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POLLUTION SOLUTION

Great article about the Vorsteveld farm [“A Dairy Farm Is Defending a Pollution Lawsuit. Some Say Vermont’s Regs Are on Trial,” January 19]! This is where some of those funds to clean up the lake should be used — to make a real and timely difference. David Whitney designed living machines at the University of Vermont in 2001, and they could be a real solution to this runoff. Other ideas could include settling ponds or some kind of treatment system before the contamination hits the lake. The trick is not to mandate these things and push the cost completely off on the farms. This issue is something that has been known for years and should have been addressed long ago. It’s not too late! Victoria Loven

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I avidly read Seven Days every week. It is well written, well researched and well supported in the community. I was recently horrified and offended by the lingerie ad on page 19 in the January 12 issue. I certainly appreciate the financial support that this ad provides Seven Days. However, the photograph included has significant sexual overtones, with the look objectifying women. It was particularly startling because it was right below an ad for Girlington Garage, a business run by women in a circle generally run by men. Didn’t any of your editors notice this juxtaposition? I know you have a policy that carefully scrutinizes the content of articles, making sure that all your information is correct and can be backed by sources. What about the content of ads? What is your policy there? For a paper that supports equality and diversity, how did an ad like this get in?

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Last week’s WTF story, “Is Burlington Headed for a Laundry Apocalypse?,” contained an error about King Street Laundry’s revenue. It could turn a profit if it added a washand-fold component. Last week’s Side Dishes item “Double Buzz” contained an error about the history of Mel’s. Jericho Village’s general store has operated in some capacity since the early 1900s.

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TIM NEWCOMB My Vermont-born wife and I recently relocated to a more retirement-friendly state after living, working, playing and paying taxes in Vermont for 68 and 40 years, respectively. We have seen a number of people make similar decisions over the years. We would surely have reconsidered our move had the economics proved more favorable to our situation. Many retirees spend considerable amounts on various forms of recreation, entertainment and consumer goods. Vermont may be well advised to examine this trend of economic exodus more closely. Thom Rothfuss SARASOTA, FL

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Hopefully the powers that be will ask the lingerie business to select photos that are less sexual and suggestive. Does underwear have to be suggestive? Underwear is a personal choice for comfort and often for feelings of beauty. One person’s view of beauty may not be another’s. In a newspaper with a wide circulation in many households with children, I would hope that, in the future, the photographs associated with ads will be more scrutinized to align more with the mission of Seven Days. Phoebe Barash

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Editor’s note: Censoring ad content is a slippery slope, so we don’t do it — unless the client is promoting hate, violence or an illegal product. Seven Days, which targets an 18-plus audience, is a forum for free speech and a reflection of the diversity of desires and beliefs in our community. Sometimes that entails being tolerant of views we might not personally share. Or, in this case, underwear we might not wear. Regarding ad placement: While some businesses may request a particular spot in Seven Days, our editors, designers and ad reps are on the lookout for offensive or embarrassing juxtapositions. This particular ad spread met our criteria. Some people buy lingerie. Others need auto repair. Some want both.

MIGRATION GOES BOTH WAYS…

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‘Transformative Moment,’” January 18]: It occurs to me, having read Gov. Phil Scott’s ideas about the budget windfall, that Vermont could carry the concept of exempting military pensions from taxation a bit further. Vermont remains one of 12 states taxing Social Security income. North Dakota discontinued this practice in 2021. Despite the beautiful environment and cultural and recreational offerings, Vermont is often cited in publications as one of the “least favorable” places for retirement. Various forms of taxation are generally one of the criteria.

[“Fave Little State,” January 12] pointed out some of the trade-offs of Vermont’s newly acquired climate migrants but only hinted at the serious ramifications. Vermont is in need of diversity. It will benefit our state. Every benefit has a cost. This article showed an unwanted consequence of climate migration. The new folks to Vermont have new jobs. One is working for the environmental group Standing Trees, and another is with Wilderness Watch. I am sure these are nice folks dedicated to saving Vermont. The article explains concerns about new folks needing housing and the resulting conversion of forests into house lots. More people can mean fewer forests. The scariest thing is the efforts by the organizations they work for to set aside large portions of Vermont from logging and long-term forestry. This will put stress on forest businesses and forest landowners. A smaller forest resource base will harm the working landscape, causing a loss of forest industries and forest jobs. That makes forestland less capable of being held for long-term forestry and more valuable as house lots. The result will be fewer forests. The working landscape will be transformed to suburban sprawl. This is very bad for the climate. We should welcome diverse opinions, but just look at southern New England to see our future if these climate migrants are an example. I fear we are seeing the beginning of the end of our rural, forested state. It would be nice if new residents took the time to get to know Vermont and understood the conservation benefits of the working landscape.

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Get a Clue Mr. Boddy is dead, and one of a colorful cast of characters is guilty in Clue: On Stage, the Valley Players’ theatrical rendition of the beloved board game and cult classic film. Audiences can mask up and see the show in person at the Valley Players Theater in Waitsfield or buy a virtual ticket and watch from the safety of their homes — the night is dark and stormy, after all.

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In the Beginning In March 2020, Oscar-nominated documentarian and Dartmouth College alum Matthew Heineman posted up in a New York City hospital. The result is The First Wave, a terrifying close-quarters look at the first days of the pandemic, screening at Dartmouth’s Loew Auditorium in Hanover, N.H. Health care workers and Dartmouth-Hitchcock employees attend for free; a discussion with Heineman follows. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 62

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I Know a Place Queer electro-pop outfit MUNA take to the Higher Ground Ballroom stage in South Burlington for a night of unflinching sapphic strains. The band has two critically lauded albums under its belt and a collab with singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers that hit the airwaves to widespread acclaim in September. Anti-genre singer-songwriter Lou Roy opens.

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JOLLY GOOD CELLO Think you’ve seen everything a cello can do? No, you haven’t. Renowned Vermont-based cellist Zoë Keating, using only her instrument and a loop pedal, creates intensely intricate music layer by layer. Her upcoming virtual concert is part of Middlebury College Performing Arts Series’ “Year of the Cello,” an ongoing celebration of all things big and stringy.

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Enter the Tiger Artist and chef Cai Xi rings in the Year of the Tiger with a virtual Lunar New Year Cooking Demo, presented by the Asian Cultural Center of Vermont and the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Viewers cook along at home as Xi demonstrates how to make Chinese chive-and-pork dumplings from scratch.

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Visitors to Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington’s South End are greeted by a solo exhibition from Stephen Sharon, an abstract painter whose vibrant, trippy works demand a close look. Neon hues and streaky, staticky swaths of color create intriguing layers of meaning.

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Last week, Montpelier artist Tim Newcomb penned his first editorial cartoon about Vermont’s U.S. House race. In it, former governor Madeleine Kunin is driving a car. Her passengers are the three Democratic women running for the state’s lone Congressional seat. Asked what recommends each of them for the job, Lt. Gov. Molly Gray proclaims, “A healthy ego and the correct gender”; Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D-Chittenden): “I’ve got that plus attitude!”; “Um...experience?” offers Sen. President Pro Tempore Becca Balint (D-Windham). In her thought bubble, Kunin wonders: “Sheesh...Are we there yet?” Published in Seven Days, the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus and the Rutland Herald, the cartoon drew immediate ire from Democratic activists. In a January 21 press release, party chair Anne Lezak scolded: “This openly sexist, racist depiction of Vermont’s three highly qualified Congressional candidates and former governor speaks volumes about the cartoonist’s apparent disdain for women leaders — especially younger women.” Elaine Haney, director of Emerge Vermont, which trains Democratic women to run for office, dissed the cartoon on the org’s website. She listed the “entrenched stereotypes” she sees in Newcomb’s drawing, which include depicting the candidates as a car full of “bickering girls” and putting Ram Hinsdale, the only woman of color, “in a booster seat — in the back of the car.” Like all good political cartoons, this one is rooted in fact. Ram Hinsdale, 35, is the youngest of the candidates. Gray, who is also strapped into a car seat, has the least amount of electoral experience — she’s been in office for just a year. Over at the Times Argus, the cartoon generated numerous angry calls and emails. “I had two people say that I should resign as a misogynistic male publisher,” Steve Pappas said in a Monday interview. Instead, he wrote an editorial in Tuesday’s paper, the first line of which is: “Tim Newcomb is entitled to his opinion.” Encyclopedia Brittannica defines a political cartoon as “a drawing (often including caricature) made for the purpose of conveying editorial commentary on politics, politicians, and current events.” Newcomb has been drawing them since Richard Snelling was governor; in 2019, he won the top editorial cartooning award from the national Association of Alternative Newsmedia. Newcomb’s take didn’t provoke a superstrong reaction from Seven Days readers. But on Sunday, a letter to the editor came in the form of a cartoon (see page 7) from Llu Mulvaney-Stanak, a former Democratic campaign staffer who’s now the station manager for WGDR radio in Plainfield. It’s a clever response, except for the box across the bottom that condemns Newcomb’s work as “mysoginistic [sic], racist and ageist.” Mulvaney-Stanak immediately posted the comic to Twitter, tagging Seven Days and urging the paper to drop Newcomb, writing, “If someone shows you that they can’t do better, believe them and replace them.” By Tuesday morning, 89 accounts had “liked” the tweet, including those of both Gray and Ram Hinsdale, Burlington City Councilor Karen Paul (D-Ward 6), Rep. Taylor Small (P/D-Winooski), and Sen. Ruth Hardy (D-Addison). Seriously, folks? Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) had to put on a gas mask and flee from an angry mob in his last term in the U.S. House. If these candidates can’t handle a sharp-elbowed sketch in local newspapers, how will they hold up in D.C.? Vermont is the only state that’s never sent a woman If you like what we do and can afford to help to Washington, and Democrats seem determined to pay for it, become a Seven Days Super Reader! finally make it happen. Many prominent Dem dudes are Look for the “Give Now” buttons at the top of sitting this election season out. sevendaysvt.com. Or send a check with your Does that mean we should treat these trailblazers differently than their predecessors, who were regularly address and contact info to: portrayed in all manner of unflattering ways to make a SEVEN DAYS, C/O SUPER READERS cartoonist’s point about their strengths and weaknesses? P.O. BOX 1164 BURLINGTON, VT 05402-1164 Vermonters rely on an independent media to help vet candidates for public office. That work will be even For more information on making a financial harder to do if parties, activists and politicians respond to contribution to Seven Days, please contact every pointed critique with claims of sexism and racism. Corey Barrows:

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Vermont Officials Sound an Optimistic Note as COVID-19 Infections Fall B Y K EV I N M C C A L L U M kevin@sevendaysvt.com COVID-19 infection rates are falling sharply in Vermont, making public health officials cautiously optimistic that the Omicron spike is subsiding. The state logged an average of 1,121 new COVID-19 cases per day over the past seven days — still far higher than during most of the pandemic. But the rate has declined by 27 percent in a week, and by 37 percent over 14 days. “Cases appear to have peaked in the Northeast and are on the downslope,” Health Commissioner Mark Levine said SCREENSHOT

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regory Fitzgerald appeared before a Superior Court judge on January 12 and calmly confessed to what overwhelming evidence had already convinced a jury of long ago: that in May 1993, he traveled from Texas to his wife’s condo in Shelburne and strangled her. The 64-year-old convicted murderer’s voice was barely audible as he testified remotely from prison in Springfield, where he has been serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, the harshest possible term in Vermont. He told Judge Samuel Hoar that he is no longer “the same person” who had schemed to murder Amy Fitzgerald, a 30-year-old Gulf War veteran and University of Vermont graduate student, in cold blood. “I understand what I did ruined lives,” he said. “But I am sorry. Nothing I can say will bring them back. I don’t know what else to say.” The admission was a significant reversal for a man who had insisted he was innocent before and after his 1994 trial. In the years since, courts have consistently 14

rebuffed his numerous attempts, using various legal strategies, to get a break on his throw-away-the-key sentence. But this time, Fitzgerald had a clear incentive to admit his crime — freedom. His latest batch of appeals landed before Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah

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George, who opposes life-without-parole sentences as inhumane. George’s office offered to settle the cases by resentencing Fitzgerald to 35 years to life, so long as he admitted his guilt. Accounting for good-time credit, the deal would enable Fitzgerald to seek parole as soon as this year. He took it without hesitation.

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Following the brief January 12 hearing, Judge Hoar signed off, to the dismay of Amy’s surviving family members. While George contends that the settlement with Fitzgerald was legally sound because the murderer brought a credible appeal, the move also reflects the prosecutor’s restorative vision of criminal justice, which she has applied even in the seemingly most unpalatable cases. She acknowledges that her opposition to life sentences influenced her decision. “I certainly wouldn’t say, ‘No, it didn’t play any part,’” George said. “It’s part of who I am and what I stand for.” Amy’s two older brothers say they’re stunned that George cut a deal with their sister’s murderer rather than vigorously defend the conviction and sentence already on the books. “It makes no sense that they would just throw up the white flag like this,” said Dave Zeltserman, 62. “It means that SENTENCE SERVED?

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at a press briefing on Tuesday. “We hope this will lead to lower rates of transmission here in Vermont over the next coming weeks, something we’d all very much welcome.” Cases are dropping among both vaccinated and unvaccinated residents. However, cases among the unvaccinated are 2.7 times higher, according to data presented by Finance Commissioner Mike Pieciak. Vermont’s vaccination rate, 79 percent, is the highest in the nation. But Levine said the rate of booster shots could be much better. Currently, just 56 percent of the population and 60 percent of those over 18 have gotten boosters, which are widely available. “I’d love to see that percentage much closer to 90,” Levine said, encouraging people to get boosted immediately. Deaths remain high in January, with 43 as of Tuesday, the third-highest monthly tally of the pandemic. Since March 2020, more than 520 Vermonters have died of COVID-19. Despite the encouraging decline of infections, Levine noted that the higher transmissibility of Omicron has forced the state to shift how it tracks the spread of the disease. The traditional contact-tracing method has proven to be “slow, laborious and increasingly ineffective,” he said, in the face of a variant with a short incubation period and a high number of infected people showing no symptoms or mild ones. m

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will be distributed to service providers who work with “vulnerable Vermonters,” including those living in motels. At-home tests can quickly identify infections, a critical advantage in slowing the spread of the Omicron variant — particularly in shelters, where people have little control over their risk of exposure. The health department does not know how many people housed in motels and shelters have COVID-19, according to a spokesperson, and the data it has collected on shelter outbreaks is too limited to provide an accurate picture of the prevalence of COVID-19 within the population as a whole. Meanwhile, the only quarantine facility in the state for unhoused Vermonters who contract the virus is the 30-room Ho-Hum Motel in South Burlington. “This is a massive equity issue and a massive disability rights issue,” said antipoverty advocate Brenda Siegel. Her 28-day vigil on the steps of the Vermont Statehouse last fall helped push officials to reinstate a federally funded motel SIEGEL voucher program that had housed virtually all Vermonters in need of shelter, before officials enacted new guidelines last July to restrict the number of people who would qualify. Now, anyone below a certain income threshold experiencing homelessness is eligible for a room until March 1. According to the Department for Children and Families, which oversees the program, 1,775 adults and 490 children are living in motels across the state. In recent weeks, the state and federal governments have tried to get more tests into the public’s hands by mailing them directly to residential addresses and requiring insurers to cover the cost of the kits. But for unhoused Vermonters, those measures didn’t make much difference, because distribution was limited to one bundle of kits per street address — thus excluding most people in shelters and motels.

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hen Vermont’s online registration form for home delivery of free rapid COVID-19 tests went live on January 12, then crashed due to overwhelming demand, Jess Horner was too busy to log on and compulsively hit refresh. Horner is the program director at John Graham Housing & Services in Vergennes, and with nearly a third of her 12-person staff out due to illness or exposure to COVID-19, she was scrambling to meet the immediate needs of John Graham’s 100 or so clients, most of whom are unhoused. By the time she tried to sign up for the rapid testing kits, all 350,000 had been claimed. “I am so burned-out from COVID,” said Horner, who manages the 25-bed John W. Graham Emergency Shelter in addition to coordinating outreach for clients living in motels and on the streets. The pandemic, she said, has added a new layer of logistical complexity to her work. “Our clients call us for everything,” Horner said. “We help B REN DA them problem-solve around food and housing issues, and COVID testing has become part of our case management duties.” Yet Horner and others from organizations that serve the homeless feel that the state has overlooked them and their clients in the recent push to distribute rapid antigen tests. While Gov. Phil Scott’s administration has dispatched hundreds of thousands of testing kits to schools, childcare centers and individual addresses, it had not created any mechanism to get tests to the more than 2,000 Vermonters spending the winter in motels and shelters until the end of last week. Last Friday, about six weeks after the highly transmissible Omicron variant arrived in Vermont, the Department of Health began allowing shelters to request rapid testing kits. The department expects to distribute 30,000 tests in the next two to three weeks — half of which will go directly to shelters, said spokesperson Will Terry. The other half

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anyone, if they are persistent enough, can keep filing enough bullshit appeals and get out.” Zeltserman, who lives outside Boston, pleaded with George and, later, Judge Hoar not to resentence Amy’s husband, whom he described at the hearing as a calculating “psychopath.” “For him to confess in open court meant nothing,” Zeltserman said in an interview several days later. “He’ll say and do anything to get out.” Amy Fitzgerald was a decorated U.S. Army captain who earned a prestigious Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award for her role in establishing a blood supply system in Iraq during the Gulf War’s ground offensive. After the war, she took leave to get her master’s degree at UVM. Her husband told her he was enrolled at the University of Texas, but he was really living a double life, using a fake name and soliciting prostitutes. As Amy planned to buy Gregory a sailboat as a graduation present, he was developing an elaborate scheme to murder her and cover his tracks. She was discovered dead in her Shelburne bathroom three days after neighbors heard screams in the middle of the night. The agreement to resentence Gregory Fitzgerald stems from his claim that his trial lawyer in 1994, Peter Langrock, did not accurately convey a plea offer from state prosecutors that could have yielded a 30-year prison sentence. He also claimed Langrock did not explain that Fitzgerald could face life without parole if convicted at trial. Fitzgerald was able to produce two letters from the time that showed discrepancies in how prosecutors conveyed a plea offer to Langrock with how the defense attorney relayed it to Fitzgerald. Further, Langrock testified during a 2014 hearing that he did not tell Fitzgerald that he faced life without parole. George described Fitzgerald’s ineffective counsel claim as a “huge problem” for the state. “We had no counterevidence,” she said. A Vermont Superior Court judge had reviewed Fitzgerald’s claim in 2014 but concluded he was not harmed by the apparent error because he “failed to establish that he would have accepted the offer,” court records show. Due to an attorney’s error in his appeal of that ruling, the Vermont Supreme Court never directly weighed in. Langrock, one of the most seasoned criminal defense attorneys in Vermont, already had decades of experience by the 1990s, when Fitzgerald was claiming the attorney failed at his basic duties. In

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an interview last week, Langrock said the likelihood that he didn’t convey the plea was “one in a thousand,” though he couldn’t rule it out. “I do remember that Greg insisted upon his innocence and indicated to us at the time that that was his motivating force in going forward [with a trial],” Langrock said. Amy’s other brother, Alan Zeltserman, said George’s office did not adequately consult him or Dave as it pursued a settlement. The way the deal came together so quickly, Alan said by email from Japan, suggests that it was more about George’s own “agenda” than the “requirements of fairness and justice.” Adding to the sting, Judge Hoar initially approved the settlement agreement without scheduling a hearing where the victim’s family would have a right to be heard. The judge corrected his mistake and scheduled a hearing on short notice, leaving Alan and Dave just a couple of days to prepare statements about a deal they say they didn’t fully understand. Following a tearful plea by Dave, Judge Hoar said he wasn’t in a position to second-guess the state’s attorney, so long as the settlement was reasonable. Others have. In 2019, George dropped criminal charges against three people accused of murder or attempted murder, including one who hacked his wife with a meat cleaver, after experts opined that they were insane at the time of the offense. Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan subsequently refiled charges in

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For the first time in three years, Burlington voters will consider approving a higher tax rate when they cast ballots this Town Meeting Day. Mayor Miro Weinberger has said the 4-cent tax rate hike is necessary to address revenue shortfalls, pay for city equity initiatives and combat recordhigh inflation rates. Burlington city councilors also voted to place two bonds on the March 1 ballot. A $23.8 million capital bond would replace aging fire trucks and shoddy sidewalks, and a $25.9 million spending plan would upgrade a large section of Main Street in the city’s downtown tax-increment financing district. After some debate, councilors also approved a charter change that would remove the city’s authority to regulate sex work. Voters will also consider elections in all eight city wards, as well as a $98.2 million school budget, which represents a 13.1 percent increase in per-pupil spending. Despite this, school officials anticipate a 7 percent decrease in the education tax rate, which would offset the city’s increase and result in an overall tax decrease. Still, affordability was a theme of discussion on Monday night. Councilors and members of the public noted that the city’s recent reappraisal raised taxes for most homeowners and expressed concern that a tax rate increase would make living in Burlington even more expensive. At the same time, city services have become more costly. Inflation in the U.S. has risen by 7 percent between December 2020 and December 2021, the highest increase since 1981, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The increase translates to higher labor costs, Weinberger has said, noting that all four of the city’s union contracts are being negotiated this year. Councilor Mark Barlow (I-North District) said many taxpayers are tightening their budgets and the city should follow suit. Councilor Karen Paul (D-Ward 6) had a different take, noting that the municipal tax growth rate will still be lower than the rate of inflation. Every city department could face cuts if the item fails. “None of us want to go to voters and ask for a tax rate increase,” Paul said, but “there are significant repercussions if we don’t.” The council eventually passed the measure, 10-2; Barlow and Councilor Ali Dieng (I-Ward 7) voted no. m

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all three cases, arguing that the insanity claims should be put to a jury and that victims’ families should have a say. One of the defendants was Veronica Lewis, who shot her gun range instructor

in Westford. She later took a plea deal that means she’ll serve 10 years to life in prison. Only 14 people, including Fitzgerald, were serving life-without-parole sentences in Vermont in 2016, according to one analysis. Criminal justice reform advocates, including George and Donovan, have sought to make Vermont the first state to eliminate the sentence altogether. The most recent bill, introduced in 2021 by Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D-Chittenden), would require that anyone sentenced to life imprisonment be eligible for parole consideration after 25 years. The bill has not had a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee’s chair, Sen. Dick Sears (D-Bennington), sponsored an earlier, more limited iteration of the bill that cleared the Senate in 2020 but did not get a hearing in the House. He’s not convinced the issue has gained enough support since. “Most of the cases where someone gets life without parole in Vermont are some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in the state,” he said. “It’s a difficult bill.” But prisoners sentenced to life without parole are “literally thrown away,” George said. “And I just don’t personally believe in throwing humans away.” She said research shows that most people can be redeemed and should have an opportunity to demonstrate that while they are incarcerated. The prospect of parole also provides an incentive for good behavior in prison, she said, suggesting that Fitzgerald’s dogged pursuit of freedom may be one reason he logged no disciplinary reports during his decades behind bars. Ram Hinsdale’s bill would be retroactive, meaning it would include people such as Fitzgerald who are already serving sentences of life without parole. That provision is a deal breaker for Sears, but George sees it as an important part of the reform. “If we are deciding as a state that we are not going to be the type of state or people that do this, then from my perspective, we need to also right the wrongs that we’ve done in the past,” she said. To Dave Zeltserman, who still won’t visit Burlington because of the pain he knows it would provoke, Amy’s survivors have lost their only solace following her murder. “The Vermont courts stood up for her, and they did the right thing,” he said. “Taking that away just kind of strips away whatever my sister had left.” m

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Corporal Sues Human Rights Commission, Seven Days B Y DE R E K BR O UW E R derek@sevendaysvt.com A state police corporal says Vermont’s Human Rights Commission ruined his career by releasing a report that suggested the Vermont State Police racially discriminated against the Black director of the historic Clemmons Family Farm in Charlotte. Cpl. Andrew Leise also claims that Seven Days defamed him in a news story last year about the commission’s investigation. He’s suing the newspaper and the Human Rights Commission, its executive director and its commission chair for six counts of defamation and due process violations. The Human Rights Commission spent nearly three years investigating Lydia Clemmons’ complaint that state police were biased in their handling of ongoing conflicts between her family and a farm tenant. After initially concluding that the evidence did not support Clemmons’ claims, a commission investigator later reversed course, and the body voted 5-0 to find reasonable grounds that state police had discriminated against Clemmons because of her race and sex. Leise’s 69-page civil complaint accuses the commission’s leaders of having “manipulated and falsified” their employee’s investigative report for political ends and collaborated with Seven Days to publicize it. In what Seven Days previously reported was an unusual move, the Human Rights Commission did not post anything about the Clemmons case to its website and only released its report when Seven Days specifically requested it. Vermont Public Safety Commissioner Michael Schirling criticized the commission’s decision not to publish the report even though he disputed its findings. Seven Days publisher Paula Routly said in a statement that the newspaper “stands by the story.” A 22-year veteran, Leise has been “unable to return to work as a VSP trooper” since the release of the report and the Seven Days article, the complaint states. “Plaintiff’s career in law enforcement has ended,” it continues. But Leise is still a state police employee at the Williston barracks, spokesperson Adam Silverman said, though he has been on leave. Silverman would not specify the duration or type of leave, citing employee privacy protections. m

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news Some got lucky; Josh Lisenby, who lives at the John Graham shelter in Vergennes, managed to sign up for rapid tests through the state website using the shelter’s address. “I’m not sure if I was the first one to sign up and if my doing that prevented someone else from getting them,” he said. When he tried to get tests mailed to the shelter through the United States Postal Service-administered federal program, he got an error message saying the address he had entered was a business. “My real concern is, why hasn’t the state sent cases of tests to shelters and motels just to have on hand?” Lisenby said. “When you get to the shelter, they give you a little care package with a toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, stuff like that. It would be really nice to get a rapid test in there, too.” Lisenby doesn’t have a car, so whenever he wants to get tested for COVID-19, he has to take two different buses to the site in Middlebury — an undertaking, he said, that can eat up half the day. And if he were sick, he would risk exposing his fellow passengers. “When you’re homeless, you’re always asking yourself whether the thing you’re going to do is worth the danger to yourself and others,” Lisenby said. Nor is purchasing a testing kit — even when one can be found in a store — a feasible option. At roughly $25 for a box of two rapid tests, the kits are out of reach for most Vermonters earning less than $24,000 a year, the income cutoff for the motel voucher program. And those without health insurance can’t submit their receipts for reimbursement. Joe McCaffrey, who has been living at the Days Inn in Colchester since November, said the motel has no rapid tests to offer voucher guests who can’t afford to buy them. He’s disappointed, he said, with the lack of direct outreach from the state. “A lot of people here need a knock on their door, whether it’s because they’re not internet-savvy enough to be informed or because they have a lot of other issues besides being homeless,” McCaffrey said. “But there’s been no activity whatsoever from the state since I got here, in terms of getting tests to people, and this is a pretty big motel. If it’s not happening here, I don’t know where it’s happening.” Sarah Phillips, director of DCF’s Office of Economic Opportunity, acknowledged these frustrations. “I absolutely agree, and the administration agrees, that we need to address this issue,” said Phillips, who works with the health department to coordinate the pandemic response to Vermonters living in shelters and motels. “It is an equity issue at some level. You couldn’t log in to the rapid test request and ask for more than two [at a single address], 18

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so what does that mean for folks living in congregate settings?” Throughout the pandemic, she said, her agency has offered to support organizations that work with people housed in motels and shelters. “If shelters can get rapid tests and they need some funding to support that, we’re happy to have those conversations,” she said. “But there are challenges around the supply chain impacting the state as a whole, and I think that’s well understood.” In December, Rick DeAngelis, the executive director of Good Samaritan Haven in Barre, used grant funding from DCF to help cover the cost of 500 rapid tests for his organization, which manages three shelters and serves some 250 people living in motels throughout Washington County. If DeAngelis hadn’t had the foresight to stock up, he probably would be in trouble now: At the beginning of the month, a field supervisor

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from the Agency of Human Services came to one of Good Samaritan’s shelters and dropped off 34 rapid tests for the facility. Other than that, DeAngelis said, the state had not provided any testing supplies; in fact, he said, several Washington County agencies that work with the homeless, including a day shelter in Montpelier that had to close this week due to staff COVID19 infections, have recently asked him to share some of his tests. But DeAngelis is most concerned about motel residents, who are even less likely to be in contact with service providers who can help them get medical care. “There are no on-site services right now in Washington County, and we’ve got the secondlargest number of people in motels in the state,” he said. “What are those people doing if they think they have COVID?” DeAngelis said he has enough rapid tests on hand for the roughly 50 people housed in Good Samaritan’s three shelters, but with case counts creeping up — over the past two weeks, six people in the shelters have tested positive — he worries that his staff won’t be able to respond quickly enough. “If there was a SWAT team that came in and said, ‘We’re going to take care of this. We’re going to do the testing, and if somebody is positive, we’ll figure out where they go,’ that would really help,” said DeAngelis. When someone in a shelter tests positive, the protocol is to transfer them to the Ho-Hum Motel in South Burlington. Since early January, the Ho-Hum has been

consistently at or near capacity, according to a spokesperson for the Champlain Housing Trust, the nonprofit that manages the motel’s day-to-day operations. Phillips, the Office of Economic Opportunity director, said the state has no immediate plans to add additional quarantine capacity in motels. The Ho-Hum is ideal, she said, because of its proximity to other social and medical services, including the Community Health Centers of Burlington, which provide clinical support by phone to Ho-Hum residents who ask for it. “It’s not just a roof,” said Phillips. Two weekends ago, subzero temperatures froze some pipes at the Ho-Hum, rendering 10 of the rooms uninhabitable. All but two of the displaced residents were relocated to empty rooms on the premises that weren’t being used for the quarantine program. By last Friday, plumbers had managed to engineer a temporary solution so that people could return. Recently, one of DeAngelis’ clients refused to go to the Ho-Hum after he was told that he would have to share a room; in another instance, DeAngelis had to pay for two motel rooms for Good Samaritan residents who tested positive, because he couldn’t immediately arrange their transportation to the Ho-Hum. “It’s overwhelming,” said DeAngelis. “In some ways, it’s been much harder to manage the situation than last year. The more we test, the more cases we’re going to find. What are we going to do about them?” m

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B Y COL I N FL A ND ERS colin@sevendaysvt.com Nearly 200 federal lawmakers — including Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) — are urging the White House to investigate agencies that employ travel nurses, suggesting that the “exorbitant” rates charged during much of the pandemic may amount to illegal price gouging. The bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by Welch and Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), cited reports of travel nurse staffing agencies doubling or tripling their rates during the thorniest months of the pandemic in attempts to profit off the crisis. In a letter to the White House COVID-19 Response Team, the lawmakers asked for a federal investigation of these price increases to determine whether they violate any anticompetitive or consumer protection laws. Travel nurses, who typically move from state to state and work on short-term contracts, have long supplemented Vermont’s health care workforce, but they’ve become even more vital during the pandemic as chronic staffing shortages have made it harder for hospitals to keep pace with demands for their services. Vermont hospitals now expect to spend $75 million on temporary workforces this fiscal year alone — far more than an average year pre-pandemic. The largest of those bills comes from the University of Vermont Medical Center, where travel workers have constituted up to 15 percent of the nursing workforce at times. The medical center typically paid travel agencies $75 to $85 an hour before the pandemic; according to a spokesperson, the hospital is now coughing up hourly rates between $150 to $195. Travel agencies take a cut of this money before passing it on to their clients, but the nurses still end up earning far more than permanent staff for the same work. That’s convinced some permanent nurses to leave their jobs for travel work, while breeding resentment among many who stay. During a press conference last week, UVM Health Network CEO and president John Brumsted called the price of travel workers “unsustainable” and said he supported a federal probe into the problem. “Individual states have tried to do something about it, and they’ve been severely penalized by lack of access to travelers,” said Brumsted, who is retiring later this year. “So it clearly has to be a national approach.” m

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Raising the Stakes New investment fund seeks to spur Vermont’s startups B Y ANN E WAL L AC E AL L E N • anne@sevendaysvt.com

rivate equity investor Jim Crook and four associates have launched an investment fund aimed at injecting $12.5 million into promising startup businesses in Vermont. Announced this week, the Dudley Fund will focus on early and mid-stage Vermont companies that need an initial infusion of about $50,000 to $150,000 in order to grow. The goal is to find and fund entrepreneurs who have demonstrated that they can create jobs and inject money into the state’s economy. “This is for companies that are going to create a significant economic impact, that will create jobs here, pay taxes here, support other local businesses here and generate wealth,” Crook said. “That is our most important objective.” In return for their investment, backers will get a small share in the company — as long as it succeeds. If it goes out of business, their money goes with it. Crook spent 25 years as an executive at IDX Systems, the South Burlington company that was sold to GE Healthcare in 2006 for $1.2 billion. Since then, he has operated a private equity firm called

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JH Capital that has invested in several Vermont businesses, including DealerPolicy Insurance of Williston, Greensea Systems in Richmond and Beta Technologies, the fast-growing electric aviation company based at Burlington International Airport. Crook’s founding partners in the Dudley Fund — a separate undertaking — include his daughter, Allison Maino, who runs operations for JH Capital; executive director John Antonucci, the former director of LaunchVT; financial consultant Cherian Philip, with whom Crook worked as an investor at Aspenti Health, a Burlington health care company that was sold last May; and Tom Moody, a director at Downs Rachlin Martin and a longtime Crook associate. In preparation for the Dudley Fund’s debut, the founders last year raised $250,000 from each of about 50 partners, all but two of them in Vermont. Another 25 people who aren’t investors will serve as mentors or advisers for the companies that Dudley is investing in. The group named the fund after Dudley Davis, who died in 2004 after six decades

at Merchants Bank. He was also a big financial supporter of the University of Vermont, and its student center is named after him. Davis was a courageous and visionary local lender, Antonucci said. “Some of our most successful companies — IDX, Rhino Foods, Gardener’s Supply and Twincraft Skincare — got their start thanks to Dudley,” Antonucci said of Davis. Michele Asch, a VP at the Winooski-based Twincraft, is on the Dudley Fund’s sevenperson investment committee, which will make investment decisions. It’s riskier to invest in a fledgling company than in an established one. In meeting with other funders and business leaders in the Burlington area last year, the Dudley group learned that this was the kind of funding the area needed most. “In Vermont, there were some early stage companies where people that had good ideas couldn’t get them off the ground because they couldn’t get their first $100,000 of capital to get the ball moving in the right direction,” Crook said. The Dudley Fund will follow up with more money if the company succeeds, he said. About 70 percent of the fund’s money

will go to early stage companies, Antonucci said, and the rest to more established businesses. Board roles will rotate through the 75 people who are involved in the fund, he said. To start, Crook and Moody make up the board. Interest in private equity has risen worldwide in recent years, as people with money to invest have looked beyond the stock market and real estate. PitchBook, which tracks investment deals, said U.S. companies backed by venture capital raised $329.6 billion last year, nearly twice as much as the $166.6 billion raised in 2020, itself a record amount. Chittenden County’s venture capital scene has also become busier in the last decade, with the development of entities such as the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies and an uptick in private investment deals involving people who cashed out in big sales like that of Dealer.com in 2013. A relatively recent entrant to Vermont’s investment market is Hula, a Burlington company that in the last three years has converted the former Blodgett Oven factory into a vast lakeside coworking space and started a venture capital fund. The Fund at Hula was an early investor in Beta Technologies, which last year raised $368 million. Not only is the number of Vermont deals increasing, so is the amount of money at play, said Cairn Cross, who cofounded Fresh Tracks Capital in Shelburne, a firm that has invested in 55 companies over the past 20 years. Cross, who is working on his annual report on Vermont investment, said in-state companies landed 31 venture capital deals worth a collective $100 million between 2010 and 2020. He said the Beta deal, and other smaller ones, have

contributed to the fivefold year-over-year increase in local investment dollars. The final accounting of 2021 deals is expected next month. “This isn’t just a flash in the pan,” Cross said last week. “Obviously, I’m a cheerleader for Vermont. The number of investments is going to continue to go up every year, I’m confident. The total dollar amount might not be quite as big, but the average dollar amount will go up.” A global trend over the past decade has been missionbased or impact investing, where funds seek projects that contribute to environmental improvements or social benefit. The Dudley

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Fund examined that path but decided to focus first on making money for its investors, Crook said. “This is a personal view: The only way any of those other really important things can get solved is by creating jobs,” Crook said. “The only way that there’s an ability to fund the green anything, you name it, to address the thorny social issues, is to have a healthy economy, and Vermont has lagged in that for a long time.”

