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Dartmouth College has a new presidentelect. Sian Leah Beilock will be the Ivy League institution’s first female leader in its 252-year history.

BURLINGTON APPROVES

COP CONTRACT The Burlington City Council approved a new police contract on Monday that officials say will rebuild the force while introducing additional accountability measures.

The near-unanimous vote — only Councilor Perri Freeman (P-Central District) voted no — was a rare show of solidarity between Progressive and Democratic councilors who have sparred on matters of public safety since the Progressive-led vote to cut police staffing through attrition two years ago. Councilor Ali House (P-Ward 8) was absent.

Mayor Miro Weinberger said he was initially concerned that a divided council wouldn’t be able to agree on new contract terms.

“Fortunately, I believe everyone involved recognized that that would be extraordinarily damaging and problematic in the Burlington context right now,” he said, citing low staffing and “a greater level of public safety challenge than in the last decade.”

The Burlington Police Officers’ Association, though, doesn’t share the mayor’s rosy outlook. Following the vote, the police union issued a statement on Facebook reiterating its displeasure with the council’s cop-cutting vote. Last week’s decision to delay voting on the contract “sowed doubt amongst our members that the Council, led by the Progressive Caucus, actually supports this contract and our members,” the union said.

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The statement went on to say the effects of the council’s decision making “have crescendoed into” two recent homicides in Burlington, including a murder-suicide early on Monday morning.

The new agreement will give members a 20 percent base pay increase over the course of the three-year contract, starting with a 12 percent raise in the current fiscal year, which began on July 1. It also includes a pay boost if the department enters “emergency staffing” mode, defined as having fewer than 28 nonsupervisory officers available for patrol.

Weinberger said the contract works “hand in hand” with a rebuilding plan that councilors approved last month as part of the fiscal year 2023 budget. The $1 million allotment will pay for signing bonuses and other perks such as housing and childcare stipends, and it aims to bring the department to 85 sworn officers — just two short of its authorized cap — over the next three years. The department currently has 62 officers on staff, but nine of those are on military, injury or other leave, which amounts to 53 available for duty.

The contract also improves police oversight, a topic debated at length after several instances of police violence came to light in 2019. The agreement officially codifies that the civilian-led Police Commission can advise the chief on matters of discipline and clarifies that commissioners — and the mayor — can have access to certain records during internal investigations.

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1. “Two Dead, One Wounded in Burlington Shooting” by Derek Brouwer. A man forced his way into a downtown apartment early on Monday and shot two women before killing himself, police said.

2. “Stowe Covered Bridge — With Amenities — Hits the Market” by Sally Pollak. A Canadian couple recently listed their $17.5 million home, which is designed to resemble a covered bridge.

3. “At Shelburne Museum, ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Appraised Vermont at Last”

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BRIDGE TO SOMEWHERE James and Mary Connacher have a bridge to sell you — seriously.

Like some bridges in Vermont, this one’s covered. But you can actually live in it — the Stowe span doubles as a house. It extends over a stream and a waterfall.

The Connachers, who live in Toronto, are asking $17.5 million for the property.

Known as both the Bridge House and Deerwood, the 240-acre estate comes with the whole second- (or third-) home shebang and more: five ponds, including a swimming pond with a dock and gazebo; a tennis court; an orchard and gardens; views of the Worcester Range; a caretaker’s

apartment; and an additional house that doesn’t resemble a bridge. Property taxes were $52,846 for fiscal year 2023, according to the Town of Stowe.

The 4,800-square-foot Bridge House features an 18-foot cathedral ceiling, glass sides that open onto patios, and a mapleand-oak spiral staircase that connects the two floors. It was designed by Torontobased architect Jim Strasman and built in 1994 by DBI, a company based in Morrisville, said Wade Weathers, a principal at LandVest who is handling the sale with a colleague.

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“We thought that if there were ever a time to try the market,” this would be it, Weathers continued. “It’s certainly been one of the hottest markets that we’ve seen in my career.”

A prospective buyer expressed interest within days of the listing going live, in midJuly, and the first showing was on Saturday, according to Weathers.

“It’s not uncommon to have somebody who has the capacity to buy a property like this to have a residence in Florida, a pied-à-terre in New York and a ranch in Colorado,” he said. “And this becomes a summer place.”

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Just wanted to reach out to thank you for putting someone on the Vermont comic book beat. We’ve got a shockingly rich history with the art form and an even broader future, so it’s really cool seeing a paper take an interest in the full scope of it. Chris Farnsworth’s stories about Rick Veitch [“Luck of the Draw,” July 20] and Earth Prime Comics [“Origin Story,” March 2] were thorough, detailed and fascinating.

I can’t wait to read more. Keep it up!

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On behalf of the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium, thank you for highlighting the innovative construction behind our Tang Science Annex [“Building for the Future: The Fairbanks Museum Tests Innovative Wood Product in Its New Addition,” July 13]. It’s important to note that we’re able to construct the first building in the world out of eastern hemlock cross-laminated timber because of our partnership with the North East State Foresters Association and its funding through a Wood Innovations grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. Partnerships make projects like this happen!

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[Re “Crime Seen,” June 25]: I read the recent article quoting several sources stating decreasing crime rates in Burlington. What a relief!

In the Old North End of Burlington, it must be my imagination hearing people say: “Go ahead and call the cops. No one’s coming anyway.” Frequent posts report on attempted burglaries, burglaries that have been committed and people afraid of walking down the street. The reality is: The standard of living is not reflected by the sources in this article. I would guess people are not bothering to report crimes any longer because they feel it is futile.

It gives me no comfort to hear someone from the police commission say it’s better than it was five years ago.

I realize there are many factors affecting an individual’s behavior and am empathetic to the trials of our population.

It is past time for city entities to come together to find a workable solution to

WEEK IN REVIEW TIM NEWCOMB and have very low costs. There is a wide range of costs for owners, yet there is a small range in rent. Some landlords make lots of money by raising rent when other newly built or renovated apartments are priced higher.

When the market is going crazy like this, sellers and landlords can charge more, not because of anything they have done. And gentrification usually involves public investment in an area. That social investment is turned into private profit.

Because of that, I think it’s rational and justified to talk about more “radical” strategies like land trusts or rent control.

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what is happening in our neighborhoods.

That might be hiring additional police officers and respecting the job they do, hiring social workers who can hopefully guide people who need help and guidance, or providing funds so these entities can come together and do their jobs in a way benefiting the population of Burlington.

The time for council members and politicians lobbing points through the press should stop. It was encouraging after I started writing this letter to read that the mayor’s budget includes funding for both police officers and social workers.

Hopefully, this is a step in a new direction.

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BURLINGTON

CORRECTIONS

Last week’s story “Re-fund the Police?” omitted the fact that acting Police Chief Jon Murad participated in contract talks with the Burlington police union.

There were a number of errors in “Culinary Communities,” about an exhibit of historic and contemporary local food markets. Louis Mossey’s grandfather was Donat Danis.

Brothers Donat and Arthur operated Danis’s Cash Market together, where Donat was butcher. The six operational markets featured are not limited to Burlington’s Old North End; Winooski and South Burlington are also represented. The roles of Charlotte Barrett and Mary Rizos were wrongly reported: They are project director and photographer, respectively. Rizos no longer works at the Vermont Folklife Center.

Sister Marie Kieslich lives in South Burlington. The man pictured in the photo is Dillip Chhetri; his name was misspelled.

A letter to the editor published on July 13, critical of our coverage of lieutenant governor candidate Patricia Preston, should have identified the author: Robert MacLeod is the candidate’s father-in-law.

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[“Renters’ Prison,” July 6] shows what’s wrong with a free market system and why we shouldn’t use it for housing. What’s the housing market supposed to do? Provide housing for most people, or make some people rich? One landlord jacking the rent says it’s not about greed. Increasing the rent simply because others are charging more is greed.

Landlords imply that rent is based on costs by saying they will pass a tax or fee increase on to renters. I think rent is only based on cost for newly purchased buildings and new construction, which have costs based on today’s market. Most of those buildings are probably making a smaller profit, but it must be enough that the projects are worth doing. Most rentals are in buildings that were bought years or decades ago. The major cost for those was based on the market at the time and is much lower. Some buildings are paid off

As Vermonters, we are often proud of our local democratic traditions, such as Town Meeting Day, which dates back to 1762, when what would become Vermont was engaged in a struggle for independence against New York. These traditions are an important part of what makes Vermont the place that it is. However, as [“Renters’ Prison,” July 6] makes clear, the actual scope of what local democracy can achieve is severely curtailed by the state.

Vermont is one of many U.S. states that operate under the legal precedent of Dillon’s Rule, which allows local governments to legislate only within the confines established by the state government. Burlington voters can pass all the ballot measures they want, but if they are outside the confines delimited by the state, they ultimately rely on the will of a state legislature that does not represent Burlington.

The fate of the “just cause” eviction law rested in the hands of representatives from West Rutland and Newark, both of whom cast deciding votes against a measure that passed with almost a twothirds majority of Burlington’s voters [“House Fails to Override Veto of Burlington’s ‘Just Cause’ Eviction Bill,” May 10; “Scott Strikes Down Burlington’s ‘Just FEEDBACK

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‘We Love You, Ed!’

‘Considering Abortion?’

Pro-life pregnancy centers in Vermont provide misleading information, critics charge

Cross Examination

Will public safety worries end progressive prosecutor Sarah George’s sweeping reforms?

Vermont Gas says it’s reinventing itself to help the climate. Critics call its strategy “greenwashing.”

Fishing for Serenity

A former chef finds peace and a new career on the river

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Have a Cow North Chittenden’s Baird Farm presents Burger, Brew and Pasture Walk for fans of beef, beer and barnyard excursions. Attendees chow down on a juicy, grassfed patty from Hamilton Cattle and local brews from Liambru Tasty while chatting with the farmers who produced their food. After dinner, everyone sets off to explore the farmland and sugarhouse.

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SATURDAY 30

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE The Chad Hollister Band, Reggie Harris, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem (pictured), Mikahely, and Modern Times Theater are among the featured acts at this weekend’s Cabot Arts and Music Festival.

Between sets, visitors explore Cabot Village Common’s plethora of artisan vendors, food trucks and visual art exhibits.

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SATURDAY 30 & SUNDAY 31

Rock of Ages Geologists, precious stone collectors and anyone looking to ogle some cool rocks congregate at Essex Junction’s Champlain Valley Exposition for the 41st annual Champlain Valley Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show. In addition to shopping for stones and bones, attendees enjoy a full slate of speeches on topics ranging from copper mining to fossil hunting to the secret life of New Hampshire beryl.

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SUNDAY 31

All in the Family Long hair, rip-roaring guitar riffs and amps cranked to 11 are hallmarks of the Jocelyn & Chris band.

Audience members at the brother-sister duo’s Levitt AMP St. Johnsbury Music Series show at Dog Mountain are blown back on their picnic blankets by the classic blues-rock brawn of hits such as “Sugar and Spice” and “Run Away.”

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How Streep Is Your Love Meryl maniacs, rejoice: Many of your favorite flicks are finally in one place. The brainchild of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival and Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater, MNFF Sunset Series Presents Streep Week launches the Meryl Streep madness at Swift House Inn with outdoor screenings of August: Osage County and The Devil Wears Prada.

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Says Shoot The title of “Rock-Paper-Scissors,” showing at Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury, is not meant to be taken figuratively. The “rock” refers to watercolor artist Nora McDonough’s textured, sturdy paintings of precisely balanced rock cairns, and Neha Shukla’s playful, intricate tissue paper collages rep “paper” and “scissors.”

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Books and Barns Teens and adults alike are welcome at a new, earthy readers’ gathering hosted by Woodstock’s Billings Farm & Museum: the Farm & Forest Book Club.

Focusing on books about agriculture and land stewardship, the club chose for its first selection My Garden (Book), Jamaica Kincaid’s ode to tiny flower patches, seed catalogs and summer in Vermont.

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The research for Melissa Pasanen’s first food story in Seven Days, about Vermont church suppers, started on Saint Patrick’s Day at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Richmond.

There she found salty gray meat, boiled potatoes and a couple who had been attending such community meals statewide for decades.

“One week later, I was in the back seat of Larry and Guyla LaFrance’s truck, riding through a late March snowstorm to a ‘real nice’ covered-dish church supper in a small town about 30 miles northeast of St. Albans,” she wrote in the piece we published about the Richford Methodist Church supper in 2002.

Melissa recognized that the ride-along would provide all the ingredients for a compelling narrative. Crafting it, Seven Days food assignment she sprinkled in the right editor Melissa Pasanen measure of Vermont history, other characters and, of course, a thorough review of the meal. She noted that one Jell-O salad was surprisingly tasty.

Twenty years later, I can say the story was classic Melissa: deeply reported, informative, well written and respectful. In contrast, the irreverent cover teaser I wrote for it was not: “Divine Dining: A couple of pot pie heads follow the food.” Then a freelancer, Melissa hated it so much, she didn’t pitch Seven Days another story idea for 16 years.

“I’m not so alt-y,” she reminded me in a recent email.

Somehow that makes the national recognition she received last week even sweeter. Pasanen took the top food-writing award in the annual contest organized by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, joining past Seven Days winners Suzanne Podhaizer (2008), Alice Levitt (2011) and Corin Hirsch (2012). The judges praised Melissa “for writing that reflects the local food scene beyond its dining rooms, bringing readers a multiplicity of essential perspectives from the food industry through reporting.”

The award was based on a sampling of Melissa’s stories from a 12-month period, including one about a culinary collective of migrant farmworkers in Addison County whose members feed their own community and, increasingly, many others. Another, “Pressure Cooker,” artfully illustrated the impacts of COVID-19 on restaurant workers. The third feature was on a woman-owned butchery in Royalton.

Pasanen and her colleague Jordan Barry fill the Seven Days food section with quality content every week — a mixture of rich, in-depth features and short, timely takes on the latest food

news. It’s a busy beat. No other Vermont media outlet attempts to cover the subject so comprehensively.

Our approach has evolved since 2017, when Melissa decided to give Seven Days a second chance and become a regular freelancer. Three years later, she joined the staff and gave herself the title of food assignment editor. That means she guides what our food team pursues — and has veto power over cover teasers!

— but eschews hands-on editing so she can write.

Drawing on a vast network of sources, Melissa never wants for story ideas. Pre-Seven Days, she was the food editor at Vermont Life and contributed regularly to the Burlington Free Press along with numerous national publications. She’s written and cowritten three cookbooks, including Cooking With Shelburne Farms: Food and Stories From Vermont, which got nods from both Food & Wine and the New York Times.

Along the way, she managed to get a master’s degree in food systems from the University of Vermont, a program in which she now teaches. UVM calls her course Professional Development, but Melissa prefers “Networking Is Everything.”

She told me: “I always say that I don’t really write about food.

I write about people. Food is just the way in.” A perfect example is this week’s piece on chef-turned-fly-fishing-guide Jamie Eisenberg.

Melissa was one of several Seven Dayzers who did us proud in this year’s AAN Awards.

They’re all talented journalists whose achievements are a reflection of our vibrant and multifaceted community. None of this could happen without Vermonters like Larry and Guyla LaFrance. Thanks for trusting us with your stories.

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‘Considering Abortion?’

Pro-life pregnancy centers in Vermont provide misleading information, critics charge

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oogle “abortion in Vermont,” and a list of locations pops up. You’ll find Planned Parenthood branches in eight towns, from Burlington to Brattleboro. But you’ll also notice listings that may be less familiar. Among them: Aspire Now in Williston, Care Net Pregnancy Center of Central Vermont in Barre and the Women’s Center in Middlebury.

Their websites feature photos of attractive young women in aviator sunglasses and denim jackets, as well as earnest-sounding questions: “Unplanned

pregnancy?” “Considering abortion?”

The sites offer assurances of “professional healthcare for women” and “caring, compassionate, confidential” services: pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, parenting classes, peer counseling.

“Whether you want to learn more about all your pregnancy options, need a supportive place to make a decision, are looking for information on the abortion pill or abortion procedures in Central Vermont — start with us,” reads the website of Care Net.

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At the bottom of the page is another message, in smaller text: “We do not provide or refer for terminations or emergency contraception.” Similar messages appear on other Vermont center websites.

These places are so-called crisis pregnancy centers, and in states such as Vermont, where abortion is legal and likely to remain so, they may well be the next front in the war over reproductive rights.

Combining internet savvy with ambiguous pitches and sometimes misleading or ‘CONSIDERING ABORTION?’

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Two Dead, One Wounded in Burlington Shooting B Y DE RE K B RO UW E R derek@sevendaysvt.com

A man forced his way into an apartment in Burlington’s Old North End early on Monday morning and shot two women inside before killing himself, according to police.

One of the women, 22-year-old University of Vermont student Kayla Noonan, died at the scene. The other woman, 22, was shot twice and is in critical but stable condition at the University of Vermont Medical Center, acting Police Chief Jon Murad said at a press conference on Monday. Police did not release the surviving victim’s name.

The man who police say shot the women is 27-year-old Mikal Dixon. He was armed with what Murad described as a short-barreled, AR-type rifle. Dixon knew both victims and had a relationship with Noonan “going back several years,” according to the chief.

“The nature of the relationship isn’t exactly clear at this moment,” he said.

Officers arrived shortly after neighbors reported gunfire around 2:30 a.m. inside the lower unit of a duplex at 47 North Winooski Avenue. Murad said Dixon and Noonan were dead when officers entered the apartment.

The surviving woman was still on the phone with emergency dispatchers but was “close to death” from two gunshot wounds, the chief said.

He credited officers and emergency responders from the Burlington Fire Department with saving her life.

The cops’ initial account of the murder-suicide was based in part on statements the surviving victim made as she lay critically injured. The woman, who resided at the apartment, told police that Dixon had tried to enter through a locked door and eventually broke a window to get inside. He first shot Noonan, then her, Murad recounted.

The chief said Dixon was a resident of New Hampshire but had grown up in the Burlington area and attended Burlington High School. In a statement about the killing, UVM president Suresh Garimella described Dixon as a “formerly enrolled student.” As far as police know, Dixon was allowed to purchase and possess firearm.

The shooting is the 18th incident involving gunfire in Burlington so far this year, a record for the decade, according to available department data.

“This incident is another awful reminder that Burlington is not immune to the steep increases in gun violence that the country is experiencing,” Mayor Miro Weinberger said. He added that the country’s “disastrous” gun laws made events such as the shooting on Monday “vastly more likely.”

Cross Examination Will public safety worries end progressive prosecutor Sarah George’s sweeping reforms?

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A bear hunter from Newbury says he got a face full of bear spray earlier this month because a Groton woman apparently took issue with his chosen pastime.

Butch Spear, the former president of the Vermont Bearhound Association, told Seven Days that he and a couple of hunting buddies were driving near Groton State Forest with a pack of hounds in their pickup on July 10 when they were confronted by a foulmouthed animal lover.

Spear said the woman walked into the public road, blocked his passage and then pepper-sprayed him and his pals.

“My first words to her were to ask her to get out of the road,” Spear recalled on Monday. “She told me to go eff myself and a bunch of other things.”

The incident, which both the hunters and the woman captured on camera, allegedly escalated from there.

An investigation by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department led game wardens to cite Liza Nanni, 61, for interfering with a hunter, simple assault and disorderly conduct. She could not be reached for comment.

Bear hounding involves using packs of dogs to chase bears, either for hunting or for keeping them wary of humans — or both. The bear hunting season runs from September 15 to November 21. To prepare for the season, bear hounders in Vermont are allowed to train their dogs between June 1 and September 15.

Spear said he, his friend and his friend’s 13-year-old grandson were out looking for bears but hadn’t stopped the pickup or released the hounds when the woman walked into the middle of the road near her driveway and confronted them.

The virtual impossibility of predicting where hunting dogs will end up when they’re hot on the trail of a bear is one of the primary criticisms of the sport. It’s also the source of increasing friction between property owners and bear hunters.

A bill that sought to ban hunting bears with dogs failed to gain traction in the legislature this year despite persistent campaigning by groups such as Protect Our Wildlife, which has condemned the practice as barbaric. m

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‘Considering Abortion?’ « P.14 outdated information about the perils of abortion, the centers represent an underthe-radar arm of the anti-abortion movement. And they appear poised to expand their efforts in the state.

At least seven crisis pregnancy centers — sometimes called pregnancy resource centers — operate in Vermont, according to the Crisis Pregnancy Center Map, a project of the University of Georgia’s College of Public Health. In addition to Aspire Now, Care Net and the Women’s Center, the state is home to First Step Pregnancy Clinic in Rutland, True North Pregnancy Resource Center in Bennington, Branches Pregnancy Resource Center in Brattleboro and Birthright of Burlington. Another center, Futures Pregnancy Care in Lyndonville — founded in 2020 — is not listed on the map but is affiliated with pro-life groups and does not make referrals for abortions.

The centers, nonprofit organizations that rely on Christian-based messaging and support from larger pro-life organizations such as Heartbeat International and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, often depict themselves as medical centers — offering services such as ultrasounds and engaging volunteer medical directors and nurses. Roughly 2,600 such centers exist in the United States.

Leaders and supporters of these centers say they provide pregnant women with useful resources and support should they choose to have a baby and are up-front

about not making referrals for abortions.

They say they offer free classes and goods such as diapers and baby clothes to women in need and claim to have high client satisfaction rates.

Critics, though, say these centers misrepresent themselves to the public and provide materials and advice that overstates the risks of abortions, including through blatant misinformation. In one instance, Seven Days obtained a brochure being offered by a center that contained information that a University of Vermont Medical Center specialist later judged as plain wrong. In speeches at local churches that were shared on social media, several centers’ directors referred to them as “ministries” and gave inaccurate information about the physical and mental health effects women experience when they have an abortion.

“Part of what they say they’re doing is providing greater resources for people … to be parents,” said Carly Thomsen, an assistant professor of gender studies at Middlebury College who has studied crisis pregnancy centers across the country.

“The problem with that line of reasoning … is that in order to provide resources to people in need, you would not need to deceive people to come into your centers by suggesting that you provide information about abortion.”

AN APPEAL FOR SUPPORT

Crisis pregnancy centers are partly supported by taxpayers in at least a dozen

states — but not in Vermont. Pregnancy centers here instead rely on a variety of funding sources, including businesses, individuals and churches.

Centers’ revenues and expenses vary, according to their Form 990 tax filings, which nonprofits are required to complete.

On the higher end, Aspire Now reported $261,114 in contributions and grants in 2019 and $237,739 in expenses, more than half of which went to employee salaries and benefits. On the lower end, Care Net reported $79,046 in revenue and $66,379 in expenses in 2020.

In recent speeches at Vermont churches, the directors of two pregnancy centers shared the values that undergird their efforts.

Carmen Menard, executive director of Futures Pregnancy Care in Lyndonville, told an audience at the Lyndon Center Baptist Church in June 2021 that her organization asks everyone who arrives for a pregnancy test about their faith. Menard said the center also provides biblical counseling and faith-based classes in a video posted on the church’s Facebook page.

If women contact the center looking to terminate their pregnancy, Menard said, her staff tells them that the center provides pregnancy services, not abortions. But before callers hang up, center staffers are sure to “go through all the risks of abortion, so they know that their life is in danger and their child is in danger,” Menard said. One of those risks, she said, may be infertility.

Menard warned churchgoers about

abortion pills available down the road at Planned Parenthood in St. Johnsbury.

“The sad part of it is, it’s not safe,” Menard said in the video. “These women can bleed to death at home by aborting their babies.”

by for-profit and non-profit businesses,” the statement reads in part.

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“It’s their choice and if they want to continue their pregnancy, we can provide the support they need with education, material aid, resources and community referrals,” she said.

‘ARE YOU CHRISTIAN?’

Kate Brown of Montpelier, who is active in the movement to preserve reproductive rights, made an appointment at Care Net in Barre in late June to learn more about its practices. She told the center the truth, she said — that she had one child and didn’t want to have any more.

In a phone call before her appointment, a staff member mentioned that the center offers free diapers and clothing and that women could receive more items by participating in pregnancy and parenting classes through an online portal called BrightCourse. Brown said she explored the online classes, and each was paired with a biblical worksheet.

During the intake portion of her appointment, Brown said, she was asked a series of questions, the first of which was “Are you Christian?” Though Brown said she was not pregnant, the staff member had her take a drugstore-style pregnancy test and provided information about parenting classes. Before leaving, Brown picked up a brochure.

On a page titled “Abortion Risks,” the brochure asserts that “the risk of breast cancer almost doubles after one abortion, and rises even further with two or more abortions” and that “approximately 10 ‘CONSIDERING ABORTION?’

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Lauren MacAfee, an ob-gyn at the UVM Medical Center, said in an email that it is false to claim that abortions by approved methods are dangerous, and that scientific studies refute such assertions.

A 2018 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that medication abortion is safe, has a very low risk of complications and has not been associated with difficulties getting pregnant in the future.

In an interview, MacAfee said patients have come to her after going to crisis pregnancy centers for ultrasounds and encountering staff members who tried to dissuade them from getting an abortion.

These centers “are not always super forthcoming with their intentions,” MacAfee said.

In church speeches in Barre last year and Moretown this year, Cindy Tabor, executive director of Care Net, asked congregants to help the center “continue to do what we do for God” through monthly donations, videos posted on YouTube show.

Tabor described the center’s decision to hire a marketing firm to create a more modern website and employ search engine optimization, or SEO, so that the center would be listed higher in results when someone searched abortion terms online.

“When a desperate woman searches on her phone for help — ‘Help, I’m pregnant. What do I do?,’ ‘abortion,’ ‘pregnancy,’ any of those words — basically, we come up, and … they contact us,” Tabor said.

After a Seven Days reporter asked her about the speeches, Tabor met with her board of directors and provided a written statement.

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Django Koenig woke up one morning last week to find his black Jamis bicycle missing from the porch of his apartment on Burlington’s Decatur Street. Someone had sliced through two cables to steal the bike, which Koenig uses to cruise around the city.

Koenig posted about the theft on Front Porch Forum and asked his coworkers to keep an eye out. Then one of them mentioned a new Facebook group that helps stranded cyclists find their bicycles. He posted in the group and hoped for the best.

Two hours later, Koenig got a notification: Another member of the group had found his bike and would keep it safe until he could retrieve it. He was shocked.

“THANK YOU!” he wrote in the group, adding a heart emoji.

Koenig’s was the first stolen bike case solved by BVT Stolen Bike Report and Recovery, a Facebook group that has grown to 400-plus members since it was created nearly three weeks ago.

Group members, many of them longtime bicycle riders, acknowledge that thefts are a perennial problem in Burlington. But they say the issue has gotten worse this year amid an overall increase in larceny-related crimes during the pandemic. With city police too shortstaffed to respond to and investigate bike thefts, the cyclists act as de facto detectives by posting photos and descriptions of missing bikes — and, sometimes, the people they suspect stole them.

The group was founded by Burlington resident Michael Waters, a bike mechanic and enthusiast, who created it after hearing about rampant theft. Two of his own bikes were taken in the last couple of months, though neither was locked up.

“I just feel bad for people this is happening to,” Waters said. “There’s a lot of nice people [in Burlington], and their bikes are getting stolen.”

Multiple times a day, group members share stories of cut locks and bikes pilfered from porches. Sympathetic riders suggest investing in sturdier U-locks, GPS-enabled trackers or alarms to deter thieves.

Passersby report when they find bikes dumped in ditches — or, as in Koenig’s case, leaning against a fence at a cemetery a couple of blocks away.

A city official has even turned to the group for help. Councilor Jack Hanson (PEast District) posted on the page after his friend’s bike was swiped earlier this month.

The friend also made a police report.

Hanson did, too, when his own bike was stolen a few weeks ago. It was the third bike he’d lost to theft in Burlington.

Some group members have blamed

Progressive councilors such as Hanson for the recent increase in thefts, pointing to the council’s June 2020 decision to reduce the size of the police force through attrition, which sparked a mass exodus from the department. But Hanson says a larger force wouldn’t necessarily help solve the problem.

“Regardless of how heavily staffed the police are, or how focused on bike theft they are, it’s never going to compare to having a broad network of people looking out wherever they go,” he said.

Hanson suggested the city could invest in more secure bike storage to prevent thefts. Meantime, he said, it’s helpful having a Facebook group to share information about stolen cycles.

The group is certainly communicative.

Theories have emerged that there’s an organized bike theft ring operating out of City Hall Park. People have shared photos of suspicious vehicles with truck beds full of bicycles; some believe the operators are transporting them out of state for sale. Burlington police didn’t respond to an interview request about the trend or provide data on bike thefts.

The discourse has left moderators scrambling to create a code of conduct that warns victims against exacting vigilante-style justice. The group’s new guidelines include a reminder that “everyone is innocent until proven guilty” and a plea to “have some empathy.” Photos of people’s faces are now prohibited, but previously shared pictures haven’t been removed from the page, which is public.

Waters has encouraged people to deter thieves in other ways. He recently bought a flashlight and a whistle, which he hopes could stop a theft in progress. Other group members have linked to bikeindex.org, a site to register bikes and report them stolen.

Koenig, whose bike was recently recovered, said the group has inspired him to help find other stolen bikes. And he’s not risking another theft: His bike is now sitting, safe and sound, in the middle of his living room.

percent of women undergoing elective abortion will suffer immediate complications, of which approximately one-fifth are considered life-threatening.” The pamphlet also cites mental and emotional risks of abortion and includes a page about the unreliability of prenatal testing.

Upon reviewing parts of the pamphlet, MacAfee, the UVM Medical Center specialist, said the abortion risks that it describes have been debunked by recent studies, while the information about prenatal testing is based on data more than 35 years old.

“Our society already struggles with low health literacy and understanding of reproductive [and] sexual health, and these kinds of pamphlets make it even harder for patients to know who [or] what to trust,” MacAfee said.

Thomsen, the Middlebury professor, cited a landmark 2020 study, known as the Turnaway Study, in which researchers at the University of California San Francisco tracked nearly 1,000 women, some of whom had received abortions and others who were turned away because they were past an abortion facility’s gestational limit.

The study, which followed its subjects for more than five years, found no evidence that abortion caused harm to mental health or well-being. Five years later, more than 95 percent of the women who had undergone abortions still felt that it had been the right decision for them, the study found.

Care Net’s medical director, Brian Sargent, is a doctor of osteopathy who worked as a staff physician at Gifford Health Care and a provider of family medicine in Chelsea before retiring last year.

He contacted Seven Days after a reporter emailed questions about the brochure to Tabor, the center’s director.

“The data regarding the link between abortion and breast cancer is still evolving,” he wrote in an email, but because there is no definitive link, he said he would direct Tabor to discontinue use of the pamphlet.

Sargent said he was not familiar with the Turnaway Study.

Crisis pregnancy centers don’t just serve women. A male student at Champlain College recently went to Aspire Now in Williston to be tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia after he stumbled onto the center via a Google search. The student, who asked not to be named for privacy reasons, said he had first tried to make an appointment at Planned Parenthood in Burlington but encountered a three-week wait.

At Aspire Now, a staff member showed him graphic photographs of sexually transmitted diseases and said the only way

to avoid them was abstinence, the student said. The student, who is gay, said he felt judged when answering the staff member’s questions about his preferred sexual partners and the types of sex he had. “At no point was there a question of, ‘Are you comfortable?’” the student recalled.

When someone from the center called with negative test results, the student said she told him that he could avoid having to test for STDs again if he changed his lifestyle and suggested that Aspire’s counselors could help. The student said he took the comment to mean they could help him change his sexual orientation.

The student labeled the experience “pretty poor.”

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AND THEY APPEAR POISED TO EXPAND THEIR EFFORTS IN THE STATE. Deb Couture, the executive director of Aspire Now, said she was saddened to hear of the man’s negative impression. Couture said clients are free to decline to answer questions that make them uncomfortable, noting that topics such as the number of sexual partners, condom use and risk factors “are very delicate, as they weigh heavily on one’s emotional well-being.”

Aspire Now staffers discuss abstinence, she said, because according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “the surest way to avoid STDs is not to have sex.”

LEGISLATION AND ACTIVISM

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned last month, pro-abortion-rights legislators have weighed actions to bolster reproductive freedom. In late June, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced legislation that aims to crack down on the use of misleading advertising by crisis pregnancy centers. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is a cosponsor of the bill.

On the state level, retiring state Rep. George Till (D-Jericho), an ob-gyn, introduced a similar bill during the most recent legislative session. It didn’t make it out of committee. Rep. Emma Mulvaney-Stanak (P/D-Burlington), who is running unopposed for another term in the legislature, said she hopes to promote a similar bill next session.

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Middlebury College student Elissa Asch learned about crisis pregnancy centers in a college class several years ago, then was dismayed to discover that a local crisis pregnancy center had participated in on-campus student activity fairs.

This summer, she started a petition drive that calls on administrators around New England to enact policies to bar from their campuses any organizations that distribute false medical information.

Asch has gathered roughly 550 signatures from students and faculty at the 11 schools that belong to the New England Small College Athletic Conference and plans to present the information she collects to administrators during the upcoming school year.

A spokesperson for Middlebury College confirmed that the Women’s Center, previously called the Pregnancy Resource Center of Addison County, has attended student activities fairs to offer volunteer opportunities off and on since 2007.

Brown, the Montpelier resident who visited Care Net, helped organize an informational picket with the Central Vermont Democratic Socialists of America in front of the Barre center on Saturday to draw attention to its practices. Around 14 people — including Washington County state Senate candidate Jeremy Hansen and Vermont librarian and activist Jessamyn West — showed up holding signs reading “This ‘clinic’ is fake” and “Abortion is health care.”

“Most people have no idea there’s a [crisis pregnancy center] here,” picket organizers wrote in a Tweet the day of the event.

Yet crisis pregnancy centers have elevated their efforts and appear ready to extend their reach in Vermont.

Helped by a grant from a national antiabortion organization known as Save the Storks, Aspire Now will acquire a mobile van in coming weeks that will allow it to serve more clients in Chittenden and Franklin counties, said Couture, its director.

During a speech in May at the Church of the Crucified One in Moretown, Tabor, the Care Net director, said she hoped to see 100 clients this year — more than double last year’s 41. She urged parishioners to spread the word.

“What’s important to us is your referrals. Every one of us knows someone that’s in an unexpected pregnancy,” Tabor told them. “All you need to say is, ‘Have you ever heard of Care Net? They help women think through what to do next in a loving way. You should give them a call.’” m

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Just two weeks before the primary election, three political action committees spent at least $606,000 combined in support of Democrat Becca Balint in the race for Vermont’s lone U.S. House seat.

According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, the LGBTQ Victory Fund Federal PAC, Equality PAC and the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC have paid for mailers, digital advertising and TV ads that endorse Balint, Vermont’s Senate president pro tempore. She’s in a primary contest with Rutland Regional Medical Center physician Louis Meyers and Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, who has decried the outside spending and made it an issue of the campaign.

Gray “believes Vermonters should decide the election, and no one else,” her campaign manager, Samantha Sheehan, said. “Vermonters will tell us how they feel about this interference in 15 days’ time.”

The amount the three PACs spent in July is about as much as Balint spent altogether during the first seven months of the campaign. FEC filings show that, from December 13 through June 30, Balint spent about $611,600.

Gray, meanwhile, spent $487,200 through June 30 after launching her campaign on December 6.

Balint continues to denounce the outside spending, campaign manager Natalie Silver said, and she has no control over it. Campaign finance rules prohibit campaigns from coordinating with PACs on such spending.

During the second quarter, Silver noted, a bigger percentage of Balint’s haul came from Vermonters as compared to Gray’s filings.

A Seven Days review of the filings found that about half of Balint’s second-quarter donations came from people with Vermont addresses, compared to about 42 percent for Gray.

“The Gray campaign is saying voters should decide,” Silver said. “We totally agree — and they are. They’re choosing us to put their dollars toward. They’re not choosing the Gray campaign. And that’s very challenging for them.”

Asked about the in-state fundraising numbers, Sheehan responded: “The single-largest contributor to the Balint campaign is outside groups spending on their behalf.”

The primary is August 9, but early voting has already begun. As of Monday, Vermonters had requested 45,852 absentee ballots and returned 17,475, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. m

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His ouster in one of the country’s liberal bastions exposed how reformist prosecutors are politically vulnerable when crime is on voters’ minds.

George watched Boudin’s defeat this summer with dismay. Her assessment: “A lot of incredibly conservative people” spent more than $7 million to mislead the California city’s voters about crime trends and what is causing them.

“It’s a very classic example of Chesa being scapegoated for all of the woes of San Francisco,” she said.

George sees her opponents using a similar playbook to take advantage of festering homelessness and health crises.

“There is a very targeted campaign of disinformation happening in the community by people that are not happy with the work I’ve been doing, and it’s stoking fear in people,” she said. “That is being created by police. It’s now being pushed by my opponent.”

George has tried to counter a perception that crime and disorder are surging as a result of her policies. Burlington has seen a record number of gunfire incidents this year, including two fatal shootings this month. But George notes that while gun crime has spiked nationwide and elsewhere around Vermont, more conservative county prosecutors haven’t been blamed for it.

Originally from Quechee, George worked in the state’s attorney’s office for six years before Gov. Phil Scott picked her in 2017 over two other Democrats, including Kenney, to finish T.J. Donovan’s term when Donovan was elected attorney general. No one challenged George during her first election contest in 2018.

While in office, she’s pursued strategies to overhaul criminal justice. In addition to ending cash bail, which ties an accused person’s freedom to their access to money, George led efforts to decriminalize the drug buprenorphine, which is used to treat people who are addicted to opioids.

She has declined to prosecute charges that stem from most low-level traffic stops because they disproportionately affect people of color. She recently created a pilot program to divert some first-offense DUI defendants from criminal courts to restorative justice programs. Her office’s written mission statement pledges to hold “individuals, ourselves and the criminal justice system accountable.”

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criminal defense, have publicly endorsed George, as have more than two dozen local and state elected officials. State Rep. Ann Pugh (D-South Burlington), who chairs the House Committee on Human Services, said George doesn’t divorce her legal lens from her awareness of the social forces and failures that contribute to criminal behavior.

“She has that dual focus, which I think is important,” Pugh said.

The state’s attorney has remained steadfast in her approach during an election cycle in which crime has taken center stage. At a recent candidate forum hosted by the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce and other business groups, NBC5 journalist Stewart Ledbetter, the moderator, peppered George with questions about spikes in theft. The state’s attorney doubled down on her message that the criminal justice system is racist and classist and does more harm than good.

“Not only do I support and stand by everything I’ve done, but we have a lot more work to do, and I plan on doing more,” she said.

‘LETTING US DOWN’

Kenney’s campaign website promises that he’ll bring “criminal justice reform and safe streets.” He’s pitched himself as more pragmatic than George while still distinguishing his approach from a conventional “tough on crime” strategy.

“I think that message is code for, you know, pure punishment. And I’m not about that,” he said in an interview.

Yet his campaign has largely focused on the notion that the “streets” are not particularly safe. Asked to detail his proposals for criminal justice reform, Kenney said he wants to convince municipal governments to fund a joint police training program that would help address implicit bias. He wants to require similar training for prosecutors and pledges to host regular community “listening sessions.”

Along with a majority of state’s attorney candidates across Vermont, he refused to answer a policy survey from the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, which advocates for criminal justice reform.

Kenney said he objected to the survey’s yes-or-no format.

Kenney has long had his eye on the state’s attorney post. He lost a primary race against eventual winner Donovan in 2006 and later sought the same gubernatorial appointment that George landed.

He’s held a number of municipal roles in Williston, including on the school board, planning commission and selectboard, for which he’s currently vice chair.

Early in the pandemic, Donovan hired

Kenney to fill a vacancy as the head of the Human Services Division in the Attorney General’s Office. He stepped down to run in the state’s attorney primary.

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Kenney has also emphasized other experiences, including his time as a contract attorney working as a public defender for the state, and his personal background. One of Kenney’s brothers, who had schizophrenia, was killed in a New York City park in the 1980s while homeless; the case was never solved. His brother’s life, Kenney said, informs his understanding of the role of mental health in public safety. He’s also the father of two daughters whom he and his wife adopted from China. Raising them, he said, forced him to think more deeply about racism and implicit bias, including his own.

Kenney decided to challenge George at the encouragement of local politicos who were dissatisfied with the state’s attorney, as one supporter described them.

A number of longtime power brokers sit on his campaign committee, including Burlington City Councilor Joan Shannon (D-South District), an ally of Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger; former city councilors Dave Hartnett and Jane Knodell; and Sens. Ginny Lyons (D-Chittenden), Dick Mazza (D-Grand Isle) and Thomas Chittenden (D-Chittenden).

Kenney has also garnered support from business owners, including $500 from

landlord Bill Bissonette and $1,500 from real estate mogul Ernie Pomerleau, whose white-columned office in downtown Burlington boasts a green Kenney lawn sign.

While on the council, Knodell, an oldguard Progressive who lost her seat in 2019 to Perri Freeman, clashed with George over safe injection sites. Knodell voted against pursuing the harm-reduction strategy, which George has championed.

(Kenney wants local governments to study the issue more.)

Since then, Knodell has found more reasons to criticize George. She’s chiefly concerned about the direction of her Old North End neighborhood, where she’s lived for nearly 30 years. Knodell said the prevalence of hypodermic needles and theft in recent years has left her questioning whether she needs to move.

Knodell said George is partly responsible for the deteriorating conditions in the neighborhood. Specifically, she pointed to George’s policy not to prosecute charges stemming from pretextual traffic stops — which Kenney has said he’d reverse. Police often use minor offenses such as a broken taillight to question or search drivers whom they suspect of more serious criminal activity. But George cited data showing that people of color are more likely to be stopped and searched. Knodell believes the policy prevents police from catching drug dealers.

“She’s so committed to her theories of reform that, in particular instances, her office is making calls that are letting us down as a community,” Knodell said of George.

‘FACTS ON THE GROUND’

Kenney’s main antidote to the spike in some lower-level crimes would involve a more aggressive approach to offenders.

While George has expanded the use of restorative justice — so much that the Williston Community Justice Center has roughly doubled its volunteer pool — Kenney pushes for more “consequences,” particularly for people repeatedly accused of crimes.

Vermont law strictly limits when defendants can be locked up before trial, but judges can impose conditions of release to ensure they show up to court or to protect the public. Kenney contends that George’s office has not “forcefully advocated” for stricter conditions in cases where defendants are arrested again and again.

“The first time or maybe even the second time, I think we can be compassionate, but not the third, fourth and fifth time,” he said. “That seems to me to be the product of a philosophy and not the facts on the ground.”

Kenney has pointed to a case in which

a homeless man accused of burglarizing two downtown Burlington businesses was released and later shoved first responders and climbed into a fire truck at City Hall Park. George’s office, he said, could have asked the judge to impose a curfew or require the man to remain in the custody of a responsible adult.

