellent total compensation package.

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cashier DPW CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSOCIATE This position is responsible for providing courteous and accurate responses to all customer inquiries regarding various public works functions. In addition, this position is responsible for various billing functions in DPW. Requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent and two years of customer service and bookkeeping.

To apply, send a cover letter, resume and completed City of Burlington Application by July 30 to:

Crossroads Bev & Deli in Waterbury is seeking a cashier to join our team.

Willing to train right person.

Please call Jeremy at 279-6183, or submit a resume to crossroadsvt@yahoo.com

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A Salon Designed For Men

Mon - Fri hoursManageMent available.

Front Desk anD Please call Penny at Front Desk and 598-4378.

Management position at busy men’s salon in Burlington.

to join our growing childcare team!

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

Please call Penny at 598-4378 for more information and to schedule an interview.

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HR Department 179 South Winooski Avenue Burlington, VT 05401.

To obtain an application, please see our website, burlingtonvt.gov/hr/jobs.

Assistant Director, Montreal Campus

Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply. EOE.

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Champlain College seeks an Assistant Director for its Montreal campus to provide backup and support to on-site Director. This role is the primary contact/go-to person for students, faculty and staff in Montreal. A Bachelor’s degree in international education or related field (master’s preferred) and a minimum of three plus years’ experience in student services required. Must be 2:26 PM able to legally work in Canada. The successful candidate will use good independent judgment, be bilingual (French/English), and have or gain first-aid certification.

Resident and Activities Coordinator, Montreal Campus ATTENTION ALL IT PROFESSIONALS

Sales & Service PROFESSIONALS WANTED Here we GROW again!

Usherwood Office Technology, one of the northeast’s largest independent office technology dealers, has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for experienced IT sales representatives and service technicians/engineers. Usherwood is a systems integrator representing Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Canon & Oce. JOB REQUIREMENTS Usherwood would like to talk to you about a ground-floor opportunity to join our team as we further expand our Vermont territory. Usherwood has a 40-year track record of extraordinary client service and is a leader in managed print services, managed IT, support and custom business process automation solutions.

Usherwood offers generous rewards for outstanding performance, opportunities for advancement and superior training.

For your confidential interview, email your resume to teamvermont@usherwood.com.

Champlain College seeks a Resident and Activities Coordinator for its Montreal campus to plan, organize and communicate activities for students studying abroad in Montreal, as well as communicate activities to the Burlington campus. A bachelor’s degree and a minimum of two years’ experience in student services required. Must be able to legally work in Canada. Experience planning and organizing student activities, an understanding of new media (social media) and communications, capability to coach and mentor students, and bilingual in French and English are all required skills.

Assistant Content Producer Champlain College is looking for a web content producer with excellent writing skills. The ideal candidate is a multi-faceted writer whose experience and talents strike a balance between marketer and content manager. Candidates must have the ability to generate wellcrafted marketing solutions and content with attention to brand guidelines and voice. The desired candidate is also a self-starter who is willing to take initiative, can work in a fast-paced environment, adapt quickly and gracefully to changing priorities, and who desires to routinely engage with Champlain’s outstanding marketing team and external clients in highly respectful and professional collaboration.

Senior Transfer Credit Coordinator This position is responsible for the review, assessment, evaluation and processing of transfer credit. This includes providing technical assistance and serving as a resource for staff and faculty in determining appropriate interpretation and application of college policies and procedures as they relate to transfer credit, alternative credit awards, the transcript and the degree audit report.

This person is a member of the academic team and works cooperatively across the institution to achieve division goals. A bachelor’s degree and proven critical thinking and analytical reasoning ability are important qualifications the successful candidate will possess.

For more information on Champlain College positions, and to apply, please check out this link to our website:

champlain.edu/hr

Champlain College values, supports and encourages diversity of backgrounds, cultures and perspectives among students, faculty and staff. We are an equal opportunity employer.

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Maintenance Technician

Shelburne MuSeuM

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

Join Champlain Housing Trust’s Property Management team in Burlington and serve the affordable housing needs of a diverse group of people. Perform a variety of maintenance tasks including painting, cleaning, light maintenance, grounds maintenance and snow removal. Qualified applicants must have experience in painting, carpentry, plumbing, electrical, grounds maintenance, be self-motivated, work independently and as part of a team, be preventionminded and committed to a membership-based model of community controlled and permanently affordable h ousing. R eliable t ransportation and c riminal background check required.

CHT is a socially responsible employer offering a competitive salary commensurate with experience. Our benefit package includes training, health insurance, vacation, holiday, sick leave, 403(b), disability and life insurance. Submit a cover letter and resume by July 31st to Human Resources, Champlain Housing Trust, 88 King Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or email HR@ champlainhousingtrust.org. No phone calls, please.

ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR This position is responsible for performing a variety of routine and complex technical work in construction inspection work to ensure that uniform electrical and other related codes and standards are met. Requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent, four years of experience in general construction of electrical systems, and a valid master electrician’s license for the state of Vermont.

To apply, send a cover letter, resume and completed City of Burlington Application by July 30 to: HR Department 179 South Winooski Avenue Burlington, VT 05401.

To obtain an application, please see our website, burlingtonvt.gov/hr/jobs.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER - CHT is committed to a diverse workplace and highly encourages women, persons with disabilities, Section 3 residents, and people from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to apply.

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educatorS needed Fantastic opportunities for yearround and seasonal part-time educators to join the staff of Shelburne Museum. We have several openings in our busy education department and need teachers interested in bringing their experience and interest in art and history to our unique organization.

Visit shelburnemuseum.org for job descriptions and application instructions.

Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply. EOE.

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Banquet Chef Take your career to the next level at a world-class resort in beautiful Stowe! The Stowe Mountain Resort Department of Hospitality is currently seeking a Banquet Chef to oversee all culinary operations for our catering and events department.

We are an already large department doing over one million dollars in catering revenue annually, and we continue to grow every year.

The Banquet Chef will oversee daily operations of the banquet culinary team with multiple events happening daily during peak periods and spread out over several different venues Salary depends on experience. The ideal candidate will have an accredited culinary degree, three to five years’ experience leading a successful culinary team and the ability to work a flexible schedule. Weekends and holidays are a must!

This is a year-round position with an attractive benefit package that offers a generous amount of paid time off and retirement package options. Recreational benefits and resort discounts, too.

For a full job description and to apply online, please go to stowe.com/about/employment.

Email: jobs@stowe.com Stowe Mountain Resort is an equal opportunity employer.

Accountant Position We have an immediate opening for an Accountant at Tata Harper Skincare. Our growing company is fast paced and mission driven. This position will be pivotal to our expanding business.

The candidate will work closely with our chief financial officer. The position will be full time.

Primary resPonsibilities • Input and assign transactions into accounting software • Monthly reconciliation of accounts • Communicate with federal, state and local tax agencies re filing requirements; complete such required filings • Produce monthly financial statements • Provide support to Finance Director as requested

DesireD Qualifications: The candidate should have a Bachelor’s degree in accounting, with two or more years of experience. Candidate will be highly attentive to detail, self-motivated and maintain the utmost confidentiality with respect to all work-product. Preference will be given to candidates with intermediate/advanced knowledge of Excel, and a working knowledge of the Quickbooks and Netsuite accounting software packages.

Contact: Please submit resume and cover letter to careers@tataharper.com.

PHYSICAL THERAPIST

Full-time position in a dynamic private practice in Fairfax. Large gym and Hydroworx 500 therapy pool kept at 93 degrees with a built-in treadmill.

Fairfax Family Physical Therapy is driven to stay up-to-date on cutting edge technology and evidence-based practice through support of continuing education. Staff is currently working on manual therapy certification through NAIOMT. Must be able to work independently, have fun and be driven to professional excellence.

Possess a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from an accredited college or university and have a current license in the state of Vermont.

Candidates with a background as an ATC or sports rehab are preferred.

Aquatic therapy experience a plus! New graduates accepted.

Excellent communication, problem solving, computer, interpersonal and time management skills are required.

We do have an office cat and an occasional dog as part of our therapy team.

Check us out on the web and Facebook: fairfaxfamilypt.com.

Send resumes to

krjennesspt@yahoo.com.

Kinney Long Term Care

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Mechanical asseMblers

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Pharmacy Do you enjoy working in a fast paced environment? Want to get away from retail hours? Ever thought about working in a pharmacy?

Recent growth has created opportunities to add to our pharmacy staff. We have immediate openings for both full- and part-time positions. We are willing to train the right person. Prior pharmacy experience is preferred but NOT required. The ideal candidates must be self-motivated, work well with minimal supervision and excel at multitasking.

All new hires must pass a drug screen and secure a Vermnt Pharmacy Tech license.

Email resume and cover letter to davidsimpson@kinneydrugs.com

Vermont College of Fine Arts seeks an Assistant Director for the MFA in Graphic Design program.

This is a full-time, permanent position with competitive benefits in an arts and studentcentered educational community. The Assistant Director of Graphic Design will support the Program Director in planning and implementation required for successful academic program coordination. The Assistant Director communicates closely with the Program Director, enrolled students, program faculty, visiting designers and other guests of the college. In addition, this important administrative position maintains student records in the college database and files, assists the Director in tracking student progress, coordinates residency spaces and events, and provides general office support. The Assistant Director will work collaboratively with the Program Director on all planning and event details for residency periods and will have a flexible schedule, particularly before and during residencies, requiring extended workdays and weekend hours during October and April.

This is an administrative position that requires a detail-oriented, flexible candidate with excellent oral, written and people skills. Bachelor’s degree required and at least two years of higher education experience. Knowledge of the graphic design field is a plus. Application deadline is July 30, 2015. Please submit letter and resume to Betsy Barnett at betsy.barnett@vcfa.edu.

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Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum Design Consultant

Champlain Valley Health Network

REGISTERED NURSE Looking for a change?

University of Vermont Health Network Champlain Valley Health Network is looking for a dedicated professional to join our Plattsburgh, N.Y. Cardiology Practice.

Cardiology experience a plus, medical office experience preferred, New York State license required.

Competitive wages and benefits.

Request foR PRoPosal the Center for technology, essex is designing a new program to be launched in the fall of 2016. We are seeking to contract with a consultant with experience in advance manufacturing engineering and secondary or post-secondary education to assist in the design of an advanced manufacturing program and all related curriculum materials. this curriculum will include, but not be limited to, syllabi, course maps, assessment plans, unit plans and lesson plans. the curriculum must be aligned to common core standards as well as industry competencies that lead to an industry recognized credential. this work is being funded by a one-time grant available through the Vermont agency of education.

We are seeking a consultant with the following qualifications: •

Minimum Bs degree in mechanical engineering

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Demonstrated understanding of secondary and/or post-secondary career and technical education

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excellent writing skills

Champlain Valley Health Network is a management services organization.

Send cover letter and resume by August 3, 2015, to:

CVHN Attn: Human Resources 52 Tom Miller Rd. Plattsburgh, NY 12901 Or email to cvhealthnet@gmail.com.

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Interested candidates are encouraged to complete and submit an application electronically through schoolspring.com, job ID 1802982. applications must include an outline of your proposal for how you intend to complete this work along with details regarding compensation requirements relative to the plan you’ve outlined above, including a total cost to complete the plan.

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AdministrAtive emr training/implementation specialist: Develop and improve EMR software usability through continual training and support. Contribute to the development and maintenance of the agency’s health information network(s). Associate’s Degree in computer science or other appropriate field, plus 2-4 years of relevant experience, or a combination of education and experience. Extensive knowledge of forms & templates in Microsoft Word required. Must be able to work effectively as a team and be able to support end users with varying levels of technological expertise. This is a full-time, benefit-eligible position.

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CDL Driver Curtis Lumber Company is looking to fill a CDL Driver {Boom} position at our Williston location. Some of the responsibilities of this position would be: • Provide excellent customer service.

• Load, transport and unload safely, quickly and accurately.

Adult OutpAtient

• Effectively research and resolve customer complaints and conflict.

Clinician: Seeking VT licensed MSW Mental Health Professional with excellent clinical skills for full-time benefited position. Provide outpatient psychotherapy to adults on a short term, long term, and/or intermittent basis. Primary assignments providing clinical services to clients in our Adult Stabilization Crisis Program, and eventual assignment to work in conjunction with local Primary Care Offices. Experience in short term treatment and understanding of utilization management preferred. Experience providing mental health services in a community setting is desirable. LADC licensure is a plus. Strong assessment skills and willingness to collaborate with larger AOP team critical.

Valid Cdl liCense required, Boom experienCe preferred.

Curtis Lumber Co. is one of the 40 largest and fastest growing building materials companies in the country and is committed to delivering top-notch service. Curtis Lumber Co. offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package. Please email your resume and cover letter to hr@curtislumber.com or visit our employment page at curtislumber.com. EOE

COmmunity rehAbilitAtiOn & treAtment residential & Community support staff: We have openings to assist with staffing at group residences as well as providing home-based supports for people coping with life impacting 4t-CurtisLumber-Retail-072215.indd mental health conditions. Opportunities for both part-time contracted shifts and full-time positions with benefits. We offer a dynamic and evolving work environment with opportunities for training and professional growth. Applicants should possess excellent communication skills; the ability to work with individuals with patience, insight, and compassion; and an ability to work well in a team environment.

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yOuth & FAmily behavior Analyst/program specialist: Develop and manage intensive, individualized instructional and behavioral programs for youth and young adults with autism spectrum disorder and emotional/behavioral disabilities. Train/supervise staff, facilitate team collaboration and support/train families. Master’s preferred in special education, psychology or related field. Must have BCBA certification or be in process of attaining certification. Three years’ experience required. This is a full-time, benefit-eligible position.

Champlain valley Academy Coordinator/Clinician: Supervise and manage daily operational functions of CSAC’s Alternative Education and Treatment Program (CVA). This program offers intensive intervention for middle and high school age youth who require these services outside the public school setting. Master’s degree in mental health field and three to five years of experience preferred. This is a full-time, benefit-eligible position. school-based Clinicians: Sought in Addison County School District to provide in-school, direct counseling, behavioral and emotional support to children and adolescents in crisis with severe emotional and behavioral disturbances. Master’s degree in a human services field required, license preferred, plus two to four years of relevant counseling experience. Full- and part-time positions available. Full-time positions include a generous benefit package. school/Classroom interventionist: Work in a year-round and/or school-year program for middle and high school age emotionally and behaviorally disabled students. Provide direct intervention and training to foster development of social skills, effective behavior, daily living, and academic or pre-academic skills. Bachelor’s degree required. This is a full-time, benefit-eligible position. y&F direct service provider: Seeking individuals who want to make a difference in a child’s life. If you are a compassionate individual who finds satisfaction in helping children, this may be the position for you! Part-time, after school hours available. Several positions available for applicants from various backgrounds. student Assistance professional: Interact with students, faculty and parents in a high school to raise awareness of substance abuse issues, utilizing prevention and counseling techniques to achieve this goal. Work with individuals and groups on psychoeducation around substance abuse and other risky choices, screening and some assessment and early intervention; referrals to appropriate care. Licensed substance abuse clinician or certification as an addictions counselor or apprentice. Master’s degree in counseling, social work or related field.

This position is five days per week during the school year. This is a one year position.

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Join Our Growing Team!

Purchaser You will be responsible for sourcing products, maintaining appropriate inventory stock levels, and coordinating the logistics of both domestic and international supply chains.

Controller You will be in charge of the accounting operations including the production of financial reports, maintaining records, budgeting and cash and risk management.

Merchandiser You will identify new products from vendors by attending trade shows and researching online. You will coordinate stocking levels with purchasing and rotate in new items.

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Warehouse Clerk You will be responsible for coordinating warehouse duties, including order printing and management, shipping and receiving, fulfilling and packing orders and storage of goods.

Other Warehouse & Customer Service Positions • Shipping & Receiving

• Call Center Reps

Visit novanatural.com/jobs for details on how to apply and full job descriptions. No phone calls, please.

About Nova Natural Toys & Crafts We are a 25-year-old retailer and wholesaler of wooden toys, crafts, baby goods, woolens and items for the home, sold through our website and marketed primarily via print catalogs and email.

Nova Natural Toys & Crafts / 120 Graham Way #200 / Shelburne, VT 05482

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Assistant

Small Burlington law firm seeks receptionist who will perform clerical duties and transcription. Must have good computer skills. Will train. Monday through Friday afternoon with occasional full days.

Washington County Mental Health Services is a not-for-profit community mental health center.

We provide a wide variety of support and treatment opportunities for children, adolescents, families and adults living with the challenges of mental illness, emotional and behavioral issues, and developmental disabilities. These services are both office- and community-based through outreach. The range of services offered includes prevention and wellness, assessment and stabilization, and 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week emergency response.

Our current openings include: • Reach Up/ Community Based Clinical Case Manager • Child Care Interventionist • Employment Specialist • Residential and Community Support Specialist • Residential/Group home fl oaters • Positive Behavior Support Behavior Analyst

Please email resume to MDUBOIS65@AOL.COM.

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Lund offers hope and opportunity to families through education, treatment, family support and adoption.

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Community Based Case Manager Residential Counselors Sobriety Support Worker Home Intervention Counselors Home Intervention Team Leader Maintenance Generalist Per Diem Cleaner

Currently seeking candidates for positions within our Residential Treatment Programs:

Evening/Overnight Residential Supervisor:

We are proud to offer our employees a comprehensive package of benefits including generous paid sick, vacation and holiday leave; medical, dental and vision insurance; short- and long-term disability; life insurance; an employee assistance program; and a 403(b) retirement account. Most positions require a valid driver’s license, a good driving record and access to a safe, insured vehicle.

To learn more about current job opportunities or read our complete job descriptions, please visit our website, wcmhs.org.

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Full-time supervisor needed within residential treatment program serving pregnant and/or parenting young women and their children. Responsibilities include supervision of residential counseling staff, milieu management, and providing life skill and parenting support to young women that are receiving treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues. Leadership skills and experience working in a residential setting are required. Minimum bachelor’s degree in human services related field; experience working with young women and providing care to children a must. Supervisory skills, adaptability, ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment and strong communication skills preferred.

Supervisor works Thursday through Sunday 5 p.m. – 3 a.m.

9% shift differential offered for hours after midnight.

Residential Counselor: Full-time. Counselor will provide parent education and life skill support to pregnant and parenting women and their children in residential treatment setting. Shifts include evening, awake overnight, and weekend hours. Ideal for those with alternative schedules and night owls! Minimum of bachelor's degree in human services related field and experience providing care to young children; ability to multi-task, work in fast-paced environment, flexibility and adaptability needed. Looking for a candidate who is a quick problem-solver and able to work independently during non-traditional hours. Experience working in residential treatment setting preferred. Valid driver’s license required.

9% shift differential offered for 12 a.m.-6 a.m. hours. Great opportunity to work with a strong team of professionals.

Ongoing training opportunities available.

REGISTERED NURSES Washington County Mental Health Services is currently seeking the following nursing positions: Registered Nurse: Full time Registered Nurse needed to provide leadership and instruction for two Level III Residential Care Homes in Barre, train and delegate to unlicensed assistive personnel, monitor and ensure compliance with federal and state regulations governing Level III Care Homes, advocate and intervene to promote wellness of residents, participate actively and collaboratively with house management and CDS management team, and encouraging and promote community inclusion for all residents. Must have solid clinical skills to apply to clients of widely varied ages and health care needs, and further challenged by developmental and/or mental health needs. Flexibility, excellent communication (verbal and written) and critical thinking skills required. RN with current Vermont license required..

Residential Counselor Substitute: Substitutes

Hourly Registered Nurse: Looking for a Registered Nurse to provide weekend professional nursing supervision and care to consumers in a community-based mental health crisis facility. This Nurse will provide both psychiatric and physical assessments, communicate with on-call psychiatric providers, facilitate admissions, and delegate medication administration duties to direct care staff, as well as provide clinical supervision to direct-care staff. The successful candidate will have strong interpersonal skills and work well as a team member as well as function independently. This position requires applicants to be an RN with a current Vermont License to qualify.

needed to provide parenting and life skill support to pregnant and parenting women and their children living in a 24-hour residential treatment facility. Minimum of bachelor’s degree in human services related field and relevant experience. Shifts include EVENING, WEEKEND AND AWAKE OVERNIGHT SHIFTS with a 9% shift differential for awake overnight hours 12 a.m.-6 a.m.

Lund offers a comprehensive benefit package for full-time positions including extensive time-off accrual and holiday pay.

Excellent opportunity to join strengths-based team of multidisciplinary professionals.

To learn more or to read our complete job descriptions, visit our website, wcmhs.org.

For more information, visit our website at www.lundvt.org.

Please submit cover letter and resume to:

Apply online or send your resume to personnel@wcmhs.org or Personnel, PO Box 647, Montpelier, VT 05601

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Central Vermont’s #1 independent import auto dealership has an immediate opening for an experienced Automotive Technician.

Monday through Friday work week, medical, dental, simple IRA savings, paid holidays and sick days. Experience with European vehicles preferred, but not necessary.

Contact Dylan at 244-5606 or e-mail resume to dylan@snowfireauto.com.

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Bread Slicer & Packing

At Red Hen Baking Co. in Middlesex, we have a part-time position slicing and packing bread in the afternoon and early evenings. Come work for one of central Vermont’s best employers!

Contact Randy for more information at 223-5200, est.#12 or randy@redhenbaking.com.

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COTS is seeking full-time and part-time flexible shelter staff for our two family shelter locations in Burlington. Responsibilities include assuring the safety and well-being of guests, supporting shelter guests in their search for permanent housing, orienting guests to shelter life and enforcing the shelter policies. Shelter staff maintain a safe and supportive environment and facility while building trusting relationships with individuals experiencing homelessness.

Bachelors in social work or commensurate experience working in homeless direct service preferred. The ability to work independently as well as part of a committed team is necessary. Strong communication, sense of fairness and human dignity, and crisis management skills are a must. Because our shelters are open 24 hours, ability to work 4:26 PMovernight and weekend shifts required.

To apply, send cover letter and resume to jobs@cotsonline.org.

To learn more about these and other positions, please visit cotsonline.org/about-cots/careers-internships.

Child, Youth and FamilY ServiCeS

AmeriCorps, Peace Corps and other national service alumni are encouraged to apply to COTS positions.

Team Lead, Transition House Supervisor needed in a four-bed residential treatment program for youth. BA and two years' experience in residential treatment required. Supervisors hire, train and support staff, maintain positive culture, manage the budget, oversee daily operation and ensure compliance with agency/state regulations. See complete description at howardcentercareers.org. Job ID 2709. mental health and SubStanCe abuSe ServiCeS

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Program Coordinator, ASSIST We are seeking a strong leader for the position of Program Coordinator with our ASSIST program with the Howard Center. The person in this position will oversee service delivery for the clients who use psychiatric hospital diversion services offered at the ASSIST program. Full time.

Master’s degree. Job ID 2725

The Winooski Natural Resources Conservation District (WNRCD) is a growing and dynamic on-the-ground organization currently seeking to fill two positions:

District Manager (DM)

Case Manager, HUB

The DM position is full time and located out of our Berlin office.

The DM oversees the workplan, budget and staff of the NRCD and is responsible to the board of supervisors. The DM manages District projects and assists with project implementation and coordination, collaborating with partners whenever possible.

This position is responsible for assisting the clinician in coordinating supportive care for patients enrolled in the opioid treatment program. These responsibilities may include assisting the patient with housing, transportation, employment, insurance and other community resource needs. In addition, the case manager will assume a small caseload consisting of individuals who are in long-term maintenance.

This employee will preferably have experience with knowledge of community resources and working with individuals in the addiction field. Full time. BA. Job ID 2720

Key qualifications include a degree in environmental science, agriculture or a related field, project management experience, and outstanding organizational and communication skills.

Head Nurse, Medication-Assisted Treatment Program

Agricultural Water Quality Specialist:

This RN position is responsible for safely dispensing methadone and buprenorphine products and maintaining all Nursing Dispensary operations. This position requires constant observation of clinical activity, process, and transaction and coherence to written clinical policy and procedure.

This position requires the ability to assist all nursing as well as medical and clinical staff and to be flexible with working schedule for covering some weekend and holiday days (usually covered by per diem nurses). Early morning to midday hours, generally Monday to Friday. Education required by state of Vermont for licensure. Job ID 2712

The part-time Agricultural Water Quality Specialist position will be located out of our Williston office. The Ag Specialist plans, designs and executes on-the-ground conservation initiatives with producers throughout the District and supports other programmatic areas as needed.

Key qualifications include a degree in agriculture, environmental science or a related field, project management experience, and outstanding organizational and communication skills.

For more information and to apply, please visit our website, howardcentercareers.org.

Visit winooskinrcd.org/action/job-opportunities for a full job description. Application deadline for both positions is Monday, August 3 at 5 p.m. Apply to info@winooskinrcd.org.

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

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Central Vermont Community SSTA, a local not-for-profit agency, is looking to hire an Television (CVTV) Barre, VT is experienced Financial Manager. Office duties range from seeking a Production Managday-to-day accounting and financial reporting, budget er to coordinate all of CVTV’s development and management, database reporting and production efforts. analysis, and maintaining financial systems and controls.

Duties include production, This position is part of the management team and will editing of municipal meetThe Stern Center for Language and Learning is seeking a fulloversee employees in the billing department. Bachelor’s ings, school board meetings, time experienced Director of Development to oversee all aspects degree in Accounting and five years of relevant experience public access shows and of fundraising for our nonprofit organization. required. SSTA offers competitive pay, paid holidays and other community events. The vacation. All incumbents must successfully pass background Qualified candidates will have five plus years of fundraising position requires proficient checks and drug test upon offer of hire. experience, strong knowledge of the local philanthropic knowledge of video produclandscape and three plus years of leadership experience, To apply for this position, please download an application tion equipment, methods and preferably in a nonprofit environment. from sstarides.org or editing software. Strong comapply in person at 2091 munication skills, good planThe Stern Center for Language and Learning is a nonprofit Main Street, Colchester. ning and organizational skills learning center dedicated to helping children and adults reach are important. The position their full potential. To learn more about us and the position, also requires coordination of visit sterncenter.org. To apply, email your resume to Emily SSTA is an Equal community and part time ediDawson, HR manager, at edawson@sterncenter.org.

