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Thank you for the multi-issue look at private-public partnerships and Vermont’s nonprofits. My comments are specific to “Cheap Date?” [June 27] but also influenced by the “Give and Take” series as a whole. I was alarmed to learn that Vermont Information Technology Leaders has made so little progress toward its goal, over so many years, and has not been decommissioned. In contrast, I was struck by the speed with which Seven Days was able to compile and mine the nonprofit information for this series. I believe VITL’s slow progress demonstrates the concern for tax-dollar accountability. Metrics for measuring outcomes, while needed, raise concern. The value of community-based services, not only in lower program costs but also in being better positioned to adapt services to the unique needs of each community, must be considered. Part of what gives Vermont its special character is the diverse needs and challenges that face individual communities. If statewide metrics aren’t able to provide the flexibility needed to allow the community organizations to address the most important needs of their own communities, then the community service agencies may no longer be the better option. Greater accountability is certainly needed, but it’s a trade-off. Kudos to Sen. Jane Kitchel (D-Caledonia) for understanding that hard choices will need to be made to agree on core services and for acknowledging the funding side of the equation. This should be the compass. Monique Hayden
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[Re “Overcompensating?” June 20]: John Brumsted is the CEO of the University of Vermont Medical Center. His salary is nearly $2.2 million because he provides the technically “nonprofit” hospital with spectacular profits, which are used to pay lavish salaries to top executives and to finance acquisitions and expansions that are putting UVM Medical Center in an increasingly monopolistic position. He accomplishes this feat by understaffing and keeping salaries down, while scrimping on supplies and equipment that would enable staff to work more efficiently and make patients safer.
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[Re Seriously Seven Days, June 24]: I couldn’t agree more with the author of “Seriously: You Serious?” Gov. Phil Scott is a drama queen. He pulled the same veto nonsense last year on the marijuana legalization bill. There should have been an override. His claims about “doing it right” and “I’m not philosophically opposed,” etc., were all just gum-flapping nonsense that maintained him as the center of attention for as long as possible. He claimed he couldn’t sign until there was a “saliva test” to tell if a person was stoned. There wasn’t; there still isn’t; and yet he signed the bill into law in 2018. How heroic. What was that about? The same thing his budget veto is about: Phil Scott. He claims it’s to keep “nonresidential taxes” from increasing. Why? To help nonresidents? To help businesses that just got a whopping tax cut from federal Republicans? Or maybe it’s just the controversy and simple fact that all publicity is good publicity. There is nobody to
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Needless to say, the ranchers were a little pissed. They were gonna have to spend a lot of time and money to hire cowboys to round up and brand their cattle while Sam didn’t even have to lift a finger. Somehow the word “maverick” entered politics. Any political figure who was a “wild-card” independent and not a “team player,” such as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in our own time, is considered a “maverick” — one who refuses to “go along with the herd.”
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The nurses are preparing to strike to protest this way of running the hospital [Off Message: “Nurses, Hospital Officials Prepare for Late Night at Bargaining Table,” June 29; “Nurses’ Union to Serve UVM Medical Center With a Strike Notice,” June 30]. They say that the level of stress among the staff is unsustainable for them and that understaffing is endangering patients. As a consumer, I value having a full complement of nurses on duty, rested and unstressed by money worries. Our hospital should focus on health rather than profit and domination over the market. I am grateful to the nurses for their courage in daring to confront the imposing power of the medical center on our behalf as well as their own. They deserve our support.
You label as would-be bums those of us who would choose not to vote in the Seven Daysies election [cover teaser, June 13]. It’s weird that while your paper does an excellent job of news transparency, you still choose to mix a good hard-news menu with an emphasis on the importance of your readers voting for Seven Daysies. On so many fronts, your paper is so sophisticated and drenched with total top-shelf class. On the other hand, your paper is laughable, like with this Seven Daysies competition. The Seven Daysies part of the paper sadly shows that profit is still the boss, interfering with the course of true, oldfashioned journalism.
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he governor of Vermont is the most powerful person in state government. But to become governor, candidates must suffer their share of indignity. Their days are not their own. They travel all over the state, attending just about any event that will have them. They get a lot of invitations that they don’t dare turn down. Take, for example, a gubernatorial Single person pool pass: $150 forum held last Friday afternoon in 2 Swimming Pools Rutland by Rights & Democracy, a proClub House Café & Bar gressive advocacy group. In a mid-August Landscaped setting primary likely to draw more flies than voters, the backing of R&D can make a big Poolside 16oz Frozen difference. So all four of the Democratic Margaritas $5.95 hopefuls dutifully gathered at Rutland’s noble old Unitarian Universalist Church, Daily Food & Drink specials with its granite exterior, dark wood inteSign up for membership rior and unspecifically religious stainedat quarryhillclub.com! glass windows. And its baking, penetrating heat. The four Dems — JAMES EHLERS, BRENDA SIEGEL, ETHAN SONNEBORN and CHRISTINE 259 Quarry Hill Rd, S. Burlington HALLQUIST — spent most of their time as a backdrop. As other people talked, the candidates sat behind the pulpit, trying 8v-quarryhill062718.indd 1 6/25/18 12:32 PM desperately not to appear uncomfortable. You can’t blame R&D for the weather. But otherwise, it seemed as if organizers had designed the event to fail. The group arranged for former Ohio state senator NINA TURNER — now head of Our Revolution, the political group that emerged from Sen. BERNIE SANDERS’ (I-Vt.) presidential campaign — to take a twoday swing through Vermont and New Hampshire. R&D wanted to take full advantage of her presence, so the group Savor delicious dishes and booked multiple appearances on both days. And it piggybacked gubernatorial specialty cocktails while taking forums onto her Friday stops in Rutland a relaxing ride through the beautiful and Bennington. Champlain Valley. Trains depart The Rutland event was to run from Burlington Union Station on Friday 5:30 to 7 p.m. The Bennington festivities and Saturday evenings until were to begin at 7:15 p.m. September 1st. For more Perhaps you see the problem: Rutland information and reservations visit: to Bennington is an hour’s drive at best. www.trainridesvt.com In reality, the Rutland event started around 5:40 and ended less than an hour later. The “forum” consisted of two questions, and the candidates were hustled out at 6:30 for the run to Bennington. The festivities began with TABITHA POHL-MOORE, president of the Rutland-area branch of the NAACP, who gave some remarks and introduced the guest speaker. Turner was allotted 15 minutes, and she used them all for a barn burner of a stump speech. “All that we love is on the CLASSIC DINNER TRAIN line,” she told an audience of about 40,
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as they fanned themselves with whatever was handy. Turner said Medicaid for all “is a moral imperative” and called for Sanders to run for president again in 2020, which drew a loud cheer. And then, with the clock ticking past 6 p.m., the gubernatorial forum began. Curiously, given the lack of available time, organizers gave candidates three minutes to answer each question.
THE CANDIDATES SAT BEHIND THE PULPIT, TRYING DESPERATELY NOT TO APPEAR UNCOMFORTABLE. Two questions, three minutes apiece: Each candidate got a total of six minutes to make their case. The questions —about which of R&D’s priorities is most important and about promoting diversity in Vermont — were designed to solicit suitably progressive answers. And the candidates came through. Ehlers spotlighted his role as a founding director of R&D, and in response to the second question, he offered: “To people of color, I want to apologize for the role our race has played” in creating an unequal society. Hallquist and Siegel used personal stories to tie themselves to progressive ideals. Fourteen-year-old Sonneborn was equally deferential and slightly stiffer in the spotlight. (Kid has a heck of a Twitter feed, though.) All four called for greater diversity as a social and economic good. They were there for a simple reason: to curry favor with R&D. (Incumbent PHIL SCOTT and his Republican primary opponent, KEITH STERN, don’t need or expect anything from the group, so, despite being invited, they didn’t show up.) The candidates suffered the indignity of playing bit parts, did their best to suck up to the audience on hand and risked dehydration. It’s all part of the game when you’re running for office.
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Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: In Vermont, anyone can ask for, and receive, an official copy of anyone’s birth or death certificate. As you might imagine, this is a bit of a security issue.
“The FBI showed us a number of cases where false IDs were started with Vermont birth certificates,” said Sen. JEANETTE WHITE (D-Windham), chair of the Senate Government Operations Committee. “Also, some places wouldn’t accept Vermont documents because they were unreliable.” In May 2017, lawmakers enacted a reform of the system, taking the responsibility for issuing documents away from municipal clerks and creating a secure digital system within the Vermont Department of Health. The bill gave the department until July 1, 2018, to get the system up and running. After that, only the health department would have legal authority to issue vital records. Plenty of time, right? As the first half of 2018 rolled by, the clerks were getting worried. “We tried a number of times to contact the health department,” said DONNA KINVILLE, city clerk for South Burlington and president of the Vermont Municipal Clerks’ and Treasurers’ Association. “Would we get training on the new system? What about paperwork? They kept saying they’d get back in touch.” On May 24, the department notified the clerks of an “adjusted timeline,” with few details. On June 7, department officials informed Sen. White and House Government Operations Committee chair MAIDA TOWNSEND (D-South Burlington) that the project was seriously behind schedule. Four days later, the department told the clerks that implementation would be delayed until October due to “a series of unforeseen personnel, contractual and technical issues.” Fair enough. Public-sector IT projects are prone to delays and cost overruns. But why in the world did state officials wait so long before telling anyone? “Members of my committee were quite perturbed — angry, actually — to be hearing about this so late,” said Townsend. “Nobody said boo to us. We thought it was on target.” Usually, lawmakers would have been long gone by June. But thanks to the weeks-long budget impasse, they were in special session. White and Townsend pushed through a simple bill extending the deadline a year. The project is the health department’s, but state Agency of Digital Services staff are doing the work. ADS Secretary JOHN QUINN said his agency knew “from the
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very beginning” that the project “was a very heavy lift and we wouldn’t be able to implement it on time.” Well, if that’s true, why did ADS wait almost a full year to let anyone know? Or why didn’t the agency communicate concerns during the 2017 session before the bill was signed into law by Quinn’s boss, the governor? DAVID ENGLANDER, senior policy and legal adviser to the health department, tells a story that differs from Quinn’s. “We believed the project would be relatively straightforward,” he explained. “It was a bigger job than anybody anticipated. The IT folks came to us late because they remained hopeful they could get it done.” Mr. Quinn, may I introduce you to Mr. Englander? White and Townsend plan to hold hearings next January on the apparent cock-up. “I want some explanation,” said White. “A big project like this should have been tracked closely.” We trust that the boffins’ selfassurance will be validated this time. Meanwhile, Vermont will enjoy another year under the old system and its wideopen back door to identity theft.
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About a year ago, the governor took a step to prove his concern about the environment. He created the Climate Action Commission, a 21-member panel tasked with issuing recommendations on how the state could reduce its contribution to climate change. You could tell it wasn’t just another influencefree study group because, well, it had “Action” right there in its name. The panel included administration officials, members of the business and nonprofit communities, and a grand total of one full-time environmental advocate. So, one year later, has there been any action? Not much. The commission has had a checkered life. Last fall, it held a series of public hearings; many of the commenters called for a carbon tax. Scott has consistently opposed such a move and dismissed the response as the product of an organized effort. In December, the commission issued five recommendations for immediate action. Four of them were unquantifiably vague: “support advanced wood heat,” “increase pace of weatherization,” “foster the climate economy” and “electrify the transportation system.” The fifth called for studying “regulatory and market decarbonization mechanisms” such as carbon pricing. The report had
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little to no perceptible effect on administration policy. The commission’s final report is due at the end of this month; panel chair PETER WALKE, deputy secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources, says a draft version is to be released on Thursday. Will Scott’s aversion to new taxes and new costs have any influence on the panel’s report? “We’ve had no directive from the state,” Walke said, “but there’s a realization of the situation.” The panel’s environmental advocate, JOHANNA MILLER of the Vermont Natural Resources Council, doesn’t sound optimistic. “My hope is that we put forward a menu of good ideas,” she said. “I also hope the governor takes them seriously.” So far, Scott’s commitment has been largely rhetorical. In fact, over the past year, he has taken steps that reflect a curious attitude toward climate “action.” He proposed a cut in funding for Efficiency Vermont, the state’s energy efficiency nonprofit; his budget would have effectively killed the Clean Energy Development Fund, which fosters renewable power; his Public Utility Commission enacted a cut in the home net metering benefit for residential renewables; and, as mentioned above, he has continued to reject carbon pricing — or even a study of the idea. In terms of renewable policy, the administration’s pride and joy is a paltry $200,000 investment in high-efficiency wood heat. A recent report from the Energy Action Network, a broad-based nonprofit that seeks ways to reach Vermont’s renewable energy goals, underlines the difficulty of the task ahead. The report includes a daunting graph showing that we’re roughly on track to meet our goal of 90 percent renewable energy by the year 2050. But the pace of required action is about to quicken substantially. “Our progress to date hasn’t been easy, but relative to what’s left, it’s easier,” said JARED DUVAL, the group’s executive director. So far, he said, most of Vermont’s progress has been on renewable electricity. It’ll be much harder to wean our transportation and heating systems off fossil fuel. In large part that’s because electric power is state-regulated; transportation and heating are not, so progress depends on many people, institutions and businesses making the right choices — and the state aggressively providing encouragement and incentives. Will our cost-averse governor be up to the challenge? “The track record so far has been disappointing,” Miller said, “but he’s got to step up, lead and act. We’ll see if he’s willing to do so.” m
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Access Media and the Regional Education Television Network. Now, as Davitian prepares to retire, she asks whether Burlington needs three separate cable access nonprofits, each with its own governing board, well-paid executive director and budget topping $750,000. Her answer is no: The time has come for three to become one. But despite five years of discussion and an agreement to share some technical functions, the three organizations have been unable to agree on a full alliance. Public access television isn’t the only arena in which Vermont has multiple nonprofits with overlapping missions,
redundant administrative costs and intense competition for a limited pool of money. Nor is Davitian the only observer wondering whether Vermont has too many charitable organizations and, if so, whether they should combine forces more often. While some mergers have taken place — successfully — in recent years, donors and nonprofit experts say that even when an amalgam looks logical, obstacles crop up. Sometimes leaders don’t want to share control or risk giving up salaries that can be in the six figures. Just as often, boards may see the organization’s origin and mission as so distinctive it
would feel like a betrayal to be absorbed into another entity. Disagreements over property, cash and bylaws can also trip up potential mergers. Burlington philanthropist Bobby Miller does not mince words. “They are their own little fiefdoms, and no one wants to give that up,” he said, speaking of nonprofits generally. “Everyone wants to be the director.” In the past four decades, Miller and his wife, Holly, have given $40 million to Vermont nonprofits. For at least 25 years, he said, he’s believed “there are too many of them, and there’s too much overlap.” In the case of public access television,
according to Davitian, there are good reasons to consider merging, beyond the overlapping missions. As more cable viewers cut the cord and turn to streaming services, the projected decline in cable TV revenue could jeopardize future funding of all three entities. “The question is not ‘How do we perpetuate CCTV as a charitable organization?’’’ Davitian said of Channel 17. It’s “How do we get the work done?” Together, the three organizations had revenue of $2.6 million in 2016. The three leaders earned a total of $209,488 that year. Overall compensation was $57,734 for Davitian, $75,255 for RETN’s Jess Wilson and $76,499 for VCAM’s Seth Mobley, according to Internal Revenue Service Form 990s.
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Vermont has eight times as many nonprofits as it has dairy farms — and unlike the milk industry, the state’s charitable sector just keeps growing. Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in IN THIS ISSUE: assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates PAGE 14 that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s. Though they’re undergirded by generous tax breaks PAGE 18 and government expenditures, these organizations are largely unregulated and PAGE 20 rarely make the news — save for the occasional embezzlement scandal or multimillion-dollar donation. PAGE 20 In its “Give and Take” series, Seven Days is examining the state’s nonprofit ecosystem, from tiny local charities to one of the biggest enterprises in the state: the $1.29 billion University of Vermont Medical Center. Yep, it’s a nonprofit. What do these mostly tax-exempt organizations have in common? Are there too many? What does their proliferation mean for Vermont? Is anyone watching to make sure they play by the rules? Our “Give and Take” stories are answering these questions. Did you miss an issue? No problem. You can read the entire series at sevendaysvt.com. Click on the Special Report icon at the top of the page. Want to explore the source? Search our Vermont Nonprofit Navigator database online. Seven Days digital editor Andrea Suozzo built it so the news team could analyze revenues reported by the federally recognized nonprofit organizations that were based in Vermont as of May. Seven Days reporters and editors have been mining it, looking for patterns and aberrations. You can, too, at nonprofits.sevendaysvt.com.
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There’s no way to measure whether Vermont’s nonprofit sector is operating at maximum efficiency. But simply counting and categorizing groups reveal some very active service sectors. Of the state’s more than 6,000 tax-exempt organizations, at least 85 address issues of housing and shelter, 63 deliver mental health services, and 220 are related to conservation and the environment. More than 500 focus on the arts, culture and humanities. Vermont’s geography — and strong local communities — account for some of that duplication. But Miller wonders aloud why more organizations don’t merge, as Davitian is proposing. He said he’s nudged the leaders of Burlington’s childcare nonprofits to join forces, to no avail. More dramatically, Miller said he’s considered withholding financial support — going on strike — to encourage entities to think about working together. “At one time I was thinking, OK, I’m not going to give any money until you guys settle in and at least look at one another,” he said. Miller had nothing to do with the biggest merger of affordable housing nonprofits in Burlington history. The Burlington Community Land Trust, which Brenda Torpy cofounded in 1984, sometimes partnered with the similarly focused Lake Champlain Housing Development on building projects. But it wasn’t all collaboration. The two nonprofits also regularly competed for money. And that was a problem. As Torpy explains: “There’s only so many resources.’’ The board president of Lake Champlain Housing reached out to Torpy to ask if she wanted to talk about a merger. She said yes. After months of meetings, the two organizations merged in 2006, and Torpy took the helm of a new nonprofit called the Champlain Housing Trust. In the first year, roughly 15 percent of the staff left, including the former executive director of Lake Champlain Housing. Torpy is convinced the consolidation resulted in a much stronger entity. “We changed everything,” she said. “My mission with this merger was: We’re not going to just cobble together different things; this is the opportunity to remake this organization.” In the 12 years since, the nonprofit on Burlington’s King Street has
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While the three organizations have similar missions, there are differences. Channel 17 videotapes and broadcasts municipal meetings. RETN focuses on education, broadcasting school board meetings and high school graduations. VCAM concentrates on cultural events, from the STRUT Fashion Show to the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Last year, RETN and VCAM together launched WBTV-LP, a low-frequency radio station at 99.3 FM. One of Mobley’s worries is that it could be more difficult to agree on entrepreneurial ventures such as the radio station if the three groups merge. Combining forces “isn’t out of the question,” he said, “down the road.” Wilson concedes that there is some financial pressure to consider an alliance, but she isn’t sure “a full merger” is the answer. Davitian’s read on the situation: “People hold on to territory, and people don’t always see things the same way,” she said. “I think it’s the human factor that is the main issue in the organizational development question.”
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dramatically expanded its portfolio of affordable housing. When they merged, the two nonprofits had combined assets of $37.7 million that included 1,584 apartment units and 380 shared-equity homes. Now the trust’s assets total $107.6 million, with 2,250 units and 601 shared-equity homes. With more muscle, the organization has also been able to partner on some financially risky ventures in response to community need. It joined the University of Vermont Medical Center in converting Burlington’s BelAire Motel into transitional housing for mentally ill patients who get stuck at the hospital when they have nowhere to go. The trust also purchased the former St. Joseph School in Burlington’s Old North End when it went up for sale so it could continue to be used as community space for the neighborhood. The trust’s larger size allows it to “really smooth out’’ more costly ventures with more profitable ones and creates a stronger organization, said Michael Monte, chief financial and operations officer. He was on the Lake Champlain Housing board when it merged with the Community Land Trust. But, Monte cautioned, not every nonprofit needs to go that route. One of the driving questions should be: “Will this improve people’s lives in any way? It may be that it is really smart for a nonprofit to be small. To be nimble.”
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The Vermont Forum on Sprawl started as a two-person operation in 1997, the same year Walmart opened in Williston’s Taft Corners after a bitter legal battle. Development pressures were so intense in Chittenden County that banker John Ewing and land-use planner Beth Humstone teamed up to advocate for compact development around cities and village centers. The nonprofit later change its name to Smart Growth Vermont. In 2005, Ewing and Humstone hired Noelle MacKay to lead the organization. Five years later, after both founders had stepped back, MacKay got a job offer in the administration of then-governor Peter Shumlin. The subsequent leadership vacuum motivated the organization to merge with the Montpelier-based Vermont Natural Resources Council. With support from major donors and a small grant program designed to
1. Promote the geoethical use of nanotechnology for human life extension. 2. Provide education and materials about the divisive nature of psychological conditioned thinking that is at the root of individual, social and global conflict.
A. Sword & Spoon Workshop
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3. Help people help themselves. 4. To sponsor a faith-informed retreat center and creative sanctuary for artists.
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5. Engage in research, education and technological innovation to advance the use of human waste as a resource.
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6. Bring the heart and soul into the mainstream of the world to guide all of our actions and expressions.
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7. Integrate wisdom, love, and power.
G. The Atrium Society
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encourage nonprofit mergers, Smart Growth transferred its remaining cash assets and some of its intellectual property, including how-to kits to establish smart community zoning. VNRC also agreed to continue giving an annual Smart Growth award in honor of the late Art Gibb, an Addison County legislator who pushed for Vermont’s state development review law and its law banning billboards. Smart Growth negotiated to get two of its board members on VNRC’s board. All of these steps helped make it clear that VNRC was incorporating the other organization in a meaningful way, said VNRC executive director Brian Shupe. “It wasn’t just us absorbing them.” The merger allowed VNRC to harness more funding and keep fighting for clean water and land conservation and against sprawl — and it has won some major victories to prove it has taken up the Smart Growth mission in earnest. Last year, VNRC helped save 149 acres at Interstate 89’s Exit 4 in Randolph from a massive proposed commercial and retail development of more than 1 million square feet, which would have been bigger than the big-box retail center in Taft Corners. Working with two other
organizations, the Conservation Law Foundation and the Preservation Trust of Vermont, VNRC was able to broker a conservation deal to keep most of the land agricultural. “I’m pretty proud of our role on that,’’ said Shupe, who earned $91,580 in total compensation in 2016 to run VNRC, which had revenues of $1.4 million and 13 employees that year. The organization has joined forces with other nonprofits, as well, including the Association of Vermont Conservation Commissions. “They lost a lot of their funding and were volunteer-driven, and they were kind of running out of steam,” Shupe recalled. “They came to us and said, ‘We want to go away. We want to dissolve.’” VNRC instead suggested a partnership that helped prop up and stabilize the association, which helps local conservation outfits preserve land or manage town forest and other property. The organization is still its own separate 501c3 nonprofit, but some VNRC staffers serve on its board, and others help run the organization. The motivation? Said Shupe: “We decided we didn’t really want to preside over their death.”
Natural Death?
Vermont nonprofit fatalities do occur, though. The Vermont Secretary of State’s Office reports that 78 tax-exempt organizations dissolved in 2017, and 75 went out in 2016. When First Night Burlington announced in April that it was shutting down after 35 years, many Vermonters were shocked. There were plenty of reasons for its demise — bad weather, dwindling ticket sales and the loss of a major underwriter — but for former Flynn Center for the Performing Arts executive director John Killacky, the main cause was simple. First Night had “run its course,” he suggested — it died a natural death. The same thing happened, with less mourning, when the nonprofit Rutland Area Farm and Food Link dissolved earlier this year, according to its cofounder and former board president Greg Cox. A Rutland County farmer for 45 years, he’s been involved in various nonprofits to promote local, sustainable agriculture. RAFFL, founded in 2004, ran five programs designed to support local farms and connect consumers to their food. Cox became increasingly convinced that
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providing a physical space to sell food year-round was important, while other board members thought it was too risky financially to take on a building. That disagreement is part of the reason Cox left RAFFL about eight years ago to start another nonprofit, the Vermont Farmers Market Education Center, which serves as home for Rutland’s winter farmers market and offers a licensed kitchen for canning and other food entrepreneurism. After Cox’s departure, RAFFL plugged along for several years but ultimately struggled to attract donations. “There was confusion as to our identity, and there was competition among these different organizations going after the same funding sources,” said Larry Courcelle, RAFFL’s board president when members voted to dissolve. “I kept saying, ‘You have to look at the numbers.’” In his new role, Cox reached out informally to RAFFL board members last year to see if they were interested in merging with his organization, which is located in a restored foundry in Rutland. The merger idea never got beyond very preliminary chats. Letting the organization go was emotional, Courcelle explained, but knowing that other nonprofits could take over RAFFL’s programs, and even hire some of its seven mostly part-time employees, made it easier. Sometimes, as Vermont nonprofits age, they lose passion for the mission that inspired their creation and become overly concerned about preserving jobs and the scale of their own organization, Cox said. “Even though they are still good people wanting to do good things in a good way, they tend to become more conservative and less dynamic,” he said. Some nonprofits could merge in Vermont, he said, and they could also be more frugal with salaries. His organization employs a coordinator, and the rest are volunteers. Cox said the board put in a grant for an executive director position but was turned down, partly because the salary they suggested for the position was deemed too low to attract a qualified person. “I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding!’” Cox recalled. “It just makes me crazy.” “Maybe we need a board of boards where people can evaluate and come up with a strategy on our overlapping missions,” he suggested.
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homas Trunzo saw warning signs everywhere he looked. After joining the board of Emerge Family Advocates, a White River Junction nonprofit, he noticed that it was dominated by a few close associates of its executive director, Raymona Russell. For years, it appeared to Trunzo, they had given Russell carte blanche over its finances — and dismissed any board members who raised questions or sought to inspect the books. Most troublingly, he alleged in an April 2014 complaint to state authorities, Russell had been paying herself more than her board-approved salary. “It took a long time for the [Vermont Attorney General’s Office] to get on the case,” said Trunzo, a Lebanon, N.H., attorney. “It went on for years without anybody responding to the red flags,” he said. To Trunzo, the episode illustrated a lack of government oversight of Vermont’s sprawling nonprofit sector. Though the state is home to more than 6,000 federally recognized nonprofits, it employs a single assistant AG to ensure their compliance with Vermont law. And unlike most New England states, it does not require nonprofits to file regular financial reports. The federal government does require them to file, but it lacks the resources to comb through the reports. Over the last decade, according to an Internal Revenue Service report, the agency’s enforcement staff has declined by a quarter. Since a peak in 2011, the number of nonprofit filings that IRS agents have examined has dropped from 11,699 to 6,101 — or about 0.77 percent of those submitted. “Congress has refused to provide the resources the IRS needs to provide staff and oversight for much of its work,” said Jennifer Chandler, vice president of the Washington, D.C.-based National Council of Nonprofits. “It’s not that the IRS is doing nothing, but if they had more people, they could be a much more engaged deterrent.” In the absence of federal oversight, it has fallen to state AGs to pick up the slack, according to Cindy Lott, academic director of Columbia University’s Nonprofit Management program. “It’s really become a state-level issue, on a lot
of fronts, to make sure this is being taken care of,” she said. Whether AGs are getting the job done isn’t clear. “Enforcement is very difficult to measure,” Lott said. That’s because highly publicized lawsuits and trials capture only a sliver of a regulator’s work. “At times, it’s quiet enforcement,” she said. “They’re not trying to kill off the charity.” In Vermont, authorities eventually took Trunzo’s allegations seriously. The Attorney General’s Office launched an investigation of Emerge Family Advocates, a state- and federally funded organization that provided supervision for parental visits in child custody cases. In October 2014, the AG accused Russell of writing paychecks to herself on an “irregular and inconsistent basis” and paying herself $5,000 to $10,000 a year in excess of her board-approved salary. Moreover, authorities said, the nonprofit’s board had “repeatedly failed to provide necessary independent oversight over the organization’s finances.” “This failure threatens Emerge’s mission and has put its current funding in serious jeopardy,” then-AG Bill Sorrell wrote. In a court filing, he called for a
suspension of the nonprofit’s services until new leadership could be installed. “We decided the only way to protect charitable assets was to remove the board and put a receiver into place,” said Assistant AG Jamie Renner, who oversees nonprofit compliance in the AG’s consumer protection unit. Russell defended herself in the press, characterizing herself as an overworked, underpaid nonprofit leader who had been “nothing but transparent.” But the court sided with the state and stripped the board of its authority. Within a year and a half, the court-appointed receiver obtained permission to dissolve Emerge. No criminal charges were ever filed. Russell could not be reached for comment. Though Trunzo eventually prevailed, he believes the situation could have been averted. “If Vermont had a more stringent reporting requirement, maybe the Emerge mismanagement would never have happened,” he said. Things might have turned out differently, too, if the nonprofit had been based on the other side of the Connecticut River. In neighboring New Hampshire, home to the country’s first “charitable trusts
unit,” its 10,000 nonprofits are required to register with the Attorney General’s Office and adopt a conflict-of-interest policy before they can conduct business. Each year, they must file a financial report — the federal Form 990 suffices for larger organizations — and disclose whether board members or their families have received excessive pay or loans from the nonprofit. “We have a set of eyes review every report, and we ask questions,” said Tom Donovan, who heads the New Hampshire Department of Justice’s Charitable Trusts Unit. Donovan’s staff of eight pore over the filings and look for potential conflicts of interest, bloated salaries, sustained deficits and potential theft. When the unit discovers something amiss, it provides advice, mandates training or takes enforcement action. According to Donovan, his staff routinely uncover wrongdoing, though nonprofits are typically the victims, not the perpetrators. Embezzlement and other forms of theft are “very common,” he said, but charities often try to hide it because they’re embarrassed. “Unless you go public with it and report it to the police, these people will do it over and over again, because some thieves know that nonprofits are easy marks,” Donovan said. “[Boards] don’t apply the sorts of oversight that they would in a regular business.” Few states regulate nonprofits as aggressively as New Hampshire. A 2016 survey by the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy found that 31 percent of states and territories had less than one full-time charity enforcement staffer, while another 51 percent had one to 9.9 staffers. Just 13 jurisdictions had a dedicated charities bureau, and 22 required nonprofits to file audited financial statements. Vermont is a mixed bag. The state keeps a watchful eye on the commercial fundraisers that some nonprofits hire (see story on page 20), but it barely regulates the nonprofits themselves. Like any corporation, they must file with the Secretary of State’s Office. But according to Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Winters, “Once you’ve filed,
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we have no enforcement authority. We “We don’t draw a distinction as to have no enforcement staff.” whether it’s a nonprofit or not,” said Even the Attorney General’s Office spokesman Kraig LaPorte. “We look to has only “specific and limited” oversight see if it’s a violation of the law.” responsibilities, according to Renner, the The office’s biggest cases have foassistant AG charged with enforcing the cused on fraud committed by the state’s Vermont Nonprofit Corporations Act. nonprofit hospitals. In 2005, the presi“Our primary role is to make sure that dent and CEO of what was then Fletcher nonprofits use their assets in line with Allen Health Care, William Boettcher, their charitable purpose,” he said. pleaded guilty to defrauding state reguBecause Vermont charities are not lators over the projected cost of a hosrequired to register with or provide reg- pital addition. He was sentenced to two ular reports to the Attorney General’s years in prison. Office, Renner has few opportunities to More recently, Lebanon, N.H.-based monitor compliance with the law. Much Dartmouth-Hitchcock medical center of his oversight work focuses on ensur- and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital ing that when a nonprofit settled Medicare and Medicaid dissolves, it directs any refraud cases. maining assets to entities that The U.S. Attorney’s Office will use them in the manner has also investigated whether intended by donors. leaders of a failed educational That didn’t happen when, nonprofit, Burlington College, in 2012, the United Way of misrepresented the instituBennington County closed up tion’s assets when applying shop because of insufficient for a bank loan. The probe, funding. After most of its board which has not resulted in resigned, money continued to charges, has drawn national flow into the shuttered nonscrutiny because the focus profit’s bank account. Its two T OM DONOVAN of the investigation appears remaining board members, to be Jane O’Meara Sanders, Valerie Shemeth and Welthy a former Burlington College Myers, decided to distribute the more president and the wife of Sen. Bernie than $48,000 to local organizations. Sanders (I-Vt.). According to the Attorney General’s One of the most memorable federal Office, the recipients included two prosecutions of a local nonprofit ementities led by Shemeth: Her nonprofit ployee came in December 2015, when Gallop to Success received $11,500, and Hunger Free Vermont learned that its her for-profit Kimberly Farms received longtime finance director, Sally Hartford $7,000. Shemeth did not return calls Kirby, had embezzled $165,000 from the seeking comment. South Burlington organization. The next Myers, a retired nonprofit leader, said year, Kirby was sentenced to 15 months the situation had made her uncomfort- in federal prison and ordered to pay able. “At the time, I told her I had great more than $178,000 in restitution. reservations about it,” she said. “In the “Embezzlement shakes everybody nonprofit world, one gets very cautious to the core,” said Hunger Free Vermont about money going to directors.” board chair Darren Allen. When the The Attorney General’s Office inter- organization realized what had hapvened and, last September, settled with pened, Allen said, it did not hesitate the two women. Shemeth agreed to repay to disclose the news. “We all firmly the United Ways of Vermont, and both believed that being transparent and were prohibited from serving on a non- timely with our supporters, our friends profit board until they completed a train- and the public was the only course to ing course on fiduciary responsibilities. take if we were going to continue as an “I thought that was kind of ridiculous,” organization.” said Myers, who was not accused of steerWould greater state regulation have ing money to herself. “But I’m 85 years kept Kirby from committing the crime? old. I’m not going to go out and work in Allen’s not so sure. the nonprofit sector again, probably.” “This doesn’t just hit nonprofits. It The Attorney General’s Office isn’t hits town governments. It hits private alone in overseeing the state’s nonprofits. corporations,” he said. “If someone is The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District hell-bent — particularly if they’re a of Vermont prosecutes federal crimes in- trusted and beloved member of the team volving charitable organizations, though — if they’re hell-bent on creating harm, I it treats them no differently from any would never underestimate the ingenuity other corporation. of human beings.” m
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what Vermonters contributed was spent on soliciting that money — not helping their fellow citizens. “You have to pay for the venue, you had to pay for the people to make the phone calls, you had to pay for the phone lines, the paper to mail the stuff out, the postage,” Professional Firefighters president Bradley Reed said. “We made the prediction that if we continued to do it, then we would be losing money.” While the firefighters union has stopped the practice of fundraising — and the charitable work it paid for — other organizations continue to rely on paid outside companies to bring in donors and dollars. Some smart organizations use the tactic in a targeted way,
but others allow most of their donations to go to waste. According to data collected by the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, just 37.2 percent of the $33 million raised by paid fundraisers in Vermont since 2006 has made its way to the intended charities. Some nonprofits have received much less — and, in a few cases, all the money raised went to pay the costs of fundraising. Most of the fundraising calls Vermonters receive come from out-ofstate charities such as the Sierra Club, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Mothers Against Drunk Driving, though donors tend to give more when the caller is working for a local organization. A review of data from June
2012 through July 2015 by the Attorney General’s Office found that 55 percent of the money donated through paid fundraisers was intended for in-state organizations. Some Vermont statewide nonprofits, such as Vermont Public Radio and Special Olympics Vermont, hire paid solicitors as part of a broader strategy
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or seven years, Vermonters gave generously when the phone rang and they were asked to donate to the Professional Firefighters of Vermont. Between 2007 and 2014, paid solicitors collected nearly $1 million a year for the trade union’s charitable and professional work. The fundraisers promised potential contributors free concert tickets and said donations would buy such things as scholarships, educational coloring books for school kids and winter coats for needy children. Then the phone calls stopped. The firefighters found that once they had paid the professional fundraisers, only 22 percent of the total raised was left for their charities. The vast majority of
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he cast of characters behind Chittenden County’s annual show of fried dough, monster trucks and creepy carnies is — you guessed it — a charitable organization. The Champlain Valley Fair is a rite of Vermont summer; last year, 120,000 people came through the gates over the course of the 10-day event in Essex Junction, according to executive director Tim Shea. The annual extravaganza is also the raison d’être of its parent nonprofit, the Champlain Valley Exposition, which owns the 130 acres on which the fair is held. In the last two weeks of August, the expo organization makes most of its $3.4 million budget. Payroll expands dramatically, too, from 13 full-time workers to more than 300 seasonal ones who set up
the midway, park cars, provide security, and clean up during and after the fair. The rest of the year, Shea and a dozen colleagues run a smaller operation, renting out three buildings for about 70 events a year, including a Cub Scouts, summer camp, bingo fundraisers, the Vermont Farm Show and local law enforcement trainings. Winter storage for boats and campers also brings in revenue to keep the gates open year-round. “It’s a facility that’s so important to the community that you need to maintain it for the other 355 days,” Shea said. He pointed out that the Addison County Fair and Field Days, Tunbridge World’s Fair, Guilford Fair, and Orleans County Fair are also 501c3s. When the Champlain Valley Fair started in 1922, the expo financed the
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event by selling 2,000 shares to members of the public, at $50 apiece. Nearly a century later, the approximately 1,500 shares still in circulation are largely historical mementos. The shares haven’t appreciated in value, so they’re still worth $50 each, and new shares can no longer be purchased — except by current board members.
Families pass down their shares to children and grandchildren “to hang on to a piece” of history, Shea suggested. “That’s what the fair is to a lot of people: nostalgia.” Shareholders also elect the board — about 10 showed up to vote in May, according to board president Al Gobeille, whose day job is secretary
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that puts more emphasis on cheaper in-house fundraising through mailings, on-air campaigns, charity events and face-to-face contact with donors. Still others appear to rely largely or entirely on paid telephone solicitation companies, as the Professional Firefighters used to.
The Vermont Troopers Association has raised $1.5 million from local businesses since 2006, using an outside firm to sell ads in a semiannual magazine that goes to its members. Police Publications, the fundraising firm, sends 26 percent of the total raised to the troopers union and keeps the rest. Mike O’Neil, a retired trooper who is now executive director of the union, said the funds help support members by paying for hospital bills and, in a few cases, funeral and estate planning costs. “We’ve had members end up in Boston with sick children and need to spend a month there, and we’ve picked up an apartment for the entire month right next to the hospital,” he said. O’Neil acknowledged that some people question a 26 percent cut for the union, and he said he’s considered the possibility of bringing the fundraising and magazine operations in-house. “Running that whole business … would require somebody in our organization to have the time to do that,” he said. “You’re also paying the salary of the people doing the phone calls, postage for sending out our magazine … and the actual printing of the magazine.” RING, RING
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past decade. Revenue decreased from $5.4 million in 2009 to $3.3 million in 2016, according to the most recent documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Shea said that’s because the expo is booking smaller — read: less expensive — musical acts than in the past. But the event’s economic impact hasn’t diminished. Although it doesn’t pay property or income taxes, the fair generates revenue for the state from the rooms and meals tax visitors pay, and from the taxes paid by the businesses that rent space and sell concessions at the fair. “I’d argue we create a way for the state and local government to get more taxes than if we were just residential or a strip mall,” Gobeille said. The expo does pay $15,000 annually in lieu of taxes to the village of Essex Junction and contracts town police to patrol the fair. “People automatically think nonprofit means no tax, and it’s not true,” Gobeille said. “It’s not fair.”
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of the Vermont Agency of Human Services. The 15-member expo board includes Jolinda LaClair, director of drug abuse prevention for the state; Sen. Dick Mazza (D-Grand Isle); and Kyle Bostwick, vice president of the Vermont Lake Monsters. The group is tasked with planning an agricultural fair that reflects the times, said Sam Cutting IV, president of Dakin Farm and co-vice chair of the board. “It’s not the same old agriculture,” he said, noting trends in valueadded products, specialty products and organic farming. The board has started inducting different types of farmers into the Vermont Agricultural Hall of Fame and is adding awards for ag innovators and emerging leaders, Cutting said, to recognize growers who are finding creative ways to make a living. The state’s largest fair has made some budget adjustments, too, in the
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After professional fundraisers’ fees, here’s what charities got for each dollar donated. Vermont Public Interest Research Group*
Professional Firefighters of Vermont*
Vermont Police Association
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Special Olympics Vermont
University of Vermont Medical Center Vermont Troopers Association
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Email campaigns that allow a single staff member to reach thousands of donors are far cheaper than phone calls, he noted, but they also have a far lower response rate. His company advises nonprofits to work from the bottom up, only using the phone to call members or past donors who have not responded to cheaper appeals. “A well-rounded fundraising program uses all the mediums,” Siegel said. “It just does that carefully.” At Special Olympics Vermont, paid fundraisers have brought in $2.1 million since 2007. Of that, about 40 percent, or $845,638, went to the organization. President and CEO Sue Minter said those campaigns make up a tiny portion of Special Olympics Vermont’s revenue. “It is literally less than 2 percent of what we raise, and it is not something we rely on at all,” Minter said, noting that local events such as the Penguin Plunge bring in far more money for the nonprofit. Then why use paid phone solicitors? Minter said it’s not just about the money. “In addition to reaching out to businesses and corporations, it is also doing education work,” she said. “The script
[fundraisers read from] talks about our summer games; it solicits volunteers.” At BoardSource, Wallestad echoed the fact that different tactics have various side benefits and costs. For example, an event that brings the nonprofit face-to-face with potential supporters “may be a great way to bring in new donors and … to thank and cultivate current donors,” she said. “But events tend to be very high-cost, so you don’t want that to be the only way you’re bringing in money.” The Vermont Public Interest Research Group has discovered the pros and cons of hiring paid telephone solicitors. Between 2009 and 2017, VPIRG contracted with Aria Communications, a Minnesota-based fundraising company that raised $145,363 from Vermonters for the political advocacy group. VPIRG kept 27 percent of the money — less than $40,000. Executive director Paul Burns said the fundraising stopped because VPIRG could no longer justify the cost. One campaign that ran from 2016 into 2017 raised $2,415 of which VPIRG kept less than $30 — only 1.1 percent.
“Of course we look at the bottom lines,” he said. “We no longer work with Aria.” But Burns said VPIRG’s use of phone fundraisers wasn’t just about the bottom line. The group’s political advocacy depends on strength in numbers. That’s why the organization sends young staffers door-to-door all over the state, and Burns said the phone calls have a similar effect: They keep Vermonters engaged with the organization regardless of how much cash each call brings in. “It’s best if you can actually connect one human being to another, and if you can’t do it face-to-face, by phone is the next best thing,” he said. Since public tax filings don’t give a detailed breakdown of a nonprofit’s fundraising strategies, how can Vermonters decide whether or not to donate when they get a call from a charity that sounds like it’s doing good work? “I have a pretty harsh rule in this house,” said Kate McGowan, the former executive director of United Way of Addison County. “We don’t give any money to anybody over the phone. I just don’t.” Instead, McGowan, a self-identified “recovering” certified public accountant who has led Marlboro College’s Center for New Leadership since January, asks phone solicitors for more information. When she is impressed by an organization’s pitch, she asks the caller to send its most recent tax filings and financial audit. After that, she tells callers, she’ll consider a gift. None has ever followed through. Potential donors can also do their own research, she said. Every nonprofit has to file a Form 990 federal tax document, which can be viewed for free online through the GuideStar service. To enable more complex searching of local organizations’ 990s, Seven Days built its own database called the Vermont Nonprofit Navigator. It’s accessible to the public at nonprofits.sevendaysvt.com. Many nonprofits publish program updates and annual reports online, which can help a potential contributor decide whether an organization is using its money to effectively fulfill its mission. Siegel, the paid fundraiser, said donors should beware of organizations raising all of their money over the phone. When that happens, he said, “The telemarketers are making a shitload of money, and nobody really benefits.” Contact: taylor@sevendaysvt.com Digital editor Andrea Suozzo analyzed data for this story; staff writer Mark Davis contributed reporting.