The Dudley Fund’s founders expect to collaborate closely with others who are doing similar work in Vermont. Janice St. Onge, the president of the Flexible Capital Fund in Montpelier, said Vermont companies often need to raise money from more than one source. “It’s a good thing the Dudley Fund is coming into play,” St. Onge said, noting that the Flexible Capital Fund doesn’t invest more than $400,000 in any one company. “If they are raising a million, we need to collaborate with other investors to help them.” Crook and the other founders worked with Cross, Hula founder Russ Scully and Hula CEO Rob Lair last year as they explored what kind of investment capital was most needed. The founders also talked to people such as Travis Fitzgerald, the CEO of DealerPolicy, which received both money and advice from Crook as it started up in 2016. Fitzgerald said the cash and the business advice were critical in the company’s first years. “If it wasn’t for Jim and the chance he took on us early, we wouldn’t be here, and 300-plus people wouldn’t have jobs,” he said. Economic growth, especially in the tech sector, has long been a goal of the city, the state and local Burlington business groups. Now that it’s starting to happen, there’s a dearth of affordable housing. Workers and reasonably priced childcare are in short supply, too. While Crook said he’s confident that

creating more jobs will take care of the region’s other problems, Scully and Lair are taking a more active approach. Scully hopes to build at least 300 units of housing in the city’s South End, and Lair said Hula has worked with childcare groups to come up with solutions. “We’re completely wasting our time if we don’t help to solve the housing and childcare problem,” Lair said. “It’s a fine line between being a backwater where nothing happens — where you can’t get an interesting, challenging tech job — and being overbuilt San Francisco,” he added. Most of the business growth in Vermont is happening in the northwestern part of the state. But investors are looking all over Vermont for opportunities. Lair said he works with a group of angel investors in Woodstock and with former state senator Matt Dunne, who invests in rural startups through his Center on Rural Innovation in the Springfield area. In 2020, Crook invested in For the Biome, a wellness company in Dummerston. Crook acknowledged that Chittenden County both produces and attracts the lion’s share of Vermont’s economic energy. It’s the state’s most populous county and is by far the fastest growing. It’s also home to most of the large tech companies that spin off ideas and entrepreneurs the way IDX has, such as IBM, Agilent Technologies, Dealer.com and now Beta. But there are startups in the rest of Vermont, too, and Crook is determined to spread the wealth, though he knows it won’t be easy. “We have investors from outside of Chittenden County, so we have an ear to the ground with regard to what is going on,” he said. m

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OCTOBER 24, 1926-JANUARY 17, 2022 SUNAPEE, N.H. David “Duffy” A. Dodge died on January 17, 2022, at the age of 95. David was born on October 24, 1926, in St. Johnsbury, Vt., to Ralph and Mary Dodge. He graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1945 and served in the Marines. After the Marines, he attended the University of Vermont and graduated with a BS in economics. He was on the UVM men’s ski team and golf team. He married Patricia Wood Dodge in 1952, and they were married for 60 years. Pat predeceased Duffy in December 2012 due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Duffy was vice president of Caledonia Sand and Gravel. He retired in 1976. Duffy and Pat are survived by David Dodge (Cindy Dodge), Peter Dodge, Carol Michaels and Susan Dodge. He also is survived by his grandchildren, David Dodge, Jensen Dodge, Josh Michaels, and Caroline and Mary McNamara. Duffy was instrumental in teaching his children the art of skiing and athleticism. David became an all-American alpine skier for UVM. Peter skied on the U.S. Ski Team and Pro Tour, as well as coached the Dartmouth College ski team. Carol was the most graceful of the skiers in the family. Susan was a well-regarded ski racer and went on to compete in running from distances of 5K to ultras. Duffy encouraged his children to be the best and to strive for excellence while being humble and respectful. In addition to his children and grandchildren, Duffy is survived by his companion and best friend, Ruth “Nicci” White. They shared a love of games and spending time with friends at Sunapee Cove. Duffy was an inspiration to his children and to all who were fortunate enough to know him. He was a National and World Championship Masters ski racer, shot his age in golf well into his seventies and eighties, and was an allaround good guy. He continued to race well into his late eighties, often beating those years younger than himself. At this time, there are no funeral services scheduled. The family will be hosting a celebration of life for Duffy in the spring . This will be an opportunity for all those who knew and loved him to share their memories and raise a toast. A date and time for this ceremony will be posted at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Special Olympics Vermont.

Virginia “Ginny” F. Walters MAY 26, 1925JANUARY 14, 2022 SHELBURNE, VT.

Ginny Walters died peacefully at her home at Wake Robin in Shelburne, Vt., on January 14, 2022, at the age of 96. High-energy and quick-witted to the end, she loved to talk about all the advances in technology, science and gender equality over the nearly 100 years since she was born. Ginny was born on May 26, 1925, to Walter and Natalie Fried in New York City, the middle of three daughters. She valued her early years at Birch Wathen School in New York, a very progressive school founded by two women who were dedicated to providing both girls and boys with a rich education in the sciences and cultural arts. Family summers on Paradox Lake in the Adirondacks were full of hiking, picnics, swimming, boating and quiet afternoons with a good book. Ginny graduated from Smith College in 1947 and went on to earn her master’s and PhD degrees in physics at Western Reserve University. She was among the first female physics PhDs in the U.S. Ginny was a physics professor for many years, but her love of teaching really blossomed when she taught at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, where, as she said, the students had to do their homework and go to bed on time. As one student’s parents wrote in a letter that Ginny saved for 50 years, “You have shown my son in a real and practical way what we all try to show our children: to think, to grow, to relate to other people … From the

bottom of my heart, Mrs. Walters, I thank you.” After dating every weekend in high school, Ginny married Richard “Dick” Walters in 1945. They raised their family in Cleveland, Ohio, and were founding members of Holimont Ski Club in Ellicottville, N.Y., where they built a small chalet and hosted many raucous parties. In retirement, Dick and Ginny sailed extensively throughout the Great Lakes, the East Coast, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, British Columbia, Alaska and Lake Champlain. They became seasonal ski nomads, driving their homemade custom RV out west to ski every winter at the many areas where skiing was free if you were over 75. Ginny went on to ski into her early nineties. Ginny’s daughters and grandchildren have many endearing stories of Ginny explaining wave theory, or teaching them calculus, or patiently teaching them to ski, or designing and knitting reindeer sweaters, which have now been passed along to Ginny’s great-grandson. We all had a good laugh when we discovered a little card in her purse that, in tiny print, showed important physics constants such as Avogadro’s number (with a date of 1963 and a price of 5 cents). Ginny wrote dozens of

articles for physics publications, children’s magazines, and sailing and travel magazines. She loved puzzles of all kinds and was thrilled when, at the age of 86, she was called by NPR’s Will Shortz to participate in NPR’s Sunday puzzle, which she aced (npr. org/transcripts/144234795). Ginny could recite the lyrics of many Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, and we honored her 95th birthday with an adaptation, “Professor of the Physical” (youtube.com/ watch?v=UTSw1hfFUGo). At one point, when Ginny had a brain scan after a spill on the tennis court, the young doctor looked at the scan and said that it must belong to someone else who was much younger. The doctor had never seen a brain that big on an 85-year-old person. Maybe that’s because every night when Ginny went to sleep, she did the squares and square roots of numbers. Even in her last days, Ginny described to her daughters what her brain was doing as her body was failing. Ginny passed along to her children and grandchildren her lifelong dedication to environmental awareness. For her, as a child of the Depression, there was no such thing as throwing things away. As she downsized in recent years, she reminded us that items could be remade, reused or given away. Ginny was deeply disturbed by the quadrupling of the world’s population over her lifetime, a rate of growth that she recognized as unsustainable. She hoped that the next generations would be able to rein in that growth and help relieve the Earth’s overuse. Ginny dedicated her time to causes she believed in. She volunteered for 20 years meticulously maintaining the donor database at Planned

Parenthood, as she believed fervently in the organization’s work. She also chaired the Wake Robin computer committee for 20 years, assisting residents with their technology. Dick and Ginny collaborated in the founding of Patient Choices Vermont in 2002. Their joint leadership was instrumental in the passage of Vermont’s Act 39, which allows medical aid in dying for terminally ill Vermonters. Ginny was the backbone of the organization, handling the supporter database, website, communications and finances while brainstorming with Dick to forge a successful strategy. Ginny mourned the loss of her grandson, Jake Hawley, last summer. She leaves her daughters, Nancy (Bill) Hawley of Milton, Vt., and Betsy Walkerman (partner Jonathan Crocker) of Underhill, Vt.; her granddaughters, Karen Walkerman and Sally Walkerman (Nick Calverey); her great-grandson, Léo Walkerman Calverey; and her former son-in-law, Steve (Michelle) Walkerman; as well as her niece and nephews, Tamar Kummel, David Kaufman, Don Kaufman and Doug Kaufman. Ginny was predeceased by her husband, Dick Walters, and her sisters, Ellen Kaufman and Marion Kummel. A memorial gathering will be held at a later date. Ginny requested that, if desired, contributions in her memory be sent to Patient Choices Vermont, P.O. Box 671, Shelburne, VT 05482 (patientchoices.org/ donate.html) or to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (plannedparenthood.org/plannedparenthood-northern-newengland/get-involved-locally/ donate-copy).

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Helen Jackson Simon JULY 28, 1956-DECEMBER 31, 2021 ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.

Helen Jackson Simon, 65, daughter, sister, aunt, partner, loving mom and career journalist, died on December 31, 2021. She was predeceased by one sister, Alice, and one brother, Lee, and their families. She is survived by her partner, Bill, of Florida; two children, Alex and Hannah; and five siblings and their families: Jane of Vermont, Jane of New York, and Bob, Tina and Walter of Colorado. She always said her two children were the highlight of her life. Her son is autistic and developmentally disabled, and she was a strong advocate for him and for people with disabilities. Her daughter inherited her love of travel and has lived abroad in Australia and England. Helen’s loss is sadly mourned by her partner and soul mate, Bill. Although they met late in their lives, they had great plans of spending their retirement years together traveling and loving each other. Although their time together was short, their love for one other was fierce and a blessing for them both. Born in Louisiana, Helen grew up in Puerto Rico and was fluent in Spanish. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in urban studies from the University of Colorado in 1976 and then a master of arts in journalism from Louisiana State University in 1983. Helen then spent three decades as a journalist, reporter, editor and photographer. During that span, she worked for wire services such as the Associated Press and United Press International; the Economist Intelligence Unit; and for newspapers such as the San Juan Star (Puerto Rico), the Daily Journal (Venezuela), the Burlington Free Press (Vermont) and the Gabber (Florida). Her work also included the nonprofit Foreign Policy Association and the

U.S. Census Bureau. She freelanced for entities ranging from BioNews Services and bobvila.com to Vermont Woman and CubaNews. Helen was a world traveler, having gone to South Korea with the Peace Corps, then traveled extensively for both work and pleasure. She visited Europe, Australia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Canada and Mexico, the Philippines, and the South Pacific Islands. After establishing a journalism career, she moved to Milton, Vt., with her then-husband Mark to raise a family and be closer to her sister Jane. There, she enjoyed gardening, bird-watching and kayaking. Later, after Helen retired to St. Petersburg, Fla., Jane followed soon after, and they spent many afternoons at the dog beach together. Helen’s last great trip was to Australia with her sister Jane; her daughter, Hannah; and Hannah’s partner, Amy. Their favorite part of the whirlwind trip was seeing the birds and wildlife — and, at the conclusion, Helen, Jane and Hannah got matching tattoos of sea lions. Everywhere she went, Helen loved engaging with the locals to learn about their lives and cultures, whether it was in remote Western Australia or right in St. Petersburg. Helen was driven and focused on whatever she set her mind to and started businesses such as recording life histories and driving a snowplow. She also had a passion for real estate and would buy, fix, rent and sell houses. She adored animals and was often fostering local pets in need. Helen was truly a remarkable woman and will be missed by most everyone who met her. There will be no services. In lieu of flowers, please direct donations to Camphill Village in Copake, N.Y., a community for people with disabilities (camphillvillage.org) or Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research (lustgarten.org).

Margaret Cecilia Koval AUGUST 5, 1937DECEMBER 28, 2021 STARKSBORO, VT.

Margaret Cecilia Koval, aka “Marge,” age 84, died peacefully in her sleep in her daughter Karen’s farmhouse in Starksboro, Vt., on December 28, 2021. She was under the kind guidance of Addison County Home Health & Hospice. Marge was born on August 5, 1937, in Detroit, Mich., as the third child of nine to Steve and Alice (Nestich) Birskovich. She attended Mathews High School in Vienna, Ohio, and loved to recount stories of her cheerleading and homecoming queen events. She went to a year of college in Bowling Green, Ohio, but decided instead to marry her handsome sweetheart, Edward P. Koval, and subsequently moved back to Detroit, Mich., to begin the journey of their family life together. In Detroit, Marge and Ed had four children, Kenneth Edward, Mary Kathryn, Gary Francis and David Michael. They moved to Vermont as an employment opportunity for Ed and built a house in Essex. Marge loved being outside in the fresh air, and Sundays after church were family hiking days in the Vermont mountains, often in search of rocks to build the stone wall in front of the Essex home. The family flourished with the births of three more children, Eric Matthew, Glen Thomas and Karen Elizabeth. The family of seven children was complete. The fact that Marge loved babies was clearly evident all the way to the last days of her life. In Vermont, Marge was passionate about participating in St. Pius X Church, because she truly, deeply believed in Christ and the example of Christianity. She often talked about the example of Mother Theresa and how to love the individual person. She was a person who understood deeply how to love and showed her family how this looked in action. She taught catechism, which brought her a lot of personal joy and fulfillment as she

taught many children how to pray and connect with God. She continued a connection to the church as a Eucharistic minister at Christ the King Church in Burlington, Vt., until she was 80 years old. After the sudden death of her husband of 44 years, Marge sold the Essex homestead and the Koval’s Coffee businesses that they owned and operated, then moved to Grand Way Senior Living Center in South Burlington. She developed so many wonderful friendships there! She often spoke about how she perceived this time as a very special time in her life. Marge was a wonderful mother and grandmother, and a proud great-grandmother, who developed a personal connection with each one of her 23 grandchildren. Marge is survived by all seven of her children and their families. She is also survived by her loving sisters and their families: Marion Turner, Veronica Finch, Theresa Scotchie and Bernadette Paukovich; and by her sister-in-law Mary Birskovich. All these wonderful sisters and their deceased brothers (Steve, Joe, Greg and Tommy Birskovich) have beautiful children whom Marge loved dearly and spoke of often. Marge was a person of impish humor (just ask her friends about April Fool’s Day pranks!) who loved to laugh, dance in the kitchen, bet on the horse races and Hula-Hoop! She loved music and live performances of all kinds, but especially musicals and dancing! She loved eating ice cream and peanut butter. She was a master of common sense. But most of all, she was a woman of strength and profound grace, which she displayed until her very last breath. Marge lived and died by the prevailing thought that love changes everything. Item Mom. A Mass of Christian burial will be held on Friday, May 6, 2022, 11 a.m., at St. Pius X Church in Essex Center, Vt. A burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery on Cemetery Road in Essex. Arrangements are under the direction of Ready Funeral Home, 68 Pinecrest Dr., Essex Junction, Vt. To send online condolences to her family, please visit readyfuneral.com.

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Judith A. Blank MARCH 15, 1945JANUARY 14, 2022 MONTPELIER, VT.

Judith A. Blank, a beloved mother, social justice activist, daughter, sister and very best friend, died on January 14, 2022, in the exceptional care of medical staff at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Vt. Standing at 4 foot 11, Judith lived an outsize life. A real-life Forrest Gump, Judith was full of powerful memories: meeting Martin Luther King Jr. at her synagogue as a kid, attending the March on Washington, hitchhiking across Europe and partying her way through Woodstock. Her longwinded stories were matched by a quick wit; sharp attention to detail; and giant amount of love for her family, friends and humanity. Judith was born in Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., on March 15, 1945 — the Ides of March — to her adored parents, Rose and Ezra Blank. When she was 5, her family moved to Great Neck, N.Y., where she spent her childhood surrounded by the warmth of family and friends, learning the importance of empathy at an early age. After graduating from Great Neck North, she studied sociology at the University of WisconsinMadison. A devoted social justice activist, Judith participated in peaceful protests against the Vietnam War and for civil rights. Most recently, she joined nightly candlelight vigils for George

Floyd on the Montpelier Statehouse lawn. During her twenties in Manhattan, Judith began her career working as a welfare officer, later becoming the most unexpected investigator for the probation court. She led presentence investigations for the City of New York and, in her spare time, sought out adventure: hosting parties, attending shows, eating her way through different neighborhoods, traveling cross-country in her baby blue Volkswagen Beetle and plotting out every trip she took to include a stop at the closest casino to play the slots. After vacationing in southern Vermont, Judith fell in love with the Green Mountains, eventually moving to Montpelier in the ‘70s, where she remained for the rest of her life. Working for the Department for Children and Families, Judith dedicated her life’s work as an adoption and post-adoption social worker

James “Jim” Paul Tranowski JANUARY 27, 1954JANUARY 11, 2022 SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT.

James Paul Tranowski died unexpectedly on Tuesday, January 11, peacefully and without pain, with his beloved wife, Marlene, by his side. James — or “Jim,” as he preferred — was born and grew up in the city of Chicago, Ill., the middle child of Eugene and Dorothy Tranowski, who had three sons. He had good memories of his early life, including his first two years of college before he transferred to the University of Illinois campus at Champaign Urbana. Finished with college, he moved

to Burlington, Vt., where his younger brother, Gerry, was living. Liking Vermont, he stayed here, finding work as a computer programmer at the University of Vermont. After

across Vermont, always advocating for the best interests of her clients. She was known for her infectious energy and New York City grit by her colleagues. Outside of work, she volunteered for Circus Smirkus and the Democratic Party, and she served on the boards of the Onion River Arts Council and Camp for Me, a summer camp for adoptees. At the age of 40, Judith adopted her daughter, Sajana Blank. Sajana arrived from Calcutta, India, on March 19, 1986, and was, as a cousin recently shared, the sun in the constellation of Judith’s life. As a single mom, Judith worked long hours but always prioritized Sajana, making sure she had everything (and more) to nurture her interests and realize her dreams. Following her retirement from the State of Vermont, Judith became an active member of the Montpelier Senior Center, where she could be found in an exercise class or playing mah-jongg all afternoon. Until the end of her life, she read a print copy of the daily New York Times and never left the crossword unfinished. Judith was also a pied piper to many young people, who knew her as “Bubbe” and “Aunt Judith.” She adored them as they adored her, and her presence will be sorely missed in their lives. Judith loved bringing together her community, and she visited Sajana in Brooklyn every year prior to the pandemic to celebrate her birthday over dim sum, gathering family and

leaving that employment in the late 1990s, he continued designing and implementing programming remotely, primarily working with a Chicago businessman, work he continued throughout his life. Jim met his wife, Marlene Wallace, when both were attending a meditation group in the fall of 1996. They got to know and enjoy each other’s company and spirit, moved in together in the newly constructed City’s Edge, and were married there in 2007. Marlene was the absolute apple of his eye; he was never happier than when they were together, and she felt the same. They lived together joyfully and cheerfully, each complementing and supporting the other. Jim was a delightful person:

friends from different parts of her life. In her final months, Judith and Sajana were lucky to spend six weeks together in November while she was recovering from surgery. They celebrated Sajana’s birthday and Thanksgiving, and watched “Jeopardy!” every night. The last 10 days of 2021 were the most special, allowing them to grow closer as a family, including Sajana’s partner, Keith. Judith’s health rapidly declined in the last two weeks of her life; however, Sajana was able to talk with her nearly every day, reminding Judith how much love surrounded her. She died peacefully, holding hands with her nurse. Judith is survived by her daughter, Sajana Blank, and her partner, Keith Rose, of Queens, N.Y.; many cousins; and loving friends. She is preceded in death by her parents, Rose and Ezra Blank; several beloved aunts and uncles; her sister-in-law, Christine Blank; her two four-legged babies, Maggie and Sophie; and four of her dear friends, Keith Aten, Ronnie Cohen, Carol Moore and Jim Suskin. In honor of Judith’s life, a memorial service will be held in the spring or summer of 2022. Details will be shared nearer to the date. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation in Judith’s memory to Vermont Foster/Adoptive Family Association to honor her life’s work or to Palliative Care at the Central Vermont Medical Center. Online condolences may be left at guareandsons.com.

gentle, kind, intelligent, generous, and interested in and observant of the world around him. Despite numerous personal and physical difficulties that would have daunted a lesser spirit, he remained cheerful and optimistic throughout the worst of afflictions. He is survived by his beloved wife, Marlene Wallace; his dear stepdaughters Beth Wallace (Colleen Boyce) and Meg Wallace; his brothers Dan (Lori) and Gerry (Marie Vincent) and their families; and his sister-in-law Carolyn Marvin (Andrew Leibs). Jim is loved and deeply missed by everyone who knew him. A memorial service for Jim is planned for the spring; date, time and location to be determined.

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HUNGER T GAINS How pandemic need, federal dollars and local collaboration are driving better ways to help food-insecure Vermonters B Y MELISSA PAS ANE N

he early months of the COVID-19 pandemic hit Seleste Weeks hard, as they did many Vermont families. She quit her gas station cashier job, fearful of catching the virus from customers. Her income dropped to nothing, and her unemployment checks were swallowed by utilities, car insurance and other necessities. She and her teenage son still had housing, compensation for caretaking a Randolph hemp farm, but their fridge was frequently empty except for eggs, ketchup and occasionally some cheese. If the family had bread, “We’d have a fried egg sandwich,” Weeks, 37, recalled. “If we had a can of beans, we’d have eggs and beans.” Just enough to keep “that starving pit in your stomach” at bay, she said. Then, in May 2020, Farmers to Families, a U.S. Department of Agriculture emergency program, began providing food at drive-through sites in Vermont. Weeks joined long lines of cars in Randolph, Burlington and Waterbury and waited, sometimes for hours, for boxes of pantry staples, precooked chicken, vegetables and dairy. She was most excited about the big blocks of Cabot cheddar, she recalled, “and the real butter, not fake margarine stuff.” In September, Weeks scrambled when the hemp farm sold and she had to find a new place to live. By the end of the year, she managed to land a job that included discounted housing at Four Paws Inn doggy daycare in Barre. It was still tough to afford meals for two, but she found help from a second new food aid R O B M EEHA N effort, Vermont Everyone Eats. The locally born program pays restaurants around the state to make meals with Vermont ingredients for those in need. Weeks orders on her phone through an app that makes it easy for her to find out what is available at restaurants in her area. Both the boxes and the meals have been a “huge help,” she said, especially Everyone Eats. “The fact that it’s good-quality food, not fast food, and from restaurants run by locals.” The COVID-19 pandemic upended every aspect of daily life in America, including the food system. People lost their jobs, children stayed home from school, supermarkets struggled to keep food in stock, restaurants closed, and farms lost major customers. In an August/September 2020 survey, nearly one-third of Vermont households said they had been food-insecure or struggled to put food on the table since the beginning of the pandemic. But the crisis also opened a door to a long-overdue reinvention of the charitable food system in Vermont. It brought opportunities for government, private businesses and nonprofits to collaborate on new ways to deliver food, to reduce barriers to receiving food assistance, and to connect restaurants and farms with those in need. “We were forced to rethink how we do our work,” said Rob Meehan, director of the Burlington nonprofit Feeding Chittenden. “The pandemic taught us you can do it different.” Money helped. By a conservative estimate, at least $300 million in federal funds have poured into Vermont for food aid since COVID-19 arrived. Those millions increased benefits in existing national programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance

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Weeks said. The doggy daycare job pays a few dollars more than Vermont’s $12.55 hourly minimum wage, but “I’m still barely making it,” Weeks said. Without housing through her job, “I’d be living in my car,” she said. “I live paycheck to paycheck — literally.” To concerns that low- or no-barrier programs encourage misuse, Sayles responded: “The far bigger problem is that people who could benefit … don’t, for any number of reasons.” Even if as many as 20 percent of people accessing food aren’t “deserving by whatever definition,” he argued, “it is not enough to inconvenience or shame the [other] 80 to 100 percent. We’re all better off when everyone in our community is well-fed.”

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Seleste Weeks picking up food from Stefano Coppola at the Morse Block Deli in Barre

Program, or SNAP (called 3SquaresVT in Vermont), and underwrote innovations and experiments such as Everyone Eats. What else has looked different on the ground in Vermont? There have been more collaborative efforts to deliver food to the hearts of communities, especially in rural areas. Providers also shifted their focus away from pounds of food distributed and toward delivering the kinds of foods people want and need. That has meant both offering more prepared meals and providing culturally appropriate foods for minority communities, including New Americans and migrant farmworkers. Other innovations combined economic development efforts with food assistance to include support for small, local businesses. Government programs and nonprofits found lower-barrier, less stigmatizing ways to provide food. For example, emergency federal funding provided free school meals for every student so that none went hungry because they were ashamed to be a “free lunch kid.” The latest data from the National Food Access and COVID research Team, or NFACT, put Vermont’s food insecurity at 27 percent — slightly down from its pandemic peak but still far greater than the pre-pandemic federal estimate of 9.6 percent. And NFACT reports that 71 percent of food-insecure Vermonters are working, retired or homemakers.

“This isn’t going to go away overnight, even if people are back to work,” said Meredith Niles, NFACT director and associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont. The pandemic has shone a glaring spotlight on food insecurity and impelled new ways to get food to hungry people. But no one yet knows whether the crisis response can evolve into enduring change — even as those in the trenches see a desperate need for it. The system is “dehumanizing, and it doesn’t work. We still have an embarrassing number of hungry people,” said Jean Hamilton, Everyone Eats’ statewide coordinator. “If ever there was a moment to really do something transformative and to reconsider how we think about and alleviate hunger, it’s now.”

‘NO JUDGMENT’

Even those in the charitable food system were initially surprised by the miles of cars that queued up for the Farmers to Families food boxes, but they were more surprised by what they heard from recipients. “We learned, wow, [that] people actually really responded to this drive-through model,” said John Sayles, CEO of the Vermont Foodbank, the state’s largest hunger-relief organization, which distributes food through 250 network partners.

“Even though there’s less choice, it really, really reduced the stigma.” Many pandemic-era food assistance programs have offered increased anonymity and few to no qualification hurdles. Hunger relief advocates have long argued that shame, stigma and burdensome, intrusive paperwork deter many from seeking needed assistance. Education and advocacy organization Hunger Free Vermont estimates that as many as 30 percent of youngsters who would qualify for free or reduced-price school meals miss out due to these factors. When Seleste Weeks lined up for the USDA-funded Farmers to Families food boxes, she just gave her name; for Everyone Eats, she simply checked off a box saying she had been affected by the pandemic. She has felt “no judgment” when using either, she said while refereeing playtime between her three dogs and a daycare poodle on a recent Thursday morning. At the food shelf, where Weeks had previously headed when times were especially tough, “there is a bit of a stigma,” she said. “Like someone else might see you, or you might see someone else.” Now, at the restaurants she frequents with the help of Everyone Eats, “most people know me by name,” she said. “They never make me feel bad.” She was relieved when the program was recently extended another three months, through March. “It just takes the stress off a little bit,”

Everyone Eats was created as a lifeline for both restaurants and people who are foodinsecure. A 10 percent local ingredients requirement also boosts the income of farmers and food producers. The program recently tallied its 2 millionth meal served and has become a poster child for pandemic-born innovation — a win-win example of breaching the traditional wall between social services and economic development. “What makes [it] so novel,” said Sayles, “is that it’s more than a food assistance program: It’s a restaurant economic support program that has a great food security benefit.” Everyone Eats grew out of a number of grassroots initiatives providing restaurant meals to people in need. It launched statewide in August 2020 and has been funded by about $24 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Restaurants get $10 for each meal they distribute, and the project has been coordinated on the ground by regional hubs, each working with between five to 35 restaurants. Meals average 37 percent Vermont-produced ingredients, almost four times the target amount. Forty percent of the meals have been claimed through an adaptation of the preexisting Localvore Passport smartphone app. The remaining meals go out via pop-up distributions at health clinics, food shelves and restaurants. According to statewide program coordinator Hamilton, as of November 30, 2021, 260 participating restaurants had earned $19.2 million, and 300 farms and food producers $2.3 million. Ninetythree percent of farmer and food producer research respondents said it had helped build their restaurant business relationships. A survey of restaurants indicated

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Hunger Gains « P.27 that one in six would have permanently closed without it. Morse Block Deli in Barre is among them. “Without Everyone Eats, to be completely honest with you, I would’ve gone out of business,” said chef-owner Stefano Coppola, 39. When the pandemic hit, he pivoted immediately to takeout. “Almost all my employees have children and families,” he said. “It wasn’t an option to lay people off.” Business was brisk until other local restaurants started opening again. The deli, a few minutes from the Four Paws Inn where Seleste Weeks works, is among her favorite Everyone Eats destinations. She’s a fan of the Granite City sandwich made with house-roasted Misty Knoll turkey, Cabot cheddar, cranberry mayo made from scratch with local farm eggs, local lettuce, and tomato in season, served on cranberry-pecan whole-wheat bread from Montpelier’s La Panciata. The sandwich will often cover two meals, she said. Coppola sells 250 sandwiches a week via the app and delivers another 120 hot meals, such as braised chicken on polenta, weekly to a Barre soup kitchen. “There’s always a line waiting for them,” he said. He feels good about helping people in his hometown, but he said he’s equally motivated to keep his deli alive and his workers employed. “Everyone Eats has a real trickle-down effect,” Coppola said. “If we ever get on the other side of this thing, I’d love to see it go on in some way.” One of the biggest strengths of Everyone Eats is that it creates a circle of reciprocity. “When people get a meal, they know they are helping create revenue for local restaurants,” Hamilton said. Restaurant staff have been buoyed, too. “In a sea of gloom and doom, they know they’re doing something good for their community,” she said.

FAMILIAR FARE

The Foodbank has traditionally measured its impact, at least in part, by touting how many pounds of food it distributes. The pandemic accelerated a shift that had been slowly gathering momentum, said Andrea Solazzo, the Foodbank’s director of community engagement. “We’re not looking at pounds as much. We’re trying to look more at what people want and need,” she said. “We don’t want to just be giving out that government cheese everybody talks about.” Implicit in the new approach is the recognition that not everyone wants and needs the same foods. Since the pandemic, NFACT data from Vermont indicate 28

Seleste Weeks of Barre ordering food on the Localvore Passport app

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that food insecurity is at least five times as likely to affect BIPOC and Hispanic households. Solazzo has been leading efforts to better address the needs of those Vermonters, including New Americans, recently resettled refugees and migrant farmworkers. The Foodbank has always worked with community partners, but the pandemic prompted more collaborations with organizations and businesses that are deeply embedded in communities of color. The projects have also made it a priority to buy foods from businesses and farms owned by New Americans. Samuel Dingba, youth program coordinator and case manager for AALV, a Burlington nonprofit that serves New Americans, delivered food all over town to more than 80 families early in the pandemic. Too often, it was unfamiliar or unpalatable to them, said Dingba, who is originally from Cameroon. “They would take the food, but I’m pretty sure they would not eat it. They never ate broccoli before,” he said, chuckling. With funding from a variety of sources, Dingba said, he was able to purchase groceries from local African markets, thereby supporting small minority-owned businesses while providing familiar foods to the immigrant families. Several other projects offered similar dual benefits, including one with Dhaurali Goats, a Colchester meat goat farm that sells live animals to customers who then

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slaughter them in an on-farm facility. Chuda and Gita Dhaurali started the venture in 2013 on Pine Island Community Farm, which is owned by the Vermont Land Trust. Chuda Dhaurali showed Seven Days around his farming operation on a recent freezing cold day. A large pile of discarded Christmas trees blocked the view of an outdoor pen. The evergreens make perfect forage, and several hardy goats had ventured out from the barn to nibble a few of the bushy trees into skeletons of branches. Last summer, the Land Trust, the Foodbank and Feeding Chittenden collaborated to publicize and distribute $200 gift certificates to almost 40 families to use toward purchasing one of the Dhauralis’ goats. “That would be a very small goat,” Dhaurali, 43, said with a smile, explaining that most customers applied the certificate to offsetting about half the cost of a larger goat that would yield 70 to 90 pounds of meat. Many of his regulars are originally from Africa, including Somalia and the Congo. Others came to the U.S., as the Dhauralis did, after being forced to leave Bhutan and spending years in Nepalese refugee camps. “They have been eating goat for a very long time,” Dhaurali explained. They also prefer to see a live animal before buying it, a largely unmet need in Vermont agriculture before Dhaurali Goats. Business was growing steadily until it screeched to a stop with the pandemic. It was a tough time for the Dhauralis and their customers. “Lots of people, they needed meat,” Dhaurali said. “Some people didn’t have enough money for food.” The mother of a Burlington family of six originally from Djibouti, who preferred not to share her name, said via an interpreted email interview that she

Chuda Dhaurali of Dhaurali Goats at Pine Island Community Farm

cooks goat many different ways and was very grateful for the certificate. “I saved $200 to buy other stuff I need,” she said. Beyond the pen of goats, a small flock of chickens strutted among large ice cubes cut from their frozen water bowls. The poultry belong to Théogène Mahoro, a farmer originally from Rwanda. His pandemic-impacted business benefited from a Land Trust/Foodbank collaboration that purchased and processed almost 800 birds that were given away in Burlington and Winooski. The Foodbank also worked with partners to distribute 1,000 pounds of African eggplant purchased from Janine Ndagijimana, another Colchester farmer from Rwanda. This year is the third that the Foodbank will contract with Diggers’ Mirth Collective Farm in Burlington to fill a 55-share CSA that includes collards and molokhia greens for members originally from Africa, and bitter melon and snake gourds for those from Nepal. The farm also grows jicama and epazote to include in 15 Foodbank-supported shares delivered twice monthly to Addison County migrant farmworkers. Hilary Martin, a co-owner of Diggers’ Mirth, said the CSAs meet the collective’s longtime goal to provide fresh, locally grown food to everyone. She added that the steady income helped the farm make it through the first unsettled summer of the pandemic, when some farmers markets were canceled and a major catering account evaporated.

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Sixth-grade lunch at Essex Middle School

Scott Fay, district senior child nutrition manager, at Essex Middle School

Chickens farmed by Théogene Mahoro at Pine Island Community Farm

LUNCH LINE

When schools switched to remote learning in the spring of 2020, their lunch programs continued and became a critical source of food for many families. Under an emergency federal authorization of what is called “universal meals,” school lunches have been free during the pandemic to every child, whatever their household income, and will remain so through June 2022. This crisis-driven test pilot has provided longtime Vermont advocates of universal school meals more evidence of its benefits. Kate Murphy, 39, of Essex Junction remembers vividly how it felt to pick up

the free school meals. She or her husband, Patrick, would pile their four kids, now aged 4 to 10, into the minivan and head over to school. “We could wave at our favorite school nurse when she handed out the daily lunches, or wave to our friends who were there getting food at the same time,” Murphy recalled. “It was a small but very vital way we could all still feel connected, even when we were separated.” Murphy and her husband also welcomed the savings on their weekly grocery bill. Murphy works full time for a local trust company, and her husband cares for their children, including their eldest with special needs, during the day when they’re not in school. He worked

evenings at Koffee Kup Bakery in Burlington before it closed unexpectedly in April 2021. Even after that, Murphy said, “We make just enough to be disqualified from most assistance programs but too little to really ever feel comfortable financially.” Free, healthy school meals “have helped our stress levels immensely,” Murphy said. The Murphys fall in the significant pool of those who sometimes struggle to make ends meet but don’t qualify for free or reduced-price school meals. Worse off are another large group of kids who could eat for free but don’t, due to their own shame or that of their parents. The education and advocacy group Hunger Free Vermont has been working for a decade to marshal arguments for universal meals. The Essex Westford School District, where the Murphy children attend school, offers a compelling case study — all on a federal dime, thanks to the pandemic.

