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Mark Larson apologized to legislators after failing to disclose a security breach on the Vermont Health Connect site.

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“Seventy-Year-Old Inmate Argues Life Sentence was Unconstitutional” by Mark Davis. The first Vermonter sentenced to life for a crime other than murder wants his jail term overturned.

Stuck in Vermont: “Deer Hunting Opening Weekend” by Eva Sollberger. Eva joined Tom Rogers from Vermont Fish & Wildlife in search of whitetail, and spoke with hunters in Stowe and Jericho.

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While declining to discuss the principals involved in the sale, Weinberger did say “they seem to understand what the city wants to do on Cherry Street.”

In keeping with the city’s PlanBTV vision for a more pedestrian-oriented downtown, the Cherry Street corridor alongside Burlington Town Center would be refashioned as a passageway linking the Marketplace and the waterfront.

The prospective buyers of the mall are “talking of filling in some of the dead space, adding retail and repurposing some of the parking spaces along Cherry Street,” Weinberger said. He did not offer more details, saying the purchasers have “not put forward a detailed plan of what they intend to do.”

If the investors need ideas, they need look no further than local residents. In response to a query on the Seven Days Facebook page, readers suggested possibilities ranging from a year-round farmers market to an indoor concert venue to a family- and teen-friendly venue with activities such as laser tag, rock climbing and Zumba.

Other ideas ran in a more commercial direction, including opening a Target store or high-end shops and restaurants. One commenter, Jessica Kim, had this to propose: “Rent-controlled retail spaces for locally owned businesses … miracles do happen.”

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urlington Town Center, the 230,000-squarefoot Church Street shopping mall, is being sold to New York City real-estate investment firm with Vermont ties, two sources tell Seven Days.

Both persons requested anonymity because neither the prospective buyer, Devonwood Investors, nor the seller, Chicago-based General Growth Properties, has announced the deal, which is scheduled to close on December 15, Kevin J. Kelley reported Sunday on the Off Message blog.

Mayor Miro Weinberger told Kelley he could not provide details on the transaction, including its price, because “it needs to be understood as preliminary.” Weinberger did say that one of the principals in the deal “has spent a considerable amount of time in Burlington.”

Devonwood Investors, which describes itself on its website as “an operating partner for opportunistic real estate transactions,” lists Donald F. Sinex as one of the leaders of its team.

Sinex, who could not be reached for comment, appears to have a residence in Rutland, which is also the location of the Sinex Education Foundation. The Vermont Directory of Foundations identifies Donald Sinex as donor of the foundation, which is said to make donations “primarily for educational purposes for young children.” One of the sources confirmed to Seven Days that Sinex provides

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HAUNTED, INDEED I wanted to write to let you know how much I enjoyed reading [“Ghosts With the Most,” October 30]. I worked at the Shanty on the Shore back in the early 1990s and knew then it was haunted.

Along with another server at the time, we researched the building at the Fletcher Free Library to uncover just what Alice Levitt did in her article. It was very entertaining to see our speculations confirmed!

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BURLINGTON’S “ITCHING FINGERS”

Paul Heintz’s portrait of Miro Weinberger and his good buddies in the real estate industry [Fair Game, November 20] reminds me of something author Wallace Stegner once wrote: Namely, “that America’s whole history could be read as one continuous real estate transaction.” Stegner, a defender of wild places, conservation and public lands, autopsied the West’s destruction by alliances of crony politicians and what he called land grabbers, boomers and busters. Later, he turned his attention to Vermont from his second home in Greensboro. He warned that Vermont was not immune and that it, too, could succumb “to abuse and to the quickprofit raid, to disruption and depletion.”

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Were he still living, I suspect Stegner would, on the one hand, nod approvingly about Vermont’s attempts to control development but, on the other, shake his head mournfully over much of what is happening as a de facto real estate syndicate devours our mountaintops and hillsides, neighborhoods and cityscapes. Of course, Stegner is gone, but fortunately his words linger on. We can learn a lot from one memorable phrase he used to color those intent on gobbling up our precious heritage for pecuniary gain. They were men with “itching fingers.” Evidently, the mayor and his chums seem to have caught that itch.

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THE CCA WAY?

Judith Levine’s [Poli Psy: “Criminal Acts,” October 9] column should’ve looked closer at elected officials who benefit from Corrections Corporation of America’s influence. Senators Dick Sears, Susan Bartlett and Vincent Illuzzi, former governor Jim Douglas, Gov. Peter Shumlin and former lieutenant governor Brian Dubie are a few who have received contributions from CCA. Think CCA contributed to keep the prison population down?

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There is a great deal of emotion surrounding the budget for the Walden School [“In Walden, a Budget Impasse Leaves a Small-Town School in Limbo,” November 13]. Some believe the best solution is to dissolve the school completely. Some believe we can fund the

school with the same budget we had five years ago. Some believe there are no limits and we can continue to increase the budget regardless of the cost to the taxpayer base.

The simple truth is, we have to educate all the children of Walden town from kindergarten through grade 12. We have to spend extra dollars to fund those children who require special-education services. That is the law; there is no refuting it.

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This is impacting the town budget also, not just the school. 2. We may not be able to file our 2013 taxes. 3. We have already spent more money than anyone had envisioned, and we are now facing legal fees and fines. 4. We probably will have to raise taxes even more next year to pay for what we thought we would gain this year. 5. The State of Vermont may force solutions onto the town that will have serious and unpleasant consequences, including loss of high school choice.

Please, if you have not voted at all, get some information from the school board to make an educated vote. If you have voted no, please be informed as to the consequences if we cannot pass a budget. I believe the board has tried to remove nonessential line items and is trying to pass an informed budget that will adequately educate the children. The simple truth is, we have to spend our tax dollars to educate the children. Let’s not foolishly waste those precious dollars on a fight that, in the end, will cause more harm than good.

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hen they met for the first time in months on November 5, members of the House Health Care Committee didn’t seem too sweet on the state’s new health insurance exchange.

Since they’d last heard from Gov. PETER SHUMLIN’s health care reformers in midSeptember, Vermont Health Connect had experienced serious technical difficulties that prevented many individuals and small businesses from signing up. Legislators 30 SO. MAIN ST., ST. ALBANS complained they’d been kept in the dark as 802-524-0800 the online marketplace’s troubles mounted.

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“How am I supposed to have faith PRODUCTIONS in the administration moving forward when we’re asking difficult questions and perhaps getting sugarcoated answers?” he asked Department of Vermont Health Access Commissioner MARK LARSON, whose office oversees the exchange.

Left unreported that day was another, less notable exchange between Larson and Rep. MARY MORRISSEY (R-Bennington), who asked, “Have we had any security failures in Vermont within the system?”

“We have no situations where somebody’s private information has been breached, no,” Larson responded.

When another committee member attempted to pose a question, Larson jumped back in to elaborate: “I want to be very clear. There have been concerns raised to us that we have looked into, and we have found no situation where somebody’s private information has been breached.”

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Friday disclosing the incident, what was once a technical problem had turned political. When House Speaker SHAP SMITH and other legislators reviewed a tape of the hearing over the weekend, they determined that Larson had been less than candid with the committee.

“The commissioner got it wrong,” says Rep. MIKE FISHER (D-Lincoln), who chairs the committee. “He did not answer accurately the specific question put to him in the health care committee, and that’s a big deal.”

On Sunday, Larson penned a letter of apology to Fisher, which was released to reporters early Monday. In it, he said he “did not make clear that one incident of unauthorized access to private information had occurred,” and he said he regretted that his answers “have not inspired the confidence that Vermonters should expect.”

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“I would like to express my sincere apology and reaffirm my commitment to providing information to your committee that is as timely and accurate as possible,” he wrote. “My omission did not reflect either your or the administration’s expectations of candor.”

Larson’s apology notwithstanding, his boss quickly took him to the woodshed.

“I take this incident extremely seriously,” Shumlin said in a statement emailed to reporters minutes after Larson’s note was circulated. “It is unacceptable to be anything less than fully cooperative and transparent with Vermonters and their elected representatives in the Legislature. I am tremendously disappointed in Commissioner Larson’s lapse of judgment in this matter.”

While perhaps over the top, Shumlin’s reaction — all five paragraphs of it — was understandable. In politics, the worst mistake you can make is to confirm through your own actions a negative assumption people have already made about you. It’s like when a suspected womanizer gets caught with his pants down.

In this case, Shumlin and his health care reform team have spent weeks dodging accusations that they’ve been less than forthcoming with legislators and the public about Vermont Health Connect’s technical problems.

For Vermont lawmakers in particular, the situation is pretty galling.

Unlike Congress or full-time legislatures in other states, Vermont’s third

branch of government goes dormant for eight months every year. During that time, legislators have virtually zero power — except to hold an out-of-session hearing every now and again and hope for the best.

“All that we have is the testimony that we receive,” Fisher says. “We expect accurate information, particularly from our administration partners.”

“Your word is your bond in this place,” Speaker Smith says. “Oversight is only as effective as the willingness of the people who are testifying to answer your questions.”

When legislators convened at the Statehouse last Wednesday for a daylong briefing on budgetary matters, many privately groused about Vermont Health Connect’s rollout. But few in either chamber’s Democratic super-majority seemed eager to publicly critique the implementation of a law for which they voted, or to criticize a governor of their own party.

After Larson’s Monday disclosure, that seemed to change.

“We honestly don’t know if these are honest mistakes or attempts to mislead,” says Rep. GEORGE TILL (D-Jericho), who serves on the health care committee. “I don’t mean to ascribe any intention to it, but there’s been a fair amount of unhappiness among the legislators on the committee with what’s been communicated to us as opposed to what’s happening.”

Says Rep. PAUL POIRIER (I-Barre), “I don’t know anyone on the committee that knows what [the administration’s] plan is. We get all our information through the media.”

Lord knows that’s a bad idea!

Sen. GINNY LYONS (D-Chittenden), who serves on the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, says she similarly feels in the dark.

“I think we’re all wanting this to succeed, but we’re also wanting to know where we are so we’re not surprised the way we have been,” she says. “I am also somewhat disappointed that the administration has made it look like everything was going fine when, in reality, there were significant problems.”

Precisely what the legislature could do differently — even if it was kept fully informed — isn’t exactly clear. And not everybody is jonesing to second-guess and micromanage the situation.

“There’s some times when you get so many people involved with something that everybody thinks they should be the person who makes the decision,” says Senate President JOHN CAMPBELL (D-Windsor). “I just think, at this point, our involvement isn’t going to make a difference with whether this thing is going to get up and running.”

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For his part, Smith says he’s trying to strike a balance between performing oversight and allowing the people in the trenches to do their jobs.

Come January, when the legislature reconvenes, the speaker says, “I think there is going to be a real need for oversight and some hearings about how everything has unfolded this fall to see if there are lessons we can learn as to how this whole project rolled out. Because clearly this has not gone how anyone would have drawn it up.”

That will likely involve, he says, a close look at state government’s perennial inability to pull off complicated information technology projects on time and on budget.

As for the leadership of Vermont Health Connect, Shumlin made clear at a Monday press conference that he has no plans to replace Larson.

The commissioner himself dutifully made the media rounds Monday and Tuesday, repeatedly apologizing for his omission and explaining that, in answering Morrissey’s question, he was distinguishing between an external “security breach” and an internal “privacy issue.”

“I was attempting to be responsive to the issue,” Larson says. “I should have made the connection between this incident and the question that was asked. I made the mistake of not doing that. It was clearly my mistake.”

Even among legislators most miffed about the incident, many still expressed confidence in Larson. A former state representative himself, Larson preceded Fisher as chairman of the House Health Care Committee, where he established a reputation as a straight shooter.

“The reality is that Mark has a reservoir of good will,” Smith says. “And if people believe that it is an isolated incident and that he understands that people take it very seriously, I think he can rebuild people’s confidence.”

“He’s always been aboveboard,” Campbell echoes. “He’s a guy who I don’t think anyone would say a bad word about.

He made a mistake. There’s no question about it. But God forbid anyone think he’s human.”

And God forbid a politician sugarcoat the truth. Perhaps Larson learned that from the boss.

also serves as executive director of the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition, while Lafayette lobbies for the Vermont Low Income Advocacy Council.

But last week, at the conclusion of the city’s annual competitive bid process, Mayor Miro WEinbErgEr inked a new, $30,000 contract with KSE Partners.

That’s slightly more than the $28,000 the city paid Mahnke and Lafayette last year, but less than the $32,000 it paid them the year before.

KSE is a Big Kahuna down Montpelier way. According to filings with the secretary of state, the firm brought in more lobbying dough last year than any other in the state. Its clients include Green Mountain Power, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, VISA and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont.

It also has a history of representing Burlington: Back in the 1990s, the firm served as the city’s lobbyist.

“It wasn’t a decision we came to lightly,” Weinberger says of the switch, citing the “good work” Mahnke and Lafayette have done for Burlington. “Really what it came down to was KSE has a larger Statehouse team.”

Not everyone in town agrees with the decision.

After city attorney EiLEEn bLackWood informed Burlington’s legislative delegation of the move, several voiced their disappointment via email.

“I don’t know if it will be a strategic error or not, but I do think that you may be gaining a slicker, better-endowed firm, but you are losing true, knowledgeable, experienced, long-term Burlington politicians/activists,” Rep. curt MccorMack (D-Burlington) wrote Weinberger Monday. “This is what they are ‘well respected’ for.”

“I have expressed my disappointment to the mayor and Eileen last week,” Rep. JoEy donovan (D-Burlington) wrote Tuesday. “I asked about process and if any reps had been consulted. Unsatisfactory response. So, next steps?”

The mayor replied later that day, outlining his reasons for switching to KSE and reiterating that the contract was for one year only.

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Indeed. And it has for decades.

For the past 11 years, the city has been represented in Montpelier by a pair of recovering Burlington pols: former city councilor Erhard MahnkE, a Progressive, and former state representative karEn Moran LafayEttE, a Democrat. Mahnke

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udget cuts have eliminated three department heads at financially challenged Burlington College and sparked protests by students who say they’re worried about the school’s viability and credibility.

Anna Blackmer and Emily Schmidt, chairs of the humanities and fine arts programs, respectively, recently resigned after being offered contracts that would have made them half-time employees and terminated their health benefits. Film department head Gordon Glover was not offered a new contract, although he will be teaching courses as an adjunct instructor next semester. Mary Arbuckle, a professor in the film department, had her hours cut in half and her benefits terminated.

The reduction in film studies constricts what former department chair Barry Snyder describes as the school’s “flagship program” and “the engine of its renewed growth.”

Established in 1995, the film department has served as one of the college’s main attractions for prospective students.

Senior Ned McEleney says the film and media activism programs were what led him to transfer to Burlington College two years ago. “I feel like I’ve been sold a false bill of goods,” McEleney said. He noted that the film department had two and a half full-time faculty members instructing 40 majors prior to the recent cuts.

In response to those losses and to what they say is a lack of transparency on the part of the administration, students decided last week to dissolve the student government and replace it with a “more democratic” structure. They have also presented college president Christine Plunkett with a statement of values and a list of grievances. Students had planned to stage a protest last week during the college’s recruitment event for visiting high schoolers, but Plunkett dissuaded them from taking that action, McEleney said.

Plunkett said she’s met twice with concerned students for a total of five hours to explain the school’s recent actions and long-term plans. Those plans include tripling enrollment from 250 at present to 750 a decade from now.

In an interview with Seven Days, the president characterized the changes as a “restructuring” designed to ease a budget squeeze and increase teaching loads.

Remaining full-time faculty members are now being required to teach four courses a semester; a few years

ago, full-timers did not have to teach more than two courses, Plunkett said.

Department chairs will also be required to take part in student-recruitment efforts by visiting high schools — an expectation, Plunkett acknowledged, that makes faculty members “uncomfortable.”

The cuts will save the school about $210,000 a year, she noted.

Federal tax returns indicate that Burlington College recorded a $553,000 deficit in fiscal year 2011-2012, which is the most recent period for which the information is available. In the same year, revenues, which

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are derived almost entirely from student tuition, totaled about $4.5 million.“We’ve been running on an extremely tight budget for quite some time,” Plunkett said.

Not so tight, however, that it prevented the college from launching a new school of music. Board of Trustees Chairman Adam Dantzscher says this addition amid several faculty subtractions is “not contradictory.” The plan to offer a variety of music courses gives the college “new opportunities” for growth, adds Dantzscher, who heads up a local credit counseling firm.

Plunkett said that the college’s decision to winnow its staff of 35 full-time employees has nothing to do with the $10 million debt the school took on two years ago to finance the purchase of 32 acres along Lake Champlain north of downtown. The college has not missed any payments due on the mortgage held by People’s United

Bank, Plunkett said. “I don’t feel we’re at risk of missing any,” she added.

“We’ve been working closely with the bank, and they’ve been very helpful,” Plunkett continued, noting that the college has hired a consultant to focus on financial issues.

How is the college going to cover the cost of the property it bought from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, which includes a 85,000-square-foot building that requires substantial renovation?

In part by selling a portion of the property to realestate developers. Private builder Eric Farrell, along with two nonprofit housing groups, recently announced plans to develop half of the college’s campus. The proposal involves construction of student dorms, 75 units of elder housing, 40 units of subsidized rental apartments for families, 120 market-rate rental units and 30 upscale single-family homes.

The move to shoulder a heavy debt burden was controversial at the college, which has virtually no endowment. Film instructor Snyder says the purchase of the diocese headquarters was a key factor in his resignation as department chair in 2010 after 10 years in that post. “I was unhappy with the direction of Burlington College” under Jane Sanders, who served as its president from 2004 to 2011, Snyder says.

Burlington College alumna Jen Berger finds it hard to believe that her alma mater’s $10 million debt burden played no role in the recent faculty reductions. The school is “making some really big mistakes by cutting back or letting go people who have been instrumental to its education style,” she adds. Berger particularly mourns the loss of Blackmer, the humanities professor who had been her adviser.

“If it weren’t for Anna, I’d have probably taken a very different path in life” since graduating from Burlington College in 2006, says Berger, who works as an artist, educator and community organizer.

Despite chronic instability marked by frequent personnel upheavals, 41-year-old Burlington College has plenty of fans. Its free-spirited education style and emphasis on student-designed curricula tends to attract transfers dissatisfied with the traditional approach of their former schools.

The education provided by Burlington College “far exceeded my expectations,” junior Molly Skerry, a psychology and end-of-life-care double major, said in an interview last month. “I can’t put a price on

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She added that the three top officers at the school are together now carrying out responsibilities that used to be assigned to nine staff positions. Plunkett noted that she has been acting as the collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief financial officer, as well as its president, for the past four months.

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Skerry is one of three students featured in â&#x20AC;&#x153;repurposedâ&#x20AC;? Burlington College ads that are being used as protest posters. The students doctored the originals, for which they had posed, to become expressions of opposition to the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personnel moves.

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or more than 30 years, Toby Talbot says, he’s had “a frontrow seat to history.”

As the Associated Press’ sole staff photographer in Vermont, the 63-year-old Calais resident has captured floods and fires, soldiers and politicians — and plenty of cows grazing in the fields.

“I’ve just seen incredible joy and incredible sadness and made what I think are great pictures out of them,” he says.

On Friday, Talbot is retiring from the AP. He’ll still take photographs, he says, and contribute occasionally to the wire service. But he plans to spend more time pursuing his other passion: serving as deputy chief of the East Montpelier Fire Department.

“I don’t know how many times we use the phrase, ‘It’s the end of an era,’ but this truly is,” says Chris Graff, who served as the AP’s Montpelier bureau chief — and Talbot’s boss — from 1980 until 2006. “The position Toby has didn’t exist before Toby had it, and it won’t exist after he retires.”

A contractor and amateur photographer at the time, Talbot got his first pair of assignments from Graff in December 1980, when, in a single weekend, fires destroyed the Trapp Family Lodge and a city block in downtown Montpelier.

Three years later, Graff hired Talbot as a part-time stringer. In 1987, he brought the photographer on full time.

In the early days of his career, it took Talbot eight minutes to send a black and white photograph to New York City using a drum print transmitter. When the AP switched to color, the process took 24 minutes and three separate transmissions.

These days, any yahoo with an iPhone can submit images to the local newspaper.

“There is some value to the feet on the ground of the person being there to see it,” Talbot says of reader-submitted photos. “But I think what a good photojournalist does is have creativity and artistry and storytelling all in one little image, which doesn’t happen with reader photos for the most part.”

Wilson Ring, who now runs the Montpelier bureau, says that Talbot

knows how to capture the essence of a story. And it doesn’t hurt that he’s been driving his pickup truck around the state for decades.

“He knows all the nooks and crannies and how to get there,” Ring says. “And whenever he meets people to take a picture of them, he instantly puts them at ease.”

Through the years, Talbot’s work has appeared on the front pages of the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post and USA Today.

He’s covered New Hampshire’s presidential primaries, George H.W. Bush’s summer White House in Kennebunkport, Me., and World Cup skiing.

He says his biggest coup came after the 2001 death of Dale Ernhardt, when Time magazine ran a photo he’d taken of the NASCAR driver at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway — on a two-page spread.

But after more than 30 years on the job, Talbot says the thrill has faded.

“I’ve covered everything in Vermont multiple times. It’s like déjà vu all over again,” he says. “The daily grind of photojournalism is now a little less rewarding because newspapers don’t have any holes left for pictures. The papers are so small, and they don’t display pictures the way they used to.”

It’s unclear whether the AP will replace Talbot. Since 2007, the Montpelier bureau has downsized through attrition from six positions to four — and tasked some of its remaining reporters with covering other parts of northern New England.

“It is possible there will not be another full-time photographer up there,” says AP spokesman Paul Colford. “But it is also our intention, as it’s always our intention, to keep the territory covered and to serve the members we have up there.”

Graff’s take on that?

“It’s one thing to say, ‘Our reporters are going to carry cameras,’ but it’s never the same. Toby has an eye. He’s trained,” Graff says. “Vermont has been very lucky to have Toby here.” m

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hen the St. Albans Walmart opened its doors in mid-October, the nation’s longestrunning battle against the big box chain finally drew to a close.

On and off for two decades, city officials, local citizens and anti-sprawl activists fought the store, while others in Franklin County clamored for Walmart’s cheap goods and one-stop-shopping convenience. The opponents won once, in the 1990s, and Walmart went away for a while.

But in 2003 developer Jeff Davis revived plans for the store. Ten years later, shopIncludes Helly Hansen , Marker, Columbia, pers queued up in anticipation of the grand Oakley and Mountain Hardwear opening on October 16.

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“It” is the largest Walmart in the state, located in a former cornfield two miles north of the main downtown stretch and with easy access to Interstate 89. Walmart is situated in the town of St. Albans, which surrounds the city, a separate municipality.

Now the question is, what does — not “would” — Walmart mean for St. Albans?

Six weeks in, and with the holiday shopping season looming, is the community any different?

On a recent, dreary Friday afternoon, a long line of cars, turn signals blinking, pulled into the smooth blacktop parking Save up to lot. The expansive lot was about half full.

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Is there room for everyone in St. Albans’ retail market? “Totally,” said Hanson.

“We’re glad to be here,” he said. “‘Save money, live better.’ That’s the company motto, and that’s what we’re doing here.”

That motto lured customers away from the nearby Price Chopper — at least initially. Assistant grocery manager Heath Duchaine said sales were slow in the first few weeks after Walmart’s opening — down roughly 15 percent. He was nonetheless upbeat about the situation, calling Walmart “great competition,” and said shoppers

were already coming back to his store, located a half mile south of Walmart on Route 7, for its friendly service.

Managers at other chain stores in town — including the Hannaford grocery store, JCPenney and Rite Aid — declined to comment on the Walmart effect; any comments, they said, would have to come from their corporate offices.

But smaller businesses are paying attention. At Amy’s Gift Shop, located in the strip mall next to Rite Aid, owner Larry Cummings said he isn’t in direct competition with Walmart — but that doesn’t mean he isn’t worried. The gift shop peddles Yankee candles and Sabra Field calendars, among other items.

“When a department store like Walmart opens two miles away, the focus is two miles away from downtown,” said Cummings. He estimated that sales are down 20 percent from where they were last year at this time.

He said he’ll get by — but with less help.

The store employs five people, including Cummings and his wife. He wanted to add another part-time employee but won’t be doing so now. “We’ll work more hours,” said Cummings.

Inside As the Crow Flies, a kitchen supply store on Main Street, owner Jessica Gaudette was busy gearing up for Thanksgiving. Walmart didn’t scare her off; she purchased As the Crow Flies in May. Traffic has been slow during the week, Gaudette said, but she is still seeing plenty of her regular customers. Her plan is to differentiate herself, and her wares, from Walmart’s selection. That means carrying American- and European-made kitchenware — Lodge cast iron, wooden pepper mills, brightly colored Le

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Under the deal, Davis — who also brought Walmarts to St. Albans and Williston — agreed not to develop any more stores in Vermont until at least 2020. Davis also pledged to contribute $200,000, through the Preservation Trust, to support Orleans County communities, in addition to the already-promised $600,000 in “mitigation” funds to Newport over the next six years. Seven Days tried to reach Davis through his assistant, but did not hear back from the developer before press time.

“It was pretty clear that we would have an uphill battle,” VNRC executive director Brian Shupe said of Walmart opponents in Derby. He says the group didn’t want to get involved for the purpose of delay, and decided on a compromise that would hold off “battles elsewhere in the state.”

All the same, he said, “It’s frustrating that we see the value in relocalizing our food systems and our agricultural economy, we see the value in relocalizing our energy generation and energy use, but we are still delocalizing our economy and our commerce.”

The compromise is about “buying some breathing room” for Vermont’s downtowns, said Paul Bruhn, who directs the Preservation Trust of Vermont.

“We could have gone another direction and fought it and slowed it down for two or three or four years in the permitting process, but we decided that didn’t make a lot of sense,” said Bruhn.

Derby lacked what Shupe said St. Albans, Williston and Bennington had in their fights against Walmart: well-organized citizen groups committed to opposing the development.

Shupe said he understands the desire for access to low-priced goods.

His wish? That Vermonters would “stick to our guns and do it on a Vermont scale,” which means placing any future Walmarts in downtowns rather than on the outskirts of towns.

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“Will it be retail that serves the community first and foremost? Or will it be more high-end retail that’s focused on tourism?” he said. “We’ll have to see.”

Prent contends that Walmart’s effect extends beyond current businesses. Because the threat — or promise — of the proposed discount store loomed large for so many years, she believes that other businesses were scared off by the big-box retailer.

“Nobody was going to come in and set up business with Walmart breathing down their neck,” she said. “It really has a profound chilling effect on new small business development.”

Prent isn’t convinced that Walmart will play nice with downtown retailers, either. On the day Walmart opened, she said, the store sent a truck driving up and down Main Street with a large sign urging consumers to move their prescriptions to Walmart. That truck, she said, drove back and forth in front of the downtown Rite Aid. “That was incredible audacity,” she said. The Walmart manager in St. Albans did not respond to numerous calls to verify the marketing tactic.

Prent and others said it would take more than one holiday shopping season to learn the verdict of Walmart’s impact on St. Albans’s downtown. That doesn’t mean Prent won’t be watching, in coming weeks, to see how this year’s shopping plays out.

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Her goal is to offer a shopping experience that is as much about pleasure as it is about ticking items off a to-do list. That includes sponsoring in-store wine tastings.

On Friday, Gaudette paused to give a customer advice on wine pairings for Turkey Day, then went back to applying stickers to a large stack of stainless steel pie pans that, she hopes, will be in high demand this week.

“You go to Walmart because you need stuff,” said Gaudette. “You go shopping because it’s fun.”

But Prent is worried that small shops and galleries alone won’t make downtown St. Albans healthy and vibrant — a concern echoed by Paul Bruhn, the executive director of the Preservation Trust of Vermont.

Prent and her husband moved to St. Albans from downtown Montréal 30 years ago.

They didn’t own a car at the time and were looking for a place with a “small downtown feeling.” St. Albans had “everything you could need” in walking distance from the grand old house the couple purchased a stone’s throw from the park.

In recent years, that downtown Prent so cherished has landed a $2 million grant to improve sidewalks, lighting and landscaping as part of a years-long revitalization effort. But the supermarket, pharmacy and stationery stores are gone, and what’s moved in — galleries and gift shops — don’t stock the stuff of everyday life.

“It looks really pretty now,” said Prent, who supports those downtown revitalization efforts. “But I don’t think we can be deluded by the fact that all the storefronts are filled.”

Bruhn said St. Albans is making smart moves to position itself for the future. But

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of the mental health community who might be able to offer alternative ways of dealing with people.

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Mark Davis is to be commended for his balanced analysis of the facts — as they are thus far known — in the recent police-involved fatal shooting in Burlington [“In Wake of Fatal Burlington Police Shooting, Some Question Use of Deadly Force,” November 13]. The day after the tragic event, one watering hole in the New North End was full of “experts” who all knew what the officers should have done, or what they would have done if faced with a similar situacourtesy of burlington police departMent

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I do not think we take care of our mentally ill as they should be cared for [“In Wake of Fatal Burlington Police Shooting, Some Question Use of Deadly Force,” November 13]. That is the problem police officers have to deal with. They cannot let a person who is bent on harm go so they can harm officers and others, no matter the mental illness. The first thing officers have to do in seconds is provide safety to citizens. It is very, very sad that people are mentally ill and at times not in control of themselves. I was not there, so I cannot judge the officer. He did his job. I am sure the last thing he wanted to do was fire his weapon. So sad for everyone.

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I wonder if anyone will be held accountable for the tragic death of Wayne Brunette [“In Wake of Fatal Burlington Police Shooting, Some Question Use of Deadly Force,” November 13]. I find it interesting that Burlington Police Chief Michael Schirling has asked the public to be patient while the facts emerge, yet just after the shooting he was on television explaining how shots to the chest are justified. One cannot help but wonder why a man coming at an officer with a shovel cannot be restrained somehow, or, at the very least, why a shot cannot be fired at a leg or knee. As Chief Schirling asked, I will withhold judgment, but perhaps it is time for this part of police training to be changed. I would suggest that the police also meet with representatives 2v-mainstlanding112713.indd 1

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tion (“The cops should have Tased him...” “They should have shot him in the arm...” “I would have tackled him...” etc., etc.) All this Mondaymorning quarterbacking ignores the simple fact that only the two officers involved know what their perception was of the threat posed by the nowdeceased man.

Several years ago I was a civilian employee at the Burlington Police Department and was acquainted with Officers Thibault and Navari. They are both highly experienced and mature officers, the last from whom I would have expected hot-headed behavior.

Before people rush to judgment, we ought to let the investigation play out. Let’s not contribute to what is already a tragedy for the family of the dead man, the officers involved, the Burlington Police Department and the Burlington community as a whole.

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STATEof THEarts QUICK LIT: OUT, PROUD AND … ALONE The Scar Letters is a different kind of coming-out story. Its narrator, 40-yearold Rudy Dallmann, has no problem attending kiss-ins with his activist best friend, Tex, or telling strangers he’s gay. What he does have a problem with is actually having sex. Achieving emotional intimacy? Even tougher.

Eighteen years ago, Rudy survived a vicious attack that left him with homophobic slurs carved on his body.

The cop on the scene blamed him instead of the teenage perpetrators.

Now, prompted by the firebrand Tex, Rudy wants to find his attackers. In the process, he hopes he’ll come to understand why his long-delayed attempts at love never seem to lead to anything real.

Rudy doesn’t hold the trauma solely responsible for his celibacy; instead, unlikely as it may seem, he identifies with the boys who maimed him. Like them (or so he imagines), he struggled to express his sexuality as an adolescent. “There is likely no shortcut in this part of life,” he speculates, “each one of us gay or straight flailing in the crucibles of our young years, given our society making of sex something so contemptuous instead of sane.”

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has crafted an ambitious novel that is at once a gay Bildungsroman, a midlifecrisis tale and an effort to strike at the root of the attitudes that contribute to violence against gays.

In September, Alther encapsulated his take on those attitudes on the Huffington Post. The problem, he argued, lies in defining people solely in terms of sexual acts: “[U]nless we acknowledge that same-sex couples and single gays are just as loving, complicated, libidinous, sometimes sexual, sometimes not — in other words, just as human and normal — as everyone else, a large swath of our population will remain disgusted with the whole business.”

While it shouldn’t, of course, be necessary to point out that gay people are “human and normal,” what Alther seems to mean by those words is actually “ridiculously diverse.” The Scar Letters demonstrates that being “human and normal” — and gay — encompasses Rudy’s celibacy, Tex’s promiscuity and a million possibilities in between.

Rudy points out that for every gay man pursuing sexual encounters with stereotypical horn-dog abandon, “there are ten straight men doing the

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It’s not always easy shopping for books, especially when they’re gifts. But what if you could ask RUSTY DEWEES to point you toward something funny? What if you could get tips on the best new fiction from HOWARD FRANK MOSHER, or from acclaimed short-story writer MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN? This Saturday at a local independent bookstore, it could happen. Indies First, a national movement spearheaded by author Sherman Alexie, brings writers to retail stores on Small Business Saturday as volunteers, proffering their shopping recs and often, of course, signing copies of their own books. The idea is for authors to return some of the support that embattled indie stores have traditionally given them.

This year, five Vermont stores are listed as participating on indiebound. org. You can see Mosher and DeWees at PHOENIX BOOKS BURLINGTON, along with best-selling thriller author JAMES TABOR, kids’-book writer and illustrator TRACEY CAMPBELL PEARSON, poets DANIEL LUSK and ANGELA PATTEN, and more. The store is making a full weekend of the event, so

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TAYLOR. At Woodstock’s the YANKEE BOOKSHOP, you can meet YA author Jo Knowles.

Montpelier’s BEAR POND BOOKS has a strong roster of authors playing bookseller, too, including M.T. Anderson, the acclaimed author of Feed and other challenging YA books.

(A Cambridge, Mass., resident, he’s on the board of the VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS.) Look also for VCFA president

(and novelist) THOMAS CHRISTOPHER GREENE, HOWARD NORMAN, best-selling suspense writer JENNIFER MCMAHON (who has a new novel coming in February) and more.

Get your book-buying conundrums ready.

Want to tell a story? Or perhaps just sit and hear one? Another public storytelling event inspired by public radio’s “The Moth” has fluttered into Vermont — this one at Burlington’s ARTSRIOT GALLERY, where it bears the more North Country-appropriate name TALES FROM THE BEAR CAVE. Participants will tell their tales “orally, open mic style, without notes, and without props. Just you and your true story,” write the folks at RENEGADE WRITERS’ COLLECTIVE, who will run the event. The best yarn spinner (as determined by the audience) gets a prize.

Burlington’s RWC has made its mark this fall with author events, workshops and monthly write-ins at its Maple Street HQ, which happen on first Fridays from 6 to 10 p.m. (“You can

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exact same thing … The governor of New York! And it lands him a television show!” In a chapter where Rudy visits an “ex-gay” group (some of whose members are not so ex-), Alther depicts enough individual variations on sexuality to warm the heart of Alfred Kinsey or Michel Foucault.

“Even openly gay, I can’t be branded,” Rudy finds himself discovering. “I swear no two gay relationships are alike.” Yet all those relationships, both sexual and emotional, have a common denominator: the search for human connection. And sometimes, Rudy learns, such connections emerge in unlikely places.

The novel’s style is as daring as its content. Alther uses first-person and present tense to convey Rudy’s experiences with a sensuous immediacy that sometimes borders on Joycean stream of consciousness.

The results can be gripping, as in the opening narration of the attack. And Alther’s painterly skill with words eases us through long introspective and descriptive passages, such as an image of a beach with “dunes that beckon like magnificent dumplings, shimmering and indulgent.”

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Cristina García (Dreaming in Cuban), Paul Lisicky, poet Dale Cottingham and others. On the journal’s website, you can read editor Julie Parent’s interview with playwright Susan Kim about running writing workshops for the Wounded Warrior Project, which supports veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Speaking of literary journals, here’s another one for your submission list: Earlier this month, Goddard College launched Clockhouse in partnership with the CloCKhouSe WriterS’ ConferenCe, a retreat for students in the college’s MFA in creative writing program. The annual journal features “short stories, interviews, essays, plays and poems by both awardwinning writers and exciting, new literary voices,” according to the college’s press release.