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Priscilla J. “Cilla” Kimberly, 64, died Sunday, June 24, in Burlington, Vt. Born and raised in Oshkosh, Wis., Cilla attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating with a bachelor of science degree in zoology.
She moved to Essex Junction, Vt., in 1978, first working for the Green Mountain Club maintaining trails on Camel’s Hump. After a few months, she took a position with the University of Vermont Cancer Center. She retired in 2009. Cilla’s volunteer efforts centered on connecting neighborhoods with bike paths, including the Essex Junction Bike Path, and building backcountry ski trails, including the Woodard Mountain Trail. She enjoyed skiing, kayaking, biking the back roads of Vermont, bicycle touring Europe, hiking in New Zealand and throughout the United States, and gardening. In retirement, Cilla renewed her love for drawing and displayed her art in several Vermont venues. Cilla’s enthusiasm for life was evident to all who met her. She will be greatly missed by many. She is survived by her husband, Jerry Lasky; six brothers and sisters throughout the United States; in-laws in California and New York; and numerous nieces and nephews. A celebration of her life will be private. Memorial donations in memory of Priscilla J. Kimberly may be made to Vermont Land Trust, 8 Bailey Ave., Montpelier, VT, 05602, or online. Arrangements are in the care of the Cremation Society of Chittenden County.
Sven, Jody and Erik. The family moved to Jericho, Vt., in 1965, where Patty taught preschool at Saxon Hill School. In the early ‘70s she worked for Video Feedback and Davinci Laboratories in Burlington. She also delighted in voicing radio spots for the Ice House Restaurant. Next, Patty moved to St. Croix. In 1989 Hurricane Hugo devastated the island, and Patty came home to central Vermont. She worked for the BarreMontpelier Times Argus newspaper and later for the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing. She was diagnosed with dementia in 2009 and moved to Mayo Continuing Care in Northfield, where she was treated like royalty for the last eight and a half years. She leaves behind her sons, Sven and Erik; daughter, Jody; grandchildren Chelsey, Jack, Alyssa, Brevik, Caitlin, Daya and Ellie; and five great-grandchildren.
Patty Petersen 1927-2018, MONTPELIER
Patty Petersen died peacefully on June 24, 2018, surrounded by her family in a serene space at Mayo Continuing Care in Northfield, Vt. She was born Margaret Patricia McGovern on September 24, 1927, in Wayne, Pa. She married Dick Petersen in Woodstock, N.Y., in 1953, with whom she had three children:
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FAMILY INTERRUPTED “What if the day that you grew up was the day your parents got taken away because they were undocumented?” That question comes from DANIEL HOUGHTON, an animation and video production instructor at Middlebury College and director of the school’s Animation Studio. It’s the heart of a newly released animated short that grapples with deportation and family separation in the U.S., framed in the context of undocumented migrant farmworkers in Vermont. Two years in the making, the eightminute wordless animation called “Estrellita” (“Little Star”) was initially slated to travel the film-fest circuit later this year and into 2019. Recent news changed the filmmakers’ minds. “There are pretty horrific things happening right now with family separation on the border,” said Houghton. “The decision to put [“Estrellita”] online now definitely
followed where the news stories were going. [We wanted] to participate in some way in the bigger dialogue.” On June 20, the film was uploaded to Vimeo, where it already has more than 4,500 views. The animation tells the story of a young girl who helps her undocumented father on an American dairy farm. The U.S. Border Patrol, depicted as an amorphous, evillooking black morass, arrests her father, causing her world to crumble. The film’s closing credits, presented in English and Spanish, read, “Inspired by Vermont’s farmworker families who live and work under the threat of deportation and separation.” Seeking to create a story that would be significant both locally and beyond, Houghton began researching Vermont’s undocumented population in 2016. The suggestion came from Middlebury College economics professor and honorary consul to Mexico JESSICA HOLMES, whose son, JUSTIN, a recent Middlebury Union High School graduate, did the film’s rigging.
about the era decades later: “He’d be the world’s luckiest man to stand there at the end of it all, to be the one left, trying to remember. The unluckiest one, too.” One person lucky or unlucky enough to remember is Fiona Marcus, the adoring younger sister of Yale’s late friend. A supporting character in the 1980s sections, she’s the focus of the 2015 sections, in which she travels to Paris seeking her estranged daughter, who has become involved with a cult. Initially, Fiona’s present-day narrative may read like a needless tangent from Yale’s more compelling story. But the better we know Fiona, the more we understand how her entire life — including her struggles as a mother — reverberates with the force of the events Yale is living. It’s a series of aftershocks. Fiona has “spent an inordinate amount of her adult life engaged in two different ongoing fantasies,” Makkai
writes. In one, she re-creates her brother’s lost world, detail by detail; in the other, she walks him through postmillennial life, explaining terms such as “cloud” and “firewall.” This “time travel” is a form of obsessive mourning, but it’s commemoration, too, a forceful affirmation of her brother’s life against oblivion. These same themes dominate a major subplot of Yale’s narrative, in which he attempts to acquire a mysterious art collection from Fiona’s great-aunt Nora. An artist and model in Paris before and after World War I, the 90-year-old claims to possess authentic unknown works by the likes of Amedeo Modigliani and Chaim Soutine. But her real motive in donating these valuable pieces is to get a public showing for the obscure artist who was her lover. It’s Nora who says time travel is easy, and who draws a parallel between her own famously “lost generation” and Yale’s ongoing experience of loss. “Well,
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ow do you write about a historical chapter that many living people still remember with the searing power of loss? Part-time Vermonter REBECCA MAKKAI faced that challenge with her third novel, The Great Believers. Taking us back to the years when an AIDS diagnosis was a rapid death sentence, it
chronicles the devastation of Chicago’s gay community. Getting the facts right, of course, is a must; Makkai has documented her research at length in an author’s note and a recent Literary Hub essay. In the note, she points us toward the “direct, personal accounts” of those who were there. Her marvelously absorbing novel is itself a meditation on what it means to survive to write such accounts, to carry through life the legacy of the lost. One character has been “living for the past thirty years in a deafening echo … tending the graveyard alone.” Composed of two alternating narratives — one starting in 1985, the other in 2015 — The Great Believers hops back and forth in time like memory itself. Time travel, says a character at one point, is “devastatingly easy! All you have to do is live long enough!” It may sound like a lighthearted proposition, but we soon learn that, for some, long life confers crushing burdens. As the novel opens in 1985, protagonist Yale Tishman, a young “development guy” for a university art gallery, is mourning the first of his good friends to die of AIDS. Midway through the book, he will imagine being questioned
you! Your friends! I don’t know how it’s like anything other than war!” That transhistorical linking gives its title to the novel: F. Scott Fitzgerald described his generation as “the great believers.” Some might argue that, by linking the worst years of the AIDS epidemic to the earlier tragedy of the Great War, Makkai elides the specifics of both. But The Great Believers includes a wealth of specifics — about the everyday, unquestioned homophobia that still reigned in America during the Reagan years; about the panic and misinformation surrounding the disease; about the activists who fought desperately to make treatments available. Yale’s partner runs a gay alt-weekly; his secret crush is a crusading lawyer and organizer. That’s the broader canvas surrounding Yale as he battles Nora’s family for her collection. The smaller-scale conflict gives the novel a suspenseful motor and a sense of hope. But, as we flip pages to learn the fate of the artworks, we don’t forget that far more is at stake: Which of this generation of “great believers” will live to see 2015? Makkai manages her two narratives so deftly that our dread of the novel’s revelations mounts steadily and almost imperceptibly. It’s not much of a spoiler to say the book eventually becomes devastatingly sad. But there’s no “misery
porn” here, no torturing of characters just to jerk tears. Each narrative also mounts toward a climactic art exhibition — in Chicago and in Paris — that affirms the power of creation, witnessing and memory. While that memory may be a burden, Makkai suggests the penalties of forgetting are greater. In the 2015 narrative, the Paris terrorist attacks make a young gay man worry that aspects of history will repeat themselves: “Everyone acts from fear, the next year, two years. What happens, you think, to people like us?” Far from sounding a note of historical triumphalism, the novel reminds us how easily positive change can be undone. “[I]t’s fragile,” says an older gay character of the advances made over his lifetime. “You might look back in fifty years and say, That was the last good time.” Ominous and timely words. m
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experience for the family separated. And the possibility of being detained and separated from your children by deportation is a fear that every undocumented immigrant parent lives with.” Houghton hopes the film will work as “a lever to humanize what’s going on.” Of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, he said, “It’s this intense ratcheting up of the policy, with cruelty and malice seeming to be the strategy … All of this is very real and complex and causing a lot of pain for a lot of people.” Of those not directly impacted by U.S. immigration policy, Houghton said, “I hope they recognize what a profound blessing that is.”
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was that we didn’t want it to be a political piece,” he said. “But as the political situation developed more and more, it felt … like a statement of human rights.” Skunnawat added that earlier versions may have been too rosy. “None of the iterations felt right, because the message I was trying to get across is that it’s not that things are fine,” he said. “We’d rather express viscerally how wrong the situation is.” According to WILL LAMBEK of Migrant Justice/Justicia Migrante, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Border Patrol arrests about one Vermont resident per week. Most of them are farmworkers. “We know of several cases where a parent and primary breadwinner has been detained by immigration authorities and deported, leaving their children in Vermont,” Lambek said. “This, of course, is a traumatizing and horrendous
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this section shows a dismembered deer on a garage floor. The meat is clearly gone; the remainder — folded skin, head, feet — has been painstakingly assembled so that the animal seems to sit, contorted, in a square. A few feet away, a butcher is visible from the waist down, his knees bloody. “I don’t know that I can find words to say why I’m attracted to those sorts of things,” Wray says of her goriest pictures. “I’m sort of an ambivalent carnivore — I feel very deeply for animals, but I also eat them. So part of it is looking at the whole package.” Like depression, which Too Tired for Sunshine purports to represent, Wray’s “whole package” is often uncomfortable to witness. But the photographer considers the images her “saving grace,” as she told Vice, one of the online magazines to which she contributes. “[W]hen I see them in the book I get a warm, bittersweet feeling,” Wray said in that interview, “because I’m reminded not of depression but of how strange and how lovely the world can be.”
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taking care of her mentally unstable mother, was an Audience Award winner at the SXSW Film Festival in 2006. In 2007, Wray moved to Vermont with fellow filmmaker JOSH MELROD to make Cartoon College, a film about White River Junction’s CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES. While Wray says she didn’t design Too Tired for Sunshine with a narrative arc in mind, a few pop out. The book is divided into four sections by thick yellow card stock; the sections progress from light to dark in terms of both content and color palette. The early images have a relaxed quality, but they can be discomfiting. For example, in the image of a chin and neck caught in a beam of sunlight, the ray might be a caress or a chokehold. Three donkeys in a misty field stare at the viewer as if to ask, “What are you looking at?” The colors are muted, the donkeys still. The second section gets even darker. Three sequential photographs depict a dimly lit kitchen sink; a grouchy-looking dog; and an old woman hunched over a book, seated in a messy room behind a bulging black trash bag. A sense of loneliness is palpable in these images. The third section is the bloodiest. It begins with an image of a goth girl clutching a gray rabbit adoringly, which somehow feels linked to the next photo of blood-spattered snow. Then we see a man gripping a pig’s heart; only his hand and the slick organ are captured in the frame. One of the most gripping images in
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National Convention.” It can’t hurt to learn something about rioting in the streets.) Of course, there was more to Adams’ response than that — information about specific organizations and their convention plans. You know, actual facts. “And so infallible answer man Cecil Adams began fighting ignorance weekly in the Straight Dope,” explained a 2011 Time Out Chicago article, “laying waste to the world’s most puzzling questions with deep research set down in 800 words with enough acerbic wit, humor and clarity to make even the most snoozy science jargon a good read.” Needless to say, the idea took off. Adams and cohorts have subsequently written some 3,400 columns, answering questions that have ranged from the ridiculous to the seriously scientific to the existential. The Straight Dope has given the lie to the notion of “fake news” many times over. After the internet was born and the good people at the Reader established a Straight Dope website, a veritable cult of information geeks arose around it. We’re told the digital archive will live on and that the column might be resurrected in some as-yet-unknown fashion. Meantime, you can go to straightdope. com to find the answers to such burning questions as “Why do pigeons bob their heads?” and “How do they get the little Ms on M&M’s?” And, for the royaltyobsessed, “A king’s wife is a queen, so why is Elizabeth II’s husband still only Prince Philip?” As Adams writes in a sort of farewell letter on the site, “The Straight Dope homepage will continue to be updated with recycled classics. The Straight Dope Message Board (SDMB), the
online community that has grown up around the column, will remain open for business.” Indeed, Adams notes, “in many ways the SDMB has become the heart and soul of the enterprise.” Seven Days readers who have only known the print column may want to check it out, especially since the print version is no more. Adams certainly makes it sound inviting: The SDMB is a raucous, wildly entertaining house party that has kept users coming back for 22 years — “like caramel-covered crack,” as one user once put it. People participate not out of civic duty, but because it’s fun. Part of what makes it fun is the arguments, which anyone can start on any subject. The SDMB offers a soapbox and an audience that routinely numbers in the thousands and occasionally in the millions. “How many minds are changed as a result of these freewheeling symposia, I have no idea,” Adams writes. “But surely there’s value in having to defend your views in open debate, and in having cherished beliefs challenged.” You’re probably thinking: Arguing with the passion of a truth seeker in the spirit of a house party? That’s a thing? Don’t take our word for it. You don’t have to live in Chicago to join that community. But, since we’re talking about truth, here’s something you should know: Cecil Adams isn’t real. The name is a pseudonym. Several people have served in the role of “the world’s smartest human,” but for quite a while it has been Straight Dope editor Ed Zotti. Discerning that answer was the objective of the
aforementioned Time Out article. Even cornered for an interview, Zotti tried to keep up the ruse: “People have a lot of theories,” Zotti says with a smirk, painting himself as an errand boy for a genius. “I do much of Cecil’s typing, but Cecil presides. I’m Cecil’s editor, confidante and personal assistant. A couple of other assistants do some research and I do some research, and then Cecil gives it his magic touch and it somehow gets into the paper.” Straight Dope copy editor Jim Shapiro wasn’t much more forthcoming: “I’ve never met [Adams], but there’s lots of people I’ve never met,” he told Time Out. “I’ve never met Thomas Pynchon, but I’m pretty sure he’s more person than concept.” Whoever he is, Adams says in his letter that he’s considering publishing another Straight Dope book: “It’s been nigh on 20 years since the last one.” Several Straight Dope books are out there, so he’s probably referring to 1999’s Triumph of the Straight Dope. No doubt all are great gifts for your trivia-loving friends and family. Though we introduced a local question-and-answer column, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, aka WTF, some years ago, we’ll miss Cecil Adams for his smarts, wit and great writing. And we’re sad that a factor in the column’s demise was a steep attrition in subscribers — down to just 11 altweeklies, including Seven Days. But, like other former print entities, Straight Dope will live online for … ever? We’ll have to write Cecil and ask that question.
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(near New York’s Port Kent) and the 19th-century excavation site of the fossilized skeletal remains of an 11,500-year-old beluga whale (in Charlotte). In geological terms, Button Bay’s concretions are comparative infants, taking just hundreds or thousands, not millions, of years to compress into rockhard discs. In fact, Roy adds, “They’re still being formed. It’s just a really slow process.” To paraphrase an old childhood game, “Buttons, buttons, who else has buttons?” Reportedly, the banks of the Connecticut River and its tributaries are home to concretions. Even older ones dating to the Pleistocene Age, 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, have been found in Waterbury, Montpelier and Putney, Hollowell says. Elsewhere in the world, larger concretions made of calcium carbonate or iron oxide have been found and often mistaken for fossilized
dinosaur eggs or turtle shells. Technically speaking, it’s illegal to remove the buttons/concretions — or any other such finds — from state parks, though Roy understands the urge. “When people happen upon them, it’s really hard to not pick them up,” she concedes. “You think, These are so cool. I want to keep them!” In years past, visitors have kept them, and in considerable numbers. In July of 1962 — two years before Button Bay State Park was established — more than 9,000 Girl Scouts descended on Button Bay for the third senior “roundup,” or national gathering. According to Roy, the girls collected “a lot of buttons.” Historical footnote: The theme of that year’s roundup was “Honor the past, serve the future.” Evidently, the environmental ethos at the time was less stringent than it is today. A few years ago, a woman who’d
attended the 1962 event mailed Roy an entire box of the buttons, expressing guilt over having absconded with them. Rather than simply tossing them back in the lake, Roy put them on display in the park’s nature center, which is located on Button Point, about a half-mile walk from the camping area. As for why Button Bay is also the only state park in Vermont with a swimming pool and a waterslide, Roy wouldn’t even hazard a guess. Speaking of unusual place names on Lake Champlain, have you ever wondered how Fish Bladder Island got its moniker? It stands out even among the many other oddly named Champlain islands, including Three Sisters, Four Brothers and Carleton’s Prize. The last one, a tiny island off South Hero, was named in honor of Sir Guy Carleton, an 18th-century British commander and governor of Québec. According to James Millard’s online resource “Lake Champlain Islands: A History Tour,” immediately after the Battle of Valcour Island in October 1776, Carleton ordered his ship to fire on what he thought was one of Benedict Arnold’s ships trying to flee the British fleet. After about an hour of pummeling without any return fire, the fog lifted, the cannon smoke cleared and Carleton discovered that his adversary was not a ship but a small rocky isle. D’oh! Alas, the privately owned Fish Bladder Island has no such colorful past. According to Vermont PlaceNames: Footprints of History, by Esther Munroe Swift, “Fish Bladder Island is thought to be shaped like an inflated fish bladder or skin.” There you have it. m Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com
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id you ever wonder how Button Bay got its name? A quick check of a Lake Champlain nautical chart reveals that the Ferrisburgh inlet looks nothing like a button, or even a buttonhole. And, though it’s shaped somewhat like a button hook, even that slight resemblance doesn’t explain the centuries-old moniker, especially because the area was never known as Button Hook Bay. But Button Mould Bay? Now that’s a different story. If you’re wondering what a “button mould,” or “mold,” is, try wandering the shores or wading into the shallow, mudrich waters at Button Bay State Park and look down. There’s a fairly good chance you’ll spot one of the buttons that lend the area its name, says Rebecca Roy, conservation education coordinator at Vermont State Parks. Those “buttons,” Roy explains, are actually concretions that form when clay settles on pebbles or accumulates around the stalks of plants that grow in the lake. When the plant stem dies and rots away, what’s left behind resembles a rock with a hole drilled in the center of it. “Early European explorers saw them and thought they looked like molds used to make buttons,” she adds. “So it was originally called Button Mould Bay.” Button Bay isn’t the only place on Lake Champlain where concretions occur, says Laura Hollowell, Lake Champlain Basin Program resource room coordinator at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain. But Hollowell notes that no other site has the extraordinarily large number of round “clay stones,” or natural pottery, that create interesting formations, especially when several rocks bind together. “They often take the shapes of animals, buttons and rings,” she explains. “Folks in Ferrisburgh sometimes call them ‘clay babies,’ [and] Native peoples also had legends about them.” Indeed, the lake is a wet dream for geologists and paleontologists, home to numerous other unique and curious features and finds. They include the oldest fossil coral reef in the world (at Isle La Motte), the remnants of a mountain range more than a billion years old
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f a picture is worth a thousand words, then this week’s edition of Seven Days is pretty much priceless. Now in its sixth year, our annual Cartoon Issue is a staff favorite — and not just because it gives our feature writers a week to slack off. In fact, in some ways, the exact opposite is true. For those of us accustomed to telling tales with lots of words, it’s a serious challenge to distill stories to their barest essentials to fit into a handful of cartoon panels. But as they say, brevity is the soul of wit. That doesn’t mean cartoons are always comic. While the following features are meant to be entertaining, the focus is on telling a good story. For generations, the denizens of tiny Chester have been telling a great one about a onetime resident known as the Gentleman Burglar. But, as we discovered, a fine line is sometimes drawn between fact and fiction. Those lines might blur when taking up the practice of microdosing mushrooms. Then again, as Ken Picard reports, some users find clarity in psilocybin. (And no, it’s not legal. Yet.)
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ALISON BECHDEL is a Vermont-based cartoonist and author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic — a graphic memoir turned Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. From 1983 to 2008, she drew the popular strip “Dykes to Watch Out For,” which ran in publications across the country including Seven Days. She is the current cartoonist laureate of Vermont. dykestowatchoutfor.com
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In, um, researching her story, Rachel Elizabeth Jones found seeking balance through “goat yoga” to be a bit of a stretch. The goats sure are cute, though. While creating a graphic biography of 19th-century novelist Charlotte Brontë (best known for Jane Eyre), Burlington cartoonist Glynnis Fawkes has made a rather famous imaginary friend. So we asked her to both tell and draw that story. On our cover, current Vermont cartoonist laureate Alison Bechdel suggests there are far more than just dykes to watch out for these days.
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EMILY RHAIN ANDREWS is a freelance illustrator born, raised and based in Burlington. Her comic, “Mag Na Mell,” can be read online, updated with a new page of the story every Monday. magnamell.com, eraillustration.com
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JULIANNA BRAZILL is an illustrator, cartoonist and ceramist with a penchant for weird humor, ice cream and bangs. She lives in Burlington with her two ridiculous felines. juliannabrazill.com
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young adults. He recently received his MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies, where he currently works as the administrative and development coordinator. Last fall, Jarad’s mini-comic “Memories of a Former Porcelain Doll” was one of six new works awarded a mini-grant by the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo. jaradgreene.wordpress.com
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hings I expected to find when I headed down to Ludlow for a trio of meals and an overnight: good food, a hip new motel to sleep in and a scenic hike to balance out the eating. Then there were the things I was pleasantly surprised to find in the southern Vermont town at the base of Okemo Mountain Resort: more promising places to eat and drink than I had slots to fill, the kind of community where the hardware store can still leave plants and rakes out overnight, and a confluence of locals who have returned — or stayed — to open their own hospitality businesses. In that last group are Eliza Greene, 29, who grew up in nearby Chester, and her partner, Justin Hyjek, 30, a Ludlow native. Several years ago, the couple was working at a hostel and farm in the hills outside Santa Marta, Colombia, while writing a business plan for their own hostel. “We settled on doing it in a ski resort town where we knew affordable lodging is always in demand,” Hyjek explained. “Then we said, ‘Shit, we’re from a ski resort town, and we have family there.’” “We hadn’t really been back in 10 years, and we were shocked at how much was going on,” Greene chimed in, “and
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street from their hostel. (They’d been looking for more hostel parking — but it came with a motel.) After an extensive renovation, the couple opened Main + Mountain Bar & Motel in December 2017. I can personally vouch for the comfort and style of the freshly modernized motel rooms and the top-notch creative cocktails that Hyjek shook and stirred for my husband and me.
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Arriving in Ludlow after a two-hour drive from Burlington, we headed to Mojo Café for a late lunch. I’d heard only good things about this funky fusion spot where John and Jodi Seward and their team have been serving up a creative mix of Mexican, Cajun and what they call “street food” since the summer of 2014. The Sewards are originally from neighboring Mount Holly (John) and Rutland (Jodi). After more than 14 years of working for other restaurants in the area, John said, they decided that “it was time to put our own ideas into action.” Their exuberant menu travels the world in its varied flavors and textures: from broiled crawfish bread (like the best tuna melt ever) to spiced cauliflower-and-plantain tacos to restorative ramen soup made with house chicken stock. The narrow, orange-walled space is imbued with quirky charm: A rubber chicken hangs from the ceiling fan, and a full drum set is tucked in an alcove over the open kitchen. The café’s only negative is that, on a busy weekend, you might have to wait a while for a table. We had to try the famous lobster nachos ($18), designed by John at the Food Network’s request. (The channel was preparing a roundup of next-level nachos, though Mojo’s wasn’t featured in the end.) A generous pile of local tortilla chips, topped with sweet morsels of tempura-battered lobster and spangled with a mix of peppers, melted local A LIFT FROM LOCALS
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In a small cooking community, what goes around comes around. This Thursday, July 5, chef COLBY MILLER is returning to HOSTEL TEVERE in Warren, where he
ran the kitchen until the in-house restaurant closed four years ago. Hostel owners SARAH WRIGHT and GILES SMITH continue to run the lodging’s bar. Miller has worked for the MAD TACO since 2014. The restaurant he’s helming at his former workplace, dubbed MAD BURGER AT THE HOSTEL, is the second new enterprise in less than 30 days from Mad Taco co-owners JOEY NAGY and WES HAMILTON, who debuted a Mad Taco location in Essex on June 1. The Mad Burger’s eponymous beef patty will feature toppings that vary by season. Other items on Miller’s opening menu include chicken
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In summer’s sweltering heat, nothing refreshes quite like a dip in the lake — except maybe an icy cocktail. As of Saturday, visitors to Burlington’s North Beach can get both: AMIR JUSUFAGIC and SANI PASAGIC, co-owners of the BEACH HOUSE concession, have begun dishing out boozy bevvies from a tiki-style bar. Last summer, the city granted the duo permission to complement their casual snack-bar-style fare with beer and wine. This year, they added cocktails such as a house margarita and the Painkiller, made with dark rum, crème de coconut, pineapple and OJ. Jusufagic and Pasagic also ditched last summer’s fried freezer snacks in favor of weekly changing panini, fresh salads, and pizzas topped with San Marzano tomatoes and farmers market veggies. “I’ve got a little conveyor oven, and Rhode Islandbased the Pizza Gourmet is baking flatbreads for us,” Jusufagic said. The lakefront location’s bare-bones kitchen limits the prep
work he can do on-site, he added. Jusufagic and Pasagic individually own the Church Street food carts AMIR’S KEBAB and WICKED MOUNTAIN HOT DOGS, respectively, and co-own JUNIOR’S DOWNTOWN, which will become a Piesanos Stone Fired Pizza franchise later this month, Jusufagic said. The co-owners took over the beachfront eatery in 2013 and have toyed with their menu concept ever since. “It’s a work in progress,” Jusufagic told Seven Days. For now, he’s glad to help liven spirits from 10 little tables on the beach. “I just want people to come in their flip-flops and enjoy the view,” Jusufagic said. The Beach House is now open for sips and snacks daily from 1 p.m. until the park closes at sunset.
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cheese and lemongrass-wasabi aioli, hit all the right notes. We could have stopped there, but tacos called. The Nashville hot chicken taco ($6.25) carries a spiciness warning and elicits a chuckle when you see that the cayenne-amped fried chicken comes wrapped in a slice of white bread and a tortilla. The slow-roasted green chile pork taco ($4.25) was so tender and smoky-delicious that I would happily drive two hours just to eat it again. Key lime pie ($5) caught our eye from the specials board. It proved, once again, that Mojo does everything with its own twist, from the graham cracker crust made with plantains to the whipped cream spiked with Grand Marnier. “My life is better than your vacation,” proclaimed a sticker over the counter. Our mini-vacation was off to a great start.
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While exploring downtown, we spied an interesting place tucked off a side street and peeked in its windows: Stemwinder bills itself as a wine bar with small plates. Later, after enjoying a predinner cocktail at our motel, we stopped there again on our way to dinner and decided to share a glass of wine. Somehow, that detour turned into ordering two glasses of rosé ($8 and $10) and a few freshly shucked oysters ($3 each) with just 13 minutes until our dinner reservation. Sitting at the bar, even briefly, was a convivial experience, and neighboring guests spoke glowingly of the food. The butcher-paper specials list on the wall was tempting — especially the shrimp stew with fennel two ways and the garlic-griddled bread — but we’d already pregamed more than enough. Next visit.
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A passion for skiing took Rogan Lechthaler away from his hometown of Weston, and he started cooking in Breckrenridge, Colo., to support his love of snow sports. For close to a decade, the young cook expanded and refined his skills at dining landmarks including the Ritz-Carlton and Mistral Bistro, both in Boston; Blackberry Farm in Tennessee; and the now-defunct L & M’s Kitchen and Salumeria in Mississippi.
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But Vermont pulled him back, as it does. In 2010, Lechthaler and his wife, Abby, a Mississippi native, opened Ludlow’s first farm-to-table fine-dining destination. Recently, they added a family-friendly Italian spot called Mama’s, on Ludlow’s Main Street, and they operate the seasonal West Town Eatery at Weston Playhouse. “We saw Ludlow as a place that had room to grow,” said Abby. “We really loved that there was an actual town. There was an authenticity about Ludlow, a community there. Rogan was always really passionate about job creation. If he was going to come home, he wanted to contribute something to the community.” Downtown Grocery’s nightly chalkboard menu proudly touts the seasonal contributions of local and regional producers, about which the excellent service staff can readily elaborate. But this is not the snobby sort of farm-to-table
dining. The pimiento cheeseburger with local beef and housemade everything — bun, pickles, ketchup — gets no short shrift. While nibbling on gorgeously burnished Parker House rolls and sipping glasses of a mellow, fruity Italian Vespolina, we selected first from the specials board. To start, we ordered a pair of grilled Boston mackerel dressed simply with lemon, abundant garlic, parsley and olive oil ($16); for a main, a Maryland softshell crab perched on a tangy pedestal of endive and bathed in lemoncaper brown butter ($29). Knowing from a previous visit to Mama’s that Rogan makes outstanding pasta, we also ordered the house gnocchi with lobster, peas and morel mushrooms ($16), then rounded things out with a local grass-fed steak au poivre ($44). All were perfectly executed and platelickingly delicious, especially the gnocchi. So were a few samples of Rogan’s
“There’s only one light in town,” explained Sharon Godfrey, referring to Ludlow’s sole traffic light. So the co-owner of our breakfast destination and her business partner, Sheryl Guica, named it in honor of “de light.” That was 28 years ago, when the friends and fellow waitresses decided that “We can do it better,” as Godfrey recalled, and opened their own straightforward breakfast and lunch spot in a corner of the town’s old mill. “We wanted to cater to the locals as well as tourists,” Godfrey said. “We wanted it to be affordable and comfy cozy.” And that’s what it is: Coffee is poured into thick white mugs, the restaurant only takes cash, and jam comes in little packets. The staff does take care with their food, which can mean a bit of a wait on busy mornings. The café’s renowned raisin-bread French toast is made with bread from a local baker. Blueberry, raspberry or blackberry pancakes boast whole berries in the batter, and our order of eggs over easy with a sausage patty and spicy onion home fries ($4.70) was cooked just right, with a perfect crunch on the potatoes. Abby Lechthaler of the Downtown Grocery had recommended we order a house-baked muffin griddled ($2.45), and we obeyed. It was a good thing. And then we headed off — powered by lobster nachos, gnocchi and griddled muffins — to hike a mountain. m Contact: pasanen@sevendaysvt.com
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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1187-6 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On June 13, 2018, the Cochran Ski Area and the Cochran Family, LLC filed application #4C11876 for a project generally described as construction of 30 poles and lights along the Race Trail that were previously permitted under Land Use Permit #4C1187-1 but were never constructed. The
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Contemporary oasis on 10 acres for ultimate privacy. Exquisite stone perennial gardens, beautiful patio makes this a truly outdoor sanctuary. This multi-level hilltop home is spacious & open with vaulted ceiling living room, natural light throughout, freshly painted, hardwood floors, master bedroom on first floor, and breathtaking views from 3rd floor of Lake Champlain, Mount Mansfield and Camel’s Hump. $425,000.
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Tucked at the end of the road this seasonal cottage on Sunset Lake awaits you! Spacious dining/living room, kitchen, full bath and two bedrooms upstairs. The gracious deck ideal for morning coffee, afternoon relaxation and quiet evenings overlooks Sunset Lake. Perfect for outdoor enthusiasts who love to paddle, fish and explore Sunset Lake. $175,000.
Two lovely acres on Lake Champlain. 120’ of stabilized lakefront, lake and mountain views, no visible neighbors and one mile to Champlain Bridge. Gravel driveway, 24x40 pole barn, rustic cabin, 200 amp elec., 1000 gal. septic, 295’ drilled well, and three RV hook-ups. Great fishing, birdwatching, boating. $185,000.
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Early 1900’s completely gutted and remodeled duplex. Surveyed half-acre lot with frontage on Boquet River in Willsboro. Newly refinished floors. One apartment is 1-bedroom and the other is 2-bedroom. Appliances are fairly new. $140,000. 518963-8922.
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project is located 910 Cochran Road in Richmond, Vermont. The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C1187-6”. No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before July 19, 2018, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining
property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.
proposed project under 5/28/18 1:52 PM the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).
If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above.
BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD TUESDAY JULY 17TH , 2018, 5:00 PM PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The Burlington Development Review Board will hold a meeting on Tuesday July 17th, 2018 at 5:00pm in Contois Auditorium, City Hall.
Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by July 19, 2018. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the
Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 21st day of June 2018. By: /s/ Rachel Lomonaco Rachel Lomonaco District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 rachel.lomonaco@ vermont.gov
1. 18-0937CU; 94 Caroline St (RL, Ward 5S) Dori Weigand Establish shortterm rental (bed and breakfast) in existing residence. No site or exterior building changes. 2. 18-1039HO; 168 Woodbury Road (RL, Ward 4N) Lorena N. Neironi-Rossi Home occupation related to operation of a food truck. 3. 18-0894LL; 14 Peru St (RM, Ward 3C) PBGC, LLC Appeal of administrative denial of lot line adjustment between 14 and 16 Peru Street.
