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COVID-19 relief funds could provide women and people of color with meaningful and lasting economic gains in the new, post-pandemic economy, according to advocates who hope to harness the unusual opportunities. The largest impact could come from the estimated $1.3 billion that Vermont expects to receive from the latest federal stimulus package. Vermont lawmakers had leeway over how to spend the last massive infusion of cash from a COVID-19 relief measure, the state’s $1.25 billion share of the March 2020 stimulus. That led to the creation of economic grant programs aimed at helping women and minority business owners, as well as some much-needed funding for childcare. This time around, advocates need to keep lawmakers focused on helping groups that have traditionally been left out, said Democratic Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, who convened a virtual meeting on Monday with 200 participants to talk about women and the Vermont economy. “We have a moment to think really strategically not only about how we get relief money out the door with this next amount of funding, but also: How do we recover stronger?” said Gray, who mentioned childcare and paid family leave as key examples of ways to help women stay in the workforce. “The moment is right in many ways to act.” Vermont women have suffered disproportionately from

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Tunnel Vision “‘Happy one-year pandemic anniversary,’ said no one ever” was the greeting on an email I received Sunday night. Indeed, we’ve been once around the sun since Gov. Phil Scott’s lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and everyone seems eager to mark the miserable milestone. The governor declared a state of emergency on March 13, 2020, and ordered the closure of all bars and restaurants on March 16 — one day before Saint Patrick’s Day. In that sad moment, all of us were Irish. A year later, there are many reasons for hope: effective vaccines, lengthening days, more aid money coming to individuals and businesses. At Seven Days, we are celebrating the return of help-wanted ads — the spring robins of our local economy. Scott’s favorite metaphor these days is the “light at the end of the tunnel,” and the image is a welcome contrast to the darkness of 2020. But the fact is: Most of us are still in a tight spot, trying to estimate the distance between here and the place where we will emerge, like released hostages, into the sunlight. Stuck so close to freedom, we worry: What if a car breaks down in front of us? Do those emergency phones really work? A longtime claustrophobe, I’m recalling a dark, five-mile tunnel in Iceland that narrowed to one lane in the middle, with pull-off spots for the oncoming cars. My partner and I had no idea what we were getting into and, thank God, had the right of way. The question of “Who goes first?” has complicated the final phase of this epic public health crisis. Once in it together, with most of us taking precautions to protect each other, we’ve become more competitive near the exit. It makes total sense for older Vermonters to get vaccinated first, and witnessing their liberation has been thrilling. I love the idea of seniors painting the town red, restaurants catering to the early-bird crowd. Ditto for health care workers, teachers and people with underlying medical conditions. But it is hard to wait while others are able to see friends and family, to watch while planes fill and vacation places get snapped up. The closer the end of the tunnel, the more anxious everyone is to get there. The best antidotes are patience and empathy. Chelsea Edgar’s cover story this week is about three single moms and what they’ve gone through to keep their kids, jobs and lives together over the last year. As Edgar notes, “Single working mothers have borne the psychic and economic brunt of the If you like what we do and can afford to help pandemic.” On Monday, International Women’s pay for it, become a Seven Days Super Reader! Day, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Look for the “Give Now” buttons at the top of confirmed it. sevendaysvt.com. Or send a check with your Edgar’s perceptive, in-depth reporting address and contact info to: suggests: No matter how challenging the last 12 SEVEN DAYS, C/O SUPER READERS months have been for you and yours, someone P.O. BOX 1164 BURLINGTON, VT 05402-1164 else has probably had it tougher. That realization is worth remembering when this isolating ordeal For more information on making a financial is finally over. contribution to Seven Days, please contact Corey Grenier:

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new industry is waiting to be born in Vermont, but our probusiness governor seems strangely reluctant to ease it into life. Two dozen Vermont communities voted last week to allow retail cannabis sales within their borders. Only three municipalities that considered the question on their Town Meeting Day ballots rejected it. There’s clearly widespread public support for allowing legal retail sales for recreational use of marijuana in Vermont. After years of fits and starts, lawmakers sent Gov. PHIL SCOTT a 102-page bill legalizing the sale of cannabis products starting in 2022. They made the handoff in September 2020, at the end of the pandemicfractured legislative session. Scott apparently didn’t want to veto the popular measure with an election just weeks away, so he let it become law without his signature. Scott’s long-standing lack of enthusiasm for retail pot sales was apparent again last week. The Berlin resident was on the losing side when his central Vermont town opted to host cannabis shops. “Just a personal preference,” Scott said of his vote against the municipal ballot item. “If I had a choice of locating a vape shop in Berlin, I would feel the same … It’s just my personal choice.” Scott said he was “not upset about it. It’s just I’m on the losing end, and it’s legal in Vermont, and we’ll go from here.” Last year’s law set January 8, 2021, as the deadline for the governor to appoint the three members of a new Cannabis Control Board. The board will license growers, retailers and other industry players and is key to getting retail sales up and running in Vermont. Scott still hasn’t made the appointments, and some legalization advocates are asking whether the governor is slow-walking the process. “If you really want to get something done, you get it done,” said SCOTT SPARKS, owner of the Vermont Hempicurean CBD store in Brattleboro, who is planning to expand his business to include legal THCbased products. JASON MAULUCCI, Scott’s press secretary, pushed back. The retail sales measure didn’t become law until October, four

months later than in a typical legislative Scott made passage of the marijuana bill cycle. It set up a cumbersome process difficult with his insistence for years that for appointments to the board, and Scott he would not support it until there was a warned in a letter to lawmakers that meet- way to test whether drivers were impaired ing a January deadline would be difficult. by pot, just as breath tests are used to “The timeline which anticipates the combat drunken driving. recruitment, nomination and appoint“Gov. Scott has a long history of workment of the cannabis ing to delay legalization,” control board members Silberman said. “So I, for by January 8, 2021, with one, am not surprised senate advice and consent he is ignoring the legal by January 15, 2021 is too timelines set forth in Act aggressive and may need 164 and taking his time. to be extended,” Scott I suspect he is doing that wrote at the time. because he thinks it will S C O T T S PAR K S The governor first had delay the rollout and delay to appoint seven members of a special the launch of the retail market.” nominating committee to recommend The law requires that retail licenses be people to serve on the board. “We received issued — the final step before businesses a list back from them about two weeks ago,” can open — by October 2022. (Existing Maulucci said. “Our office has begun inter- medical marijuana dispensaries could views of those applicants. We are making obtain licenses and start selling to the good progress given the time constraints.” public in May 2022.) DAVE SILBERMAN, a Middlebury-based But it also includes a long and complex attorney and Addison County high bailiff, to-do list for the board to complete first. believes that’s not good enough. He said It must devise rules for shop security,

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advertising and a host of other issues; establish procedures to review applications for licenses; and, eventually, vet would-be sellers. As the weeks pile up past the January 8 deadline, Silberman said, Scott is “hurting the state, and he’s hurting his own future appointees to this board, and he’s hurting other people in his administration who are going to be involved in this because he’s jamming them.” Rep. SARAH COPELAND HANZAS (D-Bradford), chair of the House Government Operations Committee, identified another hurdle: Some of the Cannabis Control Board’s decisions will need to be ratified by the legislature. “The reason the timeline was set the way it was is that there are certain actions the legislature needs to take in order to establish the industry,” she said. “And if we don’t get recommendations or requests for those appropriations or a request for the fee structure from the Cannabis Control Board this session, then it’s going to be another year before any of this gets done.”

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If the process drags out into 2023, Sparks said, he can maintain Vermont Hempicurean as a going concern based on selling his CBD products and grow supplies. But he’s close to finalizing a deal on a new and larger space. “Long-term, I need the cannabis business to make the new location financially viable,” he said. Copeland Hanzas said she has asked occasionally what was taking the governor’s office so long. “It would appear that it’s just not a priority, which is unfortunate, because this is a new industry. There are businesses who are waiting to apply for licenses to be able to produce or sell, and this is the first real, new economic development opportunity we have had in this state for a long time. New industry, new jobs, new revenue for the state,” she said. “I can’t quite fathom what the holdup is.” I’m going to stick up for the governor on this one. Maulucci said the office currently is reviewing 45 applications for the three seats on the board. It doesn’t sound like anyone’s sitting on their hands. Government processes just take time. If the board isn’t in place until May or June, perhaps it can produce its recommended license fee structure and take the other next steps by late summer, in time for a one-day special session of the legislature to issue its approvals and keep the process moving. I’m also sympathetic to the frustration of legalization advocates. They’ve been waiting a long time for this eminently reasonable step to come to pass. In early 2018, Vermont legalized possession of up to an ounce of cannabis, but only now is it on the cusp of authorizing retail sales of cannabis products. We’re almost there, folks. Perhaps the best advice for the time being is to take out the stuff you picked up on your last pass through Greenfield, Mass., fill up a bowl and relax.

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about men dominating the discussion — both reporters asking questions and public officials responding to them — at Gov. Scott’s twice-weekly news conferences. “Man on the beat: Men outnumber, and out-talk, women at governor’s press conferences,” the headline said. But as I finished Petenko’s story and perused the rest of the site, my eye landed on a boldface pair of words in an ad on the right-hand side of the page. “Muff Diver,” it said, and in smaller type “Coming up for air since ’69” and “Exploring the realm of the bearded clam.” Some crude artwork accompanied the slogans. The display was on one of several T-shirts being advertised by a web-based company. It was jarring, especially to someone who’d just been reading and thinking about sexism in the media. As I looked into how this happened, I learned some things. First and foremost, the same ad has appeared on the Seven Days website in recent days. Yikes! I talked both with JIM LEHNHOFF, chief revenue officer at VTDigger, and DON EGGERT, associate publisher and creative director at Seven Days, and they gave similar explanations. Media outlets sometimes have extra space on their websites that they have not sold to local advertisers, so they run national ads that are produced by internet ad networks. Those networks operate as a go-between for national companies that want to sell their products in local markets but don’t want to negotiate with every small- to medium-size media outlet in the country. They sometimes show ads to individuals based on their web browsing history, but I don’t think I’d been shopping for T-shirts on my work laptop. Staff at the local media outlets do not see the ads in question before they pop up on their sites. And therefore, some might argue, the news sites can’t be held accountable. I’m going to push back on that a bit. Local media have a choice about how much of the national ad stream to serve up to their consumers. I acknowledge the strong financial incentive, especially during the hard times brought on by the pandemic. But there is some responsibility here. Lehnhoff said last Friday that he was “horrified” by the ad and VTDigger would block that particular advertiser from appearing on its website. Eggert said he would talk with others in leadership at Seven Days before making such a decision. I hope they, too, figure out a way to block these ads. m

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It struck me as a welcome challenge when more than 50 prominent Vermonters signed a January 25 letter calling out the Vermont press corps, of which I’m a longtime member, for too many genderbased stereotypes in our coverage. Alerted to some of the sexist language that had appeared in VTDigger.org, ANNE GALLOWAY, founding editor of the online news site, said she was “frankly embarrassed that our organization has been part of the problem” and promised reforms. Last week, VTDigger ran an excellent story under the byline of its data reporter,

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ermont Gov. Phil Scott announced on March 2 that correctional staff would be among those next in line for a coronavirus vaccine. But he had a different message for their charges, saying inmates, “like the rest of us,” would need to “wait their turn.” For many, it was already too late. That same evening, the state revealed that an outbreak at the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport had spread to more than 120 inmates, the most inside a Vermont prison since the pandemic began. “This is a significant and critical event,” interim Corrections Commissioner Jim Baker said at a press conference, “and it’s requiring all hands on deck.” 14

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The outbreak has once again demonstrated the vulnerability of prisons to the coronavirus and has renewed pressure on the Scott administration to give priority to inmates as it rolls out the long-awaited vaccines. State officials have so far resisted, citing a moral obligation to preserve life by protecting those most likely to die of COVID-19. But prisoner advocates say Vermont has made repeated exceptions to this rule without offering a good reason to keep inmates off the list. The state has a duty to protect those in its care, advocates say, and the Newport situation shows the perils of further delay. “These are people that cannot keep themselves safe. They cannot choose to

isolate themselves in ways that the rest of us can,” said Brenda Siegel, a southern Vermont activist who has long advocated on behalf of the prison population. “Their sentence did not include COVID-19. One hundred percent, this outbreak is on Phil Scott. He had the tools and the power to prevent this, and he chose not to.” When state leaders released an initial draft of their vaccine rollout plan last November, people in group living settings such as nursing homes and prisons were among those first in line. But the Scott administration removed inmates from the list after learning that the federal ‘CESSPOOL OF COVID-19’

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State Aims to Vaccinate More BIPOC Vermonters With New Rule B Y A N N E WA L L A C E A L L EN anne@sevendaysvt.com A new state rule Vermont officials unveiled on Tuesday is intended to increase the rate at which Black, Indigenous and other people of color are vaccinated against COVID-19. Starting next week, BIPOC Vermonters eligible for a vaccine can bring household members to be inoculated, even if they aren’t otherwise eligible. The state employed a similar strategy for New American households. The move comes in response to data that show BIPOC Vermonters have been more likely to be infected with COVID-19, Health Commissioner Mark Levine said on Tuesday during one of two weekly briefings on the coronavirus. They are also less likely to obtain vaccinations than white, non-Hispanic Vermonters, he said. BIPOC Vermonters make up only 6 percent of the state’s population but have had 18 percent of its COVID-19 cases, Levine said, with significantly higher rates of hospitalization. About 20 percent of white Vermonters have received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared to 9 percent of Black Vermonters and 3.8 percent of Indigenous Vermonters. Nationally, research shows that only about 42 percent of Black people say they will definitely get the vaccine, compared to 60 percent of white people, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. “We are working with community organizations to try to rebuild the trust in public health that has eroded through historical injustices, and to expand access to education and outreach,” Levine said. The news comes as case counts have risen recently in Vermont. There were 901 new cases during the week ending on Monday, compared to 694 the week before, Finance Commissioner Michael Pieciak told reporters. The rise amounts to about 130 new cases per day. The weekly number was the highest the state had reported in a month. Despite the high number of cases, Pieciak said hospitalization rates are falling, and he expects death rates to decrease in the coming weeks. Some of it has to do with a vaccine campaign that has targeted the elderly and others most at risk of serious illness from COVID-19. The state had vaccinated 127,500 people against COVID-19 as of Tuesday, and 68,900 of them were fully covered by first and last doses. “There are greater reasons for hope today than at any other time during the pandemic,” Pieciak said.

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the 48 percent he earned in a three-way race in 2018. Heading into this year’s contest, Weinberger was coming off his toughest term yet, having contended with a social media scandal, protests demanding justice for people harmed by police, and a lawsuit over the stalled CityPlace Burlington project. But he also offered stability during an unprecedented pandemic and a record of financial know-how, possible factors in convincing a plurality of voters to stay the course. Tracy had promised fundamental change after nine years of “Status Quo Miro,” but his support for cutting the police force last summer may have turned off more moderate voters. On the campaign trail, Weinberger blamed the

“Vermonters sent a message last night, and I heard it. I heard it loud and clear,” Shumlin said then. “We have faced our share of setbacks in the past couple of years, and I know that people are disappointed in how I’ve handled some issues. I recognize that I have work to do to regain the confidence of many Vermonters.” Tracy also saw parallels to that election. “When an incumbent has a really close race like this, it can be really difficult to come out of that,” he said. If Weinberger is shaken by the election results, he’s certainly not showing it. The mayor said he’s feeling “upbeat” about his fourth term and is confident he’ll find consensus with the Progs on issues such as the climate crisis and pandemic recovery — plans he said he’ll detail in his State of the City address early next month.

in folks’ minds around some of the decisions that have been made,” he said, adding that Weinberger “will need to show progress on a number of fronts.” Weinberger said he’s optimistic that he and the Progs will find “some agreement” on policing issues. He said he’s already reached out to Councilor Perri Freeman (P-Central District), who had proposed the oversight board, about “how to move forward with a second try at that.” He noted that Progs rejected his proposal to bolster the police roster, but they agreed with his plan to hire unarmed social workers and other civilian specialists to assist with nonemergency calls. “It’s really important that we find consensus where we can,” Weinberger said of police issues generally. “I’m committed to doing the hard work to get there.”

The issues that have historically divided Weinberger from the Progressives, such as policing, are another question. Before the election, both sides had essentially drawn lines in the sand: Democrats backed Weinberger’s plan last month to raise the minimum officer cap by 10, but Progs dug in their heels and, with Dieng’s support, voted it down. Late last year, Progressives proposed creating a citizenled “control board” to investigate cops for misconduct; Weinberger vetoed it on New Year’s Eve. To Progressives, the close election is evidence that their policing agenda isn’t as radical as Democrats have claimed. Tracy, for one, said the mayor shouldn’t reject Progs’ proposals out of hand. “I would hope that he recognizes that these results really signal some real doubts

Councilor Zoraya Hightower (P-Ward 1) said she hopes Weinberger follows through on that promise. The mayor’s inadequate approach to police reform, she said, has focused on “more training” and “policy tweaks” instead of wholesale reform. Hightower also lobbied for a ballot question to use ranked-choice voting for city council elections and another to ban no-cause evictions. Weinberger opposed the first and took no public position on the second. Both measures passed with more than 60 percent support, which gave Progressives and “center-leaning councilors” a mandate to push an aggressive agenda, according to Hightower. If Weinberger continues to veto council proposals, as he has twice in recent months, “I don’t think it’ll go down well with the public,” she said. “I would

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Shelburne Farms is raising money to buy back a 4.5-acre lot in the heart of its farmlands on Lake Champlain. The parcel, which is listed on Trulia for $3.3 million, includes sweeping views of the Adirondacks and access to two lake beaches. The former hayfield is one of four plots with long-term leases that the Shelburne Farms nonprofit, created in 1984, sold the following year to raise money for restoration work and programs on its now 1,400-acre property. The buyers in 1985 paid more than the appraised value for three of the leaseholds — essentially, very long leases — as a way of helping the new nonprofit, said Alec Webb, a fourth-generation member of the family that established Shelburne Farms and the president of the nonprofit. The lot is now owned by a Lintilhac family trust, according to Shelburne town records. Shelburne Farms in recent years borrowed money from other conservation groups to buy back two other leaseholds in that area, known as Windmill Hill. Webb would like the property that is for sale to remain undeveloped and be returned to the nonprofit. But demand for building lots and homes in Chittenden County is high. According to a January market report from the Vermont Association of Realtors, the number of listings in Chittenden County dropped by about one-third from January 2020 to January 2021, while the median sales price rose 10 percent. “A very rare opportunity to build your home on Shelburne Farms and enjoy the lands and trails on this iconic property,” the listing says. Shelburne Farms is located on the former estate of William Seward Webb and Lila Vanderbilt Webb, who from 1886 to 1902 consolidated several smaller farms into a showplace that focused on innovations in agriculture. Shelburne Farms is now a busy educational organization. “In the normal course of events, Shelburne Farms would have become just a subdivision,” Webb said. “But what it’s really becoming is this amazing protected area for agriculture and education and this walking trail network.” He said the area has drawn more visitors than usual in the last year as local people look for places to stroll outside during COVID-19. Shelburne Farms has right of first refusal for the property, Webb said. “Our long-term dream would be to see the Windmill Hill area incorporated back into the farm’s larger core protected area,” Webb said. m

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Max Tracy (right) after learning he lost the mayoral election by 129 votes

Progs for the city’s current police staffing issues, and Progs accused the mayor of fearmongering. Weinberger raised more campaign cash than he had in previous races and ultimately won, but his share of the total vote dipped in all eight city wards. Tracy, as council president, will continue to set the body’s legislative agenda, which has leaned far left since he took the gavel a year ago. The close call has drawn comparisons to the 2014 Vermont governor’s race, when Democrat Peter Shumlin won his third term by just 2,434 votes over a relatively unknown Republican opponent, Scott Milne. The incumbent appeared chastened when he addressed reporters in Burlington’s City Hall Park the day after the election.