The inaugural issue, available for $12 at clockhouse.net, offers work by

As the novel goes on, however, its pace tends to stagnate, with insufficient outward action and plot progression to balance the inward tendency. Many chapters focus on Rudy’s rehashing of his childhood in therapy, always a dangerously static subject for a novelist. In addition, Alther too rarely adjusts his diction and syntax when he shifts from Rudy’s narration to the dialogue, a habit that makes us feel trapped in Rudy’s head and renders some key conversations stilted.

Overall, The Scar Letters would have benefited from more rigorous editorial streamlining (along with more vigilant copyediting) to showcase its language and insights. I only mention these failures because Alther’s prodigious talent and originality shine through even his novel’s most awkward passages. The book feels like a work in progress, but one with seeds of greatness. It suggests that, for all of us, “coming out” as a human being is harder than it looks.

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n upcoming exhibit that honors retiring art professor Laurie Peters applauds her 45 years at the University of Vermont. Actually, Peters insists it was “only” 41 years, though “before that I taught in elementary and high schools around the Burlington area,” she says.

Either way, four decades and change is a long time to be influencing students.

And that she did. In fact, it could be argued that the results of Peters’ tutelage are more tangible than those many other teachers could claim. Consider the successful jewelers and sculptors in the area whose names you probably know: Timothy Grannis, Jane Koplewitz, Jacob Albee, Kate Pond, Chris Curtis, just to name a few. At least a couple — Donald Friedlich and Etienne Perret — have gone on to international careers. All were Peters’ students.

Peters’ courses in fine metals and “jewelry perspectives” at UVM gave each of these artists a solid foundation in the skills, tools and design possibilities of their craft. In a show that opens next Thursday, December 5, at Von Bargen’s in downtown Burlington, some 15 jewelry designers will convene to show their work alongside that of Peters herself.

The show, organized by recent UVM

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grad Jon Black and fellow art department prof Lynda Reeves McIntyre, is both an unprecedented gathering for the artists and a rare opportunity for the public to see the progeny, as it were, of a single beloved teacher. “To have that type of outcome for a teacher — it’s amazing,” suggests Black, 24, “and to see where Laurie has influenced each of the jewelers and their pieces.”

Peters, now 68, is a New Jersey native who lives in Warren and says she “prefers rural.” She’s not keen on talking about Jac o b herself, but friends reveal that she has long been as passionate about playing polo, kayaking and traveling as about teaching and making jewelry. Peters readily waxes enthusiastic about the last, however, noting that metalworking is “addictive.” Her strategy in the classroom was simple: “If I can get someone who’s basically interested, I can get them hooked,” she vows.

Making jewelry is seductive, Peters suggests, “because you can put it on and

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take it with you and show it to people.

Our society almost expects people to wear jewelry,” she adds. “It’s almost the only thing people wear that draws the world into you — an interesting piece can start conversations.”

That’s probably just what the jewelry in the Von Bargen’s exhibit will do — including generating discussion among the designers themselves. Their work will illustrate the makers’ grounding in solid technique as well as their individual, unfettered A l b ee visions. Peters can take some credit — though she probably won’t — for both.

To a person, those interviewed for this article acknowledged her for being tough — “She does not allow students to take shortcuts,” says McIntyre — and for nudging them toward their own artistic expression.

“I always admired how Laurie bounced back and forth between technique and design,” says Albee. “She was great at getting students to not be

She was great at getting students to not be afraid of the tools,

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“I think the [art] department feels they just don’t have enough room to do everything they want to do,” Bond says diplomatically. “They’re desperate for space to do more sculpture, drawing, painting and printing — their four big things.”

So a literal and emotional sense of closure comes with the exhibit that opens next week — and with an event honoring Peters at the university earlier the same day. For her part, the teacher and designer quips, “It’s time to slack off a little and do my own work. And stop the driving at night.”

Still, Peters can’t help but look back fondly at years well spent with countless students. “I’m proud of the program, building it up from very few classes and improving the studio, getting the tools that allow students to try new things, and bringing new techniques into Vermont,” she summarizes. “And setting the students up in an environment where they could experiment and not worry about failure.” m

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Advanced Fine Metals,” she says, “Laurie lets you sign up again and again, and often she’ll pick a theme for the course.”

Echoing students before her, Bond observes, “Laurie is very feisty and pushes hard, and never, ever coddles.

But in pushing you, she tries to figure out where you are in your skill level and nudges you along.”

In the end, says Bond — who will have work in the upcoming exhibit — “you look back and realize how much you’ve learned.”

It’s a shame, then, that no more students at UVM will have the opportunity to share in this passion for artistic expression — or a career — in fine metals.

With Peters’ retirement, the department is discontinuing the program, and that has put some of her former students in a state of mourning.

“I’m really pissed about it,” says Albee.

“It’s a huge loss.”

“I’m really disappointed,” Grannis concurs. “When I got out of the program, I was faced with ‘How am I gonna make a living here?’ I chose to go into jewelry because it seemed like I was going to starve if I went into painting or sculpture. I opened up a studio, and I made a living. I haven’t worked for a paycheck since.”

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minimalist in style — is “exquisitely designed and masterfully built,” says McIntyre. “She’s a technical genius.”

Yet, despite Peters’ own strong aesthetic, she didn’t “push it on anybody,” Albee says. “I see lots of people now who say, ‘I studied with so and so,’ and you can see that influence. That’s not a bad thing, but Laurie could help students find their own aesthetic.

“I don’t think her aesthetic influenced me, but her attitude absolutely did,” Albee adds. He summarizes that attitude as: “You can’t be afraid of it. Just sit down and do it. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work — but if you try, it probably will.”

That advice worked for Albee, 37, whose striking designs and eye for unorthodox materials — including meteorite — have led to a successful career.

But other Peters students “are not doing it commercially,” she says. They just love making jewelry. One of them is Lynne Bond.

A professor in the psychology department at UVM and former member of the art faculty as well, Bond declares herself an amateur but has been taking the “extremely popular” evening courses with Peters “semester after semester” — for eight years. “After you’ve taken Introduction to Fine Metals and

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afraid of the tools, to get them to express themselves.”

For Koplewitz, Peters’ fearlessness proved an important model, even though she had learned welding in high school.

“It was so encouraging to see a woman tackling this big equipment that could be dangerous if used in the wrong way — she taught us how to do things correctly and safely without fear.”

Peters emboldened her students in other ways, as well. Koplewitz notes that being required to draw in her fine-metals class was instructive. “Laurie really had us stretch in terms of how we saw,” she says. “You had to learn how to see, how to draw, how to express yourself before you even got to the bench work.”

Grannis, who graduated from UVM in 1976, remembers that Peters had students tackle big metal sculpture first as a way of working out visual and technical problems. “When your thinking is expanded, you’re opened up and [you] apply your opened mind to making tiny sculpture — jewelry,” he says, noting that jewelry design is more constrained.

“It has to fit a body, be comfortable and wearable,” Grannis says. This kind of mind-expanding strategy was a hallmark of Peters’ teaching, he adds.

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Dear Cecil,

In detective fiction, a common plot device is the broken clock or watch that tells the time of the murder. Does this ever happen? Has a broken clock or watch ever been admitted as evidence in a murder trial to show the time of the crime?

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• In 1867 Joseph Humphrey was found dead near Yuba City, Calif., having been attacked by an unknown assailant with a hammer.

The time of death was fixed by a silver watch with a broken crystal in the victim’s pocket, showing about 11 p.m.

• In 1919 taxi driver Dosylva Cote was waylaid and

• In 1857, Charles Littles of Rochester, N.Y., was murdered by his brotherin-law, Ira Stout, for allegedly mistreating his wife, Stout’s sister Sarah.

(The fact that Littles had discovered that his wife and BIL were having an incestuous affair may have been a contributing factor.) Sarah and Ira

In other instances, a stopped watch figured in a murder trial:

lured Charles to a nearby riverbank one night, where Ira bludgeoned him with an iron mallet and shoved his body into the water.

When Ira was tried for the murder, a piece of evidence against him was Charles’s broken watch — stopped at 8:40 p.m., the time of the killing.

• In 1954 not one but two damaged watches were involved in one of the most famous murder cases of the 20th century: that of Dr. Sam Sheppard, accused of beating his wife, Marilyn, to death. Watch one, which belonged to Marilyn, was initially reported to have stopped at 3:12, presumably indicating the time of death; later, though, one investigating officer said it had read 11:30, and a police evidence photo showed it

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bloodied, was stopped at 8:16. What’s more, Merrill didn’t call the police until 9:03, 47 minutes after the watch had stopped. He was convicted and sentenced to prison.

Despite advancing technology, dramatists still resort to the stopped-watch gambit. In a recent episode of the TV series “Criminal Minds,” for example, a serial killer places a watch stopped at 6:22 on victims’ wrists. This seems a bit musty.

Surely in an era of ubiquitous metadata and mobile devices with accelerometers, a modern Poirot might determine not just the time and place of a victim’s death, but the force of the fatal blow.

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• In 1941 Merrill Joss was tried in Maine for the bludgeoning death of his wife, Luverne. Witnesses testified that Merrill said he’d left the house at 8 p.m. and returned at most 12 minutes later to find Luverne dead. But her watch, broken and

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beaten to death while en route between Worcester and Clinton, Mass.

Although his automobile was taken, his money and watch were not. The watch had stopped at 3:30 a.m. and restarted when shaken, thus likely indicating the time of death.

• In 1935 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Coleman of Spotsylvania, Va., were murdered and thrown into a well. One clue left behind by the killers was an antique eight-day pendulum clock stopped at 8:20, apparently when the cabinet door was opened to search for money.

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his is one of those tropes future consumers of vintage whodunits are going to find unintelligible. It’s not like we don’t use timekeeping devices anymore; on the contrary, I’m still waiting for clothing manufacturers to resize that little pouch in a pair of pants to fit the pocket watch known as an iPhone. However, the day will surely come when someone reading Agatha Christie’s 1963 novel The Clocks (the murder victim is found surrounded by clocks stopped at 4:13) is going to say: A clock with stopped hands? What the hell is that?

Be that as it may, we found many real-life murder cases where a stopped timepiece had been used to determine the time of death:

reading 8:05. Watch two, belonging to Sam, was covered with blood and found in a green bag on a bluff overlooking Lake Erie, near the Sheppard home.

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where we did it — right on the living room couch. It hurt like hell with the sunburn.”

“Still, Amy made a man out of you,” I said. “Good way to start the ’80s, I’d say.”

“What about you, Tina?” Ralphie asked. “When was your first time?”

“Well, I actually was born close to 1980, thank you very much. And my first time was with Tom, my first college boyfriend. Nirvana was on the radio, I remember, and it was actually pretty good.” She paused to chuckle. “Tom was convinced that I was having my period because he couldn’t, or wouldn’t, believe that he had popped my cherry.”

I smiled, remembering my first time. I thought I had found God. It took me years to realize that, wonderful as sex can be, God it’s not.

My next customer was a suited-up, middle-aged man who flagged me down at the Sweetwaters intersection, Church and College. “Could ya take me to the Hilton?” he asked, slurring the words.

“Absolutely,” I replied, happy for the fare, a short zip down to the waterfront. When it’s a busy night, these quick fares are ideal — more revenue per mile and per minute.

“Izzis some kinda parents’ weekend for the college?” the man asked from the backseat. “There’re so many people downtown.”

“I don’t think so,” I replied. “It’s just a typical Saturday night in the Queen City.”

“Yeah, that makes sense, because, because you wouldn’t think they’d schedule a parents’ weekend, like, so close to Thanksgiving.”

I didn’t like this guy’s vibe, and that’s what counts, isn’t it? People can say anything; it’s all about the feeling behind the words. I was glad I was only going to be spending four minutes with him.

I pulled up to the front of the Hilton, shifted the vehicle into park and said, “That’ll be $7.50.”

“Why zat?” he said.

“That’s the minimum fare in Burlington — $7.50.”

“Oh, I get the deal — it’s just, like, whatever you want.”

“No, it’s not ‘whatever I want.’” I pointed to the signage attached to the passenger-seat visor, the official document issued by the city when you register a taxi. “You see what that says?” I asked, pointing to the pertinent information,

My voice was utterly pleasant and cheerful; that’s exactly how passive-aggressive i can be.

which was printed in at least a 50-point font. “Minimum fare $7.50.”

“All right,” he said, huffing and puffing and grumbling as he extracted his wallet and passed me a twenty. I lifted my wad from my shirt pocket, folded the twenty onto it, and turned in my seat to pass him back $12 change. He took it and looked at me. I stared right back at him. This went on for a good minute, a Mexican standoff. Finally, he said, “Don’t you owe me 50 cents?”

I’m aware that tipping is voluntary, but never has a customer asked for the 50 cents change on this minimum fare. Certainly not a businessman staying at the Hilton on Battery Street. In fact, nearly all the time they pass me another buck or two as an additional gratuity.

I didn’t even have coins on my person, so I stripped off a single and gave it to him, saying, “Just keep it.” As he jammed it into his wallet and prepared to leave, I added, “You know what? You are a delightful guy.” My voice was utterly pleasant and cheerful; that’s exactly how passiveaggressive I can be. It’s a genuine problem for me.

“Well, you are absolutely not a delightful guy!” he blared back.

My eyes fixed on his, I said calmly, “Oh, I know that. But you are totally a delightful fellow. I mean it.”

With that, he stormed out, slamming the door behind him.

And the thing is, he was right: I am definitely not a delightful guy. I was being what’s technically known as an “asshole,” and I knew it. In my defense, I would say that I’m trying to improve, to become a better person. But it’s a long haul. m

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he couple entering my taxi was in high spirits; a Saturday night in B-town has that effect on people. The guy was toting a bulging sausage sandwich, glistening and greasy. The thing smelled like death warmed over and stuffed into, well, a sausage. Beyond the aesthetic and olfactory objections, the real problem I had with this particular food-cart offering was its lack of structural integrity. Experience with others of its kind had taught me that no less than 10 percent of its substance would wind up on the seat and floor by the time the ingester exited the taxi.

Barring customers from eating in the vehicle sounds like an easy solution but is actually a nonstarter for a latenight cabbie like me. Folks love to chow down on the ride home, particularly when they’ve been imbibing all night; a no-eating rule would simply cost me too many fares.

As they settled into the backseat, I pulled a couple of napkins from the glove compartment and offered it to the man. “Hey, that’s so nice of you,” he said.

“Believe me, it’s not altruism,” I muttered — a far too obtuse, not to mention passive-aggressive, response when “you’re welcome” would have sufficed.

“Could you take us to 410 Farrell?” the girl asked. “It’s behind Shaw’s.”

“Sure enough,” I replied, glad for the short haul, given the sausage issues.

“Ah! Leah!” a classic ’80s tune, came on the radio, and the guy started singing along. “You would know this tune, Ralphie,” the girl said, laughing. “You’re such an ’80s guy.”

“What are you saying?” Ralphie responded with a chuckle. “I was born in 1980.”

I glanced up at the rear-view mirror to see a man who had to be in his mid-forties. “Sorry, I don’t think so,” I said.

“Maybe you lost your virginity in 1980. That would be possible.”

“Actually, that’s about right,” the guy said. “Did I ever tell you that story, honey? Me and this girl I saw in high school. She was a senior and I was a junior. We spent the day on the beach. She was this great Jewish girl.”

“You mean Amy?” the girl asked.

“Yeah, Amy. I had gotten crazy sunburned. I could barely move and was woozy and everything. We returned to her house and her parents were away. Yes! And that’s

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I’m usually kind of a slut when it comes to body-care products.

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Now I want to explore more of the company’s offerings in the form of the Winter Care gift box, filled with healing herbal potions to get me through the cold months. $29.95. healingearthvt.com ALICE LEVITT

Does CITIZEN CIDER do subscriptions? A Growler of the Month (or, hell, Week) Club?

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Choosing gifts can be hard, but not to worry: The Seven Days editorial staff is here to help. This year we decided

I approach winter like a bear, meaning that I do my best to sleep through it. So for me, winter’s lone saving grace is that it’s an excuse to hunker down with a good book and a hot drink while enveloped in a warm, fuzzy cocoon. Hook me up with a new set of flannel PJs, a flannel bathrobe and a flannel stadium blanket from the VERMONT FLANNEL COMPANY, and I’ve got everything I need to wait out the deep freeze. Throw in a dog blanket for the pooch, a wine bag and maybe “bun warmers” for my special lady — those are flannel panties, by the way — and you won’t see me until April. vermontflannel.com DAN BOLLES

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simply to share our own wish lists — with a different theme for each of the remaining issues of 2013. This week, it’s “Body,” by which we mean anything that can go on it or in it. So let’s get started…

Burlington’s own Minor League Baseball team will take the field in new threads next season after freshening up its iconic Champ logo. Be the first on your block to sport the new LAKE MONSTERS HAT — the same one the players will wear on the diamond — and start counting down to opening day, grilled hot dogs and warmer temperatures. $25.99. Vermont Lake Monsters team store or vermontlake monsters.com.

TYLER MACHADO MAPLE SUGAR SCRUB! At this time of year, my skin starts to take on its characteristic winter hue: ash. If no one else takes the hint, I might gift myself with an invigorating (and indulgent) scrub using Vermont maple sugar. Where can one find such a luxurious treatment? In Stowe, of course.

Maple sugar body scrub at Topnotch Resort & Spa, 25 minutes, $70-80. topnotchresort.com. Vermont maple sugar body polish at Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa, 80 minutes, $190. stoweflake.com

British sailors in the East Indies drank tonic water to prevent malaria. To make the antidote not taste absolutely disgusting, they added gin. Tropical disease may not be a concern for my parents, but making good gin-and-tonics during the holiday season is. That’s why I’m getting them a bottle of organic gin from Stowe-based GREEN MOUNTAIN DISTILLERS. $27.99. greendistillers.com

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I’m soon moving from the Upper Valley, so here’s a perfect gift for this homie who’s leaving the ’hood: a HOODIE WITH “UPPER VALLEY” emblazoned across the chest, from Revolution in White River Junction. It’s warm, comes in limitededition colors and entitles me to post a selfie from my current locale to the store’s Facebook page. $49. shoptherev.com

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inda Samter seems like an unlikely target for burglars. The 47-yearold architectural designer works from an office in her Charlotte home, where she spends much of her day.

She routinely locks her doors and windows whenever she’s away.

But recently, Samter let her guard down and paid a hefty price. While she and her husband were gone for a long weekend, they left their house open for a contractor, who had some work to finish inside.

On Tuesday morning, November 12, Samter went to put on a gold watch that her father, a Swiss watchmaker, had given her years before. The box was still there, but the watch was gone. To her horror, Samter discovered that several other pieces of fine jewelry were also missing, including her wedding band, her grandmother’s ring and a bracelet with multiple rubies, the last of which was a high school graduation gift.

“They were my best jewelry, and they were all sentimental,” Samter laments. The thief or thieves “knew exactly what they were looking for.”

Within 20 minutes of Samter’s call to the Vermont State Police, Senior Trooper Benjamin Katz was at her home to investigate. Unlike most burglary victims, Samter was able to provide color photos and detailed descriptions of all her missing jewelry, including unique inscriptions, which should have made those items easy to identify and recover.

Over the next few hours, Katz and Samter scoured local jewelry stores and secondhand shops looking for the jewelry

and asking if they had seen a “person of interest:” Scott Michael Fysh, the 35-yearold workman who had been painting Samter’s garage and had access to the house. A criminal background check later revealed that Fysh had an outstanding arrest warrant in Florida for violating his probation on convictions of theft, dealing in stolen property and receiving money from a pawnbroker using false verification.

Among the shops Katz contacted were Martin’s Coins and Jewelry, on Shelburne Road in South Burlington, and Gold Collect, a kiosk in South Burlington’s University Mall, both of which buy precious-metals from the public. Employees at both stores claimed they hadn’t seen Fysh or purchased Samter’s stolen items.

But that wasn’t true, police would later conclude. In his affidavit charging Fysh, Katz alleges that Fysh not only visited those stores, but sold them Samter’s jewelry. How did Katz know? By law, secondhand precious-metal dealers must take digital photos of all the items they buy and make copies of the seller’s ID. While Katz says the dealers eventually provided him with that information, he contends they did not comply with another requirement of state law — that dealers hold such items for 10 days before they can be sold or offered to the public. The intent of that law, for which Katz lobbied two years ago, is to give police time to conduct investigations and, if they’re lucky, return stolen goods to their rightful owners.

Like most burglary victims, Samter wasn’t that fortunate. She learned later

that her finest jewelry pieces, worth a total of around $10,000, had been purchased for a fraction of their true value. They were sold within 48 hours to out-of-state smelters and destroyed.

Neither Vermont metal dealer has been cited for a violation, but Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan says the investigation is ongoing. The owners of both stores say they’ve done nothing wrong and are being singled out because they’re visible, brick-and-mortar businesses. They say they do their best to help police thwart thieves. The real culprits, they contend, are the gray-market precious-metal dealers who set up in county fairs, flea markets and hotel rooms, and are accountable to no one.

Fysh was arrested and charged with grand larceny and selling stolen property,

sh dealers are enabling the drug epidemic to continue, and they’re making a profit off of it.”

These are not “pawnshops,” which are regulated in Vermont and lend money in exchange for valuables that the seller can buy back. Secondhand precious-metal dealers, which are not regulated, maintain storefronts primarily to have a public place to receive goods. In some areas, including Barre and Rutland, fly-by-night dealers have been known to set up shop in hotel rooms for one weekend only, advertising that they’ll pay “top dollar” for gold and silver.

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Katz spends an increasing amount of his time on burglary investigations — and he’s not the only police officer doing so.

Statewide, burglaries increased nearly 18 percent between 2010 and 2011, the last year for which figures are available. And

“Today, they’re doing the burglary at 10 in the morning, selling it by 1 and then, unfortunately ... shipping them out of state before the end of the day, before the homeowner even knows they’ve been robbed.”

Police and prosecutors emphasize that not all secondhand shops and preciousmetal dealers traffic in stolen goods. But they express frustration that some aren’t doing enough to stem the tide. Donovan says that even when investigators have strong suspicions that a business knowingly buys stolen goods, it’s very difficult to prove in court. But he says he’s seen enough of these cases to know what’s going on.

“They’re buying stolen jewelry for pennies on the dollar from drug addicts and selling it to refineries out of state,” Donovan says. “Clearly, these secondhand

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while there’s no hard data to support the claim, police and prosecutors say the majority of property crimes are driven by Vermont’s drug epidemic.

“When you don’t have any money for your next fix and you’re going to get dope sick, you’re not terribly concerned about where your money is coming from,” says Detective Ron Bliss of the South Burlington Police Department. “The easiest route is the first person who’s going to hand you cash — no questions asked.”

Peddling stolen goods to support an addiction isn’t a new phenomenon. What is new, says Katz, is the ease with which these stolen goods, especially jewelry and small electronics like smartphones and tablets, can be flipped for quick cash.

“Before, people might have put these items on eBay or Craigslist,” he says.

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and now faces extradition back to Florida.

He was arraigned on November 15, pleaded not guilty and is being held on $2500 bail.

But the criminal case provides small comfort to Samter, who lost family treasures she can never replace. The trooper is frustrated, too.

“My primary goal as an investigator is to return stolen property,” says Katz. “A lot of these items are family heirlooms, and it’s heartbreaking going to these cases day after day.”

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Tom Billings puts away a set of plastic drawers containing categorized jewelry on hold at Yin’s Collectibles

or regulations,” says Rep. Diane Lanpher (D-Vergennes), who sponsored legislation earlier this year to crack down on the less scrupulous metal dealers. A larger version of her bill passed the House but has yet to come up in the Senate.

In recent months, a joint legislative committee has been looking at ways to combat abuses in the industry. Among the proposals being discussed, says committee chair Rep. Thomas Koch (R-Barre), is licensure of all precious-metal dealers; a requirement that sellers pay by check only, possibly with a 10-day hold; and that customers provide proof of ownership, such as a bill of sale, for all transactions. The committee, which is due to issue its report in January, is also considering stiff penalties on businesses that repeatedly break the law.

But some secondhand dealers say they’re being unfairly blamed for the byproduct of a drug epidemic they didn’t create and cannot control. While several business owners contacted for this story say they support “appropriate” licensing and regulation of the industry, they contend that some rules that have been discussed, including bonding of all dealers and an extension of the 10-day waiting period

Max Ackel watches as Tom Billings selects a coin for a customer

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to 15 or even 30 days, would drive them out of business.

John Martin, owner of Martin’s Coins and Jewelry, declined Seven Days’ interview request. However, his attorney and lobbyist, Mike Gadue of Colchester, came to Martin’s South Burlington store and spoke on his client’s behalf about the Fysh case and what he calls the legislature’s “emotional” and “knee-jerk reaction” to the recent crime wave.

Gadue confirms that one of Martin’s employees did purchase Samter’s gold watch band and bracelet from Fysh for $334, and that the items were “inadvertently” shipped out of state. But Gadue says his client had three contacts with the police that day and actually helped solve the case by providing them with the suspect’s photo ID and local address. He says the employee had no idea the items were stolen.

“Our position, very simply, is that Mr. Martin was completely open and above board with the police in all stages of the investigation, and that his employee provided information that, quite frankly, may have ... been the basis upon which they found this guy,” Gadue says. “Through an error, the gold was not kept within the state, but Mr. Martin had no direct involvement in that nor any knowledge of that.” Gadue said he did not know whether the employee who carried out the transaction had been disciplined.

Gadue doesn’t deny that some customers try to sell Martin stolen goods, but he says Martin does what he can to prevent it. Unlike some precious-metal dealers in the area, he says, Martin pays by check only, made out to sellers to ease tracking, and doesn’t buy from minors. He also photocopies every seller’s driver’s license and takes photos of the goods being sold.

Gadue argues that the police have no system for notifying secondhand dealers about stolen property or the suspects accused of taking them. He points to a blue three-ring binder labeled “stolen items.”

The binder, crammed three inches thick with photos and papers, dates back years.

As Gadue thumbs through its pages, he points out that nearly all the information was provided not by police, but by people who visited the store looking for their belongings. Because most of the descriptions are vague, including crude hand drawings, they’re not very useful.

“Is there any way you can come in here with a description that says, ‘I lost a sapphire ring that was 14-karat gold’ and think John’s going to find it?” Gadue says.

“Impossible!”

Martin and his employees write “between eight and 40 checks a day” for the hundreds of items they buy, he says. As a result, there is “no physical way” Martin could determine which ones were stolen.

Indeed, during a reporter’s half-hour

conversation with Gadue, more than a dozen customers came into the shop to sell wares, including coins, jewelry and antique silver. Not once did Martin or his employee glance at the binder.

So, how do these crimes get solved?

“They don’t. That’s what I’m telling you,” Gadue insists. “The problem is, the police are looking for a way to say it’s John’s fault ... because these crimes are such a low priority for them.”

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Police and prosecutors bristle at the suggestion that burglaries are low on their to-do list.

“I would strongly disagree with that.

Some of these cases are very high priority,” says Bram Kranichfeld, executive director of the Vermont Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs. Kranichfeld says he’s heard of individuals showing up with “pillowcases of jewelry” to sell in secondhand shops, week after week.

“How many times does that have to happen,” he asks, “before someone calls the police?”

Diane Wheeler, deputy state’s attorney in Franklin County, says the 10-day mandatory holding period was a good first step.

But many precious-metal dealers see the $100 ticket — the price of violating it — as a cost of doing business. When metal prices are in flux, she says, “Often, it’s cheaper for them to pay the fine than to keep the item.”

Earlier this year, Wheeler worked on a case involving three Grand Isle residents charged with stealing gold coins from an Alburgh man, then selling them to dealers in Franklin and Chittenden counties, including Martin.

The victim was a 66-year-old recluse

Gold rings that have passed the 10-day waiting period at Yin’s Collectibles

and hoarder known only as Radkin, who was crushed and killed by a horse trailer on his property in March 2012. Because the man had few friends and no local next of kin, months went by before his body was discovered.

In the interim, most of his belongings, including more than $200,000 in gold coins, were looted from his property. Police first learned of the coins in December 2012 through a confidential informant, court records indicate, nine months after Radkin died.

On November 11, one of the three defendants, Mark Mumley, 52, pleaded guilty to burglary, buying, selling and possession of stolen property and was sentenced to 21 months to eight years. Similar charges are pending against Ricky Benjamin, 35, and

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Katz suggests that most Vermont jewelry stores would be unaffected by more state regulation of precious-metal dealers. He points to Perry Sporn, owner of Perrywinkle’s Jewelry in Burlington, as one businessman who “gets it” and is doing his part.

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On a recent weekday morning at the University Mall in South Burlington, Yin Xie, owner of Yin’s Collectibles, eyeballs a small ring that a young woman just brought in to sell. The woman, who says she’s from Burlington and looks to be in her early twenties, tells Yin that it belonged to her grandmother, who died several months ago.

Yin’s store offers a hodgepodge of used items, including DVDs, LEGO sets, action figures, swords, knives, jewelry and commemorative cards. As Yin examines the ring under a magnifying glass, another clerk steps up and informs the woman that her name is on a police list of suspicious sellers. The woman protests, asserting it’s her boyfriend, not she, who’s been in trouble with the law. After a minute of haggling, Yin hands her a $20 bill for the ring, and she hurries out of the store.

Outside the store, the woman declines to comment. Later, when Yin is asked about the transaction, he explains that the young woman “is not the one who has any issues with police. She just hangs out with the people in trouble.” When asked to reveal the police list or the woman’s name, Yin declines, explaining it’s “just a warning list,” and that there’s no legal mandate not to buy from certain people.

Yin, who’s been in the University Mall for four years, says he’d actually prefer stricter guidelines around a no-buy list to having the police confiscate stolen goods

Sporn, who owns 18 jewelry stores, diamond factories in India and Israel, and a jewelry factory in downtown Burlington, says he, too, supports licensure of secondhand precious-metal dealers. Shortly after Tropical Storm Irene, Sporn briefly opened a gold-buying business in Rutland’s Diamond Run Mall, he says, to help Vermonters who need money quickly get back on their feet. One day, the store manager informed Sporn that he was seeing “repeat customers” coming in.

“As soon as he said that, a red flag went up and I said, ‘We’re closing this,’” Sporn recalls. “What’s a ‘repeat customer’ in the gold-buy business up to?”

Ron Rivers hazards a guess. The 54-year-old St. Albans resident is a recovering opiate addict whose drug and alcohol use began when he was 13.

“I would do just about anything to get high,” Rivers says. “I didn’t care if I had to rip off my parents, my brother and sisters, my aunts and uncles. Some of them probably didn’t even know I stole their shit.”

Rivers can’t remember how many burglaries, break-ins, and car and retail thefts he engaged in over the years, but it was a lot. He racked up numerous convictions for possession of drugs and stolen property, trespassing, theft, and criminal mischief.

Rivers says he’d take anything he could carry on foot — coins, knives, radios, dolls, guns, liquor, drugs — but especially gold and silver, which he knew he could flip quickly at secondhand shops in Franklin and Chittenden counties in the 1990s and 2000s.

How often did Rivers visit those businesses?

“Every other day, or two or three times a week at least,” he says. “And they never really questioned anything. As long as I had a valid ID, they’d copy it and write me a check. And nothing ever came back on me for it.”

Rivers served his first prison sentence at age 50, and it helped turn his life around.

On April 28, he passed the two-year mark of being drug-free. And while he doesn’t blame anyone but himself for his addiction, he says some stores certainly made it easy for him to get high.

As for Samter, she just wants Vermont’s precious-metal dealers to do their part. In one shop she visited with Katz, she noticed the same name appeared several times in the clerk’s log over a period of weeks, including twice in one day. Katz recognized the name as someone he’d arrested before.

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Jennifer Jarvis, 32, both of whom pleaded not guilty.

Gadue says that between September 18 and December 7, 2012, Martin purchased gold Canadian Maple Leafs and British Sovereigns from six individuals, including some of the defendants. Trooper Katz points to this case as evidence that precious-metal dealers need better oversight.

“We really want to work with these dealers,” Katz says. If someone comes into a store and is willing to sell thousands of dollars in gold coins at a fraction of their face value, Katz says the police should at least get a call. If not, “there’s something weird going on.”

But Gadue, who testified before the study committee considering the licensure of precious-metals dealers, calls the Alburgh case “an anomaly.” He says there’s no way his client could have known those coins were stolen, as none had been reported missing. Furthermore, he says, his client followed the letter of the law, obtaining names, addresses, phone numbers and government IDs on every transaction — information, he adds, that was later provided to police.

“If you look closely at that case, it is very clear that law enforcement dropped the ball,” Gadue concludes. “They didn’t protect this guy’s homestead and then, ultimately, they’re looking to hold John responsible to do something the law doesn’t require him to do.”

after he’s bought them. He says the cops recently relieved him of $900 in jewelry on those grounds.

“If I have a list in front of me and still buy the stuff, that’s my fault,” Yin says. “But if I don’t have a list … I don’t know it’s stolen property, but I still lose the money on it.”

Yin says he’d have no problem if the legislature adopted stricter laws on preciousmetal dealers, as long as everybody had to play by the same rules. But he doubts whether they’ll do much to prevent thefts from occurring.

The police, Yin says, “think that, OK, if nobody is buying, nobody is stealing. That’s not true. They can go to New Hampshire.

They can go to New York. They can go on their computer.”

But Gadue contends that if police established a “blacklist,” it would likely be challenged as unconstitutional, because it would impinge on the right of individuals to freely enter into contracts.

About 20 yards from Yin’s Collectibles is Gold Collect, a kiosk that advertises it buys gold in “any condition.” Earlier this month, Trooper Katz alleges in court papers, a Gold Collect employee bought some of Samter’s jewelry, which was sent to an out-of-state smelter before the 10-day holding period was over.

According to the Vermont Secretary of State’s office, the owner of Gold Collect is Garth Alex Morris, of Passaic, N.J. Reached by phone, Morris says he’s one of several partners who own the kiosk, which has been there since May 2012, as well as “multiple” gold-buying operations in four other states.

Morris says it’s “not a problem” for him if the legislature decides to license his industry or extend the mandatory holding period; he says that other states where he operates have even longer waits. When asked whether his South Burlington outlet abided by Vermont’s 10-day holding period in the Fysh case, Morris says, “That’s irrelevant. That’s an ongoing case and we’re working with Benjamin Katz on it.”

Evidently, South Burlington has become a hub for a lot of this illegal trade. Katz knows of offenders on probation wearing GPS tracking devices who’ve gone into the University Mall to sell stolen goods.

Says South Burlington Police Chief Trevor Whipple, “We’re the primary location in Chittenden County.”

“It’s a tremendous burden on our department,” says Bliss, one of only three South Burlington detectives who handle everything from frauds to homicides. “The dealers, for the most part, are following the rules, but the rules aren’t tough enough.”

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ast week, in a small, subterranean workspace near downtown Burlington, a group of tech-savvy Vermonters held an open forum on a topic that’s attracted a great deal of attention lately: Bitcoin. Early adopters of the “cryptocurrency” believe it has the potential to upend the entire global economy.

Economic policy and the future of currency may seem like pretty dry subjects for a weekday evening meeting, but everyone in attendance was as enthusiastic as Sunday-afternoon football fans. Beers were drunk and slang was slung, even as the discussion turned to such topics as fiduciary decentralization and the effects of arbitrage on currency stability.

Those who are keen on Bitcoin are really keen on Bitcoin, and that includes several of the members of Laboratory B, the “community hackerspace” that hosted the discussion. Also in attendance at the event were a number of other locals who had personal or professional interests in Bitcoin.

It was clear that everyone present viewed Bitcoin as a “disruptive technology,” perhaps even the epitome of an internet-era game changer. If Bitcoin really takes hold — and it’s been showing signs of strength lately — then it has the potential to impact the economy at nearly every level, from buying a cup of coffee to reporting taxable income to facilitating international transactions.

