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It’s full steam ahead for Lake Champlain Transportation’s plan to build a maintenance facility beside its Grand Isle ferry terminal. The town’s Development Review Board approved the proposal September 22 by a 3-2 vote, despite strong opposition from neighbors. The company intends to move operations from the Burlington waterfront to a new 29,400-square-foot maintenance, storage and office building on the western shore of Grand Isle. The move is part of the company’s broader strategy to shift its operations closer to its busiest ferry terminal at the narrow Cumberland Head crossing. Lake Champlain Transportation stopped operating its summer tourist-oriented ferry between Port Kent, N.Y., and Burlington two years ago. The plan to move operations north ran into opposition when some Grand Isle residents said the proposed industrial building conflicted with the area’s “commercial recreational” zoning. The noise, lighting and traffic, they argued, would detract from the local rural character. Others raised concerns about the safety of the island’s

water supply, which draws from a protected portion of the lake just offshore of the 3.3-acre property. Painting, sandblasting, welding, auto repair and other activities that generate hazardous waste are expected to take place there. Musician Laura Heaberlin, who lives adjacent to the project, has been its most vocal detractor. “I disagree with the decision to pass this permit, and I know many people in our community are concerned,” she wrote in an email last Friday to Seven Days. Heaberlin said she and her partner are considering their options. The majority of the board members agreed with Lake Champlain Transportation that the proposed use was appropriate for the area. Some noted that it’s been a ferry destination since 1796. Heaberlin and her neighbors have 30 days to appeal the decision to Vermont’s environmental court. The threat of such an appeal scuttled a previous controversial project that would have sunk an aging ferry in Burlington Bay and made it a dive site. Read Kevin McCallum’s full story at sevendaysvt.com.

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Among the classes she offers is one that’s part of a 12-step program. She also teaches those with less mobility, including older Vermonters at Cathedral Square. That work inspired her to apply for a Teaching for Equity grant from Yoga Alliance, a Virginia-based international nonprofit. She didn’t think she’d get it, but her students all wrote her letters of support. Marzewski learned earlier this year that she was one of 25 teachers from around the world to receive the grant. It allowed her to provide 10 weeks of free classes to her senior students. “I believe in making yoga accessible to every body — every shape, size or form,” Marzewski said. “Some people can’t pay 15 bucks for a yoga class.”

Marzewski never charges that amount; most of her classes are by donation, or her students band together to buy her a gift, such as a massage. Marzewski has been providing in-person classes at the Lund Family Center, but most of her work remains online. The option has led to more students. While she’d sometimes draw just a few people to her Cathedral Square classes, the Zoom ones attract a bigger crowd. And local attendees have started inviting friends from across the country — and around the world. “The more the merrier,” Marzewski said. “Yoga creates connection and community.” SASHA GOLDSTEIN SEVEN DAYS OCTOBER 6-13, 2021

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[Re “Raiders vs. Ravens,” September 22]: When adults act like children and children act like adults... Seems like those who take the most issue with school mascot changes in Rutland are not the kids directly affected, but adults unable to give up the monikers of their “Glory Days” — cue the Bruce Springsteen song. They’d rather hold on to mythical good old days than be a part of the atonement for damage inflicted on Indigenous Vermonters by this racist team name. Students are ready to be part of the solution while the adults seem firmly stuck in the past. “The Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs recognizes the historical and present intolerance, bias, and racism caused by ‘Indian’ mascots, logos and symbols. These images, words, symbols, and the behavior that accompanies them perpetuate negative stereotypes of indigenous peoples, resulting in significant psychological, social, and cultural consequences, especially for indigenous youth.” That’s all you need to know. Change the name. It’s that simple. Sadly, Vermont has a long history of mistreating its Indigenous citizens. Replacing offensive school team names is a logical step toward atonement. I get it, Rutland, you didn’t know back then that your mascot was damaging to Indigenous Vermonters. Now you know. Use your kids as inspiration, tuck away misplaced sentimentality for your old jerseys and move forward. Change is hard — and overdue. To board members who promulgate the incomprehensible logic that the name should remain for its historical value as a learning tool: To quote PFC Gomer Pyle, “For shame, for shame, for shame.”

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current oppressive political climate that shuns diversity in thought. This is not just a threat to personal choice as some see it. This decision is about a human life that has no say in whether it is allowed to live or be extinguished and discarded. Thank you, Dr. King, for allowing discussion on this hideous topic. Robert Devost

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My wife and I had a wonderful experience at last Sunday’s performance of Much Ado About Nothing in Burlington City Hall Park. The actors were better than good, and Shakespeare was well served. The audience was entertained and very involved. Then a strange thing happened. About 15 minutes before the end of the show, the play was officially stopped because the park wanted its chairs back. So the chairs were removed and locked up, and we stood for the rest of the excellent performance. What the hell was this? The play, by the way, was a benefit for the Burlington High School Drama Club, which has suffered. What is the park for? These talented people got together and worked hard to give us a Shakespeare play! Top of the line. Couldn’t you wait 15 damn minutes? Pay the guy overtime, if need be. Neal Haiduck

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[Re Side Dishes: “Fresh Start,” September 14]: Cheers to Vermont Works for Women for its culinary training program that launched on September 27 at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility for women! Hopefully the training will be expanded beyond the initial four inmates enrolled. For a number of years, I served as a mentor for women who would soon be released from that prison. (Mercy Connections, whose excellent staff recruited and trained the mentors,

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I applaud the decision made by Dr. John King and the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont [Off Message: “UVM Med School to Grant Education Credits to Staff Who Attend Right to Life Conference,” September 16]. The medical, legal and political professions are intertwined, despite what state Sen. Becca Balint would have you believe. Is Balint afraid of an open and fair discussion? The opportunity to hear diverse opinions? I’m sure Planned Parenthood and Balint could counter with opposing course credit sessions. If they are not offered already, they should be! Everyone should be allowed to attend any and all sessions they choose, and I applaud King for being brave in this

The recent article about Stephen Bates, Vermont’s first Black sheriff, was most fascinating [“Chief Example,” September 29]. It’s amazing to learn about a bit of Vermont history that so few people knew about. Bates lived a most interesting life. The part of the article that goes off the rails is the implication that the 1880 fire at Bates’ house might have been arson without one iota of fact to support that. Bates was elected by the voters of Vergennes, then reelected for decades — by white men, since minority populations were small and women couldn’t vote at this time. Bates obviously had the respect of the good citizens of Vergennes. Why slur them in this manner? Mickey Nowak

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Taking Steps

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Winooski incident prompts calls for stronger enforcement against racist acts in school sports

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Vermont International Film Festival returns with both live and virtual showings All things geek come together at the Vermont Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo

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New Perennials, a project of Middlebury College and Kansas-based nonprofit the Land Institute, aims to generate sustainable agricultural practices. Throughout October it hosts Perennial Harvest Days, a series of events synthesizing radical ideas around food systems, education, health, art and spirituality. At All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne, five religious leaders give a panel on Faith Traditions and Sacred Practices in uncertain times. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 66

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We’re Bound Away In “Shenandoah,” a collection of works painted since the start of COVID-19, Pennsylvania artist Jeff Bye fixates on the effects of another pandemic — specifically, the fate of a schoolhouse in Shenandoah, Pa., abandoned in 1918. At the exhibition’s opening reception at Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury, viewers immerse themselves in the purgatory-like sensations of these lonely, intimate paintings. SEE GALLERY LISTING ON PAGE 57

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KEEPING THE BEAT Stowe Vibrancy presents the second annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Rocks! — a festival and rock concert at Mayo Events Field celebrating Native American culture and traditions. The day kicks off with a blessing from Chief Don Stevens of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation and continues with singing, drumming, storytelling and art. Later, Blues Hall of Famer Joe Louis Walker (pictured) heads a rousing lineup of local musicians, including Dave Keller and Bella Sances. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 69

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Take Care As part of the Howard Center in Burlington’s World Mental Health Day programming, Dr. Jude Smith Rachele chats with Ashley C. Ford, author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Somebody’s Daughter. The virtual conversation touches on mental health as it relates to race, sexuality and diversity. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 71

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Justice Served East Hardwick villagers come together at Caledonia Grange #9 for a free Grange Supper & Migrant Justice Presentation. Over a shared meal, the farmworkers’ advocacy group gives the lowdown on its revolutionary Milk With Dignity campaign, which has been working for years with producers such as Ben & Jerry’s to secure labor rights and housing for Vermont’s dairy laborers. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 71

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n September 28, hundreds of community members came out to watch the Winooski High School boys’ soccer team play on its home field under towering floodlights. Teens, some from neighboring high schools, clustered together on the sidelines, laughing and cheering. Spectators wore Winooski Strong T-shirts and held signs that read “Black Lives Matter” and “Give Racism the Red Card.” The crowd erupted into cheers each time Winooski scored a goal. The Spartans bested the Oxbow High School Olympians 12-0, and a trickle of fans ran onto the field to high-five the home team. The joyful show of support was a response to the events at another home game 10 days earlier. During that heated match against Enosburg Falls High School,

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several Black Winooski players said spectators and three members of the opposing team shouted racist slurs, including “the N-word,” “monkeys” and “terrorists.” While the alleged harassers on the Enosburg team have not been punished — Franklin Northeast Supervisory Union superintendent Lynn Cota said last week that her district’s investigation is ongoing — those refereeing the game ejected a Black Winooski player for headbutting a player on the opposing team. Verbal abuse during a fast-paced, aggressive contest can be difficult to document, but the recent incident demonstrated the weakness of Vermont’s response to allegations of racial harassment on the playing field. And it served as a reminder that inaction leaves young athletes of color feeling doubly victimized — by their harassers and by a system that appears unable to hold harassers accountable.

The issue is especially painful in Winooski, Vermont’s only majorityminority school district, where students and alumni have reported incidents of racism during a number of sporting events. At a school board meeting in summer 2020, several Black athletes shared how opposing soccer teams had directed racial slurs at them. In filmmaker Bess O’Brien’s 2020 documentary, I Am From Here, two Winooski students talked about being told to “go back to Africa” and having a banana waved in front of them on the soccer field. In April, several Winooski high schoolers wrote letters to the Vermont Principals’ Association, which oversees middle and high school sports, expressing their concerns about racism. One writer was junior Ghamaril Osman, who plays basketball. Osman, who came FOUL PLAY

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YouTube is scrubbing videos that contain misinformation about vaccines, including content from Chelsea Green Publishing author Joseph Mercola. The Vermont publisher and Mercola, a Florida-based osteopath and prolific disseminator of COVID-19 misinformation, were the subject of a September 22 Seven Days cover story. Coauthor of a best-selling book, Mercola also had half a million followers on his YouTube channel, according to the New York Times. YouTube announced its decision in a blog post last week, writing that while vaccines have been “a source of fierce debate” for years, the coronavirus era calls for stronger policies. The media company said it had already removed more than 130,000 videos for violating its COVID-19 vaccine policies. “We’ve steadily seen false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general, and we’re now at a point where it’s more important than ever to expand the work we started with COVID-19 to other vaccines,” the statement said. Newly banned content includes videos alleging that approved vaccines don’t reduce the transmission of disease and that they can cause chronic health effects such as autism and cancer. Mercola is a chief peddler of such misinformation, including in his latest book, The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal, published by Chelsea Green in April. In the text, Mercola says COVID-19 was engineered as a bioweapon and was leaked deliberately — and that the vaccine is deadlier than the virus itself. The tome is one of Chelsea Green’s best-selling titles yet. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., another prominent anti-vaccine advocate who also was banned from YouTube, wrote the book’s foreword. Chelsea Green, an employee-owned publishing house in White River Junction, has earned a cult following for its titles on homesteading and agriculture, but some of its fans and authors were shocked when it published Mercola’s book. Margo Baldwin, Chelsea Green publisher and board president, has defended releasing the book and endorses its claims. “Our public responsibility is to the truth, as far as we can determine it,” Baldwin recently told the Washington Post. “Creating a climate of fear and misinformation is what mainstream media seems to excel at, not independent publishers like Chelsea Green.” m

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rogressives on the Burlington City Council say they are open to hiring more police officers after a recent assessment of the department recommended a larger force. Their support for bolstering the ranks, however, may depend on Democratic Mayor Miro Weinberger’s willingness to accept other reforms detailed in the wide-ranging report. The city released the long-awaited assessment from CNA, a Virginia-based nonprofit, late last week. Among the report’s 149 findings was the headlinegrabbing conclusion that Burlington needs an “authorized headcount” of 77 to 80 sworn officers to achieve an active force of between 72 to 75 cops. Counting the officers assigned to the Burlington International Airport, the roster size could be as high as 88 — 14 officers above the current cap of 74. A 9-3 council majority set that cap in summer 2020 during the groundswell of activism sparked by George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police. Incidents of alleged use of excessive force by Burlington officers, particularly against young Black men, fueled calls for local reform. Progressives helped turn those calls into reality. With six members on the 12-person body, they can set city policy by attracting a single vote from the council’s two independents or four Democrats.

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The caucus has often voted as a bloc, and its leader, City Council President Max Tracy (Ward 2), wouldn’t say whether he would now support a higher roster cap for the Burlington Police Department. He did say he wants to see “continued progress around issues like community oversight.” Four other council Progressives, including Jane Stromberg (Ward 8), expressed at least some openness to debating the issue. “I want to let this report inform my decision, and if it’s the difference of a few police officers, sure, that’s fine. But it must come along with everything else that [CNA is] saying,” Stromberg said. “We can’t just cherry-pick this report and make it so we’re back to square one.” The police staffing level has dominated Burlington political discussions since that June 2020 vote to reduce the force. Both Weinberger, who criticized the council-imposed cap, and councilors who supported it had pointed to the future CNA report as a key document in determining an appropriate roster size. While the reduction in officers was to be achieved through natural attrition, the department instead experienced an exodus. From 90 officers in June

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news to Vermont from Kenya in 2015 and is of Somali descent, recounted in her letter how a player on an opposing squad had pulled off a Winooski teammate’s hijab, a traditional Muslim headscarf. Osman’s teammate then punched that player and was ejected from the game, while the hijab-grabber was allowed to stay, Osman explained in an interview. “Where are the officials of color?” Osman asked in her letter. “What kind of bias training do they have? What is the process for reporting and handling issues of racism?” VPA president Jay Nichols wrote back, thanking Osman for her letter. He explained that if a game official is reported for racist behavior, the VPA turns the matter over to the official’s sports association. In some cases, an official might be barred from officiating, although Nichols later said he doesn’t believe that has ever happened. He also told Osman that officials are in short supply and that bias training for coaches and officials is the responsibility of athletic directors and sports associations. Winooski superintendent Sean McMannon says that’s not enough — the VPA should take the lead in dealing with race-related incidents in sports. McMannon elaborated in a September 24 open letter that detailed the events of the Winooski-Enosburg match. The VPA was already investigating the game — and a Winooski player —after the Enosburg athletic director shared game footage that appeared to show a Winooski player headbutting an Enosburg player, knocking him to the ground. The Winooski student was suspended for two games. What wasn’t caught on the game tape, though, were the racial slurs that Winooski players said came from the opposing team and spectators. When a player tried to report the comments to the referee, “it was ignored,” McMannon wrote. He called on the VPA to provide anti-racism training for coaches and officials, and to develop mandatory procedures for reporting and investigating what he called “racial abuse.” Most incidents between student athletes do not rise to the level of a VPA investigation, according to Nichols. When they do, his organization relies on the players’ schools to find out what happened, then report back. The association, which has five employees, does not have the capacity to conduct its own thorough inquiries, Nichols said. But asking schools to investigate their own players can be problematic. Milton Town School District superintendent Amy Rex said that students often deny making racist comments when they’re questioned, making it difficult to figure out what really happened. Rex said she thinks a lot about the impact a dead-end investigation might 16

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have on those who have been subjected to racial abuse. “When something like this happens to a student and it’s not substantiated, it feels to them like what is being communicated is: ‘It didn’t happen,’” Rex said. “It disheartens me that students of color are continually just not believed, and that’s what it feels like to them.” That was the experience of Christopher Micciche’s son Garrett, a hockey player at Rice Memorial High School whose mother is Thai. In a game against Rutland High School in February, Micciche said, Garrett was targeted by a Rutland player who said to him, “Why don’t you open your eyes, you Asian bitch?” When Garrett tried to alert the referee, he was ignored, then given a misconduct penalty when he said to the referee, “Are you fuckin’ deaf?” Four days later, Micciche sent a letter to Rice’s athletic director about the incident, which was then shared with Rutland school officials. In a March 7 letter, Rutland school commission chair Alison Notte wrote to Micciche that the administration had questioned Rutland hockey players, the hockey coach and referee; reviewed the game tape; and consulted with the Rice administrative team. “Ultimately the school administration concluded there [was] no evidence to support the claim,” Notte wrote. She said she had asked that the Rutland hockey team and other sports teams receive racial bias training, and the administration was planning to follow through. Micciche, an officer of the Vermont State Amateur Hockey Association, said he was

disappointed by the investigation. The VPA should always handle such incidents, since schools have “a vested interest” in exonerating their own athletes, he said. “Policies are fine, but if you don’t have a way of implementing those policies and enforcing them, that’s really what’s lacking,” said Micciche. He called the VPA “a toothless tiger.” But VPA president Nichols said he believes that schools are better equipped to investigate their students than outsiders would be.

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“Typically, when people interview their own kids, they’re much more likely to get the truth,” Nichols said. “They know their students, and they know the players on the team.” Elijah Hawkes, who spent a decade as a principal at Randolph Union Middle/High School before leaving in June 2021, said he dealt with incidents in which his students had been both the targets and perpetrators of racial harassment. Schools are required to have policies for investigating such incidents, Hawkes said, but confidentiality rules

can make it difficult to share information between institutions. When a student dies, or when a school shooting threat is made, outside organizations such as mental health agencies or law enforcement assist in the response, Hawkes said, “but when there’s an incident of racial harassment — that’s also high stakes and also traumatic and also can have huge ripple effects through the community — there’s not the same level of support.” Hawkes recalled an occasion when one of his students was called the N-word by both a player on the opposing soccer team and the player’s mother. Hawkes, who witnessed the interaction, told the mother and son to leave the premises immediately. A no-trespass order was issued against the mother so that she could not attend any other games at the school. One concerned student wrote to the athletic director of the other school and to the VPA explaining what had happened, Hawkes said, and in both cases was directed back to his own athletic director. “So, it’s just this sense of, Where do we go with our concerns to be heard?” Hawkes said. “These incidents have a real impact on people’s sense of belonging.” Hawkes, who serves as director of school leadership programs for the Upper Valley Educators Institute, said he believes that the VPA could be part of a task force to help schools think through how to handle and repair the harm caused by racial harassment. Nichols said the VPA has already begun making changes. It will soon require a mandatory antibias online training for

all coaches and officials. A new diversity, equity and inclusion committee will develop a system for coaches and administrators to report “racially related incidents” at high school sporting events. South Burlington athletic director Mike Jabour, who cochairs that committee, said such reports will allow the VPA to identify officials who show a pattern of racial bias, as well as teams that are repeat offenders. The VPA already has a policy for “unsportsmanlike behavior,” which covers vulgar and racist taunting. But the association is also considering whether it should create a hate speech policy similar to one adopted by the Illinois High School Association in 2020, Jabour said. That policy gives officials the authority to eject any athlete whom they witness committing an act of hate speech or harassment.

“We need to believe kids and respect what they’re saying, but at the same time, we’re not going to punish other kids when we can’t prove that they did it,” Nichols said. Burlington School District athletic director Quaron Pinckney, who cochairs the Vermont Principals’ Association’s diversity, equity and inclusion committee with Jabour, said he believes that the VPA and the Vermont State Athletic Directors Association both have a role in developing a “universal process” that delineates how students should report racial abuse, where the report goes and what the follow-up process looks like. “If there’s no follow-through for those students and they don’t know what’s happened, it’s going to really impact whether they continue to report these things moving forward,” said Pinckney,

Winooski High School boys’ soccer team huddling during a game against Oxbow High School

“I think, if we’re truly wanting to be antiracist schools, we need to disrupt,” Milton superintendent Rex said, and that means addressing behaviors right when they happen. Better training for coaches and referees on what they should do when an accusation is made during a game — rather than just saying “Knock it off” — could be part of that. Jabour, who is Black and played football at South Burlington High School, said he sometimes heard racist comments — more often in school than on the playing field — but learned to shrug them off. He acknowledges that it’s often difficult to prove racism. “That’s the piece that needs to be figured out,” Jabour said. “Are we looking for proof, or are we going to support students of color [so] that if they have a report, it’s taken seriously?” Nichols maintains that it’s hard to levy any consequences on players when there isn’t concrete evidence.

who is Black and grew up in New York City, then played basketball for Saint Michael’s College. One of the things Pinckney said he’s taken away from the Winooski-Enosburg situation is how important it is for adults in positions of authority to believe student athletes who report racial abuse. “We have to take it seriously and … go through a due process,” Pinckney said. “Just them knowing that we took action right away … it might save that student from quitting sports altogether.” Winooski athlete Osman said she contemplated giving up basketball after the incident involving her teammate, but she’s planning to play this year. She has younger nieces and hopes they won’t be subjected to mistreatment should they choose to play sports in high school. “I just want people to realize what they’re doing could hurt other people,” Osman said, “and we should just respect each other.” m 2v-healthyliving100621 1

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efore Christiana and Barney Hodges created a pick-your-own apples operation at their Sunrise Orchards in Cornwall this year, they learned how to make doughnuts. Acting on the advice of friends in the business, the couple converted part of their cider pressing area into a commercial kitchen so that they could offer an array of baked goods. Now, along with selling apples wholesale and pressing them for cider, Christiana is running advertisements for the farm in local media and answering visitors’ questions about the apple varieties available on their 130 acres. Pick-your-own operations are emerging as a valuable option for small orchardists who are competing in a market where apples are a big commodity. The same kind of economic forces that make it difficult to run a family dairy farm are pressing down on apple growers. “It’s very challenging to compete with farmers on the West Coast who plant apple blocks that measure in 10,000 acres,” said Eric Boire, executive director of the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers Association. “The big have to get bigger to survive.” Vermont’s apple industry has been declining for years. In 1997, the state had 3,700 acres of orchards; by 2017, the number was down to 1,700, according to the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. Vermont’s larger operations enjoy some economies of scale that enable them to continue selling fruit wholesale; the smaller ones, which make up more than 80 18

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percent of the state’s orchards, have been Vermont has more than doubled since struggling to find the packing and distribu- 2010, according to a 2020 report from tion channels they need. In recent years, the state ag agency. The cider compamany have started selling nies provide an impormainly to stores in Vermont. tant in-state market for Boire sees pick-yourVermont apples, but they pay much less than other own as one sign of a comeback. fresh fruit buyers, accord“We have new growing to the report. Terry ers entering every year Bradshaw, a professor and C H R IS TIANA H O D GE S because it’s so popular,” he researcher at the Universaid. Classes on starting an sity of Vermont who orchard have also become popular, Boire focuses on specialty crops such as apples added. and grapes, said cider makers generally The growing cider industry has become pay $6 to $8 a bushel; pick-your-own an important force in wholesale purchas- operations that provide a fun experience, ing. The number of hard cider makers in however, can get from $36 to $72 a bushel.

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Vermont’s apple industry remains a very large player in the state’s agricultural economy. It follows only dairy and maple syrup in total annual crop value, according to the 2020 report. Pick-your-own is a big part of that. Vermont growers produce about 1 million bushels of apples each year, according to the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers Association. About one-fifth of those are picked by consumers on fall outings. During the first summer of the pandemic, Boire said, interest in apple picking surged. Many growers had their best season ever. Some reported that their sales had doubled; others closed early because they had sold out. Greg Burrt has a popular pick-yourown operation on his 15 acres of apples in Cabot. His gross sales in 2020 were twice what they were the year before. He ran out of apples that October. Boire and growers attribute the pickyour-own surge to the pandemic restrictions that steered people outdoors. This year is still busy, Burrt said, but not on the scale of 2020. Pick-your-own operations also suit consumers who are interested in their food, said Kevin Lawyer, who owns orchards in Franklin and Swanton. He said he answers a lot of detailed questions about the trees and the fruit. “I enjoy the conversations about how I do what I do,” said Lawyer, who hosts a lot of school groups. “It’s fun.” To stay competitive, Cornwall’s 50-year-old Sunrise Orchards is always adapting and diversifying, Christiana said. Last year, the company gave up its wholesale contracts to sell fresh apples to Shaw’s and Price Chopper. This year, it’s signed an agreement to sell apples to Mott’s, the applesauce maker. For Christiana, learning to make doughnuts was the most challenging part of creating the new pick-your-own option. She sees pick-your-own as an important piece of the overall picture, not only financially but also because she, too, enjoys answering people’s questions about the orchard. “It’s a piece of our business that was missing,” she said. “I’ve enjoyed connecting with our closer community. I’m meeting neighbors I hadn’t met before.” In Lawyer’s opinion, the doughnuts are as important as the apples. The Canadian border shutdown has cut into his visitor numbers, but traffic is still brisk, especially at his Franklin orchard. He’s noticed that visitors tend to buy fewer apples than in past years and more baked goods. “Pick-your-own is the quickest and easiest way to make money,” Lawyer said. m

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Kaylee Mckenzie was eating lunch in the cafeteria at Bellows Free Academy-St. Albans on September 17 when she received a notification on her phone that someone wanted to AirDrop her an image. The message was coming from an iPhone with no name attached. Kaylee accepted, and a racist meme popped up on her screen. It showed a photograph of three hooded Ku Klux Klan members with the words “3 K’s a day keeps the n——ers away.” Kaylee, whose mother is white and father is Black, deleted the image. She told two people about it, a friend and an older sister. Both said it sounded like a hate crime and that she should report it.

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After recovering the image, Kaylee did — but the perpetrator still hasn’t been caught. Now, more than two weeks after the incident, Kaylee and her mother, Heather Mckenzie, say the school mishandled the investigation and didn’t provide the high school senior the support she needed in the aftermath. “Where was the guidance counselor or the [mental health] clinician? Nobody checked on her mental health. Nothing,” Mckenzie said. “If she was a white kid, would they have done all of that?” On that day, Kaylee, who is one of only a small number of Black students at the school, reported what happened to dean of students Matt Bloom. He took her phone to the school’s information technology specialist, who spent close to an hour trying unsuccessfully to determine who sent the image, Kaylee said. Both Bloom and principal Brett Blanchard told Kaylee they were sorry about what had happened and would do everything they could to find the culprit. Blanchard also called Kaylee’s parents and told them they were narrowing down possible suspects and treating the incident as a hate crime, according to Mckenzie. The following week, Blanchard called Mckenzie again to say that school resource officer Cpl. Kristine Koch — a member of the St. Albans Police Department who was assigned to the school — would get involved, since the

school had been unable to identify the perpetrator. On September 30, Mckenzie and her husband went to the school for an update. With Cpl. Koch and Bloom also in the room, Blanchard told the parents that the investigation hadn’t turned up anything and the window of opportunity for figuring out whose phone the message came from had elapsed. They likened the investigation to “chasing a ghost,” Mckenzie said, and told her there was nothing more they could do. Administrators also told Mckenzie that the school resource officer had called the Franklin County State’s Attorney’s Office, which told her the incident didn’t meet the definition of a hate crime. Blanchard confirmed this in an email to Seven Days. Maple Run Unified School District, of which BFA-St. Albans is a part, “conducted a thorough investigation of this complaint,” Blanchard wrote in the email. But Mckenzie, whose family has lived in St. Albans for 11 years, told administrators at last week’s meeting that the way they handled the incident sent the message to her daughter that “people like her do not matter.” Overcome with anger, she left the meeting abruptly. Mckenzie said the incident has also made Kaylee feel negatively about her school. In an interview, Kaylee said she thinks administrators should have communicated better with other students about the seriousness of the incident. She recalled being in class when Bloom and someone from the IT department came in to check students’ phones as part of their investigation. “I was the only one who knew what it was for, and I was kind of embarrassed,” Kaylee said. “I don’t know why. This isn’t something that I should even feel embarrassed about. I should be mad about [it].” Blanchard did not give specifics when asked what the school was doing to help Kaylee. “Supporting students who complain of harassment is our top priority,” he wrote in an email. “We will continue to work closely with the student and family to make them feel safe and supported at school.” Mckenzie said that, since the incident, other BFA-St. Albans alumni have shared their experiences of racial discrimination at the school. “It’s no surprise to them that it’s still a thing and not being taken care of,” Mckenzie said. m

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recommendations. Most said they’re amenable to raising the cap but want assurances that Weinberger will go further than simply rebuilding the ranks. Councilor Perri Freeman (P-Central District) did not respond to a request for comment. Councilor Dieng, an independent who voted with the Progs to set the cap, said he’d been out of the country and had not yet read the full report. Councilor Jack Hanson (P-East District) said he doesn’t want the cap to become a distraction from the broader reform discussion. Hanson said Weinberger and Murad have been “hyper-focused” on staffing numbers, using press releases and the mayoral election to criticize the council’s decision to reduce the force. He wants the administration to show the same urgency in advocating for other FILE: LUKE AWTRY

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came out — after gunfire incidents downtown rattled community members and business leaders. But when the city council took up the measure, it failed on a tie vote, with some Progs and Councilor Ali Dieng (I-Ward 7) saying they wanted to see CNA’s staffing recommendations before considering an increase. They won’t have to wait long: City Councilor Joan Shannon (D-South District) will introduce a resolution at a meeting on October 18 to set the cap at 88 officers. She was pleased to hear that Progressives may be coming around. “The current staffing is completely inadequate,” Shannon said. “I don’t know why we would delay at this point.” The council has taken some action to try to shore up the shrinking force. Members voted unanimously last week to spend $850,000 on officer bonuses and recruitment incentives for new cops. Seven Days spoke to five of the six council Progs about the report’s

CNA-endorsed reforms, such as hiring more unarmed mental health and social work professionals, and reducing racial disparities in traffic stops and the use of force. “We see the mayor and the chief really putting a lot of energy and capital … around the need for a higher cap and how that is what is going to keep people safe,” Hanson said. “I want to hear them joining us and talking about these other elements that are needed to actually create a safe and healthy community.” Indeed, Weinberger has trumpeted CNA’s report as validation of his approach to policing. Shortly after the report was released, his office sent out a press release touting the ways it aligned with his policy ideas. In a subsequent interview with Seven Days, Weinberger said the council needs to “rightsize the authorized cap” soon. “I’m aware I’ve taken flak, but I think the department is in a precarious

situation,” he said, adding that increasing the number of officers will improve morale by creating more opportunities for career advancement. “That’s part of why we’ve been losing people, so I think it’s really important that we now say … This is the vision that we want to work toward,” he said. “It’s going to take us a while to get there, but that’s the department we should be.” Councilor Joe Magee (P-Ward 3) said his vote on staffing hinges on the mayor’s willingness to increase community oversight of police — something that CNA’s report said is lacking in Burlington. The document recommends that the city’s civilian-led police commission “be given greater than an advisory role” and that the department should consider forming a citizen review board instead of “having the chief serve as the final authority on facts and discipline.” Weinberger previously vetoed a Progressive effort to form a “community control board” that could investigate police misconduct and mete out discipline. The mayor said he favored giving more authority to the police commission instead. Months later, the council’s Public Safety Committee is working on a resolution to do just that. Magee still supports the control board idea but said he’d settle for the police commission proposal in the short term. If Weinberger were still on board, Magee said he’d agree to raise the cap on the number of officers. “I’m looking forward to having the conversation and hope that we can look at this system more holistically, rather than getting caught on this singular number of sworn officers,” he said. Councilor Stromberg said she’d support adding to the police ranks if the city implements CNA’s other recommendations, such as those that address the response to mental health calls. The report found that department policy doesn’t provide officers with guidance for how to manage people in crisis who resist police commands; it recommends more intensive training on handling those situations. Nearly all the Progs interviewed took umbrage with Weinberger’s inference that they had erred in cutting the police force last summer. Councilor Zoraya Hightower (P-Ward 1) conceded that councilors “overshot the reduction” in officers but said the vote prompted an overdue “painful process” of reckoning with racial justice and policing. Stromberg agreed. “I don’t want us to backtrack and think that what we did was a mistake,” she said. “It’s not a mistake at all. It helped create this conversation, and I think that’s really important, too.” m

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Our September 22 cover story, “Best-Selling Bunk,” was about the seeming incongruity of a Vermont-based publisher putting its imprint on a book that is widely viewed as coronavirus misinformation. A week after Chelsea Edgar’s story ran in Seven Days, YouTube banned all content by Dr. Joseph Mercola, author of Chelsea Green Publishing’s The Truth About COVID-19. Publisher Margo Baldwin is a part of the narrative not so much for her decision to make the controversial book available, but because DAM IT ALL MUSHROOM TRIP she has publicly endorsed its views, as well as other conspiracy theories that have made her employees uncomfortable. She refused to speak with Edgar for the story and only answered emailed questions she deemed “worth responding to.” The same week, Seven Days publisher Paula Routly wrote a short piece, “Stopping the Spread,” that is also referenced in some of these letters. See more online at sevendaysvt.com.

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Should Chelsea Green have published Joseph Mercola’s book The Truth About COVID-19? Kevin Ellis, a political strategist and one of Chelsea Green’s four board members, said he believes that publishers “have a right to be wrong”; the cost of their mistakes, in his view, is beside the point. Say I told you any mushroom you find in the woods is edible. I’m fine? Should I have checked my facts? This brings up the question of where we get those facts and the integrity of the source and how that integrity is established. If you presume that the sources of information are corrupt, you cannot rely on their information. If you buy into a conspiracy theory, you have to make some conclusions from it. Ellis said, “People are too stupid to make judgments about their own health.” That could even be used as a justification offered about anyone accepting Mercola’s view, but actually, people do make wise judgments about their own health every day. For example, with the right information, people may abandon junk food. With the right information, people may avoid getting COVID-19, or getting really sick with it, or spreading it to others. But if you vacate the position of responsibility, you can just say whatever sells. Also, it’s kind of peculiar to say it’s a problem with democracy that people are allowed to make their own judgments about their health care. But Ellis says that. Bob Messing

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— you care about the well-being of others, it’s time to wash your hands of Chelsea Green. Don’t publish with them; don’t buy their books. And let’s hope a new publisher will take on the good work of teaching Vermonters and others how to, say, start SO. MANY. JOBS. a community garden, can tomatoes and promote solar power. Perhaps one of Baldwin’s many disgruntled former employees?

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The quotation by me is accurate. But it also misleads by giving the impression that the publisher doesn’t care if people die from COVID-19. I do not believe that. The “we” in my quote is “us.” Responsibility for this confusion is mine. I should have been clearer with the reporter. Publishers have a right to publish. Authors write. Filmmakers make films. Musicians make music. Books, films and other work can be controversial and scary, even wrong. We have the ability not to read the book and not to watch the film. We also have an obligation as citizens to read widely and make decisions for ourselves. I took the Pfizer shot even though I detest Big Pharma. I wear a mask because they work. I keep social distance. I choose to live in Vermont, the safest, most sane place in the U.S. But if we start preventing publishers from publishing controversial views, where are we then? Mercola asserts many things in his book that people don’t like. OK. Let’s argue about it. Isn’t that the point of a democracy: the free debate over controversial ideas? Time and again in our history, we have decided that the sunlight of free expression is the antidote to ignorance, no matter how odious the view. And if we don’t have debates about tough issues now, when will we have them? Kevin Ellis

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Margo Baldwin proudly makes money from deadly COVID-19 misinformation; her loyal board member Kevin Ellis declares that as a result, “some people are going to die ... and we accept that.” Wow! Quite the business model for Chelsea Green Publishing. If you respect the scientific method and — unlike, it seems, Baldwin and Ellis

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Chelsea Green’s leadership and their ilk have distorted the information landscape such that many “anti-establishment” adherents have slipped from useful skepticism into a mindless, individualistic and destructive cynicism about COVID-19. They claim that they’re against fearmongering, when in reality they are actively sowing fear about masking, vaccines and other effective public health measures at the cost of people’s lives. It was heartening to see Seven Days directly address this travesty in its commentary and reporting. KC Bolton

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This is yet another boilerplate hit piece — yawn — attempting to discredit yet another well-respected, award-winning doctor, the only difference being that in her desperation to do so, Chelsea Edgar tries to smear the publisher, as well. Predictable, unsubstantiated attack pieces such as these dutifully regurgitate all the mainstream-media talking points, but they also bring attention to the book in question — front page news, no less! — and inspire individuals to do their own research. Did Edgar bother to check any of the over 500 references comprising 38 pages of the book? What should be of most concern to readers, however, as Edgar helpfully points out, is the fact that democratically elected U.S. Senate leaders are actively trying to censor/ban a best-selling book. What is it they don’t want us to know? Would they be doing the same if the book were full of lies? When in history did the book burners turn out to be the good guys?

I am very disappointed in your article criticizing Chelsea Green Publishing for its publishing of the book The Truth About COVID-19. I think it’s important that we at least consider and respect others’ viewpoints, including Dr. Joseph Mercola’s. His main message seems to be emphasizing the importance of healthy living — a healthy diet based on natural foods, exercise and natural living. This can’t be all bad, can it? The fact that the mainstream media have paid little attention to the natural remedies that have helped many people survive COVID-19 is very questionable, in my opinion. And the fact that natural immunity from COVID-19 (in people who had it and have already recovered) is not accepted as a reason not to vaccinate is even more concerning. It’s so interesting to me how the so-called “powers that be” have politicized COVID-19. If you are left-leaning (like me, and your news outlet), you are expected to support vaccines, lockdowns and mask mandates. And for the right-leaning, the reverse. Ten years ago, the anti-vaccine movement was more closely associated with left-wing hippies than the alt-right. By changing this association, they have made it socially unacceptable for a left-leaning individual or organization to question anything Big Pharma or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say. I salute Chelsea Green for publishing this book. It takes guts to question anything in this highly censored environment. And now, as your article states, politicians (who, by the way, are heavily funded by pharmaceutical lobbyists) want Amazon to change its algorithm to de-emphasize the popularity of this book. Questionable.

Sandy Gordon Rounds

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I thank the editor and staff of Seven Days for not mincing words about Vermont publishing house Chelsea Green, as well as the scourge of COVID-19 misinformation regarding masks. Just recently, my spouse and I pulled our young daughter from a dance class that required a coercive waiver for her to wear a mask during rehearsal. The rationale presented in the waiver was questionably based on the World Health Organization’s guidance that masking during “vigorous physical activity” may be harmful. More problematically, it relied on dubious sources that cite Dr. Joseph Mercola and others who twist the facts, as well as a number of scientific studies on extreme hypoxia that have no bearing on a pre-K dance class.