Dieng, who is often a swing vote on the council, thinks it’s on Weinberger to work with Progressives. The public has expressed support for Progressive ideas, and if Weinberger comes on board now, his party will fare better in future elections, Dieng said. “He just needs to play it smart,” Dieng said of the mayor. “I think that’s his only way forward.” Councilor-elect Barlow, who ran on a centrist platform against Democrat/ Progressive Kienan Christianson, said the election results indicate that the city is more divided than ever. Barlow, who doesn’t intend to caucus with Dems or Progs, said the two sides need to work together for the good of the city, not just their party. “Miro has tried to reach out and tried to accommodate all views and sides,” he said. “Being newly elected, I’ll try to do the same. I want to work on building bridges.” Polyte, of the Progressive steering committee, said she’d like to see Weinberger involve the public more in his decision making by going on listening tours, visiting Neighborhood Planning Assembly meetings or assembling task forces to vet complicated issues. Policy aside, both Tracy and Dieng’s campaigns won votes because they elevated voices from marginalized communities, Polyte argued. Weinberger can learn from that, she said. “When you create opportunities to actually listen to all that diversity, you will find common themes, and then you can move forward on those,” Polyte said. “I hope as our mayor that [Weinberger will] be really modeling that, because it will make our city stronger.” m

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Dispute Over Parking Could Delay CityPlace Burlington Construction BY C O UR TNE Y L AMD IN • courtney@sevendaysvt.com The redesigned CityPlace Burlington project won unanimous approval from the city’s Development Review Board last week, but a group of opponents is already planning to appeal the permit. Burlington-based attorney John Franco is representing four residents — Steve Goodkind, Michael Long, Lynn Martin and Barbara McGrew — in the pending appeal. He says the 422 parking spaces planned for the project aren’t enough to support 426 residential units, let alone vehicles from shoppers and downtown workers. “I call it the ‘more cows than people’ problem,” Franco said, referring to the saying that Vermont’s bovines outnumber its humans. “That’s why we’re appealing. This will be a disaster for the downtown.” Once the developers have the permit in hand, Franco said, he’ll file an appeal in environmental court. The news comes just as CityPlace developers have finally settled a legal challenge brought by the city last fall. They aim to start construction late this summer or early fall, but the appeal could derail those plans, said Dave Farrington, one of the project partners. “We have four people that are basically controlling the destiny of 45,000 people that want to see this thing built,” he said. Franco’s clients sued the developers over the original, 14-story project in 2017. That suit resulted in a settlement that Franco says called for 967 parking spaces to be built. He says that agreement is still enforceable but that his clients would agree to “an equitable adjustment in the number

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encourage him to [instead] find a seat at the table.” Weinberger, however, has already indicated he won’t support at least two Progendorsed policies. On election night, just hours after ranked-choice voting passed with overwhelming support, Weinberger told reporters that he would oppose extending the voting system to mayoral elections. And he told Seven Days last week that while he supports the concept of a $15 minimum wage on a national scale, he’s not sure he’d back a proposal specific to Burlington. Councilor Freeman had floated a minimum wage proposal last year. Weinberger said it will be challenging to find common ground on some proposals but that having those conversations “has the potential to bring out the best in us.” “There’s a real difference of opinion about how we go forward,” Weinberger said. “We’re going to be stuck if we don’t find a way to work through that.” Councilor Joan Shannon (D-South District), a staunch Weinberger supporter, said the Progs can push for bold policies but that the close election doesn’t give them a mandate to advance their agenda. Weinberger actually tallied more votes this March than in any prior election, Shannon said. And while 57 percent of voters may have preferred a candidate other than Weinberger, practically the same number of voters chose someone other than Tracy, she noted. Dieng took 13 percent of the vote while four other lesser-known independents earned a combined 2 percent. Tracy had “a very strong showing,” Shannon said, “but he does not have a majority with him any more than Miro does.”

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of parking spaces” since CityPlace has been scaled back to two 10-story buildings. City zoning has changed since 2017, too. The regulations don’t require any new parking for projects proposed in the district that includes the CityPlace property. Instead of setting parking minimums, the new ordinance enforces parking maximums. The 422 planned spaces are 45 short of the total allowed under the new rules. “We’re providing as much [parking] as we can within the footprint of the project right now, by code, and he’s not happy,” Farrington said of Franco. Franco argues that the Development Review Board should have reviewed the project by the older parking standards, not the new rule, but the city disagrees. In a memo to board members, assistant city attorney Kimberlee Sturtevant wrote that applications for projects that have changed substantially are “reviewed under current regulations.” m

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news ‘Cesspool of COVID-19’ « P.14 government would be sending fewer doses than anticipated. Since then, Vermont’s vaccination plan has targeted two main groups: those most likely to die — the elderly and people with chronic medical conditions — and those most likely to get infected, beginning with health care workers and emergency responders. The state has expanded criteria for both of these groups in recent weeks as the vaccine supply has grown; by month’s end, eligible Vermonters will include teachers, corrections officers, childcare providers and people above the age of 16 with certain chronic conditions. While some states have excluded inmates from their plans entirely, Vermont has instead treated them like the rest of the population, allowing them to get vaccinated if they meet the age requirements. Only 37 people within Vermont’s in-state prison system have been vaccinated so far, but officials say many more will soon be eligible due to chronic conditions. People ages 16 and older with chronic conditions can start signing up this week. Advocates say the state’s plan lacks the necessary urgency. “For too long, the governor has ignored the fact that incarcerated Vermonters are at heightened risk of harm,” James Lyall, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, said in a statement last week. “That approach is dangerous and inhumane.” Health experts warned at the start of the pandemic that prisons would be hotbeds for the coronavirus, and data compiled by the Associated Press and the Marshall Project, a journalism nonprofit focused on criminal justice, have confirmed that theory. More than 380,000 prisoners — one in every four — have tested positive nationwide, a rate four times higher than the general population. Similar disparities have played out in Vermont. More than 410 of the state’s 1,250 inmates overall have tested positive. One hundred and eighty-five cases are attributed to an August outbreak among Vermont’s out-of-state prison population housed at the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in Mississippi, a state that is also not giving priority to inmates. But the Newport outbreak has spiked Vermont’s in-state case count, too, and roughly one in every five in-state inmates has now tested positive — nearly 10 times the rate of the general population. “Every time I hear the governor say [in] the last number of months that you can’t join people from other households, I wonder how people who are less in control of their situation — people who are incarcerated or people who are 18

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in homeless shelters — can possibly comply,” said Michael Fisher, chief health care advocate at Vermont Legal Aid, who sits on the panel charged with forming the state’s vaccination plan. Fisher said the state has a “special responsibility” to inmates and should vaccinate them at the same time as correctional staff. It wouldn’t take much: Vermont would need to use just 7 percent of its weekly vaccine supply to get a shot in the arm of every one of its 1,070 inmates. Explaining why the state hasn’t taken that step, Scott said last Friday that giving priority to inmates would require that the state divert doses from people with chronic conditions. At that same press

criteria, leading them to believe that the Scott administration is allowing politics to influence its decisions. “Inmates are, in a lot of the population’s eyes, less important,” said Marny Lewis, whose husband, Michael Lewis, is incarcerated at the Newport prison. The Scott administration has argued that Vermont can still shield prisons while conserving doses by immunizing prison staff, since that should theoretically cut down on the ways in which the virus can enter the facility; the Department of Corrections has restricted access to prisons throughout the pandemic by reducing contracted services and suspending all in-person visits. A total of 81 prison workers have been infected

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briefing, however, he said vaccinating teachers would not come at the expense of the most vulnerable. “This is an extra supply that we found that we had that we weren’t anticipating,” he said. Asked to explain those seemingly conflicting stances, Scott deflected, pointing out that dozens of other groups have lobbied the state for a place higher on the list. “Every category, every situation, every profession — we have dozens and dozens and dozens of people who want to be put in the front of the line, even before the offender population,” he said. “We work on data and science,” he added, “and the data doesn’t prove the fact that [inmates] are more susceptible [to dying] than anyone else.” Vermont is the only state not to report any inmate COVID-19 deaths to date. But advocates and families of inmates argue that the state isn’t considering other groups — such as teachers — by the same

since the pandemic began, including 16 in the recent Newport outbreak. “Once we take care of that, we should be able to clear up the problem,” Scott said. Scott’s decision to prioritize correctional staff over inmates clashes with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is encouraging states to vaccinate both groups simultaneously because of their “shared increased risk of disease.” The defend-theperimeter approach also has clear limitations. The state will not be mandating that corrections employees be immunized, and experience from other sectors suggests that some will turn down the vaccine. That means prisoners could still come into contact with unvaccinated workers who are unwittingly carrying the virus, raising the chances of an outbreak. Acknowledging as much last Friday, Scott said no approach was foolproof. “Even the vaccine itself isn’t 100 percent effective,” he said.

The benefit of vaccinating prisons extends beyond the facilities themselves, advocates say, because the prison population is constantly in flux. “Individuals could get picked up on a furlough violation and be put in the facility for a week,” said Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George, who for months has been calling for inmates to be vaccinated. When they are released, they then run the risk of bringing the virus back into their communities. A study from the Prison Policy Initiative, a research nonprofit devoted to reducing mass incarceration, found that outbreaks in jails and prisons across the country contributed to nearly 500,000 additional infections within the greater community between just May and August 2020, with both prison staff and inmates contributing to the spread. “The best answer is to vaccinate everyone,” said Fisher, the Vermont Legal Aid attorney. It’s hard to know whether corrections leaders share that view. Baker, the interim commissioner, refused to say at a press conference last week whether he had pushed the governor to vaccinate all inmates, saying only that he was “advocating all the time” for the prison system. He said more and more prisoners would be vaccinated in the coming weeks. Corrections officials say the Newport outbreak has slowed in recent days; another round of testing last Thursday revealed only eight additional cases. But inmates remain concerned for their safety. On Monday, a St. Johnsbury defense attorney filed emergency motions seeking the release of two clients due to the danger posed by the outbreak. And several family members who spoke to Seven Days last week said their loved ones have shared troubling accounts of the scene inside the prison. “My husband’s scared to death,” said Marny Lewis, noting that he has so far managed to avoid getting infected. “It’s basically a cesspool of COVID-19.” Others haven’t been so lucky. “My whole body hurts,” Scott Favreau wrote in an email to his mother late last month after testing positive. “My throat is sore. My head hurts so bad I want to smash it off something.” Another mother — who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution against her infected son — said she had initially supported the Scott administration’s vaccine rollout plan, viewing it as a levelheaded approach. But the outbreak has shown her it was a mistake not to vaccinate prisoners first, she said, and state leaders’ refusal to change course after the fact has left her with only one takeaway. “I hate to say it,” she said, “but I think that these people just don’t matter very much to them.” m

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SEPTEMBER 28, 1931-MARCH 2, 2021 BURLINGTON, VT. David B. Gaylord, 89, of Burlington, Vt., passed away peacefully at home on March 2, 2021, surrounded by his family following a sixmonth battle with glioblastoma. David was born on September 28, 1931, in Northfield, Vt., to Richard H. and Irene (Biorklund) Gaylord, the youngest of three children. His mother passed away soon after his birth. His father was remarried to Elsie Ehlert from Brooklyn, N.Y., who was the woman David knew as his mother. David grew up in Northfield and went on to graduate from the University of Vermont in 1953. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in Germany between 1953 and 1955. He was in the Vermont National Guard from 1955 to1957, leaving as a captain. When he returned to Vermont from Germany in 1955, he started dating Carol Sunderland, and they were married on June 23, 1956, in the St. Albans First Baptist Church. David and Carol settled into their “home for life” in the New North End of Burlington and soon had three children. He started his 35-year banking career at the Vermont Federal Bank in Burlington, retiring as executive vice president in 1990. David was involved in many organizations over the years. He was an active member of the Burlington First Baptist Church. He served on boards and committees including Burlington Meals on Wheels, Converse Home, Vermont Baptist Home, United Way Fund Campaign, VT League of Savings and Loan Association, and Vermont Bankers Association Executive Committee. Upon David’s retirement, he volunteered for years in the Tax Aide program, running the local program for the AARP. David suffered a heart attack in 1993 and underwent quadruple bypass surgery. He soon became a dedicated participant at the UVM Medical Center’s Cardiac Rehab Program for 26 years (only stopping attendance when COVID-19 closed the gym). He was very thankful for the guidance of Dr. Ades and his health care team, and grateful for the many good friends he made among the other participants. David may have been a banker for 35 years, but his true loves were woodworking and fixing things. David was not content unless he was working on some project, big or small. These included overseeing multiple additions and updates to the Gaylord home, building handy step stools for every member of the

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family, making wooden cut-outs of classic houses he would give as gifts, and working on any item that needed fixing or improvement. He truly had an engineer’s brain that he put to great use around the home. Throughout David’s retirement, he made a great effort to stay connected to his old classmates, past coworkers, neighbors, friends from cardiac rehab and extended family. He quickly learned the use of email for easy communication and never hesitated to pick up the phone to call someone just to chat or tell them some new discovery he had just made. He was the one checking in on the cardiac rehab friend that had not shown up in the last week and the one planning the next high school reunion. David was well known in his neighborhood for “keeping an eye” on things. He truly valued all the relationships he had over the years and made a great effort to sustain them. David’s other enjoyment in retirement was keeping up on all of his grandchildren. He was a wonderful grandfather who attended sporting events and was always willing to help on any school or home project. David is survived by his wife of 64 years, Carol; son Peter Gaylord (wife Vicki) of Burlington, Vt.; daughter Sarah Narkewicz (husband Brian) of Milton, Vt.; daughter Lucia Ryan (husband Tom) of Shelburne, Vt.; eight grandchildren, Alanna Gaylord, Ethan Gaylord, Jesse Narkewicz (wife Alison), David Narkewicz (wife Katie), Rachel Narkewicz, Maggie Albertson (husband Mark), Ella Ryan and Will Ryan; three great-grandchildren, Luke, Aubrey and Calvin Narkewicz; sister-in-law Miriam Sargent; and many nieces and nephews. David was predeceased by his sister Alma Synakowski of Utica, N.Y., and his brother Richard Gaylord of Huntsville, Ala. David and Carol are grateful to Dr. Frank Landry for the many years of helpful and compassionate medical care. They are thankful to the UVM Medical Hospice team for all the help and guidance through these last months. The family also wishes to thank all the friends and neighbors for the love and support that have been provided to David and Carol over these past months. Please consider a donation in David’s memory to Burlington First Baptist Church, 81 St. Paul St., Burlington, VT 05401 or UVM Home Health and Hospice, 1110 Prim Rd., Colchester, VT 05446 Services for David will be private and at the convenience of the family. Arrangements are in care of Corbin and Palmer Funeral Home.

Debra Ann Verrinder MARCH 30, 1952-FEBRUARY 26, 2021 GARNER, N.C.

After a brave and valiant fight against pancreatic cancer, Debra Ann Verrinder, 68, of Garner, N.C., passed away on Friday, February 26, 2021. She was born on March 30, 1952, in Middlebury, Vt., to the late Wayne and Frederica (Miller) Perry. She was predeceased by her son William Verrinder IV; her brothers George and Wayne Perry; her sister Joanne Perry; and her aunt and uncle, Margaret and Frank Mirabito. She is survived by her husband, Dennis Verrinder; her two sons William Verrinder V and Conrad Verrinder, both of Maine; her two daughters, Tanya Rowe and Hattie Jane Verrinder, both of North Carolina; a son-in-law, Chris Rowe; and two grandchildren, Patrick and Claire. She is also survived by her many siblings, Margaret Hudak and Martha Perry, both of Connecticut; Robert

Perry of New Hampshire; and Donald Perry, Sarah Davis, Linda Winney, Elizabeth Warnecke, and Susan and Frederick Perry, all of Vermont; as well as cousins Dianne and John Howe, and Sue and Perry Mirabito. Deb was blessed with several nieces and nephews. Prior to retiring, Deb was employed by the U.S. Postal Service. Deb was a kind, thoughtful, caring and gentle spirit, loved by many. She enjoyed being in nature and held a special place in her heart for the beautiful sounds of her tweety bird. Deb loved all animals and was well known to care for stray cats in need of food, shelter and love. Deb was an avid writer. A family graveside memorial will be held later this spring at the Orwell Cemetery in Orwell, Vt. Donations can be made to Rescue Ur Forever Friend (RUFF), 463 W. Garner Road, Garner, NC 27529. Arrangements are entrusted to City of Oaks Cremation and Funeral Home in Raleigh, N.C.

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JULY 14, 1960-FEBRUARY 15, 2021 WINOOSKI, VT. “I have now declared myself Poet Laureate of the Salmon Hole just below the Winooski Dam. I’m thinking about declaring myself music director as well. Perhaps I put up a plaque.” —Laban Hill, March 20, 2016 Laban Hill, the father, author, performer, friend; the teacher, brother, colleague; the son, neighbor, citizen, poet and person, died in his home on February 15, 2021, in Winooski, Vt., at age 60. He is remembered dearly by his family, daughters Natalie and Ella, ex-wife Elise Whittemore, sister Susan Pfau and mother Kay Colby. Laban was a first and foremost a storyteller. Here’s a story about Laban. He grew up in Memphis, Tenn., in the 1960s. After graduation, Laban moved to New York and enrolled at NYU, where he connected to the St. Mark’s Poetry Project and began his lifelong love of poetry. Over the next decade he pursued his education at Baruch College and later at Columbia University, where he earned an MFA in poetry. In his early twenties, Laban worked as a sales assistant at the New Yorker, where he met Elise Whittemore, whom he later married. Laban soon entered publishing, working at several houses, including Scholastic. Intrigued by the Choose Your Own Adventure series, he phoned the editor to propose writing one, only to find out they did not hire authors who lived in New York. As if it were an adventure to be replotted, Laban and Elise had their first daughter, Natalie, in Brooklyn, and shortly thereafter they moved to Vermont. He returned to the editor with his new Vermont bona fides and was hired for many books in the Choose Your Own Adventure series. After his second daughter, Ella, was born, Laban created his own series, the Extreme Sports Mysteries, in which both Natalie and Ella were featured as characters. In Vermont, Laban wrote over 30 books, including the National Book Award finalist Harlem Stomp!, the Caldecott Honor awardee Dave the Potter, America Dreaming and When the Beat Was Born. Beyond writing, Laban had a passion for the oral tradition of storytelling and how it allowed for wild twists of extemporaneous invention and humor. With his daughters in

tow, Laban took his Jack Tales to schools, coffee shops, libraries and ski lodges across Vermont. In these tales Jack uses his cleverness and bravado to outwit giants, magical creatures and even death. As he laid out the heroic and bumbling adventures of Jack, Laban would tell the story with his whole body. He often brought outrageously absurd props, like an ironing board that served as a snowboard, or a whole watermelon (expertly perforated) to smash over his head. Teaching was his lifeline, though, and when all else was distant, it gave him a sense of purpose. Laban enjoyed teaching at all levels, from young children to grad students. In addition to the countless classroom invites he received, he taught at Columbia University, Saint Michael’s College, the University of Vermont, and at MFA writing programs at Pine Manor and Vermont College of Fine Arts. For the last few years, Laban was deeply engaged with teaching English at Essex High School. His wit, passion, knowledge of literature, and insistent voice for racial and social justice were welcomed by the teachers and students. Whether for friends, family or strangers, Laban carried with him a profound sense of empathy for others who struggled or lacked agency. When mentally ill citizens were being threatened and killed by local police, Laban was an advocate for better police training. His books on the Harlem Renaissance, the 1960s and Dave the Potter were outpourings of his ever-present commitment to social and racial justice. He carried that commitment across the world when he became a Fulbright Scholar. In Ghana he worked with writer Martin Egblewogbe to found the Ghana Poetry Project (now the Writers Project of Ghana) to promote Ghanaian literature through workshops, readings, publishing and establishing a small press. Upon invitation, he traveled to Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines to deepen understandings abroad of U.S. culture and history. The last years of Laban’s life were a very difficult struggle. Most days he battled just to feel OK, and many days he didn’t succeed. But he did continue to teach and write poetry and be a friend. Those poems, all the ways he loved his family and friends, and all our memories of this man of multitudes will stay dearly with us. May the Self-Proclaimed Poet Laureate of Salmon Hole rest in peace. For those interested, donations can be made in his name to Pathways Vermont.