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Leadership Gifts Officer If you are passionate about a diverse liberal arts environment, have a penchant for building relationships, love to travel, and have experience soliciting major gifts, we’d like to hear from you. Middlebury is seeking a Leadership Gifts Officer to join our team and help support our mission – we are an institution with dynamic leadership and vision. In this position you have the opportunity to tell a compelling story about an educational institution that is redefining a liberal arts education for the 21st century.

With a reach that extends beyond its Vermont campus, state-of-the-art environmental initiatives, and entrepreneurial spirit, Middlebury is capturing the attention of people who want to be part of something exciting. EOE/ Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability. To view the full job description and apply online, please visit: http://apptrkr.com/639374

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ImmedIate OpenIngS! C.S.S.U. has immediate openings for Regular Route drivers for the upcoming 15-16 school year. great starting salary and benefits.

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One position is full time, 40 hours per week, in a toddler classroom with children ages 2/3. The second position is 20 hours per week, in a preschool classroom with children ages 3/4. Ideal candidates will be comfortable being an integral part of a dedicated, professional team, greatly enjoy working with young children, and have employed or internship experience with young children in an early childhood setting.

Some education in the field of early childhood education and knowledge of emergent curriculum is helpful. When responding to this ad, please include a resume listing relevant experience.

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Gan Yeladim has served families in Vermont’s Jewish community since 1986.

TEACHER AND EARLY CARE ADVOCATE POSITIONS AVAILABLE AUGUST 2015

Send resumes to lisa@chabadvt.org.

Provide developmentally appropriate environment and experiences for preschool children in a Head Start classroom, and home visits for families. Assist families in accessing medical and dental care for preschool children and help parents address family needs and goals.

Requirements: bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or related education field, classroom experience, and experience in curriculum planning and implementation, child outcome assessment, and working with children with special needs. Ability to demonstrate excellent teacher-child interactions as reflected in CLASS scores (to be conducted). School-year positions, approx. 42 weeks per year (summer layoff). Starting wage upon completion of 60-working-day period: $16.30 - $18.36/hour, depending upon qualifications. Health plan and excellent benefits.

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If so, we currently have multiple BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONIST positions available. Work with children and youth while implementing an individualized behavior plan in school, day treatment and/or community settings with support from a fun, dynamic and creative team. Training, advancement opportunity and excellent benefits await you.

PRESCHOOL TEACHER – Richford Elementary School: 40 hours per week. VT teacher’s license with early education endorsement also required.

To learn more or to read our complete job descriptions, visit our website, www.wcmhs.org.

Apply online or send your resume to personnel@wcmhs.org or Personnel, PO Box 647, Montpelier, VT 05601.

PRESCHOOL TEACHER – Malletts Bay School (Colchester): 40 hours per week. VT teacher’s license with early education endorsement also required.

EARLY CARE ADVOCATE – Sara Holbrook Community Center (Burlington): 40 hours per week.

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PRESCHOOL TEACHER – St. Albans Town Educational Center/St. Albans City School: 40 hours per week.

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EARLY CARE ADVOCATE – C.P. Smith Elementary School (Burlington): 30 hours per week.

EARLY CARE ADVOCATE – Milton Elementary School: 30 hours per week.

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS FOR ALL POSITIONS: Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills; skills in documentation and record keeping; proficiency in Microsoft Word, email and internet; exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Must be energetic, positive, mature, professional, diplomatic and motivated, and have a can-do, extramile attitude. A commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources is necessary. Clean driving record and access to reliable transportation required. Must demonstrate physical ability to carry out required tasks. Please specify position and location, and submit resume and cover letter with three work references via email to pirish@cvoeo. org. No phone calls, please.

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CHILD CARE LOAN COORDINATOR

The Vermont Community Loan Fund is recruiting a loan coordinator to support our Child Care Loan Program. The person selected will work in support of an experienced program director and other program staff in all aspects of loan processing and servicing. The position, based in Montpelier, is full-time, 40 hours per week.

QuaLiFiCaTions: Knowledge and experience in lending procedures and documentation, ability to work with limited supervision, excellent interpersonal and networking skills, and competence in oral and written communication. Microsoft office and Windows 7 computer competence required.

Knowledge of loan packaging or loan servicing as well as the child care industry is highly desirable. VCLF is an Equal opportunity Employer. a complete job description can be found on VCLF's website at vclf.org. send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to: Human Resources, VCLF, P.o. Box 827, Montpelier, VT 05601-0827 or via email to hr@vclf.org

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ProVENANcE: Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.

PEDigrEE: Owner Sharon Herbert is a New England Culinary Institute graduate; chef Jimmy Kalp used to work at Stowe’s Blue Moon Café. oN thE mENu: Pastas, sauces, sandwiches, eggplant rollatini, seasonal pastas and entrées, grilled marinated vegetables. tAStiNg NotES: By day, Sauce Italian Specialties offers sandwiches layered with imported meats and housemade mozzarella. At 4 p.m., the kitchen starts serving hot pastas and entrées.

But since Sauce opened a month ago, locals have flocked there primarily for housemade pastas, sauces and prepared foods, which are available to go. With those and a dozen wellselected Italian wines and antipasti — such as cured meats, Castelvetrano olives and caper berries — patrons can easily put together a no-fuss meal to enjoy at home. That is exactly what I did when I stopped by last week.

The eggplant rollatini — breaded, fried aubergine stuffed with ricotta, hard cheeses and herbs, then smothered

in marinara — was identical to the last one I had on Long Island, except it felt firmer, fresher and better.

And the “Sunday gravy” was a proper meat-soaked sauce, long-simmered with hearty hunks of pork and beef braciole and sausages so tender I barely had to chew them. I’d almost eat it on its own, but why not serve it over pasta — made with eggs from chef Kalp’s home chickens — and fresh-grated pecorino?

With some notice, these can be ordered for catered affairs, as can lasagna and other pastas.

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For her first decade in Vermont, she regularly schlepped coolers of Italian food back from her visits to her family in Jersey.

After Herbert finished NECI’s hospitality management program, she decided to start a business modeled on Joe Leone’s Italian Specialties in her hometown — and brought Leone in to consult on the menu.

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s nearly everyone there informed us, it was a slow night at Shooters Saloon, a no-nonsense tavern half a block west of Main Street in St. Albans.

Fewer people than usual had signed up for the open mic night, and most of the barstools were empty. My two companions and I soon learned that many of Shooters’ Thursday-night regulars were at nearby Twiggs restaurant to see the popular local band Coon Hill John. No one held a grudge, though — far from it.

We were repeatedly encouraged to walk over to Twiggs and check out the scene.

That might also have been a polite way of suggesting that the urban interlopers pull up stakes and leave Shooters to the regulars. But it didn’t seem that way. The bartender and patrons were friendly — in one case, a little too friendly — even if we did find ourselves on the receiving end of a few leery glances.

St. Albans is only 35 minutes’ drive from Burlington, but the cultural divide is greater than that number would suggest. Talking to one of the patrons, I

paused in mute confusion when she remarked that she’d just moved to St. Albans “from town.” Town? I wondered.

Was that how locals referred to the outskirts of St. Albans? “Burlington,” she clarified. Oh, right, thought this former resident of Brooklyn, still taken aback by anyone who attributes significant urban attributes to the Queen City. Burlington.

Town.

Shooters is about as unpretentious as bars get; if not for its distinct ambiance of the north woods, it might not seem out of place in some of Brooklyn’s less gentrified territories. Its rough-hewnwood-paneled walls are adorned with mirrored beer signs, license plates and signs bearing folksy aphorisms such as “Your husband called and said you could buy anything you want.” On our visit, auto racing played on a weirdly low-resolution high-def TV, and a pool table welcomed Shooters’ shooters in a comfortable back room.

Do such ornaments grant the bar “dive” status? Arguably. But the drink specials nudge it further into that

territory. Absent here are the $12 artisanal cocktails you’ll find in Town, and just two local brews were on tap when we visited (Switchback and Long Trail Brewing’s Limbo IPA). But Shooters will get you drunk fast — and tackily — on such creations as the Ankles in the Air (orange vodka, coconut rum, peach schnapps, and pineapple and orange juices), the Blue Balls (blue Curaçao, vodka, peach schnapps, sweet and sour mix, and a little Sprite) and the, ahem, Wet Pussy (vodka, gin, coconut rum, the inevitable peach schnapps and pineapple juice). Bartender Nila Shaw adds a splash of cranberry juice to the last one “to make it pink.”

No one was at Shooters to drink ironically, as hipsters in Town might do.

The classic dive is a thoroughly unironic local tavern — no more, no less.

On “thirsty” Thursday nights, though, the place gets a little glitzier thanks to the open mic event. Hosted

by Burlington’s Made in the Shade Entertainment, “Vermont’s Got Talent” is part karaoke and part showcase for local musicians. Performances start a little after seven, and Made in the Shade’s head honcho, Kyle Stevens, 39, grants each early-bird performer a generous four-song moment in the spotlight.

After 10, Stevens explained, the karaoke waiting list gets longer, so he pares back the number of songs allowed. “We want everybody to be able to sing,” he said.

A musician himself, Stevens is an amiable and encouraging host. He warmed

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Karaoke renditions of bad ’90s pop tunes were surely the brassiest indignity my drinking buddies and I faced that evening. But my friend Jessica did encounter another when, temporarily alone at the table, she was joined by a red-faced, PBR-toting potential suitor.

She found his bumbling manner more amusing than off-putting, but we still invented an opportunity to leave.

Shortly after we got up to hang around outside with the smokers, another regular open mic performer, Elliott Johnson, burst out of the bar and proclaimed, “I just ate a plate full of dicks in there.”

Given Shooters’ sexually inflected drink names, it’s worth clarifying that Johnson had consumed neither a literal nor an alcoholic “plate full of dicks,” but was delivering a blunt assessment of the four-song set he’d just completed. I ac-8v-edgewater072215.indd tually thought his version of the Stones’ “Happy” wasn’t half bad, but Johnson is obviously his own harshest critic.

Still, he said, “This is a good place for anyone who likes to sing karaoke, any musician who’s trying to bring their chops up to speed — or just get their chops going in the first place.”

Neither my friends nor I felt much like singing that evening, so we packed it in after a couple of hours and a couple of drinks. Later, I asked them for their impressions of the place.

Jessica, a part-time bartender who delights in visiting local watering holes, said she enjoyed Shooters’ unprepossessing charms, despite the unwelcome attention she received from one of its patrons. She was happy to escape the trendy, overpriced cocktails of Town.

The third member of our party, Michael, was less enthusiastic, calling the place “a miserable little hovel” in an email.

He added, “Let’s go to a different place tonight!”

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up the crowd with a Johnny Cash song … and then a song by the Who that he performed in the manner of Johnny Cash.

Made in the Shade is a one-man operation; Stevens crisscrosses northwestern Vermont every week. On Mondays he’s at Back Stage Pub & Restaurant in Essex Junction, Tuesdays its JP’s Pub in Burlington, Wednesdays he’s at Milton’s North Country Saloon, on Thursdays he’s at Shooters, and on Sundays, Franny O’s in South Burlington. He’s been in the business for about eight years, and has had the gig at Shooters for two.

Most of the performers at this weekly talent contest sing, but Stevens said comedians and even jugglers occasionally take the stage.

“If you’ve got a talent, we want to see it,” he said.

Belters can win a $25 gift card for the best rendition of the selected “song of the night,” and every couple of months a crop of recent Shooters’ winners competes for a $100 grand prize. (Stevens distributes scorecards and encourages patrons to vote for the best performers, but drinkers around us didn’t express much interest in the tabulation.)

With many of the regulars at Twiggs or elsewhere, returning champions eagerly commandeered this night’s open mic. Two-time winner Chris Parker, 41, took the stage in his Bond Auto Parts work shirt. Parker, who’s been writing music for 25 years, accompanied his own emotive, Eddie Vedder-esque vocals on acoustic guitar.

Parker’s open mic victories at Shooters have given him a boost. “This has actually started to work out for quite a few of us,” he said. “It’s starting to get us into actually playing for money.”

The St. Albans music scene is small, so Parker has found himself performing — at, yes, Twiggs — with other Shooters regulars, including Stevens himself.

“About 12 years ago, I used to play an open-mic night here and nobody showed up,” Parker added. “You get Kyle Stevens in here, and this place is packed on a Thursday.” When everybody’s not at Twiggs, anyway.

The music was generally fine, and whenever I lost interest, I found mesmerizing solace in the pulsating, pointillistic red-and-green light show that played against the back wall of the stage.

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Summer Flower Arranging: Green thumbs find their inner florists with Sharon Niquette of Buds & Roses. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

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Crankie Workshop with Anna & Elizabeth: Nostalgic artisans join the duo to fabricate the old-fashioned entertainment center in which a length of felt is adorned with images and rolled into a backlit wooden viewer. Burlington City Arts, 3 p.m. Donations. Info, 233-5293.

Henna: Heartfire Henna's Rebecca Friedner adorns adults and teens with intricate temporary designs. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

Block Party: Dinner, a DJ and face painting enliven a celebration for King Street Center families, fans and friends. King Street Center, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6736.

Courage in Bloom Garden Ceremony: Honoring Victims & Survivors of Crime: Advocate Sue Russell is recognized for her work at a reception complete with speeches, refreshments and an open discussion forum. Courage in Bloom Memorial Garden, Montpelier, 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 241-1250, ext. 114.

Have You Had a Spiritual Experience?: An open dialogue encourages curious minds to explore past-life recall, out-of-body encounters, dreams and more. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

Men's Group: A supportive environment encourages socializing and involvement in senior center activities. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-2518.

Peer Support Circle: Participants converse freely in a confidential space without giving advice or solving problems. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 777-8602.

Vergennes Lions Club Charity Auction: Auctioneer Tom Broughton bags bids on donated antiques, household items, local products and more. Gymnasium, Vergennes Union High School & Middle School, doors open for preview, 5 p.m.; auction, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 545-8181.

crafts

Knitters & Needleworkers: Crafters convene for creative fun. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

dance

AfroLatin Party: Dancers ages 18 and up get down to the kizomba, kuduro and kompa with DsantosVT. Zen Lounge, Burlington, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; party, 8-10 p.m. $6-12; free for party. Info, 227-2572.

Brattleboro African Dance: Students at all levels practice movement and rhythm. The Stone Church, Brattleboro, drum, 6:15-7:15 p.m.; dance, 7:15-8:45 p.m. $10-15. Info, 258-6475.

Bus Trip to SPAC: National Ballet of China: The Lake Placid Center for the Arts leads a jaunt to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center to witness the world-renowned dance company.

Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 3 p.m. $60.

Info, 518-523-2512.

Drop-in Hip-Hop Dance: Beginners are welcome at a groove session inspired by infectious beats. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $13.

Info, 540-8300.

Guinean Dance: Sidiki Sylla and Solo Sana lead mixed-level lessons in African steps. Burlington Memorial Auditorium Loft, 5:30-7 p.m. $13-15.

Info, 859-1802.

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Two men, 20 characters and one show — now that’s multitasking. Vermont comedy duo Steve Small and Harry McEnerny reveal their range as they portray a score of personalities — including men, women, children and animals — in the off-Broadway comedy Greater Tuna. This fast-paced romp, chock-full of quick changes and quirky characterizations, transports viewers to the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, where they meet down-home folks like used-weapons dealer Didi Snavely and Vera Carp, vice president of the Smut Snatchers of the New Order. The Middlebury Actors Workshop presents the sidesplitting small-town satire as the kickoff to its 15th season.

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Tech Help With Clif: Folks develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

Valley Night: Jason Lee entertains as locals gather for a weekly bash with craft ales and movies. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 496-8994.

Wagon Ride Wednesdays: Giddyap! Visitors tour the working dairy farm via this time-tested method of equine transportation. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $4-14; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

Wind Tour: Attendees are blown away by a tour of energy-producing turbines. Meet at the bottom of the mountain, Lowell Mountain, 10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 744-6664.

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Barre Heritage Festival: Arts, culture, music, food and history culminate in a celebration of the Granite City's past and present. See barreheritagefestival.org for details. Various Barre locations, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Prices vary. Info, info@ barreheritagefestival.org.

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Summer Reading Lit lovers find heaven on Earth at the Bookstock Literary Festival. In exaltation of emerging and established regional talent, citizens of Woodstock open their doors and ears to dozens of writers. Throughout the three-day fête, bibliophiles bag bargains at two enormous book sales, wordsmiths hone their crafts at writing workshops and masters of verse flex their chops at an open poetry jam. Abenaki writer Joseph Bruchac, poet Kim Addonizio and bestselling novelist Jeffrey Lent (pictured) are among the impressive roster of presenters. “The Poets of Tin Pan Alley,” a special program by pianist, singer and raconteur Daryl Sherman celebrating the marriage of melody and verse in musical theater, is a must-see.

Bookstock Literary Festival Friday, July 24, and Saturday, July 25, 9 a.m.6 p.m., and Sunday, July 26, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at various Woodstock locations. Free. Info, 457-3981. bookstockvt.org

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JUL.28 | ETC. Pod People What happens when the hosts of some of the world’s most popular podcasts leave their studios and take to one stage? Cast Party — an original variety show broadcast live via satellite from New York City to big screens across the country. Personalities from shows such as the scientific “Radiolab,” the fiction-based drama “The Truth” and the improvisational comedy “With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus” (pictured) are on hand with stories, songs, dances, videos and surprise guests. Tune in for what cocreator and producer Seth Lind hopes will be “the Lollapalooza of podcasts.”

‘Cast Party’ Tuesday, July 28, 8 p.m., at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. $18-20. Info, 748-2600. catamountarts.org. Tuesday, July 28, 8 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. $15. Info, 382-9222. townhalltheater.org

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calendar 'Peter and John': Jay Craven directed the Nantucket-based 2015 movie about two brothers who must reevaluate their relationship as love and money come into play. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $49. Info, 748-2600.

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Barre Farmers Market: Crafters, bakers and farmers share their goods. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 505-8437.

Coffee Tasting: Sips of Counter Culture Coffee prompt side-by-side comparisons of different regional beans. Maglianero Café, Burlington, noon.

Free. Info, 617-331-1276, corey@maglianero.com.

Middlebury Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers' totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 377-2980.

Newport Farmers Market: Pickles, meats, eggs, fruits, veggies, herbs and baked goods are a small sampling of the seasonal bounty. Causeway, Newport, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 274-8206.

Rutland County Farmers Market: Downtown strollers find high-quality produce, fresh-cut flowers and artisan crafts within arms' reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 2-6 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813 or 753-7269.

games

Dungeons & Dragons Night: Quick thinkers ages 14 and up rely on invented personas to face challenges and defeat enemies. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free.

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Bookmobile: The traveling library makes the rounds to loan summer reads. See williston.lib. vt.us for details. Various locations, Williston, 5-6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Craftsbury Chamber Players MiniConcerts: Little ones take in classical compositions with their adult companions. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443.

Family Fun Night: Parents and kids of all ages bond over entertaining and educational activities. See jaquithpubliclibrary.org for details.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

Firefighters: Working Hard to Keep Us Safe: Tots join Ms. Liza for stories about the heroes who battle blazes. Highgate Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

Live Action Role-Playing: Gamers grades 7 and up take on alter egos while solving mysteries.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-5 p.m.

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Insight Meditation: Attendees deepen their understanding of Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694.

Outdoor Backyard Boot Camp: Ma'am, yes, ma'am! A fitness expert helps folks increase strength, energy and agility. Call for details.

Private residence, Middlebury, 7-8 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.

Push-ups in the Park: Fitness fanatics get a sweat on at a fast and furious workout that benefits local charities. Oakledge Park, Burlington, 6-7 a.m. $5-15 suggested donation. Info, 658-0949.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet define this high-intensity physical-fitness program. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

Soulshine Dance: Mind, body and spirit meld as music guides students through a series of stages to achieve deep relaxation. River Arts, Morrisville, 8-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 888-1261.

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Lunch at the Library: The Burlington School music Food Project puts out a healthy spread for ages 18 Anna & Elizabeth: The duo doles out footand under. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11:45 stomping dance tunes at an old-time concert prea.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. sented by Young Tradition Vermont. Kaïa Kater Nature's Superheroes: The beloved puppet opens. Burlington City Arts, 6 p.m. $15 suggested Professor Fizzywig makes an appearance as donation. Info, 865-7166. animal lovers get hip to species ranging from Big Hat No Cattle: The band serves up honeybees to sharks. Dorothy Alling Memorial western swing for a rootin'-tootin' good time at Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. the Middlesex Summer Concert Series. Martha Info, 878-4918.

Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand, Playmobile: Young 'uns get acquainted with Middlesex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 272-4920. members of the Burlington Parks & Recreation Brass Balagan & La Pêche: Funky grooves staff and play games on the lawn. Fletcher Free with international influences generate jovial Library, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregenergy and dizzying dance moves. ArtsRiot, ister; lunch included for kids 18 and under. Info, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 540-0406.

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Burlington City Arts Lunchtime Concert Read to a Dog: Budding bookworms ages 5 and Series: Listeners take in the Cajun-inspired up pore over pages with a lovable pup. Fletcher sounds of the Green Mountain Playboys at an Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, outdoor concert. BCA Center, Burlington, noon-1 865-7216. p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

Read to Hank the Therapy Dog: Tykes cozy Capital City Band: The community ensemble up for a story session with a retriever. Burnham hits all the right notes at a weekly gig on the Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.-noon. green. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 7 Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. p.m. Free. Info, 456-7054.

Reading Buddies: Kiddos in grades K through 5 Community Evenings at the Farm: The Dave join teen mentors to stay sharp with stories and Keller Band entertain picnickers with soulful math activities. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, blues tunes. Shelburne Farms, gates open for 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Reading Champions: Teens and tweens drop in Info, 985-8686. for crafts, scavenger hunts and fun with friends.

Craftsbury Chamber Players: World-class St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, musicians explore classical compositions by 748-8291.

Schubert, Bach, Beethoven and others. UVM Story & Activity Time: Captivating titles pave Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-125; free for the way for themed activities for children kids 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443. up to age 7. Jaquith Public Library, KoSA Drum Festival Concert: Marshfield, 10 a.m. Free. Info, Internationally recognized 426-3581. percussionists keep the beat Summer Preschool Story in a spirited performance. See Time: Hero-themed stories, kosamusic.com for details. puppets and crafts foster a Casella Theater, Castleton love of the written word in tiny State College, 8 p.m. $5-10; tots. Siblings are welcome. free for kids 12 and under; free Brownell Library, Essex on July 24. Info, 468-1119.

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Singers & Players of Info, 878-6956.

Instruments: Musicians of |T Wacky Wednesdays: Slime all levels bring voices and gear to he er at ob Play: Small scientists ages 6 and er FR meet and mingle with fellow perform| ‘S T YO S E O T up mix a substance that is at once a N E’ | C O U R ers. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 liquid and a solid. ECHO Lake Aquarium and p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373.

Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Summertime Serenade: Burlington Town Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. $10.50-13.50; free for Center Music Series: Strollers shop to the kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. sweet sounds of Joey Keough. Burlington Town Wednesday Wacktivity: Supercool Center, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2545, ext. 216.

Superhero Photobooth: Youngsters ham it up for the camera using handmade sets and outdoors action scenes. Burnham Memorial Library, Bug Walk: Those interested in insects grab their Colchester, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, nets for an exploratory expedition. North Branch 264-5660.

Nature Center, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. $3-5. Info, 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' Story Time: 229-6206.

Tap your heels together three times! Little lit Moth Night: Entomologists are dazzled by a dizlovers listen as Saint Michael's Playhouse Junior zying array of species during a sunset search in entertains with songs and readings from L. Frank celebration of National Moth Week. North Branch Baum's classic story. Phoenix Books, Essex, 6 p.m.

Nature Center, Montpelier, 9-11 p.m. $3-5. Info, Free. Info, 872-7111.

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Young & Fun: Lake Placid Sinfonietta: Wee ones wiggle, wonder and wander while an orchesseminars tra performs. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., Bikes for Beginners Workshop: A lesson in 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 518-523-2512.

DIY maintenance readies cyclists for on-the-road repairs. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5:30lgbtq 7:30 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, christine@ Gender Pride Book Club: Page-turners evoke bikerecyclevt.org. lively discussions among readers. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, sports 860-7812.

Catamount Mountain Bike Series: Riders tackle varied terrain on three different courses montréal in a weekly training session. Catamount Outdoor Dave Chappelle: The living legend of laughs Family Center, Williston, 6 p.m. $3-10. Info, has the audience in stitches over his hard-hitting 879-6001. act. Place des Arts, Montréal, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $100Liv Bicycles & North Star Sports Ladies 408.90; limited space. Info, 514-285-4200.

Ride: Women of all ages and abilities spin their wheels with cyclist Chelsea Camarata to improve their skills and make new friends. Cady Hill Forest, Stowe, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3832.

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Summer Trail Series: Athletes take to wood and field on a 5K run while kiddos stretch their legs on a one-half kilometer course. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 6-7 p.m. $3-6; free for bike club members with season pass and kids 12 and under with parent racing. Info, 253-5755.

Women's Pickup Basketball: Drive to the hoop! Ladies dribble up and down the court during an evening of friendly competition. See meetup.com for details. Leddy Park, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail. com.

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Katelyn P.C. Hudson: The architectural designer gives tips for living green in "Biophilic Dwelling: The Integration of Nature With Home Design" as part of the Doorways to Design Summer Lecture Series. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

Rutland Death Café: Folks meet for a conversation about death, aimed at accessing a fuller life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991.