David Nelson

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Should hunters, trappers and anglers set the agenda for Vermont’s Fish & Wildlife Department? Even “sportsmen” disagree about some of the practices currently being employed, vividly described in Kevin McCallum’s cover story last week, “Wildlife Wars.” Here’s a sampling of letters to the editor from all around the state. More to come in next week’s Feedback section. CONTRACT TRACING

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Thank you for your milking cows these days coverage of Vermont’s ever see pasture? What increasingly important does “free-range eggs” debate concerning the really mean? Etc. future of wildlife habitat Also, I think it and wildlife. Contrary was unfair to put in to Commissioner Louis the part about Butch Porter’s assertions, this Spear taking a hit off wildlife debate is not about huntthe inhaler combined ers versus nonhunters. with riding around Contrary to bear hunter in the truck. You’re BREAKING THE MOLD BUBBLING UP A DOOBIE-OUS CLAIM Butch Spear’s assertions, painting the picture this debate is not about that he’s lazy and out flatlanders versus Vermonters. of shape. Our four-legged friends have the I grew up in a Vermont hunting and capacity to outpace us all day, any day, and fishing family. Our family has been here we wouldn’t necessarily be able to catch for at least five generations. My father was up. And inhaler use doesn’t necessarily deputy commissioner of the agriculture correlate to fitness level. department. My grandfather was state Beth Hayden treasurer, and most of us are still avid FAIRFAX hunters and fishermen. I think most of us would agree that Outgoing Fish & Wildlife Commissioner chasing bears with radio-collared dogs in Louis Porter is absolutely wrong that the June or July, when the cubs are not even trapping of furbearers helps control popuweaned — and then following around in a lations. There is absolutely no evidence pickup truck with a GPS system — would to support such a position. Quite the make Daniel Boone roll over in his grave. contrary, the Quabbin Reservation study Leghold traps were once necessary for conducted in Massachusetts — part of survival. They aren’t anymore. It is past a 50-year observation study of beavers time for Vermont to pass a law like Colo- in the Prescott Peninsula — proves that rado’s, where leghold traps can be used furbearers self-regulate their populations. to protect public health, livestock and Indeed, trapping is counterproductive to domestic animals — not for fun and games. good wildlife management because it is The debate is not about traditions. The so indiscriminate in terms of the animals debate is about ethics. targeted. There is also no evidence that hunting David Kelley or trapping reduces or resolves humanGREENSBORO wildlife conflicts. For example, largely Humans and dogs have been together due to Vermont’s two-month-long bear anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 years. season — one of the longest in the country And we weren’t just throwing tennis balls — our bear population has gone from about around the backyard together. We were 7,000 animals in 2011 to roughly half that hunting. Not hunting with our dogs is a number today; yet, in that time, complaints pretty modern development. of “nuisance” bears have soared. Too There’s a lot to this modern existence often, nuisance bears are, in fact, created that is bullshit — I say to you, typing on my by human actions, such as leaving out phone. I don’t think we should be eliminat- birdfeeders or food waste, that condition ing hunting with dogs or trapping, elimi- bears to associate food with humans and nating the ability of one to tap into tens of their homes. thousands of years of evolution and coevoAs for trapping, what is left to justify lution, because a few people saw a couple such blatantly cruel practices through photos on the internet that made them sad. which animals are either drowned or suffer There’s a lot of misunderstanding and lack in legholds for hours on end? The “enjoyof perspective here. These animals are living ment” of seeing animals suffer and die? free until the end (but I’m not necessarily The “recreation” of being outdoors while sure that we humans or our dogs are). setting traps? I believe most Vermonters Maybe one should question the animal (native as well as nonnative) would say use that we’re not seeing, like how many these are not values or traditions we want .COM VOL.26 NO.52 SEVENDAYSVT 29-OCTOBER 6, 2021 T VOICE SEPTEMBER VERMONT’S INDEPENDEN

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Aberth is a wildlife rehabilitator. I want to thank Seven Days for finally exposing some of the truth about the anti-hunting crowd. Brenna Galdenzi and the group Protect Our Wildlife have made a habit of attacking me. They have stolen many of my pictures and videos from social media and used them not only to bolster their position by tugging at the heartstrings of her followers, but to make me out as a ruthless, heartless killer. She has been doing this to me for years, and it’s so bad that people have written on their page that the world would be a better place without me just because I hunt and trap. I may have made some bad decisions and posted thoughtless material when I was a younger man, but I’ve grown a lot in the last two decades, as we all do. At this point, I no longer take pictures of my adventures to share with my friends and family, for fear of being hijacked by Brenna and the antis. They will use any material to shame, and the comments she lets go through are somewhat dangerous. The tactics, half-truths and downright lies she has made about me, other sportsmen and even the biologists in the State of Vermont are borderline libelous most of the time. POW really has no credentials in anything related to wildlife. Other than its members’ opinions, it really has nothing, but it misrepresents all of us to make its followers angry and get them to do what it says. Jason Michaud

FAIRFAX

The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Board is composed of all hunters, trappers and anglers, which makes it very hard to achieve any protections for wildlife, as the article conveys. The majority of Vermonters are not represented by this board that’s unwilling to listen to concerns from the general public. The article shows how some board members even have resentment toward people who weren’t born here. Mike Covey says we are just a handful of people who don’t want hounding and trapping. I think he has that backward — I suspect that the majority of Vermonters would not agree with these activities, including some hunters. A survey conducted by the Center for Rural Studies shows that approximately 70 percent of Vermonters want trapping banned! I am

not against ethical, sustenance hunting, and neither is Protect Our Wildlife. I would not call hounding “hunting.” Terrorizing a bear and her cubs for miles through the woods with a pack of hounds; trapping animals in leghold traps and taking pictures and videos of them suffering; running hounds on private lands without permission; having a board that is completely one-sided; and the open killing season of coyotes are the things I am against. While Louis Porter has been commissioner, not one petition has been approved from wildlife advocacy groups. Wildlife advocate numbers are growing by the day. We are not going away, so we must find a path forward and work together. Sophie Bowater

NORTH MIDDLESEX

Not a single long-standing “Vermont” hunting tradition was mentioned in this article. Not one. You’d think that a real, actual Vermonter would know there’s no “tradition” of steel leghold traps, nor hunting with hounds in N’Dakinna, as the Abenaki call this land. Nor did hunters go into others’ hunting grounds. Hunting grounds were passed down in families, and you ate what you killed; nothing was wasted. I see no mention of the tradition of growing extra corn for the bears and raccoons on these lands; instead, harassing and killing the bear is labeled “tradition.” Odd. Seems like Vermont’s fish and wildlife laws defy and ignore “tradition” to the point where one has to wonder how many on the Fish & Wildlife commission have ever been of Abenaki descent, have actually studied the culture here or know any traditions. I’m not sure how anyone can discuss “rights” or “lifestyles” on these lands without knowing the culture and history. Since coyotes have only been here since the 1950s, I have to ask: How could killing them be called a “long-held tradition”? And I have to ask where Vermont’s once-abundant wolf population is, since Vermont is so great at “managing” these once-thriving apex predators that “manage” themselves. No farmer wants strangers with guns and/or dogs on their land, potentially shooting a predator ally, livestock or the farmer, especially during hunting season. It’s a hunter safety nightmare, not “tradition.” Lastly, can someone look up the definition of “refuge”? From a real hunterfarmer on Cowasuck Abenaki territory… Samantha Nickerson

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OBITUARIES Marcia Mae Rosberg MAY 6, 1936SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 JERICHO, VT.

Marcia Mae (Congdon) Rosberg, 85, passed away on September 28, 2021, at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Vt. She was born in Foxborough, Mass., on May 6, 1936, daughter of the late Creighton and Mabel (Kuld) Congdon. Marcia carried fond memories of her childhood in rural Foxborough, where she attended school and graduated from Foxborough High School. She recalled playing in the brook and forest on the property of her childhood home and finding joy and inspiration there. A self-taught and prolific artist, Marcia had a passion for art from a

young age. Her high school art teacher selected her to participate in a weekend art study program at MassArt in Boston, fueling a lifelong career as an artist. Marcia married her beloved husband, Norman Rosberg, on January 14, 1954, and the two were devoted to one another and their family throughout 67 years

of marriage. Marcia and Norman moved to Vermont in 1967 and built their home in Jericho in 1969. The couple raised six children there and enjoyed the bountiful and pastoral property that served as a source of inspiration throughout Marcia’s adult life. Devoted to her family, Marcia found great joy in hosting gatherings with her children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren for holidays and special occasions. She valued taking and collecting family photographs. She often gifted photographs, artwork and handmade holiday cards to her loved ones. A kind and generous soul, Marcia enjoyed cooking, reading, gardening and her cats, and her family will always remember her love for chocolate cake. Marcia was well-known in Vermont as an accomplished

Robert D. Blodgett

Anne Boardman

Robert D. Blodgett of North Hero, Vt., passed away at home on August 26, 2021. He was born on September 7, 1953, in Bennington, Vt. He was a carpenter for more than 40 years. He worked for Flanders Lumber and Hubbard Construction before he became self-employed. He loved animals, especially his two dogs, Khloe and Ivy. He also loved traveling, playing computer games and watching old Westerns. He leaves his longtime companion, Leslie Kiely of North Hero, Vt.; his son Krishna Maples from Marlboro, Vt.; brothers Kurt Blodgett of Vancouver, Washington Carl Blodgett (Trish) of Ruskin, Fla., Grant Blodgett (Cherry’s) from Virginia, and Billye Prier (Charlie) of Chesterfield, Va.; and Holly Blodgett of Hawaii. He also leaves many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, Frankie Dosda and William Blodgett. There will be no services, per his request. Please visit awrfh.com to share your memories and condolences.

Anne “Nancy” Moran Boardman, 94, of South Burlington, Vt., passed away peacefully on September 22, 2021. Thinking of others to her last breath, and cherishing a family gettogether, Nancy managed to give just enough notice of her passing to allow for a beautiful farewell gathering, at home surrounded by her family. Nancy was born on September 9, 1927, to the late William and Catherine Moran, in Brooklyn, N.Y. She graduated from St. Edmunds High School and received her RN from St. Mary’s School of Nursing in Brooklyn. Nancy met the late Dr. John “Jack” D. Boardman in Brooklyn. They married in 1950 and, after Jack’s medical training was complete, returned to his home state of Vermont. Nancy retired from nursing but often put her nursing skills to good use raising their seven children and volunteering for Hospice, the Red Cross and Meals on Wheels, to name a few. She was a woman of great faith with a humble capacity to give to others on every level. By nature, Nancy was a nurturer; her

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and prize-winning artist, and she held numerous shows in local galleries and libraries. She was a member of the Northern Vermont Artist Association and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Marcia volunteered as an art teacher at Jericho Elementary School and often gave back to the community through her art. Marcia participated annually in the Vermont Crafts Council Open Studio Weekend, where she could showcase the beautiful building that her husband transformed from his old workshop into an art studio. In her cherished, light-filled studio, Marcia worked primarily with oil paints and dabbled in acrylics, watercolors and pastels. She would jokingly remark that her studio could never be big enough, for she had a habit of filling wall space

quickly. Nature was the primary inspiration for Marcia’s work, and her early paintings illustrated nature in its most realistic form. After taking a class called Painting From the Spiritual Center with Cami Davis at the University of Vermont, Marcia described having a different outlook and enjoyed portraying forest floors with bright colors and blue prancing deer and painting her signature birds’ nests with unconventional colors and style. Marcia is survived by her loving husband, Norman Rosberg, of Jericho, Vt.; sons Glenn Rosberg of Massachusetts, Keith Rosberg and Mary Ellen of Texas, and Neil Rosberg and Heide of Essex Junction, Vt.; daughter Loreen Hitchcock of Springfield, Vt.; daughter-in-law Eva Rosberg of Jeffersonville, Vt.; son-in-law

home was warm and welcoming. There was always another seat at her table and an extra spot for an overnight guest. Her nieces and nephews both near and far, as well as friends of her children, frequently visited her home on Crescent Road. Literally to this day, they speak of her kindness and how she made them feel. (Her chocolate chip cookies were just a bonus!) From the moment Nancy was blessed to become a grandmother, she was simply known as Nanny to all who met her. She relished being a mother, grandmother and, more recently, a great-grandmother. Nanny showed us the way to love and be loved, and without fail, as you parted ways, you would hear “God Bless.” Nancy is survived by her seven children and their spouses: Kathryn Boardman and Toby Knox of South Burlington; John D. Boardman Jr. of North Palm Beach, Fla.; Susan Boardman Russ and Jack Russ of Oxford, Miss.; William and Cindy Duncan Boardman of South Burlington; Brian and Brooks Barton Boardman of Burlington; Tia Boardman Trottier and Peter Trottier of South Burlington; and Elizabeth Boardman Davis and Jed Davis of South Burlington. She is also survived by her beloved grandchildren: Amanda Knox Hoffman and

Rick Lefebvre of Milton, Vt.; 12 grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren; one greatgreat-grandchild; and numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. She is predeceased by her son Wayne Rosberg; daughter Denise Rosberg; brother, David Congdon; sister Janet Congdon; and daughter-inlaw Anne Marie Rosberg. Visiting hours will be held on Thursday, October 7, 2021, from 5 to 8 p.m., at A.W. Rich Funeral Home’s Essex Chapel. A graveside service will be held on Friday, October 8, 2021, at 11 a.m., in the family lot in Jericho Center Cemetery. The family is respectfully requesting masks to be worn. Memorial contributions may be made to the Vermont Foodbank. Please visit awrfh.com to share your memories and condolences.

Tyler Hoffman; Andrew Knox and Catherine Lindberg Knox; Jacqueline Russ; Meghan Boardman Smith and Kyle Smith; Corey Boardman; Sam, Will, Lucas and Lillian Boardman; Ben Trottier and Sara Samaha Trottier; Jack Trottier; and John, Harrison, A.M. and Catherine Davis; as well as her five great-grandchildren, Charlotte and Lillian Hoffman, Owen Smith, Charlie Knox, and Elizabeth Trottier. Nancy also leaves behind her in-laws David and Joan Boardman, and Col. (Ret.) Francis Maccini; her cousin Colleen Foley; and many nieces and nephews she loved as her own — who, quite beautifully, felt the same about her. In addition to her husband, Jack, Nancy was predeceased by her siblings William and Anne Moran, Betty and George DeMartini, Ellen and Cy Fader, Colleen Moran, Sr. Catherine William Moran, and Dolores and Gerard Bennett; her in-laws I. Munn Jr. and Lillian Boardman, Marie Boardman Maccini, Robert and Nancy Boardman; and three nephews, I. Munn Boardman III, Robert E. Boardman Jr. and Paul T. Fader. There will be visitation at St. Catherine’s Church in Shelburne on Friday, October 15, at 12:30 p.m., followed by a mass of Christian burial at 1:30 p.m. The Rite of Committal at Resurrection Park Cemetery in Burlington will immediately follow the mass. Wearing of masks indoors is respectfully recommended as appropriate. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that people make donations to support the Visiting Nurses Association of Vermont. SEVEN DAYS OCTOBER 6-13, 2021

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John Joseph McMurry

FEBRUARY 19, 1975SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 BURLINGTON, VT. John Joseph McMurry, 46, was born on a full moon on February 19, 1975, and passed away peacefully at home in the early morning of the harvest moon on September 20, 2021, with his family and dear friends by his side. Born and raised in Hudson Falls, N.Y., John grew up in a loving family surrounded by his extended family of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. John was raised in a very close-knit family that provided him boundless love and support throughout his life. He completed courses at Adirondack Community College before earning his bachelor of science degree in ecology at Unity College in Maine. John settled down in Burlington, Vt., where he grew deep roots in his community and co-parented his two children, Levi and George, with their mother, Grace Per Lee. John was a devoted and loving father to Levi and George. Together, the three enjoyed mountain biking,

swimming in Lake Champlain, and going on trips to see family and friends in Maine and New York. John was passionate about teaching his children to treat others with respect and love and to use their unique gifts to make the world a better place. He encouraged his children to take risks and explore the world, while making sure they knew they were loved and supported unconditionally. John, Levi and George all share the same great sense of humor, cheeky grin and enthusiasm for living life to the fullest. John understood what it meant to cherish life and the beauty that it holds — in people, in nature, and in experiences both simple and lavish. He lived

with intention, generosity, appreciation, a sense of adventure and an overflowing abundance of love. He filled his days with culinary pursuits, deep late-night conversations, adrenalineheavy outdoor activities and, most importantly to John, time spent with loved ones. He had a heartwarming gravity that invited people from all walks of life into his wide circle of friends — which he considered an extension of his family. Those in John’s presence were guaranteed to be enthralled by a story (or many) accompanied by a delicious meal, a craft cocktail, a mountain biking adventure and, often, all of the above. As fun, easygoing and lively as John was, he was equally thoughtful, spiritual and kindhearted. He was the most reliable shoulder to lean on, always ready to listen and share anything that he could. John’s selfdetermination and commitment to self-reflection are a testament to his dedication to be the best father, son, brother, friend and environmental leader he could be. His career spanned many fascinating jobs and pursuits, most recently working for the State of Vermont and

VEIC, where for the past nine years John dedicated himself to improving his customers’ energy efficiency with a specialty in ski area operations. John was full of passion, integrity, and courage to ask the difficult questions and to find a way to do what was right, no matter what. His driving force was always to cause the necessary trouble required for progress, and he inspired his communities to push a little more, care a little more, try a little more. He was predeceased by his grandparents, John McMurry, Robert and Betty Ann (Deyette) Springer, and Joyce Jennings. John is survived by his loving family: his treasured children, Levi and George; his mother and father, Jacqueline and Joseph McMurry; his sister Jolene McMurry Davis and her husband, Joel Davis; his grandmother Ruth McDuff; his trusty sidekick Daisy; and an endless community of family, friends, coworkers and others on whom he made a lasting impact. A celebration of life will take place on Thursday, October 18, 2021, from 4 to 9 p.m., at the St. John’s Club in Burlington, Vt.

JANUARY 25, 1933-OCTOBER 9, 2020 George F. Devoid passed away at the age of 87 after a short battle with cancer. George was a veteran of the Korean War and a talented machinist for Emerson Electric, creating custom tools. George spent his golden years with his partner and friend, Barbara Baker, in Elgin, Ill. George had six siblings and is survived by three sons and their wives: Wilbur and Marilyn, Phillip and Cheryl, and Roger and Lisa. He is also survived by five grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. George was a patient and supportive man with a strong work ethic. He will live in our hearts forever!

Robert Rinkema

1947-2020 Friends and family are invited to a celebration of Bob’s life on Saturday, October 23, at the Burlington Country Club from 3 to 5 p.m. This past year has had many changes, challenges and celebrations for all of us. Since Bob’s death on July 23, 2020, we have been missing him and remembering him through stories and songs. We look forward to continuing to celebrate this wonderful man with those who knew and loved him. We want everyone to feel comfortable and stay safe, so please wear a mask.

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s students arrived for Kimberly Quinn’s 11 a.m. class in early September, she handed each a multicolored button that read, “Be the boss of your brain.” During this semester, she aims to help them mold their young minds — literally. A Champlain College professor and expert in cognitive and positive psychology, Quinn teaches students how to reprogram their brains to become happier, healthier, and more mindful and resilient in the face of adversities that range from anxiety and depression to chronic disease. That day in the classroom, the 56-year-old New York native wore black-and-white Converse high-tops and splashy, rainbow-colored pants that set off her bobbed haircut and red-rimmed glasses. Quinn began the class — called Mindcraft: The Psychology of Optimal Human Functioning and Life Satisfaction— as she starts all of her lessons: with a one-minute silent meditation. She then asked students to read from their gratitude journals. She requires them to spend several minutes each day jotting down at least three things for which they’re grateful — an exercise popularized by University of Pennsylvania professor Martin Seligman, considered the father of positive psychology. “It could be dad’s banana bread, my golden retriever, my eyesight, my hot tea, whatever,” Quinn told the class. Her hope is that, by semester’s end, the students will be in the habit of noting such things. Quinn has done so for years. Students listed what one might expect these mostly first-year college kids to be thankful for: their parents, their health, a favorite roommate, energy drinks, sleep. Beyond the camaraderie such disclosures can inspire, Quinn emphasized that the exercise is based in neuroscience. Writing out the words “I am grateful for,” she said, directs blood flow to the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which can be measured on a specialized MRI scan. Stimulating the neural pathways associated with gratitude makes them stronger and more likely to fire, which confers many physical and psychological benefits. The primary one, Quinn said, is that the brain, which acts as a pattern-recognition machine, starts searching the environment for even more sources of gratitude. This phenomenon, known as the Tetris Effect, was first discovered by studying chronic players of the video game, who began seeing its colored geometric shapes in the real world, Quinn said. In as little as 21 days, she explained, students can effectively train their minds to find more reasons to appreciate things in their lives that they might otherwise overlook. “Remember, it’s not touchy-feely,” Quinn emphasized. “It’s neurological.” Quinn doesn’t say that lightly. She knows firsthand how hard it can be to rewire one’s brain. Quinn overcame childhood abuse inflicted by alcoholic parents, as well as an undiagnosed neurological condition, to become the healthy, upbeat person she is today. She worked for years as a therapist, earned a PhD in cognitive psychology and has taught at Champlain for a decade. In 2018, Quinn won the college’s Francine Page Excellence in Teaching Award, given to one professor each year. She’s been central to Champlain’s efforts to teach everyone on campus — students, faculty and staff — how to be more mindful, grounded, playful and adept at managing their emotions.

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For years, Champlain, a small, private college of about 4,200 students, has described its offerings as “radically pragmatic.” In addition to a mandatory core curriculum of academics, all students must complete the InSight Curriculum: four years of instruction in financial and career skills. These include managing personal finances, tracking one’s credit history, negotiating a salary, building a résumé and assessing a potential employer’s workplace culture. Starting this fall with the class of 2025, Champlain added a new element to its life-skills mix: emotional and physical well-being. “Across college campuses, especially small college campuses like ours, we’re seeing a huge uptick” in demand for mental health services, said Harris at Champlain’s counseling center. Even before COVID-19, 60 percent of all U.S. college students reported feeling “overwhelming” anxiety, and 40 percent reported depression so severe that they had difficulty functioning, according to 2018 and 2019 data from the American College Health Association. Rates of suicidal thoughts, severe depression and self-injury among college students have more than doubled in less than a decade, the association reported. Champlain has experienced those trends. As Harris noted, a year and a half of the pandemic and social isolation has amplified preexisting mental health concerns. In a normal year, he said, Champlain’s counseling center would see “just a handful” of students seek help before classes started. This year, Harris had 35 such requests. Pre-pandemic, his clinicians wouldn’t need to start a waiting list for appointments until at least six weeks into the semester. This year, the wait list started after the first week of classes. In 2020, as the pandemic ramped up and Champlain halted all in-person instruction, Harris sought advice from Quinn, who had just taken on an additional role: campus-wide program coordinator for well-being and success. He asked her how they could get ahead of these trends and help students build more self-sufficiency. Champlain’s counseling center already had a robust program for triaging mental health calls, which allows

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The need for such skills has never been more urgent, because the pandemic exacerbates mental health issues that were already pervasive on college campuses. Quinn responded with a singular mission: to make everyone at Champlain happier and healthier. The popularity of Quinn’s Mindcraft course is a testament to her efforts. Since she launched the course four years ago, it’s become one of the most sought-after on campus and consistently has a waiting list. Initially an elective, it became a requirement this fall for all psychology majors. Quinn is teaching three 15-student sections this semester, and every one is full. She hopes to make the course a requirement for all incoming students. Laurel Bongiorno, Champlain’s dean of the Division of Education & Human Studies, said that ambitious goal was under consideration. “Kim can bring that knowledge and education into the classroom, whereas we [counselors] don’t have that opportunity,” noted Skip Harris, Champlain’s director of counseling, student health and wellness. “We call Kim our secret weapon.”

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students to see a counselor within 24 hours. Nationally, the average wait time on college campuses is seven days, according to 2020 data from the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors. “Could I use five more counselors? Sure. Would they just get booked up? Yes. That’s just the nature of the work,” said Harris, whose center now has six counselors. “But what we’re really trying to do as a community is to help our students become more resilient and better at managing their own discomfort.” In March 2020, when Champlain switched to allremote learning, Quinn launched a weekly podcast to continue the training she couldn’t do in person. Called “Mindcraft: Become the Boss of Your Brain & Live Your Best Life,” it addresses topics such as the importance of smiling and laughing through difficult times, creativity and self-expression, mindful giving, healthy sex, and the sweetness of doing nothing. Though students are now back on campus, Quinn has continued the podcast; about half her listeners are located outside the U.S., in 55 countries. Quinn also writes a campus-wide newsletter, called the Mindful Times, and moderates weekly meetings of a club she has dubbed Defense Against the Dark Arts. The professor, who borrowed the club’s name from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of novels and movies, shows up each week in her purple wizard’s hat and gown. Despite its name, the club has nothing to do with fantasy cosplay or nerding out on Hogwarts trivia. It’s a support group during which Quinn offers tools and strategies to help students manage their anxiety, depression and feelings of unworthiness — aka the “dark arts.” So why the Harry Potter theme? “If you tell young adults that you’re going to have a depression support group, do you think anybody’s coming to that?” Quinn asked. Then she turned on a nasally New York accent: “‘We’re gonna have a depression support group in the Saint Jude basement. We’ll have doughnuts.’ Like, who’s going to that? No one!” Though the club includes some mindfulness training and “a splash of psych education,” Quinn said, it’s not an academic course. Rather, it’s student-centered, spontaneous and fun. To that end, Quinn organizes extracurricular events such as Halloween pumpkin carvings and bonsai tree plantings. The wizard’s outfit, she said, is just an outward manifestation of having fun with mental health. At least once a year, Quinn dresses in a gorilla outfit and walks across campus just to see how many people notice her. This, too, serves as a lesson in mindfulness. Based on the famous “invisible gorilla” experiment, in which most test subjects failed to notice a person in a gorilla suit walking through a video, it demonstrates humans’ proclivity for overlooking things that are right before our eyes. Plus, Quinn loves incorporating play into her work whenever she can. “Playfulness is so important,” she added. “When [students] see seasoned grown-ups modeling playfulness out in the world, it gives them permission to hang on to that playfulness in themselves.”

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“Kim has always had this really positive attitude, super high energy, wanting everyone to get along ... She’s always been like that,” said Lori Lillimagi-Boehm, Quinn’s childhood friend and neighbor. The two women have known each other since they were 5 years old. But one’s environment and upbringing play critical roles, too. Quinn taught herself to find happiness in the darkest of places. “Even though I have a happy-go-lucky temperament, it’s a lot of work, because the world out there is constantly throwing curveballs,” Quinn said. “There’s a lot of choice making, and I choose to live deliberately.” Quinn grew up in New Paltz, N.Y., the elder of two daughters of alcoholics. Her father, who worked for an insurance company, sometimes disappeared for months at a time. When he was home, life was no better. Quinn described her childhood household as loud, chaotic and occasionally visited by the police. It wasn’t uncommon for her to retreat to the rooftop with her friend to escape the chaos below. “It was our thinking place,” LillimagiBoehm recalled. “She kind of felt closer to God there, you know?” Though Quinn did well in school and

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served as captain of her high school ski team, her accomplishments made little impression on her parents. “My sister was the golden child, and I was their designated scapegoat,” she said. “My father pounded the shit out of me.” At 16, Quinn started dating an 18-yearold boy who was good-looking and drove a fast car, which she described as “every parent’s nightmare.” Once, after the boyfriend got caught drinking alcohol, Quinn’s father forbade her from seeing him. When Quinn protested, her father threw her headfirst into a dresser. Quinn’s mother was never formally diagnosed with a mental illness, but Quinn strongly suspects that she was bipolar. Once, her mother took her on a frenetic, hourlong drive to the Bronx, blaring loud music and speeding the entire way. When they finally stopped at a diner, her mother explained how much easier her life would have been had her daughter not been born. In fact, her mother told Quinn that she’d originally planned to get an abortion but decided instead to do the baby “a favor,” so Quinn should feel lucky to be alive. At 16, shortly before the manic car ride, Quinn finally revealed to her mother that, from the age of 6 until her early teens, she had been sexually abused by a relative, who had threatened to hurt her if she told anyone. Upon hearing the story, Quinn’s

mother got up and then matter-of-factly went about her day, leaving Quinn feeling “dirty and worthless.” “I came home one day, and my mother had changed all the locks on the doors, and I couldn’t get in,” she said. By 17, Quinn found herself homeless and living out of her car. In those days, she would often park her car on Mohonk Mountain near New Paltz, crack a window, lock the doors and pray. Her faith in God, she said, helped get her through some of the most difficult times. She wasn’t raised to be religious, but her neighbor’s Italian family was Catholic; when Quinn decided to join the church, Lillimagi-Boehm sponsored her conversion. In 1983, while still in high school, Quinn told a guidance counselor that she wanted to attend a small college in Vermont where she could ski. He handed her a Saint Michael’s College catalog, which featured a photo of a rainbow behind the Colchester Catholic school’s chapel. “Just looking at that catalog,” she said, “I knew it was meant to be.” Quinn borrowed her uncle’s old IBM typewriter and banged out a college essay. She then used money that she’d earned working as a lifeguard to pay the application fee. Despite her rocky relationship with her father, he agreed to cover her tuition.

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“St. Mike’s literally saved my life,” articles in Psychology Today, and she has Quinn recalled. “I cannot even imagine given two TEDx talks. In one talk, Quinn shares her experiwhere I would be without it. The people there wrapped around me like a burrito, ence of growing up with undiagnosed and because of this, I was able to soar.” ADHD, or “attention surplus high-energy At St. Mike’s, Quinn discovered a gift,” as she calls it. She worked as a therasense of calm and inner peace. She was pist for much of the 1990s and bristles at befriended by Father Michael Cronogue, the word “disorder.” She never uses it in the much-beloved late Edmundite priest. the classroom. But her euphemism for One day, Father Mike walked Quinn to ADHD isn’t a form of political correctthe counseling center, ness; it’s about getting where she later joined a people to reimagine support group for adult their innate weakchildren of alcoholics. nesses and strengths. Quinn also joined “Disorder,” Quinn the school’s crosssaid, “is a shame word. It leaves us feeling less country team to stay in shape for the ski team than and defective.” but soon was more Her own neurological focused on running condition, Quinn said, than skiing. The crossgives her an “enhanced country team, she said, ability for divergent “was the superglue thinking, creativholding me together. ity and innovation.” “Honestly, I feel She believes that her like these people were frenetic energy enabled brought into my life,” her to write the three books, which, she she continued. “I truly believe God brought said in her TEDx talk, me a ton of angels along flowed out of her “like the way. They mirrored water from a faucet.” the value in me that my Quinn encourages a flow of ideas in her parents did not, and I developed a very posiMindcraft class, too, tive sense of self late in aiming to support ALYSSA J OHN STON the game.” students’ freedom For years, Quinn and expression. In the tried, unsuccessfully, to reconcile with September class, where students sat her family. Eventually, she severed all ties in a large circle (Quinn abhors rows of with her parents and sister. desks), her energy was on full display. “When they tell you they wish you She practically vibrated with enthusiweren’t born, where do you go from asm, pacing the floor like a motivational there?” she asked. “So I released them speaker. like helium balloons.” Some students were chatty and While at St. Mike’s, Quinn was diag- outgoing; others were so quiet it was nosed with attention deficit hyperactivity difficult to hear them speak through disorder, a condition she began to address their face masks. But Quinn addressed in her forties. She also met her future each one personally, having committed husband, Tom Smith, at the college. their names to memory. Several students Father Mike officiated at their wedding. who’ve taken her class previously noted They have five adult children, whom that she regularly referred to them as Quinn calls “the fab five.” “rock stars” and “superstars.” While Quinn doesn’t share her trauma In that class, Quinn was eager to stories in her college courses, she doesn’t share some of her so-called “party conceal them, either. As she put it, “I tricks” — simple massage exercises that think secrets are toxic.” stimulate the vagus nerve and temporarily deactivate the amygdala. The latter is the “fight-or-flight” part of the brain that reacts to dangerous or threatening Adults have benefited from Quinn’s stimuli, she said, as well as “the anxiety positive-thinking guidance, too. Under worry-circuit headquarters.” Soon, all the name Kimberly Quinn Smith, she the students were rubbing their eyelids has published three books: one on or massaging their earlobes in circular menopause, one on parenting teens motions, temporarily deactivating their and one on motherhood in general. She “anxious monkey mind.” has also published two workbooks for professionals and more than two dozen THE WIZARD OF WELLNESS » P.32

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In a 10-minute span, Quinn leapt from quoting Aristotle — “one of my favorite dead guys,” she quipped — to showing a clip from the ’90s sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond” to explaining the role of dopamine in making humans treat each other nicely. Dean Bongiorno said that when she encounters students who are struggling with anxiety or who aren’t performing well academically because of emotional challenges, she often recommends Quinn’s Mindcraft class. Bongiorno remembered suggesting it to one student, who returned at the end of the semester just to thank her. Quinn recalled another student, a game design major, who enrolled in Mindcraft by mistake. He’d misread the course title and assumed that it was about the online video game Minecraft. Despite his error, the student not only stuck with the class, Quinn said, but became one of her most active participants that semester. Alyssa Johnston, an 18-year-old firstyear student from Weymouth, Mass., took Quinn’s Mindcraft course over the summer. It was her first college class, so she had no idea what to expect, especially because the class was taught remotely. “When Dr. Quinn started doing these meditation exercises, I was like, What am I doing here? This isn’t what I signed up for,” she recalled. After the first class or two, however, Johnston decided she was into it. “Not to be cliché,” Johnston said, “but she’s an inspiration to me because she’s a very positive person, and positivity is

something I’ve struggled with over the years. I definitely look up to her.” Nathaniel Slade, a senior from the Northeast Kingdom who’s studying business administration and marketing, also took Mindcraft over the summer. He called Quinn “one of my favorite teachers ever. She’s super energetic, and you can definitely tell that she’s passionate about well-being and teaching it to other people.” Slade particularly enjoyed learning about gratitude journals, a practice he’s continued and now swears by. “It definitely does work,” he said. “After a couple of weeks or so, you start seeing things randomly that you’re grateful for. You’re driving along, and something will suddenly just pop out at you, and you’re like, Wow!”

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For other students, Quinn’s course provided lessons whose impacts transcended the typical college-level stressors of midterm exams and first job interviews. Reid Anctil, a 23-year-old psych major from western Massachusetts, took Quinn’s class in the spring of 2018. (At the time, it was still called Positive Psychology.) Later that summer, just weeks before he was due back on campus, Anctil was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He missed a year of school while undergoing chemo, radiation and recovery. Quinn’s course dramatically altered his mindset toward his cancer. “I was able to find some of the silver linings in it,” he recalled. “Most people wouldn’t say anything positive about a cancer experience, but … I’ve had some

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he view from the summit of Mount Philo is iconic. A popular image on social media, the patchwork of Charlotte’s verdant farmland, fluffy clumps of forest and the silver span of Lake Champlain is unmistakable to anyone who’s hiked the 968-foot mountain. About four miles from the shore, Mount Philo State Park offers a closer, more dramatic and elevated view of the lake than any other public land in the area. Established in 1924, Mount Philo was Vermont’s first state park and is still the most popular one in the Green Mountains, with attendance skyrocketing in the 21st century. “In the year 2000, we had 13,000 counted visits,” said Vermont State Parks regional manager Reuben Allen, who oversees Mount Philo and 11 other parks. In 2019, by contrast, the mountain had nearly 70,000 visitors. But that increased popularity comes at a cost. Allen said foot traffic along the park’s winding trail system has deteriorated it to an unsustainable state “because [it] wasn’t created with that level of use in mind.” Now, just a few years ahead of the park’s centennial, the state is taking action to maintain one of its recreational

crown jewels. After a competitive bidding process, the Vermont Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation chose trail design and construction company Timber & Stone to give the Mount Philo trail system a redesign and overhaul, which began in 2020. Timber & Stone isn’t just laying down fresh pathways. It’s installing a visually striking feature to the new, combined Summit and Campground trails: an impressive system of stone staircases. The new trail’s entrance is partway up the mountain, across the access road from House Rock Trail, which begins at the parking lot. The plan is to finish the project before winter, or by May 2022 at the latest. “There’s a time and a place where a redesign is needed,” said Timber & Stone principal trail designer and builder Josh Ryan. “And this is the time.” Mount Philo’s proximity to Burlington — about 16 miles from downtown — makes it a no-brainer destination for tourists. It’s also the rare Vermont mountain that has a drivable road all the way to the summit. TAKING STEPS SEVEN DAYS

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Taking Steps « P.35 The mountain’s sheer popularity isn’t the only reason for the decaying state of the old trails. Heavy use combined with natural erosion to create “huge gullies [and] very unstable soils,” Ryan said. Hikers often had to grab nearby trees to support themselves as they navigated the treacherous terrain, damaging those trees in the process. “The trail went from what may have been 18 inches wide years ago to, like, 20 to 30 feet wide,” Ryan said. Based in East Montpelier, Timber & Stone has more than 15 years of experience making the kind of staircases it’s building on Mount Philo, as well as bridges, plank boardwalk systems and timber-frame structures. The company’s work can be found all over Vermont and the Northeast, and even as far as away Illinois. Formerly an employee of the U.S. Forest Service and other natural preservation

they’re barely distinguishable from the surrounding forest. They will fade into memory as they’re overtaken by and absorbed back into nature. The new trail, by contrast, is a pristine, defined path. Timber & Stone gave it “an alignment that made the best use of existing topography,” Ryan said. So far, the company has finished upgrading only the upper portion, as well as creating some new, ADA-accessible trails on and around the summit. The lower portion is still open, but hikers will notice a stark contrast as they’re rerouted from the old trails to the new on their ascent. The new trail surface, called tread, is a bluish gravel mixture laid over chunkier crushed stone; between these layers is geotextile fabric, which helps with drainage and stability. All the stone mixtures came from New Haven’s Pike Industries, known for its production of asphalt and other construction aggregates.

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organizations, Ryan founded Timber & Stone in 2004 and has an extensive background in conservation and forestry. Though the work his company does is massive, just four employees do it all. Funding for the Mount Philo redesign came from various sources, including the federal Recreational Trails Program and the CARES Act, legislation that was enacted as part of the nation’s pandemic stimulus plan. “The state really leveraged outdoor recreation as part of its pandemic response,” said Jessica Savage, manager of the state’s Land and Water Conservation Fund Program. That’s why Vermont ended up with significant CARES Act funds for the Mount Philo project, she said, noting that funding more typically comes from sources such as the Recreational Trails Program. On a recent Wednesday at the Mount Philo worksite, Ryan pointed out some key differences between the old trails and the new one. The old trails are so battered 36

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But the new trail’s most eye-catching features are the stone staircases, which will total around 300 individual steps. Rather than a continuous flight, they’re scattered throughout the trail, appearing wherever the ratio of rise to run exceeds 10 percent. Each set of stairs must have at least two rises (i.e., the vertical distance from the flat top of one step to the next one). And Ryan has carefully measured the run, or length, of each step to help hikers maintain a natural stride and gait. Small boulders called gargoyles flank each staircase. Though they’re aesthetically pleasing and integral to the staircase’s structure, Ryan said, one of their primary purposes is psychological. The gargoyles guide people onto and up the stairs so that they don’t step around them — keeping people literally in line and off the forest floor.