Ideally, school food programs are selffunding, which means they try to sell enough meals to cover their costs. This includes free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch, paid for by the federal government. Many cafeteria costs are fixed, so the more meals children eat, the better chance of breaking even. To try to balance the budget, many schools sell snacks and drinks. (Incidentally, that’s how the lunchroom crowd learns who the “free lunch kids” are — they’re the ones who don’t have money to buy extra snacks.) When all kids can get free meals, more eat them, generating more government reimbursements. In the Essex Westford district, which has 10 schools and 3,900 students, the number of meals served is up by 67 percent over pre-pandemic levels. The number of students who get lunch has increased from half to nearly three-quarters. HUNGER GAINS

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Hunger Gains « P.29 The revenue increase has allowed Scott Fay, the district’s senior child nutrition manager, to eliminate the distracting and stigmatizing snack program. His staff no longer work as cashiers or spend time chasing down overdue student accounts. They are free to focus on cooking the best meals possible — for everyone. As Fay reminded parents during the early pandemic meal pickups, “Funding is based on participation, so the more people that take the free meals, the stronger we can be for those that need us the most.” Free school meals “only work if it’s for everybody. That’s how we destroy the stigma,” he said. “When everybody shows up, it’s normalized. “COVID’s been a big reset,” Fay continued. He had just ordered 800 pounds of Misty Knoll drumsticks to serve with homemade focaccia and maple-roasted carrots. “We pay for pens, paper, computers. We’re not sending kids invoices for toilet paper,” Fay observed. “Why do we stop at food?”

Cindy Allen, of Chelsea, picking up free produce at the Orange County Parent Child Center in Tunbridge

AmeriCorps member Ashley Giron delivering food from Capstone Community Action to the Orange County Parent Child Center

RURAL RELIEF

As the pandemic persisted, Capstone Community Action, a central Vermont social services agency, invested in food freezers. The freezers were one answer to the question, “How can we get food out to the rural, most isolated families and individuals?” according to Capstone executive director Sue Minter. Food-insecure Vermonters who live in rural areas, she pointed out, face additional hurdles finding food assistance because of their distance from centralized resources and, often, lack of reliable transportation. So Capstone bought and placed freezers in far-flung towns, including Eden, Albany and Tunbridge, working closely with community health centers and other hometown hubs such as churches and schools. Those freezers enable prepared meals, mostly from Everyone Eats restaurant participants, to be stored safely until people can pick them up on their own schedule. “Food that needs to be cooked doesn’t serve the needs of many, many people who are food-insecure,” Minter said. A 45-year-old self-employed carpenter named Dave talked with Seven Days while waiting in his car to pick up his first grader from the school bus. Some days he will go from there to pick up Everyone Eats meals, vegetables and pantry staples at the Health Center, a clinic in his Plainfield hometown. Dave is not ashamed to get help, but he 30

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Victor Maldonado (left) and Pauly Falco working in the Culinary Kitchen Academy at Capstone Community Action in Barre

asked to be identified just by first name to protect his and his son’s privacy. “There is stigma. There shouldn’t be, but there is,” he said. “It’s not a lot to ask society to make sure everyone has the basic necessities taken care of. It’s not a terrible thing to help people.” Dave shares custody of his son with his ex-wife. Just before the pandemic, he had taken on a new mortgage to buy her share of their house. That made the sudden loss of income during lockdown especially stressful, he said. He learned from his son’s school newsletter that the Health Center was offering food assistance. The center is where he gets medical care; it’s a familiar, convenient spot that fits into his workparenting juggle. The closest supermarket is almost an hour round-trip drive. “I don’t have a lot of time to chase down services,” he said. “If I hadn’t had [the food], I would’ve gotten behind in my bills and had to make some hard choices.” Father and son have had fun learning about new vegetables together. “My kid loved the shishito peppers,” Dave said with amazement. After one pickup, he recalled, “My son said, ‘I like it when that bag comes because it makes me feel like we’re rich in food.’” The Health Center philosophy is that “food security is a huge part of health and well-being,” said Isabel Senter, a mental health counselor who took on a new role as outreach coordinator for the center when the pandemic hit. She works with several regional organizations, including Capstone, to offer free, weekly vegetables from the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps farm in Richmond, groceries from Cabot’s Faith in Action, and Everyone Eats meals cooked by the Den at Harry’s Hardware in Cabot and Joe’s Kitchen in Montpelier. At the peak of pandemic need, Senter distributed 30 vegetable shares and bimonthly bags of staples, plus 300 meals every week. Recently, she’s seen demand tick up again. “I’m always asking if there’s a waiting list, especially if there’s someone who needs it more than me,” Dave said. His income has stabilized, but he appreciates the time-saving meals and the budget help as grocery prices have soared to “jawdropping” heights. His son is in aftercare until 5:30 p.m. and in bed by 7 p.m. “I don’t know how I would make it all work if I had to make meals from scratch,” Dave said. The pair often share one meal: maple pork sausage with black beans, cheese and rice from the Den, or chicken pot pie filling from Joe’s Kitchen. Then they play games and read stories — “It’s time to just be a dad,” Dave said. Forty-five minutes south of Plainfield, on a stretch of Route 110 with no cell service and few houses, the Orange

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County Parent Child Center in Tunbridge provides a variety of family services, including childcare, playgroups and a diaper bank. On a recent morning, a cooler provided by Capstone and shelves in the center’s entryway were filled with freshly delivered, local produce from the Foodbank: butternut squash, turnips the size of a baby’s head, bags of potatoes grown in Williamstown and apples from Shoreham. Through many efforts, including distributions such as these, the Foodbank has tripled local farm purchases during the pandemic to about $1.5 million in 2021, a boost to the agricultural economy and to Vermonters in need.

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The prepared meals freezer, also funded by Capstone, is in the childcare center kitchen, from which the mouthwatering smell of grilled cheese and homemade tomato soup seeped into the light-filled atrium. On days when the meals, grocery staples or produce are delivered, word goes out on social media, and the phone starts ringing with people calling to sign up. One regular since the onset of the pandemic is Cindy Allen, who lives just down the road in Chelsea. The 63-year-old grandmother of eight left her job as a high school math teacher when her daughter couldn’t find a daycare slot for her infant, born last spring. “Another crisis,” Allen said. She’s since been on call as backup care for all her grandchildren, a vital family service these days when a runny nose sends a toddler home to isolate. Allen’s husband worked on the family dairy farm when her kids were growing up. He still works, but the couple misses Cindy’s paycheck. She estimates that inflation has driven up her grocery bill by at least 25 percent. She appreciates the prepared meals, such as baked macaroni with ham, that she gets from the Tunbridge parentchild center, but she especially values the produce. Without it, “we wouldn’t be eating as many fruits and vegetables,” Allen said. Her point is backed up by NFACT data that show one-third of foodinsecure research respondents in Vermont reported a decrease in fruit and vegetable consumption during COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, Allen volunteered to help with the Farmers to

Meals at the Culinary Kitchen Academy at Capstone in Barre

Families food box distribution. “People were scrambling for food,” she recalled. “It was so heartbreaking.” In the summer, she and her husband grow a big garden and put extras out with a “By donation” sign. “Healthy food should not be a privilege,” Allen said.

KEEP THE FIRES BURNING

For the week of January 17, the prepared meals delivered to the Orange County Parent Child Center came from Capstone’s teaching kitchen in Barre as part of a pilot program that applies and builds on lessons learned from Everyone Eats. The effort is among the earliest to test how Vermont might adapt and continue pandemic food assistance innovations after the federal government turns off the faucet. On January 13, Pauly Falco, 51, of Randolph, and Victor Maldonado, 19, of Berlin, were working in the kitchen filling takeout containers with roasted turkey, gravy, mixed rice, green beans and beets. Falco is a recent graduate of Capstone’s Culinary Kitchen Academy,

which is modeled after a free job skills training program at Feeding Chittenden. The students put out 135 meals a week while they’re learning. Maldonado is a new student in the latest cohort. Asked why he had signed up for the seven-week course, the young man said softly, “I can do something for myself and be helpful to others.” “We’ve learned a really powerful lesson in this pandemic,” said Anore Horton, executive director of Hunger Free Vermont. “People want to feel that they are contributing, not just taking.” Hunger Free Vermont is gearing up to lobby in Montpelier for a bill that would make universal school meals permanent. They estimate that it would cost the state $15 million to $25 million a year to supplement federal funding and offer free school breakfast and lunch statewide to every child. Horton believes the pandemic has demonstrated that universal meals can make school food programs a stronger resource for every family, regardless of income. Feeding Chittenden is rolling out an electronic grocery ordering system that can be translated into 30 different

languages, with filters for Halal and vegetarian options. The nonprofit has been working closely with partners at the Janet S. Munt Family Room, a parent-child center in Burlington, the UVM Medical Center pediatrics department and Head Start to help families navigate the new technology, which will offer more private, customizable and efficient delivery and pickup of groceries. The Foodbank has ambitious plans to keep working on better ways to address and reduce hunger, thanks to a surprise $9 million gift received in December 2020 from MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. At the time, Sayles called it “transformational.” The money has helped the Foodbank stay the course in the face of inflation and staggering need. Refocused on the future, the nonprofit will soon launch two initiatives inspired partly by pandemic learning. One is called “deep community work,” Sayles explained, and takes its cue from the vigorous mutual aid response to the pandemic. Over the next two years, the Foodbank will work with three underserved Vermont communities to bring them resources and learn how they would apply those to addressing food security. The other initiative is an “innovation lab” effort that will identify promising efforts at food banks around the country to adapt for possible pilot projects in Vermont. “We’re trying to figure out, without … that huge amount of [federal] funding, how do we keep those little fires of inspiration burning?” Sayles said. On January 9, Seleste Weeks hiked Spruce Mountain with her two standard poodles to celebrate her one-year anniversary working at Four Paws Inn. She also ordered takeout chicken and dumplings from the Wayside restaurant in Montpelier through the Localvore Passport app. Weeks hopes she’ll be able to continue stretching her budget with the free restaurant meals. If the program stops completely when its latest round of federal support ends on April 1, Weeks said, she’ll probably have to head back, reluctantly, to the food shelf at the end of each month. Vermont Emergency Management recovery and mitigation chief Ben Rose has worked closely with the Everyone Eats team to secure FEMA dollars. He believes that the program has the potential to change the model for food assistance programs beyond COVID-19 and noted that it recently attracted the attention of the USDA. “If we can make sure that everybody has a hot meal during a global pandemic, shouldn’t we be able to do that when the pandemic ends?” Rose asked rhetorically. “Whenever there’s a family going hungry, that’s a food emergency.” m

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Overeasy Does It

Middlebury College junior balances business and books as CEO of outdoor apparel company

n this crazy, confounding coronavirus economy, every CEO has felt the strain of keeping operations running, and Sophie Snowdon Hiland is no different. Overeasy, the company she runs, makes a wearable called a HoodE — a puffy, faux-fur scarf that can stretch cobra-like over your hat or ski helmet to provide added warmth. Sales have been brisk, but the company lost out on a huge marketing opportunity at the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup at Killington Resort in November when fierce winds wiped out the first day’s racing. If you live by the weather… Hiland had little time to dwell on the lost sales and exposure — the demands of her other job awaited. She’s a junior at Middlebury College, and those 10-page American studies papers have to get written, even when she’s also juggling calls from her production manager at Herkimer Industries in upstate New York. “Not too many college kids have adults calling them about shipping deadlines,” Hiland acknowledged. A bifurcated life requires weighing “what deadlines are hard and which are bendy … It’s a constant cost-benefit analysis,” she continued. “Which isn’t to say that schoolwork ever comes last just because it doesn’t have the financial benefits of business.” True that. But professors are more likely to excuse a late paper for “I had to meet my company’s shipping deadlines” than for “My ferret ate the assignment.” Overeasy is headquartered in the Old Stone Mill Annex on the Middlebury campus, a five-minute walk from Hiland’s Atwater Hall dorm. Just as Apple guru Steve Jobs had his garage, would-be startup entrepreneurs such as Hiland and company founder/owner Eva Shaw have space at the annex to work on business plans and seek guidance from the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies. Vermont is not awash in venture capital compared with states such as California and Massachusetts. But VCET is an incubator with benefits, including coaching, coworking and mentorship. Skida — Swedish for “ski” — is a wellknown VCET success story. The company was founded by Corinne Prevot, a Nordic racer at Burke Mountain Academy who developed stretchy ski hats for her teammates and later built a company while at Middlebury. 32

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Another success story is SheFly, apparel designed by a group of Middlebury College women seeking urination parity with the flyboys. SheFly pants are a cunning zipper away from all-access. Vermont’s entrepreneurs have long capitalized on a reliable natural resource: cold weather. And snow. It was the latter that played a major role in Hiland’s unlikely ascension to CEO-dom. That and a willingness to put herself in the path of good fortune. Eva Shaw, of the celebrated Shaw family of Vermont ski racers, had a promising career ahead of her when injuries forced her off the slopes. With time on her hands and sewing skills acquired in a seventh-grade home economics class, the teenage Shaw came up with a stylish solution to the original brain freeze: a hybrid scarf/head cover that she named the HoodE. Shaw sewed — and sold — the first 200 HoodEs herself in 2016. “I wanted something fuzzy and warm that also looked good to go skiing in,” Shaw

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said in a 2019 interview on WCAX-TV. “I couldn’t buy it, so I made it myself.” She got advice from members of her family, which boasts more Olympic athletes than some countries. Father Gale “Tiger” Shaw, a two-time Olympian who just completed an eight-year stint as head of U.S. Ski & Snowboard, urged his daughter to go for it. Uncle Andrew “Beach” Shaw, a marketing guru, introduced her to Vermont retailers. Her cousin Linley Shaw, Beach’s daughter, supplied the company name as she and Eva rode the popular Over Easy gondola to Spruce Peak at Stowe Mountain Resort. Her logic, according to Beach: “It goes over your head easy, so why not call it that?” Eva Shaw borrowed money, pitched benefactors while at Middlebury and contracted with Vermont Teddy Bear in Shelburne to sew raw HoodEs. But Shaw is no teddy bear when it comes to finances. “I’ve never given away equity in the company, so I still own 100 percent,” she told Seven Days. Perhaps that business sense is why she’s now working at Goldman Sachs.

One thing Shaw couldn’t borrow or buy, however, was extra time to run Overeasy. By the summer of 2020, she was working remotely in an investment banking internship and needed someone to help out with her enterprise. Enter Hiland. The then-sophomore approached Shaw at a party as fall semester began, praising the HoodE and inquiring about working for her. After a couple of getto-know-you bike rides, the two women began discussing a working relationship. In September 2020, Shaw hired Hiland conditionally to handle social media and marketing. “Two weeks after that, Eva said, ‘OK, how about operations, you ready for that?’” Hiland recounted. Next came wholesale account management, then finance. “Eva was sort of showing me the ropes,” Hiland said. “And by early November, she said, ‘OK, so I’ve got a big job to go off to … How about I have you take it over?’” Hiland wasn’t shocked; she expected the on-the-job training to lead somewhere. Confident in her responsibilities and

expectations with the contrast, Sophie was a company, and not relationship builder. too worried about “Her ability as a … uh … college, she kid to connect with took over the dayadults was uncanny,” to-day operations of Chris said. Overeasy in January Before taking FRIDAYS > 11:30 A.M. Snack on the BITE-CLUB NEWSLETTER 2021. Champagne on O v e r e a s y, for a taste of this week’s fl avorful was in order — she’d Hiland interned for food coverage. It’ll hold you over become drink-legal Lisa Lynn, whose until Wednesday. four months earlier. company Addison SUBSCRIBE AT Press publishes “Sophie did such sevendaysvt.com/enews a good job as an Vermont Sports and intern, so I asked VT Ski + Ride. 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Recently, while working on a spreadsheet, she came close to tears Overeasy has been an easy sell at mysa “because I couldn’t get all the cells to in Shelburne, a boutique specializing add up right. in local craft and luxury goods, almost “We’ve had a lot of growth these past all produced by women or women-run couple of years,” Hiland added. “But companies. when it comes down to it, I’m doing a lot Program Features: “People come to us looking for things of googling.” The Saint Michael’s College Master of Arts that are soft and cozy,” mysa co-owner The thrill of receiving compliments Multiple field placements in Teaching program (MAT) provides an Jen Whalen said. “And I think, with when she’s wearing a HoodE and being with expert teachers innovative, accelerated, and competitivelyCOVID, people want to be outside more. asked where she got it is a great psychic priced path to a master’s degree and Everyone’s feeling very cooped up. So to reward, though. Not to mention seeing Collaborative cohort model initial license or additional endorsement. culminating in a transformative be able to have something that’s fun and her products in TikTok videos. With concentrations in Art, Elementary (K-6) capstone experience warm is not a bad thing.” Hiland has two more semesters before with optional Early Childhood additional Whalen said sales of the HoodE were graduation, which raises the question of 100% job placement for graduates endorsement, Middle (5-9), Secondary (7-12), “exploding,” adding that she’d ordered how long she’ll stick with the company. seeking a teaching position and Special Education, the MAT is open 60 for 2022 — twice as many as last year. “I think we’re doing one step at a time, Like Shaw, Hiland has Vermont roots. with a lot of dreaming and goal setting,” to those with or without prior experience Her father, Chris, went to Middlebury she said of her discussions with Shaw in education. 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ome couples are known to finish each other’s sentences. Leanne Ponder and Tim Jennings took that practice to another level. They learned to talk simultaneously while saying different words — and to make each of their voices distinctly heard and understood by the listener. Intertwined or solo, Ponder and Jennings’ voices expressed musicality in tone, rhythm and phrasing. Performing together as storytellers for about 30 years, the two presented original treatments of folktales to audiences in Vermont and beyond. Their stories were conveyed with humor and intrigue. The first one they learned to tell together — the quick and quirky tale of “Mr. and Mrs. Nyte” — was a bit grim, but audiences had to laugh upon its conclusion. “It’s a narrow field, two people telling the same story at the same time,” Jennings, 73, said. “I believe that while we were doing that, we were the best in the world.” The married couple stopped performing a few years ago when Leanne became debilitated by Alzheimer’s disease. She 34

died of that illness on Christmas Eve at Leanne’s mother, Zelpha, was a pianist age 84, Jennings said, at their home in East who played organ and piano for silent Montpelier. In Leanne’s last hours, he sang movies; her father, Elmer, was a pitcher to her, talked to her and stroked her cheek. good enough to throw a few seasons for “I told her it was OK to go, wherever she the Pirates and Cubs in the major leagues. was going,” Jennings said. “Into Leanne left New Mexico the light or into the dark.” for college and then graduHer death was “very, very ate school at Michigan State peaceful,” he said. University, where she earned STORIES Leanne’s own story resema master’s degree in English. bles something of a folktale. She She was “knocking around came from the Land of Enchantfor a while,” Jennings said, ment — New Mexico — and before she made her way to “Life Stories” is a found her home in the Green Washington, D.C., and took monthly series Mountains. She played ukulele a job traveling the country profiling Vermonters as a kid and harp as an adult. She to teach writing to federal who have recently wore her hair long and made her employees. She also wrote died. Know of place in the world writing poetry poetry and fiction, work that someone we should write about? Email and making music, teaching led her to Vermont for the us at lifestories@ children, befriending animals, Bread Loaf Writers’ Confersevendaysvt.com. and bringing stories to life. ence in Ripton. “Leanne was ageless,” said L e a n n e d i d n ’t l i ke her longtime friend Wendy Everhart of Vermont at first — it was too cold. But she Grand Isle. warmed to the state and made it her home. Leanne grew up in Albuquerque, a From the early 1970s through the next child of parents who did a little perform- 50 years, she patched together gigs as a ing of their own before they had two kids. writer and performer. She created a comic

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character called Bright Venus Smith, an 1850s backwoods peddler, and performed in libraries and historical societies around the state. Leanne also taught in the Poetry in the Schools program, in which poets led weeklong workshops teaching kids to write in verse. She belonged to a cohort of poets who toured Vermont giving readings through a National Endowment for the Arts-funded program. Other participants included Hayden Carruth, Louise Glück, Galway Kinnell, Gary Snyder and Ellen Bryant Voigt, according to poet Geof Hewitt, who organized the program for the Vermont Arts Council. “Leanne was a remarkably humorfilled and easygoing personality,” Hewitt said. “She was not a high-strung kind of stereotypical poet, but a real person. And her poems are pretty powerful.” Inventive in her presentation of poetry, Leanne came up with an idea called Table Fables. It involved placing poems — her own and those of her students — in the plastic sleeves typically used for restaurant menus. She enlisted more than half a dozen Burlington restaurants to set these literary booklets on their tables, and she swapped out the poems twice a week. Leanne’s niece, Zina Pistor, recalled visiting her aunt in Burlington in the early 1970s when she was 10. She and her father traveled by motorcycle from their home in Oneonta, N.Y. “I was in awe of her bohemian beauty, blue jean bikini, flowing long hair and overall cool Burlington lifestyle,” Pistor wrote in an email. A decade later, visiting on her own, Pistor “shadowed” Leanne and her friends from “gallery to spoken word nights to late night living room salons.” By then it was the early ’80s, and Leanne was living in her house on Pomeroy Street. She and Everhart, a dentist, met through mutual friends in the jazz scene and became close friends. “We were like sisters joined at the hip back then,” Everhart said. Leanne had virtually no furniture in her house, Everhart recalled, so the two would “sit on the floor playing Scrabble and smoking clove cigarettes all day.” When Everhart went away, she asked Leanne to care for her Lab, Watson. Though Leanne did have a bed in her home, she slept on the floor with the dog to keep him company. “She was such a good soul,” Everhart said. Leanne met Jennings in the mid-’80s at a meeting of the Artists in Residence school program. He taught storytelling; she was teaching poetry. Then both living in Burlington, they decided to carpool to the next meeting, in Mendon. The day was a full one. On the way home, Jennings performed a show in Brandon and then the two stopped for dinner in Middlebury.

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“She came to my house after, and we spent the night talking and other things. And, basically, that was it,” Jennings remembered. “She was very genuine and deeply sweet,” he added. “She had a warm and open personality, but she had some iron to her, for sure.” Jennings moved into Leanne’s furniture-less house. But by the time the pair moved to East Montpelier, about 20 years ago, the house had become so packed with things that “you had to hold your body sideways to get around all the books and memorabilia they had collected,” Everhart said. (The memorabilia included a baseball signed by Babe Ruth and Leanne’s father, Elmer Ponder. Leanne gave the baseball to Pistor for her 50th birthday, along with other family souvenirs.) During Leanne’s years with Jennings, her creative focus shifted from poetry to storytelling. The couple practiced their craft for hours on end, spending months on a single story. Jennings said he had confessed some guilt to Leanne for luring her from a “form of expression she had been very good at.”

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The exodus is happening all over the state in multiple professions, including direct support professionals, therapists, social workers, case managers, respite workers and addiction counselors. One thing these departing workers have in common: They cite low pay as one of the biggest reasons for leaving, said Simone Rueschemeyer, co-director of Vermont Care Partners, which supports 16 of the agencies. “We are at a breaking point," warned Rueschemeyer. "This is a moral call to action. The health and safety of our staff, and those we support, is at significant risk.”

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enn Heroux-Bachand, the crisis bed manager at Northeast Kingdom Human Services, grew up helping out on her grandparents’ dairy farm. She knows what it means to work hard. As a kid, she got up to milk the cows at 5 a.m. and didn’t go to bed until the animals were fed.

“I have a ‘Don’t go to sleep until the work is done’ kind of attitude,” she explained in a phone interview. Still, she’s struggling with her current workload. In addition to managing her two-bed hospital diversion facility in St. Johnsbury, Heroux-Bachand also oversees a separate public inebriation bed, providing a safe place for people who have been taken into police custody while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. She also coordinates care for a client with severe mental illness who is homeless — and, because of staffing shortages, she pitches in to help her staff provide 24-hour coverage for that individual. On top of it all, she’s been one of the few staff available to pick up emergency service shifts at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital, assessing the mental health needs of patients who arrive at the emergency department or who need assistance in the community. During a recent two-week stretch, out of necessity, Heroux-Bachand logged a total of 225 hours. That’s not sustainable. 36

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Her employer, Northeast Kingdom Human Services, is one of the state’s 18 communitybased nonprofit agencies that provide mental health, substance use and disability support services. Others include the Howard Center and Lamoille County Mental Health Services. These agencies — the places Vermonters turn to for support when they need it, and especially when they’re in crisis — are facing an unprecedented crisis themselves. They’ve been struggling to recruit and retain staff for the last two decades, because they’re dependent on Medicaid rates and the state budget to set wages, and they’re chronically underfunded. But things have gotten much worse since March 2020. As the pandemic has precipitated a spike in demand for their services, they have been hemorrhaging employees. In February 2021, there were 790 unfilled positions; now there are 1027, a staggering number that represents more than 20 percent of the workforce. Some agencies have vacancy rates as high as 60 percent.

Three of the professionals who remain discussed their challenging circumstances for this piece. The first, Rohan Providence, is a case manager with Families First in Brattleboro, which supports children, youth and adults who have intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Families First refers to people receiving services as “advocates” to emphasize that they are ultimately in control of their lives. The entire agency serves 88 advocates; Providence is a service coordinator for eight of them. His advocates have a broad spectrum of service needs and many require 24-hour support, but he’s struggling to find people who will take that job for $16 an hour. “Two years ago, $16 an hour would have been amazing,” he said. “But now, because everyone is raising their minimum wage, you can work at a grocery store and get $16 an hour or make $19 an hour at a fast-food chain.” Dealing with a frustrated customer might last for a few minutes. At Families First, a direct-support professional might spend eight hours working one-on-one with an advocate who is struggling and upset. “And because you’re there, you’re going to be the person that they’re going to take their frustration out on,” he explained. “There’s a different level of mental strain that comes with this job.” Carolyn Gillis, a licensed clinical social worker, has been at the Counseling Service of Addison County for 18 years and is seeing similar personnel problems. “We have lost an incredible number of staff over the last couple of years,” she said. People like Gillis are drawn to the community health field because they’re passionate about helping people. But they have to be able to earn a living, too. “Some of the people that have left were able to find hospital work or work in other organizations where they’re able to make quite a bit more money,” she observed. “The salary that we’re able to offer is so incredibly low for someone with a master’s degree,” she said. Heroux-Bachand has experienced dramatic staff turnover in St. Johnsbury, as well. When she took over as manager of her facility in June 2020, there were five full-time staff working a variety of hours and shifts. All of them have since left. In fact, she has had to replace her entire staff twice.

Her current team consists of three full-time and nine part-time staff. They’re all older than their boss, and many of the part-time staff are living on Social Security disability, which means that they’re each only allowed to work 20 hours a week. But Heroux-Bachand raves about them. “They’re the most invested women that I’ve ever met,” she said. “They’re kind, caring, compassionate, have life experience — everything that I need.” But an unusually challenging client recently tested their limits. “That literally almost burned out my whole entire staff,” Heroux-Bachand said. “They almost all quit.” She can’t afford for that to happen. Neither can the state.

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The leaders of these agencies and their supporters insist that an extremely important factor in solving the staffing problem is for the state to increase the amount of money it spends on community mental health, intellectual and developmental disability, and substance-use services. Vermont Care Partners is pressing lawmakers to invest in the state’s community-based system by immediately approving additional funding for short-term hiring and retention bonuses, as well as for overtime compensation for employees who put in extra hours. In the long term, and most importantly, Vermont Care Partners is pushing for a significant Medicaid rate increase followed by yearly increases to compensate workers at market rates. That’s the only way to stabilize the system, according to Elizabeth Sightler, Vermont Care Partners co-president and executive director of Champlain Community Services, a developmental disabilities agency in Chittenden County. “I sometimes hear that our staff do this work out of the ‘kindness of their hearts,’” she said, “and, truly, we all see that we have the best, most devoted staff. But our economy doesn’t trade indigo and shells; we pay people money. And when they don’t have enough, no matter how much they like their work, they need to leave for better pay.” Vermont Care Partners co-director Simone Rueschemeyer said lawmakers need to approve a rate increase so agencies can have a minimum wage of at least $20 an hour and higher-paid staff can make as much as they would doing similar work for state government, schools and health care facilities. “At this point, about 800 children and adults are waiting to access services, and many others are not receiving the level of care that they need,” she said. “Nearly 90 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities need homes. There is no scenario in which this is acceptable.” Rueschemeyer pointed out that some agencies are paying more despite not having the funds to do so, and they’rere seeing more résumés and filling more of their open positions. But without increased funding, they’re putting themselves at risk. “Without

HOW CAN YOU HELP? Contact your state legislators and ask them to support a significant Medicaid rate increase so staff are paid at market rate and all receive livable wages. Apply for a job: If you’re looking for meaningful work that matters, check out job postings on our website (scan the code) and share them with family and friends. Donate to, or volunteer at, your local agency that provides mental health and/ or developmental disability and substance use supports and services. Find a list at vermontcarepartners.com. Support your neighbors, friends and family when they are in need. an investment from the legislature, we’ll remain on the precipice, and some agencies will fall. In fact, we’ve already seen one close,” she said. Vermont Care Partners is encouraging Vermonters to call their legislators and demand that the state lift the agencies’ Medicaid rates to meet the current need, and to increase yearly funding moving forward. Having a strong community-based system benefits everyone, said Sightler. Crumbling services due to limited staffing result in crisis situations. People end up having no choice but to turn to costly and inappropriate acute care such as hospital emergency departments, which are already crowded now with COVID-19 patients. “We don’t have the services downstream to receive the high-needs community folks who will have no place to go,” she said. “This is not an overstatement. This is a very serious situation. If this system fails, the ripples will become a tsunami.” Sightler warned that agencies like hers have been sounding the alarm for years. “Our remaining workforce stays with us because of dedication to the people we serve, but even the best of the best, those left standing, are more fatigued than I have ever seen them,” she said. “It is well past time for action.”  THIS ARTICLE WAS COMMISSIONED AND PAID FOR BY

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late Kerry Simon, one of the country’s first “celebrity chefs.” McCabe left the industry after the first of her two kids was born and now works full time for a regulatory compliance consulting company in Waterbury. Growing up in Argentina, de Achaval, 32, dreamed of being a ski instructor. After high school, she found a “summer” job in Colorado — where the northern hemisphere’s winter was in full swing. Over the next decade, she catered the X Games, worked with “Food Network Star” contestant Susie Jimenez at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, worked as a private chef and ran her own catering company, among other jobs. In 2019, de Achaval moved to EMPANADA CULTURE

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othing is better suited to the takeout era than pocket food. A dish that comes in its own edible, usually doughy wrapper and can be eaten sans utensils — such as a hand pie, knish, dumpling, samosa or PopTart — is both charming and efficient. You can chomp while you walk or eat it in the car. Heck, you can stuff it in your pocket and save it for later. Due in part to its practicality and portability, pocket food can be found all over the globe. There’s even a popular blog, the World in a Pocket, dedicated to chronicling “food-inside-of-food.” Empanadas, the savory turnover staples of Spanish, Latin American and Filipino cuisine, are among my favorites of the genre. So, when I heard about Paprika Catering’s weekly empanada pop-up, I blocked off a Wednesday evening to drive to Waterbury. Jacqueline de Achaval and Jennifer McCabe started Paprika in 2021, hosting their first pop-up at Waterbury’s Stowe Street Café on October 20. They made 400 empanadas in four flavors and sold out. The couple has continued the weekly pop-ups, using Stowe Street Café’s kitchen after it closes for the day. Paprika’s menu has grown to seven varieties, each folded into a unique shape according to what’s inside: steak, Malbec and hard-boiled egg in the crescentshaped Buenos Aires; smoked ham, Cabot cheddar and maple syrup in the curled-up Vermonter; or creamy, cheesy corn and chives in the dumpling-like Humita. Don’t worry, the empanadas come with a handdrawn key. McCabe and de Achaval met over bubble tea at Montpelier’s Pho Capital in November 2020 and quickly realized their shared desire to own a food business. Both women had attended French-focused culinary schools: McCabe in New Hampshire and de Achaval in Buenos Aires. McCabe, 38, then spent 10 years working in restaurants in Colorado, Florida and St. Louis, Mo., including a job with the

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On January 2, HANNAH ARIAS and ERICKA GRYGOWSKI opened WIT & GRIT., a daytime eatery in downtown Randolph. They added indoor dining and brunch cocktails on January 22. The restaurant serves up healthy sides of humor with menu items such as Parfait for the Course (yogurt layered with fruit and housemade granola), What the Fructoast (fruit-filled puff pastries), and Steak Your Claim (a grilled chicken-andcheese wrap). Arias and Grygowski took over the space at 29 Merchants Row that was previously occupied by Black Krim Tavern. That business closed in July 2021 after more than a decade, when chef-owner SARAH NATVIG became a culinary arts instructor at Randolph Technical Center. Grygowski’s father is from Bethel, and

she visited Vermont regularly while growing up in Connecticut, she said. She has a business management degree and a decade of U.S. Navy service under her belt; her husband is still in the U.S. Marine Corps. Originally from Bennington, Arias has an MFA in theater, which naturally led to many years working in New York City restaurants, she joked. She returned to her home state from Napa Valley when her wife landed a job as Randolph’s recreation director. That was four years ago, the same year that Grygowski and her family moved to Randolph. With four daughters between them, the two met through their 5-year-olds, who were in preschool together. During the pandemic, “we podded together, hung out and brainstormed,” Grygowski said.

“I always had a spark to go back into the restaurant business,” Arias said. “I’m a small-town girl. I like knowing who’s in the post office, who all the local teachers are. I decided I wanted to do it here.” The pair consider themselves lucky to have landed local chef PETER DINARDI to help develop and cook their menu, which is gradually expanding. Wit & grit. is currently open Friday through Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. While there is plenty of wit to be found at the restaurant, the grits are still to come, Grygowski said. In the meantime, customers can dig into breakfast burritos with house salsa fresca or buttermilk-cheddar biscuits smothered in sausage gravy made from scratch. That menu item is called Mind Your Biscuits and Life Will Be Gravy. m

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McCabe and de Achaval hope that Paprika will help “empanada culture” catch on here in Vermont. In addition to the weekly pop-ups, they’re now vendors at the twice-monthly winter Capital City Farmers Market in Montpelier, where they bake empanadas to order in a portable pizza oven. Ultimately, they want to create a wholesale line of empanadas to be sold at local grocery stores and restaurants. Prepared foods and frozen meals aren’t as popular in Argentina as they are in the U.S., de Achaval said. But she thinks it’s an approachable, easy-to-cook way to bring the two cultures together, and it will enable Paprika to reach more customers. “We have super-busy lives and are

running all over the place with two kids,” McCabe said. “So, the idea that someone can feed their family at home with easy, delicious food is a big bonus for us.” The couple also caters events and is planning one of their own in August: their wedding. “On Tuesday the second, so it’s 802,” McCabe noted. At the dinner, they’ll serve empanadas, of course, skipping plates and silverware. “We’ll still be open on Wednesday,” de Achaval added with a laugh. m

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Vermont and became the sous chef at Burlington’s Revolution Kitchen. “When I moved to Colorado, empanadas were the food I missed the most,” de Achaval recalled. In Argentina, they’re a ubiquitous street food, sold from kiosks or in restaurants that specialize in them, with some offering more than 25 different fillings. De Achaval also missed the Argentinean culture around eating them — including family rituals of gathering for a weekly “empanada day.” “After the dream of being a ski instructor, I had the dream of eating empanadas every day. So now here I am,” she said. McCabe, who grew up outside of Boston, had only eaten empanadas once or twice before meeting de Achaval. “One of the first times we made them together, her mom was visiting,” McCabe recalled. “I just fell in love with them. I think that they’re the perfect food.” Paprika’s empanadas have a traditional Argentinean flour-based dough, which is sprinkled with the business’ namesake ingredient, then hand-folded and baked, not fried. Most modern empanadas are made with butter, de Achaval said. But Paprika uses beef suet from East Hardwick’s Snug Valley Farm; the fat creates a lighter, flakier crust. (Vegetarian and vegan flavors are made with organic margarine.) In Argentina, the shapes, styles and fillings vary from province to province. McCabe and de Achaval nod to some of those classic flavors with the hand-cut steak and Malbec wine in their Buenos Aires empanada. They gave another Argentinean classic, ham and cheese, a local twist: maple syrup. The recently debuted Pikachu combines homemade apple butter with caramelized onions and blue cheese. “We have what we call ‘the dope flavor list,’” McCabe added. “We talk about food constantly around here and have created a running list of things that inspire us.” Fruit and fresh herbs are some of de Achaval’s go-to ingredients. One dope combo that made the cut early on is the Pruna: plums, fresh mozzarella, bacon and mint. I ordered two of them and ate the first in the car. Its fruity, herbaceous brightness, with just the right amount of smoke from the bacon, was an unexpected antidote to the whipping winter wind outside. Paprika’s empanadas are $4.50 apiece, with deals for three ($12), six ($24) or 12 ($45). Paprika accepts walk-in orders, but I preordered an assortment of 12, sampling each of the six flavors available that evening. I also got chimichurri and Malbec hot sauce for dipping ($2 each), as well as a portion of carrot soup ($5). My plan was to take the empanadas home, but not a single flavor made it out of the car untasted. I blamed my bites on

eating in the dark, with only passing headlights illuminating the key. Really, though, the crimped edges and distinctive shapes were easy to identify by feel — and de Achaval’s drawings are as accurate as they are adorable. Originally, the women had planned to rotate through various flavors with an everchanging menu. But when the time came to switch things up, they couldn’t decide which to eliminate. “So much goes into developing each one of these flavors that they’re like our children,” McCabe said. She’d suggested dropping the Fall — butternut squash, caramelized onions, walnuts and basil — based on its seasonal name alone. “I thought we probably weren’t selling much of it now, because it’s winter. But my intuition was completely wrong.” In fact, the Fall, Paprika’s vegan flavor, is the most popular. McCabe and de Achaval were both a little surprised by that. They sell frozen vegan and vegetarian offerings for customers to take home and bake themselves, too. Eventually, de Achaval and McCabe intend to design custom stamps to emboss the corner of each empanada with a flavorspecific mark. That’s how it’s often done in Argentina, de Achaval explained, though here she favors the idea of farm-centric symbols, such as a cow for the Buenos Aires, rather than the usual letters. “I love the different shapes,” she said. “But if we’re going to have 25 flavors, I’m going to run out of shapes, for sure.”