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Dorset Theatre Festival: 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily': Mystery and intrigue are in the cards as the beloved detective dons a disguise to crack the case in a play by Katie Forgette. Dorset Playhouse, 3 & 8 p.m. $8-49. Info, 867-2223.

'La Depot Dangereuse' Play Readings: Theater lovers throng to a reading of Good People

by David Lindsay-Abaire followed by a discussion with the actors. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 518-962-4449.

The Metropolitan Opera Live: Renée Fleming portrays a Parisian femme fatale in Franz Lehár’s enchanting operetta The Merry Widow, broadcast to the big screen. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. $18. Info, 603-646-2422. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600.

'Outside Mullingar': Two middle-aged Irish neighbors find love in an uplifting comedy by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $34-43. Info, 654-2281.

'Peter and the Starcatcher': A dozen actors portray more than 100 characters as this Tony Award-winning prequel to Peter Pan transports fans to a never-before-seen Neverland. Weston Playhouse, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $39-52. Info, 824-5288.

'Romeo and Juliet': Shakespeare enthusiasts bring chairs and blankets for Rutland Youth Theatre's outdoor performance of the playwright's romantic tragedy. The Gables at East Mountain, Rutland, 6:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 558-4177.

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Book Discussion: Booker Prize Winners: J.M. Coetzee's The Life and Times of Michael K inspires conversation among readers. Dover Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 348-7488.

Duty's Faithful Child: A Visit with Louisa May Alcott: Lit lovers get a glimpse of the life and work of the Little Women author, portrayed

by Jeanne Austin. Greater Hartford United Church of Christ, Hartford Village, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 296-2568.

EXTEMPO: Local raconteurs tell first-person true stories before a live audience. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 8 p.m. $5; cost of food and drink. Info, 223-1151.

Fiction Workshop: Folks give feedback on selections of up to 40 pages penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup. com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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Stowe Free Library, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 253-6145.

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GoLF & barbecUe Mixer: Friends and colleagues gather on the green to catch up and learn about current community projects.

The mingling continues over a barbecue and cash bar. Alburg Golf Links, 4-7:30 p.m. $35; preregister.

community

bUrLinGton waLk/bike coUnciL MeetinG: Two-wheeled travelers get in gear to discuss ways to improve conditions for cyclists and pedestrians. Burlington City Hall, 5:30-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 861-2700, ext. 103.

M.a.G.i.c.: MaScULinity and Gender identity converSation: Folks of any and all gender identities convene for a casual discussion on topics ranging from inequality to language, media and food. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 370-5369.

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'be a Hero' ProJect: Helping hands in grades 1 through 5 take on tasks to better the community.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955. 'booked For LUncH' SerieS: Lit lovers in grades K and up listen to hero-themed reads over a bag lunch. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. craFtSbUry cHaMber PLayerS MiniconcertS: See WED.22, Hardwick Town House, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443.

FaMiLy Movie niGHt: Break out the popcorn!

Kids and parents cozy up for a screening of the animated flick The Incredibles. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. ice creaM SociaL & bUbbLe SHow: Rob Mermin cleans up his act with his "Soap Bubble Symphony," followed by ice cream sundaes and clips of classic comedians such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 5:30-7 p.m. $5; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 253-1800.

LeGo cLUb: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire developing minds. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

LeGo My Library ProGraM: Children in grades K through 6 don their hard hats for themed building challenges with interlocking blocks. Highgate Public Library, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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PLainFieLd PreScHooL Story tiMe: Little ones ages 2 through 5 discover the magic of literature. Cutler Memorial Library, Plainfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 454-8504.

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'Peter and JoHn': See WED.22, 7:30 p.m.

'PieceS': In an event dedicated to B-level horror movies, Cinema Casualties presents the 1982 chain saw-killer thriller. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406. 'toy Story': Gadgets and gizmos come to life in Pixar's 1995 animated family movie voiced by Tim Allen and Tom Hanks. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. $2.

Info, 518-523-2512.

coMMUnity MindFULneSS: A 20-minute guided practice led by Andrea O'Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow.

Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

Forza: tHe SaMUrai Sword workoUt: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon.

North End Studio A, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

PiLateS witH Mary reGeLe: Fitness fanatics drop in to fine-tune their flexibility, posture and core strength. River Arts, Morrisville, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 888-1261.

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edibLe HiStory toUr: Gourmands sample ethnic eats on a scrumptious stroll dedicated to Burlington's culinary past. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1 p.m. $48; preregister.

Info, 863-5966.

MiLton FarMerS Market: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Hannaford Supermarket, Milton, 4-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009.

SUMMervaLe: Grind yoUr own Pancake Mix: City Market representatives teach foodies how to prepare the whole-grain blend at the weekly agricultural gathering. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

UvM MedicaL center FarMerS Market: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. Davis Concourse, UVM Medical Center, Burlington, 2:305 p.m. Free. Info, 847-5823. waterbUry FarMerS Market: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m. Free.

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FeaSt & FieLd Market: Locally grown produce, homemade tacos and tunes from Pete's Posse are on the menu at a pastoral party. Clark Farm, Barnard, market, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; concert, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3391.

Food, FUn & Ferry: A ferry transports revelers to an island destination, where they find bike-powered smoothies, food vendors, raffles and live music by Blues For Breakfast. Proceeds benefit the Island Line Bike Ferry and Kohl's Kids Bike Smart program. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, 5-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 372-9463.

SUMMervaLe: Locavores fête farms and farmers at a weekly event centered on food, brews, kids activities and live music. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 660-0440. tea & ForMaL GardenS toUr: Explorations of the inn and its grounds culminate in a traditional cup-and-saucer affair. The Inn at Shelburne Farms, 2:30-4 p.m. $18; preregister.

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Mandarin Chinese Class: Language lovers practice the dialect spoken throughout northern and southwestern China. Agape Community Church, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 503-2037.

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Annemieke McLane: The pianist makes the ivories dance with selections by Liszt, Grieg and Schubert as part of the Summerkeys II concert series. Richmond Free Library, 7:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 434-3036.

Arturo O'Farrill & Jazzismo: It's a family affair as the Grammy Award-winning pianist and his sons join forces with the Latin jazz band for a sizzling selection of original and standard compositions. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $16-20.

Info, 863-5966.

Battery Park Free Concert Series: The Ryan Montbleau Band blend rock, funk, soul, folk and psychedelia on an outdoor stage. Battery Park, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2396.

Craftsbury Chamber Players: World-class musicians explore classical compositions by Schubert, Bach, Beethoven and others. See craftsburychamberplayers.org for details.

Hardwick Town House, 7:30 p.m. $10-125; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

Danby Olde Country & Bluegrass Festival: Enthusiastic listeners bring chairs for a family-friendly weekend of tunes, complete with concessions and raffles. Powers' Field, Danby, 6-10:30 p.m. $15-50; free for kids under 15. Info, 293-5515.

Ellis Mills Brown Bag Summer Concert Series: The Michael Arnowitt Trio deliver pianobased compositions at an al fresco performance.

Courtyard, Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, noon. Free. Info, 223-9604.

Front Porch Concert Series: Singersongwriter Bow Thayer captivates listeners at a gig on the green. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-448-0400.

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'Battle Jar' Screening: Attendees get the first look at the premiere of a new adventure-comedy web series hosted by its creators. Footage from other local filmmakers, live music, raffle tickets and food for purchase complete the affair.

Les Pas Sages, Montréal, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 514-522-9773.

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POWerful Books Giveaway: Small superheroes take home new reads, courtesy of the Children's Literacy Foundation. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7216.

Preschool Music: Kiddos have fun with song and dance. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Raptors in Residence: Fans of feathered fliers stretch their wings and experience the birds of prey firsthand. Shelburne Farms, 1-1:30 p.m.

Regular farm admission, $5-8; free for members and kids under 3. Info, 985-8686.

Trapp Attack Kids Mountain Biking Night: Junior cyclists spin their wheels with an on-trail coaching session. Meet at the Outdoor Center, Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-5 p.m. $25-100.

Info, 253-5711.

'Who Will Save Colchester?': Summer Encore Theatre presents a tale of local heroism written and performed by thespians in grades 7 through 12. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

'Cats': Fantastical felines sing and dance in the Lamoille County Players' production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical. Hyde Park Opera House, 7 p.m. $12-18. Info, 888-4507.

Dementia-Friendly Intergenerational Puppet Project: Through a series of classes, artists from No Strings Attached Marionette Company prepare young adults and folks 50 and up with memory disorders for a public performance. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $20 for series; preregister. Info, 262-6284.

Dorset Theatre Festival: 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily': See WED.22, 8 p.m.

'Greater Tuna': Two men portray 20 residents of Tuna, Texas, in a hilarious send-up of smalltown principles, produced by the Middlebury Actors Workshop. See calendar spotlight. A.R.T. Black Box Theater, Hannaford Career Center, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $10-22. Info, 382-9222.

'Kiss Me Kate': Tony Award-nominee Marla Schaffel stars in the Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency's production of the lighthearted musical comedy. Theater on the Green, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 533-7487.

National Theatre Live: A broadcast production shows Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role in Everyman, portraying a man confronting the consequences of his actions in the face of death.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $1624. Info, 748-2600.

'Outside Mullingar': See WED.22. outdoors 'Peter and the Starcatcher': See WED.22, 7:30 p.m.

An Evening of Bats: Fans of the nocturnal fliers get a lesson from 'Romeo and Juliet': See WED.22, "Barry the Bat Guy" before watchOrwell Town Green, 7 p.m. ing the winged creatures take Donations. Info, 558-4177. to the night sky. Shelburne 'Shrek the Musical': The Farms, 7:30-9 p.m. $8; $6 for Stowe Theatre Guild presmembers. Info, 985-8686. ents an interpretation of the Academy Award-winning seminars animated movie about an 'Three Keys to Walking & unlikely hero on a quest to Running & Staying Injuryrescue a princess. Stowe Town Free': Holistic health coach Sarah Hall Theatre, 8-10 p.m. $15-25. |B an ra Br Richardson outlines safe practices nd Info, 253-3961.

OF ee Y S Yo u for an active life. Community Room, n g e r | C O U R TE 'Stone': Actors and musicians sculpt Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 a portrait of life in Barre’s granite community p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. in the Lost Nation Theater original docudrama.

Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 7 p.m. $10-65. sports Info, 229-0492.

Pickup Rugby: Veteran players and newbies 'The Voysey Inheritance': Edward comes from alike lace up for a two-hand-touch match. a life of luxury, but when he discovers malfeaPersonal cleats or running shoes and water sance in his family's finances, he must decide required. Fort Ethan Allen Athletic Fields, whether his conscience is worth its weight in Colchester, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonruggold. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10byevents@gmail.com.

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KoSA Drum Festival Concert: See WED.22.

Lyra Faculty Concert: Leaders from the Lyra Summer Music Workshop present a program of classical compositions. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 917-622-0395.

Pete's Posse: Fiddle, mandolin, keyboards and clawhammer banjo ring out as part of the Brown Bag Concert Series. Rain location: Woodstock Town Hall Theatre. Woodstock Village Green, noon. Donations. Info, 457-3981.

Select Sessions VIII: The Music of Motown: An all-star band of local musicians — Steve Hadeka, Kat Wright and Josh Panda, to name a few — join forces in song as strollers sip beer and sample food. Select Design, Burlington, 9 p.m. $22-25. Info, 864-9075.

Soundwaves: Jazz fans relish Brandee Younger's renowned harp playing as part of the lakeside concert series. Rain location: Heritage House. Ballard Park, Westport, N.Y., 7:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, soundwaveswestport@gmail. com.

Summer Concert Series: Kick ’Em Jenny have boots tapping to the beat with an old-time string set. Rain location: Old Schoolhouse Common.

Gazebo, Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

Village Harmony Teen Ensemble II: Patty Cuyler, Megan Henderson and Avery Book direct vocalists in a program of international choral music. Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 254-4730.

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Adam Krakowski: Suds lovers lean in for the historian's discussion of Burlington's brewing past. Proceeds support Preservation Burlington.

Switchback Brewing Company, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $15 includes a pint of Switchback; limited space. Info, info@preservationburlington.org.

Hot Topics in Environmental Law Lecture Series: Natalie Allen, anchor for CNN International, laments a lost opportunity in "Missed Message: How the Media Failed on Climate Change." Room 007, Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 831-1228.

Steven Engelhart: Listeners get a link to the past in "Historic Preservation: What's It All About?" Alice T. Miner Museum, Chazy, N.Y., 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 518-846-7336.

Canaan Meetinghouse Reading Series: Jeffrey Lent and Vicki Croke command attention with selected original works. Meetinghouse, Canaan, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-523-9650.

Oral Storytelling Workshop: Wordsmiths join Burlington Writers Workshop members in a "Moth"-style exploration of telling tales aloud. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 383-8104.

Stowe Free Library Giant Book Sale: See WED.22.

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Intervale Center Tour: A pastoral stroll highlights innovative programs and a rich agricultural history. Intervale Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 660-0440, ext. 113.

'The Bikinis': A fictional Jersey Shore girl group reunites for a musical walk down memory lane, featuring swinging songs like "It's in His Kiss" and "Heat Wave," in Ray Roderick and James Hindman's lighthearted production.

Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 5 p.m. $29. Info, 518-962-4449.

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Feast Together or Feast to Go: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

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Ballroom & Latin Dancing: Samba: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required.

Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-9:30 p.m. $6-14. Info, 862-2269.

Ecstatic Dance Vermont: A movement session with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspires joy, transformation and divine connections. Auditorium, Christ Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8010.

Star Light Family Dance: Tunes from DJ Jim Severance inspire an all-ages groove session under the pavilion. Montpelier Recreation Field, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $15-20 per family. Info, 225-8699.

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Bluebird Fairy Card Readings: Sessions with artist Emily Anderson offer folks insight into their lives. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. $5. Info, 238-4540.

Elements of Windsor: Community pride radiates at a celebration of the creative economy and local businesses. Live music, wine tastings, food, and arts and crafts round out the festivities.

Various downtown locations, Windsor, 4-10 p.m.

Free. Info, 356-7093.

Friday Nights: Downtown Rutland: Sensory experiences abound as strollers enjoy shopping, outdoor dining, kids activities and live music by the Spin Doctors. See rutlanddowntown.com for details. Various Rutland locations, 6-10 p.m. Free.

Info, 773-9380.

Queen City Ghostwalk: Darkness Falls: Paranormal historian Thea Lewis highlights haunted happenings throughout Burlington.

Meet at the steps 10 minutes before start time.

Burlington City Hall Park, 8 p.m. $18; preregister.

Info, 863-5966.

TurnON Burlington: Communication games encourage participants to push past comfort zones and experience deep connections.

OneTaste Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 410-474-9250, cj@onetasteburlington.us.

Valley 9 & Dine: Friendly competition on the green is followed by a relaxing meal at the Elusive Moose. Sugarbush Resort Golf Club, Warren, check-in, 4:45 p.m.; golf, 5 p.m. $30 for meal; $40 to golf; $10 for pass holders. Info, 583-6725.

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Barre Heritage Festival: See WED.22, 8 a.m.9 p.m.

Lamoille County Field Days: Step right up!

Amusements, arts and crafts, live animals and more are fair game at a classic, communityoriented celebration. Lamoille County Field Days Grounds, Johnson, 8:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. $10-25.

Info, 635-7113.

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Bellows Falls Farmers Market: Grass-fed beef meets bicycle-powered smoothies at a foodie fair overflowing with veggies, cheeses, prepared eats and live music. Canal Street, Bellows Falls, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, bellowsfallsmarket@ gmail.com.

Edible History Tour: See THU.23.

Farm-to-Fork Sunset Dinner: Freshly harvested fare fills diners who order from Chef Sandi's artfully created menu. Appetizers and a garden tour kick off the evening. Sandiwood Farm, Wolcott, 6:30-9 p.m. $84 includes tax and gratuity; preregister; limited space. Info, 888-2881.

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Five Corners Farmers market: From local meats to breads and wines, farmers and food producers share the fruits of their labor. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-3249.

Foodways Fridays: Cooks use heirloom herbs and veggies to revive historic recipes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free with farm and museum admission, $4-14; free for kids under 3.

Info, 457-2355. riChmond Farmers market: An open-air marketplace connects farmers and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-9778. truCk stop: Mobile kitchens dish out mouthwatering fare and local libations. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.

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Community hatha yoga: Students move at their own pace in a gentle, reflective practice.

South End Studio, Burlington, 5:15-6:15 p.m. $6.

Info, 683-4918.

Laughter yoga: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle! Both new and experienced participants reduce stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373.

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First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5-20. Info, 540-1784.

Bernie sanders BeneFit: David, Rachel and Joshua Brahinsky support the presidential hopeful with a folk concert and sing-along.

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Donations. Info, 533-7056. the BLuegrass gospeL proJeCt: American musical tradition informs the group's rousing performance. Essex Community Church, Essex, N.Y., 7-9 p.m. $5-15; preregister. Info, pstaats@ westelcom.com.

BurLington City arts LunChtime ConCert series: Bows in hand, the Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture's Fiddle Kids take to the stage for an outdoor concert. BCA Center, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. 'a CeLtiC mass For peaCe, songs For the earth': Champlain Valley instrumentalists and vocalists give life to a composition by Sam Guarnaccia which accompanies J. Philip Newell's poetic text. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 352-6671. danBy oLde Country & BLuegrass FestivaL: See THU.23, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. green mountain ChamBer musiC FestivaL: 'miraCuLous magyar': String musicians close the season with a tribute to Hungarian music.

UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25; free for students. Info, 503-1220. imani uzuri: The renowned vocalist and composer commands attention with her performance combining jazz, classical, country and blues.

Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, Plainfield, 8 p.m. Donations. Info, 800-468-4888. kosa drum FestivaL ConCert: See WED.22.

Lyra student outreaCh ConCert: Blossoming players from the Lyra Summer Music Workshop present a program of classical compositions. Park, Gifford Medical Center, Randolph, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 917-622-0395. musiC in the aLLey: The 10-piece, horn-driven APEX Ensemble delight locals at a midsummer concert featuring pulled-pork sandwiches served

by Cote Hill Catering. Axel's Gallery & Frameshop, Waterbury, 6-9 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink.

Info, 244-7801. musiC on the hiLL: kid Congo powers & the pink monkey Birds: Fans get riled up for a night of raucous punk rock. Vicious Gift opens.

College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 828-8600. open miC night: Performers test their talents onstage as part of the Vergennes Art Walk.

Vergennes Opera House, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 877-6737. rush run phiLharmoniC: The bluegrass, folk and country airs of the West Virginia band reach eager listeners fueled by a preshow hot-dog bar.

Old Meeting House, East Fairfield, 5-9 p.m. $15 includes one hot dog. Info, 827-6626. summer CariLLon series: Giant bronze bells ring out as Sergei Gratchev performs from the chapel tower. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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BookmoBiLe: See WED.22, 4-6:45 p.m. drop-in story time: Picture books, finger plays and action rhymes captivate children of all ages. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. marveLous musiC with roBert: Robert Resnik hits all the right notes in a sing-along session for all ages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. page to stage: 'the day the Crayons Quit': Thespians in the making turn a story into a script, then rehearse before performing for friends and family at 3:15 p.m. For grades 1 though 5. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. reBeCCa keLLy onstage youth perFormanCe: Student dancers kick up their heels as two weeks of intensive training culminate in a final recital. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 a.m. $10; free for kids 6 and under. Info, 518-523-2512. 'romeo and JuLiet': Student actors from the Get Thee to the Funnery Shakespeare Program perform a lively adaptation of the romantic tragedy. Tunbridge Central School, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 461-5822. sidekiCk story time: Tykes up to age 5 sit tight for engaging narratives. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. superhero presChooL story time: Tales of caped crusaders delight listeners ages 3 through 6. A themed craft or activity follows. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. teen movie night: Young adults sit tight for a night of cinematic entertainment complete with popcorn and drinks. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. tot story time: Songs, rhymes, finger plays and abbreviated tales occupy wee ones up to age 2. Fairfax Community Library, 10-10:30 a.m. Free.

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Wendy Pierson Memorial Golf Tournament: Four-person teams tee off to support brain-cancer research at an outing complete with barbecue, prizes, raffles and an auction.

Rocky Ridge Golf Club, St. George, 9 a.m. $75. Info, 598-1861.

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Bookstock Literary Festival: Workshops, readings, live music and a giant book sale make for a literary fest of epic proportions. Various locations, Woodstock, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3981.

Creative Writing Workshop: Lit lovers analyze works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

Lori L. MacLaughlin: Fantasy fans flock to a discussion of the Milton author's adventure novel Lady, Thy Name is Trouble. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

Stowe Free Library Giant Book Sale: See WED.22.

Barre Heritage Festival: See WED.22, 7 a.m.-11 p.m.

Festival of the Islands: A pastoral tour through island towns offers up concerts, flea markets, art exhibits, wine tastings, petting zoos and more. Various Champlain Islands locations, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. community Prices vary; most events are free.

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Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 355-0028.

The Ramble: Art lovers flock to this celebration of creativity and community in the Old North End, Women's Circle: Those who identify as women which features an epic bike ride, local art and evegather for readings, discussion and activities. The ning music. Folks recap the day at an after-party Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, at the Old Northender. See theramble.org for 888-492-8218, ext. 302. map and details. Various Old North End locations, Burlington, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. Info, 355-7856 or dance 324-2983.

'She Who Walks in the Moonlight': Myths, stories and rituals are interpreted through film movement in a celebration of all things lunar.

'The Raid': A Plattsburgh prison break opens The Accaliae host the event benefiting Puppets the 1954 Civil War story starring Anne Bancroft in Education. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 and screened on 16mm film. Newman Center, p.m. $10. Info, accaliae@gmail.com.

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'As You Like It': Audience members sit and sip during the Adirondack Shakespeare Company's performance of the time-honored comedy.

Amazing Grace Vineyard & Winery, Chazy, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. $15. Info, 518-215-4044.

'The Bikinis': See THU.23, 8 p.m.

'Cats': See THU.23.

Dorset Theatre Festival: 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily': See WED.22, 8 p.m.

'Greater Tuna': See THU.23, 8 p.m.

'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat': The Town Hall Theater's Young Company presents Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's famed musical based on the Bible story of Joseph. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 382-9222.

'Kiss Me Kate': See THU.23.

'Outside Mullingar': See WED.22.

'Peter and the Starcatcher': See WED.22, 7:30 p.m.

'Romeo and Juliet': Shakespeare enthusiasts bring chairs and blankets for Rutland Youth Theatre's outdoor performance of the playwright's romantic tragedy. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 558-4177.

'Shrek the Musical': See THU.23.

'The Sound of Music': Audience members are treated to a few of their favorite things in QNEK's production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic musical. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $7-15; $2 discount for MAC and QDF members. Info, 748-2600.

'Stone': See THU.23, 8 p.m.

'The Voysey Inheritance': See THU.23.

Bizarre Bazaar Bike Flea Market: Cyclists search for treasures among parts, accessories, decorations and other trinkets. Sales support the Burlington Bike Project. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

Crafts of the Lake Region: Shoppers browse jewelry, wood products, pottery, folk art, handbags, furniture and other handcrafted goods at an annual sale complete with local fare and a raffle benefiting the Barton Public Library.

Barton Public Library, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 525-4538.

Trunk Show & Sale: Works by gallery artists and invited creators make for an eye-catching display of new and different items. Grand Isle Art Works, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 378-4591.

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Green Mountain Draft Horse Field Day: Equine enthusiasts witness feats of true horsepower with traditional plowing, haying and logging demonstrations. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Regular admission, $5-8; free for members, residents and kids 2 and under. Info, 985-8686.

Jericho/Underhill Country Garden Tour: Green thumbs take a self-guided route through eye-catching landscape designs. A workshop, "Herbal Teas: From Your Backyard to Your Tea Pot," led by Colleen Korniak rounds out the day.

Various Jericho and Underhill locations, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $15. Info, 899-3853.

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Bats in the Barn: "Barry the Bat Guy" brings the nocturnal critters out of the shadows with a colorful slideshow before attendees witness their evening flight. Shelburne Farms, 7:30-9 p.m. $7; $5 for members. Info, 985-8686.

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Open House & Cookout: Attendees air up their tires and lube their chains while they get familiar with the shop's programs and classes. Burgers and hot dogs satiate empty stomachs. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 264-9687.

Pet Appreciation Day: Man and woman's best friend is the guest of honor at the Barre Farmers Market, where owners speak with animal advocates and browse pet products such as natural treats and shampoos. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 505-8437.

Pond Party & Barbecue: Pack your bathing suit! A benefit for NorthWoods Stewardship Center programs features live music, a barbecue supper and kids activities. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 4-7 p.m. $5-15. Info, 723-6551, ext. 301.

Queen City Ghostwalk: Darkness Falls: See FRI.24.

Swanton Chamber Car Show: Gearheads pump the brakes for an annual automotive exhibition. Village Green Park, Swanton, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $15; free for spectators. Info, 868-5409.

UVM Historic Tour: Professor emeritus William Averyt references architectural gems and notable personalities on a walk through campus. Ira Allen statue, University Green, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 656-8673.

hop, Charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 8 p.m.; dance, 8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

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Bike Portraits: The beauty and diversity of the Burlington cycling community is on display as riders have their photos taken with their twowheeled vehicles. Old Spokes Home, Burlington, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 339-223-0722, christine@ bikerecyclevt.org.

Bounty of Vermont Day: Folks chat up artisans and food producers, who display their wares under a tent at this celebration of all things local.

Lantman's Market, Hinesburg, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 482-2361.

Champlain Valley Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show: Sparkling specimens dazzle attendees during a weekend of eye-catching exhibits, lectures and more. Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3-4; free for kids under 16 with adult. Info, 849-6076.

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Village Harmony Teen Ensemble II: See THU.23, Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 263-5547.