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One breathtaking staircase is on the western side of the mountain, just below the summit. Dozens of steps wind a crooked path up the side of a relatively steep grade. The scene has an almost mythic quality, like something out of “Game of Thrones” or The Lord of the Rings. To build that staircase, Timber & Stone employees drove stones from the material staging area in the upper parking lot to the edge of the drop-off. They then lowered the stones into place with cables — kind of like zip lines, Ryan said — letting gravity do as much of the work as possible to guide them into place. The company laid down the shorter staircases on the trail with heavy-duty construction vehicles. Timber & Stone partner and trail designer-builder Pete Hiser hopped off one such apparatus to talk to Seven Days. He reckoned each step weighs between 250 and 800 pounds.

The Charlotte native grew up with the mountain practically in his backyard, which adds a layer of personal significance to his involvement. “As I got older, this park became so popular and the old trail got so muddy that, a lot of times, people just walk up the road,” Hiser said. (Indeed, this reporter saw many hikers doing just that.) Hiser said he never dreamed he’d be doing this kind of work on the mountain. “It’s kind of full circle,” he said. “It’s a bit of a homecoming for me.” Ryan has already received plenty of positive feedback on the work Timber & Stone has done so far. “‘It’s like hiking up a castle in the clouds,’” he said, repeating the words of a weekend hiker. “People have pulled us aside and have just been awestruck.” m

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wo weeks ago, Justin Mason took his first trip to Hinterland Market, a new store in South Albany. Mason, 24, is the assistant clerk of his hometown of Albany. He noted and appreciated the array of inventory: housemade pretzels and kimchi, hot sauce and throwback candies, and a spicy flavor of Lay’s potato chips — India’s Magic Masala — that he’d never eaten before. “I think it adds a little variety, some uniqueness to Albany,” Mason said. “It’s nice that they bring a little bit of culture, which I personally feel the town needs.” Karin Weiner and Aaron Malys opened Hinterland Market on South Albany Road in June. The multitalented, artistic couple, who resurrected the village’s bygone general store, are creating their own brand of cultural hub, as Mason observed. They’ve stocked the store with yogurt and eggs from down the road, Vietnamese bánh tráng and pho shipped from Brooklyn, a rack of vintage clothing, and baked goods made on-site. Described on its website as “the bodega in the middle of nowhere,” Hinterland Market also houses an exhibit of paintings by South Albany native Eunice Rowell Kinsey. The market occupies a big timberframe building that was the South Albany store a century ago. The brown clapboard structure on a dirt road dates back to 1917, a few years after a fire burned most of the town to the ground. In those days, the proprietors traveled by sled to Barton in the winter to purchase supplies for the market, and farmers stocked up on grain there. Townspeople gathered at the building for card games, silent movies and dancing to live music. These days, Weiner, 50, and Malys, 49, are thoughtfully and playfully bringing the erstwhile store to life, after multiple owners and five decades of dormancy. Weiner grew up in Warren and majored in art at the University of Vermont. She moved to New York City after college, rented a studio and began making art. She went on to exhibit her collages and sculpture around the country as she worked various NYC gigs: serving in restaurants; painting houses; managing a “fake” general store, as she put it; and working as a thrift store picker/buyer. Malys worked in NYC as an art director, photographer and graphic designer. One of his interests is designing and building skateboards. Though Weiner and Malys lived about a mile apart in Brooklyn for more

BUSINESS than 20 years, they never met until five years ago in Vermont, where both had moved. They were ready to leave New York for a change of scene and, for Weiner, a return to her home state. She was experiencing “a little urban burnout,” she said, “and wanting to go back to the country.” The couple lives primarily in a 19th-century Montpelier carriage house that they gutted and renovated. Four years ago, they purchased the defunct general store in South Albany and started spending summers there. With a pond out back, a garden across the road and apple trees whose limbs droop over a side deck, the property made an appealing seasonal camp. They kicked around the idea of opening a business and considered an art gallery in South Albany or a skate shop in Montpelier. Plans for Hinterland Market germinated last winter, when the couple thought, “Maybe [the space] deserves to be a store again,” Weiner said. At home in Montpelier, Weiner practiced baking and taught herself to make what she calls “authentic pretzels.” In February, she posted a notice on Front

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Porch Forum, offering pretzels to the neighborhood. The first weekend, she got orders for 14 dozen. Malys added kimchi and hot sauce to the homemade goods, and soon they had a mini food business with weekly pickups on their front porch.

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“It kept us busy and not depressed during the pandemic,” Weiner said. Those efforts were the springboard for opening Hinterland Market in June. (By coincidence, another store opened in Albany that month, the community-supported Genny: Albany General Store on Route 14.)

Hinterland Market stocks Weiner’s pretzels and Malys’ ferments. Weiner also bakes bread and makes meat pies. The savory pastries are stuffed with meat from Sweet Rowen Farmstead in East Albany; their shells are a vibrant yellow, colored by turmeric that Weiner adds to the dough. Market items include pantry staples and global foods, such as panko, borscht and chin-su sauce. There are baked beans, sardines, ranch dressing and toothpaste. The store also offers a selection of nonfood items, including yarn, hummingbird feeders, toys, colored pencils and bear fat salve made at Cate Hill Orchard in Greensboro. “We have fun finding eclectic things to mix in with the general store merchandise,” Weiner said. “And we would love to have a bigger variety of stuff.” Neighbors appreciate what Hinterland Market brings to the area. On a recent Saturday, Jim Daniels and his 11-year-old son, Fred, ate meat pies and Necco Wafers on the front porch. Fred said he likes having a store that’s less than a 10-minute drive from his house in East Albany.

Daniels, a carpenter, said he’s pleased by the nature of the endeavor. “It always amazes me that every town [in Vermont] has a pizza store and a creemee shop,” he said. “I’ve always found that indulgent and excessive. I appreciate that this store seems to be mostly an aesthetic project and the creation of a community space.” Recently, Weiner and Malys cleared space to make room for Hinterland Market’s first art exhibit: Kinsey’s watercolors. They hung 14, painted her signature on the wall and hosted a wine-free opening, per the artist’s request. “She was like a princess in the corner,” Weiner said of Kinsey at the opening.

Family, the 2003 book she wrote with her older sister, Louise Rowell Kinsey. (Louise and Eunice share a birthday; Louise will turn 95 this month.) Created at the request of their daughters, the book tells stories from Louise and Eunice’s childhood on the family farm in South Albany. At that time, the farm overlooked what is now Hinterland Market. Eunice Kinsey first learned that the old South Albany store had been brought back to life from her son Earl, 67. He’s done some “tinkering” on the building, he said, including jacking it up and rebuilding the foundation. Kinsey’s paintings have been exhibited previously, including at the Vermont

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Folklife Center in Middlebury and Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury. When she told Weiner she had 14 of her 44 watercolors left, they arranged to mount a show at Hinterland. “I hadn’t planned anything, except to reveal that I didn’t know what to do with the paintings,” Kinsey said. “At my age, I’m thinking about emptying the house.” Six of the paintings had sold as of September 30; the remaining watercolors, all for sale, will hang at Hinterland Market until it closes for the season at the end of October. Through the winter, Weiner and Malys will fill online orders and sell their pretzels at Uncommon Market in Montpelier, the Roots Farm Market in Middlesex and the Plainfield Co-op. Earl Kinsey recalled showing up at the market when it opened with a question for the owners. “I’m new around here,” he joked. “Where the hell is Hinterland?” People are finding out. m

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aini Fondiller apologized before bringing a visitor into her barn on a recent morning. Friends had dropped by her Lazy Lady Farm, and she was behind on chores, including cleaning the dairy goat pens. The farmer-cheesemaker hardly needed to make excuses. Aside from the lightly soiled pens, where her 40 goats spend the few hours per day when they’re not out on pasture, the barn was spotless. It smelled sweetly of hay, floors swept clean, and supplies arranged neatly on shelves or tucked between beams. A pair of large wooden milking stanchions reminiscent of oversize chairs stood in one corner of the barn. Fondiller, 69, wakes every day at 5 a.m. to prepare for morning milking. Two goats at a time, “it takes me two to two and a half hours,” she said. “I have ADHD. Sometimes I get distracted and decide to fix something.” For 35 years, in a rural corner of Vermont, Fondiller has been quietly farming, making cheese, and earning a steady stream of American Cheese Society ribbons and articles in the national

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press. As New York cheesemonger Anne Saxelby told the New York Times Magazine in 2009, in America, “there are few wellmade, French-style goat cheeses … Laini was one of the first.” Fondiller started her off-grid operation

in 1987 on 25 acres owned by her partner, Barry Shaw. They later added 10 more acres. “There was no electricity here — zip, zip, zip,” she said. “We used kerosene lamps.” Farmstead cheesemakers use milk from their own herd or flock. Fondiller milked

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by hand for 13 years until the couple added solar panels that could power a vacuum pump system. “I’ve had two carpal tunnel operations,” she said. Among the nine staples of Lazy Lady’s varied line of cheeses are Les Pyramids, a nutty, wrinkly rinded cheese; and La Petite Tomme, a creamy, mushroomy Brie-style disc. In 2018, the latter made Bon Appétit’s list of the 25 most important cheeses in America. At this point, many people would be considering retirement or developing a succession plan — but not Fondiller. “It’s just what I do,” she said. “If I didn’t do it, I don’t know what I’d do.” In the Times feature on Lazy Lady, Fondiller credited her productivity and drive to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; she is the opposite of her farm’s name. Though Fondiller applies herself seriously, she has fun with her work. The Times highlighted some of her tongue-incheek cheese names: Tomme Delay was a tomme, or round cheese, named for the former U.S. House Republican from Texas. Barick Obama was a reference in name only — not cheese style — to Midwestern brick cheese, inspired by the then-Illinois state senator. A more recent example, Biden His Time, was flavored with thyme. Fondiller’s wit aside, Saxelby said in the Times that “she’s always creating something new, which is rare for a cheesemaker to do. It’s even more rare for them to do it well.” When Fondiller started milking her original goat, Blooper, she was revitalizing the European tradition of on-farm cheesemaking that had been all but abandoned in the U.S. Today, there are more than 40 Vermont dairy farms making cheese, yogurt and other products from their own milk. Fondiller has influenced and informed many of them. “I like to help,” she said. “Laini literally reinvented the wheel,” Saxelby wrote by email to Seven Days. “There were no technical resources available for small cheesemakers, no cheesemaking equipment, and there were virtually zero viable options for sourcing dairy goats in the U.S. By sheer force of will, gumption and a talent for both the technical aspects of cheesemaking and the animal husbandry aspects of raising dairy goats and improving their genetics, she created something completely unique that inspired legions of future artisan cheesemakers.” Hannah Sessions of Blue Ledge Farm BUSY LADY

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line through its center. Lined up in plastic baskets, the cheeses drain overnight before being flipped out, salted and sprinkled with ash to dry for a few days. Then they go into the farm’s aging cave. Lauren Gitlin was working as a cheesemonger in New York City when she was captivated by the 2009 Times profile of Fondiller and resolved to work with her. Gitlin vividly recalls her first taste of Les

Pyramids. “This was as good and probably better than anything I’d had [from France],” she said. Gitlin eventually landed a job at Lazy Lady in 2014. She credits Fondiller with motivating her to start her own farmstead dairy: Villa Villekulla Farm in Tunbridge. “Laini was so dedicated to her animals and to her farm and to doing things the PHOT0S: JEB WALLACE-BRODEUR

in Salisbury counts Fondiller among the pioneers who built consumer demand for artisanal farmstead cheese. “She is a legend,” Sessions wrote by email. For Vermont goat dairies like hers, Sessions added, being able to buy Fondiller’s topquality breeding stock has made a huge difference. “Lazy Lady genetics will have a profound and lasting impact on goat farming in our area,” Sessions said. Fondiller meticulously breeds and cares for her registered Alpine and Saanen herd and generally prefers goats over people. “They have a lot of personality,” she said. Her career came out of the blue shortly before her college graduation, when she befriended a farm family. “It was one of those epiphany moments,” Fondiller recalled. “I just knew it was what I wanted to do.” Friends in Massachusetts led her to a job on a hog farm there. In 1977, she followed another friend to northern Vermont and switched to dairy. “It wasn’t easy,” she said. “They weren’t really hiring women. At the time, I weighed about 100 pounds. They’d say, ‘You want to do this, little one?’ They busted my balls.” The work was “brutal,” Fondiller said, especially for a $25 to $50 weekly paycheck. But she persisted. “It felt like an accomplishment to get on the tractor, to wrestle with the beasts,” she said. The camaraderie was another draw. “You were part of something, and it was a real good feeling,” she recalled. “There was no concern about going into town dirty. Everyone had farm boots on.” To earn more money, she spent three winters working in California ski areas and made French friends there. In 1981, those connections landed Fondiller in France, where she sought out farming jobs. On the island of Corsica, Fondiller worked at a goat dairy that produced a cave-aged cheese and a ricotta-style cheese. “That started it: my introduction to the cheese world,” she said. In the French Alps, she tended sheep for a summer high in the mountains; the flock’s owners delivered food weekly, including their own cheese and always a fruit tart. After about two and a half years, Fondiller was kicked out of France for lack of work papers. Back in Vermont by the mid-1980s, she met Jack Lazor selling yogurt to a restaurant in Randolph, and he offered her a job. Jack and his wife, Anne, had started Butterworks Farm in Westfield in 1976, making yogurt and butter from the milk of their Jersey cows. They paid her $150 a week, most of

which she saved. “I came from poverty, zip, zero,” Fondiller said. She met Shaw, a neighbor of the Lazors, and started growing vegetables on his land and making cheese in their kitchen from her first goat’s milk. She sold her products at farmers markets. “I lined a closet with plastic to drain and age the cheese,” she said. The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets eventually caught wind of the small swell of home-based dairy producers and cracked down with food safety regulations. By 1993, Shaw had built Fondiller a compact, dedicated cheese room off their home. Nine years later, she paid off a delinquent $3,000 college debt and secured $30,000 from the Vermont Community Loan Fund to construct her current standalone, on-farm cheese room. Regional specialty distributors take Lazy Lady cheeses to Boston, New York City and even California. Vermont co-ops and specialty stores stock them, and the petite cheesemaker with her brightly dyed hair is a year-round fixture at the Montpelier Farmers Market. “It’s my only socialization,” she said. “People tell me their stories. They bring me presents.” When Seven Days visited Lazy Lady, employee Abby Heald had just finished making a batch of the Thin Red Line, an ash-coated cheese with a smoked paprika

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food+drink right way,” Gitlin recalled, “even though best method for a business,” she added that often meant the hard way. And not … with a laugh. for the sake of it being hard but … because Fondiller has never had any interest in that was what was in alignment with scaling up beyond what she, Shaw and a her values.” For example, Gitlin noted, few employees can handle. “I don’t have because the wind- and solar-powered the genes for any of that stuff,” she said. farm cannot support a refrigerated She declined to share revenue figures but THURSDAYS > 7:00 P.M. bulk tank, Fondiller makes said, “We pay our help well. frequent, small batches of We pay ourselves. We stay out cheese. of debt and keep our heads Fondiller’s boundless curiabove water.” osity inspires Gitlin. “She’s She did admit that she’s always tinkering,” Gitlin said. getting a little “burnt out “She never plays it safe. She and old.” This year, Fondiller wants to always push herself began making cheese five16t-vcam-weekly2021.indd ANN E SAX E LB Y 1 9/24/21 AM 16t-vcam-weekly.indd 1 11/2/20 11:46 3:07 PM to do more and to learn more.” days a week instead of six or “My thing now is geo,” Fondiller said seven, and she may trim her herd by about of Geotrichum candidum, a yeast that a third to reduce milking time. creates a wrinkly rind, “and washed rinds, “When it goes, it goes,” Fondiller said but not the really stinky ones. And I’m of her business. “I’m not planning to sell. doing a lot more with herbs like thyme Everybody thinks that’s bad, but it’s mine. and saffron.” It wouldn’t ever be the same.” m She makes special batches of cheese “whenever they pop into my head,” INFO Fondiller said. “I don’t know if it’s the Learn more at lazyladyfarm.com. Snack on the BITE-CLUB NEWSLETTER for a taste of this week’s flavorful food coverage. It’ll hold you over until Wednesday.

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The gift was announced at a press conference at the CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM in Charlotte, one of the largest Blackowned farms in the state. One-third of the gift, or $2 million, is earmarked for a “land sovereignty fund” intended to make farmland more accessible to those who have been historically marginalized or oppressed based on their race or ethnicity. “For too long in our nation’s history, the labor of Black and brown farmworkers has not fed those workers,” said GAYE SYMINGTON, president of the High Meadows Fund. “Through forced labor, Black people who did not come to America of their own free will strengthened our fledgling economy and created a foundation of wealth in which they were not able to participate.” Symington and NICK RICHARDSON, president and chief executive officer of the Vermont Land Trust, acknowledged that they

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helm white-led organizations. But they promised that the new land sovereignty fund will be led by BIPOC farmers and leaders. “We’re accepting this gift with only one purpose in mind: to ensure that it quickly flows to BIPOC organizations and leadership in order to build their strength and capacity,” Richardson said. Representatives of two such organizations expressed concerns. AMBER ARNOLD is co-executive director of SUSU COMMUNITY FARM, an Afro-Indigenousstewarded farm and land-based healing center in Brattleboro. “When I’m seeing that there is a $6 million gift going to an allwhite organization, based out of a partnership with three white-led organizations, and I see no Black and brown organizations as part of this powerful

sevendaysvt.com/enews decision-making and development structure, I feel a lot of deep concern 16T-BiteClubfiller.indd 1 and sadness,” she said at the press conference. ANA MEJIA, an environment organizer with VERMONT RELEAF COLLECTIVE, a statewide network of BIPOC Vermonters working on environment, agriculture and food initiatives, said by phone that neither High Meadows Fund nor the Vermont Land Trust had reached out to discuss the effort or invite her organization to the press conference. “The fact that we and other organizations representing BIPOC communities weren’t notified of this directly is evidence of the lack of communication and relationship building with BIPOC communities,” Mejia said. Read more at sevendaysvt.com.

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to the kitchen in the middle of the night to roast marshmallows over the stove. And she has some serious culinary chops: She trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, earned a degree from New England Culinary Institute, and worked in James Beard Award-nominated restaurants and bakeries before deciding the grind of the restaurant industry wasn’t for her. After earning an MBA, she spent time traveling and writing a food blog in the south of France, but that didn’t feel like the right fit, either. In December 2018, when she was planning to accept a marketing job in Boston, she headed home to Burlington for the holidays and made a fortuitous batch of marshmallows with her mom. “I’d made marshmallows in culinary school a few times, but suddenly I was

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hen customers walk up to Alexx Shuman’s tent at the Burlington Farmers Market, she greets them by saying, “Welcome to the marshmallows.” It’s a quick way to let people know what she’s selling — not tofu, cheese or soap, as some customers thought in the early days of her business, Nomadic Kitchen. But Shuman’s words are also an invitation into her world, where the small-batch, handmade marshmallows are “pillowy as heck,” the bold flavors change with the seasons, and customer perceptions of what a marshmallow can be are transformed after a bite or two. Witnessing 32-year-old Shuman at work is a little like watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory — if the kids’ classic starred a warm and enthusiastic “Marshmallow Girl” instead of an eccentric recluse. Clad in a vintage dress or classic Vermont flannel, she casually wields a blowtorch to toast marshmallows to order for S’macarons — s’mores atop French macarons. Her other creations also have whimsical names, such as Yippie Pies and Clusterfloofs. And, instead of guarding secret recipes, like Wonka did, she mentors up-and-coming entrepreneurs. Until Hollywood catches on to Shuman’s main-character energy, you can catch the Nomadic Kitchen story on Instagram. That’s where she documents the day-today successes and stresses of running a small marshmallow confectionery, from philosophizing about how to be a good boss to showing off a nifty new packaging device called a continuous-band sealer. Her transparency online helps demystify the marshmallow-making process, too: She melts sugar — heating it to a high and very precise temperature — then streams it into gelatin and whips the resulting mixture to add air, before pouring the mixture into pans to set overnight. She also offers suggestions for how to consume her products: the expected, such as straight out of the bag, toasted in s’mores or melting in hot cocoa; and the unexpected, including dunked and frothy in a cup of morning coffee. “People believe they know exactly what a marshmallow is,” Shuman said. “But I like to say that I’m in the business of surprise.” The business itself was a bit of a surprise. True, Shuman was a selfdescribed “marshmallow kid” who snuck

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making them and I just saw them as something new,” Shuman said. She also saw them as a way to test her entrepreneurial skills and learn a bit about e-commerce. She already had a website, and she set out to sell $150 worth of marshmallows to family and friends. Over the next three days, Shuman accidentally started Nomadic Kitchen. In the first 24 hours, she developed three recipes: the original vanilla, dulce de leche and coffee-cardamom. On day two, she set up e-commerce on her website. On day three, she spread the word to her college networks. “I posted everywhere I’ve ever been: ‘Hey, I have this thing. If you want some, order,’” Shuman said with a laugh. “By the end of that week, I had gotten $1,000 in orders, and I was scrambling. I had no

systems. I was writing all the labels by hand and was just completely underwater.” But when the orders were filled, she came up for air and realized it was the most fun she’d ever had. She turned down that marketing job, and three months later she was a full-time entrepreneur. For the first year, Shuman made all her marshmallows in her parents’ kitchen. She bought 20 13-by-9-inch straight-sided pans and used three KitchenAid mixers: hers, her mom’s and a loaner. She woke up early every morning so she could have the kitchen cleaned by the time her mom made dinner, leaving the marshmallows to set overnight, out of the way. “The next morning, I would cut them all by hand with a frickin’ chef’s knife,” Shuman said. “I was tossing them in powdered sugar with a spaghetti colander.

It was stupid. But it was the most homey thing that you could possibly create.” After a year, she moved the business to an industrial kitchen: Willow’s Bagels in Burlington, where she works in the afternoons, making batches five times as large as the ones she made at home. And she slowly built a team: Catie Owen, Kim Cooper and Mandy Jamieson. Nomadic Kitchen is wrapping up its third year at the Burlington Farmers Market. It added the Isham Family Farm Farmers Market in Williston and farmers markets in Jericho and Richmond this year, and it has expanded wholesale to nearly 30 local stores, including Healthy Living Market & Café. Despite the growth, Nomadic Kitchen marshmallows remain distinctly homemade. Shuman cuts them by hand, and

food+drink when she was teaching Jamieson to make them, she insisted the sugar not be measured in grams, as would be standard in a commercial recipe. “I was like, ‘I can’t really tell you why, and I know it’s going to be annoying, but I want you to measure the sugar in cups,’” Shuman recalled. “Mandy immediately said, ‘It’s because you want to keep them homemade. They’re not supposed to be completely uniform, robot things.’” Nomadic Kitchen offers s’mores kits and treats such as the S’macarons, but anything that’s not simply a marshmallow is a “scrupulously curated” collaboration. The s’mores kits include NU Chocolat’s Maracaibo “dark” milk chocolate and Black Rose Briar’s gluten-free Graham Wafels; the macarons are from Matryoshka’s Bakery. “It makes things a lot less lonely,” Shuman said of those local collaborations. “And it lets me use my business to support my community.” Sticking to marshmallows gives Shuman’s boundless creativity some structure. “I was trying to figure out how to build something that I could stay in love with for a really long time — what happens if I funnel all of my creativity and all of my dessert knowledge into one thing?”

Shuman said. “Like, how can I make the marshmallow the most interesting thing in the world?” Her flavors include blueberry-lemonthyme, brown sugar-blackberry-ginger and smoked hickory-caramel. Adding other ingredients — inspired by what’s growing in Vermont, what’s happening on the calendar, her own memories and customer requests — presents a challenge to maintaining fluffiness. “Every marshmallow wants to be a vanilla marshmallow,” Shuman said. “Screwing with it like I do, they rebel against me sometimes.” Besides the classic toasty vanilla, Nomadic Kitchen’s best seller is the dulce de leche, which Shuman calls the “gateway marshmallow.” The golden caramel swirled throughout is based on the dulce de leche that her dad learned to make in Argentina. Coffee-cardamom, another of the original recipes and the “cult favorite,” harks back to Shuman’s time working at Ming Tsai’s now-closed Blue Ginger near Boston. She’d put a scoop of the restaurant’s

cardamom ice cream in her coffee at the beginning of a shift. The two fall flavors are spiced pumpkin (made with pumpkin puree) and the toasted marshmallow marshmallow, which she calls “marshmallow Inception.” “All of the marshmallows toast up like crème brûlée: The outside gets shattery; the inside gets custardy,” Shuman said. “But this one is pre-campfired.” The moment the weather drops below 70 degrees, sales go up. Shuman tracks farmers market weather on elaborate spreadsheets, where she also records customers’ habits, sales and trends. Nomadic Kitchen earns half its yearly revenue in the last eight weeks of the year, as customers start thinking about holiday gifts, cups of cocoa and seasonal treats. Shuman used to call it “the busy season,” but sales have been so strong all year long that this year she’s calling it “the crazy season.” On the first fall Saturday of the Burlington Farmers Market, the shift into marshmallow season was palpable. Shuman

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welcomed a steady line of customers with her go-to greeting. Some were clearly regulars seeking the new fall flavors, while others asked, “What even is a marshmallow?” Most picked up a bag ($9) or two ($16). More than once, someone came back after a family member purchased marshmallows and declined to share. A few asked about vegan or vegetarian marshmallows, which Shuman doesn’t currently offer. She has a good vegan recipe but not a great one, she said; perfecting it is a major goal for 2022. Her other goals are TBD: She’s already surpassed the ones that seemed absurd when she started the business three years ago. With the help of an enthusiastic team, she’s planning to increase her wholesale business — at least once the crazy season’s over. “The line between Alexx Shuman and Nomadic Kitchen is really, really fine,” she said. “In so many ways, I am the brand. How do you scale yourself? But I know we’re not done growing. I want to be a really big small business.” m

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s she put the finishing touches on her documentary Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind, filmmaker Nora Jacobson sent Seven Days some thoughts on the former Vermont poet laureate’s body of work. “I believe that making art or being creative is a way to alchemically transform our experiences, even the tragic ones, into something life affirming,” the Vermontbased director wrote in an email. “That is what Ruth did with her writing.” Through a combination of family interviews, archival footage and material that Jacobson shot before Stone’s death in 2011, the film explores the inner workings and legacy of one of the state’s most renowned creative minds. The documentary has its world premiere on Saturday, October 16, at the Vermont International Film Festival. “Stone’s poetry is accessible, funny, tragic, startling … I love the empathy she conveys toward the disenfranchised,” Jacobson continued. Of the 39 feature films screening at this year’s festival, Jacobson’s is one of two local entries. The others come from France, India, Hong Kong, Brazil, Ethiopia, Denmark and throughout North America. Two countries never before represented at VTIFF, Malta and Myanmar, join the fold with the familial drama Luzzu and the controversial satire Money Has Four Legs, respectively. This year’s VTIFF, which runs from Friday, October 8, through Sunday, October 17, is in some ways a return to normalcy, albeit with new precautions. In 2020, the festival shifted to virtual screenings due to the unprecedented restrictions on gatherings at the height of the pandemic. This year, online viewing is back. But so are live screenings, including three days of showings at a venue new to VTIFF, the Savoy Theater in Montpelier. A Vermont institution, the art house is known for catering to lovers of independent cinema. “It feels new,” VTIFF executive director Orly Yadin said of in-person events. In a phone call with Seven Days, she stressed that the festival is taking “big safety precautions,” including reduced

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capacities, strict masking requirements and proof of vaccination for entry. “We want to make sure the audience feels as safe as possible,” Yadin said. Some films will be screened both in-person and virtually. Others will be strictly live. The nine-person programming committee started reviewing submissions in March, Yadin said, “gradually winnowing them down to what we felt were the best.” Yadin pointed out a unique aspect of this year’s program: Because of pandemicera postponements, films from 2021 appear alongside delayed 2020 releases. While each festival usually includes a

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Festival and elsewhere. At VTIFF, it screens on Tuesday, October 12, at Main Street Landing. It will also air as part of PBS’ “POV” series on Monday, November 1. In the film, Minax travels to his family’s home in Michigan after the unexplained death of his young niece, which led local authorities to investigate his sister and her husband. James Kleinman writes in the Queer Review that “Minax addresses faith, mental health, addiction, grief, and domestic violence … while at the heart of the film there’s a rarely seen, rich, layered portrait of trans identity.” “This film is hard to get a feel for through text because it’s an experiential and cumulative film,” Minax wrote by

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classic film or two, most selections have premiered this year. Yadin said the Maltese and Burmese selections are not to be missed. Luzzu, winner of a Dramatic Special Jury Award in the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema competition, screens in Montpelier on day one of the fest. It also hits Main Street Landing Film House in Burlington, the festival’s epicenter, on Thursday, October 14. Written, directed and edited by Maltese American filmmaker Alex Camilleri, the debut feature centers on a Mediterranean fisherman struggling to maintain his family-run operation. In a Variety review, Guy Lodge describes a character

“increasingly driven from the trade he loves by mounting economic strain — atop an unenviable pile-up of personal crises.” Money Has Four Legs, which debuted at the Busan International Film Festival in 2020, stands out not only because it’s the first Burmese film at VTIFF but also because of the drama behind the scenes. Director Maung Sun reveals his country’s strict censorship laws through the portrayal of the protagonist, also a film director, who is trying to make a debut feature. The movie screens on Thursday, October 14, at Main Street Landing and online on Saturday, October 16. In an ironic real-life twist, the movie’s cowriter and producer, Ma Aeint, was arrested and imprisoned in June for allegedly violating section 505a of Myanmar’s penal code, which, according to Human Rights Watch, criminalizes “comments that ‘cause fear,’ spread ‘false news, [or] agitates [sic] directly or indirectly a criminal offense against a Government employee.’” Maung Sun told Variety in August that he didn’t know why his collaborator was being charged. The other Vermont filmmaker on this year’s roster is A. Madsen Minax. The University of Vermont associate professor of time-based media directed the deeply personal documentary North by Current, which has already appeared at the Berlin International Film Festival, Tribeca Film

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email. “It’s really a film about affect, not the events that happen.” Of the filmmaking process, he wrote, “A film tells you what it wants to be, so I just listened.” With so many works on the schedule, it’s an impossible task for Yadin to pick a favorite. “They’re all my children,” she said with a chuckle. But she did point out another noteworthy film that screens on opening night: Sweet Thing, written and directed by Alexandre Rockwell, who’ll join VTIFF via Zoom. Shot in New Bedford, Mass., the black-and-white narrative stars Rockwell’s daughters. “It’s about adolescence,” Yadin said. “We see everything they go through, both good and bad … [Rockwell] managed to convey a world in a simple way.” Yadin added that “simple films are actually more difficult to make than big films in some ways.” VTIFF has a rich selection of small, independent films that could pack a big punch. m

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All things geek come together at the Vermont Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo

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he Tusken Raider stared me down, menace oozing from their posture as they raised a gaffi stick over their head. The worn, dust-covered weapon loomed above me. Memories from well over 30 years ago resurfaced, and I had a long-forgotten reflex: My hand went to my hip, looking for a lightsaber. Perhaps I was playing to the crowd a bit as I walked into the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction. After all, there were a handful of children dressed in full Jedi garb watching, as well as half a dozen or so adults in Stormtrooper armor flanking the entrance. Though I was wearing jeans and sneakers — criminally underdressed for such an occasion — I couldn’t help but feel the instant sense of community the moment I reached for my imaginary laser sword. Such was the magic of the second annual Vermont Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo, held last weekend. The convention is home to lovers of geek culture, a catchall category that includes science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic books and even Sasquatch hunting. Vermont Gatherings 48

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owner and general manager Jeffrey Folb and his wife, Debi, launched the event, the only one of its kind in Vermont. “People hear a lot about Comic-Cons,” Folb said of comic-book conventions, as a woman in a Harley Quinn costume sauntered through the convention hall. “We do something a little different. We have authors, artists, gaming, prop makers … Our focus is to give Vermont-based creative people a venue to show what they can do

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— but also to get the patrons involved so they might go home and try it themselves.” Strolling through the aisles, I found a diverse collection of people, most of them borderline giddy with excitement. Out in the “real world,” vendors and attendees might feel marginalized for their nerdy passions. But at the convention, many told me, they feel safe and eager to be around so many like-minded people. “If you’re into genre or comics or

costumes, you might be a little nervous to bring that up in conversation at a bar when you meet someone,” said Folb, who met his wife at a Renaissance Faire. “But if you meet them at a convention, you can be pretty sure they’re already into it! I know so many introverts who become extroverts at these events. These are people who are scared of rejection normally, but you’re not going to find that here. We accept them.” Folb estimates that nearly 100 small

local businesses and craftspeople participate in each event that Vermont Gatherings runs, including the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo, which offered at least 66 booths this year devoted to vendors, authors and organizations. One business at the expo, New Yorkbased Starforge Sabers, makes custom lightsabers on the spot. A saleswoman dressed as Star Wars favorite Ahsoka Tano, complete with blue skin and an elaborate

headpiece, swung around two glowing sabers as she grinned from ear to ear. “They’re almost impossible to break!” she exclaimed as she gave the concrete floor a whack with the lightsaber. A blacksmith and leatherworker chatted me up about fitting me for a full suit of something called “dragon armor.” Before that, I had a surprisingly long and entertaining talk with a gentleman who is pretty sure Bigfoot is chilling in upstate New York. After making a few jokes about a Sasquatch running a bedand-breakfast in the Adirondacks that really didn’t land, I moved on to the Harry Potter booth. Two women called out to me, swearing they could already tell which Hogwarts house I would belong to. A sign above their heads read, “Are you a Muggle or a Wizard?” (I already know I’m Ravenclaw House, ladies, but thanks, anyway.) A father and his two sons — one in a “Dragon Ball Z” outfit, the other in full Jedi garb — moved in to inspect the wands for sale at the Harry Potter booth. “Is it weird to get two wands, Dad?” the diminutive Jedi asked his father. Given that it was a sci-fi and fantasy convention, the dad’s answer was not short. As he relayed everything he knew about wand lore from J.K. Rowling’s book series, it struck me how much fun the adults and children were having together. “Vermont used to have so many family events,” Folb told me. “I feel like now it’s all brew fests or other adult stuff. Or it’s just a kids’ event. We want to hold events for the whole family to come to together, where an 8-year-old and someone in their fifties can interact about what they’re passionate about.” That passion was on full display as the 501st Legion marched through the convention. An international group of people who don Stormtrooper armor and other villain garb from Star Wars, the organization is all but ubiquitous at Comic-Cons and sci-fi expos, as well as charity events. I bumped into fellow writer Andrew Liptak, who is a card-carrying member of both the 501st Legion and its heroic counterpart, the Rebel Legion. He wasn’t

in full regalia yet, but the patches on his bomber jacket made his affiliation clear. He also had a Rebel Alliance starfighter helmet tucked beneath his arm. “One of the best things about doing this is seeing fan reaction,” Liptak revealed. “When you see the look in someone’s eyes as they take in the armor, when they see something in person from their favorite film, it’s just a really cool feeling — for both of us, actually.” Other local writers and artists were out in full force. After stopping for a quick chat with cartoonist Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr. and checking out The Vermont Ghost Experience, which he published with Joseph Citro, I met a local author and auctioneer named Dean Whitlock. Rebel helmet “I try to touch on many genres,” Whitlock said as he showed me his books. “I have a more young-adult sort of series about magic, but I’m also writing a so-called ‘shipboard romance’ called The Bell Cannon Affair.” The joy on Whitlock’s face as he conveyed the plot of his latest book was unmistakable: Like so many others I’d encountered, he was in his element. “I’ve been to the New York Comic Con,” Folb said. “There are just so many people there. I went there, walked through the crowds, sweated my ass off, bought some stuff, then left. We don’t want that. We want people not only having fun but also taking something away from the experience.” As I made my way to the exit after hours of geeking out, I watched a small crowd of people surround a replica of the Ecto-1, the car from Ghostbusters. Several cosplayers dressed in movie-accurate Ghostbusters outfits mingled, took selfies and sat inside the car. A college-age woman in an X-Men shirt pointed to the Proton Pack strapped to one cosplayer’s back. “That is so badass,” she enthused. “I need one of those.” The last thing I heard as I left was the cosplayer explaining exactly how to build the prop. Folb’s mission was accomplished. m

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Southern accent, taking her time to drawl out “Dr. Kang.” She’s childlike and sparkling with energy as the play begins, but soon she takes on a mesmerizing power. The performance has its too-cute moments, but Aharanwa is an actor you can’t take your eyes off, yielding surprise after surprise. The performers connect, and the scenes sing. Director Raz Golden keeps the characters pushing against each other in constant friction. The tension is goodnatured, but the stakes for King are always profound. The blandness of the motel room is juxtaposed with the cataclysm that awaits King, and the country, the next day. The script plays with magical elements, and the creative team manifests them in subtle yet powerful ways. Sound designer Carsen Joenk and lighting designer Austin Boyle create a palpable rainy night, making the mood in the room both foreboding and commonplace. When the thunderstorm kicks up, it’s vividly real yet endowed with mystical power. Scenic designer Frank Oliva transports the audience to 1968 with period furnishings and sensitive use of color and materials. His shadow box frame is a brilliant device. For the finale, when King issues a stirring call to action, Golden moves Camae and King literally beyond the frame bounding the motel room and toward the audience. The setting is the play, holding all its meaning. The audience’s foreknowledge creates the poignancy; the characters can only stir up abstractions about King’s noble and incomplete mission. Theater isn’t a great vehicle for nonrepresentational ideas. When Hall uses mysticism to keep the story going, the ploy is a humorous release, but it’s also an opening for viewers to distance themselves from the drama. This production’s performances moderate that risk, but it remains. Making King an ordinary, troubled man humanizes him. Camae is a companion both playful and powerful. “I thought you was gone be perfect,” Camae tells King. “Well, you ain’t, but then you are.” Bringing him down to Earth is how the play elevates him. As Camae helps this plain man see that death is not failure, she shows us all that hope remains. m

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he setting of Katori Hall’s 2009 play The Mountaintop tells much of the story on its own. It’s April 3, 1968, in a modest room at the Lorraine Motel. The pleated peach curtains cover windows that look out on a balcony. It’s raining, and tomorrow the room’s occupant, Martin Luther King Jr., will be assassinated. The briefcase on the bed holds the scraps of a speech that he can’t quite pull together on the last night of his life. King has come back to the room after a long day. His voice is strained from the speech he gave tonight, the one we now call “The Mountaintop.” Before making a call, he checks the phone for bugs, trying to stay a step ahead of FBI surveillance. Though his concerns are unique, he’s as weary as any business traveler. Every moment of the play balances on the audience knowing what will happen the next day. In the elegant Weston Playhouse production, the set itself assumes the frozen-in-time quality of a museum exhibit. The meticulously re-created motel room is bounded by a bezeled frame complete with a brass plaque. The 1960s lamps and bedspreads become elegiac artifacts. Even as the set compels the viewer to contemplate history, the play’s action focuses on the simple, casual details of life on the road. King has forgotten to pack his toothbrush. It’s too late for room service, 50

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but he can order coffee. The sanitation workers of Memphis need support for their strike, and King needs a fresh pack of cigarettes. The young maid Camae brings him coffee and a newspaper, and the two mix flirtation with small talk. At first, King’s penchant for infidelity seems to be driving the plot, but the conversation and connection between the two gracefully unfold into a broad reflection on King’s life and work — and on the fears he feels.

