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1. “The Loss of Grace” by Joe Sexton. In Vermont’s Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, a girl endured violence and isolation. She wasn’t the only one. And it was no secret. A special report.

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The credits will soon be rolling at South Burlington’s Palace 9 Cinemas. The movie theater will screen its final film on November 9, according to owner Merrill Jarvis III, whose family opened the multiplex off Shelburne Road three decades ago. The usual suspects are to blame: an expiring lease, the streaming era and the residual effects of COVID-19, which made some people wary of crowded theaters. “It’s not 2019 anymore,” Jarvis said. Last year Jarvis began offering a $5 movie special on Tuesdays to fill more seats. That, coupled with a bump from the summer “Barbenheimer” craze, brought in some muchneeded revenue. But movie companies prohibit theaters from offering discounted prices more than once a week, Jarvis said, and the slowing rate of new releases during this summer’s labor tensions in Hollywood has led to fewer screening options. With ticket sales lagging, Jarvis couldn’t justify signing another five-year lease. “I held off as long as I could,” Jarvis said. The Jarvis family sold the Palace 9 a few years after opening it in 1992 but bought it back in 2012. The family’s

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two remaining theaters in the area — the Majestic 10 in Williston and Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas in downtown Burlington — will stay open, at least for now. The Williston theater has rebounded from the pandemic thanks to the younger crowd, who “still have to get out of the house sometimes,” Jarvis said. The Roxy has been struggling lately, though, in part because some of its bread-and-butter customers — older, not-so-tech-savvy art and indie film aficionados — “learned how to do something they’ve never done before,” Jarvis said. “Run their television, with Netflix and Hulu.” Jarvis has closed theaters before but said it never gets easy. He felt particularly bad for his new Tuesday night regulars, as many have told him how grateful they are for a cheap midweek family activity. He plans to begin offering a $5 movie night deal at the Roxy in January, he said. And in a similar show of appreciation, he will be offering a special going-away deal at the Palace 9 on its final day: $1 movie tickets, $1 popcorns and $1 sodas.

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2. “Next Month Brings the Final Curtain for Palace 9 Cinemas” by Colin Flanders. The theater, off Shelburne Road in South Burlington, has struggled to bring back audiences. 3. “Casa Real to Bring Mexican Menu to Colchester” by Melissa Pasanen. The restaurant will open this month in the space that was most recently the Hideaway Steakhouse & Grill. 4. “Burlington High School Principal Put on Leave After Pulling Fire Alarm” by Alison Novak. Debra Beaupre has been out since a few days after the incident. 5. “Would Removing Four Old Dams Make Montpelier More Flood Resilient?” by Kevin McCallum. Getting rid of the obsolete structures might make a difference when flooding rains come.

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A group of quilters has stitched together a plan to deliver nearly 100 blankets for residents at Good Samaritan homeless shelters in Berlin, Barre and Barre Town. More than 40 volunteers have spent the past few months crafting the rainbow of quilts at the direction of Jane Erickson, whose daughter, Julie Bond, is the co-executive director of Good Samaritan Haven. Erickson, 76, has spent more than 20 years volunteering for people experiencing homelessness. Recently, though, she’s been unable to help in person due to health issues. Bond suggested that Erickson make quilts for winter shelter residents, and Erickson, a longtime quilter, jumped at the idea.

At first, Erickson planned on making all the quilts herself, but she quickly realized that goal was overly ambitious. She reached out to members of her local quilting guild, Heart of Vermont, and posted in the Facebook group Quilting in Vermont to solicit help. She expected only a handful of responses, but dozens of quilters replied, eager to contribute. Friends — and friends of friends — readied their sewing machines and gathered their fabric scraps. Finished and semifinished quilts poured in from Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire and New Jersey. A local craft store agreed to donate materials, and volunteers spent their time finishing the colorful blankets. “These quilts are just fantastic,” Erickson said of the ever-growing collection. “The [quilters] may not use a paintbrush, but they are very creative with fabric.”

She’s far surpassed her goal of 67 quilts — enough for every resident — with 81 already complete. Erickson has made 17 of them personally. She said it takes anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks, depending on the quilt’s complexity. The coverings vary widely in design, difficulty and color choice. She hopes residents can choose the one that speaks most to them. Meanwhile, she’s been busy coordinating volunteers to help tag and pack the finished quilts. But she’s already planning what blankets she’ll make for next year’s residents. She’s dubbed the project “Colorful Quilts With Love.” “I’m hoping that the quilts add a little bit of color into [the residents’] lives,” Erickson said. “And, with it, a little bit of happiness.” RACHEL HELLMAN SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 1-8, 2023

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Excellent reporting by Joe Sexton detailing the painful experience of young Grace Welch while being held at Vermont’s Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center and the sad ending of her life [“The Loss of Grace,” October 25]. It is, sadly, a very familiar story to me after nearly 30 years working in public schools as a special education teacher who case-managed children with significant mental health issues as a result of chaotic and traumatic childhood experiences. Schools are ill equipped to provide the intensive mental health support needed for more and more children and, in my experience, it can take as long as two years of wading through the required processes for students to be placed in alternative settings that offer therapeutic support throughout a school day. As I was preparing to leave my teaching career, what I was starting to see, more and more, was the warehousing of children in programs that made lofty claims about what they could offer, only to see settings with unqualified staff with high turnover and no measurable outcomes. I kept asking what we were doing as an educational community to prepare our students for life beyond high school, understanding that if we were not addressing the challenges that children faced in an honest or realistic way, we would be turning out another generation that had little to offer their communities as far as job skills and unresolved trauma to carry with them. My concerns fell on the deaf ears of inexperienced administrators with no vision. Carrie Caouette-De Lallo

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What a story [“The Loss of Grace,” October 25]! I have just one question: If a mentally and physically healthy person experienced what Grace went through at Woodside, what would be left of them? Leigh Dolin

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the Bankman-Fried gang that she was amenable to its influence. Her campaign’s subsequent suggestion that her opponent, Molly Gray, was “homophobic” for questioning the donations was the most dishonest form of slander. Vermonters deserved better. Louis Meyers

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[Re “UVM Students Protest Cancellation of Palestinian Writer’s Appearance,” October 24, online]: At this moment when it is so difficult for the leaders of our country — including many members of Congress — to find the courage to call for an immediate cease-fire in Israel and Palestine and to pursue diplomacy, the least we can do is allow for Israelis and Palestinians to speak at our universities. As a lifelong Vermonter, I deeply cherish our values of freedom and unity, as well as the spaces for us to communicate across differences. A U.S. Department of State official responsible for ensuring the U.S. isn’t participating in war crimes in Gaza just resigned to protest the fact that he’s not being allowed to do his job, which involves deliberation and discussion about sending weapons to other countries. When it came to Israel, he said there was no space for dissent. The state department should do better. So should the University of Vermont.

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Last week’s story “Casa Real to Bring Mexican Menu to Colchester” misstated the history of the restaurant space. The Hideaway Steakhouse & Grill operated at that location for one and a half years before closing in July 2022.

Our publicly funded university should not discriminate against potential speakers because their ethnicity is controversial. Of course, universities should protect people’s safety to the best of their ability, but this shouldn’t be used as an excuse for discrimination. Genocide Watch has issued a genocide emergency alert for Israel and Gaza. The Center for Constitutional Rights reported last week that the U.S.’s role in the war rises to the level of complicity in genocide. Our congressional delegation should call for an immediate cease-fire. And our public university should avoid discrimination, which Genocide Watch lists as stage three of the 10 stages of genocide. Isaac Evans-Frantz

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FOOD+DRINK 40 Golden Ticket?

In Newbury, Calabash Gardens pioneers Vermont saffron farming

Home, Cooking

Three questions for La Chapina’s Wendy Girón ahead of her Bristol pop-up dinner

Old Brick, New Tricks New owner revamps Charlotte’s Old Brick Store

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11 Magnificent 7 13 From the Publisher 41 Side Dishes 52 Movie Review 64 Soundbites 70 Album Reviews 105 Ask the Reverend

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23 Lifelines 40 Food + Drink 46 Culture 52 On Screen 54 Art 64 Music + Nightlife 72 Calendar 82 Classes 83 Classifieds + Puzzles 101 Fun Stuff 104 Personals

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A spate of rural homicides puts residents of small towns on edge

JetBlue Ends BTV Flights to NYC, While Delta Cuts Back Hotel Hiatus

Lawmakers’ home away from home scrambles to recover from the flood

Saint Michael’s College Names New President Our Life During Wartime

During a previous explosion of Mideast bloodshed, a journalist and his family straddled the divide

Board ‘Taken Aback’ by Murad’s Behavior at Hospital but Clears Him of Misconduct

Vermonter’s Musical Bound for Broadway

VTSU to Eliminate 33 Positions at Four Campuses

Book review: The Book, Mary Ruefle

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Youth soccer comes of age in Vermont, but the playing field is hardly level

Ambitious Concerts Highlight a Big Weekend for Classical Music Fans Listening With Light

ARTS+CULTURE 46 A new Middlebury dance performance explores the burdens we carry in our bodies

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Thinking Aloud

Christina Watka’s sculptural installations at Soapbox Arts dazzle the eye and mind

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Beginner’s Luck We all have to start somewhere. Local icons Rhedd Rhumm and Emoji Nightmare host a Drag Newcomers’ Showcase at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington, welcoming novice kings and queens to take the stage and strut their stuff. Audiences delight in the chance to bestow their singles upon some of Vermont’s most talented rising stars. SEE CLUB LISTING ON PAGE 68

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Smells Like Zine Spirit Local poets, art students and cartoonists all get a seat at the tables at TWIST 2.0: Twin State Comics & Zine Fair. Junction Arts & Media in White River Junction fills up with self-published comic books, zines and poetry chapbooks. Locals can find a collage, collection or cartoon for every taste and get a head start on holiday shopping for the creatives in their lives.

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Acclaimed blues singer Shemekia Copeland takes the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center at Stowe Mountain Resort by storm. Declared one of her generation’s most accomplished artists by multiple critics, the daughter of Blues Hall of Famer Johnny Copeland shows off her impressive pipes and soulstirring sensibilities.

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Roast Assured Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace is for the birds at Feeding Chittenden’s annual Trotting of the Turkeys. Just $50 buys Queen City citizens the right to march in a high-energy parade through downtown — with a whole frozen turkey in hand. At the end of the day, all poultry will be donated to Vermonters in need. Those who can’t make the event can still donate, and a turkey will be trotted in their name. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 78

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Core Values Billings Farm & Museum kicks off a fresh season of its Woodstock Vermont Film Series with a screening of Whitman Brook: An Apple Orchard and the Nature of Time. This new, locally grown documentary tells the story of Terry and Sara Dorman, who restored and rejuvenated the titular Quechee orchard. A Q&A with Terry and filmmaker Ben Silberfarb follows the Saturday showing. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 76

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Peaks My Interest Missing summer already? “Simple Matters,” Kathryn Milillo’s new solo collection at Middlebury’s Edgewater Gallery on the Green, features landscapes of Vermont’s farmland and mountains that glow with warm greens and golden sunlight. Milillo’s minimalist style evokes a wistfulness perfect for capturing the Green Mountain State’s barns, fields and distant summits. SEE GALLERY LISTING ON PAGE 59 “Still Turning” by Kathryn Milillo

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Apocalypse Now Audiences prep to have their worlds rocked by a special screening of the new independent documentary We’re All Going to Die at Burlington’s Off Center for the Dramatic Arts. This (mostly) funny flick follows German journalist and filmmaker Ben Knight as he travels from Berlin to Vermont and beyond talking to preppers, climate activists and bunker dwellers about the end of the world. A Q&A with the cast and crew follows. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 80

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Don’t Stop Shopping

PAULA ROUTLY

Marc Sherman cofounded Burlington’s Outdoor Gear Exchange in 1995 — the same year Pamela Polston and I started this weekly newspaper. He’s been a regular Seven Days advertiser since. For almost three decades, I’ve watched OGE grow and prosper, in the real world and online. That it reliably wins a pile of awards in our annual readers’ choice competition is a testament to Sherman’s business savvy. He rarely misses the Daysies party, where we catch up on everything from outdoor adventures to the cost of health insurance for employees. Despite our long acquaintance, I was surprised to see his name pop up on my phone last Friday afternoon. I’d already gotten an email announcing that his new store — at the Essex Experience — had opened a week ahead of schedule. Cause for congratulations, no doubt, but that’s not why Sherman was calling. He wanted to clarify some things. No. 1: The OGE in Burlington remains open, along with its consignment business, which is moving up from the basement to the main floor. No. 2: The new suburban satellite store should not be interpreted as a sign of booming business. Peter Hiskes at the new Outdoor Gear Exchange “The truth is, we’re opening a in Essex store in Essex because the store in Burlington is not generating the traffic it used to,” he said. “And we feel that that’s a result of a local population not necessarily choosing to come into Burlington to shop.” The pandemic was kind to Outdoor Gear Exchange and other local outfitters as people rediscovered nature, which for a while was the only safe place to be. But most retail outlets suffered mightily from the shutdowns related to COVID-19. Many had to close their doors for months. Reopening brought a slew of new problems, not the least of which is that more people are working from home and shopping online, resulting in less downtown foot traffic. There’s also an enduring labor shortage, inflationary wage pressure and, in Burlington, issues related to a large population of unhoused people struggling with addiction and mental illness. Sherman said OGE is spending almost as much money on security at the Burlington store as the value of what is being stolen from it. Catching shoplifters is not a high priority for the city’s police. “It’s a spiral,” Sherman said. “On the whole, Burlington is not unsafe. But if people stop shopping and the stores have to reduce their presence, we’re shrinking. Restaurants aren’t open seven days a week. That decreases the power of the Burlington brand. “It’s not helping anybody to continue to talk about what’s wrong in Burlington,” he continued. “We need to focus on what’s right — and local retail and local hospitality are the reasons that Burlington is distinct from other cities.” Sherman’s message was clear: The next few months will be crucial for the Vermont businesses you love — not just on the Church Street Marketplace but on Main Streets across the state. If all of us don’t make a concerted effort to buy from them this holiday season, there will likely be fewer local places to shop in 2024. The good news: It’s within our power to reverse the trend. Just having more people out on the street — shopping, walking, eating, grabbing coffee, listening to music — can improve the vibe, turning

a death spiral into a virtuous circle. Now that both the leaves and the tourists are gone, it’s time to tear yourself away from the screen, screw up your courage and come downtown to embrace the place. As always, Seven Days has plenty of suggestions along those lines. Friday starts our 10-day Burger Week promotion, during which 44 Vermont eateries, from the Champlain Islands to the Upper Valley, are serving up affordable variations of America’s favorite comfort food. Find details about the participating establishments, and what they’re cooking, in a 12-page insert at the center of this week’s issue and at burgerweek.sevendaysvt.com. Concurrently, we’re running a contest called the Gift Local Giveaway that invites readers to recommend their favorite local establishments for potential inclusion in our annual Gift Guide, out later this month. Mention at least 10 places at sevendaysvt.com/ gift-local to be eligible to win a $500 gift card to use at one of them. We launched this initiative during the pandemic to encourage Vermonters to shop local. No one knew if our downtowns could survive. We pulled together then to help keep them in business. We can do it again. If you’re not able to shop in person, there are alternatives to Amazon, like Local Maverick. Another one, Myti, starts operating today, Wednesday, November 1. It offers items for purchase and delivery from a couple dozen retailers, including downtown Burlington staples Kiss the Cook and Homeport, though not Outdoor Gear Exchange, which sells its wares at gearx.com. On Sunday evening I drove to Essex to check out the new brickand-mortar OGE. I was “on assignment,” after all. Next to the Hannaford and across from Black Flannel Brewing & Distilling, I found it, glowing in the last light of day two, with an inflatable man dancing out front. Inside I met Peter Hiskes, who said the store had been “jamming” all day. It has less inventory than the Burlington one, which makes the 5,000 square feet more navigable. I easily found something to buy: three pairs of Vermont-made Darn Tough socks. They’re not cheap, but like everyone and everything powering our local economy, they’re well worth the investment.

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ylvie Blanchard always felt safe living in the small Orange County town of Washington. For decades, she and her husband owned the Washington Village Store, which serves as the commercial and social heart of the community. But after a recent spate of homicides, including the discovery of a body on a rural road just a few miles from the store, Blanchard said her sense of security has been shaken. “I didn’t ever lock my doors at night, but now I do,” Blanchard said. Between October 5 and 30, eight people — seven with gunshot wounds — were killed in rural Vermont communities. Just two of the cases have led to arrests, and the cases are taxing the Vermont State Police. Major Dan Trudeau said the death toll, during such a short time period, was “certainly the most I can remember in my 20-plus years here at the state police.” Some of the cases share similarities. Three of the victims, for instance, were found fatally shot off isolated, rural roads. But the cases are also distinctive enough 14

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that investigators are “highly confident” they are not related, Trudeau said. The victims, who range in age, gender and race, include a retired college dean killed on a walking trail in Castleton, a Vermont National Guard member shot at his home

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in Wheelock and two men from Massachusetts discovered shot in the head in Eden. On Monday, a 14-year-old boy was fatally shot inside a car in Bristol. The uptick in homicides in rural areas stands in stark contrast to the decline in Burlington, which has recorded just one murder so far this year after five in 2022. There have been fewer reports of gunfire in the Queen City, too: 10 so far this year

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compared to 25 during the same period last year. The wave of rural violence has left Blanchard feeling anxious. She wonders whether some of the killings are linked to the drug trade, given what she’s seen in her town of just 1,000 residents. “We get a lot of people around here that you can see are high on drugs,” Blanchard said. The rash of murders began on October 5, when 77-year-old Honoree Fleming was shot and killed on a rail trail in Castleton, not far from the Vermont State University-Castleton campus where she formerly served as dean of education. Police released a sketch of a man who witnesses said they’d seen wearing a gray shirt and a backpack in the area Fleming was found. Her husband, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and best-selling author Ron Powers, has said police believe she was killed at random.

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JetBlue is discontinuing its popular route from Burlington International Airport to New York City, and two other airlines will reduce service because of an ongoing shortage of air traffic controllers. JetBlue’s twice-daily flights to and from John F. Kennedy International Airport account for roughly 10 percent of monthly passengers in Burlington, the airport said. Its service ends on January 5. Delta will soon trim flights between BTV and JFK to once daily, down from three, and drop service to and from LaGuardia Airport from four trips daily to two, the airline confirmed. United will drop one of its flights to and from Newark, N.J., though the total number of seats available will increase because the company will use a larger plane, a spokesperson said. The service changes at the airlines took BTV officials by surprise, spokesperson Jeff Bartley said. The airport announced the JetBlue change after hearing of it secondhand. For months, New York-area airports have been hampered by a labor shortage, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to reduce air traffic by allowing airline companies to cut back the number of flights they offer. Industry observers have said routes to smaller cities were most likely to see cutbacks. Burlington is not the only airport affected. JetBlue cited the FAA actions in announcing its decision to end its Burlington service, which it has operated for more than 20 years. “We expect the current air traffic controller shortage to last for some time and do not see a path to feasibly bringing back this flight,” the company said in a statement. JetBlue also pointed to the end of a partnership with American Airlines that allowed the former to expand in the Northeast. A federal judge recently ruled that the corporate “alliance” ran afoul of antitrust law. On Monday, the three members of Vermont’s federal congressional delegation sent a letter to JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes, urging him to reconsider the decision and accusing the company of leaving behind “rural America.” ➆

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ontpelier’s Capitol Plaza hotel member of the Bashara family — know has served as a home away they’re luckier than many business from home for generations of owners who are waiting for building Vermont lawmakers. Just steps from the contractors to become available. Jamsan Statehouse, the State Street hotel has has brought in several dozen construction been the place for late-night poker games, workers who were laboring on its other deal making over dinner and election projects in New England, and it’s housing night celebrations. them in the Capitol Plaza’s hotel rooms. Now the hotel’s new owners are If the legislative session started scrambling to repair damage from the without the Capitol Plaza, the hotel and city’s devastating July flood and to reopen restaurant would be missed. The 1960sin time for the legislative era brick building has session that starts on long been an outpost of January 3. the Statehouse, a place Floodwaters inunwhere lawmakers and dated the heating, airlobbyists could unwind or FORME R GOVERNOR conditioning, electrical meet out of the public eye. J IM DOU GL AS and other systems in the The hotel — once basement; destroyed the kitchen; and known as the Tavern Motor Inn — has soaked the hotel restaurant, J. Morgan’s been a hangout for Republican Party Steakhouse, all the way to the top of the members and legislators in particular. For bar. The water crested at two feet in the a time, it housed the party’s headquarters and hosted its election night soirées in hotel lobby. The hotel had changed hands just four one of the big meeting rooms. The GOP days before the July 10 flood, when its held its regular committee meetings there longtime owners, the Bashara family, sold until the flood. to Jamsan Management of Lexington, But politicos of all persuasions Mass., a company with 70 hotels around gathered in the tall-backed booths at J. New England. Morgan’s to swap stories as a model train Last week, the chilly first floor was a ran in a long loop overhead. Rep. Seth dusty construction site, with a jumble of Bongartz (D-Manchester) recalls playfurniture and equipment packed into the ing in the lawmakers’ regular poker game newly Sheetrocked corridors and meet- that went on upstairs when he was a state ing rooms. senator and representative in the 1980s. Steve Merrill, vice president of opera“It was an honor to be invited,” he said. tions for Jamsan Management, and the hotel’s general manager, Lilli Cain — a HOTEL HIATUS » P.20

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Saint Michael’s College announced on Monday that it has hired a new president: Richard Plumb, a higher education administrator with three decades of experience on college campuses. Plumb will start in January, succeeding Lewis Thayne, who has served as interim president following the retirement of Lorraine Sterritt. Plumb was chosen from more than 90 applicants, the college said in a press release. A first-generation college graduate, Plumb holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Syracuse University and spent about 15 years working as a professor before joining the administrative ranks. His résumé includes a nine-year tenure as the dean of the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in California and a sevenyear stint as executive vice president and provost at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He most recently served as president of Saint Mary’s College of California. The press release announcing Plumb’s hiring described him as a thoughtful, reflective leader with a history of data-driven problem solving. Those skills will be put to the test at St. Mike’s, where enrollment has steadily declined in recent years, leading to financial challenges. The college reported higher enrollment this year, though the level is well below historical averages. “Saint Michael’s prepares students to become catalysts for positive transformation on both local and global scales,” Plumb said in the release. “I am looking forward to working closely with the Edmundites, Board, faculty, staff, and students on innovative ideas and initiatives that will provide the foundation for the College to thrive far into the future,” he said. ➆

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Murderville, Vt. « P.14 A little over a week later, a 27-year-old man from Hartford, Conn., was shot multiple times at a home in Newport Town, just a mile or so from the Canadian border. Officials have said they suspect drugs may have been involved but have not named any suspects in the murder of Wilmer Rodriguez. Two days later, on October 16, Gunnar Watson was found shot dead in his home in Wheelock, a rural area west of Lyndon. The 27-year-old Army National Guard sergeant left behind a wife, two young children and family members baffled by what could have triggered the killing. “We don’t know why this senselessness happened,” his mother-in-law, Elizabeth St. Louis, told WCAX-TV. Around the same time, two 21-year-old Massachusetts men who had been traveling together in Vermont were reported missing by their families. Police put out a public alert for the men, Jahim Solomon of Pittsfield and Eric White of Chicopee, and said they’d disappeared “under suspicious circumstances.” Their bodies were later discovered about a mile apart in rural Eden. Both had been shot in the head. Solomon had a criminal history that included a July 2022 arrest in Pittsfield for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of a largecapacity firearm. Trudeau would not say whether police suspect that the killings were drug related.

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Family members of the men told police the pair had recently been in Burlington, Lowell, Morrisville and Stowe. But the authorities have had trouble tracking down people who might know more, “probably because they’ve either fled or they’re just difficult to find,” Trudeau said.

“It’s making it a little difficult to put it all together,” he added. The same day the young men were found dead in Eden, hunters found another body in a field along Poor Farm Road in Washington. Officials labeled the death of Tanairy “Tanya” Velazquez Estrada, 23, most recently of Barre, as suspicious. Her mother, who lives in Fitchburg, Mass., reported Velazquez Estrada missing the day her body was found, saying she hadn’t heard from her in a week. Police haven’t said how the young woman died, pending toxicology reports, which can take months. Last Friday, hunters found a body in some woods off Gore Road in Plainfield, near L.R. Jones State Forest. Jeffrey Caron, 42, also of Barre, had been shot and his body burned. Two men were arrested on Monday and charged in the killing, which court documents describe as stemming from a drug-related dispute. Two weeks before his murder, Caron had been arrested in Barre with crack cocaine, fentanyl and $3,500 in cash. He and a codefendant were charged with fentanyl trafficking after what local police described as a “lengthy investigation.” Most recently, on Monday, Madden Gouveia, 14, was shot inside a car in Bristol, allegedly by another 14-year-old, Hussein Mohamed of Burlington. Gouveia later died at the hospital, and Mohamed was charged as an adult with second-degree murder. According to a police affidavit filed on

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Tuesday, Gouveia was sitting in the front seat of a car, and Mohamed was handling a 9mm pistol in the seat behind him. Then a shot rang out, and Gouveia exclaimed that he’d been hit. “I didn’t mean to shoot you,” Mohamed said, according to the affidavit. In court in Middlebury on Tuesday, a judge ordered Mohamed to be held without bail. Trudeau, speaking to reporters outside the Morristown Police Department last week prior to Gouveia’s death, acknowledged that the rash of homicides was unusual. From 2012 to 2021, the state averaged 12.4 homicides per year. But that number spiked to 22 in 2022. Vermont’s had 21 so far this year, and Velazquez Estrada’s death could mean the state has already matched last year’s total. The surge is straining staffing levels in the state police’s criminal division, but they’re making progress on cases every day, Trudeau said. “Detectives are tired. They’ve had a lot of overnight cases,” he said. Vermont still has one of lowest violent crime rates in the nation. Even when cases spiked last year, the state’s rate of 3.4 homicides per 100,000 residents was well under the national figure of 6.3 per 100,000. That might not comfort Guy and Pam Trag, who live half a mile from where Velazquez Estrada’s body was found on October 25. From the Trags’ home, Poor Farm Road climbs a steep hill through

thick forest for about a quarter mile, then levels out and passes fields lined with stone walls. Last week, detectives and crime scene technicians scoured the area where the body had been discovered in a stand of trees beside an old stone foundation. Cops asked the Trags whether they had security footage to share. Search-and-rescue dogs and their handlers traipsed across green fields and plodded through woods covered with a crunchy carpet of autumn leaves. The remote road — parts of which are impassible for most vehicles — is sometimes used by people looking to party, Guy Trag said. “Truthfully, it’s probably easier to get away with stuff way out here,” he said. After detectives took down the crime scene tape and packed up their gear, a visit to the spot behind the foundation turned up all manner of detritus. A Mike’s Hard Lemonade six-pack container lay in the brush. Broken glass, bits of rusted metal and charred wood from old bonfires littered the site. Part of an animal skull rested on a rock. Guy Trag said the killings in rural areas such as theirs didn’t leave him feeling less safe. The couple have two Great Danes, Brutus and Bella, who provide all the security they need, he said. But the recent deaths served as a reminder that crime can reach even the most peaceful parts of the state. “It’s sad, really,” he said, “but that’s the culture today.” ➆

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Our Life During Wartime During a previous explosion of Mideast bloodshed, a journalist and his family straddled the divide B Y K E N EL L INGW OOD

rom my Burlington home, I have watched in sorrow as my former neighbors, half a world away, tear each other to bits. Twenty years ago this month, I moved to Jerusalem with my wife and our infant daughter so that I could cover the Middle East as a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. It was an extraordinarily turbulent moment. Palestinian suicide bombers were blowing up crowded buses and cafés on the Israeli side, while Israel countered by assassinating suspected militants and tightening the vise on Palestinians throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Each day seemed to produce fresh tit-fortat mayhem. But over the next four years — amid bombings and checkpoints, shooting wars in Gaza and along the border with Lebanon, and the crumbling of what we kept calling the “peace process” — our American family found a home among two peoples at war. My work put me in contact with people on all sides of a complicated landscape: fellow journalists, politicos, shopkeepers, artists, Jewish settlers and Hamas members. I ventured to virtually every corner of Israel and all over the West Bank and Gaza. I visited the Israeli communities where on October 7 Hamas massacred more than 1,400 civilians and kidnapped 220 others. I tramped the same dense, warren-like neighborhoods of Gaza where relentless air assaults by Israel in recent weeks have killed 8,000 people, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry. My bureau chief and I depended on our tireless Israeli news assistants and Palestinian stringers, all brave and principled souls who took many risks and, in one case, a bullet. My wife, Monique, was no homebody. As an academic and scholar of African American history, she traveled widely, braving Israeli army checkpoints for years to teach about the Harlem Renaissance and the U.S. civil rights movement to Palestinian graduate students in the occupied West Bank. She regularly gave talks to Jewish school groups and Bedouin students on the Israeli side. Donning her mom hat, she bonded with Jews and Arabs alike through playgroups and school events and visits with her Al-Quds University students, who invited her to their villages amid the stony hills and olive groves of the West Bank. 18

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Ken Ellingwood with his wife, Monique, and daughter, Selma, during a hike in southern Israel in 2003

Our daughter, Selma, crossed the divide in her own way. Although we are not Jewish, we enrolled her in a Jewish daycare and nursery school, where she learned prayer rituals and songs in Hebrew that she’d then belt out in the bathtub while I sat on a stool nearby, savoring a moment’s pause. That happy splashing often was the background track as I took calls from our Palestinian stringer in Gaza to hear about the latest Israeli missile strike or clashes between rival Palestinian factions, one of them Hamas. We enjoyed Shabbat meals with Jewish friends and joined Palestinian friends to celebrate iftar, the nightly Muslim feast that breaks Ramadan fasting. My mind clicks through images of quotidian kindness. The Yemeni Jewish falafel maker who would place one of the freshly cooked orbs in Selma’s tiny palm every Friday before Shabbat, taking care that it was not too hot. Selma’s name never failed to delight Palestinians (and many others we met around the Arab world) for its similarity to a popular name in Arabic that comes from the word for peace. “Salma — that’s an Arabic name!” they would offer with

wide-eyed glee. Jewish parents included us in their newborns’ circumcision rites and jotted recipes for dishes that we still use. A Palestinian Christian student of Monique’s put a splash pool on the terrace of her West Bank home so our girls could play together on a scorching Middle East afternoon.

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AMONG TWO PEOPLES AT WAR. Still, living amid two societies in violent conflict — even apart from the physical risk — is no easy feat. The tension can be as palpable as the scents of cardamom and sandalwood incense that thicken the air of Jerusalem’s labyrinthine Old City. It didn’t take long for journalists to learn that the conflict was often about narrative — whose humanity was violated, whose story is the truth, who gets to tell it. It’s a pressure-cooker work environment, with a tangled history

to master, an unending loop of cruelties to track and every published word parsed around the world for evidence of bias. One day, we’d be munching carrot sticks and hummus with journalist friends while the kids scampered in the park and the next be racing to cover fighting in Gaza. Neither Jewish nor Arab, I fell back on a conceit to protect against the strains: I didn’t have a dog in this fight. I was None of the Above. A young Israeli soldier once asked me at a West Bank checkpoint if I was Jewish. No, I told her, my religion is journalism. My editor said the IsraeliPalestinian story would make me a keener reporter. It did: Never was it more essential to see things for yourself. I learned to rely on verbs rather than adjectives, which could get you in trouble. I’m not sure which adjective captures the double-barreled shock of the recent atrocities by Hamas and the deepening misery of 2 million Gaza residents without food or water amid weeks of Israeli bombardment and, now, ground war. In text messages and video calls, Israeli friends sound shattered by the enormity

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of October 7 and shoulder dread about the future. The Israeli kids who went to nursery school with Selma are old enough to march off to war. My former Palestinian colleagues in Gaza face new levels of peril — two dozen journalists have been killed in recent weeks, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Rushdi Abualouf, the stringer whose calls used to break into my daughter’s bath-time reverie, still reports from Gaza. He recently filed a piece for the BBC describing his family’s decision to abandon their home in Gaza City for presumably safer ground in the south. He was sleeping in a tent. Meanwhile, the discourse in the United States at times resembles the back-and-forth rocket attacks that I once covered — volleys of internet memes whose common demand is to “stand” with one side or the other, complexities be damned. Threats and hate speech have followed, along with concerns that the free exchange of viewpoints might get trampled in the process. I wait for the meme that urges everybody to take a breath and listen. I check news updates constantly and catch myself lingering on photos of neighborhoods that look familiar, on the griefpuckered faces of Israeli parents and vacant stares of Gazan children, caked in the dust and grime of the rubble from which they were pulled. I think about the generous, entertaining, peace-minded people on both sides who welcomed, loved and protected my family and who are increasingly denied the potential of each other’s humanity with each passing year. The sun shone bright on the winter day that the movers emptied our Jerusalem apartment for the next posting, Mexico, our cargo fattened by carpets from our travels, the baby’s crib replaced by a big-girl bed. From our window it was possible to see the looming concrete barrier that knifed around the holy city of Bethlehem. Monique and I looked across the bared white tiles of our floor, which dazzled in the sunlight. “Well,” I attempted, “that was that.” I held her and broke into sobs. I was wrong, though — that wasn’t that. I wasn’t finished and likely never will be. If the horrors of the past month have revealed anything, it is just how thoroughly that place can wound a heart, again and again. ➆

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The Vermont Criminal Justice Council has cleared Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad of misconduct after he allegedly threatened to arrest a trauma surgeon who was treating a gunshot wound victim in summer 2022. But the council also took Murad to task for his behavior, writing in an October 10 letter that the chief “lost control” at a time when “an agency head needs to be his/her calmest, most collected self.” “The Subcommittee was surprised, and frankly, taken aback that someone of your experience allowed the encounter, while brief in duration, to elevate to a shouting match,” Heather Simons, the council’s executive director, wrote to Murad. The council’s findings generally aren’t public, but Murad sent the letter to Seven Days on October 25 out of a desire to be transparent, he said. He also shared an email he wrote to staff that day, in which he acknowledged, “I didn’t perform my best that night.” Seven Days first reported the hospital incident in April, after receiving a copy of the surgeon’s confidential complaint that he’d filed with the city’s civilian-led Police Commission. The conduct in question stems from August 2022, when a young man was shot by a friend who was in the back seat of his car. The alleged shooter fled the scene, and EMTs transported the victim to the University of Vermont Medical Center emergency room. A Burlington police officer followed, hoping the patient would identify the shooter. The officer refused several requests from the surgeon to leave the patient’s room. Murad, who was then the acting police chief, arrived at the hospital and threatened to cuff the surgeon and drag him to jail, according to the doctor’s complaint. Murad and Mayor Miro Weinberger subsequently met with the doctor and said the chief apologized to the surgeon. Murad has denied threatening him with arrest. ➆

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fast,” Merrill said. “I called our corporate office and said, ‘We’re in trouble.’” Cain and her husband, Brian, had returned from vacation just that day. As evening approached, Cain realized guests were foraging for food in the gift shop to tide them over for dinner. “Brian said, ‘We’ve got a kitchen; Steve, you’re a cook.’ We knocked on hotel room doors to let everyone know to come on down for a spaghetti supper,” she recalled. As they dined, the staff and about 70 guests watched floodwaters advance up the sloping floor that runs along the front of the building. J. Morgan’s, which is below the lobby, flooded first. “All of a sudden, you couldn’t see the lower restaurant,” Cain recalled. Guests helped her carry furniture to higher ground in one of the conference rooms, where they stacked them on dining tables to keep them out of the water. Travelers forced off the road by the flood also walked in looking for shelter. Staff registered them by hand. With the elevators out of commission, “guests were helping other guests carry their luggage upstairs,” Cain said. She and her husband stayed in a hotel room that night. The staff member who manages the front desk overnight showed up for his shift in a kayak he’d borrowed from his neighbor. He woke the couple at 4 a.m. to report that the kitchen had flooded and helped them rescue pastries, milk and other food for breakfast in the morning. Merrill said the new owners — who also own the Fairfield Inn in Williston and the Delta Hotels in Burlington — are taking the flood in stride. Jamsan’s flood insurance will only cover the removal of the floodwater; the cost of renovations will come out of the bottom line. The owners visited just a few days after the flood and chatted with neighbors, he said.