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hen Darrell Langworthy decided to open his second restaurant, Heart n Soul by Mark BBQ, he envisioned comfort food: fresh-ground burgers, handcut French fries, pot roast and meatballs like someone’s Italian grandmother would make. Those hearty meals would come “with a chef’s touch,” said Langworthy, 42, a military veteran and culinary school graduate who also owns Mark BBQ, next door to Heart n Soul in Essex Junction. The name of the new restaurant turned out to fit its character as much as its menu. In March 2020, three months after Langworthy opened Heart n Soul and just as the restaurant was gaining customer traction, the pandemic caused lockdowns across the country. He closed its doors and put his own money into the business account to pay his 10 workers for three months. Rather than let the food in Heart n Soul’s freezers spoil, Langworthy called in staff to cook meals and hand them out to Vermonters in need. They kept doing it, every Wednesday, as the pandemic wore on. In 2020, Heart n Soul gave out 57,000 meals, all free. At one point, 1,000 meals went out the door in a week. 42

Giving back to the community is “at the core of who we are in this restaurant,” Langworthy said. “That’s been helping us stay alive through all of this. Honestly, I think that’s the biggest, most important thing that we can do.” Soon after the free meals started, “a miracle happened,” Langworthy said, his blue eyes tearing up. Mark BBQ continued operating for takeout, and orders flooded in. Customers flocked to support the local business, including Essex neighbors who had never tried the restaurant before. The surge — sales doubled overnight — was overwhelming, Langworthy said. “We were doing a minimum of 100 meals an hour or more,” said Casey DeGuise, general manager of both restaurants. It helped that To Go Tour, a Facebook group founded at that time to support Vermont’s bars and restaurants, featured Mark BBQ as one of its first stops, Langworthy said. “That money was helping to fund what we were doing over here,” he said of the free meals at Heart n Soul. “We were doing so much business.” Langworthy’s wife, a pharmacist at the

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University of Vermont Medical Center, made sure that customers stood safely apart in a line that snaked around the building. Through most of April and May 2020, Mark BBQ sold out of food by early afternoon — some days as early as 9:30 a.m. with preorders alone. The business has barely slowed down since then. Mark BBQ reopened for indoor dining in July 2020. Heart n Soul reopened for indoor dining in August 2021 and added breakfast later last year; it’s currently open Thursday through Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday for brunch, from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Soon, he said, Heart n Soul will resume chef’s special dinners and family theme nights — with family-style meal packages highlighting a certain cuisine, such as tacos. The restaurant still makes free meals for the community as part of Vermont Everyone Eats, a federally funded initiative to combat COVID-19-related food insecurity while supporting the restaurants that provide meals. (Read more about anti-hunger efforts in this week’s cover story, page 26.) “We gotta take care of our community,” Langworthy said. “They’re who takes care of us.” Langworthy’s investment in good karma

predates the pandemic. In February 2018, soon after Mark BBQ moved into its current location on Park Street and began hiring new staff, DeGuise showed up for an interview soaking wet in a dress shirt. DeGuise had recently been released from jail and into rehabilitation on charges related to serious substance-use disorder. In recovery, he was living in Vermont Foundation of Recovery transitional housing and needed a job to pay his rent there, but he had no vehicle. He recalled walking to Mark BBQ in freezing rain after striking out in 35 other job interviews that month. Langworthy said he admired DeGuise’s raw honesty about his situation and gave him a shot. “I always trust my gut, and it doesn’t fail me,” he said. “Darrell asked me how he can help me in my recovery,” DeGuise recalled. “And I asked for two things. I said, ‘Give me something to do. Give me something to learn.’ And that’s been very beneficial.” In two years, DeGuise worked his way up from the counter to meat preparation to his current general manager position. He recently bought a 2021 Jeep Gladiator (Langworthy gave him a bonus for the down payment) and has regained shared custody of his 12-year-old daughter, he said. Every year, Langworthy recognizes the anniversary of DeGuise’s sobriety in a social media post. “All I did was give him the opportunity,” said Langworthy, who has hired other workers in recovery. “Everything else has been him.” Langworthy, who said he has never struggled with addiction himself, draws his compassion from his upbringing. His grandfather, who owned a gas station, allowed customers who were tight on money to run a tab with nothing more than a handshake and trust that they eventually would pay, he said. “I just feel like we need more of that.” Born in the tiny Adirondack town of Warrensburg, N.Y., and raised mostly in West Palm Beach, Fla., Langworthy began working in restaurants at age 13, he said. By 17, he was occasionally running the cooking line at Giuseppe’s Pizzeria & Café, an Italian institution in Lake George, N.Y., where the owners treated him like family during his return visits north. “I treat my employees like they treated me,” he said of his mentors there. Langworthy graduated from the University of Florida with a nursing degree and

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henever people gather for a workshop, they engage in a kind of temporary culture, a shared set of norms, a certain purpose. At a community dance workshop in June, about 25 people locomoted with delight on sun-drenched grass to explore concepts of grace and proprioception. In July, 30 or so people lounged outside Dartmouth College’s Shattuck Observatory as night fell for a loosely structured workshop/performance on dance and astronomy. Though different in design, both events created cultures of curiosity about movement and science — and how they intersect. The workshops were part of the Big Move series that Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center for the Arts launched in May 2021. In the series, dance artists and research faculty collaborate to create community workshops that explore how dance connects to other disciplines and contributes to understanding them, said Michael Bodel, director of external affairs at the Hop. “Our goal is to make a connection between a movement artist and some field 44

that is mutually enriching so that there is workshops have paired dance artists with an exchange of knowledge,” Bodel said. faculty in design, ecology and religion. “Dance artists are probing some really The next Big Move workshop takes interesting stuff,” he place virtually on Febcontinued, and can offer ruary 2. Performance a body-centered antidote maker Faye Driscoll to how “the academic and Dartmouth cogworld is very dominated nitive scientist Viola by textual knowledge.” Stoermer will guide After Renée Jaworparticipants in explorski, artistic director ing “Perception, Meanof Connecticut-based ing & Movement.” modern dance company Driscoll is a Doris MIC H AE L BO D E L Pilobolus, led the June Duke Artist Award workshop, she joined Dartmouth clinical winner known for immersive perforresearcher Mardi Crane-Godreau and mances that foster intimate, sensory-rich, Vermont integrative wellness consultant mind-bending experiences. She often plays Kate Gamble for a free public discussion with sensory or perceptual disorientation on body-mind interaction and economy of to invite people to expand their concepts of movement. what’s possible. For the July workshop, artist Emily “A sound may or may not be connected Coates, a theater professor and director to what you’re seeing visually, or it might of the dance program at Yale University, change the meaning of what you’re teamed up with Dartmouth assistant seeing,” she said by phone from Los Angeprofessor of physics and astronomy Elisa- les. “I think it takes a little [work] to shake beth Newton to compare and contrast how us out of our more fixed, rigid perceptions they research historical dance works and of our world.” exoplanets, respectively. Three additional About a year ago, Bodel invited Driscoll

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to participate in Big Move. After discussing her interests and current projects, he put her in touch with Stoermer, an assistant professor in Dartmouth’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Stoermer’s research includes investigating how sight and hearing affect each other and are interdependent. “It’s really interesting to talk with [Stoermer] about her experiments and find common curiosity,” Driscoll said, and to discuss “the differences between the scientific process and the creative process.” In the February workshop, Driscoll and Stoermer will guide participants in activities that engage both sight and hearing and that explore both choreography and scientific inquiry. “It’ll be an opportunity to enter viscerally and experientially into what could be,” Driscoll said. What does that mean, exactly? Activities from the inaugural Big Move workshop offer clues. Last May, choreographer and dancer Alice Sheppard collaborated with Dartmouth associate professor of engineering Eugene Korsunskiy to lead workshop

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participants to new insights on dance, design and disability. Sheppard, who uses a wheelchair, is a performer and Bessie Award-winning choreographer whose work challenges concepts of disability and dancing bodies. Korsunskiy specializes in design thinking and humancentered design. In the 90-minute virtual workshop, the pair invited about 50 participants to navigate the spaces they occupied and to consider questions such as “How are the buildings designed to be conducive to certain kinds of movements and certain ways of being?” Korsunskiy recalled. The group discussed how architectural design can enable or hinder movement, and they explored how “disability is in many ways a social construct,” Korsunskiy said. “It’s not that people’s bodies are inherently somehow inferior, but it’s that our built environment makes them appear that way.” The group imagined numerous ways to design buildings that would support “joyful movement for people who use wheelchairs,” he said. Workshop participants, some of whom were located as far away as Moscow, were so deeply engaged that Sheppard and Korsunskiy got through only a fraction of what they’d planned. But that preparation won’t go to waste. “Conversations like this expand my thinking and help me create a broader

and more complex place to create from,” Sheppard wrote by email. “I really enjoyed the preparation work with Eugene … It was thrilling to see how similar ideas and questions contoured differently in our research work.” The Big Move series is in its infancy, Bodel acknowledged. As he and his staff become increasingly adept at “matchmaking” dance artists and faculty who find “resonance between their areas of research,” he’ll begin to invite regional artists to participate, he said. For now, he’s focused on leveraging the visits of nationally acclaimed artists to create accessible, interactive workshops that appeal to dancers and nondancers alike. He’s currently working with ballet legend Wendy Whelan and researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock medical center on a workshop tentatively scheduled for the spring. Korsunskiy is looking forward to Driscoll and Stoermer’s February workshop. For people curious about it, he offered, “If it’s going to be anything like the one that Alice and I did, they should expect a fun, interactive, engaging and thought-provoking event that’s gonna have them walking away thinking about something in a new way.” m

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The Philosopher Stone Book review: What Is Otherwise Infinite, Bianca Stone

ianca Stone is not screwing around. “Human Nature,” the poem that serves as prologue to her new collection, opens by asking why people derive pleasure from “gazing / into enormous paintings of lost battles / the naked raped townspeople piled on the dying horses / and the indifferent pastures and frescos of gods.” While you ponder the brutal honesty of that question, the speaker moves on to a personal confession. “I have prevalences, forgive me, / for bittersweet liquids stirred with the poisoned hatpin,” she admits. “I carry the spaces / between self-hatred and magnificence / between my breasts / through the metal detector I will never clear.” Astonishingly, by the final stanza, the speaker has somehow transmuted the horror of existence into a love poem: “That it is because / I haven’t been touched nearly enough in one lifetime / to be satisfied—and now want you, / across all this dead gauze / to put your lips / to mine.” The poem’s fluid movement from philosophical critique to personal anguish to the redemptive power of love — all in scarcely a page — is an alchemy that’s staggering to witness. Luckily for us, Stone will revisit all of the themes she introduces here in greater depth throughout the book. What Is Otherwise Infinite is Stone’s third collection published by Tin House. Both poet and visual artist, she lives in Brandon, where she is creative director of the Ruth Stone House. Established in 2013, the organization works to restore the historic Goshen property where Bianca’s grandmother lived and wrote. During the pandemic, it has offered classes, workshops, a letterpress broadside series, a writing retreat, manuscript consultations, an online literary magazine called Iterant and a podcast hosted by Bianca. Stone’s new collection plumbs the writing of “great departed men,” whose search for meaning illuminates her own without overshadowing it. In “Marcus Aurelius,” for example, a stray line from the thirdcentury Roman emperor about fine wine leads to an epiphany: “I replay on a loop my one stoic consistency, / my middle-ofthe-night vow / that I will start tomorrow / the essential dismantling / of how I live.” John Milton, René Descartes, Carl Jung, William Shakespeare, the Gospels 46

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— Stone wrestles and toys with much of the Western canon. “How can we follow a vision, / manifest in cloth and be loved? / The Beatrices want to know,” she declares in “Beatrices,” speaking in the voice of Dante’s muse. By the end of the poem, this voice has seamlessly morphed into her own: “Beatrice implodes in me // who too is made of that sentient / livid dust.” Lacing poems with allusions to authors of bygone centuries is a delicate business. When done well, references serve as an invocation, a poet’s way of calling on the accumulated wisdom of the past to understand the present. In the process, though, poets

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run the risk of leaving their readers shrugging with unfamiliar references. Stone has found the sweet spot. What Is Otherwise Infinite balances erudite philosophizing with razor-sharp imagery in poems that feel deeply relatable, personal and of our time. After the intensity of the first few pages, “Routine” begins: “Some days I get up to go for a run / but instead just sit in spandex / and write about the fog.” Stone’s self-awareness instantly vaporizes any specter of academic posturing. Often these moments are sardonic or laugh-out-loud funny. In “Nature,” she writes bluntly, “I don’t want this phone; I want to kill God.”

‘YOU COULD SPEND EVERY NIGHT WITH THE TELEVISION’ FROM WHAT IS OTHERWISE INFINITE The uneasiness of being alive wears you down. So, you might sit with the television. Your obligatory interview. Fatal, in its mirrored posture. One musical interlude after another. All the universes of Star Trek you haven’t mastered. The unreal digitally rendered areas of planet Earth you will never enter. You sit down with it like the detective who knows way less than she’s letting on sits across from the cantankerous yet somehow absurdly fearless criminal. You’ll be there all night, bluffing each other. You could spend a lifetime eating dried fruit and nuts and wine like an apostle resentful of the flock in its huge vision and not even fight the urge to be given a better story with all its core-crew immortality and moral surrender. You’ll accept it. Sit down as an equal in its light. Sit like a painting that faces a window. Try to cancel each other out.

These seesawing shifts in tone leaven the intensity of some poems while elevating the everyday quality of others. With the same scathing honesty that she uses to explore classic texts, Stone records her experiences of motherhood and marriage, addiction, depression, and, above all, her own indefatigable search for meaning. Part of what makes this book so fearless is how candidly the author acknowledges her fears and how vividly she describes concepts such as anxiety and pain. “Every daughter / has a cage around her head / and a mother on the cross. // I always hope to take it off, and rarely do. / Instead, I climb up, like a child into the bed. / I nail myself beside you,” she writes in “Other Wound.” In “Set Designer,” Stone recounts raiding a liquor cabinet for a gallon jug of Dewar’s and later jotting down a memo: “‘remember how good it feels to be good to yourself.’” She has been “carrying it around with me ever since / hoping I will.” That last line resists the easy trauma narrative of a completed journey from illness to health, addiction to sobriety. Reality is more complex than Hallmark cards, and poets are not here to lie to you. Stone divides What Is Otherwise Infinite into four sections: Monad, Dyad, Triad and Tetrad. A nod to Pythagorean theories

of the structure of reality, these titles also dovetail neatly with the book’s theme of an individual’s search for meaning through her expanding relationship to the world around her. The singular self eventually becomes the plural self by falling in love, then expands to three after giving birth. Pythagoras’ tetrad, however, consists not of four points but of a more complex geometric shape: a triangle arranged in four rows like bowling pins. Accordingly, this last section brings other characters into tighter focus, hinting at the importance (and struggle) of sustaining family and community. “Twins” opens with Stone’s signature insistence on brutal honesty: “Mom says our father had to sit on her / to keep her from the

abortion clinic.” As if to defy the reader’s temptation to read direct autobiography into the poem, the next stanza takes a lyrical leap, making room for the author to ruminate on human nature. “My brother and I looked hard for the house / of sweets, lost in the woods, confusing starvation / for gluttony,” Stone writes. After some glitteringly good description (“the unmoved mother / beautiful at her boudoir, lathered in her face mask / of decayed butterflies and lava, / her oubliette eyes and casual irises”), the third and final stanza returns to the present. “Ecstatic, my brother and I age simultaneously. / We twin-out poems in real time.” Besides writing poems, Stone has been a seminal force in the emerging genre of

poetry comics: Her Poetry Comics From the Book of Hours (2016) is part of the visualpoetry series from Pleiades Press. She illustrated a 2020 children’s book called A Little Called Pauline, adapted from a poem by Gertrude Stein, and collaborated with Anne Carson on the 2012 Antigonick, an experimental translation of Sophocles’ Antigone. Considering her delightfully macabre sense of humor and her prowess in visual art, it’s not surprising that Stone has become a first-rate meme lord. (Memes, for those who’ve managed to avoid social media, are playful combinations of image and text, often crudely juxtaposing a familiar moment from pop culture with a humorous new caption.) On Instagram, for example, Stone inserted new dialogue into a

screenshot from the 2002 film Spider-Man. When Kirsten Dunst asks Tobey Maguire to “Tell me the truth, I’m … ready to hear it,” he blankly replies, “Poetry is just a prose raisin” as Dunst breaks into tears. Beneath the surface of this self-deprecating joke is the same sardonic voice we hear in Stone’s poems. An uncomfortable truth slips in with the humor: Just like Dunst’s character in the meme, we weep because we desperately need a way to make sense of the world. That’s an infinite task, one that we entrust to our greatest poets — Bianca Stone among them. m

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Short Takes on Five Vermont Books Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a banditry of chickadees. So this monthly feature is our way of

A Vermont Year in Sonnets

Anthracis: A Microbial Mystery

James Chapados, Four Seasons Press, 76 pages. $17.95.

Millicent Eidson, Maya Maguire Media, 340 pages. $14.99.

The firetrucks, sirens wailing, // Lead floats, dignitaries, then fife and drum.

Profit told Father that Mother must lern her duty to bless her husband every day of her life.

The soundtrack of a small-town Independence Day parade is familiar to any Vermonter who’s ever marched in a high school band or waved from an uneven sidewalk while troupe leaders attempted to wrangle banner-carrying scouts. The sirens — and screeching, depending on the band — herald high summer. The sonnet “July” starts more quietly on page 31 of James Chapados’ collection: “Up in the meadow on the hill bees hum // In the clover.” Following the parade (our Page 32 quote), he returns to the tall grass, observing fireflies as “living constellations.” Such are the rhythms of life in northern Vermont, chronicled by Chapados through the course of a year. He takes the reader from his home in Eden to Martha’s Diner in Coventry to the banks of the Winooski River. The poet’s reflections on some events, such as the parade or Town Meeting Day, are timeless. Others make it clear that the year being chronicled is 2020. The sonnet “Governor Scott” opens ominously: “When pestilence came to Vermont…”

Take one highly disturbed drifter. (Page 32 is a fragment from his misspelled diary.) Add a pinch of anthrax bacteria that have been lying dormant in the arid southwestern soil for decades. Mix with some unsuspecting animals and people, and what do you have? The first in a new series of medical thrillers starring Maya Maguire, a young veterinarian who’s just been hired as an epidemic intelligence service officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her first task: to stop a series of mysterious anthrax cases. If a recent high-profile film had you wondering how well anthrax would really work as a murder weapon, Anthracis: A Microbial Mystery will answer your questions. Author Millicent Eidson is a doctor of veterinary medicine who teaches a course on zoonotic diseases at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine and has worked for the CDC and the New York and New Mexico health departments. Her expertise gives this intriguing “microbial mystery” a solid grounding.

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30 Years in a White Haze: Dan Egan’s Story of Worldwide Adventure and the Evolution of Extreme Skiing Dan Egan and Eric Wilbur, Degan Media, 418 pages. $39.95.

“That was over 20 nautical miles in a small, open-cockpit dinghy—and he did it at 16 years old…” It may seem odd to tease a book about extreme skiing legend Dan Egan with a quote about his brother’s sailing abilities. But Egan, half of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame duo the “Egan Brothers,” has much to say about the role of family in his worldwide adventures. Those included more than 50 descents of mountains never skied previously. 30 Years in a White Haze begins with a near-death experience that Egan had in 1990, after 38 hours lost in a blizzard on Russia’s Mount Elbrus. Leaving the mountain after that storm, which claimed the lives of 12 fellow climbers, was “the beginning of my adult life,” he writes. He then details how the trauma affected every aspect of his existence thereafter. Biographies of elite athletes often claim to be about more than sports. But Egan delivers on that promise with the same excitement and style he showed in his skiing. KEN PICARD

introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do that, we contextualize each book just a little and quote a single representative sentence from, yes, page 32. m

The Inka Argus

Harmony Hill

Eugene Fairfield, Uliante Media, 247 pages. $9.95.

John S. Hall, Onion River Press, 572 pages. $24.99.

A printing press like I could never dream of was whirring and banging down below…

The spirited Morgans led the way with the Percherons pulling more than their share.

A mystery is brewing for 13-yearold orphan Inka Pasternak. Publisher of the Avenue Argus, an independent street sheet made for and by the downtrodden folks of Old City, she takes notice when a popular street musician goes missing. With the tenacity of Nancy Drew and the cunning of Harriet M. Welsch, Inka investigates while still making deadline. But Inka’s world is not quite like our own. Old City is full of broughams, old-fashioned printing presses and vaudeville stages. And some of its Triple P denizens — panhandlers, performers and pickpockets — are modded out with cybernetic enhancements such as mechanical arms. In true steampunk fashion, The Inka Argus envisions a world that embodies both nostalgia and futurism. Barre author Eugene Fairfield (real name Brian Wightman) creates a protagonist who’s instantly endearing. Though the book is intended for young readers, Inka is charming enough to capture the attention of any mystery lover.

Jubilant “Jubal” Brown is a Vermont farm boy who’s just trying to do right by his family and community. But farming is hard work, especially in the early 1940s. Through the detailed world-building of his historical novel, author John S. Hall shows that life on the titular farm is full of backbreaking labor and endless toil. Jubal’s mind races with thoughts of girls. He’s happy with Polly, his main squeeze. But his undeniable chemistry with farm girl Maria occupies his thoughts as they work up a sweat with their chores. Slowly, we get to know Jubal and the various people in his life. His uncle, Benny, has developmental disabilities but enormous strength. His father, Clyde, a former hooch runner and current alcoholic, listens to radio reports of the growing conflict in Europe with increasing paranoia. And his mother, Rose, does everything she can to keep her family afloat. Harmony Hill brings well-drawn characters together in a coming-ofage story set in a fictional town that will ring true to Vermonters.

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ernando Botero Angulo is so renowned for the exaggerated contours of his figures that his signature style earned its own noun: Boterismo. In his paintings and sculptures, humans and animals are, to be blunt, fat. The 89-year-old Colombian’s work comes to mind while viewing 30-year-old Jackson Tupper’s exhibition, “Mayo,” at the Safe and Sound Gallery in Burlington. It would be a stretch to say the two artists are kindred spirits. If Botero’s corpulent subjects are fanciful, the paintings are still grounded in realism. Tupper’s work is graphic and highly stylized, rendered on a flat plane with a limited, unnatural palette. But he does take a volumetric approach to his subjects: Figures are both inflated and reduced to barely recognizable elements. Arms, legs and torsos are plump sausages; heads, if present, are vague round shapes with no features. Hands and feet are missing altogether. It’s no surprise that Tupper draws inspiration from cartoons, in which simple line drawings can render figures infinitely and playfully bendy. “I was always fascinated by cartoons and always sketched them,” he said in a phone interview. “I made my own version of Charlie Brown and Calvin and Hobbes. To me it’s fun, it’s whimsical, and I love narrative — a very short story that can be told in a Sunday cartoon.” That helps explain Tupper’s minimal, iconographic figures, objects and — in the suite of artworks for “Mayo” — foods, such as tomatoes, eggs and zucchini. And he loves not only visual jokes but also puzzles, which are reflected in his work both literally and stylistically. One example: A viewer might look for several minutes at the 30-inch-square painting “Morning Routine” before recognition arrives: The jigsaw-like shapes depict an olive-green man sitting on a toilet, crossword puzzle in (nonexistent) hand, while a woman is silhouetted in black behind him. Behind an orange curtain, a showerhead spews a white flow of water. On the floor, a roll of toilet paper seems to be making an escape, inchworm-like. On an opposite wall of the gallery, an 11-by-14-inch painting aptly titled “Crossword” is just that — a blackand-white puzzle grid awaiting answers. Next to it hangs a large, hand-carved “pencil” bifurcated on the business end. In the namesake painting “Mayo,” a guy in tightywhities leans into an open fridge as a ponytailed, T-shirtclad woman reaches for something on a high shelf. A sandwich — perhaps awaiting the titular condiment? — sits on a table. Alongside it, a splotch of white indicates spilled milk from an adjacent jug. The human characters in his domestic scenes represent himself and his girlfriend, Tupper confirmed.

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If his artworks can provoke snorts of laughter, they also command admiration for their precise execution and elegant economy of form. Viewers might wonder whether Tupper has worked in product design — and they’d be onto something. It wasn’t just a “Peanuts” obsession that influenced his visual vocabulary. It was also a thorough grounding in fine art at the University of Vermont and subsequent years of working in graphic design and screen printing. The Maine native graduated from college in 2013 and spent a summer interning at the former JDK Design on Burlington’s Maple Street. He worked on production

design, Tupper said, for one of the firm’s foundational clients: Burton Snowboards. (Safe and Sound Gallery owner Marin Horikawa was then JDK’s creative director.) Tupper also got involved with the JDK-affiliated Iskra Print Collective, located in the same building. He continues to volunteer in the nonprofit studio, which offers screen-printing classes, and turns out multiples of his own prints there. Later, when JDK downsized and reorganized as Solidarity of Unbridled Labour, Tupper worked for the firm “on the creative side,” he said. Again, his focus was snowboard design.

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A job at the Burton company itself was the next logical step. “That was always the dream,” Tupper said. “I always wanted to combine my passion for snowboarding and working at Burton.” But after five and a half years there, he was ready to move on. Tupper recently left Burton and is now devoted to freelance branding and illustration for clients, as well as his own art making.

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The works in “Mayo” are not just random images; they represent the artist’s life and observations during the pandemic. “Jackson Tupper has always preferred a homey existence retreated in his own bubble,” writes Horikawa on the gallery’s website. “A world in lockdown just made it socially acceptable to immerse himself fully in that comfort zone.” Tupper’s domestic scenes make perfect sense in that context; some of his other images are more enigmatic. That giant green zucchini lounging on a black sofa? It’s more than a nod to the fecund reputation of the squash. “My girlfriend and I left town for two weeks in July and came back to find three monsters climbing out of their garden bed,” Tupper explained. “It was a funny sight, and I liked imagining these vegetables as houseguests taking up space in our living room.”

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A few of the works employ jigsaw-cut wooden shapes to create dimension within a shadow box. In the amusing 10-inch-square “Egg,” for example, a fried egg hovers above a black pan, both in sharp contrast to the red-painted background. In the large-scale “Planter,” Tupper incorporates a cutwood botanical shape directly onto the canvas. As for the multiple images of tomatoes in the exhibition, Tupper revealed that he collects empty cans of San Marzano tomatoes and displays them around his house. The label’s illustration of bright-red, elongated fruit against a white background resonates with the artist’s clean design sensibility; it also informed his palette for this body of work. The limited colors — red, olive green, two shades of orange, black and white — give the exhibition a coherence that it might lack with a riot of hues. That self-imposed restriction is a part of Tupper’s artistic discipline. “Concept, form and color have the same weight of importance to me as the subject,” he said. “I have been approaching my paintings with the mind of a screen printer.” The concepts for “Mayo” began with Tupper’s living space and hobbies. The fishing and hunting he did with his father while growing up are represented on a cylindrical vase (“Brookie”) and a painting of three flying geese (“Ducks”), respectively. While not explicitly autobiographical, the works offer glimpses into the artist’s life and psyche. Tupper invites visitors into his “bubble” with a cozy arrangement in one corner of the gallery: a comfortable chair, shelves stacked with cartoon books, a tree-stump side table. The exhibition’s title reflects Tupper’s wit and appreciation for brevity, but its meaning is essential. “I named the show ‘Mayo’ as an ode to the ordinary, to give significance to rather mundane things and insignificant moments in my everyday routine,” he explained. Even if they are not important, he added, “they are ingredients that contribute in building the metaphorical sandwich that is my day, or even my identity.” m

INFO “Mayo” by Jackson Tupper is on view through March 9 at Safe and Sound Gallery in Burlington. safeandsound.gallery, jacksontupper.com

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f 14TH ANNUAL REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL EXHIBITION: Artwork created by students at 13 Vermont and New Hampshire high schools. Awards chosen by Norwich University adjunct professor Sabrina B. Fadial. Reception and awards celebration: Friday, January 28, 5-7 p.m. Face masks required. January 28-February 25. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

ART EVENTS PUPPET-MAKING DEMONSTRATION WITH B. LYNCH: In this live Zoom presentation, the artist describes her puppet-making process, sharing images of in-progress and finished objects and

exploring the techniques she used to create the characters in the time-bending universe of the Reds and the Greys in the current exhibition “Pull Back the Curtain” at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Register at brattleboromuseum.org. Online, Thursday, January 27, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 257-0124.

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‘UNBOUND’: Painting, sculpture and works on paper by Kirsten Reynolds, Rob Hitzig and Rachel Gross that explore contemporary approaches to BURLINGTON SHOWS

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abstraction as it relates to architecture, space and materials. BRADLEY BORTHWICK: “Objects of Empire,” sculptural installation that evolved from the artist’s research on the Dorset marble quarry and ancient Roman storehouses, and ponders shared cycles of civilization. Through February 5. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington. JACKSON TUPPER: “Mayo,” a solo exhibition of paintings by the Vermont artist made in response to domestic isolation during pandemic lockdown. Through March 9. Info, 233-2943. Safe and Sound Gallery in Burlington. ‘THE LARGE WORKS’: Locally made 2D works, two to six feet in size, hang in the hallway outside the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery. Through January 29. Info, 578-2512. The Soda Plant in Burlington. MALTEX ARTISTS: Paintings by Dierdre Michelle, Judy Hawkins, Nancy Chapman and Jean Cherouny, as well as photographs by Caleb Kenna and Michael Couture in the building’s hallways. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through March 31. Info, 865-7296. Maltex Building in Burlington. SHANNON O’CONNELL: Botanical paintings with phosphorescent and UV-sensitive pigments mixed into the paint, allowing secondary paintings to be revealed. Through March 2. 865-7296. Burlington City Hall. ‘THE SMALL WORKS’: An annual unjuried exhibition of locally made works smaller than 12 inches each. Through January 29. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. STEPHEN SHARON: A solo exhibition of vibrant, multilayered abstract paintings by the Burlington artist. Curated by SEABA. Through March 4. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington.

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ADRIENNE GINTER & ERIKA LAWLOR SCHMIDT: Hand-cut paper works that tell stories from nature, and monotypes that reflect the natural world and the interconnectedness of all life, respectively. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through January 31. Info, 865-7296. Pierson Library in Shelburne.

Rose Pearlman You’re not going to stamp your

snowy boots on Rose Pearlman rugs. For starters, they hang on the wall. The Brooklyn-based artist employs the punch needle rug-hooking technique to create contemporary abstractions that, from a distance, could be mistaken for paintings. But as any number of YouTube videos demonstrate, “punching” bits of wool through a stretched canvas with a special hand tool is a meticulous, one-stitch-at-a-time affair. A selection of Pearlman’s creations is currently installed at Minema gallery in Johnson. She titled the exhibition “CounterSpace,” a double entendre referring both to the still life of surface clutter — which she abstracts by eliminating color and flattening the plane — and to Pearlman’s resistance to functionality. “The wall hangings move away from utility and become ornamental, as I explore the fragility of a single hooked line,” she writes in an artist statement, “and find the balance between negative and positive space.” The traditional goal of her medium, back in colonial New England times, was to make rugs that covered floors and kept feet warm. Pearlman eschews the domestic in favor of the decorative yet honors the resourcefulness of generations of (mostly) women crafters. In her nod to thrift and sustainability, she sometimes uses materials such as deconstructed plastic bags and twine. Pearlman’s organic and geometric shapes against an off-white or burlap-colored background are a far cry from the designs of yesteryear, but, she writes, “the technique is still deeply rooted in the knowledge and skill of this medium’s rich history.”

ERIKA LAWLOR SCHMIDT: Relief monotypes, Skyway. MAREVA MILLARC: Acrylic paintings, Gates 1-8. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through March 31. Info, 865-7296. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.

“Counter-Space” is on view through March 5.

‘EYESIGHT & INSIGHT: LENS ON AMERICAN ART’: An online exhibition of artworks at shelburnemuseum.org that illuminates creative responses to perceptions of vision; four sections explore themes ranging from 18th-century optical technologies to the social and historical connotations of eyeglasses in portraiture from the 19th century to the present. Through October 16. ‘IN PLAIN SIGHT: REDISCOVERING CHARLES SUMNER BUNN’S DECOYS’: An online exhibition of shorebird decoys carved by the member of the ShinnecockMontauk Tribes, based on extensive research and resolving historic controversy. Through October 5. ‘PATTERN & PURPOSE: AMERICAN QUILTS FROM THE SHELBURNE MUSEUM’: The museum presents 20 textile masterpieces from its collection dating from the first decades of the 1800s to the turn of the 21st century, organized by associate curator Katie Wood Kirchhoff. Online only at shelburnemuseum.org. Through February 1. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

f KAELA MACLAUGHLIN: “No Ticket for Entry,” animation stills and fairy-tale drawings by the senior Art & Design major. Reception (rescheduled): Thursday, January 27, 6-7 p.m. Face masks required. Through January 29. Info, bcollier@smcvt.edu. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.

‘THE GIFT OF ART’: An off-season exhibition featuring a changing collection of artworks. Open by appointment or during special events. Through April 30. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.

JASON GALLIGAN-BALDWIN: “Safety Procedures,” works incorporating acrylics, antique text, childhood books, film stills and other materials to explore American culture, or lack thereof. Curated by Studio Place Arts. Through February 26. Info, 479-7069. AR Market in Barre.

‘WINTER COMPASS’: Works featuring Venetian plaster finishes by Sam Colt, along with works by 13 gallery artists in a variety of mediums. Through January 31. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

f SABRINA FADIAL & GAYLEEN AIKEN: “Corporeal Discretion,” sculptural work that addresses female fertility by the contemporary Vermont artist, Nuquist Gallery; and “A Life of Art,” paintings by the late folk artist, Contemporary Hall. Reception: Friday, February 4, 4-7 p.m. Through March 18. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

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‘THE CATAMOUNT IN VERMONT’: An exhibition that explores the feline symbol of Vermont through the lenses of art, science and culture. Through May 31. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. CONOR LAHIFF: Meteorologically inspired landscape photography on metal and more. Through February 15. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre.

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‘ONE MORE TIME!’: Ten artists who have exhibited at the gallery in 2021 return for a group show of works in watercolor, acrylic, oils, wearable art and photography. Through January 31. Info, 279-5048. ART, etc. in Northfield.

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‘THE ART OF THE GRAPHIC’: Eight displays of snowboards that let viewers see the design process from initial conception to final product; featuring artists Scott Lenhardt, Mark Gonzalez, Mikey Welsh, Mishel Schwartz and more. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe. CATHERINE OPIE: Photographs of rural and urban American scenes that investigate the parallels between natural and political landscapes and their connections to a sense of identity and community. Through April 9. Info, 253-8358. The Current in Stowe.

f ‘LISTENING OUTSIDE THE LINES’: A multimedia group exhibition exploring what it means to be a

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Person of the Global Majority (Black, Indigenous or other person of color) in Vermont, featuring oral history, visual art and poetry by Sarah Audsley, Alexa Herrera Condry, Harlan Mack, Crystal Stokes, Isadora Snapp and Madeleine Ziminsky. A Lamoille Art & Justice project. f KATHY BLACK: “Women and Girls,” paintings that explore the experience the changing perspectives of females over time and the connections that run between women at different points in life. Reception: Thursday, January 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Through April 9. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

f MISOO BANG: New paintings by the Burlington artist. Closing reception: February 17, 3-5 p.m. Through February 18. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson. ROSE PEARLMAN: “Counter-Space,” abstract wall hangings created by punch-needle rug hooking. Through March 5. Minema Gallery in Johnson.