George counters that curfews for unhoused defendants are often a “setup for failure” and increase the likelihood that they are incarcerated. Locking up lower-level defendants who have underlying mental health issues, housing insecurity or substance-use disorder, she contends, would do little to make communities safer in the long run.

Appeals to public safety have won Kenney the support of most local law enforcement, including endorsements from the county’s biggest police and first responder unions. He’s signaled a more collaborative approach with police while insisting he will not be their steadfast ally.

Critics of Kenney have shared photos of him marching in a campaign parade alongside former Williston police officer Travis Trybulski. Last year, George refused to prosecute Trybulski’s cases after an internal investigation found a “clear pattern of profiling and bias,” she wrote in a public letter. George has written 13 such “Brady letters” about local officers with credibility issues — more than any other state’s attorney.

Kenney said the officer had already paid for his misconduct with the loss of his job. “I mean, how long am I supposed to hate people?” he said.

‘PETTY LITTLE GAME’?

Kenney advocates “constructive friction” between police and the state’s attorney but said the relationship under George has become “dysfunctional” in the eyes of police. It’s the state’s attorney’s job, he said, to maintain healthy lines of communication.

George, however, said the Burlington Police Department has allowed a “toxic” culture to poison the rank and file and union leadership, which has been highly critical of municipal budget cuts and some of George’s practices. She’s particularly frustrated by how some officers have communicated with crime victims, such as the couple with the stolen moped.

She suspects some officers are trying to undermine her work.

Police and the state’s attorney must be able to prove to a judge that they have probable cause to charge each crime. George said some officers haven’t included enough information in their affidavits to support charges, forcing her

staff to either charge a lesser offense or send the case back for follow-up.

The June memo around cases involving motor vehicle thefts, George said, was an effort to strengthen them by reminding officers to gather evidence that supports the charge — namely, that the defendant knew the property was not theirs. Any suggestion that her office was refusing to prosecute such cases absent an admission of guilt, she said, is “ludicrous.” Her office is currently prosecuting more than 240 cases involving possession of stolen property and operation without owners’ consent, she said.

Acting Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad declined an interview about the strained relations between the department and the state’s attorney, saying he will “never comment on electoral politics.” He wrote in an email that he personally has a “good relationship” with George, noting that they talk regularly and have lunch each quarter. Murad requested that Seven Days send details about any specific incidents involving his officers so he could “look into them.”

He did not respond to written questions about several incidents.

Gretchen Verplanck of Burlington, who, like Coseno and Anderson, had her moped stolen this summer, said she was put off by how the cop assigned to her case invoked George in their interactions.

After Verplanck found her moped and led police to a suspect, the officer told her that George had issued an order requiring such cases to be diverted to alternative justice, though the department has its own policy stating the same. Nearly two months later, Verplanck said, she’s not aware that the officer forwarded the case anywhere.

Verplanck said she thinks police are trying to hurt George politically at the expense of residents. It’s a “stupid, petty little game,” she said.

Others feel just the opposite. At a press conference earlier this month, University of Vermont Medical Center nurses called on hospital and public officials to protect nurses from assaults by patients.

They criticized George for failing to hold offenders accountable.

George, who said she had been unaware of the problems at the ER, contacted the nurses to discuss their concerns. They then met last Friday, emergency room nurse Megan Martin said, but the visit didn’t change Martin’s view that the state’s attorney should be doing more.

“Her biggest relationship is with the Burlington police, and it appears very broken,” Martin said. “She acknowledged that, but she also acknowledged she doesn’t know how to fix it.” m

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If Vermonters truly believe in local democracy, it is time to cast off antidemocratic precedents and allow local municipalities to make laws concerning the issues that impact them the most.

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I read with interest [“Vermont Considers Paying Parent Caregivers of Adults With Disabilities,” April 27]. There are those who oppose the proposal, but they don’t have a disabled adult and do not know the issues firsthand. Ideally, adults with disabilities would live in lovely “skilled” homes with caretakers who are trained and competent. In the majority of cases, that is not happening.

Parents should be allowed and supported to decide for themselves how the budget is spent. If the parent wishes to care for their child themselves, that is their right and choice to provide the best care possible.

I live out of state in New Jersey, and the state has made this change permanent. I’m grateful that I, and not well-intentioned strangers, get to make these decisions for my son. If there were appropriate settings for placements, this would not be an issue, but appropriate settings are scarce, and some are outright inappropriate and dangerous for complicated disabled adults.

I will eventually hire back caregivers, but since COVID-19 I have used my son’s budget to pay myself to offer roundthe-clock, competent care that is steady, dependable and values-driven.

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Champlain Housing Trust has developed roughly 3,000 homes over four decades. CHT’s work also touches on a wide variety of social, environmental and economic priorities, including but not limited to responding to the public health emergency caused by COVID-19, the opioid epidemic, stormwater runoff, brownfield remediation, mental health issues, transportation access, food security, access to primary health care, housing for people coming out of homelessness and for people buying their first home, and, certainly not least, climate change. We juggle all of this every day.

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[Re “Summer Scramble,” July 13]: If Vermont wants to secure enough teachers for the next school year, then the first thing it can do is modify the requirements for teaching. There are many, many of us who have taught at the community college level for years or decades — and that requires teaching classes that were two-thirds high school students and summer educational program camps for younger students.

To have spent a lifetime doing this and then be told there is no way to teach without first securing a Vermont teacher’s license is just foolish and a waste of our talent pool. The notion that teachers should have a degree in education, rather than real-world experience in the field, and need to pass a licensing exam (that requires knowledge of esoteric theories that are shelved once you hit the real-world classroom) is an outdated way to restrict entry into the teaching field and a way for politicians to claim that they are promoting high standards for schools. Instead, it is creating the very crisis the article identified, and the suggested solutions avoid the issue.

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I read Alison Novak’s “Summer Scramble” [July 13] with a real personal connection. My husband and I are both educators, with nearly 40 years of experience between us. We spend our summers in Lincoln, and I attended schools in Addison County. My husband has a degree in administration, and I am a school counselor licensed in Vermont.

We currently teach overseas.

We would like nothing more than to return to Vermont full time. The truth is: We can’t afford it. When the pandemic began, we had to evacuate the country where we were living at the time, and we lived in our home here for five months. We loved settling in to our life here in a new way, experiencing the turn of seasons and finding joy and safety even in that chaotic time in the world. We explored jobs here nearly every day. We combed through 29], comparing the energy sources of an apartment building in Morrisville with our new Colchester development, gave an incomplete accounting of our priorities or justification for our decisions. We

our budget — childcare for our two young kids, helping to support family members, paying off educational debt, our mortgage. On two teacher salaries, we could maybe break even at the end of each month. The cost of living here makes it prohibitive to balance the dayto-day without an independent source of wealth.

It crushes us to leave here at the end of each summer, but the imbalance of cost of living and educator salaries leaves us no other choice right now. If Vermont schools can find ways to bring more inspired educators into their classrooms, we hope eventually to be some of them.

Heather DeVore

LINCOLN

statement on our website: getahome.org/ response-to-seven-days-story-on-energysources. Addressing climate change is not simply a slogan for us.

We must do everything we can to address climate change even as we focus on the state’s affordable housing shortage. Vermonters are desperately seeking a place to live.

We should have a discussion about the intersection of equity and climate. If we are asking affordable housing developments to add costs to electrify buildings, we are ultimately asking the cost to be borne by low-income households.

Let’s ask: Should we place the economic burden and higher responsibility for addressing climate change on low-income Vermonters?

Amy Demetrowitz

SOUTH BURLINGTON

READY FOR HIRE

[“Summer Scramble,” July 13] left out an important element: the unemployed teacher.

There are many qualified teachers out there looking for work. The obstacle in their way: too much experience. The more experience a teacher has, the less likely it is that they’ll get hired. It’s not the school district’s fault. They have budgets to work with, and it’s cheaper to hire a teacher with less experience than it is to hire one with more experience.

With experience comes another obstacle: age. Sadly, we live in an ageist society, and it extends everywhere in the workplace, including education. There are a lot of false notions that affect the hiring of an older teacher.

Another obstacle: out-of-state credentials. My husband has credentials to teach 11 subjects. They are California credentials that Vermont refuses to recognize. This is an obstacle that stands in the way of other teachers moving from one state to another.

This isn’t just a Vermont problem.

This teacher shortage exists all over this country.

But Vermont has challenges that are different from those in other states — housing, for example. There has to be a solution to help Vermont schools overcome the taboo notion of hiring an older, experienced teacher.

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believe our housing — and those Evernorth develops with others — is not only deeply affordable but also has a smaller carbon footprint than most. If anyone wants to read more about our efforts, there’s a

Demetrowitz is chief operating officer at Champlain Housing Trust.

NO PLAN B IN WESTFORD?

[Re “Raising Homes,” June 15]: The wastewater plant project currently being discussed in Westford is only about four years in the planning, since the town’s purchase of the Jackson Farm. Prior to that, several other options were being considered.

Yes, there are just over 2,000 residents in town and around 925 tax-paying parcels.

The proposed $3 million plus wastewater project would serve approximately 31 tax-paying properties. This number does not include the town office, library, Brick Meeting House and the Common Hall, aka White Church.

So, to put it simply, about 3 percent of the tax-paying parcels in town would benefit from a “town” project costing more than $3 million. That’s it, folks.

Is it just me, or does that seem a little like overkill?

We are told other options are very expensive, labor-intensive and would require high maintenance. Ah. So $3 million-plus is not expensive, and the plant that would be built would not require much labor and wouldn’t need maintenance?

Some of us in town would like to hear plan B, that’s all. And the answer isn’t, “There is no plan B; without the big allor-nothing plan, we’d be SOL.” How about using the funding instead to develop a smaller, more realistic plan?

There’s always another way.

Carol A. Winfield

WESTFORD

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I was alarmed to learn, in Seven Days’ write-up of candidates’ second-quarter Federal Election Commission filings, that unlimited, third-party independent expenditure spending in support of Becca Balint has begun in the race for U.S. House [“In U.S. House Race, Gray Has Most Cash Heading Into Primary Homestretch,” July 15].

The sums being spent by these outside groups are dizzying — drowning out any kind of advertising the campaigns may run on their own through traditional avenues. LGBTQ Victory Fund’s initial July 15 ad buy was a whopping $160,000. It’s just one of three third-party groups that have commenced unlimited outside spending on Balint’s behalf.

This spending is distressing but unsurprising, given that Balint’s campaign invited this support with a “red box,” now removed, on its website [“Balint’s Campaign Site Appears to Use Questionable ‘Red-Boxing,’” June 13; “Gray Decries ‘Dark Money’ but Has Previously Benefited From It,” June 17]. Although Balint pledged to attend a press conference to demand that outside ads be taken down, she reneged on that promise. Instead, she released a statement saying Molly Gray’s denunciation of this outside spending was an attempt to “smear LGBTQ people.”

As Vermont’s first openly gay state’s attorney, elected in 2014 in Grand Isle County, I find that statement galling. Gray has been crystal clear in her denunciation of all forms of outside spending in this race. Additionally, Gray is a trained human rights lawyer — she has the skills and experience to be an especially effective defender of my rights in Washington, D.C. I am rooting for her to brave these thirdparty spending headwinds and prevail on August 9.

Douglas DiSabito

ALBURGH

DECONSTRUCTING A ‘DROPOUT’

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A candidate “dropping out” of a race after her name is on the ballot is doing so purely for publicity’s sake so that when she ends up in last place with 0.1 percent of the vote on Election Day, she can say, “Oh, well, no surprise here; I already backed out of the race.”

The real question not addressed in the story is whom she made a deal with to “drop out” — and what she’s been told she will get in return.

Did Becca Balint make a deal with her? Balint is the remaining contender most likely to benefit from the so-called “dropout.”

Hard to believe Seven Days bought into this ruse.

Ted Cohen

BURLINGTON

WHO IS TOM CHITTENDEN?

[Re “Senate Shuffle: Chittenden County Candidates Vie for Votes in Three New Districts,” July 20]: For those of you who will be voting for your Democratic state senators in the Chittenden Southeast district, please consider who best represents your values when making a decision.

One of these candidates, Tom Chittenden, has not been a friend to the environment.

This past spring, Tom was against versions of the Act 250 bill that included important environmental protection regulations for Vermont’s sweeping land-use law. He ultimately voted against the final bill that would have preserved critical forest blocks, a priority for Vermont’s environmental organizations.

Tom voted against improvements to Vermont’s bottle bill, which would have kept an estimated 100 million more bottles

and cans out of Vermont’s landfills and off our roadsides annually. The most recent bill passed the Vermont Senate without Tom’s vote.

As one of South Burlington’s city councilors, Tom consistently voted against interim zoning here to provide time for assessing ways to better protect our rapidly diminishing open space. Another example: Tom’s was the sole vote in opposition to committing city funds to help purchase and preserve the 375 acres that now comprise our beloved Bread & Butter Farm.

Tom is proud of stating that “I am unabashedly pro-development.” That concerns many of us.

Please consider voting for Kesha Ram Hinsdale, Ginny Lyons and Lewis Mudge.

These candidates have been endorsed by Voices of the Environment, a grassroots group of residents concerned about mitigating the climate crisis and protecting the environment.

Lynne Poteau

SOUTH BURLINGTON

VOTING MATTERS

While Chelsea Edgar’s [“Congressional Countdown,” July 13] fleetingly touches on Molly Gray’s voting record, it seems to have been forgotten — or ignored — by influential politicians in the Democratic Party, just as they “forgot” when she ran for lieutenant governor.

This time, the stakes are higher: She’s running for U.S. Congress. Gray did not exercise her right to vote for 10 years!

Voting is one of the most i m p o r t a n t acts a citizen can execute in this country. It is an act of patriotism, an expression of the belief that we as individuals can make a difference — even though, at this moment in time, that may seem hard to believe.

Voting itself is now being threatened in the United States, as we have witnessed in these last tumultuous

months. How can we trust someone to lead us who chose to ignore this right? What excuse can justify 10 years of neglecting it and then deciding to dip into politics, as if this omission never happened, never had an impact? (Gray’s claim was that she was out of the country, but voting by mail is a snap.)

It’s never too late to right a wrong. I’m voting for Becca Balint.

Barbara Zucker

BURLINGTON

BALINT IS A PROVEN LEADER

It’s important to note that serving in a legislature — Vermont’s or the U.S. Congress — requires diligent work in committees, coalition building and necessary compromise, something I have done as a member of the Vermont House. Becca Balint has that experience and is the only candidate who won’t require on-the-job training. She has shown the courage and character to move major progressive legislation in Vermont, and she can do so in Washington, D.C. [“Congressional Countdown,” July 13] did a good job of highlighting the candidates, but we need more than a new face in Washington. We need someone who can take traditional Democratic ideals and move them through an increasingly moribund Congress. Leaders act. They make things happen. Becca Balint is a proven leader.

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What a meaningless nonstory on a congressional contender [“Sianay Chase Clifford Drops Out of U.S. House Race,” July 19].

The reality is, once your name is on a ballot, you can’t “drop out” of a race.

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Marilou Estacio

NOVEMBER 17, 1944JUNE 26, 2022 CAMBRIDGE, OHIO The Dumas family wishes to share the sad news that Larry passed away unexpectedly from his ongoing medical conditions.

Larry leaves his loving wife of 57 years, Suzanne (Rabidoux); their son Paul and his wife, Rebecca; son Chris; grandsons Tim Dumas, Jessi Buehman and Brenden Dumas; and three greatgrandsons and little girl Corva, due in August.

Larry was predeceased by his parents, Delores and Raymond Dumas, and grandson Kiel Dumas.

Larry was a member of the Vermont Army National Guard for 26 years, serving in the 86th Brigade Troop Command Public Affairs Unit.

Larry graduated from Winooski High School in 1963. He worked for the Winooski Police Department and the Chittenden County Sheriff’s Department, providing security for the Burlington International Airport. Larry worked for the

to focus on the good, the laughs and the little things — celebrating her and all the memories shared. Teaching us to love hard, she spread her kindness and endless generosity everywhere she went. She made the world a better place and will be forever missed by every life she touched.

Marilou is survived by the Estacio, Bissonette, Cruz, Martel, Antonio and Bermejo families. A funeral mass was held at St. Catherine’s Church in Shelburne, Vt., on July 23, 2022. The family requests that memorial tributes be directed to Marilou’s funeral fund to assist with expenses. Monetary donations can be made through Jhammar Cruz’s Paypal (paypal.com/ paypalme/inmemoriesofmarilou) and Venmo (@jhammarcruz).

Ken was a longtime active member of the Original Congregational Church in Wrentham. He

enjoyed staying active and was an avid runner during his life, completing several marathons, including the Boston Marathon.

He enjoyed participating in the Senior Games and getting out on the tennis court with friends. Ken was fascinated by genealogy and researched his family history, published a newsletter and hosted a website for his family to have access to the information.

In addition to his wife, Sarah, Kenneth is survived by two daughters, Susan Poe, of Upton, Mass., and Sheryl Graves of Winooski,

Vt., and three grandchildren, Morgan, Devon and Hannah Poe. He was the brother of the late Howard Graves.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a funeral service on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at 11 a.m., at the Original Congregational Church, 1 East St., Wrentham, MA. Burial will follow in Wrentham Center Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Kenneth’s memory may be made to Metacomet Greenway at metacometgreenway.org. An online guestbook may be found at rjrossfuneralhomeinc.com.

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Larry and Suzanne retired and moved to Ohio in 2002 to be close to their sons, Chris and Paul, and their families and grandchildren.

Larry enjoyed hunting, fishing and many other outdoor activities, as well as his hunting trips with his close friends Tom Rotella and John Perrotte.

Larry lived life to the fullest and enjoyed many special activities with his family and friends.

Larry had a military funeral ceremony at the Guernsey Memorial Garden in Cambridge, Ohio, on July 15, 2022.

Paul Maynard Jr.

DECEMBER 24, 1950JULY 16, 2022 BURLINGTON, VT. Paul Maynard Jr., 71, of Burlington, Vt., passed away on July 16, 2022, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. The funeral service will be on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, at 11 a.m., at St. Francis Church, 3 St. Peter St., Winooski, Vt. Donations may be given to University of Vermont Hospice. Services are in the care of LaVigne Funeral Home. For a full

in Vermont, where many happy memories were shared.

To her family, she was known as Ma, Owa, Telula,

Loi, Tita Malou and Lola.

Most of you know her as Mary, the heart of the Dutch Mill Family Restaurant.

From the moment you walked in the restaurant, she would take care of you.

She may have shown it in her own fiery way, but she would always make sure you felt welcomed. She was the same way with her own family, filling their hearts with the passion and kindness she displayed every day.

With the family continuing to grow, her sons Jhammar and Michael brought new joy into her life: her grandkids. Her first priority was always family, whether here or in the Philippines, and she never chose between the two. She would never pass up an opportunity to spend time with the people she loved. She would want us

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Marilou Estacio passed away the night of July 18, 2022. She was born April 9, 1960, in the Philippines.

She came to Vermont wanting to start fresh and provide for her family back home. While here, she built a home with her partner, Jamie, and his son Michael. After Marilou’s double-kidney failure, her sister Emma was flown from the Philippines to Vermont to donate her kidney. This gave Marilou the opportunity to live 30 more happy years and the strength to fulfill her desire to be reunited with her son Jhammar. From that moment forward, her circle of family and friends grew

Kenneth Graves

JULY 15, 1936JULY 20, 2022 WRENTHAM, MASS. Kenneth V. Graves, 86, of Wrentham, passed peacefully on July 20, 2022, at the Milford Medical Center. He was the beloved husband of Sarah Jane (Leavitt) Graves.

Born in New York City on July 15, 1936, he was a son of the late Asa and Mary Lee (Vance) Graves. Kenneth received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University and his master’s from Villanova.

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David LeFebvre

JUNE 29, 1949-JULY 22, 2022 COLCHESTER, VT. The Chicago Cubs and Indianapolis Colts lost a dedicated fan on July 22, 2022.

David “Bambi” LeFebvre of Colchester, Vt., passed away at the age of 73, surrounded by his family, after battling an aggressive form of cancer.

David was born in Burlington, Vt., to Charles and Majorie LeFebvre, the second oldest of four boys. He attended Cathedral Elementary and Rice Memorial High School. David grew up playing football, basketball and baseball, and he later played competitive slow-pitch softball and became an avid golfer. He was a standout three-sport athlete at Rice, being elected to the Rice Hall of Fame in 1995. He went on to earn a basketball scholarship at Champlain College for his first two years of college, then basketball

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and baseball scholarships at Lyndon State as he rounded out his four-year degree, even being invited to try out for the Montreal Expos while at Lyndon. He played on many slow-pitch softball teams through the 1970s and 1980s, going to the national tournament twice. He became a passionate golfer, playing nearly every day in the summer for the last 30 years, most recently at the Links at Lang Farm, and even playing

at Pebble Beach during a trip to California.

David also grew up hunting in Ripton with family, where he developed a lifelong love of hunting with his brother Michael. As an adult, he loved spending time at his camp in Jay and hunting with family and friends over the years, especially with his son and, in more recent years, his grandsons and son-in-law.

David began his career as a teacher but spent the majority of his career as an administrator within the Burlington and Montpelier school districts.

David is survived by his wife of nearly 51 years, Ann (LaCasse), whom he frequently referred to as his saint; his children, Kim (LeFebvre) Terranella and Jason LeFebvre and their spouses, Dave Terranella and Shawn (Carney) LeFebvre; his grandchildren, who were the great joys of his life: Colton and Griffin LeFebvre and Bryce

Margaret M. Lefebvre MARCH 19, 1959-JULY 19, 2022 MASHPEE, MASS.

As a mother and retired hospice health aide, Meg Lefebvre’s love of life didn’t come to an end with her death. Meg passed away peacefully in the comfort of her home on July 19, 2022, at the age of 63, after a courageous battle with cancer and surrounded by loved ones who will continue to honor her legacy by living their lives to the fullest.

Meg was born on March 19, 1959, and grew up and lived in Shelburne, Vt., where she was affectionately known as Muffin. After completing high school and a year at Johnson State College, she moved to Cape Cod, attended community college, started her career with EF Hutton, and was married and raised her family. After being a full-time mom for many years, she started a 20-year career as a hospice and health care provider, which culminated with her commitment to provide comfort to patients at the Bridges, near her home in Mashpee. Meg’s pride was her children, and she shared that passion with many over the years.

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and Caroline Terranella; and his three brothers: Michael LeFebvre (wife Janis), Gary LeFebvre (wife Mary) and Tom LeFebvre (wife Robyn). It would take a full-page article to name all of his 19 beloved LaCasse family brothers and sisters, his 33 nieces and nephews, and his 60 greatnieces and -nephews across the LeFebvre and LaCasse families that survive him, but we know he will miss (and be missed at) all those big family gatherings.

A special thank-you to the nursing staff on Miller 5 of the University of Vermont Medical Center, who showed such care and support for David over the last couple of months.

A funeral mass will be held at St. Joseph’s Cathedral (29 Allen St., Burlington) on Thursday, July 28, at 10 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in David’s honor to the Vermont Epilepsy Foundation or to your local youth sports program.

The simplest pleasures in life brought great joy to Meg. She loved evenings with her friends at Quashnet Valley, seasonal gatherings with her friends from Vermont, and a glass of wine in hand. She had an uncanny ability to find happiness in her daily activities, and her pleasant personality was contagious. Meg is survived by her daughter, Taylor Downey, of Mashpee, Mass.; her brother and sister-in-law, Jack and Sandy Milbank, of Hinesburg, Vt.; and cousins, nieces, and nephews. She was predeceased by her son, Adam Downey, in 2016.

Meg’s family extends their gratitude to the friends, caregivers and health care providers who assisted her through a very difficult time.

Per Meg’s wishes, interment will be private, and a celebration of her life will be held in early fall. We are in the process of planning and will announce details soon. Arrangements are by the Bartlett Funeral Home, and the family invites you to share your memories and online condolences by visiting bartlett1620.com. Please consider visiting a loved one at a nursing home or donating to the Beacon Hospice of Hyannis or the Bridges of Mashpee in remembrance of Meg.

Florence Wisener

FEBRUARY 17, 1945-JULY 14, 2022 PRESCOTT, ARIZ. Florence “Dolly” Shaw Wisener, 77, of Prescott, Ariz., passed away peacefully in her home in July 2022. How do you write the final words for a wife, mother, dear friend and education professional whose remarkable life touched the hearts of so many?

Born in February 1945 in Burlington, Vt., Dolly inspired all who came under her energetic spell. After spending much of her childhood between Burlington and Denver, Colo., she attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and went on to complete a master’s degree at the University of Vermont. Dolly met her husband, John, through friends; they became roommates and finally became a couple shortly after that.

They married in July 1980 and lived for each other for 42 years. Dolly was always a champion of the underdog with a heart of gold but — as many experienced — also a force to be reckoned with if crossed on a core issue. She was always willing to go to battle to right a wrong.

Twenty-seven years ago, the synergies of the heart led us across the world to China with all the trials and tribulations of adoption. Our daughter, Anya, has been our greatest gift from God. We cannot be prouder of her accomplishments and her beautiful life in Rhode Island.

She is now proudly Anya De Vito, married almost two years to her beloved husband, Andrew. We could not have been more pleased by this union with her new family, including Andrew’s parents, Mike and Peggy, and his three sisters.

They, like the Shaw family, have taken Anya in as their own.

Dolly and I are so blessed for their union.

Dolly’s humanity is reflected through Phoenix, whom we took into our hearts as a 6-year-old many years ago.

Aptly named, Phoenix has raised herself from the ashes of difficult beginnings to blossom into a wonderful mother, grandmother and practicing attorney. We are proud of her as a person and a professional contributing to the world.

Dolly had a long and successful career at Champlain College, where for 40 years she proudly inspired young adults, wearing many hats as the director of human resources and career services at the college. Dolly was privileged to help the college grow from a two-year school to a four-year institution and to inspire her colleagues to attain their highest potential. Most importantly, Dolly grew into a Myers-Briggs guru, which allowed her to help students find their passions and unleash their own greatest gifts onto themselves and the world.

We were privileged to have witnessed Dolly’s last breath on this planet, passing on to spirit two days after our 42nd anniversary. It was humbling to bear witness to Dolly’s transition alongside Anya, Andrew and nephew Tony. Even though our wedding vows say “until death do us part,” Dolly, my love for you is always imprinted on my soul and heart, your spirit never to be forgotten.

A memorial service will be held on Friday, September 2, 2022, 1 p.m., at All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, VT 05482.

Dolly’s passion was education. The organization KDEF, Kenya Drylands Education Fund, has provided high school education and beyond to young women of northern Kenya.

In lieu of flowers, please send a donation to P.O. Box 505, Manchester, VT 05254 or online at kdef.org.

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aw enforcement officers aren’t the only ones working out of the Burlington Police Department headquarters. The BPD staff also includes a crisis, advocacy and intervention unit, made up of community support liaisons, a victim’s service specialist, a domestic violence advocate and the department’s domestic violence prevention officer — the only police officer on the team.

Together, they address situations related to public safety, public health and quality of life that don’t require a police officer; things like neighbor disputes and issues around homelessness.

They turn to officers only when necessary, such as when a crime has been committed or when someone’s physical safety is at risk.

The crisis, advocacy and intervention unit works with other social service providers to help fill gaps and build bridges. They use person-centered approaches, provide trauma-informed care and emphasize culturally competent responses to support those who have experienced harm. The work they do is vital, but often plays out behind the scenes.

To help the Burlington community better understand their role, we asked them to describe what they do — the rewarding parts, the challenges, what they’d wish for — in their own words.

ANNA WAGELING

sharing space with someone, with no underlying agenda, especially in the social service world. I help people get connected to services, but I also sit and watch their favorite show with them, talk about their day, go for a walk. It’s not just about the service connection; it’s about the human connection as well.”

Community Support Liaison “I take it one call at a time. No call is the same, which always makes it interesting.”

“I’m most proud of being able to make lasting connections to the folks I work with in the community. Just being there can make a difference. Some people just need someone to listen or be there as they face a difficulty, and knowing they have support is huge.”

“I wish we had more resources in general that folks don’t necessarily think about. For example, so many people I work with do not have reliable transportation and even in Burlington, a car can make a situation ten times better. I know people who are ready and willing to work, but do not have enough time to get their kids to school and to a job in the same day while juggling everything else.”

“I think our program is a model.

We are able to do the follow up and proactive work that can help decrease 911 calls and fill the gaps that other service providers wish they could fill.”

ERIC GOLDMANN Community Support Liaison

LACEY-ANN SMITH Community Support Supervisor “I think I’m most proud of the relationships that I’ve made with people that have been disenfranchised for years. I’m proud that they have trusted in me, in spite of all of the damaging experiences they have had over the years with both providers and the various systems at large. The relationships are what keep me humble and are a regular reminder as to why I’ve been doing this work for eight years.”

“One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had is working with a woman who I met living in Leddy Park. I’ve worked with her consistently for the last seven years and got the privilege of supporting her while she moved into her first apartment, after almost a decade of living outside and on people’s couches. I continue to support her, even though her housing status changed, as that’s what differentiates what we do versus what other service providers do. The support we offer doesn’t have to change once your circumstances have changed; we pivot and continue to support them in new ways. The continuity of the support, regardless of how it’s defined, is what allows us to truly have an impact.”

“I know I make a difference because people are often kind enough to tell me. People often undermine the value of simply just

“I can think of an incident in which officers asked me to provide follow-up support to an individual they responded to during a dispute between the individual and their romantic partner. This couple had lived together for a long time, but they were going to stay separately from one another following the incident between them.”

“One member of the couple had previously been providing caretaking support to the other member who had chronic medical and mental health conditions. Their partner moving out also meant that this person was losing their caretaker.”

“Over the weeks following the incident, I worked with this person and their providers to set up professional home health and caretaking services, and I helped with basic needs like groceries in the interim.

During the course of my time spent with this person, I learned that they also had limited literacy.

They couldn’t understand their

court paperwork stemming from the incident, although they had not indicated this at the time that the paperwork was issued. I provided some ongoing support with navigating their court obligations, which otherwise would have been difficult given the literacy and mental health issues. I think it’s an example of the ripple effects that can stem from an incident.”

“I try to provide follow-up support after someone has an interaction with police in a way that helps the individual, while also hopefully reducing the likelihood of that same person requiring continued police response. What that looks like in practice varies greatly depending on the person and the call.

“For example, I might communicate with someone’s case manager after police were called to their client. We can discuss the circumstances around the incident and try to address any issues collaboratively, and I will try to avail myself to supplement the work of the person’s existing supports when it’s helpful. If a person doesn’t have any supports in place, then I’ll try to address any needs with them in the interim as we work toward finding the appropriate long term providers.”

“In my experience working with BPD officers, they’re excellent at calming situations on their own, and they probably have more real world experience doing so than just about anyone, regardless of profession.”

“I think where I’m most helpful is in situations where I have history with an individual and might be able to leverage my rapport toward an outcome, or if I know that the person has other supports who can be brought in to help the situation.

I can also be helpful with providing support after an acute incident has been stabilized, taking next steps and coordinating follow up.” ■

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o heat her drafty old Vergennes home, Constance Swinton switched from oil to natural gas last year for two main reasons: to save money and help the environment.

Swinton grew up in the two-story house, which her parents bought in the 1940s. A retired real estate agent, she moved back into it in 2020 to care for her aging father, who died last year.

Over the decades, the home has been heated with wood, coal and, most recently, oil. When Swinton, 69, heard her boiler kicking on during the summer, she called in a service technician and began contemplating work on the aging system.

Vermont Gas Systems began offering service in Vergennes in 2018 after extending its pipeline south into Addison County. The company offered deep discounts in order to sign up local residents.

“They said, ‘We’re bringing gas up your street already, and we’ll hook you up for free,’” Swinton said. “What’s not to like?”

So she had the company convert her boiler to burn gas. Then she paid for a Vermont Gas partner to insulate

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her dank basement with spray foam and install moisture protection. She is contemplating other upgrades, including a new furnace, efficient windows and solar panels.

She saved about $2,000 in fuel costs last year and will likely pocket even more this winter as heating oil prices — which have nearly doubled in the roiling global market — outpace natural gas increases.

She has since learned that the environmental ramifications are more complicated. While she doesn’t exactly have buyer’s remorse, she regrets not having looked more closely at climate-friendlier options.

“I didn’t realize it was still a fossil fuel,” Swinton told Seven Days.

Vermont Gas has gone to great lengths to convince lawmakers, regulators and the public that it is rapidly

Rendall, the company’s former president and CEO, announced in 2019.

But beneath the lofty rhetoric about “renewable” gas and “homegrown energy,” the Canadian-owned utility continues to sell a product that is 98.7 percent imported fossil fuel.

The gas flowing through its nearly 1,000 miles of underground pipe in Vermont is mostly extracted from shale deposits in Alberta, Canada,

Beneath the lofty rhetoric about “renewable” gas and “homegrown energy,” the Canadianowned utility continues to sell a product that is 98.7 percent imported fossil fuel.

As for saving the planet, though, Swinton’s less sure she made the right call. Much of what she initially read about natural gas made it out to be a far greener choice than the oil she was burning. Vermont Gas billed it as more efficient and cleaner in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, which accelerate the climate crisis, and touted the biogas — methane captured from waste — in the mix as renewable.

transforming itself from the state’s largest fossil fuel seller into a diversified green energy business helping its customers fight climate change.

“We’re committed to a brighter, greener future,” the company’s website proclaims. Job ads lure prospective applicants with “a chance to do meaningful work to help transform the climate.”

“The time to act is now,” Don

through a drilling process called hydraulic fracking. Water and chemicals are injected at high pressure into the ground to crack shale to release trapped gas; environmental concerns include gas leaks, groundwater contamination and wastewater disposal.

The product, mostly the potent greenhouse gas methane, is funneled thousands of miles through the TC

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From there, it travels south to Vermont Gas’ pipeline for distribution to 55,000 homes and businesses in Franklin, Chittenden and Addison counties.

For now, the company has abandoned plans to extend its pipeline beyond Middlebury, but its efforts to add gas service to more homes and businesses continue within its existing territory. A current promotion offers up to $1,500 in cash to Addison County residents who switch to gas and a new appliance by September 30.

Vermont Gas has hooked up so many new customers in Vergennes that local Jackman Fuels has been forced to expand its service to rural areas the pipeline doesn’t reach in order to make up for lost fuel oil sales, according to Jesse Jackman, its president and manager.

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Even more importantly, the company says, it’s helping « P.33 customers such as Swinton perform more routine upgrades that are needed on a massive scale to make Vermont more energy efficient.

But Vermont Gas critics remain deeply skeptical of its strategies — and motives.

Bristol attorney Jim Dumont, who has litigated against the company, said he considers its climate-friendly claims to be little more than a smoke screen to help it continue profiting from the sale of fossil fuels.

“It’s greenwashing by Vermont’s best greenwasher,” he said. “Nobody should switch to Vermont Gas or continue on Vermont Gas if they are concerned about our climate.”

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Vermont Gas has billed itself as a cheaper, cleaner alternative to heating oil since it first began offering service in 1966.

The utility grew steadily and, spurred in part by the oil crisis of the 1970s, displaced much of the heating oil industry in western Franklin and Chittenden counties.

In 2012, Vermont Gas sought to extend its pipeline south to Rutland.

Then-governor Peter Shumlin saw it as a vital economic development project for the region. The Public Service Board approved the first phase of the project in 2013, based in part on anticipated savings for homeowners and businesses, as well as the company’s pledge to invest heavily in energy efficiency.

Activists decried the expansion of “fracked gas” deeper into the state and fought the project at every turn. A proposal to extend the pipeline beneath Lake Champlain to serve a massive paper mill in Ticonderoga, N.Y., further galvanized opponents.

The company’s complex ownership structure didn’t help its case. Vermont Gas is owned by Énergir, formerly known as Gaz Metro, the largest natural gas company in Québec. Énergir, which is also the majority owner of Green Mountain Power, is a subsidiary of Montréal-based Noverco, which is itself owned by Trencap, an investment company.

Until December, Noverco was partly owned by Enbridge, a publicly traded Alberta-based company that has drawn the ire of environmental and Indigenous groups for pipeline projects that threaten watersheds and exacerbate climate change.

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Danielle Goodrich Gingras (left) leading a ceremonial turning of the spigot to start the flow of natural gas at her family farm’s renewable energy facility

We need to turn these industries to be climate change fighters instead of climate change contributors.

And that’s what we’re doing.

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The first phase of the company’s 41-mile pipeline project in Vermont stretched from Colchester through Hinesburg and Monkton to Middlebury.

As opposition flared and construction costs soared from $87 million to $165 million, the project became a PR nightmare for the company.

Protesters chained themselves to construction equipment and the company’s headquarters on Swift Street in South Burlington. Banners branded construction sites a “climate crime scene” and company leaders “climate criminals.” Regulatory wrangling about the construction continues to this day.

The company abandoned the proposed pipeline under the lake in 2015 after the paper mill backed out, effectively killing any chance of the project reaching Rutland. The extension to Middlebury was completed in 2017. So far, it’s led to about 1,060 new customers, but more are signing on.

Since the pipeline project, Vermont Gas has worked hard to transform itself from a gas company to a diversified energy services enterprise, its leaders say.

It hired Neale Lunderville, a former

top official in governor Jim Douglas’ administration, as its new president and CEO. He had been general manager of the Burlington Electric Department, where he implemented policies aimed at helping the city meet its goal to eliminate fossil fuel in buildings and transportation by 2030.

Vermont Gas Systems rebranded itself as VGS in 2019, though the moniker hasn’t really stuck. VGS better reflects the company’s diverse suite of services, said Dylan Giambatista, a former state representative from Essex Junction hired by the company last year to handle public affairs.

Its leaders emphasize that the company’s expertise in energy markets, well-trained workforce and large customer base mean it needs to be part of any state climate solution. Instead of resisting the change, the company has embraced it, Lunderville said.

“In order for us to make the big strides around fighting climate change, we need to turn these industries to be climate change fighters instead of climate change contributors,” Lunderville said. “And that’s what we’re doing.”

Nationally, gas companies face withering criticism for their environmental impacts. The shift at Vermont Gas mirrors the industry’s scramble to highlight lower-carbon portions of its portfolios, said Matt Cota, executive director of the Vermont Fuel Dealers Association, which represents propane and heating oil companies such as Jackman’s that dominate other parts of the state.

“The conversation in the heating sector has evolved very quickly in the last 15 years from one based on which sources cost less to which one is renewable and which one is not,” Cota said.

Vermont Gas acknowledges that natural gas is a factor in the climate crisis, Lunderville said, and that it must switch to sources with lower emissions.

Natural gas, Lunderville said, is “better than oil and propane [but] not as good as it needs to be.”

Natural gas emits about 117 pounds of carbon dioxide per million British thermal units, compared to 161 pounds for heating oil and 139 pounds for propane, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The anaerobic digester at Goodrich Family Farm in Salisbury

“It is possible for something to be better and still not actually be good,” said Ben Edgerly Walsh, climate and energy program director at Vermont Public Interest Research Group.

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In July 2021, Vermont Gas’ brass headed to a dairy farm in Addison County and met up with Gov. Phil Scott, Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, Middlebury College officials and others for a ceremonial opening of a gas line. They mugged for photos around a giant valve, grinning broadly.

The reason for the glee: The gas in question was not fracked in Canada.

Instead, it was methane captured from dairy and food waste in a digester at Goodrich Family Farm in Salisbury. A company called Vanguard Renewables had built the largest such facility in New England on the 900-cow dairy along Otter Creek. The project consists of large black-and-red digester buildings that produce greener renewable natural gas (RNG) — also called biogas.

The facility can accept 180 tons of food waste and 100 tons of cow manure every day and “cooks” it in an oxygenfree environment. It produces enough methane to heat more than 2,100 homes.

Middlebury College has a long-term contract to buy 55 percent of the gas; Vermont Gas gets 22 percent, or enough to heat nearly 500 homes.

Unlike natural gas trapped deep in the earth when ancient organic material decomposed, RNG is methane created by the decomposition of today’s waste.

Methane has, by some measures, 27 times the heat-trapping capacity of carbon dioxide, making it a serious threat to the climate. So burning it instead of letting it escape into the atmosphere is considered better than drilling and extracting “natural” methane. The more RNG that is captured and burned, the better, the industry maintains — even though burning it releases carbon dioxide.

While not a “silver bullet” in the company’s transformation, RNG is key to its shift from fossil fuel, Lunderville said.

To date, that fuel accounts for only 1.3 percent of Vermont Gas’ total supply.

The company is working to gradually increase — by about 2 percent of its total supply per year — the amount of RNG it purchases from both in-state and outof-state sources, Lunderville said. RNG

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is more expensive than fossil gas, and the company is sensitive to « P.35 increasing costs for its customers, he said. The company declined to share the financial details of its RNG contracts. The state’s 2021 Annual Energy Report said RNG can cost four to eight times as much as fossil gas.

Critics nevertheless charge that the company is adding so little renewable gas that it is misleading consumers and effectively locking them in to fossil fuel use for decades.

Bristol attorney Dumont and a number of prominent environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and 350. org argue that the natural gas industry’s shift to renewable gas sources ignores several inconvenient truths. One is that even if every dairy, landfill and wastewater treatment plant in the country started capturing the methane that it discharges — a wildly expensive and impractical step — it would only offset about 14 percent of the nation’s current natural gas usage, according to the industry’s own studies.

Another is that landfills are expected to produce less methane over time as communities increasingly shift to zero-waste policies that keep methanegenerating materials such as food scraps out of the ground.

And recent studies show that methane leaks from natural gas wells and pipelines are worse than previously understood, making claims that natural gas is “clean” more questionable than ever. Methane leaks risk erasing the emissions savings of switching from oil to gas and undermine the case for RNG, critics argue.

Electric heating options, especially efficient cold-climate heat pumps and water heaters, are as carbon-free as their sources of electricity, which in Vermont are relatively clean and can be made cleaner over time, Walsh said. With such options readily available, supporting the natural gas infrastructure in the state is a bad idea; expanding it would be “preposterous,” he said.

Vermont Gas is scaling up RNG anyway. In addition to the Salisbury farm, the company already buys RNG produced by waste flushed down toilets in Dubuque, Iowa, and processed. A new contract for gas from food waste in London, Ontario, is coming online soon. And the company plans to sign a contract for methane collected from New York State’s largest landfill — Seneca Meadows, east of Rochester — if regulators approve. The Vermont Public Utility Commission is currently

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Constance Swinton and the old oil burner removed from her basement

considering Vermont Gas’ proposed 14-year contract with a company operating at the landfill.

In energy and environmental circles, debate is raging about the impact such gas sources might have on climate.

Supporters argue that landfills are going to produce methane for decades to come, regardless of waste reduction policies.

Critics counter that capturing and burning that gas is a half measure at best.