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Before the advent of modern communications, press and politicians would gather on election night in a small building behind the hotel. There, the Vermont League of Cities & Towns collected returns from nearly 200 town and city clerks — the only immediate source of election results. “That was the place to be — it was packed,” recalled former Vermont governor Jim Douglas, who, as a legislator, stayed at the hotel in the 1980s. “They had free parking,” Douglas remembered wistfully. Vermont Public’s Montpelier newsroom and radio studio is a longtime tenant upstairs. Representative Rick Hube, a Republican from Londonderry who died in 2009, used to stop by every day during the session, longtime reporter Bob Kinzel said. Hube stayed in the hotel room directly upstairs. “He was sort of our window into what was going on with the Republican caucus, because he loved to come down and talk to us,” Kinzel said. “We’d have very frank discussions about legislative politics.” Dozens of lawmakers from far-flung places still rent rooms midweek during the session. The hotel charges them exactly what the state pays them as a housing reimbursement: $162 per night. Out-oftowners on government business stay there, too. Their numbers are growing, Cain said, as Montpelier’s housing supply tightens and apartments become more difficult to find. For Cain, whose father, Fred Bashara Jr., 83, bought the hotel out of bankruptcy in 1993, the hotel is less a political institution than it is a community one. The place keeps a list of famous diners, including Robin Roberts, a Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies in the ’50s, and the actor Werner Klemperer, who played Col. Klink in “Hogan’s Heroes.” More recently, she said, actor and Cabot resident Luis Guzman has frequently dined there. The Capitol Plaza is also where Cain learned about the hospitality business and where all of Bashara’s grandchildren grew up working. But with none of the grandchildren interested in taking over, Bashara decided to sell the hotel and restaurant earlier this year. The sale closed on July 6, just as weather forecasts predicted torrential rain. Merrill, the Jamsan manager, was in town on July 10 to oversee the hotel’s change of hands. He watched on the hotel’s security monitors as the Winooski River overtopped a hastily constructed sand berm behind the building and smashed through a back door made of glass. “What was happening was happening

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“It was all, ‘What do you need?’” Merrill said of the locals they met. When guests do return to the rooms, they won’t find much changed, Cain said. J. Morgan’s is going to keep its name, though the menu will be different. The model train won’t be running, because Bashara was the one who had a passion for keeping it in working order. But many of the staff have stayed on or plan to return. “When the doors open, our guests are going to see familiar faces,” Cain said. Merrill and Cain are confident they’ll have the utilities, kitchen, lobby and meeting rooms in working order by the time the legislative session begins. The upstairs guest rooms were unscathed. But the reopening date might depend on whether hard-to-find elevator parts arrive on time — and, if not, whether the state would allow them to open the rooms to people willing to climb the stairs of the five-story hotel. “Elevators are the biggest obstacle,” Merrill said. ➆

The financially troubled Vermont State University announced last Friday that it will eliminate 33 faculty, administrative and staff positions and reduce benefits for the remaining workers for an annual savings of $12 million. Workers received layoff notices last Thursday, and VTSU’s outgoing interim president, Mike Smith, made the details public in a report that outlines cuts to the schools’ health insurance and retirement plans. The move comes two years after the administration agreed with state lawmakers to cut $25 million from the budget within five years. Twenty-one of the job cuts were at the executive, management or supervisory levels. As he has throughout his six-month tenure, Smith emphasized that the cuts were needed in order to help the system survive without the one-time funding allocated two years ago by the legislature. On Tuesday, Smith released a plan called Optimization 2.0, which detailed cost-saving measures and cuts to academic programs. Those changes, he said, combined with other planned savings and hoped-for revenue increases, will help VTSU attain a balanced budget starting in 2027. “These combined plans will put the university on a stable fiscal track for the first time in decades,” Smith said. The Vermont State Colleges Faculty Federation sharply criticized the recommendations, promising it would seek to block the layoffs. VTSU was created this summer through the merger of the former state colleges in Lyndon, Johnson, Randolph and Castleton. Since the merger process began in 2021, many services, such as human resources and enrollment management, have been combined. Some of the job cuts reflect the fact that the four campuses will be sharing services that they used to have on-site. The report released last Friday says VTSU was about 20 percent overstaffed, based on the ratio of students to full-time staff. Eight people on the campus of Vermont State University-Castleton, the largest of the four campuses, received layoff notices. ➆

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I fully support your coverage of whatever happens in Burlington — the good and the bad. But I feel that some of your recent coverage has painted a darker picture than is really warranted [“Tim Newcomb,” October 18; From the Publisher: “Burlington Blues,” September 27]. I come into Burlington once a week if I can. I have a meal, shop and sometimes just walk around. I see “iffy” people, but usually not that many. I have seen needles, but infrequently. I have never been confronted on the street by anyone. I don’t know what will solve Burlington’s problems, but driving people away certainly isn’t the answer. If people don’t live in, shop in, work in and visit Burlington, it will surely die. I imagine your coverage is intended to stimulate appropriate public responses, but I think you are doing some damage. Many neighbors, who seldom or never go to Burlington say, “Why would I go there? It’s just a dangerous slum.” It’s not. Do we know who our homeless, addicted and mentally ill people really are? Are they really just a bunch of shiftless layabouts who have come to Vermont because we are generous, as some people claim? Or are they Vermonters who have had misfortune — medical problems, loss of a job, spousal abuse, underlying mental issues, an accident, a lousy education? Some of each, I suppose. Some informed reporting on this population would be very helpful. Let’s try to keep the issues in perspective, with maybe some informed coverage about the people who concern us. J. Wick

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WHO’S TO BLAME?

[Feedback: “Welcome All Freeloaders,” September 20] lays blame for the serious problem of homelessness and an increase in drug users on Church Street at the feet of Burlington City Council members, as well as the “state’s huge safety net,” homeless shelters and safe injection sites. One very large factor in the increase of Burlington’s homeless population is the recent rapid increase in house prices, which has dried up available affordable housing. A house that was listed at $385,000 a few years ago might now be on the tax lists at $685,000. A much larger problem is the cost of tax cuts that benefit the middle and upper classes, as well as lower capital gains rates, which benefit the middle and upper classes; huge capital gains exclusions for us homeowners; drastic reductions in the federal estate tax; mortgage interest deductions; etc. 22

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George Bush’s tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 continue to benefit high-income taxpayers while ballooning the deficit. It isn’t homeless drug users who pass laws that funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to the rich. I worked with homeless addicts during the pandemic and saw some state assistance, but nothing like the “huge safety net” that props up property owners and the wealthy. I agree the Burlington City Council made some poor decisions. But who are the real “freeloaders”? Instead of looking for someone else to blame, let’s use our resources and creativity to create a better Burlington for all of us. Jeffrey Jarrad

BURLINGTON

THE PROBLEM IS GENTRIFICATION

[From the Publisher: “Burlington Blues,” September 27]: About a decade ago, Burlington chose to elect a mayor whose primary goal was to make the city into a playland for the rich. Burlington is now essentially a luxury shopping mall, food court and condo association for rich people. Burlington’s current problems aren’t complicated: When you gentrify and build a city to cater to the hyperconsumption of tourists and rich people, everyday life becomes unaffordable for the majority who aren’t rich. Now the rhetoric describing Burlington’s current problems goes something like this: “There are times of day on Church Street when it seems like more people are in the throes of substance abuse, mental illness or both than those going about the business of working, shopping and eating.” As described by local media and the powers that be, the main problem with the lack of affordable housing, unaffordable health care, lack of access to substance-use disorder services and shaming attitudes toward mental health issues is not that more and more people are suffering from a cultural lack of compassion and lack of will to help those in pain, but that the people who need help are keeping others from shopping effectively. And now that the mess that has become Burlington can’t be ignored anymore or festival-ed away, people are upset that the results of chronic poverty and disenfranchisement are harshing their shopping and fine-dining vibes. A real change in this situation means a radical shift in priorities — not just a worry-free shopping spree or night out on the town. Rachel Daley

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NOT ‘WE’ VS. ‘THEM’

In [From the Publisher: “Burlington Blues,” September 27], the author concludes by asking: “Does anyone know what will [fix these problems?],” alluding to behaviors associated with people using drugs in public, those with mental health challenges and the unhoused. The answer is “Yes, we do, but the will of the people has been nullified by the power of the current administration.” The article itself is a sensationalized and slanted depiction of the very real consequences of public health policy derelictions here in Vermont. As usual, the mistreated, prosecuted, disenfranchised and politically underserved are blamed, and the thrust of the article therefore descends morally to what “we” are going to do about “them.” The true question is: “What are we going to do about an administration that ignores science, feigns compassion and hoards money?” H.728, an act related to overdose responses and based in science, was vetoed by our governor in 2022, the worst year ever in Vermont, with 264 neighbors dying of accidental drug overdose. That same year, in a transparent attempt to feign compassion for this exact same group of Vermonters, the governor declared August 31 Overdose Awareness Day… Presently, over $15 million lies idly in Vermont’s coffers, while 2023 screams in our faces every day, sirens blasting, exhausted first responders working overtime, family after family facing the preventable death of a loved one. We, the people, can and must elect leaders who follow proven science, demonstrate compassion and find the resources necessary to care for the most vulnerable. Ed Baker

BURLINGTON

‘BRAND-NEW DAY’ IN BURLINGTON

[Re “Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger Won’t Seek Reelection,” September 28]: Mayor Miro Weinberger is leaving? This is good news. Now we have a chance to elect someone who is quite different. I’ll be looking for someone who can picture either fixing up Memorial Auditorium or replacing it with a replica. I always felt it was allowed to become run-down for someone’s benefit, someone building giant, ugly new buildings on that “Gateway Block.” All of it — parking lot, site of auditorium and everything between. With a new Memorial Auditorium honoring our veterans, we would indeed have a Gateway Block.

We now have the opportunity to find someone who likes people more than buildings. We need to take care of the homeless, instead of playing whack-amole with them. We can make progress. Not with big buildings, but by making the city work. New sidewalks downtown, a wellpatrolled Church Street and truly affordable housing. It’s a brand-new day. A bright new day. Charles Messing

BURLINGTON

DRAWING ATTENTION

Tim Newcomb’s cartoon [October 18] is about a problem that’s been around Burlington for a long time. Making fun of it is not helpful, but maybe drawing attention to it could be. I did business in downtown Burlington for 16 years, and I enjoyed every minute of it, but there were challenges. One August day around 2005, a young man stripped off all of his clothes in front of my completely full restaurant, lay down in the middle of the street and started masturbating. Fortunately, at the time there was an outreach team led by Matt Young that was able to intervene quickly and hopefully get this young man the help he needed. I have spoken with some of today’s major downtown businesspeople. They have told me that yes, it is challenging, but they don’t blame the people with issues. They blame the fiasco of the Burlington Square Mall being torn down and not rebuilt. Then COVID-19, which had a detrimental effect on Church Street foot traffic. Then the “defund the police” movement! Stupid! These problems are not insurmountable, compared with what’s going on now in Israel, what happened in Libya after the dams broke and what’s happening in the Ukraine. In the richest country in the world, and one of the most beautiful U.S. small cities, it’s too bad that more resources can’t be mustered to address these issues. Simply going to the suburbs to do your shopping and dining is not the answer. I’m proud of the good people who labor to put this excellent weekly newspaper out. I hope, going forward, that you can lead the charge to find solutions to the challenging issues around homelessness and drug abuse. Robert Fuller

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Fuller is the former owner of Leunig’s Bistro & Café.

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OBITUARIES Nicki Carmolli

JANUARY 29, 1941-OCTOBER 14, 2023 RUTLAND, VT. Nicki Hanson Carmolli, 82, of Rutland, Vt., died on Saturday, October 14, 2023, at home with his family by his side. Survivors include his wonderful 29-year-old wife, Diane (in a quirk of physics, they were married for 61 years); seven children: Michael of Rutland, Vt., Peter (Gwen Sprigg) of South Burlington, Vt., Joseph (Natalie Waterous) of Grand Haven, Mich., Gina Carmolli Steen (Ray) of Brunswick, Maine, Marya of South Burlington, Vt., Matthew (Casey Luke) of Essex Junction, Vt., and Chiara of Essex Junction; eight treasured grandchildren: Kayla, Ryan, Marley, Ivy, Eileen, Caramia, Nina and Mira; his siblings: Nan Parker, Wendy (Richard) Gibson and Dr. Gino “Terry” (Donna) Carmolli; and his brother-in-law James (Joyce) Gingras. He was predeceased by parents, Gino and Shirley (Hanson) Carmolli; and his sister and brother-in-law, Sandra and Robert Fitzgerald. Nick enjoyed his extended family and all the cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, greats and grands who are so numerous that we will sadly not be able to list them here since we want this obituary to be shorter than War and Peace. Nick was born on January 29, 1941, in Barre, Vt. He attended and graduated from Spaulding High School, class

of ’58, and the University of Vermont, class of ’62. As a great baseball player, he played shortstop and third base on the Spaulding High School 1958 State Championship team and on the 1962 University of Vermont Yankee Conference Championship team. Overlooked by the New York Yankees in the baseball draft after graduation, Nick was not ignored by the army. He was first stationed in Fort Knox, Ky., and then, after a short stint in the Bluegrass State, Nick was awarded an all-expenses-paid trip to Vietnam. Shortly after his tour of duty, lieutenant Carmolli left the army and moved back to the Green Mountain State, where he and Diane made Rutland their home. Nick was a stockbroker and investment adviser for over 50 years and worked until his passing. He ended his career with the great people at Morgan Stanley. He loved his clients and coworkers, past and present, and always approached work with enthusiasm. The Rutland community was a large part of Nick’s life. He taught the thresholds decision-making model to incarcerated residents in the Rutland Community Corrections Center. He was a member of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, where he was a Eucharistic minister there and in the homes of those unable to attend services. From 1992 to 1998, he served on the board of directors for the Rutland

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Regional Medical Center. As a Rotarian for 50 years, he served as a president and was a recipient of the Paul Harris award. He ran the Foreign Youth Exchange Program for close to 20 years and hosted eight exchange students. In the past couple of days, we have received calls and emails from people all over the world who have participated in this remarkable program. Crossword puzzles, Scrabble, Bananagrams, card games, basketball, golf, skiing, cribbage, spelling bees, trivia contests, music and theater were just some of the things he enjoyed. He wrote fun limericks to commemorate the big and little wonders of life. Nick was a loyal, caring and generous person. He was also a lifelong fan of the New York Yankees — many people consider this his only character flaw. For those of us fortunate enough to call him a friend or Dad, he was so much fun to be around. We will remember him for a thousand different and lovely things, and we will miss him dearly. The family wishes to give special thanks to Dr. Bruce Bullock, Dr. Prema Menon, Dr. Veronika Jedlovszky, the Rutland Regional Medical Center and the VNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region for their care during his illness. There will be a celebration of his life in the spring. Tossing Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. For those of you who might like to make a donation in his name, we list these places for your consideration: Rutland Dismas House, 103 Park St., Rutland, VT 05701; Mercy Connections (founded by the Sisters of Mercy to help the underserved adults in education and the community) at 255 S. Champlain St., Burlington, VT 05401; or your local food shelf.

Edna Gage Hicks Norris Poulin AUGUST 12, 1926-OCTOBER 19, 2023 SHELBURNE, VT. It is with great sadness that we share the recent passing of our dear mother, “Grandma Teddy,” and friend, Edna Norris Poulin, on October 19, 2023. Edna’s life will be celebrated at the North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church on November 10, 2023, at 11 a.m. Arrangements are in the care of the Corbin & Palmer Funeral Home. To read the full obituary and send online condolences to the family, please visit vtfuneralhomes.com.

Nancy Beckett MAY 9, 1935OCTOBER 21, 2023 RICHMOND, VT.

Nancy Jackson Beckett, 88, died on Saturday, October 21, 2023, at Sterling House in Richmond, Vt., after living with dementia for many years. Nancy was born on May 9, 1935, in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, to Dorothy (née Boyd) and Richard Jackson. She attended local schools and then left Maine for Bradford Junior College in Massachusetts, graduating with an associate’s degree. While in college, Nancy met Bill Beckett, the love of her life, and together they charted an adventurous path, living in five different states (and St. Maarten!) during their long and happy marriage. Nancy and Bill welcomed David into the family in 1956, and by 1960 they were living in Vermont, pursuing careers and raising their son. Nancy worked during this time as a respiratory therapy technician at what was then the Mary Fletcher Hospital. She always loved hospital settings and stayed connected to work in hospitals, either as a technician, a volunteer coordinator or, later in life, a volunteer herself. While in Vermont in the 1960s and ’70s Nancy developed a quiet feminism and found ways to express her strong belief in social and racial justice. When she discovered that their South Burlington neighborhood had discriminatory racial covenants, she went door-to-door and successfully gathered support to get them invalidated. She often brought her son, David, as a young boy to the University of Vermont to hear speakers such as Barbara Jordan or Shirley Chisholm, or to Memorial Auditorium to hear Joan Baez and other musicians of their time. Instilling this legacy was important to Nancy. Never convinced of the virtues of winter, in 1976 Nancy and Bill began a 32-year adventure away from Vermont, which included a year in St.

Maarten, 11 years in Honolulu, Hawaii and 20 years in Santa Rosa, Calif. In every location, they found meaningful work, made good friends and enjoyed the sunshine. Nancy especially loved Honolulu, finding time in addition to her hospital work to become a long-distance runner, swim in the ocean and immerse herself in the culture of the Hawaiian Islands. Returning to Vermont to be closer to family 15 years ago, Nancy lived a quieter life, taking care of her beloved Bill, spending time with David and his family, and reading just about every book she could get her hands on. She was gracious and kind as aging took a toll and never lost her dry Maine wit. In recent years, Nancy lived at Sterling House, where she received the best of care. The family wishes to extend huge heartfelt thanks to the staff at Sterling House, who made her a part of their caring family for several years. Nancy was predeceased by her husband, William John Beckett, who died in 2012. She is survived by her son, David, and daughter-in-law, Gail Rafferty; her grandchildren, Hanna Caldwell (Ben Bougher) and Noah Caldwell; her first cousin, Bob Jackson (Nonee); and her English cousins, Andy Healy, Tom Southern, Peter Southern, Anna Southern and their families. The family will have a private gathering in Nancy’s memory. Donations may be made to Sterling House, 61 Farr Rd., Richmond, VT 05477.

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OBITUARIES Robert Gene Montstream

OCTOBER 31, 1931OCTOBER 19, 2023 WETHERSFIELD, CONN. On a clear night under a starfilled sky, Dad peacefully left this world. Bobcat, as he was affectionately known, was surrounded by his adoring family in his home in Old Wethersfield, Conn., where he lived for 58 years. Family was an enduring presence and his priority. Bob was kind, grateful, offered thoughtful guidance and had extraordinary grace. He was 91. Born to Edith and John Montstream in Garden City, N.Y., he was due on November 1 — All Saints’ Day. But instead, he arrived a day early, on Halloween, and was proud to say he was a goblin. His Swedish grandparents came to the United States in the 1890s as Bergstroms, but they soon translated the name to Montstream. (Bergstrom means “mountain stream.”) Growing up in Garden City, he would ride his bike nine miles to the ocean and start his swim season on May 1, in the cold sea. He taught his family to respect the ocean by counting waves and observing currents and to never turn your back on the surf. His love for salt water and sailing started then. As a child, every Saturday afternoon he would retreat to his bedroom to listen to the opera broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House. Bob graduated from Wesleyan University in 1954 with a degree in biochemistry. In 1956, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, which he called “Uncle Sam’s Touring Club.” He liked to say, “The military is an experience you couldn’t buy for a million dollars or sell for a dime.” He was stationed in La Rochelle, France. Months before he left for France, he fell in love with a Connecticut College student while on a double date. He and Amalie “Ami” Hughes started a long-distance courtship that soon turned

into an engagement. When Dad left for France, they made a pact for her to join him and marry in La Rochelle. So Mom boarded a small student ship in 1956 to meet Dad. Partway through the journey, a Swedish ship put out an SOS signal when one of its sailors needed medical attention. Since Mom’s ship had a doctor on board, it changed course and went to assist. Meanwhile, the Andrea Doria, a luxury transatlantic ship, collided with a freighter and sank. Mom’s boat was delayed, and Dad had no information on which ship went down. Dad was AWOL as he waited for days, not knowing if Ami would ever arrive. Finally, her ship pulled in, and Bob returned to the base with his bride-to-be, only to be assigned to dig ditches for days as his punishment for not returning to base on time. Bob and Ami were married on August 4, 1956, and moved into married housing to start their life together. When Dad had days off, they traveled through Europe camping and purchasing antique treasures from collectors in the countryside. Returning to the U.S., Bob sold health insurance and applied to law school, where he was accepted at the University of Connecticut for night classes. But when his boss learned he was attending law school, he got a “punishment transfer” to San Francisco. Not one to be slowed down, Bob enrolled in night classes at the University of San Francisco School of Law. During

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this time, he negotiated a multimillion-dollar plan with a provision to include preexisting conditions and pregnancies. This was the largest sale by his company, a plan that still exists today. Nevertheless, when his boss discovered that he was attending law school, he was transferred again, this time to Phoenix, Ariz. With no law school there, they did not stay long. Bob, Ami, 1-year-old Katharine and their cat drove to Hartford, Conn., where he reenrolled in the UConn Law School. There, Bob attended both daytime classes and night school until he graduated in 1964. Walter was born just before graduation. With Ami caring for the two kids and Dad in school full time, there was little income. They lived in Charter Oak Terrace, a project in the north end of Hartford, where subsidized rent was just $25 per month. In 1965, the family bought a house across from a park in Old Wethersfield, Conn. Although the house needed serious repair, they took on the challenge. In a true labor of love, they worked tirelessly for many years to fix up the 1790s home and landscaped the yard with the beautifully installed rock walls and gardens. Bob loved to salvage big stones from the brownstone homes that were being bulldozed in Hartford. On Saturday mornings, he would arrive at demolition sites with a trailer, a come-along, winches, crowbars and logs. To her delight, Katharine walked away from Saturday morning cartoons and joined her dad to help click the winch to move the chained rocks inch by inch. Today, the property is filled with handsome stone walls, benches, patios and slate with brick walkways — all built by Bob. Their third child, Sydney, was born in 1968. In the early 1970s, Bob started his own law practice as a defense litigator. His briefcase and Dictaphone were never far from his

side. After a 25-year career, he stayed on theme with his Halloween birthday and retired from his firm, Montstream & May, on Friday the 13th — December 13, 1996. He loved lawyer jokes and happily surprised people when he’d say they were all true. When it comes to passions, Bob had many: skiing, birding, biking, sailing and dog walks while wearing his Sherlock Holmes hat. His passion for bird-watching led to daily bike excursions with binoculars around his neck, a bird book in his back pocket, donning his 1970s bike helmet. More recently, he rode his stationary bike multiple times per day, aiming to “get to celery” — the green zone when one exceeds 10,000 steps daily. His longest “celery” streak was 34 days, which ended on September 24. Happiest on the slopes, Bob always made time for skiing. Every flake had him grinning in anticipation to get up the mountains to ski with his father at Jiminy Peak and stay at the New York Ski Club cabin in Berlin, N.Y. Starting on a weighty rope tow, he taught his children and Ami to ski. The kids loved it, and every weekend throughout the winters was spent on the slopes — rain, blizzards or ridiculously cold temperatures never discouraged them. “A bad day on the slopes is better than a good day at the office” was his motto. Bob was a celestial navigator, learning how to use the stars and a sextant to safely sail anywhere from Nova Scotia to Cape Cod with his best friend, Phil. In 1976, he took his family on a sailing adventure to Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard and Cuttyhunk. While some of the family members suffered from seasickness and thought this was the worst trip ever, the girls delighted in every minute: the adventure on the open sea, sleeping below, jumping off the boat and helping set the anchor.

No one made a better Caesar salad than Bobcat, and he was quick to share his recipe. It took him years of careful observation to perfect it. There was a restaurant in Hartford that made the Caesar salad at your table, but they wouldn’t share the recipe. Bob was not dissuaded. He would observe the portions, the ingredients, and ask a different question each time. “What kind of olive oil are you using?” After a few years, he perfected it, and his lucky family and friends were the recipients of many delightful Caesar salads. Request the recipe — we will share. Bobcat had five grandchildren and never missed a chance to watch their soccer games, cheer at a track meet, and attend graduations and concerts. Trick-or-treating was high on his list of fun things to do with the kids, so every year his Halloween birthday was spent in costume with the kids, roaming the neighborhoods for candy. As he was 100 percent Swedish, his Viking costume was a favorite. Bob’s family and friends knew him for his joyful smile and his bright blue eyes. He was the most supportive dad, and no one could make a friend out of a stranger faster than Bob. Anytime it felt like the wheels might come off, Dad would give us confidence by calmly stating, “It’ll happen.” At 91, the parade of loving family and friends who visited him while he was in hospice care was very moving. He openly expressed his love for each of them. In his last weeks he shared, “Now I’m just trying to hang on to congratulate those around me — for all they’ve done and what

they’ll do in the future.” Bobcat never missed a chance to say, “I’m so proud of you,” “That’s terrific!” or “I love you.” Bobcat is survived by his bride of 67 years, Amalie Maxon Hughes Montstream of Wethersfield; their three children and families: Katharine Montstream, her husband, Alan Dworkshak, and their children, Charlotte, Torsten and Sylvie, all of Burlington, Vt.; Walter Montstream and his dog Wyatt of Hebron, Conn.; Sydney Montstream-Quas and her husband, Michael Quas, of Barrington, R.I., and their children, Adeline and Maxon; his brother, John Montstream, his wife, Marion, and greatnieces Christie Maether and Lyndsey Germano, all of Rochester, N.Y.; his sister-in-law Gini Hughes Anslinger of Altoona, Pa.; his nephew Jim Montstream and husband Mike Schiele of Burlington, Vt.; his cousin, Jan Larkin, of West Hartford, Conn.; and his “adopted” son, Eduardo Lex, and his wife, Diana, of Colchester, Conn. He was predeceased by his nephew Johnny Montstream of Rochester, N.Y. A Halloween-themed celebration for Bobcat will be held in Old Wethersfield at the Kenney Memorial Cultural Center on Sunday, December 17, 4 to 7 p.m. Costumes are encouraged, and friendly goblins are kindly invited. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Intervale Center, 180 Intervale Rd., Burlington, VT 05401 (intervale.org/donate) or to Spectrum Youth & Family Services, 31 Elmwood Ave., Burlington, VT 05401 (spectrumvt.org).

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IN MEMORIAM Martha Stevens JUNE 13, 1924OCTOBER 19, 2023 SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT.

Martha Jane (Hunt) Stevens, known to her friends as MJ, of Burlington, Vt., passed away peacefully on October 19, 2023, at the Residence at Quarry Hill. She was 99 years old and in good health mentally and physically until her death. Born on June 13, 1924, in Buffalo, N.Y., she was the older daughter of Stanley F. and Jessie (Balfour) Hunt of Palmer, Mass. When Martha

was 6 years old, her family moved to Fayetteville, N.Y., a small village outside

Virginia Brooks MARCH 28, 1933SEPTEMBER 7, 2023 WINOOSKI, VT. Virginia Brooks, age 90, of Winooski, Vt., passed away peacefully on September 7, 2023. Virginia was a kind and generous woman who touched the lives of many. Virginia is survived by five of her seven children, 23 grandchildren, and numerous great- and greatgreat-grandchildren. She was a beloved mother and grandmother, and her family meant the world to her.

and, finally, after retirement, to Burlington, Vt., to be near their two sons, Jonathan H. Stevens and Andrew B. Stevens. She and Don both loved music and travel and enjoyed many trips in their 54 years together. Don predeceased her in 2004. MJ loved to play golf and until recent years was an active member of the Burlington Country Club. She was a member of the Burlington chapter of PLO, a national philanthropic sorority, and a member of the College Street

Congregational Church in Burlington. In addition to her two sons, she is survived by her sister, Anne Hunt Brock, of Bloomfield, Conn.; a nephew, Charles F. Brock; a niece, Lelia B. Alexander; and her childhood friend Jean Frederick of Sierra Madre, Calif. A memorial service will be held on Friday, November 3, 11 a.m., at the College Street Congregational Church, 265 College St., Burlington. Arrangements are in the care of Corbin & Palmer Funeral Home.

Virginia’s love for children was evident in her career choices. She held various

roles that allowed her to nurture, educate and guide them. She dedicated her time, energy and talents as a nanny, licensed home daycare provider, Head Start teacher, foster mother and foster grandmother. Her commitment to nurture and support children made a positive impact on countless young ones. Virginia’s faith was an important aspect of her life, and her involvement in the Salvation Army was an essential part of making her the woman she became. She found solace,

strength and community in her places of worship. For the last 20 years of her life, she was an active member of the Salvation Army in Burlington, Vt., and for the previous four years in the Rutland Corp. She will be dearly missed by her family, friends and all those whose lives she touched. Above all, she leaves a legacy of kindness, generosity and love which will continue to inspire and uplift those who knew her personally or by her gifts. Please join the family in a celebration of Virginia’s

life to be held on November 4, 2023, at 1 p.m., at the Burlington Salvation Army, 64 Main St., Burlington, VT 05401. In lieu of flowers, Virginia would appreciate contributions be made to the Virginia Brooks Fund at the Burlington Salvation Army, at the address above, and sent to the attention of Captain Felisha Davis. Your monetary gift will help continue the important work of this organization. For more details about Virginia’s life, please go to vtfuneralhomes.com.

chance. He was an avid hiker, snowboarder, windsurfer and photographer, but one of his most notable achievements was designing and building the fastest land yacht in the world, breaking the world record in 1999. He spent years

building his craft, the Iron Duck, in his basement with the help of family and friends, using some old Volvo parts and a lot of duct tape. A decade later, he helped a fellow land sailor break the record, and he enjoyed watching the progress of the New Zealand team who broke the record again in 2022. In addition to his world record achievement, he is remembered for the smaller but significant moments that comprise the legend that is Bob. Long ago we coined the term “Bobventures” as those around him would be pulled into his gravity and end up on an adventure with Bob. Bobventures ranged from going on a hike you never

even knew existed — just stopping on the side of the road and saying, “There it is!” and pointing to a very nondescript trailhead with an amazing view at the end — to going to Lowe’s for the fifth time on any given day. From changing snow tires at the Swedish Pit to being taught to windsurf to fishing for eels by flashlight off Perkins Pier to being taken for a ride in an iceboat, there were many Bobventures that family and friends embarked on. Bobventures also included being squeezed into a dry suit while he tested the ice, as onlookers grew curious about the guy with a giant ice saw carving out chunks. He would bring these ice samples home to take beautiful photos of

the crystal structure. He used these pictures and many hours of research and analysis to create a website about lake ice (lakeice.squarespace. com) that has been described as “encyclopedic” by his fellow ice lovers. We are grateful for the Bobventures we had and like to think that he is out sailing his boat again and cruising along at top speed without a care in the world. Bob is survived by his wife of 42 years, Mary; his brothers, William and Fredrick; his sisters, Nancy and Carol; his three children, Jennifer, Andrew and Emily; and four grandchildren. A Bobventure-themed celebration will be scheduled at a later date.

Robert Dill OCTOBER 1, 1948OCTOBER 28, 2023 BURLINGTON, VT.

Speed and outdoor enthusiast Bob Dill will be remembered as the Iceman, World Record Holder, Bob-o-tron, Grandpa Bob and Dad. Born in Sewickley, Pa., Bob graduated from Northeastern University and spent his career as a chemical engineer and the head of research and development for the Whiting Company in Burlington, Vt. Outside of work, Bob was well known on the icy lakes around Vermont, handing out his homemade ice picks and participating in ice safety classes whenever he got the

Syracuse, where she graduated from high school, then graduated from Pembroke College in 1945 and the women’s college at Brown University. After graduating from Brown, she worked for the New England Telephone Company in Hartford, Conn., and Boston, Mass., until 1950, when she married Donald W. Stevens, a Yale graduate, who was working in Brockton, Mass., for Liberty Mutual Insurance. His career in casualty insurance took them to California, Ohio, New York

Bobbie Mullen JULY 1, 1930OCTOBER 13, 2003

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost

Patrick Buffet 1938-2022 We miss you.

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The former Bove’s restaurant on Pearl Street in Burlington

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or four years, a demolished downtown mall and a series of broken promises left a gaping wound in the center of Burlington. The three-acre block walled off with concrete barriers was synonymous with urban blight, an object of frustration and derision that earned the property its own moniker: “the Pit.” In November 2022, bulldozers and cranes finally resumed work on the longstalled CityPlace Burlington project, bringing relief and renewed optimism about the future of Vermont’s largest downtown. Developers say that by 2025 the cavernous hole will be replaced by

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more than 400 apartments and an array of new businesses. But as steel beams rise from the Pit, other buildings in the downtown core remain vacant. Though small in number, they occupy highly visible locations on major downtown thoroughfares. The defunct Memorial Auditorium looms over Main Street, the former YMCA displays its boarded-up windows on College, the shuttered Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception sits dormant on Pine, and the crumbling Bove’s Café has become a target for vandals along Pearl. In a city with little undeveloped land, the blighted properties could provide

much-needed housing or new cultural and commercial space. Instead, they sit empty, becoming potential hazards and a thorny challenge for the city to regulate. As time passes, places such as the Pit project disorder and decay. They contribute in an outsize way to the perception that Burlington is in decline. They also stoke concern about possible similar deterioration of downtown buildings that are soon to become vacant, including a 50,000-square-foot state office building and a Walgreens pharmacy, both on Cherry Street. The city maintains a register of vacant buildings, defined as those unoccupied

for at least 210 days. As of October, it included 11 small residential structures and six privately owned commercial properties. Seven Days examined each of the commercial buildings, plus the city-owned Memorial Auditorium, to understand their current condition and prospects for redevelopment. Businesspeople and city officials are actively working to reuse some of these buildings. For others, though, transformation is years away. There’s no one reason the seven properties have languished. They could be demolished, but city regulations require owners of historic buildings and those in

CORE VACANCIES The City of Burlington maintains a register of vacant buildings, defined as those unoccupied for at least 210 days. As of October, it included 11 small residential structures and six privately owned commercial properties.

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the downtown core to have a redevelopment plan before bringing in the wrecking ball. Redevelopment takes time, motivation and money — and right now, building is expensive. Interest rates are high, construction crews are hard to come by, and materials costs have risen dramatically. Those factors narrow the types of projects that pencil out, according to Yves Bradley, a real estate broker and partner at V/T Commercial. Many property owners are waiting for market conditions to change before embarking on redevelopment. “It makes sense to sit on it,” he said. But what’s best for the owner of a blighted building may not be what’s best for the neighborhood. That’s why Burlington, like many U.S. cities, regulates vacant properties. Their owners must pay annual fees of up to $3,000 unless they can show they’re rehabbing, demolishing or marketing the structures for sale. They must also keep entryways secure, maintain the grounds, and keep the places debris- and graffiti-free. The city can fine property owners for letting buildings fall into disrepair, though the penalties are typically modest: Since 2018, the city has fined eight delinquent property owners a total of just $4,400. Burlington could take more aggressive enforcement measures. Under a city ordinance, officials can declare decrepit buildings a public nuisance and ask a judge to intervene. And state law allows cities and towns to use eminent domain to seize properties needed for “urban renewal” projects. Mayor Miro Weinberger said the buildings on the city’s list haven’t risen to that level of concern. “It’s possible that could change in the future,” he added. Bill Ward, the city’s code enforcement director, agreed. His philosophy is to nudge property owners to act instead of

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forcing them to. But he also said the city isn’t afraid to push harder — and it has, by pursuing at least one owner in court for running unpermitted businesses on its vacant lots. Ward has also considered that higher fees could be effective; he’s heard of at least one city that doubles its vacant building fees every year, up to a maximum amount. There could be “widespread support” for that in Burlington, Ward said. Vermonters for People-Oriented Places, a citizen group that supports

denser housing in Burlington, believes taxing vacant lots at higher rates could help solve the problem. Property owners “would be much more likely to redevelop,” member Jak Tiano said, “or at the very least sell it to somebody who will.” Weinberger, a former housing developer, maintains that Burlington doesn’t have a vacant building problem. Developers are still interested in the Queen City, he said, pointing to apartment buildings going up on South Champlain and Pine streets.

More housing could be coming to parts of the South End, where, until recently, zoning banned residential development. Some of the run-down structures reflect the normal transitions that cities always undergo, Weinberger said, noting that he thinks some of the vacant properties have owners who are motivated to redevelop them. “A couple of these others,” he acknowledged, “I’m less optimistic.” BLIGHT SITES

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CITYPLACE BURLINGTON: Developers say that by 2025, the former mall will be replaced by more than 400 apartments and numerous businesses.

WALGREENS on the corner of Cherry Street and South Winooksi Avenue is closing this month.

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he former Bove’s restaurant is no bigger than a house, but more graffiti covers its art deco façade, vinyl siding and boarded-up doors than adorns most city blocks. So plentiful is the spray paint, and of such modest quality is the artwork, that this onetime shrine ADDRESS: 68 Pearl Street to simple, saucy OWNERS: Rick and Mark Bove pleasures now YEAR BUILT: 1877 resembles a dive VACANT SINCE: 2016 bar bathroom The Boves PROGNOSIS: No redevelopment stall turned did present plan or intent to sell CHALLENGES: Privately held; inside out. plans to management concerns Along one wall, a redevelop the busted AC unit lies in restaurant the tall brush, as do the property remnants of a mattress as recently frame, which has been as 2020. They shredded and stripped like wanted to build a the carcass of some wild beast. 78-room hotel and 20-unit “Is Bove’s zoned to look this apartment complex, and the blighted?” Burlington resident Haik city agreed to sell them the Bedrosian wrote last month in a report to adjacent public parking lot SeeClickFix, the online portal to report if construction began. The problems and maintenance issues to the brothers dubbed the project city. “This is like looking at the rotting Hotel Champlain and George corpse of old Burlington.” Street Lofts, though the Hilton Bedrosian’s is one of numerous on nearby Battery Street has since complaints about the property on file claimed the Hotel Champlain moniker. since the Bove family closed the Italian Mark cited the pandemic, cost, restaurant in December 2015 and built a “turnaround time” and “focus on pasta sauce factory in Milton. Residents other work” as reasons the brothers have called attention to profanity-laced have abandoned the project. (The graffiti, discarded needles, squatters Boves recently purchased a marina on and, increasingly, the owners who have Malletts Bay and, according to propallowed the building to look the way it erty records, a condominium complex does. in Colchester.) Mark and Rick Bove should “be Rather than sell the Pearl Street required, yes required,” to fix it up or property, located along a major east-west tear it down, a second resident wrote in artery through the city, the brothers September. intend to wait for redevelopment condiNeither appears likely anytime soon. tions to improve, Mark wrote. “This Burlington site has no plans,” Mark Any new project would likely require told Seven Days by email. cooperation from both the city and the 28

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Boves. Yet negotiations could face added scrutiny because of the Boves’ poor track record as property managers. A 2021 investigation by Seven Days and Vermont Public found persistent code noncompliance across the brothers’ portfolio of apartments around the state. The reporting, Weinberger said, gave his administration pause. “They would have to come forward with new partners involved or some other assurances,” he said. The Pearl Street corridor traces the northern edge of downtown, across from the bus transit center and abutting Old North End neighborhoods. It’s an eclectic commercial strip, with apartment buildings, state offices, a glass supplier, a pizza shop and a Bove-owned laundromat. The defunct restaurant, a mainstay for nearly 80 years, is down the street from the empty, fenced-off Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and the soonto-be-vacant John J. Zampieri State Office Building. That area of downtown has sputtered in recent years, Weinberger said. He expects, however, that the CityPlace development and a plan to reconnect cutoff sections of Pine and St. Paul streets will improve the prospects for redevelopment. The Boves have paid periodic vacant

building fees, but they have not been fined for noncompliance with upkeep rules, city data show. Mark said company employees sweep the parking lot daily, looking for used needles and trash. He declined to tour the building with Seven Days, citing “safety reasons for everyone.” The Boves also plan to remove some trees near the parking area in light of “recent events” that Mark declined to specify. “With a well-lit parking lot,” he wrote, “this will prevent more mischief from happening.” The property is “near and dear to our Family,” Mark wrote. They want to do something “positive” at the site, but the brothers don’t want to “rush into anything [because] our decision will affect our entire neighborhood community.” The building is already “bringing down the neighborhood,” neighbor Naomi Roof wrote on SeeClickFix this fall. “By allowing this to occur, it’s giving the residents of this area the impression we aren’t worth investing in.” As of late October, someone had written a seemingly hopeful message across one of the former restaurant’s boarded-up windows: “Bove’s returning 2025.” Nostalgic longing, perhaps. Or a bitter joke.