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f HEATHER BERNEK GUPTILL: “Musings From the Nurses Room,” large-scale intuitive abstract paintings. Reception: Thursday, January 27, 6-8 p.m. Through February 5. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury. ‘TEXTURES AND PATTERNS’: Textural paintings by Sandy Grant, hooked rugs by Judy Dodds and ceramic mosaics by Bette Ann Libby. Through March 5. Info, 496-6682. The Gallery at Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield.

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‘ITTY BITTY: TINY TEXTS IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS’: Books from the 17th to 21st centuries that measure between 1.8 and 10 centimeters, from religious manuscripts to cookbooks, children’s books to Shakespeare. Visitors are not currently allowed in the library but may view the works online at go.middlebury.edu/tinybooks. Through May 31. Davis Family Library, Middlebury College.

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‘KNOWING DARKNESS’: A group exhibition of new work by Bonnie Baird, Christine Atkinson, Charlotte Dworshak, Julia Jensen, Hannah Morris, Hannah Sessions, Pamela Smith and Susanne Strater. Through January 31. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes. ‘PRIDE 1983’: Through interviews with organizers, photographs and scanned images of historic documents, the exhibit, curated by Meg Tamulonis of the Vermont Queer Archives, explores the origins and lasting legacies of Vermont’s first Pride March on June 25, 1983, in Burlington. It can also be viewed online at vtfolklife.org. Through March 25. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. ‘WINTER FAVORITES’: Selected works by established gallery artists. Through January 31. Info, 4580098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls and Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

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LOWELL SNOWDEN KLOCK & HEATHER WILSON: ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside, photography on a winter theme and “bombshell” pinup artworks, respectively. Through February 25. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

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‘JANUARY: COLOR AND LIGHT’: Painted, CNC-cut wood panels by Scott Brown and illuminated sculptural lanterns by Kristian Brevik. Through March 20. Info, 355-2150. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.

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HOLIDAY SHOW: Prints and handmade gift cards by artist members. Through January 29. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. JUDITH VIVELL: “Meant for Each Other,” mixed-media abstractions on raw canvas. Also, jewelry by Stacy Hopkins, precious metal and volcanic bowls by Cristina Salusti and sculptural pieces by Ria Blaas. Through February 1. Info, 603-443-3017. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction. JULIE CRABTREE & AMANDA ANN PALMER: Fiberart landscapes inspired by the Scotland coast, and hand-thrown pottery, respectively. Through February 28. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction.

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ARTS CONNECT AT CATAMOUNT ARTS JURIED SHOW: The sixth annual juried show features works by 74 member artists. Slide show of art can be viewed online. Through April 10. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. BEN BARNES: Recent paintings of northern Vermont: small-town street scenes, landscapes and retired cars and tractors. Through March 25. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Company in West Glover. DIANNE TAYLOR MOORE: “Let Us Fly Away,” vibrant pastel paintings of Colorado, the Florida Keys and southwestern U.S. Through February 26. Info, 7480158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. ‘GIVE WILDLIFE A VOICE’: Forty juried artworks resulting from a statewide art competition for students launched by the Vermont Wildlife Education Fund. Through February 4. f OPEN AIR GALLERY: SKI & SNOWSHOE TRAIL: Outdoor sculptures by 20 artists can be seen along a two-mile trail through the center’s grounds and neighboring fields. Reserve free tickets at highlandartsvt.org. Meet the Artists Weekend: Saturday, January 29, and Sunday, January 30, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Through March 27. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. KEITH CHAMBERLIN: “Then and Again,” two sets of photographs separated by 40 years by the St. Johnsbury photographer. Through January 31. Info, 626-6049. The Satellite Gallery in Lyndonville.

‘A LIFE IN LISTS AND NOTES’: An exhibition that celebrates the poetic, mnemonic, narrative and enumerative qualities of lists and notes. The objects on display span myriad creative, professional, bureaucratic, domestic and personal uses of lists through the ages. Through May 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. STJ ART ON THE STREET WINTER SHOW: Downtown businesses exhibit artworks in storefront windows, including stained glass, lamps, paintings and mixed-media, in a collaborative public art project. Through February 25. Info, eknarey@catamountarts. org. Various St. Johnsbury locations.

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B. LYNCH: “Pull Back the Curtain,” a fantastical universe of the Reds and the Greys, disparate societal factions set in the 18th century, using puppetry, drawing, painting, linoleum block printing and digital animation. Through February 13. DELITA MARTIN: “Between Worlds,” a yearlong installation in the museum’s front windows that reimagines the identities and roles of Black women in the context of Black culture and African history. Through May 31. GUILD OF VERMONT FURNITURE MAKERS: “Evolving Traditions,” contemporary works in wood crafted by members of the guild. Through February

13. MICHAEL ABRAMS: “Arcadia Rediscovered,” a luminous, misty painting installation that invites viewers to be mindfully in the world. Through March 5. NATALIE FRANK: “Painting With Paper,” abstracted portraits of imagined female figures, each accompanied by an animal, in wet pigmented cotton and linen paper pulp. Through February 13. VERMONT GLASS GUILD: “Inspired by the Past,” contemporary works in glass exhibited alongside historical counterparts from the museum’s collection. Through March 5. WILLIAM RANSOM: “Keep Up/Hold Up,” mixed-media installations that speak to the current state of social tension in the U.S., the reckoning with a history of white supremacy, and the potential for flare-up or collapse. Through March 5. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. PETER SCHUMANN: Paintings on bedsheets by the founder of Bread and Puppet theater from his “Bad Bedsheets” and “Handouts” series. Through February 28. Info, breadandpuppetcuratrix@gmail.com. Flat Iron Co-op in Bellows Falls. SUSAN BREAREY: Paintings of animals in which primal, totemic images take the place of photorealistic details and are set against abstract surfaces. Through February 20. Info, 387-0102. Next Stage Arts Project in Putney.

CALL TO ARTISTS 2023 SOLO EXHIBITIONS: AVA features three or four Main Gallery opportunities featuring exhibitions that range from thematic, group shows to single/solo artist shows. Deadline: March 31. Find the link for applications at avagallery.org. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117. ARTIST DEVELOPMENT GRANTS: Artist development grants support Vermont-based artists at all stages of their careers, funding activities that enhance mastery of a craft or that increase the viability of an artist’s business. Funding may also support aspects of the creation of new work. Grant amounts range from $250 to $2,000. Details and application at vermontartscouncil.org. Deadline: February 14. Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier. COMMUNITY GALLERY SHOW: Artists 17 and older are eligible to enter on a first-come, first-served basis, whether Strand Center members or not. A maximum of 25 artists will be selected to exhibit their work in the gallery in February. Drop-off for submissions is until January 28. Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh N.Y. Info, 518-563-1604. CREATION GRANTS AVAILABLE: Intended to support the creation of new work by Vermont artists, creation grants can fund time, materials, some equipment costs and space rental for artists and artist groups. An independent panel of practicing artists and arts professionals reviews applications. Both established and emerging artists are encouraged to apply for this $4,000 award. More info and application at vermontartscouncil.org. Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier. Through April 4. Info, 402-4614. DIANE GABRIEL VISUAL ARTIST AWARD: Established in 2021 by the family of the late Burlington artist, the award for a Vermont-based emerging artist provides $1,500 cash and $1,000 value toward the use of any BCA Studio facilities. Info and application at burlingtoncityarts.org. Deadline: March 31. BCA Center, Burlington. Info, cstorrs@burlingtoncityarts.org. ‘DRIP’: For an upcoming exhibition about water quality and quantity, artists are invited to consider the topics of scarcity and depletion of freshwater sources. Installations and traditional or nontraditional mediums are welcome. Details at studioplacearts.com. Deadline: February 5. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069. ‘THE MAGIC OF LIGHT SHOW’: The gallery is accepting submissions for consideration to be included in a February show celebrating the magic of light in artwork. Painting, illustration, photography, film, collage or sculpture acceptable. Delivery on Wednesday, February 2. The Satellite Gallery, Lyndonville. $20 per entry. Info, 229-8317. MICRO-GRANTS FOR ARTISTS: The Montpelier Public Arts Commission is offering a micro-grant program for Vermont-based artists for up to $1,500 for permanent or temporary art installations throughout the city. The request for proposals is open for an indefinite period; artists may submit at anytime during the year. The commission will review and award grants twice yearly; the next deadline is March 30. For more info and to review the RFP, visit montpelier-vt.org. Info, 522-0150. SEEKING NEW MEMBERS: Become an exhibiting member of the downtown Brandon gallery, participate in group and solo exhibitions and join a vibrant creative community. Apply at brandonartistsguild.org. Deadline: February 20. Brandon Artists Guild. Free. Info, 247-4956. THE VERMONT PRIZE: Four art institutions, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Burlington City Arts, the Current and Hall Art Foundation, are collaborating on a new annual award for an artist who is producing “the best visual art” in the state. The winner will receive $5,000 and an online showcase. Find details and application at vermontprize.org. Deadline: March 31.

manchester/bennington

‘HIROSHIGE AND THE CHANGING JAPANESE LANDSCAPE’: An exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (17971858) that depict how the political climate of 19th-century Japan influenced its art and how the art influenced politics. Through February 27. Info, 367-1311. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. ‘THE WORLD BETWEEN THE BLOCK AND THE PAPER’: A group exhibition of ecologically sound, sensitively produced mokuhanga prints, organized in collaboration with print collective the Mokuhanga Sisters. Through March 27. Info, 367-1311. Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

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f MICHAEL SACCA: “In the Surf,” photographs of water in motion by the Vermont artist. Reception: Sunday, February 13, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Through March 19. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

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‘ECOLOGIES: A SONG FOR OUR PLANET’: An exhibition of installations, videos, sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs that explore the relationship between humans and nature, and disruptions to the planet’s ecosystems caused by human intervention. Through February 27. ‘HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR ONE VOICE TO REACH ANOTHER?’: An exhibition of major works from the museum’s collection, along with new acquisitions and loans, that explore the theme of voice in both physical and metaphorical registers. Through February 13. ‘THE WORLD OF YOUSUF KARSH: A PRIVATE ESSENCE’: A showcase of 111 silver-gelatin portraits by the renowned Armenian Canadian photographer, shot and printed himself; donated by the artist’s estate and his widow. Through January 30. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE WITH LAURA POITRAS: “Terror Contagion,” an immersive, activist exhibition by the London-based research collective in collaboration with the journalist-filmmaker. Narration by Edward Snowden, data sonification by Brian Eno. Through April 18. Info, 514-847-6226. Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art. ‘STICK WITH LOVE’: A group exhibition in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and love, featuring works by Cheryl Betz, Elizabeth D’Amico, Daniela Edstrom, Laura Graveline, Chris Groschner, Naomi Hartov, Patricia Magrosky, Mary Mead, Matthew Peake, Kathryn Peterson, Jessie Pollock, Jan Sandman, Heather Stearns, Laura Tafe, Susan Wilson, Olivia White and Dana Zeilinger. Through February 18. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. ‘THIS LAND: AMERICAN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NATURAL WORLD’: Drawn from the permanent collection, the museum’s first major installation of traditional and contemporary Native American art set alongside early-to-contemporary art by African American, Asian American, Euro-American and Latin American artists, representing a broader perspective on “American” art. Through July 23. ‘THORNTON DIAL: THE TIGER CAT’: Part of a new acquisition of 10 artworks from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, the exhibition looks closely at the late artist’s work and the ways in which it broadens an understanding of American art. Through February 27. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. m

‘WHY CAN’T ONE GIRL CHANGE IT?’: Submissions accepted for a group show March 4 to April 8 based on a quote from Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. Due to space limitations, not all works can be accepted. Submit up to four images; 2D work should be no larger than 48 inches, and 3D work no larger than 36 by 84 inches. Deadline: February 14. Find link for application at avagallery.org. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H. $10. Info, 603-448-3117.

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Heavy Metal Alchemy

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There’s something so exciting about an unexpected collaboration. At their best, those combinations, where two seemingly unrelated entities collide, feel like exercises in joyous chaos. Like SNOOP DOGG and MARTHA STEWART joking about getting high. OL’ DIRTY BASTARD’s verse on MARIAH CAREY’s “Fantasy” still might be the coolest thing to have happened in the entire ’90s. (He rhymed “Mariah” with “pacifier,” people!) Even when the collaborations don’t work, like the dreaded METALLICA and LOU REED album Lulu, or that whole HITLER and STALIN bromance, it’s still fascinating when people remove themselves from their comfort zones. Hell, it’s almost more rewarding when they fail. I actually spend time in my day wondering what might have happened if BLACK SABBATH had hired MICHAEL BOLTON after he auditioned in ’83. Life can be utterly without reason sometimes, and that’s glorious. So, naturally, I was intrigued when I heard that Brattleboro metal masters BARISHI had gone out on tour as the backing band for indie rocker SASAMI. The Los Angeles singer-songwriter,

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formerly of CHERRY GLAZERR, put out one of 2019’s best records with her self-titled debut, a shoegaze-heavy work full of melancholy. In October, Sasami released two new singles, “The Greatest” and “Skin a Rat.” Gone were the arctic chill tones and slow-burn songs as a strain of hard rock crept into her songwriting. “Skin a Rat”

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even features DIRK VERBEUREN of MEGADETH on the drums. In the press release for that song, Sasami said, “This song is about how often the greatest, heaviest feelings we have for someone are in the absence of the realization or reciprocation of that love. Like power born out of a black hole. All fantasy.”

Sounds, well, metal as fuck. Given that Sasami wrote the new songs on her iPad using GarageBand plug-ins and her Moog Model 15 app, she would need an actual rock band to play the stuff live. Enter Barishi. “I met Sasami through my friend Kyle,” GRAHAM BROOKS, singer and guitarist of Barishi, told me by phone. Kyle would be KYLE THOMAS, aka garage rocker KING TUFF, who also hails from the Brattleboro scene. “She needed some people to back her up for this cover song she was doing,” Brooks continued, “so we went into the studio.” The song in question is a metal reimagining of DANIEL JOHNSTON’s “Sorry Entertainer” — comedian PATTI HARRISON shot the accompanying video. Barishi sound massive, providing powerful double-bass drumming and chugging guitars, as well as a searing solo from Brooks. “The album was getting heavier and heavier,” Brooks said of Sasami’s new record, Squeeze, which comes out on February 25. “She needed a touring band and reached out.” The band promptly hit the road for three weeks of touring, both for Sasami’s headlining shows and to open for indierock queen JAPANESE BREAKFAST. It’ll return to the Sasami tour in March, even doing a European leg as she supports MITSKI and HAIM. For Brooks and his bandmates, touring with Sasami is both an incredible opportunity and a learning experience. “It stimulates different parts of my brain,” Brooks said of playing Sasami’s songs, which he described as “FLEETWOOD MAC one minute, full metal the next.” Brooks has been writing the new Barishi record, as well, calling it “75 percent of the way there.” When asked whether playing with Sasami was changing the way he wrote, he wasn’t exactly sure. “Well, it’s not like I worried about staying true to a genre or something in the past,” he said. “But I do like to think that it’s made me more open-minded. I don’t want things to be aesthetically homogenized. “I’ve come across some bands that get obsessed with their own genre,” he added. “It’s this thing where a speedmetal band will only play songs that have a certain beats-per-minute rate, or something equally as ridiculous. I know there’s something to be said about limitations inspiring creativity, but I don’t have any interest in limiting us.”

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He also feels that the tour has given his band a new, more professional outlook. “At the end of the day, we’re still playing music and having fun,” Brooks conceded. “But being in these new circles, it’s a little alien to us. We’re not that interested in being comfortable, though.” Once the tour with Sasami is over, Brooks said the band plans to hit the studio to record the follow-up to 2020’s pummeling opus, Old Smoke. He also hopes that Barishi can hit the stage as themselves in 2022. Being part of a professional tour with booking agents and labels involved is a far cry from an indie-metal band booking DIY shows and navigating a pandemicinfluenced landscape. A show at the Burlington Record Plant in the summer of 2021 was the only outing for the band, and it had to cancel a recent appearance at the Monkey House in Winooski. “Whenever I barrel down the road to optimism, it usually bites me in the ass,” Brooks said with a sardonic laugh. “So I’m crossing my fingers.” In the meantime, you can catch Barishi backing Sasami for a homecoming show at the Stone Church in Brattleboro on Friday, March 4.

Nine Years Dead

Nectar’s celebrates one of its most popular and enduring music series this week. On Tuesday, February 1, the Burlington club salutes nine years of Dead Set. In a town that has long been in love with the music of the GRATEFUL DEAD, no other tribute to the San Francisco fathers of jam has enjoyed such success and longevity. Every Tuesday night, Nectar’s turns back the clock. Vermont native ZACH NUGENT started the band, also named Dead Set, and the series when he was 24. Though Nugent has gone on to make his own place in the musical world of the Dead, playing with PHIL LESH, MELVIN SEALS and the surviving members of the JERRY GARCIA BAND, he’s never forsaken his roots. When live music made its postlockdown return, Dead Set was among the first shows to come back.

New Year’s Eve. So when it was called off, part of me felt like, Yeah, of course. Turns out, my pessimism was unfounded. The show will go on! Zenbarn has rescheduled the event for Friday, February 4. It will also now serve as a celebration of the impending end of cannabis prohibition in Vermont. The club is collaborating with cannabis lifestyle and culture publication Sensi Magazine to stage a night of both legendary and local hip-hop. In addition to the two members of Wu-Tang, who will be backed by live band BEAU SASSER & THE SENSI ALL-STARS, the night features an assortment of some of Jerry Garcia playing his Vermont’s best hip-hop acts. “Wolf Guitar” in 1978 KONFLIK, DJ NASTEE, CHARLIE MAYNE, HEADY BETTY, MISTER BURNS and SINNN are just some of the talent slated to hit the stage. If you love weed and hip-hop, Zenbarn has you covered. And while I hadn’t really thought about the smoke situation in Vermont as cannabis prohibition, even though that’s exactly what it was, I’m not above celebrating the new weed world. If nothing else, 20 years from now when I see some whippersnapper grabbing a nugget from Walmart, I can shout: “In my day, we had to go to Waterbury and hang out guitar was heavily used by the guitarist with the Wu-Tang Clan to get high!” in the early ’80s; BOB DYLAN played it when he toured with the Dead in 1987. Two separate private collectors Welcome to my new weekly series, loaned the guitars to Nugent. According Oh, It’s Real, in which I present to Nectar’s talent buyer BRIAN MITAL, the songs, albums or videos that probably performance will be the first time these shouldn’t exist. And yet, here they are, two guitars have ever shared the same existing. My goal is to remind us all stage. So for Deadheads big on their that chaos reigns and the vast majority history, this is not a show to miss. of art is weird as hell. Do you know about some music that makes you ask, “Yeah, but why?” Send it my way at farnsworth@sevendaysvt.com. This week’s installment is brought Of all the shows that had to be to you by the Mafia, ill-advised ’80s rap postponed or canceled on New Year’s and the unerring confidence of JOE PESCI. Eve, none bummed me out more Behold: “Wise Guy” by Pesci, featuring than the one at Zenbarn. When the the hard-as-fuck bars “Paid out my ass Waterbury Center club first announced / Treat all my broads like trash / You’ll that the WU-TANG CLAN’s INSPECTAH catch a blast if you move too fast.” Click DECK and CAPPADONNA would appear, I the link in our online edition or hop over almost did a spit take. It just seemed to YouTube. The song is on Spotify, but so incongruous that these rap legends trust me: You want to watch the video. m would be popping up in my backyard on For the special night, Nugent has assembled a loaded roster of some of Burlington’s best players, including JOSH WEINSTEIN (KAT WRIGHT), JOSH DOBBS (DOBBS’ DEAD), JOE AGNELLO and COTTER ELLIS (SWIMMER), as well as other special guests to be announced. Adding to the sense of ceremony, two very special guitars will be onstage. JERRY GARCIA’S “Wolf Guitar” and BOB WEIR’S “No Fun Guitar” are both set to make cameos. Garcia’s guitar is easily recognizable as one of his signature axes, showing up in the 1977 concert film The Grateful Dead Movie. Weir’s

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The Ray Vega Band (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

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Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $5.

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Wooly Wednesdays with DJ Steal Wool (eclectic) 6 p.m. Free.

American Roots Night at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free.

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Breanna Elaine (singersongwriter) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9 p.m. Free. Higher Education (funk, reggae) at Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington, 8 p.m. $12/$15.

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Ali McGuirk with All Night Boogie Band (rock, soul) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10. Atom & the Orbits (rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free. The Duel (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free. InCahoots (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free. The Lloyd Tyler Band (rock) at 14th Star Brewing Co., St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free. Mal Maiz (Latin) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

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Annie in the Water & Eminence Ensemble (rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $8/$10. Jenny Porter and Jamie’s Junk Show (singer-songwriter) at Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington, 4 p.m. Free.

Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJ Big Dog (reggae and dancehall) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Capital City Sock Hop There’s classic rock, and then there’s

classic rock. Central Vermont’s ATOM & THE ORBITS firmly evoke the latter, harking back to

the days of whitewall tires, poodle skirts and Bill Haley & His Comets. Led by singer and guitarist Noah Hahn, the band celebrates the sounds of rock and roll in its infancy with blisteringly short songs full of danceable beats and retro licks. The band debuted in 2021 with the perfectly titled Let’s Rock!, which featured Anaïs Mitchell and Lake Street Dive’s Bridget Kearney. Atom & the Orbits bring their high-energy tunes to the stage with a show this Friday, January 28, at Charlie-O’s World Famous in Montpelier. Karl & the Instrumentals (rock) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free.

Phantom Airwave (funk, rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Zack Dupont and Matt DeLuca (folk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

McCaffrey Coane & Roswell (country) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

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Mitch & Devon (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free. MUNA with Lou Roy (indie rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $25/$29.

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Mihali (jam) at Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington, 8 p.m. $25/$29. The Wood Brothers with Steve Poltz (Americana) at Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. $42/$52.

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Thirsty Thursday with Malachi (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

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Crash the Party & DJ Primary Instinct (DJ) at Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington, 8 p.m. Free. Slaps! A Mashup Night with CRWD CTRL (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

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CRAIG CTRL with Craig Mitchell and CRWD CTRL (DJ) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5. DJ Rice Pilaf (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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Dead Set (Ninth Anniversary Celebration) (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

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Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $5.

Mo’ Monday with DJs Craig Mitchell and Fattie B (soul, R&B) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

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Wooly Wednesdays with DJ Steal Wool (eclectic) 6 p.m. Free.

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Open Mic Night (open mic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

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Open Mic Night (open mic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

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A Very Organized Game Show (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $5.

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Mothra! A Storytelling/ Improv Comedy Show (improv comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $10.

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Jay Larson (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $25.

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Jay Larson (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $25.

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previous album captured their sound well, spelling out the title, Luminous Inc., on a Lite-Brite. With songs that are playful, glossy and a little futuristic, Incandescent would also be well served by a Lite-Brite cover design — though the colorful paper cutouts in the digital version of its album art similarly prime listeners for an effervescent ear party. It’s difficult to discern Incandescent’s through line, but a few themes are evident. Nature and spirituality are two, one of which emerges on the heavenly “Every Tree.” In some ways, the song harks back to the peace-and-love, naturalistic vibes of late ’60s psychedelic rock. “Every tree knows exactly where it’s been / Every tree knows exactly

where it’s going,” Campbell and Molinelli sing in harmony. Their voices are the track’s prime instruments, though guest musician Alex Reiser’s pedal steel amplifies the song’s hazy atmosphere. “Blind Side Duster” introduces some of the aforementioned outlaw country with its lightly haunted acoustic guitar riff. Repeated calls to a goddess and talk of planting seeds in a garden connect the dots between this cut and the preceding “Every Tree.” Similar themes of goodwill appear on the following track, “Umoja,” the Swahili word for unity. Synths twinkle in an upward trajectory like falling stars in reverse, punctuated by a pitter-patter of programmed drums and vocal percussion. Then there are the almost-headscratchingly zany cuts such as “Krazy Kars.” A fried-out, down-tempo electropop song with fuzzy bass and kicky beats, it features Campbell and Molinelli

asking, “Has anyone seen my car keys / Crazy, crazy car keys” on repeat. The song’s mood is serious, yet its hook is almost like something from a novelty song. The record’s catchiest tune arrives toward the end. “Ghosts in the Homestead” is power-pop perfection. Reminiscent of early 2000s indierock instrumentation by the New Pornographers and Bloc Party, the track’s guitars blare in overdriven surges atop punchy beats. By contrast, Campbell and Molinelli’s vocals are smooth, slowly shifting through an unhurried melody amid the sonic chaos. On Incandescent, Luminous Crush live up to their name: They dazzle with brightly appointed music, and they’re easy to love. Incandescent is available at luminouscrush.bandcamp.com.

further away from the shores they set out from, adding in bits of progressive rock, country and improvisational moments. They eventually built themselves into a touring machine, featuring regularly on the jam band scene. Almost 18 years since their debut, Less Than Supper, Greensky continue their long evolution with Stress Dreams, their 11th studio album. “Absence of Reason” kicks off the record with a true hybrid of a song. The tune chugs along with acoustic guitar and banjo, as Anders Beck’s Dobro guitar slides create ominous swells. Paul Hoffman sings in a plaintive, at times gruff tone, espousing a common theme on Stress Dreams: embracing empathy. “’Cause I wanna do right more than

anything I do / And I’m burning in my desire to make heat for you / I hope to show a little light that can guide you through,” he sings. Hoffman became a parent during the last year, and a sense of newfound responsibility and engagement with the world permeates the record. On “Worry for You,” the band looks at the state of the world and, instead of lamenting or satirizing, issues proclamations of unity. Greensky aren’t brushing it all off with a try-to-love-one-another-right-now mentality. Rather, they address some of the systemic problems in society with emotive, cerebral lyrics. “I don’t want to go through the pain / But they say I need to / I just want to break the system that we’ve been chained to,” Hoffman wails on “Cut a Tooth.” The band is as sonically adventurous as always. The title track, written by bassist Mike Devol, is an eight-minuteplus song that rests on a foundation of

guitar and mandolin. The 6/8 groove that ebbs and flows in “Stress Dreams” matches the anxiety in its lyrics. In many ways, Stress Dreams is a heavy record, full of overarching themes and incredibly adult sorts of hopes and fears. Greensky perhaps recognized that and made sure to sprinkle in some bits of sunshine when sequencing the album. “Give a Shit” and “Reasons to Stay” show a band eager to prove that it hasn’t forgotten the word “bluegrass,” synonymous with levity, is in its name. Greensky recorded some of the songs on Stress Dreams in Asheville, N.C., but most in Guilford, Vt. It’s fitting that one of the first shows the band performs after releasing the album will be at the Flynn Main Stage in Burlington, on Wednesday, January 26. Download or order the new Greensky Bluegrass record at greenskybluegrass.com.

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The deal

Astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) is thrilled to discover a new comet — until she and her professor, Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), realize it’s a “planet killer” on a six-month collision course with Earth. The two academics make a frantic visit to the White House, where President Orlean (Meryl Streep) questions their science and suggests that the best plan is to “sit tight and assess.” Not at all reassured, Mindy and Dibiasky alert the media, with mixed results. Soon the scientists are celebrities themselves, with Mindy a media darling and Dibiasky mocked and memed for her insistence on telling it like it is (“We’re all going to die!”). Meanwhile, that comet isn’t changing course.

Will you like it?

Someone on my Twitter feed recently lamented that it’s tough to love a movie everybody else hates. Respondents to the tweet instantly identified the film in question as Don’t Look Up. It’s not that film critics doubt McKay’s good intentions in making his disaster comedy an obvious allegory of the climate crisis. Rather, many of them object that his approach is too obvious. That assessment is hard to quarrel with. Don’t Look Up starts with a winky epigraph from “Deep Thoughts” humorist Jack Handey and continues with a pop-art credits sequence that evokes the brash, broad satires of the 1960s. Every politician and pundit in the film is a caricature. Subtlety is not the name of the game. But here’s my question for those who condemn the movie’s heavy-handedness: Have you forgotten 2020, the entire year that felt like a painfully unsubtle “Saturday 58

SPIN THIS DiCaprio and Lawrence play scientists trying to get politicians to confront a terrible reality in McKay’s satire.

Night Live” sketch? While Don’t Look Up was conceived in 2019, the film now does double duty as a satire of the nation’s pandemic response. It features conspiracy theorists known as “impact deniers” who could just as easily be deniers of COVID-19 as of the climate crisis. The thematic thread — scientists go unheard — is the same. So, yes, Don’t Look Up is loud, crude and broad. And that may be the only possible tone for a movie about people who are so used to living in a loud, crude, broad virtual reality, governed by clicks and algorithms, that they find real reality tough to process. Where McKay goes wrong is in stuffing the movie’s cracks with generic comedy filler. A prime example is the set piece in which Mindy and Dibiasky, rebuffed by the president, break the comet news on a popular talk show. Playing the hosts, Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry are pitchperfect in their desperate efforts to turn doomsday into light banter. The satire is devastating because it feels like it could happen. But that’s not enough: To drive the point home, McKay has to add a tired subplot about a pop star (Ariana

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Grande) whose breakup is bigger news than the comet. There are razor-sharp scenes and portrayals here. As a meddling tech billionaire, Mark Rylance is so bizarre and elfin that he transcends caricature. Streep is clearly having the time of her life as an id-driven hybrid of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene. And Jonah Hill is beautifully reptilian as her chief of staff, who’s also her son. “You’re breathing hard,” he complains to the scientists, making the end of the world all about his own mental health. “It’s so stressful.” By contrast, the “likable” characters don’t always work, and sometimes they feel like a waste of screen time. Way too glam for a grad student, Lawrence’s character never rings true, though DiCaprio is more convincing as a schlubby nerd thrust into the limelight. Overall, Don’t Look Up would have been a better film with a ruthless edit. If you can appreciate the absurdist humor of someone yelling into his phone camera, “I’m the last man on Earth! Don’t forget to like and subscribe!” then this film is for you. If that seems like a bridge too far — well, there are

plenty of serious movies about impending doom out there. But McKay is doing more than preaching to the converted. He’s reminding us of just what an enormous ask it is, especially in the digital era, to get anyone to heed an inconvenient truth.

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IF YOU LIKE THIS, TRY... THE BIG SHORT (2015; Kanopy, rentable):

Best known as a comedy director, McKay embarked on his career as a political satirist with this dissection of the 2008 financial crisis. I AM GRETA (2020; Hulu): Here’s a recent

documentary about someone who’s actually trying to do something about the climate crisis — young activist Greta Thunberg. DEEP IMPACT (1998; fuboTV, Philo, rent-

able): This movie and Armageddon (1998; Hulu, rentable) established the Hollywood version of what’s supposed to happen when a comet menaces Earth. McKay has fun turning those clichés on their heads.

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verybody’s talking about Don’t Look Up (2021, Netflix). Whether you love or hate it, you can’t deny that the new satire from directorcowriter Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice) takes on a major target: our species’ preparedness — or lack thereof — to face the prospect of its own extinction. McKay asks us to contemplate the premise that, faced with a clear and imminent existential threat, the humans of the 21st century would react … with anguished social media posts, conspiracy theories and both-sides editorializing.

NEW IN THEATERS LA LISTE: EVERYTHING OR NOTHING: Free-skier friends Jérémie Heitz and Sam Anthamatten descend the world’s highest mountains in this 2021 documentary from director Eric Crosland. (70 min, NR. Savoy)

LICORICE PIZZAHHHH1/2 A teenager (Cooper Hoffman) pursues a woman (Alana Haim) 10 years his senior in this acclaimed coming-of-age comedy from Paul Thomas Anderson, set in 1973 Los Angeles. With Sean Penn and Tom Waits. (133 min, R. Playhouse, Roxy, Savoy; reviewed 1/12)

PARALLEL MOTHERS: Two women (Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit) of different generations who are both single and giving birth meet and bond in the hospital in the latest acclaimed drama from writerdirector Pedro Almodóvar. (123 min, R. Essex, Savoy)

THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONSHHH The realitybending action franchise gets a new entry, again starring Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. Lana Wachowski directed; novelist David Mitchell coscripted. (148 min, R. Majestic)

CURRENTLY PLAYING THE 355HH Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz and Bingbing Fan are among the superspies fighting terrorists in this action flick directed by Simon Kinberg (Dark Phoenix). (122 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Capitol, Essex, Majestic) BELFASTHHHH Kenneth Branagh wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical film about coming of age in the turbulent Northern Ireland of the 1960s. With Jude Hill, Caitriona Balfe and Judi Dench. (98 min, PG-13. Capitol) BELLEHHHH A shy high schooler (voiced by Kaho Nakamura) escapes into a virtual world where she is a star in this animated adventure from writer-director Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai). (121 min, PG. Roxy, Savoy) C’MON C’MONHHHH Joaquin Phoenix plays a traveling radio journalist who finds himself becoming his young nephew’s guardian in this indie drama from writer-director Mike Mills (20th Century Women). (108 min, R. Big Picture) DRIVE MY CARHHHH1/2 A widowed actor (Hidetoshi Nishijima) in the midst of a production of Uncle Vanya develops an unusual relationship with his young chauffeur in this Golden Globe-winning drama from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi. (179 min, NR. Savoy; reviewed 1/19) A HEROHHHH In the latest from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, a man (Amir Jadidi) imprisoned for debt has two days to reason with his creditor. (127 min, PG-13. Roxy) THE KING’S DAUGHTERH1/2 In this historical fantasy based on a Vonda McIntyre novel, Louis XIV (Pierce Brosnan) steals a mermaid’s life force in his effort to become immortal. With Kaya Scodelario and Bingbing Fan. Sean McNamara (Soul Surfer) directed. (90 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic) THE KING’S MANHH In this prequel to the Kingsman action-comedy series, Ralph Fiennes plays a spy who organizes a team to defeat an evil cabal. With Gemma Arterton and Rhys Ifans. Matthew Vaughn again directed. (131 min, R. Essex, Majestic)

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SCREAMHHH Rather than a remake, this is a fourth sequel to Wes Craven’s slasher classic, set 25 years after the original and featuring returning stars such as Neve Campbell alongside newcomers such as Melissa Barrera. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not) directed. (114 min, R. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe) SING 2HH1/2 Show biz-loving critters return in this sequel to the animated hit, featuring the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Bono. Garth Jennings directed. (112 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Star) SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOMEHHH1/2 Peter Parker (Tom Holland) seeks the help of Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jon Watts returns as director. (148 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe) THE TIGER RISINGH1/2 A boy’s discovery of a caged tiger in the woods changes his life in this family film based on Kate DiCamillo’s book, starring Dennis Quaid, Katharine McPhee and Queen Latifah. Ray Giarratana directed. (102 min, PG. Capitol, Majestic, Star) THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETHHHHH1/2 Joel Coen wrote and directed this Shakespeare adaptation starring Denzel Washington as the all-tooambitious Scotsman and Frances McDormand as his wife. (105 min, R. Essex, Roxy, Savoy) WEST SIDE STORYHHHH1/2 Steven Spielberg directed this new adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein musical in which two young people from opposite sides of a gang war fall in love. (156 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Roxy)

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WED.26 agriculture

FARM SUCCESSION PLANNING WEBINAR SERIES: Land for Good specialists teach a four-week course for farmers looking to transfer ownership to the next generation. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 603-357-1600.

business

VERMONT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 2022 ECONOMIC SUMMIT: Members of the business community attend two days of talks on how the economy and the workforce have been impacted by COVID-19. 8:30-11:15 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3443.

community

CURRENT EVENTS OVER ZOOM: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library leads an informal discussion about what’s in the news. 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, programs@damlvt.org. I-89 2050 STUDY PUBLIC MEETING: The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission and the Vermont Agency of Transportation update locals on the highway improvement project. 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-1794.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ALFRED HITCHCOCK & THE ART OF SUSPENSE: Drawing on 12 movie clips, film historian Rick Winston illuminates the arc of Hitchcock’s brilliant career. South Burlington

2 6 - F E B R UA RY Public Library & City Hall, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: An educational and entertaining film takes viewers on an epic adventure through some of Earth’s wildest landscapes. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. BANFF CENTRE MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR: Lovers of adrenaline and the outdoors experience three nights of high-climbing thrills, with a new slate of adventure films each evening. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m. $2225. Info, 603-448-0400. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: Moviegoers join scientists on a journey through a surreal world of bug-eyed giants and egg-laying mammals. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: A tenacious mammalian matriarch fights to protect her family in a desolate environment. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free

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for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY’: A new documentary investigates why so many migrants go missing while crossing into a certain area of Texas. Producer Q&A follows. Presented by Vermont PBS. 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, events@vermontpbs.org. ‘THE POLLINATORS’: Sustainable Woodstock and Pentangle Arts virtually screen a cinematic documentary about migratory beekeepers and food security. Free. Info, 457-3981. ‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: Sparkling graphics take viewers on a mind-bending journey from the beginning of time through the mysteries of the universe. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET’: Don’t eat the pie! A barber swears bloody revenge for the death of his wife in Tim Burton’s classic adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink

A FILIPINO FEAST: Chef Maria Garrido demonstrates how to cook chicken adobo and Putong Puti, a steamed rice flour

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muffin. Presented by City Market, Onion River Co-op. 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ citymarket.coop. SENIOR CENTER WEEKLY LUNCH: Age Well and the Kevin L. Dorn Senior Center serve a hot, sitdown lunch. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, noon. Donations; preregister; limited space. Info, 923-5545.

games

CHESS CLUB: Players of all ages square off against each other at every level, from beginner to seasoned. Howe Library, Hanover, N.H., 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 603-643-4120.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Those in need of an easy-on-the-joints workout gather for an hour of calming, low-impact movement. United Community Church, St. Johnsbury, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 751-0431. CHAIR YOGA: Waterbury Public Library instructor Diana Whitney leads at-home participants in gentle stretches supported by seats. 10 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

language

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: Learners of all abilities practice written and spoken English with trained instructors. Presented by Fletcher Free Library. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov. SPANISH CONVERSATION MEETUP ONLINE: Fluent and beginner speakers brush up on their español with a discussion led by a Spanish teacher. Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

music

GREENSKY BLUEGRASS: The folk phenomenon plays hits from its new album alongside guest group the Infamous Stringdusters. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Flynn Main Stage, Burlington, 7 p.m. $45.25. Info, 863-5966. SPEKTRAL QUARTET OPEN REHEARSAL: String players, soprano Mary Bonhag, double bassist Evan Premo and composer Eliza Brown prepare a new work for its world premiere. Presented by Scrag Mountain Music. See calendar spotlight. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, lara@ scragmountainmusic.org.

outdoors

EVENING SNOWSHOE: The Morristown Parks & Recreation Committee leads folks on a sunset trek followed by hot cocoa at Morristown Centennial Library. Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, St. Johnsbury to St. Albans, 4:305:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

seminars

FINANCIAL AWARENESS SERIES ONLINE: CANCELED. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library and Opportunities Credit Union team up for a four-week series of classes on budgeting, credit, saving and home-buying. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918. L.E.A.N. IN: Health coach Becky Widschwenter teaches a biweekly series on healthy habits and wellness tips. Presented by Waterbury Public Library. 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036. OPENING TO YOUR LIFE: Mercy Connections imparts core life skills that promote self-development and positive connections in workshop attendees. 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-7063. U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: Adult learners study English, history, government and geography with personal tutors. Virtual options available. Mercy Connections, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-7063. WOMEN & MONEY: New England Federal Credit Union experts teach women how to take control of their money and financial future. Noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 764-6940.

talks

JOHANNES WHEELDON: The criminology expert explains how images can affect our views on crime and punishment. Presented by Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3338.

words

PHOENIX BOOKS VIRTUAL POETRY OPEN MIC: Wordsmiths read their work at this evening hosted by local performance poet Bianca Amira Zanella. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 855-8078.