But Bitcoin still has some pretty steep hurdles to surmount. One of these is its extreme volatility: Just this month, its value has ranged from $350 to $900, a wild fluctuation that encourages hoarding.

That alone is a serious problem, as even enthusiasts acknowledge.

Bitcoin’s most serious challenge, however, is the simple fact that most people still don’t know what it is or how it works.

Here’s a quick summary: Bitcoin is a virtual currency — its form is digital, not physical — that is distributed from peer to peer without the intervention (adherents might say “meddling”) of any central banking authority. Bitcoins exist in finite supply, and can only be obtained by “mining” them — that is, using large amounts of computing time and power to process the code that generates the currency. Another way to put it is that the currency doesn’t technically exist until people put in the effort to mine for it. In this way, the coins’ value is tied to the labor (and processing time) used to create it. (A video

that explains this further can be found at weusecoins.com/en.)

Bitcoins are both private and public.

They are private in that each Bitcoin is associated with a digital “wallet” that belongs to a single user; they are public in that every Bitcoin transaction is permanently recorded on an openly accessible ledger known as the “blockchain.”

Owing to its status as the preferred currency at Silk Road — the recently shuttered online black market for illegal goods and services — Bitcoin carries the taint of the illicit. Still, no less a financial maestro than Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently opined that virtual currencies “may hold long-term promise, particularly if [they] promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.”

Those qualities, as well as Bitcoin’s low transaction costs, represent its primary

appeals for devotees. A retailer typically pays a fee of between 2 and 3 percent of the purchase price of an item for every credit-card transaction; PayPal’s rates are similar. No standard fee scale currently exists for Bitcoin transactions, but rates are no higher than 2 percent, and most transactions carry no surcharge at all.

Once a consumer comes into possession of Bitcoins, he or she may sell them for their equivalent in hard currency (such as dollars or yen) or spend them online (most Bitcoin transactions occur in cyberspace) or in a brick-and-mortar store. Bitcoin differs from credit cards in that neither its exchange for currency nor its trade for goods or services necessarily incurs fees. Once buyer and seller exchange wallet information, the value is simply debited from one account and deposited into another.

Another option is to hold onto Bitcoins

and hope they increase in value. In this sense, Bitcoin is a commodity, like gold or crude oil. At the moment, there’s a lot of Bitcoin hoarding going on; with its value on a steady climb, people are reluctant to sell what they have.

That Bernanke and other federal economic policymakers have spoken out on Bitcoin is somewhat surprising since, to this point, much of the discourse on the subject has occurred on online discussion boards. While national publications such as the New York Times and the Atlantic have been covering Bitcoin for several SCAN THIS PAGE years, this topic belongs to the internet, WITHBitcoin LAYAR largely because itself is not possible without digital interconnectivity.

SEE PROGRAM COVER Those online discussions about Bitcoin are surprisingly passionate. Its vaunted potential to undermine entire economies appeals both to internet denizens who associate themselves with the “99 percent” movement and to libertarian types.

Some of the discussion at Burlington’s recent Bitcoin meetup was tinged with that spirit of dissent and rabble-rousing.

Attendees discussed the arbitrariness and unfairness of banks’ policies and the freedom that the average citizen would ostensibly experience should currency be divorced from any single nation-state.

But those nation-states may intervene before the masses have the chance to do so. Bernanke’s statement confirmed that Bitcoin is now a topic of federal interest, but the technology’s reach exceeds national boundaries. As with so many other complex and potentially troublesome economic changes in recent years, many economists have pointed fingers eastward.

The world’s largest Bitcoin exchange by volume, BTC China, has attracted several large investments in recent months.

Chinese buyers have been the most aggressive purchasers of Bitcoin, a fact that concerns even the Bitcoin faithful: If the currency is designed to be decentralized, what happens when one country controls the lion’s share of it? (Check fiatleak.com for a real-time, animated map that depicts the flow of Bitcoins across national borders. China looks like a Bitcoin vacuum cleaner.)

It’s difficult to study any inroads that Bitcoin may have made in Vermont — in part because of the currency’s decentralization, which extends to its user base. Matt Cropp, 27, a social worker and member of Laboratory B, couldn’t think of any local businesses that accept Bitcoin.

ECONOMICS five minutes [to create an account], and it didn’t cost me anything.” He notes that the current media fixation on all things Bitcoin has already brought him plenty of publicity.

So far, Koerner estimates that Folino’s has sold about 10 pizzas for Bitcoins. That’s the short-term gain. But he believes there are long-term benefits, as well: If the currency continues its current rise in value, he can sell his Bitcoins for significant profit in the future.

Koerner acknowledges that the learning curve necessary for understanding Bitcoin may be even steeper than its recent surge in value. “It’s really complicated to understand exactly what’s going on [with Bitcoin], and that’s confusing people,” he says.

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Mike Ferland, 27, an IT professional with Pine Computers in South Burlington, is, as he puts it, a Bitcoin “evangelist.” He’s launched a website, BlowStamps.net, that’s kind of an information clearinghouse for Bitcoin newcomers. Ferland is working on a list of businesses that accept the currency.

During the Bitcoin meeting, he paused at one point to snap a picture of Laboratory B’s QR code with his smartphone, thereby making a small Bitcoin donation to the lab.

Ferland believes that Bitcoin’s future may hinge on its adoption by the kinds of small companies that traffic in organic goods or Fair Trade products — companies for which Vermont is an incubator. He suggests companies with progressive values are most likely to embrace Bitcoin “as long as they have a geek to show them the way.”

David Lansky, 57, is a statistician with Precision Bioassay in Burlington. He says he attended the recent meeting simply out of a keen curiosity. He has no experience buying, selling or mining for Bitcoins, “but I’m tempted,” he says.

Lansky regards Bitcoin’s limited success so far as “proof of concept,” especially in light of the governmental bungling that contributed to the current recession.

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Though he’s wary of some of Bitcoin’s less savory associations, Lansky admires its potential to foster local economic development. He likens Bitcoin to Burlington Bread, a local currency that, though it ultimately failed, played a role for 10 years in ensuring that money earned in Burlington was also spent there.

Indeed, Bitcoin may foster local spending in exactly the kinds of transactions that Cropp describes, although the geographic source of a Bitcoin payment is not easily detected. Moreover, as Cropp points out, Bitcoin is the lowest-friction way to settle international debts. “Where it’s crossing borders,” he says, “is where the biggest advantage for using [Bitcoin] is.”

At the moment, several political action committees, which are prohibited by law from accepting foreign funding, are lobbying for permission to accept Bitcoin donations. While many adherents believe that Bitcoin has the power to radically destabilize global political and economic systems, it could just as easily be used to concentrate existing power even further.

Such problems are likely to be inevitable consequences of using online currency in general, not just Bitcoin. Other cryptocurrencies have arisen to challenge Bitcoin, including Freicoin, Peercoin, Litecoin and at least a couple of dozen others. (Bitcoin’s capitalization, however, is by far the largest.)

“We sort of have a global currency — the dollar,” says Cropp, “but it’s rooted in a nation-state. As things become more interconnected, and the autonomy of individual nation-states seems to be dissolving a little bit … having a form of money that is its own individual entity is kind of timely.”

In Vermont, as elsewhere, Bitcoin’s prospects are complex and confusing. And the currency could cause as many problems as it would solve.

For all of the confusion and difficulties that Bitcoin may present, however, the overall mood of last week’s meeting in Burlington was one of excitement. Not the excitement of future financial rewards: Profit seemed incidental to these early adopters. This was the excitement that accompanies the first stages of an unpredictable, fascinating and potentially worldchanging experiment. m

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When he has used the cybercurrency himself, it’s been primarily for “informal debt settling,” he says, such as compensating a friend who helped him build a website.

Still, there are isolated upticks of interest in Bitcoin inside Vermont’s borders. In 2012, Jeremy Hansen, an assistant professor of computer science at Norwich University, made headlines for his announcement that his campaign as an independent candidate for Vermont State Senate would accept Bitcoin donations.

The Cabin at Killington, a vacation lodge whose website touts its techno-amenities as well as its proximity to the wilderness, is one of the few Vermont businesses that accept payment in Bitcoins.

Or not. It’s damnably difficult to find a simple location-based list of Bitcoin businesses. The wiki site dedicated to Bitcoin links to several third-party sites that claim to provide such a service, but every one of them came up dry in Vermont-specific searches.

(The Cabin at Killington didn’t even show up.) If you live in Vermont and have Bitcoins burning a hole in your virtual pocket, how are you supposed to spend them?

It’s not easy, without a regulatory agency overseeing such transactions. A few websites (LocalBitcoins.com is one) facilitate meetings between parties who wish to exchange Bitcoins for dollars, or vice versa. Agree on a set time and place, meet up and, if the deal seems sound, exchange the wallet information that permits the trading of currencies.

Poking around on Craigslist can also turn up buyers and sellers who prefer to deal in Bitcoin. Neither of these options inspires consumer confidence. And it doesn’t help that insane, illegal projects — such as the website Assassination Market, which is exactly what it sounds like — accept only Bitcoin.

One thing you can do with Bitcoin in Vermont is buy a pizza at Folino’s in Shelburne. Restaurant owner and manager Buddy Koerner, 25, has been interested in Bitcoin since its inception a few years ago, and decided just last week to accept it as payment for his restaurant’s wood-fired pizza.

Koerner announced his decision on reddit.com and, in less than a week, garnered nearly 20,000 page views. “I can accept [Bitcoin] and turn it into money that same day,” says Koerner of the reasons behind his decision. “It took about

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wake of last year’s holiday season, K-Tor earned Amazon’s top-seller status for the Pocket Socket’s sales and ratings, ranking in the online retailer’s top 25 percent.

That success may have stemmed in part from a rush of orders after Hurricane Sandy. Torino, originally from Queens, N.Y., says his elderly mother was among those stranded without power after the storm. More recently, the inventor notes, a man making a relief trip to the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan ordered several Pocket Sockets for his radios.

Two products now in Torino’s pipeline are a generator that can attach to a bike chain and a more efficient pedal-power generator for those who may have no other option when the lights go out. But for now, the inventor is more focused on developing a market, or, at least, on finding the professional who can connect him with one.

“Post-Katrina, people have been saying to me, ‘God, I wish I’d had this thing. I was there for a week with people wondering if I was alive.’ The question is, how do you make the connection?” Torino says. “I’ve gone to all the FEMA conferences, but I’m still looking for that someone who can take it to the next level.” m

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who had concentrated in microprocessor design and power while getting his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering at Cornell University. When he graduated from that program during the 1973 oil embargo, his first job was doing powermotor work for Reliance Electric Machine Company.

Even though Torino had a mechanical background, his new enterprise required several years of R&D. Lots of hand-crank radios and flashlights now on the market advertise their capacity to recharge other electronics, Torino points out. But his goal was to make a device that would follow through on that claim for smartphones and other high-end electronics that transmit a signal and would have more in common with a computer than with a radio or flashlight.

Toward that end, Torino created two tests for the Pocket Socket: It should be able to revive a cellphone with a dead battery, and do so consistently. After two months of successfully using his device for 20 minutes daily to recharge his Motorola Android phone, the inventor felt comfortable placing it on the market. Its current retail value is $65. The Power Box goes for $195. Both are made in California, but development, testing and repairs are done here in the Green Mountains.

So do they work? To demonstrate the device’s functionality, Torino again attaches his Motorola to the Pocket Socket.

Sure enough, after several cranks, the juice in the battery starts to climb steadily.

Next, this reporter tries the Power Box. The experience is akin to pedaling a recumbent, stationary bike, though it’s less of a workout. With the box placed in front of a couch or easy chair, you simply put your feet on the pedals and begin spinning, and the percentage points on the phone start to rise. You could do it while watching TV or reading a magazine. In theory, you could use the Power Box to read from a Kindle or other e-reader without ever having to plug the device into a wall outlet.

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s an inventor, entrepreneur and engineer, Ken Torino has based his life’s work on math and science. But when he describes K-Tor, the business he started in 2008, Torino refers to some cinematic science fiction: The Matrix trilogy.

In the universe of those films, robot overlords draw their energy from billions of humans enslaved and plugged into a power grid. Torino likewise bases his mechanical creations on the premise that humans are capable of generating 75 watts of energy at a steady rate. But his way of harnessing that power is far more humane than the machinery that Neo escapes after he swallows a red pill in The Matrix.

Torino’s inventions give you control over your own machines, not the other way around.

For the past six years, Torino, 59, has been designing and selling two types of generators from his Colchester home. His first invention, the Pocket Socket, was a hand crank about the size of a water bottle that generates up to 10 watts of electricity at 120 volts — on par with a standard wall outlet. Later, Torino developed the Power Box, a stationary set of bicycle pedals that delivers the same result.

If every person on Earth were to use one of his inventions, Torino speculates, they could generate a third of the energy now produced by all of the world’s nuclear reactors. But for now, he admits, his market mostly consists of people wanting to charge their smartphones, digital cameras or tablet computers on the fly, or in a carbon-free, semi-aerobic manner. With a 120-volt socket on each generator, all you need is a basic power cord to use one.

An employee of IBM for 30 years, Torino says the “aha moment” for the K-Tor technology occurred on a business trip, five years before his 2007 retirement.

When his flight back to Vermont was delayed by a storm, he needed to make a call but couldn’t recharge his cellphone without losing his spot in the long line at the ticket counter. Upon returning home, Torino searched online for a portable, hand-crank generator that would have done the trick.

“But I didn’t find anything, so I decided that if they didn’t invent something like that before I left IBM in five years, I would.

So I did. It was a little bit harder than it sounds, believe it or not,” Torino recalls.

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contrasting yellow and gray stone — the latter forming that distinctive quoin pattern — and its red-slate roof punctuated, unusually, with small dormer windows.

And, of course, the missing octagonal spire, which reached 114 feet and housed, from 1878, a bell and one of the first illuminated clocks in New England.

properties. Churches are exempt from city and state ordinances, and this church’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places doesn’t obligate its owners to retain historical character. The desire to do so simply appears to be a given for supporters of the church, including not only its leaders and congregation but also locals

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who consulted the lighted clock face regularly.

“The hope of the [church’s] restoration committee is to have it look exactly as it did,” says Jonathan Farrell, a church member. He is the committee’s liaison to the project’s architect, engineer and contractor — respectively, Ann Vivian of GVV Architects, fellow Burlington-based

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The guardians of the College Street Congregational Church are confident that spire will rise again. They are aiming for a meticulously historical restoration, pending insurance agreements.

The impetus does not come from some outside obligation, such as Burlington’s strictures on replacing the building materials of historic residential and commercial

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Farrell is an avowed “preservationist” who used to be in the architectural salvage business; he now works for the Committee on Temporary Shelter. On a recent Saturday morning, he meets with Seven Days for a tour of the damaged church.

Farrell begins by pointing out that the church’s leaders have always pursued historically sensitive repairs. In its most recent restoration, completed in 2009 by Vivian and Morrissey, crumbling graylimestone quoin blocks, originally from the Fisk Quarry on Isle La Motte, were replaced with blocks quarried from the same seam farther north in Canada.

The striking yellow sandstone blocks, quarried from Willard’s Ledge off Shelburne Road in Burlington, had held up. But the load-bearing walls they formed had begun bowing, putting stress on the chestnut rafters of the sanctuary ceiling, so discreet steel cables were stretched between rafter buttresses to prevent further spreading.

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hen the College Street Congregational Church in Burlington was going up between 1863 and 1866, its dramatic height didn’t impress everyone.

“The roof is almost finished,” the grocer Albert Peirce wrote in an 1864 letter, cited in a recent church history written by members, “but the walls are so low and the roof so large and high, it looks like a boy with his father’s hat on.”

More than 150 years later, that profile is one of the most beloved in town — or was, until an arsonist burned the spire a month ago. The weather cap that now tops the formerly elegant steeple marks the end of emergency remediations. It’s also a jolting reminder of just how much was lost. “[The church] truly is a downtown landmark,” says Ann Cousins of the Preservation Trust of Vermont, where she is the Historic Places Revolving Fund director.

“Frankly, so many of the churches in downtown Burlington are just amazing architecturally,” Cousins adds. But the Gothic Revival structure on College Street stands out for its masonry construction, its

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The steeple, meanwhile, has seen “continuous repairs over the century and a half it’s been there,” Farrell says. He notes that the steeplejacks who did the job in 1943 left their names carved in the wood beams. Farrell saw the marks regularly: He climbed the steeple twice a week to wind and oil the clock, a Howard & Company model that was badly damaged in the fire.

(The bell remains sound.)

Because the steeple’s top stairs were made of wood, firefighters had to douse the flames from the exterior, resulting in tons of water spilling down into the balcony, which was already damaged from a 1994 arson attempt. To prevent collapse of that

best collections of slate roofs in the country.” Red slate is “the most difficult slate to quarry,” says Visser. It has only one source in the country — in Washington County, N.Y., not far from Rutland — so it’s “very expensive.”

Nevertheless, says architect Vivian, “It is our intention to use the same red slate.” Further complicating the restoration, she notes, “each piece got smaller as you went up — a device they used to make the steeple look taller.” Evergreen Roofing in Burlington documented each of the slate tiles’ diminishing sizes and shapes before the burned spire’s demolition in order to reproduce the pattern exactly.

Whether the team can replicate the way the octagonal spire was attached to

the PTV helped the church secure a $5000 grant for further consultation from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s emergency fund, according to PTV’s Cousins.

Help is coming from many parts of the community, too. Burlington Ensemble, one of several classical groups that perform regularly at the College Street church, put together a fundraising concert on November 17, at which David Neiweem led an open-call group of 35 musicians and 70 singers through the first and last movements of Beethoven’s ninth symphony.

Friday 11/29 “B9,” as BE’s cofounder, Michael Dabroski, through called the concert, raised nearly $2800 for the restoration. The money will augment Monday 12/2 the restoration fund the church launched Burlington and Montpelier on its website.

Preservation Burlington’s advocacy committee chair, Ron Wanamaker, says he is awaiting direction from church officials to contribute “seed money” to the restoration effort. And a newly formed student group called Burlington’s Young Preservationists, made up of grad students in UVM’s historic preservation program, By appointment only. is discussing fundraising ideas with 802.224.6650 Preservation Burlington, according to cofounder Courtney Doyle. holisticafacials.com Meanwhile, many have stepped in to 2 Church Street, Burlington help the stranded congregation. Temple 4 State Street, Montpelier Sinai in South Burlington offered its space for services, Champlain College cleaned its empty Ethan Allen Center up the street to 8v-holistica112713.indd 1 11/25/13 house the daycare and the Burlington Free Press has lent church officials office space.

Farrell remarks on the community’s and congregation’s “moving-forward attitude.” That seems appropriate, given the church’s legacy. It formed in 1860 when a few dozen members of Burlington’s First Congregationalist Church broke away from that institution’s conservative Calvinist leadership to pursue work on ending slavery and supporting women’s rights.

Indeed, according to the church’s current interim minister, Rev. Charles Purinton Jr., “Part of the reason for founding the church was getting the vote for women.” In 1874, the church even changed its bylaws to mandate that half of its six deacons, or spiritual lay leaders, be women.

The First Congregationalists built their Greek Revival church in 1842 on South Winooski Avenue, where the imposing, all-white structure still stands, topped by a miniature replica of a Greek temple. The College Street church’s bold choice of a red-yellow-gray color scheme, one could argue, visually represents its rejection of conservatism and embrace of community issues. The community, in the wake of the arson, continues to return the favor. m

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the rectangular tower will depend on engineering decisions regarding modern wind and earthquake building codes, Vivian notes. The nature of the 1866 construction was a surprise to master timber-framer Jan Lewandoski of Greensboro Bend, who assesses damaged historical barns, bridges and churches around the state. “I expected to find long iron rods reaching down into the church. Those are usually floppy by now, because metal bends,” Lewandoski says.

Instead, what he found was “a very good and sophisticated system” of 30-foot timbers that anchored the spire by running down through the tower’s two floors and into the foundation. The wind-resistant structure was still doing its job 150 years later. “Wood doesn’t shrink longitudinally over time,” he explains.

Lewandoski’s assessment was funded by the Preservation Trust of Vermont’s technical-report grant fund, which also sent a masonry expert to examine the tower’s yellow stone for damage. And

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choir-loft-like structure, they punched a hole in its solid, carved-chestnut railing.

The water then poured onto the sanctuary floor, fortunately missing the altar and organ. It soaked through the carpeted chestnut flooring to the basement, which had been remodeled and expanded in that 2009 job.

All mechanical and electrical systems lining the basement ceiling will have to be replaced, Farrell points out, standing in the stripped and moisture-treated rooms that formerly housed a YMCA daycare for 30 infants and toddlers. The congregation hopes to save the floorboards above, at least, because of the rarity of chestnut. (A blight caused the trees to all but disappear by 1940.)

As materials go, the red-slate roof may be the most precious, according to Tom Visser, director of the University of Vermont’s master’s degree program in historic preservation. “That is something of great rarity,” Visser notes — even in Burlington, which, he says, has “one of the

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Ellen Bryant Voigt’s eighth collection of poems, Headwaters, is marked by both decadence and restraint. She embraces the former quality when she brazenly flushes quotidian signals to the reader (punctuation, capitalization) down the drain.

This will surprise and interest readers of Voigt’s previous collections, such as Shadow of Heaven, a finalist for the National Book Award; and Messenger, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Those who have come to expect her prosaic verse to flow gracefully down the page in informal, informative

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So where does restraint fit in? In contrast to their unbridled effluence of language, most of these new poems are characterized by their spare frames. The longest of the 28 poems in the collection occupies two pages, and almost half end somewhere before the 20th line.

Furthermore, Voigt’s titles are mere drops in the verbal bucket, many of them singlesyllable nouns, such as “Stones,” “Oak,” “Owl,” “Cow,” “Moles” and “Hound.”

This restraint continues in the poems’ diction; Voigt has composed them with the most elementary words. Listen to the beginning of “Hound,” which limits itself to monosyllabic words until midway into the second line: “since thought is prayer if hard and true I thought that thought / could lead me to compassion for my fellow creatures.”

The Mother Gooseiness of these nouns and syllables plays itself out in repetitions.

For instance, in the poem “Fox,” a fox trots into the speaker’s “yard-o yard-o.” When another fox crosses the road in the last lines of the poem, the final words appropriately recall a nursery rhyme: “and the little ones chew on the bones-o.”

One consequence of Voigt’s stream of consciousness is that the reader isn’t entirely sure which events are witnessed and which spring from the poet’s avid mind.

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“Owl,” which introduces the child’s father as he “took the key from under the eave // and unlocked the door to the darkened house he had grown up in.” The current of the poetry flows back upstream, as now “the farsighted owl strikes in utter silence…” It flows forward again in the next poem, “Milkmaid,” which returns to the father and his “usual bitter thermos his usual two sandwiches / one butter sliced in a slab the peasant’s cheese one meat / maybe headcheese the leftover parts of pig…” Care to guess which aspect the next consecutive poem, “Yearling,” pursues?

Cumulatively, the poems in Headwaters form a water park of words, offering readers a sophisticatedly engineered collection and a safe yet exhilarating ride. Sloshing from one idea, memory or observation to the unexpected next one — without those meddlesome little stop-and-go punctuation marks — this reader feels like she is riding the breaking waters of the poet’s artesian mind. m

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There are “plenty of songs in my head,” she writes, “to sing to my child’s child if she were here.” As “Fox” flows on, memories of the poet’s own childhood flutter up, as when her overwhelmed mother “needed me [her daughter] to fall in love with solitude.”

The solitude she evokes in “Fox,” the reader soon understands, has become the poet’s aquifer, the headwaters of her verse. Voigt writes, “it is my toy,” which she uses to play with themes of nature, rural life and family.

Another of her concerns, one suspects, is the act of thinking and thought itself, with a preference for the fluid nature of intuition over the flinty terrain of knowledge.

Another delightful aspect of this collection is the experience of finding some topic of a given poem picked up and developed in the next. To match the poet’s watery theme, one might say ideas are bucket brigaded through the collection.

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Her swooping around her “stubborn broody child” anticipates the next poem,

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Freelance food writer Melissa Pasanen says she believes the Sizzler won the crown on the basis of a 2007 story she wrote in the Burlington Free Press about reader-submitted favorites.

Late last month, Zagat presented its own rival choice in an article titled “50 States, 50 Burgers,” in which it named a must-try for each state in the union based on the results of a Zagat blog survey. Our interest was piqued by the selection of the relatively off-the-radar Turducky from South Royalton beef-and-beer mecca Worthy Burger. The fatty blend of duck confit and turkey, cooked over a wood fire, makes it “unlike any regular burger,” says co-owner Jason Merrill.

We were curious to see how the Turducky, the Sizzler and other noted local burgers would stack up among our readers. Using Facebook and Twitter, Seven Days embarked on a highly unscientific reader poll to hear the voice of the people.

Many of our respondents were firmly in Camp Worthy along with Zagat, though most preferred the restaurant’s beef burger to the Turducky. The Shopping Bag also benefited from its fair share of fans, tying with Jeffersonville’s seasonal Burger Barn. Montpelier’s Three Penny Taproom and Farmhouse Tap & Grill in Burlington were not far behind.

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Not every patty advertised as “Kobe” or wagyu proves to be the real deal.

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Bees may be tucking in for the winter, but the spoils of their efforts are still filling bottles in Colchester — specifically, brown ones that are dead ringers for beer bottles.

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Or you have plenty of other options.

How about an Escargot Burger, with melted provolone and snails? Or the Islander, a teriyaki-glazed patty with cheddar, pineapple, sautéed onions and guacamole? — A.L.

Best Resort Burger: Flannel Burger, Flannel at Topnotch Resort & Spa, Stowe

The genius construction of this sandwich is even more impressive than the remade Stowe resort itself, and both have every atom imbued with a taste of Vermont. The relatively thin beef patty plays host to an egg poached to the point where it’s slightly liquid but doesn’t run.

The pork belly is thick and meaty, not bacon-crisp. But the Green Mountains are most alive in the pile of caramelized, Heady Topper-flavored onions. It’s a delicious idea: a burger and a beer served in a bun. — A.L.

Best Downstate Burger: Depot Burger, Windsor Station Restaurant & Barroom, Windsor

The Depot Burger at Windsor Station Restaurant & Barroom is epic in stature and flavor, a dripping tower of local beef, molten cheddar, crispy bacon and caramelized shallots. I usually run from

burgers that look like they could swallow me instead of the other way around, but this one’s an exception. — C.H.

Juiciest Burger: Big Red’s Burger, Misery Loves Co., Winooski

I first tried this luscious specimen two years ago at the Winooski Farmers Market. I was wearing a white dress, and the overflow of hot, meaty juices and MLC special sauce ran down my arms, staining the garment with grease.

It was so worth it. Now I just think of the frock as my culinary Lewinsky dress, a keepsake of deliciousness past. Served with a side of herb-speckled fries, very possibly the best in the state, Big Red’s is simply scandalous. — A.L.

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Jean-Louis Gerin, executive chef, New England Culinary Institute:

I’ve had burgers at Farmhouse Tap & Grill [in Burlington] — it’s really good, very consistent, and that’s what I like about any restaurant. The seasoning is good, and I think they have a great formula, very well balanced. It’s always the same, which I think is so important.

There is nothing worse than a burger that is great and, the next time you go, it’s just average. And it’s juicy. It has to be juicy. If it doesn’t drip on your fingers, it’s not a real burger.

I also really like Kismet in Montpelier, and one of the guys here has been telling me I have to try the one at Brewster River Pub [& Brewery in Jeffersonville].

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I do have a soft spot in my heart for Stony Pond Farm [burgers] at the Burlington Farmers Market. A lot of

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0842-16F / 4C0996-7F 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On November 12, 2013, The Miller Realty Group, LLP, 599 Avenue D, Williston, VT 05495 and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., 33 Coffee lane, Waterbury, VT 05676 filed application #4C0842-16F / 4C09967F for a project generally described as an increase in the number of employees, with increases in water and wastewater flows and vehicle trip generation. The project is located on Gauthier Drive in Essex, Vermont.

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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 Essex 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 “4C0842-16F / 4C0996-7F”.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before December 10, 2013, 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

Open 24/7/365.

Post & browse ads at your convenience. other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised.

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

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

Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by December 10, 2013.

Parties entitled to

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

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 18th day of November, 2013.

By: /s/ Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel District#4 Coordinator, Natural Resources Board 111 West Street Essex Jct., VT 05452 802-879-5658 Peter.Keibel@state.vt.us ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1163-1C 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On November 18, 2013, HW Ventures L.C., P.O. Box 2098, Gerogia, VT 05468 filed application #4C1163-1C for a project generally described as the creation of two lots for the construction of single family residences.

The project is located on

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Westford 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 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 “4C1163-1C”.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before December 17, 2013, 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 hear-

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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.

[CONTINUED] ing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised.

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

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

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 22nd day of November, 2013.

By: /s/ Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel District#4 Coordinator

BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD TUESDAY DECEMBER 17, 2013 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The Burlington Development Review Board will hold a meeting on Tuesday December 17, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. in Contois Auditorium, Second Floor, City Hall.

PUBLIC HEARING 1.

14-0520AP: 132 SPRUCE STREET (RL, Ward 6) Owners: Robert & Zoe Barracano; Appellants: Stephanie & Miles Waite Appeal of communication confirming as-built approval under ZP# 12-1261CA for change of fence style.

2. 14-0567AP: 1174 NORTH AVE (NAC, Ward 7) Jeannette & Francisco Cruz / William Towle, Esq Appeal of Notice of Violation #256465 for change of use.

NORTH WINOOSKI AVENUE (NMU, Ward 2) Howard & Nancy Dolan Addition to existing garage for office and repair space. Install new siding on garage building.

Plans may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning Office, (City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Participation in the DRB proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. Please note that ANYTHING submitted to the Planning and Zoning office is considered public and cannot be kept confidential.

This may not be the final order in which items will be heard. Please view final Agenda, at www. burlingtonvt.gov/PZ/ Boards/DRB or the office notice board, one week before the hearing for the order in which items will be heard.

3. 14-0591CA/CU: 250

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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

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 December 17, 2013.

Natural Resources Board 111 West Street Essex Jct., VT 05452 802-879-5658 Peter.Keibel@state.vt.us

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 28-1-13 CNCV Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as Trustee for RALI 2007QS8, Plaintiff v.

Adam J. Norton, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., Homecomings Financial, LLC (f/k/a Homecomings Financial Network, Inc.) and Occupants residing at 77 West Street, Winooski, Vermont, Defendants

c mmercialworks ATTENTION REALTORS: LIST YOUR PROPERTIES HERE FOR ONLY $30 (INCLUDE 40 WORDS + PHOTO).

SUBMIT TO: ASHLEY@SEVENDAYSVT.COM BY MONDAYS AT NOON.

MONTPELIER FOR RENT

prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe, Fortin & Rees, 30 Kimball Avenue, Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 660-9000.

DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 11th day of November, 2013.

Sovereign Bank, NA

NOTICE OF SALE Black Door Bistro, Main Street

By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe, Fortin & Rees, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403

By virtue and in execuTurnkey opportunity. 39 years continuous STATE OF VERMONT tion of the Power of Sale operation. Ready for business. Seats +/- 100.

SUPERIOR COURT contained in a certain Beautiful outside deck seats additional 40+/-.

CHITTENDEN UNIT mortgage given by Adam Fully equipped, fully operational, excellent CIVIL DIVISION J. Norton to Mortgage condition. Licensed, permitted, liquor, food, live DOCKET NO. S0755Electronic Registraentertainment. Brokers protected. For informa11 CNC tion Systems, Inc., as tion contact Montpelier Property Management Nationstar Mortgage, nominee for Homecom802.223.3166 or centralvtrentals@gmail.com LLC, ings Financial, LLC (f/k/a Plaintiff Homecomings Financial v.

Network, Inc.) dated May John A. Mower, Rachel 4, 2007 and recorded A. Mower, Mortgage in Volume 181, Page Electronic Registration 506, which mortgage NOTICE OF SALE Systems, Inc., Countrywas assigned from entitled to redeem the 1 6/24/13 3:27 PM wide Home Loans, Inc. Mortgage Electronic CW-BlackDoor041013-3.indd premises at any time By virtue and in execuand Occupants residing Registration Systems, prior to the sale by paytion of the Power of Sale at 24 Forest Road, Essex, Inc., as nominee for ing the full amount due contained in a certain Vermont, Homecomings Financial, under the mortgage, mortgage given by Defendants LLC (f/k/a Homecomings including the costs and Stephen M. Bessette Financial Network, Inc.) expenses of the sale. and Rebecca S. Bessette NOTICE OF SALE to Deutsche Bank Trust to Sovereign Bank Company Americas as Other terms to be andated May 24, 2006 and By virtue and in execuTrustee for RALI 2007nounced at the sale or recorded in Volume 331, tion of the Power of Sale QS8 by an instrument inquire at Lobe, Fortin Page 570 of the Land contained in a certain dated March 27, 2012 & Rees, 30 Kimball Records of the Town of mortgage given by John and recorded on April Avenue, Ste. 306, South Milton, of which mortA. Mower and Rachel 5, 2012 in Volume 222, Burlington, VT 05403, gage the undersigned is A. Mower to Mortgage Page 485 of the Land (802) 660-9000. This the present holder, for Electronic Registration Records of the City of sale may be cancelled breach of the condiSystems, Inc., as nomiWinooski, of which mort- at any time prior to the tions of said mortgage nee for CTX Mortgage gage the undersigned is scheduled sale date and for the purposes of Company, LLC dated July the present holder, for without prior notice. foreclosing the same 7, 2005 and recorded in breach of the condiwill be sold at Public Volume 655, Page 468, tions of said mortgage DATED at South BurlAuction at 10:45 A.M. on which mortgage was and for the purposes of ington, Vermont this 7th December 10, 2013, at assigned from Mortgage foreclosing the same day of November, 2013.

22 Quarry Lane, Milton, Electronic Registration will be sold at Public Vermont all and singular Systems, Inc., as nomiAuction at 8:30 A.M. on Deutsche Bank Trust the premises described nee for CTX Mortgage December 10, 2013, at 77 Company Americas as in said mortgage: Company, LLC to Aurora West Street, Winooski, Trustee for RALI 2007Loan Services, LLC by Vermont all and singular QS8 To Wit: an instrument dated the premises described Being all and the same October 25, 2010 and in said mortgage: By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. lands and premises recorded on July 20, 2011 Lobe, Fortin & Rees, PLC in Volume 849, Page 723 To Wit: 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 conveyed to Stephen Michael Bessette and of the Land Records of Being all and the same South Burlington, VT Rebecca Sue Bessette by the Town of Essex, which lands and premises con05403 Warranty Deed from Sec- mortgage was further veyed to Adam J. Norton retary of Veterans Affairs assigned from Aurora by virtue of a Limited STATE OF VERMONT dated August 3, 1995 Loan Services, LLC to Warranty Deed from and recorded August 8, Nationstar Mortgage, Beneficial Mortgage Cor- SUPERIOR COURT 1995 in Volume 168, Page LLC by an instrument poration dated March 22, CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION 138 of the Land Records dated March 18, 2013 2002 and recorded April DOCKET NO. S0084of the Town of Milton. and recorded on March 1, 2002 in Volume 128, 10 CNC 29, 2013 in Volume 894, Page 314 of the City of Sovereign Bank, NA, Terms of Sale: Page 1002 of the Land Winooski Land Records.

Plaintiff $10,000.00 to be paid in Records of the Town of v. cash or cashier’s check Essex, of which mortTerms of Sale: Stephen M. Bessette, by purchaser at the time gage the undersigned is $10,000.00 to be paid in Rebecca S. Bessette, of sale, with the balance the present holder, for cash or cashier’s check Mortgage Electronic due at closing. The sale breach of the condiby purchaser at the time Registration Systems, is subject to taxes due tions of said mortgage of sale, with the balance Inc., Sovereign Bank and and owing to the Town and for the purposes of due at closing. The sale Occupants residing at of Milton. foreclosing the same is subject to taxes due 22 Quarry Lane, Milton, will be sold at Public and owing to the City of Vermont, The mortgagor is Auction at 9:30 A.M. on Winooski.