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IS HOW THE PLAY ELEVATES HIM. It’s Camae’s first day on the job, and initially she’s in awe of King and giddy about meeting the man she’s seen on TV. She is not tongue-tied for long, however. She speaks impulsively, often apologizing for swearing in front of the preacher. Bold enough to make fun of his smelly feet and question his methods, she thinks that Malcolm X may have better tactics. Making cigarettes and whiskey appear from her pockets, Camae brazenly spars with King. It’s clear she is no ordinary maid. Hearing Camae say that marches are not

enough gives King a chance to draw back and see a freeze-frame of his life’s work. The play flips the stature of the characters: It is Camae who is larger than life, while King is an ordinary business traveler. Hall emphasizes King’s foibles. He has a vain moment when contemplating his mustache in the mirror; he smokes too much and drinks too easily; he lies to his wife. Above all, he is mortal. Camae’s full role in the story should be left for each viewer to discover. The script is taut, but the performers give this production its momentum. Neil Dawson, as King, and Maechi Aharanwa, as Camae, proceed through different connections, between a great man and an admirer, a seducer and a woman who can fend for herself, and, finally, two people brave enough to challenge each other. Together, they reveal King’s legacy by presenting him as a man, not a myth. Dawson sets King stalking through the motel room muttering to himself about his next speech. He shows King’s energy and swagger — he’ll conquer this one way or another — then slumps down to indulge his doubts. With physical contrasts, Dawson gives King a pesky cough to offset a grand presence and lets him startle at a thunderclap and then laugh off Camae’s cutting comments. To position Camae at a cultural distance from King, Aharanwa uses an oversize

INFO The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, directed by Raz Golden, produced by Weston Playhouse Theatre Company. Through October 23 at Weston Playhouse Second Stage at Walker Farm in Weston: Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. $50-74. westonplayhouse.org

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Here and Now Review: “Exposed 2021,” the Current

“Are You Here?” by Jonathan Gitelson

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hen Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “The medium is the message” way back in 1964, the theorist and author was referring specifically to communication media. But the dictum could readily apply to artwork — in at least two ways. First is the object itself: An oil painting or an assemblage or a photograph conveys different information about the artist’s tools and skills. Second is the content — what the artist is saying. “Are You Here?” expresses both components in a cleverly blatant way. Jonathan Gitelson’s piece in “Exposed” — the annual outdoor sculpture show in Stowe — is actually a billboard. To be precise, it’s an 8-by-16-foot white-painted rectangle with the question “Are You Here?” centered in bold black Helvetica typeface. Sited near the Main Street entrance to the town’s rec path, the Brattleboro artist’s sign is impossible to miss. And his query — a spin on the “You Are Here” indicator of many a site map — puts receptive viewers in a thoughtful frame of mind for this provocative exhibition. It essentially asks, Are you paying attention? Every single entry in “Exposed 2021” — 11 works by 10 artists — has something to say, and the best way to appreciate them is to be open to thinking and learning. Of course, that’s usually the best way to approach any art. But particularly

Foreground, “Arrow Sculpture” by Tony Tasset; on building: “Inspired by ‘What Is Left’” by Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine

now, artists and curators worldwide are grappling with fraught issues — political, social, racial, environmental — not to mention the very raison d’être of art institutions. For Rachel Moore, executive director and director of exhibitions at the Current, which curates “Exposed,” presenting artists who speak to this moment is mission critical. “It’s important to us as an organization,” she said. “Part of our plan is to engage with specific issues and provide a platform for these voices.” With a chuckle, Moore admitted in a phone call that sneaking a verboten

billboard into Vermont “feels a little rebellious.” But more importantly, she said, “I love that during this busy time, there’s this big sign asking you where you are. It can be interpreted in so many ways.” The same can be said for “Arrow Sculpture.” That’s the no-nonsense title of a piece on the gallery’s lawn composed of two arrows: one pointing up and one down. Tony Tasset’s large-scale 3D piece is constructed of aluminum, and every plane is enameled with a different, vibrant hue. It’s a striking pop-art object, a universal symbol that could suggest anything from

the stock market to the human capacity for profound disagreement. In an audio statement, the Chicagobased artist gives his own explanation: “Everything is in a state of constant evaluation: trending up or down, what’s in, what’s out, who’s hot and who’s not.” His icon-like piece is, Tasset suggests, a “monument to this perpetual state of succeeding or failing.” The exhibition makes clear that success and failure come in many guises. Across the lawn, an invitation of sorts is emblazoned on the building that houses the Current and the town library. The text installation, titled “Inspired by ‘What Is Left,’” comprises three lines of large block letters affixed to metal fencing above the porch. They read: “Come celebrate with me / that everyday something has / tried to kill me and has failed.” The lines are from a 1993 poem, “won’t you celebrate with me,” by Lucille Clifton. The artists who’ve enshrined her words call themselves Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine. Mildred Beltré, an associate professor at the University of Vermont, and Oasa DuVerney founded the collaborative project in their Crown Heights neighborhood and use art as a community-building tool. In Stowe, viewers of all ages have been prompted to parse the meaning of their installation, according to Moore. “I love hearing about people trying to figure it out,” she said. Even a group of sixth and seventh graders on a recent visit understood “that it’s about social justice.” New York City-based Daniel Bejar incorporates poetry, too, in his sculpture titled “Monument for Immigrants (in Advance of an ICE Raid).” Without the exhibition map, a visitor might overlook this work, sited on a spit of grass near Black Cap Coffee & Beer. The town’s seasonal adornments of mums, straw bales and pumpkin-headed mannequins distract from the piece — essentially a fake rock — and thus inadvertently abet Bejar’s theme of obfuscation. The artificial rock, like the molded sort used in landscaping, represents a sanctuary space and covert shelter for migrants evading Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the artist posits; its hollow interior contains necessities such as water and a burner phone. What sets the sculpture apart from any old hunk of stone, however, is a faux bronze door/plaque imprinted with the poem “Immigrant” by Rupi Kaur. Its resonance with the Statue of Liberty is eloquent. The intersectionality of language and art ripples through this year’s “Exposed,” but in some cases the messaging is cryptic. Two installations by Lynn Sullivan consist of long banners of black fabric suspended between trees; words are cut

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out of the fabric, forming a kind of negative space through which the landscape can be seen. One of the pieces contains the word “If”; the other, a phrase: “Long Time No Ocean.”

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SUCCESS AND FAILURE COME IN MANY GUISES. In her audio statement, the Vermontand Brooklyn-based artist says she finds inspiration in protest posters, road signs and celebratory messages. Noting that her banners evoke an uncertain environmental future, she is content to “let gravity and wind change the messaging from legible to obscure.” Unfortunately, Sullivan has had to endure another form of degradation: vandalism. “She’s actually witnessed people destroying her piece while trying to take a selfie, sticking their head through the letters,” Moore said. “She said to just leave it tattered.” If that kind of behavior is simply thoughtless, other violations of the

artworks in “Exposed” appear to be intentional. Cuban American artist Gabriel Sosa created three variations of “Take One,” a receptacle in the familiar shape of an outdoor newspaper box. In the front “window” of the gold-painted box on Main Street, Sosa displays a piece of paper printed with the word “free.” The boxes invite passersby to take a poster from inside that is printed with questions posed to defendants in the “criminal injustice” system, he explains in his audio statement. According to Moore, some of those passersby have instead put things in the boxes: trash. It would be charitable to suggest that people mistook the artwork, despite its clear labeling, for disposal bins — except that Sosa’s “Take One” box on the rec path was so vandalized it had to be removed. This disrespect for public art certainly sends another kind of message. Aptly named, “Exposed” both celebrates artists’ vision and craftsmanship and shows us where we are. m

INFO “Exposed 2021” is on view through October 23 on the lawn of the Current and other sites around Stowe. Maps are available in the gallery and at thecurrentnow.org.

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‘IN PLAIN SIGHT: REDISCOVERING CHARLES SUMNER BUNN’S DECOYS’: An online exhibition of shorebird decoys carved by the member of the Shinnecock-Montauk Tribes, based on extensive research and resolving historic controversy. October 6, 2021-October 5, 2022. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum.

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JESSE AZARIAN: Landscapes and pop-culture artworks by the Vermont artist. October 6-November 6. Info, 225-6232. Filling Station in Middlesex.

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f ‘WHAT YOU GET IS WHAT YOU SEE’: Paintings by members of the artist critique group 8xONE: Kate Cone, Charles Depuy, David Fisk, Jim Jordan, Rachel Jordan, Anne Cogbill Rose, Jonathan Rose and Joseph Saginor. Reception: Friday, October 8, 5-7 p.m. October 8-November 12. Info, 603-4483117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H.

ART EVENTS ART IN THE PARK: The annual fall foliage festival features juried fine artists, craftspeople, specialty food producers, food vendors, live music, kids’ activities and demonstrations. Cake-cutting Saturday at 3 p.m. to celebrate 60 years of the festival and Chaffee Art Center. Main Street Park, Rutland, Saturday, October 9, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, October 10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-0356. ARTIST TALK: DELANO DUNN: Brattleboro Museum & Art Center presents a Zoom discussion with the artist in conjunction with his current exhibition, “Novelties.” The show brings together two bodies of work that explore what we hold dear — family, love, comfort, tradition and connection — and things that threaten to undermine them. Register at brattleboromuseum. org. Online, Thursday, October 7, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 257-0124. ‘DISCOVERING THE MASTER CARVER BEHIND SHELBURNE’S SHOREBIRD DECOYS’: Senior curator Kory Rogers joins Jamie Reason and Joseph Jannsen, decoy makers and writers for Decoy Magazine, in a discussion of the life and art of master carver Charles Sumner Bunn (1865-1952). Preregister for Zoom webinar at shelburnemuseum.org. Shelburne Museum, Wednesday, October 6, 6-7 p.m. Free. FROG HOLLOW 50TH ANNIVERSARY: The venerable craft gallery offers demonstrations of printmaking, painting, pottery and weaving by member artisans, as well as cupcakes and ice cream, to celebrate its birthday. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery, Burlington, Saturday, October 9, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Info, 863-6458. GALLERY TALK: CALEB KENNA & JILL MADDEN: The photographer and painter discuss their work in a current exhibit focused on local wilderness areas. Preregister at henrysheldonmuseum. org. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Thursday, October 7, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2117.

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in Fabric,” a special touring exhibit of quilts by 46 artists from six countries based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Masks required. Middlebury Recreation Center, Saturday, October 9, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, October 10, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $7 for adults; free for children under 12. Info, 388-7240. TALK: BILL MCKIBBEN: “Breadloaf as a Vital Center,” a Zoom discussion with the Middlebury College scholar-in-residence in environmental studies about the natural area and the current exhibition of photographs and paintings by Caleb Kenna and Jill Madden, respectively. Preregister at henrysheldonmuseum. org. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Monday, October 11, 7 p.m. $5.50 per household. Info, 388-2117. WALK THE MEADOWS WITH DAVID STROMEYER: The sculptor discusses his newest works and introduces a special project celebrating his 50 years of making art on the land. RSVP at coldhollowsculpturepark.com. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park, Enosburg Falls, Saturday, October 9, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 512-333-2119.

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‘ABSENCE: SEEING AND UNSEEING THE FLEMING’S COLLECTION’: Large text labels throughout the museum appear in place of artwork that had been on view for decades and whose subject matter or background was deemed hurtful to members of the community. Instead of filling the spaces with new artworks immediately, staff have left them as intentional signs of their commitments to transparency and reckoning. Through December 31. ‘ABSTRACTS: OPENING SPACE FOR IMAGINATION’: Paintings displayed on the Marble Court balcony that allow the museum to reconsider outdated exhibition traditions and start to envision what comes next. Through December 10. ‘THE LEARNING STUDIO’: Part gallery, part classroom, this exhibition space invites visitors to take part in intimate conversations about art and material culture on view from the museum’s collection. The works show how artists have always been open to documenting experiments and showing pieces in process. Through December 10. STORYTELLING SALON: A selection of artwork from a collection by staff that inspires thinking about the power of storytelling to enact change. The newly created space is for gathering ideas about what new kinds of stories can be told in the museum, sharing multiple perspectives and inviting new voices. Through December 10. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington. AL LARSEN: “Four Feet Forward: Objects, Excess & Illusion,” video and mixed-media pieces incorporating puppets and everyday objects by the Champlain College faculty member. Through November 28. Info, 865-8980. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington. ART HOP IN SPACE: Fifty Vermont artists and 12 studio artists exhibit fiber arts, illustrations, paintings, collage, prints and hundreds of original works in the gallery and the halls of the Soda Plant. Through November 20. Info, spacegalleryvt@ gmail.com. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

‘LIVING WITH DEATH: HOW ARTISTS, HISTORIANS AND MUSEUMS CREATE MEANING IN A TIME OF LOSS’: The first of a monthly series of “Elephant in the Room” virtual discussions on the issues facing museums. In this event, artist and writer Dario Robleto and Middlebury College art historian Ellery Foutch discuss the role of artists and museums in any era of catastrophic loss. Preregister at henrysheldonmuseum.org. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Wednesday, October 6, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2117.

ARTWORK AT UVMMC: Oil paintings of cows by Stephanie Bush, wood shadowboxes by Sam Macy and abstract butterfly paintings by Maria Angelache in the Main Street Corridor and Ambulatory Care Center 3. Mixed-media paintings by Kathleen Grant in McClure 4. Acrylic paintings and monotypes by Elizabeth Powell and photographs by Kristina Pentek in ACC 2. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through January 24. Info, 865-7296. University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.

‘QUILTING IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY’: More than 150 locally made quilts, special exhibits including featured artist Jeanette van Buren, “Quilts of Valor,” and barn quilts, raffles and a quilt boutique. Also, “OURstory: Human Rights Stories

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contribute to this exhibit inspired by popular and consumer culture with fantastical themes. KAYLYNN SULLIVAN TWOTREES: “Falling Into Language: A Travelogue,” an immersive installation of paintings, soundscapes and video featuring contemporary vocables (a sequence of sounds and syllables without literal meaning), created in collaboration with musicians from Vermont, India and Japan and rooted in the oral tradition of the artist’s Native American and African heritage. Through October 9. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

Through December 31. Info, 488-4303. Montpelier Transit Center.

CALL TO ARTISTS 2021 HOLIDAY CRAFT MARKET: The arts center welcomes work by established and emerging artists for this annual show and sale. Details at svac.org/holiday-market. Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester. Through October 8. Info, 362-1405. 2021 PHOTOGRAPHY SHOOT-OUT: Last year’s Shoot-Out winner, Orah Moore, chose the theme of “Shadows” for this year’s juried show, which will be in November. Photographers are invited to submit their best work interpreting the theme literally or figuratively. Limit of two entries per artist. Deadline: November 6. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Waterbury. $20 per entry. Info, 244-7801.

EVI CUNDIFF: Stained-glass works by the local artist. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. Great Harvest Bread Co. in Burlington.

MICRO-GRANTS FOR ARTISTS: The Montpelier Public Arts Commission is offering a micro-grant program for Vermont-based artists for up to $1,500 for permanent or temporary art installations throughout the city. The request for proposals is open for an indefinite period; artists may submit at anytime during the year. The commission will review and award grants twice yearly, with deadlines of October 31 and March 30. For more info and to review the RFP, visit montpelier-vt.org. Info, 522-0150.

JENNIFER MCCANDLESS: “Living Among the Humans,” hand-built ceramic sculptures that satirically challenge viewers’ perspectives on societal norms. Through October 30. Info, 324-0014. Soapbox Arts in Burlington.

‘PIECING TOGETHER ART’: Artists and makers in all mediums are invited to focus on the transitional use of pieces to create a whole work of art. Examples: piecing together two painting styles, collage, assemblage, themes, double images or concepts. Art will be exhibited in November. Details at thesatellitegalleryvt.weebly.com. Deadline: October 29. The Satellite Gallery, Lyndonville. $10 entry fee. Info, thesatellitegalleryvt@gmail.com.

KEVIN DONEGAN: “Your Cart Is Empty,” sculpture and installation of colorful found, altered and crafted objects that populate the floor, walls and ceiling of the gallery. Through October 31. Info, 363-5497. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington. LARGE GROUP EXHIBITION: Members of the South End Art + Business Association show works in a variety of mediums. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. The Maltex Building in Burlington. LARGE SEABA EXHIBITION: Many member-artists of the South End Arts + Business Association display works in a variety of mediums. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. RETN & VCAM Media Factory in Burlington. LISA MYERS: Etching, chine-collé and watercolor by the local artist. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. Noyes Auto & Tire Service in Burlington. SEABA MEMBERS GROUP SHOW: Dozens of local artists exhibit works in a variety of mediums on multiple floors of the building. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington. SHELTER CULTIVATION PROJECT: The Burlingtonbased arts collaborative, founded by Shawn Dumont, celebrates the culmination of a yearlong arts project with a gallery exhibition and pop-up shop featuring artwork and handmade goods by local and international artists. Through November 1. Info, 343-4767. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington. SOUTH END ART HOP JURIED SHOW: Fifty artists working in a variety of mediums on all three floors of the building. Juror Mark van Wagner chose as first-, second- and third-place winners Longina Smolinski, Suomo Snook and Kalin Thomas, respectively. Frankie Gardiner won honorable mention. Through November 30. Info, 859-9222. The Vaults in Burlington. TAWNYA MCDONALD: Photography by the local artist. Through November 20. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington. ‘...WILL YOU SING?’ MURAL: A 43-foot, wall-size mural, a project of Big Heavy World, features photographs of more than 200 Vermont musicians and audio clips of their music. Collaborators include photographers Luke Awtry and Jim Lockridge, design firm Solidarity of Unbridled Labour, Vermont Folklife Center and Gamma Imaging of Chicago. On view during business hours in the building’s entry hallway. Through December 31. Info, info@bigheavyworld. com. Howard Space Center in Burlington.

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DANIELA RIVERA & JENNY OLIVIA JOHNSON: “Migrating Landscapes,” a multimedia exhibition with the visual artist and composer/sound artist, respectively; both are artists-in-residence at SMC. Through October 21. Info, bcollier@smcvt.edu. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.

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‘THE EARTH BESTOWS’: Artworks that engage and explore Earth’s endangered gifts. Artists from across the country are affiliated with the New Perennials Project, a multiyear exploration of agriculture and education as dominant influencers of what we eat and how we think. Aside from reception, gallery open by appointment only. Through November 1. Info, 9853819. All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne. ELLIOT BURG: Photographic portraits shot on the streets of Havana, Cuba. Gates 1-8. SHANNON O’CONNELL: Paintings with phosphorescent and UV-sensitive pigments mixed into the paint, allowing secondary paintings to be revealed. In the Skyway. Through December 31. Info, 865-7296. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington. ‘A. ELMER CROWELL: SCULPTOR, PAINTER, DECOY MAKER’: Drawing from Shelburne Museum’s renowned decoy collection, the exhibition features milestones in Crowell’s prolific artistic career, from the earliest miniature goose he carved in 1894 to the very last bird he made before retiring in the early 1940s. Online only at shelburnemuseum.org. Through October 31. ‘NEW ENGLAND NOW: PEOPLE’: The second exhibition in a biennial series featuring multimedia works by 10 contemporary artists from New England’s six states, celebrating the communities and peoples of the region. Through October 17. ‘PATTERN & PURPOSE: AMERICAN QUILTS FROM THE SHELBURNE MUSEUM’: The museum presents 20 textile masterpieces from its collection dating from the first decades of the 1800s to the turn of the 21st century, organized by associate curator Katie Wood Kirchhoff. Online only at shelburnemuseum.org. Through February 1. PETER KIRKILES: “At Scale,” mixed-media sculptures of common objects, such as a clock, a ruler and a truck, in unexpected sizes. The works are scattered around the grounds of the museum. Through October 17. Info, 985-3346. Shelburne Museum. TODD LOCKWOOD: “One Degree of Separation,” large-scale black-and-white portraits by the local photographer. Through October 14. Info, 846-4140. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall.

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f ‘20/20 HINDSIGHT’: Twenty local artists put a contemporary spin on methods and materials used to develop rural culture in late 19th-century Vermont: sculptors, painters, printers, plus smiths of light, yarn, wool, metal, basketry, digital and mixed media, as well as the written word. Preregistration and masks required. Closing reception: Sunday, October 10, 3-5 p.m. Through October 10. Info, 279-5558. Kents’ Corner State Historic Site in Calais. ‘ROCK SOLID XXI’: An annual exhibit, since 2000, showcasing stone sculptures and assemblages by area artists and 2D works that depict the qualities of

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stone. Through October 30. AUSTIN FURTAK-COLE: “Moves,” scratch drawings depicting ambiguous figures in motion, teasing at how physical forms can make meaning by moving through and holding space. Through October 30. GAIL SKUDERA: “In the Current,” artworks influenced by looking through the screen of a computer or an iPhone, in the Quick Change Gallery. Through October 16. ROB MILLARD-MENDEZ: “Crafted Narratives,” sculptural works fueled by a love of lowbrow humor, absurdity and wordplay and inspired by folk and outsider art. Through October 30. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre. ‘THE CATAMOUNT IN VERMONT’: An exhibition that explores the feline symbol of Vermont through the lenses of art, science and culture. Through May 31. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. EMMA NORMAN: “In the Night of Day,” photographs of San Francisco Bay as the skies turned amber from wildfire smoke and fog on September 9, 2020. Through December 31. Info, jess@cal-vt.org. Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier. GERARD RINALDI: “Becoming Nothing: 1980-2015,” a retrospective of photography, video and mixedmedia works by the late artist, curated by his nephew Rob Rinaldi and gallery director Susan Calza. Through November 13. Info, susancalza@gmail.com. Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier. GROUP SHOW 45: Members of the gallery exhibit works in a variety of mediums. Through October 31. Info, info@thefrontvt.com. The Front in Montpelier. JENNIFER BRYAN: “Liquid Mind,” abstract paintings by the NU alumna ’05. Through December 10. Info, 485-2183. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. MERYL LEBOWITZ: “A Way from Reality,” abstract paintings. Through November 30. Info, 479-7069. AR Market in Barre. NAN CARLE: “Notable Sculptors of Barre Gray Granite,” photographs that celebrate and explore sculptors keeping the stone arts alive in Barre. Through October 30. Info, 476-4605. Vermont Granite Museum in Barre. ‘PASTEL MUSIC’: Thirty members of the Vermont Pastel Society show their works. PATTY HUDAK: A solo exhibition of large-scale installation, painting and botanical ornaments inspired by woodlands. Through October 30. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. TUMBLING BLOCKS COMMUNITY QUILT PROJECT: Montpelier Alive exhibits the Capital City’s newest piece of public art, a project intended to help “stitch together” the community during the pandemic. More than 250 individuals, including more than 100 students, contributed designs for panels that Sabrina Fadial collated and made into a “quilt.”

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VERMONT CLAY GUILD DISPLAY: The nonprofit group of ceramic artists exhibits some of their creations in a variety of styles. Through November 30. Info, vermontclayguild@gmail.com. Capitol Region Visitors Center in Montpelier.

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DUSTY BOYNTON: “Odd Lot,” recent large-scale, irreverent paintings by the Vermont artist. Through October 30. Info, 881-0418. 571 Projects in Stowe. ‘EXPLORING EARTH’: An exhibition that reflects on the intersection of spirituality and art, celebrating Earth magic, spirit animals, and plants and transcendence; work by Isaias Crow, Jennifer Herrera Condry, Will Kasso Condry, Amy Hook-Therrien, Gilbran and Harlan Mack. Presented in participation with “2020 Vision – Reflecting on a World-Changing Year,” a statewide initiative of the Vermont Curators Group. On view by appointment. Through October 31. Info, gallery@sprucepeakarts.org. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort. EXPOSED 2021: The annual outdoor sculpture exhibition highlights artists who focus on current political and social constructs/issues/systems through the relationship of language, sculpture and installation; and language as culturally specific, ideological, controversial, challenging, identifying, uniting and separating. Artists are Tomas Vu, Tony Tasset, Lynn Sullivan, Mildred Beltré, Oasa DuVerney, Jonathan Gitelson, Daniel Bejar, Aya Rodriquez-Izumi and Gabriel Sosa. Through October 23. MELEKO MOKGOSI: “Scripto-Visual,” small and large paintings paired with different kinds of text; the Botswanaborn, New York-based artist investigates the links between these elements in relation to the politics of representation. Through November 13. Info, 253-8358. The Current in Stowe. JAMES RAUCHMAN: “Self: Reflection,” paintings that push the boundaries of portraiture. NITYA BRIGHENTI: “Of Openness and Closeness,” drawings and paintings. Through October 29. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville. ‘LAND & LIGHT & WATER & AIR’: The 14th annual exhibition features Vermont and New England landscape paintings by more than 70 member artists. ‘LET US INTRODUCE YOU’: An exhibition showcasing five established artists new to the gallery: Jane Ashley, Amy Hook-Therrien, Lisa Miceli, Jen Violette and Liane Whittum. Through November 7. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. MARYA LOWE: “Vibrantsee/d,” a solo exhibit of wall-hung works by the fiber artist. Through October 30. Info, kyle.minemagallery@gmail.com. MICHAEL MAHNKE: “A River Moving in You,” a large-scale, site-specific work by the gallery cofounder, located on the Johnson Village Green, that reflects the natural environment and our relationships to one another. Through December 31. Info, 646-519-1781. Minema Gallery in Johnson. SUSAN ABBOTT: “In Place,” new paintings by the Vermont artist. Visitors must be vaccinated. Through October 29. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University, in Johnson.

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BILL BRAUER RETROSPECTIVE: A collection of paintings and prints by the late New York-born, Warrenbased artist and teacher, best known for his sensual oil paintings. Through October 9. Info, 496-6682. The Gallery at Mad River Valley Arts in Waitsfield. GREEN MOUNTAIN PHOTO SHOW: Annual Mad River Valley Arts exhibition of outstanding photographs by amateur and professional photographers, traditional to abstract, black-and-white and color. Through October 11. Info, info@madrivervalleyarts.org. Red Barn Galleries at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield.

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‘LANDSCAPES & INSCAPES’: Figurative landscapes in watercolor from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s by Adolf Dehn and large-scale abstract-expressionist works by Virginia Dehn. The pair were a vital part of the postwar art community in New York City. Open by appointment only. Through October 10. Info, 777-2713. The Bundy Modern in Waitsfield. PHILIP HERBISON: Assemblages made with “recuperated” wood, found objects and acrylic paint. Through November 6. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury.

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‘DREAMING OF TIMBUCTOO’: An exhibit that unearths the little-known story of Black land ownership in Vermont, told through a series of panels featuring enlargements of historic photographs and documents. The visual storytelling is a signature program of the Adirondacks-based project John Brown Lives! Through October 31. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

f HANNAH SECORD WADE: “Swamplands,” large-scale, green-dominated paintings by the Maine-based artist. Open by appointment. Open house: Friday, October 8, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Through November 30. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes. “HENRY AT 200’: An exhibit celebrating the museum founder and collector of New England history with documents, photographs, scrapbooks, autographs, Middlebury imprints, diaries, music ephemera, relics and even a lock of Napoleon’s hair. Through f ‘SIGHTLINES’: Photographs by Caleb Kenna and paintings by Jill Madden that explore the Joseph Battell and Breadloaf Wilderness areas of the Green Mountains. Reception: Friday, October 8, 5-7 p.m., outdoors, weather permitting. Through December 31. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

‘ITTY BITTY: TINY TEXTS IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS’: Books from the 17th to 21st centuries that measure between 1.8 and 10 centimeters, from religious manuscripts to cookbooks, children’s books to Shakespeare. Visitors are not currently allowed in the library but may view the works online at go.middlebury.edu/tinybooks. Through May 31. Davis Family Library, Middlebury College. JEFF BYE: “Shenandoah,” paintings created during the pandemic inside the Cooper Community Center in Shenandoah, Pa. Intended to be a school, the building was abandoned due to the onset of the 1918 pandemic. Through October 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury. ‘KEY TO LIBERTY: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN’: An exhibition that explores local connections to the nation’s fight for independence; also “Nebizun: Water Is Life,” featuring works by Abenaki artists about the importance of water health; and the Hazelett Small Watercraft Center, a two-story exhibit space that presents the history of small human-powered watercraft on Lake Champlain. Through October 17. Info, meg@lcmm.org. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. ‘LOCALLY GROWN’: New landscape paintings by Woody Jackson, Sara Katz and Sage Tucker-Ketcham in distinctively different interpretations. Through October 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls. ‘A MODERN ARTIST: THE COMMERCIAL ART OF RACHAEL ROBINSON ELMER’: The seasonal exhibition explores the early 20th-century success of the artist as a professional illustrator for periodicals and publishers, from children’s books to advertising. Through October 31. Info, 877-3406. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

documents, the exhibit, curated by Meg Tamulonis of the Vermont Queer Archives, explores the origins and lasting legacies of Vermont’s first Pride March on June 25, 1983, in Burlington. It can also be viewed online at vtfolklife.org. Through March 25. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

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MALLORY PEARSON: “Eat Crow,” artwork by the Queens-based artist that portrays themes of folklore, femininity and loss and how these elements interact with the southern United States. Through October 31. Info, 800-639-8521. Castleton University Bank Gallery in Rutland. ‘NATURE REVEALED’: Rutland County Audubon open art show. Donations accepted for the organization’s educational programs. Through October 29. Info, birding@rutlandcountyaudubon.org. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. ‘PRIORITY PRINTS’: Eighty artist members of the Monotype Guild of New England present 140 monotypes using a wide range of printmaking methods. Through October 17. Info, 353-6502. Stone Valley Arts in Poultney. SCULPTFEST21: Sculptural installations in response to the theme of “artifact” by local and regional artists. Through October 24. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland.

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DAVID STROMEYER: More than 60 large-scale metal sculptures are scattered across six scenic meadows. Picnics welcome. Through October 11. Free. Info, 512-333-2119. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg Falls.

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AMY HOOK-THERRIEN & MOLLY HARPER: “Birches at the Border,” watercolors and pottery respectively, that celebrate one of New England’s most iconic tree species. Through November 30. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction. JANET CATHEY: “A Tonic of Wilderness,” a solo exhibition of woodblock prints. Through October 29. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. JIM WESTPHALEN: “Voices From the Land,” photographs of the rural landscape. Through October 20. Info, 457-2355. Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock. KIP KING: “Meditation & Metamorphosis,” a selection of photographs by the Norwich photographer that celebrate Vermont’s landscape; also 10 meditations on stone and its metamorphoses. Through October 31. Info, 457-2295. Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock. LISA CURRY MAIR: “Old Barns of Weathersfield,” 11 paintings by the Vermont artist best known for her painted floor cloths. Through October 31. Info, lisa@ canvasworksdesigns.com. The Inn at Weathersfield in Perkinsville. SCULPTUREFEST: An annual outdoor sculpture exhibition featuring more than 30 artists curated by, and on the property of, Charlet and Peter Davenport. More info and directions to private locations at sculpturefest.org. Through October 31. Free. King Farm in Woodstock. UNTITLED QUEEN: “Untitled (Reading Rainbow),” a site-specific installation of paper, soft sculpture and textile by the Brooklyn-based artist, drag performer and community organizer. The exhibition explores UPPER VALLEY SHOWS

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NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: The 24th annual exhibition brings large-scale outdoor works to the historic village and surrounding area, curated by local artist Joe Chirchirillo. Through November 7. Info, jrc373@comcast.net. Various locations around North Bennington.

queerification, liberation, decolonization, power and pleasure in reading. Through October 31. Info, 347-2644808. Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

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‘OUR TANGLED CHOICES: ART AND THE ENVIRONMENT’: Works in a variety of mediums by Pat Musick and Michelle Lougee that explore the fragility of the planet and the choices humans make that impact its health. Through November 14. SVAC MEMBER EXHIBITION: Works in painting, sculpture and other mediums by member artists of the gallery. Through November 28. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

ALAN JENNINGS: “Finding the Way Home,” animated films the artist created about growing up in Vermont, including “The Northeast Kingdom,” “Dream of Deerman” and “The Bill Jennings Mysteries”; and the drawings, paintings and sculptures he uses to make them. Watch at catamountarts.org. Through December 31. Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.

STELLA QUARTA DECIMA GALLERY OPENING: “Anticipation,” a group show featuring artists Matthew Monk, James Rauchman, Diane Sophrin, Hannah Morris, Kate Burnim and Lynn Newcomb. In addition to the pop-up gallery, art can be viewed at stellaquartadecima.com. Through October 31. Info, 498-4996. Stella Quarta Decima in Manchester.

‘GREEN’: A group exhibit of painting, photography, pottery, jewelry, fiber work and more that explore the verdant color, both as a hue and in its environmental sense. Through October 10. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport. ‘ISOLATING TOGETHER IN WOOD AND WOOL’: Melinda and Ford Evans, together known as Four Crows Wood and Wool Works, show their creations produced during the pandemic. Through November 13. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

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‘CHANGING SEASONS: INNOVATIONS AFTER SEVENTY’: A group exhibition of Vermont artists including Ria Blaas, Alexandra Bottinelli, Paul Calter, Bob Eddy, Rachel Farrow, Jean Feierabend, Paul Godenschwager, Margaret Kannenstine, Ellen Langtree, Judith Lerner, Jim Robinson and Martha von Ammon. Through November 6. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

‘A LIFE IN LISTS AND NOTES’: An exhibition that celebrates the poetic, mnemonic, narrative and enumerative qualities of lists and notes. The objects on display span myriad creative, professional, bureaucratic, domestic and personal uses of lists through the ages. Through May 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

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MARCY LINDSTADT: “Pandemic Pastels,” paintings made in the time of COVID-19. Through November 16. Info, 525-3366. The Parker Pie Company in West Glover. SAM THURSTON: “Image and Poem: A Dialogue,” paintings in response to poems. Through October 10. Info, 525-3740. Greater Barton Arts Center. ‘STILL LIFE, LIFE STILL’: Mary Ellen Bartley, Kate Emlen, Tucker Nichols, Jon Redmond and Margaret Sparrow pay homage to everyday objects in paintings created during the pandemic. Masks required. Through October 15. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. STJ ART ON THE STREET: A walkable gallery of downtown storefronts and shop windows featuring fine art by Mwanga William, George Pearlman, Andrea Pearlman, Kelly Doyle, Barbara Grey and Tara Moreau. Indoor galleries along the route include work by Harlan Mack, Jackie Fox, Elizabeth Nelson, Anna Lorenzini, Keith Chamberlin, Terry Ekasala and others. Through November 30. Info, 748-2600. Downtown St. Johnsbury.

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‘EXPEDITION’: Paintings, drawings, sculpture and installation by 17 artists that depict aspects of venturing into unknown lands and territories. Artists are: John Newsom, Matt Dillon, Inka Essenhigh, Michael Kagan, Wendy White, Donald Baechler, Raymond Pettibon, Ouattara Watts, André Butzer, Ann Craven, Torben Giehler, April Gornik, Andy Hope 1930, Richard Jacobs, John McAllister, Erik Parker and Alexis Rockman. Through October 11. ‘SEQUENCES: ODE TO MINOR WHITE’: Artworks by Andrea Belag, William Eric Brown, Niqui Carter, Kevin Larmon and Jessica Judith Beck that reflect the spiritual possibilities of abstraction, inspired by the late modernist photographer. Through October 11. CHARLIE HUNTER: “Semaphore,” paintings of crossing signals and railroad infrastructure by the Vermont artist. Through October 11. DELANO DUNN: “Novelties,” two series of work that address things we hold dear — family, love, comfort, tradition, connection — and things that threaten to undermine them: “Paradise,” works on paper that explore the insidiousness of stereotypes; and “Roux,” brightly colored, mixed-media works that incorporate family history and culinary tradition. Through October 11. DELITA MARTIN: “Between Worlds,” a year-long installation in the museum’s front windows that reimagines the identities and roles of Black women in the context of Black culture and African history. Through May 31. ERICK JOHNSON: “Double Take,”

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renowned for its devotion to landscape-centric fine art by regional artists, hosts one of the state’s largest juried exhibitions. It also might have the most ampersands. “Land & Light & Water & Air” pretty much sums up the elements these 100 paintings have in common. Nearly 80 member artists contributed lush works in paint mediums for this 14th annual event. Scheduled strategically in early fall, the popular show gives leaf peepers an extra incentive to visit Jeffersonville. Visitors can bask in New England’s natural glory inside and out. The exhibition continues through November 7. Want a preview? Visit bryangallery.org to see thumbnails of the artworks. Pictured here: “Through the Stillness” by plein air painter Melanie Barash Levitt of Jackson, N.H.

large-scale paintings and street photography that juxtapose intentional and incidental pattern and abstraction. Through October 11. SCOTT BOYD: “Endangered Alphabets,” sculptures that pair the ancient form of the obelisk with near-extinct languages. Through November 30. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. ‘DEEP BLUE’: Curated by American artist Katherine Bradford, this group show examines “deep blue” as a color and as a phrase that can describe mood, the natural environment, music and even a region’s political landscape; more than 70 paintings, sculptures, photographs, works on paper and videos by 70 artists. CLARK DERBES: “Time Travelers and Portals,” illusionistic sculptures carved from blocks of wood and painted. KATHERINE BRADFORD: “Philosophers’ Clambake,” more than a dozen luminous, dreamlike works that merge color field painting with figuration. Advance reservations recommended but not

required. Through November 28. Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

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ALAN DEL VECCHIO: “Moments,” digital prints and photography. Through November 28. Info, sales2@theelectricrose.com. The Beyond Gallery in Bennington. DUSTY BOYNTON: “Boundless,” new paintings and mixed-media works by the Vermont artist, curated in collaboration with Stowe’s 571 Projects. Through December 31. Info, jfranklin@benningtonmuseum. org. Bennington Museum. MARY RUEFLE: “Erasure,” altered books by Vermont’s current poet laureate. Through October 31. Info, 440-4507. Robert Frost Stone House Museum in Shaftsbury.