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HIRING2DAYVT VIRTUAL JOB FAIR: The Vermont Department of Labor gives job seekers a chance to meet with employers from around the state. 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 828-4000.

cannabis

VERMONTIJUANA SKI DAZE: Members of Vermont’s cannabis community and industry gather to network and hit the slopes. Tickets include discounted ski lift access. Normal consumption laws apply. Bolton Valley Resort, 4:20 p.m. $25-49. Info, eli@yourgreen bridge.com.

community

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY COMMEMORATION: Concentration camp survivor Michael Gruenbaum keynotes this virtual service dedicated to the memories of 1.5 million murdered Jewish children. Presented by the Vermont Holocaust Memorial. 7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 978-740-4431. VERMONT COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP TRAINING: Mercy Connections teaches community-building skills to anyone looking to effect change in the lives of the people around them. 1:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 846-7063.

crafts

THURSDAY ZOOM KNITTERS: The Norman Williams Public Library fiber arts club meets virtually for conversation and crafting. 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@normanwilliams.org.

environment

‘UNDERSTORY: A JOURNEY INTO THE TONGASS’: Standing Trees Vermont hosts a virtual screening of a documentary about one of Alaska’s last old-growth forests, followed by a conversation with Natalie Dawson of Audubon Alaska. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@standingtrees.org.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.26. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.26. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.26. ‘THE POLLINATORS’: See WED.26. ‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.26.

food & drink

ETHIOPIAN & ERITREAN YEBEG TIBS: City Market, Onion River Co-op hosts local chef Mulu Tewelde as she demonstrates how to cook a hearty lamb and vegetable stew. 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ citymarket.coop. SUP CON GUSTO TAKEAWAY DINNER SERIES: Philly transplants Randy Camacho and Gina Cocchiaro serve up a three-course, family-style menu of seasonal Vermont produce and meat. See supcongustovt.com for menus. Richmond Community Kitchen, 6-8 p.m. Various prices. Info, gustogastronomics@gmail.com.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA WITH LINDA: Every week is a new adventure in movement and mindfulness at this Morristown Centennial Library virtual class. 10:15-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853. THU.27

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: Mothers-to-be build strength, stamina and a stronger connection to their baby. 5:45-6:45 p.m. $5-15. Info, 899-0339.

barre/montpelier

WINTER STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Participants ages 6 and under bundle up to hear stories, sing songs, and have hot tea and oatmeal around the fire. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

burlington

CRAFTERNOON: Weaving, knitting, embroidery and paper crafting supplies take over the Teen Space. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

rutland/killington

ITTY BITTY PUBLIC SKATE: Coaches are on hand to help the rink’s tiniest skaters stay on their feet. Gordon H. Paquette Ice Arena, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $8. Info, 865-7558.

‘MATILDA THE MUSICAL JR.’: RESCHEDULED. The tiny thespians of Rutland Youth Theatre present Roald Dahl’s classic tale of magic and mischief. Masks and proof of vaccination required. See calendar spotlight. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $10-12. Info, 775-0903.

STEAM SPACE: Kids explore science, technology, engineering, art and math activities. Ages 5 through 11. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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chittenden county

BABYTIME: Teeny tiny library patrons enjoy a gentle, slow story time featuring songs, rhymes and lap play. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. LEGO BUILDERS: Elementary-age imagineers explore, create and participate in challenges after school. Ages 8 and up, or ages 6 and up with an adult helper. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. STORY TIME: Little ones from birth through age 5 learn from songs, sign language lessons, math activities and picture books. Masks required. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

champlain islands/ northwest

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Little library patrons listen to stories, sing songs and take home a fun activity. Fairfax Community Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. SNOWY OWL CRAFT: Creative kids make their own mini winter familiars. Ages 8 and up. Fairfax Community Library, 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.26, 12:30-1:30 p.m. PRESCHOOL MUSIC WITH LINDA BASSICK ONLINE: The singer and storyteller extraordinaire leads little ones in indoor music and movement. Birth through age 5. Presented by

PAJAMA STORY TIME: Listeners cozy up for an hour of nighttime stories, songs and crafts. Pre-K through early elementary. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918. POPCORN & A MOVIE: Kiddos catch a G-rated flick on Friday afternoons. Check library website for the week’s featured film. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

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AFTERSCHOOL CRAFT: WATERCOLOR TREES: Little artists paint dreamy forest scenes. Grades K through 8. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

PAJAMA STORY TIME: Puppets and picture books enhance a special prebedtime story hour for kids in their PJs. Birth through age 5. Masks required. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

Miracle Worker Books are magical and childhood is fantastical in Matilda the Musical Jr., the Rutland Youth Theatre’s newest production. Adapted from the beloved Roald Dahl novel and modified for younger thespians and audiences, the inspiring musical follows a young girl who — despite mistreatment from her family and Miss Trunchbull, the terrifying school headmistress — discovers that she has psychic powers and can stand strong even when the world tries to beat her down. Rescheduled from December; proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test required for ages 12 and over; masks required for all.

‘MATILDA THE MUSICAL JR.’ Friday, January 28, 7 p.m., and Saturday, January 29, 2 and 7 p.m., at Paramount Theatre in Rutland. $10-12. Info, 775-0903, paramountvt.org. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Energetic youngsters join Miss Meliss for stories, songs and lots of silliness. Presented by Kellogg-Hubbard Library. 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. SUPPORTING POSITIVE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN: Scott Noyes of Empowering Programs teaches caregivers how a child’s earliest relationships can affect their well-being later in life. Presented by Waterbury Public Library. 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

chittenden county

BOOK CLUB FOR KIDS K-2 & PARENTS: Little bookworms and their caregivers learn to love reading together through sharing, crafts and writing activities. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, sbplprograms@southburlingtonvt.gov.

STORY TIME: Librarians read their favorite books and lead young ones in song and dance. Masks required for ages 2 and up. Winooski Memorial Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 655-6424.

middlebury area

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY: Eliza and Emma Doucet, along with their fellow Mount Abraham Union High School 10th graders, present an evening of education and a candlelight vigil on the town green. Ages 9 and up. Masks required. Holley Hall, Bristol, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, info@ holocaustmemorial-vt.org.

champlain islands/ northwest

READ WITH HENRY: A big, friendly Newfoundland makes for a perfect friend to read stories to. 15-minute time slots available. Fairfax Community Library, 3:15 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 849-2420.

upper valley

TODDLER STORY TIME: Toddling tykes 20 months through 3.5 years old hear a few stories related to the theme of the week. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

DAN YACCARINO: The awardwinning picture book illustrator and author leads a special virtual story time, presented by Phoenix Books and the Vermont Italian Cultural Association. 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 448-3350. HOPSTOP FAMILY SHOW: UNEXPECTED TALES: Simon Brooks spearheads an interactive storytelling workshop for yarn spinners ages 4 through 6. Presented by Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts. 11 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 603-646-2422.

chittenden county

KARMA KIDZ YOGA OPEN STUDIO SATURDAYS: Little yogis of all ages and their caregivers drop in for some fun breathing and movement activities. Kamalika-K, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Donations. Info, 871-5085. SNOW PAINTING: The library provides the spray paint, and the kids turn the snowy lawn into a wacky, wild art piece. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 12:301:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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rutland/killington

VIRTUAL CRAFTERNOON: Librarians lead little ones in hands-on craft time; supplies available for pickup from Morristown Centennial Library all week. Ages 6 and up. 3:30-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, cvarner@ centenniallibrary.org.

stowe/smuggs

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.26, 12:30-1:15 p.m.

chittenden county

OUTDOOR PLAY TIME: Energetic youngsters ages 2 through 5 bundle up to play with hoops and parachutes out in the snow. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-6956.

‘MATILDA THE MUSICAL JR.’: See FRI.28, 2 & 7 p.m.

SNOW SCULPTURE CHALLENGE!: Snow savants of all ages bring their creations to life on the library lawn. Spray paint and twinkle lights provided. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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‘YIDLIFE CRISIS: PANDEMISH’: Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion bring their trademark shtick and heimish kibitzing to a new, prerecorded musical comedy show. Presented by the Segal Centre. $18-36. Info, 514-739-7944.

outdoors

AUDUBON WEST RUTLAND MARSH BIRD WALK: Enthusiastic ornithologists go on a gentle hike and help out with the monthly marsh monitoring. West Rutland Marsh, 8 a.m. Free. Info, birding@ rutlandcountyaudubon.org. KARA RICHARDSON WHITELY: The author of Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds shares stories of resilience and self-love. Presented by the Green Mountain Club. 7-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7037. RED BENCH SPEAKER SERIES: KIT & ROB DESLAURIERS: The extreme winter sports duo discusses climbing Mount Everest and other high-altitude adventures. Presented by the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum. 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 253-9911.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.26.

food & drink

SENIOR CENTER WEEKLY LUNCH: See WED.26.

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.26.

ONLINE GUIDED MEDITATION: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library invites attendees to chill out on their lunch breaks and reconnect with their bodies. Noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org. QIGONG WITH GERRY SANDWEISS: Beginners learn this ancient Chinese practice of meditative movement. Presented by Norman Williams Public Library. 8:30-9:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ normanwilliams.org.

montréal

‘YIDLIFE CRISIS: PANDEMISH’: See THU.27.

music

U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: See WED.26.

theater

outdoors

‘COMPANY’: Town Hall Theater and the Middlebury College Department of Music celebrate the late, great Stephen Sondheim with their annual coproduced musical. Masks and proof of vaccination required. See calendar spotlight. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $6-20. Info, 382-9222.

words

AUTHOR ADVICE: KATE MESSNER: The children’s book author explains her path to publication and offers advice to writers. Presented by the Adirondack Center for Writing. 7-8 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 518-354-1261. JENNIFER HILLIER: The author celebrates the paperback release of her psychological suspense novel, Little Secrets. Presented by Phoenix Books and Macmillan. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 448-3350.

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See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.26.

INTRODUCTION TO ICE FISHING: The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department teaches folks of all ages and experience levels how to ice fish safely and successfully. Shelburne Pond, 9 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 505-5562.

talks

ERIC N. KUCHAR: A conservation architect describes what he learned preserving historical buildings such as Monticello and Mount Vernon. Presented by Norwich University. 4 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2000.

theater

‘CLUE: ON STAGE’: The Valley Players bring Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard and the rest to life in the beloved mystery game turned movie turned play. Virtual options available. Masks required. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $12-17. Info, 583-1674. ‘COMPANY’: See THU.27. ‘FOOD & SHELTER’: Two newlyweds with secrets to spare get trapped in a cabin in the woods in this darkly compelling fairy tale from award-winning playwright and former New Hampshire Public Radio reporter Sean Hurley. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7:30 p.m. $35-40. Info, 387-0102.

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.26. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.26. ‘THE POLLINATORS’: See WED.26.

JAN. 26 & 29 | MUSIC

health & fitness

ZOË KEATING: A Vermont-based instrumentalist and composer uses a cello and a loop pedal to create intricate, haunting music. Presented by Middlebury College. 7:30-9:30 p.m. $15. Info, 433-6433.

seminars

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SPARK JOY CHARLOTTE PROGRAM: Those looking to organize for the New Year learn the basics of Marie Kondo’s tidying methods. Presented by Fairfax Community Library. 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.26. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.26. ‘THE FIRST WAVE’: Director and Dartmouth College alum Matthew Heineman presents his new documentary about frontline workers in the early days of the pandemic. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-10; free for health care workers and Dartmouth-Hitchcock employees. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.26. ‘THE POLLINATORS’: See WED.26. ‘RIGOLETTO’: The Metropolitan Opera brings a bold new take on Verdi’s timeless tragedy to the silver screen. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth

New Classics Spektral Quartet returns to Scrag Mountain Music for a very special pair of performances. The multi-Grammy-nominated string ensemble, alongside double bassist Evan Premo and soprano Mary Bonhag, presents the world premiere of composer Eliza Brown’s The light that blurred the stars, a co-commissioned work that explores the circle of life through the words of poet Susan Stewart. An open rehearsal is available for virtual viewing on January 26, featuring an intimate look at the preparation of the piece, followed by a livestreamed concert on January 29. (In-person concerts were previously scheduled in Montpelier and Warren.)

SPEKTRAL QUARTET Wednesday, January 26, 7 p.m., and Saturday, January 29, 7:30 p.m. Online. Pay what you can; preregister. Info, lara@scragmountainmusic.org, scragmountainmusic.org. College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $1022. Info, 603-646-2422.

Vergennes, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 877-1163.

can; preregister. Info, lara@ scragmountainmusic.org.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.26.

health & fitness

SPICE ON SNOW WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2022: The Montpelier music festival celebrating contemporary roots and folk tunes goes virtual. See summitschool.wixsite.com for full schedule. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Various prices. Info, katietrautzmusic@ gmail.com.

montréal

WINTER CONCERT SERIES: ECLECTICA: The string quartet plays an eclectic blend of Black American, Scottish, Swedish and Danish pieces. Refreshments follow. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

food & drink

JANE AUSTEN TEA: Enthusiasts of the Victorian era discuss the works of Austen and the history of teatime over scones, finger sandwiches and tea cakes. Governor’s House in Hyde Park, 2:30-5 p.m. $25. Info, 888-6888. MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: Produce, prepared foods and local products are available for purchase at this year-round bazaar. Middlebury VFW Hall, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, middleburyfarmers mkt@yahoo.com. VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET: The Little City’s winter market boasts local produce, plus loaded Tater Tots and hot coffee. Lu•lu,

SUN-STYLE TAI CHI FOR FALL PREVENTION: Seniors boost their strength and balance through gentle, flowing movements. Father Lively Center, St. Johnsbury, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 751-0431.

‘YIDLIFE CRISIS: PANDEMISH’: See THU.27.

music

SPEKTRAL QUARTET: The foursome premieres The light that blurred the stars, Eliza Brown’s work for string quartet and soprano. Livestream available. Presented by Scrag Mountain Music. See calendar spotlight. 7:30 p.m. Pay what you

ZACH NUGENT: Catamount Arts presents a virtual evening with the prolific, cult-favorite electric guitarist. 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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COMMUNITY SKI DAY: The Catamount Trail Association and the Craftsbury Outdoor Center provide free equipment and cross-country instruction to aspiring powder heads. Gilbrook Natural Area, Winooski, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5794. JANUARY BIRD MONITORING WALK: Birders at every experience level join museum staff in recording all the feathery friends living on the grounds. BYO binoculars. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 8-9 a.m. Donations; preregister; limited space. Info, 434-2167.

SHTRYKOV-TANAKA DUO: Two virtuoso artists combine the dulcet sounds of clarinet and piano for an afternoon of Brahms, Reinecke and Schumann. Masks and proof of vaccination required. South Church Hall, St. Johnsbury, 3 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600. SPEKTRAL QUARTET: CANCELED. See SAT.29. Warren United Church of Christ, 4 p.m.

theater

THE WOOD BROTHERS: The freewheeling roots rockers celebrate the release of their most spontaneous and experimental album yet. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30-10:30 p.m. $39-49. Info, 518-563-1604, ext. 105.

‘COMPANY’: See THU.27.

theater

‘CLUE: ON STAGE’: See FRI.28. ‘FOOD & SHELTER’: See FRI.28.

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agriculture

REAL ORGANIC SYMPOSIUM: The Real Organic Project brings together farmers and consumers to discuss the current state of sustainable agriculture. 3-5 p.m. $15-100; preregister. Info, questions@realorganic symposium.org.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.26. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.26. ‘JEWELS’: Three dance styles, three settings and the music of three composers make for an essential revue, streamed live from the Bolshoi Ballet. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600.

‘CLUE: ON STAGE’: See FRI.28, 4 p.m. ‘COMPANY’: See THU.27, 2 p.m. ‘FOOD & SHELTER’: See FRI.28.

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environment

LEACHATE SYMPOSIUM: A panel of experts explains how Vermont’s only landfill affects Lake Memphremagog and how the pollution can be managed. Hosted by the Memphremagog Watershed Association. 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 487-0160.

film

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.26. ‘THE POLLINATORS’: See WED.26. ‘RIGOLETTO’: See SAT.29. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 12:55 p.m. $23. Info, 775-0903. ‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.26.

health & fitness

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: New and experienced meditators are always welcome to join this weekly class, virtually or in person. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, newleafsangha@gmail.com.

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‘YIDLIFE CRISIS: PANDEMISH’: See THU.27.

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ROBINSON & ROHE: Rich, rootsy harmonies are the name of the game when this magical musical duo takes the stage. Richmond Congregational Church, 4-6 p.m. $15-25. Info, 434-4563.

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EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN COMFORT FOOD: Chef Cara Tobin of Burlington’s Honey Road restaurant demos some recipes for warming winter dishes. Presented by City Market, Onion River Co-op. 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@citymarket. coop.

Building Curiosity, Confidence & Creativity Discover a nurturing educational home for your child.

health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.26.

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‘YIDLIFE CRISIS: PANDEMISH’: See THU.27.

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MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY DAY: NAMI Vermont provides a platform for community members to share their mental health experiences with legislators. Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint keynotes. See namivt.org for full schedule. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 876-7949.

seminars

DEVELOPING SELF: Participants reflect on their experiences and reconnect with their values in order to address life’s challenges. Presented by Mercy Connections. 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 846-7063.

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DEVELOPING & SUSTAINING A POETRY WRITING PRACTICE FOR THE NEW YEAR: Instructors from the Ruth Stone House help poets start 2022 with a burst of creativity. Presented by Fletcher Free Library. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

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CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP: Brownell Library hosts a virtual roundtable for neighbors to pause and reflect on the news cycle. 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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FIRESIDE KNITTING GROUP: Needle jockeys gather to chat and work on their latest projects. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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LUNAR NEW YEAR COOKING DEMO: Artist and chef Cai Xi of Cai’s Dim Sum Catering demonstrates how to make dumplings from scratch. Presented by the Asian Cultural Center of Vermont and Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 257-0124.

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING & ACADEMIC TUTORING: Students improve their reading, writing, math or ELL skills through one-on-one time with experienced tutors. Mercy Connections, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-7063.

seminars

DIGITAL ACCESS: KEY ELEMENTS FOR INCLUSION OF DISABLED PEOPLE: Inclusive Arts Vermont and the Vermont Arts Council partner up for a series of seminars on creating more accessible arts programming. See vermont artscouncil.org for full schedule. 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 828-3291.

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Being Alive When Stephen Sondheim, composer of classic musicals such as West Side Story and Into the Woods, died in November, the theater world erupted with praise of his life’s work. This week, Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater and the Middlebury College Department of Music add their voices to the chorus with Company, their muchanticipated annual coproduction. Sondheim’s concept musical, composed of vignettes exploring marriage, dating and divorce, was nominated for a record-setting 14 Tony Awards when it debuted in 1970. Today, its themes still resonate. Masks and proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test are required.

JAN. 27-30 | THEATER

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.26. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.26. ‘HARRIET’: Black History Month kicks off with a biopic depicting Harriet Tubman’s escape from slavery. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

MAP!: MAKE AN ACTION PLAN: Guest speakers and the Mercy Connections team help students plan how to live their best post-pandemic lives. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-7063.

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WORK IN PROGRESS: Members of this writing group motivate each other to put pen to paper for at least an hour, then debrief together. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.26, 10:15-11:15 a.m.

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FARM SUCCESSION PLANNING WEBINAR SERIES: See WED.26.

MICHAEL HURWITZ: Dartmouth’s resident woodworker reflects on 40 years of crafting bespoke studio furniture. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 603-646-2422.

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COMMUNITY OVERDOSE AWARENESS & NARCAN TRAINING: GLAM Vermont and the Howard Center discuss the uptick in opioid-related deaths during the pandemic and explain how to help someone in the midst of an overdose. Livestream available. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, glam@pridecentervt.org.

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CHESS CLUB: Kids ages 7 and up increase their creativity, problem-solving and concentration skills by playing everyone’s favorite strategy game. Fairfax Community Library, 3:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 849-2420.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.26. STORY TIME ONLINE: Little readers enjoy a cozy session of reading, rhyming and singing. Birth through age 5. Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 10-10:30 & 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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STORY TIME: See THU.27.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.26, 12:30-1:30 p.m. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: See THU.27.

chittenden county STORY WALK: ‘I AM THE STORM’: Little readers bundle up, take a walk around the library grounds and learn about how people keep each other safe

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FLIP FABRIQUE: The Québécois circus troupe — which was rehearsing at the Flynn the day the theater shut down in March 2020

WE <3 LOCAL LIVESTREAM: NATIONAL CRÊPE DAY COOK-ALONG: Culinary anthropologist Anna Mays dives into the history of French pancakes and demonstrates how to make lemony crêpes sucrées. Presented by City Market, Onion River Co-op. 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ citymarket.coop.

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.26.

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ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: See WED.26.

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BABY STORY TIME: Librarians and finger-puppet friends introduce babies 20 months and younger to the joy of reading. Norman Williams Public

talks

BOB PEPPERMAN TAYLOR: A University of Vermont professor explores the relevance of John Dewey’s political and educational ideas in the 21st century. Presented by Vermont Humanities and Norwich Public Library. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 649-1184. ELLERY FOUTCH: The Middlebury College professor explores the history of American hair culture, from lovers exchanging locks to political haircuts. Presented by Brownell Library and Vermont Humanities. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

J. PETER COBB: Phoenix Books launches To Alice, the author’s novel about a home hospice aide who finds herself in deep trouble when a patient leaves her everything. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 448-3350. m

WILD WOODS SONG CIRCLE: Singers and acoustic instrumentalists gather for an evening of music making. Zoom option available. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:159:15 p.m. Free. Info, 775-1182.

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DEVELOPING SELF: See MON.31.

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CHAIR YOGA: See WED.26.

Library, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Kiddos 5 and younger share in stories, crafts and rhymes. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

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U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: See WED.26.

during storms. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

OUTDOOR STEAM DROP-IN: Kids dress warmly to learn art, science and math through games and crafts, including paper airplane races, Lego competitions and origami. Ages 6 and up. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:304:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

WILDLIFE TRACKING WEDNESDAYS: Naturalists teach trackers of all ages how to distinguish the snowy paw prints of coyotes, foxes, minks and more. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7:30-8:30 a.m. Free. Info, 229-6206.

‘RIGOLETTO’: See SAT.29. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222.

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NATURALIST JOURNEYS: ISABELLE GROC: The conservation photographer tells stories from many years in the field. Presented by North Branch Nature Center. 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-6206.

FINANCIAL AWARENESS SERIES ONLINE: See WED.26.

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‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.26.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.26.

Thursday, January 27, through Saturday, January 29, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, January 30, 2 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. $6-20. Info, 382-9222, townhalltheater.org.

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ITTY BITTY PUBLIC SKATE: See WED.26.

— returns to the stage with a joyful, ingenious show. Masks and proof of vaccination required. The Flynn, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15-55. Info, 863-5966.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.26. ZENTANGLE WORKSHOP: Doodlers ages 12 through adulthood learn how to draw intricate patterns as a form of meditation. Presented by Norman Williams Public Library. 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@norman williams.org.

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CRAFTERNOON: See WED.26. ITTY BITTY PUBLIC SKATE: See WED.26.

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AFTERSCHOOL LEGO TIME & BOARD GAMES: Elementary schoolers let their

imaginations run wild. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 2 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918. DROP-IN SOAP CARVING: Crafters stop by to carve squeaky-clean sculptures. Tools and soap provided. All ages. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 1-2:30 p.m. Regular admission, $3.50-7; free for members. Info, 434-2167. LEEP: GOOGLY EYE SCAVENGER HUNT!: Middle schoolers volunteer with library event planners to make a fun activity that will be available for kids to do throughout March. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956. STORY TIME: See WED.26. STORY WALK: ‘I AM THE STORM’: See TUE.1, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. K

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GENERATOR is a combination of artist studios, classroom, and business incubator at the intersection of art, science, and technology. We provide tools, expertise, education, and opportunity – to enable all members of our community to create, collaborate, and make their ideas a reality. MAKE A WOODEN BOX WORKSHOP: This workshop is a great way for folks to get more comfortable in a woodshop. Instructor Alex Brumlik will use a simple box design that utilizes just about every tool in the woodshop to teach setup, adjustments and operation of each including

jointer, planer, router, saws and more. Mon., Jan. 31, Feb. 7 & 14, 6-9 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: Sam Graulty, 540-0761, education@ generatorvt.com, generatorvt. com/workshops. LASER CUT TABLETOP GAME WORKSHOP: Want to make your own version of a tabletop game, game accessory or invent a new game? With the help of a skilled instructor, you’ll design your project using graphic design software, then create your object on the laser cutter. Possible projects include: game pieces, accessories, boards or other components. Wed. March 2 & 9, 6-8 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears La., Burlington. Info: Sam Graulty, 540-0761, education@ generatorvt.com, generatorvt. com/workshops.

language JAPANESE LANGUAGE CLASSES: Japan America Society of Vermont will offer four levels of Japanese Language Zoom classes. Levels 1 and 2 cover Busy People I. Levels 3 and 4 cover Busy People II. Level 1: Tue., Feb. 15-Apr. 26, 7-8:30 p.m.; Level 2: Thu., Feb. 17-Apr. 28, 7-8:30 p.m.; Level 3: Wed., Feb. 16-Apr. 26, 7-8:30 p.m.; Level 4: Mon., Feb.

14-Apr. 25, 7-8:30 p.m. Location: Japan America Society of Vermont, Zoom. Info: Please email Linda Sukop, jasvlanguage@ gmail.com. jasvlanguage@gmail. com.

membership rates for adults, youth & families. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Benjamin Pincus, 951-8900, bpincus@burlington aikido.org, burlingtonaikido.org.

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VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: This school was developed to communicate the importance of proper, legitimate and complete Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instruction. We cover fundamentals of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with a realistic approach to self-defense training skills in a friendly, safe and positive environment. All are welcome; no experience required. Develop confidence, strength and endurance. Julio Cesar “Foca” Fernandez Nunes was born and raised on the shores of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Earning his black belt and representing the Carlson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Team, Julio “Foca” went on to become a five-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Champion, three-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion and two-time IBJJF World JiuJitsu Champion! Julio “Foca” is the only CBJJP, USBJJF and IBJJF-certified seventh-degree coral belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and self-defense instructor under late grand master Carlson Gracie Sr. currently teaching in the USA. Accept no Iimitations! Location: Vermont Brazilian

DJEMBE & TAIKO DRUMMING: JOIN US!: New classes (outdoor mask optional/masks indoors), starting on Jan 10. Taiko Tue., Wed.; Djembe Wed.; Kids & Parents Tue., Wed. Conga classes by request! Schedule/register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, spaton55@gmail. com, burlingtontaiko.org.

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TD: BCO Appx.C, Section 7 1/19/22 Published date: 01/26/22 Effective date: 02/16/22 LEGAL NOTICE: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR VERMONT If you have lived or owned real property in or around Bennington or North Bennington, Vermont, in the area of PFOA exposure, you could get benefits from a class action settlement. A settlement has been reached in Sullivan v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., a class action lawsuit filed by residents in the Bennington area alleging contamination of their property and drinking water with a chemical called Perfluorooctanoic Acid (“PFOA”). The U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont will hold a Final Approval Hearing on April 18, 2022, 10:00 am, at the Rutland Federal Courthouse. The settlement provides: - Money for property damages to Property Class members, people who: (1) owned residential real property in the Zone of Concern—an area of PFOA exposure defined by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in Bennington, North Bennington and some properties with a Shaftsbury address—on March 14, 2016; or (2) purchased residential real property after March 14, 2016, that was later added to the Zone of Concern. - Funding for a Court-Supervised Medical Monitoring Program for Exposure Class members, providing free testing and monitoring, which does not duplicate their current primary care, for early detection of certain diseases. You are an Exposure Class member if you: (a) resided in the Zone of Concern on or before August 23, 2019; (b) ingested drinking water with PFOA in the Zone of Concern; and (c) have a blood serum test with a PFOA blood level above 2.1 parts per billion (“ppb”). If you meet the first two criteria, but have not yet had a blood test, the Medical Monitoring Program will make one available to you free of charge within the first 90 days of the Program. - You may be a member of both the Property Class and the Exposure Class. A more detailed Class Settlement Notice, the Settlement Agreement, a Claim Form, and an Opt-Out form can be found at www. BenningtonVTClassAction.com, or requested by emailing info@benningtonvtclassaction.com, or by calling 866-726-3778. Your legal rights are affected regardless of whether you act or don’t act. If you are a property owner in the Zone of Concern, you must file a Claim Form to receive money for property damages. Unless you ask to be excluded (opt out) from the Property Class, no later than February 2, 2022, to maintain your right to pursue your own separate lawsuit against Saint-Gobain, you will be bound by the Settlement and Release of Claims, whether you file a Claim Form or not. If you are an Exposure Class member, you must file a Claim Form to participate in the Medical Monitoring Program. If you are an Exposure Class member, there is no opportunity to opt out and you will be bound by the Settlement and Release of Claims whether you file a Claim Form or not. You also have a right to object to the Settlement, no later than February 2, 2022. If you do nothing you will not get a payment or other benefits from this Settlement, and you will give up certain legal rights.

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the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 33 Granite Street, Barre, Vermont on February 23, 2022 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit:

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 675-12-19 WNCV MIDFIRST BANK v. AGATHA KESSLER AND ADAM MUNROE OCCUPANTS OF: 33 Granite Street, Barre VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered November 22, 2021, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Agatha Kessler and Adam Munroe to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for CitiMortgage, Inc., dated January 25, 2008 and recorded in Book 244 Page 919 of the land records of the City of Barre, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for CitiMortgage, Inc, to MidFirst Bank dated December 11, 2019 and recorded in Book 359 Page 238 of the land records of the City of Barre for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for

Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Antonio Silva and Michelle Silva by Warranty Deed of Wendell B. Farrell and Karen Graves Farrell, Trustees of the Farrell Revocable Trust Agreement dated May 12, 2003, said deed is dated March 31, 2005 and recorded in Volume 221, Page 244 of the City of Barre Land Records. Being the property designated by the City of Barre as 33 Granite Street. Reference is hereby made to the above-mentioned instruments, the record thereof, the references therein made, and their respective records and references, in further aid of this description. Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description. Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the

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purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a bank wire, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date the Confirmation Order is entered by the Court. All checks should be made payable to “Bendett & McHugh, PC, as Trustee”.

VILLAGE OF ESSEX JUNCTION PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC MEETING FEBRUARY 3, 2022 6:00 P.M. This meeting will be held in person at 2 Lincoln Street in the conference room and remotely. The meeting will be live-streamed on Town Meeting TV. • JOIN ONLINE: https://zoom. us/j/95312407791?pwd=U2 NoWHBNWnJ5WEcwalVXV0M3cGl0dz09 Visit www.essexjunction.org for meeting connection information.

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THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 02-00225 LOCATED AT 48 INDUSTRIAL AVE, WILLISTON VT, 05495 WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 3RD, 2022 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF EDWARD BROWN. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses

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CIRCLE Online on Thu., 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Continues through Jun. 23. Circle is a supportive online experience, led by Sister Ann Duhaime, where people reflect on peace, hope & healing. Participants find renewal & gain strength as they listen to & talk about experiences & insights. Take this special time to feel part of a nurturing community & imagine new possibilities! Free. 802846-7063, hgilbert@ mercyconnections. org, mercyconnections .org/programs/ schedule. CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sun. at noon at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org. DECLUTTERERS 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.

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Support Groups [CONTINUED] DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family & friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sun. at 5 p.m. The meeting has moved to Zoom: smartrecovery.zoom. us/j/92925275515. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 399-8754. You can learn more at smartrecovery.org. We hope to return to face-to-face meetings this summer. DIVORCE CARE SUPPORT GROUP Divorce is a tough road. Feelings of separation, betrayal, confusion, anger & 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 w/ you a safe place & a process that can help make the journey easier. This free 13-wk. group for men & women will be offered on Sun., 5:30-7:30 p.m., Sep. 8 through Dec. 1, at the North Avenue Alliance Church, 901 North Ave., Burlington, VT. Register for class at essexalliance. churchcenter.com. For more info, call Sandy 802-425-7053. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female-identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect w/ others, to heal & to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences & hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships. Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship. Tue., 6:30-8 p.m. Childcare is provided. Info: 658-1996.

EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated w/ the job search or w/ your job? You are not alone. Come check out this supportive circle. Wed. at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602. FAMILIES COPING W/ ADDICTIONS (FCA) GROUP (ADDICTION SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES) Families Coping W/ Addiction (FCA) is an open-community peer support group for adults 18+ struggling w/ the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based but provides a welcoming & stigma-free forum for those living this experience, in which to develop personal coping skills & to draw strength & insight from one another. Group meets weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m., on Zoom. Check Turning Point Center website (turningpointcentervt. org) for Zoom link, listed under “Family Support” (click on “What We Offer” dropdown). FAMILY & FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends & community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety & other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family & friends can discuss shared experiences & receive support in an environment free of judgment & stigma w/ a trained facilitator. Wed., 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586. FAMILY RESTORED: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS & FAMILIES OF ADDICTS & ALCOHOLICS Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish, 4 Prospect St., Essex Junction. For further info, please visit thefamilyrestored. org or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or 12lindsaymarie@gmail. com.