“The real solution is to reduce methane sources to begin with,” said Chase Whiting, a staff attorney at Conservation Law Foundation.

This includes keeping organic matter out of landfills and pursuing agricultural practices that reduce methane emissions — not using small amounts of RNG to justify continued fossil fuel use, he contends.

“We simply cannot burn our way out of the climate crisis,” he said.

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Vermont Gas’ partnership with Vanguard Renewables represents “proof of concept” for RNG in Vermont, the company has said in regulatory filings.

But while shifting Vermont Gas’ supply toward RNG is important, Lunderville ranks it as a lesser factor when explaining the company’s transition.

“We are not going to transform on the back of RNG,” he said.

He agrees that there is not enough RNG for the company to reduce its emissions on that alone. Nevertheless, Vermont Gas wants RNG to make up 20

Vermont Gas energy auditor Wayne Thompson inspecting the foam insulation added to Swinton’s basement

percent of the gas it sells by 2030 and 90 percent by 2050.

The state’s dairy farms are generally too small and far-flung to accommodate cost-effective digesters tied to the company’s pipeline network, Lunderville said. The Salisbury project, originally envisioned to generate electricity, took a decade to complete.

Still, real opportunities exist to expand the Vermont supply of RNG, he said. The company has commissioned a $75,000 feasibility study to determine how many farms or farm clusters — most likely in Franklin County — might be worthwhile sites.

Whatever the study shows later this year, the reality is, the company will have to continue to look outside the state for RNG supplies to meet its goals.

The company is also seeking additional financial backing from customers

willing to pay more to support its RNG purchases, while acknowledging that the same mix of gas continues to flow into the furnaces of those who sign up.

In 2018, when the program began, 51 customers signed up to pay extra. Four years later, that figure stands at just 168.

Lunderville said the program has been valuable to businesses that want their customers to know they are doing their part for the climate.

Middlebury’s Vermont Coffee is one.

Green stickers on its coffee declare it “Roasted with 100 percent Renewable Energy.”

Founder Paul Ralston said the program provided an opportunity for the coffee company to switch from more expensive propane to natural gas and support Vermont Gas’ since-discontinued purchases of methane from a landfill in Québec.

Any time that you’re putting a renewable molecule into the system and it’s displacing a fossil molecule, you’re doing a good thing.

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“We believed it was a solid environmental move, and guess what? Our customers agreed with us,” said Ralston, who sold the company last year to Stonewall Kitchen.

Not everyone is buying it.

Selling Vermonters renewable gas in Iowa that never actually makes it to Vermont is “a farce,” said Kevin Jones, director of the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law & Graduate School.

“This is something that’s just making us feel good about Vermont Gas and making it easier for them to keep hobbling along for another decade or two, when what we really should be doing is having a tough discussion about transitioning off gas,” Jones said.

“It’s false advertising,” charged Rachel Smolker, a Hinesburg resident and codirector of Biofuelwatch, which is critical of fuels such as RNG. “They are paying someone else to do it and then maybe trading some paperwork to take credit for it.”

The company purchases the actual gas from the faraway facilities, but, as with electrons on the power grid, tracking the path of the RNG molecules is not possible, Lunderville explained. In essence, Vermont Gas pays for the RNG; it is fed into a pipeline that theoretically has a pathway to Vermont; and Vermont

Gas takes credit for the RNG’s renewable attributes.

Vermont Gas pioneered this approach, and the gas industry has taken note. Explaining it to consumers can be tricky, Lunderville acknowledged, but it is an accepted feature of electricity markets, similar to carbon credits.

During a legislative hearing in January, Lunderville struggled at times to explain the system to befuddled lawmakers. When Rep. Mike Yantachka (D-Charlotte) asked how the company tracks the RNG customers sign up to buy, Lunderville stammered for a bit before saying, “We are purchasing a renewable supply, and it’s being delivered to Vermont.” He quickly clarified, however, that the gas wasn’t really being “delivered” to Vermont at all.

“Like, the RNG molecules don’t make it directly to their home,” he said.

Tom Murray, Vermont Gas’ vice president of decarbonization technology, a title conferred on him in 2019 as part of the company’s rebranding, oversees the RNG program. The system enables utilities in one region to support renewable energy sources elsewhere, he said.

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a renewable molecule into the system and it’s displacing a fossil « P.37 molecule, you’re doing a good thing,” Murray said.

Vermont Gas regularly gets inquiries from other utilities about how the company has developed its RNG program. The market it’s created incentivizes the development of more RNG over time, Murray said.

And the sector is growing. Vanguard Renewables, the Massachusetts-based developer of the Salisbury digester, was sold last week to investment fund powerhouse BlackRock for $700 million.

This year, Vermont legislators attempted to create more incentives for fossil fuel companies to transition to cleaner operations. The clean heat standard bill, which Vermont Gas supported, would have required fuel wholesalers to purchase or generate “clean heat credits” to offset fuel sales — or pay steep carbon pollution fees.

Distrust of what is effectively a carbon-offset system contributed to the

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Ross Conrad (right) gathering signatures for a petition related to Vermont Gas in Middlebury

Officials from Vermont Gas, UVM and GlobalFoundries said they would collaborate on the pilot project, which would be funded in part by ratepayers.

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) appeared via teleconference to offer his congratulations and assistance.

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bill’s defeat. Critics of RNG worried that fossil fuel companies would profit from transitioning to other fuel sources that pose environmental hazards.

The debate isn’t over, though.

Vermont Gas said it continues to support a clean heat standard, and lawmakers say they plan to make another run at passing one next session.

PARTNERS IN CLIME In January, Vermont Gas invited the news media to a large conference room at the University of Vermont to announce what the company pitched as a technological marvel. The concept: Use green energy, such as wind and solar, to split water molecules to extract hydrogen. That, in turn, would be added to the natural gas that powers the boilers that heat GlobalFoundries’ massive campus in Essex Junction, displacing some of the natural gas the chip manufacturer uses.

“This project will show the rest of the state and the world that zero-carbon thermal energy is possible,” Lunderville declared.

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The push to create “green hydrogen” as well as “synthetic gas” this way is cutting-edge stuff, and many experts see such fuels playing a role in the energy mix of the future.

But environmental groups quickly panned the idea, charging that the project was just another attempt to burnish the image of a fossil fuel dealer.

Capturing hydrogen requires lots of energy, so the fuel is only green if that energy comes from new renewable sources.

“You can’t create green hydrogen with dirty electricity,” Whiting, the CLF attorney, said at the time.

What’s more, critics noted, only a limited amount of hydrogen could be added to the natural gas. Some studies suggest a max of 20 percent hydrogen, unless expensive upgrades were made to the systems that deliver and utilize the gas.

Just how much hydrogen Vermont Gas’ pipes could handle is unclear, but Lunderville said the volume could be significant because VGS infrastructure is relatively modern. The company will soon issue a request for proposals

to build the project, and Lunderville expressed hope that it could be up and running by next year.

The focus on technological leaps, energy markets and fuel sources tends to dominate discussion about Vermont Gas’ future. But the primary way the company will reduce its emissions is through far more routine energy efficiency work, according to Lunderville.

The company has deepened its investment in home energy audits and is offering generous rebates — especially to low- and moderate-income Vermonters — for weatherizing homes.

Even as Vermont Gas expands its customer base, it is also aggressively promoting devices that lower customers’ gas use, such as electric-powered coldclimate heat pumps and electric heat pump water heaters. “We are actively looking at things that are going to make us sell less of our traditional core product,” Lunderville said. “That should be a telltale that we are fully invested in this.”

These upgrades are consistent with the company’s strategy of helping people not only switch to greener fuels but also use less energy overall, Lunderville said.

That’s just one reason the greenwashing charge is off base, he asserted.

“That is the opposite of what we are doing,” he said. “We’ve literally rolled up our sleeves and got into the work of doing this, both in our company and at the state policy level.”

CLOSING THE VALVE Burlington is in the heart of Vermont Gas’ service area — and at the heart of an effort to heat buildings with renewable sources. Burlington City Councilor Jack Hanson (P-East District) readily articulates a common goal: “I want a complete

ban on new fossil fuel infrastructure,” he said in an interview.

Hanson is one of a growing number of local officials and legislators who argue that new buildings should use electricity, geothermal or advanced woodburning systems for heat — not gas, oil or propane. Existing structures also need to switch as quickly as possible, mostly by electrifying everything, Hanson argued.

A Queen City charter change last year created rules to discourage heating buildings with fossil fuels, and future rules — which voters would need to approve — could go further and require fees on building emissions.

With U.S. climate legislation stalled and concerns about the climate crisis growing as a result of powerful storms, forest fires and record-breaking heat waves, state and local governments are under increasing pressure to curb heat-trapping emissions. Bans on new fossil fuel-reliant buildings are spreading across the nation; more than 80 have taken effect to date.

Vermont is struggling to achieve its aggressive climate goals, especially given the collapse of high-profile efforts to rein in transportation emissions and provide cleaner heat.

Gov. Scott has often cited the risk of higher energy costs in opposing emission-reduction policies. Supporters, meanwhile, argue that doing nothing will leave lower-income Vermonters exposed to the most price-volatile fossil fuel heating sources.

Vermont Gas may no longer face the spirited protests its pipeline expansion drew. But in a warming world, its continued push to convert new customers to natural gas is drawing criticism in more traditional settings.

In June, the Middlebury Selectboard considered a request to grant an easement across city property so that a downtown property owner could connect to gas service. Members of the town’s energy committee urged the selectboard to say no.

Committee member Ross Conrad cited the paltry percentage of renewable gas in Vermont Gas’ pipeline as he attempted to persuade the board to deny the easement. The selectboard granted the request, however, saying to deny it would be unprecedented.

Now, Conrad is mounting a petition drive to block the easement, calling it inconsistent with town and state energy goals.

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he front room of Jamie and Paula Eisenberg’s Underhill home used to be full of flour and fruit for Poorhouse Pies, the baking business they sold last November. Now, where shelves once held rolling pins, pliers hang from a pegboard. Instead of instructions for chocolate cream pie, the recipe box contains cards detailing how to tie different kinds of fishing flies.

The former bakeshop has metamorphosed into the workshop for Jamie Eisenberg’s new business, Eisenberg’s Fly Fix. For the last four years, Eisenberg has worked part time as a subcontracted guide for Middlebury-based Stream and Brook Fly Fishing. As of April, she also put up her own shingle through which she offers guiding and coaching, custombuilt fly rods and flies, and fly-tying lessons.

After more than four decades as a chef and culinary instructor, Eisenberg, 62, has turned a longtime passion into her fulltime job. While the professional switch may seem surprising, it leverages her talents for teaching and craftsmanship.

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sense of accomplishment that fly-fishing has brought her.

The sport has also played a key role in Eisenberg’s 30-plus years of sobriety. “It fills my soul. Cliché, but it’s true,” she said.

“It helps me stay in the moment.”

Eisenberg did not grow up fishing but stumbled onto it while living in

Providence, R.I. She first moved there from New Jersey in 1978 to attend the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied printmaking and stone-carving.

By that time, she said, she was already a serious pot smoker and drinker. Eisenberg got her first restaurant dishwashing job to

pay for those habits and gradually worked her way up to executive chef, leaving fine art behind.

“I couldn’t do it anymore,” she said.

“It was like my creative process had been sucked dry by drugs and alcohol.”

Though Eisenberg was profoundly unhappy and lonely, she didn’t believe her substance use was the problem because it was normalized in her circles.

“We all partied our brains out and smoked and drank and did drugs all the time during our shifts — before, during and after,” she said.

Even when she left Rhode Island to attend New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier in the mid-1980s, Eisenberg kept using drugs and alcohol.

Fishing came into her life in the summer of 1988 after she’d returned to Providence. The restaurant where she and her then-girlfriend were working closed abruptly. Located en route between their two apartments was a “funky old tackle shop,” Eisenberg recalled. “I don’t know which one of us said — probably me — ‘Let’s just go fishing.’”

The pair bought a tackle box and rods and headed to a local reservoir. “We

started catching fish, and it was fun,” Eisenberg said.

Eisenberg quickly landed a new cooking job but soon “hit bottom,” she said. “I got dumped by yet another girlfriend,” she said, referring to her fishing companion. “I just had terrible, terrible hangovers [and] couldn’t stop crying.”

Health insurance that came with her job provided a catalyst for recovery.

Eisenberg sought counseling for her “relationship issues,” she noted dryly.

The intake form made her substance abuse clear to the therapist, who gradually helped Eisenberg recognize her dependency.

scenery, she moved to northern New Hampshire to work at a lodge.

Eisenberg spent a lot of time fishing there. One day, she recalled, she saw a guy doing a type of fishing she had never seen: casting, hooking a trout and pushing a button to bring in the fish with his automatic reel. “I said, ‘Oh, my God. That was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Can I just sit here and watch you?’” she recalled.

The next day, Eisenberg went out and bought used fly-fishing gear and started teaching herself to fly-fish.

Previously, she had fished with lures and bait, she said, so she was intrigued by the skills required to read the river, select

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One Sunday afternoon in January 1989, still hungover from the night before, Eisenberg gathered with friends, per usual, at a favorite bar. The bartender went down the line. “He got to me and said, ‘Jamie, what are you going to have?’”

Eisenberg recalled. “I had no idea that I was gonna say it. I just said, ‘Nothing.

I’m done.’”

The next morning, Eisenberg met up for breakfast with her ex, who had recently gotten sober. “I said, ‘Maybe you could take me to one of those meetings someday,’” referring to Alcoholics Anonymous. By noon, they were at a meeting.

“There were little old ladies and bikers and businessmen,” Eisenberg recalled.

“I knew instantly I was home.” With the support of AA, she has been sober ever since.

Quitting left a big hole in her life, Eisenberg said. Seeking a change of

the fly and cast the line. “It almost seemed magical to me,” she recalled.

As Eisenberg dug in, she relished learning about the environment, the relationship between the fish and the insects represented by flies, and the mechanics of casting. At first, Eisenberg said with a chuckle, “I’d say, ‘I’m going to the river [to] make some spaghetti,’ because I would just get tangled up in my line.”

From the beginning, Eisenberg has primarily practiced catch-and-release fishing, meaning she rarely keeps the fish to eat. She uses methods, including barbless hooks, that she said “cause less harm, so [fish] can be released back into the river [and] can continue to thrive.”

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Fishing for Serenity « P.41 respite from her intense work as a culinary instructor and chef, but it took until 2017 for Eisenberg to make it more central to her life.

She was going through a tough time and wanted to fish more but not always alone. She craved friends, Eisenberg said, who would “call me up and say, ‘Let’s go fishing.’”

Over her years of sobriety, Eisenberg had learned a lot about herself: “I said, ‘OK, what can I do to create community for myself?’”

Eisenberg rejoined river and stream conservation nonprofit Trout Unlimited and, at her first meeting, became fast friends with a woman whose license plate was Fly Gal. She hired Brian Zinger, co-owner of Stream and Brook Fly Fishing, to take her out fishing. She started a Facebook group called VT Fly Gals.

Fly-fishing can still be a boys’ club, Eisenberg said. Zinger “was the first guy that ever said to me, ‘Hey, you want to go fishing?’” she recalled. “I almost burst into tears.”

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Zinger also recognized Eisenberg’s guiding potential. “She’s just a great person and fisherman,” he said. “She’s passionate. She’s a good teacher.”

Eisenberg talked with Zinger before launching her own business. “She’s competing, but I don’t mind,” he said.

“There’s room in Vermont for both of us.”

Since April, Eisenberg’s Fly Fix has taken out about two dozen clients, at $50 an hour.

Liz Kiggen of Colchester has hired Eisenberg for two outings. She specifically sought out a woman after a disappointing experience with a male guide, she said.

“I just felt really comfortable with Jamie right away,” Kiggen said. “Her teaching style is very conversational, and she never made me feel like an idiot. She knows the river, and she takes the time to point out things like fossils.”

Eisenberg also thoughtfully paced her instruction. “Fly-fishing can be very technical. She checked in with me,” Kiggen said. “I was blown away by that.”

On a recent July morning, Eisenberg gave Seven Days a quick demonstration lesson. She put on her studded wading boots and jammed a Pittsburg Anglers

hat over her gray braids. Approaching a shallow stretch of Browns River in Underhill Center, she noted, “I tell people, ‘Start paying attention to the sky, to the bushes, to what bugs and birds are around.’”

Fish will naturally be attracted to flies that resemble the life cycle stage of what is in the area, Eisenberg explained. For her first cast, she selected a pheasant tail nymph fly made with brown feathers and shiny green Mylar intended to mimic a mayfly nymph.

Stepping into the river, Eisenberg gestured toward the shady far bank and pointed out two shadowy fish in the water before positioning herself to cast her line with a practiced fluid motion. It ribboned above the water before the fly settled into the current.

Several different spots and flies later, Eisenberg had achieved some strikes — when a fish goes for a fly — but had not caught any trout. She took a break to pick up rocks from the riverbed to see what nymphs were present to inform her fly choice.

One of the things Eisenberg loves about fishing is that it helps her see her

environment differently. “I feel like I’m a steward of my backyard,” she said.

For example, Eisenberg has learned that when people move rocks to create swimming holes, those dams can prevent fish from traveling upstream to spawn.

Now she stops to un-dam them.

“I go back to the same places so often because I know them like other people will never know them,” Eisenberg said. “That’s intimacy to me, and that feels really good.”

One more cast in a fresh location yielded a flash of silver. Eisenberg adjusted her line and added a second fly.

“That’s what I call dialing it in,” Eisenberg explained. “A lot of anglers only try one way to do something and get frustrated.”

Her strategy worked, landing her an eight-inch brook trout. After briefly admiring the fish, speckled gold and pink, she released it back into the cool water.

Earlier in the morning Eisenberg had shared a mantra she repeats every time she leaves a fishing spot. She paused to say it before heading back to the car: ‘Thank you, river. Thank you, fish. Thank you, God.’” m

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Astri Feiker smelling the flowers at her family’s Glory Flower Farm in Charlotte

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hristy Feiker sat under an opensided tent in a field bursting with colors. Snapdragons, cosmos, bachelor buttons, marigolds, sunflowers and zinnias dotted the Charlotte meadow, with a view of the Green Mountains peeking through the trees behind her house.

With a pair of fine-tipped scissors, Feiker delicately trimmed excess leaves from the stems and, within minutes, created a gorgeous bouquet of flowers she had picked just minutes before. Though ostensibly “sitting” for an interview, Feiker seemed like the kind of woman who doesn’t stay in one spot for long.

Christy and her husband, Knut, grew flowers as a hobby long before they ever considered doing it for a living. It was their school-age kids who first planted the seed of an idea that blossomed into the current family business.

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and sunflowers at the end of their driveway on Church Hill Road in Charlotte. On a typical weekend, the girls earned $30 per bouquet from passing drivers — an impressive haul when compared with, say, a roadside lemonade stand.

Then, last November, on a business trip in North Carolina, Christy stopped at a pick-your-own flower farm where she saw how much the customers enjoyed not just the bouquets but rambling through fields of flowers.

The experience inspired her to start her own farm on her family’s 12-acre property.

C H R IS TY “Everyone was so happy and connecting … and having so much fun outside,” Christy recalled. “I feel like we have such a beautiful space. I want to share it with others, too.”

Around the winter holidays, with help from their four kids, the Feikers began germinating seeds in their basement. By

early spring, they had 8,000 seedlings in more than 100 trays basking under rows of grow lights. Glory Flower Farm was born.

The farm now offers pick-your-own, organically grown flowers on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Wednesdays from 4 to 7 p.m., through September. For $30, visitors get a pair of scissors and a pitcher to fill with their choice of more than two dozen flower varieties. Knut estimates that a full pitcher is equivalent to three supermarket-bought F E IK E R bouquets.

The Feikers plan to make their flower farm more than just a source of supplemental income during the warmer months. They want it to complement their broader professional missions of promoting natural healing and plant-based health maintenance.

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As Knut put it, “It’s our hope to give people an opportunity to experience being out in nature and just the healing that all the colors and smells can provide.”

Flowers are a natural outgrowth of the healing work the Feikers were already doing before they moved to Vermont from suburban Milwaukee four years ago.

Christy, who grew up in Milwaukee, once worked on restoring wildflowers to native prairies in Kettle Moraine State Forest in Kewaskum, Wis. Later, as a licensed midwife who helped deliver more than 300 babies, she often brought plant-based essential oils to help with the births.

Knut, who attended Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, N.C., has worked as an organic gardener. As part of the college’s community service requirement, he took a class in Appalachian folk medicine, which spurred his interest in natural healing and plant remedies. He now practices in Vermont as a chiropractor.

Life in suburban Milwaukee seemed fine, Knut recalled — except that he was working 12-hour weekdays as a chiropractor and finishing his paperwork on weekends. Christy’s job involved long and often unpredictable hours, too.

“I was like, I really want to be with the kids while they’re still young,” Knut recalled. “You could tell it was affecting them not having their parents around as much.”

So the Feikers decided to find jobs that would be conducive to a healthier work-life balance. For the last several years, they’ve sold essential oils, natural supplements and personal care products made by dōTERRA. The Pleasant Grove, Utah-based essential oils company sources its raw materials from small, community-based farms worldwide. The Feikers believe their own budding flower farm is yet another way that fragrances can enhance people’s health and well-being.

That sentiment isn’t just some new-age marketing slogan. Research done at Texas A&M University’s AgriLife Extension found that keeping flowers around the home and office greatly improves people’s moods. Flowers leave them feeling more relaxed, secure and happy, reducing their likelihood of developing stress-related anxiety and depression.

Unfortunately, many of the cut flowers Americans enjoy provide more reasons to feel anxious and depressed, given their less-than-rosy environmental impacts.

According to the Observatory of Economic Complexity, 80 percent of the cut flowers sold in the U.S. are imported, primarily from Colombia and Ecuador. Flowers for export are typically grown using synthetic pesticides and herbicides that are toxic to bees and other pollinators. The process of transporting them thousands of miles and

storing them in refrigerated cargo holds and warehouses further contributes to the release of hydrofluorocarbons and other greenhouse gases.

For these reasons, the American flower industry has seen the rise of the so-called “slow flower movement,” which encourages consumers to buy local, seasonal and synthetic-pesticide-free floral bouquets — like the ones the Feikers offer.

Naturally, growing flowers without toxic chemicals requires more work and ingenuity.

“This has honestly been the hardest I’ve ever worked in my life,” Christy said, as she trimmed leaves from stems on a recent sunny afternoon. Because the Feikers didn’t start their pick-your-own flower business until November, they didn’t have a hoop house built in time for the spring hardening-off process.

Normally, farmers put young plants in hoop houses for a week to acclimate them before planting them. “They’re very happy outside,” Christy explained, “but you don’t want to leave them out overnight when it’s early in the season” and can still get cold.

So, every day for about three weeks, the Feikers hauled dozens of seedling trays outside each morning, then brought them inside again each night.

The rest of the day, they readied their fields for planting using organic compost and a no-till method that Knut had read about.

The farm has been Christy’s full-time job since the spring. Knut still does some shifts as a chiropractor, but the farm and herbal supplements are their primary sources of income.

The Feikers’ pick-your-own flower operation appears to have sprouted in an unoccupied niche. A handful of commercial growers in Chittenden County, such

as the Intervale Community Farm in Burlington, offer pick-your-own flowers as part of their community-supported agriculture shares. Others, such as Vermont Wildflower Farm in Williston, sell seeds. Still others grow and sell flower bouquets for weddings, funerals and other formal events but don’t offer pick-your-own.

Christy sought advice from the owners of the North Carolina flower farm she visited, but much of her prep for the season was sheer guesswork, taking risks and being willing to fail spectacularly, she said. The couple had no idea how many flowers to plant or how to estimate demand. Operating on a limited budget, the Feikers hadn’t intended to install a sprinkler system — then quickly realized that watering by hand was time-consuming and impractical. They now use drip irrigation.

“I honestly just followed my joy,” Christy said. “I felt a bit like a kid who was planning a birthday party without talking to the mom.”

Thus far, the party’s just getting started. At its soft opening on July 2, Glory Flower Farm received seven carloads of customers who came out to enjoy the blooms, walk around the farm, visit the family’s two pet donkeys and go home with bouquets.

The fields of flowers have brought the family other rewards, too. In recent weeks, they’ve noticed more goldfinches, bluebirds, honeybees and butterflies on the property.

“I never realized how much I like flowers,” Knut said. “It’s something else having so much color in your field and beauty to enjoy.” m

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Richard Gliech holding a tarte flambée in front of a WoodFyred oven

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he star of a recent Burlington al fresco dinner was the wood-fired pizza oven built by cohost Richard Gliech from a recycled steel drum.

But this was not your standard pizza party.

Guests sipped refreshing glasses of pilsner mixed with Picon, a bitter orange spirit. The aperitif, like the oven and its crisp-crusted product, traces its roots not to Italy but to Alsace, Gliech’s native region in northeastern France.

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With the expert assistance of his 24-year-old son, Bastien, Gliech prepared to roll, top and bake a type of flatbread called tarte flambée in French or Flammkuchen in Alsatian, a German dialect.

The savory specialty hails from the part of France bordering Germany. Gliech, 55, grew up in the small town of Wissembourg, where tarte flambée is said to date back to the same era as the medieval churches.

Historically, it was a way to use extra bread dough and residual oven heat, he said.

At their simplest, tartes flambées are made from yeasted dough rolled thin; spread with creamy, lightly tangy dairy; and topped with paper-thin onion slices and nuggets of bacon. After a few minutes in a very hot oven, they emerge crisp and fire-blistered — or “flamed,” as their name indicates.

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New Chef-Owners to Reopen Kitchen Table Bistro as Vermont Fine Local chefs CHELSEA MORGAN and TOM D’ANGELO will open a new restaurant in the former Kitchen Table Bistro in Richmond with the financial support of silent partners, who purchased the historic brick building and the restaurant assets for an undisclosed amount. The property was listed with Pomerleau Real Estate at $750,000 for the building and $150,000 for the restaurant.

Morgan, 33, and D’Angelo, 36, will be co-chefs at VERMONT FINE, which will offer “cozy, approachable fine dining,” Morgan said. They hope to open for dinner by mid-September or early October after a light refresh of the interior.

The couple said they plan to follow in the successful tradition of Kitchen Table Bistro, which had a 19-year run under chef-owners LARA and STEVE ATKINS. The Atkinses closed their restaurant last November, citing personal reasons that included Steve’s severe back injury.

Vermont Fine, D’Angelo explained, is “kind of a play on Connecticut casual.” The Connecticut term, the couple said, indicates a dress code of Sperry boat shoes and a polo shirt, whereas Vermont Fine “is kinda like a Carhartt jacket and flannel,” Morgan said.

“You can come as you are and enjoy the food,” D’Angelo said.

“You can come here right off the farm,” added Morgan, who grew up on the famous JENNE FARM in Reading.

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experience in restaurant kitchens from New York City to Park City, Utah, to Burlington dining destinations, such as HEN OF THE WOOD and the FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL, the couple had been looking for their own restaurant.

“We really want to create our own brand,” Morgan said.

D’Angelo and Morgan most recently worked as chef and front-ofhouse manager, respectively, at BUTTER BAR & KITCHEN in Burlington’s New North End. Their stint there lasted just over three months.

“We thought it was a great opportunity, but it wasn’t a good fit,” Morgan said.

Kitchen Table Bistro was “more a reflection of what we are as chefs: this atmosphere, this vibe, what we can do here,” Morgan said. “There’s just really good energy in this building.

So many people in the industry have cooked here.”

“So many birthdays and anniversaries have been celebrated here,” D’Angelo added.

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The couple hopes to host live music in the property’s outdoor gardens and work up to growing some of their own produce on a one-acre plot belonging to one of their investors.

“We’ve got big shoes to fill, but we’re not scared,” Morgan said.

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Each oven comes with a customdesigned wood-and-metal stand, steel baking tray, baking stone, fire grate, and flue pipe. All the components fit inside the drum for easy transport and storage, and the whole thing can be assembled “in seconds without tools,” Gliech said, proving his claim with a quick demonstration.

By contrast, the seed of the business incubated for a long time.

During Gliech’s youth in Alsace, tarte flambée was “a very, very local traditional dish,” he said. “It didn’t really exist beyond a 15-mile radius of Wissembourg.”

In his hometown, local farmhouses served the dish on weekend evenings.

Tables were covered with a paper cloth, Gliech detailed. “There’d be a wooden board, a knife and a stack of paper napkins, and they’d just keep bringing [tartes flambées] until you said, ‘Stop.’”

For each flatbread eaten, a server would make a mark on the corner of the tablecloth.

When a diner was ready to pay, they’d tear off the corner and add up the bill.

People also cooked tarte flambée at home. Gliech, who moved to the U.S. in 1991, made his first backyard wood-fired oven out of a recycled 55-gallon steel drum about 15 years ago. He was inspired by family members and friends in France who had outdoor ovens; one, he recalled, was made out of a similar drum.

“I had seen this in Alsace,” Gliech said, gesturing to his oven, “but there, it was not a pizza oven; it was a tarte flambée oven.”

Of course, what was good for tarte flambée also turned out to be good for thin-crusted pizza, a more familiar and popular food in the U.S. The circular shape of the drum, Gliech explained, provides even heat through convection, which also helps the oven heat faster.

At the recent dinner party, the open front of the oven provided a mesmerizing view of orange flames licking up the interior and curving over the baking stone.

“People like fire,” Gliech said with a smile.

“Everyone is drawn to it,” Bastien said as he smoothly maneuvered tartes flambées in and out of the oven on a pizza peel.

“It’s been my job for years,” the young man said. “It’s not my first rodeo.”

Hanging out by the hot oven on a summer night has a fringe benefit, Bastien noted: “The mosquitoes won’t go near it.”

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Richard (left) and Bastien Gliech preparing tartes flambées

baking both tartes flambées and pizzas.

“We love cooking. We enjoy entertaining,” Gliech said. “It’s definitely in the family culture.”

Over the years, “Friends always said, ‘I love that. I’d buy one,’” Gliech said of his homemade oven.

During the pandemic, when outdoor entertaining hit a new high, Gliech decided to try scaling his oven down to a more manageable size. The original 55-gallon drum “was way more than you need in your backyard.” To use it efficiently, “You need a really good team to roll the dough and a big crowd of really hungry people,” Gliech said.

He wanted his new oven model to burn wood, store easily during the winter, be affordable and make good pizza.

With the couple’s offspring fledged, Gliech said, he had room in his life “financially, mentally, time-wise” for something fresh. “I needed a new project.”

Given that his daily work involves sending electronic files back and forth, he was also attracted to “the notion of doing something with my hands, having a physical product to show for my work,” Gliech said.

In late 2020, he and his wife, Sandra Silla, signed up for metalworking classes at the nonprofit Generator makerspace just a few blocks from their South End home.

“I’d always had my eye on the Generator,” Gliech said. “I like tinkering.”

After a month of learning how to use welding and high-tech plasma cutting tools, Gliech became a Generator member, which gave him access to workshop space and equipment, plus discounted trainings and classes.

Silla, an architect, designed the woodand-metal stand that holds the oven.

Gliech built his own giant vise to secure the drums while working on them. The

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first, smaller prototypes went to each of their three kids.

But Gliech soon realized that building a successful prototype was only a small part of launching a business.

He spent a lot of time sourcing materials, including 20-gallon food-grade drums. A treasure trove of drums painted

mustard yellow, cherry red and bright blue finally turned up in Connecticut, “just sitting there,” Gliech said. When shipping costs proved prohibitive, he rented a U-Haul to fetch 30 and then took a second trip for another 35.

Next, he had to figure out how to market and sell the ovens. Gliech credits

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resources he has,” Katz said of Gliech, whom he described as “glowing with positivity.”

If Gliech were an inanimate object, in fact, he might be his own oven: radiating warmth, producing delicious food for friends and family, and, most importantly, in his own words, “mak[ing] it possible for others to do it, too — to have fun cooking, to have fun gathering around food.”

Among WoodFyred’s first customers was Bill Harvey of Burlington, whose son is close friends with Bastien. Harvey said he was intrigued when he WoodFyred oven first saw the original large oven in action at a gathering in the family’s backyard.

Generator with crucial help in that arena, A graphic designer, Harvey was too. Without the makerspace, WoodFyred particularly impressed by “the simplicity “would not be possible,” Gliech said of it,” he said. “It was just beautiful — so decisively. few parts to do what was essential.” He In the spring of 2022, Gliech partic- quickly signed up to buy a cherry red, ipated in the free, 10-week JumpStart 20-gallon model. business development program that The oven, Harvey said, has proved Generator runs in partnership with the easy to pack up and take places, such as regional nonprofit Center for Women his sister’s camp in the Green Mountains. & Enterprise. Along with seven other On top of the oven’s ease of transport and aspiring entrepreneurs, he spent one use, “it’s something to be social with. afternoon weekly building a viable busi- Everyone can be a part of the process,” ness plan, including doing competitor Harvey said. “It’s just a party waiting to research, investigating sales avenues and happen.” learning about legal considerations.

In Gliech and Silla’s backyard, the The entrepreneurial boot camp was party was happening. A steady flow of “a kind of catalyst,” Gliech said, “to bring tartes flambées emerged from the oven [the oven] to the next step, turn it into a to be immediately inhaled by guests, business.” along with two traditional Alsatian Burlington-based small business salads of shredded celery root in a creamy coach Emily Eley led the program. dressing and grated carrots in a red wine During the final presentations, she said, vinaigrette.

“Richard did a great pitch, including The first several tartes flambées stats and market research showing that were purist, with ingredient tweaks his product is not just a cool idea but necessitated by availability. In France, [that] it’s needed, that there’s a market the topping base would be fromage frais, niche.” a fresh, soft cheese. In Vermont, Gliech Beyond the hard facts, Eley said, has settled on equal parts sour cream and Gliech’s enthusiasm and wit won heavy cream. everyone over. “He had all the data on About halfway through the meal, he how many slices of pizza Americans eat,” started adding a little shredded Swiss she said. (Forty-six per person annually, cheese and mushrooms to a few tartes. according to Gliech.) “He had the whole For the grand finale, father and son crowd laughing.” collaborated to set a ladleful of mirabelle Generator also provided Gliech with plum liqueur on fire and pour it over the a new support network and community, baked tarte flambée – double-flaming it, he said. in effect.

It took very little nudging, said Elliott The guests oohed and aahed and made Katz, Generator’s operations and facilities room for one more slice of the delicious director, to convince Gliech to fire up his Alsatian specialty. No one said, “Stop.” m oven to bake tartes flambées and pizzas for Generator’s Green Up Day event.

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Dan Rexford and Stacey Rousseau of Huddy's

Three New Restaurants Open in Milton Milton is having a moment. New options for breakfast, lunch and dinner opened in quick succession this spring and summer, bringing fresh energy to town — and lots to eat.

Coffee-and-bagel spot HUDDY’S kicked off the trend in late April at 40 River Street. When co-owners STACEY ROUSSEAU and DAN REXFORD held their grand opening on June 25, the Huddy — sausage, thick-cut bacon, fried egg, cheese, hash browns and secret sauce on a bagel — already had a dedicated following.

“People on Facebook made the Huddy popular,” Rousseau said. “The community has been amazing.”

Rousseau was one licensing exam away from becoming a funeral director when she and Rexford signed the lease on the Huddy’s space in March. Now she’s at the shop every morning by 5 a.m., baking up bagels that have been boiled, parbaked and flash frozen in New York City. The menu features 12 to 14 bagel varieties daily, along with sandwiches and drinks made with beans from VERMONT ARTISAN COFFEE & TEA. The Huddy Coffee Bomb — iced coffee with cream, chocolate, caramel, Vermont maple syrup and whipped cream — is caffeinating lots of commuters, Rousseau said.

Huddy’s is open Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and on weekends from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

DANIEL and KIM PRAY were among the first customers at Huddy’s. On July 2, they opened a restaurant of their own, DAN’S NORTHERN BBQ, at 3 Southerberry Drive.

The Prays have been catering and making sauces under that business name for a couple of years, working out of their Milton home.

They had “a big breakout moment” in May at the Milton Community Fun Run in Color, Kim said. After a space in a new building didn’t work out, they landed in the former Apollo Diner.

The couple has embraced the diner-barbecue combination, hoping to bring a bit of diner flair to their full menu. For their soft opening, they offer barbecue classics such as brisket, pulled pork, chicken, burnt ends and ribs Friday through Monday from 2 to 7 p.m. — with mac and

cheese, smoked beans, and barbecue potato salad on the side.

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The growing Milton Let's Build Community food scene is “becoming a fun little group,” Hugo said “As a City Councilor I see first-hand — and a supportive one. how effective Martine is as a School “Milton has had very Commissioner. We need her expertise, integrity and trusted voice in little diversity in food for the State Senate.” - Sarah Carpenter a very long time,” Fredette said. “Winooski had its “Martine is exceptionally qualified moment, and with Huddy’s and has the proven track record to down the street and Dan’s be successful in the legislature and in down the road, maybe we leadership. I strongly encourage you can turn this into the same to vote for Martine Larocque Gulick type of place.” on or before August 9th.” - Thomas

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‘We Love You, Ed!’ Brookfield celebrates cartoonist Ed Koren

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d Koren, Vermont’s second cartoonist laureate, a longtime contributor to the New Yorker (60 freaking years, to be exact), a world-renowned illustrator and author, and — more importantly to me — our dear friend, is battling cancer.

I haven’t known Ed for forever, maybe only a decade or so, but long enough to know that his trademark mischievous grin presages some sort of fascinating story, anecdote or joke that we’ll be all the wiser for and highly amused by. It’s inconceivable to imagine Ed aging or unwell, especially when he usually leaves everyone in the dust while running, biking or skiing.

One of the last times we had dinner with him and his beautiful wife, Curtis, Ed insisted I try out his inversion table. I may have panicked slightly, going ass over teakettle, having my ankles locked in place as the blood rushed to my head while he sang the praises of his new ski gloves. (FYI: Ed’s mischievous grin looks pretty similar whether you are right side up or upside down.)

Ed somehow manages to mix dry humor and poking fun at the world with kindness, Zen-like serenity and animation that bring his stories to life, be it aloud Cover of the New Yorke r by Ed Koren or in a drawing. It’s nearly impossible to think of him without thinking of perpetual energy, wiry strength, intelligence and laughter.

Despite being born and raised in New York, Ed, who has lived in Brookfield since the 1970s, has embraced rural Vermont so hard that we Vermonters most definitely claim him as our very own. (Not a feat to be sneezed at, given our long-held, poorly concealed suspicion of flatlanders.)

Many of us feel a certain kinship with his hairy characters — maybe because in Vermont it’s pointless to bother shaving for more than four months of the year.

Inspired by everything he sees and hears in his daily life and beyond, Ed’s characters seem awfully familiar and human, whatever type of mysterious, fuzzy beastie they might be.

On July 17, most of Brookfield and a hefty handful of other friends showed up outside his home to give him support. They included the volunteer fire department, where Ed was captain for many years, and the neighboring towns’ departments. Along with handmade picket signs of affection, I spied a dozen different Ed Koren T-shirts (souvenirs from some local fundraiser or another) in the crowd of well-wishers and lamented that my own favorite (worn as it is) was in the laundry and not on my person that day.

When we got home, though, I noticed that all over our house little bits of Ed are everywhere: clothing, books, bags, dishes, prints. He even designed our wedding invitation. His wit, talent and wisdom touch us every day and always will. Community and doing for others have been his joys. What a generous legacy. As was shouted from a hundred mouths that afternoon, “We love you, Ed!”

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Ed Koren and his wife, Curtis, in 2015

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THEATER

The cast of Hair

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Theater review: Hair, Weston Theater Company B Y A L E X BROW N • alex@sevendaysvt.com

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ith jubilant sincerity, the characters in the big cast of Hair sing of a world that’s new and dazzling to them. Sexual freedom and the courage to resist cultural norms exhilarate this tribe of hippies, draft dodgers, drug takers, interracial lovers, protesters and freelove advocates. In the Weston Theater Company production, so much joy pulses from the 1968 musical that viewers may believe in idealism again.

The music and dance is all energy, and, because the house lights stay up for many numbers, viewers and players feast on eye contact. Hair looks outward at a changing world, with little introspection by the characters. Irreverence about sex and drugs arises from an underlying happiness, and, when authority figures are attacked, it feels like liberation, not miserable struggle.

To watch the show in 2022 is to plunge into comparisons of then and now. Today, the climate crisis prompts utter despair; then, opposing the Vietnam War seemed like a protest one could win. In the ’60s, “Let the Sunshine In” was not only a captivating song but a plausible worldview.

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ushered in more concept shows without conventional plots.

The loose narrative follows a character deciding whether to resist the draft, and the show evokes an abstract horror of war.

The scene shifts have a satisfying, Shakespearean imprecision. Each song is a little experience, and some lyrics are nothing more than lists of nouns — masturbation! LSD! — waved like banners.

Hair is almost all music: Launched with the anthem “Age of Aquarius,” it sails on punchy tunes all the way to its exuberant conclusion. The music pauses for short vignettes or for characters to leap right into the house. Director Susanna Gellert’s update of the show includes cast improvisation with the audience and staging that expresses an acknowledgment of gender as performance.

Half the cast are experienced members of Actors’ Equity Association, and the others are performers at the start of their careers, some part of Weston Young Company. The fledglings getting their first professional experience have already learned how to project big energy onstage, and the entire cast connects as a joyous whole.

Nathan Salstone plays a sympathetic

Claude, the long-haired rocker who’d rather riff on his Fender Stratocaster than march to Vietnam now that his draft number has been called. As the freewheeling cutup Berger, Matt Rodin grins broadly and romps shirtless in a mighty fake fur vest.

Many of the performers play guitar as they sing, backed by a band on the scaffolding. Alanna Saunders, as Shelia, sings with power and emotion and can wail on the sax, too.

As the stone-cool Hud, Jamari Johnson Williams moves with sensual power and a delight in standing out. Easton Michaels plays the pot-sharing Woof as gender-fluid and without a care in the world. Ensemble member Michael Seltzer springs into acrobatic dance at the slightest provocation.

The costumes trigger no tie-dye flashbacks — this is an update, not a re-creation.

Costume designer Jessica Crawford creates a wonderful riot of competing patterns, emphasizing the abandon of hippie attire. But Crawford uses few truly vintage pieces; loose ’90s yoga pants and current loungewear outnumber bell-bottoms by far. The bare chests and midriffs shout freedom; the dreadlocks replacing Afros say present day.

Scenic designer Frank Oliva reimagined the Weston Playhouse as a playground.

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PLUNGE INTO COMPARISONS OF THEN AND NOW.

The house walls and the proscenium’s trademark columns are loosely wrapped in plastic, and the stage is a big, two-story U of scaffolding, with ladders and stairs for the actors to zip up and down.