JOAN HOFFMANN: “Libraries and Barns: Vermont en Plein Air,” acrylic and watercolor paintings by the South Royalton artist. Through November 21. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

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‘BRING YOUR BEST!’: An annual juried show open to all ages and mediums in abstract or representational work. PATRICIA DOWNS: “Between Layers and Stitches,” sculptural wall hangings in crocheting, weaving, knotting and sewing. Through October 29. Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y.

f ‘CALLING FROM THE MOONLIGHT’: Artworks with themes on the moon, harvest and dreaming. Artists include Jane Ashley, Barbara Bartlett, Jim Bellisle, Dan Brenton, Linda Bryan, Sapira Cheuk, Anne Cogbill Rose, Elizabeth D’Amico, Greg Gorman, Deborah Hanson, Cindy Heath, Margaret Lampe Kannenstine, TylerAnn Mack, Elizabeth Mayor, Elizabeth Meyersohn, Dorothea Osborn, Travis Paige, Kathryn Peterson, Evelyn Roberts, Rebecca Rolke, Adele Sanborn, Kathy Stark, Heather Stearns, Laura Tafe, Karla Van Vliet, Samantha Wiebkin and Arthur Zorn. Reception: Friday, October 8, 5-7 p.m. Through November 5. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. ‘ECOLOGIES: A SONG FOR OUR PLANET’: An exhibition of installations, videos, sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs that explore the relationship between humans and nature, and disruptions to the planet’s ecosystems caused by human intervention. Through February 27. ‘HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR ONE VOICE TO REACH ANOTHER?’: An exhibition of major works from the museum’s collection, along with new acquisitions and loans, that explore the theme of voice in both physical and metaphorical registers. Through February 13. ‘THE WORLD OF YOUSUF KARSH: A PRIVATE ESSENCE’: A showcase of 111 silver-gelatin portraits by the renowned Armenian Canadian photographer, shot and printed himself; donated by the artist’s estate and his widow. Through January 30. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. ‘THORNTON DIAL: THE TIGER CAT’: Part of a new acquisition of 10 artworks from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, the exhibition looks closely at the late artist’s work and the ways in which it broadens an understanding of American art. Through February 27. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. m

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I had an interesting side adventure this week. Our wonderful food writers asked me, as well as other Seven Days peeps, to review Burlington’s pizza spots for a piece in next week’s issue. Now, I’m not going to go on about how much I love pizza, because everybody loves pizza, except those cursed by the gods to suffer from the lactose or the gluten. You have my deepest sympathies, for real. I tried one of those cauliflower pizzas one time, and it was the Guantánamo Bay of pizza. Some may wonder why I chose Mr. Mike’s as my spot to review. Let’s be honest: There aren’t too many (if any) people in town calling the Main Street pizza joint the cream of the crop. Mr. Mike’s has always been the place you go after a night at the bars for a quick, greasy slice. I still have a fond memory of my girlfriend in college waking up with a folded-up slice in her tote bag from the night before. (Yes, she totally ate it for breakfast. It was college; we were broke!) No, I chose Mr. Mike’s for the memories. When I moved to Burlington in August 2001, I didn’t know a single soul in town. What I did know, however, was that a college town like Burlington would have a music scene coalesced around a handful of bars and restaurants, where struggling musicians such as myself would work for shift meals. It took me a few weeks, but I figured out pretty quickly that the metal and

punk kids worked at Manhattan Pizza and Auntie Anne’s, a pretzel shop in the University Mall. (For real, we called it Punk Rock Pretzel.) The hip-hop musicians seemed to work at T-shirt and skate shops that would last a year or so before getting replaced by another version of the same store. The jam band kids either worked at Advance Music or just, y’know, had trust funds. What I found at Mr. Mike’s was a collection of rock-band dirtbags. I was home, baby. I began working as a delivery driver. And just like the other two drivers, I was in a band and very, very unreliable. My guess is that Mr. Mike’s didn’t think all three of us could possibly forget, at the same time, that we were supposed to be at work, a criminally mistaken assumption. If you ordered a pizza to be delivered from Mr. The Lestons Mike’s in 2002, please reflect on the miracle if you actually received your food. My bad. GABE WILHELM was my main cohort at Mr. Mike’s. He was in a band called the LESTONS, and I was in a band called LOBOT, two scuzzy rock bands playing originals in a town that really just wanted GRATEFUL DEAD covers. I know some might read that with a laugh and say it’s not much different now. But, believe me, the early 2000s were rough on indie bands — no Waking Windows, no Monkey House, no ArtsRiot; just lots of house parties and passing the hat around for scraps at Radio Bean. Every other Friday, we’d host a band

at Mr. Mike’s. If you’ve been there, you know how absolutely terrible it is for a live band, but we didn’t care. All we wanted was to make a home for bands playing original music — and for a while we sort of did. The number of delivery calls I skipped on those nights watching bands play should have gotten me fired. The highlight show was a trippyas-hell performance by a band called CHARLES, DEAD OR ALIVE, who dressed up like ABRAHAM LINCOLN for reasons I can’t recall. The lowlight was when we booked a thrash metal act whose name escapes me, but I’m sure it included the word “corpse.” The singer tried to scale one of the pinball machines, and the bartender whipped him in the privates with her dish towel before he broke the machine. The show ended right there on the spot, and I made a note never to fuck with that bartender. Ironically, neither Gabe nor I ever played there with our bands. That was never really the point for us, though. We wanted to connect with the scene. That year, working at Mr. Mike’s, I started friendships with some of the best musicians in town, friendships that have endured to this day. So, 20 years later, as I stood in front of the old pizza spot, about to order my first Mr. Mike’s pie since GEORGE W. BUSH was president, I felt a wave of nostalgia.

It had been a crappy job, and I’d been crappy at it. But Mr. Mike’s was such an essential part of my entry into the city’s music scene that I’ll always be grateful, no matter what the pizza tastes like. (For the record, it’s better than it used to be.)

Su Casa es … the Depot?

There’s a new entertainment spot in St. Albans. Well, sort of new. Formerly known as La Casa Loco Bar & Grill, the Depot opened in late September as a more entertainment-driven establishment. While La Casa Loco used to host weekend music, the Depot aims to bring more variety to St. Albans. Along with music, the venue now hosts murder mystery nights, comedians, all-male revue nights, R-rated hypnotists and drag shows. “We’re trying to take events that people would normally have to go to Burlington to see and bring them here to Franklin County,” said owner SHANNON SMITH in a phone call. Smith completely renovated the club during the COVID-19 lockdown in preparation for the relaunch. She said she hopes the new look and variety of entertainment options that the Depot offers will eventually turn the venue into “something like the Higher Ground

Well, they’re starting up again, and we’re here to help. Find 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.

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of our area.” She also hopes to book touring bands, as well as local ones, soon. “We want people around St. Albans to associate the Depot with good, fun shows,” Smith said. Two shows in particular have Smith very excited: The first is the HalloQueen Drag Show on Saturday, October 30. “I tried to plan a drag show for Halloween in 2019 but couldn’t pull it off,” Smith said. “So I’m excited to host it this year. We have a matinee show, as well. It’s a bit more PG for younger people to come and Juston McKinney see. The evening show is definitely adult.” The other show she’s looking forward to is comedian JUSTON MCKINNEY, who visits the Depot on Friday, November 5. The Portsmouth, N.H., native has appeared on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” and “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” among other high-profile gigs. “We were watching videos on YouTube of his standup and just dying from laughter,” Smith said. Be sure to visit the Depot’s calendar over at thedepotvt.com to check out all the cool, offbeat events coming to St. Albans.

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Americana musician BROOKS HUBBARD plays the Briggs Opera House on Friday. Originally from New Hampshire, Brooks returns to the Upper Valley after six years of living and playing in Nashville, Tenn. “There are certain places in the world that really polish an artist,” said JAKOB BREITBACH, a promoter at the Briggs Opera House who plays fiddle in the Americana duo JES & JAKOB. “We like to think the Upper Valley could be one of those places, and Nashville is certainly one of those places.” Breitbach is eager for Hubbard’s return. He said the musician is “bringing a new band of highly talented players from Nashville to back him up” at the homecoming show. The Briggs Opera House, located in the heart of White River Junction, will host the in-person show while streaming Hubbard’s performance online. For ticket and streaming info, head to hereinthevalley.org. EDM producer SLOW MAGIC releases a new single this month, titled “OPEN.” The song is three and a half minutes of pulsing beats, uplifting synths and samples — plus a quick blast of endorphins. The mysteriously masked performer, who is apparently based in Burlington, wrote the track after months of isolation. (Sound familiar?) According to a press release, “OPEN” is about “escapism and the desire for freedom.” The track will also appear on the bitbird label’s newest compilation, Gouldian Finch 4, which releases on Friday. Catch Slow Magic in a homecoming show at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge on Saturday, October 30. m COURTESY OF HOMEBOY SANDMAN

There’s a smoking-hot hiphop show coming to Burlington this Friday, October 8. In a very lastminute booking, the Green Door Studio hosts New York City hipHomeboy Sandman hop heavyweight HOMEBOY SANDMAN; the studio is off Howard Street, behind ArtsRiot. The artist, whom Pitchfork calls “infinitely adaptable and stylistically unpredictable,” headlines a huge night of hip-hop, including MC and beat maker SEVENQRTRS, New Hampshire rapper CODY POPE and Texasbased AIR MAX, as well as locals MISTER BURNS and RICO JAMES. It’s an all-ages show that kicks off

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It feels like we’ve been waiting forever for the robot revolution. From writer Isaac Asimov to filmmaker James Cameron, artists have been warning for decades about the inevitable day when your Alexa will become selfaware and begin plotting your doom. At this point, I’m like, Put up or shut up, robots. Get to it already. I hope I won’t have to deal with student loans once the machine overlords are in charge. Unfortunately, if or when the machines take over, the music might suck. Maybe I’m taking Revolution

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Formed at Middlebury College, the Big Sip joined the college and jam band circuit in 2016. A year later they released their debut EP, Music for Clapping, followed in 2018 by a second self-released EP, Sip Responsibly. The soul-inflected jamming on these two albums set the stage for the Big Sip’s latest sound. Campus mates Matthew Diener (guitar and vocals), Jack Cattabiani (bass), Nick Schrope (keys) and Evan Mercer (drums) have turned their anxious, youthful energy into a

Robots’ tagline, “music by robots, for robots,” too literally, but after pressing through six excruciatingly bad tracks on Microprocessor, I was ready for an EMP generator to kill the robot. The first track, “Get Down,” is the album’s dance number. It sounds like someone tried to write code for creating bebop but instead generated a remixed dial tone. Picture a jeans ad for robots. This would be the tune playing while blue-collar robots tossed around hay bales in their robot jeans, living that robot simple life. “Microprocessor,” the album’s second track, features the refrain “She just wants to fuck / She wants to fuck / She wants to fuck with my microprocessor.” Have no fear that the songs may turn to robot smut, however.

Revolution Robots hold true to the band name: A tinny, metallic voice lists off the demands of working robots everywhere, including better pay and more time off. Shockingly, the “band” is run by a flesh-and-blood meatbag — sorry, I mean human. (I’m already leaning into robot lingo.) Vermont-based artist and graphic designer Matthew Chaney obfuscates his organic nature by singing over his programmed beats in a cold, heavily processed voice. The album sounds like an art project, as if Chaney set out to make the most synthetic record he could manage. It’s not necessarily a unique endeavor, even here in our own music scene, but I’ll give Chaney kudos for taking the experiment to an absurd level. Microprocessor is borderline unlistenable for humans. Because I am a thorough music journalist, I let the album play in my bedroom while leaving on a whole host of devices. Perhaps, I thought, the album

would speak to other robots. And though my phone and laptop remained unmoved by Revolution Robots, I discovered to my alarm that my Xbox One had turned on by itself! The final track, “Inactive Human,” was still playing, and the gaming console’s power light glowed on and off like a robot winking at me, as if to say, “The war is on, motherfucker.” I shut the album off, full of new purpose. If the machines are indeed going to subjugate humanity soon in an inevitable dystopia, let’s turn them on to cooler music so they won’t make a record like Microprocessor. Because who wants to live in a society in which all the music sounds like two vacuum cleaners shooting sexual innuendos back and forth? If you are indeed someone who wants to live in that society, check out Microprocessor at revolutionrobots. bandcamp.com.

tidy and meticulous, albeit sonically sprawling, first LP. Recorded with engineer Previn Edwards and released in August, The Big Sip builds on the band’s earlier efforts. Jammy prog experimentation and allusions to ’70s fusion and ’90s acid jazz underlie this thoughtfully arranged, ambitious batch of well-polished songs. These guys don’t buck the jam band trend entirely, but they avoid the pitfalls of bland singing and one-chord songs. Their intelligent songwriting and smooth eclecticism is reminiscent of Percy Hill’s jam band classic Color in Bloom. On the hard-hitting opener, “Fruits of Life,” Diener’s agile voice climbs over Mercer’s propulsive beats and

Cattabiani’s rolling bass lines. “Catch me if you can,” Diener sings, “one foot first, and then the other,” while his sophisticated chord changes intertwine with Schrope’s cool, lounge-lizard keys. The second track, “Deadlift,” is a slow-burn crescendo to an all-gas-nobrakes climax. It opens with Diener’s distinctive guitar playing — noodley but not wanky. His arpeggiated lines ascend into a sonic ether, where, in a birdlike murmuration, the rest of the band joins in with a melodic whirl of zigzagging parts and spiraling rhythms. The track ends with aggressive synths that scream like banshees, unleashing a moodiness uncommon in the jam idiom and closer to, say, King Crimson. The Big Sip is so precisely composed that a commitment to design shines through in every track. Notable moments include the crunkdafunkdafied banger “Will”; “Missing Pieces,” which evokes

the grandeur of the Pat Metheny Group; and “Zetsu,” with its bell-toned Rhodes keyboard setting — an homage, I’d wager, to George Duke’s work with Frank Zappa. Ambitious ensemble playing defines each track. Mercer’s tight drumming — including funky metric modulations — and Diener’s spindly, spiderlike guitar licks shape and etch the album, while Cattabiani’s soul-dipped bass lines give the tracks buoyancy. Schrope surrounds everything with crystalline acoustic and electric piano and washes of synth and organ. Through it all, Diener’s soulful, mellifluous vocals are central, though they yield to the album’s many instrumental explorations — reflecting the Big Sip’s proclivity for extended improvisation at live shows. The Big Sip is available at thebigsip. bandcamp.com.

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United by friendship and petty crime, four teenagers have a single goal: to earn enough money to leave their life on the “rez” in rural Oklahoma. Their dream destination: California. The pilot episode introduces us to our four protagonists: Bear (D’Pharoah WoonA-Tai), a lanky dreamer who fancies himself the leader of the group; Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs), a sullen cynic with a tender heart; Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis), a loose cannon with the elliptical speech patterns of a street tough; and Cheese (Lane Factor), a quiet, thoughtful kid with a gift for unexpected zingers. The kids pull off the heist of their lifetimes (so far) when they steal a delivery truck and sell it to the shady owner of the local salvage yard. They sell off and gobble the truck’s contents — spicy potato chips — but soon find themselves having regrets, not to mention heartburn. As the four gather to remember their friend Daniel, who died a year ago, they learn there’s a new gang of badass teens in town, the NDN Mafia — and it’s gunning for them.

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The show’s title is a cheeky nod to Quentin Tarantino’s breakout film, Reservoir Dogs, and the pilot episode visually references that crime classic when the foursome don matching black suits to honor Daniel. The parodic parallel is a fun gimmick, but “Reservation Dogs” leaves behind its heist-movie homage after the pilot. The series’ real focus is not crime but community — the very community that the characters feel desperate to escape. That wider focus becomes evident in the second episode, “NDN Clinic,” when Bear heads to the reservation clinic after a brawl with the NDN Mafia. His friends join him, and people of all ages wander in and out of the story — some with funny roles to play, 64

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TV REVIEW others with poignant ones, all embodied by actors so talented that it’s hard to believe we haven’t seen most of them before. Gradually and subtly, the show makes a case for the vibrancy of this community. The tribal cop, Officer Big (Zahn McClarnon), who came off as a dim-witted antagonist in the pilot, becomes a full-fledged, sympathetic character by the fifth episode, “Come and Get Your Love,” which features flashbacks to his own youth and his encounter with a supernatural avenger called the Deer Lady. It’s one of several episodes devoted to intergenerational communication, the vital passing on of knowledge from the community’s elders to the teens, who are more receptive than they want to admit. In this sense, “Reservation Dogs” is very much a “family show,” despite featuring F-bombs galore, illegal behavior and some goriness involving a very fake piece of roadkill. It’s also a comedy show that bears no resemblance to a sitcom except the run time. Each tightly scripted half-hour episode packs in throwaway observational humor, satire, surrealism and moments of drama that are no less powerful for being understated. Viewers of Jojo Rabbit know that Waititi

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likes to use absurdist humor rather than overt messaging to make his points. While the protagonist of that movie had an imaginary Hitler as his mentor, Bear sees visions of a “Spirit” (sketch comedian Dallas Goldtooth) who wears Hollywoodstyle “Indian” garb and claims to have been killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn. “The spirit world. It’s cold. My nipples are always erect,” he laments with the delivery of a modern stoner. It’s a funny recurring gag, but, like most of the adults in the show, even the Spirit ends up having decent advice to impart. And his exaggerated inauthenticity reinforces one of the underlying themes of “Reservation Dogs”: These are people who have been robbed of much of their heritage. The defiant “Land Back” graffiti seen throughout the show doesn’t let viewers forget the broader historical and political context. In about four hours, “Reservation Dogs” builds such a complex world — comic and tragic, realistic and surrealistic, silly and heartbreaking — that a binge is sure to leave viewers wanting more. Luckily, there’s another season on the way. M A R G O T HARRI S O N margot@sevendaysvt.com

IF YOU LIKE THIS, TRY... MEKKO (2015; Tubi, rentable): This indie

drama from series cocreator Harjo about an ex-con living on the streets of Tulsa, Okla., mixes realism and mysticism and features “Reservation Dogs” cast members in major roles. BLOOD QUANTUM (2019; Shudder, AMC+,

rentable): Indigenous filmmaker Jeff Barnaby made this novel twist on a zombie movie, in which the inhabitants of a Mi’kmaq reserve in Québec discover they’re immune to the plague turning white people into the walking dead. (2020; the CW, Shudder, AMC+, Sundance Now): Featuring many Indigenous cast and crew members, this CBC teen supernatural drama drew controversy over its cocreator’s heritage, but reviews suggest it’s worth a look. “TRICKSTER”

For more selections, visit Rotten Tomatoes for Kerry Potts’ list of “20 Essential Indigenous Movies From North America.”

NEW IN THEATERS I’M YOUR MAN: A scientist (Maren Eggert) participates in an experiment where she must live with an android (Dan Stevens) programmed to be her perfect partner in this indie comedy from director Maria Schrader. (105 min, R. Savoy) LAMB: The discovery of a mysterious newborn proves a curse to a childless couple in this acclaimed indie horror drama from Iceland, starring Noomi Rapace. Valdimar Jóhannsson directed. (106 min, R. Roxy, Savoy) NO TIME TO DIE: James Bond returns from retirement to tackle a villain (Rami Malek) who targets people’s DNA in Daniel Craig’s swan song as the superspy. With Ana de Armas and Léa Seydoux. Cary Joji Fukunaga directed. (163 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Majestic, Marquis, Playhouse, Roxy, Star, Sunset, Welden)

NOW PLAYING THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2HH Everyone’s favorite spooky family returns in the sequel to the 2019 animated comedy. With the voices of Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron. (93 min, PG. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Paramount, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) THE ALPINISTHHH1/2 Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen’s documentary profiles solo mountain climber Marc-André Leclerc. (92 min, PG-13. Savoy) DEAR EVAN HANSENHH A lonely high schooler (Ben Platt) finds love and fame through an act of deception in the adaptation of the Tony-winning stage musical, directed by Stephen Chbosky. (137 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Roxy) DON’T BREATHE 2HH1/2 A resourceful blind man (Stephen Lang) with a dark side must defend himself and the kid he’s raised from a home invasion in this horror sequel. Rodo Sayagues directed. (98 min, R. Sunset) THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYEHH1/2 Jessica Chastain plays Tammy Faye Bakker in this drama about the rise and fall of the evangelist who ruled the airwaves in the 1980s. Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) directed. (126 min, PG-13. Roxy) FREE GUYHHH In this action comedy, a mild-mannered bank teller (Ryan Reynolds) learns that he’s actually just an AI in a violent video game. Shawn Levy directed. (115 min, PG-13. Majestic, Sunset) THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREESHHH1/2 This documentary from Jörg Adolph and Jan Haft explores the thesis of Peter Wohlleben’s book of the same name: that trees communicate with one another. (101 min, PG. Savoy) JUNGLE CRUISEHH1/2 The theme park ride becomes a Disney adventure set on a riverboat on the Amazon, starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. Jaume Collet-Serra directed. (127 min, PG-13. Majestic)

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SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGSHHH1/2 A martial arts master (Simu Liu) must confront his own dark origins in the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (132 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Roxy, Stowe, Sunset) TITANEHHH1/2 Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, this body horror drama from Julia Ducournau (Raw) tells the story of a young woman (Agathe Rousselle) who has carnal (metal?) relations with a car. (108 min, R. Roxy, Savoy) VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGEHH1/2 Tom Hardy returns as the Marvel super-antihero in a new adventure. Andy Serkis directed. (90 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount, Roxy, Star, Stowe, Sunset, Welden)

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PRODUCE FARM CLEANING SERIES: University of Vermont Extension experts lead six weeks of virtual classes on cleaning and sanitizing farm facilities. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 656-3131.

conferences

agriculture

business

LUNCH & LEARN: STARTUPS & STRENGTHS: The Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies teaches new businesses how to meet challenges by embracing their teams’ natural talents. Noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 866-232-9423.

climate crisis

CLIMATE ACTION PLAN VIRTUAL FORUM: Vermonters volunteer ideas and input to help shape the priorities of the Vermont Climate Council. 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, anr.vermontclimate council@vermont.gov. THIS MAZÉD WORLD: ELIZABETH YEAMPIERRE: The Puerto Rican climate justice leader kicks off the Vermont Humanities Fall Conference with her talk on how BIPOC activists have used local organizing to enact environmental legislation. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 388-4095.

VERMONT WOMEN’S MENTORING PROGRAM: Mercy Connections trains new mentors for vulnerable women seeking

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF MILITARY ACADEMIES: Retired Air Force general Philip Breedlove keynotes this annual forum on military education. Streaming options available; see norwich.edu for full schedule. Norwich University, Northfield. Free. Info, 485-2886.

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JUNCTION: A WALKING TOUR: Using only a cellphone and a pair of headphones, intrepid adventurers guide themselves through a century and a half of local history. Various White River Junction locations. $1519. Info, 296-7000. PERENNIAL HARVEST DAYS: FAITH TRADITIONS AND SACRED PRACTICES: As part of this New Perennials series on the environment, education and spirituality, five religious leaders give a panel on finding meaning in uncertain times. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, newperennials@ middlebury.edu. QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK GRATEFUL WEDNESDAYS: GHOSTS & LEGENDS OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN: Brave souls learn about the darker side of Burlington on a guided waterfront walk with author and historian Thea Lewis. Partial proceeds benefit area organizations. Union Station, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20. Info, mail@queencityghostwalk. com.

LIST YOUR UPCOMING EVENT HERE FOR FREE! All submissions must be received by Thursday at noon for consideration in the following Wednesday’s newspaper. Find our convenient form and guidelines at sevendaysvt.com/postevent. Listings and spotlights are written by Emily Hamilton. Seven Days edits for space and style. Depending on cost and other factors, classes and workshops may be listed in either the calendar or the classes section. Class organizers may be asked to purchase a class listing. Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11. SEVEN DAYS OCTOBER 6-13, 2021

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See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: Viewers discover that a cold, icy land is stunning, still pristine and home to an incredible variety of life. 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. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: An educational and entertaining film takes viewers on an epic adventure through some of Earth’s wildest landscapes. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

Co., Burlington, noon-9 p.m. Various prices. Info, 651-4114.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: A tenacious mammalian matriarch fights to protect her family in a desolate environment. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

THE HUNT: Clue packets provided by the Vermont Cheese Council send culinary sleuths to various Vermont regions to explore art, history, the outdoors and, of course, cheeses. Various locations statewide. Free. Info, info@vtcheese.com.

food & drink

COFFEE CORNER MORNINGS: The new senior center opens its doors for tea, coffee and friendly conversation every weekday morning. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4107. FLYNN ON FIRE CELEBRATION: SMOKED BEER & CHEESE PAIRING: Foodies guide themselves through a smoked beer and cheese flight. Partial proceeds benefit Wood4Good VT. The Tap Room at Switchback Brewing

THE MAPLE 100: Vermonters fill out bingo cards with maplethemed activities for a chance to win prizes from local vendors. See vermontvacation.com for instructions. Various locations statewide. Free. Info, 800-837-6668. MARKET ON THE GREEN: Meat, cheese, ice cream and veggies are among the local products available for purchase at this weekly marketplace. Woodstock Village Green, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3555. SENIOR CENTER WEEKLY LUNCH: Age Well and the Kevin L. Dorn Senior Center serve a hot, sitdown lunch. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 12:30 p.m. Donations; preregister; limited space. Info, 923-5545.

WEEKLY WINE TASTING: 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.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Those in need of an easy-on-the-joints workout gather for an hour of calming, low-impact movement. United Community Church, St. Johnsbury, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 751-0431. AYURVEDA PROGRAM ONLINE: Maryellen Crangle and Dorothy Alling Memorial Library lead a 12-week introduction to this ancient Indian and Nepalese healing and lifestyle tradition. 2-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org. BURLINGTON MOVES: Fitness fanatics of all stripes gather on the grass for body weight workouts. Dogs welcome. Andy A_Dog

‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: Moviegoers join scientists on a journey through a surreal world of bug-eyed giants and egg-laying mammals. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848. ‘THE INTOUCHABLES’: An unlikely friendship develops between a quadriplegic man and his caretaker in this 2011 feelgood French film. Catamount

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.

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music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the Music + Nightlife section online at sevendaysvt.com/music.

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OCT. 8 | WORDS To a Flame Inspired by the Moth, the New York City literary organization famous for its unscripted storytelling events, Middlebury Moth-Up holds its ninth annual Cocoon. In a format akin to slam poetry, Middlebury College students, faculty and local community members share true stories centered on the theme of “rebuilding.” Mahaney Arts Center technical director Mark Christensen provides musical interludes, and Moth-Up student leaders Alexandra Burns and Kristen Morgenstern host. Masks and proof of vaccination are required, and the event will be livestreamed for viewers at home.

COCOON Friday, October 8, 8 p.m., at Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College. $5-15. Info, 443-6433, middlebury.edu.

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Williams Skatepark, Burlington, 6:15-7 a.m. Free. Info, burlington moves@gmail.com. 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. FALL PREVENTION SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: Humans boost their strength and balance through gentle, flowing movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3322. STEPS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: Fundraisers document their pursuit of a wellness goal all month long to raise donations for Steps to End Domestic Violence. Various locations statewide. Donations; preregister. Info, 658-3131. TAI CHI SUN 73 CLASS: Practitioners enjoy a peaceful morning of movement. Ages 55 and up; prerequisite is Tai Chi for Fall’s Prevention series 1, 2 & 3. Middlebury Recreation Center, 1011:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, doreenvermont@gmail.com. TAI CHI: SUN-STYLE 73: A sequence of slow, controlled motions aids in strength and balance. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 11:20 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 223-3322.

language

VIRTUAL ELL CLASSES: English language learners of all abilities practice writing and speaking with trained instructors. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov.

music

LUNCHTIME PIPE ORGAN SERIES: GAVIN KLEIN: The wunderkind keyboardist goes hard on the historic Estey organ. Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, info@epsilonspires.org. 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.

seminars

DEVELOPING SELF: Participants reconnect with their core values in this virtual self-help class from Mercy Connections. 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 846-7063. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS UNDER HABEAS CORPUS: Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George teaches attendees about their right to challenge unlawful imprisonment. Presented by Vermont Institute of Community & International Involvement. 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 355-4968.

FAMILY FUN Check out these family-friendly events for parents, caregivers and kids of all ages. • Plan ahead at sevendaysvt.com/family-fun. • Post your event at sevendaysvt.com/postevent.

WED.6

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

FFL YOUNG WRITERS: Budding authors, scriptwriters and graphic novelists ages 10 and up learn more about the craft via prompts and group exercises. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403.

stowe/smuggs

THE NOISY PAINT BOX: Creative kids 6 and up learn to connect lit and art by sculpting, painting and reading picture books. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, cvarner@ centenniallibrary.org.

talks

CHARLENE GALARNEAU: The Harvard Medical School lecturer illuminates Vermont’s history of eugenic policies and the continuing repercussions. Presented by Vermont Humanities. 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3338.

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WRITER TO WRITER: FRANCISCO CANTÚ AND EMILIO CARRERO: The two authors discuss their craft and read from their work. Presented by Vermont Studio Center. 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, communications@ vermontstudiocenter.org.

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climate crisis

CLIMATE ECONOMY MODEL COMMUNITIES PROGRAM KICKOFF: The Vermont Council on Rural Development launches its Rochester Area Climate Initiative with an evening of brainstorming forums for locals. 6-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-6091.

conferences

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF MILITARY ACADEMIES: See WED.6.

THU.7

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.6, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

burlington

BABYTIME: Pre-walking little ones experience a story time catered to their infant interests. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:15-11 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. CRAFTERNOON: Weaving, knitting, embroidery and paper crafting supplies take over the Teen Space. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

OUTDOOR STORY TIME: Kids enjoy an hour of books, songs, dancing and fun. BYO blankets or chairs. Masks required. Winooski Memorial Library, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 655-6424.

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.

FRI.8

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.6, 12:30-1:15 p.m.

burlington

FRIGHT BY FLASHLIGHT: Adventurous youngsters become experts in vintage ghost hunting techniques. Ages 8 through 12; must be accompanied by an adult. Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $12-18; limited space. Info, mail@queencityghostwalk.com.

education

PERENNIAL HARVEST DAYS: EDUCATION: Teachers from Middlebury College, an alternative high school and the Abenaki Nation discuss education strategies in a changing world. Presented by New Perennials. Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, newperennials@ middlebury.edu.

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JUNCTION: A WALKING TOUR: See WED.6. ONE-ON-ONE FINANCIAL MENTORING: Andrea Heller of Opportunities Credit Union answers questions about anything from mortgages to credit cards to budgeting. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 1-6 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 877-2211. QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK TRUE CRIME THURSDAYS: True crime buffs learn about Burlington’s most infamous murders and misdeeds with author and historian Thea Lewis. Sensitive subject matter. Ages 16 and up. 199 Main St., Burlington, 7 p.m. $25. Info, mail@queencityghostwalk.com.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section.

‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.6. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.6. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.6. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.6. ‘WAR HORSE’: Handspring Puppet’s astonishing creations bring the smash-hit play to life in this filmed National Theater production. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $7-21. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink

COFFEE CORNER MORNINGS: See WED.6. FLYNN ON FIRE CELEBRATION: SMOKED BEER & CHEESE PAIRING: See WED.6. THE HUNT: See WED.6. THE MAPLE 100: See WED.6. NORDIC NITE OUT: Nordic Farmers’ Collaborative serves a meal made with farm-fresh ingredients while guests browse the farmstand for produce, bread, meats and libations. Nordic Farms, Charlotte, 4-7 p.m. Various prices. Info, 425-2283. VERGENNES FARMERS MARKET: Local foods and crafts spice up Thursday afternoons. Vergennes City Park, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 233-9180.

health & fitness

STEPS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: See WED.6.

lgbtq

POP-UP HAPPY HOUR: Locals connect over drinks at a speakeasystyle bar. Hosted by OUT in the 802. Lincolns, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

music

‘THE MAID OF ORLEANS’: The Opera Company of Middlebury presents Tchaikovsky’s sweeping rendition of the Joan of Arc story. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30-10:30 p.m. $55-80. Info, 382-9222. ANTHONY MCGILL: The New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist leads an evening of enchanting classical tunes with pianist Anna Polonsky. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $15-45. Info, 603-646-2422. LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: LOVE SONGS: Strings, soprano and piano close out the festival with Schumann selections inspired by his love for his wife, Clara — filmed for those who couldn’t attend in person. 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 846-2175. THE WILD HONEY COLLECTIVE: The Michigan folk band fiddles THU.7

barre/montpelier

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: New youth librarian Sasha McGarvey encourages creativity and exploration in kids under 6. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.6, 8:30-9:15 a.m.

burlington

BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH ADVOCACY SUMMIT: Young adults learn from each other and discuss how to be the change they want to see at this event organized by teens, for teens. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, atibtv@ burlingtonpartnership.org. FAMILY PLAYSHOP: Kids from birth through age 5 learn and play at this school readiness program. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:15-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. FRIGHT BY FLASHLIGHT: See FRI.8.

chittenden county

TRY HOCKEY FOR FREE: Rookies ages 4 through 9 pick up a stick for the first time and learn the basics of the sport. Presented by CSB Youth Hockey and the Vermont State Amateur Hockey Association. C. Douglas Cairns Arena, South Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 658-5577.

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FULL STEAM AHEAD TUESDAYS: 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 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

chittenden county

UKULELE LESSONS: Preteen pickers ages 8 through 11 learn the basics from librarian Rachel Funk. Instruments and other materials provided. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, youthservices@ centenniallibrary.org.

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.6, 10:15-11:15 a.m.

DAD GUILD: Fathers and their kids from birth through age 5 drop in for playtime and connection. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

SOCIAL SUNDAYS FAMILY ART: Registered families pick up take-home kits to complete with video or typed instructions. Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center & Gallery. Free; preregister. Info, 891-2014.

MON.11

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.6.

TUE.12

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.6, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

burlington

SING-ALONG WITH LINDA BASSICK: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and wiggle along with Linda out on the library lawn. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county OUTDOOR STORY TIME: See THU.7.

upper valley

SENSORY FRIENDLY HOURS: Folks of all ages with sensory differences enjoy a quieter museum, fewer crowds and discounted admission. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 5-7:30 p.m. $11-14; free for members. Info, 649-2200.

WED.13

ONLINE PRENATAL YOGA: See WED.6.

stowe/smuggs THE NOISY PAINT BOX: See WED.6.

champlain islands/ northwest

MAD SCIENTIST LAB: Aspiring Frankensteins ages 8 and up concoct color-changing potions and bubbling brews. Fairfax Community Library, 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420. K

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the night away alongside special guest singer-songwriter Jeremy Porter. Masks and proof of vaccination required. The Stone Church, Brattleboro, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 579-9960.

seminars

SUPPORTING RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF UNRELENTING UNCERTAINTY: Dr. Simha Ravven of the Howard Center teaches caretakers how to stay strong for themselves and others in times of ongoing stress. Noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, mtraska@howardcenter.org. UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: Applicants work one-on-one with tutors to study history, government and geography — and to practice English, if needed. Zoom option available. Mercy Connections, Burlington, 9-10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-7063.

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VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘THE RESCUE’: This newest documentary from the Academy Award-winning directors of Free Solo chronicles the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 8-9:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘SWEET THING’: Two children spend an eventful summer with their mother and her boyfriend in this dreamy drama about youth, race and resilience. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘LUZZU’: This Maltese drama follows a fisherman who must choose between his family’s traditional profession and assimilating into the modern world. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 5:50 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600.

food & drink

COFFEE CORNER MORNINGS: See WED.6.

FLYNN ON FIRE CELEBRATION: SMOKED BEER & CHEESE PAIRING: See WED.6. FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER PARTY: Gastronomes enjoy a threecourse Peruvian meal and drinks at the chef’s home in the mountains. Esmeralda, Andover, 6 p.m. $110. Info, 617-909-9855. FRIED CHICKEN DINNER: Foodies enjoy lawn games, live music and some finger-lickin’ good grub. Maple Wind Farm, Richmond, 4:30-5:30 & 5:30-6:30 p.m. $1421. Info, 434-7257. THE HUNT: See WED.6. THE MAPLE 100: See WED.6. POP-UP ART CAFÉ: Art and live music meet tapas and wine at a cultural convergence hosted by Gallery on the Green owners Chip and Opal Evans. Soulfully Good Café, Woodstock, 6-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink; preregister. Info, 457-7395. RICHMOND FARMERS MARKET: An open-air marketplace featuring live music connects cultivators and fresh-food browsers. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6

p.m. Free. Info, info@richmond farmersmarketvt.org.

ride through the history of women’s voting rights in this Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance-commissioned play. First Congregational Church, St. Albans, 7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@vtsuffrage2020. org.

health & fitness

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.6. FALL PREVENTION SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: See WED.6, 10-10:45 a.m.

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STEPS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: See WED.6.

COCOON: Inspired by the Moth, Middlebury students, staff and community members share unscripted stories. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Livestream available. See calendar spotlight. Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 8-10 p.m. $5-15. Info, 443-6433.

music

MORETOWN OPEN MIC: Family-friendly music, short plays and spoken-word pieces entertain audience members. 7-10 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, shloinky@gmail. com.

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SAT.9

‘NOISES OFF’: Drama ensues onstage and off as a group of actors tries to rehearse a play in this farce-within-a-farce from the Valley Players. Masks required. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $12-16. Info, 583-1674.

community

‘THE SUFFRAGIST REENACTMENT SOCIETY’: Three actresses take audiences on a madcap COURTESY OF DAVID GONSIER

MICHAEL FREED-THALL: The local author explains how his own family history inspired his new novel, Horodno Burning. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.6.

PENS & PAGES: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett serves as inspiration for discussion and writing exercises in this Mercy Connections reading group focused on the Black experience. 1:30-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-7063.

FRI.8

conferences

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF MILITARY ACADEMIES: See WED.6.

QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: Paranormal historian Thea Lewis highlights haunted happenings throughout Burlington. 199 Main St., Burlington, 7 p.m. $20. Info, mail@queencityghostwalk.com.

OCT. 9 & 10 | DANCE

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STOWE FOLIAGE ARTS FESTIVAL: Fall colors are on fire, and so are the artisans, musicians and food vendors at this annual celebration of autumn. Topnotch Field, Topnotch Resort, Stowe, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $10; $12 for weekend passes; free for kids. Info, info@craftproducers.com.