Windrose and Pipe & Slippers: A cappella arrangements and accompanied pieces make for a memorable performance benefiting the Northeast Kingdom Astronomy Foundation.

Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 7 p.m. $5-10.

Info, 748-2600.

Summer Book Sale: Thousands of titles delight bookworms and bargain shoppers alike. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550.

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Barre Farmers Market: See WED.22, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Burlington Farmers Market: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172.

Caledonia Farmers Market: Growers, crafters and entertainers gather weekly at outdoor booths centered on local eats. Parking lot, Anthony's Diner, St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3088.

Capital City Farmers Market: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, and locally made arts and crafts. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958.

Chocolate Tasting: With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics of all ages discover the flavor profiles of four different confections. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

Edible History Tour: See THU.23.

Middlebury Farmers Market: See WED.22.

Mount Tom Farmers Market: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Parking lot, Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2070.

Newport Farmers Market: See WED.22.

Northwest Farmers Market: Locavores stock up on produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 827-3157.

Norwich Farmers Market: Farmers and artisans offer meats, maple syrup and produce alongside baked goods and handcrafted items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447.

Pie Sale: Folks stock up on apple, blueberry, strawberry-rhubarb, key-lime and peanut-butter pastries. First Baptist Church of Barre, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4077.

Rutland County Farmers Market: See WED.22, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Shelburne Farmers Market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Town Center, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-4279.

Swanton Farmers Market: Shoppers get their share of farm-fresh produce, meats and breads. Village Green Park, Swanton, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 868-7200.

Vermont Cider Classic: Pork-based offerings complement sips of the fermented beverage from local makers at this first-annual event. See artsriot.com for details. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $25-55. Info, 540-0406.

Waitsfield Farmers Market: A bustling bazaar boasts seasonal produce, prepared foods, artisan crafts and live entertainment. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 498-4734.

Wine Tasting: A casual sipping session complete with cheese and bread highlights cabernet sauvignon from South America. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20. Info, 253-5742.

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Northern Vermont Scrabble Club: Wordsmiths use lettered tiles to spell out winning combinations. Panera Bread, Barre, 1-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 524-1801.

health & fitness

Outdoor Backyard Boot Camp: See WED.22, 8-9 a.m.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.22, 9-10 a.m..

Spartan Race Workout: Competitors get a step ahead of the competition at a preparatory workout led by a Spartan coach. Race entries and running shoes are raffled off. The Edge Sports & Fitness, Williston, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 860-3343.

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Drop-In Story Time: Music and books inspire a love of the arts in youngsters. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

Garden Tea Party: Parents and kids ages 4 and up explore fragrant blooms on a treasure hunt before teatime. Shelburne Farms, 1-3 p.m. $20-22 per adult/child pair; $6-7 per additional child; preregister. Info, 985-8686.

'A Midsummer Night's Dream': Budding thespians show the fruits of their labor with a performance of Shakespeare's whimsical play.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 2 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-4665.

Raptors in Residence: See THU.23.

'Romeo and Juliet': See FRI.24, 4-6 p.m.

Saturday Story Time: Parents and kids gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

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'The Bikinis': See THU.23, 8 p.m.

'Cats': See THU.23.

Dorset Theatre Festival: 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily': See WED.22, 8 p.m.

'Greater Tuna': See THU.23.

'Hamlet': The Prince of Denmark faces suspense, manipulation and drama in the Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency's production of Shakespeare's tragedy. Theater on the Green, Greensboro, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 533-7487.

'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat': See FRI.24.

'A Midsummer Night's Dream': Shakespeare devotees are dazzled by an HD broadcast of the playwright's whimsical and poetic play directed

by Julie Taymor. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $23. Info, 603-646-2422.

'Music Man, Jr.': Members of the Adirondack Regional Theater take to the stage for an al fresco performance of Meredith Wilson's Tony Award winner. Amazing Grace Vineyard & Winery, Chazy, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. $10. Info, 518-215-4044.

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'Peter and John': See WED.22, Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 310-2169.

'Silents Are Golden': Mime Rob Mermin demonstrates acting styles of soundless picture stars with clips from 100 movies featuring the likes of Greta Garbo, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968.

food & drink

Chocolate Tasting: See SAT.25.

Summer Greek Food Festival: Authentic fare fuels folks for a celebration of the country's culture complete with live music and traditional dancing. Greek Orthodox Church Community Center, Burlington, noon-5 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 862-2155.

Winooski Farmers Market: Area growers and bakers offer ethnic fare, assorted produce and agricultural products. Champlain Mill Green, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, winooskimarket@gmail.com.

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Paul Andriscin: The historian explores the generals' 1776 activities on Lake Champlain in "An Inquiry Into the Revolutionary Mind: What Were You Thinking, Benedict Arnold and Guy Carleton?"

Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, 2-3:30 p.m. $5; free for kids under 15; includes admission to museum and trails. Info, 948-2000.

Barre Heritage Festival: See WED.22, 9 a.m.9 p.m.

Festival of the Islands: See SAT.25.

Jig in the Valley: Now in its 23rd year, this daylong, family-friendly fête features eight hours of live music, kids activities, raffles, wood-fired pizza and more. Old Meeting House, East Fairfield, noon-8 p.m. $10-25. Info, 827-6626.

Lamoille County Field Days: See FRI.24, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Trunk Show & Sale: See SAT.25.

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BIrd Monitoring Walk: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for winged wonders. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

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Healing Arts from the Himalayas: Students learn the healing power of massage and yoga from yogi Nitin Gill in three sessions. Sangha Studio, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $20-25 suggested donation. Info, 904-962-8445.

Nia With Linda: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potential.

South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691.

Sunday Sangha: Community Ashtanga Yoga: Students hit the mat to breathe through a series of poses. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $1-20 suggested donation. Info, 224-6183.

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'All Mixed Up: Counterpoint Sings the Music of Pete Seeger': See FRI.24, Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, 8 p.m. $20-25.

Info, 760-4634.

Answer the Muse: Audience members interact in this participatory performance where music, theater and spirit collide. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $15-20; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 518-523-2512.

Ben & Jerry's Concerts on the Green: Old Crow Medicine Show: Nashville grooves head north when the Grammy Award-winning string band delivers foot-stomping Americana.

Shelburne Museum, 6:30 p.m. $37-41. Info, 877-987-6487.

Cooler in the Mountains Concert Series: Bim Skala Bim turn heads with an infectious thirdwave ska sound. Lawn games, a barbecue and a beer garden round out the day. Snowshed Lodge, Killington Resort, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 422-6201.

Danby Olde Country & Bluegrass Festival: See THU.23, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.

GEPH: Progressive jazz metal propels a set by the Boston-based trio. ROTA Gallery and Studio, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $3-10. Info, rotagallery@gmail.com.

Hiroya Tsukamoto: The Japanese guitarist takes listeners on a sonic journey with his unique blend of jazz, folk and world music. See calendar spotlight. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $40 includes preshow dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

KoSA Drum Festival Concert: See WED.22.

Norwich University Bell Concerts: Sergei Gratchev strikes the carillon as picnickers listen from the Upper Parade Ground. Norwich University, Northfield, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 247-9873.

Pre-Jig Jam: Friends old and new sit in for an evening of spontaneous music and a potluck dinner. Old Meeting House, East Fairfield, 7 p.m.

Donations. Info, 827-6626.

Summertime Serenade: Burlington Town Center Music Series: Folk and country sounds fill the halls of the mall as Eric George performs for shoppers. Burlington Town Center, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2545, ext. 216.

Village Harmony Teen Ensemble II: See THU.23, Grange Hall, Bridgewater, 7:30 p.m. $510. Info, 672-1797.

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127 Hill Climb Challenge: Riders race up a ridge to benefit Bike Recycle Vermont. Groupings include kids, adults on children's bikes, cargo cycles and a slow heat. Beginning of path at words Manhattan Drive, Route 127 Bike Path, Burlington, Bookstock Literary Festival: See FRI.24.

1-2:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 264-9687.

Dan Caddy: The author signs copies of his sideEVP Beach Volleyball Tour: Amateur and splitting book, Awesome Sh*t My Drill Sergeant professional players serve, set and spike their way Said, which offers insight into the world of comto a win. Plattsburgh City Beach, N.Y., 8:30 a.m. bat training with a comedic twist. Barnes & Noble, $55-65 per team. Info, 773-387-1198.

South Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

Free Family Fun Golf Day: Folks take to the Pawlet Public Library Book Sale: green for a day of play, lessons, tours, barbecue Bibliophiles browse thousands of titles at this anand door prizes. Rain date: July 26. Proctornual blowout. Mettawee Community School, West Pittsford Country Club, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, Pawlet, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 325-3123.

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Stowe Free Library Giant Book Sale: See Onion River Century Ride: Cyclists spin WED.22. their wheels for 40, 68 or 111 miles to benefit the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. A barbecue follows.

Summer Book Sale: See FRI.24, 7:30 a.m.-2 See onionriver.com for details. Montpelier p.m.

Recreation Field, registration, 6:30 a.m.; ride, 8:30 a.m. $85-150. Info, 229-9409.

Regatta for Lake Champlain: Racers, cruisers agriculture and day sailors of all shapes Hay Day: Draft horses and sizes cross the finish demonstrate traditional 19thline to benefit ECHO Lake century haying techniques Aquarium and Science Center at an afternoon of narrated, at the Leahy Center for Lake horse-drawn wagon rides and Champlain. See regattaforlakefamily activities. Billings Farm & champlain.org for details. Various h OF th Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ea SY waterfront locations, Burlington, TE bo R U ve s Regular admission, $4-14; free for kids skipper’s meeting, 10 a.m.; race, 11:30 h o w n o. 1’ | C O under 3. Info, 457-2355. a.m.; awards party, 4 p.m. $100. Info, 658-3023.

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Vermont Pride Theater Summer Festival: 'HICK: A Love Story': Terry Baum paints a one-woman portrait of the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok.

Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $12-60.

Info, 728-6464.

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'Outside Mullingar': See WED.22, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

'Peter and the Starcatcher': See WED.22.

'Romeo and Juliet': See FRI.24, Belmont Village Green, 2 p.m. Roger Clark Memorial Library, Pittsfield, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 558-4177.

'Shrek the Musical': See THU.23, 2-4 & 8-10 p.m.

'The Sound of Music': See FRI.24.

'Stone': See THU.23, 2 & 8 p.m.

'Underneath the Above Show No. 1': Bread and Puppet Theater performs politically charged new works following a tour of the museum. Paper Mache Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Farm, Glover, tour, 6 p.m.; show, 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 525-3031.

'The Voysey Inheritance': See THU.23.

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OPEN FORM Workshop: Aspiring artists take notes on a talk by alumni John Borstel and Catherine Mueller tracing their collaborative process and introducing concepts from their co-led course. Goddard College, Plainfield, 4-5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 800-468-4888.

VCAM’s Digital Editing Certification: Adobe Premiere users get familiar with the most recent version of the editing software. Prerequisite of VCAM Access Orientation or equivalent, or instructor's permission. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692, vcam@vermontcam.org.

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Stowe Land Trust Summer Naturalist Program: Junior nature lovers head outdoors for guided walks and themed activities. Meet at the Mill Trail trailhead, Mill Trail Cabin, Stowe, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info, 253-7221.

'Who Will Save Rutland?': A disgraced weatherperson seeks to replace Mother Nature in a community-themed Summer Encore presentation. Rutland High School, 10 a.m. & 7 p.m. $5; $15 per family of four. Info, 773-1955.

'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown': Audience members see their favorite comic characters in the musical produced by the Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency. Theater on the Green, Greensboro, 2 p.m. $10. Info, 533-7487.

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Vermont Herpetology Survey: Environmentally conscious volunteers take in a presentation on reptiles and amphibians, then head to the field to locate and photograph turtles, newts, snakes and other cold-blooded creatures.

Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 12:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 723-6551, ext. 303.

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Champlain Valley Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show: See SAT.25.

Music, Art & Tea: The Shimmering Flutes accompany an afternoon tea party featuring works by painter Julie Davis. Fisk Farm Art Center, Isle La Motte, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, info@ilmpt.org.

Queen City Ghostwalk: Wicked Waterfront: A spooky stroll along the shores of Lake Champlain with Thea Lewis elicits thrills and chills. Meet at the fountain at the bottom of Pearl Street 10 minutes before start time. Battery Park, Burlington, 8 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, 863-5966.

'The Tool Revolution' Highlights Tour: Museum curator Carrie Brown guides history buffs through the exhibit on Windsor innovators of the 1840s. American Precision Museum, Windsor, 2 p.m. Donations. Info, 674-5781.

Discovery Sundays: Inquisitive minds have fun with hands-on explorations of science, technology, engineering and math. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, noon-4 p.m. $11.5013.50; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5001, ext. 228.

Read to a Dog: See WED.22, 2 p.m.

Sundays for Fledglings: Kids + Birds = Fun: From feathers and flying to art and zoology, junior birders ages 5 through 9 develop research and observation skills. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-2:45 p.m. Regular admission, $3.50-7; free for members; preregister. Info, 434-2167.

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Vermont Pride Theater Summer Festival: 'Beautiful Thing': Cher Laston directs the coming-out play that tells the story of a workingclass boy and his attraction to his neighbor.

Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $12-60.

Info, 728-6464.

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Piknic Electronik: DJ sets and beat-driven music propel a dance party of epic proportions. See piknicelectronik.com for details. Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montréal, 2 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 514-904-1247.

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'All Mixed Up: CoUnterpoint SingS the MUSiC of pete Seeger': See FRI.24, The Church on the Hill, Weston, 4 p.m. $5. Info, 540-1784. lyrA SpeCiAl MUSiC: Classical compositions ring out at a concert presented by the Lyra Summer Music Workshop. Bethany United Church of Christ, Randolph, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 917-622-0395. roCheSter ChAMber MUSiC SoCiety: Soprano Mary Bonhag joins the Heliand Trio to sound out selections by Schubert, Mendelssohn, HyeKyung Lee and Padma Newsome. Federated Church of Rochester, 4-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 767-9234.

SUMMertiMe SerenAde: bUrlington town Center MUSiC SerieS: Iris Downey sings and plays for passersby. Burlington Town Center, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2545, ext. 216.

VillAge hArMony teen enSeMble ii: See THU.23, Norwich Congregational Church, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 426-3210. weStford SUMMer ConCert SerieS: The Fizz evoke the past with nostalgic rock covers and original tunes. Westford Common, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 879-3749.

seminars

flow AbCS: Attendees acquire the tools necessary to fully access the present moment. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:45-6 p.m. Free. Info, 989-9684. flow progrAM workShop: Anything is possible! Participants gain the tools to create conditions for a purposeful and positive life.

Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-2345.

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'the biggeSt loSer' rUnwAlk: Ambitious athletes tackle a scenic 5K run and half marathon amid stunning views of the Green Mountains in a race founded by contestants of "The Biggest Loser." K-1 Lodge, Killington Resort, 8:30 a.m. $80-90. Info, 422-6201.

ColCheSter triAthlon: Ambitious athletes swim or kayak the first leg, then bike and run to the finish line. Bayside Park, Colchester, 8:30 a.m. $60-105; preregister. Info, 264-5646.

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AUthor dUel: It's a fight to the last breath as writers Max Gladstone, Brian Staveley, Elizabeth Bear and James Cambias try to outdo each other in dramatic readings of their work. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 2 p.m. $3; preregister; limited space. Info, 448-3350. bookStoCk literAry feStiVAl: See FRI.24, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

JoAn hUtton lAndiS SUMMer reAding SerieS: Through selected works, poets Ann McGarrell and Patricia Brody share their artistry.

Big Town Gallery, Rochester, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 767-9670. pAwlet pUbliC librAry book SAle: See SAT.25, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Stowe free librAry giAnt book SAle: See WED.22.

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gUineAn dAnCe: See WED.22.

SAlSA MondAyS: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of the salsa, merengue, bachata and cha-cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12.

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Silent filM SerieS: Performer Rob Mermin hosts as cinephiles screen soundless pictures with full orchestral scores. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 456-8968.

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Art StUdio with felliCiA CotA: The art therapist facilitates creative expression in mini Monets. Highgate Public Library, grades K through 2, 10 a.m.; grades 3 through 6, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 868-3970.

CheSS ClUb: Players ages 9 through 13 use strategic moves to capture the king. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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Vergennes Opera House, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 349-0026.

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'CAtS': See THU.23, 2 p.m. 'greAter tUnA': See THU.23, 2 p.m. 'hAMlet': See SAT.25. 'the oVertAkeleSSneSS CirCUS And pAgeAnt And CoMet'S pASSAge oVer reAlity pASSion plAy': The races and competitions of the modern world come to life in a passionate performance. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 3 p.m. $10. Info, 525-3031. 'roMeo And JUliet': Shakespeare enthusiasts bring chairs and blankets for Rutland Youth Theatre's outdoor performance of the playwright's romantic tragedy. Larson Homestead, Middletown Springs, 2 p.m. Donations. Info, 558-4177. 'rozenCrAntz And gUildenStern Are deAd': The Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency presents Tom Stoppard's comedy that expands upon two of Hamlet's minor characters. Theater on the Green, Greensboro, 2 p.m. $20. Info, 533-7487. 'the SoUnd of MUSiC': See FRI.24, 2 p.m.

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Afternoon teA & tAlk: Lecturer Ingrid Graff salutes Jane Austen in “A Home of Her Own: Space and Synthesis in Sense and Sensibility."

Governor's House in Hyde Park, 2-4 p.m. $8; preregister. Info, 343-2294.

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Dara Wier: The celebrated author of You Good Thing appears as part of the Vermont Studio Center's Visiting Artists and Writers Program.

Lowe Lecture Hall, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 8-9 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2727.

Poetic Form Workshop: The Single Sentence Poem: Burlington Writers Workshop members discuss the unique form of verse and share original efforts. 22 Church St., Burlington,

Gentle Yoga With Jill Lang: Students get their stretch on in a supportive environment.

Personal mat required. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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Bats!: Rescuers Barry and Maureen Genzlinger school listeners on the winged wonders. Hang around after the discussion for an outdoor observation. Fairfax Community Library, 7-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 849-2420.

Bookmobile: See WED.22, 5-6:15 p.m.

Fresh From the Garden, Good Food for Kids: Adventurous eaters in grades 1 through 5 pull weeds and tend to plants, then help prepare dishes made with harvested veggies. Brownell dance Library, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preBeginner West Coast Swing & Blues register. Info, 878-6956.

Fusion Dancing: Students get Learn to Solder: Meticulous schooled in the fundamentals of metalworkers ages 8 and up fuse partner dance. North End Studio B, materials and take home a finBurlington, 8-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, ished project. Kellogg-Hubbard burlingtonwestie@gmail.com.

Library, Montpelier, 4 p.m. Free; Ecstatic Dance: Free-form preregister. Info, 223-3338. movements encourage a Lunch at the Library: See union between body, mind and WED.22. music. Swan Dojo, Burlington, Music & Movement: 7:15-8:45 p.m. $3-5. Info, Energetic children up to age 540-8300.

6 engage in songs and silliness Intermediate & Advanced m with Laurie and Rachel of Active ,M SY West Coast Swing: Experienced in TE er Brain, Active Body. Kellogg-Hubbard UR al dancers learn smooth transitions CO | & fos w sil SHo Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, and smart stylings. North End Studio A, 223-3338.

Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $9-14. Info, Preschool Music: Melody makers ages 3 burlingtonwestie@gmail.com. through 5 sing and dance the morning away.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.etc. noon. Free. Info, 264-5660.

'Cast Party': Hosts of the biggest and best Preschool Story Hour: Superheroes: podcasts like "Radiolab" and "Invisibilia" converge Imaginations blossom when kids ages 3 through in New York City for a variety show streamed live to 6 dig into themed tales and activities. Fairfax the big screen. See calendar spotlight. Catamount Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 8 p.m. $18-20. Info, 748849-2420.

2600. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 8 p.m. $15.

Info, 382-9222.

Raptors in Residence: See THU.23.

Tea & Formal Gardens Tour: See THU.23.

Read to a Dog: See WED.22, 12:30 p.m.

Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate: Aargh, film matey! Youngsters channel the hooligans of the sea during music, games and activities. Rain Knights of the Mystic Movie Club: Cinema location: Highgate Elementary School. Enclosed hounds screen campy flicks at this ode to offbeat lawn, Highgate Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. productions. Main Street Museum, White River Info, 868-3970.

Junction, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776.

Time Travel Tuesdays: Families experience a Lost City Underground Film Society: blast from the past with 19th-century chores and Oddball, independent, foreign and classic films games in the restored 1890 Farm House. Billings entertain movie lovers. Big Picture Theater Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free and Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, with farm and museum admission. Info, 457-2355.

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Tinkering Tuesdays: Mechanics maniacs ages 'The Mark of Zorro': Tyrone Power stars as 8 and up experiment with circuits, gears, pulleys the sword-bearing swashbuckler in the 1940 adand more. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 venture movie. Film House, Main Street Landing a.m.-noon. Free; preregister; lunch included for Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. kids 18 and under. Info, 865-7216.

Info, 540-3018.

Toddler Story Time: Good listeners up to 3 years food & drink old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, Burlington Cocktail Walk: Imbibers mingle 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. with makers of local spirits and bitters over Vermont-inspired libations and light fare. Various m

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Jane Beck: The presenter delivers "Alec Turner: Journey's End, Destination of a Dream," the story of a man born a slave in 1845 Virginia who died a freeman, farmer and landowner in Vermont.

Enosburg Falls United Methodist Church, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 933-2101.

Feast Together or Feast to Go: See FRI.24.

Making This Lifetime Count: An open discussion hosted by Eckankar encourages spiritual seekers to pursue a rich and meaningful existence. Upper Valley Food Co-op, White River Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

Tuesday Volunteer Nights: Helping hands pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects.

Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m.

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60-Minute Experience: Ropework: Nautical nuts ages 8 and up twist and tie strips of twine to make a Turk's head keychain. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, 2-3 p.m. $15-25 includes museum admission; preregister. Info, 475-2022.

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Gaming for Teens and Adults: Players gather round the table for friendly bouts of Magic: The Gathering and other entertaining brain busters.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free.

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Angel Olson: The songstress leaves listeners spellbound with her expressive singing and bold melodies. Nathan Bowles opens. Winooski United Methodist Church, 8 p.m. $12-15. Info, 655-7371.

Point Counterpoint: The Constance Holden Memorial Concert: The Aeolus Quartet treat classical connoisseurs to a program of Haydn, Turina and Bartók. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 382-9222.

Village Harmony Teen Ensemble II: See THU.23, Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 426-3210.

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downtown Burlington locations, 5:15-7:30 p.m. $45; preregister. Info, 922-7346.

Old North End Farmers Market: Locavores snatch up breads, juices, ethnic foods and more from neighborhood vendors. Dewey Park, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, oldnorthendfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

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Girls Geek Out: Special Edition: Jane Austen fans ages 10 and up get together for a themed game. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-4665.

Green Mountain Book Award Reader's Club: Lit lovers in grades 9 through 12 chat about A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

Nature Connections: Twigs: Outdoor lovers see what these small sticks can reveal about a species. A hike, discussion and themed craft complete the day. Niquette Bay State Park, Colchester, 10 a.m.-noon. Park admission, $2-4; preregister; limited space. Info, 893-5210.

Open Art Studio Night: Teens and tweens drop in to flex their creative muscles. Highgate Public Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. Preschool Music: See THU.23, 11 a.m.

Reading Heroes: Children ages 6 through 11 convene for stories, crafts, games and special presentations. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

STEAM Mondays: Motivated kids preschool age and up dive into the deep end with projects in science, technology, engineering, art and math. Highgate Public Library, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

Stories With Megan: Budding bookworms ages 3 through 6 open their ears for exciting tales. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Summer Chess Club: Novices learn the right moves with guidance from teen strategists.

Players 8 and under must bring an adult. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 878-6956.

6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

Summer Creative Writing Workshop: Beginner and advanced wordsmiths polish up their prose with screenwriter Jay Dubberly. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 877-2211, ext. 208.

Veterans Book Group: Those who have served in the U.S. military connect over reading materials and a light dinner. South Burlington Veterans Center, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

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'La Causerie' French Conversation: Native speakers are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice for students. El

Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

Pause-Café French Conversation: French students of all levels engage in dialogue en français. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 881-0550.

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Castleton Summer Concert Series: Left Eye Jump produce traditional electric blues for community fans at an al fresco performance.

Pavilion, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 468-6039.

Shape Note Sing: Locals lend their voices to four-part harmonies at this weekly sing-along of early American music in the "fa-sol-la-mi" tradition. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 525-6972.

Songs at Mirror Lake Music Series: Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real bring their American rock repertoire to a waterfront affair.

Mid's Park, Lake Placid, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-524-4328.

Summer Music from Greensboro: Carpe Diem String Quartet wow the crowd with a passionate performance of traditional chamber music alongside pieces inspired by gypsy, tango, pop and rock. Greensboro United Church of Christ, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 748-2600.

Tuesday Night Live: The Funky Crustaceans enliven a pastoral party featuring good eats. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Legion Field, Johnson, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 635-7826.

Village Harmony Teen Ensemble II: See THU.23, Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 426-3210.

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Estate Planning: Experts elucidate the process of protecting personal property and providing for posterity. The Essex Culinary Resort & Spa, 6-8 p.m.

Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 879-7133.

Introduction to Buddhism: Students seeking enlightenment examine meditation, karma, reincarnation and other aspects of the religion.

Milarepa Center, Barnet, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations.

Info, 633-4136.

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Catamount Trail Running Series: Runners of all ages and abilities break a sweat in weekly 2.5K and 5K races. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 6 p.m. $3-8. Info, 879-6001.

Pickup Rugby: See THU.23.

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Hot Topics in Environmental Law Lecture Series: Listeners lean in for Robert Percival's "Environmental Law in the 'Last Place on Earth.'"