This rough framework suggests both a streetscape, where the hippies panhandle and gather outside, and a world under construction. The musical’s core idealism promises that change is possible, and the stage is filled with people creating themselves as they absorb the experience of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

For the first third of the show, lighting designer Scott Zielinski lets the cast and costumes attract all the attention under lights that are as neutral as a gym’s.

Zielinski saves the big lighting effects for the second act, and Weston’s tip-top tech assures some spectacle.

Hair got its first headlines for including nudity, but this production lights that nudity in muted silhouette, almost erasing it. There’s nothing titillating, which suits the story’s emphasis on healthy sexuality, but there’s also no glory, risk or celebration of freedom. It’s a missed opportunity to use the unmistakable daring of theater.

Instead, the backlit nude scene reflects the most contemporary aspect of this production — anxiety about offending someone.

Last Thursday’s preview performance had some younger viewers, but it’s fair to say most people watching could tell you where they were when Richard Nixon resigned, while no one up onstage has a personal memory of Bill Clinton as president. Is this musical a torch to pass, or does it portray a time that a current generation, steeped in pessimism, can’t possibly conceive?

Youthful hope seen from the vantage point of the gloomy present can look foolish. But it also feels like a little kick in the butt to ask, as young people always will, “Why does it have to be this way?” Protest is timeless, as the handmade signs in one scene prove. In this production, they say “Black Lives Matter” instead of “We Shall Overcome”; “Abortion Is Healthcare” instead of “Keep Your Laws Off My Body.”

Different slogans, same conflicts. The need to form a tribe also endures, but the band in Hair is sustained by optimism, not anger. That’s the attitude worth keeping, even if the beads should go. m

INFO Hair, book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, music by Galt MacDermot, directed by Susanna Gellert, produced by Weston Theater Company. Through August 13: Tuesday through Friday, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, 2 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, 3 p.m., at Weston Playhouse. See website for additional days and times. $25-74. Info, 8245288, westontheater.org.

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Patriotism Reimagined

Book review: The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, Bill McKibben

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ways. While describing his boyhood enthusiasm for those legendary, freedomloving minutemen, he brings an adult’s historical perspective to bear on specific ways in which America hasn’t fulfilled its vaunted ideals for all citizens.

In the process and on the page, McKibben enacts an effort to understand the past from the wider perspective of now.

Author of 15 works of creative and topical nonfiction, two retrospective anthologies, and a novel, the Ripton resident has also contributed since his early twenties to the New Yorker and other publications.

Early on, he cast off a journalist’s postured

detachment in favor of fervent advocacy.

Outspoken for social justice and environmental action, he wrote the first book on climate change for general readers, The End of Nature, in 1989.

In 2007, McKibben cofounded the international environmental group 350.org, and in 2021, he cofounded Third Act, which aims to foster political activism among Americans ages 60 and over. He is currently the Schumann distinguished scholar in environmental studies at Middlebury College.

With disparities between wealth and poverty at an all-time high and participation in traditional civic and religious institutions

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s a boy, Bill McKibben was exuberantly fascinated by the American Revolution. His family moved to the iconic town of Lexington, Mass., when he was 10. As a teenager, he served as a docent on the town’s green, telling tourists about how colonial villagers confronted British soldiers in the first clash of the American War of Independence.

In his new book, The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, McKibben offers a chapter on each of his title’s resonant symbols. The book reads like a memoir but builds outward from anecdotes about his own evolving relationships with the flag, the cross and the station wagon to explore how patriotism, religion and consumerism in the United States since the 1960s have bequeathed us the society we now live in.

McKibben relates how, while still in high school, he began to work for the local newspaper, which would lead to a lifetime of reporting. Learning the observational and compositional skills of a writer compelled him to let go of an idealized rendering of historical events.

Not long after protests against the Vietnam War erupted in Lexington, the town held a watershed vote to prohibit multifamily (and more affordable) residences. These events forced the young reporter to think about the gap between his community’s much-celebrated “revolutionary” origins (and self-congratulatory liberalism) and its increasing resistance to innovation and antipathy to newcomers, especially people of color and those of more modest means.

Annette Gordon-Reed’s recent book On Juneteenth recounts experiences from her school days in Texas together with observations about the belated abolition of slavery in that state. Similarly, McKibben finds connections — and contradictions — between Lexington’s role as the site of “the shot heard round the world” and the town’s evolution into an enclave of privilege.

In these books, hybrids of autobiography and analysis, the authors’ stories of their hometowns render hard-to-grasp societal changes more visible by viewing them through the lens of detailed personal memories.

Gordon-Reed distinguishes between history (which requires careful study of what she calls “change over time”) and “myths and legends,” which may be personally flattering and nationally glorifying but omit many truths about the past.

McKibben is interested in both history and myth, which are revealing in different

at an all-time low, America is seen by many as a nation of extremes, including drastic differences in how government is perceived.

McKibben laments our culture’s “hyper-individualism,” a fanatical elevation of private over public in every realm of life, which “moved us as a nation from the expansive possibilities of the ’60s to the cramped and grasping ’80s idea that markets would solve all problems.”

He has developed his own forms of patriotism (grounded in the egalitarian principles of the founders’ writings, while not ignoring the flaws in their lives) and piety (based in what he considers to be a radically human Jesus, seeker of justice and humble decency). His many years of work with citizens, scientists, educators and entrepreneurs to avert catastrophic climate change have convinced him that a well-informed, thoughtful and determined citizenry can thrive while defending and improving democratic decision making.

The “Flag” and “Cross” chapters of this book are absorbing to read, though at times rather casual in manner. McKibben seems in some passages to be trying so hard to avoid sounding severe that he sounds garrulous, ingratiating.

Most memorable in the first half of the book may be his discussion of how Black families aspiring to move to suburbs were methodically excluded by zoning, lending practices, and disingenuous rules about “historic preservation” and “environmental conservation.”

Also illuminating is McKibben’s consideration of how Americans during the past 60 years have abandoned membership in churches, synagogues and mosques, a change that he says “dwarfs every other demographic shift in our country in my lifetime.” During these decades, he himself has been a member of Presbyterian, Congregational and then Methodist churches.

The book gains greater verbal momentum and moral intensity when we come to the “Station Wagon” chapter, where McKibben probes deeper into the changes that led to our present-day climate collapse and economic devastation. Contemplating what he considers to be the pivotal year of 1970, he writes that by then “the car was the absolute unquestioned reality of our lives.”

It took no time — a decade — for America to construct itself around the car. That was what the suburb was, a reflection in concrete and wood and brick of the logic of the automobile, designed for its dimensions, its turning radius.

Contemplating the rapid swing to car-centricity, McKibben notes that

FROM THE FLAG, THE CROSS, AND THE STATION WAGON: A GRAYING AMERICAN LOOKS BACK AT HIS SUBURBAN BOYHOOD AND WONDERS WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED [I]n Lexington, I was confirmed into the United Church of Christ, the direct theological descendant of those Puritans, back through Reverend Clarke and Bishop Hancock. The UCC lists among its key “theological grandparents” Jonathan Edwards, often regarded as among America’s greatest theologians, a stern figure remembered best for his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Edwards purchased several human beings — he traveled to Newport, Rhode Island, to buy the first, a fourteen-year-old girl named Venus, who had been kidnapped in Africa.

Edwards, a frugal man, used the back of the bill of sale to write a sermon; in his will he described his slaves as “stock.” As an adult I became a Methodist, again because that’s what there was in the small and isolated rural town where I made my life.

Methodism’s British founder, John Wesley, was an opponent of slavery, and a brave one—he preached an antislavery sermon in Bristol, England’s main slave-trading port, and indeed it caused a riot: “the terror and confusion were inexpressible; the people rushed upon each other with the utmost violence.” But Methodism’s first important American leader was a man named George Whitefield, who helped spark that first Great Awakening. Whitefield campaigned to allow slavery in Georgia, in order to maintain the plantation that supported an orphanage he had founded. He left fifty slaves in his will.

So: [religion was] poisoned at the source. Or: inextricably bound with American history, listing and lurching with the turns of that story, sometimes helping progress and sometimes holding it back.

“More than three-quarters of Americans drove to work, and most of them drove by themselves. By 1970, there were more than 118 million cars and trucks on the American road — more than quadruple the number twenty years before.”

Throughout this book, McKibben harnesses statistics that leap off the page.

These have a very different impact from data in bureaucratic reports or a typical news bulletin, because he provides his documentation in combination with stories: • “Lexington’s population was 1.3 percent African American in 2020, down from 1.5 percent in 2010, down from 3.1 percent in 2000. Boston’s public schools, by 2020, were 75 percent Black and Hispanic.”

• “In 2000, Bangladeshis emitted 0.2 tons of carbon per person; Americans emitted 22 tons per person, or about a hundred times as much.”

• “If you’re sixty, 82 percent of the world’s fossil fuel emissions have occurred in your lifetime.”

In the book’s final section, McKibben muses on what might have been, if Americans had made different choices in the 1970s. Modern civil rights victories had led to surging hopes and new coalitions. The end of the war had freed up resources. Our energy systems could

have been transformed by renewable technologies already viable at that time.

Then, turning to the present, he offers a challenge to older Americans, “the generations who have given us the troubled country we inhabit” — who now have the resources and time to give to a truly democratic movement of social change and who vote in large numbers: I think the only way to make our heritage any better is to make our present and future better: if we change decisively in the direction of inclusion and fairness, then perhaps history — taking a very long view — will see something worth lauding in the promise that “all men are created equal,” or in the Gospel injunction to love one’s neighbor; perhaps if we install enough solar panels, the American science and engineering of the twentieth century (which birthed all those miraculous devices) will be remembered for more than making the comfortable more so.

INFO The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened by Bill McKibben, Henry Holt, 240 pages. $27.99.

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“More Than an Object” at the BCA Center explores new takes on the still life B Y PA M EL A POL ST O N • ppolston@sevendaysvt.com

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he words “still life” might call to mind opulent displays of food, flowers, glassware and linens arranged on a table and painted with exacting realism by, say, a 17th-century Dutch master. A current exhibition at Burlington’s BCA Center challenges that trope. Or perhaps it’s better to say that “More Than an Object: The Contemporary Still Life” pulls our perceptions into the 21st century. In truth, the inanimate tableau has served, and survived, a cascade of art historical trends lo these many years.

In “More Than an Object,” viewers find the malleable format expressed by nine artists through not only painting but also mixed-media sculpture, ceramics, digital animation, installation and photography.

Some of the works employ still life in the service of commentary — serious or wry.

And some tautly stretch the boundaries of what the French call nature morte.

Two of the artists hew closely to the traditional idea of still life but with a modern, pared-down sensibility. One of Susan Abbott’s two paintings in the show, “Autumn Table” (44 inches square), features a white bowl filled with yellowand-red apples on a white-clothed surface in front of a window, which in turn offers a view of an orange-leafed tree in the foreground, fields undulating toward the horizon and a mountain range beyond.

On the surface, this is a typical Vermont scene, both indoors and out. But Abbott subtly plays with our perception, flattening the plane in front so that the table becomes something of a runway to the literal portal. Our focus is thrust out the window to the distance and then pulled back by the inviting apples and the anchoring round shadow cast by their bowl.

Abbott’s palette is richly illuminated, her rendering precise but shy of strict realism.

Alluring mystery resides in the difference.

Christopher T. Terry’s oils depart from tradition in a different way. Far from a sumptuous offering, his subjects are determinedly pedestrian. In “Still Life With Yellow Teapot” (22 by 28 inches), he

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“Breakfast” by Zachary P. Stephens

has crowded onto a small, square wooden table elements that serve caffeination: an Italian espresso pot, a pale blue cup, two other ceramic vessels and the titular teapot. The table is centered against a plain brownish wall. Except it’s not really plain. A range of nebulous hues emerges from Terry’s handling of paint, along with an exquisite, meditative expression of light and shadow on the tabletop items.

It’s overly simplistic to say that Terry finds beauty in the everyday, but his paintings amply illustrate that lavish content is not required.

Two photographs by Ori Gersht are not trompe l’oeil, but they do fool the eye: Even in close proximity, the archival prints could be mistaken for paintings. In part, this is because Gersht’s startling images “emulate the forms, colors and compositions of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi’s

(1890-1964) still life paintings,” explains wall text. He even commissioned reproductions of the ghostly, matte ceramic vessels that Morandi favored.

But Gersht doesn’t simply replicate the painter’s objects; he shoots them. “The artist used slow-motion capture to show the fleeting moment when high-velocity gunfire strikes and shatters” the vessels. In the 14.5-by-18.75-inch print “Evertime 04,” a trio of vessels meets this fate before our eyes: On the far right, a curvaceous white vase has blown its top. The other two vessels — rectangular shapes in pale pink and yellow — sit askew surrounded by shards.

A category of still life called vanitas encourages viewers to contemplate the transience of life. Gersht takes this to the next level by essentially assassinating his subjects. Wall text notes that the Londonbased artist intended to symbolize “the

European Union’s political fragility,” but in gun-obsessed America, these images convey a more lethal vulnerability.

Another photographer, Zachary P. Stephens, takes a playful approach to the still life with large-scale pictures of mundane home life. They suggest chaos more than stillness.

In “Breakfast,” the meal in progress is shot rather claustrophobically, at close range and from slightly above a wooden table, and depicts a father’s attempt to meet the family’s various culinary demands.

From the left, a young girl’s hand reaches for her bread — crusts removed — while a half-eaten yellow apple and her stuffed toy lie nearby. Another little hand at the top of the frame holds what appears to be a slice of leftover pizza. A cat’s whiskered snout pokes discreetly into the scene.

On the right we see a man’s hand

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generic realities of the modern family.

Stephens approaches the work with apparent good humor and an unerring eye for composition.

Oona Gardner made her 3D wallhung ceramic piece, “Mother’s Day Still Life,” especially for this exhibition, according to Heather Ferrell, BCA’s curator and director of exhibitions. And it’s subtly topical: One of the “objects” on a platter in her 29-by-26-by-6inch tableau sure looks like a uterus.

Clay artist Christina Erives removes her objects from the picture plane altogether. “Con o Sin?” (“With or Without?”) consists of individual painted ceramic pieces related to a Mexican meal — peppers, avocados, eggs, dishes, bottles — hung together on a wall. Standalone clay works, such as a frying pan holding an egg, sit on nearby pedestals.

If those items raise the question of what can be considered still life, William Ransom’s works challenge the category even more. Elsewhere, they would just be called sculptures. But their inclusion is understandable: The Norwich artist’s two contributions are the most provocative in the show, and they certainly illustrate how simple items can symbolize complex and deeply fraught phenomena.

Ransom’s “Taser” appeared in a solo exhibit last year at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center that eloquently addressed racially based violence and white supremacy. It consists of a hoodie sweatshirt dangling from a peg and a pine-shaped assemblage of charred wooden blocks hanging above it. The latter is a reference to the car deodorizer that 20-year-old Daunte Wright had hanging from his rearview mirror; it was the “violation” for which he was pulled over before he was fatally shot in April 2021.

“Heir” speaks to an older era of systemic racism. An angular, roughly hewn form (60 by 22 by 45 inches) made of granulated white sugar is set on a blackpainted wooden base and struck through at the top with an antique cane-cutting machete. Viewers might consider the piece a stark emblem of slavery and colonization or just a striking abstract sculpture with a badass blade. Either way, it is more than an object. m

“Evertime 04” by Ori Gersht

THE INANIMATE TABLEAU HAS SERVED, AND SURVIVED,

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“Heir” by William Ransom

pouring milk from a plastic jug into a pink bowl filled with Froot Loops. Next to the bowl, the cereal box lies flat, its pastel contents spilling onto the table. Stephens’ witty addition: the words “Help Us” spelled out in pink Loops. Finally, like a tiny mascot of affirmation, a white ceramic votive in the middle of this mayhem reads, “all is calm / all is bright.”

In this and another photo featuring a haphazard pile of children’s winter wear, anonymity underscores the familiar,

INFO “More Than an Object: The Contemporary Still Life” is on view through October 8 at the BCA Center in Burlington. burlingtoncityarts.com

NEW THIS WEEK barre/montpelier

f ELLIOT BURG: “Tunbridge Fair,” an exhibit of black-and-white photographs by the Middlesex photographer. Reception: Friday, August 5, 3:30-5 p.m. August 1-September 30. Info, 272-4920.

Capitol Region Visitors Center in Montpelier.

mad river valley/waterbury

f BIG RED BARN ART SHOW: The 24th annual exhibition of artwork created in the Mad River Valley by amateur and professional artists in a variety of mediums. Meet-the-artists reception: Sunday, July 31, 5-7 p.m. July 28-September 4.

Info, westhill136@gmavt.net. Red Barn Galleries, Lareau Farm, in Waitsfield.

middlebury area

f BETSY SILVERMAN & RACHEL WILCOX: “About Town,” paintings of the urban landscape.

Reception: Friday, August 19, 5-6:30 p.m. August 1-September 30. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls. f ‘TREES’: A juried group exhibition of photographs that celebrate the beauty of trees.

Reception: Friday, July 29, 4-7 p.m. July 28-August 20. Info, photos@photoplacegallery.com.

PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury.

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ANDREA POE: Paintings of landscapes and interior spaces. July 29-August 31. Info, info@artandjoyinvermont.com. Art & Joy in St.Johnsbury.

f RANDY ALLEN: “Feeling the Landscape,” oil paintings. Reception: Saturday, July 30, 5-7 p.m.

July 30-September 18. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

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BTV MKT: An expansion of the former BCA Artist Market includes arts, crafts and other wares, as well as food and live music. Burlington City Hall Park, Saturday, July 30, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

‘EMBROIDERED CODE OF A NATION: UKRAINE’: Ukrainian culture and craft presented by Marasha Huber as part of the Barre Heritage Festival.

Studio Place Arts, Barre, Wednesday, July 27, through Friday, July 29, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 479-7069.

FIGURE DRAWING SOCIAL: Bring your own supplies and draw a live model. Proof of vaccination required. RSVP at wishbonecollectivevt.com.

Wishbone Collective, Winooski, Wednesday, July 27, 6-8 p.m. $15. Info, 662-3050.

MEET THE MAKER: MELLE FINELLI JEWELRY: Browse and learn about the creation of sculptural contemporary wearables by the Boston-based jeweler; ceramic works of Stephanie Grace and Alicja Costanza are also on view. Atelier 101, Waitsfield, Saturday, July 30, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Info, 617-842-3332.

‘MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST SALON: TRANSCENDENCE’: Five artists of color — Nailah Hunter, Holland Andrews, U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo, Shanta Lee Gander and Jasmin Agusto — present an evening of music, poetry and visual art, followed the next day by creative workshops and artist talks at Green River Bridge Inn in Guilford. Details and tickets are available at epsilonspires.org. Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro, Friday, July 29, 8-10:30 p.m,m and Saturday, July 30, noon-1:30 p.m. $15-25 sliding scale. Info, jamie.mohr78@gmail.com.

OPEN STUDIO: The Howard Center Arts Collective offers an opportunity for art-making every Monday this summer. Art supplies provided. Adult artists who have lived experience with mental health challenges or substance-use disorder are welcome to join. Expressive Arts Burlington, Monday, August 1, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, artscollective@howardcenter.org.

f JOHN VAN DER DOES: “Sacred Geometry,” brightly colored abstract paintings of mathematical designs inspired by the yoga tradition of the yantra. Yoga with the artist: Friday, August 5, 5:30-6:30 p.m. August 3-September 9. Info, 2890104. Canal Street Art Gallery in Bellows Falls.

VISITING ARTIST TALK: CLARK DERBES: Vermont Studio Center hosts a Zoom discussion with the Vermont painter and sculptor.

Register at vermontstudiocenter.org. Online, Wednesday, July 27, 7-8 p.m. Info, 635-2727.

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ONGOING SHOWS

f ‘CULTURAL MOSAIC’: Paintings by Haitian

artist Pievy Polyte and Alan Jacobs, a self-taught artist with works featuring the ocean and the Holocaust; and poetry by local writers. Reception: Friday, July 29, 5-7 p.m. July 29-September 9.

Info, 775-0356. Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph.

ART EVENTS 10TH ANNUAL TRUNK SHOW AND SALE: Artwork for sale by gallery artists and their invited artist friends, as well as demonstrations by wood artists. Grand Isle Art Works, Saturday, July 30, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 734-7448.

ARTISAN MARKET: An outdoor marketplace featuring arts, crafts, specialty foods and other handmade items. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Saturday, July 30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Info, 775-0356.

ARTIST PANEL DISCUSSION: ‘FELT EXPERIENCE’: Sarah Freeman leads a discussion on Zoom and Facebook Live with artists Marjolein Dallinga, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Melissa Joseph, Liam Lee and Stephanie Metz.

Freeman and Katherine Gass Stowe curated the survey of works by artists who use felt in innovative ways. Register at brattleboromuseum. org. Online, Thursday, July 28, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 257-0124.

ARTIST TALK: AMY MOREL: The Barnard-based collage artist discusses her current exhibition, “MASH UP.” AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H., Friday, July 29, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-448-3117.

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ART AT THE HOSPITAL: Acrylic paintings of Haiti

by Pievy Polyte (Main Street Connector, ACC 3); hand-cut paper artworks by Adrienne Ginter (Main Street Connector and BCC); oil paintings of nature

by Nancy Chapman (Main Street Connector and McClure 4); acrylic paintings by Lisa Balfour (Pathology Hallway, EP2); and oil paintings of nature by Joy Huckins-Noss (BCC, EP2). Through September 19. Info, 865-7296. University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.

BILL BRAUER: A selection of sensual figurative paintings and etchings by the late Warren artist.

Through September 14. Info, 233-2943. Safe and Sound Gallery in Burlington.

HOWARD CENTER ARTS COLLECTIVE: Artworks in a variety of mediums by members of the Burlington-based collective. Through July 29.

Info, artscollective@howardcenter.org. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.

JOHN DOUGLAS: “A Life Well Lived,” a retrospective of digitally manipulated photographs by the late Burlington artist and truth activist, presented by the Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art. Through August 22. Info, 793-8482. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington.

KELLY O’NEAL: Painterly photographs focused on the beauty of place. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through October 31. Info, 865-7296.

Mascoma Bank in Burlington.

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‘MORE THAN AN OBJECT: THE CONTEMPORARY STILL LIFE’: A group exhibition that presents multiple innovative variations on an age-old format in mediums including painting, photography, animation and sculpture. Through October 8. LOUISE ARNOLD: Landscape paintings. Lorraine B. Good Room. Through October 7. SKY HOPINKA: “Fainting Spells,” two experimental films that explore themes of culture and homeland as the artist reflects on the complexity of his Indigenous identity. Through October 8. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

MALTEX ARTISTS: New works in the hallways by James Vogler, Myles Moran, Kathleen Grant, Nancy Tomczak, Kristina Pentek and Bear Cieri. Through August 31. Info, 865-7296. The Maltex Building in Burlington.

‘MORE THAN A MARKET’: An exhibit celebrating local, immigrant-owned markets in Burlington and Winooski, featuring an installation that re-creates the feel of a busy market, as well as wall panels with archival and contemporary photographs. Third floor.

Through December 23. Info, 989-4723, cbarrett@ historicnewengland.org. O.N.E. Community Center in Burlington.

ORLANDO ALMANZA: “Born by the River,” lush oil paintings featuring fantastic creatures, rural mythological symbols and magical realism by the Cuban artist. Through August 13. Info, 324-0014.

Soapbox Arts in Burlington.

‘PORTRAITS OF PRIDE’: An exhibition of photographs

by M. Sharkey of individuals who were part of the 1983 Pride March; presented by the Pride Center of Vermont and the Vermont Folklife Center.

Through September 30. Info, 865-7296.

Burlington City Hall.

‘THE SHAPE OF THINGS’: An exhibition by artists whose works play with geometry and patterns that appear to float off the standard 2D frame, featuring Kevin Donegan, Will Patlove, Haley Fenn and Frank Tamasi. Through August 6. Info, christyjmitchell@gmail.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

BRIAN DROURR & STEPHANIE BUSH: Nature photographs and paintings of cows, respectively.

Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through October 18.

Info, 865-7296. Pierson Library in Shelburne.

ERIN HANLEY: “Wood Drawings,” studies in texture and line on wood panels. Through July 31. Info, 598-6100. Village Wine and Coffee in Shelburne.

‘EYESIGHT & INSIGHT: LENS ON AMERICAN ART’: An exhibition of artworks that illuminates creative responses to perceptions of vision; four sections explore themes ranging from 18th-century optical technologies to the social and historical connotations of eyeglasses in portraiture from the 19th century to the present. Through October 16. Info, 985-3346.

‘IN PLAIN SIGHT: REDISCOVERING CHARLES SUMNER BUNN’S DECOYS’: An online exhibition of shorebird decoys carved by the “Energize” Frank Tamasi member ofby the Shinnecock-Montauk Tribes, based on extensive research and resolving historic controversy. Through October 5. Info, 985-3346.

‘The Shape of Things’

The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington is

typically packed to the gills with a large group show. This time, gallery director Christy Mitchell took a different tack. “The Shape of Things” features just four artists: Kevin Donegan, Will Patlove, Frank Tamasi and Haley Fenn. But even in a show that is “simply about shape,” this quartet provides plenty to contemplate.

Donegan’s installation takes up much of the gallery’s largest room. He writes in an artist statement that it is meant “to create an environment which feels ominous and potentially dangerous, but also beautiful and serene.” Using found and repurposed materials, Donegan largely succeeds — especially with the danger part.

Outward-pointing nails are dominant features of three wall-hung discs, which he calls “mandalas, and of “Gathering Storm,” cloud shapes in wood suspended from the ceiling. Below them, blue-painted wood is attached perpendicularly to adjacent walls at about thigh level; Donegan says it represents rising water. He offsets the sense of doom

“Moon Mandala” by Kevin Donegan

STEVE SHARON: A solo exhibition of abstract paintings. Through July 31.

Info, nicolechristmanart@gmail.com. The Green Door Studio in Burlington.

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‘100+ FACES OF WINOOSKI’: Daniel Schechner of Wishbone Collective photographed more than 150 residents in conjunction with the Winooski Centennial Celebration. The collection can also be viewed online. Info, legacy@winooskivt.gov. ‘MILL TO MALL: HISTORIC SPACE REIMAGINED’: An exhibition that tells the story of the public-private partnership that enabled the preservation and rebirth of a formerly derelict industrial building into a shopping center. Visitors are encouraged to add personal memories of the space to the community recollections. Through July 29. Free. Info, 355-9937.

Heritage Winooski Mill Museum.

‘ABENAKI CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE VERMONT COMMUNITY’: A series of murals designed by Scott Silverstein in consultation with Abenaki artists Lisa Ainsworth Plourde and Vera Longtoe Sheehan and members of Richmond Racial Equity; the 10 panels celebrate the Abenaki origins of practices still important to Vermont culture. Through May 31, 2023. Info, radiate.art.space@gmail.com. Richmond Town Hall.

ART AT THE AIRPORT: Caleb Kenna’s aerial photographs of Vermont (Skyway) and Kathleen Fleming’s acrylic paintings inspired by landscapes (Gates 1-8), curated by Burlington City Arts. Through September 30. Info, 865-7296. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.

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with humorous appropriated street signs, such as one that reads, “No looking from here to corner,” set into a baking sheet.

Patlove’s acrylic-on-wood wall pieces are elegant exercises in geometry

and sometimes optical trickery. In “Outgoing,” for example, blue, black and green stripes on white board fan to the right in a way that plays with our sense of perspective.

Tamasi’s rectilinear paintings illustrate the and harmonies of hue. In the aptly titled “Immersed,” dark shades pull the viewer in

LINDA BLACKERBY: Vibrant abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through October 2. Info, contact@artsswonderful.com. Shelburne Vineyard.

ROBERT WALDO BRUNELLE JR.: “The Old Neighborhood,” a collection of paintings by the Vermont artist based on vintage photographs. Through July 31. Info, 8993211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

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several layers deep, while assertive yellow

AL SALZMAN: “Humandalas,” figurative ovals and rounds by the Vermont political cartoonist and painter. Through August 15.

Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre.

“Outgoing” by Will Patlove

Fenn’s approach to contrast is far gentler.

In a piece actually titled “Contrast,” she presents convex and concave hemispheres embedded side by side in a rectangle of molding medium. Fenn enhances their lunar appearance with the delicate application of shadows in diaphanous lavender paint. In concert with the shadows made by gallery lighting, these “moons” constantly shift in their perceived forms.

An exhibition purely about shape turns out to be shape-shifting.

“The Shape of Things” is on view through August 6. A First Friday Art Walk reception is on August 5, 5 to 8 p.m.

VISUAL ART IN SEVEN DAYS:

‘FINE FEATHERS’: Works by more than 60 artists and poets inspired by birds and feather colors, shapes, patterns and functions. Through October 31. Info, 434-2167. Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.

f ‘SUMMER’S LIGHT’: A group show featuring works by Vermont artists.

Reception: Friday, August 5, 5-7 p.m.

Through September 3. Info, 985-3848.

Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

endless possibilities of geometric abstraction

lines on the “surface” demand attention.

‘OUR COLLECTION: ELECTRA HAVEMEYER WEBB, EDITH HALPERT AND FOLK ART’: A virtual exhibition that celebrates the friendship between the museum founder and her longtime art dealer, featuring archival photographs and ephemera, a voice recording from Halpert, and quotations pulled from the women’s extensive correspondences. Through February 9. LUIGI LUCIONI: “Modern Light,” more than 50 landscape paintings, still-life works, portraiture and etchings by the prolific artist (1900-88) and a comprehensive examination of his career. Through October 16.

MARIA SHELL: “Off the Grid,” 14 contemporary quilts that push the boundaries of the traditional gridded format by the Alaska-based quilter. Through October 16. NANCY WINSHIP MILLIKEN: “Varied and Alive,” four monumental outdoor sculptures set in a pollinator meadow that embody the museum’s commitment to environmental stewardship and feature natural materials intrinsic to the region.

Through October 16. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

ART LISTINGS AND SPOTLIGHTS ARE WRITTEN BY PAMELA POLSTON. LISTINGS ARE RESTRICTED TO ART SHOWS IN TRULY PUBLIC PLACES.

ALISA DWORSKY: “The Folded Line,” large-format, multidimensional drawings that engage with the question of what it means to make a line. Through September 29. Info, 279-5558. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

AMY HOOK-THERRIEN: Watercolor paintings by the Vermont artist. A portion of sales benefit the nature center. Through September 30. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

‘ART FROM GUANTÁNAMO BAY’: A selection from the Catamount Arts exhibition featuring paintings, drawings and collages by six men detained at the U.S.

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military prison; curated by Erin L. Thompson. Through August 21. Info, dpeeples@vermontartscouncil.org.

Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

ARTHUR ZORN: “Improvisation,” abstract paintings by the Vermont artist in the Chapel Gallery. Through August 31. Info, 223-2424. Bethany United Church of Christ in Montpelier.

DIANE SULLIVAN: “ITSGOINGTOBEOKAY,” colorful graphic paintings in square formats. Through August 15. Info, 225-6232. Filling Station in Middlesex.

JEROME LIPANI: “Visual Fugue,” analytical abstractions and assemblages of found materials, conceived as scores for music and dance improvisation. Through September 30. Info, jeromelipani@ gmail.com. Plainfield Co-op.

JILL MADDEN: Oil paintings on linen and gouache paintings on watercolor paper that explore the unique wilderness areas of the Green Mountains.

Through September 30. Info, 223-2328. Vermont Natural Resources Council in Montpelier.

JULIANA FECHTER: “Exploring the Back Roads,” paintings by the Vermont artist; curated by Studio Place Arts. Through September 10. Info, 479-7069.

Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre.

‘SEPARATIONS & MIGRATIONS’: With a theme of forced migration and the emotional trauma of family separation, the exhibition centers on Deborah Goudreau’s Separation Series and includes art from Sarah Ashe, Holly Hauser, Lisa Myers and Jeremy Vaughn, as well as additional text and a display of family relics. Curated by CAL director Phayvanh Luekhamhan. Info, 207-373-8099. LIZ LE SERVIGET: “Tracking Time Through COVID,” a solo show of small watercolor paintings made every day since mid-March 2020 by the Montpelier artist.

Through August 5. Info, 595-5252. Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier.

MATT LARSON: “Walking With Gaia,” abstract paintings; curated by Studio Place Arts. Through August 19. Info, 479-7069. AR Market in Barre.

‘THAT CAT’: A group art exhibition that extols felines and our relationships with them. Main Gallery. Through August 20. MICHELLE LESNAK: “Letting Go: A Work in Progress,” paintings and mixed-media work by the SPA Studio Residency Recipient. Second Floor Gallery. Through August 20.

PAUL A. CALTER: “Mount Mansfield Sketchbook,” field sketches and watercolor paintings. Quick Change Gallery. Through August 19. TRACEY HAMBLETON: “Brushwork Barre,” paintings of everyday places and iconic structures of Barre by the SPA Studio Residency Recipient. Third Floor Gallery. Through August 20. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

f MONICA DIGIOVANNI: A solo exhibition of enso paintings in ink, watercolor, gouache and mica pigment on watercolor paper. Closing reception: Friday, July 29, 4-8 p.m., with poetry reading by the artist, 6-7 p.m. Through July 31. Info, 617-216-5168.

The Front in Montpelier.

“POSSIBILITARIAN UPRISING”: Giant woodcuts by Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann.

Through August 31. Info, breadandpuppetcuratrix@ gmail.com. Plainfield Community Center Gallery.

‘RED OCULUS’: A hut-like installation by Susan Calza, sited outside city hall, houses a tape recorder and a notebook and invites passersby to drop in and share what they’re thinking about. Through July 31. Info, 224-6827. Montpelier City Hall.

f REGIS CUMMINGS: “Retrospect,” paintings in response to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, by the Montpelier artist. Reception: Friday, August 5, 4-7 p.m. Through October 28. Info, 279-5558.

Vermont Statehouse Cafeteria in Montpelier.

‘VOICES OF ST. JOSEPH’S ORPHANAGE’: An exhibition documenting the abuse of children who lived at the former Catholic Diocese-run orphanage in Burlington, and the stories of former orphans that led to changes in child-protection laws. Through July 30. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

‘THE WORLD THROUGH THEIR EYES’: Watercolors and drawings by 19th-century Norwich alumni William Brenton Boggs and Truman Seymour depicting scenes in North and South America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Through December 16.

Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

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‘PARKS & RECREATION’: A collaborative group exhibition with the Bennington Museum that highlights historical and contemporary interpretations of Vermont’s state parks in all seasons. Through September 5. 2022 LEGACY COLLECTION: An exhibit of works by 16 distinguished New England landscape artists plus a selection of works by Alden Bryan and Mary Bryan. Through December 24. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

ALTERNATIVE TAKES GALLERY: An exhibition

by Misoo Bang, Richard Britell and Mary Reilly featuring three different perspectives on the world, from the architecture of Western civilization to the natural world, to the individuals navigating both, accomplished with paint, collage and graphite.

Through October 31. Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.

‘THE ART OF THE GRAPHIC’: Eight displays of snowboards that let viewers see the design process from initial conception to final product; featuring artists Scott Lenhardt, Mark Gonzalez, Mikey Welsh, Mishel Schwartz and more. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

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HEATHER GUERTIN: “New Stage for a City,” small paintings that began from collages created from the pages of scientific journals, discarded books and magazines. Through August 2. Info, 635-2727.

Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson.

SUMMER EXHIBIT: A group exhibition of photographs by Nancy Banks, Christie Carter, Rosalind Daniels, Lisa Dimondstein, Kent Shaw, Marcie Scudder, Peggy Smith and Shap Smith. By appointment only. Through August 14. Info, marcie@ marciescudder.com. Photographers Workroom in Stowe.

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exhibition featuring Vermont painters, photographers, potters, jewelry makers, glassblowers and sculptors. Reception: Friday, August 12, 5:30 p.m.

Through August 19. Info, 496-6682. Mad River Valley Arts Gallery in Waitsfield.

‘ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS’: Mixed-media collages and watercolors by Neha Shukla and Nora McDonough, respectively. Through August 6. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury.

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‘TO MARKET’: Large-scale black-and-white paintings by Shelley Reed and elaborate cut-paper installations by Randal Thurston. By appointment.

Through October 9. Info, 777-2713. The Bundy Modern in Waitsfield.

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‘ADDISON COUNTY COLLECTS’: An eclectic exhibition of objects and personal stories from 36 area collectors, celebrating the local and global community. Through January 7. ‘ADDISON COUNTY KIDS COLLECT’: A continually growing exhibition of photos of Addison County children with their personal collections. Through January 7.

‘ARCHIVING HISTORY: STEWART-SWIFT RESEARCH CENTER AT 50’: A 50th anniversary celebration of the museum’s research center, which has made Middlebury the best-documented community in New England. Through August 20. ‘THE ELEPHANT IN THE ARCHIVES’: An experimental exhibit reexamining the museum’s Stewart-Swift Research Center archival collections with a critical eye toward silences, erasures and contemporary relevance. Through January 7. CHUCK HERRMANN: “Sculptures of Perseverance,” eight poignant works by the Shoreham wood carver created in response MIDDLEBURY SHOWS

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to the ongoing Ukrainian tragedy. Through January 7. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

BRENDA MYRICK AND BARBARA LANE: “Inspired by Nature: A Mother and Daughter’s View,” paintings.

Through August 13. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

‘CONTEMPORARY TO CLASSICAL: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NEW COLLECTION HANDBOOK’: An exhibition of diverse artworks, from antiquity to the present, from the museum’s permanent collection, in conjunction with a recently published guide to the collection. ‘INTO THE SCREEN’: “Black Waves,” six wall-mounted screens that create the illusion of being overcome by a relentlessly turbulent sea, from teamLab, an international art collective that works with interactive digital technology. ‘TEXT = IMAGE’: Works by numerous artist that explore the relationships among words, text, meaning and imagery; in conjunction with Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English. Through August 7. Info, 443-5007.

Middlebury College Museum of Art. ‘DISSENT! ABOLITION & ADVOCACY IN PRINT’: An exhibition of 19th-century print materials used as a platform to expose the horrors of enslavement and spread calls for emancipation in the United States.

Through October 23. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

JIM WESTPHALEN: “Land & Tide: Scenes From New England,” fine art photography. Through August 9.

Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

‘THE ORDINARY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY’: An exhibition of works by more than 30 artists that explore the everyday and the out of this world.

Through August 27. Info, 989-7225. Sparrow Art Supply in Middlebury.

ROSE UMERLIK: “In Relation,” large-scale paintings by the Vermont artist. Through July 31. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

‘SUMMER SUITE’: Paintings by Jill Matthews and Katie Runde. Through July 27. Info, 989-7419.

Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

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‘VERMONT: ON THE ROAD’: An all-member and all-media exhibition that shares each artist’s favorite spots across the state, from crowd favorites to secret hideaways. Through September 5. Info, 247-4956.

Brandon Artists Guild.

champlain islands/northwest ‘BOOK WORKS: THE ART OF THE BOOK’: An exhibition of artworks by members of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont that use the book as format or material in a variety of techniques. Through July 31. Info, 734-7448. Grand Isle Art Works.

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DAVID STROMEYER: The artist’s outdoor venue featuring 70 large-scale contemporary sculptures is open for the season, Thursday through Sunday.

Through October 10. Info, 512-333-2119. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls.

Amato, Maxine Hugon, Jo Levasseur, Jacqueline Overstreet, Fred Schlabach, Sue Schlabach and Marilyn Syme. Through August 20. Info, 457-3500.

ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery in South Pomfret.

SALLY LINDER: “Love Is,” new paintings by the Burlington artist that show us the many forms of love and ask us to meditate on its meaning. Through July 27. Info, 355-2150. GreenTARA Space in North Hero.

JEAN GERBER: “River Travel,” paintings inspired by trips to Alaska, the Yukon and Maine. Through August 31. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction.

‘TRAVELS IN THE MIND DURING COVID TIME’: A photo journey with artists Barbara Flack and Orah Moore. Through August 4. Info, 285-6505. Haston Library in Franklin.

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STACY HOPKINS: “Shapeshifter,” linoleum prints of ravens by the gallery owner and jewelry artisan.

CALL TO ARTISTS 2022 PHOTOGRAPHY SHOOT-OUT: The theme for this year’s competition is “Reflections.”

First-place winner gets a solo show at Axel’s in 2023. Two entries per photographer. Rules and details at axelsgallery.com/news. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Waterbury. Through October 8. $20. Info, 244-7801.

2023-24 RIVER ARTS CALENDAR: River Arts in Morrisville is looking for artists to participate in solo or group exhibitions or community art projects in the next calendar year. Themes will include “Reflect, Reframe, Rebuild,” “Earth Works,” “Home & How We Make It” and “Common Ground.”

Learn more and submit at riverartsvt.org. Online. Through August 1. Info, 888-1261.

CHELSEA ARTS ON THE GREEN FESTIVAL: Artists, artisans and food vendors are welcome to apply to this Labor Day weekend event. Deadline: August 1. Details at chelseavt-arts.com. Online.

Info, chelseaartscollective@gmail.com.

CLIMATE CHANGE ARTIST RESIDENCY: BMAC is accepting applications for the 2023 residency program intended to support artists seeking the time and resources to engage with the questions and challenges of climate change. $6,000 stipend. Application at brattleboromuseum.org.

Deadline: September 15. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, sarah@brattleboromuseum.org.

‘THE LIFE OF WATER’: PhotoPlace Gallery seeks submissions for an upcoming exhibition about the wonders of water, juried by Ann Jastrab. Details at photoplacegallery.com. Deadline: August 16. Online. $39 for first five images; $6 for each additional image. Info, photos@photoplacegallery.com.

MERCY MARKETPLACE: SUMMER EDITION: A six-week vendor training course for artisans; learn how to sell your products to the public, assess the market for your products and what makes your work unique, how to create a budget and price products, and how to work with customers and handle money. Register at mercyconnections.org. Mercy Connections, Burlington. Tuesdays. Free. Info, hgilbert@mercyconnections.org.

‘NEW DATA-NEW DADA’: Artists are invited to submit collage-based work that explores, echoes, translates or reinvents Dada, the avant-garde art characterized by use of unorthodox materials, popular imagery and collaborative juxtapositions, and driven by an anti-establishment ethic. Open to artists 18 and older. Juror: Tara Verheide. Submission deadline: August 1. Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill, Poultney. $15. Info, stonevalleyartscenter@gmail.com.

PLAINFIELD CO-OP & COMMUNITY CENTER GALLERY 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Submit proposals for visual work and/or performance for a November group show. We aim to honor folks who have shown or performed here over the last 50 years while also welcoming those new to the scene. We want to feature your art, poetry, music, dance, films, videos and memorabilia, as well as educational/community events and classes. Contact Alexis Smith at vtpiegirlco@gmail.com. Deadline: September 1. Plainfield Co-op.