4. 18-0895LL; 16 Peru St (RM, Ward 3C) BPJS Management LLC Appeal of administrative denial of lot line adjustment between 14 and 16 Peru Street. Plans may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning Office, (City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Participation in the DRB proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. Please note thatvANYTHING submitted to the Planning and Zoning office is considered public and cannot be kept confidential. This may not be the final order in which items will be heard. Please view final Agenda, at www.burlingtonvt.gov/ pz/drb/agendas or the office notice board, one week before the hearing for the order in which items will be heard. CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO FIRE PROTECTION AND PREVENTION – CHAPTER 13 REVISIONS ORDINANCE 5.09 Sponsor: Fire Department; Ordinance Committee First reading: 06/04/18 Referred to: Ordinance Committee Second reading: 06/25/18 Action: adopted
Date: 06/25/18 Signed by Mayor: 06/28/18 Published: 07/04/18 Effective: 07/25/18 It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: That Chapter 13, Fire Protection and Prevention, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Sections 13-4, 13-5, 13-8, 13-14, 13-16, 13-20, 13-21, 13-22, 13-35, 13-36, 13-37, 13-40, 13-43, 13-44, 13-47, 13-52, 1353, 13-54, 13-58, 13-59, 13-60, 13-61, 13-62 and 13-65 thereof to read as follows: 13-4 Carbon monoxide (CO) detectors. (a) Each and every dwelling, rooming house, dwelling unit or rooming unit let to another for occupancy shall meet the following requirements for carbon monoxide (CO) detectors/alarms: (1) Carbon monoxide detectors detectors/alarms which are UL 2034 listed or approved by a nationally recognized independent testing laboratory shall be installed in all existing buildings in which people sleep, including where people rent accommodations whether for overnight or for a longer term, condominiums, multiple unit dwelling dwellings, and other occupancies in which there are rooms or spaces in which sleeping is permitted excluding. Such installation shall be in the vicinity of the sleeping
areas and on every floor of the dwelling, installed in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions and state law. (2)All newly installed carbon monoxide alarms (detectors) detectors/ alarms in one- and two-family dwellings, multiple unit dwellings, lodging or rooming houses, hotels and dormitories, or other buildings in which people sleep, shall be directly wired to a non-dedicated electrical branch circuit for the building and by battery. Carbon monoxide detectors currently installed in existing one- [and] twofamily dwellings shall be permitted to be powered by any approved source until the end of their service life (five (5) years from date of installation for CO detectors) per the manufacturer’s specifications and requirements. (b) In all existing buildings in which people sleep, including where people rent accommodations whether for overnight or for a longer term, condominiums, or multiple unit dwelling, anyone installing smoke detectors pursuant to section 18-99 of this Code of Ordinances after the effective date of this section shall install either a combination photoelectric smoke detector/carbon monoxide detector/alarm device or a combination system providing smoke and carbon monoxide detection and alarm. Such installation shall be in the vicinity of the sleeping areas and on every floor of the dwelling, installed
in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions and state law. (c) The seller of a residential dwelling transferred by sale or exchange shall certify to the buyer that the dwelling is provided with the carbon monoxide detectors detectors/alarms required in subsection (a). This certification shall be signed and dated by the seller and filed in the land records at the time of recording the transfer. If the buyer notifies the seller within ten (10) days by certified mail from the date of conveyance that the dwelling lacks a carbon monoxide detectors detectors/ alarms or that the detector detector/alarm is not operable, the seller shall comply with this section within ten (10) days of notification. (d) Where interconnected smoke detectors detectors/alarms exist, the CO detection detectors/alarms shall be interconnected as well, such that a CO alarm will meet current audibility requirements as adopted in NFPA 72 for smoke alarms. (e) If a smoke detector detector/alarm is disconnected or disabled, that fact shall create a rebuttable presumption that the adult occupants of the dwelling unit were responsible for the act of disconnecting or disabling the smoke alarm. (f) No requirement of this section shall preclude the application of other more restrictive smoke alarm requirements which may pertain to the property,
including, but not limited to, requested time of sales sale inspections pursuant to state law. 13-5 Smoke detectors. (a) Each and every dwelling, lodging or rooming house, dwelling unit or rooming unit for occupancy, other than for a single-family owner occupied dwelling, shall meet the following requirements for smoke detectors/alarms. (1) Smoke detectors/ alarms shall be installed in the following, areas: following areas: a. In every sleeping room or area; b. Outside every sleeping room or area in the immediate vicinity of the sleeping room or area; and c. On all levels of the dwelling, dwelling unit, rooming house, or rooming unit, including basements but excluding crawl spaces and unfinished attics. d. Notwithstanding the above installation locations, detectors/ alarms shall not be located within kitchens or garages or in other spaces where temperatures can fall below forty (40) degrees F (four (4) degrees C) or exceed one hundred (100) degrees F (thirty-eight (38) degrees C). Detectors/ alarms shall not, unless specifically listed for the application, be located closer than three (3) feet (0.9 m) horizontally from: (i) The door to a kitchen. (ii) The door to a bathroom containing a tub or shower. (iii) The supply
SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS registers of a forced air heating or cooling system, and outside of the airflow from those registers. (2) Smoke detectors/ alarms shall receive their operating power from the building electrical system but shall also receive power from a battery when the building electrical system power is interrupted. (3) Smoke detectors/ alarms within each dwelling unit or rooming unit shall be interconnected so that the sensing of smoke by one (1) detector detector/alarm sounds the alarms of all detectors detectors/ alarms within that dwelling unit or rooming unit. (4) Smoke detectors/ alarms shall be approved or listed by a nationally recognize recognized testing or listing agency for the purposes for which they are intended and conform with the requirements of the Vermont Fire and Building Safety Code. (5) Smoke detectors/ alarms shall be properly installed and shall be maintained in good working condition. (6) All newly installed smoke alarms detectors/ alarms shall be the photoelectric-only type. (b) Single-family owner
occupied dwellings shall comply with the smoke alarm detector/alarm provisions of the Vermont Fire and Building Safety Code currently in effect. (c) If a smoke detector detector/alarm is disconnected or disabled, that fact shall create a rebuttable presumption that the adult occupants of the dwelling unit were responsible for the act of disconnecting or disabling the smoke detector detector/alarm. (d) No requirement of this section shall preclude the application of other more restrictive smoke detector detector/alarm requirements which may pertain to the property, including but not limited to, time of sale requirements requested time of sale inspection pursuant to state law. 13-8 Equipment not to be taken outside city; exception. No emergency equipment belonging to the fire department shall be taken from the city at any time, except for the purpose of having the same repaired; provided, however, that in case of a fire or other emergency in a neighboring town or city, the chief engineer with the consent of the
mayor, or in case he cannot be found, with the consent of one (1) of the fire commissioners or designee may order not more than one-half (1/2) of the fire apparatus of the city, accompanied by not more than one-half (1/2) of the members of the fire department on duty, to be taken to the town or city for the purpose of assisting in extinguishing a fire or providing aid in an emergency. 13-14 False alarms prohibited; penalty. No person shall give or cause to be given a false alarm of fire or other emergency. Not withstanding Notwithstanding the provisions of section 13-20 of this chapter, any person who shall give or cause to be given a false alarm of fire or other emergency shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon a first conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment for a term not to exceed one (1) year. Upon conviction of any succeeding violation of this section, such person shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars
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($200.00) or more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment for a term not to exceed one (1) year. 13-16 Removal of fire/life safety hazard. (a) The chief engineer or designee shall direct the owner or occupant of any building or premises to abate any unsafe condition, or move to a place of safety, any unsafe or combustible materials which in his or her opinion shall expose the building or the surrounding or adjacent buildings or property to unnecessary hazard. The chief engineer or designee may also direct an owner or occupant to clear away from his building or premises debris or other materials resulting from fire, windstorm or other catastrophe within a reasonable time after the occurrence of such fire, storm or catastrophe. (b) The chief engineer or designee may request the immediate assistance of any city inspector, or engineer to aid in the abating or mitigating of any unsafe condition. These officials shall respond in an expeditious manner when called. 13-20 Penalties. (a) Civil offense. Any
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violation of any of the provisions of the fire code adopted in section 13-1, or any of the provisions of this chapter not specified in subsections (b) or (c) shall be punishable as a civil offense and subject to a civil penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), with a waiver penalty of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00). Each day that any violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense. The chief engineer, any chief officer, fire marshal, assistant fire marshal, public information officer, fire inspector, fire warden, or any law enforcement officer may issue a municipal complaint for a violation of this chapter. (b) Criminal offense. The following violations shall be misdemeanors punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00): (1) Willful and malicious violations of section 13-3(a); (2) Failing to correct any violation of the adopted fire code ordered to be corrected; (3) Committing the same offense within a twelve-month period; (4) Any violation which poses a threat to life safety or prevents ac-
Open 24/7/365. Post & browse ads at your convenience. cess or use of a building or premise. A threat to life safety includes but is not limited to: obstructing or tampering with the fire protection systems or life safety features of any building or outdoor assembly of persons; (5) Willfully failing to maintain a fire protection system; (6) Harassing, or interfering with any member of the fire department in the performance of their duties; (7) Violations of sections 13-56 and 13-57: the person responsible shall also be liable for the cost of repairs or replacement of damaged property and shall be responsible for the cost to the city from the response to the alarm. Each day that any violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense. In addition to the fine, the court shall order, as part of sentence, abatement of the conditions or infractions giving rise to the violation(s) of the code. (c) Serious criminal offense. The following violations shall be misdemeanors punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00) and imprisonment for up to one (1) year:
(1) Willful and malicious violations of section 133(a) where the building, structure, or vehicle is occupied; (2) Any violation of the adopted fire code or ordinances which causes injury to other person(s); (3) Willfully or recklessly posing a serious threat to life safety. A serious threat to life safety includes but is not limited to: causing a non-permitted smoke condition or noxious odor in a public building, blocked means of egress, overcrowding, starting a fire in or near an outdoor assembly of persons, illegal use of pyrotechnics or explosives, disabling the fire protection systems or life safety features of any building or outdoor assembly of persons. (4) Violations of section 13-6, 13-7, or 13-13(b). (5) Physically assaults any fire official. Each day that any violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense. In addition to the fine, the court shall order, as part of sentence, abatement of the conditions or infractions giving rise to the violation(s) of the code. (d) All expenses, fees, costs or charges assessed pursuant to this
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section shall also be a tax lien upon the real estate pursuant to 32 VSA section 5061 so long as the lien is recorded in the office where the land records are kept. 13-21 Suspension/revocation of permits and stop work orders. The fire marshal’s office may suspend permits, issue a stop work order and/or order a property vacated where a for a threat to public safety or other exigent circumstance exists. Such permits may be revoked and future permits denied when a person, firm or corporation is convicted of multiple violations of the fire code, ordinances, or ordinances or otherwise demonstrates a pattern of incompetence. The failure to stop work when so ordered shall be a violation punishable pursuant to section 13-20(c). 13-22 Inspections. (a) General fire inspections. General fire inspections of public buildings shall be conducted at regular intervals by any person duly authorized by the chief engineer. (b) Violation notices. Upon finding any violation, a written notice will be provided to the prop-
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[CONTINUED] erty or business owner or their designee, and a reasonable amount of time shall be provided for the violations to be corrected. Nothing in this section shall preclude the authority having jurisdiction from issuing civil municipal complaints, seeking criminal charges, or initiating other legal actions as allowed under other sections of this chapter. (c) Reinspection fees. There is no charge for the initial inspection or the first re-inspection. If the owner fails to correct the violations in the time allotted in the notice, the owner shall be responsible for a re-inspection fee of seventy seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for the second and any subsequent re-inspections, due and payable at the beginning of the second or subsequent re-inspection. Until all fees are paid, the violations shall not be considered abated, and are subject to further penalties or legal action. Failure to pay the re-inspection fees in the time required is a violation punishable under section 13-20(a). 13-35 Number of deputies. There shall be only one (1) deputy chief engineer appointed for each ward of the city. The chief engineer shall appoint the number of deputies necessary to perform the functions of this chapter. 13-36 Term of deputies. The deputy chief engineers shall be appointed for a term of not less than six (6) months nor more than one (1) year. who have successfully completed a probationary period are employed on a continuous year round basis. 13-37 Revocation of appointment. The appointment of a any deputy chief engineer may be revoked at any time by the chief engineer. 13-40 Wardens to be permitted entry into premises. For the purposes of inspecting buildings, the chief engineer or any chief officer, fire marshal, assistant fire marshal, fire inspector, fire warden or designee may
at all reasonable times have access to and enter into any and all premises and buildings in the city. 13-43 Funds for relief of sick or disabled firefighters. All money received by gift or retained by the city or by a company in the fire department for fines and forfeitures imposed upon members of the department for violation of the regulations, rules and orders of the department shall be appropriated for the relief of sick and disabled members, in good standing, of the fire department; provided such sickness or disability was caused while in the line of duty. 13-44 Authority having jurisdiction defined. For the purposes of this chapter, “authority having jurisdiction,” as defined in the NFPA 1 Fire Prevention Code shall mean and include the chief engineer, city fire marshal, assistant fire marshal marshals, fire wardens, fire inspector, chief code enforcement officer or their designees. 13-47 Special events/ festivals. (a) The promoter of any special event or festival shall comply with the adopted fire codes, maintain adequate fire lanes, and have the fire marshal approve the location and size of all fire lanes, booths, stages, and other structures and equipment. The Burlington fire department Fire Department is charged with sole responsibility of providing fire protection and EMS coverage for such events in the city. The fire department may modify these requirements based on the promoter’s history of compliance with the requirements of the adopted fire codes and adherence to the requirements of the codes and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) Fire Protection Handbook. (b) Any special event or festival with an attendance of one thousand (1,000) persons or more shall be required to provide Burlington fire Fire/EMS personnel specially and exclusively assigned to the event. The promoter of the event(s) shall be responsible for the cost of this additional coverage, including but not limited to personnel supplies, equipment and materials which shall be at a rate set by the chief administrative officer annually to reflect the actual cost to the city. A minimum of two (2) firefighters/EMTs shall
be hired for a minimum of three (3) hours. The number of firefighters/ EMTs and the time required for staffing shall be set by the fire department based on an assessment of the event and the location, weather, time, traffic impact, availability of alcohol, history of the event, or other identifiable safety factors, taking into account the requirements of the adopted fire codes and the SFPE Fire Protection Handbook. The promoter shall secure a signed staffing agreement with the fire department special events coordinator not less than fourteen (14) work days prior to the event. 13-52 Master fire alarm radio call box. (a) For purposes of this division, “master fire alarm radio call box” shall mean the master control box at each site which will initiate automatic emergency notification to the fire department on the city’s radio frequency system. (b) The location of the master alarm radio call box at each site shall be approved by the fire marshal or his/her designee. No person shall have access to a master box unless authorized by the fire department. The fire department shall be given at least a twentyfour (24) hour advance notice for any prescheduled drills, maintenance or testing. 13-53 Permission required to connect to municipal system. No person shall install or connect any alarm system to the municipal fire alarm system without first obtaining final approval from the chief engineer of the fire department, the fire marshal or his/her designee. 13-54 Installation and maintenance. The cost of any connection to the municipal fire alarm system, as well as all other costs due to the installation of any master radio call box, shall be borne by the party installing the system. All installation and maintenance work on a master radio call box and/or alarm system shall be performed by state-licensed fire alarm installers and shall be subject to the approval of the fire marshal. An initial connection fee of five six hundred fifty dollars ($550.00) ($650.00) shall be paid to the city by the owner of the property upon which the master radio call box or alarm system is installed for the computer programming and signal
strength testing by the city’s alarm technician which is required to connect the Master Radio Call Box (MRCB) to the Burlington Emergency Communication Center (BECC). A reprogramming fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) two hundred ($200.00) shall be paid by the owner for any modification to an existing MRCB that requires reprogramming and testing by the city’s alarm technician. Any additional work required on the MRCB system other than those specified in the city’s alarm technician’s MRCB programming guide MRCB Installation and Programming Protocols guide provided by the department shall be subject to a charge of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) one hundred twenty five ($125.00) per hour of the city’s alarm technician’s time. It shall be the property owner’s responsibility to maintain the master radio call box on his premises in working condition and good repair at all times. 13-58 Annual fee. An annual fee shall be charged to the property owner in the amount of five six hundred fifty dollars ($550.00) ($650.00) for each master box connected to the municipal fire alarm system. This charge will be assessed and collected annually, due in pro rata amount upon the effective date of this division and the first day of July thereafter. An administrative charge and/or interest shall be assessed for payments not received within thirty (30) days of the invoice from the department. Service calls by the fire marshal during normal working hours shall be included in this charge. Failure to pay the annual fees in the time required is a violation punishable under section 13-20(a). 13-59 Plans, permits and fees. (a) Submission. Plans for fire prevention, protection, and alarm systems shall be submitted to the fire marshal for approval prior to any work being done. The fire marshal shall have up to thirty (30) business days to review plans, make inspections, and issue a permit for the system, which may upon notification to the applicant be extended. Plans may be approved, rejected or be required to be amended. No plan shall be approved or permit issued unless all fees have been paid and satisfied. Plans shall be submitted in both either
paper and or electronic formats (PDF). (b) Required information. Fire prevention, protection, and alarm system plans shall include the floor plan with device locations, the wiring riser diagram, battery load calculations, the complete equipment list and specifications, the type of occupancy, hazards, or unusual building features, and any other information required by the Vermont Fire and Building Safety Code as currently adopted by the State of Vermont. (c) Fees. The fire marshal shall receive the following fees for plan review and inspections: (1) Specialty suppression systems. Fees for plan review, rough-in inspection, and the final inspection shall be eleven dollars ($11.00) per one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) of the final contracted costs for systems containing proprietary blended inert gasses arranged in single or manifold pressurized cylinders, delivered through piping, and exhausted under pressure from a distribution appliance. Additional permitting, review and inspection fees may be applicable. The fee for the review of an amendment to a plan shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per amendment submission plus one (1) three (3) percent of the increase in the net cost of the final contracted cost of the system. The minimum fee for work values less than or equal to one thousand dollars ($1,000) is eleven dollars ($11.00). (2) Hood suppression systems. Fees for plan review, rough-in inspection, and the final inspection shall be forty dollars ($40.00) per one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) of the final contracted costs for hood suppression systems containing a proprietary blend of dry chemicals or wet agent arranged in single or manifold pressurized cylinders, delivered through piping and exhausted under pressure from a distribution appliance. Additional permitting, review and inspection fees may be applicable. The fee for the review of an amendment to a plan shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per amendment submission plus four (4) three (3) percent of the increase in the net cost of the final contracted cost of the system. The minimum fee for work values less than or equal to one thousand dollars
($1,000) is forty dollars ($40.00). (3) Fire sprinkler systems. Fees for plan review, rough-in inspection, and the final inspection shall be eighteen dollars ($18.00) per one thousand ($1,000.00) of the final contracted costs for sprinkler, standpipe, and fire pump systems as those systems are defined in NFPA 13, NFPA 14 and NFPA 20. Additional permitting, review and inspection fees may be applicable. The fee for the review of an amendment to a plan shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per amendment submission plus two (2) three (3) percent of the increase in the net cost of the final contracted cost of the system. The minimum fee for work values less than or equal to one thousand dollars ($1,000) is eighteen dollars ($18.00). Residential sprinkler systems (NFPA 13R), installed in residential properties of less than five (5) units, with the exception of an expedited permits, shall have the fee waived. (4) Fire alarm systems. Fees for permit review, rough-in inspection, and the final inspection shall be thirty-one dollars ($31.00) per one thousand dollars ($1,000) of the final contracted costs for fire alarm systems, as they are defined in NFPA 72. Additional permitting, review and inspection fees may be applicable. Wireless smoke alarms installed in residential properties of less than eleven (11) units, with an associated control/ monitoring/reset panel shall be considered a fire alarm system. The fee for the review of an amendment to a plan shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per amendment submission plus three (3) percent of the increase in the net cost of the final contracted cost of the system. The minimum fee for work values less than or equal to one thousand dollars ($1,000) is thirty one dollars ($31.00). (5) Standpipe systems. Fees for plan review, rough-in inspection, and the final inspection shall be thirty-three dollars ($33.00) eighteen dollars ($18.00) per one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) of the final contracted costs for standpipe systems as those systems are defined in NFPA 13, NFPA 14 and NFPA 20. Additional permitting, review and inspection fees may be applicable. The fee for the review
of an amendment to a plan shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per amendment submission plus three (3) percent of the increase in the net cost of the final contracted cost of the system. The minimum fee for work values less than or equal to one thousand dollars ($1,000) is eighteen dollars ($18.00). (6) Fire pump systems. Fees for plan review, rough-in inspection, and the final inspection shall be seven dollars ($7.00) per one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) of the final contracted costs for sprinkler, standpipe, and fire pump systems as those systems are defined in NFPA 13, NFPA 14 and NFPA 20. Additional permitting, review and inspection fees may be applicable. The fee for the review of an amendment to a plan shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per amendment submission plus one (1) three (3) percent of the increase in the net cost of the final contracted cost of the system. The minimum fee for work values less than or equal to one thousand dollars ($1,000) is seven dollars ($7.00). (7) Re-inspection fees. A fee for the witnessing of a retest of any fire protection, prevention, or alarm system or the reinspection of a system or any part thereof beyond the rough-in inspection and the final inspection shall be charged at a rate of fifty-five dollars ($55.00) seventy five ($75.00) per hour per inspector. This fee is payable by installing contractor prior to any retest. (8) Expedited process fees. Plans for systems with contracted costs valued at less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) may be reviewed and approved on an expedited process within ten (10) working business days for a special fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per hour paid in addition to all the applicable permitting fees. (9) Phased-in installation inspection fees. An additional fee of twelve (12) percent of the system permit fee shall be charged and paid when a permittee requests to phase in a system and inspections are required and conducted for each phase. (10) City-owned properties. No fee shall be required for the portion of the estimated cost of any work and construction that is to be owned by a department of the City of Burlington whose primary
source of revenue is the general fund. 13-60 Knox Boxes and standard keys. (a) All buildings having a fire alarm system and/ or fire sprinkler systems shall be required to install rapid access key boxes or a so-called Knox Box. Existing buildings not currently in compliance shall comply with this requirement within one (1) year of the effective date of this division. (b) The building owner shall be required to install in the key box all master keys to offices, electrical rooms, elevator equipment and all keys needed to reset fire alarm system. (c) If requested by the department, building owners shall be required to supply additional sets of keys as needed by the fire department to allow more than one (1) team of firefighters to have access to areas of the building. (d) If requested by the fire department, more than one (1) Knox Box may be required to facilitate multiple points of entry in large facilities. (e) All new fire alarm control panels shall be keyed with a standard Cat 30 key. Where a Cat 30 key is not practical, such as in an annunciator panel, an A135 key shall be used in its place. (f) Existing fire alarm control panel and remote annunciator access keys shall be converted to this standard within one (1) year of November 25, 2009, during the required annual test and inspection by a third party on the owners behest. 13-61 Elevators. The following standards shall be met on all elevators installed or permitted after the effective date of the ordinance from which this section is derived: (1) Dimension. All new elevator installations shall comply with the applicable elevator code adopted by the State of Vermont. Not withstanding Notwithstanding the applicable code adopted by the state, elevators shall have minimum interior finished dimensions of eight (8) feet by four (4) feet and have an unrestricted door opening of not less than four (4) feet. (2) In new and existing elevator banks, the stretcher compliant elevator(s) shall be marked by a three-inch retro-reflective star of life on the latch side of the elevator lobby door frame. (3) Elevator standards keys. All new
SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS and existing elevator of the following criteria firefighter access/overare met: ride keys shall be to the (1) tents requiring a state standard elevator permit are being erected bypass key. Existing in connection with an elevators shall be conevent that is held in the verted to this standard city at least on a biennial within one (1) year of basis; or the effective date of the (2) the executive direcordinance. tor or other individual 13-62 Tent permits and in charge of managfees. ing the event in which (a) Permits. A tent pertents requiring a permit mit shall be required for are to be erected has any tent larger than two produced three (3) large hundred (200) square occupancy events in the feet or larger erected on City of Burlington within public property or in the the previous two (2) public way. Any tent one years. A large occupancy thousand two hundred event is one that either (1,200) square feet or (A) involves two hundred larger, regardless of loca- fifty (250) people or tion, shall require a tent more and is either in an permit. Permittees shall enclosed space or has comply with the requirefixed seating and alcohol ments of chapter 25 of is served or (B) involves NFPA 1 (2003 ed.). NFPA five hundred (500) peo1 Fire Prevention Code ple or more and is either currently adopted by the in an enclosed space or State of Vermont. has fixed seating and (b) Fees. A permit fee alcohol is not served. of fifty dollars ($50.00) 13-65 Amplification shall be assessed for a systems allowed. tent between two hun(a) Buildings and dred (200) square feet structures which cannot and under one thousand independently support two hundred (1,200) the required level of square feet; a permit fee radio coverage shall be of one hundred sixtyequipped with any of the following in order five dollars ($165.00) to achieve the required shall be assessed for a adequate radio covertent one thousand two age: a radiating cable hundred (1,200) square system or an internal feet or larger. Notwithmultiple antenna sysstanding the above fees, tem with or without FCC the lesser of the above type-accepted signal fees or two hundred twenty dollars ($220.00) booster amplifiers as needed. radio shall be assessed if one Using the enclosed matha two-way operations
enhancement system as required by the adopted edition of NFPA 1 “Fire Code” and compliant with the corresponding edition of NFPA 1221 “Standard for the Installation, Maintenance, and Use of Emergency Services Communications Systems”. If any part of the installed system or systems contains an electrically powered component, the system shall be capable of operating on an independent battery and/or generator system for a period of at least twelve (12) hours without external power input. Any battery system employed shall automatically recharge in the presence of an external power input. (b) The installation of equipment as indicated above cannot be detrimental to the operation of the public safety radio system. (c) In the event that a signal booster is employed it shall be fully encased within a dust and water resistant case. * Material stricken out deleted. ** Material underlined added.
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It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows: That Chapter 18, Housing, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Section 18-2 by adding the definition of “resident” and repealing Section 18-20, Suspension and revocation of certificate, in its entirety and replacing it to read as follows: 18-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations,
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(4) To fail to complete the correction of a life threatening violation within the time frame specified by the enforcement officer. An owner may request that the revocation be vacated and the certificate reinstated after the revocation has been in effect at least six (6) months if the entirety of the violation(s) which resulted in the revocation has been rectified. A determination to vacate a revocation and restore the certificate shall be entirely within the discretion of the enforcement officer and there shall be no right of appeal from such determination. If an owner decides to voluntarily relinquish a certificate during the term of revocation, the relinquishment shall be for the full term of the revocation. (c) Protection of tenants during suspension/revocation. If, in the judgment of the enforcement officer, it is necessary for the tenants of a rental unit to be relocated during the effectiveness of any suspension/revocation ordered pursuant to this chapter the owner shall be financially responsible for the cost of such relocation and for any additional rental costs necessarily incurred by the displaced tenants in order to secure comparable replacement housing which meets code requirements during the term of such suspension/ revocation. The relocation services specified in Section 18-28 shall become applicable under such circumstances. In the event that the owner fails to meet its obligations under this subsection, such services may be provided by the city which shall thereupon be regarded as having a lien on the property to the extent of the monetary value of the services rendered by the city and shall be enforced within the time and in the manner provided for the collection of taxes on land. (d) Receivership. In the event that the certificate of a property owner has been suspended or revoked pursuant to the provisions hereof, the rental unit(s) in situations where the suspension is applicable only to such rental unit(s) or the entire rental property in cases of revocation or in those cases where the suspension has been made applicable to the entire rental property
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not taken prompt and appropriate remedial action as determined by the enforcement officer based on the severity of the violations. Appropriate remedial action may mean a warning letter, a notice of termination or a filing of an ejectment action as determined appropriate by the enforcement officer. Action will be considered prompt if it is taken within seven (7) days from notification by the city to the landlord or agent. A suspension issued pursuant to this subsection (a)(4) shall apply to the entire rental property notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein. An owner may request that the suspension be vacated and the certificate reinstated after the suspension has been in effect for at least half of its scheduled duration if the entirety of the violation(s) which resulted in the suspension has been rectified. A determination to vacate a suspension and restore the certificate shall be entirely within the discretion of the enforcement officer and there shall be no right of appeal from such determination. If an owner decides to voluntarily relinquish a certificate during the term of suspension, the relinquishment shall be for the full term of the suspension. (b) Revocations. An owner’s certificate of compliance for the entirety of a rental property may be revoked for the remainder of its term but in no case for a period of less than one (1) year for failure to comply with the requirements of this article and the fault for noncompliance is determined to rest with the landlord, not the tenant(s). Revocations shall be first imposed by the order of the enforcement officer and may be appealed pursuant to Section 18-49 et seq. of this chapter. Revocations may occur under the following circumstances: (1) More than one (1) suspension within eighteen (18) months; (2) The failure to correct a violation for which a suspension occurs later than forty-five (45) days after suspension; (3) The failure to immediately commence the correction of a life threatening violation, or to immediately put in place the interim protections ordered by the enforcement officer in order to preserve health, safety and welfare of those endangered by said violation; or
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tions of Articles II and III of this chapter, including for the failure to correct minimum housing standards violations in the time required by the enforcement officer, suspensions may also occur under the following circumstances: (1) The occurrence of at least five (5) violations of any applicable city or state ordinance or law within a particular rental unit within an eighteen (18) month period which have not been rectified within the period of time allowed by the enforcement officer; (2) The occurrence of at least two (2) major violations of any applicable city or state ordinance or law within a particular rental unit within an eighteen (18) month period which have not been rectified within the time allowed by the enforcement officer; (3) If the rental unit has been adjudicated to be a public nuisance since receipt of the certificate of compliance; or (4) The occurrence on the property of at least three (3) adjudicated public nuisance type violations, including but not limited to, excessive and unreasonable noise, public urination, or discharge of fireworks, firearms or airgun, within a twelve (12)-month period if the landlord has
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shall have the meanings given herein: Resident shall mean a natural person who is domiciled in a dwelling unit and has the intent to maintain the unit indefinitely and to return there if temporarily absent, coupled with an act or acts consistent with that intent, notwithstanding whether or not the person is a “tenant.” 18-20 Suspension and revocation of certificate. (a) Suspensions. An owner’s certificate of compliance for one (1) or more rental unit(s) may be suspended for up to one (1) year for failure to comply with the requirements of this chapter and the fault for noncompliance is determined to rest with the landlord, not the tenant(s). Suspensions may be carried over into a new certificate term. Suspensions shall be first imposed by the enforcement officer and may be appealed pursuant to Section 18-49 et seq. of this chapter. If suspensions have been imposed for at least one-half (1/2) of the total number of rental units located within the property, the enforcement officer may apply the suspension of the certificate of compliance to the entire rental property. In addition to suspensions for viola-
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CITY OF BURLINGTON IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO HOUSING – SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATE ORDINANCE 5.08 Sponsor: Code Enforcement, City Attorney’s Office; Ordinance Com. First reading: 02/12/18 Referred to: Ordinance Committee Second reading: 06/25/18 Action: adopted Date: 06/25/18 Signed by Mayor: 06/28/18 Published: 07/04/18 Effective: 07/25/18
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[CONTINUED] shall be managed in one (1) of the following ways designated by the enforcement officer, during the effectiveness of such suspension/revocation: (1) A relative or business associate may be so authorized; (2) A property management company or similar entity may be so authorized; or (3) The city may petition the Superior Court for Chittenden County to appoint a temporary manager of the property until the suspension/ revocation has expired. The city may request that the court shall advance the petition so it may be heard and determined with as little delay as possible. If only one (1) rental unit, in a property that contains more than one (1) rental unit, has its certificate suspended, the enforcement officer may allow the property owner to continue to manage the entire dwelling, including the unit with a suspended certificate. In such cases, the enforcement officer shall monitor the owner to ensure compliance with subsection (f) of this section. (e) Types of violations. (Unless otherwise specified in this Code, the term “violation,” whenever utilized in this chapter, shall include each type set forth below (1) Violation—Any noncompliance with city or state code requirements which does not rise to the level of a major or life threatening violation as set forth below. (2) Major violation—A violation of city or state code requirements which adversely impacts the health, safety or welfare of tenants, other residents of the building or the general public, but not to the extent of being life threatening, including a violation of any of the standards set forth in Section 18-19(c).
(3) Life threatening violation—A violation of city or state code requirements which poses an imminent threat to human life. The enforcement officer is authorized to create and update as needed a schedule indicating which category shall apply to specified violations. (f) Rent/funds. During the term of receivership the rent due for the affected units or property will still be collected from the tenants. The receiver shall apply the rental funds in the following order of priority: (1) To compensate the receiver as allowed herein; (2) To correct the violations which led to the creation of the receivership; (3) For repairs and maintenance to the property; (4) To meet property tax and other municipal charges collected as taxes on land; (5) To remit to the owner in order to meet obligations owed to any mortgage holder or other creditor having a secured interest in such rental unit or property; and (6) Any and all remaining rental revenues shall be forwarded to the property owner. Fifty dollars ($50.00) or fifteen (15) percent of rents per month per unit, whichever is greater, may be charged by the receiver as compensation. In cases where the enforcement officer allows the owner to continue to manage the property after the certificate is suspended from one (1) unit (see subsection (d) of this section), and the enforcement officer monitors the owner, the fifty dollars ($50.00) or fifteen (15) percent of rents per month per unit, whichever is greater, may be charged by the enforcement officer. (g) Receivers. A receiver, as authorized by subsection (d) of this section, must be in compliance with the provisions of this chapter prior [and] throughout their term as manager. (h) For purposes of this section “any applicable city ordinance or state law” refers to:
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18-20 Suspension and revocation of certificate. (a) Suspensions. Under the terms and provisions of this section (18-20), an owner’s certificate of compliance for one (1) or more rental unit(s) may be suspended for up to one (1) year for failure to comply with the requirements of this chapter and the fault for noncompliance is determined to rest with the landlord, not the tenant(s). Suspensions may be carried over into a new certificate term. If suspensions have been imposed for at least one-half (1/2) of the total number of rental units located within the property, the enforcement officer may apply the suspension of the certificate of compliance to the entire rental property. The election of the enforcement officer to proceed under this section shall not prevent the enforcement officer from electing to file any action allowed under section 18-31 of this chapter or take any other lawful action necessary to enforce Chapter 18. A certificate of compliance shall only be suspended upon a notice from, hearing before, and order of, the Housing Board of Review. (1) Suspension for non-compliance with Article II of Chapter 18 (Administration and Enforcement). A certificate of compliance may be suspended in the event that an owner fails to take the following actions as required by the provisions of Article II of this chapter after having
(2) Suspension for non-compliance with Article III of Chapter 18 (Minimum Housing Standards). A certificate of compliance may be suspended in the event that an owner is found to have violations of the City’s Minimum Housing Standards and the owner fails to abate the violation in the time required by the inspector without having appealed the finding or received an extension to abate the violation. (3) Suspension for non-compliance with an order of a fire, health, building, electrical, or plumbing official, city or state, related to the protection of health or fire prevention and building safety. A certificate of compliance may be suspended in the event that an owner fails to bring a rental unit into compliance with an applicable fire, health, building, electrical, plumbing code, standard, rule, ordinance, or statute after being ordered to do so by a duly authorized fire, health, building, electrical, or plumbing official without having appealed the finding or received an extension to abate the violation. (4) Suspension for repeated criminal disturbances occurring on the rental property. A certificate of compliance may be suspended where a resident of a rental unit or their invitees is: (A) adjudicated by a criminal court, with finality, to have violated federal or Vermont criminal law on the rental property on at least three (3) separate occasions within a twelve (12) month period; and (B) each adjudication involved disturbing the right of other residents of the property to the undisturbed use and enjoyment of the property, or disturbing
the right of neighbors to the undisturbed use and enjoyment of their property; and (C) the landlord has failed to attempt appropriate remedial action reasonably calculated to prevent the reoccurrence of the disturbances from emanating from the rental unit or rental property after being notified of the adjudications. (5) Suspension for repeated public nuisances. A certificate of compliance may be suspended where a resident of a rental unit or their invitees is: (A) adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction, with finality, to have on at least three (3) separate occasions within a twelve (12) month period to have violated Burlington Code of Ordinances sections 21-12, 21-13, 21-17, 21-19, and 21-28; and (B) each adjudication involved disturbing the right of other residents of the property to the undisturbed use and enjoyment of the property, or disturbing the right of neighbors to the undisturbed use and enjoyment of their property; and (C) the landlord has failed to attempt appropriate remedial action reasonably calculated to prevent the reoccurrence of the disturbances from emanating from the rental unit or rental property after being notified of the adjudications. (6) Exclusions. (A) Where an adjudicated crime or violation of listed ordinance involved coercion, abuse, or violence, against a resident, neither that resident nor their unit shall be the subject of any notice of a suspension/revocation request based on such adjudication. This includes activity relating to, but not limited to, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking if the resident is the victim or threatened victim of such activity. (B) Where an adjudi-
cated crime involves the violation of a federal law on marijuana and the behavior so adjudicated is not a violation of Vermont law, then the adjudication shall not be counted as an adjudication under subsection (A)(1) and shall not be a basis for a notice of suspension/revocation. (7) Eviction and notice of termination of tenancy shall not be considered to be an appropriate remedial action unless other documented appropriate remedial action(s) have been taken and those actions have failed to end the criminal disturbances. (8) Nothing in subsections (4) or (5) shall be construed to take away any rights and responsibilities that an owner or tenant has under the Vermont Residential Rental Agreement Act or other applicable federal or state law. (b) Revocation. An owner’s certificate of compliance for the entirety of a rental property may be revoked for the remainder of its term but in no case for a period of less than one (1) year upon a hearing before, and order of, the Housing Board of Review if the provisions of this subsection are satisfied. Revocations may occur under the following circumstances: (1) More than one (1) suspension within eighteen (18) months; or (2) The failure to immediately commence the correction of a life threatening violation, or to immediately put in place the interim protections ordered by the minimum housing enforcement officer or a duly authorized fire, health, building, electrical, or plumbing official in order to preserve health, safety and welfare of those endangered by said violation; or (3) To fail to complete the correction of a life threatening violation within the time frame specified by the enforcement officer. (c) Notices. (1) Notice of Request. The enforcement officer shall file a request for an order of suspen-
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sion or revocation with the board providing a description of the property for which action is sought, the basis under this section for the action, a short statement providing factual support for the basis, and a request for a hearing. The enforcement officer shall send a copy of the request to all the persons designated as the owner on the rental registration form, the person on the registration form listed as the person receiving service of process, and tenants of the subject rental unit or, if applicable, rental property. The copy sent to the tenants may be addressed to the “residents” unless the enforcement officer is in possession of a listing of tenants currently residing in the unit or the rental property, in which case the copy shall be sent to those tenants by first class mail. If the enforcement officer is in possession of a listing of tenants currently residing in the unit or property, the officer shall provide that list to the board for use in all notices required under section 18-20. The enforcement officer shall also post a copy of the request in a prominent and conspicuous common area of the rental property. (2) Notice of hearing. Notice of a hearing shall be sent by the board to the all the persons designated as the owner on the rental registration form, the person on the registration form listed as the person receiving service of process, and any property manager at the address provided on the rental registration form. Notice of the hearing shall also be sent by the board to the tenants. The notice to the tenants may be addressed to the “residents” unless the board is in possession of a listing of tenants currently residing in the unit or the rental property, in which case the copy shall be sent to those tenants by first class mail. The enforcement officer shall also post a copy of the request in a prominent and conspicuous common area of the rental property.
(d) Hearings. A suspension or a revocation hearing shall be held pursuant to the provisions of Article II, Divisions 2 and 3 of this chapter. In addition to the rights of owners to be heard as provided for by Article II, Divisions 2 and 3 of this chapter, residents of the affected building shall have the right to be heard, to present evidence, and have their arguments considered at the suspension hearing. (e) Orders. The board shall determine if each of the essential elements required for the requested action has been satisfied by a preponderance of the evidence. The determination of appropriateness of the remedial actions taken shall, in addition to subsections (a)(6) and (7), take into account the rights and responsibilities of owners and tenants under the Residential Rental Agreement laws of the state of Vermont or other applicable federal or state laws and the full range of lawful options available to each under such laws. The order shall specify the time period the Certificate of Compliance is suspended or revoked for and the means by which the rental unit or property shall be managed during the term of suspension or revocation. The order shall also determine if it is necessary for the tenants of a rental unit to be relocated during the effectiveness of any suspension. An owner may request that the board vacate the order and reinstate the certificate after the suspension has been in effect for at least half of its scheduled duration under the following conditions: (A) Vacation of the order issued under subsections (a) (2) or (3) may be granted if the entirety of the violation(s) which resulted in the suspension has been rectified. (B) Vacation of an order issued under subsection (a) (1) may be granted if the owner shows by a preponderance of the evidence that the conditions that led to the failure(s) to comply have been abated and are not likely to be repeated. (C) Vacation of an order
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charges collected as taxes on land; (5) To remit to the owner in order to meet obligations owed to any mortgage holder or other creditor having a secured interest in such rental unit or property; and (6) To remit to the owner any and all remaining rental revenues. Fifteen (15) percent of rents per month per unit may be charged by the appointed manager as compensation. (h) Annual reporting. The Housing Board of Review shall, as part of its annual report to the City Council, report on the number of requests submitted, hearings held and the number of residents known to have been affected. * Material stricken out deleted. ** Material underlined added. HOWARDCENTER If you received services from Howard Center and would like a copy of your record, please contact Howard Center’s Health Information Department at 488-6000. In order to protect individuals’ privacy, the agency routinely destroys healthcare records after retaining them for the number of years required by law.
LEGAL NOTICE FY2018 HUD CONTINUUM OF CARE PROGRAM NOTICE OF FUNDING AVAILABILITY REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS As the Collaborative Applicant for the Chittenden County Homeless Alliance (CCHA) Continuum of Care, the Community & Economic Development Office (CEDO) is accepting proposals for new, renewed, expanded or bonus projects as outlined below with 2018 Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). CCHA is soliciting proposals that address housing and service priorities established through the Continuum of Care, with priority for serving homeless vulnerable populations including chronically homeless persons, survivors of domestic violence, unaccompanied youth, and families with children. There is approximately $1,140,058 in funding available for projects to serve those experiencing homelessness and over $118,000 in bonus project funding. Organizations that do not currently receive CCHA CoC program funding are encouraged to submit proposals.
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Post & browse ads at your convenience. Current recipients of this funding are also welcome to apply. Deadline for proposals is Monday, July 23 at 4 PM. For more information visit www.cchavt.org or contact the CCHA Collaborative Applicant, Marcy Esbjerg of CEDO, at mesbjerg@burlingtonvt. gov, 802.865.7171. NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE BURLINGTON SELF STORAGE, LLC 1825 SHELBURNE ROAD SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT 05403 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid. Name of Occupant Storage Unit D. Jones #137 Tag New Media #419 Tag New Media #424 Said sales will take place on 07/27/18, beginning at 11:00am at Burlington Self Storage (BSS), 1825 Shelburne Road, South Burlington, VT 05403. Units will be opened for viewing immediately prior to auction. Sale shall be by sealed bid to the highest bidder. Contents of entire storage unit will be sold as one lot. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility at no cost to BSS, on the day of auction. BSS, reserves the right to reject any bid lower that the amount owed by the occupant or that is not commercially reasonable as defined by statute. OPENINGS BURLINGTON CITY COMMISSIONS/ BOARDS
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Board for Registration the Town of Shelburne. of Voters Pursuant to the power of Term Expires 6/30/23 sale in the subject mortTwo Openings gage, of which Plaintiff is the present holder, for breach of the condiApplications may be tions of said mortgage submitted to the Clerk/ and for the purposes of Treasurer’s Office, foreclosing the same, 149 Church Street, the collateral property Burlington, VT 05401 will be sold at Public Attn: Lori NO later than Auction at 12:00 P.M. Wednesday, July 11, on July 24, 2018, at 576 2018, by 4:30 pm. If you Falls Road, Shelburne, have any questions, Vermont all and singular please contact Lori at the premises described (802)865-7136 or via in said mortgage: email lolberg@burlingtonvt.gov. To Wit: Being a lot of land with City Council President all buildings thereon, Wright will plan for situated on the westerly appointments to take side of the highway leadplace at the July 16, 2018 ing from Shelburne City Council/City Council Village to Shelburne With Mayor Presiding Falls, which highway is Meetings. commonly known as Falls Road, and said lot of land being all of Parcel RFP: B as shown and depicted DECARBONIZATION on a plan entitled: “PropSTUDY FOR THE STATE erty Subdivision for Paul OF VERMONT F. Shedlock” prepared by The State of Vermont Harwell Associates, Inc., seeks proposals for an dated September, 1968 analysis of decarbonand recorded in Volume ization methods in B (Maps) on Page 125 of Vermont. An RFP is the Land Records of the available at http:// Town of Shelburne. www.leg.state.vt.us/jfo/ decarbonization_study. Terms of Sale: aspx. Proposals must $10,000.00 to be paid in be submitted no later cash or cashier’s check than 5:00 pm on July by purchaser at the time 20, 2018. of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due STATE OF VERMONT and owing to the Town of SUPERIOR COURT Shelburne and any liens CHITTENDEN UNIT against the property. CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 249-3-17 The mortgagor is CNCV entitled to redeem the Wilmington Savings premises at any time Fund Society, FSB prior to the sale by payDoing Business as ing the full amount due Christiana Trust, Not in under the mortgage, its Individual Capacity including the costs and but Solely as Trustee for expenses of the sale. BCAT 2014-10TT, Plaintiff Other terms to be v. announced at the sale Gary Marcotte a/k/a Gary or inquire at Grant C. N. Marcotte, KeyBank, Rees Attorney, PLC, 30 National Association, Kimball Avenue, Ste. Melissa Mendelsohn 307, South Burlington, and Occupants residing VT 05403, (802) 660at 576 Falls Road, Shel9000. This sale may be burne, Vermont, cancelled at any time Defendants prior to the scheduled sale date without prior NOTICE OF SALE notice. Dated at South Burlington, Vermont this 20th day of June, 2018. By: Grant C. Rees, Esq. Grant C. Rees Attorney, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 307 South Burlington, VT 05403 Attorney for Plaintiff
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By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Gary Marcotte a/k/a Gary N. Marcotte to Sovereign Bank dated August 3, 2005 and recorded in Volume 327, Page 336, which mortgage was assigned to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB Doing Business as Christiana Trust, Not in its Individual Capacity but Solely as Trustee for BCAT 2014-10TT by an instrument dated January 27, 2016 and recorded on February 16, 2016 in Volume 430, Page 862 of the Land Records of
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one of the following persons to be the manager, as recommended by the enforcement officer, upon a determination of appropriateness: (1) A relative or business associate; (2) A property management company or similar entity; or (3) The property owner in the limited circumstance when only one (1) rental unit in a multiunit property, provided that safeguards are in place so that compliance with subsection (g) of this section is ensured. In addition, the board may also authorize the enforcement officer to petition the Vermont Superior Court to appoint a temporary manager of the property until the suspension/revocation has expired and request that the court shall advance the petition so it may be heard and determined with as little delay as possible. (g) Rent/funds. During the term of suspension or revocation the rent due for the affected units or property shall be collected from the tenants by the appointed manager. The manager shall apply the rental funds in the following order of priority: (1) To compensate the appointed manager; (2) To correct the violations which led to the creation of the suspension or revocation; (3) For repairs and maintenance to the property; (4) To meet property tax and other municipal
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requirements during the relocation, as those costs are defined in section 18-28 of these ordinances. In the event that the owner fails to meet its obligations under this subsection, such costs shall be paid by the city and the costs and charges incurred shall constitute a lien upon the land upon which the dwelling or dwelling unit is situated, thereby becoming effective against any purchaser, mortgagee, attaching creditor, lienholder or other person whose claim or interest in the property arises subsequent to the recording of the lien and shall be enforced within the time and in the manner provided for the collection of taxes on land. The enforcement officer shall take all actions required under sections 18-26 and 18-28 needed to provide tenants with the protections provided under this section. The owner shall also be liable for an administrative fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) for the cost of administering this section, such fee to be included in the lien. (f) Person responsible for management during suspension or revocation. The board shall designate the person through which a unit or property is managed during the period of suspension or revocation. This manager must be in compliance with the provisions of this chapter throughout their term as manager. The board shall designate
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issued under subsections (a) (4) or (5) may be granted if the owner shows by a preponderance of the evidence that the owner has sufficient controls, consistent with the rights and responsibilities of owners and tenants under the Residential Rental Agreement laws of the state of Vermont or other applicable federal or state laws and the full range of lawful options available to each under such laws, necessary to prevent a repeat of the conduct that led to the suspension. (D) Vacation of an order issued under subsection (b) (1) may be granted if the owner shows by a preponderance of the evidence that the conditions that led to the suspensions have been abated and are not likely to be repeated. Vacation of an order issued under subsections (b) (2) or (3) may be granted if the violation(s) has been rectified or the protections put into place and the underlying conditions are not likely to be repeated and the protections are likely to remain in place. (e) Protection of tenants during suspension or revocation. If, in the judgment of the board, it is necessary for the tenants of a rental unit to be relocated during the effectiveness of any suspension/revocation ordered, the owner shall be financially responsible to pay for the cost of such relocation to comparable housing that meets code
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[CONTINUED] STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 267-3-17 CNCV Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC, Plaintiff v. Michael L. Riley, Heather Riley and Occupants residing at 44 Center Road, Essex, Vermont, Defendants
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NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Michael L. Riley and Heather Riley to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Nominee for Homecomings Financial Network, Inc. dated January 23, 2002 and recorded in Volume 476, Page 374, which mortgage was assigned to Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC by an instrument dated April 29, 2013 and recorded on May 10, 2013 in Volume 897, Page 1004 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex. Pursuant to the power of sale in the subject mortgage, of which Plaintiff is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same, the collateral property will be sold at Public Auction at 11:30 A.M. on July 23, 2018, at 44 Center Road, Essex, Vermont, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Michael L. Riley and Heather Riley by Warranty Deed of Daniel A. Coane and Kathleen F. Coane dated August 18, 1999 and recorded in Volume 415 at Pages 14-15 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex and being more particularly described as follows: “Being a parcel of land with buildings thereon situated on the northerly side of Route 15 and having a frontage of 206.85 feet,
a westerly sideline of 229.95 feet, a northerly sideline of 219.87 feet, and an easterly sideline of 246.36 feet.” “Said land and premises are hereby subject to all rights of way of record and particularly a 10foot wide easement of record over the southeasterly corner of said lands and premises. Said lands and premises are more particularly shown on a plan of land identified as ‘Heritage Estates Plan’ of record in Book 73, Page 497 of said Land Records.”
Hinesburg, Vermont has been set for July 17, 2018 at 11:00 AM at the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Civil Division, located at 175 Main Street, Burlington, Vermont.
Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Essex and any liens against the property.
NOW COMES The Housing Foundation, Inc. (“HFI”), by and through its counsel Nadine L. Scibek, and hereby complains pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6249(i) as follows:
The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Grant C. Rees Attorney, PLC, 30 Kimball Avenue, Ste. 307, South Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 6609000. This sale may be cancelled at any time prior to the scheduled sale date without prior notice. Dated at South Burlington, Vermont this 20th day of June, 2018. Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC By: Grant C. Rees, Esq. Grant C. Rees Attorney, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 307 South Burlington, VT 05403 Attorney for Plaintiff STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 497-618 CNCV IN RE: ABANDONED MOBILE HOME OF BILLIE-JO WHITCOMB NOTICE OF HEARING A hearing on The Housing Foundation, Inc.’s Verified Complaint to declare as abandoned and uninhabitable the mobile home of Billie-Jo Whitcomb, located at the Mountain View Mobile Home Park, 9 Bear Lane, Lot #11 in
Zachary York, Deputy Clerk June 27, 2018 VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR ABANDONMENT PURSUANT TO 10 V.S.A. § 6249(i) (Uninhabitable)
1. HFI, a Vermont nonprofit corporation with a principal place of business in Montpelier, County of Washington, State of Vermont, is the record owner of a mobile home park known as the Mountain View Mobile Home Park (the “Park”), located in the town of Hinesburg, Vermont. 2. Billie-Jo Whitcomb (“Whitcomb”) is the record owner of a certain mobile home, described as a 1977 Champion, 14’ x 77’ mobile home (the “Mobile Home”), bearing serial #577698D1647 located at the Mountain View Mobile Home Park, 9 Bear Lane, Lot #11 (the “Lot”) in Hinesburg, Vermont according to the Town of Hinesburg Land Records. See attached Vermont Mobile Home Uniform Bill of Sale. 3. Eric Messier (“Messier”) leased the Lot in the Park from HFI pursuant to a written lease starting April, 2014 and was obligated to pay HFI lot rent each month. HFI is under the understanding that Messier purchased the mobile home from Whitcomb (prior tenant of HFI on the lot) in February of 2014 and Messier never recorded the original Bill of Sale with the Town. Messier paid HFI a security deposit of $363.00. 4. Whitcomb’s last known mailing address is 9 Bear Lane, Lot #11, Hinesburg, Vermont 05461 and Messier’s last known mailing addresses are 20 Davis Road and 9 Bear Lane in Hinesburg, Vermont 05461. 5. The mobile home
has been abandoned and it is empty. The last known resident of the mobile home was Eric Messier. All of Messier’s personal property is believed to have been removed from the mobile home and utility services have been terminated. The Park attempted to communicate with Messier with respect to his intentions with his mobile home and has received no response. 6. Messier was evicted from the Park for nonpayment of rent on May 9, 2018. A Judgment Order for the outstanding lot rent and court costs was entered against Messier on April 10, 2018 in the amount of $4,338.14. See The Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Messier, Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Civil Unit, Docket No. 30-1-18 Cncv. See attached. 7. The following security interests, mortgages, liens and encumbrances appear of record with respect to the mobile home: a. Whitcomb is in arrears on obligations to pay property taxes to the Town of Hinesburg, Vermont in the aggregate amount of $1,026.67, plus interest and penalties. The delinquent property taxes are now a lien on the property. 8. Mobile home storage fees continue to accrue at the rate of $411.00 per month. Rent, storage fees, and late charges due HFI as of June, 2018 total $3,704.37. Attorney’s fees incurred by HFI as of June, 2018 exceed $500.00. 9. HFI sent written notice by certified mail to the Town of Hinesburg on April 11, 2018 of Plaintiff’s intent to commence this action. See attached. 10. The mobile home is uninhabitable. The mobile home suffered extensive damage this past winter when the pipes burst. Doreen Phillips, Property Manager, will testify under oath as to the poor and unlivable condition of this mobile home at the abandonment hearing. WHEREFORE, HFI respectfully requests that the Honorable Court enter an order as follows: 1. Declare that the mobile home as been abandoned; 2. Transfer the mobile home which is unfit for
human habitation to the Park owner, HFI without a public auction so that it may be removed and disposed of accordingly. 3. Order pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6249(j) that the mobile home and any security deposit paid be conveyed to the Park Owner in “as is” condition, and free from all liens and other encumbrances of record. DATED AT Burlington, Vermont this 21st day of June, 2018. BY: Nadine L. Scibek, Esq. Attorney for The Housing Foundation, Inc. DATED at Montpelier, Vermont this 21st day of June, 2018. BY: Doreen Phillips, Duly Authorized Agent The Housing Foundation, Inc. VERIFICATION STATE OF VERMONT WASHINGTON COUNTY, SS. At Montpelier, Vermont on this 21st day of June, 2018, Doreen Phillips, duly authorized agent of The Housing Foundation, Inc., owner of the Mountain View Mobile Home Park in Hinesburg, Vermont, being first duly sworn, made oath that she has read the foregoing Complaint, and that the facts contained therein are true. Before me, Deborah Hickory, Notary Public My Commission Expires: 2/10/19 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT FAMILY DIVISION DOCKET NOS.: 220/221-5-18 CNJV IN RE: N.H. IN RE: A.H. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION TO: Leroy Headley, as the natural father of N.H. and A.H., you are hereby notified that a Merits Hearing on CHINS Petitions regarding N.H. and A.H. will be held on August 9, 2018 at 2:00, at the Superior Court of Vermont, Family Division, Chittenden County, Costello Courthouse, 32 Cherry Street, Burlington, Vermont. You are notified to appear in this case. If you do not appear, the hearing will be held without you and the Court could find that N.H. and A.H. were children in need of care and supervision at
the time the Petitions were filed.