FIERCELY FLAT VT A breast cancer support group for those who’ve had mastectomies. We are a casual online meeting group found on Facebook at Fiercely Flat VT. Info: stacy.m.burnett@ gmail.com. FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a wk.: Mon., 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; & Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more info & a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. & the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org. G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction? Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a mo. on Mon. in Burlington. Please call for date & location. RSVP mkeasler3@ gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number). GRIEF & LOSS FOCUS GROUP FOR MEN Fri., 10-11:30 a.m. Continues through Mar. 27. Please join us as we learn more about our own grief & explore the things that can help us to heal. There is great power in sharing our experiences w/ others who know the pain of the loss of a loved one, & healing is possible through the sharing. BAYADA Hospice’s local bereavement program coordinator will facilitate this weekly, 8-wk. group through discussion & activities. Everyone from the community is welcome; however, space is limited. To register, please contact bereavement program coordinator Kathryn Gilmond at kgilmond@bayada.com or 802-448-1610. Start date to be determined, based on registration. bayada.com. GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Meet every 2nd Mon., 6-7:30 p.m., &

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every 3rd Wed. from 10-11:30 a.m., at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to the public & free of charge. More info: Diana Moore, 224-2241. HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice-hearing experiences as real lived experiences that may happen to anyone at anytime. We choose to share experiences, support & empathy. We validate anyone’s experience & stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest & accurate representation of their experience, & as being acceptable exactly as they are. Tue., 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org. HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living w/ cancer & their caretakers convene for support. HELP & HEALING FOR THOSE WHO ARE GRIEVING Wed., 5:30-7 p.m. Walking W/ Grief: Sharing your sadness, finding your joy. Please join us as we learn more about our own grief & explore the things that can help us to heal. There is great power in sharing our experiences w/ others who know the pain of the loss of a loved one, & healing is possible through the sharing. BAYADA Hospice’s local bereavement support coordinator will facilitate our weekly group through discussion & activities. Everyone from the community is welcome. To register, please contact bereavement program coordinator Kathryn Gilmond at kgilmond@bayada. com or 802-448-1610. Bayada Hospice, 354 Mountain View Dr., Ste 305, Colchester. INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) & painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/ urgency. These are

often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@gmail. com or call 899-4151 for more info. KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients, as well as caregivers, are provided w/ a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact info@vcsn.net. KINSHIP CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP A support group for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Led by a trained representative & facilitator. Meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 6:30-7:45 p.m. (Jan. 14, Feb. 11, Mar. 10, Apr. 14), at Milton Public Library. Free. For more info, call 802-893-4644 or email library@miltonvt.gov. Facebook.com/events/ 561452568022928 LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE The SafeSpace Anti-Violence Program at Pride Center of Vermont offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional &/or hate-violence. These groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share info, & offer & receive support. Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain info on how to better cope w/ feelings & experiences that surface because of the trauma they have experienced. Please call SafeSpace at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining. LGBTQ VETERANS GROUP This veterans group is a safe place for veterans to gather & discuss ways to help the community, have dinners, send packages & help the families of LGBTQ service people. Ideas on being helpful encouraged. Every 2nd & 4th Wed.,

6-8:30 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church (the little red door), 64 State St., Montpelier. RSVP, 802-825-2045. LIVING THROUGH LOSS Gifford Medical Center is announcing the restart of its grief support group, Living Through Loss. The program is sponsored by the Gifford Volunteer Chaplaincy Program & will meet weekly on Fri., 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., in Gifford’s Chun Chapel beginning on Aug. 6. Meetings will be facilitated by the Rev. Timothy Eberhardt, spiritual care coordinator, & Emily Pizzale MSW, LICSW, a Gifford social worker. Anyone who has experienced a significant loss over the last year or so is warmly invited to attend & should enter through the hospital’s main entrance wearing a mask on the way to the chapel. Meetings will be based on the belief that, while each of us is on a unique journey in life, we all need a safe place to pause, to tell our stories &, especially as we grieve, to receive the support & strength we need to continue along the way. MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem w/ marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts get & stay clean. Ongoing Wed., 7 p.m., at Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski, Suite 301, Burlington. 861-3150. MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP Area Myeloma Survivors, Families & Caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies & a support network by participating in the group experience w/ people who have been through similar situations. 3rd Tue. of every mo., 5-6 p.m., at the New Hope Lodge on East Ave. in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@ aol.com. NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Weekly virtual meetings. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@ namivt.org or 800639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults

living w/ mental health challenges. NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Weekly virtual meetings. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt. org or 800-639-6480. Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living w/ mental illness. NARCONON SUNCOAST DRUG & ALCOHOL REHABILITATION & EDUCATION Narconon reminds families that overdoses due to an elephant tranquilizer known as Carfentanil has been on the rise in nearly every community nationwide. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid painkiller 100 times more powerful than fentanyl & 1,000 times stronger than heroin. A tiny grain of it is enough to be fatal. Click here to learn more about carfentanil abuse & how to help your loved one. You can also visit narconon-suncoast. org/drug-abuse/ parents-get-help.html for more info. Addiction screenings: Narconon can help you take steps to overcome addiction in your family. Call today for a no-cost screening or referral: 1- 877-841-5509. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/ out the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in Burlington, Barre & St. Johnsbury. NARCANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every Mon. at 7 p.m., at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, in Burlington. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106. NEW (& EXPECTING) MAMAS & PAPAS! EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY! The Children’s Room invites you to join our weekly drop-in support group. Come unwind & discuss your experiences & questions around infant care & development, self-care & postpartum healing, & community resources for families w/ babies. Tea & snacks provided. Thu., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bring

your babies! (Newborn through crawling stage). Located w/in Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe St., childrensroomonline. org. Contact childrens room@wwsu.org or 244-5605. NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those who are currently suffering from the disease. 2nd Thu. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint .net. 2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski. Info: hovermann4@ comcast.net. OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS A mutual support circle that focuses on connection & self-exploration. Fri. at 1 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) A 12-step program for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc. No matter what your problem w/ food, we have a solution! All are welcome, meetings are open, & there are no dues or fees. See oavermont. org/meeting-list/ for the current meeting list, meeting format & more; or call 802-8632655 anytime! PONDERING GENDER & SEXUALITY Pondering Gender & Sexuality is a twicemonthly facilitated mutual support group for folks of any identity (whether fully formed or a work in progress) who want to engage in meaningful conversations about gender, sexuality & sexual orientation, &/or the coming-out process. Discussions can range from the personal to the philosophical & beyond as we work together to create a compassionate, safe & courageous space to explore our experiences. The group will be held on the 2nd Sun. & 4th Tue., 1-2:30 p.m., of every mo., either virtually or at the Pride Center of Vermont. Email pgs@pridecenter vt.org for more info or w/ questions!

POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP Anyone coping w/ potato intolerance & interested in joining a support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452. QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFE The Queen City Memory Cafe offers a social time & place for people w/ memory impairment & their fiends & family to laugh, learn, & share concerns & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods w/ entertainment & conversation. QCMC meets on the 3rd Sat. of every mo., 10 a.m.-12 p.m., at the Thayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington. 316-3839. QUEER CARE GROUP This support group is for adult family members & caregivers of queer &/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Mon. of every mo., 6:30-8 p.m., at Outright Vermont, 241 North Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only. For more info, email info@outrightvt. org.

READY TO BE TOBACCO-FREE GROUPS Join a free 4-5-wk. group workshop facilitated by our coaches, who are certified in tobacco treatment. We meet in a friendly, relaxed & virtual atmosphere. You may qualify for a free limited supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Info: call 802-847-7333 or email quittobaccoclass@ uvmhealth.org to get signed up, or visit myhealthyvt.org to learn more about upcoming workshops! RECOVERING FROM RELIGION Meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 6-8 p.m., at Brownell Public Library, 6 Lincoln St., Essex Junction, unless there’s inclement weather or the date falls on a holiday. Attendees can remain anonymous if they so choose & are not required to tell their story if they do not wish to, but everyone will be welcome to do so. The primary focus of a Recovering From Religion support group is to provide ongoing & personal

support to individuals as they let go of their religious beliefs. This transitional period is an ongoing process that can result in a range of emotions, as well as a ripple effect of consequences throughout an individual’s life. As such, the support meetings are safe & anonymous places to express these doubts, fears & experiences w/o biased feedback or proselytizing. We are here to help each other through this journey. Free. SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND Support group meeting held on the 4th Tue. of every mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m., Williston Police Station. Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732. SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Shawn, 660-2645. Visit slaafws.org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you. SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to

women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are avail. for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 864-0555, ext. 19, or email our victim advocate at advocate@ sover.net. STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone! Adults, teens & school-age kids who stutter, & their families are welcome to join 1 of our 3 free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM (join by Zoom or in person). Adults: 5:30-6:30 p.m., 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly; school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus). Info: nsachapters.org/ burlington, burlingtonstutters@gmail.com,

656-0250. Go, Team Stuttering! SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577. 6:30-8 p.m., on the 3rd Tue. of every. mo. SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 2577989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 229-0591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360. SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only). Please call 877-5439498 for more info. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE If you have lost someone to suicide & wish to have a safe place to talk, share & spend a little time w/ others who have had a similar experience, join us on the 3rd Thu. Of every mo., 7-9 p.m, at

the Faith Lighthouse Church, Route 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook). Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: S. BURLINGTON This group is for people experiencing the impact of the loss of a loved one to suicide. 1st Wed. of each mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 3 Dorset St., Burlington. Info: Heather Schleupner, 301-5142445, raysoflifeyoga@ gmail.com. T.A.G. (TRANSGENDER ALLIES GROUP) We are people w/ adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming. We meet to support each other & to learn more about issues & concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal & confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 p.m., the 2nd Thu. of each mo., via Zoom. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer 1-on-1 support. For more info, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-318-4746.

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings & families grieving the loss of a child meets every 3rd Tue. of the mo., 7-9 p.m., at Kismet Place, 363 Blair Park Rd., Williston. Call/email Jay at 802-373-1263, compassionate friendsvt@gmail.com. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info, call David at 371-8929. TRANS & GENDERNONCONFORMING SUPPORT GROUP As trans & GNC people in the world, we experience many things that are unique to our identities. For that reason, the Transgender Program hosts a support group for our community on the 1st & 3rd Wed. of every mo., 6:30-8 p.m., either virtually or at Pride Center of Vermont. The Trans & GNC Support group

is for Vermonters at all stages of their gender journey to come together to socialize, discuss issues that are coming up in their lives & build community. We welcome anyone whose identity falls under the trans, GNC, intersex & nonbinary umbrellas, & folks questioning their gender identity. Email safespace@pridecenter vt.org w/ any questions, comments or accessibility concerns. VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want to feel supported on your vegetarian/ vegan journey? Want more info on healthy veggie diets? Want to share & socialize at veggie potlucks & more in the greater Burlington area? This is your opportunity to join w/ other like-minded folks. veggy4life@ gmail.com, 658-4991. WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUP FAHC. Led by Deb Clark, RN. Every 1st & 3rd Tue., 5-6:30 p.m. Call Kathy McBeth, 847-5715.

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Hello Burlington is looking for a Destination Sales Manager that will generate business meeting and conference sales leads for hotel properties throughout Greater Burlington. In addition to fielding inbound RFPs from meeting planners, they will prospect and hunt for unique conferences and city-wide events that fit our scale, fit our community values, and connect with our knowledge centers. They’ll work closely with sales teams from the area’s lodging properties to land business and collaborate with HR teams from the region’s large and fast-growing employers to find conferences that align with their recruiting efforts. This position is a great opportunity to promote all this region has to offer and connect our visitor economy with our local businesses. As a new initiative, we embrace startup culture, seek new ideas, and support individual initiative. Hospitality sales experience is a plus, but not required. For more information, visit helloburlingtonvt.com/work.

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Residential Services/Association Services Accounts Receivable & Billing Specialist

AFTER SCHOOL DIRECTOR 10:30 - 5:45 // $19.50 per hour Schedule: Work day begins at 10:30 am in support of breaks of our early ed program (10:30am-1:00pm). Planning time (for the After School Program) will be available from 1:00 pm-2:30 pm.

Salary: $37,000 to $51,000/year

Executive Assistant

Full Circle Property Management is growing! We are seeking new team members specializing in either Residential Services (rentals) or Association Services (condo communities). We are also seeking an Accounts Receivable and Billing Specialist to support our Accounting Services team.

Job Duties: Direct daily After School Program from 2:30 pm-5:30 pm and hire support staff, set daily activities, and maintain a healthy and active program. Also direct the After School Program during the summer (5 days a week).

These positions are full time, 40 hours per week, M-F. In-person work at our beautiful Burlington office location is required due to the sensitive nature of our work, but we encourage remote facilitation of online, condo community meetings for the Association Services position.

Hours: Flexible, 3 nights a week at 4 hours per night Pay rate: $15-16

• AA, BA, or related work experience required • Health/Dental/Vision Insurance • Paid Time Off • Submit resume (cover letters are appreciated) to info@fullcirclevt.com.

AFTER SCHOOL CUSTODIAN The applicant must be hard-working, and self-motivated. The applicant must be willing to complete a nightly cleaning log. The applicant will have a valid driver’s license. The applicant must pass a background check and complete VIRTUS training.

Development & Communications Associate

Systems Administrator

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King Street Center (KSC) is seeking a full-time 40 hour a week detail oriented, organized, creative and strategic Development and Communications Associate (DCA) to join our dedicated staff in Burlington, VT. The DCA will support all corporate and foundation grant writing aspects of fundraising for KSC’s organizational budget of $1.4 million and will be responsible for key communications functions throughout the year. The DCA will report to the Director of Development and Communication (DoDC) and works closely with the program directors, operations manager, and executive director to ensure that the organization is communicating its vision, mission, and needs appropriately with grant applications, external marketing and social media materials. For full details, salary range and how to apply please visit our website: bit.ly/KingStCtrDEVcomm.

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Begin a career in 2022, don’t start a job! Spend your time doing work that makes a real difference. We need great people who want to help great people. Are you compassionate, kind, resilient, and adaptable? Specialized Community Care is seeking unique individuals who will act as mentors, coaches, and friends to provide support for adults in Addison, Rutland, Franklin, and Chittenden Counties with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. This is a fun and rewarding 6:03 PM career spent “Off the Couch.”

SAME DAY DELIVERIES (802) 862-7662

MEDICAL COURIERS AND DELIVERY DRIVERS Currently, we are seeking drivers to join our growing team. We are hiring for several full time and part time positions, as well as different shifts. Feel free to stop in to our office at 54 Echo Place, Suite# 1, Williston, VT 05495 and fill out an application. Or fill out an application via our website at shipvds.com or email Tim a copy of your resume at timothy@shipvds.com.

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COMMUNITY SUPPORT

The United States District Court is seeking qualified individuals with operating system and database administration skills, or the aptitude to acquire such skills, capable of functioning in a dynamic, team-oriented environment. The duty station for both positions is Burlington, Vermont. Full federal benefits apply. Complete job descriptions and formal application requirements are found in the official Position Announcements available from court locations in Burlington and Rutland and the court’s web site:

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Purpose-driven professionals, this is where job skills and fulfillment meet! The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation seeks a Contracts Administrator to support dedicated colleagues who are committed to protecting Vermont’s forests and lands, promoting recreation, and operating Vermont’s State Parks. The successful candidate brings a positive service-oriented approach, effectively and independently completes long-term projects while providing day-to-day support, and works collaboratively to balance a dynamic workload. For a full job description and application instructions visit careers.vermont.gov. Job ID: 26301. For more information, contact Sonya Samalis at sonya.samalis@vermont.gov. Location: Montpelier/Telework. Full-Time LimitedService position. Application Deadline: February 6, 2022. The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Linux/Database Administrator

Contracts Administrator

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Full job description: bitly. com/hackclub-exec-asst.

Send resumes to: chill@sfxvt.org

fullcirclevt.com

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Find purpose and passion by supporting the Hack Club team with your Exec Ass’t., logistics, and people skills. We’re a fun, fast-growing tech startup, with a nonprofit mission to support high school coders in starting coding clubs and hackathons. Hybrid, flexible, full-time schedule—office in Shelburne. You’ll get 4 weeks PTO, holidays, health care, & $2K for computer hardware.

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We provide extensive training, support, professional growth and advancement opportunities in a family work environment. We offer pay increases after a probationary period and further advancement and pay for selfpaced skill building. We want to hire your values and train the skills that will help make you successful. Let’s talk!

Please contact us at 802-388-6388 Web: www.sccvt.org Or email denise.smith@sccvt.org

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Legal Assistant II (PG19)

NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL has exciting opportunities!

Office of the Juvenile Defender and management team, Montpelier

Grant Author and Compliance Extraordinaire Do you enjoy working with youth and want to make a difference in your community?

Works on a monthly basis scheduling case plan review meetings for juveniles in State custody, and may assist with representing clients at these and other related meetings. Assists with the drafting, preparation and e-filing of legal documents. Handles confidential background checks as requested by staff and contract defense attorneys across Vermont. Performs docketing duties such as opening, updating and closing cases using case management systems. Performs administrative and secretarial duties including correspondence, answering phones, filing, copying, public records management, and the screening and sorting of mail. Performs other duties as required. Requires professional attitude, patience, tolerance of difficult personalities and stressful situations, and a sense of humor. Job description available on the Defender General web page.

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NVRH is looking for dedicated and compassionate RNs, LPNs and LNAs to join our team and provide high quality care to the communities we serve. NVRH provides a fair and compassionate workplace where all persons are valued by the organization and each other, providing ongoing growth opportunities. FT and PT employees are eligible for excellent benefits including student loan repayment, generous paid time off, health/dental/vision, 401k with company match and much more!

We are looking to grow Please submit a cover letter and resume by Sunday, February 6th to: Mary.Deaett@vermont.gov. our team at DREAM; we are actively recruiting Minimum starting pay: $19.42/hour depending on experience. Full State for a Grant Author and APPLY TODAY AT NVRH.ORG/CAREERS. benefits. In office required. EOE Compliance Extraordinaire, Two F/T Youth Service Managers, and a P/T 4t-OfficeDefenderGeneral012622.indd 1 1/25/22 4t-NVRH092921.indd 10:53 AM 1 GRAPHIC & MULTIMEDIA Mentor Coordinator DESIGNER (Caledonia County).

Store Operations Manager

dreamprogram.org

Established nearly three decades ago, our educational publishing company possesses an established brand, business model and clientele. We are looking for a dynamic Graphic and Multimedia Designer to join our team.

Seeking someone motivated to:

Build and lead highly effective teams Operate a sustainable and proﬁtable business that beneﬁts the community

Projects will cover a wide spectrum. The ideal candidate possesses multiple design disciplines, from print graphics, to digital graphics, to animation to video editing.

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SHARED LIVING PROVIDER

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We are looking for a self-starting team player with a great attitude, good organizational skills, the ability to multi-task, and savviness in 11:38 AM both digital and print design.

Continuously improve systems, customer experience, and personal skills

A Bachelor’s Degree in graphic design or a related field is required as well as 1+ years of experience in the field or an internship. Advanced working knowledge of Macs, Google Drive, Adobe Design Apps and Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere is essential. Experience with HTML and CSS is a plus! To get started on this exciting path, please send a copy of your resume and a digital portfolio with at least three work samples to us at megan@exemplars.com.

or scan here to go directly to our webpage! Provide an accessible home for an easy-going 38-yearold gentleman who enjoys being part of a dynamic 4t-ExemplarsGRAPHIC011922.indd 1 1/14/224t-MiddleburyNaturalFoodsCoOp011222 4:30 PM 1 household. This individual FARM BUSINESS SPECIALIST has a comprehensive team The Intervale Center seeks a dynamic, and strong family support, mission-driven Farm Business Specialist along with respite and to join our team in southern Vermont. For weekday supports. The ideal over 30 years, the Intervale Center has led a provider will have strong community food revolution that sustains farms, interpersonal communication land, and people. and personal care skills as all aspects of ADLs will be The Farm Business Specialist delivers high quality, custom We are looking for a dedicated, provided. This position includes farm business planning services that enhance the viability of hardworking individual to be our: a comprehensive training Vermont’s food system. The Specialist provides business planning, package, tax-free stipend and coaching, education, and technical support directly to farm and a handicap accessible van for food businesses. An ideal candidate has a degree in agricultural transportation. management, business development, economics, or related field;

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Come join the Cheese Team!

Contact Jennifer Wolcott at jwolcott@ ccs-vt.org or 802-655-0511 x 118 for more information.

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experience working directly with farmers or other business owners; excellent budget and project management skills, computer skills, and communication skills; and the ability to work independently, manage their time and multiple clients, and problem-solve! Intervale Center is an E.O.E. For full job description & instructions, please visit: intervale.org/get-involved#employment-banner.

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SHIPPING & RECEIVING COORDINATOR

Year-round, full-time. Health, dental & life insurance, wellness benefit, paid time off, staff discount, free cheese! Learn more at: shelburnefarms.org.

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JANUARY 26-FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Essex Westford School District is currently hiring FULL & PART TIME POSTIONS AVAILABLE! EWSD serves approximately 4,500 preschool through 12th grade students in ten schools across the Essex Junction, Essex Town and Westford communities. Come be part of one of Vermont’s largest and most highly respected school districts!

Education Advisors Vermont Adult Learning in Burlington Vermont (Chittenden County) is looking to fill two Educational Advisor positions. One is working with students managing their Personalized Learning Plans and the other is working as the initial point of contact for new and returning students. • Works closely with adult students (ages 16 and up), families, local high schools, and community partners to develop Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs) that will help students reach their educational and career goals. These goals often include earning a high school diploma through the Vermont High School Completion Program. Advisors build positive relationships with students to support them with their learning goals mapped out in their PLP’s. This position requires a commitment to student opportunity and equity along with a dedication to continual reflection and improvement.

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Evernorth is growing and hiring! Evernorth is a nonprofit organization that serves the low- and moderate-income people of Maine, 3:19 PM New Hampshire and Vermont by creating affordable housing and making community investments. We are a group of more than 45 professionals working to serve communities across Northern New England. Our staff has deep knowledge of local markets, close relationships with regional organizations, and a shared passion for affordable housing, diversity and social justice. The Real Estate Development Coordinator is a member of the real estate development team. This individual coordinates activities between Evernorth and our partners to purchase, close and maintain real estate transaction records. The role encompasses broad activities related to due diligence, paralegal support, research, insurance, proof reading, and many other related activities. This position requires working in a team and individually. We are looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree in a related field, paralegal skills, 3-5 years of related experience, excellent communication skills and a highly proficient user of Microsoft Office 365. To apply, please send cover letter and resume to HR@evernorthus.org. Evernorth is an equal opportunity employer.

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The Vermont Courts encompass 400 employees, $50+ million budget and 25 locations. Our growing Technology Services Center has 20+ staff and a new enterprise application. We build technology solutions used by judges, attorneys, litigants and partners across the state judicial system. We seek technology leaders to build and support the next generation of solutions & systems.

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Vermont Legal Aid seeks a highly-organized team player, with a desire to further our mission, for a full-time position in Burlington. We encourage applicants from a broad range of backgrounds, and welcome information about how your experience can contribute to serving our diverse client communities. Applicants are encouraged to share in their cover letter how they can further our goals of social justice and individual rights. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a discrimination-andharassment-free workplace. Responsibilities include general office management and secretarial duties (answering phones, client contact, data entry, typing, file/document/database management), as well as supporting the work of multiple attorneys and paralegals. Experience as a legal secretary or formal secretarial training is preferable. Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite required. Fluency in French, Spanish, Swahili, Kirundi, Somali, Arabic, Nepali, or Burmese is a plus. Base salary is $37,000 with salary credit given for relevant prior work experience. Four weeks paid vacation, retirement, and excellent health benefits. Application deadline is February 1, 2022. Send cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references as a single PDF file with the subject line “Last Name - Burlington Support Staff Application 2022” to David Koeninger, Deputy Director, c/o hiring@vtlegalaid.org. See vtlegalaid.org for additional information. Please tell us how you heard about the position.

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Make a Difference in People’s Lives Champlain Community Services just raised their salaries. SIGNIFICANTLY And that’s on top of being a “Best Place to Work In Vermont” for three years running. Great jobs in Service Coordination ($45k) and Direct Support Professionals ($18 per hour) at an award-winning agency serving Vermonters with intellectual disabilities.

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Our HomeOwnership Center, serving the affordable housing needs of Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, is seeking a Shared Equity Coordinator. This six month position engages with the community to help coordinate CHT’s services and programs. Proficient computer and writing skills, and a commitment to community service required. Experience in housing, teaching, or lending is a plus. Position starts March 1, 2022. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. For information and to apply visit vhcb.org/our-programs/vhcb-americorps/positions. Questions? Please contact Jaclyn at (802) 861-7338.

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SkiEssentials sells fun. We live and play in the winter outdoor sports industry, and it is very important to us to maintain a homegrown culture as we continue to expand. With this in mind, we are looking for someone with a strong technical background and a real connection to the fun-loving part of our industry. The Director of E-Commerce role offers ample room for growth and experimentation, and there is a built-in license to play around with (and implement) new ideas.

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KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY The right person will have strong expertise in both marketing and technology and will direct all marketing and technical operations associated with the organization’s e-commerce function. The four key areas of responsibility include: • Helping to direct business strategy • Building out the technology needed to execute on the strategy

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A strong candidate has a strong foundation in Quickbooks, attends to fine detail, aims for accuracy and consistency, works well with people and with numbers. For more information visit salvationfarms.org/ get-involved/#jobs.

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Salvation Farms, a Morrisville-based non-profit, seeks an Administrative Coordinator. This position fills a fundamental role of streamlining and stabilizing essential business operations, maintaining and improving the organization’s internal operations.

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At Marvell, we move, store, process and secure the world’s data with semiconductor solutions designed for our customers’ current needs and future ambitions.

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Stowe Land Trust, a local land conservation organization in Stowe, VT, is seeking a Summer Naturalist. This VHCB AmeriCorps position offers an exciting opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience with a solid land conservation organization & successful team.

• $20-25/hr • paid time off • work/life balance • 401K

• a tiny kitchen where amazing adventures happen

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CHAMPLAIN INVESTMENT PARTNERS

 Are you detail-oriented, proficient with technologies & hardware, and able to thrive in a high-pressure environment?  Do you have proficiency with network security administration, tooling, and management/deployment of security solutions?  Are you a self-starter who offers suggestions and enjoys optimizing new processes? You may be a candidate to join our team

A Bachelor’s Degree and excellent communication skills required, as is a minimum of 7 years’ hands-on IT experience administering, implementing, and managing: VMWare virtualization, Windows systems, Azure AD, switchgear/firewalls, enterprise storage, file sharing & scripting, and MSFT O365 and Azure infrastructure.

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Downstreet Housing and Community Development is seeking a seasoned and solutionsoriented manager to lead the Property Management team. The Director will ensure high quality property management services across the portfolio, including leading a staff of 17, overseeing property leasing and maintenance, working to ensure financial strength of properties, and seeking to strengthen community collaboration and programs in support of our residents. The Director of Property Management will be a part of Downstreet’s Leadership Team, working to develop strategic focus and long-term sustainability for the organization. The successful candidate will have 5 years of affordable housing and/or property management experience, proven supervisory experience, and be a great communicator, highly organized, with a strong ability to manage priorities and deadlines. For a full job description and application instructions, please visit downstreet.org/careers.

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Vermont Family Network is seeking a dynamic, collaborative leader with exceptional communication and management abilities and a passionate commitment to Vermont families to guide our family support and advocacy organization.VFN is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower and support all Vermont children, youth, and families, especially those with disabilities or special health needs. We do this by giving a strong start, lifting family voices, and advancing inclusive communities. • Master’s degree in human services, education, non-profit management, or public administration or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required • Minimum of five years of senior-level experience leading complex non-profit organizations in the areas of education, family support, early intervention, and/or disabilities, or comparable field • Extensive experience with fundraising and cultivation of donors to secure unrestricted funding • Strong management and systems analysis skills with experience in aligning management systems and procedures • Strong ability to build and maintain a highly functioning and cohesive team • Commitment to and working knowledge of family-centered care, family support, disabilities, special education and disability law and issues faced by families who have children with disabilities or special health needs • Individuals with personal knowledge of disabilities and/or chronic illness are encouraged to apply.

We are Age Well - the leading experts and advocates for the aging population of Northwestern Vermont.

Development Grants Associate The Grants Associate position is a new position, which will be an integral part of a successful and high-energy team that helps execute Age Well’s fundraising and marketing initiatives. This position will work to support the advancement of Age Well’s mission and the work we do to support Vermont’s aging population. The Grants Associate will be responsible for writing, tracking and reporting on grants, maintaining grantor relationships, and prospecting and pursuing new grant funding opportunities, along with business partnership proposals. The successful candidate for this position will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Communications or a related field and Grant or professional writing experience, preferably in the non-profit sector, with an understanding of public funding sources. Experience using Donor Management Software, and fundraising databases are strongly preferred. Proficiency in Microsoft Office software and demonstrated project management and research skills are required. The successful candidate will be personable and relationship-centered, with excellent verbal & written communication skills.

Visit agewellvt.org to learn more and apply.

Cover letters identifying the position you’re pursuing along with your resume can be sent to: hr@agewellvt.org or faxed to (802) 865-0363.

For a full job description, visit our website: vermontfamilynetwork.org. Qualified applicants should send a letter of interest and resume via email to HR@vtfn.org or to HR,Vermont Family Network, 600 Blair Park Road, Suite 240, Williston,VT 05495. Deadline for applicant submittal is January 28, 2022.

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Director of Maintenance The Addison County Community Trust (ACCT) is seeking a full-time Director of Maintenance (DoM) for our growing affordable rental apartment portfolio. Key responsibilities include ensuring that all buildings are up to code with life and safety equipment, overseeing annual inspections of all units, developing 5-year capital plans and coordinating capital projects to ensure the longterm physical and financial health of the portfolio.

VEDA has an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to join its Commercial Lending Team as a Commercial Credit Analyst. The work location can be in VEDA’s Burlington, Montpelier, or Middlebury offices and some remote work may be available after an initial period. This position reports directly to the Chief Lending Officer.

The position requires frequent use of technology including property management software and Microsoft Office programs like Excel. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, communicate well with people from diverse walks of life, and have prior management and supervisory experience. Prior experience in affordable housing preferred. The DoM will be based in Middlebury and Vergennes. Valid driver’s license required. Position open until filled; EEO. Send cover letter and resume to jobs@addisontrust.org.

VEDA provides financing to businesses and farms across Vermont, often in partnership with private financial institutions and government agencies. This position is responsible for analyzing borrower and potential borrower credit and providing support for loan origination and loan servicing actions. Primary responsibilities include reviewing loan applications, preparing loan narratives/credit write- ups and keeping borrower financing information current.

For full job description, visit: addisontrust.org/careers

Preferred candidates will have a bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, accounting, business, or related field and at least three years of credit analysis experience.

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VEDA offers a competitive salary and excellent health and retirement benefits. Other perks include a flexible work environment, professional development opportunities, and access to networking. VEDA is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer and is interested in increasing staff diversity. We welcome job applications from all qualified candidates.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER

To apply, please email resume & cover letter to Cheryl Houchens:

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JOIN OUR TEAM! Are you ready to play an integral role in delivering safe, clean, affordable, and reliable thermal energy services and award-winning energy efficiency programs to 53,000 Vermonters in Chittenden, Franklin, and Addison Counties? If so, then Vermont Gas Systems (VGS) has the jobs for you!

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We are seeking an experienced and collaborative leader to join our IT team as an Information Technology Manager. This position is responsible for overseeing IT operations while ensuring 24/7 access to critical technology systems needed to perform our work. They apply their IT experience to implement technology solutions to continually improve availability, security, and efficiency of technology. They lead a team of highly skilled employees who are also dedicated to implementing these strategies to achieve our vision. They lead by example, exhibit excellent technical skills, and build collaborative teams both inside and outside the department. Annual pay is based on experience and ranges between $96,000.00 to $164,000.00. Come join our team and enjoy our great benefits including:

Champlain Housing Trust is growing and we need great people to join our team. One of Vermont’s Best Places to Work in 2020, CHT is a socially responsible employer offering an inclusive, friendly work environment and competitive pay commensurate with experience. Our excellent benefit package includes a generous health insurance plan, three weeks of paid vacation, 14 paid holidays, sick leave, 403(b) retirement plan with employer contribution after one year, disability and life insurance and more.

• Resident Relations Property Manager

• Shared Equity Coordinator

• Maintenance Technician

• Motel Front Desk

Equal Opportunity Employer - CHT is committed to a diverse workplace and highly encourages women, persons with disabilities, Section 3 low income residents, and people from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to apply.

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Voted one of the best places to work in VT, VGS offers a dynamic, team-oriented atmosphere and an opportunity to perform meaningful, impactful work. Please visit our website vermontgas.com for more details and to apply.

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Join Country Walkers and VBT Bicycling Vacations, an award-winning, Vermontbased active travel company, and be part of our highperforming, international team. We offer small-group bicycling and walking tours around the world with an emphasis on local connections and culture. Positively impacting people's lives through active travel experiences is what we’re all about!

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HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR Saint Michael’s College is seeking an Administrative Coordinator to join its Human Resources department. This position plays an integral role in ensuring that the Human Resources Office is a friendly and helpful resource to the community. Essential responsibilities include: support of Human Resources functions in order to improve efficient service to the College community; answering inquiries that come in via email, 7spot.indd telephone, our ticketing system, or in person, redirecting questions as needed; drafting, proof reading, and maintaining a schedule of regular communications targeting various audiences; processing electronic forms and associated actions; assisting with the coordination of different events sponsored or supported by the Human Resources department. The successful candidate will have at least a high school diploma plus some additional education or work experience. They will have experience working in an office environment, preferably within a human resources department. This is a fulltime, year-round position that reports to the Director of Human Resources.

Middlebury Pediatric Dentistry is looking for the right person to join our front office/administrative team. Help us take care of Vermont kids’ oral health! Full time. Health insurance. Paid vacation. Please contact us and include your resume,

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WAREHOUSE PACKAGE HANDLER • Up to $18.00/hour to start* • Includes a pay enhancement of $1 per hour for all package handlers.

This location is participating in an Hours Worked Bonus Program. If part-time package handlers work 25+ hours within the week, they will earn a $100 bonus. If full-time package handlers work 40+ hours within the week, they will earn a $200 bonus. Valid through 2/12/22. This location is participating in a Referral Program. If a package handler refers someone to work as a package handler and that person stays 45 days, they will earn a $250 bonus. Valid through 1/29/22. All enhancements, surges, and bonuses are valid through 2/12/22. The Referral Program is valid through 1/29/22. • Fast paced and physical warehouse work – why pay for a gym membership when you can get paid while working out? • Warehouse duties include loading, unloading, and sorting of packages of various sizes. • Part time employees work one shift a day; full time employees work two shifts. • Shift lengths vary based on package volume – generally part time employees work between 3 and 6 hours a day. Full time employees can expect to work between 6 and 10 hours. • Overtime paid after 40 hours per week. • Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities. • Excellent benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more. Apply online: groundwarehousejobs.fedex.com/groundwarehousejobs/?lang=en-US&src=facbk. 635 Community Drive, South Burlington, VT 05403 10v-VTSmoke&Cure012622 1 6t-FedExGround012622.indd 1

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Student Services Coordinator This full-time position acts as the first point of contact for the public and students at Yestermorrow. Responsibilities include answering phones and emails, managing enrollment, meals and lodging, tuition payments, and scholarship applications. A candidate with strong customer service skills and a friendly demeanor is prefered. Apply at yestermorrow.org/jobs.

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Does the thought of impacting the future of the education system for all Vermonters excite you? Would you like to be part of the team leading the evolution to modernize the design of IT infrastructure? Could you be part of the change in how the Agency interacts with its partners and customers? If so, the Agency of Digital Services is looking for the right individual to join our team. We are seeking to hire an Agency Director of Digital Services assigned to the Agency of Education. For more information, contact Lisa Goslant at Lisa.Goslant@vermont.gov. Department: Agency of Digital Services. Location: Montpelier. Status: Full-Time Exempt Position. Job Id # 27324. Application Deadline: January 31, 2022.

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Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP | Cureblindness), a VTbased nonprofit, is actively seeking a Staff Accountant. Please visit our website for a complete job description: cureblindness.org/careers.