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An artist sues Vermont Law School over planned removal of his slavery-themed mural BY MAR GAR E T GR AYS O N • margaret@sevendaysvt.com

slave owner and attacked by a dog; Black people drumming and holding tribal masks above a tied-up slave owner; a white woman hiding Black people from a bounty hunter; and famous abolitionists, including John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Kerson is a Goddard College graduate who has also painted murals in Nicaragua and at the Vermont State Office Complex in Waterbury. He intended the VLS mural to illustrate the path toward liberation for enslaved people and Vermont’s role in that story, according to writings on his website and a video about the making of the mural. In a declaration filed in court, SHIRLEY JEFFERSON, the VLS associate dean for student affairs and diversity, wrote that, since she joined the law school staff in 1999, “students of color and some white students as well came to me from time to time to express their discomfort with the mural.” Jefferson, a person of color, said she typically told the students to try to ignore the mural and focus on their education. In 2013 and 2014, the VLS Diversity Committee discussed student and faculty objections to the mural. Plaques were added to explain its purpose and context. In May 2020, after George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police sparked nationwide calls for racial justice, two second-year students wrote and circulated a petition calling for the mural’s removal. JAMESON DAVIS and APRIL URBANOWSKI wrote that “there was/is a group of BIPOC students who felt the mural to be inaccurate and dispiriting — so much so that a few decided not to study or interact with that part of campus.” The mural’s exaggerated depictions of African American features resemble “caricatures designed to perpetuate the white superiority views that have been embedded on our entire societal structure,” the students wrote. In their view, the mural portrays certain white people as saviors. Davis and Urbanowski compared the mural to Sambos, minstrel shows and “coon caricatures” — racist, degrading caricatures of Black people created by white people for entertainment. Kerson and his defenders decried the students’ efforts to have the mural removed as an attempt to silence an artist and erase a depiction of the horrors of slavery. IMAGES COURTESY OF SAM KERSON

n July 2020, Vermont Law School announced that it would remove from its campus a large mural that had incited controversy among students and faculty for its portrayal of slavery, African Americans and the Underground Railroad. Eight months later, the mural remains. Its removal has proved complicated — and could be a test case for an obscure federal statute regarding visual artwork. THOMAS MCHENRY, then-president and dean of the South Royalton law school, initially announced that the mural would be painted over. Sam Kerson, the artist, objected. The plan was amended to give Kerson a chance to remove the mural. But carpenters determined that removal would require the work to be cut in pieces, constituting destruction. Finally, VLS administrators came up with what they considered a compromise: The mural would be covered permanently with acoustic panels, which would not directly touch the artwork. In December, Kerson filed suit against the school in U.S. District Court. He alleged that covering the mural permanently would constitute a violation of the Visual Artists Rights Act, a 1990 federal law that protects an artist’s work from “intentional distortion, mutilation, or other modification,” according to its text. Some organizations that commission artwork have the artists sign away their VARA rights. VLS did not, an apparent oversight that Chief Judge GEOFFREY CRAWFORD pointed out during a preliminary hearing on February 24 that was held to determine what to do with the mural as the case proceeds. “I don’t quite understand how an institution composed of attorneys and law professors could have got themselves in this pickle,” Crawford observed. According to court filings from Kerson’s team, the mural is composed of two large panels titled “Vermont, the Underground Railroad” and “Vermont and the Fugitive Slave.” The work was funded by the Puffin Foundation and painted by Kerson in the school’s Chase Community Center in 1993 and 1994. It has been the subject of debate and student complaints for years, according to court documents. Various scenes in the work depict Black people being whipped by a

Sections of the mural at Vermont Law School

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Kerson, who has lived in Québec for the past 20 years, said in a Zoom interview that he views his characters as “dignified” and the mural as a “quite mild-mannered” depiction of slavery. He would paint the same mural again, he said. “I don’t feel like I’m responsible for people that have reactions to it,” Kerson said. “The piece is open to everybody, and it speaks to everybody equally.” This isn’t the first time Kerson’s work has caused contention, as the Valley News reported in February. His mural at the State Office Complex depicted naked and partially clothed Indigenous people. After several people complained, some workers took to covering it with a sheet during meetings. That mural was removed in 2011 when the complex was renovated. Jefferson said that, in the summer of 2020, around the time Davis and Urbanowski circulated their petition, she separately approached the VLS dean to encourage removal of the mural. Kerson initially thought the controversy might evaporate after he objected to the mural’s removal, he said. When that didn’t happen, lawyers began contacting him. Kerson’s lawyers argue that preventing viewing of the mural equates to modification under VARA. Judge Crawford noted in the February hearing that his review of previous VARA cases revealed none that addressed this specific issue of a building owner wishing to conceal a mural from view. New York-based Steven Hyman, one of Kerson’s attorneys, made the same observation. “There is no case law on this issue,” he said. “You’re in some uncharted waters.” In the short term, while the mural’s ultimate fate is hashed out, Kerson’s attorneys want it covered with a movable curtain, while the VLS attorneys argued for going ahead with their construction plans for a permanent cover. The judge has yet to rule on a preliminary injunction to decide this debate, and it may be months before the underlying claims are resolved. Among the law school’s representatives is JUSTIN BARNARD of the Burlington-based law firm Dinse. “The law school’s mission is to educate students in a diverse community,” he said in a phone interview. “And it

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feels that having this mural on display or accessible is, at this point, counter to that mission.” Barnard and KAREN MCANDREW, another Dinse attorney, said that VARA does not dictate that an artwork must remain viewable, and requiring the school to keep the mural visible would violate VLS’ First Amendment rights. In their view, just because the school welcomed the artwork and its statement in the past doesn’t mean it must remain committed to displaying those views. “Speech is not static. Artwork is not static,” Barnard said. “And the social context plays a big role in determining

Kerson has doubled down on the stylistic choices of the mural in a series of new paintings posted to his website. He described them as a journal of the events since July and his fears for the mural’s future. Many of these new images depict a Black man as the mural’s antagonist, pointing his finger in Kerson’s face and, in several images, painting over the work with white paint or spraying it with the words “White Savior.” This figure has many of the same exaggerated facial features as those in the mural. In one of the paintings, the figure appears to be saying, “Mr. Kerson, me and my friend April, we do not like your Underground Railroad,” suggesting that he represents Davis, one of the two students leading the removal campaign. Kerson’s new paintings do not appear to depict the other student, Urbanowski, a white woman. Davis and Urbanowski declined to comment on the case or Kerson’s latest paintings. “These new paintings seem to suggest nothing so much as an unwillingness to listen to any criticism of his work,” said VLS attorney McAndrew, “or to give thoughtful consideration to why people are offended by the manner in which his artwork portrays Black people and Black bodies … He turns around and disseminates a series of paintings belittling the legitimate concerns raised about his work by Black viewers and singling out at least one of the Black students who has voiced those concerns.” Kerson denied that the figure in question is intended to represent Davis. “We don’t want to antagonize Jameson,” he said. Instead, he described the antagonist of the new paintings as an imaginary character named Zebulon Vance, which is also the name of a 19th-century Confederate leader and North Carolina politician. Then, before he was asked, Kerson denied Seven Days permission to reprint his new works. m

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how the values expressed in artwork are received … It’s been 30 years since this work went up. It’s reasonable that an institution might feel differently about the speech embodied in it.” Kerson’s team filed documents indicating support for the mural, including a Change.org petition against its destruction that received nearly 1,000 signatures and an email that a self-identified Black student sent to Urbanowski, Davis and others, objecting to their petition. The email was forwarded anonymously to Kerson, and it’s unclear whether its sender knew his words would be used in a court case. He did not respond to an email requesting comment. DAVID SCHUTZ, Vermont’s state curator, and MARILYN SKOGLUND, a retired associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court who curated art exhibits for the Supreme Court Gallery, wrote declarations in favor of the mural’s preservation.

INFO Learn more about Sam Kerson’s work at dragondancetheatre.wixsite.com/ underground-railroad and about Vermont Law School at vermontlaw.edu.

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Montpelier’s T.W. Wood Gallery celebrates 125 years and its unique treasures B Y A M Y L I L LY • lilly@sevendaysvt.com

“American Citizens (to the Polls)” by T.W. Wood, 1867

assersby would not suspect that a refurbished 1950s Catholic grammar school in Montpelier contains masterful paintings from the 19th century as well as works from the 1930s Works Progress Administration. In one room on the second floor of the CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING, visitors can linger over the expressive faces and tiny details of an 1860s genre painting by Montpelier native Thomas Waterman Wood. In the next room, they can be wowed by a stylized 1937 composition of skyscrapers by Joseph Stella. (The hallway connecting the rooms contains the water fountain once used by U.S. Sen. PATRICK LEAHY, who attended elementary school there.) This is the unusual home, and bifurcated collection, of the T.W. WOOD GALLERY. One of the oldest art museums in Vermont, the Wood is currently observing its 125th anniversary. Since the pandemic made a slew of planned events impossible, the Wood instead has been offering something unprecedented: tours. Visitors can preregister for a selfguided tour on Thursdays or score a spot on a fully guided tour one Saturday per month. Volunteer curator PHILLIP ROBERTSON is the gallery’s genial and knowledgeable 24

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“Self-Portrait” by T.W. Wood, 1894

tour guide. A landscape painter who teaches art and art history at Northern Vermont University-Johnson and the Community College of Vermont, Robertson spent a year and a half completing a conservation assessment of the Wood collection before serving as the nonprofit’s executive director from 1997 to 2002. He returned in 2014 to inventory the collection and join the board, where he now serves as secretary. “I do know [the collection] very well,” Robertson acknowledged by phone. “It allows me to curate sort of off the cuff.” Robertson launched the tour that Seven Days attended with a summary of the gallery’s history. Wood (1823-1903), a nationally known painter in his day, donated the collection’s core — 42 of his own works — to the City of Montpelier in 1895. The collection has since grown to encompass at least 1,200 works from the 19th century, including Wood’s “In the Jelly Jar,” purchased at auction in late October and currently on display. Shortly after World War II, the federal government designated the Wood Gallery a repository for 90 artworks created under the WPA, which subsidized the nation’s struggling artists during the New Deal era. Subsequent donations swelled the gallery’s WPA collection to about 250 works, including paintings by Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Jacob Lawrence. The growing collection led a somewhat itinerant life. First housed with the YMCA in a building on State Street, donated by Wood’s friend John Burgess in 1896, it moved into the upper gallery of the KELLOGG-HUBBARD LIBRARY in 1953, and then to Vermont College (now VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS) in 1985. It reached its current home, the repurposed grammar school on Barre Street, in 2012. The board purchased the building with the MONTEVERDI SCHOOL OF MUSIC and River Rock School under the umbrella nonprofit Center for Arts and Learning. (River Rock has since closed.) The three gallery rooms can display only a fraction of the collection, which Robertson rotates every six months. Working with Vermont state curator DAVID SCHUTZ, he also sends 60 to 90 works to

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hang in the Statehouse every year, typically in out-of-the-way committee rooms and legislators’ offices. (Recently, Lt. Gov. MOLLY GRAY requested some WPA works by women.) During a phone call, Schutz said the 19th-century works, particularly landscapes, were especially welcome after the Statehouse restoration, a project he led beginning in the early 1980s. “Our [state] collection is heavily dominated by portraits of governors, and that can get to be a little boring,” Schutz said with a laugh. The Wood prominently displays the painter’s 1894 self-portrait, created late in his life. Largely self-taught, Wood married Minerva Robinson of Waterbury and made his early living painting portraits. He trained himself to paint using the method then in vogue: by setting up easels in European museums and copying the “old masters.” One of the artists Wood copied most often was Rembrandt, according to LINDA PARADEE, a former artist who trained at Rhode Island School of Design and has been a board member since the mid-1980s. “When Thomas Wood was working as a painter,” Paradee said in a phone call, “Europe was the center of art, not America. In the museums in this country, all of the art came from Europe.” The gallery holds many copies Wood made of famous European paintings; indeed, one reason for his bequest to the city was his desire to share European art with residents, who had little chance of traveling to see it. In 1898, Wood got permission to copy Rembrandt’s 1633 painting “The Shipbuilder and His Wife” at Buckingham Palace. He completed his copy (now on view at the Wood) in a day and a half, according to Robertson, who found this astonishing fact documented in one of the 100-plus cash books Wood left behind. “He worked very quickly,” Robertson said, but with evident skill. Wood eventually became president of the National

“Skyscrapers” by Joseph Stella, 1937

Academy of Design and the American Watercolor Society. Wood was a product of his time in other ways. He also did genre paintings — realistic but imagined portrayals of everyday scenes, which sold well. Often these included Black figures, whom he depicted in less stereotypical ways than did his contemporaries, according to Robertson. In “Southern Cornfield,” which Wood painted in 1961 while living in Tennessee,

a line of hardworking Black field hands pauses to observe a young Black man who kneels to offer them a drinking gourd. (This painting is also on display at the Wood.) No white overseer is in evidence — the painting is an erasure of slavery, of sorts — but Robertson called the workers’ individualized portraits “sympathetic portrayals.” Schutz added that the gourd is “a nod toward freedom — a symbol from the

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INFO Phillip Robertson leads guided tours of the T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier on Saturdays, March 20 and April 17, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Hourlong self-guided tours are available Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. “WPA Prints From the T.W. Wood Gallery,” on view through March 24 at Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. twwoodgallery.org, vermonthistory.org

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Negro spiritual ‘[Follow] the Drinking Gourd’ that promised freedom on the other side.” “Cornfield” is one of a dozen Wood paintings depicting Black subjects that Robertson chose for a Statehouse exhibition planned as part of the anniversary celebrations. Delayed by the pandemic, that show is expected to go forward this fall. Robertson also curated an anniversary exhibit of 37 WPA-era prints that runs through March 24 at the VERMONT HISTORY MUSEUM. Unusually for an art institution in the pandemic, the Wood is gaining financial stability, according to its new executive director, MARGARET COLEMAN. When she came on board two years ago, the gallery was installing an elevator. Accessibility allowed her to apply for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for the first time in the gallery’s history. Coleman also secured a three-year VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL Art Partnership Grant that will support exhibitions and programs such as afterschool art classes, which have continued during the pandemic. Among the exhibits are contemporary local art shows in the hallway, currently being painted white. The next hope: to hire a paid curator. Coleman also wants the tours to continue post-pandemic. “A lot of people don’t know what we have here — the extent of the collection and the historic value,” she said. “For a small town like Montpelier to have this rich collection is pretty unusual.” m

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Bree LeMay and her two kids, Imaan, 3, and Niah, 10

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ince last March, one sentence has been looping endlessly on the ticker tape in Bree LeMay’s brain: What the fuck is going on right now. It’s not really a question but a mantra, an all-purpose reaction to a year of being marooned in a 1,200-square-foot apartment with a toddler, a prepubescent boy and no dishwasher. The mothers, in general, are not all right, and single working mothers such as Bree have disproportionately borne the psychic and economic brunt of the pandemic. Overnight, she and many of the roughly 15 million other single mothers in the U.S. watched their already precarious safety nets disappear — their childcare routines, their incomes, any sense they might have had of being in control of their lives. The pandemic has undone generations of progress for women in the workforce. In the months leading up to the pandemic, there were more employed women than men for the first time in modern U.S. history, according to the Center for American Progress. Now the number of working 26

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women is on par with 1980s levels of labor force participation. Those losses are partly the result of the pandemic’s outsize impact on the industries in which women, particularly women of color, were already overrepresented,

A year in the life of three single moms in Vermont BY C H EL S EA ED G A R • chelsea@sevendaysvt.com

worn down by months of juggling their roles as employees, parents and homeschool monitors. The disparities in employment among women and men came into sharp relief last fall, when the school year resumed in

You just can’t make someone who doesn’t have kids understand the pressures of being a single parent, let alone during a pandemic. BR E E L E MAY

including the service, hospitality and home health sectors. But in many cases, the loss of school and daycare programs has forced women out of their jobs; others have left their careers from exhaustion,

hybrid fashion. For parents of young children, especially, this arrangement requires someone to stay at home with the kids on remote learning days — and that someone, overwhelmingly, is a female caregiver.

Research from the Center for American Progress shows that in September, women dropped out of the workforce at four times the rate of men. Since November, 73 percent of the Vermonters who have lost or left their jobs are women; nationally, single mothers have dropped out of the workforce at a rate of 9 percent, the greatest decline among all groups of parents. These statistics hint at the deep-rooted gender inequities that the pandemic has forced into the open — the fundamental disconnect between what society demands of women and how it fails to support them. In that gulf, women are drowning. In a July 2020 poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 69 percent of mothers said their physical health has suffered due to worry and stress during the pandemic, compared to 51 percent of fathers. In response to this growing economic and mental health crisis, a coalition of more than 50 prominent women, including celebrities Amy Schumer, Charlize Theron and Gabrielle Union, bought a full-page ad in the New York Times in January, calling

on President Joe Biden’s administration to adopt a “Marshall Plan for Moms.” The proposal, introduced last month in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), outlines a set of broad reforms — including expanded paid family leave, affordable childcare and direct payments to mothers — aimed at addressing the underlying conditions that have left women most vulnerable to the effects of the pandemic. Some of those priorities are reflected in Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package, which would provide monthly payments of up to $300 to most families with children and $15 billion to help offset the cost of childcare for low-income parents. The legislation is expected to be approved in a final congressional vote on Wednesday. In normal times, the work of being a mother is exhausting and mostly invisible, an endless loop of emotional and physical tasks that resets itself daily. In a pandemic, that work has been isolating in ways that have pushed many women to the brink. For three single mothers in Vermont — Bree LeMay, Sara Verdery and Betsy Hibbitts — life during COVID-19 has been a year of unimaginable exhaustion and angst, of rage and regret. Of holding it together, somehow, while everything else is falling apart.

new kind of pressure. “I am not supposed to be my son’s teacher,” Bree said. “I’m supposed to be his safe zone, the person he comes to for advice and comfort.” Surrounded by the distractions of home — his anime action figures, television, the infinite possibilities of YouTube — Niah struggled to focus on school. When Bree pushed him to do his work, Niah pushed back, usually by rolling his eyes or unleashing a long, guttural Uuuuuugh. Multiple times a day, Bree tried to explain to him that he had to finish his assignments before he could chill out, that he couldn’t see his friends because of the germs. He was sad and angry at the sudden loss of

to Bree’s body. If Bree sat on the couch, Imaan climbed onto her lap. If Bree tried to move her away, Imaan flailed and screeched. This was especially not ideal during the multi-week stretch in May when Bree was trying to get through to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Hotline, an experience that made her feel like she was living in the world’s most demoralizing video game. Every day, she called the number over and over again, dozens of times an hour, dressed in her sweats and slippers and bathrobe, Imaan hanging from her nipple. Sometimes, she got to an automated message that she hadn’t reached before

in the weeks to come, what it felt like to have your world suddenly shrink to the dimensions of your domestic habitat. As Sara remembers it, the reporter said: “Get ready to pack and unpack the most extreme stress and anxiety you’ve ever experienced in your life, multiple times a day.” For Sara, the packing and unpacking happened slowly. Her husband was considered an essential employee at his factory job, so while he was gone during the day, Sara was home in their apartment in Burlington, toggling between remote work and organizing a homeschooling routine for their 4-year-old daughter,

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Before the pandemic, 40-year-old Bree LeMay had a system for managing the high-wire act of single working motherhood. Four mornings a week, she sent her fourth grader, Niah, on his walk to Integrated Arts Academy, less than two blocks from their rented apartment at the Bright Street Co-Op in Burlington. She dropped off her 2-year-old daughter, Imaan, at daycare in the South End, and then went to work as a hair stylist at O’M Salon on Main Street until 5 or so, when she picked up Imaan from daycare and Niah from his afterschool program at the Boys & Girls Club. Then, last March, the pandemic arrived. Bree remembers the slow, steady drip of bad news, the sensation of watching her life unravel by degrees. First, K-12 schools were dismissed, then childcare centers had to close. By the time salons and other close-contact businesses were ordered to shut down on March 21, Bree, stuck at home with an antsy 9-year-old, a 2-year old who was still nursing, and virtually no income, had entered total panic mode. Bree has always been a single parent, and she was used to being everything to her children. But homeschooling added a

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his social life, and Bree felt trapped in the role of enforcing rules that made him miserable. Bree was miserable, too. She existed in a sleep-deprived haze; every day was simultaneously a fresh crisis and exactly the same as the one before. She had always been a worst-case-scenario thinker, but none of the possible catastrophes she’d imagined involved being indefinitely unemployed because of a global pandemic. Friends and family stepped in to help her financially and logistically, which took some of the edge off her anxiety. People shopped for her so she wouldn’t have to drag Niah and Imaan to the grocery store; others sent her gift cards for food. Meanwhile, Imaan clung perpetually

and rejoiced, only to be spontaneously disconnected. One day, she called the hotline more than 100 times. By the time she finally managed to get her application approved, which allowed her to recoup all the income she’d lost — some $10,000, by her estimate — it felt, she said, like a fucking miracle.

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In the earliest days of the pandemic, before the coronavirus had reached Vermont, Sara Verdery heard an NPR interview with a reporter in Portland, Ore., where the virus had just forced the city into a lockdown. The NPR host asked what the rest of the country should expect

Edith. Sara, 37, was a behavioral interventionist at Mosaic Learning Center, a school in Colchester for students with special needs, and throughout the spring, she managed the collision of her work and home lives by relegating her job to the margins of her day. Each morning, she set up Edith with “Sesame Street” during her 8 a.m. Zoom call with the student she mentored, then she would devote the rest of the day to the learning schedule she had created for Edith. The teacher role came naturally to Sara, and she leaned into it hard. She ordered a massive calendar, which she used to teach Edith the names of the months and days MOTHER LOAD SEVEN DAYS MARCH 10-17, 2021

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Betsy Hibbitts (right) and her daughter, Destiny, 10

While Betsy was out in the woods, she said, she was completely losing control of the situation in the house.