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The former Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Pine Street in Burlington

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

he former Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is a rare green space in downtown Burlington. Its 2.2 acres are dotted with more than 100 honey locust trees, planted in a grid to complement the angular building at the center. Walled in by a fence, the urban oasis at 20 Pine Street is likely to remain

undisturbed for some time. The parish that owns the building wants to demolish it, but a group of preservationists has filed suit to try to save it. Built in 1977, the cathedral and its grounds were designed by a pair of prominent modernist architects: Edward Larrabee Barnes and Dan Kiley. The parish closed the church in 2018

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The Handys tried again in summer 2019, and in an early 2020 hearing, the city asked for more information about how the project would handle stormwater runoff, according to permitting records. Nine months later, the Handys still hadn’t provided a plan, and the city denied the application. The Handys sued — then started storing junk cars on the property without a permit, the city said. The city ticketed them, and the Handys sued over that, too. The Handys’ company eventually dropped the apartment permit appeal, but the junkyard case dragged on until last month,

t’s been some time since anyone mowed the grass at 110 Riverside Avenue, a shuttered car repair shop near the Winooski city line. Plywood covers the windows and doors, and dirt coats the vinyl siding. A tattered tarp hangs from a garage bay. Owned by five siblings in the Handy family, the decaying structure is slated for court-ordered demolition in December. But given the Handys’ past tussles with the city — over this property and others — that outcome is anything but certain. The family declined to speak with Seven Days for this story. Their company bought the 1.3-acre property in 2001 for $247,000, but it’s assessed at twice as much today, according to city property records. The building occupies a desirable location on Riverside Avenue on the city’s east side, which connects Winooski with Burlington’s Old North End. City plans describe the Riverside corridor as ripe for high-density housing and commercial buildings. In the more than two decades they have owned 110 Riverside, the Handys appear to have made only half-hearted attempts to use or redevelop it. They won city approval to build a 57-unit apartment building with senior housing in 2013, then let the permit lapse. The city granted two yearlong extensions, but nothing was ever built.

A shuttered car repair shop on Riverside Avenue in Burlington

preservationists, however, argue that due to dwindling attendance, then put the former cathedral is significant in the property on the market for $8.5 million. There’s a potential buyer lined other ways, which could protect it from up, though the parish won’t disclose the being razed. They want the property to name. be repurposed without destroying the building or its honey locust landscape. The parish wants to tear down Weinberger, for one, would the building as a means of like to see the lot redeveldeconsecrating the oped. The cathedral property. The city determined the is on a block that ADDRESS: 20 Pine Street building isn’t has for years been OWNER: Cathedral of historic because disconnected from Immaculate Conception Parish Charitable Trust the city street grid it’s less than 50 YEAR BUILT: 1977 by the former years old, and it VACANT SINCE: 2018 Burlington Town granted the parish PROGNOSIS: Possible Center mall. The a demolition permit sale and redevelopment in January. But CityPlace project that CHALLENGES: Litigation will replace the mall Preservation Burlincludes rebuilding the ington sued in both missing sections of Pine state and federal court. The federal and St. Paul streets, a move case was dismissed, that Weinberger says will create “a real flourishing” northern edge of but the state case is downtown, including the cathedral still pending. lot. At issue is whether the city was obligated to give “We really may think of that whole the parish a demolition permit. The area of town very differently in the time to come,” he said. “There’s a real opportuparish argues that because the buildnity there.” ing isn’t historic, the city wouldn’t C.L have a reason to deny the permit. The

when it agreed to pay a $12,500 fine and bulldoze the building within 60 days of receiving a demolition permit. It got the permit on October 15, setting the demo deadline to mid-December. The Handys also have to remove the junk cars and

Address: 110 Riverside Avenue Owner: Sisters & Brothers Investment Group (Handy family) Year built: Circa 1935 Vacant since: In dispute. Owner says it was never vacant; city says it has been for at least a decade. Prognosis: Court-ordered demolition; owners’ plans unknown Challenges: Expired permits

submit a plan to redevelop the lot by March 2025, the court order says. Ward, the code enforcement director, said the city is pleased with the ruling. “It’s about bringing [the property] back to productive use and not having it be an eyesore with a bunch of trashed cars sitting there endlessly,” he said. “That’s a great, positive step.” But the Handys haven’t always done as they’re told. A city ordinance says landlords must pay to relocate tenants who are displaced by a fire, but the Handys still haven’t done so for the renters who had to leave their St. Paul Street apartments after an electrical fire in May. The city ponied up instead and, in mid-October, placed a lien on the property for nearly $20,000. The Handys have also failed to address code violations at their problem-plagued apartment house at 184 Church Street. Burlington resident Carter Neubieser, who is buying his first home on Riverside this month, said the Handy property is a blight on a neighborhood that has a lot of potential, especially for more housing. Vacant buildings such as the Handys’ — and the empty lot up the street that was once home to the Koffee Kup Bakery — would be ideal for affordable housing for young families such as his, Neubieser said. Meantime, the Handy building just sits there. “It has these negative impacts on the rest of us,” Neubieser said.

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t a meeting this month, Mayor Weinberger will ask for city councilors’ blessing to work with a private developer on a potential redevelopment of the dilapidated but historic Memorial Auditorium — one that might mean tearing it down. Instead of focusing solely on Memorial, this time the mayor is eyeing redevelopment of the entire Gateway Block, a handful of properties along the Main Street entrance to downtown. The block also includes a city parking lot at Main and South Winooski Avenue and two privately owned properties: the former home of Midtown Motel, now demolished, and a Queen Anne-style duplex that houses Inkwell Emporium, a witchcraft store and tattoo parlor. Samantha Sheehan, Weinberger’s spokesperson, said the mayor will ask councilors for “conceptual approval to explore a public-private partnership,” a process that could include looking at financing options and conducting appraisals. Any city spending would stay within the city’s debt limit, Sheehan said. If the concept looks feasible, Weinberger would ask councilors to approve a more formal agreement with the developer in March, she said. A big difference this time around: The city isn’t committing to keep Memorial standing. “We are entering this knowing that it may not be possible to fully save the site,” Weinberger said. Built in the 1920s as a tribute to World War I veterans, Memorial became a central part of civic life in Burlington, hosting college basketball games, opera singers and orchestras, Vermont Golden Gloves boxing matches, and midcentury celebrities such as TV cowboy Gene Autry. The basement punk-rock venue 242 Main drew renowned musical acts, including Fugazi and Black Flag. 30

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ADDRESS: 145 South Union Street & 220, 230 and 234-6 Main Street OWNERS: City of Burlington, Midtown Associates (Jeff Nick & Dan Morrissey) YEAR BUILT: 1927 (Memorial Auditorium); circa 1950 (Midtown Motel) VACANT SINCE: 2016 (Memorial Auditorium); 2021 (Midtown Motel demolished) PROGNOSIS: Uncertain CHALLENGES: Finding a private developer; deciding whether to tear down Memorial

The city closed Memorial in 2016 after years of deferred maintenance rendered the building structurally unsafe. Steel beams are rusting, and the roof is letting in water. The city has been storing critical

computer hardware in the basement, though the mayor’s office says the equipment will be relocated before year’s end. Meantime, the building’s perimeter has become a magnet for graffiti, trash and discarded needles. The city plans to erect a fence around it. Attempts to reuse the building have failed. The pandemic shelved a 2019 proposal for South Burlington concert venue and promoter Higher Ground to operate an event space there; the city planned to support it with a $15 million bond. The city’s hopes for another bond withered in 2021 when the school district committed to building a new high school. The city shares a debt limit with the district.

Memorial Auditorium

In spring 2022, Weinberger asked city councilors whether the city should preserve the building or demolish it. The council chose the former, and the city issued a request for proposals to renovate the space. At the time, Weinberger noted, “this administration has never supported the demolition of Memorial.” But when none of the three bids worked out, Weinberger changed his tune. His latest effort wouldn’t require Memorial to stay standing — though it wouldn’t necessarily be torn down, either. “We’re trying to remove as many of the constraints that have kept those past efforts from succeeding as possible,” he said. That includes getting what Weinberger called “full site control” of the block, including the two middle parcels owned by real estate broker Jeff Nick and business partner Dan Morrissey. Weinberger wouldn’t disclose the deal they’d worked out but said neither Nick nor Morrissey would be the “principal partners” in redeveloping the block. Nick didn’t respond to interview requests. He and the city have been at odds since 2021, when Nick demolished the defunct Midtown Motel, a 1950s-era building down the street from Memorial, and started using the empty lot for parking. Kelly Devine, executive director of the Burlington Business Association, said a new Gateway Block would improve the look of downtown. The current view from that block, with a parking lot on one side and a gas station on the other, isn’t particularly inspiring. “It would be nice to have a real, actual gateway,” she said. C .L.

Former Duncan’s Auto shop on St. Paul Street

Building

Stronger Futures Former Duncan’s Auto Service

His application was eventually or nearly 70 years, an automobile service station ruled the corner of approved. The new siding and front windows have St. Paul and Kilburn streets, just south of downtown Burlington. If already been tagged with graffiti multiple all goes to plan, a more modern business times since they were installed this summer, could open on the small lot: a cannabis Young said. But the renovation has otherwise been moving forward as planned. shop. On a brief tour last month, Young Vacant since late 2021, the building needs plenty of work first. The roof and recalled the auto shop’s previous owner, “Old Man Duncan,” for whom he worked interior walls suffered briefly as a kid. significant water “He had a phone here damage in recent and his lift here, his tools years. Complicatright here behind him,” ing matters, the ADDRESS: 291-3 Young said, gesturing building is listed St. Paul Street around the shop, which on Vermont’s OWNER: Alan Young has been gutted down to historic registry, YEAR BUILT: 1950s the studs. a designation that VACANT SINCE: 2021 PROGNOSIS: Planned Young hopes to has implications cannabis shop begin working with a for any proposed CHALLENGES: designer soon to get renovations. Permitting the space ready for Current owner prime time. He’s also Alan Young purchased planning to repave the the property from Leo parking lot and install new lightDuncan in 1999, beating out ing. His son, who runs a successful other interested parties, includwholesale business in Maine known ing the Handy family, he said. Most as Calendar Islands Cannabis, would recently, it was home to Duncan’s Auto Service, but that business moved to then need to obtain permits to legally sell Intervale Avenue and the building sank weed in Vermont. Red tape isn’t the only obstacle. Burlinto disrepair. It attracted graffiti and unhoused people, who camped in a small ington already has nine weed stores, and grove of trees behind the building. Young three more could open soon. Young said he recently cut down the trees to make the isn’t too concerned about the competition, however. St. Paul Street is a busy road, he area more visible. Young wanted to change the front said, and offers something most other local windows and install corrugated metal weed shops don’t: easy access for commutsiding. But city staff, who described the ers and, potentially, cannabis delivery drivbuilding as having a “very uninviting and ers, should Vermont eventually allow for unattractive street presence,” worried that such service. “I tell everybody, it’s location, locaYoung’s planned rehab would disrupt the tion, location — if you have that, all building’s historic character. They suggested Young instead consider you’ve got to do is make yourself a good a more historically compatible material for name and reputation, and you can do the siding, such as porcelain enamel. Doing anything,” he said. “This is one of those so would have put a huge hole in his budget, corners.” C . F. Young said. So he said he offered the city an ultimatum: He could either pull his permit and leave the eyesore as is — or he could BLIGHT SITES » P.32 move forward with the metal siding.

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Former YMCA

he historic former home Graffiti on the doors of the Greater Burlington of the former Greater Burlington YMCA YMCA has devolved into one of the Queen City’s most prominent blighted properties — and a symbol of its most pressing challenges. Under the control of out-of-state owners, the property at 266 College Street has quickly deteriorated in the three years since the familyADDRESS: 266 College Street focused nonprofit moved half OWNER: Giri Hotel Management a block away. YEAR BUILT: 1932 VACANT SINCE: 2020 The building is covered PROGNOSIS: Plan to demolish with graffiti. Used needles some of the building, build an are found outside almost 89-unit apartment complex daily. And property managCHALLENGES: Unclear ers are on constant guard against trespassers, who have proven adept at infiltrating the boarded-up building. A WCAX-TV reporter got inside earlier this year and revealed the shocking mess inside. “Imagine if I said to you five years ago, ‘This is what the YMCA is gonna look like,’” said real estate broker Yves

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Bradley, whose children went to preschool at the building. “You wouldn’t believe me.” A facelift, though, is in the works. Current owner Giri Hotel Management has submitted plans to construct a six-story, 89-unit apartment complex on the property. The proposal calls for demolishing most of the existing building, save for the southern-facing portion on College Street, which is considered its most historic feature. No one appealed the company’s zoning application, meaning demolition could start soon. Bradley, among others, will be watching closely. He was the listing agent when the YMCA first put the property on the market in 2015. At the time, Bradley called the property a “complicated site.” Built during the Great Depression, the mazelike building once held a bowling alley, two

swimming pools, a ballroom and other community space. It housed GIs for a time after World War II. It’s listed on the state historic registry, and it has been widely accepted that a full-scale demolition would never earn city approval. “It’s a great opportunity, but it’s not for the fainthearted,” Bradley said in 2015. “It’s one that people really need to think through how it’s going to work before they can take a run at it.” His comments seem almost prophetic now. Several redevelopment proposals have been scrapped due to regulatory hurdles or financing problems. Montpelier lawyer Frank von Turkovich purchased the property for $3 million in 2016 but never submitted redevelopment plans before reselling in 2018 to a Florida-based investment firm, Hospitality Funding. That company proposed a 142-room hotel, but the pandemic torpedoed the plan, and Hospitality eventually defaulted on its loan. City officials pressured Hospitality to address the problems last year amid growing public angst over the state of the building. Not long after, the property was sold to Giri Hotel Management, in Quincy, Mass. Records suggest the company paid $4.5 million. Neither Giri nor its local partner, Burlington attorney Bruce Baker, responded to interview requests. The company’s plans are expected to be exempt from Act 250 review, since the property is located in a designated downtown area and will keep at least 20 percent of the apartment units “affordable.” That could ease things for the developers — and save them time and money.

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Former Mobil service station on Pearl Street

Former Mobil station

he old filling station on Pearl Street has been decaying since it closed six years ago. The concrete lot in front, however, hasn’t been dormant. For much of that time, its owners, the Handy family, offered the property as paid parking, charging as much as $125 per month. But the site, located in a “highdensity” residential area near the Burlington Health & Rehabilitation Center nursing home, isn’t zoned for a parking lot, and the Handys didn’t obtain permission to operate one there. City officials’ effort to crack down on the unpermitted business began in 2019 — and the case is still not resolved. Following a 2021 trial, a state judge ordered the property owners to pay the city about $66,000. More than $22,000 accounted for the city’s expense, mostly staff time, to enforce and litigate the violation. Then, earlier this year, the Vermont Supreme Court overturned the judgment on a technicality and ordered the state judge, Thomas Durkin, to recalculate the penalty. So Durkin, Joe Handy and the city’s attorney were back in court last month for another hearing. Durkin said the mistake was his fault and told the parties he would issue a revised penalty in the weeks ahead. Joe Handy declined to speak with Seven Days. The property “will be redeveloped at some point,” his attorney, Brian Hehir, said by phone. “I just don’t know when, or what.” It’s not currently listed for sale. Following the Supreme Court ruling in May, Charlie Handy told WCAX that the family was still studying what’s best for the site. “Maybe housing, maybe commercial down on the bottom, you know,” he told the TV station. Around the same time, someone draped an enormous banner

Address: 281 Pearl Street Owner: Sisters & Brothers Investment Group (Handy family) Year built: Between 1926 and 1942 Vacant since: 2017 Prognosis: Owners’ plans unknown Challenges: Possible soil contamination; owner noncompliance

over one of the garage walls: “Coming Soon: Beverage Center & Deli.” The banner has since disappeared, restoring several feet of urban canvas for local graffiti artists. The corner lot, which had been a service center for more than 80 years, is today a prime location for housing. A new apartment building is being constructed on nearby Hungerford Terrace, Weinberger noted. On the same block of Pearl Street, a burned-down dentist’s office has been replaced by an upscale apartment building. One potential complication: The soil and water around old gas stations tends to be contaminated by fuel. The state has spent $51,000 cleaning up the site, but a 2019 report found chemicals exceeding state limits in several groundwater samples. Earlier this year, the city issued a permit to unearth the underground storage tanks. The aboveground gas pumps were also recently removed. Hehir said in court last month that the site is no longer operating as a paid parking lot. Not long ago, the owners etched “No Parking” onto the front of the garage in spray paint. The message has since been covered, completely, by graffiti. D.B.

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Pitch Imperfect Youth soccer comes of age in Vermont, but the playing field is hardly level

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JAMES BUCK

recent weekend visit to the Tree Farm Recreational Facility in Essex Junction conjured memories of a state fair: rows of parked cars in muddy lots framing fields of bustle and color. The spectacle was not a carnival, though. It was youth soccer — dozens of matches featuring players of all ages, genders, shapes and sizes as far as the eye could see. The mood was upbeat, almost festive. And the play was notably skillful. A kid looking barely old enough to tie his own cleats executed a slick pullback with the bottom of his foot, keeping the ball from a defender. A slightly older girl on an adjacent pitch made a composed pass backward to her goalkeeper to reset the attack. Such developmental signifiers made it clear these were no ordinary schoolyard players. In fact, they weren’t playing for their schools at all. They were playing for private clubs — the crucible of competitive youth soccer. Nationally, club soccer has boomed in popularity as an alternative, adjunct and, according to some, antagonist to the more traditional, low-cost avenues to the sport at the youth level: town recreational leagues and school teams. Proponents tout high-level instruction from coaches who can give kids a competitive edge on the field. “The play feels more intense at the club level,” soccer mom Tara Gonthier of Georgia said while watching daughter Izzy play in an under-12 match at the Tree Farm. Gonthier would know. Izzy plays “school ball” through the town rec league and club soccer with Vermont Northern United, a community-based, volunteerdriven organization anchored in Franklin County. She’ll soon lace up with Far Post Soccer Club, a “premier” club with more professional coaches. Far Post is the largest such club in the area and arguably the most visible, its snazzy orange kits a nod to the orange-clad Dutch national teams and their globally influential “total football” tactical method. “I love [club soccer] for the kids,” Gonthier said. “They really push kids and expect a lot of them, but it’s fun.” Club soccer in Vermont has ridden the wave of American interest in the sport that surged in the 1990s, when the U.S. hosted the FIFA World Cup tournaments for men (1994) and women (1999). At the time, the

BY E R IK E S C K IL S E N St. Johnsbury Academy’s Gus Yerkes fending off Champlain Valley Union High School’s Miles Bergeson in a state Division I quarterfinal match on October 28

up. Her role in promoting education-based athletics through the Principals’ Association has also given her a front-row seat to inequities that can flare up when players unaffiliated with clubs compete with club players for coveted spots on school team rosters. The consolidation of soccer opportunity in elite, expensive organizations has drawn criticism from all quarters of the soccer-sphere. Alex Morgan, a U.S. Women’s National Team star, lamented the trend in a 2019 Forbes magazine interview: “Unfortunately the pay-to-play model, I believe, is getting worse in soccer ... It’s a very inexpensive sport and the fact that we’ve made youth soccer in the U.S. more of a business than a grassroots sport is, I think, detrimental to the growth of the sport.” In Vermont, soccer has largely been spared the “rabid capitalism” that Guardian sportswriter Beau Dure blamed for Morgan’s team’s early exit from the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup — a critique that the American pay-to-play system isn’t cultivating talent optimally. But as youth soccer comes of age in the Green Mountain State, it’s clear the playing field isn’t always level. “Pay-to-play is here,” Munson said, paraphrasing Skip Gilbert, CEO of U.S. Youth Soccer and a University of Vermont soccer alumnus. “It’s up to the different clubs to determine how affordable they can make it.”

SPORTS

YOUTH SPORTS IN GENERAL

ARE MONEYMAKERS.

ME G MU N S O N

U.S. was well behind the global curve in embracing “the beautiful game” (rest in peace, Pelé). But when soccer finally caught on stateside, it spread quickly — as a sport and a business opportunity. “Youth sports in general are moneymakers,” said Meg Munson, executive director of the Vermont Soccer Association. “There are people out there that have figured out that there’s money to be spent on the backs of kids.” The VSA is the state affiliate of U.S. Youth Soccer, the nation’s largest youth sports organization, and part of the U.S. Soccer Federation, the sport’s national governing body. Today in soccer, “the big buzz is ‘pay-to-play,’” Munson added.

That catchphrase, popularly used in reference to youth club soccer, is really just another term for “supply and demand.” Youth soccer clubs are responding to the increased call for coaching and playing opportunities for passionate players — those who can afford them. The costs they incur, however, not only strain household budgets but also fuel a scramble among parents and guardians to keep up with the Joneses — er, Rapinoes — to get their soccer-playing kid in the game. “They’re meeting a need,” Lauren Thomas, assistant executive director of the Vermont Principals’ Association, said about the emergence of club teams. “You don’t want your kids to fall behind. We’re a society of comparisons.” A soccer mom herself, Thomas recognizes what she calls “that little parent panic” that sends parents and guardians looking for ways to give their players a leg

FOOTING THE BILL

On pitches around the state, high school teams this week are heading toward their season finales — championship matches that mark autumn’s twilight like leaf piles. Some players will move on to winter sports or other extracurricular pursuits following the three-month fall sports grind. But committed club soccer players will begin an entirely new season. Club play will start indoors, carry through to late spring and cost upwards of $1,000, in some cases closer to $2,000, for tween and teen players to sign on with one of the five private premier clubs in the greater Burlington area: Burlington Football Club, Far Post, Nordic Soccer Club, Peak Football Academy (formerly Synergy Football Club) and Queen City Football Club.

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Peak Football Academy operates in Vermont — as PFA New England — and from a Florida home base. It uses the “academy” designation to connote “playing at the highest competitive levels that you can,” PFA president Jerry Davis said. Other clubs, such as Queen City, dial back the intensity a notch and offer a soccer program with short-season options that create flexibility and reduce registration costs. (Disclosure: This reporter’s children are former Queen City players who currently play a different club sport.) But registration fees don’t include gear, gas or tournament entries. Nor do they cover what can be expensive out-ofstate tournament travel. Some clubs even take players abroad — Nordic to England, Burlington Football Club to Spain, Far Post to Holland. The Far Post trip costs about $3,700 per player.

South Burlington parent Nicole Hamlet, whose 16-year-old son has played for Far Post since he was 8, sees her parental involvement as akin to being a member of the team. “The financial and time commitment is just as significant as the player’s commitment to the sport,” she said. Far Post and other club players will train twice a week on average, sometimes more. “You’re essentially making that happen for them. It’s not just the tuition,” she added, tallying new uniforms for a growing kid, team fundraising activities and “all the weekends away … It’s a major commitment.” Despite the considerable costs, to equate Vermont soccer clubs with Dure’s “rabid capitalism” is to misrepresent their goals. As Far Post club PITCH IMPERFECT

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Pitch Imperfect « P.35 director Todd Kingsbury put it, his nonprofit organization’s ultimate aim is not to make money but “to grow the game of soccer.” His club’s balance sheet, according to data made available by ProPublica, backs up that claim, showing annual revenues around $1 million but overhead expenses that make Far Post a financially lean operation. Facilities rentals are a major line item for area clubs in a state that lacks the large youth soccer complexes found in more populous markets. “The money of it all is challenging,” Kingsbury said, adding that Far Post offers scholarships and takes other measures to fill in players’ financial gaps. “If you can’t pay for this, we’ll make anything happen for you. We give away a lot.” Burlington Football Club has made overcoming financial hurdles an integral part of its mission. The scholarship page on the club’s website invites players explicitly “regardless of their ability to pay.” According to executive director Kyle Marlow, while Burlington Football Club is open to players outside the Queen City, the organization grew out of a desire to meet the Burlington community at the intersection of interest and need — and “to fight the pay-to-play model,” he said. “Support[ing] kids in a system that we know is flawed is something we can do.” When Marlow looks at the Burlington Football Club teams, he sees rosters that reflect the city’s diversity. When he looks at the organization writ large, he sees a group of people who can step up to address the myriad challenges of access beyond cost: transportation, chaperoning out-of-state trips, being flexible in the face of players’ unique needs. “This is where the community piece comes in,” he said. The need for that back-end support, whether from the community or elsewhere, may explain Davis’ observation that dropout rates are higher among scholarship players at Peak Football than players who can pay their way. That suggests money isn’t the only limiting factor for some players — it’s having a support system with the time and resources to enable involvement. “That’s what I’m interested in,” said Kristin Allosso, Burlington Football Club board member and scholarship coordinator. “BFC works really hard at fundraising and finding kids who want to play … If we’re going to offer this, we’re going to offer it all-in.” 36

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play for the school. “It’s not only tactical,” he said. “The kids that are around it more just have a better grip on the game.” “The clubs are developing the players,” Munson concurred. “The high schools then get to — and middle schools, even — reap the benefits.” That’s all good news for club players and fans cheering on their school teams, but it adds pressure to making the cut. In some school programs, such as in the Burr & Burton and CVU boys’ teams, players who fail to make the varsity squad their junior year do not have the opportunity to play junior varsity. “They’re not easy conversations,” Cole said. “It’s the worst part of the job.” He said he sends these players off with encouragement, specific guidance about how to up their game and the invitation to try out for varsity again senior year.

THE FINANCIAL AND TIME COMMITMENT IS JUST AS SIGNIFICANT

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PEER PRESSURE

In school sports, at least the price is right. But the dynamics become complicated when club sports and school sports intersect. The club-to-school pipeline is now a fixture of Vermont youth soccer, with one return on club investment being a prized school A team or varsity spot. At the start of the current season, Burlington Free Press sports reporter Alex Abrami posted on social media the 2023 returning Vermont high school girls players to watch — roughly a dozen of whom, Nordic Soccer noted in a repost, are current or former Nordic players. And that was just Nordic’s share of the hotshots. Rob Cole, head coach of the perennially competitive Champlain Valley Union High School boys’ varsity soccer team and also a Far Post coach and board member, estimated that “virtually all of the players” on his current squad also play or have played recently for clubs. Amerlin Nemeye played over the summer for Vermont Green Football

Club, a semiprofessional team that launched in Burlington two years ago. He’s also a 2018 South Burlington High School grad who remembers there being just a couple of non-club players on his varsity team. What’s more, he said he might have failed to make varsity were it not for club soccer. After emigrating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2013, Nemeye had a rocky start at SBHS and didn’t impress the coaches his first year. In between seasons, he joined Queen City, where founder and coaching director Shane Bufano guided his game to next level. “From there, I knew I was going to be on varsity,” Nemeye said. “When you’re playing for a club, you treat it like it’s a job.” (Nemeye later played at Norwich University, where he earned a degree in 2023.) Burr & Burton Academy senior and varsity soccer player Calum Morrell, a member of the Vermont Principals’ Association student advisory board, notices the difference between year-round and club players and those, like himself, who only

What may seem like a cutthroat system is, Munson and Cole agree, often necessary, given the number of youths interested in playing in some districts. Cutting players also shows the competitive ethos driving high school sports. “When you have a state championship, that means you better put your best team forward,” Munson said. For some school athletics administrators, such as Quaron Pinckney, head of athletics for the Burlington School District, access is a priority. Pinckney oversees a district with a “no cuts” approach to school sports — and many B and junior varsity teams as a result. Juniors and seniors can still play JV soccer if they don’t make varsity. Pinckney acknowledges the social dimension of sports participation, which “begins to heat up” in middle school, he said: “Kids start to really, at that age, think about what their peers think of them.” He cautions against undervaluing the rookie’s contribution — both for how it affects a youth’s sense of belonging and for what a sports newcomer might offer the competitive cause down the line. “You never know how a kid is going to develop … when they are literally first starting the sport,” he said. “They could end up being the star of your varsity high school program.” Thomas of the Vermont Principals’

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Far Post Soccer Club (in orange) versus Queen City FC

Association agrees, noting that some students facing their first opportunity to play organized soccer in middle school may not have much prior exposure to the sport — or any sports — due to “a disparity of access” between urban and rural districts. “Not every town has a rec department, and the strength of those rec departments is usually volunteer-based,” she said. Wolcott Elementary School principal Dennis Hill, an experienced statewide school administrator, has coached middle and high school football in athletic programs across Vermont. “Where there’s a greater level of resources, there’s a higher level of expectation around performance,” he said. “To some degree, that gives some of these kids in these rural districts a disadvantage” when it comes to engaging them in sports. The stigma of poverty, he added, can be a barrier to peer-group membership, including sports teams. “Access isn’t just about money,” he said. “It’s sometimes about social acceptance.”

BOOT CAMP

That sense of belonging so vital to youth identity may sustain itself on enjoyment. In other words, if kids aren’t having fun playing soccer, they won’t keep playing. That was one observation that circulated through U.S. soccer officialdom when a dip in youth participation set off alarm bells in 2018. According to Munson, those numbers still concern state soccer leaders. At a recent meeting with JT Batson, CEO of U.S. Soccer, Munson heard

worrisome news that kids are dropping out of soccer earlier and earlier. Today’s young players are calling it quits at age 10, down from 13 just five years ago. She suspects one factor may be the intensity of play at very young ages. Kingsbury sees it at Far Post. “I’m starting these conversations with parents when the kids are 3 and 4 and 5 years old,” he said. Munson praised the work that town recreation leagues do to bring kids into the sport more playfully. “It’s fresh air and running around. And there’s not a whole lot of instruction, which is fine,” she said. “We need more of that. We need kids to just be able to play.” In the soccer ecosystem, communitybased club teams, such as Vermont Northern United and Essex United, create a middle ground for organized play. They’re priced more moderately than premier clubs — a few hundred dollars per season, sometimes less — and proliferate statewide. “Accessibility in both cost and location are equally important in being able to provide this opportunity for the kids in our community,” said Kyle Ashton, copresident of Vermont Northern United. Also a Bellows Free Academy-St. Albans boys’ soccer coach, Ashton sees his club as a flexible, inexpensive option for players to improve skills over more than one season in a part of the state where schools rely on multisport athletes to build rosters. Not all community clubs include teams through middle and high school, however. When they do, those age groups PITCH IMPERFECT

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A Queen City FC player navigating defensive pressure

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may see a falloff in participation, such as Essex United president Adam Smith has observed, as players either join premier clubs, focus on their school team or quit soccer. While Essex United is “stable,” Smith said, with about 200 players ranging from age 4 to 14, the club doesn’t offer a fall season. He added that the decision to play only in spring is sensitive to volunteers’ time, finite coaching resources and the fact that “we can’t offer the same kind of programming that the private clubs can offer.” The national soccer story paints premier clubs in a predatory light, raiding town-based teams to nick players. In Vermont, the relationship is more neighborly. While Kingsbury acknowledged that “one of the downfalls of club soccer is pulling kids away from their towns,” he has also worked with town teams, such as Essex United, to offer coaching clinics. Smith welcomes the support. “There’s a good partnership with all the clubs, honestly,” he said. “We just want to play a lot of good, competitive games.”

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Team spirit running high at a playoff match

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If the Vermont soccer community functions, at times, like an actual community, the overarching rules of play — the powerful market forces that shape access — still put a uniquely American spin on the world’s game. Competitive player development in the U.S. migrates from elite youth clubs to colleges and universities — another type of pay-toplay system. Statistically speaking, banking on club soccer for a college scholarship isn’t the safest bet. According to an NCAA survey, a mere 1.1 percent of U.S. youth soccer players receive scholarships at the Division 1 level. That’s out of the less than 10 percent of youth players who go on to play in college overall. But playing in a soccer club and on a high school team can boost those odds. Data gathered in 2019 for the NCAA GOALS (Growth, Opportunities, Aspirations and Learning of Students Enrolled in College) survey showed that 77 percent of men and 88 percent of women playing collegiate soccer had played on club and high school teams, compared to 13 and 6 percent of men and women, respectively, who had played only on club teams. An even smaller number played only on high school teams. Kingsbury can rattle off the names of Far Post alumni who have gone on to play on college varsity teams. Many

more, he said, find ways to keep playing on college intramural and club teams. Nordic Soccer can make similar claims, including a connection to Vermont Green FC’s first signed player, Oliver Martin, a Williston native and Nordic alum now on the University of Michigan roster. PFA New England is sending youth groups from Vermont to the prestigious Disney Soccer Showcase, a prime college recruiting event. Nevertheless, athletic director Pinckney said he has received enough parent feedback in his school district to harbor questions about “false promises” and “unrealistic expectations” at clubs. As athletes and fans flip the calendar to a new season, Pinckney offers a timely reminder that pay-to-play is an evergreen feature of the youth sports landscape: “Really, it’s not just soccer. Hockey is an example. Basketball is another example,” he said. “There are many sports where there’s that pressure to try to remain competitive while going to those private clubs, private leagues. And expense is a big piece of access.”