ROCK SOLID SHOW: The annual exhibition, presented by SPA since 2000, showcases stone sculptures, assemblages and other works that depict the beautiful qualities of stone. Email submissions. studioplacearts@gmail.com. Deadline: August 1. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10; free for SPA members.

Info, 479-7069.

SUSAN CARR: “My Life in Paint,” an exhibition of vibrant, thickly brushed works by the Cape Codbased painter. Through July 31. Info, 347-264-4808.

Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

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‘1,111 COPPER NAILS’: A 36-year retrospective of the Bread and Puppet calendar. Through December 31. Info, breadandpuppetcuratrix@gmail.com. Hardwick Inn. ‘ART FROM GUANTÁNAMO BAY’: A touring exhibition of nearly 100 artworks by six men detained at the U.S. federal facility for as long as 20 years without being charged with any crimes; curated by Erin L. Thompson. Through August 21. Info, 748-2600.

Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

‘COMING CLEAN’: An exhibition that considers bathing practices throughout time and across cultures, including religious immersion and ritual purification, bathing as health cure, methods of washing in extreme environments, and much more. All kinds of bathing and scrubbing implements are on display.

Through April 30, 2023. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

f DAVID RICKETTS: “Under the Hemlock Tree,” mixed-media works inspired by dreams by the Vermont artist. Meet the artist: Saturday, August 6, 2-4 p.m. Through August 27. Info, 748-0158.

Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

GIANT PAINTINGS & PUPPETS ON DISPLAY: Vintage large-scale artworks by the puppet theater are on view during Circus Sundays through the season.

Sundays. . Info, breadandpuppetcuratrix@gmail.com.

Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover.

JOSEPH L. SMONGESKI: Portraiture, plein air landscapes, still life and other paintings from the collection of the artist’s daughter, Josette Lyders, are offered as a fundraiser for the library; auction is online. Through August 6. Info, peachamlibrary@ gmail.com. Peacham Town Library.

PETER SCHUMANN: Giant Paintings by the founder of Bread and Puppet Theater. Through July 31. Info, breadandpuppetcuratrix@gmail.com. Positive Pie in Hardwick.

POP-UP GALLERY: Artworks by more than 20 artists and craftspeople in the Greensboro area. Through August 14. Info, 525-3041. The Caspian Arts Gallery at the Greensboro Grange.

TORIN PORTER: “After Images,” small and large steel sculptures and ink drawings; also, an opportunity for the public to contribute to a collaborative floor chalk drawing. Sundays. . Info, 563-2037. White Water Gallery in East Hardwick.

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‘MENDING THE SPACES BETWEEN: REFLECTIONS AND CONTEMPLATIONS’: Prompted by a vandalized Bible, 22 artists and poets respond to questions about how we can mend our world, find ways to listen and work together. Through November 30.

Info, 649-0124. Norwich Historical Society and Community Center.

Through July 31. Info, 603-443-3017. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

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‘FELT EXPERIENCE’: Works by five artists who use the medium of felt in diverse and novel ways: Marjolein Dallinga, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Melissa Joseph, Liam Lee and Stephanie Metz; curated

by Sarah Freeman and Katherine Gass Stowe.

Through October 10. ‘NEBIZUN: WATER IS LIFE’: Artwork by Abenaki artists of the Champlain Valley and Connecticut River Valley, including protest art created in support of the Native American Water Protectors; curated by Vera Longtoe Sheehan.

Through October 10. BETH GALSTON: “Unraveling Oculus,” an immersive sculptural installation using natural elements and video recorded in a silo.

Through October 10. FRANK JACKSON: “There/ There,” abstract landscape fresco paintings that address questions of place, memory and experience.

Through October 10. MIE YIM: “Fluid Boundaries,” vivid paintings of unsettling hybrid creatures by the New York City-based artist; curated by Sarah Freeman. Through October 10. OASA DUVERNEY: “Black Power Wave,” a window installation of drawings by the Brooklyn artist, inspired by images of Chinese Fu dogs, the cross and the Yoruba deity Èsù. Through May 6. ROBERLEY BELL: “The Landscape Stares Back,” outdoor sculpture on the museum lawn. Through October 10. Info, 257-0124.

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

CANAL STREET ART GALLERY REPRESENTED ARTIST SHOW: An exhibition of works in a variety of mediums by 25 artist-members of the Bellows Falls gallery; 15 percent of sales to benefit Main Street Arts. Through August 12. Info, 869-2960. Main Street Arts in Saxtons River.

JUDE DANIELSON: “Unseen Rhythms,” large-scale quilts based on pixelated abstractions of human faces by the Oregon-based textile artist. The quilts are available via a silent auction running for the duration of the exhibition. Through August 31. Info, jamie. mohr78@gmail.com. Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro.

LEON GOLUB: Nearly 70 expressive figurative paintings that explore man’s relationship with the dynamics of power, spanning the American artist’s career from 1947 to 2002. LOIS DODD: A survey of some 50 paintings by the American artist from the late 1950s through last year that depict places she lives and works, from rural Maine to New York City. Through November 27. Info, vermont@hallartfoundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

NATHAN SHEPARD & MEGAN BUCHANAN: Oil and gouache paintings and poetry, respectively.

Through August 12. Info, 387-0102. Next Stage Arts Project in Putney.

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DAISY ROCKWELL: “Dhwani/Resonance,” South Asian-inspired paintings by the artist, writer and translator of Hindi and Urdu literature. Through September 17. Info, 803-362-2607. Manchester Community Library in Manchester Center.

‘DWELL: HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS’: Maxine Henryson, Alejandra Seeber, Ruth Shafer and Suzanne Wright use the history of the art center’s Yester House, a former estate, to explore themes of domesticity and interior spaces. ‘MASKED’: A community portrait project of Inclusive Arts Vermont, featuring the work of 22 artists with disabilities, with special guest Judith Klausner.

ROBERT DUGRENIER: “VitroVerse,” 200 hand-blown glass planets illuminated by LED lights suspended from the ceiling of the grand staircase in Yester House; each globe also has a digital life as a nonfungible token. Through September 11. Info, kathy@ dugrenier.com. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

NEW ENGLAND WAX: “Relationships: Hot/Cold/ Intricate,” 2D and 3D artwork in encaustic by 31 members of the regional association. Through August 14. Info, 362-1405. Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Through November 6. ‘PERSPECTIVES: THE STORY OF BENNINGTON THROUGH MAPS’: A collection that shows the changing roles of maps, from those made by European colonists showcasing American conquests to later versions that celebrate civic progress and historic events. Through December 31. NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: The 25th annual outdoor sculpture show at locations around town, as well as more works by regional artists inside the museum. Through November 12. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

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ALICE ECKLES & NATHANIEL WILLIAMS: Floral and landscape paintings in watercolor, oils and cold wax. Through August 28. Info, artetcvt@gmail.com.

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JOHN DOUGLAS: “Anywhere but Here,” a solo exhibition of photographs by the Vershire artist.

Through September 30. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

‘WHOSE NEW WORLD?’: An exhibition of works in a variety of mediums by nine regional artists who explore social justice issues. Through September 24. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph.

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10X10=AVA: A benefit exhibition featuring up to 100 10-inch-square works of art specifically created and donated by regional artist stars. The starting price of all works is $100; silent-auction bidding continues throughout the show. Through August 12. AMY MOREL, MATT NECKERS & JOHN F. PARKER: Solo exhibitions from Vermont artists whose collaged and assembled sculptures relate to the theme of play. Through August 20. ROBERT CHAPLA: “Landscapes: Color and Flow,” paintings by the Vermont-based artist. Through August 26.

Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

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2022 PICNIC BASKET RAFFLE: An annual fundraiser for the Henry Sheldon Museum featuring baskets hand-painted by Nancie Dunn, Gary Starr, Gayl Braisted, Warren Kimble, Danielle Rougeau and Fran Bull. Bidding is at henrysheldonmuseum. org. Through October 10. Online.

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‘IN THE MOMENT: RECENT WORK BY LOUISE HAMLIN’: Paintings and works on paper by the former Dartmouth College studio art professor and printmaker. Through September 3. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. ‘MUSEUM OF THE ART OF TODAY: DEPARTMENT OF THE INVISIBLE’: Installations, sculptures, photographs, paintings and videos collected by Montréal artist Stanley Février that represent artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds.

Through August 28. ‘VIEWS OF WITHIN: PICTURING THE SPACES WE INHABIT’: More than 60 paintings, photographs, prints, installations and textile works from the museum’s collection that present one or more evocations of interior space. Through June 30. NICOLAS PARTY: “L’heure mauve” (“Mauve Twilight”), a dreamlike exhibition of paintings, sculptures and installation in the Swiss-born artist’s signature saturated colors. Online reservations required. Through October 16. SABRINA RATTÉ: “Contre-espace,” digital artwork by the Montréal artist that creates an interaction between architecture and landscape, projected onto the façade of the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion from dusk to 11 p.m. Through November 27. Info, 514-285-2000.

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Beat School You know, whenever I take a break from Soundbites for a few weeks and run some features or interviews, I always get this feeling like I’m skipping class or something. Inevitably, when I return to the column and start sorting out the music news, I see the amount of emails, submissions and notifications of cool music events happening around the scene, and I have a little terror pee.

How the hell am I going to cover all this?

I scream out loud, before sweeping everything off my desk and throwing my laptop out the window.

Once the panic subsides, however, I get a feeling of excitement. Even if I can’t fit it all in my column, there’s so much new music and so many killer shows. So let’s get down to brass tacks. There’s a lot going on in the next few weeks.

We’re nearing the time of year when we celebrate the life and continuing legacy of beloved Burlington skateboarder and DJ ANDY “A_DOG” WILLIAMS, who died of leukemia in 2013. A_Dog Day takes place this year on Saturday, August 27, and features a massive lineup of DJs and bands. The 64

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Burlington festivities begin during the day at the Andy A_Dog Williams Skatepark and finish up that evening at Nectar’s. The slate is stacked with A2VT, GREASEFACE, KONFLIK, OMEGA JADE, BLOWTORCH and many, many more.

In the meantime, the Friends for A_ Dog Foundation is holding a music camp called Beats, Rhythms, and Rhyme this Friday, July 29, and Saturday, July 30, at Burlington’s Swan Dojo. According to foundation board member DAVE RIDER, the camp is part of the nonprofit’s mission to provide free, nontraditional arts programming for underserved youths.

“Our programs touch on everything from skateboarding to dance to beat making,” Rider explained by phone.

“With this program in particular, it’s a three-pillar curriculum, including basic DJ skills, lyric writing and, finally, beat making.”

Rider said the foundation brings in local professionals to instruct the students. This year’s instructors include DJs KANGANADE and DAVID CHIEF, as well as rapper Omega Jade as lyrics counselor.

Campers receive instruction on all three pillars and get to compose their own track.

About four years ago, Rider said, he discovered a similar program in New York City called Building Beats. On a whim, he sent an email to the program’s board and asked if they wanted to collaborate, sending Vermont kids down to attend the NYC camps and then having the city kids come up to the Green Mountains for some beat making.

The exchange was an immediate success and one that affected Rider greatly.

“Some of these kids haven’t been out of their own borough, let alone New York State,” Rider pointed out. “And, look, I know it sounds corny, but when you see this white kid from St. Albans and a Black kid from Queens break down all these weird, made-up barriers within 15 minutes of meeting, and they just start working on art together, it’s so powerful.”

Pop over to friendsforadog.org for more information on the Beats,

Things will get weird in Burlington’s Old North End this Saturday, July 30, as the Ramble returns. Radio Bean owner LEE ANDERSON and HEATHER DRISCOLL founded the daylong festival/celebration of all things ONE in 2003, and over the years it has become a staple of Burlington summer parties.

For those who haven’t experienced the Ramble, it doesn’t work like a typical festival or block party. Residents, artists and businesses across the Old North End open their doors to host music, food, pottery workshops, garden tours, yoga, yard sales, fairy hunts … you name it. The traditional Field Day at Battery Park is full of games, shenanigans and prizes.

Live music is sprinkled throughout the neighborhood, including performances by LOIS TROMBLEY, SABOUYOUMA, the BURNING SUN, LEONE/CASEY/BARKER TRIO and ROOST.WORLD. The Ramble is an opportunity to take in all the beauty and weirdness of the Old North End. As a longtime resident there myself, all I can say is that the Ramble should not be missed. This year’s theme is “Rhapsody,” so be ready for a lot of people emoting wildly. Oh, and FYI, the community photo will be taken in the Old North End Community Center parking lot at 20 Allen Street at 5:15 p.m., if you want to be part of the history of one of Burlington’s best parties.

BiteTorrent Throw the horns up, because Nectar’s is metal again. The downtown Burlington venue used to play host to one of the area’s coolest nights of music: the late, great Metal Mondays. But given the unpredictable nature of the pandemic, it didn’t look like the heaviness would return to the Main Street nightclub. But who should step in to save the day but MATT HAGEN, the busiest man in Vermont music and one of the metalheads behind the original weekly series?

It’s hard to say when the dude found time between playing in 1,300 different bands, vinyl deejaying, putting together compilation records and who knows what else. But Hagen got some goats’ blood, painted a pentagram on Nectar’s floor and summoned the Great Old Ones back for

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This month’s installment takes place on Wednesday, July 27 — the print date of this paper — and features New York City metal act TRIP VILLAIN, with local support from Hagen’s trio SAVAGE HEN and rockers PHANTOM SUNS. I believe the most apt expression here would be: “Get in the pit, motherfuckers.”

Higher Ground has announced the return of the Backside 405 outdoor concert series at 405 Pine Street in Burlington. Established last summer in reaction to the closing of indoor venues during the pandemic, the concert series was immensely popular. It’s good to see live outdoor music coming back to the South End for the end of the summer.

The series kicks off on Wednesday, August 10, with a show from indie singer-songwriter FAYE WEBSTER. Other highlights include North Carolina indie rockers the NUDE PARTY on Saturday, September 10, and local neo-soul and R&B duo DWIGHT + NICOLE and Texas soul, funk and R&B band the SUFFERS on Thursday, September 22. Go to highergroundmusic.com for more information and tickets.

Speaking of Dwight + Nicole, the Burlington-based act will release a new single this Friday, July 29, called “Lift.” The duo teased the track with an Instagram post showing its members hard at work recording a horn section in Brooklyn’s Studio G with Grammy Award-nominated producer JOEL HAMILTON. Frequent Dwight + Nicole collaborator and tour mate ALI MCGUIRK also has a new single. “All Back” is a laid-back, Hammond organ-filled R&B jam that serves as an advance single from her LP Til It’s Gone, due in September. The recent Burlington transplant recorded the new album in Los Angeles with producer JONAH TOLCHIN and a collection of

A-list session players such as FRED TACKETT (LITTLE FEAT), LARRY GOLDINGS (NORAH JONES) and VALERIE PINKSTON (RAY CHARLES).

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I had a music theory teacher tell me once that “If your definition of what the greatest song in the world is doesn’t change at least monthly, you’re not listening to enough music.” Case in point: When I was 10, I thought the greatest song in the world was “Fish Heads” by BARNES & BARNES. Was I wrong?

I mean, yes. Objectively, there’s no way “Fish Heads” could be the greatest song in the world. But it was that day!

So what song wears the crown today? The honor goes to NYC indie rockers EZTV and their tune “Long Way to Go.” The tune sits right in that sweet spot of perfect college radioera indie rock, full of chiming, clean guitars and an almost REPLACEMENTS-like world-weariness. It’s recommended for driving or just staring at a city in your rearview mirror as you mumble something suitably melodramatic like, “See you in hell, New York.”

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Find the most up-to-date info on live music, DJs, comedy and more at sevendaysvt.com/music. If you’re a talent booker or artist planning live entertainment at a bar, nightclub, café, restaurant, brewery or coffee shop, send event details to music@sevendaysvt.com or submit the info using our form at sevendaysvt.com/postevent.

live music

Some Hollow (indie rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 8 p.m.

Free.

WED.27

Super Stash Bros (rock) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Ali T. (singer-songwriter) at Vermont Pub & Brewery, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

WD-40 (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Wendigo (rock) at Martell’s at the Red Fox, Jeffersonville, 6 p.m. $10.

SUN.31

Courtyard Music Series (blues, jazz, rock) at Halvorson’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Hagen (singer-songwriter) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 1 p.m.

Free.

Irish Sessions (Celtic folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free.

The Jeff Salisbury Band (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Jay Southgate and Mary Brennan (singer-songwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free.

John Lackard Blues Band (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m.

Free.

Sunday Brunch Sessions: Seth Yacovone (blues, rock) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 11 a.m.

Free.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Sunday Brunch Tunes (singersongwriter) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.

Mamas Broke with Tim Eriksen (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $15.

Metal of the Month with Trip Villain, Savage Hen and Phantom Suns (metal) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

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

THU.28

Alex Stewart Quartet and Special Guests (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Blue Fox Trio (blues) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Burlington Electronic Department Showcase (indie, electronic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $5.

Dark Star Trio (Grateful Dead tribute) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Jontavious Willis (blues) at Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20.

Ryan Sweezey (singersongwriter) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. Free.

Sadurn with H3adgear (indie) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. $15.

Spruce Peak Summer Concert Series: Deer Tick, Lightning Bug (indie rock) at Spruce Peak Village Green, Stowe, 5 p.m. $40/$50.

Thaya Zalewski Quartet (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Tom Pearo & Friends (indie, ambient) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Zach Nugent (Grateful Dead tribute) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

FRI.29

Adwela & the Uprising (reggae) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

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Burning Spear with DJ Big Dog (reggae) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $40/$45.

THU.28 // DEER TICK [INDIE ROCK]

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

Check for Ticks When

DEER TICK

last tried to play a show in Vermont, they were rained out at the

2018 Waking Windows music festival. Four years later, the indie rock outfit from Providence, R.I., returns to the Green Mountains with its unique blend of indie, punk and outlaw country influences. Here’s hoping for clear skies this time as the band plays the Summer Concert Series at the Spruce Peak Village Green in Stowe on Thursday, July 28, with an opening set from New York indie rockers LIGHTNING BUG. Bandwagon Summer Series: Mames Babegenush (jazz, klezmer) at the Putney Inn, 6 p.m. $20/ $25 Door.

Big Hat, No Cattle (country) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 6 p.m. Free.

Bob Gagnon (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Broken String (bluegrass) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Chris & Erica (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m.

Free.

Hot Pickin’ Party (bluegrass) at Moogs Joint, Johnson, 8 p.m.

Free.

IncaHoots (rock) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Toby Summerfield (experimental) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free.

Julia Kate Davis (singersongwriter) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

VT Bluegrass Pioneers (bluegrass) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free.

Lily Seabird, Doll Spirit Vessel, Glad Spirit Orb Love (indie rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

L&M Rhythm Kings (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Chris Lyon Band (rock) at Alfie’s Wild Ride, Stowe, 8 p.m. Free.

Lush Honey (funk, neo-soul) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Matt Hagen’s Murder Ballads (folk, noir) at Stone’s Throw Pizza, Richmond, 6 p.m. Free.

Dirt Looks (rock) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Myra Flynn with the Plattsburgh State Gospel Choir (indie soul) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. $13/$15.

Edna with Cosmic the Cowboy (indie rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

Emo Night with Saving Vice (DJ, acoustic) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $17/$20.

Friday Night Music Series (various genres) at Highland Lodge, Greensboro, 6 p.m. Free.

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Toast (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Nintendoods (jazz fusion) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free.

Peter Wayne Burton (singersongwriter) at Gusto’s, Barre, 6 p.m. Free.

Raised by Hippies (blues, rock) at Martell’s at the Red Fox, Jeffersonville, 6 p.m. $10.

SAT.30

AliT (singer-songwriter) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, noon. Free.

Andriana Chobot with Lake Waves & AliT (indie pop) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. $5/$10.

Aquamossa with the Lara Cwass Band (electro-pop) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10.

Aria (rock) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free.

Brian Maple and Ryan Hanson (singer-songwriter) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free.

Dark Star Project (Grateful Dead tribute) at Moogs Joint, Johnson, 6 p.m. $10.

Eleanor & the Pretty Things with Slow Pony (indie) at Stage 33 Live, Bellows Falls, 7 p.m. $10.

Erin Cassels-Brown, Western Terrestrials, the Brand New Luddites (folk, rock) at the Barrage, Holland, 7 p.m. $10.

Evolfo with Cosmic the Cowboy (garage rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $12/$15.

Haxen, Malacath and Lightcrusher (metal) at CharlieO’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Juni the Wiccan and Guests (hiphop) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Michael Arnowitt (piano) at Hugo’s Bar and Grill, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Nighthawk (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m.

Free.

Honky Tonk Tuesday featuring Pony Hustle (country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

Mad Mountain Scramblers (bluegrass) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. Free.

Megan Bee (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free.

WED.3

Adrian Belew (prog rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $45/$49.

Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

The Brother Brothers with Atom & the Orbits (indie folk) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15/$17.

Courtyard Music Series (blues, jazz, rock) at Halvorson’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Irish Sessions (Celtic folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Jazz Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

No Fun Haus, bugcatcher, Super Blue, Comfy (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:45 p.m. $10.

Joey Valence & Brae with Pons (hip-hop, indie rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $15/$18.

Paul and Tracie Cassarino (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Matt Dolliver (live looping) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Pons, Guy Ferrari, Them Airs (post punk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Singer Songwriter Sessions (singer-songwriters) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:45 p.m. Free.

HAVE YOU

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

djs THU.28

DJ Baron (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Chaston (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free.

DJ CRE8 (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

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

Free.

Molly Mood (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

FRI.29

DJ Taka (DJ) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10.

Molly Mood (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

comedy

SUN.31

WED.27

DJ Two Sev (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

MON.1

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

TUE.2

Waking Windows 2022 Pizza/ Poster Party (pizza party) at Monkey House, Winooski, 5 p.m.

Free.

open mics & jams WED.27

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

Ben Blanchard (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

THU.28

DJ LaFountaine (DJ) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

DJ Taka (DJ) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10.

SAT.30

Dark Wave Dance Party (DJ) at Babes Bar, Bethel, 8 p.m. Free.

DJ 2Rivers (DJ) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

DJ Raul (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

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

Reign One (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

ATAK (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

WED.3

Open Mic (open mic) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic (open mic) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Chris Distefano (comedy) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $42/$49/$55.

THU.28

Awww Shucks Comedy Showcase (comedy) at Seb’s Snack Bar, South Hero, 7 p.m.

Free.

FRI.29

Comedy Night (comedy) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 8 p.m. $5.

Three Leaves Comedy Showcase (comedy) at the 126, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Comedy Open Mic (comedy) at the 126, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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WED.3

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Weird & Niche (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5.

Open Mic with D Davis (open mic) at Bent Nails Bistro, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

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Karaoke with Garyoke to Support Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom (karaoke) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $5/$10.

MON.1

Trivia with Brian & Ian (trivia) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 8:30 p.m. Free.

TUE.2

Karaoke with DJ Party Bear (karaoke) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m.

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Trivia Night (trivia) at the Depot, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free.

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REVIEW this Tim Brick, Homegrown Remedy (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL)

Is there a genre as riddled with tropes as modern country music?

Every type of music has its calling cards, but today’s country has a way of leaning into its clichés, whether it’s tractors and girls, amorphous “down-home” values, or flag-waving patriotism.

Maybe it’s a proud-to-bewho-I-am sort of thing, or maybe it’s just that the genre understands what sells.

While Barre singer-songwriter Tim Brick certainly embraces his share of twangy stereotypes, he’s referencing

The Brother Brothers, Cover to Cover (COMPASS RECORDS, CD, DIGITAL, VINYL)

“What do you think about cover songs?”

I asked friends after listening to the Brother Brothers’ third album, Cover to Cover. Responses varied from “I don’t really like them” to “I like them, sometimes more than the original” and “Can be great, usually meh” to “Songwriting and playing music are two distinct skills. If you can do one and not the other, why not play covers?”

My own feelings were relatively skeptical and pessimistic: What do cover songs have to offer? I thought.

Yet my mindset shifted through listening

an older, less commercialized brand of country; this is a musician who clearly reveres Waylon Jennings and Billy Joe Shaver. Brick doesn’t try to emulate modern pop country but rather leans into the classic tones of the medium. His latest record, Homegrown Remedy, is full of songs about lost love and regret, with keening pedal steel guitar and Southernaccented harmonies.

Opener “One Step From Falling” is a radioready earworm. It’s easy enough to dismiss Brick’s songwriting as paint-by-numbers — he certainly isn’t interested in reinterpreting the genre. But crafting a catchy single full of hooks is one of the more difficult tasks in music, and Brick has it down to a science.

He and his band turn toward a Tom Petty-leaning, Southern-rock feel on “Cashin In.” Again, Brick doesn’t traverse much new territory with the tune, the story of a down-on-his-luck man, up against life’s rougher edges. “A lifetime of broken dreams makes it hard to believe / In a game he’ll never win,” Brick sings.

“He gets knocked down, he gets up again / But he gets tired of pissing in the wind / There are days he feels like cashin’ in.”

Though Homegrown Remedy is Brick’s first release since 2017’s Just Passin’ Through, his sound remains dialed in.

That’s due in part to a crack collection of local players, including Russ Lawton (Trey Anastasio Band) on drums and Eric O’ Hara (the Gibson Brothers) on pedal steel guitar. Multi-instrumentalists Colin McCaffrey and Lane Gibson — who produced and mastered Homegrown Remedy, respectively — round out the band. It skillfully covers a wide range of

tones, from pop-country-adjacent tracks such as “Last Call” to primordial, trucksbarreling-down-a-dusty-road country such as “Rivers Run Dry.” There are some songs in which Brick overdoes it, as on the title track.

“Woke up this morning and turned on the news / It seems the world’s gone crazy / I guess that’s nothing new,” he sings. His series of clichés about the scary outside world driving him into the wilderness makes it hard not to feel like the song was written for a Miller Lite advertisement. But, by and large, Brick avoids such stumbles. Homegrown Remedy documents a musician moving deeper into his strengths.

The album is streaming on all major platforms and can be ordered at tbrickmusic.com. Catch Brick live on Sunday, August 7, at the Stowe Farmers Market.

to Cover to Cover and the conversations it sparked. A beautiful song is a beautiful song — regardless of who originally composed it — and indie folk duo the Brother Brothers have created a collection of beautiful (cover) songs.

The Brother Brothers are David and Adam Moss, “identical twins born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, formerly based in Brooklyn, New York, but ultimately and profoundly shaped by indiscriminate rambling,” according to the Compass Records website. Their vocal harmonies and soft tenor voices are eerily evocative of Simon & Garfunkel.

I could write an essay on the magical X factor that shared genes can give family bands.

Suffice it to say that the Mosses’ kin vocals and bluegrass-country sound

recall other talented singing sibling duos such as the Avett Brothers, First Aid Kit and the Hanseroth brothers — aka “the twins” from Brandi Carlile’s band.

The Brother Brothers stay close to their genre with the covers they select, such as Tom T. Hall’s “That’s How I Got to Memphis” and Larry Sparks’ “Blue Virginia Blues.” Their versions don’t stray far from the banjo pluckin’, mandolin strummin’ sounds of the originals.

The duo also boldly takes on greats such as the Beatles and James Taylor.

While the curmudgeon in me can’t help but be disappointed when it’s not Paul McCartney’s voice singing “Who knows how long I’ve loved you?” on “I Will,” the brothers’ rendition of Taylor and Carly Simon’s “You Can Close Your Eyes” is one of my favorites on the album.

Notable talented friends join the brothers on a few tracks, including Racheal Price of Lake Street Dive and

Sarah Jarosz of I’m With Her. “I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)” is a haunting a cappella track and the zenith of that sibling vocal beauty X factor as Emily Price joins her sister on backup vocals.

Warm harmonies, gentle percussion and soft melodies make Cover to Cover an album that would complement fireflies in a summer meadow and the crackling of a campfire in the pines.

“Covering a song is an act of making it your own,” David Moss wrote by email to Seven Days. “The respect for the songs and the songwriters only grows as you make them your own.” The Brother Brothers have me convinced: Cover songs have plenty to offer.

Cover to Cover will be released on Friday, August 5, on all major streaming platforms. The Brother Brothers play ArtsRiot in Burlington on Wednesday, August 3.

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udrey Diwan’s film Happening (L’Événement), which won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 2021, hit U.S. theaters in May, about the same time newsrooms got wind of the leaked document revealing the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v.

Wade. Yet this timely French movie about a young woman seeking an illegal abortion, based on an autobiographical novel by distinguished writer Annie Ernaux, didn’t exactly draw crowds. It was in and out of Vermont theaters in a week.

No, it’s not an upbeat subject. But perhaps now, with Roe overturned and people experiencing the consequences of abortion bans, it’s time to watch this movie. You can rent it or find it on AMC+.

The deal

In 1963, Anne Duchesne (Anamaria Vartolomei), a promising student from a working-class background, is studying for her university entrance exams when she discovers she’s pregnant from a brief liaison. Her choice is stark: If she has the child, she will succumb to the “malady that strikes only women and turns them into housewives,” as she puts it. Continuing with her education won’t be an option.

Anne knows exactly what she wants, but finding it is another matter. France is still steeped in Catholicism. One doctor warns her that by seeking an abortion she’s risking her life. Another lies and prescribes her a medication that does the opposite of what she hopes. A desperate do-it-yourself procedure fails. With the clock ticking, Anne turns to a whisper network of fellow students for help.

Will you like it?

Try to count on one hand the movies you’ve seen in which an abortion actually happens. There are plenty in which someone seriously considers the option, only to decide to carry the pregnancy to term (Juno, Knocked Up), and there are plenty more in which the whole conflict is solved by a convenient miscarriage (Citizen Ruth). These movies generally affirm the right to choose, but they only ever depict one choice.

To find filmmakers who dare to venture down the other path, one has to go to the art house for the occasional movie, such as Hal Hartley’s Trust or Cristian Mungiu’s 70

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Vartolomei plays a French student seeking an illegal abortion in 1963 in Diwan’s powerful, timely drama.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. It’s a short list, and Happening is a distinguished and powerful entry on it.

Like Anne herself, Diwan doesn’t go in for half measures. She doesn’t gloss over the physical aspects of the procedure, and viewers may be disturbed by a shot that recalls the most notorious moment of Mungiu’s film. But that’s kind of the point — to stop cloaking this reality under euphemisms like the film’s title (which literally means “the event/happening”).

Anne struggles with some guilt over her sexual experience (for which other students shame her), but when it comes to her pregnancy, she doesn’t hesitate. “I’d like to have a child one day,” she tells a doctor, “but not instead of a life.” Her straightforwardness is the film’s attitude, too.

Vartolomei is the center of every scene in this almost claustrophobically intimate film, in which Diwan’s camera is forever following her or peering over her shoulder.

And her arresting gaze and presence make it work. Anne is such a vivid personality, so indelibly herself, that we have a visceral sense of the injustice of laws that turn her into an incubator.

Granted, that reaction might depend on our own previously held beliefs. Diwan

doesn’t compromise when it comes to affirming the value of pregnant people’s bodily autonomy, and even some prochoice folks might cringe a little at a scene that underlines Anne’s determination to take sexual freedom where she can find it.

Anne isn’t a meek “good girl” who made one unfortunate mistake. She’s not afraid to be selfish, and that’s what makes her such an exciting and dynamic character to watch.

Most of the movies about getting an abortion are actually torturously detailed stories of the difficulty of getting an abortion. In 2020’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always, American filmmaker Eliza Hittman demonstrated how hard it can be to obtain the procedure even where it’s legal.

Happening depicts a different reality — one that many Americans are now experiencing. Should she end up in the hospital after a botched procedure, Anne is told, she’ll have to pray that the doctors classify her “happening” as a miscarriage, because anything else could set her on a path to criminal prosecution.

France legalized abortion up to 12 weeks in 1975 and expanded those rights earlier this year. Reacting to the overturning of Roe in a June column for Deadline, Diwan wrote: “Where abortion

is prohibited, it becomes clandestine.

Women do not cease to be free, they put their lives at risk to remain so.” Happening offers a painful and prescient reminder.

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(2020; Kanopy, Amazon Prime Video, rentable): A Pennsylvania teen makes a grueling journey across state lines to obtain an abortion in this acclaimed drama.

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (2007;

AMC+, IFC Films Unlimited, Kanopy, rentable): Set in Romania in 1987, when abortion was illegal there, Mungiu’s harrowing, thriller-style drama follows a young woman who is committed to helping her friend obtain the procedure.

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CURRENTLY PLAYING THE BLACK PHONEHHH Locked in a basement by a serial killer (Ethan Hawke), a kid (Mason Thames) starts receiving phone calls from previous victims in this horror flick from Scott Derrickson (Sinister).

(102 min, R. Majestic, Sunset) ELVISHHH Austin Butler plays the rock icon and Tom Hanks plays Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic, also starring Olivia DeJonge.

(159 min, PG-13. Bethel, Majestic, Sunset) JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINIONHH Dinosaurs compete with humans for space on Earth in the latest installment of the action franchise, directed by Colin Trevorrow and starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and Laura Dern. (146 min, PG-13. Essex) MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ONHHHH1/2 A YouTube star comes to the big screen in this all-ages mockumentary about a filmmaker (director Dean Fleischer-Camp) who befriends tiny, nonhuman creatures living in an Airbnb. With the voices of Jenny Slate and Isabella Rossellini.

(90 min, PG. Essex, Roxy, Savoy; reviewed 6/22)

MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARISHHH1/2 In this new film adaptation of the 1958 comic novel, Lesley Manville plays a widowed cleaning lady obsessed with getting herself a Dior gown. Jason Isaacs and Isabelle Huppert costar. Anthony Fabian directed.

(115 min, PG. Essex, Playhouse, Roxy, Savoy) NOPEHHHH Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer play siblings dealing with otherworldly occurrences on their remote California ranch in the latest sci-fi/horror film from writer-director Jordan Peele (Get Out).

(135 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Sunset, Welden) PAWS OF FURY: THE LEGEND OF HANKHH1/2 Samuel L. Jackson voices a tuxedo cat who trains a bumbling dog (Michael Cera) to become a samurai in this animated comedy directed by Chris Bailey, Mark Koetsier and Rob Minkoff. (97 min, PG. Majestic, Sunset) THOR: LOVE AND THUNDERHHH Taika Waititi returns as director of this Marvel sequel in which Thor’s attempt at retirement is interrupted by a new threat. Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson and Natalie Portman star. (Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) TOP GUN: MAVERICKHHHH Thirty-six years after the original action hit, Tom Cruise’s daredevil Navy pilot character is older but still flying test flights in this sequel directed by Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion).

With Jennifer Connelly. (131 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Sunset)

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(125 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Star, Stowe; reviewed 7/20)

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DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS: Krypto the Super-Dog assembles a band of crime-fighting critters to rescue his person — yup, Superman — in this animated adventure. With the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Vanessa Bayer. Jared Stern and Sam Levine directed. (106 min, PG. Bethel, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Paramount, Star, Sunset, Welden)

MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRUHHH Kyle Balda’s animated comedy charts how 12-year-old Gru (Steve Carell) aimed to become the world’s greatest supervillain. (87 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden)

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agriculture

CALF & HEIFER MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP: Presented

by University of Vermont Extension, Dr. Pete Erickson from the University of New Hampshire walks and talks about cow care. Laggis Brothers Farm, East Hardwick, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 279-7517.

GARDENING 101: PESTS: As growing season continues in earnest, Vermont Garden Network experts help novices battle back the bugs. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted; preregister. Info, abbey@vcgn.org.

GARDENING CLUB: Growers of all ages and experience levels convene to swap ideas for planned raised flower and herb beds at the library.

Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

community

CURRENT EVENTS: Neighbors have an informal discussion about what’s in the news.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 878-4918.

MRF TOUR: COME SEE WHERE YOUR RECYCLING GOES!: Eco-minded neighbors meet the people and witness the equipment that sort and process the contents of their blue bins. Ages 10 and up. Materials Recovery Facility, Williston, 12:30-2 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 872-8111.

environment SWIFT NIGHT OUT: BURLINGTON: Birders

and conservationists join Audubon Vermont in their Chimney Swift Recovery Project. Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

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FLOATING SOUND BATH: Singing bowl and gong player Stephen Scuderi delivers a unique massage and sensory experience. Railyard Apothecary, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20-40; preregister. Info, 777-0626.

fairs & festivals

BARRE HERITAGE FESTIVAL & HOMECOMING DAYS: Arts, culture, music, food and history join forces at this celebration of the Granite City’s past and present. See thebarrepartner ship.com for full schedule. See calendar spotlight. Various Barre locations, 10 a.m.6:30 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 477-2967.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: Viewers experience 19thcentury explorer Henry Bates’ journey through the Amazon rainforest. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: Cameras positioned in nests, underwater and along the forest floor capture a year’s worth of critters coming and

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‘CINEMA PARADISO’: An Italian-language drama tells the love story between a young man and motion pictures. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free.

Info, 748-2600.

‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: An adventurous dolichorhynchops travels through the most dangerous oceans in history, encountering plesiosaurs, giant turtles and the deadly mosasaur along the way. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: Sparkling graphics take viewers on a mind-bending journey from the beginning of time through the mysteries of the universe. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

STOWE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: ‘THE MISSING TALE’: The cinematic series continues with a documentary

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 theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/music.

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shedding light on the few remaining members of an ancient Indian Jewish community. Virtual option available. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $10-15.

Info, 760-4634.

food & drink

DANVILLE FARMERS MARKET: Villagers shop local from various vendors handing out fruits, veggies, prepared foods and more.

Danville Village Green, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, cfmamanager@ gmail.com.

DEDALUS FREE WEEKLY WINE TASTINGS: Themed in-store tastings take oenophiles on an adventure through a wine region, grape variety, style of wine or producer’s offerings. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

FEAST FARM STAND: Farm-fresh veggies and other delights go on sale at this market featuring weekly activities such as yoga and cooking demonstrations.

Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2518.

TRUCKS, TAPS & TUNES: Food trucks, craft brews and live music by local acts make for an evening of family-friendly fun. Essex Experience, Essex Junction, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4200.

games

BINGO AT THE EAST VALLEY COMMUNITY HALL: Weekly games raise funds for the meeting hall renovation. East Valley Community Hall, East Randolph, 6-8 p.m. Cost of cards. Info, eastvalleycg@gmail.com.

MAH-JONGG CLUB: Tile traders of all experience levels gather for a game. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 888-3853.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Those in need of an easy-on-the-joints workout experience an hour of calming, low-impact movement.

United Community Church, St. Johnsbury, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 751-0431.

BONE BUILDERS/ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Folks of all ages ward off osteoporosis in an exercise and prevention class. Online, 7:30 a.m.; Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

CHAIR YOGA: Waterbury Public Library instructor Diana Whitney leads at-home participants in gentle stretches supported by seats. 10 a.m. Free.

Info, 244-7036.

DIVE INTO FELDENKRAIS: A chiropractor leads group classes — and individual ones, by appointment — where attendees learn how to refresh their bodies through slow, juicy movement. Precision Chiropractic, Williston, 8:30 a.m., noon & 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 655-0950.

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PAUSE-DÉJEUNER: ABBY PAIGE: Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region hosts the actor behind the recent one-woman show Les Filles du Quoi? Noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, president@aflcr. org.

RAISEACHILD ADOPT & FOSTER INFO/ ORIENTATION: The Pride Center of Vermont partners with RaiseAChild and the Vermont Department for Children and Families to explain the process and benefits of becoming a foster parent. 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 860-7812.

WRJ PRIDE: VIRTUAL AUTHOR PANEL: Queer and trans authors get together as part of White River Junction’s weeklong Pride celebration.

Presented by Norwich Bookstore.

7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 649-1114.

music

‘BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: THE MUSIC OF ROBERTA FLACK AND DONNY HATHAWAY’: Dorset Theatre Festival continues its season with husband-and-wife duo Christina Acosta Robinson and Ken Robinson’s theatrical concert celebrating two charttoppers and lifelong friends.

See calendar spotlight. Dorset Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $46. Info, 867-2223.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS FREE MINI CONCERT: Musicians perform selections from their evening programs, from Baroque-era masterpieces to contemporary greats. ElleyLong Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free.

Info, 800-639-3443.

JUMPIN’ IN JULY: BEAU SASSIER TRIO: A soulful trio sings songs steeped in boogaloo and acid jazz stylings. Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-563-1604.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: DOBET GNAHORÉ: It’s impossible not to get up and dance when the Ivorian superstar brings her irresistible Afro-pop beats and jaw-dropping moves to the stage.

Martha Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 272-4920.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: THE BURNING SUN: The Burlington indie rock trio combines eclectic influences including R.E.M. and the Cranberries. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7166.

TROY MILLETTE: Heartfelt original country-rock songs carry through the air, courtesy of the Fairfax musician. Shelburne Vineyard, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

WINOOSKI WEDNESDAYS: NIGHT PROTOCOL: A Nepalese dance crew opens for the synthwave outfit at this ongoing Onion City outdoor concert series. Rotary Park, Winooski, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@downtownwinooski.org.

ROCKIN’ THE GREEN MOUNTAINS GEOLOGY TOUR: Locals learn about the ancient past at the foot of some of Earth’s oldest mountains. Call to confirm. Waterbury Dam Crest, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $3-5; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 244-7103.

KINDLING CONNECTIONS: Students of this personal growth class learn how to build community and reconnect with core values. Mercy Connections, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 846-7063.

sports

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: Spectators buy some peanuts and Cracker Jack to watch the Green Mountain State’s own Futures Collegiate Baseball League team face off against new opponents each night. Centennial Field, Burlington, 6:35 p.m. $6-25; $125-418 for season passes. Info, 655-4200.

tech

TECH SESSION WITH THE MEDIA FACTORY: Experts answer questions about digital media production of all kinds, from livestreaming to film editing. Copresented with Vermont Arts Council. 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 828-3291.

theater

‘HAIR’: Weston Theater lets the sunshine in and welcomes the age of Aquarius in this beloved musical about the Summer of Love. Weston Playhouse Main Stage, 2 & 7 p.m. $25-70. Info, 824-5288.

‘LA TRAVIATA’: Upper-class haughtiness threatens Violetta and Alfredo’s love in Verdi’s classic opera, presented by Opera North. Blow-Me-Down Farm, Cornish, N.H., 7 p.m. $25-60. Info, 603-448-0400.

‘MARRY ME A LITTLE’: Sondheim songs from Anyone Can Whistle, Follies, Company and more tell the story of two hopeless romantics in this bittersweet revue.

Walker Farm, Weston, 2 & 7 p.m. $22.50-74. Info, 824-5288.

words

CAMPFIRE STORIES AT THE LIBRARY: Fans of the freaky swap ghost stories and local folklore in the garden. Waterbury Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

KAREN BAUM GORDEON: The author unravels the threads of a traumatic family history in her memoir, The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust. Worthen Library, South Hero, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209.