Room 007, Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1228.

'Safe Use of the Internet': Common scams, computer viruses, malware and other suspicious activities are on the table at a discussion presented by the Council on Vermont Elders. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-2518.

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'The Crucible': The October Theater Company presents Arthur Miller's tale of a community driven by power, manipulation, lust and greed.

Audience members may bring picnics and beverages. Whitcomb House, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $25. Info, 373-4644.

'To Kill a Mockingbird': Harper Lee's classic novel comes to life in a spirited Bread Loaf Summer Theatre Productions performance.

Burgess Meredith Little Theatre, Bread Loaf Campus, Ripton, 8 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, 443-2771.

'The Voysey Inheritance': See THU.23.

insiGht meditAtion: See WED.22. outdoor BAckyArd Boot cAmp: See WED.22. push-ups in the pArk: See WED.22.

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Wine tAstinG: Oenophiles mingle over snacks and Australian Shiraz. Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, 4-6 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 253-5742.

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'the VieW from tABle rock': Bird's-eye-view lithographs of 1800s Bellows Falls are the backdrop of this documentary film in which videographer Lyle Sorensen uses artifacts from the past to examine the present. Bellows Falls Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 463-3252.

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VAlley niGht: The Grift's Peter Day plays a solo set as locals gather for a weekly bash with craft ales and movies. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7:30-10 p.m. $5 suggested donation.

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BrAttleBoro AfricAn dAnce: Students at all levels practice movement and rhythm in a special workshop with Sankofa Drum & Dance Theater.

The Stone Church, Brattleboro, drum, 6:15-7:15 p.m.; dance, 7:15-9 p.m. $10-32. Info, 258-6475. drop-in hip-hop dAnce: See WED.22.

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WAterBury historicAl society meetinG: The beat goes on! Martin Bryan outlines the evolution of swing, bebop, Broadway and wartime tunes. Bring a dish to share. Picnic shelter. Hope Davey Memorial Park, Waterbury Center, 6 p.m.

Free. Info, 244-7409.

BookmoBile: See WED.22. crAftsBury chAmBer plAyers miniconcerts: See WED.22. lunch At the liBrAry: See WED.22. reAd to A doG: See WED.22. reAd to hAnk the therApy doG: See WED.22. reAdinG Buddies: See WED.22. reAdinG chAmpions: See WED.22. politics summer preschool story time: See WED.22.

Bernie sAnders liVestreAm: Interested parsummer reAdinG series GrAnd finAle: ties watch as the presidential hopeful appears via Warriors of the written word dress as their favorvideo link on the museum stage. David Fairbanks ite heroes and play games to end the program Ford delivers an inspirational talk ahead of the with a bang. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10 screening. Main Street Museum, White River a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

Junction, doors, 6 p.m.; talk, 6:30 p.m.; screening, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776. superhero scrAtch Art: Young creatives ages 8 and up transform photos of themselves into powerful characters with help from Williston sports Central School's MC Baker. Dorothy Alling cAtAmount mountAin Bike series: See WED.22.

Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; summer trAil series: See WED.22. preregister. Info, 878-4918.

Women's pickup BAsketBAll: See WED.22. terrific trAd cAmp shoWcAse: Students and instructors from Young Tradition Vermont 12v-SanSai010913.indd 1 1/7/13 2:08 PM talks entertain audience members of all ages with liz JohndroW: The natural builder shares "The song and dance. Special guests include Jeremiah Nicaragua Pueblo Project: Building Skills, Homes McLane and Yann Falquet. Fletcher Free Library, & Community Resilience" as part of the Doorways Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. to Design Summer Lecture Series. Yestermorrow WAcky WednesdAys: eGG drop: Small scienDesign/Build School, Waitsfield, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. tists ages 6 and up design and test a vessel Info, 496-5545. that can protect an egg as it falls three stories. ECHO Lake Aquarium and theater Science Center/Leahy Center for 'the cruciBle': See TUE.28.

Lake Champlain, Burlington, 12:30 p.m. $10.50-13.50; free the metropolitAn operA for kids 2 and under. Info, July liVe: Liudmyla Monastyrska 864-1848. takes on the title role in a SUN 26 AUTHOR DUEL broadcast production of WednesdAy WAcktiVity: 2PM Join Max Gladstone (Last First Snow), Brian Aida, Verdi's Egyptian epic of tie dye t-shirts: Creative Staveley (Providence of Fire), Elizabeth Bear (Karen Memory), and James Cambias love and politics. Spaulding kids turn plain garments into (Corsair)! Presented in partnership with Auditorium, Hopkins Center, works of art. T-shirts provided.

Geek Mountain State. Ticketed event.

Dartmouth College, Hanover, Burnham Memorial Library, oN O N.H., 6:30 p.m. $18.

Info, 603-646Colchester, 2-3 & 3-4 p.m. Free; REBECCA MAKKAI & F TUE 28 ri O VE SY rc 2422. Catamount Arts Center, St. preregister. Info, 264-5660.

7PM MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN RTE E Nt U O C u rY r i D E | Acclaimed authors Bergman (Almost Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600. yA reAds: Lit lovers ages 12 through 18 Famous Women) and Makkai (Music for the mirror theAter GAlA: Arts lovers gather discuss Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being Wartime) will discuss their new books of for a lively evening of song, theater and dance a Wallflower over pizza, then watch the movie short stories. Ticketed event. to benefit the Greensboro Nursing Home. See adaptation. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 6 p.m.

August mirrorarts.org for details. Theater on the Green, Free; preregister. Info, 748-8291.

Greensboro, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $45. Info, 533-7487. younG & fun: the AmAzinG mAx: Parents and THU 6 MARY JANE DICKERSON & 7PM TAMRA J. HIGGINS 'romeo And Juliet': See FRI.24, Lilac Inn, children are charmed by the sought-after magic “Conjuring Voices of the Past” is part of Brandon, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 558-4177. artist. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 10:30 Sundog Poetry Center’s Poets and Their a.m. Free. Info, 518-523-2512. 'to kill A mockinGBird': See TUE.28.

Craft Lecture Series. Free event. 'the Voysey inheritAnce': See THU.23.

THU 13 EDWARD RUBIN: VERMONT lgbtq 'Woody Guthrie's AmericAn sonG': Through 7PM AN OUTSIDER’S INSIDE VIEW trAns & Queer potluck: Transgender, Emmy award-winning art director and his words and music, neophytes and longtime gender-nonconforming and queer folks and their international award-winning fine art fans get a glimpse of the rambling folk singer who allies meet, greet and eat in a safe and comfortphotographer Edward L. Rubin will discuss has become an American icon. McCarthy Arts photography and his new book of images able setting. The Whetstone Studio for the Arts, Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 8 p.m. from Vermont. Ticketed event.

Brattleboro, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812. $41-44. Info, 654-2281.

Ticketed events are $3 per person, and come with a $5 coupon good toward the purchase music words of a book by the featured author!

BurlinGton city Arts lunchtime concert Authors At the Aldrich: Marialisa Calta series: Kick ’Em Jenny school listeners in the serves up excerpts from her book Barbarians ways of old-time string music. BCA Center, July at the Plate: Taming and Feeding the Modern Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

American Family. Milne Community Room, Aldrich WED 22 WIZARD OF OZ STORY TIME cApitAl city BAnd: See WED.22.

Library, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550.

6PM Saint Michael’s Playhouse will visit to read this classic story and sing some favorite community eVeninGs At the fArm: Rhythm Book discussion: 'youth lookinG At life': songs from the musical! Free event.

Rockets entertain picnickers with dance, R&B and Masuji Ibuse's Black Rain inspires conversation classic rock tunes. Shelburne Farms, gates open among readers. George Peabody Library, Post OFFSITE in AUGUST for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Mills, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

SAT 1 CHRISTINE HADSEL: Info, 985-8686. short fiction Workshop: Readers give 3-6PM SUSPENDED WORLDS crAftsBury chAmBer plAyers: See WED.22. feedback on stories penned by Burlington Writers Join us for a book launch celebration. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms. Free event.

Workshop members. 22 Church St., Burlington, itAmAr zormAn: Classical aficionados relish the 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limviolinist's masterful musicianship at a concert SUMMER READING PROGRAM ited space. Info, 383-8104. presented by the Lyra Summer Music Workshop.

BOOKSTORE BINGO Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Women's VeterAns Book cluB: Ladies who Read books to achieve “BINGO”! Both locations Info, 917-622-0395. have served their country meet to discuss poems, throughout the summer. (Grades 4-8.) short stories and essays over a light dinner. VA 191 Bank Street, Downtown Burlington • 802.448.3350 Women's Comprehensive Care Center. White Essex Shoppes & Cinema, Essex • 802.872.7111 River Junction VA Medical Center, 5 p.m. Free; www.phoenixbooks.biz preregister. Info, 295-9363, ext. 5743. m ER

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Violin mAsterclAss: Players pick up their bows for a tutorial led by musician Itamar Zorman. Allen House Conference Room, Randolph Center, 1-3 p.m. $5-10. Info, 917-622-0395.

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Adult Book discussion Group: Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending inspires lively discussion. Copies are available for checkout. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. infinite summer: 'so mAny Worlds to end, so mAny pAGes left': Ambitious readers discuss pages 593 to 666 of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. 22 Church St., Burlington, 6:30 p.m.

Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space.

Info, 383-8104. reBeccA mAkkAi & meGAn mAyheW BerGmAn: Eager ears listen in as the authors excerpt their respective short story collections, Music for Wartime and Almost Famous Women.

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

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DIY ILLUMINATED CANVAS: Create a piece of art that lights up a room! Everything you need to make you illuminated canvas will be provided along with stencils and simple design ideas provided by the teacher. You’ll leave with an illuminated canvas ready to plug in and hang at home.

Thu., Aug. 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $28/person; $25.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Info: 865-7166.

JEWELRY: RINGS: Come check out the jewelry and fine metals studio by making your own rings.

Open to all skill levels. Tue., Aug. 11, 6:30-9 p.m. Cost: $35/ person; 31.50/BCA members.

Location: Generator, Memorial Auditorium Annex, Burlington.

Info: 865-7166.

PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY: Explore the instant gratification and magic of pinhole photography! Students will construct their own pinhole cameras from tins and will learn how various tins and shapes produce different effects on the captured image. Students will then spend the day shooting, processing and printing images. Sat., Aug. 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $85/person; $76.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. Info: 865-7166.

craft FEMMECHANICS: Learn to fix your bike! Female-identifying people learn bicycle maintenance and repair in a supportive environment. Students learn systems and parts of the bicycle and practice common repairs and adjustments on their own bikes. Taught by a female mechanic from Old Spokes Home.

Scholarships available. 3 Mon., Aug. 3, 10 & 17, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Cost: $95/3 3-hour classes.

Location: Bike Recycle Vermont,

664 Riverside Ave., Burlington.

Info: Christine Hill, 339-2230722, christine@bikerecyclevt. org, bikerecyclevermont.org.

APRIL RHODES TAPESTRY WEAVING: Hand weaving is an ancient art form that explores the use of fiber, color and texture. In this full-day workshop, participants will learn the fundamentals of tapestry weaving with April Rhodes. Leave the workshop with an Ashford lap loom, shed and shuttles, and your very own piece of hanging art. Sun. Sep. 27, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $265/8-hour class; incl. $80 materials fee + lunch. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

LEARN TO SEW AT NIDO: Take our Learn to Sew I class, Mon., Aug. 3, and learn basic sewing techniques. Follow up with our Learn to Sew II class, Mon., Jul. 27, to continue building your sewing repertoire. Leave with finished projects and inspiration.

Kids Learn to Sew Class is Sun., Aug. 16. Register today!. Cost: $48/3-hour classes, materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 5981077, info@salsalina.com.

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m.

Cost: $12/1-hour class. Location: Splash (summertime, weather permitting)/North End Studios, 0 College St./ 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

design/build BICYCLE MECHANICS 101: Learn to repair and maintain your bike!

Bicycle Mechanics 101 is sevensession introduction to bicycle mechanics. Students receive instruction on the systems and parts of the bicycle and bicycle vocabulary, practice common repairs, learn how to diagnose common issues and work one-on-one with professional mechanics to learn all the basics.

Every Thu., 6-8 p.m., or every Fri., 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $175/14 hours total instruction. Location: Bike Recycle Vermont, 664 Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info: Burlington Bike Project, Christine Hill, 264-9687, christine@ bikerecyclevt.org, bikerecyclevermont.org.

drumming DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON!: Learn drum technique and rhythms on West African drums! Wednesday Burlington Beginners Djembe Class starts Jun. 24, 5:30-6:20 p.m., $36/3 weeks. Djembes provided! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington.

Info: 999-4255, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, burlingtontaiko. org.

TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Come study with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko!

Beginner/Recreational Class on Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Session starts Jun. 23. $72/6 weeks.

Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners on Mon. & Wed., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Session starts Jun. 22. $144/3 weeks. Kids and Parents Class on Mon. & Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. 3-week session starts Jun. 22. $60/child or $90/ parent-child duo. A five-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 9994255, classes@burlingtontaiko. org, burlingtontaiko.org.

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CONTEMPORARY DANCE INTENSIVE: INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCES: Developed for dancers who wish to expand and develop the techniques

and traditions that inform their dance-making, this brand-new intensive focuses on contemporary and modern dance composition, as informed by dance traditions from around the world. Classes will include Contemporary Afro-Modern (Brown), Korean Dance Fundamentals (Besaw) and Capoeira Movement & Contact Improvisation (Hardwig). Come explore new and age-old ideas and approaches to movement creation, forge new connections, and immerse yourself in creating the art of motion. Mon.-Thu., Aug. 10-13, 5:45-7:45 p.m. Cost: $95/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington. Info: 652-4548.

JAZZ IMPROVISATION WITH GEORGE VOLAND: MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU!: Musicians of all kinds improvise: jazz, of course, but also rock, blues, folk, and

classical; even Bach improvised!

This group focuses on the art of improvisation: creating original melodies on the spot, using jazz chords as our harmonic guide.

Learn how to make improvisation effective and enjoyable for you, your fellow musicians, and your listeners. We recommend at least one year of experience on your instrument. Weekly on Thu., Jul. 23-Aug. 13, 5:45-7:15 p.m. Cost: $95/adults & teens 18+. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington.

Info: 652-4548.

healing arts HEALING ARTS OF THE HIMALAYAS: Yoga, Ayurveda and Massage Healing Arts of Himalayas classes. Learn, practice and receive massage and self-healing/yoga, Ayurveda and massage techniques from

the Himalayas with experienced native yoga and massage master from the Himalayas, India.

Each of three special Sunday sessions focus on Healing Arts of Himalayas summer practices for cooling and balancing fire energy ready for rising up to fall activities. Class fee also includes a 60-minute Ayurvedic massage session 50 percent off or more based on your individual need and time. 3 Sun., Jul. 26 & Aug. 2 & 23. Cost: $20/suggested donation for members; $25/ nonmembers, 2-hour workshopstyle class, discussion, stretching & gentle yoga, meditation, question/answer time, materials provided. Location: Sangha Studio, 200 Main St., suite 7, Burlington. Info: Sangha Studios and Rishi Yoga Healing Centre, Yogi Nitin Gill, 904-962-8445, yogarishi2001@yahoo.co.in, yogarishi.net.

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Watercolor: Landscape and Plein Air with Robert O’Brien: Students will learn basic concepts and techniques of landscape painting in the classroom and in an outdoor setting.

Emphasis will be on composition, color mixing, values and painting light and dark. Materials list provided. Sat. & Sun., Jul. 25 & 26, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $200/person; $175/members.

Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Stowe. Info: 253-8358, helenday.com.

language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Traveler’s lesson package. Our ninth year.

Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

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meditation Learn to Meditate: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Cafe (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt.

Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave.,

Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

Classes at Exquisite Mind: Learn and practice mindfulness in the heart of Burlington with the Exquisite Mind Studio community! Join mindfulness teacher and scholar, Nina La Rosa for a drop-in class or series.

Come in or join via video. Check the calendar for this summer’s offerings. By donation. Affirming and open to all! Weekly on Tue., 12:15-1 p.m., & Wed., 6-7:30 p.m. $5-20 (by donation). Location: Exquisite Mind Studio, 88 King St., suite 101, Burlington. Info: Nina La Rosa, 735-2265, nina@ ninalarosa.com, ninalarosa.com/ schedule.

music Accordion workshop: Aug. 6. Intensive, small group (max.

8 students), country setting in Jericho. Board/lodging included.

Advanced beginner to advanced.

Aug. 6, noon-Aug. 9. Cost: $625/ all sessions + accommodations, meals. Location: lg. private country home, Jericho Center. Info: Vjeverica, Shirley Johnson, 512680-0422, shirleyj@vjeverica. com, vjeverica.com.

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Snake-Style Tai Chi Chuan: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

yoga Evolution Yoga: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Therapeutics and Alignment classes. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/

Burlington Hot Yoga: Try something different!: Hot Yoga in the summer?! Of course; here’s why. Our modern Far Infrared (FIR) heat is not as oppressive as traditional hot yoga, offering a gentler yet therapeutic yoga experience. Besides the many benefits of yoga, FIR helps heal muscle and joint injuries as well as arthritis and skin conditions. Yoga for everyone with creative Vinyasa style in our 93-degree newly remodeled studio. Come and enjoy Hot Yoga Burlington; classes daily.

Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com.

Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 999-9963.

Yoga Roots: Yoga Roots provides a daily schedule of yoga classes for all ages and abilities. We aim to clarify your mind, strengthen your body and ignite your joyful spirit through classes such as Anusura-inspired yoga all levels, Therapeutic Restorative, Heated Vinyasa Flow, Gentle and Slow Yoga!

Our summer schedule is off to a great start with Fri. & Sun. yoga at the beach, Vinyasa Flow

Thu. 9 a.m. & noon yoga daily.

Upcoming events: Therapeutic Restorative yoga w/ Sound Healing, Aug. 7, 5:30 p.m., Basics of Flow, Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m., and Sacred Sound Sanctuary, Jul. 25 and Aug. 29, 5 p.m. Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way, Shelburne Green Business Park behind Folino’s. Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt.com.

Honest Yoga: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow and Core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes & workshops. $25/new student 1st week unlimited; $15/class or $130/10-class card; $12/ class for student or senior or $100/10-class punch card.

Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center. Info: 4970136, honestyogacenter.com.

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Womens Self Defense Workshops: Program teaches simple, powerful and effective personal protection strategies that are easy to understand and remember. Participants learn how to recognize predatory behavior before it becomes a threat, diffuse it verbally, if possible, and to apply effective physical self-defense techniques, if necessary. Taught for women by women. All fitness levels welcome! No prior experience

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class; $130/10-class card; $5-10/ community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

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required! Level 1: Aug. 11, 6 p.m.

Cost: $30/2.25-hour class.

Location: Living Hope Church, 1037 S. Brownell Rd., Williston.

Info: The Safety Team, Nancy Keller, 309-4084, nancy@ thesafetyteam.org, thesafetyteam.org.

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AUDITIONS on Aug. 8, 1-3 p.m., for the VERMONT MUSICAL THEATRE ACADEMY: at Spotlight Vermont, in association with Bill Reed Voice Studio. The Academy is open to students between the ages of 10 and 19 and will provide an integrated and comprehensive program for the development of speech, acting, singing technique, song interpretation, musical theatre dance and audition preparation. NYC trip Aug. 1 & 2, $330. For more information and to audition, please contact Sally Olson, managing director, admin@billreedvoicestudio. com, or visit billreedvoicestudio. com/vermont-musical-theatreacademy.html. Sat., 1-4 p.m., Sep. 12-Oct. 24 & Oct. 31-Dec. 19.

Cost: $275/per session. Location: Spotlight Vermont, 50 San Remo Dr., South Burlington. Info: Sally Olsen, 862-7326, solson1030@ gmail.com, billreedvoicestudio. com/vermont-musical-theatreacademy.html.

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VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and

car- dio-respiratory fitness.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self- confidence.

We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations.

Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian JiuJitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teach- ing in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian JiuJitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston.

Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa. com, vermontbjj.com.

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en. Bernie Sanders is not boring. That’s the thesis — and title — of a recent Funny or Die video starring comedian James Adomian. The two-minute video, released on the comedy website on June 22, has since gone viral, making Adomian the early front-runner for best Sanders impression of the 2016 election cycle.

Vermonters, of course, know that Sanders is anything but dull; we’ve been feeling, seeing and hearing the Bern for almost 40 years. In fact, Joel Najman, host of Vermont Public Radio’s “My Place,” crafted on-air comedy by sending up then-mayor Sanders as far back as the ’80s in WQCR/WJOY radio rascals Jim Condon and Louie Manno’s “Leave It to Bernie” sketches. Among the national electorate, however, Sanders can still come off as gruff and a bit detached — a candidate more comfortable talking numbers than kissing babies.

Visually, Sanders doesn’t do much to help his cause. With his rumpled suits, “cotton-candy hair” — as Adomian describes it in the video — and cantankerous voice, Sanders reads like a caricature of an old man yelling at kids to stay off his damn lawn.

As candidates go, he’s prime for parody.

In a recent phone interview, Adomian spoke with Seven Days about his Bernie comedy video. He says Vermont’s junior senator has been on his radar for some time now.

“I like him, and I agree with him,” Adomian says. “He’s unusually interesting and unusually honest — an unusual force for good in Washington.”

According to Adomian, he’s had the Bernie impression in his pocket for a while. Sanders’ White House bid finally gave him an excuse to use it. The week Sanders announced his candidacy, Adomian informed the various shows and podcasts on his appearance schedule that that he’d be going on as Sanders.

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began working on the video for Funny or Die. Adomian compares Sanders to that college professor all the students make fun of but still like. The video reflects that affection as it plays on Sanders’ idiosyncrasies.

We see Adomian as Sanders in various situations pitched to showcase the elder statesman’s coolness: He parties with millennials, dances at an LMFAO concert and skateboards.

This last bit is particularly well observed. Clad in a suit and safety gear, Adomian’s Sanders clumsily rolls down a sidewalk atop a skateboard, briefcase under his arm, as he drones about percentages of percentages.

Adomian says the scene was the first one that popped into his head when he began writing the video. The rest of it flowed from there.

On the surface, the video is good for a laugh, as it deftly parodies Sanders’ trademark crustiness.

Physically, Adomian credibly reproduces Sanders’ signature disheveled anti-look.

A closer reading, however, plays up Sanders’ unshakable authenticity and earnestness. Where many candidates become political chameleons to win votes, Bernie can’t help but be Bernie — maybe to a fault. Sure, he’ll do a keg stand, but he’s going to talk about the tax burden on the bottom two quartiles while he’s doing it.

The real trick to capturing Sanders is digging into his proclivity for wonky policy-speak, which is an improvisational gold mine. When Adomian is at a loss for words, he knows he can fall back on statistics and economic gibberish delivered in his Sanders voice — which FIRST IMPRESSION

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find another diamond in the lakeside rough somewhere? Should they move to an existing venue, such as Oakledge Park — the onetime home of the Vermont Reggae Festival and current host of EXNE? Maybe move back to the site of the original Precipice at the Intervale? Maybe, just maybe, the solution would come from doing what few in town do better: thinking outside the box. Or, in this case, inside it.

Though it’s presented under the Precipice brand, this year’s incarnation will have a profoundly different feel than in the past. That’s due primarily to the event’s venues — the interconnected hipster wormhole that is Radio Bean, ¡Duino! (Duende) and the Light Club Lamp Shop. Also, there’s a theme: the Big Prom Ocean.

“So, it’s a prom,” says Adler. “It’s not going to be like a big ball, or anything.

The idea is that it’s going to be kind of similar to the prom in Back to the Future.”

Did Adler just cagily appeal directly to my well-known love of all things mArtY mcFLY? Damn right he did. And you know what else? It worked.

The initial concept for the dance called for four stages inside. That’s been pared down to two — one each in the Bean and the Lamp Shop — to

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Especially in that first year at BC, the Precipice was simply magical.

Anderson’s distinct aesthetic touch made it feel like you were entering a whole new realm. It was also a logistical coup. The “discovery” of an open, but insulated, large concert space within city limits was a potential gamechanger. Every concert promoter in town began scheming ways to use the space. One actually did: Signal Kitchen held its WYSIWYG fest there last summer. Though it drew fewer people than organizers had hoped, the fest did highlight the versatility of the space.

A slimmed-down Precipice that same summer did, too.

The problem? Developers saw in the space the same potential music fans did.

In February, cash-strapped Burlington College sold the land to developer Eric FArrELL. Just how the space will be used remains a question. (The answer probably rhymes with “cucking fondos.”) In any case, the tract’s days as a viable concert venue are effectively over.

(If I could chat privately with Farrell for a sec: Eric, buddy. What’s cooler?

Condos or rock and roll? C’mon! Also, can I borrow a gob or two of money?

I’m a little light this week.)

Priced out of their home — hey, welcome to Burlington! — the team behind the Precipice was uncertain as to the fate of the festival. Could they

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As the festival announcements have come rolling in over the year, we’ve heard from most of the major players who keep these hills alive with sound of rockin’ — and jazzin’ — in the summer months. Waking Windows? Check.

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival? Yep. Lake Champlain Maritime Festival?

Mmm-hmm. GrAcE PottEr and th … er, Grace Potter? Yes’m. Eat by Northeast?

Yum. But one favored Vermont festival had, until recently, been shrouded in mystery. Like, even more so than usual.

Whither the Precipice?

Last week, we reported that, after much hemming, hawing and general I-dunno-ing, the Radio Bean-curated festival would indeed be returning, albeit on a smaller scale than in previous years, on Friday, July 31, and Saturday, August 1.