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The first two months of the pandemic shutdown were absolute bliss for Betsy Hibbitts. For years, she’d been desperate for a sabbatical, a forced state of hermitage in which she could finally reflect on parts of her life that the chaos of recent years had not allowed her to process: the death of her father, the fire that destroyed her first house. Now, the virus shutdown had eliminated the daily commute to her job in Burlington as a public defender. With court hearings on hold, work slowed down. Her daughter, Destiny, a fifth grader at Christ the King School in Burlington, missed seeing her friends, but she was also an artistic, self-sufficient kid, content to sit in her room by herself, drawing and painting and doing her online schoolwork. Before Betsy was Destiny’s mother, she was her lawyer. In 2015, Betsy represented Destiny and her two siblings in an abuseand-neglect case. Their biological mother was in the throes of a heroin addiction, and the state had removed the children from her custody. Destiny, then 4 years old, was sent to live with her father, whom she barely knew. Three months later, he brought her to the Burlington Police 28

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Department, told the officer on duty that he didn’t want her anymore and left. One foster care situation after another fell apart, and on the morning of Betsy’s 46th birthday, she found herself standing in the parking lot of Shelburne Vineyard with a screaming, sobbing Destiny, who had just been offloaded by yet another adult. Betsy saw Destiny’s animal pain, and she recognized that this child couldn’t handle another abandonment. Betsy lived alone; she had no children, nor did she plan to raise one, not even when she decided, then and there, to take Destiny home to her farm in Ferrisburgh. Legally, she wasn’t supposed to house her own client, but she got special approval to

become Destiny’s foster parent. Almost immediately, Destiny started calling her Mom. After a three-year legal process, Betsy became her adoptive mother in 2018. Their first few months together were tumultuous. When Betsy tried to bathe her, Destiny would wail for her birth mother; in the middle of the night, Destiny would wake up screaming and hurl herself into Betsy’s bed. Betsy, meanwhile, could hardly function in her job. On more occasions than she cares to remember, she broke down crying right before she was due to appear in court for a hearing, and a colleague would have to take over for her. Over the years, their relationship became easier; by last spring, when the

pandemic hit, Destiny was finally thriving in school, a straight-A student. When she told Betsy she was doing homework in her room, Betsy didn’t question her. From mid-March through late May, Betsy fell into a dreamlike routine. After taking care of her animals and whatever work she had to get done that day, Betsy wandered through the woods and fields surrounding her house, tracking bobcats and watching beavers build their dam in the marsh. She felt gratitude, so much gratitude; for the first time in years, she didn’t feel completely strung out. Then, Destiny’s report card came, filled with Fs, and Betsy lost her shit. She blamed herself; while she was out

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so much of it alone; she was sick of having to come up with every fun idea. The issue, as she saw it, wasn’t that her husband was a bad father or that he didn’t care about Sara’s happiness. The insurmountable problem, Sara felt, was that he did the bare minimum, and he didn’t understand why that wasn’t enough. As Sara was lying in bed on August 11, the day before her 38th birthday, she promised herself that if she woke up the next morning feeling as awful as she did right then, she’d ask for a divorce. More than anything else, she wanted to stop feeling so resentful all the time, to salvage the possibility of maintaining a decent relationship with the father of their child. Sara woke up, miserable. That day, they had a family portrait session, and Sara made sure the photographer got photos of just her husband and Edith, and Edith with just Sara. The following day, August 12, she asked her husband to move out. According to Sara, there was no discussion about whether he would take Edith with him or change his work schedule so that he could spend more time with her during the week. The charge of being the default parent, the one whose bed Edith would crawl into most nights if she woke up scared from a bad dream, fell wordlessly to Sara.

Bree LeMay (center) with Niah and Imaan

in the woods, trying to feel like a whole person again, she said, she was losing control of the situation in the house. She felt guilty, which drove her to try to impose some kind of routine. Destiny responded by refusing to do anything Betsy asked. She would not pick up her room or wear clean clothes. She often reminded Betsy, usually in the midst of an argument over chores, that she wasn’t even her real mother. For months, Betsy teetered on the edge of a total meltdown, feeling like she was doing everything wrong.

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Bree’s salon reopened in mid-May, but with Niah in remote school five days a week, she still couldn’t go back to work. Then, when summer recess started in June, a friend with a son Niah’s age offered to watch him during the day. With Imaan’s daycare open again, Bree could finally return to the salon. Because of indoor capacity restrictions, the stylists at O’M were on a staggered schedule, which meant that Bree could only work three days a week. She was earning less than she would have liked,

but the unemployment checks — the state benefits, plus the extra $600 weekly supplement from the first federal stimulus package — had given her a cushion, and she felt like she could manage. Seeing clients again, even in the strangely masked and regulated time of COVID-19, gave Bree energy. “I was never meant to be a stay-at-home mom,” she said. “I need to talk to people. It was so huge for me, mentally, to be able to see my clients again and make them feel good.” After months of being cooped up in their houses, people seemed giddy to return to a semblance of normalcy, and the salon took on sort of a party atmosphere. Especially in those first few weeks, Bree and her clients had a lot to say to each other about how weird their lives had become, and Bree could finally vent to other adults — real, live adults! In person! — about the insanity-making experience of being trapped at home with two kids. One day, in May, Bree was leaving Roosevelt Park after playing a game of dodgeball with Niah and realized she’d forgotten their ball. She spotted it on the ground, next to a tall, dark, handsome guy. When she went back to get it, she chatted him up. Later, she found him on Facebook and messaged him. She wasn’t looking for anything serious — with two kids, her

standards are very high, possibly too high, as her massage therapist has told her, plus, the freaking pandemic! — but she enjoyed the thrill of talking to a whole new human after the brain-fogging sameness of the last few months. For the moment, things were starting to look up.

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At the end of the school year, Sara was furloughed from her job at Mosaic, which came as a huge relief. She had been working practically nonstop for nearly four months, keeping Edith engaged all day and cramming work into nights and weekends. When the weather got warm enough, Sara took her daughter on day trips to swimming holes all over Vermont. In the morning, she’d pack a cooler full of juice boxes and snacks, and they’d stay out until the late afternoon. “We’d have a blast all day together,” she said. “And then my husband came home, and it fucking sucked.” She would cook nice dinners, or she’d suggest they play a family game or watch a movie, and then none of those things would make her feel any better, she said, because she’d had to be the one to propose them in the first place. As much as Sara loved spending time with Edith, she had never imagined doing

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By early summer, with the torment of online school in the rearview mirror, tensions had eased between Destiny and Betsy. As part of their unwritten peace treaty, Betsy had all but withdrawn her campaign to get Destiny to pick up after herself. Destiny’s wardrobe had seeded itself all over the house, but Betsy told herself that finding socks in the pantry was preferable to existing in a state of constant nagging. Destiny’s 10th birthday was in June, and Betsy wanted to do something special for her. On a whim, she booked them a trip to Yellowstone National Park, and they had it practically all to themselves. Destiny, on the whole, was not impressed. She didn’t care about buffalo or geysers; she was apathetic about lounging on floaty mats under the stars in the big thermal pools at their resort. The whole thing, Betsy said, was a suckfest, a parenting fail of epic proportions. “I can’t tell you how remarkable this is,” Betsy told her, over and over again. “There will never be another time in your life when you’ll be able to hang out in a national park with nobody else around!” “No!” Destiny would shout back. “You like to be outside! You like nature! This is what you like!” MOTHER LOAD SEVEN DAYS MARCH 10-17, 2021

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By fall, most of Bree’s pre-pandemic routines had returned, but in an awkward, piecemeal fashion, creating a set of conditions that sound, on paper, like a deranged SAT word problem. She can’t work on Wednesdays, when Niah’s school is remote, and she can never work past 4 p.m., when Imaan’s daycare now closes. She isn’t allowed to bring her kids into the salon with her — a new rule since the pandemic — so when the school district calls a snow day, she can’t work at all. Meanwhile, she still has to pay the $80 daily rental fee for her chair in the salon, even when the reason she can’t use it is beyond her control. “Nobody I work with has children,” Bree said. “You just can’t make someone who doesn’t have kids understand the pressures of being a single parent, let alone during a pandemic.” In January, Bree dreamed about being hugged. It wasn’t an erotic hug, but a warm, enveloping hug, an embrace that made her feel safe and loved. Around the same time, she dreamed she was engaged. (Hot Park Dad, meanwhile, turned out to be a big disappointment; shortly after Christmas, after months of intermittent 30

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getting closer to saving up $100 to buy a new anime action figure, the one with the bendy joints!!! At the salon, people talk at Bree for hours as she does their hair, their words blending together in one continuous stream of inanities and intimacies. She touches people constantly, responding to their moods and their stories and their needs; some days, she goes home feeling like a wrung-out sponge. “I’m a nurturing person, and I love being a source of comfort,” she said. But the flip side of that, she knows, is that people tend to see her as a bottomless vessel. “Maybe it’s a downfall of mine, but I don’t like to ask for help. I don’t go out there and dump my shit. So then you get pigeonholed. People look at you and assume you’re fine, basically, just because you’re not actively having a nervous breakdown.” At night, after she’s put the kids to bed, she’ll sometimes zone out in a hot bath, with her scented salt fizzies, and watch several episodes of something mindless on her iPad. Recently, her show of choice has been “Lucifer.” The premise is that Satan has decided that he’s tired of being Satan, which sounds vaguely familiar. (“All he wants is a vacation from being the Dark Lord,” Bree said.) At night, as she’s trying to fall asleep, the anxious thoughts get louder. She can’t stop thinking in numbers. The rent at her co-op went up this year by $36 a month, and her salon chair rental fee has increased by $5 a day. She’s trying to avoid dipping into her savings so she can afford a down payment on a house, but with less money coming in, her margins are much narrower. Even though things seem to be moving in the right direction, pandemicwise, she can’t help catastrophizing — because as a single mom, you are the last line of defense in every catastrophe. What if another outbreak forced the salon to shut down again? What if you got sick? What would you do if...? If...? If...?

BETSY Betsy Hibbitts (right) and Destiny

Facebook messaging and texting, Bree asked him on a walk — a walk! Nothing more! He never responded.) Especially this winter, Bree has found herself wishing for a partner or even just a good guy friend, someone who could take the kids sledding or shopping or around the block for an hour, long enough for her to cook without 7,000 interruptions, or to blast gangster rap, or to FaceTime with her best friend, who lives in Arizona. Sometimes, Bree fantasizes about locking

herself in the bathroom for 10 minutes, the closest she can get to disappearing, except she knows that as soon as she closes the door, the screaming for Mom will commence. All day long, everyone wants Bree’s attention. It begins almost the second her kids wake up, sometimes before she’s even had coffee, a barrage of requests and complaints and declarations. Niah needs more whipped cream for his toaster waffles. Imaan has to pee. Niah is

Destiny is now going to school in person five days a week, but the state judiciary system is still operating remotely, which means that all of Betsy’s trials take place via videoconference. Whenever Destiny has a school holiday, or a snow day, or a sick day (because of the school’s COVID19 policies, Betsy has to keep Destiny home any time she says she isn’t feeling well, even if Betsy knows she’s faking) that coincides with a court day, Betsy has two rules. First, Destiny can pick any floor of the house to occupy while Betsy is in the hearing, as long as she stays on that floor; second, she is not, under any circumstances, to interrupt Betsy, unless it is a real freaking emergency.

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At least once a week, Sara had panic attacks that jolted her awake, sobbing and hyperventilating, in the middle of the night. Of course, there is always an emergency. Wanting a snack, for instance, is an emergency. Having just come up with a new dance routine can also qualify as an emergency, as can the really cute thing Elmers the cat just did with his paws and might do again, if Betsy would just look! Look! Look! When Betsy hears Destiny coming, she puts out a stiff arm to stop her from Zoom-bombing the trial. She’ll mute herself on the video call, cover her mouth with her free hand — a trick she learned from another lawyer, also a mother, with a small child at home — and hiss through clenched teeth, “Destiny, get away from the computer! I’m in a hearing!” This year, Betsy is fairly confident that Destiny is doing better in school, though she admits that her assessment is based

primarily on a gut feeling and maybe a smidge of self-preservation instinct. Other parents have told her that their kids’ grades have suffered, too, even the kids who were the best students before the pandemic, which comforts Betsy a little. Every week, Destiny’s teacher sends her home with a written progress report, but Betsy rarely reads it for the same reason that she doesn’t always open her bills on time. It’s not that she doesn’t care; it’s that she cares a lot, too much, and most days, she feels like she’ll explode if she has one more thing to worry about. Recently, Betsy had the anxiety nightmare that Destiny says Betsy always has — that she is an overwhelmed, frightened associate at a large law firm, and she has just been fired. Nobody is allowed to talk to her while she packs up her belongings.

SARA

The first few weeks after her husband moved out were brutal for Sara, the lowest she’d felt in her entire life. He was crashing with friends until he could find a more long-term living situation, and his things sat in the apartment for almost a month — his bureau in what had been their bedroom, the framed photos of his late mother on the walls. Looking at his stuff, she said, made her want to kill herself. She knew, deep down, that she had made the right decision, but she also felt like a failure, as if her value had somehow depreciated because she would forever be trailing a broken marriage. At least once a week, she had panic attacks that jolted her awake, sobbing and hyperventilating, in the middle of the night. When the school year started in September, Sara went back to her job at Mosaic, but after a few weeks, she realized that was a big mistake. She worked closely with kids who have significant intellectual, physical and emotional challenges; in normal times, this was draining enough, but in the middle of a pandemic, on top of trying to manage her own mental health and raise Edith, it was overwhelming. Given the circumstances,

she felt that she could either work five days a week and be a shell of herself, or she could be a fully engaged mother, and she couldn’t deal with the thought of not being a fully engaged mother. She had a small inheritance from her mother, who had passed away less than a year before. She’d saved up some money from being on unemployment while she was furloughed, enough to live on without working full time, and her husband agreed to pay for Edith’s preschool and share the cost of other kid-related expenses. In October, she lined up a part-time job with Chocolate Thunder Security, which gave her more control over her schedule, and she quit Mosaic. For the first time in her life, she started antianxiety medication, and the meds, along with weekly therapy sessions and learning how to kickbox, gradually helped steady her. Her husband moved into his brother’s house, an hour from Burlington, and he and Sara settled Edith into a routine. On weekday mornings, Sara drops her off at her preschool in Essex; Edith’s father picks her up after school and brings her back to Sara’s. The three of them will go for a walk with their dog, Hercules, and then they’ll have dinner and maybe play a game of Candy Land, which they rarely did as a family when her husband still lived there. On weekends, Edith goes to stay with her father. Sometimes, Edith will get a certain look on her face, and Sarah will know she’s missing her dad, she said. They’ll talk it out. “Is it sad that Daddy has to go home? Yeah,” Sara will say to Edith. “But didn’t we just have the best time ever?” For the past few months, Sara has been keeping Edith home from preschool once a week so they can have an unscripted day together. She’ll make a thermos of hot chocolate and take her sledding at Landry Park in Winooski; if they’re feeling lazy or it’s too cold to go outside, they’ll snuggle on the couch and watch a movie. “I need these days, too,” Sara said. “I need time to actually just enjoy being Edith’s mom.” Sara can get by on her current income for another month, maybe two, before she’ll have to pick up more Chocolate Thunder shifts or find a second job. The thought of stretching herself thinner, of not being able to hang out with Edith except in the harried mornings and evenings, has been eating away at her. “If we were a two-parent household, it wouldn’t be an issue,” she said. When she thinks about this, she starts to cry. “I feel really lucky. I have a co-parent who supports me financially, who’s part of our daughter’s life. My situation is amazing, and it still sucks.” m SEVEN DAYS MARCH 10-17, 2021

n one respect, the coronavirus calls the “extreme Northeast” and his deadpandemic — freighted with a monk- of-winter retreat and from sun-soaked like mantra of distancing and isola- Miami Beach. “Those two places still resotion — has been a boon to upstate nate for me,” Banks said. “I get off the plane New York author Russell Banks. Foregone, in Miami and inhale and start to vibrate all his 19th work of fiction, is out this month. over again — the way I did when I was 18 Denied his usually busy travel routine, years old and ran off and ended up there.” Banks completed another book — having In 1958, six weeks after he began a researched the topic in pre-pandemic scholarship-funded matriculation at times — and is working on a long-form Colgate University, Banks dropped out. He story about the cult of Trumpism. intended to join Fidel Castro’s insurgent “This is the fastest I’ve ever been able army in Cuba but ended up working in a to work,” he told Seven Days in a recent department store in Lakeland, Fla. There phone interview. “The pandemic forced he married for the first time and had a me to turn to my writing because there daughter. wasn’t anything else I could do to give my Foregone is rooted in Banks’ long life structure.” fascination with the tens of thousands of Though Banks is not a brand like John draft-age Americans who fled to Canada to Grisham or James Patterson, his book avoid participation in the Vietnam War. His titles do trigger wide recognition. Afflic- father and three grandparents were born tion and The Sweet Hereafter were made in Canada. Was migration only moving to into well-reviewed films. Continental Drift somewhere, or was it also abandonment, and Cloudsplitter were finalists for the leaving something behind? Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His Banks began working characters are hardscrabble, with this concept five years their emotions exposed like ago but said he was stymied nerve endings, his narratives until some close friends died often speckled with struggle and his own mortality became and violence. less abstract. In the novel, he The Sweet Hereafter turns envisions a man near life’s on a horrific accident involvend recounting his own ing a school bus. Many of his migration to Canada and his readers have paid tribute in motives for doing so. But his what might seem macabre telling is seemingly distorted fashion. by illness, medication and “They sent me little toy what Banks described during school buses,” Banks said. “I the interview as “the feeble got them from West Africa, ability of memory to provide Central America and Asia. I’ve us with the truth.” got, like, 50 of them on shelves Documentary filmmaker RU SSE LL BANKS in my studio in Keene … and Leonard Fife, riddled with every now and then a mouse cancer, has agreed to a “60 will knock one off. Just the other night I Minutes”-type interview about his storied said, ‘I hope “Antiques Road Show” comes career, to be filmed by a former acolyte. Fife to this area.’” treats the session as a confessional but does Banks chuckled heartily. A robust man not follow his public script; the reader is of 81, he is shaped by the region’s brooding presented with a life as reflected in a funwinters. He rose from a fractured family house mirror. Even Fife’s wife, Emma, and what he termed “near poverty” to whom he insists be present for the filming, become a bard of the North Country. is rattled. Fife is not trying to set the record From May to November, Banks and his straight, writes Banks, “he’s trying to come fourth wife, the poet Chase Twichell, live to life, like a Pinocchio” who fits his public in the town of Keene, a pretty hamlet in persona. the Adirondacks 14 miles from Lake Placid. “What’s important,” Banks said, “is that Every morning after breakfast, Banks [Fife] believes this is the true narrative of walks from his home on a shoulder of his life,” and it hardly matters whether Hurricane Mountain to a renovated sugar- anyone else does. What is driving this house nearby and goes to work “as if I had a “confabulation,” as Banks put it? “We don’t real job,” he said. When winter makes this do things for one reason,” he responded. workspace uninhabitable, Banks moves to “We always have a nest of reasons for our a house he owns in Saratoga Springs, where actions.” restaurants and a bookstore are available, So what does it mean when Fife’s life mimics part of Banks’ biography — in if not currently open. “I live a kind of bipolar life,” he particular, an aborted planned trip to Cuba explained, drawing energy from what he and his serial matrimony?

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ear for confirming a certain sexist bias but rather with an ear for the gravity behind what they were saying that they had done. A lot of them hadn’t told their stories from that kind of perspective before. SD: By the early 1960s, popular culture promoted the image of a sexy stewardess with works such as the fiction book Coffee, Tea or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses. What would be a more accurate way to remember these women? JC: They really anticipated a number of the movements that came up in the ’90s and early 2000s, so to me they were third-wave feminists in the middle of the second wave. They were enacting what we would now call soft diplomacy, or soft power, back in the ’60s and ’70s, and they were acting as if they existed in the globalized marketplace long before department stores were selling goods from around the world. SD: In the book you quote from stewardess training manuals. It seems there were policies in place — dismissal by age 32 to 35 or upon marriage, for example — that would never fly today, at least not explicitly. What stands out to you most about these training manuals? JC: Oof. That’s a good question. I think what stands out to me the most is what’s going to stand out to a lot of people the most, which is just the explicitness of how they talked about women’s appearances. To go back and read the notes from an interview session, for example, or some of these training materials, the way they talk so explicitly about how women should look or what is desirable, it doesn’t age very well. It’s interesting because none of what they were saying was surprising at all. What they’re talking about is holding up a general ideal of white femininity, which is certainly still in place now. But to see it said so frankly and with so little embarrassment — I mean zero embarrassment — is what was shocking. SD: In describing the experiences of stewardess Karen Walker, you write that she “admired the feminist movement but was not active in it.” Do you think Karen and other Pan Am stewardesses were indeed

feminists simply by virtue of working this job that took them around the world, earning their own money and independence? JC: Yeah, I really do. Karen’s a great example. She was not super active in the feminist movement, but if you’d asked her if she was a feminist, her response probably would have been, “Obviously!” But she just wasn’t a joiner. In that way, becoming a stewardess was a great opportunity for someone like her who really was more focused on her own experiences and exemplifying what she saw as feminism, rather than participating in furthering the narrative at home. I think there has to be room for that in a broader understanding of what feminism did and how it changed the world for women my age. SD: In what ways do you think conditions for women in the airline industry have gotten better in more recent decades? JC: What I found remarkable about this generation of women were the lawsuits that they pushed through over the course of the late 1960s, early 1970s, even into the mid- and late-1970s (a couple of these lawsuits didn’t resolve until the ’80s), [and

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intersectional portrait, and I was very aware as I was writing of who I am and the barriers that exist there. But I felt strongly that I wanted to include that this is the era in which diversification began. The more I read about that, the more I was like, “Someone needs to write this.” As far as anecdotes that I didn’t include, I interviewed Pan Am founder Juan Trippe’s son Edward, who worked in Saigon in the late ’60s. He and his wife are really remarkable people. Roberta “Bobbie” Trippe, his wife, is a really fun, smart, interesting woman. They told me an amazing story about when Bobbie was, I think, seven months pregnant, leaving

SD: Your father is a former Pan Am executive. What was his position? What was it like growing up among the Pan Am family? JC: He was an attorney, so he was at the Pan Am building in New York City. We lived in Manhattan until I was 9, which would have been in ’92, when Pan Am folded. Pan Am was a huge part of my childhood, although I wouldn’t have recognized it until I started researching this book. In a way, I think Pan Am made me a writer. When I was growing up, my parents traveled a lot, and it was always really spontaneous travel because we

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Saigon to come back to New York to give birth, and the Tan Son Nhut Air Base runway came under mortar fire as she was about to go. They took off in an environment of utter chaos. When I asked them about how that felt and what that was like — she was, like, 24, pregnant and leaving a war zone — she said what so many stewardesses have also said to me, which is, “I was young. I was invincible. It never would have occurred to me to be afraid.” m

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Marina McCoy used a pandemic year to revamp her sustainability business

ast March, Marina McCoy was entering her fifth year in business as a sustainability director for music festivals and other big events, helping organizers reduce the trash they generated. Her company, Waste Free Earth, had contracts worth about $300,000 in the works for the coming year. The coronavirus pandemic swept it all away. Waste Free Earth lost not only all of its gigs but also the money spent to prepare for them. McCoy was devastated. But she took the year to reinvent herself and her company into “zero-waste experts,” teaching businesses and individuals how to eliminate their disposable habits. “We’re on a mission to change how society produces and consumes waste through education that engages and empowers others to create change,” McCoy said. She had always envisioned expanding beyond events. The pandemic simply kicked that plan into action. Now Waste Free Earth boasts a much broader and, one could say, more sustainable business model. It focuses on education, customized workshops, blog content and a Zero Waste web portal. The company has also consulted on projects for clients including Ben & Jerry’s and Hula, the emerging business incubator on the Burlington waterfront. 36

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The demand is there, according to McCoy, who has embraced the title “sustainability boss lady.” “Waste is becoming so much more in the mainstream” as a topic of discussion and concern, she noted.