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‘HEY KIDDO’ BOOK DISCUSSION: Young readers and their caregivers unpack Jarrett Krosoczka’s award-winning graphic novel about a teen reckoning with his relationship with his estranged parents. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

Once Upon a Time

CLIF BOOK GIVEAWAY: Kids ages 3 through 8 engage with an interactive story time and take home their very own books. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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CHARACTER PARTY!: Fannish youngsters dress up as their favorite characters from movies, books or video games for a fun get-together featuring snacks and games. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

LEGO BUILDERS: Elementary-age imagineers explore, create and participate in challenges after school. Ages 8 and up, or ages 6 and up with an adult helper.

South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

MINUTE TO WIN IT CHALLENGES FOR TEENS: Competitive kids in grades 6 and up enter the splash zone for the chance to win water-based games. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6956.

NESTLINGS FIND NATURE: Budding naturalists ages 4 through 8 learn all about birds, flowers and everything else that lives, grows and flies around the museum’s gardens. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Free; donations accepted; preregister.

Info, 434-2167.

SEA LIFE SCAVENGER HUNT: Little marine biologists who find all the sea life posters around the library get a prize.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM: Kids ages 18 and under pick up free meals all summer long. Trinity Educational Center, South Burlington, 7:30-9, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. & 4-6

FRIDAY MOVIES: Little film buffs congregate in the library’s Katie O’Brien Activity Room for an afterschool screening of a G-rated movie. See southburlingtonlibrary.org for each week’s title. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 846-4140.

JUL. 29-31 | FAMILY FUN Bald Mountain Theater’s annual family-favorite folktale remix series returns this weekend with a new show built around legends from the steppes of Kazakhstan. Using minimal props and costumes, five actors and two musicians bring these tales — originally told in small, nomadic villages — to life with Bald Mountain’s signature wit and imagination. Four fables tell of underdogs who defy expectations and use their ingenuity and magic to survive in a stark, wildly beautiful land.

BABYTIME: Teeny-tiny library patrons enjoy a gentle, slow story time featuring songs, rhymes and lap play. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

chittenden county

FINAL PARTY WITH NO STRINGS MARIONETTE: Brownell Library celebrates the end of the summer reading season with a swashbuckling pirate puppet show.

Maple Street Park, Essex Junction, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

BENJAMIN ROESCH: Phoenix Books celebrates the launch of Blowin’ My Mind Like a Summer Breeze, a rock-and-roll young adult story set in the 1990s. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 448-3350.

burlington

SPLASH DANCE: Kids soak up some summer fun in the fountain while DJs spin family-friendly tracks. Burlington City Hall Park, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

END-OF-THE-SUMMER PARTY FOR GRADES K-5!: There are “Oceans of Possibilities” at this revel for readers: treats, raffles, movie time and more.

South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

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

burlington

Friday, July 29, and Saturday, July 30, 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, July 31, 2 p.m., at Spice Studio in Rochester. $15. Info, 767-4800, baldmountaintheater.org. p.m. Free; preregister; limited space.

Info, 777-8080.

burlington

SEA LIFE SCAVENGER HUNT: See WED.27, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM: See WED.27.

SUMMER TODDLERTIME: Miss Kelly and her puppets, Bainbow and La-La, lead a lively, interactive story time just right for wiggly wee ones. Ages 1 through 3.

South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

stowe/smuggs

BABY & TODDLER MEETUP: Tiny tots and their caregivers come together for playtime, puzzles and picture books. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

mad river valley/ waterbury

SWIM STORIES: Youth librarians from Brownell Library dive into stories, songs and rhymes. Maple Street Park, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-6956.

MODERN TIMES THEATER: Punch and Judy plow through a melodrama of puny proportions in this funny bone-tickling puppet show. Ages 5 and up. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-3403.

JUBAL HARP & SONG: Judi Byron plays folk ditties, rhymes, and counting and movement songs for babies, toddlers and preschoolers to sing and dance along to. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

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L.I.F.T. (LGBTQIA+ INSPIRATION & FRIENDSHIP AMONG TEENS): Queer and trans kids ages 13 through 18 build connections, pursue their interests and find empowerment together. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:304:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

WEDNESDAY CRAFTERNOON: A new project is on the docket each week, from puppets to knitting to decoupage.

Ages 7 and up. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, youthservices@ centenniallibrary.org.

upper valley

STORY TIME!: Songs and stories are shared in the garden, or in the community room in inclement weather.

Norwich Public Library, 10-11 a.m. Free.

Info, 649-1184.

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.27, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

END-OF-THE-SUMMER PARTY FOR INFANTS THROUGH 4 YEAR OLDS: Little library patrons wrap up the reading season with stories, songs, rhymes and playtime. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11 a.m. Free.

Info, 846-4140.

LEGO CLUB: Children of all ages get crafty with Legos. Adult supervision is required for kids under 10. Winooski Memorial Library, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 655-6424.

PRESCHOOL MUSIC WITH LINDA BASSICK: The singer and storyteller extraordinaire leads little ones in indoor music and movement. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

PRESCHOOL PLAYTIME: Pre-K patrons play and socialize out on the patio.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

READ TO A DOG: Little ones get a 10-minute time slot to tell stories to Lola the pup. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

‘MADAGASCAR’: Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo have their peaceful but boring zoo lives upended in this animated classic.

Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 775-0903.

upper valley

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

northeast kingdom

‘WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY’: Gene Wilder shines as the reclusive chocolatier in the 1971 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s charming novella.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.27, 12:30-1:15 p.m.

RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace featuring live music connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 881-1249.

SEA LIFE SCAVENGER HUNT: See WED.27.

SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM: See WED.27.

barre/montpelier

SUMMER MORNING PROGRAM: Readers ages 7 and under enjoy outdoor stories, songs and water play. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

stowe/smuggs

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Players ages 9 through 13 go on a fantasy adventure with dungeon master Andy. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:304:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 888-3853.

upper valley

STORY TIME: Preschoolers take part in stories, songs and silliness. Latham Library, Thetford, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

northeast kingdom

‘THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG’: Disney’s first animated movie starring a Black princess injects a classic fairy tale with New Orleans jazz. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 748-2600.

ACORN CLUB STORY TIME: Kids 5 and under play, sing, hear stories and take home a fun activity. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 745-1391.

OPEN STAGE: Local high school students put on an all-ages open mic.

Catamount ArtPort, St. Johnsbury, 6:309:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

randolph/royalton

‘THERE ONCE WAS...’: Bald Mountain Theater brings audiences to the steppes of Asia with folktales from Kazakhstan set to music and adapted to the stage.

See calendar spotlight. Spice Performing Arts Studio, Rochester, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $15. Info, 767-4800.

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agriculture

THURSDAYS IN THE GARDEN: Horticulturalist Chad Donovan helps home gardeners upgrade their game with a new lesson every week. Red Wagon Plants, Hinesburg, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 482-4060.

business

HIRING2DAYVT VIRTUAL JOB FAIR: The Vermont Department of Labor gives job seekers a chance to meet with employers from around the state.

11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 828-4000.

community

FREE STORE: Neighbors swap books, kitchenware, shoes, clothing and small items of all kinds.

BALE Community Space, South Royalton, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 498-8438.

SUMMER SUMMIT ON HOMELESSNESS: SOLD OUT. Hilary Melton of Pathways Vermont keynotes this Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness conference seeking to ensure that people living in Vermont have safe, affordable housing. Vermont Technical College, Randolph, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 595-1232.

crafts

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

etc.

MUSIC ON THE FARM: DOBET GNAHORÉ: Farm-fresh foods and Ivorian Afro-pop beats are on the menu at a pastoral party. Fable

FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

art Find visual art exhibits and events in the Art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

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Farm Fermentory, Barnard, 5:30-9 p.m. $5-20; preregister; limited space. Info, 234-1645.

fairs & festivals

BARRE HERITAGE FESTIVAL & HOMECOMING DAYS: See WED.27, 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m.

COURTESY OF SHANNON ALEXANDER PHOTOGRAPHY

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SUMMERVALE 2022: Locavores fête farms and farmers at a weekly festival centered on food, music, community and conservation. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 660-0440.

film

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.27.

‘PRIMA FACIE’: Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer plays a young barrister grappling with the failings of the legal system in this tour de force filmed live from London’s Harold Pinter Theatre. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $615. Info, 748-2600.

‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.27.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.27.

food & drink

CALIFORNIA CHARDONNAY: A THROW DOWN: Golden wines from the Golden State compete to best tasters’ taste buds. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

FARM NIGHT AT EARTHKEEP FARMCOMMON: A regenerative farming collective hosts a market featuring fresh produce, food trucks and unbeatable views of the mountains. Earthkeep Farmcommon, Charlotte, 4:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, info@ earthkeepfarmcommon.com.

ROYALTON FARMERS MARKET: Local farmers sell their produce, bread and eggs to villagers. South Royalton Town Green, 3-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 763-8302.

VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET: Local foods and crafts, live music, and hot eats spice up Thursday afternoons. Vergennes City Park, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-9180.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: A lively group plays a classic, tricky game in pairs. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 6-7 p.m. Free;

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LISTEN UP: ERIN EVARTS: The executive director of Lyric Theatre takes the stage in the TED Talk-reminiscent speaker series hosted by Gina Stevensen and Quinn Rol. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

‘ELF THE MUSICAL’: It’s Christmas in July when the Lamoille County Players bring the beloved tale of Buddy from screen to stage. Hyde Park Opera House, 7 p.m. $5-20.

Info, 888-4507.

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.27.

FLICKS IN THE PARK: ‘SUMMER OF SOUL’: Part concert film, part historical documentary, Questlove’s directorial debut unearths forgotten footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. DJ Disco Phantom opens. Burlington City Hall Park, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7166.

talks

theater

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

FILMMAKING ESSENTIALS WITH THE MEDIA FACTORY: Aspiring auteurs learn the fundamentals of camera work, lighting and green screen setup. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

racetrack’s 2022 season continues with the annual nail-biting Port-a-Potty Grand Prix. Thunder Road Speed Bowl, Barre, 7-10 p.m. $5-30; free for kids under 6. Info, info@thunderroadvt.com.

Rock On

‘HAIR’: See WED.27, 7 p.m.

The Granite Center of the World transforms into a stone-cold party city this week with four packed days of festivities. With programming celebrating all the art, food, history, music and family-friendly fun that Barre has to offer, there’s something for every age and taste. Participants tour the Vermont Granite Museum and the Rock of Ages quarry, take in a show from the Barre-based art collective the Paletteers, stock up on fresh produce from the farmers market, sample sweets in a French dessert competition, try out Jazzercise at City Hall Park, take in the barbershop stylings of the Barre-Tones, and much more.

BARRE HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND HOMECOMING DAYS Wednesday, July 27, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; Thursday, July 28, 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday, July 29, 8 a.m.-12:30 a.m.; and Saturday, July 30, 7:30 a.m.-12:30 a.m., at various Barre locations. Prices vary. Info, 477-2967, thebarrepartnership.com. preregister. Info, morrisville bridge@outlook.com.

WHIST CARD GAME CLUB: Players of all experience levels congregate for some friendly competition. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 12:30-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 888-3853.

health & fitness

their local ensemble. St. Mark Catholic Parish, Burlington, 6:458:45 p.m. Free. Info, burlington concertbandvt@gmail.com.

DELLA MAE: Contagious charisma carries the Nashville-based string band through a lively outdoor bluegrass concert. Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 333-4311.

CHAIR YOGA WITH LINDA: Every week is a new adventure in movement and mindfulness at this Morristown Centennial Library virtual class.

10:15-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

THE LATE-NIGHT CABARET: Weston Theater performers warble and high-kick their way through an unforgettable hour of tastefully irreverent music and mayhem. Walker Farm, Weston, 10-11 p.m. $15-60. Info, 824-5288.

lgbtq

MICHELE FAY BAND: The bluegrass band arrives, banjos and mandolins in hand, for a night of live music on the farmstead. Isham Family Farm, Williston, 7-8:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 388-6863.

WRJ PRIDE: RAINBOW TRIVIA WITH SGT. GEORGE: Queer and trans folks test their recall for the chance to win prizes including train tickets to Boston.

Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, wrjpride@gmail.com.

music

‘BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: THE MUSIC OF ROBERTA FLACK AND DONNY HATHAWAY’: See WED.27.

BEN & JERRY’S CONCERTS ON THE GREEN: NORAH JONES: SOLD OUT. The Grammy Awardwinning songstress showcases her velvety voice. Shelburne Museum, 7 p.m. $99; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 652-0777.

BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND REHEARSAL SITE: Experienced musicians are welcome to join

MUSIC ON THE FARM SERIES: The Vermont Symphony Orchestra Quartet performs works by Bach, Haydn and more. Pittsford Village Farm, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 775-0903.

PARKAPALOOZA: BARIKA: The West African funk masters stop by this family-friendly outdoor concert series, also featuring a 100-foot Slip ’N Slide. Hubbard Park, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 225-8699.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: PATTI CASEY, TOM MACKENZIE, LEE BLACKWELL & CHRIS JENNINGS: Old-time bluegrass makes for an excellent open-air hoedown. Jaquith Public Library,

Marshfield, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 426-3581.

THURSDAYS BY THE LAKE: NEW NILE ORCHESTRA: This band’s high-energy infectious rhythms combined with remarkable dancing and singing inspire everyone to smile and get up and dance.

Union Station, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018.

outdoors

MERCY ON THE MOVE: Mercy Connections leads a weekly, relaxed walk along the waterfront, perfect for making friends and finding a supportive community.

Mercy Connections, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 846-7063.

politics

THOUGHT CLUB: Artists and activists convene to engage with Burlington‘s rich tradition of radical thought and envision its future. Democracy Creative, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, tevan@democracycreative.com.

TOWN HALL EVENT ON THE OPIOID CRISIS: Democratic candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives address the addiction epidemic’s widespread and growing impact on Vermonters.

Jenna’s House, Johnson, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 343-8741.

sports

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See WED.27.

WDEV RADIO/CALKINS PORTABLE TOILETS NIGHT: The

‘MARRY ME A LITTLE’: See WED.27, 7 p.m.

‘OUR TOWN’: Stowe Theatre Guild presents this classic play about the lives and times of the smalltown inhabitants of Grover’s Corners. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 253-3961.

‘RED’: Ambition and vulnerability go hand in hand in this drama based on the true story of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 5 p.m. $25-34.

Info, 518-962-4449.

‘THE SEAGULL’: Questions of art and philosophy get tangled up with sordid interpersonal drama in this production of Anton Chekhov’s comedy. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 456-8968.

words

PENS & PAGES: Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman serves as inspiration for discussion and writing exercises in this Mercy Connections reading group focused on Black people’s experiences. Mercy Connections, Burlington, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 846-7063.

PHOENIX BOOKS VIRTUAL POETRY OPEN MIC: Wordsmiths read their work at an evening with local performance poet Bianca Amira Zanella. 7 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 855-8078.

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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY YARD & ATTIC SALE: Bargain hunters and treasure seekers pick up antique furniture and other vintage finds. Proceeds support Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity.

Bethany United Church of Christ, Randolph, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 522-8611.

community

RUTLAND CELEBRATES AMTRAK SERVICE: Citizens and city officials celebrate the start of Ethan Allen Express service between Burlington and New York City with

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a lunch and remarks. James M. Jeffords Station, Rutland, 11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 773-2747.

conferences

NATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS GATHERING: Indigenous leaders and scientists from around the world gather to caretake each other and the Earth. Virtual options available. See sunray. org for full schedule. Sunray Peace Village, Lincoln, 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, eldersgathering@sunray.org.

dance

‘WE’: Moving between locations, audiences witness dancers Emily Coates and Emmanuèle Phuon as they grapple with themes of climate collapse and our ancient connections to the Earth and

the stars. Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 & 7 p.m. $15-25; preregister; limited space. Info, 603-646-2422.

etc.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.27.

PIZZA BY THE POND: A woodfired oven warms pies made of local ingredients while local bands regale diners. Blueberry Hill Inn, Goshen, 5-8 p.m. $22-35; free for kids 5 and under; preregister; limited space. Info, 247-6735.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.27.

fairs & festivals

ARTSRIOT TRUCK STOP: Mobile kitchens dish out mouthwatering meals and libations. Live DJs and outdoor entertainment add to the fun. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 4:30-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 540-0406.

BARRE HERITAGE FESTIVAL & HOMECOMING DAYS: See WED.27, 8 a.m.-midnight.

‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.27.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.27.

food & drink

BURGER, BREW & PASTURE WALK: An educational dairy

farm tour follows a meal of juicy, grass-fed burgers from Hamilton Cattle and local beer from Liambru Tasty. Baird Farm, North Chittenden, 5:30-8 p.m. $15-30; preregister. Info, 558-8443.

FRIDAY NIGHTS @ THE FARM: TGIF just got even better, thanks to this weekly gathering of friends, food trucks and ice cream at Fisher Brothers Farm. Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream, Shelburne, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 495-5165.

THE PEOPLE’S FARMSTAND: Volunteers hand out fresh, local produce for free every Friday.

Pomeroy Park, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

POP-UP BEER GARDEN BY FULL BARREL COOPERATIVE BREWERY: The Queen City’s first co-op brewery pours pints out in the sunshine. 12-22 North

Street, Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Price of food and drink. Info, 518-649-6464.

health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.27.

BONE BUILDERS/ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.27.

ONLINE GUIDED MEDITATION: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library invites attendees to relax on their lunch breaks and reconnect with their bodies. Noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org.

Presented by Norman Williams Public Library. 8:30-9:30 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, programs@ normanwilliams.org.

SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: A sequence of slow, controlled motions aids in strength and balance. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 229-1549.

language

SOCIAL HOUR: The Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region hosts a cocktail hour.

Juniper Bar & Restaurant, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, btvescargot@ gmail.com.

QIGONG WITH GERRY SANDWEISS: Beginners learn this ancient Chinese practice of meditative movement.

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WRJ PRIDE: QUEERAOKE: From show tunes to iconic gay pop songs, this karaoke night hosted by two pianists and a DJ has something for every singer.

Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, wrjpride@gmail.com.

music

ATLANTIC CROSSING: Rick Klein, Viveka Fox and Peter Macfarlane share their special mix of folk songs from Québec, Maritime Canada, the British Isles and New England. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7:30-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

Info, 352-6671.

‘BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: THE MUSIC OF ROBERTA FLACK AND DONNY HATHAWAY’: See WED.27, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

CARILLON SERIES: CARLA STAFFARONI: The Middlebury alum plays a heavenly program on the historic bell organ. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

THE LATE-NIGHT CABARET: See THU.28.

LEVITT AMP ST. JOHNSBURY MUSIC SERIES: ADAM EZRA GROUP: The Boston folk band gives a rocking outdoor concert on Railroad St. Downtown St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

MUSIC JAM: Local instrumentalists of all ability levels gather to make sweet music.

BALE Community Space, South Royalton, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 498-8438.

POSTMODERN JUKEBOX: ‘THE GRAND REOPENING TOUR’: Better late than never! The pop-jazz phenomenon gets the ‘20s roaring again with their trademark retro-style covers.

Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8-10 p.m. $40-75. Info, 775-0903.

FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

art Find visual art exhibits and events in the Art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at theaters in the On Screen section.

music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/ music.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

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SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: PAINTED BIRDS: Psychedelic soundscapes and hard-hitting harmonies reveal this quartet’s undeniable chemistry built on years of friendship. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7166.

COURTESY OF MEGHAN MOORE

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‘TRANSFIGURED NIGHT’: A faculty ensemble from Point Counterpoint music camp delivers a program featuring romantic, uplifting work by Richard Lane and Arnold Schoenberg. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

Info, 382-9222.

ST. JOHNSBURY FARMERS MARKET: Growers and crafters gather weekly at booths centered on local eats. Pearl St. & Eastern Ave., St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, cfmamanager@gmail. com.

outdoors

talks

SCOTT MACLACKLAN: A retired veterinarian shares insights from a lifetime working with the loons of the White Mountains. Poultney Public Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 287-5556.

theater

‘ELF THE MUSICAL’: See THU.28.

‘HAIR’: See WED.27, 7 p.m.

‘LA TRAVIATA’: See WED.27.

‘MARRY ME A LITTLE’: See WED.27, 7 p.m.

‘OUR TOWN’: See THU.28.

‘RED’: See THU.28, 7:30 p.m.

‘THE SEAGULL’: See THU.28.

‘THE THEORY OF OUR NEEDS’: Feats of circus and puppetry tell the story of how music in our ears and dirt between our toes can liberate us from our consumerist culture. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 6:30 p.m. $10-25 suggested donation. Info, 525-3031.

SAT.30 bazaars

DISCOVERY SALE: Auctioneers sell historic clothing, fabrics and accessories — hailing from the 1700s through the 1990s — to the highest bidder. Augusta Auction Company, Bellows Falls, 11 a.m.

Prices vary. Info, 463-3333.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY YARD & ATTIC SALE: See FRI.29, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

MISSION BAZAAR OUTDOOR MARKET: Local vendors sell clothes, furniture, jewelry, accessories, iced tea, vintage and hand made items, doughnuts, bicycles, home decor, and so much more.

Mission Bazaar VT, Burlington, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, missionbazaarvt@gmail.com.

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JANE AUSTEN TEA: Jam out at a most proper Victorian-style tea party complete with scones, clotted cream, finger sandwiches and tea cakes. Readings and discussion explore this popular tradition of the Regency period. Governor’s House in Hyde Park, 2 p.m. $30; preregister. Info, 888-6888.

MORRISVILLE FARMERS MARKET: Lamoille County food producers offer up meats, fish, cheeses, produce and prepared foods. Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy, Morrisville, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, movillefarmers market@gmail.com.

ZACH NUGENT: The sought-after guitarist brings together an allstar lineup of local musicians in the style of Jerry Garcia’s Almost Acoustic. Shelburne Vineyard, 6-8 p.m. $10-12. Info, 985-8222.

MOTHING ON THE CANOPY WALK: Using a light and a sheet, entomology enthusiasts of all ages attract hundreds of nocturnal insects. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 8-10 p.m. $7.50-12.50; preregister. Info, 359-5000.

Info, montpelierfarmersmarket@ gmail.com.

SUMMER BERRY DINNER: SOLD OUT. A gourmet, grilled meal and paired cocktails celebrate all things sweet and fruity. Adam’s Berry Farm, Charlotte, 5:30-8 p.m. $167; preregister; limited space.

Info, 248-224-7539.

You’ve Got a Friend Close friends and R&B stars Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway had critically acclaimed solo careers before they teamed up, but their 1972 duet album Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway catapulted both artists into the stratosphere and sold a million copies.

Celebrating the iconic hits and legendary friendship of these two greats, husband-andwife Broadway duo Christina Acosta Robinson and Ken Robinson present a theatrical concert featuring some of the most mellifluous music of the 1970s, including “Where Is the Love” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’.”

‘BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: THE MUSIC OF ROBERTA FLACK AND DONNY HATHAWAY’ Preview on Wednesday, July 27, 7:30 p.m.; opening night on Thursday, July 28, 7:30 p.m., at Dorset Playhouse. See website for additional dates. $46. Info, 867-2223, dorsettheatrefestival.org.

community

ROADSIDE MARKER DEDICATION & REENACTMENT: The Ira Historical Society celebrates the town’s iconic 18th-century town hall alongside Revolutionary War reenactors from the Massachusetts 3rd Regiment.

Ira Town Hall, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 235-2604.

conferences

NATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS GATHERING: See FRI.29, 7 a.m.-9 p.m.

dance

LET’S DANCE, YOU SEXY THING, TO THE ‘70S, ‘80S & ‘90S HITS!: DJs play that funky music so dancers can get footloose at this retro, open-air party that runs till the wee hours. Farr’s Field, Waterbury, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 917-886-3270.

MONTPELIER CONTRA DANCE: To live tunes and gender-neutral calling, dancers balance, shadow and do-si-do the night away. N95, KN94, KN95 or 3-ply procedure/ surgical nonwoven masks required. Capital City Grange, Berlin, 8-11 p.m. $5-20. Info, 225-8921.

‘WE’: See FRI.29.

fairs & festivals

BARRE HERITAGE FESTIVAL & HOMECOMING DAYS: See WED.27, 7:30 a.m.-midnight.

CABOT ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL: Chad Hollister, Reggie Harris, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem, and Modern Times Theater are among the acts at this multigenre festival also featuring crafts vendors, food trucks and a sculpture exhibit. Cabot Village Common, noon-10 p.m. $20-40; free for kids 16 and under. Info, 793-3016.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW: Sparkling specimens dazzle attendees during a weekend of eye-catching exhibits, lectures and more. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3-4; free for kids under 16. Info, westiegirl703@ gmail.com.

VERMONT BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL: Blueberry buffs gather for a day of prizes and surprises, featuring fruity treats, live music and a pie-baking contest.

Craftsbury Common, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 586-8022.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.27.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.27.

‘MADAMA BUTTERFLY’: Soprano Patricia Racette takes the title role in the Metropolitan Opera’s filmed production of Puccini’s classic about the disastrous love between a geisha and an American lieutenant. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600.

‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.27.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.27.

food & drink

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: Dozens of stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisanal wares and prepared foods.

Burlington Farmers Market, 345 Pine St., 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 560-5904.

CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET: Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, baked goods, locally made arts and crafts, and live music. 133 State St., Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

SUMMER SAMPLING SERIES: Local makers and growers serve up bites for tasting. Mad River Taste Place, Waitsfield, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 496-3165.

health & fitness

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

music

‘BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: THE MUSIC OF ROBERTA FLACK AND DONNY HATHAWAY’: See WED.27.

‘BETTE, BABS AND BEYOND’: Opera North singers celebrate the great divas with a medley of classic songs from Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Barbara Streisand and more. Blow-MeDown Farm, Cornish, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-25; free for kids under 5. Info, 603-448-0400.

THE BLUE MOON BAND: The local ensemble honors the jazz greats with a selection straight out of the Great American Songbook.

Shelburne Vineyard, 7-9 p.m. $5.

Info, 985-8222.

NORWICH UNIVERSITY 2022 BELL CONCERT SERIES: Every week, a new carillonneur sets the bells of the Charlotte Nichols Greene Memorial Carillon a-ringing. Norwich University, Northfield, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2066.

TUNES & BLOOMS FOR UKRAINE: Surf rock band the High Breaks and Latin band Mal Maïz play to raise funds for BlueCheck Ukraine.

Food, drink and fresh-cut sunflowers available for purchase. vTerra Farms, Starksboro, 4:30-9 p.m. $18.

Info, marisa@vterrafarms.com.

YANKEE BRASS BAND: Members of this ensemble assemble from across the country for a 19thcentury-inspired show. Billings

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Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 2 p.m. Regular admission, $8-17; free for members and kids 3 and under. Info, 457-2355.

outdoors

BIRD FRIENDLY FORESTS WALK AT CADY HILL FOREST: Audubon Vermont hosts a guided, bird- and sustainability-themed walk to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the local land trust. Cady Hill Forest, Stowe, 1-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, barry@stowe landtrust.org.

JULY BIRD-MONITORING WALK: Birders at every experience level join museum staff in recording all the feathery friends living on the grounds. BYO binoculars. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7:30-9 a.m. $5-10 suggested donation; preregister; limited space.

Info, 434-2167.

SUMMER SATURDAY RIVER WALKS: Walkers and waders search for fish and otters while learning how to understand and protect their local waterway. Ages 5 and up. North Branch Nature

Center, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 229-6206.

sports

MOOSALAMOO ULTRA: Daring runners race either 14 or 36 miles, waving to bears and taking in stunning mountain views along the way. Blueberry Hill Inn, Goshen, 8 a.m. $80-110; preregister. Info, will@ironwood adventureworks.com.

WEEKLY EVENT: Racers tear up the track in pursuit of the title. Devil’s Bowl Speedway, West Haven, 7 p.m. $5-20; drive-in free for kids 12 and under. Info, 265-3112.

theater

‘EARTH KEEPERS: A MINDFULNESS-BASED MUSICAL’: Cultivating Peace Vermont presents an interactive original musical about the interconnectedness of all Earth’s creatures. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 1:15-2 & 5:30-6:15 p.m. Free. Info, cultivatingpeacevermont@gmail. com.

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burlington

BIRDING IN BURLINGTON FOR YOUTH: Audubon Vermont leads a story time, craft and birding expedition around the library. Ages 5 through 11. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 863-3403.

SPLASH DANCE: See FRI.29, 1-3 p.m.

chittenden county

BLUEBERRY JAMS: Families pick berries while enjoying live music and beautiful Vermont vistas. Covered Bridge Blueberry Farm, Underhill, 4-7 p.m. $7 per quart. Info, coveredbridge blueberryfarm@gmail.com.

KARMA KIDZ YOGA OPEN STUDIO SATURDAYS: Young yogis of all ages and their caregivers drop in for some fun breathing and movement activities.

Kamalika-K, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Donations. Info, 871-5085.

barre/montpelier

CHILD CAR SEAT INSPECTION EVENT: Nationally certified technicians make sure your child’s car seat is safe.

Berlin Volunteer Fire Department, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, sidney.bradley@ vermont.gov.

middlebury area

‘MARRY ME A LITTLE’: See WED.27.

‘OUR TOWN’: See THU.28, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘RED’: See THU.28, 7:30 p.m.

‘THE SEAGULL’: See THU.28.

words

PAWLET PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK SALE: With more than 20,000 new and used books for sale, this is one of the largest bookish bazaars in New England. Mettawee Community School, West Pawlet, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 325-3123.

SUN.31 bazaars

DISCOVERY SALE: See SAT.30.

conferences

NATIVE AMERICAN ELDERS GATHERING: See FRI.29, 7 a.m.-5 p.m.

‘ELF THE MUSICAL’: See THU.28.

FAMILY FUN

FRI.29

‘HAIR’: See WED.27.

BIRD CRAFTS FOR KIDS: Crafters ages 3 through 10 and their families learn

about bird anatomy and behaviors through coloring, constructing and play.

Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, Vergennes, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, rose.watts@vermont.gov.

champlain islands/ northwest

CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY HOUR: Drop-in activities inspired by the museum’s exhibits include crafts, movies, games, gardening and more. Saint Albans Museum, St. Albans, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 527-7933.

randolph/royalton

‘THERE ONCE WAS...’: See FRI.29.

SUN.31

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.27, 10:15-11:15 a.m.

randolph/royalton

‘THERE ONCE WAS...’: See FRI.29, 2-3 p.m.

crafts

BLAST FROM THE PAST: HISTORIC CLOCK & WATCHES AFTERNOON: Green Mountain Timekeepers Society members take up residence on the porch and answer questions about vintage clocks and repairs. Chimney Point State Historic Site, Addison, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 828-3051.

fairs & festivals

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW: See SAT.30.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.27.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.27.

‘JACK LONDON’S MARTIN EDEN’: A poor sailor falls for a highsociety lady in this new adaptation of the classic autobiographical novel. Q&A with director Jay Craven follows. Town Hall Theater,

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM: See WED.27.

mad river valley/ waterbury

TINY TOTS: Tiny tykes have fun, hear stories and meet new friends with Ms. Cynthia. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

upper valley

PUPPET MAKING WORKSHOP: Handy kids and kids-at-heart learn to make a puppet designed by Thetford’s own PuppeTree. Latham Library, Thetford, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

TUE.2

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.27, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

burlington

MON.1

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.27.

SING-ALONG WITH LINDA BASSICK: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and wiggle along with Linda.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

burlington

chittenden county

STORIES WITH MEGAN: Bookworms ages 2 through 5 enjoy fun-filled reading time. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

INDOOR PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Small groups enjoy a cozy session of reading, rhyming and singing. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

POLLINATOR EVENT WITH JERRY SCHNEIDER: Little ones learn about these super beneficial bugs, then decorate a T-shirt with bees and butterflies.

PLAYGROUP & FAMILY SUPPORT: Families with children under age 5 play and connect with others in the community. Winooski Memorial Library, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 655-6424.

Middlebury, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 382-9222.

Junction, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4200.

‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.27.

WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET: Families shop for fresh produce, honey, meats, coffee and prepared foods from more seasonal vendors at an outdoor marketplace. Champlain Mill Green, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, farmersmarket@downtown winooski.org.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.27.

STOWE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: ‘MAMBONIKS AHORA!’: The festival closes out with a screening of a documentary about the Mambo craze among Jewish social dancers in the 1950s. Reception and dancing follow. Jewish Community of Greater Stowe, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 760-4634.

food & drink

24TH VERMONT FRESH NETWORK ANNUAL FORUM DINNER: Local farmers and chefs partner up to prepare provisions for patrons. Proceeds benefit participating restaurants and farmto-table programming. Shelburne Farms, 5-8 p.m. $150; preregister.

Info, 434-2000.

MAVERICK MARKET: High-quality products from Vermont artisans, as well as food truck fare and live music, populate a weekly bazaar. Essex Experience, Essex

stowe/smuggs

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

STEAM AFTERSCHOOL: Kids learn art, science and math through games and crafts, including paper airplane races, Lego competitions and origami. Ages 6 and up. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

upper valley

BABY STORY TIME: Librarians and finger-puppet friends introduce babies 20 months and younger to the joy of reading. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 457-2295.

BEACH STORY TIME: All ages are welcome to a George Peabody Library read-aloud under the gazebo next to the lake. Treasure Island, Fairlee, noon.

Free. Info, 333-9724.

randolph/royalton

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT & ACTION: Activists ages 14 through 18 discuss community service, climate action, LGBTQ rights and social justice. BALE Community Space, South Royalton, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 498-8438.

WED.3

health & fitness

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: New and experienced meditators are always welcome to join this weekly practice in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hahn.

Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 6:30-8:15 p.m. Free. Info, newleaf sangha@gmail.com.

SUNDAY MORNING MEDITATION: Mindful folks experience sitting and walking meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Shambhala Meditation Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, lungta108@gmail.com.

SUN.31

chittenden county BABYTIME: See WED.27.

LEGO BUILDERS: See WED.27.

SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM: See WED.27.

barre/montpelier

‘HOLD THIS’: A HANDFUL OF NATURE: Carolyn Cory Scoppettone, author of the picture book Hold This, leads a StoryWalk and puppet craft with Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Ages 5 and up. Hubbard Park, Montpelier, 1 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-3338.

FAMILY FUN NIGHTS: BUG WALK: Michael Sanbourin teaches about beetles and butterflies in the great outdoors. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

stowe/smuggs

WEDNESDAY CRAFTERNOON: See WED.27.

mad river valley/ waterbury

QUEER READS: LGTBQIA+ and allied youth get together each month to read and discuss ideas around gender, sexuality and identity. Waterbury Public Library, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

rutland/killington

‘CRUELLA’: A recent 101 Dalmatians prequel stars Emma Stone as everyone’s favorite dog-hating fashionista.

Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 775-0903.

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME ON THE GREEN: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library leads half an hour of stories, rhymes and songs. Williston Town Green, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

BEACH READ BOOK CLUB: Brownell Library patrons in grades 9 through 12 dive into A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow. 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM: See WED.27.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.27.

STORY TIME!: See WED.27.

VIRTUAL INTO THE BLUE BOOK CLUB: Readers ages 10 through 14 discuss Peter and the Starcatchers

by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson.

Presented by Brownell Library. 3-4 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 878-6956.

northeast kingdom

TODDLERTIME: Kids ages 1 through 3 and their caregivers join Miss Kelly and her puppets Bainbow and La-La for story time. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 846-4140.

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SUMMER READING CELEBRATION: Children’s author Natalie KinseyWarnock tells stories, and every kid in attendance gets two free books at this bookworm’s bash. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1391. K

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language

IRISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Celtic-curious students learn to speak an Ghaeilge in a supportive group. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-3403.

music

‘HAIR’: See WED.27, 3 p.m.

‘LA TRAVIATA’: See WED.27, 2 p.m.

‘THE SEAGULL’: See THU.28, 1:303:30 p.m.

words

PAWLET PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK SALE: See SAT.30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

MON.1

‘BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: THE MUSIC OF ROBERTA FLACK AND DONNY HATHAWAY’: See WED.27, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.27.

BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND: Local music lovers bring lawn chairs (and dogs, if available) to a weekly big-band blowout. Battery Park, Burlington, 7-8:45 p.m. Free.

Info, burlingtonconcertbandvt@ gmail.com.

‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.27.

GREEN MOUNTAIN BRASS BAND: More than 25 local musicians deliver a mix of classic and contemporary tunes. Island Arts, North Hero, 6:30-8 p.m. $15. Info, 372-8889.

LEVITT AMP ST. JOHNSBURY MUSIC SERIES: JOCELYN & CHRIS: Picnickers discover that rock is not dead when this hitmaking duo takes the stage. Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury, 5 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-2600.

WESTFORD CONCERT SERIES: SHELLHOUSE: The rock outfit brings its mix of classics and original tunes to the outdoor gazebo stage. Westford Common, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 363-0930.

outdoors

TOUR OF WATERBURY DAM: Visitors explore a reforested encampment and discover how the Civilian Conservation Corps saved the Winooski Valley from flooded ruin. Call to confirm. Meet at the top of the dam. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $3-5; free for kids 3 and under. Info, 244-7103.

sports

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.27.

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.27.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See THU.28, 1-2 p.m.

health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.27.

BONE BUILDERS/ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.27.

WEEKLY CHAIR YOGA: Those with mobility challenges or who are new to yoga practice balance and build strength through gentle, supported movements.

Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 3 p.m. Free; preregister; donations accepted. Info, 223-3322.

lgbtq

LGBTQ+ OPEN GENRE WRITING GROUP: Queer and trans wordsmiths write together and share their work in a supportive environment. Preregister for location.

6-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, jacob@pridecentervt. org.

SEMINAR ON VERMONT STATE INSURANCE OPTIONS: LGBTQ Vermonters learn about the specific healthcare options open to them.

Hosted by Grace Cottage Hospital and Out in the Open. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ weareoutintheopen.org.

music

COLCHESTER TRIATHLON: Brave athletes bike, run and kayak or swim to the finish line. Bayside Park, Colchester, 8-11 a.m. $55115; preregister; limited space.

Info, 264-5640.

ST. JOHNSBURY TOWN BAND: The nation’s third-oldest community band regales locals during a weekly ice cream social.

Caledonia County Courthouse, St. Johnsbury, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 748-8575.

theater

seminars

‘THE ANTI-APOCALYPSE PROPAGANDA CIRCUS AND PAGEANT’: Sideshows, spectacle, live music and feats of derring-do meet the moment at hand. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 3 p.m. $10. Info, 525-3031.

‘ELF THE MUSICAL’: See THU.28, 2 p.m.

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words

ADDISON COUNTY WRITERS COMPANY: Poets, playwrights, novelists and memoirists of every experience level meet weekly for an MFA-style workshop. Swift

SEVEN DAYS JULY 27-AUGUST 3, 2022

7:30 p.m. $13; preregister. Info, 382-9222.

‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.27.

‘RED’: See THU.28.

ATOM & THE ORBITS: 1950s rock and roll meets Louisiana dancehall for an evening of open-air boogying. The Hub Teen Center & Skatepark, Bristol, 4-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 453-3678.

BURLINGTON TAIKO: Onlookers witness a sensory feast of Japanese-inspired drumming and choreography. Plainfield Recreational Field, 4-5 p.m. $20 suggested donation. Info, 498-3173.

House Inn, Middlebury, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, jay@zigzaglitmag.org.

TUE.2

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.27.

VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Employment seekers drop in for tips on résumé writing, applying for jobs and training. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 9:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 888-3853.

TUESDAY FARMERS MARKET: The Ishams put the “farm” back in “farmers market” with vendor stalls and live music out by the barn. Isham Family Farm, Williston, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 872-1525.

business

community

CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP: Brownell Library hosts a virtual roundtable for neighbors to pause and reflect on the news cycle.

10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

HOMESHARING INFO SESSION: Homeowners who could benefit from some additional income find out how their spare room and a compatible housemate could work for them. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT: A block party offers live music by Before This Time, games, activities, a raffle, tasty fare and Milton’s community champion awards presentation. Bombardier Park West, Milton, 5:30-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 893-6655.

crafts

ADULT KNITTERS & CROCHETERS: Fiber artists purl and treble among friends.

Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

dance

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SWING JAM: Locals take to the outdoor dance floor while DJs spin vinyl.

Burlington City Hall Park, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

SWING DANCING: Local Lindy hoppers and jitterbuggers convene at Vermont Swings’ weekly boogie-down. Bring clean shoes.

Beginner lessons, 6:30 p.m.

Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:309 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

etc.

MILTON FARMERS MARKET & MUSIC IN THE PARK: Farmers sell their goodies, local bands bring the beats, and the lawn fills up with cornhole players and giant Jenga tournaments. Bombardier Park West, Milton, 4-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 893-6655.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.27.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.27.

MNFF SUNSET SERIES PRESENTS STREEP WEEK: ‘AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY’: Meryl Streep plays a tempestuous, dying matriarch in this 2013 family tragicomedy.

Swift House Inn, Middlebury,

food & drink

games

PLAY CHESS & BACKGAMMON!: Everyone — beginners and experts, seniors and youngsters — is welcome at this weekly board game night. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

health & fitness

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community

MRF TOUR: COME SEE WHERE YOUR RECYCLING GOES!: See WED.27.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘AMAZON ADVENTURE 3D’: See WED.27.

‘BACKYARD WILDERNESS 3D’: See WED.27.

MNFF SUNSET SERIES PRESENTS STREEP WEEK: ‘THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA’: The special Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival series continues with this beloved comedy starring Meryl Streep as the incorrigible editor in chief of a fashion magazine. Swift House Inn, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $13; preregister. Info, 382-9222.

SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: See FRI.29.

‘SEA MONSTERS 3D’: See WED.27.

language

‘SPACE: UNRAVELING THE COSMOS’: See WED.27.

PAUSE-CAFÉ IN-PERSON FRENCH CONVERSATION: Francophones and French-language learners meet pour parler la belle langue.

Burlington Bay Market & Café, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, pause-cafe+owner@groups.io.

music

CONCERT ON THE FAIRLEE TOWN COMMON: Outdoor audience members take in a show from a new band each week, with prizes and raffles to spice up the evening. Fairlee Town Common, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, contact@ fairleearts.org.

TUESDAY NIGHT LIVE: SUGARLEAF: Veteran Vermont musicians play an eclectic mix of covers ranging from the Grateful Dead to Eric Clapton and everything in between. Legion Field, Johnson, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 730-2943.

outdoors

TUESDAY NIGHT GRAVEL BIKE RIDES: Pedal heads explore their local trails at this weekly meetup.

Three Rivers Path Trailhead Pavilion of the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, St. Johnsbury, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, landanimal adventures@gmail.com.

seminars

WELL-BEING & SELFCARE: TOOLS & PRACTICES: Mercy Connections teaches attendees tools and habits to help relieve tension, recharge their motivation, gain clarity, and see things from new perspectives. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 846-7063.

theater

‘HAIR’: See WED.27, 7 p.m.

words

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

Info, 888-3853.

food & drink

DANVILLE FARMERS MARKET: See WED.27.