Defendants entitled to redeem the December 10, 2013, at premises at any time 24 Forest Road, Essex, The mortgagor is

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 11th day of November, 2013.

To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to John A. Mower and Rachel A. Mower by virtue of a Warranty Deed from Martha M. Kelley dated July 7, 2005 and recorded July 11, 2005 in Volume 655, Page 466 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex.

Nationstar Mortgage, LLC

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Essex.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe, Fortin & Rees, 30 Kimball Avenue, Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 660-9000. This sale may be cancelled at any time prior to the scheduled sale date without prior notice.

Signature of Fiduciary Daniel W. Ryan. Jr. Executor/Administrator 134 Lakeview Terrace Burlington, VT 05401 802-735-5778 eire.ryan@gmail.com

By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe, Fortin & Rees, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403

Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 11/27/2013

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1257-10-13CNPR In re ESTATE OF Daniel W. Ryan, Sr.

Address of Court: Chittenden Probate Court 175 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN COUNTY FAMILY DIVISION DOCKET NO. 676-8-13CNDM LIUBOV SHISHKINA v.

WILLIAM MacNEIL (Address Unknown) formerly of Burlington, Chittenden County

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To The Creditors Of Daniel W. Ryan, Sr. late of Burlington.

I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

SUMMONS AND ORDER FOR PUBLICATION

To The Above-Named Defendant: You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon Paul D. Jarvis, Esquire, Plaintiffs attorney, whose address is JARVIS, McARTHUR & WILLIAMS, PO BOX 902, Date: 11/9/2013 BURLINGTON, VERMONT Using the enclosed math operations as a guide, fill the grid 05402, an answer to /s/ Daniel W. Ryan, Jr.

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using the numbers 1 - 6 only once in each row and column.

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published once a week for two consecutive weeks on November 20, 2013 and November 27, 2013, in Seven Days, a newspaper of general circulation in Chittenden County and a copy of this Order shall be mailed to the Defendant, William MacNeil, at the last known address.

DATED at Burlington, Vermont, this 1 day of November, 2013. /s/ Linda Leavitt Superior Court Judge VERMONT LIBERTARIAN PARTY TOWN CAUCUS IN ESSEX Caucus will be held December 6, 6pm at 14 Timberlane Drive, Essex Junction, VT 05452. All Essex/Essex Junction voters who have not yet participated in another caucus this year are invited to attend. More info: Dan Feliciano, feliciano.dan@gmail.com, (802) 316-4063.

It appearing from the affidavit in this case that service cannot be made with due diligence by any of the methods prescribed in V.R.C.P. 4(d) through f inclusive, it is hereby ORDERED that service of the complaint shall be made upon the defendant, by publication pursuant to Rule 4(g) of the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure.

Th is Order shall be Complete the following

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DON’T SEE A SUPPORT GROUP HERE THAT MEETS YOUR NEEDS? Call Vermont 2-1-1, a program of United Way of Vermont.Within Vermont, dial 2-1-1 or 866-652-4636 (toll free).

ABA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Affected by Addiction (ABA) is a community peer support group for adults (over 18) struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. ABA is not 12-step based, but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop coping skills and draw strength from one another. 1st & 3rd Wed. of each month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Turning Point Center, Bank St., above bookstore, Burlington. Louise, 324-9690.

puzzle by using the numbers 1-9 only once in each row, column and 3 x 3 box.

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Difficulty: Hard

BY JOSH REYNOLDS

DIFFICULTY THIS WEEK: ★★★

Fill the grid using the numbers 1-6, only once in each row and column. The numbers in each heavily outlined “cage” must combine to produce the target number in the top corner, using the mathematical operation indicated. A onebox cage should be filled in with the target number in the top corner. A number can be repeated within a cage as long as it is not the same row or column.

Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row acrosss, each column down and each 9-box square contains all of the numbers one to nine. The same numbers cannot be repeated in a row or column.

AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. For meeting info, go to vermontalanonalateen.org or call 1-866-972-5266.

AL-ANON IN ST. JOHNSBURY Tue. & Thu., 7 p.m., Kingdom Recovery Center (Dr. Bob’s birthplace), 297 Summer St., St. Johnsbury. Sat., 10 a.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, Cherry St., St. Johnsbury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free.

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ALL CANCER SURVIVORS Join the wellness classes at Survivorship NOW, created by cancer survivors for cancer survivors. Benefi t from lively programs designed to engage & empower cancer survivors in our community. 777 1126, info@ survivorshipnowvt. org, survivorshipnowVT. org.

ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) This support group functions as a community & educational group. We provide coffee, soda & snacks & are open to PALS, caregivers, family members & those who are interested in learning more about ALS. Our group meets the 2nd Thu. of ea. mo., 1-3 p.m., at Jim’s House, 1266 Old Creamery Rd., Williston.

Hosted by Pete & Alphonsine Crevier, facilitated by Liza Martel, LICSW, patient care coordinator for the ALS Association here in VT. Info, 223-7638.

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ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP Held the last Tue. of every mo., 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington.

Info, Kim, 863-6384.

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Held every 2nd Tuesday of the month, 6-8 p.m. at The Hope Lodge, Lois McClure-Bee Tabakin Building, 237 East Ave., Burlington.

Central Vermont Man to Man regular monthly meetings are open to the public, especially for recently diagnosed men w/ prostate cancer, those successfully treated, or men dealing w/ side effects from cancer treatment.

Additionally, it is for men having problems w/ recurrence. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, 802-274-4990, vmary@aol.com or Tara Genzlinger, American Cancer Society, 872-6309.

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

Contact Brenda, 338-1170.

BEREAVEMENT/GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Meets every other Monday night, 6-8 p.m., & every other Wed., 10-11:30 a.m., in the Conference Center at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Info, Ginny Fry or Jean Semprebon, 223-1878.

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

It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 1-800-639-1522.

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Middlebury support group meets on the 2nd Tue. of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center from 6-8 p.m. Call our helpline at 1-877-856-1772.

CAREGIVERS SUPPORT GROUP 2nd & 4th Mon. of every month, 7 p.m., Franklin County Home Health Agency (FCHHA), 3 Home Health Circle, 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.

527-6717.

CELIAC AND GLUTENFREE GROUP Every 2nd Wed., 4:30-6 p.m. at Central VT Medical Center Conference Room #3. Free & open to the public! To learn more, contact Lisa at 598-9206 or lisamase@ gmail.com.

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP AND FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP 1-3 p.m., every 3rd Thu. at the Bagel Cafe, Ethan Allen Shopping Center, N. Ave., Burlington.

Please visit new website or call for location info, www.immunedysfunction.org or call 881-3821 or Lainey Rappaport at 660-4817.

CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy and fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new

joy, acceptance and serenity in our lives.

Tues. 5:45-6:45 p.m., First Baptist Church, 81 Saint Paul St., Burlington. Thu. 7-8 p.m. & Sun. noon-1 p.m. Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Burlington. Susan 829-9340, Tom 238-3587, burlingtonvtcoda@gmail. com, burlingtonvtcoda. org.

DECLUTTER’S SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming?

Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each other simplify.

989-3234, 425-3612.

DIVORCE CARE SUPPORT GROUP Divorce is a tough road.

Feelings of separation, betrayal, confusion, anger and self-doubt are common. But there is life after divorce. Led by people who have already walked down that road, we’d like to share with you a safe place and a process that can help make the journey easier. The 13-week Divorce Care Support Group (for men and women) will be offered on Wednesday evenings, 6:30-8:30 p.m., September 11-December 4 at the Essex Alliance Community Center, 37 Old Stage Road, Essex Jct. For more information and to register call Sandy 425-7053.

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GRIEF AND LOSS SUPPORT GROUP The RU12? Community Center has organized a social support group for LGBTQ individuals experiencing the loss of a loved one, be it through death or separation. The group is currently on hiatus, but if you are interested or looking for more information, please contact thecenter@ru12. org or call 860-7812.

G.Y.S.T. (GET YOUR STUFF TOGETHER) GYST creates a safe and empowering commuGREIF AND RECOVERY nity for young men and SUPPORT GROUP youth in transition to 1st & 3rd Wed. of come together with one every month, 7-8 p.m., commonality: learning Franklin County Home to live life on life’s Health Agency (FCHHA), terms. G.Y.S.T. is held 3 Home Health Circle, DISCOVER THE POWER every Tue., 4 p.m. at the OF CHOICE! St. Albans. 527-6717.

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A free support group for those who have lost a friend, colleague or loved one by suicide. Meetings, facilitated by our clinician, Jonathan Gilmore, FROM P.C-5 FROM P.C-7 are held at Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main St. All are welcome to attend. Snacks & drinks are provided to make for a comfortable atmosphere. Some who attend have experienced a recent loss, & some are still struggling w/ a loss No. 299 Difficulty: Hard from long ago. Some people come to just 1 meeting, some return every mo. The choice is up to the participant & is as individual as the grieving process itself.

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People living w/ cancer & their caretakers convene for support.

IF YOU ARE A YOUTH OR YOUNG ADULT AND LOOKING FOR A LISTENING EAR, spiritual encouragement, a companion on the journey First United Methodist Church invites you to contact Rachel, our Pastor at Large for youth & young adults in the Greater Burlington area. Rachel can be reached via email at RachelStampul@gmail. com and has open office hours for folks to just drop in on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 - 5:30 in the Burlington Town Center Mall food court.

IN-PERSON QUITTING CLASSES Weekly on Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m., UHC Given WEST Clinic, South Prospect St., Burlington. Call to register, 847-2278. This is a great way to connect with others who are also trying to quit with help from experienced counselors, as well. Free 4-week group sessions, free patches, gum or lozenges, service is provided by a Tobacco Treatment Specialist.

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

For further info, please contact Sherry.

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LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S COUNCIL DROPIN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome, weekly group w/ cofacilitators. Open discussion format.

Varied topics, incl. relationships, work, parenting, personal growth, healing.

Confidential, nonjudgmental. Open to all ethnicities, religions & sexual orientations.

Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Every Thu., 7-9 p.m. More info, call Nick, 985-8984.

LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. These groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, & offer & receive support. Please call RU12? Community Center at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining one of these groups or for more info.

LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN? Want more support?

Join us to focus on the tools necessary for day-to-day living through open dialogue, knowledge & personal experience. Lets find a healthy balance along w/ an improved quality of life. Weekly meeting on Tuesdays, Camel’s Hump Room, Burlington Community Health Center. Call for details.

Martha, 415-250-5181.

LUPUS SUPPORT GROUP Third Sat. of each month, 9:30 a.m.

Brownell Library in the Kolvoord Room, Essex Jct. Facilitator: Amy Plog. Fine out more by emailing vtlupusgroup@yahoo.com.

LYME DISEASE SUPPORT GROUP Meeting Oct. 26, 2 p.m. at the Faith United Methodist Church, 899 Dorset St., S. Burlington. Susan, 849-7055.

MALE SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace is offering a peer-led support group for male-identified survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. This group will meet at the RU12? Community Center. Support groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share info, & offer & receive support. Please contact 863-0003.

MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts to get & stay clean. Ongoing Tue. at 6:30 p.m. & Thur. at 8 p.m. at Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., suite 200, Burlington.

861-3150.

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HELP DESK IT SUPPORT TECHNICIAN Work for One of the Top-Performing Home Health Agencies in the U.S. Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is seeking an experienced Help Desk Support Technician to troubleshoot and support a predominately mobile workforce, provide network maintenance assistance and contribute to various projects within the IT Department.

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We are looking for a full-time service person to join our team at Green Mountain Fireplaces in Williston. Must be gas certified and available weekdays. Please call 862-8311 and ask for Sarah or Jim.

Leaps and Bounds is hiring directors and teachers to join our growing childcare team!

Must be a skilled problem solver, have advanced knowledge of MS office products, and be highly organized, articulate and flexible. An associate’s degree or professional certification and minimum 2 years’ experience supporting a Windows network environment required.

For more information please contact Harry Snyder at (802) 770-1510 or email at hlsnyder@ravnah.org RAVNAH is recognized as a Home Care Elite agency, as ranked by an analysis of performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement, and financial performance.

Email resumes to Krista@leapsvt.com, or call 802-879-0130.

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Kitchen & Bath Design/ sales Professional

Inside/Outside Sales Professional Are you a motivated person? Do you have a genuine curiosity about technology and interest in meeting people who change the world? Eastman Benz is looking for a salesperson to grow our customer base and help build mutually beneficial relationships with clients requiring printed circuit board and electro-mechanical assemblies. A proven sales history and a minimum of an associate’s degree with an emphasis on technology are required. Overnight travel is not required. Eastman Benz is offering a competitive base salary plus commission so you can focus on growing your sales.

Job Responsibilities 1. Develop new leads and introduce them to the services Eastman Benz offers 2. Track sales process using a CRM software 3. Work with management team to meet strategic goals 4. Work with the owner to analyze and identify competitors weakness/strengths 5. Work with the owner to develop sales material and lead generation opportunities 6. Thrive in a work hard/play hard environment Job RequiRements 1. 80% inside sales/lead generation, 20% outside sales 2. Past experience in lead generation (previous experience using Hoovers or other lead generation tools) 3. Past experience in cold-calling 4. Proficiency with computers and MS Office Suite 5. Minimum of an associate’s degree required 6. Valid driver’s license, proof of insurance and reliable car required 7. Ability to work 40-hour week with overtime when required 9v-EastmanBenz-111313.indd 1

AdditionAl skill pRefeRences 1. Printed circuit board knowledge 2. Previous experience using a CRM (Salesforce or equivalent) 3. Previous electrical engineering knowledge 4. Ability to blend confidence and humility driven by a genuine desire to understand client’s requirements About eAstmAn benz Eastman Benz is a small, dynamic contract manufacturing company that partners with local technology companies to manufacture printed circuit board and electro-mechanical prototypes and small-volume production runs. Eastman Benz has been on an exponential growth path since 2009 and is projected to remain on this same trajectory in the next coming years. You will be joining a young, vibrant group of professionals who are passionate about technology and strive to maintain a balanced work/life work culture.

Check out www.eastmanbenz.com for more information. If you are interested in applying for this job, send your resume to dan@eastmanbenz.com.

Curtis Lumber Co. is one of the top 40 fastest-growing building-materials retailers in the nation and we are looking for an enthusiastic Kitchen & Bath Design/Sales Professional to join our team in Burlington.

Headquartered in Ballston Spa, N.Y., Curtis Lumber employs more than 600 people in 21 locations throughout New York and Vermont.

Each store is locally managed and an integral part of the community we do business in.

We provide excellent benefits, professional training and growth opportunities in a supportive culture.

A Curtis Lumber Outside Sales Rep is responsible for identifying and retaining target customers, making calls, visiting job sites and assisting contractors with their projects and related product knowledge.

Strong sales technique and the ability to develop customers, follow through with commitments, and communicate effectively are all components of this position.

The ultimate candidate will have at least 3-5 years of professional sales experience.

Experience in the construction industry a plus but not required.

Please email your resume to Craig Decatur craigd@curtislumber.com or apply online at www.curtislumber.com.

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Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (NUARI) seeks experienced

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS/DEVELOPERS to support ongoing cyber-security web client/server development.

Visit our website, www.nuari.org/careers, to learn more and apply.

Mental HealtH and SubStance abuSe ServiceS Clinician, Substance Abuse, St. Albans — Job ID 1731

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Residential Counselor, Lakeview — Job ID 1721

Three awake overnights and one evening shift in dynamic home for adults with mental illness. BA; 36 hours/ week.

Residential Program Coordinator, Northern Lights — Job ID 1634 VWW is hiring!

FRESH Food KitcHEn opERationS cooRdinatoR Vermont Works for Women seeks a full-time Kitchen Operations Coordinator to act as a role model and exemplify professional conduct for our FRESH Food trainees. In addition, this individual will be responsible for oversight and execution of the meals we prepare and deliver to childcare centers around the greater Burlington area. The ideal candidate would be comfortable operating in a commercial kitchen setting, but formal culinary training is not necessary. We are looking for someone who loves people and knows how to hold a team accountable by clearly stating expectations and following through with professional feedback for trainees. Access to a reliable vehicle and the ability to travel locally is required. A successful candidate will possess strong math skills, have an eye for details and possess strength in coordinating multiple facets of a complex operation.

pRogRam cooRdinatoR Vermont Works for Women is seeking a full-time Step Up and Boot Camp Program Coordinator to coordinate and run training programs that lead to placement in high-wage, high-skill occupations in male-dominated industries. This work is part of a two-year national initiative to help low-income women find jobs and career pathways that move them toward longterm economic security. Responsibilities include participant recruitment, curriculum development, employer and community partner cultivation, program implementation, and postprogram support for participants. This position is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic, creative, individual who enjoys working with women of diverse backgrounds and experience.

Demonstrated experience in teaching, written and verbal communication, planning, and organization a must. Access to a reliable vehicle and ability to travel throughout the state is required.

To apply, please email resume, cover letter, and three references to acrawford@vtworksforwomen.org, or via fax at (802) 655-8922; application deadline is December 13, 2013. No calls, please.

For more info, visit www.vtworksforwomen.org.

Provide clinical oversight for transitional house for previously incarcerated women. Master’s. FT.

Director, Crisis Services Job ID 1586

Master’s- or doctorate-level clinician sought to provide leadership and management of three adult mental health and substance abuse crisis programs. Spring 2014 opening.

Hub Interim Services Coordinator — Job ID 1647

Provide assessment/counseling/case management to clients waiting for Chittenden Clinic opening. Master’s.

Reach-Up Clinician — Job ID 1665

Provide Reach-Up adults/families with employment and self-sufficiency support services. Master’s. FT.

Reach-Up Case Manager — Job IDs 1668 and 1664

Provide integrated service planning, coordination/case management to Reach-Up participants.

Night Owls Only! Clinician Act 1/Bridge — Job ID 1661

Thirty awake overnight hours in busy crisis program. Bachelor’s preferred. Benefits.

Clinician Act 1/Bridge PT/Benefits — Job ID 1695

24/7 substance abuse crisis program seeking PT clinician, 20 hours/week. Benefits.

Case Manager (2), Safe Recovery — Job ID 1179

Service coordination/specialized services to help people who inject drugs transition from active use to recovery.

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Interventionist, Enhanced Family Treatment — Job ID 1706 Provide treatment/living skills to children with emotional, behavioral and/or psychiatric challenges living in therapeutic foster care or with their families including after-school activities and in-home support.

Interventionist, INCLUSION — Job ID 1680

Develop therapeutic, mentoring relationships with students struggling to find success in public school due to academic, social-emotional and behavioral challenges. FT. BA.

Residential Program Clinician , Rutland — Job ID 1678

Overall clinical accountability for individual and group therapy, implementation of treatment plans and documentation in residential setting serving adolescent males with sexual harming behavior. FT.

For more information, please visit our website www.howardcentercareers.org.

Positions of 20 or more scheduled hours are eligible for comprehensive benefits package. HowardCenter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. Applicants needing assistance or an accommodation in completing the online application, please contact Human Resources at 802-488-6950.

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Expanded Function Dental Assistant Engaging minds that change the world

Are you interested in expanding your horizons in the dentistry field? Are you a team player with a great attitude? Do you thrive in a diverse, fast-paced environment with an emphasis on excellent patient care? Then our office is for you. We are seeking a highly motivated Expanded Function Dental Assistant (EFDA) to join our team. Current EFDA license required. The position would require two evenings and alternating Saturdays. Competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Please submit resumes to bentleyefd@hotmail.com.

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eHealth Services Manager

Seeking an eHealth Services Manager to lead a team of eHealth Specialists. This team serves as trusted advisors and consultants to health care organizations as they work to improve patient care through the application of Healthcare IT.

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The ideal candidate will have 5+ years’ management experience in a clinical setting with strong health care information technology knowledge, project and program management experience (PMP Certification preferred) and a successful track record of managing a geographically distributed team. The eHealth Services Manager will report to the VP, Program Implementation and will work from VITL’s Burlington or Montpelier office. Preference will be given to candidates with a graduate degree in health information management, health care administration, health informatics, or other health care education.

Clinical Analyst

Seeking a Clinical Analyst to provide application and project-management support for health care information systems. The Clinical Analyst will maintain data integrity in the statewide clinical data repository, support the provider portal, and utilize analytical and reporting tools in development of interfaces.

Requirements: Five or more years of analyst experience, preferably in a health care setting; experience in reporting and analytical applications; and knowledge of Master Person Indexes (MPI).

Project Manager

Seeking a Project Manager to coordinate interface deployments and manage other projects that connect health care organizations to the Vermont Health Information Exchange. VITL is a dynamic organization and a recognized national leader in health information exchange. This is a full-time, permanent position requiring the ability to remove roadblocks through creative problem-solving; to work independently with little direction on multiple complex projects; and familiarity with PMI concepts.

The position requires a BA or BS and five or more years of project management experience, preferably in a health care setting. PMP certification and previous experience with computer interface development is desirable.

Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that assists Vermont health care providers with adopting and using health information technology to improve patient care. VITL is both the designated health information exchange for the state of Vermont and the federally designated regional extension center for the state of Vermont.

To apply, email cover letter and resume to hr@vitl.net. No phone calls.

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Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. This opening and others are updated daily.

Computer Depot Supervisor - #0041055 - The UVM Bookstore is looking for a high energy self starter for a full-time permanent position as supervisor of our Computer Depot. This person will be responsible for the administrative/business operations and performance of the computer resale division of the UVM Bookstore and be part of the Bookstore management team. They will coordinate and supervise purchase, receipt, distribution, display and sales of computers and technology products. Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in business, marketing or related field and two to four years of work experience, preferably in the retail computer field. Experience maintaining microcomputers, servers, host applications, operating systems, and client network configuration to include knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and Apple OS required. Strong customer service skills, ability to work independently as well as part of a team and effective interpersonal communication and organizational skills required.

Demonstrated ongoing commitment to workplace diversity, sustainability and delivering exceptional value and great experience to customers.

For further information on this position and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit our website at: www.uvmjobs.com; Job Hotline #802-656-2248; telephone #802-656-3150. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Job positions are updated daily.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Applications from women, veterans and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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Join Champlain Housing Trust’s team in St. Albans serving the affordable housing needs of a diverse group of people in Franklin and Grand Isle Counties as a full-time Property Manager.

You will be responsible for all aspects of the operation of a portfolio of properties including tenant relations, rent collections, rent increases, lease enforcement and compliance with Federal, State and local programs.

Qualified candidates must have excellent customer service skills, be able to work independently, enjoy a team environment, communicate effectively, exercise sound judgment and be organized with attention to detail.

Significant travel for on-site visits required. Experience in residential and/or commercial property management and knowledge of Section 8 NC/SR 811 a must along with a commitment to perpetually affordable housing. Certification in LIHTC, RD, and experience in HOME program a plus.

CHT is a socially responsible employer offering competitive salary commensurate with experience. Our benefit package includes health insurance, vacation, holiday, sick leave, 403(b), disability and life insurance. Submit cover letter and resume by December 6th to Human Resources, Champlain Housing Trust, 88 King Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or hr@ champlainhousingtrust.org. No phone calls, please.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER - CHT is committed to a diverse workplace and highly encourages women, persons with disabilities, Section 3 residents, and people from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to apply.

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Lund is a multi-service nonprofit that has served families and children throughout Vermont for 123 years. Our mission is to help children thrive by serving families with children, pregnant or parenting teens and young adults, and adoptive families. Currently seeking candidates for the following positions:

Overnight Residential Counselors

Full- and part-time residential counselor positions available to provide parent education and life skill support to pregnant and parenting women and their children in residential treatment setting.

Position encompasses 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 multitask, work in fast-paced environment, flexibility and adaptability needed. Looking for a candidate that is a quick problem-solver and able to work independently during nontraditional hours. Experience working in residential treatment setting preferred. Valid driver’s license required. Starting at $13.84/hour with 9% shift differential offered for midnight-6 a.m. hours. Great opportunity to work with a strong team of professionals. Ongoing training opportunities available.

Toddler Program Teacher

Lund’s Early Childhood Program is currently hiring one full-time position in our expanding 5-STAR infant/toddler program. This position involves working with children ages 2-3 years old. We are a play-based center that is mission-driven and committed to supporting vulnerable families, and we practice an emergent curriculum model.

Join an incredible team that believes in laughter, the importance of fun, community-oriented activities, and nonstop learning. The right candidate will be passionate, inspired, and committed to working with a dedicated group of professionals. Among many things, Lund values imagination, curiosity, exploration and discovery.

Qualified candidates will have a CDA, bachelor’s degree in childhood education (or related field), and experience working with children and families.

Substitute positions also available.

Program Support Assistant

Full-time. Position operates as a member of the Residential and Community treatment team and assists the supervisory team in program development and implementation with a strong focus on data entry, collection, and reporting, file management, quality assurance, and documentation for Residential and Community Treatment Programs. Also provides administrative assistance to the treatment team as assigned. Must be organized and detail oriented, have strong verbal and written communication skills, and proficiency with MS Office and outlook. Looking for a motivated selfstarter able to work independently. Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Billing Support Specialist Full-time. Position provides oversight and quality assurance of Residential and Community Treatment Program billing and supportive documentation. Duties include data collection, tracking and reporting, ensuring client eligibility, and compliance with Medicaid and state granting agencies. Must be organized and detail oriented, have strong verbal and written communication skills, and proficiency with MS Office and outlook. Looking for a motivated self-starter able to work independently. Bachelor’s degree preferred.

For more information about Lund’s programs, please visit our website at www.lundvt.org. Fulltime positions eligible for comprehensive benefit package including health, dental, life and shortterm disability insurance, as well as extensive time-off accrual and paid holidays.

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Burton Snowboards is looking for a qualified candidate to oversee day-to-day operations of our North American Rider Service Department.

The Orton Family Foundation helps people in small cities and towns recognize and honor their shared love of place in a way that guides local decisions to build economically resilient and socially vibrant communities. We do this by offering programs and tools that engage broad and diverse groups of residents in collaborative discussions and decision making driven by what they love most about their town — its “heart and soul.” This deliberative work prepares citizens to steward change that upholds their shared community values, which serves as the foundation for future decisions.

This position will be responsible for training, developing and coaching your staff to ensure consistent, quality customer service. Responsibilities include personnel decisions such as seasonal hiring, performance evaluations, and scheduling to meet peak season demands. Excellent skills in leadership, communication, and problem-solving are absolutely critical.

Experience developing benchmarks, analyzing trends and statistics, and implementing action plans to improve performance are essential.

Communications Associate This full-time position reports to the Communications Director and works closely with foundation staff to shape and strengthen the foundation’s voice and coordinate its message, with particular emphasis on responsibility for the Foundation’s website and the promotion and marketing of its offerings.

The ideal candidate will have: at least 4-5 years of experience in media and digital marketing; strong written and verbal skills; extensive website management experience; public relations, publicity and marketing experience; fluency in social media, blogs and other online promotional channels; creative thinking and a willingness to take risks; knowledge of multimedia production and online distribution; mastery of Microsoft Office tools; ability to manage people and projects; and a spirited, directed work style.

The ideal candidate will possess a BA/BS degree and 3-5 years of customer service supervisory experience. Candidate must have proven customer service skills, experience working in a fast-paced environment and a familiarity with the latest contact center technologies. Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. Customer service via digital channels such as email and social media and experience using SAP are desirable.

A more detailed job description can be found at www.orton.org/who/jobs.

Please send cover letter and resume no later than December 20, 2013, to: Communications Associate Search Human Resources, Orton Family Foundation P.O. Box 111 Middlebury, VT 05753 or email to cbertrand@orton.org

Please apply at www.burton.com.

No phone calls, please.

Senior Associate — Outreach & Strategic Partnerships This full-time position reports to the Executive Director. Applicants must possess a strong commitment to the success and future of small towns and cities in rural areas and to the Orton Family Foundation’s philosophy and mission (please see the Foundation’s website at www.orton.org for detailed information). Travel is required for achievement of goals.

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The ideal candidate must: have a minimum five years of demonstrated success at identifying and forming purposeful relationships with program/organizational/business strategic partners; be a tech-savvy and people-oriented professional who can set and achieve goals to grow program support among individual supporters and mutually aligned groups; be able to persuasively communicate the Foundation’s mission and purpose; and be a self-starter who can develop direction and activities for success. Primarily an externally focused position, candidate must have strong commitment to accountability and communication with fellow Foundation staff that develop and implement mission-driven program and communication activities. Must have a deep commitment to and passion for the life, culture, heritage and future of rural small towns and cities across the USA. A more detailed job description can be found at www.orton.org/who/jobs.

Please send cover letter and resume no later than December 20, 2013, to: Senior Associate Outreach Human Resources, Orton Family Foundation P.O. Box 111 Middlebury, VT 05753 or email to cbertrand@orton.org

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Volunteers Needed for Research Study Help us develop a vaccine against water-borne disease.  We are looking for healthy adults aged 18-45.  This research study will take place over a 6 month period and involve an inpatient stay and several outpatient visits.

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 Volunteers are eligible for up to $3000 in compensation.

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ReArch Company is a growing construction, real estate development and property management fi rm dedicated to generating real value to our clients through intellectual, analytical and proactive management. Our personnel exercise informed, reasoned and intuitive judgment along with entrepreneurial thinking in order to develop and implement strategies to best meet our client’s objectives, both programmatically and fi nancially.

We seek intelligent and motivated individuals to help us meet our mission of creating buildings and spaces of distinction and significance.

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ReArch Company’s construction division is seeking an experienced senior-level Project Manager with the requisite skills and experience to orchestrate complex projects of significant size. The Project Manager is charged with leading a project from inception through completion including managing the overall direction, progress, financial success and both owner and subcontractor relationships. The position requires leadership capabilities, exceptional communication skills (both written and verbal), and the ability to manage others in a calm, professional and appropriate manner. Business management acumen and the ability to provide skilled analysis and accurate information in a timely and easily understandable manner to clients and project partners is an absolute requirement of the role. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate that they have the skills and expertise necessary to serve as the overall project conductor, and be able to do so in a respectful, ethical and professional manner.

This position is for a senior-level Project Manager who has served as the Lead Project Manager for commercial, health care, industrial or other construction projects on a single project basis in excess of $10 million, and with a successful track record of delivering exceptional results both to their employer and clients. Strong communication and analytical skills, business acumen, and a commitment to providing outstanding customer service are prerequisites, as is a bachelor of science degree in construction management, engineering or a similar field. Candidates who do not meet these requirements will not be considered.

ReArch Company will offer a highly competitive salary, health care plan, and vacation package to the right candidate.

Interested candidates should send a cover letter stating salary requirements along with a resume and list of projects previously managed to careers@rearchcompany.com.

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Mental HealtH ProMotion & Workforce nurSeof caSeCommunications ManaGer Tourism & Marketing: Director Office of Vermont Health Access DeveloPMent Director Department of Mental Health

Job Description:

We are seeking a qualified and motivated professional to join our Policy and Planning team. Responsibilities include implementing initiatives in statewide mental health awareness, promotion, workforce development and practice improvement. You must have effective organizational and communications skills and experience in promoting evidence-based and promising practices and programs in the Vermont mental health system. Major work will be performed at the Montpelier headquarters however, remote site visits may occur.

Be an active part of health care reform! Join our diverse team of nurses, LADC, LICSW and medical social workers.

The Vermont Chronic Care Initiative is charged with intensive case management for

Experienced professional sought to lead the Vermont Department Medicaid beneficiaries with chronic conditions andof has Tourism exciting opportunities for experienced Nurse Case Managers throughout the state. If you are skilled in: & Marketing’s public and trade relations efforts. mission-critical • Working This with diverse and/or vulnerable populationsposition • Holistic assessment of patients’ is designed to generate positive tourism-related coverage ofneeds Vermont in the • Coordination among service providers • Director Health coaching to self-management of health is national and international marketplace. The ofempower Communications • Generating clinical improvement results Reference job posting #613867. Location: Montpelier. Status: Full time. responsible for the development and implementation a proactive business • Behavioral change of principals Application deadline: December 15, 2013.

• Collaboration with medical and mental health providers outreach plan consistent with the goals and mission of the Department of • Collaboration with community partners and agencies TourismfacilitieS and Marketing communications Come joinconsistent our dynamic and diverse team of nurses, LADC, LICSW and medical DiStrict ManaGeras well as maintaining social workers! Duties are performed both in the office and in the field, for which via social networking tools. This position is responsible for all tourism media Department of Buildings and General Services a private means of transportation must be available. Salary negotiable based on Therelations Facilities Operations Division is currently highly motivated press and goal- release experience anddevelopment; education. Potential eligibility for nursing loan forgiveness for work in-state and seeking out-of-state; pitching targeted Tourism &inaMarketing: of Communications oriented individual to manage state-owned buildings the northwest district from Director with vulnerable populations.

Monday-Friday schedule. tourism story regional national media; development of press Williston to St. Albans and the ideas surroundingto areas.

This position isand responsible for Requirements: Vermont RN license with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in the supervision of a staff consisting of maintenance mechanics, custodians and Jobexperience Description: a hospital, public or insurance lists; setting. Case management familiarization and itineraries; management ofhealth/community media contact and various tradespeople and requirestrips in building or plant maintenance experience with certification preferred. Strong written and oral communication Experienced professional sought lead the Vermont Department of Tourism andsupport repairs. Duties include staffing, staff development, budgeting, building for Vermont’s international publictoskills, relations initiatives. strong computer skills/aptitude. The Director assessments, planning, project management and administrative responsibilities. & Marketing’s and trade efforts.

This mission-critical position You must apply online to be considered.team Referencein job the posting #613807. Location: Excellent skills are essential. willcustomer also service collaborate withpublic the Agency ofrelations Commerce executive is designed to generate positive tourism-related of Vermont the Barre. Status: Full time.coverage Application deadline: December 11,in 2013.

Thedevelopment ideal candidate will possess strong supervisory skills, experience working of a proactive travel trade and business recruitment plan.

This national and standards international marketplace.

The Director of Communications is in a union environment, knowledge of regulatory and codes, and the maintenance of secure and complex buildings and facilities.

A working knowledge of position will report to the Commissioner Tourism & PrePareDneSS Marketing.

HealtHcare Planner responsible for the development and implementation of a proactive business of MS Office and Excel is expected. An engineering degree is preferred.

(PuBlic HealtH PrePareDneSS coorDinator)

outreach plan consistent with the goals and mission of the Department of and Marketingstrong as well oral as maintaining consistent communications Candidates Tourism must: demonstrate and Department written skills; Vermont of Health have a BA in via social networking tools.

This position is of responsible forof allrelevant tourism media Public Relations or related field; have a minimum fiand vedisaster years work Attention emergency preparedness professionals: We have an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Healthcare Preparedness Planner to join the relations in-state and out-of-state; press release development; pitching targeted experience; demonstrate knowledge of Vermont andofVermont’s tourism industry.

Vermont Department Health, Office of Public Health Preparedness national media; development of press & EMS Vermont Health Accesstourism story ideas to regional andlocated in Burlington. You will be the primary point of contact with Vermont health familiarization trips toand management of working media contact andand medical care facilities and providers toward all-hazardslists; public health We have a number of exciting and challenging opportunities work itineraries; for Vermont preparedness planning and response. Job duties include grant management and Resume, samples and a minimum of three references should be Health Connect! Therewriting are multiple positions available including Data Analyst and support for Vermont’s internationalpolicy public relations initiatives. The Director development involving programs for emergency, hospital and general health Business Process Mapping Specialist. We’re looking for enthusiastic candidates submitted to Kitty Sweet, Vermont Agency of Commerce and inCommunity will and also collaborate Agency Commerce executive teamemergency in theresponse scenarios care of preparedness.

You will participate large-scale with expertise in quality analysis performance reporting to with supportthe operations — both real and in exercises/drills.

You must have experience emergency andDevelopment, satisfy compliance reporting requirements.

Excel and Visio competency development of a proactive travel trade and business recruitment One National Life Drive, Montpelier, VT 05620-0501.

In-plan. andinThis out-ofpreparedness planning involving a healthcare setting. You must have a bachelor’s required. position will report Salary to the Commissioner Tourism & Marketing. in aof health public administration field with four years’ professional state travel will be required. range: degree $45,000 -or$50,000.