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FALL DANCE: Costumes and howling at the moon are encouraged at this retro Halloween dance party. Farr’s Field, Waterbury, 7 p.m.-midnight. $10. Info, 917-886-3270. FALLING OPEN FESTIVAL: Dancers across New England connect, learn and perform at this Vermont Dance Alliance summit. See vermontdance.org for full schedule. See calendar spotlight. 2:30-8 p.m. Pay what you can; preregister. Info, hannasatt@gmail.com.

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JUNCTION: A WALKING TOUR: See WED.6.

TOGETHER AGAIN!: The Central Vermont Council on Aging presents a virtual fundraising day featuring music, comedy, awards and activities. Noon-1:30 p.m. $75. Info, 476-0116.

Dance With Somebody The Vermont Dance Alliance hosts the Falling Open Festival, a two-day virtual symposium gathering dancers from across New England for a weekend of connection, performance and learning. Attendees experience the Feldenkrais method of exercise therapy with dance instructor Sakura Shimada, learn all about the post-disco House dance craze from dance and music artist Millie Heckler, and incorporate Zen principles into their movement with Bennington College’s Mina Nishimura. The three festival teachers perform on Saturday evening, and all attendees tune in for brunch on Sunday morning to envision possibilities for the future of dance in Vermont.

FALLING OPEN FESTIVAL Saturday, October 9, 2:30-8 p.m., and Sunday, October 10, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Online. Pay what you can; preregister. Info, hannasatt@gmail.com, vermontdance.org.

SEVEN DAYS OCTOBER 6-13, 2021

BOSS UP!: Elisabeth Waller of Elisabeth Waller Photography snaps professional headshots for women job seekers. Diddle & Zen, Panton, noon-2 p.m. Pay what you can; preregister; limited space. Info, info@elisabethwaller.com. JUNCTION: A WALKING TOUR: See WED.6. MORE THAN A MARKET: A WALKING TOUR OF BURLINGTON’S LOCAL MARKETS: Locals take a stroll through the past and present of immigrant culture in the Old North End. Meet at 7 Pine St. under the arch, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, cbarrett@ historicnewengland.org. QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK DARKNESS FALLS TOUR: See FRI.8.

fairs & festivals

CIDER DAYS: The Mount Holly Community Association invites locals to drink fresh-pressed cider, dance to live music and enter a photo contest. Belmont Village Green, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, mhcavt@gmail.com. HARVEST CELEBRATION: Oldtimey farm fun is all around with attractions including cider

pressing, bean shelling and square dancing. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $8-16; free for members and kids 3 and under. Info, 457-2355. HARVESTFEST WEEKEND AT STRATTON MOUNTAIN: Flannels, foliage and fall, oh my! Families get in the seasonal spirit with a day of food, live music and scenic ski lifts. Stratton Mountain Resort, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. $25-60; preregister; limited space. Info, 800-787-2886. NEWFANE HERITAGE FESTIVAL: The beloved fall tradition celebrates its 50th anniversary with a weekend of food, crafts and music. Newfane Common, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, newfaneheritage festival@gmail.com. STOWE FOLIAGE ARTS FESTIVAL: See FRI.8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. TÄLTA LODGE GRAND OPENING: The lodge holds a day of music, food and fall festivities, followed by an afterparty with donations benefiting the Abenaki Fund. Tälta Lodge, Stowe, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 253-7525.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT’: An energetic documentary follows the convergence of skateboarding and hip-hop subcultures in 1990s Manhattan. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 9-10:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. ‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘ASCENSION’: Riveting vignettes and casual conversations tell the story of China’s class division in this observational documentary. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, noon-1:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600.

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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VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘BERGMAN ISLAND’: Questions of art and gender arise in this Swedish drama about a screenwriter struggling to write her script in the twin shadows of her husband and Ingmar Bergman. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 6:10-8 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. ‘BORIS GODUNOV’: The Metropolitan Opera’s production of a classic story of power and paranoia comes to the big screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘FLEE’: An undocumented Afghan refugee tells his story in this inventive documentary — animated to protect his identity. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $512. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘LAUGHTER (LE RIRE)’: A Montréal woman uses standup to try to overcome her survivor’s guilt in this surreal dark comedy. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘SEYRAN ATEŞ: SEX, REVOLUTION AND ISLAM’: In this Turkish documentary, a feminist imam puts herself in danger to reform the religion she loves. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 1:30-3 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘UNDINE’: A woman threatens her conversation partner with death if he leaves her side in a mythic showing from German filmmaker Christian Petzold. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘POPPY FIELD’: In this Romanian drama, a Bucharest police officer must quell a far-right riot at a queer film screening. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 4:15-5:45 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660–2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘WILDLAND’: 17-yearold Ida becomes entangled in her family’s web of extortion and violence in this Danish crime drama. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 8:35-10:05 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘WRITING WITH FIRE’: This documentary, a darling at Sundance, follows the journalists of India’s only women-led news outlet as they prepare to transition to digital. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 2:10-3:45 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600.

food & drink

BURLINGTON FARMERS MARKET: Dozens of stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. 345 Pine St., Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, manager@ burlingtonfarmersmarket.org. CHOCTOBERFEST: Special chocolates and other local foodstuffs round out a delectable tasting platter. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807. FLYNN ON FIRE CELEBRATION: LIVE FIRE SHOW: Bon vivants experience a day of beer flights, sensory kits, live music and a flaming-hot showing from Cirque de Fuego. The Tap Room at Switchback Brewing Co., Burlington, noon-9 p.m. Various prices. Info, 651-4114. FLYNN ON FIRE CELEBRATION: SMOKED BEER & CHEESE PAIRING: See WED.6. THE HUNT: See WED.6. THE MAPLE 100: See WED.6. MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: Produce, prepared foods and local products are available for purchase at this year-round bazaar. Middlebury VFW Hall, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, middleburyfarmersmkt@ yahoo.com. MOUNT SNOW OKTOBERFEST: Brews and bratwurst flow while revelers compete in keg throws and yodeling contests. Mount Snow, West Dover, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $20-42. Info, 800-245-7669. PACHAMANCA: Chef JuanMa Calderón and Maria Rondeau present an all-day feast cooked in a pre-Incan-style earth oven. Esmeralda, Andover, 3 p.m. $185. Info, 617-909-9855. POP-UP ART CAFÉ: See FRI.8. WAITSFIELD FARMERS MARKET: A bustling bazaar boasts seasonal produce, prepared foods, artisan crafts and live entertainment. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, waitsfieldmarketmanager@ gmail.com. WEEKLY WINE TASTING: See WED.6. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Stowe, noon4 p.m. Info, 585-7717.

health & fitness

FALL 5K RUN/WALK: In lieu of an indoor Oktoberfest, racers take in the autumn views around Sunset Lake. Brookfield Old Town Hall, 10-11:30 a.m. $25; preregister. Info, brookfieldoth@gmail.com. FALL PREVENTION SUN STYLE TAI CHI: See WED.6. Father Lively Center, St. Johnsbury, 10-11 a.m. NAMIWALKS YOUR WAY VERMONT: The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont holds its annual fundraiser walk. Virtual options available. First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Donations. Info, aperry@namivt. org. STEPS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: See WED.6.

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holidays

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY ROCKS!: Abenaki Chief Don Stevens blesses a day of music, storytelling and education, followed by a rock concert featuring Blues Hall of Famer Joe Louis Walker. Mayo Events Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. $25. Info, 503-5771.

The Latest Battleground in the Debate Over the Second Amendment WITH SAUL CORNELL, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Monday, October 11, 2021 • 5 pm

UVM Alumni House • Silver Pavillion • 61 Summit Street

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ADA: Individuals requiring accommodation(s) please contact Student Accessibility Services at 802-656-7753 no later than one week before the event date.

‘THE MAID OF ORLEANS’: See THU.7. ABBY SHERMAN & THE WAY NORTH: The up-and-coming blues rocker and her band bring down the house. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30 p.m. $10; free for kids. Info, 388-6863.

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BOB STANNARD & THOSE DANGEROUS BLUESMEN: The eighth-generation Vermonter and his band astound with quick licks and lively showmanship. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7-9 p.m. $22. Info, 533-2000. DORIC STRING QUARTET & JONATHAN BISS: For an evening of classical bliss, the acclaimed ensemble teams up with the powerhouse pianist. Masks and proof of vaccination required. Streaming option available. Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $5-25. Info, 443-6433.

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ROB CURTO’S FORRÓ FOR ALL: The accordion-driven band transports audiences to a chill Brazilian nightclub. Presented by Next Stage Arts. The Lawn at Greenberg Associates Architects, Putney, 3 p.m. $20; free for kids under 12. Info, 451-0053.

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BURLINGTON TREE TOURS: Master arborist Brian Sullivan takes attendees on a walking tour of the Queen City’s urban tree species. Hilton Burlington, 4:45 p.m. $20. Info, 343-1773.

VERMONT STATE DOUBLES DISC GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP: Frisbee fanatics compete for coveted titles in this Disc Golf Vermont tournament. Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $80. Info, gservices@sugarbush.com. SAT.9

Sept. 10 – Oct. 10, 2021 Fridays – Sundays, 10 am – 5 pm and by appointment

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THE UNKNOWN BLUES BAND: A beloved Vermont combo opens the opera house’s 2021-22 season with the venue’s first concert since early 2020. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $20; cash bar. Info, 877-6737.

MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED: Fungi fanatics learn about different varieties — fabulous and fearsome alike — found throughout the park. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 11 a.m. $24; free for kids ages 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

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ANNIE & THE HEDONISTS: A genre-defying band pays tribute to the great 20th-century women of blues. Meeting House on the Green, East Fairfield, 5-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 827-6626.

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‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.6.

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‘NOISES OFF’: See FRI.8. ‘THE SUFFRAGIST REENACTMENT SOCIETY’: See FRI.8. West Rutland Town Hall.

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20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN POETS: Writers of all levels use foundational poems to inspire their own work in this virtual class. 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, msinger@ kellogghubbard.org. HISTORY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP: The Marshfield Historical Society and Jaquith Public Library lead a conversation about American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis. Virtual option available. Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 454-1680. POETIC HEALING SHOWCASE: Student members of Dartmouth’s Black Underground Theater and Arts Association showcase Black poetry, prose and creativity. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 603-646-2422.

SUN.10 dance

FALLING OPEN FESTIVAL: See SAT.9, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

etc.

JUNCTION: A WALKING TOUR: See WED.6.

fairs & festivals CIDER DAYS: See SAT.9, noon-4 p.m.

HARVEST CELEBRATION: See SAT.9. NEWFANE HERITAGE FESTIVAL: See SAT.9.

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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STOWE FOLIAGE ARTS FESTIVAL: See FRI.8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘ASCENSION’: See SAT.9. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘BECOMING COUSTEAU’: This National Geographic documentary tells the story of the deepsea explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 1-2:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘CENTER STAGE’: Maggie Cheung stars as Ruan Lingyu, the enigmatic icon of China’s silent cinema era, in this biopic out of Hong Kong. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 1:15 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘COW’: In the latest documentary from indie darling turned Big Little Lies showrunner Andrea Arnold, a cow and her calf go through their daily routine on an industrial farm. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘FAYA DAYI’: Ethiopian Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir returns to her home city of Harar in this hypnotic documentary. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 3:155:15 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘OBJECTOR’: A young Israeli woman challenges her country’s obligatory military conscription in Molly Stuart’s 2019 documentary. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4:15-6 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘SWEET THING’: See FRI.8. 10 a.m.-11:59 p.m. $12. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?’: Lisa and Giorgi fall in love, then fall victim to an inexplicable curse that changes both their faces in a whimsical Georgian romance. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 6-8:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600.

food & drink

FLYNN ON FIRE CELEBRATION: SMOKED BEER & CHEESE PAIRING: See WED.6. FRESH HOPS FESTIVAL: Ale aficionados sample beers from 10 of Vermont’s most innovative breweries while live music from the Starline Rhythm Boys keeps everyone grooving. Sugarbush

SEVEN DAYS OCTOBER 6-13, 2021

Resort, Warren, noon-4 p.m. $70.90; limited space. Info, 583-6590. HEIRLOOM APPLE DAY: The orchard’s Apple Barn opens its doors for an exhibition of more than 130 apple varieties. Food, cider and activities for all ages abound. Scott Farm, Dummerston. Free. Info, 254-6868. THE HUNT: See WED.6. THE MAPLE 100: See WED.6. SUNDAY LUNCH ON THE LAWN: Gourmands gather in the hills for a three-course Peruvian meal and natural wine pairings. Esmeralda, Andover, 12:30 p.m. $90. Info, 617-909-9855. WINOOSKI FARMERS MARKET: Families shop for fresh produce, honey, meats, coffee and prepared foods from seasonal vendors at an outdoor marketplace. Champlain Mill Green, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, farmersmarket@ downtownwinooski.org.

health & fitness

10TH ANNUAL HARVEST RUN FOR SUSTAINABILITY: Runners of all ages pick a route through Burlington at a virtual fundraiser for the Sustainability Academy. 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Donations. Info, 864-8280. 25TH ANNUAL MAD DASH: Mad River Path’s beloved tradition is back in person with a kids’ fun run, 5K, 10K and virtual options available. Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 9:30 a.m.noon. $5-30; preregister. Info, 496-7284. SILVER LAKE YOGA HIKE: Yogis trek through the tranquil woods and enjoy a savasana session by the water. BYO picnic lunch. Silver Lake State Park, Barnard, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $25. Info, 504-352-4813. STEPS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: See WED.6.

music

ALISON BRUCE CERUTTI: The celebrated central Vermont pianist showcases her lyricism and fiery sensibility in a solo recital. Barre Opera House, 3 p.m. $10-20. Info, 476-8188. CHURCH STREET SOUNDS OF THE SEASON: ORGAN RECITAL: Vaughn Watson and Stephan Conrady continue the monthly concert series with an afternoon of epic organ music. First Congregational Church, St. Albans, 3-4:15 p.m. Free. Info, 524-4555. TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS: The award-winning husbandand-wife duo breaks out angelic harmonies and joyful Americana vibes. Masks required. Westford Common Hall, 4-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 363-0930.

sports

MILTON DISC GOLF EAGLE COURSE GRAND OPENING: A ribbon-cutting ceremony, a Disc Golf Vermont clinic and other exciting activities herald the debut of a new, free-to-play course. Bombardier Park West, Milton, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 893-6655.

theater

‘NOISES OFF’: See FRI.8, 2 p.m. ‘THE SUFFRAGIST REENACTMENT SOCIETY’: See FRI.8. Vergennes Opera House, 2 p.m.

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JUNCTION: A WALKING TOUR: See WED.6.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT’: See SAT.9. 10 a.m.-11:59 p.m. $12. ‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.6. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.6. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘THE FIRST DEATH OF JOANA’: A 13-year-old girl finds answers to old family mysteries in her imaginary universe in this whimsical Brazilian story of gender, sexuality and secret love. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-8:45 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘FLEE’: See SAT.9. 10 a.m.-11:59 p.m. $12. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘LAUGHTER (LE RIRE)’: See SAT.9. 10 a.m.-11:59 p.m. $12. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘SEYRAN ATEŞ: SEX, REVOLUTION AND ISLAM’: See SAT.9. 10 a.m.-11:59 p.m. $12. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘TRY HARDER!’: In a brand-new documentary, five students at an elite San Francisco high school navigate exams, racial tension and the college admissions process. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4:15-4:45 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600.

STEPS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: See WED.6.

holidays

AARON YORK: The internationally renowned Abenaki artist and educator leads a community discussion in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 656-8833. ‘DAWNLAND’: The University of Vermont kicks off its Indigenous Peoples’ Day programming with a screening of a documentary on Native American family separation in the 20th century. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-8833.

language

AFLCR SOCIAL HOUR: The Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region hosts a virtual cocktail hour. 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@aflcr.org. ENGLISH CONVERSATION CIRCLE: Locals learning English as a second language gather in the Board Room to build vocabulary and make friends. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

seminars

DEVELOPING SELF: See WED.6. UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION: See THU.7, noon-5 p.m.

talks

SAUL CORNELL: The Fordham University historian digs into recent gun control debates. Presented by the University of Vermont Department of History. Masks required. University of Vermont Alumni House, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, history@uvm.edu.

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climate crisis

CLIMATE ECONOMY MODEL COMMUNITIES PROGRAM FORUM: The Vermont Council on Rural Development holds an in-person community forum for its new Rochester Area Climate Initiative. Rochester School, 5-6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 223-6091.

VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘THE WHALER BOY’: A young man falls in love with a webcam model after the internet comes to his tiny whaling village in this tender Russian film. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 2:15-4 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600.

PANEL DISCUSSION OF S.148: Local legislators, advocates and Abenaki educators gather support for this upcoming act requiring environmental justice measures in the Vermont government. 1:30-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, dmunroe@ middlebury.edu.

food & drink

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COFFEE CORNER MORNINGS: See WED.6. THE HUNT: See WED.6. THE MAPLE 100: See WED.6.

health & fitness

10TH ANNUAL HARVEST RUN FOR SUSTAINABILITY: See SUN.10, 6 a.m.-8 p.m. ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.6.

JUNCTION: A WALKING TOUR: See WED.6.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘ANNE AT 13,000 FT.’: An antisocial skydiver tries not to push everyone in her life

away in this humanist Canadian character study. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 2:15-3:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. ‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.6. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘CENTER STAGE’: See SUN.10. 10 a.m.-11:59 p.m. $12. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.6. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘NORTH BY CURRENT’: Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax turns his camera on his own family and, ultimately, himself in an intimately personal documentary. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE’: This sardonic, surreal feature follows three teenagers on a captivating road trip through Bosnia. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-8:45 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600.

food & drink

COFFEE CORNER MORNINGS: See WED.6. THE HUNT: See WED.6. THE MAPLE 100: See WED.6.

health & fitness

10TH ANNUAL HARVEST RUN FOR SUSTAINABILITY: See SUN.10. FALL PREVENTION SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: See WED.6, 10-11 a.m. STEPS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: See WED.6.

language

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATIONS: Francophones and French-language learners meet pour parler la belle langue. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 343-5166. SPANISH & ENGLISH CONVERSATION PARTNERS: Neighbors looking for bilingual buddies practice both languages together, guided by translators and a weekly discussion topic. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 7-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 877-2211.

music

CHRIS THILE: The legendary bluegrass mandolinist moves audiences with his solo show. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $38-58. Info, 603-448-0400. VERMONT’S FREEDOM & UNITY CHORUS REHEARSAL: Singers of all ages, races and genders lift their voices in songs that represent the ongoing struggle for justice. Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 6:45-8:45 p.m. $35. Info, vermontsfreedom andunitychorus@gmail.com.

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RUTLAND COUNTY AUDUBON & SLATE VALLEY TRAILS BIRDWATCHING WALK: Enthusiastic ornithologists go on a gentle hike and search for feathered friends. BYO binoculars, bug spray, water and guidebook. Meet at the D&H rail trail crossing on South St. Castleton University, 7:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 598-2583.

seminars

MAP!: MAKE AN ACTION PLAN: Guest speakers and the Mercy Connections team teach students how to live their best post-pandemic lives. 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 846-7063.

talks

WOLF GRUNER: The University of Southern California professor lectures on “Impudent Jews: Forgotten Stories of Individual Jewish Resistance in Hitler’s Germany.” Presented by the UVM Center for Holocaust Studies. University of Vermont Alumni House, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3131.

tech

BUILD A BLOG WITH REACT AND FIREBASE: Burlington Code Academy teaches aspiring internet writers how to create a website. Noon. Free; preregister. Info, 393-8386.

words

OCTOBER ADULT BOOK CLUB: Readers get in a spine-chilling mood with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. Masks required. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, laksamee.putnam@ bixbylibrary.org. POETRY CLUB: Local poet Jodi Girouard leads a supportive verse-writing workshop for those who would like feedback on their work or who are just happy to listen. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, sbplinfo@ southburlingtonvt.gov. RAJNII EDDINS: The poet, writer and activist reads his work and explores how stories can be used to confront racism and injustice. Waterbury Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. RECITE!: Poets of all levels, from fledgling to professional, celebrate the spoken word at this virtual reading. 7-9 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@normanwilliams.org. S. LEE MANNING: The local author reads from her newest novel, Nerve Attack, and details the process of writing a thriller. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-3853. WHAT’S ON YOUR NIGHTSTAND? THE NOT-A-BOOK-CLUB BOOK CLUB: Rebel readers discuss anything from book jacket design to the ebook revolution at this nonconformist meeting. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 10:15-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

WED.13 activism

GRANGE SUPPER & MIGRANT JUSTICE PRESENTATION: All are welcome to a free dinner, followed by a presentation from Migrant Justice on its groundbreaking Milk With Dignity program. Donations support the Grange and Migrant Justice. Caledonia Grange, East Hardwick, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8987.

agriculture

MAPLE WEBINAR SERIES: MAPLE FORESTS & CARBON: The University of Vermont Extension teaches maple growers how to manage the carbon levels of their sugarbush. 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 828-2430.

community

VERMONT WOMEN’S MENTORING PROGRAM: See WED.6.

etc.

JUNCTION: A WALKING TOUR: See WED.6. QUEEN CITY GHOSTWALK GRATEFUL WEDNESDAYS: GHOSTS & LEGENDS OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN: See WED.6.

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See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘ANTARCTICA 3D: ON THE EDGE’: See WED.6. ‘AUSTRALIA’S GREAT WILD NORTH 3D’: See WED.6. ‘DINOSAURS OF ANTARCTICA 3D’: See WED.6. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘FAYA DAYI’: See SUN.10, 2-4 p.m. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘THE FIRST DEATH OF JOANA’: See MON.11. 10 a.m.11:59 p.m. $12. ‘MEERKATS 3D’: See WED.6. ‘PAN’S LABYRINTH’: A young girl escapes from her abusive stepfather and into an eerie, fantastical world in Guillermo del Toro’s modern classic. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘TRY HARDER!’: See MON.11. 10 a.m.-11:59 p.m. $12. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘TAMING THE GARDEN’: This striking, environmentalist documentary tells of a former Georgian prime minister’s attempts to populate his vast estate with trees. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $5-12. Info, 660-2600. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘THE WHALER BOY’: See MON.11. 10 a.m.-11:59 p.m. $12. VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ‘WILDLAND’: See SAT.9. Main Street Landing

Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m.

food & drink

COFFEE CORNER MORNINGS: See WED.6. THE HUNT: See WED.6. THE MAPLE 100: See WED.6. MARKET ON THE GREEN: See WED.6. SENIOR CENTER WEEKLY LUNCH: See WED.6. WEEKLY WINE TASTING: See WED.6.

health & fitness

10TH ANNUAL HARVEST RUN FOR SUSTAINABILITY: See SUN.10. ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See WED.6. AYURVEDA PROGRAM ONLINE: See WED.6. BURLINGTON MOVES: See WED.6. CHAIR YOGA: See WED.6. FALL PREVENTION SUN-STYLE TAI CHI: See WED.6. STEPS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: See WED.6. TAI CHI SUN 73 CLASS: See WED.6. TAI CHI: SUN-STYLE 73: See WED.6.

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VIRTUAL ELL CLASSES: See WED.6.

music

ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC NIGHT: Artists of all stripes have six minutes to share a song, story or poem. No microphones; meet at the second-floor loft. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, sbplinfo@southburlingtonvt.gov. FUNDRAISER FOR JOSH’S HOUSE: Conductor Kim Diehnelt leads the Me2 orchestra in an evening of classical music and storytelling to benefit the veterans’ wellness center. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 238-8369.

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talks

Finding Hope: Healing Life’s Hurts

DEVELOPING SELF: See WED.6.

BRIAN LINDNER: The historian tells the tale of the 1944 Air Force bomber crash on Camel’s Hump. Livestream available. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister for Zoom option. Info, 223-3338.

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ASHLEY C. FORD: Dr. Jude Smith Rachele of the Howard Center welcomes the best-selling author for a conversation on mental health, race and LGBTQIA+ issues. 4-5:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, mtraska@howardcenter.org. m

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art ONE-DAY FALL PAINTING WORKSHOPS: Every Sat., Sep. 18-Oct. 23. Small classes, six to eight students, one-on-one teaching. Come learn and paint in and around our historic 1800s studio barn and perennial gardens. All experience levels welcome; watercolor, pastel or oil. Demos taught. Includes gourmet farm-to-table lunch. Sign up soon! kehoedesign.com/ painting-workshops. Sat. Sep. 18-Oct. 23, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $135/day. Location: 692 Church Hill Rd., Charlotte. Info: Deborah Kehoe, 233-6463, deb@ kehoedesign.com, kehoedesign. com/painting-workshops.

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Burlington City Arts fall class registration is now open! Find these classes and many more at burlingtoncityarts.org. COLLAGE NIGHT WITH JESS GRAHAM: Get creative at home with Vermont artist Jess Graham. Jess is known for her strikingly colorful designs, paintings and collages. She will share tips and techniques to make unique collages with newspaper clippings, magazine pages, scraps of paper and more. Class includes materials and two hours of instruction. Tue., Oct. 26, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $40. Location: BCA Studios, Zoom. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org. DIY HALLOWEEN COSTUMES : Ages 6 to 12. Cut, sew and craft your way to the best Halloween ever! Basic materials are provided; please bring two ideas and any materials to help create your costume. Students must also bring a bagged lunch and snacks. Parents are invited to a costume parade at 3 p.m. Fri., Oct. 15, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $85. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org. FAMILY PAINT: Spend a morning with teaching artist Kara Ware in BCA’s painting and drawing studio. Using our paints, brushes,

JUNGIAN PARENTING: Learn how to be a better parent by applying Carl Jung’s wisdom and techniques in this experiential course full of exercises and actionable information. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. Oct. 27 & Nov. 3, 10 & 17, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60. Location: Zoom. Info: Sue Mehrtens, 244-7909, info@jung iancenter.org, jungiancenter.org.

easels and more, your family will create beautiful works of art. All supplies provided; no experience needed. Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Adults may assist their child(ren) free of charge. Sun., Oct. 24, 10 a.m.noon. Cost: $25. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org. FRIDAY FAMILY CLAY: Family friendly! A ticket provides a wheel demonstration at the beginning of class, wheel access (for ages 6 and up), hand-building for any age, unlimited clay and time to create. Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Adults may assist their child(ren) free of charge. Fri., Oct. 1-Nov. 5, 5-6:30 p.m. Cost: $20 per participant per class. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org. HOME STUDIO: DIGITAL PHOTO: Learn the basics of making a great photograph from home with your digital camera in this fourweek online class. Learn basic camera controls like aperture, shutter speed, ISO ratings, shooting in RAW, lens choices, metering techniques and more. Students must have their own DSLR or digital Mirrorless camera. Ages 13 and up. Mon., Oct. 25-Nov. 15, 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $120. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

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dance SALSA DANCE CLASS: Salsa is an easy-to-learn Latin social dance rooted in African, Cuban and Puerto Rican dance traditions. In this fundamentals class, participants will learn how to dance confidently in a social setting. No partner is needed to attend. All ages and abilities are welcome. Wed., starting Oct. 13, 7-8 p.m. Cost: $90/6 1-hr. classes; registration req. Location: Miller Center, 130 Gosse Ct., Burlington. Info: Susi Trexler, 215-239-4758, smhtrexler@gmail.com. TANGO MONDAYS IN BURLINGTON: 6-7 p.m., Technique for Both Roles: partnerfree way to improve or begin your tango journey. 7-8:30 p.m., Partner Class & Practical, role fluid. Vaccinated only — we care (and we card)! Ongoing series. Basics, variations and how to improvise! Cost: $15 or pay what you can. Location: Nataraja Studios, 215 College St., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: Eva Zimet, 802tango@gmail.com, facebook.com/groups/802tango.

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POTTERY: Join teaching artist Catie Owen in the BCA Clay Studio to create bowls, cups, sculptures and more through wheel-throwing and hand-building techniques. Learn surface design and decorating tips to make your pieces amazing. Class fee includes up to three pieces to be fired and glazed by the studio. Sun., Oct. 24-Nov. 21 (no class on Oct. 31), 2-4 p.m. Cost: $75. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Kiersten Williams, 865-7157, kwilliams@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

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DJEMBE & TAIKO DRUMMING: JOIN US!: New classes (outdoor mask optional/masks indoors), starting Sep. 7, Nov. 8 and Jan. 18. Taiko: Mon., Tue., Wed. and Thu.; Djembe: Wed. and Thu.; Kids and Parents: Tue., Wed. and Thu. All Thu. classes at Camp Meade Middlesex behind Red Hen! Schedule/register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com, burlingtontaiko.org.

FOREST FRIDAYS: Outdoor education miniseries: Explore the woods, meadows and lakeside ecosystems of Burlington to learn about plants and animals in our environment. A typical afternoon includes plant ID, fort building, nature games, forest art, wildlife tracking, fairy houses, traditional crafts, birding or whatever sparks your child’s curiosity! Ages 6-11. Cost is sliding scale. Fri., 3:30-6 p.m., Oct. 1-29. Cost: $25/2.5 hrs. Location: Burlington Parks and Waterfront (multiple locations). Info: 2421248, znovembe@uvm.edu.

JAPANESE LANGUAGE COURSES: JASV offers three levels of Japanese in the fall semester via Zoom. Level 1 covers the first half of the textbook Busy People 1. Level 2 covers the second half of Busy People 1. Level 3 uses Busy People 2. No classes Thanksgiving week. Level 1: Thu., Oct. 7-Dec. 16; Level 2: Wed., Oct. 6-Dec. 15; Level 3: Mon., Oct. 4-Dec. 13, 7-8:30 p.m. Location: Japan America Society of Vermont, Zoom. Info: Linda Sukop, 865-9985, jasvlan guage@gmail.com, jasv.org. LEARN SPANISH LIVE & ONLINE: Broaden your world. Learn Spanish online via live videoconferencing. Highquality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our 15th year. Personal, small-group and individual instruction from a native speaker. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Sep. 1322. Cost: $270/10 classes, 90+ min. each, 1 class/wk. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

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language ART & ‘FRART’: WINGSPAN STUDIO: Get creative this fall! Wingspan offers unique art and French options for all ages. Special outdoor two-day workshop, Oct. 2-3. Gorgeous locations. “FRArt,” Wingspan’s signature French immersion program, uses art, music, movement and fun. New Lunchtime Art sampler drawing, watercolors and mixed-media. Classes held outdoors, weather permitting, for COVID-19 safety. Tue., Afterschool “FRArt,” 3:30-5 p.m.; Wed., Wee Ones’ “FRArt” w/ adult, 10-11 a.m.; Lunchtime Art, noon-1:15 p.m.; S/S, Oct. 2-3, Plein Air Painting Workshop by session. Location: Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., Burlington. Info: Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@gmail.com, wingspanstudioeduc.com.

AIKIDO: Discover the dynamic, flowing martial art of aikido. Learn how to relax under pressure and how aikido cultivates core power, aerobic fitness and resiliency. Aikido techniques emphasize throws, pinning techniques and the growth of internal power. Visitors are always welcome to watch a class! Basics classes meet 5 days/wk. Membership rates incl. unlimited classes. Contact us for info about membership rates for adults, youth & families. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Benjamin Pincus, 951-8900, bpincus@burlington aikido.org, burlingtonaikido.org. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: This school was developed to communicate the importance of proper, legitimate and complete Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instruction. We cover fundamentals of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with a realistic approach to self-defense training skills in a friendly, safe and positive environment. All are welcome; no experience required. Develop confidence, strength and endurance. Julio Cesar “Foca” Fernandez Nunes was born and raised on the shores of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Earning his black belt and representing the Carlson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Team, Julio “Foca” went on to become a five-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Champion, three-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion and two-time IBJJF World JiuJitsu Champion! Julio “Foca” is the only CBJJP, USBJJF and

IBJJF-certified seventh-degree coral belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and self-defense instructor under late grand master Carlson Gracie Sr. currently teaching in the USA. Accept no Iimitations! Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 5982839, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

tai chi NEW BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASS: We practice Cheng Man-ch’ing’s “simplified” 37-posture Yang-style form. The course will be taught by Patrick Cavanaugh, a longtime student and assistant to Wolfe Lowenthal; Wolfe is a direct student of Cheng Man-ch’ing and founder of Long River Tai Chi Circle. Opportunities for learning online also available! COVID-19 vaccination is required to attend in person. Mask requirements are based on CDC recommendations, venue policy and group comfort. Starts Oct. 6, 9-10 a.m., open registration until Oct. 27. Cost: $65/mo. Location: St. Anthony’s Church (Gym), 305 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 490-6405, patrick@longriver taichi.org, longrivertaichi.org. TAI CHI CLASS IN PERSON/ ONLINE: Improve your balance, alignment, looseness and awareness. Two new beginner classes: one in person and one online. Inperson class: Information below. Online class: Thu., 5:30-6:30 p.m., starting Nov. 4. Taught by Djemila Cavanaugh of Long River Tai Chi Circle, school of Wolfe Lowenthal, direct student of Cheng Man-ching. In-person classes: COVID-19 vaccination required and mask per CDC guidelines, venue policy and group comfort. Starts Nov. 2, Tue. 7-8 p.m.; registration open until Nov. 30. Cost: $65/mo. Location: Bethany Church, 115 Main St., Montpelier. Info: Djemila Cavanaugh, 4900225, djem.translator@gmail. com, facebook.com/gemstaichi.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C02456 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On September 28, 2021, Richard and Jean Page, 122 Sledrunner Road, Shelburne, VT 05482 filed application number 4C0245-6 for a project generally described as the construction of shoreline stablization measures including the construction of a large stone retaining wall. The project is located at 122 Sledrunner Road in Shelburne, Vermont.

If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the District Coordinator as soon as possible, and by no later than October 28, 2021.

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No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before October 28, 2021, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for 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 to the address below, 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. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

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The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51—Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C1153-1B.”

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C11531B 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On September 28, 2021, University of Vermont Medical Center, Inc., 199 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05401 filed application number 4C1153-1B for a project generally described as construction of a 926 sf single story addition on the west side of the previously-approved building addition with new landscaping and bike racks. The project is located at 192 Tilley Drive in South Burlington, Vermont.

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Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 1st day of October, 2021. By: /s/Rachel Lomonaco, District Coordinator Rachel Lomonaco, District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 rachel.lomonaco@vermont.gov

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C02964A 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On September 29, 2021, Alan Palmer, 22 Kimball Avenue, South Burlington, VT 05403 filed application number 4C0296-4A for a project generally described as the construction of a 30 ft x 32 ft two-story addition to an existing commercial building on Lot 3 of the Muddy Brook Industrial Park. The project is located on 25 Palmer Court in South Burlington, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51— Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0296-4A.”

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1301-4 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On September 21, 2021, BC Community Housing, LLC, PO Box 1335, Burlington, VT 05402 and 351-375 North Avenue Home Owners Association, LLC, PO Box 1335, Burlington, VT 05402 filed application number 4C1301-4 for the following changes to the Cambrian Rise Development: (a) conversion of 3,000 sf of commercial space into 6 residential units in Building C increasing the total number of units in Building C from 125 to 131; (b) the conversion of 8,500 sf of commercial space into 13 residential units in Building B/G increasing the total number of units in Building B/G from 94 to 107; and (c) minor changes to the ground floor fenestration of Building C and Building B/G. The maximum number of residential units for the Cambrian Rise Development remains at 770. The project is located at 311-375 North Avenue in Burlington, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51— Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C1301-4.”