OF THE BARRE TOWN LAND RECORDS.
/s/ Kevin W. Griffin The Honorable Judge Kevin W. Griffin Date: 6/27/18
Being the same property conveyed to Joseph R. Hebert and Michelle A. Eno, husband and wife, as tenants by the entirety, by deed dated August 29, 2003 of record in Deed Book 190, Page 986, in the County Clerk’s Office.
STATE OF VERMONT WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 650-1116 WNCV QUICKEN LOANS INC. v. JOSEPH R. HEBERT AND MICHELLE A. ENO OCCUPANTS OF: 2 Hutchins Cir., Barre VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered November 7, 2017, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Joseph R. Hebert and Michelle A. Eno to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as a nominee for Quicken Loans, Inc., dated January 20, 2012 and recorded in Book 258 Page 814 of the land records of the Town of Barre, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as a nominee for Quicken Loans, Inc. to Quicken Loans Inc. dated August 17, 2016 and recorded in Book 288 Page 417 of the land records of the Town of Barre for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 2 Hutchins Cir., Barre, Vermont on July 23, 2018 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Land Situated in the Town of Barre in the County of Washington in the State of VT A PARCEL OF LAND, WITH HOUSE THEREON, KNOWN AS 2 HUTCHINS CIRCLE, BARRE TOWN, VERMONT: AND BEING ALL AND THE SAME LANDS AND PREMISES CONVEYED TO ALAN LAPIERRE AND BETH LAPIERRE BY WARRANTY DEED OF STEVEN M. BIGRAS AND CHRISTINA M, BIGRAS DATED OCTOBER 30, 2000 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 161, PAGE 944
Commonly known as: 2 Hutchins Circle, Barre, VT 05641 Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description. Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. DATED: May 18, 2018 By: /S/Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 TOWN OF BOLTON, VERMONT NOTICE TO VENDORS INVITATION TO BID: BUCKET LOADER The Town of Bolton Vermont, requests sealed bids from qualified manufacturers for a Bucket Loader that meets town specifications. Bids are due by 4 p.m. on August 2, 2018 at the Bolton Town Office, and will be opened by the Select Board at its regular meeting on August 6, 2018. The bid will be awarded at a later date, to be an-
nounced at this meeting. The full bid notice and attached specifications are available on the town website www. boltonvt.com, or by contacting the Town Clerk at 802-434-5075 x 222. The Town of Bolton reserves the right to reject any and all bids, in whole or in part. TOWN OF WESTFORD DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. Chapter 117 and the Westford Land Use & Development Regulations, the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing at the Town Offices, VT Route 128, at 7:15 pm on Monday, July 30, 2018 in reference to the following: Appeal of Administrative Officer Decision– John Roberts & Lalauni Rawls Property (+/- 42 acres off Plains Road) The property is located in the Rural 3 (R3), Rural 10 (R10) and Water Resource Overlay (WRO) Zoning Districts. The appellant is seeking to overturn a Zoning Permit issued to the appellee on June 12, 2018 and requests a stay of enforcement. For information call the Town Offices at 8784587 Monday–Friday 8:30am–4:30pm. Matt Wamsganz, Chairman Dated July 4, 2018
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BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But, it can also be a time of stress that is often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth and feel you need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531. BEREAVEMENT/GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Meets every other Mon. night, 6-7:30 p.m., & every other Wed., 10-11:30 a.m., in the Conference Center at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Info, Ginny Fry or Jean Semprebon, 223-1878.
CANCER SUPPORT GROUP (Note: The July 10th meeting has been canceled, but there will be a Men’s Health & Cancer conference on Friday, June 22, 7:30 a.m.-12 p.m. at the UVM Larner College of Medicine, Larner Classroom, Medical Education Center 100, Burlington.) Held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-8 p.m. at the Hope Lodge, 237 East Ave., Burlington. Newly diagnosed? Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion and sharing among survivors and those beginning or rejoining the battle. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS,
CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life with this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men and women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction and pornography, food issues, and overcoming abuse. All 18+ are welcome; sorry, no childcare. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m. Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction. Info: recovery@ essexalliance.org, 878-8213.
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CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone with struggles with hurt, habits and hang ups, which includes everyone in some way. We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton which meets every Friday night at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us and discover how your life can start to change. Info: 893-0530, Julie@ mccartycreations.com. CELIAC & GLUTENFREE GROUP Last Wed. of every month, 4:30-6 p.m., at Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Free & open to the public! To learn more, contact Lisa at 598-9206 or lisamase@gmail.com. CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy and associated medical conditions. It’s mission it to provide the best possible information to parents of children living with the complex condition of cerebral palsy. cerebralpalsyguidance.com/ cerebral-palsy/ CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sunday at noon at the Turning Point Center, 191 Bank Street,
DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family and friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sundays at 5 p.m. at the 1st Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 3998754. You can learn more at smartrecovery. org. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect with others, to heal, and to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences and hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships. Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship. Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. Childcare is provided. Info: 658-1996. EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated with the job search or with your job? You are not alone. Come check out this supportive circle. Wednesdays at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602. FAMILIES, PARTNERS, FRIENDS AND ALLIES OF TRANSGENDER ADULTS We are people with adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming. We meet to support each other and
to learn more about issues and concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal, and confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 PM, the second Thursday of each month at Pride Center of VT, 255 South Champlain St., Suite 12, in Burlington. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer one-on-one support. For more information, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-238-3801. FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends and community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety and other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586. FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults 18 & over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills & draw strength from one another. Weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m. Turning Point Center, corner of Bank St., Burlington. (Across from parking garage, above bookstore). thdaub1@gmail.com. FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a week: Mondays, 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; and Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover
Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more information and a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. and the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org. G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction? Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a month on Mondays in Burlington. Please call for date and location. RSVP mkeasler3@gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number). G.Y.S.T. (GET YOUR STUFF TOGETHER) GYST creates a safe & empowering community for young men & youth in transition to come together with one commonality: learning to live life on life’s terms. Every Tue. & Thu., 4 p.m. G.Y.S.T. PYNK (for young women) meets weekly on Wed., 4 p.m. Location: North Central Vermont Recovery Center, 275 Brooklyn St., Morrisville. Info: Lisa, 851-8120. GRIEF & RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP 1st & 3rd Wed. of every mo., 7-8 p.m., Franklin County Home Health Agency (FCHHA), 3 Home Health Cir., St. Albans. 527-7531. LGBTQ VETERANS GROUP This veterans group is a safe place for veterans to gather and discuss ways to help the community, have dinners, send packages and help the families of LGBTQ service people. Ideas on being helpful encouraged. Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 6-8:30 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church (The Little Red Door), 64 State Street, Montpelier. RSVP, 802-825-2045. HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice hearing experiences as real lived experiences which may happen to anyone at anytime. We choose to share experiences, support, and empathy. We validate anyone’s experience and stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest and accurate representation of their experience, and
as being acceptable exactly as they are. Weekly on Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org. HEARTBEAT VERMONT Have you lost a friend, colleague or loved one by suicide? Some who call have experienced a recent loss and some are still struggling w/ a loss from long ago. Call us at 446-3577 to meet with our clinician, Jonathan Gilmore, at Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main St. All are welcome. HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living with cancer & their caretakers convene for support. INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) and painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/ urgency. These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@gmail.com or call 899-4151 for more information. KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients as well as caregivers are provided with a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact info@vcsn.net.
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BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St.,
BURLINGTON AREA PARKINSON’S DISEASE OUTREACH GROUP People with Parkinson’s disease & their caregivers gather together to gain support & learn about living with Parkinson’s disease. Group meets 2nd Wed. of every mo., 1-2 p.m., continuing through Nov. 18, 2015. Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 185 Pine Haven Shores Rd., Shelburne. Info: 888-763-3366, parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org, parkinsonsvt.org.
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BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people with breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets first Monday of the month, 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more information call 802-776-5508.
BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:30-2:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. monthly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m. Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. monthly at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Brattleboro meets at Brooks Memorial Library on the 1st Thu. monthly from 1:15-3:15 p.m. and the 3rd Mon. monthly from 4:15-6:15 p.m. White River Jct. meets the 2nd Fri. monthly at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m. Call our helpline at 877-856-1772.
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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP This caregivers support group meets on the 3rd Wed. of every mo. from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 128, Williston. Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support, and coping techniques in care for a person living with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free and open to the public. Families, caregivers, and friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm date and time. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900.
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The starting hourly wage is $17.50-$19.00 depending on qualifications. The Town of Jericho offers excellent benefits, including health and dental insurance, and a retirement plan. An application and job description can be downloaded from www.jerichovt.gov. They are also available at the Jericho Town Hall, at 67 VT Rt. 15, Jericho, M-Th 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Completed applications can be submitted to Paula Carrier in person, via email at pcarrier@jerichovt.gov or via mail to PO Box 39, Jericho, VT 05465. Applications will be accepted until position is filled.
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This position works with school and district decision makers to conduct Business-to-Business sales. It also works with lead teachers to promote our resources to their administrators and manages current accounts. Prior sales experience a plus! To get started on this new and exciting path please send resume and cover letter to edsalesearch@gmail.com. Office located in the greater Burlington, VT area.
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We are an established CPA firm seeking the right addition to our team of business and tax advisors, accountants and auditors. We need a motivated professional with strong communication and analytical skills, a bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting,and with at preferably 3 years’ accounting experience. Experience with tax, accounting and document management software a plus. We offer contact with varied and exciting clients; a high tech, high quality comfortable atmosphere; and an excellent compensation package. mariann@fsv-cpas.com
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Sales Assistant & Ticketing Specialist
We have a great benefit package! Norwich University offers medical, dental, vision, group life and long term disability insurance, flexible-spending accounts for health and dependent care, 403(b) retirement plan with employer match, employee assistance program, paid time off including parental leave, and tuition scholarships for eligible employees and their family members.
DIRECTOR OF MAJOR GIFTS
Develop annual projections, strategies and timetables for cultivation of major gifts, and manage an annual budget for the Major Gifts team. Work to increase the University’s fundraising capacity through the successful qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of individuals having the capacity to make gifts of $25K to $1M.
ASSISTANT WOMEN’S SOCCER/ LACROSSE COACH
Duties include assisting the head coach with planning, organizing, directing, and leading coaching and administrative components of the soccer and lacrosse programs. May include practice organization and management, game preparation, recruiting, scouting, team travel, fundraising, special events, and academic monitoring. This is a 10-month position with benefits.
MOBILE DEVICE & A/V CLASSROOM SUPPORT TECHNICIAN
The Mobile Device and A/V Classroom Support Technician is a new position to support an in-progress study, and potential campus-wide implementation, of mobile devices for all students and faculty. Integrating and supporting mobile devices within the University enterprise systems will be the primary function of this position.
Seven Days is seeking a full-time sales assistant and ticketing specialist to fill a rare vacancy on our successful sales team. If you’re smart, personable and organized – and think you’ll feel right at home among our innovative, entrepreneurial staff – we want to learn more about you. To join our team, you must be an excellent communicator, unfazed by internet commerce, meticulous about all the details and enthusiastic about working with clients of varied abilities on a day-to-day basis. Preference will be given to candidates who have demonstrated experience selling products, managing projects, speaking to groups of people and working independently when needed. The main responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to: 1.
Managing Seven Days Tickets: Selling the service to local event promoters, teaching them the software, promoting their events in Seven Days channels, providing technical assistance and supporting ticket buyers when necessary.
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Assisting the marketing and events director with contests, promotions and public events.
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Educational Sales Associate Are you an educator or former educator interested in trying something new with your skill set? Established over two decades ago, our educational publishing company possesses an established brand, business model, and clientele. We are looking for a dynamic Educational Sales Associate to promote our research-based materials.
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E4H Environments for Health is looking for a high energy architect or designer with a passion for healthcare to join our Williston location. • Five to eight years of experience; some or all in healthcare architecture. • Licensure preferred or recent demonstrated effort on the path to licensure. • Proficiency in Revit
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We are looking for a candidate who can provide marketing support for a Financial Advisor in our South Burlington, Vermont, office. Series 7 and 66 licenses preferred. This role will be 20 hours per week, schedule is flexible. Ideal candidate has experience using Microsoft office products, is detail oriented and can work independently. Does that sound like you? Then you have the right stuff to join us. Apply now. Send resumes to: Andrea.Chamberlain@UBS.com
UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.
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ROOFERS AND LABORERS • Year round, full time employment • Good wages & benefits • Pay negotiable with experience EOE/M/F/VET/Disability Employer Apply in person at: A.C. Hathorne Co. 252 Avenue C Williston, VT 05495
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Restorative Vocational Specialist This position is for a Restorative Vocational Specialist at the Franklin Grand Isle Restorative Justice Center. The position provides specific and individualized case management through a restorative team approach to persons under the supervision of the Vermont Department of Corrections to meet their individual needs with such items as education, employment, access to quality health care and treatment, and service navigation. This is a full-time benefited position. Please forward cover letter, resume and 3 references by Monday, July 16th to Courtney Whittemore, Transitional Housing Coordinator, courtney@fgirjc.org. For complete job description, please visit the City of St. Albans website at www.stalbansvt.com and click on Employment Opportunities.
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Provide individual support of an assigned caseload through coordination of clinical, residential, educational/vocational components; in addition to development of a professional clinical relationship with the individuals served by Upper Valley Services, their parents, guardians and families, the community, and other human service agencies and the Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services. This requires the employee to be mentally alert, on call 24 hours a day, uphold vigilant and disciplined accuracy with prioritizing tasks, record keeping, and meeting deadlines. In addition, to meet the often stressful and unpredictable responsibility demands of this position’s objective, employees need to maintain mental and physical preparedness. Bachelor’s degree, preferred in Human Services or related field with at least 2 years of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Must be a Qualified Developmental Disabilities Professional (QDDP), or work under the direct supervision of a QDDP.
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IT SUPPORT Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty has an opening for a Part-Time, 20 hour a week IT Help Desk Support person in our South Burlington, VT office to provide technical support for Windows or Mac operating systems for our 20+ sites remotely or in person. They will be responsible for assisting the IT Director with monitoring and maintaining all aspects the organization’s data and voice networks. The Help Desk Support position will assist with identifying, researching, and resolving technical issues, responding to and/or following up on telephone calls, email, and incident ticket requests, and receiving and recording technical and/ or application support calls from end users. If you are this person, we want you to apply! Please submit resume and cover letter to jobs@fourseasonssir.com letting us know why you are the person for this job.
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King Street Center seeks a dynamic, passionate advocate to join our team as Teen Program Director. This vital role manages all aspects of programming including, but not limited to: academic and enrichment programs; job club and lemonade stand; and evening open gym for students in grades 6-12. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: • Training, management and assessment of teen program staff • Development and oversight of daily programming in areas ranging from outdoor sports, experiential learning and life skills • Outreach and regular communication with local schools, teachers and community partners • Run lemonade vendor cart on Church Street Marketplace with middle school youth • Teach job skills and social skills via hands on experience and immediate processing and reflection • Ensure student safety and inclusion • Collaborate with other King Street Program Directors to provide successful transition from elementary to middle and middle to high school Successful candidates must possess: • Bachelor’s Degree in Education or Human Service Related Field • 2 years of experience managing programs and staff • Experience with data tracking, monthly reporting, budgeting • Experience working with youth with varying behavioral, emotional and educational needs • Experience working with youth of varying cultural and ethnic backgrounds • Superior organizational and interpersonal skills, ability to take initiative • A willingness to be an advocate for the youth we serve at King Street Center • Ability and willingness to be a team player and collaborate with others effectively This role requires professionalism, flexibility, and the ability to contribute positively to our culture of teamwork. Schedule is M-F with regular evening hours. Occasional weekend work is also necessary. Interested candidates, please email resume and cover letter to hr@kingstreetcenter.org.
Minority, culturally diverse, and bilingual applicants are encouraged to apply. King Street Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ACCOUNTANT: CLIENT FUNDS Feel good about where you work and what you do! We are The Institute of Professional Practice, a non-profit human services agency making a meaningful difference in the lives of adults and children with autism and other disabilities. We provide residential programs, day support, special education, and employment services in partnership with families and in collaboration with public and private health, human service, education and other government agencies. THE ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ACCOUNTANT: CLIENT FUNDS Client Funds reports to the Accounts Payable Supervisor and is responsible for recording client SSA receipts and distributing the funds as appropriate. He/she works with our operations locations to ensure allowances are paid correctly and timely. This position serves as a backup to the Accounts Payable Accountant role. As part of the accounting team, he/she will participate in efficiency planning and implementation as it related to payables processing. We are also looking for at least 3 years of accounting or bookkeeping experience and experience with General Ledger software. Great Plains software expertise is a definite advantage but not required. High-level Excel skills (pivot tables, working with formulas, Vlookups) absolutely necessary. A track record of reliability and professionalism is critical. Finally, an associate’s degree in accounting or closely related field is the minimal education requirement. Join us in a fabulous and friendly working environment in our Berlin, VT office. We offer great benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability and retirement plans. We also offer tuition reimbursement, educational opportunities and much more. Visit our website for more information: www.ippi.org. Submit resumes to: employment@ippi.org.
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Marketing Coordinator/ Client Care Manager (50/50) ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE BUSINESS OFFICE Full Time, Benefit Eligible EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT & CLERK TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Full Time, Benefit Eligible 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.
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Marketing/Networking Coordinator • Direct and coordinate networking, budgeting, marketing, external sales • Develop and maintain positive, professional relationships with referral sources Client Care Manager • Meet potential clients and family, discuss needs, create service plan, follow through consultative process • Conduct client/CAREGiver introductions • Requirements include Bachelor’s Degree, computer skills, health care experience Negotiable Salary, Medical Benefits, Paid Vacation, Great Team environment. Background checks and pre-employment drug screen. Please forward resume and cover letter to: Beth Racine via email at beth.racine@homeinstead.com. Via Fax: 802.860.4660.
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Collaborative Solutions’ Second Spring programs offer exceptional, evidence-based clinical care to adults with psychiatric illness. As an alternative to hospitalization, we provide a place for patients to heal and grow in Vermont country inn settings, with beautiful common areas, porches, — all surrounded by rolling hills, hiking trails, ponds, and talented, dedicated staff. We are currently seeking registered nurses, both per diem and full time, to join our highlycollaborative, results-oriented treatment team, which includes psychiatrists, nurses, therapists, vocational specialist, case managers, residential support staff, music therapist, and social workers. Our RNs are successful when they can be a great teammate with excellent communication skills, have a Vermont RN license, a high level of compassion, ability to think outside the box, and an unshakable dedication to the recovery and well-being of our patients. Nurses with a holistic view of wellness are encouraged to apply! We have various shift schedules available. Benefit eligible positions offer competitive wages, benefits, generous time off package and also a 403B retirement match. Valid driver’s license, excellent driving record and safe, insured vehicle also required. Marianne Mullen, Director of Team Development
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ATTENDANT FOR SELF STORAGE FACILITY Must be good with customer service and computers. Some light physical work required from time to time. 9am-4pm on Saturdays, 9am-2pm on Sundays. Attendant might be asked to work additional shifts to cover vacation time. 12 hrs/week total. We will train the right person for the job. Please e-mail a resume and short cover letter to flynnave@myfairpoint.net. No phone calls.
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Locally owned environmentally-friendly cleaning service seeks cleaners with some experience to maintain commercial properties in the greater Burlington area. Help make our world healthier by providing high quality cleaning services that are healthy for our clients, healthy for the environment, and healthy for you – our employees. Healthy Habitat is committed to creating livable wage jobs for residents in our community. Begin at $14 per hour. Certain F/T jobs will reach $18 per hour within a year. Healthy Habitat understands that our employees and their families are our greatest asset and we seek to consistently maintain a safe, healthy and meaningful workplace. Our current openings are for full time positions but part time work is often available. Full time work has flexible evening hours, vacation and sick time and other benefits. Full time applicants do need a vehicle and valid license. Check out our website at www.healthy-habitat.com, email info@healthy-habitat.com or call us at 802-861-4500 to learn more.
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is looking to hire a new Director of Development. This position directs and manages all development efforts in direct support of the Museum. The range of responsibilities includes annual fundraising, grant writing, budgeting, online giving, planned giving, capital campaign, endowments, RBA prinicipals, Form 990, and events. We’re looking someone with a Bachelor’s degree, five or more years of non-profit development experience, exceptional written and oral communication skills; knowledge of fundraising data reporting and analysis, a high comfort level in engaging potential supporters, strong work ethic, organized, conscientious, flexible, responsible and very much a team player. For more information, please visit:
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HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR PART-TIME CUSTODIAN (SATURDAY & SUNDAY) Saint Michael’s College is seeking applications from dependable, efficient workers to fill a day shift custodial position. The shift is: Saturday & Sunday (6:00am - 2:30pm). Successful candidates will join a team that cleans College buildings including dormitories, restrooms, offices and classrooms. Training will be provided for the right candidate. Benefits: Eligible for paid-time-off accrual as outlined in the employee handbook. This hourly, part-time position is not eligible for regular College provided fringe benefits. For full job description and to apply online go to: smcvt.interviewexchange.com/.
Vermont Legal Aid’s Office of the Health Care Advocate (HCA) seeks a self-motivated, creative person committed to improving access to high quality, affordable health care to fill a new full-time position as Communications Coordinator. The Communications Coordinator will work with a team of dedicated attorneys and advocates on behalf of Vermont health care consumers. The ideal candidate will be a detail-oriented individual with significant communications experience and knowledge of Vermont health care systems, health care reform, and public policy. Responsibilities include: developing and implementing a communications strategy and consistent messaging to the public, community partners, and other health care stakeholders, raising awareness of the HCA’s hotline and policy work, and increasing the role of the HCA’s hotline team and interested consumer clients in policy advocacy. A successful candidate must have excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills and a commitment to social justice. Experience developing and implementing communications strategies and proficiency with digital communications platforms including social media and email outreach required. Fluency in eligibility requirements for state and federal health care programs is desirable. Bachelor’s degree in Communications or related field. Starting salary $34,917+ DOE, four weeks’ paid vacation and excellent fringe benefits. Email your cover letter, resume, contact information for three references, and writing sample as a single PDF file to Eric Avildsen, Executive Director c/o Betsy Whyte (bwhyte@vtlegalaid.org) by July 23, 2018.
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HUMAN RESOURCES GENERALIST Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT, an unparalleled and unique experience of American history, art, and design is hiring a Human Resources Generalist. The Human Resources Generalist is directly responsible for the overall administration, coordination and evaluation of the human resources function.
VLA is an equal opportunity employer committed to cultural competency in order to effectively serve our increasingly diverse client community. Applicants are encouraged to share in their cover letter how they can further this goal. Visit our website for more information and complete application instructions. www.vtlegalaid.org
Responsibilities include: • Develop and administer various human resources plans, policies and procedures Museum-wide and participate in strategic planning related to staffing and operations. • Provide guidance for management and staff on personnel issues and provide input based on legal compliance and Museum policy. • Conduct recruitment effort for all exempt and nonexempt positions. • Implement and annually update compensation program. Conduct annual salary surveys and develop merit pool (salary budget). • Monitor the performance evaluation program and revises as necessary. • Manage payroll and ensure accurate and timely processing. Requirements: BA/BS, five plus years in human resources, generalist experience highly preferred. Advanced SHRM certification preferred (SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP). Knowledge of ADP or other payroll/HRIS systems, proficiency in Microsoft and the ability to handle multiple projects at a time. Shelburne Museum is one of the best places to work in Vermont. Benefits include generous time off, health and dental insurance, access to Museum exhibits and programs, discounts at the Museum Store and Café, and participation in the employee reciprocal program with many regional attractions. Our beautiful campus, just seven miles from Burlington, is a welcoming place to develop your skills, connect with new colleagues, and build and shape our community. Application Process: To apply, send a cover letter and resume to HumanResources@shelburnemuseum.org or Human Resources, Shelburne Museum, P.O. Box 10, Shelburne, VT 05482. Applications are accepted until the position is filled.
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Clara Martin Center
People Helping People
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Locations in Randolph,Bradford, Chelsea and Wilder
Master’s Level Social Workers & Clinicians
Nurse Practitioner
The Clara Martin Center is seeking Master’s Level Clinicians to join our team of dedicated professionals who reach out to make a difference in the lives of our clients. These positions will provide assessments, diagnosis, group and/or individual therapy, treatment planning, case management and referral services within their specialized teams. Our Clinicians can join our Child & Family, School Based, Substance Abuse or Adult teams based in Randolph, the Barre area, Bradford or Wilder. We strongly believe in working within a team-based environment and we provide regular group and individual supervision to all clinical staff as well as opportunities for continuing education and career advancement. VT licensure is preferred but is not required. Individuals who are interested in being part of a dynamic team are encouraged to apply. Flexibility, dependability, strong communication, organizational skills, and the ability to be a team player are essential.
We are seeking a Nurse Practitioner who is looking to join a progressive community mental health center clinical team lead by Dr. Kevin Buchanan. Responsibilities include medication management, communication with primary care physicians and consultation with treatment team members. Successful candidates must be able to work both independently and as part of a team; should have a current Vermont license and a minimum of 2 years’ experience; psychiatric and medical experience preferred. This position can be either a full time or part time position and serves our clients throughout Orange County. VT Licensure, APRN required.
We offer competitive benefits, matching 403b retirement plan and a generous time-off policy among other company-paid benefits.
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Other responsibilities, roles, and requirements: Prepare cost estimates by studying blueprints, plans, and customer documents Analyze cost-benefit ratios of equipment, raw materials, or service application Prepare drawings using CAD and/or Solidworks Develop customers’ staff by providing technical information and training Prepare sales engineering reports
Bachelor’s degree, preferred in Human Services or related field, with at least 2 years of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
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Qualifications: • BS Engineering Degree • Experience preferred, but new graduates are welcomed (0-3yrs experience) • Proficient in Microsoft Office especially in Excel and Word • CAD and or Solidworks • Good communication and presentations skills • Ability to work in teams or independently We are ISO & TS-16949 certified, offer excellent benefits and competitive wages based on experience. Apply here or you can email your resume and/or cover letter to hr@champcable.com. If you prefer, you can mail your resume and cover letter to Champlain Cable Corp. Attn: HR Dept., 175 Hercules Drive, Colchester, VT 05446.
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Our Randolph office is currently seeking 3 Case Managers. The Case Manager is responsible for providing individual support of an assigned caseload through coordination of clinical, residential, educational/vocational components; in addition to development of a professional clinical relationship with the individuals served by Upper Valley Services, Inc., their families, guardians, community, and other human service agencies including the Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services to ensure consumer well-being and safety. This requires the employee to be organized and disciplined with prioritizing tasks, record keeping, meeting deadlines, working independently, and communicating effectively. It also requires the employee to occasionally work non-traditional office hours including nights and weekends.
Looking for an engineer to provide support to customers and the marketing and sales departments by identifying their needs; as well as engineering adaptations of products, equipment, and services. You will work closely with design engineering, R&D, quality, operations and other departments. You will be responsible for preparing and maintaining price sheets, identifying new-alternate material suppliers. You will build rapport with potential and actual customers to understand their requirements. Provide product and equipment technical and engineering information to external and internal customers. • • • • •
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The Vermont Public Power Supply Authority, located in Waterbury Center, Vermont, is seeking a Power Analyst/Senior Power Analyst to join our team. This position will assist in resource portfolio planning, modeling and market analysis for municipal electric utilities.
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Essential functions include analyzing and evaluating power supply options (including wind, solar, natural gas, biomass, and hydro) to assist resource portfolio development, analyzing and recommending electric energy market purchases and sales strategies, developing long and shortterm energy usage and commodity forecasts, market and regulatory compliance filings, managing energy portfolios in a centralized market, preparing written documents and presentations for education and marketing, recommending and presenting power supply and policy positions and strategies to internal staff and Members, and developing and reviewing electric power supply contracts with suppliers and members.
Recovery Specialists entry level during their stay. and provide care and- structure TUESDAY, JULY 17TH Licensed Practical Nurses & Registered Nurses 3:00PM - 6:00PM Recovery Specialists - entry level Clinicians TUESDAY, JULY 17TH • Recovery - entryNurses level Licensed PracticalSpecialists Nurses & Registered 1 Alden Place 3:00PM - 6:00PM Clinicians • Licensed Practical Nurses & Registered Vergennes, VT 05491 20 days of paid time off 1 Alden Place (802) 222-5201 Nurses Health, dental, and vision
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Demonstrated proficiency in Excel and excellent oral and written communication skills required. Experience performing quantitative analysis, knowledge of wholesale energy markets, portfolio management, forecasting, or energy commodity trading preferred. Experience in the utility industry and database software experience desired.
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• Health, dental, and vision insuranceFood and refreshments provided. • Tuition reimbursement • 401(k) with employer match
VPPSA is building a team of professionals who are passionate about helping Vermont towns meet their energy needs. If you are a team player and enjoy a fast-paced collaborative environment we want to hear from you. Please send resumes and salary requirements to: Vermont Public Power Supply Authority, PO Box 126, Waterbury Ctr., Vermont 05677 Attn: General Manager, or to knolan@vppsa.com. The position will be open until filled.
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Independent Contractors Burlington Free Press is seeking independent contractors to deliver newspapers in the early morning hours. All contracts are based on negotiated rates per paper delivered. Please contact 802-660-1811 for more details. Don’t wait too long, or all the contracts will be filled! Tips included!
Champlain Community Services is a growing developmental services provider agency with a strong emphasis on selfdetermination values and employee and consumer satisfaction.
Program Manager Coordinate residential and community supports for a humorous woman who leads an active life, enjoys spending time outside and works best with female staff. The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a team-oriented position, have strong clinical skills and demonstrated leadership. Two overnight shifts required.
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with advancement opportunities. Now Hiring Branch Member Associates This full time role is the first point of member contact in the Montpelier Branch office, greeting members and determining the nature of service they require. From providing maps and tour books, to making car and hotel reservations, you’ll enhance member relationships and advise them of other available services- all adding to the value to their membership.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Ability to work collaboratively across Northern Lights and CCV administrative and academic offices and to direct and carry out a wide range of Northern Lights at CCV curriculum and instruction functions. Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree in early childhood education or a related field preferred. Experience in early childhood systems and with adult education and curriculum development desired. Prior experience in adult education and curriculum development desired. Apply at:
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Wanted! Applicants for Culinary Job Training Program Community Kitchen Academy (CKA) is currently accepting applications for student enrollment in its successful culinary job training program located in Barre and Burlington.
U.S. Probation Officers work for the federal court, conduct bail and pre-sentence investigations, and supervise federal defendants released to community supervision. The minimum requirement is a bachelor’s degree in an approved major. The position is hazardous duty law enforcement with a maximum age of 37 at appointment. Prior to appointment, applicants considered for this position will undergo a full background investigation, as well as undergo a medical examination and drug screening. Starting salary range is from $48,170 to $93,831 (CL 27 to CL 28), depending on qualifications. For further information and application instructions visit www.vtp.uscourts.gov/career-opportunities. Deadline for complete applications is the close of business July 13, 2018. EOE
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CKA is a program of the Vermont Foodbank that prepares underemployed and unemployed Vermonters for a career in the food service industry and lifelong learning through an intensive program of culinary skills development, career readiness and job placement. Students actively develop and apply new skills by creating wholesome meals for those at risk of hunger using food that has been gathered from within our communities that may otherwise go to waste. The job training program is 12 weeks long. Complete financial assistance is offered to applicants who are income eligible. The training is operated in partnership with Capstone Community Action in Barre and Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf in Burlington. Apply online at www.vtfoodbank.org/cka.
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Along with the entire market team, the Counter Server will be responsible for upholding the highest standards for customer service and enthusiastically assist our guests with their shopping needs. Counter Server will have a passion for food and intrinsic understanding of hospitality. We are offering a supportive and flexible work environment with full benefits. Compensation $15 per hour. Please visit our website at philoridgefarm. com for a complete job listing.
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Wake Robin is adding new members to its team!
You will provide resident support for a large, diverse, family based community in Burlington, VT. The community consists of 336 units. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the initial assessment of services needs for all residents including primary contact with provider agencies, development of programs, services and activities.
Housekeeper FULL TIME
The goal of the Resident Services Coordinator (RSC) is to enhance the ability of residents to uphold their lease obligations, such as paying rent on time, taking proper care of the unit, and ensuring quiet enjoyment of the property for all residents and surrounding neighbors. The RSC also promotes programs and efforts that enhance a resident’s quality of life and help build healthy communities. This position also ensures the provision of program support and/ or intervention for individuals and families through the coordination of community resources.
Sometimes cleaning just isn’t enough. Our housekeepers care for people by caring for their homes. Housekeepers are critical to the well being of residents, and the residents tell us this every day. If you love to clean and want to be an active part of our residents’ well-being, this is the community for you. We offer a beautiful work environment, excellent benefits, and a chance to be thanked every day. Candidates with previous training or experience as professional cleaners preferred.
Your Qualifications
Previous experience as a Resident Services Coordinator is preferred. A BA or higher in Social Work, Psychology, Gerontology, Counseling or related specialty or significant work experience relevant to the position is required. Strong MS Office skills are also required. Must have a valid driver’s license and a vehicle.
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MPI offers a family friendly workplace and healthy work-life balance. In addition to a competitive salary and benefits package we also offer the following:
Our Dishwasher will perform a variety of services in the kitchen area such as dishwashing, basic food prep, linen prep, food storage, general kitchen cleaning and, as assigned, they may also perform bus services in the main or auxiliary dining rooms. This shift is full-time, with weekends included.
• Training programs and opportunities that lead to employee advancement and promotions. • A flexible work schedule and the ability in many cases to work remotely. • A generous Employee Referral Program with a bonus of up to $1,000 per hire. • Volunteer and fundraising opportunities for annual causes such as the AIDS Walk and Stand Against Racism, just to name a few.
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.
Maloney Properties is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please apply online via www.maloneyproperties.com
Interested candidates can send their resumes to hr@wakerobin.com or fill out an application at www.wakerobin.com. Wake Robin is an EOE.
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Residential Educator Rock Point School, a small independent boarding school, is looking for Residential Educators to join our staff! Our Residential Educators are key members of our school team, teaching our students life skills, taking them on outdoor adventures, and supporting them to form healthy relationships. This is a full-time position and includes weekend and evening hours. For more details about the position and to submit your resume visit: www.rockpointschool.org/ residential-educator.
Temporary Speech Language Pathologist
Communications Director Ski Vermont/the Vermont Ski Areas Association is seeking an organized, detail-oriented person with excellent written and verbal communication skills and communications or marketing experience to promote the Ski Vermont brand in collaboration with member areas and partners. Main responsibilities include creating and executing an annual communications plan, media/influencer relations, content, magazine and newsletter development and directing social media engagement. Degree in communications and/or related work experience is required. Experience or familiarization with travel, hospitality and ski industry preferred. Website, Adobe Photoshop and Indesign experience is a plus. This position requires some travel, weekend/evening schedule flexibility and minimum of advanced intermediate skiing or snowboarding ability. Interested candidates should email a letter of interest and resume to info@skivermont.com. More info here:
Wake Robin, Vermont’s premier retirement community, seeks a part-time Speech Therapist for a temporary or contractual placement August through October. In addition to serving a vibrant independent living community, Wake Robin provides a high quality residential and long-term care environment, including a full complement of rehabilitation services. Our SLP works with a team of licensed nurses and therapists to provide treatments and programs that promote the independence and well being of our residents. Our candidate will hold a CCC-SLP and will be licensed to practice in the State of Vermont. Interested candidates please email hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to: HR, (802) 264-5146. Wake Robin is an equal opportunity employer.
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Lund offers hope and opportunity to families through education, treatment, family support and adoption.
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Residential Counselor – multiple positions available About the Position:
• Awake Overnight Counselor position available immediately. Position hours are late evening through early morning. • Potential daytime and evening positions open in near future.
Now Hiring Nurses! Sign on bonuses of up to $6,000 Ambulatory RNs Ambulatory RNs work in our primary care and specialty clinics, serving as expert members of the care team by triaging patient. LEARN MORE & APPLY:
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• Counselor will have the opportunity to provide parent education and life skill support to pregnant and parenting women and their children in residential treatment setting. • Starting rate $15.50/hour. • Shift differential offered for 12am-7am hours.
SUBSTITUTE POSITIONS ALSO AVAILABLE! Sub rate $15/hour. What We Look For:
• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in human services related field. • Experience providing care to young children. • Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment; flexibility, adaptability, and openmindedness necessary. • Experience working in residential treatment setting preferred. • Valid driver’s license required.
Why Join Our Team at Lund: • Knowledge of adoption services. • Ongoing training opportunities available. • Lund is a multi-service nonprofit that has served families and children throughout Vermont for 125 years. • Our mission is to help children thrive by empowering families to break cycles of poverty, addiction and abuse. • Commitment surrounding diversity and cultural competence. • Lund offers a comprehensive benefit package for full-time positions including health, dental, life insurance, disability, retirement, extensive time off accrual (24-29 days annually) and holiday pay (11 days annually). • Excellent opportunity to join strengths-based team of multi-disciplinary professionals.
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Personal Care Assistant The Personal Care Assistant performs personal care and assists consumers with daily living who require moderate/ substantial to total assistance to perform activities to maintain health. Responsibilities also include assisting with housekeeping functions, running errands, and providing companionship and interaction within their community. Work schedule requires weekends and overnights with sleep time pay from 10pm-6am. High School diploma or equivalent. Prior personal care experience a plus. uvs-vt.org mdindo@uvs-vt.org
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School Nurse Are you a nurse who loves working with teens? Are you interested in a job that lets you work on a school schedule? Join our supportive work environment and help us keep our students healthy! We’re looking for a licensed RN to counsel and educate students and staff about health issues, communicate with parents and other health providers, and manage medications for students. For more details about the position, visit: www.rockpointschool.org/ school-nurse.
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Systems & Operations Coordinator Northgate Apartments located in Burlington, VT is seeking a full time Systems and Operations Coordinator to assist the property Managers and maintenance staff with all Yardi related input such as work orders, rent payment, subsidy payments and month end reconciliation. Other responsibilities include coordination of access programs for contractors and annual inspections. EOE Interested candidates should apply at
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HALF-TIME SERVICE COORDINATOR Ready to be at the center of the action? Our half-time Service Coordinator works with NPI staff, clients, and vendors to keep our work flowing and our team humming. You will schedule projects and tasks, communicate with everyone involved, and work with NPI’s top-flight technology team to deliver exceptional client satisfaction. To excel, be well-organized, efficient, and interested in technology. Previous experience with scheduling and client service will be helpful. NPI offers excellent benefits, including pet-friendly office, generous time off, matching 401(k), Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Assistance Accounts, and profit-sharing. If you are ready to put your organizing skills to use, learn more at
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We are looking to expand our Technical Staff with two or more
FIRE & SECURITY ALARM TECHNICIANS At least one position (Fire Alarm Technician) requires a Type-S Journeyman’s license/TQP Qualified. (For Security technician positions, having a Type-S Journeyman license would be a plus!) This is an Opportunity to join an established company of team players. We are seeking reliable employees with good customer service skills to install, inspect & service Security/Fire Alarm System, CCTV, Access Control, etc. Experience is necessary and a valid driver’s license is a must!
Sales Manager Exciting Sales Manager opportunity at TownePlace Suites in Williston, Vermont Williston’s TownePlace Suites by Marriott located on 66 Zephyr Road in Taft Corners is an all-suite hotel featuring 99 guest rooms, daily hot breakfast, nightly receptions, and new lobby. The hotel focuses on providing a warm, comfortable setting for guests who travel 5 nights or longer. The TownePlace Suites Sales Manager is responsible for bringing in those guests and earning the defined room revenue goals. He/she will work with the Director of Sales to plan sales promotions, establish strategies, and set sales goals. The TownePlace Suites Manager must seek out business for both local and regional opportunities such as but not limited to Extended Stay, Social, Government, Regional, Association, and Corporate.
Specialist in Built in Central Vacuum Systems. We are expanding our installation/service staff. Immediate Opening for a
CENTRAL VACUUM INSTALLER/ SERVICE PERSON Challenging opportunity for an individual that is Aggressive, Self-motivated and Reliable. Candidate must take pride in workmanship and should be available for some overtime. Aptitude in the building trades with good Carpentry/ Mechanical/Plumbing Abilities desired. Must have good communication skills and the willingness to promote our company and its products. • A Valid Driver’s License is a Must. • Company Vehicle Provided for Work. • Salary Commensurate with experience.
This is a full-time, hourly position with great benefits to include health insurance, vacation time, and 401(k) retirement, wellness and a superior workplace. Application Deadline: Interested applicants should forward resume and cover letter by July 13, 2018 to: Amy Shea, HR Manager, Westport Hospitality, LLC, work@hotelvt.com.
We offer competitive wages, benefits and vacation time. Mail or email resume to mbenway@sunrayvt.com or call to schedule an interview.
TownePlace Suites is managed by Westport Hospitality. Other properties in our portfolio are Hotel Vermont and Courtyard Burlington Harbor Hotel.