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into action, while connecting with others taking the same steps, McCoy said. At her kitchen counter in Williston one afternoon last week, McCoy stirred used coffee grounds into glass containers of coconut oil — homemade body scrubs that she gives to friends and family. A glass jar in a closet holds bottle caps, which McCoy sticks on bars of soap to prevent them from leaving a slimy mess in a shower or sink. McCoy, 27, grew up in Rutland and attended Sierra Nevada University on the shores of Lake Tahoe, where she earned a dual degree in sustainability and ski business and resort management. Back home in Vermont the summer after her first year, she attended the Frendly Gathering music festival in Windham. Like most of those in attendance, McCoy brought stacks of plastic cups for beverages and adorned herself with plastic glow sticks. At one point, the sustainability student recognized the hypocrisy of her contributions to the event’s rubbish heaps. “I just saw all this trash,” she recalled. “From that moment on, I became obsessed with waste.” The following summer, Frendly Gathering organizers hired McCoy to lead waste-reduction efforts. In the five years she worked for the festival, its trash volume dropped from three 30-yard dumpsters’ worth to a single dumpster. McCoy’s approach involves extensive planning and arrangements with event partners, sponsors and vendors. Contracts require that they limit the availability of straws and cup lids, use compostable materials, create water stations for refillable bottles, and emphasize finger foods to eliminate utensils. After graduating in 2016, McCoy bought a van in which she could sleep and work as she traveled to the seven events she had booked. Later that year, she was invited to do a TED Talk in Tahoe about festival waste. That’s when McCoy figured she should come up with a name for her business. Until then, she had worked as a single contractor, managing teams of volunteers. By 2018, she was handling 15 events with part-time workers on her payroll. Her client roster included WinterWonderGrass at ski resorts all over the country, Planet Bluegrass in Colorado and MTV’s SnowGlobe Music Festival in Lake Tahoe. In spring 2019, McCoy joined the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, a Burlington-based business incubator that supports entrepreneurs and provides them office space where they can collaborate. Then she packed her bags for another festival season. Early last year, McCoy planned to cut her time on the road and put someone else in charge of events as she shifted to diversifying

the business. “I was feeling really, really good going into 2020,” the CEO said. “We were just ready to build, build, build.” On March 9, 2020, the U.S. Small Business Administration named McCoy Vermont’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year. That same week, all of Waste Free Earth’s business evaporated. Among the 24 events the company planned to work last year was the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee. Waste Free Earth has pulled through but is “still operating at a significant loss,” McCoy said. In February, with the help of outside funding, she was able to hire her first full-time employee, a loyal part-timer who became the company’s sustainability programming manager.

McCoy has received a grant from Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan and a state Economic Relief Grant — about $30,000 total. An iFundWomen crowdsourcing campaign netted $20,000, enabling her to create new programs. When the pandemic subsides, McCoy wants to continue her event work, but Waste Free Earth now has two new revenue streams — one in business consulting and one for people who want to eliminate trash in their lives. As a trial run last month, she launched the New Year Zero Waste Challenge. About 75 participants signed up at a discounted rate of $40 to have access to nearly 50 short videos offering waste-reduction

guidance in various categories, including the kitchen, bathroom and travel. The Burlington-based environmental organization 1% for the Planet bought a group package for its staff. McCoy’s program made reams of available zero-waste information more accessible, said Ryan Midden, director of people and culture at 1% for the Planet. “It’s contextualizing that information ... to have someone there who can really break it down for you,” he said. For his busy colleagues, the program provided flexibility to incorporate changes at home. “It’s really having the space to have the conversation,” Midden said. More Zero Waste challenges are slated for this year. On McCoy’s web portal,

people can learn how to turn an empty ice cream container into a piggy bank by cutting a slit in the lid. They can create a “zero-waste kit.” McCoy revealed hers in a small fabric bag, holding a collapsible metal spork, reusable straw, cloth hanky instead of paper napkins, and Vermontmade Bee’s Wrap sheet to swaddle a leftover sandwich. Anyone can incorporate these practices, McCoy said. “We’re creatures that are habit-based,” she added, “and incredibly adaptable.” m

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Vermonters love locally brewed beer. But what do they think of locally grown hops? Answering that question is one goal of the VERMONT HOP PROJECT, a collaborative brewing experiment that launches this week, spearheaded by CHAMPLAIN VALLEY HOPS. (It’s unrelated to the VERMONT HOPS PROJECT run by University of Vermont Extension.) Located in Starksboro, the state’s largest hops farm, cofounded by PETER BRIGGS and JULIAN POST in 2018, picked and processed 23,000 pounds of hops during its second harvest in fall 2020. Now it’s teaming up with 10 breweries around the state to see how those hops taste in a finished beer and get conversations bubbling about using Vermont-grown hops in the industry. “There’s only so much you can learn about the aroma and flavor of hops without actually brewing with them,” said MAX LICKER, Champlain Valley Hops’ sales manager.

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ROY DESROCHERS, sensory practice leader at UVM Extension’s Northwest Crops and Soils Program, agrees. “The information we gather in the field … gives us hints. But those flavors and aromas may not survive the brewing process,” he explained. High levels of heat, interactions with other ingredients, and flavor compounds formed during the fermentation process all affect how the hops taste in the final, drinkable product. “This project is exciting because it begins to tell us how our predictions turn out in the beer and which hops end up with a flavor that consumers are going to love,” Desrochers said. “We don’t have a lot of that data yet.” Participating breweries include BLACK FLANNEL BREWING, FOAM BREWERS, FOUR QUARTERS BREWING, FROST BEER WORKS, HIRED HAND BREWING, MOUNT HOLLY BEER, ROCK ART BREWERY, UPPER PASS BEER, WUNDERKAMMER BIERMANUFAKTUR and ZERO

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SD: What has gotten the kitchen team jazzed lately? CS: [Recently,] we ran some ribs on special, and everybody was really excited

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SD: Ah, so it’s an educational snack. CS: [Chuckling] Yeah, all the snacks are educational.

Ranch and romaine salad with carrot pepita crunch and cave-aged cheddar

SD: How are you keeping everyone motivated during a pretty stressful time? CS: This is probably one of the biggest challenges I’ve ever faced as a chef. Motivating your team is always extremely important. Right now, it’s difficult. We just try to stay aware of everybody’s mental state. It’s made me change my management style quite a bit. We’re all in this crazy situation. We’re just trying to be a little kinder and gentler to each other, especially in a kitchen setting. [It’s about] recognizing if somebody needs some time off, or if they need to work more to kind of focus [their] mind somewhere for a little bit. We need to keep trying out recipes to keep us excited. Nobody can really go out to eat right now, [and] that’s a lot of inspiration for cooks and chefs. We might buy some stuff from Thai Phat and play around a little bit. And we play a lot of Mario Kart together. It’s been a fun thing for all of us to kind of bond over. Sometimes you need a break from food. SD: Does everyone take turns choosing the kitchen playlist? CS: Yes, everybody has their own style. Everybody makes fun of me because I’m a Lady Gaga fan.

SEVEN DAYS: You don’t open ’til noon. How’d a breakfast sandwich land on your menu? CHRISTINA SCIFO: I know for me, as a chef, I don’t really usually wake up that early. Sometimes I would love an egg sandwich. I think it’s the New York in me. Ours comes two ways: with thick-cut bacon or with a spicy lamb-and-pork sausage that we make here. It’s like a fancier version of a [New York City] bodega egg-and-cheese on a roll. It has just taken off, and that kind of blows our mind. Sometimes we’ll get an order for one at 7:30 at night, and we’re like, Awesome. It’s one of those things that is kind of like a domino effect. One goes out to the dining room, and you’ll see 10 more orders after that. SD: Any other surprises in what customers have gravitated to? CS: As crazy as it sounds for the temperatures outside, we’ve been doing a lot of homemade ice cream. Our pastry chef, Quinn Gervia, and me were trying to figure out something great for takeaway and something that we can serve in the brewery. There are so many great different beers that come out of Foam. We kind of just played with it.

about them. We braised them in kimchi, a bunch of Asian flavors. Then we took the jus and reduced it down. That was like the barbecue sauce for it. Whenever [an order] ticket came in, everybody was like, “Oh, throw an extra one in for snackies.” Those are snacks for the kitchen so everybody can taste and see how it’s developing from braising to the finished product.

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A year ago in March, poised to head full throttle into their opening week, Deep City quickly downshifted to takeout only. During the summer and fall, it added seated dining within state restrictions at both Deep City and Foam. Deep City went back to takeout-only in December but continues to offer on-site service through the Foam side of the house. Even during maximum pandemicpermitted on-site dining, Deep City’s menu has been very different than Scifo imagined. For starters, everything must be takeout friendly: Skillets of melty cheese, for example, don’t travel well. “We’ve been kind of just riding the sandwich train,” Scifo said. The chef and her team are finally allowing themselves to look forward with hope, as are we all. Scifo expects to reopen Deep City for weekend seated dining in April and “full-blown whatever is allowed” in May. In anticipation, they are running recipes through the kitchen, such as snapper ceviche with pickled peppers and cucumbers; cured and brined local wood-grilled pork chops; and smoked mushrooms with ricotta polenta. Scifo spoke with Seven Days about breakfast sandwiches, ice cream in winter and what she’ll take away from the pandemic experience.

We took some porters and some of the sours and just added the flavors that go along with the beer. We did some R&D and picked our favorites. We’ve got Constant Surprises sour ale with lime curd and coconut flakes, and Milk and Black Spiders stout with salted caramel and dark chocolate swirls. I mean, they’re delicious, but ice cream in winter?

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SD: I hear you also like the Clash? CS: Love the Clash. I got to name a Foam beer that we collaborated on: Lost in the Supermarket [a 1979 song by the Clash]. We brainstormed with the brewers on what was in peak season. We roasted and smoked squash from Pomykala Farm and used Foam’s own honey plus Sichuan peppercorns, cardamom and lemon zest. SD: Will the past year have a lasting impact on how you approach your job? CS: If anything, it’s mellowed me out quite a bit. It’s made me realize there are things beyond your control. It makes you lean on your staff more, and they lean on you more. Connections in the kitchen are always deep, like family. This made them deeper. It made me adjust my cooking style, too. Like what product we would use: It was even more local because [at some points] we were having a very difficult time getting stuff. I never thought I’d be putting finedining technique in sandwiches, like curing short ribs for a week and then doing a 48-hour braise, [and then] reducing the jus — for a sandwich. Some of what we came up with, like the miso onions, will probably show up on our menu. SD: The menu’s salads — like your signature ranch and romaine with radicchio, pickled shallots and carrot pepita crunch — have great textural

food+drink variety. Can you give home cooks some ideas for how to up their salad game? CS: For me, crunch is really important. We like to use different kinds of lettuces, things like frisée, romaine and endive, to add that extra crunch. You can get those at a lot of supermarkets. If you want to explore an Asian market, which is always a fun thing to do, there’s a lot of dried stuff that’s great to chuck into a salad, like seaweeds, dehydrated little shrimp, crispy onions or crispy garlic. There are a lot of different sesame seed mixes with nori, too. SD: At home with your partner, what are you cooking? CS: To be completely honest, it’s usually comfort food from when I was a kid. I grew up very Italian, so a lot of tomato sauce and chicken cutlets and stuff like that. Kind of boring but just comforting. m This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

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n the event of an apocalypse, Angela Gerace is the person to call. Her dry storage is not only fully stocked with jars of pickles, it also has shelves lined with bottles of the best booze Vermont has to offer. “If something happens and we can’t drink the water, I’ve got everyone covered,” she joked. Gerace isn’t a doomsday prepper; she owns and operates the Tipsy Pickle, an artisan pickle company that flavors its handmade sweet, sour and spicy rounds with beer and spirits from the state’s breweries and distilleries. Her Bourbon Barrel Aged Rum Pickles, made with booze from Smugglers’ Notch Distillery, were a finalist at the 2021 Good Food Awards, as were her Maple Whiskey Cherries. A well-stocked pantry might be a genetic trait for Gerace, 41, of Essex Junction. Her grandparents were farmers in Canada before moving to Vermont, and she has childhood memories of a closet full of preserved fruit and vegetables from their extensive gardens: peas, tomato sauce, salsa, pickles. They even canned chickens. Gerace recalls reaching into a chicken carcass to extract the heart, kidneys and liver, with her grandfather’s encouragement. “It was pretty morbid, but I remember that smell distinctly,” she said with a laugh. 42

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Later, her mother taught her to can and pickle. “Everyone in my family can can,” she added. After attending the New England Culinary Institute and working in the food industry for years, she gave it up to go to Champlain College because “I needed a job with a 401k,” said Gerace, who now works full time at the Shelburne Police Department. When the garden that Gerace and her husband planted at their first home produced more vegetables than they needed, she returned to her family traditions. The Winooski native started the Tipsy Pickle as a hobby in 2014. “It was always ‘preserve and don’t waste,’ which is something we learned at NECI, as well,” Gerace said. “To not waste any of the produce we worked so hard to grow, I started pickling — and I just thought, What happens if I put some beer in here?” The beer was from Switchback Brewing, and it led to the Tipsy Pickle’s first product: a spicy sour pickle. Next, Gerace experimented with a sweet pickle made using a stout from Otter Creek Brewing. A friend who worked at the Middlebury brewery invited her to test the market at its harvest festival. The pickles were a hit. Now Gerace has a full-fledged pickle business and collaborates with many of the top beer and spirits

producers in Vermont. In 2020, she started giving more time to the Tipsy Pickle on top of her regular job. At first, she sold most of her products at events such as the Vermont Brewers Festival, where she could offer samples directly to customers. Those events are off the table for now, but business is still booming. Gerace sells through A Slice of Vermont, an online marketplace run by Aung Htet, founder and CEO of Burlington-based shipping company AGH Fulfillment. The partnership has “dramatically increased sales,” she said, by allowing her to sell online without worrying about shipping and handling. Her products are also available at many of the breweries and distilleries with which she partners, plus Winooski’s Beverage Warehouse, Local Maverick and other locations around the state. The Tipsy Pickle has grown to offer more than 20 varieties, from Sip of Sunshine Pickles with dried Mexican chiles to sweet pickles made with Citizen Cider’s Dirty Mayor. Three more flavors are coming soon. Tourists are most partial to the Heady Pickles, a traditional sour style made with the Alchemist’s Heady Topper, Gerace said. Local customers, by contrast, seem to gravitate toward her spicy offerings and those with lots of garlic. “Vermonters love the spicy stuff,” she said with a laugh. “They clear your palate and wake you up a little.”

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Gerace chops all of the cucumbers by hand and layers them carefully into jars on top of the spices. Then she cooks the brine — boiling off all of the alcohol to leave only the flavor of the IPA, stout, cider, gin or whiskey — before putting each jar in the canner to be processed. It’s a lot of work, she said, “but I probably have one of the greatest jobs in the state.” Jeremy Elliott, president and co-owner of Smugglers’ Notch Distillery in Jeffersonville, started working with Gerace a few years ago. Their early collaborations focused on the distillery’s biggest sellers: its vodka and gin. Later, they added limited-batch products. Today, the Tipsy Pickle line includes four flavors made with the distillery’s spirits: Hot Notch Vodka Pickles, 802 Gin Pickles, Maple Bourbon Whiskey Pickles and the aforementioned Bourbon Barrel Aged Rum Pickles. Smugglers’ Notch Distillery sells Tipsy Pickles at its tasting rooms and online. “I can’t even believe how many pickles we sell — pallets and pallets of pickles,” Elliott ANGEL A GERACE said. “Angela’s so passionate about making things perfectly; she’s persistent and resilient, and she’s a wonderful partner for us to have.” Gerace also makes pickles in-house for breweries. At Four Quarters Brewing’s new tasting room in Winooski, customers can purchase jars of Caraway Phaze Pickles — peppery, citrusy pickles made with the brewery’s Phaze IPA — or order spears made with the same recipe to snack on with their beers. The pickle spears Gerace makes in-house are unprocessed “refrigerator pickles”; tasting both spears and slices is a delicious way to explore the difference between two popular picklemaking methods. Adding beer or spirits doesn’t change the processing method, but Gerace does have to adjust the tried-andtrue brine recipe — equal parts water to vinegar — that her mother taught her. Using less water helps maintain the proper pH level when she adds the booze, and it keeps the acidity where it needs to be through processing. She also has to make sure the brine comes to a rolling boil — which home picklers don’t need to do — to cook out the alcohol and make the product shelf-stable. Right now, Gerace makes her tipsy pickles at two commercial kitchens, spending Wednesdays at Burlington Friends Meeting and using Brian Stefan’s space at Southern Smoke in Winooski when needed. Finding adequate and affordable production space has been a challenge, she said. Foreseeing a pandemic-era entrepreneurship explosion, she’s working with a partner to develop a new shared commercial kitchen and resource hub. “I want it to be a place people can rent out to get their small businesses going and get help with all the little things you don’t know you need when you’re starting out,” Gerace said. “There are all kinds of little businesses popping up right now, and they’re going to revive our economy.” On a recent Wednesday afternoon at Burlington Friends Meeting, brine-scented steam fogged the antique windows.

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Cucumbers ready for brining to become Heady Pickles

The conversation was punctuated with the sound of lids sealing — something like “pop,” “plunk” or “ping.” “It’s my favorite sound in the world,” Gerace said. After they emerge from the rolling boil of the waterbath canners, the jars cool, and the air pressure inside decreases and creates a vacuum. Jars don’t have to pop to be sealed properly, Gerace said, “but it’s a reassuring thing, like you’ve done it right.”