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Soccer mom Hamlet widens the lens further, calling out pay-to-play for limiting youth opportunity while acknowledging her own stake in it: “I totally don’t think it’s fair at all. However, we live in a world where things aren’t fair,” she said. “And I know that’s a privileged thing to say … It’s problematic in the same way that parents can put their kids into SAT prep classes and pay college coaches for applications and do all the things to get their kids ahead that other families can’t necessarily do.” For club directors such as Marlow, pay-to-play could keep kids from soccer’s lifelong learning outcomes. The sport “is a tool to teach how to be ... a good, functioning person within our community,” he said. Morrell, now hanging up his soccer cleats and busting out his basketball sneakers at Burr & Burton, also sees sports in a wider context of growth experiences. “Not only am I benefiting from physical exercise but also from having a sense of belonging within a group of people, within a team — feeling like you’re part of a family,” he said. “Having a sense of leadership and that people depend on you is really important to learn.” ➆

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n a recent cloudy, damp morning, farmer Claudel “Zaka” Chery stood in a field of crocuses abundant with green foliage but only sparsely sprinkled with blooms. “It looks so good in here,” Chery said. “Please, flower,” he entreated the plants. It was well into the third week of the anticipated four- to six-week harvest at Newbury’s Calabash Gardens, where Chery, 35, and his wife, Jette Mandl-Abramson, 37, tend about two acres of Crocus sativus. The fall-blooming crocus — the only edible variety — yields the world’s most expensive spice: saffron. In 2018, soon after they bought the 51-acre property, Chery and MandlAbramson planted a test plot of 2,000 saffron crocus corms, which are similar

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to bulbs. They were inspired by a University of Vermont research project suggesting that local farmers try the high-value, shoulder-season crop. Contrary to expectations, UVM had demonstrated that saffron could grow well in Vermont. Encouraged by their early tests, the couple planted another 204,000 crocuses to become the largest saffron grower in Vermont and among the largest in the country, according to Margaret Skinner, cofounder of the American Center for Saffron Research & Development at the University of Vermont. The idea of growing saffron commercially in Vermont may seem as unexpected as growing, say, citrus. Iran dominates the global market, and the United States annually imports many tons of saffron — about

85 tons, according to 2019 data — said Skinner, a research professor in UVM’s Department of Plant and Soil Science. Back in 2015, Skinner partnered with Arash Ghalehgolabbehbahani, an agroecologist from Iran, to explore the opportunity for Vermont’s diversified farmers to raise saffron in the hoop houses many used for other crops. It surprised even them, Skinner recalled, when a few farms, such as Calabash Gardens, successfully grew saffron outdoors. Saffron is pricey for a reason. Each purple-and-white-striated crocus bloom must be handpicked and then the delicate scarlet stigmas of the flower extracted, again by hand. It takes about 175 flowers to produce one gram of saffron, MandlAbramson said. The dried maroon threads are prized

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for their aromas of fresh, sweet hay with whispers of toasted nuts and oak. They bring a distinctive flavor and golden hue to global dishes, such as Persian rice, Spanish paella and Swedish buns. And, although the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has not weighed in, saffron is credited with health benefits for brain function, digestion, eyesight and more. Calabash Gardens sells saffron to two wholesale customers and directly to consumers. On its website and at the summer Norwich Farmers Market, the price is about $60 a gram, roughly equivalent to the current price of gold. Which is not to say the couple have struck a gold mine with saffron. “It isn’t returning the way we were hoping,” Mandl-Abramson said, though she and Chery remain hopeful. To support the family of three, she runs a wildcrafted apothecary and Chery works at an independent living facility. Their best season, in 2021, yielded about 600 grams of saffron from more than 100,000 flowers. It generated roughly $36,000 over two years of sales. Last year’s harvest, following a winter and spring of GOLDEN TICKET

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Fall-blooming crocuses at Calabash Gardens

the next generation of corms. Farmers only need to divide and replant every four to six years, reducing tillage and allowing soil to sequester more carbon. After the couple attended the inaugural UVM saffron conference in 2017, Chery agreed to give the unusual and striking crop a try. “I do love beauty,” he said. The October morning Seven Days visited yielded a paltry 100 flowers, which Mandl-Abramson and two helping friends made quick work of at the dining room table. The stamens must be extracted within 24 hours. Once run through the dehydrator and cured for two

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wildly fluctuating freeze/thaw cycles, was “terrible,” Mandl-Abramson said. They were grateful that their corms survived. So far, this year’s harvest has been disappointing — and frustrating. “Man, we really need some sunshine,” Mandl-Abramson said on October 23, as the couple’s 14-month-old daughter squirmed in her arms, hoping to roam free. “It’s too muddy to put you down,” her mom apologized. All farmers cope with the vagaries of weather, pests, diseases and market demand. Trailblazing a new crop brings extra hurdles. Although Skinner has provided critical support, the couple said they have few peers to consult or data to rely upon. “There’s no road map for Vermont saffron — part of the perks of being pioneering,” Chery noted dryly. Striding anxiously up and down the rows, he lamented, “They look healthy and there’s a lot with a lot of buds, but they haven’t popped out yet.” With the warm weather, his wife said, “We were really hoping we’d see a huge flush.” “With farming, so much is out of your control,” Chery said. “You put everything in the ground, and you hope Mother Nature will collaborate with you.” Still, Mandl-Abramson said, “Zaka is wildly optimistic.” “I’m Haitian,” her husband said. “I’m hopeful.” Chery, who sports a tidy mustache and long, natty dreads, moved to Vermont from Haiti in 2011 after the devastating 2010 earthquake. “Zaka,” his boyhood nickname, means spirit of the farm and of knowledge in Haitian voodoo culture, and he was the first in his family of farmers to attend college, where he studied filmmaking. They were disappointed that he did not pursue something more practical, like law, Chery said. Mandl-Abramson grew up in New Hampshire and studied ceramics in art school. A swoop of brown hair falls over her forehead, which is often furrowed with worry these days. She worked for years in restaurants and had a small market garden. The pair met online and married in 2017. Mandl-Abramson knew that her husband was not itching to farm, but she believes that regenerative, soil-building agriculture is “our best hope to save the planet … That is the reason I am a farmer.” They named Calabash Gardens for “a big tree that grows in Haiti where people congregate to listen to stories of elders,” Chery said. When his wife started looking for a farming focus that might interest him, UVM’s research on saffron intrigued her. While each crocus corm is an annual, it produces offspring underground to create

Harvested crocuses and saffron

to three months, they would amount to just over half an ounce of saffron and earn about $30. Chery had taken several weeks off from his day job for the fall harvest. “On a day with huge blooms, we will be up until 2 a.m.,” Mandl-Abramson said, almost wistfully. The freshly harvested saffron smelled, naturally, greener — more vegetal — and sweeter than the dried. Even when cured, Calabash Gardens’ saffron is noticeably

fresher and more potent than what one might buy at the store. Beyond the farming challenges, the couple must convince customers to pay a hefty premium for local saffron. One argument is that much of what is sold as saffron is not, in fact, saffron. Saffron is the most adulterated spice in the world, UVM’s Skinner said. Even she was once seduced by the lure of cheap saffron only to realize she’d been duped into buying safflower petals, a

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Chef Michael Clancy plating chickpea fritters with Calabash Gardens saffron yogurt

common substitute, with a touch of saffron. “You need to know who’s producing it. That’s how you know what you’re getting,” Skinner said. Among the couple’s efforts to raise the profile of local saffron and display its versatility, Calabash Gardens has hosted several on-farm dinners. The most

recent, on September 2, was cooked by a former restaurant colleague of MandlAbramson’s, chef Michael Clancy, who works for the Upper Valley independent living facilities group that employs her husband. About 30 guests paid $90 for Clancy’s seven-course menu, which included a beet and apple salad with honey-saffron

vinaigrette, chickpea fritters with saffron yogurt, saffron risotto with foraged mushrooms, and salmon with a saffron-tomato chutney. The meal concluded with lemonsaffron crème brûlée. Clancy, a 2008 New England Culinary Institute graduate, said he previously thought of saffron mostly for traditional rice and seafood recipes. But he has learned “it doesn’t always have to be saffron rice,” he said. The chef added that fresh saffron was completely different than store-bought: “more floral and fragrant.” Clancy recommends layering the spice. For example, he started the onions and mushrooms for the risotto in saffron butter and then infused a little more saffron into the cream added at the end. “Most people know that saffron is delicious in savory dishes,” Mandl-Abramson said. “It is equally delicious in desserts.” She suggests substituting a few threads of saffron bloomed in water for vanilla

extract in baked goods and pairing it with cinnamon, cardamom or pistachios. The former bartender also loves to use saffron honey — or saffron-infused maple syrup or simple syrup — for margaritas, bee’s knees and Manhattans. Skinner acknowledged that Vermont saffron farmers face an uphill battle marketing “an exotic spice that is not well understood by most consumers.” She admires Calabash Gardens for its focus on saffron but noted that the initial idea was for farmers to add the crop as an extra source of income. Chery and Mandl-Abramson have concluded they must diversify, even with how they sell their saffron. They are building a new home-based commercial kitchen so they can sell wellness remedies to stores. Ever hopeful, Chery dreams of the day his family from Haiti can come work the harvest and earn enough to live for a year back home. “I feel lucky I can build something for myself,” he said. “From where I came from, that’s a huge privilege.” ➆

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endy Girón could not stop beaming as she welcomed a recent visitor into the modest Vergennes home she bought earlier this year. The freshly renovated kitchen boasted sleek wood cabinetry and a stainless steel stove with a large hood vent. “I designed my kitchen,” she said proudly. Girón, 43, had not yet put the new kitchen to full use, but it would soon hold fragrant food from her native Guatemala, such as pepían stew enriched with ground pumpkin and sesame seeds, and a fried bean paste called frijoles negros volteados. Not only will the kitchen be the heart of Girón’s home, it will also be a stable base for her catering business, La Chapina. The name is a colloquial term for a Guatemalan woman, Girón explained during an interview translated by her eldest daughter, Briggette, a first-year Middlebury College student. In 2019, Girón and her two daughters, then 11 and 13, made a harrowing 10-day trek north to cross the Arizona border into the United States. After unsuccessfully applying three times for a visa, the single parent said she felt she had no choice but to come anyway. Despite holding a college degree in business administration, Girón had lost her

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government job. “I had to come and look for better opportunities for myself and my daughters,” she said. Earnings from La Chapina — along with countless hours of babysitting and cleaning houses — enabled Girón to buy her twobedroom manufactured home. The family is working with a lawyer to seek legal status.

Briggette and Nina, now 18 and 16, respectively, help their mother cook and vend at the Bristol and Vergennes farmers markets and also cater. In June, La Chapina started bimonthly pop-ups at Minifactory in Bristol. The November 10 dinner will include a translator-facilitated conversation. Girón spoke with Seven Days about why

she started cooking for money, how Guatemalan food differs from Mexican and what’s on the November menu. You had not cooked as a job before coming to the United States, right? No. But in Guatemala, and in my family, you must be a good cook to be a good woman. I grew up cooking. I have cooking in my blood because my grandma — that’s how she used to support the family. When we got to Vermont in July 2020, I tried to get a job on a farm, but they wanted only men. Undocumented women who don’t speak English have to kind of figure it out by themselves. One of the teachers at the girls’ school in Bristol wanted to try my food, so I started making some and selling it. How do you describe Guatemalan food? In Guatemala, we do have tacos, but they don’t taste the same. We don’t identify with tacos. My grandmother cooked three meals a day, and each one was delicious and different, although we always had fresh, hot corn tortillas. A favorite memory was rellenitos: a fried empanada with dough made from plantains and stuffed with beans sweetened with Nutella or with cacao. We mostly used red beans. PHOTOS: DARIA BISHOP

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When Jolene Kao moved to Charlotte with her family in August 2022, she thought she’d take at least a year to get her bearings and figure out where she might fit in. Only 11 months later, she bought the town’s iconic Old Brick Store. Kao, 39, had long envisioned a change. It took motherhood and a pandemic move out of Brooklyn — first to Westchester County, N.Y., then to Vermont — for her to shift from fashion producer to shop owner. “I am somebody who’s always been ruled by fear and not willing to take that leap,” Kao said. “But everything felt right here.” Reopened on September 29, “the Brick” has a new look and new offerings as unexpected as bottles of Japanese Kewpie mayo, copies of Tomie dePaola’s classic children’s book Strega Nona, a bangin’ breakfast burrito and a

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perfectly crafted oat milk cortado. But there’s still penny candy, and Kao is hoping the circa1850s store will continue its deep-rooted role as a community gathering place. Kao’s three-month renovation is clear when you walk in, with the checkout counter now front and center, and her smiling face right behind it. That setup felt natural to Kao, as it’s what she grew up with in her family’s Royal China restaurant in Dallas, Texas. Her paternal grandfather opened the business in 1974. Her parents moved to the U.S. from Taiwan in 1977 and eventually took over. The concept of a “third place” — somewhere for people to gather other than home or work — wasn’t on her mind then, though she saw generations of families come into the restaurant.

“Now I see how necessary third spaces are to the life of a town,” Kao said. “Charlotte doesn’t really have that yet.” To encourage the town’s families, cyclists and Sunday walkers to gather at the Brick, Kao added a long coffee counter and seating at a

farmhouse table. The full-service espresso bar, with coffee from Northfield’s Carrier Roasting, is reason enough to swing in. While you’re there, browse the curious combination of goods on the newly installed ash shelves lining the store’s side brick wall.

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Wendy Girón cooking at Minifactory

Pepían is one of our main dishes. I make it for my daughters. It is a mix of vegetables like güisquil [chayote], green beans, carrots and mushrooms, meat, and a “salsa,” which is called recado. It is very nutritious with pumpkin and sesame seeds, tomatoes, onions, garlic, bell pepper, tomatillos and cilantro. I do it in a molcajete, or you can blend it in a blender. Our food is not spicy. If someone wants something spicy, they add it to their food, not cook it in the food. What can people expect to eat and hear on November 10? I will cook like I would at home. We will have two types of beans: red with chorizo and what we call Guatemalan caviar that is black beans blended and

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Kao is selling her favorite things, including the Kewpie, books and housewares that nod to different cultures and inspirations, she said. But as one of the few grocery-stocking stores in the area, the Brick also sells pantry staples such as flour, salt and Cheerios, which Kao knows are just as important as elevated apothecary items and natural wines. “I’m trying to remain in the tradition of a general store, where there is a little bit of something for everyone,” Kao said.

then fried, constantly stirring and flipping them. I’ll make homemade cheese, like queso fresco, and fried plantains. And we are making chuchitos: little steamed tamales of masa stuffed with vegetables or chicken. Both are seasoned with our recado, which we use for everything. For dessert, we will have a classic Guatemalan cake called drunk cake. I bought rum that we make in my country. The cake is very light so it can absorb the honey and rum. Between the layers and on top, we make something called manjar with more rum and honey, cornstarch, milk and cinnamon. I am very interested in having a conversation because I want people to get to know Guatemala. I absolutely love Mexican culture and food, but I am not Mexican. People all the time say, “Oh, Guatemala is in Mexico.” I also want them to know a bit about my family, and I want them to know that it’s not easy to have a business as an undocumented person. My hope is to have a restaurant or a cafeteria someday. I’m not asking for people to give me things. I am asking them to try my food. Vermont has given me a lot of things. If they buy a meal, that’s enough for me. ➆ This interview was edited and condensed for clarity and length.

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Along with the well-made coffee drinks, the Brick’s new prepared foods shine in the mornings, with a biscuit sandwich and a breakfast burrito inspired by Kao’s Texan childhood. The small kitchen staff produces a constant flow of the hot, ready-to-go burritos ($8), which feature All Souls Tortilleria’s Four Corners tortillas filled with fluffy Maple Meadow Farm eggs, Vermont Salumi chorizo, Cabot Creamery cheddar, and housemade hash browns and green sauce. The store’s well and septic systems limit what the kitchen team can do, Kao said, but starting with “simple, easy fare” makes it easy to highlight local ingredients. Fall sandwiches, soups, salads and pastries — including more gluten- and dairy-free options — will hit the menu soon. Eventually, Kao plans to add rotating Chinese and Taiwanese weekly specials such as lu rou fan, a braised, minced pork served over rice. And, to satisfy a rumor going around town, she may even make dumplings. ➆

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Company, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Urban Bush Women and Bebe Miller Company. Since then, INSPIRIT has produced works such as The Opulence of Integrity, which celebrates the life and legacy of acclaimed boxer Muhammad Ali, and Same but Different, a piece about Brown’s relationship with her friend, the dancer and choreographer Lida Winfield. Seven years in the making, What We Ask of Flesh started out as a solo piece influenced by Bingham-Risher’s poetry about biblical women. Then, while Brown began revising the piece for an ensemble, her mother died. Brown’s grief gave her clarity about the deeper meaning of the work, she said. With renewed understanding, she brought in collaborators from across the country to work on the piece while living together during residencies at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, Mass., and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. “There’s a time when something inside is already done before the life is done or before the body gives way to the passing. That congealed my understanding of what we’re really making,” Brown said in a documentary about INSPIRIT’s residency at Jacob’s Pillow. As Brown brought in additional collaborators, the piece evolved. For example, stage designer Scotty Hardwig added the projections behind the dancers. Hardwig drew the intricate images by hand as part of his own meditative practice. Many are abstract depictions of parts of the body or of nature, such as a womb, a rising sun or falling feathers. Brown also encourages her dancers to add personal touches to the show. Rather than performing the same choreography every time, dancers can choose from a range of movements based on how they’re feeling in the moment. Brown likened this kind of improvisation to performers all reading from the same book but selecting which page to read at any time. Robin Wilson, a professor of dance at the University of Michigan who portrays “flesh” in the show, said much of the choreography evolved through improvisation. For Wilson, moving extemporaneously makes the dances more personal. “There’s a lot of emotional labor in the performances for each of us,” she said. “It’s not ‘performed’ with quotation marks. It is not acted. It’s lived.”

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horeographer Christal Brown defines flesh as “the barrier between the world and the soul.” Flesh captures “everything we internalize,” she said, and it fills up with memories like a cup. She believes people die once that cup is full. That philosophy took on deeper personal meaning as Brown cared for her late mother, who suffered from dementia. While her mother’s body was still physically there, many of her memories were gone. “A lot of people think about flesh as skin or blood or bone,” said Brown, 44, an associate professor of dance at Middlebury College. But to her, flesh adopts a more figurative meaning as an accumulation of the human experience. Those ideas about life and death form the basis of her latest work, What We Ask of Flesh, a 40-minute performance by Brown’s dance company, INSPIRIT, at Middlebury’s Mahaney Arts Center from November 9 to 11. The show, inspired by a book of poetry of the same name by Remica Bingham-Risher, draws on Brown’s experience of caring for her mother. Six dancers perform contemporary choreography, set to live improvised music with drums, piano and electronic instruments, against a backdrop of abstract geometric sketches projected onto two screens. The dancers shift between intense and tender movements — from huddling and stomping their feet in unison to pausing in an embrace. Each dancer embodies a different aspect of the human experience, which Brown has typified as compassion, curiosity, survival, violence, love and flesh. In one scene, dancers take on the voice of “flesh” and chant, “Break me. Make me. Hold me. Mold me. Turn me inside out.” Performers also periodically slip behind the screens to dance with only their silhouettes visible. In literally hiding dancers’ flesh, the screens seem to divide the stage between two worlds suggestive of life and death. The result is a show that aims to highlight how life experiences manifest in the body. “Everything that happens to us leaves residue in our mind, our body, our spirit,” Brown said. “We’re tracking how flesh continues to take on experience until it can’t take any more.” Brown founded INSPIRIT in 2000 after touring nationally and internationally with dance companies such as Chuck Davis’ African American Dance Ensemble, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane

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Vermonter’s Musical Bound for Broadway B Y M ARY AN N L I C KT EIG • maryann@sevendaysvt.com

Waitsfield native Shaina Taub’s life is shaping up like a Broadway musical: small-town Vermonter heads to New York at age 16, graduates from New York University, performs off Broadway, records albums, creates musical versions of Shakespeare plays, collaborates with Elton John and performs solo in Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series. Now Suffs, her new musical about the women’s suffrage movement, is heading to Broadway, opening at the Music Box Theatre on April 18. Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai, the Pakastani activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, have signed on as producers. Lead producers are Jill Furman (Hamilton) and Rachel Sussman (Just for Us). Leigh Silverman (Violet) will direct. Taub wrote the book, music and lyrics for Suffs, and she starred as Alice Paul in the off-Broadway production at the Public Theater last year. Below a photo of the Broadway News headline announcing her latest marquee moment, Taub wrote on Instagram, “My mom got me the Chorus Line cast album for Hanukkah when I was seven years old. Being a part of the Broadway community has been my dream ever since.” Realizing the dream on her own terms, she continued, “is beyond my wildest ones. And to get to tell this story of our foremothers on such a historic stage is the honor of a lifetime.” Yousafzai commented, “I’m thrilled to be part of the team bringing your dream to life.” Suffs explores the victories and failures of American suffragists — who called themselves “suffs” — as they pursued the right to vote. “Reaching

across and against generational, racial, and class divides, these brilliant, flawed women entertain and inspire us with the story of their hard-won victory in an ongoing fight,” the show’s website says. “So much has changed since the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment over a century ago, and yet we’re reminded sometimes we need to look back, in order to march fearlessly into the future.” Taub was working on the musical in 2016 when Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger interviewed her in New York for the “Stuck in Vermont” video series. Taub expressed appreciation for Vermont’s rich artistic community “and some phenomenal teachers that just completely shaped my world.” The “theater kid” studied piano, voice and dance; memorized cast albums; created a student-run cabaret to benefit the American Cancer Society; and organized a musical protest to the Iraq War, the New York Times reported in 2018. Taub attended Harwood Union High School and performed in Lyric Theatre’s productions of Annie, Gypsy and Grease. More recently, she performed in the musical Hadestown, with music, lyrics and book by fellow Vermonter Anaïs Mitchell. Taub portrayed one of the Fates in the off-Broadway production. She wrote lyrics for the musical The Devil Wears Prada, for which John composed the score. Another former Vermonter, Kate Wetherhead, who grew up in Burlington, wrote the book. The show had its world premiere in Chicago last year and opens in London in October 2024. ➆

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Book review: The Book, Mary Ruefle BY J IM S C H L E Y • schley@sevendaysvt.com

I took my dog to the lake, he stood at the water’s edge and barked, the echo of his bark came back and he barked at it, again and again he barked at his own echo, thinking there was another dog on the other side of the lake. Welcome to poetry, I said. 48

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hen Mary Ruefle of Bennington was chosen in 2019 as Vermont’s ninth poet laureate, she followed the lead of many of her predecessors and devised a special project. Instead of vowing to give a reading at every library in the state, as Sydney Lea did, or coediting an anthology of Vermont poets, as Chard deNiord did, Ruefle pursued an even more oldfashioned aim. During her tenure, she has been mailing handwritten poems to Vermont residents, with a goal of delivering a thousand of these unexpected gifts. In 2020, Ruefle told Seven Days that she was choosing her recipients from the names listed in telephone directories “using a proprietary dowsing method, a private game of conscious association and instinct.” This combination of whimsy and earnest human solidarity is a reliable feature of Ruefle’s own writings, which are both shrewd and generous. Her new volume of prose poems is demurely entitled The Book. But the contents are bristling with surprises, as the poet orchestrates collisions between divergent topics and perspectives. Ruefle’s 22 previous volumes include Dunce, a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize that was also long-listed for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award; and Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. She has also published a comic book called Go Home and Go to Bed! and an illustrated, chapbook-length essay called On Imagination, now hard to find but delightful and worth tracking down. Ruefle is also a visual artist who specializes in expressive “erasure,” producing new pieces by erasing segments of existing work by other authors. Her erasures of 19th-century texts have been exhibited in galleries and published in the collection A Little White Shadow. In The Book, Ruefle can be commonsensical and wily, mournful and comic, friendly and roguish — all within the same poem. Here’s the entirety of “The Bark”:

In these latest works, Ruefle embraces the long, international tradition of prose poetry. Some readers may find the term paradoxical. Isn’t a poem by definition made of lines? Why would a writer forgo the audible power of musical measures in verse? The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics describes prose poems as a “controversially hybrid and (aesthetically and even politically) revolutionary genre.” The entry observes that “with its oxymoronic title and its form based on contradiction, the prose poem is suitable to an extraordinary range of perception and expression.” Tracing the older sources of prose poetry to biblical versets and folk and fairy tales and its modern origins to mid-19th-century French innovators such as Charles Baudelaire and Arthur

RUEFLE CAN BE COMMONSENSICAL AND WILY, MOURNFUL AND COMIC, FRIENDLY AND ROGUISH —

ALL WITHIN THE SAME POEM.

Rimbaud, the encyclopedia praises the form’s “high patterning, rhythmic and figural repetition, sustained intensity, and compactness.” Ruefle has excelled in writing agile, syncopated free verse, but her prose poems are even more unusual. Her investigations in the genre have yielded a sound all her own. You hear in these new poems how poetic prose can absorb and parody the regular prose of daily life: articles, advertisements, letters to the editor, legal documents, business correspondence. Ruefle is also terrific at incorporating dialogue. Here’s the opening of “A Lesson in History,” which has the impetus of an overheard outburst: My student hated history. History is stupid, he said. Stuff that’s already happened is boring. Maybe a history of parties might be slightly interesting, like on one page or something, but there’s no history of parties

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times like a professor professing, a sketch comic spinning out scenarios, and a logician testing propositions about the nature of language and reality. The plot and theme of these poems is thinking — thinking aloud. Ruefle believes, as she says in On Imagination, that reading is “a form of listening.” Listen to the mind’s voice in the opening to “The Color,” where her vignette meanders and swerves, seeming to drift but then pouncing.

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FROM “THE TRANSLATOR” Two insects exchanged information in the middle of the night. Perhaps they were frogs, I can’t say, but the shrilling carried far; I woke in my bed and did not turn on the light, four times the information was relayed and came back verbatim, or maybe countered with questions, did I hear you correctly? are you absolutely certain? could you repeat it? And then they quit. A phone call after midnight means accident or death (I have received both) and though I know it may have been a creaturely announcement of love and ripeness (those too) it sounded like dire info to my ear. I lay there, wondering. Was it something that I, too, would like to know or needed unbeknownst to know, something that would affect me personally, if I only knew? What were they saying, out there in the night? To pay such close attention, to hear with every fiber of my being, and remain completely ignorant. Excerpt from The Book, © 2023 by Mary Ruefle. Used with permission of the author and Wave Books.

because you go to parties to forget history — that’s the point. You party. Only an idiot doesn’t get it. If you remember anything, it wasn’t a party. Jesus. Ok, take him. The only thing you need to know about Jesus is that he’s famous for throwing a dinner party. Throughout the book, Ruefle’s narrator adopts various postures, sounding at

I was at my desk pretending to be writing. Actually I really was writing, but while writing I was really thinking about things that had nothing to do with what I was writing—and there were quite a few of them—and even now I must stop and think about that strange phrase quite a few, for how can there be quite a few, if there are few there are few, but wouldn’t quite a few be a lot, quite a lot as a matter of fact? While Ruefle’s subjects are often ordinary, her way of seeing — and of watching herself seeing — is anything but banal. Her point of view is steadily, insistently odd. The effect is to accentuate how improbable everyday existence can be. At the center of The Book is a longer piece, “Dear Friends,” a 22-page rumination on friendship with a recurring refrain: “I have a friend who…” Ruefle has a knack for reenergizing words, for instance the well-worn “love”: I have a friend who has never read a single word I have ever written. I love being with her. I have a friend who is not a person I could ever be, even if I tried, nor would I want to be, and I love being with her. Many readers of this gentle, whipsmart and ingenious writer will “love being with her” — and will finish The Book feeling less alone. Strange as life is, we’re in this together. ➆

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Short Takes on Five Vermont Books Seven Days writers can’t possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a tiding of magpies. So this monthly feature is our way of introducing you to a handful of books by Vermont authors. To do that, we contextualize each book just a little and quote a single representative sentence from, yes, page 32. ➆

To Alice

J. Peter Cobb, TouchPoint Press, 254 pages. $15.99.

Alice is looking at her feet. She slides her right foot backward. What happens when caring too much backfires? In this novel, Alice Hammond, a home health and hospice aide living in the made-up town of Providence, Vt., finds out the hard way when a patient bequeaths to her all of his property and a sizable chunk of change — a potentially life-altering gift for a med school dropout struggling to make ends meet and figure out her path. The troubles start when her patient’s brother accuses Alice of exploiting an elder and threatens legal action. Barre author J. Peter Cobb vividly captures the details of hospice workers moving through rural landscapes and balancing a life of caring for others while trying to escape their own demons. In Alice’s case, those include a traumatic experience in med school and the expectations of a family who doesn’t understand her struggles. It’s no surprise how accurately Cobb portrays that world, considering his former role as the executive director of Vermont’s Visiting Nurses Association. In To Alice, he shows the perils of putting your heart into something that just might not return the favor.

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To Walk Is to See It: 1 Couple, 98 Days, 1400 Miles on Europe’s GR5

Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction

I’m amazed at how the exhilaration of the trip keeps me going.

Wild in the Christian framework: a term of derision and disgust.

Kathy Elkind, She Writes Press, 278 pages. $17.95.

Mad River Valley author Kathy Elkind is a proponent of the “grown-up gap year.” What better time to walk the GR5 — an approximately 1,400-mile footpath through the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France — than at 57 years old? Cognizant of their age, Elkind and her husband, Jim, don’t try to replicate the backpacking trips of their twenties. The couple used to pride themselves on being “hardcore.” Now, they opt for warm beds over camping and croissants over more modest breakfast fare. Even with those accommodations, sickness, language barriers and inclement weather still pose challenges for the couple. Elkind quickly realizes her body is not what it used to be. Meanwhile, Jim seems more than capable of endless walking. As Elkind documents their trip in this memoir, she writes honestly about the unromantic aspects of aging and the struggle to feel heard in her marriage. Through a travelogue about literally walking, Elkind ends up composing a metaphor about the hopefully long walk through life.

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David Hinton, Shambhala Publications, 135 pages. $19.95.

Do not be deceived by the calm blue sky and the soaring cranes on the cover of David Hinton’s Wild Mind, Wild Earth. In case you have not noticed, calmness is in short supply these days, and Hinton underscores why we should be anything but calm as we march toward the cliff of extinction, propelled by the belief that we are not of nature but in control of nature. Hinton, who lives in East Calais, is a much-honored author, poet and translator specializing in ancient Chinese philosophy and poetry. Along with a college syllabus’ worth of John Muir, William Wordsworth, Aldo Leopold, Dante and John Milton, he marshals Zen Buddhist insights — and one lovely “vast little egret poem” — to help heal the rupture between humans and the Earth. Sadly, Hinton’s erudite analysis only reminded this reader of how deeply Western culture has erred in its conviction that nature exists to serve us.

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Attic of Dreams: A Memoir

Marilyn Webb Neagley, Rootstock Publishing, 275 pages. $18.99.

A wall lamp reflects the red color of my woolen blanket, making it a warm place for me to nestle. Marilyn Webb Neagley began her memoir more than 40 years ago when, as a working mother, she periodically jotted down memories on index cards. The Ascutney native married into the Webb family and became one of the developers of education nonprofit Shelburne Farms, serving as an early president. Compiling her memories, she wrote in the online magazine Women Writers, Women’s Books, was like assembling a quilt: “My bits and pieces appeared as an array of colorful light and somber darkness.” In short vignettes, Neagley gives readers snapshots of her life: listening for spring peepers, sugaring with friends, building forts in the woods. She shares the less idyllic scenes, too: finding liquor bottles her mother has hidden around the house, hearing her parents fight, learning that a friend was molested by her own father. This intensely personal story is intertwined with an inside look at the founding of one of Vermont’s venerable institutions.

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Hubble’s Pasture & the Truth About Cows

Peter K.K. Williams, Onion River Press, 48 pages. $19.99.

Late the following afternoon an observant cow happened to ... spot the space station.

Hubble’s Pasture & the Truth About Cows, Hinesburg author and illustrator Peter K.K. Williams’ serenade to Vermont’s most iconic of creatures, reads less like a story than an almanac of the state’s ever-changing landscape and sky. As an ode to the ungulates of the Green Mountains, it’s written with all the love and reverence for bovines of a sacred Hindu text, only with more frivolity. An astute observer of nature and dairy farmers’ place in it, Williams frolics in the English language like a rambunctious heifer romping in a summer meadow. The Leonid meteor shower shoots “cosmic spitballs.” The barn floor simmers as a “glutenous porridge.” Cows vigorously empty their bladders “with an impressive display of savoir-faire.” Williams generously drops bovine insights that are factual — such as that cows in a pasture inexplicably tend to orient themselves along magnetic north-south lines — and facetious: “Jersey cows are Yankee fans ... while Holsteins prefer the Red Sox.” For cow and nature lovers, this one will be an udder delight to read and ruminate upon.

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CLASSICAL MUSIC COURTESY OF SHOCARRA MARCUS

EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO US LEAVES RESIDUE

IN OUR MIND, OUR BODY, OUR SPIRIT. CHR ISTAL BROWN

At the end of the performance, Wilson points up in the air and says “yes” emphatically, then moves into the shadows and sings “yes,” holding the note for several seconds. Wilson said the ending reflects flesh dying and coming back again, hinting at the afterlife or “something beyond this moment in time.” Brown emphasized that the performance does not convey a specific message. While she sees grief in the piece, others may see something different. As Brown watched her mother die, she said, she felt her mother’s spirit leave before her body. That separation between body and soul is part of what she hoped to capture in her piece. “Everything that happens to a person is stored somewhere in the visceral memory of the body,” she said. “When that visceral memory or that membrane gets full, then that’s the capacity of life.” ➆

INFO What We Ask of Flesh, Thursday, November 9, and Friday, November 10, 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, November 11, 2 p.m., at Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre, Middlebury College. $5-25. middlebury.edu

Ambitious Concerts Highlight a Big Weekend for Classical Music Fans BY AMY LILLY • lilly@sevendaysvt.com

Two chorus and orchestra concerts in the Burlington area this weekend promise to go big, for different reasons. The Green Mountain Mahler Festival performs a concert version of the first act of Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) on Saturday night with three professional soloists — one of whom has sung at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. On Sunday afternoon, Québec-based baroque vocal ensemble L’Harmonie des saisons will be joined by members of Burlington’s College Street Congregational Church choir. They’ll bring to life Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in its original form on 19th-century instruments — for the first time in North America, according to musical codirector and cofounder Eric Milnes. The Mahler Fest, a community rehearsal orchestra, was founded in 2002 by double bassist Daniel Weiss to give local players of all abilities the chance to learn large-scale romantic-era symphonies, including by Gustav Mahler. The group’s occasional ticketed performances double as fundraisers; the Wagner concert will fund scholarships for the Youth Opera Company of the Opera Company of Middlebury. Guest conductor Lou Kosma, who lives in Teaneck, N.J., is responsible for programming the challenging, 70-minute work. He played double bass with the Met Opera orchestra for 36 years, until 2014. Kosma performed Die Walküre many times — including alongside “the machine,” the Met’s infamous 45-ton set — as well as Act 1 in concert at the Salzburg Festival. For 25 years, Kosma has commuted to Vermont to conduct the Vermont Philharmonic and to perform with the OCM, Capital City Concerts, Burlington Choral Society and others. “After having played [Die Walküre] for so many years at the Met, I really got excited about what it sounds like,” Kosma explained by phone. He led the Mahler Fest in a first reading of Act 1 in 2018. That rehearsal featured the same three professional soloists who will appear this weekend in performance: soprano Elizabeth Perryman and tenor Adam Laurence Herskowitz (the Met singer), both of New Jersey; and Montpelier bass Erik Kroncke. The latter has sung the role of Hundig with five opera companies in New York and New Jersey and with the Wagner Society of New York. After leading the orchestra through a second reading of Act 1 in 2022, Kosma recalled, “I thought, Yes, we should try to perform this.” Audiences can expect to hear a significant brass section that includes tuben, an instrument Wagner invented. The conductor is finishing with the showstopping “Ride of the Valkyries” (from Act 3) featuring eight local sopranos and, he hinted, some creative staging. L’Harmonie’s concert is likely to be a top-tier event, given Milnes’ drive for

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AFTER HAVING PLAYED [DIE WALKÜRE] FOR SO MANY YEARS AT THE MET,

I REALLY GOT EXCITED ABOUT WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE. L O U KO S M A

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musical perfection. The ensemble performs around Québec and Ontario, as well as in the U.S. and the UK; two of its six albums have won JUNO Awards — the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys. Milnes, a harpsichordist, organist and conductor who lives near Montréal, also became music director of the College Street Congregational Church choir and the Vermont Choral Union in 2022. When he brought L’Harmonie to Burlington last December, choir members joined the ensemble for two sold-out performances of Handel’s Messiah. Milnes chose 15 church choir members to join L’Harmonie’s 15 on the Requiem program, which actually includes two Requiems — Fauré’s and baroque-era Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s. Fauré composed his Requiem between 1887 and 1890, when instruments were still strung with animal gut. Unlike modern instruments with metal strings, Milnes explained by phone, period instruments’ “timbre is warmer and darker,

more blending with the voices, and they lend themselves to a more nuanced array of articulations.” The warmth of sound will be matched by Fauré’s warm approach to the standard Latin mass for the dead, from which he selected texts but not the “Dies Irae,” or Day of Wrath. The French agnostic thought that death should be portrayed as a peaceful end, not fire and brimstone. It’s a fitting tribute to Bill Harwood, the music-loving Burlington tenor who died on August 23. He sang with the College Street Congregational Church choir, Burlington Choral Society and Oriana (now Aurora Chamber) Singers. The concert is dedicated to him. ➆

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Act 1 of Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre by Green Mountain Mahler Festival, a benefit for Youth Opera Company of OCM, Saturday, November 4, 7 p.m., at Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester. $20-30. vtmahler.org, youthoperavt.org Requiem by L’Harmonie des saisons, Sunday, November 5, 3 p.m., at College Street Congregational Church in Burlington. $25-40; free for students and children. Find tickets at eventbrite.com. SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 1-8, 2023

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Pain Hustlers ★★★

n 2018, Evan Hughes’ New York Times Magazine story “The Pain Hustlers” profiled the meteoric rise and fall of a pharmaceutical startup called Insys. Just a few years after its initial public offering made the company a “Wall Street darling,” the chief executives faced federal racketeering charges for giving kickbacks to doctors who prescribed their fentanylbased painkiller. Many of those physicians prescribed the drug off-label, with the company’s assistance in dodging regulators and insurers. Patients and even clinic staff became addicted. The article became a book, and Insys filed for bankruptcy. Now Netflix has adapted Hughes’ cautionary tale of salesmanship and greed into Pain Hustlers, a fictionalized version of the story with the names changed and David Yates (the Fantastic Beasts movies) directing.

The deal

Liza Drake (Emily Blunt) knows her life is a mess. She dances at a strip club, lives in her sister’s garage and is struggling to retain custody of her teen daughter (Chloe Coleman). One day at the club, she bonds with Pete Brenner (Chris Evans), a smoothtalking pharmaceutical salesman. Liza persuades Pete to give her an interview at his company, Zanna, which is trying in vain to market Lonafen, a new pain reliever for cancer patients. Pete adds some degrees to Liza’s résumé, scrawls “PHD” on it and hires her. Then he confides that the abbreviation actually stands for “poor, hungry and dumb” — or, in her case, “desperate.” Liza isn’t insulted. A born saleswoman, she figures out how to cozy up to doctors and convince them to switch their patients to Lonafen, which she believes is 100 percent safe. Pete concocts a scheme to sweeten the pot: a “speaker program” for which physicians are paid handsomely. Sales of Lonafen soar, and soon Liza is living the high life — as is her party girl mom (Catherine O’Hara), whom she has persuaded Pete to hire. The only problem: Patients on Lonafen keep overdosing.

Will you like it?

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Emily Blunt plays a pharma rep who builds her gain on other people’s pain in a dark comedy that hedges too many bets.

however, Adam McKay’s film about the subprime mortgage crisis has become the template for ripped-from-the-headlines movies. And few of them come even close to pulling it off. To that template, Pain Hustlers director Yates and screenwriter Wells Tower add elements of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas: Tracking shots, glitz, glitter and fistpumping montages illustrate Liza’s rise to the top of what is essentially a white-collar criminal organization. The filmmakers complicate things further by stuffing the story into the framework of a faux documentary. Every now and then, Liza and Pete are shown being interviewed by an unseen filmmaker, a conceit that never pays off. The story of Insys/Zanna is inherently compelling, and Pain Hustlers is an effective crash course in the tactics that pharma companies have employed to bend and break the law. We watch Liza use her attractiveness and charm to play on lonely doctors’ vanity. We marvel at how easily some of them toss aside their Hippocratic oath. We laugh at the quirks of Zanna’s deranged founder (Andy Garcia), who tells investors a sob story about losing his wife to cancer even as he pushes doctors to prescribe his dangerously powerful drug to all comers.

REVIEW None of this colorful misbehavior makes much of an impact, however, because the composite characters at the story’s core just aren’t that interesting. Only Liza, our protagonist, has anything resembling depth, and the screenplay pulls a bait-andswitch with her. When we meet Liza, hustling customers at the strip joint, she’s the slithering, scruple-free embodiment of ambition — no one we would ever root for, but fun to watch. As she rises in the world and becomes a “girl boss” on the backs of suffering patients, however, the filmmakers try to redeem her by giving her a more sympathetic motivation. It feels like a late-in-the-game attempt to pretty up the character and make her worthy of Blunt’s star power. This plot arc reaches its nadir when we learn that a seemingly pointless minor character exists solely to make Liza mistyeyed and remorseful. But the movie’s efforts to paint her as a heroic whistleblower fall flat, because it’s tough to take seriously her wide-eyed insistence that she didn’t know fentanyl could hurt anybody. Hughes’ story may not feature a gutsy single mom or a buffoonish CEO, but it leaves readers with a chilling sense of the perils of making health care a for-profit enterprise.