(802)878-9091 Sun Ray Fire & Security/Vermont Central Vacuum One Town Marketplace Unit #29 Essex Junction, VT 05452 mbenway@sunrayvt.com 802-878-7800
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Providing Innovative Mental Health and Educational Services to Vermont’s Children & Families.
Immediate Openings Archies Grill has full and part time immediate openings. We are a family operated, family friendly restaurant in Shelburne preparing fresh foods with local ingredients. Experienced professional grill, prep and salad positions available. We offer a very competitive wage plus tips. Total wage package ranges from $15$20 per hour depending on experience. If you are a reliable professional in search of growing opportunities and wish to be part of a family team, please respond with your resume and plan to come for an interview.
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“Make a difference in the life of a child!”- NFI Vermont, a leader in specialized trauma and adolescent development, is looking to expand our team of innovators. Full time and part time positions available. Competitive wages, training opportunities, flexible work schedules and family oriented culture. Excellent benefits with tuition reimbursement offered for 30 or more hour employees. Visit our career page at www.nfivermont.org to learn more!
Visit Supervisor & Transporter St. Albans Programs - Children and Family Supports Program The NFI CFS Program is looking to expand its team to include a person to provide transportation and supervised visits for families involved with DCF. A qualified candidate will be comfortable giving direct feedback to families and intervene when safety is a concern. We are looking for candidates with strong communication and documentation skills who work well in a team setting. This 30 hour per week, benefited position requires a Bachelor’s degree and/or two years’ experience in related field. Valid driver’s license required. Please apply online at
Missisquoi Valley Union Middle/High School is looking for a dynamic teacher to work with students in grades 7-12 in courses possibly including Middle Level Spanish, Spanish, I, II, III and Advanced Spanish. The successful candidate has a strong belief that all students can achieve at high levels, a commitment to building relationships with students, and an instructional approach grounded in personalization and proficiency based assessment and instruction. Familiarity and experience with Act 77 is preferred. The successful candidate will also work collaboratively with other teachers to align curriculum with proficiency based graduation requirements based on standards, and design and study formative assessment data to improve instructional effectiveness. Must hold a valid Vermont teaching license in the content area or eligible for licensure.
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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and celebrate the diversity of our clients and staff.
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When you work for the State of Vermont, you and your work matter. A career with the State puts you on a rich and rewarding professional path. You’ll find jobs in dozens of fields – not to mention an outstanding total compensation package. A S S I S T A N T G E N E R A L C O U N S E L – H E A LT H C A R E – M O N T P E L I E R The Department of Financial Regulation seeks to hire an Assistant General Counsel with expertise in healthcare law. The Assistant General Counsel will work within the Department’s nine-member Legal Division to provide legal services to the Department. Assignments may include (1) legal counsel and regulatory support to Department leadership & staff, (2) representing the Department in administrative and judicial proceedings, and (3) drafting legislation, administrative rules, and bulletins. Candidates must be admitted to the Vermont Bar or eligible for admission without examination. Compensation based on the State of Vermont Attorney Pay Plan. Application instructions:Please send letter of interest, resume, and writing sample to: Nancy Kirkland, Human Resources Administrator, Dept. of Financial Regulation, 89 Main St., Montpelier, VT, 05602 or by email to nancy.kirkland@vermont.gov.
BUDGET UNIT MAN AGER – WATERBURY DCF’s Business Office is recruiting! The Budget Unit Manager will oversee the work of the Budget Unit. The Budget Unit is responsible for developing DCF’s highly complex $400M budget; as well as coding, monitoring, and projecting expenses throughout the year. This position will supervise two budget analysts and a budget support position; while also serving as the budget analyst for specific divisions. For more information, contact Jillian Niggel, jillian.niggel@vermont.gov, 802-241-0664. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 623145. Application Deadline: July 15, 2018.
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NURSE PROGRAM COORDIN ATOR – BURLINGTON The Vermont Department of Health is seeking a dynamic, motivated, and talented Nurse Program Coordinator to join our team. This position will provide leadership to and oversight of Vermont’s growing statewide nurse home visiting program. The role will be an exciting balance between clinical and programmatic support to nurse home visitors in the field, partnering with local, state, and federal partners, and management of the program, grant writing and reporting. The position will be expected to demonstrate initiative & creativity. For more information, contact Ilisa Stalberg at ilisa.stalberg@vermont.gov. Status: Full Time. Job ID #623451. Application Deadline: July 17, 2018
INSURANCE EXAMINER III – MONTPELIER The Department of Financial Regulation seeks an independent, organized person, with effective communication skills to assist the Insurance Division with review of regulatory filings and financial solvency monitoring of Vermont insurance companies. Job duties includes review and analysis of financial statements and other information, evaluation of compliance with rules and regulations, and assistance with financial examination. For more information, contact Karen Murphy at Karen.murphy@ vermont.gov or 802-828-1959. Status: Full Time. Job ID #623454. Application Deadline: Open until filled.
P O L I C Y & I M P L E M E N T A T I O N A N A LY S T – W A T E R B U R Y The position requires extensive writing, research, and organization skills. Must have experience in a policy related position; project management skills; ability to balance competing demands; ability to work with providers, and other professionals; and, strong oral and written communication skills, including experience preparing reports and presentations. For more information, contact Sarah Truckle, sarah.truckle@vermont.gov, 802-477-3910. Status: Limited Service. Job ID # 623347. Application Deadline: July 10, 2018.
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VERMONT FOODBANK is currently hiring a Major Gifts Officer This is the chief legal, – This position will secure funds for the Vermont Foodbank by FedEx Delivery Driver educational and administrative fulfilling the interests and passions of donors by giving them $17.50/hour. 9:30-6:00. management position of opportunities and encouraging them to give. They will assure that as many as possible are Must be 21 with clean the Vermont Human Rights retained as continuing donors and are upgraded in their giving and involvement. driving record. No CDL Commission. The executive A complete job description is available upon request. Please submit application on-line at: required. Send resumes director is responsible for www.vtfoodbank.org/employment; be sure to include a cover letter & resume. 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If you Required Qualifications looking for an energetic individual who loves fashion have demonstrated experience, strong attention to detail, and a passion • Must be a Vermont licensed and sales to manage our South Burlington location. for efficiency, we’d like to hear from you. attorney (or eligible to waive in) with a minimum of We offer flexible hours, clothing discounts and an Please submit resume and cover letter by July 31st to five years of relevant legal adminjob@hungerfreevt.org. excellent working environment. experience Full position description and benefits summary at • Must have a demonstrated www.hungerfreevt.org/employment. Please call Elka @802-238-4200 to schedule an interview. commitment to civil rights and knowledge of civil rights laws. 7/2/18 2H-HungerFreeVermont062718.indd 12:00 PM 1 6/25/18 11:23 AM • Must possess the ability 2h-DaffodilEnterprises070418.indd 1 to build and maintain relationships among a wide variety of individuals and organizations. • Must have demonstrated For position details and application process, visit understanding of and jobs.plattsburgh.edu and select “View Current Openings.” experience in administrative SUNY College at Plattsburgh is a fully compliant employer committed to processes. excellence through diversity. • Must have demonstrated experience in developing and conducting educational CA R I N G P E O P L E WA N T E D workshops and public Untitled-20 1 7/2/18 2h-PlattsburghState070418.indd 11:02 AM 1 6/29/18 1:04 PM presentations • Must have demonstrated experience in effectively leading staff and managing and building programs and budgets. Care Coordinator/Scheduler • Legislative interest and Primary Responsibilities experience a plus. include: The executive director position • Create and maintain is exempt and full-time. Salary schedules with high and benefits are based upon Middlebury College seeks a Scientific Machinist who is able to transform people’s ideas for scientific quality matches of qualifications and experience in Clients and CAREGivers accordance with the Executive apparatus into physical reality through machining, pattern making, welding and other work with metals, Director’s Pay Plan (hiring range • Monitor and log client plastics and other materials. The position also provides support for repair and maintenance of scientific $75,044- $93,808). and CAREGiver activity mechanical equipment, and guidance to students interested in learning about machining. Deadline: Applications due by • Answer incoming calls July 20, 2018. Applications will be Training and experience in machine shop practices and welding, including the ability to read and • Follow up on client and accepted by email and mail only. interpret technical drawings and blueprints. Must be familiar with MIG, TIG and SMAW welding Phone calls will not be accepted. CAREGiver issues Applicants should send a resume techniques, brazing and silver-soldering and use of standard machine and woodworking tools such as Must be 18, have HS diploma, and cover letter demonstrating milling machines, metal-turning lathes, grinders, saws, etc. Must be creative with a strong interest in scheduling experience, relevant experience to strong phone and computer developing innovative solutions to problems; good interpersonal skills, plus the ability to communicate human.rights@vermont.gov or to skills Mary Marzec-Gerrior c/o Vermont ideas and work well with faculty, staff, and students. Minimum of 3 years previous related experience, Human Rights Commission, 14Negotiable Salary, Benefits, with demonstrated skills in the above areas. 16 Baldwin St., Montpelier, VT Paid Vacation. Background 05633-6301. Expected start checks and a preTo view the full job description and apply online, please visit: date: November 5, 2018. employment drug screening. http://apptrkr.com/1250946 The State of Vermont is an Please forward resume and Equal Opportunity Employer. Middlebury College employees enjoy a high quality of life with excellent compensation; competitive cover letter to: Applications from individuals health, dental, retirement, and vision benefits; and educational assistance programs. with diverse backgrounds are Beth Racine via email at encouraged. beth.racine@homeinstead.com.
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NorthCountry is Hiring! Join the team Gallup ranks in the top 4% worldwide for employee engagement.
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Gravel & Shea PC, a prominent law firm in downtown Burlington, Vermont, has openings for two legal assistants and one office administrative assistant. The ideal candidates for the legal assistant positions will have law firm experience in either litigation and/or real estate and corporate practice areas, and a comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office software. In addition, these positions require a strong work ethic, an eagerness to learn and excellent writing, communication and typing skills. Minimum of three years’ law firm experience preferred.
If you have excellent listening, speaking, writing, and problem-solving skills, we may have a position for you on our Member Resource Team. Use your skills and training to reply to member phone calls, online chats, and emails accurately and efficiently. You’ll answer questions about everything from the simplest transactions to higherlevel products including consumer and home equity loans. Both full-time and part-time positions available at our headquarters in South Burlington.
Chittenden County Teller A person’s first face-to-face contact at NorthCountry is often with a teller. We need that first impression and all future contact to be positive, comfortable, trustworthy and perhaps even fun. Tellers are responsible for performing a variety of financial transactions accurately and pleasantly, and for listening for opportunities to recommend NorthCountry products and services when appropriate. This full-time position is based out of Chittenden County. All teller positions require Saturday hours.
The office administrative assistant must be computer literate, have excellent typing skills, attention to detail and an eagerness to learn. No law firm experience necessary. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including market-leading paid parental leave and a generous retirement package.
IT Support Specialist Our growing IT Department is seeking a personable problem-solver to work behind the scenes to help keep our organization running smoothly. In addition to data processing, the IT Support Specialist sets up and maintains employee profiles, performs system upgrades, and produces reports. Applicants should have one to three years of related experience and enjoy being part of a hard-working team. This full-time position is based out of our headquarters in South Burlington.
Please e-mail cover letter, résumé and references to: fmiller@gravelshea.com www.gravelshea.com Gravel & Shea PC is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Mortgage Loan Officer Buying a home can be a stressful experience, but we’re here to make it as easy and affordable as possible for our members. The Mortgage Officer is the home buyer’s key contact person at the credit union and provides guidance and information throughout the process. The ability to demonstrate confidence, find solutions, and communicate clearly with people with varying levels of home-buying experience is necessary. Accuracy and a willingness to inform members of other products and services that may be beneficial to them is also expected. This full-time position is based out of our headquarters in South Burlington.
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ESSEX HIGH SCHOOL Our Essex High School has a full-time Registrar position available to receive, transmit and prepare student records and to coordinate and carry out a variety of key administrative support functions for the High School Counseling Office and Career Center.
NorthCountry offers competitive pay, opportunity for advancement, and a generous benefit program. n Paid holidays & paid time off
n 401(k) with employer matching up to 5%
n Medical, dental & vision insurance
n Employee training
n Life insurance & disability
n Wellness program
The successful candidates will have strong organizational skills that reflect the ability to prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent accuracy & attention to detail; good planning, administrative and organizational skills; excellent oral and written communication skills; proficient computer skills; and have a good understanding of public education organizational structure and administrative operations.
We would love to hear from you! To apply, submit your information at NorthCountryFederalCreditUnion.appone.com at your earliest convenience.
Position pays $17.91/hour. Excellent benefits package available including family medical and dental insurance; 30K term life insurance; retirement plan with up to 6% employer contribution; professional development funds; and a competitive paid leave package. Applications only accepted electronically through www.schoolspring.com. Job ID# 2969165.
NorthCountry is an equal opportunity employer.
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SECOND ANNUAL BACKYARD BOIL Resort visitors head to the back 40 for Louisiana crawfish, steamed mussels, andouille sausages, live music and lawn games. Sunday, July 8, 1-4 p.m., the Essex Culinary Resort & Spa. $19.9639.95. Info, 800-7274295, essexresort.com.
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CELEBRATE YOUR FARMER SOCIAL The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont’s mobile pizza oven rolls into South Royalton for an afternoon of friendly, organically inspired chatter and farm tours. Wednesday, July 11, 5:30-8 p.m., Hurricane Flats, South Royalton. $10 suggested donation. Info, nofavt.org.
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The brook flows into the Mad River, the north-flowing body of water that gives the region its name. Mahoney moved to the area 25 years ago and fell in love with the people and the landscape. “It’s very earthy,” she said. “It’s beautiful. I especially love it in winter, cooking
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breakfast and looking out at the church covered in snow.” But winter is half a year away. This week, Warren celebrates Independence Day with its traditional float-filled parade. The theme is “Happy Birthday to Us,” a celebration for the nation, the town and local ski areas that are marking milestone birthdays. (Sugarbush Resort is 60, Mad River Glen 70.) Mahony will spend the holiday morning making scores of breakfast sandwiches, anticipating a busy summer week at the store where the river flows past. She took a break to talk with Seven Days. SEVEN DAYS: This year marks the 70th annual July 4 parade in Warren. What do people come to the Warren Store for on the holiday, and what special things will you prepare? COLLEEN MAHONY: Typically on the fourth, we do a lot of breakfasts — we can do 140 breakfasts on the morning of the parade. We usually limit it to breakfast sandwiches, because we can’t do our typical full menu with all those people. We do one sandwich called the Reutzler, named after a guy who’s come in here forever. He created it. It’s ham, egg, cheese, tomato and mayonnaise. We also do yogurt parfaits — red, white and blue parfaits. We make our own yogurt here, and the bakery makes granola.
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POSITION: Food manager at the Warren Store LOCATION: Warren AGE: 55 STORE HISTORY: The building, originally a hotel,
dates back to 1839 and has been a library, a post office and a funeral parlor. It became a store in 1930, and a deli and bakery were added in the early ’70s. The bakery is housed behind the store in a structure that was a horse stable when the main building was a stagecoach stop. CUISINE TYPE: Breakfast and lunch deli fare and
baked goods EDUCATION: On-the-job training during decades of restaurant work EXPERIENCE: Warren Store for 13 years, Village
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burritos, sandwiches, salads such as kale Caesar, sesame noodles, chicken pot pie, mac and cheese, cookies, pastries
food+drink Wednesdays, 5:30pm - 8:30pm July 11 & 25, Aug 8 & 22 SD: What food is as American as apple pie that isn’t apple pie? CM: I would say hamburgers and hot dogs. I don’t eat them a lot, but I do like a nice cheeseburger. I like it on an English muffin with a little mayo, red onion and tomato, a big slab of melted cheddar cheese, and a little barbecue sauce. It is yummy. SD: What is the ideal picnic from your deli to eat on top of Mount Abe, and what hot lunch specials would you recommend after skiing at Sugarbush? CM: One of our iconic sandwiches, probably the No. 6, which is roast turkey, lettuce, tomato, onion and cranberry mayo on our bakery’s white baguette. You could always grab a broccoli salad or kale Caesar to go with the sandwich, and a key lime pie for dessert. Chicken and biscuits or shepherd’s pie would be a good [meal] after skiing. Or grab a chicken pot pie or Thai curry chicken and head home with a nice bottle of wine from the front of the store.
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SD: What’s the wackiest float you’ve seen at the July 4 parade? CM: I don’t get to see the floats. I’m in the deli. We randomly come out to get a peek. I’ll give the employees time to go out, but I usually don’t get a chance to go out there. I’m inside keeping up with stuff in the kitchen. After doing 130 breakfasts, I’m getting that all cleaned up and getting ready for lunch.
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SD: What’s the trick to making food stand out at a general store that draws people for its location and clothing shop? CM: I don’t think it’s a trick. It’s just good-quality food and locally sourced ingredients. And adding a twist to certain recipes.
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SD: What’s your morning routine when you get to work? CM: I get here around 6:30 in the morning. I open up the deli case and flip all the salads into fresh bowls. I make a prep list for the employees to do — everything from stocking lettuce, prepping tomatoes, making hummus, and a huge slicing list. Then I set up for breakfast, and we open at quarter of eight. We have a breakfast menu of build-your-own burritos and specials every day: pancakes, French toast, omelettes.
SD: When did you develop an interest in cooking? CM: I guess, honestly, it didn’t begin really until I worked here. When I first started here, I wasn’t the manager, and it ended up that I was the [kitchen] manager. [Store manager] Jack [Garvin] gave me the freedom to do what I wanted to in the kitchen. And I guess that’s pretty much how I grew in my cooking skills, when I was given the opportunity to do that. I can honestly tell you that when I started working here 13 years ago, I didn’t even know how to make a pot of soup. It’s really been a blessing to me to work here. I learned by doing it and looking at recipes. It was hands-on and figuring out that you can’t get into a three-hour food entrée if it needs to be ready at three o’clock. So I learned by exploring different recipes and seeing what sells and what doesn’t sell. And by listening to people’s suggestions. A big part of my job, more so than the cooking part, is the organization and keeping everything going. One little setback and you could start running out of things.
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SD: Name five things you always have in your fridge at home. CM: Wine, cheese, kale and mesclun greens, bread-and-butter pickles, vinaigrette.
Spend an evening by the lake in the picnic area behind Leddy Ice Arena. There will be food trucks, beer garden, kids activities with Big Blue Trunk, and music! Free parking and bike valet service by Local Motion.
SD: Have you noticed a difference between what locals want to eat and what tourists are looking for? CM: We do see a big difference in that. It’s pretty funny — I feel like the locals want to come in and grab meals to go, stuff that they can eat at home. The tourists are more in here to get sandwiches, fast food, to hit the road or whatever. This place gets so crazy in July and August; there are so many things to do in the valley that people just want to grab something quickly and be outside.
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HOUSE & FORMAL GARDENS TOUR: Explorations of the inn and its grounds culminate in afternoon tea with sweets and savories. Shelburne Farms, 2:30-4 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 985-8686.
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FEAST & FIELD MARKET: Locally grown produce and Zimbabwean music by Mokoomba are on the menu at a pastoral party. Fable Farm, Barnard, market, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; concert, 5:30-8 p.m. Donations. Info, feastandfield@gmail.com. GUIDED TOURS: A historic Gothic Revival house opens its doors for hourly excursions. Self-guided explorations of the gardens, exhibits and walking trails are also available. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 10 a.m.5 p.m. $6; free for kids 14 and under. Info, 765-4484.
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JOB HUNT HELP: Community College of Vermont interns assist employment seekers with everything from résuméwriting to online applications. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393. LA LECHE LEAGUE MEETING: Nursing mothers share breastfeeding tips and resources. Essex Free Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, lllessexvt@gmail. com. QUEEN CITY BICYCLE CLUB MONTHLY RIDE: Folks who identify as women, trans, femme and nonbinary empower one another on a group excursion complete with glitter and a giant boom box. A
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drink ticket awaits each rider at Zero Gravity Craft Brewery. Old Spokes Home, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, christine. tyler@gmail.com. QUEEN CITY GHOST WALK: GHOSTS & LEGENDS OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN: Vermont’s queen of Halloween, Thea Lewis, tells the ghostly tales that inspired her book on paranormal phenomena. Meet 10 minutes before the start time. Battery Park, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966.
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SUMMERVALE: Locavores fête farms and farmers at a weekly event centered on food, brews and kids’ activities, with City Market/Onion River Co-op workshops and live music. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Donations. Info, abby@intervale.org.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: How and why did the pterosaur take to the sky? A captivating motion picture full of 3D filming technology and CGI explores this question. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.50-16.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: Shot on location in South Africa, New Zealand, Mexico and California, this film seeks the truth behind the mythic and stigmatized underwater
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creature. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.50-16.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘THE LADY IN THE VAN’: This 2015 film follows the unlikely friendship between a man and a transient woman who parks her dwelling in his driveway. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: Moviegoers get up close and personal with some of the dinosaur age’s most fearsome marine reptiles. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.50-16.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: Viewers plunge into fantastic places and meet amazing creatures with water as their guide. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $13.5016.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.
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FIND MORE LOCAL EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND ONLINE: art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.
film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.
music Find club dates at local venues in the music section and at sevendaysvt.com/music. All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.
JUL.5-7 | THEATER Family Reunion When the alcoholic patriarch of an Oklahoma clan goes missing, old grievances and family secrets come to light in Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, August: Osage County. The Waterbury Festival Playhouse opens its 2018 season with this acclaimed tragicomedy that shows what happens when the Weston family — including daughters Barbara, Ivy and Karen, and their cancer-stricken and pill-addicted mother, Violet — reunite for the first time in years. Veteran Vermont actor Mary Wheeler portrays the acid-tongued matriarch in this moving exploration of a family’s relationship with addiction — and each other.
‘AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY’ Thursday, July 5, through Saturday, July 7, 7:30 p.m., at the Waterbury Festival Playhouse. See website for additional dates. $17.50-35. Info, 498-3755, waterburyfestivalplayhouse.com.
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Formed in the wake of the island’s destructive 2010 earthquake, Haitian music collective Lakou Mizik makes music with a mission. Composed of nine members spanning social, religious and geographic backgrounds, the multigenerational ensemble seeks to spread a message of pride, strength and hope to fellow Haitians and listeners around the world. Vodou rhythms, calland-response vocals, intricate bass lines and socially conscious lyrics combine for an undeniably danceable sound. Concertgoers can’t help but groove as the band performs upbeat numbers from its 2016 album, Wa LAKOU MIZIK Di Yo, as part of Summer Wednesday, July 11, 5:30 p.m., at the Dartmouth Green, Dartmouth College, in Free for All, an all-ages Hanover, N.H. Rain location: Spaulding events series at Dartmouth Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts. Free. Info, 603-646-2422, College. hop.dartmouth.edu.
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The Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center entices entomology enthusiasts with a day of arthropod adventures as part of its fifth annual Incredible Insect INCREDIBLE INSECT FESTIVAL Festival. Are you crazy for caterpillars? Saturday, July 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Vermont Check out more than 50 New England Institute of Natural Science Nature Center in Quechee. Regular admission, $13.50-15.50; free for species and use digital microscopes members and kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5000, and screens to observe larva eating, vinsweb.org. shedding and hatching from eggs. Are bees your bag? Peter Hadeka of the Vermont Beekeepers Association buzzes in to elucidate the art and importance of beekeeping. Kiddos keep busy with face painting, bug safaris and romps in SunCommon’s solar-powered bounce house. Food vendors serve up grub from 11 a.m. ’til 2 p.m.
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Though Mick Jagger has long made it look effortless, creating rock-and-roll music isn’t always easy. “Sometimes you have to plug a mic in, press MONTRÉAL INTERNATIONAL record and plug away,” says the War on JAZZ FESTIVAL: Drugs front man Adam Granduciel in a THE WAR ON DRUGS press release for the band’s 2017 album, Saturday, July 7, 9:30 p.m., at TD Stage, Place des Festivals, in Montréal. Free. Info, A Deeper Understanding. The hard work 514-871-1881, montrealjazzfest.com. by Granduciel and his bandmates paid off. The Philadelphia-based group earned a Grammy Award, rave reviews from the likes of Rolling Stone and National Public Radio, and more than a few Bruce Springsteen comparisons. The rockers behind songs such as “Red Eyes” and “Pain” captivate fans as part of the Montréal International Jazz Festival’s closing night.
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BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOURS: Foodies sample farmfresh eats on a scrumptious stroll dedicated to the Queen City’s culinary past. Awning behind ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. $55. Info, 238-8828. COMMUNITY LUNCH: Farm-fresh fare makes for a delicious and nutritious midday meal. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 309. VERMONT BEER PAIRING POPUP SERIES: Gourmands gorge on a three-course meal served alongside a local brew. Village Café at Bolton Valley, 5-9 p.m. $45. Info, 434-3444. WORCESTER COMMUNITY MARKET: Local produce, live bands and kids’ activities bring neighbors together. 52 Elmore Rd., Worcester, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 272-3309.
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BEGINNERS TAI CHI CLASS: Students get a feel for the ancient Chinese practice. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1011 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322. CHAIR YOGA: FOR THOSE WITH LIMITED MOBILITY: Props and modifications complement elements of a traditional flow class. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 2-3:15 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.
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CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Champlain Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262. COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161. YOGA: A Sangha Studio instructor guides students who are in recovery toward achieving inner tranquility. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.
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FRENCH CONVERSATION: Speakers improve their linguistic dexterity in the Romantic tongue. Bradford Public Library, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.
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MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT CIRQUE: Performers from France, Australia, Canada and Argentina take to the city’s halls, streets and neighborhoods with awe-inspiring feats of circus artistry. See montrealcompletementcirque. com for details. Various Montréal locations. $15-30; $90-150 for packages. Info, 514-376-8648. MONTRÉAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: Legendary performers including Herbie Hancock and Cécile McLorin Salvant deliver jazz, blues and
contemporary tunes alongside rising talents. See montrealjazzfest.com for details. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary. Info, 514-871-1881.
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Find club dates in the music section. BIG HAT, NO CATTLE: Boots tap to songs new and old performed in a vintage Western style. Back Road BBQ brings the grub. Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. BRUCE SKLAR: Joined by his Sklarkestra, the jazz pianist provides toe-tapping tunes for a night of food, drinks and fun. Sugarhouse Soundworks, Waitsfield, 6-8 p.m. $20. Info, esigsbey@yahoo.com.
from mist nets to data sheets. Call to confirm. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 8-11 a.m. Donations. Info, 434-3068.
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FREE AIKIDO CLASS: An introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 951-8900.
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TECH SUPPORT: Need an email account? Want to enjoy ebooks? Bring your phone, tablet or laptop to a weekly help session. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291, ext. 302.
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BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND REHEARSALS: Enthusiastic players of brass, woodwind and percussion instruments find perfect harmony. Burlington High School, 6:45-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, joelatherton8@gmail.com.
‘ALWAYS ... PATSY CLINE’: The country crooner’s friendship with Houston housewife Louise Seger anchors this Depot Theatre production. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 5 p.m. $20-35. Info, 518-962-4449.
DAVID ROSANE & THE ZOOKEEPERS: The folk-rockprotest band rallies support for literacy during a stop on its Book of ZOO Library Tour. Enosburgh Public Library, Enosburg Falls, 7-10 p.m. Donations. Info, 933-2328.
‘AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY’: Repressed truths and unsettling secrets come to light when a midwestern patriarch goes missing in a Waterbury Festival Playhouse production. See calendar spotlight. Waterbury Festival Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $17.50-35. Info, 498-3755.
HUNGER MOUNTAIN COOP BROWN BAG SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Vermont’s Pitz Quattrone doles out didgeridootinged numbers for an al fresco listening experience. Courtyard, Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, noon. Free. Info, 223-9604. MUSIC IN THE VINEYARD SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Oenophiles let loose with live music Blues for Breakfast, award-winning wine and mouthwatering eats. BYO seating. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, picnicking begins, 5 p.m.; music, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 372-9463. PINEDROP: Based in Brattleboro, the four-piece band skillfully blends folk and bluegrass stylings for a fresh Americana sound. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. $7. Info, 775-0356. VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2018 TD BANK SUMMER FESTIVAL TOUR: The outdoor-inspired program “Gifts of Nature” culminates in a fireworks display. The Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden, gates open for picnicking, 5:30 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $5-35; free for kids 4 and under with adult ticket purchase. Info, 863-5966. WHETHERMAN: Nicholas Williams, known as Whetherman, taps into the tradition of 1960s folk-music heroes in an intimate show complete with wine and eats. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Historical Society. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.
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BANDING & BIRDING: Avian enthusiasts drop in for an education on the banding process,
‘FUN HOME’: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel is the basis of this award-winning musical about viewing one’s parents through grown-up eyes. Weston Playhouse Second Stage at Walker Farm, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $47. Info, 824-5288. ‘THE MOUSETRAP’: Whodunit? A maniac terrorizes a group of snowbound houseguests in a Saint Michael’s Playhouse revival of Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $36-45. Info, 654-2281.
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READINGS IN THE GALLERY: NICOLE HOMER: The Dartmouth College poet in residence reads from her first full-length collection, Pecking Order. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393.
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NEWBERRY POP-UP MARKET: Vendors purvey a variety of Vermont-made products. 5 S. Main St., White River Junction, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 299-0212.
community
THE BARK SIDE PARTY ON THE GREEN: A benefit for PAWSitive Pantry entertains pooches and people with a dog parade, food trucks, a beer garden, live music by the Grift and more. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 6-10 p.m. Free; $10 per dog for parade. Info, jen@ pawsitivepantry.org. FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.
crafts
CRAFTY CRAP NIGHT: Participants bring supplies or ongoing projects and an adventurous attitude to share creative time with other people in recovery. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.
dance
BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Singles, couples and beginners are welcome to join in a dance social featuring the waltz, tango and more. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, 8-9:30 p.m. $8. Info, 862-2269.
‘OUR TOWN’: Small-town drama plays out in Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Weston Playhouse Main Stage, 7:30-10 p.m. $49-60. Info, 824-5288.
ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Jubilant motions with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspire divine connections. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8011.
‘PATIENCE’: A comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, presented by Vermont Theatre Festival, satirizes the aesthetic movement of 19th-century England. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968.
FIRST FRIDAY FOLK DANCING: Participants make strides in circle, line and couple dances. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $3-5. Info, 223-2518.
THE PIRATES & TUXEDO MURDER MYSTERY CRUISE: Who done it? Suppertime sleuths enjoy a delicious dinner and crack a case presented by the October Theatre Company. Spirit of Ethan Allen, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. $52.85. Info, 862-8300. ‘WHITE CHRISTMAS’: Two World War II veterans move their songand-dance act to Vermont to win over a pair of sisters in Chandler Center for the Arts’ youth production of this holiday classic. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7 p.m. $12.75-19.25. Info, 728-6464.
NEW WORKS: Students from the Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio and others put their best foot forward in original pieces. Phantom Theater, Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 496-5997.
environment
NORTHWOODS SPITZER DEMONSTRATION FOREST TOUR: Folks of all levels of interest and experience see what forestry in a multi-use, conserved woodland looks like. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 723-6551.
FIRST FRIDAY: TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT: A reading of the first chapters of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone gives way to themed games, activities and snacks. Costumes are encouraged. Phoenix Books Misty Valley, Chester, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 875-3400. NIGHT AT THE FARM: Bearing chairs and blankets, merrymakers celebrate berry season with live music by Carol Ann Jones and Will Patton and tasty eats from KC’s Red Hots and Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream. Fisher Brothers Farm, Shelburne, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 846-7370. QUEEN CITY GHOST WALK: DARKNESS FALLS: Local historian Thea Lewis treats pedestrians to tales of madmen, smugglers, pub spirits and, of course, ghosts. Arrive 10 minutes early. Democracy sculpture, 199 Main St., Burlington, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966. TAROT READINGS: A spiritual mentor consults her cards to offer guidance and clarity. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $1 per minute; preregister. Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com.
film
See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ASBURY SHORTS USA: THE SHORT FILM CONCERT: Cinephiles take their seats for a special screening of New York City’s longest running short film exhibition. Recommended for ages 16 and up. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 603-469-3444. FIRST FRIDAY FLICKS: Blankets or beanbags in tow, families file in for a monthly motion picture. Bethel Town Hall, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, hello@bethel revitalizationinitiative.org. ‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5. ‘GORGO’: A showing of this 1961 action flick about a Celtic Godzillalike creature is a nod to the legend of Champ, the Lake Champlain monster. Newman Center, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, serious_61@yahoo.com. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See THU.5. ‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5. ‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See THU.5.
food & drink
BRANDON FARMERS MARKET: Local farmers, artisans and specialty food producers offer up their goods. Estabrook Park, Brandon, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 273-2655. BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOURS: See THU.5. CASUAL FRIDAYS: Patrons start the weekend in style with snacks from a diverse menu and a full bar with drink specials and local beers. The Woods Lodge, Northfield, 5:30-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 778-0205.
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY DINNER TRAIN: Passengers feast on a three-course meal while riding the Green Mountain Railroad from Burlington to Middlebury and back. Union Station, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $85100; preregister for Gold Class tickets and parties of eight or more. Info, 800-707-3530. FOODWAYS FRIDAYS: Foodies use heirloom herbs and veggies to revive historic recipes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $4-16; free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355. FRIDAY NIGHT COOKOUTS: Grilled items, seasonal salads and decadent desserts please palates at a weekly feast. Adamant Co-op, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 223-5760. FRIED CHICKEN DINNER: Friends and families feast on farm-raised poultry with all the fixings. Takeout is available. Maple Wind Farm Processing Facility, Richmond, 5:30-8 p.m. Cost of food and drink; preregister. Info, 434-7257. RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace featuring live music connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, info@richmond farmersmarketvt.org. SUN TO CHEESE TOUR: Fromage fanatics go behind the scenes and follow award-winning farmhouse cheddar from raw milk to finished product. Shelburne Farms, 1:45-3:45 p.m. $20 includes a block of cheddar; preregister. Info, 985-8686. TRUCK STOP: Mobile kitchens dish out mouthwatering meals and libations. Live music and cold beer add to the fun. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.
games
BRIDGE CLUB: Players have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. $6. Info, 872-5722. CAPTURE THE FLAG: Adults and kids ages 14 and up practice stealth and strategy as they crawl, hide and run through the woods. Email for details. Red Rocks Park, South Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, scoutclubvt@gmail.com. CRIBBAGE TEAMS: Longtime players and neophytes alike aim for a value of 15 or 31 in this competitive card game. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322. PINOCHLE & RUMMY: Card sharks engage in friendly competition. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.
health & fitness
ACUDETOX: Attendees in recovery undergo acupuncture to the ear to propel detoxification. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.
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ADVANCED TAI CHI CLASS: Participants keep active with a sequence of slow, controlled movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322. BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: Folks of all ages ward off osteoporosis in an exercise and prevention class. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 7:30-8:30 & 10:4011:40 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322. LIVING RECOVERY: FOR THOSE IN ADDICTION RECOVERY OR AFFECTED BY THE ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR OF OTHERS: A moderately paced flow class serves folks overcoming substance use. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262. REFUGE RECOVERY: A LOVE SUPREME: Buddhist philosophy is the foundation of this mindfulness-based addictionrecovery community. Turning Point Center, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 861-3150.
holidays
BRANDON INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION: The fun begins on Friday with a family-friendly street dance. Saturday’s revelers find a silent auction, a parade, live music by Moose Crossing and fireworks bursting over the village at sunset. Various Brandon locations, 6-10 p.m. Free. Info, 247-3635.
lgbtq
FIRST FRIDAY: DJs and drag acts spice up a monthly queer dance party. Higher Ground, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 877-987-6487.
montréal
MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT CIRQUE: See THU.5.
music
Find club dates in the music section.
DAVID ROSANE & THE ZOOKEEPERS: See THU.5, Peacham Congregational Church, 7-8:30 p.m. $15. Info, 592-3330.
sports
FRIDAY NIGHT DINGHY RACING: Skippers celebrate the end of the week with some nautical competition. Prior sailing knowledge and passage of CSC’s rental test are required. Community Sailing Center, Burlington, signup, 4:30 p.m.; begin rigging, 5:30 p.m.; first gun, 6 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, 864-2499.
‘PATIENCE’: See THU.5. ‘WHITE CHRISTMAS’: See THU.5.
words
FRIDAY MORNING WORKSHOP: Wordsmiths offer constructive criticism on works in progress by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.
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activism
FAIR TRADE 101: Attendees gain an understanding of the effects of U.S. trade policies on the Global South. Arrive at 1:30 p.m. for a PJC new volunteer orientation. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.
theater
‘ALWAYS ... PATSY CLINE’: See THU.5, 7 p.m. ‘AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY’: See THU.5.
dance
‘LIBERATED LIBRETTO: A FROLIC WITH GILBERT AND SULLIVAN’: A musical revue captures the satire and the musicality that made operettas such as The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado famous. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, 334-7902.
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Burlington Edible History Tours
THU.-SAT., JUL. 5-7 & 12-14 OUTSIDE AT THE BACK OF THE ECHO CENTER, BURLINGTON
Reggae Night with DJ Big Dog & Jahson FRI., JUL. 6 RUSTY NAIL STAGE, STOWE
Celebrate Your Farmer Social
BURLINGTON WESTIE FIRST SATURDAY DANCE: Hoofers hit the dance floor for a themed evening of blues and West Coast swing. North End Studio A, Burlington, introductory lesson, 6:30 p.m.; workshop, 7 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $8-12; free for first-timers. Info, burlington westie@gmail.com. CONTRA DANCE: Chuck Abell calls the steps for a traditional social dance with music by the Organic Family Band. Capital City Grange, Berlin, instruction session, 7:35 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $5-15. Info, 249-7454.
Strawberry Shortcake! For kids ages 3-4 with their caregiver SAT., JUL. 7 RICHMOND COMMUNITY KITCHEN
Garden Harvest Basket Weaving Workshop
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THU., JUL. 12 DOES’ LEAP FARM, EAST FAIRFIELD
King Yellowman and the Sagittarius Band
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bazaars
PEASANT MARKET: Bargain shoppers flock to this flea market and silent auction benefiting local charities. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on the Green, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7200.
‘FUN HOME’: See THU.5.
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SAT., JUL. 14 NATIONAL LIFE DRIVE, MONTPELIER
SAT., JUL. 7 THE POUGHKEEPSIE UNDERWEAR FACTORY, N.Y.
NEW WORKS: See FRI.6, 8 p.m.
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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (WINDOWS): History buffs get a glimpse into the Billings family’s daily life with a morning tour of the mansion, including its custom Tiffany windows. Coffee and light breakfast on the porch follow. Marsh-BillingsRockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 9-10 a.m. $4-8; free for kids 15 and under; limited space. Info, 457-3368.
Celebrate Your Farmer Social WED., JUL. 11 HURRICANE FLATS, SOUTH ROYALTON
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GUIDED TOURS: See THU.5. INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE: Anything goes in an in-person networking group where attendees can share hobbies, play music and discuss current events — without using online social sites. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 658-0030. SAT.7
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RICK & THE ALL-STAR RAMBLERS: Toe-tapping western swing channels cowboy culture at a CD release party for Taryn Noelle Swings. Shelburne Museum, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6674.
SUNSET PADDLE: Stunning scenery welcomes boaters who explore the Clyde River in search of crepuscular beings. Bring a headlamp and warm clothing. Weather permitting. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 723-6551.
‘OUT-OF-JOINT HAMLET’: With the use of epic marionettes, Bread and Puppet Theater reimagines Shakespeare’s tale of the indecisive Prince of Denmark. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 525-3031.
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THE RENEGADE GROOVE: Hailing from Burlington, the funk-rock foursome serves up tight grooves with sections of improvisation. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 533-9075.
outdoors
‘OUR TOWN’: See THU.5.
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BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: BIRDCODE: Amber deLaurentis and Tom Cleary showcase their jazz chops from an outdoor stage. Burlington City Hall Park, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.
TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS: A hybrid of the Nashville and Austin music scenes, the acoustic duo crafts catchy Americana sounds. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 352-6671.
‘THE MOUSETRAP’: See THU.5.
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MONTRÉAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: See THU.5.
SUMMER CARILLON CONCERT: The melodic sound of bells rings out across the campus in a performance by Sergei Gratchev, the carillonneur for the city of Hulst in the Netherlands. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.
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LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complimentary consultations on a first-come, first-served basis. 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 383-2118. QUEEN CITY GHOST WALK: DARKNESS FALLS: See FRI.6.
fairs & festivals
ANGRY ORCHARD HARD CIDER ROCK THE ROOTS MUSIC TOUR: Sublime With Rome, Dirty Heads and Lupe Fiasco are among the talent set to take the stage during this one-day cider and music festival complete with lawn games and the Angry Orchard Arcade. Mount Snow, West Dover, 2 p.m. $55-70; for ages 21 and up. Info, 888-512-7469. ARTS & CRAFT FESTIVAL: Creative folk come together for demonstrations, juried shows, chainsaw carving and concessions with the Society of Vermont Artists and Craftsmen. Fletcher Farm School for the Arts & Crafts, Ludlow, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 228-8770. BATTLE OF HUBBARDTON REVOLUTIONARY WAR WEEKEND: Martial mavens honor the 241st anniversary of the Revolutionary War battle fought on the land that would become Vermont. Expect reenactors, military demos, battlefield tours and kids’ activities. Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $6; free for kids under 15. Info, 273-2282.
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GRAFTON FOOD & SPIRITS FESTIVAL: A celebration of local flavors features food and beverage vendors, cooking demos, live music, and a kids’ burger battle. Grafton Inn, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $10. Info, 843-2248. INCREDIBLE INSECT FESTIVAL: Visitors learn about caterpillars and pollinators with regional experts. See calendar spotlight. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center, Quechee, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $13.50-15.50; free for members and kids 3 and under. Info, 359-5000.
film
See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See THU.5. ‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5.
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‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See THU.5.
food & drink
BURLINGTON EDIBLE HISTORY TOURS: See THU.5. BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: Dozens of stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, burlington farmersmarket.org@gmail.com. CANS ‘N CLAMS: Steamed clams, lobsters, mussels, lobster rolls, Vermont craft beer and rosé please palates at a pop-up clam shack. Joe’s Kitchen at Screamin’
Ridge Farm, Montpelier, noon-8 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 461-5371. CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, locally made arts and crafts, and live music. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 793-8347. CHAMPLAIN VALLEY DINNER TRAIN: See FRI.6. CHOCOLATE TASTING IN BURLINGTON: Let’s go bar hopping! With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics discover the flavor profiles of varieties such as toffee almond crunch and salted caramel latte. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807. COLD ROAST TURKEY & SUMMER SALAD SUPPER: Potato and broccoli salads, rolls, and desserts round out this buffet-style meal. Takeout is available. Vergennes United Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. $5-9. Info, 877-3150. SHELBURNE FARMERS MARKET: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-4279. VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET: Local foods and crafts, live music, and hot eats spice up Saturday mornings. Kennedy Brothers Building, Vergennes, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 233-9180. VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: Local products — veggies, breads, pastries, cheeses, wines, syrups, jewelry, crafts and beauty supplies — draw shoppers to a diversified bazaar. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 342-4727.
health & fitness
ROLLERBLADE DEMO: The Rollerblade Demo Van USA parks near the bike path, offering the latest and greatest in the brand’s inline skates. Andy A_Dog Williams Skatepark, Burlington, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 747-8369. YOGA HIKES WITH INNER LIFT YOGA: A walking meditation through wood and field includes instruction incorporating elements of the natural environment. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 457-3368.
holidays
BAKERSFIELD INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION: Spirits run high at a community celebration complete with a parade, chicken barbecue, air show, cow-plop contest and fireworks at dusk. Intersection of Route 108 and Route 36, Bakersfield, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. Info, 827-6145. BRANDON INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION: See FRI.6, . FUNKY FOURTH: A lively procession gives way to activities on the green. Greensboro Town Hall Green, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 533-2911.