To refresh your memory, for the past two years, the festival has made its home in the field behind Burlington College on North Ave. Now, Radio Bean’s LEE ANDErSoN and crew have been responsible for some pretty incredible things on the arts and music scene in Burlington over the years. But transforming little more than a tickinfested shortcut to Texaco Beach into a rock-and-roll version of the Secret Garden was quite possibly their most brilliant stroke of genius yet. It was also, as Precipice coproducer and Radio Bean booking guru JoE ADLEr told me in a recent phone conversation, “an alignment of dumb luck.”

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the comedian compares to “a bullfrog with the personality of a library card” in the video.

Explaining his method of developing impressions, Adomian says he’s after something more than mimicry.

Unlike a technically proficient impressionist like Rich Little, Adomian is more concerned with comedic effect than accuracy. His impressions mine humor from specific details — mannerisms, quirks — going deeper than simply doing a voice to find out what makes that person tick.

“I’m a comedian first,” he says, explaining that his impressions — which also include Sam Elliot, the Sheriff of Nottingham and Skeletor — need to be funny within the context of his standup act or a particular show.

Throughout our interview, Adomian slips in and out of his Sanders voice as he makes various points and demonstrates how the Bernie bit all comes together. He spouts a tautology of numbers and riffs about providing material for “working-class comedians.”

Sanders isn’t Adomian’s first foray into political impressions. He was the in-house George W. Bush on Craig Ferguson’s “Late Late Show.” He’s also gotten a lot of mileage out of former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura. As a teenager in Los Angeles, Adomian used to call in to local talk radio shows pretending to be California politicians.

Asked if he’s received any feedback about the video from the Sanders campaign, Adomian says he’s pretty sure Sanders has seen the video but

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doesn’t know what the candidate thought of it.

It’s hard to imagine Sanders, focused on the day’s most pressing issues, giving it much thought. In a recent New York Times interview, he was bluntly dismissive of frivolous attention. His comment about his campaign’s social media strategy? “People don’t need to know what I buy in the grocery store or what the name of my dog is — I don’t own a dog, by the way — but they do need to know why billionaires are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer,” Sanders said.

With no shortage of material, Adomian says he will keep doing Bernie during the campaign. He’s even worked the impression into his standup act, fielding questions from the audience as the senator.

A visit to Vermont also seems likely — “obviously,” says Adomian, who has yet to perform in the Green Mountain State. The gig would be a gesture of personal and professional gratitude, he says: “Thank you, Vermont, for putting Bernie Sanders in office.”

INFO Check out James Adomian’s video “Bernie Sanders Is Not Boring” at funnyordie.com/m/9r3w.

For more on James Adomian, visit jamesadomian.com. Follow him on Twitter at @jadomian.

To listen to vintage Bernie Sanders parody courtesy of Joel Najman and his cohorts, visit Louie Manno’s SoundCloud page: soundcloud.com/tags/joel%20najman.

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sensibilities with an affinity for gnarly art-pop and gritty Memphis blues guitar riffage, the music of Echo Park, Calif.’s IN THE VALLEY BELOW is an exercise in contrast. They can be tender and sentimental one minute, and a roiling storm of fuzz-injected, sexually charged snarl the next. Fun fact: The band brews its own beer, which it plans to sell at

some point — presumably if the music thing doesn’t work out. We wouldn’t worry too much about that last part. ITVB play the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington this Thursday, July 23.

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ARTSRIOT: Brass Balagan, La Peche (brass band), 7:30 p.m., $5.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Starline Rhythm Boys (rock), 6 p.m., free.

THE DAILY PLANET: Chris Peterman & Friends (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

Straws with Cannonball Statman (indie psychedelic), 10 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Electric Sorcery (rock), 7 p.m. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda’s Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWITCHBACK BREWING COMPANY: Music Wednesdays in the Tap Room, 6 p.m., FREE.

FINNIGAN’S PUB: The Whiskey Dicks (country), 7 p.m., free.

ZEN LOUNGE: Kizomba with Dsantos VT, 7 p.m., free. Loveland with DJ Craig Mitchell, 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Wildlife DJ Collective (house), 10 p.m., free.

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JP’S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Talent Quest Karaoke Contest, 9 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Lorenz/Morse/Carr Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Kopecky, Maryse Smith (indie), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bluegrass Session, 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions, 8 p.m., free. Film Night, 10 p.m., free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Jerichovox (rock), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Blues Jam with the Collin Craig Trio, 7 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Rebecca Frazier & Hit and Run, Iron Eyes Cody (bluegrass, Americana), 9:30 p.m., free/$5.

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RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Steven Skwarek (folk rock), 4 p.m., free. John Banrock (instrumental), 5:30 p.m., free. William Floyd (acoustic), 7 p.m., free. Alicia Phelps (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Grasping

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and an admitted long shot, that he won’t even tell me who it is off the record. If that materializes, look for the announcement here next week. (And even if it doesn’t, the festival already has a fine lineup.)

As for the decision to scale back the Precipice, Adler cites the uncertainty surrounding the BC land.

“With the grounds at Burlington College getting sold, and with the Lamp Shop still finding its way, it didn’t seem like a viable option to do it somewhere new outside and reinvent the wheel,” he says. “It’s nice to continue on with the legacy of this festival that means so much to so many people, which I’ve found out from so many people when we didn’t think it was going to happen.

It does have meaning to people, and it’s something people look forward to every year now.”

Adler confesses that it’s a relief to get a break from the monster the Precipice was becoming and to focus on the fest’s aesthetic and more intimate charms.

Note the key word there: break.

Adler confirms that he and Anderson have every intention of returning the Precipice to its outdoor habitat on the scale to which we’re more accustomed.

“Oh yeah,” he says. “That’s certainly my intention.”

Tune in next week for more details about the Precipice: the Big Prom Ocean. For tickets, visit brownpapertickets.com.

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open up more space. Bands, which as of this printing include KAT WRIGHT & THE INDOMITABLE SOUL BAND, ROUGH FRANCIS, AND THE KIDS, the HIGH BREAKS and SMOOTH ANTICS, among others, will alternate festival-length sets, so that no one at the show should experience FOMO. Adler says a few acts are planning prom-themed sets. All I know is that somebody damn well better play “Johnny B. Goode.” (It’s a blues riff in B. Watch me for the changes and try to keep up.)

“We’re going all killer, no filler,” says Adler, now appealing my well-known love of rhyming catchphrases. You’re good, Joe. He adds that they hope to open the areas behind the three shops for lounging and yard games, and they may expand the outdoor seating area along North Winooski Ave. But clearance for that has yet to come from city officials.

Adler also hints at a major headliner in the works — one whose appearance would “get national attention,” he says. But it’s such a guarded secret,

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W.7.22 with DSANTOS VT 7PM, 18+ had been arrested for conspiring to with CRAIG MITCHELL 10PM, 18+ distribute oxycodone in Vermont from Th.7.23 8PM, 18+ 2011 through 2014. There were two others also arrested in the drug ring: NIGHT DJS 10PM, 18+ MICHAEL FORESTE of Valley Stream, N.Y., and a Burlington man, DANNIS HACKNEY. Tuesday F.7.24 LATIN FRIDAY s If that third name sounds familiar, with JAH RED 9PM, 21+ KARAOKE 9PM, 18+ it should. Dannis Hackney is the name FEEL GOOD FRIDAY of the drummer in the protopunk band with D JAY BARON 11PM, 21+ DEATH. However, the Dannis Hackney Sa.7.25 SHANE’S APOTHECARY 9 PM 21+ cited in the report and currently OLD SCHOOL REVIVAL awaiting trial in jail is the son of Death’s with DJ ATAK & GUESTS 11PM, 21+ Dannis Hackney.

The initial press release sent out by 165 CHURCH ST, BTV • 802-399-2645 the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as several early reports in the local and Adamant Music School 7/21/15 4:12 PM national media, included Clark’s age, 12v-zenloungeWEEKLY2.indd 1 36, but not Foreste’s, 35, or Hackney’s, Piano Concerts at Waterside Hall 32. That led to confusion as to whether July 22 at 7:30 pm •July 24 at 7:30 pm July 26 at 3:00 pm • July 29 at 7:30 pm Death’s drummer, who is 60, was in jail.

All concerts are free for members, A later report in the Burlington Free guest admission $10. Seniors/Students: $6 Press did include the younger Dannis Traditional Session Classes Hackney’s age. But by that point the July 14-31, M-F from 9am - 12:30pm damage had been done.

Open to members and the public at a cost of $25 per day.

So widespread was the confusion that Death were forced to issue a press More Info: 802 223 3347 or adamant.org release clarifying the matter. Consider this an extension of that release, QuarryWorks Theater written for the sole purpose of setting the record straight in the overactive Rapunzel (children’s show) Burlington rumor mill: Death’s Dannis July 25 & 26 and August 1 & 2 Hackney is not in jail. But that doesn’t Saturdays 2:00 & 5:00pm, Free! make it any less horrible that his son is.

Sundays 2:00pm I can’t imagine what the Hackney The Trip To Bountiful (drama) family is going through right now.

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REVIEW this Black Rabbit, Red Flannel Hash (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

Ever eat red flannel hash? A regional delicacy, it’s a New England variation on more common hashes, such as corned beef hash. The main difference is that in place of corned beef, you get chopped beets fried into a mesh of potatoes, onions and, if you’re doing it right, bacon. The beets do two things. One, they impart a bloody coloration that’s often hilariously revolting to unsuspecting non-Yankees.

The other thing beets do is bump up the nutritional value of the hash, because beets are really good for you.

In that sense, red flannel hash is a more sophisticated, healthier hash, despite its provincial roots. Which brings us to the latest full-length record from Burlingtonbased punk trio Black Rabbit, Red Flannel Hash.

To mercilessly mangle the breakfast food metaphor, Black Rabbit’s earlier efforts were like a standard diner omelette: greasy, filling fare that’s comforting in its predictability — not to mention ideal for nursing a hangover.

The band’s 2012 self-titled debut EP, while solid, was a rote recitation of gangly 1970s punk. They spiced things up on the 2014 full-length Lipstick and Dynamite.

Emboldened by improved production and stylistic daring, that record was like the eggs Bennie you’d get at a hip brunch joint — say, Sneakers Bistro. It’s still essentially gut-busting, punk-rock comfort food, but with better ingredients and more creative flair.

Red Flannel Hash goes even a step further. The foundational flavor of the Ramones and New York Dolls is still there but now emerges subtly on the palate amid more complex tastes — a dash of art rock here, a pinch of power pop there. In particular, those bloody beets offer a healthy dose of fresh seasoning in a newfound attention to melody and harmony both instrumental and vocal.

To that last point, vocalist and guitarist Marc Scarano has never sounded better.

He can still get his disaffected snarl on, as he does on searing opener “Nicky Says,”

“Double Line” and “Alienation,” to name a few cuts. But his performance on the meandering fanboy takedown “BS Passes” is notably tuneful and nuanced. His sharp vocal work matches the pointed, playful writing he displays throughout — such as this line from “The Original Original”: “I am the original original / Analog to your digital.”

Scarano’s guitar work is equally fierce.

While still necessarily scruffy, his riffs and solos color the record with beefy muscularity. He shreds, proving that there is room in punk for people who can actually play their instruments. Jane Boxall, the band’s classically trained drummer, would agree. Her technically immaculate playing is by turns ferocious and refined, adding subtle accents that forge greater depth on each listen. Bassist Darlene Scarano — yep, these Scaranos are married — uses Boxall’s bombast as a springboard for her own sneakily nifty low-end lines.

Black Rabbit’s Red Flannel Hash is a rare punk record that succeeds as much on gnashing attitude as it does with wit, melody and musicality. Eat up.

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charm of those steamy, wasted nights.

Sounds like the band is following that age-old axiom: “Write what you know.”

Vocalists/guitarists Dylan Adair and Ivan Marrinson, bassist/vocalist James Tierney, and drummer Jon Kraus met while living in the same BTV apartment building. So my guess is that they applied some diligent listening research to Porch View, likely with the Pixies, the Dead Kennedys and the Melvins on the stereo.

Opener “These Days” sets the tone — or lack thereof — with fuzzy guitars, rumbling bass and chaotic drums. No lead vocal credits are given, but the song’s punky hook, “These days / Still the same / They never change” imparts the requisite slacker-punk charm, colored by Pixies-ish falsetto background “oohs.”

The Frank Black worship continues on “Fly Away,” which sounds like a longdiscarded Surfer Rosa demo. And I mean that in a good way.

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Porch View EP, the debut recording from Burlington garage rockers Apartment 3, plays like a soundtrack to blurry summer nights in a ramshackle Old North End or student-ghetto hovel. If you came of age in the Queen City, you likely have some notion of what that means. Maybe it was your later college years, or your aimless early twenties — or, in the Neverland that is Burlington, your aimless thirties or forties — but that period of growing up conjures, for many of us, a distinct sort of nostalgia. It’s a sweet, sweaty scene, sketched in shitty beer and bong smoke, framed by rickety porches littered with cans, keg cups and cigarette butts. It’s dirty and cheap and destructive — but also beautiful in its way.

Over the course of five belligerently lo-fi garage-punk cuts — recorded with the aid of Burlington’s reigning prince of lo-fi belligerence, Joey Pizza Slice — Apartment 3 capture the seedy

“Floorboards” maintains a similarly sludgy, manic direction as the preceding cut and seems concerned with the self-loathing aftermath of an ill-advised hookup: “This is that. Lust filled. Crime encountered.”

“Odd Jobs” offers a welcome shift.

Though the overt Pixies influence is still there, the cut boasts more ear candy than previous tracks. It also has a killer, shoutalong hook: “Unlike the last time / things will stay the same / Unlike the past time / things won’t stay the same / It always does / I’ll quit but the work is never done.” If you’ve ever worked a string of shit jobs to get by, that’s some relatable stuff.

“Pissin’ My Heart Out” closes the record like a drunken stumble home after a party. Like those bleary-eyed walks, the song is by turns oddly serene and strung out. Ultimately, like one does in the gauzy clarity of a withering hangover, Apartment 3 come to an epiphany the next morning: “But it’s not worth it anymore, / not worth it anymore.”

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his summer and fall, countless people will stop for a coffee on Stowe’s main drag, go for a spin on the Recreation Path or swing by the town library. Along the way, they may or may not take conscious notice of the large-scale sculptures sited in all these spots. Or the unattributed excerpts of poetry in the town’s storefront windows.

These two temporary public installations comprise “Exposed,” an annual juried sculpture show now in its 24th year. The show has included poetry since 2011, when Rachel Moore, the dynamic assistant director of Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, began her run as curator.

This year’s 17 sculptures by 13 New England artists were selected by jurors Lucas Cowan, the public art curator of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy in Boston, and Sarah McCutcheon Greiche, an art historian and voice for public art in Montréal.

The poetry verses, evoking sculptural images of their own, all come from In the Dark, a 2007 collection by late Vermont poet Ruth Stone. The National Book Award winner was finishing her term as Poet Laureate of Vermont when she died in 2011 at the age of 96. Stone would have been 100 this year, notes Craftsbury poet (and Seven Days contributing writer) Julia Shipley, who curated the verses for “Exposed.”

Sculpture and poetry “Reverse Trapezohedron” by Rodrigo Nava are art forms generally confined to galleries and For example, take the first sculpbooks, where a select few enthusiasts ture that one encounters on entering know to seek them out. Outdoor shows, town from Route 100 North: “Donegal by contrast, leave everyone who passes Gate,” precision-sculpted from granite, “exposed” to the arts. In the deracinated bronze and copper by Murray Dewart. context of this show, then, pieces will Impressively engineered and perfectly engender a far larger range of opinions symmetrical, the 8.5-foot-high work than they normally would. And viewers is also unchallenging, its siting at the who take the time to dig deeper will be implied city gates somewhat inevitable. rewarded.

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Yet, call a number posted on the placard — no smartphone needed — and a brief recording by the Boston-based artist indicates the piece is “a metaphor for pilgrimage and a kind of yearning.”

Granted, sculpture is mute, and one can always simply enjoy it on its own.

(As Stone writes in one apropos excerpt, “Then why this happiness in muted things?”) For those who seek to plumb the creators’ motives, though, the artists have provided explanatory audio files for every sculpture, and their comments are reprinted in the programs available at Helen Day. One sculpture particularly needs the explanation: “Observatory,” by Michael Zebrowski, who currently teaches fine arts at Johnson State College. Zebrowski trained as an architect, and it shows.

Built from wood and sited in a field, “Observatory” consists of two whitepainted walls facing each other across a narrow platform and supported on their exteriors by unpainted, artfully constructed scaffolds. One scaffold faces Rec Path passersby, who may guess the

structure is an unfinished shed at first glance.

For Moore, however, it’s the best piece in the show. Standing on the narrow platform, the curator points out that one of the structure’s open ends frames Polaris, the North Star. A tiny camera mounted on the other end records a time-lapse video of this still point of the turning Earth. Roughly every two weeks, Zebrowski downloads these cosmic records to the Helen Day website.

“It’s an experience; it directs your view to the outside,” Moore enthuses.

“And I love that he didn’t conceal the scaffolding. It’s exposed. It’s the sketch, the thought that supports the piece.

“Come at night,” she adds.

Few of the other sculptures direct the gaze away from themselves. Two pieces on loan from Vermont collectors Frank and Elaine Ittleman are stunning.

One of those, “Tiller,” is an assemblage of orange-painted steel pipes by John Clement; the title refers not to a farm plow, but to the lever used to control

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a boat’s rudder. The relevant piece is a straight section of pipe that anchors a jubilant curlicue and a semicircle of the same pipe in a baffling feat of engineering. For those who don’t pull out their phones, the piece’s minimalist lines and balanced sweep will speak for themselves.

“Exposed” usually lacks a theme, but this year’s show focuses specifically on lines and linearity. Accordingly, Shipley chose verses from seven Stone poems with linear references, such as mentions of clotheslines or “one hairline path.”

The words’ powerful afterimages may outlast those of the sculptures.

In the deracinated context of this show, pieces will engender a far

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f ‘Rich and Tasty: Vermont Furniture to 1850’: A decorative arts showcase of furniture from Shelburne Museum and other collections that helps define the styles, economics and aesthetic innovations in 19th-century Vermont design. Opening talk: Saturday, July 25, 2 p.m. July 25-November 1.

Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

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‘Jose Benitez Sanchez: Protean Artistic Genius’: A talk by curator Steve Aldrich explores the late Huichol master artist. BALE Community Space, South Royalton, Wednesday, July 22, 7 p.m. Info, 498-8438.

Warren Kimble All-American Artist: The artist gives a gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibition “Warren Kimble AllAmerican Artist: An Eclectic Retrospective.”

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Wednesday, July 22, noon. Info, 388­-2117.

Erin Coe: The museum director discusses Winslow Homer’s illustrations and paintings of America in conjunction with a current exhibit. The Hyde Museum, Glens Falls, N.Y., Thursday, July 23, 7 p.m. Info, 518-792-1761, ext. 340.

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Alan Hugh Chandler: A pop-up art show at a residence of art and photography as part of the Old North End Ramble. 93 North Street, Burlington, Saturday, July 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

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BCA Summer Artist Market: A juried outdoor market featuring handmade original fine art and crafts by Vermont artists and artisans, in conjunction with the Burlington Farmers Market. Burlington City Hall Park, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. . Info, 865-7166.

Kory Rogers & David Stromeyer Talk: Shelburne Museum’s curator of design arts speaks with the sculptor about “Craft & Art: Meetings and Divergences.” Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, Enosburg Falls, Saturday, July 25, 2 p.m. Info, 401-578-1429.

The Ramble: A dawn-to-dusk celebration of creativity and community in Burlington’s Old North End, which includes art, live music, food and games. Maps available at Vantage Press, Radio Bean and other locations. Various Old North End locations, Burlington, Saturday, July 25. Info, 355-7856.

Fourth Annual Caspian Arts Studio Tour: Paintings, quilted fiber art, weaving, pottery, photography, wood carvings and jewelry by 16 visual artists working in Greensboro, Hardwick, Craftsbury, Albany and West Glover.

Various locations around Greensboro, Sunday, July 26, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Info, 533-2045.

Kirsten Hurley: “Sleep All Day,” drawings by the artist. The Monkey House, Winooski, Monday, July 27, 5-7:30 p.m. Info, 655-4563.

‘Building a Local Economy: Lessons from Huichol Experience?’: A gallery talk and short documentary, “New Day on the Mountain,” about economic development in the Huichol mountains followed by discussion of possible parallels and implications for local efforts in the White River Valley.

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‘4th Annual Art Educators Unite!’: An exhibition of works in a variety of mediums by 17 self-described “artrageous” female art educators and artists. Curated by SEABA. Through August 31. Info, 859-9222. VCAM Studio, in Burlington.

‘Abstract Spotlight’: Paintings by Cameron Schmitz and Johanne Yordan, and photography by Douglas Biklen. Through September 19. Info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington.

Brooke Monte and Alex Dostie: Surreal abstractions and geometry-inspired paintings by the Burlington artists. Through August 29.

Info, 660-9005. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

Bruce Conklin: “New Paintings,” Vermont landscapes by the local artist. Through August 15. Info, 862-2470. UVM Medical Center in Burlington.

Carl Rubino: “It’s Not What You Look At. It’s What You See,” photographs with themes including architectural, natural and urban landscapes; abstracts; and multiple-exposure images. Through August 28. Info, 518-5248450. Hinge, in Burlington.

‘Graphic Lives’: Sketches, paintings, books and sculptures that examine the act of writing and drawing a life by comic memoirists Glynnis Fawkes, Alex Costantino, Summer Pierre and Jennifer Hayden. Through July 28.

Info, 735-2542. New City Galerie in Burlington.

The Innovation Center Summer Show: Group exhibits of local artists on all three floors. First floor: Alana LaPoint, Ashley Veselis, Casey Blanchard, Elizabeth Bunsen, Liz Cleary, Meryl Lebowitz, Michael Buckley and Tom Merwin. Second floor: Elizabeth Nelson, James Vogler, Jeffrey Trubisz, Lyna Lou Nordstorm, Michael Pitts and Robert Green. Third floor: Haley Bishop, Jacques Burke, Jessica Drury, Lynn Cummings and Meryl Lebowitz. Curated by SEABA. Through August 31. Info, 863-6903. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

Jacques Burke: Ink, watercolors, acrylic, spray paint and other mixed media on canvas.

Through August 31. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s (Pine Street) in Burlington.

Jean Cherouny: “My Home,” two semiabstract series including “Unforceable” and “Truthless,” presented as a 10-year retrospective. Through August 31. Info, 651-9692. RETN in Burlington.

Jean Luc Dushime: “A Global Connection,” photographs that investigate social and political structures that perpetuate war, violence, misunderstanding and miscommunication. Milton Rosa-Ortiz: “An Ode to Time,” an exploration of the aging process using driftwood taken from Lake Champlain. Rick Norcross: “The Faces of Rock & Roll: 1969 to 1974,” images by the longtime leader of western-swing band Rick & the All-Star Ramblers and former music critic-photographer. Through September 19.

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Kevin Ruelle: Faux vintage Vermont travel posters. Through August 3. Info, 488-5766.

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Leslie Fry: “Twist & Shout,” an exhibit of monoprints and sculpture by the Winooski artist. Through August 19. Info, 864-2088. The Men’s Room in Burlington.

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“Exposed,” through October 14 at Helen Day Art Center and various locations in Stowe. helenday.com

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Artist Talk: Nayland Blake: The visiting artist is the chair of the ICP/Bard master’s program in advanced photographic studies at the International Center of Photography.

Lowe Lecture Hall, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Thursday, July 23, 8-9 p.m. Info, 635-2727.

Champlain Islands Artists Organization (CIAO) Annual Show: Art show and sale by more than 40 Champlain Island artists and crafters. Art and craft demonstrations Saturday and Sunday.

Reception: Friday, July 24, 4-7 p.m. North Hero Community Hall, Friday, July 24, 1-7 p.m. Info, 352-255-0045.

Ashlee Rubinstein: “Fast and Furious Food,” representational paintings of “bad” food.

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“Frost billows from a long brotherhood of trucks,” reads one complete excerpt. (Shipley describes the excerpts as “tweet brief — 25 words per window, max.”) Another reads: “And the sky with its black floaters / seems half-blind, too; / the crows dipping over the town.”

That last appears in a four-window storefront. The program allows the viewer to realize that all four adjacent excerpts come from the same poem, but Shipley says she didn’t intend to make that obvious.

“I was kind of hoping [the excerpts] would make up a new poem based on the viewer’s trajectory through town, or another one if they went the other way,” she says. “I wanted them to speak to each other and perhaps resonate.”

Given the range of passersby, some may feel the power of that resonance, while others may be baffled. Still others will come to “Exposed” to check the price list. (Helen Day sells one or two sculptures a year, says Moore.) But perhaps the luckiest viewers are those who come without expectations, happening on these enormously varied works of art by accident.

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CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

PHAT KATS TAVERN: Jay Natola (solo guitar), 9 p.m., free.

SOUTH SIDE TAVERN: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free.

outside vermont

SWEET MELISSA’S: Cobalt (rock), 5 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Dana Barry, 9 p.m., free.

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CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5.

HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ Tricky Pat & Guests (D&B), 10 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE’S KNEES: Ben Slotnick (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., donation.

MOOG’S PLACE: Jason Wedlock (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

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BREAKWATER CAFÉ: The Hitmen (rock), 6 p.m., free.

THE DAILY PLANET: Xenia Dunford (folk rock), 8 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Ray Vega and North (jazz), 8 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions, 8 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Live Music, 9 p.m., free. Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke!

Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. funbridge, Thunderbolt Research (rock), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Denmark (indie rock), 7:30 p.m., free. John Daly Duo (folk rock), 9 p.m., free. Film Night, 10 p.m., free. Sad Turtle, Enemy Self, Cworner Stwore (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Live Music, 7 p.m., free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda’s Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWITCHBACK BREWING COMPANY: Music Wednesdays in the Tap Room, 6 p.m., FREE. ZEN LOUNGE: Kizomba with Dsantos VT, 7 p.m., free.