The movie, by contrast, hustles and bustles but doesn’t really sell us on anything. MARGO T HARRI S O N margot@sevendaysvt.com

IF YOU LIKE THIS, TRY... “PAINKILLER” (six episodes, 2023; Netf-

lix): In Pain Hustlers, Zanna executives paint themselves as the underdogs to avoid association with notorious giants such as Purdue Pharma. Netflix covered that side in this drama series based on nonfiction accounts of the Sackler family’s role in the opioid epidemic. “THE DROPOUT” (eight episodes, 2022;

Hulu): Like Liza in Pain Hustlers, reallife medical fraudster Elizabeth Holmes worked the “girl boss” angle. This drama series explores how she shaped her winning image and used it to sell America on a nonexistent tech marvel. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED

(2022; Max, rentable): Movies about pharmaceutical malfeasance generally make some effort to give the victims their due. But they can’t approach the raw grief embodied in Laura Poitras’ documentary about artist Nan Goldin and her personally driven quest to get art institutions to sever their profitable connections with the Sackler family.

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OPPENHEIMERHHHHH Director Christopher Nolan tells the story of the man (Cillian Murphy) who played a key role in creating the atomic bomb. (180 min, R. Majestic; reviewed 8/2)

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CURRENTLY PLAYING AFTER DEATHH This faith-based documentary from Stephen Gray and Chris Radtke combs near-death experiences for information about a possible afterlife. (103 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace) BARBIEHHHH Margot Robbie plays the Mattel toy as she experiences her first-ever existential crisis. (114 min, PG-13. Palace; reviewed 7/26) BOTTOMSHHHH Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri play lovelorn high school friends who hatch a wild scheme to get close to their crushes in this comedy. (91 min, R. Roxy; reviewed 9/13) THE CREATORHHH An ex-soldier (John David Washington) finds the perfect weapon for a war between humans and artificial intelligence in this sci-fi adventure. (133 min, PG-13. Majestic) DICKS: THE MUSICALHHH In a grown-up twist on The Parent Trap, adult twins separated at birth hatch a wild scheme to reunite their parents. With Josh Sharp, Aaron Jackson and Nathan Lane. Larry Charles (Borat) directed. (86 min, R. Roxy) DUMB MONEYHHH1/2 This comedy relates the stranger-than-fiction tale of how a grassroots online movement made GameStop the hot stock. (105 min, R. Playhouse; reviewed 10/4) THE EXORCIST: BELIEVERHH Ellen Burstyn returns in this sequel to the classic possession horror flick, in which two teens vanish into the woods and return disturbingly altered. David Gordon Green directed. (121 min, R. Majestic)

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oapbox Arts is twinkling, and not with an early display of holiday lights. Rather, the Burlington gallery’s current exhibition, titled “Listening to the World,” features suspended, kinetic sculptures that gently wink at visitors. The artist, Christina Watka, is in love with light; her work literally reflects that. In a series she calls “Iridian Mist,” overlapping layers of acrylic and mica, cut in irregular shapes, dangle like earrings from wall-mounted dowels. The colors are mostly soft — lavender, pink, peach — with splashes 54

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of bright turquoise or earthy brown. Watka’s “Light Totems,” nearly five feet long, are similar strands of iridescent mica chips and delicate, gold-plated chains hung from brass hooks. The largest work, “Dichotomous Air in Color,” is an arrangement of acrylic and mica shapes suspended from a horizontal brass rod 144 inches wide. The piece subtly shimmies in place with ambient whiffs of air. All these sculptures are like jewelry for rooms. On her website, Watka suggests they are best hung near a window, where their mirrorlike surfaces are most

energized. But these are materials for which reflection is a mission; they glimmer with the slightest encouragement. Shadows cast against the wall give the sculptures additional vitality. In a phone call from her home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Watka said she began to fully appreciate the impact of light when she had a studio alongside the Hudson River in New York. “It had floor-to-ceiling windows facing west, with incredible light,” she said. During that time, while pregnant with her now6-year-old son, Watka got a commission to create a

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sculpture for the Etsy headquarters in Brooklyn. “I had always wanted to use this acrylic that is in Soapbox, but they didn’t want plastic,” she said of the e-commerce company. So she asked her sister, a biologist, about “a safe, green material. She’s the one that thought of mica.” Sheet mica is used primarily in electrical industries for its insulation capacity; as dust, the mineral is commonly employed in cement, asphalt, even makeup foundation. “I’m not using it for its technical specs,” Watka clarified, “but for its beauty, for how it reflects light on water, things like that.” She primarily sources the material in India but noted that mica mines once existed throughout the U.S. “Even in the backyard in Maine, we can dig it up,” she said. In 2019, after living for “seven or eight years” in New York, Watka, her musician husband and toddler son relocated to

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Maine; three years ago, the family grew by two with twin girls. “Welcoming children into my life made me more playful,” Watka said. “There’s definitely been a shift in my experience of time and wonder — for example, watching a caterpillar with my son for 35 minutes. I’ve tried to hang on to that playfulness in the studio.” Her “airy, natural work” feels truest to her now, Watka said. “At a gut level, I feel this is what I should be making.” Yet she also creates installations with hand-cut pieces of glazed porcelain, eight of which are on view at Soapbox. And “playful” is an operative word — the pieces are even adhered to children’s blocks, which in turn are screwed into the wall. Watka’s “Kaleidoscope” series comprises arrangements of stoneware in flattened, curvilinear shapes, glazed with saturated solid colors or speckles. The shapes are intuitive, she said. LISTENING WITH LIGHT

Cecilia Vicuna (Chilean, b. 1948), Ciudad de pa/os (Precarios) [City of Sticks], c. 1990, wood, paint, 9 x 9 x 9 inches. Collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont. Purchase with funds provided by the Reva B. Seybolt '72 Art Acquisition Fund and the Calvert H. Seybolt '80 Art Acquisition Fund, 2023.

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‘CELEBRATE’: An exhibition of art and crafts by more than 80 member-artists on all three floors. November 8-December 28. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre. DELIA ROBINSON: “Then and Now,” old and current work by the Vermont painter and clay whistle sculptor. Reception: Friday, November 3, 4-7 p.m. November 3-26. Info, robinson.delia@gmail.com. The Front in Montpelier.

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‘LAST CALL’: The gallery hosts its final exhibition featuring works by Anne Cady, Bonnie Baird, Maria Flores Galindo, Chelsea Granger, Julia Jensen, Rose Umerlik, Hannah Sessions, Pamela Smith, Carla Weeks and Hannah Secord Wade. Closing party: Saturday, December 9, 5-8 p.m. November 4-December 31. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

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NICK MANGO: “Hand in Glove,” photographic portraits of Tinmouth community members juxtaposed with the gloves they wear for their work or avocation. Reception: Saturday, November 11, 5:30-7 p.m. November 8-December 31. Info, 468-1119. Vermont State University-Castleton Bank Gallery in Rutland.

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ELIZABETH POWELL: “Silk and Sisal,” paintings of abstracted forms and patterns based on the female body. Reception: Friday, November 3, 5-8 p.m. November 3-25. Info, 347-264-4808. Kishka Gallery & Library in White River Junction.

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‘BECOMING THE LANDSCAPE’: Recent large-scale paintings by Mary Therese Wright, Tina Olsen, Ellen Maddrey and John Loggia. Reception: Friday, November 3, 5-8 p.m. November 3-26. Info, 3809072. 118 Elliot in Brattleboro.

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THE NORMAN ROCKWELL MYSTERY’: An exhibition that documents how a long-hidden painting by the famous illustrator was discovered and later sold at Sotheby’s for $15.4 million, featuring paintings, letters, sketches and auction audio. Reception: Saturday, November 4, 3-6 p.m. November

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CHAMPLAIN VALLEY QUILT GUILD OF VERMONT: An exhibition of wall-hung quilts with the theme “Animals.” November 1-30. Info, 846-4140. South Burlington Public Library Art Wall.

Humans have been coaxing metal into utilitarian, nefarious and artistic objects for millennia. Yet somehow, people still find inventive ways to craft it. For contemporary sculptor and jewelry maker Margaret Jacobs, the malleability and solidity of metals suits her aim to make permanent the ephemeral expressions of the natural world, as well as to carry cultural narratives. In her artist’s statement, Jacobs puts it like this: “I find metal is an incredibly versatile material that lends strength and visual weight to the work, but can also be worked so that it is organic and delicate.” Though larger, weightier sculptures are cataloged on Jacobs’ website, her current exhibition at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson presents small forged-steel sculptures and adornments in powder-coated brass. Titled “Shape of a Memory,” the show is modest in size but rich in symbolism. A member of the Akwesasne Mohawk tribe, the upstate New York artist writes that her culture inspires her “to create pieces charged with power, strength and beauty.” Her ability to do just that has earned coverage in art journals and fashion magazines alike. A Harper’s Bazaar spotlight featuring one of Jacobs’ bolo ties, for example, observed that her work “speaks to the connection between community, self, and nature.” Jacobs’ jewelry — which is really wearable sculpture — includes necklaces, bolos, earrings, brooches and collar pins, all with finely crafted botanical elements: strawberry, blueberry, mint, garlic, mushrooms. The works that she calls “Partner Pieces” attach to both sides of a shirt or jacket collar. One of these, “Blueberry I, Collar Pin,” features tiny clusters of the fruit with two fine brass chains swooping, necklace-like, between them. Another similar set replaces the berries with miniature antlers; in matching earrings, antlers dangle beneath purplish pieces of wampum. Most of the wall-hung or tabletop sculptures in the exhibit merge elements from botany — Jacobs calls them “plant relatives” — with referents to Mohawk ironworkers. Renowned for helping to construct bridges and buildings — including numerous New York City skyscrapers — members of the Mohawk and Kahnawake tribes (from upstate New York, Ontario and Québec) proudly passed down their “walking iron” tradition over generations. Jacobs honors this history in steel sculptures such as “Plantain I,” a wall-hung piece in which a cluster of leaves and stem anchors a diminutive ladder. In a tabletop version, “Plantain With Nail,” an outsize screw nail lays on a pedestal and intersects the plant, whose stems shoot upward. Jacobs graduated from Dartmouth College, where she has subsequently been a guest lecturer, and is currently adjunct faculty at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury, N.Y. The long list of exhibitions, awards and residencies on her CV indicates an active presence, and a welcomed Indigenous voice, in the art world. With “Shape of a Memory,” Jacobs quietly but eloquently resolves cultural and material dichotomies with expressions of harmony. ➆

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HOWARD CENTER ARTS COLLECTIVE: “Flow,” artwork inspired by water and the spirit of rebuilding after disaster by 14 members of the group. Fifty percent of sales will benefit Studio Place Arts in Barre. November 3-December 31. Info, 865-7296. Burlington City Hall.

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CHRISTY MITCHELL: “Point of Impact,” a solo installation that addresses the difficulty of caring for family members struggling with mental health. Reception: Friday, November 3, 5-9 p.m. November 3-25. Info, 338-1162. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

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INFO Margaret Jacobs, “Shape of a Memory,” through November 29 at Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson. margaretjacobs.com

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FRANÇOISE SULLIVAN: “I let rhythms flow,” a selection of paintings by a leading figure of modern art and pioneer of Québec dance. November 1-February 18. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

online HOLIDAY AUCTION: The Shelburne Museum’s annual fundraiser features favorites from the museum store, one-of-a-kind experiences at the museum and many items from local businesses. Bid online. November 5-12. Info, 985-3346. Online.

ART EVENTS ART & POETRY YOUTH WORKSHOP: Poet Ann Gengarelly and visual artist Tony Gengarelly invite young people, ages 9 to 14, to bring their creativity to a poetry-writing and art-making workshop. All materials are provided. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Sunday, November 5, 2 p.m. $10; free for members. Info, 257-0124. ARTISANS HAND BIRTHDAY SALE: The gallery turns 45 and offers bargains to holiday shoppers. Artisans Hand Craft Gallery, Montpelier, Friday, November 3, and Saturday, November 4, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; and Sunday, November 5, noon-3 p.m. Info, 229-9492. FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS SALE: An exhibit and sale of artwork in a variety of mediums, handmade hats and mittens and more. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., Saturday, November 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Info, 518-563-8114. HOLIDAY ARTISAN GIFT SHOW: The third annual event features pottery, ornaments, planters, handmade books, journals, artwork, jewelry and more by local makers. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Friday, November 3, 4-7 p.m., and Saturday, November 4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info, 775-0356. OPEN STUDIO: Draw, collage, paint, move, write and explore the expressive arts however you please during this drop-in period. Available in studio and via Zoom. Most materials are available in the studio. All are welcome, no art experience necessary. Expressive Arts Burlington, Thursday, November 2, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Donations. Info, info@ expressiveartsburlington.com. PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP: Michael Smoot, professor in the department of print and paper at the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, demonstrates relief printmaking in conjunction with his current exhibit. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Saturday, November 4, 2 p.m. $35; $20 for members. Info, 257-0124. SILENT AUCTION FUNDRAISER: Bid on a variety of donations from local artists and businesses, followed by a reception 5 to 7 p.m. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, Friday, November 3, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Info, 295-5901. TALK: TERRY EKASALA: The Vermont artist discusses her abstract paintings in the current exhibit, “Layers of Time.” BCA Center, Burlington, Thu., November 2, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. VISITING ARTIST TALK: PAOLO ARAO: The Filipino artist discusses his sewn paintings, textile constructions and site-responsive installations, which are rooted in geometric abstraction and made with variously sourced fabrics, secondhand clothing, hand-woven fibers and weathered canvas. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Wednesday, November 1, 8-9 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2727. WATERCOLOR PAINTING WITH PAULINE NOLTE: Instruction in the medium from the Vermont artist; no experience necessary to attend. Register to reserve a spot. Waterbury Public Library, Monday, November 6, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, judi@ waterburypubliclibrary.com.

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‘60 YEARS OF BREAD & PUPPET’: Puppets, prints and banners by Peter Schumann, founder of the puppet theater group based in Glover. Through December 1. Info, hello@karmabirdhouse.com. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington. ADDISON BALE: New paintings whose gestural aesthetic takes inspiration from New York’s aging infrastructure, signage and detritus. Through November 5. Info, 917-846-1719. Foam Brewers in Burlington. ‘ART AND THE MATTER OF PLACE’: A small exhibition of works in the Wolcott Gallery that encourages critical thinking about place and why it matters. ‘PRAXIS’: An exhibition of recent work by more than a dozen studio art faculty at UVM in an array of mediums. Through December 8. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington. ART AT THE HOSPITAL: “Nebizun: Water Is Life,” artwork by the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association (Blue Path, Level 3); Jay Ashman, watercolors (McClure 4); Erica Sloan, photographs on aluminum (EP2); and Lorraine Manley, acrylic paintings on canvas (Breast Care Center). Through January 31. Info, 865-7296. University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. CHRISTINA WATKA: “Listening to the World,” mixed-media sculptures in mica and ceramic by the Maine artist. Through November 25. Info, 324-0014. Soapbox Arts in Burlington. ‘HOW PEOPLE MAKE THINGS’: An installation inspired by the Mister Rogers’ factory tours includes hands-on activities in cutting, molding, deforming and assembly to show participants how certain childhood objects are manufactured. Through January 7. Info, 864-1848. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington. ‘TEXTURE & RESPONSE’: An exhibition that explores the visual perception of texture through the work of New England artists Karen Cygnarowicz, Gracia Nash and Ann Wessmann. Through January 27. KATE LONGMAID: Contemporary portraiture, still life and landscape paintings in oil and acrylic gouache by the Vermont artist. Through December 17. TERRY EKASALA: “Layers of Time,” improvisational paintings that explore color, texture, gesture and form at the intersection of abstraction and representation. Through January 27. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

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VICTORIA BLEWER: “At a Crossroad,” photographic and mixed-media collages by the Vermont artist. Reception: Saturday, November 4, 4-6 p.m. Through November 27. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

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‘FINDING HOPE WITHIN’: An exhibition of poetry and other writings, visual art and sculpture by incarcerated artists in Vermont. In collaboration with Vermont Works for Women, Women’s Justice and Freedom Initiative of Vermont and A Revolutionary Press. Through November 30. Info, 482-2878. Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg. GABRIEL BORAY & COLOSSAL SANDERS: Acrylic paintings of Vermont with a focus on cows, and satirical digital montage illustrations, respectively. Second-floor Skywalk. Through December 5. JULIA PURINTON: Abstract oil paintings inspired by nature. North Concourse. Through February 29. Info, 865-7296. Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport in South Burlington. JOSEPH SALERNO: “Inside & Out: Landscapes to Relics,” al fresco oil paintings by the Vermont artist. Through November 4. Info, 985-3848. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne.

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MICHAEL STRAUSS: Brilliantly colored paintings in acrylic and pastel. Through November 5. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. MIKE SIPE & COLLEEN MURPHY: Photographs on canvas and mixed media on panel, respectively. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through February 13. Info, 865-7296. Pierson Library in Shelburne. SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT ART TEACHERS: Selected work in a variety of mediums by Susie Ely, Kelsey Lewis, Jennifer Goodrich, Elizabeth Coleman, Alison Treston, Kim Kimball, Lisa Divoll-Painter, Kristina Bolduc and Philip Galiga, as well as social studies teacher Julian Barritt. Through December 30. Info, gallery@southburlingtonvt.gov. South Burlington Public Art Gallery. TONI BASANTA: “Toni’s Excursions,” an exhibition of music-themed photography taken over the past 14 years. Through November 11. Info, 318-8867. Lake Champlain Access TV Studio in Colchester. VAUGHN BELL: “We Are the Weather,” an installation of soft sculptural forms drawn from imagery of weather systems, storms and atmospheric events and that connects the idea of weather events with the flow of water in the SMC Natural Area and Winooski River. Through December 15. Info, bcollier@ smcvt.edu. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.

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ANN YOUNG: “Autumn Pond Abstract,” oil paintings of water shield plants found in the artist’s pond in the fall. At SPA’s annex location at 159 N. Main St. Through December 30. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre. EARL HENRY FOX: “Oblique Fixations,” a survey of recent work by the painter, woodworker and mixed-

media artist. By appointment. Through November 17. Info, 720-215-9519. Grist Mill Studios in East Calais. ‘ELEMENTS OF SHELTER’: Original works in wood, metal and glass by Yestermorrow faculty members Thea Alvin, Meg Reinhold, Nick Pattis, Anna Fluri, Sophia Mickelson and Johno Landsman, in conjunction with the Waitsfield design/build school. Through May 31, 2025. Info, 828-3291. Vermont Arts Council Sculpture Garden in Montpelier. ‘ENOUGH SAID? COUNTING MASS SHOOTINGS’: An installation that addresses rampant gun violence in the U.S., featuring artworks by Susan Calza, Samantha M. Eckert and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Through November 30. Info, 224-6827. Susan Calza Gallery in Montpelier. ‘FRUITS OF THE FOREST FLOOR’: A juried, mushroom-themed group show with painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, fiber arts, ceramics, jewelry and more by New England artists. Through December 15. Info, chelsea@northbranch naturecenter.org. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier. ‘INTERFACE’: A group exhibition in multiple mediums that evokes the aesthetics of science fiction, featuring Erin Murray, Charles Sommer, Kerry O. Furlani, Alexander Ney and Rodger Mack. Closing party: Friday, November 3, 4-8 p.m. Through November 17. Info, hexumgallery@gmail.com. Hexum Gallery in Montpelier. PAT HARRINGTON: “Removing the Mask: Let’s Talk About Child Sexual Abuse,” paintings on canvas and wooden bowls that tell the artist’s story of surviving sexual abuse and using art as a healing tool. Through November 7. Info, janna@mosaic-vt.org. Montpelier Senior Activity Center. ROBERT W. BRUNELLE JR.: “Old Houses,” 14 acrylic paintings of Victorian and other vintage homes in Vermont. Curated by Studio Place Arts. Through

CALL TO ARTISTS ‘THE ART SHOW’: The open-invite community art exhibition accepts work of any size or medium. Drop-off and installation is November 1 through 3, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Gallery at RL Photo, Burlington. $10 to enter. Info, theartshowvt@ gmail.com.

MEMBER HOLIDAY EXHIBITION & SALE: AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H., invites member-artists to submit their work for this end-of-year showcase. Submission details at avagallery.org. Online. Through November 3. $35. Info, 603-448-3117.

‘CELEBRATING THE SMALLS’: Seeking hangable artworks 10 inches square or smaller for an endof-year exhibit. Submit works November 7 through 15. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery, Waterbury. Info, 244-7801.

MEMBERS’ HOLIDAY EXHIBITION: Annual show at AVA Gallery & Art Center featuring works by New Hampshire and Vermont artists in five galleries. Two works per artist. Details at avagallery.org. Deadline: November 3. Online. $35. Info, 603-448-3117.

‘HEAD FOR THE HILLS’: Traditional and nontraditional mediums accepted for an upcoming exhibition about the region’s woodlands, mountains and creatures. Deadline: December 12. Info at studioplacearts.com. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 nonmember applicants. Info, submissions.studioplacearts@gmail.com. HOLIDAY MARKET: Sparrow Art Supply in Middlebury seeks original artworks for its annual artisan market. The theme is “Home is where the art is.” Guidelines and entrance form at sparrow-art-supply.square.site. Deadline: November 5. Online. Free to enter; $5 per category if accepted. Info, 989-7225. LEGO CONTEST & EXHIBIT: Makers of all ages are invited to design and build original Lego creations and display them at the museum for the 16th annual exhibition November 9 through 12. Entry dropoff is November 6, 4-6 p.m.; fill out application online beforehand. Details at brattleboromuseum.org. Online. Free. Info, 257-0124.

‘MY DOG AND THE WOLF’: Radiate Arts Space is sponsoring an unjuried art exhibit about the dog-wolf connection: about people and their dogs, humans’ role in the domestication of the wolf, and why and how it has resulted in such a variety of breeds. Workshops October and November, celebration in December. Richmond Free Library. Through November 1. Info, mauie@gmavt.net. ‘WHO ARE WE? PIECES OF THE IDENTITY PUZZLE’: November is a time for reflection and introspection. The gallery is seeking artwork depicting your take on identity, whether personal or as a people. All mediums accepted. Deliver work on or before Wednesday, November 8. Register at melmelts@ yahoo.com. The Satellite Gallery, Lyndonville. $20. Info, 229-8317.

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art February 16. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre. ‘S.L.U.A.T.H.’: An annual crowdsourced exhibit of art rescued from yard sales, free piles, estate cleanouts, junk stores and flea markets. Many pieces up for auction. Through November 8. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre. WENDY HACKETT-MORGAN: Paintings of horses that straddle abstraction and realism. Through November 18. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

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JO WEISS: “Absence/Presence,” paintings and drawings on paper. Through December 2. Info, 646-519-1781. Minema Gallery in Johnson. KEN LESLIE: A retrospective exhibit featuring works by the retired VTSU-Johnson faculty member. Through November 10. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Vermont State University-Johnson. ‘LAND & LIGHT & WATER & AIR’: The 16th annual group exhibition of landscape paintings featuring more than 90 regional artists. Through December 23. ‘NATURE’S ABSTRACTION’: A group exhibition of nature-inspired paintings that transcend traditional representation. Through November 5. LEGACY COLLECTION: A showcase exhibition of paintings by gallery regulars as well as some newcomers. Through December 23. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. MARGARET JACOBS: “Shape of a Memory,” new metal sculpture and jewelry by the multimedia artist and member of the Akwesasne Mohawk tribe. Through November 29. Info, 635-2727. Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson.

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‘BEYOND THE CURVE’: A special exhibition about the American Abenaki COVID-19 experience, presented by the Vermont Abenaki Artist Association. Through January 6. Info, 496-6682. Mad River Valley Arts Gallery in Waitsfield. ‘PHOTOGRAPHY SHOOTOUT’: An annual exhibition of photographs open to viewer voting for prizes. Through November 11. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Frame Shop & Gallery in Waterbury. STEVE BUDINGTON: “Call Shore,” recent mixed-media abstract paintings by the University of Vermont associate professor of painting. Through December 31. Info, 355-5440. Waterbury Studios. TRYSTAN BATES: “The Starling Symphony,” a five-part exhibition of abstract collage, sculpture, prints and mixed media that examines the ways in which we process, assimilate and store information. Through November 17. Info, joseph@thephoenixvt. com. The Phoenix in Waterbury.

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‘FROM HOMESPUN TO COUTURE: FASHION IN HISTORIC MIDDLEBURY’: An exhibition featuring local advertisements, newspapers, fashion magazines, photographs, trade cards, catalogs and other documentation from the museum’s archives; curated by Eva Garcelon-Hart. ‘STELLAR STITCHING: 19TH CENTURY VERMONT SAMPLERS’: An exhibition of needlework samplers made by young girls in the 19th-century that depict alphabets, numerals and decorative elements. Through January 13. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury. KATHRYN MILILLO: “Simple Matters,” paintings of Vermont landscapes and farm buildings. Through November 28. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

‘THE LIGHT OF THE LEVANT’: An exhibit of early photography in the late Ottoman Empire, which encompassed contemporary Greece, Turkey and most of the Arab world. ‘TOSSED’: Nearly 20 works that make use of found, discarded or repurposed materials, curated by museum exhibition designer Ken Pohlman. Through December 10. Info, 4435007. Middlebury College Museum of Art. ‘MACRO | MICRO’: An exhibition of large and small works in a variety of mediums by more than 40 artists, featuring the monumental and the miniature. Through November 4. Info, 989-7225. Sparrow Art Supply in Middlebury.

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‘LOCAL COLOR’: The 12th annual showcase of paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, sculptures and ceramics by more than 60 area artists. Through November 4. Info, 457-3500. Artistree Community Arts Center in South Pomfret. VERMONT PASTEL SOCIETY: A juried exhibition of paintings by 19 members of the artist group. Through November 18. Info, 295-4567. Long River Gallery in White River Junction.

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PENNY BILLINGS AND HOLLY FRIESEN: “Nature’s Inner Light,” paintings of the New England and Québec landscape. Through November 30. Info, 989-7419. Edgewater Gallery at the Falls in Middlebury.

ADELAIDE MURPHY TYROL & RICHARD J MURPHY: “A Sense of Place,” nature-based paintings and photographs, respectively. Through November 12. Info, 533-2000. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

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‘HANGING BY THREADS’: An exhibition of quilts presented by the Memphremagog Arts Collaborative and North Country Quilters Guild, including the raffle of a quilt by the late Carolyn Ferrara. Through December 30. Info, 334-1966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.

ARTIST MEMBERS’ SHOW: An exhibition of painting, photography, woodturning, pottery, collage and mixed media by 21 Vermont artists. Through December 10. Info, krista.rupe@gmail.com. Stone Valley Arts in Poultney. ‘BROOM ART’: The inaugural exhibition in the new gallery features paintings and sculpture made with brooms by artists Warren Kimble, Sandy Mayo and Fran Bull. Through November 30. Info, 558-0874. Conant Square Gallery in Brandon. SHA’AN MOULIERT: “I Am VT Too, Rutland,” photographs of Rutland-area BIPOC residents and their stories, presented by the Root Social Justice Center and Rutland Area Branch of the NAACP. Through November 4. Info, cmm02180@castleton. edu. Vermont State University-Castleton Bank Gallery in Rutland.

HEIDI BRONER: “The Works,” paintings of people at their jobs by the Vermont artist. Through November 4. Info, 229-8317. The Satellite Gallery in Lyndonville. PEGGY WATSON: “Vermont Outdoors,” sculptural paintings based on the natural world. Through November 11. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. PHILIP HERBISON: “Water in Motion” and “Assemblages,” photographs of large bodies of water, and wood sculptures using the scraps of other works, respectively. Through December 31. NORTHEAST KINGDOM SHOWS

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said, “I felt like [the ceramic pieces] referenced petals, bodies of water, leaves — things I’d held on to for my 37 years of life. “Even with ‘Kaleidoscope,’ I’m still thinking about light and reflection — for example, glossy versus matte glazes,” she continued. “Light is my most inspiring experience in the world.” Four years of living in Maine have only heightened Watka’s attention to the natural environment. As she puts it in her artist statement, her sculptures “reference light and color inspired by my time listening to the land. Oftentimes,” she adds, “my children are nearby listening in their own ways and teaching me what they know.” ➆

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Info, 748-2600. Catamount Arts Fried Family Gallery DTWN in St. Johnsbury. ‘WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND’: An exhibition of objects that explores the practical, spiritual and ecstatic human relationship to wheels and what they enable. Through May 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

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ANDY WARHOL: “Small Is Beautiful,” 100 of the artist’s smaller-format paintings, from the Hall collection. RON GORCHOV: A 50-year survey of the American abstract artist’s work, featuring shaped canvases from the 1970s to large-scale paintings in his last years. SUSAN ROTHENBERG: Nearly 30 figurative, gestural paintings by the late American artist from throughout her career. Weekends only; reservation required. Through November 26. Info, info@hallartfoundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading. ‘HOME BODIES’: A collaborative exhibit of ceramic artist Fawn Krieger and textile artist David B. Smith that reimagines home as not just physical environments but also within our own bodies and imaginations. Through March 9. ‘PAPER MADE’: A group exhibition of artworks made by tearing, cutting, binding, stitching and rolling various papers. Through February 11. ART COSTA: “Sounds Deep,” strange, sightless denizens of the ocean’s depths constructed from reclaimed cardboard, papier-mâché and natural materials. Through March 9. MICHAEL SMOOT: “And to This World,” prints using a variety of techniques that explore ideas of interconnectedness, as well as systems and structures we put into place to fulfill our needs. Through March 9. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. ‘GLASS | PASTEL’: A group exhibition of blown and sculpted glass along with pastel paintings by nine local artists. Through November 4. ‘MARTHA & JOHN: A LOVE STORY OF YOGA AND ART’: Oil paintings of the Vermont landscape by the late Martha Nichols and abstract mathematical paintings inspired by the yoga tradition of yantra by John van der Does. Through December 9. LINDEN ELLER: Mixed media and painting centered on the theme of memory architecture by the newest participant in the gallery’s Working Artist Program. Through December 8. PENELOPE ARMS: A solo exhibition of new oil paintings featuring the changing New England landscape. Through December 9. Info, 289-0104. Canal Street Art Gallery in Bellows Falls. PHOTOGRAPHY: FOUR PERSPECTIVES: An exhibition of images in different styles and subject matter by Al Karevy, Davida Carta, Joshua Farr and Vaune Trachtman, members of the Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro. Through November 12. Info, 451-0053. Next Stage Arts Project in Putney.

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‘THE WEE WORLDS OF SALLEY MAVOR’: An exhibition of bas-relief embroideries, featured as illustrations in many children’s books, by the Massachusetts artist. ASHLEY BRYAN: “The Spirit of Joy,” an exhibition of toys, puppets, painting and photography by the late children’s book illustrator and author, who centered stories of Black life and African folk tales. Through January 7. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. ‘FOR THE LOVE OF VERMONT: THE LYMAN ORTON COLLECTION’: More than 200 works of art that capture Vermont’s unique character, people, traditions and landscape prior to the 1970s from the collection of the Vermont Country Store proprietor. Also displayed at Bennington Museum. Through November 5. Info, 362-1405. Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester.

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history informs and affects our lives. Through December 31. ‘FOR THE LOVE OF VERMONT: THE LYMAN ORTON COLLECTION’: More than 200 pieces of art, primarily from the 1920s to 1960, acquired by the founder of the Vermont Country Store. Simultaneously exhibited at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Through November 5. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

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NORTH BENNINGTON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: An outdoor exhibition featuring 77 sculptures by 59 artists, curated by Joe Chirchirillo. Through November 12. Info, nbossvt@gmail.com. Various Bennington locations.

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‘VERMONT LANDSCAPES’: More than 100 paintings in oil, gouache and watercolor by regional artists Matt Chinian, James Coe, Tony Conner, Ann Larsen, John MacDonald, Robert Moylan, Eric Tobin, Mark Tougias and George Van Hook. Also, paintings and drawings by pastel master Corey Pitkin. Through December 31. Info, 318-4444. Monument Arts & Cultural Center in Bennington.

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AMY SCHACHTER & JAN FOWLER: Views of the natural landscape in acrylic and graphite on wood panels, and oil paint, respectively. Through November 26. Info, artetcvt@gmail.com. ART, etc. in Randolph. CAROLYN EGELI & CHRIS WILSON: Landscape oil paintings and figurative sculptures, respectively. Through November 5. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph. JAMES SECOR: “Eclosion,” new landscape paintings with experimental drips and other water-based movement. Through December 20. Info, 889-3525. The Tunbridge General Store Gallery.

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CHERYL BETZ, RACHEL GROSS & MARY MEAD: An exhibition of sculpture, prints, drawings and photographs. Through November 11. JIHYE HAN, YEONSOO KIM & JENNY SWANSON: An exhibition of works in clay in the Clifford B. West Gallery. Through November 11. JOAN FEIERABEND: “Multitudes,” 365 works inspired by the Vermont artist’s daily practice over a year. Through November 4. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. ‘HOMECOMING: DOMESTICITY AND KINSHIP IN GLOBAL AFRICAN ART’: More than 75 works drawn from the museum’s collection of African and African diaspora art that emphasize the role of women artists and feminine aesthetics. Through May 25. KENT MONKMAN: “The Great Mystery,” four new paintings by the Cree artist along with five works in the museum’s collection that inspired them, by Hannes Beckmann, T.C. Cannon, Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Mark Rothko and Fritz Scholder. Through December 9. Info, 603-646-2808. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. ‘MARISOL: A RETROSPECTIVE’: A comprehensive survey of sculptures and paintings by the groundbreaking artist (1930-2016). Through January 21. ‘THE POP OF LIFE!’: An exhibition of 70 iconic pop-art works from the museum’s collection. Through March 24. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

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‘MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF HAUT-RICHELIEU’: An exhibition created in collaboration with La Cargaison Collectif that features 10 artistic visions about the stories of the territory. Through March 10. Info, 450-347-0649. Musée du Haut-Richelieu in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. ‘VELVET TERRORISM: PUSSY RIOT’S RUSSIA’: An exhibition that documents the performances, videos and street actions of the feminist punk art collective in protest of the country’s political repression and injustices. Through March 10. Info, 514-847-6226. Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art. ➆

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music+nightlife Where the Heart Is: Myra Flynn on Her NPR Podcast, ‘Homegoings’ There aren’t many people more suited to having an open, frank and insightful conversation about the Black experience in Vermont than musician and journalist MYRA FLYNN. The bicoastal Vermonter — she lives part of the year in Los Angeles — made local waves over the summer with a headlining spot at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, where she performed her “Roar of the Queen” show; debuted her most recent EP, Shadow Work; and welcomed guests such as PHISH bassist MIKE GORDON onstage. Lately, Flynn’s work as a journalist at Vermont Public has taken the spotlight. In June, she launched her nationally syndicated podcast “Homegoings” on NPR. The podcast, which Flynn conceived of after the first anniversary of the May 2020 murder of GEORGE FLOYD by a Minneapolis police officer, strives to present the “rich, complex and resilient stories of Black and brown people,” Flynn said by phone from her home in California. “The only way to really talk about race is to talk about people,” Flynn said. “I can’t imagine we’re ever going to fix systemic racism if we don’t actually talk about race with one another.” Flynn was working as a producer on the Vermont Public podcast “Brave Little State” when the anniversary of Floyd’s death approached. As the show’s team debated how to cover it, Flynn had a revelation. “I just thought that we, as members of the media, needed to start making Black storytelling part of our everyday lexicon, as opposed to something we only do during times of tragedy,” she recounted. She floated the podcast idea to her bosses at Vermont Public, who quickly green-lighted a three-part series called “Homegoings.” Flynn took the name from a term for Black funerals. “If you ever dropped in on a homegoing, you’d never know it was a funeral!” she said. “They — and hopefully my show — encapsulate how joy and sorrow coexist in the Black community.” The first three episodes, released as “Brave Little State” segments, all featured musicians, including Vermonter BOBBY HACKNEY SR., a founding member 64

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“The goal is to challenge ideology and peel back the layers and really get at what makes Black and brown people so awesome,” she said. “It’s truly for everyone, though, because I think we all need to interact with this story. I want to humanize everyone involved — the guests and listeners alike.” Guests so far have included Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner AUDRA MCDONALD; Vermont musician STEPHANIE WILSON (ACQUA MOSSA); and the current Miss Vermont, YAMUNA TURCO. Flynn doesn’t have a list of dream guests, she said, nor is she fixated on booking big names. “Speaking with someone like BARACK OBAMA is not the goal,” Flynn said. “I’m trying to create a righteous space for art and for conversations on race and the juxtaposition of the two.” Anyone worrying that all this podcasting might interfere with Flynn’s musical output needn’t be concerned. On top of composing most of the music on “Homegoings,” Flynn drops the latest single from Shadow Work, “First One,” on Wednesday, November 1, along with a new music video directed by SANDRA MCCURDY. “I wholeheartedly believe music can be its own form of journalism,” Flynn said. “So, with the show or with my music, I just want to create a space where everyone can tell their truth.”