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No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before October 22, 2021, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for 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 to the address below, 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. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before October 26, 2021, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for 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 to the address below, 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 Jeff Olson request by an adjoining property owner or other 2337 Route 7 South, person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § Middlebury, VT 05753 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party Armand Chevrier Jr www.acrevt.com status under the Act 250 Rules. Prior to submitting Broker / Realtor 802-989-9441 If you feel that any of the District Commission a request for a hearing, please contact the district 802-309-4735 jeff@acrevt.com members listed on the attached Certificate of coordinator at the telephone number listed below Service under “For Your Information” may have a for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a the Commission must determine that substantive member should be disqualified from sitting on this issues requiring a hearing have been raised. hearing, the Commission must determine that case, please contact the District Coordinator as Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0573substantive issues been 4:32 PM HW-ACREVT100621.indd 1 10/4/21HW-Chevrier092921.indd 5:56 PM 1 requiring a hearing have 9/24/21 soon as possible, and by no later than October 22, be prepared unless the Commission holds a public 4B 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will 2021. hearing. On May, 27, 2020, Vermont Self Storage; Burlington not be prepared unless the Commission holds a Mini Warehouse Associates, LLC; Munson Way, public hearing. If you have a disability for which you need If you feel that any of the District Commission LLC; Wintersport Lane, LLC; and BMW Properties, accommodation in order to participate in this members listed on the attached Certificate of LLC filed application #4C0573-4B for a project If you feel that any of the District Commission process (including participating in a public hearing, Service under “For Your Information” may have a generally described as a boundary line adjustment members listed on the attached Certificate of if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a where 0.9 acres from 182 Wintersport Lane is Service under “For Your Information” may have a in order to allow us as much time as possible to member should be disqualified from sitting on this transferred to Lot 5 of the Munson Industrial Park conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a accommodate your needs. case, please contact the District Coordinator as and an after-the-fact approval to use Lots 5 and member should be disqualified from sitting on this soon as possible, and by no later than October 26, 6 of the Munson Industrial Park as a construction case, please contact the district coordinator as Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, 2021. staging area. The project is located on Munson Way soon as possible, no later than prior to the response the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional and Wintersport Lane in Williston, Vermont. The apdate listed above. Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and If you have a disability for which you need plication was deemed complete on September 27, adjoining property owners and other persons to the accommodation in order to participate in this Should a hearing be held on this project and you 2021 after the receipt of supplemental information. extent that they have a particularized interest that process (including participating in a public hearing, have a disability for which you are going to need may be affected by the proposed project under the if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, The District #4 Environmental Commission is accommodation, please notify us by October 20, Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be in order to allow us as much time as possible to reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 2021. allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). accommodate your needs. 51 - Minor Applications. A copy of the application Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, and proposed permit are available for review at Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 28th day of Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional the office listed below. The application and a September, 2021. the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural By: /s/Rachel Lomonaco Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. Rachel Lomonaco, District Coordinator adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering 111 West Street extent that they have a particularized interest that be affected by the proposed project under the 10 the project number “4C0573-4B”. Essex Junction, VT 05452 may be affected by the proposed project under the criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed 802-879-5658 Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Rachel.Lomonaco@vermont.gov allowed under 10 V.S.A. 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Legal Notices [CONTINUED] Colchester, 781 Blakely Road, Colchester, VT 05446 until 1:00 p.m. October 20, 2021, and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud. Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained at: Blueprints, etc., 20 Farrell Street, South Burlington, VT 05403 for the cost of reproduction for each set. The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS are also available on the Town’s website: https://www.colchestervt. gov/bids.aspx. A mandatory pre-bid conference for prospective bidders will be held at the Colchester Town Offices, Champlain Conference Room on Thursday, October 7, 2021, 11:00 a.m. at 781 Blakely Road, Colchester, VT. FORT ETHAN ALLEN MINI STORAGE: SALE Notice is hereby given that the contents of the following will be sold to the public by sealed bid. The sale is being held to collect unpaid fees, late charges an expenses of the sale. Brian Cunningham Unit 102 Jennifer and Ralph Desmarais Unit 138 Sean Philips Unit Richard Ladue Unit 123 Fred Delibac Units 109 & 135 Storage Unit sale will take place on October 15th, 2021 beginning at 10am at Fort Ethan Allen Mini Storage, 120 Hegeman Avenue, Colchester, VT 05446. HOWARD CENTER If you received services from Howard Center and would like a copy of your record, please contact Howard Center’s Health Information Department at 488-6000. In order to protect individuals’ privacy, the agency routinely destroys healthcare records after retaining them for the number of years required by law. NOTICE To Parents, teachers, employees, other personnel or their guardians and the public The Champlain Valley School District composed of Allen Brook School, Charlotte Central School, Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg Community School, Shelburne Community School, and Williston Central School hereby provide the following notice in compliance with the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) 40 CPR 763.93 [g.] [4] Requires that written notification be given that the following schools/buildings have Asbestos Management Plans for the safe control and maintenance of asbestos containing materials found in their buildings. These Management Plans are available and accessible to the public at the administrative office of each facility listed above. 10/06/21 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO BROWNFIELDS REUSE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY LIMITATION ACT PROGRAM Please take notice that KARASS PROPERTIES LLC whose mailing address is 62 Central Avenue, South Burlington, VT, 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 237-241 and 245 Riverside Ave in the City of Burlington. 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 City of Burlington 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

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NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS OF QUALIFICATIONS FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES The Town of Jericho is in the process of obtaining Statements of Qualifications from qualified architectural/engineering firms detailing the firms’ qualifications, technical expertise, management and staffing capabilities, references, and related prior experience. Required professional services will include but are not limited to preliminary engineering services, design- and constructionrelated services, preparation of bidding and contract documents, participation in the evaluation of bids received, and monitoring and inspection of construction activities to ensure compliance with plans and specifications associated for a Wastewater Feasibility Study and resulting project(s) for the Town of Jericho’s three village Centers Procurement of said services will be in accordance with elements of the procurement process in 40 U.S.C. § 1101-1104. Qualified firms/candidates interested in being considered for this project must submit three copies each of: (1) letter of interest; (2) statement of qualifications and experience of staff persons who will be involved with the project; (3) references; and (4) related prior experience. Submit the requested information to P.O Box 39, Jericho, VT 05465 and email to ksonnick@jerichovt. gov; no later than 12:00 pm on November 2, 2021, in order to receive consideration. Attention is directed to the fact that the proposed project may be undertaken with a variety of Federal and state funds including the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) and that all work will be performed in accordance with the regulations issued by such agencies and the State of Vermont pertaining thereto. The Town of Jericho shall evaluate the statements of qualifications and performance data and other material submitted by interested firms and select a minimum of three firms which, in their opinion, are best qualified to perform the desired services. Interviews with each firm selected shall be conducted, which may include discussions regarding anticipated concepts and proposed methods of approach. The Town of Jericho shall rank, in order of preference, these three professional firms deemed to be the most highly qualified to provide the services required, and shall commence scope of services and price negotiations with the highest qualified professional firm for engineering services. NOTICE OF TAX SALE TOWN OF COLCHESTER The resident and non-resident owners, lien holders and mortgagees of lands in the Town of Colchester in the County of Chittenden are hereby notified that the taxes assessed by such Town remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid on the following described lands in such Town, to wit: Property Owner: Frederick J. Fortune, III Property Address: 0 Clay Point Road Parcel ID # 16-057010-0000000 A portion of the same lands and premises conveyed to the said Frederick J. Fortune, III by Warranty Deed of Beatrice F. Wallace dated September 20, 1997 and recorded at Volume 281, Page 475 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester, Vermont. Tax Years: 2019 - 2022 Amount of delinquent taxes, interest, cost and penalties: $1,451.70 Property Owner: Frederick J. Fortune, III Property Address: 705 Clay Point Road Parcel ID # 16-058000-0000000 A portion of the same lands and premises conveyed to the said Frederick J. Fortune, III by Warranty Deed of Beatrice F. Wallace dated September 20, 1997 and recorded at Volume 281, Page 475 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester, Vermont. Tax Years: 2019 - 2022 Amount of delinquent taxes, interest, cost and penalties: $11,407.74 Property Owner: Glenda E. Beal Property Address: 316 Westward Drive

Parcel ID # 25-069003-0000000 All of the same lands and premises conveyed to the said Glenda E. Beal by Warranty Deed with life estate reserved of Gladys E. Sweet (now deceased) dated March 22, 2012 and recorded at Volume 709, Page 349 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester, Vermont. Tax Years: 2016 - 2019 Amount of delinquent taxes, interest, cost and penalties: $12,645.14 Reference may be made to said deeds for a more particular description of said lands and premises, as the same appear in the Town Clerk’s Office of the Town of Colchester. So much of such lands will be sold at public auction at the Town of Colchester, 781 Blakely Road, Colchester, Vermont 05478, on the 28th day of October, 2021 at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes with interest, costs and penalties, unless previously paid. Property owners, mortgagees, and lien holders may pay such taxes, interest, costs and penalties in full by cash or certified check made payable to the Town of Colchester. At tax sale, successful bidders must pay in full by cash or certified check. No other payments accepted. Any questions or inquiries regarding the above-referenced sale should be directed to the following address: Kristen E. Shamis, Esq. Monaghan Safar Ducham PLLC 156 Battery Street Burlington, VT 05401 kshamis@msdvt.com (802) 660-4735 Monaghan Safar Ducham PLLC, and the Town of Colchester give no opinion or certification as to the marketability of title to the above-referenced properties as held by the current owner/taxpayer. Dated at Colchester, Vermont, this 13th day of September, 2021. ____ Julie Graeter Collector of Delinquent Taxes Town of Colchester PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance 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): ZA-21-07, Height Measurements, Dormers & Eaves ZA-21-08, Act 179 Changes to Ch. 117 ZA-21-09, Updates and Corrections to Article 14 The public hearing will take place on Monday, October 25, 2021 during the Regular City Council Meeting which begins at 7:00 pm in Contois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT. Pursuant to the requirements of 24 V.S.A. §4444(b): Statement of purpose - ZA-21-07: To clarify building height measurements, when and how dormers affect building height, and defines dormers and eaves. - ZA-21-08: To incorporate recent changes to state enabling statute regarding ADU’s, existing small lots, and small multi-unit dwellings and clarify ADU lot coverage exemption. - ZA-21-09: To make a range of corrections and updates to Article 14 based on its application. Geographic areas affected: - ZA-21-07: All areas and zoning districts within the city. - ZA-21-08: All areas and zoning districts within the city. - ZA-21-09: Form Districts 5, 6, and Civic located in the downtown area of the city. List of section headings affected: - ZA-21-07: Modifies Secs. 5.2.6, Building Height Limits; and 6.3.2. (a)2, Roofs and Rooflines; and Article 13: Definitions - ZA-21-08: Modifies Secs. 5.2.1, Existing Small Lots; 5.2.3(b), Exceptions to Lot Coverage number 10; 5.4.5, Accessory Dwelling Units; 13.1.2, Definitions; and Appendix A- Use Table

- ZA-21-09: Modifies Secs. 14.1.3, Applicability; 14.3.4-C, Lot Occupation & Building Placement; 14.3.4-E, Parking, Loading & Service; 14.3.4-F, Encroachments-Required Setbacks; 14.3.4-G, Encroachments-Public right-of-way; 14.3.5-C, Lot Occupation & Building Placement; 14.3.5E, Parking, Loading & Service; 14.3.5-F, Encroachments-Required Setbacks; and 14.3.5-G, Encroachments-Public right-of-way; creates Sec. 14.3.6.-I Water-Dependent; modifies Sec. 14.4.13, Urban Design Standards; Table 14.4.13-A, Street Activation-Primary and Secondary Facade; Secs. 14.5.8-C, Standards; 14.5.8-D, Miscellaneous; 14.5.15-D, Miscellaneous; 14.6.4, Building Height; 14.6.7, Parking and Circulation; 14.6.8, Site and Landscape Standards; 14.7.1, Applying for a Zoning Permit: Submission Requirements and Review; 14.7.2, Non-Conformities; 14.7.3, Variation from the Form: Administrative Relief, DRB Alternative Compliance, and Variances; 14.8, Glossary; and Article 14- Map 3 Shopfront Required. 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/ Proposed-Amendments-Before-the-City-Council. PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Burlington Downtown Tax Increment Financing District: Substantial Change Request Pursuant to the requirements of 24 V.S.A. §1901(2) (B), notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Burlington City Council to hear comments concerning a resolution for the City Council to approve the submission of a substantial change request to the Vermont Economic Progress Council (VEPC) relative to the City of Burlington’s approved tax increment district plan and approved financing plan for the Burlington Downtown Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District. The purpose of the City’s Substantial Change request to VEPC is to amend and update the above-referenced approved tax increment district plan and approved financing plan to accurately reflect changes made to scope, budgets, timelines and debt financing relative to the City’s previously VEPC approved Great Streets project for the Main Street blocks from South Union Street to Pine Street, and for an amendment of the project to include two additional Main Street blocks from Pine Street to Battery Street to be approved by VEPC as parts of the tax increment and financing plans referenced above in lieu of two previously approved South Winooski Avenue blocks which the City in not prepared to include in the project at this time. In addition, the City seeks VEPC approval to include public improvements that are planned along Bank Street from and including the intersection of Bank and St. Paul Street to and including the intersection of Bank and Pine Street, both of which support the Downtown TIF District. If approved, the substantial change request will include a letter indicating that the City Council has considered and approved the substantial change, as well as a narrative explanation with supporting documentation of the substantial change that fully explains the reasons for such a change. The public hearing will take place on Monday, October 25, 2021 during the Regular City Council Meeting which begins at 7:00 pm in Contois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT. For more information about the above-referenced Burlington Downtown TIF District Substantial Change request, please contact Richard Haesler at rhaesler@burlingtonvt.gov PUBLIC HEARING-COLCHESTER DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD Pursuant to Title 24 VSA, Chapter 117, the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on October 27, 2021 at 7:00pm to hear the following requests under the Development Regulations. Meeting is open to the public and will be held both in-person at 781 Blakely Road and via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88232429965 a. MONGEON BAY PROPERTIES, LLC – Appeal of Decision of Zoning Administrator regarding Permit #28363. Application for conversion to year-round occupancy was deemed incomplete and

subsequently denied. Applicant includes multiple and unique addresses on the application. The applications are available for review at the Municipal Offices located on 781 Blakely Road or online at colchestervt.gov. October 6, 2021 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 21-PR-04035 In re ESTATE of Estate of Martin J. Morrissey

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Martin J. Morrissey, late of Colchester. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

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Date: 9/27/21 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ William E. Drislane, Esq. Executor/Administrator: William E. Drislane, Esq., PO Box 1080, Williston, VT 05495 bill@drislanelaw. com 802-860-7266 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 10/06/21 Chittenden Probate Court PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402-0511 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 21-PR-04184 In re ESTATE of ROGER EASTMAN NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the Creditors of: Roger Eastman late of Milton I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Dated: September 30, 2021 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Launa L. Slater Executor/Administrator: Russell Wright c/o Launa L. Slater, Wiener & Slater, PLLC 110 Main Street, Suite 4F, Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 863-1836 launa@wsvtlaw.com

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Date: 9/29/21

Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 10/06/21

Executor/Administrator: Janipher Ann Kane c/o Paul R. Morwood, Esq. 333 Dorset St., South Burlington, VT 05403 802-862-2135 morwood. paul@gmail.com

Chittenden Probate Court PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402-0511

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION ORLEANS UNIT DOCKET NO.: 21-PR-04202 In re ESTATE of Estate of Kenneth Mayo

To the Creditors of: Joyce Wittemeyer late of Burlington. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Dated: September 28, 2021 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Launa L. Slater

Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: P.O. Box 511, Burlington, VT 05402-0511

Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 10/6/21

To the creditors of Ilene Parker, late of Williston, VT. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Date: Friday, October 1, 2021 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Douglas Parker

Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 10/06/21 Chittenden Probate Unit PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402-0511

Executor/Administrator: Wendy Robert c/o Launa L. Slater, Wiener & Slater, PLLC 110 Main Street, Suite 4F, Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 863-1836 launa@ wsvtlaw.com

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Janipher Ann Kane

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 21-PR-05367 In re ESTATE of JOYCE WITTEMEYER

Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 10/6/21

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 21-PR-04905 In re ESTATE of Ilene Parker

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Executor/Administrator: Douglas Parker, 403 Willow Brook Lane, St George, Vermont 05495 douglascparker@gmail.com 802-233-6328

Name of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court Address of Probate Court: P.O. Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402-0511 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION ORLEANS UNIT DOCKET NO.: 21-PR-04161 In re ESTATE of Estate of Elizabeth (Betsy) E. Isham NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Elizabeth (Betsy) E. Isham, late of Burlington, VT. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Kenneth Mayo, late of Milton, VT. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Date: 9/30/21 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Deborah A. Corey Executor/Administrator: Deborah A. Corey, 5070 Orchard Park Drive, Roanoke, VA 24019 802-233-6834 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 10/06/21 Vermont Superior Court, Probate Division PO Box 511, 175 Main Street Burlington, VT 05402-0511 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT FRANKLIN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 2135-19 FRCV SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC

captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Bert W. Honaker and Linda M. Honaker fka Linda M. Howard to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc., dated February 12, 2007 and recorded in Book 109 Page 477 of the land records of the Town of Enosburg, of which mortgage the U.S. Bank National Association as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust 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 Quicken Loans Inc.to Bank of America, N.A., as successor by merger to BAC Home Loan Servicing, LP f/k/a Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP dated August 23, 2012 and recorded in Book 121 Page 647; (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Bank of America, N.A., as successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP to Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC dated August 24, 2017 and recorded in Book 133 Page 133; and (3) An Assignment of Mortgage from Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC to U.S. Bank National Association as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust dated August 6, 2020 and recorded in Book 139 Page 455 all of the land records of the Town of Enosburg for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 908 Bogue Road, Enosburg Falls, Vermont on October 20, 2021 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: A parcel of land containing 10.10 acres, more or less, with all buildings and improvements located thereon, situated on the Southerly side of Town Highway No. 38, also known as Bogue Road, being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point on the Southerly side of Bogue Road, which marks the intersection of the Easterly sideline of a 60 foot wide roadway approximately centered on an existing log road, and the Southerly sideline of said Bogue Road; thence proceeding South 43 degrees, 18 minutes, 50 seconds East in and along the apparent sideline of said highway a distance of 120.26 feet, more or less, to a point; thence continuing South 37 degrees, 1 minute, 20 seconds East a distance of 164.52 feet, more or less, to a point; thence continuing South 21 degrees, 34 minutes, 20 seconds East a distance of 53.89 feet, more or less, to a point; thence continuing South 4 degrees, 32 minutes, 24 seconds East a distance of 36.47 feet, more or less, to a point, all of said distances being along the apparent sideline of said highway; thence turning to the right and proceeding South 31 degrees, 49 minutes, 40 seconds West a distance of 1,344.59 feet, more or less, to a point; thence turning to the left and proceeding South 36 degrees, 35 minutes, 54 seconds East a distance of 657.84 feet, more or less, to a point; thence turning to the right and proceeding North 50 degrees, 37 minutes, 34 seconds West, a distance of 806.08 feet more or less, to a point; thence turning to the left and proceeding North 36 degrees, 13 minutes, 35 seconds East a distance of 150.00 feet, more or less, to a point; thence continuing North 23 degrees, 41 minutes, 36 seconds East, a distance of 1,133.02 feet, more or less, to a point along the Easterly sideline of said 60 foot wide private roadway on the following courses and distances to the point or place of beginning; North 82 degrees, 50 minutes, 29 seconds East a distance of 113.69 feet, more or less; North 57 degrees, 2 minutes, 14 seconds East a distance of 63.16 feet, more or less, North 27 degrees, 28 minutes, 3 seconds East a distance of 67.72 feet, more or less; North 15 degrees, 57 minutes, 48 seconds East a distance of 66.53 feet, more or less; North 2 degrees, 48 minutes, 16 seconds West a distance of 62.42 feet, more or less.

Reference is made to a plan entitled “Sudivision Map, Laurent and Lillian Rainville” dated march 2, 1989, prepared by Steven M. Brooks, recorded in Map Volume 1 at page 106 of the Enosburg Land Records, the above described land being tot 1 thereon.

BERT W. HONAKER AND LINDA M. HONAKER FKA LINDA M. HOWARD

Commonly known as: 906 Bogue Road, Enosburg Fails, VT 05450

OCCUPANTS OF: 908 Bogue Road, Enosburg Falls VT

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. In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered March 5, 2020, in the above

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and

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Legal Notices [CONTINUED] 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”. 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 : September 15, 2021 By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

less, with all buildings and improvements thereon lying westerly of, and adjacent to, Vermont Route 108 and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an iron pin lying on the westerly edge of the right of way of Vermont Route 108 which iron pin designates the southeasterly corner of the parcel herein conveyed; thence on the following courses and distances: N 75 37’ 15” W 905.91 feet to an iron pin; N 12 53’ 10” E 160.86 feet to an iron pin; N 81 25’ 30” E 469.81 feet to an iron pin; S 2 41’ 50” E 119.02 feet to an iron pin; N 83 28’ 35” E 328.49 feet to an iron pin; S 6 57’ 00” E 372.99 feet to an iron pin and the place of beginning. Said parcel is bounded on the northerly by lands of Pothier; on the westerly and southerly by lands of Jackson; and on the easterly by Vermont Route 108. Also conveying, but by quitclaim covenants only, all interest of the grantor in lands lying easterly of the aforesaid parcel and the centerline of Vermont Route 108. Reference is also made to a survey map prepared by William Willis dated October 23, 1995 No. 95-381 recorded in Map Book 3, Page 3 of the Enosburgh Land Records.

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT FRANKLIN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 953-19 FRCV U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

This instrument shall also be constructed as a Bill of Sale and is evidence of delivery of the following items of person property, to wit: Stove top, ovens, refrigerator and dishwasher.

The grantor reserves possession of the aforesaid real estate and personal property until December 1, 1997.

CHRISTOPHER M. HARRINGTON OCCUPANTS OF: 659 West Berkshire Road, Enosburg Falls 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 September 13, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Christopher M. Harrington to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Shelter Mortgage Company, L.L.C., dated January 7, 2011 and recorded in Book 118 Page 572 of the land records of the Town of Enosburg, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Shelter Mortgage Company, L.L.C. to U.S. Bank National Association dated January 20, 2017 and recorded in Book 131 Page 616 of the land records of the Town of Enosburg, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 659 West Berkshire Road, Enosburg Falls, Vermont on October 26, 2021 at 12:00PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Christopher M. Harrington by Warranty Deed of Mark Stanley and Michelle Stanley of even date and to be recorded prior to the recording of this instrument in the Town of Enosburgh Land Records. Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Mark W. Stanley and Michelle Stanley by Warranty Deed of Marilyn P. Marshall dated November 24, 1997 and recorded December 1, 1997 in Book 81, Pages 377-378 of the Enosburg Land Records. Being a portion of the lands and premises conveyed to William R. Marshall (now deceased) and Marilyn P. Marshall by Quit Claim Deed of Douglas Devries dated October 18, 1979 and recorded in Book 59, Pages 457 of the Enosburg Land Records. A parcel of land consisting of 5.31 acres, more or

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Robert Barnes enters into the execution of this deed so as to real estate any and all interest he has in the above describe lands and premises. Reference is made to the aforementioned deed, and to the record thereof, and to the deeds and records therein referred to in further aid of the description. Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description. Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. DATED : August 16, 2021 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: 151-3-19 WNCV ROCKET MORTGAGE LLC v. CHRISTOPHER T. GOKEY OCCUPANTS OF: 129 Partridge Road, Barre VT

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered December 10, 2019 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Christopher T. Gokey to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc., dated September 8, 2016 and recorded in Book 289 Page 188 of the land records of the Town of Barre, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc to Quicken Loans, Inc. n/k/a Rocket Mortgage, LLC dated January 8, 2018 and recorded in Book 297 Page 620 of the land records of the Town of Barre for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 129 Partridge Road, Barre, Vermont on October 21, 2021 at 11:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Land Situated in the Town of Barre in the County of Washington in the State of VT BEING ALL OF THE LANDS AND PREMISES CONVEYED TO CHRISTOPHER T. GOKEY AND SARAH CHURCHILL BY WARRANTY DEED OF STEPHEN P. MORRISON DATED AUGUST 24, 2006, AND RECORDED ON AUGUST 25, 2006 AT BOOK 219, PAGES 997-998 OF THE BARRE TOWN LAND RECORDS. BEING PART OF THE LANDS AND PREMISES CONVEYED TO STEPHEN P. MORRISON BY WARRANTY DEED OF LORRAINE G. GABORIAULT DATED DECEMBER 15, 2003, AND RECORDED ON DECEMBER 17, 2003, AT BOOK 195, PAGES 208-209 OF THE BARRE TOWN LAND RECORDS. MEANING AND INTENDING TO CONVEY LOT 1, CONSISTING OF 3.54 ACRES, AS SHOWN ON A PLAN ENTITLED• ‘SUBDIVISION SURVEY IN BARRE, VERMONT FOR STEPHEN P. MORRISON’ PREPARED BY AMERICAN SURVEY COMPANY, DATED JULY 18, 2005, AND FILED AT SLIDE #376 IN THE BARRE TOWN CLERKS OFFICE. SAID LANDS AND PREMISES ARE CONVEYED SUBJECT TO WASTEWATER PERMIT WW-S-3822 DATED JULY 24, 2006, AND RECORDED AT BOOK 219, PAGE 173 OF THE BARRE TOWN IAND RECORDS. THE PROPERTY ADDRESS AND TAX PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER LISTED ARE PROVIDED SOLELY FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES. Being the same property conveyed to Christopher T. Gokey and Sarah Churchill, as joint tenants with the right of survivorship, by deed dated August 24, 2006 of record in Deed Book 219, Page 997, in the County Clerk’s Office.

270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 SURPLUS VEHICLES FOR SALE The Town of Colchester and Colchester School District are selling the following surplus vehicles and equipment by sealed bid: Vehicle #1 – 2011 Chevy Malibu, 90,287 miles, VIN 1G1ZB5E10BF115058, will not pass Vermont State Inspection as is Vehicle #2 – 2016 Ford Explorer, 91,441 miles, VIN 1FM5K8AR6GGC73534, all wheel drive Vehicle #3 – 2016 Ford Explorer, 79,220 miles, VIN 1FM5K8AR8GGC73535, all wheel drive Vehicle #4 – 2010 Chevy Tahoe, 127,081 miles, VIN 1GNMCAE04AR222598, rear wheel drive, will not pass Vermont State Inspection as is Vehicle #5 – 2009 Chevy Mini-Bus, 88,202 miles, VIN 1GBJG316X91152335, diesel, will not pass Vermont State Inspection as is All vehicles may be inspected at 711 Blakely Road, Colchester, VT 05446 by appointment. Call (802) 264-5624 for more information and to set up an appointment to view any of the vehicles. All bidders must use the provided bid form(s). Bids must be submitted sealed no later than 10/28/21 by 1:00 PM at which time the bids will be opened. All vehicles and equipment are sold AS IS, WHERE IS, NO WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. Items must be paid for in full and picked up no later than 11/12/21. To see full Bid documents and pictures of the vehicles please visit: https://www.colchestervt.gov/bids.aspx TOWN OF RICHMOND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD AGENDA OCTOBER 13, 2021 7:00 PM Richmond Town Center Meeting Room, 3rd Floor – 203 Bridge Street, Richmond, VT Meeting may also be joined online or by phone Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8 1115438175?pwd=K1JOVjhRNWJlNkVOSTBMWnZW bitxZz09 Meeting ID: 811 1543 8175 Passcode: 376237 Call-in: +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) Application materials may be viewed at http://www. richmondvt.gov/boards-minutes/developmentreviewboard/ one week before meeting. Please call 802-434-2430 if you have any questions. Public Hearings:

Commonly known as: 129 Partridge Rd , Barre, VI 05641-8939

CU 2021-04 Nakatomi Plaza/The Big Spruce Parcel ID#BR039

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Applicant seeks after the fact approval for an outdoor seating area that was built beyond what was approved by DRB application 2019-126. As per Section 5.3.4 DRB approval required for any changes or modifications to approved permits. Further, property is currently under an Order to Remedy and section 8.2.2(e) of the Richmond Zoning Regulations apply. Village Downtown (VD) Zoning District at 39 Bridge Street, Parcel ID BR0039.

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”. 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 : September 15, 2021 By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC

SPR 2021-04 Noyes Properties, LLC Parcel ID# RR0160/RR0198 Applicant requests Site Plan Review for a proposed new 18,750 sq. ft. Richmond Market with associated parking and infrastructure on 2 parcels of 0.88 and 1.65 acres respectively; parcels to be combined. Site Plan Review required as per sections 3.5 and 5.5 of the Town of Richmond Zoning Regulations. Village Commercial District (VC) 160 and 198 Railroad Street, Parcel ID# RR0160 and RR0198. Other Business: Approve minutes from September 8, 2021 DRB meeting. ZAO Update Other Business Adjourn

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PACKAGING LINE OPERATOR (F/T position): Round out our Packaging Team by kegging and canning fresh beer. Responsible for quality, cleaning, and sanitizing in a fastpaced environment. FT hours varying throughout M-F.

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Family Support Programs Coordinator

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Prevent Child Abuse Vermont is seeking a Family Support Programs Coordinator for Washington, Orange, and Windsor Counties to develop and oversee parent education and support groups. Based in Montpelier, the position involves some travel around the central region of Vermont. Duties include recruitment, training and supervision of volunteers, and collaborating with community partners.

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Offering good compensation, respectful coworkers, and great food! We are hiring for multiple full time and part time positions -- ample opportunities for growth in a positive work environment.

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HEAD BARTENDER

Job Purpose: To create outstanding signature cocktails while utilizing fresh, local and seasonal ingredients. Provide and model excellent customer service, while responsibly pouring and serving drinks to our guests.

Please stop in for an application or email Joe at joe@americanflatbread.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Full Time

Line Cook

Part & Full Time Positions Available

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AM & PM, Part & Full Time

Knowledge of child development and child abuse, love of parent education/support, and reliable transportation required. Bachelor’s degree in human services or related field required. Please email cover letter, resume and 3 references, along with the application to pcavt@pcavt.org or mail to: Prevent Child Abuse Vermont FSPC Search - PO Box 829 Montpelier, VT 05601-0829 For application visit: www.pcavt.org EOE

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Job Purpose: to run the prep shift efficiently and thoughtfully while upholding excellent standards for our food and kitchen.

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HIRING!

10/1/21 11:50 AM

Competitive Pay & Full Benefits! Email your resume to work@hotelvt.com

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Legislative Session Associate Necrason Group, necrasongroup.com, a Montpelier-based government and public relations firm, is looking for 1 to 3 motivated individuals to assist us during the upcoming legislative session. This is a temporary position (January – May 2022). Tasks include tracking bills, attending committee hearings, communicating with clients, researching legislative issues, attending staff meetings and other client-related meetings. This position offers competitive pay and extensive Vermont networking opportunities. Candidates must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, interest in policy and politics, ability to multitask and a sense of humor. Candidates must be available Tuesday through Friday (some Monday hours available), January through May 2022, some evening hours will be required. Some remote work possible, some time in Montpelier required. Send letter of interest and resume to Jessica Oski, oski@necrasongroup.com.

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RESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR SAFE HAVEN Join a team of dynamic professionals working at our homeless shelter. Safe Haven is a single-staffed, transitional housing program for adults with mental health challenges. Comprehensive benefits package with a generous time off plan. Full time and part time available. Apply at howardcentercareers.org. Howard Center is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. The agency's culture and service delivery is strengthened by the diversity of its workforce. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. Visit "About Us" to review Howard Center's EOE policy.

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THE SCHOOLHOUSE LEARNING CENTER IS HIRING!

PARAEDUCATORS Colchester School District is seeking Paraeducators in both our elementary and secondary schools. Paraeducators support students and teachers working one-toone and/or with small groups of students with special needs. Responsibilities will vary depending on the assignment, but typically include keeping eyes on supervision during class, transition times, and lunch; offering students redirection as needed; data collection; consulting communications with teachers and case managers; and one-to-one student support and/or small group support. Colchester School District educates approximately 2,200 students across five schools. CSD offers employees a generous benefits package including a competitive wage and an excellent BCBS healthcare plan. Benefits also include dental insurance, long-term disability, retirement plan, life insurance, and tuition reimbursement. Candidates must have a high school degree/GED. Apply at: SchoolSpring.com

PUBLIC PROGRAMS MANAGER

CARPENTERS AND PAINTERS Saint Michael’s College is seeking applications from dependable, efficient, and motivated carpenters/painters for full-time work. Successful candidates will join a team which maintains all of the College’s buildings including dormitories, academic, and ancillary buildings. Candidates should have carpentry and painting skills, a valid driver’s license and the ability to pass a driving record check, and have experience in related work for preferably 3-5 years. Preferred candidates will also have locksmith skills. For a complete job description, benefits information, and to apply online, click here: https://bit.ly/SMCvtCarpPaint

Elementary Job #3641428, Secondary Job #3641431

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Part-Time Pre-K and Flex Teacher in Nature-Based and Play-Based Program in South Burlington, VT.

For a full job posting, please visit echovt.org/jobs.

Work for an organization that makes a difference and offers meaningful work while providing care to seniors in the community

10/1/21 4:58 PM

ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Burlington

ECHO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ECHO requires all of our employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

Now hiring CAREGivers and Key Players

Become part of the Home Instead team! CAREGivers no experience necessary. Key Players previous experience preferred. Pays up to $20/hour.

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ECHO seeks an experienced STEM educator to serve as our Public Programs Manager. This position coordinates a team of staff, interns, and volunteers in the development and delivery of STEM learning experiences for museum day guests, including daily design challenges in our Engineer It program space, walk-up natural history activities, and seasonal festivals and theme days. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic STEM educator skilled in engaging early learners, youths, and adults; a detail-oriented project and events coordinator; an effective and supportive manager of staff and volunteers; and a skilled developer and builder of hands-on STEM programming.

To apply: jobso.id/e5pw

Let’s get to know each other. Military friendly employer.

FULL-TIME ELECTRICIAN Saint Michael’s College is seeking applications for a fulltime Electrician. Applicants should be flexible, dependable, and motivated. Applicants should have a Journeymen’s level Vermont State Electrical License, be able to pass a driving record check, and have experience in a maintenance environment for preferably 2-4 years. Preferred applicants will also be Fire Alarm certified with the state of Vermont.

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

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Summit Properties seeks an Accountant to join our accounting team. The position will be 32-40 hours per week, depending upon needs and workload. Applicant will take on a variety of accounting work, with a large focus on accounts payable functions, and general accounting support. Applicant will need to have accounting background, high attention to detail and organization, strong work ethic, tech-savvy, and be reliable. Effective communication with the team and the rest of our Summit staff is necessary. Candidate will need to work regularly out of our main office in South Burlington, VT. Salary is commensurate with experience. BIPOC and LGBTQ applicants are encouraged to apply. WHAT WE OFFER: • Generous Paid Time Off policy • IRA with employer match • Employer-paid disability/life ins. • Pay: $20.00 - $25.00 per hour

• Significant contribution to health insurance plan • Dental & Vision plans payable with payroll deduction

Send resumes to: sgreer@summitpmg.com

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• Committee Assistants The Legislative support offices are currently hiring for several roles. The nonpartisan offices are an interesting, challenging, and exciting place to work. You will be part of a highly professional and collegial team that is proud of, and enthusiastic about, the mission of the state legislature. To apply, please go to 'Career Opportunities' at

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Human Resources Director

Bread Loaf Corporation, Vermont’s integrated company of architects, planners and builders is looking for an experienced Human Resources Director. The successful candidate will be responsible for the recruiting, hiring and onboarding of employees. He or she will act as the voice and keeper of the company culture through a constant connection with staff.

HABITAT RESTORE MANAGER SUPPORTED HOUSING YOUTH COACH

There are over 800 Habitat ReStores in the United States, and the Habitat ReStore in Williston is one of the most successful. Come lead our team into the next phase of extraordinary growth! Perks of the job? You’ll wake up every morning and think: • I have new opportunities in front of me • My work makes an impact on my community • I can try out my new ideas

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WARMING SHELTER STAFF Temporary Full & Part Time Awake Positions: • Full Time Evening, Monday–Friday 5:00 pm–1:00 am

• My creativity and efforts are valued • My management skills are appreciated • Today won’t be boring

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Bread Loaf offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

For more information about the company, visit REGISTER NOW

our website at www.breadloaf.com. Interested candidates, please send your resume to ATsmclaughlin@breadloaf.com. WWW.CCV.EDU OR AT THE CCV LOCATION NEAREST YOU

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https://bit.ly/3yvfT5S • Part Time Evenings, Saturday & Sunday 5:00 pm and 1:00 am

Join the team that builds homes, community, and hope in Vermont!

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We’re looking for a Development Director who can connect us to resources and lead us into the next phase of extraordinary growth. The ideal candidate will be an outgoing relationshipbuilder and responsible for all partnerships and fundraising related to the organization. To view a full position description, visit vermonthabitat.org/employment To apply, submit a cover letter and resume to David Mullin at dmullin@vermonthabitat.org.

ASSISTANT REGISTRAR

Architects Planners Builders

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ACADEMIC CENTER LOCATION FLEXIBLE

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

• Part Time Overnight, Saturday & Sunday 12:00 am–8:00 am

COMMERCIAL PLUMBERS ELECTRICIANS MILLWRIGHTS

• ensure that the company’s procedures comply with employment regulations • oversee the enrollment in and administration of benefits, including health/ dental, HRA/FSA accounts, 401(k) and other internal benefit plans • provide staff with opportunities for personal and professional growth • be responsible for worker’s compensation claims and OSHA reporting

Proceeds from the Habitat ReStore help build affordable homes locally. If you want to get involved and help change lives in Vermont, we want to hear from you. E-mail dmullin@vermonthabitat.org with what you’ve been up to the past few years, and why you’re a good fit for the position.

• Full Time Overnight, Monday– Friday 12:00 am–8:00 am

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The Director of HR will:

We are looking for a dynamic Assistant Registrar to assist with all facets of managing central student records and other Registrar’s Office functions. Responsibilities include the certification of enrollment for military connected students with the Veteran’s Administration, processing of graduates, and oversight of the Academic Standing process. The Assistant Registrar will work closely with a wide range of CCV staff, with particular focus on providing registrar services to a variety of offices. Bachelor’s Degree and two or more years of relevant experience or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills have been REGISTER NOW acquired View the full posting and apply at: AT WWW.CCV.EDU OR ccv.edu/about/employment/ AT THE CCV LOCATION NEAREST YOU

INDUSTRIAL FOUR is a local company that specializes in 4t-GreenMtnHabitatReStore092921.indd 1 9/24/214t-CCVasstREG092921.indd 2:45 PM 1 9/22/21 assisting VT manufacturing companies, large and small, New Frameworks, a worker-owned with total facility solutions, ACADEMIC CENTER FLEXIBLE cooperative design and construction including packaging lines for coffee and ice cream, mixers company based in northern Vermont, The Community College of Vermont (CCV) is looking for a dynamic for chocolate production, is hiring a full time Business Manager! and engaging individual to join CCV as a part-time Coordinator installation of raw material We are a busy, fun, egalitarian-yetof Career Services (20 hours per week). The Coordinator of tanks and silos, and racking for products made. Our team structured, creative, kind, and mission-driven group of Career Services will work with the Career Services team in the of specialty trades work with implementation of a high-quality career services program for people working together towards the goal of developing electrical control panels, students, faculty, and staff informed by nationally recognized ecological and social climate justice and regeneration safety lighting and equipment best practices such as those outlined by The National Career practices in the building and design trades. controls, installation of Development Association. Services are provided using an online, mechanical lines to equipment Our ideal candidate has 5+ yrs experience in business virtual model. The fast-paced duties handled in this position require and safety stations, and management, familiarity with the construction industry, is flexibility, strong computer skills, solid decision-making abilities, installation/relocation of all a great multi-tasker, and can work independently. This key a positive attitude, and the ability to support a wide spectrum of the packaging lines, racking position in our management team will be responsible for systems, and specialty consumer needs. The position is 4 hours per day, Mon-Fri. services that our customers financial reporting, HR, insurance, and marketing support. Master’s degree required, plus 3-5 years of relevant administrative may need. You are the glue that holds the company together.

Coordinator of Career Services

BUSINESS MANAGER

Send resumes to: sturcotte@industrialfour.com

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or career services experience preferred.

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Tradespeople Wanted!

PRODUCTION MAKERS HIRING EXPERIENCED CARPENTERS & HANDYPEOPLE

Conant Metal & Light is hiring production makers. You must be a creative problem-solver, team player, good with your hands and capable of mastering a broad array of processes. Please visit our website: conantmetalandlight.com/employment for more information or send a resume detailing your interest, experience, and skills to jolene@conantmetalandlight.com.

Want to build or maintain beautiful custom homes in a cooperative workplace while receiving great pay and benefits? Red House Building is looking to expand our team of craftspeople with skilled carpenters and handypeople for both our general home building crew as well as our small projects/maintenance team. Our ideal candidate would have at least 3-5 years of building experience and possess the following qualities: great communication and sense of teamwork, 2h-ConantMetal&Light100621.indd 1 SPECIAL EDUCATION professionalism, attention to detail, and strong organizational skills. Hourly wage will depend upon applicant’s skill level/experience. Generous benefits package offered, including healthcare, retirement, profit-sharing, tool account, vacation, holidays, paid professional development, and more. Red House is a worker-owned company that prides itself on quality craftsmanship and lasting client relationships through the care of the homes we build.

Learn more about our work at RedHouseBuilding.com. Please send resumes to Jeremy@redhousebuilding.com.

Hiring Now!

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Apply in person 210 East Main Street, Richmond, VT

HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR

The special educator is responsible for ensuring that the individual educational plans are provided to eligible students and to other students as appropriate. The special education teacher is both an instructional and consulting teacher who provides support service to students and teachers as academic/social needs arise. SchoolSpring.com Job #3658153

9/13/21

JOB TRAINING. WELL DONE. Join the Community Kitchen Academy! Are you interested in a career working within the food service industry? At Community Kitchen Academy (CKA) you’ll learn from professional chefs in modern commercial kitchens and graduate with the skills and knowledge to build a career in food service, food systems and other related fields. Throughout the seven-week course, you’ll develop and apply new skills by preparing food that would otherwise be wasted from grocery stores, restaurants, and farms. The food you cook is then distributed through food shelves and meal sites throughout the community.