She was busy producing a “smaller batch” of Heady Pickles — 11 cases. Two electric canners were plugged in on the counter, a traditional metal canning pot was boiling away on the stove, and boxes and 16-ounce jars covered every other available surface. Pandemic disruptions in the supply chain have combined with the recent cold snap in the southern U.S. to send cucumber prices skyrocketing. In the summer, Gerace buys her cucumbers from Sam Mazza’s Farm Market, Bakery and Greenhouses for about $35 a bushel. Out of season, the cucumbers she buys from elsewhere are usually $66 a bushel. Right now, a bushel costs $89. “I’m still making them, but not as many,” Gerace said, because she doesn’t want to raise her prices. Cucumbers aren’t the only essential ingredient she’s had a hard time getting this year: The summer saw a national shortage of jars and vinegar. The pandemic gardening boom led to a preserving boom as people looked to stretch their homegrown produce and stock their pantries. “With everybody having their victory gardens, things got more expensive,” Gerace said. Still, she’s supportive of people learning to DIY. “It was rough for a little bit, but also exciting,” she said of the shortages. “These are things I grew up with, but they’re also skills everybody should know how to do.” As she completed her final batch and emptied the metal canner into the sink, Gerace mentioned that she gets more questions than ever before from people looking to make pickles of their own. “I’m happy that people are learning to preserve food,” she said. “I didn’t invent the pickle. I just have a different take on it.” m

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streaming shows have been the saving grace of artists and audiences trying to hang on to a shred of normalcy. All performance-based fields have suffered because of the pandemic, but comedy scenes like the one we have in Vermont have been hit especially hard, for some specific reasons. Local comedy is a community that thrives on fellowship in particular ways that others, such as the live music scene, perhaps don’t. I’m not saying musicians can have more fulfilling performances without an audience than comedians, or can universally survive better in isolation. It’s hard for everyone. But I am saying that there’s a special sort of magic

Vermont Comedy Club owners Nathan Hartswick and Natalie Miller

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Which do you prefer: “panniversary” or “pandemiversary”? I think panniversary rolls off the tongue better, but the meaning of pandemiversary is a bit clearer. Whatever you want to call it, it’s been a year since the pandemic shat all over everything relating to music, nightlife and live entertainment. Also, practically every aspect of day-to-day life. Nearly all of Vermont’s music venues and performing arts hubs shut down a year ago this week. Let Friday, March 13, 2020, forever be known as Dark Friday — that is, the day when all of our stages went dark. Like so many others, the Vermont Comedy Club closed its doors on Dark Friday. To commemorate the unprecedented 12 months since, as well as raise some much-needed funds, the venue presents a monumental streaming benefit show this weekend. Dubbed Hellebration, the event is a 24-hour marathon running from noon on Saturday, March 13, to noon the following day, Sunday, March 14. Programming will be streamed via Zoom, with links provided on the club’s website. (For all you hairsplitters out there: Yes, because daylight saving time takes effect on Sunday, technically we lose an hour overnight, thus making the event only 23 hours long. But only a dick would harp on that.) Composed of hourlong blocks of programming, Hellebration features

a buttload of local, formerly local and national comedians, improvisers, actors and podcasters doing what they do best: cracking you the eff up. And when I say a buttload, I mean a buttload. Way too many to list in full — especially since, as of this writing, the lineup and schedule were still subject to change. Expect to see some past winners of Vermont’s Funniest Comedian, such as TINA FRIML and TIM BRIDGE. And legendary Kids in the Hall member KEVIN MCDONALD, who’s taught some seminars at the VCC, is slated for Saturday night. The final lineup and schedule should be published on the club’s socials sometime before Saturday. Though not ideal, web-based

that happens in the comedy world, both on- and offstage. “It’s really, really hard,” said VCC co-owner NATALIE MILLER of performing without an audience. She specifically noted the difficulty of creating energy and momentum while telling jokes into the void of cyberspace. But she also touched on how she and her cohort have adapted. “We found that, over time, people just want to see other humans having fun together,” she said. “If you can’t have that live audience, at least the people who you are in the Zoom with need to be reacting in that way. You just need to make sure people are having fun.” The club has hosted streams from various comedians and improv groups on a regular basis since the pandemic began. But because it can’t physically be together, Vermont’s tight-knit comedy community could be at a huge artistic disadvantage when it is able to reconvene and perform in-person. Miller revealed that, before the club reopens, fans can expect to see some outdoor, socially distanced comedy shows once the weather improves. However, she noted, “We need to get the comedy scene back in shape. “None of us have performed in front of people for a really long time,” Miller explained. “Delivery is so important. And it’s just practice. It’s repetition. Getting those reps they need is gonna be big before we reopen.” Miller went on to say that if the VCC’s house improv team the Unmentionables were to take the stage in front of a real, live audience, “I think we’d probably bomb pretty hard right now.” But, she added, “The audience would be so glad to be seeing people in real life that they would laugh at anything.” Beyond being out of practice, comedians thrive on being together in their downtime. It’s not even downtime, really — it’s how comedy happens. “Comedians are constantly working out material on each other,” Miller said. “Just the way that we talk is different from everyone else. Being around each other is really important to the creation of comedy, and also just our mental health.” Funds raised through Hellebration will go toward some remodeling and renovations at the downtown Burlington club to allow for better social distancing and sanitation. This includes installing touchless bathroom fixtures and reworking ingress and egress flow to allow customers more personal space. Folks planning to tune in this weekend should settle in for some homebound hilarity. Though content

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is likely to get progressively raunchier and less family-friendly as night bleeds into day, the marathon kicks off with a group of family-friendly improvisers on Saturday. Similarly, on Sunday morning, VCC creative director JULIA DIFERDINANDO, along with comedian BRIAN PARK, “will be making breakfast and making jokes,” DiFerdinando wrote by email. She emphasized that her family-friendly set will suit all ages. Just a few more tidbits: BRIAN DELABRUERE, a member of the Unmentionables, hosts a game show composed of original games he’s rolled out during weekly online improv sessions. Comedians will compete in contests such as “Who’s That Neck!?” and “One Truth and a Lie.” DeLaBruere noted by email that he’s likely to make appearances throughout the marathon and that he didn’t ask for much information from the VCC regarding his role “because I like my online performance experience to be controlled chaos.” Sketch comedians STEPHEN FRANKLIN, RYAN KENYON and JOHN LYONS will bring their Transcendental Comedy Experience to the marathon, featuring some unpredictable prerecorded sketches. “It’s an event that’s certain to be strange, unusual and at times downright confusing,” Kenyon wrote in an email. “The real question is, will it even be funny? And what is laughter, anyway? I mean, aren’t we all just dust in the wind?” I feel you, Mr. Kenyon.

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A pretty big piece of semi-music-related news came out last week: PHISH’s TREY ANASTASIO is opening an addiction treatment facility in Ludlow, tentatively in late 2021. Or rather, his nonprofit, the Divided Sky Foundation, in association with national group Ascension Recovery

Services, is heading up the center. Its name is yet to be determined. According to a press release from Red Light Management, Anastasio raised approximately $1.2 million during the Beacon Jams, the legendary guitarist’s string of virtual, donationbased concerts streamed live from New York City’s Beacon Theatre last year. That money went directly to purchasing the Ludlow property. “The center’s goal: to be a local asset not only for treatment, but for giving back to the community,” read the press release. It went on to note that the forthcoming center will serve people from all economic backgrounds, offer job training and provide educational opportunities. For years, Anastasio has talked openly about his struggle with opioid addiction. “I was extremely lucky to have access to care, and I know how important it is to be part of a recovery community,” he said via the press release. “I’m grateful that we can help provide that opportunity for others.”

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“Past and future always tug at our mental fabric, threatening to rip the rug from under us.” So concludes the brief description that accompanies Narrow Shoulders’ Now Be Here, a fleeting, experimental journey of impressionistic soundscapes and low-key trip-hop. Its creator, Twosyllable Records founder Zach Pollakoff, layers clarinet, synths, guitar and field recordings to form nebulous instrumentals. A recent Vermont transplant, Pollakoff took up residence in Charlotte in 2020. In addition to making music and running a label, he’s an executive producer at Heavy

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It’s said that a melody line is the horizon of a composition, as the notes are written left to right. Meanwhile, harmony, with its vertically oriented notes, is an ascending line. I’ve always pictured this concept as a sort of reflected sunbeam, hitting a clear, pacific stretch of ocean and shooting back up into a blue sky. On her latest record, In Our Voices, Vermontbased musician Moira Smiley taps into the formidable beauty and power of harmony, collaborating with her ensemble of backing vocalists, VOCO, consisting of Karla Mundy, Dawn

Duty Projects, a creative firm specializing in music publishing, production and supervision. His portfolio showcases his knack for using music to support and emphasize brand messaging. Pollakoff does something similar with Narrow Shoulders, orbiting the concept of “familiar quotidian scenarios,” as he put it in a press release. He aims to encapsulate inherent psychological and emotional responses to slices of life that might seem trivial or forgettable. Song titles such as “Day Off ” and “Nap Before Dinner” indicate the dusty, unconsidered corners he wishes to explore. And he does so with care and ease. Though available digitally, Now Be Here sounds best on cassette. The noises produced by sliding it into the deck, pressing play, the tape slowly unspooling

from one reel to the other, and the forceful ka-chunk of auto-reverse blend with the album’s contents. The format enhances the work. The elements Pollakoff gathers together push against each another as much as they contract inward. Familiar, commonplace elements — such as gently picked acoustic guitar — ebb and flow, wandering in and out of coherence. Pollakoff frequently centers his clarinet, with its round, hollow tones, on sound portraits made of hissing noise or cosmic synths. The clarinet is a difficult instrument. (I know this from personal experience, having played it in fifth grade before switching to the much easier alto saxophone in sixth.) It’s also one that’s difficult to separate from its associations in klezmer, jazz and classical music. By making it the melodic lead in an unconventional sonic space, Pollakoff actively works to break those associations. Side A moves through the amorphous “Rain on a Saturday Morning” into

therapeutic sojourn “Day Off,” the contrast like an impenetrable fog burning off to reveal a sun-dappled pond. “Atop Anthony’s Nose” — a stargazing pinnacle like the mountain in the title — dissipates as it transitions into the deadened drone of “Nap Before Dinner.” Side B puts more emphasis on rhythm. “It’s Late” trudges along a dark path with sharp, mechanized slaps. “Black Horizons” haunts the listener with carnivalesque clarinet and trap beats. Closing cuts “Saturday Morning - Remix” and “Anthony’s Nose - Reprise” tighten, streamline and reimagine concepts presented earlier. Pollakoff ’s experimentalism shouldn’t alienate those who prefer pop or more mainstream sounds. By cherry-picking universal elements of songcraft, he creates a welcoming space in which it’s easy to find comfort. Now Be Here is available at narrows-houlders.bandcamp.com.

Pemberton, Jake Asaro and Gregory Fletcher. It’s a record brimming with voices, often centered on rhythms performed on the human body. The combined effect of these body rhythms, harmonies and Smiley’s soaring melodies creates a type of hyper-organic sound, a tone rooted in the noises of humanity: singing, breathing, stomping and clapping. There is nothing synthetic about this record. Smiley, who also performs with the Oakland, Calif., indie outfit Tune-Yards, is a celebrated composer with a diverse catalog. Among her specialties is choral arrangement, a talent on ample display on In Our Voices. Lead single “How Can I Cry” showcases many of the album’s musical themes. In the video for the song, much of it shot in Burlington, we see

Smiley’s feet beating out a rhythm on the pavement as she begins to sing. VOCO are with her, flying in formation, and when she starts to sing the lyric “sisters and brothers” and the others join in, the power of the five voices is palpable. The album confronts heavy topical themes, as well. Like so many of us, Smiley finds herself grappling with the issues of race in modern society. As the Black Lives Matter movement has risen in our national discourse, many white artists have tried to address those issues in their songwriting to varying degrees of success — and in some cases, cringe. For her part, Smiley isn’t skittish. “Gonna sing it when I feel like cryin’ / When I’m uncomfortable and don’t know why yet / When I am guilty of the laissez-faire, my ignorance of you laid bare / I’ll talk to you before I raise my hand, so you can call on me to make a stand,” she swears on “Sing About It.” Listening rather than leading when it comes to racial issues is a sentiment we’ve

seen several local white artists espouse of late. Still, that hasn’t stopped plenty of others from attempting to do just the opposite. While VOCO are a multiethnic and multi-gender ensemble, this is still Smiley’s show and Smiley’s words. Fair or not, some might wonder whether her message of taking a step back is undercut by a record full of declarations. What elevates In Our Voices above pandering is a true sense of belief that underscores the compositions. Whether it’s the haunting “Refugee” or the anthemic “Bellow,” Smiley’s songs carry the power of her conviction in every lyric and shuffled beat. And when those gorgeous VOCO harmonies kick in … woof. You almost have to put on sunglasses, such is the brilliance of the voices singing together. Beauty and purpose joined in song make for a stunning sonic creation. In Our Voices is available at moirasmiley.com.

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DRIVE MY CAR Roles are reversed by the end of Bahrani’s dark satire about an ambitious chauffeur played by Gourav (left).

ur streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. This week, I watched The White Tiger, a Netflix film set in India that mashes up satire, class-conscious underdog story and crime drama with flash and style. Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo, 99 Homes) directed and adapted the screenplay from Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel. The author and filmmaker have been friends since their student days at Columbia University; their collaboration is an award nominee and a top-10 global hit on the streaming service.

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The deal In Bangalore, the “Silicon Valley of India,” a young man named Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav) writes an email to the Chinese premier, who is visiting the city to learn from its entrepreneurs. Balram presents himself as a shining example of how someone from a poor, low-caste background can succeed in the new 48

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economy. As he narrates in voice-over, we see for ourselves how he triumphed over his rural upbringing and truncated education. In flashbacks, Balram talks his way into the job of chauffeur to Ashok (Rajkummar Rao), son of his town’s wealthy landlord. Ashok has recently returned from the U.S. with a glamorous wife, Pinky (Priyanka Chopra Jonas), and the young couple brings Balram to Delhi, where they often treat him more like a buddy or a pet than a servant. But one night, when a wasted Pinky insists on replacing Balram at the wheel of their luxury SUV, things go very wrong. Having realized just how far servitude will (and won’t) get him in life, Balram chooses a new path.

Will you like it? If the narrative framing of The White Tiger has you excited for an Indian version of Goodfellas, you may be disappointed. Bahrani has cited Martin Scorsese’s film and Fight Club as stylistic influences, but the movie is less crime epic than character study. The focus is on the complex relationship of

master and servant, the invisible lines that keep some people subordinate to others. Early in the film, Balram uses the metaphor of the “rooster cage” to explain why he and millions of other people accept their fate as exploited servants to the privileged. Likening them to fowls that watch passively as their friends are sent to the stew pot, he asks what happens when someone fights back. Balram doesn’t start out a rebel; begging for a job, he’s all obsequious smiles and eagerness to please. But Gourav, in an electric performance, shows us the doubts, the conflicts and eventually the ruthlessness beneath the façade. Complicating Balram’s dawning class consciousness are his fraught relationships with his employers. While the patriarch of Ashok’s family (Mahesh Manjrekar) wouldn’t be out of place in a mob movie, the movie-star-gorgeous Ashok and Pinky pride themselves on their humane and modern attitudes. They’re “soft” antagonists, like the rich family in Parasite. But when push comes to shove, their empathy with the underprivileged crumbles.

A disillusioned Balram derides the couple’s hypocrisy as weak — much like the country that shaped them, the U.S., which he dismisses as “over.” The future, in his view, belongs to people like him, who have an incentive to dare all and respect nothing. In that respect, Balram resembles the social-climbing heroes of 19th-century literature (a comparison Adiga himself has made) who reflected Europeans’ conflicted feelings about industrial capitalism. By the end of the movie, it should be clear that Bahrani and Adiga aren’t glorifying this neo-rags-to-riches tale. Filmmaking choices encourage us to see Balram’s rise in satirical perspective; as he grows more Machiavellian, the camera gets uncomfortably close to his face, and the basement room where he makes his darkest resolutions is flushed with sickly green light. Paolo Carnera’s cinematography fleshes out his motivations by capturing the sweep and flow of Delhi streets, from squalid slums to the glittery haunts of the wealthy. The White Tiger is a sleek and exhilarating production, but what makes it work is Balram’s grubby, conflicted humanity. His escape from the “rooster cage” comes at a price that should keep us from cheering for him, but we might do it anyway.

If you like this, try... • Slumdog Millionaire (2008; YouTube, Cinemax, rentable): Balram practically name-checks Danny Boyle’s Oscar winner when he notes snarkily that winning a million rupees on a game show isn’t a realistic route out of poverty. Both films showcase India’s underclass, but to different ends. • Parasite (2019; Hulu, rentable): Fiery class consciousness animates this Oscar-winning satirical drama from Bong Joon-ho. In the same vein, but with an American setting and a surreal twist, try Sorry to Bother You (2018; Hulu, rentable). • Goodbye Solo (2008; YouTube, Kanopy, rentable): Before The White Tiger, director Bahrani was best known for quiet indie dramas like this one, about a Senegalese-born cabbie in North Carolina who forms an unlikely bond with a depressed older man he drives to the movies. MARGO T HARRI S O N margot@sevendaysvt.com

LONG WEEKEND: A struggling writer’s weekend is complicated by a mysterious new acquaintance in this romantic comedy written and directed by Steven Basilone, starring Finn Wittrock, Zoë Chao and Casey Wilson. (91 min, R. Essex Cinemas) THE FATHER: Anthony Hopkins was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as a man struggling with dementia in Florian Zeller's drama, also starring Olivia Colman. (97 min, PG-13. Savoy Theater)

NOW PLAYING BOOGIEHHH Eddie Huang wrote and directed this coming-of-age story of a boy (Taylor Takahashi) who dreams of basketball stardom while his parents pressure him to focus on academics. With Pamelyn Chee and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (89 min, R. Essex Cinemas) CHAOS WALKINGHH Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley star in this adaptation of Patrick Ness’ dystopian YA trilogy about a boy growing up in a society that is all-male and full of oppressive psychic Noise, much like parts of Reddit. Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) directed. (109 min, PG-13. Essex Cinemas) JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAHHHHH1/2 Daniel Kaluuya plays Fred Hampton, chair of the Illinois Black Panther Party, in this Golden Globe-winning historical drama about his betrayal by an FBI informant. With LaKeith Stanfield. Shaka King directed. (126 min, R. Savoy Theater) MINARIHHHH1/2 In Lee Isaac Chung’s bittersweet autobiographical drama, a Korean immigrant family struggles to make their new Arkansas vegetable farm pay off. Steven Yeun and Yeri Han star in this festival favorite. (115 min, PG-13. Essex Cinemas; Savoy Theater, Sat & Sun only; reviewed by M.H. 2/24)

NOMADLANDHHHHH Frances McDormand plays a woman set adrift by the Great Recession to travel the country in her beat-up van in this Golden Globe nominee directed by Chloé Zhao. (108 min, R. Savoy Theater)

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RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGONHHHH A young warrior seeks the help of the last living dragon to save humanity from monsters in this Disney animated fantasy. With the voices of Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina and Gemma Chan. Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada directed. (114 min, PG. Essex Cinemas) STRAYHHHH Elizabeth Lo’s acclaimed documentary follows three stray dogs as they find companionship, including among Syrian refugees, on the streets of Istanbul. (72 min, NR. Savoy Theater) TOM AND JERRYH1/2 Cartoon cat attempts to catch cartoon mouse, over and over and over. But what is their origin story? This family animation reveals all. With the voices of Chloë Grace Moretz and Michael Peña. Tim Story (Ride Along) directed. (101 min, PG. Essex Cinemas) WOLFWALKERSHHHH1/2 An apprentice wolf hunter in Ireland discovers a different point of view in this family animation from the makers of The Secret of Kells, featuring the voices of Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker and Sean Bean. (103 min, PG. Savoy Theater, Sat only; reviewed by M.H. 1/13)

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Application 2021-11-DRB: Applicant: John Choate, Property Owner: (same) – Request Setback Waiver to build 720 sq. ft. accessory structure at 223 Thatcher Rd. Applicant requests a reduction in the 25 ft. minimum setback. The property is located in the Resort Residential District. (Tax Map # 4-0090233).

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO. 21-PR00860 IN RE THE ESTATE OF FRANCOIS E. BOURGEOIS LATE OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT

Dated: March 8, 2021 Signed: /s/ Brian Driebelbis Brian Driebelbis c/o Corey F. Wood, Esq. PO Box 174 Essex Jct., VT 05453-0174 802-879-6304 cwood@bpflegal.com Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: March 10, 2021 Vermont Superior Court, Probate Division, Chittenden District P.O. Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402-0511 TOWN OF BOLTON PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE: MARCH 25, 2021 BOLTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD Thursday, March 25th, 2021, 6:30 PM REMOTE MEETING GoToMeeting: https://global.gotomeeting.com/ join/411663237 By phone: +1 (872) 240-3212 Access Code: 411-663-237 Application 2021-10-DRB: Applicant: John Choate, Property Owner: (same) – Request Conditional Use approval to build 720 sq. ft. accessory structure at 223 Thatcher Rd. The accessory structure will be developed on slopes between 15 – 25%. The property is located in the Resort Residential District. (Tax Map # 4-0090233).

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Seeking an experienced Finance Manager to plan, direct, and coordinate all accounting functions of our thriving Co-op. The ideal candidate has leadership experience and has been in the finance field for at least 5 years. Visit our website today to learn more about the position and the dynamic, supportive community that awaits.

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Full-time position with benefits; Great company culture.

To apply, please call 802-479-9371 or apply online at: careers.landolakesinc.com/vermontcreamery.

Career Opportunity: Business Development Manager

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Bread Loaf Corporation, Vermont’s integrated company of architects, planners and builders, is searching for a Business Development Manager to join our sales team. The Business Development Manager takes the lead in the business development process: identifying, developing, and closing prospective and existing client business. Applicants must be fully engaged in the process of building strategic relationships with our clients and must find satisfaction in helping solve their problems. Candidates should have a background in architecture or construction management, at least five years of experience in business development in the industry and be results-oriented and organized. Bread Loaf offers a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefits package and a friendly work environment. We thrive on innovative ideas and excellent work. Please visit our website, www.breadloaf.com, for more information about our company. Interested candidates may send their resume to resumes@breadloaf.com.

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Now hiring a restaurant manager to join our amazing team in North Ferrisburgh! This is a fast paced and customer-focused store. Three years’ professional restaurant experience required. Daily operations include opening and closing, overseeing and managing staff & food production, and running the customer loyalty program. You will work alongside staff to ensure product quality, sizing and appearance. Must be able to work quickly and efficiently, be extremely reliable, understand the importance of customer service, and work well in a mature and collaborative environment. Hours & Salary: • Seasonal/Full-time • Pay: $15.00 - $18.00 per hour + tips (an extra $3-$10 per hour) • Seasonal position but performance may result in year round position. Must have weekend and evening availability. For more information and to apply, go to: https://bit.ly/3r5gqZq.

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We’re hiring for pastry & kitchen positions!

We’re looking for individuals who enjoy work that exercises both body and mind and are passionate about making great food. We are committed to using high quality, organic ingredients and work with many local farmers to source these. We opened in 1999 and remain dedicated to excellence in our baking and cooking as well as creating an environment for people to thrive. We offer great pay and benefits including paid vacation/sick days, retirement plan, and health insurance. Contact Randy at 223-5200 x12 or randy@redhenbaking.com.