B Y C HR IS FARN S W O RTH of the Black punk act DEATH. The series received such a positive reaction that Vermont Public picked it up as its own show and bumped it up to eight episodes. After being chosen for syndication by NPR, “Homegoings” is scheduled for a full season of 13 episodes, released on streaming services every other week. In each episode, Flynn speaks to members of Black and brown communities, focusing on one theme or issue. Topics so far have included beauty standards for Black women, mental health check-ins with Black men, soul food, activism in the arts, Black midwives, and other topics that Flynn and her guests lean into with gusto. Though the show started out focused on Flynn’s two communities in Vermont and LA, she sees no reason to limit its scope now that it’s nationally syndicated. “It really bothers me when people talk about race in a binary way,” Flynn

said. “We’re all people — quirky people, with our own stories. No one, Black or white or otherwise, is a monolith. The idea of ‘Homegoings’ is to circumvent that and bring Black culture right to your couch, where we can all be privy to deep conversations about race.” In February, Flynn staged a live version of the show at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe, featuring some of the musicians with whom she had spoken. “It was incredible!” she enthused. “Black and brown people came out of the woodwork from all over the state and beyond. We had a Q&A scheduled for 90 minutes that ended up going for three hours — it honestly felt like a Black town hall meeting.” Vermont Public filmed the entire show and aired it on local TV. Flynn is already planning on doing it again in February.

Listening In (Spotify mix of local jams) 1. “CAN’T SAY” by Jarv 2. “LAZULI” by Phantom Suns 3. “LOVERS & TIDES” by Kat Wright 4. “KETTLE SONG” by the Wormdogs, Kaitlin Schramm 5. “EVERYTHING’S FUCKED” by VILLANELLES 6. “HAKUNA LOLOTE” by Kerubo 7. “TAKE ME RIDING (LIVE)” by Linda Bassick

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Vermont cartoonist and musician JAMES KOCHALKA continues his recent run of hyperproductivity. Following the September release of the LP Pop Popular, Kochalka is already back with a new EP that’s dropping on Tuesday, November 7: All Our Favorite Bands. The NEIL CLEARY-produced EP features Kochalka collaborating with FRANKIE COSMOS’ GRETA KLINE on “All Our Favorite Bands (Are Breaking Up)” and with Boston indie-pop act DARLINGSIDE on the track “Hallucinate.” Other collaborators include FRANCIS MACDONALD of TEENAGE FANCLUB and CUDDLE MAGIC’s ALEC SPIEGELMAN. Kochalka is also releasing a new music video for “All Our Favorite Bands (Are Breaking Up)” that features Burlington sketch comedy troupe STEALING FROM WORK, and members of indie-rock group the SMITTENS.

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Seven Can’t-Miss Shows 1. SASAMI at the Stone Church in Brattleboro, November 7 2. KARINA RYKMAN at Nectar’s in Burlington, December 1 3. The FLATLINERS at Club Soda in Montréal, December 8 4. MELISSA VILLASEÑOR at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington, December 14 to 16 5. FORTUNE FEIMSTER at the Flynn in Burlington, January 19 6. DINOSAUR JR. at Higher Ground in South Burlington, January 27

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Anything goes for Halloween shows. For members of bands that go all in, the level of commitment is high, and it’s all fun and games until you find yourself struggling to get into an inflatable chicken costume. Just ask DEAN JOHNSTON, aka DUX, of Boston-area jam band NEIGHBOR, which played Saturday at the Higher Ground Ballroom. I was in the Showcase Lounge covering the sold-out CHIN HO! reunion show, but I heard rumors of a chicken onstage in the Ballroom and had to see for myself. Proper pit etiquette means showing respect for band restrictions and the other photographers, but after getting the go-ahead from house photographer ROSS MICKEL, aka the Bootlegger, and Neighbor’s tour photographer, VIC BRAZEN, I jumped in and caught it in action. I have to say, when Dux becomes a chicken, there’s nothing fowl about it.

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After a two-year hiatus, BAUSCHAUS VT is back! The art and music series is held at the Charlotte home of artist ZACH POLLAKOFF (NARROW SHOULDERS), which is also a gallery and venue of the same name. Pollakoff moved from New York City in 2020, and the series often combines acts from there with Vermont talent. The latest installment, on Wednesday, November 1, takes that formula and amps it up. NYC soundscape artist TIME WHARP joins the bill with Vermont-based DJ LIV B, plus Irish singer-songwriter ANNA MIEKE. The latter musician, hailed as the Best Irish Solo Act of 2022 by the Irish Times, headlines a night of art and tunes that also includes tarot card readings and live projections from VANISH WORKS. ➆

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Woody and the Rebel Alliance (jam) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.1

SUN.5

Big Girl, Tetchy, Rangus (punk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $12/$15.

Mal Maïz, Mariposas Galacticas (Latin, psych rock) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 5 p.m. $12/$15.

Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

The Path, Old North End, FISHFACE, Tired of Trying (hardcore, punk) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $10/$15.

Jazz Jam Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Sunday Brunch Tunes (singersongwriter) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

TUE.7

Live Jazz (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Big Easy Tuesdays with Back Porch Revival (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Mama’s Broke, Marta O’Reilly (folk) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $15/$20.

Bluegrass Jam (bluegrass) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free. Jaded Ravins (Americana) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. Free.

Over the Garden Wall with Cricket Blue & Friends (folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10/$12.

WED.8

Troy Millette (folk) at Two Heroes Brewery Public House, South Hero, 6 p.m. Free. Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $5. Willverine (electronic) at the Wallflower Collective, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Workingman’s Army, Baby Fearn & the Plants, Ruminations, Corrupt World (rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.2

THU.2 // DIIV [INDIE]

The Deep End After emerging from New York City’s vibrant DIY scene in

the 2010s, Brooklyn’s DIIV have established themselves as one of the most vital indie-rock

bands of the past decade. With echoes of early Cure and the atmospheric tone-building of My Bloody Valentine, their sound combines shoegaze with hard-driving krautrock, a

Brett Hughes (country) at the Filling Station, White River Junction, 6 p.m. Free.

unique blend of darkness, motion and slowly shifting dynamics. The band’s most recent

DIIV, Hello Mary, High (indie) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25/$30.

Ballroom in South Burlington on Thursday, November 2, with HELLO MARY and HIGH.

Frankie and Fuse (indie) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Jazz with Alex Stewart and Friends (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Jordan Tice (singer-songwriter) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $10/$15. Josh Dobbs (singer-songwriter) at American Flatbread Stowe, 7 p.m. Free. Marty Fogel (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Nobby Reed Project (blues, R&B) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 6 p.m. Free. One Time Weekend, Double You (funk, rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10/$15.

FRI.3

album, Deceiver, pushes into heavier, ’90s-influenced sounds. DIIV play the Higher Ground

Beans (indie) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11:30 p.m. $7/$10. Bruce Sklar (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. CombustOmatics (funk) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free. Danny & the Parts (Americana) at Stone’s Throw Pizza, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free. Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Jeffrey Lewis, the Burning Hell, Ratland (indie folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $15/$18. Jerborn (acoustic) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6 p.m. Free. King Me (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

The 3 B’s (covers) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

LaMP (jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20.

90 Proof (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Magnificent Desolation (rock) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Andriana Chobot (indie pop) at Stone’s Throw Pizza, Richmond, 6 p.m. Free. Band of Killers (rock) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 9 p.m. $10/$15.

Phil Abair Band (covers) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Couch, Alisa Amador (indie pop) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 9 p.m. $20.

Rap Night Burlington (hip-hop) at Drink, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

Dimmer Triplets (blues) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

The Rustics (folk) at Two Heroes Brewery Public House, South Hero, 5 p.m. Free.

Howling Waters (blues) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

Timothy James (acoustic) at Gusto’s, Barre, 6 p.m. Free.

Jerborn & Axe (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

VSO Made in Vermont with Kat Wright (chamber orchestra) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20/$25.

SAT.4

8084 (metal) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25/$28. Alex Stewart Quartet (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Kitchen, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Andriana & the Bananas (indie pop) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Mean Waltons (roots) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 6 p.m. Free.

Blue Moon (jazz) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Phantom Airwave (funk) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

The Conniption Fits (covers) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free.

Jon Wagar & Friends (rock) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Taka (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10/$15. HAVEN (DJ) at MothershipVT, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free. Matt Payne (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free. Molly Mood (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free. Premonitions: Industrial Techno EBM Night (DJ) at Despacito, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

SUN.5

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

open mics & jams

Jazz Night with Ray Vega (jazz) at Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Jerry Duty (Grateful Dead tribute) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $10. Josh Dobbs (singer-songwriter) at American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, 5:30 p.m. Free. Live Jazz (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead covers) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. $5. Willverine (electronic) at the Wallflower Collective, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

djs THU.2

DJ Chaston (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free. DJ JP Black (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free. DJ Two Sev (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

FRI.3

Will Evans, Hayley Jane (roots) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $25/$30.

DJ Raul (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Jazz Jam Sessions with Randal Pierce (jazz) at the 126, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Sarah Bell (singer-songwriter) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

DJ A-Ra$ (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, midnight. Free.

TUE.7

Vinyl Night with Ken (DJ) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 6 p.m. Free.

Radio Bean 23rd Birthday (various) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Blanchface (DJ) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Bluegrass & BBQ (bluegrass) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Lawless (covers) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

Phantom Suns, Shore Rites, Vallory Falls (alt rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $5/$10.

SAT.4

DJ 2Rivers (DJ) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. Free. DJ Craig Mitchell (DJ) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Local Dork (DJ) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

WED.1

Irish Sessions (Celtic, open mic) at Burlington St. John’s Club, 6:30 p.m. Free. Open Mic (open mic) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free. Open Mic with Danny Lang (open mic) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.2

Open Mic with Artie (open mic) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

FRI.3

Open Mic Night! (open mic) at Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Red Brick Coffee House (open mic) at Red Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7 p.m. Free.

MON.6

Open Mic (open mic) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free. Open Mic Night (open mic) at Despacito, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

TUE.7

Open Mic Night (open mic) at Positive Pie Tap & Grill, Plainfield, 6 p.m. Free.

WED.8

Irish Sessions (Celtic, open mic) at Burlington St. John’s Club, 6:30 p.m. Free.

DJ Kata (DJ) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

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

DJ Taka (DJ) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $10/$15.

Open Mic with Danny Lang (open mic) at Taps Tavern, Poultney, 7 p.m. Free.

Sapphic Factory (DJ) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $19/$24.

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SUN.5

Sunday Funday (games) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, noon. Free. Venetian Karaoke (karaoke) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

WED.1

Tig Notaro (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9 p.m. $40. Sold out.

Trivia Night (trivia) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free.

Trivia Monday with Top Hat Entertainment (trivia) at McKee’s Pub & Grill, Winooski, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Venetian Trivia Night (trivia) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Trivia with Craig Mitchell (trivia) at Monkey House, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free.

THU.2

TUE.7

Drag Newcomers’ Showcase (drag) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $15.

Karaoke with DJ Party Bear (karaoke) at Charlie-O’s World Famous, Montpelier, 9:30 p.m. Free.

THU.2

Comedy Wolf: Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

FRI.3

Vermont’s Funniest: Semis (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $20.

SAT.4

Comedy Night (comedy) at Temple Sinai, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $18.

4Qs Trivia Night (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free.

3rd Annual November Trivia Trifecta (trivia) at 1st Republic Brewing, Essex, 6 p.m. Free.

Karaoke Night (karaoke) at Zenbarn, Waterbury Center, 7 p.m. Free. Karaoke Night (karaoke) at Gusto’s, Barre, 8 p.m. Free.

Vermont’s Funniest: Finals (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $25.

Karaoke with Griffin Jones (karaoke) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

MON.6

Music Bingo (music bingo) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at the 126, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.8

Aaron Chen (comedy) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $15. Comedy Jam (comedy) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Standup Comedy Open Mic (comedy open mic) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

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Trivia (trivia) at Highland Lodge, Greensboro, 7 p.m. Free. Trivia Night (trivia) at McGillicuddy’s Five Corners, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Trivia Night (trivia) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Trivia Thursday (trivia) at Spanked Puppy Pub, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

FRI.3

Karoke with DJ Big T (karaoke) at McKee’s Pub & Grill, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

MON.6

Karaoke with Motorcade (karaoke) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free.

Taproom Trivia (trivia) at 14th Star Brewing, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free. Trivia Night (trivia) at the Depot, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Trivia Tuesday (trivia) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Tuesday Night Karaoke (karaoke) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. Tuesday Trivia (trivia) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

WED.8

4Qs Trivia Night (trivia) at Four Quarters Brewing, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free. Trivia Night (trivia) at Stone Corral, Richmond, 7 p.m. Free. Venetian Trivia Night (trivia) at Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. ➆

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“Pair with cheap red wine,” reads a caption on indiepop duo Lavenderlux’s Bandcamp page. Since it’s not responsible or legal to do so while taking a rainy fall drive, consider some cheap gas station coffee instead. It worked well for me. But it doesn’t really matter what you enjoy with the band’s debut LP, Enjoy Your Dream, because everything fades into the background as Amelia Wilcox and Joseph Human draw you into their exquisite world. The album’s 11 songs came from a cache of approximately 100 tunes that the pair wrote independently or collaboratively. Originally a crosscountry online partnership, with Human living in Washington State and Wilcox in Burlington, Lavenderlux is now wholly a Queen City outfit. Enjoy Your Dream floats in perpetual twilight. Its album cover recalls the suburban stasis of Edward Scissorhands, a neighborhood populated with cookiecutter houses full of cookie-cutter people unaware of how trapped they are.

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One of Canada’s most sought-after collaborators has deftly positioned herself as a visionary and the purveyor of a unique style of electro-pop on her second studio album, which shows her daring and vulnerable selfexamination. Montréal native Ariel Engle earned a reputation as an innovator on the city’s experimental music scene by working with a bevy of recognized bands and artists. She introduced her own solo recording project, La Force, by way of an acclaimed 2018 self-titled album. Across the nine tracks of XO Skeleton, the followup released last month on Secret City Records, Engle ponders her existence with honesty and curiosity, revealing desires and fears through thought-provoking songwriting and expressive arrangements. Along the way, she showcases luscious vocals and a mastery for blending uncommon sounds to alluring effect. “October,” a transfixing and haunting amble through disconnection, wanes to exhaustion before giving way to a breathtaking chorus and a jazzy respite. It’s an exquisite number that highlights Engle’s range as a singer and her profound way with words, stunning us with her description of “memories folded like laundry” and a heart-wrenching reference to a reality where “dreams of dead and living are the same.”

Reveries that fade in and out of coherence, its songs live on a perpetual cusp: They’re precise but not sharp, poetic without being overly florid, and vulnerable while retaining strength. Wilcox’s vocals are commanding yet humble, and the pair’s instrumentations are dynamic and whimsical but never gimmicky. Fittingly, the first lyrics Wilcox imparts on the opening title track — “I sit like a tiger / Waiting to strike” — anticipate a transition. The line leads to the song’s (and album’s?) thesis: “Wake up or enjoy your dream.” Light yet propulsive drums and splashes of psychedelic guitars encircle this seemingly simple, almost sloganlike sentiment. The phrase has an underlying theme of duality, calling out states that are mutually exclusive. But what’s the consequence of trying to live in both simultaneously? During their songwriting process, Wilcox and Human set challenges for each other, such as spending a few days writing a song on a specific theme. One of

the most successful results to emerge from this practice — after Human tasked Wilcox with writing a song with only vocals and handclaps — is the undulating “Feel the Cold.” Below pulsing waves of harmonized murmurs, the singer triumphs over darkness: “I’m not afraid to feel the cold / It’s shown me how to know the warm.” Again, Lavenderlux ponder a dyad. The record is full of standout cuts: the grungy and nostalgic “Extra”; “Webs,” which rolls over the same gurgling chord for more than three minutes; and the closer “When the Clouds Break,” full of syncopated synths popping softly over yawning streaks of guitar. Two years after their debut EP, Nest Inertia, Enjoy Your Dream solidifies the musical partnership of Wilcox and Human, who clearly bring out the best in each other. Enjoy Your Dream is available at lavenderlux. bandcamp.com.

At times on XO Skeleton, the framework Engle constructs seems naturally barren. On the album’s title track, a dismal atmosphere exposes the appealing contours and elegance in her voice, which she decoratively shapes to the piece’s subdued orchestration and subtle groove. With the drop of Engle’s second record, listeners might find themselves revisiting and appreciating her past contributions as well. Before launching La Force, she and her husband — Andrew Whiteman, a core member and guitarist in the Torontobased indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene — teamed up as AroarA for In the Pines, a well-received Alice Notley tribute project released in 2013. A backup vocalist for numerous successful outfits, Engle joined Broken Social Scene for the 2017 recording of the band’s fifth album, Hug of Thunder, undoubtedly cultivating new fans from coast to coast and beyond. Coproduced by Engle and Warren Spicer of Montréal’s Plants and Animals, XO Skeleton is a decidedly pensive offering with a shadowy, somber perspective that contrasts with the pep and flair of the La Force premiere.

The album’s track “ouroboros” is a torrid, mystifying thrill, vivid and abundant in texture. As the title indicates, it comes to life through a series of revolutions as Engle battles the back-and-forth emotions guiding her along what she seems convinced is an inevitable path: “first I will be angry, then I will feel guilty, then I will feel rage and back again … rage in a circular way,” she sings. Timely and surreal vocal layering gives this track its astonishing, reptilian sinuousness, and its powerful symbolism is evidence of her wisdom and lyrical creativity. On what is only her second full-length recording, Engle makes a conclusive case that she’s more than a thoughtful inventor on the rise, thriving as a risktaking pioneer who has long held the respect of some of Canada’s most successful musicians. XO Skeleton is available on all digital streaming platforms and can be purchased on vinyl at secretcityrecords.com. La Force plays the PHI Centre in Montréal on November 22.

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WED.1 activism

DAARA: DISABLED ACCESS AND ADVOCACY OF THE RUTLAND AREA: Community members gather online to advocate for accessibility and other disability rights measures. 8:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 779-9021.

business

LISA DANFORTH: A work-life wellness coach explains how slowing down can improve both the personal and professional spheres. Presented by Women Business Owners Network Vermont. 8:30-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 503-0219. QUEEN CITY BUSINESS NETWORKING INTERNATIONAL GROUP: Savvy businesspeople make crucial contacts at a weekly chapter meeting. Burlington City Arts, 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 829-5066.

community

COMMUNITY PARTNERS DESK: VETERANS OUTREACH PROGRAM: Representatives post up in the main reading room to answer questions and provide resources. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

crafts

JEWELRY MAKING WITH CASEY: Crafty kids string beads together to create necklaces with names. Ages 7 and up. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. YARN CRAFTERS GROUP: A drop-in meetup welcomes knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers and beyond. BYO

snacks and drinks. Must Love Yarn, Shelburne, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3780.

dance

WESTIE WEDNESDAYS DANCE: Swing dancers lift and spin at a weekly social dance. North Star Community Hall, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 802westiecollective@gmail. com.

education

RUTLAND ISHIDORIYA STUDENT EXCHANGE COMMUNITY NIGHT: Former RISE students and host families meet up for a fun evening celebrating Rutland’s relationship with its Japanese sister city. Rutland High School, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 786-1942.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. BOLLYWOOD SPOTLIGHT SERIES: Radio host Vidhi Salla presents a slate of four Indian flicks, digging into the cultural context of each one. See vidhiism.com for full schedule. Latchis Hotel & Theater, Brattleboro, 7-10 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 246-2020. ‘DEAD MAN WALKING’: Filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera, this modern classic by American composer Jake Heggie follows a nun’s attempts to save the soul of a murderer on death row. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 11 a.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: Viewers learn the true story behind one of our most iconic — and misunderstood — predators. Northfield Savings

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.

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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. ‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: Sparkling graphics and vibrant interviews take viewers on a journey alongside NASA astronauts as they prepare for stranger-than-sciencefiction space travel. 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. NXT ROCKUMENTARY FILM SERIES: ‘THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION’: Bands including Black Flag, Fear and Germs rock out to the end of the old world in this hardcore 1981 film. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 451-0053.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: Through the power of special cameras, audiences are transported into the world of the teeniest animals on Earth. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $14.50-18; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

food & drink

COMMUNITY SUPPER: Neighbors share a tasty meal at their local library. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

games

MAH-JONGG OPEN PLAY: Weekly sessions of an age-old game promote critical thinking and friendly competition. Manchester Community Library, Manchester

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. HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY MEETING — BENNINGTON: Community members share their experiences and discuss the future of their

Shelburne Vineyard’s Harvest Festival, a yearly benefit for Feeding Chittenden, is back with an absolutely autumnal day full of local food, drink and farm-fresh goods of all kinds. Admission is free with a donation of nonperishable food items, each of which counts as one ticket to raffles happening hourly. Between sipping Iapetus natural wines and Eden ciders and sampling tasty bites from Paprika Catering, shoppers browse the tables of vendors including Wild Hart Distillery, Jasper Hill Farm, Matryoshka’s Bakery, Bear Moon Botanica and Frog Hollow Farmstead.

HARVEST FESTIVAL Saturday, November 4, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at Shelburne Vineyard. Free. Info, 985-8222, shelburnevineyard.com.

QUALITY SKI TIME FILM TOUR: Slope denizens enjoy some of the year’s best films about the sport. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 833-230-0292.

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‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: Scientists dive into the planet’s least-explored habitat, from its sunny shallows to its alien depths. 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.

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

Center, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

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local health care system. Presented by Green Mountain Care Board. 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, gmcb.board@ vermont.gov. HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY MEETING — STATEWIDE: Vermonters discuss how to improve the health care system. Presented by Green Mountain Care Board. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, gmcb.board@vermont.gov.

SEATED & STANDING YOGA: Beginners are welcome to grow their strength and flexibility at this supportive class. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 549-4574.

language

BEGINNER IRISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Celtic-curious students learn to speak an Ghaeilge in a supportive group. Fletcher Free

Library, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. ELL CLASSES: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS: Learners of all abilities practice written and spoken English with trained instructors. Presented by Fletcher Free Library. 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, bshatara@ burlingtonvt.gov. SPANISH CONVERSATION: Fluent and beginner

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STEAM SPACE: Kids explore science, technology, engineering, art and math activities. Ages 5 through 11. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. TODDLER TIME: Librarians bring out books, rhymes and songs specially selected for young ones. 12 through 24 months. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

BABY SOCIAL TIME: Caregivers and infants from birth through age 1 gather in the Wiggle Room to explore board books and toys. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

GROW PRESCHOOL YOGA: Emily from Grow Prenatal and Family Yoga leads little ones in songs, movement and other fun activities. Ages 2 through 5. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT WITH MISS EMMA: The star of “Music for Sprouts” and “Mr. Chris and Friends” leads little ones 5 and younger in singing, scarf play and movement. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. PRESCHOOL MUSIC WITH LINDA BASSICK: The singer and storyteller extraordinaire leads little ones in indoor music and movement. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. PRESCHOOL PLAYTIME: Pre-K patrons play and socialize after music time. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. STORY TIME: Little ones from birth through age 5 learn from songs, crafts and picture books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

stowe/smuggs

BABY TIME: Parents and caregivers bond with their pre-walking babes during this gentle playtime. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

WEE ONES PLAY TIME: Caregivers bring kiddos 3 and younger to a new sensory learning experience each week. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

PLAY TIME: Little ones build with blocks and read together. Ages 1 through 4. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1010:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

mad river valley/ waterbury

QUEER READS: LGBTQIA+ and allied youth get together each month to read and discuss ideas around gender, sexuality and identity. Waterbury Public Library, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036. TEEN HANGOUT: Middle and high schoolers make friends at a no-pressure meetup. Waterbury Public Library, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

manchester/ bennington

MCL FILM CLUB: Teen auteurs learn how to bring stories to life on camera. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

PRESCHOOL PLAY & READ: Outdoor activities, stories and songs engage 3- and 4-year-olds. Waterbury Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 244-7036.

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LEGO BUILDERS: Each week, children ages 8 and older build, explore, create and participate in challenges. Children ages 6 to 8 are welcome with an adult. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. MUSIC TIME: Linda Bassick leads little ones in sing-alongs and dancing. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

upper valley

STORY TIME: Preschoolers take part in tales, tunes and playtime. Latham

speakers brush up on their español with a discussion led by a Spanish teacher. Presented by Dorothy Alling Memorial Library. 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@damlvt.org.

seminars

GROW YOUR AUDIENCE: Artists and content creators learn how to build and connect with a fan base. RETN & VCAM Media Factory, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free;

Library, Thetford, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

northeast kingdom

NO STRINGS MARIONETTE: An astronaut and his robotic friend get sucked into a black hole in this all-ages puppet adventure. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 12:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 533-2000.

manchester/ bennington

YOUNG ADULT DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Teens battle beasts with swords and spell books. Drop-in and recurring players are welcome. Ages 12 through 16. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 549-4574.

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burlington

FAMILY CLIMATE WORKSHOP: Parents talk climate action with Empower VT while kids play. Childcare and snacks provided. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 522-6684.

chittenden county

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS: New and experienced players join in a monthly game of one-shot adventures. Ages 13 through 18. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. ENGINEERING FUN: MARBLE RUN!: Builders ages 6 through 12 create a twisty, turny race track for marbles out of blocks, boxes and tubes. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. SATURDAY STORIES: Kiddos start the weekend off right with stories and songs. Ages 3 through 7. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

stowe/smuggs

MUSICAL STORY TIME: Song, dance and other tuneful activities supplement picture books for kids 2 through 5. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 888-3853.

mad river valley/ waterbury

AUTHOR SIGNING AND SCAVENGER HUNT: Junior detectives ages 8 through 11 follow the clues to track down author Aaron Starmer and win a copy of his new middle-grade novel Math Mysteries: The Triplet Threat. Bridgeside Books, Waterbury, 1-4 p.m. $10. Info, 244-1441.

donations accepted; preregister. Info, 651-9692.

sports

GREEN MOUNTAIN TABLE TENNIS CLUB: Ping-Pong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Rutland Area Christian School, 7-9 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.

awaits runners and walkers who participate in this self-timed, selfscheduled race on the museum trail system. Race day, November 4. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 6 a.m.-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 434-2167.

talks

YESTERMORROW FALL 2023 SPEAKER SERIES: LUKE FOLEY

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manchester/ bennington

NOTORIOUS RPG: Kids 10 through 14 create characters and play a collaborative adventure game similar to Dungeons & Dragons. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 362-2607. STEAM SATURDAY: Little ones have fun with foundational science and art. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 362-2607.

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burlington

MASKS ON! SUNDAYS: Elderly, disabled and immunocompromised folks get the museum to themselves at a masksmandatory morning. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 864-1848. SENSORY-FRIENDLY HOUR: Folks of all ages with sensory processing differences have the youth area to themselves. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403.

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burlington

MANGA MONDAY: Lovers of Japanese graphic novels get together for snacks and discussion. Ages 11 through 18. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 540-2546. STORIES WITH SHANNON: Bookworms ages 2 through 5 enjoy fun-filled reading time. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

READ TO SAMMY: The Therapy Dogs of Vermont emissary is super excited to hear kids of all ages practice their reading. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

manchester/ bennington

NEW MOMS’ GROUP: Local doula Kimberleigh Weiss-Lewitt facilitates a community-building weekly meetup for mothers who are new to parenting or the area. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 549-4574.

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AWKWARD TALKS: A BOOK CLUB FOR PARENTS & CAREGIVERS: Family nurse practitioner Celia Bird prepares grown-ups for conversations with their kids about bodies, consent and how babies get made. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3403. SING-ALONG WITH LINDA BASSICK: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and wiggle along with Linda. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

chittenden county

PLAYGROUP & FAMILY SUPPORT: Families with children under age 5 play and connect with others in the community. Winooski Memorial Library, 10:3011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 655-6424. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Little ones enjoy a cozy session of reading, rhyming and singing. Birth through age 5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:3011 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. TODDLERTIME: Miss Alexa delights infants and toddlers ages 1 to 3 and their adult caregivers with interactive stories, songs, rhymes and more. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

manchester/ bennington

STORY TIME: Youth librarian Carrie leads little tykes in stories and songs centered on a new theme every week. Birth through age 5. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

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burlington

STEAM SPACE: See WED.1. TODDLER TIME: See WED.1.

chittenden county

BABY SOCIAL TIME: See WED.1. PLAY TIME: See WED.1.

mad river valley/ waterbury

LEGO CHALLENGE CLUB: Kids engage in a fun-filled hour of building, then leave their creations on display in the library all month long. Ages 6 through 8. Waterbury Public Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

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original and classic bluegrass and folk songs. Willey Memorial Hall, Cabot, 7-9 p.m. $12-15. Info, 793-3016.

AND IRA SHADIS: Friends of the Mad River reps discuss their clean water and flood resilience initiative, the Ridge to River project. Virtual option available. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

SHEMEKIA COPELAND: The acclaimed Harlem singer demonstrates her award-winning pipes and heartstring-tugging blues tunes. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $35-45. Info, 760-4634.

theater

‘CINDERELLA’: The Saint Michael’s College theatre department presents Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical adaptation of the beloved fairy tale. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2268.

UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE: The student ensemble breathes new life into the music of legendary jazz composer Oliver Nelson. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

politics

words

COME WRITE IN! NANOWRIMO: Authors get together and try to write 50,000 words in 30 days. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 4-6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. MARILYN WEBB NEAGLEY: The former president of Shelburne farms shares her new lyrical memoir, Attic of Dreams. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114. NANOWRIMO WRITE-IN: Writers participating in National Novel Writing month gather to put pen to paper and offer each other encouragement. Teen and adult spaces available. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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KNIT FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR: All ages and abilities are invited to knit or crochet hats and scarves for the South Burlington Food Shelf. All materials are provided. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140. KNITTING GROUP: Knitters of all experience levels get together to spin yarns. Latham Library, Thetford, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4361.

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THOUGHT CLUB: Artists and activists convene to engage with Burlington’s rich tradition of radical thought and envision its future. Democracy Creative, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, tevan@democracycreative.com.

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BANNED BOOKS TOUR: Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman hosts a reading featuring stories that have faced conservative backlash across the country. The Eloquent Page, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2226.

NOV. 3-5 | MUSIC in this 2023 Sundance favorite. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5844. ‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.1. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.1. ‘THE PRESTIGE’: Two Victorianera magicians develop a dangerous rivalry in this 2006 thriller from Christopher Nolan. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7-8:30 p.m. $6. Info, 533-2000. ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.1.

food & drink

ARE YOU THIRSTY, NEIGHBOR?: A special discount cocktail menu sparks conversations and connections over cribbage and cards. Wild Hart Distillery and Tasting Room, Shelburne, 3-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@wildhartdistillery.com. DESTINATION DINNER: ARGENTINEAN FEAST: Beef stew, humita, empanadas and caramel alfajores cookies delight taste buds. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 5-8 p.m. $6-20; limited space. Info, 533-2000.

NIGHT OWL CLUB: Astronomers and space exploration experts discuss the latest in extraterrestrial news with curious attendees. Presented by Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium. 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2372.

FREE WINE TASTING: Themed wine tastings take oenophiles on an adventure through a region, grape variety, style of wine or producer’s offerings. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368.

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See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.1. HIRSCHFIELD FIRST THURSDAY FILMS: ‘MUTT’: A young trans man’s unrelentingly crummy day resurrects ghosts from his past

THE CHECK MATES: Chess players of all ages face off at this intergenerational weekly meetup. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 549-4574. DUPLICATE BRIDGE: A lively group plays a classic, tricky game

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The Wright Stuff Vermont Symphony Orchestra teams up with local luminary Kat Wright for a special program celebrating music from England’s baroque period through Vermont’s current indie folk scene. Conducted by Matt LaRocca, the show features old orchestral favorites by Henry Purcell and Manuel de Falla; new works by Green Mountain State composers Kyle Saulnier, who fuses classical music with industrial rock, and Erik Nielsen, whose piece is a tribute to late Vermont folk musician Pete Sutherland; and Wright’s own songs, which call to mind the likes of Brandi Carlile and Norah Jones.

‘MADE IN VERMONT’ Friday, November 3, 7:30 p.m., at Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington; Saturday, November 4, 7 p.m., at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort; and Sunday, November 5, 4 p.m., at Bellows Falls Opera House. $10-45. Info, 760-4634 or 451-0053, vso.org.

with an extra wrinkle. Waterbury Public Library, 12:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7223.

health & fitness

HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY MEETING — BRATTLEBORO: See WED.1. LONG-FORM SUN 73: Beginners and experienced practitioners learn how tai chi can help with arthritis, mental clarity and range of motion. Congregational Church of Middlebury, 3:30-5 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, elizabetharms56@gmail.com. SIMPLIFIED TAI CHI FOR SENIORS: Eighteen easy poses help with stress reduction, fall prevention and ease of movement. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3:15-4

p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 362-2607. TAI CHI THURSDAYS: Experienced instructor Rich Marantz teaches the first section of the Yang-style tai chi sequence. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 645-1960.

holidays

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS CELEBRATION ‘23 PROCESSION: Students and community members mark the Mexican Day of the Dead with music, dance, a parade and other celebrations of their ancestors. Bring food, photos or any other mementos of late loved ones. Carr Hall/Anderson Freeman Center, Middlebury College, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3031.

lgbtq

GENDER AFFIRMING CARE LISTENING SESSION: Pride Center and the University of Vermont Medical Center hear from transgender and nonbinary community members about how their health care could be improved. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 860-7812. 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

BOB AND SARAH AMOS: The father-daughter duo finds perfect harmony while performing

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RACE AROUND BIRDS: See WED.1.

talks

L.J. ROBERTS: The writer, textile artist and University of Vermont alum gives a virtual address titled “Wildness in Williams.” 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2014.

tech

TECH AND TEXTILES: Crafters work on their knitting or crocheting while discussing questions such as how to set up a new tablet or what cryptocurrency even is. George Peabody Library, Post Mills, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 333-9724.

theater

‘CINDERELLA’: See WED.1, 7 p.m. ‘DAD ROCK’: A collection of scenes from new and classic plays explores themes of toxic masculinity and the pressures placed on men by a patriarchal society. Hepburn Zoo, Hepburn Hall, Middlebury College, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5601.

words

ARLENE DISTLER: The poet launches her new collection, This Earth, This Body, alongside fellow wordsmith Judith Janoo. Norwich Bookstore, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1114.

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FIRST FRIDAY FIBER GROUP: Fiber-arts fans make progress on projects while chatting over snacks. GRACE, Hardwick, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, info@ruralartsvt.org. LEARN HOW TO KNIT: Needle newbies learn the basics and make new friends. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. FRI.3

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SCRAPBOOKING GROUP: Cutters and pasters make new friends at a weekly club. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 549-4574.

up. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, info@greenmountaincabaret.com.

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education

FALL OPEN HOUSE: Parents of elementary-age students and middle schoolers learn about the school’s academic approach and innovative curriculum. Vermont Day School, Shelburne, 3-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 495-5150.

dance

MEMBER MEETUP: Vermont Dance Alliance members meet up over coffee and ice cream with dancers interested in joining. Scout, Old North End, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, info@ vermontdance.org.

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MEDITATION AND BUDDHIST DISCUSSION: Readings and reflections follow a half hour of mindfulness. Refreshments served. Shambhala Meditation Center, Burlington, 9:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Free. Info, 658-6795.

QUEEN CITY TANGO MILONGA: Participants put their best feet forward in a lively social dance following lessons with guest instructor Sergio Segura of Strictly Tango. Shelburne Town Hall, 8:45-11 p.m. $10. Info, qct@ queencitytango.org.

fairs & festivals

HUNTINGTON FIRST FRIDAY: A maker fair, live porch show and beer tasting next door make for a fun, family-friendly evening. The Fuller House, Huntington, 4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, huntington valleyarts@gmail.com. TWIST 2.0: TWIN STATE COMICS AND ZINE FAIR: Locals browse comic books, homemade zines and self-published poetry chapbooks by local artists and Center for Cartoon Studies students. Junction Arts & Media, White River Junction, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 295-6688.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘VANISH: DISAPPEARING ICONS OF RURAL AMERICA’: Photographer Jim Westphalen travels across the country to document rural America’s disappearing structures in this moving documentary. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $15. Info, 775-0903.

music

THE CLEMENTS BROTHERS AND GENEVIÈVE RACETTE: Enthralling, innovative folk music is the name of the game at this double billing. Live stream available. Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 451-0053. ‘LET US DANCE, LET US SING’: Cross-genre ensemble Tiny Glass Tavern plays groovy tunes on the harpsichord, banjo and 17thcentury hornpipes. Waterbury Congregational Church, 7:30-9 p.m. $10-20. Info, tinyglasstavern@ gmail.com. UVM LANE SERIES: KAKI KING & TREYA LAM: Music lovers are in for a treat when this contemporary guitarist and this multiinstrumentalist take the stage together. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $6.50-39.50. Info, 656-4455.

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.1. ‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.1. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.1. ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.1.

games

MAH-JONGG: Tile traders of all experience levels gather for a game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

health & fitness

HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY MEETING — BURLINGTON: See WED.1. GUIDED MEDITATION ONLINE: Dorothy Alling Memorial Library invites attendees to relax on their lunch breaks and reconnect with their bodies. Noon-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, programs@ damlvt.org. HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY MEETING — STATEWIDE: See WED.1.

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talks

To be an actor or not to be? That is the question facing the central character in Imogen Says Nothing, the newest production from the University of Vermont’s Program in Theatre and Dance. Aditi Brennan Kapil’s hilarious revisionist history centers on Imogen, a woman who breaks Elizabethan England’s rules about female actors and goes onstage as Leonato’s wife in Shakespeare’s new comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. Or is she just a typo in the First Folio, where she is named once and never again? Or is she something much sillier and more surreal? Audiences find out in this gut-busting send-up.

RACE AROUND BIRDS: See WED.1.

VETS TOWN HALL: Veterans share stories about their time in service while community members listen. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 825-4398.

tech

MORNING TECH HELP: Experts answer questions about phones, laptops, e-readers and more in one-on-one sessions. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 846-4140.

theater

‘CINDERELLA’: See WED.1, 7 p.m. ‘DAD ROCK’: See THU.2, 7:30-9:30 & 10 p.m.-midnight. ‘LOVE & PHYSICS’: Blue Barn Productions presents a new musical comedy about a regular joe just trying to understand the cell phone (and his son). Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 498-7927.

words

COCOON: Inspired by the Moth, Middlebury students, staff and community members share unscripted stories on the theme of “Playing the Long Game.” Live stream available. Robison Concert Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 8-9:45 p.m. $5-15. Info, 443-6433.