The Office of Public Guardian seeks an independent, energetic, and organized person to protect and monitor the legal and human rights of individuals under court-ordered guardianship. This position covers a caseload of individuals with developmental disabilities or age-related cognitive impairments in Chittenden & Franklin counties who require assistance & judgment for critical decision making in several life domains (such as medical, residential, legal, contractual decisions, and financial). For more information, contact Heather Allin at heather.allin@vermont.gov. Department: Disabilities Aging & Independent Living. Location: Burlington. Status: Full Time. Job ID #27041. Application Deadline: January 31, 2022.

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Full Circle Microbes, Inc is seeking a Production Technician to increase output of our patent-pending microbial inoculants. These biotechnology products increase the sustainability of the agricultural industry and reduce reliance on Ag Chemicals that cause $157B in human health and ecological damage annually.

CVFiber – Communications Union District About CVFiber: CVFiber is a Communications Union District (CUD) municipal organization made up of twenty-one Central Vermont communities. We have a single goal: to make fast, dependable, and affordable internet access available to every address within our member towns. We are currently designing our network, which will consist of approximately 1,200 miles of fiber, and are on track to begin construction in Spring 2022. Construction will be a multi-year process. About the Position: The Executive Director will provide leadership to CVFiber; be responsible for carrying out strategies and objectives to see the successful development and operation of our community network with our contracted partners; engage and collaborate with our communities, other communication union districts, utilities, organizations, and state government. The ideal candidate has demonstrated organizational leadership skills and has experience with broadband, telecommunications, or other utilities. This candidate must be a skilled communicator who understands grants and fund raising. This candidate will advance the organization’s visibility, lead the implementation of network services, maintain a sustainable financial strategy, actively manage strategic partnerships, and oversee construction contracts, grant management, and complex projects. Job Details: (Please see the full job description at cvfiber.net) • Start Date: Immediate • Job Type: Full-time employee • Location: Work remotely. Flexible/work from home. Multiple locations and field work. Visits and Zoom/Teams meetings with contractors to cultivate and maintain relationships are essential. • Compensation: $100,000-$120,000, commensurate with experience. • Benefits: Paid vacation time, medical coverage. • Schedule: Flexible hours, periodic evening availability, availability during outage conditions. • Reports to: Governing Board Executive Committee

Job Description: Work closely with the Senior Production Manager to produce our inoculants and iterate on production techniques for new products and larger volumes as we scale our company and environmental impact. Responsibilities include propagating, culturing, and harvesting microbes; washing and sterilizing glassware and microbial media; documenting each production run; coordinating logistics and communicating with the Sales team. This is an opportunity to be among the first six staff for a high-growth startup with proven market traction and national funding. Compensation includes competitive salary, stock options, and benefits. Criteria: • B.S. in a scientific field, such as biology, microbiology, chemistry, etc • Experience completing basic laboratory tasks, such as preparing buffers or culture media, and/or using basic laboratory equipment, such as incubators and autoclaves, is a bonus • Experience with sterile technique, 5S and Lean Manufacturing, microbes, and/or brewing is a bonus Who we’re looking for: • You are passionate about climate change and working to create a more sustainable world. • You’re empathetic, respectful, and kind. You enjoy working closely with others to achieve big goals. • You have working knowledge of microbes or an interest in learning more about them. • You love challenges, and you are highly motivated. You are excited about taking ownership of your projects, and you are able to communicate your work to others. • You follow directions well, whether it’s a protocol or a recipe, and take pleasure in doing things as described.

To apply, send resume and cover letter detailing your interest and vision in this position to careers@cvfiber.net. Resumes sent without a cover letter will not be considered.

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Associate Director of Communications & Marketing Are you a content creator? Creative storyteller? Engaging Advocate? If yes, then let's connect.

Building Blocks Playschool in Colchester is looking for a Head & Assistant teacher in our toddler classroom. Applicants must be warm, caring, creative and create a safe environment for the children.

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Must be able to collaborate as a team with coworkers, parents and the community. Applicants must have education/training in the field of early education and be willing to learn and grow as part of our team.

Year-Round position. Award winning farm-stay business looking for someone with high standards to clean our cabins, manage inventory, and maintain laundry to ensure an outstanding guest experience. Live on-site in private apartment with great views. Work 30-40 hours/week, paid vacation, yearly bonus, pay dependent on experience. Apply promptly. Send resumes to: info@fatsheepfarmvermont. com. Start Date March/April.

The Associate Director of Communications & Marketing is responsible for supporting internal and external communications, Hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:30pm OR 8:00am-5:00pm with a focus on marketing the organization as it expands in current and new communities. This position is also responsible for content Job Types: Full-time, Contract development for Citizen Advocates' social media accounts. This Pay: $16.00 - $18.00 per hour will be accomplished through the creation and curation of original text, photo and video content, managing posts and responding to MUST be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and willing to comply with followers. This position, in coordination and under the direction of all state guidance in relation to COVID-19. the Director of Communications & Government Affairs, will manage the company image in a manner consistent with our Mission, Email resume to: buildingblocksplayschoolvt@gmail.com Vision, Values and business objectives. The Communications & Marketing Associate Director will remain up-to-date with the latest digital technologies and social media trends, along with ongoing 4t-BuildingBlocksPlayschool012622.indd 1 1/24/222v-FatSheetFarm&Cabins012622.indd 12:14 PM opportunities for community outreach. It is essential this person handle the company’s social media presence and external events by ensuring high levels of web traffic and stakeholder engagement. This professional will have excellent communication skills and be able to articulate the company's views creatively, and to position Citizen Advocates as a thought leader among its workforce, peers and community. For full description and to apply: CitizenAdvocates.net/careers

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Do you want to work for an Agency that positively impacts the lives of over 20,000 individuals? The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) addresses fundamental issues of economic, social, environmental and racial justice and works with people to achieve economic independence. Our Philanthropy & Communications team seeks a motivated fundraising or communications professional with a passion for our mission. Duties include management of the Annual Fund campaign, donor database, media activities, and fundraising events. This is a 40 hours/week position. Successful applicants will have a Bachelor’s degree in a related field plus 2-4 years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills have been acquired; strong computer skills including experience with MS Office, and fundraising CRMs; be highly organized and able to adhere to simultaneous deadlines; and have a demonstrated commitment to CVOEO’s mission, valuing diversity, and contributing to an inclusive working & learning environment. Interested in working with us? We offer a great working environment and an excellent benefit package including medical, dental and vision insurance, paid holidays, generous vacation and sick leave, a retirement plan and discounted gym membership. Go to http://www.cvoeo.org/careers and submit a cover letter and resume. The review of applications begins immediately and will continue until suitable candidates are found. CVOEO is an Equal Opportunity Employer

HEAD CHEESEMAKER The goat dairy at Hildene Farm is looking for a dedicated individual to fill the role of Head Cheesemaker. The position involves all aspects of artisanal cheese production and creamery management. The Head Cheesemaker is responsible for setting a high standard for food safety and quality; a background in cheesemaking and food safety is required. The ideal candidate will share in Hildene’s mission Values into Action while being committed to creating a superior small batch artisanal product. They will be self-motivated, highly organized, detail-oriented, flexible, and have strong communication skills. They will excel at representing Hildene Farm within the artisanal cheese industry, to guests touring the creamery, and to attendees at Hildene events from educational programming to fundraisers. This individual is the sole full-time employee working in the creamery with part-time assistance as needed. While the work is largely independent, the Head Cheesemaker is a crucial member of the Hildene team working closely at times with the goat dairy manager and staff, regularly with the livestock manager, and semi-regularly with the marketing, programming, and advancement departments. Email cover letter and resume to Brian Keefe, President: brian@hildene.org.

ADVANCEMENT & VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR The Advancement & Volunteer Coordinator will actively support and assist the Advancement Director at Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home. This position will take a leadership role in managing our Membership Programs, Corporate Partners Program, and Lodging Sponsorships to ensure 9t-Hildene012622.indd 1

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PSYCHOTHERAPIST OPENING The Vermont Center for Anxiety Care, a private psychotherapy practice on the Burlington waterfront, has an opening for a licensed psychotherapist (M.A., LICSW, Ph.D, Psy.D., LCMHC) or postmaster’s degree intern. Adult therapy experience required with child therapy experience an asset. Collaborative group with holistic approach and multiple specialties. Clinical supervision towards licensure provided as needed. Visit website: vtcenterforanxietycare.com. Send resume and cover letter describing professional interests and goals to: Paul Foxman, Ph.D., 86 Lake St., Burlington, VT 05401 or email: paulfoxman@aol.com

The Vermont Historical Society seeks a part-time Program Assistant based in Montpelier. The position assists the education team in presenting school programs and with daily operations at the Vermont History Museum. Saturday work required. Bachelor’s degree and experience in education, history, museums, or related field preferred. Full job description and details at vermonthistory.org/ career-opportunities. To apply, send a cover letter & resume to eileen.corcoran@vermonthistory.org.

Project Scientist KAS, Inc. is looking for a motivated individual to join our team providing high quality environmental consulting services in the northeastern United States. Project Scientist / Engineer - Experienced project manager to lead in remedial system design/implementation, geological and brownfields investigations, environmental site assessments, technical writing and more. A minimum of three years’ experience and a degree in environmental science, geology or environmental engineering is recommended. KAS is a dynamic company with great growth potential. Competitive salary and benefits are available. Submit a letter of interest and resume to: KAS, Inc. P.O. Box 787 Williston, VT 05495 info@kas-consulting.com

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VT Community Navigators CWEVT is hiring a Project Manager to build communities in the Southern Vermont region. This is a 2-year position funded through the exciting SBA Community Navigators program. The ideal candidate has deep connections in Southern Vermont communities, loves building relationships, and has an inclusive vision for an even more diverse entrepreneurial learning landscape! To apply to this position, please submit your resume and cover letter to: info.vermont@CWEonline.org. Please include the position title in the subject line.

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WAREHOUSE SELECTOR The Vermont Foodbank seeks a self-motivated, energetic Warehouse Selector. This is a full-time, hourly position. The primary components of this position include receipt, warehousing, fulfillment, inventory and management of all products stored in the Vermont Foodbank distribution centers. Attached is the job description with additional details regarding this particular position. The selected candidate will join an energetic, empowered, collaborative team that derives joy from the work and is wholly dedicated to VF’s mission. A significant portion of this position’s workload will be handled on site at the facility. This position may offer some nights and weekends, with the ability to be able to travel if needed. The Vermont Foodbank’s work culture is progressive, forward thinking, and equity minded. Staff have the opportunity to fully develop their potential in a variety of ways: as organizational leaders, in shaping programs and advocacy efforts, and in working towards a future where everyone in Vermont has enough food every day. To apply for this position, please visit https://bit.ly/VTFoodbankWAREHOUSE This position is a hourly position with the pay anticipated to start at $17.00 an hour.

OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN The Vermont Foodbank seeks a self-motivated, energetic Operations Technician. This full-time position reports to the Facilities Supervisor. The primary components of this position include being responsible for maintenance of the building and grounds of the Foodbank’s facilities, recordkeeping as it applies to food safety and warehouse safety, and will assist the operations department in a variety of daily tasks, including warehouse duties. This position is based in Barre, VT but will be required to travel to foodbank locations in Brattleboro and Rutland. The selected candidate will join an energetic, empowered, collaborative team that derives joy from the work and is wholly dedicated to VF’s mission. This position may offer the ability to travel if needed. The Vermont Foodbank’s work culture is progressive, forward thinking, and equity minded. Staff have the opportunity to fully develop their potential in a variety of ways: as organizational leaders, in shaping programs and advocacy efforts, and in working towards a future where everyone in Vermont has enough food every day. To apply for this position, please visit bit.ly/VTFoodbankOperations and submit an employment application with a resume and cover letter attached. This is a full-time, hourly position with the pay anticipated to start at $18.00 to $20.00 depending on relevant experience, education, or other. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and seek to bring our values of diversity and inclusion to our hiring process. Beyond our commitment to non-discrimination, we encourage applications from candidates who can contribute to the diversity of our organization and who have lived experience of inequity. 9v-VTFoodbank012622.indd 1

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Northwest VT Project Director Looking for your next adventure? Join us as our Northwest Project Director. We are seeking candidates who are excited to: • Create thriving connections between agriculture, land, and communities • Manage the ins and outs of land conservation projects in the Franklin County region • Communicate and collaborate across teams Apply by February 18 at vlt.org/employment. The starting salary for this position is between $60,400 and $68,700, depending upon experience. The Vermont Land Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We honor and invite people of all backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.

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V Smiley Preserves makes honey sweetened preserves in Vermont. We specialize in intricate textured flavors, making no-added pectin preserves, investing in our local food-shed, and supporting organic growing practices. V Smiley Preserves is the country’s only nationally available honey sweetened preserve company. We have created a new category of preserving within small batch canning, discovering all that is possible with just fruit and local honey. The company took home Good Food Awards in 2019, 2020, and 2021. In 2021, V Smiley Preserves purchased the Bristol Cliffs Cafe at 16 Main St. to reopen as Minifactory. Minifactory = coffee shop, eatery and retail location for specialty grocery and local produce. Minifactory homes V Smiley Preserves production. We are located in downtown Bristol. We are currently hiring:

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AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB.18)

Since the iconoclastic planet Uranus is a chief symbol for the Aquarian tribe, you people are more likely to be dissenters and mavericks and questioners than all the other signs. That doesn’t mean that your departures from orthodoxy are always successful or popular. Sometimes you meet resistance from the status quo. Having offered that caveat, I’m happy to announce that in the coming weeks, your unique offerings are more likely than usual to be effective. For inspiration, read these observations by author Kristine Kathryn Rusch: “Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.”

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Born under the sign of Taurus, Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) had considerable skills as a composer of music, an athlete, an author, a passionate lover and an activist working for women’s rights. She was successful in all of them. I propose that we make her one of your role models for the coming months. Why? First, because she did more than one thing really well, and you are now primed to enhance your versatility, flexibility and adaptability. Second, because she described a formula for high achievement that would suit you well. She said, “Night after night I went to sleep murmuring, ‘Tomorrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!’” (PS: I suggest that you make “supple” your word of power in 2022.) GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): According to

author Olivia Dresher, “Feelings want to be free. Thoughts want to be right.” Well, then, what about intuitions? In a sense, they’re hybrids of feelings and thoughts. They’re a way of knowing that transcends both feelings and thoughts. When intuitions come from the clear-seeing part of your deep psyche rather than the fear-prone part of your conditioning, they are sweet and fun and accurate and humble and brisk and pure. They don’t “want” to be anything. I’m pleased to inform you, Gemini, that in the coming weeks, your intuitions will be working at peak efficiency. It should be relatively easy for you to distinguish between the clear-seeing and fear-prone modes of intuition.

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): “If you are going

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Author Helen Hunt

Jackson said that one component of happiness is “a little less time than you want.” Why? Because you always “have so many things you want to see, to have, and to do” and “no day is quite long enough for all you would like to get done before you go to bed.” I propose that you experiment with this definition in the coming weeks. According to my astrological analysis, you will have even more interesting assign-

to do something wrong, at least enjoy it,” wrote humorist Leo Rosten. I offer his counsel to you right now because I want you to have fun if you wander away from your usual upstanding behavior. But may I make a suggestion? As you depart from normal, boring niceness, please remain honorable and righteous. What I’m envisioning for you are experiments that are disruptive in healthy ways, and dares that stir up interesting problems, and rebellious explorations that inspire beauty and

truth. They’ll be “wrong” only in the sense of being mutinies against static, even stagnant, situations that should indeed be prodded and pricked. Remember Bob Dylan’s idea: “To live outside the law, you must be honest.”

LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): Leo actor Anna Kendrick bragged, “I’m so humble it’s crazy. I’m like the Kanye West of humility.” I’d like to see you adopt that extravagant approach to expressing your magnificence in the coming weeks. I hope you’ll add another perspective to your repertoire, too — this one from Leo actor Mae West. She exulted, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!” Here’s one further attitude I encourage you to incorporate, courtesy of Leo author Rachel Pollack: “To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.” VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) was multitalented: an actor, singer, comedian and dancer. One critic described him as “the greatest entertainer ever to grace a stage.” He didn’t think highly of his own physical appearance, however. “I know I’m dreadfully ugly,” Davis said, “one of the ugliest men you could meet. But ugliness, like beauty, is something you must learn how to use.” That’s an interesting lesson to meditate on. I think it’s true that each of us has rough, awkward, irregular aspects — if not in our physical appearance, then in our psyches. And yet, as Davis suggested, we can learn not just to tolerate those qualities but also use them to our advantage. Now is a favorable time for you to do that. LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): “It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways,” wrote the mystic Saint Teresa of Avila. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re due to discover new and different ways to wield your love magic — in addition to the many you already know and use. For best results, you’ll have to be willing to depart from old reliable methods for expressing care and tenderness and nurturing. You must be willing to experiment with fresh approaches that may require you to stretch yourself. Sounds like fun to me! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “If you are drilling for water, it’s better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 six-foot wells,” advised author

and religious scholar Huston Smith. He was using well-drilling as a metaphor, of course — as a symbol for solving a problem, for example, or developing a spiritual practice or formulating an approach to psychological healing. The metaphor might not be perfectly applicable for everyone in every situation. But I believe it is vividly apropos for you and your current situations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A

well-worn proverb tells us, “All good things come to those who wait.” There’s a variation, whose author is unknown (although it’s often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln): “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left behind by those who hustle.” I think that’s far more useful advice for you in the coming weeks. I’d much rather see you hustle than wait. Here’s a third variant, which may be the best counsel of all. It’s by author Holly Woodward: “All good things come to those who bait.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote, “To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.” I agree, which is why I authorize you to add “Saint” to the front of your name in the coming weeks. There’s an excellent chance that you will fit the description Stowe articulated. You’ll be at the peak of your power to elevate the daily rhythm into a stream of subtle marvels. You’ll be quietly heroic. If you’re not fond of the designation “Saint,” you could use the Muslim equivalent term, “Wali,” the Jewish “Tzadik,” Buddhist “Arhat,” or Hindu “Swami.” PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Piscean author Juansen Dizon tells us, “Don’t find yourself in places where people have it all figured out.” That’s always good advice, but it will be especially germane for you in the coming weeks and months. You need the catalytic stimulation that comes from associating with curious, open-minded folks who are committed to the high art of not being know-it-alls. The influences you surround yourself with will be key in your efforts to learn new information and master new skills. And that will be an essential assignment for you throughout 2022.

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LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE I’m looking to make a meaningful connection with someone with whom to share the journey. I have an inquisitive mind, laugh easily, value kindness, and find joy and beauty in the small things. Brown_Eyed_Woman, 68, seeking: M, l UNIQUE, WITTY AND AMUSING Arouse my mind, and my body will follow. Make me laugh, and my heart will follow. Make me wonder, and my soul will follow. I am Caucasian BBW. I retired early, and I am looking for someone to enjoy the golden years with. I love home décor and am a bit of a neat freak. SoVermonter, 58, seeking: M, W, l HUGS ARE NICE I do the yogas and the breathing. I walk on my feet out of buildings into the woods. I am not fond of technology. I like messy art, dancing, singing, making music of any imaginable kind. Hugs are nice. I like to help things grow. I like beauty. Science is fun. Learning is necessary. Love is the highest form of truth/magic. LadyVermont, 44, seeking: M, W, Q, NC, l SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH Critical, curious, humorous, rational thinker with a poetic, creative, inventive nature seeks W who likes to engage in deep discussions. Having a healthy, fit body and mind is crucial, as well as a love of nature, healthy food and space. Not into casual flings, onenighters, couples or those “looking for fun.” no2wifi, 56, seeking: W, l JUST TESTING THE WATERS How do you talk about yourself? I’m kind, sweet and like to have fun but am not looking for hookups. Would love to find that missing piece to the puzzle to share all life has to offer: strolling hand in hand through town or planning our next travel adventure. Bonus points for good kissers. Nygirl620, 53, seeking: M, l JUST LOOKING FOR FUN! Fun for me is having companions to share good times. Being outdoors is essential, and I enjoy sharing my addiction to golf and skiing. My quiet side demands time too, especially for reading and cooking. People who turn me on know themselves and are honest. So good conversation, personal warmth and strong values go far with me. Welloverpar, 66, seeking: M, l KINDNESS, CREATIVITY AND FUN I am an independent, vibrant person. I work hard, and I play hard. I am also nurturing, and I come with excellent references. I love the outdoors, and I care about humanity, my friends and family. I live the good life in Burlington and beyond and could use someone to share it all with! Bevviejo, 60, seeking: M, l LOTS OF ENERGY! I’m a high-energy, highly educated person in Vermont for winter skiing and fun. I love live music and get out as much as I can to hear good acts. I am interested in making new friends but would be open to a relationship, even an LTR, if the right connections develop. Winter_friend, 55, seeking: M, l

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WARM BBW FOR CUDDLY T-BEAR Warm BBW seeks cuddly teddy bear (or two) who’s silly, soulful, spiritual and sensual, as I am. Enjoy being near water, eating out or cooking together, drives to nowhere, plays, movies, live music. I’m polyamorous and hope you are, too; I believe it’s possible to have more than one loving relationship at once. Also please be intelligent, reflective and fun! Myzeffy, 63, seeking: M, l DISCREET FUN AND FRIEND WITH BENEFITS I am in my early 40s, married to a wonderful man who doesn’t know I enjoy the company of a woman occasionally. Looking to find another female who would like to be a friend with benefits. Discretion is a must. If we decide, then maybe meet for dinner/drinks and get a room for the night. Send me a message. DiscreetFun, 42, seeking: W COZY, LITERATE HOMEBODY SEEKS CO-CHEF Voracious reader and creative thinker seeks playmate. If you’re someone who thinks deeply, values friendships, respects the world beyond humankind, chooses science over suspicion, and tempers your thinking with compassion and humility, let’s be in touch. I’m a SF, 55, healthy, active and COVID careful. Sanguinely, 54, seeking: M THE DOG TEAM ALREADY BURNED to the ground, so we’ll never meet there, but Fire & Ice would be nice. Remember getting a grab bag from the Dog Team when we were kids? Pink ones for girls and blue for the boys. The only prize I remember were the erasers with googly eyes. Bridgit, 61, seeking: M, l

MEN seeking... LOOKING FOR SOME FUN Married bisexual. I know this is not the nicest thing to do on my part, but I want something I can’t get at home. Greywolf, 60, seeking: M RAVEN LOOKING FOR FRIENDS Ravens love to play. They are happy being alone but also will congregate and have fun. Ravens make jokes (the tricksters) but are empathetic to others. They are intelligent. I’m a happily married man in an open relationship (she’d be happy to meet you!). Looking for female companionship. Someone I can chat with, flirt with and spend time with. VT_Raven, 56, seeking: W, l LOOKING FOR EXCITEMENT AND ADVENTURE I do my best to make the most of every moment. I enjoy socializing and good conversation and quiet outdoor activities, either alone or with company. I am sure to get some sort of daily exercise — good for the body, mind and spirit. There is lots more to tell. I hope I have shared enough to tempt you! rockclimber, 67, seeking: W, l COUNTRY, OLD AND HORNY I am looking for a friend with benefits. A partner in naked fun! Ernie, 58, seeking: M

HOPE YOUR HANDS ARE WARM! I am looking for someone to enjoy some straightforward, no-mask time with. I’m vaxxed to the maxx, GGG and looking for regular contact. I’m science-minded, well read, cook very well and can carry on a conversation on a variety of topics. I am currently working from home and domesticating a dog rescue from North Carolina. LoneScottishBoy, 56, seeking: W, l SINGLE, OPEN-MINDED, WILLING, ABLE 37, single M seeking W to meet offline casually. Open for hookups, arrangements, FWB, possible relationship, or forever if chemistry is right. In Hartford area. Open to anything, only request: females, couples, no age pref, limited transportation. Ladies’ choice on how we proceed. Cautious but open to anything. I look forward to meeting a nice woman! Contact me for more direct communication methods. LB420, 37, seeking: W, l WARM, SEXY, PLAYFUL I am retired from the military, looking for that fun person to make my life happy. thumper63, 59, seeking: W, Cp, Gp, l ACTIVE, FUNNY, EXERCISE, PHOTOGRAPHY Looking for a companion for fitness and cuddling. Love to laugh and stay positive. Ultimately a long-term relationship; dating at first. Someone who likes to mountain bike and gravel bike. Nordic ski. I also run. I’m a photographer and give a great massage! MTB29, 66, seeking: W, l NEED THE COMFORT OF ANOTHER I am 58, don’t want to go it alone anymore. A perfect guy would like to walk outside and love to spend nonsexual times, at first. Do not ask “What are you into?” I love life and exploring. Montréal — when possible. It’s so much better with a friend. Love to meet a masculine-sensitive man my age, 58, or older. Stevearino, 58, seeking: M, l RURAL, INTELLIGENT AND HEALTHY I’m a nice, physically active person. I’m looking for the same in a man for an activity partner and FWB. In a relationship with GF. We’re looking to add a man to play with us. Haven’t played with a man for years. Interested in doing so before adding GF. I would like to talk to you. Enjoy your days. Olderactive0523, 69, seeking: M SOCIAL INTROVERT LOOKING FOR COMPANY I’m a longtime Vermont resident from a farming family who actually prefers the city and town life. I mostly relax and pass time playing strategy games, watching MST3K and listening to history podcasts. When getting out, I like going to coffee/ tea shops, trying new foods, playing billiards and aimless strolls through town. Plenty more to me. Message and see. Lefort, 31, seeking: W, l CAN I MAKE YOU LAUGH? I’m tall, well put together, and I’ve got a great job that I love. I’ve been career-oriented my entire adult life, and now that I’ve come to a comfortable place in my career, ideally I’m looking for someone to talk to, then hang out with, then see where things go. Blueeyedandbearded, 35, seeking: W, l FUNNY, SUBMISSIVE, VERSATILE BI GUY Looking to meet “straight“ and bi men, as well as bi couples and MW couples, for fun and sex. I’m a fun person who likes to enjoy life and am looking for new adventures. Let’s help each other expand and explore our sexual boundaries. I’m respectful and discreet, so let’s meet! Binorth, 64, seeking: M, TW, Cp, Gp

COOL GUY I’m a nice guy. Lonely last number of years. Looking for some lovin’. Goodguy69, 75, seeking: W, TW, Cp, l READY TO SHARE LIFE AGAIN Things are going well for me! Career is on track. Family is healthy. I’m financially secure. And I have been vaccinated. (That is important these days, LOL.) What I’m missing in my life is a special friend/partner/ LTR. Someone to rejoice with our individual/together life events. And to help soften the sting when life’s little failures arises. I’m ready to share life. VTMtnAdventures, 58, seeking: W, l STING IS MY BIGGEST FAN OK, I don’t actually know Sting. Just moved up to Vermont a minute ago and would love to meet some fun folks. I’m not looking for anything serious. That part of my life is accounted for. I’m still fond of female company in all its other forms, though. PlentyOfToast, 40, seeking: W, TM, TW, Q, NC, NBP, Cp, Gp, l

TRANS WOMEN seeking... T GIRL LIVE IN VT I’m a feminine trans woman with a good sense of humor. I want a special someone. I like dinner and a movie or a baseball game, ride the bike path and see shows at Higher Ground. I love my record collection and taking care of my house. I’m looking for some companionship and love, building a good relationship. Luv2BaGurl, 62, seeking: M, W, TM, TW, Q, NC, NBP, l DEPTH AND DESIRE Finding both is not easy. Active TG seeks motivated, aroused, real playmate for trysts of all sorts. Inside, outside, day, night. If you are 50ish to 60ish, very fit and hot to trot, get in touch. 2PartsofDesire, 64, seeking: M, Cp, l

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I AM AMANDA FROM D.C. I’m not on Match, but I am on other apps. Slightly concerned I have a doppelgänger running around. Your description sounds uncannily like my profile, except for the location you spotted it. A little weirded out but also intrigued. Email me? (Also, other Amanda, please reach out!) When: Wednesday, January 19, 2022. Where: I Spy. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915492 INDIAN BROOK DOG WALKER Crossed your path. You were handsome and put together, and there was some auburn in your beard. Your dog’s bark was louder than her bite. She was a 4-y/o German shepherd who played with my little husky gal. I froze, literally and figuratively. Want to walk the dogs sometime? When: Sunday, January 16, 2022. Where: Indian Brook. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915491 MEHURONS GROCERY Me: in black bibs. You: in brown bibs and black hoodie. Locked eyes by the chips, I believe, and then I ended up in line behind you at checkout. I had a dream you gave me your number on a torn dollar bill. I can’t shake your eyes from my mind. When: Wednesday, January 12, 2022. Where: Mehurons grocery. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915490 MORE THAN A SLIM JIM You carelessly slid a Slim Jim and two barbecue-flavored, hard-boiled huevos onto the counter, sighing as if this meager snack was not going to satiate a burning hunger for much, much more. Your dark, mysterious eyes rose to meet my awe-stricken gaze. Trying on my deepest voice, I asked, “Is that all?” Your sly smile indicated that maybe it wasn’t. When: Tuesday, January 11, 2022. Where: 7-Eleven. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915487

LADY IN PURPLE AT WALGREENS I saw a polite, outgoing man. I was wearing a purple jacket and driving a black car. You were driving a large black truck. You impressed me. Would like to find out more about you. When: Thursday, January 13, 2022. Where: Walgreens. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915489 NECTAR’S TRIVIA BADDIE I see you every week. Your team is called Uncredited Bird #7; mine, A.M. Lumber. You always beat us by a small margin, and it makes me so mad but also kind of turns me on. You have long brown hair and effortlessly attractive facial hair. Hope to beat you (at trivia) soon. When: Thursday, December 16, 2021. Where: Nectar’s Thursday night Trivia. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915488 AMANDA FROM DC (ON MATCH) Your profile is wow! I’m not a member of that site, or I’d be messaging you directly. But I like all six of the three things you look for (as well as you making your own rules). Nice guy here, active and fun and single. Would really like to chat and see if there’s chemistry. I hope you see this. When: Friday, January 7, 2022. Where: Match.com. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915486 WELCOME TO MOE’S We glanced at each other when your friend pulled into the parking space directly across from where I was sitting, eating my burrito. You were in the passenger seat. I was wearing a black beanie hat with a navy blue jacket. As I was leaving, you were sitting with your friend, and we caught each other’s eyes again. Let’s meet up! When: Friday, December 31, 2021. Where: Moe’s in Williston. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915485

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Dear Reverend,

I was reading your reply to “Why Do I Pee During Masturbation?” online [January 15, 2020], and there were some things that weren’t answered for me. I have never had a sexual partner. I do masturbate, and even though I make sure to use the restroom beforehand, I always end up peeing. I also have never felt euphoric pleasure or a climax while masturbating. Other females and my friends talk about how great orgasms are, but all I get is pee. Everything about this situation is frustrating, and I don’t know what to do. Is this something I should talk to a doctor about?

Urethra Franklin

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DOMINO’S ON 12/30/21 6:30 p.m. You: tall, dark and handsome. Me: tiny, curly, long blond hair. You asked if we knew each other, and I jokingly replied in a whisper, “Probably the cover of Vogue magazine.” We both laughed. If you’re single and would like to spend some time together, please reply. I’d love to hear from you! When: Thursday, December 30, 2021. Where: Domino’s in Essex Junction. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915484 VAPS 2005 OR 2006 Hi, this is a long shot. We attended a VAPS conference in 2005, 2006, 2007, and you were sitting somewhere behind me and so noticed that my back hurt because I kept tortuously twisting my posture. You came up to me outside at break to empathetically comment on it. I’d like to meet again this person who was so kind. When: Monday, November 20, 2017. Where: VAPS conference at the von Trapp lodge. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915483 PEARL/WINOOSKI CROSSWALK We both crossed diagonally and went west on Pearl. After I removed my mask and put my glasses on for a better look, I glanced across the street and saw you looking, too! After a big smile, I turned north. When: Friday, December 31, 2021. Where: middle of Pearl and Winooski intersection. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915482

WILLISTON WHISTLER When I heard that it was so early in the morning, I may have said something in passing. Still sorry if it sounded sharp. But I wonder if you think about it. I do. I look around but never see you to say something nicer. If you see this and would like to chat, let me know! When: Monday, May 30, 2016. Where: in the stairway to heaven. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915480 MAD WAIT AT MAD TACO We made eyes and chatted it up, but you were with your son/nephew/ mentee, and I got shy. You were in a blue jacket, and I had a teal hat and a gray shirt. I almost went back in to give you my number, but this is more fun. When: Tuesday, December 28, 2021. Where: Mad Taco in Waitsfield. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915478 WINE AND CHEESE TRADERS You were coming out and had a large box filled with gifts. I was just entering. I held the door for you, and you said, “You are a gem.” I said “Thank you” but couldn’t think of what else to say. Thought maybe there was more? When: Wednesday, December 22, 2021. Where: Wine and Cheese Traders. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915477

DANCING AT HIGHER GROUND You said you watched me dance all night. You were with your friend. You said you were 51 like me. We laughed. I’d like to meet you again. You were blond, your friend brunette, and I was Mr. Clean. When: Saturday, November 27, 2021. Where: Higher Ground. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915481

GUMMY BEARS AT MICHAEL’S You: discussing your stepfather’s addiction to gummy bears. Me: describing the dinner I planned to cook. I noticed you the moment I walked into the store, feeling fortunate to start a conversation with you, thinking about you since, how I could find a way to introduce myself. Sending out positive vibes. Trying to manifest a second encounter between us. Hoping that you have been thinking about me, too. When: Sunday, December 12, 2021. Where: Michael’s, South Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915475

4RUNNER GRILLE GUARDS, WILLISTON You asked me where I got my grille guard outside of the Xfinity store. You were so pretty with your blond hair that I couldn’t stop myself from dropping several F-bombs as we talked briefly. I immediately started kicking myself for not giving you my number. Want to see if we have more in common than our vehicle choices? When: Thursday, December 30, 2021. Where: Williston. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915479

AVIATION DELI, AIRPORT DRIVE, BURLINGTON You: very handsome, ball cap on backward. Me: tan Carhartt jacket and camo cap ordering a sandwich. We locked eyes as you were heading to checkout, and you looked back numerous times, but then you left before I could. Was I imagining things, or were you interested? Would very much enjoy meeting over a beer. When: Tuesday, December 21, 2021. Where: Aviation Deli, South Burlington. You: Man. Me: Man. #915474

Dear Urethra Franklin, In the response that you refer to, I made the assumption that the letter writer was experiencing female ejaculation. I overlooked the possibility of a very common yet greatly underreported condition called coital incontinence. That’s just what it sounds like: urine leakage that happens during sexual activity, with a partner or solo. It can happen to men but is more common in women. It often occurs with penetration or orgasm, but not always.

THE MOMENT WE MET The moment we met, I knew it was you. I put my hands on yours to warm them up while ice skating. You were shocked. But maybe you were shocked because it was simply love. xoxo. When: Friday, January 25, 2019. Where: Charlotte, Vt. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915476 FOREST IN THE EASTWOOD Two strangers meeting for a fall hike. Two nature-loving woods wanderers. I love listening to your sexy voice, your smile and twinkling eyes, your amazing hugs and kisses. I shared my favorite spot with you. We can heal together. You know how to reach me when you are ready to start over and give us another chance. Dang! When: Friday, October 22, 2021. Where: Mount Horrid cliffs. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915472 SWEET AT DENNY’S You’re a waitress, and I kept stealing glances. You came up to compliment my son on his mask and explained you had a superhero Xmas tree at home. He was taken aback, and my chest fluttered and my ears got warm. Your personality matched that gorgeous expression and smiling eyes. Hope I’m lucky enough to meet you again one day! When: Saturday, December 11, 2021. Where: Shelburne Road Denny’s. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915470 WORKING AT SWEET CLOVER We chatted briefly at the Weird Meat fridge. I came in for coffee and a chance to say hello to you, but I lost my nerve. Catch up for a cup of coffee and another chance? You: slender, long straight hair, moving with purpose, making eye contact over your shoulder. When: Monday, November 22, 2021. Where: Essex. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915461 WORKING AT DUNKIN’ DONUTS IN MONTPELIER I only see you once or twice a week, early mornings. I would like to take you out for dinner and chat with you. When: Sunday, November 21, 2021. Where: Dunkin’ Donuts in Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915458 RE: LOST Deleting numbers is OK. Crossing paths is a sign. If you are her, we should connect. Tag! You’re it! When: Saturday, November 6, 2021. Where: crossing paths?. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915456

I’ve said this before, and I bet I’ll say it again: I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. And there’s only so much advice I can offer in 200 words. You should definitely discuss this with your physician. Make an appointment right now! Whatever the cause, there are treatments available, and hopefully you’ll be feeling yourself in no time. Good luck and God bless,

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