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MARCH 10-17, 2021

JR. STAFF ACCOUNTANT The Lodge at Spruce Peak is looking for a Jr. Staff Accountant to join our fun-loving and diverse team dedicated to providing authentic Vermont experiences to guests, owners, club members, and our community.

SERVICE COORDINATOR

The Jr. Staff Accountant assists in the operations of the Accounting Department, under the guidance of the Controller and Director of Finance. By joining our team, you will be working independently within a very supportive and dynamic team to ensure that the department provides the utmost accuracy of accounting and analysis while striving to improve on efficiency and processes. Our business includes The Lodge at Spruce Peak, The Club at Spruce Peak, and the Stowe Country Club, and offers unique accounting and operational challenges that offer the opportunity for growth as an accountant who understands the business. College degree in Business or Accounting and 3-5 years of experience preferred. Exceptional computer skills a must. Benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, company match 401k, Stowe ski/ride passes, golf access, discounted room rates, and F&B at Hyatt Hotels worldwide. For full job listing and to apply visit: SprucePeak.com/Careers. Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Join our team of professionals providing case management for individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism. In this role you will learn about strategies for individualized supports; build trusting, professional relationships; lead teams towards a greater goal; and continue your career in human services in a compassionate & fun environment. This is a rewarding position where you can make a big difference in your community and in a variety of individuals lives. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package including affordable health insurance, paid time off plus paid holidays, dental plan, employee assistance program, retirement plan match and so much more. In addition to these benefits, CCS has been voted as one of the Best Places to Work for the third year in a row in 2021. Join us! We would love to have you as part of our team. Send your cover letter and application to Leigh Studley, lstudley@ccs-vt.org. CCS-VT.ORG

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Senior Accounting Associate

We are an established CPA firm seeking an experienced bookkeeper for our accounting services department. You should be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of professional accounting and bookkeeping practices to help our clients grow. We are seeking someone who enjoys a position of responsibility, ownership, and problem-solving. An ability to maintain confidentiality is a must. You should have experience with the following: • QuickBooks, QuickBooks Online and Excel • Accounts payable, accounts receivable, bookkeeping entries, closing books monthly, preparing financial reporting and analysis • Payroll, Sales & Use, and Use Tax and other electronic submissions • Quarterly and Year-End payroll filings and 1099s • Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing Our Firm works with a diverse number of clients from small business owners to nonprofits. We pride ourselves on understanding and anticipating our client’s needs. We are a high tech, high-quality firm with flexible hours, and an excellent compensation package. Send resumes to:

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Champlain Community Services is a growing developmental services provider agency with a strong emphasis on self-determination values and employee and consumer satisfaction.

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Sana at Stowe is a new premier addiction treatment facility opening this Spring in Stowe, VT. Our mission is to help individuals with substance use and co-occurring conditions begin the journey of recovery in a beautiful, private setting with evidence-based treatments and outstanding service. We are seeking the following highly qualified and experienced professionals to join our team: • Administrative Coordinator (full-time) • Counselor (full-time) • Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) – Multiple Positions (full-time) • Psychologist (full-time) • Registered Nurses – Multiple Positions (full-time) Benefits include competitive salary, paid time off, health, dental and vision insurance, 401k plan, life and disability insurance. See our website, sanastowe.health and send your resume or questions to careers@sanastowe.health.

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MULTIPLE POSITIONS OPEN Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital has a variety of positions available, including:

DEAN OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

Market Manager Northwest Farmers Market-St Albans is looking for a new market manager!

RNs, LNAs, Radiologic Technologists, MT or MLT, Administrative, Information Services and more!

Craftsbury Common, VT Campus

This position reports to the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and serves as the chief budget and contracts officer for the college. The Dean of Finance and Operations is a member of the President’s Cabinet and supports the work of various committees/ councils of the College. The Dean of Finance and Operations manages the finance department staff and oversees vendor relations and large project expenditure for the College, working directly with the Director of Information Technology, Director of Facilities, and the Human Resources Officer. Because of the small size of the institution, the Dean of Finance and Operations must be able to move seamlessly between leadership, management, and hands-on engagement.

The ideal candidate should be organized, be a good communicator, have strong people skills and strong managerial skills. Must be enthusiastic about local food and arts in our community and expanding our farmers market. Responsibilities To read the full position description and application instructions, visit: include working with vendors, sterlingcollege.edu/more/employment organizing events, liaison with the City of St. Albans, as well as other duties. This 4t-SterlingCollege031021.indd 1 3/8/21 hourly position runs AprilNovember, with Saturday availability necessary between our market dates, May 15Oct. 30, average 10 hours per week. 275 hrs overall for the year. Salary $15/hr.

Full-time, part-time and per diem schedules available. Shift differentials and per diem rates offered. FT and PT employees are eligible for excellent benefits including student loan repayment, generous paid time off, wellness reimbursement, low cost health insurance and 401k with company match! APPLY TODAY AT NVRH.ORG/CAREERS.

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Howard Center is seeking a Shared Living Provider (SLP) for a woman in her 50s who enjoys spending time with others and watching movies. The ideal provider(s) will live in wheelchair accessible home or a home that could be modified to be WCA, and be comfortable with complex 2:31 PM medical issues and personal care needs. The individual has a great sense of humor and would enjoy living with children and with pets. The provider will be supported by a clinical and in-home/respite team. Compensation includes generous annual stipend and respite budget. Assistance may be available for home modifications. For more information or to request an application, please contact Patrick Fraser at patfraser@howardcenter.org or 802-871-2902.

PRO SHOP

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GROUNDS CREW

Local golf course seeks grounds crew person for turf maintenance, landscaping and course duties. This is an outside position with a variety of responsibilities in a nice work environment. Monday to Friday with some weekend work, through November. Submit your cover letter and resume with phone number to: joe@essexccwvt.com. 802-879-3232

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LICENSED NURSE ASSISTANT - LNA Sign On Bonus Full time positions are eligible for a $2,000 sign on bonus! Prorated for part-time.

The Licensed Nurse Assistant is responsible for specific aspects of direct and indirect patient care under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse. As an LNA at UVMMC, you have the opportunity to develop your career through our LNA Advancement Program and to participate in the LNA Council.

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WE ARE GROWING!!! Our Williston Garden Center is thriving, and we need YOUR help to continue to spread the joy and rewards of gardening! Become an employee-owner and join our award-winning, nationally recognized company! Operations Lead – responsible for the daily supervision and direction of the buildings and grounds, yard and safety oversight. Full-time, yearround, benefit eligible. Green Goods Receiving Specialist – ensures efficient and accurate flow of inbound plant product from arrival of delivery trucks through to the sales floor. Full-time, year-round, benefit eligible. Help Desk Specialist – ensures an exceptional service experience for all customers and assists customers with direct/online sales. Full-time, yearround, benefit eligible. Seasonal Delivery & Installation Foreman – primarily works in the field ensuring that deliveries and installations are completed accurately, efficiently, and professionally. This position is active mid-March through November. We are 100% employee-owned and a certified B Corporation. We offer strong cultural values, competitive wages and outstanding benefits (including a tremendous discount on plants and product!). Interested? Go to gardeners.com/careers and apply online!

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MARCH 10-17, 2021

Join NPI, Vermont’s premier Technology Management firm. Have fun and delight clients. NPI appreciates its staff, and offers a pet-friendly office, generous time off, matching 401k, family health coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts, open-book management, and profit-sharing.

IT Service Manager As NPI’s IT Service Manager, you will lead NPI's service team in providing stellar client satisfaction, efficient and prompt customer support, and on-time and on-budget project completion. Responsibilities include mentoring, budgeting, and workflow improvement. 3+ years of prior service management experience in IT or another industry required. Learn more: tinyurl.com/NPI-SM-SD2

Canopy IT Support Technician As a member of our top-flight Canopysm team, you will be a go-to for products and applications clients rely on every day. The team handles support requests, monitors network Sound components, configures workstations and interesting? users, automates service delivery, reports on system health, and resolves issues. Apply online You will work in our office most days, with today! occasional visits to client sites. 1 year fulltime IT experience required. Learn more: tinyurl.com/NPI-Canopy4-SD

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PRINCIPAL Missisquoi Valley School District is seeking an innovative instructional leader to serve as Principal of Swanton School. Swanton School provides educational services for approximately 580 students, pre-kindergarten through grade six between the Mary S. Babcock and Swanton Central buildings. The Principal at Swanton will join a dynamic MVSD leadership team and lead an enthusiastic, dedicated staff that is continuously moving on a journey towards instructional excellence. Swanton School has a strong foundation in the PLC (professional learning communities) process, responsive classroom and a vibrant PBIS framework to support students. The successful candidate will be a strong instructional leader with excellent communication skills and a commitment to student academic and social development. Interested candidates are asked to apply via SchoolSpring.com (# 3461381), or submit a letter of interest, resume, proof of licensure, and three current lettersof reference to: Julie Regimbal, Superintendent of Schools Missisquoi Valley School District 100 Robin Hood Drive, Suite 2 Swanton, VT 05488 Application review begins As Soon as Possible. Open until filled. In matters related to employment, the school district does not permit or condone discrimination based any characteristic protected by Federal or State Law. EOE

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KAS, Inc., a growing environmental and civil engineering consulting firm located in Williston, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York, seeks a full time civil engineer.

• Resourceful • Detail oriented • Good verbal and written communication skill • Solid computer skills

Some specific initial responsibilities/expectations will likely include: • Civil based drafting and design • Stormwater design and permitting in VT, NY, and NH • Utility design and permitting • Field work and occasional surveying • On-site septic design and permitting

• General site civil design and permitting • General environmental engineering design and permitting • Willingness to complete assignments as workloads dictate is necessary

The position includes benefits, growth potential, and a good working environment. To apply please submit a cover letter and resume to: KAS, Inc., P.O. Box 787, Williston, VT 05495 or info@kas-consulting.com.

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The successful applicant will have the following attributes: • A Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering • PE or EI on a PE track • Proficiency in AutoCAD and Autodesk Civil 3D (preferred) • Self-motivated

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VGS is seeking an experienced and energetic Controller to lead the accounting and procurement operations of the company through the oversight of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports. Duties include the maintenance and development of an adequate system of accounting records and a comprehensive set of controls and budgets designed to mitigate risk; effectively communicating and enhancing the accuracy of the Company’s financial results; and ensuring that reported results comply with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) standards. Diversity & Inclusion Statement: We are committed to building a work community that is inclusive and represents a vibrant diversity of background, experience, perspective, and thought. Candidates across all markers of identity (age, race, gender, ability, communication style, etc.) are highly encouraged to apply. Please go to vermontgas.com to view the full job descriptions and apply today!

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PART-TIME OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

SERVICE COORDINATOR

Seeking a part-time Office Administrator/Legal Assistant for immediate hire. This position has the potential to expand to full time in the future. CAFFRY LAW is a special needs and estate planning law firm in Waterbury, VT. This position involves bookkeeping, office management, legal support, and some marketing responsibilities for our small firm.

SHARED LIVING PROVIDER Howard Center is seeking Shared Living Providers with accessible homes,

Upper Valley Services, or homes that could be made accessible with modification. The Shared Inc. is actively seeking an Living Program creates opportunities for individuals with developmental This person must be detail-oriented and have strong organizational, experienced person to join disabilities to live in the community. Experienced caregivers provide communication, and time-management skills. They must be proficient in our Moretown team as Service a home, day-to-day assistance, and support tailored to the needs of QuickBooks, Excel, Word, Outlook and online banking. They must possess Coordinator supporting a individuals seeking caregivers. This is a rewarding employment opportunity skills required to prepare invoices, handle firm deposits, prepare financial small caseload of 5 to 8 reports, process payments, and submit tax forms. They need to be able to for individuals who are interested in working from home while making a people with Intellectual and handle clerical duties including data entry, mail sorting, file management, meaningful difference in someone’s life. We use a careful matching process Developmental Disabilities. and other bookkeeping and administrative functions necessary for the firm to ensure that each placement is mutually compatible. Qualified candidates will have to operate efficiently. the ability to assist people in A generous tax-free stipend, room & board payments, respite budget, Long-term, part-time position. Hourly wage. all facets of person-centered training, and team support are provided. Please submit cover letter, resume, and references, to attorney practices to promote growth Contact Patrick Fraser at patfraser@howardcenter.org to learn more. Kaitlyn Keating at kaitlyn@caffrylaw.com. and community inclusion – supporting full and fulfilling lives. 1 3/9/21 2:50 PM 3/5/214t-HowardCenterSLPgeneral031021.indd 2:23 PM This is a 40 hour/week 4t-CaffreyLaw031021.indd 1 position with full complement of benefits. Requires a valid driver’s license and completion of background checks. Please send resume and letter PH International (Project Harmony, Inc.) is an international non-profit with 35 of interest to Deb Reed by years of experience focusing on civic engagement, cross cultural learning, March 17, 2021. and increased opportunities in the digital age. The U.S. headquarter office Vermont College of Fine Arts welcomes applications for is located in Waitsfield, Vermont with field offices in Armenia, Bosnia & Dreed@uvs-vt.org EOE the Institutional Advancement Manager. This full-time Herzegovina, Republic of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine with projects also operational administrative position reports to the VP for implemented in other countries. Institutional Advancement.

INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT MANAGER

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Warehouse Associate Vasa, Inc. is the worldwide leader in dryland swim training exercise equipment and we are growing! We are looking for a Warehouse Associate to join our great team at a well established and respected company. To learn more about Vasa, Inc. and this position, please visit vasatrainer. com/jobs/. If you have what it takes to be successful in this role, we want to hear from you! This is a full-time position based at Vasa headquarters in Essex Junction, VT.

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DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

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include playing a critical role in ensuring the College’s philanthropic success and building stronger ties among alumnx, donors and the broader College community. In addition to strengthening the systems that support a culture of philanthropy at the College, the Manager will be a visible member of the community, serving as a liaison to partner organizations.

SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WILL HAVE: • 3-5 years of nonprofit experience in fundraising, communications and/or external affairs • A demonstrated commitment to higher education/arts • Strong administrative skills including experience with constituent relationship management systems, such as Little Green Light • Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, Google suite, and email marketing platforms such as Constant Contact • A high level of professionalism, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills For full job description: vcfa.edu/about/jobs-at-vcfa. To apply send the following to vcfacareers@vcfa.edu: • Cover Letter, CV/Resume • Statement on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, outlining your professional skills, accomplishments, experience, and willingness to engage in activities to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion. For full consideration, submit application by March 26, 2021. Position will remain open until filled.

Immediate full-time opening in the Waitsfield office for a highly qualified professional to be a key member of PH’s Senior Management Team and oversee all accounting and financial functions. Demonstrated experience in non-profit accounting, business management, organizational leadership, and be highly adaptable to new online management systems. Knowledge of U.S. federal grant management and compliance is a must. Oversee all financial and accounting systems and reporting; supervise accounting staff; develop and manage the annual budget process, annual audit, 990, and NICRA proposal; manage cash management and cash-flow; monitor investments and line of credit; approve reports, invoices, journal entries, and transactions; prepare monthly account reconciliations; ensure internal procedures are followed for new awards, cost share, sub recipients, and procurement; and lead financial report preparation and reporting for Senior Management and the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors. Experience working with international field offices and with multi-company accounting and consolidated financial statements is a plus; demonstrated experience with federal and state regulations related to payroll; effective problem solving, critical thinking, and systems evaluation skills; experience in organizational leadership and supervising staff. FULL JOB DESCRIPTION & APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS AT: ph-int.org/vacancies. Application deadline: March 29, 2021. EOE.

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MARCH 10-17, 2021

DIRECTOR CHITTENDEN CLINIC OPIOID TREATMENT PROGRAM Seeking dynamic, strategic and engaging leader who is ready to join Howard Center to lead award winning treatment clinic. · Provide daily and strategic oversight of the Chittenden Clinic, the first Hub in Vermont’s innovative Hub and Spoke Model · Work alongside a nationally recognized Medical Director · Promote values of respect, inclusion and diversity, and the de-stigmatization of mental health and substance use disorders The Chittenden Clinic holds national accreditation through both CARF and NCQHC and was recognized by the National Council for Behavior Health in 2019 for Excellence in Addictions Treatment. Consider Applying If You Have:

NorthCountry is Hiring!

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Join the team Gallup ranks in the top 3% worldwide for employee engagement!

Apply at www.howardcentercareers.org

Information Security Program Manager Data security is our organization’s top strategic priority. As one of Vermont’s largest credit unions, we are responsible for the safekeeping of the personal and financial information of over 60,000 people who trust and rely on the integrity of our systems, policies, and procedures. As a leader in our organization, the ISPM will work with others on our team to identify and protect against current and developing threats including security breaches, attacks by cyber-criminals, and accidental disclosures. They will be responsible for our Information Security Program, perform security compliance audits, and provide regular updates to executive management and the board of directors. In addition to a clear understanding of the challenges of information security, the ISPM must have the ability to describe security issues to people throughout the credit union, and work with our training staff to promote best practices and a culture of awareness. Qualified candidates must have at least eight years of related experience and an appropriate master’s degree. A bachelor’s degree plus professional certification may also be considered.

NorthCountry offers competitive pay, opportunity for advancement, and a generous benefit program. n Paid holidays & paid time off n Medical, dental & vision

insurance n Life insurance

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matching up to 10% n Employee training n Wellness program

We would love to hear from you!

Apply at NorthCountryFederalCreditUnion.appone.com. NorthCountry is an equal opportunity employer.

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· Master’s degree in a related discipline · Five years of substance use treatment work · Five years of supervisory and management experience · Clinical License or Vermont license eligible

Insured by NCUA

Howard Center is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. The agency’s culture and service delivery is strengthened by the diversity of its workforce. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. Visit “About Us” to review our EOE policy.

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CENTRAL OFFICE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Harwood Unified Union School District is seeking a Central Office Administrative Assistant to provide administrative support to our Superintendent and Board of Directors and provide operational support to our Central Office, beginning July 1, 2021. This position will be responsible for maintaining a professional, friendly, positive, and respectful work atmosphere by coordinating and providing a full range of administrative functions; preparing documents for the Superintendent and Board of Directors, managing the Superintendent’s schedule and correspondence, proofreading district documents, clerical and reception responsibilities, and a variety of other administrative tasks. Great communication and interpersonal skills, great accuracy and attention to detail, excellent planning and organization and problem-solving skills, reliable and self-directed, current and well-developed technology skills, and a good sense of humor are some of the attributes for this position.

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Minimum of an Associate’s Degree and solid administrative assistant experience in a fast-paced office environment required. Candidates must be professional, flexible, and have the ability to prioritize work and multi-task effectively. Candidates also must have the ability to work with a variety of individuals and the ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality. Interested candidates must apply through schoolspring.com job number 3431132, and complete the essay questions at the end of that application. Position open until filled. Start date: July 1, 2021. E.O.E.

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SHARED LIVING PROVIDER Medical Receptionist

TRAINING & COACHING SPECIALIST - FULL TIME Work independently and as part of a strong team to implement a comprehensive training program for the State of Vermont, Division of Family Services. Provide consultation, training and coaching to primarily Kin, Foster and Adoptive caregivers.

Join us in this exciting opportunity to serve the community in our new practice. We are a small, energetic, friendly and inclusive group hoping to find a medical receptionist with experience in the medical field. Email for details.

Engage with FSD staff, trainers, and community partners to include work with diverse populations. Participate in assessment of learning needs, curriculum development, evaluation and training, utilizing a variety of media & technologies. Master’s degree in social work or a related field and three to four years’ experience in child welfare and/or youth justice required.

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Coaching and supervision experience desired. Ability to manage multiple deadlines and strong written and verbal communication 4:27 PM skills required. Ability to travel frequently to off-site work locations around the state required.

CLERICAL ASSISTANTS

Apply: martellsvt@gmail.com

Carpenters Wanted! Needed Immediately!

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Call Mike at 802-343-0089 or Morton at 802-862-7602.

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Substitute Proofreader

The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution. Applicants are required to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal.

We are currently taking applications for kitchen staff Main office located on the UVM campus, off-site work for immediate hire as well as locations may also be available. Please apply online at https://www.uvmjobs.com/postings43426. Waitstaff for future hirings once outdoor dining and music begins. No experience needed for either position5v-UVMChildWelfareCWTP022421.indd 1 but definitely preferred. Kitchen staff pay based on experience. Ideally looking for someone that can work grill or be rounds cook but will train if needed. Must have transportation and a (Job code 21001) positive attitude.

Finish Carpenters, Carpenters and Carpenters Helpers. Good Pay, Full Time and Long Term! Chittenden County.

For more information or to request an application, please contact Patrick Fraser at patfraser@howardcenter.org or 802-871-2902.

Experience designing curricula and teaching/training for adult learners required.

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Compensation includes a very generous tax-free stipend plus room and board payments.

Knowledge and experience in child protection, youth justice, child/ family health/mental health, trauma informed care, racial equity, human development, foster care and/or adoption required.

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Howard Center is seeking a Shared Living provider for an active teenage boy. The ideal provider will have experience working with people with developmental needs, be able to provide 24-hour supervision, provide assistance with all personal care needs, be willing to be trained in ABA supports, and not have any dogs or young children in the home. A household with multiple adults providing support is preferred. The ideal provider should also be comfortable making modifications to their home necessary to support the client. The client uses an assistive device to communicate and has significant behavioral needs. The provider will be supported by a team of clinical and day staff and a large respite package.