Reference job posting #613819. Location: Burlington. Status: Full time.

Application deadline: December 1, 2013.

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For more information, contact Andrew Laing via email: andrew.laing@state.vt.us.

Reference job posting #613913. Location: Winooski, Status: Full time (limited service position through December 31, 2014, which may be extended), Application deadline: December 3, 2013.

level experience in administration, planning, or supervision in a public health, health care or human services field or a master’s degree in public health, public administration or a health field with two years’ professional-level experience in administration, planning or supervision in a public health, health care or human services field. Preferred applicants will have clinical experience such as nursing or EMS, ICS training and experience with HSEEP-compliant exercises. Pay grade 25: Salary range of $49,150 to $77,084 based on qualifications.

Candidates must: demonstrate strong oral and written skills; have a BA in Public Relations or related field; have a minimum of five years of relevant work experience; demonstrate knowledge of Vermont and Vermont’s tourism industry.

Reference job ID #613864.

Location:should Burlington, Status: Resume, writing samples and a minimum ofposting three references be Full time (limited service). Application deadline: December 3, 2013. submitted to Kitty Sweet, Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development, One National Life Drive, Montpelier, VT 05620-0501. In- and out-ofTo apply, you must use the online job application at www.careers.vermont.gov. For questions related to your application, please contact the Department of state travel will 640-1657 be required.

Salary range: $45,000 - The $50,000.

Human Resources, Recruitment Services at (800) (voice) or (800) 253-0191 (TTY/Relay Service).

State of Vermont offers an excellent total

compensation package and is an EOE.

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WilliamstoWn ElEmEntary school: immEdiatE opEning

Truck Salesperson

Head Cook

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Salary plus commission Excellent benefits Paid holidays and vacation Company vehicle provided

Apply in person at: J&B International Trucks, 964 Hercules Drive, Colchester, VT 05446 2v-JBInternationalTrucks-112713.indd 1

Musical Director, FreD tuttle MiDDle school

Qualified candidate will have knowledge of directing a musical. The candidate will have had previous experience and desire to lead and mentor middle school students, and a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

This position will remain open until filled. Candidates may forward their resume and three current references to: Diane Kinnon, Human Resource Department, South Burlington School District, 500 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT 05403 or apply at www.sbschools.net. EOE

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The New School of Montpelier

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.

Student Supervisors 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:

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Director of Marketing

enforcing with house and Send coverpolicies, letter andcommunicating resume by Wednesday, Sept.

12 to: production staff, handling day-of-show needs, Cherie Marshall marketing to schools and maintaining Flynn Center for theteachers, Performing Arts databases and web pages, writing curricular guides 153 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 to matinees, and compiling statistics.

or, email cmarshall@flynncenter.org

No associate’s phone calls,degree please.(bachelor’s EOE. Requirements: preferred); excellent communication, customer service, and organizational skills; solid mathematical ability; attention to detail; ability to multitask; and grace in problem-solving. Proficiency in MS Word and Excel, and strong writing ability a must.

Knowledge of Publisher; Tessitura a plus.

For a more detailed job description, visit our website at www.flynncenter.org.

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send cover letter, resume, and 3 letters of reference to: Chris Locarno, Business Manager Orange North Supervisory Union 111B Brush Hill Road E.o.E. Williamstown, VT 05679

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The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts seeks applicants for an important position in Excellent communicatorDepartment and manager with strong organizational the Education of northern New skills England’s sought to manage the marketing, public relations, and premier performing arts center. audience development activities of northern New England’s premiere performing arts center. Demonstrated skills in media STUDENT MATINEE COORDINATOR relations, writing, publications management, e-marketing, web site development, staff supervision, and developing effective marketing The Flynn Center Education Department seeks a and public relations plans are a must. Familiarity with Microsoft full-time, highly organized person to coordinate Officeticket and Excel, ticketing database, graphic design, reservations and related activities for the and web applications are plusses.

Broad knowledge of and deep-seated Student Matinee Series (average of 40,000 annual appreciation for the performing arts highly desirable. audience members). Duties include processing5-7 years relevant experience, preferablymanaging in an arts waitlists, environment. orders and payments,

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

EOE.

seeking a school-year cook for 8 hours/day, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., for our pre-K to 5 school of approximately 250 students. the successful applicant will be a team player, become a member of school wellness, and be dedicated to providing nutritional food that includes the use of fresh local foods when available.

Please send a cover letter and resume by December 2 to: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Human Resources Department 153 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401, or email to cmarshall@flynncenter.org No phone calls, please. EOE

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COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN Radio North Group is interested in interviewing electronics technicians for the position of Communications and Electronics Technician. Position will be based in South Burlington covering northern Vermont and New York.

QUALIFICATIONS 3+ years of experience as an electronics technician with one or more of the following: networking; land mobile systems; wireless communications systems. Previous work with Motorola Communications Systems is a plus.

EDUCATION Electronics school certificate or an AA degree in electronics, military electronics training and related work experience. Basic understanding of audio, RF, digital and microprocessor circuits.

SCOPE OF EXPECTATIONS Problem-solving skills to troubleshoot critical communications systems day or night with minimal supervision. Must be skilled in use of basic hand tools and have computer skills with Microsoft Windows and specific Motorola radio programming software with some training.

TRAINING Must be able to learn new technical systems with online training as well as attending classes held at various locations.

BENEFITS Competitive salary, 401(k) plan, vacation, paid health care as allowed, and company vehicle for work-related travel.

Send resume and cover letter to John at john.p@radionorthgroup.com.

Radio North Group is an equal opportunity employer.

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Budget & Operations Officer US Climate & Environment Team

Staff Nurse (LPN or RN) Full Time, Evenings 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 provides high-quality nursing care in a fast-paced residential and long-term care environment, while maintaining a strong sense of “home.”

Wake Robin offers 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!

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

Wake Robin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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The Institute for Sustainable Communities is seeking an experienced Budget & Operations Officer to support to our US Climate and Environment Team. We are looking for someone with strong administrative, database management and budget management skills; superb attention to detail and deadlines; a strong ability to track and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced and fluid environment; and excellent communications skills. We offer a friendly, open work environment, great colleagues, excellent benefits and the opportunity to make a difference in communities in the US and around the world.

Visit www.iscvt.org/who_we_are/jobs to learn more about ISC and for instructions on how to apply. ISC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Rutland Hospice Rutland Area Area Visiting Visiting Nurse Association && Hospice (RAVNAH) full time nurse nurse home home visitor visitor to to (RAVNAH) is is looking looking for a full-time provide service to low-income, firstprovideindividualized individualizedsupport support service to low-income, time mothers through Partnership first-time mothers throughthethe Nurse-Family Nurse-Family Partnership program Bennington Rutland Counties. programinin Bennington and Rutland Counties. & Hospice Rutland Area Visitingand Nurse Association (RAVNAH) is looking for a full time nurse home visitor to Qualifications: Qualifications: provide individualized • BSN required. support service to low-income, firstrequired. time • BSN mothers throughin the Nurse-Family Partnership • Prior experience public/community health, including • Prior experience in public/community program in Bennington and Rutland Counties.health, home visitation required. including home visitation • Prior maternal/child healthrequired. experiences in a Qualifications: • Prior maternal/child health experiences in a community setting required.

• BSN required. community settinginrequired.

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Full-Time Nurse Home Visitor

For more information or to apply for this position, contact home required.

Harry Snyder at visitation 802.770.1510 or email at hsnyder@ravanah.org For more or tohealth apply for this position, • Priorinformation maternal/child experiences in acontact Harry Snyder at 802.770.1510 or email at hsnyder@ravanah.org hlsnyder@ravnah.org. community setting required.

For more information or to apply for this position, contact Harry Snyder at 802.770.1510 or email at hsnyder@ravanah.org

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Tetra Tech ARD has an immediate opening for a full-time Communications Specialist to join its international development team in Burlington. The Communications Specialist oversees all marketing publications, content for internal and external publications and websites, advertising campaigns, and overall branding strategy.

The ideal candidate has a degree in a related field; excellent cross-cultural skills; is an outstanding writer with expertise in MS Office, Adobe, and the web; and is exceptionally well-organized.

• Live in BTV, work in international development • Employ your multimedia skills for the greater good • Collaborate with incredible development practitioners around the world Apply on our U.S. Careers page at tetratechintdev.com.

Please indicate where you saw Tetra Tech ARD’s ad. Applications that do not meet the minimum requirements will not be considered. No phone calls.

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Send letter of interest and resume to Treatment Associates, 73 Main St., Box 39, Montpelier, VT 05602 or jsstonemd@live.com.

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CommuniCations speCialist Full-Time HomeVisitor Visitor Full-TimeNurse Nurse Home

Full-time LADC to work in a busy substance abuse treatment program in Morrisville.

Experience with medicated-assisted therapy, group therapy and intensive outpatient treatment preferred.

Position includes some supervisory duties.

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Property Manager Search Reopened The Central Vermont Community Land Trust seeks a Property Manager. CVCLT is a regional nonprofit organization that creates and preserves affordable housing and builds strong diverse communities.

The Property Manager position is responsible for managing occupancy, enforcing lease agreements, and providing resident relations at apartment and mobile home park communities in Barre, Cabot, Waitsfield, Warren and Williamstown.

If you are devoted to the mission of affordable housing, have exceptional interpersonal and stress management skills, are detail oriented, and require humor to make it through the day, then CVCLT wants to hear from you!

CVCLT offers a generous benefit package and a great working environment. To apply send a resume and cover letter, with the subject “PM Job,” along with three references to: Liz Genge, Director of Property Management, LGenge@cvclt.org.

CVCLT is an equal opportunity employer.

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Northern Architects has an opening for an intern-level position. The candidate must have a B.Arch degree, demonstrate good design and organizational skills, and be able to prepare drawings in AutoCAD. Assisting with other office tasks in a small architectural office will be required. Send letter of interest and resume to: 2:59 PM

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Vermont Legal Aid seeks a oneyear, full-time attorney in its Burlington office to work on its hotline screening calls and providing quick advice to disadvantaged Vermonters. Applicants must have excellent written and oral skills and demonstrated experience in public interest law, civil rights law, or legal services. Applicants must be admitted to practice in Vermont, eligible for admission by waiver or willing to sit for the next examination.

Salary is $44,500+ D.O.E. with excellent fringe benefits.

Send cover letter, resume, contact information for three references and writing sample by December 13, 2013 to: Eric Avildsen, Executive Director c/o Sandy Burns Vermont Legal Aid P.O. Box 1367, Burlington, VT 05402 or email to sburns@vtlegalaid.org

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Structured/supportive home for a 19-year-old man who enjoys classical music and the big Superior interpersonal and communication bang theory! He is working on developing his independent living skills and really appreciates skills, ability to work humor. independently and Thirtysomething male or couple sought to support a young man on the autism spectrum represent and promote with a co-occurring mental health diagnosis. This guy enjoys fishing, riding his scooter, EAP services and interests.

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Master’s degree in counseling, social work or related field required.

Social work/mental health license a plus. Private transportation required.

Contracted position for four hours/week in Newport and St. Johnsbury (two hours each). Possibility of increased hours overtime.

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Early 2014: Horse and dog loving roommate(s) to support a vivacious young adult.

Experience with trauma training a plus.

Funny, outgoing 45-year-old man with mild developmental disabilities needs couple or single person to share his beautiful Burlington condo. This gentleman enjoys shopping, wrestling movies and acting! Providers will enjoy upper floor complete with three bedrooms and full bathroom. Ideal match will be home full or part time and have experience with CPAP machines and providing personal care, but willing to train right person(s).

Home as two parking spaces and certain pets welcome. Graduate students will be considered.

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DIRECTOR OF PALLIATIVE CARE AND HOSPICE SERVICES

Butternut Mountain Farm

Quality Assurance Manager

Work for One of the Top-Performing Home Health Agencies in the U.S. Reporting to both the CEO of RAVNAH and the Director FCC of RRMC the Director of Palliative Care and Hospice Services will be responsible for the overall management of the RAVNAH Hospice and RRMC Palliative Care programs.

Butternut Mountain Farm is an industry-leading maple syrup company headquartered in Morrisville. We have an opening for a Quality Assurance Manager to oversee all of our food safety and quality programs. Our operation is SQF certified and this position is a member of our senior management team and reports directly to the CEO.

The Director will be charged with managing, marketing and growing the two programs, managing staff and budgets, and leading the combined hospice services and palliative care programs.

The ideal candidate will have a Master’s degree in nursing; Nurse Practitioner license highly desired.

Butternut Mountain Farm offers competitive compensation and benefits as well as a dynamic work environment. Qualified candidates should have 3-5 years of related work experience, preferably in the food industry. BS/BA degree in related field preferred, although relevant work experience will be considered. Please send resume and cover letter to vmscjobs@gmail.com.

Knowledge of hospice and end-of-life concepts and philosophy required. Prior management experience preferred.

To apply or obtain more information or send a resume and cover letter call or e-mail Harry Snyder at 770-1510; hlsnyder@ravnah.org

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Exciting new opportunity providing adults and families enrolled in Reach-Up the clinical services needed to support employment and self-sufficiency by addressing mental health and substance abuse barriers.

The Clinician will provide therapeutic and referral services, case management, and case review/case consultation for men and women enrolled in Reach-Up* with a mental health or substance use disorder.

Director of Vermont Public Policy

The clinician will work with both WCMHS Outpatient and State Reach-Up teams.

the Director of Vermont public policy is the “voice” of Bi-State and an active participant in influencing health systems reform with the legislature, the Green Mountain Care Board, state agency officials, key partners and stakeholders. the Director develops and analyzes public policy relative to health access, quality, and payment systems reform to include primary care reimbursement. the Director conducts advocacy and lobbying to improve the access to primary and preventive health care services for the people of Vermont. this position is located in Montpelier.

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Apply for the opportunity to work with a team of professionals across several agencies on this new and exciting initiative!

Duties include: • Work closely with Reach-Up case managers to provide targeted case management, service coordination and access to all clinical services • Conduct case reviews • Provide case consultation to Reach-Up teams on a regular basis • Conduct assessments and provide individual therapy, group therapy and family therapy • Screen and create treatment plan for individuals with substance abuse and mental health problems • Make referrals for assessments, individual, group and family therapies, and medication treatment • Complete all relevant documentation, including authorizations for services, clinical notes, treatment plans, administrative forms, etc.

• Participate in staff meetings, supervision and training

Knowledge of health policy and primary care with 5-7 years’ work experience required. BA/BS from an accredited college or university; MA/MS or JD preferred. Knowledge of health care systems reform, primary care payment methodologies, and lobbying experience desired. please respond by email or mail noting salary requirements to employment@bistatepca.org or Bi-State Primary Care Association, Inc., Human Resources Department, 525 Clinton Street, Bow, NH 03304. no telephone calls, please.

*Reach-Up helps families with children by providing assistance for basic needs and services that support work and self-sufficiency.

Send letter of interest/resume to WCMHS, Personnel, PO Box 647, Montpelier, VT 05601 or personnel@wcmhs.org.

Bi-State is an EOE with a competitive benefit package and compensation.

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MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN

People’s United Bank, the largest independent bank headquartered in New England, is hiring temporary employees for our Payroll Services Group in Williston.

We are currently seeking candidates for:

A highly regarded, locally owned management and development company is seeking a motivated Maintenance Technician to provide fulltime general maintenance and repairs of buildings and grounds for residential and commercial properties within the greater Burlington area.

Payroll Services Specialist (Temporary) Timeframe: December 2013 to February 2014.

This position will support to the Payroll staff by assisting with document scanning, filing, faxing and other duties as assigned.

Ability to work independently and as part of a team is essential.

Experience with elderly and people with disabilities is a plus. Position requires being on-call a minimum of one week per month. Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and successful results from a background check are required. Benefits include health insurance, 401(k), paid vacation and holidays.

Education/qualification: High school diploma or GED; must live within 30 minutes driving time of Burlington/ South Burlington.

If you are interested in learning more and applying, please visit us at www.peoples.com/careers.

Reference “Payroll Services Specialist (Temp.).”

People’s United Bank and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers MF/DV. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status.

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This position requires a high school diploma, a minimum of one year of administrative experience, and familiarity with Microsoft Office products coupled with strong attention to detail.

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LNA Positions Full-Time Day (Job #160718) Full-Time Evening (Job #160721), Full-Time Night (Job #160719) $1500 sign-on bonus. Valid state certification as an LNA. High school diploma or equivalent and six months’ experience in a long-term care environment preferred.

RN Supervisor Positions Full-Time Evenings (Job #159973) Part-Time Weekends (Job #157637) Graduate of accredited school of nursing; BS preferred.

Valid RN state license. Valid CPR certification.

Three years of experience in nursing; one year supervisory experience preferred.

Apply online at www.kindred.com and search desired job number, or call Maeve Luciani at 978-474-1107.

Drug free/EOE

Financial Manager

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Regional Land Use Planner The Northwest Regional Planning Commission has an exciting opportunity for an individual with senior-level experience in local and regional planning. NRPC is seeking a self-starter with the ability to work with communities in Franklin and Grand Isle counties to implement projects in land use and zoning, natural resources and energy planning.

3:52 PM The successful candidate must have experience in regional or local planning and knowledge of Vermont land-use statutes.

Experience in community development, project management and grant writing will also be a plus. Solid written and verbal communication skills and a degree in planning or related field are required.

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NRPC offers an excellent benefit package and a flexible work environment with a dynamic staff.

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Starr Farm Nursing Center, a Kindred Healthcare facility, is currently seeking qualified candidates to join our teams in the following roles:

SSTA, a local nonprofit, is looking to hire an experienced Financial Manager. Office duties range from day-today accounting and financial reporting, budget development and management, database reporting, and analyzing and maintaining financial systems and controls.

This position is part of the management team and will oversee two employees.

Bachelor’s degree in accounting and five years of relevant experience required.

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paid holidays and vacation. All incumbents must successfully pass background checks and drug test upon offer of hire.

To apply for this position, please download an application from sstarides.org and submit it in one of the following ways: t Email to apply@sstarides.org t Fax to 802-878-7385, Attn: Human Resources t Mail to SSTA, Attn: HR, 2091 Main Street, Colchester, VT 05446 t In person at 2091 Main Street

Send resume, three references and salary expectations to: Catherine Dimitruk, Executive Director, Northwest Regional Planning Commission, 155 Lake Street, St. Albans, VT 05478, or email c/o Amy Adams, aadams@nrpcvt.com.

Position open until filled. EOE.

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Wholesale Marketing & Design Associate Tata Harper is a 100% natural and nontoxic skincare and wellness company based near Middlebury. We are a mission-driven brand committed to creating and manufacturing world-class products that are safe and effective using fine natural ingredients from around the world and from our own organic Vermont farm!

We are seeking a hardworking, innovative and energetic in-house designer and marketer to join our wholesale marketing team. Position is in-office and full time. Ideal candidates are recent graduates with a graphic design or marketing degree with 1-3 years of relevant experience. Branding, copywriting, and experience with Adobe Creative Suite is a requirement. We are looking for someone who is well versed in package and print design and has experience running a timeline.

Please submit resume, cover letter with your experience and interest, and a portfolio (or access to a portfolio) to careers@tataharper.com.

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Animal Control Warden

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter of interest and resume to Human Resources, Attn.: Fawn, 109 Professional Drive, Morrisville, VT 05661 or fax to 802-888-1182. EOE

ExEcutivE/ AdministrAtivE support

Description: Animal Control Warden enforces animal control ordinances and related laws and regulations; patrol areas of Essex responding to and investigating complaints of animal control, welfare and cruelty; write reports documenting investigations; issue citations for violations; and capture, handle, transport, and detain animals. This is a contractual position.

To apply, please submit resume and completed Essex Police employment application form that can be found at essex.org (“Local Government; Employment Opportunities”) or picked up at the Essex Police or Essex Town offices. Completed applications or questions can be directed to Essex Police, Attn: Lt. Rick Garey, 81 Main Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452, 802-857-0087 or rgarey@essex.org.

Qualified candidates should submit by email a cover letter, resume and references to libby@sustaincondoms.com.

Annual Salary Range: $20,000 - $26,000 Job Type: Contractor Location: Essex and Essex Junction Department: Essex Police, Patrol Division Position Application Deadline: Open until filled

Hospice & Palliative Care RN

Duties include but are not limited to coordination and documentation of residential, community, clinical and employment services; and on-call crisis rotation for clients with developmental disabilities and/or traumatic brain injury. Qualified candidates will hold a bachelor’s degree and have prior work experience within developmental services or a related human service field. A valid Vermont driver’s license and a well-maintained, reliable and insured vehicle is a must. Extensive background checks will be conducted. We offer a competitive salary, employer paid health, dental and life insurance, plus much more.

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Hollender sustainable Brands, a consumerproducts company started by the cofounders of seventh Generation, is hiring a fulltime administrative manager based in Burlington.

Must have excellent communication, computer and organizational skills, and be extremely organized and efficient. Minimum five years of work experience.

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Sterling Area Services has an immediate opening for a service coordinator. This is a fully benefited, 40-hour-per-week position based out of our office in Morrisville.

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The primary role of the Hospice Nurse will be to provide skilled nursing services to hospice and palliative care patients. In the delivery of care: • The nurse will use independent judgment based on common principles of pathophysiology and accepted standards of care.

• Works collaboratively with patients, families, other disciplines and other community agencies.

• Assumes responsibility as a member of the interdisciplinary team for the provision of skilled nursing assessment, planning and care in order to maximize the comfort and health of patients and families consistent with the hospice policies and procedures of the agency.

Submit resume & cover letter to: Addison County Home Health & Hospice PO Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753 or hr@achhh.org 802) 388-7259

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Paralegal/ Executive Assistant:

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Our office is seeking a highly competent and efficient Paralegal/ Executive Assistant to support a busy, specialized law practice. Only candidates with a 4-year college degree and an established record of performing very careful work, through graduate education or proven experience, will be considered. Legal and/ or law firm experience a plus. For more information, please visit the full position posting on our website, www. slglawfirm.com/ pages/Careers.

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Public AccountAnt (Williston) Enman & Associates P. C., is seeking a full-time accountant with the following qualifications: • Positive and motivated candidate for tax preparation, accounting and financial planning for individuals, small business, trusts and estates.

• High proficiency with various software applications including Excel, Word, Quickbooks and tax preparation programs.

• Excellent project management and organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to work well independently and as part of a team are essential.

• CPA or CPA candidate with one to five years’ experience preferred.

Salary/benefits and commencement date negotiable.

Please email resume with cover letter, p_waite@enmancpa.com.

No phone calls, please.

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Child Care Resource

Financial Assistance Program Position Available Do you have a passion for paperwork and people? As a member of our Child Care Financial Assistance Program team, you can put your passion to work by making a difference in the lives of children and families!

On a daily basis, you’ll help families access state assistance with child care tuition and other benefits and you’ll help their child care providers receive accurate and timely payment for child care services.

This position requires excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, basic math skills, and the ability to work well with a diverse clientele. Bachelor’s degree in a human service field plus 1 year of related experience or an equivalent combination of work and experience is required.

This position is 28 hours/week. Please send your cover letter and resume to noliver@childcareresource.org.

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Please send cover letter, resume and references to mburnham1@ myfairpoint.net; or mail to Hegeman Electric, Inc., 16 Gauthier Drive, Essex Junction, VT 05452.

No telephone calls, please.

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Essex Location:

Servers Drivers Assistant managers colchester Location:

COOKS Drivers To work part time, days, nights and weekends.

Flexible schedule.

Always seeking entry-level managers.

Apply online at www.jobsatpizzahut.com.

The position will be open until filled. For a full job description, go to www.childcareresource.org.

OFFICE MANAGER/ BOOKKEEPER

Seeking a full-time Office Manager to multitask in a busy office environment.

Experience in financial statement preparation, account reconciliation, accounts receivable and payable, employee benefits.

Candidate should be proficient with QuickBooks, Word, Excel. Competitive pay and benefits.

Are you tired of not getting recognized for your outstanding attitude? Join the team that cares about you!

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT AND INCOME AUDITOR

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Kitchen Manager, Full Time Are you passionate about local and organic food, your community, and customer service? Are you an experienced, driven kitchen manager seeking to join a dynamic team of professionals? If you answered yes to all of the above, you’ve come to the right place!

Hunger Mountain Coop, central Vermont’s fastestgrowing member-owned natural foods market, is seeking applications from qualified candidates who will provide our member-owners, staff and the public with the excellent customer service and quality food they deserve. The Kitchen Manager oversees our production kitchen, catering program, and a team of over 39 staff. Professional leadership experience in a kitchen environment is required; retail natural foods experience preferred.

Please visit our website at www.hungermountain.coop to view the details of this position and application instructions, or email resume and cover letter to Human Resources at phoebem@hungermountain.coop.

Hunger Mountain Coop is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Stowe Mountain Resort, two fulltime, year-round positions available in our accounting department.

Senior Accountant will work with non-profit performing arts center, perform weekly and monthly reconciliations of various general ledger accounts, assist the Accounting Manager with the weekly closing process, and work on special projects as needed. Must be comfortable working with other corporate accountants, managers, and auditors. BS in Accounting with 1 to 2 years experience and non-profit experience a plus.

Income Auditor will analyze daily revenues from our POS software and Lodging software and will review daily sales reports sent to management for accuracy. Will also be crossed trained to provide AR with backup. Must be comfortable working with other corporate accountants, managers, and auditors. BS in Accounting or equivalent experience required.

These are full-time positions with a competitive salary and benefits package.

To apply for this position visit www.stowe.com/about/employment to submit your cover letter and resume.

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Rental Assistance Specialist

Fundraising and Marketing Director Green Mountain United Way

The GMUW is looking for an energetic, outgoing person with a passion for serving their community to manage all fundraising for the organization as well as assist and support the executive director. This leadership position will work with local businesses to develop fundraising campaigns, oversee the annual GMUW public campaign, and lead and support the funding resource volunteer committee. The director will also assist in marketing events using social media, newsletters, and technology.

Qualified candidates will have a bachelor’s degree and experience in fundraising, leadership and nonprofits.

Experience in grant writing is a plus.

We offer a competitive salary and benefit package. If you would like to work with challenging goals in a position that is vital to our communities and service to others, send your resume to: Green Mountain United Way 963 Paine Turnpike N #2 Montpelier, VT 05602-9163 or email nzorn@gmunitedway.org Green Mountain United Way is an equal opportunity employer.

Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

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Commercial Roofers & Laborers Year-round, full-time positions.

Good wages & benefits.

Pay negotiable with experience.

Women & minorities encouraged to apply.

Apply in person at: A.C. Hathorne Co. 252 Avenue C Williston, VT 802-862-6473

The successful candidate must have strong computer and interpersonal skills and be able to work as a team member.

Minimum qualification: Bachelor’s degree or extensive previous experience in a related field.

Competitive salary and excellent benefits Please send resume and cover letter to: Claudia Donovan Director of Rental Assistance Program Burlington Housing Authority 65 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401 or by email to cdonovan@burlingtonhousing.org

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The Burlington Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Basin Harbor Club is seeking an Executive Housekeeper.

This is a year-round position with our seasonal resort and oversees all facets of housekeeping at our 700-acre resort.

The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of experience in a 4-star property with a large campus. The candidate must be highly organized with strong computer skills. The job includes not only the sanitation and cleanliness of 147 guest rooms and cottages, public space and back-of-the-house areas and also the on-site laundry. Strong training skills are a must.

The position requires multitasking and a firm grasp of ever changing logistics.

For more information about Basin Harbor Club, please visit www.basinharbor.com.

Interested applicants please send resume and cover letter to Joss Vandal, Director of Finance, 802-475-7841, joss@basinharbor.com.

Basin Harbor Club is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Event & Marketing Assistant The Town of Killington’s Marketing and Special Events Department seeks an energetic and organized part-time Event and Marketing Assistant.

The selected candidate is expected to perform at a professional level, with additional hours during weekend events. The position will report to the Events and Marketing Coordinator. The Assistant will aid in the planning, organization and execution of town events.

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Executive Housekeeper

Submit resume & cover letter to: Addison County Home Health & Hospice PO Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753 or hr@achhh.org 802) 388-7259

The Burlington Housing Authority’s Rental Assistance Office (Section 8) is seeking a full-time qualified individual for its fast-paced office. The Rental Assistance Specialist interviews program participants, calculates tenant rents, and creates accurate electronic records for all rental assistance programs.

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We are seeking a dynamic individual to lead the Agency through a period of rapid technological growth, and to further the Agency’s mission by enhancing and maintaining technology throughout the organization. This professional will drive multiple technological and business strategies including electronic health record. He or she will ensure the security of all digital assets by establishing and maintaining IT policies and ensuring adherence to federal and state regulations related to healthcare information (HIPAA).

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Full position description available at www.KillingtonTown.com.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume and references to amy@killingtontown.com.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Interviews begin immediately.

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CVAA is a private nonprofit United Way organization that educates, empowers, and supports seniors and their caregivers to live with independence and dignity. In order to better serve our clients’ needs we are currently seeking an:

Vermont Federal Credit Union is a growing financial cooperative in Northwestern Vermont, currently serving over 36,000 members. We are always looking for friendly, self-motivated individuals who enjoy helping people, have strong communication skills, are detail-oriented and enjoy working as part of a team. If you feel your attributes match our expectations, we encourage you to consider a career with us. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package. Please visit our website for full details of our benefits program. We currently seek to fill the following full-time position:

Accounting Clerk

Be an integral part of the finance department in a vital organization. Ideal candidate will possess a strong knowledge of accounting principles and practices, be proficient in computer applications including Excel and Word, have an aptitude for detail and accuracy, excellent organizational and communication skills with positive attitude and ability to interact with employees at all levels of the organization, and outside vendors. Immediate, full-time position with competitive salary and benefits. Associate’s degree in accounting preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities have been acquired.

IS Specialist, Burlington Monitor systems operations and establish user profiles, user environments, directories and security access on LAN. Be a primary contact for hardware and software issues and maintain PCs and PC applications. Design and maintain systems documentation, processing logs and inventory of equipment, provide off-hours support when necessary. Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, provide resolutions in a timely manner, install appropriate hardware or software. Work independently and communicate effectively. A two-year college degree or equivalent training, knowledge of computer system hardware, telecommunications equipment, operating systems and network components is required.

Send cover letter and resume to: CVAA, 76 Pearl Street, Suite 201, Essex Junction, VT 05452, or email info@cvaa.org.

For a full job description and to apply online, please visit our website www.vermontfederal.org.

www.cvaa.org CVAA is an equal opportunity employer.

Vermont Federal Credit Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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he Lodge at Shelburne Bay, a premier adult living community, located in Shelburne Vermont, is continuing to grow and expand. We are currently recruiting RNs, LPNs, LNAs, and Caregivers to provide high quality care for the residents of our Assisted Living and Memory Care communities.

The ideal candidates should have a passion for working with the elder population, experience in caring for residents with a diagnosis of dementia, possess good time management skills and be an effective communicator.

Full and Part-time positions are available and every other weekend is required.

Pay is commensurate with experience.

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Full-time Assistant Director of Recovery Education and Training The Vermont Association of Mental Health and Addiction Recovery seeks an individual to help expand and enhance peer support services across the state through continuing education and training for the peer support leaders currently in the field.

Research and writing of current training needs for the recovery community, facilitation of training, events, recruitment, screening and managing participants, outreach, website management, and data collection.

Strong and proven experience working in a professional setting required, as is strong and proven experience with Excel, Access, Word, Outlook and other PC programs required.

Experience in nonprofit administration, addiction, mental health, peer support services, curriculum development, research, workshop facilitation and community outreach, data collection and familiarity with state and federal grant processes required.

The position currently runs for a maximum of three years.

Please send a cover letter and resume to Hannah@vamhar.org by December 2, 2013.

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or Burlington’s working peeps, the stroke of noon can bring a conundrum. While we sometimes tuck into home-prepared salads or leftovers to save money (and calories), downtown Burlington is so dense with lunch options, you could return to your desk with a different culinary treasure every day.

The arrival of three new lunch-centric venues in recent months has made the brown-bagging-it option look even less enticing. First came Anatolian Grand Bazaar, a Turkish market and take-out spot that opened in a Pearl Street storefront in

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late spring. A few months later arrived Lucky Next Door, the cheerful, casual sister (and adjacent neighbor) of Penny Cluse Café. Bento, a Japanese market and deli on College Street, more recently upped the to-go bounty.

Each place has its own distinct character that goes way beyond sandwiches and salads, with fare ranging from indulgences such as walnut baklava and Mexican hot chocolate to healthy plates of dolmas, sushi and mustard-slathered sardines.

We fanned out to test the tastes. Here’s our report.

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Anyone who’s tried to have brunch at Penny Cluse Café on a weekend has endured The Wait — sometimes it can take more than an hour to snag a table at the 15-year-old spot. While that may seem like a good business problem to have, the crowds spurred owners Charles and Holly Reeves to purchase the newly vacant building beside theirs and transform it into a 25-seat casual counterpart to Penny Cluse. They named it Lucky Next Door.

Not just an anteroom, Lucky is more like Penny Cluse’s Wonder Twin. With sleek lines, funky artwork and high wooden counters, it’s inviting in a different way. A few acquaintances I’ve run into there have proclaimed it their new favorite lunch spot, and probably not just for the relaxed ambiance. The modernized, earthy-crunchy plates — prepared next door by Penny Cluse chef Maura O’Sullivan and finished at Lucky — are across-the-board delicious.

Lucky starts serving at breakfast, doling out espresso drinks, pastries such as luscious blueberry crumb cake, and frittatas and other gut-sticking creations. A cast-iron skillet full of baked eggs with tomatoes, Blythedale Farm Cooksville Grana and pesto ($7) recently brightened an otherwise gloomy morning; the sizzling and gooey (and high-calorie) mass of deliciousness came with buttery toast triangles. Since it was a workday, I couldn’t partake in a Pickler, Penny Cluse’s version of a Bloody Mary, which is also served at Lucky. Fresh-squeezed OJ and oolong tea had to suffice.

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Locating Lunch « p.51 I’ve tackled the savory lunch menu at Lucky on successive visits, but there’s still more I want to sample from its long list of sandwiches, salads and entrées. I’ve ogled the flaky pork pie and the corned-lamb sandwich, but instead chose a hulking sautéed-broccoli-rabe-andshaved-beef sandwich ($7). The tangy, bitter greens were piled atop almost pillowy meat, and the entire thing spilled out of grilled bread tarted up with spicy cherry pepper relish and more of that Grana cheese. If you’re feeling truly gluttonous, you can get the sandwich with a $3.50 side dish of mac and cheese, slathered in two kinds of cheese and topped with a crunchy, caramelized crust. A healthier alternative is a side of chili-laced cucumber salad (also $3.50) showered with ground peanuts.

During another visit, a sardine plate ($7) straddled fall and winter, as well as the textures of tuna and steak.

The tiny fish were tossed with capers and slivers of red onion in an earthy mustard sauce and served with those little toasts. The result was akin to a more flavorful tuna salad.

The food at Lucky comes fast, but, even so, I couldn’t resist ordering kombucha while I waited. Lucky Next Door serves Aqua Vitea on tap, including the hibiscusginger-lime I imbibed last week. What I really wanted was a pint of Lost Nation Brewing Gose or any of the other beers on tap, which are served until Lucky closes at 8 p.m. — c.H.

Where can you get a meal-size portion of fresh tuna, salmon or yellowtail tuna for $4? If you’re thinking of a market take-out case, you’re not wrong. But at Bento, there’s no granular rice or dried-out seafood to be found.

Since the College Street venue recently added sushi, Chris Russo, co-chef-owner of San Sai Japanese Restaurant, has been making the rolls to order at the counter just a few feet away from the display case. He stuffs fluffy, glutinous rice with fillings such as pickled plums or salted salmon for onigiri ($3). Edamame and fresh garden salads with ginger dressing top out at $2.

But the items that lend the storefront its name are segmented lunchboxes filled with six or seven colorful

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foodstuffs each. There’s always at least one type of seaweed salad, along with a protein — sometimes two — and a small portion of fresh mixed greens. The last is presented with a tiny cup of tangy, orange-colored dressing.