Loveland with DJ Craig Mitchell, 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

chittenden county

BACKSTAGE PUB: Talent Quest Karaoke Contest, 9 p.m., free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: The Sun Flights, Cricket Blue (indie folk), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Woedoggies (country, rock), 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Carter Glass (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs area THE BEE’S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free.

Up on the Roof (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.

MOOG’S PLACE: Django & Friends (acoustic), 8 p.m., free.

PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

RUSTY NAIL: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom JASPER’S TAVERN: Below Zero Blues Jam, 7:30 p.m., free.

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

THE STAGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free.

NAKED TURTLE: Jay Lesage (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free. m

art “Rich and Tasty: Vermont Furniture to 1850” Vermonters have been making furniture at least since the

days when folks wore tricornered hats and square-toed shoes. Shelburne Museum hopes that the 40 or so pieces on view in its Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education will expand “popular understanding” of the state’s highstyle historical furniture through the woodworking craftsmanship, historical details, and even a selection of beech, maple and other local-wood boards on which visitors can lay hands. The exhibit runs from July 25 through November 1; curator emerita Jean Burks gives a talk on July 25, at 2 p.m. Pictured: Nahum Parker, “Sofa.”

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‘THE LIVE SHOW’: A SEABA fundraiser featuring live painting through July and exhibited in August.

Reception: Friday, August 7, 5-8 p.m. Through August 31. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.

‘LOOKING OUT: THE SELF-TAUGHT ART OF LARRY BISSONNETTE’: Bold mixed-media paintings by the Vermont artist and international spokesman for autism, in his first solo show. Through August 29. Info, 863-5966. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington.

‘MARITIME BURLINGTON’: An interactive exhibit organized by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum under a tent at Perkins Pier; hands-on activities, historic photos, highlights from the museum’s nautical archaeology work and research, and lake tours. Through October 12. Info, 475-2022. Perkins Pier in Burlington.

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‘ON THE WATERFRONT’: A waterfront-themed exhibition in conjunction with the 10th annual Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival. Through August 30. Info, 914-584-1215. Art’s Alive Gallery @ Main Street Landing’s Union Station in Burlington.

Davis, Arthur Dove, Elie Nadelman, Rockwell Kent, Luigi Lucioni and Norman Rockwell. Through September 13. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

‘BIRDS OF A FIBER’: A community art show.

Through October 31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.

EMILY MITCHELL: Whimsical and vibrant acrylic paintings by the Richmond artist and educator.

Through August 31. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne.

ESSEX ART LEAGUE: Paintings, photographs, matted prints and ceramic art by members. Through July 31. Info, president@essexartleague.com. The Old Red Mill in Jericho.

‘TRAVEL WITH OGDEN PLEISSNER’: A selection of the artist’s lesser-known American and European landscapes, along with other American paintings from the museum’s permanent collection. JUDY B. DALES: “Ahead of the Curve,” an exhibit of contemporary quilts from the last 18 years of the artist’s flowing, abstract style. Through October 31.

Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

PETER BARTLETT: Abstract paintings. Through July 30. Info, 865-7211. Mezzanine Gallery, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington.

‘A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT’: The brewery’s new gallery celebrates with works by local artists inside and out. Through August 25. Info, oneartscollective@ gmail.com, 863-2337. Burlington Beer Company in Williston.

REX BRADEEN: Acrylic paintings and screenprints on paper focusing on contemporary fables featuring fortysomething moms interpreted through the clarifying lens of linoleum and insects, respectively.

Through July 31. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington.

NICOLE CHRISTMAN: Artworks from the winner of the 3rd Annual Labels for Libations design contest.

Bottles of Art Hop Ale featuring the artist’s label design available for purchase; $1 from every bottle sold benefits SEABA. Through July 31. Info, 6582739. Magic Hat Artifactory in South Burlington.

ROBERT WALDO BRUNELLE JR.: “Playtime,” a solo exhibition featuring kinetic sculptures by the Vermont artist. Through July 31. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

RORY JACKSON: “Printed Light,” giclée prints on canvas depicting Vermont and Ghana. Through August 31. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

VICTORIA BLEWER: “Cuba!,” photographs of people and urban settings from 2014. Through July 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington.

‘WORKS BOTH WAYS’: 2D and 3D mixed-media works by artists who are also poets and writers: Bren Alvarez, Merche Bautista, Sharon Webster, Tina Escala, Genese Grill, Marian Willmott, Roger Coleman and Jon Turner. Reception: Friday, July 31, 5-8 p.m. Through September 4. Info, 363-4746.

Flynndog in Burlington.

chittenden county

‘RUNNING THE GAMUT: FROM REALISM TO ABSTRACTION’: A group show featuring the paintings of Daniel Gottsegen and 15 other artists.

Through September 1. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

barre/montpelier

‘1865, OUT OF THE ASHES: ASSASSINATION, RECONSTRUCTION & HEALING THE NATION’: Historical artifacts that commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary. Through July 31. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

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5TH ANNUAL JERICHO PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: Participants in the outdoor painting event display their finished works. Through August 9. Info, 899-2974. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

EXHIBIT: Work in a variety of media by central Vermont artists in celebration of ARA’s 40th anniversary. Reception: Thursday, July 30, 5-7 p.m.

Through September 18. Info, 262-6035. T. W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

‘AMERICAN MODERNS, 1910-1960: FROM O’KEEFFE TO ROCKWELL’: Almost 50 artworks in a variety of styles that explore the range of American modern painting and sculpture. Includes works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Milton Avery, Marsden Hartley, Stuart

BARBARA LEBER: “The Long and Short of It,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Through July 31.

Info, 225-6628. Plainfield Community Center.

‘CREATIVE COSMOS’: Paintings, prints, weaving, sculpture and digital images inspired by the

cosmos and scientific discoveries by Sabra Field, Paul Calter, Cameron Davis, Janet Van Fleet, Bhakti Ziek, Marcus Greene and Jim Robinson.

Reception: Saturday, August 8, 6-8:30 p.m. Through September 7. MARIE LAPRÉ GRABON: Landscapes and collages by the Vermont artist. Through August 10. Info, 728-3726. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

EARLY SUMMER MEMBERS’ SHOW: An exhibition of works by 13 members of the new venue. Through July 31. Info, 839-5349. The Front in Montpelier.

ELINOR OSBORN: Photographs of northern owls by the Vermont nature photographer. Talk: Saturday, July 25, 5 p.m. Through August 30. Info, 454-0141. Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield.

HANNAH MORRIS: “Things to Remember Camping,” multimedia gouache and paper collages that make “little picture books” about concepts large and

CALL TO ARTISTS ARTISTS & CRAFTERS WANTED: New art gallery and gift shop the Hive opens in August in Middlesex (next to Red Hen Baking Co. and Nutty Steph’s). The collective venue will exhibit and sell high-quality, unique, local artists’ work, including traditional artwork, upcycled and recycled pieces, and art with a funky, creative twist. Interested artists, contact us at thebuzz@ thehivevt.com. The Hive, Middlesex. Deadline: September 4. Info, 496-7895.

DREAMS GALLERY SHOW: Artists are invited to submit art influenced by dreams. Submit up to three high-quality photos of artwork that you would like to show, along with a small description of why it pertains to dreams, to contourstudiosvt@gmail.com, or send us a message to our Facebook page. Deadline/dropoff: Sunday, August 2, from noon-7 p.m. Contour Studios, Newport. Info, 309-7501.

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: The 7th annual Festival of the Arts is Saturday, August 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., on Jeffersonville’s Main Street, with fine art, food and music. Regional artists can register to show or sell art at cambridgeartsvt.org. Deadline: August 6. Info, 633-2388.

PHOTO SHOW AT THE ROUND BARN: Seeking photographers for the GMCC 26th Annual Photo Show. The annual community-based photography exhibit held each August in the Round Barn on East Warren Road in Waitsfield is a part of the award-winning Vermont Festival of the Arts. The show runs August 3-September 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Photographers can submit up to three framed images. Deadline: Tuesday, July 28, 3-6 pm. Location for delivery: the lower level of the Round Barn. Info, 496-2276, info@ greenmountainculturalcenter.com.

‘SHADES OF RED’: Established and emerging artists are invited to submit 2D artwork in any medium for a September to December exhibit at the Jericho Town Hall. The work must include

small, and with self-referential humor. Through August 7. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

JOHN SNELL: “In My Backyard,” 30 color photographs that feature abstract and representational images from central Vermont that emphasize everyday beauty. Through July 31. Info, 223-3338.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier.

‘A LEGACY OF CARING: KURN HATTIN HOMES FOR CHILDREN’: A historical exhibit of Kurn Hattin Homes for Children, founded in 1894 in Westminster to offer a safe home and quality education for disadvantaged children in a nurturing, rural environment. Through September 30. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

the color red. Deadline: August 15. Jericho Town Hall. Info, 899-2974, blgreene@myfairpoint.net.

SUPER SUPPER GRANT: Calling all superheroes!

Super Supper is back seeking artists involved in creative projects that have social impact to be the next superhero presenter. Possible $1,000 crowd-funded grant award. Email or call ArtsRiot for details. The event is August 20. Deadline for submissions: July 31. ArtsRiot, Burlington. Info, 540-0406, info@artsriot.com.

WET PAINT LIVE: Seeking oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic artists to paint in plein air at Wet Paint Live Vermont on Saturday, October 10, 2015 in Springfield, Vt. Professional and emerging artists can find the registration form online. WPL will be held rain or shine, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Artists will paint scenes along an Art Walk that winds alongside the Black River and into downtown Springfield. Visitors will view the art as it is created. At 3:30 p.m. there will be a reception with judging and prizes will be in three categories: “Best in Show, Professional,” “Best in Show, Emerging” and “People’s Choice.” Check the online guidelines to determine your category as professional or emerging. The juror for the event is Springfield resident, Robert Carsten, PSA-M. The Great Hall, Springfield. Deadline: September 30. $15 per submission. Info, 885-6156, nlanoue@comcast.net.

‘YOUR DENIM. OUR WATER.’: Patagonia Burlington and 1% for the Planet seek art that incorporates filthy denim and showcases what Vermont’s water means to you. Share your passion with the community by drawing or painting on denim or by photographing or sculpting a piece of denim. For the first 25 artworks, Patagonia will donate $10 to 1% for the Planet. On Thursday, August 27, 5:30-8 p.m., selected artwork will be displayed at the Karma Birdhouse Gallery. Submission deadline: August 19-25. Drop-off location: 1% for the Planet, 47 Maple St., Burlington. Info, 923-2910.

Art ShowS

Marina EpstiEn: More than 20 years of paintings, ranging from early surrealist and abstract expressionist to more figurative and symbolic works.

Through September 15. Info, 229-6297. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

Mitch sMollEr: “New England Artifacts,” photographs of New England artifacts, landscapes and architecture. Through August 1. Info, mitchsmoller@yahoo.com, 223-7800. The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier.

f studio placE arts suMMEr 2015: “Strength,” a group show of traditional and nontraditional work that explores the meanings of strength, whether of force or spirit, Main Floor Gallery; “Spirit Images,” drawings and words by Eleanor Ott, Second Floor Gallery; and “Nature Scapes and Other Worlds,” paintings, installation and sculpture

by Ruth Hamilton, Third Floor Gallery. Reception: Thursday, July 23, 6-8 p.m. Through August 29. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre. tErry allEn: New photographs, photo-collage works and prints. Through July 25. Info, 426-3581.

Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield. tina ValEntinEtti: “Windows: Looking In, Looking Out,” photography of and about windows.

Through August 28. Info, 223-2518. Montpelier Senior Activity Center. toM lEythaM: “The Other Working Landscape,” watercolors of Vermont’s vanishing industrial architecture by the Montpelier artist and architect.

Through September 30. Info, 229-0430. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.

stowe/smuggs area

‘2015 lEgacy collEction’: Landscapes painted by 25 living and 13 deceased artists that reflect the legacy of museum namesakes and artists Alden and Mary Bryan. Through December 30. ‘gEnErations’: Works by 30 artists and the artists who taught them, showing influences and how techniques evolve over time. Through September 7. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

‘ExposEd’: The 24th annual outdoor exhibit features 18 sculptures and installations by regional artists, sited at the gallery, downtown and along the recreation path. Through October 14. ‘noW you sEE ME: thE BEst of thE northEast MastErs of finE arts 2015’: The third biennial exhibition featuring emerging contemporary artists from Québec, New England and New York working in a variety of media. Through August 23. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. ‘riVEr Works’: Photography, paintings and multimedia inspired by Vermont rivers and water meditation by Arista Alanis, Kevin Fahey, Janet Fredericks, John Miller, John Sargent, Rett Sturman and Kathryn Lipke. Through July 30. Info, 888-1261.

River Arts in Morrisville. ‘slopE stylE’: Thirty-five fully accessorized vintage ski outfits, with a special section of the exhibit dedicated to Vermont ski brands. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe. tod guntEr aViation art: Illustrations currently include the F4U Corsair, a WWII fighter, and the F-4 Phantom II, a fighter-bomber active in Vietnam.

More drawings and renderings are continually added. Through December 31. Info, 734-9971. Plane Profiles Gallery in Stowe. trEVor corp: Paintings and prints by the local artist and staff member at the Vermont Studio Center. Through August 17. Info, corptrevor@yahoo. com, 635-7423. The Lovin’ Cup in Johnson. trEVor corp: Paintings, prints and furniture, in the Red Mill Gallery. Through August 1. Info, corptrevor@yahoo.com, 635-2727. Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.

mad river valley/waterbury

4th annual grEEn Mountain WatErcolor ExhiBition: A juried exhibition of 70 paintings ranging from abstract to photorealism by 55 international artists. Another 70 paintings are included in the small works show. Through July 25.

Info, 496-6682. Big Red Barn Gallery at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield. candy Barr: Paintings by the Mad River Valley artist. Through July 31. Info, 496-5470. Three Mountain Café in Waitsfield.

JaMEs McgarrEll & Mark goodWin: A selection of imagistic paintings, 1984-2004, as well as drawings on tile and paper by McGarrell; and painting, drawing, collage and prints by Goodwin.

Denis Versweyveld & Judith Rey “To have a full ‘Sense of Place,’” writes Versweyveld in a press statement invoking the title of the exhibition, “it is it necessary to understand the human interaction within the environment and to bring it to a level of conscious awareness.” Versweyveld and Rey, a husband-and-wife team working together in Ferrisburgh, are exhibiting paintings, drawings, sculptures and mixed-media pieces at Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland that evoke “place” as more than geography or landscape. The works will be on view through August 15, with an opening reception on Friday, July 24, at 6 p.m. Pictured: “Lemon Pilaster Landscape” by Denis Versweyveld and Judith Rey. Through September 6. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester. kyliE WolgaMott: “Fertile Ground,” paintings and mixed-media drawings on the theme of life and decay. Through August 1. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in Waterbury.

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f ‘local color’: Paintings, glass, ceramics, fiber art and woodcraft by more than 45 Vermont artists exploring Vermont’s natural and built environment.

Reception: Friday, July 24, 5-7:30 p.m. Through September 30, noon-5 p.m. sEan dyE: Vermont landscapes in oil, acrylic and pastel. Through September 30. Info, 338-0136. Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes. ‘altErnatiVE procEss’: This juried exhibit features 40 works by 37 photographers, focusing on a variety of image-making methods. Through July 24. Info, 388-4500. PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury.

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‘WatEr’: Paintings that explore the beauty of summer by Mariella Bisson, Rebecca Kinkead, Craig Mooney and Carol O’Malia. Through July 30. BEth donahuE: “American Zen,” visceral abstract paintings influenced by literary works, natural patterns, and teachings of Hindu and Zen masters. Through July 31. Julia JEnsEn: “Scenes Remembered,” oil and encaustic paintings that celebrate light and the natural landscape. Through August 11. susan WahlraB: “Seasons,” layered varnished watercolor paintings on archival clay board. Through July 30.

Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

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art “Strength” The word “strength” instantly conjures up images

of bulging biceps. Studio Place Arts’ group exhibition “Strength,” however, is defined by nontraditional and unexpected artistic explorations. Works in every media are included, from playful displays of the laws of physics to photographs that attempt to elicit a feeling of inner power. These and the other artworks in the Barre gallery are on view until August 29.

The second-floor gallery features “Spirit Images,” drawings and words

by Eleanor Ott. The third-floor gallery holds “Nature Scapes and Other Worlds,” paintings, installations and sculptures by Ruth Hamilton. An opening reception for all three summer shows takes place on Thursday, July 23, 6-8 p.m. Pictured: “100H” by Tom Zolli. middlebury area shows

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‘The Farm: Drawings of Rowland Evans Robinson, 1850-1880’: Drawings from agricultural papers capturing 19th-century Vermont farm life and times by a member of the museum homestead’s family. Through October 25. Info, 877-3406.

Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

James P. Blair: “Last Leaf,” black-and-white photographs that explore the complexity and fragility of nature and human impact upon it.

Through July 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury.

‘Many Thousand Gone: Portraits of the African American Experience’: Some 100 photographs of African Americans, from 1840s daguerreotypes to the civil rights era of the 1960s, from the collection of George R. Rinhart.

Language Schools at the Museum (The Oberbrook Gallery): Twenty works of art from the museum’s permanent collection represent many of the countries and cultures that the college’s summer language schools represent.

Through August 9. Info, 443-3168. Middlebury College Museum of Art.

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Patricia LeBon Herb: Paintings on multiple themes including starry nights, Paris, flowers, still life, birds and spring. Through July 31. Info, 877-6316. Starry Night Café in Ferrisburgh.

Peter Fried: “Addison: Land Meets Sky,” an exhibit of Addison County landscapes in the artist’s new gallery. Through October 8. Info, 355-1447. Peter Fried Art in Vergennes.

Rachel Baird: “Celestial Verses,” a poem by the artist embedded within paint and ink on paper and fabric, forming a celestial canopy translated into all the languages taught at the Middlebury Language School. In conjunction with celebrations of the school’s 100th year. Through July 23. Info, 800-249-3562. ZoneThree Gallery in Middlebury.

Steven Jupiter: “Hubbardton Creek,” a limited-edition series of 10 color 24-by-36-inch photographs of a Vermont waterway. Through July 26. Info, 917-686-1292. Steven Jupiter Gallery in Middlebury.

f Tancy Holden: Vermont and California landscapes and still-life compositions from the artist’s “Diners” series. In conjunction with Point CounterPoint’s Constance Holden Memorial Concert. Reception: Monday, July 27, 5–7 p.m.

Through August 4. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

‘Warren Kimble, All-American Artist: An Eclectic Retrospective’: The internationally known Vermont artist exhibits a lifetime of work, including his “Sunshine” series, “Widows of War” paintings and sculpture, and more recent “House of Cards” and “Into the Box” series, which features open-faced boxes filled with found objects and architectural assemblages. Also on view is the Kimbles’ personal collection of folk art. Through October 18. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

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Althea Bilodeau and Kathy Domenicucci: “Colors of Summer,” contemporary feltwear and oil paintings, respectively. Through September 1. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

Castleton Alumni Art Exhibition: Artworks by 16 graduates from 1982 through 2014. Through August 28. Info, 468-6052. Rutland City Hall.

f Denis Versweyveld and Judith Rey: “A Sense of Place,” paintings, drawings, sculptures and mixed media on the theme of human interaction with the environment. Reception: Friday, July 24, 6 p.m. Through August 15. Info, 468-6052. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland.

‘Images of LOVE and Community’: Photographs by students and community members in three parts: the “PhotoVoice” project, “(Un)covering Rutland” and the Chaffee’s 8th Annual Photography Contest, “Images of Love.” Through July 25.

‘Metamorphosis: A Love of Change’: Sculpture

by Paedra Bramhall and Patrick Farrow and ceramic work by Stephen Procter on the theme of individual changes over a lifetime. Through August 29. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland.

Sally Hughes: “Watercolor for the Senses,” paintings inspired by geology and the outdoors.

Through August 9. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

champlain islands/northwest

David Stromeyer Sculpture: The artist opens his private park to visitors for the summer and early fall. On view are about 50 large-scale sculptures that represent four decades of work inspired by the rhythms, forms and patterns of the Vermont landscape. Through October 12. Info, 512-333-2119.

Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls.

‘History Influences’: Three artists’ works on the theme of history: wooden bowls by Toby Fulwiler, fiber creations by Pamela Krout-Voss and photographs and paintings by Jo Anne Wazny.

Through July 31. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.

‘View From the Top Floor’: The top floor of the gallery opens with works by many local artists and artisans. Through August 12. Info, 378-4591. Grand Isle Art Works.

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‘Art on the Farm’: Sculpture and painting by six artists who live and work in Vermont: Chelsie Bush, Ian Campbell, Pamela Fraser, Amy Morel, Nicko Moussallem and Otto Pierce. Info, edythe.f.wright@ gmail.com. Clark Farm in Barnard.

‘Birds Are Dinosaurs’: An exhibit tracing the evolution of birds from their ancestors includes skeletons and life-size replicas by paleo-artist Todd Marshall. Hands-on activities include a replica dig site. Through October 31. $11.50-13.50. Info, 359-5000. VINS Nature Center in Hartford.

‘Huichol: Art of a Threatened Shamanic Culture’: Intricate yarn paintings by four indigenous artists from west-central Mexico; José Benítez Sánchez, Guadalupe González Ríos, Juan Ríos Martínez and Pablo Taizán de la Cruz; presented with historical and contemporary photographs, music and cultural artifacts. Through September 6. Info, 498-8438. BALE Community Space in South Royalton.

Jen Violette and Linda Rosenthal: Mixedmedia and still-life wall sculptures and handblown glass, and abstract photography, respectively.

Through September 30. Info, 457-1298. Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock.

Keith Sonnier: A survey of early neon works, 1968-1989, by the American artist. Peter Saul: In a retrospective exhibit that spans his career 1959-2012, the American artist presents colorful paintings that incorporate humor, pop-culture imagery, irreverence and occasionally politically incorrect subject matter. Open weekends and Wednesdays by appointment. Through November 29. Info, info@hallartfoundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading, ‘Prehistoric Menagerie’: Six life-size prehistoric animals sculpted using natural materials by Bob Shannahan. Through September 7. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

Sharon Rug Hooking and Fiber Crafts: Eight members of the rug-making group show finished works. Through August 16. Info, 282-5814.

Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village.

Sheri Hancock-Tomek: Monoprints. Through July 31. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

Tom Schulten: Vivid works by the renowned Dutch painter of consensusism. Through December 31. Info, 457-7199. Artemis Global Art in Woodstock.

‘Welcome to DNA LAND’: The third annual summer show of collages and prints by Ben Peberdy and W. David Powell. Through August 31. Info, 295-0808. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

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“Art + Computer / Time”: Computer-generated artwork from the Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection from 1954 to the present.

Through September 27. Debra Bermingham: “Threaded Dances,” surreal landscapes in oil. Jim Dine: “People, Places, Things,” a retrospective in multiple media. Ray Ruseckas: “Close to Home,” landscapes in pastels. Through October 25.

Rodrigo Nava: “Expanded Forms,” steel sculptures on the museum grounds. Through October 25. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

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‘Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas’: Fossils and models reveal how current thoughts on dinosaur biology have changed since

the 1990s. Organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Through November 30.

Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

Donna Jean Safford: A 25-year retrospective of 50 paintings. Through September 8. Info, 334-1966.

MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

‘Dust’: Displays include samples of “this most ubiquitous substance” from around the world and the cosmos, as well as unique moments in the history of dust and a visual history of dust removal.

Through November 30. Info, claredol@sover.net.

The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

Lily Lamberta: Artworks by the founder of All Saints Theater Company of Virginia, in Woodshed Gallery, between museum and farmhouse. Through July 27. Info, 525-3031. Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover.

Memorial Exhibition for Ellen Dorn Levitt: “A Visit With Ellen” features the artist’s many mediums including hand-painted linoleum-block prints, pastel drawings, colored pencil drawings, paper cutout designs, cards, baskets and jewelry. Through August 8. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

Steven R. Sampson: “The Power of Women,” life-size figures in wood by local sculptor Steven R. Sampson. Also by appointment. Sundays. Info, 536-2037. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick.

Vermont Artists Group Show: Fine art and handcrafted goods by 110 Vermont artists exhibited in a former grist mill. Through October 17. Virginia West Retrospective: Eight of the ninetysomething artist’s sculptural works, along with a weaving and textile-art exhibition featuring Betsy Day, Judy Dales, Sandy Ducharme, Carolyn Enz Hack, Dennis and Candice Glassford and Carol MacDonald.

Through August 7. Info, 533-2045. Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro.

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‘Dan Shapiro: Living the Print’: A memorial exhibition of the artist/teacher’s printmaking. In conjunction with two other exhibitions featuring the artist’s paintings and works on paper. Through August 9. ‘Grassroots Art: Inward Adorings of the Mind’: Folk, outsider and visionary artists’ works from the museum’s and Gregg Blasdel/ Jennifer Koch collections including textiles, ceramics, weathervanes, drawings, paintings and sculpture. Through November 1. Info, 447-1571.

Bennington Museum.

‘Dan Shapiro: The Late Years’: Works on paper, 1970-1983. In conjunction with two other exhibitions featuring the artist’s paintings and prints. Through August 30. Info, 681-7161. The Left Bank in North Bennington.

Eli Adams: Nature photography by the Poultney high school student. Through August 17. Info, 3624061. The Gallery at Equinox Village in Manchester Center.

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North BeNNiNgtoN outdoor Sculpture Show: Outdoor sculptures sited in and around the village by 44 artists. Through October 25.

Various locations around North Bennington.

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‘AireS liBreS’: This annual public art exhibition takes place all over downtown Montréal, with video and photographic installations, sculptures and a special exhibit titled “Politics of Empathy.”

Through September 7. Info, 514-861-7870.