INDEPENDENCE DAY FIREWORKS: One of the largest fireworks displays in the Northeast Kingdom comes complete with family fun, live music, scenic chairlift rides and mouthwatering eats. Rain date: July 8. Burke Mountain Resort, 5-10 p.m. $5. Info, 626-7300.
language
DUTCH LANGUAGE CLASS: Planning a trip to Amsterdam? Learn vocabulary and grammar basics from a native speaker. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, bheeks@ yahoo.com.
lgbtq
PRIDE YOGA: FOR LGBTQIA+ PEOPLE & ALLIES: Participants hit the mat for a stretching session suited for all levels. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 5-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.
montréal
MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT CIRQUE: See THU.5. MONTRÉAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: See THU.5. MONTRÉAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: THE WAR ON DRUGS: The Grammy Awardwinning rock band behind 2017’s A Deeper Understanding serves up a rollicking set on the festival’s closing night. See calendar spotlight. TD Stage, Place des Festivals, Montréal, 9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 514-871-1881.
music
Find club dates in the music section. BELL CONCERT SERIES: Picnics and lawn chairs in tow, listeners revel in the vibrations of the largest musical instrument in the world, the carillon. A demonstration follows. Upper Parade Ground. Norwich University, Northfield, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2100. JOHN PIZZARELLI TRIO: Known for his interpretations of the Great American Songbook, the jazz guitarist reimagines classic tunes. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $25-55. Info, 760-4634. VA-ET-VIENT: French heritage is front and center in a performance by the Addison County trio. Ripton Community House, 7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 388-9792. VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2018 TD BANK SUMMER FESTIVAL TOUR: See THU.5, Brunswick School, Randolph. $5-30; free for kids 5 and under.
outdoors
BIRD MONITORING IN DELTA PARK: Citizen scientists spot winged species and report their results to ebird.org. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, 978-994-0482. FOREST BATHING WALK: Folks unplug, slow down and experience nature through a guided mindfulness practice. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 10 a.m.-noon. Donations. Info, 755-6336.
sports
.5K DASH FOR DONUTS: Underachievers run 1,640 feet to raise funds for Killington summer programs. VIPs travel the distance in a golf cart. Sherburne Memorial Library, Killington, 11 a.m.-noon. $15-20. Info, 422-9765. CK6 5V5 TOURNAMENT: Adult and high school-age members of the Queen City’s soccer community hit the field to honor the late Christian Kibabu’s memory and raise money for a memorial plaque. Burlington High School, 8 a.m. $150 per team; preregister. Info, miasehic4@gmail.com.
Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090. KNIFE SHARPENING: Dull blades, be gone! Jim Cunningham of JRC Knife Sharpening whets cutting tools. Chef Contos Kitchen & Store, Shelburne, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $4-5 per knife. Info, 497-3942. STOWE FARMERS MARKET: An appetizing assortment of fresh veggies, meats, milk, berries, herbs, beverages and crafts tempts shoppers. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 279-3444.
VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2018 TD BANK SUMMER FESTIVAL TOUR: See THU.5, Trapp Family Lodge Concert Meadow, Stowe. $10-30; free for kids 4 and under.
outdoors
BUG & BUTTERFLY WALK: Nature lovers bring nets, binoculars and magnifying glasses to catch a close-up glimpse of local species. Pack a picnic lunch for after the walk. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10 a.m.noon. Donations. Info, 434-2167.
seminars
‘AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY’: See THU.5.
WILDCRAFTING WORKSHOP & BOOK SIGNING: Professional forager Pascal Baudar provides food for thought with a presentation of his work and a signing of his recent page-turners on the topic. City Market, Onion River Co-op, Burlington South End, 12:302:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.
‘FUN HOME’: See THU.5, 2-4:30 & 7:30-9:30 p.m.
lgbtq
sports
LGBTQ FIBER ARTS GROUP: A knitting, crocheting and weaving session welcomes all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations and skill levels. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.
A DAY OF DISC GOLF: A fun-filled tour allows players of this hybrid sport to experience two different courses, with stops for refreshments along the way. Richmond Park and Ride, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $51.50. Info, info@bestinvt.com.
montréal
DISC GOLF LEAGUES: Players aim for targets in a fun and social tournament. Bolton Valley Resort, noon. $7-14. Info, 434-3444.
theater
‘ALWAYS ... PATSY CLINE’: See THU.5, 3 p.m.
‘THE MOUSETRAP’: See THU.5, 2 & 8 p.m. ‘OUR TOWN’: See THU.5, 2-4:30 & 7:30-10 p.m. ‘PATIENCE’: See THU.5. ‘WHITE CHRISTMAS’: See THU.5.
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community
COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Sessions in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh include sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and open sharing. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, newleafsangha@gmail.com.
dance
NEW WORKS: See FRI.6.
etc.
GUIDED TOURS: See THU.5.
fairs & festivals
MIDDLEBURY FESTIVAL ON THE GREEN: A seven-day fête includes musical performances, family-friendly programs, a street dance and more. See festivalonthegreen.org for details. Village Green, Middlebury, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 462-3555. BATTLE OF HUBBARDTON REVOLUTIONARY WAR WEEKEND: See SAT.7, 8 a.m.4:30 p.m.
film
See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See THU.5. ‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5. ‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See THU.5.
food & drink
CHOCOLATE TASTING IN BURLINGTON: See SAT.7. CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made on-site. Nutty
MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT CIRQUE: See THU.5. PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK MONTRÉAL: DJ sets and beatdriven music propel a dance party of epic proportions. See piknicelectronik.com for details. Plaine des jeux, Montréal, 2-9:30 p.m. $14.50-119; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 514-904-1247.
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Find club dates in the music section. BELLA’S BARTOK: Fans stay on their feet for the circus-punk rockers. The Van Burens open this Levitt AMP St. Johnsbury Music Series concert. Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. JOE JACKSON: From hits such as “Is She Really Going Out With Him” to songs from 2015’s Fast Forward, a career-spanning concert by the English musician delights fans. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $37.50-55. Info, 863-5966. NORTHEAST FIDDLERS ASSOCIATION MEETING: Lovers of this spirited art form gather to catch up and jam. American Legion Post 59, Waterbury, noon5 p.m. Free; donations of nonperishable food items accepted. Info, 431-3901. ROCHESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: Violinist Julia Salerno, cellist Ben Gish and pianist Cynthia Huard charm classical connoisseurs in the Marguerite Schenkman Memorial Concert. Federated Church of Rochester, 4-5:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 767-9234. UKULELE MÊLÉE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the four-stringed Hawaiian instrument. BYO uke. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
THE EMERALD ASH BORER IS HERE!: Nature lovers learn to identify this nonnative forest insect with help from pest expert Meredith Whitney. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHALLENGE RACE: Boaters hit the water for a three-mile race across the lake in kayaks, canoes and other human-powered vessels. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, registration, 9:30 a.m.; race, 11 a.m. $25; free for spectators; preregister to borrow a boat. Info, 475-2022, ext. 113.
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MICH KABAY: The Norwich University professor of computer information systems weighs in on the use of the internet in political campaigns as part of a lecture series titled “The Politics of Cyberspace.” Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 253-1800.
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‘ALWAYS ... PATSY CLINE’: See THU.5. ‘FUN HOME’: See THU.5, 3-5:30 p.m. ‘THE GRASSHOPPER REBELLION CIRCUS & PAGEANT’: A spirited Bread and Puppet Theater production performed in the Circus Field pulls advice from several prominent revolutions in human history. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 3 p.m. $10. Info, 525-3031. ‘PATIENCE’: See THU.5. ‘WHITE CHRISTMAS’: See THU.5, 2 p.m.
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BACK ROADS READINGS: Jody Gladding and Sharon Olds read selected poems. A reception and book signing follows. Brownington Congregational Church, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 633-4956.
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BOOK SALE & LUNCH: Bargain shoppers stock their shelves with summer reading supplies, then enjoy a midday meal on the lawn. Charlotte Library, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 425-3864.
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AMERICAN VETERANS VERMONT POST 1: Those who have served or are currently serving the country, including members of the National Guard and reservists, are welcome to join AMVETS for monthly meetings. American Legion, Post 91, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 796-3098. THE HOP SEASON PREVIEW: Upper Valley arts lovers get a look at the Hopkins Center for the Arts’ upcoming programming. A launch party with free food and music follows on the Courtyard Café Patio. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. JOB HUNT HELP: See THU.5, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. MAINTENANCE MONDAY: With lubricant, cleaner, grease and air, cyclists keep their bikes in working order. Not for repairs. Old Spokes Home Community Workshop, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@oldspokeshome. com. VERMONT ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY: Stargazers meet for two mini talks, “Atmospheric Phenomena, Some Familiar and Some Not,” and “Asteroids and Meteors.” Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
MIDDLEBURY FESTIVAL ON THE GREEN: See SUN.8, noon-1 & 7-10 p.m.
BRIDGE CLUB: See FRI.6, 6:30 p.m. CHESS CLUB: Checkmate! Players make strategic moves and vie for the opposing king. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. CRIBBAGE TEAMS: See FRI.6. MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 6:30-10 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0498. PINOCHLE & RUMMY: See FRI.6.
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ADVANCED SUN-STYLE TAI CHI, LONG-FORM: Elements of qigong thread through the youngest version of the Chinese martial art. Winooski Senior Center, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 735-5467. ADVANCED TAI CHI CLASS: See FRI.6. BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See FRI.6, 7:30-8:30, 9:15-10:15 & 10:40-11:40 a.m. HERBAL CONSULTATIONS: Clinical interns from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. City Market, Onion River Co-op, downtown Burlington, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, 244-7100. SEATED TAI CHI: Movements are modified for those with arthritis and other chronic conditions. Winooski Senior Center, 11 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 735-5467. VETERANS YOGA: FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED: Seasoned practitioners and neophytes alike engage in postures of strength and physicality. Participants may bring a friend or other support person. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.
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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5.
‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5. ‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See THU.5.
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Find club dates in the music section. SAMBATUCADA OPEN REHEARSAL: Newbies are invited to help keep the beat as Burlington’s samba streetpercussion band sharpens its sound. Instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.
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CABLE ALTERNATIVES: Television viewers tune in for an overview of options for watching favorite shows and movies. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
sports
DRAGON BOAT NEWBIE NIGHTS: Paddlers hit the water with the Malia Paddling & Racing Club to learn the basics of this ancient sport. Community Sailing Center, Burlington, 6-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 999-1634.
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MARK GREENBERG: “Solidarity forever: Songs of Union and Labor” surveys American labor songs from the Industrial Revolution through the coal wars of the 1930s. Waterbury Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, judi@ waterburypubliclibrary.com.
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RICK WINSTON: The movie buff employs classic clips to illustrate “Film Noir,” a talk about the flawed heroes, femme fatales and other hallmarks of the genre. Festival Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 456-8968.
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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Electronics novices develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon & 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.
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MEMOIR CLASS FOR SENIORS 65+: Writing prompts get creative juices flowing in a sixweek program. Call for details. Cathedral Square, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. Free; limited space. Info, 859-8849.
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MONDAY NIGHT POETRY WORKSHOP: Wordsmiths analyze creative works in progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. MON.9
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MAGICAL BBQ: Mouthwatering kosher foods, including vegetarian options, fuel families for a dazzling and humorous performance by magician Elliott Smith. Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 5 p.m. $20; free for kids 12 and under; preregister. Info, 253-1800.
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BTV POLY COCKTAILS: Those who are polyamorous, in an open relationship or just curious connect over drinks. Drink, Burlington, 7 p.m.-midnight. Free; for ages 21 and up. Info, 253-310-8315.
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LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: Bring a bag lunch to practice the system of communication using visual gestures. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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MUST-READ MONDAYS: Lit lovers cover Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. READING THROUGH THE BIBLE: Participants gather near the fireplace to peruse the Scriptures. Panera Bread, South Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 893-6266. SUMMER BOOK SALE: Thousands of gently used CDs, DVDs, puzzles and page-turners pique shoppers’ interest. Rutland Free Library, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. WRITING POWER: A WRITING WORKSHOP TO UNLEASH THE WRITER WITHIN: Whether they’re interested in poetry, memoir or fiction, aspiring authors learn practical methods for overcoming obstacles to creativity. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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SAVE OUR SKIES FROM THE F-35S MEETING: Locals join forces at a planning meeting aimed at blocking F-35 fighter jets from being based at the Vermont Air National Guard Station in Burlington. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.
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SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different forms, including the Lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.
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ANYTHING GOES! SLAM: From poets to musicians to magicians, performers share works up to five minutes long. Hardwick Street Café at the Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 533-9075. LA LECHE LEAGUE MEETING: Nursing mothers share breastfeeding tips and resources. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 720-272-8841. TIME-TRAVEL TUESDAYS: Families experience a blast from the past with 19th-century chores and games in the restored 1890 farm house. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $4-16; free for members and kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.
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HOUSE & FORMAL GARDENS TOUR: See THU.5.
MIDDLEBURY FESTIVAL ON THE GREEN: See SUN.8, noon-1 & 7-10 p.m.
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CHITTENDEN COUNTY HOMELESS ALLIANCE COMMUNITY MEETING: Locals learn how people who are homeless can access CCHA’s Coordinated Entry System, helping individuals find housing. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, dinner, 5 p.m.; meeting, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 652-3428.
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COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See THU.5. ‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5. ‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See THU.5.
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their culinary skills in a class designed for children to learn to cook with a grandparent or another older adult. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 1-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 786-5990. OLD NORTH END FARMERS MARKET: Locavores score breads, juices, ethnic foods and more from neighborhood vendors. Dewey Park, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, oldnorth endfarmersmarket@gmail.com.
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BRIDGE CLUB: See FRI.6, 7 p.m.
health & fitness
BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE SUN-STYLE TAI CHI, LONGFORM: Improved mood, greater muscle strength and increased energy are a few of the benefits of this gentle exercise. South Burlington Recreation & Parks Department, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 735-5467. BEGINNERS TAI CHI CLASS: See THU.5. PEACEFUL WARRIOR KARATE: Martial-arts training promotes healthy living for those in recovery. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150. REIKI CLINIC: Thirty-minute treatments promote physical, emotional and spiritual wellness. JourneyWorks, Burlington, 3-5:30 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, 860-6203. TICK SEASON: LYME PREVENTION & FIRST AID: Naturopathic doctor Anne Van Couvering shares tips for avoiding the inflammatory disease while enjoying the great outdoors. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain. coop. YOGA AT THE WINOOSKI VFW: Certified instructors guide veterans and their families through a series of poses. Arrive five to 10 minutes early. Second floor, Winooski VFW Hall, 6-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 655-9832.
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LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652. SOCIAL GATHERING: Those who are deaf or hard of hearing or want to learn American Sign Language get together to break down communication barriers. The North Branch Café, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 595-4001.
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MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT CIRQUE: See THU.5.
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Find club dates in the music section. CASTLETON SUMMER CONCERTS: Surf’s up! The American Longboards bring a high-energy surf set to an outdoor stage. Pavilion, Castleton University, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 468-6039. GIFFORD COMMUNITY CONCERT SERIES: Capstone Community Action provides the food for a family-friendly recital by the South Royalton Band. Gifford Park, Gifford Medical Center, Randolph, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 728-2380. NEAVE TRIO: Compositions by Haydn, Brahms and Debussy carry through the air. Greensboro United Church of Christ, 7:30 p.m. $20; free for folks 18 and under. Info, summermusicfromgreensboro@gmail.com.
OPEN MIC: Singers, players, storytellers and poets entertain a live audience at a monthly showcase of local talent. Wallingford Town Hall, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 446-2872. PHIL HENRY ACOUSTIC TRIO: Guitar in hand, the singersongwriter serves up awardwinning material with help from percussionist Gary Moon and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Kimball. Fairlee Town Common, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, contact@ fairleearts.org. SHAPE NOTE SING: Locals lend their voices to four-part harmonies at this weekly sing-along of early American music in the “fa-sol-la-mi” tradition. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 525-6972. TUESDAY NIGHT LIVE: Blues for Breakfast provide the musical backdrop to a pastoral party featuring good eats. Legion Field, Johnson, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-7826.
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MEDICARE & YOU: AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDICARE: Members of the Central Vermont Council on Aging clear up confusion about the application process and plan options. Central Vermont Council on Aging, Barre, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-0531.
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HOT TOPICS SUMMER LECTURE SERIES: David Wirth of Boston College Law School shares his knowledge in “The Safety of Imported Food.” Room 012, Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1371.
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FLYNN SEASON SNEAK PREVIEW: A sampling of video and audio clips from scheduled 2018-19 performances gives arts lovers a glimpse of upcoming
events. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5966. ‘FUN HOME’: See THU.5. ‘THE MOUSETRAP’: See THU.5, 8 p.m.
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BOOK SALE: A long-running library fundraiser features more than 25 categories of page-turners. Stowe Free Library, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. Info, 253-6145. BURLINGTON POETRY GROUP: Writers of verse ages 18 through 30 field constructive feedback on original works. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, btvpoetry@gmail.com. CREATIVE NONFICTION: Readers give feedback on essays, poetry and journalism written by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. THE MOTH: AGE: Wordsmiths have five minutes to tell true tales inspired by a shared theme. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10; preregister. Info, 540-0406. SUMMER LITERATURE READING SERIES: Ambitious readers cover selected pages of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:308:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.
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GREENER DRINKS: Supporters of commonsense cannabis reform sip beverages and discuss the culture, industry and politics of the agricultural product. Zenbarn, Waterbury, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@vtcannabisbrands.com.
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COFFEE TALK: Friends, neighbors and AARP Vermont volunteers catch up on upcoming activities and issues facing older Vermonters. Maglianero, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, vt@aarp.org.
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‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.
OPEN JAM: Instrumentalists band together for a free-flowing musical hour. Borrow an instrument or bring your own. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.
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BOOKMARK STITCH-IN: Needle-and-thread enthusiasts embroider items for saving one’s place in a page-turner. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 878-6955. FIBER RIOT!: Crafters get hooked on knitting, crocheting, spinning and more at an informal weekly gathering. Mad River Fiber Arts & Mill, Waitsfield, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-7746. MAKE YOUR OWN HEADPHONE HOLDER: DIYers transform recycled materials into crafty carrying cases for ear buds. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
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KINGDOM COMMUNITY WIND TOUR: Attendees are blown away by a tour of energyproducing turbines. Kingdom Community Wind, Lowell, 10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, windtours@greenmountainpower.com.
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CHITTENDEN COUNTY STAMP CLUB MEETING: First-class collectibles provide a glimpse into the postal past at this monthly gathering. Williston Fire Station, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4817. A COURSE IN MIRACLES STUDY GROUP: Participants engage in a study of spiritual transformation. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 279-1495. GUIDED TOURS: See THU.5. OPEN MIC NIGHT: Feats of comedy, music, poetry and storytelling fill five-, 10- and 15-minute time slots. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 7-9 p.m. Donations. Info, info@mainstreetmuseum.org.
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CHAIR TAI CHI: Age and ability level are no obstacles to learning this slow, easy exercise routine. Champlain Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 316-1510.
MIDDLEBURY FESTIVAL ON THE GREEN: See SUN.8, noon-1 & 7-10 p.m.
See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘FLYING MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See THU.5. ‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See THU.5. ‘WILD AFRICA 3D’: See THU.5.
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BEERLINGTON FOAMERS MARKET: Shoppers snag veggies from Three Chimney Farm’s pop-up farm stand and sip Foam Brewers suds. Foam Brewers, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 391-9047. COMMUNITY SUPPER: A scrumptious spread connects friends and neighbors. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300. FIVE CORNERS FARMERS MARKET: Conscious consumers shop local produce, premade treats and crafts. 3 Main St., Essex Junction, 4-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 5cornersfarmersmarket@ gmail.com. LEDDY PARK BEACH BITES: Lakeside picnickers enjoy foodtruck fare, a beer garden, kids’ activities and live entertainment. Attendees on two wheels make use of free bike valet service. Leddy Park, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 864-0123. VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See SAT.7, 3-6 p.m.
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BRIDGE CLUB: See FRI.6, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. CRIBBAGE TEAMS: See FRI.6. MAH JONGG: Participants of all levels enjoy friendly bouts of this tile-based game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. PINOCHLE & RUMMY: See FRI.6.
BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See FRI.6, 7:30-8:30, 9:15-10:15 & 10:40-11:40 a.m.
PRACTICAL BIO-RESONANCE: VIBRATION PHYSICS: Rachel Shea promotes full-body healing from chronic Lyme and other diseases. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop. QIGONG: Gentle movements promote strength, balance and wellbeing. Waterbury Public Library, 11-11:45 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 244-7036. RESILIENCE FLOW: FOR THOSE WITH A HISTORY OF TBI OR BRAIN INJURY: Individuals affected by a traumatic brain injury practice breath work, slow grounded movement and guided meditation. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262. TAI CHI: A gentle outdoor lesson promoting strength, balance and active relaxation incorporates fall prevention and mindful walking. Waterbury Public Library, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. TOMGIRL WALKING CLUB: Pups and pals in tow, pedestrians make strides toward health. Tomgirl Juice Co., Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0337. Y12SR: YOGA OF 12-STEP RECOVERY: Folks in addiction recovery and those affected by the addictive behavior of others are welcome to take part in a sharing circle and themed yoga class. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.
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BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: Learners take communication to the next level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: ¡Hola! Language lovers perfect their fluency. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
CAPITAL CITY BAND: The community ensemble hits all the right notes at a weekly gig on the green. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 456-7054.
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COUNTERPOINT & THE CHOIR OF DOWNING COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE: Two classical vocal ensembles band together for a program of Renaissance masterworks and Anglican repertory gems. First United Methodist Church, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-20. Info, 540-1784.
JUST FOR LAUGHS FESTIVAL: The biggest names in comedy descend upon Montréal with gut-busting material. See hahaha.com for details. Various Montréal locations. Prices vary. Info, 514-845-2322. MONTRÉAL COMPLÈTEMENT CIRQUE: See THU.5.
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Find club dates in the music section. BURLINGTON CITY ARTS SUMMER CONCERTS: JOHN DUNLOP & LAURA MARKOWITZ: Friends and colleagues meet up for a lunchtime recital of classical music. Burlington City Hall Park, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.
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art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.
film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.
music Find club dates at local venues in the music section and at sevendaysvt.com/music. All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.
CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS: World-class musicians deliver rousing renditions of works by Sousa, Gershwin, Bartók and Dvořák. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, preconcert talk, 6:45 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $10-12; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443. LAKOU MIZIK: The multigenerational Haitian music collective communicates messages of pride, strength and hope through song. Rain location: Spaulding Auditorium. See calendar spotlight. Dartmouth Green, Hanover, N.H., 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS’: Acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his celebrated international music collective take center stage in this 2015 documentary. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 533-9075. SHELLHOUSE: Named after a mountain in Ferrisburg, the fivemember band brings original and familiar Americana music to the stage with multiple instruments. Mills Riverside Park, Jericho, 6-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 899-2693.
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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See MON.9. TECHNOLOGY NIGHT: Music apps become second nature during a class with Vermont Technical College’s Ken Bernard. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
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‘FUN HOME’: See THU.5, 2-4:30 & 7:30-9:30 p.m. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘EUGENE ONEGIN’: The operatic retelling of Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse, starring Anna Netrebko and Peter Mattei, hits the silver screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600. ‘THE MOUSETRAP’: See THU.5.
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AUTHORS AT THE ALDRICH: The author of Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness and Excellence chats about her 2018 title. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 476-7550. BOOK SALE: See TUE.10, 7 a.m.8 p.m. READINGS IN THE GALLERY: LAURA FOLEY & APRIL OSSMANN: Poetry pundits turn their attention toward the respective authors of the collections WTF and Event Boundaries. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393. REBECCA MAKKAI: Author Stephen Kiernan engages his fellow wordsmith in a conversation about her third novel, The Great Believers. Books, food and drink are on hand for purchase. Marquis Theatre & Southwest Café, Middlebury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061. RECOVERY WRITE NOW: Wordsmiths in recovery let their creativity flow in a lively and supportive setting. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 6-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, writelife1@ hotmail.com. WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP: Burlington Writers Workshop members focus on elements of craft when responding to works in progress. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. WRITING CIRCLE: Words flow when participants explore creative expression in a lowpressure environment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218. m
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WAGON RIDE WEDNESDAYS: Giddyap! Visitors explore the working dairy farm via this time-tested method of equine transportation. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Regular admission, $4-16; free for members and kids under 3. Info, 457-2355.
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HERITAGE POULTRY, FRANK REESE: Explore the pitfalls of America’s #1 white meat with expert breeder Frank Reese from Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch. Frank specializes in heritage breeds and has a lot to say about modern production practices, bird health and genetics, and the impact on humans consuming them. Frank’s farm is highlighted in the movie “Eating Animals” now in theaters. Fri., Jun. 20, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $35/person; all course materials & lunch incl. Location: Sterling College, 16 Sterling Dr., Craftsbury Common. Info: School of the New American Farmstead, 586-7711163, NewAmericanFarmstead@ sterlingcollege.edu, sterlingcollege.edu/snaf.
REWILD YOUR ART!: Renew your creative nature! Craft art tools and materials directly from the wild. Make paint from stones; brushes from furs, feathers, fibers; pens from wooded and winged critters; inks from plants; and charcoal from trees. Daily, Mon., Jul. 16-Fri., Jul. 20. Cost: $750/person; all course materials & daily lunch incl.; low-cost housing avail. on campus. Location: Sterling College, 16 Sterling Dr., Craftsbury Common. Info: Weylin Garnett, 586-7711163, NewAmericanFarmstead@ sterlingcollege.edu, sterlingcollege.edu/course/rewild-artmaking-paint-ink-landscape.
craft NATURAL HIDE TANNING, LEATHER: Learn how to transform raw animal skins into beautiful, functional buckskin leather without the use of toxic chemicals. In this course, you will be guided through each step of the wet-scrape tanning process. Skinned hides, all materials and lunch daily included in price. Daily, Mon., Jul. 30-Fri., Aug. 3, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $750/person; all materials & lunch daily incl. Location: Sterling College, 16 Sterling Dr., Craftsbury Common. Info: Weylin Garnett, 586-7711163, NewAmericanFarmstead@ sterlingcollege.edu, sterlingcollege.edu/course/natural-hidetanning-leather-crafting.
art ART AND CLAY IN MIDDLEBURY: Adult: Clay Hand Building & Wheel, Painting, Pastels, Watercolors, Block Printing with Ashley Wolff, Color Theory, Paper Making, Plein Air with George Van Hook, Abstracting the Landscape. Kids: Colored Pencil Art, Clay Wheel & Hand Building. Camps: Whirligigs, Rainbow Paper, Dragons, Weird Art, Fairies & Friends, Art of Thailand. Location: Middlebury Studio School, 2377 Rte 7, Middlebury. Info: Barbara Nelson, 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org.
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ADULT: ALTERNATIVE FIRING: Instructor: Rik Rolla. Explore clay on the wheel in a creative, mixed-level, supportive environment. Examine properties of form, function, color and glazes. Fire finished pieces in the primitive pit, the Raku Kiln with the option to explore other firing techniques. Gas reduction kiln and electric kilns are also available. Mon., Jul. 23-Aug.27, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $265/person for six
classes; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@the shelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org. ADULT: BEGINNER CLAY: Instructor: Rik Rolla. Learn how to throw clay on the wheel. Explore centering, throwing, trimming and glazing. Gain confidence with hands-on demonstrations and one-on-one time with the instructor. Leave with several finished pieces. Gas reduction kiln and electric oxidation kiln are available for firing. Fri., Aug. 3-Sep. 7, 10 a.m.noon. Cost: $265/person for six classes; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org. ADULT: MIXED-LEVEL WHEEL: Instructor: Rik Rolla. Further develop the fundamentals of wheel-throwing. Explore techniques through demonstrations and hands-on assistance. You set the pace and gain experience through guided individualized practice. Gas reduction kiln and electric oxidation kiln are available for firing, including an option to explore other firing methods. Wed., Aug. 1-Sep. 5, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $265/person for six classes; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org. ADULT: MIXED-LEVEL WHEEL: Instructor: Sarah Wilson. Develop the fundamentals of wheel-throwing. Explore techniques through demonstrations and hands-on assistance. You set the pace and gain experience through guided individualized practice. Gas reduction kiln and electric oxidation kiln are available for firing, including an option to explore other firing methods. Tue., Jul. 31-Sep. 4, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $265/person for six weeks; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@the shelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org. ADULT: LIFE DRAWING: Instructor: Misoo Filan. Practice the traditional art of drawing the human figure in a supportive and respectful atmosphere. With a life-drawing model present at each class, students will be able to capture the human form in varying mediums and develop drawing skills by studying human anatomy. Bring your favorite medium (water based). Basic drawing experience recommended. Mon., Aug. 6-27, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $142/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 9853648, info@the shelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.
WORKSHOP: STAINED GLASS: Instructor: Chris Jeffrey. For beginners and those who would like to brush up on their skills. Students will make two small panels and learn how to cut glass and how to put together and solder their panels using the copper-foil technique of stainedglass assembly. Sat. & Sun., Aug. 24 & 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $300/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.
Cost: $15/class. Special: 2 Intro to Pole classes for $30. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Bohemienne Fitness, 321-4392275, POLEFITVT.com. DSANTOS VT DANCE CLASSES: New classes, new location! Come join the fun. Weekly classes in salsa, bachata, kizomba, kuduro. No partner or experience needed. Beginner drop-in classes. Salsa, Mon., 7-8 p.m.; Kizomba, Wed., 8-9 p.m.; Bachata, Thu., 6-7 p.m. Cost: $15/1-hour class. Location: Dsantos VT Dance Studio, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Unit 112A, Burlington. Info: Jon Bacon, 227-2572, dsantosvt.com. DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for onehour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.
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culinary ART & SCIENCE OF CRAFT BREWING: Take your brewing to the next level! A mix of profound science, brewing artistry and wild tales from Danish brewmasters Anders Kissmeyer and Jan Paul’s careers are sure to up your brewing game.This eight-day intensive features exclusive tours by the founders of Hill Farmstead, Alchemist and Lost Nation breweries. Daily, Tue., Jul. 24, through Thu., Aug. 2, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. No class over the weekend. Cost: $2,100//person; incl. all course materials & daily meals. Affordable housing avail. on campus. Location: Sterling College, 16 Sterling Dr., Craftsbury Common. Info: Weylin Garnett, 586-7711-163, NewAmericanFarmstead@ sterlingcollege.edu, sterlingcollege.edu/course/ the-art-science-of-brewing-2.
dance POLE DANCE FITNESS: Come try pole dancing at Bohemienne Fitness in Burlington! Absolute beginners are welcome to join our fun-loving dance community. Gain strength and flexibility with this mesmerizing form of dance fitness. We know you’ve always wanted to try it! Buy a pass and register online at POLEFITVT. com. Fri, 6:45-7:45 p.m.
TAIKO AND DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: New drumming sessions begin weeks of Mar. 3 and May 1. Taiko for Adults: Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m.; Wed., 6:30-8:20 p.m. Djembe for Adults: Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Taiko for Kids and Parents: Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Djembe for Kids and Parents: Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Drums provided. Conga classes, too! Online schedule, registration. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.
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BALLET LEVEL I & II: For teens and adults. Instructor: Elizabeth Brody. Mon., Jun. 4-Jul. 23. Level I: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Level II: 6:45-7:45 p.m. Cost: $110/8week series; drop-ins welcome, $15/1-hour class. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4537, flynncenter.org. BURLESQUE LEVEL I & II: For ages 18+. Instructor: Doctor Vu. Mon., Jun. 4-Jul. 23, Level I: 7-8 p.m. Cost: $110/8-week series; drop-ins welcome, $15/1-hour class. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4537, flynncenter.org. STREET JAZZ AND HIP-HOP FUSION: For teens and adults. Instructor: Rose Bedard. Thu., Jun. 14-Jul. 26, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $140/7-week series; drop-ins welcome, $22.50/1.5-hour class. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4537, flynncenter.org. JAZZ IMPROV. FOR BEGINNERS: Ages 8-12 (Recommended for students who have played for a minimum of one year). Instructor: George Voland. Want to join your school’s jazz band or play in a jazz combo? Work on your improvisational and ensemble skills with acclaimed trombonist George Voland. Campers perform for friends and family in FlynnSpace at week’s end. Mon.-Fri., Aug. 6-10, 8:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $200/ person; incl. jazz performance ticket. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4537, flynncenter.org. LATIN JAZZ INTENSIVE: Ages 13+. Instructors: Ray Vega & Alex Stewart. A team of instructors joins camp director and founder Alex Stewart to inspire students to reach new heights of creativity and proficiency, with rich opportunities to hone individual skills and master the cooperative team effort of live performance. Students work with jazz trumpet luminary and program founder Ray Vega and a variety of other artist-educators. Mon.-Fri., Aug. 6-10, 12:30-5 p.m. Cost: $315/person; incl. jazz performance ticket. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main Street, Burlington. Info: 652-4537, flynncenter.org. ACTIVIST THEATER: FOOD & SOCIAL JUSTICE THEATER CAMP: Ages 11-14. Instructors: Allison Talis & Chelsea Frisbee. Experience food justice firsthand at the Intervale Center, “Burlington’s Central Park.” Campers
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learn about farms, gardens, and Intervale Gleaning and Food Rescue, one of Vermont’s fast-growing food-access projects. The week culminates with a performance created by students based on their learning throughout the camp. In partnership with Intervale. Mon.-Fri., Jul. 23-27, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $325. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4537, flynncenter.org. DISNEY’S FROZEN KIDS THEATER CAMP: Ages 9-13. Instructor: Tim Maynes. Come act, sing and dance with us as we mount a workshop production of Disney’s Frozen Kids, a 30-minute musical adapted and developed exclusively for elementary and middle school students. This musical theater camp culminates in one of the first select pilot productions of this new show in the country. Mon.-Fri., Aug. 6-10, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $350/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4537, flynncenter.org. SENSORY ADVENTURES CAMP: Ages 5-18. Instructor: Kat Redniss. Designed for young people on the autism spectrum and with sensory sensitivities in mind, Sensory Adventures provides a safe and creative environment to explore, discover, interact, connect and play. Mon.Fri., Jul. 16-20, 12-3 p.m. Cost: $200/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4537, flynncenter.org.
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LEARN SPANISH OR ENGLISH, SWC: We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Small classes or private lessons. Our online English classes are live, engaging face-to-face interactions, not computer exercises. In our 12th year. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.
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meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Taught by qualified meditation instructors at the Burlington Shambhala Meditation Center: Wed., 6-7 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Free and open to anyone. Free public meditation weeknights 6-7 p.m.; Tue. and Thu. noon-1 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m.-noon. Classes and retreats also offered. See our website at burlington. shambhala.org. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795.
spirituality 34TH ANNUAL ELDERS GATHERING: All are welcome. Sacred Fire. Healing Ceremony. Indigenous Wisdom. Meditation. Nature & Science. Camping. Traditional teachings from Tsalagi, Abenaki, Algonquin, Mayan and Narragansett Elders. Tibetan Buddhist dharma and modern astrophysics interwoven. Beautiful mountain setting. By donation. Children welcome. Meals available for purchase. Jul. 27-29. Cost: $75/day suggested donation. Location: Sunray
tai chi SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.
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TV STUDIO PRODUCTION: Learn how to produce a show using VCAM’s fully equipped television studio. This workshop covers: setting up and switching shots; creating and manipulating graphics; keying-in backgrounds; rolling in videos, images and music from external sources; operating the studio cameras, tripods/dollies and microphones; and controlling the studio lighting. Please call to reserve your spot. Thu., Jul. 12, 5 p.m. Free. Location: VCAM at the Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., #2G, Burlington. Info: 651-9692.
LOCATION AUDIO: A good soundtrack will make your video come to life! This workshop covers the techniques and equipment used to capture the best possible sound while shooting in the field. Audio configuration settings will be shown on several different cameras, as well as dual-system audio used with a DSLR. Please call to reserve your spot. Mon., Jul. 9, noon Free. Location: VCAM at the Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., #2G, Burlington. Info: 651-9692. VCAM ORIENTATION: This is step one! The VCAM Orientation is the place to start. It is free to attend and will certify you to borrow VCAM’s media production equipment, use our fully-equipped TV production studio and digital filmmaking packages, start a show, and take all our other free and low-cost media education workshops! Sat., Jul. 7, 11 a.m. Free. Location: Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., #2G, Burlington. Info: 651-9692. THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW: Whether you’re making a talk show or documentary for radio, TV or film; doing an oral history; or writing a feature article, conducting an interview that yields great content can be challenging. Learn techniques that are tried and true for getting the most out of your interview in this workshop led by WBTV-LP programmers. Please register online. Thu., Jul 12, 6 p.m. Cost: $25/suggested donation. Location: The Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., #2G, Burlington. Info: bit.ly/btvmediafactory.
HONEST YOGA: Honest yoga offers heated yoga for all levels. We hold yoga teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels, as well as children and dance teacher courses. (YTT includes FREE unlimited membership) Yoga and dance classes for ages 2 and up in our two beautiful practice spaces! Your children can practice in one room while you practice in the other. No need for childcare. Brand-new beginners’ course: This includes two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily heated and alignment classes, and kids classes in yoga and dance. Check out our website for dance classes and yoga Summer Camps. Daily classes & workshops. $50/new student (1 mo. unlimited); $18/ class; $145/10-class card; or $110/10-class punch student/ senior/military card; $135/mo. adult memberships; $99/mo. kid memberships. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Eco Bean, South Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com. EVOLUTION YOGA: Practice yoga in a down-to-earth atmosphere with some of the most experienced teachers and therapeutic professionals in Burlington. New this summer: Yoga on the Lake, 7-8 a.m., four days per week; and Yoga on the Deck overlooking the lake, Tue. and Thu., 7:15-8:15 p.m. All lake classes are at the Community Sailing Center. Daily drop-in classes including $5 community classes, Yoga Wall and Yoga Therapeutics classes led by physical therapists. Dive deeper into your practice or register for our Yoga Teacher Training for Healthcare Providers. $5-$15/ class; $140/10-class card; $5-10/ community class. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.
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VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Brazilian jiujitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian jiujitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces. No training experience required. Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children. Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid them becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them throughout life. IBJJF & CBJJ certified black belt
MARTIAL WAY: Colchester and Milton locations. Classes in self-defense, karate, kung fu, jiu jitsu and tai chi. We have 14 different age and experience levels, so the training is always age- and skill-appropriate. Beginner or experienced, fit or not yet, young or not anymore, we have a class for you! Days and evenings; see website for schedule and fees. Location: Martial Way Self Defense Center, 73 Prim Rd., Colchester, Colchester. Info: David Quinlan, 893-8893, info@ martialwayvt.com, martialwayvt. com.
SANGHA STUDIO | NONPROFIT, DONATION-BASED YOGA: Sangha Studio builds an empowered community through the shared practice of yoga. Free yoga service initiatives and outreach programs are offered at 17 local organizations working with all ages. Join Sangha in both downtown Burlington and the Old North End for one of their roughly 60 weekly classes and workshops. Become a Sustaining Member for $60/ month and practice as often as you like! Daily. Location: Sangha Studio, 120 Pine St. and 237 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 448-4262, Info@sangha studio.org.
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OVER NINE THOUSAND ACADEMY: Become a Kung Fu bad@ss and learn to be strong, supple, fierce and centered. We believe in a holistic approach to martial arts and offer both hard and soft styles along with Taoist meditation practices. Classes are offered for adults and children, and we specialize in serving special needs kids. Classes offered Mon-Sat. Location: Onta Studio, 373 Blair Park Rd., Suite #102, Williston. Info: 683-8539, ontastudio@ gmail.com, ontastudio. com.
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LASER-ETCHED GLASSWARE: Students will use the laser cutter, rotary tool and Adobe Illustrator and leave with a set of wine, pint or rock glasses. Create the perfect gift or personal artifact by etching a custom design or text into glass. Learn more about classes at generatorvt.com/classes. Thu., Jul. 12, 6-9 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761.
VR-3D PRINTING: Virtual Reality makes it possible to create something from literally nothing! Using Virtual Reality (HTC vive) you will create your own 3D sculptures and bring them to life! Learn more about classes at generatorvt.com/ classes. Sun., Jul. 22, 1-4 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761.
sixth-degree Instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. A five-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion. Accept no Iimitations! Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 598-2839, julio@ bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.
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KINETIC SCULPTURE WORKSHOP: You can incorporate movement into your project! You will be exploring natural, electronic and mechanical ways to create movement. We will experiment, design and build kinetic sculptures in a fun group environment. Learn more about classes at generatorvt.com/ classes. Sat., Jul. 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761.
create the negative space for an object. Learn more about classes at generatorvt.com/classes. Mon., Aug. 13 & 20, 6-8:30 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761,
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t is possible that the human auditory system actually evolved to hear music, because it is so much more complex than it needs to be for language alone,” said Ethiopian American musician Meklit Hadero during her 2015 talk at a TED Fellows retreat. A senior TED Fellow, she was paraphrasing a theory from California neuroscientist and musician Charles Limb. “And if that’s true,” she continued, “it means that we’re hardwired for music, that we can find it anywhere.” Professionally known simply as Meklit, the Ethiopia-born artist has a career that goes far beyond cutting albums and touring. Now based in San Francisco, she’s a cofounder of the Nile Project, a multifaceted organization focused on East African society. It seeks ways to use music to answer questions related to cultural identity, resource sharing and the trajectory of human existence. In her musical identity, Meklit creates a vibrant sound that draws from jazz, pop and pan-global styles. Her latest album, When the People Move the Music Moves Too, features collaborations with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and acclaimed singer-songwriter Andrew Bird. The album’s Grammy Award-winning producer, Dan Wilson, made those connections. Meklit will perform on Thursday, July 12, at ArtsRiot in Burlington. Seven Days caught up with her by phone. SEVEN DAYS: In your TED Talk, you said you like to start writing music with a bass line. How much of your work starts that way? MEKLIT: Bass lines are generally what I hear first, [and] I think I finally understand why. I think it’s because it’s the exact intersection of rhythm and melody. The melody is more in the heart and eyes, kind of. And rhythm is a little bit lower. I think of composing as a mix of discipline and mystery. The mystery is that the melodies come from somewhere — and who knows where? [I make] little snippets of melodies and sing them into my phone and create these banks of hundreds of
SD: Some people might have negative associations with life coaches, since they’re often lampooned in the media. What is that relationship like? M: First of all, I want to say that my life coach is very uniquely suited to me. She’s a musician — a multiinstrumentalist — and has worked with programs bringing musicians all over the world together to collaborate. So she really understands what I do. She’s been a marketing director for multiple festivals, then came to organizationalchange work. She has a range of skills that are relevant to what I do in a very direct way. [She’s] not just anybody. For me, one of the big challenges as an artist is that I don’t just do work in the music industry, and I don’t just do work in the arts and culture field. I go back and forth. And there aren’t typically people who have those skill sets who can guide and support me on both of those avenues.
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melodies. The discipline part is going into my studio. [I] kind of just listen back to them and go, “What’s moving me today?” And then I’ll take one and go, “Maybe these two go together.” Then I’ll start shaping them [into a song]. SD: How has being a TED Fellow impacted your life? M: The TED organization has been
a giant impact on my life in all kinds of ways — of course, in the ways that you can imagine: all the training that they give you in telling your story and communicating about what you do. [And] the TED Fellows program gave me a life coach, who’s just the best thing ever and really helps with what I would call clarity, direction and focus [of ] my entire career.