Last week, Bento’s boxes also included crunchy, purple-and-green pickles and an orange segment for a light dessert. On other visits, I’ve found sweet, soy-marinated mushrooms and fall-apart-tender salmon belly.

The centerpieces of the boxes are also subject to change. Russo says that on a given day salmon teriyaki might sell out, while on other days, juicy shumai or gyoza attract dumpling fans (each $10). Tofu teriyaki

and crisp mashed-potato croquettes called korokke ($8) are enough to provide a light eater with two lunches.

Salmon or hamachi collars come in ample portions, well worth the $12 price for the moist, tender fish that melts in its lightly sugared, soy-based dipping sauce. Most other dishes ring up at $10, including spicy, pan-seared squid; katsu with a thick, fruity sauce; a hard-to-find dish called tsukune, which consists of ground-meat skewers blended with yakitoristyle sauce; and ultra-fresh Boston mackerel served in myriad forms.

Customers select their lunchbox from the case, then Russo doles out a hot portion of rice as a base for their

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protein. If diners like, he’ll heat up any items that don’t benefit from the chill of the grab-and-go case. A steaming cup of miso broth is just $1 extra.

Though Bento is worthy of regular visits for lunch, Russo says the place’s original concept included selling Japanese groceries not otherwise available in Vermont. He has no date set for the arrival of those wares, but perhaps they’ll be on the shelves before he enacts next summer’s plans: cooking yakitori and takoyaki at a stand in front of the eatery. — A.l .

light-filled space. There are no seats to speak of, but a refrigerator is packed with savory vegetarian Turkish dishes.

Those include a bevy of soups in foil bags, as well as a variety of dips such as eggplant ezme ($6.50), a thick, smoky-sweet blend of eggplant puréed with red peppers, walnuts and bread crumbs. The Bazaar sells bags of rolls to go with them. Çimrin also offers numerous veggie boreks, or savory pastries, including a flaky, light potato borek ($6.50) dusted with poppy seeds. As the popular vegetarian pancakes ($3.50

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Though Efe Çimrin does a brisk online trade in Turkish food from inside his unassuming Pearl Street storefront, he’s also ready and willing to ply you with cardamom-laced Turkish coffee and grab-and-go dolmas, dobreks, dips and baklava. And you should let him.

This mother-and-son-owned company got its start at the Burlington Farmers Market; Çimrin and his mom chose to go brick-and-mortar late last summer. Their feather-light walnut baklava and nutty butter cookies line the counter inside the spare, cozy,

each) were sold out during a recent visit, Çimrin instead sent me home with rich vegetarian izmir kofte, ground soy “meatballs” that had been simmered in a mild tomato sauce laced with potatoes and peas.

The food from Anatolian Grand Bazaar requires a bit more labor from the diner than those of the other two lunch spots profiled here; you need to spoon it into bowls and plates for reheating. One house specialty you can eat — or, rather, drink — right from the jar is Boza ($3), a traditional Turkish fermented millet drink. Though its texture may be off-putting at first, boza has a floral, lemony and gently sweet flavor.

Dusted with cinnamon, it’s delicious for dessert or on its own. — c . H .

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Valley Night Featuring Chicky Stoltz: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 4968994, bigpicturetheater.info.

fairs & festivals

HarvestFest: A nine-day festival celebrates indigenous cultures and the culinary "three sisters" of corn, beans and squash with events, films and presentations. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; $7.50-10.50 with nonperishable food item; free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-3246386, ext. 125.

film

'Freedom and Unity: The Vermont Movie: Part Five': "Ceres' Children" examines the traditions that define the Green Mountain State.

Gateway Center, Newport, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966.

food & drink

Candy-Cane-Making Demonstration: Attendees watch confectioners pull, roll and twist these seasonal treats, then create their own.

Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 11 a.m. Free to watch; $6 to make your own; preregister; limited space. Info, 253-9591.

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Creative Flow Yoga With Deborah Felmeth: A blend of meditation, Vinyasa-style asana, chanting and yogic philosophy builds physical and emotional strength. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 5:30-7 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

Kundalini Yoga With Callie Pegues: Students align organ and glandular systems while increasing energy and awareness. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 9-10:15 a.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

Open Chakras... Open Hips: Trust the Bones Yoga Series With Sansea Sparling: Yogis access the seven energy centers and learn about their relationship to proper skeletal alignment. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 3:30-4:45 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

Open Meditation: A 50-minute session allows practitioners to quiet the mind. 132 South Main Street, St. Albans, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 782-3821.

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.

Yoga With Tea: Participants incorporate breath, posture and meditation appropriate to their comfort and skill levels in a Kripalu class. Arrive early to request tea. Chai Space, Dobrá Tea, Burlington, 6:15-7:15 p.m. $12. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com.

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Holiday Artisans Bazaar: More than 40 regional artisans and specialty food producers exhibit handcrafted wares, mouth-watering delectables and other seasonal creations. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 431-0204.

The members of Spanish Brass are not your typical chamber musicians. After winning France’s prestigious Ville de Narbonne International Competition for Brass Quintets in 1996, the virtuosi secured a reputation for eclectic, adventurous programming. With technical mastery, an engaging stage presence, and a style influenced by the flamenco and Arabian music of their native Spain, these dynamic performers reimagine the genre. Whether with Bach’s complex arrangements, Antônio Carlos Jobim’s bossa nova stylings or works by Duke Ellington, the ensemble delivers artistically diverse performances that trumpeter Carlos Benetó Grau likens to “a journey through a museum.”

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Giant Menorah Lighting: Folks mark the beginning of the eight-day festival of lights. UVM Green, Corner of South Prospect and Main Streets, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-7612, zeesy@ chabadvt.org.

Baby & Me Story Time: Mother Goose-inspired plotlines entertain parents and little listeners ages 2 and under. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

Tuesday, December 3, 7 p.m., at Casella Theater, Castleton Stage College. $10-15.

Info, 468-1119. spanishbrass.com

Fall Story Time: Kiddos share read-aloud tales and wiggles and giggles with Mrs. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970.

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Homework Help: First through eighth graders get help with reading, math and science assignments from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Science students. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Meet Rockin' Ron the Friendly Pirate: Aargh, matey! Youngsters celebrate the hooligans of the sea with music, games and activities. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

Preschool Art Class: Budding Picassos ages 3 to 5 and their adult caregivers get creative with painting, clay sculpting, collage and more. Davis Studio, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $20; preregister. Info, 425-2700.

Story Time & Playgroup: Engaging narratives pave the way for art, nature and cooking projects.

Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

language

English-Language Class for New Americans: Beginner-to-advanced speakers improve their skills. Administrative Office and Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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Yoga Class: Dominique Meyers leads a mixedlevel, therapeutic practice based on Anusara and Kripalu styles. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 5-6:30 p.m. $12; preregister. Info, 723-6551, ext. 115, anitra99@yahoo.com.

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Irish Eyes Are Smiling Lúnasa is named in honor of Ireland’s patron of the arts, Lugh. This fitting homage becomes evident the moment the band takes the stage. Described

by Folk Roots magazine as an “Irish music dream team,” the supergroup features the Emerald Isle’s top traditional musicians. Changing the face of Celtic acoustic music with bass-driven tunes and an inventive approach, the ensemble has graced international venues from the Sydney Opera House to the Hollywood Bowl. Joining them onstage, award-winning vocalist Karan Casey lends her powerful pipes to a collaborative concert that showcases the nation’s best contemporary talent.

Lúnasa With Karan Casey Saturday, November 30, 7:30 p.m., at Barre Opera House. $18-32. Info, 476-8188. barreoperahouse.org

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ontréal’s Le Devoir describes Cirque Alfonse’s Timber! as “simply jaw-dropping.” Inspired by the Québécois troupe’s rural roots, this unique show melds circus arts with the traditional skill sets of farmers, loggers and lumberjacks. An equally diverse cast of professional acrobats, dancers, folk musicians and an ex-skiing champion inhabit their exhilarating world. Drawing from folklore and real-life experiences on a family farm, these bearded and brawny performers bring undeniable authenticity to the stage. Set to live music, aweinspiring feats of strength and agility inform flying axes, cracking whips, aerial acrobatics and much more.

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Tuesday, December 3, 7 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $15-36. Info, 863-5966. flynntix.org

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Green Mountain table tennis Club: Pingpong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 6-9:30 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.

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HealinG Journal & Creative JourneyinG: Attendees develop new material in a guided, supportive session led by Kat Kleman. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $10. Info, 671-4569.

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open bridGe GaMe: Players of varying experience levels put strategic skills to use. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 462-3373.

holidays

CoMMunity tHanksGivinG dinner: Neighbors catch up over turkey and a smorgasbord of side dishes at this 41st annual event. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9151.

CoMMunity tHanksGivinG Feast: A bluegrass band provides background music for a holiday meal with all the trimmings and desserts. United Christian Assembly, Jericho, 11 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 373-2608 or 373-2608.

Holiday artisans bazaar: See WED.27, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. killinGton 5k turkey trot: Runners work up an appetite for Thanksgiving dinner while benefiting local charities. JAX Food & Games, Killington, 9:30 a.m. $20-25. Info, 617-594-8473.

Mad river valley turkey trot: Before sitting down to Thanksgiving spreads, locals pound the pavement on a 2.8-mile run/walk through Warren's historic village. Proceeds benefit the Warren Elementary PTO. Warren Elementary School, registration, 9-9:30 a.m.; race, 10 a.m. $5-15. Info, 236-3492.

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sweetwaters tHanksGivinG: The Church Street restaurant opens its doors and offers a hot, homemade meal to community members. A coat drive beginning at 9 a.m. provides winter attire to those in need. Sweetwaters, Burlington, 10 a.m.

Coat and food donations accepted. Info, 238-0979. turkey dinner: Diners rub elbows over a warmhearted Thanksgiving feast. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0700.

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Middlebury presCHool story tiMe: Little learners master early-literacy skills through tales, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4369.

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HarvestFest: See WED.27, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

film

tHanksGivinG arts weekend: 'tHe Central park Five': Ken Burns' documentary examines the 1989 assault of a female jogger and the resulting unjust conviction of a group of teenagers. A Q&A and book signing with author and codirector Sarah Burns follows. Proceeds benefit Next Stage Arts Project. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 387-0102.

food & drink

Candy-Cane-MakinG deMonstration: See WED.27, 11 a.m. pasta niGHt: Locals load up on carbs topped with "G-Man's" famous homemade sauce. Live music by One-Duzzi follows. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 5:307 p.m. $7. Info, 878-0700.

health & fitness

avoid Falls witH iMproved stability: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477.

CoMMunity wellness day: Practitioners offer Reiki, Shiatsu, aromatherapy, acupressure, energy work and more to those looking to experience alternative healing. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sliding-scale donations; preregister. Info, 870-0361.

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Holiday artisans bazaar: See WED.27, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. tHanksGivinG weekend: A family-friendly 19th-century celebration features horse-drawn wagon rides, traditional fare and themed activities.

Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.

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aCorn Club story tiMe: Little ones up to age 6 gather for read-aloud tales. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. anti-Mall blaCk Friday: Folks escape the shopping frenzy and relax with chair massages, complimentary gift wrapping, apple cider and fresh cider doughnuts. Green Mountain Harley-Davidson, Essex Junction, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4778.

oCCupy Central verMont asseMbly: Citizen activists gather to voice opinions about a fair living wage. A lunch follows at Church of the Good Shepherd in Barre. Berlin Mall, noon-2 p.m. Free.

Info, occupycentralvt.org.

enosburG Falls story Hour: Youngsters show up for fables and crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

tHanksGivinG weekend oF tHe arts: putney CraFt tour: Beginning at the Gleanery Restaurant, art lovers embark on a back-roads studio tour that showcases the works of 26 area artists. Various locations, Putney, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Queen City tanGo MilonGa: No partner is required for welcoming the weekend in the Argentine tradition. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. North End Studios, Burlington, introductory session, 7-7:45 p.m.; dance, 7:45-10 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648.

early bird MatH: Inquisitive minds explore mathematic concepts with books, songs, games and activities. Richmond Free Library, 11 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 434-3036.

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ballrooM & latin danCinG: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269.

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HoMework Help: See WED.27, 3-6 p.m. little dribblers basketball proGraM: Drive to the hoop! Preschoolers through first graders learn new skills in a supportive environment.

Gymnasium, 4:45 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 868-3970. story tiMe witH traCey CaMpbell pearson: A reading of Elephant's Story and other tales by the author captivates little listeners and inspires related art activities. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

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Matt Duran autograph SeSSion: The New York Yankees third baseman delights baseball fans of all ages with the signing of various memorabilia.

Main Street Sports Cards, Winooski, 3-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 655-5751.

theater

the Logger'S hoLiDay Variety Show: Backed by his band the Fellers, Rusty DeWees leads an evening of music, comedy and acting featuring special guest Uncle Furmon. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $24. Info, 775-0903.

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authorS work the StackS: Sarah Stewart Taylor, Howard Norman, Linda Urban and other wordsmiths recommend must-have titles — including copies of their own books. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.

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thankSgiVing weekenD of the artS: putney craft tour: See FRI.29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. woMen'S feStiVaL of craftS: Unique handmade wares by more than 75 local female artisans reflect a wide array of creative skills. See calendar spotlight. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 864-7528.

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'the nutcracker': Local dance students join members of the Albany Berkshire Ballet in this holiday classic about a young girl's magical Christmas Eve dream. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m. $19-41. Info, 863-5966.

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FlynnSpace, Burlington, reception, 6:30 p.m.; show, 8 p.m. $20; cash bar. Info, 863-5966.

harVeStfeSt: See WED.27, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

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rutLanD winter farMerS Market: More than 50 vendors sell local produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at the bustling indoor venue. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 753-7269.

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herBaL faciaLS: DIY enthusiasts beat seasonal stress and dry skin by making scrubs, cleansers, toners and moisturizers. City Market, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5-10; preregister at citymarket. coop; limited space. Info, 861-9700. kung fu with DaViD McnaLLy: The seconddegree black belt brings 25 years of experience to a practice of the martial art's five-animals style. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 10:45-11:45 a.m. $14. Info, 870-0361. r.i.p.p.e.D.: See WED.27. North End Studio A, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

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hoLiDay artiSanS Bazaar: See WED.27, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. hoLiDay craft fair: Homemade crafts and specialty food items showcase the skills of local vendors and delight gift givers. georgia Elementary & Middle School, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 893-7297.

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hot chocoLate taSting: Folks warm up with sips of traditional, peppermint, spicy Aztec and old world varieties of this cold-weather treat. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store, Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1808.

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music

anima: The female choral group interpret a varied repertoire in "Waiting for the Light: Ancient Music for the Dark Season." Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 899-3478.

HoT Tuna: Formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, the legendary blues-rock band delivers acoustic and electric originals alongside traditional tunes. Foeger Ballroom, Jay Peak Resort, 8:30 p.m. $45; limited space. Info, 748-2600.

THanKsgiVing WeeKenD oF THe arTs: puTney craFT Tour: See FRI.29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

russian play Time WiTH naTasHa: Kiddos up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

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belly Dance WiTH emily piper: Drawing from ancient traditions and far-reaching cultural influences, participants tap into meditation and self-compassion. Comfortable clothing required. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 5-6:30 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

'THe nuTcracKer': See SAT.30, 1 p.m.

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mT. Hunger HiKe: Stunning views of the Green Mountains and New Hampshire's White Mountains reward hikers' efforts. Contact trip leader for details. Mount Hunger, Waterbury, 8 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, larsen007@aol.com.

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THanKsgiVing arTs WeeKenD: 'auTumn porTraiTs': Sandglass Theater presents Eric Bass' award-winning puppet piece. Sandglass Theater, Putney, 7:30 p.m. $13-16. Info, 387-4051.

THe logger's HoliDay VarieTy sHoW: See FRI.29, 8 p.m.

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inDies FirsT: VermonT auTHors WorKing For pHoenix booKs: An all-star cast of local writers including Rusty DeWees, James Kochalka, Howard Frank Mosher and others occupy the stacks to share literary gift-giving advice. See phoenixbooks. biz for details. Phoenix Books Burlington, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 448-3350.

Tracey meDeiros: Foodies join the author of The Vermont Farm Table Cookbook, who discusses local recipes and dishes out tasty samples. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.

r.i.p.p.e.D. Demo class: An introduction to this high-intensity workout explores the relationship between resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance and diet. Aspire Studio, Essex Junction, 8:45-9:45 a.m. Free. Info, 279-2842.

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outdoors

mT. mansFielD HiKe: Nature lovers conquer Vermont's highest peak on a moderately paced 6.3-mile trek. Contact trip leader for details. Mount Mansfield State Forest, Stowe, 8 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 578-3980.

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norDic sKi race: Freestyle skiers take advantage of Craftsbury Outdoor Center's snow-making operation on 2K, 5K and 10K courses at this season opener. See craftsbury.com for details.

Craftsbury Outdoor Center, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. $5-25 includes lunch. Info, 586-7767. rí rá sanTa 5K run & WalK: Throngs of revelers decked out as St. Nick dash through downtown Burlington in a road race benefiting Camp Ta-Kum-Ta. A traditional Irish breakfast follows. Rí Rá Irish Pub, Burlington, 10 a.m. $40-50 includes Santa suit and breakfast; preregister. Info, 905-639-8053 or 860-9401.

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Vcam access orienTaTion: Video-production hounds learn basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

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aDulT Jazz combos perFormance: Musicians culminate 12 weeks of practice with a live show.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free to attend; suggested $5 donations benefit the FlynnArts Scholarship Fund. Info, 863-5966.

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3D prinTing, Designing & scanning WiTH blu-bin: Instruction in basic programs teaches attendees how to build digital models of their ideas. Blu-Bin, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 345-6030.

aiKiDo WiTH sensei ryan miller: Students tap into personal empowerment during an exploration of the Japanese martial art's self-defense techniques.

2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

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FrencH conVersaTion group: DimancHes: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free.

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A z his home state to perform A TG RE T C O UR T communiTy breaKFasT: The Ladies ESy OF JAR a benefit show for the Auxiliary hosts a hearty start to the day for Vergennes Opera House. Vergennes Opera members and nonmembers alike. VFW Post, Essex House, cash bar, 6:30 p.m.; show, 7:30 p.m. $25; Junction, 9-11 a.m. $3-6. Info, 878-0700. cash bar. Info, 877-6737. lúnasa WiTH Karan casey: Accompanied by the award-winning vocalist, one of Ireland's most accomplished traditional groups channels the essence of the Emerald Isle. See calendar spotlight. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $18-32. Info, 476-8188.

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Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. $15 suggested donation. Info, 671-4569. spiriTual Healing & energy-upliFTing meDiTaTion: Drawing on 20 years of experience, Cynthia Warwick Seiler facilitates this lighthearted session aimed at accessing intuition, clarity and awareness. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m.noon. $15 suggested donation. Info, 671-4569.

holidays

HoliDay arTisans bazaar: See WED.27, noon3 p.m. maple VieW Farm alpacas HoliDay open House: See SAT.30, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

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aDulT auDiTions For 'les misérables': Thespians showcase their skills for consideration in Lyric Theatre Company's upcoming production of the musical phenomenon based on Victor Hugo's eponymous novel. Participants must be 15 years old by January 31, 2014. The Schoolhouse, South Burlington, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-4599.

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Info, 525-8842.

bring a boTTle Wine aucTion: Auctioneer Jenny Day entertains oenophiles, who bid on bottles of their choice. Gourmet hors d'oeuvres and music round out this fundraiser for RU12?

Community Center. BCA Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Bottle of wine for the auction. Info, 860-7812, kim@ru12.org.

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Women'S ancient Ritual Folk DanceS: Ladies learn international circle and line dances from centuries past. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 5:15-6:45 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 978-424-7968.

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Robin HooD tax teacH-in: As part of World AIDS Week, a students and educators gather to discuss the proposed tax on international bankers, the profits from which would tackle poverty and climate change. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

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cHeSS & bRiDge clinic: Monty Montgomery shares his expertise with players in a supportive environment. Vermont Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. tRivia nigHt: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.

health & fitness

avoiD FallS WitH imPRoveD Stability: See FRI.29, 10 a.m. aWaReneSS tHRougH movement: FelDenkRaiS WitH uWe meSteR: Increased flexibility and range of motion allow participants to address habitual neuromuscular patterns. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, noon-1 p.m. $14.

Info, 870-0361.

laugHteR yoga: Giggles help students decrease stress and tap into a playful practice. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 888492-8218, ext. 300.

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PRenatal yoga: Sila Rood leads expectant mothers in poses and stretches focused on preparing the body for birth. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 7 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

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'FReeDom anD unity: tHe veRmont movie: PaRt Six': "People's Power" tackles contemporary tensions over energy, independence, the environment and the state's future. Bliss Auditorium, St. Albans Historical Museum, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966.

HeRbal caRe FoR tRauma & PtSD: Elliot Lloyd presents alternative therapies for moving through acute and long-term trauma. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

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DEC 31, 7pM • Spruce Peak Center for the Arts

'FinDing tHe miRacle' gatHeRing: Group meditation, journaling and excerpts from "A Course in Miracles" help attendees access an intuitive, holistic lifestyle. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 7:30 a.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 861-4769. tibetan Singing & Healing boWl meDitation: Using multitonal frequencies, Kirk Maris Jones accesses the power of the ancient instruments.

Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $9 suggested donation. Info, 671-4569.

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king StReet centeR HoliDay DinneR: King Street Center kids and families share conversation and camaraderie over a hearty meal. Gymnasium, King Street Center, Burlington, 5:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, kelli@kingstreetcenter.org.

WinteR HoliDay PaRty WitH uvm ZeSt: An a cappella concert sets a festive mood for library and cookie decorating activities that follow. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 2-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

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alice in nooDlelanD: Youngsters get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. imagination Station: Kiddos craft original creations with Legos and other building materials at this arts-and-crafts session. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. muSic WitH PeteR: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:45 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918.

StoRieS WitH megan: Little ones expand their imaginations through tales, songs and rhymes.

Daycare programs welcome with one caregiver for every two children. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216.

StuDent matinee SeRieS: 'teacHeR FRom black lagoon': Theatreworks USA entertains students in grades K through 3 with brief musical adaptations of nine children's books. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. & noon. $8. Info, 863-5966.

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miRiam beRnaRDo & JaiRo SequeiRa: Inspired by the Nueva Canción movement of the late Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, the vocalist and guitarist present varied folk selections in "Protest Songs: Music of Latin America." UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7766.

RecoRDeR-Playing gRouP: Musicians produce early folk, baroque and swing-jazz melodies. New and potential players welcome. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net.

SambatucaDa! oPen ReHeaRSal: New faces are invited to pitch in as Burlington's samba streetpercussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

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veRmont libeRtaRian PaRty toWn caucuS: A gathering welcomes Milton voters who have not yet participated in a caucus this year. Private residence, Milton, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 734-7592, clint_7@yahoo.com. veRmont PoliticS SPeakeR SeRieS: Local professionals ranging from reporters to state government officials past and present weigh in on relevant topics. Ellsworth Room, Willey Library & Learning Center, Johnson State College, 4:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 635-1408, events.jsc.edu.

talks

lyDia WillougHby: The librarian discusses the realm of digital library futures as part of the Emergent Landscape Speaker Series. Miller Information Commons, Champlain College, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 866-282-7259.

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HaRRiet Scott cHeSSman: The acclaimed author explores the intersection of three lives in rural New Hampshire in The Beauty of Ordinary Things. A book signing follows. Abernathy Room, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5000.

SHaPe & SHaRe liFe StoRieS: Prompts from Recille Hamrell trigger recollections of specific

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Trans-Pacific ParTnErshiP rally & DEmonsTraTion: Like-minded locals voice opinions about the controversial international trade agreement. Corner of Broad and Beekman Streets, Plattsburgh, N.Y., noon. Free. Info, 518-561-0291.

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swing DancE PracTicE sEssion: Twinkle-toed participants get moving in different styles, such as the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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by Debby DuBay complement tasty fare and door prizes at this benefit for the organization. Mr. Twitter's Garden & Gift Emporium, Rutland, 5:307:30 p.m. Free to attend; $5 per appraised item.

Info, 773-4003 or 773-0795.

film

'frEEDom anD UniTy: ThE vErmonT moviE: ParT six': See MON.02. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $12.

Info, 760-4634.

PEacE & PoPcorn: Cinema buffs peruse the Peace and Justice Center's video library and choose the evening's film. Peace and Justice Center, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6.

'ThE sTaTE of arizona': Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini's documentary captures the complex issues surrounding illegal immigration at the state's border. Stearns Cinema, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1200.

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gaming for TEEns & aDUlTs: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels. Ages 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

BEaTing ThE sUgar BlUEs: Health coach Marie Frohlich gives traditional treats a makeover and invites participants to bring favorite recipes to do the same. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

family-friEnDly yoga wiTh DEBorah fElmETh: Meditation, Vinyasa-style asana, chanting and yogic philosophy help parents tap into creative expression. Kiddos ages 3 through 5 do the same at an art class across the hall. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 9-10:30 a.m. $14; $25 includes kids art class; preregister. Info, 870-0361.

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sysTEma wiTh ryan millEr: An in-depth exploration of breath and natural movement informs this individualized approach to the Russian martial art. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 7-8:15 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

holidays

DEcK ThE halls: Families tap into the holiday spirit with decorated trees, musical performances, games, a candy-cane hunt, DIY holiday cards and more. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum, 1-4 p.m. $3-10. Info, 985-3346. winTEr crafT sEriEs: Folks make a balsam pillow and stocking at a drop-in creative session with Susan Highley. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 10 a.m. $6.75. Info, 775-0570, ext. 202. fall sTory TimE: See WED.27, 10 a.m. 'hoBBEs goEs homE' BooK laUnch & signing: Bruce Zeman and Tami Crupi-Zeman share the animal-shelter adventures of Hobbes the dachshund with listeners young and old. Partial proceeds benefit the Addison County Humane Society. Homeward Bound Animal Welfare Center, Middlebury, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-1100. liTTlE DriBBlErs BasKETBall Program: See FRI.29, 5:15 p.m.

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PrEschool sTory TimE & crafT: Books and creative projects help little ones tap into their imaginations and gain early literacy skills. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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sPanish mUsical sTory TimE: Niños up to age 5 learn songs, stories and dance en español with native Argentinian Constancia Gómez. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. sTory TimE wiTh corEy: Read-aloud books and crafts led by store employee Corey Bushey engage young minds. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 764-1810. sTory TimE for 3- To 5-yEar-olDs: Preschoolers stretch their reading skills through activities involving puppets and books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. sTory TimE for BaBiEs & ToDDlErs: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of kids under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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sTUDEnT maTinEE sEriEs: cirqUE alfonsE: 'TimBEr!': Lumberjack skills meet aerial acrobatics in this unique circus featuring awe-inspiring feats of strength and agility from the famed Québécois performers. For grades 2 through 12. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, noon. $8. Info, 863-5966.

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sKi BETTEr, sKi sTrongEr: Certified Rolfer Robert Rex leads stretching and bodywork modified for improving skiers' overall performance on the mountain. Loose, comfortable clothing and yoga mat recommended. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

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Catamount Winter ConCert: David Neiweem directs UVM's Catamount Singers in the choir's annual winter performance. St. Paul's Cathedral, Burlington, 12:15-1 p.m. Free; bring a bag lunch.

Info, 864-0471. milton Community Band rehearsals: New members are welcome as the band prepares for its December holiday concert. Milton Elementary School, 7-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1398. spanish Brass: The acclaimed ensemble delivers a far-reaching repertoire that ranges from Spanish and American spirituals to Bach, Duke Ellington and beyond. See calendar spotlight. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. $10-15.

Info, 468-1119.

politics

vermont liBertarian party toWn CauCus: A gathering welcomes Colchester voters who have not yet participated in a caucus this year. Private residence, Colchester, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 734-4270, spencerdcsherman@gmail.com.

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ChuCk ross: Vermont's secretary of agriculture discusses current issues facing local farms — including emergency and disaster preparedness.

Q&A follows. Emory Hebard State Office Building, Newport, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 272-0822. mansour FarhanG: The former Iranian ambassador to the UN considers volatile political climates in "The Struggle for Democracy in the Arab World." Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6955.

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Cirque alFonse: 'timBer!': Inspired by lumberjacks, loggers and farmers, the famed Québécois acrobats deliver a one-of-a-kind circus accompanied by live French Canadian folk music. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15-36. Info, 863-5966.

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Book disCussion: 'literary reFleCtions on islam': UVM professor Bogac Ergene elicits opinions about Orhan Pamuk's Snow. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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nonproFit diGital skill share Workshop: Rob Fish facilitates an open format aimed at utilizing technology's full potential for individualized publicity and fundraising. St. Albans Free Library, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-6091, rob@ vtrural.org.

dance

'takinG FliGht': Middlebury College professor Christal Brown facilitates a show of experimental dance pieces from student choreographers. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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teChnoloGy drop-in day: Library patrons learn to navigate the new catalog system and how to download e-books and audiobooks. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 1-5 p.m. Free.

film

Cost oF War Film series: 'Where soldiers Come From': Shot over the course of four years, Heather Courtney's Emmy Award-winning documentary traces the journey of childhood friends from northern Michigan to Afghanistan and back. Bradford Public Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

'Freedom and unity: the vermont movie: part six': See MON.02. Bliss Auditorium. Gateway Center, Newport, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966.

food & drink

Candy-Cane-makinG demonstration: See WED.27, 11 a.m.

health & fitness

BreakinG throuGh illusion: karma, emptiness and the 12 links oF dependent arisinG: Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi leads techniques and practices aimed at liberating the self from the cycle of suffering. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:30-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 633-4136.

Creative FloW yoGa With deBorah Felmeth: See WED.27, 5:30-7 p.m. kundalini yoGa With Callie peGues: See WED.27, 9-10:15 a.m. mark BoWen: The longtime Shambhala teacher presents "Am I Really That Busy?: Obstacles and Anecdotes to Meditation Practice." Montpelier Shambhala Center, 7:15 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, cathy@suskin.com. open Chakras.. open hips: trust the Bones yoGa series With sansea sparlinG: See WED.27, 3:30-4:45 p.m. open meditation: See WED.27, 8:30-9:30 a.m. r.i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.27, 6-7 p.m. yoGa Class: See WED.27, 5-6:30 p.m.

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Deck the halls: See TUE.03, 1-4 p.m. essex Junction train hop & tree lighting: Folks take a ride on the "Roaming Railroad" to local businesses, where they view model-train displays.

Visits with Santa and the village center tree lighting round out the annual event. Various locations, Essex Junction, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. holiDay artisans Bazaar: See WED.27, 5-8 p.m.

kids

BaBy & Me story tiMe: See WED.27, 10:30 a.m.

BaBytiMe playgroup: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 876-7555.

Book talks for hoMeschoolers: Students in grades 4 to 8 discuss titles from this year’s Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award list. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 878-6956. fall story tiMe: See WED.27, 11:15 a.m. hoMework help: See WED.27, 2-5 p.m.

Meet rockin' ron the frienDly pirate: See WED.27, 10-10:45 a.m.

Moving & grooving with christine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and worldbeat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. preschool art class: See WED.27, 10-11 a.m. reaD to coco: Budding bookworms share words with the licensed reading-therapy dog. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-4665. story hour with tracey caMpBell pearson: A reading of the local author's Elephant's Story delights little listeners. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 985-3999. story tiMe & playgroup: See WED.27, 10-11:30 a.m. story tiMe at the aquariuM: hiBernation: Just how long is a "long winter's nap?"

Preschoolers explore winter survival strategies with a tale and themed crafts. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m. Free with admission, $9.50-12.50. Info, 877-324-6386.

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Ben chase: Referencing his travels in Muslim countries, the former Montpelier Episcopal rector explores Islamic societies' diverse interpretations of foundational beliefs. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

JaMes heffernan: "In Want of a Wife: Romance and Realism in Pride and Prejudice," presented by the Dartmouth College professor emeritus, examines themes in Jane Austen's classic novel.

Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

Jere Daniell: The historian considers the influence of lumbering, log drives and paper mills in the Upper Connecticut River Valley. Greater Hartford United Church of Christ, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 295-3077.

John stauffer: In "Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln," the Civil War scholar examines the legacies of the influential historical figures. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. reeve linDBergh: The author and daughter of aviator Charles reflects on four decades of her mother's previously unpublished musings in "Rowing Against Wind and Tide: The Journals and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh." Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902. woDen teachout: A discussion of historical study by the author, historian and professor outlines the intellectual and cultural benefits of revisiting the past. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

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aDult auDitions for 'les MiséraBles': See SUN.01, 5:45 p.m. 'it's a wonDerful life: a live raDio play': Five versatile actors join forces with a soundeffects ace to bring Frank Capra's classic holiday story to life. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10-15; free for kids 11 and under with paying adult; infants and toddlers not admitted to theater. Info, 229-0492.

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aMaryllis: verMont's early voice: Susanne Peck directs members in "Laudibus! A Renaissance Choral 'winter tales': Cristina Alicea RM Christmas," featuring Nicholas ON directs this seasonal celebration T Gombert's Magnificat and other ST AGE of stories and songs featuring COMPANY notable works. Trinity Episcopal Church, Vermont Stage Company actors Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. $12 suggested donation. and folk singer Patti Casey. FlynnSpace, Burlington, Info, 453-3513.

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Jeffrey Salisbury directs student drummers in a spirited performance. UVM Southwick Ballroom, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-7776.

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frank Bryan: Hit the road! The UVM professor emeritus details the cultural and historical impact of the interstate highway system on Vermont.

Congregational Church, Norwich, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.

'white christMas': Carol Dunne directs this Northern Stage interpretation of the holiday film about two World War II veterans who bring their theatrical show to Vermont to win over the singing Haynes sisters. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $10-60. Info, 296-7000.

natalie MacMaster: Fiddling and world-class step dancing complement powerful vocals in the Nova Scotia native's ode to her roots, "Christmas in Cape Breton." Barre Opera House, 7 p.m. $20-58.

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DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/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, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa.

Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now!

Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.: intermediate, 8:159:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class.

Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

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TAIKO, DJEMBE & CONGAS!: Taiko drumming in Burlington!

Tuesday Taiko Adult Classes begin Dec. 3 & Jan. 28, 5:306:30 p.m., $72/6 weeks. Kids Classes begin on the same dates, 4:30-5:20 p.m. $60/6 weeks.

Djembe classes start Dec. 13, & Jan. 17, 6 p.m., $60/4 weeks, $18/class. Montpelier Djembe classes start Jan. 2, 7:30-8:30 p.m., $54/3 weeks! Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington & Lane Shops Community Room, 13 N. Franklin St., Montpelier.

Info: Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com, burlingtontaiko.org.

gardening MASTER GARDENER 2014 COURSE: Learn the keys to a healthy and sustainable home landscape as University of Vermont faculty and experts focus on gardening in Vermont.

This noncredit course covers a wide variety of horticultural topics: fruit and vegetable production, flower gardening, botany basics, plant pests, soil fertility, disease management, healthy lawns, invasive plant control, introduction to home landscaping, and more! Weekly on Tue., Feb. 4-Apr. 29, 6:15-9 p.m. $395/ person includes Sustainable Gardening book. (Noncredit course). Location: Various locations, Bennington, Brattleboro, Johnson, Lyndon, Montpelier, Middlebury, Newport, Randolph Ctr., Rutland, Springfield, St. Albans, White River Jct.,

Williston. Info: 656-9562, master.gardener@uvm.edu, uvm. edu/mastergardener.

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ART/WORD JOURNAL: We all have a story to tell. We will be turning a vintage book into a journal and work of art as well as picking up some mixed media tips along the way. Bring an old book (that will be taken apart) and if you have an image that you feel represents yourself, please bring it. Supplies provided. Dec. 7, 11 a.m. Cost: $40/person. Location: Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 488-5766, info@vintageinspired. net, vintageinspired.net.