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Seven Days is looking for a substitute proofreader to cover the following shifts on an as-needed basis: Mondays, noon-8 p.m.; Tuesdays, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; and Thursdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Must be scrupulously attentive to mistakes in spelling, grammar, style and layout, for both print and online copy. The right candidate will also be a capable multitasker, excellent communicator and swift, savvy fact-checker who works well under pressure. Proofreading experience required; publications experience strongly preferred. Strong computer skills and fast, reliable internet necessary for working remotely during the pandemic. Position will eventually be based in our Burlington office. Experience with Adobe InCopy a huge plus.

Recruiting for temporary Docket Clerk positions lasting up to but not exceeding June 2022. 40 hours a week. The position will specialize in data entry, filing and clerical office work involving one or more docket areas. Locations – Burlington, Barre, St. Johnsbury, Brattleboro, Bennington & Newport. High School graduate and two years of clerical, or data entry experience required. Starting at $17.11 per hour.

A proofreading test will be administered during the interview process. Send cover letter, resume and references by March 17 to proof@sevendaysvt.com.

Go to vermontjudiciary.org/employmentopportunities/staff-openings for more details and to complete application.These positions is open until filled.

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The Converse Home is an Assisted Living Community located in downtown Burlington. If you are looking for a rewarding position, working with wonderful residents and staff, please consider applying. We are looking for the right person to supervise our night team and offer a $2,000 Sign On Bonus! Full-time Overnight Charge of Shift LPN ($30-$36 per hour including differential) or Experienced LNA ($23-$27 including differential) 40 hours 10:30pm-7am including every other weekend. Prefer history with supervisory experience. Expectation to be trained to administer medication. Must have an active Vermont State License. This is a benefited position with medical, dental, CTO time accrued and more. Please apply online at conversehome.com under “Career Opportunities” or email your resume to Kellie@conversehome.com.

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Working Fields is a mission-driven staffing agency that empowers people with barriers to employment and provides an innovative solution to businesses seeking committed employees. A Vermont Benefit Corporation, Working Fields provides ongoing support to our associates through a unique coaching model.

We are currently hiring for the following positions to support our growth and expanded impact:

ACCOUNT MANAGERS South Burlington and Rutland

We are seeking two Account Managers to support growth in Chittenden and Rutland counties. These are full-time, salaried positions responsible for placing and managing Associates on assignment. Account Managers work closely with employers, referring agencies, associates, and coaches. This is a fast-paced, multi-faceted position that is well suited for a person with experience working with individuals that have obstacles to employment.

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Chittenden, Rutland and Washington counties Part-time, contractual

Recovery coaches provide weekly support to our Associates placed on job assignment with our client employers. Schedule and work location are flexible. Recovery coaches who are trained by a certified recovery coaching program preferred, but others interested in obtaining training are encouraged to apply. For full job descriptions, please visit: workingfields.com/Join-Our-Growing-Team-Improve-Lives

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The Town of Underhill seeks a Town Administrator, who is the principal liaison and support for the Selectboard. He or she works closely with the Selectboard to help them with the general administration of the Town by providing administrative support, policy and decision-making advice, and presenting the Selectboard’s decisions to external audiences when necessary. The Town Administrator works closely with other elected and appointed officials to ensure the efficient and functional operation of the Town and effective communications between departments, with residents, and with other interested parties. The position includes a competitive salary and excellent benefit package.

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JOB RECRUITERS CAN: Hayward Tyler, a leading manufacturer of industrial pumps and motors in Colchester, is seeking candidates to fill the roles of Assembly Technician and Quality Control Inspector.

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This is an entry level assembly team member who should possess the ability to follow work instructions from his/her supervisor and experienced team members. The candidate must be able to work in all areas of assembly (DCI, Build and Wind) with the ability to understand drawings and work instructions.

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The candidate will be responsible to perform receiving and final inspection of parts and units, verification that all operations are signed off and closed prior to releasing to Manufacturing, responsibility for correct materials and batch numbers being issued to Manufacturing. For complete job descriptions, please visit our website haywardtyler.com. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package. If you meet our requirements and are interested in an exciting opportunity, please forward your resume & salary requirements to:

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We are seeking a compassionate and customer service focused RN to lead our team as the Director of Nursing at Heaton Woods Residence in Montpelier, VT. Ideal candidates will possess a strong clinical background and have a working knowledge of long-term care regulations. Must be able to work independently and direct others. Duties include resident assessment and care planning, staff education and employee reviews. Candidate must have leadership experience and be comfortable managing a robust nursing department. Living Well Group is a dynamic organization with a mission of promoting conscious aging for our residents at each of our three locations across Vermont. We are committed to providing a positive work environment. We offer competitive pay based on experience and health/dental/vision/disability insurance and employer-matched 401k. Come join our team! If interested, please send a resume and cover letter to Ruth Hogan,Administrator at rhogan@livingwellgroup.org.

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RECEPTIONIST Part Time (10 hours) Wake Robin seeks a part-time receptionist to welcome residents and guests to our community. The receptionist is responsible for receiving guest and visitors, providing assistance or information relevant to the community, managing a multiline phones system, as well as general office duties.The successful applicant will have a high school diploma, or equivalent, and a minimum of 2-years of experience in a similar position in an environment with a high degree of public interaction.

The Vermont Foodbank seeks an experienced fundraiser and relationship-builder to join the Vermont Foodbank as our Major Gift Officer (MGO). The successful candidate will have three to five years of relevant work history demonstrating fundraising acumen and effective relationship management, with a proven record of successfully engaging prospective donors and soliciting, closing, and stewarding major gifts. This person will secure funds for the Vermont Foodbank by developing and sustaining authentic relationships with prospective and current major donors and regularly soliciting significant support from them. They will create donor pipeline strategies, define portfolio goals, track progress and adjust their approach as needed. They will balance competing funding priorities, communicate complex needs, and inspire support for the Foodbank’s mission and vision.

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Vermont’s premier continuing Care Retirement Community seeks a member to join our housekeeping team. Housekeepers support residents who live independently by providing contactless housekeeping services in their homes while they are away. Housekeepers are critical to the wellbeing of residents in a setting that utilizes best practices to maintain our Covid Free environment. Candidates must have housekeeping and/or industrial cleaning or industrial laundry experience.

The successful candidate will be positive, self-motivated, detail-oriented, highly ethical and reliable. They will take joy in building authentic and trusting relationships with both philanthropic individuals and VF colleagues, working with others to build momentum and share success. The selected candidate will join a collaborative, values-driven, dynamic Philanthropy team that derives joy from the work and is passionate about resourcing the work to end hunger and its root causes. We hold the core belief that philanthropy should be accessible to all facets of our community and define our work as the art of facilitating love of community.

COOK Wake Robin provides a fine dining experience with a focus on farm to plate freshness, and a work environment that is hard to find in the restaurant industry. • We work from scratch, not from a box • 40% of our produce is local/organic • Innovative on-site protein butchering and smoking • Manageable schedule ending in early evening • Superb kitchen facilities with excellent benefits Our cook will have experience producing high quality soups, sauces and entrees from scratch, demonstrate experience in all aspects of cooking from grilling to sautéing, and pay strong attention to the quality of food consistency and delivery.

This position’s workload can be handled remotely, however applicants should be able to commute to one of the Foodbank’s three facilities, in Barre, Brattleboro, or Rutland, or our shared office space in Chittenden County, for in-person activities. Candidates based outside of Chittenden and Washington counties, particularly those based in Southern Vermont, are especially encouraged to apply. 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 www.vtfoodbank.org/employment and submit an employment application with a resume and cover letter attached. Anticipated salary range starting at $65-70K.

Wake Robin offers an excellent compensation and benefits package and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting. Interested candidates please email hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to: HR, (802) 264-5146. Wake Robin is an E.O.E.

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.

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NOW HIRING! - $15.00/HOUR! FoodScience Corporation, developer of nutritional supplements for humans and pets, is seeking:

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Human Resources Administrator

If you are passionate and committed about helping people and their pets live healthier lives every day, apply today! Resumes to Human Resources, hr@foodsciencecorp.com or at 929 Harvest Lane, Williston, VT 05495. FoodScience Corporation provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, parental status, crime victims or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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Full Time; benefits eligible $43,000 per year Goddard College seeks a resourceful and efficient Human Resources Administrator to perform a variety of Human Resources functions, related to benefits, payroll, recruitment, and compliance administration, and to ensure that the general activities of the Human Resources Department function smoothly. Qualified candidates will hold a BA in human resources management, organizational management, education administration or a closely related field and a minimum of 3 years of Human Resources experience or a BA in any field and 5 years of combined administrative experience in Human Resources and higher education, advanced skills in the Microsoft Office Suite and Google applications; competence in HRIS data management, 12:33 PMADP WorkforceNow preferred; willingness and ability to learn additional applications and programs, a familiarity with general Human Resources laws and principles, an ability to research, interpret, and ensure compliance with all applicable state and federal employment laws; and a familiarity with Collective Bargaining Agreement compliance.

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Goddard College seeks an Associate Registrar to coordinate and oversee student record functions and provide enrollment related services and support the Office of the Registrar’s efforts concerning the College’s mission, strategic planning, and social justice and inclusion commitment. Qualified candidates will hold an undergraduate degree and 3 - 5 years of experience in admissions and/or student records or an equivalent combination of education and experience, demonstrated experience and facility with Student Information Systems and Learning Management Systems and databases, Parchment, Google suite, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Microsoft Office. Candidates should also possess good administrative skills, exceptional organizational skills, and attention to detail. Must be able to multitask and work on timesensitive projects with competing deadlines and have the ability to deal effectively with a wide range of individuals and groups inside and outside of the College. To for either of these roles please visit our website to review the complete position description and submit a cover letter and resume: goddard.edu/about-goddard/ employment-opportunities. Goddard College is committed to creating a college representative of a diverse global community and capable of creating change. To that end, we are actively seeking applications from qualified candidates from groups currently underrepresented in our institution for this position. This institution is an equal opportunity provider, and employer.

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We’re proud of our talented, hardworking and diverse team, whose ingenuity is driving exciting new innovations. Our team is growing – won’t you join us? The successful candidates will be joining our team of professionals at the Northern Digital Incorporated (NDI) office located in Shelburne, Vermont. MANUFACTURING ENGINEER We are looking for an innovative Manufacturing Engineer to join our R&D team in the development and production of embedded systems for use in consumer electronics, medical devices and simulations. As a member of a dynamic team of engineers, you will have responsibilities to support Manufacturing by leveraging your skills and experience to institute controlled processes and modernize the manufacture of delicate sensors used in medical devices; and by designing and developing manufacturing tools/fixtures and products. Full description & apply: http://bit.ly/NDIManufacturingEngineer

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PROJECT ENGINEER - We would like to invite a hands-on, experienced Project Manager to join the R&D team developing our next generation of NDI advanced measurement systems for medical device markets. As the Project Manager, you will work as part of a cross-functional team, driving projects from conception to implementation and release. Full description & apply: http://bit.ly/NDIProjectMgr EMBEDDED HARDWARE ENGINEER - We would like to invite an experienced Embedded Hardware Engineer to join our R&D team in the development of embedded systems for use in medical devices and simulations. We are an essential business that enables diagnostic imaging as well as other non and minimally invasive surgical procedures. You will be responsible for detailed design and development of DSP and CPU based systems, along with FPGA and low-level interfaces, including USB and Bluetooth from conception to implementation, and will work as part of a cross-functional R&D team, building solutions for our OEM partners. Full description & apply: http://bit.ly/NDIEmbeddedHE ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLER - The Electronics Assembler helps bring important sensors cables used in measurement sciences industries.The Electronics Assembler assembles microelectronic cable assemblies and sub-assemblies, some of which are made only visible under a microscope. Full description & apply: http://bit.ly/DNIElecAssemb Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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True North Wilderness Program seeks a full-time, year-round Medical Coordinator to work closely with our team to coordinate medical needs and medication management for our students. True North is a licensed residential treatment center and wilderness therapy program based in Waitsfield, Vermont. True North is a small, independently owned program, providing personalized therapeutic interventions and transition support for 14-17 year old adolescents and 18-25 year old young adults with an emphasis on assessment and family participation. This is an excellent opportunity to work for a nationally recognized therapeutic wilderness program, be part of a dynamic supportive team and live and work in a fantastic community.

Staff Attorney Intake and Outreach Advocate/Paralegal Temporary Positions

Vermont Legal Aid seeks to hire several temporary, full-time contract positions for both Staff Attorneys and Intake and Outreach Advocates/Paralegals. We are adding to our staff to meet Vermonters’ needs for help with keeping or obtaining housing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Medical Coordinator’s primary responsibility is to coordinate the management and dispensation of medications for all students at True North. This includes close communication with parents, doctors, pharmacies, and other members of the True North team to ensure that medications are received at the facility and dispensed properly. The Medical Coordinator works closely with True North’s Medical Director, Clinicians, Admissions team, and Office staff to coordinate these efforts. They also coordinate support of medical needs that may come up for students in the field. The job is generally 9-5, Monday through Friday, but there may be room for some flexibility of hours within the parameters of the job requirements.

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 housing for all. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a discrimination- and harassment-free workplace. WE ARE SEEKING STAFF TO FILL POSITIONS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: • Staff Attorney Positions: Eviction Defense and Homelessness Prevention • Intake and Outreach Advocate/Paralegal Positions: Outreach, callbacks, information, referral, and legal assistance to help people stay and get housed.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, very comfortable with medical information, and has superior interpersonal communication skills. Nursing or other medical training is preferred but not required. Competitive salary and benefits offered including medical insurance, dental, vision and accident insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid time off and a flexible schedule.

All positions will be temporary contract positions through at least December 2021. We are looking for candidates with the ability to communicate in a diverse range of professional, cultural, and community contexts, strong writing skills, the ability to handle a large caseload, a demonstrated commitment to community engagement and social justice advocacy, and a collaborative work style. Staff will work remotely until the state of emergency is lifted; however, the positions will be based out of one of our offices, which are in Burlington, Montpelier, Rutland, St. Johnsbury, and Springfield. Some in-state travel may be required.

True North is committed to enriching the experience of our students, families, and team by celebrating an inclusive work environment. We seek to recruit a broadly diverse staff who will contribute a variety of viewpoints and experiences to ongoing program development and superior support of our clients. We encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups including professionals of color and diverse gender identities.

Starting (annualized) salary is $52,411 for an attorney, $38,281 for a community advocate/paralegal, with salary credit given for relevant prior work experience. Four weeks paid vacation and retirement (prorated for length of contract), as well as excellent health benefits. Attorney applicants must be licensed to practice law in Vermont. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. Your application should include a cover letter and resume, writing sample, and at least three professional references with contact information, sent as a single PDF. Send your application by e-mail to Betsy Whyte at bwhyte@vtlegalaid.org with the subject line “Housing Position.” Please let us know how you heard about this position. 9t-VTLegalAidCALLBack031021.indd 1

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New World Tortilla has positions open at our location on Pine Street in Burlington. This is a fast-paced counter service restaurant. Tired of working Sundays and Holidays? You get them all off. We also offer paid time off for full-time employees. Please send your resume to newworldvt@gmail.com, or drop it off at 696 Pine Street.

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Champlain Community Services has been named a “Best Places to Work in Vermont” for the third year in a row and we want you to join our team. These positions include a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, affordable health insurance, paid holidays and more!

Program Manager Coordinate residential and community supports for a humorous woman who leads an active life and likes to spend time outside. The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a team-oriented position, have strong clinical skills, and demonstrated leadership. Client therapeutic needs require a female program manager, and two overnight shifts are required for this position.

Employment Specialist Support individuals in developing career goals, securing employment, and on the job training and collaborate with area businesses to build partnerships for long-term community-based employment. The ideal candidate will demonstrate reliability, strong communication skills, and the ability to solve problems effectively and professionally.

Direct Support Professionals Join our Direct Support Professional team to work one-onone with individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism. This is an excellent job for applicants entering human services or for those looking to continue their work in this field.

Overnight Supports Seeking experienced individuals to support a dynamic young woman with a quick wit and energetic personality. She loves cars, animals, and a range of indoor and outdoor physical activities. She needs staff with patience, clear communication skills, and the ability to set strong boundaries, who can pass a criminal background check. You will support her in her home and the community in 24-hour shifts at $250 per shift including asleep overnights in a private, furnished bedroom.

IT Support Specialist Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA), located in Burlington VT, is recruiting for an IT Support Specialist. Recently named one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont,” VHFA is committed to advancing racial and social equity through its role financing and promoting affordable, decent housing for low- and moderate-income Vermonters . The Agency’s Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee is open to all staff and charged with advancing organizational, programmatic and leadership initiatives to further shared racial and social equity goals within our community (https://www.vhfa.org/partners/justice-equity-diversity-inclusion), including addressing the needs of Vermonters who have been historically marginalized. VHFA is looking for an individual with strong communication skills who will support current IT needs while helping to build the Agency’s future IT infrastructure, maintain our great reputation, and advance our mission. The focus of this position is to assist with support of a Windows-based client/server network, maintain VHFA workstations, and set up hardware and software. They will also work with IT staff to source, select and implement the Agency’s hardware, software or other systems needs, and assist with providing support for web issues related to Drupal websites, HTML/JavaScript/PHP/MySQL websites, Google Analytics, MailChimp, Social Media, and other software. Demonstrated success in a Windows client/virtual server environment is required. Formal coursework or degrees in computer science is highly preferred. Success in providing direct user support (help desk), specifically in the Microsoft Office Suite, advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 products, particularly Word and Excel, and familiarity with programming languages, such as PHP, HTML, SQL (MS SQL, MySQL), JavaScript, is required. Basic knowledge of web software including but not limited to Drupal CMS, Google Analytics, MailChimp, Social Media, proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (PhotoShop, InDesign, Illustrator), and a demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion, and their application in the workplace, is desirable. A demonstrated willingness and ability to speak up in the face of injustice and experience promoting a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, is preferred. Candidates must be able to identify, isolate and resolve network and PC (hardware and software) problems, exhibit an understanding of how technology can exacerbate inequities and how it can be used to support inclusivity, work effectively with end users and vendors, which includes the ability to explain technical information clearly in non-technical terms, and work well independently and as a team member. In addition, candidates must demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, the ability to resolve problems in a systematic, efficient manner, manage multiple priorities, and be able to lift up to 50 pounds. The salary range for this position is $44,000-$52,000 with an excellent benefits package. For a detailed job description and benefits overview, please see the Careers section of VHFA.org. To apply, send cover letter (required; otherwise your application will not be considered), resume, and references to the Human Resources Department at HR@vhfa.org. Please consider including in your cover letter a description of how your unique background and experiences would contribute to the diversity and cultural vitality of VHFA. Position will be open until filled. VHFA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workplace. We highly encourage women, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ candidates, and people from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to apply. 10v-VHFA030321.indd 1

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We are looking for a self motivated person with a "clean" DMV record and reliable transportation, who takes pride in being on time and is willing to work 40+ hours a week. Position requires driving company vehicles. Must pass pre-employment drug test. Strong mechanical and technical abilities and a basic understanding of electrical wiring and plumbing, Must be able to lift and move 100 lbs; ability to work outdoors in all types of weather. Applicants will be able to with training pass the required certifications within 2 years of hire as a condition of employment. All training will be provided including safety training. Competitive wages and benefits offered (Health Ins, Life Ins, vacation and More).

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Goddard College seeks a resourceful IT Specialist with IT help desk experience to provide support and instruction for the use of the intranet and technology resources and to work collaboratively with the IT team to ensure the optimal functioning of the Goddard College IT services. This positon also acts as the focal point for managing end-user devices (laptops and PCs) and has primary responsibility for updating and maintaining the IT Asset Tracking system.

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Vermont Legal Aid is reopening its search for a full-time Senior Accountant in our Burlington office. The Senior Accountant works with the CFO and Accounting Assistant to handle all aspects of VLA’s accounting and financial management.

We are a 100% employee-owned company and an award winning and nationally recognized socially responsible business. We work hard AND offer a fun place to work including BBQs, staff parties, employee garden plots and much more! We also offer strong cultural values, competitive wages and outstanding benefits!

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Job Requisition #21-0004 Hours per Week: 40 Location: Riverside Health Center Status: Full Time Director of Behavioral Health Programs Application Deadline: Until Filled Benefitper Eligible: Director of of Behavioral Behavioral Health Health Programs Programs Job Requisition #21-0004 Hours Week:Yes 40 Director Job Requisition Requisition #21-0004 Location: Riverside Health Center Status:per Full Time40 Job #21-0004 Hours Week: Job Requisition #21-0004 Hours per Week: 40 Location: Riverside Health Center Location: Riverside Health Center Status: Full Time Application Deadline: Until Filled Benefit Full Eligible: The Community Health Centers of Burlington (CHCB) is seeking a Director of Behavioral Health Programs, which Location: Riverside Health Center Status: TimeYes Application Deadline: Until Filled Benefit Eligible: Yes Application Deadline: Until Filled reports to the Chief Executive Officer. 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