SD: Can you briefly summarize what the Nile Project does? M: The Nile Project looks at the intersection of culture and ecology. We see them as a continuum [with] a very deep and important relationship. It started out [as] a musical wish [and a] question: Why do we have to be in diaspora to learn about each other’s music? On the continent, we share an ecology. Shouldn’t we know more about each other? And then what we really came to understand is that there’s a long history of conflict over water. Water is our connector, but anything that connects us can also have the potential to divide us. There are a lot of challenges of how we share the water of the Nile, and they go back to colonial treaties starting from 1898 [and] moving through the whole 20th century. But what we understood was that music has the power to model the type of cross-cultural collaboration we wanted to see around resource sharing. It’s expanded into education programs throughout East Africa, and fellowship programs bringing together students RIVER OF LIFE
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Real Talk, Dear Youth
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Victory
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Voices in Vain
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Ghastly Sound, Wolfhand, Brain Habits, Subtleties
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Femi Kuti & The Positive Force
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Jupiter & Okwess
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You probably noticed that — despite its Wednesday, July 4, issue date — this week’s paper actually came out Thursday, July 5. Should the paper have come out on its regular day, I would’ve had a wee bit more time to remind you about Thursday’s free RUBBLEBUCKET concert in Burlington’s Battery Park. The funky Brooklyn-based Queen City expats are gearing up for a huge tour as well as an album release later this year. Rubblebucket’s leaders, KALMIA TRAVER and ALEX TOTH, shifted focus away from the group in the last couple of years to pursue independent projects, such as Traver’s dazzling avant-pop electronic band KALBELLS. And on Friday, July 6, Toth debuts his latest side project, T0TH, at the Light Club Lamp Shop in Burlington.
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Once or twice, Seven Days readers have informed me that my unapologetic disdain for major holidays is, well, offputting. I try to get into the spirit — be it Christmas or New Year’s Eve or Mardi Gras — but most of the time, the hype surrounding a holiday annoys me and makes me want to retreat to a country that doesn’t celebrate it. I’m looking at you, Arbor Day. So, if you’ve ever thought my cold, dead heart couldn’t get down with celebratory commemoration, keep reading — because there’s a super special holiday this week that’s got me feeling like a third-act Grinch. The holy day to which I refer is none other than the birth of one of the greatest American actors of all time: TOM HANKS. The Bay Area native turns 62 on Monday, July 9, and I’m pretty tickled that a group of local musicians are teaming up at Nectar’s in Burlington to
pay tribute to the character-actor-cumleading-man. HAYLEY JANE, of HAYLEY JANE AND THE PRIMATES and YES DARLING, leads a new supergroup of players: TURKUAZ drummer MICHELANGELO CARUBBA, KUNG FU keyboardist BEAU SASSER, Primates guitarist JUSTIN HANCOCK and recent Vermont transplant ROB COMPA of DOPAPOD. “I’m a huge Tom Hanks fan,” Hayley Jane tells Seven Days by phone. “Everybody loves Tom Hanks. If you don’t love Tom Hanks, I don’t trust you.” You’re probably wondering what the heck the celebration actually is. Essentially, the group plans to reinvent popular songs that appeared in Hanks’ films. Hayley Jane, who conceived and produced the event, wants to keep the actual set list a secret. So allow me to speculate about what songs we might hear. First of all, I don’t know how they’ll get through a Tom Hanks tribute without playing RANDY NEWMAN’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.” The track first appeared in Pixar Animation Studio’s
debut film, Toy Story, in which Hanks voiced toy cowboy Woody. The Forrest Gump soundtrack is chock-full of awesome tunes from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. I’m thinking ELVIS PRESLEY’s “Hound Dog” and JACKIE DESHANNON’s “What the World Needs Now Is Love” are two solid contenders from that collection. Another crowd pleaser: You’ve Got Mail prominently places the CRANBERRIES’ “Dreams” early on in the film. And how could the night end before an audience-participation round of HOAGY CARMICHAEL and FRANK LOESSER’s “Heart and Soul” — you know, the one song everyone knows how to play on the piano? I suggest attendees pretend that they’re stomping out the melody with their feet on a giant toy piano like in that scene in Big. Don’t forget to end with “Chopsticks!” Another fun element: Dress up as your favorite version of Hanks! You could get all postapocalyptic and be Cloud Atlas Hanks, or you could carry a face-painted volleyball for a Castaway Hanks look. And don’t the dudes from local band FEVER DOLLS have baseball uniforms at the ready? Hello, A League of Their Own Hanks. Should Hanks Day become an annual tradition, maybe we’ll be lucky enough to coax the man himself to attend in a few years when the day falls on a weekend. Just sayin’: July 9, 2021, is a Friday. Save the date, Mr. Hanks!
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burlington
CLUB METRONOME: Bombino, Sabouyouma, Local Dork (rock, world music), 8 p.m., $20/22. DRINK: Downstairs Comedy Open Mic, 8 p.m., free. FINNIGAN’S PUB: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 10 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: SVPPLY & Bankz (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Randal Pierce (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., $5-10. NECTAR’S: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. Appalled Eagles and Special Guests (electronic, experimental), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Melissa Wasserman (folk, pop), 7 p.m., free. Derek W. Curtis (folk, Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Sunshine Brothers Inc. (psychrock, pop), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: D Jay Baron (mashup, hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Mister Burns’ Rap Showcase, 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Raphael Krasnow (soul, folk), 7 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Julia DiFernando (sketch comedy), 7:30 p.m., $12. The Mainstage Show (improv), 9 p.m., $5.
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BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Trivia, 9:30 p.m., free.
CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Ryan Donnely (hits), 9:30 p.m., free.
champlain islands/northwest
champlain islands/northwest
TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Robin Sunquiet (soul), 7 p.m., free.
TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Smokey Newfield Project (rock), 7 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom
outside vermont
HIGHLAND LODGE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free.
MONOPOLE: Hunter (alt-rock), 10 p.m., free.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.
OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry & DJ Coco, 9 p.m., free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Reid SP & Co. (soul, Americana), 7 p.m., free.
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burlington
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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: The Brevity Thing (rock, folk), 8:30 p.m., free.
burlington
BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Julia Beerworth (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.
CLUB METRONOME: Steezy Jaxxx, DJ GaGu, Jawz (house), 10 p.m.
FOAM BREWERS: Binger (EP Release), Doctor Rick, Kudu Stooge (jam), 7 p.m., free.
HALF LOUNGE: Gold Cheng and Crystal Jonez (open format), 10 p.m., free.
HALF LOUNGE: Gordon Goldsmith (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. SVPPLY & Bankz (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.
JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Lowell Thompson (alt-country), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Mary McGinniss & the Selkies (jazz, rock), 7 p.m., free. Toth, Ruth Garbus (freak-folk), 9 p.m., $8. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.
JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Warm Water (jazz, soul), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Emma Bowers (folk-rock), 7:30 p.m., free. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5.
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic dance), 10 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Cricket Invasion: A Tribute to the Disco Biscuits, 9 p.m., $5.
NECTAR’S: The Wormdogs, Adventure Dog (bluegrass, rock), 9 p.m., $5.
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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Nobby Reed Project (blues), 7 p.m., free.
RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. Happy Hour with DJ Ryan Kick (eclectic), 4 p.m., free. DOSE (jazz, Americana), 7 p.m., free. Early Gray (classical, folk-pop), 8:30 p.m., free. The Groovy Trio (groove), 10:30 p.m., $5.
barre/montpelier
RED SQUARE: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 11 p.m., $5.
people, ties the cosmopolitan collage together. In 2016, the guitarist made waves in the
RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 10 p.m., $5.
indie scene when Dirty Projectors bandleader Dave Longstreth signed on to produce his
JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Irish Session (traditional), 7 p.m., free. MONKEY HOUSE: Funny Girl Comedy Night (standup), 7:30 p.m., $3.
BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Colin McCaffrey and Friends (folk), 6 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Chris Bell Trio (Americana), 9 p.m., free.
RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.
GUSTO’S: Open Mic Night, 8 p.m., free.
SIDEBAR: Dave Kleh (folk, psychedelic), 7 p.m., free. Crusty Cuts (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.
SWEET MELISSA’S: Robert Morgan (pirate shanties), 8 p.m., free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Dan Blakeslee (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free.
WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.
VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: wellRED Comedy Tour: From Dixie With Love (variety), 7:30 p.m., $25/32.
stowe/smuggs
MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic with Allen Church, 8:30 p.m., free.
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ZENBARN: Bardela (Americana, Grateful Dead tribute), 8:30 p.m., free.
LOCALFOLK SMOKEHOUSE: Open Mic with Alex Budney, 8:30 p.m., free.
chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free.
HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: First Friday featuring the Steph Pappas Experience, DJ Llu, DJVU (Americana), 7 p.m., $5/10.
Rebel Yell The stylings of Tuareg guitar virtuoso
BOMBINO
are a psychedelic
amalgam of pan-African and cross-continental genres. Known for his otherworldly shredding skills, the artist fuses blues-rock, reggae and other global influences into a thick, groove-based sound. A sense of rebellion, rooted in the tumultuous history of his
third studio album, Azel. Bombino performs on Thursday, July 5, at Club Metronome in Burlington. Locals SABOUYOUMA and LOCAL DORK add support. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Mr. Charlie and Gary Wade (blues), 7 p.m., free.
STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Nathan Byrne (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., free.
MONKEY HOUSE: The Willoughbys (Americana), 5 p.m., free. Dark Star Project (Grateful Dead tribute), 5 p.m., free. The Mondegreens, Adventure Dog, Astrojanit (indie rock), 8:45 p.m., $3/8. 18+.
barre/montpelier
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Shane’s Apothecary (Americana), 5 p.m., free. Phil Abair Band (rock), 9 p.m., free.
BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Art Herttua and Ray Caroll (jazz), 6 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Django Soulo (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Different Strokes, Yestrogen (rock), 9 p.m., free. GUSTO’S: Joe Sabourin (folk-rock), 5 p.m., free. Tim Brick Band (country), 9 p.m., $5. MINGLE NIGHTCLUB: Ron Stoppable (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5.
SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free. Guilty Pleasure Dance Party, 9 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
EL TORO: John Howell (Americana), 7 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: Chris Lyon (solo acoustic, Americana), 6 p.m., free.
mad river valley/ waterbury ZENBARN: Stelvis Carbo, D. Davis (rock), 8 p.m., $5.
RADIO BEAN: Rockwood Taylor (Americana), 5:30 p.m., free. Katie Dobbins (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. The Old North (folk), 8:30 p.m., free. ManDancing, Future Teens (pop-rock), 10 p.m., $5. Father Figuer (post-rock, slowcore), 11:30 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 3 p.m., free. Mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa, reggaeton), 6 p.m., free. DJ Reign One (EDM), 11 p.m., $5. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Haitian (open format), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Avery Cooper Quartet (jazz), 8 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Band of the Land (Americana, reggae), 8 p.m., free. SMITTY’S PUB: Chris and Erica (rock, country), 8 p.m., free. SOCIAL CLUB & LOUNGE: Road to Bungawiz with D Fuego, Krampelli, Saint Nick (bass music), 9 p.m., $5. SPEAKING VOLUMES: Late Bloomer, Fucko, Sleeping In, Jessica Rabbit Syndrom (indie), 8 p.m., $5-10.
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(Note the macron over the O in Tōth. Presumably it’s there to clear up any confusion about the pronunciation of Toth’s last name: It rhymes with “oath,” not “goth.”) “In the wake of the most crushing grief and sadness — even though it was a graceful, conscious thing — I was just lying around, crying and playing guitar,” Toth tells Seven Days by phone. “And these songs kept coming.” Toth, known for his trumpet skills, has never played guitar as his primary live instrument. Additionally, he says that this project allows him to incorporate the kind of jazz music he played while studying at the University of Vermont in the early aughts. “I feel like it’s a project I can do for many years [and] keep developing,” he says of his new arsenal of “sad, pretty songs.” Brattleboro musician RUTH GARBUS opens.
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If I were a superhero, my superpower would be the ability to get songs stuck in other people’s heads. Here are five songs that have been stuck in my head this week. May they also get stuck in yours. Follow sevendaysvt on Spotify for weekly playlists with tunes by artists featured in the music section. JANELLE MONAE, “Pynk (Featuring Grimes)” LE VICE, “Soon” GOLDFRAPP, “Head First” ANITA DOBSON, “Anyone Can Fall in Love” JUNGLE, “Son of a Gun”
snapshot of BTV’s current indie music scene and could serve as a primer for any newcomers looking for an easy way to dive in. Not only does it include previously Untitled-14 released tracks — such as DWIGHT & NICOLE’s “Electric Lights” and CLEVER GIRLS’ “Dumb Smile” — but also some brandspankin’-new tunes, including WREN KITZ’s “Safety Tube.” Bloom expertly mastered all of the material for the analog medium. The limited run, available only in physical format, will likely go quickly. Will we see Vol. II at some point in the future? Perhaps — though Bloom tells Seven Days he wants Sticky Shed Tapes to remain a duplication and remastering service and not morph into a record label.
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If you happened to pop into any Burlington-area record store in the last week or so — such as Speaking Volumes, Pure Pop Records or Winooski’s Autumn Records — you may have noticed a new eye-catching, canary-yellow audio cassette on the shelves. Called Sound Friends: Vol. I, the compilation mixtape is a special release from Sticky Shed Tapes, the tape duplication and remastering passion project of the DEAD SHAKER’s KEVIN BLOOM. Featuring cuts from Burlington-based groups such as SWALE, EASTERN MOUNTAIN TIME, IVAMAE, BLEACH DAY and nearly two dozen more, the comp is a partial
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BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Southern Old Time Music Jam (traditional), 10 a.m., free.
VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: wellRED Comedy Tour: From Dixie With Love (variety), 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $25/32.
CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Sex Trivia, 7:30 p.m., free.
chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Nos4a2 (metal covers), 9:30 p.m., free.
SWEET MELISSA’S: Lilly Smith (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m., donation.
JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: The Hubcats (folk-rock), 7 p.m., free.
middlebury area
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Bethany Conner and Friends (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., free. Sammich (jam), 9 p.m., free.
ROUGH CUT: Kelly Ravin (country), 5 p.m., free.
STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Tim Brick (country), 7:30 p.m., free.
SILO DISTILLERY: Soulfix (soul, funk covers), 1 p.m., free.
upper valley
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Fundraiser for Separated Families at Border featuring the Laddies SingAlong (covers, protest songs), 6 p.m., donation. ESPRESSO BUENO: Yestrogen (pop, rock), 7:30 p.m., free. FEMCOM (standup), 8:30 p.m., free. GUSTO’S: DJ MTL (pop, house), 9:30 p.m., free. MINGLE NIGHTCLUB: Sounds Limitless (EDM), 9 p.m., $5. SWEET MELISSA’S: Midnight Vigil, Ulloo (rock), 9 p.m., free. THE DEN AT HARRY’S HARDWARE: Dan Wyman and Forrest Newton (indie folk), 7 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs
EL TORO: Django Soulo (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.
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CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Earl (open format), 9:30 p.m., free.
champlain islands/northwest
MON.9
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burlington
Have Mercy Trae Crowder, Corey Ryan Forrester and Drew Morgan
are good ol’ boys with a fresh outlook. Known as the Liberal Rednecks, the comic trio confronts some of the American South’s regressive tendencies while also celebrating what makes the region culturally significant in its WELLRED COMEDY TOUR: FROM DIXIE WITH LOVE.
The troupe’s coauthored book, The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin’ Dixie
Outta the Dark Age, is full of sharp critique and hilariously relatable social commentary that asks not just Southerners to reexamine what makes America great. Check out the WellRed Comedy Tour on Friday and Saturday, July 6 and 7, at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.
upper valley
THE ENGINE ROOM: Y2K and Millennial Club Night with DJs Light Show Joe and Jimmy Jam (2000s music), 9 p.m., $5.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: Adrian Aardvark and Guests (psychedelic grunge-folk), 10 p.m., free.
TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: GSS (blues), 7 p.m., free.
River of Life « P.54 from the Nile basin countries to collaborate together in questions of resource sharing. How does an engineering student engage in a pan-Nile dialogue? How does a psychology student do that? We also saw that musicians have an ability to slip under these barriers that people put up. Sometimes the groove just moves you, and you don’t need to understand it with your intellect. You can do that later. SD: What’s something that people might not know about the music scene in Addis Ababa? M: It’s bangin’. SD: Ha! Can you elaborate a bit? M: Most people [familiar with Ethiopian music] have
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burlington
HALF LOUNGE: Sunday Scene (bass music), 10 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Game Night, 7 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN: Maple Street Six (jazz), 1 p.m., free. Old Sky and Friends (Americana), 6 p.m., free. Dei Xhrist (experimental),
8:15 p.m., free. Baked Shrimp, Strange Purple Jelly (jam), 10:30 p.m., free. Drive-In (indie pop), midnight, free.
HALF LOUNGE: Maglico and Friends (eclectic), 10 p.m., free.
chittenden county
MONKEY HOUSE: Erin CasselsBrown (indie folk), 6 p.m., free. Media Jeweler, Dead Island (post-punk), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 16+.
stowe/smuggs
MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone (blues), 7 p.m., free.
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burlington
ARTSRIOT: The Moth: Age (storytelling), 7:30 p.m., $10. DRINK: Comedy Open Mic, 9 p.m., free. FOAM BREWERS: Local Dork (eclectic vinyl), 6 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: Moochie (eclectic), 10 p.m., free. LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.
LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 8 p.m., free. Giovanina Bucci and Brad Hester (jam), 9:30 p.m., free.
LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Pullin’ Yo Chain Comedy Showcase (standup), 7:30 p.m., free. Faun Fables, Miku Daza, Will I Am (folk, experimental), 9:30 p.m., free.
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.
LINCOLNS: Laugh Shack (standup), 8:30 p.m., $5.
NECTAR’S: Thanks, T. Hanks: Tom Hanks B-Day Party featuring Hayley Jane, Michelangelo Carruba, Rob Compa, Beau Sasser and Justin Hancock (jam), 9 p.m., $5.
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Jake Kulak (singer-songwriter), 9:30 p.m., free.
RADIO BEAN: Tapestry Sunset (folk), 6 p.m., free. Ellie O’Neill (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free. Jesse Taylor (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., free. The Johnny Clay Shanks Band (blue, rock), 10:30 p.m., free.
SIDEBAR: DJ A-RA$ (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 7 p.m., free. SVPPLY (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free.
SIDEBAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free.
VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: She Thicc Variety Hour (improv), 7 p.m., $5. Sandwitches, 8 p.m., free.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 8 p.m., free.
NECTAR’S: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN: Stephen Callahan Trio (jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. The Maggie Valley Band (Americana), 8:45 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Ponyhustle, 10 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: Four-D (house, hip-hop), 7 p.m., free. DJ A-RA$ (open format), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Shawn Connolly (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Blackout Barbie and SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Ukulele Kids with Joe Baird (sing-along), 9:30 a.m., free. TUE.10
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heard of the Éthiopiques series — classic recordings from the late ’60s and early ’70s. But what happened after that was that the communist [party] took over, and they imposed curfews. Because of those curfews, the live music scene just shut down. Through the ’90s, there was basically no nightlife. So, when the government changed in the ’90s, that started to very slowly bounce back. What it’s been is a resurgence of live music — but it also feels like an expressive ability that’s also returned. So it’s more than just that the curfew’s been lifted. It’s like, “Hey, we’re back.”
[via] FaceTime. They’d ask me questions. For example, the song “I Want to Sing for Them All” — [in which] he did those incredible improvisations — that song is in an Ethiopian scale called Bati major. I’d talk about the scale, and he’d be like, “OK, what about this note?” And I’d be like, “Well, you can use that note in the improvisation, but you can’t use it in the verses.” And he’d be like, “OK, OK.” Andrew Bird is very stoic. He blew me away and gave me the chills. We did so many versions of those [songs], and they were all good. We were like, “How do we choose?” m
SD: What was it like to collaborate with Andrew Bird? M: I’ll be honest: That was kind of a starstruck moment for me. Andrew Bird is so multitalented. I wasn’t actually in the studio. We did it remotely
Contact: jordan@sevendaysvt.com
INFO Meklit performs on Thursday, July 12, 8:30 p.m., at ArtsRiot in Burlington. $10/14. AA. artsriot.com
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REVIEW this Rick and the All-Star Ramblers, Taryn Noelle Swings (AIRFLYTE RECORDS, CD)
With a 55-year career as a performer, Burlington-based Rick Norcross has played under the spotlights from Stowe to London, hung with Paul Simon, popped up on the Travel Channel and even been the subject of a biography. On his band’s latest release, however, he puts vocalist Taryn Noelle’s name on the marquee. Taryn Noelle Swings features 11 tracks of Noelle’s classic, beautiful vocal performances as she takes the band’s reins. This sort-of “best of ” album kicks
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taking a quick bow. Noelle’s timeless voice and the band’s classic Western swing style lend this album a lovely sense of nostalgia. When they take on Patsy Cline’s “Back in Baby’s Arms” and Ricky Nelson’s “There’ll Never Be Anyone Else But You,” the authenticity of the playing captures the magic of the original compositions even though the arrangements are new. Norcross is known in the folk and Western swing genres for his songwriting. Only two of his compositions appear on this record — “Take Your Time” and “You’re Gonna Get Hurt” — but his distinctive wit and oddball humor come through as he duets with Noelle. It might be a little odd to go from a tune with a lyric like “It’ll be the hurt-iest hurt that you ever had” to a song like Waylon Jennings’ heartbroken “Wurlitzer Prize.” But the band’s charm and expertise carry them over any bumps in the road.
Since the album is intended as a showcase of Noelle’s prowess, it’s fitting that the last track, “Full Moon Full of Love,” is a sort of mission statement. Vermonter and Asleep at the Wheel cofounder LeRoy Preston wrote the song, and Noelle makes it her own. She and Norcross harmonize perfectly on a tune that conjures slow dancing under a starry night. Taryn Noelle Swings marks another impressive outing for the All-Star Ramblers as well as a deserving spotlight on one of Vermont’s finest vocalists. The best way to experience the band’s music is to catch it live, though some of its albums, including this one, are available at rickandtheramblers. com. This Friday, July 6, the All-Star Ramblers will pull up to the Shelburne Museum in their green ’57 Flxible Starliner bus, aka “the Pickle.”
been institutionalized for large periods of his life.) The advent of drum machines and samplers has made life a lot easier for the bedroom producers and multiinstrumentalists of the world. Kleh makes the most of these tools. He’s a playful and unpredictable song arranger, and the soundscapes on Suite of Dreams range from sparse to orchestral. Most remarkably, the album maintains an intimate session feel despite the abundance of canned sounds. Suite of Dreams opens with the title track — an expansive instrumental tune and a tasty piece of work. It fades into “Beautiful Song,” a slow reverie about those magic moments when the perfect melody hits you like a bolt of lighting. “Last night,
as I lay sleeping in my bed,” he sings, “a beautiful song came to me.” This dreamtime logic defines the album, framing Kleh’s home-studio experiments against a series of ambient interludes with titles such as “3:56 A.M.” or “5:23 A.M.” (They’re not throwaway filler, either — these REM flashes are densely layered and interesting work.) This simple device goes a long way toward making Suite of Dreams feel like a proper LP. Kleh’s skill shines, and his innocence is no affectation. Tracks like “Chinese Food Tonight” or “Wish I Was a Spaceman” are exactly what their titles suggest. Kleh’s sense of humor is both goofy and sly: “I wish I was a cave man, eating dinosaur stew. I’m just glad I’m the Dave man, standing here in front of you.” Musically, not much separates Suite of Dreams from Kleh’s earlier output; in fact, a previously recorded track, “What You Do to Me,” reappears here.
Ric Ocasek (the Cars) and Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) are both still big influences on his sound, and his vocal style remains earnest and rough. My sole complaint, after multiple spins, is the mixing; the tracks can get downright piercing on the high end. Technical concerns aside, though, Suite of Dreams is Kleh’s most polished and cohesive album to date. Listeners who are used to a Pro Tools radio polish and perfectly pitched vocals might find Kleh a jarring change of pace. He is keenly aware of this, perhaps even a bit proud of it. If you’re looking for something deliciously weird, though, Vermont’s most psychedelic real estate agent has 14 new listings to show you. Buy the ticket, take the ride. Suite of Dreams is available at CD Baby. Kleh celebrates its release on Friday, July 6, at SideBar in Burlington.
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Dave Kleh, a multi-instrumentalist home-studio auteur, has been quite prolific in recent years. His latest, Suite of Dreams, is something of a concept album, built around his educated pop-rock style. It is unpolished and occasionally inexplicable. It is also charming as hell. Kleh’s work occupies an interesting gray zone. While it’s undeniably rough around the edges, it’s far from the “outsider music” of, say, Daniel Johnston. (That’s no doubt related to the fact that Kleh is a successful real estate agent, whereas Johnston has
off fittingly with “The Best Things in Life,” a song from the 1927 Broadway show Good News. (It was popularized for a new generation when rogue prairie dogs sang the song while robbing the set of “The Muppet Show.”) Behind a gorgeous fiddle- and piano-heavy arrangement, Noelle’s voice shines like the moonbeams she sings about. The album rolls seamlessly into “Right or Wrong,” a ’30s jazz standard that the band infuses with its signature swing, adding a thrilling instrumental duel in the middle. Doug Reid leads off with a lilting fiddle solo, soon followed by lead guitarist Dono Shabner, before multiinstrumentalist Charlie MacFadyen enters the fray, each player essentially
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DJs Big Dog and Jahson (reggae), 9 p.m., $20/25.
STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m., free.
HALF LOUNGE: DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.
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JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Josh Child Quintet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Tom Pearo (ambient, jazz), 9:30 p.m., $5. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Swimmer, Electric Kif (jam), 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Sabrina Comellas (Americana, R&B), 5:30 p.m., free. The Civil Unseen (folk), 7 p.m., free. Hailey Ward (indie pop), 8:30 p.m., free. Holy Human (psych-rock, blues), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Gypsy Reel (traditional Irish), 7:30 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Hotel Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Justin Panigutti (rock), 7 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. Indie Rumble (improv), 8:30 p.m., free.
chittenden county CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Interactive Video Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7:30 p.m., free.
JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bluegrass Session, 7 p.m., free.
BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Party For Maria featuring Colin McCaffrey and Allison Mason (folk), 5:30 p.m., donation. CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: All Request Video, 9 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation. Cookie’s Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 8 p.m., free.
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mad river valley/ waterbury ZENBARN: Zach Nugent’s Acoustic Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.
middlebury area CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.
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whole is a touch reminiscent of “Body Wars,” the Disney World simulation ride through the human body. Once the initial awe of “Traverse” subsides, viewers will find that Wagner switches things up in the back gallery with six midsize, wall-hung paper sculptures. Where “Traverse” is maximal and loud, these works beguile with the
intricacy of their construction: layers of screen-printed paper painstakingly adhered and shaped over wire frames. Wagner’s visual vocabulary in these pieces is consistent with “Traverse,” but the change in scale makes them more like specimens to be observed with scientific detachment. The malleability of paper allows for more delicate
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s if this latest heat wave created the perfect conditions for new life to emerge, something very big has taken over Burlington’s BCA Center. Sprawling across the entire façade of the former firehouse, Crystal Wagner’s site-specific installation “Traverse” bursts with color and organic movement, like a Technicolor mycelium or a super sexy — dare I say throbbing? — data visualization. The art equivalent of a juicy summer blockbuster, the work is fun, in-your-face and hard to resist. Just ask the passersby clustered outside, smartphones raised. Conceived and fabricated over just two weeks, Wagner’s floor-to-ceiling, indoor/outdoor intervention takes up space. The Philadelphia-based artist noted that the BCA Center is one of the smaller venues to host her monumental work. Instead of feeling contained or repressed, however, Wagner used the opportunity to do something new in her practice: “Traverse” is her first installation to incorporate both interior and exterior space. Regarding Wagner’s massive, flashy bioform, one might class it as belonging to the realm of high-production-value science fiction. But her chosen materials are anything but sleek: torn plastic tablecloths (which she’s been saving for up to five years) woven through chicken wire. For the exhibition’s outdoor appendage, sturdy nylon replaces the less weather-ready plastic, held together with zip ties. The genus and species of the form Wagner concocted may be alien, but many of its components seem familiar. The sculpture’s dense core, located in the front gallery, bears orange, yellow and white concentric markings set against purple and blue; they bring to mind butterfly wings. Swirling fields of blue and white or black and gray have the spongy texture of bone marrow, and spire-like branches seem to grow outward from the center. Viewers who explore will be rewarded with the find of a pseudo-private, plastic-walled enclave, complete with hobbit-y peepholes for looking out. With its unabashed embrace of organic forms and larger-than-life scale, the work as a
flourishes: patches of tiny scales, for example, or mesh-like layers of paper circles (not recommended for the trypophobic). This is a family of mutants, and they’re quite pretty. At first glance, Wagner’s bold, sometimes brash, almost graffiti-like sensibility has little in common with the work being shown in “forever, a little ghost” on the gallery’s second floor. This solo show of Vermont Studio Center staff artist Nicole Czapinski marks the launch of BCA’s new Project Vermont series, an initiative dedicated to fostering experimentation among contemporary artists working in Vermont. Czapinski’s primary body of work on view consists of small frames wrapped in opaque mesh and punctured by intricately stitched shapes. Some of these three-dimensional thread forms — or “drawings,” as the artist calls them — stand alone. Others, like “a faint, shadowy trace” or “as above, so below,” expand across multiple frames, echoing the impulse of life to reach outward that Wagner articulates so clearly. To call these “fiber works” might be clumsy. But, comparing them with Wagner’s installation, one easily sees the artists’ shared link to the fundamental motion of textiles and to the mantra of potholder-making tweens everywhere: over/under. Indeed, a black-and-white Instagram photo of Wagner assembling a frame for “Traverse” recalls sculptor Ruth Asawa, with whom both Wagner and Czapinski have commonalities. As Czapinski indicates in her exhibition title, she frames the basic process of plane-crossing in terms of life, death and eternity. This profound simplicity is driven home by “so many ways of being,” on the gallery’s west wall, which consists of 36 rectangles of plastic craftstore mesh or translucent paper. Each plane is interrupted by colorful pipe cleaners or strips of black paper. Here, Czapinski looks to be at play, and she is: She’ll reconfigure the work periodically throughout the show’s run. Also in flux is Czapinski’s time-sensitive sculpture “a soft pause,” residing at the center of a table that is part of a larger work titled “at all times, not much, a small amount.” Here, ice melts through a wire screen into a bucket, slowly
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revealing a dark rock embedded in it. This real-time action is surrounded by objects gleaned from everyday life and suggestive of an artist’s mood board: a green plastic basket, rocks, a jade plant, a small sculptural study and more. Although Wagner and Czapinski employ vastly different approaches — or perhaps because they do — it’s fun to consider these exhibitions as a pair. One uses wire and tablecloths, the other mesh and thread, but exciting similarities emerge between Wagner’s daring, crowd-pleasing extroversion and Czapinski’s steadfast ethereality. Both
use fundamental textile techniques to take up more space than we may expect. Both demonstrate that the worlds we know and the worlds we imagine not only coexist but can be represented captivatingly through the simplest of processes. m Contact: rachel@sevendaysvt.com
INFO “Traverse,” on view through October 7; “forever, a little ghost,” on view through August 5, at the BCA Center in Burlington. burlingtoncityarts.org
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ART IN THE PARK FALL FOLIAGE FESTIVAL: Seeking vendors to show work and wares at this 57th annual event in Rutland’s Main Street Park on October 6 and 7. For details and to apply, visit chaffeeartcenter.org. Deadline is rolling. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland. Info, 775-0356.
‘MORRISVILLE — FAVORITE PLACES’: Photographers are invited to submit images of the town for a two-part exhibition opening in September. For details and to submit, visit riverartsvt.org. Deadline: July 20. River Arts, Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.
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‘ROCK SOLID’: For the 18th year, area artists are invited to share their most compelling stone sculptures and assemblages, as well as paintings and etchings that depict the beautiful qualities of stone. For details and to submit, visit studioplacearts.com. Deadline: August 10. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069. SPA STUDIO RESIDENCY PROGRAM: Emerging artists from the greater Barre/Montpelier area are invited to apply for an 11-month residency to take place from November 15, 2018, to October 31, 2019. A small private studio on the second floor of the visual arts center will be provided, with an exhibition at the end of the program. For details and to submit, visit studioplacearts. com. Deadline: August 10. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Info, 479-7069.
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‘STILL LIFE: ELEVATING THE MUNDANE’: Artists are invited to submit photographs, made using any process, that fall within the category of still life for this upcoming exhibition to be juried by Kimberly Witham. For details and to apply, visit photoplacegallery.com. Deadline: July 9. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury. $35 for up to five images; $6 for each additional. Info, 388-4500.
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‘ABUNDANCE: CELEBRATING CREATIVITY IN MENTAL HEALTH, WELLNESS AND RECOVERY’: The Clara Martin Center invites artists and friends of mental health to submit poetry and artworks to be considered for a fall exhibition. Applicants must be Vermont residents, and preference will be given to artists/writers in the White River and Upper valleys. Works must be ready to hang. For details and to submit, visit claramartin.org. Deadline: July 31. Chandler Gallery, Randolph. Info, dlittlepage@claramartin.org.
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f ALEX COSTANTINO: “Avalon,” landscape installa-
tions. Reception: Friday, July 6, 5-9 p.m. July 6-28. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.
f ‘THE ART SHOW VIII’: An open-call, community-
sourced art exhibition featuring the “People’s Choice Mini Grant” cash prize. Reception: Friday, July 6, 6-9 p.m. July 6-27. Info, publicartschool@ gmail.com. RL Photo Studio in Burlington.
f THE BELLCATE SCHOOL: Works by students
who have been experimenting with fiber, folk art and upcycling. Reception: Friday, July 6, 5-8 p.m. July 6-31. Info, 859-9222. Art’s Alive Gallery @ Main Street Landing’s Union Station in Burlington.
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‘TRANSCENDING THE LIMITS OF AGE’: Photographer Elliot Burg’s portraits of track and field athletes in their seventies, eighties and nineties, taken at the National Senior Games. July 10-September 30. Info, eburg4@gmail. com. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.
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f ESSEX ART LEAGUE AND MILTON ARTISTS GUILD: Members of the arts organizations exhibit works in a variety of mediums. f SUMMER JURIED EXHIBIT: Featured artists include August Burns, Annie Christopher, Frank DeAngelis, Eddie Epstein,
f ART SHOW: Works by three painters and one photographer, accompanied by ceramics. Reception: Saturday, July 7, 5 p.m. July 7-August 18. Info, 8752194. The Fourth Corner Foundation in Windham.
his skill with oils to some American subject matter: hamburgers
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f LINDA DUCHARME: “Velvet Brown Disease,” paintings that speak to the artist’s love of horses. Reception: Thursday, July 19, 6 p.m. July 5-August 31. Info, 685-2188. Chelsea Public Library.
summer for 20 years, Shvetsov has left his
the Vermont landscape,
f JAMES STEWART: “Solipsism,” an interactive musical installation by the local composer. Reception: Friday, July 6, 5-8 p.m. OLGA VERASEN: “Happy Home,” acrylic paintings and watercolors. July 6-August 31. Info, 859-9222. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.
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f ‘EXTRA • ORDINARY’: Works by members of
outgoing Flynn Center executive director John Killacky, featuring 17 Vermont artists responding to the wide-open theme of “horizons.” Reception: Saturday, July 7, 1 p.m. July 7-September 1. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington.
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f ‘HORIZONS’: A group exhibition curated by
f ‘NATURE VS. CULTURE’: An exhibition featuring works ranging from classical to abstract, realism to impressionism, that explore the dynamic relationship between the natural world and humankind. Reception: Friday, July 6, 5-6 p.m. July 6-22. Info, 765-4288. Justin Morrill Homestead in Strafford.
With a brooding palette
f DAN BLAKESLEE: “Draw Them In: A Rock Poster Retrospective,” 50 works spanning more than two decades of work by the artist, who is also known for creating the Alchemist’s beer-can art. Reception: Friday, July 6, 6 p.m. July 5-September 4. Info, 540-0131. The Skinny Pancake in Burlington. “The Art Tribe,” which includes Melanie Brotz, Annie Caswell, LaVerne Ferguson, Kara Greenblott, Holly Hauser, Nancy Hayden, Lynne Reed, Kelley Taft, Linda Van Cooper and Betsy Ward. Reception: Friday, July 6, 5-9 p.m. July 6-August 31. Info, nancynorthwindarts@gmail.com. Flynndog in Burlington.
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PETER SHVETSOV: Oil paintings and etchings that reflect the artist’s fascination with strange moments in time. July 7-August 11. Info, 291-2035. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.
to spend the season in South Royalton. Along
PETER SHVETSOV: Food portraits in tribute to the restaurant’s celebrated burgers and fries. July 7-August 11. Info, 291-2035. Worthy Burger in South Royalton.
with working to render
PETER SHVETSOV: Oil paintings and etchings of Vermont landscapes that provide a neutral background for the ever-changing, disappearing color at the end of the day. July 11-August 11. Info, 291-2035. South Royalton Market.
he has become enamored of SoRo hot spot Worthy Burger. Shvetsov describes this exhibition of still lifes, which opens on Saturday, July 7, as “transforming burgers and truffle fries into local cult symbols.” Dig in! Through August 11. (Shvetsov also has exhibits at South Royalton Market and Royalton Memorial Library.) Pictured: an untitled painting. Hasso Ewing, Caroline McKinney, Maggie Neale, Sam Thurston, Ann Young and others. Reception: Thursday, July 12, 5-7 p.m. July 5-August 31. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.
f JULIA PAVONE: “Ode to Common Things,” found-object paintings. f NITYA BRIGHENTI: “Storm: Nihilists, Anarchists, Populists and Radicals,” paintings and drawings. f ‘SCORCHED’: A group show illustrating the effects of heat and fire. Reception: Thursday, July 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. July 10-August 24. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.
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f ‘FRAGILE’: Works by 24 contemporary artists responding to the concept of fragility. Reception: Saturday, July 7, 5-7 p.m. July 7-August 18. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.
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f ED SMITH: Works in bronze and plaster that use
classical imagery to explore the mythic and heroic aspects of the artist and humankind. Reception: Saturday, July 7, 5-7 p.m. July 7-August 5. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland.
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f DIAN PARKER: “Oil Paint & Black Walnut,”
abstract paintings on canvas and mixed-media works on black-walnut-stained paper by the artist, writer and curator of the White River Gallery. Reception: Friday, July 6, 5-7 p.m. July 6-September 26. Info, 295-3118. Zollikofer Gallery at Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction.
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FIRST FRIDAY ART: Dozens of galleries and other venues around the city open their doors to pedestrian art viewers in this monthly event. See Art Map Burlington program at participating locations. Friday, July 6, 5-8 p.m. Info, 264-4839. FREE FIRST FRIDAY: The acclaimed contemporary art center welcomes the public free of charge and with no reservation necessary. Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Friday, July 6, 5-8 p.m. Info, 952-1056. GRAND REOPENING PARTY: A celebration and reception for guests artists Lucy Bergamini, Jeffrey Gale and Kerstin Nichols. Collective — the Art of Craft, Woodstock, Saturday, July 7, 3-6 p.m. Info, 457-1298. OPEN ART STUDIO: Seasoned makers and first-timers alike convene to paint, knit and craft in a friendly environment. Bring a table covering for messy projects. Swanton Public Library, Tuesday, July 10, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, swantonartscouncil@ gmail.com. SILENT AUCTION: ‘MINIS FOR MORRILL’: An annual event featuring 4-by-4-inch works created in an array of styles by local fine artists. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, Friday, July 6, 5:30 p.m. Info, 765-4288. TOURS OF THE HISTORIC BARN HOUSE AND EXHIBITS: Visitors can experience African American and African-diaspora art and culture, along with a granary and cow barn built between late 1700s and early 1800s. The 90-minute tour includes authentic African textiles, art and antiquities, and photography exhibits; a Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture official poster series; three works by Charlotte environmental artist Nancy Winship Milliken; and more. To sign up for a tour, visit Eventbrite. Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte, Saturday, July 7, 10-11:30 a.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 310-0097.
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AMANDA AMEND: Watercolors by the Vermont artist. Through July 6. Info, amanda.amend@gmail. com. The Daily Planet in Burlington.
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CRYSTAL WAGNER: “Traverse,” an immense, site-specific installation by the multidisciplinary artist. Through October 7. MATTHEW THORSEN: “Thorever,” a celebration of the life and work of the
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GEEBO CHURCH: “Small Landscapes,” oil paintings. Through July 31. Info, 860-4972. Black Horse Gallery in Burlington. ‘THE GENDER & IDENTITY RESEARCH PROJECT’: Teacher and Goddard College graduate student Julie Montera presents findings from interviews with children centered around gender and identity, as well as photographs that show the gendered messages of children’s clothing. Through July 7. ‘SUMMER READING AT FFL: A RETROSPECTIVE’: Archival materials and ephemera, including posters, banners and T-shirts, from more than 30 years of the program started to engage young readers during the summer. Through August 31. Info, 863-3403. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. ‘HOW PEOPLE MAKE THINGS’: An interactive exhibit that reveals how familiar childhood objects are manufactured and tells the story of the people, ideas and technologies used to transform raw materials into finished products. Through September 3. Info, 864-1848. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington.
f JORDAN DOUGLAS: A selection of alternative silver-gelatin photographs, including reinterpretations of found vintage photographs and mediumformat prints from the $25 plastic Holga camera. Reception: Friday, July 6, 5-8 p.m. Through July 31. Info, 338-7441. Thirty-odd in Burlington. f JULY EXHIBITION: Works by Dug Nap, Daryl
Storrs and Terry Zigmund. Reception: Friday, July 6, 5-8 p.m. Through July 29. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.
f KARA TORRES: “Fantasy Self,” works in a variety of media that explore the discrepancy between the artist’s future dreams and the personal and structural realities that prevent reaching those dreams. Reception: Friday, July 6, 4-7 p.m. Through July 31. Info, fineforagerarts@gmail.com. Cavendish Gallery & Collective in Burlington. f MEMBERS ONLY ART EXHIBIT: Works in a variety of mediums by members of the South End Arts and Business Association. Reception: Friday, July 6, 5-8 p.m. Through August 31. Info, 651-9692. VCAM Studio in Burlington. ‘OPTIMIST PRIME’: An exhibition guest-curated by Michael Shoudt, featuring work by Liv Aanrud, Peter Gallo, Tamara Gonzales, Catherine Haggarty, Katie Hector, Steven Mayer, Dustin Metz and Grant Newman. Through July 24. Info, joseph@ newcitygalerie.org. New City Galerie in Burlington.
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STEVE SHARON: Abstract paintings by the Burlington artist and musician. Through July 10. Info, 2kdeep@gmail.com. Half Lounge in Burlington.
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TIM DURBROW: Colorful, large-scale landscape and nature photography, accompanied by three vintage photos restored as a part of an Underhill Historical Society project. Through September 1. Info, 434-2550. Mt. Mansfield Community Television in Richmond.
‘IN THE GARDEN’: An exhibit featuring fine art, textiles, sculpture, furniture, actual insects and more explores how flowers and bugs have captivated artists’ imaginations over the centuries. Through August 25. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.
‘WHEN I WAS OLDER’: Mixed-media works by Nina Dubois and Art2D2 Industries, aka Jason Galligan-Baldwin. Through July 29. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne.
‘INTO THE LIGHT’: A group exhibition featuring the works of Castleton artist Dick Weis and 15 others. Through July 17. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.
‘ANYTHING FOR SPEED: AUTOMOBILE RACING IN VERMONT’: The center celebrates the opening of its yearlong exhibition exploring more than a century of the history and evolution of racing in Vermont through the objects, photographs and recollections that comprise this unique story. Through March 30, 2019. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Center in Barre.