WOOD SUP BUILDING: We’re opening our shop to stand-up paddleboard enthusiasts ready for the challenge of building their own personalized wooden SUP. Our craftsmen have dedicated SUP stations for individuals willing to work hands-on to create their own boards; from wood skeleton to fiberglass. Work is mentored by skilled shop foremen. Tue. &/or Thu. evenings. 6-9 p.m., + 1 weekend. Cost: $1460/2 mos. desk space & materials.

Location: Tao Woodworking, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Tao Woodworking, Duane Albro, 9993075, duane@taowoodworking. com, taowoodworking.com.

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KIDS: JAZZY JEWELS: Come make some impressive jewelry using a variety of materials including rolled paper beads, glass beads and more. Learn some professional tricks to make your wearable art spectacular!

Instructor: Kim Desjardins. Ages 9-12. Dec. 7, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

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B-TRU DANCE W/ DANIELLE VARDAKAS DUSZKO: B-Tru is focused on hip-hop, funkstyles (poppin, locking, waaking), breakin’, dance hall, belly dance and lyrical dance. Danielle Vardakas Duszko has trained with originators in these styles, performed and battled throughout the world. Classes and camps age 4-adult. She is holding a Hip-Hop Yoga Dance 200-hour teacher training this fall/winter. $50/ mo. Ask about family discounts.

Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington.

Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com.

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DIY NIGHT: WRAPPING PAPER, BAGS & TAGS: Co-owner of New Duds Tessa Valyou will help you print your own wrapping paper with premade silkscreens designs that are ready to print.

Fold paper into handmade gift bags, make customize gift tags. A great class to get in the holiday mood. Plenty of time to make multiples. No experience needed. Ages 16 and up.

Instructor: Tessa Valyou. Dec. 12, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

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ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Join us for adult spanish classes this winter.

Our seventh year. learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking. lesson packages for travelers. also lessons for young children; they love it! see our website or contact us for details. Beginning wk. of Jan. 6 for 10 wks. Cost: $225/10 classes of 90+ mins. each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

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method to get in shape and reduce stress. We also offer classes for children ages 5-12. classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus sensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certified aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome. We offer adult classes 7 days a wk. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. Info: 9518900, burlingtonaikido.org.

AIkIdO CLASSES: aikido trains body and spirit, promoting flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others, and confidence in oneself. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington.

Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org.

AIkIdO IN BALANCE: learn how to manifest balance internally and externally. Move with grace and precision. Begin the study of observing your own mind.:) Tue. & Thu., 7-9 p.m. Cost: $10/class, $65 for monthly membership.

Location: Tao Motion Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info:

Aikido in Balance, tyler crandall, 598-9204, tyler@aikidoinbalance.com, aikidoinbalance.com.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. accept no imitations. learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, cBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under carlson Gracie sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! a 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro state champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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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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. Meditation instruction avail. sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & Thu., noon-1

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The shambhala cafe meets 1st sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. an open house occurs 3rd Fri. of ea. mo., 7-9 p.m., which incl. an intro to the center, a short dharma talk & socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

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high energy class uses ballet barres, small hand weights and mats for a one-hour wonderfully intense workout. change your body in just a few hours every week, led by a friendly, licensed instructor. Build strength and cardio, and create long, lean muscles while lifting your seat.

Daily. Cost: $15/1-hr. class.

Location: Studio 208, A Lifestyle Community, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3K, Burlington. Info: Burlington Barre at Studio 208, 862-8686, corestudioburlington@gmail. com, burlingtonbarrevt.com.

shamanism awakening the heaLer within: In many shamanic traditions there is an understanding that the role of the shaman is to awaken the Healer that lives in the heart of every person.

In this workshop we will journey to meet the Healer Within and consider ways we may awaken the Healer. Register by Dec. 5.

Sat., Dec. 7, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Cost: $35/3-hr. class. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., Burlington. Info: JourneyWorks, Michael Watson, 860-6203,

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stress reduction art of fLoating away stress: learn the art of letting go and releasing holiday stress while floating like a cork in a warm epsom salt bath. Our comfort controlled samadhi Floatation Tank provides the solitary peace and quiet needed for complete relaxation and effortless meditation. Unique gift idea! Instant gift certificates avail. online. By appt. Cost:

$50/person; multiple-session discounts. Location: Satori Float Spa, 145 Pine Haven Shores Rd. No. 1135, Shelburne. Info: Satori Float Spa, Rahn Bouffard, 4985555, rahn@satorifloatspa.com, satorifloatspa.com.

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Seven Days gets more album submissions than we know what to do with. And, given the ease of record making these days, it’s difficult to keep up.

Still, we try to get to every local release that comes across the music desk, no matter how obscure or far out.

To that end, here are four albums that likely flew under the radar of your average Vermont music fan. In some cases, they represent the outermost boundaries of local music. Others simply slipped through the cracks. But each is worth a listen.

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(Self-released, CD) The Heckhounds had no plans for a third album. But a funny thing happened when Madtech Sound’s Bennett Shapiro hit the record button during a gig last year at the Memorial Bandstand in Middlesex. The resulting recording sounded great, capturing the central Vermont countryblues band in their element and producing an album, Live From a Garage Without Walls, that serves as a worthy live companion to the band’s previous studio records, Bad Dog (2009) and For the Price of a Haircut (2011).

Fans of those records will find a lot to like on Live From a Garage. The disc features 11 choice originals mostly culled from their earlier works, as well as a hopped-up cover of American blues singer R.L. Burnside’s “Poor Black Mattie” — redubbed “Poor Black Maddie” here. Though a trio on their earlier recordings, the group has bulked up, adding upright bassist Dave Mayette and organist Dan Romeo to the core of songwriter-vocalists Hal Mayforth and Michael Murdock and drummer Kevin Morrison. The result is a more muscular sound that retains the band’s endearing casual vibe. reverbnation.com/theheckhounds

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(Stick Shift Records, CD, digital download) On the follow-up to its debut comp, First Gear: Feminism in the Northeast, released earlier this year, local punk imprint Stick Shift Records goes global. The Burlington-

based DIY microlabel combed the four corners of the earth for Clarion Call: A Stick Shift Records Compilation, and wound up with submissions from bands in seven countries: New Zealand, Portugal, Brazil, France, Ireland, England and these United States — the last represented by bands from eight different states, including Vermont.

Much like Stick Shift’s maiden comp, Clarion Call is first and foremost characterized by its politics. Regardless of national origin, each of the 17 bands represented share the label’s hardcore feminist ideals. But that’s not to say the record’s punk aesthetic is an afterthought. The comp is by turns bracing, aggressive and confrontational, comprising a bruising compendium of punk styles from old school to thrash to riot grrrl and beyond. And the local entry from Gorgon — that’s label founder Kelly Riel’s postDoll Fight! outfit — sits well alongside more polished fare from the likes of New Zealand’s Penny Dreadfuls, Brooklyn’s Girlcrush and Connecticut’s Damn Broads. stickshiftrecords.bandcamp.com

THE BAYLEY-HAZEN BOYS, ANOTHER BLUE RIBBON (Self-released, CD, digital download)

The songs found on Another Blue Ribbon, the debut offering from Vermont-based trio the Bayley-Hazen Boys, sound as though they were written during the heyday of Green Mountain rumrunners. Indeed, this is mountain music that recalls a bygone era, colorful tunes that hearken to Prohibition, old railroads and log drives. However, save for a scant handful of tunes by bluegrass icons Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley, these songs are originals, written in the current century. That they genuinely evoke a long past era of American music is a credit to both the songwriting prowess and performances of their creators, locals Steven Wright and Gary Darling.

Wright (banjo) and Darling (mandolin) are longtime staples of the local bluegrass scene. Aided by bassist Chris Cruger, they form a brilliant trio whose fine instrumental chops are ably matched by their sweet harmonies and easy melodies. Joining the picking party are guests Bob Amos

SCA WITH SEE (banjo), Haze Smith (guitar) and Patrick Ross (fiddle), all ace players. The result is a humble gem of timeless North Country Americana. cdbaby.com/cd/thebayleyhazenboys

THE CARING BABIES, BUTTER ON THE TRESTLE/ PLIABLE TONES, THE LOST ADVENTURES OF THE SPACE PATROL (Robot Octopus Vs. Zombie Teddy Bears Records, CD, cassette, digital download) When last we heard from Matt Mazur and Redgei’s the Caring Babies, the White River Junction-based duo delivered a delightfully offbeat seven-inch, The Gold Friends. At a brisk four songs, the record was an exercise in experimental pop efficiency. It’s only logical, then, that they’d follow it up with a veritable epic, the 17-track Butter on the Trestle, a recording that picks up where that seven-inch left off and delves even further down the lo-fi electropop rabbit hole — with the aid of an array of musical tour guides, no less, including unicorns and robots. And beards.

Long, luxurious beards.

But the Caring Babies are only half of the story. Butter on the Trestle is Side A of a split cassette with fellow Upper Valley oddball Pliable Tones — aka Fred Polizzi — who complements the Babies’ hefty volume with a sci-fi opus of his own, The Lost Adventures of the Space Patrol.

But where Mazur and Redgei generally favor wistful pop couched in playful electronic bleeps and bloops, Polizzi takes a more sinister tack with ethereal suites that evoke the dark, synth-heavy soundtracks of 1980s sci-fi flicks such as Blade Runner and Escape From New York. thecaringbabies.bandcamp.com;pliable-tones.bandcamp. com

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I’m thankful the local comedy scene … well, exists. A quick anecdote: Last Saturday evening, I happened by the Monkey House with my sister and my girlfriend, Sarah. We weren’t there for a show, just for a quiet beer. Before long, comedian Josie Leavitt walked in.

She stopped, clearly surprised to see me.

“Are you here for the gay show?” she asked, incredulously.

“Uh, I wasn’t aware there was a gay show,” I replied. “I guess I am now?”

(Confession: Just because I compile the club listings every week doesn’t mean I have any clue what’s happening on any given night at any given club.

That’s because once the paper comes out, my mind is already on next week’s issue. Though, in fairness, you’d think “the gay show” might have stuck in my memory.)

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Hell, even sleepy Calais got a cool new hotspot since last we ran this column — the Whammy Bar. I’m equally thankful for the old guard, the clubs that have provided a scene-wide foundation for years.

Nectar’s and Club Metronome, Higher Ground, Radio Bean, the Monkey House, Charlie O’s, Positive Pie, the Bee’s Knees, Tupelo Music Hall. This list could go on for a while.

I’m also thankful for independent promoters such as Angioplasty Media, MSR Presents, 2K Deep, Nexus Artists, the Vermont Comedy Club and many others who have identified unfilled niches and, instead of whining about how no bands they want to see come to Burlington — which is what most of us do — just go out and make it happen.

I’m thankful for the completely random trend of surf bands emerging in Vermont this year. I don’t think I’d want to explain the phenomenon, even if I could.

I’m thankful for the doctors and staff in the cancer center at Fletcher Allen Health Care. I love you, mom.

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When I first started in the esteemed employ of Seven Days some six-plus years back, the Thanksgiving week column terrified me. Take a look at the club listings and you’ll see why. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Notice anything? No? Exactly.

With apologies to karaoke nights and cover bands, there is very little on the local music docket during Thanksgiving week that you could call newsworthy.

And there rarely is. For a variety of reasons, Thanksgiving week — and the weekend, especially — is traditionally the slowest of the year on the club front.

If you need proof, witness that Higher Ground isn’t even open again until Thursday, December 5.

That’s a bit of problem for a columnist who makes a living opining on local music. So for the first year or two I that helmed this piece of editorial real estate, I summoned all the bullshitting powers I’d honed in high school English classes to tease out a reasonable facsimile of a column from one or two mildly interesting tidbits, items that would be borderline column fodder at best on a normal week. Those columns, to the surprise of no one, sucked.

So, necessity being the mother of invention, a few years ago I started using the Thanksgiving week column to acknowledge some of things about our cozy li’l music scene that I’m grateful for. Lo and behold, it’s become my favorite column to write each year, ironically because I often find myself with too much to write about.

So here it is, and I’ll even try to sprinkle in some newsy tidbits along the way.

First things first: I’m thankful for family and friends, old and new. And for Buckley. Whosagooboy?

I’m thankful for the swell of new and newly renovated music venues that have popped up all over Vermont this year. In Burlington alone, we’ve seen the rise of ArtsRiot, the rebirth of the Skinny Pancake, the relocation of Venue and the introduction of innumerable studio spaces, including Jenke Arts and Angioplasty. In Montpelier, Sweet Melissa’s is proving to be a welcome new addition in a beloved old space.

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economic and cultural power of locally conscious sentiment in the town as a whole,” Fallows wrote in a September piece.

He’s right. The reason 7D remains vital is that this community is vital.

Fallows followed up that piece with another one identifying Burlington as one of a new breed of small city defined by, among other qualities, great natural beauty, a supportive arts scene, entrepreneurial spirit and progressive ethics.

In other words, we’re here because you are — even if the local music scene is taking the week off.

Another quick anecdote: Last Thursday, I ran into an old friend at KELLY RAVIN’s CD release show at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge. Ravin, by the way, was excellent, as were the CONCRETE RIVALS, the Montpelier-based surf-metal band that opened the show. (See? Surf!)

As we chatted by the back bar, I noted how impressed I was with Ravin’s set. My friend grinned and nodded.

“You know,” he said. “I think right now is about as good as it gets.”

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have in Vermont. And it was great, an unexpected pleasure. Unfortunately, we had to split before Leavitt’s headlining set. But I think I found a new local favorite in HILARY BOONE, who was simply delightful. And that probably wouldn’t have happened as recently as two years ago. But now you can happen into an empty Winooski bar on a quiet Saturday and all of a sudden a comedy show breaks out. That’s pretty great.

I’m thankful for Sarah, who has smilingly accompanied me to more of those shows than I’m sure she wanted to. Love ya, babe.

I’m thankful to live in a place where a print newspaper, that media dinosaur, plays such an important role in its community. Earlier this year, JAMES FALLOWS, a distinguished correspondent with the Atlantic, visited Burlington as part of a series on American cities. He was particularly taken by the fact that not only is Seven Days not going belly-up, as so many others have recently — RIP, Boston Phoenix — the paper is thriving.

“What has kept the paper going, and growing, seems connected to the

He went on to talk about the inevitable ebb and flow of the Vermont music scene. He would know, since he’s been active in it since the early 1980s — or, put another way, about as long as some of the guys onstage have been alive.

“It always comes and goes in waves,” he continued. “But right now, I can’t recall a time when there was this much good stuff happening here.”

I think he’s right. I grew up here in the 1990s, so that locally legendary scene will always be special to me. I was an active musician in the mid-2000s, so I’m partial to that era of Burlington music, too. I’m sure other scenesters of varying vintages would have their own favorite eras.

But I honestly can’t recall a time when there was a greater embarrassment of musical riches in Vermont than what we currently enjoy.

Hell, even in this “down” week, you can still catch some great local music — for example, the BLIM BLAMS, SWALE and MONOPRIX at Nectar’s this Saturday, November 30. (Full disclosure: My brother plays in that last band.)

To further drive home the point, I’m honestly considering expanding our annual Best Vermont Albums list this year from 10 to 20, or breaking it into categories, because I’m not sure how else I could feasibly do it without royally snubbing a lot of deserving artists. There has simply been that much good music made this year.

But, all things considered, that’s a hell of a great problem to have. And I’m deeply thankful for it.

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However, following that minor upset, Bucci remained something of an unknown commodity in Vermont, perhaps owing to infrequent performances on this side of the lake, or simply the navel-gazing nature of a scene that tends not to keep tabs on music in the Lake City. But on the heels

of her recently released debut album, The Road Home, it’s unlikely Bucci will remain a secret much longer. Though at times uneven, it is a sterling first attempt from a clearly gifted singersongwriter.

Bucci is not a flashy singer. She succeeds largely with a quiet reserve and measured, even tones. She is similarly direct in her songwriting, favoring understated turns of phrase and generally avoiding overwrought sentiments. That’s not to say she lacks passion. Rather, her tasteful approach allows her musings on love and life room to breathe. Her metaphors and melodies have a way of gently finding their way to the listener, rolling in like a light morning fog before dissipating under the warmth of her sunny disposition.

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Flash to the present. The band has recently reemerged with a new record, 34 Mansfield. In place of heavyweight session players, Veve and Harple are flanked by their local bandmates, including guitarist Micah Sanguedolce, bassist Ian Wade and Death’s Dannis Hackney on drums. Instead of a glitzy, la-la-land studio, the record was tracked in Harple’s old Cambridge house at the titular address. It is, in every sense, a homecoming.

The band’s debut, for all its star power and slick production, very much felt like, well, a slick, star-studded production. And maybe that wasn’t a good thing. As 34 Mansfield reveals, part of the Aerolites’ appeal stems from the band’s rough-hewn charm. Harple, especially, is a gifted but unusual songwriter who benefits when his witty, unconventional style is matched by equally off-kilter arrangements. When you buff away the imperfections, you lose the essence of what makes him, and ultimately the band, great.

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As on their debut, on 34 Mansfield the Aerolites rarely shy away from their influences, including the Allmans and Derek Trucks, among others. But that doesn’t mean they need to be those bands. 34 Mansfield outshines its predecessor precisely because the Aerolites were left to their own devices to forge their own take on Southern rock and jam molds. And they did, delivering a lively, surprising and well-crafted record that is far more Hardwick than Hollywood, and Featuring Artisanal Cellars and the wines blessedly so. of L’Argentier, an estate in Languedoc.

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In 2011, the Aerolites’ Victor Veve and Jeremy Harple holed up in a Los Angeles studio with some big-name rock talent to record what would become their band’s self-titled debut.

They returned from the left coast with cool stories about working with, among others, the Allman Brothers’ bassist Oteil Burbridge and drummer Kenny Aronoff, a well-traveled studio drummer best known for his work with the Tedeschi Trucks Band. A song from that record, “Electric Cigarette” was placed in a Dennis Quaid flick. There were rumors of major-label interest.

The Aerolites, it seemed, were on their way. But then a funny thing happened.

Nothing.

The Aerolites (the album) remained on the shelf. Aside from a story on the band in this paper prior to a release that didn’t happen, there was virtually no evidence it even existed. Seven Days would review the record a few months later, but even then it hadn’t been officially made public. The album has since appeared on the Aerolites website, but it did so with essentially no fanfare.

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Everyday Moments Mallory Bratton Rich, Left Bank Home & Garden

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allory Bratton Rich sticks mainly to one medium but manages to produce a variety of visual effects in her small show at Left Bank Home & Garden in Burlington.

Ten of the dozen works on display were executed with pastels on sanded paper. That surface has a grabby quality well suited to the sticks of pigment, which can be applied to the paper in up to 25 layers. Rich puts these properties to diverse purposes. Her impressionistic images range from foggy and darkling, as in “Mist on the Marsh,” to gently swirling (“Stickney Falls Brook”) to crisply clear (“Another View of Maine”).

Even as Rich varies the look of her compositions, her subject matter stays the same: unpeopled landscapes of Vermont, eastern New York and coastal Maine. Tranquility is a constant as well; Rich’s scenes are never stormy and seldom dramatic. Rivers flow into smooth pools; trees sway against unthreatening skies; snow glints in angled sunlight.

“I try to paint the small, everyday moments in the landscape which pass not quite unnoticed in our busy day,” Rich writes in an artist statement available at the gallery. Her aim, whether she’s painting in the studio or outdoors, is always “to capture the elusive and complex quality of light, shadow and atmosphere.”

Her pieces avoid monotony by conveying a diversity of moods: mournful, cheery, pensive. Rich attributes this evocative quality to her preferred medium, explaining, “I often use pastels because they are a little magical — as though mood was hand rolled in with the pigment.”

The artist found her métier late in life. In an interview last month with Manhattan Arts International director Renée Phillips, Rich says she was in her sixties when, “on a pure whim,” she signed up for a pastel workshop. “My whole life changed,” she adds in the interview, which can be accessed from her website.

Rich had retired from a business-writing company she’d founded and was working as a fiction writer at the time of her epiphany. Maybe the revelation of interest and talent had something to do with her marriage to Harry Rich, whom she describes as “a serious, lifelong artist.”

As if trying to compensate for lost time, the septuagenarian Sandgate resident has been the recipient of four residencies at the Vermont Studio Center. Rich has studied oil painting as well as pastels with a quartet of teachers, including Stuart Shils at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She’s represented by three galleries — one of them in Birmingham, Ala. — and has had numerous solo shows during the past 10 years.

Partly because her work doesn’t preen for attention, visitors to Left Bank won’t immediately focus on

“Santa Fe View”

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HER IMPRESSIONISTIC IMAGES RANGE FROM FOGGY AND DARKLING TO

GENTLY SWIRLING TO CRISPLY CLEAR. “Ice on the Lemoine”

“Island Fog Coming In”

Rich’s suite of pastels and pair of oils. The show’s diffidence is due more, however, to the tasteful clutter of furniture, accessories, plants, rugs, fabrics and lighting fixtures that fills the retail space located beside A Single Pebble. As Donna Bourne, an assistant to shop owner Trice Stratmann, notes, Left Bank is primarily “an eclectic mix of new, vintage and antique from around the world.”

This may not be the ideal venue for an art show as

restrained as Rich’s, but her work does feel comfortably situated. It complements, rather than competes with, the bounteous surroundings.

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Mallory Bratton Rich, Left Bank Home & Garden, Burlington.

Through January 31. leftbankhome.com, malloryrich.com

Art ShowS

ongoing burlington area

Al SAlzmAn: "subversive," paintings and drawings. Through January 17 at ArtsRiot in burlington. info, artsriot.com.

Ali moore: "Quick Draw," acrylic and collage works on paper modeled after the artist's found-junk sculptures. Through november 30 at Feldman's bagels in burlington. info, 578-2512.

Antonello BorrA & DeliA roBinSon: borra's new collection of bestiary poems, Alfabestiario, with illustrations by Robinson, is displayed alongside Robinson's new works on canvas called "The Middle sister." Through December 31 at Flynndog in burlington. info, 863-0093.

Art Hop group SHow: More than 25 artists contributed to this collaborative exhibit curated by seAbA. Through november 30 at VCAM studio in burlington. info, 859-9222.

'BolDly pAtterneD AnD SuBtly imAgineD': The 22nd annual winter group show highlights the work of painter/printmaker/book artist Carolyn shattuck and potter boyan Moskov; and also features works by 16 regional artists in a variety of mediums. november 30 through January 31 at Furchgott sourdiffe gallery in shelburne. info, 985-3848.

CArl ruBino: A selection of landscape photographs taken over the last six years. Through December 31 at Artspace 106 at The Men's Room in burlington. info, 864-2088.

CArol BouCHer: More than 40 landscape paintings created from memory in the artist's essex Junction studio. Through December 31 at Alchemy Jewelry Arts Collective in burlington. info, 660-2032.

CArol winn BlAkeley: "here and There..." photography. Through november 30 at pickering Room, Fletcher Free library in burlington. info, 865-7211. info, spacegalleryvt.com.

CArolyn wAlton: "Visions," an exhibit celebrating walton's 15 years showing her paintings at the gallery. Athenia schinto, susan bull Riley, betty ball and Tineke Russell also exhibit their work. Through December 28 at luxton-Jones gallery in shelburne. info, 985-8223.

CHriSty mitCHell: "it's All in There," a series inspired by the artist's childhood practice of hiding her thoughts on paper by writing the words on top of each other, creating a new text of her own in the process. Through november 30 at s.p.A.C.e. gallery in burlington. info, spacegalleryvt.com.

'CreAtiVe HAnDS, gifteD minDS': Faculty of the Vermont woodworking school exhibit their creations. Through December 2 at burlington College. info, 862-9616.

'DorotHy AnD HerB Vogel: fifty workS for fifty StAteS': work from the Vogels' extensive collection by more than 20 artists, including Carel

CAll to ArtiStS CAll for Drum-relAteD Art: green Mountain Drums is now accepting designs for our 2014 merchandise. submissions accepted through December 13. see our Facebook page for more information.

CAlling ArtiStS: ClAyfiBer: Deadline: December 2. Any media eligible! There are cash prizes! octagonarts.org/clayfiberentry. octagon Center for Arts, 515-232-5331 or exhibits@ octagonarts.org.

AnnuAl “SmAll workS” AnD “lArge workS” exHiBitS:These annual holiday exhibits are for you: now accepting all work, in all mediums, yet no mediums at the same time (that is, no medium-size work!).

The “small works” exhibit at the s.p.A.C.e. gallery is for any pieces that measure 12 inches or smaller in any direction (2-inch allowance for matte and frame), this show is perfect for holiday gifts! limit:10 pieces per artist.

The “large works” exhibit in the soda plant is currently taking pieces that measure 3 feet or

'SometHing to CeleBrAte': Abstract work by 17 members of the Vermont watercolor society whose paintings are usually figurative, plus work

by Richard weis, Johanne Durocher Yordan, Frieda post, irene Cole, laura Rideout, Miranda updike and nancy pulliam weis. november 29 through January 19 at Vermont institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Reception: saturday, november 30, 5:30-8 p.m. info, 875-1018.

feAtureD ArtiSt open HouSe: painters harald Aksdal, sharon Fiske and Martha ohliger, and shaker box craftsman Carl newton show and talk about their work. sunday, December 1, 1-4 p.m., Artist in Residence Cooperative gallery, enosburg Falls. info, 933-2545.

reCeptionS Jon young: “where the wild Things were,” paintings of north American wildlife versus human expansion.

December 1 through 31 at Red square in burlington.

larger in at least one direction.

Think big, but not too big — the height of the piece is limited to 8 feet! limit: 5 pieces per artist. All work that meets the criteria will be accepted, drop-off dates november 13-December 2. Drop-off times and entry-fee information at spacegalleryvt. com or call 578-2512.

CAll to pHotogrApHerS: professional and amateur photographers are invited to participate in an exhibit at the Jericho Town hall from January through April. one requirement: All images must include at least one actual Jericho road.

You may submit up to two photographs of any size. The show will not be juried; there’s no participation fee and no commission if you wish to sell your work. Deadline: December 15.

For info and registration, contact barbara greene, 899-2974, blgreene@myfairpoint.net. loVe: CAlling for pHotoS: Deadline: January 8. Jurors: Joe DiMaggio and JoAnne Kalish. love. hearts entwined. unrequited. Moonstruck. starcrossed. info, darkroomgallery. com/ex52.

balth, Judy Rifka, pat steir and Richard Tuttle; 'eAt: tHe SoCiAl life of fooD': A student-curated exhibit of objects from the museum collection that explores the different ways people interact with food, from preparation to eating and beyond.

Through May 18 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750. ellen gooDriCH: "palette of glass," mosaic and stained-glass work in which the artist reflects on

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her gardens and seasons on the lake. Through november 29 at studio 266 in burlington. info, 578-2512. elVirA tripp: Art Affair by shearer presents work by the Mexican-born artist. Through December 31 at shearer Chevrolet in south burlington. info, 658-1111.

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Friday through sunday, november 29-December 1,

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Friday, november 29, 4-6 p.m., north branch Café, Montpelier. info, 552-8105.

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‘Cool moVeS! ArtiStry of motion’: An interactive exhibit that explores the beauty of motion.

Through January 6 at eCho lake Aquarium and science Center/leahy Center for lake Champlain in burlington. info, 877-324-6386.

life-DrAwing SeSSion: Artists practice their painting and drawing techniques with a live model. Reservations encouraged. wednesday, november 27, 6-9 p.m.; sunday, December 1, 2-5 p.m.; wednesday, December 4, 6-9 p.m., black horse Fine Art supply, burlington. info, 860-4972.

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life DrAwing for ArtiStS: Artists 18 and older bring their own materials and sketch, draw and paint from a live model. wednesday, December 4, 6-9 p.m., Vermont institute of Contemporary Arts, Chester. info, 875-1018.

10 a.m.-5 p.m., Various locations, putney. info, 387-3052.

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CHriStine DemArAiS: "From 50 to 60, the last Ten Years," work by the fabric artist, costume designer and belly dancer. Through november 30 at Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free library in burlington. info, 865-7211.

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'Feast': Food-related work by photographers from around the world, presented in association with Hunger Free Vermont. Through December 8 at Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

Grace cothalis: Mandala shields, collage cards and works in pastel. Through November 29 at Vintage Jewelers in Burlington. Info, 862-2233. haley Bishop: Colorful, layered mixed-media images of familiar spaces by the winner of 2012’s "Labels for Libations" competition for SEABA/Magic Hat’s Art Hop Ale. Through November 30 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 862-9614. inauGural exhiBit: Prints by Bill Davison, sculpture by Kathleen Schneider, photographs by Don Ross and paintings by John Gonter. Through January 9 at Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. international art exhiBit: Art objects from around the world from the private collection of Ben Bergstein and April Werner, along with artwork by winners of last year's contest in the Vermont International Festival. Through December 31 at North End Studio A in Burlington. Info, 863-6713.

Jack Maiorino: "Art on Post-its," pen-and-ink landscape drawings on yellow Post-it notes, featuring scenes both urban and rural. Through November 30 at Vintage Inspired in Burlington. Info, 355-5418.

Jake Geer: Landscape paintings; Cindy Roy: Work by the self-taught Burlington artist. Through November 30 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

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karen DaWson: "The Boat Show," works by the Vermont painter. Through November 30 at Healthy Living Market and Café in South Burlington. Info, 863-2569. karen Day-vath: Paintings by the Vermont artist. Curated by SEABA. Through November 30 at Speeder & Earl's (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 658-6016. katherine lucas: "NYC," paintings in tribute to the artist's hometown. Through November 30 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438. 'look aGain: iMaGes oF Daily liFe, 17th-21st century': Depictions of daily life by Adriaen van Ostade, John Thomson, Martin Parr, Tina Barney, Nikki S. Lee, Guy Ben-Ner and LaToya Ruby Frazier.

Through December 14 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. lyna lou norDstroM: "Under Pressure," a collection of prints from two decades of the Vermont artist's work illustrates various print-making techniques. Through November 30 at Main Street Landing Train Station in Burlington.

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Mallory Bratton rich: Oil and pastel paintings of the landscapes of rural Vermont, eastern New York and coastal Maine and North Carolina.

Through January 2 at Left Bank Home & Garden in Burlington. Info, 862-1001.

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Marcy kass: Watercolors and drawings of landscapes and portraits. Through November 30 at Dorothy Alling Memorial Library in Williston. Info, 878-4918.

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John rivers & Marshall WeBB: "The Color of Mood," landscapes in oil and photography. Through December 4 at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne. Info, 985-3819. karen DaWson: Paintings and drawings by the Burlington artist. Through November 30 at City Market in Burlington. Info, 861-9700.

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Jean carlson Masseau: Limited-edition giclée prints of transparent watercolor and gouache prints of the landscape and botanical subjects.

Through December 31 at Pompanoosuc Mills in Burlington. Info, 482-2407.

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Michael Blankstein: Photographs by the world traveler who recently relocated to Vermont.

Through November 30 at Davis Studio Gallery in Burlington. Info, 425-2700.

'Murales pintaDos: painteD Walls & the painters': A collaboration between American

documentary photographers Morgan Alexander and Kate Mack and Cuban street artists. Through December 3 at Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Info, 540-3018. nicole WelcoMe: "Reflections on Vermont," landscape photography in the Montpelier area.

December 2 through 29 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211. noveMBer shoW: Work by Carl Rubino, Erika Lawlor Schmidt, Gaal Shepherd, Maria Del Castillo, Marie LaPré Grabon, Sam K. and Scott Einsig/Red Birch Studio, Holly Hauser, Louise Arnold, Jacques Burke, Johanne Durocher Yordan and Tessa Holmes. Curated by SEABA. Through November 30 at Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

Info, 859-9222. 'oF lanD anD local': A multidisciplinary, statewide exhibition designed to initiate a dialogue about issues surrounding the Vermont landscape; heather McGill: "Night Moves," sculptures that incorporate automotive paints, hand-detailed lines and highly polished finishes to reference muscle-car culture and custom motorcycle gas tanks. Through December 7 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. 'poster riot: 32 years oF perForMances at the Flynn': Show posters from the Flynn archives, plus posters from partner organizations such as Lyric Theatre Company, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Stage Company, UVM Lane Series, Higher Ground and the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Through January 4 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Info, 652-4500.

Quinn Delahanty: Hand-pulled silkscreens and pen-and-ink drawings of insects and animal skulls.

Through December 1 at ArtsRiot in Burlington. Info, 540-0406. steeZ art: "VIBES," signed and numbered prints

by Kyle 'Fattie B.' Thompson. Through December 31 at Halflounge in Burlington. Info, 865-0012. susan larkin: "Land & Lakeshore," oil paintings of Lake Champlain and Northern Vermont landscapes. Through January 2 at Skinny Pancake in Burlington. Info, 928-3081. tessa hill: "Black Rhino Designs Mushrooms," wall hangings composed of painted polymer clay mushrooms and found wood. Through December 30 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Info, 540-0107. toDD kiel: Paintings by the 2013 Wall-to-Canvas winner, whose influences include vintage comics, retro signs, wartime propaganda posters, Bauhaus and the avant-garde. Through December 31 at Magic Hat Brewing Company in South Burlington.

Info, 658-2739. verMont artisan craFt shoW: The seasonal pop-up gallery features works in a variety of media by more than 50 crafters. Through December 28 at Vermont Artisans Craft Gallery in South Burlington.

Info, 652-0376. verMont photo Group: Seven local photographers show their memorable images of portraits, still lifes, landscapes, abstracts and nature.

December 2 through January 1 at Mirabelles in Burlington. Info, 658-3074. 'visions oF verMont': Photography by Lisa Dimondstein, Patricia Lyon-Surrey, Julie Parker and Sandra Shenk, and pottery by Gail Yanowitch.

Through November 30 at Shelburne Vineyard. Info, 985-8222.

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annual holiDay artisans' BaZaar: More than 40 area artisans and specialty food producers offer everything from pottery and blown glass to wreaths and chocolates. See website for hours Wednesday through Sunday. Through December 23 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, chandlergallery.org. arthur Zorn: "Cooling Bouquets for Summer Days," new paintings by the Barre artist. Through December 6 at Angeleno's Pizza in Montpelier. Info, 229-5721.

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BenjAmin BArnes: Recent paintings of the agricultural landscape, including tractors, trucks, barns and outbuildings. Through December 1 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Info, 223-0043.

Buddhist thAngkAs: Beautiful scrolls by various artists from nepal and India are for sale to benefit the nonprofit child haven International.

December 1 through January 31 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Info, 223-0043.

'CeleBrAte': An annual show of fine art and craft by artist members. Through December 28 at studio place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069. 'eArth As muse: BeAuty, degrAdAtion, hope, regenerAtion, AwAkening': Artwork that celebrates the earth's beauty while reflecting on tensions between mankind and the environment

by Fran Bull, pat Musick, harry A. Rich, Jenny swanson and Richard weis. Through April 4 at Great hall in springfield. Info, 258-3992.

FrederiC rudi: "laundry and eggs," paintings.

December 2 through January 7 at Jaquith public library in Marshfield. Info, jaquithpubliclibrary@ gmail.com. cenTRAl vT shows

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Ceilidh gAllowAy-kAne: "The people, the places," works in watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite by the vermont artist. December 1 through 29 at Green Bean Art Gallery at capitol

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'AviAry': Bird-themed works by virginia Beahan, varujan Boghosian, Gail Boyjalian, David Bumbeck, Anda Dubinskis, Jesseca Ferguson, Marcy hermansader and more. Through november 30 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.

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'From the mountains to the sea; Plants, trees, and shrubs oF new england': A traveling exhibition of botanical illustrations by the new england society of Botanical Artists. Through December 1 at Montshire Museum of science in norwich. Info, 649-2200.

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grouP show: work by fiber artist Alison cannon, blacksmith chris eaton, and beeswax candle makers Bonita Bedard and shawna sherwin.

Through December 31 at collective — the Art of craft in woodstock. Info, 457-1298.