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ANN pemBer ANd miNA ANgeloS: “Watercolor,” paintings from the upstate New York members of the American Watercolor Society. Through September 13. Info, 518-564-2474. Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. ‘cAN You dig it?’: A community exhibit celebrating music-album cover art, in the Rotunda Gallery. Through October 11. ‘homer’S AmericA’: Selections from the museum’s permanent collection include five Civil War works as well as prints of children at play. On view in Hoopes Gallery.

Through September 16. ‘the lAte drAwiNgS of ANdY wArhol: 1973-1987’: Fifty drawings, some of them on view for the first time, by the late pop artist; organized by the Andy Warhol Museum. Wood Gallery. Through September 12.

Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, N.Y. ‘the feArSome fourSome’: Pen-and-ink drawings, watercolor paintings and sculpture by four OSHER and AVA instructors: Winkie Kelsey, Stephanie Reininger, Ann Semprebon and Jo Tate. Through July 24. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

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Through August 2. ‘wAter wAYS: teNSioN ANd flow’: Landscape and portraiture photography from the permanent collection that explores “water’s impact on human life and humanity’s impact on water.” Through August 23. Victor ekpuk: “Auto-Graphics,” mixed-media works in graphite and pastel on paper, influenced by the artist’s Nigerian roots. Through August 2.

Info, 603-646-2095. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H.

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‘from gAiNSBorough to moore: 200 YeArS of BritiSh drAwiNgS’: An exhibit of 40 drawings and pastels, mid-18th to late 20th century, from the museum’s UK collection. Through August 16. ‘metAmorphoSeS: iN rodiN’S Studio’: Nearly 300 works by the French sculptor, including masterpieces shown for the first time in North America, in collaboration with the Musée Rodin in Paris. Through October 18. mArioN wAgSchAl: “Portraits, Memories, Fables,” the first solo museum exhibition of the Montréal artist, featuring close to 30 paintings produced between 1971 and 2014. These include portraiture and allegorical representations painted when abstraction was in style. Through August 9. Info, 515-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

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R

emember Steve Martin’s hilarious “Let’s get small” bit from 1977?

Many of you will be too young to recall when he was the biggest standup comic on the planet. It’s a shame you know him only as the anything-for-abuck Hollywood hack from remakes of The Out-of-Towners, Cheaper by the Dozen and The Pink Panther. Take my word for it: He was something before he sold out.

I mention Martin for a couple of reasons.

First, how could the creators of Ant-Man not have given him at least an honorary writing credit? This is a movie about nothing but getting small. And second, all kidding aside, the latest from the ever-expanding Marvel-verse offers something I never thought I’d see: the specter of Paul Rudd taking the first steps down that path of becoming an anything-fora-buck Hollywood hack.

What a dispiriting experience it is to watch this great comic actor go through the motions in a by-the-numbers superhero origin story. Rudd doesn’t look a day older than he did in his Clueless debut 20 years ago, and he’s gone on to do some of the most genially subversive work in modern cinema. Now he’s filming Captain America: Civil War, due next year.

My hopes that Rudd had become part of the corporate comic-book system to change it from within, or at least to screw with it a little, were dashed early and permanently.

Ant-Man starts with a merciless marathon of exposition. Michael Douglas plays goateed super-genius Hank Pym, who invented a formula capable of shrinking a human being in the 1980s, then promptly went into seclusion so it couldn’t be used for evil.

Pym’s protégé, played by Corey Stoll (his head is shaved, so you know he’s evil), has succeeded in duplicating the formula after years of failed attempts. He plans to sell it to, I think, the military for billions. When Pym gets wind of the scheme, he does what any responsible scientist would do: He recruits a reformed cat burglar (Rudd), outfits him with a special suit that gives him the ability to shrink and pop back to normal size at will, and instructs him in the ways of controlling armies of ants with his mind. Why does the ex-con go along with all this? To save the world and become a hero in the eyes of the daughter (Abby Ryder Fortson) whose love he wants to win back. Are we tearing up yet?

Aside from a psychedelic sequence in which Rudd goes subatomic, little imagination is on display in this overlong production.

FOLLOWING SUIT Rudd takes a break from being a unique comic talent to become just another famous face in a superhero costume.

It’s a gabby asterisk to the Avengers business plan, and, as an admirer of Rudd’s work, I cried on the inside a bit every time he soared in that suit and stuck his landing in the same pose trademarked by Robert Downey Jr. in his many Iron Man outings. Call me crazy, but I believe there are entertainers you’re meant to go to the grave having never seen in a spandex costume. Sadly, the list of actors of whom one can say that is getting shorter by the day. Who’s next — Jonah Hill as Fat Cobra?

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AFTER-LOW Schumer experiences second thoughts about her latest hookup in Apatow’s uneven comedy.

stumbles through the minefield of her defenses and somehow emerges intact.

The two begin to date, but it takes a while for their relationship to weather the inevitable crisis. Schumer, who wrote the movie, has stuffed it with subplots and side business: Amy guns for a promotion; the sisters fight about paying for their dad’s nursing home; Aaron shoots hoops with his best friend, LeBron James (as himself ), and prepares for a tricky surgery on Knicks forward Amar’e Stoudemire.

While the first two plot threads serve Amy’s character arc, the sports-related business eats up far more screen time than it deserves. When the whole movie stops for

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Trainwreck ★★★★

here’s still plenty to like in Judd Apatow’s rambling, improv-heavy comedies — from outrageous gags and filthy-mouthed tirades to those signature heartfelt moments. Yet that “plenty” doesn’t always add up, as Trainwreck attests. Much like Funny People and This Is 40, this star vehicle for sketch and standup comedian Amy Schumer feels more like a treasure trove of future YouTube clips than a satisfying 125-minute story. As a whole, it’s no, well, trainwreck, but it’s somewhat less than the sum of its parts.

The trainwreck in question is Amy (Schumer), a Manhattan magazine writer who learned her attitudes about life and love from her dad (Colin Quinn), a cynical, womanizing asshole. While her sister Kim (Brie Larson) ignored Daddy’s life lessons and is sweetly devoted to her sweetly bumbling husband (Mike Birbiglia), Amy lives it up as a cynical, man-izing asshole.

Brutally funny early scenes establish Amy’s love-’em-and-leave-’em MO, her jerkish charm (also inherited from Dad), her unremitting narcissism and her terror of monogamy, which rears its head when her muscle-bound sort-of boyfriend (John Cena) wants to get serious. But this isn’t just a comedy; it’s a romantic comedy. So everything changes — or starts to, anyway — when Amy meets Aaron (Bill Hader), a nerdy sports physician so earnest and guileless that he

I should mention that this formulaic effects-fest was directed by Peyton Reed. You may be familiar with such testaments to his talent as The Love Bug and Down With Love.

The filmmaker’s vision and special touch are without doubt among the reasons the pay-off for sitting through two hours of Ant-Man is so small. To say the least, this is a movie with a few bugs in it.

Hader and James to shoot the breeze over lunch, it’s hard not to see these celebrityathlete cameos as a naked bid to appeal to the dude part of the audience.

Granted, moviegoers aren’t yet accustomed to encountering a female character who is unrepentantly rude, crude, lewd and the film’s romantic lead (as opposed to its comic relief ). Trainwreck milks a lot of legit laughs from that novelty alone.

But when the film tries to get deeper under Amy’s skin, the lack of focus becomes a problem. There’s poignant, believable texture to her relationships with her dad and sister (both superlatively played). Yet those elements keep getting shunted aside to make

room for basketball cheerleaders doing high kicks or satirical takes on the glossy magazine industry. In Amy’s eventual blow-out with Aaron, we glimpse the core of self-hatred that motivates her, but the film’s finale feels like an obligatory shrug, not a resolution.

Trainwreck offers many incidental pleasures to compensate for its shaggy-dog qualities: Amy’s rant about her indifference to athletics; Tilda Swinton’s turn as a haughtily soulless magazine publisher; a faux-indie film featuring yet more celebrity cameos.

Some of its scenes could become classics. But they’re likely to do so online, where viewers can choose their pleasure — be it Hader riffing on James or Schumer delivering merciless put-downs — and ignore the parts that don’t appeal to them.

As more and more viewers experience comedy in those sketch-size viral bites, the plots of feature films start to feel like footnotes to their set pieces. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, considering the richness of the sketch format. But romantic comedies that are tightly plotted and funny — like, say, Tootsie, All of Me or Moonstruck — seem unlikely to reappear in the age of Apatow. If Trainwreck never exactly goes off the rails, that could be because there are no rails anymore.

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iNsiDe oUtHHHH1/2 The latest Pixar family animation takes us inside a young girl’s mind to witness her warring emotions — personified as independent beings, voiced by amy Poehler, bill hader, Mindy Kaling and others — as she confronts changes in her life. Pete docter (Up) and Ronaldo del carmen directed. (94 min, Pg; reviewed by M.h.

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pApeR toWNs: a high schooler follows the trail of a mysterious, troubled classmate with whom he’s infatuated in this drama adapted from John green’s best-selling novel by director Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank). nat wolff, cara delevingne and austin abrams star. (109 min, Pg-13. capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)

JURAssic WoRlDHHH In this sequel set 22 years after Jurassic Park, the theme park full of real, live dinosaurs is up and running. Then someone decides to introduce a splashy new attraction. what could go wrong? chris Pratt, bryce dallas howard and ty Simpkins star. Vermont resident colin trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) directed.

(124 min, Pg-13; reviewed by M.h. 6/17)

piXels: Middle-aged geeks are the only ones who can save the Earth when aliens invade in the form of characters from classic video games. chris columbus directed the action comedy, starring adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh gad and Michelle Monaghan. (105 min, Pg-13. bijou, capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, welden)

love & meRcYHHHHH Paul dano and John cusack portray brian wilson at two different stages of life in director bill Pohlad’s biographical drama, which explores the beach boy’s mental breakdown and his search for a perfect studio sound. with Elizabeth banks and Paul giamatti. (119 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 6/17)

soUtHpAW: antoine fuqua (The Equalizer) directed this boxing drama in which Jake gyllenhaal plays a fighter with nothing to lose who turns to trainer forest whitaker for a second chance. with Rachel Mcadams. (123 min, R. capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)

mAgic mike XXlHHHH channing tatum is back as the titular male stripper, but Steven Soderbergh is not (at least in the director’s chair), for this sequel in which Mike returns to his bumping and grinding ways in Myrtle beach. with Elizabeth banks, Matt bomer and amber heard. gregory Jacobs directed. (115 min, R; reviewed by M.h. 7/8)

vAcAtioN: Ed helms plays Rusty griswold, the bumbling family man whose attempt to take his loved ones to walley world keeps going awry, in this remake of the chevy chase comedy. with christina applegate and chris hemsworth. John francis daley and Jonathan M. goldstein directed.

(99 min, R. Starts tuesday, July 28, at Essex, Majestic, Palace)

AmYHHHH1/2 asif Kapadia’s acclaimed documentary uses both personal and public footage to chronicle the tragically short life of singer amy winehouse. (128 min, R)

tHe gAlloWs 1/2H high school theater kids make the mistake of putting on a deadly play — which apparently is not Macbeth — in this found-footage horror flick from writer-directors travis cluff and chris lofing, who got their start on youtube. (81 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 7/15)

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me AND eARl AND tHe DYiNg giRlHH1/2 a teenage aspiring filmmaker befriends a girl who has leukemia in this heart-string-tugging indie drama from veteran tV director alfonso gomez-Rejon, based on Jesse andrews’ novel. Thomas Mann, RJ cyler and Olivia cooke star. (105 min, Pg-13; reviewed by R.K. 7/8) miNioNsHH young viewers of Despicable Me and its sequel liked the supervillain hero but loved his gibberish-spouting minions. So hollywood gave the kids what they craved — an animated tale entirely devoted to minion backstory. Sandra bullock, Jon hamm and Michael Keaton provide the human voices. Kyle balda and Pierre coffin directed. (91 min, Pg; reviewed by M.h. 7/15) selF/lessHH a dying architect (ben Kingsley) pays a sinister company to transfer his consciousness into the body of a young stud (Ryan Reynolds) in this sci-fi thriller that sounds like an unofficial remake of John frankenheimer’s Seconds. tarsem Singh (Immortals) directed. (116 min, Pg-13) spYHHH a mousy cIa analyst (Melissa Mccarthy) goes undercover as a field agent to prevent global diabolical doings in this spy spoof/action flick from writer-director Paul feig (Bridesmaids). with Jude law and Rose byrne. (120 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 6/10) teD 2H1/2 In the sequel to writer-director Seth Macfarlane’s comedy hit about a grown-up boy (Mark wahlberg) and his foul-mouthed giant teddy bear companion (voiced by Macfarlane), the bear must prove his personhood before he can become a dad, and we’re just confused now. with amanda Seyfried and Jessica barth. (115 min, R; reviewed

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teRmiNAtoR GeNisYsHH Future freedom fighter Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) goes back in time to protect his leader’s mom-to-be (Emilia Clarke) and finds nothing as he expects, in a new chapter of the now-convoluted SF franchise. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to terminating. Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) directed. (125 min, PG-13) testAmeNt oF YoUtHHHHH Alicia Vikander plays British author Vera Brittain in this BBC adaptation of her memoir of love and sacrifice during World War I. With Kit Harington and Taron Egerton. James Kent directed. (129 min, PG-13)

tHe WolFpAcKHHH1/2 Crystal Moselle’s Sundance-lauded documentary explores the private world of six brothers who were raised in a Manhattan apartment with little exposure to life outside — except through Hollywood movies. (80 min, R)

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WHAt We Do iN tHe sHADoWsHHHH The New Zealand comedy duo of Jemaine Clement (“Flight of the Conchords”) and Taika Waititi wrote, directed and starred in this mockumentary about three flatmates who happen to be vampires. With Jonathan Brugh. (86 min, NR)

tRAiNWRecKHHH1/2 Amy Schumer plays a commitment-phobe who finds her distaste for monogamy shaken by a new dude in this comedy from director Judd Apatow. With Bill Hader and Brie Larson. (125 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 7/22)

BRIAN MURRAY The Original Guildenstern in Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern for Royal Shakespeare Company talks about Creating his role in Tom Stoppard’s play.

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Police who accused Alexander Katz, 19, of stealing a car in Logan, Utah, said he and his girlfriend had to abandon the vehicle and call a cab because he didn’t know how to drive a stick shift. The car’s owner spotted the vehicle being driven off and called police, who found Katz and his girlfriend waiting outside a nearby convenience store for their cab. Police Chief Gary Jensen said that although Katz couldn’t drive a stick shift, his girlfriend could and was giving him directions while they tried making their getaway. “I’m not 100 percent certain why she doesn’t just get around and get in the driver’s seat so they can take the car and use it,” Jensen said. (Atlanta Journal Constitution) A shoplifting suspect in Okaloosa County, Fla., managed to evade sheriff’s deputies chasing him but only after his car hit several mailboxes, which ripped off the car’s entire rear bumper. The license plate was attached. Deputies traced the plate to Devin Ramoe Stokes, 20, who told them he was sorry for the deed and the damage. (Northwest Florida Daily News)

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Spas in Japan now offer ramen noodle baths. The baths are filled with ramen pork broth and synthetic noodles. Soaking in the broth is said to be good for the skin and to boost metabolism. “Lately people are very concerned about having beautiful skin, and they know the effect of collagen, which is contained in our pork-based broth,” said Ichiro Furuya, owner of the Yunessan Spa House in Hakone. (TIME)

Private Justice

Utah Valley University has designated a lane for texting on the stairs of its Student Life & Wellness Center. Two other dedicated lanes, distinguished by neon-green stripes, are for walkers and runners. Amy Grubbs, the school’s director for campus recreation, acknowledged that not every texter sticks to the lane, noting some “don’t even see it because they’re so consumed in their phones.”

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Matchmakery

Iran has launched a state-supported matchmaking website. Deputy Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Mahmoud Golzari cautioned that Find Your Equal is not a dating site. Its goal is to produce 100,000 new marriages in the coming year. “We have high demand for marriage and 11 million [young single adults] who are increasing every day,” Golzari said. Marriages are necessary to overcome Iran’s declining birthrate, according to the government, which last year banned vasectomies and permanent birth control measures in women. Officials, including supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have publicly urged couples to have more babies to repudiate “undesirable aspects of Western lifestyles.” (Washington Post)

Short Fuses

Haden Smith, 18, demanded that his mother intervene to mend his relationship with his girlfriend and threatened to kill her chickens if she didn’t. Deputies in Limestone County, Ala., said Smith vowed he’d kill a chicken every 15 minutes and gave her a deadline of noon. When the deadline passed, he started sending her picture messages of each dead chicken. He got to six before deputies arrived and arrested him.

(Tribune Media Wire) Tired of waiting at a hospital’s emergency room in Morganton, N.C., Katlyn Milligan, 20, set off the sprinklers, resulting in “copious amounts of water” pouring down, according to the police report. Milligan, who was waiting for a relative to be treated, said that after two hours, she couldn’t wait any longer, so she went into a bathroom and held her lighter to the sprinkler. Cleanup delayed ER operations another two hours “at the busiest time of the day,” Nursing Administrator David Everhart said. Milligan herself had to be taken to the ER to check for effects from exposure to the sprinkler’s stagnant water. After she was released, police arrested her. (New York Daily News)

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Los Angeles County authorities charged David Henry, Tonette Hayes and Brandon Kiel with impersonating police officers after the three showed up, two of them in uniform, as a “courtesy call” to inform sheriff’s Capt. Roosevelt Johnson they were from the Masonic Fraternal Police Department and setting up operations in the area. The agency’s website claims jurisdiction in 33 states and Mexico and, through the Knights Templar, traces the department’s roots back 3,000 years. “When asked what is the difference between the Masonic Fraternal Police Department and other police departments, the answer is simple for us,” the website says. “We were here first.” Henry, 46, identi-

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REAL free will astrology by rob brezsny July 23-30

away at its weakest point, and the flower is released in your hand.” Keep that in mind, Aries.

I understand you are often tempted to seize rather than pluck, but these days plucking is the preferable approach.

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A researcher at the university of Amsterdam developed software to read the emotions on faces. He used it to analyze the expression of the woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, “The Mona Lisa.” The results suggest that she is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry. Whether or not this assessment is accurate, I appreciate its implication that we humans are rarely filled with a single pure emotion. We often feel a variety of states simultaneously. In this spirit, I have calculated your probable mix for the coming days: 16 percent relieved, 18 percent innocent, 12 percent confused, 22 percent liberated, 23 percent ambitious and 9 percent impatient.

(April 20-May 20): When I talk about “The Greatest story never told,” I’m not referring to the documentary film about singer Lana Del rey or the debut album of the rap artist saigon or any other cultural artifact.

I am, instead, referring to a part of your past that you have never owned and understood … a phase from the old days that you have partially suppressed … an intense set of memories you have not fully integrated. I say it’s time for you to deal with this shadow. you’re finally ready to acknowledge it and treasure it as a crucial thread in the drama of your hero’s journey.

gemiNi (May 21-June 20): The ancient Greek philosopher Thales is credited as being one of the earliest mathematicians and scientists. He was a deep thinker whose thirst for knowledge was hard to quench. funny story: once he went out at night for a walk. Gazing intently up at the sky, he contemplated the mysteries of the stars. oops! He didn’t watch where he was going, and fell down into a well.

He was oK, but embarrassed. Let’s make him your anti-role model, Gemini. I would love to encourage you to unleash your lust to be informed, educated and inspired — but only if you watch where you’re going. caNcer (June 21-July 22): Charles Darwin

aries (March 21-April 19): The Latin motto

(Aug. 23-sept. 22): “What makes you heroic?” asked philosopher friedrich nietzsche. Here’s how he answered himself: “simultaneously going out to meet your highest suffering and your highest hope.” This is an excellent way to sum up the test that would inspire you most in the coming weeks, Virgo.

Are you up for the challenge? If so, grapple with your deepest pain. Make a fierce effort to both heal it and be motivated by it. At the same time, identify your brightest hope and take a decisive step toward fulfilling it.

liBra (sept. 23-oct. 22): Actress and musician Carrie brownstein was born with five planets in Libra. Those who aren’t conversant with astrology’s mysteries may conclude that she is a connoisseur of elegance and harmony. even professional stargazers who know how tricky it is to make generalizations might speculate that she is skilled at cultivating balance, attuned to the needs of others, excited by beauty and adaptive to life’s ceaseless change. so what are we to make of the fact that brownstein has said, “I really don’t know what to do when my life is not chaotic”? Here’s what I suspect: In her ongoing exertions to thrive on chaos, she is learning how to be a connoisseur of elegance and harmony as she masters the intricacies of being balanced, sensitive to others, thrilled by beauty and adaptive to change. This is important for you to hear about right now. scorPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): you’re entering

a volatile phase of your cycle. In the coming weeks, you could become a beguiling monster who leaves a confusing mess in your wake. on the other hand, you could activate the full potential of your animal intelligence as you make everything you touch more interesting and soulful. I am, of course, rooting for the latter outcome. Here’s a secret about how to ensure it: be as ambitious to gain power over your own darkness as you are to gain power over what happens on your turf.

sagittarius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m a big fan of the attitude summed up by the command “be here now!” The world would be more like a sanctuary and less like a battleground if people focused more on the present

moment rather than on memories of the past and fantasies of the future. but in accordance with the astrological omens, you are hereby granted a temporary exemption from the “be here now!” approach. you have a poetic license to dream and scheme profusely about what you want your life to be like in the future. your word of power is “tomorrow.”

caPricorN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A philanthropist offered $100,000 to the Girl scouts chapter of Western Washington. but there were strings attached. The donor specified that the money couldn’t be used to support transgender girls. The Girl scouts rejected the gift, declaring their intention to empower every girl “regardless of her gender identity, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.” Do you have that much spunk, Capricorn? Would you turn down aid that would infringe on your integrity? you may be tested soon. Here’s what I suspect: If you are faithful to your deepest values, even if that has a cost, you will ultimately attract an equal blessing that doesn’t require you to sell out.

(P.s. The Girl scouts subsequently launched an Indiegogo campaign that raised more than $300,000.) aQuarius

(Jan. 20-feb. 18): Consider the possibility of opening your mind, at least briefly, to provocative influences you have closed yourself off from. you may need to refamiliarize yourself with potential resources you have been resisting or ignoring, even if they are problematic. I’m not saying you should blithely welcome them in. There still may be good reasons to keep your distance. but I think it would be wise and healthy for you to update your relationship with them.

Pisces

(feb. 19-March 20): over 10,000 species of mushrooms grow in north America.

About 125 of those, or 1.25 percent, are tasty and safe to eat. All the others are unappetizing or poisonous, or else their edibility is in question. by my reckoning, a similar statistical breakdown should apply to the influences that are floating your way. I advise you to focus intently on those very few that you know for a fact are pleasurable and vitalizing.

Make yourself unavailable for the rest.

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“Carpe diem” shouldn’t be translated as “seize the day!” says author nicholson baker. It’s not a battle cry exhorting you to “freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it.” The proper translation, according to baker, is “Pluck the day.” In other words, “you should gently pull on the day’s stem, as if it were a wildflower, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things — so that the day’s stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a tightness, and then snaps softly

is best known for his book The Origin of Species, which contains his seminal ideas about evolutionary biology. but while he was still alive, his best-seller was The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms. The painstaking result of over 40 years’ worth of research, it is a tribute to the noble earthworm and that creature’s crucial role in the health of soil and plants. It provides a different angle on one of Darwin’s central concerns: how small, incremental transformations that take place over extended periods of time can have monumental effects. This also happens to be one of your key themes in the coming months.

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I am writing because my friends and I are lost when it comes to dating. We are all in our thirties, independent, attractive, outgoing and caring. We have great jobs, money in the bank and retirement plans. All of us love to cook. Our similar problem is that we can’t seem to find a guy who will stick around to date. We have given up. It starts great, then guys bail. I personally have been single for three years (went through a divorce, got back on my feet). Started early this year to see what’s out there (online dated), and found nothing good. Do good guys and relationships exist anymore?

Help,

Dear Losing Hope,

Losing Hope

I get it. Finding Mr. Right ain’t easy. And right up until you do find him, it seems like there’s nobody out there for you.

I wish I had a magic wand to make your dreams come true — but I don’t. What I do have are a few things to consider as you navigate the dating world.

First, where are you looking for men? If you’re hoping to find a guy worthy of introducing to your parents at a bar at 2 a.m., it’s not going to happen. Rarely do late-night hookups lead to anything substantial. Instead, try asking out the cute dude who rides his bike past your office every day. It requires a little more gumption sans the alcohol, but you’re more likely to develop a serious connection with someone this way.

You mentioned that you tried online dating. Awesome.

Keep trying. Sign up for another site, too, to cast a wider net.

But don’t obsess about it: Staring at the screen won’t birth the perfect guy. If he’s there, you’ll find him.

Envision your dream man. Is he someone who makes a lot of money, owns his home, travels, speaks several languages, rescues lost dogs and volunteers with homeless youth? The odds of finding him aren’t impossible — but they’re pretty damn close. Perhaps you need to readjust your definition of the perfect guy. There are plenty of great men out there who don’t meet all the criteria on your list.

How can you edit that list and still get what you want?

Keep this in mind: Sometimes we set ridiculously high standards for others as a personal safety net. If a guy can’t measure up to your expectations to begin with, he’ll never be able to reject you. But if you never let someone get close to you, you’ll never get any closer to what you want, either.

Or maybe you always end up with guys who need “fixing.”

This happens all the time. We date people who are “almost right” for us and try so hard to change them. Don’t fall into this pattern. Sure, you can probably get your guy to stop wearing baseball hats, but that’s about it. You can’t change someone else, and you’ll go crazy trying. People show you who they are right away. Believe them.

Be yourself, and be open to changing your expectations.

That’s it. Often, the love we’re looking for shows up when we stop looking.

Yours,

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