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activism

STOP ISRAEL’S GENOCIDAL WAR ON PALESTINE!: Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace and other local organizations lead a march in support of Gaza. Battery Park, Burlington. 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 316-8375.

TUXES AND TAILS GALA: Over a gourmet, three-course meal, donors to the North Country Animal League enjoy live music, ooh and ahh at aerial acrobatics, and bid on one-of-a-kind auction items. Stowe Mountain Resort, 5:30-10 p.m. $200; preregister. Info, 888-5065.

fairs & festivals

GENEALOGY FAIR: Members of the Barre Genealogy Group, in cooperation with the Barre Historical Society, offer resources for those looking to trace their ancestries. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, mkotch731@gmail.com. HARVEST FESTIVAL: Foodies sate their autumnal appetites with local wine, cheese, cider and baked goods. Proceeds benefit Feeding Chittenden. See calendar spotlight. Shelburne Vineyard, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

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film

Opens Wednesday, November 8, 7:30-10 p.m., at Royall Tyler Theatre, University of Vermont, in Burlington. See website for additional dates. $10-22. Info, theatreanddance@uvm.edu, uvm.edu.

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.1.

bazaars

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.1.

ANNUAL BAZAAR: The United Church of Fairfax sells handcrafted gifts and home-baked goodies to benefit its mission work. Fairfax Community Center, 9 a.m.2 p.m. Free. Info, 849-6313. HEINEBERG COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER BAZAAR: Jewelers and other makers sell their wares at a mini market also featuring lunch and a bake sale. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3505.

crafts

COZY NOOK CRAFT FAIR: Artisans sell handmade crafts in the historic library. Essex Free Library, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 872-8927. WILLISTON CRAFT SHOW: Over 100 artists, artisans and specialty food vendors showcase their handmade goods to benefit the school. Williston Central School, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, wsdcraftshow@ cvsdvt.org.

dance

‘CUMBIA KLEZMER’: Las Mariposas Galacticás, an eightpiece Philadelphia act that combines South American and Jewish dance traditions with a punk attitude, keeps guests dancing all night long. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 8 p.m.-12:15 a.m. $20-30 suggested donation. Info, 520-333-8864. FIRST SATURDAY WESTIE SOCIAL: Beginners, new members and experienced West Coast Swing dancers are welcome. Lessons begin at 7 p.m. North Star Community Hall, Burlington, 8-10:30 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 488-4789. MONTPELIER CONTRA DANCE: Dancers balance, shadow and dosi-do the night away to live tunes by Cojiro and gender-neutral calling by Liz Nelson. Capital City Grange, Berlin, 8-11 p.m.; beginners’ lesson, 7:40 p.m. $5-20. Info, 225-8921. ‘SHAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT: BURLESQUE NEWCOMERS SHOWCASE’: Green Mountain Cabaret welcomes beginning performers to the stage. Ages 18 and

MEDIA FACTORY ORIENTATION: Once aspiring filmmakers have taken this tour of the studio, they have access to the full suite of gear and facilities. RETN & VCAM Media Factory, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 651-9692. MOTHERSHIP MONTHLY FILM FEST SCREENING: Filmmakers screen their work based on a monthly theme. MothershipVT, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, mothership monthlyfilmfest@gmail.com. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.1. ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.1. WOODSTOCK VERMONT FILM SERIES: ‘WHITMAN BROOK: AN APPLE ORCHARD AND THE NATURE OF TIME’: A new documentary tells the story of a beloved Quechee orchard and its stewards. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $1215. Info, 457-2355. SAT.4

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BEGINNER DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Waterbury Public Library game master Evan Hoffman gathers novices and veterans alike for an afternoon of virtual adventuring. Teens and adults welcome. Noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. CASINO NIGHT: BET ON HOPE: Glitzy games of blackjack, poker, roulette and beyond benefit the Cancer Patient Support Foundation. Hula, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $75; preregister. Info, 488-5495. CHESS CLUB: Players of all ages and abilities face off and learn new strategies. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

holidays

HOLIDAY FEST AND SILENT AUCTION: Holiday shoppers bid on more than 180 items to support Companions in Wholeness. Lunch and baked goods available. Rutland United Methodist Church, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 236-3136. TROTTING OF THE TURKEYS: A parade of fundraisers carry frozen turkeys down Church Street to be donated to Feeding Chittenden. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 11 a.m. $50; preregister. Info, 658-7939.

music

CATAMOUNT ARTS BLUEGRASS NIGHT: Acoustic duo AtwaterDonnelly delivers an evening chock-full of traditional tunes. Catamount ArtPort, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 748-2600. FLEX! CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL: Local musicians team up to play intimate works from oboe solos to pieces for a full quartet. Stone Valley Arts, Poultney, 3-5 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, stonevalleyartscenter@gmail.com. GINA COLEMAN AND THE MISTY BLUES BAND: Classic rock, folk tunes and a healthy dose of the blues characterize this veteran act’s style. Proceeds benefit the

Vergennes Opera House All Access Project. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30-10 p.m. $20-25. Info, 877-6737. GREEN MOUNTAIN MAHLER FESTIVAL: ‘DIE WALKÜRE, ACT 1’ AND ‘THE RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES’: The orchestra and eight local sopranos bring one of Richard Wagner’s most famous operas to stupendous, spectacular life. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. $20-30. Info, gmmf-announce@vtmahler.org. ‘IT IS MY HEART THAT MAKES MY SONGS’: The merry singers of Social Band take to the stage for a concert celebrating tunes composed by its current and former members. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 355-4216. THE LADLES: Sweet harmonies and intricate arrangements are the name of the game when this trio takes the stage. Burnham Hall, Lincoln, 7:30-10 p.m. $1525 suggested donation. Info, 349-3364. ‘MADE IN VERMONT’: Vermont Symphony Orchestra teams up

FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

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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.

with local songstress Kat Wright for an evening of soulful singing and strings. See calendar spotlight. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $10-35. Info, 760-4634.

sports

MATTHEW QUAYLE: The composer, pianist and visiting assistant professor tickles the ivories to his own short works and Baroque-inspired suites. Robison Concert Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:309:15 p.m. Free. Info, mquayle@ middlebury.edu.

‘DAD ROCK’: See THU.2.

RACE AROUND BIRDS: See WED.1, 6 a.m.-6 p.m.

theater

‘CINDERELLA’: See WED.1, 7 p.m.

OUTER SOUNDS: GLENN JONES & LIAM GRANT: Greg Davis and TURNmusic bring together musicians to explore the intersections of jazz, electronic, ambient, improvised and avant-garde sounds. The Phoenix, Waterbury, 7:30-10 p.m. $5-20. Info, 578-5028. RAILROAD EARTH: The storied bluegrass jam collective shows off eloquent lyrics and unpredictable live antics. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $2535. Info, 775-0903. ROY, MAVIS & THE LOCAL FOLK ORCHESTRA: Sibling duo Roy and Mavis MacNeil and friends draw influence from folk, rock and classical music. Dinner available for purchase. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. $5-15; free for students. Info, 533-2000. SAYON CAMARA: The Guinean musician closes out a weeklong residency at BarnArts with a soaring evening of song. North Universalist Chapel Society, Woodstock, 7-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 234-1645.

film

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

‘LOVE & PHYSICS’: See FRI.3.

BOLLYWOOD SPOTLIGHT SERIES: See WED.1, 4-7 p.m.

words

‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.1.

COME WRITE IN! NANOWRIMO: See WED.1, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.1.

FRIENDS OF ILSLEY LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Books of all genres for all ages go on sale, and all proceeds fund library programming. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.1.

SUN.5

health & fitness

activism

FROM INCARCERATION TO EDUCATION: Free Her, Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network and the Education Justice Coalition lead a march from the local prison to Orchard School to demand that Vermont spend more on teaching and less on incarceration. Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, South Burlington, 3:30-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 829-1816.

crafts

YARN CRAFTERS GROUP: See WED.1, 1-3 p.m.

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WOMEN IN MUSIC SERIES: KERUBO: Originally from Kenya, the Afro-jazz artist captivates audience members with her blend of blues, jazz and traditional African music. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 382-9222.

WINOOSKI HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S ANTIQUE APPRAISAL SHOW: Merrill’s Auctioneers and Appraisers evaluates locals’ family heirlooms and esoterica. Limit 3 items per guest. Winooski Senior Center, 2-4 p.m. $5 suggested donation per item. Info, suecarterob11@gmail.com.

seminars

fairs & festivals

THE MATTER OF MONEY: A financial counselor shares expertise about spending plans, loans, debt and savings. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

11:15 a.m.-3 p.m. $5-18; free for kids 4 and under. Info, 864-0218, ext. 801.

NORTHERN NOSH JEWISH FOOD FESTIVAL: Rugelach, blintzes, latkes, challah and shakshouka warm bellies amid live music, puppet shows and other activities for all ages. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington,

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‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.1. WOODSTOCK VERMONT FILM SERIES: ‘WHITMAN BROOK: AN APPLE ORCHARD AND THE NATURE OF TIME’: See SAT.4.

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: New and experienced meditators are always welcome to join this weekly practice in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hahn. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, newleafsangha@gmail.com. KARUNA COMMUNITY MEDITATION: A YEAR TO LIVE (FULLY): Participants practice keeping joy, generosity and gratitude at the forefront of their minds. Jenna’s House, Johnson, 10-11:15 a.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, mollyzapp@live.com.

music

COLLEGE CHOIR CONCERT: Songs about the natural world ring out with themes of joy, justice and celebration. Robison Concert Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5938. FAURÉ REQUIEM: The Choir of College Street Congregational Church partners with Montréal’s Ensemble L’Harmonie des Saisons to perform two masses by Gabriel Fauré and by MarcAntoine Charpentier on 19thcentury instruments. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. $25-40; free for kids and students. Info, emdma@aol.com. ‘IT IS MY HEART THAT MAKES MY SONGS’: See SAT.4. Richmond

Free Library, 3-4:30 p.m. $18 suggested donation. ‘MADE IN VERMONT’: See SAT.4. Bellows Falls Opera House, 4-6 p.m. $18.50-45. Info, 451-0053. NATALIE MACMASTER: The Celtic fiddle superstar gives an electrifying live performance. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7 p.m. $30-65. Info, 728-9878. SUNDAY MUSIC SERIES: MARK RUST: A New York multi-instrumentalist plays original songs on the guitar, banjo, fiddle and dulcimer. Virtual option available. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 2-3:45 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4962. UNITED CHURCH OF FAIRFAX BENEFIT CONCERT: Vocalist Chloe Louise Brisson and pianist Evan Allen play to raise funds for the church’s building fund. United Church of Fairfax, 4 p.m. Donations. Info, blythe@baskette. net. WINE & JAZZ SUNDAYS: Sixpiece band In the Pocket invites special guests to sing alongside vocalist Taryn Noelle each week. Shelburne Vineyard, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222.

talks

PATRICK LEAHY: The Montpelier Historical Society hosts the retired senator for a discussion about his experience growing up in the Capital City. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 2-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ montpeliervthistoricalsociety.org. VETS TOWN HALL: See FRI.3. American Legion Hall, Brattleboro, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 8254398. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, Info, 825-4398.

theater

‘LOVE & PHYSICS’: See FRI.3, 3 p.m.

words

HOMESTEAD BOOK CLUB: The quarterly club meets up to break down My Bring Up by Shirly Hook. Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556.

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KNIT WITS: Fiber-working friends get together to make progress on their quilts, knitwear and needlework. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 362-2607.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the On Screen section. ‘GREAT WHITE SHARK 3D’: See WED.1. ‘JOURNEY TO SPACE 3D’: See WED.1. ‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.1. ‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.1.

ADVANCED TAI CHI: Experienced movers build strength, improve balance and reduce stress. Holley Hall, Bristol, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; donations accepted. Info, jerry@ skyrivertaichi.com. BEGINNING TAI CHI (SUN SHORT FORM): Newbies learn how gentle movement can help with arthritis, mental clarity and range of motion. Holley Hall, Bristol, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, jerry@skyrivertaichi.com. HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY MEETING — STATEWIDE: See WED.1. HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY MEETING — WHITE RIVER JUNCTION: See WED.1.

LAUGHTER YOGA: Spontaneous, joyful movement and breath promote physical and emotional health. Pathways Vermont, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, chrisn@pathwaysvermont.org. YANG 24: This simplified tai chi method is perfect for beginners looking to build strength and balance. Congregational Church of Middlebury, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, elizabetharms56@gmail.com.

words

ADDISON COUNTY WRITERS COMPANY: Poets, playwrights, novelists and memoirists of every experience level meet weekly for an MFA-style workshop. Swift House Inn, Middlebury, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, jay@zigzaglitmag.org.

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

SWING DANCING: Local Lindy hoppers and jitterbuggers convene at Vermont Swings’ weekly boogie-down. Bring clean shoes. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:309 p.m.; beginner lessons, 6:30 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

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COOKBOOK CLUB: Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison inspires a potluck. ADA accessible. South Burlington Public Library & City Hall, 5:306:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, sbplprograms@southburlingtonvt. gov.

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HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY MEETING — NEWPORT: See WED.1.

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TAI CHI TUESDAY: Patrons get an easy, informal introduction to this ancient movement practice that supports balance and strength. Manchester Community Library, Manchester Center, 9-10:15 a.m.

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This application can be viewed on the public Act 250 Database online (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/ Act250/Details.aspx?Num=4C1350). To request party status, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb.vermont. gov/documents/party-status-petition-form, and email it to the District 4 Offi ce at: NRB. Act250Essex@vermont.gov. If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in the public hearing), please notify us as soon as possible, inorder to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs. For more information, contact Kaitlin Hayes, District Coordinator before the hearing date at the address or telephone number below. Dated October 17, 2023. By: /s/Kaitlin Hayes Kaitlin Hayes District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 (802) 622-4084 kaitlin.hayes@vermont.gov STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET #23-CV-01107 SAFEGUARD MISTY REALTY GROUP LLC Plaintiff v. CAROLINE EARLE, AS FIDUCIARY FOR THE ESTATE OF LAWRENCE G. HELLER OCCUPANTS residing at 9 Bluestar Lane, South Burlington, VT 05403 Defendants NOTICE OF SALE

a public hearing on November 14, 2023, at 1:00 PM at the Hinesburg Town Lower Level Conference Room, located at 10632 VT Route 116 Hinesburg, VT 05461. A site visit will be held before the hearing at 12:30 PM at the site. Directions to the site: Please drive down Haystack Rd. in Hinesburg and park in the Bissonette Athletic Fields parking area.

According to the terms and conditions of the Stipulated Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure by Judicial Sale (the “Order”) in the matter of Safety Misty Realty Group LLC V. CAROLINE EARLE, AS FIDUCIARY FOR THE ESTATE OF LAWRENCE G. HELLER Vermont Superior Court, Civil Division, Chittenden Unit, foreclosing one mortgage given by Safeguard Misty Realty Group LLC, to Lawrence G. Heller, dated January 22, 2009 and recorded in Book 833, Page 332-334 of the City of South Burlington Land Records, and assigned to Safeguard Misty Realty Group, LLC, by assignment of mortgage dated February 22, 2022 and recorded on March 28, 2022 at Volume 1651, Page 1 of the City of South Burlington Land Records, respectively, the real estate with an address of 9 Bluestar Lane, South Burlington, VT 05403 will be sold at public auction at 11:00 a.m. on November 15, 2023 at the location of the Property. Property Description. Th e Property to be sold is all and the same land and premises descripted in the mortgage, and further described as follows: Being all the same lands and premises conveyed to Lawrence G. Heller by Quitclaim Deed of Nancy G. Heller dated January 5, 1995 and recorded in Volume 379 at Page 27 of the City of South Burlington Land Records. Being all the same lands and premises conveyed to Lawrence G. Heller and Nancy G. Heller by Quitclaim Deed of Lawrence G. Heller and Nancy G. Heller dated April 26, 1989 and recorded in Volume 278 at Page 284 of the City of South Burlington Land Records.

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Being all the same lands and premises conveyed to Lawrence G. Heller and Nancy G. Heller by warranty deed of Homestead Design, inc. dated April 25, 1989 and recorded in volume 278 at page 210 of the City of South Burlington Land Records. Being a parcel of land containing .22 acres, more or less, with dwelling and all improvements thereon, located on the southerly side of Blue Star Lane, so-called, in the city of South Burlington, said parcel of land depicted as lot no. 61 on a plan entitled “The Village at Dorret Park, Plat of Subdivision of Lands of Southcott Partnership, South Burlington. Vermont” dated August 1986 prepared by Fitzpatrick-Llewellys Incorporated and recorded in map volume 252, pgs.77-78 of the South Burlington City Land Records, and more particularly described thereon as follows: beginning at a point in the southerly side of Blue Star Lane right-of-way, said point being the northeasterly corner of said lot no. 61 and the northwesterly corner of lot no. 62 as shown on the aforementioned plan; thence proceeding s 03° 58’4 8” E for a distance of 133.53 feet, more or less, to a point marked by an iron pin; thence turning to the right and proceeding S 84°07” W for a distance of 73.03 feet, more or less, to a point marked by an iron pin set in the easterly side of Irish Lane right-of-way; thence turning to the right and proceeding N 03°58’4 8” W in and along the easterly side line of said Irish Lane right-ofway for a distance of 120.72 feet, more or less to a point marked by a concrete monument; thence turning to the right and proceeding in a generally northeasterly direction along a curve having a delta of 90°00’00” at a radius of 15.00 feet, more or less, for a distance of 23.56 feet, more or less, to a concrete monument; thence proceeding S 86°01’12” E in and along the southerly side line of Blue Star Lane right-of· way for a distance of 58.00 feet, more or less, to the point or place of beginning. Included herein is the right of use for ingress and egress, in common with others, the roadway shown and depicted on the above-referenced plan, together with an easement over the roadway extending from Dorset Street to the roadways shown on the above-referenced plan, provided, however that such right of way shall terminate at the time said roadways are accepted as public streets by the City of South Burlington. Terms of Sale. The Property shall be sold “AS IS, WHERE IS”, to the highest bidder for cash or wire funds only. The sale of the property is subject to confirmation by the Vermont Superior Court, Civil Division, Chittenden Unit. The Property is sold subject to unpaid taxes, municipal assessments, and superior liens, if any. The public sale may be adjourned one or more times for a total time not exceeding 30 days, without further court order, and without publication or service of a new notice of sale, by announcement of the new sale date to those present at each adjournment or by posting notice of the adjournment in a conspicuous place at the location of the sale. Mortgage Property Deposit. $5,000.00 to be paid by certified check by the purchaser at the time of auction, with the balance due at closing. The balance of the purchase price for the Property shall be due and payable within the latter of 10 days from the date of confirmation of said sale by the Vermont Superior Court, Civil Division, Chittenden Unit, or 45 days from the date of public auction. If the balance of the purchase price is not paid within the period set forth herein, the deposit shall be forfeited and shall be retained by the Plaintiff herein as agreed liquidation damages and the Property may be offered to the next highest bidder still interested in the Property. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the Property at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Korde & Associates, P.C. at (802) 393-4184. Dated: October 10, 2023 /s/Daniel Young, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff

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OFFICIAL WARNING SPECIAL TOWN MEETING TOWN OF WESTFORD NOVEMBER 7, 2023 The legal voters of the Town of Westford are hereby notified and warned to meet at the Westford School, 146 Brookside Road, Town of Westford, Vermont on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 7:00 a.m., at which time the polls will open until 7:00 p.m., at which time the polls will close, to vote by Australian ballot on Article I below: ARTICLE I Shall bonds of the Town of Westford be issued in an amount not to exceed Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000) for a term of up to 30 years and at an expected interest rate of two percent 2% for the purpose of constructing a community wastewater system, as further described in Stone Environmental’s documents entitled Westford Community Wastewater – Revised Construction and Total Project Cost Estimates, Westford Community Wastewater Project Description, Costs, Funding, and Bonding Authority Recommendation, and Westford Community Wastewater – Draft 30% Design? The legal voters of the Town of Westford are further warned and notified that a public informational hearing on this ballot article will be conducted on November 1, 2023 at the Westford School, 146 Brookside Road, Town of Westford, Vermont beginning at 7:00 p.m. The public may also attend the public hearing and information session via Zoom at this link: https://us02web. zoom.us/j/82428695329?pwd=UHZJZ3pzZTQ0Vj FBeUY2OUNHemdWdz09. The legal voters of the Town of Westford are further notified that voter qualification, registration, and absentee voting relative to said special Town Meeting shall be as provided in Chapters 43, 51 and 55 of Title 17, Vermont Statutes Annotated. Approved this 14th day of September, 2023. WESTFORD SELECTBOARD

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Received and recorded this 25th day of September, 2023 Attest: Callie Hamdy, Town Clerk Posted at: Westford Town Office, Westford School, Westford Library, Westford Post Office, Westford Country Store & Café, and Town Website. VERMONT SELF STORAGE The contents of storage unit 01-04224 located at 28 Adams Drive, Williston VT, will be sold on or about the 9th of November 2023 to satisfy the debt of Zena Hall. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur. The contents of storage unit 01-02104 located at 28 Adams Drive, Williston VT, will be sold on or about the 9th of November 2023 to satisfy the debt of Melissa Myers. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur. The contents of storage unit 01-04131 located at 28 Adams Drive, Williston VT, will be sold on or about the 9th of November 2023 to satisfy the debt of Maggie Simpson. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur. PROPOSED STATE RULES ===== By law, public notice of proposed rules must be

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Legal Notices [CONTINUED] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Natalie Weill, Vermont Department of Health, 108 Cherry Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Tel: 802-863-7280 Fax: 802-951-1275 E-Mail: ahs.vdhrules@vermont. gov. URL: https://www.healthvermont.gov/ laws-regulations/laws/public-comment. FOR COPIES: Brendan Atwood, Vermont Department of Health, 108 Cherry Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Tel: 802-863-7280 Fax: 802-951-1275 E-Mail: ahs.vdhrules@vermont.gov. ---------Investigation and Remediation of Contaminated Properties Rule (IRule). Vermont Proposed Rule: 23P042 AGENCY: Agency of Natural Resources CONCISE SUMMARY: The primary reason for updating the Rule is to codify the interim PCB indoor air standards as final prior to their expiration in February 2024. Other changes include updating definitions to be consistent with other Rules, including a requirement that the DEC be notified prior to conducting any earth disturbance work at an active or closed hazardous site, include updated numerical standards for regulated environmental media, add additional clarity for expected outcomes of site specific risk assessments, additional clarity for allowing partial corrective action plans, and additional requirements for the evaluation of corrective action alternatives (ECAA)report which focus on the objectives of the remediation and detailed justification for the selected remedy. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Lynda Provencher, Agency of Natural Resources, 1 National Life Drive, Davis 1, Montpelier VT 05620 Tel: 802-249-5562 Email: lynda.provencher@ vermont.gov URL: https://dec.vermont.gov/ waste-management/contaminated-sites. FOR COPIES: Shawn Donovan, Agency of Natural Resources, 1 National Life Drive, Davis 1, Montpelier VT 05620 Tel: 802-522-5683 Email: shawn.donovan@vermont.gov. CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SELF STORAGE In accordance with VT Title 9 Commerce and Trade Chapter 098: Storage Units 3905. Enforcement of Lien, Champlain Valley Self Storage, LLC shall host a live auction of the following unit on or after 11/18/23: Location: 78 Lincoln St, Essex Jct, VT Paula Jarrett, unit #067: household goods Auction pre-registration is required, email info@ champlainvalleyselfstorage.com to register. STORAGE AUCTION Notice is hereby given that Class Centre Mini-Storage inc, located at 37 Centre Dr. Milton, Vt. will hold a live auction of units 318--506--508 on Friday, November 3, 2023 at 10am on site. Contents sold as is and need to be removed within 24 hours at no cost of Class Centre. NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SERVICES The Cooperative Development Institute’s Water Infrastructure Support Program is seeking Statements of Qualifications from qualified electrical engineering firms on behalf of Breezy Acres Cooperative, Inc. and Hillcrest Cooperative, Inc. in Colchester, Vermont for the redevelopment of their electrical infrastructure. Required professional services will include but are not limited to: engineering assessments, additional preliminary engineering services, design-and construction-relations services, preparation of bidding and contracting documents, participation in evaluating bids received, and construction administration to ensure compliance with plans and specifications. Procurement of said services will be in accordance with 40 U.S.C. § 1101-1104. Qualified entities interested in being considered must submit: (1) letter of interest; (2) statement of qualifications and experience of firm and associates to be involved with the project; (3) references; and (4) related prior experience. Submit

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the requested information to wisp@cdi.coop no later than November 30, 2023 to be considered. Please visit https://cdi.coop/rfqcolchester/ to view the full Request for Qualifications. ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C0897-6 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 – 6111 Application 4C0897-6 from Southworth-Milton, Inc. (DBA Milton CAT), 100 Quarry Drive, Milford, MA 01757 and Milton Real Properties of Massachusetts, 100 Quarry Drive, Milford, MA 01757 was received on October 19, 2023 and deemed complete on October 24, 2023. The project is generally described as expansion of a previously permitted canopy from 1,236 square feet to 6,174 square feet, construction of a new 100 square foot pump house, and installation of (4) new underground fire suppression tanks for the entire building facility. The project is located on US Route 2 in Richmond, Vermont. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/Act250/ Details.aspx?Num=4C0897-6). No hearing will be held, and a permit will be issued unless, on or before November 17, 2023, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c) (1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb.vermont.gov/documents/ party-status-petition-form, and email it to the District 4 Office at: NRB.Act250Essex@vermont. gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. For more information contact Stephanie H. Monaghan at the address or telephone number below. Dated this October 25, 2023. By: Stephanie H. Monaghan District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-261-1944 stephanie.monaghan@vermont.gov LEGAL NOTICE The Champlain Valley School District (the “District”) is seeking Statement of Qualifications from qualified Construction Management (“CM/C”) firms to provide Construction Management Constructor services for limited renovations at two schools: Shelburne Community School and Champlain Valley Union High School. The scope includes HVAC and Electrical improvements as well as related interior and exterior alterations. Estimated construction cost is approximately $2,000,000, exclusive of general conditions or construction management fees. The District is soliciting bids from qualified Construction Management firms. The District has established prequalification criteria that a prospective bidder must meet in order to submit a bid for consideration by the District, and invites interested construction management firms to apply for prequalification. Request for Statement of Qualifications can be requested by telephone or email from: Attn: Mr. Chris Giard CVSD Director of Facilities Champlain Valley School District 5420 Shelburne Rd, Suite 300 Shelburne, VT 05482 Telephone: 802-985-1930 Email: cgiard@cvsdvt.org

Statements of Qualifications are to be submitted on AIA Document A305 with attachments necessary to respond to additional pre-qualification criteria established by the District. Completed prequalification statements shall be received at the above address by mail or delivery no later than 12PM Noon on November 9th, 2023. Applicants for prequalification shall be notified on or before November 15th, 2023 (Note: must be at least 30 days prior to proposed bid opening per 16 §V.S.A. 559(c) (2) pursuant to Department of Education Rules 6342.1) whether they are eligible to bid. The District anticipates opening the bids for the contract on December 19th, 2023. NORTHSTAR SELF STORAGE WILL BE HAVING A PUBLIC AND ONLINE SALE/AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS ON NOVEMBER 16, 2023, AT 9:00 AM Northstar Self Storage will be having a public and online sale/auction on November 16, 2023 at 615 Route 7, Danby, VT 05739 (Unit D45, D50), 205 VT-4A West, Castleton, VT 05735 (Unit 2-4), 681 Rockingham Road, Rockingham, VT 05151 (R19, R55) and at 1124 Charlestown Road, Springfield, VT 05156 (Units S21, S72, S83, S92, S131) and online at www.storagetreasures.com at 9:00 am in accordance with VT Title 9 Commerce and Trade Chapter 098: Storage Units 3905. Enforcement of Lien Unit # 1 D45 Goods 2 D50 3 2-4 4 S21 Goods 5 R19 Goods 6 R55 Goods 6 S72 Goods 7 S83 Goods 8 S92 Goods 9 S131

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 23-PR-05356 In re ESTATE of James Lawrence Notice To Creditors To the creditors of: James Lawrence, late of Shelburne, Vermont 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. Dated: October 27, 2023 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Judith Billard

hearing for Thursday, November 16, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. at the municipal offices, 81 MainStreet, Essex Junction, Vermont, or online via Zoom, using the following link:https://www.essexvt.org/1043/ Join-Zoom-Meeting-Essex-PC, or by calling 1-888-788-0099 using the meeting ID: 923 7777 6158 # and Passcode: 426269. The purpose of the hearing is to solicit public input on the 2024 Essex Town Plan. Significant items in the Plan include an Act 171 Forest Block and Habitat Connectorelement; incorporation of the new identity of Essex since the separation of the City of Essex Junction in 2022; and incorporation of the Essex Town Center (ETC) NEXT Master Plan and desired implementation steps, including the Town’s desire to seek Village Center, New Town Center and Neighborhood Development Area designations from the state’s Designation Program. The draft Town Plan includes an Introduction and four chapters: The Action Plan, Essex as a Community, How We Relate to the Land, and Serving the Community. The proposed Plan will affect all areas in Town. Copies of the proposed Town Plan, as required by 24 V.S.A.§ 4384(f) and 24 V.S.A.§ 4444(b), may be obtained or examined at the Essex municipal offices at 81 Main Street, Essex Junction, VT, the Essex Free Library at 1 Browns River Road. The proposed Town Plan may be downloaded from the Town website at https://www.essexvt.org/1140/ Town-Plan-2024. For more information contact Katherine Sonnick, Community Development Director at ksonnick@ essex.org or 878-1343. Dustin Bruso, Chair Essex Planning Commission STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 23-PR-06319 In re ESTATE of Valerie O’Reilly Notice To Creditors To the creditors of: Valerie O’Reilly, late of Burlington, Vermont 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 27, 2023 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/ Maureen O’Reilly Executor/Administrator: Maureen O’Reilly c/o Kathleen M. Boe, Esq., Carroll, Boe, Pell & Kite P.C., 64 Court Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 11/01/2023 Name of Probate Court: Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Unit, Probate Division Address of Probate Court: PO Box 511, Burlington, VT 05402

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Name of Probate Court: State of Vermont Chittenden Probate Division Address of Probate Court: PO Box 511, 175 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05402 TOWN OF ESSEX TOWN PLAN PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 4385(a), the Essex Planning Commission has scheduled a public

Notice To Creditors To the creditors of:Richard W. Powers, late of Orleans, Vermont 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

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sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required, and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. To request party status and a hearing, fill out the Party Status Petition Form on the Board’s website: https://nrb.vermont.gov/documents/ party-status-petition-form, and email it to the District 4 Office at: NRB.Act250Essex@vermont. gov. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

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Name of Probate Court: State of Vermont Chittenden Probate Division Address of Probate Court: PO Box 511, 175 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05402 NOTICE This notice serves to inform of Christine Royea’s intent to move the cremated remains of Henry Emery Roberts Jr. to the correct plot in Lakeview Cemetery in Burlington, VT. Any family member, town cemetery commissioner or other authority responsible for cemeteries in the municipality can object to the proposed removal by filing a complaint in probate court. ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 4C1124-1A 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 – 6111 Application 4C1124-1A from Slopeside Syrup Holdings, LLC, P.O. Box 2, Richmond, VT 05477 was received on September 18, 2023 and deemed complete on October 18, 2023. The project is generally described as amending Land Use Permit 4C1124 to remove Act 250 jurisdiction from Applicant’s 3.79-acre parcel of undeveloped farmland under In re Stonybrook Condominium Owner’s Ass’n, Declaratory Ruling #385, Findings of Fact, Conclusion of Law, and Order at 14 (Vt. Envtl. Bd. May 18, 2001) (“Stonybrook”). No development or subdivision is proposed. The project is located on Whistle Stop Lane in Richmond, Vermont. This application can be viewed online by visiting the Act 250 Database: (https://anrweb.vt.gov/ANR/ Act250/Details.aspx?Num=4C1124-1A). No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before November 14, 2023, a party notifies the District 4 Commission in writing of an issue requiring a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c) (1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing, must state the criteria or

It is hereby ORDERED that the notice of hearing as set forth in the Order be published in either Seven Days or The Burlington Free Press, Publication date: no later than November 16, 2023 (Attorney Montroll: please file tear sheet proving publication no later than November 23, 2023.) Electronically signed on October 13, 2023 pursuant to V.R.E.F. 9(d) /s/ Gregory Glennon Probate Judge Any individual with a disability requiring assistance accessing the services, programs, and/ or activities at the Courthouse should contact the Clerk’s office at the above address for further assistance. STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT FAMILY DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO. 23-JV-4 In Re: R.C. Notice of hearing TO: Brittany Weston and Kevin Cosgrove, parents of R.C., you are hereby notified that a hearing to terminate your parental rights to R.C. will be held on November 30, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Family Division, at 32 Cherry Street, Suite 200, Burlington, Vermont 05401. You are notified to appear in connection with this case. Failure to appear at this hearing may result in termination of your parental rights to R.C. The State is represented by the Attorney General’s Office, HC 2 North, 280 State Drive, Waterbury, VT 05671-2080. Electronically signed pursuant to V.R.E.F. 9(d) /s/ Elizabeth Novotny 10/30/2023 Elizabeth F. Novotny Superior Court Judge

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The Assistant Business Manager will work in the banking system to prepare automatic rent withdrawals from tenants, prepare invoices and monitor income from grants and other vendors. They will balance the checkbooks monthly, monitor direct withdrawals, and work with the Business Manager to prevent and/or resolve issues. They will work with the AP Clerk to maintain accurate records of all financial activities. They will also work with Fee Accountant on payroll, benefits, and other direct withdrawals to ensure accurate recording of expenses. JOB DETAILS:

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• The Assistant Business Manager will be responsible for employees’ medical benefit enrollment and the company’s property, casualty, liability insurances management and maintenance.

• Associate degree in Business, Accounting, or Finance or three years experience in bookkeeping.

• Must speak and write in English. Other languages spoken by our clients will be considered a plus.

• We are willing to provide training to the right candidate.

• Salary: $23.00 - $25.00 per hour

• Ability to commute/relocate: Winooski, VT 05404

The ideal applicant is a self-motivated team player who works collaboratively with others to deliver accurate, quality tax services for our clients. Will consider remote work. The CPA will primarily be responsible for preparing tax returns and tax planning for individual and business clients. Minimum qualifications are BS degree in Accounting with a CPA certification, and five years of tax experience. To apply: send resumes to Jeff at jwest@gilweegroup.cpa or call Wendy at 802-304- 4408 for specific questions about the role.

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Pet Food Warehouse is hiring for full-time sales associates to provide superior customer service to pets and their people.

• Mastery of Excel Level I and Word.

Position is open until filled. Please forward resume & letter of interest to: dbeaulieu@winooskihousing.org.

Winooski Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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The Boucher Career Education Center (BCEC) at Saint Michael’s College invites applications for the Career Education Coach position. This Career Education Coach will be responsible for the Arts, Marketing, Communications, and STEM majors/ career bundle areas. The Career Education Coach is responsible for creating physical and virtual communities that educate our students on trends & issues in their chosen areas, providing knowledge that can help them achieve a competitive edge, generating internship and employment opportunities for them, and connecting them with alumni/ae and employers for mentorship and information. This position will coach students and alumni one-on-one, complete student programming, and facilitate networking events and other related events. This position oversees the Peer Career Advisor program as well as hiring, training, and managing Peer Career Advisors. In addition, this role manages and operates the BCEC Podcast.

DELIVERY DRIVERS WANTED We are currently accepting applications for both part time and full time positions. We have several different shifts available. Feel free to stop in to our office at 54 Echo Place, Suite# 1, Williston, VT 05495 and fill out an application. You can also apply online via our website at shipvds.com or email Tom Knox directly at tknox@shipvds.com.

We are seeking an experienced Sales Representative and a Customer Service Associate to join our team. A leading compost & potting soil producer for over 30 years, we provide a fun and dynamic environment. Staff enjoy competitive wages and a generous benefits package. Visit our website for more information: VermontCompost.com/Careers

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Send cover letter/resume to Cathy Ainsworth, Town Administrator, PO Box 5, Fairfield, VT 05455; townadmin@fairfieldvermont.us. Visit fairfieldvermont.us for full job description. Applications accepted until the position is filled.

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THE GRIND GOT YOU DOWN?

Super Thin Saws, of Waterbury, VT, manufactures precision circular sawblades and similar tooling, primarily for the woodworking industry. We are seeking highly motivated individuals to work and grow in our manufacturing operation. Candidates must be mechanically inclined. Previous experience with measuring tools such as micrometers, calipers, and dial indicators is desired. We will provide training to successful candidates. Super Thin Saws provides excellent benefits, including medical, good pay, and flexible work hours.

To apply: please send your resume to bookkeeping@ superthinsaws.com or call 802-244-8101

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Vermont Compost Co. in Montpelier is hiring!

The Town of Fairfield's Zoning Administrator manages & enforces Subdivision & Zoning Bylaws; reviews permit applications; responds to information requests from the public; serves as the E911 coordinator and assists in organizing and documenting meetings for the Planning and Zoning Board of Adjustment. 8-10 hours per week.

The Stern Center for Language and Learning is hiring literacy teachers who are ready to make a difference at a new level in their career. If you thrive in an educational setting that shakes up the traditional school model, apply to join our team in the life-changing work of teaching reading. Work one-on-one or in small groups, with adolescents who need the support of caring educators who believe in them, in a context where social-emotional wellbeing and support is a critical part of the learning journey. We have current openings for structured literacy instructors with a background in dyslexia/special education, Orton-Gillingham, or similar qualifications. A flexible position based part-time or full-time in a Chittenden County, VT alternative high school program location is a priority hire. The Stern Center for Language and Learning is a non-profit organization with a fortyyear history of dedication to learning for all through direct support to learners and transformative programs for educators. We invite you to learn more at sterncenter.org. To apply, email a cover letter and resume to hcastillo@sterncenter.org.