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'rural revolution': More than 300 vintage photographs, plus 3-D assemblages and short films, made by Goddard students and faculty in the 1970s. Through December 7 at Martin Manor, Goddard college, in plainfield. Info, 229-6991. 'service and sacriFice: vermont’s civil war generation': An exhibit of photographs, flags and artifacts that show how the civil war dramatically changed the course of life in many villages throughout vermont. Through november 30 at vermont history center in Barre. Info, 479-8500. steFFany alexis yasus: "caras," digital and film photography. Through november 30 at Green Bean Art Gallery at capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@capitolgrounds.com. the Paletteers oF vermont art club: "peaceful places," works by members that speak to the theme. Through December 27 at Aldrich public library in Barre. Info, 262-6400.

'interPreting the interstates': compiling photographs from state archives taken between 1958 and 1978, the landscape change program at the University of vermont produced this exhibit, which aims to illustrate how the creation of the interstate highway system changed vermont's culture and countryside. Through April 26 at vermont history Museum in Montpelier. Info, 479-8500.

'the white stuFF': The group exhibit featuring local artists celebrates the "glory, glitter and moods of snow." november 29 through December 29 at Blinking light Gallery in plainfield. Info, 522-3172.

Janice walraFen: "Grief and praise," decorative clay masks created by the artist in reflection of a seven-day walk-about fast in Arizona. December 2 through January 21 at contemporary Dance & Fitness studio in Montpelier. Info, 223-1242.

Jen morris: "pastoral," photographs that explore the history and complexity hidden in vermont’s idyllic countryside. Through December 27 at supreme court lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0321.

winter grouP show: sculpture, illustration, photography and acrylic and oil paintings by nine vermont artists. Through January 4 at Axel's Frameshop in waterbury. Info, 244-7801.

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carolyn letvin: "Keep counting sheep," paintings of our wooly friends. Through november 30 at edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098. 'environmental observations: land, light and weather oF autumn': panoramic images of the Middlebury campus that are so large they make viewers feel as if they are inside the landscape, created by students of Jim Butler.

Through December 3 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury college. Info, 443-3168.

linda maney: "Abstract Thinking," acrylic and watercolor paintings by the Montpelier artist.

Through november 30 at Kellogg-hubbard library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338.

'Fashion & Fantasy at the edge oF the Forest': selections from the museum’s vintage clothing collection paired with vermont artist wendy copp's imaginative couture creations made from natural materials such as ferns, birch bark and hydrangea. Through December 31 at sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Info, 388-2117.

lisa Forster beach: Abstract paintings by the stowe artist. Through December 31 at Festival Gallery in waitsfield. Info, 496-6682.

gingerbread house contest: An exhibit of sweet creations by artists of all ages. Through December 21 at chaffee Art center in Rutland. Info, 775-0062.

lois masor beatty & sheri hancock-tomek: new prints. Through november 30 at Two Rivers printmaking studio in white River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

hannah sessions: "living summer," luscious paintings with animal and agricultural themes.

December 1 through 31 at edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098 .

lyal michel: eight oil paintings by the Tunbridge artist and draughtsman are inspired by the culture and landscape of vermont, art history and daily life. Through november 30 at Royalton Memorial library in south Royalton. Info, 763-7094.

Jackson gallery sixth annual holiday show: The juried exhibit includes works by 28 regional artists in a variety of mediums, from painting to quilts to jewelry. Through December 31 at Jackson Gallery, Town hall Theater, in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222.

marc beerman: wildlife and nature images by the pennsylvania-based photographer. Through January 5 at vIns nature center in Quechee. Info, 359-5001.

Peter miller: An exhibit celebrating the iconic vermont photographer's new book, A Lifetime of Vermont People. Through January 2 at norman williams public library in woodstock. Info, 457-2295.

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'round': circular objects ranging from uniform buttons to oddities such as a foot-powered dentist’s drill; 'these honored dead: Private and national commemoration': An exhibit that tells the stories of norwich alumni from both sides of the civil war, focusing on the military draft, prisons and mourning rituals. Through December 20 at sullivan Museum & history center, norwich University, in northfield. Info, 485-2183.

humberto ramirez: Recent acrylic paintings by the chair of the art department at landmark college.

Through December 17 at Feick Fine Arts center, Green Mountain college, in poultney. Info, 283-8397.

Patricia lyon-surrey: "season of Transition," photographs of the vermont landscape. Through november 30 at Drawing Board in Montpelier. Info, 888-7655.

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'good beginnings: grouP holiday exhibition': work in a variety of media by artists from around the region. A portion of proceeds benefit Good Beginnings of the Upper valley, a charity for newborns and families. Through December 24 at nuance Gallery in windsor. Info, 674-9616.

mary l. collins: photographs and other items that reflect the artist's close relationship with the oglala lakota nation of pine Ridge, s.D. Through December 18 at hartness Gallery, vermont Technical college, in Randolph center. Info, 728-1237.

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georgia myer: "Authenticity," mixed-media works featuring oil, paper, pastels, charcoal, ink and watercolor on paper, canvas and linen. Through December 27 at Governor's office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

Jennie harriman & christoPher smith: "Intersectionalism: An Interdisciplinary Art show," drawings, prints, paintings, sculpture, works of graphic design and childrens' literature, plus a participatory art activity. Through December 27 at Tunbridge public library. Info, 889-9404.

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John gemignani: "painting outside the lines," representational, graphic paintings and abstract, textural works by the vermont artist. Through December 27 at walkover Gallery & concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188.

Jonathon wells: "earth exposure: vermont," photo-geologic composite images that reveal both landscape and underlying earth layers within a single view. December 2 through 20 at christine price Gallery, castleton state college. Info, 215-460-7737. meg mcdevitt: "links," sumi-e ink drawings filtered through various papers onto wood panels and more paper, creating surfaces that evoke topography. Through December 7 at castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. Info, 468-1266.

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“Look Again: Images of Daily Life, 17th– 21st Century” Painter and printmaker Pieter Brueghel the Elder is credited with being the first, in the 1600s, to depict people engaged in mundane

activities, from working to napping to merrymaking. So-called “genre scenes” remained Museum of Art at the University of Vermont presents a selection of images from over 400 years that explore representations of status and identity, compare posed to candid shots, and show the ways in which contemporary artists have riffed on these ideas.

The museum is closed for Thanksgiving week and opens with normal hours again on Monday, December 2; the exhibit, in the East Gallery, closes December 14. Pictured: “Le Ménage Villageois” by Adriaen van Ostade.

SILk-Screen prInt exhIbItIOn: Students in Michael Jordan's printmaking class display new works. November 28 through December 6 at Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

Info, 443-3168.

tOm merwIn: Abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071.

'VItO accOncI: thInkIng Space': An exhibition that marks the inauguration on campus of a replica of Acconci’s "Way Station I," which was constructed in 1983 near what is now McCardell Bicentennial Hall. Through December 8 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168.

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'yOur Junk, my art: the tranSfOrmatIOn Of fOund ObJectS': Work by B Amore, Nancy Weis, Karen Koziol, Catherine Hall, Bob Hooker, Janet Van Fleet, Kristin Humbargar, Ronni Solbert, Dick Weis, Susan Farrow, Gene Childers, Tom Absher and Ruth Hamilton. Through December 15 at Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon. Info, 247-3000.

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'Screened and SeLected II: cOntempOrary phOtOgraphy and VIdeO acquISItIOnS, 2006-2011': Acquisitions the college made with the help of students, including images by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Chuck Close, Robert Mapplethorpe, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Alex Soth and James Welling, among others. Through December 8 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168.

'SmaLL treaSureS': Small-scale artwork and craft by guild members, plus handcrafted holiday ornaments. Through January 28 at Brandon Artists Guild. Info, 247-4956.

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'Of Land and LOcaL': A multidisciplinary, statewide exhibition designed to initiate a dialogue about issues surrounding the Vermont landscape. Through December 1 at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland. Info, 865-7166.

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'ShAdeS OF FAll: SMAll PiCtURe exhiBitiON': One hundred fifty paintings by 88 artist members.

Through December 29 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

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'APRONS-R-US': The Catamount Fiberistas organized this group exhibit, which "celebrates the apron through personal response and historical and cultural artifacts." On view are two- and three-dimensional samples made from fabric, clay, paper, recycled items and more. December 2 through 31 at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-2600.

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dAiSy ROCkWell: "The Topless Jihadi and Other Curious Birds," paintings of women in political situations such as members of the FEMEN movement, a Ukrainian feminist group that stages protests topless. Through December 30 at Bennington Museum. Info, 447-1571.

AlAN W. MORSe: "Autumn Light," contemporary landscape paintings in oil. Through November 30 at Deborah Rawson Memorial Library in Jericho. Info, 899-4962.

PAt MUSiCk: "Our Fragile Home," sculptures and works on paper inspired by the words astronauts have used to describe seeing the Earth from space.

Through February 28 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124.

AUStiN FURtAk-COle: "Heavy Handed," paintings and prints that question the human condition via clouds, hands, knots and tangles that wander through space. Through November 28 at Red Mill Gallery in Johnson. Info, 635-2750.

SABRA Field: "Cosmic Geometry," work by the Vermont printmaker. Through March 9 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124.

BARBARA ACkeRMAN: "Histories," an MFA thesis exhibit influenced by a recent trip to the American Southwest. December 2 through 14 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.

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CASPiAN ARtS exhiBit: Sixteen members of the artist group show paintings, glass, sculpture, fiber works, jewelry and more. Through December 22 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.

'CAtS ANd tigeRS ANd tURtleS, Oh My!': Artwork by Gayleen Aiken, Berta Diller, Huddee Herrick, Dot Kibbee and Phyllis Putvain. Through January 14 at GRACE in Hardwick. Info, 472-6857.

“The White Stuff” A new exhibit at Plainfield’s Blinking Light gallery

ChRiS SteARNS: "Vermont on Aluminum," highdynamic-range landscape photographs printed on sheets of aluminum. Through January 2 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

feature “the glory, glitter and moods of snow,” describes Blinking Light in a statement. In

diANe BRUNS: "Atmosphere," pastel landscape paintings by the Waterbury artist. Through November 30 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818.

addition, expect holiday gifts — fine art, crafts, music and books — for every budget. And don’t worry, the “White Stuff” won’t melt when the weather warms up. November 29 to December 29. Pictured: “Snowy Maples,” a photograph by Elinor Osborn.

20 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.

eliNOR OSBORN: Photographs. Through December 16 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366.

'kiCk ANd glide: VeRMONt'S NORdiC Ski legACy': An exhibit celebrating all aspects of the sport, including classic and skate skiing, Nordic combined, biathlon, ski jumping, telemark and back-country skiing. Through October 13, 2014, at Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

keNt ShAW: Color photographs taken in Morrisville, Elmore and Hardwick. Through January

NOVeMBeR ShOW: Work by artist Natalie Larocque-Bouchard, potter Alex Costantino

and decorative painter Kitten Ellison. Through November 30 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403.

PAUl gRUhleR: Abstract acrylic paintings on linen. Through January 2 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

SeliNA COté: "In Foraging," black-and-white photographs that explore the artist's role as forager. Through December 3 at Tegu Building in Morrisville. Info, 793-6507.

‘PiCASSO: the VOllARd SUite’: A series of the artist’s 100 etchings created between 1930 and ‘37.

Through December 20 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2095.

‘SPleNdORe A VeNeziA: ARt ANd MUSiC FROM the ReNAiSSANCe tO BAROqUe iN VeNiCe’: An exhibit featuring approximately 120 paintings, prints and drawings, plus historical instruments, musical manuscripts and texts, including the first edition of The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. Through January 19 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-2000.

‘StUdiO SeleCtiONS’: Work by current students in ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Through January 26 at Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. Info, 518-564-2474. ‘the FlOAtiNg WORld: UkiyO-e PRiNtS FROM the lAUReN ROgeRS MUSeUM OF ARt’: Woodpanel prints from Japan’s Edo Period, 1600-1868.

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'dRAW the liNe ANd MAke yOUR POiNt: the PeNCil ANd the 21St CeNtURy': A visual history of the invention and evolution of the pencil, including a display about a pencil artist, unlikely objects made from pencils, an interactive pencil launcher and a smattering of pencils from around the world.

Through December 1 at the Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. Info, 626-4409.

is modest in scale but as pretty as the season it celebrates. Works by gallery members

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Dallas Buyers Club ★★★★

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ovie-star trajectories don’t usually work like Matthew McConaughey’s.

Important actors traditionally make the films for which they’re remembered early on, and then run out the career clock doing work fans wish they could forget. To appreciate the anomaly McConaughey has become, it’s helpful to compare his output over the past few years with that of, say, Robert De Niro.

Since 2010, the legendary thespian’s highlights have included two direct-to-video duds (Freelancers and Killing Season), Little Fockers, The Big Wedding, The Family and Last Vegas. Coming up in 2014: Grudge Match with Sylvester Stallone. Two rivals come out of retirement for one last fight. Get it? Raging Bull versus Rocky. They should call this one before the first round even starts.

Precisely the same case could be made by substituting the late-in-the-game work of anyone from Richard Burton to Marlon Brando. In contrast, McConaughey has spent the same period eclipsing his decades of dumb romantic comedies (two — count ’em — with Kate Hudson) by taking on increasingly ambitious roles in pictures such as Bernie, Killer Joe, Mud and Magic Mike.

Coming up in 2014: Interstellar, Christopher Nolan’s trippy follow-up to Inception,

in which explorers traverse the cosmos through wormholes.

Nothing better exemplifies the actor’s professional metamorphosis than the forceof-nature performance he gives in Dallas Buyers Club. You’ve seen the tabloid shots of McConaughey so skeletal it’s unclear what’s holding his pants up. Now you can see the reason he put himself through such a punishing transformation. And you should.

Even if the movie isn’t quite as excellent as he is. SCAN THIS PAGE Directed

by Montréaler WITH LAYAR Jean-Marc Vallée (The Young Victoria) from a script by Craig SEE PROGRAM COVER Borten and Melisa Wallack, the film tells the liberally embellished story of Ron Woodroof, a real-life Texas party animal who found himself facing a death sentence when he was diagnosed with HIV in 1986. Straight and crazy about whiskey, coke, rodeos, speed and loose women — not necessarily in that order — Woodroof insists adamantly that his doctors (Denis O’Hare and Jennifer Garner) have made a mistake. Then a visit to the library puts him wise to the perils of intravenous drug use and unprotected sex.

Given 30 days to live, Woodroof does his homework and sets about rustling up substances with a better chance of offering him a reprieve than the treatment to which

BIO HAZARDS Vallée’s inspirational account of an unlikely AIDS crusader succumbs to a number of the genre’s pitfalls, but McConaughey’s exceptional performance ultimately redeems it.

YOUR YOUR TEXT TEXT the FDA (the movie’s villain) has given its whose help Woodroof starts selling virusHERE HERE blessing. Research alerts him to the existence fighting cocktails out of a seedy motel. Like of unapproved but effective substances, which he’s forced to smuggle in from Mexico and other countries. The long-lost Griffin Dunne is great as Woodroof’s south-of-theborder connection.

Basically Lorenzo’s Oil meets Urban Cowboy — only the bulls are real — the film itself is a boilerplate heart tugger about a foul-mouthed homophobe who overcomes his prejudices. Its creators play fast and loose with the facts (while Woodroof was a rodeo fan, he never actually rode) and make up one central character altogether. Jared Leto is spectacular in the role of Rayon, the colorful, cross-dressing AIDS victim with

a lot of things in Dallas Buyers Club, Rayon is just a little too good to be true.

McConaughey’s performance, however, is not one of those things. This is the real deal, 180 degrees removed from the approach Tom Hanks took in Philadelphia (set in the same year), but not an iota less convincing.

The combination of that cadaverous visage, redneck rage and cowboy cockiness yields an affecting portrait of a complex man defying the odds — and the authorities — by figuring out how to survive a plague while Big Pharma worked on making a buck off it.

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ★★★★

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ith The Hunger Games franchise, Hollywood has finally found a good reason for smoking up the screen with teen angst. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) doesn’t sulk her way through this sequel because she’s worried about college prospects, or struggling to choose between one hot guy and another. No, her life really does suck.

In last year’s blockbuster based on the first book in Suzanne Collins’ best-selling youngadult series, Katniss won a literally cutthroat televised competition. Victory was supposed to set her and her just-for-the-cameras boyfriend, Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), up for life. Instead, Catching Fire finds Katniss torn between serving as the decorative pawn of an oppressive regime (represented by Donald Sutherland’s icy President Snow) and the symbol of a struggling underclass rebellion. The latter option is obviously way cooler, but fomenting dissent could get all her loved ones tortured or killed. Including the hot guys.

Collins’ books are a mixed bag. Her action scenes are weightless, gimmicky and reminiscent of video gameplay — in other words, tailor-made for a Hollywood blockbuster. More absorbing (for an adult reader, anyway) is her satirical depiction of a futuristic successor to the Roman Empire, with reality TV as its coliseum and unlucky peasants from the outlying districts as its

inert on screen. The Hunger Games reverses the genders of a standard heroic trope.

Katniss keeps offering to sacrifice herself for Peeta because she’s convinced he’s the better person — a bread baker, a joker and an artist, while she’s mainly good at killing things. In the movie, however, Hutcherson acts like Lawrence’s sullen twin, so we don’t see the playful or nurturing qualities that would justify Katniss’ view of Peeta or her increasing affection for him.

Angst, in short, is best with a counterpoint. Such concerns evaporate in the film’s last quarter, of course, when action junkies finally get their due with nonstop, CGI-enhanced slaughter. (Note to shakycam haters: That aspect of the first film is gone.) And sly performances from Elizabeth Banks and Philip Seymour Hoffman, as Capitol flunkies, keep the lead-up fun.

The Hunger Games has the edge over the average action franchise in that its plot is clear and compelling enough to reward a viewer’s investment. Now its world has become glossy and stunning, too. Our own culture’s appetite for spectacles should suffice to keep the workforce that toils at desks moving pixels from going hungry for a while.

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VICTORY RAP Hutcherson and Lawrence express their solidarity with the 99 percent who don’t wear butterflies on their heads.

gladiators. Her world is called Panem — from the Latin phrase for “bread and circuses.”

Catching Fire focuses on the unfair dispensation of bread for the greater chunk of its hefty 146-minute running time, saving the circuses for dessert. It’s inevitable that Katniss will return to the Capitol’s sadistic arena, but the how and why take much setting up. Meanwhile director Francis Lawrence shows the visual acumen he did in I Am Legend, and the sequel’s bigger budget allows us to marvel at the decadent pageantry of the Capitol.

One drawback of Catching Fire (both book and film) is that it introduces a slew of supporting characters who are more

interesting than our heroine, only to dispose of most of them in short order. I found myself wishing that the whole saga pivoted around the nerds who won past Hunger Games with their mad tech skillz (Jeffrey Wright and Amanda Plummer); or the angry, foul-mouthed, generally unhinged Johanna Mason (Jena Malone).

That’s not to imply that Lawrence sleepwalks through her role — she brings all the grief, dread and determination required, and then some. It’s the role itself that lacks shadings.

Part of the problem is Katniss’ central relationship with Peeta, a skillfully developed aspect of the books that feels increasingly

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Rte. 100, Morrisville, 888-3293, bijou4.com

wednesday 27 — thursday 28 delivery man 1:10, 3:50, 7, 9:15. *Frozen 3:40, 6:30. *Frozen 3d 1:20, 8:30. The hunger Games: catching Fire 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15. Thor: The dark world 1:30, 4, 6:50, 9:15. friday 29 — thursday 5 delivery man Fri and Sat: 1:10, 3:50, 7, 9:15. Sun: 1:10, 3:50, 7. Mon to Thu: 4, 7. *Frozen Fri to Sun: 3:40, 6:30.

Mon to Thu: 6:30. *Frozen 3d Fri and Sat: 1:20, 8:30. Sun: 1:20. Mon to Thu: 4. The hunger Games: catching Fire Fri and Sat: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15. Sun: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30. Mon to Thu: 4, 7. Thor: The dark world Fri and Sat: 1:30, 4, 6:50, 9:15. Sun: 1:30, 4, 6:50. Mon to Thu: 4, 6:50.

capitol showplace 93 State St., Montpelier, 2290343, fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 27 — thursday 28 captain phillips Wed: 3:20, 6:15, 9:10. Thu: 6:15, 9:10. delivery man 6:30, 9. Free Birds in 3d Wed: 3:30. *homefront 6:20, 9:15. The hunger Games: catching Fire 3 (Wed only), 6:10, 9:10. Thor: The dark world Wed: 3:30, 9:10. Thu: 9:10.

Thor: The dark world 3d 6:30. friday 29 — thursday 5 captain phillips Fri: 3:20, 6:20 , 9:10. Sat and Sun: 12:30, 6:20, 9:10.

Mon to Thu: 6:20, 9:10. delivery man Fri: 6:30, 9. Sat and Sun: 3:15, 6:30, 9. Mon to Thu: 6:30, 9. Free Birds in 3d Fri: 3:30. Sat and Sun: 1, 3:30. *homefront Fri: 3:25, 6:20, 9:15. Sat and Sun: 12:40, 3:25, 6:20, 9:15. Mon to Thu: 6:20, 9:15. The hunger Games: catching Fire Fri: 3, 6:10, 9:10. Sat and Sun: 12:15, 3, 6:10, 9:10. Mon to Thu: 6:10, 9:10.

Thor: The dark world Fri: 3:30, 9:10.

Sat and Sun: 12:30, 3:30, 9:10. Mon to Thu: 9:10. Thor: The dark world 3d Fri: 6:30. Sat to Thu: 6:20.

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21 Essex Way, #300, Essex, 8796543, essexcinemas.com

wednesday 27 — wednesday 4 captain phillips 1, 8:30. delivery man 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10. Free Birds 4, 6:15. *Frozen 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30. *Frozen (3d) 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40. Gravity (3d) 12:30, 5, 7:15. *homefront 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30.

The hunger Games: catching Fire 12, 12:35, 1:30, 3:05, 3:40, 4:45, 6:10, 6:45, 8, 9:15, 9:50. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 2:45, 9:30. Thor: The dark world (3d) 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:35.

maJestic 10

190 Boxwood St. (Maple Tree Place, Taft Corners), Williston, 878-2010, majestic10.com

wednesday 27 — thursday 28 captain phillips Wed: 9. Thu: 8:45. delivery man Wed: 1, 4, 7:10, 9:30.

Thu: 5, 7:20, 9:50. Free Birds in 3d Wed: 11:40 a.m. Thu: 4:55. *Frozen Wed: 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Thu: 4:30, 7:05, 9:30. *Frozen 3d Wed: 11:50 a.m., 12:50, 2:30, 4:55, 6:10, 7:20, 8:40. Thu: 5, 7:30, 9. Gravity 3d Wed: 3:50, 9:45. Thu: 4:40, 9:55. *homefront Wed: 12:20, 2:50, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50. Thu: 4:50, 7:15, 9:35. The hunger Games: catching Fire Wed: 11:30 a.m., 12, 12:30, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 6, 6:45, 8:30, 9:10, 9:40. Thu: 4:45, 6, 7, 8:10, 9:10.

Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa Wed: 6:20. Thu: 6:50, 10. last vegas Wed: 6:30. Thu: 6:20. Thor: The dark world Wed: 12:40, 3:30. Thu: 4:35. Thor: The dark world 3d Wed: 2, 4:30, 7, 9:35. Thu: 7:10, 9:40. friday 29 — thursday 5 captain phillips 9. delivery man 1, 4, 7:10, 9:30. Free Birds in 3d Fri to Sun: 11:40 a.m. *Frozen Fri to Sun: 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20. Mon to Thu: 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20. *Frozen 3d Fri to Sun: 11:50 a.m., 12:50, 2:30, 4:55, 6:10, 7:20, 8:40. Mon to Thu: 12:40, 1:30, 3:30, 6:10, 6:40, 8:40.

Gravity 3d Fri to Sun: 3:50, 9:45. Mon to Thu: 3:50, 9:10. *homefront Fri to Sun: 12:20, 2:50, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50.

Mon to Thu: 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:30. The hunger Games: catching Fire Fri and Sat: 11:30 a.m., 12, 12:30, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 6, 6:45, 8:30, 9:10, 9:40. Mon to Thu: 12:30, 1:30, 3:10, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 8:45. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 6:20. last vegas Fri to Sun: 6:30. Mon to Thu: 12:30, 6:30. Thor: The dark world Fri to Sun: 12:40, 3:30. Mon to Thu: 12:45, 3:30. Thor: The dark world 3d Fri to Sun: 2, 4:30, 7, 9:35. Mon to Thu: 12:55, 3:35, 6:15, 8:50.

marQuis theatre Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841

wednesday 27 — tuesday 3 12 years a slave Wed: 6, 9. Thu: 7. Fri & Sat: 2, 6, 9. Sun: 2, 7. Mon & Tue: 7. Frozen Wed: 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30. Thu: 7. Fri & Sat: 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30. Sun: 1, 3:30, 7. Mon & Tue: 7.

The hunger Games: catching Fire Wed: 12, 3, 6, 9. Thu: 7. Fri & Sat: 12, 3, 6, 9. Sun: 12, 3, 7. Mon & Tue: 7.

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9:30. dallas Buyers club 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:25. delivery man 1, 3:50, 5:10, 7:20, 9:35. The hunger Games: catching Fire 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20. *philomena 12:55, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:15. thursday 28 12 years a slave 3:50, 6:40, 9:20. *The Book Thief 4, 6:50, 9:30. dallas Buyers club 4:10, 7, 9:25. delivery man 5:10, 7:20, 9:35. The hunger Games: catching Fire 3:40, 6:30, 9:20. *philomena 5, 7:10, 9:15. friday 29 — thursday 5 12 years a slave 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20. *The Book Thief 1:15, 4, 6:50, 9:30. dallas Buyers club 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:25. delivery man 1, 3:05, 5:10, 7:20, 9:35. The hunger Games: catching Fire 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20. *philomena 12:55, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:15.

palace 9 cinemas 10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 864-5610, palace9.com

wednesday 27 all is lost 12, 4:10, 6:20, 9:35. captain phillips 3:20, 8:30. delivery man 12:05, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15. Free Birds 2:10. *Frozen 1, 3:50, 6:30, 8:50. *Frozen (3d) 11:55, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30. *homefront 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:15, 9:25. The hunger Games: catching Fire 12:10, 12:40, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 6:40, 8:40, 9:10. Thor: The dark world 12:20, 6. Thor: The dark world (3d) 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:20. thursday 28 all is lost 4:40, 7:05, 9:35. captain phillips 7:30. delivery man 4:45, 7, 9:15. Free Birds 4:35. *Frozen 4:30, 6:50, 9:15. *Frozen (3d) 4:55, 7:15, 9:35. *homefront 4:50, 7:15, 9:25. The hunger Games: catching Fire 5, 6:40, 8, 9:20. Thor: The dark world 5. Thor: The dark world (3d) 4:30, 6:55, 9:25. friday 29 — sunday 1 all is lost 12, 4:10, 6:20, 9:35. captain phillips 3:20, 8:30. delivery man 12:05, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15. Free Birds 2:10. *Frozen 1, 3:50, 6:30, 8:50. *Frozen (3d) 11:55, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30. *homefront 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:15, 9:25. The hunger Games: catching Fire 12:10, 12:40, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 6:40, 8:40, 9:10. Thor: The dark world 12:20, 6. Thor: The dark world (3d) 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:20. monday 2 — wednesday 4 all is lost 12:55, 4:10, 6:20, 9:35. captain phillips 3:20, 8:30. delivery man 1:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15. Free Birds 2:10. *Frozen 1, 3:50, 6:30, 8:50. *Frozen (3d) 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30. *homefront 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:15, 9:25. The hunger Games: catching Fire 12:40, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 6:40, 8:40. Thor: The dark world 12:45, 6. Thor: The dark world (3d) 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:20.

paramount twin cinema 241 North Main St., Barre, 4799621, fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 27 *Frozen 6:25, 9. *Frozen 3d 3:15. The hunger Games: catching Fire 3, 6:10, 9:20. friday 29 — wednesday 4 *Frozen 6:25, 9. *Frozen 3d Fri: 3:15. Sat and Sun: 12:20, 3:15. Wed: 3:15. The hunger Games: catching Fire Fri: 3, 6:10, 9:20. Sat and Sun: 12, 3:10, 6:10, 9:20. Mon and Tue: 6:10, 9:20. Wed: 3, 6:10, 9:20.

the savoy theater 26 Main St., Montpelier, 2290509, savoytheater.com

wednesday 27 12 years a slave 6:30, 9. all is lost 6. muscle shoals 8. friday 29 — wednesday 4 12 years a slave 6:30, 9. Sat & Sun: 1, 3:30, 6:30, 9. Blue is the warmest color 4, 7:15. Sat & Sun: 12:30, 4, 7:15. Tue only: 8.

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wednesday 27 — thursday 28 *Frozen 3d 2:30 (3D; Thu only). 4:30 (Thu only), 6:45, 8:45. The hunger Games: catching Fire 2:30 (Thu only), 6:30, 9:10. last vegas 7, 9:10. friday 29 — thursday 5 *Frozen Fri to Sun: 4:30. *Frozen 3d Fri and Sat: 2:30, 6:45, 8:45.

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A 51-year-old police sergeant in Tokyo came under investigation after he tried to catch a bicycle thief by staking out a decoy bike. After camping out nine times, the sergeant at Denchoufu police station failed to make a single arrest. Meanwhile, while he was focused on the decoy, three more bicycles were stolen. (Japan Today)

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After a man brought a Thermos-type container that he said he found on his lawn to a police station in Oklahoma City, officers told the man to leave the device outside and then called the bomb squad. X-rays revealed the device contained a burrito, according to Capt. Dexter Nelson, who recommended that people who find suspicious items not take them to police stations: “Call the authorities, and we will investigate it there.” (Oklahoma City’s Oklahoman) Virginia state police compiled license plate numbers of millions of cars at political events, including rallies for President Obama and Sarah Palin in 2008 and Obama’s 2009 presidential inauguration, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liber-

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Sagittarius (nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Touted as a prime source of “kick-@ss spirituality,” author Danielle LaPorte has advice that’s good for you to hear. “You will always be too much of something for someone,” she says, “too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy.” But that’s exactly as it should be, she adds. It would be a mistake to “round out your edges,” because then you would “lose your edge.”

And I’m here to tell you that you need all of your edge right now, Sagittarius. It’s time to ignore people’s mediocre expectations and push past their limits. To be true to yourself, you will probably have to be too much of something for several someones.

aRies (March 21-April 19): Thinking inside

gemini (May 21-June 20): french painter

Henri Matisse thought highly of his own work.

He tended to ignore critics because he didn’t think they understood his art well enough to produce intelligent critiques. There was one person whose opinion he was willing to heed, though; a single colleague who he said had earned to right to evaluate and assess his art: Pablo Picasso. I encourage you, Gemini, to come up with your own short list of people whose judgment you totally trust and respect. It’s a good time to seek out their feedback on how you’re doing.

canceR (June 21-July 22): How is it pos-

sible that you have come so far and worked so diligently only to be resigned now to hanging out in limbo, waiting around for the lucky break that may or may not ever arrive? I’m here today to escort you out of this infernal place. If you resist, my assignment is to drag you out. Why am I so adamant? because I am sure it’s a mistake for you to be passive and hope for the best. you need to resume working diligently, focused for now on what’s right in front of you without worrying too much about the big picture. In my opinion, that approach will lead you to unforeseen help — and a clarification of the big picture.

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(July 23-Aug. 22): your levels of personal magic are high. The radiance beaming out of your eyes is extra sparkly. There’s an artistry to the way you are expressing yourself. Without even trying, you’re exuding natural charisma and animal magnetism. In light of all these advantages, I suspect you will have an elevated capacity for both giving

and receiving pleasure. In fact, I predict that your ability to feel really good and make other people feel really good will be at a peak. I hereby designate this the Week of supreme bliss.

viRgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): The bbC reported on an expert who combs switzerland’s risoud forest to find the spruce trees whose wood can be made into the highest quality violins.

After years of experience, Lorenzo Pellegrini knows which few trees will produce instruments with the most resonant tones. They grow slowly and have few knots. They need to have had enough water to grow strong, but not so much water that they’re mushy. your task in the coming weeks, Virgo, has a certain resemblance to the master tree-picker’s work.

It’s time for you to start selecting and gathering the raw materials you will use to craft your own lyrical story in 2014. libRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): Here’s the bad news: for all of us, including you, there is a gap between our intentions and our actual effects. Here’s the good news: now is your special time to narrow that gap. More bad news: All of us, you included, are periodically guilty of sending out mixed messages. We confuse people with our ambivalence; what we say is sometimes different from what we feel. More good news: now is your special time to reduce your mixed messages to as close to zero as possible. one more taste of bad news: Like all of us, you are a bit hypocritical. you engage in behavior that you criticize in others. you don’t practice what you preach. one last piece of good news: now is your special time to work on being forthright, genuine, and consistent. scoRPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): “I am very fond

of strawberries and cream,” said author Dale Carnegie, “but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. so when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted.

I didn’t bait the hook with strawberries and cream. rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish.” That’s a good teaching story for you, scorpio. In order to get your desires fulfilled by the people who have the power to do that, you should give them what they actually long for — not what you long for, nor what you wish they would long for. This is

always true, of course, but it’s especially applicable to what’s going on in your life right now.

caPRicoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Going into my spiritual mentoring session with the priestess, I had the intention of discovering truths about myself I didn’t know before.

That meant stirring up revelations about my ignorance as well as my potentials. I wanted assistance in facing my flaws as well as in tapping into my dormant powers. It worked.

Her guidance was a potent catalyst. I was able to shed the debilitating nonsense stories I’d been telling myself about who I am. I awakened strengths that had been asleep.

What I wish for you, Capricorn — indeed, what I predict for you — is a comparable experience. to expedite matters, go out in search of a person, adventure, or breakthrough that can help provide you with the kind of prod I received. aQUaRiUs (Jan. 20-feb. 18): I bet people

will be gossiping about you more than usual.

Is there anything you can do to ensure that it’s mostly benevolent gossip? yes, there is. first, make sure that when you gossip about others, you are unfailingly positive in your comments. If you don’t have anything good to say about someone, don’t say it. second, be on your best behavior. Communicate clearly and don’t even think about taking unethical shortcuts. finally, contribute more inspirational energy than usual to every group you’re part of. be an effervescent team player.

Pisces

(feb. 19-March 20): Maybe your ego isn’t big enough. I’m serious. Is it possible that you could benefit from being more proud of yourself? Would it be healthy for you to give yourself more credit for the struggles you have weathered and the skills you have mastered and the beauty you have managed to forge out of the chaotic raw materials that life has given you? I’ve got a good feeling about this, Pisces. I can imagine you summoning the playful courage you will need to express more confidence. I can even picture you beginning to fantasize about embarking on certain stirring adventures you’ve never believed you were strong enough to try before now.

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I enjoy anal sex, but my girlfriend and I haven’t had it yet after almost a year together. She says she is interested — and she has had it once before with a past sexual partner — but so far she doesn’t seem open to it. I’m not taking it personally, but I do want to share this experience with her. What can I do to bring her over to my side? I want her to know it can be a positive experience that we can both enjoy.

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It sounds like you have the right attitude — anal sex can be a positive, pleasurable experience for a couple to share, so long as both partners are into it. But I’m confused.

You say she’s interested in anal, but in the next breath say she doesn’t seem open to it.

So which is it? She could be trying to pacify you by appearing to be agreeable to anal, but secretly hoping you’ll forget about the venture. Or, she could simply be blissfully happy with your current sex life and not in a rush to shake things up. Either way, if you’ve been waiting for her to bend over and beg you to stick it in, you might be waiting a long time.

Have a clarifying conversation with your girlfriend and get to the bottom of the holdup. Sometimes women (and men) have trepidation when it comes to anal. They worry it will hurt; they worry it will be messy; they just plain worry. If she’s open but nervous, suggest some collaborative learning. Pick up a how-to guide — I suggest The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women by Tristan Taormino.

Read up on tips and tricks for ensuring everyone has a good time (start small, use lots of lube and keep some wet wipes close by).

On the other hand, if she has changed her mind and is no longer interested in sharing her assets, you’ll have to honor her wishes.

Anal isn’t for everyone, and you’ll have to get behind that (because you won’t be getting behind your girlfriend).

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