DEDALUS FREE WEEKLY WINE TASTINGS: See WED.27.

FEAST FARM STAND: See WED.27.

Pellerin & Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand, Middlesex, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 272-4920.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: THE SIDEWINDERS: Bluegrass picking combines with funky jazz rhythms for an always-surprising show. Burlington City Hall Park, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

TROY MILLETTE: See WED.27.

WILD WOODS SONG CIRCLE: Singers and acoustic instrumentalists gather for an evening of music making. Zoom option available. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free. Info, 775-1182.

outdoors

ROCKIN’ THE GREEN MOUNTAINS GEOLOGY TOUR: See WED.27.

seminars

CHAKRAS MINI SERIES ONLINE: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library teaches attendees how to balance their energy in this four-week class. 2-5 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

KINDLING CONNECTIONS: See WED.27.

talks

MAH-JONGG CLUB: See WED.27.

THOMAS DURANT VISSER: The University of Vermont professor of historic preservation explores how surviving features of the Champlain Islands provide clues to the past. Worthen Library, South Hero, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209.

health & fitness

theater

TRUCKS, TAPS & TUNES: See WED.27.

games

BINGO AT THE EAST VALLEY COMMUNITY HALL: See WED.27.

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.27.

‘HAIR’: See WED.27.

BONE BUILDERS/ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.27.

FARM & FOREST BOOK CLUB: Readers passionate about agriculture and land stewardship discuss My Garden (Book)

by Jamaica Kincaid. Ages 14 and up. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 5:30-7 p.m. $5. Info, afannin@billingsfarm.org. m

CHAIR YOGA: See WED.27.

language

ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: Learners of all abilities practice written and spoken English with trained instructors. Presented by Fletcher Free Library. 6:30-8 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov.

lgbtq

THRIVE QTPOC MOVIE NIGHT: Each month, Pride Center of Vermont virtually screens a movie centered on queer and trans people of color.

6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, thrive@pridecentervt.org.

music

‘BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: THE MUSIC OF ROBERTA FLACK AND DONNY HATHAWAY’: See WED.27, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS FREE MINI CONCERT: See WED.27.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: RAY VEGA BAND: The Nuyorican outfit presents an evening of funky original tunes. Martha

words

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DAVIS STUDIO ART CLASSES: Discover your happy place in one of our weekly classes. Making art boosts emotional well-being and brings joy to your life, especially when you connect with other art enthusiasts. Select the ongoing program that’s right for you.

Now enrolling youth and adults for classes in drawing, painting and fused glass. Location: Davis Studio, 916 Shelburne Rd., South Burlington. Info: 425-2700, davisstudiovt.com.

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GENERATOR is a combination of artist studios, classroom, and business incubator at the intersection of art, science, and technology. We provide tools, expertise, education, and opportunity – to enable all members of our community to create, collaborate, and make their ideas a reality.

RUSH SEAT STOOL WORKSHOP: This workshop will cover how to build a wooden stool as well as how to weave a rush seat.

Participants will each build their own stool, covering joinery and other important details. They will then weave the seat out of rush, learning how to shape and fasten the material. Tue., Aug. 23 & 30, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $225 incl.

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massage CHINESE MEDICAL MASSAGE: This program teaches two forms of East Asian medical massage: Tui Na and shiatsu. We will explore oriental medicine theory and diagnosis, as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, and yinyang and five-element theory.

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VSAC nondegree grants are available. FSMTB-approved program. Starts Sep. 2022. Cost: $6,000/625-hour program.

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shamanism APPRENTICESHIP IN SHAMANISM: Rare opportunity to apprentice locally in a shamanic tradition. To read and learn about this offering, go to heartofthehealer.org. For more details, including cost, location and times, please email thomas. mock1444@gmail.com or text 369-4331. 5 weekends over a year; 1st is Sep. 5-7. Location: St. Albans.

martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training program for men, women and children in a friendly, safe and positive environment.

Julio Cesar “Foca” Fernandez Nunes, CBJJP and IBJJF seventh-degree Carlson Gracie Sr. Coral Belt-certified instructor, teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A two-time World Masters champion, five-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu national champion, three-time Rio de Janeiro state champion and Gracie Challenge champion.

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ARRIVAL DATE: July 8, 2022 SUMMARY: This gorgeous ginger gal would love a quiet home where she can take her time to open up and feel comfortable. She appreciates her human companions, but she prefers that you please pet her with your eyes. A truly low-maintenance lady, she can most often be found enjoying her own company and curling up in a cozy corner. Are you interested in giving a home to Jewels? Stop by HSCC to learn more about her and meet her today!

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO BROWNFIELDS REUSE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY LIMITATION ACT PROGRAM Please take notice that Jared Enterprises, LLC whose mailing address is PO Box 4248, Burlington, VT 05406, is applying to the Vermont Brownfields Reuse and Environmental Liability Limitation Program (10 V.S.A. §6641 et seq.) in connection with the redevelopment of property known as 21-67 Commerce Street in the Town of Williston, Vermont. A copy of the application, which contains a preliminary environmental assessment and a description of the proposed redevelopment project is available for public review at the Town of Williston Clerk’s Office and at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation offices in Montpelier. Comments concerning the application and/or the above referenced documents may be directed to Sarah Bartlett at 802-249-5641 or at sarah. bartlett@vermont.gov. Comments may also be submitted by mail to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management Division, 1 National Life Drive – Davis 1, Montpelier, VT 05620; attention: Sarah Bartlett.

ZA-22-03: Steep Slopes ZA-22-05: Burlington High School Zoning ZA-22-07: Maximum Parking & TDM The public hearing will take place on Monday, August 15, 2022 during the Regular City Council Meeting which begins at 6:00 pm in Contois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT or you may access the hearing/ meeting as follows: On-line: https://us02web.zoom. us/j/86052668548 By telephone : +1 929 205 6099 Webinar ID: 860 5266 8548 Pursuant to the requirements of 24 V.S.A. §4444(b): Statement of purpose:

-ZA-22-03: To identify areas within the city with 15% or steeper slopes and adjacent upslope lands and outline criteria for addressing slope stability and suitability for development - ZA-22-05: To rezone the Burlington High School site on Institute Road to enable public schools as a permitted use in a new Burlington High School Campus Overlay Zone, and rezone the property from the Neighborhood to Multimodal Mixed-Use Parking District

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- ZA-22-07: All areas and zoning districts within the city.

List of section headings affected: The proposed amendments modify the following sections of the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance:

- ZA-22-05: Modifies Sec. 4.4.4-A; Sec. 4.4.4-C; Creates Sec. 4.5.2-B(6) – Burlington High School Campus; Creates Sec. 4.5.2-H – District Specific Regulations: Burlington High School Campus (BHS); Creates Map 4.5.2-8 ICC-BHS: Burlington High School Campus; Creates Sec. 4.5.2.H-4 and 4.5.2.H-5; Modifies Sec. 8.1.3 (c) Multimodal MixedUse Parking District; and amends maps 4.3.1-1 Base Districts, Map 4.4.1-1 Institutional Districts, Map 4.4.6-1 Recreation, Conservation, Open Space Districts, Map 4.5.2-1 Institutional Core Campus Overlay Districts, and Map 8.1.3-1 Parking Districts - ZA-22-07: Modifies Sec. 4.4.1-D, Sec. 4.4.5-D, Sec. 4.5.3-C, Sec. 4.5.6-C, Sec. 5.1.1-C, Sec. 5.1.1-D, Sec. 5.3.6-C, Sec. 5.4.12-A, Sec. 8.1.3, Sec. 8.1.3-A, Sec. 8.1.3-B, Sec. 8.1.3-C, Sec. 8.1.4, Sec. 8.1.5; Deletes Sec. 8.1.6, Sec. 8.1.7; Modifies Sec. 8.1.8; Deletes Table 8.1.8 - Minimum Off-Street Parking Requirements; Modifies Sec. 8.1.9; Modifies Table 8.1.9-1 – Maximum Off-Street Parking Requirements; Modifies Sec. 8.1.9-A, Sec. 8.1.12; Deletes Sec 8.1.15; Modifies Sec. 8.1.16-B; Sec. 8.1.16C; Modifies Sec. 8.3.3, Sec. 8.3.4 and Sec. 8.3.5.

The full text of the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance is available online at www.burlingtonvt.gov/DPI/CDO. Upon request, a hard copy of the proposed amendments can be viewed at the Clerk’s Office located on the second floor of City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or on the department’s website at https://www. burlingtonvt.gov/DPI/CDO/Amendments.

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OCCUPANTS OF: 3200 Sand Road, Ferrisburgh 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 December 6, 2021, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by the late Timothy L. Evans to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for MetLife Home Loans,

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- ZA-22-03: Modifies Sec. 5.2.4; Creates Map 5.2.4.1 – Steep Slopes Overlay District

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NOTICE OF CLOSURE The Winooski Bicycle Shop, 12 West Canal St. Winooski, VT has closed. Anyone with any bikes or bike parts that might have been at this location should contact Dave Kelly at 802-343-0410 to claim same. Any request to obtain said must be made by August 15, 2022 at which point those articles will be considered abandoned.

Geographic areas affected:

- ZA-22-05: The Burlington High School property located at 52 Institute Road.

The purpose of the proposed amendments are as follows:

For more information contact Stephanie H. Monaghan at the address below. Dated this July 18, 2022.

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

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No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before August 11, 2022, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub -criteria 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 person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c) (1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb. vermont.gov/documents/party-status-petitionform, and email it to the District 4 Office at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

-ZA-22-07: To replace minimum parking requirements with maximums, modify transportation demand management requirements, and revise certain use and situational parking standards

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C1341 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6111 On January 18, 2022, St. Michael’s College, Winooski Park, Colchester, VT 05439 and Champlain Housing Trust, 88 King Street, Burlington, VT 05401 filed application number 4C1341 for a project generally described as: (1) subdivide Parcel 2 and Parcel 4 into new Parcel A (3.165 acres), new Parcel B (3.613 acres) and new Parcel C (2.679 acres), and (2) retrofit three existing buildings known as Hamel Hall, Purtill Hall and Dupont Hall to create 65 one-bedroom residential apartments with associated site improvements. The project is located on 33, 81, & 123 Ethan Allen Avenue in Colchester, Vermont. The application was deemed complete on July 11, 2022 after the receipt of supplemental evidence.

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a Division of MetLife Bank, N.A., dated August 26, 2009 and recorded in Book 132 Page 281 of the land records of the Town of Ferrisburgh, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for MetLife Home Loans, a Division of MetLife Bank, N.A. to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association dated May 30, 2013 and recorded in Book 145 Page 214 and (2) Assignment of Mortgage from JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association to MidFirst Bank dated July 26, 2019 and recorded in Book 165 Page 497 both of the land records of the Town of Ferrisburgh for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 3200 Sand Road, Ferrisburgh, Vermont on August 11, 2022 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all the same lands and premises, consisting of 6.58 acres, more or less, and shown as Parcel No. 2 on a Boundary Plat entitled, “SHOWING A PORTION OF THE SAME LANDS OF ROBERTA E. HUMISTON AND AGREEMENT LINE ALONG LANDS OF ELAINE M. SEARS & MARY CELESTE RINGER SAND ROAD FERRISBURGH, VERMONT”, by Land Lines, Licensed Land Surveyor, Michael R. Magoon No. 611, dated November 17, 1998 and recorded at Map Book 6, Page 66 in the Town of Ferrisburgh Land Records.

Reference is hereby made to a Boundary Lino Agreement between Roberta E. Humiston and Elaine M. Sears & Mary Celeste, dated February 5, 1999 and recorded at Book 70, Page(s) 140 in the Town of Ferrisburgh Land Records.

Being the same premises conveyed to Timothy L. Evans and Tammy J. Evans, by deed of Roberta B. Humiston, deed dated May 31, 2002, and recorded in Book 99, Page 431.

Now Deed from Timothy L. Evans and Tammy J. Evans to Timothy L. Evans recorded here with.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

JOHN E. ALEX AND VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF TAXES

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered January 28, 2020, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Phyllis V. Marcell to H&R Block Mortgage Corporation, a Massachusetts Corporation, dated December 8, 2005 and recorded in Book 738 Page 621 of the land records of the City of South Burlington, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from H&R Block Mortgage Corporation to Option One Mortgage Corporation dated January 22, 2008 and recorded in Book 805 Page 670; (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Option One Mortgage Corporation to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Certificateholders of Carrington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2006-OPT1, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates dated June 16, 2008 and recorded in Book 805 Page 672; and (3) Corrective Assignment of Mortgage from Sand Canyon Corporation f/k/a Option One Mortgage Corporation to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Certificateholders of Carrington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2006-OPT1, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates dated November 21, 2012 and recorded in Book 1124 Page 35, all of the land records of the Town of South Burlington] for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 8 Andrews Avenue, South Burlington, Vermont on August 22, 2022 at 12:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

OCCUPANTS OF: 4334 Vermont Route 1, Warren VT

To wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN LAND SITUATED IN THE STATE OF VT, COUNTY OF CHITTENDEN, CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: A LOT OF LAND WITH ALL BUILDINGS THEREON LOCATED ON THE NORTHERLY SIDE OF ANDREWS AVENUE, THE DWELLING HOUSE THEREON BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED 8 ANDREWS AVENUE. BEING ALL OF LOT NO. 56 AS SHOWN ON A PLAN OF LAUREL HILL SOUTH, DATED MAY, 1966, AS RECORED IN VOL. 80, PAGE 25 OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON LAND RECORDS.

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.

APN: 0050-00008

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 bank wire, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date the Confirmation Order is entered by the Court. All checks should be made payable to “Bendett & McHugh, PC, as Trustee”.

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.

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 : June 8, 2022 By: _/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren_ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 202-3-19 CNCV WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CARRINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2006-OPT1, ASSET BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-OPT1 v.

PHYLLIS V. MARCELL OCCUPANTS OF: 8 Andrews Avenue, South Burlington VT

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

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 bank wire, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date the Confirmation Order is entered by the Court. All checks should be made payable to “Bendett & McHugh, PC, as Trustee”.

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.

ATED : July 20, 2022 By: _/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren___ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 142-3-20 WNCV HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAA HOME EQUITY TRUST 2005-12, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-12 v.

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.

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 December 21, 2021, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by John E. Alex and the late Mary Ann Clark to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., dated March 11, 2005 and recorded in Book 172 Page 702 of the land records of the Town of Warren, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. to HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for GSAA Home Equity Trust 2005-12, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-12 dated March 26, 2013 and recorded in Book 221 Page 520 of the land records of the Town of Warren for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 4334 Vermont Route 1, Warren, Vermont on August 17, 2022 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to John E. Alex and Mary Ann Clark by Warranty Deed of John Simko and Doreen Simko of even or approximate date herewith and to be recorded in the land records of the Town of Warren, Vermont.

Being all and the same lands and premises as were conveyed to John Simko and Doreen Simko

by Warranty Deed of Russell C. LoGuidice dated November 28, 1977 and recorded December 6, 1977 in Book 46, pages 455-456 of the land records of the Town of Warren, Vermont.

Being all and the same lands and premises as were conveyed to Russell LoGuidice by Warranty Deed of Alvin J. Babcock and John M. Murphy dated October 3, 1972 and recorded October 18, 1972 in Book 36, pages 442-445 of the land records of the Town of Warren, Vermont.

Being lands and premises said to consist of approximately 2.3 acres of land with a residence thereon, located at 4334 Vermont Route 100 in Warren, Vermont, Said lands are, in fact, bisected

by Vermont Route 100.

Subject to and with the benefit of rights, restrictions, covenants, terms, rights-of-way and easements referenced in the above mentioned deeds and instruments and their records, or otherwise of record in the Town of Warren Land Records, and subject to terms and conditions of state and local land use regulations and any permits issued by any state or local authority under those regulations, which are valid and enforceable at law on the date of this deed - not meaning by such language to renew or reinstate any encumbrance which is otherwise barred by the provisions of Vermont law.

Reference may be had to the above mentioned deeds and their records, and to all prior deeds and instruments and their records, for a more particular description of the herein conveyed lands and premises.

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 bank wire, certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date the Confirmation Order is entered by the Court. All checks should be made payable to “Bendett & McHugh, PC, as Trustee”.

DATED: June 23, 2022 By: __/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren__ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 01-04477 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, 05495 WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 4TH OF AUGUST TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF NINA MUNROE. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

TOWN OF RICHMOND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD AGENDA AUGUST 10 AT 7:00 PM Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81115438175?pwd=K1J OVjhRNWJlNkVOSTBMWnZWbitxZz09 Meeting ID: 811 15438175 Passcode: 376237 Call-in: +19292056099 US (New York) Application materials may be view at http://www. richmondvt.gov/boards-minutes/development review-board/ one week before the meeting.

Please call Tyler Machia, Zoning Administrator, at 802-434-2420 or email tmachia@richmondvt.gov with any questions.

Public Hearing PRESUB2022-03 & CU2022-07 Jameson Partners LLC Parcel ID #DS0022 On behalf of Jameson Partners, LLC, we propose a mixed-use addition to the existing historic structure at 22 Depot Street (Now or Formerly Giffords Mortuary). Site re-development would entail removal of several single-story wood frames garages and storage buildings, consolidation and reconstruction of onsite parking, and construction of a three-story addition with commercial lease space on the ground floor, and four apartments above.

CU2022-08 Richmond Land Trust Parcel ID#CO1901 Proposed parking at 1901 Cochran Road for outdoor recreation.

Other Business: Approve minutes from July 13 DRB meeting Select DRB officer positions

VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION ADDISON UNIT 7 MAHADY COURT, MIDDLEBURY, VT 05753 802-388-7741 CASE NO. 22-PR-03913 CASE NO. 22-PR-03914 In Re: M.C. and In Re: C. C NOTICE TO APPEAR AT HEARING TO: ALLEN PIKE AND VALENTINO ANDERSON You are notified that a hearing in the above cases will be held on August 30, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. at the Frank Maday Courthouse at 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, Vermont. Your attendance is required.

Please contact the Addison Superior Court, Probate Division at (802) 388-2612 for information concerning the hearings. The hearings will be held remotely.

SO ORDERED Electronically signed on July 18, 2022 pursuant to V.R.E.F. 9(d) /s/ Eleanor W. Smith Eleanor W. Smith Superior Court Judge Probate Division

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Support Groups VISIT SEVENDAYSVT.COM TO VIEW A FULL LIST OF SUPPORT GROUPS A CIRCLE OF PARENTS FOR MOTHERS OF COLOR Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes! Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Wed., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@ pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt. org/family-support-programs.

A CIRCLE OF PARENTS FOR SINGLE MOTHERS Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes! Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Fri., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@ pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt. org/family-support-programs.

A CIRCLE OF PARENTS WITH LGBTQ+ CHILDREN Please join our parent-led online support group designed to share our questions, concerns & struggles, as well as our resources & successes! Contribute to our discussion of the unique but shared experience of parenting. We will be meeting weekly on Mon., 10-11 a.m. For more info or to register, please contact Heather at hniquette@ pcavt.org, 802-498-0607, pcavt. org/family-support-programs.

AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. Phone meetings, electronic meetings (Zoom) & an al-Anon blog are avail. online at the AlAnon website. For meeting info, go to vermontalanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266.

ALATEEN GROUP Alateen group in Burlington on Sun. 5-6 p.m. at the UU building at the top of Church St. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free. Info, 864-1212.

Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the 1st step of 12 & join a group in your area.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUPS Support groups meet to provide assistance & info on Alzheimer’s disease & related dementias. They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support & coping techniques in care for a person living w/ Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free & open to the public. Families, caregivers & friends may attend.

Please call in advance to confirm date & time. Four options: 1st Mon. of every mo., 2-3 p.m., at the Residence at Shelburne Bay, 185 Pine Haven Shores, Shelburne; 4th Tue. of every mo., 10-11 a.m., at the Residence at

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Quarry Hill, 465 Quarry Hill Rd., South Burlington; 2nd Tue. of every mo., 5-6:30 p.m., at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Drive, Suite 130, Williston; 2nd Mon. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at Milton Public Library, 39 Bombardier Rd., Milton. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP 2nd Tues. monthly, 4-5:30 p.m.

Preregistration is required (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24-7 Helpline, 800-272-3900, for more info.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Wed., 6:30-7:30 p.m., Methodist Church in the Rainbow Room at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington.

Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390.

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 often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth & feel you need some help w/ managing emotional bumps in the road that can come w/ motherhood, please come to this free support group led by an experienced pediatric registered nurse. Held on the 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 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.

BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people w/ breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets on the 1st Mon. of every mo., 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more info, call 802-776-5508.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP Vermont Center for Independent Living offers virtual monthly meetings, held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury. It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment.

To join, email Linda Meleady at lindam@vcil.org & ask to be put on the TBI mailing list. Info, 800-639-1522.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets on the 3rd Thu. of every mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:30-2:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets on the 3rd Wed. of every mo. at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1-2:30 p.m. Colchester evening support group meets on the 1st Wed. of every mo., at the Fanny

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Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m. White River Jct. meets on the 2nd Fri. of every mo., at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m.

Call our helpline at 877-856-1772.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group will be held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-7:45 p.m. via conference call.

Newly diagnosed? Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion & sharing among survivors & those beginning or rejoining the battle. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol.com.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life w/ this confidential 12-step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men & women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction & pornography, food issues, & 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.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone struggling w/ hurt, habits & hang ups, which include everyone in some way. We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton, which meets every Fri. at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us & discover how your life can start to change. Info: 893-0530, julie@mccartycreations.com.

CENTRAL VERMONT CELIAC SUPPORT GROUP Last Thu. of every mo., 7:30 p.m. in Montpelier. Please contact Lisa Mase for location: lisa@ harmonizecookery.com.

CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy & associated medical conditions.

Its mission is to provide the best possible info to parents of children living w/ 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 Sun. at noon at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org.

DECLUTTERERS SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming?

Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each other simplify. 989-3234, 425-3612.

CONTACT CLASSIFIEDS@SEVENDAYSVT.COM OR 802-865-1020 X110 TO UPDATE YOUR SUPPORT GROUP DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family & friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction.

It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence.

Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership.

Sun. at 5 p.m. The meeting has moved to Zoom: smartrecovery. zoom.us/j/92925275515.

Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 399-8754. You can learn more at smartrecovery.org. We hope to return to face-to-face meetings this summer.

DIVORCE CARE SUPPORT GROUP Divorce is a tough road.

Feelings of separation, betrayal, confusion, anger & self-doubt are common. But there is life after divorce. Led by people who have already walked down that road, we’d like to share w/ you a safe place & a process that can help make the journey easier.

This free 13-wk. group for men & women will be offered on Sun., 5:30-7:30 p.m., Sep. 8 through Dec. 1, at the North Avenue Alliance Church, 901 North Ave., Burlington. Register for class at essexalliance.churchcenter. com. For more info, call Sandy 802-425-7053.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female-identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect w/ others, to heal & to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences & hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships. Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship. Tue., 6:30-8 p.m. Childcare is provided. Info: 658-1996.

“Family Support” (click on “What We Offer” dropdown).

FAMILY & FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends & community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety & other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family & friends can discuss shared experiences & receive support in an environment free of judgment & stigma w/ a trained facilitator.

Wed., 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

FAMILY RESTORED: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES OF ADDICTS AND ALCOHOLICS Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish, 4 Prospect St., Essex Junction. For further info, please visit thefamilyrestored. org or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or 12lindsaymarie@gmail.com.

FIERCELY FLAT VT A breast cancer support group for those who’ve had mastectomies. We are a casual online meeting group found on Facebook at Fiercely Flat VT. Info: stacy.m.burnett@gmail.com.

FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat?

FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a wk.: Mon., 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich.; & Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more info & a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. & the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org.

EMPLOYMENT-SEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated w/ the job search or w/ your job? You are not alone.

Come check out this supportive circle. Wed. at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction?

Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a mo. on Mon. in Burlington. Please call for date & location. RSVP mkeasler3@ gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).

FAMILIES COPING WITH ADDICTIONS (FCA) GROUP (ADDICTION SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES) Families Coping w/ Addiction (FCA) is an open-community peer support group for adults 18+ struggling w/ the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one.

FCA is not 12-step based but provides a welcoming & stigmafree forum for those living this experience, in which to develop personal coping skills & to draw strength & insight from one another. Group meets weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m., on Zoom.

Check Turning Point Center website (turningpointcentervt. org) for Zoom link, listed under

GRIEF AND LOSS SUPPORT GROUP Sharing your sadness, finding your joy. Please join us as we learn more about our own grief and explore the things that can help us to heal. There is great power in sharing our experiences with others who know the pain of the loss of a loved one and healing is possible through the sharing. BAYADA Hospice’s local bereavement support coordinator will facilitate our weekly group through discussion and activities. Everyone from the community is welcome. First and last Wed. of every month at 4 p.m. via Zoom. To register, please contact bereavement

program coordinator Max Crystal, Mcrystal@bayada.com or 802-448-1610.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Meet every 2nd Mon., 6-7:30 p.m., & every 3rd Wed. from 10-11:30 a.m., at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin.

The group is open to the public & free of charge. More info: Diana Moore, 224-2241.

HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voicehearing experiences as real lived experiences that may happen to anyone at any time. We choose to share experiences, support & empathy. We validate anyone’s experience & stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest & accurate representation of their experience, & as being acceptable exactly as they are. Tue., 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org.

HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place.

Info, 388-6107. People living w/ cancer & their caretakers convene for support.

INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/ PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) & painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/urgency.

These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@gmail.com or call 899-4151 for more info.

KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer.

Cancer patients, as well as caregivers, are provided w/ a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact info@vcsn.net.

KINSHIP CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP A support group for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. Led by a trained representative & facilitator.

Meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 6:30-7:45 p.m., at Milton Public Library. Free. For more info, call 802-893-4644 or email library@miltonvt.gov. Facebook. com/events/561452568022928

LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE The SafeSpace Anti-Violence Program at Pride Center of Vermont offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional &/or hate-violence. These groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share info, & offer & receive support. Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain info on how to better cope w/ feelings & experiences that surface because of the trauma they have experienced.

Please call SafeSpace at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining.

LIVING THROUGH LOSS Gifford Medical Center is announcing the restart of its grief support group, Living Through Loss. The program is sponsored by the Gifford Volunteer Chaplaincy Program & will meet weekly on Fri., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., in Gifford’s Chun Chapel beginning on Aug. 6. Meetings will be facilitated by the Rev. Timothy Eberhardt, spiritual care coordinator, & Emily Pizzale MSW, LICSW, a Gifford social worker.

Anyone who has experienced a significant loss over the last year or so is warmly invited to attend & should enter through the hospital’s main entrance wearing a mask on the way to the chapel. Meetings will be based on the belief that, while each of us is on a unique journey in life, we all need a safe place to pause, to tell our stories &, especially as we grieve, to receive the support & strength we need to continue along the way.

MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem w/ marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts get & stay clean.

Ongoing Wed., 7 p.m., at Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski, Suite 301, Burlington. 861-3150.

MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP Area myeloma survivors, families & caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies & a support network by participating in the group experience w/ people who have been through similar situations.

3rd Tue. of every mo., 5-6 p.m., at the New Hope Lodge on East Ave. in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@ aol.com.

NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Weekly virtual meetings. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@ namivt.org or 800-639-6480.

Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living w/ mental health challenges.

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Weekly virtual meetings. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental

Illness of Vermont, info@namivt. org or 800-639-6480. Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living w/ mental illness.

NARCONON SUNCOAST DRUG AND ALCOHOL REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION Narconon reminds families that overdoses due to an elephant tranquilizer known as Carfentanil has been on the rise in nearly every community nationwide. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid painkiller 100 times more powerful than fentanyl & 1,000 times stronger than heroin. A tiny grain of it is enough to be fatal. To learn more about carfentanil abuse & how to help your loved one, visit narconon-suncoast.org/drugabuse/parents-get-help.html for more info. Addiction screenings: Narconon can help you take steps to overcome addiction in your family. Call today for a no-cost screening or referral: 1-877-841-5509.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/out the use of drugs.

It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in Burlington, Barre & St. Johnsbury.

NARCANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every Mon. at 7 p.m., at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, in Burlington. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend.

Info: Amanda H. 338-8106.

NEW (& EXPECTING) MAMAS AND PAPAS! EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY! The Children’s Room invites you to join our weekly drop-in support group. Come unwind & discuss your experiences & questions around infant care & development, self-care & postpartum healing, & community resources for families w/ babies.

Tea & snacks provided. Thu., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bring your babies! (Newborn through crawling stage). Located w/in Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe St., childrensroomonline.org.

Contact childrensroom@wwsu. org or 244-5605.

NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those who are currently suffering from the disease. 2nd Thu. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint.net.

2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski.

Info: hovermann4@comcast.net.

OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS A mutual support circle that focuses on connection & self-exploration. Fri. at 1 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski

Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) A 12-step program for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc. No matter what your problem w/ food, we have a solution! All are welcome, meetings are open, & there are no dues or fees. See oavermont.org/meeting-list/ for the current meeting list, meeting format & more; or call 802-863-2655 anytime!

PONDERING GENDER & SEXUALITY Pondering Gender & Sexuality is a twice-monthly facilitated mutual support group for folks of any identity (whether fully formed or a work in progress) who want to engage in meaningful conversations about gender, sexuality & sexual orientation, &/or the coming-out process.

Discussions can range from the personal to the philosophical & beyond as we work together to create a compassionate, safe & courageous space to explore our experiences. The group will be held on the 2nd Sun. & 4th Tue., 1-2:30 p.m., of every mo., either virtually or at Pride Center of Vermont. Email pgs@ pridecentervt.org for more info or w/ questions!

POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP Anyone coping w/ potato intolerance & interested in joining a support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452.

QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFE The Queen City Memory Cafe offers a social time & place for people w/ memory impairment & their friends & family to laugh, learn, share concerns, & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods w/ entertainment & conversation. QCMC meets on the 3rd Sat. of every mo., 10 a.m.12 p.m., at the Thayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington.

316-3839.

QUEER CARE GROUP This support group is for adult family members & caregivers of queer &/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Mon. of every mo., 6:30-8 p.m., at Outright Vermont, 241 North Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only. For more info, email info@ outrightvt.org.

READY TO BE TOBACCO-FREE GROUPS Join a free 4-5-wk. group workshop facilitated by our coaches, who are certified in tobacco treatment. We meet in a friendly, relaxed & virtual atmosphere.

You may qualify for a free limited supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Info: call 802-847-7333 or email quittobaccoclass@ uvmhealth.org to get signed up, or visit myhealthyvt.org to learn more about upcoming workshops!

RECOVERING FROM RELIGION Meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo., 6-8 p.m., at Brownell Public

Library, 6 Lincoln St., Essex Junction, unless there’s inclement weather or the date falls on a holiday. Attendees can remain anonymous if they so choose & are not required to tell their story if they do not wish to, but everyone will be welcome to do so. The primary focus of a Recovering From Religion support group is to provide ongoing & personal support to individuals as they let go of their religious beliefs.

This transitional period is an ongoing process that can result in a range of emotions, as well as a ripple effect of consequences throughout an individual’s life.

As such, the support meetings are safe & anonymous places to express these doubts, fears & experiences w/o biased feedback or proselytizing. We are here to help each other through this journey. Free.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND Support group meeting held on the 4th Tue. of every mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m., Williston Police Station. Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help.

Shawn, 660-2645. Visit slaafws. org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are avail. for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 864-0555, ext. 19, or email our victim advocate at advocate@ sover.net.

SOBER REFLECTIONS: WOMEN’S RECOVERY GROUP All women+ are invited to this open, supportive recovery group, based in the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (but appropriate for all addictive behaviors, i.e. alcohol, drugs, relationships, etc.) presented at Mercy Connections, 255 So. Champlain St., Burlington. The format of the meetings will include readings, meditation, journaling and sharing. No registration/drop-in. Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m. Info: kmercer@ mercyconnections.org,

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802-846-7063, mercyconnections.org/schedule/.

STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone! Adults, teens & school-age kids who stutter, & their families are welcome to join 1 of our 3 free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM (join by Zoom or in person).

Adults: 5:30-6:30 p.m., 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly; school-age children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15 p.m., 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus). Info: nsachapters.org/burlington, burlingtonstutters@gmail.com, 656-0250. Go, Team Stuttering!

SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide.

Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577. 6:30-8 p.m., on the 3rd Tue. of every. mo.

SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 257-7989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 229-0591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only).

Please call 877-543-9498 for more info.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE If you have lost someone to suicide & wish to have a safe place to talk, share & spend a little time w/ others who have had a similar experience, join us on the 3rd Thu. of every mo., 7-9 p.m., at the Faith Lighthouse Church, Route 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook). Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: S. BURLINGTON This group is for people experiencing the impact of the loss of a loved one to suicide. 1st Wed. of each mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 3 Dorset St., Burlington. Info: Heather Schleupner, 301-514-2445, raysoflifeyoga@gmail.com.

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings & families grieving the loss of a child meets

every 3rd Tue. of the mo., 7-9 p.m., at Kismet Place, 363 Blair Park Rd., Williston. Call/email Jay at 802-373-1263, compassionate friendsvt@gmail.com.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info, call David at 371-8929.

TRANS & GENDERNONCONFORMING SUPPORT GROUP As trans & GNC people in the world, we experience many things that are unique to our identities. For that reason, the Transgender Program hosts a support group for our community on the 1st & 3rd Wed. of every mo., 6:30-8 p.m., either virtually or at Pride Center of Vermont. The Trans & GNC Support group is for Vermonters at all stages of their gender journey to come together to socialize, discuss issues that are coming up in their lives & build community. We welcome anyone whose identity falls under the trans, GNC, intersex & nonbinary umbrellas, & folks questioning their gender identity. Email safespace@pridecentervt.org w/ any questions, comments or accessibility concerns.

TRANSGENDER EXTENDED FAMILY SUPPORT We are people w/ adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming. We meet to support each other & to learn more about issues & concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal & confidential.

Meetings are held at 5:30 p.m., the 2nd Thu. of each mo., via Zoom. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer 1-on-1 support. For more info, email rex@pridecentervt.org or call 802-318-4746.

VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want to feel supported on your vegetarian/vegan journey? Want more info on healthy veggie diets? Want to share & socialize at veggie potlucks & more in the greater Burlington area? This is your opportunity to join w/ other like-minded folks. veggy4life@ gmail.com, 658-4991.

WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT GROUP FAHC. Led by Deb Clark, RN. Every 1st & 3rd Tue., 5-6:30 p.m.

Call Kathy McBeth, 847-5715.

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DOOR TECHNICIAN Join our team of professional garage door technicians installing and repairing garage doors and openers for local homeowners and businesses. Limoge and Sons is a 53-year-old local company that takes pride in the work we do. As a technician you will get to work alongside the owners and some of the best garage techs in the industry who will help you learn the trade or advance to the next level. A great place to build a career with most of our technicians having been with us for over twenty years.

FOOD SERVICE WORKER

Vermont Tent Company The University of Vermont Medical Center has is currently accepting Full-time, Part-time and Per-Diem Opportunities applications for the available for Food Service Workers. We’re happy following positions for to offer a new hourly wage starting at $16.30/hour immediate employment.

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EDUCATIONAL ADVISOR

The Educational Advisor works closely with adult students (ages 16 and up), families, local high schools, and community partners to develop Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs) that will help students reach their educational and career goals. These goals often include earning a high school diploma through the High School Completion Program. Advisors build positive relationships with students to support and encourage them along the journey mapped out in their PLPs. This position requires a commitment to student opportunity and equity along with a dedication to continual reflection and improvement.

Send a cover letter, resume and three professional references (preferably supervisor or manager level) electronically to: rcampbell@vtadultlearning.org.

Application Deadline: First priority given to applications received before August 15, 2022 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Very competitive wage, paid vacation and holidays, generous health insurance program, retirement plan, overtime opportunities, and all tools provided. No experience necessary but a signing bonus is available if you bring the skill set needed with you. Please call (802) 878-4338 or stop by our showroom at 136 James Brown Dr., Williston to apply.

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ASSISTANT DEAN The Office of the Associate Dean at Saint Michael’s College is inviting applications for the Assistant Dean for Advising and Student Development position. The role will coordinate the academic advising program and collaborate with offices and staff across the College on issues related to student support, academic advising, and retention. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to reporting to the Associate Dean of the College and supporting the functions of that office as directed, including working regularly with students on academic probation and students in need, meeting individually with students in need of general academic advising, advising faculty on student concerns and conflicts, and corresponding regularly with student families. Review of applications will begin on August 8, 2022, and continue until the position is filled.

For a complete job description, benefits information, and to apply online, please visit: https://bit.ly/SMCADASD.

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Customer Service Position We are looking for an experienced counter person for a Small Engine Sales and Service Company.

Candidates must be able to communicate directly with customers. Experience with Point of Sale computer software is a plus.

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Broadcast Facilities Manager

Client Service Operations Manager

Maine Public is seeking a full-time Broadcast Facilities Manager to join our Technology team in support of our statewide radio, television, and digital programming services.

(Business Insurance)

Responsibilities include (but not limited to) handling cash sales, Maine Public offers a competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits answering phone, preparing repair package including healthcare, retirement, paid time off, dental, vision, workorders, creating invoices after and other supplemental benefits. repairs are completed, helping Apply for this position online: mainepublic.org/careers keep work place clean and tidy.

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Invest your people management talents, passion for supporting and developing people, and commitment to excellent customer service at our Vermont Best Places to Work company. Our progressive approach to serving clients and employees alike features bestin-class technology, a focus on training and development, and continually evolving practices to meet employee needs.

Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. FCC General Class License or SBE Certification preferred. At least three years’ experience in professional grade broadcast engineering, studio maintenance, and broadcasting studio design required, in addition to three years of experience with building operations and grounds maintenance. In-depth knowledge of broadcast technology and procedures, production systems, and studio equipment are required. Experience in supervision, budget development and administration preferred.

NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL invites you to check out our exciting opportunities!

Don't have experience but are hard-working and self-motivated to learn? Join our team and we will teach you why The Small Engine Company is the place to be.

Lead 20+ dedicated pros responsible for $90M in annual business insurance premiums during a time of continued growth and strategic change.

View the full job description, pay and benefits information at hbinsurance.com/careers. Or apply online with our search partner at bethgilpin.com/current-openings.

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Support. Growth. Opportunity. Collaboration.

Innovation. Teamwork. Are these missing from your career? Join the NVRH Diagnostic Imaging team today and Image Gently, Image Wisely with us.

FT and PT employees are eligible for excellent benefits, including student loan repayment, generous paid time off, health/dental/vision, 410k with company match, and much more!

TRAILSIDE CENTER STAFF

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We are Hiring Staff for our Trailside Center!

If you like bikes and enjoy the energy of the Burlington waterfront, this is the job for you! You will assist customers with bike rentals, learn basic bike maintenance & have fun!

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Goddard College, a leader in non-traditional education, has the following, full-time, benefit eligible Facility position openings:

CUSTODIAL GENERALIST

Part-time and full-time shifts are available for early August through mid-October. Earn some extra money to put toward your ski season!

MAINTENANCE GENERALIST II To view position descriptions and application instructions, please visit our website:

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Finance Officer The Town of Cambridge seeks a Finance Officer to work under the direction of the Selectboard, and who is responsible for the planning, directing and controlling of the finance and accounting functions of the Town. A College degree with coursework in Accounting and/or Business Administration is preferred with a minimum of five years of relevant accounting and finance experience, preferably in a governmental setting. This is a parttime position averaging 20 hours per week with the option of a hybrid arrangement.

Customer Service Representative

Our team is looking for a full-time customer service representative available to work Mon-Fri in our office.

Benefits include Health Insurance, paid vacation and 401k. Applicant should See the full job description on the town website for be able to work in multiple more information. systems and applications In the midst of exciting expansion, including a new and perform data entry Town of Cambridge Employment Applications and gym and academic building and an Outdoor Education with accuracy and Resumes may be submitted to Town Administrator Center, we seek creative, enthusiastic individuals who are Jonathan DeLaBruere at townadmin@cambridgevt.org. reliability. Previous banking eager to be a part of a vibrant, engaging, independent and merchant service school community in South Burlington, VT. experience is not required.

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Find out more about our company at Transactionresources. com. Please respond with a resume and brief cover letter to wicker@ transactionresources.com.

We are searching for a thoughtful and meticulous person to join our team in the Finance Department. The Accounting Assistant supports the organization’s financial and compliance health and operations. This position requires excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills, and demonstrated organizational skills. Responsibilities include a variety of accounting support, including vendor relations, accounts payable, journal entries, reconciliations and digital filing.

SUPPORT & SERVICES AT HOME (SASH) COORDINATOR The Winooski Housing Authority is seeking a part-time (20-25 hours per week) SASH Coordinator.

ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT

WINOOSKI HOUSING AUTHORITY

Are you interested in making a difference in the lives of elderly residents living in Winooski? If you have part-time availability and would like to be part of a dedicated team of professionals helping elderly residents safely age in place and be part of a collaborative team and friendly work environment, this may be the position for you!

SASH Coordinators build trusting relationships with SASH participants by working directly with them and developing an understanding of their strengths and challenges as it pertains to living safely in their home. This position also involves organizing and facilitating activities to encourage participants to stay socially engaged. The ideal candidate will be sensitive and attuned to the needs of the elderly, have a commitment to building safe and trusting relationships with a diverse group of residents and community members, and have the skills and ability to work independently and effectively as part of a team of community providers.

Applicants must demonstrate experience working successfully with the elderly or adults with disabilities. Outstanding organizational and communication skills are also required.

If interested, please email a cover letter and resume to: caltobelli@winooskihousing.org, or mail to: 83 Barlow Street, Winooski, VT Attention: Carol Altobelli

Winooski Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer

10 hours per week. Hours are flexible and most work can be done remotely, with occasional meetings at our office in Montpelier.

Equipment will be provided to complete this work remotely.

Experience with nonprofit accounting and QuickBooks is required. Full job description at vermonthumanities.org/jobs

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Resumes and cover letters can be sent to jobs@vermonthumanities.org.

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SHELBURNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL Shelburne Community School is hiring for the 2022-23 school year! We are conveniently located just off of Route 7 and easily accessible via the GMT #6 bus. Please see below for a list of our open positions. If you are interested in joining our amazing staff, we would love to speak with you!

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FULL AND PART TIME FRONT DESK CLERKS

2nd shifts. Shifts are 3pm-11pm.

Looking to hire immediately.

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RHINO FOODS IS LOOKING FOR MAINTENANCE AND ENGINEERING EXPERTS TO JOIN OUR TEAM!