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We’re Hiring! Join the Flynn & be part of a team striving to make the community better through the arts. All backgrounds encouraged to apply. This is a part-time, hourly, IATSE union position with benefits.

Senior Facilities Maintenance Technician

HEAD SOUND TECHNICIAN

VSAC is seeking a Senior Facilities Maintenance Technician who will be responsible for the general condition of the building including overseeing routine maintenance, coordinating repair services on facility equipment, and performing weekly/monthly checks on facilities operations. Additionally, this position will process incoming/outgoing mail for VSAC and tenants, authorize payment of minor repairs, place service calls as appropriate and assist with the administration and maintenance of Building Monitor Systems.

The Head Sound Tech is responsible for setting up and maintaining all audio systems for Flynn productions and events. This position will take an active leadership role in setting and maintaining high levels of production craftsmanship and artistic excellence.

To view the full job description and to apply online please visit: vsac.org/careers

The Maintenance Technician will be based at Northgate Apartments a residential family community in Burlington, VT with 336 units. The Technician will be responsible for the completion of work orders, preventative maintenance, unit turnovers, janitorial, and grounds keeping. The work hours are 8:30am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday.

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The Flynn values all staff to provide a positive and professional experience for coworkers, tours, and patrons. Visit our website for a detailed job description: flynnvt.org/About-Us/Employment-and-InternshipOpportunities. Email materials to: HResources@flynnvt.org No phone calls, please. E.O.E.

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Two positions available: ~Director of Development & Communication ~In-School Education Director To request a full job description and to apply, please send a letter of interest, resume and 3 references by November 27th to:

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Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village

Maintenance Technician

9/25/23 11:52 AM The successful candidate will have basic knowledge of plumbing,

We have several exciting career opportunities available!

The Old Stone House Museum team is a highly collaborative group drawn together by the premise that history matters. Our work environment is friendly and supportive. All employees enjoy a hybrid work model which offers a combination of working from home and collaborating with team members in the office.

electrical, appliance repair, carpentry, and HVAC. We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills who has a strong customer service philosophy. This position includes participation in the emergency on-call service rotation and snow removal. A valid Driver’s License with access to a vehicle is required. Pay range is $22-24 per hour, DOE. Apply online: maloneyproperties.com/careers. Maloney Properties is an E.O.E. bit.ly/MaloneyMaintTech

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Sterling College is an environmentally focused liberal arts college located in Craftsbury Common,Vermont. We offer affordable experiential learning that prepares people to be knowledgeable, skilled, and responsible leaders in the communities in which they live. Join our team in our pursuit to educate and inspire the next generation of environmental leaders.

Chief Advancement Officer: Spearheads the College’s fundraising initiatives and alumni engagement programs.

Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL (NVRH): Fun, fabulous, well-oiled, OR team seeks RN who’s organized, a great communicator, has excellent attention to detail - and can tell a joke or two! NVRH offers competitive wages, loan repayment, generous paid time off, career advancement and an exceptional benefits package. But, we also offer a thriving, fast-paced environment with co-workers who bring the fun, while providing exceptional care of our patients. Apply now and experience the rewards of being in a supportive and thriving environment at NVRH.

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Director of Advancement Services: Combines administrative and fundraising responsibilities to achieve annual fundraising goals.

Director of Residential Life: A pivotal force in shaping an inclusive and vibrant campus environment.

Residence Life Coordinator: Supports an engaged, welcoming, and vibrant student community.

Admission Counselor: A vital link between the college and prospective students, school counselors, and families. Director of Buildings & Grounds: Focuses on ensuring that the campus infrastructure is safe, functional, and aligned with the College’s operational goals. Director of Graphic Design & Social Media: As the College’s “story teller,” they play a critical role in amplifying Sterling’s mission of ecological thinking and action.

To read the full position description and application instructions, visit:

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Engineering Program INSTRUCTOR Green Mountain Technology & Career Center (GMTCC) is a cutting edge career and technical education center, where eligible students in 10th, 11th and 12th grades are prepared for college and career through the acquisition of real-world skills, practical knowledge, hands-on experiences, mentoring, and networking. In addition to earning requirements for high school graduation, students have the opportunity to earn free college credits and may achieve an industry certification in their field. GMTCC has an opportunity to build a new Engineering program, and is seeking a candidate who is interested in working collaboratively to both design and implement the program over the next year and a half. The ideal candidate will work with 11th-12th grade students in a full-day format, which will include collaboration between industry leaders and postsecondary partners. The candidate will be provided with training in the engineering pathway of Project Lead the Way (PLTW), and should be interested in developing programming similar to courses such as Introduction to Engineering Design, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, and Principles of Engineering. As the thematic center of the proposed program, PLTW Engineering empowers students to step into the role of an engineer, adopt a problem-solving mindset, and make the leap from dreamers to doers. The program’s courses will engage students in compelling, real-world challenges that help them become better collaborators and thinkers. Students take from the courses in-demand knowledge and skills they will use in high school and for the rest of their lives, on any career path they take. The instructor should hold a bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, or a related science and possess fundamental engineering knowledge with industry-related experience. Experience with CAD software (Fusion 360) and manual and/or CNC machining is desirable but not required. If you have a thirst to learn, the ability to employ project-based learning, and a passion to prepare students with the skills to succeed in post-secondary education and beyond, please apply online at: Schoolspring.com. Job ID: 4408496. GMTCC is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, age, citizenship status, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or disability, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.

Co-Executive Director Philanthropy & Communications The Vermont Garden Network (VGN) advances the collective good in health, wellness, environment, food security, and human connections by delivering garden and nutrition education, along with related resources and programs. Our mission is to cultivate well-being by helping people grow food, build confidence, and connect with each other. VGN is seeking a Co-Executive Director of Philanthropy & Communications. The Co-Executive Director is part of a shared leadership structure that governs the operations and program delivery of the Vermont Garden Network. This position reports to the Board of Directors and collaborates with the Co-Executive Director of Programs & Partnerships to educate, support and connect gardeners across the state of Vermont. To view job description: vtgardens.org/get-involved/join-our-team.

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TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SPECIALIST The Home Repair Technical Assistance Specialist will primarily administer technical and application assistance to park owners and residents who have unmet needs that affect habitability leading to unsafe and unhealthy housing living conditions and/ or displacement. This position requires supporting applicant(s) through their financial assistance request(s) process including follow-up support, referral and reporting services as needed. To apply, visit cvoeo.org/careers to submit a cover letter and resume.

The City of South Burlington has the following job opportunities available:

• IT Network and Telecommunication Systems Administrator • Highway Maintenance Worker (2 positions) • Highway Mechanic

• Recreation & Parks Maintenance Worker • Firefighter • Police Officer • Horticultural Specialist

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Guest Services Specialist 4 DAYS A WEEK (PART TIME-ONSITE) — $750 SIGN-ON BONUS

RETREAT THERAPISTS Wild Trails Farm is seeking psychotherapists and other types of mental health counselors for personal retreat guests. Ideal candidates have a flexible schedule and are available on weekends and occasional weekdays in Springfield VT. No scheduling or other administrative tasks required. Meet with clients in wellappointed spaces in our solarand geothermal-powered lodge, with views of the surrounding mountains and forest. Join our gathering of retreat practitioners in blazing a new wellness trail in Southern Vermont!

We seek a part-time (4 days a week with an option to go full-time), detail-oriented professional to oversee a wide range of essential guest services at our Shelburne, VT, location. Organization and meticulous attention to detail are crucial qualities for this role. This position is eligible for a one-time signing bonus of $750. The bonus will be paid out after completing a successful 180-day with the company.

Operations Specialist 3 DAYS A WEEK (PART TIME-ONSITE) — $750 SIGN-ON BONUS The Operations Specialist role is a part-time (3 days a week) position and is responsible for assisting and supporting the pre and post-tour operations at our Shelburne location. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working with multiple team members and vendors and understand operations and team deliverables. This role is eligible for a one-time signing bonus of $750. The bonus will be paid out after completing a successful 180-day with the company.

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We’re Hiring! We offer competitive wages & a full benefits package for full time employees. No auction experience necessary.

• Line Cooks

• Common Area Cleaners

• Snowmakers

• Ski Patrollers - WFR or greater required

• Servers • Groomers

• Facilities Maintenance Technicians

• Resort Overnight Security Guard

• Full-time Ski and Snowboard Instructors

STORMWATER COORDINATOR $26 - $32 hourly, DOQ Full-time position with specific training available and excellent local government benefits. The Town of Shelburne team has grown to require a dedicated stormwater professional. The Town has a new stormwater utility, ordinance, and regulations. Help our community achieve environmental excellence, working with a wide range of partners. This coordinator will support other departments and contractors with mapping, grants, construction management, and agency reporting. The ideal candidate has related education and experience in stormwater work, with a mix of technical and people skills. We have opportunities to grow, and to shape this position to the skills and interests of the right candidate. The work is both indoors and outdoors in the beautiful environment of Shelburne. Visit shelburnevt.org/jobs to see the full job description and application. To apply, email scannizzaro@shelburnevt.org. Review of applications begins immediately. The Town of Shelburne is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

For more information and to apply visit boltonvalley.com/the-resort/employment.

OPEN POSITIONS: Auto Auction Yard Crew (WILLISTON, VT)

Full time - Monday – Friday 8:00 to 5:00 + 2 Saturdays a month. Tasks include; filling out forms when customers bring in cars for auction, jump starting cars, driving auto/manual cars, taking pictures, assigning lot numbers, uploading vehicles to online auction platform, and more. Email eric@thcauction.com

Auction Site Tech (MORRISVILLE, VT)

We’re seeking an energetic & motivated individual to join our auction team. Techs work an average of 40 hours per week. Email: info@thcauction.com

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Smokehouse Staff • Call Center • Gift Assembly Help to make our World Famous Smoked Hams and Bacon, speak with people around the country processing orders, or assemble gift boxes for the holidays. If you are looking for a job for a few weeks or months we have seasonal part and full-time positions with scheduling flexibility, in a fun team focused work environment. Apply in person. 210 E Main Street - Richmond

Seeking highly responsible, dynamic, collaborative & organized individual. Full-time, salaried position with great benefits & competitive salary. Requires some night meetings while offering schedule flexibility. Position provides principal liaison and administrative support for Selectboard in fulfilling their statutory & quasi-judicial responsibilities. Strong budgetary, fiscal management, HR, community engagement, and leadership skills are essential. Experience in business, public or non-profit administration and management; local government; and progressively responsible experience in a professional office setting preferred. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Job description available at www.huntingtonvt.org. Direct questions to current Town Administrator at TownHunt@gmavt.net or 802-434-4779. Submit letter of interest and resume via email to the Huntington Selectboard at TownHunt@gmavt.net. Applications due 11/14/23 with 1/2/24 preferred start date. Position will remain open until filled.

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Barre Housing Authority Do you have experience in disaster management and want to make a difference for Vermonters affected by 2023 ﬂooding?

SEEKING ALLOCATIONS DIRECTOR FOR FLOOD ASSISTANCE In partnership with the VT Disaster Recovery Fund, the Allocations Director will help individuals navigate available resources for funding repairs or rebuilding their homes. The ideal candidate for this full-time, 12-month temporary position should have a deep understanding of the disaster relief and response framework and network.

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DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE The Barre Housing Authority has a full time position available for a Director of Maintenance to work at our Barre City and Barre Town housing sites. This position acts as manager of the Housing Authority’s facilities and plants in accordance with standard practices and state and federal rules and regulations. The Maintenance Director is also responsible for planning, coordinating, and supervising maintenance personnel to carry out and complete routine and emergency work orders, apartment turnover and general building maintenance. This position is also required to oversee all properties’ major systems, subcontractors and capital improvement projects. Field knowledge of construction work is essential. We require at least 5 years of experience in maintenance or relevant mechanical trades including 3 years of supervision experience.

Retail Manager Full-Time

Umiak Outdoor Outfitters, Stowe, VT Details can be found at: umiak.com/employment

Woman/LGBT+ owned and operated. Seeking a badass CSR to join our team! Send resumes to: jessie@ vermontawards.com.

Position includes a very generous benefit package and competitive salary. Please send your resume to Jaime@barrehousing.org. Or to: Barre Housing Authority Attention Jaime Chioldi 30 Washington Street, Suite 1 Barre, VT 05641

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CANOPY IT SUPPORT TECHNICIAN Have fun and delight clients! As a member of our top-flight Canopy team, you will be a go-to for products and applications that clients rely on every day. The team handles support requests, monitors network components, configures workstations and users, automates service delivery, reports on system health, resolves issues, and visits client sites. Some team members are embedded at client sites. 1 year+ full-time IT experience or degree required. Salary $50,000 - $65,000.

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NPI appreciates its staff, and offers a pet-friendly office, generous time off, matching 401k, family health coverage (including HSA option), Flexible Spending Accounts, open-book Sound management, profit-sharing, and hybrid interesting? work-from-home opportunities for Apply online selected positions after training period.

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Philanthropy & Communications Coordinator Volunteer Coordinator Wellness Coordinator AmeriCorps Volunteer Outreach Member

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Work at an organization that cares as much about you as the clients it serves! Our employees appreciate their health benefits, employer paid retirement plan contributions, flexibility, professional development opportunities and positive work environment. Job sharing will be considered for the right candidate.

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We seek new team members who can empathize with others, are comfortable with computers, are strong communicators and are enthusiastic about growing as professionals.

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“Seven Days sales rep Michelle Brown is amazing! She’s extremely responsive, and I always feel so taken care of. I can only imagine how many job connections she has facilitated for local companies in the 20 years she has been doing this.” CAROLYN ZELLER Intervale Center, Burlington

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Director of Development JOB TRAINING. WELL DONE. Join the Community Kitchen Academy! Community Kitchen Academy (CKA) is a 9-week job training program featuring: Hands on learning, national ServSafe certification, job placement support and meaningful connections to community. Plus... the tuition is FREE and weekly stipends are provided for income eligible students! At 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 9-week course, you’ll develop and apply new skills by preparing food that would otherwise be wasted. The food you cook is then distributed through food shelves and meal sites throughout the community. 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 13th in Barre and January 22nd in Burlington. APPLY ONLINE: vtfoodbank.org/cka.

The Lake Champlain Chamber is a dynamic organization dedicated to creating economic opportunities in our region. We are seeking a passionate and experienced Director of Development to join our team and play a crucial role in supporting our mission. This newly created role will be responsible for developing and executing fundraising strategies to secure financial support from individuals, businesses, and organizations. You’ll play an integral part in strategic leadership and be responsible for acquiring and managing various resources, including financial support and partnerships. Your work will directly benefit programs like Leadership Champlain, Burlington Young Professionals, and LaunchVT and directly impact our ability to create economic opportunities for Vermonters. To view a complete job description, visit bit.ly/LCChamberDofD. Interested candidates should submit their resume and a cover letter detailing their fundraising experience and their passion for economic development to vermont@vermont.org. Please include “Director of Development Application" in the subject line. The Lake Champlain Chamber is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes diversity in the workplace. We strongly encourage all qualified persons to apply.

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When you work for the State of Vermont, you and your work matter. A career with the State puts you on a rich and rewarding professional path. You’ll find jobs in dozens of fields – not to mention an outstanding total compensation package.

LIBRARIES GRANT SPECIALIST – BARRE

WORKPLACE SERVICES SPECIALIST

Reporting to the Library Buildings Project Manager V, this position manages and oversees approximately $26,000,0000 in funds dedicated to Library Capital Grants Fund projects that the Vermont Department of Libraries will grant to public libraries from two federal funding sources: Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and US Department of Treasury to support improvements to their library buildings. For more information, contact Gina Hruban at gina.hruban@vermont.gov. Department: Libraries. Location: Barre. Status: Full Time, Limited Service. Job ID #48449. Application Deadline: November 12, 2023.

The Workplace Services Specialist role is to provide a wide range of assistance to the site and supports the Facilities Manager in the maintenance and operation of Marvell’s Burlington, VT office, and may provide support to other sites as requested.

ACCD PLANNING COORDIN ATOR – MONTPELIER

• Procurement and Financial Management of the Site

Would you like to help Vermonters plan for and build vibrant, inclusive, and resilient communities? Do you find joy in bringing together partners and communities to construct a future where electric vehicles, walking, and biking is the norm? If so, apply today for the Planning Coordinator (work will focus on Sustainable Communities + Transportation) at the Division for Community Planning + Revitalization - an innovative team working to advance policies and programs to make positive change happen one step, one pedal, and one charge at a time! For more information, contact Richard Amore at richard.amore@vermont.gov. Department: Commerce & Community Development. Location: Montpelier. Status: Full Time – Limited Service. Job ID #48564. Application Deadline: November 15, 2023.

JOB CENTER SPECIALIST II – BARRE

The Vermont Department of Labor exists to improve the lives of working Vermonters. We are in search of a Job Center Specialist II and are seeking an individual who has compassion, professionalism, and exercises integrity. The Job Center Specialist II is a direct service role located within the Central Vermont Region. The role involves delivering and promoting comprehensive services to job seekers, employers, and partners to provide workforce education, training, and job placement. For more information, contact Judy Bourbeau at judy.bourbeau@vermont. gov. Department: Labor. Location: Barre. Status: Full Time. Job ID #48428. Application Deadline: December 3, 2023.

Learn more at :

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The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Responsibilities:

Requirements:

• Facilities and Office Management

• Excellent organization skills • Ability to prioritize & manage time effectively • Exemplary written/verbal communication skills • Expertise working with diverse, cross-functional teams • Ability to manage and direct outside resources • Excellent problem-solving skills, self-starter who can drive items to closure • Proficiency with Microsoft Office & ability to learn new applications quickly

• Reception and Visitor Management

• Event Planning and Activities • Safety and Emergency Response

At Marvell, we offer a total compensation package with a base, bonus, and equity. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental and vision coverage or opt-out credit; 401(k) with company match including pre-tax, roth and after-tax contributions; employee stock purchase program (ESPP); wellness & mental health support including coaching and therapy; family support programs including back up care, tutoring, and SNOO rental. Paid time off options include vacation time, holidays, volunteer days, sick time, family care leave, and bonding leave. For more information, please go to marvellbenefits.com. Marvell provides a work environment that promotes employee growth and development. We are searching for an individual who wants to grow with the company and will strive to improve performance. If you are driven, personable, and energetic, there will be additional opportunities for you here at Marvell. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Any applicant who requires a reasonable accommodation during the selection process should contact Marvell HR Helpdesk at TAOps@marvell.com. 9t-Marvell102523.indd 1

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DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS The South Burlington School District is seeking a selfmotivated, dynamic individual to join our Central Office as the Director of Operations. This position will serve as a key advisor to the Sr. Director of Finance and Operations and will oversee a variety of operational functions and assigned departments. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree, or the equivalent, and 3-5 years’ experience in detailed administrative work, operations management, project management, safety program management, procurement, or transportation fleet management. Strong technical skills is a must. To apply, visit SchoolSpring.com, reference Job ID #: 4438622, or visit our website: sbschools.net/page/ employment-opportunities. If you have questions, contact Elissa Galvez, HR Employment Specialist at (802) 652-7247 or egalvez@sbschools.net.

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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. Assistant Director, 4-H Programs - Ext. - Statewide 4-H - #S4736PO amount of hours per week. Remote work a possibility. University of Vermont Extension is hiring a full-time Assistant Director for 4-H Please call Dan W. Hauben ASAP at 888-552-1660. Programs. 4-H is the nation’s positive youth development program that builds skills needed in life and career, through fun, hands-on experiences, delivered in partnership with caring adults. These experiences typically fall within the areas of science, health and civic engagement. This position will be responsible for 2h-OmniMed102523.indd 1 10/23/23 1:10 PM providing leadership and management oversight for county-based programming including volunteer development systems and promotion of 4-H programs statewide. Lead and supervise 8 county 4-H staff. Develop and lead volunteer recruiting, training, and management strategies. Build program pathways to and through 4-H experiences reinforced by 4-H’s Thriving Model for positive youth development. This position will be instrumental in building collaborations with community partners and colleagues and serves as part of the leadership team for 4-H, family and migrant programs.

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Master’s degree and four years’ related experience, or equivalent, with focus in either youth programming or volunteer development required. Competency in youth, volunteer and program development desired. Ability to plan, organize, coordinate, promote, teach and evaluate educational programs. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with youth and adult volunteers, in a team environment. Supervisory experience desired. Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate clear goals. Willingness to work a flexible schedule, which will include evenings, weekends, and willingness to travel, primarily within the state. Office location dependent upon available space and proximity to successful candidate’s home. Hybrid remote work schedule possible. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal. Complete the UVM jobs application, along with cover letter, resumé, and two writing samples, one of which must include use of images or data visualization. Circulation Evening Staff Member - Howe Library - #S4745PO The Howe Library is seeking an Evening Circulation staff member (Library Support Senior) for our team. This position provides supervision of student employees and oversees security and safety during evening and weekend hours. Responsibilities include the supervision of public service points, assisting Library users with problems and access issues, enforcing library policy, overseeing stacks maintenance, and coordinating projects with other Library and university staff. This is a full-time evening shift position with a Tuesday through Saturday schedule when classes are in session. Serials Acquisitions Professional (Library Professional) - University Libraries - #S4748PO - The UVM Libraries seek a Serials Acquisitions Professional to manage subscriptions and processing of print and electronic journals. The incumbent will be responsible for claims and renewal management, direct vendor communications, title research, physical processing and management, catalog entry upkeep, participation in review processes, and close collaboration with colleagues working in collection development, acquisitions, electronic resources management, special collections and cataloging. This position will include the daily processing and acquisitions management of the Wilbur Collection’s serials, work requiring both physical dexterity and regular communication with colleagues in Special Collections. Physical Demands: Regularly move trucks of books or periodicals, lift books to and from high shelves and work at a computer terminal. Frequent keyboard work required. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and two years of library experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience required. Experience with serials or equivalent resources management. Comfort with using spreadsheets. Experience using an integrated library system (ILS). Strong attention to detail and organizational/time management skills. Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and implement work independently. Demonstrated interpersonal communication and collaboration skills. Must have manual dexterity suitable for handling delicate documents and legible handwriting. Desirable Qualifications: Basic cataloging knowledge. Vendor communications experience. Experience using Alma ILS. Experience working with EBSCO or other subscriptions agent interfaces. Advanced expertise with spreadsheets.

If you’re a qualified educator with training and experience in structured literacy instruction, this rewarding role allows focus and impact, teaching one-on-one to make a positive difference every day. Preferred candidates will have training in Orton-Gillingham and/or Wilson, and/or have Special Education certification. This position includes the Stern Center’s 6-week summer program through the 202324 school year. Our ideal candidate will have exceptional communication and organizational skills, an understanding of research-based interventions, and experience in developing individualized learning plans.

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Since 1971, WISE has supported survivors of gender-based violence in the Upper Valley. We encourage and cultivate a dynamic environment that requires us to be an adaptive, flexible, and innovative team. We are growing and expanding our programming.

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Who would have guessed that elephants can play the drums really well? On a trip to Thailand, Scorpio musician Dave Soldier discovered that if given sticks and drums, some elephants kept a steadier beat than humans. A few were so talented that Soldier recorded their rhythms and played them for a music critic who couldn’t tell they were created by animals. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose that you Scorpios seek out comparable amazements. You now have the potential to make unprecedented discoveries.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): “Our bodies sometimes serve as the symbolic ground where order and disorder fight for supremacy,” storyteller Caroline Kettlewell writes. Here’s good news, Aries: For you, order will triumph over disorder in the coming weeks. In part through your willpower and in part through life’s grace, you will tame the forces of chaos and enjoy a phase when most everything makes sense. I don’t mean you will have zero problems, but I suspect you will have an enhanced power to solve problems. Your mind and heart will coordinate their efforts with exceptional flair. TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): I recently endured a three-hour root canal. Terrible and unfortunate, right? No! Because it brought profound joy. The endodontist gave me nitrous oxide, and the resulting euphoria unleashed a wild epiphany. For the duration of the surgery, I had vivid visions of all the

people in my life who love me. I felt their care. I was overwhelmed with the kindness they felt for me. Never before had I been blessed with such a blissful gift. Now, in accordance with your astrological omens, I invite you to induce a similar experience — no nitrous oxide needed. It’s a perfect time to meditate on how well you are appreciated and needed and cherished.

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very unusual, you don’t sew your clothes or grow your food. You didn’t build your house, make your furniture or forge your cooking utensils. Like most of us, you know little about how water and electricity arrive for your use. Do you have any notion of what your grandparents were doing when they were your age? Have you said a prayer of gratitude recently for the people who have given you so much? I don’t mean to put you on the spot with my questions, Gemini. I’m merely hoping to inspire you to get into closer connection with everything that nourishes and sustains you. Honor the sources of your energy. Pay homage to your foundations.

CANCER (Jun. 21-Jul. 22): Cancerian singersongwriter Suzanne Vega has had a modest but sustained career. With nine albums, she has sold over three million records but is not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She has said, “I always thought that if I were popular, I must be doing something wrong.” I interpret that to mean she has sought to remain faithful to her idiosyncratic creativity and not pay homage to formulaic success. But here’s the good news for you in the coming months, fellow Cancerian: You can be more appreciated than ever before simply by being true to your soul’s inclinations and urges. LEO (Jul. 23-Aug. 22): “Everything in the world has a hidden meaning,” Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis wrote. Did he really mean everything? Your dream last night, your taste in shoes, your favorite TV show, the way you laugh? As a fun experiment, let’s say that, yes, everything has a hidden meaning. Let’s also hypothesize that the current astrological omens suggest you now have a special talent for discerning veiled and camouflaged truths.

We will further propose that you have an extraordinary power to penetrate beyond surface appearances and home in on previously unknown and invisible realities. Do you have the courage and determination to go deeper than you have ever dared? I believe you do.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22): How many glowworms would have to gather in one location to make a light as bright as the sun? Probably over a trillion. And how many ants would be required to carry away a 15-pound basket of food? I’m guessing over 90,000. Luckily for you, the cumulative small efforts you need to perform to accomplish big breakthroughs won’t be nearly that high a number. For instance, you may be able to take a quantum leap after just six baby steps. LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22): In the 17th century,

John Milton wrote a long narrative poem titled Paradise Lost. I’ve never read it and am conflicted about the prospect of doing so. On one hand, I feel I should engage with a work that has had such a potent influence on Western philosophy and literature. On the other hand, I’m barely interested in Milton’s story, which includes boring conversations between God and Satan and the dreary tale of how God cruelly exiled humans from paradise because the first man, Adam, was mildly rebellious. So what should I do? I’ve decided to read the CliffsNotes study guide about Paradise Lost, a brief summary of the story. In accordance with astrological omens, I suggest you call on similar shortcuts, Libra. Here’s your motto: If you can’t do the completely right thing, try the partially right thing.

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tarian novelist Shirley Jackson wrote, “No live organism can continue for long to exist under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids dream.” Since she wrote that, scientists have gathered evidence that almost all animals dream and that dreaming originated at least 300 million years ago. With that as our inspiration and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to enjoy an intense period of tapping into your dreams. To do so will help you escape from absolute reality. It will also improve your physical and mental

health and give you unexpected clues about how to solve problems.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn writer Kahlil Gibran believed an essential human longing is to be revealed. We all want the light in us to be taken out of its hiding place and shown. If his idea is true about you, you will experience major cascades of gratification in the coming months. I believe you will be extra expressive. And you will encounter more people than ever before who are interested in knowing what you have to express. To prepare for the probable breakthroughs, investigate whether you harbor any fears or inhibitions about being revealed — and dissolve them. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): November is

Build Up Your Confidence Month. In the coming weeks, you are authorized to snag easy victories as you steadily bolster your courage to seek bigger, bolder triumphs. As much as possible, put yourself in the vicinity of people who respect you and like you. If you suspect you have secret admirers, encourage them to be less secretive. Do you have plaques, medals or trophies? Display them prominently. Or visit a trophy store and have new awards made for you to commemorate your unique skills — such as thinking wild thoughts, pulling off one-of-a-kind adventures and inspiring your friends to rebel against their habits.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): I’m glad we have an abundance of teachers helping us learn how to be here now — to focus on the present moment with gratitude and grace. I love the fact that books on the art of mindfulness are now almost as common as books about cats and cooking. Yay! But I also want to advocate for the importance of letting our minds wander freely. We need to celebrate the value and power of not always being narrowly zeroed in on the here and now. We can’t make intelligent decisions unless we ruminate about what has happened in the past and what might occur in the future. Meandering around in fantasyland is key to discovering new insights. Imaginative ruminating is central to the creative process. Now please give your mind the privilege of wandering far and wide in the coming weeks, Pisces.

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LOOKING FOR MY FOREVER PERSON Seeking my love, best friend and forever person. Always up for whatever. Either planned or unplanned, it’s all good with me. I’m retired, financially secure, organized, commitment-oriented, honest and caring. Love to keep healthy. Road trips, hiking, kayaking, camping, vacation/travel, concerts, music, RV. I love my bulldog, George. Respond to my ad. Seriously, I’m worth it. Robstowe, 58, seeking: W, l PASSIONATE, CREATIVE, CURIOUS ARTIST I possess strong interests in the arts and metaphysical/spiritual subjects. I feel things intensely and am a romantic. I write fiction and paint. I read literature and am devoted to classical music, especially the post-Romantics. I love the ocean. I value the feminine soul and female beauty. I favor in-depth conversations. I’m a good listener. Let’s meet for coffee! RooktoQueen7, 71, seeking: W, l HANDSOME AND CHARMING Would rather share who I am face-toface! TimeAfterTime, 58, seeking: W

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SAMIRA, LOST YOUR INFO Samira, we were disconnected. Please reestablish contact. — Massage Man. When: Wednesday, October 18, 2023. Where: online. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915869 NYU CUTIE Wonderful poet. Regency era vibes. We chatted about Timmy and the gift we got from him. Changed our lives forever. (Or, at least, a few months.) Would love to see you again. Are you free for a movie on December 15? When: Friday, October 20, 2023. Where: NYU library. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #915864 READING ‘WEYWARD’ AT LEDDY BEACH You were reading Weyward and wearing a black bathing suit. I was driving my motorcycle and having a hard time not looking at you. I wanted to thank you for making my day, just for being beautiful. I didn’t want to ruin your day by hitting on you but would love to grab a drink. When: Wednesday, October 4, 2023. Where: Leddy Beach. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915863 REDHEAD AT HANNAFORD You were behind me in line at the register. You helped me with the Hannaford app. We were both getting rotisserie chicken, LOL. I should have asked for you number, but I was pretty dumbfounded by your willingness to help. I’d love to grab a coffee if you’re interested. When: Wednesday, October 4, 2023. Where: Milton. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915862 LINE AT RADIO BEAN We chatted about my derailleur and chain ring, fixing bikes, and where we grew up. I was charmed. Let me know if you felt the same connection. When: Friday, October 13, 2023. Where: Radio Bean. You: Gender nonconformist. Me: Man. #915860

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Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

The world is such a mess right now. Every day, it’s just more bad news: war, politics, mass shootings. It seems like there’s nothing I can do, and I feel so depressed and hopeless. How can I cope?

Globally Gloomy (NONBINARY, 25)

CAPITAL CANNABIS PULLOVER, SHAW’S SHOPPER You: breathtakingly beautiful woman. 3 to 3:15 p.m. You had short blond hair and were wearing a Capital Cannabis pullover sweatshirt with faded blue jeans. You kindly gave me the sweetest shy smile. My lips stumbled a smile in answer. I daydream about what a miracle it would be to awaken and behold you. Perhaps you will reach back to me? When: Friday, October 6, 2023. Where: Montpelier Shaw’s market. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915865 TALKING HEADS PRIVATE DANCE PARTY Had a blast getting down last night! Your approach to the evening leads me to believe you’d be an awesome person to get to know. I would’ve stuck around to chat but didn’t want to be a creeper lurking outside the bathroom. If you’re ever looking for a partner in crime for impromptu dance parties, just give a shout. When: Saturday, October 14, 2023. Where: the Roxy. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915861 SEEN AT BRIGHT HALF LIFE You came to the Friday night performance at Royall Tyler solo. When you entered the theater, our eyes met and we shared a smile. You sat two rows up and to my right. I could hear your lovely laugh during the play. I’d love to compare notes about the play and see if you’d like to attend another together. When: Friday, October 6, 2023. Where: UVM Royall Tyler Theatre. You: Man. Me: Man. #915859

BLUE EYES AT APPALACHIAN GAP We looked at the vista at sunset. I was the white, bearded man in a blue rain jacket. You were with an older man, another woman your age and a dog. You have beautiful, light blue eyes. When we looked at each other, it was like jumping into the ocean. I would happily do it again. When: Sunday, October 8, 2023. Where: Appalachian Gap trailhead. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915858

CROSSWALK COLLISION SPARKS You had rollerblades dangled over your shoulders and smelled like a copse of firs in a November rain. I saw you careening into my path, in your Wordle world, and could have said something. That only our wrists bumped, I am forlorn. Let’s do it again sometime and maybe get our forearms involved. When: Saturday, September 23, 2023. Where: Waterfront Park. You: Man. Me: Man. #915850

POEM BOY ON WILLARD STREET You: pushing a bike, glasses, blondish, work in city design/planning. Me: also blondish, pink dress. We talked about the bike lane and grad school. You brought up Wendell Berry, the writer. How often does someone quote your favorite poet to you on the street? I thought you were rare and beautiful. You should buy me a drink. When: Sunday, October 29, 2023. Where: South Willard Street. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915848

WOODSIDE DOG WALK We passed each other in the parking lot as I was arriving. You were loading up. I was getting out of the car (gray fleece) with my dog. Just missed each other! Want to take the dogs for a walk together sometime? When: Wednesday, September 27, 2023. Where: Woodside Nature Trail. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915853

FEELING LOST ON CHURCH STREET I found your silver ring crushed and scratched between some bricks that night. I took it home and fixed it the best I could. Describe the ring to me, so I know it’s yours, and I’d love to get it back to you. Maybe over coffee? When: Saturday, September 30, 2023. Where: Church Street. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915855

PATIENCE AT THE BLUES JAM It really was lovely to meet, and I hope I see you again! When: Friday, October 6, 2023. Where: Red Square. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915856

REDHEAD IN A RED TRUCK You, with the sparkling eyes and the red Nissan: We bobbed and weaved through Shelburne Road traffic and headed south on Route 7. I blew you a kiss at 22A, and you laughed. Any chance I could get a chance to make you laugh again? When: Wednesday, September 27, 2023. Where: Route 7 South. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915854

SPIKY-HEADED SUBARU ISPY-ER Our friendship has become one of the greatest gifts in my life and has made my life better in so many, many ways. You will have glorious flowers in the spring for as long as we are friends. Your giant kale wowed everyone in South Suburbia and this bald hillbilly. Thank you especially for your singing. —Soon, Me. When: Sunday, May 21, 2023. Where: in her garden. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915857

WALKING ON PERU STREET Sunday afternoon. We passed when you were walking east. You were wearing all black and have blond hair. From a distance, I had assumed you were a college student, so I wasn’t prepared for interaction. I was wearing a brown T-shirt and sunglasses and was walking the other way. We exchanged smiles. Want to go for a walk together? When: Sunday, September 24, 2023. Where: Peru Street sidewalk. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915851

Dear Globally Gloomy,

A lot of people are in the same boat right now, me included. I don’t know how to fix the world’s problems, but I can offer a few tips for feeling a little better when they’re bringing you down. First and foremost, it’s OK to turn off the news. I’m not suggesting that you be completely apathetic to what’s going on in the world, but today’s 24-7 information barrage can have serious negative impacts on mental and physical health. Pick a set time during the day to check on current events. Give yourself 15 to 30 minutes, and resist the temptation to get sucked in. Make sure to seek out some good news while you’re at it. Watching a few funny or hopeful videos can lighten your mood. Some people call that “cultivating optimism,” and I’m a big proponent. Take a break from social media. Instead of doomscrolling on your phone, go outside for a walk, even if it’s just

YOU: GLORIOUS BALD-HEADED MAN A gardenful of gratitude to the baldheaded Subaru driver who listened to my story and then told me I shouldn’t give up. Ever. I am stronger than I was before I met you. When: Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Where: a cemetery in Randolph. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915852 ROCKFIRE FIREWALK I was walking in front of you. I stopped at the exit, and our eyes met. You were talking about Halloween jack-o’-lantern displays with your mom (?). There’s a great one in Jericho, and I’d love to take you. When: Saturday, September 16, 2023. Where: Rockfire. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915849 BIKE PATH DOG PASSING We passed each other on the bike path by the dog park. I gave your dog a treat, and you dropped the leash a few times. I was wearing a green hat. You had on a crop top. I couldn’t stop talking about how I should have asked for your number to my friend who I was with. When: Sunday, September 17, 2023. Where: Burlington bike path. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915847 BELVIDERE, PINK TALKING PHISH, 9/16 You glided up and asked about the munchies at the show. I just spent my last $20. Wish I could have bought you a plate. It was too quick, and I forgot your name. A quick glimmer of light is better than nothing at all. When: Saturday, September 16, 2023. Where: Belvidere. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915846

a quick spin around the block. Yoga can also be great for your body and mind. Physical activity is very helpful in maintaining a positive outlook, and a little can go a long way. Make sure you’re eating well and getting enough rest. Set aside time to hang out with friends or family. Let yourself have fun and blow off steam. It’s easy to feel powerless when facing big topics like climate change or injustice, but there are ways to pitch in and make a difference. Get involved with an organization you believe in by donating or volunteering. Call or write letters to your representatives. Focus on ways to help your community. Volunteer at an animal rescue. Heck, adopt a pet if you have the means — fuzzy friends are great for human well-being. I probably would have lost my shit a long time ago if I didn’t have my three cats. But I digress. You may never be able to change the world for everyone, but even the small actions you take will have a big impact on your corner of it. Good luck and God bless,

The Reverend

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