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CKA is a program of the Vermont Foodbank, operated in partnership with Capstone Community Action in Barre and Feeding Chittenden in Burlington. Next sessions start November 1st.

COMMUNITY SUPPORT

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Begin a career, don’t start a job. Spend your time doing work that makes a real difference. Are you compassionate, kind, resilient, and adaptable? Specialized Community Care is seeking unique individuals who will act as mentors, coaches, and friends to provide support for adults in Addison, Rutland, Franklin, and Chittenden Counties with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. This is a fun and rewarding career spent “Off the Couch.” We provide extensive training, support, professional growth and advancement opportunities in a family work environment. We offer pay increases after a probationary period and further advancement and pay for self-paced skill building. We want to hire your values and train the skills that will help make you successful. Let’s talk!

Please contact us at 802-388-6388 Web: www.sccvt.org Email: humanresources@sccvt.org

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9/24/21

Executive Assistant to the President Join the Vermont Land Trust as our Executive Assistant to the President. We are seeking a dynamic and resourceful administrator who can: • Help to strengthen relationships on behalf of the President and the Vermont Land Trust using excellent communication skills • Manage the organization and prioritization of the President’s day-to-day work • Anticipate needs and support Leadership in a fast-paced, missiondriven organization Apply today at vlt.org/employment. The position will remain open until October 15. The starting salary for this position is $50,000. The Vermont Land Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We honor and invite people of all backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.

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City of South Burlington is looking for a skilled Equipment Operator to do manual work in the operation of public works equipment for all highway division projects. This involves the maintenance of 4:02 PM city streets, sewers, parks and other city property. For further information and job description please use our website: southburlingtonvt.gov. To apply, please send cover letter and resume and references to Jaimie Held, Human Resource Manager at jheld@sburl.com

APPLY ONLINE: vtfoodbank.org/cka.

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TEACHER

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Immediate openings Full-time and flexible part-time schedules Days, early evenings, & weekend shifts

Do you have a positive attitude and work well with a team? Bread Loaf is looking for tradespeople of all levels to work on commercial projects in Middlebury, White River Junction, St. Johnsbury and Rutland, Vermont. Health and dental insurance, 401K, paid vacations and holidays. Email your resume to rahern@breadloaf.com. Learn more about us at www.breadloaf.com.

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EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Join the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont as an Executive Assistant to the Bishop of the Diocese. The Diocese is seeking a person with strong communication skills, excellent time management 11:24 AM skills, and trustworthiness. Work on beautiful Rock Point. Starting salary is $50,000. The Bishop’s Executive Assistant would normally attain the required knowledge, skills and attributes through completion of an Associate’s degree in Business Management, or an equivalent post-secondary degree, and a minimum of three years working in a small office environment or a combination of education and equivalent work experience in an office setting. A successful applicant should be proficient in the use of Microsoft Suite, FilemakerPro, and Apple products. Send resumes to pvandegraaf@diovermont.org.

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Sign-On Bonus up to $2,000! Join The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington as a Food Service Worker II (full time and part time), Line Chef, Nutrition Care Representative, or Prep Cook. We are now offering sign on bonuses up to $2,000 for qualified candidates! Multiple opportunities are available. Apply: uvmhealth.org/medcenter/ health-careers/job-postings

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If interested, please e-mail resume to dfinnigan@hallkeen.com.

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Now offering employment bonuses up to $1,000 for select roles! The starting pay rate is now $15 an hour!

Champlain Valley Union H.S. has an immediate opening for two second shift Untitled-1 custodians. • School year hours are 3:00pm - 11:30pm • Summer hours are 8:00am - 4:30pm Full time position with excellent benefits. Apply online to schoolspring.com. Job# 3686845. Contact Tom Mongeon at tmongeon@cvsdvt.org with any questions. CVSD is an equal opportunity employer. Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), women, and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Qualified employees receive comprehensive benefits packages, including medical, dental, retirement and paid time off.

To learn more and apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/3m7oS98 Porter Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Love preparing and serving good food? Hunger Mountain Co-op offers food service jobs with a difference. We work toward a shared cooperative mission while preparing high-quality food using local, natural, and organic ingredients. Our co-op also offers:

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Property Management Company looking for an articulate, energetic people-person to join their team part-time. Some tasks included in position are conducting property tours, communicating with prospective renters, processing applications, providing extraordinary customer service, scheduling appointments, taking the lead on the marketing efforts and community outreach, planning resident events and administrative tasks. Must be able to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Strong sales aptitude and computer proficiency is required.

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The Vermont Judiciary seeks to fill an accountant position in Montpelier. This position works at a professional level involving financial management, fund accounting, and internal auditing and reconciliation activities within the Vermont Judiciary. The principal function is the processing and management of state funds. High School Degree and 2 years of accounting experience or college work required. Starting pay at $19.42. Position includes 12 days of vacation & sick leave per year, 12 holidays and excellent health and retirement benefits.

• Good pay and a gain share program • Set schedule with no late nights • Generous paid time off, including seven major holidays • Excellent employee benefits, which include 100% coverage of the health insurance premiums for full-time employees • 20% discount on Co-op purchases Take a look at our current openings and consider bringing your talents here. hungermountain.coop/employment Hunger Mountain Co-op is an equal opportunity employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities, veterans, and members of the LGBTQ+ community are encouraged to apply. Hourly employees are represented by UE Local 255.

For a more detailed description and how to apply see vermontjudiciary.org/ employment-opportunities/staff-openings. EOE

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OCTOBER 6-13, 2021

Vermont Post Offices are hiring. City Carrier Assistants (CCA) $18.51 / Rural Carrier Assistants (RCA) $ 19.06 Vermont Post Offices are hiring. Postal Support Clerk (PSE) $18.69 / Mail Handler Assistants (MHA) $16.87 City Carrier Assistants (CCA) $18.51 / Rural Carrier Assistants (RCA) $ 19.06 These are our entry level starting positions. Part-time only job is the Postal Support Clerk (PSE) $18.69 / Mail Handler Assistants (MHA) $16.87 Assistant Rural Carrier (ARC) $19.06 for Sunday & Holiday delivery. These are our entry level starting positions. Part-time only job is the Assistant Rural Carrier (ARC) $19.06 for Sunday & Holiday delivery.

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GENERAL STORE OPERATOR East Calais Community Trust is seeking a Store Operator for the East Calais General Store. 4520 VT ROUTE 14, EAST CALAIS, VERMONT Are you looking to become a vital part of a beautiful small town community? The East Calais Community Trust (ECCT) is seeking a store operator/lessor who will be a creative partner in serving and revitalizing our rural communities. The local non-profit ECCT purchased the historic building that houses the general store and three affordable apartments in 2020. Thanks to numerous grants and donations the ECCT is currently renovating the building, which is scheduled to reopen in summer 2022. The store will have a brand new deli kitchen and be ADA compliant. The East Calais General Store building is located along busy VT Route 14 and is the only store between East Montpelier and Hardwick, the gateway to the Northeast Kingdom. Set in a picturesque Vermont village, the store has been an economic anchor and community gathering place since the 1850s. For more information including architectural drawings and a link to the RFP, please visit: eastcalaiscommunitytrust.org.

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Weatherization Crew Members The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) Weatherization Program is growing! 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 pay is good, 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!

FINANCIAL AND SALES ANALYST Looking for an opportunity to work at one of the Northeast’s most reputable breweries? Now is your chance! We are hiring for a full-time Financial and Sales Analyst who will work closely with the CFO to provide financial modeling and assist in financial reporting and planning. They will help to generate analysis of sales trends, competitive activity and market intelligence to help develop sales forecasts and the annual sales plan.

The ideal candidate must have a High School diploma or equivalent; basic carpentry/electrical skills; ability to safely use power tools / equipment, including on ladders; and have 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 to apply.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in interpreting both sales and financial information and a strong working knowledge of accounting processes and internal controls.

CVOEO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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Administrative Coordinator Population Media Center (PMC) is seeking an Administrative Coordinator to help us achieve our vision of a sustainable planet with equal rights for all. Our entertainment-education programs empower people around the world to live healthier lives and live sustainably with the world’s renewable resources. You: You are organized, disciplined, possess extraordinary attention to detail, and actively seek out new challenges and creative solutions. You are a natural multi-tasker and provide top-notch customer service in a poised, professional manner. You are proficient in Office 365 applications, have experience working with transactional database systems and possess excellent grammar, editing, and business correspondence skills.

Why Work for Us: Our tight-knit team is energized by our mission and empowered with autonomy and creativity in their day-to-day work. PMC offers its employees competitive pay and excellent benefits including paid time off, health and dental insurance, and a generous 401(K) contribution. Visit populationmedia.org/about-us/jobs for details. Send cover letter and resume to jobs@populationmedia.org. Review of applications to begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

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Residential Educator Rock Point School is looking for a Residential Educator to join our team! Residential Educators are vital members of the boarding school staff, creating a well-balanced dorm life for high school students. They lead weekend and evening activities, help students stay healthy, and provide guidance for the challenges of adolescence and communal living. This is a full-time position, including weekend, evening, and overnight hours. On-campus housing is available. More information can be found here: rockpointschool.org/ residential-educatoremployment-2021

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FOOD JOBS WITH A WORK-LIFE BALANCE

PHYSICAL THERAPIST - Lamoille North Supervisory Union

Sound too good to be true? Not at Red Hen!

The Lamoille North Supervisory Union is seeking a Physical Therapist to provide services to students grades PK-12 from November 1, 2021 until January 21, 2022. Four days per week: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday- to implement PT services per student IEPs. Please contact Jen Hulse, Director of Student Support Services: jhulse@lnsd.org Lamoille North Supervisory Union: 802-851-1178 3h-LamoilleNorthSchoolDist092921.indd 1

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CLOSING COORDINATOR/ASSISTANT Real Estate Department CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM AT FARMERSTOYOU.COM Year-round FT and PT careers available at Farmers To You in Middlesex. Join us in our work in rebuilding our regional food system. Pay starts at $17/hour and generous benefits are available depending on hours worked. Full description and to apply: farmerstoyou.com/careers/ pack-team.

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COVID Services Coordinator

Town of Fairfax, VT

The Town of Fairfax seeks a Recreation Activities Coordinator to help create and support community programs for residents of all ages. Candidates should have knowledge of community recreation and experience planning, organizing, and leading recreation activities. The position is permanent, part-time at 20 hours per week with compensation of $16.50/hr. and requires a flexible schedule that includes some evenings, weekends, and holiday work. To apply, go to fairfax-vt.gov/ jobs. Application deadline is October 22, 2021. The Town of Fairfax is an E.O.E.

• Consistent schedule: 40 hr/weeks • A livable wage • Health care

• Paid time off • Retirement plan with company match

WE ARE HIRING FOR POSITIONS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: Sous Chef: This position will work closely with our veteran Chef making great food and running a joyful, tight kitchen. We are looking for someone with a passion for food and for whom this is a career choice. Send resumes and inquiries to cassy@ redhenbaking.com

Barista: Making top-notch espresso drinks and serving customers great food. Contact Hannah at hannah@redhenbaking.com

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The Vermont Law School community welcomes and encourages candidates of diverse backgrounds to join our team of dedicated staff and faculty in South Royalton! Vermont Law School is seeking a full-time COVID Services Coordinator to focus on coordinating the Covid response efforts for students, staff, and faculty on the VLS South Royalton campus. The Covid Coordinator will report to the Vice Dean for Students and the One VLS Action Team (OVAT) for direction and collaboration on Covid safety efforts. This position serves as the onsite coordinator and primary contact for Covid response, testing, contact tracing, PPE supplies, signage and communication, education, and campus clearance. This person in this position also acts as a liaison between outside groups and the VLS Leadership. No medical experience is necessary for this position; Associate’s or Bachelor’s preferred. The perfect candidate will have excellent organization and communication skills. You must be adept in a Microsoft environment and be able to learn specific database systems for testing results. An ability to keep personal information confidential and maintain a calm, professional demeanor is critical. This position will primarily work regular office hours on campus at Vermont Law School, however there may be hours required before or after hours or on weekends on an emergency basis. Excellent benefits and compensation are available for the right candidate. Please apply at: recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs/ Apply/518755/Vermont-Law-School/Covid-Services-Coordinator

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For over 20 years, we have been providing great career opportunities in the food industry. Get in touch with us if your passion is great food, and your needs include:

Kitchen prep/line: A chance to be involved in all aspects of making our well-known sandwiches, salads, soup and more. Contact Cassy at cassy@redhenbaking.com

Bauer Gravel Farnham, LLP; Attn: Human Resources 401 Water Tower Circle, Suite 101 Colchester, VT 05446

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Recreation Activities Coordinator (PTE)

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Real Estate Department in a busy law firm located in Colchester, Vermont, has an immediate need for a Closing Coordinator/ Assistant. Duties include answering the telephone and fielding customer inquiries, preparing legal documents for residential real estate transactions, working with clients and other attorney offices, scheduling and additional office support. Two or more years’ experience in a legal office setting, administrative experience and a basic understanding of residential real estate transactions are preferred. For success in this position, excellent attention to detail is required, and accuracy and proficiency in Windows-based applications is key.

9/30/21 2:05 PM

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ADMINISTRATOR We are seeking an Accounts Payable Administrator to join the Finance Team at Capstone Community Action. The Accounts Payable Administrator will be responsible for all the accounts payable functions. Additional duties may include providing back up for accounts receivable, payroll and credit card payment functions. The ideal candidate would have an associate’s degree in accounting, experience in a fast-paced fund accounting/bookkeeping environment and possess a solid understanding of computers and software – notably Microsoft Excel. Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest and resume to:

Capstone Community Action, Inc. Human Resources, 20 Gable Place, Barre, VT 05641 Or e-mail to: jobs@capstonevt.org Capstone Community Action, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Provider. Applications from women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and people from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

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10/1/21 12:09 PM

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OCTOBER 6-13, 2021

Property Management Assistant

VEDA IS HIRING

Property Management Assistant for our Montpelier properties. Both office based and field based duties are parts of this position including: • Frequent communication with tenants, maintenance personnel and contractors • Facilitating repairs, maintenance and projects • Leasing appointments to show available spaces including residential apartments, offices and commercial properties • Lease renewals • Filing data entry, knowledge and experience with Quickbooks

Please submit your resume and cover letter to: Tim@HeneyRealtors.com

10/4/21 10:21 AM

VEDA is searching for a highly motivated Director of Loan Closing to oversee all loan closing functions and lead the closing team in properly documenting and closing loans and providing excellent customer service.

If local, artisanal construction for a forward-thinking company in the Champlain Valley and Green Mountains seems like a good fit, we want to hear from you! admin@smithmcclain.com.

VEDA offers a competitive salary and excellent health and retirement benefit packages. Other perks include a flexible work environment, generous tuition reimbursement, and professional development and networking opportunities. VEDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer 2v-Smith&McClain081821.indd interested in increasing staff diversity.

Visit VEDA.org for details on the currently open position

Director of Loan Closing

HR GENERALIST

Resume /cover letter to Cheryl Houchens: chouchens@veda.org

Industry leading company seeks a detail-oriented and process driven professional to handle the day-to-day HR operations. New England Air Systems is a Full-Service Design/Build Mechanical Contractor serving a wide base of clients in Vermont and neighboring states.

Building company specializing in craft custom homes in Bristol, VT, seeks candidates with experience in residential construction for a variety of positions. Positive attitude and attention to detail are a must. Small teams, fast-paced, and friendly work environment with competitive pay and benefits.

Since inception in 1974, VEDA has helped businesses and farms create jobs for Vermonters and enhance Vermont's working landscape. The stories of VEDA's borrowers reflect Vermont's changing economy over the years, with VEDA playing a central role in helping them bring their business dreams and projects to fruition.

We are creating this highly responsible and independent position and estimate it to be an 18 to 30 hour per week commitment with the ability to expand to 40 hours per week if desired.

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Now Hiring for Residential Construction

VEDA is Vermont’s economic development financing authority, staffed by a seasoned group of Vermont professionals.

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THE GRIND GOT YOU DOWN?

9/30/21 4:43 PM

As the HR Generalist, your primary responsibilities for this position include: • Benefits administration and open enrollment • Worker’s compensation claims • All medical leaves • Full cycle hiring process • HRIS administrator • File maintenance • Company policies and procedures • Performance management • Training and safety • Employee relations • Company events and company newsletter • Point person for apprentice programs • Supervision of the front desk employee • State and federal compliance tasks

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF OUR SENIOR COMMUNITY

Twin Valley Senior Center is seeking an Executive Director. TVSC is in a period of transition and this is an opportunity for someone with a passion for creativity and a mission driven vision to bring TVSC into the future. The ED position is 30 hours per week. Salary is negotiable depending on experience. Responsibilities include program planning, Meals On Wheels, administration, community outreach, fundraising, supervision of paid and volunteer staff, recruitment of volunteers and overall daily operations of the Center. Must be able to pass a background check.

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We are a team of staff and volunteers who work together to provide the best services possible to our senior community. The services provided make a significant difference in the quality of life of our senior population.

The successful candidate will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as above average attention to detail and organizational skills. Candidate must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience working in HR. Skilled in office technology, Microsoft Outlook, Word, and HRIS/ATS systems preferred. This position is based in Williston and reports to the President and CEO. We offer competitive wages and an excellent benefits package including medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, 401(k) plan with match and generous time off. Send resumes to info@neair.com or visit neair.com to apply.

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Perk up!

This is an opportunity to serve and give back to your community. Come be a part of our team. Someday we may find ourselves in need of these services. Position open until filled. TVSC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 4583 US Rt. 2, East Montpelier, Vermont 05651 For more information and job description, contact Denise Wheeler at 802-456-8730 or via email at cockapoo@myfairpoint.net.

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Student Services Coordinator

MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE DIRECTOR

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

United Way of Northwest Vermont is looking for someone to Lead and manage United Way’s Mental Health Initiative using a Collective Impact framework to engage partners and effect systems change, leading to more effective and efficient services and resources to support mental health and well-being across Northwest Vermont. The Director will drive and oversee internal and external functions, including outreach and engagement, convening and facilitation, communications, advocacy, alignment of activities, capacity building, data, and evaluation. 2v-Yestermorrow092221.indd

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United Way NWVT has been recognized as a Best Place to Work for three consecutive years. Employees enjoy a range of excellent benefits including health, dental and vision insurance, a generous paid vacation policy, 403(b) contributions, a robust wellness program and much more. We are looking for candidates to join our team who will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the organization. Interested candidates may visit unitedwaynwvt.org for the full job description. To apply candidates should send via e-mail a resume and cover letter by 10/22/2021 to: hiring@unitedwaynwvt.org. 5h-UnitedWayNorthwestVT100621.indd 1

10/1/21 5:17 PM

Community Program Facilitator

Have you ever wanted to work with the Abenaki community? The Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi is looking for someone great with people, self-motivated, and experienced with Microsoft Office to help them with their community programming. The position of Community Program Facilitator is 10–20 hours per week and pays $20/hour. If you would like to see a full job description or send in a resume, please contact Joanne Crawford: joanne.crawford@ abenakination.com.

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Athens Diner, Colchester VT is now hiring.

10/1/21 10:44 AM

Dishwasher/ Line Prep Cook Athens Diner is now hiring full time kitchen staff. Pay range: $15-$22 based on experience. 5 day work week; Wednesday - Sunday. We are looking for experienced dishwasher(s) and line and prep cook(s), willing to train the right candidate.

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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!

100% EMPLOYEE-OWNED

Hard Goods Receiving Specialist: We’re seeking a talented individual to join our Garden Center in Williston! This person will be responsible for the accurate and efficient flow of inbound product from delivery truck to the sales floor. This person will ensure that products are easily accessible, visually appealing, constantly available, properly distributed, and safely packaged. Our ideal candidate will have 2 yrs inventory related experience; POS and computerized inventory management system experience; strong organizational skills; ability to multi-task; strong communication skills; and attention to detail. Basic knowledge of gardening products is a plus!

Weekends are required. Apply: athensdinerHR @dairbhre.com

100% EMPLOYEE-OWNED

Interested? Please go to our careers page at www.gardeners.com/careers and apply online!

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Social Media Leader: This person will update and implement our social media strategy, creating phased, macro goals and KPIs for the portfolio overall. The SML will be proficient in social media functionality and best practices, and will create differentiated strategies for all of our significant branded social properties. Our ideal candidate will have 2-5yrs pertinent digital/social marketing experience; a 4-yr college degree or equivalent life experience; be proficient in marketing/social media analysis; and able to craft and implement social marketing strategy for growth. Contact Center Commercial Sales & Service Specialist: This person will handle and resolve inbound inquiries via phone and email from Commercial Customers. They will be expected to identify leads and close sales to help grow the business. Our ideal candidate will have 2+yrs of consultative sales experience (experience with Business-to-Business sales preferred); excellent customer service skills; and a background in gardening or horticulture strongly preferred. Prior experience with nonprofit funding is a plus! Facility Coordinator: This person will maintain the physical appearance and cleanliness of our office building and will provide general building maintenance/warehouse support. Our ideal candidate will have a min of 3yrs maintenance or related experience; general construction knowledge including solid carpentry, electrical and plumbing skills; and basic knowledge of HVAC systems.

Interested? Please go to our careers page at www.gardeners.com/careers and apply online!

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OCTOBER 6-13, 2021

Contracted Full-Time RN/LPN

STAFF NURSE (LPN OR RN)

for In-Home Support

Flexible shifts

LNAS – EVENINGS Wake Robin seeks health care staff who are licensed in Vermont to work collaboratively to provide high quality care in a fast paced residential and long-term care environment, while maintaining a strong sense of “home.” We offer an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting. We continue to offer competitive wages, great benefits, and generous shift differentials: Evenings $2.50/ hour, Nights $4.50/hour, and weekends $1.55. Interested candidates please email a cover letter and resume to hr@wakerobin.com or complete an application online at wakerobin.com.

We are looking for a compassionate and reliable Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to make a difference in the life of a young man with a Developmental Disability and high-tech medical support needs in the families peaceful, lakeside home.

Duties of care include: • Administering medications • Providing daytime personal care and companionship • Supporting community outings • Nursing assessments • Health status monitoring • Caregiver oversight • Care coordination with the clients family, doctors, and treatment team Ability to work independently while providing care in this pivotal role to keep this client safe is required. The pleasant home environment and personal one-to-one care allows for a close patient connection and a fulfilling experience. Interested or have questions? Email Samantha.Burnell@ncssinc.org.

Wake Robin is an E.O.E.

TOWN TREASURER

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Legal Assistant Real Estate Sales Our Real Estate Department in Colchester, VT has an immediate need for a Legal Assistant. Duties include answering the telephone, fielding customer inquiries, preparing documents for sales transactions, working with clients and other attorney offices, scheduling and additional office support. Two or more years’ experience in a legal office setting, administrative experience and understanding of real estate transactions are required. Excellent attention to detail, accuracy and proficiency in Windows-based applications are key for this position. Cover letter and resume to mnarwid@vtlawoffices.com or Bauer Gravel Farnham, LLP Attn: Human Resources, 401 Water Tower Circle, Suite 101, Colchester VT 05446

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BRISTOL, VERMONT

Engaging minds that change the world

The Town of Bristol is seeking an organized and motivated candidate to serve at its Town Treasusrer. The 32-hour per week position offers a competitive salary, benefits, flexible schedule, and opportunity to work in a vibrant community, (pop. approx.. 4,000) located in the Champlain Valley in Addison County, Vermont.

Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive beneﬁt package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. Educational Developer - Center for Teaching and Learning #S3123PO - Come work with us at the University of Vermont! Our Center for Teaching and Learning seeks an educational developer to join a campus community dedicated to teaching excellence. We’re a friendly, creative, enthusiastic group of professionals, and we look forward to a new member joining our team. Please refer to the UVM Jobs website for complete information, including requirements.

The Town Treasurer is responsible for keeping all of the Town’s funds, including receipt, investment, and disbursement of funds; keeping a record of taxes voted, billed, and collected; collecting delinquent taxes; collecting other funds received by the Town; and paying orders drawn on Town accounts. The Treasurer provides human resources support and manages employee benefits and payroll; supports the Water Department and Sewer Department with billing and management of accounts; works closely with auditors to annually reconcile Town accounts; and provides support to the Recreation, Police, Public Works, Lister, and Zoning Departments, the Town Clerk, and the Town Administrator in budgeting, capital budgeting, grants management, and reporting.

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802 Distributors (802distributors.com), the fastest growing wine distributor in Vermont is in immediate need for a driver to deliver our specialty and boutique wines to restaurants and retail locations around the state. This low-stress but important role involves loading cases of wine into a high-end delivery van each morning and then delivering them throughout the day on a pre-determined route. Each day takes you to a new part of the state, and each day you’ll be home by dinner. No CDL required –you just need a regular driver’s license, a good driving record and a great attitude. BENEFITS INCLUDE: • Competitive Pay

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Would you like to make a valuable contribution supporting statewide design and construction? We are currently accepting applications from all architectural and engineering candidates. Candidates should have experience associated with capital improvement and maintenance projects. In addition to project management, this position will also assist the Design and Construction Program Chief with managing technical reviews, vendor evaluations, design guidelines, standard specifications, and procedures. For more information, contact Jeremy Stephens at jeremy.stephens@ vermont.gov. Department: Buildings & General Services. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #19529. Application Deadline: October 17, 2021.

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An exciting and rare opportunity for an IT professional to join our team! The Vermont Disability Determination Services is seeking an individual to serve as technical expert in all aspects of DDS IT systems administration, case processing systems, LAN administration, mainframe operations and network infrastructure. Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Active Directory, MS Exchange, laptop and server hardware and imaging, file security, SQL and basic concepts of VOIP technology preferred. For more information, contact Jack McCormack at jack. mccormack@ssa.gov. Department: Children and Families. Status: Full Time. Location: Waterbury. Job ID #21265. Application Deadline: October 17, 2021.

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Would you like to join a team of professionals whose mission is to protect Vermont consumers? This is a great opportunity for a detail-oriented individual who has a comprehensive knowledge of property and casualty insurance. Most review work will be done independently with some collaboration to discuss issues and policy decisions. Organizational skills as well as the ability to clearly communicate compliance issues are integral to the position. Although the position is office based, telework arrangements may be available. Please Note: This position is being recruited at multiple levels. If you would like to be considered for more than one level, you MUST apply to the specific Job Requisition. For more information, contact Rosemary A. Raszka at Rosemary.Raszka@vermont.gov. Department: Financial Regulation. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #17801 for level II OR #17722 for level III. Application Deadline: October 17, 2021.

DEPUT Y CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER – MONTPELIER

The Deputy CFO will serve as “second in command” and will be seen as a subject matter expert and a statewide leader on financial matters. Position is responsible for internal control system review and development, all aspects of the day-today financial accounting, monitoring, reconciliations, reporting and technical assistance across the Agency. Position will account for all state and federal grant dollars, and prepare, submit, and monitor AOE’s annual budget. Telework opportunities available. For more information, contact Bill Bates at bill.bates@vermont. gov. Department: Agency of Education. Status: Full Time. Location: Montpelier. Job ID #21305. Application Deadline: October 14, 2021.

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RESPONSIBILITIES OF THIS POSITION ARE: • Organizes and inventories IT infrastructure assets • Ensures IT and telephony assets have appropriate monitoring in place to identify problems, issues, and capacity needs • Plans and manages system upgrades and patching • Acts as the lead in VITL’s existing and future Azure cloud migration projects • Operates and maintains VITL’s Azure cloud infrastructure • Provides hands-on support in troubleshooting infrastructure problems and issues • Assists in supporting office technologies, including end-user computers, printers, telephony, and audio-visual equipment • Formulates responses to issues and problems identified, considering alternatives to arrive and optimal solutions balancing costs and technical effectiveness • Anticipates needs and issues and proactively identifies solutions to ensure smooth operations and problem avoidance • Reviews technical specifications with other team members and adjusts as necessary • Works well with other team members to reach consensus on technical approaches • Designs and documents appropriate detailed test plans intended to prove the integrity of planned solutions • Develops necessary contacts for system testing and develops a workable schedule for system testing which minimizes inconvenience and rework for those involved in testing • Works closely with customers to ensure solution meets their needs and adjusts solution as necessary • Makes recommendations regarding the evaluation of technologies • Assists with reaching consensus on system evaluation and planning decisions • Works effectively with the Director of Technology to finalize comprehensive strategic and tactical plans • Contributes to prioritization & management of the portfolio of active and planned infrastructure projects THIS IS A FULL-TIME PERMANENT POSITION REQUIRING THE FOLLOWING SKILLS: • Associate’s degree in related field, bachelor’s preferred • 3 or more years’ experience as a systems administrator in a Windows environment • 1 or more years’ experience with cloud technologies, preferably Azure • Demonstrates business area and health care knowledge • Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure technologies and principles including cloud technologies • Experience with Windows Server, Hyper-V, NetApp storage, Cisco UCS, and Microsoft SQL Server • Familiarity with IT security technologies, standards, and principles • Capacity for strategic and tactical thinking in development of infrastructure plans • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills • Ability to prioritize, manage, and optimize highly detailed, demanding, and technical tasks • Team-oriented attitude, thrives in a collaborative environment • Positive and flexible work ethic Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) is a nonprofit organization that advances health care reform in Vermont. VITL assists Vermont health care providers with adopting and using health information technology, to improve the quality of care delivery, to enhance patient safety and to reduce the cost of care. VITL is legislatively designated to operate the health information exchange (HIE) for Vermont, and is governed by a collaborative group of stakeholders including health plans, hospitals, physicians, other health care providers, state government, employers, and consumers. For more information, please visit vitl.net. To apply, please email a cover letter and resume to hr@vitl.net. No phone calls please. 12t-VITL100621.indd 1

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Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) is seeking an experienced Systems Administrator to successfully support, monitor, and maintain VITL’s computing and telephony infrastructure and services. They will contribute to development of strategic and tactical plans for infrastructure projects and advancement, working with the Director of Technology. The Systems Administrator is responsible for the successful management and implementation of infrastructure related projects, including office, co-location datacenter, and Microsoft Azure infrastructure. Responsibilities also include assisting the Director of Technology with the oversight and management of all external infrastructure service providers and vendors.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY REAL OCTOBER 7-13 TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion — a false hope.” So declared author Sue Miller, and now I’m sharing it with you, Taurus — just in time for the end of at least one of your illusions. (Could be two, even three.) I hope your misconceptions or misaligned fantasies will serve you well as they decay and dissolve. I trust they will be excellent fertilizer, helping you grow inspired visions that guide your future success. My prediction: You will soon know more about what isn’t real, which will boost your ability to evaluate what is real.

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“Some people are crazy drunk on rotgut sobriety,” wrote aphorist Daniel Liebert. I trust you’re not one of them. But if you are, I beg you to change your habits during the next three weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have a heavenly mandate to seek more than the usual amounts of whimsical ebullience, sweet diversions, uplifting obsessions and holy amusements. Your health and success in the coming months require you to enjoy a period of concentrated joy and fun now. Be imaginative and innovative in your quest for zest.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Anna

Kamieńska said her soul didn’t emanate light. It was filled with “bright darkness.” I suspect that description may apply to you in the coming weeks. Bright darkness will be one of your primary qualities. And that’s a good thing! You may not be a beacon of shiny cheer, but you will illuminate the shadows and secrets. You will bring deeper awareness to hidden agendas and sins of omission. You will see, and help others to see, what has been missing in situations that lack transparency. Congratulations in advance!

novelist Khaled Hosseini writes, “People mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they’re afraid of — what they don’t want.” Is that true for you, Gemini? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to meditate on that question. And if you find you’re motivated to live your life more out of fear than out of love, I urge you to take strenuous action to change that situation! Make sure love is at least 51 percent and fear no more than 49 percent. I believe you can do much better than that, though. Aim for 75 percent love!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.” Oglala Lakota medicine man Black Elk said that, and now I’m passing it on to you. It’s not always the case that dreams are wiser than waking, of course, but I suspect they will be for you in the coming weeks. The adventures you experience while you’re sleeping could provide crucial clues to inform your waking-life decisions. They should help you tune into resources and influences that will guide you during the coming months. And now I will make a bold prediction: that your dreams will change your brain chemistry in ways that enable you to see truths that until now have been invisible or unavailable. (PS: I encourage you to also be alert for intriguing insights and fantasies that well up when you’re tired or lounging around.) LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Don’t hope more than you’re willing to work,” advises author Rita Mae Brown. So let me ask you, Leo: How hard

are you willing to work to make your dreams come true, create your ideal life and become the person you’d love to be? When you answer that question honestly, you’ll know exactly how much hope you have earned the right to foster. I’m pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be a favorable time to upgrade your commitment to the work and therefore deepen your right to hope.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “To be truly visionary, we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.” This shrewd advice comes from author bell hooks (who doesn’t capitalize her name). I think it should be at the heart of your process in the coming days. Why? Because you now have an extraordinary potential to dream up creative innovations that acknowledge your limitations but also transcend those limitations. You have extra power available to harness your fantasies and instigate practical changes. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scottish poet laureate Jackie Kay, born under the sign of Scorpio, writes, “It used to be that privacy came naturally to everybody and that we understood implicitly what kind of things a person might like to keep private. Now somebody has torn up the rule book on privacy and there’s a kind of free fall and free for all and few people naturally know how to guard this precious thing, privacy.” The coming weeks will be a good time for you to investigate this subject, Scorpio — to take it more seriously than you have before. In the process, I hope you will identify what’s truly important for you to keep confidential and protected and then to initiate the necessary adjustments. (PS: Please feel no guilt or embarrassment about your desire to have secrets!) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “All our

Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretense that pain is the proper price of any good thing,” wrote feisty author Rebecca West (1892-1983). I am very happy to report that your current torrent of good things will not require you to pay the price of pain. On the contrary, I expect that your phase of grace and luck

will teach you how to cultivate even more grace and luck; it will inspire you to be generous in ways that bring generosity coming back your way. As articulated by ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, here’s the operative principle: “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no,” declares author Nora Roberts. In that spirit and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to be bold and lucid about asking for what you want in the coming weeks. In addition, I encourage you to ask many probing questions so as to ferret out the best ways to get what you want. If you are skilled in carrying out this strategy, you will be a winsome blend of receptivity and aggressiveness, innocent humility and understated confidence. And that will be crucial in your campaign to get exactly what you want. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Few persons

enjoy real liberty,” wrote poet Alfred de Musset. “We are all slaves to ideas or habits.” That’s the bad news. The good news is that October is Supercharge Your Freedom Month for you Aquarians. I invite you to use all your ingenuity to deepen, augment and refine your drive for liberation. What could you do to escape the numbness of the routine? How might you diminish the hold of limiting beliefs and inhibiting patterns? What shrunken expectations are impinging on your motivational verve? Life is blessing you with the opportunity to celebrate and cultivate what novelist Tim Tharp calls “the spectacular now.” Be a cheerful, magnanimous freedom fighter.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The brilliant Piscean composer Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) wrote, “I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.” What?! That’s crazy! If he had been brave enough and willful enough to stop taking pleasure in indulging his toxic thoughts, they might have lost their power to demoralize him. With this in mind, I’m asking you to investigate whether you, like Chopin, ever get a bit of secret excitement from undermining your own joy and success. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to dissolve that bad habit.

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I work in an office with hardwood floors. One of my coworkers always wears clogs with big wooden bottoms that make a lot of noise when she walks. The nature of her job means she moves around all day, and the constant clomping drives me crazy. I can only imagine what it sounds like to the people downstairs. How can I let her know without it being really awkward?

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Dear Cloggy Bottom Breakdown,

I whistle a lot. I don’t mean to; I just turn into a bird occasionally. I have a coworker who hates whistling, and it annoys the crap out of him. Luckily, we’re good pals, and he’s ribbed me about it so much over the years that I’ve learned to catch myself — sometimes. But whistling is a goofy habit, and it’s easy to be lighthearted about it. Delicately addressing someone’s choice of footwear is more difficult. You could leave your coworker an anonymous note, but that’s a little passive-

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aggressive. Also, if there aren’t many people in your office, it might not be particularly anonymous, which could make the situation even more awkward. Can you do your work with headphones on? You can buy noisecanceling ones or, if your job involves making a lot of calls, find some that are compatible with your phone. On a related note: You could pass the blame and tell her that someone you were on a call with said they could hear her shoes over the phone. Perhaps you could talk to whoever is

ISLAND LADY Lost on an island searching for the siren to sing my mountain song. Spent a day in heaven under the stars, hugging trees down by the beach. Lost in my world tangled with your root. Left while fungus grows, soil sows and we both grow. Your song is still in my heart missing the times we are apart. When: Friday, August 27, 2021. Where: Isle La Motte. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915406 BIKE PATH NEAR LEDDY You were walking your puppy (yellow lab?), and I passed you twice as I reached the end of my running loop and turned around. I smiled at your dog, and you smiled at me. Can I join you two on a walk sometime? When: Friday, September 10, 2021. Where: Burlington waterfront path. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915405

NICE GUY BRIAN AT ARTSRIOT Wormdogs were playing. You were sitting on the stools on the front porch. My wife sat next to you; she said you had a great conversation. Inside, we were standing a behind you; she teased about wanting to dance with you. She gave you her card and has been eagerly awaiting your email! Let’s go see some music soon! When: Saturday, September 11, 2021. Where: ArtsRiot. You: Man. Me: Couple. #915409

RE: STEAMY KISSES I’m sure a lot of people have had steamy kisses in steamy cars at Oakledge. I’m hoping that you are the one I’ll always love, no matter what. If you see this, I still want you to tell me something. When: Monday, July 22, 2019. Where: Oakledge. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915407

BLONDE AT BIOTEK I miss our staff meetings at the Lighthouse. If you’d like to reconnect, reach out to me. I know you still have my number. When: Thursday, September 9, 2021. Where: Lighthouse Restaurant. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915403

BURLINGTON, FRIDAY EVENING, BIG SMILES 5 p.m. Me: M, parked in loading zone by Sweetwaters, unloading my car. You: F, tall, pretty, blond, flat-brim black hat, long black boots. Your smile lit up the afternoon. We smiled at each other like we knew each other. I said hi; you beamed and walked on up College Street. Care to say hi and more sometime? When: Friday, September 10, 2021. Where: Church Street Marketplace, Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915404 FRENCH TUTOR, SHELBURNE BAGEL SHOP Hi. Late August (don’t remember the exact date). You were sitting in a booth quizzing a guy on conversational French phrases. I was in the next booth and did not want to interrupt. But I would really like to sharpen my French this fall. Are you taking additional students? When: Wednesday, August 25, 2021. Where: bagel shop on Shelburne Rd. by the FedEx store. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915401

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