KIMBERLEE FORNEY: Whimsical and colorful paintings and prints. Through August 31. Info, kimberleef@msn.com. Davis Studio in South Burlington. ‘LUMINOUS LANDSCAPES OF VERMONT’: Vermont landscape photographs by Mary Claire Carroll and paintings by Julie J. McGowan, both of Richmond. Through July 15. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. LYNDA REEVES MCINTYRE: “Azores to Abiquiu,” recent landscape paintings by the Vermont artist. Through July 31. Info, 985-8922. Village Wine and Coffee Winemakers Gallery in Shelburne. ‘A NEW AMERICAN FAMILY’: An exhibit honoring the Bhattarai family, featuring photos of the family, an account of how they got from Bhutan to Winooski, and quotes from family members describing the journey and their life here. Through July 31. Info, 985-8328. O’Brien Community Center in Winooski. ‘PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE’: An exhibition juried by Saul Robbins featuring photographs by local, national and international photographers. Through July 15. Info, 777-3686. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. ‘PLAYING COWBOY: AMERICA’S WILD WEST SHOWS’: Combining period posters with historical film footage, this exhibition explores the profound influence Buffalo Bill and other Wild West shows had on shaping contemporary understandings of the American West, Native American history and the cowboy way of life. Through October 21. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum. SHELBURNE CRAFT SCHOOL GROUP SHOW: Works by artists from the school’s advanced oil painting class, including Jane Guyette, Diane Lavallee, Sid Miller, Fred Morgan, Deborah Boutilier Paolantonio, Suzie Quinn and instructor Sage Tucker-Ketcham. Through July 7. Info, 425-6345. Charlotte Senior Center.
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ELLIOT BURG: “Heart and Eye,” high-contrast black-and-white portraits taken in Myanmar, Laos, Ukraine, Cuba, Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., and Vermont. Through July 31. Info, eburg4@gmail.com. Capitol Grounds Café in Montpelier.
f HARRY A. RICH: “The Vermont Years, So Far…” large-scale acrylic-on-canvas paintings that span the artist’s time living in Vermont, from 1998 to 2018. Reception: Friday, July 13, 5-7 p.m. Through September 28. Info, 375-2940. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier. HEIDI BRONER: “Inner Lives,” realist portraits by the self-taught painter. Through August 3. Info, 2796403. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. JENNIFER PALKOWSKI JACQUES: Original watercolor and mixed-media paintings including ghost portraits and skyscapes. Through September 1. Info, 595-4866. The Hive in Middlesex.
f ‘NEW AMERICAN ARTISTS: CELEBRATING TRADITION AND CULTURE’: An exhibit highlighting immigrant and refugee artists in Vermont who participated in Vermont Folklife Center’s traditional arts apprenticeship program developed by Greg Sharrow. Reception: Tuesday, July 10, 5-7 p.m. Through August 31. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. f NICK DEFRIEZ: “Hillsides and Hexagons,” paintings and drawings by the Chelsea-based artist. Reception: Friday, July 13, 4-7 p.m. Through September 28. Info, 685-7743. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier. ORAH MOORE: “Stewards of the Land,” handprinted silverprint photographs of Montana ranchers. Through August 10. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli in Barre. PHYLLIS CHASE: Paintings by the Calais artist. Through August 23. Info, 223-7274. Adamant Music School.
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by Festival of Fine Art award winners, including Kara Torres, Gav’om, Jerry Rayla, Matt Morris, Linda Dulleba and Paul McMillan. Reception: Friday, August 3, 5-8 p.m. Through August 31. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington.
Burlington photojournalist and Seven Days staff photographer. Through July 15. NICOLE CZAPINSKI: “forever, a little ghost,” sculptural “drawings” in thread, which the artist will activate and alter over the course of the show. Through August 5. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.
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‘SHOW 26: NEW MEMBERS’: The latest group exhibition of the collective gallery’s Vermont-based contemporary artists, including recent additions Jason Galligan-Baldwin, Kate Burnim, Sam Colt, Mark Lorah, Ned Richardson and Michelle Saffran. Through August 4. Info, 552-0877. The Front in Montpelier. ‘SOLZHENITSYN IN VERMONT’: A celebration of the Russian novelist, historian and Nobel Prize winner turned Vermont resident, in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth. Through October 27. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. STANLEY FOLSOM: “Vermont Trains and Stations,” detailed drawings. Through July 5. Info, 426-3581. Jaquith Public Library in Marshfield.
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ANNELEIN BEUKENKAMP: “Different Strokes,” abstract acrylic paintings by the Burlington artist. Through September 9. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. ‘CURIOUS & COOL’: Unusual and seldom-seen artifacts of ski culture from the museum’s archives. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe. ‘EXPLORING AIR’: A group exhibition including works of painting, photography and sculpture that address the element of air, curated by Kelly Holt. Through August 30. Info, 760-6785. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.
f ‘EXPLORING AIR’: One site in a two-part
exhibition featuring works that investigate the qualities of air, presented in partnership with the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center. Reception: Friday, July 27, 4-6 p.m. Through August 30. Info, 760-6785. Edgewater Gallery in Stowe. GEORGE PEARLMAN: “Plastic Expression,” paintings. Through July 5. Info, 635-2727. Vermont Studio Center in Johnson.
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‘THE HEAD OF THE CLASS’: An invitational group show of artwork by Lamoille County art teachers. ‘THE SKY’S THE LIMIT’: A juried show of 72 artists whose works feature the sky as the predominant element of the composition. Through September 3. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. JAMES PETERSON: “Dreamcatcher,” an immersive installation by the artist-in-residence from Los Angeles. Through September 30. Info, 253-8358. Spruce Peak at Stowe.
KIMBERLEE FORNEY: Colorful acrylic paintings and prints. Through October 31. Info, kimberleef@msn. com. Green Goddess Café in Stowe.
f NEIL BERGER: “Men, Mountains, Sky,” en plein air paintings made over a year in Burlington’s Battery Park. f VERMONT COMIC CREATORS GROUP EXHIBIT: Works by Vermont-based comic-book creators, cartoonists and other artists who make narrative sequential 2D art. Reception and Artist Talk: Thursday, July 5, 5-7 p.m. Through September 2. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.
‘BIRDS, BEES AND BUTTERFLIES IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY’: A group exhibition of art and poetry organized by artist and avid gardener Klara Calitri. Through July 8. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury. ‘BLADES WILL SPROUT’: Paintings by Anne Cady, Julia Jensen and Jessica Smith, whose works use landscape as an entry point but differ stylistically. Through July 29. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.
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JOHN CROSS: “American Wood Sculptor John Cross: A Contemporary Figurative Folk Artist,” whimsical wood carvings by the Middlebury College alum. Through July 8. ‘OUR TOWN: LOVE, JOY, SADNESS AND BASEBALL’: Thirty-six historic photographs from the museum’s archives, curated by retired National Geographic photographer James P. Blair and Sheldon archivist Eva GarcelonHart. Through July 8. ‘WATERFOWL WONDERS & AMUSING ANIMALS’: Carvings by Addison County-based wood carvers Gary Starr, Chuck Herrmann and William Holway. Through November 11. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.
f ROB HITZIG: “Colorful Musings,” works that
f JONATHAN D. EBINGER: “Breathing Life Into Metal,” welded sculpture from stainless steel nuts, bolts, washers and rods. Reception: Friday, July 13, 5:30-7 p.m. Through July 31. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.
NORTHERN VERMONT ARTISTS ASSOCIATION JUNE JURIED SHOW: The 87th annual exhibition of works by artist association members. Through July 7. Info, 644-8183. Visions of Vermont Art Galleries in Jeffersonville. ‘RECLAMATION’: Portraits of women painted by nationally acclaimed, contemporary women artists. Curated by August Burns, Diane Feissel and Rachel Moore. Through September 8. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.
GREEN MOUNTAIN WATERCOLOR EXHIBITION: More than 100 watercolors from artists across North America. Through July 28. Info, 496-6682. The Big Red Barn at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield. explore color and shape through geometric abstraction in dimensional painted wood. Reception: Friday, July 13, 6-8 p.m. Through August 25. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury. ‘THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS: A VISUAL DISCOURSE BETWEEN FATHER AND DAUGHTER’: A juxtaposition of Royal Academy of Art member Michael Craig-Martin and his daughter, Vanity Fair photographer Jessica Craig-Martin. Through September 3. Info, 583-5832. Bundy Modern in Waitsfield.
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‘1968: THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING’: Prints, photographs, videos, paintings and sculpture from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s that reflect some of the more visible divisions within the art world of the turbulent era. ‘JUST KIDS: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE NICHOLAS GIFT’: Photographs of children drawn from every corner of the globe and representing a broad spectrum of social and economic circumstances. Through August 12. Info, 443-5007. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College.
KILEIGH HANNAH: “Halcyon Days,” nature-inspired abstract paintings by the Colchester artist, whose preferred mediums include traditional acrylic, graphite, table salt and homegrown sodium borate crystals. Through July 29. Info, 917-686-1292. Steven Jupiter Gallery in Middlebury.
f SCOTT ADDIS: “Sweet Corn,” a solo exhibition of landscape paintings by the Montréal artist. Reception: Friday, July 13, 5-7 p.m. Through July 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls. ‘WORKING METAL, CREATING ART’: Works by Vermont artists Kate Pond, Chris Cleary, Warren Rinehart, John Arthur, Kathy Mitchell and Meg Walker. Through August 12. Info, info@ creativespacegallery.org. Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes.
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DEBORAH GOODWIN: “Fabrications in Clay,” ceramics by the local artist. Through August 28. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.
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pronouns. And sometimes gender is more or less besides the point, as with the child who identified as “actually a fairy,” or the one who is “a boy and a gorilla.” Through July 7. Pictured: a child’s drawing.
‘FIREMAN SQUARED’: Sculptures spanning the creative output of Mark Burnett and Glenn Campbell, made with materials including plaster, marble, wood, glass, bronze and steel. Through August 18. Info, 282-2396. Castleton University Bank Gallery in Rutland. MARY FRAN LLOYD: “Life in the Abstract,” 31 paintings using acrylic paint and collaged paper. Through August 9. Info, maryfranart@aol.com. Rutland City Hall. ‘MY FIRST STREET HE(ART): NYC’: Works by 45 national and international street artists, curated by Alison Wallis, founder of Bushwick’s Ad Hoc Gallery. Through July 28. Info, vtalleygallery@gmail.com. The Alley Gallery in Rutland. PASTEL SOCIETY EXHIBIT: Works by more than 40 members of the Vermont Pastel Society. Through July 21. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.
champlain islands/northwest ‘ABSTRACT CONSTRUCTIONS: SOLID & LIGHT’: Mixed-media “Landscape Constructions” by Edwin Owre and glass “Abstract Landscapes” by Holly Rae Taylor. Through July 15. Info, 355-2150. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.
‘REBEL, REBEL’: Paintings on broken snowboards, skateboards, wood and canvas by Trevor Corp, Ian Hutchings and Drew Lalonde. Through July 10. Info, montgomerycenterarts@gmail.com. Montgomery Center for the Arts.
f ‘WOMEN SPEAK: RESISTANCE ART SHOW’: Works by Sarah Rosedahl, Meta Strick and India Tressely. Reception: Wednesday, July 11, 5-7 p.m. Through July 31. Info, 378-4591. Grand Isle Art Works.
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‘AIR WORKS’: An exhibit that explores the properties of air and the science behind its everyday use and includes a 3D air maze, hover table, chain-reaction machine, paper airplane launcher and air-operated bottle organ. Through September 3. Free with museum admission. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. STEPHANIE GORDON: Encaustic paintings by the Piermont, N.H., artist. Through August 31. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery & Gifts in White River Junction. XAVIER CORTADA: “Water Paintings, Epoch & Native Flags,” three series of nature-themed works by the Cuban American, Miami-based artist. Through July 24. Info, 457-3500. ArtisTree Gallery in South Pomfret.
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‘CELEBRATION OF VERMONT ARTS’: A group exhibition featuring works by more than 80 Vermont artisans, with a focus on those from the Northeast Kingdom. Through July 8. Info, 533-2045. Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro. ‘A COMMON THREAD: STITCHES AND STORIES FROM FIBER ARTISTS NEAR AND FAR’: Fiber works by Northeast Kingdom artists. Through July 28. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport. ‘EARTH LIKE’: Works by Jake Harnish and Brittany Miracle. Through July 15. Info, 563-2037. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick. KATHY STARK: Select mixed-media paintings. Through July 23. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. ‘LOCKED DOWN! KEYED IN! LOCKED OUT! KEYED UP!’: An exhibition examining the long human relationship to the lock and key, its elegant design and philosophies and practices of securing, safeguarding, imprisoning, escaping and safecracking throughout the ages. Through April 30, 2019. Info, claredol@sover.net. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. RICHARD BROWN: Black-and-white photographs of nostalgic Vermont landscapes and people. Through December 31. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.
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SARAH MEYERS BRENT: Sixteen works of painting and assemblage from materials including wallpaper, fabric scraps and dried flowers. Through August 17. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. SUSAN ABBOTT: “One Way, Many Paths: An Artist Walks the Camino,” paintings inspired by the artist’s journey along the historic pilgrimage El Camino de Santiago. Through July 8. Info, info@ highlandartsvt.org. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. ‘WATER IS LIFE’: Works celebrating water by Northeast Kingdom artists. Through July 28. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artists Guild in St. Johnsbury.
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DAVID RIOS FERREIRA: “And I Hear Your Words That I Made Up,” mixed-media works that conjure a psychic landscape filled with conflicting emotions. Through September 24. DEBRA RAMSAY: “Painting Time,” an installation of strips of color derived from nature, as captured by the artist over a year in New Berlin, N.Y. Through September 24. ROBERT DUGRENIER: “Handle With Care,” sculptures made of glass and farm equipment as part of the artist’s process of mourning the 2015 fire that destroyed his historic barn. Through September 24. ROZ CHAST: “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” 139 original illustrations from the New Yorker cartoonist’s graphic memoir. Through September 24. SHONA MACDONALD: “Terrestrial Vale,” a series of silverpoint and graphite works on paper depicting fledgling plants prepared for winter with veils of garden netting. Through September 24. STEVE GERBERICH: “Best of ‘Springs, Sprockets & Pulleys,’” kinetic sculptures by the artist, inventor and packrat. Through October 8. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
f HEATHER J. GEOFFREY: “Borderlands,” works exploring borders and interstitial spaces through a variety of mediums including acrylic painting, digital photography, the written word and performance. Reception: Friday, July 6, 5:30-7 p.m. Through July 31. Info, 869-2960. Main Street Arts in Saxtons River.
‘BRIGHT IDEAS’: An exhibition exploring collaboration, innovation and legacy, featuring works by Seline Skoug, Barbara Sarvis, Melissa Richard, Nate Massari, Patty Smith, Michael Smoot and Misa Chappell. Through July 13. Info, 442-0713. The Lightning Jar in Bennington.
MARION LENT: “Sprites to Live By,” 30 handmade figures made from felted wool, with hand-molded and painted antennae, hands, feet and faces. Through August 18. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.
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‘FROM AFRICA TO THE AMERICAS: FACE-TO-FACE PICASSO, PAST AND PRESENT’: An exhibition using milestones in the life of Pablo Picasso (18811973) and in history to explore the close relationship between the Spanish master and the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, with a focus on the trajectory of changing attitudes. ‘HERE WE ARE HERE: BLACK CANADIAN CONTEMPORARY ART’: Works by 11 contemporary artists who use a variety of disciplines to challenge preconceived notions of blackness in Canada. Through September 16. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.
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GINA ADAMS: “Its Honor Is Hereby Pledged,” the summer artist-in-residence in the Dartmouth College studio art department exhibits quilts that revisit broken treaties between the U.S. and Native American tribes. Through July 22. Info, 603-6462422. Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. JEAN-MICHEL OTHONIEL: “Motion – Emotion,” works by the French artist that center on the violence of the elements. Through November 11. Info, 514-285-1600. RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER: “Unstable Presence,” a major survey of the Montréal-based artist’s work over the past 18 years that brings together 21 pieces, including several large-scale immersive installations. Through September 9. Info, 514-847-6232. Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art. JOHN MCKENNA: “Column II,” a geometric public sculpture made from aluminum, acrylic and wood. Through October 28. SHERI HANCOCK-TOMEK: ‘Strata Series,’ a collection of recent abstract prints. Through July 22. Info, 603-469-3444. Aidron Duckworth Museum in Meriden, N.H. PENNIE BRANTLEY: “Roads Taken,” paintings by the Boston and New York artist. SCOTT GORDON: “Unintended Objects,” abstract sculpture from salvaged metal. TOM LEYTHAM: “Hiding in Plain Sight,” watercolor paintings of Vermont’s built landscape by the artist and architect. Through July 6. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. TOYIN OJIH ODUTOLA: “The Firmament,” drawings that ask viewers to consider how conceptions of race are established and promulgated. Through September 2. Info, 603-646-2426. Hood Downtown in Hanover, N.H. m
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BOB EDDY: “A Second Look,” black-and-white photographs of Vermont’s White River Valley from the final years of the film era. Through September 1. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.
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ho’s out there right now consistently dashing off deeper, darker, more trope-twisting scripts than Taylor Sheridan? If the writer-director had ridden into town, dropped just one of his neo-Western wonders — Hell or High Water or Wind River — and then disappeared into the sunset, he’d have left a permanent mark on movie history. Luckily, he’s only getting started. When was the last time you watched the first film Sheridan wrote, 2015’s Sicario? I do a dozen times a year. Revenge fests don’t get grittier, crazier or more intricate. Unless one’s so indisputably superb that the guy who penned it gets to expand it into a trilogy. Sicario: Day of the Soldado makes zero bones about its function in the triptych. Written by Sheridan and directed by Stefano Sollima (“Gomorra”), this is two solid hours of setup. At the same time, I can’t think of another movie in the middle of a three-parter that so satisfyingly serves as both its own story and a stage setter. Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin return as avenging attorney Alejandro and American operative Matt Graver. Before I saw the film, I’ll admit, Emily Blunt’s no-show caused some concern, but that was alleviated in short order. How often does a drama featuring drug cartels, killer drones and Apache helicopters deep in the heart of Texas also
feature Catherine Keener? The actress plays the sort of jaded blackops puppet master commonly embodied by, say, Albert Finney, David Strathairn or Brian Cox. She’s credible as all get-out, tersely issuing directives to the men under her command and scheming with Matthew Modine’s spineless secretary of defense. The mission this time around: Engineer a war between rival Mexican mobs in the hope of quickly putting out of business whichever one has started smuggling terrorists across the border. Graver is given carte blanche to “get dirty.” He begins by recruiting Alejandro. Who better to fuck with the minds of drug barons than someone whose family was massacred by one? And what more fitting way to get the mind games going than by messing with that very drug baron’s family? While making it look like the work of an enemy outfit, natch. Alejandro is not the obvious choice for an emblem of tender compassion. The character is so comfortable killing, he makes Jason Bourne look like Gandhi. Sheridan rarely does the obvious, though. The film finds Alejandro first joining forces with Graver to kidnap his nemesis’ teenage daughter (Isabela Moner) and then, following an unexpected twist, protecting her from him. It’s complicated. Suffice it to say the U.S. government handles things in Mexico almost as well as it handled things in Afghanistan
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and Iraq. And that, if I’m any judge of foreshadowing, the last person’s shoes you’ll want to be in when part three rolls around are Keener’s. Del Toro, as always, is magnificent. Don’t buy the rap Sollima’s direction has gotten from some reviewers as less finessed than Denis Villeneuve’s on the original. He does just fine. Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski transforms the rocky endlessness of the Mexican desert into a vision of hell on Earth. Hildur Gudnadóttir’s foreboding score is finely
tuned to the brutal business in Sheridan’s freakishly prescient script. Immigrants seeking a better life and crossing the border to find only legal trouble, a president who says one stupid thing and does another, children wrenched from parents — it’s all here. When was the last time you watched a movie about America declaring war on cartels and came away unsure which were the bad guys? RI C K KI S O N AK
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very few years, a bunch of pundits tries to convince us that irony is over and earnestness is in. They’re never even close to right — can you imagine social media without the wink emojis, actual and implied? — but irony-free pockets have existed in America. To experience one for ourselves, we need only revisit “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” The new documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, from director Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom), profiles Fred Rogers, who created and starred in the beloved children’s program that bears his name. The show ran from 1966 to 2001 (with one threeyear break), mostly on PBS, which ensures that two generations have Rogers’ calm, folksy vocal intonations imprinted on their cortexes. The film opens with that voice over a dark screen, wringing an almost Pavlovian response from the audience: What have we lost? It doesn’t matter if you were a smart-ass kid who thought the minister-turned-TVstar’s show was boring. It was boring; one of Neville’s interviewees, a producer of the show, describes Rogers’ method as the opposite of everything that defines compelling television. He changed his shoes on camera, for God’s sake. Yet there’s something about the man’s unhurried rhythms, his plain speech, his unashamed earnestness, his ability to listen that sticks with you in a Jimmy Stewart way.
YES, SERIOUSLY TV icon Fred Rogers’ earnestness seems relevant like never before in Neville’s documentary.
Fifteen years after Rogers’ death, “Mister Rogers” feels oddly relevant, maybe even revolutionary. Neville banks on this timeliness. Although the question “What would Mister Rogers be doing today?” isn’t posed out loud until the end of the doc, it’s implicit throughout. Clips show how Rogers used his platform to help children process cultural upheavals, from Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination to 9/11. (“What does ‘assassination’ mean?” a puppet asks falteringly.) Today, with images of
frightened children on every front page and feed, it’s impossible not to wonder how this lifelong Republican and champion of kids would have responded. What would he say to a kid who asked what “undocumented” means? While Neville has clearly set out to make another crowd-pleasing documentary like his Oscar-winning Stardom, Neighbor isn’t straight hagiography. Through interviews with people like gay cast member François Clemmons, the movie addresses (though not
in depth) the limits of Rogers’ progressivism. It covers the broader cultural impact of the show, including parody and backlash. (Surprise: Rogers has been blamed for making the millennials feel “special.”) While the film skimps on Rogers’ background, it does explore how playing with mangy hand puppets helped this grown man face emotions he’d been raised to suppress. Neville’s only real misstep is using occasional animated sequences featuring Rogers’ puppet alter ego, Daniel Striped Tiger, to plumb his psyche. Those bits have a polished whimsy that feels out of place; the clips of Rogers as “Daniel,” speaking candidly with kids about loss and anger, are far more revealing. Rogers didn’t like superhero stories (he thought they lied to children), but sometimes he was a bit of a superhero. The film shows us how, in 1969, he used sheer soft-spoken conviction to secure $20 million in funding for PBS from a skeptical Senate committee chair. Captain America, another irony-free icon, couldn’t have done it better. And, if it’s tough to imagine humility, optimism and a belief that every person matters having such power in public life today, well, maybe that’s our business. Instead of asking what Mister Rogers would be doing to address the troubles of 2018, one of Neville’s interviewees points out, we should heed his example and ask what we’re doing. MARGO T HARRI S O N
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NEW IN THEATERS ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: The very small superhero (Paul Rudd) teams up with a new partner to investigate secrets from the past in the latest chapter in the Marvel saga, set before Avengers: Infinity War. With Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins and Judy Greer. Peyton Reed returns as director. (118 min, PG-13. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) BOUNDARIES: After a pot-dealing senior (Christopher Plummer) gets ousted from a nursing home, his daughter (Vera Farmiga) has no choice but to bond with him on a road trip in this comedy-drama from writer-director Shana Feste (Country Strong). With Christopher Lloyd and Bobby Cannavale. (104 min, R. Roxy) THE FIRST PURGE: The disturbingly relevant dystopian franchise goes back in time to show us what happened the first time Americans were given 12 hours to commit crimes with impunity. Marisa Tomei, Lex Scott Davis and Melonie Diaz star. Gerard McMurray (Burning Sands) directed. (97 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Palace)
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AMERICAN ANIMALSHHHHH Bart Layton (The Imposter) directed this fact-based drama about three young men who attempt a daring heist with less-than-amazing results. Evan Peters, Ann Dowd and Blake Jenner star. (116 min, R. Roxy, Savoy; reviewed by R.K. 6/20)
BOOK CLUBHH1/2 Reading 50 Shades of Grey somehow revolutionizes the lives of four friends in this comedy from first-time director Bill Holderman, starring Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen. (104 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 5/23)
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INCREDIBLES 2HHH1/2 Pixar’s super-family returns in this animation in which Mr. Incredible (voice of Craig T. Nelson) finds himself at home tending the baby while Mom (Holly Hunter) is busy saving the world. With the voices of Sarah Vowell, Bob Odenkirk and Samuel L. Jackson. Brad Bird is back as writer and director. (118 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 6/20) JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOMHH1/2 The dinosaurs of a futuristic theme park need rescuing from an erupting volcano in the sequel to Jurassic World, again starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. With Rafe Spall and Justice Smith. J.A. Bayona (The Impossible) directed. (128 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 6/27) OCEAN’S 8HHH Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) leads an all-female crew on a bold heist of the Met Gala in this crime caper directed and cowritten by Gary Jones (The Hunger Games). Among her cohorts are Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna and Mindy Kaling. (110 min, PG-13) ON CHESIL BEACHHHH Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle play a young couple who weather an awkward wedding night in 1962 England in this adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel, with Emily Watson. Dominic Cooke (“The Hollow Crown”) directed. (110 min, R)
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BEASTHHH1/2 A depressed young woman (Jessie Buckley) gets involved with a guy (Johnny Flynn) who just might be a serial killer in this fest-acclaimed drama, the feature debut of writer-director Michael Pearce. (107 min, R)
HEREDITARYHHHH1/2 Ari Aster makes his directorial debut with this psychological horror film, much buzzed about at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, about a family that uncovers disturbing secrets after the death of its matriarch. Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne and Alex Wolff star. (127 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 6/13)
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AVENGERS: INFINITY WARHHH1/2 Marvel’s master-narrative comes to a head as the Avengers join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy to protect the Infinity Stones from villainous Thanos (Josh Brolin). Starring Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Chris Pratt and the rest of the usual gang. Anthony and Joe Russo (Captain America: Civil War) directed. (149 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 5/2)
FIRST REFORMEDHHHHH Ethan Hawke plays a small-town priest questioning his faith in the midst of personal turmoil in this Golden Lion nominee from writer-director Paul Schrader (Light Sleeper, American Gigolo, Hardcore). With Amanda Seyfried and Cedric the Entertainer. (113 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 6/27)
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ADRIFTH1/2 In the wake of a hurricane, two avid sailors (Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin) find themselves stranded in the Pacific in this factbased romantic survival tale. Baltasar Kormákur (Everest) directed. (120 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 6/6)
DEADPOOL 2HH1/2 Ryan Reynolds returns as the “merc with a mouth” in the sequel to the spoofy Marvel hit, in which Deadpool must assemble a gang of mutants to protect a young boy with supernatural powers. With Josh Brolin as the heavy, Morena Baccarin and Zazie Beetz. David Leitch (Atomic Blonde) directed. (119 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 5/23)
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BIJOU CINEPLEX 4 Rte. 100, Morrisville, 888-3293, bijou4.com
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CAPITOL SHOWPLACE 93 State St., Montpelier, 229-0343, fgbtheaters.com
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PALACE 9 CINEMAS 10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 864-5610, palace9.com
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155 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 862-1800, sunsetdrivein.com
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104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 527-7888, weldentheatre.com
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TAGHHH Former classmates gather from all over the country for an elaborate annual game of tag in this comedy from director Jeff Tomsic (“Idiotsitter”), starring Isla Fisher, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner. (100 min, R)
RBGHHHH This documentary from directors Julie Cohen (American Veteran) and Betsy West explores the life and work of 84-year-old U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (98 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 6/6)
TRUTH OR DAREHH A game among friends becomes deadly when a supernatural entity starts enforcing the rules in this horror flick starring Lucy Hale and Tyler Posey, directed by Jeff Wadlow (KickAss 2). (100 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 4/25)
THE RIDERHHHH1/2 A young rodeo cowboy (Brady Jandreau) must reevaluate his life after being seriously injured in this acclaimed drama from writer-director Chloé Zhao (Songs My Brothers Taught Me), in which non-professional actors recreate events that happened to them. With Jim Jandreau and Lily Jandreau. (104 min, R) THE SEAGULLHHH Elisabeth Moss, Saoirse Ronan, Corey Stoll and Annette Bening star in this screen version of Anton Chekhov’s play in which a famous actress pays a visit to her less-successful relations, and drama ensues. Michael Mayer (A Home at the End of the World) directed. (98 min, PG-13)
UNCLE DREWHHH A street-ball player determined to win a tournament meets up with a septuagenarian basketball legend (Kyrie Irving) and his old squad in this comedy based on a web-series, also starring Lil Rey Howery and Shaquille O’Neal. Charles Stone III (Step Sisters) directed. (103 min, PG-13)
The Seagull SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADOHHHH1/2 Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro are back to fight the drug trade on the U.S.-Mexico border, but Emily Blunt and director Denis Villeneuve are not, in this action-oriented sequel directed by Stefano Sollima (“Gomorrah”) and written by Taylor Sheridan (Wind River). (122 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 7/4)
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORYHHH Disney’s stand-alone Star Wars movies continue with this blast from the past, in which a young Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) explores the galaxy’s criminal underworld and meets his buddies Chewbacca (Joonas Suotano) and Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover). Ron Howard directed. (135 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 5/30)
WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?HHHH This documentary from Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom) explores how Fred Rogers, trained as a minister, brought heart to kids’ educational TV with his long-running show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” (94 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 7/4)
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CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)
An open letter to Cancerians from Rob Brezsny’s mother, Felice: I want you to know that I played a big role in helping my Cancerian son become the empathetic, creative, thoughtful, crazy character he is today. I nurtured his idiosyncrasies. I made him feel secure and well loved. My care freed him to develop his unusual ideas and life. So as you read Rob’s horoscopes, remember that there’s part of me inside him. And that part of me is nurturing you just as I once nurtured him. I and he are giving you love for the quirky, distinctive person you actually are, not some fantasy version of you. I and he are helping you feel more secure and well appreciated. Now I encourage you to cash in on all that support. As Rob has told me, it’s time for you Cancerians to reach new heights in your drive to express your unique self.
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(May 21-June 20): From the day you were born, you have been cultivating a knack for mixing and blending. Along the way, you have accomplished mergers that would have been impossible for a lot of other people. Some of your experiments in amalgamation are legendary. If my astrological assessments are accurate, the year 2019 will bring forth some of your all-time most marvelous combinations and unifications. I expect you are even now setting the stage for those future fusions; you are building the foundations that will make them natural and inevitable. What can you do in the coming weeks to further that preparation?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The ghost orchid is a
rare white wildflower that disappeared from the British countryside around 1986. The nation’s botanists declared it officially extinct in 2005. But four years later, a tenacious amateur located a specimen growing in the West Midlands area. The species wasn’t gone forever, after all. I foresee a comparable revival for you in the coming weeks, Leo. An interesting influence or sweet thing that you imagined to be permanently defunct may return to your life. Be alert!
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(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Greek poet Sappho described “a sweet-apple turning red high on the tip of the topmost branch.” The apple pickers left it there, she suggested, but not because they missed seeing it. It was just too high. “They couldn’t reach it,” wrote Sappho. Let’s use this scenario as a
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Is there any prize
more precious than knowing your calling? Can any other satisfaction compare with the joy of understanding why you’re here on Earth? In my view, it’s the supreme blessing: to have discovered the tasks that can ceaselessly educate and impassion you; to do the work or play that enables you to offer your best gifts; to be intimately engaged with an activity that consistently asks you to overcome your limitations and grow into a more complete version of yourself. For some people, their calling is a job: marine biologist, kindergarten teacher, advocate for the homeless. For others, it’s a hobby, like long-distance-running, birdwatching or mountain-climbing. St. Therese of Lisieux said, “My calling is love!” Poet Marina Tsvetaeva said her calling was “To listen to my soul.” Do you know yours, Libra? Now is an excellent time to either discover yours or home in further on its precise nature.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have you entertained any high-quality fantasies about faraway treasures lately? Have you delivered inquiring communiqués to any promising beauties who may ultimately offer you treats? Have you made long-distance inquiries about speculative possibilities that could be inclined to travel in your direction from their frontier sanctuaries? Would you consider making some subtle change in yourself so that you’re no longer forcing the call of the wild to wait and wait and wait? SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If a down-to-earth spiritual teacher advised you to go on a five-day meditation retreat in a sacred sanctuary, would you instead spend five days carousing with meth addicts in a cheap hotel? If a close friend confessed a secret she had concealed from everyone for years, would you unleash a nervous laugh and change the
subject? If you read a horoscope that told you now is a favorable time to cultivate massive amounts of reverence, devotion, respect, gratitude, innocence and awe, would you quickly blank it out of your mind and check your Instagram and Twitter accounts on your phone?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A typical working couple devotes an average of four minutes per day to focused conversation with each other. And it’s common for a child and parent to engage in meaningful communication for just 20 minutes per week. I bring these sad facts to your attention, Capricorn, because I want to make sure you don’t embody them in the coming weeks. If you hope to attract the best of life’s blessings, you will need to give extra time and energy to the fine art of communing with those you care about. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Allergies, ir-
ritants, stings, hypersensitivities: Sometimes you can make these annoyances work in your behalf. For example, my allergy to freshly cut grass meant that, when I was a teenager, I never had to waste my Saturday afternoons mowing the lawn in front of my family’s suburban home. And the weird itching that plagued me whenever I got into the vicinity of my first sister’s fiancé: If I had paid attention to it, I wouldn’t have lent him the $350 that he never repaid. So my advice, my itchy friend, is to be thankful for the twitch and the prickle and the pinch. In the coming days, they may offer you tips and clues that could prove valuable.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you somehow growing younger? Your stride seems bouncier and your voice sounds more buoyant. Your thoughts seem fresher and your eyes brighter. I won’t be surprised if you buy yourself new toys or jump in mud puddles. What’s going on? Here’s my guess: You’re no longer willing to sleepwalk your way through the most boring things about being an adult. You may also be ready to wean yourself from certain responsibilities unless you can render them pleasurable at least some of the time. I hope so. It’s time to bring more fun and games into your life.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Twentieth-century French novelist Marcel Proust described 19th-century novelist Gustave Flaubert as a trottoire roulant, or “rolling sidewalk”: plodding, toneless, droning. Meanwhile, critic Roger Shattuck compared Proust’s writing to an “electric generator” from which flows a “powerful current always ready to shock not only our morality but our very sense of humanity.” In the coming weeks, I encourage you to find a middle ground between Flaubert and Proust. See if you can be moderately exciting, gently provocative and amiably enchanting. My analysis of the cosmic rhythms suggests
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You remind me of Jack, the 9-year-old Taurus kid next door, who took up skateboarding on the huge trampoline his two moms put in their backyard. Like him, you seem eager to travel in two different modes at the same time. (And I’m glad to see you’re being safe; you’re not doing the equivalent of, say, having sex in a car or breakdancing on an escalator.) When Jack first began, he had difficulty coordinating the bouncing with the rolling. But after a while, he got good at it. I expect that you, too, will master your complex task.
handy metaphor for your current situation, Virgo. I am assigning you the task of doing whatever is necessary to fetch that glorious, seemingly unobtainable sweet-apple. It may not be easy. You’ll probably need to summon extra ingenuity to reach it, as well as some as-yet unguessed form of help. (The Sappho translation is by Julia Dubnoff.)
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SPARKS ON SHELBURNE RD. End of May. I provided customer service as you shopped with your wife (?). We chatted for several minutes. Turns out we’re both from the same state. You were incredibly handsome, but what really got me was the way you looked in my eyes and the intense sparks. Can I support you through this difficult time? When: Saturday, May 26, 2018. Where: grocery store, Shelburne Rd. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914414 FREE COOKIE AT WILLISTON COFFEE I was waiting for four chais. You were being nice and chatting a little. You gave me a free cookie for waiting so patiently. Caught you looking at my name tag, and for some reason I didn’t leave my card. Maybe come in and get one from me? When: Saturday, June 23, 2018. Where: Williston. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914413 WORKING ON IT Splitting kindling or f’in around? Thought you wanted to set the record straight, but heard hide nor hair from you. Some days I grow concerned, worrying about your heart and head. Other days I want to set it all on fire, move on to a new life and forget you ever happened to me. Time is running out. When: Wednesday, November 8, 2017. Where: the last time. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914412 CHARLIE BROWN You wore fancy sunglasses, a new tattoo and a beat up old baseball hat that you used to swat a fly off my thigh. Your smile is the best I’ve ever seen, and I want to see it every day. Charlie Brown, I want to marry you someday. When: Monday, June 25, 2018. Where: Warren Falls. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914411 SAW YOU AT UVM MEDICAL CENTER You: in a pink dress shirt and a tie; older but attractive, with a crew cut and perfect teeth. Me: tall, slender blonde with short hair. Maybe you can take me for a ride in your WAR WAGON. When: Sunday, June 10, 2018. Where: University of Vermont Medical Center. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914398
JUST ASK THEM NOW Life is too short to be so silent and wondering. Just go for it. 50/50 chance on the answer, and I’ll bet that the yes answer would be 80 percent of the time, married or single, etc. You’d be surprised. I was. So just go for it. Enjoy the summer. Go for it. When: Monday, June 25, 2018. Where: next door. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914410 CUTE DAD AT BAGEL COMPANY You were with a cute little blond toddler wearing black, white and pink. I was with my two kids a few tables over. I glanced quite a few times and wonder if you were glancing, too? While loading into my car, you were also on your way to yours, and we exchanged a quick “Your kiddo is cute” convo. Coffee sometime? When: Sunday, June 24, 2018. Where: Bagel Company. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914409 ATTRACTIVE GAL, COLCHESTER BIKE PATH Crossed paths on entrance to path. You: white and light blue top with Sidi shoes. Me: red top on a Seven with Scott shoes. I allowed you right of way as we came from opposite directions. We traveled the same path. I got lost, but you helped. We kept crossing paths; you smiled. Maybe we can ride sometime. Rubber side down! When: Wednesday, June 20, 2018. Where: Bay Road bike path, Colchester. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914408 GORGEOUS BRUNETTE AT RED ROCKS! Passed you standing on the rocks overlooking the lake. I was with a lady friend. We briefly said hi, and you mentioned the summer solstice being that day. For some reason, I felt an immediate connection with you and thought you were stunningly beautiful! Would love to see you again to talk, walk and see where things may lead. When: Wednesday, June 20, 2018. Where: Red Rocks Park, South Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914407 PAYING FOR MY DRYER SHEETS You offered to buy dryer sheets at around 1:45. I gave you some change for just a couple of them, and before you left you said, “Hope your clothes come out smelling good!” You were in a car with two older men. Motorcycle ride for a creemee sometime? You’re gorgeous! Thanks again! When: Monday, June 18, 2018. Where: Busy Bubble, Barre. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914406 BUMBLE NIGHTMARE We met in April on Bumble and hit it off at Three Needs. We fell for each other, or so I thought. Now you’ve pushed me away. This is no longer a plea to be together, but rather one to acknowledge our own Bumble nightmare. I do hope the best for you, but not at the expense of respect for me. When: Monday, April 23, 2018. Where: Three Needs and my heart. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914405
MILTON HANNAFORD PARKING LOT You were sitting in your car for a bit before you got out to shop. I was in the black car next to you. We were parked a way out from the store. Thought you were very handsome. When I returned to my car with my groceries, you too were returning. I smiled; you smiled back. I then drove away. Would love to “see” you again. When: Friday, June 15, 2018. Where: Hannaford, Milton. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914404 STILL IN AWE From the first time, on tip toes at the co-op, to the last time I saw you behind the bar at K. The morning after your birthday comes to mind, and every night that I catch a glimpse of your beautiful face and ass. You know what I want, and you give it to me. Mmm-mm-mmmm. When: Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Where: middle of no place. Upstairs. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914403 MY LIFE IN FIVE WORDS So here’s the thing: I see you everywhere, but you don’t have a name. I’m consistently unhappy, but I am to blame. If there were ever a reason, I’d still stay the same. If I miss the connection, CM is your name. I’d fight for this at any point, but you turn me away. I’d fly like a bird, but to you I’m not the same. When: Saturday, April 14, 2018. Where: Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914402 BOOTS WITHOUT SOCKS, CITY MARKET LOT We were parked next to each other. Me: black truck. You: blue wagon. We shared a smile as I struggled to put on my boots without socks. Always happy to laugh at myself with a stranger. Later I biked passed you on the bike path on my way to a picnic. Wished I’d acknowledged my curiosity in the moment. I’m still curious, though. When: Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Where: City Market parking lot. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914400 WINDY EVENING ON CHURCH STREET You: sleeves half rolled, head half shaved, enjoying a wrap. Me: creepin’ from across the street. Looked like you were on a date. I sincerely hope it was going well. If not, good gravy, NOTICE ME, SENPAI! When: Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Where: Sweetwaters around 5:30. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914399 SCRUBS IN COLCHESTER’S NEW DELI I was having lunch at the new deli when you stopped by, wearing scrubs. I couldn’t help checking you out as you came in, ordered, left and took off in your Honda. Wish you ate there — I would have joined you. Maybe you will stop by again? When: Friday, June 8, 2018. Where: Big Apple Deli, Colchester. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914397 LOST IN GRAND ISLE You were driving a cream-colored Mini Cooper. You were lost looking for the Grand Isle House; I was out doing lawn work when you stopped for directions. I asked if you were Alan. If you ever get lost in Grand Isle again, I would love to get lost with you. When: Saturday, June 9, 2018. Where: on the wrong road in Grand Isle. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914396 DEAL ON COLLEGE STREET We chatted for a few seconds. You’re a pink-haired gardener (?); I was in blue. Were you flirting? I was distracted. Try again? When: Monday, June 11, 2018. Where: College Street outside of Onyx Tonics. You: Man. Me: Man. #914394
SCARLETTLETTERS Dear Scarlett,
I recently learned that my boyfriend feels differently about abortion than I do. He’s politically pro-choice but couldn’t stay in a relationship with someone who had an abortion because he believes life begins at conception. This is a huge red flag to me. I considered breaking up with him, but we ended up talking about it and moved on. I have no desire to become a mother right now and would have an abortion if I accidentally became pregnant. He knows that I am not interested in having kids for a while, if ever, and seems mostly OK with it. We’re considering moving in together, but now I’m having doubts. He is amazingly kind, loving and progressive. I’ve had terrible luck in relationships, and this is the first one where I can see a future. The chances of us needing an abortion over the next few years are relatively small. But if I did, I’m worried that our relationship would not survive. Is this a deal breaker?
Signed,
Pro-Choice (female, 30)
Dear Pro-Choice,
Members of our society hold vastly different views on when life begins and whether the government should prohibit doctors from performing abortions. It’s an extremely divisive and emotionally charged issue — one that’s likely to become more pronounced with the upcoming changes in the U.S. Supreme Court. You disagree on the moral aspect, but it sounds like you share important political ground. He’s opposed to abortion, but he is also pro-choice. That says a lot about his respect for women’s right to choose and to control their own bodies. It sounds like you are a great fit on many other levels. If you’re vigilant with contraception, you may be able to avoid this question altogether. But there are still many what-ifs. What if you get pregnant and it’s life threatening? What if abortion rights are under attack (and they are) and you want to protest or make a public stand? What if a friend or family member is considering abortion and you want to support her? If you do have children together, what will you teach them about abortion? Discuss how you’ll handle these and other scenarios. Both of you have sincere reasons for your views, so keep it respectful. You don’t have to agree 100 percent to build a great life together. But you shouldn’t have to compromise on fundamental principles, either.
Love,
Scarlett
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