MAINTENANCE ASSOCIATE

Our Engineering Specialists lead our continuous improvement efforts and help us build and sustain our practices. These include: • Create documentation to support equipment reliability and preventative maintenance • Lead implementation of new equipment

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Alpha Chi Omega sorority seeks a F/T Cook (30-35 hrs/week) to plan menus and prepare 10 meals per week at the chapter facility during UVM academic year.

Pay rate $22/hr.

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• Manage reliability and production improvement initiatives Our Maintenance Technicians oversee all our operations to keep the Rhino team running. Some of that might include: • Coordinate/perform routine building maintenance as needed • Perform work associated with the maintenance of production equipment: troubleshoot equipment malfunctions; repair equipment if feasible; follow and ensure that the maintenance schedule is executed, offer technical advice/assistance regarding operating problems; design or modify pieces of equipment to correct production problems or enhance production equipment capabilities.

Performs routine maintenance and repair of residence, maintaining physical appearance of the grounds and building as well as ensuring that the building is physically sound and safe. Works with outside contractors as needed.

Responsible for cleaning residents’ rooms and residence common areas including vacuuming, sweeping, dusting, polishing, mopping, disinfecting, etc. Discards waste into proper containers, replaces light bulbs and assists with any general housekeeping/laundry duties as necessary.

HOUSEKEEPER Responsible for cleaning residents’ rooms and residence common areas including vacuuming, sweeping, dusting, polishing, mopping, disinfecting, etc. Discards waste into proper containers, and assists with any general housekeeping duties necessary. $2,000 sign on bonus for each position.

Send resumes to: tpatterson@residenceshelburnebay.com.

• Ensure prompt and cost-effective preventative maintenance and repair of production equipment.

To learn more, please apply at: rhinofoods.com/about-rhino-foods/jobs-and-careers

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Join the team at Gardener’s Supply Company!

RN Craftsbury Community Care Center

A Residential Level III Care Facility

• Daytime weekly hours are negotiable • Evaluate and monitor residents’ health and wellness on a day to day basis.

• Oversee direct care staff’s provision of services including medication administration.

• Collaborate with residents, their medical personnel, and families.

• Flexible scheduling, medical/dental benefits, Paid Time Off & 403B Send applications to: kroberge@ craftsburycarecenter.org

Finance Coordinator Fiddlehead Brewing Company is hiring a full-time Finance Coordinator. The Finance Coordinator will work throughout the organization assisting with finance and office management.

Requirements: • Degree in business, accounting or related field preferred • 2-3 years of previous experience with bookkeeping and/or accounting responsibilities • Strong Understanding of Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Excel • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Analytical, decision making and problem solving skills • Knowledge and/or interest in the craft beer & brewing industry a plus • Strong planning and organizational skills • A strong work ethic and the ability to multi-task, prioritize and adapt to changing situations

Brewery Assistant Fiddlehead Brewing Company is looking for energetic, passionate, & motivated individuals to join our production team as a brewery assistant. The Brewery Assistant is a utility player who will work throughout the brewery assisting with all processes associated with production & packaging while adhering to SOPs & safety guidelines to achieve the best possible consistency in Fiddlehead beers.

Send resumes with job title in the subject to: jobs@fiddleheadbrewing.com.

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

Assistant Controller This is an excellent opportunity for someone who combines big picture thinking with day-to-day activities. Responsibilities include account reconciliations, cash reporting and cash flow management, financial preparation and reporting, budgeting, and audit assistance, as well as AP and backup AR duties. Our ideal candidate will have an accounting/business degree; at least 5 years related accounting experience; proficiency in MS Office Suite with an advanced level of knowledge in Excel; highly organized; detail oriented; and able to juggle many projects.

Experience with ERP accounting systems a plus.

Interested? Please go to our careers page at gardeners.com/careers and apply online!

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Physical Therapist!

Transitions Physical Therapy/Transitions Pelvic Health is looking for a Physical Therapist. We are transforming healthcare by delivering the best care in community settings. We provide a fun, family-like environment, support, mentorship and unlimited career growth opportunities.

Benefits include retirement, health insurance, vacation/ sick time. Qualifications are PT license in state of practice and minimum of one year of experience preferred, new graduates strongly encouraged to apply.

All letters of interest and resumes can be emailed to kristin@transitionspt.com.

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Senior Clinical Administrator Sought for friendly, collaborative, statewide multidisciplinary mental health practice based in Burlington. Responsibilities include recruitment, risk management, regulatory compliance, contracting, and program operations and development. Active Vermont license preferred. Part-time clinical practice possible.

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RHINO FOODS IS SEEKING QA TECHNICIANS ON 3RD SHIFT! This role supports the performance of our Operations team, assuring that the food safety and quality of our products meet regulatory, customer and Rhino’s standards.

This person is a trusted partner to our Production team, and reviews production documents and processing records for compliance to specifications, performs regular observational reviews and audits for compliance and product excellence.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES YOU’LL BRING: • At least 3 years of food manufacturing experience required with training in quality functions.

• PCQI training completed within 3 months of position. ASQ CQPA earned within 2 years in position.

• A strong understanding of the role of Quality Assurance as a support function to ensure food safety and quality. Must demonstrate a commitment to standards, and the judgment to determine when actual results or observations are or are not meeting standards.

• A working knowledge of the FDA and BRC expectations for food manufacturers.

• Ability to perform daily walk-throughs and evaluate conformance to standards in terms of facility condition, team adherence to procedures and GMPs, and assess product quality to specifications.

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School Engagement Specialist Do you have passion for supporting students' school success? Do you enjoy collaborating with multiple resources to solve problems?

Lamoille Restorative Center (LRC) is hiring a Full-Time School Engagement Specialist (SES) for their Lamoille Valley School Engagement Program team. Responsibilities include providing outreach and support to Lamoille Valley students ages five to 15, and their families, struggling with school attendance. The SES helps students re-engage with school by collaborating with their families, school and human services providers to identify and address root causes of school absences.

This position is ideal for someone with a strong understanding of Vermont’s education and human services systems, excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to work both independently and as a team player. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package within a highly collaborative and supportive workplace environment.

Submit your cover letter and resume to: info@lrcvt.org. LRC is an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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WEATHERIZATION CREW MEMBERS The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) Weatherization Program is growing!

Pay starts at $20.16/hour!

Do you have building trades experience or want to learn them with a focus on energy efficiency and building science? Do you want to help CVOEO tackle climate change, poverty and create healthier homes for Vermonters?

We are looking for crew installers to fill our open crew positions.

Applications from folks new to weatherization as well as experienced installers and trades people are encouraged. The work is hard, the reward is great, the benefits are outstanding, and the work year-round. If this sounds like you might find a career with us, we want to hear from you!

The ideal candidate would have a High School diploma or equivalent; basic carpentry / electrical skills; ability to safely use power tools / equipment, including on ladders; and an understanding of building construction and materials as well as the principles of energy efficient retrofits. We are looking for team players with a positive, can-do attitude. This position is physically demanding. Desired qualifications include training in OSHA 10; lead safe renovator; and First Aid/CPR. Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation required. This is a full time position with excellent benefits. Please visit cvoeo.org/careers & include a cover letter and resume with your application.

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DELIVERY DRIVER/SALES NON-CDL We are looking for a part time delivery driver for a small family business specializing in fresh fish and shellfish.

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Bus Drivers: Transports students over established routes and special trips. Commercial Driver’s license (CDL) class B, Senior Vermont Operator’s license with Vermont School Bus Endorsement needed; however, training may be provided to qualifying candidates.

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Interventionist/Paraeducator: Provides educational and personal support to PK-12 students.

Associate’s degree or 60 college credits preferred. Training provided.

Administrative Assistant: Assists school administrators with special projects and clerical/administrative duties. Associate’s degree and 3+ years’ experience in general office work preferred. Experienced organizer and multi-tasker required.

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Nutritional Services: Prepares and serves meals to students and staff. Experience with large-scale cooking, food preparation, and serving is preferred.

School Nurse: Provides student health services and associated records. A minimum of a BSN from an accredited program, current RN license. Must hold or be eligible for Educator’s license in school nursing. Experience with elementary/middle school-aged population is preferred.

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➢ Starting wage of $16.46 with potential to earn $17.29 after one year ➢ Performance-based salary increases ➢ National Certification as a Phlebotomy Technician JOB FEATURES: ➢ Work for Vermont’s largest employer ➢ Direct patient care ➢ Team environment ➢ Rewarding work ➢ High-growth occupation ➢ Day shifts available

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The ITAR Program is funded in part by a grant from the Vermont and U.S. Departments of Labor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetics, political affiliation or belief.

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Seasonal Cheese Processing & Order Fulfillment Assistant

Operations Manager Front Porch Forum is seeking an experienced operations lead to join our growing mission-driven team of two dozen Vermont staff. Full-time and remote + Burlington office hybrid. Help us fulfill our community-building mission.

Part-time now through December 23 Seeking a dependable, hard-working, quality-focused individual to help cut and ship our award-winning farmstead cheddar cheese during our busy holiday mail order season.

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Diesel Mechanic

Looking for a Diesel Mechanic to work on trucks.

• Hours M-F, 7 am - 4pm • We offer benefits which include health insurance, 401K plan, life insurance • Vacation and sick pay • Pay scale is based on your experience.

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COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2022-2023 SCHOOL YEAR

1.0 FTE COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST (PERMANENT) Champlain Valley Union High School seeks a full-time, energetic Communication Specialist to join our Special Education team starting in the 2022-2023 school year. We are looking for a skilled, caring individual with specific knowledge and expertise in the area of communication, who will be able to provide support and programming for individuals and small groups.

Candidates will require specific expertise and/or years of directly related training/experience in using a multi-modal communication system with school-age children with significant communication needs (including a high level of fluency in American Sign Language, with a particular focus on English-Order Sign).

Communication Specialists are expected to provide highly specialized communication supports and interventions that may include: • Monitoring, programming and facilitating the use of high- and low-tech communication devices and other assistive technologies • The integration of a high level of American Sign Language and other multi-modal communication forms to support receptive and expressive communication • Enabling a student with severe communication challenges to fully participate in and benefit from instruction, school activities and social interaction • Integrating instructional, behavioral and communication interventions into the classroom • Communication facilitation (implementation of a multi-modal communication system that may include: the programming of hi- and lo-tech AAC devices, a high level of fluency in American Sign Language, Picture Exchange Communication [PECS], etc.)

All candidates should be able to implement interventions with fidelity & collect data, as directed by a Special Educator, take initiative, and maintain confidentiality. Positions can include directly supporting the activities of daily living & supervising students on the bus ride to or from school. Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences, Education, or another appropriate discipline, is preferred. Pay rate for this position is $22.80 to $24.55 per hour depending on education and experience.

CVSD is an E.O.E. committed to ensuring that all of our students achieve our mission - which means we are also committed to developing a faculty and staff that represents the inclusive, welcoming environment we seek to develop for students and families. We seek applicants with diverse experiences who share this commitment and strongly encourage Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), immigrants, women, and LGBTQ candidates to apply.

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SCHOOL AGE CHILD CARE CAPACITY COORDINATOR Vermont Afterschool (VTA) is seeking a School Age Child Care Capacity Coordinator to support the Expanding School Age Child Care Capacity Grant program, a project connected to Vermont’s efforts toward universal afterschool and summer programming.

Reporting to the Executive Director, the coordinator will act as the point person for grantees, providing technical assistance, helping to document their impact, visiting programs, and reviewing reimbursement requests. The coordinator will also assist with marketing and communication efforts for the program.

We are seeking an individual with training and experience in education, youth work, or afterschool; and a passion for equity for Vermont’s children and youth.

QUALIFICATIONS • Proficiency in the use of technology, including MS office products (Word, Excel, Publisher), and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Access to reliable transportation to and from the office. While some flexibility is available, the position will be based primarily out of VTA’s South Burlington, VT office.

HOW TO APPLY We offer a competitive compensation package and the opportunity to play a role in growing the organization. Expected compensation for this position starts at $25–$28/hour and depends on qualifications and experience. This position is dependent on continued grant funding.

For a full job description, visit: vermontafterschool.org/employment/ To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and three references to jobs@vermontafterschool.org. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis and must be submitted electronically. Interviews will begin in late July, the position will be posted until filled and is available immediately.

VTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER, AND WE ESPECIALLY WELCOME APPLICATIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO WILL CONTRIBUTE TO OUR DIVERSITY.

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Come join the Community College of Vermont's terrific staff! We're a mission driven organization: making higher education accessible and affordable to students of all ages is at the very heart of what we do. Now looking for: Financial Aid Counselors and Student Account Specialists.

Join our dedicated team and together we’ll build a community where everyone participates and belongs. Positions include a $500 sign on bonus, a strong benefits package and the opportunity to work at one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont.”

by providing case management for individuals either for our Adult Family Care program or our Developmental Services program. The ideal candidate will have strong clinical, organizational & leadership skills and enjoy working in a team-oriented position. $47,000 annual salary.

Residential Program Manager: Coordinate residential and community supports for a considerate, resourceful, wheelchair-using man with a budding talent for photography and political activism.

The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a team-oriented position, have strong clinical skills, and demonstrated leadership. Two overnight shifts are required for this position. $45,900 annual salary.

Direct Support Professional: Provide 1:1 supports to help individuals reach their goals in a variety of settings. This is a great position to start or continue your career in human services. Full and part time positions available starting at $19/hr.

Residential Direct Support Professional: Work two days, receive full benefits and have five days off each week! Provide supports to an individual in their home & in the community in 24h shifts including asleep overnights in a private, furnished bedroom.

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CCV values individual differences that can be engaged in the service of learning. Diverse experiences from people of varied backgrounds inform and enrich our community.

CCV strongly encourages applications from historically marginalized and underrepresented populations. CCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer, in compliance with ADA requirements, and will make reasonable accommodations for the known disability of an otherwise qualified applicant.

Are you an Automotive Technician?

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Office Associate As a key member of the Operations team, you’ll manage the office’s day-to-day operations and work with the Business Operations Lead to systemize and maintain systems of documentation. You’ll also interact with various stakeholders, ensuring Burlington-based hires and visitors feel welcomed. We’re looking for a highly motivated team player who loves to get projects over the finish line and improve processes around them. You will be supporting various units of the company and will be expected to imbue Resonant Link values at all times.

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Craftsbury Community Care Center Residential Level III Care Facility

MED TECH/CARE ASSISTANTS Full and Part Time Med administration, assist with personal care, daily monitoring of resident well-being and communication of resident needs with medical personnel and families. This is a fulfilling direct care position. Health Benefits based on hours, Paid Time Off, Flexible scheduling and 403B. Contact Kim: kroberge@ craftsburycarecenter.org 802-586-2415

Heartbeet is a vibrant life sharing Camphill community and licensed therapeutic residence that includes adults with developmental disabilities and interweaves social life, biodynamic agriculture, and respect for the spiritual nature of all community members, for the healing and renewing of our society and the earth. Community members live and work together, in beautiful extended family households, forming a mutually supportive environment that enables each individual to discover and develop his or her unique abilities and potential.

Community Activities Coordinator START: ASAP Reporting to the Executive Director – and in regular communication with Heartbeet’s central management body and householders - the Community Activities Coordinator (CAC) is responsible for coordination, and quality oversight of Heartbeet’s daily community activities outside the residences, which include but are not limited to its woodworking, felting and painting studios, farm, gardens, estate/landscaping and culinary crews, and Hardwick area employment opportunities. The Community Activities Coordinator will work closely with the householders to observe, plan and implement activities that facilitate learning, development and a sense of community contribution and meaning for all Friends.

Requirements: • Valid U.S. Driver’s license.

• Clean background check.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working with individuals with intellectual disabilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills, and ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently or as part of a team.

• Excellent skills and familiarity with Google’s Suite of Productivity Tools.

• Positive attitude, reliable, flexible, and self-motivated.

• At least three years' Camphill experience preferred but not required.

• BA Degree preferred but not required.

• Please Respond with a Resume and Cover Letter.

VHCB AmeriCorps Program Director Be part of affordable housing and environmental solutions by leading a well-established and highly-rated AmeriCorps Program at a nationally acclaimed organization, the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB). As the VHCB AmeriCorps Program Director, you’ll both inspire and be inspired by AmeriCorps Members serving Vermont communities.

You’ll develop valuable leadership skills, have ample opportunity to learn about and gain extensive access to the housing and conservation network in Vermont, and earn a competitive salary and benefits package, all while being part of a grassroots oriented effort to improve the lives of Vermonters and steward our natural landscape.

Full-Time Salaried Position: Monday - Friday Salary: $42,000 Benefits for Full-Time Employment include: Paid Personal Time | Health Care Expense Contribution | Paid Sick Leave Paid Holidays | Retirement Benefits

VHCB Policy & Program Director Put your considerable experience in policy and program development to use helping guide the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board’s (VHCB) mission of promoting affordable housing, land conservation, and historic preservation. As a member of our senior management team, you’ll help cultivate community development, smart growth, and rural economic development strategies that will address emerging issues such as climate change, pandemic recovery, and water quality. You’ll work closely with executive and legislative policy makers, and with partner organizations to positively affect the lives and landscapes of Vermont. Apply today to join a team of dedicated colleagues in a fast-paced and collaborative working environment directed at making a difference in the state. _________________________ Apply today! Full-time positions with comprehensive benefits. Read the job descriptions at: vhcb.org/about-us/jobs VHCB is an Equal Opportunity Employer and candidates from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. Please reply with cover letter and résumé to: jobs@vhcb.org Positions will remain open until filled.

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MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN performs general maintenance work in BHA owned and managed properties, including building exteriors, common areas, apartments, building systems, fixtures, and grounds. Our Maintenance Techs are required to participate in the on-call rotation, which covers night and weekend emergencies.

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EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Greensea is currently seeking an Executive Assistant (EA)—a dynamic, top performer for a fastpaced, technical environment—who will serve as a liaison between the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the executive team, senior management, and staff, as well as the Board of Directors and external stakeholders. This role provides dynamic support to the CEO who is responsible for the overall strategic, financial, and operational direction of the Greensea group of companies (Greensea Systems, Inc., Armach Robotics, Inc., and Bayonet Ocean Vehicles, Inc.). This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual desiring first-hand experience in the C-Suite of a growing technical company and a steppingstone to the Chief of Staff position.

The primary role of the EA is to increase the bandwidth of the CEO by assisting with time management, tasking, communications, and representation throughout all day-to-day activities.

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Multi-Media Journalist - Ext. - Programming & Fac. Sup. #S3731PO - University of Vermont Extension is seeking an experienced Multimedia Journalist to write, shoot and edit stories for its educational outreach television program, “Across the Fence”, and its website and social media platforms. The ideal candidate is a skilled storyteller, interviewer and broadcast writer, who has a demonstrated ability to work individually or as part of a team to produce in-depth packages that are rooted in Extension and other parts of the University. The regularly scheduled work week is Tuesday to Saturday, and involves moderate physical exertion. This position requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Journalism, English or related field of study, and at least two years of experience as a multi-media journalist.

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Library Support Senior - Howe-Access & Tech. Svcs. - #S3759PO The Howe Library Circulation Department is seeking a Library Support Senior for our team. This position co-coordinates and supervises the Howe Library Reserve service and Howe Library Billing operations. Tasks include downloading, scanning, and linking electronic reserve documents; adding, modifying, and interpreting database records; and answering general questions about reserve. This position communicates reserve policy and procedure with UVM faculty and trains staff and student employees on reserve procedure, policy, and technology. They will establish best practices and document procedures for billing late fees for the Circulation Department and Media Services Department and debit/credit patron accounts in a timely manner. This position provides outstanding customer service; supervises student employees; opens the library, provides building security, and enforces policy; and responds to user questions and requests.

• Proficient in modern desktop and mobile productivity and communication software including Google Suite, SLACK, Zoom, and Teams.

• Working knowledge of corporate structure, corporate governance, and modern corporate organization.

• Experienced with domestic and international travel.

• Exceptional organizational skills as well as a strong demeanor for being organized.

• Exceptional time management skills as well as a demonstrated ability for time management and being punctual.

• Exceptional grammar and written communication skills.

To apply, please send your resume, salary requirements, and cover letter as PDF documents to: careers@greensea.com. The candidate must be eligible to work in the United States.

This position is based in Richmond, VT and will require some travel. While travel will mostly be between Greensea’s Richmond, VT and Plymouth, MA offices, some travel to California and to international destinations should be expected. Occasional remote work will be possible when appropriate, however this is primarily an office-based role that mirrors the CEO’s schedule.

Greensea (www.greensea.com) is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a casual and fun work environment and provide our employees training and continuing education opportunities.

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Administrative Services Manager The Office of the Defender General (ODG) is seeking an Administrative Services Manager II to join the ODG’s management team. This position oversees the financial operations and administrative services functions for the statewide department and is responsible for preparing annual budget projections, advising the Defender General (DG) about needed adjustments, reviewing past expenditures, projecting future needs, and responding to inquiries from legislators and other members of the criminal justice system. This position is also responsible for contract administration, property and space management, overseeing procurement of goods and services, safety and security issues, reviewing organizational structure, supervision of the department’s Financial Specialist III and co-supervision of three Legal Assistants.

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Prior management experience is highly preferred. Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business or public administration and four years or more of relevant financial experience required. This is an exempt, full-time position located in Montpelier. Salary: $61,963 - $97,156. E.O.E. Please email a cover letter and resume by August 23rd to Gina Puls, HR & Special Counsel, at gina.puls@vermont.gov.

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Seeking enthusiastic and skilled candidates for the Public Health Specialist; Emergency Preparedness vacancy to promote health and increase local capacity to effectively respond to public health emergency events in Lamoille County. The person selected for this position will work with internal and external groups to create a strong local emergency preparedness and response system for public health. For more information, contact Aaron French at Aaron.French@vermont.gov. Department: Health. Status: Full Time. Location: Morrisville. Job Id #36243. Application Deadline: August 4, 2022.

The Agency of Digital Services (ADS) is seeking to hire an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Director. The AI Director is a newly created position that will lead ADSs’ efforts to establish appropriate policy and guidance for the use of AI while also driving adoption within VT state government. The position will work closely with the senior leadership of ADS’ and collaborate with other IT professionals in the development, implementation, and investments in AI technology. For more information, contact Lisa Goslant at Lisa.Goslant@vermont.gov. Department: Digital Services Agency. Location: Montpelier. Status: Full Time – Exempt. Job ID #37884. Application Deadline: August 8, 2022.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY REAL JULY 28-AUGUST 3 sometimes true for many of us. But it won’t apply to you Aries anytime soon. In fact, just the opposite situation will be in effect during the coming months: You will have more power to render the past irrelevant than maybe you’ve ever had. You will wield an almost indomitable capacity to launch new trends without having to answer to history. Take full advantage, please!

LEO (JUL. 23-AUG. 22)

It’s always advisable for you Leos to carry on a close personal relationship with mirrors. I’m speaking both literally and metaphorically. For the sake of your mental health, you need to be knowledgeable about your image and monitor its evershifting nuances. And according to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are now authorized to deepen your intimate connection with mirrors. I believe you will thrive by undertaking an intense phase of introspective explorations and creative self-inquiry. Please keep it all tender and kind, though. You’re not allowed to bad-mouth yourself.

Put a special emphasis on identifying aspects of your beauty that have been obscured or neglected. By the way, Leo, I also recommend you seek compassionate feedback from people you trust. Now is an excellent time to get reflections about your quest to become an even more amazing human.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Fiction-writer John Banville tells us, “There are moments when the past has a force so strong it seems one might be annihilated by it.” I suspect that’s

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Researchers have proved that lullabies enhance the health of premature babies being cared for in hospitals. The soft, emotionally rich songs also promote the well-being of the babies’ families.

I bring this to your attention because I believe you should call on lullaby therapy yourself in the coming weeks. Listening to and singing those tunes will soothe and heal your inner child. And that, in my astrological opinion, is one of your top needs right now. For extra boosts, read fairy tales, eat food with your hands, make mud pies, and play on swings, seesaws and merry-go-rounds.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun. 20): Dancer and

singer-songwriter FKA Twigs has taken dance lessons since she was a child. In 2017, she added a new form of physical training, the Chinese martial art of wushu. Doing so made her realize a key truth about herself: She loves to learn and practice new skills. Of all life’s activities, they give her the most pleasure and activate her most vibrant energy. She feels at home in the world when she does them. I suspect you may have similar inclinations in the coming months. Your appetite for mastering new skills will be at an all-time high. You will find it natural and even exhilarating to undertake disciplined practice. Gathering knowledge will be even more exciting than it usually is.

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): Cancerian

author Laurie Sheck writes, “So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings, and outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses.” While that’s an experience we all have, especially you Cancerians, it will be far less pressing for you in the coming weeks. I foresee you embarking on a phase when clarity will be the rule, not the excep-

tion. Hidden parts of the world will reveal themselves to you. The mood will be brighter and lighter than usual. The chronic fuzziness of life will give way to a delightful acuity. I suspect you will see things that you have never or rarely seen.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): At your best, you are a flexible purist, an adaptable stickler for detail and a disciplined yet supple thinker.

Maybe more than any other sign of the zodiac, you can be focused and resilient, intense and agile, attentive and graceful. And all of us non-Virgos will greatly appreciate it if you provide these talents in abundance during the coming weeks. We need you to be our humble, understated leader. Please be a role model who demonstrates the finely crafted, wellbalanced approach to being healthy.

LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): In my Astrological Book of Life, your life purposes as a Libra may include the following: 1. to be beautiful in the smartest ways you can imagine and smart in the most beautiful ways you can imagine; 2. to always see at least two sides of the story, and preferably more; 3. to serve as an intermediary between disparate elements; 4. to lubricate and facilitate conversations between people who might not otherwise understand each other; 5. to find common ground between apparent contradictions; 6. to weave confusing paradoxes into invigorating amalgamations; 7. to never give up on finding the most elegant way to understand a problem. PS: In the coming weeks, I hope you will make extra efforts to call on the capacities I just named.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Author Clive James loved the Latin term gazofilacium, meaning “treasure chamber.” He said that the related Italian word, gazofilacio, referred to the stash of beloved poems that he memorized and kept in a special place in his mind. In accordance with astrological omens, Scorpio, now would be an excellent time to begin creating your own personal gazofilacium: a storehouse of wonderful images and thoughts and memories that will serve as a beacon of joy and vitality for the rest of your long life.

Here’s your homework: Identify 10 items you will store in your gazofilacium.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Tips to

get the most out of the next three weeks: 1.

Keep your interesting options open. Let your mediocre options shrivel and expire. 2. Have no regrets and make no apologies about doing what you love. 3. Keep in mind that every action you perform reverberates far beyond your immediate sphere. 4. Give your fears ridiculous names like “Gaffe” and “Wheezy” and “Lumpy.” 5.

Be honest to the point of frankness but not to the point of rudeness. 6. Don’t just run. Gallop.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn poet Richard Hugo wrote, “It doesn’t bother me that the word ‘stone’ appears more than 30 times in my third book, or that ‘wind’ and ‘gray’ appear over and over in my poems to the disdain of some reviewers.” Hugo celebrated his obsessions. He treated them as riches because focusing on them enabled him to identify his deepest feelings and discover who he really was. In accordance with astrological omens, I recommend a similar approach to you in the coming weeks. Cultivate and honor and love the specific fascinations at the core of your destiny.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Author

Violet Trefusis (1894-1972) and author Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) loved each other.

In one letter, Violet told Vita, “I want you hungrily, frenziedly, passionately. I am starving for you. Not only the physical you, but your fellowship, your sympathy, the innumerable points of view we share. I can’t exist without you; you are my affinity.” In the coming weeks, dear Aquarius, I invite you to use florid language like that in addressing your beloved allies. I also invite you to request such messages. According to my reading of the planetary omens, you are due for eruptions of articulate passion.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): I’d like to honor and pay homage to a past disappointment that helped transform you into a beautiful soul. I know it didn’t feel good for you when it happened, but it has generated results that have blessed you and the people whose lives you’ve touched. Would you consider performing a ritual of gratitude for all it taught you?

Now is an excellent time to express your appreciation because doing so will lead to even further redemption.

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Can_Garden, 41, seeking: W, l AMAZINGLY FIT NICE GUY I was told: “This is your life, not a dress rehearsal, so live it.” I’m very active. I ride my bike, swim, run, work out. An avid reader. My kindle has over 900 titles on it. Like to spend winter in Florida in my RV. Have a large circle of friends. My children and their children are key. John8072, 78, seeking: W, l

ENTHUSIASTIC PLAYMATE I am a good-looking bear. I would be considered a top and am on the dominant side. I’m married but run much hotter than my wife. I fantasize about many scenarios open and am eager for most. No pain or poo. I’m clean, safe and vaxxed. Also recently tested negative and must stay that way. Let’s explore and explode together. meonatop, 55, seeking: M EXTROVERT WITHOUT THE SAUCE I love going out to new places.

The best way to enjoy life is being spontaneous. Aspiring to learn more about conservation and eco-friendly pastimes. I’m either going to hike every mountain in Vermont or go to every microbrewery. Love other cultures and would like to travel abroad when possible. hikingforquads, 26, seeking: W DOMINANT BEAR LOOKING FOR PLAYMATES Good-looking bear on the DL looking for daytime play. Into all sorts of play/kink. Always safe and sane.

Vaxxed, boosted and tested negative. outdoorsman56, 55, seeking: M HAPPY TO KEEP IT SIMPLE I am here because I would like to enjoy some of the beautiful every day with someone who is happy to explore the opportunities we encounter.

Sailormon, 38, seeking: W, l ECLECTIC Everyone writes their own life story. You might find mine interesting ... but there simply isn’t enough room here. I would like to hear your story, too. In addition to outdoor pursuits, I love dancing. If you are not a dancer, that is OK. Meeting over a coffee would be better than a checklist or thumbnail personality sketch. Ernst, 78, seeking: W, l HOPEFUL BEARING FLOWERS AND CHOCOLATE Having seen as much of the world as I care to, I find that, other than the ice (Inuit heritage), my favorite place is my backyard swing with a view of the cornfield. It’d be so much nicer with your hip next to mine. Ask me to kiss you, and it’ll be forever. Tarte1, 68, seeking: W, l OPEN-MINDED, CALM AND HAPPY We all have stories, and I think mine could be interesting. I enjoy the views and all of the lakes and ponds our state has to offer. I like to fish and garden and wish I had more time for both.

My tastes are simple, and I find joy in each day. ddd054, 63, seeking: W, l MORE FUN WITH TWO MORE New in upper Vermont area. Male, HWP, looking for a fun couple to get together for uninhibited fun. Definitely not shy.

I have traveled much of the world and enjoy a beer or nice red wine and good conversation. I prefer couples because it opens up so many possibilities.

Let’s meet for a drink and see where it goes. TomD582, 59, seeking: Cp, l OUTDOOR SEEKER Let’s enjoy the great outdoors and relax with adventures indoors. Let’s explore together.

Outdoorseeker61, 60, seeking: W, l HAPPY, FUN, REFLECTIVE EXTROVERT Life is full of experiences yet to happen, and I’m a product of experiences that have. I consider myself an open-minded, caring, career-minded gentleman who is hoping to find a like-minded woman to share in those experiences yet to happen.

Take what could be and make it happen.

Be well. BTV_Rob, 61, seeking: W, l

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50 SHADES OF GRAY 58-y/o SWM, athletic, fit, who loves to live life. Just moved from West Coast.

Looking for female who enjoys outdoors, day trips and enjoying life. Let’s have fun! Adventures, 58, seeking: W, l UTILITARIAN HIKER I am beginning to realize that becoming a hermitess is not a desirable thing. I need a reason to get out and do something besides mow my lawn, tend my chickens and bees, bake for the neighbors ... So, I figure I should either get a job or get out and find friends. Friends sound like a lot more fun! lyda, 69, seeking: M, l STILL LOVING, LAUGHING AND LEARNING Been around a while but haven’t lost my joie de vivre, nor my sense of humor! I enjoy biking, hiking, gardening, lunch with friends and volunteer work. Gratitude and a positive attitude are important to me. Seeking friendship only, and I do not mean FWB. Let’s take a walk or bike ride or get together over a cup of coffee. theDharma4me, 67, seeking: M, l GREAT MAMA ZETA Hello. I still believe in love, honesty and a good man, preferably riding on a Harley with a comfortable seat for your lady friend. Definitely like early mornings when the day starts fresh, ready for taking care of business, or just one of those days when you think, A hayride is just what I need! Waterfront destination.

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VT COUPLE SEEKING A FEMALE/COUPLE Fun married couple in their 30s looking for a female or couples for casual dates. We like the outdoors.

3inthevt, 35, seeking: W, Cp, Gp LOOKING FOR FUN We are looking for a man to have sex with my wife as I watch or join in. I want no interaction with the man.

Just fun. No STDs, but bareback.

Can be more than one man with my wife. tracker17, 66, seeking: M, l COUPLE LOOKING FOR SOME FUN My husband and I are looking for some fun with a woman or a couple to join us for some drinks and a good time.

Let us know if you are interested.

Torshamayo, 39, seeking: M, W, Cp EXPERIENCE SOMETHING NEW We are a loving couple of over five years.

Love to play and try new things. Spend free time at the ledges. Looking for people to play with. Perhaps dinner, night out and maybe breakfast in the morning.

Looking for open-minded men, women or couples who enjoy fun times and new experiences. 2newAdventurers, 54, seeking: M, W, Cp, Gp 2 + 1 = 3SOME My husband and I are a very happily married couple looking for a woman to add to our relationship. We have talked extensively about a third and look forward to meeting the right woman. We are a very down-to-earth, outdoor-loving couple. Very secure in our relationship. We would like a relationship with a woman with an honest persona.

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SOUTH BURLINGTON HANNAFORD I was shopping the meat department around 3. You stood very close to me.

Saw you again in the wine section, then the cheese and yogurt area. Is it just me, or were we both circling the store checking each other out?

Single? You wore a long black dress.

I dressed very loudly. Tell me what I was wearing. When: Saturday, July 23, 2022. Where: Hannaford on Shelburne Rd. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915593 CROSSING PATHS You: very beautiful woman with the Die Antwoord haircut, waiting at the light near Walgreens. Me: the gentleman across the street from you waiting all the same, covered in hickeys from a couple of nights ago.

Wanna gimme some more? I’m trying to start a collection of them. When: Thursday, July 21, 2022. Where: across the street from Penny Cluse.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915591 CROW BOOKSHOP Rainy Monday; you were shelving books. I inquired, “How are you doing today, friend?” I like your style: oversize jeans. Me: gray rain jacket, faux hawk with a mullet. When: Monday, July 18, 2022. Where: Crow Bookshop.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915590 RIVER PIZZA In the Richmond river. You’re the finest pizza topping. I was paddling the kayak with a crew, and we drifted apart. Wish I had met up at the end of the river.

Pizza party sometime? When: Sunday, July 17, 2022. Where: Richmond.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915589

RECEIVED You were sitting alone doing a crossword and watching fútbol. We were matching, both of us wearing brown corduroy jackets even though it was a hot day.

Let’s do a crossword together sometime ... maybe someplace crazy like Montréal?

When: Friday, July 15, 2022. Where: pub. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915588 PRO-CHOICE, MONTPELIER You: dressed in purple, closing your store, chatted with me a bit before I fell. Would like to thank you, personally, for your care. On the water, sometime?

—SD. When: Friday, June 24, 2022.

Where: State St., Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915587 GORGEOUS REDHEAD AT DUNKIN’ I go to the drive-through near St. Mike’s a few times a week, and your smile always makes my mornings. I have tried to build up the courage to ask you out but don’t want to make you uncomfortable in your workplace. I always order a caramel iced coffee and a couple of doughnuts. Let me take you out to dinner? When: Thursday, July 7, 2022. Where: Colchester/Essex.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915586 EXTRA-DANGEROUS JAYWALKING I was taking a quick walk with my dog between meetings. You were getting out of your green Subaru to visit someone nearby. Trying to be efficient, I walked right at you. We found ourselves staring at one another as we walked past, and my heart did a little curious head tilt. Did your heart do a head tilt, too? When: Monday, June 27, 2022. Where: near Winooski Westwood Community Gardens.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915585

Ask REVEREND Dear John Doe,

RE: TANGLED UP IN YOU The first star I see may not be a star.

We can’t do a thing but wait, so let’s wait for one more. I’m careful but not sure how it goes; you can lose yourself in your courage. When the time we have now ends, when the big hand goes round again, can you still feel the butterflies? When: Thursday, May 20, 2021. Where: across the stars.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915584 I HELD THE DOOR ... as you were coming out (right in front of Hannaford), and I held the door open for you. All I can say is: If I hadn’t been caught off guard by your beauty, I would’ve asked your name.

Interested in getting coffee from someplace other than a gas station sometime? When: Thursday, June 30, 2022. Where: Jolley’s in Middlebury.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915583 REDHEADED GODDESS IN RICHMOND Our paths crossed three times in quick succession. You, with your luxuriant hair and flowing summer robe, were bedazzling, and I, in my distinctive summer hat with upturned brim, was instantly charmed. Your radiance and composure were self-evident, your beauty unmatched — even by the flowers you cradled. Peace. When: Thursday, June 30, 2022. Where: Richmond.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915582 TEST You were dressed in all black, carrying cat food. I was next to you in line buying cinnamon gum and an Arizona Tea and talking about my recent relocation. I should have asked you to put your phone number in my phone so we could share a vegetarian meal together. When: Sunday, June 26, 2022. Where: Hannaford.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915581 GRATEFUL IN THE ONION CITY Had hoped to show you that guys could put together a decent profile, but you disappeared. Hopefully you met someone good. If not, interested in joining you for a paddle, hike or bike.

Have the toys; let’s use them. When: Friday, June 10, 2022. Where: online.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915580

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Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

My penis isn’t big at all.

I’m about 6.5 inches erect. I can only last about four to five minutes, and it’s been like this for years. What can I do? It’s getting embarrassing.

John Doe

(MALE, 50)

First off, the average erect penis is 5.1 to 5.5 inches, so yours is nothing to shake a stick at (and be careful if you do). An erect penis of 6.5 inches falls in the 95th percentile, which means only five out of 100 people with penises have one longer than that.

So, congratulations — since you care about that kind of thing.

There are ways to increase your size, but most are temporary, such as penis pumps and stretching exercises. More permanent penis enlargement surgery or hormone treatment would likely not be recommended for you. Those are drastic measures usually reserved for penises of three inches or less when erect.

The best thing you can do is stop worrying about your penis size. Stress can add fuel to the fire of sexual dysfunction. And,

PIZZA AND TRUCKER HATS You were wearing cute glasses and a black hat and hoodie at a table with friends at Fiddlehead. I didn’t have place to sit, so ended up finding a bench across from a couple on their first date! I bought a hat, and we had a look. Wanna say hello! When: Thursday, June 23, 2022. Where: Shelburne.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915579

DEEP CITY You: black Foam T-shirt, jean shorts and boots. Me: eating with two friends, wearing a blue dad hat, probably looking dirty after a bike ride. Thought about walking back into Deep City after a drink at Foam and saying, “I think I forgot a connection here...” and it was you. But I’m not cool enough to pull that off. When: Monday, June 13, 2022. Where: Deep City. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915572

OVERLOOK PARK PHOTO OP I offered to take photos of a dad with two young daughters. You all had such a warm and lovely energy. In an instant, I felt like I had known you a lifetime. Instead of laughing about spilling something on my shirt, I wish I’d started a conversation. I keep thinking about this lost opportunity of connecting with kindred spirits.

When: Friday, June 10, 2022. Where: Overlook Park, South Burlington.

You: Group. Me: Woman. #915578

WOMAN FROM UNCOMMON COFFEE Santa talked with you about guitars and photography and left his card with you.

Santa has returned quite a few times, but you have not been there. Santa wants to get to know you better. When: Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Where: Uncommon Coffee. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915571 ACE OF MY HEART The years fly by like a book’s pages thumbed through my fingers. Your likeness is on every parchment, an imprint so profound that it affects the entire plot and the protagonist herself. You have brought such depth and color to my story. I patiently await the final chapters, clutching hands with you. —Dizzy. When: Saturday, June 11, 2022. Where: everywhere.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915569

CITY MARKET QT Saw you on Monday evening. My roommate asked you about the book you were reading from the other register while I was at yours. You had bright eyes and a warm smile. I would love to get to know you. When: Monday, June 20, 2022. Where: City Market, South End. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915576

TRAILHEAD ENCOUNTER We exchanged a few words about the trails going off Bolton Notch Road, standing in front of our cars. Perhaps we could talk some more? When: Monday, May 30, 2022. Where: Bolton.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915568

YOUR DOG KNOWS WHAT’S UP I was walking back to my apartment when the dog you were walking clearly wanted me to say hi. To the guy walking the dog: You seemed really nice, and I’d like to get a drink. When: Saturday, June 18, 2022. Where: top block of Church Street. You: Man. Me: Man. #915575 PIZZA EYES You: salt-and-peppery handsome at the table next to me. You were with two other people, and I was with three kiddos. Are you interested in more than just eye contact and smiles? When: Saturday, June 18, 2022. Where: Positive Pie, Hardwick.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #915574 TO THE BRIM I had a dream this morning where you are filling a fish tank to the brim. I say, “That’s plenty. That will do.” I’m sure there is meaning in that. I love you. When: Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Where: the beach. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915573

LOST AT DARTMOUTH You, tall brunette, nice smile, were lost at Dartmouth last week. I helped get you back to the main entrance. Wish I had more time to talk. Would love to see you again. When: Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Where: Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #915567 MY TRUE SOULMATE I spy you in Montpelier making sweets, enjoying live music and days at the lake in New Hampshire. You truly make me feel like I’m living in a dream that I don’t want to wake up from. I hope we have many, many more years of making memories together. —Your beau. When: Thursday, June 2, 2022. Where: your place and mine. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915566

please, don’t compare yourself to what you see in porn. Those are professional penises. You wouldn’t compare your height to that of a basketball player, would you?

I’m not sure what sort of sex you’re having, but when you say you can “only last” four to five minutes, I’m assuming you mean in penetrative sex. The average duration for that is 5.4 minutes. As long as you and your partner warm up with foreplay and have some good after-party cuddling, four to five minutes of actual “go time” isn’t bad.

Sex shouldn’t be a big calculation of inches and minutes. Be thankful you have equipment that works and the opportunity to use it.

Good luck and God bless,

The Reverend

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I’m a young 63-y/o, single, athletic male seeking a woman 50 to 65 for great conversations, Lake Monster games, barbecues and other outdoor activities like walking, nature walks, fishing, swimming, kayaking, etc. I love the outdoors, but I am also happy inside. Let’s meet in Chittenden County for coffee and/or a creemee, then go from there. #L1585 I’m a female, 55-y/o, seeking a male, 50-plus-y/o. Seeking a Christian man filled with goodness who enjoys dancing, social church dinners, drives on the country back roads, bowling and laughter. A peaceful personality is a must.

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